The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, October 11, 1888, Image 4
THE DARLINGTON NEWS.
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t Tbt count bare decided that refua-
iaf •• take the newtpepert or pertodicalt
froa the Poetefiee, or retaoriaf or learing
tkea aacalted for it priaa facte eridenoe
af lalentional fraud.
Oa Sand <f moraiep J O'Hbto
brakedba ea the South Caroliaa
fell hrtweea the wheela of a
fuetey. •
Railroad
x, near
krille a«4 hit feat were to badly
Tfce Denoeratie Standard Bearer*.
FOR PRESIDENT,
Grover Cleveland,
OF NEW YORK.
>
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Allen G. Thurman
OF OHIO
STATE TICKET.
JOB OOVBBIfOB,
JOHN PETER RICHARDSON,
ot Clarendon.
JOB LDTOTBNAHT GOYRBWOR,
WILLIAM L. MAULDIN,
oi Greenville.
JOB SBCBBTABT OF STATE,
J. QUITMAN.MARSHALL,
of Richland.
JOB STATE TBBASURBB,
ISAAC & BAMBERG,
of Barnwell.
JOB OOKPTBOLLKB GENERAL,
JOHN 8. VERNER,
ot Oconee.
JOB ATTORNEY GENERAL,
JOSEPH H. EARLE,
of Sam ter.
JOB SUPERINTENDENT of EDUCA
non,
JAMES H. RICE,
of Abbeville.
ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR
GENERAL,
M. L. BONHAM, JR.,
of Abbeville-
JOB
that it Via neceaaary to amputate
both
Cat. J. J. Dasitl. Preaideat of the Citi-
saa’t Auxiitiary Comte litre cf Jackson-
rilie, Fiorida. aad oat of tbt moat promi*
aeot of tbo brare men wbo remained in
the city to igbt the yollow forer and to
raliere Ibe tufferiag. fell a victim to the
eaiaty and died of tbe freer oo tbe 3d inet.
In tbe Qeo-gla State Election, on tb# 3d
inti , a light rote waa cat! but |tbe Demo-
erala were oTorwbelmingly tuoeettful. Rer.
Sam. Sc all, wbo ran far Ibe State Senate,
fr.m AtUma. on tbe Prohibition or ‘third
party" wae defeated by tbe regular Demo
cratic candidate.
Aa immenee mese meeting of Democrate
will bo held to right in Columbia. Among
the dUtinguiebed tpeakere will be United
Stale, Senators Ransom, of North Carolina,
and Sutler, of tbii State Arrangements
bare been made te insure tbe complete
•ncceee of I ho meeting.
Tammany Hall baa nominated Hugh J.
Giant for Mayor of Now York, and as the
County Democracy will support Mayor
Hewitt the** Iwj candidates together with
the Republican nominee will make a trian
gular figbt. Neither Demoeraiic candi
date will withdraw, and it is feared this
will cause Cleveland to lose 60,000 rotes in
the city.
The Sumter County Paraerb Alliance
was recently organised with tbe following
officers: President, R. M Cooper;
Vice-President, F. M. Beckham; Secre
tary, E. W. Dabbs; Treasurer, Dr. W. J,
Pringle ; Lecturer and Organiser, J. J.
Dargan ; Assistant Lecturer, W. G. Wells ;
Bus ness Manager. W. D. R Rhode'. Del
egate to tbe Slate Alliance, R M Coopsr ;
Alternate, J. J. Dargan.
The leading newepapets of Now York
and t be other great eitiee think that the
Republican■ bare made iheantelvee ridicu
lous by their tariff bill. Tbe New York
Times says that tbe bill is in sweeping and
direet condemnation of tbe platform of tbe
Republican ticket. Tbe Herald of tbe came
oily, denouneee it as simply a fraud and a
burlesque. That is the general voice of
tbe Independent preee. The Baltimore
Sun, which ia one of tbe raoet conservative
of Democratic newspepere. eaye: "Tbe
general verdict will be that the bill is a
political trick, played at the close of tbe
■eanion when it is no longer practicable to
act upon it."
Tbe monument which bet just been
erected over tbe grave of Gen. G E. Pick
ett is made of Virginia granite, quarried
almo«t in sight of tbe spot upon which tbe
ooument elands. It Is nine feet two
inebee at the base and nearly twenty feet
in height. The baee it of rough out gran
ite, and on thia ia a eexagon with granite
celnmns and aix white broose tablets on
which are engraved the inscription*. Just
above this are two circular courses of gran
ite, next a pedestal about two feet high,
and on this bevel-edged cape, on which
recta a bronte urn well proportioned. The
urn sets off tbe whole monument quite
well. Tbe deaigd of the monument is unique
and haa been very mueh admired. It is
believed that aeulptor Valentine, of Rieh-
taend, saggeetad tbo idea originally to
Capt. Reeve, Ibe President of Piekett’s
Division Amooiotlon. Thu gentleman h»d
Mr. Vnlentino’o idoo embodied in the plan
which woe subeequeatly prepared by the
architect.
there are mnny ouch men
Tbiid;Ciicait) would neve,
coiismted merely for purtiaan pur
poses to S'tcli proceedings an have
ebaraet prized this convention.
