The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, June 28, 1888, Image 1

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W~ I' E--'. PRICE rrn0 ArYiA lb ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWVBERRY, S. C., T HURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1888.PIE$.0AYA AMERICAN .MILLIONAIRES. Their Great Fortunes of Recent Accuinula tion--Jay Gould the Richest in the World. InI the May number of the most iii Iortalt of French Reviews, the Reven ue Dcx Deux Mondes, there is an clabo rate paper by M. C. de Varigny on "The Great Fortunes of the United States," of which the New York Sun gives an interesting synopsis, with some necessary corrections which are likely to prove more instructive than pleasing to the author. M. de Varigny starts out by referring to the message of Mr. Cleveland upon the surplus a.:d the tariffas a document brought out by a situation unique in history, the necessity of depleting a national treasury overflowing with money. From that he proceeds to dis cuss as an analogous phenomenon the accumulation of enormous capital in thie hands of a small number of mlen. For cent uries, he says, the Anglo-Saxon race have becen distinguished for pre preseniting au unenv:iable contrast be tween the greatest fortunes and the profoundest poverty and wretchedness; but now, though the largest number of millionaires are to be found in England, as statistics show, the American for tunes are in the first rank as to magni tude. So vast have these modern for tunes become that the term millionaire has taken on a new signification. Men who have set about building up a for tune in a leisurely way will be more or less gratified to learn that they have lost valuable time in the effort to estab lish their position in the ranks of the truly rich, and may still hope to repose some day "in Beelzebub's bosom," as the pious old lay mistakenly expressed it. A millionaire, we are assured, no longer means a man who possesses one million of francs in France, of lires in Italy, of roubles in Russia, of dolla.is with us. According to "the modern phraseology, started by Sir Morton Peto and James McHenry, and adopted in England and the United States," he is the possessor of ?1,000,000 in England, $5,000,000 in this country, and 25,000,000 francs in France. This slight change in terms, it will be seen at once, is full of comfort to a large class of citizens of the five countries named, and will doubt less enable many of their number to regard the eye of a needle hereafter without the painful reflections which that small object has hitherto inspired in their breasts, if indeed it will not henceforth-appearto-them to be quite as pleasant and roomy as the door of the average circus menagerie, for instance. Following the new standard, M. de Varigny estimates that out of a total of 70i) the proportionate number of mil lionaires in the different countries is: England..............................200 tnited States..................-.---10 Germany and Austria...............100 Fran ce............................... 7 Russia..............................5 India................................. 50 Ot her countries.....................12 The great American fortunes he de scibIes as almost wholly of recent or comparatively recent accumulation, the millionaires of the earlie r days having been few, and he particularly mentions only Stephen Girard and Sir Wmn. Ph ipps, the Massachusetts Governor, dlistinguished for his recovery of lost treasure in the seventeenth cent'ry, b)ut whose possessions, the Sun says. he greatly exaggerates. Of these and of J,ames Gordon Bennett he gives pretty full and miore or less veracious histories, and he also refers at length to .Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt, while of John .Jaco'o Astor he makes only ineidlental mention. Jay Gould is put in the first place as not only the richest man11 in America, but also in the wvorld, the chief millionaires of the present time, all of whom are Americans or Englishmlen, being thus enumerated: Jay Gould....................$27.5,000,000 Rothschild...................0,000 C1. W.Vackayl..................50,000,000 JP.Jones....................100,000,000 Dke of Westminster........8 ,000,000 JhJ.Astor.............. 50,000,000 W . te art..................40,000,000 JG.Ben nett6................ 30,000,000 D)uke of Southerland..... 000 Duke of Nor '.