The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, October 29, 1891, Image 1

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"LET YOUR LIGNT S.MIN. 8= & OR Go and SeeBahr nWonderful DO liOl'R(8 IOIJBML YOU lIHTBY BUY.ING YOUR~ "LET SqINE:At other plac;, when you can OIL ~ IISO MUCH CHEAPER V ~10 GENT 8 TORE Go ad Se thir ondefulSHERAR~D & MINOR. Bargains.Foot's Old Stand.' FOOT'S OLD STAND. ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891. PIE1.1AYAR GENERAL WADE HAM1PTON IN BAL TIMORE. His Views of State "d Federal Politics Thinks the Alliance is Dying-Brief Review of theTiliman Movement Out of Public Life Forever. [Baltimore Sun.] Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, came to Baltimore yester -Iv and is the guest of Gen. Bradley 0 T. Johnson. General Hampton said his visit was especially to Mrs. Johnson, as nothing gives him more pleasure when near Baltimore than to come here and try conclusions with her at euchre. He regretted that his visit this time was on Sunday, as it pre vented him trying his skill with her at his favorite game. The General is ex pected to be present at the banquet of the sons of the American Revol.tion to-night. General Hampton retains his robust figure, and his complexion stil has the ruddy glow of health that has always been his strong characteristic. His flowing side whiskers and his bushy moustache have, perhaps, grown a shade lighter since his last visit to Bal timore, though his curly gray hair shows a shade of its early color and still lies thick and heavy above his high forehead. His eyes are bright and quick and penetrating, and when he turns them on those with whom he is conversing his glance seems to read thoughts and feelings of the person talking. He is full of anecdotes and reminiscences of his pu.Aic career and is especially fond of relating the jokes that have been told about his late com panions in .the United State Senate. He said that on one occasion Senator Blackburn came to South Carolina, at his request, to make a speech. In the course of the speech, Senator Black burn referred in complimentary terms to Senator Hampton, and in his en thusiasm said that if Senator Hamp ton would go to Kentucky to live he would guarantee his election to the United States Senate for life. At this the crowd cheered so long and so lusti ly that Senator Blackburn got very angry, taking the undue applause as a' reflection on his own ability as a Sen ator. Ex-Senator Hampton says he is ou< of politics. He has retired, he says, e and intends for the future to keep in t the back ground. The Farmers' Alli ance, he said, is rapidly disintegrating in the South, and within the next I four years it will completely disappear I to live only in the memory of those I who have benefited by the uphea'val. I "This will be the case not only in s Sonth Carolina, but throughout the whole South. The people there are rapidly awakening to the absurdity of t the demands that the organization has promulgated, and are gradually drop- i ping off and forswearing all allegiance to the Alliance. In my own State the Governor who was elected by the sen- J timent that .secured my defeat for re- t election to the Senate has already broken away in a great measure trom( the alliance measures and is catering in his administration of the affairs of the State to the conservative and bet- i ter thinking element.t The uprising was founded on dema-c gogery and fanaticism, and theres caa not have a long existence. More- s over, the histoi y of this country has c shown that no secret political orgaui- e zation can live or retain any lasting 5 hold on the public. We are too con- t swvative a people, and too fair minded in our judgment of right and wrong in I popular societies. In my opinion it is, folly for any one in this country to en'-f ter into a controversy witb a Farmers' Alliance adherent on the.sub-treasury< plan. The measure is so palpably< wrong on its face as to make it absurd I to all who have the prosperity and a welfare of the country at heart. Iti can never become a law until passed a by Congress, and its absurdity will e prevent this, no muatter how much i demagogues may urge its enactment. I This feature of the Alliance has never t been fully accepted in the South, andt I have too much confidence in our peo- c pIe to think that it ever will be." Referring to the contest for thei speakership of the next house of repre- t sentatives. General Hampton thought '] the leading candidates would be Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, Mr. Mills, of Texas, ~ and Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee. All o'f them, he said, were well equ.pped for the duties of the position, and any onie would make an able anid conser vative presiding officer. "But,'' he continued, "if Ihad the decision of this . matter I would not select one of tbe three, but would take some Northern or WVestern representative for the Splace. I think that in the last gen eratl election we suffered as much from Mr. Carlisle appointing so many Southern men as chairmen of leadingI c<1mmittees as from any o:her cause. They were as capable, as painstaking and as efficient as any that he could could have chosen. This all will ad mit ; but in