The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, April 06, 1892, Image 1

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'A A ESTABLI SHED I8.SfJ5 - NEWBJERRY, S. C., W'EDNESDAY, APRIL 6 82 ____PIE$.0AYA TILLMAN ON TUE PRIMI:I. Why He has Chanstd Fia Position-A Strong Fresentativn of the Situati'n and Reasous why a Primary is not WisM. [Columbia Register, 24th.] In view of the fact that nunmbers of anti-Tillman meetings, whili have elected delegates to the convention which meets to-ilay, have adopted resolutions demanding a direct primary, a reporter for the Register sought an in terview with Governor Tillman to hear what he had to say on the subject. The scribe began his probing with the question: Governor, what is your opin ion in regard to a direct primary? He answered: "I an surprised that you should ask this question when the matter was fully discussed by me dur ing the last campaign. I amr one of the pioneers in the agitation in advocacy of a State primary,and in I S, on two occasions, in both State Co: ventions, I made speeches advocating :he nomina tion of State officers by this method. In both conventions the matter was overwhelmingly defeated and after careful analysis and study of the situa tion I so far modified my opinion as to advocate the plan, now in vogue, of electing delegates by a primary. The demand for a change was made in the March platform, 1890, which I wrote, and it was incorporated in tha party constitution in September. The pres ent hue and cry for a direct primary is a piece of political clap-trap by which my enemies seek to place mie in a false position. If it were carried out they would be the first to regret it and advo cate a change. They don't want it. But I desire to say right here that indi vidually I am willing and was in 1S90 to submit my candidacy to a direct vote of the white Democrats of the State. I have every reason to believe that my strength would be more clearly shown aTd I would have a more emphatic en dorsement under that plan than I could under the existing one. The counties of Georgetown, Beaufort, Sumter, Richiand and Fairfield, which are all debatable, and which, for the sake of argument, I will say will go against me, would in that event be o.Enterbalanced by the majo~i. o pect to obtain in either5 partanburg or Greenville. The demand for the pri mary arose in the white section of the State and was designed to break up ring rule. It was never intended to take any advantage of the brave Demo crats of the negro counties." "What caused you to modify your opinion and change from a direct pri mary to an election of delegates by pri mary?' "Well, the primary system looks to obtaining the popular voice by allowing the individual voter express his person al preference and the present system gives that. I am and always have been in favor of the people selecting their own rules." The Governor here put his hand in his breast pocket and drew out a note book and said: "Here is a table which I have prepared for campaign purposes. This is my basket of 'rocks,' " he laugh. ingly added, "and I will chunk one into the enemy's camp before the eamn paign opens. It is a tabie giving the white and colored population, with the delegates in the State Convention, of fourteen counties, and will show very clearly what a disturbing factor in State politics a direct primary wvould be." Here is the table: White Colored Delegates Populat'n Populat'n State 1890 ]890 Convent'n Aiken .....13,570 18,244 8 Anderson..25,174 18,522 12 Chesterfeld...10',90J2 7,565 6; Florence...10,400 14,627 6j Greenville..27,371 16,936 12 Horry .....13,629 5,(617 6 Lancaster..10.338 10,42 6 -Lexington..1705 S,475 6 Marion .... 14,434 15.54 S Oeonee......13,641 5,04) 6 Pickens....12,194 4.9 IC) t Spartanburg..36,729 13,652 14 Union...10,74 14,4S9 S York ........1,3S 20,73:3 1') 231,0153 17l,027 114 The total is as follows: Whites Colored No Deleg's In State..45,454 692,503 32() Deduct....231,015 175,026 1 i 227,439 51:3,479 20)4 "And we find that fourteen counties containing only 179,026 of the colored population would overbalance twenty one which are compelled to control 513.477 negroes: or Spartanburg, enti tled to fourteen votes in convention, would overbalance Beaufort, Berkeley, Fairtield, Georgetown and Sumter, en titled to fifty votes in convention, and yet have 730 votes to spare. "By deducting the populationm of thee fourteen counties from the total white and c'lored population of the State, we tiud that these fourteen coun ties, containing on'y 179,000 of the col ored population, would overbalance twenty--one counmties. which are com pelled to control 513,00)0 negroes, or that Spar tanbutrg, entitled to fourteen votes in the Convention, would in a pri mary overbalance Beaufort, Berke ley, Fairfield, Georgetown and Sum ter, entitled tr fifty votes in the con vention, and yet have 759 votes to snare. You see at once that a direct primary w:>uld utterly destroy the po litical equilibrium of the State. It would do more. The Democrats in the heavy negro counties who are now asked to aidopt this system of norninuat ing State oflicers will be expected to control the colored vote in their re spective counties and send Democrats