The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 13, 1904, Image 6
Snake Hypnc
By Graham Beck.
SH11RE Is a certain power
tnents. I saw only the
power of a snake to fas<
Over in the pine w
by a black gopher snak<
snake's mouth almost a:
a sewing machine rises
it ^peelbonnd. When the gopher sna)
s^nirrei it gave a leap and threw thre
apeTI was. gone. The fascination or c
msA was no doubt broken the very m<
sqptrrel, for the animal gave three cor
its, death moment had come.
I believe implicitly that all sna
fascinate their victims to death. B!a<
the power to a large degree. Rattle
among all the poisonous serpents in t
ing among poisonous snakes are dece:
their prey once only. The poison doe
a branch, it may be, or runs a short d
TH? poison dees its deadly work, and
net having se<m the attack, might be
was the glance of the snake and not 1
m i
Suicide is H<
By Coroner Moses P.
?" 3 there such a thing as be
I Medical authorities .answ
Jl I never read a medical v
J affirmatively out of my
amples of inherited suici
3KJ suicidal impulse as a
have beea positively es
The question grows in importance
to he sure, that because one or t'he
that the suicidal impulse exists in tin
tain. But when it does exist, what L=
la tjie only common sence advice. If
oooilat If you find your miud manil
control of your will, you don't need
The cure for inherited suicidal t
'v meigacholia. The alienist will work
gy^Aoo hygienic surroundings correct d
tendency is hardest to fight when it
the core rs most often solely wrough
Dr. Mauds'ey, the noted English
of treatment. He was consulted by a
suMdal impulse through five generati
. tie became subject to spells of ii
to eelf-destructlon was almost irresis
case, decided that the periods of depi
excessive application to his business,
the middle of the day.
The man protested he could not s
tho physician told him promptly at n
eyes and dose off with a dinner bell
hell would drou from his band and ai
The man tried it and. though his
mental relaxation proved of immense
of depression entirely passed away.
*mm tie first of his line for five genem
J
The Summer
What Happens When a F
the Olfac
By Walter B
philisopby of sneezin
^ hay fever victims. It i
1 ways indicates that thei
cur in health unless sot
branes of the nasal pas:
a*e distributed. I*a hay
the repeated sneezings
three sets of nerves; the nerves of s
tioa. The former communicate to tl
stances with waich they come in cont
the second communicate the impress
cles of the nose, but their power is
When a sneeze occurs, all these
The most minute particle of floweriu
vtttk despatch to the brain this in
nostrils."
The brain instanty sends a mar
modes, saying "Cast it out!" and 1
60 offensive is the enemy besi<
soap is not left to its own defence.
Ab allied army of muscles join in
'roused against the intruder; from t
abdomen, all unite in the effort for the
particle of the weed.
f#et us consider wbat occurs in 1
The lung become fully inflated, t
ward, and the veil of the palate drop
of the air through the mouth; and no
for fbe purpose contract simultaneous
lungs in a torrent out through the ni
mination to sweep away the particle
tattoo therein.
Such, then, is the complicated ac
doeo not succeed, then follows a se
uoW victory is achieved does the arn
setBe down into the enjoyment of pea
By removi g the nose from the
whole process U reversed.
By leaving it off hay fever may be
This advice is not to bo sneezed
m i
^ ^ - -1 ^
n ?<uiog/ uu
By Col. F\ M. Woot
ALL the animal friends
I M I owe the most. I wish tl
I m. F I neon-day meal, might i
has placed thereon. I'd
chair; I'd take the ere;
pie, the cream biscuit, t
leave you to make a m<
picks. There is not a thing from noi
of xnaD. We use her horns to comb o
keeps plaster u:>on our walls, her hoc
gtfes us our milk or cream our ehees<
meat of the nation; her blood is used
grotmd to fertihze our soil, and ever,
the irst chemical process necessary fi
board, and they have discovered that
quality of false teeth. No other anir
By day she gathers food and when we
reehew and convert it into all thine?
mas from Plymouth Rock to the setti:
first sod in the settler's clearing; it wa
for the sturdy pioneers as inch by ir
the star of empire takes its way' wit
the day's march was done she came
breast to feed tl:e suckling babe that '
coaatry. Who says that much of wh
friend, the cow" Treat her kindly, g
scribe the situation.
