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PBOHIBITIOK* ADDEESS BY THE STATS PBOHIBITION EX. COM? MITTEE. A Call for Everybody to Support Prohibition. To the Democratic voters of Sooth Carolina : We are this time COD fronted with a situation which threatens greater perils to all the interests of oar people thao any which wo have bad to face since the dark day of recon8traction and ne? gro domination. It is, therefore, the part of true manhood and loyal citi? zenship, to meet the emergency with a determined purpose to do fearlessly and uncompromisingly that which is right in the sight of God, and trusting to Him for a safe deliverance from the - impending evils. The State Prohibition Executive Committee, voicing tbe sentiments of the large class of oar people who be? lieve that the liquor traffic is an evil agency from which flows most of the pauperism, crime and suffering which esme our State, and wbo are con6dent in belief that prohibition of the traffic is the only adequate remedy for these evils within oar reach, have issued a call for a convention to meet io Colum-1 bia oo the 7th day of Jone to consider tte means for applying this remedy. We feel that we are bat fulfilling a duty which we owe to our feliow-ci ti? zeos in urging upon them, with all the j earnestness of which we are capable, the supreme importance of responding to th is call and giving the most thoughtful consideration to the occasion which demands it. An experiment au? thorized by the Legislature, io direct violation of the will of the people as dearly expressed at the last election, bas, after nine months trial, just been dosed by the interposition of the Su? preme Court, at a cost of bitter polit? ical animosity, bloodshed, and a condi? tion of unchecked lawlessness on the part of the representatives of the liquor traffic, un parallelled in the his? tory of the State. The first decision of tbe Supreme Court has been interpret? ed by some as in effect, removing all restraints from the liquor traffic, and the whiskey seller has been thus ad? vertised that they might reopen their Baloo ns anywhere io the State withoot molestation from the authorities. As a direct result of this announcement, the sluice-gates qf this abomination have teen opened, and a stream of intoxi? cants is now rolling in upon the State, which, if unchecked, ' by the prompt and determined action of a united peo pie, will carry death and destruction to every portion of our devoted common? wealth. If we did not believe that there is sufficient power in the law, if promptly utilized, to protect us tn a measure from the threatened evils, the situation would indeed be appalling, but we con? fidently assure you, fellow-citizens, that you are not left hopelessly to battle - with this merciless foe, thus invited to invade the sanctity of your homes. The means of protection are within your * f each. Muoicipal laws exist in most of the towns and cities of the State for? bidding the sale of intoxicating- liquors without a license and there are penal? ties to enforce such ordinances, lt ' therefore becomes the duty of all good citizens to demand of their municipal authorities that this prohibition be ap* plied to anyone who would attempt, . seder the ill-advised assurance of any? one, to violate the law of the community .as tau* expressed. The statute law, which the Supreme Court bas decided to be of force, pro? vides for tbe punishment of offenders when convicted, a fine of six months imprisonment, or both, io the discretion of the court While it is true that these sutures, both in their penalties and method of proceedore. are not socb as are needed to guarantee the most effee- ! tire enforcement of prohibition, and only show the necessity for pur pres? ent movement to secure tbe passage of j a law framed io all its parts to insure its own summary enforcement, still, the law as it stands is a means of de? fense against the illegal whiskey traffic, and should be used for all that it will do, until a more perfect law can be ob? tained. It is therefore especially the duty of prohibitionists to make this the occa? sion wheo they shall give emphasis to their faith, and assurance of their con? sistency, by aiding in every proper way to bring such violators ander the oper? ation of the law. Io this way can we most effectually show that our denun? ciation of the liqaor traffic and our de? mand for its prohibition was not an unmeaning clamor but the earnest heartfelt expression of truth and sober? ness. The abandonment of all effort to pre? vent the reopening of saloons, and the promptness with which the liquor sellers have reoccupied his former posi? tion in many parts of the State, show anmistakably that the hattie is joined between the law-respecting citizen and the lawless whiskey seller