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BREATHED THE SMOKE OF BATTLE.
A NOTABLE WOMAN OF THE CIVIL
CONFLICT.
Tho Sinter of Qen. John Morgan and
the WH? of Ocn. A. P. Hill.
Few American women have had
thoir lives bo crowded with dramatic
incidents as Mrs. Alexander Forsytho,
of Chicago, sister of Cen. John Mor
gan, whoso daring raid mado him con
spicuous on two continents.
For four years Mrs. Forsytho lived
under the smoke of tho cannon, being
a soldier's wife who wont through tho
entire war with hor husband. Thrice
wedded and thrlco widowed, twice tho
mother of a posthumous child and
again on the last day of tho war left
desolate with a tiny babo in her arms,
her experience as wife and mother,
says the Chicago News, is almost un
precedented.
After tho doath of hor first husband,
Calvin McClung, she married Con. A.
P. Hill, ono of the most distinguished
generals in the Confederate army, a
man whoso name was on the dying lips
of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E.
Leo. As a brido she went to the front
with hor husband and was actively in
terested in his company, tho Invinci
bles, 13th Vlrgiuia. Among other
things she presented tho company
with a handsome silk flag, but during
an engagement the color-bearer's arm
was shot oil', and tho flag, grippod in
tho bloody hand, was captured by a
Union soldlor. Mrs. Hill promptly
mado anothor and it is now hanging
in the White House at Richmond.
Gen. Hill was killed tho last day of
tho war at tho fall of Petersburg. (Jen.
Leo mado a chargo and recovered his
body, and a fow moments after the
gouoral had parted from his wifo ho
as brought back to her, shot through
too hoart, his wedding ring Mill on
his linger and his capo covering his
dead face.
That night the army rotroated in
haste and Mrs. Hill was the last wo
man to pass tho pontoon at Petersburg.
It was an awful journey, for tho roads
wore ehoked with tho disorganized
troops; sometimes they woro in the
enomy's lines and again in their own,
but all through that dreadful night
Mrs. Hill sat in tho ambulance by hor
dead husbanu's body, holding hor baby
and little daughter in her arms. She
burriod Gen. Hill at Gouchlaud, Va.,
laying him away in the uniform ho
wore when ho fell. Afterward tho
body was removed to Hollywood, but a
fow years ago Mayor Ginter t'onatcd
tho spot In Richmond where Gen. Hill
organized his livst company, and his
hotly was takon there and a splendid
monument erected to his momory.
His youngest daughter, Miss Lucy
Lee iiill, the babo of tho retreating
army, is now a beautiful woman and
was one uf tho board of lady managers
at tho World's Fair from Kentucky.
Sho is Gen. Loe's god-daughter, and
his tears fell on hor baby faoe as ho
hold her in his arms at the baptismal
font.
Some years after Gen. Hill's death,
Mrs. Hill matried Dr. Alexander For
sytho. Since his doath she came to
Chicago and now resides at 101 Pino
street. She was a notod beauty in
hor youth and her cordiality endears
hor to friends new and old. Tho home
lifo of tho Morgan family was singu
larly happy, for there were six, sous
and six daughters to fill tho hospitablo
home with merrymaking. Gen. Mor
gan was tho oldest child. Ho was
passionately fond of children and Mrs.
Forsytho says that on Sunday mornings
bo usod to take a quantity of bread
and an immeuso bright tin pan full of
molasses and gather all the plantation
piokaninnies on tho lawn and let them
"sop" tho sweet stud" to their hearts'
content, in tho winter tho poor, both
black and whito, had tho freedom of
his great wood yard back of his factory.
The betrayal and death of Gen. Mor
gan aro never mentioned in the family
circles, and tho horrowing details
were carefully withhold from tho
grief-stricken mother. Tho general
was on his way to visit his wife, to
whom ho had not long been married.
Worn with travol, he stoppod for tho
night at a lonely farm house. The
people wero ardont Southern sympa
thizers and personal frionds, but tho
daughter had a sweethoart in tho
Union army. After the family retired
sho stole out, 8addlod a horse and rode
to the nearest camp with tho startling
news that Gen. Morgan was asleep at
her mothor's homo. As tho night was
wild and stormy and his rotreat ob
scure, Gon. Morgan felt perfectly
sccuro and slept soundly until a move
ment in the yard aroused him. Ho
sprang out of bod and rushed out of
tho house in his night clothes. Ho
was immediately surrounded and Bhot.
Hoforo his hoart ceased beating his
unclothed body was thing across a
horso and taken to camp- On tho way
the country was aroused by the sol
diers' exultant cries:
" Wo have killed Morgan, the great
Confederate rebol !"
It is a matter of history that from
tho girl who betrayed him to tho mon
who shot him every ono has suffered a
violent death. Mrs. Forsytho'a young
ost broth or, Francis Key Morgan,
named after his cousin, author of "Tho
Star-Spanglod Banner," inhorited tho
fearless spirit. When 14 ho climbed
into tho cupola of tho old academy at
Lexington and unfurled the Confeder
ate Hag. Tho city swarmed with
Union soldiers and It would havo gone
hard for tho lad had ho not boon
spirited away in a olosed carriage.
About this time Gon. Morgan sent a
trusty Irish boy with lotters to his
mother. His bridal roins wero full of
gold dollars aud ho succeoded in run
ning the blockades safely. But after
his arrival tbo news reachod tho sol
diers, who searched tho house and
captured him. That night Francis
crept under tho carelessly guarded
tents, out the little fellow's bonds and
tho two escaped In the darkness.
WERK LIT CROP BULLETIN.
The Condition ot the Crops Improved
as a General Knie by Recent
RA I nc.
This bulletin covers the weuthtrand
crop conditions for tho wook ending
Baturday, May 0, and In its prepara
tion wero used reports from ono or
more correspondouts in eaoh county of
tho State.
