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r A V US %f7A - ~ Eniw flu it -J - ESTABLIShED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2,1888. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR THE COST OF CAMPAIGNS. How the Campaign Fund is Spent-Who Gives the toney?--An Estimated Total of Twenty Minlions. [New York SunJ The headquarters of all recent I'resi dential campaigns have been i' the city of New York, now the acknowl edged commercial, political, social and brain centre of the United States. The pending campaign will be directed from this city. Already the national Democratic committee has fitted up quarters at 10 West Twenty-ninth street', and the Republican national committee will not be far behind with new headquarters for the campaign in West Twenty-fifth street, near the Ioffnan House. The Democratic committee has a whole building, and will at once get to work with a large force of clerks and assistants to do the active work of the campaign. There the executive committee will have its rooms, the paraphernalia of +he cam paign will be store<l, and the sinews of war expended. How much does it cost to run a Presi dential campaign? We have no annual reports to guide us. The committet s are close corporations. They work large ly in secret. They do not blazon either their receipts or expenditures on the housetops. They get contributions from sources that would not on any account be made public, and they expend money for purposes that may appear to be remote from the legitimate campaign work. We can therefore hardly expect to arrive at more than an approximate estimate of what it costs. The preparation and circulation of documents is a very important part of the work of national committees. The literature of each campaign is of neces sity of a very lively character. It gen erally consists of reprints of meniora ble speeches by distinguished party men. Often these speeches are the apparent outcome of Congressional debates, and nominally prepared to be spoken in the halls of Congress with reference to some pending legislation. They are generally crammed with sta tistics, and no party ever failed to be prepared with a voluminous array of figures to show that the other party would bring ruin and desolation upon the country, and that all its representa tives had been wasteful and extrava gant, if not corrupt. Portentious col umns of arithmetical calculations are printed bj the cart load and shipped to all parts of the country to be distributed at the local headquarters. The advan , reof Congressional speeches is that they can be sent free through the mails as parts of public documents, thus sav ing printing and postage. The Tilden campaign was the most remarkable in the history of the coun try for docu menitary work. Long~ before the National Commiittee got into work ing trim Mr. Tildeni had organiz.ed what was facetiously termed a "literary bureau," and it proved a mtost efficient adjunet. His keen intellect compre hended iuily the value of accurate in formation, lie knew all the schemes of the enemy to muisrepresent the issue and befog the voter with sophistries. He covered every point in the campaign with terse, vigorous pamphlets, which were sent in every directie.1 in liberal quantities, and when thle National Comufiit tee got organ izedl hs p ans were adopted and carriedI out. The result proved thle wisdom of his fore thought. It was to be expected that his vast fortune would be used ini his own behalf, and many wild stories were circulated as to theamiount which was empted from "Trilden's barrel." The fact was that in this legitinmate work he expended about $2->0,000. The literature of that campaign did much to set tihe principles and history of the D)emocratic party clearly before tile country, and to pave the way for other victories. -The indications are thlat the pending campaign will be a mnemo-able one for its documents. The fruitful topic of tile tariff' will give occasion for mo mentous piles of speeches, tracts, rhymes, sutistics, and facts on that inexhaustible topic. A most imlportanit anId costly work of the National Conmmittee is the sending out of speakers and the paymenC!t of their expenses. The speakers must be men of rep)utation, wvhom the peop)le will floek to see. They m ust be mieni of strong physique, cap)able of standing0 the rack of traveling and speaking con secutively for months. Of course the speakers must be paid. Sometimes they get as miuch as $100 a night,which is indeed a moderate p)rice for a profes sional mian. They go fronm p)lace to place, mnakinig substantially thle samle speech, and yet varying it for eachl locality. These speakers get a quiet cue fronm the National Conunittee and are cauitionetd as to the peculiarities ofeac(h locality. Theyv talk differently to the farmers from what they do to the city people. As a rule those speakers are preferred who are full of anecdote and know how t'o po'int a political argument withl a joke. such mleni as Sunset Cox or C'oh. Btob Ingersoll are in great de miand, anid generally talk thenmselves hoarse