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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1888.
IN THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY.
A Solemn and Impresaive Scene at the
White House.
A Republic reporter was talking with
Mr. W. C. Connor, mayor of Dallas,
Texas, and secretary of the Texas dele
gation to the recent Convention, on
4th .treet yesterday afternoon, when a
tall, well built, fine looking man in
clerical black v alked out of the Plan
ters' House and turned southward.
"There's a man you ought to know,"
said Mr. Connor. "He is the Rev. A.
P. Smith, and one of the most promi
nent clergymen in Texas, and can tell
you a very interesting story regarding
a recent experience with the President,
if he will."
The reporter immediately approached
Mr. Smith and said: "I understand
that you recentiy enjoyed a very in
teresting experience with President
Cleveland. Are you willing to relate
it for the benefit of thie epublie's read
ers."
"You are :'ditly inforlmed, sir. I re
cently had an experience with the
President that was not only extreneiy
interesting, but to me it was one of the
most solemn episodes of my life, and an
occasion never to be forgotten. I have
been for the past three weeks in attend
ance on the Southern Presbyterian as
sembly at Baltimore and the Union
Conference at Philadelphia. On my re
turn I stopped off at Washington and
called on. President Cleveland. I was re
ceived with a frank courtesy I can never
forget. I was immnensely surprised at the
intimate knowledge of Texas displayed
by the President. Ie possesses wider
and more accurate information regard
ing the State than half of its residents,
and I confess I felt considerably
chagrined when more than once I was
obliged to confess my ignorance in re
ply to his questions. I also enjoyed
the honor of a presentation to Mrs.
Cleveland. I have met many charm
ing and beautiful women in my day,
but never one more attractive than she.
I do not think the newspapers have
exaggerated her charms of manner and
person an iota-in fact, I do not think
the English language affords a term
that can over-paint the virtues and at
tractions of a thoroughly good and
beautful woman. But I am forgetting
what I was to tell you about ! As I
leaving the White House the President
came graciously forward to shake
hands with me, and while I still
grasped his hand a messenger entered
in with a telegram, which, with an
apology to me, he presented to the
President. Mr. Cleveland opened, read
it at a glance, and, without the quiver
of :. muscle in his face, continued his
conversation with me. I imagined the
dispatch related to some unimportar.t
piece of State business, but, as I was
leaving him, he handed it to me with
a smile and said :
"Perhaps you will be pleased to be
among the first to know this piece of
news -?"
"I cannot describe to you my feelings
when I read on that little slip of paper
the announcement of the President's
renomination ! I could not offer stere
otyped congratulations to a man se
grandly calm and so wonderfully sel:
possessed, and as I 'ooked at his strong,
commanding and impassive features, I
feit th'e inspiration of the hour and the
man's singular and slendid !fate, and I
S knew that he was the creature of a will
even stronger than the will of the peo
pie, which had called him to the high
pilce he so magnificently fills, andl
would maintain him there until his
mission was ended. Lifti.' my hands
- above his head, I blessed nimn and his
Administration, in the name of Al
mighty God, and gave him cheer for
the tight to comei. He received miy
blessing with bowed head anid re
mained an instant in the same posi
tion ; then, with a gesture and a word,
he thanked mec anid moved away. It
was an impressive moment, and 1 do0
not believe there wvas a p)erson in the
room who did not feel a solemn eon
viction that he was looking upon the
next President of tihe United States,
beyond the power of mere partisan op
position to make otherwise."
mperor William bquated tothe
Hall of Glory at Berlin the sword
which he carried from 1810J to 1834; the
sword he carried in the battle of
Koeniggraetz, July 3,- 1866, and all
through the Austrian and Franco-Ger
man wars, its blade having the names
of the principal b)attles engraved upon
it; the sword carried by himn on parades;
theswvord inherited from his brother,
King FredIerick William IV; all his
decorations for military merit, together
with the presenlts received on his mili
t ary jubilees, and his gold and silver
laurel wvreaths; and finally, the sword
carriedl by his father in the unlucky
days of 1506 and( during the Napoleonic
wars, which during the Emperor's
life-tinme alwvays stood by his writing
desk in thme historic corner room of the
Royal Palace. As a souvenir the
Lichterfelde corps of cadets received the
swvord presented to the Emperor at St.
Petersburg in 1834, and carried by him
until the morning of the day of
Koeniggraetz. Finally, the Emperor
ordered the uniforms of all the regi
mxents of which lie was the honiorairy
c~ommnander to be distributed to the~
respective regimnents.
Too Big a Strain.
[From i the Courier-Journal.]
The Rochester woman who had not
looked into a mirror for t wenty years,
died. The feminine system is sure
-to give w:iy under a long strain like
that
STANFORD'S UNIVERSITY.
Its Objects as Explained by the Senator
Himself.
