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Say., (ry Ia. * to-4 .as eel1 IHE 18-.NEWBERRY&. S. C.4 THU RSDAY, JANUAY1I81T_______PIE$.0AYA TB899..OE ORPHAINS. Bill Arp X Strong Plea For Them Their I.y rt Is a Great Work d a. led on Faith. Now is th- ;ime-the time to re member thP!iahans. There are 104 in the Tr well orphanage, and they wouldet IJoy a Christmas dinner, and I reclr5he little chaps would like to L 1 up a stock'ng. Sam Jones wi ,ke care of his pets at Decatur, L'Aow, but the Thornwell orphans lrA no man to travel and talk for thk'. As the Irishman said when he hAl lost his almanac, they will have t take the weather as it comes. They have never suffered yet, but some im es it is a close rub to get along. It is close now-too close for them to be calm and serene. IV takes $5 a month to maintain an orphan, apnd the total receipts for October were $465 for 104 children. Cheap boarding, that-food and clothing and fuel and room rent for $4.50 a month, and washing and lights and castor oil thrown in. Carl's dog costs that much, and he furnishes his own clothes. I wonder how Dr. Jacobs manages that? I've been reading the little monthly magazine that the boys print, and there is not a word of begging or lamentation in it The doctor writes like he had Aladdin's lamp somewhere. He seems to rather brag than beg. He says that ten years ago the orphanage had 125 acres of land and one house and $3,000 df endowment money, and now it has four handsome stone dwellings. and three stone public tif dings and a conc-ete printing office, all furnished, and $12,000 of endowment money. He won't spend that, but is letting it grow unLil the interest will do some good af-er he is dead and gone. He says he is going to put up a little canning fac tory, so that the children can save for winter the vegetables they make in summer. The factory will cost about $150, and the money w'll come. He is preparing to build a technical school attachment that will cost $3, 000 and has already got $31 of the money. Good gracious what a start! That man's faith has never flickered from the day he conceived that orphanage in his mind and heart. He just goet along on trust-trust in God. He is a crank-that is to say he is unlike the rest of us. Maybe' we are the cranks, I don't know. It is a. tremendous responsibility to have the care and maintenance and education of 100 orphans and no money except what comes along hap hazard through the mails. Sometimes there is a shower and sometimes a long dry spell, but he keeps on taking in the orphans all the same; six more have jvst arrived, and that makes 110. There is no blow made about the institution-no tooting of horns -no boom-no pitiful appeals, but the money comes about as fast as the orphans come.. There is no sectaria anism about it. In fact, there are more children of Baptist and Metho dist parentage than of Presbyterian, and yet~ nine-tenths, of the money comes from Presbyterian sources. It was a. close hit in October, and the good doctor began to snuff the air and wonder, but the good people of Clinton found it out, and they just poured in wih flour and meal and meat and fish and merchandise, like asurprise party at a Method'st preach er's house. Two men of our town got hold of the little magazine the other day, and saw that the whole State of Georgia with fine crops and a sub-treasury in sight didn't send but $47 in the month of October, and they said it was a shame upon the State, and they rustled around and picked up $1-7 in a few minutes, and one church sent $18 more and we have been supporting two orphans besides and so we all feel better now. Arkansas sent more than Georgia and so did one woman in New Jersey. It is not the stinginess of our people, 7but it is their forgetfulness. They want to be punched up by some bJody. Now, is the time. Let us all send something to pay for a Christmas dinner and take some stock in the stigs. Send a money order to Dr. William P. Jacobs, at Clinton, -S. C. Don't be afraid of sending too much and making the children sick. If there is a surplus, it will help build the canning factory. Giving to charity is hard to start with some folks, but when started, it grow4 on a man and becomes a habit just like chewing tobacco. There is a good feeling that follows the deed and makes a man have more respect for himself. You see, the next world is a very uncertain condition to most of us, and every one admits that a little stock in a bank on the 'other side of the river might prove to be good stock, and there is no way to buy it except in charity. I asked a man one for some charity money, and as he hesitated I quoted scripture to him and said, "Cast thy bread upon the waters and it will return to you after many days." He looked at me hard and said, "About how many days?" "The day after you are dead." said I. He looked serious and handed me a $10 bill, which was more than I ex pected. Sam Jones says that the most ridiculous performance in the world is for a woman to dress up in a $54 silk and $10 bonnet and get in a $500 carriage and carry 10Ocents to