The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 24, 1891, Image 1

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Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.] BY. N. GK OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. ADVKRTI8KMS HTS . O&e Square, frst insertion.$1 00 frery 8 usseq uen t insertion.... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be ?ade at red a ced rates. All comtnunicatiocs which subserve private inter jeta will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. REMOVAL -AND NEW GOODS. To accommodate my largely increased and increasing busi? ness, I have removed to the handsome and commodious new B?ck Store next to John Reid's, opposite my-old stand, where I can now be found with a stock of DIAMONDS, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silfer and Plated Ware, SPECTACLES, Ac, surpassing in brilliancy, extent and variety any stock of the kmd ever shown in this city, with daily additions of new at? tractions. Thanking nay friends and the public generally-for the very liberal patronage bestowed on me at my old stand, I hope to merit a continuance of the same, and I hereby ex te od to a!) a cordial io vita tion to pay me a visit at my oew rand, ?here, with a larger stock and increased facilities in every way ( am better pre* pared than ever to cater to their wants. Don't forget the place, REID'S BLOCK, MAIN ST., Sl?itITEB, S. C. Yours, anxious to please/ L W COLSON. Everything ?a the Una of repairing dune as j heretofore. Oct 8 H. A. HOYT, Successor to C. I. HOYT & BRO. Gold and Silver Watches, FINS DIAMONDS. ?odes, J?*alry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, 4c. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb i Breaking in isn't needed, with the Ball corset. It's easy from the start. Coils of tiny wire springs in the sides make it so. There are bones that bend, but can't break, and soft eyelets that won't cut the laces. You'll like it. If you don't, after a few weeks' wear, just return it and get your money. J.RYTTENBERG ?fe SONS. HOLMAN & LEMASTER. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. SU-MTER, S. C. WILL MAKE BIDS ON ANY WORK in City or County, and will do all work with despatch and in best of work? manship. Calls *>y mail or otherwise responded to promptly. Can be found at present at build? ings on Westend of Calhoun ot rest. E. H. HOLMAN, Nov. 26-v_G. F. Ls Vf ASTER. NOTICE. WINTHROP TRAINING SCHOOL for teachers, Columbia, S. C. Thorough normal instruction and practice io best meth? ods of teaching. Open to girls over i8 years old. Graduates are entitled to teach in the schools of South Carolina as first grade teach? ers. They readily secure positions io this and other States. Each County is given two scholarships-one by tbe State, worth $150 : and one by the School, worth $30. Compet? itive examination for these scholarships will be held io each County, Thursday, Ju!v 2. ! Address D. B JOHNSON, Superintendent, Columbi?. S C. fifflflttiSTOBE FIXTURES, T*"*M*BM| Cj*A?k foi Ol?alo^.. TERRY HTS CO.? NASHVIOEJENN. CHILD BIRTH . . . . . MADE EASY! *' MOTHERS* FRIEND "ba scientific? ally prepared Liniment, every ingre? dient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical pro? fession. These ingredients are com? bined in a manner hitherto unknown "MOTHERS' . FRIEND" ? WILL DO all that is claimed for it ANDMORE. It Shortens Labor, Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to life of Mother and Child. Book to " MOTHERS " mailed FREE, con? taining valuable information and voluntary testimonials. Sent by express on receipt of price $1.50 per bottle BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. SOLD BY ALI. DRUGGISTS. Foi' Infants and Children. Pastoria promote? Digestion,* and overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep natural. Cas to ria contains no Morphine or other narcotic property. "Castona is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.'1 H. A. ARCHER, M. D-. Ill Sc?th Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. "I use Cast via in my practice, and find it specially adapted to affections cf children" ?sar. ROBZB^SOK, M. D_ 1057 2d Ave., New York. '4 From personal knowledge and observation I can say that Castoria is an excellent medicine for children, acting: as a laxative and relieving the pent up bowels and general system very moen. Many mothers have told me of its ex? cellent effect upon their children/1 DR. G. C. OSGOOD, Lowell, Mass. THE CEKTAUR COMPANY, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. Are You Interested? Are you suffering with any of the following symptoms: Loss of, or irregular appetite, loss of flesh, a feeling of fulness or weight in the stomach, acidity, flatulence, a dull pain with a sensation of heaviness in the bend,' giddiness, constipation, derangement of kid? neys, heart trouble, nervousness, sleepless? ness, etc. Dr. Holt's Dyspeptic Elixir will cure you. W. A. Wright, the Comptroller General of Georgia, says, three bottles cured bim after baring tried almost everything else. Judge R. F, ?zlar, Macon, Ga., says, Holt's Elixir accomplished what all otber remedies failed to do, a perfect cure. J. E. Paullin, Ft. Gaines, Ga., writes: "I bave no .hesitancy in recommending it, as it cured me of dyspepsia. For any further information inquire of your druggist. For sale by all druggists. THE S1M0KDS NATIONAL BANK, OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital . . . . . $75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 9,250 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. 8AYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, July and Octoher. R. M. WALLACE, Vice President. L. S. CARSON, Aug. 7 Cashier. mmm SUMTER, S C. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also h?s A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, A. WHITS, JB., President. Cashier. Aug 21. DS. S. ALTA SOLOMONS, DENTIST. Oflice OVER BROWNS & PURDY'S STORE. Entrance on Main Street, Between Browns & Purdy and Durant & Soo. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. Sumter, S. C , April 29._ 6. W. SICK, D. D. S. Office over Bogia's New Store, INTRANCE ON MAIN STREET SUMTER, S. C. Oflice Hours.-9 to 1 ;30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8 DTTT. W. BOOKHART, DENTAL SURGEON. OflBce over Bultman & Bro.'s Shoe Store ENTRANCE ON MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. C. Oflice Hours-9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. April 17-0 AGENTS WANTED FOR SUMTER COUNTY <br the NATION? AL CAPITAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. ! The right roan will earn $73 00 per week This Association is receiving the support of Farmers Alliances. W. S. MONTEITH, Manager So. Division, Columbia, S. C. June 10. 2 ? Sample Copies Free ! The Sunny South, our great Southern Family Weekly, shoujd be taken in every household. The price ts only $2 a j ear, and a presant which is worth hat amount or more is sent for every yearly subscription. A sample copy will be sent free to any address. Write at once to J. H. SEALS &CO., Atlanta, Ga. Sr. MireMs Calisaya Tonic. The Great Southern Remedy, Will Cur?. Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, awi all Liver and Blood /b iases. Rev. W. H. Hunt, of Atlanta, Ga , writes: - From the benefits I have received from a single bottle of Dr. Westooreland's Calisaja Tonic, I hare no hesitation in saying that I consider it an excellent remedy for indiges? tion, and General Debility. Col. H. P. Hammett, Prest. Camperdown and Piedmont Mills, Greenville, S. C., says : - I had contracted Malaria, and suffered greatly io its various forms for near two years ; tried two or three Mineral Springs-The most ski i ful Physicians, but was not relieved. Was cured with five or six bottles of Dr. West? moreland's Calisaya Tonic. The Convict Question. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 3, 1891. To the Honorable Board of Di rectors-Gentlemen: At the re quest of the board I desire to make a statement in regard to this mat ter of convicts being mistreated, etc., on the way from the railroad camp to Columbia. In regard to the convict, that died on the road from Pee Dee to Darlington I wish to. say that, un? der the circumstances, being un? able to stop to attend to it myself, I turned him over to an old reli? able colored man to be buried. He agreed to make a plain coffin or box, in which to bury him, of course receiving a just compensa? tion for the same. I, therefore, pronounce the statement that he was buried in a blanket false, ac? cording to the agreement made for his burial ; and I can truthfully say that it was not from a lack of attention that he died, for he had been in the hospital under a phy? sician for about five weeks, receiv? ing good attention all the while, and the paralytic has been in the hospital for about two months. Now as to their clothing. They were clad very comfortably, about as well as could be expected of a parcel of hands who had been at work on a rail road. The majori? ty of them were barefooted, but I thought it best to wait until I got them to the penitentiary to give shoes, as it was such a short time before we expected to be there. Then, too, about their being at the point of starvation. When I I left the camp with them I had a sufficient quantity of rations cook? ed to last them (without anv un necessary delay) till they could I get to Columbia ; but, owing to a failure to make connection at Sumter, as we fully expected to do, according to the arrangements previously made with the railroad authorities to that effect, we were .left without anything to eat, the Atlantic Coast Line train having pulled out just as the Charleston, Sumter & Northern rolled up, it being about seven or eight hundred yards from the crossing of the Charleston, Sum ! ter & Northern, thus delaying our I arrival at Columbia from Sumter ter till 10 o'clock. I can vouch lor their treatment at the camps, that they have all the while been well clothed, well fed and well treated in general, and that they have received no un? necessary abuse, and also that we have worked no sick hands, all of them having been during their sickness in the hospital, where they have received all necessary