Just before Senator Stanford left
Washington city for Europe heexpress
ed himself as follows with respect to
the objects and purposes of the Lelaid
Stanford, .Jr., University of California:
Generally the objects of the iustitu
tion are set forth in the articles of en
dowment, but there are, of course,
ninutie not set forth in them. I niay
say that I propose that the institution
shall have steadily in aim the possibili
ties of humanity and how to realize
them. In this institution I desire that
the students shall be made to appreciate
the evil eolseuuences of the liquor
traluie. There are probably in Califor
nia to-day more adult males engaged
in selling distilled liquors than there
are engaged ill tilling the soil, and I am
satisncd, taking the country at large,
that with the waste of tilne of the null
her of people engaged in the selling, and
the waste colsekluent by the consulers,
there is a loss to the country in general
fully equal to 25 per cent. of the power
of production. I want the education of
the students to be such as shall give
them a realizing sense of the impor
tance of temperance. I desire every
student to have the opportunity prac
tically to learn how to cultivate the soil
for every branch of agriculture. Par
tieular attent:in will be given to co
operation.
i walt ill this. school that one sex
shalt have equal advantages with the
ot:er, and I want particularly that
the women shall have open to them
every elmploynent suitable to their sex.
I believe by doing so that they will be
stronger physically and mentally and
better fitted for wives and mothers,
and I believe that if the vocations of
life are thrown open to them, without
their engaging in anything unsuitable
to their sex, they can add another 2.>
per cent. to the power of production
to the country, and this will go far to
ward realizing the possibility of giving
comfort and elegance toall.
As I desire this institution to deal
particularly with the welfare of the
masses it will be open to the poor as
well as the rich, and the price of tui
tion will be so moderate as to be within
the reach of most people. The few very
rich can get their education anywhere.
They are welcome to this institution if
they will come, but the object is more
particularly to reach the multitude and
the people who have to consider the
expenditure of every dollar.
The hope is to care for orphans ; they
may be sent there, provided for com
fortably, and will be looked after.
Free scholarships will be provided for
meritorious young people who are un
able to pay for their education, and such
students will be given an oppotunitv
to earn money to help them through
their college course. There will be a
machine shiop and a department to en
courage inventions. Religious teach
ings will be provided for, but-sectarian
ismn will be prohibited.
The Qnestion of State Rtailways.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Not satisfied with the ownership of all
the telegraph lines in the kingdom, the
British government is now seriously
conlsideri ng the exped iency of purchai~s
ing~ all the railways.
Th poits mad.e in favor of tile
scheme show that unider the existing
system of privat --wnership English
railways are both expensive and op
pressive. Transportation charges are
about eighty-five per cent higher than
they arc in Belgium, where the govern
nment owns nearly all of the railways,
and about sixty per cent higher than
those of Germany, another country
where state ownership is thme rule. The
terminal charges, also, ini England are
about double those of the other coun
tries mentioned. lt is, therefore, claim
edi thaIt the plurchlase of tlhe railways by
the British government would enable
the ant horities to p)rescribec a system of
lower and more eqlual rates, to the
mlanifest advantage of the connmnere
a:~try of the country.
On the other hand, the opponents of
the proposedi chanige say that the peo
le would merely be substituting onie
burden for another. It would cost six
billion dollars to buy the railroads, and
thlis suml borrowed at three per cenit
would increase the annmual amount rais
ed by taxation fully one hunidred and
eighty mlillionl dollars. Und(er tihe
expected reduction inl charges the net
earnings of tile roads would not pay
this money inlto tIle treasury, nlor any
conlsiderable part of it. It is also charg
edI that (on the conitinient, under the
state systeml of owniership, there is a
stronig disinclination to adopt aniy
mo dernl impnIrovemnents amnd new inv.en
tionsl. Red tap)e doinates thle whole
thing, and the government ofticials are
satisfied to run their railways from
generation to generation without at
tempting to improve them.
Thue remedy for the tranlsportation
evils ini Enlgland has been suggested by
several thoughtful students of tile
probleml. It is s;imply to build coin
p)etinlg linIes, and a good many of them,
and leave them under tile control of
private ownlershlip. Doubtless, this is
thle best suggestion that hIas been made.
The only thing that will effectually
smash a railway monopoly is comnpeti
tion, and private enterp)rise may be
trusted to build new railways whenever
and wvherever there is a tempting de
mlanld for them. It is almost umnneces
sarv to say that this view of the rail
way situation across the water is very
largely applicable to the transportation
HILL TALKS OF CLEVELAND.
Words Indicative of Democratic Harmony
in New York.
