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OLD DUELING RULES. "MUCH USEFUL ADVICE" FROM AN ANCIENT BOOK. Itt the Co ta ba taut Dies aa a Result a? the Encounter, He Is'Told to Go OH Wita as Good Grace as Possible. Irishmen Not Good Seconds. "To Englishmen dueling is happily a lost art, bat three-quarters of a century ago dueling was sufficiently in vogue to induce an anonymous writer to publish s book "containing much useful infor mation, " ironically dedicated to Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P., and James Silk Buckingham, Esq., M. P., as "enter taining the opinion first promulgated by the immortal Falstaff of happy memory that discretion is the better -part of valor. " The author advises "all my country men who go abroad to use the pistol in stead of the sword when they have the choice of the weapon, as the balance of killed and wounded is now much in fa vor of the French, wno. upon the ter mination of the late war, amused them selves by occasionally spitting some half dozen of our traveling young fashion ables before breakfast" He recom mends "Purdey, in Oxford street, as the maker of the best dueling pistol locks, " care in the selection of a stock which fits the hand comf ortab y and to eschew "saw handles. " Barrels should be ten inches long and half rifled, which, considering that throughout his ?volume he poses as a man of the strict est honor, is puzzling, for he admits feat a wholly rifled pistol is considered an unfair weapon, therefore one not ap pearing to be rifled should be substi tuted. On "the chances" he writes: "Many a poor, long armed, straggling fellow has received the coup di (sic) cour (or fatal stroke) who might still have been in existence had he known how to pro tect his person in the field, " the neces ?fiary protection consisting in standing sideways and drawing in the stomach. "Should the party be hit' '-presumably because he could not draw in his stom ach-"he must not feel alarmed. " This ? seems difficult, as a man with a bullet in his stomach can hardly be expected not to display some little natural anxie- i ty, for, as is admitted later, "a shot in the digestive organs must be particu larly annoying to a- bon vivant " To aldermen his advice is "the old method of fighting-the back to the adversary and discharging over the shoulder.' "The chances of a man's being killed are about 14 to 1, and of his being -hit about 6 to 1." He arrives at this conclusion by dividing a man's xxiy, when opposed to his adversary, into nine parts. Therefore he says, "As in only three of these a wound would prove mortal, the chances are 3 to 1 against his being killed, and 5 to 1 against his being hit-that is, how ever, " he hastens to add, "provided his antagonist has never read my work. If he has, the case may be different 1" The combatant is told "not to allow tile idea of becoming a target to make Mm uneasy, but to treat the matter jocosely." He is to laugh away the evening over a bottle of port, and play a rubber of whist, but he must avoid drinking to excess, or taking "any food that tends to create bile, " because "bil ious objects are not seen either distinct ly or correctly. ", This would rather be a valid reason for getting as bilious as possible. A man with an attack of jaundice should be invisible, and able to blaze at his antagonist in perfect safely. If he cannot sleep on retiring to rest he is to read Byron's "Childe Harold " His servant is to call him at 5 and give him a strong cup of coffee. Then he is to smoke a cigar, .and "on his way to the scene of action" he is to -take a brandy and soda, as a most "grateful stimulant and correctiva " Nb woDder our author recommends him at this point to draw in his stom ach. "If he dies, he is to go off with as good grace as possible!" On the other hand, if he hits his antagonist, he is to take off his hat to him and express re gret A challenge is not to be in rhyme, such as "a certain poetical, brandy lov ing major general of marines" wrote Jfco a brother officer who ran off with his "wife. 10 Woonda on the Sesh a surgeon's skill may heal, But wounded honor's only cured with steel. An Irishman is not ' o be chosen as second, for nine out of ten have such an innate love of fighting they cannot faring an affair to an amicable adjust ment, and the first duty of a second is to prevent the affair coming to a seri ous issue. Other advice is for the sec ond to take care his principal is not in "Convenienced by the sun, and to get his antagonist with something dark behind 4um, when it will be much more easy to hit him As may be inferred, the author holds t>y dueling, for "the man who falls in a duel and the individ tal who is M]led by the overturn of a stagecoach are both unfortunate victims to a prac tice from which we derive great advan tages. It would be absurd to prohibit stage traveling because occasionally a few lives are lost by an overturn, and unless men endeavored to destroy each other they might live to a patriarchal age and multiply so rapidly that the soil would soon be insufficient to sup ply them with nourishment," with which -reductio ad absurdum the vol ume may well be put back on the shelf. -Navy and Army Illustrated Some Clerical Jokes. "Do you have matins in your church?" "No, we prefer linoleum. " Another clerk gave out in church, "Let us sing to