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ESTABLISHED 1865. NBERRY, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY_30,1890. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR BILL AR'. He Writes about the Family Doctor and Doctors in General. There is an awful mystery about these doctors. They know so much that common people don't know. When I was a child I had profound reverence for them. Our family doc tor was a three hundred pounder and was gruff and short in his speech and not very fond of children. And yet he seemed to have a great many hid out somewhere and was always giving them away. Whenever a new child came into the family or in the neigh borhood, it was said that the doctor brought it. I used to wonder where he kept them. I asked my mother once and she said,"in Heaven, maybe," and this increased my veneration. Our big fat doctor had a shop-we didn't call it an office-and I used to peep in at the door sometimes and look at his little bottles on the shelves. I was sent there once for some medicine and he gave me some licorice root and some cinnamon bark. There was a myste rious box standing up in the corner-a long narrow box about big enough to hold an old-fashioned clock (a grand father's clock), and the door was open a little and I saw an awful thing in there-a skeleton' suspended from a screw in the skull. There were dark cavernous holes for the eyes and a hole for the nose, and there were jaws with teeth in them and they looked fierce and malicious. I had a little prim mer at home and it had pictures in it. One was a picture of a skeleton with a scythe in his hand and I had learned the lines "Time cuts down all, Both great and small;" and I thought I had discovered where the old rascal was kept hid. He was in that box. It was a long time before I recovered from those childish super stitions. One time I had a long spell of fever and that old doctor bled me till I had fainted, and he wouldent let me have any water, and when I got delirious, I thought that he had that skeleton on my back and I was to be cut down with a scythe-blade. He bled me several times. Five little scars are on my arms yet. Bleeding was a big thing then. Mark Hardin says his arms are just tattooed with scars. I reckon they bled more in Mark's day than in mine, for the older a man is the more sears he has, and Mark says he has got forty. I can tell how old a man is by his scars. Mark says that. "bleeding was a good thing and ought not to have been abolished. That these mod ern doctors are always talking about blood-poison-blood poison. Well, if the blood is poisoned why not take it out-bleed a man until he can hardly wag and let new blood form that is not poisoned." But we lived-blood or no blood water or no water-doctors or no doc tors. The Baptists lived and the Pres byterians lived, for they say that Bap tists don't die until their time comes, and predestination saves the Presbyte rians, but it is a wonder that any Meth odists were ever raised in those phle botomy days. We never had any med icine except castor oil and calomel and epsom salts and jalap and number six and sheep saff'ron tea and some jaw breaking, tooth-pullers that were made .just like these crowv-bar hooks that you turn over logs with at a saw mill. There were some patent medicines like paregoric and Bateman's drops and Godfrey's cordial and opodeldoc that were kept in the stores and they were good too. But the noble scenes has made progress-wonderful progress and I like it, because it off'ers sneh a wide field for a smart mian and such a slim chance for a fool. We've got a boy studying medicins and are hopef'i for him. Of course we are. His mother thinks he will be a great surgeon, for he is the seventh son and when he was a lad our peacock got his leg broke and I was about to kill him to put the poor thing out of misery, but Ralph begged me to give the bird to him and he made some splints out of a big cane and1 fixed him up in a swing anid he got wvell, and another time lie sewved up a bad cut on one of the mules and he just loves to pick out splinters or get a cinder out of your eve and so we conisentedl to his being a doctor arnd he is attending lec tures in Atlanta and the other day I called to see huim at tile college. It was a kind of recess when I got there, and I was introduced t) IDr. Kendriek arid he was mighty kind and said they were just about to perform on the clinik and invited nme in. I thought it was some kind of electrie machine, hut when I got in the room there were 1253 young doctorN sitting all around 0on tiers of seats that got highler and higher so that all of them could look dlown on the little circular pit at tire bottom a little pit ab)out ten feet across and looked like it was built to figrht ehick ens ini. I heard that the boys did fight chickens there on the sly somec times. The clinik was a revolving table that had a cot on it and was placed in tire middle of the pit. Dr. Kendrick went in first arnd I followed along with a b sick white man anid two sick darkies. All of a sudden the young doctors com menced cheerinig and so I took a cheer and sat down. 1 didn't know whether they were cheering the professor or the sick men and for fear they would think I was sick I rose forward and took another cheer and they cheered again. The professor then