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~~r - e tiPaWULt) t4ULLU 111 U ESTABLISHlED 1865. XEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1888. PICE$.0AYA NEW YORK NEWsPAPERS. An Interesting Rieview of the Great Dailie:. [Froii the \Writer.1 Thirty-niine newspapers enlighten the inhabitants of New York City. One-fourth of them could as well sup ply the needs of the people. A brief glance at sonie of these journals, with a few remarks on their varying eliarac teristics, may be of interest to distant newspaper writers not already very thoroughly acquainted with them. Of the morning papers let us select the Sun, the World, the Tribune, the Times, the Herald, the Press and the Journal. Perhaps the oldest of these is the Sun. One can scarcely imagine a paper which would be apt to interest two more widely difPerent classes of peo ple, which has greater faults, or more admirable qualities. As to its two sides, I refer to its editorial and its news columns. The latter are bright, crisp, and catchy. The Sun publishes the news, and does it well; it is trustwor thy; it succeeds in getting pretty near ly all that is going on, and it tells its daily story in readable shape and in good English. Editorially it is, by turns, profound, scientific, philoso phic "heavy," and sometimes a little dull. or radical, tart, and mildly cyni ca. It strikes one as odd that a paper which devotes more space than its con temporaries to reports of prize fights, bear hunts, and sporting matter gen emally, which publishes the year round, a Sunday edition with perhaps four or five closely printed pages devoted to sporting news, should, in its editorial colunms, show a decided leaning to ward the profound discussion of such matters as the demise of the Armeer, the difference between Christianity and Mohannnedanisn, the meaning of a (;reek phrase, the value of a peach blow vase, the character of the inhabi tants of Patagonia, the philosophy of Heathenism, or the Niebelungenlied. One can hardly reconcile the two, and one wonders why more space is not de voted editorially to the kind of matter which, as shown by the news columns, most interests the Sun readers, or why the news columns do not show a little regard for the cravings of those for whom the editorials are written. We are surprised that the editorials are not more of theim short and spicy; we cannot imagine a reader, who pores over a column cablegram about Sulli van's shaking hands with a fellow fighter in London, becoming recon ciled to the presence of a column and a half editorial article on the gold stand ard, or the coining struggle in Central Africa. In its political editorials the Sun is also peculiar. I said it was radical. It was the Sun which, when accused of inconsisteney, answered that every edi tion of the paper was a separate vol umue, and that there was nothing illo gical in its condemnation, one day, of a principle it advocated the next. There is however, one principle which it never deserts-it is for the spoils svs temt first, last, and all the time. All the shorter Sun e<.itorials have a peculiarly cynical ton.Isaprn praise is often its most effective attack, and one always notices in it the curling of the lip. In censure a quaint idi eule is much employed. There is a deal of digging in the ribs, in various stages of viciousness, never with laughter and fun. Withal, it is pungent and tart. The Sun's staff is an able one; it has * learned editorial writers, witty para graphers, skilled political writers, and a thoroughly good staff of reporters, who write well and report accurately; but it is eccentric-that one wvordl con vey to me a p)icture of the Sun-and it does not appear to be sincerc. Trhe World is enterprising. It isa paper of vast resources. It publishes all the newvs and sometimes a little more than all. It is sensational, and cannot be termed trustworthy; vet it publishes a vast amount of real and ex clusive news. We awake one morning to find that it hits interviewed the President; again that it has sent a host of reporters to Washington and has in terviewed Congress. It starts a Brook lyn ed.itionl andI publishes two papers for the price of one; it starts a .Jersey edIition~ that puolishies mrore Jersey news thani any papler published in Jersey. Yet, with all its enterp)rise, I (do not like it; there is ani indetinable sonme thing about it that is unpleasant. Per - haps it is because it devotes half as much space to telling us how it gives as it does to giving it-what (does the public care how the news wa~s obtained. so long as it is served up piping hot every morn ing? It boast s too much: it has worked some reforms, it claims to have worked all, It is a newspager braggart. The World's circulationi is the largest among the New York morning news papers. Pll)e buy the paper who do not like it, because it gives them what other papers do not give. It spcnds a fortune every day getting news (as in deed does every paper, but it spends a larger fortune than other papers spend.i, yet it has a.: air of cheapness. Perhaps, after a time, there will be more digmi tv in its editorial columns andl less cause for the suspicion that it veers as the wind fills the sails of the financial departmenIt-more trustworthiness in its news columins, and more modesty in the aftidavit department. It has much to boast of, but let us hope that in the future its boa.