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PRTA RT,TC;HD 18650 ;B it CeiIIbemr D eralbt ER TSE 85NEWBERRY, S. C.. THUIRSD)AY, JANUARY 22, 1891. PRICE ___ YEA A BOMBSHELL IN COLUMBIA. Irregularities in the Adjutant General's Offiee-The Non-Payment and Protest of Checks Drawn by Gen. Bonham The Shortage Between $1,000 and $2,000-Gen. Bonham Ac knowledges His Besponsi bility. [Special to the News and Courier.j COLUMBIA, January 15.-Yesterday Adj. Gen. Farley handed the Governor the following statement, and last night copies were given to the press. Later the governor decided to withhold it at the earnest plea of Gen. Bonham. To day permission was givfn to publish it, GoVernor Tillman saying that he con sidered it his duty to do so: "COLUMBIA, S. C., January 14,1891. "His Excellency B. R. Tillman, Gov ernor of State of South Carolina, Co lumbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: Having in formally communicated to your Excel lency and also the Hon. Attorney Gen eral Pope on yesterday certain facts relative to the disbursements of the ap propriation of 1890 for the support and maintenante of the militia of this State, I deem it my duty to submit the fol lowing statement of the whole matter with accompanying letters and then to await further instructions from your Excellency as to the course to be pur sued. "On January 8, 1891, I received the enclosed letter from the Hon. A. M. Youmans, of Hampton County, to the effect that 'Capt. A. R. Brunson, Troop A.1st regiment S. C. cavalry, had re ceived from Gen. M. L. Bonham a check on the Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S. C., for $156, being the amount of the appropriation for his company for 189; that the notice to him by Gen. Bonham that he had drawn and sent the check is dated No vember 19, 1890, and postmarked De cember 2 at the postoffice in Columbia. The check has been received, and is made payable 'to order.' Capt. Bron son endorsed the check, it has been presented to the bank for payment, and payment refused by the bank, and the check gone to protest, as shown by the notice of S. N. Walker, notary public. Now what we desire you to do is to look into the matter at once for us, and write at your earliest convenience the cause of the trouble, as it is creating ex citement and unfavorable comment here.' "Gen. Bonham coming into the office next morning, the 9th, 1 imme diately brought the' matter to his at tention by handing him the letter re ceived. He said; 'I have been away in -Georgetown for some time, and I will attend to the matter at once,' as 'there is some mistake.' I answered the letter from Mr. Youmans, telling him what I had done and repeated what Gen. Bonham said. "Trusting that the matter was all right, I said and did nothing until January 12, when I received the en closed letter from Mr. Butler Hagood, of Barnwell, dated January 10, stating as follows: 'I have been requested by Capt. J. A. Haynes to enclose you no tice of protest issued by the Carolina National Bank of Columbia for a check .for $148, issued by Gen. Bonham for the quota of State appropriation to the Hagood Guards, and asking: 'Will you kindly look into thbe matter and write Capt. Hayes at Appleton?' On re ceipt of this letter I at once went to the Carolina National Bank to find if any other check had been protested, and found from the statement of the cash ier that some eight or ten~ checks aver aging about $150 each, had been pre sented from various parts and had gone to protest from non-payment, no funds being on hand to meet them. I again went to Gen. Bonham and told him of the receipt of Mr. Hagood's letter and the contents, and also of the facts learned at the Naational Bank. He again informed me that these checks had been presented during his absence in Georgetown, and that he was -pre pared to meet every one of them, with other explauat ions as to the custom of paying these claims in the ist. "Under the circumstances I deemed it my duty to consult with Attorney General Pope and yourself in regard to the nmatter, as I did on yesterday eve ning. Early this morning, after some conference with Col. Wilie Jones, cashier of the Carolina National Bank, as to the amount protested, I again ap proached Gen. Bon ham on the subject, 4and at my suggestion we came to thbe office of Attorney General Pope and had another statement of the matter. Gen. Borbam reiterated his former statement to the effect that checks had been presented during his absence, and that he was prepared to meet them when presented again. "After this conversation with Gen. Pope, by agreement, Gen. Bonham and I went to the National Bank to see Col. Wilie Jones, the cashier, and it was there arranged, at the instance of Gen. Bonhami, that Col. Jones should recall the protested checks or drafts for payment, and Gen. Bonham then drew and left with Col. Jones a draft on the general manager of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, which he represents here, for *2,000, which, it was estimated, would cover all of the protested paper. "At Gen. Bonham's request the draft is to be forwarded to thbe general man ager for his endorsement, and then