Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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e. '? r .jE AZNi1 E TABLISHED 1865".NBRYS. C, FRI1) NY, OCTOBR1,92TIEAWE.$.0AYA ALL THE MILITIA OF PENNSYLYANI) 8aVE BEEN ORDKRD TO THE COA] FIELDS. poY. stone's Proclanatton-The Preseno of the Entire Division is Regarded - as Neeesry to K'*p Down Further Riotiog 'Gdv. dtone has ordered out th eire division of National Guard o Pennylvania to duty in the mini ,'egions. The soldiers are alreadi in the fieldl. The order calling out the guard is as follows: 'Headquarters National Guard, Adjutant General's Office, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 6. .4n certai portions of the countiea of fuerns,&ehuylkill, Carbon, Kack awa $squehanna, Northumber dand and' Columbia, tumults anc riots frequently occur and mob lay runs,..men who desire to work havi been beaten and driven away, an( their families threatened. Railroai trains have been deloyei, stoneD and the tracks torn up. The civi authorities are unable to maintait order and have called upon the gov ernor and commander -in-chief of the National Guard troops. The sitna ion grcws more serious each day The iFivory involved is so extensivi that th troops now on duty are in sufcient -to prevent all disorder. Thi presence of the entire division Na tional Guard of Pennsylvania is nee essary in these counties to maintail the public peace. he ,major general commanding willpbee the entire division on duty . ibnting them in such localitiei as will render them most effective fu preserving the public peace. As tumults, riots, mobs and disor der usually occur when men at tempt to work in and about the coa mines, he will see that all men wh< desire to work and their familie have ample military protection. H< will protect all trains and other prp erty from unlawful interference aiat -will arrest all persons engaging Ai ets of violence and intimidation 's hold them under guard until thi releas will not endanger the puli peace; will see that threats, intimida tions, assaults and all acts of violen' ease at once. The public peace good order will be preserved ullli all oceasions and throughont th several counties and no interferenc whatever will be peritted wit. mEcers and men in the discbarge c their duties under this order. Tb digaity and authority of the Stat must be maintained and her powe to suppress all lawlessness withii her borders be asserted.. By order of Win. A. Stone, go~ ernor and commander in chief. -Thomas J. Stewart, - Adjutant General. .The troops now in the field are th Fourth, Eighth, Nintb, Twelfth ani Thirteenth regimnents of the Thirl g~igade, .and the Governor's Troopi Sheridan Troop and Second Phila delphia City Troop. The troop -w*hich will be Bent to reenforce thos now on duty are the First regimeni Second regiment, Third regimeni Sixth regiment, Battery A, Fire Troop Philadelpiiia City cavalry, wh .iompose the First brigade; Fift 'regiment, Tenth regiment, Foni teenth regiment,, Sixteenth regimen Eighteenth regiment and Battery I *hich onstlt.utes the Second brigade -' Low Este. to State Feair Via the Bootherl 'For the above occasion, tbe Sonti ern Railway will sell from all poini in South Carolina, including Ashi -vile, Charlotte, Augusta and Savar nah and intemediate stations, tici ets to the 34th Annual State Fai Columbia, S. C., at rate of one fire class fare for the round trip, pht 50 cents (admission fee) for the ronri trip. Tickets to be sold October 26th 1 31st, inclusive, with final limit to r< turn November 2nd, 1902. .The Southern railway will operat on October 29th and 30th specis trains into and out of Columbia, addition to their regniar trains. Call upon any Agent of the Souti ern Railway for detailed inform tion, or R.' W. Hunt, Division Pa senger Agt., Charlest ou, S. C., W. H. Tayloe, Asst. General Pas Agt, Atlanta, Ga. STORIES OF READY WIT. Historic Retorts Made in the Court Ruom and at Bauquets. (Rochester Post Express.) The retort is of all verbal coins the quickest to get into circulation and the readiest to pass from one hand to another. Perhaps of all coins it is also the oldest. In our English tongue we have legends of the re partee of king and courtier for well nigh a thousand years. The pun, which is often a species of retort, goes as far back as our language. To pla) on words, often in a very per sonal manner, is the simplest form of retort. Old Thomas Fuller made a witty as well as a true epitaph for himself when he bade them write on his tombstone-two words only, "Ful ler's Earth." But Faller