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S I18 FASTAB3LISIID 1865. NEWBERRYv-LS*,C., WEDNESDAY, APRL1,19.PIE$.0AYA IVASHINGTON NEWS. Irby Comes Home for a Rest-Another ew berry Man [ooking Around the Capitol. CSpecial to News and C.urier.] WASHINGTo\, April 13.-Represen tative Brawley called upon Postmaster General Bissell to-day and had a long talk with him about potal matters in South Carolina. He informed metbat be had a very satisfactory conversa tion concerning the recent joint diseus sion, but he is not prepared to go into detail at this time. The first fourth-class postmaster in South Carolina since the "blacklisting" system was established was announced to-day. J. 0. J. Wood has been ap pointed at Greer's Depot, in Greenville County, vice H. P. Moore, resigned. It is'understood that this appointment was made at the instance of Represen tative Shell, but it has no bearing upon the pending controversy, which involves Representative-elect Strait, Latimer and McLaurin. Senator Irby, who has been indis posed for several weeks past, left Wash ington for home to-night. There is a general understanding that the work of the extraordinary ses sion of the Senate is about over, and many of the Senators have gone to their homes. Gen. Hampton was at the Capitol to day with Represeniative Brawley and Gen. Bradley T. Johnsn. General Hampton has appointed Mr. Thomas, of Columbia, private secretary to the commission of railroads. Mr. Thomas was formerly confidential clerk to Col. John Haskell. He will probably arrive here to-mo row and enter at once upon his new duties. L. P. Miller, of Newberry, is here looking for a comfortable berth under the present Administration. The nomination of Judge of the new Court of Appeals does not go to the Senate to-day. The friends of ex-Repre sentative Hemphill are not as _confi dent of his appointment to-night as they were a few days ago. At the While House no positive information - can be obtained on the subject. IRBY ENTERS HIS PROTEST AGAINST THE NOM INATION OF N. G. GON ZALES. [Special to The State.] WASHINGTON, April 18--Senator Irby left the city to-night for his home in South Carolina. . In an interview just before leaving he said: "All the stuf about nominations of South Caro linians is the wildest conjecture. Out of ait abundance of caution, however, I filed this afternoon with the President a solemn protest against the name of N. G. Gonzales for a consulate. I have been waiting for a week expect ing this nomination. It did not come in, if it comes in at all, before the ad journment of the Senate. My infor mation is that the nomination for the Judgeships of the Distiict Court of Appeals will be made to-morrow. The Senate will confirm them on Saturday, and an immediate adj->urnment will follow. I am going home and for the next ten days I expect to run red foxes for diversion. I will return in two weeks to Washington, to watch the in terests of my friends." As soon as tbe Senate adjourns, it is expected the appointments will begin to roll out of the White House. Mr. Cleve'ind complains, it is said, of the rush of visits of Senators and their e->nstituents. BRAwLEY ON HAND. Representative Brawley to-day ten dered his service to the Postmaster General if needed in the elucidation of the patronage problem. It may be stated with certainty that Irby has secured no concessions and no favorable assurance in that quarter. The acts of the Postoffice Department will in due time reveal its policy. Ne formal * announcement is expected. Gen. Ham rton will see the Post Oz bi ( before leaving for so e has deferred his it is probable that t me Demo their steps h1omewardA e ~rat ]ELONG, have reeeived an,d they are dthe Presi. to resent the indiglity to led. He eudl. Senlator Irby Is not %ef from although lhe realizes that th e is, is outlook is not as encouragTHe un might be. He says he gioii%tp it lively political fight and that tb~ ber ocratie organlizationl 'ill sustai cast in his demand that the Refo bhe shalhl have a fair distributin of a fruits of v ictory. R. M. - , Ho0w 3R. LATIMER w-AS ELECTED A m-rT oF UNPUTBLISH ED HISTORY. [News and Courier, Morch 30.] A genitiemanSI who is well known -.Lat Iumer's Conmgre$sonal distr gave a Re!porter for the News a Courier some info)rmtation concermi that gentleman'tls allege-d Third Pa atliliations which will be particula interestinig just at this time. The c v.estion camte up over the WVasb ton special pub*lishedl in~ Tuesday m11 inig's paper, in which it was sta that Cong essmianl A. C. Latime~r, gether with Messrs. Strait and Lauriu, way "blacklisted' at the P The gentlemian referred to had fa to see the article, and when it was I to him exclaimed: "So Latimier's - ture has bee:n turned to the wall, it7 Then it is w here it ought t~ bhen a Democratic Administratlc ~n power." Thinking possibly some explanationl of his views necessary the speaker continlue< discuss the subject, and furnished: .ects which will probably provei esting should "Hejadsmian'' Ma: cbance to see themi. "About weeAS ago." he said, "Latime going to visit Pickens County called for meetings to be held i