sent to the general ofzice in - for pay ment. Gen. Bonham stating that he had already arranged and given bond and security for the amount desired. "It is impossible at this time for me to ascertain the exact amount covered by the protested paper or the amount of pay now due and in arrears to the troops, as all of the receipts have not them represent checks whi-h have no been honored, but it can be approx imated as soon as the protested draft. are returned to the National Bank. "Such is the situation at present, and I will make no comments until furthei developments. I would say, in conclu sion, however, that as this is neither a bonded nor a disbursing office, proper ly speaking, I see no reason why thi unnecessary custom which seems here tofore to have prevailed should con tinue. The amounts due the troop from year to year can be drawn fron the treasury on warrant by the - and signed by the - in favor of and to 'the order of' the companies to.whon the money is due without passing through this office, which I do not think the law contemplates. Possibly is this had been done heretofore the ap parent trouble now confronting u might have been avoided. "It may be necessary or well to ad&d that all that has been done so far ha been donewith as kindly aspirit as pos sible and with a view to the importauc( of securing the money due to the troop still left unpaid. I am, very respect fully, your obedient servant, "H. L. FARLEY. "Adjutant and Inspector General." The notice of protest .or the chec for $148, in favor of Capt. Hayes, is ap pended, as also are the letters fron Messrs. Butler Hagood and A. M Youmans. The former bears the datc of January 10 and the latter that o1 January 7. Gen. Bonham telegraphed for Col Aldrich, his brother-in-law, and he ar rived on th- night train from Barnwell He was met at the depot by Gen. Far ley and taken at once to the Executivt mansion, where he held a conferenc( with the Governor. After the consultation Col. Aldriel called at the Bureau and stated thai Gen. Bonham would to-morrow give t< the press a full statement of his side a the case. He will no doubt make i frank acknowledgment of the use o: the money and assume the conse quences. In an official waN uc- above is a con plete statement of the whole case, and there was little more to add. The mat. ter in some way became known amonl many qitizens this afternoon, and il was freely discussed in all its bearings Gen. Bonham was visited at his resi, dence to-iight by the News and Cou rier's representative, and the column! of the paper offered him to make an statement he might desire. He wa found in bed, and said he wassuffering from the grip. When told that th Goveruor had given the statement oul for publication he seemed very mucl surprised. He thanked the reportei for calling, but said he had nothing more to say. LATER DEVELOPMENTS. COLUMBIA, January 16.-The publi cation of the statement of Gen. Farley of the non-payment of cheeks drawr by Gen. M. L. Bonham while Adjutant General of the State was the general topic of talk to-day. It is the belief oj Gen. Bonham's friends that the trouble was caused by Gen. Bonham's miscal culation of his resources. Gen B3onham is still confined to hi: bed and is quite ill with a severe attacls of "Ia grippe," which is rendered worse by his condition of extreme nervous prostration brought on by the excite ment of the last few days. He was tot ill to see newspaper men to-day. Col Aldrich has assumed the contro: of his side of the case, and Governoi Tillman said to-day that he would now have no further connection with th< matter, unless Gen Bonham should fail to make good his protested checks In that case -he would take steps to set that the interests of the State were preserved. He referred the paper repre sentatives to Col Aldrich for the pro. mised statements of Gen Bouham anr any subsequent events. Gen Farley was also, seen, and he said substantially the same things as the~Governor. The News and Courier's repre~senita tive then visited Gen B,onham's resi dence and was informedl that he conii not be seen. One of his fajmily, how. ever, gave the followidg brief and con else statement: "Gen. Bonham is too unwell to pre pare his statement for the public to-day For the present he desires it to be knowr that the shortage in his accounts wvil be made good and the State will lost nothing." It was learned the money would b paid by himself and members of his family, and his friends would hav<. nothing to do with that portion of th< matter. This has been arranged foi and the payment will be made as sar as possible. It is also learned that Gen Bonham had- been promised a larg. loan of several thousand dollars by certain institution, but that the recen1 depression of the money market causei it to fail him. GEN. BONHAM's STATEMENT. The correspondent of the August: Chronicle last night sent out a part a: a statement that Gen. Bonham had prepared but asked to be withbeld. Il is no longer a private matter, and her it is: I"Tco his Excellency B. R~. Tiliman Governor of South Carolina-Sir Through the kindness of Gen. Farleyv have been shown a copy of a letter ad. dressed by him to you upon