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snansitiin asen NEWBERRY, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889.PRC 15A V S A 1 CONDEMNED HIM TO DEATH. Remarkable Utterances of Colonel Page's Paper on His Assassination. [New York World.] CHARLOTrE, N. C., July 28.-The following very remarkable account of the assassination of Col. Roger J. Page at Marion Monday night last was print ed to-day in the Marion Times-Regis ter, owned and edited up to the time of death by the deceased: "This quiet town was Monday night last the scene of a terrible tragedy that shocked the whole community beyond any occurence that has ever transpired here. Col. Roger J. Page, the former editor of this paper, left town on the 3 o'clock west bound train to visit Round - Knob. He returned at midnight by the train going east, due here at 12. He >f 4etthe train in company with Judge - Hazlewood, of Texas, and one or two other gentlemen, and proceeded on foot to Dellinger Hotel. When about one hundred and fifty yards from the depot he was shot, the ball entering at the back of his neck and breaking it. He expired instantly. Several parties were present, but the glare of the head light of the engine passing the scene of the tragedy made it impossible to re cognize the form or features of the per son who fired the shot. Colonel Page fell dead at first shot, but three or four other shots were fired in quick succes sion. The facts as they can be gathered are simply these: Colonel Pag was a mar ried man, living -apart from his wife for some years, she being a resident of New York. He married the daughter of the late John Mitchel, the Irish patriot, who controlled or edited the Richmond Examiner during the war. He came to Asheville some three years ago to practice the profession of law. He became dissatisfied with the results of his efforts and some months ago came to Marion and took charge of the Bugle (newspaper) and changed its name, after a short'ltime to the Times Register. The office of the Times Register was on Court-House street, nearly opposite the dwelling house of one of our prominent citizens. He was received into the family as a visitor and looked upon as a gentleman, being a man of fine intellectual attainments, educated and cultured and a fine con veesationalist. Itsoon became evident to - those who took the trouble to observe ni were not Fion. and that he desgn torun e character of the gentleman's wife. His' visits became mr rqet until stolen visits he absece of the husband were abitually practiced and until he obtained such an influence over the wife and mother as to arouse the ouspicion of the husband. Investi tesuspicly conifirmied the latter's sus paionis onh e Colonel was notified to ces his visitS. Colonel Page sought advice froml a few gentlemen in town, protestinig his innocence of any im preper conduct or intention, but care fully concealed the worst facts bearing upon his conduct, which have since beeni made only too p)lain. He was advised to cease his visits and to go on as if nothing had occurred, for his own and the sake of the wife and motther, who must suffer if color was given to the suspicions.. Instead of ceasing his visits, as he was niotified and warned to do,-he kept up communicating with the wife, and five day's after he had received warn ing and two days preceding his death, in the absence of the husband, he again made a stolen visit to) the house whose peace he had destroyed. The deluded man seemed to be a victim of his own passion, !which unfortunately carried him to his destruction and has wrecked the peace of a family whose haP'!owed precincts his ungovernable passion led him to invade. While the killing is to be regretted, the aged parents and .connections of the ruined wife and mother, upon whom his lustful eye fell and upon ~~~hose honorable name this has been the first and only shadow that has ever been cast will have the sympathy of all honorable, thinking men. An Electric Disaster. RIeuxOND, VA., August 1.-About 12.30 A. M. a storm broke over this city, during which the' city railway stables, located just without the city limits, in the west end, were struck by w- lightning. The buildings took fire, the fiamies spread rapidly, and before aid arrived the entire structure was consumed, and sixty mules and horses were burned up. Seven street cars were also destroyed. The loss by the burning of the stables is estimated at $24000; insurance, $46,5i00, all in foreign companies. Wonmers Who Make the best Wives. Members of a Boston debating society have almost come to blows over the question, "What women make . the best wives"? Culture was claimed by many to be the first essential, love and fidelity the second, and knowledge of household duties and ability to properly perform them, the third. None of the debaters, however, thought to add that *very necessary qjual ification-health -without which a wvife is far from per fection. