The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, November 14, 1889, Image 1

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NEWBERRY, S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1889. .PRICE $1.50 A YEA 1: just a the pupi justice an< ooI room. This heerful, healthfu ere. Let there be a: e of unmeaping worl r classes. Try 'so make 1 efforts definite and intelli r. Edward Everett says he repeated may e old rule about some verbs govern tion. ' ing the accusative and genitive cases ble attempt at thiM d times before he was sofor I beg. the etfport d tunateasto neet a teacherwho thoughi tion of all. I solicit it worth while togive any explanetion an educational nature that He adds if the rule had been for th y be disposed to contribute, verbs to poison these cases it would or original on the theory have been all the same to him. You education or methods of may fall into the very faults which - provoke you in your pupils. Are they thing more stimulating to in danger of going mechanically and of teaching than an ex- unintelligently through theirwork? So thods.. There are many may you through yours. Are they in the same thing, and by danger of being satisfied with lesson of ideas. teachers are af- getting? So may you be satisfied with portunity of selecting the lesson-hearing without regard to mean There are so many ad- ing or results. Your chief work is not be derived from this means to detFct, expose or punish ignorance, but little use to emulate but to remove it. hope, from time to time, to Wake up the minds of your scholars ve some methods of teach- by all means. A lesson from the book mary branches, knowing or newspaper, or from life; an accident of work is what the ma- in the room, the play hground, the teachers of the county are neighborhood; an item from the daily and also a part of the work j paper; cyclone or freshet, or riot; the that should be done right, tower in Paris, or the bird's nest in the e word rigid that the very yard-any one of these, or all of them, o ie used to induce wimay help you. Take advantage of any active growth of the local historical association. From the es. gullies around the schoolhouse to the -sprout never makes a bright stars above it by night, press all nor willa child reach those things into your service as object les ents he would under sons. The little spring branch, followed circumstanes far enough,.will lead you to the great ly -more to be accom- ocean. Wake up the moral impulses primary teacher than and aspirations of pupils. Our country professor. For the errors is not suffering greatly from lack of can be exposed while smart men and women. W need good are concealed. men and -women; wise coixcerning evil. in youth while the Aim touprepare your scholars not merely c,itfis capable of receiv- for examination but for life. Build ressions as will be basting up yourself and them by al means. ng of his education. A When Charles Kingsley (minister of has said, u give me a Church ofEngland) was entering pro first six years of his school fessiona clf he i rote to a friend: "I not who has him t ere- go to tie humble parish which is to be the, time. If this be so, my prison or my palace. Please God conclusions are that it shall be my palace. Go to your rs of the school alie are school room, however bumble, and by -till such principles ato, faithful, reverent service makeit your will be lasting and sut- palace.it-o seveaobcls the chitd's destiny. son e at of the Confederate Soldier. should be-very fare e young, for Batimore Sun. so will he be apt Lord Wolseley has written some in a majority of cases teresting articles on the devotion of the O. A YOUNG Southern soldiers to their great co TEACHER. ander, Lee, and has mentioned in stances of conspicuous courage in refer ET . H. CARLISLE. ring to them. But perhaps the most remarableexamledoutherideotio not caleh o h sem e onwre-efon ntepefc otn the. school in hich bon wihwihso,brehneaott lie-ork.lusioare ea-tavto,ndhrsisthatcol yo woud lke t gi ean.ei Weae waupar ther smuserig n neve feelsbis o nd arsirteose of thels war ounsthe eny a whn yongecsm te Fdwoeal soders hengo apeallik tha!) n tey aptd-mn wis C onere,n evil. errptin,a yomay orn examnavescIon bthi way, bie.tBuil ned he crren of upha yoer,n they wer ale toeans. and yurqustionwashcnuin Chresecingslhe (mniton of Reclligyurisi,Churc CofEefand) comary n erigprt fewsugesios, hihfent.onan mus ie,t a fnd: asth show mydesiretokee soih4 carriehi ratios wih has tonbe peatin some istake the iont of his avrackleo hers ave ade efor hl.bel y totl p alae. thtoi tonyoue rnge neibrood notf aresooeroom, fromweelumble adiby rl t ha a price ito. eineo igii ode h a wil you lagainst