and that the issue can be no longer evaded or avoid? ed. In this crisis we urgently present to you the only alternative by which as it seems to us, the scattered and di? vided forces can be anited for success? ful resistance to be common enemy. It is for all true citizens who have the general good at heart, to lay aside the animosities which have divided them as a political party in the past, and putting behind them the bitter? ness which four years of factional strife has engendered, remember only that we are Carolinians, whose dearest interests are io jeopardy, and meeting as brethreo on the common ground wi all can occupy without the least ab ment of self-respect or of regard for views of each other on other subje stand together until prohibition is \ manently engrafted on lae fundamei law of the State. Io the presence c danger so imminent, all consideran of mere personal or factional domina or advancement should be held r< I lutely in abeyance, and those wh< I such a time would seek to influe ( passion or prevent the healiog of ex iog variances, or introduce new cac for embittering feeling within oar Utica! family, should be peremptoi remanded to the rear until the ene in our front hat been finally dispo of. Who can doubt, that if the thong ful, conservative men of both facti into which our people have been unfortunately divided, can be brouj together in council on a questiso such vital moment to them all as tl it will be the beginning of a new of fraternity and peace so devou longed for by every tr ue Carol i ni; And what should prevent the frat nization ? Are there not enough gt aud true men to be found on bi sides, intelligent enough, and patric enough to hold their . personal pref? enees for men in check long enough give grave consideration to a questi which bas been shown to involve n merely a policy, but the very peace s safety of society and the maintenai of the law and authority under whi we are to live ? We therefore app* to the voters of every county to ? that they are fully represented in t convention which has been called meet in Columbia June 7th, and. earnestly invite the co-operation of t press and of the ministers of all deno inations, and especially of the nol women of the State, whose peace a happiness are trembling in the balan during this critical period. Let them all nnite their efforts ai prayers with ours to bring about t happy consummation of our hopes ai save us from the blighting infiuenc which mast inevitably follow the reta of the saloon, under any form of la' to power in South Carolina. L. D. CHILDS. Ch'm State Pro. Ex. Committee. Bishop Keener bas been chosen preside ovi?r the South Carolina Met odist Conference at L?ureos next N vember. The City Council of Camden, S. G in accordance with a recently rendere opinion of its legal adviser, has dete mined to issue licenses for the sale beer and wine. Whiskey and blic tigers are put under the ban of publ sentiment. The Charleston Sun says : ,4D Sampson Pope announces io the Ci lumbla Register that he is still to til race for Governor, the press of tb State having, "unwittingly" create the impression that he had retiree All right, Doctor, if you don't koo wheo yon are dead it is easy enough l kill you again," The Barnwell People says : Bet is the way a melon grower raist seedless melons. When the vines ar two or three feet long he covers tbet at the joints, where the leaves come oe with earth. In a week or so they tak root at those joints. He then cuts o the vine between the first joint an the parent stem and the new rotte vines do the rest, and the seedlee melons are the result. Neither Butler nor Tillman wi! measure out whole cloth and a yar wide by the Alliance yard stick, an< the indications are that none of tb candidates can stand on both demo eratic and Ocala platforms. The situa tion is serious for those who. have vow ed to support oo man who would no swallow the whole thing at one gulp Trot out another horse.-Florene Times, H. 0. King, formerly of this Stat but now, of Atlanta, has discovered i covering for cotton that it is said wil supersede jute. The invention consist? of a galvanized wire netting that take the place of jute bagging. Under neath the netting and wrapping thc cotton, is a covering of wood pul] which renders tbe bale impervious t< water or other influences that frequently injure the cotton. It is also said to h< fireproof. A bale of cotton can bf dressed with the wood palp and cover j ed with the wire netting as easily as ii j can be covered with the jute bagging j A farmer can fix it up on his owe j plantation, and tbe cost is not beyond j the ordinary expense ot preparing a i bale for market, while the protection from the fire is a great advantage, j The bale is made hard and compacl I and not an ounce of cotton can