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6 "the union times. : UNION, 8. C. i ' STATE DOAKI) OF EDUCATION. They Discussed Mnttrn* and Appoluted County Hoards of KilucHtiou? t Other Matt?rs of Interest. The State board of education met in 'Columbia Friday in the Governor's office, with all the members present, * consisting of the following . Governor t Evans, chairman, \Y. I). May held, see- i retary; Julian Mitchell, of Charleston, i for tno First congressional district; Prof. W. W. Marchant, of Mouetts, ifor the second; l'rof. J. J. McCain, of 1 Duo West, for the third; Prof. II. T. i 1 vuok, 01 viriTUViiiu, lor toe iuur.ii, | Prof. A. It. Bank;;, of Yorkvillo, for | ^ the fifth; W. F. Clayton of Florence, | j 'for the sixth; ami l'rof. A. M. ltaukiu, ! . of Orangeburg, for the seventh. I j The board elected It. J. Wade jgchool commissioner of Aikeu county, j to succeed L. W. Williams deceased. { ? The appointment of county boards j of (HliKaUun in l.tie place ?>f county feoards of examiners was made, the aid county board of education holding ( their ollices for two years. The . (boards for the counties are as follows : Aiken?It. J. Wade, chairman; J. A. JLucas and It. L. (tunter. Anderson?W. H. ltussell, chairman; . W. F. Mouteiff, L. A. MahufiVy. Barnwell?L. N. Belliuer, cliuirmnn, iW. W. Hart, It. H. Hurley. Beauford?James Wigg, chairman, ?has. 11. l'aul, Thomas Tulbird. Berkeley?A. II. DeLlay, chairman; (F. W, Dautzler, E. J. Dennis. Charleston?\V. II. Dunkin, chairman; W. M. Whitehead, B. Boax. Chester?W. B. Thompson, chairman; S. 13. Lathau, Jumes Hamilton. Chesterfield?T. Threat, chairman; iW. P. Pollock, Itev. 13. F. Tagett. Clarendon?L. L. Wells, chairman: J* H. Lcsesne, M. C. Davis. Colleton ?O. I'. Williams, chairman; iD. H. Berry, C. E. Owens. Darlington?A. J. A. Perritt, chairman; H. A. Thompson. J. M. 1'anoft. Edgefield?P. N. Lott, chairman; . P. H. Folk, II. Ilartzog. 1 Fairfield?D. L. Stevenson, chairman; James O. McCants, W. S. Hall, Jr. Florence?E. .1. Smith, chairman; D. McDutlie, T. N. Rhodes. Georgetown?G. Herriot, chair man; *L. C. Walker, M. W. Pyatt. Greenville?.T. It. Plyler, chairman: iA. H. Vuych, W. 1>. McKaukler. Hampton?S. J. Fitts, chairman; J. AV. Rouse, W. J. Gooding, Jr. Horry?D. I). Harrelsou, chairman. Kershaw?A. A. Biguby. chairman; M. W. Gordon, W. .1. Yillepigue. Lancaster? W. 1). Bruce, chairman; fT. T. Green, W. S. L, l'orter. Laurens? Jus. L. Madden, chairman; J. B. Parrott, J. B. Walking. Lexington?J. D. Farr, chairman; & J. Derrick, L. B. Hayuea. \ Marion?S. W. Smith, chairman; P. H. Edwards, J. D. McLucaa. Marlboro?G. W. Hearsey, chairsnan; 0. B. Easterliug, J. A. Calhoun. Newberry?F. W. liiggins, chuirtrnau; W. K. Sligli, G. G. Sale. Oconoe?O. F. Martin, chairman; jW. J. Stribling, W. A. Dixson. Orangeburg?E. H. Houscr, chair?nan; It. E. Copes, T. M. McMichael. Pickens?T. C. ltobineou, chairman; 18. E. Parsons, S. W. Ode'.l. Richland?L. C. Sylvester, chair nao; E. B. Wallace, C. E. Johnson. Spartanburg?B. D. Chapman, chairman. Sumter?W. J. Durant, chairman; 18. H. Edmunds, H. F. Wilson. TT~: M T T a .1 : kj uiij 11 ? iu. u. lit'muhier, cuuiriuuu; |C. H. Peake, C. B. Waller. Williamsburg?J. J. B. Montgomery, chairman; E. O. Chandler, Dr. JW. O. Gamble. York?J. A. Shirley, chairman; T. j W. Thompson. The school commissioners are chairmen of the county boards, ex-officio. After the appointment of the boards, [tl?e Superintendent of Education was instructed to draw ;>]> rules and regu Uatious for both the State board ui:d .county boards, the same to bo sub imittcd for app roval at the next meet- j iug of (ho bourd. Ho was also ordered to make rules relative to Stuto and county teachers certificates. Miss Sadie Mauley's book on South- , ?ru Literature was added to the liIbrary iist for the public schools. The time for the beginning of the Acholustie year has been changed so {that it now starts on the first of July j | idsuhh oi uic i:r?i ui -\ovemuer, as | , jfoxuieriv. On .luae lift, '.he terms of oil the j school trustees in the State will e\ ' , f?ire nnil n? w ones w ill then he ti)> ; pointed hv the school cotmnianiouciu. i . |, Pastor I Startling Story. The