before the canmpaigni is over. The National (Comnmittees must keep up a wide c orrespondenc(e. They are obliged to be in formled of the p)rogress of the campai-gn and to look out for tile disputed p)oints, as a General wvould sulpport a weak spot in his army. Then there is a vast atmiounmt of telegraphing to be done. and~ to prevent exposure of plans to the enmy lmch of this nmust he done ini eipher. Secresy is ab)solute ly necessary foir political movements, as it is for military mnovements, and C,minittee that did not use the cipher more or less. Where does the National Comimittee get its funds? It depends upon what kind of a National Committee it is. Time was when there was little if any, concealnent about levying tribute upon otfiee holders; when the collector stood near by on pay day and took his per ceni. of the money paid to the oftice holderas regularly as the salary was paid. But that sort of thing is now changed, ind whatever the office holder gives must be done in the thrit of a voluntary contribution. Of course, office holders contribute. President I Cleveland has not scrupled to send his $1,0) cheek, and other office holders of Sless note do not permit themselves to forget. It was said that the late Ed wards Pierrepont gave $20,o0) toward the national campaign fund of the party that made him Minister to Erag land and a Cabinet Minister. (iood authority reports that Edward Cooper and Mayor Hewitt gave $ltM,() apiece for the first Cleveland canipaign, although it does not appear that they got any special recognition from the administration. The National Committee raises its own funds. It does not have any regular contribution from each State, but collects on its own plan and reports to nobody. It must find its own ways and means, and seldom fails to find out the men who are willing to pony up quietly, either on account of favors received or a lively sense of favors yet t) come. Generally the Executive Coniiittte of a National Committee comprises some rich men, who are expected to at least advance money in anticipation of receipts, and not a few officials of Na tional Committees have done this to their sorrow. August Belmont had some memorable experiences in this line when he was chairman of the Democratic NationalComnittee during the years when the party was strug gling against fearful odds, with no Custom House, Post office, or navy yard to appeal to. There was a very widespread notion that the rich banker could afford to contribute liberally, and he L.ad to take as contribution of others many promises to pay, which were never kept. He had to take a great deal of abuse and got little thanks and no recognition since the party got into power. Somehow the favors often did not go to men who furnished substan tial aid in time of need. Banker S. V. White, the treasurer of the last Repub lican State-committee, had so much-of this that he did not care to be re-elected this year. A very expensive feature of all Presi dential campaigns is the cost of great meetings and parades. A big parade, which means, of course, a torchlight parade, in New York costs on the aver age 500 per election distriet, or fron $12,000 to $20,000. The music, the flags and banners; the torches, the fireworks, the unifornms all cost money, to say nothing of the pay of the men who pa rade. It has been alleged that there are boys who turn out in all p)ro(es sions, and figure one nmighit as Republi cans and thme next as Demnocrats. A large public meeting in New York costs from $3, 000 to $4,000O. This goes for rent oif hall, music, expenses oif speakers, decorations, advertising, printing and et ceteras. (Conmversinzg withI well in formed mien who have for years handled the politi cal funds used by t he great parties in this city, and( coimpa ring and averaging statements, we coinclude that it costs about $1I,Oo) an Assemibly district to run a P'residential caumpaigni in New York city, or about $250,000J. This is exclusive of the official election expen ses, which foot up $290,000 for city and United States officials. Chamberlain Ivins, in his book on the costs (if elec tions in the city, estinmates the total cost of an average year at $700,000, exclusive of personal expenses of candi dates. It is said that Tanmmany and the County Demiocracy spent together about $1 70,000) to nominate Cleveland the first time. It is no secret that Mlayor Hewitt gave his whole salary as MIayoir, amzountinig toi $20,000, and .$4,000 more, to the party; and in the Tilden campaign he gave as much as$40,00)0. There are widely varying ideas as to the expenses of National Conmnmittees. Col. Rob. Ingersoll, when asked, said he did not know, but lie supp)osed it would cost a party from $1,000,000 to $2,000,mH0. MIayor Hewittt saidl that a National Committee, working econmo mically, could run a piresidential camn paign for $500,000J. No National Conm mittee ever published a bill of p)articu lars. Taking all the expeinses of all the states, it may be roiughly estimated that a presidential camlipaign costs the couni try about $ 000,000. CAROLINA. ('MBERLAND) GAP & CHI CAGO. Beginning the new survey to A,shevrine-The Invincible Bowen. [('orre-pendence of Greenmville Newvs.] PIcKz;Ns, S. ('., July 5, lS.