to the Legislature, although they would never have a chance to obtain any of the State otlices by reason of a small white vote. Is it either reason able or just? I dont think so, and "But, Governor, if one one white man in Berkeley has as nouch political power in the State Convention as five white men in Spartanburg, will not th:at breed dissatisfaction?" "At the first blush it appears to be wrong, but we must take things as we f1ad themn. This same argument is the stock in trade of the Foraker-She-r man wing of the Radical party, which demand that the Southern electoral vote and representation in Congress shall be based on the voter. cast, rather than the population. They claim that one white man in South Carolina has thr.e times as much political power as a white man in Ohio or Kansas. Now, if we, ignoring all precedeat and law, recoguize the justice of their argument in our party management, how are we to expect that they will stcp agitating along that line, and how would we answer their orators in Congress and on the stump? Representation in all political bodies is based oa the legal representation according to population. Where the conditions are so unequal and the equilibrium that exists would be so violently disturbed by a change, I cannot believe that scch change would add to the harmony and unity of the party which seems so dear to these same patriots. It is a: matter for the party to determine, and I am ready to submit to the verdict of the people." AN UNPLEASANT LIKENESS. Senator Ii by, Like Senator Hill, Pays More Attention to State Pe"litics than to National Legislation. [Special to News and Courier.] VASHINGTON, April ..-Senator Irby, who has been absent faom his seat in the Senate a greater number of days than Senators Hill, has finally re turned to Washington. There isa simi larity between the Senators from New York and South Carolina which is attracting more or less comment. Both of them are political leaders in their re spective States, and their absence from the Senate has been. due to important political business at home. Senator Hill's reasons for spending so much time in New York is well known to be due to the unsettled condition of aitesthere. In South Carolina the Democratic party is embarrassed by two contending factions, and Senator Irby is the chairman of the Democratic committee which represents the Ad- 1 ministration of Tillman. There are Cleveland and Anti-Cleveland facticus in the Palmetto State, and Senator Irby is having considerable trouble in trying to harmonize these two elements. Hence it is that Senator Irby has had but little time to familiarize himself with the dulies of a Senator and to be a regular attendant upon the sessions. For a similar reason Senator Hill has I not played a very active part in the legislative proceedings of the Senate during the present session. He tells his friends that situation in New York State is in better shape now than ever before, and he proposes to give his time a nd attention to Senatorial affairs. R.M3. L. r IRBY'S LITTLE JToKE ON THE MARCII CoNV'ENTION. [Greenv!iie News, 1st.] Senator Irby and his private secre-I tary, M. F. Tighe, passed through the city yestererday on their way to Wash ington. The Senator has been away from Washington longer than he ex pected because of illness in his family.s lHe did not stop) in the city, passing from one depot to another. He took the vestibule train at the Air Line de-t pot. Whbile at the depot a News reporter talked with him. In speaking of the chances of election of the nominees of the recent Columbia convention, he said they were about the same as a "green" individual who went into a gambling room in the 'West. The "green" customler sat down to play po ker with one of the sharpers. He drew four aces and bet heavily to win. When the sharper "called" him he threw down the aces and started to rake in the money. The sharper stop ped him and told him th.at he had lost, that he (the sharper) held a "Lu In" hand, three spades and two clubs. The sharper referred the individual to a rule on the wall, wich read: "A 'Lulu' hand wine." The ignorant in dividual was not disposed to create a disturbance and submitted to the rule. After a short time the "greenie" drew a "L ulu" hand. Supposing it could not be beaten he again bet heavily. The sharper again told him that he Ihad list and poin ted to a card on the wvall which read: "A 'Lulu' hand wins only once i n anight." "That is like the receut Mfarch eon Ivention," said the Senator. "A Mfarebh convention wins (culy once in a life: time, and has already wvon. But talking seriously," cont inued the Senator, "I'm glad the Columbia convention was held. It unites the Democratic party for several years to comec, and prevents an indep'endent ticket this fall. It has doue that much good and I'm willng , to thank whoever is responsible for it. Without the convention there might I ha"ve been trouble this faL." The Senator is in good health and ~ will remain in Washington until the x Mlay convention mn this State, which s Iwill elect delegates to the National Democratic Convention. Ieoos Sold on the Bick. F'AYETTE, MIo., 31archl 29.