Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERR S.C., THURSDAY,_JANUAR THE NOTES OUT OF THEIR EYES. Bill Arp Obmerveig a Hopeful Change of Sentim -ut in Northern Newspapers. [From tht Atlanta Constitution.] The northern press seems to be in a very hopeful condition. It has ceased to be so df-eply concerned about the south and the negro and now devoting more attention to their own morals. I like that. The publican's prayer was a more acceptable one than the Pharisees. The Country Gentleman in lamenting the conditions of the farmers in west ern Kansas, says that over 10,000 fami lies in one district are now suffering for the necessaries of life and would perish but for charity. This is an awful state of affairs. It sounds like the famines we sometimes read about that come over China and India and Japan. The explanation given is interesting and peculiar. There is a large territory lying east of the Rocky mountains that used to be called the American desert, upon which the rain eldom falls. In the spring and early summer it is covered with buffalo grass that is green and rank and beautiful to look upon. The great railroad companies that were crossing this desert en route for the Pacific got immense areas of this land as subsides from the goverument. Of course they wanted to sell it, and the emigrants must be the victims. The companies had their sweet-talking agents at Castle Garden, and every foreigner who had $100 or $200 to spare was given a-free pass to this beautiful country in the spring and summner, and they took the poor fellow's money and located him on a quarter section and patted him on the back, and told him to go to work and be happy. The com panies seem -to believe that a Dutchman could make his crops grow, rain or. no rain. The money lenders from the east came right along and loaned the roor fellow enough money to build him a little house :nd a big barn and to buy some stock and some htools and they took a tent-year mortgage and told him to work like the dickens and pay the interest and not bother about the prin cipal. But the rain didn't come and by midsummer the grass had dried up and blown away and the poor farmer couldn't carry enough water from his shallow well to water his perishing crop; and so he struggled along and lived on his garden fron year to year hoping for better seasons, but they didn't come, and now he can'tget away for be has nothing to get away on. The Country Gentleman suggests that as the railroad companies moved them there to get their money they ought to move them back to the eastern states free of transportation. All that rainless country will have to be irrigat ed by water companies just as Califor nia is now, and the government was urged years ago to withdraw thoselands from the market until irrigation com panies were formed. This accounts for the suffering among those 10,000 families, and I reckon ac counts in part for those 70,000 farms that are under mortgage in middle and eastern Kansas. A Georgian, writing from there, says they are the best far mers in the world, but they are over loaded with debt, and will never get out. When they have good seasons and the grasshopper does not come they make so much corn the price drops to 1-5ecents a bushel, and it won't pay to haul it over the mushy roads to *a railroad station. The New York Evangelists that great and good paper that is edited by Henry Fields, is now troubled about the poor Indian. It says they have been exasperated to a mnerciless war by the perfidy of the white man, and that we wofild do just as they have done if we had been treated as they have been for half a cen tury. Th'ey gave up their lands under pressure and under promi ses that have never been performed. Government agents.and other plunder. ers have cheated themi out of their money and their supplies and left them to linger out a miserabie existence on roots and nutsand the scattering game that is fast disappearing.. In their des peration they show tight and our soldiers shoot down men, women and children all alike and all that accords with Sherman's cold-hearted idea that the only way to reform an Indian is to kill hinm. That's the way they tried to reform us when they were marching through Georgia-buln and destroy and make desolate. Fifty-five years ago Sam Houston, who was the best friend the Indians ever had, went to Washington and publicly denounced the men and the methods that were srindling them, and he got into a fight withb a Mr. Stansbury, a member from Ohio, arnd mauled the juice out of him on the street, but the same sort of men and the same methods have prevailed ever since, and it looks like the poc r Indian has got to go. And all this provokes the inquiry: Who cheats and swindles the Indian? Who cheats and swindIles the immni grrant? Not our people. Another trouble with the northern press is the late report of the comnmis sioner of in ternal revenue, which shows that during the year just passed there were es ported from this(ihristian land to foreign countries 1,00o,000 gallons~ of spirits-not ghosts nor "sperits of just meni made perfect," but spirituous liquors and