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MURDERS AND ROBBERIES. at n? THE PAST AXD THE PRESENT. hi Curious Stories of Crime ami its Con- .)( sequences ? Peculiar Viuturrn in ai Some Cases. There in a great deal said from time ti to time by those who have appcarcntly ti small information on the subject in S regard to the peculiar lieinousness and st frequency of murders nowadays. The ill impression is inavariubly conveyed by ei those who speak in this way that the b< days of the pioneers were much better id than these, and that the world is really w getting a great deul worse as time tr pnsses. As a matter of fact, of course, there OJ are a great many more crimes commit- m ted now than there were in the same ^ locality fifty or sixty years ago. But g, it should be borne in miud that there p, are a great many more people, uud it x* would take careful calculation to positivoly ascertain whether or not there m are as many crimes committed now to pi t.hik t hnilwsinf] nntili ue fnnmo^lu * i I?r-~ ........ ?... .... ...... . j 11 or not. Certain it is that in " the good p< old days" there were some of the most calculating and eold-blooded murders j committed that have ever been reeorded in the annuls of crime. These crimes were usually committed for the solo purpose of robbery, and not in the heat of passion. I was particularly impressed with a the truth of this observation the other day in passing down over the Cleveland and Marietta Railroad when the station 111 of Postboy was reached. This point is al close to the boundary of Tuscarawas ?' and Guernsey coutles in Ohio, among 1 the hills of a peculiarly picturesque region,. A fellow passenger related the 01 following interesting story as the ori- *1 giu of the name : a In the early days of the settlement of the region the mail facilities were very " crude. Boys rode through about once ?' a month on horseback. Such things as newspapers were almost unknown. The letter postage was from 20 to .">0 eents. oi according to the distance, and it was t< invariably collected of the person who b received the letter. Sometimes letters ri ruiuumuu m i/nu umeo ior consuioraoie >v time whilo tho person addressed i-aiscd h the money necessary to redeem them. S The route of the postboy lay right by ti the present railroad station. He eanie U down between the hills and crossed the d valley right there, through what was s< then the dense forest. One day the ri usual monthly trip was being made by a 'c youug man, who blew his horn as he u descended the hill and as ho reached it tho bottom a rille ball whizzed through his heart and he fell from his horse to rt the ground dead. A man who was at it work not far away heard the postboy's oi horn followed by the rille shot, and tl ho hastened to the spot, mistrusting that something wrong had happened. He was horrilied to behold the lifeless form of the postboy and a man wi th,.hMo arms bare aoove the elbows bending w over him rilling tho mail pouch. The j approach of a third person frightened tho murderer and thief and. seizing his ^ rille, he hastily retreated into the ... forest. Tho man who had so nearly witnessed ? ,. the murder and wiio had prevented the \ robbery gave the alarm and explained the part he had taken in the alTair. His statement of the ease was at lirst w accepted without question, as he was a man of good reputation and one against whom no suspicion had ever fastened |)( itself. Hut at length some overshrewd }l \l persons began to whisper that it was (.| very strange that this man knew so t( much about the ease while no one else n] know anything else about it. it was t / finally concluded that ho must be guiltly, and on suspicion ho was ar- Lj _ rested and tried for murder. There a| was nothing positive uguinst him : but ' circumstantial evidence, which in those ^ days passed for a great deal, was sullicicnt to eonviet him before a "jury of his oeers.and he was condemned to bo hanged. The prisoner, however, stuck consistently to his original story, and as a tinai K and desperate resort lie, besought the sheriff to call all tho male inhabitants p of the county together by proclamation n on a certain day. The reason for this ;>| action was carefully concealed, hut the fact was that the iirisnruT h:ifl ?viiliiin. ' ed to the shoritY thjit by nu uns of a certain soar on the arm of the person J,j who had committed the crime lu y would be able to identify the muiderer. V( The object of this coming togethei ^ whs ourofully concealed, but the irn- sl pression was ingeniously conveyed that suspicion would bo certain to attach to ^ny one who failed to conn; and that -p process to fetch such person would im- a| mediately be issued. ^.( On tho day and hour fixed a large crowd for those pioneer days assembled y at the Court House. Suddenly the sherilY with tho prisoner in charge |,( emerged from the jail and passed c through the assmcblugc. With hi> ' vision miide abnormally acute by his impending doom the condemned man elasely scrutinized the fuees of all as (j he passed. s Finally ins eyes settled upon the s, countenance of a burly black woodsman p who at tirst shrank away, but soon re- n] covered himself. " Arrest that man. " be said to the !