IS.'V. Alberta Diaz, Koulht rn i'.aptist ! missionary. <-xfrom Cuba k?v W'eylcr J in a long interview at Jacksonville, Tin., i tells appalling stories of atrocities ic-intj : coinmittcii liy Spaniards. Jn tlx- last two ' wrecks in the rural districts #it San Miguel, I . Del l'ardron find Minns. Mr. Diaz, says Col. ' Fondevillc has had more than one hundred } persons Imtchcred and then reported them to the world as having l**en killed in battle i 1 Amon>r those killed were children 12 and 14 !i years of age. The victims were compelled ) to dig their own grave before being *hot. As ! the steamer was leaving Havana Mr. I>in<< says news was brought on be.ml that < ol. Foiideville's troops near Havana. Col. ! i\>nde ville is one of Wevler s favorites and is ( acting umler the < 'a;.tain < reneral's orders. tlrowtti of tlie ltieyele Trade. A sign of the enormous growth of the tiieycle trade is the recent sale (.f the In.u- ^ lap Pneumatic Tire Company s property in ( Dublin for rl.V?l?n.(H)0. Wlu-n l!r-t f .rrn<d a ! few years ago the company capital wa- i Jfll2.501); it was sob:fipieat IV leere'i *d to ! .?520.0()U. The rh.irchoider.s have ivd ?:l,2!?5.?.l j ia the dividc--ds and pr> .i.iiimu-, i ii<I wid receive i 11.1.IT.5(H) n.ori iroin tho proceeds of the sale. ' All lti'I.V w.d :i < n i ; t'. ju |Di:y other thi::;: v : ..: o. i STATE NEWS ITE10S. T" - /- ; i ON TO KICIIMOXIX South Carolina's CltlMn Soldiery Is Cordially Hidden. Already a large number of military jompunies about the Stato are makiug inquiries about tho big military gath>ring to be held iu Richmond, Va., tho ant of June and tho lirst of July, and ho indications are that South Carolina's citi/.eu soldiery will be thoro in full force. Not since tho unveiling of ;he Deo monument have such opportunities for a pleasant trip been offered Jho military meu of this State. lint hero is the oflicinl invitation that comes to the adjutant general from Chairman Peyton Wise of tho committee iu churgo to speak lor itself: "Dear Sir: Tho executive commit leo 10 arrange ior uio reception unu mitcrtaiument of tho United Confederate Vetoruns at the sixth annual reunion to be held at Richmond. \ a., on Tuesday, Juno tiOth; Wednesday, July 1st, and Thursday, July 2d, and also for th?? laying of tho eoruer-stono of a monument to President Jefferson Davis, hereby extend to you and your conunund a eordial invitation to attend tho same nud participate in tho general ceremonies incident to tho occasion. You will plcnBc invito each military orgaui/atiou in your State, requesting all that expect to attend to notify Capt. Thos. Kllett, secretory, '502 J5ust Main Street, Richmond, Va., at tho earliest moment, giviug the following information: Date and hour of arrival, number of oflieers and men for whom quarters will be required; by what route and how long to remain, so tbut nil necessary arrangements can be made for tho reception and prompt quartering of your command on arrival. Quarters and rntious will bo furnished without charge." ? -<?? ? Important to County Newspapers. There is another very important matter in tho recently issued Acts that will bo of special interest to the couu*ty newspapers. In tho end of the volume there iH this announcement : Tho following Acts passed at the regular session of 1S?It were not approved by the Governor, but have become law without his approval, by virtue of the provisions of section 22 of Article III of the Constitution of 18(58, and Section 25 of Article IV of tho Coustitu tion of 1895: The first of the Acts to Btrike pub lisliors reads an follows : That from ami after tho passage of this Act, the pay for advertisements of notices of election, rewards, reports and all other matters required by law to be published, shall be paid for at the rate of one dollar per one hundred words for the first insertion ami fifty cents per one hundred words for each subsequent insertion. Provided, That the captions to notices shall be at the rute of five cents per word. Tho House passed un Act changing this luw, but whether it passed the Senate and was approved is uot remembered, but the Act is not in tho published Acts and is not likely to be in force. In consequeuco