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E L 1ebe m eU AY 890Rt1AY ESTABLISHED 180 5. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, MA\ ,1901RC 1.0AYA A NIGHT ON THE OCEAN: A Moonlight Excursion and a Dance on an Island in Mid-Ocean-IncidentK of the Trip. [Correspondence of Herald and News.1 BRuNswicK, Ga., April :,, 1S90. -A sail on the ocean by moonlight! How grand the thought; but grander still the reality! These were my thoughts as we steaied out of the port of Brunswick, Georgia, a few nights ago, on a pleasure excursion to the beautiful island of St. Simon. And a jolly crowd we were, as the trim steamer Pone Catlin glided over the waters of Oglethorpe Bay, and bore us out to sea. The bay was comparatively calm.but out on the sound the wind was blowinger and the waves ran high. The stars twinkled mer:ily and over in the east a bright spot in the sky gave token of Luna's fair approach. All eyes were now fixed on the spot, and soon her pale face was seen modestly peering out over the billows of the briny deep. Shyly at first, she came out from her watery hiding-place, but afterwards, becoming more bold, she burst forth in -all her glory. How thbe bright beamis kissed the water that smiled an answer back. It was beautiful with the beauty of a dream. But who can describe a MOONRISE ON THE OCEAN. On and on, as far as the eye could see, the rolling, surging billows were chas ing each other, their shining crests re flecting the bright moonbeams. In front of us the harbor light on the tower of St. Simon's, sent its gleam far over the ocean. Off to the right the dark outlines of Jekyl Island (owned by the Vanderbilt's and used by them as a winter resort) could be seen loom ing up from the waters; while away to our rear the struggles of our companion boat, the Egmont, were indicated by the motion of her light, as she gallant ly mounted wave after wave in her on ward course. 0, the beauty of the scene! 'Twas the sight of a lifetime! For a time not one stirred-not a sound could be heard save the ponderous stroke of the engine, battling against the waves. I noticed a young ian in front of me who seemed to be much affected by the beauty of the scene, and it was easy to see he was about to give vent to his emotions in a song. I thought nothing could be more appropriate at this time, and anxiously listened for "A life on the ocean wave!" but my mind was soon disenthralled by hearing him pour forth his soul in "They ;say the o:d cow crossed the road, Crossed the road, crossed the road: They say the old cow crossed the road Because she crossed the road, sir. And the second stanza: They say the old cow crossed the road, Crossed the road crossed the road : They say the old cow crossed the road Because she crossed the road, sir. Chorus The old cow crossed the road, ete." At the conclusion of the song a shout, that made the boat fairly trem ble, went up from the throats of the hundreds assembled on deck, and the spell ;was broken. Likewise my foot, which I had put too a too severe test, in the laudable attempt to kick the young man overboard. At.last the island was reached, and the tirne, till near midnight, was spent in different pastimes and amusements by the excursionists. Some spent the time dancing. Notably my girl, "With'eyes as bright As stars at night And cheeks like flowers in bloom, -A vision fair, With witching air, She whirled around the room. Round and round she goes, As lovely as a rose, A presence sweet and bright. How proud was he, The youth whom she Was dancing with tha: night. Others went driviuig oni the beach, while some took the less pretentious st3ie of locomotion in a stroll on the sands, "Gathering up the shells by the sea." No one forgets a visit to the oceani. There is a certain indescribable faseina tion in the roar of the mighty deep, that niever fades from memor~v. It is awe-inspiring-as solemn as the hour after death. Who has not experienced emotions of a like a nature, in a modi lied form, on reading the beautiful words of Byron in his Apostrophe to the Ocean: ''Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fat homis sweep thy cres t in vain." I raever look upon the ocean without mentally repeating these lines. Such beautiful sentinient ! And myv mind "goes-a-wvandering,'' and I imagine 1 see the famous bard, seated astridle a rock, in the water's edge, his head pro tected by a broaid-brimmned straw hat, and his bare feet dangling in thme water of the great and mighty mill-pond where McGinty took his famous plungel -with note-book in one hinnd and the antiquated stump of a lead pencil in the other, addressing to the ocean the particular kind of quotation miarks re ferred to, unconscious of the crabs and minnows nibbling at his toes, while his wife shakes the broom-stick at hinm from the cottage-door, and tells him lie had better come ont and bring that bucket of water. These are the circumstances under which my imagination leads mue to be lieve these fanmotus lines were writ ten,4 although I cannot positively assert that I ever so stated in history. The principlal prodiuctions of the is land are rice, weddings and santd-Ilies, with a decided preponderance