attention. C. E. WHEELER. Manager of Convict Camps. SOUTH CAROLINA PENITENTIARY, ) COLUMBLA., S. C., June 9, 1891. j The following from the News and Courier and will be read with great interest by our readers in connection with the charges against Col. Talbert about the con? dition of the convicts who passed through Sumter : Col. Talbert, Superintendent of the South Carolina Penitentiary Dear Sir : Replying to your request that I state for publication what I know about the Pee Dee convict de? tail, r respectfully submit that about the first day of March I ac? companied a detailof forty-five men from this institution to the Pee Dee camp under control of Mr. C. E. Wheeler. I carried along a large package of clothing, issued from the quartermaster's depart? ment, which by actual account, showed to be an extra suit of warm, woollen clothing for each man. The package contained also an ex? tra suit of underclothing (shirt and drawers) for each man. Be? fore starting each man received a pair of new brogan shoes. I also carried twenty-eight pairs of new shoes, as per requisition of Mr. C. E. Wheeler. I visited the .camp in company with Mr. Baker $bout the 6th of May and had in my pocket your instructions to bring in the nifn or allow them to stay until the 15th if, in my judgment, on ex? amining the camp and sick list it would not. be unwise to do, taking in+o consideration only the health or the convicts, also to make ar? rangements at Blemheim for ra? tions. Messrs. Baker and Holmes urged upon me that it would be a great hardship on them to take the men away, and while I appre? ciated their po*i?ion I positively refused to make them a promise. When I visited the camp and found that the "unusual large sick list" consisted in a great measure of cut ringers, boils, sprains and bad colds, and that there was no disease of a local cause, or any? thing of the sort that might not be expected at any other place. I agreed to let them remain, after a consultation with Drs. Napier and Hardin, the attending physicians. When 1 arrived at the works I was told by the men in the pre? sence of Mr. Baker that they "had been on half rations since midday yesterday." I asked Mr. Baker to loan me what he could, and he re? plied that he could let me have "one side of bacon, a half barrel of flour and some meal with which lo tide over tho night." By instructions from Col. Tal? bert I went to Blenheim and re? quested Mr. A. J. Matheson, ? mer? chant of that place, to fill any or? der sent him for supplies for the convict camp signed hy 0. E. Wheeler, and that Mr. Wheeler sent orders is shown by Mr. Mathe? son^ account of $300 for supplies from the otb of May to the 1st ot Juno, a little over three weeks, and I will guarantee that Mr. Mathe? son^ prices will compare favor? ably with those of any mer? chant in the Pee Dee country. Mr. Wheeler was instructed to buy beef each week for the men, but being out in the country, remote from ain- market, it could not be obtained regularly, so Mr. Wheel? er informed mo, but that beef was purchased we offered Mr. Wheel? er's accounts here on file as proofs, amounts ranging from $25 to $40 per month, all this in addition to Mr. Mathesons account. Does this look like starvation ? Now one word about "the poor paralytic who was forced to labor/' I never saw him at any place but walking around the camp during all my trips to Wheeler's camp, and I go further in saying that the character and reputation of Drs. Napier and Hardin, who were placed in absolute control of the camp by myself, and who visited -it from three to four times each week, will not allow anyone to en tertain such an idea. The morn? ing Mr. Wheeler started to bring in the convicts, June 1, he inform? ed me that he was uneasy about the men trying to escape, for some had rather go anywhere else than back to to the Peni tent iary,and that he feared his guard force was not sufficient. During the night before I had matured the plan to leave the maa that died in charge of a guard de? tailed for that purpose, but Mr. Wheeler's statement prevented i t. However, I tried four different parties to take charge of him un? til death and bury him properly. As a last resort I asked Mr. Wheel? er what .had been the custom here? tofore in such cases. He replied to carry them along in the best way possible. Mr. Wheeler and myself made a sort of a hand-bar? row by laying pieces of plank at right angles across two pieces of board six feet long. On this we placed the man on a mattress, and four men carried him to the wagon about a mile or more away, shelter? ed as he was from the sun by some green boughs cut by my own hands. This then, is the "way" he was, "dragged," as stated in the papers. Mr. Baker had promised me to have sufficient teams at the river to convey everything. This he failed to do, and I ordered Capt. Wheeler to leave the camp equi? page and uso the wagons to trans? port the men. This accounts for the men being without, something to eat, for to my knowledge they started with it. If Mr. Baker had sent teams sufficient, and the rail? road connection at Sumter made, as I was assured it would be, thon all this