%ting will be less nauseatinlg.. - h Tribune is nothing if not pairti san: it is oftentimes offensively parti san. It has never heard of a good 1)emocrat, excep)t one or two who have turned Republican; the President has done no good deed that the Tribune nian has heard of; the country w'a- lost in 1IS4 when it elected Mr. Cleveland, and it will he lost over again if he is re-elected this year. In a word, the Tribune's editorial spirit is as crooked as its typographical make-up. The Sunday Tribune is the most charming of the New York dailies is sued on the first day of the week. Its correspondence from abroad (notably Mr. Smalley's London letters, and the notes from occasional correspondents) is more valuable and of a higher char acter than that of any of the other pa pers. It is not at all a dull paper; its matter is well selected; its departments are well conducted; its literary notes and reviews are forcible; its whole tone is elevating and enlightening. Leaving out the politics, of which there is too large and too highly seasoned a mass, it is an excellent paper. It is distinct ively a paper with a literary flavor, and a paper for men and women of the hiher and more refined class. The Tribune's news columns are well con ducted. It was once (wether it is now I cannot say) the best of schools for young reporters, its system was so fair and its excellence so general. Itre tains many curious, old-fashioned no tions; but it has a large circulation among decidedly conservative farmers and old folks, and it could not well af ford tooffend these, I suppose, even If it does mar its news columns and prevent proper "dishing up" of the news. But, perhaps, there is altogether too much "dishing up" nowadays. The Times is aniong the best of news papers, with a pure and elevated tone. It has one quality that many papers lack, a true understanding of the rela tive importance of news. It never ca ters to low tastes. It is eminently re spectaltIe, and it is essentially the pa per for the business and professional man. While not suppressing those items which must, because they are news, be published; even though the old ladies put their hands over their ears while reading them, yet it does not enlarge on such news to an unhealthy extent, ani it seenis thoroughly to ap preciate, not only that all kinds of peo ple like all kinds of news, but that peo ple of the better class have a right to he served with the kind of news they like. Its strong point is, that it never fails to give this news the relative amount of space that it deserves. I think, on the whole, that the Times is thus one of the wisest and best of real newsptx rcr and that it really reflects the,world, not the police headquiiters and the criminal courts. Editorially, the paper is honest and upright. It is independent, and not so in the abused sense of the word. The strangest thing about it is that it is apt to be a little partisan in its independence, and when it once starts to support a man on a principle, will sometimes become a lit tle too zealous. Yet this failing , one that the Times does niot often exhibit It is usually clear-headed, and it dis covers the truth on both sides, and ac knowledges it or points it out, as the case may be. It is honest, earnest, and generally in the right; and above all it is dignified, sober, conservative, and pure-minded. The Trimes is not, how ever, without its failings, and one is that it quite frequently issues a num ber that is too literary and general and not enough newsy. In this it differs from the Sun and the World, which smell of news all the way through. The Herald is noted for its excellent foreign news department. It is always scoring a triumph in that direction, and many buy the paper for that 4x cellence alone. It has a good system of home and domestic reporting, too, and is altogether, a paper that will hold all its friends, but will hardly gain many new ones. In its editorial page it is painfully weak, wishy-washy, and vacillating. It ought to be a stronger paper than it is; and it would be, were it not edited from a distance. its af ternoon issue, the Telegram, has lately been infused with new life, and has bristled out as a better and more newsv paper. The Herald and the Telegram both indulge in some sort of "strike" very frequently. The Herald bloomed out one day with its head lines curi ously arranged so that that they could beC read in a continuous sentence across the page. For awhile it miade head ings an art, and they were built in pyramids, and Heaven only knows wvhat. The object was to astonish peo pile, and the Herald very often does the same thing in its news columns for the same reason. The Journal is a paper about which little need he said. It is as naughty as it dares to be; it shuns solidity and publishes articles of its own peculiar style. A well-written "fake" always has a better chance with it than a solid news item. It can searcely be called a real newspaper. The Journal suits its one-cent subscribers, and is read by people who roll their tongues over t wo columns of a slander, and (do not care a continental