himself got t caught sometimes. The name, "Spat rowhawk," in which one of his friends rejoiced, was too tempting to the habitual punster, and so be asked the unfortunate man who was I afflicted with it what was the differ ence between a sparrowhawk and an owl. The answer which he got was: "An owl is fuller in the head, and fuller in the face, and fuller all over," which was probably more fuller than Faller bargained for. Dunning, the famous wit and lawyer, was badgering a witness on one occasion, and persisted in asking him if he did not live "in the verge of .the court." He was probably a poor debtor, who in the then condi tion of the English law did this to avoid his creditors. The witness was forced to admit that he did. "And, pray, sir," said Dunning, "for what reason did you take up your resi dence in that place ?" "To avoid the rascally impertinence of dunning," answered the witness. The perplexities of our English tongue gave a chance for a fusillade Qf retorts in a western court. ~ Th# judge was-fond'of indulgng htimuelAoccasionally in a joke at~ the p xpense of Counsellor B., a practis ing lawyer in the same court, with ~whom he-was very intimate, and for whom he had a high regard. eOn a cernsocasions when pleading a case at the bar .Mr. B. observed .that bewould..conelade -his .rema'rks on the fellowing 7day unless the: court would consent to "set" late enough for him to fmnish them that evening. "Sit, sir," said the judge, not set, hens set." "I stand corrected, sir," said the counsellor, bowing. Not long after, while giving an opinion the judge remarked that under such and such ciren,mnstances, an action -would not "lay." "Lie, may it please your Honor," says the counsellor, "not lay; hens lay." One of the keenest of journalists and wits, Moritz Goteio Saphir, had the better of the irate stranger against whom he ran by accident, at the corner of a street in Munich. "Beast," cried the offended person, without waiting for an apology. "Thank you," said the journalist, ,"and mine is Sapbir." t The battle of words is as exhilarat ing as it is harmless when the corn Sbatants keep alike their brightness -and their temper. In the remmnis enees of Sir Barrington Beaumont he describes a dinner party at . Horace Walpole's. Charles James Fox was one of the guests, and at - the last moment Charles Selwyn, the - readiest of wits, whose strange weak sness was attending executions, strolled in, evidently in the best of ~spirit. "George looks as cheerful as - though be had just come from an , exection," remarked Horace Wal tpole; and Fox said, smilingly: "A namesake of mine was to be 5 hanged at Tybu rn today. I suppose d you were in at the death, Selwyn?7" "No, my friend," said Selwyn. ,o "I make a point of never-frequenting rehearsals." This turned the smile against Fox. ~A retort which hit as hard as this was made upon a would be poet at his club. "I," said he, "have writ ten a great number of poems, but I do not propose to have them pub . lished until after my death." r "Hurrah!" shouted a chorus of s. frienis, raising their glasess, "here's lng life to you old man!" ELVIA C* SEABRIKE II I. ~tvI#uIJ. At Opera House ENGAGEMEN FOR SCHWAB'8 HOUIF. Flans Completed for Finest Residence in Ameriea--Probable Cost 82,000.000. (New York Dispatch to Baltimore Sun.) Plans for Charles M. Schwab's magnificent residence, to be erected on a $1,000,000 block on Riverside drive, between Seventy-third and Seventy fourth streets, have been filed with the bureau of buildings. Tey have not yet been approved t doubtless will be within a few~ ys. Work on the excavations for what wil probably be the handsomest pri* vte house in America has already een begun, and it is hoped to have h building ready for occupancy, sc tat its owner can have a housewarm g a year from next Christmas. Al rady the steel for girders and frame work is on its way here from Pitts burg, and the contract for the granite a been let. Bids for the founda tion work will be asked for within a w days.' According to the estimate filed wth the bureau of buildings the onse will cost $900,000, but this is merely for the walls and does not in elde the interior finishings and dec oations, which will bring the total ot up to more than $2,000,000. Standing in the centre of the block, te house will have a frontage of 9( fet, with 100 feet in the rear and depth of 107 feet, besides an exten in 33 feet wide and 45 feet deep he main building will be six storie hgh, with an elevation of 85 feet and the extension is to be three sto ris, with a height of 48 feet. Most