introduced me to the audience andl I canme to a perpen dicular at titude andl they cheered again and again. I took my cheer. After this little episode was over the pro was the matter with him and be sai he didn't have breath enough, he wi short of breath, he couldn't walk te steps and his heart went like a kettl drum. So the professor thumped o him and put his ear to his left brea, and began to ask the young doctoi questions about diseases of the heal and they seemed to know right smar One said the heart had two beats to tL bar, and another said the reason th darkey was short of breath was becaus he didn't have enough of it, and at other said the valves were out of orde: and another thought that the clavicle of the sternum were contracted, but knowing young man said there wE not enough oxygen is his blood. noticed that when a young man hes tated and got things mixed the pr< fessor was very kind and helped ther along just like Dr. Waddell used t help us boys along in Latin when w were at college. "Quidam is a pronoun, is it not, M Jones?" "Yes, sir." "Well, quideni is what-an adver is it not." "Yes, sir-yes, sir. Quidam is a pr noun and quideni is an adverb." "Correct, Mr. Jones," and Mr. Jone thought he had done wonders until hi report came out and he was put dow: 45 in Latin. "Well, what is the remedy for that? said tne Professor. If his blood lack oxygen how can oxygen be supplied. "Give him a donic, sir," said a youn man with a bad cold, "an iron donic. Then the book keeper wrote a prescril tion. Good gracious, thought I! Has tha darkey got to eat a whole donic? donic is a lump of iron as big as a wate pail. But maybe he is not to eat it bu is to handle it. Maybe he is going t dig in the mines. It does make a ma strong to dig up donics in the mine, It is like swinging a pair of iron dum bells to get strong. But our boy tol< me afterwards that it was not a doni but a tonic. I wish I knew as mucl about the human frame as Dr. Ker drick knows. He put a little glas quill in the other darkey's mouth an+ when he took it out and looked at it h told the young doctors all about hi disease and how it came and wha must be done for him and then he bE gun on the white man and asked hin what was the matter, and the mam pulled up the leg of his pants an showed an awful case of big leg and th doctor said something about an ele phant and told him he had come th wrong day and belonged to Dr. West moreland's clinik. Poor fellow thought I. You are gone up. Di Westmoreland will cut that leg off il ten minutes and smile. Next I was in vited into the dissecting room. Yes, was invited, and the big fat black jani tor who steals all the stiff's opened th door but I didn't go in. I saw enougl and one whiff of the oderiferous atmos phere satisfied me and I departed thos coasts. The young doctors laughed a me tumultuously. There were tei tables in there and a cadaver on ever: table, and some of them were split il two and some dismembered, and ther were arms and legs hanging about oi the walls, and from some all the nerve had been taken out like a bunch c strings, and from some all the muscle had been taken out; and there wer backbones and haslets and sparerib just like you see at hog-killing time And all this is to teach the doctor anatomy, and it is all right, and if: man has any genius at all it does lool like he ought to know how to trea every disease and what to do for ever; wound that humanity is liable to Those 125 doctors seem to be in earnes and some of themi will make thei mark. Our boy came home the othe: day and had a darkey's ear wrapped tni in his pocket and wanted to tell his mother all about its anatomy. For minute she didn't understand whati was and asked him in amazement if h< had got to chewing tobacco. This is darkie's ear -that --" She rose for ward and then backward, and wa: more indignant than when I hid tha mole in the sugar dish. Ralph had t< leave the room and hide out the ear and she wouldn't let him eat dinne: until he had wvashed his hands witl lye soap and cologne t wo or three times But still she is proud of that boy an< tells how he used to speak a speech an< say, "Friends, Romans and Country mien-lend mie your ears." "Little dit I think,' she said "that he would som< day go about cutting them off fron dead negroes." BILL ARP. OKLAHOMA FOR THE NEGROES 2%,ooo There Already and Mr. Eaglesor says There'll soon Be 5 .000. "Sr. Louis, Jan. 17.-Letters receivet by W. L. Eagleson, business manage: of the Oklahoma Immigration Societ3 in Kansas. say that a large number og negroes in North Carolina are going ii wagons this win ter to the new territory Mir. Eagleson says there are now aboul 22, 000) negroes in Oklahoma, andl thal by spring there will be at least 50,000 He thinks they ought to have thal country, and says that President Lin coIn and the Republican party pro misedl to) give it to them. He adds : "We are determined to take it any how, and we will make it one of the grandest States in the Union. I favo: Col. Mforgan's scheme to purchase th< Cherokee strip and other lands in the Indian Territory, exclusively for negrc settlement. Give us the Blair bill, the Indian Territory and Senator Butler'! 