the North it was not un derstood, and political capital was made of his course in this direction. It should be our purpose always to work for the success of Democratic b principles in the control of the national t4 government, and all personal ambi-- a tions should be made subservient to 0 this. In the South, especially, we n should be careful to do nothing that ~ will, jeopardize the national success of I~ our party. t "In the South Cleveland is unques tionably the choice of the people for c President. His honesty and fearless- a ness have endeared him to our people, 8 and the mass of them will stand by c him for the democratic nomination.e among us except, possibly, an occasion al suggestion from the politicians. The politicians are not for Cleveland in the South, but the people are with him heart and soul. Not only is this true in my section, but I find that the same sentiment exists elsewhere, notably in the West. During a recent visit to Chicago I met Gen. John C. Black, u leading public official sn Illinois. Gen eral Black is not particularly friendly to Cleveland, but he said that if Cleveland was renominated he believed be would carry Illinois, Iowa, Wiscon in and Indiana. The West is for Cleveland as strong as the South, and if, through his instrumentality, the Democrats win the election in New York this year nothing can keep the nomination from him." General Bampton will go to Wash ington from Baltimore. He will re main there several days and then re Lurn to his home in South Carolina. HOW SILVER NOTES STAND. Secretary Foster Tells the Difference Be- I tweeu Certificates and Treasury Notes. [New York Herald.1 1 BosToN, Mass., Oct. 18, 1891.-A few lays ago Secretary Hayes, of the Re )ublican Club of Massachusetts, wrote secretary Foster, propounding to him j ertain. questions relative to the pres- , ,mt silver coinage law. He has re -eived this reply, which will be found a >f general interest. Mr. Hayes' letter says: The Republi- ] an club of Massachusetts will be great y obliged if you kindly answer the < 'ollowing questions for publication. First-Is it true that the act of July , .4 increases two and a half times the -oinage of eighty cents worth of silver c nto a dollar? Secoad-Is the government at pres nt coining silver? if not, when was he coinage stopped;? Third--Upon what are the present j ['reasuTy notes based? Are they se- e ured by a coined silver dollar or upon c 0) cents' worth of siiver bullion pur- ( lased at its market value in gold? a Fourth-How does the basis of the Present notes differ from the silver eer- I ificates formerly issued? t Fifth-Are not the present notes re- i [eemable in either gold or silver coin s .t the United States Treasury? Does e he government so redeem them when I oresented. s The reply was as follows: c "First-The act of July 14, 1890, does a iot increase the coinage of silver dol- t irs, but since the 1st of July of the s >resenl year has practically stopped S uch coinage. " "Second-The mints are engaged in oining the silver bullion resulting from be redemption of trade dollars as re juired by the act of March 3, 1891, and a recoining the subsidiary silver coins d a the Treasury. The mandatory coin- E ge of silver dollars under the act of g uly 14, 1890, ceased July 1, 1891. The ?s otal coinage of silver dollars under the n .ct of July 14, 1890, from July 1 to sj )ctober 1, 1891, has been only 386,000, a nainly for use on the Pacific coast. 1i "Third-The'present Treasury notes re issued, in the first instance, under o he purchase of silver bullion-4,500,000 t) unces a month-at its market value. c bhe law requires that the cost of the ti ilver bullion and the silver dollars oined therefrom held in the Treasury, o hall always equal the amount of p 'reasury notes outstanding, so that hese notes have practically behind a hem a gold. dollar's worth of silver a >ullion. "Fourth-The Treasury notes differ rom the silver certificates in that they o re redeemable in either gold or silver b oin, at the discretion of the Secretary t; f the Treasury, with a provision of n aw to the effect that these two dollars a hall be maintair.ed at parity, which i, u a virtual promise that the notes shall l< *lway he redeemed in gold or its exact o quivalent. The silver certificates are a I romise to pay a silver dollar, which n ias been deposited in the Treasury at r< be time the certificate was issued, and sa hey are receivable for government a .es. 'I "Fifth-Treasury notes are redeemed b a gold when so presented for redemnp- b ion at the Treasury or any Assistant 'reasury of the United States." N SWhite Man Lynched by White Men for Murdering a Niea NEW ORLEANS, October 20.