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\ I IK4 II 'V 1r,JrIi ESTABLISHED 1865. XEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1888. PRICE 81.50 A YEAR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. So:ne Manly Counxel from Ellison S. Keitt -Shall the State, in Accepting the Clem son Bequest, Defraud Calhoun's Grand-daughter of her Inheri tance-The Negro in the Sepa rate Agricultural College. [From the News and Courier.] Permit me through your columns to speak to the farmers of the State upon the question of the establishment of an agricultural and mechanical college and the acceptance of the Clemson bequest, which is now profoundly agitating the public mind. What is done will be done by the farmers and primarily for the farmers, for they are largely in the majority in the State. All my sympa thies are with them, alnd nearly all my association for my life has been devoted to agriculture, and lily all is invested in it. First, as to the Clemson bequest. At best it is a very small bone thrown to the State, and when the lawyers get through gnawing it there will be no marrow left in it. It, too, brings with it a lawsuit with a young girl, the great-grand-daughter of John C. Cal houn, the purest and ablest man who ever represented South Carolina in the Congress of the United States, or any where else; whose life was spent in in tellectual toil for the State, and who died almost in the Senate chambers, heroically fighting for her. Can the State entertain fora moment the idea of making herself a party to such a suit ? If she does, well might this innocent girl, as did Iphigenia in Aulis, draw a veil over her face and hide her shame at the degeneracy and dishonor of the State made immortal by her illustrious ancestor. Know that I enter my solemn pro test against it, and invoke the farmers of the State to rise up against it. Let no dishonor be brought upon the State by their act. Peabody, Cornell, Cooper, and Vanderbilt gave of their millions to found colleges and universities, after making ample provision for their fami lies, and made their names immortal. Mr. Clemson, to glorify himself, - would alienate the maternal inheri tance of an innocent girl, the home stead of her ancestors, and invokes South Carolina to aid him in his un holy work. Farmers, have nothing to do with it! South Carolinians are able to establish an agricultural and me chanical college separate and apart from any other institution, if they so will it. If they do, let it be called the South Carolina Agricultural and Me chanical College. Mr. Clemson's will shows that he himself doubted the acceptance by the State of his ofter, for he made provision in that event. I will now, fellow-farmers, consider the establishment of an, agricultural and mechanical college separate from any other institution in tile State. I favored it from the conmencemient of the agitation, as I favor any and every tilng that tends to advance the agri cultural interest. The situation in the State now is very different fronm what it was t wo years ago, when the agita tion began, and wise statesmanship always looks ahead and avoids trouble as the mariner does breakers. Let us make no imistakes if they can be avoid I ed. The agricultural and mechanical de p)artment in the College at Columbia Ahas been so much enlarged by the * electionl of a full corps of professors tbat it is no longer "the annex," but is now the prominent feature of the College. If there is a lack of students the fault is not in the department or those who established it. It is because of the lack of feeders. Three experimental stations have been established, one at Spartanburg, one at Columbia and one at Darlington, all ill successful operation under; a thloroughly scientific and practical director, President McBryde. The South Carolina College, Citadel Acade nmy and Claflin University constitute the University of South Carolina. The two former are for the white people and the lr.tter for the black people. The interest on the land scrip, donated by * the General Government, is divided equally between the South Carolina College and the Claflin University. The Hatch fund, given annually by tihe General Government for experimental stations, is divided between Spartan burg, Columbia and D)arlington. All * now are harmonious and we have peace. Let us never lose sight of the fact that we are not a homogeneous V people; that we have to legislate for two races of people, a condition that no people before us ever had to confront. Now, if to establish an agricultural anid mechanical college separate and apart from all other institutions the in terest on the land scrip is taken from the South Carolina College and Clatlin UnIliversity, the agricultural and nme chanmical features inl those institutions will be destroyed and the institutions thlemselves will be ema.sculated to that extent. If the Hatch fund is taken the * ex perimental stasqur at Spa.rtanburg, Colunmbia and Darnwa,y. '\ye to be abandoned. WXell, suppose all this is (lone and an agricultural and me S chanical college, separate and apart fromn all other institutions in the State, is established. If colored students aip ply for admission what is to be done? They nmust either be admitted or a like