whether the English cabi net reignis or niot. A nother one-cent journal is the Press, a bright newspaper that is gradually ob taining something of a foothold in the city. As its one object is to boom the tariff, we may forgive its super abundance of protection statistises. It is riot yet a leading paper; nor is the Star, though both are making progress. TIhe Presidential campaign will help the latter, which was oince so well known, but of late had been abnost forgolteni. I wish I had space to refer to sonie of the afternoon papers, notaly the Evening Post, staid and rigidly con servative, with its excellent general ar ticles, its powerful editorials, and its fixed belief that a paper can be success ful wi thontpnnhishing a line that could not he read aloud in the home circle. I should like to say a word of that queer little sheet, the Evening News, with ite hig! circulation and its entire lack of anything to remind one of its name. I should like to say a word of Mr. Shephard's purchase, the Mail and Ex press, and of the Commercial Adverti ser, and the Journal of Commerce, which I omitted to speak of before. Hardly an out-of-town man knows that it still exists, but I have already been too long, an d I m ust stop. Cti.\ALK.s FiSK-:. AN UGLY F.ILUIE IN MARION. W. W. George Arrested for Swindling His Creditors-He Escapes from the Constables. [Marion Index.] For several months reports of the in solvency of Warren W. George, who has been doing a large mercantile busi ness at Latta, have been current throughout the County, and the ap parently loose manner in which he con ducted his business gave substance to the rumor. Two or three years ago he began ner chandising at Cranesville on little or no capital, most of his merchandise being bought on credit. His credit seenis to have been unusually good, for he ex perienced apparently no difficulty in filling his store with merchandise of every kind. Hesold goods cheap, often, it is said, below cost, and in this way built up a tremendous trade. As an instance of the ease with which he managed to obtain credit, it may be mentioned that last spring one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of Marion ordered a lot of cotton seed meal from the Columbia Cotton Seed Oil Company. The company refused to send the meal except with the bill of lading attached. Aeorge, however, had no difficulty in buying 200 tons of meal from the same company on his individual credit. This meal he sold at prices that would have bankrupted stronger men than he was. He like wise obtained heavy advances of every kind of merchandise from a large num ber of other business houses. This fall lie again bought a very large stock of goods, nostly from merchants in Charleston. A few weeks ago be mortgaged his stock of goods and such other property as he possessed to his brother, Jasper George, the consideration being money that the latter had advan<ed i hii. Under that n,ortnage Jasper George as sunied control ofthe uusness last Fri day. As soon as it was known that W. W. George had failed his creditors began to pour in upon him. Saturday and Monday and yesterday crowds .of drummers were in Marion and at Latta looking after the claims of their houses. It is not known what the liabilities are, but they aggregate many thousands of dollars, while the assets amount to coimparatively nothing. Thle stock of goods in the store now in the han ds of Jasper George is estimlatedl to be worth not more thani one thousand dollars. What has become of all the heavy stocks of goods he bought no one knows. His creditors have attached his prop erty and an action will lie brougn to set aside his mortgage to .Jasper George on the ground of fraud. On Mondlay night the representattive of the Columbia Cot ton Seed Oil Company swore out a wvar rant against him before Trial Justice Evans for breach of trust with fraudu lentilintent. Yesterday morn ing Messrs. W. A. Wall and W. 1). Coleman were dispatched by the Sheriff to arrest him. This they succeedecd in doing, and Mr. Coleman was bringing him to Marion in a buggy. They had occasion to stop at some place and get out of the buggy, when George ranm for a swamp near ~by and in it succeeded in avoiding recap ture. This case is one of unusual interest and has created widespread commlenlt and1( criticism. A School Teacher Publicly Caned by a Mayor. [Special to Register.] GREENV1LL,E, Novemiber 1.--A senl sational personal encounier took place on Main street here to-day between Hon. S. A. 