What's in a Name.
Ob one occasion North Ovington
Messenger, a Washington political
writer, was doing report.rial work
and was assigned to- interview Marat
Halslead, 3cme\vhat of a political writer
himself. Mr. Messenger sent his
card up to Mr. Halstcad, hearing the
words "N. 0. Messenger," and no othI
>tism.
to fascinate in a snake's eyes and moT?other
day a typical illustration of th?
:inate.
oods I saw a ground squirrel fascinated
e. The forked tongue darted out of the
5 regularly and Tapidly as the needle of
and falls. The squirrel seemed to watch j
ce was within two or three inches of th*
e coils about the squirrel. Instantly th*
harm there had been over the little anioment
the serpent's coils were about the
ivulsive, terrified chirps and realized that
kes have a certain degree of power to
:ksnakes, gopher snakes and racers have I
snakes have the most fascinating poweT
he Southwest. The indications of charmiving
sometimes. Poisonous snakes fang
s not kill at once. The victim flutters to
istance and stops. The snake watches it.
! the bird falls. Any one who comes up,
readily deceived into imagining that it
the poison that caused the victim to fall
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sreditary.
Jackson, of New York.
reditary suicidal iinpluse? Is it curable?
er both questions affirmatively. If I had
vork, I could answer the firs! question
experience in the Coroner's office. Exidal
impulse are frequent. The exist.-nee
form of insanity and its transmis-ibility
tablished.
as suicide increases. It does not follow
other of one's parents commits suicide
g offspring. The exact contrary may ob,
to be done? Consult an alienist. That
your eyes are impaired, you consult an
'tsting tendencies which are beyond the
a surgeon, but an expt rt in mental disendency
is very much the same as for
to build up the general system, insist
ieting and cheerful environment- The
is developed by chronic illmss. Then
it by strong mental influence,
alienist, mentions a remarkable method
i patient who had a history of inherited
ons. When he reached the age of thirtyitens?
depression in which the tend ney |
tible. Dr. Maudsley, after studying the
ession were augmented by the patient's
He advised him to take a daily nap in
pare the time from his business. Then
oon to lean back In his chair, close his
in his hand. Wlrem he fell asleep, the
vaken him.
nap often lasted but a few moments, the ]
benefit, and within a short time his fits j
He overcame his suicidal tendency and
rations to die a natural death.
SST m
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Sneeze.
'article of Ragweed Invades
tory Region.
everley Crane.
g should be thoroughly understood by
s a well known fact that a sneeze al'e
is something wrong. It does not ocne
foreign substance irritates the memsagss,
upon which the nervous filaments
fever these are unduly excitable, hence
which then occur. The nose receives
mell. those of feeling, and those of motie
brain the odorous properties of sub:act,
in a diffused or concentrated state;
ions of touch; the third move the musvery
limited.
faculties are excited in a high degree,
ig ragweed excites tne olfactory nerves,
telligence. "Ragweed has attacked the
idate through the motor nerves to the
ihe result is unmistakable.
?ging the nostril held to be. that the
It were too feeble to accomplish this,
the rescue; nearly one-half the body is
he muscles of the lips to those of the
' expulsion of the microscopically minute
his instaneous operation:
he abdominal organs are pressed downis
down to form a barrier to the escape
w in all the muscles which have relaxed
!y and force the compressed air from the
isal passages, with the benevolent deterof
ragweed which has been causing irrition
of a sneeze; and if the first effort
icond, a third, and a fourth; and not
ly of defenders dissolve its compact and
ice and" quietude.
face and replacing it down side up the
i avoided.
at?New York Sun.
vsar ryar
3r? csr
the Cow.
