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LISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2119 PRICE $1.50 A Y CD FOR LYING. his attention. As to the bitter personal abuse in Senator Hampton's letter, Mr. oea Letter to Wanamker, Wanamaker thinks it too ungentle Calumbia Postoffice. manly to merit a reply. e News and Courier,1 CLAYTON "HELD UP." rovember 12.-The ra- Special to Charleston World.] spoliticalyearis offered WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The post erican public throughmaster-general has "held up" the co ;ourier. It was written missionofDr.P.Clayton, as postmaster mpton to Postmaster ai thatmwhe the appoinmtfr maker In reference to i Sf mpostmaster for Clayton was made, he had overlooked entrhssnacoythe promise that he had made to Sena ,enators oent ahop tor Hampton, and he withdrew the Gibbesinordertosdow appointment, and will not appoint any Wanamaker, and by py to the News and expires. on. be a fact, although A Thrifty Young ratmer anot state it in his aster general that he Young farmer, J. Simpson Dominick, er eneal hatheof Prosperity, S. C., writes an admira pamaber months ago rF. Gary, a moderate ble letter co the "Agricultural depart this city, who had re- nt; of the Charleston News and endorsement from the Courier, in which he says: "Some of ~uiify shuldsuceedour farmers complain of hard times. ttity, should succeed postmaster. In this but if they would only make their own the postoffice hog and hominy at home, times would keephstord. drt not be so hard. Instead of buying it dependent " was ar. from the merchant and depending on depndet,"Wasap-the West and Northwest for it, why as which may be a whch my becan't we raise our own pork as cheap n's pen is pitiless, as as they can. and have our own sugar have found before cured hams at home without buying Wanamaker, which them ain his reputation "I am only a young farmer of about of hypocrisy and ten years experience, and I have sold more hams and bacon than I have Miss., November 8, ever bought. Some men say the farm an Wanamaker-Sir: does not pay, but I say the farm does t from a South pay. It is not the farm that does not has caused me great pay. It is the men that are on them aps you may remem- that does not pay. They lose too much rysomtrahros time and waste too much money is the orgyis not treacherous,I me a few days ago reason the farm does not pay. Farm should not be removed implements have got too cheap. We tion of hist i can'taffordtomakeor to have them Not only did you do made, consequently there is a great tarily assured me deal of valuable time lost, and time is Columbia was my money. The plow-stocks, swingle Id, when a successor trees, levices and all are bought, be to be appointed, con- cause they are so cheap. Yes, and they are very poor, too. The wood is f small importance to brittle and easily broken, consequently place of Mr. Gibbes, a new one must often be bought. The ed him, in passing farmer, that is a farmer, should have of the promise you him a shed and shop, and do all that y, perhaps, under- work himself on rainy days, and have on has placed me extra swingletrees and plow-stocks of his own make and save all that eox ta for be that bu. pense. that I, at least, told "One word to young men. Don't ugh I was grievouslym leave the farms to find a mores honora [Specialdble position, but take hold,of the plow know better in ha hanileyourseles " for I consider farming place on statements one of the most hnorable, positions tata olumbian o-ay. Mr. W anamaere same source. aVyngmdifftv The state that besides is where the bread of all other profes t department over sions comes from. If I were to tell you. are runninC a your readers what I made clear on my Philadelphia, and it farm last year they would say that it you might with profit paid me. On the five acres that I made the most appropri- six bales on last year, I am going to aore to your pupils make ten this yea and I want to make ouldgiv yo ainey,forng aver coJ. ddi Sim s asminick encinexpainng o makserity bal C., rthesar anti amiaf th motneble.lte ote"grclua eat lvement"the truth.arleston_ News_and ~r veouTr farero coman rofthardtes. seva t, C hewl Rorlateir w expesed he i- hran hiny at omin timong woud b3lming jorit o usbes hatd -CIstefed aout gbuying i "Hurrah for H rmp the esm sier,hanwhn beegaon N.0 . theln he andporthelst Sep tember, STIRED tldas the otan, a daye hdreceivedar New Yor un.] cutre apes allom wthut me. ing aker sveyindgnan pa,w cnno sayun formtere