The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, October 04, 1888, Image 1

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ESTABLISHED 1865. __NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1888. __PRICE $1.50 A YEAR A GLOWING TRIBUTE. Postmaster General Dickinson's Eulogy a the President. DETRoIT, MICH., September26.-Tl campaign in this city was opened t< night by the Democracy with a bi demonstration in honor of the visit < Postmaster Dickinson, Gen. John ( Black, Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonal and other distinguished guests. At o'clock a parade, composed of numei ous ward clubs, first voters, visitin delegations, etc., was reviewed fror the balcony of the Russell house, an then the guests were driven to th rink, where they were greeted by a audience that filled every inch < available space. Postmaster General Dickinson wa the first speaker. He said he had ut expectedly been called upon to presid at this great meeting. He had told th committee of arrangements that i would not be just to the other guest for him to make any extended remark< He would be in Michigan two week during the campaign, and all hi friends would have an opportunity c hearing him on the issues of the cam paign. The committee, however, ha insisted that he should say sorhethin about the President, and this he woul proceed to do. He said : I have been asked to tell you some thing of the President, and in the brie time remaining to me I can say bu very little of what is in my mind an( heart on the subject. In the first plac he has been, all the time, since Marc 4, 1885, President of the United States no usurption of executive priveleges, n 1-. pruning of the powers of the people' chief magistrate, no en.noachment upor the official rights of the chosen of sixt; millions of free men, have been tole rated or permitted ; several early at tempts of the kind were resented wit1 power and- virile force, respectfull; borne in mind by the upper House C Congress. His rugged, masterful per sonality since he took his seat, his rc bust patriotism, like the heart of : system, has sent a vital current c health giving honesty pulsating throug all the arteries of the public service "Public office is a public trust" has not as used by him, been merely a smoot] phrase, catch-words of the stu::,p an( .;anvass. Consistently squaring hi official action by the spirit of the max im, as by the commandment, he ha made it the rule of conduct, practical of every day use in all public busines in every department, and in all high ways and byways of executive and ad ministrative action. In the political atmosphere of th capitel the President was for a ion $ime a phenomenon, a puzzle and at enigma to those accustomed to the ol conditions. It is said that at one tim in the history of Zululand there wa an abnormal season of rainy weather tale heavens were overcast for week and months, and life had settled dowi to- accommodate itself in its ordinar; avocations, to the change. Suddeni: one day there was a remarkable ap pearance in the West ; alight like fir streaked up to the zenith and down t< the horizon from a common centre The king and court, awe-stricken a what seenied portent, summoned th. wise men from all over the land to in terpret the sign or to account for it lon gave one explanation, som another; some said that it was th ~7 beginning of the end of the world some that the moon had fallen. A last, in the confusion of the counsel and contradictory theories, a plain ol< fellow from the backwoods came along took 'a look at the wender and said "Why, its just simply goin' to clear off, and that what they saw was the old fashioned, familiar God's sunshine and. a glimpse of the blue vault o heaven. Dickens tells us that at one time ther was great excitement among the learn ed men of England over the discover; of strange figures and characters upor fragments of stone which came to ligh in some excavations. Archmeologists students of Roman antiquities ii '. Britain, scholars and readers of ancien Egyptian inscriptions, Sanscrit scholar and others gathered from far and nea. to view and, if possible, decipher thi m.~pessage from the pre-historic age Sc lars quarreled; theories conflicted aeveral societies went to pieces fo opinion's sake; the world of cultur was in an uproar, when a very commoi person came along, looked over th fragments and broken letters, change them about, made the pieces fit an< spelled "Tom Nokes, his mark." An< so the politicians of the country, accus tomed to perverted statesmanship an< perverted methods, and perverte< polices-those who were trained for generation to consider public men an' politics as the game of gamesters-di< not at first make out this President o ours. As he started on his way th Senate attempted to cr<.wd him. Th chariot of the Amer'ican house of lord drove against him and was ditched The senators then said: This man treat us as if we were the common council o Buffalo, and- he is an insignificant though stubborn, man, only fit to b~ mayor of a small town. Later on the; said: He has abilities of a certain kin< and sort of low cunning, and he is: bold, bad man. Later on he rose ij their