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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1893. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR ICE BRIDGE AT NIAGARA. Grandeur and Majesty in Frozen and Mai sive Forms-Frost King's Fantastic Tricks. [New York Herald.] The ice bridge at Niagara Falls thi winter is the greatest that has bee known for years. The fame and beaut of it have spread for many miles, an from all parts of the State and from a' jacent Canada thousands have gon and many more will journey before th season is over to behold one of the mo wonderful sights in the world--the gre cataract in the glory of its full wintE dress. Railroad trains are arriving an departing erowded with travellexs fror far and near, and the New York Cer tral has been compelled to put on exti cars to accommodate the rush. The Prospect House, on the Amer can side, is open and in full swing, an has as many guests almost as it evE has, even in summer. The incline Railway is running, the guides are o hand, the much maligned backman -ibiquitous. but on runners instead wheels, the curiosity and souven shops and the photographers, are a doing a good business, and the town i full of strangers. The good people< Niagara have not been able to go t sleep, as usual, for an all winter's na -like a hibernating bear-but have t hustle to entertain the unusual rus: of tourists. There never has been an3 thing quite like it in winter at Niagar Falls before. , THE ICE BRIDGE. Rarely has the rushing torrent of tb Niagara River been so choked wit the boulders of ice as it is now.. The lie piled in Titanic heaps, as thoug in some mighty battle of the giant; the combatants had used as missilE these monstrous frozen rocks and le: them as they are-heaped in tumultu ous masses. Below the falls the rivE is covered with these heaps of ice in compact and frozen.mass. The snoi that has fallen since the ice gorge be gan has rounded and smoothed ovE the rough edges of the ice, and the is bridge now extends in an unbroke stretch of a quarter of a mile froi where the angry stream swirs towar the American side up almost to th boiling caldron into which the watt makes its giant plunge from the clii above. All around the foot of the catarac the never ceasing spray has frozen a it fell and built up monstrous mound of ice, which have grown higher an higher during the proionged cold sna until now some of these -uriouDl shaped hills of solid ice and frozen vs por tower ambitiously to more tha half the height of the cataiact itsel The gracefully swelling curves of or of these frozen mounds must be fully hundred feet in height, its apex bein only about sixty feet- below the top< the falls. -- A SCENE OF GRANDEUR. - 2. On all sides, from the ice fields, ris strange, fantastic stalagmites of soli ice, formed, like the mounds, from th accumulation. of frozen vapor; whi] from the shelving rocks above han * monstrous icicles and stalactites. Ti * weird grandeur of their effect is ir creased, by the great clouds and jets < vapor-which rise here and there. I th'e frosty air they look exactly lii clouds of steam bursting from ti frozen sea below,-and you find it difi cult to convince yourself that the suri ing flood beneath the ice is not literal] at boiling heat and that the white vi por is not indeed jets of steam. An as you gaze awe struck upon the wor derous scene you hear nature's musici accompaniment to this frozen epic. the deep diapason of the cataract hoarse roar. Nothing can be grander or more m: jestic than the wonderful cataract -its winter garb, nothing more strikir than the stormy torrent below, strug gling through its fetters of ice, ever moment breaking off huge r ieces at sending them angrily down into ti whirlpool, where poor Captain Web and so many more brave but foolhard men nave lost their lives. THE SPICE OF DANGER. It gives you a momentary shiver you stand upon an ice hammock an look off toward the wicked, black to: rent, realizing that the same rushin, treacherous waters are surging unde the ice beneath your feet. You remen ber to have read how suddenly th Niagara ice bridge has broken upi previous years, and you turn to yot guide and ask him if there is always warning and sufficient time to clambe back to shore. He reassures you an points to the men and boys with sied and toboggans and barrel staves coasl lng down the sides of the smaller ic bill, and then, with a smile, to th temporary houses which have bee erected on the ice. But you knoi there is a spice of danger and it adds 1 --your enjoyment. Roads and paths have been cm through the icy hummocks connectir the Canadian and American shores, an along these pathways are little fran: houses and booths, where jired an hungry tourists may rest and refree themselves. There are fires in thes little refreshment houses and you ma sit and warm yourself if you are colt DIDN'T FEEL THE COLD. But it is astonishing, by the way, ho much cold you can stand without ti least discomfort up at Niagara. You s most expect to freeze if the thermor eter goes down below zero in NewYor) and when your guide shows you it six degrees below