about Swriten o himbytenlyeas in xerienice.,W ado no ae o amptn. o becalevae aogt Some p eay fo t pprhe does Stats Seatoris os not civ, but do sawte car toed et tis s jst hatpaper s eek atefrm wek,atdoe notv Mr. Wnamker.yA the delivee Ths cae isonl oem from the Sentor, oen'sinot pand Thewl loseoc eonepublshedtime as hwato much r ourepl ilh ng n is es oda b mpeledntoav pt too whep suc grea indgnaton,n'tfficirdi tae Chsrfohel offie mattr moee ar-mfate conepulicay therenisrao great o str-Gnerl i sies o vappointe timloed,ersnto te i atorHampon jstoCe.Terfe postoc, lwlinde on hehea wenhe oo;ausete arte som tie, thes pandl Sakr o brakig ahe ar rypor to o.an Thate woi is atogeher rob brittle amnise easi e boe cosaleentl a coenoeewooe p oine s fe eogt h thtaprms a me,-hatisa frmr, hold av untlFbrury,or hm ast roanda hoen foral thir ptoncoudbewcon d ispla lon rih dys, ink mae keepng hs promed itme t,cre ilasadcat rs r entahed ad ces,r sieniletemadplo-soa. 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He Don't Believe Much in Dead Lan guages. [From the Sunny South.] Chaps are studying hard now, and I am getting reconciled to the public schools. It is a powerful strain on me to keep up with this progressive age and'its new fangled methods, but I reckon it is all right. The children say it is and they are proud of the school and ambitious to keep in the front rank, and talk hopefully about their marks. "I'm going for a hundred in Latin," says one. "And I am going for a hundred in arithmetic," says au other. Last year I could help them along at night, but they have got ahead of me now in some things. I used to get about 95 in old-fashioned Latin and Greek, away back in the re mote ages, when Prof. Waddell heard me recite, and we got along pretty well when we had a translation to help us. I believe in a translation; every pupil ought to have one. The Latin ought to be on one page and the English right opposite. Talk about training the mind, train it for what? Thedead languages are fit for nothing in the I world but to learn the origin of En glish words, that's all. Nobody is going to read it or speak it or parse it after they come from school or college. But it is a comfort to know the origin of our language; nothing buta comfort, that's all. I am proud to know that Equestrian comes from Eques, a horse and paternal comes from pater, a father. When one of the children asks me what caligraph means, I am proud to tell them that it comes from kalor, beautiful and grapho to write. But I don't care a cent about the rules and remarks and the Paradigens and Lyn copaticus and Synesis and Enclictics and Heteroclites. The average boy and girl don't need any Latin book, but a speller and de finer with the English derivatives from the Latin words.' The modern Latin grammar is the most outrageous and nonsensical book that was ever put in a school house. Instead of training the mindit is shamming the mind for no useful purpose. If my son ever expected to go to Herculaneum or Pompeii and dig in the ruins and find inscriptions on the stone or the pottery, I would want him to study Bingham's Latin Gram mar and master it, but he is not going. Jessie asked me to hear her lessons last night, and it made meso sorry.for the poorsbild that Ifelt like throwingthe book into the,fire, for she ha4-beet for an hour straining her mind and her memory over the stuff and had com mitted it every word so as to please her teacher and get a good mark. Here is a few specimens.of the answers to the questions in the grammar: A cognate equivalent or eliptical ac cusative may be used with a passive verb. The cognate or equivalent noun is often omitted and a neuter adjective used limiting the cognate notion un derstood. An adjective limiting a complimen tary infinitive is an accusation ofdirect object or limitation. The complement of a concessive sentence is an adversa tive proposition. The abverbial is often used for the adjective relative. Dependent causal propositions are introduced by the causal conjunctions. Principal propositions in the Oratio recta become infinitive propositions in the Oratio-obliqua. .Well, maybe they -do, and maybe they don't. I don't know and I don't care. There wasent any of that fool stuff in my grammar. Prof. Waddell dident know anything about it. It may have.been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii since he died or it may have come up spontaneous since the war like, the Japan clover came. I don't care where it came from, it is a fraud