be stolen. Mr. Edward Atkinson, wbo ii : an eminent authority upon such mat : ters, has given a strong endorsement ? to this new method of handling cotton j for the markets of the world, and j expresses the hope that the patent ! process will be speedily introduced. -^^? i A'Remedy for Blind Staggers. j The Winnsboro News and Herald ! says: "A gentleman from this county, I who has tried successfully a remedy for I blind staggers amongst stock says tbat I kerosine oil poured in the ears of the I animal will surely cure. He has tried j it several limes and it cured in every ? case. The second application will cure j if the first does not, and it is not dao : geroas at all. He states that the kero i sene will open the ducts connecting the i brain with the nostrils and that relief ! comes in a few hours." j 3,500 pieces of 10c Sheet Music. Cata I logue free at Kennedy's Book Store. TEACHERS OF THE STATE. All About their Annual Gathering This Summer. Elaborate arrangements are being made for the 23rd annual meeting of the State Teachers's Association of South Carolina to be held at Converse Coliege at Spartanburg, July 1 to 5 oext. Dr. J. Wm. Flinn, of Columbia the president of the association, and 'Professor J Flemming Brown of Spar tanburg, the chairman of the executive committee, together with the other of? ficers of thc association are doing all in their power to make the sessions the most interesting ever held in the State. The programme and other arrange? ments have just been prepared and an? nounced. The programme is as follows : Sunday. July 1st.-ll a. m -Ser? mon by Rev. W. M Grier, D. D., Dae West. 8 :30 p m.-Programme arranged by city pastors. Monday, July 2d.-10 a. m.-Ad? dress of welcome by Mayor A. B. Calvert and President B. F Wilson Annual address by the president, ll a. m.-Report of special committee ap? pointed at the last meeting ; Superin? tendent T. P. Bailey, Marion Discussion-12 m.-Advantages of securing a permanent home for the association : Superintendent E. L. Hughes, Greenville. Discussion. Af? ternoon-4 p. m.-Meeting of the primary department, Miss L. C. Hub? bard, Anderson, president. Attrac? tive programme. 8:30 p. m.-Address by superintendent N. F. Walker, Ce? dar Springs. Subject: "The Educa I tioo of the Blind and the Deaf.7' Tuesday, July 3d.-10 a. m.-His? tory of education in South Carolins* ; Professor W. S. Morrison, Clemson j College. Discussion, ll a. m.-Nor? mal training for preparatory teachers ; and how to obtain it; Superintendent D. B. Johnson, Columbia. Discus? sion. 12 m.-Comparison of systems of preparatory schools iu the Carolinas and Georgia ; Superintendent B. F. Bailey, Abbeville. Discussion. After? noon-4 p. m.-Department of super ! intendente, F. L. Hughes, President, j Greenville. 4:00'-4:10 - Preliminary work. 4:10-4:30-Pedagogical in? vestigation ; Superintendent T. P. Bailey. Jr., Marion. 4:30-4:40 , Discussion. 4 :40-5 :00-Some draw? backs : Saperinteodent W. H. Hand, Chester. 5 :00-5 :30-EcboeF from the national superintendent's meeting ; Superintendent P. T. Brodie, Spartan? burg. 5 :30-5:40-Discussion 5 :40 6 :00-General discussion ; department? al teaching in grammar schools. 8 : 30 p. m.-Address by President J. H. Carlisle, Wofford College. Wednesday, July 4th.-10 a.m. Publrc 'school education in France ; Rev. James Woodrow, D. D , South Carolina College. Discussion, ll a. m.-What are the objects in view in teaching Geography? Superintendent Frank Evans, Newberry. Discussion. 12 m.-Model lesson io teaching Geo? graphy ; Miss Ella Colield, Spartan? burg. College Department-Dr. J. H. Car lisie, President, Wofford College. 4 p. m.-Paper by Professor Snyder, of Wofford College. 5 p. m.-Paper by Professor H. T. Cook, of Fur m an Uni? versity. Discussion. 8:30 p m - Address by Geo. T. Winston, Presi? dent University of North Carolina. Thursday, July 5th.-10 a. m. -Physical culture : Miss Maud E. Masson, Converse College. Dis? cussion, ll a. m.-Tbe educational value of history as a school study ; Rev. H. S. Hartzog, Bamberg, Dis? cussion, ll :30 a m.-Drawing in the schools; Professor William Welch, Clemson College Discussion. 12 m. -Business. Afternoon-4 p. m. Deoartmeot of School Commissioners 4 :?0-4:35-Call to order, organiza? tion, etc. 4:45-4:55-The neces? sity of teaching English properly; F. Horton Colcock. 4:55-5:10 Discussion. 5: 10-5:20-Qualifica? tions and duties of a school com? missioner, W. W. Bright. 5 : 20-5 : 35-Some suggestions in regard to our school ssytem ; Thomas W. Keitt. 5: 40-6: 00-Dis? cussion. 8:30 p. m.