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~T A RTTJTHEDT 185 NEWVBERRY, S. C., TIHURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 189. PIC E15 AYA THE POOR ORPHANS. BIU Arp Makes a Strong Plea For Them Their Support Is a Great Work Founded on Faith. Now is the time-the time to re member the orphans. There are 104 in the Thornwell orphanage, and they would enjoy a Christmas dinner, and I reckon the little chaps would like -to hang up a stocking. Sam Jones will take care of his pets at Decatur, I know, but the Thornwell orphans have no man to travel and talk for them. As the Irishman said when he had lost his almanac, they will-have to take the weather as it comes.- They have never suffered yet, but some times it is a close rub to get along. It is close now-too close for them to be calm and serene. I takes $5 a month to maintain an orphan, and the tota 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 1,een 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 laad aid one house and $3,000 of endowment money, and now it has four handsome stone dwellings and three stone public buildings and a conc--ete printing office, al furnished, and $12,000 of endowment money. He won't spend that, but is letting it grow until the interest will do some. good afier 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 ?I from the day he conceived that orphanage in his mind and heart. He just goes along on trust-trust in God. He is a crank-that is to say he is unlike the rest of us. Maybe' we-ae 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 takirg 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 sectari ~'anism about it. In fact, there are more children of Baptist and Metho dist parentage than of Presbyteriain, 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 with flour and .meal and meat and fish and merchandise, like asurprisepartyat a Methodist preach er's house. Two men of our town got hold of the little magazine4The 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 $17 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, but it is their forgetfulness. They want to be punched up by some body. 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 grows 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 10 cents 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 poor, and one cold, bitter evening, as the) were going home, they met a poor half-clad woman with a child huggec to her bosom, and she was struggling along through the snow. Fisk stoppe' 0 c her and felt in his pockets and founc 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 waw hunting for a dollar, when Fisl snatched the pile and handed it all to the wo-nan, and said to me, as wc hastened away, 'D-n it, Gould, I wouldn't count charity money on a woman like tbat, charge it to me and I'll pay you to-morrow.' " Oar 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 aad 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 the 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 o7d man felt like everybody was dead but he and the church, and he would like for the same old bell to toll his iu*eral and his coffin to rest for a lttle while in front of ihe humble alta'r where he had so long and so devoutly worshiped. But he meekly sa-.readered 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 someh'ng. We are poor folks here, we Presbyterians, and there are not many of us, but set to raise $1,500, and Sam Jones hea-d of it and came along and made u a of us and said, "Yoa fellows can't raise that much moley without help, and so you may put me down for $250 as a sta ter." Thea anoi"aer man put down $250 because he didn't want Sam to beat hir, and then f.oor mo-e got mad and did the same thing, and before we were think;ng about it we had $1,500, and in a _ew days it was *3,000, and we we it to work, and be oie ihe charch was 'alf done we had SiU more, and w-en it was fn;shed and furnished we s"'ll owed $700, and we thoug't the "oot tom was knocked out and we had gotton the last dollar we could get, but the vefrst day we had sen ices in it, oor p-eacher made a talk and we raised $00 more on the spot, and the whole thing looks more li.:e a miracle of grace than anything else. We never wrote to Jay Gould nor Joe Brown for a dollar and iAhey never sent any, because they didn't know we were bvilcaing a church. We just got in a way of giving that's all. "Heaven helps those -who 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 church people are mighty close kini in this town, and all poll together. Old Father Simon Peter Richardson is coming here to preach next yea -, and between him and Sam Jones the sinners will have to hidie out or leave or reform. Car tersville mosh hlave hlad 