institutioni established for them, or the cryvof the Rtepublican brother will be heard loud and clear all over tile North. Let us give thenm no chance to utter their wild Ameirican screams. Now, fellow-farmlers, whlat does wise I-~ ~ statesmansipl dictate that we should doN hatveris done will be laid at our door, anld we will be held responsi ble for it. In miy juldgmlent,if-we would nreserve hlarmlony and peaee.. and put anl education in easy reach of all the people, let us uphold and maintain all existing institutions and move on until we have an experimental station in every county and our common school system is perfected. Every college must have its feeders or prove a failure. Let the experimental stations be mainly the feeders of the agricultural and me chanical department of the College at Columbia. The South Carolina College, the glory of the State and South, had her feeders before the war. Mount Zion College, Shirley's Industrial School, Cokesbury, Charleston College and a number of other institutions in the State and South annually sent up their students to her. Her trained intellects are all over our beautiful Southland, filling the highest offices. Every Gov ernor in this State before the war, in my recollection, was a graduate cf the South Carolina College and a planter Aiken, Seabrook, Manning, Means, Alston, Adams, Gist ond Pickens. The large majority of our farmers can't spare their sons for a four years' course in college, but if an experinen tal station is in easy reach they can be spared one year or more where they can learn all that is practical on a farm. It is impossible for all to get a scientific training, and it is not needed. Where one shows capacity for it let the sta tion send him up to the department, where he can have every advantage to acquire it. In this way all will have an equal chance. If we simply had an agricultural and mechanical college, one-half or more of the counties in the State would be without representation. It is so now in Mississippi, and a large body if not a majority, of the farmers there, I learn, are dissatisfied with it. Now, fellow-farmers of the State, I have been frank and candid in what I I have written. The times and condi tions surrounding us demand that all who write or speak should be so, that we may arrive at a correct and safe con clusion. Be assured whatever the final decision may be, I will be found giving all the support in my power to advance the interest and welfare of the agricul tural and mechanical massts. Respectfully, Ellison S. Keitt. Enoree Plantation, S. C., August S. A WONDER IN THE HEAVENS. A Balloon at a Great Altitude Passes Over t Cainden-Who Is It? t [Special to the World.] r CAMDEN, August 15.-Several rail- s road men at the South Carolina Rail- t way depot state that they saw a bal loon pass at a very high altitude this morning about 8'o'clock. They say that r it seemed to be moving rapidly, and I was soon lost to sight. It was moving. f from southwest to northeast. Your I correspondent was at first very incre- r dulous when informed of it, but the I parties are so positive that it can hard- I ly be doubted. Where it hailed from c is, of cuorse, a mystery unless the ama teur who left Anderson, Ind., on the afternoon of the thirteenth in a balloon inflated, with natural gas considered to take a birds eye view of the political situation in South Carolina, presuming possibly that in case of necessity he could here fit his vessel wvith the same I article at small cost.-t NORTH CAROLINA SAFE. No Danger that the Republicane Can Carry it by Any Ainount ofBoodie. WasI[rNGToN, August 14.-Senator Zeb Vance of North Carolina smiled significantly to-day when told that the Republicans were making an effort to carry the Old North State. "In off years," said the Senator "wbeni local differences arise, our vote drops off, and this encourages the Re publicans to thiak they can beat us the next time. North Carolina, however, is as safely Democratic as any Southern State, and our majority next autumn will not fall short of 15,000, if it does not greatly exceed it." c Congressman McClammy, according to the Evening Critic, is equally confi dent. Said he: "The Republicans are going to put plenty of mioney into North Carolina this year, and I am glad of it. I'mi progressive, and plenty of money in the State will make good times, but North Carolina will roll up from twenty to twenty-five thousand majority for Cleveland and Thurman in November all the same." A MOTHER'S SAD MISSION. C Murderer Maxwell's Mother is Carrying s His Body to'England for Burial. } Nx-w YORK, August 16.-The niother and sister of Maxwell, the murderer s who was hanged in St. Louis last week, a will arrive in Newv York with the body v of the son and brother the latter part of b. this week, and will take passage for their home in England, where Max- t well's body will be buried. .t Before going away they will try to get all relics of the terrible Preller mur- s der iiot destroyed, but the police of St. I Louis are opposed to giving up the o famous trunk in which Preller's body g was concealed. They claim that the e trunk is confiscated, and, must remiain r in their hands. t A curious discovery has just beenr made by people living in the vicinity e. of Pinie Ridge, in Crook County, Wyo.. '1 between the Black Hills and the Big Horn Basin. The dliscoverv is an ar- v tiele which resemibles and has all the j: characteristic of soap. It is yellowvish d in color, makes fine suds, and will re- j move grease from hands and clothing. d The people who live in that vicinity~ are using it as soap. The supply is un- 1< limited. t A HORRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA. ,teaier "Geicer" Sunk by a Collision with the Steaner"Thingvalla"-One Hun dred and Five Souls went Down with the Ill Fated Vessel. Ni-:w YoItK, Aug. 1G.