Although tho average, temporaturo
for tho past wook was just tho samo
as for tho weok preceding, yot, rola
tively, it was slightly cooler, as tho
Beasons increase in temperature
averages about 2 dogroos a wook dur
ing May. Thoro woro several cool
nights, and minimum temperatures of
50 or below were reported from the
high lands of the western and north
ern counties. Tho minima for the
week were 41? at Kldgeway, 48 at Che
raw and Klloroo, all on Friday, tho
8th. Tho maximum temperature was
4<4, reported from Cheraw on tho 6th.
L'he moan temporature, for the State
ir the week?boir?}f. the average of
86 weekly mean tomporaturo reports?
was 09, and the normal for tho same
period is approximately 69. The high
est means was 73 at Poverty Ulli,
Edgeflnld County, and the lowest 64
at Held, Greenville County. The
mean temperature for tho State slnco
March 1st has been about 1.5 degree
per day above normal.
There wore quite general showers
over tho entire State on the 3rd, 4th
and 5th, but tho rainfall was never
theless partial, and in consequence
there romaln largo portions of the
State where tho drought Is not re
lieved, tho ground having received
only surface wotting. Over a strip of
country about six miles wide, in
Plckons County, tho rainfall excoded
four inchos on tho 3rd, and was accom
panied by large hail, that in tho vici
nity of Loopor's destroyod all vegeta
tion In its oath and stripped tho troes
of fruit. Tho path of this destructive
hall was narrow and short. The heavy
rains washed lands badly in Pickcns
and Edgcllcld Counties, and nowly
planted lands havo since then crusted
over.
Over tho greater portion of tho area
oomprisod by Alkon, Lexington, Klch
laud, Sumtor, Falrfield, York. New
berry, Union, Karshaw, Chester and
Lancaster Counties, tho rainfall re
mains deficient. Over the remainder
of tho State enough rain foil for the
immediate needs of the crops.
The following heavy rains woro re
ported : Loopor's 4.20 ; Liberty 4.00 ;
Augusta, Gh., 1.75 ; Greonvillo 2.34 ;
Florence 1.68; Yomassoo 1.76; Trial
1.00; Held 1.76 ; Longshore LOG; Clom
son College 2.87 ;Elloreo 1.25; Gillison
vlllo 1.26 ; Poverty Hill 2.10. Thirteen
other places reported amounts from
0.50 to 1.00, and fifteen places reported
amounts less than ha'f an inch. The
average of 41 rainfall reports was 1.03,
and tho normal for the samo period Is
approximately 0.78.
The sunshine was in excess of tho
normal; tho porcentago of possible
ranging from 39 at Trial to 80 at
, Waterloo, with an average for the
State (26 reports) of 70 per cent. The
normal is approximately 00.
Tho prevailing wind for the week
was from tho N. E., followed by S.
W. and W. They wero generally light
aud without material iniluenco on
crops.
Crops, as a rule, made satisfactory
progress duriug tho week, except that
a few cool nights seemed to put a
decided chock on the growth of corn
and cotton, but fortunately tho weath
er soon turned warmer. With the ex
ception of tho territory already noted,
thero seems to be sufiicient moisture
ifor most crops, but grains would be
greatly benefited by moro rain. Tho
planting season is pructlcally over, ex
cept for some of the minor crops and
for tho bottom land corn, and this is
making satisfactory progress. Tho
following brief summaries express the
general conditions of the various crops
named, and when a particular crop is
not mentioned it may bo assumed that
tho reports on it are in the main fa
vorable.
Corn continues to do well; Is gen
erallly worked elean, has good color,
and stands are satisfactory. Reports
on corn without exception continue
favorable, unless that some report It
small for the season, and that cut and
bud or heart worms are damaging the
stand in a numbor of the counties.
Cotton received a slight check to
growth during tho few cool nights,
but without sustaining any material
injury. Stands are reported the best
ever known in Andorson, Darlington,
and Chesterfield Counties, and over
the entire Stute the stands aro good.
Some complaints of grass in Edgefield
and Plckons Counntios, where tho
ground was too wet to work. Cotton
is reported as huvlng u good, healthy
color generally. Sui Island cotton has
a good stand and is thriving. Chop
ping to a stand continues activoly,
aud in places cotton has been plowed
the second time. Planting has finish
ed.
Transplanting tobacco was pushed
during the wcok. Some farmers are
obliged to water the plants to save
them, it being nocossary to transplant
regardless of tho condition of tho
ground, on account of tho siie of the
plants. Tho scarcity of plants will
lessen the coutemplatod area dovoted
to tobacco.
Irish potatoes are generally reported
to bo very small, almost a failure over
a large portion of the State, owing to
the dry weathor, and aro needing
more rain everywhere. Potato bugs
are reported from a numbor of coun
ties, being more destructive in Char
leston County, whore some fields are
practically ruined by thorn. Grains
have made groat improvement, but
spring oats are generally coDsldorod a
failure, although in places tho rains
startod a vigorous growth. Oats aro
about ready to harvest In the Eastern
portlous of the State. Fall oats aro
short, but heading well.
Lowland rice is In excellont condi
tion, with good stands, but upland
rice Is genorully poor, being small, and
of uneven stund.
Poaches continue to drop badly, other
fruit doing fairly well. Plums ripen
ing in Southern portions; Inforior
quality. Berries plentiful. Grapes
promising. Melons doing well every
where, und in places are in blospom.
Larger areas than usual being de
voted to sweet potatos in a number of
counties. Draws plentiful.
Gardens yielding plonty of vegeta
bles, although where tho rainfall was
lightest they continue to fail.
J. W. BAUSRj Dlreotor.
HOMICIDE at Clemson.?The News
and Courier's corrosponpdont gives tho
following particulars as to tho shooting
at Clemson College on last Tuesday :
Wm. D. James, foreman of tho convict
farm here, died "to-day about 7 o'clock
from tho offeots of pistol shots re
ceived yesterday at tbo hands of P.