Hence we maintain that the iu-
structitiiia giv*-n the drleg-ttrs do
not eveu juntify much less compel
them to pursue a course so detri-
meutal to tbe preservation ol unity
—the very essential to the suprems
acy of tbe Democracy and tbe An
glo Saxon race in South Carolina.
It is less than a mouth before the
election is held and as yet there is
for Solicitor no regularly nominated
candidate! Picture the condition ot
affairs were there two great politi
cal parties in the Sta e. Where
would the Democracy be were it to
contend with a strong well organ
ized opposition t Yet the question
may be asked: “What is to be
done, as the convention can not
make a nomination nor has it the
authority to remand the qneetiou
to a primary V The only solution
we see is to adjourn, if a nomina
tion be impossible, and let the peo
ple decide at the general election,
wbo shall be Solicitor. Doubtless
there are many objections to this
plan and itshonld be adopted only
as a dernier resort, bat we are of
tbe opinion that tbe exigencies of
the occasion now demand it.
The courentiou will attempt to
make a nomination to morrow and
we hope it will succeed, but it it
should tail we trust it will be no
longer impost d upon a
people aln-ady exhausted in pa
tience, but adjourned tine die.
Whatever this body may decide
to do, it will be too late to leave
record of patriotism and fidelity to
party. Bitter partisanship alone
docs it leave as a legacy to the
country. The dangerous precedent
set by this and the convention of
tbe Second Congressional District
will, we (rust, never be followed by
any futore convention of the South
Carolina Democracy.
.JOB CONGRESS,
GEO. W. DARGAN,
of DarHagtou.
JOB SOLICITOR,
J, M. JOHNSON,
of Marion.
COUNY IICKLT
JOB TNB LEGISLATURE,
B. W. CANNON,
J. E. NETTLES,
J. O. CLEMENTS,
J. O. BYRD.
JOB SHERIFF,
W. P. COLE.
FOB CLERK OF COURT,
J. N. GARNER.
JOB COUNTY TBXASUREB,
H. E. C. FOUNTAIN.
FOR AUDITOR,
W. H. LAWRANCE.
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE,
T. H. SPAIN.
JOB SCHOOL COMMISSIONER,
W. H. EVANS.
JOB COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
H. LIDE LAW,
J. E. WARD,
W. M. HUGGINS.
JOB OORONEB,
R.G. PARNELL.
Tbe Hews ot the Week.
TkaCaiabtrland Gap Railroad ha* reach-
•d Edgefeld C. H.
Rev. Dr. W. E. Bogga, former'y of thia
State, Waa baen e'eeted Chancellor of ike
Vaivcnity of Georgia.
■ea. J* L. U. Curry, late Miuisler to
Spait bee been elected to hi* former poei-
Hea ef General Agent of tae Peabody Fund.
lev. N. M. Weed collected recently fl.
•00 aroaad Rock Hill for tbe propoeed
Preebyterian Female College al Columbia.
Jtm Brown, a deaf eo'ored hey 17 year*
tM, waa ran erer at Spartanburg on Tbur*-
da^by a paaaenger train ana inaiouily
Goa, G. T. Beauregard i* rep^rtt-d a*
being quite ill. He waeaick on tbe Steamer
Umbria during It* postage from Lirtrpool
la New Ya-k.
Tke yeMow fevar ia Jack* nville does
set decrease much. The total nn nber of
onto* up le Tueeday wav 3 819 and tbe la
id aamber ofdaatbe up to rame dale 199.
The HeClelUn Hou-e. at Birmingham.
Ala., was burned on Saturday morning
before daylight, sad eae maa woe fatally
l^jared aad several pervoni terervly burl
by jumpiag from Ike oeree fiery window*.
James G. Blaine ka* been working tb*
Mate of Michigan ia tbe iei*r«*t ef tbe
Bepnbheaa pariv. Hi* epeeebe* bar*
drawing large audience*, lie will
etamp Indiana.
There is (rouble in Lexington County
ever Ibe reseat Demoeretie primary. Tbe
total vote east me eeda tbe total while vote
hy six hundred, hence there moot he nt
leant rix hundred colored Democrat* in the
eneaty. Aa thia la impossible there is
dletetia faction in the mult ef the
aad great frauding Is alleged.
THE THIRD CIRCUIT DEADLO K.
We have hilherto refrained from
expressing an opinion ou the status
of affairs iu tbe Judicial Oonvm
tion of the Th ird Circuit, not be
cause we were of the opinion that
it was not a matter for our coosid
eration since we do not form a p irt
of that circuit. It is folly to say
that because oue happens not' to re
side ia a certain ooautj or district
he should show no solicitude uor ex
press an opinion coucerning the
affairs ot raid county or district.