-A talk on [music; Dr. R. H. Peters, Converse j College ; followed by concert and read ! iog. The following information is given by the committee : Teachers who desire will be boarded jin Converse College; gentlemen at $1 j a day ; ladies, who come by Sunday ' morning and bring sheet*, pillow-cases, ; towels, etc , and remain during the ses I sion, at 75c. a day. No deduction will be made for absence from meals, j Those expecting to board in Converse ; College will please notify Mrs. L. B. : Thompson, Spartaobjrg, S. C , a few i days before the meeting. Parties preferring to board in the city wilt have reduced rates. lt is the hope of the executive com? mittee that all will reach there by Sat? urday night. The citizens of Spartanburg expect to give the teachers a free excursion to Asheville on Friday. The lowest possible railroad rates will be secured for all attending the associa? tion. Parties wishing information about board, accommodations, rates, etc., will please write to President B F Wilson, of J. F. Brown, Spartanburg, S C. The matter of the city issuing licenses to allow the sale of beer, wine and cider, was discussed and agreed to, by the City Council of Florence, the license to be $150 for the remain? der of the year. WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, May 28, 1894. Signs are plenty that the republican Se j ators are ready to give up their useles9 fig! Against the tariff bill, and intimations ha' j been given to Senator Harris by their leade i that if he would not carry out bis announci I intention of compelling long night sessioi this week an agreement might be reache upon a date for the taking of a final TO upon the bill. As the easiest way is alwa; the best way Senator Harris will defer (or few days the holding of night sessions, order to see whether an amicable arrangemei can be reached with the republicans. If s all right and good ; if not, the democrats a all prepared to endure any amount of person ! hardship that may be necessary to force j vote. It is the expectation of the democrat j Senators that the bill will be passed in tin j for the conference committee to act and g j their work endorsed by both House ar ! Senate and the bill signed by President Clev j land before the first of July. Only one demi j eratic vote is io doubt-that of Senator Hil and after he fails to get the income tax struc out of the bill it is believed he will fall int line and vote for the bill. Tbe Senate investigation committee foun j Butts guilty of having attempted to brit j Senators Hunton and Kyle, but no steps hm been taken towards criminally prosecutin bim. The committee is now engaged i investigating the charges of crookedness o the part of the sogar trust and Senators i connection with the preparation of the sugf schedule of the tariff bill, and, judging froi j the evidence already taken, those charges HI ; likely to be shown up as outright fakes. Fe : instance, it was charged that the sugn schedule was prepared in the handwriting < ; Secretary Carlisle, who carried it to a mee ; ing of the Finance committee, and demande ! that it be adopted because of obligations ti 1 party owed to the sugar trust, and the ma ; who made the charge declined to give h I authority. The story was read to Senate Jones, of Ark., who was chairman of th j sub-committee that arranged the amendment j to the tariff bill, which included the suga J schedule, and he was asked by Senator Graj j chairman of the investigating committet what truth there was in it. "J5ione, what ever," he replied emphatically ; "I think have attended every meeting of the tari sub-committee this session, but no such seen was ever enacted, nor a demand made ny Mi Carlisle for the protection of sugar. Wit reference to the charge that Sec. Carlisl prepared the sugar schedule, I would sa that my recollection is that I prepared tb sugar schedule io the bill as firsr reported the schedule in the last bill reported was pu in shape at the Treasury department at m request, in order that the administrativ features of tbe schedule should be in corree form, the suggestion of the rate and all of th essential details of the schedule were from me.' There is about the amount of truth in th charges mentioned ss in all the rest. The scbed ole was prepared at the Treasury department a Senator Jones's request, and some rep?blica, clerk employed therein probably told it out side; the rest was imagined. The commit te may ask tbe Senate to order tbe arrest of tb correspondents who refused to give thei authority for the charges, but that wil accomplish nothing, as they would be certait to contiuue to refuse. The Senate has severa times tried, but never successfully, to compe correspondents to tell where they get informa tion from. Every Senator whose name ba been connected with these charges bas ex pressed a willingness to. appear before tb* investigating committee without the formalin of a summons. It seems hardly necessary to say that tb* stories printed in republican papers about th great cost to tbe government