W. Lindsay, sergeant in chargo of tho
convicts stationed hore. Bad blood
had existed botwoon tho two men for
sevoral months, It is said, occasioned
by a disagreomont as to the manage
ment of tho coonvict labor, and yestor
day James seems to havo felt especi
ally aggrioved at something Lindsay
had done. He wont to tho stockade
and found Lindsay seated at his table
in his ofllco and bogan using abusive
lnnfiruatro. Ltndaav is renortcd to have
told htm to go away, but instead James
started into tho room. As ho entered
Lindsay shot him twico in tho faco.
James continued advancing and caught
hold of Lindsay, when the latter shot
him In tho abdomen. The two men
scuffled for a fow seconds, when James
sank unconscious. He afterwards re
covered consciousness, but peritonitis
set in, from which ho died. Ho leaves
six ehildren. Lindsay at onoe gave
himself up to the College authorities,
and was turned over to Sheriff Douthit,
who happened to bo here.
Trial Justice Hook has summoned a
jury of inquest to view the body to
night, and will adjourn it till to-mor
row to await tho arrival of Solioitor
Ansel, who has been telegraphed for.
-?President Craighond, of Clemson
Col lego, will go to the Democratic con
vention as a delegate from Occraoe.
BILL ARP HAS A VISITOR,
PROF. TUCKER OF TUE UNITED
STATES LiABOR DEPARTMENT.
Sample- 'of Fanoy and Other Work,
Gathered to Compare by His De
partment With the Primitive and
New Methode, Cost, Etc.
For The Constitution.
This is a great government. We
don't know very much about it until
we go bohind the scenes?behind the
screens as It wore?and see what is
going on. Tho doingB of Congress as
we read them In the papors are very
noisy and exciting, but is mostly rou
tine work and tolls us nothing of what
is going on in the various.departments,
scientific and industrial. ' We used to
got the patont office reports that had
a world of curious information and
explanatory pictures, but thoy seem to
have stopped coming. And there were
books on agriculture and horticulture
and pestiferous insects and books that
told about cattle and sheop and all the
diseases to which thoy were subject.
All these used to be distributed among
the people like the garden seed are
distributed, and pretty muoh for the
same vote-catching purpose, but they
cost a big lot of money, and now are
given only to the scientific. The men
of science make but little noiso in the
world. Thoy care but little for fame
or fortune, but thoy are ever at work
studying nature ana solving mysteries
and lessening tho burdens of life. It
does seem to bo a disposition of pro
vidence that great mencaro but little
for money. What they discovor or in
vent soon becomes common property.
I am not speaking of tho small man
who takes out a patent on fish hooks or
hairpins, but of great men. like Jenner
and Pastour, Agassi/,, Fulton Watts,
Newton or Morso.
But I was ruminating about a visit I
had today?a visit from Professor
Tucker, tho United States agent for
tho labor department. Uo came to
find out about how tho silk business
was conducted in Georgia fifty years
ago. So 1 told him how my father, in
1837, got some morns multicaulis cut
tings from Washington and in two
years had several acres of young trees,
and then built a house, forty feet
square and two stories high, and filled
it with hurdle frames and got some
silkworm eggs, and when thoy hatched
tho worms soon filled the house and
eat up all the mulberry leaves and
wanted more. Wo got enough from a
neighbor to finish up with, and wo boys
wore glad enough when the nasty
things began to wrap up in their mum
my-like shrouds.
But my curiosity was excited. What
does tho United States want to know
all this for ? So he|explained by saying
that his department is comparing tho
old with tho new?tho primitivo me
thods with tho modern?and the cost
of each, and which was the best and
gave more happiness, and other econo
mic quostions. He had a leather grip
full of samples of the handiwork of the
women of western North Carolina and
northeast Georgia. Every little square
or scrap was pinned to a printed sheet,
that gave the name of tho weaver and
her age and residence. There were
samples of woolen and cotton and linen
and silk,.samples of linsey and jeans
and counterpanes and quilts and wa
gon sheets and curtains and table
cloths, and somo of them wore goms of
boautiful fabrics, and in those mountain
countlos tho humble people are still
spinning and weaving in tho old-fash
ioned way and are happy. In many
families thoir handiwork is piled upon
the shelves and clothes prousos, await
ing thojmarrisge of sons and daughters,
to whom they wore to bo givon as
bridal presents. Professor Tucker
had some specimens of silk sowing
thread and flax-thread that were mado
at homo. He found good people up
there who seldom bought anything and
were able to glvo a stranger a good
bed and plonty to oat and a sincere
hospitality. Ho told mo oi an old man
in Kabun who said ho never foil out
with the United States until th? rovo
nue officers began to sneak around his
little still, whore he had boon making
peach brandy for fifty years, and had
the respoot of his Maker and his neigh
bors and he told them that the United
States wasent big enough to stop him,
for the right to make it was handed
down from his father and grandfather.
Ho said they threatoned him every
time they came about, but he kept two
pitchforks In the house?ono under
the front door and tho other at tho
head of his bod, and they dident daro
to arrest him. But after worrying
with thorn for throe years things kept
getting hotter and hotter and his
noighbors advised him to quit stilling
and ho did, for he was getting old and
wanted to live in peace, but is was a
bad government that would let a rich
man still and not let a poor man.
Those big distilleries, said ho, swindle
tho government, out of more tax monoy
than all our moonshlno stills put to
gether. All thoy have to do is to bribe
the storekeeper. I know of ono in
North Carolina that sold 3,8(30 gallons
In one year and nevor paid a dollar of
tax on it. He told Professor Tucker
that tho revenue men broke up forty
stills in that region last year, out to
his knowledge there were a hundred
that wero still running on a small
scale. " The boys sorter like tho dan
ger of it," said ho, " and tho informer
catches it when found out. Ho gen
erally loaves this part of tho country
as soon as ho pockets his bribo. The
mountain people, are not as honest and
honorable as they used to be, and it
all comes of this bribo-taking business.