the sub ject of disbursement by me of the funi in aid of the militia for the year 1800 If it is the purpose of your Excellene3 to make the same public, I beg than you permit the publication of this state meni: along with it. "It has beeu the custom in the Adju. tant General's office to draw this fun4 Ifrom tho treasury and deposit it ir custom was followed in this instance. Frequently, as you may perhaps know, these checks are held back by the com panies to whom they are sent for months, but when presented are paid by the Adjutant and Inspector General. "Under the stress of circumstances of a nature both painful and delicate, and which, therefore, I beg not to refer to here, I had overdrawn my account at the bank, but had made arrangements to meet these checks as they were pre sented; but during my absence a num t ber of them unexpectedly came in and - were protested for non-payment. As I Gen Farley states in his communica tion to you I went with him to the bank and.there made arrangements to recall these checks and to pty them upon their return. "This is a frank statement of the case, and is not made by way of confession add' avoidance, but that if it is your I purpose to make public these matters I desired that this statement should appear also. I know full well that I must bear the consequences of my act at the hands of the public, but I desire - to meet every one of these outstanding obligations, and to that end I trust my efforts will not be embarrassed by any present publication of these matters. I am, sir, respectfully yours." "M. L. BONHAM. Col. Aldrich to-night said that no further statement would be made for the present. MIDNIGHT RUMORS. It is currently state. late to-night that Mr. George Symmers, an expert book-keeper, has been secured and is now at work upon the books of Gen. 13onham's office. The Governor Finds a Mare's Nest. [Special to News and Courier.1 COL.MBIA, S. C., January 16.-Gov eruor Tillnau has discovered that there are no itemized statements of the dis bursement of the contingent fund on tile in the office and that no vouchers for the various items have beea kept on recorb. He says: "This you can see from the report of the Comptroller . General," and that official has no right , to make any payments of the fuud without such itemized statements. It is thought that the records may have been misplaced, but t his is hardly prob able. WHAT EX-SECRETARY GONZALES SAYS. Mr. W. E. Gonzales, the private see retary of ex-Governor Richardson, was seen to-night. He said that upon re turning to Columbia this evening he had noticed in the Evening Record something derogatory to the conduct of the Governor's office while he was sec retary. He intended seeing Governor Tillman on the subject to-morrow morning, but in the meantime would maige a statement of the facts. It was said that the vouchers for contingent and other funds used by the Governor were not on file in the Gov ernor's office. This is perfectly correct. They are not on file in that office, be cause that office has nothing to do with these vouchers. Before the warrant - for the mnony can be issusd by the Comptroller General these vouchers must be filed with the Comptroller General. They are a receipt to him for his warrant. This fact is certainly not unknown to the Governor's office. In regard to the annual statement of expenditures not being published in the Comptroller General's report, Mr. Gonzales said that it is customary for -these statements to be published in the Comptroller's report, but when so published the reports close on the 31st of October, after which no money can be drawn. This year, as one Governor was going ou:, it was deemed advisa .'ble and proper that he should pay all .the debts contracted by the office up to i the time of his retiring. To do this it was necessary to keep the account ope~n after October 31. This was Sd3ne with the consent of the Comp troller General's office, and as . the accounts were kept open until -December 1, no statement could I be made until they were closed. Then -the accounts were closed on December -1, the statement was filed in the Comp troller General's office, and this was -after his report had gone to press. The matter is very simple and it is difficult to see how there could have been any Imisunderstanding about it. None of these matters are of record in the Gover nor's office. The Comptroller General's offiee is where they should be and where they arc.I Scrofula is that impurity in the blood which, accumulating in the glandsof the neck, produce unsightly lumps or Iswellings, which causes painful run mig ores on the arms, legs or feet, which develops ulcers in the eyes, ears or nose, often causing blindness or deafness, which is the origin of pimples, cancerous growths and many other manifestations usually ascribed to "humors." P. P. P. is the friend inI need. A course of this valuable blood purifier, and you will be a well man. .If you suffer from Scrofula in any of its Svarious forms, be sure to take P. P. P. You cannot accomplish any work or business unless you feel well. If you feel used up-tired out-take Dr. J. H. Me Lean's Sarsaparilla. It will give you