vocabulary of epithets to the dig nity of usurper. Some Republica> politicians praised him for a whil< looking athis acts through the flare and cracked glass of their own nations because they thought he was about t betray his party. A few Democrats who learned politics in Republical schools, .iritated at the changed politic and changed methods, beliveing in th doctrine that becanse his predecessor did ill things for favor, he should exer cise full license to do the like for favor, said he was a Tyler and would ruin his party. Theories continued to multiply abouthim, his character- and his pur poses. In the midst of the confusion, the strong common sense of the people came to the place of the expounder and of, interpreter. "It is a very simple case, gentlemen," said common sense: "you 8 were all looking beyond, below, around, anywhere but at the simple nature of things. This curiosity at Washington, this President who seeims to you to be inscrutible in his ways. e and strange in his methods so rare in 2this life of yours, is simply-an honest man." And an honest man, with a great brain, an intrepid heart and tire less vigor. An honest man of in domitable perseverance, absolute fear e lessness and conscious power. An e honest man, who stands for the right t with the firmness and serenity of the rock of ages itself. At last, known and appreciated of all men, he is hated and reviled with the bitterness of partisan malignity by hosts, and he is still loved for the enemies he has made and is making. The irritation and anger of a few of his own party soon quieted into contemplation, contemplation coin pelled respect and regard, and thcse have become affectionate admiration. In private life he is a plain American citizenof simple-manners and of sin t gular gentleness and kindliness of heart. His consideration for those about hinm, from the highest to the lowest, has won all hearts. Those who are nearest to him love him most. He has an embracing sympathy for distress which can feel for the sufferings of people, or, as I know, can take from the pelting storm to the shelter of his carriage a ragged, barefooted, frightened child from the street. Irving tells us that Washington was assailed with more vile scurrility and abuse than any f man of his time. The epithets and scandals applied to Jackson by his de famers were sought front the gutters and sewers of life. Yet the names of these two men shine with increasing m splendor as time rolls on and the pes terity of those who maltreated them: thank God, that the memories of their ancestors have rotted from the annais of time. Standing out against the horizon of the history of the age, one of the noblest figures in the life of the republic will be that of Grover Cleve land. It will be written of him that he was an unselfish American states man, and that he served the people. Another Great Estate Swindle in New York. NEW YORK; September 27.-The fol m lowing statement over a signature of 1 Alexander E. Orr, President .f the ' Produce Exchange, was announced on the floor of the Exchange this after noon : To the Members of the Gratuity 'Funds-Gents : 'esterday afternoon it, came to the knowledge of the trustees of the gratuity funds that Counsel Win R 1. Forester, Jr., was suspectedt of hav-, ing committed similar frauds to those practiced by Bedell, the forger. An -investigation p)roved this to be the Scase. The register of Newv York has Spronounced thirteen mortgages aggre-I ~ gating S168,000, as having fraduient c ertificates of registration. Investiga a tion is still going on, and members of a the Exchange will be advised of fur Sdevelopments. Last evening Pinker t ton's detective agency were instructed to arrest Wmn Foster, but as yet no' e port has been received from them. SALEXANDER E. ORR. This statement was not a complete surprise to the members of the Ex change. Foste, who had offices in the building, and who had long been legal ~counsel for the Exchange, had not been seen around there since last Tuesday I evening. He went away then, saying - he would return next morning. HIe renjoyed the implicit confidence of his associates, and just how he became first suspected of going wrong is not yet known ; but it became knowvn yesterday on the floor that he had ab Ssconded with a sum of money that did not belong to him. The amount varied according to the imagnation of the gossipers, but the exact amount was not known until the bullitin issued this afternoon. An Aged Bridegroom. SA sensation was caused in society circles in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday the 18th inst., by the marriage of Williamu H. Howard, a prominent and wealthy cotton merchant, and Mrs. George Hindel, widow of a prominent manu facturer and mother of several children. SMr. Howard is 82 years of age, and had, wa supposed, given up all idea of matt rimony. He was a widower, and his sons and grandchildren were olposed to the match. Mrs. Heindel is a beau Stiful woman of about 30 years, and l'as, Sfrom her husband's estate, a splendid -competency. The groom's present to Sthe bride, it is rumored, wais a ceek for $60,000. T.mely Help for Augusta. ATLANTA, GA., September 24.