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Perscrip tion will renew the hue of youth in pale and sallow cheeks, correcet irrita ting uterine diseases, arrest and cure ulceration and infiammation, and issue new vitality into a wasting body. - "Favorite Prescription" in the only medicine for women, sold by druggists umder a positive guarautee from the manufacturers, that it will give satis faction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper, and THE A.MBASSADO, OF TRADE. What it Costs to Keep up the Army of Drummers--They make Binions for Their Employers. [News and Courier.] A paragraph, which has been going the rounds of the newspapers, states in effect that it costs more money to pay the salaries and expenses of the travel ling salesman of the United States than it would take to pay off the national debt. "Is there any truth in this?" asked a Reporter of a popular and well-inform ed representative of a well-known city house. The conversation took place on the spacious and breezy veranda of the New Brighton, where the tourist is quartered for a week's rest. "Well," was the, reply, "it may be a little startling, but I expect the fellow who made the statement knew what he was talking about. Lemme see," he continued in a ruminative tone of voice, "I suppose it is fair to say that there is hardly a wholesale, jobbing or com mission house in any line of business in the United States that does not have at least a single travelling representa tive, and from one lone man the tra velling force ranges up as high as 125 r I50 men, and there may be one or two houses with even more. The aver age of the most reliable estimates places the total number of commercial tourists in the country at 250,000; and, mind you, this does not mean peddlers, but only those who sell goods at whole sale.. "Now commercial tourists do not travel second class, nor do they board second class. The-railroad fares, charges for carrying sample baggage by freight or express, hotel bills and numerous incidental travellirgg expenses of these men will range between $4 and $12 per day, but.some men will spend $25 in a 'single day for-these purposes with out resorting to any extravagance. Take, for instance, some of the carpet, clothing or fancy goods men who carry ten to fifteen trunks full of samples, take a packer with them and hire a hotel parlor to display their goods whenever they open their trunks. But the number of these men is compara tively small, and $6 a day will fairly re present the average expenses of these 250,000 men. There you have $1,500,000 per day for expenses alone. Multiply this by 365, and you have $547,500,000 as the amount expended in one year. "Then there are the salaries, -con than $900 a year. The -arg'"f "' receive between $1,500 and $2,500, eith in salaries or commissions. A lesser number are paid from $3,000 to $5,000 those receiving the latter amount being co" ^aratively few. But there are travelling salesmen who are always in demand at $10,000 to $15,000 a year, but they are few and far between. The lower saiaried men predominate, as might be supposed, and an average of $1,800 per year is not far out of the way. Figuring 250,000 men at an average salary of $1,800 per year gives a total of $450,000,000 according to my arithmetic. To this add $547,500,000 for expenses, anid you have $997,500,000 for these two tems. "But there are other items to be charged against the salesman'saccount. It is impossible to give anzy accurate estimate of the cost of trunks, samples and other requisites of the travelling men, bet the items as we figure themi in our store . will give something to judge fronm. Our five men require fifteen trunks, costing $8 each, or $120. These men require two sects of samples year ly-one in the spring and one in the fall. The cost of these two sets of sam ples is about $1,000 per man. Of this $5,000 worth of goods which are re quired for samrples every year a con siderable portion is lost, while most of it is soiled and damaged .by constant handling that it has to be sold ata heavy reduction from the actual cost, or else given away. To cover this de preciation we make an allowance of 333 per cent upon the cost of the samp les. "Trunks do not need renewving every year, but repairs and replacing lost ones form quite an item of expense. From these figures it is evident that the similar expenses of greater or lesser amount borne by every wholesmale house will swell the salary and travelling ex pense item of $997,.500,000 far beyond $1000,000,000 per year. Those I think are about the figures that are paid. to travelling salesmen in this country. If that amount will pay the national debt. I don't know. The national debt oes not interest me. At present I am taking my summer vacation. Good dy;- eall in again." That Generous Offer. [American Israelite.] Baron Hirsch's generous off'er of .5(, 000,00 francs to the Russian govern ment to establish for the Russian Jews common schools, technological and ag riultural institutes, etc., was not ac cepted by the Russian government hence the_ baron can keep his 50,000.000 and employ the capital in another en terprise. The cause of Russia's refusa1 to accept the donation is unknown. The presumption is that the govern. ment does not wish to have the Jews educated and trained in advance of the orthodox Russians, of