the gss atredtFieFrs,aot-ot cesofse h dety gobfr e' uredr ews u shon d ve pvery~ dare oteFeea~-m, i apos teaheris shme ndfaversacl, "Aernd servc aea ithyu hich esuposeveryfewTave!'stnc oldeCnfrt soldier. tmr ep ourreptatin ad "ord woldee ha thougte Isme is graty end kaesyu aka a f onadtoodcb ~ersstraght.If yu e erbae stgacl s on hdledvotion th '~ dpscale to ts iea thmsnetedyneoe Jhn, :"aeyuay saiunfte ake,'f ' abe h youin interes like the yogive eere w y sag''u n~ find,ver ll i popewn f s' ot nuhayo,btt enny ase n eryoog er adb eetrtowudmk evr appeallik than.!) i nowrtliigaal. wsea truption, adgs you tomay Igtpetysc fth ido yed etheo thesent goenfn te gouurnigii ake yoneur qetwon godasevrlyasatrtewrn .ou teacaling Atten caehietsit,ne dcntoe fesiugestiBu o, ofhIch nhr ery wnyyas n swho myou desreso. bueepdrte g aktom a peatinga tombein msakes fcrnadcbag tlha obc ~reis n n at, r kac, andter bLee,-anda das meone in stancesiofd'ospicuousayouagecin-refer .~ ad grat reultsm ryarkabl oetamep le f their et. wasot sofouniintteacrfetncoten an tech eficienlyth whic the baiore Aunerianot]t salvt, hanw stor.shis tha t isonl ~princile manmay noe himefi hapene while he knew ona ~pe deectve o poiceTewers te close iof tiaiowa tip a very dfferent of egeeral spiritwers, plhn .th poer, capte SatCodra, ino negxam -aine shivr,crduro troes and bete in scoo ar neesaryft hat, an aner iteered mbleofr oldin is ncesayto nclusionsty resctingno theenin mrk ilng Bos ereno amenoodt. arms th lissoan ash sld(,ieercred,n his paieonsf hehs ady, yourruls. ourrulsthll dwnded on and av tra sfle ohepbs.haverd boyredkl to lla onl thappt sidetongu o beome aman w oulde ta. AlThe raidyan cmort"h wsange igh booomk loigtd,btheSnorcud not cher putnshn oro m n.Thir o aeo, et"rmr r mha oattoh. Wh inais hr he atlt o cTes ofiso mewodr of godoeo h lyr."htdeetei. itth roo mu o fpinionSntr et."ag eifIl l, an ver po en so,ns hsene h let pusetate pae gaow A DEMOCRATIC SWEEP. Ohio, New York and Iowa Join the Ranks -The Victory in Virginia. FORAKER PURLS HIS FLAG. COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6.-Al len W. Thurman has sent the follow ng: "COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6.-To the Hon. Grover Cleveland, New York: Governor Foraker has surrendered all the Republican flags in Ohio." The Republican State committee at 1 p. m., concedes the election of Camp bell and admits that the Legislature is Democratic in both branches. At 1 o'clock this afternoon Governor For aker sent the following telegram: "COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6.-To the Hon. James E\ Campbell, Hamil ton, Ohio: To the full extent that a defeated candidate can do so with pro priety, allow me to offer my congratu lations and assure you it will give me pleasure to extend you every courtesy I can show you in connection with your inauguration and the commence ment of your administration. "J. B. FORAKER." IT WAS A CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION. CLEVELAND, November 7.-Com plete returns from Cleveland city and county give Foraker 20,403 votes and Campbell 18,168. Foraker ran from 809 to 1,500 votes behind his ticket-in fact he was cut by Republicans in nearly every one of the one hundred precincts in this county. Eight Re publican candidates for the General Assembly were elected by an ample plurality, and the results in this county, all things considered, met with the ex pectations of Governor Foraker's friends. In Nortbern Ohio the -Democrats lost and gained votes in spots. In Sum mit county, of vchich the flourishing city of Akron is the capit$l, the Repub lican loss was something like 1,100. Akron is a manufacturing city, and the tariff was niade more or less of an issue in the campaign there. Late this evening the impression prevails here, and it is based on a careful review of all the returns now at hand, that the Democrats have a majority of two in the House of Representatives and pdssi bly a majority of two in the Senate. If this should prove to be the case a Democrat will succeed Henry B. Payne in the Senate of the United States. The Senatorial election will occur in January, 1890. Ohio has been known as a Republi can State where all the Republicans vote, yet it ha' never been represented at Washington by two Republican Sen ators. Senator Sherman has always had a Democratic colleague, and now Mr. Payne, who is a very old man and who says that he will not be a candi date for re-election, will be followed by another Democrat. IT LOOKS LIKE A LANDSLIDE. COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6. The Democratic State committee is claiming the election of Campbell by a plurality of 12,000 to 15,000, and