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obiYG OUT r The 10 Cent Store ec, C commence to-day V or. -~18th, and sell their entWe~V I'' l id f oin n stock at cost, as they are going to make a change in their business. Come at E rd, once and secure bmrgafl*ns. SHERARD & MINOR. Foot's Old Sund. _ _____ CAT.-COST. ,P;'-3TABLISI-I..D 186.5. i -NEWBEIRR, S. C-9 WEDNESDAY9 NOVEMB R2,19.P IC-15 _ E R A VICTORY FOR THE BANKS Comptroller General Ellerbe Overruled. Jadge Hudson Deciden thatthe Rais Ing of Bank Stock Tax AiseLb nents from Par to Market Value it Illegal. The Court of Common Pleas ad journed sine die on Wednesday, the 18th. Judge Hudson left the same af ternoon for his home. He rendered a decision that day in a case that will be of interest to the public. A great deal has been said lately about the assessments of banks at the market value of their stock. The Na tional Bank of Newberry has always returned its stock at par, 1.50,000. The market value is about $160 per share. The comptroller general ordered the auditor to list the stock for taxation at $160 per share, thereby increasing the total return of the bank $80,000. The bank made application to the auditor to reduce this assessment, and upon his refusal application was wade to the comptroller general, and he too refused. On Monday, the petition was filed before Judge Hudson asking that a writ of mandamus issue to compel the auditor to reduce the assessment. An order was issued and served upon the auditor to show cause why the writ should not issue. The case was heard Wednesday morning the 18th. Tuesday afternoon, in response to a telegram from Gen. Ellerbe, Auditor Cromer went to Columbia. He re turned the next morning with Assist ant Attorney General Townsend, and submitted, through his attorney, [is reply to the rule to show cause. The auditor in this case, has been acting in response ta the orders and commands of the comptroller genera!. The Newberry bank is the first to take action in this matter. J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., represented the bank. The case was argued by Mr. Townsend for the auditor, and Mr. Caldwell for the bank. Judge Hudson said as it was a mat ter of some importance he would an nounce his decision at once, and later, that he would file it in writing, giving his reasons therefor. He held that the township board of assessors and the county board of i qualization having adopted the valuation of the personal property of the bank fixed in the re turn of the board-$150,000-the comp troller general had no authority under the law to raise that assessment. That his order to the county auditor to add $80,000 to the assessment was illegal and nugatory. That the county audi tor was therefore under no obligations to obey that order and acted illegally in obeying it. He held therefore that the auditor should correct bis last tax list and tax duplicate as they now stand so as to restore the original valu ation of tUe proparty and make the correspondius- reduction in the tax payable by the bank, and ordered that a writ of mandamus be forth with issued by the clerk of the court, requiring the auditor to make these reductions. The position by Mr. Townsend in his argument was that the auditor could not now make the correction or reduc tion, as the tax du plicate had already passed out of his hands into the hands of the treasurer. 'The case will be taken at once to the Supreme Court. An order was passed in accordance with this decision direct ing the clerk to issue forthwith thbe writ o' mandamus.. The decision of Judge Hudson is a victory for the banks, and it has reason and justice on its side. Judge Hudson remarked in renderinig h$s decision t hat whether the return of the bank was too high or too low was not the q1uestion before him, and he had nothing to do with it. He had only :o decide whether, under the law, the auditor had the right to raise an assessment after it had been made by the party and passed upon by the township board of assessors and the county board of equalization, the legally constituted authorities to change or correct returns. THE APPEAL. Late Wednesday evening, Dr. Samp son Pope, acting for the Attorney Gen eral, served thbe papers upon Mr. Cald well, and they were filled with the clerk of court. This raises another question, upon which there is difference of opin ion: Will this notice of intention to appeal as a supercedeas, (we believe that is the law term,) and stay all furth~er proceedings until the Supreme Court passes upon the case? The Attorney General, of course claims that it does, while Mr. Culdwell claims that it does Lot. CO3MPTROLLER GENERAL ELLERIIE THINKs JCGE HUDSON HAS 3MA] E A BIG BI-UNDER. [The State, 20th.] Comptroller General Ellerbe is, in or dinary parlance, "red-hot'' about the "check" called on him by Judge Hud son in the Newberry National Bank case. The State man called on him yester day morning and asked him what he had to say abou t it. With display of feel ing he answvered: "All I have to say is that all t he ban kers a nd railroads and other corporations have been fighting me. Now the circuit judges havej umped on me. But if they make as big blunders as that made in this Newberry hank case it will be an easy fight." He said the decision did not amount to anything. Even the auditor's books wvere changed the treasurer's duplicates, which were made from