of the Clovcruor not Bending in a veto on this and tho treasurer's report bill the Act regulating tho prices on printing is of force. - ? A IjOMt FIHR. Tin' adjutant general has received a letter from James Fowler, of Ora, B. C., inquiring of the whereabouts of the tlag, it" it is ft.11 in existence, that was carried by the James battalion, or third battalion 0II4. >uthCarolina sharpshooters, during the late war. He says it wa.t in Kershaw's brigude, and if lie recollects correctly, one company in that battalion was organized in Columbia and was commanded by Capt. Miller, with a Mr. IVrcivai as first lieutenant. He thinks it was either Kieut. 1'ercival or a Mr. Pates who held the colors when the war closed. Any one knowing of its whereabouts will eonfer a favor by conveying the information to Gen. Watts. Hast week a dead man was found near Allgood, Spartanburg eonuty, in w meadow belonging to Mr. Alf. Harris. Decomposition bad taken place to that degree that identification of the hody was impossible and 110 trace or clue whatever can bo had to the mystery. Public sentiment is pructicnlly unanimous in favor of Cole uud wife, now in Spartanburg jail, charged with having killed Kd Husky, near here, two weeks ago. The adjutant generil lias granted permission to the Ueaufort troop of cavalry to leave the State under arms. 1 in; troop in to attend the tSiivnliuuh Muy work festivities and participate in tlm military events thereof. Thin is one of tho oldest military organizations in the State. J. L. Wood, a farmer, living at ('missy 1'oml, Spartanburg county, several years ago had a bov, by the name ot Lewis, bound to him. About a fortnight ago, the boy., who is now l'J or Id years old, came up missing. Suspicion of foul play rests on Wood Uitl km wifo. Ofuth of a <treat Hanker. Oeorge S, (' >?, tor nearly thirty-fle year? president of t!io Auterieati I'.vdiamfe bank, f New York, die.; at l'.iigle\vo? d I'Mffs, N. .1., Monday. The innie.li.it owe of lib death was |>aralysi.?. Mr. (' '.evise.J llie system of Issuing elenrlng hour rtllleates, anil ' this sv-tem has I the meant of arresting pnnie-. The cystica was u->e.| on a idiznntie seale in l'e'd. when the t anks ,,f N< \\ York, b >?:. a an l l":ilad. !| lua f .r .ed theni-edve. int.. an ori.'.uii atioii to pur-iisse an ! sell at ;-ir e.nuo.iciil of tr. a-'iry note* t > wnjdy the ||i iiuilllvi the UoVi'fbOli'bti TKLKUKAIMIIC TICKS. Broker Graves, of New York, who started u suit against Secretary Carlisle for awarding (in default) bonds which he hud bid for, has withdrawn his suit. The Southern Baptist Convention convened in Chattanooga, Teuu., | ( Thursday. At Newark. N. J., a company is | being formed composed muiulj of army veterans is recruiting for Cuba. The City Saving Bank, of Hot Springs, Ark., has failed. President Ilogaboom haa lied. Shortage probably $200,000. The extradition of Win. Turner and W m. Duulop, who were arrested in Loudon ou the charge of haviug stolen jewelry valued at ?{50,0(10 from Mr. I. Towusend Burden, of New Yoru, bus been granted. Henry BoIUd, ex-citv treasurer, of Omaha, Neb., after a second trial, has been convicted of emblezzling the sum of ?100,500 of public funds of the city and school board of Omaha. Punishment may bo from ono to 25 years uud tine iu the amount or double the amount ol the embezzlement. Frank Slavin, the pugilist, arrived iu New York from Kugland Saturday on the 'steamer Paris. Slavin is tu-s tight with Peter Maher, and if ho is successful with the Irishman ho will go after the present champion, "Bob" Fitzsimmons. The annual convention of tho Supremo Association is to meet in Washington, i>. C., May 12th. Two boat loihts of missionaries and traders have been killed by tho natives on the inland of Manuiug Straits, au.l eateu by cannibals. A dispatch from Havana, Cuba to Madrid, Spain, says that tho five prisoners captured on tho schooner Competitor have been sentenced to death. Tho men seuteueed to death are Alfredo Laborde, born in New Orleans: Owen Milton, of Kansas; William Ivinlen, an Englishman, and Klius Bedia and Theodore Dela Maza, both Cubans. Tho treasury gold reserve, at tho close of business Saturday, stood at Stl7,77r>.4!H). The day's withdrawals.' were 318, (100. The three boy train wreckers of Rome, N. V , have been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary?one for life the other two for 20 yeurs each. PIRACY STILL EXISTS, ?m- In the Chinese Sou, the OliI Trade lias Many Kollowers. In the .Malay Peninsula piracy lias I <i> lim it .