'Townes, Mayor of thle city, and Prof. W. S. M orrison, Superintend ent of the Graded Schools, anid one of the best known teachers ini the State. Tfhe twvo men had had. a misunder standing ab out punishment admin istered by thle Superimtendent to the Mayor's son. but the matter had b,een apparently am icab ly settled. Thlis morning, however, Mavor Towneis mlet Superintendent Morrison on the street and suddenly began beating himi over the head and shoulders with a light walking stick, breaking the cane into bits, but without intilieting! any serious or painful injuries. The parties wvere sparatedl, and so far thlere have been no further dlevelo~pmenlts; but it is generally believed that thle end( is not vet. Th'~e affaiir has crecatedl surprise and a decided sensation in the city, and is all the talk. PuLblic op)inionI is und(e cided. A National Farmers' Congres.. The Governor has apploinlted the fol lowing delegates to the National Farm ers' Congress, which commences at Topeka, Kansas, November 14th: At large-Harry Hanmnond, B. F. Perry, E. M. Royall, H. E. Bissell and E. R. McI ver. Congressional-S. S. Owens, R. W. Shlelor, C. C. Law, R. B. Wat soun, WV. G. Hinson, J. C. F. Sims, Ralph Nesbitt, C. S. Land, W. D. Johnson, Aaron Cannon, Iredell Jones, J. W. Reid and R. S. Thomas. Front South Carolina University--J. M. Mc. Bryde. From Department of Agricul tue-. P. Butlr. THE BEAUTIES OF THE SOUTH. C --- er A Most Gallant Defence of the Peerless e) Southern Belles. w [From the New York Herald.] ti: Col. Pat Donan lives these days with i3 Rufus Hatch and gazes at the sad sea st from the eighth story of the Washing ton building. If aaything could awake him it would be an atta k on his native Southern bevy of beauties. Such an t attack brought him to his feet yester- a day. He was fuming when found by tr a Herald reporter. This is what he said ; in his fervid and oratorical style: "Knowing, as I do, the gallant and to courtly consideration which the Phila delphia Times has always accorded to gr its fair countrywomen, regardless of B sect or section, I am surprised to find n in the letter of its brilliant and enter tailing New York correspondent, in its Sunday issue, a rather savage and, I think, uncalled for attack on the taste, or want of taste, in dress of our Southern girls and women. Speaking E of the Virginia prose-poet of passion co and osculatory gylnastics, Amelie Rives Chandler, as she appeared at c0 he John McCaull's yellow fever fund b matinee at Wallack's Theatre. this i gifted, but I fear somewhat strabismic, Uothamh gossipper says: ur "'But what was the matter with of Amelie? Well, I'll try to tel you; but H of course it will have to be in man fashion. I never saw a Southern wo- st man well dressed. As the dialect of the ni negro lingers upon the lips of the men ta, of the South, so does the tawdry, glar- la ing dress of the negress betray itself in sk unexpected places in the attire of the te e princesses of the land of cotton. They T always have about them an indescriba- en ble air of having jumped into their fi gowvns. They are blind to the comple lentary relations of colors. No matter go how richly dressed they are never well ch dressed. The young authoress betrayed as these faults most distressingly.' rn, "He then proceeds to excoriate the tl youthful cyclone of romance and au thor of "The Quick or the Dead?' for n having a peaked nose, dyeing her. hair and topping it off with a monstrous lilac hat and plumes, wearing an ill Ri fitting dress, mincing alongon Grecian ev bend heels of half a generation ago, and N divers and sundry other grievous crimes ch and transgressions against his aesthetic cis creed and code of toggery, physiognomy an and ip<tuet r"r famous or fame th scent females. he wooI OUT YOUNG MAN ! ev "For his onslaught upon Amelie of Albermarle I leave him to settle with th her or her with him. She is amply o able to wield her own lurid battle-axe. 1 If she should conclude to wreak bar baric vengeance on his heedless anato my the barbecue will be worth attend- tu ing. The very heavens, arrayed in .i ghastly green and yellow furbelows of cloud an.d holy terror, will rain fiery, sizzling pitchforks and scalping knives, with the scalps attached; huge chunks y of zigzag lightning, paroxysmal eastli iron kisses big as horse collars and seething with molten lava, blazing bass su drums, and phosphorescent, hissing, howling toads and scorpions, all forked tongued and forked-tailed. Amelie can look out for herself and her own ward robe. I couch no lance in her defence. "But in behalf of other Southern girls and womlen who c!annot sling red- d hot thunderbolts thick and fast as peas from a Gatling gun, I desire to enter n my eniphatic protest against this cor- to respondent' unwarrantable raid upon ne their unprotected clothes-lines. In such a case one may well risk a Cloveral Club broadside of chestnuts to deny the ti allegations and defy the alligator.fe Who made this corresp)ondent a judge -o of women's attire? 'Whose royal wvand thumped him into such knighthood or of the garter and other articles of fe-h minine apparelling too numerous to o mention? He is a bachelor, like my- s self. How does he knowv that jumping hr into gowns is not the proper mode of v getting into them? Whence comes his authoritat ive standard of taste and pet- tu ticoats? Is he a graduate of Worth's or g Redlfern's academy of man millinery, or did he acquire his dazzling start to ward nmantuanmaking omniscience and fashion plate infallibility at the satin f' slippered feet of somec such high p' priestess of style as Demiorest or Godey? N H-ow long has he dlieted on Harper's V Blazars and Butterick's Pattern? D)oes Il he know a bustle from a box plait, when B the wind is south by southeast from a] the Hoffmian House art gallery? If not, f' why does he rush headlong in where ( enlightened masculine angels fear to a. tread? r c, wHElFRE E;vERY w~oMAN Is A QU'EEN. "WVhen he declares lhe 'never saw a Southern