-The Hamburg llnerician steamer, Wieland, which Lrrivel in this port to-night, brings the urvivors of one of the most appalling iisasters of recent years. The steamer ,eiser, of the Thingvalla line, left this >rt on Saturday last with a full list of >assengers, bound for Copenhagen. she belonged more especially to the iigrant-carrying class, being a slow ailor, and the majority of her passen ,ers were of the poorer classes. According to the story of a passenger, rverything proceeded smoothly aid ;ood time was make until the vicinity )f the Sable Islands was reached, when dense fog settled dowi, obscuring ob cets at even thirty feet distant. The pced of the (eiser was decreased inaterially, and the whistles were kept ounding aind all precautions were aken to prevent a collision, but the lensity of the fog prevented the signals )eing heard at any distance. Suddenly and without warning a -essel loomed up in the fog, and before he Geiser could take any preparations o avoid her the crash occurred. The trange vessel proved to be the Thing -alla, of the same line, bound for New Cork, and she struck the Geiser a ittle forward of amidships, cutting her Imost half in two. The succeeding scene baffled descrip ion, and neither passengers nor officers ttempted anything like an accurate ceount of it. That a terrible panic ccurred is certain. The passengers nd crew lost their heads and ran reedlessly up and down the deck, cry ng to be taken from the fast-sinking -essel to a place of safety. Others, ooler-headed, pitched strips of boards, nd whatever would serve as a life >reserver, overboard, and leaped after. [he hatches were removed and women .d children piled on them and set float. Life boats, on being lowered, veie quickly filled, the crew battling vith the passengers for a place in the oats. All this happened in the shortest >ossible space of tinme, as, when in less ian five minutes from the time of he collision, the Geiser lurched heavily .nd went down, forward end on, car ying with her one hundred and five ouls, seventy-three passengers and hirty-three of the crew. The Thingvalla was almost totally isabled by the collision, having a ter ific hole stove in her forward compart nent, carrying it almost entirely away rom the (leek to below the water line. ier boats, nevertheless, put out to escuc the survivors, and manfully attled with the heavy sea then run iing, to relieve the floating wreckage f its precious freights. The remainder of the story may be etter told by Captaid Albers, of the Vieland, who brought the news and urvivors here. HIe says: "On the orning of August 14 we sighted some vreckage and suspected at once that an .eident had happened, as, although a eavy sea was running at the time, here had been no storm of sufficient -iolence to wreck a vessel. .We next ighted a broken boat, and almost im lediately after miade out the Thing -alla flying a signal of distress. We ran .own to her andl Captain Lamb caime lonigside in a small boat and piteously 'egged us to relieve him of the suryi ors of the Geciser and his own passen ers, 3.55 in mnimber, as his vessel was i badly injured that lhe wondeIred at ter floating as she did. We sent three moats, amid these, with two from ths .hingvalla, succeeding ini transferring 11 the passengers on the vessel safely o us in about fivehours. The imimense iole in the Thingvalla's bow was thmen 'atched up, and she startedl to run to Taifax.'' The collision, so far as known, was aused by the fog. The Thingvalla was eading west-south-west; the Geiser ast-north-east. Both chief officers were n (leck at the time, and had taken all recautions to prevent the accident. The Trhiingvalla virtually ran the eciser down. The latter vessel was eavily laden, and the Thmngvalla ran er bow up on the Geiser's deck, mashing her stateroom aind killing or isabling all the passengers therein. The first oRce of the Geiser was on eck when the accident happened, and rasped the Thingvalla's chaiins when he backed off. He wvas carried with er, aiid had a leg broken. Hie is now :m the Hoboken hospital. Capt. Carl Miller refuses to miake any tatenment for piublication) regarding the ecidenmt, save that it wvas due to the reather then prevailing. He is heart roken over the loss cf his ship. The survivors were taken at once to Lie Hotel D)ennmark, and are spending he inighit there. Second officer, Peter J. .Joyenisenm, iys: "I was asleep ini my bunk when heard a shoek and( !Jimediately went ii deck. Talkinmg in the situationi at aj laince I ordered all hands on deck.I aught the Thingvalla's chains and aehed her deck. Froam t here I saw he (Geiser sink stern first." Ammos Welse, a civil engineer of