the rest of the ticket by pluralities ranging from 4,000 to 8,000. These conclusions are reached from meagre returns and mostly by estimates, but are believed to be reliable within the range of plu ralities which are given. The Republican committee have nothing upon which they can reliably dispute the figures, further than they do not think the plurality of Campbell will reach over 8,000 or 10,000, and that the rest of the State ticket will not be elected by more than 2,000 or 3,000 plu rality. Both committees and chairmen seem to be agreed that the Democrats carry the Legislature in both branches. It is not probable the figures as agreed upon as to membership will be changed from that which has already been an nounced, though in some counties they do not have conclusive information. From the best at hand gathered from both headquarters the House will stand: 61l Democrats and 53 Republi cns, and Senate 19 Democrats and 17 Republicans. This would give the Democrats a majority of ten on joint :allot. THE VICTORY IN VIRGINIA. RICHMOND, VA., November 6.-Out f one hundred counties in tIs State seventy-nine have been heard from, m ad out of fourteen cities returns have een receivedi'from nine. Every city and county shows a gain for McKinney ver the vote of 1888. Thus far the Democrats have elected 70 members to he House of Delegates and 29 to the Senate.. The composition of the last Legislature was: House, 63 Democrats, 7 Republicans; Senate 26 Democrats, 4 Republicans. The latest estimate of he vote of the State gives McKinney 0,000 majority. FORTY THOUSAND MA JORITY. RICHMOND, VA., November 6.-The Richmond Dispatch will publish a tab lated statement to-morrow, giving cKinney a majority of 41,000. MARYLAND. BALTIMORE, November 6.-The Leg slature will certainly be Democratic, ut the returns show that there were ome surprises and changes. The Leg slature has 117 members, 26 in the Senate and 91 in the House of delegates. n the last senate there were 22 Demo crats and 4 Republicans; in thbe House 1 Democrats and 20 Republicans. One aalf the Senators hold over. New Senm ators were elected in the 1st district of Baltimore city and in twelve counties. The new Legislature, from' the latest returns, will stand; Senate, 18 Demo crats, and 8 Republicans, a gain of 4 Republicans; House, 55 Demnograts and 36 Republicans, a gain of 16 Republi cas, and a total of 20 Republican gains 1in both houses. THE EMPIRE STATE. T NEW YORK, November 6.-The fol lowing estimate is made on the result e in New York State: Plurality for Rice, Democrat, for secretary of State, 20,906; Legislature-Senate, 19 Republicans, 13 Democrats; Assembly, 67 Republi cans, 59 Democrats. In this year's Leg islature there were 20 Republicans and 12 Democrats in the Senate, and 79 Re publicans and 49 Democrats in the al Assembly. EXCHANGING CONGRATULATIONS. a: ALBANY, N. Y., November 6.-Gov. Hill telegraphed Governor Fitzhugh CA Lee to-day his congratulations on the c Democratic success in Virginia yester- , day, to which he received the follow- y ing reply: "Accept my thanks foryour telegram. The old Commonwealth fought with splendid success against the blandish- F ments of the Administration of Wash ington, some Cabinet officers and the v reckless exercise of Federal patromige, T the oratory of numerous Republican a Congressmen and Senators from out side, and the grease poured copiously i on her soil from fat fried from the man ufacturers. "Virginia sends her congratulations b to New York. FITZHUGH LEE." tl THE INDEPENDENCE OF IOWA. ft DuBUQUE, IOWA, November 6.-The is Herald has returns from 67 counties in to the State. These give Boies a plurality iI of 13,090. The remaining 32 counties in fc 1887 gave a Republican plurality of is 11,298. On this basis Boies already has a plurality of 1,792 in 67 counties, so R that all gains in the remaining 32 coun- H ties will simply add to his plurality. R If the same ratio of Democratic gains at continues through the other thirty-two tc counties Boies will have a plurality in T the State of 8,000 to 10,000. It is now 8. impossible to defeat him and his plu- h, rality is only a question of gains in the B remaining one-third of the State. So m far there is no county, with one or two PI exceptions, but shows a Democratic B gam.* e In counties so far heard from there is p1 an average gain of 365 to each. The to majority of Boies runs up to'more than ki 6,000. He is almost certain to take up la the balance of the ticket with him. s Dubuque County in full gives 4,295 w majority for Boies, and every man on n the Democratic ticket is elected. Senator Allisob is now badly fright- y ened lest the Legislature may also be fa lost. - The Register (Rep.) says: "Returns from every legislative district show that tb the next Legislature will stand: Senate, Republicans 28, Democrats 22: Htise, S Republicans 52, Democrats 47; doubt ful 1." THE LATEST RETURNS. fi DES MOINES, IOWA, November 6.