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The "Famous" ~RtELV 10 CEN(TElS, WILL MAKE YOU SMILE Zj WiHEN Y(.)HE,R LISTEN TO THEIR I I F~I~~~HGO ORI~V LOW PRICES -ON--/~iac GIass and Tinwaie ' ry the *m and see. Foot'sOld"tand W. M. Sherard & Co. NEBRR,S_C.TURDY OCTOE8,19.PIE$.0AYA ESTABLISHED 1865. DEFENCE OF THE ALLIANCE PLAN. Any Alliance Man can Vote Accord!ng to his Convictions. but Macune, Stokes and Talbert Say that when the Alliance Majority has Decided on a Policy every Mew ber of the Alliance is Bound to Support it. COLUMAIA, September 25.- Secretary of the State Tindal banded the follow ing this morning to this correspondent for publication in the News and Cou rier: To the E ditor of The News and Cour ier: Your paper and some other daily papers have assumed an attitude to wards the Alliance which bodes evil to the whole State. The people who are not eligible to membership in the Alliance are taught to believe that the farmers are seeking to rule them through a secret, oath bound political society. This is not true. The secrets of the Alliance are for business and social purposes. When one enters a store to buy a piece of goods he finds a secret mark upon it. It is the merchants' secret. It is his right, and no one complains of it,iIt is a very unwise business man who parades his business affairs before the world. And no on2 has a right to complain of the secrets of the Alliance. Suppose the merchaots in their -boards of trade should conclude, from frequent interchange of views, that their interests would be promoted by a certain iaw, or by certaiu changes of existing laws, what could they do but go out before the whole people to advo cate their measures? [This is all which the Alliance has done politically.] In their contest with the Bagging Trust, and the cruel extortions of the credit and lien law business, they naturally enough inquired into the cause of the evil and the way to remove it. They laid their unfortunate condition before the country, and the measures which they think would relieve them in the most public manner, and invited the fullest discussion of them. They had a right to expect that in other classes they would find many humane people who would consider their icase in a fair spirit. MACUNE'S DOCTRINE DISPUTED. No man's vote politically is bound by any oath of the Alliance, nor can be, for the reas:n that the Alliance has no right under i-s constitution or laws to ask him how he voted at the last elec tion; and so far as politics is concerned there is no Alliance oath nor secret. If you can by fair argument show an Alliance member that you have a better remedy than his for the inade quate supply of. money, there is no Alliance oath to hinder him from assenting to your proposition. The de mand for more money and the best way to get it is therefore as open for public debate as any political question which ever was before the people. Senator Morgan, whom you quote, says: "Before the great Democracy is required to adopt the Ocala platform,. it should be discussed before the people and voted on in Democratic primaries, and every Democrat should be heard datiently, fairly and fraternally, who wisbes to be heard." etc. That is pre cisely what the Alliance proposes. It seeks to get patient, fair and frater nal discussion. It has failed to get it so far, but is making very rapid pro gress. The enemies of the Alliance have tried to prevent fair discussion and to denounce in advance every man .as a demagogue who might sympathize with the Ocala demands. Instead of patient, fair and fraternal discussion it has been "socialism," "paternalism," "undemocratic demagogueism," which is mere abusive assertion .and not dis cussion. When Christ restored sigbt to a ni-.n who had been born blind it caused great wonder &mong the people, and they took him to their rulers, the Pharisees, to hear an explanation of it. They denounced Christ as an imuposter and devil. The blind man remonstrated that whereas he was blind he. now could see. This argument made them mad. They said: "Do you who .are aloehrborn in sin undertake-to teach us?" and cast him of the temple. WE 3MUST NOT DJARE HIT BACK. It will be an evil day for South Caro linma when every man whose eyes has been opened to understand the wrongs existing in our business and political conditions is turned ou,t of the Demo cratic party, and when, as in the case of Col. Aldrich and Geo. Jolinstone, men are denounced as denliagogues who venture to sympathize with them. The liberties of this country were established by. men like Washington and Jeff'erson, because their talents were guided by a spirit of humanity. They believed that the best way to se cure the rights of the people was to give to them the right to rule, and to correct whatever evils may arise. 