--W. H. Schofield, jr., of New York, in comn pany with M1r. Jas. G3. Gibbes, of Co lumnbia and Col. Gardener, of Augusta, Ga., civil engineers, arrived here to-day. Tlhev w'ill commence the survey of the railroad at oince fronm here to Asheville, alrm. Schioliehld expiresses miuch sat is faction for the present outlook of the road, and says it will be built without a doubt. M\~r. Schotield is accompniedC by Col. Rt. E. Rowen, who has always been one of the hmost enthusiast ic friends thme road has had. It is ntt, (definitely kno wn vet ait what point they will connnonicie the THE SEARCH FOR CAPTAIN KIDD'S BURIED WEALTH. A Party of Men Digging In a Connecticut Cave and Ploughing up New Jersey Ground in the Fruitless Search. [Friin the Rochester Union.] News cones that a party of men have organized to dig for gold in a small eave near Greenfield, Conn. It is not known there is any gold in the cave. Somie years ago a report was started that gold was hidden in the cave-pro bably a partof the mysterious wealth that Captain Kidd buried-and on several occasions spades and pickaxes have been brought into play, the work generally being done in the night time. A year or so ago a number of men visited this cave night after night, excavating dirt, which they drew up in baskets aid threw out of the niouth of the cave. They finally withdrew, leaving their tools behind them, but whether they carried away any treas ure is not k nown. The members of the party just formed, evidently think their predecessors did not take it all. Over in New Jersey there is a rise of ground called Money hill, on the bank of the Shark river. Money hill got its name from an early belief that Cap tain Kidd made it abankofdeposit. In fact, it is quite certain that lie did. A good many people have dug into Money hill; a few years ago two sailors caine there, dug a hole, and went away again. "It i said" they left a rusty iron box by the side of the hole, and that some ancient coins were found near the water side, where they re entered their boat. That was a fever flesh and blood could not resist. The entire neighborhood was aroused, and Money hill and the whole north bank of the Shark river was prodded with spades. But no more iron boxes filled with ancient coins was found. But did that settle the matter? Not at all. Last month the disease broke out again, as virulent as ever, and a number of men went to work to unearth treasure from the sides of Money hill. If they dis covered any chests of Spanish dollars they kept the matter secret. A search is now going on for an imi niense lot of private treasure buried on Turneffe Cays, off British Honduras. John B. Peck, a former journalist of Washington, is the man who leads in the enterprise. A few years ago he came into possession of in formation that pointed to the sinking of a small pirate vessel, just filled with gold, on Tur nefle, which is a coral key. Peck ob ained a concession t"dig for the mil lions, agreeing to pay the government 1 per cent of all the treasure he found. Since then he has made two expeditions to the spo,, on one of which his ship was reeked, and on the other he broke his tools and returned to this country for nore. He has succeeded in getting neople to put up money for the expenses f these adventures, they to be repaid omt of the buried gold-when it is got. Tfhis Peck left New York for the trip) arly last month. Two vears agro a resident of Nantuck et was digging in his ('ellar for water, but lie missed that, as did Do0w of D)ow's Flat, and struck gold instead, or said hat he did. It was an iron chest filled with Spanish doubjloons. The entire sland was in a blaze of excitement, and rmaniy, if not all, the cellars in the ilace were dug over, though no imore ron chests were upheaved, nor did any nore Spanish doubloons clink on the aborer's steel blades. A bout the same ime a digger was industriously up having the soil on a point of Mount Desert in the belief that Captain Kidd ad strayed that far north to hide the ast acc'umullationl of gold and silver hat lie had taken froni the treasure ships of all nations-that is, all nations hat had treasure ships. This bloody old piratical Englisnian, who was finally legally put to death for his crimes has led mnany' men on fool's errands. For a hundred years leple have been digging at differenit points between D)elaware bay and Rthode Island, ini search of buried treas tre. The labor expended in this di rection wvould at a dollar a day, buy all he gold and silver and goods and ships hat (Coptain Kidd ever stole. It is a nere superstition that lie ever buried mything. The $2,0001 in gold and ilver he carried into Boston was proba ly all lie could command, for the hang an's noose wvas already dangling just bove his hiead(, and he would naturally 1o whatever lie could to propitiate the overmen t-the English authorities in hose days not being averse to taking nioey fromu anys source. A Conductor Kinled. [ Register, July 27.1 C'onductor Luther E. Smith, em loyed on the Charlotte, Columbia and( Augusta Railroad, lost his life night efore last near ('hester. H-e had been ~ent out from here ini charge of the vatermneloni train to Charlotte and tarted on the return trip Wednesday ight. When the train had reached a >oint betw~een Blackstocks anid Chester, le started to walk to the rear end over he top of the cars. When about the niddle of the second car from the en ine, lie was struck by an over-hanging ridge. His head struck the timbers f the bridge, but he was not knocked romt the car. Thue injured mani was ake:m to Blackstocks, where he died at t ocloek yesterday miorninig, about six ours alter the accident. Mr. Smith was a youg mian of peeu iarly aniablde traits, an efficient emi l\yee and a man who had mmany riinis. HeI wvas a native of Greenville aid for somec timle past had miade his :iomme at the Hendrix House in this city when off dutty. lie was twventy-six MANY USES OF EGGS. They Are Said to be Better for Scholars Hoi Brains Than Fish. [Eastern Farmer.] Fgs r a meal in themiselves. e Every element that is necessary for the ., support of man is coitained within the B limit of an egg-shell in the best propor- ope tions and most palitable form. Plain W() boiled they are wholesome. The nas- tha ters of French cookery, however, atfirm G that it is easy to dress them in five hun- exp dred different ways, each method not by economical, but salutary in the highest fiel degree. hin No honest appetite ever rejected an his egg in some guise. Its nutriment in the the most portable form and in the coil most concentrated shape. Whole na tions of mankind rarely touch ainy ans other animal food. Kings eat then ed 1 plain as readily as do the humble a tradesmen. After the battle of Muhi- ma dorf, when Kaiser Ludwig sat at a attl meal with his burggrafs and great can- htet tais, he.determined on a piece of bux- N ury-"one egg to every man and two and to the excellently valiant Schewpper- fro man." bets Far more than fish-for it is a watery 1 diet-eggs are the scholar's fare. They thrc contain phosphorous, which is brain heii food, and sulphur, which performs whi a variety of functions in the economy. goll And they are the best of nutriment for Stu, children, for in a compact form they acrc contain everything that is necessary to mom the growth of the youthful frame. hea Eggs are, however, not only food-they the are medicine also. The white is the whi most efficacious of remedies for burns, of h and the oil extracted from the yolk is coul regarded by the Russians as an almost exlx miraculous salve for cuts, bruises and scratches. A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will affectually detatch a fish bone fastened TI in the throat, and the whites of eggs a ra: will render the deadly corrosive subli- Ti mate as harmless as a dose of calomel. like They strengthen the consumptive, in- dev< vigorate the feeble, and render the U most susceptible all but proof against we jaundice in its most malignant phase. tinf The merits of eggs do not even end here. In France alone the wine clarifiers Bra: use more than 80,000,000 a year, and She the Alsatians consume fully 38,000,000 addi in calico printing and for dressing the leather that is used in making the it French kid - gloves. Even egg by l shells are valuable, for allopath and ro has homnem path alike agree in regarding them the purest of the carbonate of I ime. the ___ _ 04 __. how DISTRESSING ACCIDENT IN LAURENS. rU A One Brother Shoots Another in Mistake for anct a Raider. cold that [y Telegraph to the Green ville News.) G LAURENS, July 25.-An unfortunate the accident occurredl in the county (during the~ ast night. D)uring the night on the suel plantation of MIr. James Dunnon sonme veg personi threw stones against his dIwell- 1R ing. Two soins of Mr. D)unnon, Robert see; and Richard, came from the upper the floor and p)assed into the yard to ascer- Prol tain the assailants, Robert having a y, shot gun. The youths separated and inri after a while Robert, mistaking his Prim brother Richard for the supposed as- wif sailant, fired the gunl, emptying the Fret4 ontents in Richard's face and head, ~ and scriously wound(in him. Thepu father was present attending the Gala T1im* festivit ies at Greenville.fo The Quinine Fiend. [From the New York Telegram.] A tall, fine-looking woman, dressed min in the latest fashion, entered an up-li" town drug store last evening, and aproaching the counter, leaned wea rily againist it. The clerk, who was - waiting on another customer, reached to a shelf and taking down a little box, g~ shook three pills into a bit of pamper. Heevi passed them to the fashionable lady, 1 nd gave her a glass of mineral water. mei A fter putting the pills in the glass the becc lady drank the water, and with a sigh typ4 f relief, hurried from the shop. Not a ger word passed between either customer T: r clerk, and no money wvas paid for clot: the pills. ma! "WVell, that beats me," exclaimed a visitor.we "It is rather singular," said the clerk, an smiling, "but such