-Gov ernor Gordon has issued an order for 1the collection of taxes in Richmond -county to be suspended until the meet-: ing of the Legislature. Richmond county has been forced to levy) a special1 Itax to repair the damag~e done by the flood. It is proposed to collet no 'ate Staxes fronm her this year, and the Leg islature will take action on the ma'tter as soon as it meets. TFhe Govetrnor can. s only suspend the collection of the tax, Sand the Legislature alone can remit THE fUSBAND OF 3. WOMEN. A Jury Quickly Decides that Brown is Ex ce&ively 'Married-Sentenced to Four Years and Six Months' Impris on nent. DI-:rnlorr, Michigran, September 26. About fifteen of the thirty-three wo men who have been married to Jame: W. Brown, the champion Benedict since 15S. confronted him in the Re c irder's Court yesterday afternoon. Th< list of victims included Helen Brown lee and Annie Winters of Chicago,who with Annie M. Hazel, Mary Benjamlir and Nancy Robertson, were the only ones called on to give evidence agains1 Brow" n. The Benjamin woman wa the prosecuting witness. It was estab lished that Brown's method was to ad vertise for a housekeeper, select as a victim the one from among the appli cants who pleased him most, and marry her as soon as possible. He would de sert her after a few days. Five clergymen of the city certified to marrying Brown to as many differ ent women, and the case made agains1 him was so clear that the prosecutoi left it to the jury without argument. Brown tes!ified in hi. own behalf and made a sorry mess ofit, conitradicting hinselfat every turn. He professed not to reine1mer any of his dupes, asserted that he was only once married and that wife was dead, and that he had once been confined as a lunatic in New Or. leans. Brown was pallid and looked like a sick man. During-the trial Nan cy Robertson's indignation could not be repressed, and she denounced Brown as a perfidious wretch. The jury agreed with her evidence, for they took only four minutes to find him guilty. When Brown was brought into the Recorder's Court this afternoon for sen tence, 'pveral of his numerous wives were present. Judge Gartner asked him the usual question, if he had any thing to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Brown answered that he had had his say yesterday. "As far as your case is concerned, Brown," then spoke up Judge Gartner, "you have been convicted of bigamy. You have failed to remernberanything about these numerous marriages, and it seems to me that a mnan of such poor memory as you is dangerous to the communnity. The statutes prescribe the penalty, but the court is left some discretion in the matter. Your physica] condition seems deplorable, but it is more a niatter for executive than judi cial elemency. It is the sentence of the court that you be confined in the State Prison at Jackson for four years and six months." The extreme penalty is only five years, and Judge Gartner took into con sideration the six months Brown had spent in jail. Immediately after the sentence thiree handsome brunettes, tall, slender and fashionably dressed, entered the County Auditor's office to draw NO apiece for witness fees it Brown's trial. Two of them wvere Brown's wives-Mrs. Hazel and Mrs. Benjamuin. The clerk, anxious to iden tify thenm, asked laconically, "Botl Brown's wives'." The women looked at each other, giggled~ and assented while the third, anxious not to gel mixed in with the wives, shifted un easily away. "Well, it was a pretty bad case wasn't it?' queried the clerk, by way o showing a kindly interest. "Yes," said Mrs. Hazel, the talles and hlandsomaest member of the Mor mon family. "We were very mucii de ceived in thbat old Brown," added Mrs B. spit efully. Later more of Brown's wives came in for their fees, and all expressed th4 liveliest sat isfaction over his sentence. Swallowed the Thermomneter. The patient, a German who under stood but little English, w~as admitted to the hospital for a fever not yei diagnosed, says Dr. M. Singer of Gal. veston, Tex., in the Medical Record. As soon as he was seated by his bedside] introduced the thermometer into his mo(uth, enjoilin'g him at the same tim4 not to bite or swvallow it. Standing ir front of my patient I saw the thermom eter disappear in his mouth, while al the same time a motion as of degluti tion was performed by the man. Wher I recovered from the shock such a sigh1 gave me I reqtuested my patient tooper his mouth. Sure enough the instru, meat was there no longer, and when] a ked the man in German what he hat domne with tile thermometer he answer ed that he had understood me to sa3 that he should swallow it, and of cours< he had obeyed orders. I snatched a blanket from the bed and spread it on the floor, then making the mani lie flat on his stomach on th< bed with the head hanging down ovel the edlge of it, I told hinm that unless lhe wished to die he should introduci his f!ngiers as far dowvn the throat as possible anid make one supreme effor to retulrn that thermometer. This wai quickly and1( eflieiently done, for in less time than it takes nz:e to relate it th( thermoimeter was regur~gitated, and fel safe and sound on the blanket. I tool the p)recat ion of tying a thread to m3 instrument whenever it afterwards be came necessary to take the temperatur( of this or any other .right-minded patient. Fighting at Samoa. ArcstAN m. September 27.