all of it but 60,000) gallons was mlauufactured from mlasses'~C in the lovely- city of Boston and was shipped to Africa for the negrroes, and the bills of lading called it New En. gland rum. The shippers are respect able members of orthodox churches and contribute liberally to the cause o: foreign missionls. Their idea is to es tablish the doctrine of mian's fre< agency-to go to the African with: Bible in one hant an<d a bottle in the other and let him take his choice. That's fair. A century ago the yankee went to Africa and brought the ne-ro over here to the rum, but now he takes the rum to the negro. Stanley says that the worst thing he had to contend n with over there was New England i rum. wl The trading, speculating yankee is a curiosity. He will cheat you if he IV can-and he generally can. He lies-..) awake of nights ruminating how he can I adulterate what he manufactures so as to undersell the honest man. His fo baking powders, and pepper, a.d sugar i and candy, and coffee, and butter, and iv tea are all adulterated. The average T1 Yankee will cheat an Indian or an ge emigrant, or an African or a white man th all the same, but he will contribute gi liberally to help them when they are ta humble or in distress. Who was so N generous as they yankees when Meni- So phis and Charleston and Jackionville I were visited with the pestilence'? Who an is so generous now to the Kansas sutl'r ers, who so charitable in their gifts and legacies to science and to the poor. c They are a curious people. In a 25-cent. trade they would cheat a preacher out 5 of a dime, but they would give himi 5 if he needed it. That reminds ire of i Dutchman, John Kitsmiller, who hiad or a mill and was suspected of taking too sa much .oll from ls customers. One en nigLt he :reamed that he died and cl went up to St. Petei and knocked for of admission, and St. Peter brought up a that mill business, and John said: th "Vell, sometimes ven de rater -as low C and the stones vas dull and de times vas hard, I deed take a leetle to) much toll, but den I always geeve some of it to de poor." St. Peter finally let him in, but John admitted that "it vas a tam tight squeeze." We see that some writers in the p, northern press are suggesting a conipro- ea inise on the negro question. They seen de willing for us to exclude them from of voting in our state elections if we will let them vote for.menibers of ccngress. p That would give the republica.- party more members from the black belt, and e that seems to be all they wh.t. One s' man suggests that we debar the negro of from holding any office, state or federal, I and so he wouldnt be counted in our th voting population. Of course that would- m suit the grand old party, for it would th reduce our number of representatives in T1 Georgia from eleven to seven, and in te: the same proportion in the other states, wI but we are all getting along very be smoothly now, and I reckon we had, is better let well enough alone. The ge Country Gentleman says that the tide re of emigration to the West well have to ev roll back upon the older States and n populate the abandoned lands of New th England. It does not mention the an South at all as a fit place. i t never has. cit And so now is the time for the direct rei trade movement to take shape and p build the ships that are to land at our 's ports. The Atlanta movement is a ni grand one and we are glad to see Gover- fe~ nor Northen giving it his earnest atten- it tion. This movement looks more like business than any that ever has been ca started in the South. The einigrants bo wvill not settle on those abandoned p lauds if our people start them this way wl from Europe and if we let them know thi what a country and what a climate wye to have got. Just think of Kansats and bl<4 then think of Georgia and the Carolinas or and the States west of us. It really m< seems strange that everyb)ody (lon't ok come South and conic a-running anxd de grow up with the country. I wasel ruminating about our Ba~rtowv county hr farmers wvho are now selling corn at75A cents a bushel right here in town. The ani cribs on Punkin Vine creek are swe!'- e ing with the weight of corn. They de make fifty bushels of corn to the acre ca and punking w,rld without end(. I saw b some that wveighed O10 ponds apiece. a Those farmers have got fat hogs an' ro fat eaittle and ought to be happy, and 1 Ireckon they are, though one of themi thi told me that corn ought to bring $1 a v bushel arnd that labor was entirely too p Ihigh. May the good Lord have nme:e de upon us all and keep u- i'om breaking an the tenth comnianduleni. th ]3ITLL AR I". j e< A "BLUE GUM" NEGRO.