thbings happen here r very day. That customer is well known17 in the social worldl. She has got the war uinine habit, which wvill kill her in erat the end. There is too much of this ea (luinine business going on, but we have A to keel) up with the times. That lady the exhausted herself ini social and chari- anid table visits, and then began to take umIa a five-grain pill of quinine to brace up tuir n. She did it by the advice of afriend. S4 From five grainis every evening, she arti< dvanced to fifteen, and soon she will Am< want twenty. and] "She likes to feel cheerful aind look repl, well when she goes (Jut with her hus- Tl' band, and having become a slave of relal uinine she takes it as a stinmulanit. But law! er husband is ignorant of the habit. cou: She pays us$1.50 a week and we keep niec the pills here for her. There are many H ladies in Ward MfcAllister's exclusive love 400m whoare slowly dying of the habit." y i e re:-s Suez Canal Shares. chil it is said that the shares in the Suez Canal which Lord E':aeonsfield's Giov ernent purchased from the ex-Khe dive Ismnail for four millions sterling are now stated to have a value of more posi than nine millions. It is further added moi that by the sale of these in the open C market no less a sum than ten millhions ofsl wol be reaiz. hou SHAVED BY A BULLET. v a General Had His Mustache Cut Off Without a Razor. From the Youth's Campanion.] he following incident is narrated by ufflcer on the staff of General J. E. 4tuart, of the confederate army. The ration was a neat one, but most ien ild rather be shaved with a razor n with a bullet. eneral- Stuart, as usual, greatly osed his own person on horseback riding out of the wood in the open 1, and I felt it my duty to say to that in my opinion he was not in proper place, as in a few minutes whole fire of the enemy would be centrated upon hini. ut he was in very bad humor, and wered curtly that if this place seem ikely to become too hot for nie I at liberty to leave it; whereupon I le response that since my duty ehed me to his side, no place could oo hot for ime where be chose to go. evertieless I changed my position, cautiously brought a large tree, in it of which I had been standing, veen myself and the enemy. i an instant the firing began and .e bullets struck the tree at just the ht to show that, had I remained re I was they would certainly have e through my body. Looking at irt, I saw him pass his hand quickly es his face, and even at that serious nent I could not help laughing rtily when I discovered that one of numberless bullets that had been stling round him had cut off half is beloved mustache as neatly as it d have been done by the hand of an rienced barber. All Sorts. ie shipwrecked sailor generally has rt of things to look after. e regular diner-out "goeth about a lion seeking what he may tur." 'e all concede that "time flies," but seriously object only to summer flies. mong the late arrivals at Long nch is a woman who has 123 dresses. ought to be a person of very good ress. >ndon omnibusses are to be lighted lectricity, but the London fog will ably conquer the light, as it always done. may be that there is a skeleton in closet of every famuiily. Very often, ever, the family skeleton walks nd alive. well known physician of temper proclivities has lost caste among water people because it is known he is always treating his patients. irden hats are so large this year that farmer forbids the girls to wear u out in the garden, they throw a shade over the flowers and ~tables. ~publican-"I hope tbat you can ~our way clear to vote with us on whisky question in our platform." iitionist-"No by a jugful." rinter's wife-"Trhere was a tramp ded the house this morning." iter--"What did you do?" Printer's -"Oh, I pied hinm."-Burlington :Press. . con temiporary declares "the re licans arc organized for victory." t is all right, but being organized victory and achieving it are two e ditR'rent things. r. Oliver WVendell Holnes says that uan's mouth is what he makes it." rbody who has ever attended a strel show must ad mit this.-Bur ton Frce Press. German newspaper in Newark, N. runs a beer saloon in connection i its establishment. Perhaps it s a glass of beer as a premium to ~y subscriber. ports of tihe elopement of business Swith their pretty typewriters are >ming alarmingly frequent. The writer is getting to be a very dan mus piece of office furniture. he empress of China gets her new bes in Vienna; and her dress ers' bills are said to be enormous. y Gould allows his daughter $2.5 a k for pin money. He is said to be indulgent father to all his children. ie average watch is composed of different p)ieces, comprising up c of 2,400 separate and distinct op ions in its muanufacture. sparrow has built a nest on one of :rucks of a Delaware, Lackamnanna Western passenger coach and :es regular trips to Syracuse and re' nator Ingalls had an ill-flavored le in the last number of the North ricanl Review on President Cleve .Senator Voorheces should try to e prince of WXales is numerously ted. He has seventeen brother-in 3sixteen uncles, fifty -seven ins and fifty-eight nephews and enry James boasts that he has never d a woman though he is over forty -s of age. That accounts for the on that his novels are more or less Gocing Round and Round. [From the New York Sun.] licemlan (to citizen clinging to lamp *-31y frien d, you will have to e on. tizen-Move hiec on. (Gra-gracious, ur, Im hic; miakin fifty mnilsh 'ni WILL DO TO STAND BY. The Nestor of Journalism Talks to the Badger State Editors. MILWArKEE, Wis., July 24.-Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, delivered ar address this evening at the Academy of Music to the Wisconsin Editorial association. The hall was crowded, and the veteran editor's dis course on journalism was warmly ap plauded. Mr. Dana said there were no set maxims and rules for journalists. Doc tors and lawyers might have them, but there were very few rules used by newspaper nien. Mr. Dana submitted the following: "First, get news, get all news and nothing but news. "Second, copy nothing from another publication without giving perfect credit. "Third, never print an interview without knowledge and consent of per son intervieved. [Applause and laugh ter.] "Fourth, never print paid advertise ment as news matter. Set every one as an advertisement. No sailing under false colors. [Applause.] "Fifth, never attack the weak or de fenseless, either by argument or by ridicule, unless there is some absolute public necessity for so doing. "Sixth, fight for your opinions, but :on't believe they contain the whole truth or the only truth. "Seventh, support your party if you hLave one [loud laughter and applause], but don't think all good men are in it tnd all bad men outside. "Eighth, above all, know and believe that humanity is advancing, and that there is progress in human life and human affairs [applause], and that as ;ure as God lives, the future will be greater and better than the present or the past. [Applause.1 "That." said Mr. Dana, "is a pretty general code. It scents to me it covers the case very well." Frank Leslie's Popular Month ly for August "The Battlefield of Gettysburg: Its 3femories and Memorials" is most in terestingly treated in the POPULAR MONTHLY for August. The famous points of the great battle, the visits paid to it by the commanders and by offi ers and soldiers of both armies, the monuments that now mark the ground where regiments held their own under withering fire-all these come before the reader vividly. "Over the Tete Noire" takes us to Alpine travel, and will interest all in a land that cannot be too well described or pictured. "The apice Trade of New York" is an illus :ration of how "many a mickle makes t muckle." Few would suspect the imount annually invested in these rifles of the kitchen, or how the world .s circled to get them. Our young men will be more interestedl in single-hand yachting, the management of sailing araft that one person can with a little ~kill direct, in fair weather or foul, mneak-boats, canoe-yawls, cruisers, etc,. A sketeh of Houdon, the sculptor of :he best statue of Washington, makes snown an artist of more than ordinary nierit. "Old-time Ladies Headdresses mnd Mufflers" will give suggestions at east to lady friends. "Life in Ponm peii is depicted by pen and pencil. 'Striking a Light," "Lightning Photo ;raphed," Stories, Adventures, and a 3ontinuation of Clarence M. Boutelle's ibsorbing no)vel, "The Grave betwveen rihem,' mtake up a most attractive and seasonable number to while away many i plasn hour and give topics of con v~ersation. Killed by an AllHgator. [Orangeburg Times and Democrat.] Mr. L. J. Sailey told us of a rather si ngular occurrence, which happened last week. While he and a number of ~riends were fishing in the Edisto River :hey saw a large deer enter the water mnd attempt to cross the stream, but the surrent being pretty strong it turned back and landed again on the same side. It then disappeared up the streanm. Shortly after a raft came down rom tihe direction in which it had gone with the deer on it, the hands having aken it from a large alligator, which tad evidently caught it when it entered ;he river the second time. The deer was still warm when Mr. Salley saw it, mnd was only bitten a little on the back. Eternal Fitnesa. [From Burdette.] A sailor for the sea. And a spinister for tea, A lawyer for talk, and a soldier for fighting; A baby for noise, And a circus for boys, Xind a type-writer man to do autograph writing. A banker for chink, And a printer for ink, A leopard for spots, and a wafer for sticking: And a crank baseball flinger, An opera singer, A shotgun, a nmule, and a choir for kicking. G. W. Dargan for Re-Election. [Special to the World.] FLORENCE, July 25.-At the oongres ional and jutidicial convent ion, held lere to-day, George W. D)argan was onominated for re-election to Congress 'rem the sixth district, and J. M. John 'on received the nomination for solici or for the fourth circuit. Ex-Queent Isabella, of Spain, has an necome of $1,000,000 per annum, but vent with this she manages to be in debt dlI t.he time. She belongs to the list of mol spenrkhrifta. SAGE MAY REWARD HIM. He is Not Ungrateful to the Boy Who Found His Money. NEW YORK, July 13.