of t he atter. The sand-fly is a small grnat in. a roIIcentrated fori, aitl after beit toreiinted by theri for an hour, tl sti!t of a wasp is pleasant by way v-ariatiol. Tired of ti:e dance and festivities, e,eiipany of us wtit (Idowin to the heat antI playetl hide :md.I seek with t waves. ''his is a very an musing pa1 time, but engaged in principally I children. One f'eilw, being a trif rmore ve!tiresoie than the other waited too long before running from a unustaly large wave, and had his fet informnally and unceremionious! washed-the most appropriate th ii the waves could have done. At a few iminutes to midnight tl signal for leaving was given, and went atoard, well pleased with tl eve:iintg's sport on St. Strnon's. On tl return trip, I felt somewhat chilly, anl remarked to my companions, that should like to have something aroun rme. The young lady on my right su ested her arm, but being in compan I had to decline. I noticed one coup who seettted to be completely exhauste with the evening's sport. They ha lea ied their heads together, and ha tuietly sunk int. the arms of Mo dieus. I at once began to feel the need of liead-rast myself, and suggested much to th? young lady on my righ ut she informed me that I was a trif ltreviotus in my suggestions, as it was uxury to be enjoyed only by those wh wvere married, and that it was a new] narried couple. I do not think I wt ever so impressed with the advantag of being married. Taking a stroll on the boat I notice in old grey-haired man sitting out o lie bow seemingly troubled, insomuc hat I deemed it right to approach hit md ofter my sympathies. So, al proaching. I asked what could be tli :rouble: "Young man," he said, "di vou ever think what the awful cons, luences would be, if a devilish sawfis dhould saw a hole in the bottom of th Doat letting in the water?" I adnitte :hat I had not given the matter mue houglt. "Well, I tell you, we'd all 1 ,oners, young man, mark that!" An lie young man marked it. H. H. h t N .um. A sOUTiEl:N OUTRAGE. Rut of the Kind Not Advertised by Tot Iteed and Iiis Partisans. [Special to Charleston World.] Gi-::x PoxI , Colleton Co., Apr tr.--Two young men, F. F. Belling( md A. L. Cunningham, while returi ig from Jonesville to their place c )usiuess on Combahce, stopped in iegro church out of the rain. Som )f the negro men in the congregatio >bjected to their stopping, and tol hen to pass on. As it was rainin ery bard the young men replied tha hey only wanted shelter from th rain, and, as soon as the rain slacke iptbtey would continue their trip. The ininister, who was preaching said1 they could remain ; but the nie wvho fir.st approached themi said the; Lad to go, anid with')ut further ad proceeded1 to ptut them out by violeiet After reaching the outside, the youn 'ien, being naturally aggrieved at suc :reatmient, reproved the niegroes i oevere language. A crowd had surrounded them b :his timie. It was <quite dark and the lid not see thme negro slipping up hi ind them. He had a rail uplifte vithi which he lie struck young Be inger a fearful bh>wv across the head ~elling hoim to the grouind ini a senst ess cond(itioni. Youing ('n n ingham, Bellinuger romipaniioni, received several blows o uis arms and( elsewhere. Seeing h :outld do nothing against such odds h eft for help, returinig with assistanc ibout 2 o'clock. Thle trouble happene ibout 8. Young Bellinger was founi o0 be still unconscious. He had bee -emoveti from where lie fell and carrie o the rear of the church. The chure lad been dlesertedl. Tfie negroes, think ng they killed himi, must have re niovedl his btody and then decamlped. Restoratives were aphpliedh, ando th rounlg mian soon regained conscious less. He now lies iin a precarious con lition, a nd congestion otf thle brain ma;: -esult. The young man's store-keys, a finge. ing and $1 in~ money were imissini 'rim hlis p)ersonl. This gives color to tho nlupposition that hie was robbed afte. seiing em ried to the rear of the churelh It is a wonder that tile fear of God ~eengeance at such sacrilege had( niot r( traiined t hemn! None of the nlegroes ar nown, except the preacher. Cot ton Comtaina D)own the ive-r. [( oluimbia R egister.] Tlwo- boats loaded with cotton arrive it thle locks at the hmead of thle eam ~esterday. .1 acob Worthey, a colore nail was in ebarige of the boats. whiel vith this helip of his (-rew he had safel. i led dowun Broad itiver from a poin it lnion (Counity. Thle cargo cotnsiste >f sixtv bales of cttonl. wnic-h wr uronghit froni the lot-ks by Mir. Hai xers wagonis yesterday. It wvouid thu tppeair that Ite river ab ove Columbi s st ill 'ope-n to inavigation to a certai xtenmt amid possibly miight be still ful her dleveloped. Ant E'ditor Drowvned. WvAslilN(:TON, MIay 1.-A special t o the Post from Petersburg, Va., says "The body (of MIr. E. D). Walker, c 3rooklyn, N. Y., editor of the Cosmc molditani M:mn:zi ne, wvho has been mlis5 nie fromi Weldon, N. C., sincee Satui lay last, was found floating oil the stu hiee of the Roanoke Rliver at Weldo: hois miornling bty two colored mmer -Iis watch and imoiney and sonie pr at papers were found0 in his pockets Ie held graspin tg in his hand a broke shintr rtod. His body- will be takent B~rooklyn by his lItrother-i n-law fc TIE SUIt-TREASUtY HUMBUG. I'c C,ngresctnan Cothran Knocks A Hole Through the Bill.