church to put in the missionary box. All that fine rigging to carry a dime to God and the dime was his before she started with it Jay Gould says that Jim Fisk taught him his first lesson in charity. Fisk's hand was always open to the suffering Foor, and one cold, bitter evening, as they were going home, they met a poor, half-clad woman with a child hugged to her bosom, and she was struggling along through the snow. Fisk stopped her and felt in his pockets and found them empty, Turning to Gould he said: "What have you got?" Gould says: "I drew out a roll of small bills; I never did know how much, and was hunting for a dollar, when Fisk snatched the pile and handed it all to the wo-man, and said to me, as we hastened away, 'D-n it, Gould, I wouldn't count charity money on a woman like that, charge it to me and ril pay you to-morrow.' " Our Presbyterian folks took a notion last summer that they would remodel and refurnish the old brick church. It was about forty years old and had memories, hallowed memories, clustering around it. It had a great big crack meandering down one of the walls. But old Father Milner loved the crack be cause it lengthened and widened with his own decay, and he loved the hard old pews and the amen corner and the faded carpet and the ting-a-ling of the old time bell. The old church had a steeple that it was no sin to worship, for it was not he likeness of anything that was in heaven above, nor in the earth be neath, or in the waters under the earth. Old Father Milner loved that, too, because itpointed toheaven. He was one of the o'iginal builders, and the old man felt like everybody was dead but he and the church, and he would like for the same old bell to toll bis :uaeral and his coffin to rest for a lttle while in front of lhe humble altar where he bad so long and so devoutly worshiped. But he meekly sa...endered to the work we proposed, and a committee was ap pointed to see how much we could raise. We d'd not have faith like a grain of musa--d seed, but we all re solved to do someth'ng. We are poor folks here, we Pzesbyterians, and-there are not many of us, but set to raise $1,500, and Sam Jones heard of it and came alorg and made in of us and said, "Yoa fePows can't raise that much money without help, and so you may put me down for $250 as a sta te-." Thea ano1*er man put down $250 because he didn't wart Sam to beat him, and then -.oeor mo-e got mad and did Lhe same thing, and befoce we were think:ng about it we had $1,500, and in a -ew days it was *3,000, and we wet to work, and before the charch was lalf done we had $500 more, and w*Aen it was Bnished and furnished we s,ill owed $700, and we thought the bot tom was knocked out and we had got on the last dollae we could get, but the ve-j 6rst day we had se-Nices in it, oor p-eacher made a talk aud we raised $600 more on the spot, and the whole thing looks more lU-e a miracle of grace than anything else. We never wrote to Jay Gould nor Joe Brown for a do1lar and they never sent any, because they didn't know we were build.ng a church. We just got in a way of givng that's all. "Heaven helps those wh~o help themselves," and so our Baptist brethren and Methodist brethren and others came modestly around and asked the privilege of helping us. The truth is, our chinch people are mighty close kin in this town, and all poll together. Old Father Simon Peter Richardson is coming he'-e to preach next yea -, and between him and Sam Jones the sinners will have to hide out or leave or reform. Car tersville most have had a bad name in the conference or surely they woulden't have doubled up on us in that style. It is going to be like two fellows cross-mauling on a toough old log where they come dowa over hand upon the glut, you are going to hear something crack. But don't forget the orphans at Clinton. Cartersville has got two in charge, and sends the money every month, and that makes $120 a year. There are thirteen towns in Georgia larger and richer than ours. If they will take two apiece and twenty-five more towns will take one, that will be caring for the biggest half, and Georgia will be proud. I wonder if Alabama and Mississippi and Arkan sas haven't got some cranks who will start some orphan asylums on Dr. Jacob's plan. Every Southern State ought to have one for each denomi nation. They turn out heroes. Dr. Jacobs keeps a record of his gradu ates, and they are all doing well. But there is an orphanage worse than that made by death. A poor, unhappy mother wrote to me not long ago that she had been divorced from her husband, and was awarded the child, but he had stolen the little girl twice and she feared he would do so again and take her away off, and she begged me to have some body come and take her to an orphan asylum. Her preacher and her doc tor endorsed what she wrote and said the man was a brute and a drunkard. That little girl is safe now, I reckon. I remember that away back when I was a schoolboy, our teacher had a beautiful little girl and the mother watched her day and night like a hen watches her chick ens, for the father was a