-The $ .rst white man ever executed either ~ y the law or a mob for the murder of 0 f a negro, was lynched at Columbia, ' 2Caldwell parish, in this State, last h ight.a On the 15th instant an old negro 0 romian named Hagar Stirling wast rutally murdered by a white man ci amed John Reese. A mob of white S iasked men put in their appearance a rte last night at the parish jail, comn- li elled .the jailer to surrender the keys, s' ok Reese from the jail and hanged h im to atree. P u "Life is an ocean, Each one has his bark," Some have a bark tbey would gladly e rid of-a ceaseless, persistent, de ~rmined cough ! present by day, not bsent by night. If you take the wings Sthe morning and fly to the utter-T iost parts of the earth, it will go with T on! There is just one thing to do; egin a thorough treatment with Dr. ierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and ' ie problem is solved ! You will soon ai -onder where it is gone, and when it tl -ent! The picture is not overd:mwn- is >lds, lingering and obstinate coughs, rid even Consumption, in its early ~ages, yield to this potent vegetable vi >mpound. Large bottles, one dollar, sa druggists, and guaranteed to ben- e it or cure, in every case, or money re A BIG FAMILY. I Remarkable Story of a Family Life Told By Bill Arp. 'Princess and lords may flourish or may fady 3reath can make t_emn-as a breath has made, 3ut a bold peasantry-our country's pride A'hen once destroyed can never be supplied, I thought of this at Warren, for here stood before us 100 unpretending ionest people all from one family. The Air had offered a premium of a large Lud beautiful family Bible to the head >f the largest family thaL assembled ipon the grounds. Mr. Benjamin H. ?arnell and his good wife were there vith ninety-eight living descendants. )id you ever see 100 people in a flock? Fust think of a military company of .ighty men and you can imagine what show 100 people make. It was a rare md novel spectacle. The old patriarch vas a clean-shaven, active, erect man, vith a ruddy, honest face, and his wife 6 modest, well-preserved woman, who ooked as though she would rather be t home, and had doubts about the ropriety of exhibiting herself to the urious gaze of so many wondering eople. She was a good-looking ma ron without the usual signs of decay. -er hair was silvered over, but there Vere no wrinkles or crow's feet or unken cheeks. She had her husband's ,rm in the good old way, and it was vith a timid shyness that she occasion ,By raised her eyes to look upon the peaker who was introducing her and ier offspring in the multitude. The good )r. Martin said : "My friends, here is , man and woman who are the heads If a family of ninety-eight living de cendants. Seven girls and six boys rere born to them, and there has never een a death under their roof. Their bildren are all happily married. This ouple have lived together in loving nd peaceful relation for forty-seven 'ears. They and their childrea have iven the public no trouble. They ave been diligent in busiuess and aten honest bread. Young men, we ommend to you their good example. io tliou and do likewise, and let us bolish the imgration bureau." Their Bible was made to order, and ad plenty of blank leaves to register he names and marriages and deaths :k their order. It was a remarkable .ene. Some of the mothers and fath rs had infants in their arms, and all ad children gathered around them in parate flocks, and all were dressed in lean and comfortable clothes. It was pleasure to me to be introduced to :iem, and, of course, I had to quote yme scripture and tell what David id: "hildren are an heritage of the Lord .s arrows In the hand ot a mighty man so are children of the youth. appy is the man who bath his quiver ful. hey shall not be ashamed, but shall speak With enemies in the gate." That is, they shall be the ambassa orS to make treaties for peace. A ian with numerous children and randcbildren has more at stake and sels more concern for good govern ient.. He ought to be the man to eak~wit the enemy. If I live to see nother war impending I sball speak a ttle myself. And I recited David's prayer, "That ur sons may be as plants grown up in ieir youth. And our daughters be as yrner stones polished after the sinuili ide of a palace. "That our garners may be full and ur oxen strong, and there be no com laining in our streets. "Happy is that people that is in such case. Yea, happy is that people !hose God is the Lord." That is splendid-isn't it. Well, I had a pleasant talk with the ld gentleman. He is quick of appre ension and said: ".You may put down iat there is nothing against me nor y people. None of us have ever been acused of anything wrong or brought ito court. Me and my wife have be >nged to the Baptist church for nigh nto fifty years, and I have voted the 'emocratic ticket all that tim'e. I oved here before there was any rail >ad in this country and the people 'ere powerful scattering. I have made good, fair living anud am doing it yet. he Lord has been good to us and essed us. Not a coffin has ever been rought to my house." There is a record of good citizenship. ~ojails or courthouses for that family. hey have served on the jury and orked the public roads, and been ind to their i bors and have stood by leir state and their country. Their idustry has earned something for ;er people to live upon every year. hey have added to values and besides ave set a good example. I forgot to k that good mother how many pairs Ssocks and stockings she has knit in le years gone by; howv many quilts >verlets she and her girls had made. he ought to have a pension and be lowed to rest the remainder of her fe. But no she wouldent rest. I have ~en it tried. I wouldent change their abits nor their religion nor their >liticS if I could. Some of these days 1ere