Mini caplis, wvas anmother graphlic relator of vents, lie said: "A bout 4 o'clock on 'uesday nmorning I was awaked by a hoek, and thinking we had struck a :reck I went. on dleck, taking amy cork ichet with me. When I reached the eek the greatest terror prevailed, and ceople usually cool were racing the eek like mad, clutching at immovable bjects and endeavoring to tear them :ose, when all aroumid lay planks and their purpose. My cork jacket made me feel perfectly safe, and I went to the companion-way and halloed to those below that the vessel was sink ing. Feeling the Geiser lurch, I rushed o the bow, and a moment more was in the water going down, down, down, drawn by the suction of the sinking ship. It seemed to me an interniina ble distance. The pressure began to tell on me, and I felt the blood rushing to my head. I heard bells ringing and t felt the most excruciating pains near e my forehead. I felt myself drowning, and no doubt would have done so in a few moments more. Then the rising sensation commenced, and it seemed to me that not a moment elapsed before I reached the surfac . All around me was wreckage and the swimming passengers. I floated there until picked up by one of the boats sent out by the Thingvalla." Frederick C. Hansen, of Perth Am boy says: "I heard somebody shouting down the companion-way and rushed nl deck, carrying my coat and shoes on my arm. I found two oars and jumped overboard, hearing as I went the pitiful ' groans and cries for help which re ;ounded through the sinking vessel. I remember but little of the affair. It was all over in an incredible short space >f time." A Kentucky Wonder. C C J. Allen, of Bloomfield, while ex- 51 :-ava ting the foundation of a new mill, ri struck the dome of a cavern of immense c proportions, from which a strong cur- C rent of cold air issued with great force is the workmen made the opening. I'orches were produced, and Mr. Allen md Mr. Gain Hurst were lowered by e rneans of a windlass. It was about d sixty feet from the surface to the en- s trance of the cave, which they found t to be level and sandy, as if it was once t the bed of on ancient subterranean stream. - They followed the main ave tiue a distance of over two miles, and t discovered an opening in a cliff on the e farm of Mr. Benjamin Wilson, and a f well-beaten path was easily discerned ? that was once trod by human ,beings, S mlthough it is now in many places cov- S ered with forest trees and undergrowth. 1 Mr. Allen and Mr. Hurst, after energ ing from the cave, hastened back to the town and reported the result of their discoveries. A large party was at :mce formed, which entered the open ing of the cliff on the Wilson farnm. Dn one of the main avenues numerous avidences existed .that the place had beei the abode of the cave men, is numerous relics were found in the shape of pottery and bronze ar ticles ; a sepulcher was also discovered u in a large niche or avenue, and in it ire numerous mummn ified bodies. Three )f them have been removed to the towa i xnd excite great curiosity. The foria- 1 Jions in the cave are beautiful beyond I lescription. Stately towvers of stalag mnites, suggestive of grotesque and ii inique figures are encounteredl all 2 dlong the wonderful subterranean aye- I lues. There is a beautiful little lake L Lvith water as clear as crystal, and as is t isual in cave streams, it is full of tiny yveless fish.S Trhe avenues in the cave wvill measureT ni all probability about seven miles, so n hatit may be fairly considered anotherA i-ial to the Mammoth, and certainly mec of the many great cave wonders of d Kentucky, the country of caves. The ~are is about thirty-seven miles south g vest of Louisville and seventy miles b roml the Mammoth Caive. The FIrst American Locomuotives. W .N F r e , i nl S cribn er's MI a ai n e t In 1829 Mr. Horatio Allen, who had t ~een in England the year before to earn all that could then be learned b ibout steam locomotion, reported to f< ~he South Carolina Railway Company n favor of steam instead of horse ii ower for that line. Trhe basis of that q -eport, he says, "was onm the broad ra ground that in the future there was no reso to expect any meterial improve- t< iient in the breed of horses, while in } my judgment, the man was not living C ~vho knew what the breed of locomo- I ives was to place at commandl." J As early as 1829 and 18.30, Peter \ 2ooper experimented with a little 1o ~omotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Ratilroad. At a meeting of the Master. fIechanics' Association in New York. ni 1875-at the Institute which bearn ais name-he related with great glee a iow on the trial trip he had beaten a e-ay horse, attached to another car. The undeveloped corndition aLt that inme of the art of machine construction s indicated by the fact thiatthe flues of lhe boiler of this engine were made of un-barrels, whichl were the only tubes ~ n lhnt could then be obtained for the >urpose. The boiler itself is described ts about the size of a flour barrel. The vhole mlachinie was no larger than t hthand-car of the present day. Ini the same year that Peter Cooper ',uilt his engine, the South Carolina g Railway Company had a locomotive, i :ailed the "Best Friend,'' built at the WVest Point Froundry for its line. In I 8.31 this company had another engine, 'Suth Carolina," which was designed >y Mr. Horatio Allen, built at the mine shop. It was remarkable in hay ng eight wheels, which were arranged ~ ni two trucks. 