*,,,... ' ,,t ->o,000)0040 This tale the Sun regards as~ far L wdcof thme facts, and as more amusing than instructive. Mr. Jay Gould's fotunei1 is cut dowvn at oneC swoop to $aa )l000,09t0, as represenited by the nonui na:l value of tihe securities he exhibited .a few years ago. Mr. Vanderbilt's 1os0 ~ionIs are increased in about the same proportion and the Astor estate, we are told, p,robably exceeds in solid value either of the others. Mr. Mackay s wea?ilthi, ini solid cash, is not known, but 9 -robblyonly ai small fraction" of the sum.st down in the table; while se.nator Jones is conitin'ently ruled cut of anly list of the richest menCf On thi.o coutilment. "W.V Stewart" is sup)posed to standit for the late A. T. Stewart of who'se dleat h the scholary F'renchmian s -emis not to have heard-a striking coinnent on t he character of fame based othe pocket-book alone. Of Mr. Beni nett's fortune the Sun says only that it -hopes" lie is as well off as he is here said to be. Mr. Bonner's horses are mentioned as having cost $150,000. Mr. Gecorge Jones, of the Newv York Times, idescribei as having refused $l,000,Ovt for his l:pper. Millionaire editors, how ever; necording to M. de Varigny, arc ihe except ion. "Journalisnm,'' h shtr w dly explains, "is rarely the caret adoptedl i .y t hmose impatient of fortune,' which showvs that hie has not studied hi~s subiiet w ithout adlvantage. Aiimong tit her Aimericani millionaires, raniked by the new :--tanidard, are "'Bel ,-lt t ormlani and W\estnmore. of New York, Munn, of Chicago, and Lyma: and Perkins, of Boston," some of whil names the Sun does not recognize while it is impressed by the absenc from the list of the ncitmes of th Goeiets, the Ithinelanders, the Stuy vestants, the Standard Oil barons Mo'ses Taylor, "and a host of other more or less entitled to be namled anO: the great millionaires." but of whom I1 de Varigny has evidently never heard Whatever else may be thought of thi French author's list, and of the Sun' list, named and suggested, one signifi cant fact is brought out by comparinl theni with each other. With all th power at their command for doing good the namesof but one or two men wh are mentioned in the whole category ar associated in the public mind with an; beneficient work or deed. Many o them, it seems, are not known outsid of the connunity in which they spenh their time and money. To the rest o the world they are as much cyphers a their own servant or the beggars a their door. lie inust have a small sou indeed wiho can possess so vast mean for achieving honor and accomplishiu worthy aims, and yet fail socompletel; to make use of his opportunities as t. escape even the poor distinction o seeing his name on the roll of "million aires." John It. Abeny's Success in New York. [From the Wall Street Atlas] Two notable trials, in which spiril ualisn played a prominent part, have recently attracted a good deal of publi attention in this city. One of these that of Mme. Diss. Debar for cor spiracy, has engaged the attention o Judge Gildersleeve and a jury while th other, the Terry-Perine slander suil which has just resulted favorably t Miss Terry consumed four days in it trial before Judge Lawrence and in it developments far exceeded in sensation al interest that of the obese beguilder c Luther R. Marsh. Mr. John R. Abne, who looked after the interests of Mis Terry, is a well-known lawyer of thi city, whose offices are at No. 2 Wa: street. Mr. Abney, who is about thirty five years of age, is a native of Sout: Carolina and resided in the capitol c that State. He served ably and well a District Attorney and after earning a honorable reputation a sa lawyersough1 five years ago, a wider field of operation in this city. Since his location her his old success has attended him He has built up a large and lucrativ practice and except those devoted t the criminal branch of the law practices in all the courts. He has been successful before tb Court of Appeals upon several ocet sions and is recognized as a lawyer < sound ability. In the case referred t he conducted the side of the plaint with consummate skill, his summinu up) being a masterpiece of sound logi and still sounder law. Mr. Abney is decided acquisition to the local bar an is destined at no distant day to comn still more prominently before th p~ublic. Bonds~ of the C. L. & N. Rt. Rt. [Register, 22nd.] To all interested in the early compnh tion of the Columbia, Newberry an Laurens Railroad, and that includ< about every one, it will be gratifyving t learn that yesterdlay County Treasurt D)errick of Lexington paid the couponl on the b)onds issuedl by three tow nship in aid of the road. These townshij. were Broad River, Saluda and the Forn and the totalanmount of the bonds o which the interest coupons was pa was $40,000. The officers of the road have also ri eived information from the Treasur< of Newberry County that the coupor of Township No. 9 would be duly m< July 1, proximo. It is expected that Mr. Adams, tli contractor who is to do the work< grading the line from this end of tli newv bridge to the site of the company freight depot, at the corner of Lady an Pulaski streets, will commenee opern tions this very wveek, and after begui dif~ se to prompIlt (con A Change in the Columxbia Female Conleg [Special to Charleston World] 'oiLMIIIu June 20--A changei the faculty of the Columbia Femna College will be of interest to TI: W%orldl's readers. An election is hel annually at the end of each sessiol When the election came up this yei Prof. L. B. Haynes was requested b: Presidlent D)arby to resign. The reque: was not acceded to, and Profess< Haynes was dlismliss(J, and Coloni .ohn C3. Clinkseales wa elected resident professor in charge. Thn action wvas brought by the prominiel part taken by Mr. Haynes in referemt to the formation of a third party, h general support and stand on the H-ol ness Association matters, and