the praise and glory of God a hymn of my own composure." A lady asked the dean to read at her bed side "thar beautiful lesson * * * there was summat about greaves in it. " Th") dean read her I Samuel, xvii. "She listened with arms outstretched and made no comment until I came to the verse, 'He had greaves of brass upon his legs.' At this she raised her hands in eostasy and said, 4Ah, them greaves, them beautiful greaves!' "-"Phases of Mr Life," by Dean Pigou, BABY'S PHOTOGRAPH. in Example of What the Man of fha Camera Endures. A yoting ^photographer, when asked what sort of subjects presented the greatest difficulties to him, replied without a moment's hesitation, "Ba bies." "For instance," he continued, "I tock photographs of a little 10-months old fellow the other day in sis different positions. Yesterday I sent proofs to his mother, and today she brought them in. " 'I'm sorry, ' she said, without any obvious grief, 'but none of these nega tives wiil da' " 'Not one of the six?' I inquired, though I was prepared for what was to follow. *' 'No,' she said, 'I'm afraid not. You see, I like this one very well, though, of course, it doesn't do baby justice, but his Aunt Ellen says it's an absolute caricature of the dear little fellow. The one she likes I don't care for at all, and his papa says he should never know for whom it was intended, it looks so cross, and baby is such a sun shiny child. ; " 'The one he likes, this smiling one, I shouldn't consider for a moment, for it makes baby's mouth look eo much larger than it really is. " 'His grandmother chose that one, but as Cousin Fanny said, there's a very queer look to the child's eyes in it -very queer 1 However, she likes that one where he's almost crying, that so ber one. You ought to have heard ba by's grandfather when she said she liked it. " 'He really decided the thing, for what he said seemed so sensible. He asked me why I didn't have seme more taken and see if there wouldn't be at least one that would really look like baby. Now, when can he sit again? It's hard for me to spare the time, but you see it is the only thing to be.donel' " Glasgow Herald. STROKES OF A RAZOR. How Many Bo Yon Snppose It Takes to Shave a Man? "Now that you've finished shaving me, how many strokes of the razor did it require?" asked the man in the chair, as be straightened up to have his hair oom bed. "That's pretty hard to tell, " said the barber. "Of course it is. But you've been in the business how long?" "Fifteen years." **You ought to know by this time about how many strokes of the razor it requires to shave a man, supposing that you go over his face a second time. " "I might make a guess at it." "AH right. "What's your guess? Re member that I have a hard beard." "Well, I should say about 125." "You're a good guesser, I don't think. Soma time ago I got into the habit of counting the strokes of a razor every time I was being shaved. It's a good way to employ your mind. In shaving me you just made 732 strokes with the razor." "I wouldn't have believed it. " "No man believes it until he takes the trouble to count. In my easel never knew the number to fall below 500. and it has gene more than 800 at times. I call it a stroke every time the razor is brought forward and then drawn back. I should judge that there are no fewer than 500 strokes ia a first class shave. You remember that, and proba bly you can win a few bets."-New York World. Bank Impertinence. The Philadelphia Record tells of an old Pennsylvania farmer who recently came into possession of a check for $200. It caused him a great deal cf anx iety, and for a long time he could not muster up the courage to have it cashed. Finally, while on a trip to town, he summoned up nerve enough and, stroll ing io to the bank, presented the check. The teller glanced at it hastily, and then, after the fashion of his kind, brusquely asked, "What denomina tion?" "Lutheran, gol durn it! But what's thet got tew do with it?" as brusquely replied the old farmer, to the great as- J tonishment of the bank official. It required several minutes' explana- j tion before the teller could get the old ' man to understand his question, and then the latter took his money and de parted, with sundry growls derogatory to banks in general, The Sea Gall and the Fisherman, In the fishing village o Auchmithit (the Musselcraig of Scott's "Anti- i quary") you may frequently witness sea gulls flying into the houses of the fishermen and partaking of food from their hands. One of these sea birds was in the habit of staying in a fisherman's house ali the year round except at the breeding season, wh6n it left. Quite re cently, while the gull was away, the fisherman removed his home from Auchmithie tc Arbroath (the Fairport of Scott's "Antiquary"), distant some 3) miles from the former place, taking np his residence in South street of Ar broath. The fisherman never expected, to see his old friend the gull again. It was therefore much to his astonishment that he beheld a fortnight later the sea bird come walking into his new resi dence with stately steps to resume his old familiarities and household ways *?itb his housekeeper.