of the li ttl? vacation trip of President Cleveland anc Secretaries Carlisle and Gresham, on tnt light boase tender Violet, were entiely false The presence of those gentlemen on the littlt boat did not cost the government one cent Tbe Violet made ber regular trip, supplying the light bouses with oil, etc., aud the pas sen ger s' table was supplied at Presiden Cleveland's personal expense. Tbe Viole was not even delayed, Mr. Cleveland in sis ti nj before the start that that the fishing anc hunting should only be done while the boa was transferring supplies to the ligbtouses and that rule was adhered to during the trip Rep. Br van, of Nebr., is just as enthusiastic in his, advocacy of the building of tbe Nica ragua canal, as Senator, Morgan, of Ala., but be proposes, in a bill now before tbe Com? merce committee -of the House, to do it in s different way. His bill calls for an issue ol $70,000,000 in greenbacks, to be used tc purchase a controlling interest m the stock ot the company and for the building of the canal under the control of a board of eleven directors, eight of them to represent the United States. The House has laid aside the regular appro? priation bill temporarily and will this week j try to decide whether the tax on state bank i notes shall he repealed or not. Both sides j , . . . claim a majority. - m mm* ' From the Boston Education Magazine. Randolph's Indian Blood. i BY M DONALDFURMAN. i It is an interesting historical fact that only i one while man distinguished as having Indian blood, has made any impression on j tlie political history of the United States. ; That man was the famous and eccentric I Virginia statesman, John Randolph, of Roan I oke. Probably not one person in a thous I and knows what per cent, of Indian blood j flowed in bis veins. It was slight. Mr. I James Parton, in a long sketch of Randolph, ?says: "He was weak eoougb, indeed, tobe j extremely vain of the fact that a grand-father j of bis bad married one of the great-grand ? daughters of Pocahontas." According to \ this genealogy, he was the great-great-great : grand-son of the Indian princess, which would make him not more than a thirty-secondth part Indian. S. G. Goodrich I ("Peter Parley,") in his "Recollections," : gives us this description of Randoph's ap . pearance during one of the Missouri debates in ; 1820 : ' ;His hair was jet-black, and clubbed in a queue; bis eye was black, small and pain? fully penetratiog. His complexion was a yellowish brown, bespeaking Indian blood." It was doubtless from his Indian ancestors that this extraordinary man inherited his ? wonderful powers of oratory. ODDS AND ENDS. The art of triming wood was invented . by the Greeks. The earliest form of the harrow was a bundle of brush drawn by a bullock. The first record of combmaking as a I separate branch of industry was made i in 987. When the Georgia poet writes of the j "pale liquid moonshine, " it isn't poetic license.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. . Missouri and Kansas horses are grad? ually crowding out the small bronchos and ponies from the southwestern plains. The tambourine is a combination of the drum and rattle. It is -found repre? sented on Egyptian monuments 2000 B. C. The germ of the guitar is found in the warrior's bow, the string of which gave a sonorous twang as the arrow sped to the mark. Things that have become much better than formerly, though still too bad, are not to be remedied by refusing to ac? knowledge any improvement There is a serious effort on the part of English clergymen to curtail the ex? travagant and gorgeous decoration of churches for fashionable marriages. The people of Great Barrington, Mass,, are preparing to fitly celebrate next August the fiftieth anniversary of the famous Berkshire jubilee of Aug. 22 and 23, 1844 The chief of police of Buenos Ayres has ordered that dogs supposed to be mad shall not be killed, but captured by the police for examination by Dr. Dabei, the bacteriologist It is announced that a furnace has been unearthed somewhere along the Nile in which the hot blast was used centuries before the modern Neilson formulated the same idea. A gavel made from wood that grew on the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born has been pres?nteoste the de? partment of the Potomac, Gt*A. R., by the Commercial club of Louisville. The. frequency of the discovery of bombs in Paris has led to the provision j of a special vehicle for their transpor I tation from the place where they are j discovered to the government laboratory. In Baltimore the prisoners in the Maryland penitentiary are reported- to have subscribed $435 for the benefit of the unemployed and would have sub? scribed more probably if the warden would have permitted them The Twentieth Century club is a new