95,000,000, and we shall be content. Oklahdma, in my judgment, is th4 land of promise for the race and migra tion the panacea for every ill nou d THE COMING CAMPAIGN. A Contest Proposed -Within the Demo cratic Party. e Mr. G. W. Shell, of Laurens, presi t dent of the Farmers' Association c s South Carolina" requests The New -t and Courier to publish the followin; address: e To the Democracy of South Carolina e For four years the Democratic party ir e the State has been deeply agitated, an efforts have been made at the prina ries and conventions to secure retrench s rent and reform, and a recognition c a of the needs and rights of the nasses s The first Farmers' Convention met i1 April, 1886. Another in November c the same year perfected a permanen organization under the name of th a "Farmers' Association of South Care 0 lina." This association, representin; e the reform element in the party, ha held two anrual sessions since, and a each of these four conventions, largel; attended by. representative farmer from nearly all the counties, the de b mands of the people for greater econ omy in the Government, greater effi ciency in its officials, and a fuller rec ognition of the necessity for cheape s and more practical education hav s been pressed upon the attention of o.u ? Legislators. In each of the two last Democrati State Conventions the "Farmers s Movement" has had a large following and we only failed of controlling thi Convention of 1888 by a small vote less than twenty-five-and that, too, it the face of the active opposition o t nearly every trained politician in th t State. We claim that we have alway had a majority of the people on ou r side, and have only failed by reason o the superior political tactics of ou opponents and our lack of organizition In proof of this we point to Abbevillh and Chester, the only counties excep Charleston which had not already ap Cpointed delegates to the State Conven tion before the campaign meetings tw< ? years ago, at which Governor Richard son spoke. Both of those counties after hearing the Governor defend hi! policy and that of his faction, repudi ated him and it, and be received oni2 s two votes from them. _ The excutive committee of the Far mers' Association did not deem I worth while to hold any conventiot last November, but we have watchet closely every move of the enemies o economy-the enemies of agricultura education, the enemies of true Jeffer sonian Demrcracy-and we think th< time has come to show the peoplh ' what it is they need and how to ac complish their desires. We will draa up the indictment against those whc have been and are still governing oui State, because it is at once the caus( and justification of the course we in tend to pursue. South Carolina has never had a rea Republican government. Since th< days of the "Lords Proprietors" it has 1been an aristocracy under the forms o: Democracy, and whenever a cham ~pion of the people has attempted t< show them their rights and advocated those rights an aristocratic oligarchy has bought him with an office, or fail ing in that turned loose the floodgates of misrepresentation and slander ir order to destroy his influence. The peculiar situation now existing in the State, requiring the united efforts of every true white man to pre serve white supremacy and our very civilization even has intensified and tended to make permanent the condi. tions which existed before the war. Fear of a division among us and con sequent return of negro rule has kep1 the people quiet, and they have sub rmitted to many grieuances imposed by the ruling faction because they dreaded to risk such a division. The "Farmers' Movement" has beer hampered and retarded in its work by this conditon of tihe public mind, bul we have shown our fealty to race by submitting to the edicts of the party. and we intend, as heretofore, to nmak' tur fight inside the party lines, feel ing assured that truth and justice miusl finally prevail. The results of the agi cation thus far are altogether encou rag ing. Inch by inch and step by stel true Democracy-the rule of the people -has won its way. We have carrie. all tile outposts. Only two strong holds remain to be taken, and with the issues fairly made up and plainly pul to the people we have no fear of th< result. The House of Representatives has been carried twice, and at last hld after a desperate struggle. The advocates of reform and econonfy are no longer sneered at as "Three for quarter statesmen." They pass mecas ures of economy which four years agec would have excited only derision, and with the Farmers' Movement tc strengthen their backbone have with stood the cajo'ery, threats and impo. Itent rage of the old "ring bosses." The Senate is now the main reliance of the enemies of retrenchment and reform, who oppose giving the people their rights. The Senate is the stronghold of "'existing institutions,'' and thle main dependence of those who are an. tagonistic to all progress. As we cap: tured the House we can capture the -Senate; but we must control the D)em ocratic State C'>nvention before we car hope to make economy popular in Columbia, or he assured of no more pocket vetoes. The General Assembly is largely in fluenced by the idea and policy of the State officers, and we must elect thosE before we can say the Farmers' Move ment has accomiplished its mission. It is true that we have wrenched from the aristocratic coterie who were ed uca at n annouht to monopolizE everything for the South Carolina Col- f lege, the right to control the land s scrip and Hatch fund and a part of the I privilege tax on fe rtilizers for one year, r and we have 40,0nn with which to i comnence building a separate agrieu!