11 The New York Demnocrata. Esw YoRK, August 16.-The Dem- t >eratic State committee to-day issued a -c mall for a Sta te convention to meet at s Buff-alo, September 12, to nominate o -andidates for Governor and Lieuten- d ant Governor and Judge of the Court v of A al . le GOOD FOR UNCLE GEORGE! fain pton County Carried with a Whoop an H urrah-Gratifying Results of Jour nalb?-tic Persecution. [Special to Greenville News.] VatNvLL.:, S. C., August 1N.-Tlh lanpton county convention for th leetion of delegates to the judicial arI ongressional conventions met to-da; t Hanipton eourt house and was calle< D order by County Chairman 3lc 4veeny. Major W. J. Gooding wa lected temporary chairman and Dr llis secretary, which organization wa iade permanent. The following delegates were electe< D the State convention: Jas.W. Moore I. B. McSweeny, W. J. Gooding, Ton tokes, T. W. Williams, W. P. Tilling ast, C. J. C. Hiutson and Juliai row n. T1o the Judicial convention: J. G. H anders, W. H. Reid, H. P. Weekly . P. Lavill, A. M. Ruth, i. G. Ruth t. A. Rice and C. L. Peeples. To the Congressional convention; M 1. McSweeny, Wmui. Stokes, W. S 'illinghast, W. E. Brunson, S. J asey, A. A. Browning, J. P. Murdang and, L. F. Davis; alternates, I. F )ukes, W. H. Tuxen, T. W. Williams . S. Long and W. J. Ellis. The delegates were all elected by ac amation, there being no opposition 'olonel Tillman carried everything b: rorm and was therecipient of a mos inging cheer at the adjournnient of thi cnvention. McS. ONGRESSMAN TILLMAN TAKES THI EDGEFIELD VOTE. [Special to the News and Courier.] EDGEFIELD, August 1G.-The counti Dnvention met in the Court House to ay at 12 o'clock, and 196 delegates an wered to their names, representinl iirty-three clubs. Immediately upoi ie organization of the convention th< )llowing resolution was adopted: That each candidate for Congress it ie 2d district, or his friends, be ac rded the privilege of nominating i ill ticket of twelve delegates to repre mnt Edgefleld County in the Congres onal Nominating Convention to as mible at Aiken on the 28th of Augus st., each said tickets to be voted fo: s a whole by this convention at thi une time, and the ticket getting thi iajority of votes to be declared the on ne to represent Edgefield County it 1e said Congressional. Nominatini onvention. An intermission of two minutes wa. [lowed for the friends of the caudi ates, other than Mr. Tilinian, to pre mnt a ticket. None was offered, khere pon the following resolution wa: nanirnously adopted: Resolved, That V H Timmerman, '1 Denney, R B Watson, E J Goggans I A Markert, J W' Bunch, Henri owns, W' R Parks. L F Dorn, W 1 rescott, J M Gaines and J B Lanier be ud they are hereby, appointed dele ates jin behalf of the Hon. Cr. D). Till ian to the Aiken Congressional Nom ating Convention to be held on the 9th August instant, that said delegate: e instructed to vote as a unit for the ominationi of M r. Tillmnan as long a: e shall remain a candidate before saic 'onlventioni. The following are the delegates to the tate Convention: N. A. Bates, B. R illman, Charles ('arson, WV. HI. Timi eruman, G. A. Bunch, G. WV. Turner .E. Padgett, A. C. Stallworth, J. H. dwards, D. P. Lagrene, J. B. Sud. uth, C. B. Crouch. Preceding the election of these dele utes the following resolution, offeret y Capt. Tfillmiani, was adopted: Resolved, That our delegates to the tate Convention be instructed to offe: a amendment to the constitution o: ie D)emocratic piarty of the State pro iding that all nominations fo)r office ir >e party shall be prinmary lection, and lat such primary election shall he hekc every county the same day. Resolved 2, That the General Assen. ly be requested to provide by statutf >r the conduct of said primary. Another resolution was passed favor. ig the acceptance of the Clemson be uest and the establishment of a sepa tte agricultural college. The following delegates were electec >the Judicial Convention: W. WV utler, P. S. Brooks, 0. Sheppard, N .Evans, 0. F. Cheathanm, N. XW rooker, E. H. Folk, J. P. Blackwell R. Blocker, F. A. Tompkins, S. T ~illiamxs, J. WV. D)evore. Forests and Water supply. Prof. Shaler, in Scrit. er's Magazine. WVhen man resorted to the soil as th< >urce of his food, lhe -began to clea: way the sorests and by tillage to de :rop) the sponlgy covering of the earti hich they created. With the ad ance of civilization, all the great val ys on the Northern temperate zon< av been to a considerable extent de rivedl of their forest covering. In thi: ew state of the surface, the rain wate no longer held back as it was of old ut flows quickly over the surface o: le soil and enters the wvater-wars. Th< asult is that all the old channels bear itimes of flood, a body of water fa. reater than that which was p)ut int< iem before the forests were carec way. They have heeln compelled t, 'iden their channels by cuttinmgawa) strip) of the ailuvial land on eithei de. Thus, in the case of the Ob ~iver, the bed occupied by the flood *aters has, since the beginning of th< resent century, been widened to the mount of about one-fifth of its tota ianmeter. D)espite this wvidening, it i ow unlable to h,ear awayv the floo' aters yielded to it by the exteinsiv< lled surfaces of its basin. In time f flood it rises higher than oft old ama preadis devastation o)ver a widler are: f the alluvial p)lains. Ini times o rought the stream shrinks within it aste of encumbering sands and be omes uninavigable. BILL NYE'S LETTER. I Description of the First Railroad Trair Trial Trip-The Locomotive a Largo Fire Extinguisher on Trucks. [Bill Nye in Chicago News.] 