them and turned over early in the year. remained unchanged, and no one could change them. He said that if any judge, pro hibited by the law, from interfering in the collection of taxes, should attempt ot touch the treaurer's books he would make himself liable to impeachment, and lie im--d no doubt the representa tives of the pcop'e would impeach him. Judge- are probiF ited, he said, from interf, g by Section 269 of the Gen eral 6taLutes. which says, "And no writ of madamus shall be granted or issued from any court or by the judge of any court directing or compelling the reception for taxes of any funds * and no writ, order, or process of any kind whatsoever, staying or preventing any officer of the State, charged with a duty in the collection of taxes, from taking any step or proceeding in the collection of any tax, whether such tax is legally due or not, shall in any case be granted by any court or the judge of any court, etc." The only remedy, the comptroller says, he has is in section 268, which provides for the payment of taxes to the treasurer and permits the taxpayer afterwards to bring suit in the court, leaving there the determination of the question as to whether the assessment is i'legal or not. He says that in the present case, after the auditor had originally in creased the return, the assessment was $70,000 less than it should have been. He says if the auditor does his duty now, under section 239, he will have the president and such other officials as he may deem necessary, to appear before him and swear as to the value of the property. Then be must enter it on his books, adding the 50 per cent. penalty. The original return, he says, shows that the bank is worth less than one-half what the sworn statements of the officials show it to be. PREPARATIONS AT CLEMSON. Sixty-odd Thousand Dollars More Will be Needed to Complete the Unildings. A pplications for Scholarships. [The State, 20th.] The report of the Board of trustees of Clemson College will be one of much interest. Last evening Governor Till man and Secretary of State Tindal re turned from the college, where they attended the final meeting of the board, and secured r.ll the data for the report. From Governor Tillman much of this data was obtained, and is given below. As to the condition of the work, the chemical laboratory is finished and partly equipped; the mechanical ball is done, as are three brick houses for professors' residences, seven wooden frame residences, one _' room frame cottage and six 3-room frame cottages. The experimental station house and barn is finished, and the cow barn is ready and fitted with silos and ma chinery. It contains accommodations for 100 animals. The dormitory it completed, contain ing 16 sleeping rooms 14x17 feet in size: a dining hall 200x42 feet, and other rooms. These rooms are yet to be plastered, and this will be done in the next fortnight. The main building is ready for the roof, and work has be gui: on two more professors' brick residences. THE FINANCES. The amount left over last year was $25,813. Including this the receipts fromr all sources were, during the year from Nov. 1, 1830, to Nov. 1, 1891, $419,834.61. The amount expended during the year was $106,127.26, leav ing a balance of $3,767.40. In addition to the expenditures men tioned ab,ove, S11.224 was expended during the year in performing the duties of the old department of agri culture, which devolved upon the trus tees when the department was abol ished. This was spent for guano and fertilizer analysis, veterinary attention, and other matters. MORE MiONEY NEEDED. Gov. Tillman says the board made careful estimates for the future, and an amount between $65,000 arid $70,000 will yet be required to complete the work. They expect to put up twelve professors' houses, and so far only the few mlentionled above have been com pleted. Temporarily, therefore, the few buildings ready 'will be well crowded. He says th"y intend to bave every thing iu readiness for the npening of the college by the 1st of February, or, if not at that time, by March 1, at any rate. APPLICATION FOR AD)MISION. Applications for admission still con tinue to pour in, and now they number very nearly a th.:.sand. Here are the figures by counties: AbbevilleS39, Aiken 16. Anderson 57, BarnwelL49, Beaufort 1, Berkeley 10, Charleston 9, Chester 23, ChesterfielId 5, Clarendon 18, Colle toln 20, Darlington 15, Edgefield 52, Fairfield 15, Florence .3, Georgetown 7, Greenville 44, Hampton 22, Horry 2, Kershaw 7, Lancaster 14, Laurens 38, Lexington 5, Marion 14, Laurens 38: Oconee 32, Orangeburg 73, Pickens 35, Richland 14, Spartanburg ]5, Sumter 32, Union 9. Williamsburg 13, York 5, unclassified 71. J.LITING; THE NUMBER. The board passed the following very important resolution: "Reeolved, If upon the opening day of the session, more applicants report than can be admitted in the dormito ries, that the number admitted from each county be in the proportion of five to each memiber of the House of Representatives from each coun ty; and in the event that enough applicants shall not report to fill out a county's quota, then the vacancies shall be given to the counties having an excess, preference being given to those who applied first; Provided, however, that when applicants from a county are in excess of its quota, the fitness of the applicants for col'egiate work upon ex THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. President Polk Formulates the Demands of the Order-Financial Reform the Issue-A Loss of Fifty Per Cent in Membership. INDIANA POLS, Ind., Nov. 1.