will be a death-two deaths nder that roof, but their good example ill not die. It never dies. And while ruminated about this family another erse of poetry came to my memory iat fits them: ~ar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, ieir s(.ber wishes never learned to stray long the cool, sequestered vale of life, ey ke'pt the noiseless tenor of their way." Sometimes I think we are doing rong in exciting our children to more nbitious things and pointing them to ie high places of the earth. Ambition a sordid, selfish word. It comes from mbio" to walk around hunting for >tes. That is what my big dictionary ys. Better- not"aspire too high or :pect too m . Cobe says, "it n't to for a man to strain his gn." THE FARMERS OF FLORIDA. Annual Meeting of the State Alliance a Dade City. DADE CITY, FLA., October 20.-Th State Farmers' Allianc-, of Florida met in annual session here at noon to day. No business of importance wa transacted, most of the afternoon being taken up in disposing of contesting delegations. Only four of the forty five counties in the State are withou repregentation. At the close of the afternoon sessior an adjournment was had till 9 o'clocl to-morrow morning, when Presideni Rogers will deliver his annual address. It is said here to-night that this wil contain a strong condemnation of tht Third Party movement, but will advo cate the endorsement of the Ocala de mands in toto, including the sub-treas ury scheme. The city is full of politi cians. OCALA PLATFORM AND DEMOCRATIC PRINCI PLES. DADE CITY, Fla., October 21.-The second day's session of the State Alli, ance opened at 10 o'clock this morn ing President Rogers appointed at the com mittes for the routine work of the Con vention and delivered his annual ad dress. In this he referred sharply tc the dissessions in the Order, arising chiefly from the admission to member ship of persons who gain admittance for the purpose of office or political in fluence. The sub-treasury scheme was warmly endorsed. The president closed his address as follows: "It is a fact that the paitisan press his distorted the truth in reference tc the Ocala platform and sub-treasury plan. In our State the Democratic press is wont to read every man out of the party advocates the Ocala platform and the sub-treasury plan. The result of such an onslaught upon the Alliance has caused many of our members to advocate a third party. This condition of affairs is to be deplored. Myjudg. ment is that the Ocala platform con tains not a syllable which cannot readily be endorsed by every true De mocrat throughout the country." The reports of the State secretary and other officers followed the delivery of the annual address. United States Senator Pasco is a delegate from the Jefferson County Alliance, and there is strong opposition to seating him. The opposition is based upon the theory that he is a lawyer and not a faruer. He is duly accredited, however, and the president says be will be seated, SUB-TREASURY ADOPTED. DADE CITY, Fla., Oct. 2.-The State Farmers' Alliance at 1 o'clock this morning, after a discussion lasting from 9 o'clock Wednesday night, endorsed the Ocala demands by a vote of 71 to 5. Senator Pasco voted against the endor sement, being opposed to the sub-treas ury bill. To-day was devoted to work on amendments to the constitution. A CONDEMNED MAN'S REQUEST. He Asks Gov. Francis to Let Him be BaDged in Public. SEDALIA, Mo., October 20.--Thomas A Willianson, the Salvation Army murderer of the Moores, father and son, and who is to be hanged on Octo ber 31st, has written the following note to Gov. Francis: "DEAR GOVERNOR: I want to ask you for a favor. Will you let me hang in public? Your friend. THOMAS A. WILLIAMSON. "People have expressed t he fear that I will break down," said the con demned man. "To such I will say that life has no charms for me, and I will accept such as fate has ordained like a man who is ready and willing to die. I have spent the greater part of my life behind iron' bars and stone walls, and it would only be a very short time that I would have on this earth confined in the prison, so I pre fer hanging. If allowed the privilege on the gallows, I will tell the people of the treatment I received at the hands of one whose duty it was to stay by me to the last." GOV. HILL AT GREEN VILLE. He Makes a Short States Rights Speech and Pays a Compliment to Cleveland. [Special t~o Nows and Courier.] GREENVILrLE, October 20.-Governor David B. Hill, of New York, and party passed through here to-day at 12.40 o'clock on their way to Atlanta. There was an impromptu gathering of the Greenville Democrats at the depot, and when the train stopped the cries of "Hill" induced the Governor to come to the rear platform of his car. He was introduced to the crowd by Ex Lieutenant Governor Mauldin. He spoke briefly, but, among other things, said: "I am a State Rights Democrat. I believe in the sovereignty of the States, but in the perpetuity of the Unmon. I rejoice in the reconciliation which has taken place between the two sections of the grand country. I passed through your city two years ago, but I do not remember whether I met any of you then. I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you agaio. "We all rejoice