( sherilY. "He is the murderer of the p" postboy. ' C| And then addressing tho accused he _( remarked : " You have a big scar on your right arm. You shot the post- j l)oy. i saw you while you wore rifling j," the mail bag. " w Tho now accused man denied the si charge stoutly, but showed Ills guilt by t,i refusing to permit an examination of ui bis 211-111. Tho examination was duly f;i made, however, and tho sear found as (>| bad been described. He was thrown <]< into jail and within a week confessed a1 all the details of the crime. The tl guiltless man, of course, was discharged ' Numerous eases in pioneer times are it related of persons having mysteriously ei disappeared and never l?ein*f heard of tl more. One of the most singular asitl >v starting of these occurred more than w forty-live years ago in Nohie -entity in tl the south-eastern portion of Ohio. m The following wonderful narrative m was itiveii to me by serveral persons of el integrity who resides in Nohie eounty : s<l One July evening in drover hy n< the name of Vmuiy wiio lived in li< Wheeling and who wu> in the county pi gathorini? up stock, started to ride on tl horseback from Suuimorlicld, a little hamlet in the hills, to Sarahville, a another hamlet of the same eounty m only a few miles away. As lie left tin* or first place darkness was just set ting in. ai lie was never heard of more. I lis tli friends in Wheeling did not expect }>> him home for several weeks. Ilcinir a is bachelor and having no near relatives. 01 it was not thought strange that no let cji tor v/as received from him. Finally, ? ' after several weeks had elapsed, in- tli quiry and search were made, hut noth- p< in," was ever discovered further than to that he rode out into the darkness on hi that July evening. He was known to tli have hud some, money with which lie was paying for cattle, and it was # "> dually concluded that he had probably sp been mysteriously murdered, with the tli motive of rohbery. Kven and anon the tw ory wus repeated by the people of the ! lighborhood and it tinally passed into i> iBtory. , fi Alxmt twenty years after the dlsap- ' sarenee, the daughter of a prominent e ad wealthy citizen in the vieinity hud u singului: dream. It seemed to her ' I1 jut she was iu a familiar portion of 'J 10 road leading from her home to umraortield. It was night, and a a ,orin was threatening. The inky v nrkness was oyer and anon illuminat- 1 1 by vivid Hashes of lightening. She ' j ocarau strongly impressed w4th the ' lea that she was expected to c atcli attentively what was about to i anspire. 1 She had not long to wait. Presently ! no of the Hashes revealed a lone horselan wending his way slowly up the 1 iil. In another moment a second . ish revealed a man stealthily ap- , touching the horseman from the*rear. . ho next Hash revealed the horseman iug upou the ground and the other j an, whom she had seeu before aproaching, was holding the horse by J le bridle and rilling the dead man's jeket. Becoming intensely interested she . osoly watched the movements of the , urderer and robber. The darkness j lemed to clear up to a certain extent e nd she saw him go to a familiar stump | id carefully deposit the saddle, bridle . ad saddlebags of the murdered man in largo hollow place within. v Just as this work was finished the ? mrderer turned suppenly upon her, e nd she recognized the features of her i wn fa*.her. Half dea l with fritrhtshe '1 ivoko with u start and did not close r or eyes ugaln that night. Bright and s nrly the next morning she visited the s >ot where the vision was located and t sharp stick dug in the decayed rub- a isli of the old stump. She was so loroughly impressed with the truth t f what she seen that she was impelled t ) do this. 1 What was her horror on excavating j illy a few inches beneath the surface ' i find a rusty stirrup and several s uekles. The poor girl kept her ter- ^ ible suspicion to herself, but it ? oighed so heavy upon her mind that ' er constitution was underniinded. x ho was thrown into quick consurup- < on and at tho ago of of lit she died. ' ieforo passing away she related her * ream, however, and remarked that 11 mieonc must bo punished for the ter- s ible crime and that she could no mger live with tho suspicion resting 1 pon her that her father was a 1 lurdorer. ' Of course nothing was over done in s jgard to the matter in the way of I gal proceedings. The " respected 1 Ir/.en " was thrown under a cloud ami lat was all. An incident of pioneer times some- i hat similinr to that one alwive oe- ~ irred in I .errain county in northern t hio, muny years ago. A peddler who , as known to have considerable money ( isappearod as completely as though le ground had opened and swallowed ] im up. His horse was found running f t large and taken in charge by the -j leritT. who afterward sold it. When ] ist seen this inuu was near a wayside < ivern of the day and it was supposed , lat he stopped there. News travelled v jry slowly those days and people [ rote hut few letters. The peddler as not expected homo for a long time ? ml nothing was thought of his not s tsing heard from. Finally, months }| fter, his friends in the east made an j Tort to trace him. but to no satisfac- t >ry elTect. He was followed without t luch dillieulty to the vicinity of the , ivern in question and the fact that | is horse was found running at large j j le other side of the tavern was elicited v tid that was ically all. Suspicion t uinted quite strongly to the tavern t eeper. but no evidence sutlieient to t iiise an arrest could bo brought out. j v ? ^ WHAT IS THK LliOYPS ? ! 