is
of man she Is the greatest. To her we
lat L as you are about to sit down to the
emove from your table what the cow
take the cup of milk waiting at baby's
am, the cheese, the butter, the custard
be steak, the smoking roast of beef, and
?al of potatoes, beets, pickles and tooth;e
to tail but that is utilized for the use
ur hair, her skin upon our feet, her hair
)fs make glue, her tail makes soup; she
? and butter, and her flesh is the greatest
to make our sugar white; her bones are
her paunch she herself has put through
or the production of the best white cardsuch
paper can be made into the finest
nal works for man both night and day.
are asleep at night she brings it back to
i of which I speak. She has gone with
ng sun. It was her sons that turned the
s her sons that drew the prairie schooner
ich they fought to prove that 'westward
h the old cow grazing behind, and when
and gave the milk to fill the mother's
ivas perchance to become the ruler of the
at we are, we do not owe to man's best
;ently, for without her words fail to deer
designation as to his business. The
old newspaper man sent word for the
young one to come up. He was met ai
the doer of Mr. Halstead's room with
cordiality. Mr. Halstead had his call
er's card in his hand.
"I'm? r," he hesitated, "glad to sec
you. Come in?but what is the New
Orleans Messenger? I have never
heard of that paper before."
NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
Paragraph# of Minor Importance
Gathered From Many Sources.
Through the South.
Fredericksburg fair opened with a
large attendance.
Virginia last year produced 122.410,000
pounds of tobacco.
Nettie Hall, colored, was beaten into
insensibility by sailors at Norfolk.
The clubhouse of the Ragged Island
Gunning Association wos burned Saturday
night.
Eighth district Republicans met at
Alexandria and nominated E. I.. Howard
for Congress.
Playing with matches, the 5-year-old
son of Joseph Rebill. of Winchester,
was seriously burned.
two negroes were Kineu aim juit
mortally wounded in a race riot in De
Soto county. Mississippi.
At Charlotte, N. C.. Wednesday night
three men were killed by a collisionj
on the Southern Railway.
Samuel Moran, of Norfolk, is charged
with burglary in having taken
j worth of theatre tickets.
Sixteen people were made seriously
sick in Columbia, S. C., Wednesday
by eating poisoned ice cream.
Ex-Mayor J. Samuel McCue is to be
placed on trial on the charge of wife
murder at Charlottesville October IS.
At least 12 persons were drowned,
many bridges washed away and damage
estimated at $200,000 resulted from
! a flood at Watrous, N. M.
In a raid on an alleged gambling
bouse in Norfolk a number of proniinet
young men were caught by the
J police.
Adelaide Thurston, the actress, has
started a movement in Memphis, Tenn.,
! tc erect a monument to Dan Emraett,
1 author of "Dixie," who died recently
! Un?nt Uarr>nr O If is nrOIlOSed
CI I iU UUUb T V< UVU) V mm- tr ~ ~ M
to raise a sufficient funds by benefit
tbreatrical performances in five Southern
cities with the co-operation if the
! Daughters of the Confederacy.
I
Washington Happenings.
Secretary Hitchcock made public a
iong reply to charges that the Interior
Department is not pushing prosecutions
in the alleged land fraud cases.
The Panama Minister has filed with
the State Department a protest against
the management of affairs in the canal
zone.
Representatives of labor allege railroads
are discriminating against their
organization in not allowing reduced
rates to the San Francisco convention.
In his annual report Surgeon-General
O'Reilly, of the army, expresses a
belief the leprosy is curable.
In the North.
The fruit steamer Alleghany arrived
in New York in flames, which, were
soon subdued.
A letter from President Roosevelt
was read before the Irrigation Congress
at Mandan, N. D.
The triennial national convention of
the Polish Roman Catholic Church
a f.,
Opcnt'U 1:1 rmsuuig.
Carlos Fredriques von Bauditz, a
rich young Venezuelan, committed suicide
in New York.
Thirty-one persons were hurt, some
seriously, in the derailing of an Iron
Mountain train near Vulcan, Mo.
The third Eucharistic Congress of
the Catholic Church convened iu St.
Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
The German liner Kaiser Wilhelm II
arrived in New York after a narrow
escape from a collision Monday, bringing
many notable persons.