pects to disappoint some with certain appointments, he neverthe!ess intends that his side of all such matters shall not be weak; and that fiough now and thet there will be a fight, he will stand justified and finally be sustained by the people; be does not say by the Demo crats always, and obviously is not act ing specially for applause from that quarter in all or even in a majority of cases. At the end of six weeks in the Presidency, he is content both with e what he has done and what he has re fused to do. He is buoyant except as to the pressure from office seekers; and they will hear something drop before long. THE WHISKERS AND THE MAN, How the Hair on His Face Dominates the C Wearer's Character. F LFrom the Detroit Free Press.1 t "Among the men I meet at intervals k on the road is a very intelligent fellow t from Boston," said a drummer. "He i is about 35, and with a capacity for I raising hair on his face beyond that of a any person I ever met. He has fun a with it, too, and he has his whiskers v in different shape every time-I meet g him. Now and then I don't know ii him, but he always comes up smiling, d and I catch on to the new man without li much difficulty. b "It's queer about whiskers," said he a the last time I saw him. 'Don't you u know they change tb character of the t: man.,' I didn't know it, and said so. i "They do, however," he continued, e "whether you know it or not. Now, I ( hare been hairy for twenty years t nearly, and in that time I have been all y sorts of men. For instance, when I wear p large, flowing videwhiskers with a d moustache, I grow gradually as they do, o and become quite dignified and self- b important. I can't help it, you know. f< Its whiskers oblige, as we say in French, and when I catch a look at myself in a m glass as I walk along I unconsdously E swell out and strut. I'm bound to do J it to match those whiskers. Then when A I cut off the moustache and ran the v sidewhiskers alone I never see that 1i mouth and chin back there but that it o makes me feel pious, and I begin to v assume the demeanor of a minister of 0 the Gospel. Can't help it, either, to f, save my life. Sometimes I go smooth- t: faced, and my character oscillates be- e tween priest and actor, according to the one of the crowd I'm in. I even get t: boyish sometimes and frisky when I t see my smooth, round face. b "Once, for the fun of it, I cut my il moustache a Ia prize fighter, short and b stubby, and, do jou know, before a 1 week I was a veritable tough, with my a hat cocked over my eye and my-general g manner provoking a slugging match at t: every turn. I was anxious for a fight t all the time, and only saved myself by l, shaving. When I wear a full, neatly t trimmed beard I feel exactly like a t banker or asuccessful professional mian, y and my manners after a little while t into fall that rut. I look it1 they tell me, ( and I can't help but be it. If I weaf a t moustache alone, long and silky. I feel e like a gay Lothario, and want to smile at and ogle every woman I see. I want to be one of the boys, too, and whoop it t up all along the line. When I add an e imperial to tbe moustache I throw my a shoulders back brace my muscles, and assume a military air. In one or two 'a of my towns I am known as Colonel, for I have always worn my imperial while there. "If I run my beard down to a point in the French style, I feel quite diplo matic, and can be as slick as the politest of them. I feel my shoulders shrug on the slightest provocation, and to all intents and purposes I am a foreigner. If I part my whiskers in the~ middle and brush them out to eith.er side. I am a German nobleman or a British land owner, according to my surround ings. It gives me a hale and hearty, middle aged feeling that shows at once in my manner. If the whiskers are let grow very long. I feel like apatriarchal farmer, and become quite elderly and innocent in my deportment. And so it goes through all the phases. "I fancy that the style of a ~innt whiskers is in consonance with $he man's character, and that as a man is so will his whbiskers be. In my case I have zeversed the operation, btut I feel as I grow older and become more set tled, that I shall adopt one style of whiskers and keep to that. Even now I am getting around to It, and have been wearing this close.cut full beard for almost six months and I don't feel like changing it." SThe heaviest income ever levied by a '.ivilized government was that imposed I on the people of the United States i ,1864, when, perhaps for the first jet so in human history patriotism was id .rong a passion that men really ng of itax which they might have ty tions A. T. Stewart's income tax rly posedear was $312,000 being I5 per >n want is income. One millionaire of 23 t.' swai who,alarmed at the long con t.-n eggsf the war, so disposed of his edtionl, e?voad that for one fiscal year t-South Q income, gave a true ac Jc- pri4-lege.affairs to the collector, and, >s-naster."'e with the latter's advice, i .rd TEwoI tax estimated on his in led - year before. pi- ESPtec*h- ed Blood has Wageulsfo taking Hood's ,as ersnalcleanliness re be talked 'o:ee use of soap and water. ui is in Cong purifier thoroughly expels that Irby's'.It rheunm and all other im was Mjr. rd huildyi up every organ of 1.o n Now is thme time to take it. ~one per.