- d< Full returns from 95 counties, and the hi remaining four counties estimated, the pi same as two years ago, show thatBoies, hi Democrat, has 5,995 plurality. The of- '5 ficial returns will undoubiedly increase te this majority to about 7,000. ki The entire Democratic State ticket, sa Lieutenant Governor, Justice of the pc Supreme Court, superintendent of pub- er lic instruction and railway commis- hi sinner, is elected. -The Republicans th claim the Legislature by eight majority on joint ballot, but the Democrats do lii not concede more than three. be THE JERSEY vICTORY GROWs. p1 JERsEY CITY, November 6.-Later th returns from various portions of New P1 Jersey indicate increased Democratic c gains. Leon Abbett's plurality for W Governor is now believed to exceed t 10,000. The political complexion of the se State Senate is still in doubt and hinges be upon Atlantic County. The Deniocrat- s ic State committee is equally confident of the re-election of Senator Gardner. m The Assembly will consist of 38 Demo crats and 22 Republicans. sl PROHIBITION PLAYED OUT IN NEW JER-0 SEY. r NEWARK, N. J., November 6.--TheN Prohibition vote throughout the State showed a great falling off. At the last th Gubernatorial election the party polled e. about 20,000 votes, and less than half that number was polled yesterday. The total prohibition vote in Essex County ro foots up only 597. A CLOSE VOTE IN THE OLD BAY STATE. wi BOSTON, November 6.-Returns have foi now been received from every town in sh the State except Gosold, which has he about twenty voters. The final figures, Cc which may be slightly changed in the da official returns, give: Brackett, Repub- $2 lican, 126,792; Russell, Democrat, 120,- afl 813; Blackmer, Prohibitionist, 13,854; lef Brackett's plurality, 5,975. In 1887 Amer, Republican, had 136,000; Dov ering, Democrat, 118,394; Earl, Pro- in hiibitionist, 10,94.5. in, REJOICING AT BIRMINGHAM. no BIRMINGHAM, ALA., November 6.- H1 Birmingham is engaged to-night in th celebrating the Democratic victories of ra Tuesday with bonfires, Roman candles and skyrockets. The shouts are all for S'I Campbell, interest having centered in the Ohio contest. AN ELECTION OUTRAGE IN VIRGINIA. he DANvILLE, November 6.-The peo- Ft pie of South Boston, Haiifax County, af< are still terribly excited over the at- th tempted assassination yesterday of the L~ Hon. R. R. Noblin and others by ne-C groes, who fired on the party from am- u bush. Noblin was shot in the eye and u Julian Chappell was shot, but not se riously. Three negroes have been ar rested and were brou.ght here to-night for safe-keeping. b .A Year in Jail for a Chew of Tobacco. [Si [From the Philadelphia Press.] na SCRANTON, Nov. 2.--Patrick White, an who was convicted this week ofstealing a .chew of tobacco from James Carroll, a half wild boy, who refused to give him any, was to day sentenced to one year's imprisonment and to pay a fine of $100 HE STORY OF MAHONE'S AREST. e Says He did not Shoot Young Harrison, But the Mayor of Petersburg does not Believe Him, and Holds Him in $2,500 Bail. PETERSBURG, VA., November 6. he particulars of the arrest of Gen. [ahone, last night, on the charge of iooting young Harrison, his tempo ry confinement in the station house, id his subsequent release on bail, are follows: About 9.30 o'clock it was evident, ac >rding to the returns, that the Demo 'ts had scored a decided victory. he result was that some of the best ung men in the city organized them Ives in a serenading band, armed ith a liberal supply of fireworks, apd roceeded to celebrate the victory. rom Sycamore street they marched to [arket street, and thence to a point try near Gen. Mahone2s residence. here they fired off Roman candles id baby-wakers until theil merriment as interrupted by a volley, which, it alleged was fired from Gen. Mahone's ard. Only one man was shot, however. e was Mr. Herbert P. Harrison, of te firm of Gilliam & Harrison, con ctionery. A warrant was at once med for Mahone's arrest, and he was .ken into custody, and while detained the lock-up, Mayor Collier was sent r. The case was heard and the fol wing evidence was adduced: The first witness sworn was Chas. amie, son of a New Yorker, but for any years engaged in business here. e testified that he and his friends arted up Sycamore street and went a point opposite Mahone's house. here they fired off several. pieces of eworks, and then either Gen. Ma )ne, Butler, his