war of words would not have been, and with one more allu? sion to the condition of the men I will let the matter rest. I remember to have seen on the 6th of May several men working barefoot, and was told by them that the ground was not hard and that they had shoes, but preferred to go without them while it was so warm. Those of us who know anything of the negro race know this to be one of his "ways," and that they are a people true to their ancestry in this respect if no other. Respectfully, J. EUGENE JARNIGAN, Assistant Surgeon S. C. P. In justice to Col. Talbert, we, the undersigned gentlemen, have been operating our farms with con? vict labor and do hereby certify that the hands in our employ have been well fed, well clothed and shod and treated humanely under tna present administration. Signed : John C. Seegers, B.C. Aughtry, M. R.'Spigener. Wo, the undersigned officers and membors of the guard of tho South Carolina Penitentiary, do hereby certify to our certain knowledge the convicts returned from the rail? road camp on the 2d instant by C. E. Wheeler were in as good con? dition in every way as any other number of convicts loased and re turnod to the prison has been dur? ing the time of our service hero. Signed : S. W. W. Adams, A. P. Smith, F. R. Caldwell, C. T. Rich? ardson, E. F. Wooten, J. M. Bran ham, W. CT. Bvrd, S. G. Bvrd, S. I). Edward, J. K. Bothea, E. Wes? terfeld, Cl. W. Coleman, T. W. Briggs, L. M. Prosslev, B.S. Lvles, J. H. Dye, J. P. Cannon, S. J. Wy? lie, A. T. Davis, J. A. Young, W. B. Steelo, R. C. McCants, G. E. Hardy, T. P. Quarles, R. C. Miller. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 13.-The State of i Ii is morning publishes the following leitet : As tho convict question ie up, please give space in yon: valuable columns to a few wmds I have to say about the treatment of convicts at my different railroad camps under Superintendent Lipscomb and under Superintendent Talbert. I have had charge of convicts camps under both of them I hope The State's correspondent at Sumter will not implicate me will) Superintendent Talbert as denials of his report The only point I cor? rected was that of the dead convict, and what I had to say was to the Board of Directors. 1 never denied that the convicts were barefooted. I never disputed the fact that the convicts starved all day at Sumter. After starving ?til day in Sumter, I was al? most eeitaiu that they would be offer? ed something to eat that night after arriving at the penitentiary. But it was not so. They were locked np without a morsel of bread till the next morning. What hour they were fed the next morning, I can't say-about 6:30 o'clock, ? suppose. 1 have managed convict camps under Cul. Lipscomb on the Georgia, Cut'oliua and Northern KiilroaiL in Chester County; on the Wilson si Cut, in Marion County; and on Eutawville Railroad, in Claren County. I managed 215 convict the phosphate fields of Collt County. On August 13, 1890, I left ? umbia in charge of 103 convict?; off the cars at Maycsville and marc out to the stockade on the Charles) Sumter and Northern Railr< While my camp wis located at Lan Co!. Lipscomb turned over penitentiary to W. J. Talbert. Under Col. Lipscomb's managem I say, unhesitatingly, the conv at my camps were always given j what each of them could eat, and t they were never rationed, like un Superintendent Talbert. Under Col. Lipscomb, my cortvi in camp were fed on bacon, m< grits, "half-rice/' Irish potatoes the barrel, cabbage and onions by barrel, and crates every two wee I also got about 350 pounds of b a week for convicts, and several tin I remember they got pork, while guards gut everything they want to eat. Talbert gave me orders stop the beef, Irish potatoes, cabbaj onions, pork and "half rice.'7 About two months ?Superintendc Talbert had the rations sent from C umbia. The small sack of small r that he would send for the gua; was of the very same quality tha fed my convicts with under C Lipscomb, and would not last i guards more than eighteen or twei days, though it was sent as a mon I ration. Sugar and coffee were lil wise. Under Superintendent Talbert i convicts got no change of diet at ? The small amount of beef allowed him the guards would neatly consun Col. Lipscomb would leave so! money with me in case of any m haps. I remember once I was rn? iiig with a detail of convicts. Ii cook ration gave out on account not making connections as expectt I had money for incidental purpos from Col. Lopscomb, and thin moved on with the u*nal vmoothne! W. J. Talbert has never furnished cent ahead for inch*teut*ls. Now, as to the dead convict, pulled my own money out of ri pocket and advanced it to Mr T bert. Suppose I had refused to s vance the $4 to have this offensi dead body buried. I could not st my convicts to do the work, becau it would put us too long after dark g ?ig into Darlington, and convie should be well secured before dark. Now, right here, will Superinte dent Talbert answer what preparatio if any did he make for anything the kind? I will suggest the on place Superintendent Talbert hi for thc poor dead convict was i open stump hole, to be