organization in Boston whose most ?unique feature is the admission of-wom? en to membership on equal terms with men. Its chief aim is the promotion of a better social order, and its president is Edwin D. Meade. Religious Persecutions In China. The Rev. Francis Bauquis, missioner at Western Su-Chuen, China, writes from Paolin the following touching let? ter: "I have had to leave my mountains and go a 10 days' journey on my mule to the capital of the northern part of the province, in order to the man? darins and seek justice for the murder of a Christian. The demon, ever the same, raises up the same obstacles in our day as in the first centuries of the church in Enrope. This year, at a recently estab? lished station, some pagans plotted to? gether to put the best instructed among the Christians to death. Several hun? dreds having collected, (?Trying an idol, they made the circuit of the village, i stopping at every house and saying that the idol, 'the old grandfather, ' as they called it, was hungry. "Our Christian had been warned of the plot to kill him. A few days before he had gone to some neophytes to bid them goodby, saying; 'This time I shall die. Pray for my soul We shall never meet again!' "His pagan relatives came to his house on the day fixed upon, and on his refusal to join in their superstitions they began to beat him with sticks. One of his assailants, a schoolmaster, caine to the front, crying: 'This dog will, die hard. You are not able for him. Let me at him ' "He took off his clothing, to be more at his ease, turned over the body, already covered with bruises, and struck at it with redoubled force, so that the blood spurted out as far as the yard, the wretch crying the while: 'Do you see what a fine pig we have killed? What fine thick blood! This is how we will pierce the hearts of all the Christians!' "The martyr survived a few days and was able to receive the last sacraments, resigned to the will of God and pardon I ing his murderers."-"Annals of the j j Propagation of the Faith." Remarkable Case of Petrification. More than 40 years ago a boy 12 or 15 j years of age died in Waldo county, and his body was laid at rest in the family I vault in the local cemetery. Four years j ago, or over 36 years after the body was placed in the vault, a sexton, noticing the wonderful preservation of the coffin, opened it. Imagine his surprise to find therein what he thought was a new j corpse. It was perfectly preserved-so j perfectly that the sexton doubted his wits and wondered if it were not a body ; that had been placed in the vault unbe? known to him. Knowing that the fam- j ily that owned the vault were all long ! since dead, the sexton went to the exec- ; utor of the estate and told him of his discovery. Together they visited the vault, and at the first look the executor j exclaimed, "Good heavens, that's the ! body of a young son of the family whe [ died more than 35 years ago!" Greatly I astonished, they carefully examined the j remain* mid found them thoroughly j petrified The boy had scarcely changed j from the hour of his death. The only alteration was that the eyes were sunk? en. The clothing was perfect. The little blue tie and collar were as if but just arranged, and the hair looked as if re? cently combed. The face bore the look of sleep. For 40 years has the body lain there in this state and is there still iiewiston Journal - i - ? ? - - 3,500 pieces of Sheet Music at 10c each, or 12 pieces for Si. If sent by mail, lc each, extra. Write*for catalogue. Address Ken? nedy's Book Store, Sumter, S. C. THE EARL AND THE SERVING MAID. She Would Carry Xo Coal ?nd Got Bound Damages From Cia*carty. Wednesday at the Brompton county court Captain Head claimed ?15 odd from the Earl of Clancarty for breach of agreement in the hiring of a furnished house, 40 Lowndes square. The defend? ant signed an agreement to take the house in question from Sept. 23 last to Nov. 18 at the rent of ?100 6s. This doc? ument contained a clause to the effect that his lordship should retain on the premises the landlord's housemaid named White, the former paying her 3 shillings per week for washing and beer and half her wages (?22 per annum), besides pro? viding her with board. Shortly after his lordship and his servants took np their abode at 40 Lowndes square the Earl of Clancarty sent the butler to the house? maid with an order to make a fire in Lady Clancarty's room. White replied that it was not her place to carry coal while anablebodied foot? man was in the house. Eventually, however, she did light the fire, but ex? pressed her opinion that it was not her duty to carry coat His lordship, on be? ing informed of this, wrote her a note reproving her for what he termed "im? pertinence" and telling her to pack up and leave the house. Later on