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 t wo fellows cross-mauling on a tough old log where they come down 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 harge, 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 ught to have one for each denomi ation. They turn out heroes. Dir. Jacobs keeps~a record of his gradu tes, and they are all doing well But there is an orphanage worse han that made by death. A poor, nhappy mother wrote to me not long ago that she had been divorced from her husband, and was awarded he child, but he had stolen the little irl twice and she feared he would o so again and take her away off, and she begged me to have some ody come and take her to an orphan sylum. Her preacher and her doc or endorsed what she wrote and aid the man was a brute and aI rnkard. That little girl is safe ow, I reckon. I remember that away ack when I was a schoolboy, our eacher had a beautiful little girl and he mother watdhed her day and ight like a hen watches her chick es, 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 aboujt forty of us boys hid the little girl in he 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. Some times a child is better off without a father than with one. But don't forget the orphans. BILL ARP. DEATH OF DIC. LITTLE. A Member of the House from Union Dies of Catarrhal Pneumonia. [Special to News and Courier.] UNioN, December 2G.-Dr. Robert *7Litde, membez 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. Little's first term as Representative, he having been elected this year. He was president of the Farmers' Alliance in this county. Dr. Little will be buried1 with Masonic honors at Dvck Pond Church to-morrow. He was 54 years of age and served in Col McKissick com mand in the war, and for the past twenLy-five years has planted, and practiced his profession in this coun tv. Death of Colonel Lee Hagood. SUMTER, December 20.-Col. Lee Hagood, of Columbia, died at the Jervey House, ia this city, this morn ing, and his remains were taken to Columbia for in.ernent. Col. Hagood accidentally shot himself through the left wrist on Monday nigbt, break;ng both bones and cutting boh arie ::es. He nearly bled to death befo-e medical aid reached hiai, but Dr. J. S. Hughson succeeded in stopping the flow of blood and a few houzs afNerward amputated his hand a few inches above the wrist. He was too weak and exhausted, however, to rally and d'.ed this ro-nog. H's wife and son were with h:-n when he died. CoLc3m-A, December 26.-The commun.y was gceatly shocked tb s morning to hear of the death of Col. Lee Hagood, which occurred in Sam ter a- 7 o'clock this morning in the 48th year of his age. He was a gal lant sodier, a geniai friend and an ideal gentlemar. Co'onel Hagood married a daLgh ter of General Tobin of Barnwell. Coa nty, who, wilh her three children, Johnson and Lee and a litte g', surv.ve bm. H:s life was insured for about $14,000 in the Valley Mutual, the Knight.s of Pythias and various other insurance organizations. THE WOODMAN SPARED TEE TREE. Mr. O'Keefe, the Aneient Seneschal of the state's Unfinished Castle, has not been Removed. [Special to the News and Courier.] COLUxBI, December 26.-It has been stated; but very unofficially, that Mr. O'Keefe, the ancient sen eshal of the State Capitol, had been removed f comn the office which he has held so long and fil led so well. This was an error. Mr. O'Kee&e has been night watchman at the State House since 1854, and when he saw the announcement in th-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 he man pitched out of the window who proposed it. "And that was the truth," said Mr. OKeefe, "and I tell you there were somie very soft stones under the windows in those days for a fellow to fall on." Mr. O'Keefe is 90 years of age and has a head full of interesting re minscencs. The same Old story. STAUNTON, 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 acadmy. 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 mov ing the eyes. or cannot bear bright ight, and fin'd your sight weak and failing, you should promptly use Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthmng Eye Salve. 25 cents a box. For weak back, chest pains, use Dr. J. H. McLean's Wonderful Healing Plater (porous.) THE CAR COUPLER PROBLEM. The Great Invention of Mr. William if. 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 ,--apling. 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 (5,827 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, 1890. 