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s -- - -. a- .. - - - p * -.- - ESE 1. NY S. C- T S -E ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1888. PRICE $1L50 A THE CLEMSON BEQUEST Comes up in a Bill in the House of :epre sentatives Which Empowers the Trea surer of the State to Receive the Bequest on the Terms Named and Provides for the Establish ment of an Agricultural College. COLtmBIA, Dec. 6-By Mr. Benet: A bill toaccept the devise and bequest of Thomas G. Clemson, and to establish an agricultural college in connection therewith. Whereas, The Honorabie Thomas G. Clemson departed this life on the sixth day of April, A. D. 1888, leaving a force his last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate on the twen tieth day of April, 18SS, in the office of the Judge of probate for the County of Oconee, in the State of South Carolina, wherein he devised and bequeathed to his executor, Richard W. Simpson, of Pendleton, South Carolina, a tract of land situate on Seneca river, ill Oconee county, in said state, containing 814 acres more or less, known as the Fort Hill pl'antation, as vell as all of his other property both real and personal except certain legacies in the said will mentioned and provided for, all in trust to convey to the State of South Carolina, when the said state shall accept the same for the purpose of es tablishing and maintaining an Agricul tural and Mechanical College upon the aforesaid Fort Hill plantation upon the terms and conditions of said will. Therefore, be it enacted, etc.: Section 1. That the State of South Carolina hereby expressly declares that it accepts the devise and bequest of Thomas G. Clemson subject to the terms and conditions set forth in his said last will and testament, and that the treasurer of the State be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to receive and securely hold the said property, .oth real and personal, and to execute all necessary papers and receipts therefor sosoon as the said exe cutor shall convey and transfer the said devise and bequest to the said State. Sec. 2. That upon the execution of a deed and transfer of said property to the State by the said executor in accor dance with the provisions c; -id will, an agricultural and mechanical college shall be and the same is hereby estab lished in connection with the aforesaid devise and bequest to be styled the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, and to be situated at Fort Hillin Oconee county on the plantation s6 devised, in which college shall be taught all branches of study pertaining to practical and scientific agriculture and other industries connected there with, and such other studies as are not inconsistent wlth the terms of the said will. Sec. 3. That said college shall be under the managment and control of a board of thirteen trustees composed of the seven members nominated by said will and their successors, and six mem bers to be eJected by the legislature in joint assembly every fourth year after the first election, said board to elect one of their number to be president, and to elect a secretary and fix his salary; they shall organize the college and putl it in operation as soon as p)racticable' after the passage of this act, shall prescribe the courses of study, shall declare the professorships, elect the professors, of whom the number shall not exceed ten, and define their duties and fix their salaries, and mnnke all rules and regulations for the govern * ment of the college; they may employ such superintendent, head workmnen, laborers for the farm, shops and grounds as may be necessary, and fix their~ comipensation; they shall charge each student a tuition fee of forty dolt:s per annum; provided that said fee shall not be charged until the funds raising out of the said bequest shall be exhausted in -accordance with the terms of the said will; provided, fur ther, that indigent students shall not be required to pay said tuition fee. Sec. 4. That the said board of trus tees is hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate nnder the name .and style of the Clemson Agricuitural College of South Carolina. They shall have a corporate seal, which they may change at their discretion, and ill their corporate name they may contract for, purchase anud hold property, for the * purposes of this act, and may take any property or money given or conveyed by deed, devise or bequest to said col lege, and hold the same for its use and benefit; Provided, That the conditions of such gift or conveyance shall in no *case be inconsistent with the purposes of this act, and shall incur no obliga tion on the part of the State. They shall securely invest all funds and keep all property wvhich may come into 7their posession, and may sell any of the personal property not subject to the trust and reinvest the same in such way as they mnay deem~ best for the in * terest of said college. They may sue and be sued, plead and be imipieaded in their corporate name, and may do all things necessary to carry out the pro visions of this