-A sale under the vagraut Act took pla:-e inb Fayette yesterday afternoon when c three negroes were sold on the blork to the highest bidder. One brought $2.5,a another $5, and the third S1.10. The f negro element is highly indiguant and a SENATOR IRUY'S IANK STOCK. He Se1Is It Because He is Opposed t4 Financial Schemer; and Usurv. LHis Letter in the Lauren viile Her ,ld, March 25.1 The farmers were unsuccessful in thi production of cotton-both in pric iad quantity. Gratitude, at least should have prompted a business basec upon kindness and charity, but to ni surprise I find that the banks of thi. .ounty are forgetful of past patronag tnd are now extorting the last cent bat common decency will allow, oul )f the farmers on the loan of money \Ioney is as plentiful and as chea t :hese banks now as it was iii 1 !. rhen they charged nine per cent. in erest. Now, when they see our peo )le in a helpless and impoverished con lition, they forced them to pay one ,er cent. per month discount; and ci t as if they were conferring a great avor upon the borrower. I have al ways opposed such financial schemes and usury. I am more opposed to it iow than ever. I am a stockholder it >ne of these banks. I condemn thc >ractice, and will not be a party wit! :hese Shylocks to indirectly rob thf )eople. Two weeks ago I gave them iotice that I would sell my bank stock, tud asked the cashier of the bank tc ell it. I intend to sell it, and this ex >lanation is made lest' sonie cnemy of nine will charge me with being a party .o what I conceive to be a moral crime. T IS SAID THAT HE NEVER HAD ANY UANK STOCK. [Special to the News and Courier.] GREENVILLE, March 'S.-A few days Lgo Senator Irby published a card in he Laurensville Herald stating that ast spring he had urged the Alliance .0 patronize the Laurens banks. T( us surprise, he says, he finds that the >anks are forgetful of past patronage Ld are now extorting the last cent .hat common decency will allow out >f the farmers. He concludes by saying that two veeks ago he gave the bank notice that ie would sell his stock, as he did not vant to give his enemies a chance to harge him with being a -)arty to -what he conceivee to be a moral rime." This no dcubt sounds well to farmers rho do not know everything that goes n. It is stated here on good authority hat Senator Irby never owned any toek in the bank. It is said that he ubseribed to eight shares last year, .nd gave his note for about one thou and dollars. He did not pay the note vhen it fell due, and the shares were old some time ago to pay the note, nd are now in the hands of three dif erent persons whose names are known. 'his is the way, it is said, he "gave no ice" of his intention to sell the stock. Senator Irby's card amazes those vho know the real facts. w. w. P. vHAT THE SENATOR AND THE CASH IER OF THE LAURENS BANK J-AVE TO SAY ABOUT IT. To the Editor of the News and Cou ier: To correct the report sent to the lharleston News and Courier, fromr ireenville, with reference to my own~ rship of certain bank stock, which ias been denied, please publish the llowing letter from the cashier of the r( an and Exchange Bank of Laurens: LAURENS, S. C., March 20, 1892. To he Hon. J. L. M. Irby-Dear sir: ~our letter received. In reply would ay that you told me some time ago tc ell your bank stock. I have sold five hares of the stock, but it has not been elivered to the purchaser. The other bree shares have been spoken for. I :new nothing of the newspaper article tmtl I saw it in print. I ft.llowed -our direction as to selling your bank tock. Yours truiy, W. A. WATTs. I take it for granted that you will ;ive this denial and explanation the ame p)ublicity and prominence which2 vere accorded to the unfounded rumor. JOHN L. YE. IREY. 31ORE LIGHT ON THE SUnJECT. Special to News and Courier.] L. AURENS, S. C., March 30.-With -egard to Senator Irby's bank stock,]I ave thbe following from reliable sources: :n the fall of 1800 the People's Loau md Exchange Bank increased its cap tal, and Mr. Irby subscribed for eight hares, giving his note in payment. [he note was attached to the stock, mad the bank held both. The note has ong since matured, and no payment 2as been made upon it. A bout Christ nas time Mr. Irby requested the bank o sell his stock, and a sale was virtu fly effected, though no actual transfer vas made before the publication of Mr. rby's card. My information is that Mr. Irby did iot suggest to the b,ank that he wvas lisposing of the stock because he be ieved its rate of interest to be excess ye. The facts come to me from per ons who are iu a position to know7. TAND)S BY IIIS sTATE:MENT IN FE LL. [Special to News and Courier.] GRE~ENV1LLE, March 31.