hi advocacy of woman's suffrage. Mi: Mary Yeagin, of Laurens, has resigne as teacher of English literature. No Great Danger. [F-romn the Omaha World.] Great Revivalist-"Yes, sir, the tin; ha-s comie to rise ag:inst impendin dangecrs. WhVo knowsv- at wha momc! the pope~ may renmove fromi Italy to t1: United States, sir, whno-" Ordinary citizen-"'Nonsense, 1 mti noisenise. Is there not evell to vt| soieilg granld, insp)irinig comilnall ing in the one mighty and histo'rie tit Thne Pope of Rome?'' "WVell, yes, but-" "Who would eare for the 'Pope< SECOND) TERM PRIESID)ENTS. Exrenlent ('hances for Grover Cleveland to be the Eighth'successful Candidate for Ie-elettlon. [ 1aol'1:.gaji. Grovecr Clevelan'l is the eleventh1 ' President of the Ulitedl States to re Sceive re-llominillotiol. Of those b efore t hill ) who have been nom llhinated for a s;cold term seven have been elected anl three have been defeated. The successful candidates for a second terml were (eorge Washington, Thomas Jef ferson, James Madison, James Ionrae, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The defeated candidates for second terms were John Adams, John Quiney Adams and Mar tin Vanl Buren. John Adams was beaten because Jet ersol aroulesel the COUItry against his federalistic tendencies and aristo- t Seratie ideas. The alien and sedition laws proved the death stroke of the old federalists, and .John Adams fell under a storm of popular reprobation. rw.ih ty-eigit years later John Quiney Ad n:uns suflered the fate of his father. He was overwhelled in the race for his 1 sc"old term by Andrew Jackson who had received a larger popular vote than lie at the previous election. The elec tion was thrown into the house of rep resentatives, and though Adams was elected by strictly regular and consti tutional methods, the people repre sented the veto-f their choice and re garded Adams as a sort of bogus Presi ident. They looked upon him pretty much as the people of the United States looked upon Ruth- t erford B. Hayes whom they re garded as an usurper of the Presiden tial office. Jackson swept the country over Adams in their second race and was triumphantly elected to a second term. Van Buren was regarded as the po litical heir of Jackson, but a complica tion of circumstances led to his defeat in 1840. A great monentary crisis was upon the country and the administra tion was held responsible for it. The democratic party was rent with dissen sious so bitter that it could not agree on a candidate for Vice-President. It had held the reins of government for twelve syears and the sentiment in favor of a change was very strong. The Whigs reaped the benefit of the popular enthu siasni over Gen. Harrison's military achievements and the negative support of a large element ofdisaffection in the Democratic party. Judged by historical t precedents, the chances for Grover Cleveland's re-election are excellent. But the circumstances of his candidacy e for a second term are such as to insure a Demluocratic victory. In his first race lie had to face all the odium and sus 1(ieion wlhich attached to the Denocra tic party after the civil war. There was an honest fear among a large lenient Hof voters. in the N\orthl that D)emcocratic s upremnacy would brin g ab out tihe dlomn ination of tile ideas which ruled the South in 1800i. Assurances that Ethe the decision of the great struggle and were in hearty sympathy with theC Unlion were questioned. 'The Republi can party made the most reckless use of its power in order to retain con toofte government. A great army of ofliee holders, defying their obliga s tions to the civil service law which the demlocrats had formulated and etetd, organized themseives inlto a Reptlihcan A corruption fund greater than had ever been known in the United States wams p)laced at the disposal of the R~epub licanl party by thle monopolies and trusts which that party had encouraged andI nurtured. Againtst such odds the Demo cratic calndidates were elected. The first D)emocratic Administration for nearly ta quarter of a century began under suspdicion from a large p)art l.'of the country. It has had control of the gov-1 ernment for over three years and has converted dlistrust into confidence. It] Chas used its utmost endeavors to secure a thorough revision of Federal taxa tion ar(I to reduce the burdens of the people; it has considered public oficee a] pdublic trust to be executed in the inter *ests of all th'e peop)le and not for the sake of party gain; it has reformed abuses in every department of the gov ernmilent, and turned out thousands of "rascals" to fill their p)laces with hon-1 est and14 capiable men.1 Every fear of the results of Demo e erat ic supremacy has been dissipated e and every hope of the friends of the d new order has been more than fulfilled. 