act, and may miake by hlaws for this purpose if they deem it necessary. Sec. 5. That it shall require a two thirds vote of the said board of trus tees to authorize the expenditure of an; moneys appropriated .to said college by the State, or to authorize the sale of any property under the provisions of this act. Sec. 6. That for the purpose of erect ing buildings on said Fort Hill planto. tion, and of purchasing stock and imple *ments therefor, and paying expenses, as herein provided, the sum of three thousand dollars beand the same ishere appropriated, if so much be necessary, to be paid by the State Treasurer upon the order of the board of trustees of said college, signed by iheir president and secretary ; provided, that not more than fifteen hundred dollars thereof shall be used in erecting buildings, fix tures, or permanent improvements on said Fort Hill plantation pending liti gation in respect to said property; and provided further, that all personal property purchased with money ap propriated by the State shall be taken and held by the board of trustees as property of the State of South Caro lina; and it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to nake to the Legis lature an annual report of the college, and of all farming operations and tests and experiments, and of all re ceipts and expenditures with a state ment of the condition of the property and funds of said College, and of all receipts and expenditures of money ] appropriated thereto by the State. 1 Sec.7. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. TAXATION OR BANK SHARES. Important Decision of the Supreme Court ofLouisiana. NEW ORLEANs,December 4.-In the ] case of the First National Bank of Shreveport, La, vs the board of re viewers, in which the bank and stock holders joined to obtain a reduction of the assessment put on the shares of the bank for the year 1887, upon the ground that of the capital stock of the bank $200,000-175,000 was invested in non taxable United States and State bonds, and that this amount should be de ducted from the assessment levied on the shares, the Supreme Courc of Louisiana has affirmed the decision of the lower Court. The following is a synop is of the decision: However true it may be that United States bonds are not taxable as independent assets and that their taxation does not depend upon the constitutional provisions of the different States, it is a matter be yond discussion that wben the capital of a bank is in part or in whole invest ed in them the shares of such bank, whether National or State, are liable to State taxation. In the assessment of shares of a bank where capital is rep- ] resented by stock it is immaterial whether the capital was or was not in vested in United States bonds and State bonds, although as a rule the same be themselves-exempt from taxa tion. The words "all exempt property" do not apply to United States bonds or to State bonds in which the capital of a bank, State or National, represented by shares, has been invested. -- -- + -- S A Bad Community Near Prosperity. [Special to News and Courier.] t PROSRIarY, S. C., December 4. On Saturday night last Butler Banks was shot in the hand with a buckshot. One also grazed him on the back. The community in which the shooting oc curred is a bad one, as it has been not I very long since two caps were bursted ~ at a good peaceable, law-abiding citi zen as he was going home fronm hi1s ? place, and since that time a house near by there was shot into. Within the last ten years one man has lost four horses, two killed and two poisoned, 1 two more of the residents of the same community have lost by fire their barns and stables, and the result is that I the good men of that settlement are wanting to sell out and leave it, The Richmond & Danville Stockholders. RWIMuOND, VA.. Dec. 5.--The annual meeting of the stockholders of thei Richmond & Danville Railroad Com-< pany was held here to-day. A resolu-1 tion was adopted looking to the issu ance of 2,500,000 in equipment trust bonds. The following officers were I elected for the ensuing term: Presidentt George S. Scott; Board of Directors; Jno. H. Inman, Samuel Thomas, Calvin S. Brice, Jno. G. Moore, Harris C. Fahnestock, Geo. F. Stone, Jno. H. t Paul, Jno. A. Rutherford, Chas. M.< McGee, John S. Barbour J. C. Mahen I and Samuel N. Ingraham. The lease of the Georgia Pacific by the.. President< anid Beard of Directors was confirmed. Bismnarck's Profitable Forest. (From a Berlin Letter.) A splendid entertainment, consisting of beer, bread and cheese, and dancing, 1 was lately given at Friedrichsruhe by Prince Bismarek to all his workmen and the administration for cutting I down trees on the estate, upon whicht there is a va5st amount (of timber-cut ting. The occasion w,as the levelling of< the 100,000th tree. It was over 150 feet I in height, and will be erected in front of LIe Prince's house as a memento. The wood is mostly turned into paper< pulp. West Virginia all Right. CH ARLESToN, WV. VA.. Dec. 4-The1 recount in this county was completed last night. The result shows that Alder- ] son (Denm) for Congress from the 3d district gained 2-5 votes in the city,1 which clec.ts him by 17, and Fleming, (Demi) for Governor, gained 28 votes.] This will, it is believed, give the Demo crats the Governor also. A (lean Bill of Health. JACKSONVIL LE, Dec. 6.