-Ad. vies ha:ve been receivedl here fron: Samoa that the partisans of the deposec King. Mali etcoa, have had an engage mient with the army of King Tamasese and that the later's forces were totall) defeated. King Tamasese's army wai under the command of a Germar CONCENTRATE THE CANVASS! The Motto of the Republicans in Sout Carolina-No State Ticket to be Put Out-Tom Miller, Col. Elliott's Dusky Competitor, Threatens to Make Trouble. COLCMBIA, S. C., September 27 Twenty out of twenty-three membei of the Republican State committee a tended in person or proxy the meetin of that committee, which held at noo to-day in the office of State Chairnia Brayton. The session lasted until aftt 5 p. m. There was a languid discu: sion of the expediency of putting up State ticket, but the idea prevaile that if the party had wanted to put u a ticket it. would have done so at th State Convention. Accordingly it ws decided nem con that no State ticket b put in the field. A committee of nine members, on from each Congressional district, an two at large, was appointed to name a: electoral ticket. They reported th following : At large, E. M. Braytoi and T. B. Johnson, 1st district, E. A Webster ; 2d, E. J. Dickenson ; 3d, B R. Tolbert; 4th, F. A. Saxon ; 5th, E L. Shrewsbury ; 6th, E. H. Deas ; 7th Z. E. Walker. Dickenson, Saxon, Shrewsbury, Dea and Walker are colored, but a factioi of the State committee were much dic satisfied because four white men hai places on the ticket and the repor provoked strong opposition. W. D Crum and R. C. Browne, of Charleston were candidates for the electoral boari and made a bitter fight against th adoption of the report, laying grea stress upon the fact that Charlestoi was unrepresented on the ticket. Th discussion lasted for hours, but the re port prevailed at last, and the person named were chosen. The colore< Charlestonians were almost angr: enough to bolt. A committee consist ing of Brayton, Miller, Swails an Heriot was appoinied to wait on Gov ernor Richardson to-morrow and re quest him to give the the Republican representation on the county boards o managers. Another committee was appointed t prepare an address to the people, bi; whether the people of the State or o the Lnion, seems not to have been de cided, nor is it yet known who wil will prepare the address. No arrangement for any other meet ing of the executive committee wa made, and it is probable that none wil be held. It is explained that the competi tion Was sharp for positions on the elet torgl ticket because the impression pre vails that in the event of Harrison election the electors will have influ ence and political reward. Tom Miller, the Republican noinine for Congress in the 7th district, will al tend a meeting in Sumter on Saturda; and then go North to secure funds fe his canvass. Miller is said to have at mitted spending $2,500 in securing th~ nomination by "fixing" the delegate to the Convention. He has no mean himnself' and is now with mfonetary r< sources, but the funds for his nomini tion are said to have been advanced b a well-to-do colored man named Georgi who has large timber and turpentin interests in -Berkeley or Colleton. Mi ler is not at all popular with the whit leaders in his party, as he has bee notoriously severe upon the carpet ba element, and it is safe to say that bh defeat will not be unpleasant to then He is, inideed, not strong in any quarte and his bitter aggressiveness leads t apprehension of trouble during the can paign. BLOWN TO PIECES IN BEAUFORT. The Fearfui Fate of a Cotton Gin Engineer. His Fireman Killed, and Two Boys. [Special, to News and Courier.] BEAUFORT, September 28.-Th boiler in Mr. Politzer's gin house explol ed this afternoon about30o'clock, probi bly on account of want of water in th boiler, as a few minutes before the er gineer was packing the pump. Th explosion carried the boiler and part of the engine from the engine room an through the end of a store owned by I A. Scheper and occupied by J. M Allison, a furniture dealer. The pisto: head was blown the entire length of block and struck a house and camr near killing Tolly, a shoemaker. The engineer and fireman were bot instantly killed. The engineer's hea and chest, with some other parts of hi body, were found on the roof of a adjoining building. Two boys by the namne of Aisto: were onl the street sixty feet from th the engine room, and one of them wa instantly killed and the other die about seven o'clock this evening. Th engine and boiler will be a total los! Mr. Scheper and Mr. Allison are thi heaviest losers. The damage to th building is about $600 and the damnag to the furmture ini Mr. Allison's stor is at least $500. The scene cahnnot be described. Th rear end of the store, where the boile entered, looks as though a railroa, engine had run into it. The boileri lying in the centre of the furnitur store. "Met our Death in the Clouds." PROVIDENCE. R. I., September 28. -A large silk balloon, with its car de serted and drifting, was captured o: Cumberland