on the youthful mind. "The complement of a concessive sentence is an adversative proposition." "What does that mean, Jessie ?" said I. "I don't know, sir," said she. Of course she don't and she never will-might as well have asked her "what is the euphonic auxilIary of the suggestive biascutus ?" "Does the professor know what it means ?" said I. "Yes, sir, I think he does, but he doesent like the grammar for schools like ours." Of course he don't. How could he. Next I had to hear Carl in his Greek grammar, and that is nearly as bad. Carl don't commit to memory like Jessie and makes some awful blunders over the jaw-brakers. The answer toi one question in his grammar was: "The protosis is often ornitted, leaving the aptative with 'an' alone as an apodo sis," and he had it: "The pertalis ist something left open and alone with the proboscis." The next answer was "a periphrastic third person of the plaper feet indicative middle formed by the I participle is necessary when the stem ends in a consonant," and he had it: "A peregrastic person in the middle of the participle is necessary to a stem- I winder." Hurrah for Carl ! Hc is all right, 1 for one answer is as intelligible as the other. When I got him on the accents the barytones and oxytones and peris pomenous and properispomenous he i got the oxen and persimmons and I opossums mixed up fearfully. I don't blame him; you might just as welli train the mind by learning the Shutur catechism backwards. Carl is a chip of the old block. I never could memorize anything. I had a classmate who could recite every and be got marked a hundred every time, and I got about seventy, and I dident like it at all, for I know I was as smart as he was, if not smarter. But the chaps are doing first rate in arith metic and algebra and physics and his tory and spelling. S, I will have to put up with the Latin and Greek, though I am not reconciled. I know that we ought to have a few fine class ical scholars to get up Latin diplomas for the graduates and the doctors and to furnish mottoes for the seals of the States and such like. I received a note from a legal friend the other and there was printed on his letter head, " Vigil antibus non dormicutibus," which is all right as far as it goes, and as he is a col lege graduate, I was proud to know that be sti!l retained a memory of three Latin words, if no more-though I rather think he got them from Black 3tone or a dictionary of quotations. He is a better classical scholar .than the average, but I'll bet he can't tell the iifference between a i euclictic and a keteroc1yte. But too much study is a weariness to the flesh, and so we took the chaps iown to the Exposition and they spent a long, long happy day. We left at four and got back at one-twenty-four hours on the wing and saw everything, and what pleased the children most of all, we met Uncle Remus that night at the fire works, and I have never seen him in such a merry mood. He didn't talk much about old "Sis Cow" nor "Brer Rabbit," but kept them in a glee with his. comments on the beautiful pyrotechnics. He said he liked the red rockets because they were the color of his hair. "Come out to West End to see us," he said as we parted. "Come out, for my wife and my children and my mother want to see you. If I am not there, just walk right in. You can tell which is my wife by seeing her moving something around or wiping off the mantlepiece with a wet rag. That's her as soon as you see her. If she moves the things gently she is all right, but sometimes when I stay out late, she sits down hard. You know how it is, Major." Mrs. Arp resented that quickly and defended Mrs. Remus and I looked solemnly at him and said: "What do you do under such circum stances?" "Why I go to bed of course," said he "and I go to snoring in two minutes. What else can you do? You know how it is yourself, Major. But I must go home to my family. I'm afraid some of these cannons will burst and my family'dre all. alone. .:My wife is looking for me now and she issget ting eady to wipe off the mantlepiece again. Good by." Mrs. Arp'shook her fist at him and said something sarcastic and he shook his red hair and was gone. He wouldent behave that way if she had him. BILL ARP. A Woman's Pretty Foot. ["Bab" in St. Louis Republic.) "Such a beautiful foot--white and mnd slender and firm, without a blotch yn it !" That's what the visiting mani 3ure said to me the other day. She usually combines with the care of your bands all responsibility as to your feet -which