-A story about Russell Sage is being variousiy told about town. It was related that he dropped $2.5 in a store, and that when the finder, a boy, returned the money to him lie patted the youngster on the head and told hii that his honesty would bring him reward some time or other. A careful investigation locates the incident at a well-known clothing establishment in Broadway. "Mr. Sage came in here," said a nem ber of the firm, "and bought a suit of clothes. Mr. Sage kept on the new suit and had his old ones sent to his otfice. In transferring the contents of the pockets he dropped a roll of bills. After his departure one of the cash boys found this wad of money and turned it in to the cashier, but there was nothing on it to indicate the ownership, and it was put away to await inquiries. Mr. Sage came in next day and said that he had lost one money there. He knew the amount to a dollar and it was returned to him. The cashier called up the finder and introduced him to the mil lionaire, who did pat him on the head and advised him to always be honest that it would pay him in the long run. Did he give him anything then? No.'" When Mr. Sage was asked if he had lost and found the money in the man ner described, he corroborated the account above given up to the point where the boy was presented to him. "That was an honest boy," was sug gested. "Y-e-s," Mr. Sage thoughtfully re sponded. "I told the young fellow that he would get along-that honesty was indeed the best policy-and so it is. It doesn't pay a boy or a man, in little or big matters, to be dishonest." "I should think that in view of the fact that honest boys are none too plenty in New York, that you might make use of that specimen somehow here in your office." "That is just what I was thinking, but somebody told me that a yarn was going around Wall street about the matter-something to the effect that I didn't reward the boy, and wouldn't do-so. Now, I ain't going to be bull dozed in a little thing of that sort. I guess I'll find a place in which to start that urchin, however, and mebby it will be in this office. I don't know that it is doing a youth a good turn of set him to work in Wall street-on the whole, I guess it isn't-but we do want all the honesty we can get hold of here." One of Toomb's Slaves. [From the Methodist Protestant.] Uncle Billy Toombs, of Georgia, died last week, at the ripe age of eighty seven years. When General Toombs was born, Billy was eleven years old, and was, at once assigned to duty as the boy in waiting to the baby. When young Toombs grew up and married, his father presented him with Billy, and ever afterwards the closest friend ship existed between the two. Billy acconmpanied his master to Washington, to the fashionable watering places and to Europe. In this way he became fa miliar with many distinguished people. Before the war he had an intense hatred for the abolitionists, refusing to coun tenance themi in any way. When the war was over, and the Toombs family had irathered once more at the old family mansion, Billy returned there as well as the rest. "You are free now," said General Toombs to him. "I'll never be free from old master," said he, "but will follow you all my life." To this General Toombs replied, "Very well, then, I'll take care of you." Ever after Billy was the most devoted of ser vants, looking after his master's inter ests as though they were his own. When General Toombs died, two years ago, he left full provision for Uncle Billy's maintenance, and no mourner at the general's grave shed warmer tears than did the faithful old African, who lingered there long before -the crowd had melted away. Uncle Billy will be remembered as one of the few Africans who absolutely refused to ac cept their freedom. Queer Sayings of Chnldren. [Philadelphia Press.] A Boston school teacher, who has made notes of some of the queer say ings of her pupils, gives as samples the following : Asked to describe the char acter of Alexander the Great, one said : ~"He was proud, of medium height, with small eyes and head inclined a lit tle to one side. I think, Miss Blank, it was the left side" In giving an ac count of a battle, another said : "The soldiers fought with such bravery, that after they were killed they crawled along on the ground and slashed at the legs of the enemy." Here are three more: "Henry VIII., of England, married his brother's deceased wife." "In the first century Pompeii and Her culaneum were covered with an erup tion." "Then there was a resurrection of Pompey's sons.i: Spain." The New Style. [Brooklyn Eagle.] "How fashions change," said Hector, the old Newfoundland. "How~ fash ions change among people. Eight years ago I wenit through this town, a howling, yelping pup, with a tin kettle tied to my tail. To-day I have seen no less than nine of mX sons and grand sons walk proudly by each dog of them with a bang up gir tied to him." THE I'OPE TO LEAVE ROME. Negotiating for the Purchase of an Islet in the