striking of the interior ar angements will be the main hal which is to be two and a half storie hgh and surrounded bf a circulal gallery and arcade leading to all the principal rooms of the second floo: and to a chape], in which there wil be an organ and stainaed-gl ass win dows that can be seen from tbe en tance hall. This hall, as well a te main staircase and reception hal: are in the style of Francis I and ar patterned after the Chateau of Blois The entire wing facing Seventy-fourt] sreet will be occupied by an art ga] The walls of the natatorium in th basement will b;e covered by costl paintings. Adjoining this will be irkish bath. Beneath the mai entrance, on the basement floor, wi be bowling alleys and a fully equippe gymnasium, and there will be a larg billiard room on the first floor ove: looking Seventy fourth street. More than 650 tons of steel will b s'd i the~ construction of the house hich will be fireproof. oston Idea Opera Co. S ASS7EVEIS. Monday Evening r EXTRAORDINARY--SE GHOULS IN INDIANAPOLIS. Many Graves in Various Cemeteries Robbed. The Leader of a Gang of Ten Negroes, All of whom were Arrested several Days Ago. Confesees Some of the Robberies. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 4.-Sensa tional developments came to light this afternoon in the investigation of wholesale grave robberies that have occurred in this vicinity during the last few months, when detectives un earthed ten bodies in the celiar of the Medical College of Indiana. A gang of of ten negroes- was arrested several days ago charged with the ghoulish work, and their leaders, Rufus Cantrell, since his arrest has confessed to many of the robberies and informed the authorities that other gangs have been operating inE cemeteries in this and adjoining counties, and that many of the rob beries accredited to his following really have been committed by others. People who have buried relatives recently in various cemeteries are greatly excited and since the de velopments of the last fews days many graves have been re-opened to see if the caskets have been tampered with, Investigation in several of] these cases has revealed -empty cask ets. Every medical college in this: city has been thoroughly searched! for the stolen bodies, but to no avail. Six .bodies were found in a picking vat at the Medical College of Iaiana, the officials of this institution prov ing they had been la.wfully obtained and asserting that there were no other bodies about the buildings. Detectives went to the college today with a search warrant for the body' of Wallace Johnson, which had been -stolen from a grave in the Ebenezer cemetery, northeast of the city. The: college officials were reluctant to rallow them to make the search. The~ detectives, however, instituted a rigid rsearch of the building, and as a last 1resort raised the floor in the cellar. They soon uncovered the remains of -ten bodies. An attempt had been made to destroy the remains with lime. The college officials are very. aindignant at the latest phase in the institution and claim the bodies un Searthed today are those of subjects dissected by the students of last year; that some of them a:~e cadavers which were in the dissecting room when the building was bnrned sev aeral years ago. The detectives claim* the bodies have been but recently jjburied and that the evidence of quicklime is very apparant. The ebodies are of both mien and women, but are in such a state that identifi cation is impossible. Search for t.be stolen bodies will be continuhd. The lucky man is the plucky one who ..ee, and gm.psne oppotnnnhity. k . .. . G October 13th. e Local Page. S[E THOMAS BRtOWN'S PRATEE. Beautiful Petition to Him who Giveth his Beloved Sleep. [From the Charlotte Observer.] In these days when one so often sees sleeping rooms, beautifully printed nd framed, Robert Louis Steven on's prayer, or an exquisite senti nent on true living from Henry Van )yke, or a restful poem like that 1hib hangs on the wall of one of e rooms of Mr. Andrew Carnegie's astle in Scotland, (and in many humbler homes in America) I take he liberty of sending you what I eppose may be appropriately called ir Thomas Browne's Prayer. Al ough wretten over two hundred ears ago, I do not recall ever having leen it in any collection of poetry. I nd it in one of his short essays asled "Of Life." Concluding a para oraph on sleep he introduces the rayer n the following words: "In fmne, so like death, I dare not rust it without - my prayers, and a alf adieu unto the world, and take y farewell in a colloqny with 