1 ire Insurance at a Smallert.'osi Thau t i he Old Line Companies. l nun '1 he (ireenville Mountaineer. * The entrance of Lloyds Fire lnsur- >. ice into this State has created (juito ( rippl i of excitement in insurance eir- ; os. As their success means decrease ( eminms for the hoard companies, a i itter light is heing made against them. | II sorts of rumors are current, and ' ry few people being familiar with lis system many ridiculous and ah ird stories are told. i The light is 011 in this city, and the I ?eney established her e by Messrs. j haekston A Monteith is going riglit long and receiving substantial cn>u rage me nt. j The following extract from the New , ork World gives aeoin|>lete history of lis system of insurance, and shows ow insurance can be safely and sncjssfully written at lower rates than j i'o charged by tlioold line companies : _ kl (nusurance and mereatftile circles i this city are greately interested in a iscussion of the merits of the Lloyds fstem of insurance, which has been! lecessfully extended durinp the past ?, w years from purely murine to comict'ciul insurance. and which has been jpeatodly made tbo subject of attack t y the "old line" companies, whose al ped expensive management and auto atic rule have been threatened by the cw departure. " As nearly everybody knows, the. j loyds system of insurance originated < 1 Knpland, hut few arc aware that it t as hi yun as far buck as Hiss. Another \ u prising fact is that up to the present t me no Lloyds insurance association, J ither in Knpland or this country, lias ) tiled. As a matter of fact, a company i f this kind cannot fail because every t [illar ?.f the assets of the members is t tail able to pay a loss and not merely ( le premium alone. j < "From the little seed dropped by ' i idwnrd Lloyd in London in 1'iSS has rown a pipantic Lloyds, whose Turin- | al responsibility is never questioned ? i roup bout the whole world, and t hose annual premium income is up- i a I'd of ti"?.tKM).(Kl0. In transpl'intinp t ie system to the Lnited States it lias \ et with some alterations. Under the t oderni/.ed plan those who wish to i iter upon individual umierwrit inp do I by appointinp an attorney or attor- 1 sys to act and sipn for them, thus re- ji evinp them of the ineidentul work and \ aeinp their interests in llie hands of t >o?e more experienced in the business. ( " A " Lloyds " is not a eorporlion nor f copartnership, nor i* one individual c ember of the Lloyds responsible with | to any of the others, but simply f id solely himself apices to iiiemuify s ie lostu* by lire for a certain named oportion of bis loss. If the Lloyds v composed of twenty members the ' ily association between tbern is that v tch pivrs a full power of attorney ' npowerinp one person or tUmi to do < ie business for them, and also up- d >ints a committee from their number P safely cure for the money received 11 id to counsel, watch over and advise t cir attorney. t " If their attorney issues a policy for e .(Mill each member of the Lloyd is re- h onsihle for i"itt only, the same as if n c attorney had written and delivered a rciity different policies for each, ti The question may bo asked. " Suppose ouo or more of the subscribers nils or is unablo to pay his share of the ues, who pays his *2b0?" which is asily answered by asking "Suppose ,n insurer insures in twenty stock comlanies and one fails, who pays for that uinkruptcompany ?" " The cases are exactly similar. It i9 , question of credit, but with the aduntago on tbo side of the Lloyds in his way : If one of the members fails lis attorney immediately ceases to ssue policies in his name and may prosi re another subscriber, who, for the irivileges of a membership in a proliablo business, will assume all of tho iabilitics past, present and future of he failed member, and take all of his ights to profits in tho business. Another ready question is, " How can he Lloyds do a prolitable business ut a ess expense thau a stock company ?" t kuows exactly what its expenses are 0 be. It has no ottioo rent to pay, nor loes it pay any salaries. All such ox>euses arc paid by its attorney out of 1 stipulated percentage on the preniuras received. If tho business is argo or small it oniy pays tho same iroportion. Tho reason for the failure f many stock companies may he found 11 tho fact that their exorbitant expenes have eaten them up, requiring a arger amount of premiums to pay ex>enses than tlioy were able to obtain. Another important point is tho meastro of protection given by a Lloyds ruarantco as compared with a stock :ompany. In a stock company the captal paid in is the only guarantee, fliero is no individual responsibility, >f course, no one would invest in inlurauoo stock if experience had not hown that the premiums paid in would noro than equal tho losses and expenles and give a fair margin for profit. in a Lloyds tho security consists in ,ho strength and credit of the insurer, ogether witli tho amount of deposit 10 has paid in and the further sum he s liable to ho assessed for. This sum s usually about -to,OIK) for each suberiber which means $100,000 if there ire twenty underwriters on the policy. ^Jow if each $5,000 policy makes a iability of only $250 to each underwriter. after all premium receipts are sxhausted, it can