-London Lady. Tragic. Scene-A railway carriage. First Artist-Children don't seem to me to sell now as they used. Second Artist (in a hoarse whisper) - Well, I was at Stodge's yesterday. He had just knocked off three little girls' heads, horrid raw things, when a dealer came in, sir, bought 'em direct ly, took 'em away wet as they were ou the stretcher and wanted Stodge to let him have some more next week. Old Lady (putting her head out of the window and shrieking) - Guard, stop the train and let me out, or I'll be murdered!-London Tit-Bits. MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA Three Steamers Didn't Understand It, but the Prince of Monaco Knew. The Prince of Monaco has been known since 1S G as an enthusiastic strident of the sea and its various forms of life. He usually spends his summers in the study of oceanographic problems, and his cruises have on some occasions been extended almost to the coasts of Amer ica. He delivered a lecture before the Royal Geographical society in London in which he told this incident : One afternoon, while in the bay of Biscay, he sank the trap in which he collected specimens of sea life. It went to the bottom in over 12,000 feet of water, and as night approached he fas tened to the wire attached to it an elec tric buoy and then stood off a mile or so. It did not happen to occur to him that he was right in the track of steam ers plying between northern Europe and the Mediterranean, but he was re minded of the fact later. As he and his 14 sailors were watch ing with a good deal of satisfaction the swaying buoy with its brilliant illu mination a steamer's lights came into view. It was soon evident that the steamer was curious to know the mean ing of the illumination, for she altered her course and made for the light. She knew that no fishing boats came out so far from land and so determined to solve the mystery. Up she came to within a quarter of a mile of the buoy, slowed up for a minute, and then start ed ahead, perhaps a little disgusted at the incident that had lured her several miles out of her coursa She had hardly got away when a sec ond steamer came into view, and she, too, bore down upon the lighted buoy The marines on the prince's vessel un derstood by this time that the illumina tion was probably believed to be evi dence of a disaster. Just as the prince's steamer was moving up to explain mat ters she was nearly run down by one of the large liners in the oriental trade, which had also left her course to render what assistance she could. . The swell was very heavy, and the prince feared a collision as the three vessels approached the light like moths around a candle. He therefore veered off and the other vessels, after standing by for a few minutes, went on their way and probably never learned the cause of that night's illumination at sea. But the incident gave the prince a pointer. He carefully refrained there after from exhibiting his electric buoy on any of the much traveled ocean routes.-New York Sun FOOLED IN A HORSE TRADE This Animal Possessed Several Re markable Traits. A prominent English landlord waa one day riding across a common ad jacent to his preserves when he over took one of his tenants, who was also mounted. After the usual salutations they rode on in silence for some min utes, when the tenant slightly spurred his horse, a balky animal, whereupon it dropped to its knees. "What's the matter with your horse?" asked his lordship. The em barrassed tenant remarked by way of explanation that his steed always acted that way when there was game to be found. ! A moment later, to the tenant's sat isfaction and surprise, a frightened hare jumped out of some bushes near by. This so impressed the landlord that j he at once drove a bargain by which he j secured the tenant's barebacked beast j in exchange for his own fine mount, j perfectly saddled. With much agility the tenant leaped to his nev." horse, and all went well until they came to a small stream, whereat the landlord's new nag immediately balked. A drive home with the spurs brought it again to its knees. "Hello, what's up now? There's no game here, " said his lordship. "True, my lord," was the ready re ply, "but I forgot to tell you 'ee's as good for fish as 'ee is for gama "-San Francisco Argonaut Raisins His Fare. A certain board school teacher is re sponsible for the following little story, which is not withont its pathetic side. He was endeavoring to explain the term "booking'? as applied to our rail way system. "Kow," he was saying, "can any of you tell me the name of the office at which railway tickets are sold?" "The booking office, " replied one of the lads. "Right," responded the teacher. At this moment his eye fell on a small boy at tho end of the class, who was evidently paying very little atten- ! tion to what was said. "Did you hear that, Dowser?" he ! demanded. "Wot, sir?" asked that youth inno cently. "As I thought, yon were not listen ing. We will snpposo that your father decidod to have a day's holiday and visit the seaside. What would he have to do before he conld take his seat in the train?" Withont a moment's thought the youngster electrified his teacher by re plying, "Pawn his tools."