30od:" ['he night is coms like to the day; )epart not Thou, great God away, [.t not my sins, black as the riight, ~clipse the lustre of Thy light. eep still in my horizon; for to me ['he sun makes not the day, but Thee. ['hou whose nature cannot sleep, )n my temples sentry keep; uard me 'gainst those watchful foes Vhose eyes are open while mine close, Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. Vhile I do rest, my soul advance; ake my sleep a holy trance; ['hat I may, my rest being wrought, ALwake into some holy thought, .nd with as active vigor run, fy course as doth the nimbler sun, 3leep is death-Oh! make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die! Lnd as gently lay my head )n my grave, as on my bed. Eowe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. .nd thus assured, behold I lie Securely, or to wake or die. rhese are my drowsy days; in vain [do now wake to sleep again; Oh, come that hour when I shall never Sleep again, but wake forever. If anything could be added to the erene faith expressed in the prayer iself it is his own quaint words at the end of it. "This is the dor :itive I take to >dward; I need no otber laudanum than this to make me sleep, after which I close mine eyes in security, content to take my leave of the sun and sleep unto the resurrection." Do you wish to see the progress the farmers of the State are making in diversified and intensified egri cultare? If so, visit the State Fair, Oct. 28th to 31st. Liberal railroad rates to the great ate air will be made Fair week. (Courier Journal.) Now that Mr. Morgan and his asso ciates have been angered by the Presi dent's avowed hostility to trusts and are disposed to resent his temerity and irreverence toward those sacred organizations by defeating his nomi nation, and, failing in that, his elec tion at the polls, we shall probably have about as interesting a campaign as has been witnessed for something more than half a century. If the President is as "strenuous" and ear nest as he is reputed to be, the con test will not be unlike a genuine cow boy affair in the West. In many re pects it will resemble that memora ble conflict between Andrew Jackson and the United States Bank, and.we shall bQ able to compare the hero of New Orleans with the hero claimant Df San Juan. Like Jackson Mr. Roosevelt opens bis attack on the trusts during his irst terw. Tnogh the charter of the United States Bank would not axpire for six years, in his first mes sage to Congress Jackson fired his )pening shot, well aware that' time would be required to rally the peo ple to his standard and counteract the advantage which such an institu ion would have, in a sudden colli ion, with all its money and its me aials at hand. "Both the constitu tionality and expediency of the law 3reating this bank," said he, "are well questioned by a large portion of nur fellow citizens, and it must : be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uni form and sound currency." From that moment the war was prosecuted with the bitterest rancor and most relentless vigor. The stock Af the bank fell from 123 to 116. Its ,fficers, with Biddle, the president, at the head, realising the desperate 3haracter of the conflict, organized a powerful lobby with headquarters in Washington City. They sum moned all their resources. They did not hesitate or haggle over the price >f votes in Congress. They subsid ed newspapers in every part of the sontry. The friends of the admin stration in Congress succeeded in securing committees of investigation, ut they'could not prevent the lobby from packing and controlling them. A re>ort was made favorable to the bank, and as a result its stock rose bo 130. It looked as if the con cueror of the British was beaten by a bank. His foes seemed to over-whelm him. Suborgied speakers and news papers vilified him basely and cruel Ly. There were hecret traitors in his own ranks who had been corrupt ed, and his frail figure seemed about o be crushed by the most powerful fnancial institution of the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps nothing in the history of that remarkable man 'illustrates the unflinching firmness of his character or the heroic courage of his daunt less soul than his conduct during that trying period of his life. Clay, Webster, and later Calhoun were fighting him in the Senate, all in flamed by the sting of disappointed ambition and goaded by the rowel of the bitterest personal hatred. But never did he flinch under the terri ble diatribes which spared neither his private nor public life. The old