-ghest praise has been won by iter- weriL Ls for t heir eas'y, yet effi :well Lat. n. Sold by all druggists. ~bree nat! TILLMAN'S UNIQUE MISSION. [e Might Have Escaped a Good Deal of A Shenanagan by Sampling New York Whiskey. LNew York Sun.] Rarely has a Governor of any State f the Union undertaken a mission of tr reater interest than that in which the bi emocratic-Populist Governor of South s arolina is engaged at this time. Gov- w rnor Tillman has left the State to lay at i a stock of liquors for the consump ion of South Carolinians under the t ew law by which the State Govern- fi ient is empowered to conduct and rc Dntrol the liquor traffic of the State. t le has been in Pittsburgh upon that E usiness for the past few days; but we sF annot believe that he will make his k urehases in any such place; or at least 11 re do not believe that he will get any- n( ing else than his Monongabela whis- V ey there. For all kinds of liquors of be first quality, even for choice whis- at ey, he must come here to New York. 0 t is to this market that he must come re t last; and we are sure that, when he I rrives at the Grand Central Station, s rith the money In his pocket (we re- t ret to say that the credit of his State 1 i vague in Wall street), the principVl 11 istillers, brewers, wine makers, and t quor-shop keepers of the city, will do w im honor, furnish him with an escort, iarch behind his carriage in procession p Broadway, and show him all around w beir places of business. Give us a cir- y4 us like that, headed by the biggest bt quor dealer in all creation, the Gov- n< rnor of the old Palmetto State. The so ,olumbia parade, that's an old story: tt be naval review, that has not come off el et. The Carolina march, the Tillman ru rocession, with truck loads of barrels, emijohns, and bottles in the rear, dec rated with the flags of all the distil ries and breweries-there's a thought a )r the Governor. st Tillman will have to lay in a tre- ai 3endous stock for the supply of the tate, during the year beginning with s uly, when the new law goes into effect. ne Lt the time of the last census, there r( rere 1,151,149 people in South Caro na; and when we consider the amount fstrong and malt and vinous beverages d hich these people drink every month f the year, it may be possible to )rm an estimate of the amount of te rade that will be brought here by Gov- vi rnor TiUman. al We must suppose that, in justice to m he Government and people of the State, tc be.Governor will sample the E'quors C efore he buys them. He cannot trust bi nplicitly in the representations of b< rewers, distillers, and other dealers. w 'here are men among them, we are rry to say, who would not scruple to ol ive him a good deal of shenanagan ai rying toget his custem. He must test tc bings for himself, even though he may li ave to stay a good while in Nw York fr a do it. There are plenty of men in R be Palmetto Stats who know liquors ss rhen they taste them, or at sight, or w my smelt; and they will not allow any h< iovernor to palmi off poor stuff upon ci bem. If he tries that sort of game he w an never be re-elected. da The anxious eyes of the trade here 11 ill now be turned to the Grand Cen- w~ ral Station, lightened with the hope of atching sight of the best customer ever ti een in New York.w al The Axe that Once Was AdlaP's, Is in a Energetic Hands." d There's a rascal hlding office, And he ain't a Democrat; He has burnhhed up his mora's', And is asking 4 -e he's at, c He says he was neglectful Of the G. 0. P's demands: a The axe that once was Adlai's F Is in energetic hands. There's a man in Minnesota, And he humbly says: "I am A worker with the patriots Who are helping Uncle Sam." He never was offensive, And he.joined no campaign bands; f' But The axe that once was Adigi's .s in energetic hands. - d There's ipan in Mississippi, st Where the corn and cotton grow, p, Whbo says he's done his duty f And he ought to have a show, oi Re wasn't stuck on Benjy, al Everybody understands; r But: c ThA axe that once was Adlai's T Is in energetic hands. b They're thick from Maine to Texas, b They're in and want to stay; Nobody else is worthy,n According to their say; They rise above all parties.g They make but just demands; But: ci The axe that once was Adlai's Is in energetic hands. s4 All glory to old Adlai! Likewise to "smiling Bob," ir His loyal young vicegerent bl Well fitted for the job! bi Turn on the light of Jackson, ti Look at him as he stands, A With TI The axe that once was Adiai's at In his energetic hands. A What He Wanted. He-I have come to ask for your tand. ' She (Boston)-Well, I fear I could 0 tot endure t be surgical operation. I Ii *m afraid you will be forced to take me vith it. ti F Many Persons are broken down fkom overwork or household cares. Brown's Iron Bitters Rebuilds the Sytm aids deton reoves exce of b1ue, THE COURSE OF THE CYCLONE. Path of Destruction Through Many States -Towns Completely Destroyed-Some Persons Killed and a Number More or Less Injured. 