Mediterranean. L'Univers, of Paris, referring to the circular noteofCardinal tampolia to the powers, protesting against the insults offered to the vatican by the Italian government, makes a statement which cannot fail to create a sensation in the Roman Catholic world, and, if verified by subsequent events, to mark an era in the history of Italy and of Europe of which the only modern prototype is the exile of Pope Pius IX. L'Univers announces that Popc Leo XIII, forseeing that in the early future he will be forced by the peristenht hos tility of the Italian government to quit Rome, has aiready opened negotia tions for the purchase of an islet in the Mediterranean, near the French coast, whither he and his household wil! be able to retire when it becomes nece-sarv for hin to leave the eternal city. The council of the vatican is now engaged in earnestly discussing the situation, and there is a general coneensus of opinion that the departure from Italy should not be long delayed. Some of the pre lates favor a retreat to Malta, but no decison has yet been reached as to the future seat of the holy see. Doing Away With Middlemen. [From the New York Commercial Bul letin.] It has now been many years since organized effort was made to do away with middlemen and bring producers and consumers as near together as pos sible with a view to obviating the mul tiplication of profits and margins as products passed through successive hands. The government, as first or ganized, was to a great extent visionary and impracticable. Seeing the exces sive profits to middlemen and unneces sary intervention between producer and consumer were an evil and deprived producers of the full fruit at their labor, it was assumed that all meditation was injurious and that by co-operative o, ganizations, combinations and devices, of various kinds, the merchant and his profits could be done away with, and sales negotiated either through sales men salaried by the producers them selves. In some communities and even in great states, the theories ad vanced were fairly tested by experi ment, and so far as they were sound and practical good results were attained. To a great extent, howev- * ment was defe by its own fallacies and devotion to half-truths, and as an organized effort its results were incon siderable. It must be a surprise to the pioneers in this movement who are now living tosee how far their vision ary ideas are being worked out in this later day on a more practical basis. The world having rejected the fallacious theory that middlemen as a class are unnecessary and burdensome, has been busying itself ever since iln the more practical direction of getting rid of those intermediaries w;ho are really useless. The progress which haCs been made in this direction has beeni very great, and the influences now at work are even more far-reaching. Many of the most pronounced tendencies of the present day are strongly in this direc tion, and the great advance in comnbi nation and absorption involves this result at almost every step. A promii1ent considieration inl that new and often indefinable orgalniz.ativon, the trust, is obliteration of middlemen. The tendency in wholesale mercantile transaction of almost every character, and in imiportations of every class, is towvard direct dlealings without inter vention. Competition and the neces sity for reduced expenses forces this, and in great financial and commercial enterprises there is an almost universal effort to secure such alliances and com binations as will abolish the middle man. Through every branch of busi ness this tendency may be observed, until we find eten the farmers organiz ing their sales bureaux so as to get 'rid of unnecessary middlemen; the insur ance companies miaking a hard fight for the business which they have here tofore gladly left to well-paid brokers, and the railroads trying to cut off the commissions of ticket agents. Strongly marked and general as this movemren is, however, it does not ignore the f that the so-called middleman i true sphere and in certain branelEi business is as essential to trade as i: producer or consumer, and that h part in the world's activities is a most important one. The movement is in step with the universal march toward better meth ods, and the obliteration of the unnec essary.and burdensoane wherever they are found. The middleman who has gleaned excessive profits from unim portant service now finds his income shrinking, and the useless barnacle upon commerce must go-is going. In the better adjustment that is being brought about, when all relations are more clearly defined and the survival of the fittest has been emphasized by killing off the unfit, it will doubtless be found that the great intermediate class between producer and consumer will still have its proper place and sphere of activity, and that is impor tant contribution to the success of trade will be fully appreciated and properly compensated. Deserved His Fate. (From Burdette.] Teacher - For what was Ananias struck dead? News boy, from Kansas-for publish ing the signal service predictions.