What concerns tbe welfare ot the
l>eople and the Democratic party o ‘
tbe Third Oircnit ia and should be a
subject tor tbe careful considera
tion of every citizen and Democrat
of tbe whole Stale irrespective of
aection or locality. We have been
aileut simply because we regardet
the delegates to tlto Convention
fully capable of disclnugiug tbedo
ties entrusted to them by tbe pen
pie of the circuit. But this confi
dence seems to have been mis
placed.
The time has come when torbear
ance ceases to be a virtue Three
separate sessions of tbe conveution
at three different places, each ses
•ion followed by a recess, a week or
mote in tiuratirn, has failed to uc
oomplisb tbe purpose for which tbe
couveutiou was c J ed. After six
but dred and seventeen fruitless
ballots the convention adjourn
ed on Saturday to meet in Su liter
to-morrow. Possibly a recess follow
iOR an adjournment for the tbin
time, or the atmospheje of tbe
fourth city selected tor tbe meeting
of tbe convention will serve to thaw
the doggeduess of the members
wbicb now firmly holds tbecouvei:
tion lucked. Pei haps so; but there
is little at present to iudicate
speedy solution of tbe probhm.
Doubtless tbe delegates are ac
tuated by the most sincere and pur
est motives, be ievlng that they are
obe>ing ibe wishes of tbeir re^pec
live constituencies. But it is
mistaken idea. Tbe) may be fulfill
ing to the letter tbeir instructions
but t< eyjare acting regarulessly of
tbespiiit m which these iustruc
lions were given. We venture to
say that there is baldly u man iu
tbe Third Circuit who is uot thor
oughly sickened by tbe bick< r
logs and obstiactive tactics of ibis
convention, snd had they foreseen
only au 1‘ finite^Hitual part of what
they are now compelled to submit
U>, aueh instructions would never
have been given to tbe several del
egations. Men wbo have always
proven themselves true to the in
terests of their Slate and party (and
BING RULE IN CHARLESTON-
Tbere has been, of late, much to
be condemned in tbe coarse pur
sued by some of our Charlvston
coutempoiaries. Mach ha» appeared
In these papers which would do uo
credit to journals of a far inferior
order. Base calumny and persona
epithets such as cbaracteriZ'd tbe
editorials of these Cuaileston dai
lies in regard to the recent primary
elections iu that city, cau not be
too strongly condemned. Indn
gence in such practices by news
palters taking so high a stand iu
the State and community lowers
the lofty tone of jouraltsm. There
have beeu charges made ol u rin :
rule,” u boHsism” and the like, in tbe
political circles of Ubarlestou. That
tbeie are real grievances and goot
grounds for the charges we are nut
questioning, I nt we merely wish to
remind our couteuiimraries :h
personal abuse at.d calumnious epi
thets wi 1 not rectify any troubles
ezistin.; ; they only tend to give
degrading iutlueuce to the discus
sion of questions ot public interest,
ai d causes many a good man to
shrink from taking an active part
iu thf management of our public
affairs—a condi'ion of ihi >gs a
ways greatly to be deplored.
Now, iiowt-v r, that the question
of “ring rule’' has been decided by
the highest tribunal in the lam
namely, tbe people, they having
declared by a full and fair expres
sion of tbeir opinion that u rmg
rule” in Charleston is a myth, it is
to be hoped that tbe evil practice
recently indulged in by the contem
poraries referred to, will be consign
ed to'ever to tbe past—uoi again to
be made an important faoior iu tbe
discussion of public issues in this
Sute. To command respect and
influence a journal should always
occupy a dignified plane, and no
sooner does it fail from that posis
tion than it cesses 10 be a power or
to wield influei'ce. It should al
ways be borne iu mind tb -t abuse
is uot Argument, and its usage w ill
never be the means of iullueucing
intelligent persons.
in the! heated discussion has been tnduig-
have ! ' n between these two bodies.
The whole trouble seems to ns to
be rather premature. As free labor
is always to be preferred to convict
abor and since it is only just that
t te people of Uolnmliia, who pay
t id taxes for tbe interest on the
Oanal bonds, should reap the bene
fit of tbe money expended in wages,;
which would not be the c ise if
convicts were emplo>ed, the Canal
Trustees justly intend making every
effort to have free labor employed
Nor is it at all probable that fiee
abor at the wages offered will be
ound wanting. If, however, alter
every effort has beeL made the re
quisite number of free laborers can
not be obtained then and uot before,
should the question ot employing
iJouvicts be discussed. This con-
ditiou of affairs is uot likely to oc
cur so the quesliou should be set
aside until the necessities of the
tour detnaud its consideration.
Jut until then let it rett.
berjthan a maji.riiv "f all the mem
hers a quorum L the legislative
bodies .J no other toen'ry in the
wuild is ►o large a ntiw'ier requir
ed 11 c-'iis-iin'.e a qn -mum asiu the
Hons ot R pn si Uf.tiii e».