health, strength and vitality. For weak back, chest pains, use Dr. J.ate H. cLean's Wonderful Healing Patr(porous.) IIf you suffer from any afiection .caused by im pure blood, sueh as scrof .ula, salt rheum, sores, boils, pimp!es, tetter, ringworm, take Dr. J. .ll. Mc IFrequently accidents occur in the house-hold which cause burns, cuts, sprains and bruises; for use in such cssDr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment has for many years been the ARP HAS THE GRIP. rhe Children Give Him Medicine and He Dreams of Riding on an Elevator to the Skies. [Atlanta Constitution.] It is bad manners to afflict the public with your troubles, but nevertheless I c'm sick, sure enough sick-been in bed two days, off and on-up and down grunting around with my mouth open, for I can't breathe any other way. Got the big head, and my eyes and nose are weeping, and there is neuralgia in my face, and my teeth that have been out for teu years are aching. Got wet the other day and dident change my clothes because Mrs Arp wasent here to make me. She has been gone for nearly two weeks nursing some of the sick children at Rome and we are running the machine. I used to could get wet and then dry myself by the fire but I can't now. I've caught cold all over. There's a pain in my breast or my diagram or diaphram or epigram r whatever they call it, and these children have got my aged bosom plastered all over with turpentine and flannel. They found some capsule in a box and made me take them because it was medicine and was in mamma's drawer. I've no idea what it was, but I can't be worsted. I took them heroi callv and said let 'em rip. I got to .-ing about wills and codicils and what would become of the family and who would wake up the children in the morning and get them off to school. Who would keep up the supplies? Who would do this and do that, and I drop ped off to sleep and dreamed that I was dead, and that gentle hands had hurried me into an elevator that reached from earth to heaven, and it was crowded with disembodied spirite whom I did not know. They had visi ble forms and faces, but their material bodies were gone, and they passed through each other without impedi ment. And these are spirits of the dead I thought, and I wondered if I too was a spirit. I looked at my hands and they seemed to be there; I tr.ed to clasp them and found them only shadows pictures of hands. I touched my cheek and it was not there. Timidly I touched the form of one beside me and there was nothing to touch. An angel stood by the golden cord that seemE. to run the elevator and I said, "Where ard we going."1 'To the city of Jeru salem"- said he, "the holy city. The elevator reaches to the lowest-gate." "To heaven," said'I. "Yes," he replied, "ttethe-lowestheatei. Only the saidts go .higher. There is another elevator for them." Thank the good Lord for his mercy thought I, and I felt calm and serene beyond all expression. By the time we were up among the stars and I was about to inquire how much farther we had to go Jessie leaned over me and asked me if the turpentine bur.ed me and I never reached the goldn gate at all. I wonder where heaven is-I wonder where this uni verse ends. When I am sick my mind runs on these things and I feel so little, so contemptible, so much like an atom, a microbe, a bacteria, a nothing com pared with the boundless universe when I get well and strong I can strut around and talk big and magnify my selt and feel almost as consequential as the Atlanta nabobs do when strutting around in the Kimball house. The idea of a microbe strutting and putting on airs-just ponder it for a moment. I was talking to the children the other night about astronomy and I said, I am a traveler, a great traveler; I have trav.eled forty thousand million of miles in my life. I was born travel ing, I can beat railroads and telegraph. When I travel, I make 68,000 miles an hour and don't exert myself a bit. I can make over 1,500,000 miles in a day and turn a summerset 8,000 miles high in the bargain-I turn one every day when I am on the road. I traveled nearly 600,000,000 miles last year. And so I made the children figure it all up so as to impress upon them the immensity of space and the mighty power of God. I knew an old man-a lawyer-who didn't believe in any of these things. He said it was not ac cording to scripture. He dident believe the earth was round or that it turned over. He said the scriptures spoke of the ends of the earth, and the four corners of the earth, and that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still just like he did the moon, and they both stood still. We used to argue with him and tell him that navigators had sailed all around the earth, but it was no use, and we gave him up. I know lots of sensible people who don't believe that astronomers know anything about these immense dis tances and orbits and weights of the planets. They say it is all guess wvork, pretty much, and that it is impossible to tell how far it is from one place to another, or one planet to another, without measuring it with a chain or a rod-pole or a string or something. And here is where a higher education comes