whom they are already far ahead in mental abilities and in all the ordinary trades, as well as in commerce, and advanced scholar ship. The fact that such a- generous donation wa rejected testifies again to the barbarism of the Russian govern ment and its policy to foster ignorance and poverty among the so-called lower lasses, because dynastic and autocrat THE QUIET OB.SERVER. Conclusions Forced on Him by Contem plating the Lives of His Neighbors. Where do worthless men and women come from? From worthless homes. This is probably the best direct an swer that can be given to this compre hensive query, says the Pittsburg Com mercial Gazette. Badly reared children develop into worthless men and women. This is the rule. The exceptions either way are not numerous. Occassionally you find a boy or girl in a respectable family whose instincts are low and whose tastes are inclined to be vicious. These are the "black sheep." They are not uncommon even in the best families. Is there any necessity for these being black when all the others are white? In some instances there is, because some children are born with a very-low order of moral sense just as some are born with a very low order of intelli gence. The greater number of wicked and immoral men and women, are such be cause of defective training rather than because of inherent depravity. They have not had the advantage of an en vironment calculated to develop their better natures. This should be sufficient to show the necessity of rearing children in such a way as to encourage the . development of the moral ' faculties as well as the mental. This will afford the surest pro tection to society against crime and immorality. How many of those who are inter ested in providing for neglected chil dren in foreign countries ever think of those at home who are really in a more deplorable condition than those who are engaging their attention ? Whatis to be done about it? One way is for society to take charge of every homeless child and provide for its environment that will' tend to de velop its better qualities. Who are homeless? All who are without .the means of proper educatioli and t:aining. A house and parents do not. constitute a home in Its true sense. Let society take charge of all the clxildrea that are not properly trained, whether they have pa'ents living or not.- It-will be cheaper in the end than to allow them to grow up in wicked ness until maturity, and then board them in jail or workhouses. --Besides, . is will decrease the number of crim ''"d the amount of crime, and in th Ntio improve society. Somet - %n be done by improv ing homes, b 'its'a rule those who have gone so far as to settle down to living careless. immoral' lives,. are al most hopeless. They regard their chil dren as accidents, arid have iio care for them beyond keeping themn in food and clothiing. until they.are able to take care of themiselves. What can you expect fromi a home the atmosphere of which is reeking with profanity and vulgarity? You would be surprised to find purity and refinement coniing froni it. .These are two of the miost desirable qualities in men anid women. Without them so ciety would go to sticks ini short order. They distinguish the civilized from the uncivilized. Reguations for the Ailumni ScholarAhips in the Univers1ty of South~ Carolina. 1. All applicants must be of good moral (-haraeter-not less than 16 mt r more than 20 years of age. 2. All applicants must have been resi dents of South -Carolina for the five years immediately preceding the coim petitive examination for the scholar ships. . 3. All appIlicants must satisfy the scholarship committee of their inability to go to college without the assistance of the. Alumni Association, and to this end shall forward to Captain F. H. Weston, Columbia, S. C., such a cer tificate as the committee shall direct. 4. When the above requirements shall have been complhed with,- the committee will issue to -the applicant permission to stand the competitive exanination to be held at his co'nnty seat on Tuesday, September 10, 1889. To the two best papers at these exam inations the two scholarships shall L.e awarded, provided such applicant's papers each make the grade of 60 on a scale of 1 to 100. 5. Trhese examinations shall be upon English Grammar, Mathematics, His tory and Georgraphy: I. Upon .the forms and constructions of English Gramamar. II. Upon Arithmetic in cluding the nmetre system, Algebra to equationis of the 2nd dlegree and the first three books of Geomnetry. 111. Upon the History of South C'aroiina, the History of the Uinited States and Mordern Geography and Geography of South Carolinia. 6. The following books are recom mended to those preparing for these examinations, though- others may do as wvell ; Bain's Laogical Grammar, Morris' English Grammar Primer, Davidson's History of S. C., Swinmtom's Condensed History of the United States. Any good Ar:ithmetic, Algebra and lGeomnetry. 