-Your cor espondent here has nothing to apolo. ize for or to take back of the report he ent from here of Seuator Irby's bank tock. Senator Irby's card does not efute one single statement made by be correspondent, who has not mis epresentedh the Senator, and who was cry careful i ascertaining~ from iWhence the story came. w. w. r Exactly so. If it is a crime for a man to be a aniker it is equally a crime for him to wn.r bank stock. If it is a sin pun?iha le with political disfranebisemient for ma'n to be president of a co.rporat ion eedin.r hundreds of people is is equaily sin to hold stock in such la corpora. ion or to charter or incorpoate it. THE VERDICT. > A Case Where .Justice wa Blind Im:leed and Overnwift. The court hcuse at Waldron, Ark., was crowded. A half surpressed mu r aur through every crooked street in the unpicturesque hamlet niade it known that the jury in the case of the I State of Arkansas vs. Abner Ray were r ready to return their verdiet. What i would it be? Did they believe the de fendant the murderer of John Potts? As if by magic the old and the young, the busy and the idle, the curious and the indifferent had swarmed into the court room until every toot of spce was occupied. Outside the languid air seemed tremu lous with the heat, and every leaf hung limp and motiouless. The sultry July day was oppressive and the atmosphere of the room so stifling that those as sembled gasped for breath. The scant - furniture and bare li,r, the rough, whitewashed walls and the ricketty lamp with tin retlector sitting upon a little shelf behind the Judge's chair, all told the same story of story of mnoun taineersimplicity and primitiveness. A hag, bent with age, was,whispering the story of the crirrie to her plump young neighbor, and said that two witnesses had identified the body found in Mill Creek. The clerk nervously upset his inkstand, and the black stairf on the white front' of his pine desk looked ghastly. The Judge ascended the little plat form at the end of the and bade the Sheriff clear an entrance for the jury The struggling crowd was parted a little way and twelve good and lawful men filed in and stood facing the pris oner, who sat exposed to the gaze of all. His efforts to appear calm were pitiful. Great drops of sweat rolled down his swarthy cheeks and he clutched the framework of the chair on which he sat. Ten feet back of him stood his sweetheart, the beauty of the village, sobbing softly and leaning upon her father for support. In a thick, unsteady voice the fore man read from the paper in his hand, "We of the jury find the defendant guilty as charged in the within indict ment." The condemned man rose from his seat. His face was livid and his mus cles rigid. He stretched out one hand is though he would speak, and the next moment fell forward almost at the foreman's feet-dead! His sweetheart's tears stopped falling and her- white lips quivered convulsively, but she could neither cry out nor stir from her tracks. Half a dozen strong hands were stretched out to lift the prostrate man, when moved by a common impulse, though no syllable had been uttered, every head was in ned and every eye fixed upon the door. John Potts had just stopped over the threshold: A Story or Cleveland. [St. Louis Republic.] "Cleveland is one of the greatest sticklers for being exactly right and doing exact justice I ever sawv," said a prominent politician from Summer, Tenn., to The Man A bout Town. "Not long after he became President two men were recommended to be Post master of a town down there, one by the people, the other by the Congress Iman of the district. In due time wve saw the Congressman's recommenda tion was to be sent to the Senate on a certain day. The people were angry. The man recommended by theCongress man was unpopul::r, and, though weal thy, had let his 37-year old mother die in a poor hours. The other was one of the most respected men in the com munity. It was decided to send a de legation to ask the President to with draw the appointment. We went first to Dan'l Manning and provided for an audience ".'th the President. When we filed into his oflice Grover was hard at work with his coat off. He shook hands cordially and did niot apologize for having his coat off. We stated our mnission. IIe said: 'Gentlemen, I am now to this place and have to rely on the Congressmen, but this is a serious charge and backed by a petition with 3,uon names attached must mean some Ith ing. I will consider it at once.' "He sent right off for that Congress man and when he came said: 'Mr.-, I have received all your recommenda tions and tried to oblige you. Now here is one in which I want you to oblige me. This man whom you recommended and 1 have appointed does not seem to enjoy the confidence of his people. The D)emocratic administration does not want those kind of Postmasters. I want von to ob!ige me in allowing aJ withdrawal of that name.' It was withdrawn." Womn Who Die Early. Many oif o)ur most beautiful and ac complished ludies die before they have reached the p)rime of life. Of those wvho live to middle age only one in two hundred is sound ;the other one hun dred anid ninety-nine are sufferers. Wyiit? Self-neglect. The shat tered health can be restored : the home made happy, and( your life lengthened if you commenee at once. 