in and broadens the mind and elevates it to a higher plane. There is no science so exact and so fully established as astronomy. The distance from here to Atlanta is not so accurately known as the earth's orbit around the sun. A great astronomerlike Herschel or New ton or La Place can look through the telescope at Jupiter's moons.when they are in an eclipse and then mix up a few logrithms and fiuxions anel parallaxes and tell how fast light travels and how far it is to the remotest planet in the universe. The children wanted to know why the new year began with January, and I couldn't tell themi. Christmas would have been a better day. The new era should have begun with the birth of year should begin with the birth spring-the 21st of March, when natu is putting on new garments. Those o philosophers got things awfully mix4 up anyhow. Their years used to 1 measured by the moon, and they hi thirteen months, but that diden't f and so they fell back to ten months thirty-six days each, and that didei fit, and next, they put in two mo months and had no leap year, and last, Pope Gregory fixed the measu all right, just as we have it now. was only in the last century that tl civilized nations adopted the new tim Russia hasent adopted it yet, but don't know whether she is civilized not. January was a right good name f the first month. He was a watchf old fellow and had two faces, and cou look before him and behind him : the same time. It is a good idea for man to look back over the year th; has gone and review his conduct, ar then look forward and promise to < better. But most of the months we: named for heathen gods who nev, existed. and so were the days of tl week. I wish the school childr( w6uld read about them and be able i answer what March means, and Api and Wednesday and Thursday, and ti other names. Gather knowledge as y< go along-useful knowledge-and sto: it away. If you haven't got the book borrow them from somebody and rea< I asked two young men yesterday ho far it was to the sun, and they had r idea. But I am sick, and don't care vei much how far it is. BILL ARP. SPLENDID CHARITY. Emma Abbott Leaves Large Sums of Mon, to Churches and Charitable insti tutions. NEN YORK, January 12.-The v ill, the late Epnma Abbott was filed f probate to-day. The will was execut( May 28, 1890, and names James I Mitchell, Van Houghton and Williai F. Dunning as executors. She first directs that her body : tested by electricity to ascertain if li be extinct, and then to be crematei She requires her executors to depos enough money with the Farmers' Loa and Trust company to enable them I pay interest amounting to $500, p month to Seth Abbott, her father. In the United States Trust compan: $100,000 is to be deposited, and from her mother Almira M. Abbott is to t paid also $400 per month. - - Martha E. Wetherall, mother of h4 deceased husband, it to get $10,00 Her brother, Leon H. Abbott, gets $25 000. Her brothers, George and Fre< erick, get $25,000 each, and her siste Mrs. Lizzie Abbott Clark, $25,000. Each ,of the children of the follov ing persons get $5,000: Leon'Abbot George H. Abbott, Mrs. Etta Clar (deceased) and Mrs. M. L. Weatheral Van Houghton gets $10,000, and he secretary, D. A. Considine, $5,000. The following churches get $5,0( each: Congregational church, of Glo chester, Mass.; Plymouth church, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Tabernacle; Mad son Avenue Baptist church; Fourt Avenue Presbyterian church; Churc of Divine Paternity, all of this cit Citadel Square Baptist church, Charleston, S. C.; and Rose Hill Met] odist Episcopal church, and St. Luk M.. E., both of this L ity. The residue of her estate is to de d vided share and share alike, among tt following: Foundling asylum of sister of charity, children's aid society f< support of newsboys' lodging hous home for friendless of Newark, N. J Chapin home for the aged and infirn house of mercy in East 'Eighty-sixt street, St. John's Guild, for excursio] for mothers and children in summe Hebrew benevolent society; sanitarium for Hebrew children; Mrs. S. V. Whij of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Sarah Bird, friend of Mrs. White. She hopes the: ladies wvill use their shares in charity The Southern Farm. The January issue of The Souther Farm surpasses any New Years' issi of an agricultural paper ever printe< It is 80 pages, superbly illustrated, at its cover pages are printed in blue at gold. The Southern Farm was estal lished by that friend of the farme Henry WV. Grady, and was a speci: pet of his. Mrs. Grady retains M1 Grady's interest in The Farm, and i effort or expense has been spatedi make each number better than the las until in the January i-sue we find tI most complete farm paper on eartl "Thoughts for the Month," "Answe: to Inquiries," by Dr. Win. L. Jone editor of The Farm, are alone worth ti price to any farmer. The January co. tains besides these, special letters fro: Mrs. WV. H. Felton, Bill Arp, Plunket Jeff Wellborn, Geo. Q. Dow, Mrs. J.] Howe, Horticulture by S. A. Cool Poultry by H. A. Kuhns; a comple: household department which, in futur will be conducted by that admirab and brilliant