'The first train ever operated mu 3 have been a grand sight. First can 1 the locomotive, a large Babcock fi extinguisher on trucks, with a smok I stack like a full blown speaking tul - with a frill around the top; the engi1 eer at his post in a plug hat, with a umbrella over his head and his hand c 3 the throttle, borrowing a chew of t bacco now and then of the farmers wl I passed hii on their way to town. Ne: him stood the fireran, now and the i bringing in an armful of wood from tl - fields through which he passed, ar turning the damperin the smokesta< every little while so that it would draN Now and then he would go forwai and put a pork rind on a hot box < pound on the cylinder head to wax people off the track. Next conies the tender loaded wit nice, white birch wood, an economic style of fuel because its bark may I - easily burned off while the wood itse will remain uninjured. Beside the fir wood we find on the tender a barrel rainwatci and a tall blonde jar wit . wickerwork around it, which contait a small sprig of tansy immersed in foc gallons of New England rum. This tI engineer has brought with him for u. in case of accident. He is now engagt in preparing for the accident .in a< vance. THE FRONT BRAKEMAN. Next comes the front brakeman in plug hat about two sizes too large f him. He also wears a long-waistE - frock coat with a bustle to it and a ta shirt collar with a table-spread tie, tl ends of which flutter gayly. in tl morning breeze. As the train paus< at the first station he takes a ilamm4 t out of the tool box and nails on the tii of the fore wheel of his coach. Ti engineer gets down with a long oil ca - and puts a little sewing machine oilc - the pitmai. He then wipes it off wit his sleeve. It is now discovered that the re, coach, containing a number ofdirecto: and the division superintendent, missing. The conductor goes to tl rear of the last eoach, and finds th, the string by which the directors' ea was attached is broken, and that, tL grade being pretty steep, the directoi and one brakeman have no doubt gor - back to the starting place. But the conductor is cool. He r moves his bell-crowned plug hat, an< taking out his orders and time card, I finds that the track is clear, and, hool ing at a large, valuable Waterbur watch, presented to him by a wido whose husband was run over and kille by the train, he sees be can still mal; the next station in time fordinner. E hires a livery team to go back after tU directors' coach, and calling "A aboard,'' he swings lightly upon ti: mioving train. NINETEE~N wEARY MILEs It is now 10 o'clock, and ninetee weary miiles still stretch out betwee him aiid the dhiner station. To add1 the horrors of the situation, the fror brakeman discovers that a very thirst boy in the emigrant car has been drin) ing from tile water supply tank on tl O.ndIer, an d there's not enough wvater le to carry the train thirough. Much time co)nsumedl in filling the barrel again a spring near.the track, but the condu< tor finds a "spotter" on the train an gets him to do it. He also induces him to cut stome more wood and clean ot the ashes. Trhe enginer then pulls out a dra, head and begins to make tip time. I twenty minutes lie has made up a hour's timec, though two miles of hool iron are torn from the track behin him. He sail ito the eatinig static on timie, and, while the master m< chanic takes several of the coach whee over to the mfachline shop to soak, 1: eats a hurried lunch. Tfhe brakemian here gets his tin la1 terns ready for the night run and fl two of themi with red oil to be used C the rear coach. The firemian puts fresh bacon rind on the eccentric, stul some more cottoni batting around tI axles, puts a new lynch-pin in the hin wheels, sweeps the apple peelings 01 of the smoking car, and he is ready. Then conies the conductor, with h .plug hat full of excursion tickets, o ders, passes, and time checks; he 1oo] at his Waterbury watch, wayves h hand, and calls -'All aboard'' again.] is up-grade, however, and for two mil< the "spotter" has to push behind wit all his might before the conductor wi allow him to get on and ride. Thus began the history of a gigant enterprise, which has grown till it is comfort, a convenience, a luxury, an yet a necessity. A $6350 P'alr of Twins. POTTsTowvN, Pa., August 13.-Mr t James Nader lives on a small farm net this place. A year ago she was tl mother of twenty-two living childrei the youngest being a few months ol< There was a mortgage for $550 on ti little Nader p)roperty. The holder< the mnortgage one dlay, a year ago, sai in a joking way to Mrs. Nader that her family numbered twenty-foi children within the coming year I would lift the mortgage. A few day ago lie called to collect the year's inte est on the debt. Mrs. Nader quie* conducted himi to a cradle in her si I ting roomi, exhibited to him a pair f three weeks' old twins, and remindi s hini of his promise. The mortgage w: - cancelled and the twins presented wii OLD CONFEDERATES GATHER. 