Governor Hill, of New York, in his
speech at the big, Tainmany ratification
meeting on Tuesday, said of Cleveland,
referring to Ingalls' attack on him:
It is true that our candidate comes
from the plain people, and we do not
attempt to palliate it. A poor boy, the
son of a humble clergyman, he fought
the battle of life alone, courageously, 1
pluckily, and successfully, retarded by
poverty, hardships, and adversity; and
it is to the honor of the Democratic
party that it delights to elevate such
candidates, and that with open arms it
welcomes to its places of leaderships
those who have risen from the ranks of
the people by their own exertions and
their own abilities.
The time was when the Republican
party also sought its candidates from
other ranks than those of the million
aires. Monopolists were at least kept in
the rear, and were contented with the
pecuniary benefit that high taxation
have them. Now they seek both the
benefits and the honors, and these men
are the controlling force in the Republi
can party to-day.
Then such men as Lincoln and
Greely and Sumner and Phillips and
Seward and Wilson were there represen
tatives. Then Lincoln [Applause], the
man of obscure origin and of unknown
antecedents could aspire to the Presi
dency, even as Cleveland has aspired to
it and attained it once and will achieve
it again; and all the mechinations and.
eflorts of the monopolists who control
the Republican party, and the venom )
and denunciation of their apologists
and defenders, will not avail against
him.
The most bitter partisan cannot deny
that the President is an honest and
sincere man. For over three years the
country has had the benefit of a wise, i
economical and successful administra
tion of public affairs, and the Democra
cy may confidently appeal to the people
for the continuance of our party in
power. I concede that neither the
President nor his administration has
escaped criticism. But Jefferson was
criticised, Monroe was assailed, and
Jackson was abused. History repeats
itself. Thomas H. Benton, in one of
his famous speeches in the United
States Senate, thus describes the attack
upon President Jackson, and the pre
dictions made by his opponents con
cerning his administration of public
affairs. Benton said:
Never had a man entered upon the
chief magistracy of a country under
such appalling predictions of ruin and
woe; never had anyone been so pursued
with direful prognostications; never
had anyone been so beset by a powerful
combination of political and moneyed
confederates. History has been ran
sacked to find examples of tyrants
sufficiently odious to serve to :llustrate
him by comparison. LangL ge has
been tortured to find epithets suffi
ciently strong to paint him in desc&p
tion. Imagination has been exhausted
in her effort to deck him with inhuman
and revolting attributes-tyrant, des
pot, usurper; rash, ignorant, imbeeile;
destroying domestic prosperity; ruin
ing a 11 industry, all commerce, all
manufactures; delivering up the streets
of p)opulous cities to grass and weeds,
and the wharves of commercial towns to
the encumbrance of decaying vessels:
depriving labor of all reward; depriving
industry of all employment; destroying
the currency; plunging an innocent
and happy peop)le from the height of
felicity to the depths of misery, want,
and despair.
Then, comparing the piredictions
wi .h the facts, and inquiring wvhether
these calamitous prognostications had
been vo'rified by events under Jackson's
D)emocratic rule, he said:
Domestic industry is not paralyzed;
confidence is not destroyed; factories
are not stopped; workmen are not men
dicants for~ bread and employment;
eredit is not destroyed; prices are not
sunk; grass is not growing in the streets
of populous cities; the wharves are not
cumibered with decaying vessels; col
umns of curses, rising from the bosoms.
of ruined and agonized people, are not
ascending against the destroyer of a
nation's felicity and prosperity. On the
contratry, the reverse of all this is true,
and true to a degree that astonishes and
bewilders the senses.
The predictions concerning a Demo
cratic administration in 1832, and sub
stantially re-echoed in 1884, are ain
swered amid refuted in 1888 as success
fully as they were in 1836.
The promises our party made in 1884
have been fulfilled so far as it has been
in our power to perform them. -The
public credit has been maintained; the
p)ublic debt is lessening; our navy has
been strengthened; we are at peace at
home and abroad; and there is an
earniest effort to reduce taxation.
'We favor freer trade but not free
trade. The Democratic platform, while
not in every respect as some of us might
desire it, sufficiently expresses the prin
ciple of tariff reform to which we are
all committed. (Cheers.) If I thought
that our platform favored free trade I
should not be here to-night. (Renewed
cheering and applause.) I believe in
an intelligent, fair, and honest revision
of the tariff, a revision in the interest
of the people and not of monopelies.
I believe in protecting labor in every
legitimate arnd proper way, but un
necessary and unjust burdens upon
commerce do not afford any assistance
or protection to working men. (Cheer
ing and applause.)
Cyrus Field owns an English title,
CAN GOULD GO TO HEAVEN.
)uestions Discussed in Wall Street-what
Ingersoll Says.
NE:w Yox, June 10.-The reported
llness of Jay Gould has been the
,veek's topic for gossip in Wall street.
