The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, March 21, 1889, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

x l ' u'" _ d . ": '=F.. ' "y: +', , , ;. ,,r+ 1_" . -"r~! . -'r..c. ;r " .te*,aEC,T.x y; -a. .q .r . "-. .sc-7 ;'y ?"' - - i ,+Y'r,' I^' i {,.n ., ," n%u". . ' .- , yv; Y ,.:y , . ." 1 i , f v 4op ST THU SDAY, 12ARCH 21, 1889. to his daughter, revoking the pro Y si0n which made McDow his exec utor. OH ER STORY OF THE INQUEST. Swas. CHARLESTON, S. C., March 14.-The 2 m d . inquest in Captain Dawson's case began 4a;d sin and concluded this morning, Solicitor p ented Jervey, of the Judicial circuit, assisting at the examination. The proceedings, rv~h g fnotwithstanding the drenching rain, sbogrtI attracted a great crowd of spectators. , trol Four witnesses were examined. Police n Gordon, to whom Dr. McDow s1 sacxo heprisomer, surrendered, testified to he-w t fact and related the conversation ith the prisoner en route to the sta the u house. The only material state ,L'Carol! nt is that the prisoner admitted kill ',did not Capt. Dawson. The i W. Harper, the colored hackman, hing "fed that he was on the opposite :-were of the street, when Captain Daw 'eman Go ontered Dr. McDow's office, that substantially shooting he heard the words detailed to said you would take my life, now .neen for near o taken yours." Harper testifies itt the wester colored woman, a vender of pea a-sdies an(as peeping through the:window hisperson. t McDow's cook, Emma Dray e ;aurder he was e to the gate and ordered her : he eeneofthe muri Moses Johnson, McDow's tier told him that;n, testified and denied all An A-Plge of the killing. He heard ,s ofee. . in the doctor's office and was MDog jy Dr. McDow's wife to inves er child. Tg cause, but swore he did not and McDot enpUg toE Drayton, the cook, also de. r - knowledge of the affair, ex W hyth eaghearing the pistol shot. She an-werd in the t deal of Moses John - ut andlocked ony, also the testimony of ardhim .rdonand the hack driver the office. Thwoman named Jane Mitch Alittle before ted on suspieion of being 1W is buggy and suvender seen at McDow's - ..Daring the time w. She denied having .R . e was not identified by and spoke ot This ny developed nothing tia the woman $ow having declined to c eDow's housement before the jury. @9e n the house is suppe BURY THE BODY. ' eeause of Mrs. Mc n World says to-day: _ :t ibouse. , questioning the fact g PER'TEST 'attempted t bury the Mses. Harper, the Uack In Dawson after the . Gol' G}ordon about the pist ha i as trad ro, yted-the statement of that it was a sudden Saw Dajunity in the taking Me e. most prominent 3:30 p. in. "In fou s and commercial utes after he got in I th, is made more ~nI-fire.- Then I heard two that an attempt 4ging kind of groans. body away in <da-voice: 'You said y ' ground. rning the re roes Johnston, McDow's uthorities in the (i he knew nothing about t every avenue of ns did also Emma Drayto to the World Do's cook, who, according- t theiess, the re esses, stood guard at th Vorld yesterday e McDlow was trying to bu through these of his victim. McDow ref ands were sup e any statement. The ju ormationi con a 4 the follovi.ng verdict: dy. ~4~edeceased came to his deat ' y was visited - ~nhot wound inflicted by T. reporter, who, Sand that Moses Johnsto the chief of po. -ocoachman) was accessory 4examine the e'ache office in SUS~PICIONS OF POISON.- pesirt 1xere is a stair jTe prisoners were then remaq,ich is in two i~iIn explanation of the verhre s in' said that there is evidence, not 'I a little more .shed, which will show that ~ter this one ~used his coachman to carry no1 hands and ;now probable that the body of . andhaa ered man will he exhume o \I ssc of holding a post mortem e!l lected for ion. It is noted that the phQrly fte awho examined the body did time. fItted le a-post mortem examination' at that one ly probed for the ball, which in seeing it. e~d to find. In view of McDos men.t that his victim lived PET. y~ three-quarters of an hour aftA innocent had shot him, and that he had sperutide. as time trying trjenove him,th door a lit ry is "se : -- y. Toei e adinisitere~r on the r some other deadly drug. 6i of the MDWsONE sN- r ovrhalf an hour after he wsshotrenu ththe remained with him, with~ su 6tims hed i hi p until he ich is 4ie( while the murdered man's wifej ~dihildren were within the sound of gerven s voice. It was not until e- shaik -~lled i brigtebody in his closet , ik that he gave himself up. McDow in a thre ~statementi to a reporter of a city paper lih aijmits that his fondness for women igfis was his one sin. abow.s *The French maid, who was the mnov- -ee -fe. oug cause of the tragedy, is at Captain 2 