3Men then gained immortal honors by advo cating the cause of the people. But has It come to this in our day-that a man is a "demagogue" who sympathizes with them? When the cities and towns are arrayed against the country by the present attitude of the press, what must inevitably follow? T IIEY slOCL D sIT DOWN ON T HE FOOLS. The Alliance may have imprudent members, who say im pruden t things. Every organization has the same-even the Church. But the farmers honestly desire to appeal to the best intelligence and heart of the whole country-of every class to aid them in solving their problems. Discussion in a wise, candid* spirit could only result in good. But if t present (apparently predeterium) plic of the opposition is presevered in and most mischievious in tend,ncy. It is to our common interest to restore the unity of the Democratic party and not seek further to divide it. This will depend upon the attitude of the city press. That has lost nearly all influence with the people outside of towns and cities. It can only foster prejudice in the minds of the urban population. Is that a natural result of candor and fairness? What interest is or can be promoted by such a course? My position in the Alliance is a very modest one-only a private member. I know, however, that many thousands of people have been practically bene fited by it, which they will not forget. SO HAVE WE, WHEN WE HAVE BOTH SIDES. For education and interest I am con servative, but I have an abiding faith in the good sense and capacity of the people for self-government, and, there fore, am and always have been a Dem ocrat. I feel it to 'e my duty to pro test agaipst the policy you are pursuing. and to appeal for more fairness and more confidence in the people. If the people cannot be trusted at all, then the Democraic party; and our republi can government itself, are based upon a false theory and are humbugs. CERTAINLY, AND THE TRUH WILL PRE VAIL. For twenty-five years I have lived among the plain farmers. I know them. They are neither Communists nor fools. They have a strong sense of justice and are too conservative for their own good. Iliave seen sometimes their lien accounts and wondered to myself that they were not in arms. I have seen their desperate struggles against adverse business conditions their gloom every winter and the re newed hope and courage of the return ing spring. I fougtt with them dur ing the war and in 1876. Their patriot ism, their fortitude, their patience, forbearance and hope should appeal for sympathy in their effort to find a way to rid themselves by law of their op pression. It is not safe to bully them. They are too easyly persuaded by kindness and fair argument, but don't undertake to drive them out of the temple, because their eyes have been opened ,to their wrongs. Tho who tried that before got put out themselves. -The "Oates plan" is not pure patriotism. It is, "I am holier than-thou and I shall control." Unity ,Jiarmony and progress can only be maintained by candor; by mutual forbearance and kindness. When you ask Col. Talbert to say whether he would stand by the Democratic party if his views did not prevail, he said, xquarely, he would; but when he meas ured you by the sarbe standard you vir tually say, "I am the party, the master f this Temple. Get out!" You declare in advance there shall be two parties. How often and how eloquently have we been warned :in your columns against such a calamity? But rather than trust the people and let "free, pa tient and fraternal dliscusEion" evolve the truth as it would, .you close* the dor against it. This is all wrong, and is inconsistent with your course last year, when you stood by the Demo 3ratic Convention. If it were right as to the State, why not as to the National Democracy? .J. E. TINDAL. Good Advice. [From the Gaffney Courier.] Being an old farmer of forty years experience, having fought* many a bard battle with General Green, and having always gained the victory, I am prompted to give my brother farmers a word of cheer. Now brother farmers, it won't do to plant cotton to buy corn, flour, &c. It will always keep your nose to the grindstone. You.will be no better than a slave for some one as long as you con tinue this picnic. You will never be an independent and free man as long as you neglect grain.. Your old .bro ther has always 4 ed cotton as a. sur plus crop, and no..w o-da.y he owes no man anything but lovo,except a forty dollar note and aIlittle9store.~account; and I have for the las~t thirty years had morn to sell and to keep, and money to. lend and to use.iQught I not to be thankful? I thought I would quit here, biut there is so much more I want to say to mIy young brother farmers who have to battle with General Green. You have bad to fight hard this year to save your crops, and you deserve a great leal of credit in saving them. But, h, my friends, I was in a mighty fight in 1867 when it rained euery day from the lith of June to the 4th of July, and I always have believed I lost 100 bush els of corn by two plows standing idle en the 1ith of June, Saturday. Now let me say that too many of you come to Gaff'ney's on Saturday. You don't know what a day's plowing is worth. Never put off until Monday what should be done on Saturday. They Were simple Mounitaineers. Mrs.