A story told there with much positive
less was that Jay Gould had not only
nade a special study of the Biblical
)arable of the camel and the needle's
ye, but had consulted with his pastor,
he Rev. John R. Paxton, on the sub
ect of a rich man's chance of getting
nto the Kingdom of Heaven. It was
old with a circumstantiality that
aused general belief that Mr. Paxton
iad, in consequence of Gould's anxiety,
,reached a sermon setting forth that
;he Bible teaching was not that a
iresus was inadmissible to Paradise.
Jf course, such atale faded slowl' out
avhen investigated with a view to writ
ng it truthfully. A visit to Dr. Paxton,
n whose 4.d street Presbyterian(h I rebI
he Gould family occupy a pew, yiehl
d a prompt denial of the whole story.
"It is true that Mr. Gould and I have
.ad many casual social ieetings, "said
SIr. Paxton, "and our conversation hms
een to some extent on religious sub
Iects, but surely he never consulted me
is to his wealth shutting him out. of
Eeaven. That is preposterous."
"Is Mr. Gould a Christian."
"It is not for me to either form or ex
?ress a definite opinion as to any indi
ridual's Christianity. Mr. Gould is
,ot a member of any church, and there
bore is not an avowed Christian. He is
t quiet, reticent gentleman, who would
>e apt to keep his religious experiences
argely to himself, in any event. His
vife is a Presbyterian and a good one,
ontributing of her money and time
reely to the church and philanthropie
)bjects."
The sermon preached by Dr. Paxton
vas general in its nature, and in (oc
,rine was that a rich man could get into
aeaven as easily as a poor man if he
ised his riches properly. But Gould
;as a listener to this discourse, which
lid not seem to apply more particularly
;o his case than to that of Russell 'age,
f. D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
;hief, or to any other of the score of
very wealthy men in the congregation.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll said: '".a:,
3ould could no more go to Heaven, if
he Bible be true, than could t.he devil
aimself, and he knows it. Moreover,
Tay Gould never talked with Paxton,
yr anybody else, on the subject, except
)y way of diversion, because he is a
total unbeliever in orthodox Chris
tianity. I know this fora positive fact,
because I have more than once had
ronversation with him on the subject.
Naturally, as I am a conspicuous
pagan, people are quick to speak to me
n religious subjects. Sometimes they
tacitly assent to my unbelief without
really agreeing with me, and sometimes
they assail me fiercely; but Mr. Gould
is what I call a reasonable unbeliever.
lust as there are millions of p)rofessed
Christians who have no absolute views
of their own, and do not know why
they are Christians at all, so there are
unbelievers who have not brought
themselves to that profession by any
course of reasoning. But Mr. Gould is
a calm, deliberate agnostic-that is to
ay, a man who has thought the whole
thing over, and haS come to the fonlut
sion that he knowvs as much as any
body else about a future state, and( that
is justnothing at all. Mr. Gould i:s a
student. He devotes more time tii
people imagine to reading, and that oni
ubjects entirely disconnected with
anance. Christian ity received for m any
years his careful, searching attention,
and the result of it all is that he stand:s
to-day in agnostic."
CLEVELAND'S NEW CHAIR.
[t s Made to~ Order In Boston and Is 1leaii
tiful and Strong,
BosTOx, MASS., .June :'.-It is not
often a newspaper mia has the honor
of filling the Presidential chair, but a
Trav-eller reporter had that privilege
yesterday. 'That is to say, he sat in the
new office chair that is soon to be occu
pied by President Cleveland in the
Executive Mansion at Washington. It
would hardly be proper to say that the
reporter filled it, for it is very large
hair, as benefits the 280-pound Presi
dent of this great nation.
The chair was made to the order of
Mr. Cleveland by Messrs White, Hol
man & Co, of this city. It is a massive
iwivel and tilt-back structure of quarter
ed oak and cane, its total weight being
ixty-two pounds. Tihe seat and back
are square in shape and( are made of the
very finest quality of cane. The former
is twenty-three inches wide between
the arms anxd the latter is thirty-five
inches high. The general design of the
chair is antique, and tihe legs, arms and
framework are elegantly carved in fern
and other patterns. The oak is highly
polished, and the whole efibet is one of
great finish and beauty. Aside from its
olegance the remarkable width and
height of the chair are its distinguish
ing characteristics. It took a month to
complete it, and the cost will, of course,
be quite heavy. Some 1,700 feet of the
finest cane were used in its construction.
The arm-pieces are broad and set on
carved spindles. It was niade from
original designs, and the measurements
were furnished by Mr. Cleveland. Bos
ton workmanship has constructed fur
niture for Kings as well as Presidents.1
The latest "victim of tobacco' is a
sad case. He is seventy years old, has
smoked for sixty years, and last week
he married a woman forty years his
senior. Tobacco-smoking affected his
bhain.
RIVES-CHANLER.
The Marriage of the Authoress and Mil
lionaire Conies Off Privately and
Rather Uncxpeetedly at the Bride's
Ancestral Home.