BtatloECTjr la the ConftAerccjr.
tewinioteuc-j of hooks null papaia
too period n-cails the diru nud uuliHud
wa.i.1 •>( every aj-vtios of stationery in
each itoujehokl, and the rough devices
which wore resorted to for supplying
such deficiencies. It was a time when
individual who wished to use an en-
might be compelled fin* to make
the theory of "first catch your
hare,” etc. The manner of their making
Unii'f! waa to cut them out of paper by a bn or
r. lT.VTION AND DISCOVERY.
A Vast H-.-.i
. such defii
any indii
| velope m
it, after t
The Weather and the Crops,
The Souto Carolina Weather S-T
vice oo operating with tbi Uiiif- • .^
iu . ri,i - b r *'"• 'v 11 "’ i £."r
crops dm
Octobp 6,
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, Oct 5th, ’88.
Chief Justice Fuller will bo sworn
n ou Monday. It is over half a
century since we had a Democratic
ijbief Justice sworn in, General
Andrew Jackson having appointed
ioger B. T. n«*y to that position in
1836. Let us all hi pe that Justice
Fuller will prove a worthy succes
sor of Chief Justice Tauey.
Senator Cockrell made a caustic
reply * to iSenator Hale’s goody-
goot^r speech in ri g-trd to the cir
cular issued hy Gen. ttenet in relu
tion to equalizing the two political
parties in the Government employes
at the armories and arsenals. He
opened bis lemarks by reading the
Jay Hubbell bulldozing circular to
Government employes, issued dur
ing the campaign of 1880, which
was signed by Senators Alii on,
Hale, Aldrich, and Hiscock. He
then quoted Garfield’s letur to
Dorsey, of Star route notoriety,
asking him to have Brady, Second
Acsiat.tnt Postmaster General, call
ed upou for aid, also, a letter from
Levi P. Morton, present Republican
candidate fur Vice President to
Dorsey, slating that be had uouiri
buled $30,000. Mr. Cockrell said
he only rea<i these letters to r> frech
the memory of the Senator from
Maine (Hale.) aud to show the
depth of Uegraduation to which the
civil service had beeu brought un
der the Republican administration
in 1880.
Governor Gray, of Indiana, who
spent several days here ihi» week,
assured Mr. Cleveland iu a person
al interview that Indiana was a!
right.
The ev- r as-ing, much i a Iked ol
Republican tariff bill h-s b.eu n
poned to ihe Senate, together with
a majority aud minority report.
The luiimniy repoit is the workuf
Senators Harris V.nioe and Bee.k
and shows cuiiclosively the many
advantages of the Mills bill over (he
Republican sabstitu e. The bill
w ill be called up on Monday tor
oousideratiou, aud will probably
occupy tb* entire attention ot the
Senate until the recess is taken to
the allow the member* to go huine
lo vote, it will be impossible to
get it to a vote b -for.- election.
Judge Thurin n will Iw here next
Week to argue ihi* Telephone cast s
before the Supreme C #urt. lie will
b ■ given a public reception, which
is ceJaiu to he a rouser, for the
“■*'■” >“ exiremely popular
lug concerning the effects of the
w eather oa the various
mg the week ending
1888:
The rainfall for the past week
has been sbgl.ily in-low the aver
age ; temperature for ill - 8<-.me per
iod has b-en b. low ibe aven ge,
with au average umouni of sun
shii.e.
Where rain h
been fairly dis'iibut
vorable effect on all cr-'|
tempeiaturc, (hou.'lr bel the
average, ha*b"' n iairly distributed
wi h a favorable * fl-et on all crops.
The temperature ihough below the
average, has !>eeu favorable for all
conditions. Sunshine bsis been au
average amouu 1 and then of great
advantage in the harves’lltg of
crops, which is being pushed as
rsptdl as circumstances will per
luit. The trost «t the 30:b ull,
seems '*> have been gem-r tl, >-n»l as
far as heard fioin. in* d -in.’g' has
accrued, excccut it ma.'. be the pos-*
sible nipping of young vegetation.
At Suiitur C H. ball is reportetl to
have lelleu, hocompaui d with lugh
wind, blowing d«>wn many t-ie«s on
the sue ts and prostiating ibe
s eeple of the Ep’Scopal f.’harch.
either with glue manufactured from tke
gum of tbe cherry tree, ot with ordinary
i flour paste. Old desks and eeoretarka j
i were ransacked, and frequently not un- •
successfully, for the red wafers or the i
- sealing wax of an earlier date. Even
i the meet stylish and fashionable note
paper for correspondence had an ex
tremely unstylish texture, to say nothing
of its hue, that ill comported with the
red wax stamped with a crested coat of
arms. The iuice of note berries, com-
Two words which glibly coowh &n
the Ups off tbs svangemania*
careless sort of iadiacrimfnatfon as if they
wan synonymous But thaw fcataat
sea of distinction between (*»«■»»,
ally, they are not so widely se^nnted'
but they Iwve come to reprmout two U>
tally different aspects oi honan setioo
To the writer’s thinking, the tonus have
boon greatly confused. Oohimbus hardly
discovered America, he invented It that
Is, ns to its cognisable existence. He
studied, figured, applied the laws as he
knew them, and determined teat there
must be a continent tiiovo, and he
plodded on till he proved tee (ate, and
reduced hie Invention to praotku.