means, not only removing the painful blotch, but keeping the nails rimmed so exactly that for them to ;row in becomes an utter impossibility. Bhe is talking about one of her clients, aLd she is telling how this woman al-. ways keeps her foot unmarred by bump yr discoloration. "She always wears 310se-fitting shoes, and even when the evening comes and her slippers are put~ yn, they fit her foot just as closely.. -4 .t never has an opportunity t '9e its shape in wide, loose-fitting shoes.'" I sit and meditate and I think what a world of shams this is. We call the most uncomfortable shoe n the world the common-sense shoe, mud the only reason that I can possibly mnd is, that so-called common sense >ossessed by Tom, Dick and Harry, is 20t worth the ink used for writing it. 4 common-sense shoe is ill-shaped, un -,omfortable and ugly. If human beings aad their toes made square it would be luite proper to have shoes built in that way, and if the Lord had made the hu n:an foot utterly without instep it would be equally all right to cater to ;he lack of it. In a common-sense shoe tour foot shuffles all around until corns Lnd bunions are the result, while on a wet day you are plump down in the nud rather than helped by a high heel o get out of it. I cannot imagine a woman walking viih any satisfaction with such mnon trosi ties on her as a good, broad vamp mud a sole protruding from each side hat makes her look as if she were shuffling around on caniaiboats. Now, nistead, put her in a pretty boot that its her foot-let the heel be tolerably uigh, and let the arch of her instep be iroughit out. She will look down; she vill see how well dressed her feet are, hen she holds her head a little higher, valks a little quicker, gets a pretty lush in her face, and is not afraid to tep in a street car, or go up the ele 'ated stairs. Now, this is because she ias uncommon rather than common ense. To women whose feet are large and vhose shoemakers are stupid, I would uggest that they do not wear patent eather shoes; the glitter of the tiright >olish attracts attention to their feet, vhich ought, because of their size, to >e booted as quietly as possible. She vho has a short, plump foot should lever put on black, velvet slippers hey will make it look thicker than -ver. and only the woman whose foot s long and narrow can afford to wear arge buckles. Blessed is mankind, for ie doesn't care whether his foot be big ir little, and he has two costumes for t--one for the day and one for the ight-whereas the fashionable woman nust needs have her walking boot, her hriving shoe, her house-slippers to natch tea gowns or dinner dresses, and ser Turkish slippers, withb their curved and pointed toes, in which to potter on nd her d ressing roonm. A SHATTERED IDOL. Independence Day was not Fourth of Jul: In the course of his recent speech i Dover upon the occasion of the unvei ing of a monument to Casar Rodney ex-Secretary Bayard read a hithert unpublished letter from Thomas M< Kean to Caesar Augustus Rodney, nE phew of Caesar Rodney. It was date August 22, 1813, and recounted ho' Rodney's timely arrival at Indepet dence Hall on July 4, 1776, after havin ridden hard and fast all the way fror Dover, had prevented the dangerou consequences that might have attende the dissensions of a single State, an had in fact saved the Declaration of It dependence from being tabled or pos poned. The letter continued in th following interesting fashion: "Now that I am on this subject, will tell you some truths not generall known. In the printed public journz of Congrese for 1776, Volume 2, i would appear that the Declaration c Independence was signed on July 4t by the menibers whose names are thei inserted, but the fact is not so; for n person signed it on that day nor fc many days after, and among the name inscribed one was against it-Mr. Rea -and seven were not tin Congress o that day, namely. Messrs. Morris, Rust Clymer, Smith, Taylor and Ross c Pennsylvania, and Mr. Thornton c New Hampshire, nor were the six ger tlemen last named at that time merr bers; the five for Pennsylvania wer appointed delegates by the conventio of that State on July 20th, and Mi Thornton entered Congress for the firs time on November 4, following, whe the names of Henry Wisner, of Nei York, and Thomas McKean, of Deli ware, not printed as subscribers,thoug both were present and voted for lnd< pendence. Here false colors are certair ly hung out; there is culpability somm where. What I can offer as an apolog or explanation