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, Sonilh 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 easilv devised. Al thoagh some thodsands 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 eoinling device, or by merely me -Lucal tests, what defects it may have. The condii.ions are so com plex that only various and extended trial in actual service will determine 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 frightL slaughter and mutila tion alread; 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 LeLl-rs Patent No. 436,600, 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 the 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 th is 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 whieh is pivoted or hinged the lu.g of the movable coupling jaw, which swings borizontally about an axial bolt, pass ing verticalfly through both the ear and the lug of the counling-jaw. The drawheads themselves are free from all superfluous metal and are made as light as possible 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 ?xtreme open position, strike against stationary stop-shoulders formed on he drawhead, which thus limit the >utward movement of the coupling jaw. Upon the inside of the lug' of :he coupling-jaw is formed a projec ion which is intended to be struck by the coupling-jaw of the opposite ~ar to cause the coupling-jaws to turn nwardly upon their veritical bolts md lock together, so as to couple the 3ars. To hold these coupling-jaws in the ~losed position and lock them so as o stand the draft strain, a notch is ormed in the outer surface of the ug of this coupling-jaw, and a spring letent is arranged in a recess in the utside surface of the drawhead so s to drop into this notch and lock his movable jaw in its closed posi ~ion. This detent is arranged as a ever fulcrumed about the vertical ~in fixed in the drawbar. and has its orward end formed with a notch. ffording two locking ends, one ~lighty in advance of the other. The ear end of this detent projects past :he swelled end of the drawhead as handle, and is forced outwardly by a spring interposed between the lrawhead and the rear end of the letent, the object of this spring being :o hold the front end of the detent nto locking engagement with the iotch of the movable coupling-jaw mnd also to hold the coupling-jaw pen when the cars come together. Jhe object in making the two lock ng ends on the detent is to enable at different points, which is some times necessitaLed by the fact tha the cars are not always in perfec alignment, and when they are broughi together to be coupled out of align ment (on a curve, for instance), if oae notch does not catch the othei 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 verticallyi through the draw-head. To give passage to this link the middle part of the coupling jaw is cut away. The uper and lower sections of this coupling-jaw, above and below this opening, are provided with pin hojes 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 band, or it may be accomplished by a rod and hand lever, exLending 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 coton and fertilizecs, doing business, as before stated, in Newberry, S. C. M1r. 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 automatic. As it is now, when a car is uncoupled and left so, the in stant the car moves ovt it sets itself aain for coapling without aid, and in this particular it is the only one that is so automatic. We strongly commend this inven ion to the careful consideration of the Master Car Builders' Associaton, as well as to that of railroad com panies everywhere. There is no doubt but in this device all the re juirements of the case either from a nechanicle or a commercial point of view are fally met. The firm are re eiving letters in reference to the patent from all over the country, but they have not yet definitely de ermined how they will plac2 it 1pon he market. If they could be in Juced to dispose of it, there would be a great chance for some syndicate with half a million or so to achieve a agnificent success. The G., C. and N. [Augusta Chronicle.] The Georgia, Carolina and North ~rn railroad is finished to the Savan iah river on the Carolina side. The vork of bridge buiilding is going on and by October 1, 1891, the Sea oard Air-Line system which now etends from Portsmouth, Va., to Lbbeville, S. C., will, it is confidently spected. be running through trains etween Portsmouth and Atlanta. 3a. This road is very thoroughly b)uilt. stone culverts and iron bridges have een put up along the line, and the :onstrnction has been slow, but com >lete in every way. The new system s composed of the sollowing roads, Miles. seaboard & Roanoke........... O oanoke & Tar River...........3G aleigh & Gaston........... ..... 97 ouisburg Branch..............10 Jurham & Northern...........44 aleigh & Augusta.............. 9 ittsboro Branch...............10 arthage Branch...............11 ibson Branch.................. 