() His Bite is Ag Fatal as a Rabid Do;g'S-.A thi Case Which Has .Just Occurred in e South Carolina. Ihe [Special to A ugusta Chrouiele.] a sensation was created in St. iaiih ews, Orangeburg county, over the Ideath of N iple Brown, a pI)Crosperou colored farmer. It appears that some time ago Brown th got into a foss with a "blue gum"i' ne gro named Trom Simmilonls, and in thej tight which followed Brown was b itten ai on the tingrb Sinunon. In al little while the b,itten linger began to swe ll, got wvorse, and it was no(t before ganm grene had set in. On Sunday Browin died. C'oroner Dukes wvas summoned, and an inquest wvas held here to-day over the dead body. Doctors A ble & A ble, whbo con ductedl the post miortem exaniination, t say that Brown's death was cau3ed by t the bite, and that the bite of a "blue . gum'' negro in nearly everycaet prov'es fatal. t The negroes here are all wild ov*er the death of Brown, and wvith the ac eustomied superstition peculiar to that race, i mainie all nianlner of strange things. A negrio with a "b)'uet gum ' i-. a ter ror to thiemn. - theor restoring the color, thic'kein the rowth, and beautifying~ the hair. and for prev'enting baldness. Hall'sI ALL IS VANITY. itor Williams I)oes not Believe that G a Beads Can Be Made Pearls. [From the Greenville News.] We are often asked why it is that a wspaper with so much enterprise as e Greenville News, and with such a ll developed habit of being among e first in progress, should persistent neglect the "Society" department iich is now such an important part i most of the leading newspapers. We understand vory well the value r the time at least-of the variety of ace tiller alluded to. People instinct Ay enjoy knowing about each other. 1e poorest and most remote newspa r readers appear to fairly gloat over e gorgeous descriptions sometimes ven of social gatherings and enter innients among the rich and high. wspaper personal gossip is a balm, a I lace, a delightful stimulant and in haustablejoy to vast numbers of men d women. If the statisticians could irn and tell the number of persons 1o read to find that kind of stuff and re for nothing else in the daily and 'ekly prints we would all be aston ied. Nevertheless, we do not regard "so ty news' as good taste or good news its adoption as a feature as good or 'e journalism. It appears to us that Itivation of the habit of publicity an;;es the whole theory of principle social life for the worse. We are [posed to visit our friends and to ask em to visit us because we enjoy their mipany. Social gatherings are sup sed to be for the purpose of getting ogenial people together to have mu l pleasure in the kind of entertain ,t provided. That is how social life <uld be. It should be a pleasure and ppiness, the means of attracting ple of like tastes and tendencies to Ai other and a relief from the bur ni and cares and unpleasant things life. hen the newspaper comes in as rt of every social performance the ?ory )id practice are reversed. Con niiity and pleasure are ruthlesslyj ughtered as sacrifices to the vanity display. The question of entertain mnt is no longer one of how to make gue'sts enjoy themselves, but how ike a .igger and grander appearance in anybody else in the newspapers. e dance, or ball, or dinner, or high , or low tea, or candy pulling, or iatever it may be, is not given for the efit of the invited company, which >nly an incident. It is given to the neral public-the big, wide reaching, norseless, greedy public, 'cluding -rything in the semblance of hu inity for the social king and queen to e creatures of both sexes who loaf d draggle about the most obscure of y rum mills. It is the public that is :.ly invited to the great and much led social demonstrations where the eCletv news" column and the insig ~icant fiend who usually performs ble Idiocy and ungrammnatic bosh in 1 ravage. -Society niews" is never news, b - se it never tells the truth. Every :ly understands that. It is the re rter's business to earn his supper or mtever else he may get and to secure Sgood will of his host for the paper avoid the truth as carefully as possi .Nun's veiling is changed to silk satin, glass beads become pearls, the st shameless Rhine-stones are made I family diamonds. Everybody is scribed as wearing a fortune in ithes and everybody is handsome, illiant, and a centre of admiration. I of us knowv that everybody isn't: d that even at the exhibitions wvhere eryting in the wvay of apparel and orationi is as real and expensive as it a possibly be, every wvoman is not atifullor belles and every man is not erfect dancer or an ideal hero of manoce, or an ideal gentleman either. WhenvI the "society news" is begun ere is no end to it. Nothing is p)ri t. The newspapers strive to sur s, each other. From giving us aths. eugagenmen ts. marriages, births d other incidlents of life quickly after e. have happened, they soon pro d to informi tlxe wvorld of the deaths, agements, marriages and births ex eted to happen in the future. In the rth now they are not satisfi&'d to tell e public who attended Brown's ball Jones' dinner p)arty. They announce fore the ball or dinner is given who s beeni invited, so that accidents and einations are provided against and ns and Brown have the pleasure of rading their guests as well as their sieomic arrangements andI house Id matters, before Tom, Dick and rry, MIol, Jane and Bet, whether ey ar.e guests or not. There is no awing the line. If the Blauks, being un questioniable social eminence and th lonig lists of distinguishied friends v' their affairs written up, newspa rs cannot neglect the ('ranks, even