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tewberrH craW ew tvs. ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1889. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR VERMONT'S WHITE SLAVES. Why Secretary Proctor Lives in Marble Halls-A Pitiful Account of More American Labor. [New York World.) RUTLAND, VT., April 4.-"Thrift, thrift, Horatio !" About the well-kept home of War Secretary Redfield Proc tor is every sign of comfort and con venience. The house, a great Gothic one, sits on an eminence overlooking in a disdainful way the struggling, rock bound, eheerless village of Proctor, with its Proctor quarries, Proctor offices, Proctor mills,"IProctor stores, Proctor railroad, Proctor tenement houses and Proctor slaves. As far as the Governor can see when be stands on his lofty veranda the soil and its overworked, discontented people are his. Long flights of geps lead up from the roadway'an 'rk-a-day world at the Gover 0 t and meet a close shorn lp girt all around by a prim h w. Further down the slope the - s have grown to a lusty height and hide the rugged rocks. The cupalo of-the barn, where Proctor's well-bred horses and shiney carriages are kept, just rears itself above the green branches. A few rods up the picturesque road, with its long rustic bridge,span ning the stream that runs the Proctor mills, is the residence of Proctor's son Fletcher, a handsomer house, if pos sible, than that of the sire, and built, as was his, out of the tariff on marble. THE NABOB'S STOBE. Proctor's store, where the quarry men have to do all their trading, is a regular Macy's. There isn't a thing the quarryman in his impecuniousness can have any use for that the four floors of the enormous building do not contain. And it is all run for a profit. There is no such thing as slow pay to this store-keeper.!He turns his ac counts in to the main office, and they, along with rent and fuel bills, are de ducted from the wages. It is the old company-store system carried to a state of perfection unequalled. In a basement of it is the railroad station and telegraph office; on its first floor the postoffice. There is nothing in Proctor that does not pay tribute to its potentate. Vain have been men's efforts in years past to run stores in the village of Proctor there the workmen could get goods at prices to suit their beggardly earnings. I talked with a man who for four years was in the Proctor employ. "I ve seen old Proctor himself," he new men to one side and tell tiien: 'Now, we've got a store here. We run it for your beneat and expect you to buy your goods there.' They knew what it meant. They never had to be told but once." It is even said in Proctor that Powers' store used to be watched by the company's people to see who of the men dared go and trade there. At last young Powers gave it up as a bad job. The men were afraid to trade with him. BUYING UP THE PASS-BOOKS. Since Powers abandoned his store, where be tried in vain to sell for $3 rub ber boots that the Company charged $6 for efforts have been made to get hold of the old pass-books the workmen carried to Proctor's emporium. But it seems that some time ago the Com pany offered $1 a piece for them and harvested the whole crop. Power's fruitless effort to do business there had one good effect. though. It brought attention to the matter and forced the Company to charge less exorbitantly for its goods. To-day the rates are respectable compared with what they used to be. Oil has reached its nomi nal price in the Proctor stores. And still the workmen stand no show to save a dollar. They are a sorry look ing lot when at night, spent and dragged out, they come trooping from the quarries and the great $100,000 mil which Proctor has reared but of solid marble. Grimy, and with weary gait, after their eleven hours of toil, they drag themselves up the endless stairs which lead from the damp, wretched oits home to hard fare and sleep that seci.jpf stimulates for another day of h.endurance. There is a settled air of gloom and de pression over the whole village. All day long, while the men are buried in the mills and quarries, you never hear a sound save from a passing train or some farmer's wagon. It is as if tlie place were deserted. And at night when the whistles blows the laborers steal away home without so much as a whisper. The presence of Proctor is over it all and spirit .is lost in the fatigue of toil The Proctor marble deposit, they say, is giving out, and the Governor is gathering in pieces of quarry property all over the country. At Brandon, on the north, he has bought a new quarry; another at double Roads Crossing, two miles to the east, and so on. He is everywhere. He has his farms, stocked with blooded horses, and dairies whence his milkmen furnish milk to tenants, driving competition out of that business, too. He has his trout ponds up on the hill, and enjoys tnem as a king should- No town ever merited its name more than Proctor does the name of Proctor. wsT so-rLAND'S wHRE SLAVES. But West Rutland, four miles away, is even more cheerless to the laborer. That is where you see Proctor's white slaves in all the hopelessness of his ex istence. Along