be seen that nothing nit a real conflagration like the Jhicago lire can bankrupt a Lloyds, md such a fire would bo equally destructive to a stock company. A table compiled from the sworn rclorts made by the stock lire insurance :ompanics to the insurance departncnts of all the States in the Union hows that the average loss ratio to iremium reeoips for ten years ending 11 181)2 was 511.11) per cent., and the ivorago expenses ratio to premium cecipts during the same period ier cent. This leaving a balance of !.4!l per cent., and seems to show conilusively that the evil of fire insurance inderwriting hy stock companies does lot exist in the loss ratio, but in the inncccssary extravagant expense latio. During 181)3 the public paid the old ino companies $1 (>5,000,000. The difereneo between the stock companies IS.33 per cent, expense account and the idoyds 25 per cent, expense account 25 per cent, being allowed the attoricy or attorneys for all expenses) vould show a balance in favor of doyds of $21.1)45,000. Many of the largest corporations md firms in the United States are in ?.wl ir. ...,A .... ,.f I I. ind sou of thc*most reputable, relia>lo, anil responsible busincs-s men of the ountry, whose names may be obtain:il of any of the Lloyds, have deternincd to demonstrate that the insurmeo business can be conducted at a easonable expense, and have as indiiduals conferred their power to atornoy to underwrite in their names at .hirty Lloyd. Among the subscribers and undervriters in tlie various Lloyds are : Irexel, Morgan & Co., Levi I'. Nlor,on, Flint ?V Co.,Adrian Isolin, Harry _>. Havemyer, Ceorgo Bliss, Robt. Colgate. I). Applcton A Co., Oliver Harrinan, Samuel Untermeyer, Cornelius S\ Hoagland, Darwin it. James, David S. Drown, Chas. W. Druk, Alfred T. icott, Frank Hiscock, William D. Jogs wells, J. II. Flagler, Robert H. VlcCurdy, It. D. Itathhono, Felix iampbcll, William H. linker, Rulutid t Wniting, Fred. Valentino, 10. W. iliss, 10. I'. (Reason, Hon. lOdward V. V. I/Oew, W. McCarthy Little, John dcAnerny, Francis A. 1'aimer, Milo VI. Holding, Ceorgo 1*. Johnson, Wilis B. Marvin, ex-Secretary Charles S. Aiirchild, IOdward.1. llerwin, Addison Jammack. William It. Grace, Isaac Irandon, Joshua l'i/a, Itnsscll Hoail-1 ey, Wold lOstate, Itichard V. liarictt, and Vernon II. Brown. The United States Constitution, vhich overrules all State laws, guarantees the individual insurer in his ight to do so business in any State in die Union. Lloyds are not under the lupcrvison of any State department. REDMOND THE OUTLAW. diKTl II ABOUT I'll 10 FAMOUS MOONSIIIM01C. \i? Interesting Talk About Making Illicit Whiskey?Incidents of the Great Moonshine War in the Mountains ol'South Carolina. S'ews and < "mirier. Major Lewis It. Redmond, a source >f years since the king of the Carolina maintains and the terror of the revenue ollieials in Dickons and Oconee anilities, is in the city and is stopping it the Darwin House, (ill King street. VIr. Redmond, as is well known, now esides on his farm near Sencea, and Iocs a good business in raising stock md manufacturing lumber, llo is in Jharl&ston at present with a shipment >f sheen and entile, his oivn iind ?. icighbor's from Oconee County. The ex-moonshiner greeted a relortcr cordially last night, when called )ii at the Darwin House, and said that ,his was not the lirst time hy a great 11 any that reporters bad wanted him o talk, and that he wasn't for saying cry inueh. and that he bad often sent bem away faster than they came, lie s a line looking man, about six feet ligh, with high forehead and wavy ilaek hair. He wears side whiskers Ltid mustache and his dark eyes Hash vi,tb amusement or interest as memory :alls forth some scene. An impression u'evails that be is an old man, but far loin it: he is not yet forty. After shutting a while about his place, the iriee of cattle and his interesting amily, the Major was induced to say omcthing of his old life. " I was but little more than a boy rhen I lirst made whiskey," he said, and my lirst still was right close to the /agon road and that was before the cvenuo ollicers got up our way In )eonee. We had heard about them own around Coin in 1>ia, but they hadn't ot further north much. Now as to the taking of a little whiskey, of course be people in that, section couldn't see lie harm in it. You see corn grows a->y cnoujli on those aide hill farms, ut getting it to a market is a different mttcr. Very likely the farm was in valley an I the < lily exit was a 11101111iiin path. The corn would have to he _L_ carried over the mouutain to a road and a wagon probably hired to tran sport it. The valuo^>was well oat uj: in expenses when it reached a market as corn. Hut on the other band, turr ten bushels into twenty gallons ol whiskey, and at a dollar a gallon Lht farmer would get enough money tc buy the little necessaries that ht couldn't raise well. I started my stil and soon had a good thing in it. If 1 1 made good whiskey it is not to brag for 1 only made what I could guarantee and 1 had no trouble in disputing of it After a w^JL-.