7. All comrmunications must be sent to Capt.. F. H. Weston, by September, 1st, 1889. The Great Salt Trus~t. SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 253-Up. wards of half a million dollars has been subsribed here to the North American Salt Association, mostly by the Onon daga salt manufacturers on condition of Old Methods of Buines. [American Grocer] Before the "late unpleasantness" b tween the North and South a very larg proportion of the business was done el long credits. The wholesale jobber 0 tained long credits on goods he import ed; the home manufacturer gave lon; credits,.frequently selling his goods t the jobber on "open account," simpl; charging the goods to his customers < his books. The settling days were 1 of July and 1st of ganuary, and thei not;s were taken running from tour t six months for the amount of the ac count. These notes were then used b; the receiver by endorsing the same an' getting thehi discounted at the ban] where he kept his account. Notes o this kind were called "double nan paper," and the banks thought suel was desirable to discount; us it wa supposed that the merchant had take: precautions to know, as sar as was pot sible to know, that the notes of th, firms to whom he had given credi were good, and thn they had the ad ditional guaranty of the endorsemnto: c their customers. At that period iearl: all of the notes to be found in our bank were of this character. At the breaking out of the war we i this country first began to feel th effects of what was termed "interini revenue" taxes. On every article. tha could be taxed to best advantage ther was an internal revenue duty leviec and on many of these articles the ta was froth two to six times more tha the cost--to manufacture prior to thi duty being imposed. The taxes it wa necessary to pay before the goods coul be removed from the factory for sal This caused the manufacturer to rais large suns of money beyond th amotiut that before that time was nu cessary to pay for materials, labor an other expenses incident to the cost c production. This new state of thing changed totally the terms upon whic goods were sold, and merchandise thr prior to the time mentioned had bee selling on time varying from four t twelve months thme:terms were altere to "quick cash," (that is, from one t fous-days;] and "cash seven days," < "cash ten days," while some few-wei made "cash thirty dais." -. This state of:trade made it necessar for the jobbers to change their - term! but competition in business did n< allow them to bring their credits withi a shorter time than thirty days, so thi it became ;lecessery for .them to hat more bash capital of their own in the business, or else borrow money moi largely= to prosecute their trade. A this time firms who.were thought to t good, finding that the different articlh they dealt in took so much more cap tal to do the business than it fornierl did, and many of -our banking institi tions having more money to lend tha their customers could furnish, "doub: named" paper to uIse, the banks bega to buy from brokers .notes that we: made, as it was termed, to "sell in tl street." This being a very:easy an con venien;t mode of aeqjuirmng capit: by the makers of such notes, and fr, long period of time the notes thus mad being promnptly met at maturity, it b< came a vast credit .system. This wt extended largely by "note brokers, who had the con fidence of the oflice of banks and trust companies as to the knowledge of the character andI meat of the firms for wvhom they sol pape It. became in this city a business th assumed enornmous prop(rtious, and,; it usually happens, the ease oi raisir money in-lgis way stimulated jobbe to unduly increase their business, am also through the facilit ies afltbrded miar fims that did not have large resoure succeeded in getting their notes know~ so that they "sold on the street." But the time can when many co cerns co'uld not "'float'' thleir paper, at not hav ing tile resources to do the bu: ness they had been tranlsactinig, we obliged to fail, and large losses result to buyers of commercial paLper. TI losses thus incurredi awakened a feelit of distrust; on thle part of those wJ bought notes "maide to sell'' anid n given inl the regular way of busine for mierchandise, and the result was decided chleck to thle credit system. HIERE's A FAMILY FOR YOU. [New York Hlerald.] A large and 'interesting Mexiet famiily' sailed for Paris last Saturday the .steamship La Cham agne, of t1 Compagnie Geneanrale Transatlantiqu There were twenty-three persons< the family roster and two maids. Tl father is a Mexican official, who going over to show his "little one what Paris is like. The eldest so who is married and has his wife wi him, is thirty-five years old and ti youngest chlild in the family still n14 tIes fondly ini its nurse's arms. Til is the list of names that graced I Champaigne's passenger list: Mr. F. Madero, Mrs. Madlero, and mm Mrs. Madero and mnaid,M r. Daniel Madero, M r. Raoul Madero. Mr. Aiberto Madero Miss Mercedes Madero, Miss Maria Medero, Mis-Magdelenal MadieroMiss Barbarita Ma-le Mr. Alfonso Madero. Mr. Blenjamnin Madel Mr. Emi:io Madero, Mr. Evarlsto Mader< Miss Raf'aelo Ma,derO, Mr. Salvadlor Made: Miss (3braiel MadeltrO. Mr. Ernesto Madero~ Miss Angela M::dero, Mr. Mlannelt Maudero, Mr. Julio' Matdero, Mr. .Jose Madero. Mr.