-A Warning to the Far,nerK of the South not to be Caught with Chaff. e [Special to News and Courier.] s- V.\su IN(rON, April 27.-Judge Coth ran, IRepresentative from the 3d South Ic Carolina district, has received so many ltters of inquiry from his censtituents n in regard to the sub-treasury bill, that t he furnishes the following copy ofan y answer to one of them, with the hope g that through The News and Courier it may reach all his constituents: e HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S., ) 1i WASHIN<TON, Aprl 22, 1890.i e r. A. M. Guyton. Piercetown, S. e ('.-Mv Dear Sir: Your letter of the d 14th instant has been received. In it, I writing in behalf of yourself and neigh d bors, you ask me "please to tell us (youl what the bill (known as the sub- j y treasury bill) proposes to do; also your e (my) views concerning said bill." d Acknowledging at the outset and to: d the fullest extent the right ofevery one d of my constituents to demand of me, r- as their Representative, at all times, information upon public questions, I a promptly and cheerfully comply with is your request. t, Upon the subject referred to by you, fe two bills have been introduced in the a present Congress, one in the Senate o and one in the House. I send to you a y copy of each of the bills. Upon each of s them you will observe the words "byi 5 requests"; in legislative ethics, this I simply means that the Senator [Mr. ] d Vance] and the Representative [Mr. t n Pickler] who introduced them are not lh thereby necessarily committed to their 11 support. - The bills provide for the storage in s e ware houses of all kinas of farm pro d ducts which are suitable for storage and I shipment and not of an immediately a bi perishable nature. These ware houses a is are to be built all over the country, at t d an estimated expense, to be borne by < Ih the Government, of something like eC $50,000,000. Upon the products so I d stored certificates shall be issued by the ' Government, and to the amount of80O I per cent of the value of the a ticles so I stored the Government shall lend to ' the holders of these certificates, or i receipts, money at the rate of 1 percent I per annum. REASON FOR THE BILL. The obvious reason of the demand for i this extraordinary legislation is the r present depressed condition of the a agricultural interests all over the ' f United States, and especially in the I E Western and Northwestern States. The a e burning of corn for fuel in the State of I n Kansas is the most complete and sum- e j marized statenient"of the cause. This t is so far from being applicable to the t t farmers of South Carolina and of the s e Southern States that it may be well to I ii reflect very seriously before we give to the proposed measure our support. As I am now serving as your Repre- E ,a sentative in Congress my last term, it I seems to me that I am in a position to o deal with you in a spirit of the utmost t .frankness, and altogether freed from C any possible charge of demagogy in 1 a saying, that I regard the farming in a terest of the country as embracing its a very bone and sinew-the mainstay 1 y and support of the Government itself. I These interests are suffering from I .over-production, and for the want of a 1 adequate means to transport the tre . mendous surplus of products to mar- i kets beyond our own borders. .THE WEST HAS GROWN TOO FAST. E On account of cheap and fertile lands l s in the WVest and Northwest, the vast a tide of immigration that hassteadily e flowed thither for the last twenty-five ( e years, the bulky nature of their pro-t e ducts and their remoteness from the j markets of the East and of the world, :1 the p)rices realized have not been remu a nerative. Besides, the cost of livingt :1 and of production has been greatly in a creased by an unjust, unnecessary and . oppressive system of tariff taxation, resulting in a widespread and almostI universal network of farm mortgages, e given to secure money advanced by -Eastern capitalists. The census of the . present year if correctly taken, will be, -in this regard, an appalling disclosure to the whole country. It required but r a single good provision crop in the South, with which were blessed last e year, to bring about the catastrophe r and along with it this demand for relief .to themi (niot to us,) which has found Sexpression in the proposed sub-trea-I -sury bill. e 1(1o not believe that this picture is overdrawn or exaggerated. You may ask, howv is it with ourselves? Many1 would doubtless answer, bad enough. Ini my travels over the district last sulmnmer, which took me once into your 1owni excellent neighborhood, I did nott find a single farmer who attended to his business half as wvell as he could have done that was not prospering. I couhld namre a number of them, whom s vou know as well or better than I do. -No rSE FOR THE PROP'OSED WARE s 1 I To comle directly to the point: Sup- I po)'se a Government ware house should h)e erected at Piereetown, what would< you or your