The United States ought to be ashamed
of it." The professor said 't Is impos
sible to convinco those mountaineers
who aro sovonty-fivo miles from mar
ket that it is wrong to convert thoir
corn into whiskey when ono bushel
will make three gallons and they can
haul a hundred dollars' worth with a
little yoke of steers. But thoy oan't
run a still on the government plan, for
it would cost two or threo hundred
dollars, and they havont got the monoy.
He wanted to know If there were any
old-fashioned whools and looms used
in this county. Yes, a good many. A
good old man died near hero last year
whose family never woro any other
clothes as long as he livod. I knew
another man who was quite well off
for a farmer, who was a deacon in the
church and sometimes foreman of a
grand jury, who nover bought store
clothes?and ho always looked well in
his homo-made jeans. Ho tanned
leather and mado shoes for his family.
His socks and suspenders and turkey
rod handkerchiefs were all made at
home and so was the bed-ticking and
the feather beds and mattresses.
" Raise your girls to work," said he,
"and they will make good wives and
good mothers. During tho war tho
women of Columbus, Ga., swore oft
from wearing Yankee goods, but mi no
do tho same way in peace."
That is pretty hard on the girls and
I should think would fit them for a
convent or to bo sietorB of oharity. I
had a tenant once who believed so
strong in working the ebildron, that
they grew up without any schooling.
They dident have any themselves and
dident see the need uf any. Thoy had
a bright little girl whom they called
Thclby. "What Is that, child's name? "
I asked tho mothor, and she said:
" Her name is Othello." " Why, that
is a boy's name," said I, but she Insist
ed that some man who staid all night
at their house said it was a purty
name for a girl. " What is your boy's
namo?" said I, "the one you cull
Doe?" "Oh, his name in Desdemony,
but wo call him Dee for short." The
poor woman had got tho names mixed
?Othello and DoBdemona. Sotno of
thcBO rude pcoplo do actually love to
work. Thoy got up buforo day and
cook and eat breakfast befcro sunrise
and aro oil to the Hold. Ono of my
tenants told mo ho was always sorry
whon Sunday came, for It was a mighty
long day to him.
Uut tho old-fashionod wheel and
loom wore very useful and pleasant
things to work with. My wife still
loves to tell hor childron how sho used
to spin and weavo on Saturdays and
sometimes whon sho camo from school
in tho ovenlngs, and how Ailsey?
Tip's mothor?was tho host weavor
and could mako ton yards of plain
cloth a day or Bix yards of jeans.
Becky was the brag Bpinnor aud my
wife was taught to spin and weavo by
these family negroos, for thoy all
loved hor and were good to her and
she was good to them. Sho used to
spin awhile and weave awhilo and then
practico awhile on tho piano and it
was a pleasant mixture of music all
round, and sho looked mighty protty
in her homo-made linsey dressos?she
did?that's a fact. Bill. Arp.
THE CONFERENCE LAUGHS.
Tho Woman Question Brings to i.i/rh t
a Kansas Humorist.
Bishop Vincent, tho venerable found
er of the Chautauqua Society, presided
at this morning's sossion of the Meth
odist General Conference. Tho usual
routine was followed during tho morn
ing until the Rev. Dr. Lowther, of
Southwest Kansas, created a great
deal of laughter by introducing tho
following resolution :
Whereas, this conference has de
cidod tosend to tho annual oonforences,
the question as to whether tho word
laymen should bo so construod as to
include womon, and,
Whereas, it is believed by many
that on scriptural grounds womon can
not bo admlttod to the general confer
ence ; therefore
Resolved, That we also submit to
the annual conference tho following
questions:
Aro womon included in our articles
of religion, which read: "Man is very
far gone from original righteousness."
While this question is pending be it
the order of this general conferonco
that the women of tho church obey the
apostolic injunction : "Lot your wo
men keen silence in the churches."
That they do also refuse the knowl
edge that comes from books, papers,
magazines, lectures, lyceums and
reading circles, and if thoy would
learn anything let them ask their hus
bands.
Since " on scriptural grounds" sorao
of our brethren havo sorved notice
that they will raise this question on
the day ol judgment, let the annual
conferencee decide by vote whether
women are included or excluded in the
language, " Every man In his own
order," in Paul's chapter on tho resur
rection.
Ou motion of Dr. A. J. Kynott, tho
resolutions wore referred to the com
mittee on eligibility.
Several changes in the discipline,
recommended by tho bishops wore re
ported by tho committoo on revisals.
Tho first two sections of tho report
were adopted. A warm fight occurred
over the adoption of tho third section
of tho report, relating to infant bap
tism.
During tho debate Mr. Buckley said
that ho was satisfied that there were
In tho Baptist church over half a mil
lion members who would now bo In tho
Methodist church If they wore given
tho right to choose tho way thoy were
to bo baptized.
He moved that a part of the disci
pline be stricken out, so that adults
baptized in Infancy might bo allowed
to do baptized again in any way they
might elect.
Rev. A. B. Leonard opposed the mo
tion. Ho said that the motion would
discredit infant baptism, and that it
would bo a step backward for tho great
Methodist church. He said "I be
lieve there Is no person so tit to bo
baptized as an infant."
Rov. S. W. Matthews, of Southern
California, said that ho did not bollove
in discrediting infant baptism, but he
did bo?evo that adults who havo boen
baptized, in infuncy, should be givou
the same right to bo baptized, that
unbaptlzed havo.