- 1 tural college, where the sons of poor c farmers can gat a practical education t at small expense. But we dare not relax our ellort or i rely upon the long professions of our r opponents as to their willingnes: now t to build and equip this agricultural 1: school. Senator McMaster, a trustee e of the South Carolina College, gave r voice to the sentiments and wishes a which are prevalent at the University t and Military Academy when he t ''hoped to see the infernal Clemson e College sink out of sight next year." s They all want to sink the "infernal" t Agricultural College out of sight, and r if its frienas do not really once more to ' t its support it will either he destroyed l or starved, so that it cannot (o the great d work it is expected to accomplish. n All the cry about ''existing institu tions" which must remain inV.iol;.:e s shows that the ring--the South Caro- il lina University, Citadel, Agricultural b r Bureau, Columbia Club, Greenfield t building ring-intendc in thefuture, as a r in the past, to get all they can, and g keep all they get. These pets of the a aristocracy and its nurseries are only r hoping that the people will again sink a into their accustomed apathy. The o niechanical- department of the Uni- ri versity was given an increased appro priation, and there is no thought of n f transferring it to Fort Hill, although t; the land scrip fund, which is sent a there was expressly donated for the c purpose of mechanical as well as agri- it cultural education, and so with the o experiment stations. The Hatch fund f< is given to the Clemson College, but g the stations are left at Columbia and it Spartanburg, under the control of the p South Carolina College. h Is it not plain that these people in- it tend to yield obedience to the law only a only when they are made to do it? b The Farmers' Association demands g that the land scrip and Hatch funds ii and the fertilizer tax shall be consol- ti idated and used for the building and s3 maintenance of a first class industrial ti school, with experiment stations at tached, for farmers and mechanics. tl We hold that the experimental work p and the inspection and analysis of fer- o tilizers can all be more efficiently and 1 economically carried on under one it board, mostly at one place, and much p of it by the same corps of men who t< teach. o We have never and do not-now waut n any increase of taxes, to accomplish q these ends. But our opponents having ej seized the opportunity afforded by our C agitation to double the income of the p South Carolina College and call it a n university, and in addition obtained p the Hatch fund ofl5,000, donated for n experiment stations, cry out: "Take c your Clemson College ! We will give a you .$9S,000 or $198,000, if you want it o raised by taxation, but you don't touch n existing institutions ." They have built t. with our bricks but say we must not si take them, but that we can build if we make others. Was there ever such j< impudence? . They seized fi st the land scrip fund. sl Then they misappropriated the Hatch tl fund ; they increased the taxes $6.5,000 hi a year to erquip and maintain the ti different departments of the grand v University ; they voted $60,000 in one tL lump without even a division to re bnild, repair and eqluip) the Ci'adel a Academy, and then say to taxpaying it farmers: "Leave our existing institu- S tions" alone. Let the agricultural bureau with its board--who are our c< chosen sons, every man of them p belonging to our aristocratic ring-- i let, this bureau waste $30,000 a year Ib more. Leave our experiment stations n at Darlington, Colum bia and Spartan- " burg alone. We expect to control h votes with them and they miust not be ft touched. ii Put your hands in your pockets arid a pay for your Clemson College if you " Iwill have it, and we will vote the tax- iI es. An anaylsis of the vote in the li House and Senate wIhich defeated the t< consolidation of all our agricultural work shows that the coard and depart- () ment of agriculture are sustained by b the fertilizer mantifacturers, the phos- n~ phate miners and the University and f Citadel. If a farmer votedl for its con- ti tinnuance it is because he felt that the S South Carolina University would lose ti somiething by' abolition. The supplort ra of the fertilizer companies is easy to C understand. This bureau has been t< their best friend. Year after year we h have been to)ld by Commissioner But- g Ier that the guanos inspected were be- a ow the guarantees, but nobody has i been punished. In fact there is no t adequate puniish ment for selling fraud- t< ulent guanios in this State. The bill prepared by the committee tt of the Farmers' Association for the re- -tc organization of the board of agricultutre w would have secured our farmiers rt agaist windingfertilizer dealers, but it it ws aende todeat hvthelaw- tI yers ini the Seiiate, who are attorneys p for the p)hosplhate mniners and fertilizer e' companies, and thle men who were se elected on the board over the nominees tI of the Farmers' Convention were chos- ii en not because they are more loyal to 0. the