filled in wi straw or other stuff that would n cost anything. ''Economy!" If th is what Supt Talbert means for eco omy, I say, God have mercy upc South Carolina convicts as hums beings. If Superintendent Talbert had se; me money, as Col. Lipacomp did, tl sixty-seven convicts I had at Sumti on June 2 would not have any occ sion to say an3rthing about somethit to eat. I icired Talbert twice relati to the condition of tlie detail at Sumte and he being absent from his po of duty, I did not get an answe If he had been at his office he coul have wired some store in Sumter I furnish me with enough to feed ll convicts. One of the guards, A. Uhnan, cal ed me to him while on duty, at Sumte and said that if he could not gel sonn thing to eat that he would starv? I have good reason to believe Lbs the young man was telling the truil I remarked that I was sorry for a fairs, but that I had done ali that could do. Ultman, however, soo got hold of a bucket, belonging t some lucky convict who had hap pened upon it, and the laut see of the bucket of rice and bacon th guard was carefully putting it int his month. During the mouth of May, 1891 there were lost in hospital 533 diys I fully believe that the large numbe being in the hospital is due to Tal bert's taking away the changes o diet, as I have already stated. Physi cians are powerless where changei ot diet can't be had. My sick con victs in the hospital under Col Lips comb, were fed far better than tin guards were under Superintendeu Talbert. Mr. Rowland Hill, my sergeant spent 31 in Sumter for something foi some of thc guards to eat. 1 wai standing present when Mr. Hil stepped in the superintendent's offict and claimed that the oliiee owed hin: the money, and fully explained thc matter, I thought, io Superintendent Talbert, but he ru'used to pay it-a just claim. I give, as proof of ah1 that I have said about the detail of convicts taken away hom the penitentiary August 13, 1890, and returned June 2, Lfc91, thc following names, who have guarded and should know about the detail: E. L. Gandy, A. C An? drews, ll. R. Carter, R. E. Minis, A Cook, A. Ulman, Jei vas Scarboro, J. F. Barrier, Rowland Hill, B. B. Gibson, II. C. Rowe, R J. Beard. C. E. WHEELER. --W>- ???*.-^ Disastrous Hail Storm. Fi.oitKNCE. S. C., June 6.-The most disastrous bail storm which ever visited this section passed over here last I night. Reports from the country iudi cate tbat a strip, at least twenty miles in length aod averaging four miles iu 1 width, is swept as clean as if a cyclone had passed over it. Roofs of houses j have been brokeD, window shutlers and j panes of glass smashed to flinders; big branches torn from trees and growing crops beaten into the ground. Dozens of fannel s came into the city this after ! noon bringing big buckeis of stones gathered from the fields after the sun had been on it all day. Some stones this afternoon were as big as beu*s eggs. The strip of country thus devasted, so far as beard fma?, extended from above Palmetto in Darlington County to the Clarendon County line, a few miles 1 West of Florence. Long Engagements. The Effect oj Modern Luxury Tends to Postpone Marriage. [From Scribner's Magazine.] Owning to the complications of mod era life and the large increase io the list of creature comforts, which pol'te people have come to regard as neces? saries, marriage has become a vastly more serious undertaking than it used to be and is deferred until a later period of life. People in cities who have been used to wearing good clothes, and to have servauts to wait cn them, acd to go out of town io summer, no longer marry when the girl is 18 and the man 22. The man is apt to be nearing 30 before his income will atand the matrimonial strain and the lady ia proportionately experienced. It would not be quite ac? curate to say that, though it is harder to get married than it was, it is as easy as ever to become engsged. That would not be quite true. The difficulty of getting income enough to marry does defer and even prevent a great many betrothals. Nevertheless engage? ments do often happen when the pros? pect of marriage is remote, and a rea sonable percentage of them lasts until marriage ends them. Long engagements are not popular, but euough of them are running to nnke the behavior of their beneficiaries a fit subject for comment in the interest of human happiness. All the world loves a lover, but lovers make a serious mistake wheo they presume too far on the strength of the world's regard for them. The polite world loves its lovers ex? actly so long as they are interesting and agreeable. When they cease to be so its senti? ments toward them take the form of anxiety to have them married, which may indeed be so extreme as to result in practical efforts to put them in the way of pairing, but which is more apt to take the form of what is vulgarly known as the cold shoulder. Lovers who are intelligent and who are disposed to make themselves agree? able ought to be exceptionately charm? ing. They are enveloped in a pleasant blaze of sentiment which mak.s them interesting So long as they are nice, all kind people are in a conspiracy