^the revenues bogai coming about tliob^ctiou and natural^ as they moved up I moved my stil back until T was right in the moun tains. I don't know why it was, bu the otlicors locuted stills all around tn< and each time thoy made a seizure would say to myself, " Well, I'll g< next,' but still they couldn't eoiuo u| with me. Then they seoiucd to go desperate and rewards wore offeree for mo ; and, of course, I was willing then to keep them on the hunt. I kop right on making good whiskey atn uover lacked u market for it. Tin ollicers got on to my selling places am would lay for mo, but 1 didn't show u] when they were uroun 1. I found i bust not to tell even my customer oxactly when to expect mo, for some how the dato would leak out and i gang of otlicers would ho on ham), would say, except mo between tin loth and .'U)th, and then coino in quictl; on the 13th or 1-ith. " The people in the country abou were very generally my friends, bu the offer of a reward for my captur was too much for some neighbors o mine, and one day while I was out ii one of tny Holds, looking after in; hands, I hcariPu voice say, 'Put u| your hands.' I looked around and no forty yards off were three neighbor and some revouues with pistols am Winchesters on me. 1 hadn't a weapoi of any kind and it was across a liil aud the river to my house. I jus ...nil,...I t ? . i .... 4l.n l.ill nuii\v;u au uj 11 ui(i biK'iut uj> bUU iiiu they peppering uway, hut never touch ing me, nor did they move up on mo It was a pretty hot walk and I confes that when a bullet cut u brunch jus over iny head and covered me witl chips and trash I was so mad I turnci and cussed them. I couldn't help it Over the other side of the hill hurried and got my gun and cain< back, but my neighbors had deeidei then that they didn't want to captur me after all and left. And they missei a crop that season, too, for the, thought the neighltorhood unhcalth and didn't como back for a good while 44 There wsts one in the party, how ever, that asked me to forgive him am when he owned up to being in tin wrong I gave him iny hand. It wu some time afterwards, of course. II was one of my best friends after tha and would have done anything for me 441 don't like to talk ubout my eaj turo 'and all that. In fact I novor dt But I can say that in my troubles bad some stanch and true friends, uon of whom were more faithful to m than Judge Fiold. 441 shall never forgot the visit of reporter from The News and Couriet Charleston, out at my house in th mountains, while the revenues wor red-hot after mo. He was a linoyoun fellow and came with Judgo Fields, s I knew he was all right, hut lie was b no moanseasy. i remember that aftu spending the night out there, an when lixing to go hack, he told in that ho was afraid that the revenu ollieers would turn up and that I su: peeting him of foul play, would plu him lir.-.t thing. It was amusing to mi but lie was, no doubt, in earnest. II went about that section with mo an was soon convinced that the report spread by the rovenuo ollieers aboil my being a terror to the natives wu not true and, in fact, that 1 was we known by most everyoti", and lie wrot to Governor Ilumpton ana for Th News and Courier the true story of a fairs Of course you know of my in prisonment, pardon, etc. 44 Well, it is all over now, and ar making a good living and bringing u my family in a peaceful and regula wav. I have nine children ami two n three of thorn arc pretty well grown. ' What do 1 think of the dispensar law? Well, I don't know exactly, liu it doesn't amount to much in that k cality. There are some constables u there, hut they watch the depots an that's about all. The country neopl wouldn't stand what goes on in th towns, and the constable don't try thu kind of work there." Mr. Kedinond said that he would b in the city for a day or two perhaps Richmond was usually his market, bu he bad tried Charleston for bcttc prices. ' L'riccs are very low, how ever, " he said, and thoro seems t bean overstocked market, particular) in hogs and cattle." mm ? * _ THEY MUST GO IT ALONE. CITY (Vt'TIIOIllTIMS TO MNMOKCl 'I'llM P1SPMNSAKY RAW. The Constabulary Force to l?e luirgt ly deduced ami tin; >len to he Sen Into ilie County?Towns Must Coin to Time \Vii bin Thirty Days or Tlie \\ ill del Metropolitan l'olice. Columbia Uegistcr. The news-hungry reporters wer glad to find Governor Mvans in hi ollice yesterday because they fol reasonably sure of getting at least on good item. They were not disaj pointed. Governor Kvans was asked regardiu the Dispensary law and his project for its enforcement. lie said : " You can state that no application will hereafter be received for posi tions on the constabulary force. In stead of increasing the force we ar going to cut down and give the citie and towns a chance to enforce the l)it pensary law without the inter krone of State ollieers. They wili bo allowei to enforce it in their own way, and i they do it there, will be no necessity for a return to the present plan or an, other plan." " To l.ow many men are you goinj to cut the force ?" " We expect to cut it down to nbou thirty-live," lie answered, " about om from each county. We have a I read; cut four or live men olT We nov i ..i....? - i > iitw i' IVI/IMI 1/ 1111*11 UII1 f#IOV Ull. Asked jit to what disposition will b( made of tliosinall force to l?c employed (iovornor Kvans answered that the; will he. sunt to the country and awaj from the cities and towns. A largi number of them, lie said, will ho placet on the border of this State and Nortl Carolina, and bordering on this State are four prohibition counties. A grew deal of whiskey is made in thest counties and is run across into thii State and sold. The purpose of Cover nor Kvans will ho to have these mei watched anil arrested. They will no he tried in South Carolina, but will ht sent hack into their own State for tria m the charge of making whiskey The chances of conviction will b< gn ater than in this State. Coventor Kvans was asked as t what the cities and towns are doin< I about enforcing the law. Ho answer- ! od that so far as ho had heard thoy i are doing what they cau to carry it out to tho letter. 