nleigh bors put In It? Cotton bales are well nigh the only consider 'able surplus products of your farms. I Nobody eats cott')n; it is too bulky to1 steal without almost certain and speedy 1 -detection of the thief; and if you have no convenient place forstoring it during : -the time it is held before marketing, a i few poles laid upon the ground and a 1 temporary shed of losise planks will I -suffice for protecting it from the wea- 1 a ther. It is not so with the Westerni rfarmer' products, which must be care- 1 n1rhoused and kept under lock and ey. Besides, what is the eflect of citholding these diflerent crops fri he market? From 1861 to 1S-;5 the vorld, *y some means or other. ruai iged toget on without ourcotton erops. [n such years as we had from IS:: to LSt, if the corn, bacon and flour that xe required had been in (jovernne,t vare houses, cornered by law, as this Aill proposes to do, ours instead of :heirs would have been the land of nortgages; the contest, as you mnust ;ee, is an unequal one, an! the odds tre all against us. You can get on, for t time at least, with worn and pat<-hed slotihing, but a lean and empty larder 1ho can long withstand? riE souT IhFTTER oF' THAN -IrF; W E.S'. As bad as some may deei our condi :ion, it ought to allord them some re ief to contrast it with that of others. rake the State of Iowa, for instance. I ave already alluded, ineidentally, to orn burn iug Kansas. It appears frma he agricultural statistics of Iowa for ast year that the average yield of torn, vhich is their main crop, was .311 bus'els >er acre, and the price at the crib _'n ents per bushel-gross vivld in money )y the acre $6. You can by proper care tnd attention bring up any acre upon rour farm, and that mneans every acre ipon it, to produce a bale of cotton ,200 pounds in the seed, the market )rice of which during the past seas n vas 20 cents per bushel, the exact quivalent in value of the Iowa far ner's 30 bushels of corn. Beside:, you iave 400 pounds of lint worth 10 cents >er pound. against which to charge up he expenses of production, and if it hould take $40 for that purpose, (which rou know is not the fact,) you would at east have $6, the proceeds ofthe sale of eed, as clear profit. During my travels over the district ast summer I had the piea-ure of ttending several of the Farmers' Alli .nce meetings. I felt a deep interest in hem, heartily approving every effort if tle country to better their condition. ike all the rest of mankind they, too, nake mistakes. I ventured in a modest vay to point out some of these. The >urden of their efforts seemed to be row and where to buy the cheapest. That I told them was very well, but it s not the main thing. There is never nuch trouble to buy, if one has money vith which to buy. It is vastly more mportant to have something to sell. DO NOT BORROW MONEY. And so it is with one of the features f this sub-treasury scheme which isso vell calculated to catch gudgeons, by olding out the offer of lending money t a cheap rate of interest. It matters tot what the rate of interest is, in the nd you will find that you have to foot he bill. The present indebtedness of he Government, whose mainstay and upport you are, is in rou. Id numbers ,400 million dollars, requiring nearly 0 million dollars to meet the annual uttrest. Now how does it strike you s a financial policy for one who owes ,400 million dollars bearing interest at and 4 per cent to lend out his money t i per cent pet annum, to say nothing f paying out other millions for ware ouses for salaried officials and so) on, a order to get achange to commit such tupendous folly?Common sense, sound oason and good judgment are just as ecessary in managing the affarirs of overnment as they are in conducting farm, a store or a Lank. Some persons of much financial skill *nd energy may handle successfully orrowed money. These constitute the xception to the rule. The rule itself 3 exactly the reverse of this. A lesson of more value to our people han any politico-financial device that an be conceived of is to be found in he practical precept, borrow not at all. THE REPUBLICAN PLOT. In the frankness that shall character e this latter, I warn you against ex remie men and measures. The old aths are the safest. Very soon I shall ake my place with you again in the anks, and for my own part, in the truggle that lies just ahead of us, I ray that we may have the beist, the ruest and the wisest of leaders. Ac epting as you have done in the utmost ood faith the results of the late war, taving adapted yourselves as best you ould to the changed condition in your ,ffhirs, you do not realize the hitter rejudice that the Republican politi ians still have towards you. They re fully determined, if they can to sass the bill now pending in Congress, n regulate and control the Federal lections in the State. Its machinery, neant solely for the Southern States, 3 to be set in motion upon the petition f five hundred voters in any one of he Congressional districts. These will eadily be found in every Congressional listrnet of the State lately engaged in he rebellion (so-called) and not in one f the States that adhered to the Un ion. ~hould