-MO. < ...<- VA!" dition of twenty years ;iuo. but IVrak. Salnuirore ami Rainbow still distinguish themselves now a ml apiiu by a little undisguised business of this kind. In China tiie two great hot bods of Imceaneers sire places which have been eelelnatcd in t'.iis direetlou for centuries Anioy and Canton. The .Anioy people proper, who speak? the Atnoy dialect and live in the walled city, are very quiet, peaceable and or! derly and have a proiioutieed antipathy for lighting. whether on sea or shore. Ibit back of Anioy is the mountainous district of Tonga n. It is connected with the ocean by many arms of the sea. Its soil is sterile and its resources are very few: its people, like mountaineers. are thin, muscular, bravo and resolute. Kven to-day they preserve a semi-independence of a military na| turo. These are the gotiMenten who make j their living by piracy. Tliey aiul the j men of Canton have learned wisdom | by experience. They no longer cruise | 'the wide sets, attacking any craft that | may conic along. There are too many I gunboats patrolling the coast?too J many titled irons and too tnanv yardj arms. I .aw and order. ;.i the past ha if j century, have shot. hntiiel. drowned, blown tin or burned at least Hio.iMdi followers of the "black (lag." To-day the work is done upon a smaller, but a far >!irewder and safer, basis. Th<\v k"i'i> ;>.! various phteo?; in | their !? ?ir'ii1 > i'IkhhI, win? sn j? ?n to | ;>:i 1<111:*^ wheiiev. ; some .iunk is about ! leave i!t:tr has a rIt'll carjjo of carries a larue amount ol" money. Alomr w! r' 1 this si ?es the information I of who comma m Is ilie boat. how hi'im crew i: earries ami how it is armed. Tic* pirates iheii plan io intercept the craft in smite riv. r or arm of the sea. or else in some shoal water near the coast, where there is no elianc of meetiii? a yattoi.at. and where, after the rohhery, they will have a safe means of cseapc. Their calculations are carefully made, bur come mst ria'iir only once in four or rive times, h may he that a foreign or t'itine-* irunhoat suddenly appears upon the scene. 1,- may he licit tit> .iunk ticy a-e after sroes past their feJtde/. vnuts with a Kit ro pea It steatner or riv. - launch. or mayhap the lirosoe !! Ve virti.i liei-IVei! 1?V ad verse will'Iv and thies, and so do".*s not appear :it in - tint* :i 11?I plaee !igured i!|ton. When i'.icy do make a rapture they are not > > tirutal and cruel as in the old year-. For the rest, any otie who knows thins ami tlie Chinese Will not III ei'i to lie told thai the booty is easily disposed ot without risks of questions asked, i'sll Mall liazelte. Sharks as <'ompanton-'.. A citizen of Toe:, ma itas found a new pet. and lie is very proud of it. It is a L'oO pound shark, which iie speared without killing it. and then secured by the t.ail ton Hon I in front of Ids residence. The shark soon showed a disposition to euliivatn his master's itrur.aintati'c and d.s; laved in.ttiy signs >f atniabilitv. Familiarity ripened into friendship am! now while sharing | his meals with his new fiiend tlie happy Tamilian d "i |- i:t sl'iit ks are ry .a ;eji niiue,. an 1 m: under.stood j tt'ia..iri . LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. ?. /-3'r" GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS Important Happenings, Doth Home aud Forelcn, Blpfly Told. Southern News Notes. Kditor Glass, of the Lynchburg, Ya.f News, died Thursday, uged 73. Solomon Murable has been convicted of tlio murder of Mrs. Pollnrd, iu Virginia, and will hang July 3rd. The Settlers' Association at Southern r?: \T j* A . i rn s i AUI'H, ^ . v/.f Miia ruprt'M^iuiui A UI^UII Y by 1,000 people, representing every State iu the South, also Northern newspapers anil railroads. Gov. Carr made tho welcome address. Baker eouutv, one of the most fertile counties in Georgia, 1ms uo