the side of the moun taingquarry after quarry has been sunk - 1inil for fully a mile the whole hillside is honeycombed with holes. The snow lies in jagged spots above them, rivu ltsn wash down here and there, telling all too plainly of a work of disinte gration which the frost is doing and which before long must precipitate in ruin those seamed and creviced hills whence riches have been wrenched. No precautions are taken. Pit adjoins pit. So close are they that here one vaulted chamber, with its cracked and jagged edges, breaks through the wall that severs it from its neighbor and leaves an overhanging bridge of crumb ling stone waiting for some spring thaw to send it down, tons upon tons, upon the "protected" fellows who from sun rise To sunset, work out their pittance below. Great derricks rise like spec tres along the dangerous brinks of these chasms and stretch out ghostly arms over the yawning months. There is a forest of chain-stays, and cables are dangling over the openings. It makes one sick and dizzy to start doyn into those gulfs, to see frail stairyay, until the view is lost in the smoke and dust which rises from the work going on be low. The walls of the quarry, once white as the blocks of virgin marble which now and then are lifted into sight by the big derricks, have grown black with the smoke and moisture. To the edges of the pit, as the work goes lower and lower, cling boulders of a man's weight. It is a common oc currence for one of them, displaced by rain, to go crashing down. Woe betide the man it meets. But the quarryman has grown Insensible to these dangers. He works away, looking no bigger than a pigmy, and with death all around him. There is no alternative but starvation. A burly blacksmith, who has grown fat at his trade in West Rutland, said to the World correspondent: "I have though!, sometimes, I knew what hard work was. But blacksmithing is child's play to what these quarrymen endure. They are like cattle. Rest is a luxury they don't know anything about. Year in and out they just pull and haul down there. Tho air is fearful, too. I would not do the work one of them does for $50 a day. They never can get above $1 15 to support them and their families. Their lives aren't worth the old boots they wear. I never was down there but once, and I'll never go again as long as I live. Why, the going up and down those stairs is a day's work." It was near quitting time, and I waited for the men to come out of the quarries for the night. By and by they hove in sight from the bowels, of dark ness. a long, apparently endless line, toiling up the flimsy, creaking stairs, which were fastened feebly to the quar ry sides. At each landing they stopped, until some cry from the depths below would tell the leader to go on. Then the ascent was resumed. They moved like men with rheumatic legs and feet of lead, and by and by began emerging into the upper air. "Where in the world do so many of them come from?" I ask my compan in. "Oh, they have been working back under the mountain there. You only see the bottom of the main shafts. When they get down these they run the drift back at right angles. This one runs in a long distance, though you can't see the opening from up here. It's a pretty mean place to spend a day." CAN SIBERIA BE WORSE. From among the rough clad fellows who kept coming from the pit I stopped one. The rest, with a listless glance, passed on and began wearily climbing the hill to their miserable dwellings. The quarryman whom I had accosted was wan as a sick woman. He was panting from effort and had the stoop which incessant lifting gives. About his mouth and eyes-for all his brawn were the blue shadows and lines which told what awaited him if hc escaped mutilation in the quarries. "What do you do down there ?" "Kill ou.rselves," he answere4 bitter "Don't you feel afraid to go into such a place ?" The quarryman smiled contemptu osty, and kicked at a fragment of marble that lay imbedded in the mnd at the derrick's base. 'Afraid ! No. We very soon get past that. The chances are too much in favor of getting killed. We rather ex pect it. And, after all, I'd be just as well off if it ended me to-morrow. Only my wife and babeies wouldn't have anybody to keep them alive. You see we only get a little over a dol lar a day, and the way we have to take it out it doesn't come to that, at least none of us believe it does." "Then you can't save much of any thing ?" "Save?" and again he smiled. "I'd like to see some one besides Proctor save anything out of this 'deal. He saves at almost every corner. He's a very saving man. He saves everything except the men who work for him. By making us take out our pay in trade at his stores he saves the interest of his money, and gets quick pay as well as big profits. Oh, he's a Protectionist." "Are you obliged to trade at the com pany's stores?" "Yes. It is pretty well underst-ood that if you don't, you are warned once or twice about it, and then-- Well,. I don't know as it was ever proved that any one was discharged for not trad ing with the company, but nine men out of ten will tell you, if they dared to talk about it, that they were afraid to take their trade