bad man and had threatened-to steal the child. and one day he came with the sheriff and and a writ of "habeas corpus," and the mother was frantic when she saw them coming, and screamed out, "My child! Oh, my childl" and about forty of us boys hid the little girl in the belfry, and we got sticks and rocks and imkstands and charged the men at the door and ran them off, entered on his writ "non comatibus in cupalo," and that night we fixed up to tar and feather the man, but he left those parts prematurely and never came back any more. Sone times a child is better off without a father than with one. * But don't forget the orphans. BILL Aar. DEATH OF DR. LITTLE. A Member of the House from Union Dies of Catarrhal Pneumonia. [Special to News and Courier.] UNroN, December 26.-Dr. Robert Little, membe: of the Legisla ure from th*s county, died at the resi dence of his brother in-law, Joseph H. McKissick, to-day, about 1 o'clock. He was seized with a severe chill last Monday night while in his seat in the House and was sent home the following day. When he reached here he was scarcely conscious, and his sickness developed into catarrhal pneumonia. This was Dr. Littles first term as Representative, he having been elected this year. He was president of the Farmers' Alliance in this county. Dr. Little will be buried with Masonic honors at Duck Pond Church to-morrow. He was 54 years of age and served in Col McKissick com mand in the war, and for the past twenty-five years has planted, and practiced his profession in this coun ty, Death of Colonel Lee Hagood. SUMTEIR, December 26.-Col. Lee Hagood, of Columbia, died at the Jervey House, in this city, this morn ing, and his rema*ns were taken to Columbia for in-ernent. Col. Hagood accidentally shot himself through the left wrist on Monday n.gbt, breaking both bones and cutting both arte :es. He nearly bled to death befo--e medical aid reached hi-u, but Dr. J. S. Hughson succeeded in stopping the flow of blood and a few hovis af"erward amputated his hand a few inches above the wrist. He was too weak and exhausted, however, Lo rally and died this Wo--og. His wife and son were with h:n when he died. Cocr-A, December 26.-The commun:iy was gceatly shocked tb Ys morning to hear of the death of Col. Lee Hagood, which occurred in Som ter at 7 o'clock this morning in the 48th year of his age. He was a gal lant so1dier, a genial friend and an ideal gentlemar. Colonel Hagood married a daiigh ter of General Tobin of Banwelt CoUnty, who, wi h her three children, Johnson and Lee and a 1:hle gl, surv.ve bm. H:s life was insured for about $14,000 in the Valley Mutu al, the Knights of PyUhias and various other insurance organizations. THE WOODMAN SPARED THE TREE. Mr. O'Keefe, the Ancient Seneschal of the State's Unfinished Castle, has not been Bemoved. [Special to the News and Courier.] COLUxmI, December 26.-It has been stated; but very unofficially, that Mr. O'Keefe, the ancient sen eschal of the State Capitol, had been removed f corn the office which he has held so long and flled so well. This was an error. Mr. O'Keele has been night watchman at the State House since 1854, and when he saw the announcement in the-that he had been removed, he very quiet. ly and appropriate1y remarked: "I don't believe it." Speaking to a reporter' for the News and Courier a day or two ago, he said that he had only heard once before--in 1874-that he was about to be removed, and then, as now, he "didn't believe it." The Republicans intended to re move him, but Beverly Nash said he be-if they could, and that he would have the man pitched out of the window who proposed it. "And that was the truth," said Mr. O'Keefe, "and I tell you there were some very soft stones under the windows in those days for a fellow to fall on." Mr. OKeefe is 90 years of age and has a head full of interesting re mimiscencs. The Same Old story. STAnTOro VA., Dec. 27.-This evening, at Professor Kable's military academy, H. K. Hathaway, aged 15 years, of Dennison, Texas, was acci dentally shot and instantly killed by James Whiteworth, aged 17, of Sulphur Springs, Texas. They were playing with an old pis tol, 44 calibre, not knowing one bar. rel was loaded, when it exploded, the ball entering under the boy's chin and coming out at the top of his head. Both were students at the academy. You cannot accomplish any work or business unless you feel well. If you feel used up-tired out-take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. It will give you health, strength and vitality. To allay pains, subdue inflammation, heal foul sores and ulcers the most prompt and satisfactory results are ob tained by using that old reliable reme dy, Dr.'J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment. If you suffer pricking pains on mnov ing the eyes. or cannot bear bright light, and find your sight weak and failing, you should promptly use Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthing Eye Salve. 