0 TUNICA, MISS, April 3.-Tho down ain at 6 o'clock yesterday eveninig ought news that the towi of Robin nville, ten miles north of Tunica, as completely destroyed by a cyclone 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ot a house was left in a town of about ree hundred inhabitants, and as a >ishing touch to the destructive hor r the lamps burning in the stores set e houses on fire and all are in ashes. ven the depot building was not ared. The night operator's wife was lied and the day operator's wife badly jured. All the wires are down and > communication can be had save by icksburg and Jackson. The cyclone swept t he country west id east of the fated village and killed any people, mostly colored. It is ported that a colored school house on idia Creek, one mile west of Robin nville, was swept off aid about 7enty-five children were killed or are issing. The teacher, a woman, who trrowly escaped with her pupils about ree weeks ago in a cyclone at Tunica, as killed. THE DAMAGE AT JACKSON, TENN. JACKSON, TENN., April 13.-This city as struck by a cyclone at 5 o'clock sterday afternoon and dezens of ildings were wrecked, but there was ) loss of life, though a number of per ns were slightly injured. Every ing in the path of the storm was lev led, but the extent of damage in the tral districts cannou be learned. SHEPARDS, TENN., SWEPT AWAY. BROWNSTILLE, TENN., April 13.-A vere storm struck Shepard's, a small ation southwest of here, yesterday ternoon and totally demolished all ie houses there. Everything was de royed except the railroad tank. A ,gro girl was killed and several are ported injured. No damage was ine in this city, but houses and barns other portions of the county were stroyed. SEVENTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. MEMPHIS, TENN., April 13.-Seven en people were killed at Robinson lie, Miss., by yesterday's cyclone, id a half hundred wounded. A few iutes after the tornado struck the wn fire broke out in the debris of a hinese-laundryand mass of wreckage - irned all night and to-day. Several >dies of those ailled by falling houses ere burned to a crisp. Two clouds, one from the east and ie from the west, met over the town id then began a rotary motion, which re up houses and snapped huge trees :e stems. The cyclone then moved om the west from the Mississippi iver,' a distance of seven miles, and vept all before it. Mrs. Emma Lusk, ife of the night operator, was in her use with her husband and three zildren. The husband got out, the oman was killed, and the three chil en were blown one hundred yards trough the air. They were naked hen found, but uninjured. Isaac Chapman was crushed under te ruins of his house and bur ned along Ith three other negroes, whose names e unknown. The body of an old egress was found to-day in an open eld. It is probable that she was ropped there by the wind. The prop ty loss in town will reach $100,000. hirteen stores, sixty residences, three iurches and ahundred negro cabins ere destroyed. The residence, gins and negro cabins .i the plantations of C. L. Robinson d G. WV. Foster are all swept away. ive hundred people are homeless. A umber of wounded were brougnt to [emphis to-day. TH E DESTR UCTION OF' YPSIL ANTI. DETROIT, April 13.-12.45a. m.-The llowing dispatch has been received om Ypsilanti: This city is in ruins. cyclone struck it to-night, coming om the southwest and sweeping ierything in its path. Thousands of llars of damage has resulted. The orm took a strIp through the business artlon of the town, moving houses om their foundations and raising hbers. The Clary Business College 3d Curtis Carriage Factory are in iins. The Hawkins House and the ccidental Hoted are badly damaged. he roofs of half the stores have been own off. Twenty store fronts were nashed in. In Huron street the rub sh is piled ten feet high. The post fice building was demolished and the ail scattered in the street. All tele ~aph, telephone and electric light ires are down, leaving the city in >mplete darkness. Everyi.ody is up atching property that has been ex sed to the storm. No one was hurt verely. Later-2 o'clock.-The work oz clear ig up is going on as rapidly as possi le at this time of night. No dead )dies have been found, although it is zought that some persons were killed. few were probably fatally injured. he loss of property, it is now esti ated, will reach $200,0.00 or more. NOTHER MICHIGAN TOWN DESTRQYER YesILANTA, MIpH., A pril IS.--A re 3rt has reached here that the town of aline, in Washtenaw County, nine tiles south of this place, was wiped at by the cyclone last night. Saline on the Lake Shore and Michigan authern Railroad, and has a popula on of 1,200 or 1,400. URTHER CYCLONE CASUALTIES IN MICHIGAN. WASH INGTON, A pril 13.-In the Vi nity of Tnnree, Michign,n twenty-. ftve houses and thir y barns were de troyed. One woman was killed and i number of people badly hurt. At Royal Oak, Michigan, among the bouses wrecked was one belonging to Christian Brick. Brick and his wife were caught in the wreck, which took tire and they were burned to death. A.t Clarksvi le, Mich., one woman was killed. KILLED BY THE CYCLONE IN MISSOURI. ST. Louis, April 13.