away. And then, many of us couldn't do It any way. We go on from month to month in debt to the company. The balance at the month's end is in their favor, and the only way to get out Is to stay in. If we could get our pay in hand and 'spend it where we pleased we could me it o a dl further." SORRY SIGHT. Standing on the hillside above the quarries, I looked out on a scene of desolation. The patches of snow in spectral whiteness stared blank in the gray of oncoming night, and across the gray, rocky steeps weary men were plodding homeward. The valley was flooded with water, even to the foot of the next mountain, and over the long foot bridge that led across it still other quarrymen were hurrying to the "Big Soos," as the dreary rows of tenements are named. The title is derived from the French sault, meaningjump. They are long, plain, bleak structures, most of them old and rickety.=Iu some there are as many as fourteen or fif teen houses, of three or four rooms each where families are sandwiched in. The buildings are raised upon mounds of dirt, since the solid rocks which com pose the soil offered no hope for the laying of a foundation. Shaky steps lead up to the shaky doors. Before one of these squalid, tumble down, time-stained affairs I stopped to talk with a wretchedly clad woman who was chopping wood to cook her husband's scanty supper. A QUARRYMAN'S WIFE. "You don't live very well here, do you?" I said to the woman. "No," she answered. "You can hardly call it living. We manage to get along. There.is little or nothing ever coming to,us at the month's end. Very little of it goes for clothes, too. "How much do the houses rent for?" "Different prices, from $2.50 up to $10. This tenement is a cheap one. It's pretty old, and it ought to be cheap. We pay more than it's worth. It's no kind of a shelter at all. The winters in these hills are rough ones. They're no California winters. We have to patch up the houses with old papers and scraps of cloth,. and whatever we can get, to keep it anything like com fortable. There hasn't been any re pairing done on it for a great many years and the wind just whistles through it some nights." She showed me the interior of the old house, with its bare floors and wretched furniture, its table minus a cloth and set with a meagre meal. Bad Accounts of the North Carolina Emi grants. [New Orleans Times-Democrat.] When certain Mississippi and Louis iana planters commenced importing negro hands from Alabama 'and North Carolina, we warned them that labor of this kind very uncertain and unre liable, and that the hands they brought here were only too likely to leave them, as they had left their first em ployers. They had contracted to work for the North Carolina planters for a year, but did not hesitate to break these contracts and come South at the first off'er from Louisiana and Missis sippi labor agents. We do not see why the latter or the planters who engage them can be surprised at this second desertion. It is no surprise to learn that the men brought from Carolina to work on Louisiana plantations were enticed away by negro agents after reaching Vicksburg, broke their con tracts and made for the Yazoo delta, leaving both the, agents who brought them South and planters who had en gaged them in the lurch. Negroes of this class, willing to break contracts in North Carolina, are equally willing to break them in Louisiana, they are the most unreliable and untrustworthy of labor and are never to be depended on. Quite a number of them have been brought to this State during the last month, but they have never "stuck," and the planters who employed them have been invariably "left" in the end. Am Old Lady Burned to Death from a Spark froom a Pipe. MANsuia, GA., April 9.-Robert Shiedler and his wife were drivi;:g in town yesterday when a spark from Shiedler's pipe ignited the clothing of his wife, and as the wind was blowing a stiffgale, she was enveloped in flames in a instant. Terror stricken, she jumped from the buggy on one side and her husband od the other. He did all he could to quench the flames, but to no avail. The grass took fire around them, and Mrs. Shieldler was completely envel oped in a fiery shroud, and died before her husband's eyes. Shiedler's hands were burned to the bone. He was brought to town and his wounds dressed, but it is feared his hands will have to be amputated. He is nearly crazy from the shock of his wife's death and his own pain, and his physicians say he will die. The family is one of the oldest in the county, having been here for thirty years. Mrs. Shiedler was sixty-five years old, and her husband seventy. General Leuastreet Barned Out. ATLANTA, GA., April 10.-General James Longstreet's residence in the eastern portion of Gainesville was des troyed by fire yesterday. Loss $10,000. Ayer's Cathartic Pills are suited to every age. They are mild and pleasant in action, thorough and searching in effect, and, being sugar-coated, are easy to take. These pill never fail to give satisfaction. A perfectly sound body and a mind unimpaired are porsible only yith pure blood. Leading medical authorities in dofse Ayer's Sarss.parilla as the best blood purifying medicine in existence. It vastly increases the working and productive powers of both hand and rain. A PATRIOTIC PRIEST. Cardinal Gibbons Call on the Catholic Cle gy to Honor George Washlngton's' Memory. BAL1IMoBE, April 10.