[Special from New and Courier.]
CIIA itl.<rrn:bsVII.I,:, VA., June 14.
Miss Anielie Rives, the authoress of
"The Quick and the Dead" and other
works that have recently attracted
attention in the literary world,
was married this afternoon. The
groom is Mr Joh n Armstrong Chandler,
of New York, a wealthy grandson of
John Jacob Astor.
The anticipation of the time for this
event as at first arranged caused a great
deal of surprise in social circles. Some
weeks- ago it was authoritatively an
nounced that the marriage of this cou
ple would take place early in the fall.
The sensational stories of newspapers
and persecutions fron this source de
teriinel Mr. (handler and his fiance
upon an ininiediate and strictly private
iarriage. The license was proIred
from the county clerk here on Monday,
and that official was bound to secrecy.
The matter, however, leaked out, and
for the past three days society about
here has been in a flutter of expectancy
to learn when the wedding was to
come off.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon in the
spacious drawing room of Castle Hill,
the home of the bride's parents, Amelie
Ilives and .1olin Armstrong Chandler
were married. The persons present
were Mlrs. Rives, the mother of the fair
writer of weird stories, Misses Gertrude
and Daisy, her sisters, an uncle, "Mr.
Vim. Cabell Rives, of Boston, who gave
the bride away, Miss Lou Pleasants,
of Itichnond, and several cousins.
The bride's gown was white silk, cut
high in the neck with long sleeves.
She wore diamond ornaments. The
sisters also wore white and the mother
was attired in black.
The ceremony was very simple and
was performed by the Rev. Mr. Good
wyn, the rector of the little Episcopal
Church three miles away from Castle
IIill, where the bride h worshipped
since her early childhood. The ring
was not omitted in the ceremonials.
The only absent link in the happy,
bright famiily circle was the father of
the bride, Col.A. (. ives. This gentle
man is in Panama, where he is en
gaged as general manager of a railroad
project. His presence at home on this
interesting occasion was almost impos
sible. A cablegram portrayed the
scene to him. After the brief ceremony
the guests sat down to a bounteous din
ner, many of the dishes of which were
prepared in the old ante-bellum South
ern style, now almost unknown.
The young married couple will spend
their honeymoon beneath the bride's
ancestral roof. This is a spot to which
the little lady clings with the tenderest
affection. After remaining there a
fewv weeks MIr..'and Mrs. Chandler will
probab)ly sail for Paris, where they will
make their future home.
A WONDERPU~L BANK.
Which Pays Dividends of 150 Per Cent Per
Annum.
The Chemical Bank of New York
city is probably the strongest financial
institution in this country, and, its
p)rosperiity and success have been a
nmarval in business and financial circles.
A New York letter gives the following
interesting points in reference to this
wonderful moneyed institution:
Ten shares of the Chemical Bank
stock were sold the other day on the
Stock Exchange at $3,000 a share, with
out the hi-monthly dividend of 2.5 per
cent. This is the hihest that this
sto,ck has yet sold for, and it has long
b,een nlotedl as commanding the highest
premiium of any bank stock in the
world. First National Bank stock
comnnands $2,000 per' share, the Fifth
Avenue Bank $800 per share, the Bank
of Ireland $27.5 and the Bank of Eng
land $350.
Thie dlividenlds of the Chemical Bank
have for a long time been at the rate of
5 per cent bi-mionthly, with an addi
tionai ldividendl of 10 per cent some
timie during the year or an even 100 per
annlum. Thme dividenid declared for the
first of MIarch andI to lie continued
thereafter is 25 per cent hi-monthly, or
150 per cent per annum. Last year the
b:mnk paid $3,000,000 in dividends, equal
to thie amount of its capital stock. It is
v'ery~ seldonm this valuable stock finds
its way to the market, and then only
in the settleimnt of sonme old estate,
and when a sale takes place it attracts
great attention. John B. Manning was
the purchaser at tihe sale.
In 184:3 or 18414 David Wolfe, the
father of Catherinie Wolfe, bought 200
shares oif Chiemical Bank stock at par,
or for $20,000. To-,da~y that same stock,
at the price commanded, would be
wvorth $720, (000, and( has paid more than
$l,00.1x0 in dividendls since tile day it
wats purchased.
He.avenly Imminigration Conventions.
[Fromi the Chicago News.]
The people in the southern states have
become so dleely interested in the sub
ject of attracting settlers from abroad
that campmetings in that section are
called "heaven ly imighration conven
t ions."
To the Unfeeling Editor.
[From the Somerville Journal.]
The unfeeling editors really ought
not to talk so much as they do about
the red-headed girl and the white horse.
It makes the red-headed girl feel bad,
and it must make the horse wish that
he h.ad never been born.