--Five hundred persons all told are in attend ance at the opening session of the Na tional Farmers' Alliance at Tomlinson Ball. Secretary Tillman of the Alli ance council beg-, an open war on the Peoples' porty last night, and contin ued it to-day. He responded to Mayor Sullivan's vaelcome an I endeavored to outline the policy of the convention. He said he was not here in the interest of any third party, nor to promote the fortunes of any political aspirant. He called attention to the billion dollar congress, which expended an amount equal to $00 a day since the birth of Christ, and said the tariff must come down to a reasonable basis of taxation, and reckless expenditure must stop, or they will change the personnel of every congress. Two sets of three initial let ters, T. and C., comprise the unwritten oath of the Alliance-transportation, tariff, trust; crush, change and con trol-and they must crush the trusts by a change ir, the tarriff and control of transportation. After Tillman concluded, J. F. Wil letts, late candidate for Governor of Kansas, responded in behalf of the Alliance, and Jerry Simpson bnd Mrs. Mary I-e, of Kansas, and Gen. Weaver, of Iowa, spoke b--iefly. In his annual address, delivered to night, President Polk began by calling attention to the grave responsibilities which rest upon the members of the supreme council, and predicting glori ous results if the power of the Alliance was wisely directed. The speaker, after presenting an argument showing discrimination against the agricultural Cleses, proceeded to state their de m.nds, saying: "We demand government control of transportation; we demand the reten tion of our public dom.ain for the use of our own people; we demand the pro hibition of gambling in futures of agri cultural and mechanical produ-ts; we demand the free coinage of silver; we demand that no class or interest shall be taxed to build up any other class or interest; we demand the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people; we demand a gradu ated tax on incomes; but, more impor tant than all these, broader and deeper than all these, and first of all these, is the transcendentally paramount de mand that our national bank system be abolished, and that the people's mo ney shall be issued to the people direct by the government, at a low rate of in terest, and in sufficient volume to meet the requirements of our growing popu lation and trade. "The supreme issue before the Ameri can people must be financial reft,.. tbe powers and function designed by the framers of our Constitution for the benefit of the people, and which have been stealthily usurped and appropri ated by corporate and monopolistic combinations, must be restored to the people, to whom they rightfully belong. This can be done only through persis tent effort, unswerving fidelity to principle and harmonious united ac tion. "Not the war of twenty-five years ago, which resulted in the emancipa tion of chattel slavery but the gigantic struggle of to-day, between the classes and the masses, involving the stupen dous issue of freedom of honest labor from the degradation and slavery of plutocratic power, engages the public mInd, and is the supreme incentive and object of this great political revo lution." SUB-TREASURY SC.IE A DOPTED-THE ALLIANCE AND THE SPEAKERSH1P. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. 18.-At this morning's session gf the Alliance Supreme Council a comiunication wa received from WV. S. McAllister, chair man of the anti-subtreasury commit tee, asking for a conference and a chance to enter a protest. After an acrimonious debate, a motion, by L. F. Livingston, of Georgia, prevailed, that a committee of five should beannointed to conifer with McAllister. Immedi ately after thbe council adopted a fiat footed resolution pledging the order to the sub-treasury plank. The confer ence later in the day resulted only in a wordy squabble. Another fight occurred in the morn ing over a resolution introduced by I. M. Brand, of Georgia. Thbis resolution recited the fact that the Alliance had at St. Louis, in December, 1889, to gether withe Knigh ts of Labor, adopted a resolution demanding that the means of transportation and communication, the railroads and telegraph, te cperated by the United States government, and that this resolution had been changed at Ocala last year. It then declared that the Knights of Labor had not con sented to any change of the demand for government ownership, while the Ocala demand is for control, with con tingent ownership, if simple control is found impracticable. Tbhis resolutLion went to the committee on legislative demands, and the prospects are that it will be favorably reported upon. The fact developed this morning that thbe Alliance has lost fully 40 per cent. of its membership throughout the WVest and Northwest. This came out through all effort by the executive committee to cut down the representation. When called on for an explanation the com mittee confessed that the return of the per capita tax showed this loss. The representation was cut two-fifths and there is walling among the delegates, for those w b re useated will proba bly have to w.alanme The only political actioln