-Cardinal Gil bons to-day issued a circular letter t the clergy of Baltimore in relation t the approaching centennial celebratio :f the inauguration of George Wasl: ington. The letter is as follows: "Circular letter of the Cardinal to ti :iergy of the diocese of Baltimore ; the approaching centennial. "CARDINAL'S RESIDENCE, BALTIMORE, April-. "Rev. and Dear Sir: On Tuesda; April 30th, next as you are dloutles aware, the citizens of the Republic wil unite in celebrating the centenary c the inauguration of George Washing ton, the father of his country and th 6rst President of the United States. T Washington will reniain the imperish able glory of leading this people out c the house of bondage andi oppressioi into the clear light of freedom and no tional prosperity. The hi,tory of thes United States is the history of th ,radual rising from the foundations c liberty and law and order by him s deeply and so broadly laid of that state ly fabric of our national institution which has become the admiration c the world. Therefore do we testify ou love for him and endeavor to repay imall fraction of the inestimable del we owe to his memory by giving hi name to fair and thriving cities frot )ur great capital westward, to the loft; mountain peaks and majestic ship, Ind to our sons by thousands. Hi name., too, with wider range and deel er import, is cherished in the hearts c all. Most just and fitting it is tha this nation so founded, rising so mag nificently upon lines which he laii dlown, should honor with especial an grateful commemoration the hur redth anniversary of the taking b the great captain in war of the chair < office in peace as Chief Magistrate < the land he had fought for with suc effective valor. To all, it should be matter of profound satisfaction tha the citizens of the United States witl out regard to race or creed or previou allegiance to any flag soever are abou to recognize the life and achievemeni of the greatest man this western worl has nurtured as a gift of Almight God to his own age and as an exampl to all ages to be. In order, therefor to give expression to our heartfel thanks for the civil and religious bless ings thus far vouchsafed to us by th Giver of Every Perfect Gift and to pra that the spirit of patriotism whic burned in the heart of Washingto may continue to animate those towhoz the destinies of our beloved countr may be entrusted, you are invite( Rev. and dear sir, t announce at easonable time befcrehand a speci service for the morning of A pril 30, nine o'clock or at any other hour moe suitable for the congregation. You ar further requested at such service t make an address suggested by the o< casion, closing with the "prayer for tb authorities." As an a national expres sion of joy and thanksgiving the churc bells will be rung from 10 to 10.30 th same morming. (Signed) "JA MES CARDINA L GIBBONs, "Archbishop of Baltimore. "By order of the Cardinal. (Signed) "P. J. DONoHIUE, Chancellor." Save the Trees. [Manufacturers' Record.1 The marvelous growth of the Sout has called many new towns into exit tence, and many more will follov Men of enterprise, capital and tat often find in the business of town built ing charms beyond any other. Tb plan usually pursued is to purchase considerable area of wild land, eligibl located on an existing or projected rai road, then to have it surveyed, platte and mapped, after which the trees al cut down on all the designated streeti stumps are extracted and some gradin is done. The town is thus made read for its future population to enteri upon and possess it. Most of ther new places are covered with statel trees, often of many varieties. I ninety-nine cases out of a hundred ti town founders and the incoming cit zens vie with each other in effortsi get rid of these as soon as possible.] is in fact a hereditary American in pulse derived from the original necess ty of cleaning lands to make room f< agriculture. We have seen mar places where this has been done thoroughly that not a single tree mained of the original growth, b1 where the people, realizing when t< late what a blunder had been con mitted, were trying to correct it I setting out young trees at considerab cost. Now why continue this foolie practice? All other things being equs that place whose streets are lined wit stately trees, whose lawns and parl are thus adorned, attracts and hok4 new corners much more than anoth< where the comfort of shade and tI beauty of forest reminders is lackini It is a very simple matter for a civ engineer, when running lines for stree and avenues, to keep in mind the d sirability. of saving trees enough f< their decoration, and when his la; out is completed, to mark those tha are to be retained. The chief bea1 ties of New Heaven, of Cleveland, Augusta, of Savannah, of Newber: and Asheville, and of scores of oth well known cities, are the long lines elms, maples and other trees on tV sides or in the centers of their prmncip thoronghfares. Few