they are shabby and dubious and etentious, andi actually entertain a antity of people of whom nobody er heard before. And if the coming d going and doings of the Blanks, en down to the smaullest details of cir lomestic h1fe, the salaries paid eir cook and the shape and texture their daughter's undergarments are be made matters of type and record e cranks can claim the same exalted iviege-and get it. Trhe most extreme development of e "sciety news" idea we have yet countered is in the Augusta Herald, particularly lively and enterprising t ernoon newspaper. It has establish .a baby department and in a recent ue we find a column and a half of is of journalism like this: "Little Frank Burnley has a new nth." "Little Edith May Reoneeke is just beginning to walk." "Mike Ward, Mr. Pat Ward's little boy, has lovely eyos." "Doesn't Marie Vaughan look pretty :. her new cloak?" "Arnold Gherkins has two teeth and is only 5 months old." "1aggie May Collins is the brightest 3-year-old in Augusta." "George Howard's baby is getting more and more like his pa every day." "Master Robert Green Parks is the name of a very promising three-year old on Lower Greene." "Mr. and Mrs. David Slusky have a fine little fellow 4 days old." "Mr. John Maher's baby can say, 'da, da,' so the mother says." "Frank Murphy's baby, Timothy, can walk." "Mrs. A. Thnnis named her beauti ful baby Sophia." "A large and promising boy baby took his first peep at the world at the home of Mr. J. S. Page a few days ago." "Mr. Jack Sheahan's oldest son says his mama 'got the nicest kind of a Christmas preseet'-a sweet little baby boy named Eugene." "Little 'Marcella O'Keefe, of Ham burg, has large black eyes and a plump pretty face and is mighty sweet." "Little Johnnie Tarleton wore a beautiful suit of cream nun's veiling Sunde.y. He was the proudest boy in town." Now this reads like burlesque, but it is actual, sober truth, the above ex tracts having been actually e:kracted having been actually extracted from a daily newspaper printed in Augusta, State of Georgia, in this Year of Grace, 1891. And we have no doubt it will be a popular feature in the Herald, too, and that many other newspapers will see the value of the new scheme and adopt it. It is "smart" journalism and likely to be profitable for awhile until the good people who like that kind of thing tire of it or the newspaper is susl)ected of discriminating against Mrs. Slusky's four-day-old baby or neglects to notice the next tooth achieved by little Frank Burnley or the new dre3s in which Marie Vaughan is adorned. It is the legitimate, natural evolution of the "society news"-of the pander ing to the small vanities and the taste for notoriety and advertising and per sonal gossip and wherewith a great proportion of our human race is afflicted. When people who have many friends or kin go or come, knowledge of their movements has an actual value for many other people. Occasionally there is a public or semi-public entertain ment which is a proper subject for pleasant description. But from the "society news" with the heart burn ings and petty jealousies, the wretched little spites, the vacuos, idle curiosity it feeds, and the vulgar, unsocial and de basing tendencies which it cultivates and develops to rank growth, may the Lord deliver us. REVOLUTIONARY WIDOWS. Venerable WomnenWhose H usbands Fought in the WVar. LFrom a Washington Letter.] The last Revolutionary soldier died years ago. But the revolutionary widows are still with us. Twenty ven erable women whose husbands "fit" for American Independence are carried upon the pension rolls. It is amazing how the widows of soldiers hold on. At the p)resent time Uncle Sam isdis bursing $38,847 a year to the old sol ditwrs of the war of 1812. But the wid ows of the old soldiers of the war of 112 are drawing in pensions the snug sum of $1,263,239 annually. When we get down to the Mexican war we find the survivors a little the best of it. They draw S1,728,027 a year. The Mexican war widows get $695,054. But the widows are creepiug up on the survivors. It will be only a few years until the Mexican war widowvs will be drawing more pension money than the survivors. That is the way the pension laws work out. At the pension office this is well understood. It is explained in a few words. The old pensioners marry young wives and leave them their blessings and pen sions. The pensioners of the civil war will reach their maximum in numbers eight or ten years from now if there are no more pension laws enacted. But the widows' list will keep on growing for a quarter of a century. Fifty years from now there will not be a Grand Army man living. Seventy five years from now a grateful Repub lie will still be reimbursing widows for what their husbands suffered at Get tysburg and Chickamauga. Women are yet to be born who will become wiows of old soldiers and draw pen sions for their husbands' services in the w:ir of 1861-5. There are to-day over one hundred thousand widows on the pension rolls. The pe.nsioners number 400,000. These figures will be reversed in twenty years. Ninety-eight thousand widows widows draw $12 a month. Last year the civil war pensioner~s drew $71,877, 19. The civil war widows drew $19, 006,-8.57, more than one-fourth of the magnificent total.:. Leading physicians recommend Aer's Sarsayarilla. Old and young take it with perfect safety. It cleanses the blood, strengthens the nerves, and vitalizes the system. Popular experi ence has long placed this medicine at the head of toniz alteratives. You can be cheerful and happy only when you are well. If you feel "out of sorts," take 'Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsa narilla. SHOT DOWN IN THE ROAD. The Terrible Death of Capt 3axey-A Sumter Planter Assassinated on His Way Home. LSpecial to News and Courier.1 SUMTER, S. C., January 20.