Lord Clancarty offered her a month's wages in lieu of notice, but the plaintiff de? clined to accept it or to leave the house. She stated that she was turned ont at 9:30 p. m. by the aid of a policeman. One of the neighbors sheltered her until the morning, when she took a train to her parents' nome in Taunton. Defend? ant, who was stated to be unable at pres? ent to leave his residence at Balb'nasloe, Ireland, was represented by counsel, who stated the uefense to be that the girl on refusing to carry coal behaved impertinently and defendant was legally within his right in discharging her. His honor said that clearly Lord Clan? carty had no authority to dismiss this servant. He (the learned judge) did not think that in a nobleman's family a housemaid should be asked to carry coal, and he was of opinion that the girl had treated his lordship with the greatest re? spect possible. He found for the plain? tiff for ?13, but disallowed ?2 railway fare and expenses to Taunton. Judg? ment was entered accordingly^ with costs.-Westminster Gazette. A Prince's Escapade. Prince Charles of Hohenzollern, who is about to marry Princess ^Josephine, daughter of the Comte and Comtesse de Flandres, was the hero, a dozen years ago, of an adventure that caused no lit? tle amusement in Germany. As a boy of 14 he was at that time pursuing his studies at Dusseldorf, when, along with four of his companions, he took it into his head to emulate Robinson Crusoe and gain a new experience. The little party contrived to escape from school and passed a couple of nights in the woods, bnt finding the life hardly equal to their expectations they came back in a repentant mood. Unluckily the prince? ly ringleader thought fit to concoct a ro? mantic story of his having been seized and carried off by a band of masked kid? napers. The police took the matter up and soon ascertained the truth, which the naughty boy, to his great confusion, was ultimately obliged to confess before, his assembled schoolmates. The prince, who now holds a commission in the Prussian Uhlans, is said to be animated by strong loyalty toward his imperial cousin.-St James Gazette.. Official Etiquette In Bom?. The New York Sun's Rome correspond? ent writes that the Liberal newspapers have found a new grievance against the Vatican in the fact that nearly all the foreign princes recently in Borne first visited the pope and afterward the king, while some did not go to the quirinal at all. Prince Renes recently followed the former course, and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg' called on the pope and some cardinals and ignored the royal family altogether. The Liberal newspapers urge that the government protest against this sort of thin;; ;:nd put a stop to it, at any rate so far as the German princes are concerned. Signor Cris pi is not like? ly to make a fool of himself by following such ridiculous advice, even when given by friends. There is a pretty well under? stood rule that if foreign princes visit Rome as such they call at the quirinal first. When they are traveling incog., they please themselves. Mr. Goetc's Wild Bide on an Avalanche. A remarkable story of a ride upon an avalanche comes from Atlanta, in the Sawtooth mountains. Generally when a man is caught in a snowslide he is bur? ied and either crushed or smothered to death, but in this case the imperiled man actually rode the avalanche half a mile and came out alive. Charles Goetz was hunting in the mountains near At? lanta when the snow started under his feet. He was unable to extricate him? self from the moving mass, and in a few moments he was being carried along upon the breast of a*roaring avalanche. The slide rushed down into a rocky, pre? cipitous canyon, but Goetz went through alive. He was found ll hours afterward by a rescuing party, and though terribly bruised he is in a fair way to recover}". -Boise City Dispatch. , London Prejudices. < One by one some London prejudices j are disappearing. By the casting vote j the lord mayor, in the common council, J decided on opening the loan exhibition j of pictures in Guildhall on Sunday aft- j ernoon. The disgraceful theological' feud still rages in the London school j board, but public opinion may find means j of suppressing even that in the course of j time. Another absurdity of the statute j book just now is "the object of popular* revolt. An old law forbids the sale of j any kind of food after 10 o'clock in the j evening except by licensed victualers. The result is that all the victims of hun- ! ger must patronize the saloons or higher j class restaurants. The Rosebery gov-! ernment may address itself to this re- j form-London Cor. New York Sun. j Use Excelsior Baking Powder, prepared only by Dr. A.J.China. 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