-E. Made.ro, "Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy a: wise." says the olden-time nursery rhyni but we think thlat "Early to drink from the fonntain health Will bring both the wisdom ann mnue longed for wealth," and that fountain is to be found in I Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, t: world-famed remedy for impurities the blood. It cures Scrofulous So: and Swellings, Skin and Scalp diseas Tetter, Salt-rheunm and all blood-tain A BOOM OR A BUBBLE. The Vital Question Charlestonians are Now Asking Themselves. e (Special to The Register.] CHARLESTON, August f.-Is it a boom ora bubble? That's the question that a good many people in Charleston ~ are asking themselves at this time 4 anent the unheard-of number of new industries that are being started. The t old-timers can scarcely bring them selves to believe what they read. , Nevertheless there must be something at the bottom of this industrial cyclone. The concrete facts are that a halt a a dozen or more new enterprises have been inaugurated within the past thirty days. There is the Royal Bag e Factory, which has just doubled its 2 capital; the Mutual Carpet Company, a which is said to have paid 67 per cent. a of its capital stock since its inaugura tion; the mattress factory was organiz e ed to-day, and several others already t mentioned in The Register. Then there - are two new banks inaugurated since f January last, the stock of both of which as already quoted are 20 to 25 percent. s above par. What does all this mean? Can it be possible that the rich men of a Charleston have at last realized that if e they expect to live and do business in .1 the place where they made their for .t tunes, they must unload their bank e vaults, sell out some of their govern ment bonds and invest their money in x enterprises that will give the 'thousands a of their struggling fellow-citizens a s chance to live and to feed their wives a and children? It would look so, al though as yet the names of none of these millionaires appear on the board e lists of the new enterprise. There are e to-day in this city at least 6,000 idle men and boys fit to work, and upon d them depend at least 80,000 womenand if children. How do they live? No one knows. Think of what the inaugura b tion of a score or more of small factories t would do for these-think of the effect n upon the city if these 6,000 idle but willing workers were given employ d nient. Is it a boom or a bubble? The o question is a vital one for Charleston, r A COTTON OIL REFINERY. . An application' for a charter for the Charleston Cotton Oil Refinery was forwarded from here to-day. The capital stock is to be $200,000, and the origi -t nators have already secured a site on n the water front and the promise of all 1t the money needed. An opportunity, e however, will be afforded all the i'n ir dependent cotton seed oil mills 4n the .e State to subscribe and bicome inter i ested in the enterprise. The company grew out of the needs of the oil mills in the State dutside of those controlled by the Standard Oil Trust for a refinery. THE CHAUTAUQUA SCHEME. 1- The Register correspondent has been n at some pains to investigate the rumors e that have .been published here as to Sthe inauguration of a summer chau e tauqua on Sullivan's Island niext year. e He is unable to divulge the names of d the promoters of the enterprise, but he Ll has undoubted evidence that a bona a fide effort is being made to accomplish e it, and that affatirs have progressed so .far that the association is now trying Sto purchase a lot on the islan<d where " upon to erect the pavilions and cot rs tages. irThe Anniversary or the crater. r. [Richmond Trinmes, July 31.] t-A nunmber of middle aged citizens of Richmond will remember that yester iday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the hottest da' that the Confederate d soldier ever saw. as far as a combina tion of t'ae weather aind man's power could work up the temperature. The 'remarkable battle of the Crater opened at daybreak with a terudfic explosion of the mine that shook the eatrth and ech oed to the heavens and bhck again. A ppalled by the sudden stroke and re thue destruction of the battery and a part of the South Carolina brigade that e were blown in the air, the Confederates ~staggered back for a while and the Federal troops charged and took the asalients. The Federals pressed into the broken lines, but the Confederates re a covered themselves quickly and there ensuetl one of the mzost desperate fights of the war. TIhere have been critical discussions about this passage-at-arms, and as to whom was due the credit of restoring the lost battle. We arc not mI writing history, and only celebrate the m anniversary with one point of fact ie wvhich we can vouch for, and that is e. that the Richmond Otey Battery, )n commnanded by Capt. David Walker, e had a good part of the work, and did it is well. The Richmond boys not only p" worked their own guns, but manned a n, gun of another hattery that did some th of the best work of the day. 2e All Virginians will be glad to re s- member lfow that knightly soldier, Col. i John Haskell, of South Carolina, dis a tinguished himself that day, as he al -wy did when theaopportunuity offered. RI The final charge 'that restored the line was made about noon b)y Mahone's division. -o, Colonel Hillary Jones and other dis 2 tinguished officers of the artillery have -claimed that this famous fight was won by the artillery, and without pretend ing to write history, we are inclined to agree with that idea. idThe 0Otey Battery boys, of Richmond, think so and they ought to know. .e, "Ini sooth, 't was an awful day." Over Six Thousand Perished. JohNsTowN, Pa., July 24.