-Capt. Jobi Maxey was waylaid and mur dered on the road, about three miles from his home in the upper part of the county, last night between 9 and 10 o'cloci. He had been to Sumter and was going home alone in a spring wagon, and just as he reached a dark place by a small strean the deed was committed. He fell backwards on the floor of the wagon and the horse car ried him on home, and after getting into the. yard the wagon was over turned and Capt. Maxcy was thrown out upon the ground, where he lay all night and was found by his family early this morning. He was not dead when found, but died a few minutes afterwards. A load of buckshot was fired into the left side of his face and head. Two negroes, named Hampton Nelson and Ephraim Butler, witli whom Capt. Maxcy had had a difficulty about the violation of their contracts, have been arrested on suspicion, but up to this time, 8 p. m., have not reached Sumter. The people in the vicinity of Capt. Maxey's home are very much aroused and a gentleman from there says that there was strong probability that the negroes would be lynched before they reached Sumter. Capt. Maxcy came to this county from Columbia a few years ago. He was a successful planter and was very popular. THE ASSASSIN IN JAIL. SUMTER, January 2I.-The jury of inquest on the bo ly of Capt. Maxey has adjourned until Thursday. The two negroes previously mentioned have been placed in the Sumter jail pend ing further investigation. Capt. Maxey was a member of the hKnights of Honor. THE LITTLE HAIRPIN. How it Served a Good Purpose in Time of Distress. [Augusta Chronicle." One night last week an electric car started toward the city from one of our popular surburbs. The wind blew a clear, cold blast from the North an'd as the door opened from time to time the passengers shivered and drew their great coats about their knees. The car was filled with men. One lady pas senger was seated about midway of the coach. Suddenly "the little Sprague schooner" came to a stop. The lamps went out and there was no coaxing the thing along. Twenty chattering pas sengers sat still and waited for repairs. The motorman climbed to the top of the car and took the trolley wheel un der his arm. Perhaps it needed thaw ing out. Then the conductor followed and the twenty chattering passengers listened as the men trudged along the roof, while the wind worked a blue teolian trill along the wires. Finally the motorman climbed down and stood in the doorway, looking piteously at the passengers. They looked at him and chattered on. He seemed about to be about to speak and yet afraid to ex *press himself. The conductor joined him and peeped timidly through the glass. Then the door was opened and the twenty chattering passengers pre pared to hear the worst. The conductor did not mane an ap p'ai to the men. He did not announce what all were prepared to hear, that the fuse was cold, that the amature was iimp or that the rail was dead. Pass ing decorously up to the lady passen ger, that hesitating official removed his hat. What he said was this: "Madam, will you please lend me a hair pin?" The whole car was on a tension. Tw enty persons forgot to chatter, and the spirit in twenty human ther~mome ters went up and tiien down. Every eye was fixed on the lady. Nineteen helpless men who didn't have a hair pin to save their souls, sat with bated breath. They realized that their chances to return to their homes hung upon one little lady who might or mnight not be able to supply the miss ing link, the tender pinion needed to fix that trolly wheel in its place and complete the circuit of that mystic cur rent. A delicate tan colored glove was withdrawn, and instantly the fair fin gers commenced to search in the depths of those blonde coils. Never have audiences more hopefully watched the delicate manipulation of white hands over the ivory keys of a concert grande. It reminded one of that breath less moment at the ranch when the miners asked the pretty visitor if she was married. Minor, cowboy, China man and ranchero hung upon the an swer. But this terrible suspense was soon relieved. Out from the depths. of the hidden cluster, somewhere near the horizon of ;the head where hat and hair are supposed to come together, a golden hairpmn was extractedI. Invol untarily there was a burst of applause. The tribute was not rude, but gallant and chivalrous-it was an expressioa of gratitude from