-Loudon Standard. An Odd Collection. One of the most remarkable collec tions of souvenirs ever made is a collec tion of male opera hats by one of the actresses of a London company. She owns no fewer thau 21G of these arti cles, for it was her whim to make every young man who was introduced to her give her his opera hat as a souvenir. She not only keeps them in their pris tine condition, but converts them into all sorts of other things, .such a.s photo graph frames, work baskets, and some are even used for thy purpose of holding flowerpots. A man who is overshrewd in his business relations is pretty sure to learn in the course of time that the world is shrewd enough to protect itself against him. -Somerville Journal. CLOTHES SPECIALS. Queer Pockets and Things Tailors Have to Put In Garments. "No social " "With that remark to the assistant who took down the measurements the tailor dismissed his patron and said that the snit would be finished "sure" on a certain day. "What dio jon mean by saying 'no special' to your clerk?" asked the cus tomer. "Well, that means that you want your clothes made all right and without any crank things about them Pockets are the great specials. We have cus tomers who want, besides the regular pockets, places in their waistcoats for pencils, eyeglasses and all sorts of things. Some pencil pockets are made to hold only one pencil and some for a bunch. Eyeglass pockets are also or dered in keeping with the shape and style of the glasses, and pockets for cigars are ordered for all sizes, from the little half pencil shape to the great big perfecto. Freak pockets, inside of other pockets, are also in demand, and j chamois lined pockets, which we usual ly make for the watch side of the waist coat, are ordered often for trousers by men who carry silver trinkets in them " Another class of special customers are those whose garments are made with a view to the wearer's health. Many men have an inner band of red flannel put on the waist of their trou sers as a cure for rheumatism, and some driving coats are made so that sheets of stout paper may be slipped between the breast lining and the cloth when driving against the wind. "On the whole, " said the tailor, "a man in my business has the best oppor tunity to find out the kinks and queer points about men, not only as to their persons, but their minds."-New York Tribune. FINERTY'S SERMON. lt Brought Praise From the Preacher Who Didn't Deliver lt. Before ex-Congressman John Finerty became famous as the great American British lion tail twister he was one of the best reporters in Chicago. He was on The Tribune, and one day a certain city editor (best known to fame-as the man who always wore a straw hat and smoked a corncob pipe) decided that Mr. Finerty should be disciplined It was Saturday, and some time after midnight. Mr. Finerty was assigned to report the morning sermon of an ob scure minister way down on the South Side. Finerty was the senior, and his associates were thunderstruck. They expected an explosion, at least, but Finerty remained calm and dignified, although a trifle pale. "Then he will resign," they thought, but Finerty walked out and made no sign. To the surprise of every one. he reported the next day as usual and turned in an ab stract of the sermon. Every one read it on Monday morning, and it was cer tainly an eloquent and carefully report ed sermon. That afternoon a man of clerical cut called on the city editor and asked to see the young man who had reported his sermon the morning before. Mr. Finerty was introduced. The man of the clerical cut would like to see Mr Finerty alone for a few moments. Out in the hallway he asked. "Of course, you were not at my church yesterday morning?" "No." replied Finerty. "Well. I simply stopped to thank you for the sermon. It was far more elo quent than the one I preached " Finerty had composed the sermon in a neighboring cellar beer saloon on Saturday night.-Lippincott's Maga zine. A Kissing: Nation. In no other part of the world is kiss ing so much in vogue as in Russia. From time immemorial it has been the national s late. Indeed it is more of a greening than a caress. In public affairs, as in private, the kiss is an established custom. Fathers and sons kiss, old generals with rusty mustaches kiss, whole regiments kiss. The emperor kisses fc;v officers. On a reviewing day there ar almost as many kisses as shots exchanged. If a lillipu tian corps of cadets have earned the im perial approval, the imperial salute is bestowed upon the head boy, who passes it on with a hearty report to his neigh bor, he in his turn to the next, and so on, through the whole juvenile body. On a holiday or fete day the young 1 and delicate mistress of a house will not only kiss all her maidservants, but all her menservants, too, and if the gentleman does not venture above her hand she will stoop and kiss his oheek. To judge also from the number of salutes the matrimonial bond in these high circles must be one of uninterrupt ed felicity. A gentleman scarcely enters or leaves the room without kissing his wife either on her forehead, cheek or hand. Heroes . the Pen. The intensity of application with which the mind follows whatever it lays hold of in literary pursuits is ex emplified in the case of Robert Ains worth, a celebrated writer and anti quarian of the seventeenth century. He had been for years engaged in a volumi nous Latin dictionary, and while fas cinated with this heroic work gave so little time and attention to his wife that he incurred her bitterest jealousy, and before the work was quite complete she committed the whole to the flamea. Instead of abandoning himself to de spair, Ainsworth set to work and re wrote it, accomplishing the entire work in time. The same bitter disappoint I ment was endured with similar heroism by Carlyle when tho manuscript of his "Frederick the Great" was destroyed hv tire. To Be Avoided. Mrs. De Sour-1 want you to keep j your dog out of my house. It's full of fleas. Mrs. De Smart-Mercy on me ! Fido, come here, sir I Don't you go into thal house again. It's full of fleas.