woman, Mrs. Dr. W. I Felton; illustrated sketches by UJnc Remus and Win. Perry Brown; at scores of letters from the field contaij ing useful information which no farm< can afford to do without. Each d, partment is brimming over with goc things. If you want to see the Ne Year's issue, simply send your addre on a postal card for a sample copy. A< dress The Southern Farm, Atlanta, G The weakness .and debility whic result from illness may be speedil overcome by the use of Ayer's Sars; parilla. This is a safe, but powerfi tonic, assists digestion, regulates tU liver and kidneys, and cleanses tl blood of all germs of disease. :f Beminiscences of "Lang Syne" in the Old re Dutch Fork. Id [Written for The Herald and News.] Well, Mr. Editor, it has been quite a d little while since my pen graced the t columns of The Herald and News, but of we are at home agaia, happy and se a rene! Some people do not like home re -their calmness is frequently disturbed re a oeeunl itre t at home-and they sometimes express re a preference for a warmer climate to their homes. But I love my home, and ie when away from home any length of e time there seems to be a magnet there ' which has wonderfully attractive pow )r ers by which I am drawn thither. Yes, I have been away-y-y-y-y down Dr in the Dutch Fork of Lexington-(the Dutch Fork proper)-been down there d in the harrow business. I harrowed it some people, and some harrowed me; a but upon the wkole we quit about even at with a small balance to my individual credit. I am encouraged to go back id I again. While in this good old Fork I re took occasion to visit the place of my er nativity, and the place where I spent ie the days of my boyhood. I had n6t ie been to the place where I was born for o more than thirty years, and oh, how il changed. Not a single land-mark left by which I could tell that there once lived a happy little family-except an old well. re The place where the dwelling and s' other buildings stood is now grown un 1. in pines and briars. The fields that were there forty years ago are now forests, and the original forests are all cut down and the lands are cultivated. ' Oh, what sad memories rushed into my mind as I stood all alone on this sacred spot. Tears involuntarily coursed rapidly down my cheeks as I contemplated the past and the present. A kind father, a loving mother, and two younger brothers once domposed the happy family that once lived here. )f The thought, where are they now ? >r was so sad-so very sad! The remains d of my dear mother lie peaceably at Spring Hill, those of my father near n Aberdeen, Arkansas, one brother near Vicksburg. Miss., and one near Frank ,e lin, Ky., victims of the cruel war. I, fe alone, am left-the last to hear the L- command, "It is enough, come up it higher." n- I now turn to a more pleasant scene! :0 The place of my boyhood at Spring ,r Hill. Though I have not lived there for thirty years, I visit the place F, frequently, and then there are many of it the old land marks which still remain. )e The old home, though in an improved and enlarged condition, still remains. r The old spring, from which I have 3 carried many pails of water for my ' mother, is there, and the spring - branch, with its little holes of min r, nows and crawfish and "bull frogs," where I used to wade after them and fish for with a pin-hook, and get my t, "breeches" wet and then get a spank k ing for it, are all quite familiar. 1- Another familiar object is the old er mulberry tree which I climbed many times forty-five years ago, for the mul )0 berries, and tear my "breeches," and 1- then get a good, sound spanking, and >f be made to wear patched breeches as i- long as there was a shred of them. It h is wonderful how a sharp spanking h will impress a boy's memory. The big F; ditch is still there, along which I with af other boys who are now grey headed, 1- used to hunt "yaller jackets" and is wasps' nests on Sunday, and when we could find one, especially a "yaller i- jacket's" nest-would carry water, Le often muddy water, in our wool hats to 's first give them a good wetf,ing before >r attacking with the brush. We would e, often have togo home with the muddy , water streaking down our necks and 2, faces, and a swelled eye or lip, or ear, h and get a good sharp spanking to re is mind a fellow that Sunday was no r; time to fight yaller jackets. I' The sparking in those good old times te was usually performed with a hickory a switch frot:i 21 to three feet long, and se very sharp and keen. But there are -other and more important landmarks still remaining at and near SpringHill. There are specimens of real, live, hu man beings of no ordinary longevity. ii The first I will speak of is Mr. and ie Mrs. Michael Slice, both of whom are 3- past 90 years of age. I did not go to d see this venerable couple, but from the d best information I could gather, they -are between 90 and 93 years old. They r, have lived together as man and wife tl for abo'ut 70 years, and at, or very near r. where they were born and reared. Next L is Grandma Eleazer, (Mrs. Nancy o0 Eleazer nc Haltiwanger), who is now t, 91 years old.Grandma Eleazer's health te and appetite are