agricultural initerests, or better p] fitted for the position, but because they et are friends of the University and be long or are subservient to our aristo- in cracy-" so-called "-and the phosphate i miners are too wvell satisfied with the P system of collecting the State royalty t~ to permit a change if they can help it. p How wonderfully perfect or defect- S ive this system is, is shown by the tI act that during teii years under the ame officials not a sincrle indictment ias been brought against any one for ttempting to swindle the State out of ts dues. No wonder Charleston is in ove with the agricultural bureau, and annot bear to see that "existing insti ution" disturbed. The recent proposal to sell the State's iterest in the phosphate beds is fortu ate, because thereby the attention (f axpayers is attracted to this most in ortant matter. The Farmers' Asso iation proposed in ISS6 to increase the oyalty as a means of lowering taxes, lid we believe this can be safely done o the extent of $100,(00. A legislative committc was appoint r1 to ''investigate'' and report on the ubject. This was only done to give ime-waiting ten months until the uarket had been manipulated, etc. 'his committee proceeded to show ow well it had been chosen "not to o it." There was no honest effort iaade to get at the real facts as to the rofits of the business and its ability to l tand an increase of royalty, and after had been "wine(l and dined" and I rought into a suitable frame of mind hat committee came to Columbia and etually proposed to give the six lar est companies a monopoly for a less 1 nnual rental than the State was then I ?ceiving. Only one Senator, to whom 11 honor is due, dissented from this 1 utrageous proposal. What was the i Vsult? Of course the General Assembly did i ot act favorably upon it, but all hought of an increase of royalty was t ,so abandoned, and this was what the I Drporation attorneys who were there I i the interest of their clients and not I f their constituents had been working >r. "The goose that that lays the olden egg" was not killed-"existing istitutions" were not dist urbed. Phos- t hate rock, which had been manipu ited down to $2.4u per ton, advanced t two months after the Legislature t djourned to $6, and has since ruled t etween $5.50 and $7.50 per ton. The 0 Dlden eggs are still being laid, but not t i the State's nest--whether some of I iem have not gone into pockets, t -hich they ought not is an open ques- t on. t Now we want to warn the people r iat the character of the Coosaw Com- E any-obtained by bribery, it is said, c f a Radical Legislatue-expires in s 301. This company, which has grown t Lbulously rich, claims to have a per- f etual contract, with exclusive right r > mine in Coosaw River and pay only I tie dollar a ton for the privilege. The ext -Legislature must act -ot- 'this ( uestion, and the next Attorney Gen- s ad may have to test these claims in I ourt. The whole question of phos hate management, or mismanage- t ,ent, must be settled. Can the tax- - ayers afford to allow any but true r en to go to tile Senate, or elect a f >rporation lawyer as Attorney Gener ? Shall tile politicians choose him, I r shIall we, castinlg about among thea iany honorable, p)atriotic lawyers of r le State, make the selection our-t alves? The Legislatuire, wvhichi has just ad- g >urned, has other sins to answer for,t r rather the Senate must be held re- i onsitile. Tfhe people demanded that c le railroad commissioners shouldi ave something to do besides draw leir salaries aind spend them. We 'alit protection against the greed oft Ie gig'antic corp)orat ions owned at the orth, which regard South Carolina as I lemon to be suueezed and care noth ig for the welfare of our towns, our tate, our peop)le. The railroad laws of 18--made the >mimissionl a powver to defend the peo le against implositionl. Thle same Leg lature which enacted it, having been amboozied or debauched, at the very ext session left it only as a sinecure, ith fat salaries and no power. We ave just seen thle same disgraceful tree repeated. The law was vastly nproved at the session of 1888, but I fter a year .which hlas shown tile eakness and unfitness of the present icuurbents, for they have done very ttle, the Senate p)eremnptorily refused >make any changes. The railroad commnissioners now ini I niee have beenl "tamed." so to speak, y the railroads, and men who have ot been so long uder their wing I lighIt have doneW somiethiing ini thle in ~rest of the p)eole; but that sanie Lenate wvhich 1has agatin and again iwarted the people, which refuses~ to dutce salaries, which fought the lemrson College and yieled lit last necessity only, which is the strong old of aristocracy wvith its non-pro. ressive, impracticable ideas, which, in word, is donminated by Charleston's chi politicians-that senate resolved I >rmaiintain this "existing instit ution,'" >o, statui quo. Of all the taxes we pay,. the peiisioins Confederate veterans are submitted most wvillinigly, and we regret that r e caninot increaise the pittance they 'ceive. But the con t in u:ance of nien Ioflice Is political penisionecrs, after ieir ability or willingness to serve the - op)lle is gone--when the interests and(' en rights of the pieople lare thereby . crificed, this pandering to senltimient, us favori tism -is