-The official bulletin of the board of health for the twenty-four hoursending at 6p. m .o day, gives a clean bill of health; no new cae anrd no daoths. .j INMAAN AND HIS RAILROADS. Some Plain Talk fron the Great Railroad King-Doen't Want to Paah in Where He is not Wanted. S [Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 4.] Mr. John H. Inman and party left t *ast night n->r Rome, where they will spend part of the day, and returned to tr New York via Chattanooga. 1! A representative of the Constitution 1 ailed on Mr. Inman yesterday after- cc oon before he left and asked him if he w fad determined upon any line of action " Ln regard to railroad matters since his b "Nothing," said Mr. Iinian, "but to cc let matters remain as they are. We d( 2ad made arrangements to raise a large um of money to perfect the e<fuipment tli )f the various lines, build new depots R tnd put on new steamers for the At- t antic ports con;.ecting with our sys ems. We had the promise of a large olume of business from the Kansas ines, the Missouri Pacific, and the tL Vexas Pacific, the business of which 11 ias heretofore been going to roads north r f the Ohio and G3alveston. One of the >bjects of my visit here was to establish w 6 bureau of information and develol - bi nent here in Atlanta for the purpose fi >f facilitating the construction of short si ocal roads as feeders to our main lines. 01 For instance we have been urged to tr oustruct a road from Gainesville to i )alonega, also a road from Newnan to onnect with the narrow gauge from ar )olumbus. I talked with Mr. W. B. Ii 3erry, of Newuan, fully about this be- s ore I left New York. . a "We had succeeded in selling the tc .nds, and were just closing a trade to a wuild a road 180 miles long, from Eden fc x> Am'ericus, and had commenced li ,edvo, but the threatening aspect of w hings caused the bankers to withdraw s heir offer, and the work will necessa- t ily have to be stopped. These and imilar enterprises will be carried out ar is soon as we see our way clear to it. tr But all this requires careful investiga ;ion. We frequently have applications cc 'rom parties who have invested in m ither coal or iron lands. We must, b efore we do anything in these enter rises, have definite information not-i )nly about the cost, but as to what they 0] vill pay and my purpose was to estab- J ish on this trip a department to under- t ake just such work, to be put in charge c f competent men." - a] "Have you taken any steps to perfect uch a departaient ?" re "No, I have not. I have decided-to w vait, and have cancelled the contract or steamers and for the loan. I have tot invested very heavily in the stock f these roads, but I hold bonds of the rarious lines as investments, which I hull keep. My purpose in helping to >ring about the consolidation was to nake money by improving the coun- w ry, and by increasing the volume of of iusiness. Of course I have some pride t a making it a success, but .I have in estiments in other property that will g :ngage my time and attention. One N bing I have determined on, I shall not >ush myself where 1 am not wanted,W ,nd I believe such has been my repu- a ation all my life. I can sell all the cc tock I own in Georgia roads at a hand- " ome profit. I am in no burry to ad !ise men who have money to invest in ai outhern securities if thcre is a proba- gc ility that there is trouble over it. No- hi ody is hurt as far as we have gone, li1 ,nd if the peopie of Georgia do not want cc his consolidation, I am willing to leth t alone. If I cannot come as a friend, h I Iwould prefer not to conie at all." fr "Do you propose to have any talk t vith the Legislature ?" "I do not. .i think it would be im iroper for me to do so. I have not hes- P~ tated to talk to those who came to mec in the subject, for the question in- m olved is one which the Legislature A nust decide. If we find that we are of iot wanted, we shall not press the mat- at er. No Dmn's forttne is tied up in P~ hese roads. The stock belongs to a i arge number of people, rich and poor, G ,nd as president of the company, it is tl ny duty to improve it all I1 can for at heir benefit, and for the development if the country through which these " ines run. It requires larger sums of ci noney to put these railroads in proper i :ondition, and it is the duty of myself p' .s president to negotiate these loans at m he lowest rate of interest." IX "Mr. Inman, will the consolidation b if the various railroad systems be in- E urious ?" "I am at a loss to know how it wvill ie otherwise than beneficial. The state Railroad commission fixes your e ates. The Inter-State comumission M ixes rates on through business. Now ake the grand trunk lines leading out f New York to the WVest. TIhey are omnposed of quite a