ar DaThwson's house.. Her statement - 4sedr not yet been given to the police or Mh blu'ic. Sh was brought out Inh. Lousanne, Switzerland, by y .,'- lit the .augh ter of Swiss pay<e an of r irr rochable character. ~ FID TO PERSUADE HER TO ELOPE.m that McDw- made T The story goes thtMDW mde Te he cuaintance and tried to perad loosi ,her aco elp ith him. Mr. C. D-. mad Abrens, the father of Mrs. McD)ow, The had lived with his daughter and her hole -hu and until last Christmas when he reec sue -'rnly left and went to a hotel, where the he 'as since resided. He refuses to tw sp k about the matter. Mr. Ahrens fror isi ich merchant and highly esteemed. ont H5ving m - a fortune at the grocery ' e retired afer h-i daughter's fac -arr'ag. I- is-d that after leaving~ the his dlaughter's house lhe- had changed gel his will, and had willed all his property to at the bottom of the pit, and on the sand caked on the spade. OBSEQUIES. I Before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the friends and admirers of Capt. Daw son began to gather at his late resi dence, on Bull street, and long before the hour for the funeral cortage to move toward the church arrived the broad piazza was filled with a crowd of friends and sympathizers, who stood in solemn silence uncovered, awaiting the hour when the casket would be re moved to the hearse. Al:OUN) THEIR DEAD CHIEF. In the wide hallway which runs through the house were congregated the pall-bearers, . a few particular friends of the family and the members of the editorial, repertorial and- busi ness staffs of the News and Courier, whose bowed heads and grief stricken countenances indicated the strong de votion in which they held the memory of their dead chief. THE FACE OF THE DEAD. The body lay ina handsome black I casket in the west parlor, and was viewed by hundreds of persons who passed around the coffin to look once more upon the familiar countenance before it should be consigned to the grave. During the entire time the be reaved wife sat by the casket as though chained there by an unutterable grief, gazing upon the features of her dead husband, .which were as calm and placid as though he only slept. The lineaments of the face bore but few signs of death, and, with the exception of a slight waxen pallor which over spread the countenance, it appeared singularly life-like. The hair was brushed back from the forehead in the manner in which the deceased usually wore it, and the slight marks of vio lence appeared' distinctly on his pale face. The body was attired in simple black, while in the buttonwhole of the coat appeared the ribbon of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, which knight ly honor had been conferred upon him by his holiness, Pope Leo XIII, for the stand he took against the code duello in South Carolina. After the last sad farewells the casket, loaded with its wealth of adornment, was borne down the marble steps in a blinding rain. The approach to $he church indicated that the assembly there would be con spicuously large. So, in fact, it was. Long before 4 o'clock, the time ap pointed- for the services, the church had been filled. Every pew was taxed to its fullest capacity, and every aisle, save the central aisle, was thronged with a great crush of citizens. It was not unexpected that the Right Rev. H. P. Northrop, the Bishop of South Carolina, and of that church and edifice in which Capt. Dawson wor shipped, should pronounce his eulogy. Bishop Northrop spoke with the emo tion of one to whom it falls- to speak what others could only feel. In a few minutes after the services ended, the casket was borne out of the church and placed in the hearse', the rain and wind being still incessant. The procession of twenty-five carriages passed down Queen street to King, ~through the great multitude of people who thronged the pavements. The journey to the grave at St. Laur ence Cemetery was slow, and the body of the "illustrious man," as Capt. Dlaw son has been well termed, was eventu ally laid to rest in his family burying ground. Capt. Dawson's Life and Career. [From the News and Courier.] - Francis W. Dawson was born in London, England, on May 17, 1840, and was in the 49th year of his age. He was educated at various schools in Lon don, and was a remarkably studious and intelligent lad; made rapid pro gress in his studies and maintained a high stand in his classes. He exhibited great fondness for literature in his early youth, and after completing his studies devoted considerable attention to literary work, none of which, how ever, ever saw the light with the ex ception of four or five comedies, which were played on- the London boards with encouraging success. That