son, or ex-policeman erry discharged firearms into their idst. The General himself was ainly visible, as were also Berry and utler, when witness heard Harrison :claim he was shot. Then in com mny with friends, he crossed the street Mahone's gate, where he was iocked down by Berry, either by the tter's fist or by a pistol which he was >urishing in his hand. His testimony as corroborated by that of other wit eses. The evidence of C. E. Burton, cor borated by Romaine, established the et that Harrison was shot by some rson in the front yard of Mahone's >use, and that Gen. Mahone acted on e offensive. Car Lodelli distinctly heard three ots fired from Mahone's yard. He W Mahone with a gun in his hands. Myer Saal heard two or three shots ed. "I saw Gen. Mahone with a uble-barrel breech-loading gun in s hands. One of the gentlemen ex essed to Gen. Mahone surprise about s having a gun, and the General said: es this is my gun.'" Saal further tified that Mahone said "he would 11 any one entering his yard, at the me time clapping his hand on his cket, and he would protect his prop y. The General was standing near B gate, and the shot was fired from at point." Mahone said: "I was sitting in my rary in conversation with Mr: Camp 1 and Col. Barbiere. I heard the ex rsion of fireworks in the street until ey got to my house. Some were ex oded in my yard. The loud reports used the impression that firearms are being used in my yard. Desiring protect my property I walked out and zed my gun as passed. I saw a num r of persons at my gate, one of whom i.:"You have a gun, shoot, -- you.' ialked down the steps. ~One of the en said: 'We are only celebrating.' I lied: 'That's all right, but don't oot on my premises.' The nmen went t and others came up from below. i of them said: 'You have a gun.' I plied; 'Yes, I have a right to have it.' t a gun or pistol was fired that I ow of from the time I went out of e library to the end of the affair. I -tainly did not shoot, and I neither iv nor heard anyone else shoot." Zen. Mahone's statement was cor orated by Jas. C. Campbell. rhe mayor said that the evidence s of a character to establish cause the belief that Mahone fired the ot that wounded Harrison, and that would sand the case on to Hustings urt, but as Harrison's wound was not ngerous bail would be allowed in ,500. Bond was given, and shortly er midnight Mahone and his friends t the station honse for their homes. THE EXCITEMEN r DYING OUT. PETERSBURG, VA., November 6th. :erest in the alleged Mvahone shoot g case has died away. The case will t come up until the meeting of the stings Court in January. Harrison, a man who was shot, is improving ~idly. ATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, )1 LUCAs COUNTY, S. S. J E~'ANK J. CHENEY makes oath that is the senior partner of the firm of J. Cheney & Co., doing business in a City of Toledo, county and State >resaid, and that said firm will pay a sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL RS for each and every case of -TARRH that cannot be cured by the Sof HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. worn to before me and subscribed my presence, this 6th day of Decem ; A. D. 1886. A. W. GL EASON, lAL] Notary Public. Tall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter ly and acts directly on the blood d mucus surfaces of the system. d for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. lEPSold by Druggists, 75c. MATRIMONIAL HARNESS. Bill Arp Tells How it Works-Some Rat Reminiscences of Old Time Fashions. [From the Sunny South.] Ah, these women, these wonier They make me so tired. But it is sweet service. Here I've been workin in the harness for forty years and don't reckon I would be happy if th harness was off. I know I wouldeni for sometimes when Mrs. Arp goes of to spend the day I don't feel naturs about the house. I want somebody t order me around in a sweet feminin way. "William, that stick that we between the sash has fallen out and i down there on the ground. Don't yoi feel the cold air coming in ?" "Williai the clock needs cleaning very bad. I stopped twice yesterday. Hadent yoi better take it down to Mr. Baker's? "William, I wish you would get a litti paint and give the old mantiepiece ; coat. You have scraped so man; matches on it to light your old pip that it is a sight. A little can of pre pared paint won't cost much. An< that old grate needs a coat of polisb Oh, I did see some of the lovelies grates down at the Exposition an< these tiles for hearths were exquisite I don't mean for you to buy any bu I'm just telling you. Somehow when ever I tell you about the beautifu things I see, you look like you diden have a friend in the world. Of