which tihe Alliance is likely to take, as such. came up this afternoon in a series of tesoli tions offered by 1. M. Branch, of Georgia. These resoltions declared that a large number of men had been elected to Congress by Alliance votes, and demanded thst they support to man for Speaker who would not first declare for the Alliance platform. They further declared it the sense of that body that these Congressmen sioild nominate one of their own men for the speakership and stiek to him. They further admonish Alliancenen throughout the country to beware of committing themselves to any party in such a manner as to interfere *ith their freedom of political action, or of taking any position in favor of men or parties not in sympathy with Alliance principles. An effort, was made to rush these resolutions through under a suspension of the rules, but L. F. Livingston, of Georgia, opposed thbem in a very vehe ment speech, and they went to the committee on demands. The Alliance business agents held an all-day session to-day, discussing the National Union scandal, which was up in the form of a resolution endorsing the company. After a long wrangle, the agents declined to endorse the com pany, but they endorsed the plan upon which it started out, and will try to carry it out with the capital at the com mand of the State agencies. A. H. Gallanue, chairman of the Workmen's Reform League, is here, in the interests of an amalgamation with the third party, combining the interests of all concerned. THE ANTI-SI-B-TREASURY MEN WILL SECEDE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 16.-The narional executive committee of the People's party has formulated a propo sition for a union with the Liliance, which may be presented to the su preme council at any time. The pro posal is based upon the absolute neces sity of political action to accomplish the uniform purposes of all the indus trial interests of the country; that the Alliance, as a non-partisan body, can not enforce its demands, and that only by the co-operative union of all parties and organizations can the reform legis lation be had. The business presented to the su preme council this morning was the re port of the committee which was ap pointed to confer with the anti-sub treasury executive committee headed by W. S. McAllister, Dr. Yeomans and Joseph Gates. The result of this con ference was an agreement to hear the protest from Dr. Yeomans to day. This was the first matter taken up this morning. After the report of the comi mittee was received the supreme coun cil excluded all not delegates, including Jerry Simpson and other lights. Sen tinels were placed on duty and every precaution taken against the spirit of the debate leaking out. THE CONSOLIDATION P'ROPoSITION. It developed late this afternoon that the consolidation proposition of the People's party executive committee was sent to the Alliance and F. M. B. A. meetings yesterday afternoon, and committees of three from each were appointed. These committees met with a committee from the People's party at the Hotel Eniglish at S o'clock this morning, and an informal conference was held, over which Representative Taubeneck, of Illinois, presided. The demands of three organizations were discussed as to whethter they could be placed on a common footing, as they would have to be. Taubeneck says the F. M. 1B. A. is heartily in favor of the third party consolidation, which, he thinks, is bound to occur in a few days. Who compose the committee is not known, but Taubencek is at once representing the radical People's party, being chair man of the national comtmittee, and the radical element of the F. M. B, A., of which he is a leading member. The ultimatum to the Alliance to the anti-sub-treasury people is that the or ganization will not recede from its ad herence to the Ocala demand on this question. The anti-sub.treasury men, McAllister says, will at once form a new Alliance. Another objection which they have to the Alliance is the gov ernment ownership of railways. CON FED)ERATE INDUSTRIAL UNION. This morning was held the most im portant meeting that has occurred in connection with the Alliance conven tions. This was the ga therinig of the executive committee of the Confeder ated Industrial Union, comiposed of the Farmers' Alliance, the F. M. R..\., the Knights of Labor, Citizen's Alli ace, Workingman's League, Patrons of T-isbandry and kindred organiza tions, to consult abouit callinig a con vention of these organizations on Feb ruary 22. The committee decited that this convention, lookinig to unity in Isgislative demands and political ac tion, shall be held at some point in the central States. The fixintg of a place of meeting was considered at length, and it was then decided to leave the choosing of a city to Messrs. Trerrell, Taubeneck and Baumgarten. The committee was in structed to choose from tile following cities: Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Springfield, Ill. This committee will visit each of the cities designated, and wvill select the one that offers to do most for the meeting. This committee is to rep)ort its selection within the next twenty days. The basis of repr::sentation decided upon for the meeting of the Confeder ated Industrial Union is two delegates from each of the confederated organi zations and one delegate from each 10,000 votes e .3t by the People's party. This will make a delegation of about 6511. "This gal hering will be the most im portant than hat has ever assembled in the United States," said Chairilan Terrell, of the executive committee. "There will be eighteen or twenty or ganizations represented. It will not be a meeting for political purposes. The union will declare its principles, and then the political party that adopts a platform which conforms most near ly to our declaration of principles will get our votes." Anti-Sub-Treasury Alliancemen Pulish an Aadress. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 20.-The Alliance this morning gave the final coup to the anti-snb-treasury people by barring Gates of Missouri from the meetings of the Alliance. This was done by a resolution excluding "all Alliancemen who are not vouched for by the chairman of their respective State delegations." Leonard refused to vouch for Gates, and although he bore credentials from his State Alliance he was forced to retire. The anti-sub-treasury people issued the following call for a convention of anti-sub-treasury Alliancemen at M-m, phis on December 16: "leadquartersof the Anti-Sub Treasury, %ational Executive Conmnittee, Indianapolis, Indiana, Noveinber 20. CALL FOR A NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE ANTI-SUB-TREASURY ALLIANCE. "Whereas the national committee of th- convention of the anti-sub-treasury Ailiancemen held in St. Louis Septeni ber 1.5 and 16, 1S91, appointed to pre sent to the Supreme Council of th Sa tional Farmers' A lianceand Ind ustrial Union, when assembled in Indianopo lis, a memorial and protest against the sub-treasury and land loan schemes and the proposed governmental control of railroads and telegraph lines, have in due form and respectful manner ap pealed to present the said protest to the Supreme Council; and whereas the Su preme Council aforesaid has declined to hear said protest; and whereas the committee was empowered and in structed by the St. Louis convention to call another national convention to hear and consider the report of said committee: "Now, tnerefore, the national execu tive committee of the St. Louis con vention does truly issue this call for a national convention for all anti-sub treasury Alliancemen to be held in the the city of Memphis, Tenn., on Decem ber 16, 1891, to hear and consider this report of the committee and to take such final action in the premises as may seem proper and best for the gen eral welfare. Let all local organizations of the Farmers' Alliance and Indus trial Union and other farmers' and in dustrial organizations send full delega tions, the number from each zuch local organization to be determined., by itself." "(Signed) Wm. S. MCALLISTER, Chairman. ROBT. W. NICHoLs, Secretary." The various farmers' organizations have nearly completed .their work and a final adjournment of the Supreme Council of the Alliance, which is hold ing out the longest, will probably occur to-morrow. To-day the F. 31. B. A. adjourned after amending its constitu tion so as to admit to membership men and women over 1S years of age. It resolved not to amalgarnate with any other organization until the February meeting. The F. M. B. A. also re-elected Treas rer Haines and the following board of trustees; E. M1. Poe of Missouri, S. WV. Wilson of Illinois, William Reed of Illinois, J. Tr. Reed of Ohio, and I. N. Miller of Indiana. The delegates to the February meet ing were instructed to vote for inde pendent political action. Trhe Alliance to-day changed its con stitution to admit women. The anti sub-treasury people, after issuing a call for a convention at Memphis, Decem ber 16, publiseed a two-colum card charing Macune with wrecking the Texas Alliance Exchange and making big money thereby and with trying to sell out the Alliance to the old polhtical parties. Most of thess charges wvere made at the Ocala meeting. The reform Press Association threa tens to bolt the Alliance if the State Alliance Exchange Associatiou carries out its purpose of miaking all purchases through the National Union Company. The People's party men are the best satisfiedl of all those who gathered here. They claim to have secured all they came for and even more. FARMERS' ALLIANCE NOT DEAD. Ex-Senator Van Wyck Says its Intluence WVil be Felt Next Year. WASH IN(;Tox, Nove mber 1.-E-x Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, who has cut loose fronm th'e Republican par ty and is an independent member of. the Farnmers' Alliance is in this city. The political situation," lhe said, ''is an enigma to everyone. It is imipossi ble to prediet the future. Soime folks are saying that the Alliance has gone all to pieces. That is not so, and they will find it ouit niext year. I do not knowv just what. the Alliaince will do, but they will do something to make themselves felt in the election of 1892 "There was a falling off of the Alli ance vote this fall, and it w~as (Ine largely to the fact that there were a large number of p)eoplle who voted with them before with the expaectaLtion of immediate results. Like the chil dren of Israel, they were after the flesh pots. They did not realize that the work they had undertaken was not the work of a day. As soon as they had won their first victory they thotught they were in sight of the premised land ad( ,vanted to enter at onice. Those persons are su f ering momnen tarily the effects of disapoointnment, but