Hill this morning, wher - it caught among the trees. The ad dress, "Carl Meyers, Mohawk, N. Y., was found on it, and a piece of Buffal Inewspaper printed to the basket, o: which was pencilled; "Met our death i: SOUTHERN ENTERPRISES. h The Wave of Fortune Rolling on In Spite of Yellow Jack. [From the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record.] Reports to the Manufacturers' Record s show that the past week has witnessed the consummation of a large number of g great enterprises in railroad and indus n trial circles throughout the South. The n faith of Northern capitalists in South r ern railroad securities is shown in the - placing of $10,000,000 of bonds of the a Georgia Central Railroad through d Drexel, Morgan & Co., and the nego p tiations, now reported as closed, for the e purchase at $3,000,000 of the Kentucky . Midland Road. The Plant Investment e Company has subscribed for a portion of the bonds of the Alabama Midland e Road, which probably insures the early d building of that line from Bainbridge, a Ga., to Montgomery. A number of e large contracts have been let during the u week for important extensions of old roads and the building of new ones, in dicating great activity in railroad con struction throughout the South. The , Pioneer Manufacturing Company, of Birmingham, owned by the Thomas s Iron Company people, of Pennsylvania, will build a duplicate furnace of the one lately completed, and also a 150-ton rolling mill, at a cost of probably over t $500,000 coal mining company has been organized at Cordova, Ala.; Chicago - capitalists will build a $1,000,000 central sugar refinery in Louisiana, with short e ra&lroads to adjacent plantations; St. t Louis capitalists have purchased coal 2 lands in Texas for about $500,000 which e they will develop; in Richmond a $1. 000,000 cotton seed oil mill company s has been chartered; a 15,000-spindle cotton mill will be built in Georgia; Philadelphia iron bridge works have secured a location for a plant in Roa noke, Va.; $20,000 worth of machinery has been ordered for complete bolt and nut works in Decatur, Ala.; quarry for s 27,000 carloads of granite. These are f but a few of the leading items reported in this week's Manufacturers' Record. 3 There are many .:ller enterprises, t including electric light and water f works, ice factories, flour and saw mills, &c., showing that even the yellow fever scare has had but little effect in check ing the South's great industrial devel opment, and now that the danger of s the fever spreading has about died out, l still greater activity may be looked for. THE HOME OF YELLOW FEVER. Spanish Soldiers Swept Away by Companies in Cuba. s - ST. JAGO DE CUBA, September 12. Yellow fever reigns supreme both in e this city and at the military hospital outside. Y The La Autonomia, of this city, yes r terday published the followingv item: -"Of ninety-six men of the battalion of e San Quentin, on dutyin Santo Espiritu, s 23 have fallen victims to the yellow s fever, 17 more have been attacked with Sit and 3 of them are dangerously ill. Of a detachment of nine men on duty at Y Parades, a spot noted for its salubrity a' and good sanitary condition, all were e attacked and seven died of the fever. I- The mortality has been terrible." e The El Pais, of that city, one day re D ported twenty-four deaths from it. g Both natives and foreigners have been I swept away. The epidemic has been L- sweeping the island. The terrific in r roads made by yellow fever may be 0 gathered from the following: Out of a - full company of men all but eight have been swept away in this city. The is land of Nassau, knowing the danger, has . declared a forty-day quarantine -against us. Williams, Black & Co. Fall. NEwv YoRK, September 28.-The fail e ure was announced in the Produce Ex change this evening of Williams, Black & Co. The firm is one of the best e known business houses down town,and it credit heretofore has beeni high, e holding membership in the Produce, Coffee and Cotton, and until quite re cently, Metal Exchanges. The firm was well-known in all branches of trade. The amount of liabilities could not be learned to-day. One of the a members of the firm was seen and de edcined to even estimate the amount. SBy a disinterested party it was esti dmated that they would reach millions. A member of the firm assured the su s perintendent of the Exchange that his house would settle in full to-morrow. This failure is connected, it is thought, with the Chicago wheat squeeze. STHEIR E37BARRASS3MENT ONLY TE31 e NEw YORK, September 29.-The . failure of Williamis, Black & Co., com e 'mission merchants of No. 1 Warren e street,whose suspension was announced 'e yesterday on the Produce Exchange, e was only a temporary embarrassment and before the exchange opened this e morning a member of the firm called r on Superintendent Howe and an d nounced that the firm was ready to s settle with their creditois in full. The e firm's trouble was caused by the fact that its surplus capital was locked up in margins. Tiding the Treas'ury Over Tight Times. SCOLctBIA, September 27.