cours I don't mean that I want you to bu: them. William, what am I~to do wit] the flowers ? The geraniums and ver benas and all the potted .plants. The winter is coming on and I do wish w4 had a little pit somewhere. It will b a pity to lose them. Hattie has had i pit dug and says it did'nt cost but tw< dollars, and she is going ' to cover i with a cloth frame." "Sam Pitts dig pits," she continued. "Sam Pitts dig pits," said I, and so I sent for Uncli Sam and marked off the place six b; ten and squared it according to rul< and he had been digging for a few min utes when Mrs. Arp raised the windoa and said she thought it was a little to far that way and so I moved the mark a couple of feet and began digginj again. In a little while she came ou and said it was too far this way and s I moved it back where it was at first and she said that it was about righ now. She think that I split the differ ence but I did'nt. The next day shi asked me in a gentle voice how muci a brick wall around the top would cost a briCk all,aboutthree. feet high of one side and a foot high on the other "And sash with glass for a cover," said I, for I knew she was thinking aboul it. She smiled sweetly and said "yes.' I scratched a match on the mantle anc lit my pipe and ruminated. That way yesterday. Mr. White is making thi sash to-day, aid the brick mason i building the wall and I am still in har ness. Alex. Stevens said he wanted t< die in harness, and he did but he nevel knew anything about matrimonia breeching or he would have wanted t< live and not die at all. What wouli become of a man if he did'nt have woman to keep him lively. When~ we were in Atlanta the other day my wif< asked me for five dollars to buy a paii of shoes. "Have shoes gone up," sail I as I handed her the money. "No but I have," she said, "I want a fin< pair, shoes that are as soft as glove kid you owe me lots of shoe money, yoi promised me before we were mnarri that you would give me thirteen paii a year, don't you remember?" "Yes,' said I, "and you have had them, ani more too." How can a woman raise ten children on less than thirteen paii a year. But I would have promised you anything then; I would havy clinmed the Chimborazo mountains and fought a tiger for you then-a smnal tiger; but I would fight a big one now Here, take another five and buy yoi some fine stockings to go with the shoes-but don't buy black ones;] despise to see a white woman weal black stockings. It is like a heather Chinee blacking her teeth. I wish] had the making of the fashions. I se4 that bustles have gone out at last and;] am glad of it. I never did like thos< unnatural humps on a woman's back They have been in and out a dozer times since I was a boy, and so have hoopskirts. It is funny to see a nev fashion come in and go out. There are women in my town still wvearin~ bustles. They feel sorter shamed t< leave them off all of a sudden. But they will fall into line and slim dowi before long. They have done slimmed at my house; they keep up pretty well I saw lots of nice ladies at the fair wht were behind and so were their bustles but they were from the country and little towns and hadn't caught up. It is a good deal of trouble to alter bustle dress to a no bustle dress, and all the mysterious garments underneati have to be altered, too, and that is why it takes a fashion so long to run out; il costs money and work. Now if the ladies will cut off about four inches oj their skirts and keep out of the winter'f mud,.they will be all right. Let thern show their ankles if they want to. There is nothing prettier than the poe try of motion that is in a lady's foot and ankle when she walks. It pleases an old man mightily. But the men have passed througt some very ridiculous fashions, too. When I was in my teens and had be gun to notice the girls and put oil on my hair and cinnamon drops on my handkerchief, the fashion was to wear short pants and straps-leather straps about an inch wide that came under the shoe and fastened to a buttor sewed on the inside of the pants. When a fellow sat down t he whole concern was drawn as tight as an eel skin and there was a continual strain on the r straps at the bottom and the suspen ders at the top. Sometimes a button broke or a strap bursted under peculiar circumstances and then the pants crawled up amazingly. aOne day I was riding out with my g sweetheart and the catastrophe hap I pened as we were running a galloping e race up a long hill and my pants crawled up to my knee'and carried the undergarment along and it was on her side of the house, and she laughed and o laughed until she like to have fallen off e and I had to get down and cut a shaver e off of a rail and