- Brownstone (at seaside:) "I wonder why that fisherman does not go out to-day?". Miss Brownstone: "Because he can't eatch anything but mackerel to-day, and he doesn't want them." "Did you ask him?" "I asked him why he didn't go out, and he said he didn't like that mack erel sky." Professor Gauthier, of Paris, states that certain vital processes of the body develop putrefying substances in the tissues, which, if not soeedily elimina ted, produce disease. 'Ayer's Sarsapa rilla effects the removal of. these sub THE HOME CIRCLE. Bill Arp Tells How it is Saddened and Con secrated-Who Wrote the Hymn? "The baby is dead." That was the sad telegram that came to us from for away where one of our boys is living. It saddened the household, for we had never seen the child nor the mother, and they were to come and visit us next month, and expected to be so happy. There is trouble that is trouble-grief that is grief. The first child, and old enough to have twined around her mother's heart and absorbed her very life. The father can love, too, and caress and feel a father's pride, and he can weep and feel desolate. Time will temper his grief, but a mother never ceases to lament the death of her first born child. It has been more than thirty years since we lost one, but the lit' i gar nuents that he wore are hidden away somewhere, and sometimes I see the mother fondling them as they lie in the old trunk-the trunk that holds her hearts .best treasures. It was Sterne who said "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and so in time the young mother's grief will be sweeter than it is sad, and she -will rise from it with a hope and a' trust that she never knew before. A child in heaven is a bond that cannot be taken-it is not lost-it is saved. But still the pang of separa tion' is very crushing to the parent's heart.-How the world shrinks up; how mean and insignificant are all its pleas ures. I have felt that way, and been comforted with the feeling, and so I know has every parent who has lost a child. Well, I suppose I must answer my friend. Colonel Dawson, for he is a friend and a Georgian, and was kind to me when I last visited New York, where he lives. He complains in the last number of the Sunny South that I had given Montgomery as the author of that beautiful hymn: Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed. - And writes two columns in proof that his mother wrote it. He -says that he published this same declaration in the Chicago-Current in 1884. I did not see that; nobody down south saw it. What is "current" in Chicago is not very cur rent here, and ro I think that is excuse enough. The hymn has been seen set down to Montgomery for fifty years or more without question. It is in every hymn book of every Christian denomi nation. It is in every edition of Mont gomery's poetical works that I have ever seen. I have a copy before me, published in Edinburgh in 1869, Which gives eight verses to the hymn. John Bartlett's standard work on "Familiar Quotations" is now in the sixth edi tion, and quotes the hymn from Mont gomery. W. Davenport Adams, an ther standard author of English litera ure, gives the same authorship. And o Colonel Dawson has no good reason for requesting me "to be more careful n the future about aiding and abetting British marauders of the property of American genius." I am sure that no American, and certainly no southerner, esires to champion the claim of Mont omery, but rather would take both pride and comfort in seeing Mrs. Daw on's authorship established. It seems hat Mrs. Dawson died in 1819, in Cyn hiana, Ky., and left her poetical manu cripts in possession of a friend. Among hem was found the hymn of ten verses n her own band-writing. It seems further that in 1819 Montgomery pub ished a volume of his own poems and ncluded -this one, which he marked Anon." How it got into Mr. Mont omery's possession is not explained. But enough of this. It is sufficient for me to know that it is a most beau tiful hymn and to 'elieve that Mrs. Dwson and Mr. Montgomery are both n heaven. And now comes another friend and gently chides me for settingdown John WesI|y als a Methodist. -He. asserts tat John and Chbarles Wesley main ained to the last their connection with ad allegiance to the Church of En gland, and that they were never de posed from it. No doubt that is true ut still they were the foa.nders of etodism. The established church of England was closed against them. They and their followers formed a so iety, and it was called the Methodist society. They appointed laymen to preach and assigned them circuits. In 73.5 John came to Georgia as a mis sionary with General Oglethorpe, and returned to England in 1738 and con ected himself with the Moravians. He says in his autobiography that he ever was converted until a(quarter be-. fore 9 o'clock on Wednesday night, 24th of May, 1738. In 1744 he attempted o preach at Taun'ton and was forbid en by the magistrates. In 1770 he as sumed the.office of bishop, and 1784 or ained Rev. Thomas Coke bishop of A merica. Coke came ever immediately nd established the Methc.dist Episco lal