on the ice yc - can scarcely credit it, for you are ling through your veins like wine Whether it is the exercise of scram bling over the rough ice or the grandeui of the scene, or both together, you d< not know, but you certainly do not fee: the cold at Niagara if you wrap uF i moderately well and keep your feel and ears well protected. But if you are not cold there is at d appetizing odor of hot sausages and steaming coffee coming from one of the cabins-"hOT sAssjES"-is the wa3 the proprietor spells and writes it, and you go in and refresh yourself. Lt COATED IN SILVER. r Then you climb back to the shorE d and you find as you go that you and n everybody you meet are covered literal i- ly from head to foot with a silver mai: a of ice. It is the spray from the fall. which has enveloped you and whic i- -has frozen the moment it touches you d Your mustache has turned white in at r instant, so has your hair and so havE d your eyelashes. The effect of thesE a moving figures clad in ice is exceeding is ly odd and picturesque. THE FROST KING IN THE PARKS. ir But who can describe the work of the Frost King amid the trees and tht s shrubbery along the shores above-the wonderful transformation which ha: Sbeen wrought by the heavy coating of p frozen spray and ice, which completely 0 covers every tree and shrub and rock and hillside. Who can picture the weird, fantas a tic, fairyland effects of acres of such forests of dainty tracery? The evei rising mist, the clouds of spray from e the Falls, have touched every exposed b object, freezing as they fell. The long y continued cold snap and the frequen b snowfalls have thickened this enamel l, ng until the result is indescribably s beautiful and picturesque. A drivt ft through Prospect Park, on the Ameri can side, across the Suspension Bridg( r and through the Victoria Park, in Can a ada, is a never ending series of delight v ful surprises. :- The trees nearest the shore and most er exposed to the spray are so completely e covered that not a spot on trunk, of n branch, or a leaf of the original tree is n visible. The sleety covering is not d transparent. The spray has frozen a e translucent white with a glaze of icE r over it, which sparkles in the sunlight f' with prismatic effects, like nillion: and millions of priceless gems. It is a; t though each tree had been carved from a frozen snow and crusted with diamondi s and jeweis by some workman of mar d vellous skill, who has followed all the p delicate tracery of the-treein-its-every y detail of leaf and bud. n DR. LYMAN ABBOTT LIKES WINE. f. . ,e Bather a Pecuiar Address to a Woran' a Christian Temperanoe Union. g LNew York World.) Re". Dr. Lyman Abbott preached before the Woman's Christian Tem perance Union at Plymouth Church: dlast night. The church contributiot for the evening was donated to thi e temperance cause. eDr. Abbott started out with the an gnouncement that he was opposed t< the eff'orts made by the Woman' Christian Temperance Union to havy a prohibition liquor law placed upor nthe statute books. e"I am opposed," he said, "to the Sprohibition law because it is an idea: law, and because the majority of oul Ypeople would not favor such an enact ment. The few have not the right d however good their intention, to im pose upon the many. "We miiust net put the temperanci _question upon a false basis," he added "For myself, I like the taste of wine find really believe that a glass of win' with my dinner would be beneficial !< nme. Neither do I believe that I hay' the right to say that every moderat< gdrinker will die a drunkard, nor have;] the right to say to any man that hb dshall not taste a glass of wine or beer eAll alcoholic drinks are not poison. bbelieve with ex-President Woolsey, o Yale College, who said: 'If any mar dares to say to me I have no right t< drink I will open a bottle on the step of Centre church.' s "On the osher hand," continued Dr d Abbott, "wine for me would do other r- more harm than all the good I wouki ~, gain by it. I ean not by any act of min r help on the awful misery which liquo - brings to man. It does little good fo e us to preach to the pew about temper n ance and then spread a half dozei ir brands of wine at our New Englau< a dinner. It is not wrong of itself t< ir drink wine or beer. If it is, Christ wouk d never have made it, as he is said to havy is done in the Scripture. -"To say that there were twvo kinds c e wine, fermented and unfermented, an' e that he made only the latter, is a yer; n unscholarly statement. But liquor ha e come to be the curse e f our modern life o We have a right to regulate its traffE to-day; yes, to prohibit it. So has it man a right to catch and tame a woll g but he may not be able to do it. I d may not be wise to try it. le "I am in favor of any temperanc d Ilaw that the community in which h Ilive favors. That is the only practica e ble law both for me and for the comJ y munity. I am in favor, as the law is ir 3. this State, of selling liquor; we hay the right to limit the trafiic to sucd men. In this city, however, we hay w met with poor success in picking ou ie such men. In Sweden they have - law that none can make any profi :i- from selling intoxicating liquor. Th 2, State itself has control of the traffic. is am not so sure, however, that if th~ lui same law were in force under th -11 ipresent government of this city th WHAT IS THERE I THIS? If True the State Loses Something Like Cl $100,OOO-Gov. Tillman Should Explain. [The State.] 