'Roise Budo-" have been used for 20 yer nthe private practice of one of the ostemientphysicians ofParis, and the following diseases and their distressing sym ptomns yield to them like magic : Ulceration, Congestion and Falling of the Womib, Ovarian Tumors, Dropsy of the Womb, Bear ing Down Pains, Rupture at Child birth and Misearriages. One package of "Rose Buds'' will make a new w ~oman of you. (Leucorrhea or Whites are generally cured by one application.) Price per p)ackage (one month's treatment) $1.00 sent by mail pos5t paid, securely packed. THE: LEvERETrTE SPECIFC Co., 3 9 Wachingtoan St. Bostn, Mass. A WARNING. Ifow the Walhalla Republicans Stole a March on the Democrats. [(reenville News.] M. H. Bryce, the well-known Wal halla Republican, stole a march on the Democrats of that place last week and the story will be of interest. H. A. H. Gibson was some time ago elected in tendant of the town. He decided to move away and handed in his resigna tion. It was accepted and Thursday of last week was set as the time for an election for his successor. On that day the Democrats seemed to have forgot ten the election and up to 2 o'clock in the afternoon only about eight votes had been cast. Bryce saw the state of aflairs and gathering about twenty-five of his fol lowers he marched them to the polls just before closing time and voted them for himself for intendant. He had not announced himself as a candidate and the Democrats were not expecting to have such an "eminent citizen" for mayor. They were taken completely by surprise. Bryce's vote outnumbered those of the Democrats by a good ma jority, and there was consternation when it was known that hs would be intendant unless something was done. On Monday of this week the Demo crats contested the election and showed that three illegal votes had been cast for Bryce. The election was according ly declared off because of fraud and nobody was counted as elected. A new election has been ordered and it is safe to say that Bryce will not get another chance to work his game. Bryce's followers are exultant over his trick. It is said that he will use his alleged election to show his popularity to the Washington authorities. Wana maker recently removed him as post master at Walballa because of com plaints that he was a bad man. Learning to Take it Easy. "It does not seem strange to me," said Ex-Congressman West to other day, "why some business men cling closely to business all their life-time. You laugh? Well, business is businss, of course, and Ben Franklin knew what he was talking about when he said something about saving a penny every time you got a chance. But what I mean to say is that a business man needn't be everlastingly drudging away simply because he is making lots of money. He should take a holiday often, and at times a jolly long one." Mr. West stroked his big white beard and loo.ied up at the ceiling as if trying to count the roses in the frescoed wreaths above the chandelier, and then went on: "Rich men in business, no matter whether they began business when they were poor as church mice or whether they had piles of money before they got out of their teens, are becom ing sensible nowadays. I can count on my fingers' ends dozens of men who twenty-five years ago never took a week off in summer time even, who were rich as Croesus years and years before that, and yet who went to their offices as early as they had to do when they weie clerking it; and they kept it up until they toppled into their graves. Why, 1 knew some New York business men twenty-five years ago who had. never taken an ocean bath because they bad never seen the ocean beyond the Battery. I know a thing or two about Saratoga, and, would you believe it, ast summer, I had as pleasant a die r. [ ever spent in my life in Ballston with a merchant of this city who hat' 't out of town for a week for the first time during the sixty years of his active business life? Yet that man had al ways made his clerks go away for a week every summer, with a week's sal ary paid in advance. "Business men don't feel old now days because their hair is gray. They don't save up for the 'boys' by depriv ing themselves of needed recreation. They take their share of the jollities of life, too, and by jollities I don't mean jags. And though they don't work as many hours a day as their fathers did, they manage to accomplish much more. A Story Showing Many Things. IFrom the Youth's Companion.] During the agrarian riots, which dis turbed England in 1832, a mob of rick burner3 and machine breakers ap peared at the old mansion of two elder ly maiden ladies. The walls of the hall were decorated with suits of armor and antique weapons-pikes, haiberds. bat tIe axns and swords. The mob elamored ror the weapons and for drink. The Ia ies refused their demands, and when he mob seemed reaw wesort to vio tence MIiss Bettie, the elder of the ladies, went up to the leader, a hideoue look ng man, and said: "You, too, of ali the p'eople in the world! I'm not surprised at these poor nisguided creatures. But that such a ood looking, intelligent man as you hiould attack two defenceless women Ies astonish me! You are the man I ~hould have looked to for protection. But you are not the man I took you or. Never aigain will I trust to good ooks!" Theru was no standing up againsti hat complimen:t. The man took off his hat and said "Come, old lady, we lin't so bad as all that; only give us ome beer. We~ would not harm a hair >f your head." "No: I know that." retorted MIiss Betty. "You can't; I wear a wig." The rnob ro,ared wvith laughter and ' WILD WORK OF THE WIND. A Terrible Hurricane in Kansas and Oth States-Several Towns Wrecked and Many Lives Lost. KANSAS City, April 1.