-The Pr. Bureau of Imformnation to-day handed de in its report, showing that 6,111 persons shad perished by the flood ini the Cone > maugh Valley. .It is estimated that Big and Little Charities. [Richmond Times.] The "widow's mite" has been miser ably caricatured and abused in later times as a very fine cloak for very lit tle ineannesses. "My mite" is what the skinflint calls all his infinitesmal donations; and under that name he expects to escape discredit and . do a good deal of very cheap charity. By such misuse the magnanimity of the first nameless saint who gave her all to God has lost somewhat of its glory and blessed influence. So, too, great chari ties and public benefactions have been deprived of their splendor by the self ish ambition and vulgar display of the benefactors. Left hand and right have co-operated in publishing gifts; and whole bands of mmisic have .broke forth, and cannons boomed to announce the gift of a church. A great old grabber has photographed for show the cheek that carried his gift, and given his nanle and face to hand down avarice and ugliness to posterity. Old age comes on, desire fails, the stale, flat and unprofitable set in and death orders to loosen the grip, and the old wretch proposes to "hold his own" by giving his ill-gotten gains to an institution that shall bear his name and be a monumental lie. All this sounds harsh; is bitter to di gest; but is not this land full of its il lustrations, in the way of asylums, hos pitals, colleges, universities, and even memorial churches and windows, in tended to impose on posterity as saints men who in their lifetime were a shame and a reproach. Fortunately for the world, these great things pass as benefactions, as examples of liberality, as offerings to virtue and the general good. And for tunately the meanness, the hardness and depravity of the wretched accu mulation passes into oblivion, drop like discordant notes, and only the good survives. So the Almighty has ordained. "To the sinner He giveth trayail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God." Little charities and big charities may easily pass intoa fashion, and lose all the life and-character that makes them refreshing, honorable or :good. Ac cording to the Apostle, men may, in their lifetime, give all their goods to a hospital or preach like Chrysostoni, and yet be as soulless as hogs. Nay, even a veritable poor widow may give her all to the church, when true affee tion would spend it at home, or give the hospital time stolen from her chil dren, and be no better than a heathen. The world makes great mistakes in its estimates and measures. And it makes woeful mistakes inits ideas of the uses and possibilities of wealth. The surplus manna that the greedy Israelites gathered turned to worms and testified against the possessor. Money will hold to the end the charac ter of its getting. And the greedy, heartless knave will find that millions will fail to give him purity of thought, gentlenees of manners, liberality of the soul, or kindness of heart. Old habits of sellishness rule him like devils. It is a pity that the world so fastens charity and goo-iness to gifts or splendid acts. A man's life consists not in the abun dance that he possesses. And the heaviest and the commonest sufferings of life are beyond the reach of meterial aid. "Not as the world giveth I you," were the words of the kindest of men, and the earliest alms giving was the order, "Stand upright oni thy feet!" Manly words. The source of all true charity is a warm heart and a bountiful and kindly soul. The possessor of these knows no distinction of big or little charities. A word in; season, timely and hearty, may save a life-nay, a soul. To such a one Time's changes and the various acci dents and conditions of life are like the blasts and breezes that diffuse and scat ter fragrance and good seeds; that dash from the full -bosom cheering, encour aging,enlivening influences, in a thou sand forms, pleasant, familiar, and nat ural. To live is to bless. The possessor is as "a covert from the tempest, a hid ing place from the wind, as rivers of water in a dry place, and the shadow of agreat rock in aweary land." The dust may return to the dust as it was, but the spirit surely returns to the God that gave it. The Bob Toomnbs Oak. A T HENs, July 26.