woman well dressed' I am dlisposed to inquire how nmany real n Southernl wonmen lie has ever seenl. .1 When lhe talks of the 'tawdry, glaring p dress of the. negress' as typical of 'the y attire of the pirincesses of the land of ti cotton,' I am forced to believe that hisy acqjuai ntance among Southern women .a has been limited and-peculiar. It g certainly hias not been among thle princesses' of whom he glibly sp)eaks, F though that term, in my estimation, is ri a lowering of rank. In a land wvhere n every man is 'a sovereign' every wvo man is a queen at least. "TI' re are no manifold millionaire o fortuwes in the South. The gigantic ~, land-grabbers and railroad wreckers, a with their fifty or a hundred millions a each, do not belong down there. The i, monstrous devilish monopolies, trust y Iand tariff piracles, swindling army con- t: tracts, wheat corner robberies and pe- 3 troleum gushers are not products of r Southern soil. Southern women can- o I not, nd neve,- could, indulge in the , stunal extravagances of their North n sisters. They dress simply and in :pensively; but, from the earliest days our Republic, the verdict of the orld has been, as it is to-day, that iey dress tastefully and well -in keep g with their climate, their circum Anlces andt their surroundings. SOUTIERN BYGONE BELLES. "What are the '"Martha Washington a parties," that are still fashionable id popular in every part of the coun y, but reproductions of the simple id picturesque costumes of a lot of old irginia dames and damsels of a cen ry ago? Dolly Madison was scarcely ore famous for her cleverness and ace than for her exquisite costuming. tsy Patterson, of Baltimore, could t have captured the brother of Na leon and of Pauline Bonaparte if she .d not been as well dressed as she was autiful and ambitious. The three cTavish sisters, of Mfaryland, married iglish noblemen and bewitched all irope three generations ago. They uld not have reigned in the world's :iety as rivals of the crowned and ronetted beauties if they had not en well dressed as well as handsome, 'ted and nIovely. The old world and the new have ited in crowning, as queens by right every social realm, Sallie Ward unt, of Kentucky; Octavia Walton Vert; of Florida, and Virginia Tun d1 Clay, of Alabama. They could ver have won their sceptres if the vdry and glaring tastes of the negress d lingered in their attire or the venly dialect of the plantation chat on their lips. Lucy Holcomb, of xas, as the wife of Governor Pick s, of South Carolina, was toasted and ed by all Continental Europe, and cholas, Czar of all the Russias, stood dfather to her only child,. whom he ristened 'Douschka,' or 'My Darling,' a testimonial of his regard and ad ration for the mother. Could these ings have been if she had not been a 1-dressed as well as well-bred wo in:' THE BELLES OF YESTERDAV. 'Fifteen years ago Mattie Ould, of (hmond, was the undisputed belle of ?ry assemblage, great or small, )rthern or Southern, where she anced to be. Her brilliant witti ns were published around the Globe, d her career is a memorable part of social history, not only of the rnisphere. No garish dowdy could er have achieved such celebrity. [anie Southerlin, of Virginia, was a subject a few years since of columns colunns of deserved rhapsodies in )rthern, no less than Southern news pers; and, lovely as she was in per 3, character and manners, her cos rnes in their dainty perfection shared th herself all the glorification of irnalistic genius. "Nellie Hazeltine, of St. Louis, was ly 24 years old when she died, and t bulletins of her health were pub hed from New York to San Francis --the only instance on record where eh a tribute has ever been paid to e so younig. She had queened it at ratoga a.s well as White Sulphur, in tw York as well as Missouri, and she ts scarcely more noted for her beauty (d accomplishmients than for the ex isiteness of her taste in all matters of ?ss and the toilet. 'This country has p)rodluced few >re beautiful women than Mrs. Ben 1 McMillin-Marie Brown, of Ten ssee-whose untimely death in ashington last winter was a shoek to Capital society and a loss to our en e half of the world. Her form and ~tures were faultlessly perfect enough a sculptor's m6ael, her comp)lexion is like the petal of an apple blossom the pearly heart of a deep sea shell, r eyes had caught the celestial azure summer skies and heaven's own nshine seemed to nestle in her soft own hair. She was a universal fa rite, admired, beloved and praised by eryone who knew her, and her cos nmes were always the daintiest setting r a rare andl radlianlt jewel. THlE APOTHEOSIi OVEiRNESS. "No young girl, in thec last three or ur years, has bad miore einthusiastic eanas chanted to her charms by ortherni )ppers than May Handy, of irginia. She has been a b)elle, 'an werow ned queen,' at Saratoga and( ar Harbor, in New York, Baltinmore id WVashington. She is as lovely in cc and form as the fairest houri in an ricutal poet's dream of paradise, and I her loveliness finds fit draping in ihes delicate and becoming as were ter wovb the fairies for a rosebud rcen. Three of the special favorites Saratoga during the season just past ere Lottie Rogers, of Baltimrore, An a K ett, of South Carolina, and Lens