-Jewish Comment The Rural Mail Delivery. The Atlanta Constitution, one of the most progressive and widely cir co ated papers in the United States, has the following strong article on Representative Stokes' work : \S e are glad to observe that the matter of rural delivery has been taken op very actively by Congress msn Stokes, of Souih Caroiina, who has introduced a measure iu the house to extend free delivery of mail along the star, routes. Under the provisions of the Stokes bill, any person desiring his mail deposited along the line of any star route shall erect a box as convenient to the roadside as practicable and file with the nearest postmaster on each side of the box a request in writing for delivery of his mail to the proper carrier for deposit in the mail box. The boxes along the star routes are to be numbered consecutively beginning from the intial point of the star route. With the view of ulti mately bringing the mail thus depos ited ender the protection of the gen era] postal laws until received by the person to whom it is sent, ur by his agent, the postmaster general is authorized to invite submission of plans and devices for special boxes and duplicate keys for the use of the carriers and addressees, respectively The Stokes bill provides that all contracts for carrying mail on star routes made after the passage of the act, shall include the deposit in the proper boxes placed along the line of the routes for this purpose without charge to the addresses, any mail matter that may be entrusted to the carriers for such distribution by any postmaster on the route ; and it is made the duties of the carriers to take up 6uch maii matter as they may find in the mail boxes, aud deposit the same for mailing ai the next post office on their route The bill also makes it the duty of each postmater, on receipt of a writ ten order from any person living on or nea an established star route, to I deliver to the proper carrier for that route any mail matter, with instruc tion8 as to the proper maii box in which tho matter is to be deposited. Such is tcie measure, at once brief and simple, by means of which it is intended to establish free rurai de rivery The Constitution hopes the bili w'li pass If our readers in the agricultural districts will write to their representatives in congress and urge them to support the measure there will be small difficulty in urging its passage lt itt our boast that under our laws all citizens are equal. You will hear orators declaiming of equality under the law, and yet while people in the country have to travel miles to the nearest post office to get their mail, the postal authorities are engaged in erecting a costly preumatic system in the city of New York in order to save fifteen or twenty minutes in the delivery of mail lt is true that a community in the nature cf things wili enjoy larger and more complete postal facilities than a remote and scattered settlement, but we are speaking now^of equality under the law and the rights of individuals. But this difference is most clearly recognized iu the demand for free rurai delivery. Toe people are not asking for pneumatic tubes nor for any device that will place additional burdens on the taxpayers. The Stokes bill simply calls for a system of cheap boxes to be affixed to trees or posts along the post roads covered by the star route system These carriers have to go along these routes anyhow, and it will hardly be aDy trouble for them to deposit mail and take up that which they find. When the biil becomes a law 6tar route bidders will be put on notice by its terms of this addition to their duties as contractors, and they will take care of themselves in the matter of compensation. The history of every increase of mail facilities in this country since its establishment shows that their in creased cosi is invariably offset by in creased revenue This is the history of the reduction of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents. It was freely pre dieted that it would result in an enor mous deficit ; the result, however, was an increase of revenue When free city delivery was established the same prediction was made, but the revenue has steadily increased. It was never intended, in the first place, that our postal system should be a money making business It was established for the benefit of the peo ple, and not to pay revenue in to the treasury. That it is se'f ustaining is very*gratifying. but the people would demand it and be compelled to have it, even if it were not selfsustaining. Chicago, March 30.