-Latest reports rrom the cyclone in Missouri show ight persons killed at Hawkins Bank ind thirty-one seriously injured, of whom five will die; at Lexington five t lead and three fatally injured; at Stan bury three dead and two fatally injured; b it Steelton seven dead; at Page City v )ne dead and five fatally injured. h FATAL RESULTS NEAR HIGGINSVILLE, r MISSOURI. HICGINSVILLE, Mo., April 13.-In tbe path of the storm between May view and Lexington eight persons were killed outright, and three more will a probably die from their wounds, and ' twenty-five were wounded. SEVEN KILLED AT COUDSAY. SALE, Mo., April 13.-Seven persons t were killed and seven seriously injur(d I it Coudsay in Wednesday's cyclone. d THE STORM IN LOUISIANA. b NEW ORLEANs, LA., April 13.-A b ,yclone struck Tensus Parish, in North C Louisiana last evening and did great amage, destroying many houses, d barns, gins and negro quarters. One a negro was killed in the neighborhood t -f St. Joseph, and several women were i Beverely iBjured. Reports are slowly b reaching points of communication and I ire to the effect that there has been much lcss of property. A PROPHET HONORED AT HOME. I Prof. Hicks Foretold the Great Storm and St. Louis Regards Him With Awe. ST. Louis, April 12.-Prof. Ira Hicks t tands at the head of the class to-day as I i weather prophet. Prof. Hicks prints b i little n:nthly newspaper called t Word and Work. It is devoted almost c ?xclusively to writings on weather. 8 The April number, printed on the first >f the month, said much about the 8 wea' her. On last Thursday Prof. Hicks t printed in an evening newspaper this il statement taken from the Word and t Work as an immediate warning: V "A combination of causes to conspire t it the opening and during the entire f, nontlh of April which re.calculated to r produce disturbances of maximum I 3everity, and which will overthrow the a storm periods in their natural state. u Nevertheless, the most marked and y dangerous will be centered on or about s the central dates of regular. storm periods. The first period extends from I the 2d to the 6th. We name the 3d, 4th r nd 4th as danger centers. As we enter ' the period it will grow very warm in westerly parts and heavy storms of thunder, rain, hail, and tornadoes will develop and travel eastward, turning a to snow and sleet in northerly sec- I tions.~ "These disturbances will feel the combined forces of Mars, the earth, Venus, Mercury, and the moon in1 opposition. Expect a general cold wave to sprean over the country as the storms a pass to the eastward, and .prepare for r frosts and considerable freezing north- a ward in the etervening days andr nights prior to the 9th and 10th. 1 "On and about these days it will grows suddenly very warm, and reac tionary storms will appear in many I parts and with marked energy. From the 10th to the 13th will be a period oft great aud unusual storm changes, andc almost unexampled wind, hail, andc rain will visit the Western States, the t maximum of severity being central in t the Mississippi and Missouri valleys." 1 Copsidering what happened yester- t day in the sections mentIoned. Prof. I Hlicks's reputation on weather to-day t took a bulge equal to that made byc ~May wheat in Chicago. Prof. Hicks t this evening is out with more predic tions. He says:t Between the 13th and the 18th ther whole country will feel the effect of a] very warm wave, and storms of great la violence are to be apprehended on r about the15th,16th, and17th. The 17th is the central day of the Venus pertur bation, which lasts with growing power for about twenty days before and with increasing energy for about twenty days after the central day, so that the Venus charaicteristics, hail, start ling electrical phenomena, enormous dow npours of rain, and sudden changes from hot to cold, may be looked for during all the disturbances covered by the Venus period. The disturbances from the 13th to 18th will not be pro longed by existing causes into the reoctionary storms due about the 21st1 and 22d. "Be ready for destructive hail storms and very sudden changes to cold. The 26th is the central day of the last period for the month, which period embraces the 2.5th to the 28th, inclusive. Pauring, this perio4 it will grow very warm aain, and Inany storms of rain, hail, , and thunder will travel from~ th~e West to East across our continent, After the storms look for cold and frost. The raonth promises to end very cool, and toradoes are almost certain to be a feature of the storms in many places in April." I The St. Louis people are willing to bank on the proposition that Hicks knows what he is talking about. Increase the appetite by the use of E Ayer's Cathartic Pills. They cause i the stomach, liver, and bowels to per form their functions properly, do not debilitate, by excessive stimulation, I and are not irritating in their action. As an afterdinner Pill they are un-1 eqaled. A BIG FISH. KPJor DuBose Catches the King of Hominny Pot. [Abbeville Press and Banner.] Major DuBose, a