he madle the slightest headway in this de partment of literary labor, surrounded as he was by the most eminent talent, and under the ban of the severest critics, is the highest compliment that could be paid to his merit and ability as a writer. For several years prior to 1860 Mr. Dawson paid particular attention to the industrial and social condition of the United States, and became deeply interested in the causes which led to the disruption of the Union and the se cession movement of the Southern States. He was in London when the new was received of the fall of Fort Sumter, and immxediate~ly resolved to take pasge to America by the first opportunity, and to serve on the Con federate side "for the war." He felt convinced that the Constitution had Sbeen vi1olated; that the South was fighting for liberty and self-govern ment, as the Barons fought at Runny -.mede; and that it was his privilege %and duty to take sides with her in the ~ght. rNo opportunity offered until the nonfedert steamship Nashville, in hhieh Mason and Slidell were to have tiled, reached Southampton, England. ~rmed wit-h letters Mr. Dawson ap roached its commander, Captain gram, and made known his wishes iintentions. He was so youthful ~t the captain refused to aid him, Dawson was deeply in earnest, and, taking advantage of the captain's ab sence in London, a few days before the Nashville sailed, assumed the garb of a sailor and was enlisted by the first lieutenant of the vessel. During the homeward voyage of the Nashville Dawson's admirable conduct secured the applause of all the officers and meu aboard the vessel; and, immediately after running the blockade at Beaufort, N. C., he was appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy upon the recommendation of Captain Pe gram. After reaching the Confederacy, Dawson was ordered to duty at Nor folk, Virginia, where he served for a short time. He was then ordered to New Orleans, but on approaching the city discovered that his ship had gone down and that the city had been cap tured by the enemy. He was ordered to duty on the James River, but everything was so dull and monotonous, and he became so anxious to engage in battle, that he resigned his commission in the navy and took ser vice as a private with the Purcell bat tery, FiePs brigade, Hill's division, Arniy of Northern Virginia, in June, 1862. This was at the time of McClel lan's memorable march on Richmond, and Dawson was very soon gratified with a fight. In the bloody engage ment of Mechanicsville, on June, 25, 1862, he was badly wounded, but re mained fighting his gun until com pletely exhausted by loss of blood, and was carried from the field. In this en gagement his conspicuous bravery At tracted the attention of his devoted comrades, and called forth the admira tion of his Captain who recommended his promotion to a Lieutenancy, which recommendation was immediately car ried out by the Secretary of War. Daw son could not be idle; and, although suf fering severely from his wound, he ap plied for a position in the ordnance corps, passed -a thorough and brilliant exainination, and in August, 1862, was commissioned First Lieutenant of ar tillery and ordered to duty with Long street's Corps; as assistant ordinance officer of which corps he served until the fall of 1864. After the battle of South Mountain in 1862, just before Spartanburg, Lieu tenant Dawson was captured by the Federal cavalry which escaped from Harper's Ferry, was taken to Fort Delaware and there confined for some time, Lieutenant Dawson was exchang ed just in time to take part in the battle of Fredericksburg, in December, 1862. He was with - Longstreet through the Gettysburg and East Tennessee cam paigns, and was by his side when he was wounded and Jenkins was killed, at the Wilderness. In the winter of 1863-64 he passed an examination for promotion, and received his commis sion as captain of artillery in May, 1804. After his promotion he was re lieved of his command at his own re quest, and appointed ordnance officer of Fitzhugh Lee's division. In this ca pacity Captain Dawson served through the Valley campaign of Five Forks on March 31, 1865, where he was wounded in the shoulder. In all his service to the Confederacy Captain Dawson distinguished himself by his bravery and his devotion tc dluty, however arduous and severe. In the camp and on the tented field he was genial and companionable, and in line he was always at his post. Captain Dawson is one of the men who "went into the war and stayed there." He took part in the following battles: Mechanicsville, Second Ma nassas, Fredericksburg, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. H., North side Jimes River, 1864; Valley