church. Mr. Wesley abridged the Eglish liturgy-prepared his own dis-s cipline. If, with all these departures from church government and church ontrol,- Mr. Wesley chon to call him self an Episcopalian, it, was his privi lege to do so,' but hardly anybody else ould so classify himi. I .do not say iis treatment by the Church of En gland was wrong or unreasonable, con sidering his independence and defec tion. but nevertheless it was such that the Episcopal church cannot now claim him with propriety. He is the com on property-of~ the Christian world. Now, let me -say that thbese letters from friends kn 'wn or unknown ar e always welcomo. Of course I make mis or it provokes more careful investiga tion. Thefe is no comfort that costs less and is worth so much as letters from kindr'ed and friends, and yet there is no duty so easily neglected. How longingly do the folks look for letters from their absent children-scattered children. How carefully does the good mother put them away when they do come. Sometimes there is a long inter val. and she asks every day, "Is there no letter?' and her loving heart inag ines that her boy or her girl is sick. Children, why don't you write to the old folks at home? Write often write regular, write cheerfully, for they won't be here long, and then you will wish you had. I had a good letter to day from an old army friend who is in his eightieth year, and his wife the same, and they are hale and hearty and happy, and he quotes, "John Anderson my Joe," and writes with out glasses and says his love for old friends grows purer and stron.er as the years roll on. He writes me periodi cally and always cheerfully and I put his letters away among my treasures: These letters for the home and heart are the only compensation for absence, for separation of kindred and friends. Solomon felt it when he said, ''As cold water is to a thirsty soul so is good news from a far country." Then write to your parents, children-write to your broth ers and sisters-write often, write thoughtfully. Don't write hurriedly and carelessly like its something disa greeable that had to be done-but take pains both in the manner and the niat ter--write a letter that is worth the postage and will do to read more than once. There is no better evidence of good conduct and good principles than the affectionate and carefully written letters that a school girl or a college boy sends home to the parents once a week. BILL ARP. LABORERS ALL. Famous Americans Who Once Lived by Daily Toll. [W. H. F., in Boston Globe.] I have no Labor day sermon to preach, but I have oollected for you and your readers a few simple facts, which I know you will be glad to print as a sentimental offering to Labor day, and which suggests to me the text, "All are Laborers in the Vine yard. Washington was once a land sur veyor. Hamilton, a merchant's clerk. Webster, a farmer's boy. Grant, a farmer. Andrew Johnson, a tailor. Lincoln, a rail splitter. Fillmore, a wool carder. Franklin, a printer. Garfield, a towboy on the candl. Roger Sherman, a shoemaker. Gen. Putnan, a farmer. Gen. Henry Knox, a bookseller: GJen. John Sullivan, a farmer. Paul Regere, a silversmith. Horace Greeley, a compositor. Corn. Vanderbilt, a ferryman. James Lick, a piano maker. Tom Paine, a staymaker. Theodore Parker, a farm band. Bayard Taylor, a printer. T. V. Powderly,. a switch -tender. Henry Wilson, a shoetpaker. Gen. Banks, a mill boy. Gov. Briggs, a hatter. Stephen A. Douglass, a cabinet maker. Jay Gould, a land surveyor. Henry Clay, a mill boy. C. P. Huntington. a pedler. George W. Childs, a clerk in a book store. Oliver Ames, a practical mechanic. Vice-President Morton, a cleik in a country store. Joseph E. McDonald, a saddler. Patrick A. Collins, an upholsterer. Leopold Morse, a pedler. Frank Jones, a pedler. Gen. B. F. Butler, a chore boy on a farm. William Dean Howells, a printer. Mark Twain, a cabin boy of a steam boat. Hugh O'Brien, a printer. Secretary Foster, a country clerk. Senator Gorman, a Senate page. Robert Collier, a blacksmith. Elihu Burritt, a blacksmith. John G. Whittier. a shoemaker. Walt Whitman, a printer. Thomas A. Edison, a newsboy. Henry B. Lovering, a shoemner. George M. Stearns, a chore boy on a farm. Hannibal Hamlin, a printer. Schuyler Colfax, a clerk in store. B3. P. Hutchinson, a shoemaker. Dwight L. Moody, a farm hand. Senator PlumIb, a compositor. John Sherman, a river boatman. Win. D. Kelly, a jeweller's appren tice. Thomas Starr Kiug, a clerk in a store. A Clemson for Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, A LA., October 1.-The will of the Hon. Merit Street, a prom inent and wealthy citizen of Clay Coun ty, has been probated. In it he pro vides for founding an industrial school for boys and girls, setting aside-for that purpose four hundred and twenty acres of land in Clay County, with money to erect the necessary buildings. HeI also provides an endowment fund to pay feachors, and provides that all pupils sall'work so many hours per day. All the 1.roceeds of the farmi and workshops are to go to the endowment fund. It is the most important bequest ever made to the cause of education by a private individual in Alabama. Mr. Street bore the general reputation of being a close, hard man in money mat ters, and his bequest comes in the na-i RIOT AMONG COTTON PICKERS. The Leaders Taken from a Sheritr"s Posse and Hung. .NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2.