25 cents a box. For weak back, chest pains, use Dr. T. H. McLean's Wonderful Healing Plaster (poroun. THE CAR COUPLER PROBLE.H. The Great Invention of Mr. William H. Harris, of Newberry. [Mechanical and Financial Times.] There is no subject that has at tracted so much attention from in genious inventors on either side of the Atlantic as that of freight car coupling. According to the most complete statistics that are at pres ent available, there is at least one brakeman killed on American rail roads every day in the year in con sequence of the continued use of the old link-and pin system of car coup ling. In other words, 365 human beings lose theire lives every year because the railroads have not been able to obtain some effective device for coupling cars without the brake men going between them. And this horrible slaughter is supplemented by an equally frightful catalogue of mutilations, no fewer than (),S27 cases of injuries, such as loss of fingers, hands, arms, legs, etc., hav ing been reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ending June 30, 180. At last, however, a solution of the car coupler p-oblem has been ar rived at. Mr. William Hamilton Harris, of the firm of Holmes & Harris, of Newber--y, South Carolina, has given to the world a device that is at once simple, effecLive, reliable, safe and economical. As the Interstate Commerce Com mission has pointed out, it is a mis take to suppose that the required mechanism is easily devised. A - thodgh some thousands of couplers have been patented, the difficulty has not been to choose among good ones, but to find any good one. Nor can any mechanic, however great his experience, judge by looking at a eoupling device, or by merely me chanical tests, what defects it may have. The conditions are so com ple: that only various and extended trial in actual service will deier-mine the merits of a coupler, and many which gave the greatest pronise have failed in such a trial. But Mr. H-r ris has hit upon a new and improved car coupler in which some highly important mechanical principles are embodied. It is a device that does away with all necessity for brakemen going between the cars to couple them, and its adoption on American roads would tend to do away with the rightul slaughter and mutila tion alread,r referred to. It seems to meet every possible requirement of the case and certainly stamps the gifted inventor as a man of genius. The "Official Records" of the United States Patent Office at Washington contain full technical details as to the mechanism employed. Mr. Har ris' invention, upon wbich Letters Patent No. 436,660, were granted on the 16th day of September, 1890, re lates to that form of automatic car coupling in which each drawhead is made with a rigid and a movable jaw, in which i,he movable jaw is articulated about a vertical axis and is ~provided with locking de;:ices for holding it in position. It consists in the peculiar con struction and arrangement of parts operating upon this principle, where by a simpler and cheaper construc tion is obtained and the coupling and uncoupling are effected in a mere certain, safe and convenient manner. Each drawhead is formed of cast metal in one piece, with a rigid jaw upon one side and ears upon the other side, betwen whiieh is pivoted or hinged the lug of the movable coupling jaw, which swings horizontally about an axial bolt, pass ing vertically through both the ear and the lug of the counling-jaw. The drawheads themselves are free from all superfiueus metal and are made as light as p)ossible consistent with strength, and their rear tubular extensions are intended to be pro vided with spring-braft connections after the usual manner. On the out side of the lug of the coupling-jaw are formed two stop-shoulders, which, when this coupling is thrown to its extreme open position, strike against stationary stop-shoulders formed on the drawhead, which thus limit the outward movement of the coupling jaw. Upon the inside of the lug of the coupling-jaw is formed a projec tion which is intended to be struck by the coupling-jaw of the opposite car to cause the coupling-jaws to turn inwardly upon their veritical bolts and lock together, so as to couple the cars. To hold these coupling-jaws in the closed position and lock them so as to stand the draft strain, a notch is formed in the outer surface of the lug of this coupling-jaw, and a spring detent is arranged in a recess in the outside surface of the drawhead so as to drop into this notch and lock this movable jaw in its closed posi tion. This detent is arranged as a lever fulcrumed about the vertical pin fixed in the drawbar. and has its forward end formed with a notch, affording two locking ends. one slightly in advance of the other. The rear end of this detent p)rojects past the swelled end of the drawhead as a handle, and is forced outwardly by 'a spring interposed between the drawhead and the rear end of the detent, the object of this spring being to hold the front end of the detent into locking engagement with the notch of the movable coupling-jaw and also to hold the coupling-jaw open when the cars come together. The object in making the two lock ing ends on the detent is to