1O Governor Tillman has not answered PE the questions propounded to him by lir The State, Monday. He does not care ye to say anything on the subject of the of refunding of the debt. tei The principal question The State asked him was this: in "Is it true that Blair & Co., No. 33 bo Wall street, New York, babkers rated tic at over $40,000,000, ofiered par for the lit I issue without cost to the State, on con- of dition that the. principal and interest should be payable in gold?" co Governor Tillman does not dony that pa such an offer was made, and in view of th assurances to us that it was made, we ne have to conclude that such was the bo case. Why, then, did the Governor ga refuse an offer which would have saved wl the State $130,000 in commission to the * brokers, and the fees of Mr. Colvin be Rhind of Augusta, Ga., besides? Why? an Was it because the Farmer's Alli- fir ance might have called him a "gold tw bug" if he accepted it? Was it because bo there is a prejudice in that organization th against recognizing gold i.s superior to silver or governmental promisesto pay? elE Or was it because there would have wE been no money in such a sale, without oa commissions, for the Governor's Gi friends? of Does the Governor expect gold to go an above par within twenty years, and to ch be therefore unavailable? If so, why? ha Does he think that South Carolina lai cannot pay her bonds in gold as well an as the great corporations which have th issued gold bonds? If so, why? oa Give us reasons, 0 Governor! You oa leave us to believe that you have done an this thing at a cost to the taxpayers of pe from $130,000 to $150,000, and you do Or not tell us why. The people are en titled to the facts. If you have rejected en such an offer, tell them why. ex Why, Governor, why? an MORE LOSS FOR TAXPAYERS. it [Greenville News.] tu It appears that an offer was made to a place the bonds of this State for three- th fourths of one per cent. if they were made payable in gold. Three-fourths of la one per cent. would have been, on $6,- ca 000,000 of-bonds, $45,000. Instead of that we have a currency bond and have paid pr two and a quarter per cent., which on the $6,000,000 is $135,000. That is $90, 000 clean and clear out of the pockets of . the taxpayers. In fact, the loss may is be more. The Columbia Register, ad- p ministration organ, tells us that gold hi bonds would have commanded a pre- fo mium. We suppose it speaks by an thority. Suppose that premium had been but one per cent-suppose the M State had received $101 for every $100 u of her bonds? According to the Reg- , Iister's statement that would have saved $60,000 on the total issue. In- o stead of that we are to pay $135;000. Ci The totald loss is, therefore, $135,000 in plus $60,000, equal to $195,000 clear loss by not having gold bearing bonds. D The Register says the Legislature ar would never have consented to a gold m bond. That may be true, although weS suspect the Legislature would have til voted for gold bonds or anything else m the Governor called for. It was his Legislature, chosen to suit him, and l Idid as he wanted done. It is imma. gr terial however, whose fault it is. The people of this State will know that,B however it came about, $195,000 of their hard earned money has been losta in the deal. If they are willing to pay that much vi for a settlement against gold, or be- to cause this is "a silver State," they have v the right to do so. It is, however, rather a high price for a matter of sen timent for an administration supposed to be rigidly practical. Cl The Country Editor. f[Atlanta Journal.J fi 1in the course of an editorial on the m great Democratic victory of last No- hi vember, the Richmond Christian Ad- at vocate says: cc Mr. Cleveland won because the coun- w Stry editor worked well the mute but qi magnetic and -mighty leverage that fo Slifts men.G rThe Journal has all along found tb rpleasure in yielding to the brethren of c -the weekly press the amplest credit for pa 'the telling work they did in the last, is as in previous campaigns, and we en- P 'dorse heartily the epigrammatic trib- al ute paid them by our Richmond con- hi Stemporary. t The change in the nature of political ti' fcampaigns in recent years has given it Sthe press steadily increasing power. at SFormerly, it was the stump speaker in Swho reigned supreme. Now, it is the n newspaper and the political pamphlet tI that turn the fortunes of the ballot box. nC SEspecially since Mr. Cleveland's ad- t vent in our politics have our national g( contests been campaigns of education, hi and in that work the newspaper has w been the principal factor. Tbe daily S~ and periodical press has, of course, hb -been the fountainhead of information, tI -but it has been through the country nl