in the great prosperiry of the South. All prejudices have been removed and we all are proud of your great State. The system of the Gov ernment under wbhich we live is the best under the sun. I hope you are looking after the interest of the great party to which you belong, the party which gave the country four years of lean government. Our cause is the people's cause." Tfhree cheers were given for New York's great Governor as the train pulled away. As a family medicine, Ayer's Pills xcel all others. They are suited to very age and, being sugar-coated, are asy to take. Though searching and torough in effect, they are mild and leasant in action, and their use is at A REFORM VICTORY. t Charleston Reformers Elect Their Mayor and Fifteen Aldermen. CHARLESTON, S. C., October 21. The missing ballot box in the fourth - ward has turned up and the official 3 count of ballots is finished. There were two reform managers and one regular in these wards and the regular refused to count the ballots because he said his reform confreres tried to bull doze him. The commissioners took charge at 4 a. m., and to-day completed the count. Ficken has a majority over Bryan for mayor of 217. The reformers elect I fifteen aldermen and the regulars nine. The aldermen re-elected are C. S. Gads den, J. A. Smythe, A. J. Riley and H. L. Cade, all regulars. Smythe and Gadsden are re-elected by majorities of 2 and 28 respectively. Reform aldermen have majorities rang ing from 4 (R. S. Cathcart) to 292. (H. Baer). The reformers elected four out of six School Commissioners, Rev. Dr. Thompson. reform candidate in the first district, being defeated by 192 majority. On the board of aldermen are seven Germans, two Irishmen and the rest natives. There are only three Roman Catholics on the board. The total vote polled was about 3,400 out of a total club list of 6,571. The regulars failed to poll their full strength by about 1,SOO votes and the reformers by about 800. The regulars take their de feat cheerfully and there Is no talk of a bolt. THE NEW MAYOR. The following brief sketch of Maj. John F. Ficken's public life will be interesting to his friends: Maj Ficken was born and educated in the city of Charleston; graduated at the College of Charleston; spent two years abroad and pursued a course of study at the University of Berlin; has practiced law in Charleston for up wards of twenty years, a large portion of the time in partnership with the late Isaac Hayne; was sent as a delegate from this State to the National Demo cratic Convention, which met at St. Louis Mo., in 1877, as a representative from Charleston County in the State Legislature, and has served contin uously from that date to the present tim-; has been a member of the ways and means committee in the House during the entire period; is one of the commissioners of the State Institute of the deaf and dumb and blind; is a trustee of the College of Charleston; is also a trustee of the William Enston annuitant fund. TILLMAN AND THE ALLIANCE. Attorney General Pope Talks to the Wash Ington Newspaper Men. [Washington Post.] "Gov. Tillman is making a good gov ernor, one of the best we ever had," said Attorney General Y. J. Pope, of the Paimetto State, at the Metropolitan. "He is fearless and prompt in the dis charge of his duty, and when principle is involved never hesit.ates. He believes in the enforcement of law and order, as was seen in his command to the sheriff of Spartanburg in regard to protecting the negro murderer of Mayor Henne man of that city. "I can't say whether he will be a candidate for another term, but it is possible the people may insist on his serving them again." "Hasn't he placed himself in opposi tion to the Alliance element by speak ing against the sub-treasury plan?" "He has spoken against that proposi tion, but the farmers, when they in dulge ".in s'er second thought, are never found as advocates of extreme measures. They are our most con servative class. For that reason you will not see South Carolina going off after any third party candidate in the Presidential struggle next year. The old State will keep in line. and the Democratic ticket will win as usual." MAIL DELIVERED TO FARMERS. A Scheme to Come up Before the Next Con gress. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-An organlized effort in under way among the farmers to secure from congress free mail de livery in country towns. The Farmers' Alliance,the Patrons of Husbandry and other orders 9.re canvassing the matter. Letters are being written to the con gressmen in favor of the object, and petitions to congress for free delivery are being circulated in many parts of the country. The farmers assert that the daily mail delivery to their door will add perfectly to the money value of their farms, and will be worth still more because it will keep them in touch with the markets and outside world, and rob farm life of its isolation and monotony. The farmers are writing to the agricultural press that this conven ience would enable them quite gener ally to take the daily papers, as well as to subscribe for local papers more liber ally. In the American Agriculturist for November, Postmaster General Wanamaker states definitely for the first time that experiments by