The body of the young woman buried
under the name of Martha Lambeer in
Hempstead Cemetery. Long Island. wa?
fully identified by her mother as that
cf Margaret Lynch.
The collapsing of a floor at the correr-stone
laying of the Polish Catholic
Church at Adams. Mass.. caused the injury
of Bishop Beaven and 11 others,
some seriously.
The convention of the Brotherhood
c? St. Andrew, in Philadelphia, came to
a close with a great meeting at
night.
Most Rev. R. T. Davis preached at
Old Trinity Church. New York, in the
morning and at St. Thomas' Protestant
Episcopal Church in the afternoon.
Foreign Affairs.
Field Marshal Oyaman is completing
his envelopment of the Russian
army around Mukden.
The Japanese Government established
a tobacco monopoly, buying the
business of the American Tobacco Cornjinny
in that Empire.
Miscellaneous Doings.
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uan scnurz wmes a icuvi umanug
tor Parker and Davis.
Dispatches to the New York Herald
from doubtful States throw interesting
light on the political situation.
The total attendance at the St. Louis
World's Pair to date was given as 12,>15,511.
The blight of the late war in South
\frica is still pointedly shown in that
country's trade with the rest of the
world
MR WATSON WRITES
I Letter Accepting Populist Nomination
Made Public
!SCORES BOTH OTHER CANDIDATES
! Populist Nominee Declares That He
Devotes Most of His Fire to Parker
as an Artful Dodger, since Roosevelt
Stands Boldly Out in the Open.
The letter of Hon. Thomas E. Watsor.
accepting the Populist nomination
for the presidency is in substance as
follows:
"To Hon. Samuel W. Williams. Chairman
Committee on Notification:
"What two groat political parties
have, in turn, governed a country, and
have, between them, brought unsatisfactory
conditions, it is but a natu:ji
fact that a third party should arise.
Citizens who have looked in vain to
"the two great parties" for remedial
legislation lose confidence in both after
a while, and adopt one of two courses:
They either submit to the evils of had
government, or protest by organizing
? third party.
"To the student of history, there is
nothing more saddening than the tendency
of the people to submit. As a
rule, political education never reaches
the masses. State-craft, like priestcraft.
jealously guards its secrets.
There is always the inner sanctuary,
which the people are taught to believe
would be profaned by the touch of
their unholy feet."
Mr. Watsoi then takes a fall out of
the ruling classes in England. Germany,
Italy,, Egypt and India, and continues:
"How is it in our own land? God
- o onnrtor hnniC for hii. I
iii in iiiiiuv u 6iu**uv?
children than that which the Cavalier
of Virginia, the Dutchman in New
Ycrk. and the Puritan in Massachusetts
sought as a refuge from the systems
of the old world. In natural advantages
this earth holds no reigu superior to
cms. Once it belonged to the people.
With his gun. the common man won
it mile by mile from the Indian, the
frenchman, the Saxon, and the Spaniard.
What the common man did not
win with his gun, he bought with his
money. From sea to sea, the land which
is ours became ours because the common
man was ready to pay for it with
his tax money or his blood.
What has become of it? With bewildering
rapidity, it has been taken from
the common people and given to the
corporations. It belonged to the governnent.
to all the people. It was meant to
supply homes to individual citizens,
and >there was enough of it to last for
many generations. To the extent of
about 200,000,000 acres, it has been
given to railroad corporations; and
now. when a common man wants a
home in all that vast domain, he must
go to the railroad corporations to get
it."
THE GOLD STANDARD.
"Once upon a time we had a financial
system of our own. Placed in the
constitution as part of our fundamental
law. it seemed to be firmly fixed. For a
hundred years this money system was
in operation among us. Therefore, it
seemed to be 'irrevocably fixed.' Very
wise men created this system of national
finance. It was the one subject
upon which Thomas Jefferson and Alexander
Hamilton agreed. Those two
were, perhaps, the greatest statesmen
this country ever Drodueed. So pre-eminent
were they above all others, that
they divided the people into two distinct
schools of political thought. But,
upon the vital subject of finance, these
master-minds reached the same conclusion;
and that conclusion became a
..1ft nf ?hn constitution.