44 The towns which have passed ordinances instructing and giving their officers the power to enforce the luw will, as I have stated," he continued, 44 bo allowed to enforce the law in their own way. The towns which do not pass ordinances to have the law enforced within the next thirty days will bo aided and will have tho laws passed for them." While tho Governor did not say it in so;many words that ho mount tbuto tho metropolitan police luw would l>o put in operation in tho refactory towns. Darlington is supposed to bo ouo of these towns. That town passed an ordinance instructing tho police to enforce tho law before tho Darlington riot. After tho riot it is said that the ) Iowa council leponled the ordinance. All tho largo cities of tho State, Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, aro enforcing tho law. Greenville's mayor, James T. Williams, visited Governor Evans personally aud promised that tho law should be errried out. Sumter, Aiken and Florence ' have passed ordinances, giving their police power to enforce the law. Many of tho smaller towns have done likewise. Governor Evans says that tho railroads have promised that thoy will hereafter aid in tho enforcement of ' tho law by refusing to haul contraband goods?that is, .when they know > that the goods are contraband. So the - outlook is for a quiet enforcement of tho famous law by municipal authorities. If Governor Evan llnds that the municipalities aro not earnestly trying to carry out tho law ho will take u hand and metropolitan policemen will decorate the streets of u number of itisLi't-s. A ii I'.'ii'niNt. luini^t. ? ll'ni-t. itil i the part of the municipal authorities 1 cvorywhoro is all that the Governor t asks or expects. THK KU-KIi(JX PLAN. i What an Oltl Farmer Thinks About *' the Proposed Boycott ol'Cotton. j Greenville Mountaineer: ^ The writer has seen an article formj ulating a plan to raise the price of 0 cotton to 10 cents per pound. The j plan in a nutshell is this : By a Ku0 Ivlux liat to order every farmer and j planter in this country to plant but a v half crop this coming season, and to . "boycott" und use mob violence on ; any one that was so bold us to ovor stop the half limit in planting. If State government are so weak and iiue beeilo as to fail to protect a mau in M the planting of his own lauds what e see met h to him lit and proper, likely ^ tlio strong arm of the Federal governj mcnt can and will protect him in it. ,1 As low as cotton is everything pniuts , to an average of one or two cents less j the coming fall. The farmer who is e losing money on cotton had better 0 quit the planting of it. Those who either make a profit or comfortable a living at it will doubtless keep on und in the race as by natural laws the lity test will survive. There are many e thrifty white farmers that and wili ,r make eotton, and who will not only () live comfortably, but even make y money by making it. Colored labor under many eireumj stances can make it down to half the (1 present price, and will do it. The 0 weak point in low prices is making all j cotton. To make it all at ruling prices ,, the farm must be self-sustaining, not , only in " liog and hominy, " but in all 75 other necessaries which can and were j formerly made at home. Five-cent y cotton won't purer use buggies, organs, pianos, carriages, tdiiua and luxuries, IS enner ?i ioon or uiio raiment, out in II 1827, '2S and the people who were u then living made money on it and lived. e 1. Cotton will he lower ,iu\\t year. (1 Why? This crop will eei-Lainiy carry j. a large surplus. 2. Our low prices have blockaded n India's cotton, put ours to ii cents, and next year India has two crops for p the world's markets, j, :i. Southeastern llussia has began to ?i export cotton. v 4. Some of the South American countries have entered the world's marj. kets with their cotton. 5. Egypt now makes three million |l bales, and by extra irrigations from e the upper Nile, promises to triple her , crop. We import Egyptian cottons 11 t to Id cents per pound. Why, we eau't make the same staple, ho wo have rie vals. . Now, our Ku-Klux friend may aeeept a few suggestions, as what this ir volcanic section n akos counts little in .. tiie world's markets. () 1st. Ho may have the Mississippi itivor damned up and Hooded all of the valley in the great cotton producing country and thus keep them out of the markets as long as he can hold hU water. 2d. The Czar of all Ku.ssia may he notified to stop his paup r labor from ''' making cotton. .'Id. John Hull control).* Egypt, lie may notify Mrs. Hull to have Egypt5 ian cotton raising stopped and further " that she shall burn and destroy all noc cumulated cotton in hoc Ionian posv sessions. 