Rov. Dr. J. E. C. Sawyer said that
he thought tho Methodist church
would be much bettered by striking
out tho foot-noto. Ho was sure that it
would help tho growth of the church
membership. William H. Daniels, of
Northwest Indiana, created a sensation
by inquiring if the foot-note in ques
tion was tho ono that some one had
surreptitiously put in the discipline,
without any authority from tho gener
al conference.
The section was recommitted, vrlth
Dr. Buckley's amendment to tho com
mittoo on revisals.
Tho commltteo on epiBcopaey did
not report in accordance with tho in
structions it had recoivod. Dr. Buck
loy stated that tho committee had as
yot boen unable to agree upon the
numbor of bishops it would rocommond
to be created, but that it would bo
ready to report to tho conforenco tho
first thing tomorrow sftor tho roading
of tho journal. The tlmo for tho com
mltteo to roport was oxtonded to that
hour. Though tho committoo was
unable to roport, this much is known
of the deliberations at tho mooting.
The member.-, agrood to recommend
t he retirement of Bishop Thomas Bow- J
man, Bishop R. S. Foster and Mission
ary Biel.op William Taylor, of Africa,
on account of thoir fooblonoss and Ina
bility to perform tho arduous duties of
their positions, by reason of advancod
ago. This action will necessitate tho
election of two rogular bishops, and
ono missionary bishop.
?Mr. J. B. Clevoland, president of
tho Port Royal and Wostcrn Carolina
Road, has appoared boforo tbo Rail
road Commission and succooded in get
ting the old nassongor rates to bo of
force on his line. Asido from general
conditions, Mr Cleveland showed that
tho Maroh earnings had fallen behind
those of last year 86,000. Undor tho
olroumstances tho Commission felt jus
tified in not onforolng tho reduced
rates.
?Mrs. U. S. Grant, widow of tho
General, has written a letter to Sena
tor Squiro, thanking him for tbo re
solution wbioh he has introduced in
the Sonate providing for a Grant
statue. "I havo long looked and hoped
for an expression of some kind from
the government," says Mr?. Grant,
"and think your thought, If oavriod
out, would be a grand fulfilment of
that hope. I thank you, Senator."
Collecting Confederate Relics,
A STATU MUSEUM IN COLUMBIA.
A letter to General Hampton ami
His Keply?Veterans and People
Generally Asked to Co-operate?
The Plan Starts Off With Good
Prospects. '
Columbia Register.
Wado Hampton Chaptor, D. A. K.,
has doterinined to form u museum of
Confederate relics in this city at the
South Carolina College. Tho follow
ing correspondence will explain itself:
Columbia, s. c, April n, lsstc.
General Wado Hampton, Coluaibia,
s. C.
Dear Sir: The Wado Hampton
Chaptor of tho United Daughters of
tho Coufcdoracy recently adopted
measures for tho collection and per
manent preservation, in our own Statu,
of Confederate relics, believing that
an'enduring State dopository and
musoum of such precious rolics will
bo valuable in nuturing proper senti
ments und maintaining tho truth
uinoug our own pooplo.
Wo naturally presorvo with euro tho
treasured dust of our sacrod dead, and
theso chorlshod rolics of our honored
horoos and guarded mementoes of our
hallowed causo will sorvo us testimony
and symbol of our loyalty to tho Con
federate soldiers and to tho truth for
which they fought.
It is the duty of tho generation that
waged war lor States' rights to
provide for the proper education of
coming generations concerning tho
principles which our peoplo held and
the struggle they made to maintain
them. Tho associations linked with
tho rolics gathered in our proposed
musoum will servo as a nuclous of
historic knowledge, a promoter of
loyal interest, and an incentive to
historic research among our young
people.
Tho members of our chapter uro
glad to know of tho movement now in
progress ovor tho South, and prose
cuted through another organization in
Columbia, to gathor rolics for a gen
eral Confederate musoum. As indi
viduals thoy will aid in making tho
proposed national collection worthy of
tho cause it represents, and of tho
noblo men and women whoso labors to
mako it a success deserve upplause.
We cannot havo a great uutionu)
musoum of Confodcrate relics without
tho aid and stimulus of good Stato col
lections. Tho two will helpfully react
on one another. Local collections will
foster State pride, uwaken tho his
toric spirit, arouso universal interest
in the Stato for such treasuros, teach
tho iraportanco of a national museum
as a common bond and source of unify
ing knowledge und inspiration aud
open the oyes of our people to tho im
portance of preserving und massing
together for historic uses souvenirs of
untold valuo In moulding the vlows
and sentiments of our youth. Tho na
tional collection for Battle Abbey at
Richmond, or wherever it shall be
located, will bo improved in si/.o and
quality, and enhanced in value in the
minds of our people as a priceless
treasury by tho parallel creation'and
malntenauco of State collections.
Wo fought as Confederate States,
and wo should have a Confederation of
museums, representing our statehood
and our Confederation.
Tho materials gathered in the na
tional and Stato collections will prove
a rich mine to tho historians of the
States and of tho Confederacy. For a
brief, clear account of tho leading
facts and associations connected with
tho rolic?writton by tho donor or len
der thereof?would make euch one an
illustration of principles, a stimulus to
inquiry and a cluo to fruitful investi
gation.
Tho people of each State would natu
rally prize, preserve und classify ac
cording to subjects, persons, places,
dates and events their relics, and thus
multiply in vuluothc collection. If all
our rolics wore collected in ono State,
that state would enjoy a degree of
Coufcderato knowledge and interest
not possossed by othor States and the
rosult would bo that tho Stato owning
the historic records and rolics would
bo made unduly prominent In the pages
of history.
Evory Stato should havo in the na
tional musoum some rolle or relics of
each command and notod commander,
representing her sons, and also of the
Important events that occurred in her
bordors. Tho sumo sort of collection
should bo mudo for each Stato mu
soum, which would bo fuller in details
of persons and events of mainly local
interest.