enable the detent to lock the coupling-jaw at different points, which is some times necessitated by the fact that the cars are not always in perfect alignment. and w-hen they are brought together to be coupled out of align nient (on a curve, for instance), if oae notch does not catch the other will. in constructing the draw heads 'he smaller one has a central link throat to receive an ordinary link coupling, which is engaged by a pin extending vertically through the draw-head. To give passage to this link the middle part of the coupling jaw is cut away. The upper and lower sections of this coupling-jaw, above and below this opening, are provided with pin holes for receiving a link-pin; but he prefers to use the link in the throat of the draw-bar, as it finds there a more solid anchor age and is less liable to be lost. The other drawhead, which is made of greater vertical depth, is provided with two link-throats and a coupling pin, and its coupling-jaw has two openings. This provision permits the shallow drawhead to be coupled either against the upper or lower part of the deeper drawhead, and thus permits cars of different heights to be coupled. For uncoupling the cars the rear end of one or both of the detents is forced inwardly. This may be accomplishhd by hand, or it may be accomplished by a rod and hand lever, extLending downwardly from a fulcrum-point on the car. For passenger cars this lever would be re.ersed, i, e., it would extend up wardly f:om the drawhead. 0. McR. Holmes, of the firm of Holmes & Harris, one of the assignees of the inventor, is an extensive dealer in cotton and fertilizers, doing business, as before stated, in Newberry, S. C. Mr. W. H. Harris is a mechanic of genius, boing business also in New berry. Since the issue of letters patent upon the coupler they have improved it, making it more thorough ly automaLic. As it is now, when a car is uncoupled and left so, the in stant the car moves ovt it sets itself again for coapling without aid, and in this partcular it is the only one that is so automatic. We strongly commend this inven tion to the c. -eful consideration of the Master Car 'iders' AssociaL.on, as well as to thL of railroad com panies everywhere.* There is no doubt but in this device all the re quirements of the case either from a mechanicle or a commercial point of view are fally met. The firm are re ceiving letters in reference to the patent from all over the country, but they have not yet definitely de termined how they will place it upon the market. If they could be in duced to dispose of it, tlere would be a great chance for some syndicate with half a million or so to achieve a magnificent success. The G., C. and N. [Augusta Chronicle.] The Georgia, Carolina and North ern railroad is finished to the Savan nah river on the Carolina side. The work of bridge building is going on and by October 1, 1801, the Sea board Air-Line system which now extends from Portsmouth, Va., to Abbeville, S. C., w1l, it is confidently expected, b)e running through trains between Portsmouth and Atlanta, 'Ga. This road is very thoroughly built. Stone cnlverts and iron bridges have been put up along the line, and the construction has been slow, but com plete in every way. The new system is composed of the sollowving roads, viz: Miles. Seaboard & Roanoke...........8 Roanoke & Tar River...........3G Raleigh & Gastou........... ..... 97 Lou isburg Braneb................ 10 Durham & Northern............ 44 Raleigh & Augusta.............. 98 Pittsboro Branch...............10 - Carthage Branch...............11 Gibson Branch.................. 10 Carolina Central........... 6 Georgia, Carolina & Northern..28 Total......................931 The grade from Abbeville to Athens, Ga., is finished and ready for the ties, and a very material por tion of the work between the latter place and Atlanta is finished. The road traverses a splendid country. From Portsmouth, Ta., to Monroe, N. C., there is a fine strip of country yielding pine and oak lumber, to bacco, grain and fruit. From Mon roe the line passes through Chester and Clinton, two stirring young towns in South Carolina. Green wood, the junction of four railroads, is bound to bcecome a large town. It is the center of a rich farm country. From the Savannah river the road runs through Ellenton and Athens, the finest cotton bearing ridge in Georgia, and wholly untouched by a rail line. From Athens to Atlanta the road will open some splendid stone quarries. This is bound to be come a modern system. The Lottery is Dead. NEW ORLEANs, December 28.-M. A. Dauphin. a native of Alsace-Lor raine, and for twenty years president of the Louisiana Lottery Company, died at his residence in this city this afternoon, aged 3 years. If you suffe?r from any affection causell by inmpure blood, such as scrof ula, salt rheum, sores, boils, pimples, tetter, ringworm, take Dr. J. H. Mc Lean's Sarsaparilla. Frequently accidents occur in the house-hold which cause burns, cuts, sprains and bruises; for use in such cases Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment has for many years been the onstant favorite family remedy. WORK OF THE SESSION. Thirty Laws of Interest out of 233 Act and Joint Resolutions Passed by the Legislature. Act to authorize Richard W. Simpson, executor of Thomas J. Clemson, to pay certain legacies to Isabella Lee. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the redemption of that part of the State debt known as the Brown consol bonds and stocks,' approved December 24, A. D. 1890. Act to reorganize and provide for the University of South Carolina, constituting a board of trustees of the same and defining their powers and duties. Acts to create a board of phos phate commissioners. Act to amend Section 621 of the General Statutes of the State relat ing to the annual meeting of the board of county commissioners of the several counties of the State. Act to ratify the amendment to Artic'e 4 of the Constitution of South Carolina, relating the Judiciary de partment, by repealing Section 10, which provides a Board of county commissioners. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to an end Section 2,236 and 2,237 of the General Statutes, in relation to juries." Joint Resolution extending the time for the collectingof State, county, railroad and other taxes due for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1890, until the first day of February, 1891. Act to provide for a license for the sale of pistols and pistol cartridges within the limits of the State. Act to amend Section 5 of an Act entitled "Au Act to provide for the formation of certain corporations under the general laws." Act to amend Section 5, Sub division 6, of an Act entitled "An Act to aler and amend the law re lating to the territorial jurisdiction and pay of t-ial justices and consta bles in several counties therein men tioned," approved December 24, 1888. Act to raise supplies and make approprir t*ons for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1890. Act to p.:ovide for the election of chaplains of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina and for their com pensation. Act to arthorize school trustees to sell any sc>oo' p operty, real or per sonal, in their seve -al disL-icts, and to apply the proceeds to the school funds of their seve-al districts. Act to a..eid the General Stat utes relating to the appointment and collection of ta-es for school pur poses, and to add two new sections, to be known as Section 239 A and 229 B. Act to incorporate the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Act to regulate the practice of tr'al jt'stices in equity causes. Joint Resolution to pay Mrs. Ann P. Bonham, widow of Governor M. L. Bonham, deceased, the balance of of salary due the said M1. L. Bon ham, deceased, as railroad commis sioner. Act to abolish the department of Agriculture and the office of commis sioner of agriculture, and to devolve all of their powers and dutie-, on the board of trustees of the Clemson Agricoltural College of South Caro lina, except the'control of phosphatE interests of this State. Joint Resolution providing for the investment of all funds in the hands of the State Treasurer under the C 'emson bequest. Joint Resolution appointing spe. cial commissioners, and authorizing them to lay out and construct a pub lic road from Pendleton on the Blue Ridge Railroad to the Clemson Col lege. Act to provide for the sale of the lot and building known as Agricul ture Hall. the fish pond lot and the agricultural experiment stations with their personal property at Columbia and in Darlington and Spartanburg counties and to appropriate the pro. ceeds thereof. Act to punish frauds of misrepre sentations in the manufacture, analy sis or sale of fertilizers and com.mer cial manures in this State. Act to amend Section 2 of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the fees of p)hysicians and surgeons for testi. fv-ing as experts in criminal cases,' approved December 26, 1883. Joint Resolution directing the exe cutors of Thomas G. Clemson to mark his grave and procure a good portrait of the deceased. Act to provide for the appoint ment of county board of physician5 to examine diplomas of physiciani and surgeons in this State. Act to prohibit any person from transporting horses, mules or asset itito this State infected with glan ders. . Act to regulate the appointment and term or office and define the du ties of trial justices in this State. Act relating to the renunciation o: dower by minors. Act to amend Sub-division 2. A, of Section 1,012 of Chapter XIX of the General Statutes, entitled "0: the free public schools." NE WBE RIYS 5 J.AwS. -Act to amend Section 4 of the Ac' incorporating the Newberry Build ing nd oanAssociation. Act 10 authorize and empower th4 town council of Prosperity, S. C., t< lay out nd on streets. Act to establish the Newberry school district. Act to incorporate the town of Little Mountain in Newberry Coun ty. Act to authorize the Newberrv school district to issue bonds for the use of said-sch'ool district. FORTY SENATORS SUNCOED. A Sharper Successfully Works Our Great Deliberate Body--Christening His Baby Boy in H onor of Each Senator. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The Star this evening prints the following: "During the past week an acute observer in the Senate galleries might have seen numerous self-con gratulatoi v smiles chase each other over the counvenances of some of the more distinguished statesmen who occupy places on the floor, but until to-day the reason for these muscular chuckles was not apparent. Grave and reverend Senators-to some of whom the delights of early father hood are but memories-sent out and purchased silver mugs and sil ver spoons, and had names engraved thereon. Others folded up samples of the newest and most crisp five or ten dollar bills. All of them wrote nice little letters to accompany the bullion, or the promise to pay, and, singulary enough, all of them ad dressed their gilts to the same per son at the same person at the same address. "To-day there is more of humor than of seriousness in the Senate. Partisan speeches of the fiercest de scription will be invountarily in terrupted by smiles, while bitter ac cusation and sarcastic retort will be sandwiched between a robust strata of never-wearying laughter. To the people in the galleries these exhi bitions of hilarity will be enigmas, but not for any length of time. The secret is out. The United States Senate has been made the scene of a confidene\ wan's operations. and he would have been 'working' the greatest deliberative body in the world yet had he not in an unlucky moment decided to make a victim of Senator Manderson of Nebraska. This morning when Senator Man derson went through his mail he found therein the following letter: "BALTIMORE, Dec. 20, 1890. "Hon. Charles F. Manderson. "DEAR SIR: Enclosed you will find the baptismal certificate of my little son, Charl-s Manderson Duvall, whom I named in honor of you. How I came to name 'him after you was that I wanted to name him after some prom inent Republican, and chose you be cause you are from my native State. I have seen you on several occasions and always have been an admirer of you. Little Charles is getting along first rate, and I hope that he may live and be as upright and honest as the man after whom he is named. He is our first born, and as soon as we have his picture taken I will send you one. Also enclosed you will find five tickets to entertainment which is given for my benefit. I would not have troubled you with them, only last week I had my leg broken while at work, and my friends are giving this for my benefit. All the income I had was what was derived from my daily labor, and I hope you will take them to aid me. If you do not wish them you can return them. My wife and little Charles are well, and I hope this will find you the same. Please answer by return mail and let me know if you received the certificate all right. Hoping this will find you well, and wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I remaio, yours respectfully. "WILLIAM DUVALL. 8253 E. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. "Answar by return mail, as I will be anxiously awaiting a reply from you." "The tickets, which were enclosed, had their pink surface the printed announcement: "Grand entertainment for the bene fit of William Duvall,- to be held at Byrn's Hall, Wednesday, Dec. 31, '00. Tic-kets $1." "Now, had Senator Manderson been the only Senator thus applied to all might have been well, and by this time the broken-legged but hap py father would have had five of Senator Mlanderson's 412 9-10 grains fine silver dollars in his inside pocket. But it so happened that a few days ago the Nebraska statesman had seen a similar certificate, in which the name of this first-born child was declared to be Justin Morell Duvall, and he li':ewise knew that the ven era~ble Senator from Vermont had torn five dollars off his salary and sent it to the suffering father at 825 East Baltimore street. Convinced that if Mrs. Duvall could be the mother of two first-born children she might have given birth to a few more at the same time Senator Man derson began to investigate the mat ter, and the results of his inquiries caused the laughter which in the Senate to-day was "frequent, and painful, and free." "According to the certificates which have been uncovered there are now in existence Joseph Dolph Duvall, William Evarts Duvall, Anthony Higgins Duvall, John Griffin Car lisle DIIuvall, Algernon Paddock Dii vall, Watson Squire Duvall, Wilbur Sanders Duvall, Richard Pettigrew Duvall, Thomas Power Duvall, Le land Stanford Duvall, Philetus Sawyer Duvall, Francis Stockbridge Duvali, Henry Blair Duvall, William Washburn Duvali, George Vest Du vall, and Frank Hiscock Duvall, to say nothing of Charles Manderson Duvall, all first-born children of this wonderfully virile William Duvall and his extraordinay wife, Mary F. Duvall. Incidentally, these children -have all been brought into the world within the past three weeks. There are those around the Senate who say that there are several other newly born Duvalls, among them - ~~-m John Sherman Duvall, Matthew Stanley