ae cimne, nioth ing I ore and niothing le-s. 1Ro tation inii lice is a cardhinal D ernioeratic priori e, aiid the neglect to practice it is thle Luse of miany of the ills we sufT'er. W\e cannot elarborate thle ttther counits this indictnient. We ean only point -iefly to, the nmsmnagemient of the enitentiary, which is a burden on the .xpayers, even wvhilhe engaged ill no ablie works which might bernelit the~ Late. To theC wrong conumnitted against j e popnle of many ountie rong- I holds of Democracy) by the failure reapportion representation accordi to population, whereby Charleston I: five votes in the House and ten vol in the State Convention, which cho( nur State officers, to which it is not itled. To the zeal and extravagance of ti aristocratic otigarcby, whose sins tre pointing out, in promising higl: education for every class except far .r?, while it neglects the free'scho4 which are the only chance for an ed -ation to thousands of poor childre whose fathers bore the brunt in t struggle fur our redemption in 1876. he continued recurrence of horril ynchings-which we can but attribu :o bad laws and their inefficient a atinistration. To the impotence ofjt ice to punish criminals who ha nonev. To the failure to call a cc stitutional. convention that we in lmve an organic law framed by Sou arolinians, and suited to our wan hereby lessening the burdens of tax ion and giving us better governmet Fellow Democrats, do not all the hings cry out for a change? Is it n )pportune. when there is no nation -lection, for the common people wl -edeerned the State from Radical ru o take charge of it? Can we afford eave it longer in the hands of tho vho, wedded to ante-bellum ideas, b )ossessing little of ante-bullum patri< sm and honor, are running it in ti uterest of a few families and for t] >enefit of a selfish ring of politician ks real Democrats and white me hose who here renew our pledge nake the fight inside the Democrat )arty and abide the result, we cz pon every true Carolinian, of a lasses and callings, to help us puri: nd reform the Democratic party at ive us a government of the people, t he people and for the people. If we control the State Democrat onvention, a Legislature in symp by will naturally follow; failing to'( his, we risk losing all we have gaine nd have no hope of any change f< he better. The logic of events ai ast experience show that we mu ominate candidates and put them j he field early, so that the masses wi inderstand what they must do ring about the change we so desir uch course will cause an active cal ass, wide discussion of the issues pr ented, and the people thus learni be truth can show whether they are i vor of the Farmers' Movement < ot, by electing or rejecting our nom ees. We therefore issue this call for onvention of 'those Iemiocrats -w1 ympathize with our views and pu oses, as herein set forth, to meet i olumbia, in the House of Represent ives, on Thursday, the 27th day larch proxinc, at 12 o'clock M., ominate a ticket for every State offic romi Governor down, to be put in ti teld for ratitication or rejection by ti ext Democratic State Conventio nid we pledge ourselves to abide ti esult, whether that is for or again Each county will send as many del ates as it sends to the State Conve: ion, and we suggest that a mass mnee ng or convention be called , n eat ounty to elect delegates on salesde n M1arch. By order of the executive commritti f the Farmiers' Association of Sol aroli na. C. WV. SHIELLJ, 'resident and Ex-Ofticio Chairman. EX-SENATORt RIDDLEBERGERI. Death of the Virginia Rteadjuster -A Sketc h of an Eventful Career. WiscHESTER, Va., January24.-E enator Riddleberger died at half-pa o'clock this morning. He had bet onfined to his room sinice tihe holiday nd untconiscious for three wveeks exe]' ,t intervals. His funeral will tal lace to-monrrow~afternoon at 3 o'cloc 'he interment will be at Edinburg. Harrison Holt Riddleberger was boi n Edinburg, Shenandoah County, V )ctober 4, 1544. After receiving a cori non school education he studied; tome for two years under a tuta )niring the civil war he served f bree ye:i-s in t lhe Confederate army: ieutenant of infan try and captain avalrv. At the close of the war I tudhied law, was admtittedl to the B nd began to practice at WVoodstoc' a. is first civil otiice was thbat ~ommionwevalt h's attorney for thi ounty, which lie held for two ternm -Ie was theni electcd and re-elected lhe State House of D)elegates, servir or four years, and subsequently sat lie Senate of Virginia for the san eriod. Since 1870 lie has edited thr .cal newspapers, The Ten th Legio 'he Shenandoah Democrat and TI I igmian. lie was a menmber of the State con: tittee oIf the Conservative patrtv uni 875, a Presidential elector oni the ID tocratic ticket in 18~76, and( on tl ieadjuster" ticket in 1880. He mv ommttonwealth's attorney andl Sta entor when in 18SI he was elected he Uited States Seniate as a Rea ister ini the place ofJohn WV. Johinst' (Conservative. Ont thle expiration is ternm of service in MIarch, 188 ohna S. lI arbour, Demnocrat, w: leeted his suc~cessor. Senator Riddl erger in thle recent Gubernation ampa~:igni was bitterly op)posed to 31 one, and prob)ably his last appearan< public was at onie of the MIeKinne ratllics'' in tI' valley of Virginia. If von sn&1lr frotm '-cold in tI eand.I' or