-This after noon a d evening Chicago was visited by a heavier snow storm than pre vailed at any time during the regular winter months The snow fall, al though not over four inches on the level, was badly drifted by a forty mile wind, which drove it though the down town streets in clouds. The storm was general throughout the Northwest, the reporte showing that, while great inconvenience was uc ea* ioned. but little damage was done ANYVERSON Wishing to know tho troth in regard to their health should not fail to send for a valuable and new t'4-papro Booklet which will bo sent FREE for a ;hort time to ihr.se who mention this p .per. This book is published by the celebrated physi cians and specialists-Dr. Hathaway aid Co. of 22H S. Broad St.. Atlanta, Ga., whom you should address. Write to-day. Cuban Assembly's Special Committee. Two of the Members Have Arrived at Washington. Wasbiogtoo, March 28.-Senors Jose R. Vilialon and A. Hevia, who were appointed by the Cuban assembly to present to the Washington authorities tbe resolutions of that body, have arrived in this city. The mission in addition to the presentation of the r solutions is to explain ID detail the situation with reference to tbeiceargent army. While the assembly did not reject the 3.000,000, which Gen. Gomez aaranged with Mr. Robert P. Porter to receive and pay off the Ccbac troops, they believe it to be entireiy inadequate to meet the situation They desire at least $10.000,000,and as muefc more a:s can be obtained ANOTHER BIG ITEM. j Oar war with Spain is said to have cost as io round numbers about 500, 000.000, half ES mach as the money indemnity which Germany exacted from France after the crushing defeat of the latter io 1870. Bat we are not by any means through with the expenses incident to this war and the resultant from it. There is no telling how mach the Philippine straggle will cost as before we are throcgb with it. The $20,000,* 000 we paid for those islands was one of the worst investments any nation ever made, bat it is a bagatelle io com parison with what we will probably have to pay to Fasten oar hold and to continua it upco ten cr eleven millions of people who are resisting as despe rately The fighting in Coba and the Philippines will cost as many million in pensions, to say nothing of the lives of our citizens. The death roll m the war with Spain went up to nearly 6.000. aboat 5,200 of oar soldiers having died in that campaign of oisease. We have lost almost 1,000 men ia the Philippines IQ less than three months, and now the worst season of the year and the fiercest fighting we have yet confronted there are both upon as. There is another item that will in crease the co3t cf oar Lew policy of militarism. The peace treaty which both the United States and Spain have ratified contains this provision. "The United States and Spain mu tually relinquish all claims for iodemo' ty, ca ocal and individual, of every kind, eiher government or of its citizens or subjects, against the other government that may have arisen since the begining of ihe late insurrection in Cuba, and prior to the exchange of ratifications of the preseut treaty, in cluding ail claims for indemnity for the cost of war. The United States will ad judicate and settle tho claims of its citi zens against Spain relinquished in this article." It will be remembered that daring the Cacan insurrection and after we took a band io Cuba the number of persons in that island who claimed to be citizens of the United States became remarkably large Claims against oar government to the amount 20,000,000 have already been filed in Washington and they are still coming. We may have to plank down 25, 000,000 or $30,000^000 more on this soore We will pay very dearly for recent war experience before we are done with it.-Atlanta Journal. Successful Physicians. Wc- heartily recommend Dr. Hathaway & Ca pf 'S i S Broad St., Atlanta, Ga., zs being per fectly reiiaoltf and remarkably snccesefal in. tho treatment of chronic diseasesof men and women. They care when others fail. Our readers if in neea of medical help should certainly write these eminent doctors and you will receive a free and expert opinion of your case by return msjf without cost. Sugaring Mark Hanna and Presi dent McKinley and party beats print. ers' ink in advertising the South. Can't those Georgetown fellows get Mr McKinley to try a week's hunt ing at Pawley island. A Meeting of the Stockholders of the South Carolina and Georgia Rail road Company will be held in Char leston, 8 Con the 29th of April. It is proposed that the Campany should guarantee the payment of the principal and interesta of. First Mort gage Gold Bonds of the par value of One Million Eight Hundred Thou sane Dollars $1,800,000) of the South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad Conpany, said Bonds to bear interest at four and a-half per cent, and it is also proposed that the Company should guarantee the payment of the principal and inter ests of First Mortgage Gold Bonds of the par value of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) of the Sunter and Wateree River Bailroad Company, said Bonds to bear five per cent interest, payable semi-an nually, y Sigapore, March 29.-Trouble is brewing in the island of Negros, where the inhabitants repudiate the self constituted authority of Anisete Lacson, President of the Provisional Government, to arrange affairs with -1 the Americans. The censor at Manila suppressed the details The insurgents in Luzon sent a mes sage to Lieut Commander Cowper, of the British gunboat Plover, when the latter endeavored to effect a coter promise, suggesting thu they wert ready to treat for peace though a neutral great Power.