the great working body of the Alliance is all right, and the organization will be felt at the next election. "Whether or not they will have a presidential candlidate in the .tield I cannot say, lbut t hey wvill certainly be powerful in sonic of the states." WVhen, from any cause, the digestive and secretary organs become disor dered, they may be stimulated to healthy action by the use of Ayer's Cathartic Pills. These l'ills are pre scribed by the best physicians. andt are r s.a1e .at .a1l the d rug-store-. LETTER FROM CHARLOTTE. Sam Jones, as He is Seen by a Newberry Lady-C]harlotte's Noble Charities Its Beautiful Cemetery. To the Editor of The Herald and News:-Well, we have heard the won derful Sam Jones, and certainly there can be but one such in'the world. Just imagine an audience of eight thousand people coming day after day and night after night to hear this man talk of Christ. This magnetic evang-!st sways the multitude just as lie wishes. Some slang remark makes then scream with laughter; or some tender tale of wonderful pathos and beauty makes then weep like little children. And, when denouncing sin in all its deformity and hideousness, he strikes home with telling force and naked truths. Men wince at the ugly names he gives them, and look as if 'shaned to meet his piercing eyes. We aever heard such pointed truth or such a slangy way of putting it before an au dience. But Sam Jones "gets there" every time. His last talk was to men, and the vast tabernacle was packed with over seven thousand of the voters of Meek lenburg County. And as he appealed to them to stand up for God and home, the vast audience arose and pledged their vow to lead a purer, better life. Sam Jones, with streaming eyes and voice of thrilling pathos, stretched out his hands to heaven and exclaimed, "My God, my God, behold this sight." Sam Jones draws men and money, too; a purse of twelve hundred dollars was presented him, besides -all expenses paid. This proves his drawing capacity here. He is a great student of human nature and plays upon the emotions to suit his purpose-either for Christ or Sam Jones! Sweet charity must certainly have an abiding home in Charlotte. We have never seen such a religious ele ment animating the lives of a wbole community as we see iere,-each denomination vies witL the other as to which shall possess the finest church, "prettiest pr rsonage," or best appoint ed orphanage and hospital in the town. We have no hesitancy in saying the Episcopalians lead in all good works. They have now in successful operation a hospital and home for indigent whites; a new one for colored, and an orphanage of fifty poor children, be sides now building a fine chureh. In His name these noble Christian peo ple work together, erch member with the other, and all in the name of Christ. The Presbyterians, also, are most zeal ous in this good cause; they have an orphanage and hospital and four hand some churches, which would grace any city in the world. The Lutherans have a magnificent church, and the Methodists, never behind anywhere, (except in New berry), have now nearly completed a grand edifice, facing on two streets, with a spire which points, like a tapering finger, "On to Heaven." The Baptists and Associate Reformed Presbyterians are not less active, but ardent and alert in all Christian work, irrespective of sectarian lines, and each have handsome places of worship. The cemetery is a criterion of the character of the people of Charlotte.. It is a beautiful resting place for their sacred dead, and is adorned with a magnificent monument to the Confed erate dead, erected by the "women of Charlotte.'' It also contains many cenotaphs of equal fin.ish and design, which, with the wvell-kept squares and private lots, surrounded by graveled walks and shaded avenues of grand old trees, attest the love and veneration of the living for the departed lovcd ones. Here, "in God's Acre," amid the still lakes and whispering breez7e and swveet songs of birds, rep'ose in peace the warriors and he roie sons whose name and fame are know~ n bevond the bounds of t he Old North State. 3M. A. E. P'atlilo Acqu,itted. [Special to the State.] Aurt'sr.A, Ga., Noveumiber is-The trial of Louis HI. Patillo, for the killing of (lharles P. Hludson,. wais ended to night, when the jury. after being out an hour alid ten millutes, returned a verdict of not guilty. The verdict wvas just what Mir. Patillo expected, and what it would have been in the opin ion of the public. M;::. Patilio thanked the jury for acquit ting and vindicating him, and he received congrrat ulations from manmy friends. New. Whatt Could she HIave Meant" [F'>nnu the Philadeiphia Record.] "I'll bet Santa (Claus can get more presents into my stockings than into yours,'' is the remark one young lady made to another as they' tripped down Cihesnut street yesterday. Cons,cience, or What ? "Conscience do0th mrake cowardls of us all," says the poet. But it is just so with the nerves. WXhen a man's nerves are unstrung, through indiges tion and torpid liver and impure blood, that wonder that he feels de prossed and nervons ! He starts at every lit -unexpected sound ; is afraid of his shadow, and feels like a fool. Let such a man go to the drug store and get a bottle of D)r. Pierce's Gol,den M1edical Discovery, the great Blood-purifier and Liver Invigorator. This is the only blood-purifier and lives