spirit rose within him. The old fire blazed in an eye in which Tom Mar shall said he could still see twenty unfought baittles. The old fury shook his frame, emaciated and en feebled by disease, but which again displayed its dreadful energy. As on former occasions, the fury of com bat, the rage of ba:tie strengthened his weakened limbs and added a new flame to his flagging spirit. He was no longer an invalid. There was spring in his step; an imperial and martial manner-almost the flush of restored youth in his cheek. He had always fought the enemies of his country; he would fight them still, whether they appeared in scarlet coat or as the minions of a monetary nd degrading despotism. He summoned Blair from Frank fort to establish the Congressional Globe. To Amos Kendall he wouli dicate its editorials, walking tb4 floor pnnfing his pipe that glowed thoughts would appear bedecked in Kendall's gracful and brilliant style. He, too, would have his organs. He would draw the line between his friends and his foes; and, during his first term, he made over 700 remov als from office, not including clerks, though there had been but sixty re movals during the preceding forty years. There was not one foot of middle ground, and no spot of refuge for traitors or sklkers. These he could detect almost at any glance. It would be interesting to see some of the tricky and cowardly politi cians of the present day writhing under the fierce glance of that piero. ing searchlight-ALdrew Jackson's eye. The next sessiont be renewed his recommendation against a recharter of the baek in stronger terms, but on test quegtious e was again beaten in Congress. The charter was re newed; he vet,,ed it, and the bank could not seeuirM the necessary two thirds vote. Kiddie proposed a com promise, but it was rejected with disdain. After his second election he continued the war. He deter mined to withdraw the government deposits from the bank. But his cabinet was divided on the question. It was difficult to find a secretary of the treasury who would execute his orders. A committee of investiga tion reported that the bank was sound and the deposits safe. Four out of six members of his cabinet opposed removal because "the basi ness interests of the country" would be imperiled. McLane had resinged the secretaryship of the treasury; Duane, on whom Jackson tl}ought he could rely, was appointed. But he took the same view and resigned. Jackson persisted. "I have no con fidence in Congress," said he; "if the bank is permitted to have the public money, there is no power to prevent it from .obtaining a charter; it will have it if it has to buy up all Congrees, and the publie funds will enable it to do it." Taney was appointed, ordered the removal and the bank expired be fore its charter There was a panic resulting from such an industrial revolution, of course; but, -like most revolutions, it did good. It proved a warning to the country that -enor mous monetary power should not~ be interferred on any institution. Now, is Mr. Roosevelt, with all his "strenuousness," prepared to go the Jacksonian gait ? The money power today is far stronger than it was then. It has twenty-five members of the 'Senate worth from two to twenty five millions of dollars each. It has others who covet riches above all things. It has a large faction, if not a majority, in the House. When Col. Roosevelt aud Col. Wood led the Rough Riders into an ambuscade at San Juan his followers ;dmzired his courage, but questioned his dis cretion. His political followers may be doing the same thing and for the same reason. em A POsT 'FFICE ROBBED. Successful Raid of Burglars at Tazewei Court tinase. Vtrginia. Roanoke, Va, October 6.-Last night burglars broke .into the post office at Tazewell Court House about midnight and blew open the safe with dynamite. They took $800 in stamps and $200 in cash. Besides these losses the office books of the postmaster were blown over the office and almost'destroyed. Before break ing in the postoffice the party broke into a blacksmith.shop and took the necessary tools for doing the work on thessafe. Bloodhounds have been sent to the scene. So far there is no clue to the robbers. Through the medium of the State Fair all b>ranches of industry, includ ing live stock, have been greatly im proved. The extensive sale of fine live stock at auction during Fair week will give all an opportunity to im prove their stock. Sales are positive. The demand for premium lists of the~ State Fair continues. Write Ssoon for a copy to Thos. W. Hollo way, Secretary, Pomaria, . RC.