of Virginia, 1864; Five Forks. He was wounded at Mechanicsville, Junie 26, 1862; at Harrisonburg, Va., 1864; at Five Forks, March 31, 1805. He was taken prisoner of war near Williamsport, Va., on September 14, 1862, and released on parole in October, 1862. He surrendered at the close of the war and was paroled in May, 1865. In order to show what estimate was placed upon Captain Dawson by the Confederate Gen-eral, it may not be out of place to refer to certain letters of recommendation given to him when he made application for admission inte the Charleston "Survivors' Associa tion," in 1869. These letters are signed by Commodore Pegram, Generals Longstreeti R. H. Anderson and Fitz hugh .Lee, and all agree in saying that "he was a brave soldier and an efflcient officer." When the war ended in April, 1865, Captain Dawson went to Petersburg, Virginia, but failing to find congenia] emiployment there he returned tc Richmond in July, where he began ar rangemen ts with a friend for publish. ing a small weekly newspaper. The Federal officer who was in command at Richmiond seized and closed the officc before the first paper could be issued, an:d so clouded temporarily the careei in journalism which was destir:ed tc Ibecome so brilliant a few years later. A little later Captain Dawson was offered a position on the Richmond Exam.iner which he accepted and held until tha paper also was suppressed by the loca Imilitary authorities, in March 186 when he accepted a position on the staft of the Rich mond Dispateh. Resign ing his connection withg the Dispatch it September, 1860, Captain Dawson was appointed an agent of the Nationa Express and Trainsportation Company which failed soon afterwards, and agair left him to find employment amid thi troubled scenes that followed the clos4 of the war.- Mr. B. R. Riordan was associated with Captain Dawson on the Richmond Examiner at the same tim4 that he was local, and in the Examirea I ffic t hey jinnd h ands and determineA that they would at some future tirhe start a newspaper of their own at Char leston, S. C. How well they carried out this determination is now known to every newspaper reader in this State. In the fall of 1866, Col. R. B. Rhett, Jr., who had heard of Captain Dawson through Mr. Riordan, than connected with the Charleston Courier,- offered him the position of assistant editor of the Charleston Mercury. This offer was accepted, Captain Dawson arriving in this city November 10, 1866, and the laborious duties of the position were most acceptably performed. It is wor thy of note that in the spring of 1867 Captain Dawson waited in person on the two Rhetts, father and son, and made the formal proposition to them that they should advise the South to accept the 14th amendment, to avoid worse trouble; that the Mercury could do this, because no one would suspect it of cowardice or of disloyalty to the South; thatit would ensure the pros perity of the Mercury, make it the paper of the South, and save the people from frightful misery. In the fall of 1867, October 26, Captain Dawson, Mr. B. R. Riordan and Mr. Benjamin Wood, of New York, purchased the Charleston News, which they published as the News until April 3, 1873, when they purchased the old Charleston Courier and consolidated the two pa pers under the name of the News and Courier. Large Yields of Corn. [J. C. Stribbling, in Cotton Plant.] As it is likely we will have a consider able contest in South Carolina for the large premiums offered for the best acre of corn grown this year, I have searched the records for information on the subject, which I give below. In the memoirs of the New York Agricultural Society for the year 1818, there is a well attested report of 118 bushels of corn having been raised at one crop on one acre of land. In 1820 the Massachusetts Agricultu ral Society awarded a premium of $30 to Jonathan Hunewell for the best acre of corn, which measured 111 bushels. R. H. Rose, the same year and State, raised at the rate of *136 bushels per acre, and Thos. P. Bennet, of Mary land, raised 131- bushels per acre. In the year 1821, Tresden & Miller, of Massachusetts, got a premium of $30 for 105 bushels per acre, and in the year 1823 -John and Matthew Pratt were reported to have raised 517J bushels on S acres, or over 172 per acre. In the year 1827 John Andrews, of Maryland, has a statement of 110 bush els per acre, and the next report of note comes from Dr. Parker, South Carolina, who raised 2001 bushels in the year 1857. Now let's see about how this corn looks standing on the ground to pro duce 200 bushels per acre; allowing 106 average cars to the bushel-which is about right--rows 3 feet wide, hills 18 inches in the