numuber of small 'oads that were consolidated. Take c or instance the Pennsylvania Central. WVho along that line would want to tii lismember tils road, and resolve it re nto the various linies originally built ? rhese long lines can be operated much 1) heaper, and hence can do business :heaper. If they want to raise money, , hey can do it cheaper. If there is a >ressure of business on one part of the a ine, it can be relieved from other parts. th rhe complaint is that the consolida ion defeats competition within the state. To save my life I cannot see mow it does when we have no p>ower vhatever to say what our rates for 'reight or passenger fare shall be. ja C'hese are fixed by the railroad coin nission."nT "It is insisted that it will prevent a urther railroad building in the State ?" vi "W ell, whenxever you build more w ailroads than are needed in a country, ec he men who put their money into such 50 -oads will lose it. There is nothing w iore certain than this. And when ou let it be understood that a pros ective rail road cannot be sold or con ,lidated with any other line, but must >rever maintain its individuality, you ill be unable to get any sensible man > put his money in railroad property. is the purpose of the systems I con 01 to build railroads to many places Georgia, if after investigation we are tisfied that it will pay after proper mnstruction. T am frank to say we ould have to be satisfied that there as a reasonable-chance of its paying -fore we undertook it, and I believe if e could not make it pay with our anection, it would not pay as an in pendent line." And as Mr. Inman talked, the whis e blew, and the train was off for ome, and the party was* on its wcay New York. NOT SO FAST GENTLEMEN! [From the Augusta Chronicle.] The Inlman party are not pleased with re spirit of opposition developing in any parts of the South to the great ilroad consolidation. The Southern people do not view ith unconcern this mammoth coni nation. They are not hostile to Mr. man or his friends, but they have own themselves jealous of this march corporate power, in which the whole ansportation system of the country is volved. By the very nature of things railroads e natural monopolies. They are not e cotton factories or banks, running te by side, serving the people in the me way. But a rail line from Atlanta Augusta, for instance, is particularly monopoly, made so by State charter r public purposes. So when all the zes are bought up by one company ho deal out the stock among them Ives and declare dividends out of the affic upon the people and their pro acts, the public, through their courts id lawmakers, are apt to look into the ansaction. So far as the Georgia legislature is ncerned, we see nothing unjust or enacing in the resolution introduced Mr. Olive. It simply authorizeslan quiry into the lease, to find whether te law of the State has been violated whether the public good has been opardized. The charters granted by e State make these corporations the eatures of the State, and as such they e subject to review from time to time. In the face of an inquiry so fair and asonable we trust the Terminal party ill not turn their backs. Coming South to Raise Trnck. [Boston Herald.] Lue Gim Gong, an intelligent China .in located at North Adams, has been strunental in organizing a company bich has leased 400 acres, consisting an island on the Savannah River, o or three miles above Port Royal, C., which will be devoted go raising rden vegetables, which will be sent orth in the early season. He came from China to~ North Adams, hen a boy, laid up $3,000 or $4,000, d, after joining the Baptist Church, neluded to return to his native land a missionary. On his arrival mn sina his mother refused to give him tything to eat because he would not to the Chinese temple and worship s dead father, according to the re ~ious custom of the Chinese, and in nsequence he nearly starved to death, was hunted by officers, and would ve been killed had he not escaped m his native village and returned to is country. Last winter, while he as in South Lrolina, it occurred to him he might ocure land in that region where he uld raise -vegetables for the Northern arkets, and on his return to North lams he presented the matter to some his friends there. They were favor se to the project, and a stock comn ny was formed, leased 400 acres and tends to begin business at once. Lue m Gong will personally superintend e work upon the land, and will have out twenty or thirty Chinamen from lifornia under him to do the garden g. Their market will be New York y, and it seems to those who have vestigated the matter that the enter ise will be a paying one. There is uch interest taken in the project, es cially as the work is to be conducted a Chinaman and the labor is to be rformed entirely by Chinamen. L Wa.r.n Reception to Mormuou Elders. About ten days ago three Mormon lers from Salt Lake City arrived in arion County, Ala., and began to >ld services at private houses. Last eek the Marion County Herald, a sekly paper published at Hamilton, posed