the bill become a law the strug le of 1876 will be renewed in South ~arolina, and you will need all of the visdom, all of the moderation, all of he enthusiasm and devotion without vhich the splendid victory would have ten turned into disastrous defeat. There are other grave and important luestions that I would gladly bring to -our attention, and miany other strong easons that might be given in opp1o0i ion to this proposed raid upon the reasury, but this letter .has bee:: ex ended far beyond the limits proposed .t the outset. I would like to call 'our attention to the unholy alliance ietween the farmers of the West and he Knights of Labor, which bodes no ood to us. See their effort already nade to depress about the only exclu ive Southern industry, cotton seedl oil, ry the passage of what is known as the omnn lardl. 1TLo at teeor bitant deiand for pensions, already re<quiring more than one hundred mil lion dollars annually, and the end not yet. It has been just cause of pride with us that our regular army is so snall and inexpensive, and to-day no monarchy in the ONl World pays as iiueh to keep up its standing army as we pay for pensiois. AN tNcox-rrrrt-"rtoNAL. IL.. I have refrained from stating the constitutional objection to the sub treasury bill; that is of the nature of technical law, but for that matter all law is technical; this objection is so ob vious that I hazard little in saying that I do not belit ve the bill will ever be reported by the committee to which it has been referred. If it should be, and should be passed by the two houses of Congress, I do not believe the president will approve it, and I have no doubt but that the Supreme Court would deelare it to be unconsti tutional. There is no warrant in the Constitu tion for the Government ever becoming a money-lender. It has the power by various tmetho(ds to .vy taxes, to bor row monev on the credit of the United States, to regulate cgmmerce with for eign countries and between the States; and there are sundry other powers dele gated to it by the States, but by no process of construction, however strained, unless it be as boys at school sometimes get the answer to their sums, by "forging," can this time-honored though much abused instrument be made to yield such a result. (ROUTNDLESS CHARGES. The matter of greatest concern to the people of South Carolina is the preser vation of the integrity and political supremacy of the white race, which can alone secure the perpetuity of the present form and methods of good gov ernment. The experiment of carpet bag, scalawag and negro rule has been tried and endured as long as it was possible to bear it. But when I hear wholesale charges of profligacy and corruption made against those who have faithfully discharged their official duties in every department of the State government, charges unsupported by a tittle of proo, and too often lis tened to with willing ears, I can but fear that many are beginning to regard our deliverance as assured for all time. and that for its continuance little or no vigilance is required. Accept my thanks for the oppertu nity afforded by your letter of giving to you and to others this expression of my views, and trusting if they are correct, as I believe them to be, that you will concur in them, I am very respectfully and truly yours, -J. S. CoTiHRA N. Slang Words and Phrases. [From American Notes and Queries.] "DJun' is a word nowv whose meaning is knowvn to every one who under stands the English language. About the beginning of the century a con stable in England named John Dun became celebrated as a first-class colletor of bad accounts. When others would fail to collect a bad debt Dun would be sure to y et it out of the debt or. It soon1 passed into a current phrase that when a person owed money and (lid not pay when asked he would have to be "Dunned." Hence it soon1 became comlman in such cases to say : "You will have to Duu So-and-so it you wish to collect your money." Until the nomination of Franklin Pierce for the Presidency the word "outsider" was unknown. The comn mittee on credentials came in to make its report and could not get into the hall because of the crowd of people who were not menmbers of the Con vention. The chairman of the Con vention asked if the committee was ready to report, and the chairman of the committee answered: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, but the committee is un able to get inside on account of the pressure of outsiders." The newspaper reporters took up the word and used it. "You are a daisy," is tised by Dick ens in "David Coppertield,"' in the sense of calling a person a daisy in a way to express admniration, and, at the same time, to laugh at one's credul ity. Steerforth says to young Copper field : "David, my daisy, you are so innocent of the world. Let me call you my daisy, as it is so refreshing to find one in these corrupt days so in nocent and u nsophis ticauted. My (lear Coppertield, the daisies of the field are not fresher than you.", "Too thin" wvas given currency by the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. of Georgia, in the i.nitedl States ('on gress in 174. Sonme menmbers had