railroad, telegraph or telephone hoe in its borders, and it has no newspaper. The American Academy of Medicine met in annual session in the bull room of the Aragon Hotel, at Atlanta, t/i.f Tuesday. It was a distiuguohed 'gathering of medical men lrom uil sections of the country. The General Conference of the Afrieau Methodist Episcopal Church opened Wednesday morning at St. Stephens A. M. E. Church, Wilmington, with 37-1 delegate* prescut, and will continue in session for three or four weeks. Ten bishops and general officers were present aud assisted in tho opening exercises. BbLtp Turner, of Georgiu, presided. ^ ? -OK Nort hern Nervs Items. H. II. Holmes w?s hanged nt Philadelphia, l'a., Thursday, for the murder of 11. F. I'ietzel. A terrific gasoline explosion in Cincinnati, Monday wrecked a fivestory building and killed u number of persons. i ,,jv x . rs. Kate Stores Stetson, widow of John Setetflon, late theatrical manager and millionaire, died ut Boston, Mush., M day. V.tound houses and twelve locorno tives belonging to tlie (,Jueeu and Crescent Hail road, at Somerset, Kun., burned Thursday. Lost, $800,000; fully insured. At Clayton, Mass., Monday Kdwiu H. Plant, aged 'JO, shot and instantly killed his wife and two-weeks-old daughter. When found that there was no possibility of escape Plant shot himself. The Denver, Col., chamber of rnmmorce authorizes the statement that no contributions for the Cripple Creek lire sutlers from other States are needed. The contributions in sight in Colorado Amount to nearly ?60,000. A strike of street railway employes for nn advauee in wages and recognition of the union began Monday morning at Milwaukee, Wis., tying up every line in the city. Over 1.200 men are out, iucludiug conductors, motormcu, electrical workers and barn men. ? ? ? Washington. F. .T. Keichofer, until recently the disburing ofliccr of the State department at Washington, found to bt $127,000 short in his accouut*. The State Department at Washington has been authentieoilv informed that, while oi the prisoners captured on board the Competitor, some were killed, during the tight that ensued between the Spanish steam launch and the schooner, and while many more are supposed to have escaped, only one ol' the persons captured is un American citizen, who thus far has refused to give his name. -vOenerul Superintendent Kimball, of the Treasury Life Saving Service, has issued a circular forbidding members of a life saving crew, during the active season, ferryiug, boating, ovsteriug, crabbing, fishing, shooting game,gathering luosHs, or engaging in similar employment, for pay or market, in competition with other persons engaged in such business. Foreign. Col. North, known as the nitrnte king, and one of the wealthiest men in the world, died suddenly in his oflico in Ijou.Iou Tuesday. Cause, heart disease. The Sultan of Turkey is terribly frightened by the ucwm of the murder of the Shah of Persiu. Telegrams concerning it have been forbidden to enter his dominions, and newspapers to mention the ullnir. The French excavators at Delhi have unearthed a life-size bronze statue of a bearded man, the largest yet discovered. The date of the work is .">00 15. t/'. The Hlatuo is holding the bridle of a horse, and portions of the hoist's tiguie have also been l'oun 1. Mrs. Laugtry's action against the Union Ilunk of London, England, to recover $200,000, the value of jewelry deposited with the bank for safe keep-; ing uud which v.as delivered to an unknown person upon a forged order, lias been settled by agreement, the defendants paying Mrs. Laugjry jL'10,000. The jewels, if recovered, remain her property; but if recovered 1>?yond the value of X2.">,000 the excess goes to the bank to the extent of fclO.000. _ Bucket Shops fjegltlniatc. Saturday at Ohiengo, III., Judge florton decided that bucket shops arc as legitimate as the boards of trade, and quashed eleven indictments against persons charged with being proprietors of or employed in bucket shops. "The bonrd of trade does a wholesale business in wheat dealing," said Judge Horton, "and what is called bucket shops do a retail business. There Is absolutely no difference in their methods of