10 aroina Central...............2#7 eorgia, Carolina & Northern. i6 Total.......................... 031 The grade from Abbeville to Lthens, Ga., is finished and readly or the ties, and a very material por ion of the work between the latter lace and Atlanta is finished. The oad traverses a splendid country. rom Portsmouth, Va., to Monroe, i. C., there is a fine strip of country ielding pine and oak lumber. to acco, grain and fruit. From Mon o the line passes through Chester nd Clinton, two stirring young owns in South Carolina. Green rood. the junction of four railroads. s bound to become a large town. It s the center of a rich farm country. rom the Savannah river the road uns through Ellenton and Athens. he finest cotton bearing ridge in eorgia, and wholly untouched by a all line. From Athens to Atlanta he road will open some splendid tone quarries. This is bound to be ~ome a modern system. The Lottery is Dead. NEw ORI.ANs. December 2.-M. . Dauphin, a native of Alsace-Lor aine, and for twenty years president f the Louisiana Lottery Company. lied at his residence in this~ city this fernon, aged 33 years.I If you suffer from any affection ~aused by impure blood, such as scrof ila, salt rheum, sores, boils, pimples, etter,'ringworm, take Dr. J. H. Mc 2ea's Sarsaparilla. Frequentiy acci len ts ocur in the louse-hold which cause burns, cuts, prans and bruises; for use in such' ses Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Ainiment has for many years been the ~onstant favorite family remedy. WOLK OF THE SESSION. Thirty Laws of Interest out of 233 Acts and Joint Eesolutions 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 bo-rd of county commissioners of the several counties of the State. Act to ratify the amendment to Article 4 of the Constitution of South Carolina, relating the Judiciary de partment. bf repealing Section 19, which provides a Board of county commissioners. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to an end Section 2,236 and 2,2:37 of the General Statutes, in relation to juries." Joint Resolution extending the time for the collecting of 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 uithin thie limits of the State. Act to amend Section 5 of an Act entitled "An 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 aller and amend the law re lating to the territo.ial jurisdiction and pay of trial justices and consta bles in several counties therein men tioned," approved December 24, 1888. Aco to -raise supplies and make approprit Lons 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 scioo' p operty, real or per sonaL in their seve -al disL-icts, and to apply the proceeds to the school funds of the;r seve-al districts. Act to a.lead 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 trial justices in equity causes. Joint Resolution to pay Mrs. A nn P. Boebam, widow of Governor 3M. L. Bonham, deceased. the balance ofi 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 duties on the board of- trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Caro lina. except the control of phosphate interests of this State. Joint Resolution providing for the 1 investmnent of all funds in the hands e of the State Treasurer under the Clemson bequest. Joint Resolution appointing spe cial commissioners, and authorizing them to lay out and construct a pub- i lic road fro>m Pendleton on the Blue t Ridge Railroad to the Clemson Col- t lege. Act to provide for the sale of the a lot and building known as Agricul- f hure Hall, the fish pond lot and the ] agricultural experiment stations with a their personal property at Columbia and in Darlington and Spartanburg t counties and to appropriate the pro ceeds thereof. Act to punish frauds of misrepre- c sentations in the manufacture, analy- t sis or sale of fertilizers and commer-' s cial manures in this State. Act to amend Section 2 of an Act t entitled "An Act to regulate the fees r of physicians and surgeons for testi- r fying as experts in criminal cases," r approved December 26, 188.5. Joint Resolution directing the exe- t utors of Thomas G. Clemson to e mark his grave and procure a good y portrait of the deceased. Act to provide for the appoint ment of county board of physicians i to examine diplomas of physiciansi and surgeons in this State. Act to prohibit any person from i transporting horses, mules or asses 1 into this State infected with glan- .5 ers. Act to regulate the appointment Ij and term or office and define the du- 1. ties of trial justices in this State. 