madle a re'ply to Mr. Stephens and the latter had his chair wheeled out in the aisle and said in that shrill piping voice which al'vays commanded si lence: "Mr. Speaker, the gentle man's argumients are gratuitous asser tions made up of wvhole cloth. And cloth, so gauzy and thin that it will not hold water. It is entirely too thin, sir." LAookinig at tihe Futu sre. [Lowell Mail.] Visitor-I not ice t hat you conine1K y-ouirself to fort-telling thle future, and do not reveal the past. Clairvoyanit-Yes: it's so miuch easier. Somebody is sure to kniow all about the p last, andI they know as little about the ft'nir' as 1 do. AN OLU-TIMER. Dne of the First Engineers Who Ever Pulled a Train of Cars in the United States Lives in Edgetield. [From the Charleston World.] JOHNSTON, EDGEFIEL. Co., April .-Joseph Haddon is one of the oldest railway engineers in America, and hears the distinction of having been tne of the first men to pull a throttle :n the South Carolina railroad, the :ldest road in the United States. Mr. Haddon has long since left the rail for the less exciting occupation of directing the energy of a mill engine; but he is rull of the incidents of the days when railroading was in its infancy in America-now the foreniost country in the world in this line. Haddon now mnak(s his home with the Rev. James ['arson, near Richardsonville, in this ounty, whose mill engine lie attends. He is getting pretty well on 114 years, )ut is still vigorous. The World's correspondent rode over to Mr. Carson's a few days ago to have t talk with Mr. Haddon, feeling sure that his story of the past would pos iess a peculiar interest in this day of railroad building and general progress md improvement of everything that goes on wheels. The old gentleman was found not in a very talkative hu nor; but what he did say is well worth repeating. Joseph Haddon is an Englishman. He came over from Newcastle-on-Tyne -"the Durham side," he emphasized n the year 1,833. He was sent over by 3eorge Stevenson, the father of the .ocomotive engine, as an expert in ,harge of four locomotives for the South 'arolina railroad. These engines were he "Sumter," "Orangeburg" "Ohio," tud "Tennessee," which will probably )e remembered by some of the older Iarolinians. These engines which would be con sidered more in the light of useless cu iiosities now, were giants then, and narvels of man's ingenuity and invent ye skill. They were four-wheeled. Pile cylinders were on top and running 3alf way into the boiler, with a con iecting rod extending down on either ide and fastening to the periphery of he driving wheels. Haddon was a valuable man on the oad. He understood the machines etter than anyone else, and as he ren lered very efficient service he remained vith the company a number of years. Iis engine pulled freight trains, with LIleged passenger accommodations, and vhen leaving on a trip among his most mportant instructions was "to keep )ut of the way of the passengers, but o get there as soon as possible." Half way between stations was a ost-the first train to reach this point iad the right of way. Another train neeting it would have to back to the wext station. An everlasting coolness existed be ween him and passenger conductor [im Mieredith; altogether on the part >f the latter however. It happened in his way: It was the rule of the road 'or freight trains to halt at stations 45 ninutes after passenger trains were lue; then go ahead. On a certain oc ~asion, observing this rule and meeting fIeredith's train, loaded with passen ~ers, after he had lost his right of way, he latter begged for the road. Had ion would not give way and Mferedith 2ad to back to the station and hence :he trouble. Trains making only twelve and four :en miles per hour then, and some ;imes meeting with hindrances, would >ccasionally be caught by [light. Then t was expected for them to "tie up," >r if the engineer had unusual confi ience in his own ability, "to go ahead rnd get there if possible." Haddon would not say why he finally eft the South Carolina road; but it is iupposed that his'bibulous habits had omething to do with it. Leaving Iharleston he became rather nomadic. Ife worked in New York with tf-e Sovelty Mfachine Co., a while; then ,ith the Baldwins in Philadelphia, and finally drifted around until in 1850 se was ill the cab of a Wilmington and Weldon railroad engine. That year mpressed itself indellibly on his mind, ~rom the fact that he was engineer of he train on which the body of John C. Dalboun was brought down to Wil nington, from which place he says he -emembers its being shipped to Char eston aboard the steamboat Nannie. The old man must be muchl more han 80) years of age. From his gaunt nassive frame one would judge that he sad been splendidly endowed physi sally, in early Iffe; and, from his own statenment, none but a nmagnificent con stitution could have stood what his has >een subjected to. He has never been sick, he says-never even had a head iche. When asked what his post-bac shanaliaun experiences were like, his reply was that after a spree he always thought "a hair from the same dog ~hat did the biting the very best rem adyv." The Mfonitor in writing himi up some time ago, caused inquiry to be started by well-to-do relatives in the West, whom he has not known for fifty years. which nlo doubt will be a source of much satisfaction, but from the atten tion shiowni him~ by the family of the reverend gentleman who emp ~loys himi, one would not think that he lacked for friends. HIAT)ION MIoRN o01-'1$ L.