operation, and the statute which makes tie* board of I r.'tdo tin iie-ss legitimate docs the same f.ir the lesser cae-rs, who eouduet thesnmekind of trade. While 1 believe personally that it is all H"Diiii:' but gambling, tii > law allow? it, mid the wut'..; are j j',v rb ?.?." BILL ARB'S LETTER, j?" ir "V UK RUMINATIS* ON THK TKMPKRT AXCICOr FATiiKU TIMB. t) q The Old Mnn In Slow, Uut lie Is l'u- ]( crrtiiKly Sure. p OKI Father Time in ft horriblo look- ^ iug crenture with his scythe in his Irnud niul nothing on hut his boues, b but ho is a good doctor. Long before J1 ho ciitn uh down he begins to soften J' nud soothe the passions nud asperities 1 of lifo ?ud to prepare our hotter ua- ? lure for the only solution of life's problem, which is love to God and to our fei- 11 low men, but very few old men carry bitterness to the grave. One day 1 observed an old man for whose talents ! j tho community hud great respect talk- j J ing to a frienu. Him eyes Hashed aud every liuenmeiit of his faeo betokened 1 auger. Ah he struck the end of his K cano to the pavement ho said: "I u ought to hnvo killed the scoundrel." " Cautiously I approached and inquired: "Had a difficulty with somebody, ? colonel?" "Oh," said he, "I was * just tolling Ilrown about a little vfl'dr < that happened nbcu'? let :ue see? i yes, jlist forty-live yeurs ago." Hut " even ho mellowed down some years bo- 11 fore ho died. Now, if we lived as P long as Noah or Mothusaleh, or even t as long as Abraham, we might feed 11 and cherish bitterness for a hunderod years, but three score years aud ton is too brief a time to bo wnstod iu pus- H sions. ( Thirty-ono years have passed Binco 3 tho war, and I was ruminating over > the difforeuce between now and then. 1 Wo veteraus remember wheu wo wero 1 all accused of treason and many of our ^ leaders had to llee tho country for fear ! of arrest and trial and condemnation ' and death. Wheu to possess or exhibit 1 a confederate flag provoked imprison- < ment; when wo hud to dofcud tho lost cause or lanicut its failure iu whispers, and when every man who was worth $20,000 had his property confiscated unless ho petitioned for pardon aud paid well for it. Tho pardon brokers at Washington made millions out of our wealthy citizenp. l?ut Time has diluted the bitterness of those who were our most malignant eucinios. llcflection has tempered the J prejudices of our northern brethren, ? mill now wo boo ftoiiornl (Snrrlnn inn! i General liongstrect given glad ami willing welcome as they discourse tern- , perately and truthfully of the war, its j onuses and its results. Nowhere is the 1 carpet-bagger who figured in reconsti notion times more denounced and de- l spiscd thau at the north. More than all this, a monument has been built ou ' northern ground in memory of the confederate dead. Brotherly uuions of the blue aud tho gray have been held at various times and places, and thousands of the graud army are moving southward aud fraternizing with our people. There is only one sore that does not heal, and that is the hard fact that while we pay our own pensions we have to help to pay theirs and get nothing hack. Tho estimate is that it takes half n million annually for Georgia to pensioA 1: -r confederate widows aud disabled soldiers, aud ten times as much to pay her part of the union pensions. This five millions goes into their hopper aud we get no toll. But even this will pass away. Old Father Time is I slow up there, but he is sure. Unpen.1 i?? l ofuuuu ouinitio uuu i utu tin iuu^ as those who fco<l on government pap, and thero ore not near a.