nineteen 1Lelpless men, whose progress on a winter night hung upon a single hairpin. The conductor bounded to the car roof with his trophy. The trolley wheel was quickly doctored and the bright lamps soon reflected the "dupli cated golden ginw"of that little hairpin. SENATORIAL ENDURANCE. Speaking for Twelve Hours Without Be trayinl Fatigue. [From the New York Sun.] WASHINGTON Jan. 19-The won derful power of eudurance dis played by Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, in speaking steadily or twelve hours all through Friday night and Saturday morning, and then .stie ing to his post and taking part ii the subsequent proceedings of Saturday afternoon without betraying the slight est fatigue, is the theme of .much ad miring comment here, but it is no sur prise to those who have hitherto remarked the physical prowes6..of the West Virginians in Congress. They are indeed a sturdy set of men, al though not especially so in appearance. This same Senator Faulkner in the last campaign used to travel all night over rough country roads and then maae stump speeches all day, for weeks in succession, sometimes not sleeping half an hour for two or three days at a time. He is not a large man, and no on? would pick him out as one fit for that sort of work. Congressman Wilson is another indefatigable West Virginian. Though frail in appearance and said to be threatened with consumption, or something of that sort, he can rival Faulkner for hard work on a stumping tour, and his canvasses among the mountains and wild couatry districts in the interior of his State are said to be marvels of endurance. Senator Kennaisanothergood example ofWest Virginian iron in the blood. He spends much of his vacation time in hunting and roughing it in the wilderness. Dur ing the three weeks just previous to the beginning of the present session he was on a soe-Ay tramp through the woods and mountain gorges of the Alleghany divide and killed twenty nine deer, besides no end of smaller game. These three men can probably outlast any other three men in Con gress, thanks not to superior physique, but to their life-long habits of outdoor life. BOILNG TUNNYELS BY THE SPARK. Electricity to be Applied to Makng Holes in the Andes. The new railway which is to connect - the Argentine Republic with Chili will neeessitate the boring of eight tan nels through the Andes Mountains of a total length of nearly ten miles. These tunnels, in whose construction water power and electricity are to be largely used in a novel form, have already been commenced at twenty points. Since August last a cataract of the Juncalillo river, which has a fall of nearly 600 feet, has been made use of to supply the power in carrying out the boring operations in -the h nels of Portilio, La Calavera and La Cambre. The Portillo tunnel takes a serpentine course through the mas sive rock, and its upper side, 450 feet above the entrance. The water or tL e Juncalillo cataract is conveyed through steel pipes half a metre in diameter for~ the distance of about a mile to the Jun cal Station. The boring machines employed in - these three -tunnels require a force of 1,000 horse power to drive, a.nd this is obtained by converting the water pow er into electricity. The water, which - is carried through the steel pipes, is K made to set in motion ten turbines, ~ each of 80 horse power, which are con nected with the electrical machines. The electricity thus produced is con ducted through strong insulated cop per cables to and Calavera. From Juncalillo air-pressure machines are also supplied in the serpentine tunnel leading up to Portillo. From Calavera four 80 horse power dynamo machines generate the elec tricity for the Cumbre tunnel, where six borers, all working at the same time, are driven by eight air pressure engines. On the Argentine side of the mountains another cataract, near Na varro, has been similarly used for driv ing four turbines, each of S-horse I power. Owing to the distance of the western smaller portion of the Cum bre tunnel, water power cannot there be employed, and the borings are being carried out by hand. Wherever water and electricity can be used the born operations are performed, it is estimat ed fully four times as rapidly as they woul-1 be by hand. -rhe sockiegs statesman. [From the New York Sun.] Jerome Socrates Simpson, the sock Kanas, is not a prod uct of American soil, but was born in Vroomnfield, a hamlet five mi-e below Sarnia, Ont. On the St. Clair River was his birth place, and many traditions of his youth ful exploits are now coming to light. One of these says that on one occasion, when he and his stalwart brothers were not expected at a party, they descended . upon the assembled guests, cleaned out the young men, and danced with the girls until morning. Along the river Jeremiah is still known as Capt. Simp son, for he sailed a schooner until he had got together the $5,000 that gave him the impetus to go West. You cannot accomplish any work or business unless you feel well. - If you feel used up-tired out-take Di. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. It will give you health, strength and vitality. Frequently accidents occur i.i the house-hold which cause burns, cuts, sprains and bruises; for use in such 2 cases Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic OI~ Tanliment~ has for many years beenth PALACES ON WHEELS. The Luxuries of Travel on the Vestibule Cars---The Ricniond and Danville's Now Train. [Washington Post, January 1st.] The luxury of modern travel is one of the wonders of the time. Nothing seems to be too good fo r American travelers in these days, and it looked like the r:milroads had exhausted the resources of inventive genius and money in providing comforts for the traveler. The modern limited trains seemed to be the acme of traveling luxury; but, even in these, improve ments are still in progress. Think of . traveler stepping into a train and tak ing a room as he does at a hotel, a room more luxuriously fitted up than almost any hotel can furnish, a room where he can sleep quietly under silken cur tatns, then rise and find in his apart ment a washstand, hot and cold water, and everything else that may be needed. Think of him stepping from this through a covered pasage to a travel ing dining-room, where he is served with elaborate and choice meals and sipping his tea or coffee within sight of flying landscapes, while the train rui;s so smoothly that he can hardly realize that he is in motion. Think of him, after a leisurely meal, going again by covered passages and over soft carpets to a smoking-room, where over a newspaper or a book he may pass the hours in the fullness of con tent. Or think of him passing again to a parlor, where from windows spec ially arranged he may see all the glorious landscape, take a choice book from a library and entertain himself or lounge on sofas to his heart's con tent. All tais is possible on the latest ves tibuled limited train. One of these wheeled palaces stands down at the yards of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, or "Piedmont Air-Line." It is the latest and best product of all the skill, experience, and inventive genius that Pullman can command. It is a complete Pullman vestibuled train, and it contains every appoint ment that the most fastidious or lux urious could suggest. It is just out of the Pullman shops, and consists of a postal car, a combination dining and baggage car, a sleeping car, and an ob servation car, in the order named. All these are vestibuled. The Piedmont Air-Line will, beginning with next Sunday, run one of these trains out of Washington every day to Atlanta, and one out of Atlanta to this city. Look at this train as an example of American attainment. Even the pos tal car is uniform with the others and fitted up with every modern appliance of such cars. Pass next through the vestibule to the baggage and dining car. Passing a small compartment for the baggage in the front, the kitchen is reached. There is a range for cook ing, a steam table for keeping things warm, a cooler for ke"ping things cold, ample spaces above for hot and cold water, and convenient receptacles for placing everything needed in a first class kitchen. This room is worthy of study, as furnishing an example of an economy of space, probably never ex celled. Two cooks will officiate here. Through two windows the food will be passed into the pantry, a little room fitted up haadsomely enough, with its shelves of carved oak, brass fittings, and glass, to be a part of the dining room itself. Back of the pantry and fronting the dining-room of the car is the hand some sideboard of carved oak with chinaware and silver in exquisite de signs of the renaissance style and as fine as any seen upon the side board at Delmonieo's. Passing through the doorway, through which the side board reveals itself, one next enters the dining room, and it would be hard to fine one with a richer or more pleasing interior. The finishing is in antique oak, the upholstering is of white mohair cloth, beveled plate-glass mirrors are set in every available portion of the wall space, the tables are of heavy oak, the carpet is a Wilton, the ceiling is beautifully painted in :arabesque de signs, the silver contrasting with the light colors and producing fine efiects. Wide and spacious windows occupy most of the wvall space, and, as the train flies through the romantic val leys of Virginia, or along the slopes of the mountains of North Carolina, the window borders will frame ever-chang ing pictures of farm, forest, hill, and dale for the traveler who sits and in leisurely fashion eats a meal in courses, from everything from soup and fish to dessert and black coffee prepared by skillful cooks and served to him by trained and experienced waiters. The sleeping-car, which constitutes the bed-chamber of this traveling ho tel, includes every improvement that has been made, and is fitted up with palatial richness. It is finished in mottled mahogany, and contains a drawing-room and state-room, in ad dition to twelve ordinary sections. It is upholstered in white mohair cloth, and has draperies of silk plush em bossed. The state-room, like the drawing-room, is finished in satin-wood and is as