of them were n ti yes. Most of them were transplanted years ago, and cared for through many seasons before they attained their height and beauty. It is more than a century since James Hillhouse planted ,. the elm that have been for several gen e erations the pride and the chief adorn c nientof New Haven, Conn. Had the 1 first colonists, when they laid out the . thirteen squares which are now the center of that beautiful and prosperous e city, left standing all the trees that a need not necessarily have been re moved, they and their descendents for generations would not have been de prived of the enjoyment, nor their city robbed of the beauty which only came 8 back after the work of the public spirit l of one man, and the emulation inspired by it reached its full fruition. The beauty and variety of Southern e forests are admired by all lovers of nature. Town founders, remember ing this, should remember also that full grown trees once destroyed cannot be replaced. Lowell once wrote: "Who does his duty, is a question e Too complex to be solved by me, e But he, I venture the suggestion, Does part of his that plants a tree." To which may safely be added that he who saves one from destruction that his fellows may enjoy its beauty and f delight in its shade, is entitled to still r greater credit for duty well done. a" 1 THE PROMISED LAND. Boomers Crowding by Thousands to the Borders of Oklahoma-Becoming y Impatient. [s ARKANSAS CITY, KAS., April 11. >- The population of this city has increas f ed one-third during the past week. t Two thousand eager boomers are here, and at least one thousand are along the d line south of here. Six hardware stores 1 have sold out their entire stock, and i- the demand is not half supplied. The y. boomers are forming into small colonies >f of 25 to 50 persons, and are devising f schemes to outwit their neighbors and b get into the heart of Oklahoma by the a appointed time. There is a feeling all t along the border that there will be a i- general forward movement into the is territory on the night of April 20. The it boomers who have been here all win s ter have picked out their land, and are d suspicious of new comers. They don't y propose to have the land they fought le for jumped by recent arrivals. They 3, have pickets in hiding in Oklahoma It woods who are keeping them posted. - Word was received to-day that boom e ers on the Texas border were becoming y very impatient and were reliable to h march in before the 22d and seize their n claims before daylight on that date. A n panicky feeling prevails all around. y Old boomers claim they developed the 1. agitation that led to the opening of the a tcrritory, and that now the land sharks tl are trying to get possession of their t property. The state line'for hundreds it of miles is dotted with "prairie schoon 'e ers." All are preparing for flight into o the promised land. Many settlers > whose geography is faulty are already te from ten to seventy-five miles in the s- territory, and still claim they are in h Kansas. e A WAR OF EXTERMINATION. Seventy Starving Famlieg te be Thrown on the Boad in Donegal. LONDON, April 9.-Evictions upon a wholesale scale are threatened on the Olphert estates in Donegal, where the tenants made such a gallant fight a few months ago. Scores of the brave fellows are now in jail for the crime of defend ing their homes upon that occasion, but h their fate has not intimidated others, ' and already preparations are being -. made which-may result in bloodshed it upon a scale which was averted last - time only by the strenuous exertions of e the Rev. Father McFadden and the a Rev. Father Stephens. y The evictions are to commence on ' Thursday, and the situation is clearly Sconveyed by the following telegram, e which I have just received from Father ~Stephens at Falcarragh: g"The war of extermination is about y being resumed. Seventy families, comn n prising 350 individuals, are to be thrown on the roadside. y"What intensifies the sad situation n Immensely is that these poor people ie have been brought face to face with ' famine owing to the utter failure of the ~O potato crop. The families to be evicted [t have been living on Indian meal since SLast Christmas. The priests of the dis 'trict have been providing seed from yrmoney supplied by private charity. T Father McFadden, the parish priest of 10 many of the people to be evicted, is a e- prisoner in the Derry jail, and I must ileave the district on Thursday to attend 10my trial under the coercion law at Let l' terkenny on Friday. y "We feel, therefore, that the time is le specially chosen by the authorities h when they believed the people would l,be left defenseless." s A Pointer From the President. ie WASHINGToN, April 9.-The intima .tion which it is alleged the President il gave to a prominent Democrat recently, ts to the effect that he would appoint no e- free trade Democrat on the commission or fixed by law to be composed of Demo 7crats and Republicans, created a great at deal of discussion here. The declara a. tion is regarded as indicating the policy of which the President will pursue, not ie only in the South alone, but also in re er gard to all national appointments. of+ ie $.500 Reward offered by the proprie al tors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy for -. an incurable ca. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S MANNER. aow He Receives the Throngs of Office Seekers that Call on Bifi. Washington Letter Philadelphia Tele graph.] The man who wants to get a special nterview with President Harrison in us private office must have staying lualities. It is not difficult to get an tudience, but you must wait your turn, Lnd there is no telling with certainty when that turn is to come. As far as 3arrison himself is concerned, there is io red tape about getting at him with n the proper hours, but he can see only o many in a given time, and each in he order of his coming. Senators and epresentatives and Cabinet Ministers nay walk into his private office unan iounced, but when they get there they nust each take his proper turn to have uis say. All other callers must send in their ards. They are received after the hour or Congress has expired. Harrison's nanner of receiving visitors in his pri rate office is quite his own. His room s just off the large room where the abinet sittings are held, communicat ng with it by a small door in one cor ier, and through it with the office of ?rivate Secretary Halford. Through he Cabinet-room all callers must pass o get to the President, unless they are o highly distinguished as to be ad nitted through the library. It is sel lom that President Harrison receives me man alone in his office. -Generally is many as twenty or thirty are stand ng around him waiting a chance at his ar while he is talking to one. There is iot much chance for general conversa ion and discussion of health or weather. ['hey must get right down to business ind be quick about it. Yet Harrison ias a way of making a man feel as if he zas been especially well treated and zas not been hurried at all. This dis )lay of tact is appreciated the more be ause it was unexpected. Like some others who don't deserve t, Harrison has got the reputation of eing cold and unapproachable. His onduct belies this reputation. He has L way of quickly getting out of a man what the man has to say, and is very luick to show his appreciation. He tands usually in front of his desk, which is between the two windows. He hakes hands with the caller, and if it s a man he knows well of, either per ;onally or by reputation, he is apt to 2old the hand for a moment, giving the ,mpression of one in a mood to be re eptive of confidences, such as office ;eekers have to make. He is always -eady, if the caller makes a move that way, to retire to the recess of a window >r elsewhere out of the earshot of the )thers in the room. Otherwise he ;tands still and listens courteously. He das a way of taking hold of a man's 3oat sleeve while listening to'him, and sometimes he will rest the other hand mn the speaker's shoulder in a way to live an impression of earnestness and sympatby in what is being said. Gar ield had a way, when arguing the matter of office, of throwing one arm around the shoulders of the man Senator or member, as it might be, with whom he was talking. Harrison :loesn't go quite this far, but when he is trying to impress a statesman with the fact that he is anxious to do the very best be can, but must not be ex pected to do more, he takes him by the band and places one band on his shoul der. There is nothing undignified or eff'usive about this action. It is expres sive merely of sympathy and courte ous earnestness. TROUBLED BY DEAD HEADS. How the New York Celebration Commit tees are Hampered-Some Detais of Preparation. [Special to the Baltimore Sun.] NEW YORK April 4.--The centennial committee on the plan and scope had a meeting this afternoon and received re ports from the several sub-committees. A carriage and four horses have been engaged for the use of President Harri son during his stay in the city. His carriage, together with carriages used for the members of the Cabinet, will be the only carriages in the military parade. Admiral Porter has been in vited to act as the commander of the naval parade and review. Sec retary Tracy is co-operating in making it a splendid success. The committee will erect five stands along the route of the civic parades toaccommodate25,000 people, seats on which will cost from 2.5 cents to $3. The 25-cent stand will be at the City Hall and hold 10,000 per. sons. Gen. Daniel Butterfield will marshal the industrial parade, May 1, which will march down town from Fiftieth street to Park Place. Ward McAllister has resigned as secretary and manager of the entertainment com mittee, and Governer Morris has taken his place. The ball and banquet have been given in charge of a committee o1 five-Messrs. Winthrop, Stokes, Fish, Olin and Jay. The cash receipts of the finance committee have so far been $31,037, and the total subsrTiptioni amnount to $41,400. New York Is one of the worst dead head towns in the country, long abuse having made up a legion of all sorts of people-officials, ex-ofEicials and their hangers-on-who expect to get free entertainment at every public celebration. They are the originators of all trouble