Quay Duvall, and Arthur Gorman Duvall, but the gentlemen thus honored insist that they have not been called on for either silver mugs or money. They are how ever, regarded with suspicion. The Vice-President did not escape. Ther is a Levi Morton Duvall, and he or his father owns a nice silver cup ap propriately inscribed. "The certificate which was sent to Senator Manderson similiar in every respect save the name of the alleged child to those which other Senators have regarded with so much satisfac tion. The document is a little.more than twelve inches long and about ten inches wide. It is printed in the highest style of ecclesiastical art on calendered paper. Allegorical im agery and scriptural phrases abound. Shepherds with lambs, shorn and un shcrn, seemed to haunt the designer. A hen, striving with an overlarge brood of chickens, represents Mrs. Duvall and her first born. A pelican, conveying food to a nest of -his off spring, is evidently Mr. Duvall, and if his legs are as thin as the pelican's are it is not much wonder that one of them has been broken. A serpent climbing a fruit tree, and evidently bent on getting something for his trouble, might easily be mistaken for Mr. Duvall as at present engage Surrounded by scroll work, a rigged boat sails on a ward a rocky promontory, on whfah stands a church, and beneath this lithographic gem is the information that Charles Manderson Duvall, child of Mr. William Duvall and his wife. Mary F. Duvall, born at Baltimore, Dec. 1, 1890, was baptized in First E. I Church, on the 16th day of December, 1890. The sponsors were Anna Duvall and Mary Jones.' The officiating clergyman's signature is that of Charles Ray; pastor. "It is not at all improbable that proceedings will be instituted against Mr. Duvall, notwithstanding the great size of his family and -the added disability of a broken leg." It-is said that Vice-President Moi ton sent by express to Mr. Duvall a handsome silver -cup, engraved, "Levi MortonDuvall," and containing twenty-five brand new silver dollars. Senator Evarts sent the alleged baby a silver spoon, engraved "W. M. E. D." and a $5 bill. Senator Hiscoek contributed a $25 check to assist in clothing little Frank Hiscock Duval, Senator Higgins of Delaware sent $10; Blair of New Hampshire 5 and as many as forty Senators,most of them Republicans, chipped in with sums which must have amounted in the aggregate to nearly $2,000. TOO MUCH CERISTENING. WiAsmNG!os. Dec., 23,-As further facts come to light relative to the swindling of the Senators by William Duvall, the found parent of the Baltimore baby, it is learned that almost every man in the Senate was marked for a victim. Senators chaffed each other unmercifully about the matter to-day, and it is surprising how many protested that they were "not in it." Senator Paddock enjoyed himself immensely, and had a photo graph of little Algernon Paddock Duvall. The picture was that of a baby at least seven or eight months-7Z old, although in his letter to the Senators Papa Duvall said that the baby had been in this world only three weeks, under the pictare Sena tor Paddock had pasted a slip of paper on which he had written, "Photorph of Baby Duvak who died early from too much christen ing."~ Then followed a list of the the Senators who have contributed to the necessities of one-legged William Duval. Senator Paddock went about the chamber all day show ing this picture, and even carried it up to Vice-President Morton, who laughed so loud that he was tempted to call hirmsc f to order. Several Senators say that they have been receiving letters from Duval for the past year, and the wonder is that his trick was not sooner discovered. Senator Sawyer, who is regarded as "sharp as a steel trap," when it comes to matters regarding money, was sold as badly as any of the others. His letter from Mr. Duval notified him that a secret soit-.. lodge had been instituted named theN Philetus Sawyer Lodge, and an order to pay for five enclosed tickets to a lodge entertainment was requested. The Senator sent $10; but said that he gave it only with the express understanding that his name should not be attached to the lodge. An answer came back in due course en closing a receipt for the money bu~t saying that it had been received so late that the name of the Philetus Sawyer Lodge must stand. The Senators are enjoying the joke to such an ext.ent that there is no thought of instituting proceedings against the swindler. George T. G. White, who for twenty years has been the manager of all the Southern business of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, died suddenly on -ees.yof pneumonia at'his home, 105 Jorale mon street, Brooklyn. He was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1830, and went North at the age of 20 years. He was in the dry goods business for some time, but when the war - broke out he returned to his old home and gave all his sympathy to the Confed erate cause. Uipon the conclusion of hostilities he again went to New IYork and engaged in the insurance | business, connecting himself with the