from Ot htronie Catarrhi in t 1 lead, us~e Dr. Sage's5 Catarrh Remned; crers wihen everythin:g else fails. to AROUND THE WORLD. I- T he Novel Ceace Between-Miss Bly and S Mia Eisland. eCs se The readers of the whole world are now awaiting with increasing curiosity the end of the most novel race that was IS ever run. Two young ladies are making a race against each other, against time, and against romance, with the orb of the ls world as the course for this more than. U- Olympic game of speed. hh' These charming racersare Miss Nelly ,e Bly, the famous correspondent of the l'o New York World, and Miss Elizabeth le Bisland, the gifted and beautiful lite rary editor of the Cosmopolitan maga Zilne. -Miss Bly is a correspondent and re porter who has won fame by her enter prising spirit in many fields of journal ism. She once feigned insanity; was arrested, examined, adjudged to be crazy by intelligent New York phy sicians, and confined in a mad house. it She used to good purpose the informa se tion gained by this novel experience. I and another time she went to Al al bany to expose the lobbying schemes 101 e going on at the capital. She was seemingly engaged in pushing: two enterprises through the Legislature. Her innocent ways captured the t solons, and she entrapped them so successfully that she got an excellent opportunity for exposing the lobbyists ie and the lobbied statesmen. This is the greatest enterprise of her ' life, and she has the pluck and resource to to beat all previous records and will cs probably girdle the world in less than seventy-five days. Miss Bisland is of an old New Or leans family, and began her literary < d career by contributing to the news papers and magazines. Her first edito rial work was on the staff of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Four years ago she went to New York, and soon became known by the force of her talents as one of the leading women 1 r journalists of the metropolis. d She is a beautiful and charming t Southern woman. There is no marvel n that everybody is taking great interest 11 in her swift and restless march around :0 the world. She writes: "Every one e- has been charming to me. The officers - of the Oriental and Occidential steam - ship company promise to get me g through on time. My state-room is nh filled with flowers and books, and even ir strangers sent me great baskets of i- flowers and came down to the wharf t to see me off. Good bye, I hope to be a at the Cosmopolitan office on the 26th o of January." r- Miss Nellie Bly was the first to start. n She left New York, going East, Novem t- ber 14th, at 9 hours, 40 minutes and 30 )f seconds, a. m. She traveled faster than .o the estimates made for her itinerary, e. arriving at Ceylon ten days ahead, and e although she lost time waiting there, e was still ahead of her calculated jour ,ney at Yokohama, Japan. She left that e port for her long trip across the Pacific it on schedule time, January 7th, on the .Oceanic, the fastest steamer of the e- Oriental and Occidental steamship 1- company, which arrived at San Fran t- cisco on Tuesday, January 21, at 9.30 h a. m. Miss Bly was taken off in a tug1 *y as soon as the steamer reached the har bor, and was taken at once to Oakland, I e where she boarded a special train which hi was waiting, and started on the over land journey via the Southern Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific routes. Miss Bisland started Westward from New York nine hours after Miss Bly had sailed. Traveling with the sun, she far outstripped all previous records and was two days ahead at Yokohama. She sailed the Indian Ocean with swift speed, up the Red Sea, through Egypt to Alexandria and thence to st Brindisi, [taly, where she arrived ahead of time. She was to take the famous fast French steamship La Champagne Lfrom Havre, but the schedule of that eC ship had been changed since she left * New York. The Cosmopolitan knowing this, had arranged for a special train nto take Miss Bisland to Havre and had ' paid the French steamship $2,000 to '~ delay its sailing for one hour. it But it seems that some one advised r. her to go around Paris and hurry on to >r England, as La Champagne would not is be held for her. She hastened to En A gland, but could only secure passage on ie thle Both nia, slowest of the Cunard u- leet of steamships. ,This had luck not only caused her to miss the La Champagne, the fast ship sfrom Havre, hut also put her on the d' slow Bothnia from Queenstown to oNew York. gMiss Bisland sailed from Queens utowrd, Ireland, Sunday, January 19th. eC The Both nia ought to make the trip to e New York in six or seven days. If in ~ seven days this would land Miss Bis eC land in New York Sunday, January 20th. A curious question has sprung up in ireference to these voyages. Miss BIly, e- going East, seems to lose time, while eC Miss Bisland, going West, seems to s gain. It is known that on a trip from eC Australia to San Francisco a day is apparently lost. But the tinme -is in -exorably kept in New York by a Schronometer, and while it may seem to Miss Bly that she is losing and to Miss Bisland that she is gaining, the Stime in New York, of course, remains unchanged and keeps the record of the 11 <lays and hours of the trip. A DELAY FOR MISS BLY. D ITsvi.n, Col., Jan 22.