gentleman of color, rought to town last Monday morning be largest cat fish that was ever in the Lbbeville market. Its dimensions vere: Length from nose to tail 37 inches. Length across the head 7 inches. Length between the eyes 5 inches. W eight........................233 pounds. It lived about one hour after being iken from the water. It was sold to Messrs. Henry & Cheat am for $1.50. When dressed it reighed 19 pounds'-six pounds of ead, and 13 pounds of steak. It sold adily at 12- cents. This monster was caught in the his )rie hole in the Savannah River rhich is known far and near as "How 3y Pot," and connected with which re interesting and exciting legends of bipwrec < and death. In former years, before the railroads rere built, and wh en the cotton of this ountry was transported by pole boats D Augusta, this whirl pool was a oted place of danger, which was readed and carefully avoided by all oatmen. After the cotton crop had yund a new outlet to the great markets f the world, the business of transport ig freights up and down the river windled and became unprofitable, nd when the boats had ceased to make beir regular trips this vortex of turn 3g water passed from view and was >r a time almost forgotten by the pub ic mind. In more cases than one this same lominy Pot has figured in the records f our Courts. The State in her majesty has called er sons to account for the deeds of eath which had been perpetrated in ts waters, and citizens have appealed D that tribunal of justice and equity or judgment against those unlucky oatmen who had been entrusted with reasure, and whose crafts had been rushed and sent to destruction by its urging waves. Later on, after those waters that had o often sent death or destruction to bose men and boats that had fallen ato their embrace and whose power bey were unable to resist, these waters, ?hen nothing came before them, made heir peaceful circuits night and day )r many a year. Its solitude and re noteness from any human habitation nade 'its overhapging embankments n inviting place from whose precipice seless and offensive negroes might be lunged to everlasting death in the urging waters below. It will be remembered that the Hom ny Pot was used for a deadly purpose ot so long ago in getting rid of one utt Dansford whose presence was not eeded in the business of some of his eighbors. Carried to the precipice, tied hand nd foot, with a big rock attached to is body, he was dropped into these raters which closed over him, and rom which he never returned alive. It seems that the scenes of these raters, though constantly changing ud varying, are never to cease. After wallowing up and burying boats and nen, it seems that men now make it a cene for making onslaughts and dep edations on the inhabitants of the rater itself. Major DuBose, with the coolness .nddaring that was worthy of the iighest ambition, has commenced a ystem of setting snares for the unob ruding fish that hide in its darkest re esses, and at intervals this man takes lut the unfortunates whose lives are o be sacrificed for no better purpose han that of giving somebody a poor >reakfast, and last Monday he caught he king of the tribe, and his body was uung up in the streets of Abbeville as a estimonial of Major Du Bose's skill at atching even the oldest and wisest of he fish creation. But, after all, we do not know but hat Major DluBose's action is a just etribution on the fishes of Hominy ~ot, which in former years remorse essly feasted on human flesh, and now aen in turn devour their flesh. GRESHAX AND THE EAGLE. ndications that This Will Be An Ameri can Administration. WVASHINGToN, April 0.-Secretary iresham is a mettlesome man, with ut being in the least obstreperous. His ,ttitude is straight, without being in .ny manner disfigured by inharmon ous perpendicularity. His head is evel on all occasions. When shot own on the field of battle he still had he pluck to enforce the threat to use uis pistol to kill the surgeon who pro. >osed at once to cut off his leg; there ore he has two pretty good legs left to lay. He doesn't swagger, but acts. le is never offensive; nevertheless, he nakes himself understood. He did it rhen in everday life, on the bench, ,nd is doing it in the, Department of itate. The .witan of Turkey knows hat. The exceptions to the rule will ie rare indeed. He is an American, orn on the stump on the Indiana order, where men stand on their feet aturally. These few remarks are perti ent to what is ahead, whether as to esults in the Atlantic or the Pacific cean, or in .any other part of the rorld. Gresham esteems highly the kmericani eagle, and lives up to Uncle lam's teachings, in or out of the Cabi tet. No not wear impermeable and tight. itting hats that constrict the blood easels of the scalp. Use Hall's Hair enewer occasionally, and you will not be bald. BILL AIMP ON RAILROADS. They are all Bankrupt on Account of Leg Islation and the Damage Suits Brought Unjustly Against Them. The Constitution intimates that this being an off year in politics and no elections to be held and therefore no demagogues to ride the anti-railroad hobby will be allowed a better