drill and two average ears to the hill, will give just 182 bushels to the acre. Rows four feet wide, hills 20 inches apart in the drill and three average ears to the hill, will give 185 bushels to the acre. Rows 4 feet wide, stalks '12 inches apart in the drill and one average ear to the stalk, 'will give 102 bushels per acre, or two ears to the stalk will give 204 bushels to the acre, or 21,624 average ears to the acre, which, if shelled, will completely cover one acre of land, and if these ears aver age 9 inches long and the rows are 2* feet wide and the ears are laid length wise of the rows, every row will have a continuous line of ears touching each other all over the acre. While we have no good reasons to doubt that 200 bushels has been raised on one acre of land, yet when we are forced to say that it must be a grand sight indeed, and no wonder that our Western States look upon this wonder ful crop of being raised in South Caro lina with a good deal of incredulity. The writer has measured a consider able number of .acres of fine corn, but the largest yield I have measured was about 82 bushels on the acre, and a field of 30 acres that averaged about 63 bushels to the acre I thought the finest field of corn, I ever saw grow, but if we will apply the skill and energy to corn that has been bestowed upon the cotton plant and its culture during the last 32 years, since Dr. Parker beat the world on corn, it would seem within the bounds of possibility to surpass this arge crop, since we have at le'ast trebled our yield of cotton since that time. At any rate, it behooves every farmer in South Carolina, who can, to make a strong effort to win this iprefhmim and keep the honor of beating the world on corn, and I hope that the board of agriculture will follow their commen dable efforts in this line, and devise such means of supervision in measure ments of the land and crops as to place the whole matter beyond the doubts of the skeptic. And in the way of encour agement to those who may fall behind I would suggest that our State Agricul tural Society offer a premium of $530 for the second and $25 for the third best acre produced in the State. Up to the time that Dr. Parker beat the world on the best acre of corn, David Justice, near Raleigh, N. C., had the lead for the best ear of corn, which contained 1,821 grains, with 50 rows on the cob and only nine inches -lono. This corn was grown in the year 18.'t By way of comparison I have just counted the largest ear that I could find in my crib, which contained 1,132 grains and only 24 rows to the ear, and* as ears measur'ng twelve, fourteen and even sixteen inches are not uncommon* these days, I believe that Mr. Justice's large ear thas been beaten, which I hope may encouriage some one who may,have THE WOMEN WHO WORK. A Picture of Their. Industrial Condition. [New York Sun.] One of the last acts of the late Con gress was to authorize the publication of the fourth annual report of the Com missioner of Labor, which is devoted entirely to the condition of working women in the United States. The compilation of the statistics and infor mation embodied in the volume are due to the endeavor of two young women, working with slight assistance from one man, under the direction of Mr. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, and with the purpose .of presentin,g an authentic picture of the industrial con dition of working women of the day, to furnish a valuable addition to the his tory of the times which should be absolutely true, and to gather data for its scientific bearing upon social pro blems. When Mr. Wright was in charge of the Bureau of Statistic he conceived the idea of making a report of the working women of Boston with respect to their.home as well as shop conditions, and to this end he had 1,000 representa tive working women, not including the semi-professional women, interviewed personally. At his appointment as Commissioner of Labor by President Arthur he determined to extend his investigations to other cities, and accor dingly all the representative cities from New England to the Mississippi River, and as far south as New Orleans, as well as the large cities on the Pacific ooast, where working women are con gregated in large numbers, have Nen visited and the condition of their work ing people very thoroughly looked into and accurately reported. The gathering of this infermation required the great est tact and sagacity, for working wo men are, as a rule, extremely reserved, too proud to confess their actual needs and deprivations, suspicious of inter viewers, and antagonistic to anything that suggests charitable interference, fearful of compromising themselves, and sometimes