to indulge them atid make them think that life is lurid with rose tints. Their politeness is the more appreciated because it is thought to involve especial self-sacrifice, and whatever they do for the community's amusement is rated above its ordinary value because they have done it. All the worse, then, when lovers regard themselves as tem? porarily exempt from all the ordinary obligations of politeness, and abandon themselves to spooning and mutual ab sorbation. -.il ll M. Mm - The Wife's-Obedience. T. W. H , in Harper's B;<zar. Whole denominations of Christians have dropped the word "obey" from the marriage service. The great Ro? man Catholic Church never had it inserted, and even in the Episcopal ?burch it is occasionally omitted-I have personally known several instances; [or when retained, it i? constantly ex? plained by the parties concerned, or even by clergymen, as a thing tobe I taken with a mental reservation. Two j things have contributed to this-the constant increase io the number of wo? men who earn incomes of their own, and the vast progress of* the higher education. Either of these experiences very *ooo expands the wings of a strong feminine nature, and a return to the chrysalis is thenceforth impossible. It is out of the question to give woman equal education and equal property rights and yet keep her in the prostrate attitude she occupied when her earnings belonged to her husband, and when the law denied her the safeguard calhd "benefit of clergy" on the ground that it was not supposable the could read or write. The Dynamite Cruiser "Vesuvius.'' From Harper's Weekly. On tho roster <>f the United Slates navy the fourth-rate unarmored crui j ser Vesuvius is put down as a "dyna j mile cruiser.'* Interest in this ves ! sel has jost been rekindled by the ex [ perimenls at target shooting in Ches? apeake Bay. lt is true that this peculiar vessel may be elasified prop? erly as a fourth-rate unarmored crui? ser, being of less than 1000 tons bur? den, but it is also tine that this gov? ernment never officially proclaimed a greater inaccuracy than to denomi nate and to keep on denominating j this graceful and dangerous craft as a dynamite cruiser. She has never throw dynamite, never was intended to throw dynamite, and probably never will throw dynamite, unless sudden war should occur, and no more desirable explosive than dyna? mite can be procured at once. The truth is that she is capable of throw? ing dynamite, and hence li? r rating! as a dynamite cruiser. She could hurl 500 pounds of it from each one (?flier guns at a single charge, and it would cover the distance ol more than i a mile in the same time that a first- j class sprinter would speed over 100 j yards-10 1-2 seconds. And if an j Italian iron clad, or any other naval ? mousier, great or small, should hap- I pen to be within 1*00 feet of the spot where the loaded cigar (as the car? tridge has been called) should chance Lo strike, there wouldn't be any iron ! clad or vessel of any sort there in ten, ! five, or two seconds, according as the ! time had been arranged for the car- ! tridge to explode after contact, j The more correct designation ol'this j unique vessel would be to classify her j ? as au air torpedo bout-the oniy ono j of the kind in existence, and one wi ose capabilities have not yet been ! determined, notwithstanding the re- j : cent experiments in Chesapeake Bay. j Thc Darlington News says that town don't care to put in a bid for the Girls, j Industrial College, owing to their j experience wi h the experiment;.! sta- j ' lion. Darlington knows when she has ! enough of a thing. j A Strange Case ot MiDerna tion. We have heard of toads which have been imprisoned in solid rock for centuries, and which were found alive when their abiding place was i cleft open. This reminds me of, things i have observed about certain fi>hes in winter which I think will be interesting to young folks. A large number of fishes, some of them living in (h ep ponds, brooks, or out in silent nooks of the sea will remain for four, five, or even six months in the same position without eating or so much as moving 5n or tail. In the government fish hatchery, under the management of Mr. Wil? mots Superintendent of Pisciculture for the Dominion of Canada, at New? castle, Ontario, I had many opportu? nities to study certain fishes in win? ter, for they could be clearly seen through the glass sides of the tanks. In one tank, about a third of the way up from the bottom, were half a doz en German carp, all facing the direc? tion from which the water flowed I noticed their positions about Christ? mas, saw thom again in January, twice in February, and two or three times in ?larch, and in all that time not one of them had changed its posi? tion or moved a fin or tail. Mr. Wil? mot!: told methat this was quite usual among these fishes. He permitted me to raise the cover of the tank and poko a couple of them with a stick: each one made a slow lazy, movement, and relapsed into stillness Just abovj me carp, in the same tank, was an eel about three feet long. When I first saw it in December it was curved like a perfect