1In 1888S the condlitions of 1884 are re .versedl. It is the Democratic party y whlich enjoys tile confidence of tihe peo t ple. It is backed by the record of a r splendid adlminlistration. it has no .1 broken pledges to expllainl. It goes be 5 fore tile country with a clear enunlcia Stion of pirinceiples whlich mean hlonest t governiment and an equal distribution eC of its burdens. Its candlidates are meni Iwho have been tried inl the highest ea paci1ty of public servants, and found 5worthy of the public trust. There are no0 factions mn the party, and its ranks d are. broken only to miake wvay for new recruit. Every sign points to a glorious Democratic victory next November. Grov er Cleveland will be the eighth p)resi<1int of thle United States to re ueive a re-election. IRespectfun1y sulumnitte'd. W'e arc not olferim: a year's subscrip u io in exchiange for the i gcest water - melon this year. We are ill the farm ingm. busineCss ourself, and we are work ing~ it the other way-five mlelons to ever new sub)scriber. There's a pre Comnnittee of the nWhole. ( [ Youth's Comlp]anion.] T", A fter the general debate had en<dvd n the tariff hill, a proposition was lane, by the memiiber ot the House of teleresentatives wv%ho had charge of the tepublican leaders. to dispense with it he considerahtioni Of the bill "in the cal ommnhittee of the whole." Tl Perhaps some of the readers of the . 'oipanion do not know what is melant y this phrase, or if they do know, they im iay not be aware what is the object of oing into Committee," as it is called, n a bill. The committee of the whole er exactly what the term suggests. Its iemnbersllip is thesame as that ofthe as- "ta stl embly. The British H ouse oft Commionis. ails the committee a committee of the hole House." In the United States louse of Representatives it is usually at erined "a counnittecof the whole on the . ilti tate of the Union." The senate Col iders bills '"as in the connittee of the hole," but its system is slightly dif Lrcit from that of the other Iouse of ongress. 'Wheii the House of Representatives a th dop ts a motion to go into (Ohiilliit tee ,f the whole, the Speaker leaves the 'l hair, which is taken by some mheibcer lesignated by the Speaker. A new set ,f rules comes into operation, much impler than those of the House itself. >ome of the changes should be men- tot ioned. There is no calling of the roll. no re, all divisions are taken by rising or by . in' assing between tellers. Again, there is entire liberty to offer ? onmnittee on every bill, as the Senate 1 loes, many crude and unworkable see- a ions would be made more intelligibl'e su ari nd practical. Electrical Storms :=d NervousnesI. tic is A physician who has taken much in- ret crest in the effects of electrical storms ret ipon sensitive persons writes to the at lochester Democrat: at "Your article in to-day's issue is of er: reat interest to me, as I had stated yes- lat erday to my friends that there was cer- th ainly a good deal of disturbance in our as tmosphere and undoubtedly another m olar disturbance was in full blast, for I iave never been more depressed in I to nergy, and my nervous system was 1 low to respond to any stiiulous. In- SO omnia, from which I have suffered at O imes, was in full sway last night, and NO fter a restless night, I was fully awake it Lt 4.30 o'clock this morning. These at- all acks of insomnia I have watched for ? he last year or more, and they inva- S iably-occurwbeirthe-soiar activity is Lt its height. An increased arterial ten ion is perceptible; and I have sonic- W1 ies been obliged to resort to proper fa< 'emedies to procure the needed rest I pa clt in want of, and to prescribe the ar amte to others of a nervous habit. There v re people so constituted that in health of hey do not feel these depressions, but tri f closely wat ched, more or less marked at ymptomis wvill be observed, especially sti ni those oif nervous templleramlenit." thi In this conniection,. it will be remlemi- ve ered that the physicians attending va Ieneral Sheridan attributed a recent to elapse to atmiosp)heric causes. This re- fa: apse occurred during tihe severe electr'i- in) :al storms on the south Atlantic coast. w ['le interest in this subject is likely to nm nrease. It would certainilv be of ad- 011 ~antage for physicians to know whether I ~letrical tension in thbe atmosphere or b he progress ofcdisease is the initnediate of ause of a patienit' d epression1. Trhose ar veakened by disease are suseep)tilie to fr< letrical changes. If these changes ti< re suflicient to disturbh the magnetiec eedle, the human organism must also v e afcted to a greater or less degree. at k Colored Boy Killed by the Train Near Union. UNIoN, June 21.--At 2 a. m. Wed- -ri esday the north-bound passenger :rain, after leaving the depot, ran gainst Ed Miller, colored, knocking limt violently off the track, breaking ~everal ribs-his jaw bone and his ~kull, it appears that the boy was sleep- Sc g upon tihe track, or drunk, and b) eaing the traini coming, lhe raised C< .imsef on his hands and feet, apparent- la y trying to get off the track. He was hi n this p)osition when last seen by the co mgineer. -As there is a curve in the dr -airoad track, and as the train was get- bc ing under full headway, being behind :ime, it was implossible for the engineer 50 :o stop the train. The cowveatcher ran g nder the body, kiiockinig it off the 1)i :rack. s The Patriarch of the Piedmont. SPA RTANnIURG, June 21.