\l'RELM. [Charleston World-] In the World of Wednetsday, April :0, there appeared a commuitnication from the W\orld's .Johnmstonl correspon (lent, giving the particulars of an in teretin interview with Joseph Had don, of Edgefield county, who stated that he was the first locomotive engi neer on the South Carolina railway, and consequently the first one in the United States. Mr. Haddon also stated that he was an Englishman, and was sent over by George Stevenson, the father of the locomotive engine, as an exlpert in charge of four locomotives for the South Carolina railway. These engines were the "Sumter," "Orange burg," "Ohio" and "Tennessee," which will probably be remembered by some of the older Carolinians. This interview has been widely copied by papers in this State as well as else where, the statement being a matter of wide interest has generally been read. It was especially commented upon in Charleston. where historical facts in reference to the South Carolina railway are always interesting. The "old timers" of the railway also took great interest in the statement. It seems after all that Mr Haddon was not the first engineer of the first f real railroad in the country. Mr. Thos. B. Hacker, connected with t the firm of George S. Hacker & Son of t this city, as a boy, was connected with the mechanical department of the l South Carolina railway when it first s commenced operations and he is per- t fectly familiar with the circumstances in reference to engineers and engines in the infancy of the road. In addition to his own recollection in the matter, t Mr. Hacker has carefully treasured E some pamphlets of the report of the directors and the master machinist of the time, which clearly show that Mr. 1 Haddon was neither the first engineer, nor were his'services necessary in teach ing the American employees of the company how to put up the engines as they were first received from England, because they did it without English instruction. Mr. Hacker said to a World reporter yest,-rday that being personally ac quainted with most of the facts, and having received others from Haddon and others mentioned later in this article, he was prepared to state that Mr. Dorrell, the master machinist at the commencement of the road, was the first engineer. He was the first to run- the "Best Friend," the first loco. motive ever placed on a railroad in the United States. That engine having I exploded and gone to pieces,'ft w rebuilt and called the "Poenix," and e was still run by Mr. Dorrell. After that came Mr. H. G. Raworth s who is now the veteran engineer of the d country, and who lives at present in 1 Augusta. Mr. Haclkr thinks Mr. Haddon's I description of the engines of that time s very imperfect, and describes them as follows: The main peculiarities of these engines was in the arrangement of the eccentrics for which there were two i uses for back or head. They were fast ened to a harrell, which revolved on the driving axle and the engines were given direction by a, clutch fastened thereon, which placed the eccentric on the proper angle with the crank. The steami pipes were placed on the outside while now they are placed on the smoke box. "The engines had no cabs, but four stanchions were fastened to the foot board to support a frame work, over which was stretched a tarpaulan to protect the engineer and fireman from ~ the weather." Returning to the question of who was the first engineer, Mr. Hacker referred to Mr. Haddon's statement that he came here in 1833, and showed from the company's reports that the "Sum ter," "Marion" and "Ohio," which he claimed he run immediately after he came to thbis country, were not put ona the road until 1835, and that it was not probable that he should come from England from Stephenson, the loco motive builder, to take charge of his engine, and then not assume duty until 183.5, while the road had been running before that time. Mr. Hacker is very much interested in the road and is naturally desirous that so interesting an historical fact s'hould be set straight. Mr. John Her nandez, who served his time in the old Line street sh'ops, who for several years was foreman, agreed with Mr. Hacker in his recollections. Johnny's Progress in Physiology. [Medical Classics.1 The following heretofore unheard of icformation in regard to breath and breathing was made in Kentucky re cently by a school-boy of 12 years who wrote an essay on the subject : We breathe with our lungs, our lights, our kidneys and livers. If it wasn't for our breath we would die when we slept. Our breath keeps the life a-going through the nose when we are asleep. Boys who stay in a room all day should not breathe. They should wait until they get out in the fresh air. Boys in a room make bad air called carbonicide. Carbon icidc is as poisonous as mad dogs. A