-Presi n dent A. C. Haskell. of the Loan and e Exchange Bank of this city, has just -effected for the State of South Carolina a loan of $.50,000 in New York at 6 per ocent. interest. The loan is made, under a authority of legislative enactment, to a tide over the dull months of the year ntil the taxe begin to ome in. INDIANA IS ALL RIGHT. Senator Voorhees Confident that Cleveland I Will Carry the State. WASHINGTON, September 29.-Sena tor Voorhees, fresh from the campaign in Indiana, has returned to the capital. i He made twelve speeches during his c tour through the State, speaking in the I aggregate to upward of 100,000 people. d A good part of the time he traveled on t freight trains, sleeping as best he could t in the cabooses. This niode of transit t brought him in contact with the rail- f way employees-the conductors and brakemen, especially-with whom he e talked freely. He found these people, v almost to a man, strongly opposed to s the election of General Harrison. F They were quick to inform the Sena- c tor that they had not forgotton the z railway strikes of 1877. During their v troubles with the corporations that s year, Senator Voorhees explained, o General Harrison served as counsel for a the railroads. As most of the men z were working for a dollar a day and fi were striking to secure an increase in wages, General Harrison's zeal in f: prosecuting them was regarded as at v east tantamount to a declaration that c "a dollar a day was enough for a labo- d ring man." The railway employees e were careful not to express their opin- t ions publicly. Thir employees are, as a a rule Republicans, and too strong a c definition of their position on the part c of the employees might result in their i dismissal. But they left no doubt on t Senator Voorhees' mind how they p should vote, which will be practically as a unit against the Republican nomi- h nee. t: The old National or Greenback party b is also opposing General Harrison, who, n Senator Voorhees says, is not as strong h as his party. f< Having thus discussed General Har- d rison's weakness, Senator Voorhees p continued: "I'll now tell you why b Cleveland is strong. It is because the people have confidence in him. Be- d cause they know him to be a bold, si courageous and honest man. There has t] been some dissatisfaction in the past p regarding the distribution of the pa- o tronage. I, myself, am one of those who t< have not been wholly satisfied in that s regard; but so trifling a matter as that n ought not to be considered for a mo- v meat as against his clean and able ad- h ministration, and I. believe that I rc-| b fiect our people correctly in saying that c it will not be." il "Do you find the Indiana Democrats a well -organized for the campaign?" I have never seen them in such ex cellent condition. The only thing I fear is overcon$dence. The whole State is a blazing torchlight procession from o one end to the other. Even our oppo- i nents concede that the advantage is now with us. Indiana is as safe for Cleveland as Texas is. An Ostrich Race. A writer in the Providence Journal gives some interesting facts in regard to an ostrich from near Los Angeles, Cal., owned by Dr. J. C. Sketcley. He has sixty acres devoted to ostriches, having imported thirty pairs of these birds directly from Africa, landing them at Galveston, Tex. He also brought with them four Madrasese men and women; these people being tho roughly familiar with the habits of the ostrich. Their food is corn and alfalfa, the latter a kind of California grass, of which at least half a dozen crops arpe frequently cut off the same ground in one season. These ostriches weigh from 300 to 400 pounds each. The male bird is black and the female gray, and they are valuable chiefly for their feathers, the finest of wvhich sell for $4 apiece, according to this account, while good common feathers bring $200 a pound. The price of a full-grown pair 1 of birds is from $700 to $800, and young. birds, six months old, cost from $150 to $200. They are a very long-lived crea ture, sometimes reaching the age of eighty years. The article closes with the following account of an ostrich rmc: 1 At a command from the doctor, one of the Madrasese keepers opened the door of one of the pens, and, in re sponse to the doctor's call, two superb ostriches came running to him. After caressing the gentle creatures for a fewI moments, he showed them a handful of figs, of which they are extremely fond. Two of his men then restrained the birds by placing nooses upon each of thenr and walked to the other end of the course. Then, at a signal from the doctor, the birds were released, and the race began. It seem- t ed to me these birds covered fourteen feet at every stride. Like the wind t they came, their great neeks stretched forward and upward to their utmost length, their wings, like arms, working with a motion similar to that made by their legs, and filling the air with a I mighty sound like the rushing of a whirlwind. Nearer and nearer they came, their speed increasing with everyI moment, till I was almost terrified lest they should run us down, feeling cer tain that we could not withstand the shock. They kept well abreast for nearly half of the distance, and thenC one began to forge ahead. He steadily increased his lead till within a few feetC of us, when he turned his head, and, I seeing that his competitor was consid erably in the rear, he slackened his pace, and, jogging up to the doctor, re ceived his reward in figs and caresses.C Evangellst Moody Going West. GREENFIELD, MASS., Sept. 2. Dwight L. Moody starts to the Pacific coast to evangelize towns there this3 -wee1r. CAROLINA'S EXHIBIT. our Cars Required to Convey it to Augus ta's National Exposition. [Special to the Chronicle.] COLUMBIA, S.C., September 25.