* many of them. We see it stated that there are now leas than one hundred thousuud I confederate survivors. I told tnat to i a federal general in Florida not long I ago, and he ruminated over it some time and said: "You rebels fought so hard and endured so much you broke down your constitutions. Stonewall Jackson's fool calvary, I know, must have worn their legs eft" up to their knees, like Munchausen's famous hunting dog." J?ut after so long a time the heroism of the south is looming up and the lost j cause shiues before the world in a | clearer and more lustrous light. No sane niuu speaks of us as traitors now, and wo are permitted with kindly graco to honor our dead and build monuments to our heroes. Patriotism and courage are honored everywhere. There are, of course, a few heartless souls in every community who care nothing for the sacred memories of the war, and with pious unction exclaim, "Oh, let the dead past bury its dead. Look, not back, but forward. Wo have no time for sentiment." Such men will never defend their country nor help to save a state. A people without sentiment will never have any heroes. i)r. Johnson, the greutest philosopher j that ever lived, said: "That man is I little to be envied whose twit riot ism would not gain forco upon the plain of Marathon. Evori religion, which in | animated only by faith ami hope will 1 glide by degrees out ot> the mind un- ' less it bo invigorated by calls to worship and the .salutary inlluenco of oxample." Never was anything more truthfully said. The good citi/.en must keep his patriotism alive by ; cherishing the memories of the wars in i which they or their fathera were engaged. Over two thousand years havo passed since the Athenians defeated * the great nrmy of Darius, but Maratlion is still momorable in song and story. It is tho watchword of patriotism. A generation has passed sinco the battle of Gettysburg, but tho valor of tho American soldiers of both armies, as displayed in tlmt bloody fight, will shine in history as sting ns there are people to write, or peoplo to , read. We are gliul that Colonel i Garuett has eomo south to work for the memories of the lost j j cause, and to te'l us about Gctj tyfcburg. Did not our hearts burn' ithin us as bo described (lie thrilling joins tbut absorbed bis vitriou and ingnetized every fiber of his being? ^bo can ever forget tlie exalted oiuoous tbat a great buttlo inspires? ben, let every veteran go to bear lis eloqucut Virginian ami for a time uiver with uusupprcbsed emotions. Let very young man, yes, every lad and issio go to bear bim and bavo tbeir atriotism quickoi ed and made strongr. Henry Grady wou tbo applause of few England and tbc mighty north ben be dared to say in bis great peecb, "The south lins nothing for 'Inch to apologize. The late struggle otween tbo states wr.s war and not reellion?revolution, and not conspiray. Not for all tbo glories of New England would I exchange tho heritce my father left me iu his soldier - 4 1. ' ? icilill. But who is this Charles BrondwaylousR, who lias ho rccoutly electritied ho sout h with his munificent and pariotic proposition? Colonel Guruett loo told us. Wo liavo noon his earnest, ;euial face in the papers, but that is lot enough. Ho must coino south and dingle with our people. Colonel G. V. Scott gavo ?100,000 to found a ollogo for girls at Decatur, and Dr. 'auiilor, wheu delivering his beautiful irntion nt its dedication said: "Whereb he? Where iH Iho inan who in this elfish a30 has done this thing? Ilea his nodesty hidden him from tho public ;uze? Colouel Soott, stand up nnd lot 1 he people look upon you and see what nun tier of man you are." 111st ho wo would say to Mr. Hours: 'Como down hero nnd let .the south iee you fuco to faoe. Stand up before ih nnd let ua see what manner of man ron are." Thousands of waiting hearts vill echo tho sentiment that has prompted him to do this thing. At ast the 6outli will hnvo a Meoca to vhich her pilgrims can go and feel hat tho enuse, though lout, is recognized, and itw memory lives without a :niut of treason.?Uinn Au? in Atlanta 3onstitutiou. CROPS IN TIIK COTTON IJHLT. Weekly Report of tlio Agricultural Dcmirtiiirnt at Washington. The agricultural bureau's weekly went hoi ami crop bulletin is ns follows: Virginia Kichmoud: Moderate temperature aud general cloudy weather, with occasional local showers, have operated to proluce a week of excellent crop growth; winter wheat continues to improve; spring sown ?ereals promising; pastures improving; corn, potatoes, tobacco, grass and fruits doing well. North Carolina huh-igh: I'irst ol week ool. latter part temperature aud precipitation generally above normal and very favorible; planting of corn and eotton approaching completion, exeept in western portion: planting peanuts ami