the object of the visit of the lers and called on the people of the unty to drive them fronm that sec m. Sunday the elders eonauc.ted higious services at the house of a man ~merl Moore, where they were stop ng. That night about fifty promi nt citizens of the county surrounded oore's house, and, taking the elders to the woods, gave them a coat of tar d feathers and warned themi to leave e county in twenty-four hours. They omised to leave at once. Another Successful One Horse Farmer. An example of what can he done on ne horse farm is shown by the crop oduced this year by Sonney Mackey, tenant on the plantation of Thomas irner, about four miles from Green lie. This farmer's crop this year ith only one male was 300 bushels of rnz, ten bales of cotton averaging over 0 pounds each and a fair crop of oats, ECONOMISTS IN THE LEGISLATUR The House of Representatives Passes t Bill Reducing the Salaries of the Circi Judges to 83,000 Per Annum. [Special to News and Courier.] CoLUMBIA, December 5.-An elab< ate dish was servid up in the House Representatives to-day in which I trenchment and Reform, with tv capital R's, entered very largely, at municipal license taxes, township ra road bonds, liquor licenses and oth things were incidentally coutaine The result of the battle over the salari of the Judges, (the details of which a given below,) was a sweeping victo: for that class of law-makers known the Economists, and these gentlemE are celebrating their victory to-night great shape, but, of course, with th degree of dignity which so preeminer ly characterizes the law-makers south Carolina. Whatever doubts there may be as the wisdom of cheapening the highe office in the State in order to save $4,0 per annum, it cannot be denied th the Economists fought the battle wi great skill and success. Opposed theni were veteian parliamentariar who had spent a decade or more in tt Legislature. Their opponents ha nearly all the eloquence and oratory < their side, and, in the opinion of a ve considerable number of taxpayers, good deal of the wisdom and the b< arguments on their side, but all to 1 effect The economic forces were led 1 Messrs Fowler, of Union, andWaller, Abbeville. The former opened t battle yesterday and the latter to-da These, with the exception of a speec by Mr. Purifoy, of Edgefield, were t only speeches of note made' on t economic s&de during the battle. Ti two leaders sat down to-day with copi of the rules of the House before ther allowed the enemy to do most of t talking, and met all the attempt flank movements of the adversary the shape of motions to lay on t table, and calls for the yeas and nay They kept their forces well in han and as roll-call after roll-call was d manded, voted steadily, gaining a vc or two as each roll-call was mac Yesterday's fight showed that thi had a majority of about twenty, ai this number they never lost once du ing the fight. As stated above the fight was opene by Mr. Waller, of Abbeville, in a stror speech presenting his side of the caw Col. Haskell followed in a speech about thirty-five minutes, which wou have carried conviction perhaps to ai set of men whose minds were not be upon carrying out a certain project. He punctured completely the cry "before the war" salaries by comparir the condition of affairs, the chang condition of the body politic, the cc of livinxg,&c., of the t wo periods; show< how that the Circuit Judges now h: ten cases to hear for every one heard 1 an ante-bellum Judge and travelli over three times the .ground. Abo, all he pointed out the mistaken econ my of trying to save $4,000 from ti salaries of the Judges when the mon< was fi9swing in rivers out of the thirt two bung-holes in thirty-two counti of the Staite. He called attention the county taxes, which were mo than double the State taxes, and a vised an effort to reform and retren< in that direction. Fnally he applit tbo argumentumi ad homninemi wil masterly hand. In Columbia now, 1 said, board could be had at $1 per di and members could travel for 3 cents mile, and yet year after year memibe come here and vote themselves $.5 a d and 10 cents a mile, and strive to r duce the salaries of the Judges. I reducing the salaries of the Judges 2 000 would be saved to the State. If ti memibers of the Legislature would r duce their own pay to $2 a day and cents a niile they would save the Sta $13,380. Were they prepared to fa the problem? Mr. Haskell concluded with one his characteristically earnest and for< ble appeals to the General Assembly pause before committing this fatal mi take. He was followed by Mr. Gary, Edgefield, who was equally earnest ar eloquent in deprecation of this mes u re. Mr. Purifoy said he was not preacher or a lawyer or a doctor, b~ be had a Judge on his right and a do tor on his left. He loved the lawye because they were good to get one o1 of trouble. He came here to represe> the people, but when the represent tives of the people came here they lih ened to the logic and rhetoric of tl gentlemen from Charleston and forg their promiises. He had always het ready and anxious