-The odlest -an now living in the Piedmont sec :ion is "Uncle Johnnie Fielder,'' of e haurens County, but there is no record I f the date of his birth. He fixed it in th :he year 1780, but his childlren make it Is 782. According to his own belief he t s now in his 108th year, wvhile his ai ~hildren believe that lhe is 106 years old. e Ie was fully growvn and married when S il :he war of 1812 broke out, and lie vol- p nteered and went with his regiment :o Charleston. That was seventy-six ;n rears ago. The older peop)le who have known him all their lives believe him a :o be over 100 years old. For several ronths he has been quite feeble; andw loes not get away from home. No More Po.stal Card DunR. a WAsmsIY(ToN, June 20.-The post ffice depart mient hats issued notice to in :ostmasters that under a recent act of ongress any postal card or envelope 01 carng on the outside miatter intended R :o injure tile feelings or rep)utaition of hi he p)ersonl addressedl, or 1bring him into isereit, including uan ofre:isive or threatening language, will lie excluded of NKNOWN TOWNS IN THE SOUTH. "y are nebssed with Many Advantagey The. Way to be Recognizei. Man:ufacturer's Record.] le South is s feking imuigrants. needs awil invitos the men and the >ital of the Ea:-t and the West. e great ailvantages of this country c but very sligthtly known to the out v world, and it is only as they are pressed upon the people of other sec us that we (a,n look for new settlers I lhore liberal investitients of -North- t i capital. D)iseussing this point the 5 anoke ;Va.) Leader makes some tenie'nts that are worth while con ering. 'lh(e Leader says: Yhlat the South particularly needs e this mlomllelt is an influx of capital .1 iimiigratio n. True, it is getting s aster than had ever been anticipated 'j sooni after the wounds of the war, i t it is not getting it as tast as it might. l ,tht here in Roanoke we might in- t >ve even the marvellous growth we s ve already had if we would but let a great West know of our exception- ] advantages. All that the country '] Its to know is: "What is your i ce fit f . ? What can we do there'? 1 hat are its natural advantages ?" ['hese questions answered satisfac- p ily, as they can be in regard to Roa- t ke, would meet with an immediate a ponse by investments of those desir- 1 to leave the bleak and frozen shores E the Northwest for a more genial cli lte. The past winter there has been ] exceptionally severe one, and much I yering, loss of life and property has sen from this cause. Thousands are v stfully looking forward to emigra n to a milder climate, and nowhere < presented such inducements in that card as in the great middle temperate ion of Virginia. Lying.iutermedi between the extremes of moisture d heat and cold, with abundant nin Ll deposits and rich agricultural ids, particularly in the Southwest, a State furnishes inducements such no other locality in the Union fur ihes. Flow, then, is the tide to be turned ,ards us? There is only one potent swer to this question, and that is by ply letting the outside world know r advantages. We cannot do that thout a system of advertising, and is a singular fact that Roanoke, with of its facilities, is not known to the estern country, when every other uthern town, with any prospects at .sadvertised extensively. rhere is not a town in the South iose people might not study these :ts with interest and profit. Com ratively few Southern towns or cities making any special efforts to ad rtise their advantages to the people the North and West. They are I isting thatt soe few of the settlers raeed southwards may perchance aggle away from the main stream at is moving to the places that do ad rse and find out what their ad ntages ar.Te r oing nothing make their names and attractions niliar to the North, but simply trust to chance. Many Southern towns, iih are never heard of and whose mes would scarcely be recognized by e man out of a hundred, are blessed th advanitages probably not surpassed any of the most widely known cities the south, but nobody hears of them, d hence they receive little benefi t >mt the southward trend of immigra-I m. The South must do as the ~ader advises Roanoke-ad(vertise, ad r ise liberally, advertise persistently .d1 juiiously andl good results will certain. HIE 3MORMONs GOING TO 3MEXICO. cy buy a Big Estate In Northwest Chi huahua. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] EL PAso, June 15.