S, and all through the winter it preserved that shape without, so far as Mr. Wilmott knew, once moving. This, I may adj is how numerous kinds of fishes spend the winter. So long as they remain perfectly st iii there is no waste of animal tissue, and they do not .iced food. Put a frog into a tank at the begining of winder, then placea small piece of wood in the tank; the frog will get upon the wood, with his eyes looking straight np, and never so much as move until the weather begins to get warm in the i spring; he will then begin to jump about and look for something to eat. But the strangest case of hiberna t?on that 1 know has been related to me hy Dr. Ferguson, the pathologist of New York Hospital. In one of the small tanks belonging to the hos? pital museum a carp of a particular description had been placed. One very cold night the water where the fish was kept was frozen through, and the fish embeded in it. The care? taker look the ice from the vessel, and placed it on top of an ash barrel where rubbish was put away. The cylinder of ice remained where it was put for a couple of months, till the hot spiing sun one day melted it down to the place where the fish was frozen. Some attache of the hospit? al then was surprised to notice a fish wiggling in a piece of ice. The carp had survived his imprisonment, passed the period of hibernation, and resumed his old activity.-Harper's Young People. -w^- * ? -1 Growth of The Alliance. The New Yoik Herald has beeo in? vestigating the strength of the Alliance. The total strength is about 1.270.000 The report from this state is from Pres? ident Stokes. Here is what be says: Speaking generally, the order is in good shape in this stat' and is making satisfactory progress. We are unload ing some material, but results show a net gaiu and a more compact, homoge? neous m mbership. We are organ'z ?? constantly, though the most of the State has been already covered Within the pas; month the State organizer has had calls from two different counties, and the result of his visits are apparent. Outside of the political press and a small circle of politiccl speculators the question of independent political action has not created a ripple, because it has not beeo discussed Independent poli? tical action by the alliauce is out of the auestion so long as the alliance cousti tution remains as it is. It cannot be changed befare next winter, and our people are not disposed to worry about the bridge before they get to it. From a close aod frequent contact with them in every quarter of the State I can safely say that they may be counted on to stand squarely by all the demands of the alliance, Gov. Tillman to the coolary notwi hs'anding. The temper of: he pi opie is such that they will repudiate ; ny man, however trusted, who can no JJ uppoit the alliance's de? mands, justas they re" diated Hampton last fall. J. Wi .M STORKS, President South Carolina F. A. and I. U. Orangeburg, S. C. Monks of the Desert. A Dru ma I ic Incident. The slave-dealers extend their activ ity even to the very doors of Biskra, the headquarters nf ?be recently organ iz d order of the Warrior Monks o? the Sahara, and one of the most dramatic features of the ceremony of the con? secration ot the nu nks wis when Car? dinal I/ivigrrie led to tl e altar a little brown girl bare!y nine y ^.rs old, who had succeeded iu cou e.ling herself, and in effecting her escape from a slave caravan passing through the desert a few ??iles to the sou'b of B skra. A sodden movement of the cbild caused her to di op something that she was holding concealed beneath the folds of her djebba. The venerable prelate bent down and raised it from the ground. It was a small dusky hand -the hand of ibe little git! who stood beside him. and which in sheer wanton cruelty lind Wen cut. otTby her captors. Holding it aloft, and pointing it south? ward toward the great Sahara, while with his own hand he raised the child's arin, so that *11 present could ?ee the mangled stu-..p. the cardinal exclaimed, it) tones which seemed to ring forth as a clarioi.: *l would to God that all Kurope could see this little hand! May it serve to direct your line vi march. Ku a ?ant for God. for France, and for Lomani')'"'-Ihxrptrt ll eddy. ?ir. uieveiancrs speeeii an, Buffalo. From Harper's Weekly. As a party man, the probable candi? date of bis party next year for the Pres? idency, and addressing a party associa? tion which bears his name Mr. Cleve? land spoke of pott, ic.