to reduce member pay, bin.. dhe House would never co sent to it. He said now, as he said Edgefield, his native heath, that I was not in favor of tearing dowvn tl Citadel or the College, but he can here only to make them go slow. Mr. Moses, of Sumter, followed in pramctical speech, showing the unwi dom of such an attempt to economiz and at the close of his remarks M Dantzler mioved to indcfinitely pos pone the bill. The vote resulted 47 to 66, a gain one vote for the economists. Then Mr. Graydon, of Abbevill obtained the floor arid offered a amendment, making the salaries $2 499 99, which reopened the debate. M Graydon then took the floor in oppos tion to the. bill. He mentioned inc denMally that he had been elected 1 the House on the issue of a reduction the salaries of Ju'dges. At this point Mr. Brawley moved E. adjourn the debate. Lost-44to 64. Then the parliamentary battle began he t3 grow exceedingly warm and inter esting. Dilatory, and subsidiary, and parliamentary, and some unparliameu tary motions followed each other in >- rapid Succession and the clerk was kepi of busy calling roll after roll. The Econo mists, however, were not to be tired oout. The Conservatives did not seem to fight with much spirit; a batch of theil er men were absent without pairs, and a d great many were discouraged by the heavy majority against them. They rarely voted solidly. Their strength . dwindling down from 50 to as low as y 32 votes. They kept up a kind of des i ultory fight, however, until 3 o'clock, in when they threw up the sponge, and at the bill was passed, ($3,000 being the t- amount fixed in it.) The bill will receive its third reading to-morrow, and will then go over to t the Senate, where it is presumed the st battle will be fought over on more even t terms. Whether the bill, if it becomes at a law, will be of any effect in the cases h of the present Judges is a question that only a $3,500 Judge can decide after ar s gument, of course, upon its constitu ie tionality. d A Direct Vote for President. )n [Galveston News.] a Tariff reform and tax reduction are important measures, but a reform that lies deep,,-r is the reform of our system of national elections. So long as the people are denied the right to choose a ie President by their direct votes, so long will the shameful frauds practiced in New York and elsewhere be continued. The best way to destroy the power of the trading politician is to destroy the le system that gives him that power. If the people and not the States were al lowed to elect tne President, the pivo tal State idea, with all its concomitant evils, would at once disappear. in Judge Pressley to Retire. s. . [Greenville News.] d, It is rumored here on very good au e- thority that Judge Pressley will not be te a candidate for re-election at this meet e. ing of the Legislature, but will retire Y from the bench. It is not idle rumor, id either, as Judge Pressley is said to have r- told a gentleman of this city his inten tion when in Columbia last week. It 'd is understood that General Izlar, of g Orangebtng, wilT be one of the'irio st e. prominent candidates to succeed the of Judge. If the rumor is correct, and id there seems good foundation for its 'Y truth, South Carolina will lose one of at her ablest and most worthy members of the bench, whose legal ability- and 3f high integrity has never yet been ig doubted or questioned. st The Inaugural Ceremonies. d[Columbia Record, 6th.] y The inauguration of Governor John d Peter Richardson took place this after e noon at 1 o'clock with the usual cere -monies. There was quite a crowd of ie spectators-most of them ladies. The y oath of office was administered by Chief ~- Justice Simpson in the presence of the ~s joint assembly. The Governor then de o0 livered his inaugural address-a well e timed, dignified and well-written pa I- per. The ,path of office was next ad. h ministered by the Chief Justice to Lieu d tenant Governor Win. L. Mauldin. The h joint assembly being declared adjourn e ed, the Senate retired to its chamber, y and each body proceeded with its regu a lar business. Sale of a Historic Estate. S FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Dec. 5.-The Shistoric estate, known as Chatham, on the heights overlooking Fredericks e burg, was sold yesterday by Oliver Wat son to D. McMahon, a wealthy New 5York lawyer, for $50,000. C-en. Wash te ington is said to have courted the lady who afterwards became his wife in a mansion on this estate. Gen. Robert E. Lee won his bride near the same Sspot, and the mansion was, during the Slate war, occupied by Gen. Burnside as s-his headquarters during his siege of SFredericksburg. d There is more Catarrh in this section s- of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few a years was supposed to be incurable. For it a great many years Doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local 3- remedies, and by constantly failing to es cure with local treatment, pronounced it it incurable. Science has proven catarrh tto be a constitutional disease, and ittherefore requires constitutional treat Sment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufac t- tured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, e Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in tdoses from 10 drops to a teaspoon ful. It ni acts directly upon the blood and mucus s' surface of the system. They offer one 1. hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimno Sn ials. Address, F. J. CH ENEY & Co., ie Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. te :Sanley is Surely Alive. aNEw YoRK, December 6.