intimidated by employ ers and superintendents. In spite of all this. between.17,000 and 18,000 women have been interviewed and'visited, not only in the shops but at their homes, and the bulk of the work has been accomplished by the two women to whom it was relegated. They have together visited Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Newark. Cleveland, Chicago, St. Paul, and St. Louis, Louis ville, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philadel phia, New Orleans, Atlanta, Savannali, Charleston, New York; Indianapolis, and Richmond, remaining from three weeks to five months in each city, according to the number of the working women and the difficulty in obtaining the desired information. They would go into a strange city alone, pick up such information as they could con cerrling its industries by consultation of the census and questioning the peo ple they met, and then proceed to interview the employers, and if possible to gain admittance to the workrooms. This was frequently denied them, and the addresses of the women also refused. They would quietly visit another estab lishment, and sooner or later, were sure to find some one who had worked in the factory or shop to which they had been refused admittance, and who could tell them its condition, as w ell as the addresses of some of its employees. Frequently, too, they found the em ployees and employers arrayed against each other in most hostile relations, and to gather the desired information from both sides required infinite tact and diplomacy. The days were thus devoted to the collecting of informna tion, the evenings to making out the written reports of the same, and Sun day were spent in visiting the working people at their homes. Sometimes in interviewing a trade they would visit every house in a street, for operatives in the same branch of labor are inclined to group themselves in the same neigh borhoods. Their interviews consisted in learning the nativity, age, conjtfgal relations age at which work was begun, effect of work upon health, wages and hours, work previously done, if differ ing from that engaged in at the time, from every woman they visited. From 9 to 10 per cent, of employees in a shop or factory were visited. When once the working women became satisfied that their inquiries came with kindly rather than charitable or reformatory motives, they walked freely and intelligently on the subject and allowed the figures to be copied from their little pass books, in which was the actual amount of wages they received after all fines and other expenses demanded by the employers had been subtracted. Employers fre quently allowed their pay rolls to be copied, and from the two accounts the correct average will b~e made. One of these remarkably bright and interesting youmg women, who is from the South and requests that her niame be withheld says as resuit of her two years' inves cigation: "While I find many seriou.s evils in the working woman's condition. I also find a brighter side than is pori larly believed to exist. Women's work~ under a great disadvantage from want of proper training. The least desirable portions of the work are assigned to them, and infinite number ofiifluences besi it s the rapacity of employers affect their wages. Immigration, while it tends to build up the country, reduces the rate of labor very materially.- The unfortunate conditions under which women work andt amid which they live are often owin.g to the meanness of landlords in refasing to make needed repairs or build sanitary tenement houses. But I v'o find working wo men on a much higher place than they were ten or fifteen years ago, and many of the attaining independence by their unaided labor. Where there were for merly but 2.5 occupations open to women, there are now- about 400 in which money may be earned. I find that many of them go to work at 14, live well, dress well, and sometimes save. Families in which there .re many daughters live very nicely off the aggregate income very often, especially among foreigners, owning the houses in which they live. They invest their savings in a variety of ways in differ ent places. In St. Paul they buy lots and speculate a little in real estate; in Indianapolis they invest in the Build ing and Loan Association, and in Bos ton put their funds in the savings banks. As regards their moral condition it coinpares very favorably with that of women in other walks of life, and, considering their exposures and temp tation, I should call it better. They are a heroic band, constantly exhibiting evidence of brave endurance, unparel leled devotion, and patient self-sacrifice, and the only difficulty with them is that they do not know their own value and ':annot lay aside personal conside rations for the sake of the welfare of the masses." "EPITHETS SETTLE NOTHING." Senator Butler's Manly Protest Against Fire-Eating Oratory. BOSTON, MAss., March 7.