rweeklies that it has reached the people ~ and done its most effective work. For th that reason we say again, with our e Richmond contemporary, all honor to ca the country editori Without the means-at hand for comn bating it, a cold may prove more dan gerous than the small pox. No family is safe unless provided for such an co emergency. In sudden attacks of cold, se croup, asthma, etc., Ayer's Cherry Pec- w tor-ol is an invalnuah1e specific.e PROSECUTING THE GIDEON -TES. Lairman Wilson, of the North Carolin Third Party Arrested. RALEIGH, N. C., January . ho Wilson, chairman of the People irty State committee of North Carc a, was arrested in this city, and o: sterday was bound over in the sur $500 for his appearance at the Marc] ,m of Wake Superior Court. The charge against Wilson is belong g to and promoting a secret oath und political organization in viola >n of a statutory law of North Carc a, passed by the General Assembl; 1870-71, as follows: "If any person, for the purpose c rnpassing or furthering any politica rty or organization, or for resistin; e laws, shall join or in any way con ct or unite himself with any oath und secret political or military or nization, society or association c iatsoever name or character, et< * Every person so offending shal deemed guilty of a misdemeanoz d upon conviction thereof shall b ed not less than ten nor more thai o hundred dollars, or imprisoned, o th, at the discretion of the Judge c e Superior Court." About two weeks prio: to the lat ction it was discovered that ther is in existence in this State a secre th-bound political Order known a deon's Band; that it was composei members of the Farmers' Allianc d numbered several thousands. Th ief object of the organization seems t, ve been the defeat of Grover Cleve d. The Order existed in Georgii d several other States, and it is sai< at every member was bound by a: th to vote against Cleveland. Th th of initiation appears to have beei iron-clad one, and it is said th nalty for betraying the secrets of th der was death. The organization had been in exist ce over a year, it seems, before it wa posed by Ex-State Lecturer Bell any other member of the Alliance, afte bad captured that organization any rued out all the officers of the Alli ce who refused to support the Thir rty Movement. The exposure, it ought, largely contributed to th -ge Democratic plurality whic] rried the State for Cleveland. [t is likely that a large number c osecutions will follow the trial c ilson, as eleven of the twelve prose ting attorneys, or solicitors, of th ate are Democrats, and the deman imperative that the Gideonites b nished. Among the charges set forth in th 1 of indictment against Wilson is tb ,lowing: "That S. Otho Wilson on the 17th c ay, 1892, used a certain sign for ti rpose of the promotion and advance ent of the following political object eventing the endorsement by certai the d"legates attending the Stat nvention of the Democratic part) the city of Raleigh, of the appoin1 ent of delegates to the Nations mocratic Convention in Chicagt d also endeavoring to cause certai: en to be elected to public office in tib ate; that the signs used were the put ig forth of the tongue from thn oth, drawing the hand across th outh, and a certain password, nam< , 'Three hundred,' and also a certai It will he remembered that after thn mination of State officers Presider: .itler, of the Alliance, and a conside) le number of other Alliance delegate tbdrew from the Democratic Coi ution and would not vote for ele< rs or delegates to the National Coi ntion. THE FIGHT Is ON. tester Makes Up a Case to Test the DIt penisary Law, [Green ville News.1 COLUMBIA, S. C., January 26.-Th st move in the dispensary fight WE ade to-day when a petition was rea, fore the supreme court for the isst ice of a rule to require the tow uncil of Chester to show cause why rit of mandamus should not issue rt iring them to grant a liquor licent r one year to W. S. Hoover an roveshal & Co. The petition showi at the council refused to grant I nses for the full year because of th ssage of the dispensary law. The ued a license for six months. Tb tition alleges that the act of 186 owing the town council to grar ense to sell liquors is mandatory an at the dispensary law is unconstiti >nal for the following reasons: Tha is an act to raise revenue for the Stat id sho!nE have originated in theHous stead of the Senate; that the bill wa t read three times in the house; thl e subject to which the act relates >t expressed in its title, as required bn e constitution; that it clothes tt vernor of the State with power pr< bited by the constitution; that powe as never delegated by the people< uth Carolina to enter into mercantil siness to zell spirituous liquors fc e purpose of revent::; that it wE ~ver delegated to the State goverr ent to create a monopoly for itself i e sale of liquors; that no power wa -er delegated to appropriate $50,000t rry on such business by the State. The court granted the rule to sho' use why a writ of mandamus shoul >t issue returnable April 18thn. To make the bair grow a nature lr, prevent baldness, and keep tin alp healthy, Hall's Hair Renewe s invented, and has proved itse: cnesfn1 I THE SNOLLYGOSTER. a "Col. Ham, of Georgia, Sab," Tells the Ori gin of the Word. .Atlanta Constitution.] S "Colonel Ham, of Georgia, sab!" That is the way the worshipers of Andrew Jackson, away up in the Buck 1 eye State have dubbed him, and that is 2 the way he will be called in the warr ing campaigns to come. Colonel Ham, the irrepressible, hit - the city from the Andrew Jackson ban quet at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday evening. 