4th. He might send a committee to have the same stopped in those misero able South American States, very prois ductive cotton countries. It nth. He might have the fertilizer c mills all burned. Fertilizers not only > increase the crops, hut cheapens production of same, g In conclusion, the farmer who makes s everything at homo and buys little on nothing abroad may safely plant more s or less cotton, and tho unthrifty man - who wants to make nothing hut cotton i- and buy everything he wants with ithad e better go at some other culling, lie s is in tho wrong pew for these Limes, i- The consuming world will buy its eoto ton from tho cheapest producer, j AM oi,i> EAKMKK. IjAKT CllltlSTMAs OF TIIIO WAIt. y ,, Along I lie Hal tie I,Inc. Mr. (Jeortfo l<\ Williams irivcs, in t tho Now York World, a reminiscence l? of the siotfn of l'etersburjr, illustrating y tlio pleasant way in which both v Unionists and Confederates observed the lust Christmas day of the war. b " Chris', mas day I8HI," ho says, "found , tho armies under Meado and f.ee oey eupyin^ the opposing; lines of sioife y works at Uoteraburg, Va. I had ridden a over from Ceneral Warren's head1 quarters to eat my holiday diiim>r with 1 my old comrade, Will Cildcr. who , afterward beeamo famous as an Arctic t traveller in a bomb-proof near Kort 3 ilelI, on tho .lerusaiem plank-road, s and enjoyed a hearty meal amid the shriek of shell and loud detonations of i artillery. t " After dinner and a peaceful pipe," 3 continues Mr. Williams, "Major Cil1 der and I paid a visit to the outer line . of pickets, beintf obliged to crawl on 3 our hands and knees for two hundred yards to avoid the bullets which wore > constantly whistling over our heads, r " Kin ally we reached the picket V '? f I lino, having given to a brother oflice a portion of the good things wo ha boon discussing. As the Captai finished his dintior, there was a poi ceptiblo slackening in the artiller and musketry fire, until a deep silcnc fell unon the long line of trenches. " 'The Johnnies have hoisted a flaj sir,' said a sergeant, as ho em >rge from a pit near by. '"What for?" demanded thoCaptait ' 'Well, they say its' Christmas da\ and they thiuk wo have wasted onouy ammunition." "Looking over the edge of on bto ust-works, I saw the enemy's 1 in was scarcely a hundred yards awaj and along its ragged edge were rangu thirty or forty heads of the Confe< orate soldiers, our own lino boiti alive, owing to the implied truce. "Say Yanks, cried a tall, sunburnc Southerner, 'what did yor hev for yt Christmas dinner ?' " 'Turkey, applo-saueo, cake an raisins,' replied one of the men at m elbow. "That sounds like old times, didn't know there were any turkej nowadays. Say, Yanks, hev yer g? anything over ?' " With one common impulse iialf uu?i;u iuen rqiruug lu tnu top (>l ll, embankment, their hands full of goc things. " Gome ovor !"' shouted a corpora who stood at the elbow of the ei trench meat. ' Guess we've got enoug left to give some of you a Unristmi dinner.' "Three men in butternut eiuinberc ovor their eartkworks, and met 01 men as they advanced over the deba able ground between the lines. Toot surprise, the Federals came back wit a good supply of tobacco, which wi quickly distributed. "Say, Yanks,' called the Confederal who bad opened the eouversatioi ' we-uns wish you-uns a merry Chris mas !' " 'Same to you!' we all shouted hael and there was no more shot or the along that part of the line for the r tnainder of the day." Saving His llncon. it was Christinas day of ISO4, thi General Lee invited a number of Coi federate generals to dine with bin His servant Kphraim, who had bee his personal attendant for some tirm seemed less at his ease than usua The guests appeared, and dinner wt served in the General's tent, on aroug pine table, and eonsisted of boile cabbage, on the top of which rested piece of bacon about three inchi sqarc. As General Leo helped eac guest, lie asked him to have a slice < bacon. As the question was askei Kphraim gave positive signs of tcrro The dinner concluded with the piei of bacon undiminished in size, eac guest having refused. As the guest left the tent, General Leo turned 1 Kphraim, and said, in a low voice: "Kphraim, we have anothercabbagi have we not ?" The answer was: " Yes, sah, Marc Bob. We got anudilcr cabbage, sail "Then. Kphraim," said the Genera "save the piece of bacon to cook wit that cabbage." The prompt and decisive reply was No, sah, Marsc Hob, I can't do dal I jis' borrow dat piece of bacon ft reason in' from a friend ober dar i tiehmon', and I done gib up my pare ol> honor dat I'll gib him back d: same bacon what I borrow." General Lie lelt the tent withoi comment, and the bacon was returnoi * i NUT UKAS8. For a long time complaint has bet made uy tanners about the annoyam caused 1 ?y tho growth and spread i nut grass or "coco," on their premise Inquiry has been made for remet against this nuisance.?The followii: extract from an article by Hon. Georj. I). Tillman in The Botanist for IS: may be of interest and profit to any i our farmers who may be annoyed 1 this grass : The plan of campaign to extirpa nut gra.