*, but upon broad principles and without acrimony. The significant remark in the speech, regard? ed politically, was this: '.The axe will not be laid at the root of the unwhole? some tariff tree, with its vicious iu'-qaallity and injustice, until we reach and destroy its parent and support." This support Mr. Cleveland stated to be Public Ex'ravagance, and it has been surmised that he meant to suggest that the Democratic cry for the cam? paign of next year should be enconomy and denunciation of the "billion'* Re? publican appropriations rather than tariff reform. But tariff reform is ia itself an effective check upon the spirit of extravagance. The enormous pen? sion grau?s aud the operation of bigh tariff duties are bribes for tbe support of classes of voters, and opposition both to extravagance and its consequent demoralization. The chief interest of Mr. Cleveland's speech, however, lay in the impression, which he always produces, that he means what he says. His public career illus? trates his belief that politics is some? thing more than adroit jugglery, and that official d?r j means obligation to the people. The secret of his undoubt? ed popularity is popular confidence in his political honesty, ile may makd mistakts, and his party sympathy may sometimes cause him to hesitate to tru>t the geueral good sense. But no public man is more universally believed to have political con vic ions and to be true to them, and it is very long since any Deuoceatic leader has commanded so much sincere respect among bis political oppoueuts as Mr. Cleveland. mm mm An Enormous Enterprise. A declaration has been filed with the Secretary of State for the organizion of the Darlington Phosphate Works. The capital stock is ?70 OOO, and tho directors are YV. J. Alexander, J. J. Ward, G YV. Dargan, C. S. McCul? lough aud E. O YVoods. Dr. Alex? ander will probably be present of the company. Allgraiesof fertilizers will be manufactur?, and for that purpose what is known as "acid chambers" will have to be erected at an enormous outlay. The enterprise will not con? flict at all with the cotton seed oil com? pany now in < peration heu; in fact, the two will work together. Ground will be broken for the new company's works, which will be located near the Darling? ton Ginning and Milliog company's buildings, on July 1st. YVhen they aro once put in operation, they will have to be run night and day every day in the year, and will furnish employment for at least a hundred hands. Tee thousand tons cf fertilizers will be manufactured per annum.-Darlington News. Hampton's Revolutionary Sword. Gen. Wade Hampton has in his possession an old sword that waa used by bis great-grandfather ia the revo? lutioLary war and handed down from generation to generation. It is of the saber style, with a keen blade of very heavy steel. The mounting is of brass, made into medieval designs, showing good workmanship. The handle is of ebony and the sides of the scabbard aro made of tortoiseshell. The weapon is a handsome and very valuable one.-? St o te The Russian Jews. Thc expulsion of the Jews from Rus? sia has aroused especial attention be? cause other countries arc not desirons of receiving them The universal un? willingness to receive the vast ioimi* gration which the Russian policy will compel, and the character of the exiles, make the problem of their disposition exceedingly obscure. No nation is will? ing to accept the population which Rus? sia expels. Baron Hirsch, io a recent interview, describes the horrors cf the Russian expulsion, and treating it as the work of subordinates unknown to the Czar, he says that if the Czar wit! eufoice the expulsion gradually-per? haps for a period of twenty years, but with a certain exodus every year-the funds necessary to settle the exiles else? where will be supplied He thinks that it is not so much the expulsion as its manner wbicb is the disgrace to civ? ilization, and he is confident that aa appeal to the Ozir would not be in vain. -Harper's Weekly. Goveroer Tillman weut to Abbeville on Tuesday of last week to speak against Ben Terrell on the sub-treasury scheme. In his speech t' e Governor 3rgned that Alliance men had the right to disci S3 the i-ub-trcasury and other matters out? side of the Alliance; and that pnblio discussion is tho only way in wbicb to arri e at the truth. The sub-treasury matter will be further discussed ai the annual meeting of State Alliaoee at Spat tatt burg. Bucklen'e Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world fur Out?, Braise* Sores?. Ulcer?. Salt Rheum. Fever Sore?, Tetter, Chapped Hanls Chilblain*, Corns and all Skin fcruption*. an? posirtveiy cures Pile?, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or tn;>ney refun-led. Prie? .?5cen'? per bos. Forsake by J. y. W. De Lome. --^^ammmm- ? -- Xerit Wins. We desire to say to our citizen?, that fot \ears we hare been ailing Dr. King's New Discovery f?>r Consumption, Dr. King's New Life Pills. Buchten'* Arnica Salve and Electric Bittars. ?nd hare never handled remedies thai; sell as well, or that have given such univers?', satisfaction. We do m>t be.*itate to guarantee them every tit??, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if <*a;i.?factory results do ??4 f 'ilu'.v their usc. These rc tidies hare won their .jrreat popularity purely on their merits. J P* VV. DeL?<r. .e, Druggist. I For Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has bcea used fur children tc ;hing. lt soothes the chile, softeus the gums, allays al) pain, eur? s wind colic, ?nd is the best remedy fur Diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Many Persons are brafcen 3owr frrrm overwork or household cases. Brown's Iron Bitters Keboikfeth* sysMn. aids dipo?tion. removes excess o? b?e, ?iud cures malaria. Get tho BffcAi.