is that on July 4, 1771 the Declaration of Independence wa ordered to be engrossed in parchmeni and then to be signed, and I have bee: told that a resolve had passed a fei days after and was entered on the secr journal, that no person should have seat in Congress during that year, ur til he should have signed the declan tion, in order, as I have been given t understand, to prevent traitors or spie from worming themselves ainong u I was not in Congress after the Fourt for some months, having marched wit my. re e.of asociates of th isit3 as coonel to lpperir Genea'P sl; ington until a flying camp of 10,00 men was completed. When the assc ciators were discharged I returned t Philadelphia, tock my seat in Congres: and then signed the declaration o: parchment. Two days after I went t New Castle, joined the convention fc forming a constitution for the futur government of the State of Delawar4 having been elected a member of Nes Castle County, which I wrote in a tas ern without a book or any assistanci You may rely on the accuracy of th foregoing relation. It is full time t print and publish the secret journal c Congress during the revolution. I hav thus answered your request, and trus it may reform errrors." The Date of the Declaration. [From the Philadelphia Press, Nov. 2. Prof. John B. McMaster, the hist. rian, was asked last night for his view~ of the letter of Thomas McKean tla was read by Ex-Secretary Bayard at th unveiling of the monument .to Csa Rodney on Wednesday, Mr. McMaste said: "There is not -ng in the lette j1hat was not alreadyk nown. It is we Madwn that the Decliation of Inde pendence was ado pted on July 2 an< was read to the public from the St House steps on July 4, and so becam a public document. It was not at tha time signed by all the colonial delegates for the reason, among others, that ses eral of them were waiting for furthe instructions from their respective co] onies. It was signed after these instru( tions had been given. The secret joul nals of the Continental Congress hav quite all been published in fragments What remains of them are on deposi in the State department at Washing ton, and their contents are well knowr It seems to me that Congress ought t< make an appropriation to have then all printed, together with letters an< other manuscripts throwing additiona light on the subject. The journals ar now, of course, necessarily, imperfect The sessions of the Congress were pri vate. Nobody was admitted exccp members, unless by leave, and onlyi record of proceedings was made tha would be safe. The journals were alsa partly burned when the British wer< in. Washington in 1814, and afterwar< by an accidental fire. The Common Lot. There is a place no love can reach, There is a time no voice can teach, There is a chain no power can break There is a sleep no sound can wake. Sooner or later that time will arrive that place will wait for your coming that chain must b,ind you in helples: death, that sleep must fall on you: senses. But thousands every year g< untinmely to their fate, and thousandi more lengtben out their days by heed ful, timely care. For the failing strength, the weakening organs, th< wasting blood, Dr. Pierce's Golder Medical Discovery is a wonderfu restorative and a prolonger of strengtl and life. It purifies the blood and in vigorates tihe' system, thereby fortify ing it against disease. Of druggists. Ground for Complaint. [From the Washington Post.] We wish the esteemedi gentlemat who prin ts the mailing labels in the S1 Louis Republic office would correct th< label which he pastes upon t be papel sent each day to this office. To addrest this journal as the "Washington Post,' seems to us like going out of the wa' to agree with the esteemed Civil Ser vice Commissioners, if not, indeed, t< twit us with fact, either of which is nol a brotherly thing for the St. Louis prin ter to do. NORTH CAROLINA GOLD. The Untold Wealth Discovered on the Land - pf the Three Sanders Brothers in n ' Montgomery County. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 15.