the post office department for free delivery in the farming districts show that the in crease of revenue more than pays all increased expense. He believes that universal free delivery would, therefore, be self-sustaining. The first successful blood-purifier ever off'ered to the public was Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Imitators have had their day, but soon abandoned the field, while the demand for this incompara ble medicine increases year by year a nd was never. s& gersat as at pr*eent. HIS SHIP AGAINST SEVEN. Capt. Ingraham Demanded Justice for az American and Got It-His Batteries Twice Trained on the Arch duke's Sh!p-A Story of the Early Days of Our Navy. [From the New York Sun.] In these days of the rehabilitation of the United States navy we may recall with pride unalloyed with regret the good old days of yore when all the world knew and respected the prowess of American war vessels. And the death of Duncan Nathaniel Ingrr.ham in Charleston, S. C., on Friday, g.ves a proper opportunity to recall those days. For, as was suggested in the obituary notice published in the Sun of Saturday morning, this Duncan Nathaniel In graham was the hero of one of those remarkable episodes which made other nations understand that the tail of the American bird could not be pulled, plucked, twisted, trod upon, or other wise disrespectfully used tinder theguns of an American war vessel. There had been Capt. Paul Jones and Commodore Perry and old Admiral Porter, who had fought English and French and Portuguese and the Bar barv States, and all manner of craft flying flags legitimate or illegitimate, and all of them Lad come off conquer ers. Those were the days of wooden ships and sailing craft, when the ele ment of romance was enhanced by the big sails and the swarming over the sides with cutlasses and halberds and all that sort of thing. A good part of the officers then were of Southern fam ilies-scions of houses that upheld themselves in something like feudal state. These young men came of excel lent ancestry, of which they were ex ceeding proud. Of these Duncan Na thaniel Ingraham was one of the best examples. His father had been a naval officer, a friend of Paul Jones and one of his companions in that famous fight be tween the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard. It was quite natural that the son should enter the navy. He was born in 1802, and when 10 years old was already a midshipmite. Promotion in those days was as slo- as now, perhaps a little slower. So although this young man fought through the war of 1812, he was still a midshipman. In 1818 or thereabouts, when the original David Porter went down to the Southern watet s of the United States to attend to the pirates who infested the small islands and the mysteriou.q inlets of ihe Gulf and the Caribbean Sea, young Ingrabam was aboard his vessels and saw pirates hanged at the yard arm, and learned to be vigilant, quick, reso lute, and unflinching in the be.%t school ever naval officer had. Ingraham, risen to a commander, served in the Mexican war, and a few years after its close was sent to join the squadron of the Mediterranean. He was in command of the St. Louis, which is said to have been the pride of the American navy, and which was certainly a formidable ship for those days. It was a sloop of war armed with two 50-pounde~rs. On June 22, 18.53, he sailed into .7e harbor of Smyr na, in Asiatic Turkey. He found that he was just in the nick o' time to take advantage of one of those chances for fame which come to every man, so it is said. In the revolution of Hungary against Austria in 1748-'49, which Louis Kos suth led, Martin Koszta was a conspic uous figure. When the revolution was put down, Kossuth, Koszta, and sever al others fled to Turkey and stopped in Smyrna. After long negotiation the Turkish Government refused to give them up. Then Kossuth and Koszta went to the United States, where Koszta decided to settle. He engaged in business in New York, and in July, 1852, declared under oath his intention of becoming a'citizen of the United States. The next year, having business in Smyrna, Koszta went there and remained for some time undisturbed, as indeed he might have expected, since Smyrna was not on Austrian soil. But Koszta had so inflamed the Austrian Government against him that a plot hatched to capture him. On June 21, 1853, a band of Greek mercenaries in Smyrna, hired by the Austrian Consul, overpowered Koszta, hustled him into a boat, and took him aboard an Aus trian ship of war, the Huzzar, which was in command of no less a person than the Archduke John, brother of the Emperor and Admiral of the Aus-. trian navy. A t any rate, Martin Koszta was put in irons and otherwise treated as a criminal and dangerous person. The next day, when all Smyrna was talk-' ing about this, a sloop of war, the St. Louis, Commander Ingraham, sailed into the harbor. Capt. Ingraham, who had been in a war in which the United States had taught Great Britian a few lessons of respect for American citizens, was up in arms at once. He went aboard the Huzzar and very courteously asked permission to see Koszta. The Austrian commander, after some hesitation, granted the re quest. Commander Ingraham