--Yesterda.', during the shower of rain, a loud crashing noise was heard on the campus, and a Bannter reporter hastened to the scene, expecting to find the walls of the old Richardson house, which are now beind replastered, crumbled to the earth. But such was not the case. The noise was caused by the falling of one of the large branches of the old Bob Toombs oak, in front of the col lege chapel. It was one of the main limbs of the tree, which reached over the walk beside the chapel steps, and wa the .samne limb that shaded the great statesman on the occasion of his graduating speech, from which event he state-worn oak dates its name. Among the Trusts. CoLrMBts, GA., July 26.-A formal proposition has been made to many leading Southern cotton mills by a syndicate of English and Eastern capi talists for the purchase of their plants with a view of combining interests ini one central trust company, in the same manner that cotton seed oil mills have heretofore combined. The letters of proposal are now in the hands of va rious mill owners in this city. No steps have been tak'en, but there Is no know ing the final esult. CLARKSON BEATS THE RECORD He has Removed 9000- More Postmasters in the Same Space of Time than Mr. Vilas. {From the New York Sun.] WASrrGToN, July 28- Represen tative Milton Delano, of New York, was in the city this week interviewing the postmaster general about some changes in the postoffices in this dis trict. Some one asked him how he was getting along with the postoffice de partment. "Pretty well," he replied. "There are 190 fourth-class postmasters in my district and 140 of them are now run by Republicans. The others pay so little that there is no demand for a chan;e. I am pretty well satisfied with the Administratio4." If the fourth classs postoffices were the only offices under the Government in which immediate changes were desired, there would not be much cause for dissatisfaction; in fact, this would be the most popular Adminis tration with the office-seekers in the history of the Government. First As sistant Postmaster General Clarkson has fully met every expectation of the members of Congress. In the space of time in which Mr. Vilas, fouryears ago, removed 4,000 postmasters of the fourth class, Mr. Clarkson removed 13,000. His best record was 1,015 in one week. He is making removals now -at the v rate of about 600 per week. At this rate it will not be long before the 55 A 000 fourth class postoffices in the coun try are iq the hands of good repub licans. The doctrine which Mr. Clarkson so ( well.exemplified in his works he does h not hesitate to preach. It was Mr. a Clarkson who went to the President at c a time when there was great complaint i in the work of making room for good J Republicans in the public offices, and I said to him: "Do you think you would have been I elected if the people had thought you i were going to do this? How. many fi votes.do you think you would have 0 had in the Chicago Convention if .the u men there had believed that you were a going to leave Democrats in office so 1 long?" -l THE COLOR LINE IN GRAVEYARDS. C A Cemetery Company Refuses Burial to a t Negro Soldier. ] [From. the Philadelphia Evening Tel egraph.1 . NoRISToN, July 30.-Something of asensation was created in Grand Army of the Republic circles here last week. by the refusal of the Montgomery Cem etery Company to permit the inter ment of the body of a colored veteran a who died in the alms house. The de ceased was Henry Johnson, late-of the 3d United~ States colored troops. . His death occurred at the alms house a few days after he had been put there. Zook1 Post was requested to- attend to his burial and consented to do so, and their undertaker directed the sexton of the cemetery to dig a grave in the lot do nated by the cemetery company for the gratuitous interment of indigent ex soldiers. The sexton reported - the matter to an official of the cemetery company, who. objected to the man's burial there. This action, of course, created no little feeling amongst the old veterans, who referred to the fact that a family had been allowed to bury their dog in the family lot in the cem etery. When seen this morning the cemetery official explained his course by saying that, inasmuch as the lot had been donated, he thought the managers ought to be.consulted before burying a colored man there. "If," he said, "the veterans thought so much of Johnson, they should not have sent him to the alms house, but should have found a place for him at some soldiers' home." This explanation, it is thought, will satisfy the belligerents, and peace will reign over the.body of the colored preserver of the Union. Frank Lesnie's Popular Magazine for August The completion and dedication of the National Monument to the Fore fathers, at Plymouth, Mass., the corner stone of which was laid thirty years ago, gives timeliness to the well writ.n and beautifully illustrated ar ticle on "The Pilgrim Fathers," which leads off' this niumber ef Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Author V. Abbot interestingly describes the cantilever bridge over the Hudson River to Poughkeepsie. N. Y. "The Military Road of the Caucasus," by P. J. Popoff, gives a picturesque apcount of this marvelous highway of Russia's Asian conquests. Ensign Wilkinson, of the Navy. gives a valuable and authorita tive account of "The United States Hydrographic Office; its Evolution, its Achievements." Other illustrated arti cls are: "An Old French City" (Bour ges); "In the Acadian Land."; "Tu renn'e," Louis XIV.'s great general; etc. Theshort stories, illustrated poems, miscellanious essays, etc., are up to the first-class standard, and the new lite rary department begun in this number promises to be a valuable feature. Big Crops in Texas. DENIsoN, TE.X., Aug. .