-A few days ago on Humphreys, Judge J. B3. Cros , and the other owners of the great >ralitos Hacienda, which embraces a rge portion of northwestern Chihua La, and is among the largest in Mexi sold a portion of the estate to An ew J. Stewart andl George M. Brown, >th of Salt Lake City. The tract thus sold embraces nearly [),000 acres of the agricultural and azing land, and has a railroad line ojected. It now transpires that the e is to parties acting in behahi of the iurch of the Latter-Day Saints, and at this purchase is only the first of a ries which will be made in various .rts of Mexico, but chiefly in the rthern states of that republic. An tensive emigrration from Utah into exico is evidently contemplated by e Mormons. Some two years ago an periumntal colony was sent out to e vicinity of the tract just purchased, .d it proved a complete success in ry respect. Their farming, 'garden g, fruit-growing, and cattle-raising ospered ini their settlements along the tsa Girande River in the most surpris manner. They have built schools, churches,1 d store-houses, and have managed to t on a footing of friendly sympathy1 th their Mexican neighbors. They pear to haive given up the practice of lygamny, to all outward appearance least, and con port themselves as rdel citizens, although it is very ap rent that they yield a blind and' ipicit obedience to their elders, bish 5, and otheir spiritual superiors. acently all accessions to their number .ve conme from some Mormon settle lnt in Arizona. The p)urchase money the tract recently bought amounts to The First Persian Railway. A correspondent describes the extra rdinary sensations caused among th< ative Persians by the construction o railroad between the postal stations o Ialiniou'iaLad, on the C'aspain coast nd Anol, about twenty-live miles it bie interior. Some five miles of rail: ave already been laid, and along ;esi )conotives are now at work, in orde: a hasten the extension of the line. The ngines are objects of unceasing won er and of absorbing interest to th< atives. Scarcely the slightest concep ion of the power of the hissing mon ter, even after a month's observation ppears as yet to have dawned upon th rude intelligence of the inhabitants Ls the locomotive approaches, th, rowd of astonished natives retires fo afety to a distance, and there follows : rreaiing chorus of exclamations 'here are upward of ?,i) mei engage a the construction of their pionee 'ersian railvay. The majority a hem are Italians, the remainder con isting of nomads and nondescripts rbo were previously engaged on th laku section of the transcaspian line 'be Mahinoudabad and Amol Railroa< being constructed entirely for com liercial purposes. Difficulties, delay nd considerable losses have been ex ,erienced in the landing of material a he port, where the water is shallowt nd the canoes lashed together to forn ighters have frequently collapsed steamers of 'light draught cannot aI roach within three miles of the shor( )espite all this, however, the con truction of the line is making fairl; ood progress. It remains to be seei vhether the success of the enterpris rill give the necessary impetus to th onstruction of more important railwa; ines in Persia. The Southern Brethren at Chicago. [From the Chicago News.] The wags have great fun niimickin he typical southern republicans. Thos iot yet captured by Alger are reporte .s going the rounds of the delegation n pairs and talking like this: "Mah name's Cunnel Blower, sal f Joejah, sah, how dye? Ahm rigb lad ter see yer. This yere's ma tahnate, sah, Cap'n Smart, sat Ve're just looking around. Don't min f I do take a segar, sah, and one fc nah altahnate, Cap'n Smart. It's ightgood bit warm yer, ain't it? It >owerful common hot, by Gad, sah. lon't mind if I do jine you in a drini fy altahnate, Cap'n Smart, sah, wi Iso join you. Who is yo' candinat( ah'? Mr. Sherman? - He is also i andidate. gentlemen, by Gad, sat Lnd with him we will carry all bef< .is, sah." This is said in each headquarters t ong as the colonel and captain ca teep their feet. A Story About Washington. [From the Independlent.] There is an unpublished story< ashington, told me by a descendar >f the ancestor who is in the stora vhich represents the great generali he pleasant family life we have a iked to contemplate, and not as tl: ~rand man and hero at the head of h rmy. It was when Washington, aft ~he Revolutionary war, was travellin rough Connecticut and visited Hat ~ordl, staying at the Bulls tavern ther ~boy came into the kitchen of ti :avern and said: "I want to see Get Washington." The functionary on duty did not pr< pose to let any mere boy see G;e Washington merely for the asking, an aid as much. "But I have a note for him," remo trated the boy. "From whom?" "3My father, Chief Justice Ellswort.h. "Oh-well," and the functionary 1 ented. Gen. Washington read tI aotes and said to the boy: "Your faith< nvites me to dinner. I will do no moi han that, I will go and breakfast wvit aim" And he did the next morning. Al fter breakfast he took the twin sons' hle justice, each on a knee arid sang hemn the "Derby Ramn," an old Englis iallad, beginning: "It was on a marki lay," and setting forth that the Rai >f Derby was so big that the birds bui aests in the wool on his back and tl: >utcher who undertook to kill hinm wi Irowned in the blood. A Terrible Revelation. 3Mr. .J. Van Dyne, a prominenit res lent of East Liverpool, Ga., hlapp)enin o be at St. Chairsville, Ga., on bus. ies a few days ago, thought he woul ass an hour or so by going up to tlI ourt house and hearing a murder cast ,hich'was then being tried there. TlI ~riminal in the case was a y.oun ,voman, who was aeeused of murderir imana namedl Waters. Mfr. Van Dyn ook a gook look at the accused, an vas horrified to recognize in the prisor r his only sister, who had left hom nysteriously years ago, and whos vhereabout was never ascertained unt ;he chancee meeting at the trial. sisters Enough. (Fronm the New York Stun.] She had promised to be a sister He thanked her coldly, but said thi e already had five sisters. "Why. M1r. Sampson," said the gil 'I thought you were an only child." "I am," he responded; "I mean th: have five sisters such as you offer1 31AHONE OF VIRGINIA. 