-A Helena, Ark., Special says: There has beeti con siderable excitement here over the war fare in the county caused by a body of imported cotton pickers exciting ne groes to a general strike for hi,-her wages, which lie culminated On a riot. Yesterday deputies Frank Mills gud Jesse Hodges, who have been with Sheriff Derrick the last few days, arrived in the city and report as follows: Wednsday afternoon they succeeded in locating thirteen of the worst of the rioting negroes in a cane brake near Cat's Island and thence to Memphis. A sheriff's posse called upon them to surrender and give up their arms. The negroes answered by a volley of shots and made a dash to escape, Two were killed, two escaped and nine were captured. These negroes were disarmed and given in charge of deputies Milli and Hodges, who started with them to Marianna County seat. A few mile back of Hackley's landing the deputies round themselves and prisoners sur rounded by a crowd of masked men, mounted and armed. They demanded the prisoners at the hands of the dep utics, and as they outnumbered the deputies two to one, took charge of the prisoners, marched them into a thicket and hung them. It is believed that most of the negroes were from Mem phis. Among the killed is Ben Pat terson, who is known as a crap shooter and all around negro gambler, and who Drganized the strike on behalf of the cotto'n pickers who annually go from Memphis to the bottoms. The balance had nothing to do with the disturb ances whatever. It remains tu be seen whether the trouble is en:ire-. o-. r, al khough the general impress:ou is that it is. The death of Patterson settles it. NEW ORLEANs, La., Oct. 2.-The Picayune's Helena, Ark., special says: It now appears -that no less than fifteen negroes were killed of the gang of nineteen who commenced the trouble. Of the remaining four three are in jail at Marianna and one in jail at Forest City. To a millionaire merchant, J. F. Frank, of Memphis, is laid the charge of having incited the trouble by saying in the presence of a hundred negroes at his store that he would have his cotton picked if he had to pay a dollar per hundred for the work. BITTEN BY A BLUE-GUMMED NEGRO. Resulting, After Four Years' Suffering. in a Terrible Death. MOBILE, Ala., September 30.-Death released from his sufferings to-day John King, whose medical history of the past four years will become one of the noted book cases of the profes sion. Four years ag5 John King was one of the handsomest, most atletic and most promising men on the Mobile police force,, twenty-seven years of age, f ull six feet in height, intelligent, active, alert and courageous. February 10, 1887, King, while in the line of.-his duty, arrested a negro named Richard Richards, yvho resisted and savagely bit the thumb of the police man's left hand, but was brought in and locked up. The next day King was very ill from his wound. The arm swelled, then in time the illness spread through the system, affecting the left side of the body chiefly, finally settling in the left foot and leg. He was confined to his bed from this cause for six months. When he came from his sick room, it was with a con stitution entirely scattered, instead of the stalwart young man who was known as Policeman King. He was in Looks and in gait an aged man. He was, his doctors said, the victim :>f blood poisoning. Richards, his as sailant, was described as a "blue gummed" negro, and such are popu Larly believed to have poison in their bite. King never recovered the injury. H is lameness became more pronounced, and he came a hopeless and helpless nvalid, failing perceptibly until death released him. The most skillful physi rianis of Mobile and of New Orleans Liave been battling with the singular rnalady, which, in the end, baffled :hem. Leaf by leaf the roses tall ; *One by one our dear ones die. 0, to keep them with us.still! Loving hearts send up the cry. Wife and mother, 0 how dear, Fading like a maist away. Father, let us keep them here. Tearfully to God we pray. Many a wife and mother, who seems joomed to die because she suffers fromz liseases peculiar to women, which saps aer life away like a vampire, and baffles he skill of the family physician, can e saved by employing the proper rem ~dy. This remedy is Dr. Pierce's Fav >rite Prescription, the greatest booni ~ver conferred by man on weak, suf ering, despairing women. It is a spe :ific for all p)hases of female weakness, 2o matter what their name. He Fell Into their Ways. [From~ the New York sun.] What the great and growing, but somiewha t gro.', South west most needs s contact with the refining influences >f our more adv-anced Eastern culture, mud it is pleasing to note where an Eastern man has given points to our Western brothers. Mr.. Marcos Alex tnder, of Brooklyn, who recently moved o Tom Green County, Texas, receives ;his tribute in a local newspaper of that egion: "Mr. Alexander was allowed he honor of pulling thbe badger in a b< z nd badger fight n.atched at the stock Exchangesaloon Sa turday night, mnd did his duty in such a graceful uinnner as to make many friends." $118,548,959, FOR PENSIONS. 