To carry out tho purpose of our
chapter tho board of directors up
pointed a commltteo consisting of the
undersigned, und chargod with tho
duty of collecting, preserving and ex
hibiting at stated times in the large
room in tho South Carolina college
library, given by tho college authori
ties as u dopository for such rolics
until a permanent place can bo suita
bly provided. This room is devoted
sololy to this purposo and is under tho
charge of our chapter, and there all
rolics contributed will bo sacred 1\
kept and exhibited under proper rogu
latlon by a coramittoo from our chap
ter.
A South Carolina collection would
bo incomploto without tho gift or loan
of a sword, or somo othor memento,
from Carolina's most illustrious Con
federate son and hero, Genera) Wado
Hampton ! Hampton's sword on tho
battluliold, Hampton's voice and guid
ing hand in tho days of South Caro
lina's trial und gloom after the war.
Hampton's wisdom and statesmun9hip
in the council halls of tho republic?
theso uro among tho ohiof glorios in
tho history of our State.
Therefore, wo hope that you will
contribute to our State collection as
gift or loan, somo war memento that
will aid in kindling our youth to
omulato your heroism, and stand fast
by tho principles for which you ridked
your lifo and shod your blood on tho
hattleiiolds of right.
With best wishes for your wolfaro.
Faithfully yours,
(Signed Mrs. J. W. Flinn, chairman;
Mrs. II. 8. DosPortes, Mrs. David
Cardwoll, Mrs. D. Gambrill, Mrs. Ar
thur Metts, Mrs. James H. Woodrow
commltteo.
hampton's reply.
The answer of General Hampton to
the foregoing will bo preserved. Tho
following is a copy of Gonoral Hamp
ton's lottor In reply :
Millwood, May 8th, 18??.
To Mrs. J. W. Flinn, Chairman of
Commltteo.
My Dour Madam : Tho letter your
comm'.ttco did mo tho honor to address
to mo would havo boon answered
sooner, but for tho fact that I havo not
been woll Blnco its rocelpt, and indood,
savo to thank your committuo for
honoring mo by tho request mado of
me. and for tho llattoring terms in
which that request wus expressed, no
reply was neodod ; for your committee,
composed as It is of dovotod and pa
triotic women, n_ust huvo kuojvn that
[ it would givo me sincere pleasure to
comply with any request made by
thorn.
As soon, therefore, as an opportun
ity ia presented to mo to do so. I shall
try to tiud some relio of the war to bo
placed in your bands and if it is doom
ed worthy of your acceptance, I shall
esteem it a great honor to have it
among tho saered relics of tho noble
soldiers of South Carolina.
Thanking your committeo again for
tho kind terms in which thoy wore
pleased to speak of me, and with earn
est wishes for tho success of their
patriotic work, I am,
Very respectfully and truly yours,
Wadk Hampton.
In its report to tho board of Direc
tors tho committeo well says :
?* The complimentary and beautiful
lottor is a gratifying expression of
sympathy and approval of our aims
and plans from our great chieftain,
which wo hope will incite the veterans
and peoplo of our State to eo-operato
In the work wo havo undertaken as
partially expounded in tho abovo lot
ter to tho other veterans hereafter to
he given."
Tho recommendation that this letter
bo framed and preserved in the
museum wu* adopted by tho chapter.
TWO GOOD STORIES.
A Confederate and a Federal Ki
ehungc lOxperienecs.
Kov. Robert Wilson, of St. Luke's
Episcopal Church, says :
In 18N3 1 met in Richmond a Colo
nel McCoy, of Pennsylvania, who had
been a gallant woarerof tho blue. Wo
got quito chummy over u 'mixed
wood ' camp firo, and, wishing to put
him at his ease, 1 told him the story
of Kershaw's magnificent roconnois
sanco at Frederioksburg, which can
never be too often repeated. An or
derly had arrived in hot hasto with a
command for General Kershaw to havo
tho enemy reconnoitered at all hazards
from a knoll which wat swept by tho
fire of tho sharpshooters of both arm
ies. Every bush and tree had been
cutaway by tho storm of bullets, and
it looked like certain death to the man
who should attempt it. Calmly sling
ing his field glass, and turning over
his command to the next officer in
rank, Joseph B. Kershaw, rodo slowly
up to tho death trap, into which ho
would not send any other man. Tho
sight of his horoic uetion as he sat
amid tho whistling minies, swooping
the opposing ranks with his glass, was
too muofa for the ehivalry of the Yan
kee commander, and the order went
down the* Federal lino . " Ceaso firing
on that officer 1" The rilles became
silent, tho reconuoissanco was finished,
and raising his cap in acknowledge
ment, General Kershaw quietly rode
back at a walk, unharmed."
" It was a splendid incident,", re
marked Colonel McCoy, " but l can
oap it with a personal experience of
the chivalrous disposition of your mon.
I was on Genoral Meado's stall' near
Richmond, and one morning, with the
general at our head, we rode down to
tako a look over tho rivor. As wo
turned sharply out of tho bushes and
camoouton the bank we found our
selves in point blank range of a Con
federate picket drawn up on tho
other side. A volley would have
emptied every saddle, for we were en
tirely at their mercy ; but it would
have been murder, for thoy could not
cross and capture us. Recognizing
General Meade, tho commander of the
detachment ordered his men into line
and they presented arms. We raised
our caps in grateful acknowledgement,
rode slowly hack into.the bushels, and,
as soon we wero fairly out of sight,
put spurs to our horses and scudded
back to the camp as if tho Dovil was
after us."
THE CLOSING EXERCISES.
Ol' tho Southern Ituptist Convention
Had a Stormy Debate on Tem
perance.
The ?lst session of the Southern
Baptist Convention adjourned at noon
on the 12th inst. to meet uext year at
Wilmington, N. C, tho first Friday
following tho lhst Sunday in May.