2 Act relating to the renunciation of I dower by minors. Act to amend Sub-division 2. A,: of Section 1.012 of Chapter XIX of the General Statutes, entitled "OfI the free p,ublic schools."v NEWBERls LAws.a Act to amend Section 4 of the Act I incorporating the Newberry Build- 1 ng and Loan Association. Act 10 authoriz? and empower the town council of Prosperity, S. C., to I lay out and open streets. j * r-~~ Act to establish the Newberry school district. Act to incorporate the. town of Little Mountain in Newberry Coun tv. Act to authorize the Newberrv school district to issue bonds for the use of said school district. FORTY SENATORS BUNCOED. A Sharper Successfully Works Our Great Deliberate Body--Christening His Baby Boy in Honor of Each Senator. WASH,GTox, Dec. 22.-The Star this evening prints the following: "During the past week an acute observer in the: Senate galleries might have see: numerous self-con gratulatoi- smiles cLase each other :ver the counLenances of some of the more distinguished statesmen who c..upy places on the floor, but until Lo -day the reason for these muscular chuckles was not apparent. Grave md reverend Senators-to some Qf whom the delights of early father [ood are but memories-sent out md purchased silver mugs and sil ver spoons, and had names engraved hereon. Others folded up samples >f the newest and most crisp five or en dollar bills. All of them wrote iice little letters to accompany the )ullion, or the promise to pay, and, singulary enough, all of them ad iressed their gilts to the same per ;on at the same person at the same iddress. "To-day there is more of humor :han of seriousness in the Senate. Partisan speeches of the fiercest de ;cription will be invountarily in :errupted by smiles, while bitter ac musation and sarcastic retort will be ;audwiched between a robust strata )f never-wearying laughter. To the >eople in the galleries these exhi )itions of hilarity will be enigmas, mt not for any length of time. The ecret is out. The United States 5enate has been made the scene of a catidence man's operations. and he vould have been 'working' the reatest deliberative body in the Vorld yet had he not in an unlucky noment decided to make a -victim of knator Manderson of Nebraska. [his morning when Senator Man lerson went through his mail he o-nd therein the following letter : "BALTIMoRE, Dec. 20, 1890. 'Hon. Charles F. Manderson. "DEAR SIR: Enclosed you will find he baptismal certificate of my little on, Charl-s Manderson. Duvall, whom named in honor of you. How I came o name him after you was that I vanted to name him after some prom nent Republican, and chose you be ause you are fro n my native State. I iave seen you on several occasions and 1lways have been an admirer of you. ittle Charles is getting along first a,e, and I hope that he may live and e as upright and honest as the man fter whom he is named. He is our irst born, and as soon as we have his >ieture taken I will send you one. Uso enclosed you will find five tickets o entertainment which is given for ny benefit. I would not have troubled rcu with them, only last week ' had ny leg broken while at work, anl my riends are giving this for my benefit. til the income I had was what was lerived from my daily labor, and I lope you will take them to aid -ne. If -c do not wish them you can return hem. My . wife and little Charles are vell, and I hope this will find you the ame. Please answer by return mail ,nd let me know if you received the ertificate all right. Hoping this will id you weli, and wishing you a nerry Christmas and a happy New ear. I remain, yours respectfully. "WIi.uAx DUVALL. 82. E. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Id. "Answer by return mail, as I will be *xiouAly awaiting a reply from you." "The tickets, which were enclosed, ad their pink surface the printed nnouncement: "Grand entertainment for the bene it of William D)uvall, to be held at 3yrn's Hall, Wednesday, Dec. 81, '90. "Now. had Senator Manderson >een the only Senator thus applied o all might have been well, and by his time the broken-legged but hap. >y father wouild have had five of ;enator Manderson's 4129-10 grains Ene silver dollars in his inside pocket. ut it so happened that a few days go the Nebraska statesman had een a similar certificate, in which he name of this first-born child was eclared to be Justin Morell Duvall, nd he likewise knew that the yen rable Senator from Vermont had >rn five dollars off his salary and ent it to the suffering father at 825 :ast Baltimore street. Convinced bat if Mrs. Duvall could be the 2ther of two first-born children she iight have given birth to a few ore at the same time Senator Man erson began to investigale the mat r, and the results of his inquiries aused the laughter which in the enate to-day was "frequent, and ainful, and free." "According to the certificates which ave been uncovered there are now 1 existenice JToseph Dolph Duvall, Viliam Evarts Duvall, Anthony liggins Duvall, John Griffin Car sle Duvall, Algernon Paddock Dnm all, Watson Squire Duvall, Wilbur