lot of soldiers were once in a black hole in Calcutta and cirbonicide got in there and killed them. Gir!s somnetinmes ruin the breath with corsets that squeeze the diagram. A big dia gram is best for the right kind of breathing." Two Children Married. L :EmtMAxx, Greenville, Co., April 2-Married-A little son of John Scot t to a little daughter of Mr. WV. S. C'ox. Henry, the boy, is a little over 14 years old, and is about the age of Alice the girl he married. They were married last Sunday by the Rev. E. Ballard.] NOTES FROM EXCELSIOR. Small grain is heading out rapidly. This is the first day of May and the apring poets can begin to echo the jound of spring. Our farmers have about all finished 3lanting cotton seed. . good season >f rain would bring cotton to a good itand now. Miss Janie Kinard returned hon:e >n Monday from her visit to Saluda. Some persons in this community at ended the communion service held at hft. Tabor church on Sunday last. Messrs. Forrest Kibler and Geo. Rikard, of Prosperity, spent Saturday tight with friends in this section. rust ask the boys if they are fond of ysters and eggs at .any hour during be night. Mrs. A. M. Counts and son, Master ufus, spent a few days of last week vith her father, Mr. W m. Werts and amily of Saluda. Track laying on the Columbia. New erry and Laurens Railroad is nearing his section and we are told in a few lays more will reach Prosperity. Iurrah for the new road, for we are ,nxious to hear the whistle and visit he city by the new line. Can't our young folks organize a day social for the enjoyment of our luiet little community. Such an en ertainment would certainly be much njoyed by the young folks and es ecially by those who might be fond f 'wearing a sweet bouquet pinned on y a special friend. Mr. John Cromer, of Walton, spent aturday night in this community. Dr. D. M. Crosson, of Lewiedale, vhile on his way to the State Medical .ssociation held at Laurens last week, >aid a brief visit to the parental roof n this community. The Dr. as usual, eems to be in good health and from is appearance Lewiedale seems to be 6 healthy town. Mr. J. T. P. Crosson, who is farm ng near Leesville, returned to his ome in this community on Saturday .fternoon accompanied by Mrs. Dr. D. 1. Crosson and children to spend a ew days in this community. News circulated in this community ast week that some wise prophet had iredicted for a heavy wind storm to be xperienced on Friday, 25th. The day was looked forward to by several per ons in the community. However, the Lay passed off very quietly and we eard of no one that was molested or nade afraid during the day. Such iredictions are very sinful and should ot be noticed by anyone. SIGMA. THE ELOPMENT DID'T GO. he Girl's Father Used an Axe on the Young Man, Who May Die. [Charleston World.] KERSHAW, Lancaster Co., A pril 29. -On Saturday night last on Lynch's iver, in Chesterfield county, an alter ation took place between J. B. Gainey nd Pearce Robinson at the latter's touse, in which Mr. Gainey received vounds from which he is expected to lie. Mr. Gainey went to Robinson's to teal his step-daughter, to whom he ras engaged to be married. Mr Robin on interferred, and used as a weapon club-axe, inflicting on Gainey's head wo severe wounds. Mr. Gainey's riends' timely interference saved his ife, as Mr. Robinson was about to trike another deadly blow. Robinson ias not been arrested at this writing. TO TEST REED'S EULINGS. Lhe Democrats Will Take a Case to the Supreme Court. WA.SHINGTON, April 30.-The Dem >rats have a case they may get into he Supreme Court to test the constitu ;ionality of the act of the speaker in :ounting members who do not vote to make a quorum. They refrained from voting on the Dingley bill, and it pased by 138 af Irmative votes, the speaker counting i quorum. It is the purpose of the mporters to resist the operation of the yi1 if it is passed by the Senate and -eeives the President's signature. By aking a test case to courts, when an ttempt be made to collect the duty mposed on worsteds by the bill, they sn get the question before the Su yreme'Court. The Aiken Tax Shortage. [Augusta News.] CoLUxMBIA, April 28.-A statement baying been pubbshed that Treasurer I. E. Murray, of Aiken County, had :efaulted mn the payment of his State taxes to tile extent of $17,000, Comp troller General Verner was asked Sat arday for particulars. He said that he bad paid two visits to Aiken for the purpose of investigating the accounts >f the treasurer, and will go there again on May 13 to go over them with the grand jury, examining them thoroughly. Mr. Verner said that he bad ascertained that much of the short ige was due to) the fact that the treasurer had allowed the :ounty commissioners to overdraw on im. In other words, he had paid :ounty demands with State funds ap parently to the extent of $6,688. In eluding this the amount he now owed the State, less his commissions and the South Carolina railway taxes yet to be collected, was about $10,000. The State treasurer and himself were looking in Murray's bondsmen had made ar rangements to pay the State the full imount due it. Treasurer Murray as been in office ten years.