ickson, of New Orleans. No Sun~day .lper sket ch of the A merican Baden adlen was comp)lete withou)tt a mien on of themi and their tastefully simi le and becoming garbs, and, likt bou Ben Adhem, their names pretty merally 'led the rest.' "Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs, red Grant and Mrs. Burton N. Har son, of New York ; Mrs. Potter Pal icr and Mrs. Robert W. Rlolosoni, o: hicago, Mrs. .John McMullen, of Sar: ranicisco;: the Baroness de Charette. r Florence, and a legion of other notec -oinen whose namies crowd' upon mie re Southern born and Southern bred nid I have yet to hear of any one ris ig to accuse them of retaining a flat or of harba:rie negress gaudiness ii *eir attire. Berry Wall, the king o rew York and New World dudes, mar ied Salome Melbourne, the daughte. f my old local editor at St. Joseph Jon a Southern geirl from the bak woods of the most benighted and bar haric State in the South, and all Gotl am credits her with being fully as styl ish and as tasteful as the 'glass of fasli ion and the mould of form' she ac cepted as a husband. "But why multiply instances whei they are as innumerable as the star that fill the skies or the flowers tha bloom in the Southern groves and gar dens? Why prolong a list which migh be expanded into a feminine censu and wardrobe inventory of the South With both eyes blindfolded and m right hand tied behind my back with strap of blue lustering ribbon I car name, of my own personal acquaint ance, a thousitnd women and youn, girls south of the Potomac and Ohii rivers, who, in all the attributes of cul tivated and refined taste in morals manners, art, literature and costumery are the radiant peeresses of any thous and that can be found frnm Winnipis seogee to Yuba Dam. I say it, and ] am willing to leave it to any compe tent jury of my countrymen or coun trywomen, Northern or Southern, an< to stake my scalp, my worldly good and ills, my debts and my single-bles sed freedom on the decision. THE JEWELS OF THE SOUTH. "Such daughters of the Sunny South. land as Mrs. Charley Hoyle, Mrs. JoE Carr, Mrs. Jessie Lansing Ray, Mrs Jeff Clark, Mrs. Azby Chouteau anc Misses Mattie Blow, Hildergrade Ster ling, Sybil Rex, Mary Dameron, Clyn tie Evans and Nannie Broadhead, o St. Louis; Misses Mattie Harrison and Mamie Lamb, of Hannibal, Mo.; Mrs Ed .:ard Wilder, Mrs. Tom Gaylord Mrs. Bettie Vance Rutherford, Mrs, Allan Houston, Mrs. Sallie Marshal, Hardy, Mrs. Harry Gilmore, Mrs. KatE Sharp Foster, Mrs. Sterling B. Tone and Mrs. Currie Duke, Kate Eaches May Tompkins, Louise Berge, Bells Loyd and Mattie Yandell, of Louis ville; Mrs. John G. Carlisle and Miss Marguerite Walker, of Covington, and Mrs. Rosa Fertner Jeffrey, Mrs. Charl ton Morgan and Miss Susan Preston of Lexington, Ky.; Mrs. Adolph Dahl gren, Mrs. Joe Washington, Mrs. Van Kirkman and Misses Harriet Marshall Carita More, Fanny Rhea McAllister Sadie Polk Fall, Mamie Rogers, Mar. garet De Moville and Annie Clare, o: Nashville; Mrs. W. C. Foulkes ana Miss Hattie Ensiey, of Memphis; Mrs Stephen D. Lee, E. H- Trahue and MisLouiseMu Nellie Foote, Nona Winter, Olivia Ar .lington and Maggie Peet, of Alabama: Mrs. Thos. Kennedy, Mrs. Jamison, Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter and Misses Susie Richardson, Cora Townsend Temmie Cage and Lula Bohn, of Nev Orleans; Miss Fannie Gordon, of Geor gia; Mrs. Nannie Paul Adger and Mis: Lucy Simonton, of South Carolina Mrs. John N. Staples and Misses Em. ma Blakely and Katie Scales, of Nort: Carolina; Mrs. W. F. H. Lee, Mrs. Liz. zie Henry Lyon and Mrs. Mary Dear ing, Ella Doswell and Lou Buckner, o: Virginia; Mrs. James Carlyle and Misses Winnie Beekham, Cornelii Denver, Nancy Norton and Katih Riggs, of Washington, and nine hun dred and twenty-five others of the thousand I could name are, individu ally and collectively, capable of uphold ing gloriously the fame of their sunn) native region before any tribunal un der heaven, where taste-taste in it: highest, purest, most delicate phase and forms-is the standard and test. wIPING UP THE FLOOR WITH TH1 SLANDERER. "This fault-f iding correspondent i a New Yorker, and New Yorkers ar< intensely localistic. To them Manhat tan Island is the world, and the univers, is bounded by the North River, Eas River, Fulton ferry and the aqueduct He makes the mistake of setting u] the New York standard of taste an< dress for all creation, regardless of cli mate and countless considerations c circumstance and surrounding. H might as well set up an iceberg as th model of a p)almI tree or a polar bear a the pattern for a gold pheasant or pearcock. The light, fluffy muslins an, broad-brimamed gypsy hats, with thei bright ribbons and plumes, are as ai propriate among the orange groves an p)almIettoes as the tailor-made clot suits on Fifth avenue or under thm elms and Maples of Central Park. Th furs which are proper and lovelyi New England or Dakota would b mionstroctie.s in F lorinda or Louisianm ada Madison square dude would 1: far funnier on a bucking broncho at Wyomhing or a New Mexico round-u thana the wildest type of a cowbo could ever be on Broadway. "Let the blasphemer who decries til gay tintings of Southern girls' dress< as 'the tawdry gaudiness of the barba rie