-J. B. Semple, pa~nsenlger agent of the Union Pacific, at miidn,ight received a telegram that Nellie iy would arrive at Trinidad eThursday morning. There she will take a special train over the Union Pacific for Council Bluffs, via Denver. - At the Bluffs she takes the North western for Chicago, and at the latter place will be turned over to the Michi gan Central for New York. Thischange brings her via Denver, instead of going East on the Santa Fe from Trinidad, and will delay her about ten hours. EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-The snow blockade in California, which, as it now looks, will delay Nellie Bly on her trip, has revived excitement in the globe-cireling contest. There is now, it is believed, a good chance for Miss Bis land's winning, after all. As evidence ,f the interest here, five gentlemen have offered to pay a thousand dollars each for a swift steamer from Halifax to intercept the Bothnia on Sunday and take Miss Bisland to Halifax and,run ber down on a special train from there to this city. NELLIE BLY ON THE HOME STRETCH' CHICAGO, 24.-Nellie Bly on her tour around the world reached this city it 8 o'clock this morning, on a special :rain from Kansas City, and left at [0.30 o'clock on the regular Pennsyl vania Railroad train for New York. the should arrive there about 4 p. m. aturday. ;ENDING THE NEGROES TO AFICA. the Work of the Colonization Society in Over Seventy Years. - :From the St. Louis Globe Democrat] WASHINGTON, D. C.., January 19. [n the midst of the Senate discussion f the negro question the venerable olonization Society comes forward with its seventy-third anniversary. [he exercises were held at the Church . >f the Covenant to-night. This Colo uization Society was organized in 181. :ts purpose was exactly what Senators dorgan and Butler are now champion Dg-the removal of the negroes to africa. Statesmen, jurists, philan ,hropists, ministers of the gospel and nissionaries looked to the Colonization 5ociety as a possible savier of Africa rom heathenism and of America from civil war. Madison, Charles Carroll, ylay, Webster, Crittenden, Benton, sverett, Cameron, Seward, 'Birney, )ouglas, Lincoln, Fillmore and Weed dvocated the objects of the society, -, nd seemed to believe that means would >e found to carry out its undertakingi. ['he society intended only to. remove ree'people of color and 'such slaves :s : vere manumitted from time, to time,. ut its projectors and many~of its % ocates looked upon the projectas tar ishing the means - by which Afean lavery in this country coaidgradiB# Lnd safely be abolished. BQsirod Washington was its first :gresideYt; harles Carroll, second; Madison, hird; Clay, fourth, and Latrobe, fifth. _ Garrison and Phillips and their abo ition friends laughed at the society, lerided its missionary features, and couted the idea of "removing" 4,000,-F 00 people. Up to the time of the war he Colonization Society had many vealthy friends. Since its beginning n 1816 it has spent nearly $3,000,000, Lnd has been able to send about 2()000 kmerican negroes to Africa. It se omplished a great deal of work, and - he African Republic of Liberia is its hild. Every year of its existance it xas sent a ship to Liberia to carry iegro emigrants from this country. )ne of its vessels arrived only a few lays ago in New York, bringing four ative African children to America to e educated. They were stopped by he collector of New York as "undest able" immigrants, and now await the lecision of the Secretary of the Treas iry as to whether they are "assisted mmigrants." The fact that the Colo iization Society has spent $3,000,000 mnd has accomplished so little serves to ~all attention to the 'magnitude of this v'ork if undertaken in earnest. Sena or Butler proposes to start the removal f the negroes back to Africa with 5,000,000 which his bill appropriates. ['hat sum would not pay the expense >f carrying off a two months' natural -- ncrease of the negro population. The legroeS of the country increase at the *ate of 3.50,000 per year, nearly 1,000 a lay. To gather and transport them to seaport, feed them on the way, and ~ive them a little start in the new ~oun try, and pay a very low rate for a teamer passage of twenty or thirty lays, would cost not less than $200 per iead. So to remove even the natural ~ ncrease of one year would foot up a :ost of $70,000,000. It would require at east 100 first-class steam-ships to do he work, giving to each six round trip oyages per year. The $70.000,000 thus pent would then have made no appre ~iable inroad upon the original mass of .0,000,000 blacks. At Dog's Fidelity. A colored woman at Birmingham, .la., 'removed to Memphis last fall. ~he determined to leave her dog behind. Fust as she wa starting the faithful "~ Limal came bounding into the car t'here she sat. When she returned to 3irmingham she did not feel able to ncur the expense of the dog fare again, ~ nd so left the animal in Memphis, he dog, foot-sore and half-starved, amne bounding into his old home. ~He ad travelled one hundred and fifty ne miles to rejoin his old mistress. Liver disease, billiousness, dyspep ia, or indigestion, and all derange nents of the stomach and bowels ured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical . )iscovery, or money paid for it re. urned. Hear cautiously, decide imipartially. -Socrates. -