very good. Her vision 1. is failing, and her hearing is bad. She rs is a great conversationalist, and when 5 in her company you must talk, though te it must be in a loud tone. Her 1- mind, when carried back to her n girlish days and young womanhood, is t, quite vigorous and correct, but when 3 conversing about recent and quite E; modern things and affairs, &c., her te mind is very treacherous and confused. e, She eats heartily-sleeps well, and le knits all the time when awake. She E. says that she can't be contented and le not work. Knitting is her favorite i pastime. She goes to church regularly, ~ and goes from place to place among her er children. e- Next is Uncle Jake, (Jacob Earle) Swho is no0w 89 years old, and promires W to live quite awhile yet. He is ia most a remarkable man. His whole being is -in good conditioni,-good health, good Bhearing-good eyesight and good mem ory. In fact none of his mental and h but little of his physical being .has y given away. He has always worked 'Ihard and lived plainly but very sub Sstantially ; works every day now ; cut e and split 200 rails a dlay ; walks 21 These four persons were all old people when I was a boy 4.5 years ago. Boys and girls of th: present time, especial ly you who live around and in th(se towns and villages, &c., don't you one time think that you will ever live to that ripe old age, for I tell you now you will never be octogenarians, because you smoke too many cigarettes, chew too much chewing gum, keep too late hours, and lie in bed too late of morn ings. These old people didn't smoke cigarettes, and use chewing gum, and paints and powders, neither did they keep late hours at night, and late hours in bed in the morning, but theyadopted the old maxim, "Early to bed and early to rise, To make them healthy, wealthy and wise. And living up to this motto, and in dulging in such healthful exercises as plowing, hoeiag, mauling, chopping, ditching, making fences, cutting wheat and oats, threshing, ginning, picking cotton, weaving, spinning, knitting, 'washing, ironing, pateing, darning, and cooking over the fire, have made them men and women whose lives are not a blank on nature's great book of deeds. YUBE. Prosperity in the Field of Nanufacturing Enterprise. Christmas holidays are over and a new year has dawr.ed upon us, and we find Prosperity' much the same as it was twelve months ago. The year of Grace, 1890, passed without giving Prosperity a cotton mill, oil mill, tan nery, sash, blind and door factory, can ning factory, or even the brick yard. The year passed and none of these in stitutions put in an appearance. The present year, however, bids fair to be fruitful with enterprises. Already a strong and reliable company has been organized and officered for the manu facture and sale of the Bonham Adjust able Harrow. The officers of this company are, J. M. Wheeler, of'the firm of Wheeler & Moseley, bankers, President; H. S. Boo zor, of the firm of Boozer & Bowers, cotton buyers, secretary and treasurer. The board of directors are J. M. Wheel er, A. H. Wheeler, A. M. Wyse, H. S. Boozer, A. H. Kohn and L. S. Bowers. The company is composed of rigidly staunch business men, andrepresentsa capital of more than $100,000. The com pany is entirely responsible for a j contracts that they will undertake to make. They have purchased the whole State of Texas from the patentee,~and on Monday last Messrs. A. H. Kohn and A. M. Wyse, general agents of the company, started for the Lone Star State to canvass it in the interest of the company. The company made a wise selection of these two gentlemen. They are not only business men of a high standard, but they are gentlemen of genial and affable dispositions and pleasing man ners and address, and we predict for them a successful undertaking. January 14, 1891. YUBE. THE INDIANIrWAE OVEE. all the Hostiles Encamped Near the Agency. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.--A Special from the Evening Star's staff corres pondent from Pine ridge Agency to-day, says: The Sioux outbreak of 1890-91 is over. There may be, and probably will be, trouble with a few. small de tached bands of hostiles, but the great majority of those who revolted against theauthority of the United States gov ernent have removed their war paint and are camped near the Friendly In dians, to the Southwest of the agency, just across White Clay Creek. INDIAN CHIEFS TO VISIT WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan.|15.-A telegram was received at the War Deparment to-day from General Miles, asking per mission for a number of Sioux chiefs to visit Washington for the purpose of conferring with the President in regard to their condition. After consulting with Secretary Noble, Secretary Proc tor telegraphed General Miles, giving the desired permission. General Miles says sending the chiefs East will ans wer ai double purpose, namely, satisfy them and bridge over the transition period between war and peace, dispel distrust and hostility and restore confi dence. It will also be a guarantee of peace while they are absent. Will It Ever Get Here? iCHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 15.