over the details of the commemoration. The citizens on the committee not only subscribed liberally to the expenses of the affair, but will pay their own way at all the publi~ gatherings, in addition to giving their time free to all the committee work. They have scaled the free list to the ball down to about 500 persons, mostly officials. All the rest of the five thou sand tickets must be paid for at $10 a piece. At the banquet there will be about 300 free tickets out of the total V 800. These tickets cost $15 each. Some plen of the personal attacks on the members does of the committee in the local papers are ha actuated by meanness of the smallest Men kind and from motives entirely out- civil side any connection with the celebra- class tion. Their instigators were willing to open wreck the whole project of a grand ge national jubilation just to gratify petty A i spite. Cian whei JEFF DAVIS' CAPTOR. He Takes Out a License to Marry a Widow of Philadelphia. cand his S [Philadelphia Inquirer.] ingo One of the original fourteen mem- -man bers of the Fourth_ Michigan cavalry, sche who captured Jeff Davis on May 14, C 1865, in Irwin County,~Ga., yesterday unde applied to Clerk Bird for a marriage the license. It was Casper Knoble. He is fast a trapping Swiss, who was born in the disci Canton of Berne in 1848. He is now a justi moulder, and lives at 2634 Coral Street. say He is also a widower, and intends to inte marry widow Anni Stoll, of 2631 Coral Seri Street. rates Mr. Knobel proudly displayed the- then memorial medal presented to him and speal his thirteen comrades for the great say capture which they made. In speak- crats ing of the event he said that only one Wha of the captors was dead. He told how emp Colonel Pritchard had detailed them Dem to hunt for the President of the Con- in n federate States, who was trying to es- appo cape to a seaport town with his family. civil After two days' hot search they over- selec took Mr. Davis. He was in an ambu- men lance with his wife and children. There cler were also two wagon loads of retainers whoi with him. Mr. Knobel says that Mr. Davis was Tb not arrayed in petticoats, as portrayed cabi at the time, but in a full gray suit of a men Confederate Genersl. He was g reatly tio1 surprised, but took his capture very pur philosophically. ever; Mr. Knobel made a prize of Mr. is ha Davis' shirt collar, which he expects to cess wear at his approaching wedding. In Mr. Knobel also said that the govern- the ment appropriated $1,500 to each of the efit I captors, but that he received only $290. plic He says he would like very much to Rea know who got the balance. slow polil A GreatFort Building, cure SU [San Francisco Standard.] poin A very small proportion of the people disu of this country are .aware that the thej strongest fort on the American conti- not nent is now building on the Pacific of n coast. When completed it will rank soldi next to Gibraltar among the world's year fortifications. It commands the en- to n trance to Puget Sound, the second port the of entry on the Pacific coast, and one of chai the most importantin the United States. son The British will soon be able to close the: this port at any moment. No other nation in the world would permit the building of thisgreat fort to intimidate a peaceful neighbor.Te NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.Po Tee [New York Sun.] Teeis no occasion for alarm. The British government has a perfect right to fortify its ownbharbors and naval de pots, and that is what it is doing. The this fort may be useful by and by ase " part of the future system of American tiol coast defenses. bee: _ _ _ _ _ _ _seeli CLEVELAND'S CANDIDACY. una -- clar His Positive Declination of any Nomina-. mei tlon-A Signiffcant Interview With -nei a North Carolina Man. [Correspondence of the Greenville me News.1 as e CHARLtrE, N. C., April 11.-Ex President Cleveland passed through Goldsboro' last Friday en route homepu from his trip to Cuba. A citizen of put Goldsboro' boarded the train -and to day quotes the ex-President as saying that he will never again be a candidate the for any office and that he positivelydo will not accept the nomination for thedo Presidency in 1892. Mr. Cleveland was told of the love and esteem the South has for him and that he would sp be the unanimous choice of the South ern delegates at the convention in 1892, to but he replied under no conditions ~O would he accept the nomination. The ex-President said he would continue the th.e practice of law until he saw fit to ass retire from active business, his _______ ._ rep< hitz John Smith is the happiest man that I her< know,u But wasn't he blue, though, not three you mouths ago ? knc "My wife's running down just as fast thir as she can, ti And the doctors can't help her," and then this poor man Almost cried as be thought of the poor, suft'ring wife Bug Whoseemed to be losing her hold upon life. "Smith, I know just how you feel," saida friend to whom hetold his sad story. "My wife was troubled precise ly as yours is. I don't just understand riso: it, because I'm not a woman, but her 0ogic back pained her, and she complained on 1 of dragging-down feelings, and