138,216 Names Added During the Year There Are Still 688,649 Survivors Who Are not Pensioned and 819,908 De censed Soldiers Not Represented on the Rolls. WAsHUINTO-, Sept. 24.-The annual report of Commissioner Raum of the Pension Bureau, submitted to the Sec retary of the Interior to-day, shows that on June 30, 1891, there were 676, 160 pensioners borne upon the rolls of the bureau, being 138,216 more than were carried on the rolls at the close of the last fiscal year. They are classified as follows: Widows and daughters of Revolutionary soldiers, 23; army inva lid pensioners 413,597; army widows, minor children, &c., 108,537; navy in valid pensioners, 5,449; navy widows, minor children, &c., 2,568; survivors of the war of 1812, 7,590; survivors of the Mexican war, 16,379; widows of soldiers of the Mexican war,.6,976. The following are the number of pensions of the several classes granted under the act of June 27, 1890: To army invalid pensioners, 97,136; army widows, minor children, &c., 12,209; navy invalid pensioners, 3,976; navy widows, minor children, &c., 1,436. During the last fiscal year first pay ments were paid upon 131,160 original claims, requiring $31,391,538 for their payment. This is an increase in the number of original payments over the year 1890 of 64,532. The aggregate cost, however, was $1,087,302 less. There were 222,521 first payments of every description, requiring $38,552,274, being $69,592 less than was required for the 130,514 first payments made during the year was $239.33, and the average value of first payment on claims allowed under the act of June 27, 1890, was $71.28. The average value of first payments for the preceding year was $485.71, being a reduction in the average first payment of $246,38. The aggregate annual value of the 676,160 pensions on the roll June 31, 1891, was $88,247,200, and the average annual value of each pension was $139.99. The average annual value of each pension under the act of June 27, 1890, was $121.51. At the close of the fiscal year there were 38,574 pensions on the roll who remained unpaid for the want of time, and who were entitled to receive $4, 883,242, which will be paid out of the appropriation for the current fiscal year, and there remained at the close of the fiscal year in the hands of the several pension agents the sum of $5,713,858.84, which has since been cov ered into the Treasury. This amount, added to $3,607,133.22 of the pension appropriation not drawn from the Treasury, aggregates $9,320,986.06 of the appropriation which was not ex pended. There will be a deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of fees and expenses of examining sur geons of about $300,000. The total amount disbursed on ac count of pensions, expens~es, &c.,- dur ing the fiscal year was $118,548,9.59.71, as compared with $106,493,890.19 dis bursed during the preceding fiscal year. So that it appears that 138,216 pensions were added to the rolls during the fis cal year just closed, at an increased cost to the nation of $12,0.55,069 as compared with the expenditure includes $4,3.57, 347 paid upon vouchers remaining un paid at the close of the year. Of the 12,402 soldiers to whom cer tificates were issued under the general law from Feb. 14 to June 30,1891, 1,371 were to persons who served six months and under, while 11,031 served for seven months and over, and the largest number of certificates issued to soldiers of a particular length of service was 905 to those who served thirty-four months and 878 to those who served thirty-six mouths. The remarkable fact is disclosed that fifty certificates were issued to men who served from 161 to 476 months. It also appears that of the 71,004 persons to whom pensions were granted under the act of June 27, 1890, 1, 103 were issued to soldiers who served six months and under, 26,099 to persons who served a year or under, and 44,905 to persons who served thir teen months and over, and that the largest number of certificates issued to any class was 4,693 to men who served thirty-six months. The age of the greatest number of pensioners under both the old and the new law was forty-seven years. "If submit" says the commissioner, "that this date shows that the pensions nowv being granted under the old as well as the new law are not to persons whose terms were short and who saw but little service during the wvar. The great majority of certificates now being issued are to the veterans of the great struggle for the Union, and many of these men would have gone to their graves in want but for the just, hu mane, and timely enactment of the law of June 27, 1890." During the last year 20,.525 pensioners