-Great 0 excitement prevails in the gold mining circles throughout Western North Carolina, on account of the heavy gold d find just made by Tobe Sanders, Mont gomery County. Sanders now has hundreds of hands at work, and is get ting gold by the peck. He gets so much a gold that absolutely no pretense is s made at weighing it, except on a large d pair of grocers' scales. The find has created a profound sensation, and the people in Montgomery and adjoining counties are digging for gold by the e hundreds. Experts who have ex amined the gold fields in this section say there is as much gold in Western North Carolina grounds as California ever dreamed of. One mine alone, near here, is said to be worth $1,000,000. Syndicates are being organized, with e plenty of cash, to open up these mines, and developments are expected at an o early day that will startle the world. r THE STORY CONFIRMED. d RALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 1.5.-The Caro lina Watchman, published at Salis , bury, has sent a mining expert to f Montgomery County to-investigate the f rumors of the important gold find - there, and the reports that all the statements about fabulous wealth hav e ing been discovered there are true. a The find is said to be the richest ever discovered in the State. Three parallel t veins have been found, about half an a inch in thickness, only a few feet apart. v One pans out a large per cent. of pure - gold and the Watchman's representa tive ascertained that a bushel of solid .. gold had already been taken out of the deposit. The place is owned by the - three Sanders brothers. Two of them have been living in Texas, but have , started for Salisbury in response toa a telegram. , Great excitement is reported in the a neighborhood, and people are leaving v their work to search for gold. t It is stated that one man in two a hours' work got out 2,000 pennyweight of pure gold, and was then -compelled - by the owners to leave off work. Negroes in Mezieo. s CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. 6.-Ellis, the Texas negro who proposes to colonize American negroes in Mexico, is still in Sthis city strivingto seenre. concession 0 from the government in the interest of the proposed colony. It is asserted that Gen. Pacheco, Ministerofpublic works is greatly interested in Ellis's plans, a and is heartily in favor of granting the concession. Other members of the gov r ernment are also said to favor it, so e there seems to be little doubt that the concession will be given and the colony established. The scheme, however, will meet with strong opposition on the part of the e notxicae people, and negro colonistsare no iey to receive, an encouraging Swelcome. The feeling is general that e in the Indian peon class Mexico has as Slarge an element of a different race as it cah find room for. Better than Whiskey. 1If you become soaked either from rain or an unexpected tumble from your boat into the water, thus expos e ing yourself to the danger of taking cold, r don't soak with rum or barley jnice, but, soon as you can take a large Ber 1 muda or Spanish onion, eat all of it - raw, with a little salt only. Onions are I better than quinine. They are splendid as a tonic and preventative or expel t lent of colds. - An Enemy to the Press. r [Boston Transcript.] -Brown-And so you have got a first e rate cook? What paper did you adver tise in ?. - Fogg--Didn't advertise in any. My -wife told Mrs. Gray we wanted a girl, ' but made her promise.not to tell any ~body. e "Well, we had the door bell ringing for a fortnight from morning till night. t No less than one hundred applications ifor the place." In Anticipation. [Detroit Free Press.] "And P'll take a dozen ears of green corn," he said, as he wvound up his order to the grocer. "Gracious me! but you don't expect green corn the.last of October, doyou?" "No, sir; but we'll get it next July, won't we?" "Then make the order for next July. IPm very absent minded and am con tinually forgetting something. IPve tried to think of ereen corn all sum mer, but forgot it Bay by day, and now Il order nine months ahead." Perished in the Cold. CLAYToN, N. M., November 15. Don Louis Baca, a prominent Spanish sheep raiser of Ute Creek, has just arrived at this place. He gives a very sad account of the late blizzard in that region. Five Mexican sheepherders perished in his neighborhood, the bodies of four having been found. The snow completely covers the ground from Clayton to the Canadian river, a distance of 12.5 miles. Many Mexican families are in a destitute condition. Owing to the heavy snow they are un - able to move from their places in order to lay in a supply of food. Mr. Baca says other bodies will be recovered as soon as the snow melts, as several men {A ROMANCE OF THE NORTHWEST. A Pioneer in the Last Century Wedded to an Indian Girl to Save His Life. QcEBEC. Nov. 1l.