-Last night tornado entirely destroyed Towandi Kansas, killing twen:y people,wrecke Augusta, killing four and seriously it juring many others, did great damag at Wellington, killing several, and de molished several buildings at Kiowf The particulars may be difficult to of tain on account of the continued pro: tration of wires. A terrible wind-storm prevails to-da, throughout Kansas, Missouri an Southern Nebraska. The Wester: Union reports it has been losing wire every minute for the last four hour; Only three wires are left out of thre hundred. The storm,as far as cau be determinec swept across the country from India: Territory in the south west part of Bai ber County, Kansas, taking the littl town of Kiowa in its path. In a nortL easterly direction it passed througl Frazier County and through the centr of Sumner County. Eending as a boi it passed almost directly north throug1 the remainder of Sumner-County an< along the western part of Butler Coun ty. Villages and farm houses wer carried away as it swept along. The tornado continued in Kansa and in the iorthwestern part of Mi souri to-day, but was .ess destructive At Wellington the house of a mal named Little was dem lished and fou little children killed. Another house with fifteen inmates, was picked u: and dropped and everybody in it mor, or less hurt. The house of a mai named Butterworth was carried bodil; through the air three hundred yard. Some of the family were fatally hurt. Later reports say that; not a house o building was left standing in "'owands The town was asleep when the storn swept down, ruined everything in it path and left dead bodies lying in it wake. Four dead bodies have been re covered from the ruins already search ed. Twenty persons a-e fatally hur and forty more seriously injured, be sides a large number more or les maimed. At Augusta three were killed out right. Harmon Hoskins, James Barne a:d an infant child of Will Rhode: who was blown out of her mother' arms and dashed against a brick wall Rhodes himself is fatally injured, as i also the wife of Harmon Hoskins. Fil teen others were hurt mc-re or less seri ously, according to present reports, bu all wires are down and it is impossibl to get at any detailed account fren either place. . At Lawrence the w nd reached velocity of eighty-four miles. In Kan sas City it reached sixty-four miles, an< a great (eal of damage was done t signs, gas, insecure buildings, electri wires. etc. The hlouse which was blown dowi was a seven-story brick ar, the corner o Halstead and Pearce streets. It wa surrounded by one or two-story frami dwellings occupied by poor families Several of theEe were crushed and threi children were instantly killed. Thre< people are missing, sup posed to b under the ruins, probably dead. Twelvi others were injured, of whom two o: three are likely to die. Additions are constantly being mad< to the storm casualties. In Kansas City Kansas, two persons were fatally in jured. Among the towns suffering are MarshaU, Warrensburg, Chilicothe and St. .Toseph, Missouri, Salin, Olathe and Ottawa, Kansas. Eighty families lived at Towanda, Kansas. and not on< of them escaped injury or loss of life t< some member. nUTILDINGs WRECKED IN ATCHISON A TCHsoN, Kas., A pril 1 -A tornadt struck this city at noon to-day, unroof ing and demolishing several large buildings and scattering signs, awning, and out houses in every dir ection. The Santa Fe railway depot was unroofec and the chapel at the Scholastic Con vent was demolished. The ice ware house of the Thrall Ice Company was destroyed and the grocery ware house of H. Taylor is in ruins. The roof o; the city prison was carried off and n portion of the building demolished. A small house in the Missouri Pacifi< yards was blown i'2to the river. Hun dreds of chimneys have been blowr down and a great deal of damage done. The heavy damage in the country istc fruit trees. The ground is very soft. caused by recent rains, anc thousands of trees have been torn up by the roots. No one has been reported injured. EFFECTS OF THlE STORMf IN NEnRASKA. O.vAHA, Neb, April 1.--Telegraph wires all over the State are prostrated, and it is impossible to obtain news ol the extent of last night's cy clone. The Western Union reports that it has only one wire in operation in Nebraska and that is on the line of the Elkhiorn Road. A special to the Bee from Norfolk, in the northern part of the Sta.e, says th.. cyclone struck the town atont 11 o'clock last night and did ecnsiderable damage. If this should prove to be the same cyclone which devasted Nelsot the destruction must have been great. The storm traversed one hundred and fifty miles over the richest farmina section of the State, dotted with smnal. cities and villages. The wiud is blow ing a gale here and wires are~ down OL all sides. Hundreds of telephone wiret are still down as the result of :ast Satur. day's storm. THE STOR3f ElsEwHIERE. W,Asn!INGTON, April .-Des Moines Iowa, reports damage exceeding $100 000J, but no loss of life. Every sectior of Iowa that can be heard from has timiliar story to tell. At St. Joseph, Missouri, the storm began at midnight Thursday night, and r continued with unabated furry at 9 o'clock to-night. The city was strewn 1 with wreckage, scarcely a house in it having escaped uninjured. Several peo ple had been hurt by flying debris. 