V.
"To establish the single gold standard,
which sets the constitution ac?d?.
the statue had to be violated.' The word
<oin' had to be constructed to mean
'gold only:' and the paper note, issued
op silver, had to be redeemed in a manner
different from that prescribed by
law. I
"There are at least five reasons why |
the gold standard cannot be consideied
as fixed:
"(1) It is unconstitutional.
"(2) It violates statute law.
"(3) The supply of gold might increase
beyond all the circulations of
the money power. Thus, the standard
of value would get beyond their control.
In that event, the money power
itself would change the standard.
"(4) The supply of gold might suddenly
cease. In that event, contraction
would at once set in, because the country's
expansion in business and increase
in population required a constantly
increasing ulation of currency.
If the horrors of contraction should
i again come upon us by the selfish polj
icy of the money -power, the people
I would compel a change in the standard,
j Wall street gave us the panic of 1873:
j Wall street gave us the panic of 1S93.
j Let Wall street give us another, and it
I an/1 that it has given us
one too many. The American people I
have about reached the limit of endurance.
"We have heard much of 'constitutionalism'
in this campaign. The sincerity
of the crime is known by the fact
that the gold standard, which violates
the statute law and the constitution, is
rot only supported by Theodore Roose\elt,
the emperialist, but by Alton B.
Parker, the chosen apostle of constitutionalism.
"(5) The gold standard is not 'irrevocable
fixed,' because it is unscientific
j and wrong. Nothihg is more certain
I than that the people of this country
I will continue their struggle until they
have a national currency, which, the
, rr'oney power cannot control, and which
i answers the purpose of perfecting ex:
changes without becoming an armory,
j from which the baceanecrs of modern
I finance draw the irresistible weapons
i with which they attack values and raid
the markets.
"One of the worst features of our
financial system in the fartning out to
liif national bank of the power, privi- i
lege and profit of supplying the coun11
y with paper currency. Instead of
.icing its own credit for the equal beni
fit of all the people, the government
ends this credit to the national banker I
.0 be used for the benefit of the banker.
Thus, the national banker becomes the
beneficiary of special privileges; and,
-rising his noies upon the credit of the
government, charges his fellow citizens
ior the use of them. He, the privileged,
fattens upon usury at the expense of
the unprivileged. There are now about
fite thousand national banks, which
keep in circulation more then four
hundred million dollars of their notes
<\t SO per cent, this represents a yearly
ptofit of more than thirty million dollars.
which they derive from the special
privilege of using the public credit
for their private benefit. Clothed with
the sovereign power of creating what
is practically a legal tender currency,
they ran contract it or expand it whencver
they please; and, if they decide to
give the country a taste of their despotic
power, as in 1893, there is no
power which can protect the victim. No
class of citizens should be clothed by
kiw with such terrible advantages over
their fellows.
discussed al considerable length, as
also the trust question. There is also
a sbaracterij&ation of Parker . and
Roosevelt. The Populist creed is given
at length. Mr. Watson claiming
that it represents true Joffersonian
principles.
In conclusion, Mr. Watson says:
"The Peaple's party favors the public
ownership of public utilities. In
nearly every civilized country the
government owns the railways, the
telegraphs and the telephones. The
last two should be a part of our postoifice
system, to which should be
added the parcel post, to free our people
from the extortionate cnarges of
the express companies. The People's
parry has always advocated the graduated
income tax. This would not
only throw the support of the government
upon the rich, where it should
be, but would, in a great measure,
prevent the accumulation of huge,
unnecessary and dangerous fortunes.
We favor the eight-hour law, and the
abolition of child-labor in factories,
where the unhealthy moral and physical
conditions are almost certain to
destroy the child. We believe It to
be a part of man's natural liberty and
equality to labor for himself and not
for a master, and that the laws should
be so framed that there should be no
monopoly of the land for either the
living or the dead. Recently we
Iiava heard the insidious voice of
those who tell us that man is not
born free, but must earn his freedom.