7 Entering the Kimball from the train-, kie pushed his high top silk hat from f his brow, so recently wreathed - with 1 another laurel, unbuttoned his big blue 4 overcoat, threw it back from his broad - shoulders, "sougod" his hands deep into - his side trouser pockets-Georgian that he is-and faced his many congratulat f ing friends with a broad smile and - many ready jokes. 1 It has been a great triumph for Colo nel Ham, and he is rapidly becoming e quite as fameus as he has made the 2 Georgia "snollygoster." He went from r Atlanta to Nashville, where he deliv f ered his first lecture on the "Georgia Cracker." The Nashville papers tell e that the lecture was one of the best 8 that has ever been heard in that city. t Governor Bob Taylor was on the stage s with Colonel Ham, and is quoted as i complimenting the "cracker Ohaucer" e very highly on the effort. e From Nashville Colonel Ham went 3 to the Columbus banquet, given in - honor of the patron saint of Democra " cy, Andrew Jackson. At this banquet i Colonel Ham distinguished himself and ' reflected credit upon the State from a which he hails. One thing he did at that banquet he has never done bofore, e and to Georgians who have kept at all e posted on the incidents of the recent campaign in the State it is a mattor of no little interest. He told the origin of s the term "snollygoster." And this is the way Ham gave the r history of this wonderful word: Turning around to face all the gay - revelers around that banquet board, the Columbus State Journal quotes the s Georgia orator at saying: "Perhaps I e can do no better by way of satisfying 2 the public curiosity as to what a 'snol lygoster' really is than to give you the tradition as I have heard it. f "Along in the forties there lived up - in the mountains of Rabun County, e Ga., a man named John Kelly. He had a limited education and an itch for e office. He ran for everything; going up by regular gradation from constable e to clerk of superior court and was de e feated every time, but nothing daunted tried at the next election for the nnxt f highest office. In 1848 it came time e for him to be a candidate for represen tative in the legislature. As there was at that time some talk of war with En Sgland over the Niagara incident he e announced as his platform that it was " the duty of the President to seize all the roads leading to Liverpool so as to Lprevent a salt famine in case of war. "As everybody recognized the necessity Sfor plenty of salt, it was a taking e slogan and Kelly was getting on swim mningly. e "Kelly's opponent was a tall, giuut e mountaineer named Jonas Gaines. He was a justice oftthe peace, and to use his Sown language, 'knowed all the law what wasn't tore out of the books.' e He had a wonderful flow of language, t using all the big words he had ever -heard and coining many more without sany reference to what they might mean, and yet, as such a man would natural ly, now and then said a really good Lthing. Superior court coming on in the very heat and burden of the can vass, a number of lawyers gathered at the county seat from all over the cir cuit, and the bright idea struck them of ,- bringing about a joint debate between Kelly and Gaines. "Kelly had the opening and made a long, and as one of the lawyers de e scribed it, 'a very able-bodied speech.' He fumed and foamed and ranted and worked his salt platform for all it was worth and sat down amid great cheer Sing. Then up rose Gaines, his tall form a towering high in the air, and working his long arms like the sails of a wind mill, and in a voice that could be heard dhalf a mile, proceeded, as he expressed it to 'take the hide off Kelly in fiakes as big as a hound's ear.' He 'skinned him bellywise up and backwise down,' 8dissecting his record, enumerating his various races, and among other things e said: 'Fellow-citizens, if there's any t thing on top side of earth that makes d nie mad, it's ter see a snollygoster of a feller a continually a sidwipin' taroun' after the orthography ov a littl~ offis what he kain't never git, and e hain't got sense enough to fill it if he .e could git it.' Finally he reached the s salt question, and raising himself on this tiptoes, he yelled: 'Liverpool, hell! s North Carolina salt is a durned sight I' saltier, an' there's a dozen roads to the e works." The effect can be better im agined than described. Kelly and his r followers fled thescene, and Gaines was triumphantly elected." e And so to this humble, but pictur resque source, was the Georgia orator a indebted for the word that has now by common consent come to