3 Three steamboats on the Missouri - River were swamped near St. Joseph. e There is no indication of exaggeration .in any of the stories. On the contrary , there is a probability that the worst remains to be told. "OLD STONEWALL." The Indelible Impression He Left on His Soldiers. s Anyone who has read of General - "Stonewall" Jackson must be an ad e mirer of his sturdy manhood. He left an impression on his soldiers that is indelible. Mr. St. John, President of 3 the Mercantile bank, New York, relates the following as in his own experience: e "A yea. or two since he was on a busi - ness errand in the Shenandoah Valley, 2 in company with General Thomas a Jordan, Chief of Staff of General Beaure I gard, and at the close of a day they 1 found themselves at the foot of the i mountains in a wild and lonely place, where was no village and not even a e house, save a rough shanty for the use of the "track-walker" on the railroad. 8 It was'rather suggestive of the suspici cious characters that lurk in out-of the way places; yet here they were forced 1 to pass the night, and could find no r shelter but this solitary cabin, in which they sat down to!uch asupperas could be provided in this desolate spot. The unprepossessing look of everything was completed when the keeper of the sta tion came in and took his seat at the head of the tablh. A bear out of the woods could hardly have been rougher r than he, with his unshaven beard and - unkempt hair. He answered to the l type of the border ruffian, whose ap S pearance suggests the dark deeds that s might be done here i . secret, and hid - den in the gloom of the forest. Ima - gine their astonishment when this t rough backwoods-man rapnr' on the - table and bowed his head! And such a s prayer! 'Never, did I h ear a petition that more evidently came from the - heart. It was so simple, so reverent, s and so tender, so full of humility and penitence, as w.:ll as thankfulnes to S the Giver of all ,ood! We sat in silence, - and as soon as I could recover myself, I 3 whispered to my friend, 'who can he - be" to which he answered, I don't - know, but he must be one of Stonewall t Jackson's old soldiers.' And he was! 3 As we walked out into the open air, I l accosted our new acquaintance, and, after a few questions about the country,. asked, 'Were you in the war?' 'Oh, yes,' he said with a smile, 'I was out with old Stonewall!' " Here, then, was one of that famous "Stonewall Brig ade,", whose valor was proved on so many a battle field. Such were the men, now white with years and scarred Swith wounds, who last summer, on the anniversary of the battle ot Bull Run, thronged the hill top at Lexington, and wept at the unveiling of the monu ment which recalled their old com mander." Capt. M. M. Buford. [Clir..on Gazette.] We notice in the Newberry papers the announcement of Mr. M!. M. Bu -ford as a candidate for Sheriff of New berry County. Mr. Buford, as is well Iknown by a goodly number of the peo pIe of Laurens County, is a true and tried man--a Democrat from away back. He, it will be remembered, was a "team" during the dark days of radi calism, when men's souls were tried. He was the only man from Newberry County who was put on trial for being Implicated in the much-needed work of the noble Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Bu ford, like an old Roman, suffered with our own gallants, Dr. J. T. Craig, C. E. Franklin, G. H. Davidson and Elibha M. Young, behind the prison walls under guard of Federal bayonets in Columbia when life to a truie patriot even seemed scarcely worth living. The Right Kind of a Girl. Let a gi rl be ever so graceful in the dance, let her be ever so elegant of walk across a drawingroom, ever so bright in conversation, she must pos sess some other qualities to convince the great average run of young men that she can be the manager of his home, the pilot that steers his ship of state, writes Edward W. Bok in the A pril Ladies' Home Journal. Frugality, womanly instincts of love for home, an eye to the best interests of her husband and the careful training of her children -these are the traits which make the good wife of to-day, and which young men look for in the girls they meet. Men may sometimes give the impres sion that they do not care for common sense in their sweethearts, but there is nothing shey so unfailingly demand of their wives. An Egyptian Curiosity. In July, 1881, there were discovered in the ar.:ient city of Thebes, the mum mies Egypt's mightiest Pharaohs, among them that of Rameses the' Great. There were also found seals, coins, stattuettes, preserved food, and a few rolls sf papyrus, some of the latter being of great value, curiously bound together, and, notwithstanding the mould and mildew of ages upon them, as easily read as if written yesterday. A queer little book entitled, "A Night with Ramases II.," has been executed so cleverly, that the oxydized seal, sug gestion of mould, antique coloring, and partially decayed and ragged-edged papyrus carry at once to the mind the possesion of a veritable relic from the dawn of civilization. Mailed to any address on receipt of 6 cents