-The >acked-up exhibits of the department f agriculture intended for the Augusta Exposition were moved to the depot to lay. Some idea of the magnitude of he State exhibit South Carolina means o make at Augusta can be gained from he fact that four cars were required or this shipment. The South Carolina exhibit will oc upy a floor space of 40x100 feet, and vill be to all intents and purposes the ame in design as that made by the tate in New Orleans, where it was ne of the greatest attractions of the >lace. In the capable hands of those rho, under Commissioner Butler's upervision, are engaged in the task of f giving our State a fit representation .t Augusta's great affair, there can be Lo doubt that it will be made one of the eatures of the Exposition. A special feature, and a new one so ar as the Palmetto State is concerned, rill be an extensive butter exhibit, omprising specimens from the best lairies in this State, and from all farm rs who see fit to send in samples of heir suplus butter of high grade. The amples will be exhibited in specially onstructed glass cases, and will be hanged once a week. Several of the trst dairies in the Staee have promised D send large contributions of their roduct. There is a double object in this ex Libit : First, it will show to outsides hat South Carolina can make as good utter as any State, and is by no 2ean, a "one-crop State." Second, it oped, and there seems good ground )r the hope, that this exhibit will con uce to the bringing together of the roducers, dealers and consumers of utter to the mutual advantage of all. By this is meant that the merchan izer, seeing the possibility of a steady upply of good butter for every day in Lie year, will make arrangements to urchase from home producers. The onsumer, who naturally prefers but er of this kind, sweet and pure, to the ometimes mysterious compound which iasquerades as the fruit of the dairy, rill be lead to patronize the merchant Landling butter of this sort. And last, ut not least, the producer will be en. ouraged to make more butter and sell lower by having a regular demand ,nd a sure market. A Cold Wave. WASHINGToN, September 28.-At 10 'clock this morning the Signal Office 5sued the following special bulletin: Freezing weather is reported in forthern Minnesota, killing frosts mm the Southern portions of Michi an and Wisconsin, and light frost in he Northwest as far South as South rn~ Missouri. The indications are that evere frosts will occur to-morrow norning in the States of- the Ohio 7alley, and, that light frosts will occur n exposed places in the Northern por ions of the Gulf States and in Tennes ee, also in the West portion of North jarolina and Virginia and in the in erior .of the Middle Atlantic States ~nd the interior of New England. EARLY SNOW IN VIRGINIA. HARRISoNBURG, VA., September 29. -A slight snow fell here to-day. The nountains in the country are covered vith it. The weather is very cold. IN THE MOUNTAINS. ROANOKE, VA.-Fitful falls of snow 'ell to-day at Pulaski City, Pulaski ounty, and there was a light fall in the nountaitis. TOBACCO HUltT BY FROST. LYNCHBURG, VA.-A heavy frost fell hrough this section last night, and it s thought that a good deal of tobacco zas been ruined. A SNOW STORM IN MARYLAND. BALTIMORE, September 30.-A spe :ial from Deer- Park, Md., timed 1 p. n., says a snow storm has been raging here for the last two hours. rank Leslie's Popular Xonthly for Octo ber. The institution which has done so nuch to foster art in Ameries, "The ational Academy of Design," has its listory well told by A. S. Southworth, n the opening article of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for October. It is liustrated with views of the building Lnd portraits of its President. Ladies sill read with pleasure "The Gowns of he Butterflies," full of suggestions and iints to study combinations of color and exture from Dame Nature. 'In these iays, when Shakespeare a Bacon are trangely mixed up by the skillful iterary art of an accomplished man, it vill be gratifying to hard brought to ~ether "What is known about Shake peare,'" and this is done in a very read Lble article; and whether he wrote the lays that have olways borne his name, iere, at least, are facts relating to them which all admit. "The Indigenous i.nimals of the Andes" treat of that Glama family which gave Peru beasts f burden and fleeces for thegarmentsof ncas and common people. A lady tells >f a visit to far-off"Tangier," the town hat England once held, and which vould even now be an important hold eside Gibraltar. "Three Days on the ummit of Mont Blanc" gives a picture >f what our martyrs for seience, oven n these days of modern improvements, Lre compelled to endure. The stories Lnd adventures in the number are all Lttractive and well illustrated, and ome, like "Venezuela and Great Britain," by Almont Barnes, of no little ralne. BOSTON WOMEN WILL VOTE. Maids and Matrons Preparing to Flock to the Polls. IFrom the New York Herald.] BOSTON, September 26.