stand for the SKelly class of demagogic politicians. s It is one of the curious .specimens of 0 native originality which now and then comes to enrich our language and fill a 'long felt want of something to do the subject justice. With a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pec toral in the house, you have an effect J ive remedy for all sudden attacks of e throat and lung troubles. An hour's r delay may lead to serious consequen tf ces. No household should be without this wonderful medicine. . APPALLING DEPTHS OF SPACE. Stellar Distances That Stun the Mind and I Baffle Comprehension. [London Daily Telegraph.] Sir Robert Ball, at the Royal Insti tution on Saturday afternoon, delivered the last of his lectures on astronomy. t He took for his subject "The Stars," those orbs which, though appearing so small to us, because of tLeir immense distance, are, in reality, great and i shining suns. 11, he said, we were to escape from the earth into space, the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and eventually the sun would become invisible; but, I far as we are from the stars, they still shine brightly to us. Many of these stars are heavier than our sun. For example, Mizar the middle star in the l tail of the Great Bear, is forty times as f heavy as the sun. To the naked eye there are five or six thousands of these C heavenly bodies visible. In all prob ability there are worlds revolving round e them. Sixty-one Cygni is the nearest star to us in this part of the sky. Alpha Cen tauri, in the constellation Centaur, in I the southern hemisphere, is the near est of all the stars. The sun is a long way off, 93,000,000 miles. Now, multi ply this by 200,000, and the result is, roughly speaking 20,000,000,000, and this is the distance we are from Alpha C Centauri. Take the speed of an elec- 1 tric current, which is nearly the c same a: that of light, 180,000 miles J per second-suppose a message to be c sent at this speed from a point on the t earth's surface, it would go seven times around the earth in one second. t Again, let it be supposed that messages were sent off to the different heavenly f bodies. To reach the moon at this rate it would take about one second. t In eight minutes a message would get t to the sun, and, allowing for a couple of minutes' delay, one could send a message to the sun and get an answer all within twenty minutes. But to reach Alpha Centauri it would take three years; and as this is the nearest of the stars; what time must it take to get to the others? If, when Wellington 4 won the battle of Waterloo in 1815, the e news had been telegraphed off imme diately, there are some stars so remote t that it would not yet have reached them. To go a step further, if in 1066 the result of the Conquest had been wired to some of these stars, the mes sage would still be on its way. If the tidings of the first Christmastide in Bethlehem had been sent to the stars, there are some orbs, situated in the furthermost depths of space, which could not receive the message for a long time yet. HE JUST MISSED HAYES. t The Long Shot of Col. Phillips, of Georgia -General Longstreet's Offce. An Atlanta special says: Rutherford B. Hayes was at one time the target of a Georgia Con federate. It was only by a scratch that his life was saved and that the Ohio colonel afterward be came president. The scene was on the Gouley river, in West Virginia. The Georgian who took aim was General William Phillips, of Marietta, and the time was 1861. For several days General Floyd had been skirmishing with General Cox 's Ohio troops at the "Hawk's Nest," a picturesque cliff rising over 1,000 feet from the river road. One fine morning General (then col onel) William Phillips heard a bugle blast near the "Hawk's Nest," across the river, and an Ohio colonel at the head of his regiment rode out into the river a good distance, as the rocks shelved gradually. Colonel Phillips selected a long-range rifle from one of his men, and, raising his weapon, took deliberate aim at theI union officer. The distance was great, but Phillips was a fine shot, and at the crack of the rifle a plume from the Ohio colonel's high hat fluttered out into the water, and the officer dashed up the bank out of range. In 1878 General Phillips was inWast ington and saw the presIdent. He said something about "Hawk's Nest" and his aim at an Ohio colonel. President Hayes brightened up and inquired into the details. Then the president said that he was the Ohio colonel whose hat was grazed -by Phillip's bullet. That night General Phillips toclk tea at the private family table of the Hayes family. It is not generally known, but it is a fact, that General Longstreet was of fered the portfolio of postmaster-gen eral in President Hayes' cabinet. At the last moment it was discovered that General Longstreet was an enthusi astic Blaine man, and as Hayes want ed John Sherman to be the nominee in 1880 the cabinet was recast and Col. D. M. Key was appointed to represent the ex-Confederates and General Long street was sent as minister to Turkey. General Longstreet tells this himself. Harmony in the Household. LFromn Puck.] Mrs. Brace-Do you and your hus band ever disagree? Mrs. Chace-No, indeed! At least my husband never does. The Plain Truth Is good enough for Hood's Sarsaparilla. -there is no need of embellishment or sensationalism. Simply what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story of its merit. If you have never realized its benefits a single bottle will convince: you it is a good medicine. The highest praise has been won by Hood's Pills for their easy, yet efficient I action. Sold by all druggists. Price s 2Rcanta. WILL NOT BE BIG BARKEEPER. dr. R. S. Bill, of Anderson, Desllnes tho Appointment Tendered by Governor Tillman. [News and Courier.] ANDERSON, January 25.