anders Duvall, Richard Pettigrew )uvall, Thomas Power Duvall, Le md Stanford Duvall, Philetus awyer Duvall, Francis Stockbridge )uvall, Henry Blair Duvall, William] ashburn D)uvall, George Vest Dum all, and Frank HTicook Duvall, to my nothing of Charles Manderson >vall, all first-born childzen of this ronderfully virile William Diuvall nd his extraordinay wife, Mary F. )uvall. Incidentally, these childrerr ave all been brought into the ~orld within the past tLe- weeks. ~here are those around the Senatej ho say that there are several otlierj ewmirn Thvaf1s' nane them John Sherman Duvall. Matthew Stanley Quay Duvall, and Arthur Gorman Duval'. but the gentlemen thus honored insist that ther have not been called on for either silver mugs or money. They are how ever, regarded with suspicion. The Vice-President did not escape. There 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 allegd child to those which other Sefiators 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 inthe highest style of ecclesiastical art on calendered paper. Allegorical im agery and scriptural phrases abound. Shepherds with lambs, shorn and un shorn, seemed to haunt the designer. A hen, striving with an overlarge brood of chickens, represents Mrs. Duvall and her 6rst 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 eviderntly bent on getting something for his trouble, might easily be mistaken for Mr. Duvall as at prese_nt engaged. Surrounded by scroll work, a square rigged boat sails on a sunlit sea to ward a rocky promontory, on which stands a church, and beneat.1 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 Mor ton sent by express to Mr. Duvall a handsome silver cup, engraved, "LeviMorton Duvall," and containing wenty-five brand new silver dollars. Senator Evarts sent the alleged baby a silver spoon, engraved "W. M. E. D." and a $5 bilL Senat ise"e -ontributed a $25 check to assist in :lothing little Frank Hiscock Duvall, Senator Higgins of Delaware sert ,10; Blair of New Hampshire $5, and as many as forty Senators, most f them Republicans, chipped in with sums which must have amounted in the aggregate to nearly $2,000. Too MUCH cHRISTENING. WAsm-NG- oN. Dec., 23,-As further lacts come to light relative to the windling of the Senators by William Duvall, the found parent of the Baltimore baby, it is learned that lmost every man in the Senate was marked for a victim. Senators ~haf fed each other unmercifully about ~he matter to-day, and it is surprising dow many protested that they were 'not in it." Senator Paddock enjoyed aimself immensely, and had a photo ;raph of little Algernon Paddock Duvall. The- picture was that of a >aby at least seven or eight months >d, although in his ietter to the Senators Papa Duvall said that the aaby had been in this world only :hree weeks. under the picture Sena :or Paddock had' pasted a slip of paper on which he had written, "Photograph of Baby Duval, who lied early from too much christen ng" Then followed a list of the :he Senators who have contributed :o the necessities of one-legged William Duaval. Senator Paddock vent about the chamber all day shuo ng this picture, and even carried it im to Vice-President Morton. who aughed so loud that he was tempted :o call hir?sc 'i to order. Several Senators say that they have been ~eceiving letters from Duval for the. ast year, and the wonder is that his rick was not sooner discovered. Senator Sawyn. who is regarded s "sharp as a st el trap." when it ~omes to matters regarding money, vas sold as badly as any of the >thers. His letter from Mr. Duval iotified him that a secret society odge had been instituted named the Ehiletus Sawyer Lodge, and an order o l y for five enclo'sed tickets to a odge entertainment was requested. Che Senator ser.t 810; but said that ?e gave it only with the express muerstanding that his name should iot be attached to the lodge. An mswer came back in due course en - losing a receipt for the money but saing that it had been received so ate that the name of the Philetus awyer Lodge must stand. The enators are enjoying the joke to ucha an exLent that there is no hought of instituting proceedings Lganst the swindler. George T. G. White. who for wenty years has been the manager >f all the Southern business of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, lied suddenly on Wednesday of >eumonia at ~his home, 105 Jorale non street, Brooklyn. He was born n Savannah, Ga., in 1830, and went Sorth at the age of 20 years. He as in the dry goods business for ~ome time, but when the war broke ut he returned to his old home' and ~ave all his sympathy to the Conzid ~rae cause. Upon the conclusion >f hostilities he again went to New ork and enagced in the insurance >siness, connecting himself with the