complete as any hotel -oom, having not only a private lavatory, but a retiring-rom of its own, so that there is no occasion to leave it exeept for meals. All the wvashstan~ds in the car are apparently nickelplated, are six in number, have both hot and cold water, and are of the latest improved pa* terns. One feature to be added to these trains, never provided on railway trains before, is a number of ladies' maids These will be colored women in uniform, selected and trained for this service, and intended to assist ladies and children in their toilets and in other ways, as they may be needed. The observation car is, however, the chief attraction of the .rain. It con tains in front some sleeping berths, but the rear and larger portion is fitted np like a handsome parlor. It has win dows slightly bowed, odd things for a railroad car. These give a better view of the country. The rear is almost all of glass, to afford the best opportunity for seeing. The platform outside is ex tended for open air observation. The car is finished in mahogany and silk embossed plush, contains elegant move able easy chairs, sofas, and table, and soft Wilton carpets and under foot. There are two fine mahogany secre taries for writing, and all writing im plements are at hand. There are por tieres of silk plush embossed. There is a library of fiction, travel, and ad venture, and the leading newspapers will be furnished. There is a buffet, which will be in charge of an artist in the mixing line, and will furnish cigars and liquors of all kinds. This room is the lounging room for the whole train, and whether the passengers de sire to read, see the country, talk or lounge, he will find an inviting place on some of the soft, rich cushions of this palatial car. Surrounded by such luxury, and looking out upon the romantic pictures which will be presented at every mile of his journey, it may be well sur mised that a trip which may hitherto have been looked forward to as a ne cessary evil will become an occasion where one will "rock the tedious time in a delightful dream," from which the arrival at his destinations will seem like a rude and unpleasant awaken ing. With these trains, the trip of 650 miles between Washington and Ar lanta: will be made in nineteen hours, five hours less than the present time. Such trains will be the first to be put on any Southern line for all the year, The trains will never be filled beyond their capacity, and the additional charge on them will be small. The cars to be used are named as follows: Obser vation cars,Chevalier,Consort,Courtier; dining and baggage cars, Acileus, De mitrius; regular sleepers, Senator, Southron, Diplomate. All will be lighted by the Pintsch gas system and heated by the New York safety sys tem of steam heating. Every section will have its own lights. Electric bells are also supplied averywhere. The cars were built especially for this company. The value of the vestibule arrangement in increasing the buffers and thus rendering travel more safe on such trains has been frequently dem onstrated. Good-Bye, Brother Blair. [From the New York Sun.] The removal from the Senate of the picturesque and prolific Blair of New Hampshire will certainly result in a material modification of the calendar of business. For twelve years past the industrious Senator has been the chief fountain head of three or four classes of bills, and has poured them forth with out stint. His pet hobbies have been education in the South, the protection of labor, woman suffrage, and temper ance, and without him it is hard to see how these int erests can hold their own in the Senate as they have in the past. The country has*.now probably seen the last of the gigantic educational scheme in support of which Senator Blair has delivered so many sixty-page speeches and consumed so many months of legislative time. The num ber of labor and temperance bills that will now go by the board is legion, and as for woman suffrage, the champions of that cause are bereaved indeed, are in tears. Taking into consideration also the remarkablk sailities of Mr. Blair as an original, but unconscious humorist, the withdrawal of the Sena tor from active political life must be regarded as a public loss. Senator D?avid B. HIH. ALBANY, N. Y., January 21.--Every member of both houses of the Legisla ture was present and the joint ballot for United States Senator was taken at noon. The vote as announced gave ID. B. Hill 81 votes, William M. Evarts '79, and DI. B. Hill was declared elected. Cleveland and Ingalls Relatives. [From the New York Star.] There has been a good deal said lately about the alleged antagonism ex isting between ex-President Cleveland and Mr. Ingalls, and few are aware that the two are cousins. The grand mother of Mr. Cleveland was Mehita ble Ingalls, and Mehitable was first cousin to Rufus :Ingalls, the father of the Senator. The two men, the Sen otor and the ex-President, are proba bly as much unlike relatives in their ebaracteristics and general make-up as any two strangers, born without a strain of consanguinity, could be. 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