GRANT'S LUCK.
How the Hero Narrowly Escaped Sellng
His Book for 810,000.
[From the Chicago Times.]
Leonard Swett told an interesting
story the other day illustrative of Gen
eral Grant's traditional good luck, as
well as his lack of what is called shrewd
ness in commercial dealings. When
Grant was engaged in writing his
memoirs the Century company, which
had been publishing some of his war
articles in the Century Magazine,
offered him $10,000 for the manuscript
of his book. Webster, the publisher,
also had his eye on the alert for the
forthcoming work, and one day called
on the general to inquire about it.
Grant was seated at his desk, about to
attach his signature to the Century com
pany's contract, which lay before him.
It had apparently never occurred to
him to ask more for his literary pro
duction. Webster intimated that he
would like to make an offer.
"If it would not be impertinant," he
said, "I would like to inquire how
much the Century company agrees to
pay you?"
"Ten thousand dollars," General
Grant said.
"Then I wouldn't sign that contract
just yet," said Webster.
"Why not?"
"Because I will pay you $50,000."
General Grant opened his eyes in
amazement. It had not occurred to
him to set so high a value on his work,
he had not thought of dickering beyond
the first order. But he did not sign
tie contract.
Afterward Mark 'twain, Webster's
relative and business partner, called
and told the general that none of the
publishers had offered him what his
manuscript was worth. "I will give
you $100,000 and a royalty," he said.
So Webster & Co. became Grant's pub
lishers. The firm has grown rich out
of Grant's book and Grant's family has
been paid overS500,000.
The Inter-State Farmers' Association.
This body was organized by the
Inter-State Convention of Farmers
which met in Atlanta, Ga., in August,
1887. It was a magnificent body of
broad-minded, patriotic, representative
agriculturists of the ten cotton States.
The Association was-born of necessity.
The peculiar and Ianguishing- condi
tion of agriculture, especially in the
South,. is a matter of intense interest
and profound concern. To reach a just
conception of our environments and to
devise the wisest methods for relief, is
the great and grand object and purpose
of the Association. In all departments
of industrial enterprise in the South
except in the great field of Agriculture.
we witness and feel the invigorating
pulsations of quickened life and energy.
There are causes which have unbal
anced the industries of the country.
They must be readjusted so as to secure
to agriculture (the greatest of all) a fair
showing in the race. To this end the
Inter-State 2Farmers' Association was
organized.
Its next meeting will be held in the
city of Raleigh, N. C., on Tuesday,
21st day of August next.
It will be composed of delegates ap
pointed by the Vice-Presidents of their
respective States-five delegates and
their alternates, from each congression
al district. Of course, all who may
come will be welcomed, but the vote is
limited by the- constitution of the
Association to five for each congres
sional district.
The Southern Passenger Association
has established a 'schedule of summer
excursion rates from all points South
to various points in North Carolina,
which are good from June 1st to Octo
ber 31st. Parties attending the conven
tion and desiring to bring their families
to our charming summer resorts in our
mountains or on the seashore, will find
these excursion tickets convenient and
cheap. Special rates will be secured
and furnished to those who may desire
simply to attend the convention and
return.
VICE-PRESIDlENTs.
The Vice-President's elected by the
Association for the various States are as
follows: Alabama, R. F. Kolb, Au
burn; Arkansas, L. P. Featherston,
Forest City; Florida, G. R. Fairbanks,
Fernandina; Georgia, A. Tr. MclItyre,
Thomasville; Louisiana, Jno. Dymond,
Belair; Mississippi, M. N. Burke, Co
lumbus; North Carolina, D .McN. Mc
Kay, Averysboro; South Carolina, E.
R. McIver, Palmetto ; Texas, J. A.
Rumsey, Georgetown.
Our State authorities-our whole
people, andl especially the citizens of our
beautiful Capitol city, will cordially
welcome the visitors from our sister
Southern States.
L. L. POLK,
Pres' t Inter-State Farmers' Association.
Raleigh, N. C., June U, 18&S.
The New Convert.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
"PIll do the best I can sir," said the
new convert humbly to the good pastor,
"but you mustn't expect too much of
me at first. I've been an auctioneer for
the last twelve years."
That Jonah Whale.
[From the Courier Journal.]
Science is not clear as to whether the
whale had hind legs at the time it
swallowed Jonah. After that feast,
however, it became so very sick that it
was generally conceded in submarine
circles that the monster was on its last
lnes
GRESIIAM'S ATLANTA WOUND.