Newton discovered the law off gravity
one might say, without either trxw n | ^
physical effort Watt invented the steam
MARRIED.
At tbi* resitl'-me ol B. A. Howi-ll
Lydia, S t’,out!iw Tthiusi . Hriirv
Howeli aud Maggl*-, ilan^ble; of
Mr. 11 L Lloyd, Re-. W O Petty
officiating. All ol D.trliii^to i .oun-
t.V.
The Republicans of the Fir*i
Congressiona! District have uom-
iua.etl S. VV. McKitiley, of Ch.nlci
ton, lor C /iigiei.*. The ii»> > iu>« of
the i>any in the iSec.md L>i» rict is
S. E. Smith ot Aiken.
IloUaud’* Arm of Defeme.
There Is, liowevor, another matter, ri
diculous os it may appear to those who
have not studied the topography of the
country and its adjacent territory, why
Holland feels secure as to its continued
independence. Not far from Utrecht
there is a strip of land that either bellig
erent must crow in order to invade the
enemy’s country. That strip of land is
sufficiently brood and long for tho |>as-
aage of many corps d’armeo sltonld cither
ttie Germans or French violate Holland’s
neutrality. This entire strip can be put
under water *4n less than no time,”
drowning the invading armies, with a in
to the inland retreating Dutch
(ONVICT VERSUS FREE LABOR.
The D;reclots of ihe Uoui eu-
tiary and tbo Trustees ot tbe Co
lumbia Canal are st loggerheads
concetiJug the employ in nt of
c« U"ict labor on tbe Canal. The
cau-il bill, aa passed by ibe legis
lature, provides lit it unemployed
convicts be allowed the trus
tees to be put to work on the oaiml
free of charge. On tl e Trustee*
applying for the Mime the Diiec
tore of (lit* Penitenii-iry offered nil
tbe i tiei'iployed convics for seven
ty cents a day. The Tmatet* claim
that they should obtain the ser
vices ot thia kind ot labor free in
accordance with the provisions of
the act of the Legislature. In con-
sequence of thia dinagreemeut a
Id Roman” is
here.
Pos'master Gei er«l Dickinson
has re urued bom his trip toMichi
gan. He reports that tiie Demo
crats of that state are very euthu-
si-istic aud liopetul of carry lug the
election there.
Repress nuiive Mi-rriman, ot
N* w York, is very posiliv.- tha
Hill will Carry New Yoik. He also
thinks that Mr Brice is managing
the campaign wisely.
Mr. Cleveland has approved the
Cbiu« ge Ex< luvon bill, amt seat a
message to Congres* recotmuendiug
hgislation to alios such Chinese
laborers as shall have actually em
barked ou tbeir retnrn lo this coun
try before the pas age of th:* law
and me now on their w.i\, to land,
provided they have '11* proper cer*
titkate* also tn.it, "without ac
knowletlt: ng legal liab lity there
for, but be* ause it was stipulated
iu the treaty which has failed to
lake < ff" t, and in a *p:m ol hu
inanity Ih-fitting our nation, there
be appropriated the sum ot $276,
610,75, pay able lo tbe Chinese Min
ister at this Capital ou behalf of
his government as full indemnity
for ell l< g*e* and injuries su>iaiued
by Chi ese subjects” in the United
States.
Representative Luiham, of Tex
as, off red the following resolution
in tne House : That it is the sense
of Ihis Hon e that appiopriate leg
iglation tor the prevention and sop
pr ssioa ot ti lists is immedi ttely
demainltdou behalf id ihe great
body ot tne Ate* rieuu (icopie, and
that ihe leiuaimlei t»ftbiv|M-a-ioii,Br
so much thereof as may b«- Uec* saa*
ry, abouhl be dev< i**l lo ihe perfec-
U< ii ot Mtoh iegislatftui, and k, that
et;d ail *)ther legislative business,
except general appropriation and
tariff bibs, sboul i Ik? sul'ordinated
until :he purpiMe of this lesoluiiou
be attained.
This eession of Congress now
beats the record fur coutiuons
length.
The pnblin debt wan reduced
$14,500,000 daring September.
The continued abeence of a quor
um in the House bae started a
protect to pass a constitutional
amendment making a smaller tium-
It will be remembered tliat wh!le Bel
gium was used as territory for ••Intern
ing" French ooldiers, making this entire
kingdom virtually a shelter for all thoee
thrown hors de combat, Holland was not
even scratched by the foot of a single
foreign soldier during tbe Franco-Ger
man war. Tho little country was on tho
alert ever and ouon. She Imd her army
off 90,000 men on a war footing, but with
one hand oa tbs sword, the other on tho
sluices, she stood reedy to fight with
water any one daring to violate the
merest inch of her territory. Tbo expe
rience then gained has been improved
upon since, and during the past eighteen
years the oik os and duinen have been so
improved for the purposes of defense
st sea and too that the Hollanders
our day can as effectually make use of
n off del
faded from its original purple or crimson
color with great rapidity to one of ugly
rust.