a gen eral weakness and I know that she had pap some of those diseases women are sub- nal, ject to, and had 'em bad, too. I read pap about Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- Sc tion one day, and the first time I was at the drug store I bought a bottle of it ha and took home to her. It worked won- lada ders. In a short time she said she felt ingi like another womau, and she began toha hope that there was relief for her, after .a all. She kept on taking the medicine hiur for a time, and now she's well. Qet a Jud bottle of the 'Prescription' and try it on wh< your wife." B] "I will," said Smith. And he did,' and it cured he and that's why he's so Par appy to-ay Jud DEMOCEATS MUST GO. dies Are Paramount-Party Influence n Indispensable Factor in Procuring Office for a Candidate. 'ASSINGToN, April 9.-There are ty of signs that the administration - not intend to allow itself to be pered much by the civil servicelaw. are occasionallyappointed without service machinery to places in the ifed service, but this issuch an violation of the law that it does oecur often. much better plan is for-the politi toget his friend exam and, bie is on the eligible list, a certified the next time there is a ncy, regardless of the fact that the idate is at the foot of the list and tate's quota is full. If the appoint fficer wishes to oblige the states by appointing his friend, this me can be worked very well. mmissioner Tanner has made it rstood in the Pension Office, that Democrats will be weeded out as is practicable, and about a hundred iarges are awaiting issue. It is only .e to Secretary Noble, however, to hat he was misrepresented in an view in a local paper to-day. The tary never spoke of ex-Confede and had no disposition to single t out for removal. Nor did he r of the 150 special examiners and ie understood they were all Deme and that they would have to go. t he did say was that incompetent .oyees, whether Republicans or ocrats, would be removed, and that naking appointments he should int only Republicans so far as the service law left him free to make tions. In the Treasury the appoint t division is making up lists of s, the dates of appointments, by n recommended and their political ivities. e place of superintendent of the iet shop in the Treasury Depart t is under the civil service regula i, but three men are seeking it with ly political influence, and there is y indication that one of them, who eked by Senator Quay, will be suc 'ul. the railway mail service, however,. "ongressmen are getting little ben 'rom the postponement of the ap .tion of the civil service system. ovals are being made rather ly, and agood many things besides ical influence are requisite to pro appointments. perintendent Bell will not reap t men who were in the service and hissed by the late administration if are over 50 years of age. He will make any original appointments en above 35 unless they are old iers, when he will give them a few s' grace. But this cannot amount iuch, as there are few survivors of civil war under 42 years old. The ices are that more original Harri men than ever will now come to front. SOUTHERN( SPOILS. Presidesbt's Policy in Eegard to Ap inanents to offce-Men, Progressive Een, and White Protectionists to be Given a Showing. ~ASHINGTON, Ppril 11.-The Star evening.prints the following: [he President's policy with rela to Southern appointments hg i made clear to Southern office ;er here, and there is not a little vailing.discontent. He has de ed his intention to select none but Swho have the respect of their ;hbors and who are intelligent and able. He wants to recognize young iand progressive men, who can do party good and will not act merely lerks for the party because of what r can get out of it. Any distin bed and capable man, who is Re lican In principle, whether so by wal or not, may be selected for ointment. The idea is to get rid elf-constituted leaders, who bring party into disrepute and to let rn all the barriers that keep white bctionists out. ;is reported that the President te very plainly to a Southern der" who called with a delega Slatelyto see about the appor ment of the patronage of his be. The same leader had been e many times before, and was Liing to control the patronage of State. "Now," the President is yrted as saying, after listening to tfor a moment, "you have been a several times, and I have heard .I know you, Mr.--, and w of you very well I do not ik you are the sort of man to dis ute the patronage of that State." ..el Harrison Arrested on Account of ha Alleged Libellous Pablication in His Mewspsper. EW YORK, April 1.-Russell Har n was arrested this afternoon in the : of Judge, in the Potter building, he charge of having published in er, the Mountain Li,ve 8tock Jour an article taken from a Buffalo er accusing ex-Governor John uyler Crosby, of Montana, with ing stolen jewels from a Washing r, Harrison came on from Wash ;on last night for the purpose of ing the papers in the suit served on tThe warrant was issued by go Beach of the Supreme Court, >fixed the bail at $5,000. Stephen Elkins, Vice-President Rice of the k Bank, and W. J. Arkeli, of go, became Harrisns bondsmen.