-On seeinj he statement in the The News ani ,ourier to-day to the effect that Gov rnor Tillman had appointed Mr. R 3. Hill, of this city, State dispense] inder the Evans law, your correspond nt called on Mr. Hill to learn whethe ie had been notified of the fact anc vhether he would accept the appoint nent. Mr. Hill stated that he had receivei 6 communication from Secretary o: tate Tindal this evening informing im that on having the inclosed bond illed out and returned the Governor vould send him a commission as StatE lispenser. Mr. Hill was very muel urprised that he should have beer elected for the position, as he was nol n applicant for it, and stated that hE vould have to decline to accept it. HE xpressed his appreciation of thecom liment to his business ability, know ng the office to be one of great respon ibility and trust. Mr. Hill's refusal is not a surprise tc is friends. He could not accept the ppointment without a serious sacrificE f his large business interests. He is resident of the Farmers' and Mer hants' Bank and manager of the llliance store here, and has large mer antile interests in other portions of he State as well as in Georgia. This makes the second appointmeni endered by Governor Tillman to at knderson man, both of which were re used. The Governor tendered Dr. V. H. Nardin the superintendency o1 he Asylum some months since, bul he Doctor declined it. LAMAR'S LASH. How the Earnest .Sontherner.Floored Zach Chandler. The death of Justice Lamar has re alled his well known devotion to the onfederacy, and' his love for the leadel if the lost cause was productive of one if the most dramatic scenes in the his ory of the Senate. The Mexican pen ion bill was under consideration and n amendm;nt pended extending itf ,rovisions to all veterans irrespectiv f their course in the war between the tates. It was near adoption. Con. ,ress, it was said, could best show it: lesire to forgive and forget by extena ng the benefits of the measure to thosi who had once borne arms against the ommon country. The amendmen1 was near adoption when Senator Zacl 'handler came to his feet with a shor peech, in which he said that while it he main he agreed to the genera enor of the amendment, yet under it )rovisions even Jeff Davis would bi -estored to citizenship. "And," he dded, "I am not prepared to go so fa: is that." Lamar arose. His intense excite nent was evident. Between him ani ~handler a strong personal antagonisn xisted. An outburst was expected ani t came. "Mr. President," said the Mississip ~ian, with outstretched finger pointing it his foeman, his tall form trembling with emotion, but his voice bell-like is ts clearness and without a quiver in it When Prometheus lay bound to the ~ock it was not the king of beasts wh< ivailed himself of his distress. It wa 2ot any other of the nobler brutes c :he field or birds of the air. It was th Lulture, the scavenger of the anims kingdom gluttoning upon carrion which preyed upon his vitals, knowini hat in a defenceless man, who could move neither hiand nor foot, he had >ne into whose vitals he could dig hi beak." He sat down amid a stillness so prc found that the rustle of a paper soundet barshly. Chandler was deadly pale Drops of perspiration stood upon hi forehead and he clinched the arm of hi yhair until the strained wood creaked [t was expected that he would reply rwice he half rose then sank back. H id not reply. Hostnle to a Benefactor. [From the Philadelphia Record.] Mr. Pullman of car fame, whose mei re contented and have never had strike, counted on 2,000 majority fo Harrison in Pullman, Ill. "To mn: urprise," he says, "Cleveland carrie< ~he place by 600." One of his hand s thus quoted: "We are satisfie< s to our wages and treatment, bu we notice that we do not trave round the country in a private ca md send our families to Europe We concluded that we would pull somi >f the tail feathers out of old Pullman' lume just to see how he liked it." Intense Cold in the Northwest. ST. PAUL, Jan. 25.