-The Herald says: "Our canvass of nearly every part of Texas shows that the reports of Ithe corn, cotton and wheat crops have been under estimated. From nearly every county there is cheering news. Such cotton was riever before seen. "Wheat and oats are up to the aver age. The prospects for 2,000,000 bales of cotton are good if the weather holds for a fortnight longer." The Southern Girl. Her dimpled cheeks are pale; She's a lily of the vale, Not a rose. In a muslin or a lawn She is fairer than the dawn, To her beaux. Her boots are thin and neat, . She is vain about her feet, It is said. She amputates her r's, But her eyes are like the stars Overhead. On a.balcoiiy at night, With a fleeey-cloud of white Round her hait, Her grace, ah, who could pairt? See would fascinate a saint, I declare. 'Tis a matter of regret, She's a bit of a coquette, Whom I sing. On her cruel path she goes, With a half a dozen beaus On her string. But let that all pass by, And her maiden moments f Dew empearled. When she marries, on my life, She will make the dearest wife In the world. Montgomery Advertiser. VILD WOMAN OF THE MOUNTAfliSI .n Exciting Adventure in which aDsro ter of Senator Butler Figure. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2i.- -- aughter of Senator Butler, of Southg arolina, who is summering at fountain, Maryland, had quite -: dventure yesterday afterpoonwIth t emented creature who lives in i cve the mountains. With a daughter udge Thayer, of Philadelphia, utler was chatting in the shm Louse on the lower lawn wFien the ag made her appearance. She miost hideonis form and isca righten any one. Her height is a ver f,hree feet, her face the acw gliness, while the nails upon he nd hands are from two to three )ng and as black as ink. Notas ias she in her head, so that she numbles her wants and desiiesl an yell loud enough, however ras one of her shrieks that fi raeted the attention of the ladies toM ler body was almost nude, a. few ewed together answering for;a s soon asithe ladies saw h afastas they-eoodto the4io iag ran, too, and might haveo h4m, had not Mr. James P. .ad several other gentlemen :.rml heir rescue. ~ The-old woman w a A*eer and cautipned never he Blue Mountain grounds s well known to the mountaiuee;' s regarded as a harmless"creatw* s called the wild woman'of the. ains, a'nd is frequentlyqo. a'ughty children by -indiscreefi bladame Die. Debar Placed is a-e (Baltimiore American. : Madame Dis Debar, the spoo ~ss, who came so promnentli ie notice by her remarkable -ih >ver Luther Marsh, the astute lawyer, has now gone into are which-may or may not bep Her recent flat failure wiUtH had.the effect of 1areaking her up, pletely as a public curiosity, tog rnade occasional small sums by giv sittings and selling pietares pained spirit hands. With her extravgy tastes, however, the''few dollars tht she received in this way were entireyZ insufficient to supply.her wants. S'e rnoved into a fashionable neighborhooi - with no better success; and was finalff turned out of her apartmentson T r day last because she could not pay he rent. Some admirer had given her several bottles of wine, and althia~~ she had hitherto not been alovrel, strong drink, her load of troubledr der to seek forgetfulness in the wn Her actions of late had not been of b. most gentle and amiable kind an mnd with the added stimulus of her bations she became so untractles ~he kind friend who had taken her ould no longer put up with her, a naisted upon her finding other quir ~ers. Another old believer, hearing - mier plight, look her to a Brooklyn e rent, where she will be cared for - ong as she chooses to stay. Only a fe' people know to what convent she 1is~ aen taken, and they refuse .to s wvhich one it is, as their object in;sen ug her there was to give her are1'a 'rom the gaze and comment of the p ic. Madame Dis Debar is a Rm .atholic, and has always professed strongest faith in her religion. iaid that it was by means of this ad ~ross which she always had wlt bhat she was able to command habitants of the spirit world.: E Sloo Reward. The readers of the Hrb. News will be pleased to lesas thereis at least one dreaded diseae icience has been able to curelinalt8 stages, and that is Catarrh. ~ Datarrh, Cure is the only posite now known to the medical 1 Datarrh being a constitutional requires a constitutional t Hall's Catarrah Cureis takea~ acting directly upon the i4 mucus surfaces of thesyt, destroying the foundation of wd giving the patient sr building up the constitution ng nature in doing itswe. proprietors have so much surative powers, that q Rundred 7Dllars for an~ge rails to cure. Send for ~ ilals. Addres F. J. CEEl O natSold by DruaistaJ.