-s is simply to prevent it in taring seed above ground. Near everybody thinks that the nuisance r produces itself from the nut alon whereas it propagate a thousand thin more from the seed. Hence, effectually and quickly destroy in grass on any land infested with it, tl soil should be frequently stirred durin the growing period of summer so as stimiPute each nut tuber and seed sprout, it is a waste of effort to attac coeo in winter, either by digging, ? plowing, or turning hogs on it. Tl best time for lighting it is betwei midsummer and frost time. Althoug myriads of the sprigs will show thei selves above ground in a day or tv after each working of the soil, even tho spring months, yet no seed ste will shoot up till late iu the sense and the secret of success, as before r marked, is merely to cut down ovei tall stem, whiio in the llowering staj at tho latest, and the sooner the bo tor. The old method for destroyir coco, by cutting it off under the su face of the ground everytiino a spr appears above the surface, is a us less expenditure of labor. Tl ground should be often stirred wil the plow or hoe, from April to fro* as before mc.tioned, to make evei nut and seed come up if possible, ai as soon as possible, but there is no u guont necessity, as far as eradieatir tho grass is concerned to kill its sprii until they begin to shoot up set stalks. For this purpose it is only r quisito to plow or chop down the gra at the regular intervals of working I dian corn, eollards or any crop. Sti it is advisable to plant the land some tall-growing crop which slui neither cover nor obscure the eoi stems, and thus keep them from Jbeir observed and destroyed. By tl above method two years are ainp time in which to rid any ground of e co. In fact, one season is sufficient eradicate it, except that a few scuttc ing sprigs will show themselves in su sequent years which can easily be pr vented from going to seed by close a tent ion. < )ne cause that has cnahh coeo so long and so deliantly to ho its sway in the South is that wo luu so few crops which are hoed or plow* in the fall of the year. This, togetln wmi the popular error that coco pr pa<rato from the nut alone, explaii this whole storp of its univers triuinpli over tho patience. sweu curses, ami blows of the millions wl have ivnrriul on it. ? A treasury export declares lluit thei is enough of silver now held by tl Government to m ike a column one foi sqtirae six and three-quarters mih high. " yon have a bad cold, " lie said. " have, " she. replied, huskily. " I ami so hoarse that if you attempt to kiss n I couldn't even seieaiii. " Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S C DniGeists, recommend Johnson's Ma; netic Oil, the jfreat family pain-kille internal and external. r mmmammm <> HEART DISEASE 30 YEARS! I Short Breath, Palpitation. rs ,l Mr. G. W. McKlnsey, postmastcrof Kokomo, Ind., and a bravo ex-soldier. II says: 4'I had been severely troubled 10 with heart disease ever since leaving >d the army at the close of the late war. 1 was troubled with palpitation and ' shortness of breath. I could not sleep on my left side and had pain h around my heart I became so ill that I was much alarmed, and for( tunately my attention was called to I Dr. Miles'Heart Cure I decided to try it. The first bottle made a decided improvement in my ls condition, and five bottles have completely cured me." a, o. w. McKINSEY. P. M.. Kokomo, Ind. I Dr. Miles' ITeartCuro ls sold on a Dosltlvo guaraatoo that tho Urst bottle will benefit. All druggists sell It at II, 0 bottloe for 16, or V It will bo sent, prepaid, on rocetpt of prlco ! S bjr the Dr. Mi las Modlcul Co., ?llchart, Ind. uFor sale by B. F. Posey, Union, S. C. GROVES J TASTELESS CHILL :TDNIC J- IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. ? WARRANTED. PRICE GOcts. M Oai.atia, Itxs., Not. ic, 1893. af Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo. . Oontlonjcn:?Wo sold last year, 600 bottles of in rJHOVK'S TASTKLKS8 CHILI. TONIC and have m bouttht threo iiross already this year. In nil our ox> " t perienco of 14 years. In tho dm# business, bav? [>l sever sold an article that gave such universal satis s 'action us your Tonic. Yours truly, A1INEY, CA11U A CO For sale by B. F Posey, Union, S. C. : II M'o & Si, a ' i> oOn tho corner, is the place to buv L5S Lo I Fiiiicj ami Family Groceries. to :k >r They arc receiving fresh'goods every 10 week. Canned tToods of all kinds and J1 best brands. Now crop Raisins, cleani'1 ed Currants, Citron, Nuts of all kinds, Malaga Grapes, Apples, Oranges, Half0 nanas. Cocoanuts, Lemons, Figs, Pota111 toes, Cabbages, Odions, Cranberries. 111 n, Hkst Pork SAl'SAOK Twick a Wkf.k, ei?y Fhksii Fish Evkry Saturday. r0 t f. Fresh Rroad Twice a Week. Fresh )tr Oatmeal an 1 Huekwheat. Kv Ail Goods Delivered Free. iff _ 1 CANDIDATES ' y u' ?FOR TIIK? ri drug trade: e()f I'nion county, anl this is n'T THEIR PLATFORM: dl co I. 1'ure Drugs. jjr j 2. Lowest prices consistent with the )7> quality of our goods. |0 Accuracy and Competency com0. pounding Prescriptions, to I. We carry the largest line of Patr. cut Medicines in the county. I). Our stock of Medicines, Chemic. eals and Pharmaceuticals is immense, t- and is purchased from the largest man.(I ufacturing and importing houses in the 1,1 country. n, o. We carry a full stock of the best. u] j Taints, oils, I'utty, Whitewash and ,r Taint I'aint Brushes. q. I 7. We curry the finest line of Spec,s tucles and Kyo (Basses in the county. iUnion Drug Co. : WALL PAPERS ! >!t I From to no Cents. Paper Hanging a Specialty. ' Satisfaction j> u a ran teed for the lit st Artistic Work. W. A. KRAUS, ! , Spartan! ur^r, S. C. IA?r furthir inforinat:en, apply at .1. It M at It i-.' store or address at Spar tauhur jr. > l /