--The Her aadprints advices received from Lon s- don which say a rumor has reached e, Bony from the Upper Niger that Henry rM. Stanley is proceed ing at the back of 'the great oil rivers under the British -fiag, and that the natives are friendly. >f For forty years, Ayer's Cherry Pec toral has been demonstrated to be the 3, most reliable remedy in use, for colds, n coughs, and lung disaases. Slight colds should not be neglected. The Pectoral - will prevent their becoming chronic. - Tohe up the system and improve the i- appetite by taking.Ayer's Sarsaparilla. .o It will make you feel like a new person. Thousands have found health, a..d re lief from suffering, by the use -of this great blood purifier, when all other o means failed. A WHOLESALE POET. The Astonishing Experience of James Whitcomb Riley. [New York Tribune.] While the Nye-Riley combination was on the road last winter a little in cident happened at Kalamazoo, Mich., which has never been given to the pub lic. Their entertainment was over for the night, and a large and pleased au dience had dispersed, Nye had been taken in hand by the town lecture com mittee and towed off up to Uncle Asa Butterfield's house to hear Uncle Asa tell his famous story about his red cow and Dunk Brown's hired man, the oc currence having actually taken place in 1839. Uncle Asa was a local humorist of great renown ; he had been unable to attend the lecture on account of rheu matism, but had promised to sit up till the committee brought Nyearound. The red cow story was his masterpiece, and he wes anxious that Nye should hear it as he thought that very likely he might want to introduce it into his lecture. Riley had escaped by feigning sickness as soon as the visit was pro posed, and before Nye could employ the same excuse, and was sitting in the hotel office at about 11 o'clock congrat ulating himself and chuckling quietly. He was thinking of various facetious remarks which he would make to Nye, should he survive the operation he was nndergoing, about Uncle Asa, the red cow, the hired man, and so forth, when a man hurriedly entered who attracted his attention at once. The man was tall and angular with long gray hair and hollow eyes, and he had a trick of thrusting his head forward and point ing with a long bony finger. He glanced around at the group of hotel guests sit ting about -and walked directly to Ri ley. "You are Riley, James Whitcomb Riley," he said, as he pointed a long finger at him. The poet blushed slightly and mod estly admitted the fact. "Yes, yes," went on the man ; "I know you, though I never saw you before. We never met, but we've had a good deal of business with each other." "Well, perhaps," replied Riley, "but I don't exactly understand what you refer to." "Ha! I'll tell you. My name is Thomas H. Stoekwell," and he looked at Riley triumphantly.. "Er-well, I can't just place you I'm afraid,'" answered-Riley. - "You can't? Why, I'm the man that has written all your poetry for you ?" The poet looked at the hollow eyed visitor speechless. "Yes, sir, gentlemen," went on the intruder, swinging his long, bony hand so as to include the little group, "I am the man who has written all of James Whitcomb Riley's poems for him. When be has wanted a new one he has always written to me and I have sent it to him and got my pay forit, and that has been all there is about it. But I'm sick anid tired of it. Hereafter, sir, the world shall know Thomas H. Stockwell as he is ; the fame of James Whitcomb Riley will hereafter rest on the brow of Thomas Hostetter Stock well. The time has come for me to de clare myself and claim my own ?" The unknown poet who had blushed unseen all those years drew himself up proudly and laid his hand on his heart. Riley had been gradually getting over his astonishment and now found his voice. "Perhaps, Mr. Stockwell," hesad "you may have some of your poems with you such as yon have been fur nishing me, and can favor us with a short reading." "Certainly," replied the long haired indIvidual promptly, as he pulled a handful of crumpled manusnrpt out of his breast pocket; "certainly, nothing would give me greater pleasure. I have here armong others one entitled 'The Old Barnyard,' with witch I in tended filling your next order. I will read one verse: Whea you go out in our barnyard a kind 'a wandring round Amongst the hens and sheep, and the hogs a-rootin' in the ground, And git ligg'rin' on the colts and how much they'll prob'bly bring When they're broke to drive in harness later in the