- Quite a romantic story has been disclosed by the evi dence given here in the Court of Review in a case involving the ownership of property valued at over a million dol lars, and including the seigniories of Temisconata and Madawaska. One Beaulieu of River du Loup, who says he is the great-grandson of Col. Alex { ander Fraser, claims possession of a share of the enormous estate left by that gentleman, and now. enjoyed by the defendant, Alexander Fraser, who settled in the Northwest in 1788, with an Indian girl named Angelique Mea dows, through one of whose children the claimant contended that he was heir to the disputed estates. After being with Angelique Meadows for some years in the Northwest, Col. Fraser, in 1801 returned to Canada and acquired the seigniories of Tenisconuti and Madawaska. Angelique followed him to Quebec in 1803, and. with her children live- with him for some time at River du Loup, first in the manor house which he himself occupied, and later in a small lodge at some distance therefrom, built specially for her ac commodation. The claimant produced a number of witnesses who had known the late Col. Fraser prior to his decease in 1836, and who testified that he had firequently described in their hearing the cere monial which attended his marriage in the Northwest with his Indian wife, the first Protestant missionaries to the Northwest having only reached these Indians in 1818. Fraser told how he saved his life by his marriage with An gelique, which was celebrated in ac cordauce with the formalities practised by the Northwest Indians. The defendants contested thelegality of this marriage, urging that, even if it f had been celebrated in the then cus tomary manner, it was only a forced alliance. They produced a petition presented to the Canadian Parliament in 1802 by the present claimant, in which it was alleged that Col. Fraser was forced to contract an alliance in the Northwest with Angelique Mea dows, who had saved his life on an oc casion when he would most certainly have perished without her protection. Two of the three Judges composing the court gave judgment for the defendant on the ground.that the marriage bad not been sh'own-Wheve-m tracted according to the usages then prevailing in the borthwest; and that even if it had been, the consent of Fraser thereto had not been free, since it was shown that he had been forced to it in order to avoid certain death. Judge Plamondon dissented from the decision of the court, from which an appeal is to be taken to the highest tri bunal of the empire. THE G., C. & N. RtOAD. The Line Located in Athens and Contracts Let Ont. [Athens. Banner.] The Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad 'is slowly coming towards Athens, and by next summer the trains will be running from Monroe, N. C., to the Classic City. The section from Chester to Clinton will be completed in a few days-more than a thousand hands being at work thereon-and so soon as this is done the entire force will be put to work grading to the Sa vannah River. as the route is located to that point. This week the chief engineer will be in Athens for the purpose of locating the line out of our city, when contracts will be at once let and dirt broken. The forces will be set to work on both ends of the line, and they will meet at the Savannah river. This company has the money in hand to pay for the grading and equip ping of the entire road, and of course it is to their interest to hasten the work as fast as possible, for the sooner will then interest on idle capital be stopped. In the next thirty days it is expected that every part of the route from Athens to Clinton, S. C., wvill be under con tract. This will be great news for our pea ple.- They have been anxiously wait ing to see dirt broken on the G., C. & N., for it means the biggest kind of a boom for Athens. The Thocrnwenl Orphanage. The Thornwell Orphanage, in Clin ton, S. C., though under Presbyterian care, is open to children of any Statei and any faith. Its 76 inmates, (soon to be 100) are from Maryland to Texas, and from seven different denomina tions. The orphans are not only given a good education, but are also taught all domestic work and several trades. Their labors in the kitchen, laundry, farm, and work-shops largely reduce the cost of support, which is about $5 a month for each child, this including every expense. The support comes from the chari table. We suggest to our Christian p)ublic that collections be taken up on Thanks giving Day for the orphans, or that liberal donors send their gifts to the Rev. Win. P. Jacobs, D. D., Clinton, S. C., who