'w The Third Regiment and Janes' Battalion have a Big Time at Landford-Fine Speeches and a General Hurrah. [Special to the Greenville News.] st LAIRF, August 16.-Yesterday at ie Landfords the veterane of the 3d South re Carolina Reginent and the James Bat e- talion had a grand reunion, twenty >e five hundred people being present. . Ex-Goveruor Bonhan,their old com n mander, addressed them ieelingly, get ,n ting an old rebel yell reception. Judge - Barksdale, of Louisiana, who lost an 1o arm as a boy soldier in a Laurens Coun ir ty company, had come all the way n from the banks of the Mississippi to ie meet his old comrades, and it was most d affecting to witness the reception he k met on rising to face his bullet-riddled ., comrades. The Judge left Laurens d more than twenty years ago with an >r empty sleeve and empty of everything n else, but returns to visit his old home crowned with honors. He was for a h long while circuit solicitor and has re al cently been elected to the circuit bench e of his State. If Duncan, Perry and Wilson spoke, e- and the meeting closed a grand success. ,f Landford is one mile from Mountain h Shoals on the Ennoree, where Charles s ton capitalists are building a cotton ir factory and placing a capital of more e than $200,000. The work is now going ;e forward with several hundred hands. d It is ten miles from Laurens court 1 house, and as a water power has no su perior in-the country. The buildings are on the Spartanburg side. a The hospitable people of Landford >r served a splendid, nice barbecue to this d great host of twenty-five hundred souls, 11 composed of citizens of Laurens, Spar e tanburg, Greenville, Union, Richland, 1e etc., who contributed to the rank and a file of the two commands. An old !r Johnny Reb came down from Dan e Voorhees' hoosier State to renew the e touch of the elbow with his old com n panions. n I forgot to mention that Colonels h Farley, Ball and Schumpert, veteran survivors of this command, made ring ir ing speeches. Hon. Y. J. Pope, the scarred Adjutant of the old Third, sent is his regrets and heart up in a dispatch. e This is the regiment at the head of it which one of the most promising Caro r linians gallantly fell-Colonel James e Nance, of Newberry. Capt. J. W. .s Watts, presided. Le New Motive ower. There is now to be seen running on the pleasant waters of the upper rhames e a launch of novel construction. Appa . rently it is a steam-launch, for it has y the outward appearance of one ; but in w reality it owes its motive power to the d etplosive vapor of some hydrocarix:a :e such as petroleum. It is, indeed, e a petroleum engine applied, for ethe first time in the country, to the 11 purpose indicated. No boiler is re Ce quired, and therefore much space is saved. The boat is set in motion by the act of lighting a lamp, which lamp nmust be extinguished when it is de n sired to .stop the engine. The tank holds sufficient liquid for sixty hours' t consumption, at a cost of six' one Ssovereign. This is clearly much seaper than the quantity of coal required to do the same amount of work would be. Ft There is also a great saving of labor, for no stoking is req1uired, and a Lt working engineer is hardly necessary. This new boat may possibly be the pio nieer of a system which will drive tihe steam pleasure launch from the Thames. t WXe understand that it is of American oirigin. Literary Note. n Germany stil nmourns her heroic Em >- peror Frederick, and few can read d without interest the well-illustrated n sketch which opens Frank Leslie's y. Popular Monthly for September trac Is ing his old career. "The Old Inns and Ce Taverns of London,"frequented by wits anld sages, is a chatty and pleasing pic 1. torial article in the same number. Mr. Is McCann tells of "The Romantic Side n of John Randolph's Life," bringing a that eccentric statesman vividly before rs us with pen and pencil. In "Queer e Corners at the Capital" Mr. Croffut d shows that our seat or government, has it quaint and strange objects that are seldom noticed, and which he pictures. is "Religious Mendicants in India" gives r- Miss Norris a theme, while "Methods as of Magicians" will interest young and is old. "Market Day at the South" is a [t bright bit of description. The serial e novel, "The Grave Between Them," h deepens in interest. The number ii abounds in niost attractive illustrations, the frontispiece being very taking. eThe Chicago Standard prints the a floig"mild balderdash," which is dsung in the Mormon Sunday-schools, and adlds that the poetry is very like the Mormon religion, a queer mixture of the slighty good with the very bad : ."I'll be a little 'Mormon,' nAnd seek to know the ways rThat God has taught hispeople te In these latter days. 1, Though I am young and little, j. I to may learn forthwith ITo love the precious gospel teRevealed to Joseph Smith. d I"With Jesus for the standard, if A sure and perfect guide, rAnd Joseph's wise example, ir What can