-Senator Butler of South Carolina has written a letter in reply to that of a Lynn veteran, who asked if General Rosser's recent Baltimore speech expressed.the feelings of the Southern people. The Senator says1-e cannot give an intelligent ans wer as to whether or not a given num ber of Southerners can whip a given numb r of"puritanical Yankees;" but he inr)roves the opportunity to refer to his experience in Congress in the fol lowing language: "I have listened with comparative composure to the degrading epithets and anathemas which men of the North-some who wore the b1 heaped upon and hurled at the who wore the gray. During my twelve years in the United States Senate I have heard such terms as 'traitor,' 'rebel,' perjurer,' 'ingrate,' 'rascal,' 'assassin,' etc., showered upon honora ble men and brave soldiers of the South, but I never permitted myself to become excited over them, because I know the words were not true. I could fill a vol ume with the vilest epithets of which the English.anguageis capable, applied to leadera in the South whose charac ters are verydear to the Southern peo ple-epithets generally approved and applauded at the North-certainly never rebuked as far as I know. "I do not believe any brave man would apply such epithets to a fallen enemy, certainly not to a fallen enemy whose courage and fidelity to his con victions he -has been compelled to ad mit. I do not think crimination and recrimination between people of the same race, who were equally-conscien tious in the line they pursued, are wise. They settle nothing in any proper controversy; each side will be judged, after the disputants have passed away, by the records each has made, when epithets will be forgotter The tempta tion to retort, however, is almost irre sistible. When Gen. Sherman utters sentiments and gives advice calculated to precipitate race collisions and blood shed in the Soutlj, and .when Gover nor Foraker denounces and maligns Southern men and women by the wholesale, and somebody from the South calls them bad names, I do not see why other people should, get ex cited. "Gen. Rosser did not claim to speak for any body but himself. He is quite able to take care of himself. He was my immediate comrade and friend during the war, and no army ever had a more able and gallant cavalry officer. I have always thought that to speak one's sen timuents freely was one of the boasted rights of American institutions. He had his favorites in both armies, and has never concealed his preferences. In his speech at Baltimore he wrapped him self in the flag of the Union, as he had done in the flag of the late Confederacy. He criticised, with some severity, Generals of the Union army, and pro nounced the tenderest and most flat tering and touching eulogies upon others. He did the same towards Con federate Generals. I have never heard any Federal speaker applaud and praise any -Confederate officers as I have heard Rosser applaud and praise Custer, Pleasonton, Merritt and others; and I have never heard Federal speakers criticise any Confederate officer with more force than I have heard Rosser criticise Pope, Sherman and other men. So I think he has struck a fair general 1average. "I do not agree with General Rosser in his opinions of the superior prowess of the Southern men over the "Yan kees.' To begin with, all "Yankee's are not 'puritanical.' You will find 'puri tanical' people everywhere, South as well as North; and sometimes when 'p)uritanism' runs into fanaticism they are thme ugliest customers in the world Beside this, I believe by military dis cipline you can make any soldier fight -certainly any American soldier. Gen. Rosser has a perfect right to his opin ions. and an equal right to express them." Its~ Bad Enough to fool away one's precious time in ex perimentil~g with uncertain medicines, when one is afflicted, without being out (.f pocket aswell. The only medi eine of its class, sold by <ruggists, possdof such positive curative pro. p)ert.as as to warrant its manufacturers in guaranteeing it to cure, or money paid for it in returned, is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. For all liver, blood and lung diseases it is specific. THE THBXE CIS, SHOPS. The Location Setted in Favor f Bbcls-, burg-Intereu'ngFaq.t . [From the Yorkville Enquirer BLACKSBUBG, Marc ~11.