fasten the strap on again. The mischievous thing told it on me and I never got even with her until one day her bustle came untied and dropped off as she was passing my store and I picked it up and handed it ,, to her with a bow as polite as a French e man, and said: "Miss Mary, your shoe s strap is broken." The bustles. of that day were shaped like a new moon and stuffed with bran, They were general ly about as large as a hoe handle and tapered out to a point at each end, but the more style the bigger the bustle. t They were all home made and were considered a very sacred a mysterious article of feminine furniture. Some times one of these big ones would rip from long wear and tear and the bran I would leak out as the woman wiggled t along and you could track her all the way home- -just like the hogs would track a mill boy when there was a hole in his corn sack. I remember when the hoop skirts of a high flying woman was three feet across at the bottom and when she stood up close against the counter her dress didn't need any shortening behind. It was a sight of trouble to squeeze them in the pews of t the churches and sometimes they be haved in a very unseemly manne' when the wind was blowing in a shifty way. I remember when the college boys wore boots according to their polities. The toes were shaped like a duck's bill and were turned up and overon the top of the foot like a skate, and if the boy was a Whig he had CLAY printed on the toes in large letters, and if he was a Democrat he had POLK printed there, and so they walked about stick ing their politics in everybody's faces. But after all I believe the women of this generation are more reasonable in their deeds than for many generations past. Three thousand years ago they were fast-very fast, for Isaiah tells about "the bravery of thei tukling ornanentg about their feet and their cauls and round tires like the moon (bustles I reckon,) their chains and bracelets and muffets, the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and head bands and tablets and earrings and rings, and hose jewels and changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles and whimples and crisping pins and hoods and vails." Oh! it took a light to set up one of those ?high-fiying Hebrew women, and the Prophet went for them as fiercely as old Allen Turner used to go for our, women a half a cen tury ago. "If that young woman with her green bonnet on the back of her head, and the devil's mnartingales around her neck, and her stirups in her ears don't quit her giggling, Il point her out to the congregation." Yes, we are all doing better-except some. .ButlImust stop now for Mrs. Arp isi calling me to come and put out some chrysanthemums, and I'm so tired. BILL AR. Why the Bill Failed. An attempt was recently made in the Georgia Legislature to pass a bilto tax dogs. The bill failed to pass, and the reason is probably found in the follow ing "unanswerable" argumneit of Mc Iver, the colored member from Liberty County: "Mr. Speaker: It gives me much pleasure, sir, to address an able speaker,. sir, to address an able speaker as thou art, expert in all customs. It give me pleasure I say, sir, to address you. I stand before you, sir, aM aul did before Agrippa, sir. I was once for the tax of dogs, but when I found my constitu ents are against I also turn against it, sir. Ilam against the dog tax, sir, be cause the dog'is the poor man'sproper ty. If a dog is vicious put the buck shot to him, sir. What would some of the poor country people do without a posum dog. A 'possum in a poor man's home is like a stall fed beef is to you, sir. So I hope that this honorable body will !ote down the dog tax, sir. When the Yankees left us we had neither a hoe nor an ax. If it had not been sor our good friends what would have become of us ? Multum in a parrox.' A General Tle-Up, of all the means of public conveyance in a large city, even for a few hours, during a strike of the employee means a igeneral paralyzing of trade and in dustry for the .tigne bcing, and is at -teuded with an enormous aggregate loss to the community. How much. more serious to the individual is the general tie-up of his system, known as constipation and due to the strike of the most important organs for more prudent treatment and better care. If too long neglected, a torpid or sluggish liver will produce serious forms of kid ney and liver diseases, malarial trouble and chronic dyspepsia. Dr. -Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pelets are a preven tive and cure of these disorders. They are prompt, sure and effective, pleasant *to take, and nnattivelv' harmless. HOW OHIO WENT POLITICALLY.. A Kentucky Postmaster Objects to the Manner in Which the News was Conveyed to Him. - WASHINGTON, November 8.