When tho convention convened, but
fow delegates were In their seats, but
the auditorium was soon comfortably
tilled. Tho reports from the com
mittees on young people's work, and
finance, and business of tho Sunday
school board wore read and accepted.
The committee recommended that
arrangements for printing be left to
tho discretion of tho Sunday school
board. Enrollment committee report
ed that 819 delegates out of a total of
1,162 accredited to the convention had
attended. A long and heated debate
was preoipated by the introduction of
a temperance resolution by .J. B. Cran*
fill, of Texas. Dr. Orannll was vice
presidential candidate in 18W2 on the
prohibition ticket. The resolution
took advanced ground against tho
liquor trahio in all ramifications, and
advised tho expulsion by tho churches
of mombers engaged in the businuss.
Frank Eaton, son of Dr. T. T. Faton,
pastor of Walnut street Baptist Church,
now traveling abroad, objected to it
first, as a political manoeuvre, then
denounced it as an effort to reflect on
his father, whoso church has had us
members for many years, two weil
known distillers. lie referred to the
lato Doctors Manly and Broad us, the
pillars in tho church, as upholding Dr.
Eaton's past action, and the debate
became quito aorlmonlus. Finally 1
young Eaton, failing to secure post- '
ponement of action, offered a com-1
promise amendment, which expressed
the hope that the action proposed by
tho resolution, might, in time be taken
by tho ohurohus, and added, as a rider
that wo hope the time is coming when
Baptist churches will not retain in
their fellowship members who fail to
render account for mission money hold
in trust. This was a back-handed slap
at Dr. Cranllll, and roferred to an un
pleasant incident of past history in his
relations with his State convention.
It reopened an old sore, for Doctors
Eaton and Craudll have been at odds
for years. Futon's amendment was
tabled, and tho resolutions linally
passed almost unanimously. A resolu
tion was carried, recommending to
the Foreign Mission Board the estab
lishment of Bap'.ist missions in Pales*
tine, with headquarters at Jerusalem.
After thanking the press and poo*
plo of Chattanooga, tho convention ad
journed.
?Tho two biggest lire engines nl
the world uro in Liverpool. These
magnificent specimens of workman
ship are tho most powerful firo em: in B
known, throwing 1,800 gallons of Wator
in a minute, and a jet MO feet high.
Tho forco with which tho water is
j ejected from thorn may bo estimated
from tho fact that the jet Is warranted
to kill a mati at 350 feet.
I ?Tho summer just (dosing in tho
i Southern Hemisphere has been ex
oosslvoly hot. and the wheat and other
I orops of Australia and Argentina aro
far below tho avorage. American far
mers are In shape to supply tho deficit,
and a favorable season wil^add to the
load thoy hold in the agricultural
' world. ? J
The Story of a Mysterious Murder,
AN INNOCENT BUY WAS HANGED
FOR THE CRIME.
Circumstances Were Much Against
Him, ami He Wum Condemned to
Hie?He- 1'roloHtcil His lauooeuee
to tllO IjRSt,
A recent murder neur Washington,
D. C, has recalled to the minds of
South Carolinians who uro resident
there a mysterious occurrence near
Columbia. S. C, buuauso of the sim
ilarity bot?veen the two tragedies, t;ays
the Post. It happened in tho pine
belt near Columbia, and was for years
the most talked of atTuir in the crimi
nal annals of the State. The victim
was a young girl, and the murderer,
according to the conviction of the re
sidents 61 the locality in which the
deed was committed, was a young
negro, but in the opinion of the neces
sarily more impartial thinkers of the
city, a person unknown. Mr. C. A.
Douglass, of South Carolina, one of the
attorneys for the defence, who Is now
a prominent lawyer here, told the
story as hesut in his ollice in the Fen
dull building.
" I am convinced to this day,"' said
Mr. Douglass, " that an innocent per
son satislied the majesty of the lew In
this case and that the perpetrator of
the crime is still living in the State.
Florence llornsby, the pretty, auburn
haired, well-formed daughter of a
farmer living about ten miles from
Columbia, wus found with her throat
cut one afternoon in November, 18U0,
within 300yards of her father's house.
Sho had been sent to the spring, which
was down in a hollow surrounded on
four sides by little hills. When she
had been gone about twenty minutes a
young negro boy named Wade Ilaynos
approached the house on tbo run and
in great excitement. He told Miss
Hello llornsby, the girl's sister, that
Miss Florence, was lyiRg not far from
the spring with a hole in her throat.
Tbo two immediately ran back to the
spot, and there In a corn row lay the
girl.
A small kmfo wound, just large
enough to Insert one finger, was in her
neck, the instrument with which the
crime hud been committed having
pierced the carotid artery. Florence
lived about live minutes after her sister
took her head In her lap, but died
without being able to give the. name
of her murderer. The pail with which
she had just drawn water wus lying
some distance ii|> the path from the
spring towards the house. The print
of the rim was clear in the soft earth.
There wore .signs of a struggle along
one corn row from the bucket and
down another. Footprints wore there
of another person beside the girl. No
weapon was found. In fact, there was
absolutely no trace of the murderer
beyond the foot marks.
" Wade Uaynes, who claimed to
have discovered the body, was left in
Its charge, for u while, and then sent
around the neighborhood to rouse the
country folk. While seated neur the
body, he was approached by William
Alexander, colored, who lived In the
same house with him, on the near-by
farm, of John Loom is, and asked for
his knifo. This was given without a
word, and later it was submitted to an
examination for blood, with no re
sult.