negrress' demand that the hummir birds, parrots, orioles and macaws< Southern forests shall strip off the gorgeous lumines and array themselv< in the sombre feathers of Norther thrushes, eat birds and barn owls. L him call on the magnolias, crape my tIes and jessamines to lay aside the dazzling bloom and perfume and dc the sober oak arid hemlock. Let hi: take to task the Almighty Artist; wi blended all the colors of heaven ar earth in the lustrious prismatic arch* which all human eyes turn as the er blem of peace and the perfection beauty. Let him find fault with tI hand that plants its many bued fir in the opal's and the diamond's hear -and that even now decks the forests the Northern hill and mountain-sid with all the gorgeousness of colorir that nature's infinite paint pots e5 sup)ply. wHY LIFE IS WORTH LIvING. I"When I contemplate the rottenne " nality of our legislatures and boards 4 imported aldermen, the slander an - blackguardism of Presidential can - paigns, the falsehood and ignorance ( - our sham statesmen whom the mo sets up as leaders and representativ i Americans, the pillage by law that ou i people not only endure but seem to er t joy, the humbug and universal chicE - nery in legislative, executive and jt dicial balls, I am often tempted to for 3 swear America and make my home iF some other country. One thing keep rme true to iiy native land. All m; loyalty has a feminine string to it. i might swap countries, but where coula I find countrywomen equal to my own I have wandered in many lands ani have seen the women of every natio) - beneath the sun; but nowher have I ever found any comparable t our own glorious daughters of Colum - bia. They combine in themselves a] - that is noblest and brightest, sweetes and best in the feminine character c - all other races. I admire and love in - fair countrywomen, North and Soutlh East and West. Beauty and woman hood arc bounded, thank God, by n, sectional lines. No them and South ern" blonde and brunette, black eye and brown eyes and blue, raven lock and golden tresses, I do homage t< them all. In Murray Hill palace o far Western cabin, amid Dakotai snowdrifts or Floridian orange groves every American woman is a queen Her throne is in every true man' heart, and her sceptre is absolute though wreathed with flowers. Sh has the God given right to dress as shi pleases, and when she pleases hersel she always pleases me." A HOUSE DROPS TWELVE FEET. Terror-Stricken Inmates Flee from Thei Residences at Night. WILKESBARRE, Pa., October 29. For some time a portion of the suburb of Plymouth, known as Carry Hill has shown signs of a caving in of th< surface. About 3 o'clock this mornin, the house occupied by Henry Fox, an< about half an acre surrounding it, wen down fully twelve feet. The shock wa sudden and very violent. The inmate. of the house were thrown from thei: beds, the house tipped over and th4 rear extension was torn loose from thi main building and not loneaffejggJ held together, though the walls wern split and gaping. Tne family were -terror-stricken an< hastened out of the falling house ii their night clothes. All the furnituri and household goods were destroyed o damaged, and every bit of plaster wa torn from the walls. It is certain tha other cave-ins will follow, as the groun< is still working in all that vicinity an< seems to be settling slowly. A GREAT CARGO OF COTTON. Shipped from Charleston-A Notable In eldent. [Special to Register.] CH A RLESTON, October 31.-An oceai tramp, the steamship Glengoil, wen to sea to-day, crossing the bar with: cargo of 8,000 bales of cotton, whichi is claimed is the largest cargo of cottoi ever stowed on an ocean steamship il any port in America. The ship onl: drew seventeen fed: of water after be ing loaded. Her cargo is valued a $400,000, and the freight list at ?8,00( The incient is important, for th reason that it proves that deep water a -the bar is not an absolute essential fc Charleston's importance as a seapori SThe tendency of woodea ship-buildin is to build vessels of light draught an at the same time a heavy carryin capacity, and a good many people i Charleston are of the opinion that would be a wise thing for the million aires of the city not to wait for tb Stardy and niggardly appropriations < s Congress to complete the jetties, br that they should rather inve: some of their surplus hundred thot r sands in getting possession of a railroa Sto the West and in the establishmer of a steamship line to New York < SBaltimore and to Liverpool. Gin Acc.ident at Greenwood. [1 e GREENwoD, October 3.-Mr. B. ( Narelle, who runs a gin at thiS plac emet with a serious accident this morn a ing. While soaping the belting to ket it from slipping his sleeve caught In ti y belt, carrying his arm over the pull and breaking both bones just above tl e wrist. Disease A mong Swine. [Register, 1st.] r Professor B. M. Bolton, Bacteriolo s ist of the University, and Dr. W.] n Niles, the Veterinarian both go t Marion to-day to investigate a disea .which has broken out among tI ir swine in that section, and is feared n be hog cholera. 10 A Drunken Mas'a Mad Act. d - :O SAVANNAH, Ga., October 31.