3181 A Pen Picture of His Antics at the Chicgoa Convention. for f"Mr f L [iicago Tribune.] ver Who lo has watched the ItonotooUs str atti's of a eage,i lion not too tame to out fee the '.:or of iron bars. not too savage for their re,traint, has seen Wil COU r liai Mahione speaking. He incessant- thr ly strode frot North to South on the narrow rostrum, having altogether ten the feet of walking space; and ifhe walked am rapidly he spoke with a deliberation lsl that in the beginning was almost tw wearying. His long beard has grown dlei J whiter in some strands more iron-like th< in others in the last four years. His cheeks have sunken a little more, his w r eves have withdrawn deeper into the th( bony sockets. His slim figure was clothed by a tailor who cut and fitted his Henry Clay'and Andrew Jackson. The r I blackeloth frock coat has the fulled bri , skirts of the last century. The un starched linen wristbands lie rumpled beneath the black margin of the coat- tio e sleeve. He wore no cravat. His limp o collar, succumbed to the melting heat, was the only indifferent thing about him. It cared for no man ; felt an in Sterest in no party. His black trousers, kn cut more loosely at the knee ankle than mi the prevailing mode, met provincial th Southern shoes antiquated high heels beat a sharp staccato on the rostrum as he pranced from end to end with con stantly increasing passion. His voice lis was hoarse but heard ; he spoke sharp- in ly, conquering every moment ; and sa when his growing victory loomed be fore the face of his younger antagonist as e standing within three feet of his back, a r e Wise could not hold himself in. do - " "as AN ANCIENT ENGINEER. th Reminiscences of Mr. H. G. Raworth-Rait ways as they Used to Be. Pr [News and Courier.] ad g There is only one oldest railroad en gineer in the world and Charleston hasfe a him. He is Mr. H.- G. Raworth, of Aiken, who is residing with his son-in law, Mr. H. C. Walker, and of whom some brief mention was made yester day in the News and Courier. Mr. Raworth is the brother of Mr. E. F. Raworth, who gave a name to one d of the finest engines on the South i Carolina Railway and who was former- to ly superintendent of the Greenville and ha Columbia Railroad. Mr. H. G. Raworth will be 77 years of tr age in December next. He is still hale of and hearty, and only three years ago Ai was obliged to retire from the service of the South Carolina Railway by reason of impaired eyesight. He began life on th the railway in 1s29 as an apprentice in A the "shops" in Charleston. He is, is s therefore, a reminiscence of the palaeo- P n zoic age of railways. He was there wvhen the "Stowbridge Lion" caimela over from England, and the "Bestfi Friend'' w ith the wooden spokes to the an driving-wheel, and the up and down sugar-loaif boiler. The engine then had f no cowcatcher. There was no engine de t then that could keep up with much less th ,catch a cow or a calf on a mile stretch en 1 up or down grade. g l1 Mr. Raworth took charge of ani engine m e in 1834, and until a comparatively re-m s cent date has been on the road con r tinuously. He recalled wvith muchIlo gpleasure the circumstance that he -'pulled'' John C. Calhoun to a big .Nullification meeting in Calso ug' e and that the great statesman stopped to . refresh himself at Woodstock, a pic turesque old ruin about fifteen miles - from Charleston, the greater part of its y . picturesqueness having been caused by dthe earthquake. It usually took aboutI teni hours to make the trip to Branch - ville during that period, and sometimes the train, when it left Charleston,would fo not be heard from again for a week. Si They did not have any second see- b etioiis, excursion trains, green signals th e and all that sort of thing when they tI r were learning the alphabet of steam in e locomotion. The trestles were built on M h stilts, and when the engine got off the track alhands got out and lifted it up ce d tenderly and replaeed it. The second at f section never went out until the first o Isection came back, because if it had not w hcome back there could not have been il t iany second section. When there was w 1n an accident, say at George's Station, on lo t IMonday the train had got back to town e on Wednesday with the news and s another traini hand went up to help him on a "special'' horse, or perhaps on an "extra" hand car, if they had any. There wvas usually a long rest at Branch- th ville, waiting on stage coaches from all w - parts of the t hen civilized world, and in th Sthe meanwvhile they all, passengers, iconductors, t rain dispatchers, telegraph W d operators. superintenidents, general ~ e managers and directors, used to play af' , kenoat "Our House" which cost sonme e thing less than a million dollars. gMr. Raworthi is in the best of health " gandl is not at all aware of the dlistinletion ein the railway world. e d - th A Fresh Journalistic Field. I [From the Walla Walla Wah-Wah.] an il This pr per on this, its first birth day, stutters not in saying that it is hatched to fill a 'lng-felt want. It is a fact, at tested by sever:dl able-bodied witnesses, thant wali-ipeyr for ranch hou~ses conies vc high. f hat shelf-lining is high. That bustles are high. t That real lace dishirags arc high. That Wath-Wah~ would fain fill these n ., fllow fields, at It aims to so shape its course that no1t t good house-wife will ever regret having to o used it for the noble purposes above out- to lined. r (. tnaninous Act of John Quincy Adams. 