chance to make a living. We hope so, and we hope that there is a healthy reac tion going on in the public mind con cerning them. It is a strange and hate ful spectacle to see how these great commercial industries of the State are hawed at and almost crushed by in vidious legislation. Why is it that such men as Thomas and Fink and Green and Comer and Hanson have to go before the commission and as The Constitution says, "beg for life ?" Their freight rates rednced 45 per cent within twelve years and their net earnings forced down to average of less than 3 per cent on the capital stock, what does it mean ? Are our people unfriendly to railroads because of any harm they have done us. We old people remember when the Cen tral and the Georgia and the State roads were the pride of the farmers and the merchants who lived along the lines and it was a rare thing for a heavy damage suit to be brought againt them. We remember when Lbe fare was 5 cents a mile, and the freight rates double what they are now, there was no persecution, no lawyers running in hot haste to the wrecks th get up eases against them, no strikes of en gineers, no failures to meet the interest on their bonds or to pay the usual dividend of 8 per cent per annum on their stock. Everything was peaceful and prvsperous then, and the people were friendly and content. What is the matter now? Major Green says the Georgia railroad cannot, at present rates, earn more than 3 per cent and yet the lessee has to pay 11 per cent to the stockholders. Well, of course, the stockholder is not complaining, but is this continual reduction of the rates jnst to the railroadq or their lessees. What other industry or business isso hedged in and bridled by unfriendly legislation? Who says that the great merchants of Atlanta and Macon sell their goods too high and they shall make lower prices? Who limits the manufacturer or the farmers or the miners in the prices of their products? On what principle does the discrimina .tion aga'mst-railroads come-4ni-Do they not serve all branches of industry and commerce? Could the people get along without them? Have they not reduced the cost of living to us all? Then what is the matter? Why are more than half the roads in Georgia in the hands of receivers? Re ceivers whose certificates are better than the stock or the bonds ! Cer tificates that gradually undermine the stock and wipe them out and finally a sale is ordered by the court and the whole concern passes into new hands and the money it brought is all consumed in the receiver's cer tificates, and the charges of the courts and the lawyers' fees. There are as many jobs and perquisites and pro. fessional emoluments in the windup as there were in the Ryan case that took $50,000 for court expenses and left $37,000 for the creditors. Whenever a railroad or anything else falls into the hands of a receiver the average creditor may sing "Fare well, vain world, I'm going home." Tbere are many kinds of wreckers in this world who watch and wait for some stranded vessel to ashore in a storm so that they may rob -the dead and grab the cargo, but why the State should help to crush her own railroads is a mystery to me. It is mortifying to our sense of justice and the eternal the fitn'ess of things to see such honorable and brainy gentlemen as those who represent our railroads down almost on their knees before our railroad commission and "begging for life." Why, it hasen't been many months since a powerful political party made a public declaration that it favored the seizure of all the railroads and their operations by the national government. Demagogues started that, and some of them rode into office upon it. The- time was- when strikes and boycotts were unknown in the South, but now most every department of labor has its organization for self-pro tection, just as though all the rest of mankind were their enemies. Con tracts are made and broken at their pleasure and at their pleasure they "walk out" and the wheels of business must step until they get more conces sions. We see that one federal judge up North has had the nerve to say to them, 'Thus far shalt thou go and no further.' You may break- your own contract but you shall not interfere with other roads, nor intimidate their workmen. Commerce must go on." Why this pursuit of railroads by the ,people, the courts, the juries, the legis lature ? Why these frequent and enor mous verdicts for damages? A few days ago there were four men blown up and killed at a lime quarry near here. There was a premature explo sion because of a defect in the fuse, or the cap or something, or maybe from carelessness of the workmen. Will their kindred sue for damages? No. But if they had been killed on a train that seemed to be safe, and there was a broken rail or a bolt broken, or a tap lost, or something else wrong that human foresight could not discover, the legal wreckers would be on hand as soon as the coroner, and in due time the courthouse walls would echo with the same old tearful heart-rending speech that pictures to the jury "the criminal recklessness of these mon sters of power that come thundering