-Women are flocking to the City Hall for the par pose of being assessed, as a pre-requisite to voting, in such numbers as to utter ly overwhelm the assessor's force. Nothing like it was ever known. At the present rate the total at theclose next Monday 'night will reach 12,000. The greatest previous number was less than two thousand. ALL ABOUT THE SHOOIS. The cause of it all is the agitation ' which Justin D. Fulton and his coterie have stirred up over the public school question. The law provides that female citizens may vote for school committee men in all town and city elections provided they are assessed, pay fifty cents poll tax, and are registered. The city elections in this State all come in December, and it is against this day that all this preparation is making. Swinton's history, with its paragraph about the sale of indulgences, was tabooed by the school committee esrly in the summer, and a high school teacher, who had commented on the subject in a manner which wounded the feelings of his Catholic pupils, was transferred to anotherpostof duty. The _; agitators including some of the most prominent clergymen in the city, seized upon this as an evidence of theJesuits' alleged determination to wreck the American public school system, and a campaign started which is resulting in this rallying of the women in defence of what they consider their imperilled liberties. - The watchword, as given by one of the speakers at the great Faneuil Hail meeting in June, was: "No more Ca tholics in the school board, no more " Catholic teachers in the schools." Meetings are held nightly all over the city and in the suburbs, at which Protestant women are urged to register and vote, and-t-e ~esulT is"soetbing' ' wonderful. - THE OTHER SIDE. Archbishop Williams, Editor -O'Reilly, of the Pilot, and Editor Ma guire, of the Republic, look upon this -crusade with equanimity, confident that such intolerance 4vill only injure'' its abettors. They are outspoken-= against retaliation and advise the woT men of their church to abstain from-6 enrolling themselves, preferring t .re the storm blow itself-out. Certia - Democratic politicians have, however, taken a different view of the situation, and within the last few days Celtic and Italian faces have begun to appear in the throngs about the assessors. To day it was estimated nine Catholic wo men were assessed to every Protestnat. KNOW THE EOPES. Women of all classes crowd the. cor ridors and stairways. Some.of them have their babies in their arms,. others are apparently out shopping. Still others more strong minded are election-. eering. All are apparently in deadr earnest. The innocent creatur~es donrt all seem to -know the difference be tween assessment and registration. From the nature of the case it is fair to presume that the vast majority of the Protestent women will be able to meet -all the tests of the registrars, but the foreign born womea may find it diffi cult to satisfy the naturalization laws. A deal of bad blood is being stirred up over the question, and the munici- -2 pal election will probably be the most bitter in the history of Boston. THE REGISTEATION GOES ON. BosToN, September 28.-There were 5,247 registered to-day, against 4,120~ yesterday. Total number of women registered to date 17,617. ACCIDENTS IN ANDEESONf. An Inf=nt Fatan~y Scalded-A IAtt'e Boy Hanged in a CoGLon Weighing Rope. ANDERSoN, September 27.-Miles H. McGee's eight month's old infant was - scalded to death yesterday morning. - Mrs. McGee put it down on the floor- - in front of a fire, where a kettle of hot water sat, and stepped out. She heard it scream out and ran to itto flnd . its lower parts so burned by the hot - water Ifrom the kettle, which he had pulled over, that it died in the af'ar noon. A three-year-old son of John Patter- - son was found yesterday in the cotton house hanging in the rope where they weighed cotton, cold and stiff in death.i The hanging is supposed to have beemi accidental.2 .They Took a Whole Car. [Greenville News, September 26.] One of the passengers -on the north bound Air Line passenger train Mon day afternoon was J. Christopher Fitz gerald, of this city. Mr. Fitzgerald returned last night, and to a Daily News reporter he told-of a remarkable case of yellow fever scare on board - train. One entire first cl.1ar cupied by a gentleman and his bound from Birmingham to Baltimore. They were afraid of the fever contagion so much so that when they left Bir mingham, -the 'gentlema- purchased. - eighteen first-class tickets .forshlmsel( and wife, -thereby securing the excinu e sive use ofthe car for the trip-Inthat~ stately and reserved but doubtless per fectly safe style they made the journey, while the ordinary rollednger along in crowded cars subjec4t. attacks of any -stry: mc Rt might be wandering Z malarial atmosphere of the and the Piedmont sapet..