assured himself that Koszta was entitled to the protection of the American flag. He demanded his release of the Austrian comimander, and, when it was refused, sent a note to the nearest United States official, Consul Brown, at Constantino ple. While he was awaiting an answer six Austrian war ships sailed into the harbor and took up positions near the Huzzar. On June 29, before any an swer had come from Consul Brown, the St. Louis noticed unusual signs of activity on board the Huzzar, and pretty soon she began to get under Capt. Ingraham straightway put the St. Louis is such a position that the Huzzar could not pass, and cleared hi* decks for action. The Huzzar hove to, and then Capt Ingraham went aboard and said to the Austrian commander, who received him with great courte sy"What is the meaning of this move on-your part?" "We propose to sail for home," re plied the Austrian. "The Consul has ordered us to take our prisoner to Aus tria." "You will pardon me," said Capt. Ingraham very camly. "But I hope you will not leave this harbor with the American gentleman you have kid napped. If your do I shall be com pelled to resort to extreme measures." The Austrian look around the harbor at the line of friendly war ships and then looked at the St. Louis with her decks cleared, and then smiled pleas antly at Capt. Ingraham and said that the Huzzar would do as she pleased. Capt. Ingraham bowed and betook himself to the St. Louis. He had no sooner got aboard thaR he said: "Clear the guns for action!" And the Archduke had the pleasure of seeing the batteries of the St. Louis turned upon him. He realized that having the wrong side of the matte:, he had put himself in a very bad position. Huzzar was put about and sailed back to her old anchorage. The A rchduke sent word to Capt. Ingraham that he would await the arrival of the note from '.Ir. Brown. On the afternoon of July 1 Capt. In graham got his reply. The Consul at Constantinople commended his course, and told him to do whatever he thought best to prevent an outrage to an Ameri can. Late that evening Capt. Ingra ham sent -officer aboard the Huzzar with a note. The note formally de manded the release of Mr. Koszta, and said that unless the prisoner was de livered aboard the St. Louis by 4 o'clock the next afternoon Capt. In graham would take him from the Aus trians by force. The Archduke sent back a formal refusal. At 8 o'clock on the next morning, July 2, Capt. Ingra nam once more cleared his decks for action and trained his batteries so that the Huzzar would get their full force at the first discharge. The seven Aus trian war vessels cleared their decks aLd put their men at the guns. All this while great excitement had prevailed in Smyrna, and, when the citizens saw these last hostile demon strations, they crowded the shores, easer to see this one-sided battle which all knew would not end so long as the American flag floated above water. At 10 o'clock the Austrian sent an officer to Capt. Ingraham. This offi cer tried to temporize, but Capt. Ingra ham refused to listen to him. He said: "To avoid the worst, I will agree to let the man be delivered to the French Consul in Smyrna until your Govern ment has a chance to act. But he niust be delivered there or I will take him. I cannot faiL. My cause is just. I have stated the time." Again the Austrian sent a man to Capt. Ingraham. but this time Capt. Ingraham refused to receive him. Then the Austrian Consul-General came out from Smyrna and tried his diplomacy. Capt. Ingraham simply repeated that that the French Consul must have Koszta by 4 o'clock or there would be trouble. At 12 o'clock a boat left the side of the Huzzar with Kosta on it, and one hour awterward the French Consul sent word that Koszta wa.3 in his keep sng. Later in the day several of the Austrian war vessels sailed out of the harbor. Then came long negotiations bet;ween Secretary of State William L. Marcy and the Austrian Charge d'Af fairs at Washington, M. Hulsemann, at the end of which Austria admitted that the United States was right, apolo gized, and released all claim upon Mr. Koszta. Capt. Ingraham got a gold medal and a vote of thanks from Congress, a gold medal from the citizens of New York, medals and other testimonials from several A merican citizens, and a present of a fine chronometer and an engrossed letter from the workingmen of England, raised by a penny subscrip tion. As a sort of addition to this incident is the story of how J. Clancy Jones used Commander Ingraham's name in a similar episode in 1859. Mr. Jones was then minister' to Austria. The Austrian Government was most anx ious that no plans of the fortifications of Vienna be made. A young Ameri can, studying medicine in Vienna, was making some sketches of th'ese fortifi cations, one day in an idle spirit and in utter ignorance of the law against it. He was arrested and locked up. Mr. Jones inquired into it and foun d out the truth, and explained it fully to the Austrian Minister, at the same time requesting the release of the young American. The Prime Minister re fused to listen, and said that the young man should and would be punished. When Mr: Jones saw that the Aus trian was set he said: "Then I regret very mudh that I shall have to