Stool pens were scarcely to be had for
love or Confederate money, and the for
gotten accomplishment of trimming a
gray goose quill to a good nib came to be
once more an accomplishment with an
ascertained value. The mucilage on the
backs of the ill engraved blue 10 sent
stain pa, adorned with the head of Jeffer
son Davis, often failed of its purpoee;
and the fingers, which were not infre
quently tired enough after cutting out
and making the envelope, trimming the
pen and w riting the letter, must need
still go through tbe labor of sei>arating
the stamps from each other with a pair
of scissors or a i»enknife, and applying
flour jiaste to tho back of the recalci
trant stamp, to insure tbo safe carriage
of tho missive of affection to the far
away soldier whose eyes might never read
it The boys of that day, bereft of pen
cils, mail© them for themselves by melting
bullets and pouring the molten lead Into
the cavity of small reeds from the cane
brakes. Trimmed to a point the home
made pencil, though its mark was faint,
sufficed to serve the purposes of the
young scribes and mathematicians.—
A. C. Gordon in The Century.
the water os an arm of defense dk
tbeir forefathers over 200 years
against the then powerful Spain.—'
Hague Cor. Now York Herald.
did
Police Surveillance to Buoata.
The only shade of discomfort which an
American may meet in traveling in Rus
sia comes from their system of espionage,
and that is more in imagination tlian
reality. Probably no country in Europe
lias such a thorough system of police sur
veillance.
As soon as you reach their border your
r»‘sport is given up and registered.
*Vhcn you arrive at your hotel you give
it up again and it is at once sent to police
headquarters, and you are again regis
tered. Whenever you change your loca
tion you do the same thing, and in this
way tho landlord everywhere is made
responsible to the government for the
foreigners under his roof. Then, when
you wish to leave the country, you
must again send your passport
to the police office and obtain
a permit, which is good for only
three days, and which is attached to your
passport and removed at the last Russian
station on the Austrian or German fron
tier. So that your passport contains a
complete record of when and where you
entered the country, just where you have
been and how long you have remained.
Yet with all this you have no conscious
ness of being watched, and you probably
are not, when the authorities arc once
satisfied as regards your nationality and
good character. And after all tho plots
that have been formed against the gov
ernment in foreign countries, is it any
wonder that they should consider these
precautions necessary?—Henry M. Wright
In Detroit Free Press.
A Hone’* Sense of Smell.
Tho horse will leave musty hay un
touched in his bin, liowever hungry. He
will not drink of water objectionable to
his questioning sniffs, or from a bucket
which some oilor makes offensive, how- ,
ever thirsty. His intelligent nostril will
widen, quiver and query over the dainti
est hit, offered by tho fairest of hands,
with coaxings tliat would make a mortal
shut his eyes and swallow a nauseous
mouthful at a gulp. A mare Is never
satisfied by either sight or whinney
that lier colt is really her own until slie
has a certified nasal certificate to the fact.
A blind horse, now living, will not al
low the approach of any stranger with
out showing signs of anger not safely to
be disnfrarded. Tbe distinction is evi
dently made by lus sense.off smell, and at
a consld-ruUo distance. Blind Itorses, as
a rule, will gallop wildly about a pasture
without striking the surrounding fence.
The sense off smell informs teem off its
:imity. Olliers will, when loosened
m tho stable, go directly to Ihe gate or
bars opened to tbeir accustomed feeding
grounds, and when desiring to return,
after hours of earofess wandering, will
distinguish the one eutk4 and patiently
await its opening. The odor off that par
ticular part of thefbneote their pilot to it.
Tho horse hi browdng or while gather
ing herbage with his Ups is guided in ks
choice of proper food entirely by fc i nos
trils. Blind hones do not make mislokoa
in tbair diet. In the temple of Olympus
a brorze barm wnc exhibited, st the tffght
of whirii et* real horses axpericooed the
most rioleui craotkins. JSUan jialictously
oheevod that the most perfect art could
uot imitate nature nuflVieattv well to
produce so Strong on Illusion. Like Pliny
and Pr.usarmm, ho conrequently affirms
that "i i costing the statue a magician
haxl thrown Ilippomaneaupon it,’’ which
by tbo odor or the plant deceived tho
horfuo. and therein wo have tlie secret of
tlie piiriols. Tho scent alone of a buffalo
robe will cause many homes to evince
lively terror, and the floating eoent of a
railroad train will frighten some lonfl
uftor the D oiiiotivc is out off sight
hearing.—Prairie Farmer.
Tootfi Uamt •* Jewels.