How the Posible Republican Nominee Fell
Near Atlanta. [1
[Philadelphia Press.] is]
In the spring of 1864 Gresham was Co
relieved froim duty at Natchez and m
ordered to the commond of a division Pa
in the Seventeenth corps of the Army n
of the Tennessee, to take part in Sher- ur
mai's campaign against Atlanta. Gen- di
eral J. B. McPherson commanded the ta
array and General Francis P. Blair the
corps, and with both Gresham became P3
a favorite officer. He was at the head w
of his division in the battle of Kenne- m
saw mountain and in all the engage- to
ments until the army arrived in front ri'
of Atlanta. Then, in the battle of ar
Leggett's hill, July 20, 1864,- he was
riding in advance of his men with a nE
view of locating a position for a battery. w
As he halted on an eminence and lil
raised his field-glasses to his eyes his w
tall firure attracted the attention of the '
Confederate sharp-shooters, and he fell g
with a bullet below the knee. The
limp which yet affects his walk is a hi
result of that wound. McPherson gave tb
his personal attention to his transpor- bx
tation to the nearest railway station, fo
where he laid several days before a train
started for the North. Placed them in fo
a, freight car at night, the light of a s
lantern revealed near him a long box. s
over which two soldiers were standing th
guard. It contained the corpse of Mc- "
Pherson, who had been killed the day o
after they separated. Gresham was fo
taken to his home at 'New Albany, ei
where for more than a year he lay tl
prone upon his back, nursed by his g
faithful wife. Several times the sur- rt
geons thought the limb should be am- P1
putated and so advised, but just as <
often the General objected. He saved
the leg, but was compelled to go on w
crutches for several years. w
Sam Jones on Dudes.
Listen : When that girl began the O
giddy whirl of the dance in the ball- I
room, that was the time to get scared. r
When you found your boy spending
more money than you ought, that was b
the time to get shocked. al
Sow cards and reap gamblers. I
know I'm called a transcendentalist
and called a Puritan, but God save my S
family from cards and profanity, and
whiskey and dances, and let the world h
call me what it will.h
Sow parlor-dances and reap ball
rooms. Sow ball-rooms and reap round b
danecs. Sow round dances and reap
<ludes and dudines. Sow dudes and
dudines and reap half a thimblefull of b
calves'-foot jelly. (Applause and laugh
ter renewed again and again.) .I wish h
you wouldn't laugh any more to-night,
for I never ielt so solemn in my life. .
For God's sake hear me with a solemn
ity and earnestness worthy of the cause
But you say I say so many funny
things. If you only knew how many
I have to keep back you wouldn't0
blame me for the few which ereep out.s
Hear me, boys, girls, young ladies oft
Kansas City ! I used to dance. I've t
danced many a night with the girls,of s
my town. Hear me. If I was a fair,a
average dancing man, and I think I
was, then no pure girl can go out on0
the floor aind dance another set. (A
voice, "Hurrah !") Young woman, if
you could but follow the young man,
after he has seen you home, to somet
bar-room or -elub and hear the discus
a
sion of your form and person and your
virtue itself, you'd never lose your re-e
spect and go on a ball room floor. [Sen
sation.] The dudes get mad at me in
sonic places and talk about wanting to
slap niy jaws. [Laughter.] But I say,
to their credit, they know better than
to slap. I'm not afraid to drp down
into a hundred acres of dudes and not a
thing to fight with six shooters.
[Laughter.1
The tendency of the Nineteenth cen
tury is to dudeism. You dress a young a
buck out, part his hair in the middle, a
put on an eye glass, give him pants
which look as though his legs had been
melted and poured into 'em, put on
tooth-pick shoes, and every girl in the
town admires him. [Prolonged merri
ment.] God help you, girls ; I'd rather
see my daughter dead to-night than
sitting in a parlor talking to a dude.
[A pplause.] Thue good Bishop of New
York says the con fessional shows that
nineteen out of twenty girls mieet their
d own fall in t he b'all-roomi.
in all my observation I never knew
a poor, ruined woman who did not go
to ruin throughzl the ball-room and the
theater. A woman who has lost her
charaicter has lost all. but the by is
lionized by society. If there's one t
deeper, blacker hell:mnthan other it's for
the man' wh~o crushes purity and v-ir
tue undher his unhallowed feet. [Ap
plause.] Thme only thing in the wvorld
which deserves a double barreled shot
gun and load of tmekshot is such a
man. t
A round dance is an aLn-terooml to ~
damnation. I never want to see the t
arm oi a lecherous man around the
waist of my wife or daughter. I ape nD>
man. FIl be myself, be true to myself,
and true to truth. All I want to do is
to stand on the barrel, knock the bung ~
out, and let nature cut her capers. [Ap
plause and laughter.] I may be an
idiot andha fool, but you'd better think
of these things.
Mrs. Henri Labouchere, wife of the v
editor of London Truth, has been mak- tl
ing speeches in behalf of the Glad- a
stonian cause. She was Henrietta t<
Hodgson, the actress, and her elocution a:
is something of a treat to the .English ti
voters. Mr. Laboucher is an eloquent si
speaker and with his talented wife iw
mesa a strongr political team. ixH
How to Manage Boys.
ty M. Quad, in Detroit Free Press.]