transplanting tobneco progressing rapidly: wheat heading low; ipring oats and gardens improved. South Carolina Columbia: Timely rains tutve improved erop conditions decidedly tud generally good stands of corn and cotton liave resulted: corn worked clean aud cotton Lieiug chopped out: failing tendency of grain effectually checked; tobacco being transplanted; plants scarce; ri *e, melons, sugar rune aud other Held crops in Hue eouditiou generally. (ieorgia Atlanta. A week of warm showcry weather, very beneficial, though more rain is needed; cotton planting about completed and early sown being cultivated in central and southern sections; corn here had Its llrst cultivation and is growing nicely; minor crops promising; peaches ami pear '.rt es shedding fruit iti some localities. Tennessee Nashville: Week geuerully favorable, crops made excellent growth, good rains in central and western portions, but tre much needed in eastern portions; corn tnd cotton growing well and being worked; wheat heading in southern couuties; army worms destructive in central aud western portiousK.\DOHSKl> l IlT l'KKSII)IiM'8 Action in Kxtendiug the Ulvll Service -o? The National Municipal League met in llillimnre. Md.. Thursday and omplctcd it." [ rogress Friday adjourned. The sessions liavo unquestionably been of great value to reformer.^ as showing the extraordinary rise jf interest in reform work. The papers rend efore the eonvention have been f? r the nost part severely practical and the delegates ippear to tie imbued with the belief that ex elient results are bound to follow. At a unquct Riven by liultfmorcans to the league leb-Rates at the Motel Ib-niioit. (ienernl Win. Mkt'n. ??f Norwich, Conn., one of t!se li-adiiiR ivil service reforue r- of the country, made i brief address on the recent Ronernl revision d eivtl service rules by President Cleveland >y which nearly 000 otlieers at one sweep iVcre brought under the iirotc-'Uou of the ivil service law. "This net ion," said Oeneral Aiken, "is detervinR the highest commendation. No mnt:er what the party be called to which the nan belongs, and no matter what Ids views jo on other questions, I would, if it he not liupproprSnle in a meelluR such as this, move that the prcsideot of this league be reInested to convey by letter to tli? President if the United States tin- grateful and a.ipre iative thanks of the Municipal League for he step which he has taken to enlarge iho irea of civil service reform in this country. Almost before (leu. Aiken had finished Ids notion there was a score of seconds. Mr. Jlturlcs .1. iionaparte put the motion and it >vns unanimously adopted by a rising "aye." Docrroifs ki.kct dklkcatics. 1 lie >1 pilieal Association in Atlnufu K>nislics Its tiuslticssuiiil Adjourns. The American Medical Association. which mot in Atlanta, (in., in a M-days session, elect il I)r. Nicholas Scan, of Illinois, president. Secretary Atkinson was re-elected. Other >l1i'*wr? elected were: First vice-president, l>r. (ioi). M. St<*inherK; second vice-president, Dr. Edmund Honehow, of J.oclsiana; third vice-president. Dr. D. J. Thomas, of I'ennsylvntiin; fourth vice-president, Dr. W. F. Westmoreland. i f (ioorgin; treasurer, H. 1'. Sewman: assistant secretary. Dr. T.F. Sncidinan. of Pennsylvania; lihrariau. Dr. Oeorge tV. Webster, of Illinois; chairman of committee of arrangements, Dr. II. A. Hare, i f I'ennsylvania: trusstee to fill vacancy. Dr. <J. <\ Savage, of Tennessee; trustees. |>r. 1'.. I',. Montgomery, Dr. J. M. Matthews, of Kentucky: Dr. A. I,. Heed, of Ohio; judicial council, Drs. (?eo. W. Stoncr, \ Fulled States marine hospital service; W. Foster, of Maine; Dr. .1. McF. (iaston, of tlcorgla: I?r. I. N. Siiituhy, of New Jersey; Dr. If. Itrown. Dr. X. Scott, of Ohio. Dr. < ' (.rge Itohe, of Haltiniorc, read a paper on "State Medicine.'' Dr. Kills gave notice that he weald offer mi amendment at tin* next meeting to change the constitution so that trie secretary, like ilie other officers, would be elected annually. President Cob* turned t > Secretary Atkinson iiii-1 said: "Mr. Secretary. I hope you will ante that." Mia* convention adjourned to meet in Phihldi'l; |;i;i in ,1 ui;" , 1W'.'T.