spring, Aige off from the sheep with horns 'less you want to see some stars Cause he's predjerdiced and liable to butt you through the bars, But what you want to railly 'void aint airy pig er sheep er hose, But the cow 'at's got the spotted calf When She Looks Cross ! "You will excuse me, gentlemen, for giving you but one verse, as I want you to attend the reading I shall give in the hail to-morrow night. Admits sion only 50 cents. I have one other here, entiled, 'When Bill Turns Jack,' part of which I will recite : When the stock is in the stable and ever'thing's been fed, And all them kind 'a chores. done u and the wood throwed in the shed. I'm mighty apt to slip across to Bill's to have-some fun, And most gen'ly we piay eucher till the clock strikes one ; I've allus bannled pasteboards in a easy sort o' way, But when it comes to Bill, Ise got jes' this ere much to sy : You may pile up p'ints agin him 'n' hold the best keerds in the pak, But you've got to play 'em awful close When Bl Turns Jack ! "That is all I will give you to-night,. gentlemen, but it is enough to show you who has been writing Mr. Riley's poems. My reading to-morrow even ing will be most entertaining, and as I wroteal oH f Mr. T.ngfeaHw's'poems and am constantly shipplng Mr. Lowell, you can se varied as well. LatelyI Jha croaching on the English sending a number of Mr. Browning, and yetiy trial order for BaronTennyw is all done away with; Thonas $. Stockwell - self to the world. Do not entertainment to-morrow" "Tom," said a man, as s and touch ' the poet ori the"s "come on-it is long pasti you were in, and I have bein everywhere for you. Ihope disturbed you, gentlemen"--e tinned, as lie startd towart followed by the other ; "heis harmless, so we allow im. asylum grounds,- but wedihdV he would wander away. Hes saine man who used think: would cease to revolve around if he didn't wear a green-b his hat, but he has given upt! taken to poetry." Nye came in a moment much exhausted by Undee _' and hired man story, but he help Riley up to bed. QUEER FREAES Or PIGU A Variety of curions comb Lover of Mehaat [From the Journal ofEdu A very curious number which multiplied by 1, 2, gives the same figuresin der, beginning at a different, if multiplied by 7 gives .a multiplied by 1 it equals 142 tiplied by 2 equals 285,714,r ;i. by 4 equals 571,428, multipUe equals 614,285, multiplied by-6 857,142, multiplied by 7 equaki Multiply 142,857 by--8 and.yo 1,142,856. Then add thefr to the last and you have 1 original number, the figures same 1. - e start. Anuther mathematica1wonde following: It is discovered multiplication of 9 8 7 6 .54 3 45 gives 44, 44,44, 44, 44 4& ing the order of the digits and pljing 12 3 4 5 6 789 aiy ; a result equally curious, ' If we take 1 2 3.4 '5 7=89 multiplicand, and - figures of 45take 5 4a 6, 666, 666,606. Bei"r'n' - ing 54 as the niultsp get 53, 333,833,. first and last figures,w read 54-the multiaier same multiplicand and 45, as the multiplier we of 26, 666, 666, 667-all6's first and last figures, which read 27, the multipler w changingthe orderof theie using 72 as the multiplier 543 2 1las themtplcd, product of 71, 111, 111,1' cept the first and lastfiue, read together 72, the mupe? Ex-Governor Hugh S. To om - .Fortune [Special to News and Gue~ WAsHrNGTON, Decermber6 is a movement on -foot to hav~ ' tant Secretary Hugh S. transferred from the treasury16 ment to the civil service c to fill the vacancyoceoed appointment of Mr. Oberly to I dian office. It is said that the dent has been very much pleaed , Mr. Thompson's conduct in the ury department and he desirest his appreciation by appointing~ b~ the civil service commission, 1~ view to his being retained- s Democratic member of that slon after the n'ew Admn comes in. The names of Proctor Knott,c tucky, Ex-Congressmam Cox, o Carolina, have been mentioned I connection, but it appears that~ President is more friendly dispsa wards Mr. Thompson, in view of fact that he resigned 'from -then.d bernatorial chair to enter the -e lepartment. The snake swanlowed the Seumgees [From the Tro'y Budget.} The wife of G. W. Alexande Honeybrook, Pa., purchasedsoiffe of sausage a few days ago and them on a plate that covered are pickles in her cellar. She wenftf the cellar to get thesasaaes toe Bhe had n. light, but could " plate and Abe coil of sausagesau supposed, by the dim light:thain cellar window gave. She read to pick the sausages up, when sisej startled to see them uncoil and covered a snake, about~ six feetV and very "chunky," crawlingslowt the cellar floor.. She killed i.-I bhe links of sausage inside off mnake had swallowed the sausae inding the smooth plate pleasse&~ Leon, had curled itself up to w ta supper digested. Andeson's License Eleetion. [Anderson Journal.] In the city election yesterday oi icense question b were 209v polled, 165 for "Ifm ad 440for. icense," a majori in fat liecose. The ecto'was cond~7 very quietly and with no outward pearance of a contest. .his k ;hird time that AndroMa Liense since the war,a cb was reversed at the next ilection.