We hnvo frequently heard of gems of
thought failing from tho lips, but it has
been left to the Nineteenth century to
implant actual jewele in the teeth, so
that as t!ie lips move, no matter what
sentiments tlioy utter, the jewels flash
with rare brilliancy. Verify are one’s
teeth Iwrcning objects of value. A
"fad’’ still later than jeweling them fa to
C terve tho molars os they are drawn,
vo them carefully polished and wear
them ns single charms, or, if there bo a
sufficient number, have them set medal
lion shape and made into bracelets. The
wearing of a human tooth is said to be
unequaled ns a carrier of happiness and
insurer of personal safety.
Thisque.T fancy may really bo claimed
as belonging to oar century, ae no record*
is found of It in the musty pages off long
ago. Not so, however, with the long
walking sticks with the crook handles
that many Indies carry along in their
summer jrmnta, whether said jaunts be
up Kfeep. rugged hillsides or over tlie aea-
shore’a even plane. Tho Alpine stick
looka picMresque, so thought tbo woman
of fns.iion of this time of Charles H,
although tluj finger off improvement has
undoubtedly been laid on the sticks of
today. They are made of polished wood,
are about four feet in length, and have
fancy heeds of unique designs, usually of
wrought gold.—Table Talk.
tion which required invention of" the
highest order. Eli Wlutney saw the
painful aad laborious methods off clean.
Ing out cotton and shredding k, intui
tively felt it could be done by machinery,
went to work and gave tbe world one off
bis great mvenUona, the cotton gin
Howe’s great inspiration to place tee eye
at the point off a needle may be said to
have been a discovery. It a
picture to his mind prophetio off good to
almost countless mUltona, but invention
had to be Invoked to give tee picture life,
and the sewing machine, in ail its beauty,
came slowly forth from the chrysalis of
Howe’s discovery. Tho irregular lathe
and tho mod&m harvester were inven
tions; their dim, indefinable forms loomed
up in the mists of their inventors’ mjnfa
they felt the impulse of improvement,
the value of the goal gained, and they
went to work and at last succeeded, and
the wood carver and reaping hook lost
their usefulness to teat extent.
The electric telegraph was never dis
covered ; it was consistently invented.
Countless devices and methods were de
signed, tested, thrown away—to be after
wards revivified, many off teem—new
appliances and systems laboriously
worked out, tlie midnight oil unspar
ingly sacrificed, until at last a perfected
and practical system and apparatus were
given to the world.
It is hard to ervy whether the dynamo
was invented or disooverod, considering
its prototype, tlie mngneto machine. The
probabilities are it was an accidental dis
covery. The arc light was a discovery
pure and simple. Electric incandescence
was a discovery, but the incandescent
Limp in its commercial form stands forth
<9 one of the most beautifid examples off
men’s inventive faculty. The countless
experiments on malarial, tho bulb, the
seal, the standardizing, tbe pumps, and
all the appliances Utat go to provide us
with the beautifully glowing luminary,
all are ineradicable proofs al Invention of
the very UiKiMMt order. Midnight oil and
noonday arm, morniugSi rigor and oven-
aepcaafal samusatiuns, were all
teto t;sprirttkm to complete the
work This is tcuo invention.
TW phonograph was originally a dis
covery, a happy thought off Edison's, but
hreentiaQ of • high cider was necessary
to produce the hamrifni Insteumnrt of
the prerant day. It waa like Howe's
aeedlc—the gem was there, but tbe ma
chine bad to be devised to moke It prac-
tiovUe. Hie undulatncy tefaphaas wosa
difleovesy, a bnUiant one, but still a dis
covery. A happy thought supplied the
toiaeing link in an Incomplete chain, and
qdv'n the weld of teat hnk was aoeoa-
pfeJ'.rtt the whole wvsid was enchained
in a<lr. drotion, the wonderful utility of
tec d««xKc was quickly snsogniced, sad
discoverer soaped a rich harvest.
ie ptMuxundic pwaaos of fun “if was
t* i invMMMpi of iriyli grade sad XttT.ssacb-
kig unjacteteto. and the flytmaus ugto-
Swtire (nsi^aa hzs psnead Its ia
mrit os a methodical jmd logical iurec-
•ton Ittaarifullf carried out
Tlie inventor gmb his goal, and oonds-
teutly sta res for it. He knows tlio obyoi
is them, and he goes energetically after
it. LOinotimre straight to it, but ofteuer
is many times tost to tho wilderness of
deluded fancy. He sere a light ahead,
si^ln relief and darts after it, only to
find It a will c’-the-arisp. Undaunted,
he rtarts af*:dn, otily perhaps to meet
oth*v and worse misfortunes. But he
slrugules on hopefully, and at last
lurcher; the shrine of his adoration and is
for tho time content
The dLtfoveror walks along calmly
toward some goal, or lies on the roadade
meditating, end happening to oast Us
idle ryes downward, sees a gem spark
ling at hb h-ot. and ho sometimes picks R
up and adds it to the galaxy of tbe
world’s diadem, but Im as often fails to
note the scintdlntiouj teat betoken its
preciousnom, and spurns it back into tbe
deeper du d. to lie unseen and unknown
per imps for ages. Which of these two
promoters of the world’s welfare merits
the highest praise, it is needless to ask.