invigorator fpmu/,/f('d to benelit or cure, or money will be prouap// re fundedl. It eures~ Indigestion, or DJys pepsia, anid fromi its wonderful blood purifyig properties, conquers all Skin and Scal p diseases, Salt-rhmeu m, Tetter, Eczema and kindred ailments. All blood-poisons, no matter of what name or nature, yield to its remedial iof u DECOLLETE DRESS. The Vanity of Woman is the Last Thing that Can Be Touched by Argument Strict Censure Against Women Who Follow that Fashion. Two Souther-- correspondents, one a lady, the other gentleman, have asked me to say something about the pres ent style of discollete (ress for dinner and evening parties. They think that all women writers who believe in good morals, not to say common decency, should lift up their voices, and scratch with their pens until a chauge is effected. Notwithstauding the gravity of the subject this is funpy, because the van ity of woman is the last thing that can be touched by argument. Let us take a woman with a plain face, perhaps, and not a particularly good figure. If her neck is pretty and her head light she will show more of the former than the judicious care to see. I doubt if such an one would hearken to the voice of an angei or heed the words of the inspired. Our masculine correspondent declares that "every woman who thus publicly degrades herself is a bad woman at heart and not to be trusted." The fem inine protester is sure that the majority of those who dress in this indelicate manner are good and noble ladies, who simply bow to the decrees of fashion. I do not think that either conclusion is correct, for I kdow some women, who are most lovely and most discreet, who who absolutely-according to my stand ard-arpear indecent at dinner parties. On the other hand I have seen many women who were not in the least like C-esar's wife," array themselves in the same fashion. Again I have known very bad women indeed to be extreme ly fastidious and critical on the subject of decollete gewns. Personally, I despise such a fashion, and. while always urging women to independence of thought and action, and believing that they should have the right to mold their livesaccording to the dictates of their consciences, I will say that I never see a wife with an indelicately exposed neck that I do not wonder what under heave-a her husband can be thinking of to allow her to do such a thing. Of course I immediately take myself to to task for even thinking "allow," but if I were a man with a wife who favored such a style she would hear from me in a way that would pretty soon build up her bodice. If she preferred to publicly advrtise her charms she could do it and take the consequences. I solemnly declare that I never would live with a woman a single day who was so lack ing in delicacy of feeling. My observation has led me to the coaclusion that every woman who thus exhibits hereelf, no matter how rich, how exclusive, how near the top >f the first rank of "The Four Hun red" she may be, is always slightly regarded, and slightingly spoken of. "Who is that woman ?" a gentleman asked me one evening not long ago at a full dress reception. The inquirer was a man of affairs, a man who had seen the world, but I doubt if ever in is whole career as a diplomat he had ever had occasion to elevate his nose to :uite such an angle. The woman in question was not far fromt 60 years of age, had been married five times, and because of her money and the smartness of her vulgar career, ad kept a corner of society, which made it impossible not to meet her on ertain oceesions. She was -painted and powdered to the last degree of facial embellishment, but this frescoing ad only served to emphasize her wrinkles and the other marks of age. She wore a white silk gown-a Worth, or a Felix. I do not know which-with lace that was priceless and jewels were fabulous. Her husband, a sensible and fine-loooking man, accompanied her, and appeared to be quite proud of the' effect of the most awful decollete gowvn that I ever saw in all my life, and I have looked np on a good many. "W by, t hat is Mrs-" I replied. "Is it possible that you do not know her ? Shall I ask one of the reception commnittee to introduce you?' "God forbid," said my companion. "And may I ask,'' he added, "what vou ladies can be thinking of to have such a creature on yoor list of ac quaintanees?"' "Why, we can't help it," I replied. "Those wvho do not wish to know her are more or less in touch with those who see much to admire in her char ater, and those who are under obli gation's to her for favors received, and as these women are among the best that we have, what can we do? I am not sure that her style of dress is more prononeed than that of many of the wives of our most distinguished men at home and abroad. At a London or at a Wasnington dinner party there will be ten women to this one in a sim ilar condition." "Perhaps," was the contemptuous answer, "but this woman is vulgar to the marrow of her bone. She is not, she cannot be, possessed of a single womanly quality. I loathe the fashion under all circumstances, but it re mained for a New York woman to furnish the crowning instance of decol lette dep.ravity. I wouldn't have had my daiughter here to-night for $5,000" Could he have said more of the worst pla3ce in the land? And this was one the most brilllant and high-toned re-1 ceptions. I respected that man. Five