This j?ernlciou8 p.nd fajse statement
comc3 from one of those millionaire
colleges, where opinions are censored.
just as books are censored by the
Carnegie libraries
"Upon this subject Mr. JefTerson
said that 'the God who gave us life |
gave 113 liberty at the same time.'
He also announced as a principle that
'the earth is given as- a common stock
lor man to labor and live on. If for
the encouragement of industry we allow
it to be appropriated, we must
take care that other employment be
provided to those excluded from the
appropriation. If we do not, the fundamental
right to labor the earth returns
to the unemployed "
FIANL APPEAL.
"To the courage and the intelligence
of the voter, I appeal. If you
think I am right, vote that way, or you
are a moral coward. Do not fear
that your vote will be 'thrown away.'
Your vote is never thrown away until
it ceases to be the representative
of your honest convictions."
WORLD'S FAIR.
Bulgaria's exhibit has cost'lier $100.Ouo.
'
The model street is on? of the unique
exhibits of the World's Fair.
A tine Angora goat skin decorates
the wall of the Montana exhibit.
A model of (he imperial- hunting preserves
at Shinhama is shown in the
Japanese Government exhibit.
Austria's exhibit at the World's Fait}
centres at its official pavilion situated
no.>i- th.-> Administration building.
A mine tramway forms an interest-,
ing feature of the Missouri display Iflf
the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.
Com sufficient to reach 3000 miles.;
if laid ear to ear, represents the'
I amount used in the Palace of Agriculture.
An interesting exhibit in the Palace;,
of Mines and Metallurgy is an immense
topographical map of Niagara Falls
and vicinity.
I A cross section of a poplar tree 800
years old is exhibited in (ho North Carolina
section of the Palace of Forestry,
Fish and Game.
A gold brick pyramid, seven feet high
and three by six feet so.nare at the
base, is exhibited in the Alaskan building
at the World's Fair.
In the Government's exhibit in Pel- ,
gium's national pavilion is a ease con- |
taining thirty-five replicas of the seals 1
of old free cities in Belgium.
The World's Fair classification for
hares and rabbits provides for seventytwo
awards fo- Belgian hares and for
seven awards in each of seventeen sections
for rabbits.
Paintings and phonographs of the
biggest gey t in the world, the giant
Waiwanju, which, c.ery second day,
throws un a vap* body c boiling water
1300 feet high, are exhibited in New
Zealand's section in the Palace of Forestry,
Fish and Game.
Child Fatally Burned.
Newberry, Special.?The house
FrcH Trihhle. colored, on the Dlanta
tion of Mr. J. R. Senn, near Longshore,
this county, was burned Fri
day morning about 10 o'clock, and
a young child within was severely and
probably fatally burned. Three children
were left alone in the house and
one of them attempted to pour kerosene
on the fire. The flame caught the
child's clothing and on tho floor ol
'he house ana soon reduced the little
uillding to ashes. Tne children es
"od without injury excepting the
':?;ed the kerosene.
*
Wnatever goes up must eom?
down" is unfortunately not true 01
the book on the shelf. j
GEN. RANSOM IAD
Prominent Southern Statesman Goes
to His Reward
WAS LOVED, HONORED, RESPECTED
The Imperishable Career of North
Carolina's Most Distinguished Private
Citizen Closes at the 78th Milestone
in His Life.
Weldon, X. C., Special?Ex-Senatoi
Matt. W. Ransom, North Carolina"?
foremost citizen, died suddenly Saturday
morning at his country home in
Nortnampton county, near uar/ouuig,
of heart failure.
The end came shortly after } o'clock
and was the peaceful passing of a
flame which had flickered but feebly
for some months. It was his 7Sth
birthday.
Gen. M. W. Ransom was born on
Oct. 8. 1826, in Warren county. He betame
Attorney General for the State oi
North Carolina in 1852, being only 2<
years of age at the time, thus being the
youngest man to hold this position in
the history of the State. By reason ol
Gov. Vance being unable to qualify as
Senator after his election, Gen. Ransom
ljecame United States Senator in
1872, which position he hold constantly
until 1895, immediately after which he
was appointed United States minister
to Mexico, in which capacity he served
for two years. He was a member ol
the board of arbitration in the Venezuelan
troubles with Mexico.