If I had a boy who had read of green
ands and wrecked sailors until he
uld shut his eyes and see parrots and
Dnkeys and cocoanuts and waving
llms-if he had firmly made up his
ind that lie could never be happy
til cast away on an island and re- -
ced to a goat-skin over-coat, I shodld
ke him out behind the barn and say:
"My son, I see that you are not hap
you evidently hunger for something I
hich my,limited means will not per
it me to give you. I think you want
be wrecked. Very well. There's the
7er and an old skiff, and you can find
i i land a few milesddwr.e Y'
ree pieces of tarred rope, a plug of
Lvy tobacco and a fish hook, and goon
ith the wrecking business. If you
:e it, come home at the end of- a
:ek, and I'll send you out to the -
Lcific, where the mosquitoes are big
r and the cannibals more numerous."
If the boy went I should look- for
m back next morning-certainly at
.e end of two days, and when he got ~
Aek the subject should be tabooed
rever.
It is natural for every boy to yearn
r the deep blue sea and the life of a
ilor. He hasn't the least idea that a
ilr has anything to do butgit around
le captain and spin yarns and answer,
kye! aye! sir!" when the captain calls
it the name of Jack Brace. Hethere
re desires to go to sea and visit for
gn countries and come home with-,
.e bronze on his face and a roll to his
Lit. Don't give your boy a chance to
n away. When the signs become'
ain have your plans all perfected and
ready to say:
"James anybody could tell by the
ay you handle a clothesline that you
ere born for a nautical cut to your
, and it is plain enough that the
>unding billow is your true elementi
have arranged for you to make a trip
i the lakes, and will then help you- to~
,t a berth on an Indiaman. Be al
ady to-morrow morning, James."
I'd put him on board a schooner
>und, say, from Oswego to Chicago,
id I'd forward money to Chicago for
im to come home by rail. If the money
asn't there he'd come home on foot.
ith the dark, damp forecastle-the
a 'sickness--the curses and rope's end-'
gs from the mate-the pulling and"A
tuling-grease and tar buckets, he'd.
nd in Chicago feeling that it would a
a privilege to live on turnip at-home
id sleep in the garret on a straw bed. f
ve been right there, and I'mow.
No father should be surprised- If his
y develops a yearning to become a ;
ighty hunter. There is something
ighly fascinating in the ideaof knoek
g over buffaloes, tigers, elephants and
.raffes, and of successful encounters
ith alligators and boa constrictors. _
Thaen the signs begin to crop out the
ther should be ready. Take the boy
ft and sit down on a log with him and
"James, it's a burning shame for me-i
i keep you around home here and
yoil your whole future. I came across
bar of led, half a pound o f salt and a
af of bread which you secreted in the -
it bin yesterday as a starter for going a
fest. There's no need of any slyness
ry son. I want you to go. I shalt be
roud of you if you become a great
unter. P'll lend you the shot gun and
ohreblankets and a frying pan,
st pieee of woods. If you'll stay there
iree days and three nights, then P'l
t you out and send you to the Black
[ills.'
He'd be almost certain tocome sneak
ig into the back door before bed time,
ut if he put it off until morning so
mech the better. He'd have the whole
ight in which to turn pale, look about
ith wild eyes, shiver at every sound,
old his breath at the hoot of an owl,
nid to promise himself over and over
gain:
"Just let me live 'till morning and I
ope to die if I ever leave home~again!"
:xamination for Peabody Scholarships.
[Columbia Rtegister.]
There are four beneficiary Peabodyn
:holarships in the Nashville Normal
ollege to be awarded to applicants
~om this State, and the competitive
,xamination therefor will be held in
ie office of the State Superintendent
f Education on Thursday, July 12, at
) a. m.
The applicant for a scholarship must
e at least 17 years of age, present to
ie President of the college a certificate
f irreproacbable moral character, gen
emauly or lady-like habits, presumed
ood health, declare his or her inten
on to make teaching a profession,
must give a pledge to remain at the
>lege two years if the scholarship is
>ntinued so long, promise to submit
tieerfully to all its requirements in
1e public schools of his or her own
tate at least two years if there is oppor
mnity. The amount of the scholar
2ip isS$200 ayear.
Applicants who fail to obtain sebol
eship, but pass satisfactory examina
ons, will be admitted to the college
ee of all charges for tuition.
second the Amendment.
[From the Sumorville Journal.]
Another walking match has ended,
'ith no profits to the contestants or to
ie public. These walking matches
'ill never do any good until the con
~stants are put in a row at one end of
a ocean pier, with their faces toward
ie boundless sea, and made to.walk -
raight ahead until they get there,
idows and orphans to divide the gate
oney. -