down the rails." Not long ago an At lanta jury gave $800 damages to an en gineer, because he sprained his ankle in stepping down from the locomotive that he ran. The step had gotten loose and turned with him as he descended. Last year the Western and Atlantic railroad settled with a negro woman for the 'death of her hsband. She had lived with him for sixteen years and was the mother of his childen, but another woman fias -brought suit be cause she "was his just wife and he took and left her." Anything is suffi cient for a case against a railroad. -When will this prosecution stop or be mitigated? What peculiar or exclusive rights or privileges have railroads that other corporations or other people have not got. There was a time when com mon carriers had'some exclusive privi leges, but now-anybody can transport freight or passengers, anybody can build a railroad anywhere and can en croach upon another road and take part of its right-of-way., John Anderson keeps good horses and carriages and sends the drummers to and fro, but if his team should be frightened and spill the drummer in the road and break his leg, is the drummer going to sue John Anderson? No! Where does the dif ference come in? Both Anderson and the railroads use all foresight and all the diligence they can. If any differ ence should be made by the law, it should be made in favor of the rail roads, for the public can't possibly get along without them. If a stock law is right to protect farmers and save fenc ing, how much more is it right to pro tect the lives of passengers on a train from being derailed and killed by rea son of cattle on the track. John An derson should drive round the cow, but the cow should keep off the railroad. This is common sense and common justice. The wonder of it all is that anybody would take stock in a Georgia railroad, considering the limitations and perse cutions that surround them. The won der is that some of them do not throw up the sponge and surrender their char ters, and this thing will happen some of these days. Then what a howl there would be among the people along the line. Just imagine it. The cars stopped running. No more riding to Atlanta or Augusta or Macon. Everybody' penned up at home. Have to hire a horse and buggy and pay 10 cents a - mile and lose two whole days to go 30 miles. Oh. .yountmroin sue& calamity, may the good Lord deliver us. BIL ARP. When Edison Was Young. [From Practical Electricity.] "I was an operator in the Memphis office;when -Thomas A. Edison applied to the manager for a position," said A. G. Rockefeller, a member of the Remi niscence Club, St. Louis. "He came walking into the office one morning looking like a veritable hayseed. He wore a hickory shirt, a pair of butter nut pants tucked into the tops of boots a size too large and guiltless of black ing. "'Where's the boss?' was his query, as he glanced round the office. No one - replied at once and be repeated the question. "The manager asked him what he could do for him, and the fature-great * man proceeded to strike him for a job. B'isiness was rushing and the office was two men shor~t; so almost any kind of a lightning slinger was welcome. He was assigned to a desk anid a fusillade of winks went the rounds of the office, for the 'jay' was on the St. Louis wire, the hardest in the office. "At this end of the line was an op erator who was chain-lightning and he knew it. Edison had hardly got seated before St. Louis called. The new coiner responded and St. Louis started in on a long report, and he pumped it in like a house afire. Edison threw his leg over 'the arm of his chair, leisurely trans ferred a wad of spruce gum from his pocket to his mouth, picked up a pen, examined it critically and started in, about two hundred words behind. He didn't stay there long, though. St. Louis let out another link of speed, and still another, and the instrument on Edison's table hummed like an old style Singer sewing machine. "Every man in the office left his desk and gathered round the- 'jay' to see what he was doing with that elec tric cyclone. Well, sir, he was right on the word, and was putting it down in. the prettiest copper-plate hand you ever saw, even crossing his t's, dotting his i's and punctuating with as much care as a Iman editing telegraph for 'rat' printers. St. Louis got tired by and by and began to slow down. Edison opened the key and said, 'Here, here! this is no primer class! Get a hustle on you!' Well, sir, that broke St. Louis all up. He had been 'raw biding' Memphis for a long time, and we were terribly sore, and to have a man in our office that could walk all over him made us feel like a man whose horse had wor. rhe Derby. "I saw the 'wizard' not Xong ago. He doesn't wear a hir.kory shirt nor put his pants in his boots, but he is very far from being a dude yet." Old Age on Wheels for Chicago. ROCH ESTrEE,A pril 10.-James D Wyer of Geneseo, aged 75 years, proposes to make a trip on his bicycle to the World's Fair. He is well to do, and quite an athlete in spite of his years. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS cures Dyspepsia, In digestion & Debility.