-A sl &- cial to the News says at Hinesvil >f Liberty County, Monday night, WV ie liam Harrison, in an inexplicable fit is jealousy, shot his little niece dead wit t, out warning, while sitting by the fl >f nide. He then fired at his sister woun as ing her.in the hip. She will probab tg recover. Harrison fled, but returne n admitted his crime, and said he h: attempted suicide by jumping in a we Later he denied all knowledge of t1 ss crime. Harrison said he had be e- drinking heaily lately. f THANKSGIVING DAY. 1, Proclanation by the President, Fixing it on f Thursday, November 29. b WASHINGTON, November 1.-The e following proclamation was issued by r the President to-day: - A Proclamation by the President of the United States: Constant thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to 1 Almighty God for His goodness and mercy, which have followed theni since the day He made them a nation and vouchsafed to them a free govern ment. With loving kindness He has constantly led us in the way of pros perity and greatness. He has not vis ited with swift punishment our short e comings, but with gracious care He has warned us of our dependence upon His forbearance, and has taught us that obedience to His holy law is the price of a continuance of His precious gifts. In acknowledgme-nt ,f all that God has done for us as ',.on, and to the end that on an appointed day the united prayer and praise of a grateful country may reach the throne ofgrace, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the 3 United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 29th day No vember, instant, as a day of thanksgiv r ing and prayer, to be kept and observed throughout the land. On that day let all our people suspend their ordinary work and occupations, and at their accustomed places of worship, with prayer and songs of praise, render thanks to God for all his mercies, for the abundant harvests which have re r warded the toil of the husbandmen during the year that has passed, and for the rich rewards that have followed the labors of our people in their shops and their marts of trade and traffic. Let us give thanks for peace and for social order and contentment within our borders, and for our advancement in all that adds to national greatness. And mindful of the afflictive dispen sation with which a portion of our )and has been visited, let us, while we hum ble ourselves before the power of God, acknowledge His mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of pesti lence, and let our hearts be chastened by sympathy with our fellow country men who have suffered and who mourn. And, as we return thanks for all the 2mke-lirras- our Heavenly - Father, let us not forget that He has enjoined upon us charity; and on this day of thanks giving let us generously remember the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord. Done at the city of Washington on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and in the year of independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. - (Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND, By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. To Spend Thanksgiving in Augusta. [Register, 1st.] The day at the Augusta Exposition 1 to be devoted especially to the old Pal r metto State, and known as "South - Carolina Day," has been changed from t the 30th to the 27th of November, the .latter being Thanksgiving Day. This e has been done to allow the Legislature t of South Carolina, which has been r invited to attend the Exposition on .South Carolina Day, no excuse for de ; clining, as it is the usual custom for I the body to adjourn over Thanksgiving g anyway, and the hospitable Augustans i only wish the South Carolina Solons to t spend their holiday across the Savan -nab. Mr. Randall Himself Again. t t WASHINGTON, October 31.-Chair man Randall has issued a call for a Smeeting of the House Committee on t Appropriations on Wednesday, No rvember 21, to begin the preparation of the appropriation bills to be submitted to Congress at the next session.' It is expected that the District -of Columbia appropriation ill will be first con sidered. "scooped by the Cotton Oil Trust. PNEW YoRK, October 31.-The famous Le house of WV. J. Wilcox & Co., lard re yfiners, has been bought out by the Le American Cotton Seed Oil Company, and will be known as the W. J. Wilcox Lard and Refining Company. The Canals of Mars. -[Rochester Herald.) M. -Schiaparelli, the Paris astrono mer, thinks it is curious that so many 'of the canals of Mars are parallel, some ie of them have been thus doubled up to since he first began to make observa tions of that planet. The people of Mars have unquestionably taken that idea from the earth. They have ob served the great railroads of this coun e- try building parallel lines into each e, other's territory, and, knowing that we il- are unusually enterprising here, of thought it was a good enough idea to b- apply to their canals. They will dis e- cover the error before many more di d- vided days pass by. If they could get ly telephonic connection with a monthly d, meeting of the board of directors of the Ld Chicago, Burlington and Northern, the 11. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, or le the Central Pacific, the canal builders m of Mars would hear something from which they migrht profit.