-An intense col< vave formed over the northwest terri ories, and the mercury throughon ~finnesota last night dropped to ai larming extent. Yesterday morninj Sheavy storm set in. At Calgary Swift Current, and Winnipeg the tem serature is now 25 degrees below zero td the crest of the wave has nol yassed. Terror. [Indianapolis Journal.] "Did you ever see a ghost?" "Once." "Were you scared?" "Was I scared? Was I? My falsi eeth were on a table three feet away rom the bed, and they actually rattled o loud that they woke the neigh ~ors.. "Other" Great Men. [Greenville.News.] A correspondent directs our atten tion to this passage in an interview of Senator J. L. M. Irby printed in the New York Sun: "I do not believe he is going to punish me for opposing him, for if he does he should also punish all the other great men in the party who were equally opposed to his nomination." Our special consideration is asked for that word "other"-"all the othergreat men in the party." We confess we see no harm in that word "other," The Hon. John L. M. Irby is not a statesman of very exalted position or broad views. He has not travelled a great deal. His political horizon is not a wide one, nor are his standards exalted. We think it very likely that he is accustomed to stack himself up against the Hon. B. R. Tillman, the Hon. G. W. Shell, Gen. R. R. Hemphill, the Hon. A. C. Lati mer, the Hon. J. L. McLaurin, Col. T. Lawrence Gantt, CoL Cal Caugh man, the Hon. J. William Stokes and other prominent reformers in his pro cesses of comparison. These are all great men. The Columbia Register, the Lexington Dispatch, the Abbeville Medium and the Anderson Peoples Journal and other cotemporaries of restricted circulation but unbounded talent and vast influence say they s!. Some of them have been offli.ily de clared to be great by resolutions of sub. alliances. So far as the Hon. B.- . Tillman is concerfed, we haveit on the authority of Lieutenant Governor Eugene Gary-who should know a great man when he sees him-that his career and characteristics are startling in their resemblance to thoseof Patrick Henry, and Associate Justice Pope dis turbed - the judicial atmosphere of a Charleston court room with thunder ous declarations that the governor was a second Andrew Jackson. In the land of Lilliput a man of six inches and a nail's thickness in height swaggered as a giant. We must allow people the privilege of considering their surroundings. With the distin guished citizens we have named as natural and appropriate standards of greatness, we think the Hon. John L. M. Irby has the right to class himself as a "great" man. We are in with him in the classification. If Governor Till man and General Hemphill and Dr. Stokes are great-and, as we- have pointed out, there is abundant local authority for saying that sheyar4her Hon. John L. M. Irby is Indispuaably great. He is not inferior to any of them in intellectual acquirement and equipment, in generous, broad states manship or in exalted patriotism. ' It would be, we should judge, impossible that he should be. Remembering the standards familiar to Senator Irby, recalling the require ments and attributes of greatness no1i prevalent in these latitudes, we think our correspondent will agree with us that in classing himself with the great men of the party who opposed Clev. land our junior senator was entirdly within his rights. George Washington, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, John SC. Calhoun and Thomas Jefferson uised Sto be regarded as the standardisof great ness in their respective lines of busi ness. Just now the country generally Sthinks of Grover Cleveland, John G. Carlisle, A. G. Thurman and men of Sthat kind as the great Democrats. None of these men, however, have e done or said the things or used the methods customary among the present leaders and representatives of South Carolina politics. We doubt If they could. Therefore they are not to be Sseriously considered as candidates for greatness according to the tests and standards familiar to the Hon. John L. M. Irby and the people of South Carolina generally in these later times. Causeless carping at the State Admin istration and~the evolutions, produe tions, emanations and miscellaneous works thereof is a great sin and we mean to battle with it sternly. We propose to do our part in theenlighten ment of the people regarding the real standards of virtue, greatness and merit and to apply the radiance of latter day thought to some musty Straditions. We are with Senator Irby r heart an dsoullin this issue and want to have it understood plainly as our j deliberate conviction that If Governor , Tillman, Senator Irby, Dr. Stokes, iGeneral Hemphill, the Hon. A. C. t Latimer, the Hon. J. L. McLauuin, 1 the Hon. G. W. Shell, and Assoelste r Justice Pope are great men, Washing ton, Marshall, Jefferson, Henry, Cal houn, Webster, Clay and Cleveland are not tobe taken, held or regarded as great. In the unaclassical but energetic language:of tbis blooming and boom ing period of the world's history, they are not in it. -roor Poetry but Good Bense. !From the Amusing Journal There is very little trouble That happens us to-day; It is the sorrows of to-morrow That drives our joys away. We son'etimes sit and wonder, And stew, and foam and fret, For fear something may happen, But it hasn't happened yet. There was once a lonely woman Who cried down by the sea; "What if my pretty children All should perished be!" Now this particular woman, Who thus did fret and fret, Is still a maiden lady So it hasn't happened yet,