is at the head of the Institu tion. We learn that the Institution is now in pressing need. What is done, should be done quickly nde liberally. The Political Reporter. [From the Providence Journal.)' NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The electi reminded me that I do not kno any development of modern ne per work more extraordinary than of the political reporter of th' There are in this city half a these specialists, whose busin to study the politics of the State boy pursues his lessons at school. know all the politicians, big and li they know all the si.ty counties a the 500 big towns; they go to the ventions and the Legislature, an travel and visit and gossip from y end to year's end, mainly to keep them selves posted. The result is so aston ishing that no one outside of the pro fession comprehends it; scarcely any would have believed it could be done. The result is that a week before elec tion day those six men deliberatel down and make out a list of the doze State officers, thirty-two Senators, 128 Assemblymen, and wlhatever Congress men are going to be elected. I saw tw of those lists this year, and can testif that if they had accident-' a newspaper when they were made ug they would have notified the public the result ofthis year's voting by, 6,060,000 of people with not more four or five errors. and those w have been in the similar number of closely contested Senate or Assembly districts. As it was, those week-old lists were actually printed on the.morn= ing after election, with those- few changes, because the returns confirmed them. It Was Raining. [From the Detroit Free Press Yesterday afternoon while the was pouring down, a. citize Post Office to encounter an acqnai tance who was - also sheltered by a umbrella. "Raining, isn't it ?" queried the rst. "Hey?" "Raining, isn't it?" "I'd like to see you a moment," the reply. "Come up stairs."- - The two passed up, traversed th dark hall to the .darkest corner, then No. 2 turned on No. 1 with s "Do you take me for an'. idiot? "Why, no, of course not." "Do you suppose I'm carrying umbrella.around,to keep the ssi at.this.timhe of :year?" r M "Pm carrying it to keep the am I not?" "Of course." "Well, then, it rains. You k rains. Everybody in town k rains. Now you go on and let alone." "But-but -" -"That's all. You let -it rain. knows her business. You just to your own affairs and let the w alone. Good day, sir And he went clumping down and left the other to follow leisure. - Didn't Recognize the Jury.. [From the Philadelphia Reco "Come, come, speak louder I claimed Judge Hugg to a the Camden Criminal urt. -- "Yes, yes, your Honor," replied e witness, who continued to speak! so indistinctly that the jury could not hear. "Speak up, sir," said the Judge, "speak so that these men (pointing to the jurors) can hear you." "Wby, are they interested, in the case?" asked the witness, innocently. Connecticut's Wickedest Town. MONEOE, Nov. 11.- -This town of about one thousand population is said to have a criminal recordl unequalled by that of any t >wn in the State. - Within fifty y.ears ten murders have been comimitted in the town, and only two or three of the murderers have been punished. In this town there are fifty married persons who have separated by mutual consent or by di vorce. BURNED IN EFFIGY. T An Indiana Republican Organization l Displeased with the President. JEFFERISON, IND., Nov. 13.-The Union League, a Republican organi~ zatiorn, last night burned in effigy President Harrison, together with all the campaign outfit of the club, be ause of the President's course in the matter of appointments. The imme liate cause of the demonstration was the re-appointment ef Maj. A. L. Lu -e, who was removed by President Cleve land from the position of postmaster. - Heo Had Been a Teacher. - Snooper-I ave you ever paid sch Simneral -No; but I've sat on them. Famous tiX.men. It is a significant fact that most of he women who have achieved fame.in rt, literature, or "affairs," have ena oyed vi'eorous health. This shows that he mina is never capable of the severe and continued application necessary to reative work, unless the body is at its est. The woman who aspires to fill an exalted place among her associates, ust be free from nervous debility" emale weaknesses. Dr. Pierce's Favor y te Prescription will banish these, and t is warranted to restore those fune ional harmonies which are indispen able to health. 4As gepecific for all hose chronic weaknesses and ailments