minutes laterlI saw him take leave. B is spiritual stomach was turned, not only on account of this exponent of vulgari ty, but because decent women would be seen in her company. I belonged to the cnmpany. but not to her coterie, and yet I was under the ban. I could not help recalling the story I once heard told of Daniel Webster, who had a deep-rooted aversion to the decollette. A lady who was very "stylish," and who always appeared, wherever she could consistently do so, in a very low necked bodice and short sleeves, once appealed to Mr. Webster for help in some suffrage scheme for women. The distinguished lawyer treated her with such scant civility that she asked a friend-a gentleman-to try and find out what was the matter. "Enough's the matter," said Mr. Webster, "when a woman who hasn't brains enough to cover her nakedness comes whimpering to me about the ballot for her sex, Mrs. was a most unfortunate representative," ELEANOR KIRK. A FAMOUS BEAUTY AT NINETY. The Wonderful Countenance and Charac ter of the Mother of Batholdi. [Mrs. Crawford in London Truth.1 The late Madame Bartholdi, who died last week, was no ordinary per son, and on her ninetieth birthday she looked so full of life, and beamed so with mental vigor and heartiness, that I wonder she did not live to a hundred. She was left a widow early, and de voted herself to the education of her sons and the stewardship of their pa ternal properties, which under her management were increased to for tunes. Though so well endowed witz the money making faculty, she was a person of generous disposition and given to hospitality. LOVELY TO THE LAST. In youth she was reputed to be the handsomest girl in Alsace. As an old woman she was more than handsome. The pure outlines remained, and the fire of the kindest, quickest and most lambent eyes imaginable was never quenched so long as life remained. The son must have had her in his head as he remembered her in her younger days when he was sketching the design of the colossal statute of "Liberty En lightening the World." HER IDEA OF LIBERTY. It was her idea that Liberty should not be en pate de guimauve, but of a grave and severe aspect. Liberty was the best of all conditions, she used to aay, for those who were severe upon themselves, and the worst for the self Indulgent. One never saw a trace of elf-righteous harshness in the old-lady. She was very indulgent toward the rring; but that grace, she:said, came with the wide experience of old age. - It was a source of enjoyment to her to drive to the Isle of Swans, in the Seine, and look at the reduced copy which was set up there a few years igo of the famous statue which now stands at the entrance of New York harbor- One of her sayings was, "Do not repress badness; crowd it out with good ideas." The How of It. How poor, how rich, how abject, biow august, how complicated, how :omplicated, how wonderful, i man' mnd it might be added, how "more so" s woman. With her peculiarly del cate and intense organization, she is . the superlative degree of man. Even inl diseases she excels him, having - rnany that he has not. She has, how ever, found out a grand remedial agent, for the cure of her diseases, in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription ; a medicine suited to ner nature, made for the express cure of those diseases which affect her. It is especially effec tive in all weaknesses incidental to mnotherhood, while it is also a potent r~estorative tonic for the feeble and de bilitated generally. CHIAMPION sTRONG MAN. Louis Cyr Astonishes a London Audience kby LIfting 2,619 Pounds. LoYDos, Nov. 15.-An enormous crowd gathered at the South London - Palace last night in ord~er to witness the attempt of the famous strong man, Louis Cyr to break the weight lifting record of t'ie world. Cyr was backed up by Mr. Richai'd K. For, the pro prietor and editor of the New York Police Gazette who offered ?1,000 to any man who would do the feats that Cyr was about to perform. The modern Goliath lifted a 104 pound dumb bell above~bis shoulder with his right hand. Then he lifted one weighing 242 pounds in the same way with both hands. His third feat consisted in elevating a barrel contain ing 2S0 pounds of cement with his left hand and, aided by his thigh, he raised it to his chest and then on to his shoul der. This evoked a tremendous degree of excitement and drew forth cheer after cheer from the delighted specta tors. Finally, putting on a harness to which a frame was attached, he lifted a weight of 2,619 pounds, at which everybody became still n'ore excited, and as con tagious was this.feeling that even Sam son, a rival strong man, became imbued i with it. He, however, declared that. Cyr's right hand lifting wg not the same as Sandow's, as the former bent his arm. Upon this, without a moment's delay, Mr. Fox oflered Samson ?100 to rival either feat, but that worthy declined the offer, saying he was obliged to go away. And he went, accompanied by jeers, hisses and ironical cheers of the audience, which was convinced that Cyr is beyond doubt the champion strong man of the world. The use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla puri ties the blood, stimulates the secretions and imparts new life and vigor to every function of the body. For nearly half a century, it has remained un rivalled as the best blood' medicine ever discovered. Be convinced by a trntl