were dropped from the rolls for various causes, and of this number 1:3,229) were dropped by reason of death. In 18.90 the loss to the pension rolls by the de ease of widows and derendent moth ers anid fathers was at the rate of 2.5 per 1,000; in 1690 .33 per 1,000, and in 191, 3 per 1,000. It is estimated that of the olidiers whio served the country during the late war] ,004,658 were kille<d in battle.or died during and since the war. On .June 80 last 124,754' of these deceased ssldiers were represented on the pension rolls by their widows or other dependents. There are about 1,208,707 soldiers of the Union ng9w living, and of the sur vivors .520,158 are now on the pension rolls. There are, therefore, 088,649 sur viors who are not pensioned and 879, 908 dmeae soldiers not represented on the pension rolls. There were 154, 817 Congressiona! calls for the consid eration of cases made during the past fiscal year, being an average of more than 500 per du.y. The Commissioner renews his recom Lnendation of last year as to the read justment of the pension ratings under the act of March 3, 1883, and March-4, 1890. The Commissioner says that on an average about 30,000 certificates are being issued each month, and that dur ing the current year he expects that as many as 350,00) claims will be adjudi cated, for which he believes the present appropriation of $133,473,085 will be amply sufficient. YORK TOWNSHIP BONDS. Their Legality Acknowledged and the Peo ple Must Pay the Taxes. [Yorkville Enquirer.] The board of county commissioners, as agents, last Friday entered into an agreement with W. K. Blodgett, the holder of the bonds voted by York township in aid of the Three C's rail road, by which the legality of the said bonds is acknowledged, and the suit pending in the United States court is to be discontinued, as in the case of Catawba and Ebenezer townships. The agreement is the same as that entered into on the part of the other townships, with one exception. Mr. Blodgett represented that he had con trol of the matured coupons on only $50,000 of the $75,000 of bonds, and could not rebate the accrued interest on the remaining $295,000. He, how ever, cancels the accrued interest on the $50,000 up to January 1, 1889, and also 20 per cent. of the whole debt of $75,000. By this arrangement York township saves in principal and interest some. thing over $21,500. After signing the agreement, the county commissioners at once made a levy of 9.1 mills to pay the current and accrued interest, and this fall the tax payers of York township will pay taxes as follows: For State purposes, 43 mills; ordinary county, 2X mills; Narrow Gauge railroad, 11. mills; con stitutional school, 2 mills; Three C'E railroad, 91 mills. Total 20 mills. In addition to this, taxpayers in the town are assessed 2 mills for the local school tax, which makes the total 22 mills. Next year the Three C's railroad tax will be about 4 mills, or a little less. How * Spanish Nobleman Won a Hazard one Bet. [From the Boston Sunday Herald.] CITY OF MExico, August 22.-A wealthy gentleman of Basque descent lived in the city of Mexico. He was a good deal of a madcap and noted for his dring eccentricities. The reigning Viceroy, a Spanish nobleman, was es peciallv objectionable to him, and one day, when the Basque gentleman was among some lively and congenial friends, talk fell on the law which pro vided that BO one other than the Vice roy might drive about with spotted horses. This was a privilege which the Viceroys were very zealous in main taining. As a result of ',he discussion the Basque gentleman, something of a "calavera," as they say in Spanish-a wild fellow, we would put it-wagered with a Mexican inarquis that he would himself hitoh four spotted horses into his coach and drive through the prin cipal streets of Mexico. Twenty thou sand dollars was the amount of the wager. In a few days a handsome coach, with font spotted horses, was driven up the main avenue of the city past the present Iturbide Hotel to the very gates of the viceregal palace. The coach was driven several times up and down in front of the palace, while sentries presented arms, thinking it to be the viceregal coach. Some one ran up stairs and informed the Viceroy him self of the presence in the street of a coach with spotted horses, and out went the pormpous Spanish vice-king to a balcony to see, with his own eyes, the defiance of his privilege and infrac tion of the law. The Blasque gentlemian leaned out of the window, saluted the Viceroy most graciously, and then ordered the coach manr to enter the main courtyard of the palace. On reaching the very heart of the viceregal authority, the Basque alighted, passed gravely up the stair case to the viceregal apartments, and, to the astonished and dazed function ary, said: "Knowing how fond you were of horses, I have come to present you with a coach and four as an expres siot' of my admiration!" The Viceroy, perforce, had to accept the handsome gift, and could say no thing. The coach and horsee cost $3,000, and the clever Basque