-The toc tion of the machine shops of the Tbre C's Rairdad has been finally se&14 - in favor of this place. Prepartioxm the erection of the necessar9y buidigs are now under way, and an orde zas been made for ten thousand dolias" worth of machinery. It is-understo that a force of abouttwenty-five mechanics is to be employed atonce, Gen. John T. Wilder, vce-pres ,_ of the Three C's Railroad, arrived - from Washington on last Wedn ay>' afternoon. His business was 'af p pointment with Col. R A. Johnson,b. Thursday evening, but desirin make a personal inspectionof th es deposits and other resources of thige tion, he came on a day ahead-ofhis pointment for that purpose. On day morning he was drivenout ot2 scene of the operations of the Iron and Steel Ore Mining thence across the river to the rin the Cherokee Iron Works; from t' down to the Old King's Montar* Company's rolling mill site, and K manganese beds. The General was well pleased with all that he $awtb. he expressed his determination+. spend a week, at an early day,farh investigating - the. numerous"" resources in this vicinity that, m re ble of profitable development. a gard to the iron ores, he says thaC Black's. operations have areybs such as to conclusively justify thie penditure of large sums of money . their development; The he pronounces to be of s penor He was also very much interested the magnificent water power<sfioee all along the river, and particularly shoal that once furnished the the King's Mountain Iron Cofi any rolling mil: General Wilder was-over the same ground about two -wearsg but as the-country was at thtn covered with snow, and no eent cavations had been made >amoi ores, he was unable to for3m a like a correct idea of what- was t'. , found in this vicinity. The operations of the Magne~i and Steel Ore Mining Company' still energetically pushed uader c tiove of Col. John L. Black.. shipped about 120 tonsof oret,S3 ton, Ps., also a car mad t'a and has just sent offthe firstcarl a contract he :is now filling -o mingham. To facilitate the loading of the. on the cars, the Richmond and ville Railroad has recently put in:a ing at a point little more than a mile from the mines. It is estimated-, that an expenditure of about $1,500 wHJ' grade a-roadbed from the mines toth Air Line track. Frank Lesle's Snday Wagazin. for Ap$ The April number of Frank Lesi' Sunday ifagazine is unusually ric - illustrated articles of present in Among them may- be mnin American Engineers in Angola I David Ker; "Duluthand E 'rns~y William H. Ballon; Through theAI ghanies on a Locomotive, by H DeLong; Eels, by W. F. Nlsonad Hernan Cortes and -the Conquest f Mexico. In addition to the sh' articles, the story,. Genievieve;- or,Th Children of Port Ba,yal, is'continned and Stephen Bona1 contributes a - short .story. Tesa;' A Tale of ITw Bachelors. Easter coming in April there are some poems referring tothat ' festival, and an article and ilnata1 on Lily-culture in Bermudain Bermu( da. John B. Wood contributes a. thodghtful essay on The Study of the ~ History of thr Israelitish MonarchieW and J. Bowles Daly, LL.D., rea2 some entertaining Stories of St. Patricki. Dr. Talmage's sermon is on Easter - Blossoms, and the music page is devo ted to an Easter Carol by Arthur Hen-' ry Brown. The number also contains much interesting miscellany, One Way to Stop a Donkeys Bray. [From the Cautauquan.] 'I have no doubt that the donkey be- ~ lieves himself when braying to be exe cuting a vocal solo .of the highest ex .. cellence. As-some of my readers may be incapable of appreciating the songa I will mention a device whereby the Turks induce the too-vocal donkey to be silent against his will. Just as be fore a cock crows he finds it necary~ to stretch out his nec totheutmoit,O so the donkey feels himelf compelled. to begin his performance by holin bis nose in the air and his tal aall with his spine. When, T~ire a Turk wishes to silence his donkey ties a tolerably heavy stone to the end of the animal's tail and departs with an easy mind. When the donkey feels. .~ inclined to bray and begins the usuaF - preliminaries he finds himself de~ barred from placing his tail at the quisite an gle, and 'in consequence i' unabld to do justice to the bravura with' which he was proposing to favor the world. Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but; use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Of druggist, 50 cts. Ayer's Hair Vigor stimulates the hair to a vigorous growth. It contama.. allithat can be supplied to makre the hair beautiful anid abundant, removes dandruft, and renders- the hair ;fiexible and glossy. A n excess of animal foodfand, a tial closing of the pores ofiheiinw ing the winter months, cause the tern to become filled with imipuritiea. These can be removed andthbl purified and ~invigorated 'by -aig .Ayer's Sarsaarilla. Prc L$.