in stamps, by .T. . Ayear Co., Lowellt Mass.. TEACHERS' COLUMN. Trios. W. KEir, Editor. Districting the County. We were very much pleased to wit ness the gathering of quite a number of school trustees in the Commission er's office on Saturday, the 19th alt. It was a very creditable showing consid ering the inclemency of the' weather, and the spirit evinced was cheering. They seemed awake to the fact that something must be done to improve our schools. The question of districting the county was brought up by the commissioner, Mr. Kibler. This question was freely discussed, and a great deal of informa tion regarding the location of existing school-houses and the needs of the different communities was obtained. The Board of County Examiners have before them an arduous task, and they should be sustained by the sym pathy and help of every believer in education. They are men devoted to the profession and wish to perform their duty to the best interest of the county from an educational standpoint. We all, I suppose, believe that there are too many schools in our county for the best interests of the people. This fact was brought out in the discussion of the question of districting the county. Now, some school-houses will neces sarily be abandoned, aund the children assigned to others; which these will be, no one knows. Now it is earnestly hoped that the patron.s of such schools will give their hearty and patriotieco operation towards carrying out the good work of laying out districts, and of improving our educational facilities. We are fully convinced that many of our teachers are mnking great pro gress in cur profession. These are the very ones we desire to retain, but un less some means are devised by which we are able to secure longer terms and a living salary, we will certainly lose them. We think it never surely oc curred to those outside the profession that a teacher who feels his responsi bility and wishes to do the best possi ble for those under his care, recognizes the fact that he must subscribe to edu cational literature; that he mus' pur chase books treating of his profession; that he must attend county and State associations; that he must, in every way, keep up the rapid strides of pro gressive education, or be forever left in the rear. All this takes money, and the teacher who can solve this problem with a salary of $25.00 per month and a three month's term, will put the en tire profession under lasting obliga tions to him if he will make the pro cess public. Now, we think by consolidating schools, where practicable, and by dis tricting the county a long step forward will be taken. These districts will be of such size that the trustees can easily attend to their duties. Every poll in the county will be hunted up and placed on the books, and the school fund will be perceptibly increased. Then too, these districts may levy a tax upon themselves, which will be applied to their own use. By these means, and others which may be de vised, a fund can be raised sufficient to employ good teachers at living salaries. While we do not think that district ing the conty will prove a panacca for all the ills to which the public schools are heir, we do think it will have a re vivifying effect. We have an object lesson upon this subject before our eyes daily. We are in a special district, which, before its creation, had no school house of its own, but had a divided school population. Now we have two acres of land, and have built and paid for a school house costing about $400, are running five months this term, and next year mean to have at least seven months' and per haps eight. The patrons are sympa thetic and alive to education and al ways stand ready to aid the school in every way. Can not this condition of affairs be brought about over the entire county? We think so. With districts laid off in the county, and owing their own school-house; with patrons alive to the needs of the schools, and demanding education for their children, and with properly paid teachers and an eight month's term, our dear old county will experience such a boom in education as she has never known. Let every one put his shoulder to the wheel and bring this about. T. WV. K. Attention, Teachers! The next meeting of our Association will be held at Johnstone's Academy, April 9th. Be there and be ready to "speak out in meetin'." We want the views of all on the subjects to be dis cussed: PROGR'A3D[E FOR APRIL 9TH. Education-Geo. B. Cromer. Relation of the common schools to colleges-Dr. G. WV. Holland. Reading in our schools-Mis Janie Chalmers and F. W. Higgins. Necessity of the Bible being read in schiool-Thos. W. Keitt, Mrs. Reid, Miss Crooks. Fractions-Messrs. Sligh, Evans and Jennings. HJggh Position for Ex-Governor Thonwpson. [S~pecial to Greenville News.] SPA RTANBURG, S. C., March 23.-A special to the Herald from Columbia says that ex-Governor Hugh S. Thomp son, now one of the civil service com missioners, has been tendered the posi tion of actuary for the New York Life Insurance company at a salary of $10, 0010 a year and that he has accepted. This is a high compliment to the ability of one of Greenville's sons and will gratify Governor Thompson's mnny friends in this State.