pocketed $17,000 profit when the wager was settled. What Shakespeare Might Have Said. To take or not to take : that is the question. Whether 'tis better for a man to suffer The pangs and torments of indigestion, Or something take, and, in its taking, end them. Shakespeare didn't say that, but very likely he would have said some thing similar, if he were living in this 19th century, when so many suffer un told agonies from indigestion. Of course he would have gone on to say that a man must be a fool not to take th)e "so:nething'' which would put an end to the "pangs and torments'' spoken of, if he could get it. Now it is a fact that weakened, impoverished blood brings on indigestion, whics is the cause of dyspepsia, constipation-a poisoned condition of the whole sys tem-and it is a fact, also, that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will so purity the blood and enrich it that all the weakened organs are revital ized and strengthened. It is guaran teed to do this. If it doesn't, your money will be returned to you. THE CA'NAL IN COURT. Claimant Gunn to Se Columbia's Council -Formal Preliminary Demand for $250.000 Damages. COLUMBIA, Oct. 1.-The gun has fired. Here is the charge: "In re Columbia canal. "Columbia, S. C., Oct. 1, 1891. "To the Honorable, the Mayor, thb - Aldermen and Common Council, of the city of Columbia ; comprising the following gentlemen: F. W. McMas ter, mayor; .1. S. Dunn, W. McB. Sloan; G. W. Ulworden; R. S. Des portes, P. Motz, E. J. Brennen, W. C. Fisher, Joseph R. Allen, C. C. Habe nicht, Joseph H. Green, H. J. Hennies, J. M. Smith, aldermen. "Gentlemen : Having waited a suffi cient time without acknowledgement of the notice on our behalf on you, or receiving any intimation of the inten tion of y;-. -c:orporate body regarding the sale of the anal, we hereby make a joint demand -upon you, collectively and individually, for the sum of $250, 000 by way of daraages sustained through your breach of contract and failure to complete the said agreement, due notice having been served upon you of -our readiness to complete the conts act within the timespecified with in the articles of agreement of June 29th, 1891. "We hereby require that the amount of damages claimed shall be placed to our joint credit in the banking house of Messrs. John Patton & Sons, bank ers, William street, New York city, within the date thereof, failing which, immediate action for recovery thereof will be commenced in the United States circuit courts; and we further hereby notify you that In our claim for damages we conjoin with you the fol lowing gentlemen: Messrs. F. W. McMaster, R. S. Desportes, John T. Rhett, W. B. Lowrance, C. J. Iredell acting as the board of trustees of the Columbia canal, we holding them col lectively and individually liable for the damages sustained by the failure to complete their agreement. "Respectively, "ALEXANDER HAMILTON GUq, "GEORGE C. SCHOFIELD." "Served upon the Hon. F. W. Me Master, chairman of board of trustees of the Columbia canal, for himself and the other aembers of the board by "Robert W. Shand, J. 8. Muller, so licitors." Mayor McMaster says he shall mot assemble the -council or trustees, and . that Mr. Gunn can go ahead and sue. The council for Gunn and SchofieW' say tdis does not abandon the suit against the city and Boston purehaem to compel the deliverance of the prop erty to them. CoTToN. BY TORCH RILL. What's the matter at the South? Cotton. Empty pot and hungry mouth! Worse than pestilence and drought! Cotton!! What has rubbed her to the raw? Cotton. Cruller than civil war! Why is she a working for Cotton? Who has robbed her barn and stable? . Cotton. Orchard, garden, store and table; Second 6ain that slaughtered Abel; Cotton!! Also slew the precious Grass?I Cotton. Also made a perfect ass Of his followers in mass? Cotton! What has killed our woods so dead? I Ravaged all our land so red? Where'sour money, meat and bread? Cotton!!. What's the world a stealing at? What's the fellow's feeling that Broke himself a dealing at Cotton? What is it the planter lacks?Cotn Let him go to-prayer, and "ax" Providence-treble tx Cotton!! Wh' has left us but a button? Cotton. Breaches down, and fences rotten? Cotton, Cotton, Cotton, Cotton, Cotton!! Please to tell us what to do! Cotton. . How to make a meal of you, Boiled or baked, or roast, or s'tew? Cotton! Get a hydrostatic screw! Cotton. Dig a hole and drive h!m to Well, the other side; adieu-, Cotton! Get a r >pe! and let us swing Cotton. Higher than a kite;and aing. "Ruin's seized the rathless King" Cotton! TL ei the South shall rise indeed- - Cotton! Something better than a weed, Cotton! When her veins no longer bleed Cotton; When she finds a better feed Than "cotton-lint," or even "seed Cotton'! Herman's Sayings. A man is a ''onderful creature, though his origin is of earth, and his end is also but dust, yet while existing we find in many an iron heart. It is a fact that medicine cures the doctor more frequently than it cures the patient. Modern love is not blind ; it finds' wqw always to r'ah ; e .ne.