-The following telegram has been received by the Postmaster GeneraL: LouISA, Ky.. Novomber 7,1889.-To the Hon. John Wanamaker, Postmas ter General, Washington, D. C. claim protection and redress at the., hands of the Government. I am post master at this place and had. the hand somest fourth-class office in Northeast Kentucky, surpassing many presiden tial omces. "My office this morning is con pletely demolished, being the work of a few persons wanting to let postmaster here know how Ohio had gone politi-- ' cally. They used high explosives, dynamite and other combustibles, caved in the fromt door, biroke every window in the front of the building threw open the shutters, and this morn- ' ing I find my office little or no protecX tion to the United States mails, pouches or money order deposits. This being a distributing office the finding of the guilty parties will be an easy , task for the detective force. R C. MCCLuR, "Postmaster. The. postmaster general has insti tuted an investigation of matters con tained in this telegram. HELPING JOHNS HOPKINS. The Munifcent Gift of an Aged Lady to Baltimore's Cherished University. BALTIMORE, November 8.-The trus teeslof Johns Hopkins University were. summoned to the city hall this mor ing by Mayor Latrobe. When they were seated the mayor announced thy he had been instructed by Mrs. Caro-r line Donovan, of Baltimore, widow ot... a New York merchant, to -present ti the University a check for $100,000. Mrs. Donovan expresses a preference that it be used to found a chair for glish literature, though if the trustees . see fit to make other use of the oin ' they may act according to their bsp judgment. Ex-Judge Geo Dobbin, president the board of trustees, after a conferen with-the board, announced that tl accepted the money as asacredtr found a chair of English literatu.. He expressed thefr especial tion that the wo.k of the Univ so appreciated " by one ,unii }he,Mr onh -is.8yeai age, and made this money h fortunate investments. She had ready provided for all her blood rela tions, and thus made generous-g without causing family jeaiousies. THE BATTLE OF BEOWNSBURG A Bloody Fightin a Little Town In Rec bridge County, Virginia. LEXINGTON, Va., Nov. 8.-Reports-' received here from Brownsburg, a .9 small village of about., three hundred ~ people in Rockbridge Count,y, fourteen~ miles north of Lexington, state that the village is in a high state of excite nient to-night over a terrible and bloody fight between the leading men of the vicinity. Three persons are dead or~ fatally wounded, while a number of others are severely injured. The news received from Brownsburg,-.. which is off the line of communicatiorg says that Dr. P. T. Walker, one of the@.. most prominent physicians and sur - geons of the State, had threatened the. life of Henry Miller, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Rockbridge County, for insulting the former's wife. Miller had Walker arrested and placed under bonds to keep the peace. Between 3 and 4 o'clock this morn ing the case came up in the Magis trate's Court and the trouble soon. started, which ended in both sides drawing their weapons. Millst was killed, Dr. Walker was fatally hurt and Mrs. Walker, who was in Court as a witness, was- killed. Dan and Win. Miller, sons of the accused, were shot and dangerously wounded. Samuel Beaner and others, whose names are unknown, are also injured. Full de tails of the affair are not obtainable. The sheriff and a posse have gone to the scene of the trouble. ' LANCHING FEARED. LEXINGTON, November 9.-Dr. D. y. Walker, who was wounded in thet Brownaburg affair, on Friday evening , has died from his wounds. Dave Mil ler Is mortally wounded and his broth ers, George, James and William, im plicated in the shooting of Walker and his wife, are in jail. Lynching is fear'ed Big Bequests With a Queer Condition. [From the Atlaa Constitution.] To-day the will of the late Ferdinand X Phinizy was admitted to probate in the court of ordinary in Clarke county. Mr. Phinizy left very handsome bequests to Boggs Chapel, Oconee Church, and Centre Churc i Oglethrope county, on condition that the churches shal never have organs or any other musi cal instruments in the house. Saving these legacies, the estate is to be divided among the widow said children of the - deceased. The estate has not yet been - appraised, but ;it will go considerably over a million. Woman's Work. There is no end to the tasks which daily confront the good housewife.. To be a successful housekeeper, the fisb requisite is good health. 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