He leaves five sons and one daughter
and a wife. He was probably the largest
landowner in the State, the acreage
being variously estimated, from 14,000
to 18,000, in fact, he recently remarked:
"There is only one person
who knows how much land I own and
that Is myself."
The funeral will take place Monday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and the interment
will be made in the family burying
ground. He will he buried with
Masonic honors. j
The following is a brief life sketch
of Ex-Senator Ransom:
' He was born in Warren county, this
State, in 1826. and Is -now, therefore. ' >4
sixty-two years of age. For more than
half a life-time he has been a conspicu
ous personage, and a mail of recognizee
ability and pronounced influence in
North Carolina. Shortly after bia graduation
from the University, at Chapel
Hill, in 1847: he was admitted to the
bar, and five years later he was elected
Attorney General of the State. Few
men have merited or won such success
so early in life, and fewer bave followed
it with so continuous a publip service.
In 1835 he resigned the Attorney
Generalsuip, and was not again in office
until the year 1858, wbea he was
a Representative in the State Legislature.
And again, in 1859 and 1860. he
filled that position. He. war, sent as a
peace commissioner from the State ol
North Carolina to the Congress ol
Southern States at Montgomery, Ala.
in 1861. On the breaking out of the
Civil War he entered the Confederate
army, and rose successively through
the positions oi lieutenant colonel, colonel
and brigadier general to that ol
major general. In the last named rank
he served until the close of the war
and surrendered with General I^ee't
army at Appomattox. As a soldiei
General Ransom showed himself to b<
a courageous man and a brave and
skillful officer, and he endeared hlmsell
greatly, by his humane management
and courteous bearing, to the men ol
his command. Returning to his uativs
State at the close of the war. Genera!
Ransom resumed the practice of the
law. at the same time being engaged
extensively as a planter, and it was not
until the year 1872 that he again*cntered
public life. Then, for the first
time, he was elec ted to the Senate ol
the United States, a position he has
occupied continuously until the present
time, having been re-elected In 1S7C
and in 1883. At the expiration of his
present term, in March, 1889. he will
have eighteen years in the highest office
within the gift of tho people of his
own State, an honor of which he and
the State may be proud. Senator Ransom
was a man of marked ability and
of broad culture. 'inougn n? uaa ?eidom
made set speeches in the Senate,
yet his efforts were characterized by
those qualities of conservative good
sense, elegance of expression and
grace of delivery that arc peculiarly
his own.
News of the Day!
Julius H. Stone and others, indicted
in the United States District Court at
Trenton. N. J., for conspiracy in placing
iron inside of cork life-preservers,
were arraigned and released on bail.
Mrs. Rosa Barbadi, 22 years old, shot
and killed Michael'Roge when he tried
to force her to leave her husband in
New York.
The ereuptiou of Mo . :it Vesuvius is
greatly diminished.
Russians at Port Arthur have been
striving in vain to rttahe poHitioris
which the Japanese captured.
Czar Nicholas will go to Revaf Tuesday
to bid farewell to the Baltic squadron.
King Edward telegraphed his condolences
to the widow of Sir William
>Vrnnn T-Tnrpnnrt
Countess Lonyay pronounces her sister.
Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg,
sane.
General Stocssel issued an exultant
proclamation at Port Arthur in honor
i?t the repulse of the latest Japanese attack.
Southern Itaiv was shaken by %an
earthquake.
Premier Belfour. in a speech at Edinburgh.
stated that he was not a protectionist.
There is a bitter political controversy
i;i Denmark over the proposed rc-e^tablishment
of the whipping post.
Frederick A. Br.rtholdi, sculptor oi
the Statue of Liberty, in New York bay,
is critically in in Paris.
Emperor William will have his younger
sons schooled in industrial and
iinancial problems.
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