bid you farewell." "Are you going?" said the Austrian. "I am indeed sorry, and hope that your country will be as ably and agreeably represented by your successor." "I fear there will not be a successor to me very soon," said Mr. Jones, I am compelled to':demand an audience with the Emperor. I wish to get my pass ports." "What'" said the A astrian," your passports? You do not intend to make of this episode so serious a matter?" "It is a serious matter," said Mr. Jones, "and reminds me of the Kozt case. Capt. Ingraham is still cruising in the Mediterranean, by the way, and I shall be able to put him in immedi ate knowledge ef this affair also. I have the honor to bid you farewell." The Austrian minister did not know what to make of this. Buthe fclt that Americans were not proper persons to punish as examples,and; after delaying a day or two, released the young med ical student. With the outbreak of the civil war Capt. Ingraham resigned, and in March, 1861, entered the Confederate service. He was then 59 years old, and was assigned first to the navy yard at Pensacola and then toCharleston,where he distinguished; himself by break lug the blockade. Since the war he had lived very quietly in his birthplace, Charleston. He was married toa grand daughter of Henry Laurens and John Randolph, and through his wife was connected with some of the greatest officers in the British navy. HER IDEA OF A XODEL BTSBAND. A Newspaper Prize Brings About a toman tic 3arriage in Tennessee. MEMPHIS, Oct. 20.--Last winter the Sunday Times of this city offered a prize of $20 to the young woman who should write the best letter or essay on "The Model Husband." Miss Lillian B. Perry, of Covington, 30 miles north of this city, won the prize. The letter was copied in the Minne apolis Tribute, where Fremont Reed, a banker and rich business man of that city, saw it. He much admired the beautiful sentiments. Going to New York, he came across the letter reprinted in one of the met ropolital journals. Reaching Chicago on his return, he read the prize letter in a Chicago paper. By this time he felt sure that his fate was Interwoven with that of the fair unknown essay ist. Mr. Reed wrote to her asking to be allowed to correspond. She answered no letters of this kind, having received many. Mr. Reed was persistent, and wrote a second letter, and enclosed en dorsements, and Miss Perry then con sented to correspond with her unknown admirer. Later Mr. Reed visited her. A second visit ended in a promise to be his wife. To-day he arrived in this city, and this afternoon they were married ab the bride's home. Mr. Reed is 35 years old and handsome. The bride is a tipical Southern beauty, the daughter of a once wealthy family Im poverished by the war, and, though reared in a country town, is a young woman of rare accomplishments . 'GENE PEATHEE'S DEATH. The Suicide Apparently a Sudden Impulse -A Telegram Asking Help Found in his Pocket. LAtlanta Journal.]. The young man mentioned in yester day's Journal as having taken a fatal dose of laudanum was Eugene H. Pra ther. He breathed his last about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all efforts by physi cians to save his life being in vain. Prather was a printer by trade and came to Atlanta two weeks ago from Williamston, S.( where his mother, the matron of the 'E lliamston Female College, resides. It is thought that he came to At lanta to enter the Keeley institute to be cured of the whiskey habit; that he got on a spree and spent the money which had been given him to pay his expenses at the institute. A telegram was found in his pocket in which he asked A. B. Wilitams, editor of the Greenville, S. C., News: "Is there any help for me? Send to the Keeley institute." This, probably, was a request for more money. Before the telegram was sent, despair came and suicide followed. An inc * wa held by the coroner this mo> mg and a verdict of suicide rendered. The remains of Eugene Prather, the unfortunate printer who committed suicide in Atlanta Tuesday, arrived in Greenville from Atlanta Thursday morping and were sent to Honea Path, over the Columbia & Greenville road, for burial. The remains were not accom panied by any one. Dr. Bond of Corpse Trust Fame Pardoned COLUmIA, Oct. 21.-Dr. John H. Bond, who was convicted before Judge Norton in June 1888, and who will be remembered as a member of the "corpse trust," or conspiracy to defraud an insurance company in two cases and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary four years, was par doned by the Governor to-day. The pardon was recommended b'y the board of directors and officers of the peni tentiary. "Give Us a Lift I" "Do send down something to help us ?" "Those little Plasant Pellets, you sent before, were just what we wanted !" "They helpe right where we were weakest !" "Don't send any thing else !" Nature, abused and neglected, does her best to overcome exhaustion and ward off threatening disease, but some times calls for help, and knows just what she's about. The system takes kindly to the mild, wholesome influ ence of Pierce's Pleaant Pellets, and often their timely assistance corrects evils which would soon lead to serious results. 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