'he following has a lesson not only politicians but for others. It shows Adams .to have been possessed of y pure and noble principles, and ,ngth, and courage to carry them , for the purest and most exalted aciples are corrupted by lack of rage to assert or force to execute in : - :neident which occurred during administration of the second Ad s, heretofore, we believe, unpub ied, illustrates the difference be .en the general principles which un lay the politics of that day, and se which control our own. Ir. Adams made out a list of men om he had chosen to examine into condition of the United States ak, and submitted it for approval to Cabinet. 'he appointment of these men would ng each of them prominently into - >lic notice and stamp them with cial approval as possessing excep uable ability and incorruptible hon Ir. Clay, glancing over the list, ob ted to one name upon it. 'Mr. Adams," said he, "that man I Dw to be one of your bitterest ene s. He has been your opponent -oughout the whole of your political eer. He deserves no preferment at ir hands." dr. Adams' color rose. He took the , and looked at it in silence; then, his usual grave, measured tones, he d : 'I am sorry to hear that, for I am ured that he is an able financier, and ian of the sternest integrity. So he is not like me, eh? Well, Mr, Clay, it is the interests of the country, and t mine, which we must consider in s case, we will let his name stay." Ir. Clay nodded approval. ''The esident," he said "had risen to an nirable height of self negation. But should not have climbed there, I r." DICKENS ON CLEVELAND. he Son of his Father" Says he will Snre ly be Be-elected. [From the Philadelphia Times.] R EW YoRK, June 15.-Charles Dick 3 left for England on the Servia day. Before starting he said: "I ve made a special study of the litical situation, which is now at .cting the attention of thinking men both continents. It has been said'by nericans that Englishmen usually erlook the political features of Ameri i life. In my mind there is no doubt it Mr. Cleveland will be re-elected. id he ought to be elected. because he ,he best, most honest and honorable esident you have had since that ind man, Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Cleve- - id has conducted his administration rily, honestly and has shown himself enemy to jobbery. 'What can the Republican army do? is in the position of an army on the fensive, while the Democrats are on e attack, and their nominee's record ables them to be in such a position iich in warfare is, you ]er , the >st advantageous. Mr. Blaine is the rst man the Republicans can put for trd. He has but one cry for his fol ,ers to rally to: "Put up a big wall protection, so that these awful En shmen can't climb over it and gobble >American labor."' BELVA LOCKWOOD'S WAY. Elected President she would DismIss the Army and Rule by Love. WASH INGTON, June 20.-Mrs. Belva ckwood, the woman's candidate r President was at the Capitol to-day. Veral of her Congressional friends gan plying her with questions as to e course she would pursue if the for nes of politics should place her the White House. Finally Mr. orrow, of California, said: "But you couldn't be commander-in ief of the armies. How would you range that ?" Mrs Lockwood, who is a pretty >mian, shook her finger archly at her testioner and replied sweetly: "I >uld dismiss the armies and rule by After the Battle. [T. F. Galwey in Chicago Herald.] Perhaps the most shocking sight of e battlefield the day after the battle us the evidence of the rascality which e helpless dead afforded. The writer s seen many battles--how many it >uld be hard to say-yet he never w one dead body on the field the day er the battle that all its pockets were t turned inside out. There were some diers, especially when late in the Lr the number of substitutes had ome large, who were degraded ough to rifle the dead, but most of villainous work was done by the rnpfollowers, the horde of hired Lnsters and other civilian employes d attaches of the army. Lightning Work on Machinery. .LToONA, PA., June 20.-At the -nnsylvania railroad locomotive shops~ sterday alocomotive weighing11l0,000) unds was built in sixteen hours and t-five minutes. President Cleveland called on Attor v General Garland a few days ago i told him to leave Washington and k~e a long rest. Mr. Garland is tho ughly run down, and is at present -all unfit for work. He will soop go Hminy Hill, Ark., for quiet and :uperation.