—Electrical Review.
tog's
auUed
Flower Cardans tor Show.
Oswald Crawford, in Tho Fortnighly,
lias a charming article on “Summer
Time in Rural PortugaL" He rives an
account of tho survival of the fittest in
tho noble gardens that aro found as relics
and reminders of Moorish taste. He says
that “it humiliates lus national {vide to
contemplate tbo pleasure gardens of lus
English friends; even to pass by train,
In summer time, through the land and
see uo garden that is any refreshment to
tho spirits, save those of the cottagere."
In other words, the northern garden is
a b1»ow place for flowers, but In the
southern garden ‘’flowers of infinitely
leas Itnionanco tlian tho walks,
tlie shade* of branching trees,
tho gmaery of leaf and spray,
the cooling breezes in summer, the
warmth of tho sun in winter, and at all
cersons the golden fretwork that the
sunlight makes upon the ground through
overhanging boughs.” Wo are young
in a good many ways; but in the art of
the beautiful wo have most of all to
leani. Such notes as Mr. Crawford
girea us aro especially valuable, not to
folfood only, but to America. Wo
have a superabundance of show gardens
A Noimle** dock Invented.
A noiseless clock has been invented by
a Frenchman. In place of the ««"«>i
pendulum, the hands are set In motion
by tho unrolling of a chain, the end off
which b fastened to a buoy floating in a
tank of liquid. This fluid escapee at a
uniform rale, and can be utilized to feed
a lamp wick, thus giving the apparatus
the double character off a dock and
lamp. When the bmp b lighted the
ntcor.:iary diminution of liquid tekvt
place by combustion, at other times by
carefully regulated dropping.—Hama
Journal.
A *
•R*
without a thought of comfort and refreah-
[ho one need of Americans b
are
msots. Tbo one need of
recuperation Even out
wearisome and formal.-
crab
ihf re«u i of s uewspupi-r c ntrovor-
i! Eilc oril«, cjnor of tb;- A'taisio t
11*1 II'.»»I, lex (I er with iwo i.ii.r p*;--
•ec; prfrrvi on bntii es» *t (bo i'» were
elml In llio i.flice of Ihu eiiitor at Autigloii.
.\Ih„ oi. MorUiiy Ir.si by two
The mtuJrri-ra wer* enraged at su article
wriiteu hy K'lmondi.
At Nigbttown, ladinns, on M.-n.Uy, *
n an BKU ed Wade killed bi* mother and a
lem*!* eof! m.jon, of the hour, lit set
fto iu li e buuse ojulainiag lbs dead bed-
k» uwi 'ben killed kimsslf.
Fraucis W. William*, ef New ITork, tbe
Mnior member of tbe'Well known fira of
William*, Black fc Co., of (bat eity, wbicb
became (mharraised a few days ago, oom-
mitttd filicide oa Monday.
Soidiem’ Antiseptic AjunranHiaa.
According to The Medical Press a use
ful huggcition fa being carried out by tbe
Nctln r! \ud gorerument, by which pso-
virion will I* made for supplying each
soldi r during tbe time of v.-*c with a
cartridge containing some antiseptic
dr s-dnrs. Each cartridge will be made
of conmiSont slue, namely, about three
inches in length by two m width, and
v;;!l I* rrcuml at one end with a safety
pin. Tlie dressing contained in each wifi
consist of a bandage about three yanls
long, and two pieces of gauze, all <»
which have been rendered antfaettio by
a sublimate solution. Hence In the
ev.-m of wounds being received a rca ~7
menu would 1» at hand for the immedi
ate replication of antiseptic dressings.
S-.J-Ilars in (he case off slight injuries
would probably at once avail themselves
of the dressings, and tbe latter couM no*
f ’.il to bo cf much use to tee surgeons.
The i !en is weU worthy off the attention
of tho Military authorities in this coun
try, and might even with advantage w
a ns it lias been for years part in
th:- Gannon army. In tho wars in which’
during tho past few years England has
I won engaged in tropical climates, tee
Ctrl.- application df antiseptics to tee
wounds received by the men was ad
mitted to be a matter of the utmost iin-
portancc by the army medical officers at
tached to tee forces.—Science.
. Brc. i.l bi-nvy froM l<Hve
* f huriirU of wbrai in Ramsay C*W'
link oi 4. •» <d teH *lmo»i lbs estirs
I f.in il
ly.
oialinN i*n ibj • rink of starvalloB.
Miiir-ri"s i» "O gr«at •« b» ralisv*® oy
cal mU it'sn and ouisid* aisisl* 0 ®*
bcnii iiMkeil for.
Tbe Farmer*’ IMa&ee eeoms to IS *
pi>pul«r uiovcmuui in Horry Coabiy.
Dance* are being repfalT
throuf' ont tbe county and H U asp**
much good will rosattfroin (hem* ,
Tb# Cineloaali snd 8t. Losi*
train collided with a freight l, *' B . «,(
Washington, D.C., on Saturday ®‘« n •
Threepmoae wore killod imd six other,
wounded.