-The sale of the Blackville, Newberry and Alston railroad, for $110,000 to the East Shore Terminal Railroad Company, was to-day confirmed by thestockhold era. The line is twenty miles long and runs through the Kaolin district of the State. 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In its last issue, which was three days late, owing to a circumstance be low narrated, the Arizona Kicker says., ONE MOBE UNFORTUNATE.-ThO other day a tenderfoot who said he had been a reporter o% the Pittsbug Chronicle, came along and struck us for a job, and we set him to work Mon day on the agricultural department of the paper. We warned him agains the strange climate of this strange country, and that he must not attempt to handle anything until he first asked the name of it. After two or three hours he got the swell-head and went out to chin with the boys, and that afternoon we buried him. He had heard tell of jackass rabbits, but had never seen one, and somebody made him believe that Col. Moore's mule, which was tied -near the post office, was one of the gentle creatures - of the plains. He was looking to see if the rabbit's feet were webbed when the. calamity came. Mortum bum, which is Latin for he didn't know it was loaded, and that we have his latch key, five cents in monoy and a sum. mer necktie which we will forvard to his friends on request. ToLD BIN So.-Three months ago, when a young man who had stuck', type for thirty-five cents per M on a Cleveland paper, and had knocked off because he couldn't agree with the ed torial policy of the paper, came out here to estiblish a plant and grow wool on his back. We sat down and talked to him like a brother. There's nothing mean about us. We don't want the earth. We have a great weekly newspaper, a butcher shop, grocery, saddlery, shoe shop, mi linery store and signal service bureali all under one roof, and we don't care how many other enterprises, are established in this wild west. This young man planned to start a weekly over at Pedro Valley, and we warned him to pitch into the Czar of Russia and go light on the boys at home. That's the safe policy while', learning to shoot right and left handed. He didn't seem to take kindly.to our advice, and our last words, as we lent him sixteen letters out of a font of job type, were to prepare for the up-hills and down-hills of the hereafter. The sequel proves that we were correct. He issued one edition, jabbed his home subscribers, and now he sleeps on lot No. 17, section 21, of Tower's sub-divi sion of the 2,000 acre tract. He died a;, victim of the climate, assisted by will, ing hands. TooK A WALK.-Any particularlack of interest on our editorial page this week must must lead to a little ffiidint which occurred Tuesday forenoon. A cruss-eyed pressman, who was working himself from San Francisco to Boston to see his mother die, had put in ~a - couple of weeks with us as a literary editor. He seemed a prudent, level- ' headed fellow, and we passed in his ~ copy without reading lt. What did be 7 do bu igi iteie oteefc that four aces always beat a royal flush, no matter what old liar held to the contrary. Col. Johnson, who is Ari zona authority on poker, ca ne around r to have a look at our man and ask where and how we had captured him, and he had scarcely stepped inside theY office when the pressman lost his nerve and began to shoot. What was the Colonei s gain was our loss. We had a finger split by a bullet, the devil got a rake across -the skull and the foreman now carries his arm~j in a sling. The colonel, it is needess to say, was untouched. When our young man got through shooting at everybody except the man he wanted to hit, we assisted to take him out, head him for the cactus plantation, and start him off. He won't see his I mother die-not if he keeps on in that direction. Tenderfoots sailing in this direction should bear in mind that our customs, ways and habits are some what different from those of Boston and New York, and on arriving in this locality they should expect to be ad vised and posted by citizens who can exhibit nine graves in their private burying grounds. A Young Man Kills Himself. [Lancaster Ledger.] Mr. Graham Joyner, a young man about 18 to 20 years old, son of Mr. Hiram Joyner of this county, accident- % ally killed himself last Sunday while fooling with an old pistol, the cylinderA of which he was trying to make re volve. The weapon exploded as he was looking down the barrel, the ball entering his head. He died in about two hours after he was shot. The G , C. arn1 N. Railroad. The Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad. is finished to the Savannah River on the Carolina side. The work of bridge building is going on and by October, 1, 1891, the Seaboard Air Line system, which now extends from Portsmouth, Va., to Abbeville, S. C, will, it is confidently expected, be running through trains between Ports mouth and Atlanta, Ga. This road is very thoroughly built. Stone culverts and iron bridges have been put up along the line, and the construction has been slow but complete in every way. The new road is 931 miles in length. 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