I need beside ? Ie I'll strive from every evil -s To keel) my heart and tongue, r- .I'll be a little Mormon, A nd follow Brigham Young." yThat such stuff can be written, set to Smusic, printed, and sung-by people of the Saxon race, Jrn in nominally Christian homes, t|Ione of the strangest hfeatures of the ljst quarter of the nine teenth centuryva AMERICA FOR AMERICANS. The First National Convention of the New American Party. WAsHINGTON, D. C., August 14-The first National Convention of the American Party began its sessions in the Grand Army hall on Pennsylvania avenue, near 1.5th street, this city, at 12.55 this afternoon. The call for the convention was issued July 10th last, by Isaac Sharp, of Kansas, chairman, and R. J. Bayer, of the District of Columbia, secretary of the National Committee, and set forth. briefly the * objects of the convention, which in clude the nomination of candidates- for President and Vice-President of the United States. The cardinal prinei ples of the party were epitomized in the call as follows: First, the restricti6n (regulation) of immigration; second, the extension of the time required for naturalization to fourteen years; third, protection of the American free school system; fourth, American lands for American settlers; fifth, no public funds for sectarian purposes. MAYOR HEWITr WON'T ACCEPT A NOM INATION. WASHINGTON, August 16.-In. the American party convention to-day at. 4 o'clock the committee on resolutions reported a compromise measure. As a basis of representation the New.York delegation is to cast thirty-eight votes, and 'every delegate- from-other'States and Territories will cast on. vote each. - This res.^rt was in the way ofa hearing, and after several speeches it was unanimously adopted. The con vention then took a recess until even ing. At the evening session two reports from the committee on platform were taken up, and the minority report was laid on the table. All the planks of the majority report were adopted without debate, except one-to allow no more naturalization of foreigners. This was opposed by the_____ New York delegation, but in a speech of over an hour Mr. Wigginton con verted them, and the plank - was adopted unanimously. The platform, in substance, is as fol lows: It demands that no foreign-bor ,, citizen shall be naturalized, and no ein igrant be allowed to come to this coun try unless he has a certificate from the United States consul at the port whence he embarks, and that he must pay a tax of $100 to the consul after 1898. ~~oter is to be able to read t),e. Constitution oZ~ZLU~ . write his - own name... AppJopriations. of money to institutions c6ntrolled by any church is condemned, and the Presidential term is limited to six years. By a large majority the convention decided to proceed to nominations, but -pending that at 9 o'clock a recess was. ; taken for 1.5 minutes to allow money enough 'to be contributed to pay the rent of the hall. Mayor Hewitt is out of the races for the Presidential nomination, he hay ing so informed the committee who waited upon him. The next choice lies between Negley, of Pittsburg, and Wigginton, of California, although the latter has said that he does not want it. The Illinois and Pennsylvania dele gations finally b,ecame disgusted with the way the New York delegation was. running the convention, and the num-. ber of twenty-seven halted the conven tion, and going to the Ebbit house, started their own convention. Messrs. Hewitt, Negley and General Langdon Curtis. of New York, were placed in nomination by the regular convention. General Curtis captured the nomination, receiving 314 of the votes cast. What the Descon was Good For. [Philadelphia Bulletin.) A. E. Dickinson, editor of the Bell-. gious Herald, of Richmond, Va., was telling the Philadelphia Baptist Asso ciation the other day how necessary It was to enlist the active servicesof every member of the congregation, when some one pertinently asked: "What are you going to do with a man that can't do anything?" "That's a mistake." returned the re verend journalist. "Every man is of some use. If he can't do one thing he can do another. The point is to find out just what he is fit for, and having found out put him at it. This recalls an actual experience I once had in a backwoods congregation in Virginia. It was my first visit among %he people. and I was anxious to make it success ful. It should be remembered that church in the backwoods means a gathering of all the people and a good many dogs. After the opening hymn I called on old Deacon Bland to lead us in prayer. "'Taint no use askin' me," he said; '"I can't do it." "Suppose you start the next hymn, then." "Can't sing, either." "How about taking up the collec tion? I guess you can manage that!" "No, I'm a bad hand at getting around. Better get some one else." "Noticing that the old fellow carried a stout walking-stick, an idea was sug gested. "Well, brother, do you think you're able to keep out the dogs?" "You bet I air," he confidently re plied. Then, taking a seat at the door, he battled with the brutes throughout the meeting, and, after it was over, '-.. more than one of the congregation was followed home by yelping curs with broken limbs. Every man has his sphere of useful ness.