" The next morning the suspicion of
tbo people round about had become
fastened on Wado Kaynes, and he was
taken into custody. Now this boy at
llt'St told a story to which he .-tuck
throughout all the terrible months for
him that followed. Ho said ho hud
been sout by his employer. Loomis,
with whom he bad lived ever since ho
was eight years old, to the corn I'OWS
OD the other side of the spring, to
gather fodder, aftor the cotton picking
hour. This was found to be true. He
said that when not far from the spring,
by which he hud to pass to reach t he
cornfield, he heard a cry apparently
from near the spring, but it was utter
ed only OUC6, and he imagined some
one must he playing there.
" As nearcd the place, howover, he
looked to the right toward the Horsby
house, hidden from view over the hill,
and caught u glimpse, he said, of u
roan running away in his direction,
but parallel, to the course he was tak
ing. Ho was unable to sec whether ho
was black or white.
"Continuing and moving gradually
around to the right, down one slope
and up the other in the direction of
the house, he looked to tl"> right ac
cidentally, and down the corn row he
saw a body. Hayes said he recognized
Miss llornsby, whom he knew well,
and saw blood on her throat. When
asked why he could not see her before,
when on the other side of the spring,
and at the time the man was I'unuing
away. Hayes replied that a clump of
willows Intercepted the view. The
willows wero really there. Hayncs
said he iiad had a basket on his head,
and when ho. saw the body he dropped
it otV backwards. The basket was
found where bo said he had dropped
it, and its print as it had fallen to the
ground. Hayncs was an undersized,
thin boy, seventeen years, and in the
testimony brought into tbo case at the
trial it was given as the opinion that
he would have been no match for Miss
llornsby, who was much of the satUO
sizo as Miss Kroglo.
?' Notwithstanding this story," went
on Mr. Douglass, "?public feeling ran
so high that Haym s was romovod to
the penitentiary for safe keeping.
Thereafter Investigation was practi
cally closed, so far its anj other person
was concerned : tho country folk Boom
ed to have settled on it that Wade j
biaynoscommitted the crime, and no i
search was made, except by a body of
oitlzons Immediately after the murder, i
No one could ho found then, and as i
Wado Hayncs was the only one m> I li
as known on the.spot at the time, o
became tho eventful victim of l.,ol
haugsman's noose.
*? There had been found, it was truo, ;
the footprints -poken of alongside of
Miss Hornby's but, notwithstanding
that one of Hayncs' shoes was run
down at the heel.it was declared by
some that thoplints found was those
of Ilaynos. Others who had measured
then asserted that they were not those
of the negro hoy. The trucks away
from the scene of tho murder were
down {a slope at right angles to tho
spring, and in tho direction that
Hayncs said he saw tho man running
away.
"In the penitentiary Ilaynos was
submitted to a careful examination,
even to the ?ngoOrbails, under a micro
scope, but there were found nophyslCI I
evidences of crimA. In fact, no evi
dence thus far Was adduced to connoet
him with tho murder, for no other
kind of assault had succeeded, although
it was supposed hii attempt had been
made. Attorney Allan J. Green was
appointed with myself, by the court to
defend tho hoy. Too first trial, In
March, 181)1, was had under Judge M.
Hudson. The only pWe of ovid< nop
worthy of ooto broughK in then was to
tho client that a fand \ Itvtttg b yond
tho spring, none of wtbom, it was
testified, hu,U hcftrd, VUi soroau toM .of
by Haynes. Tho jury disagreed, seven
to iivo for acquittal. A sooond trial
was about to bo had in July, before
Judge T. 13. Fraaer, when tho defonce.
observing that tho jury BUinmonod
consisted wholly of people from tho
Pine Holt district, feared that, ou ac
count of the strong sentiment thoro
against Havncs, a roully just vordiot
was doubtful, although tho juryiuoa
were reputable. It was in fact our
policy to have the jury at least com
pised of city mou, ami those from tho
outside. Ou a techuiculity tho case
was continued.
"Meanwhile, the prosecution found
a pair of alleged bloody trousers,
idoutilied by Huyncs's mother as his,
under the cottonseed pile whore the
boy had slept at Loomis'. Tho defonce
secured clippingofroin theso on which
were spots, and thon*laid tho matter
of whether they should bo microscopi
cally mid chemically examined before
the prisoner.
'?Said lie . ' Mr. Douglass, havo'em '
examined. No blood can bo found on
'ein.'. The spots proved to he rust.
" At tho second trial, before Judgo
Aldrlch, the jury was out twenty-four
hours und then'returned a verdict of
guilty. The case was appealed to tho
Supremo Court on points of law, and
tlie verdict sustained. Alongthy peti
tion for commutation of sentence, sign
ed by citizens of Columbia, wassont to
Governor Tilliuan, as well as a counter
potition by those who lived In tho
neighborhood of llornsbys. The prcs
ent'Senator took a great interest in the
case. Ho visited Haynes In tho ponl
tontiary and saw him alone. Now,
when Tilliuan tixes that eyes of Iiis on
u man under such circumstances it is u
very potent faotor in making him tell
blm the truth. Haynes was frightened,
but ho repeated without variation tho
same story he had told in the hegin
nning. Governor Tillman even sent a
detective out to the scene of the mur
der. It was the theory of the defence
that a certain young man living not
very far from the llornsbys had ap
proached tho girl, with whom he was
acquainted. OU the evening of tho mur
der : that sue had set her pail down in
order to chat; that advances had boon
made against which she protested, and
that, seeing she was about to escape
him, the man killed her. The detec
tive foolishly made known his purpose,
instead of working secretly to make
friends, as instructed, with the man
we suspected, and, finding public senti
ment :?. dangerous thing to deal with,
left the place without accomplishing
anything. Two years after the first
trial, Haynes was led to the scaffold;
there he made his farewell statement,
in every respect similar to tho story
always told ; but as this was a test, ho
was roprived. Finally, however, when
no more reprives could be granted
him, he was hanged, once more telling
the same story of innocence.
" Ho was hanged on purely circum- ?
slantial evidence."
HIS THIRD PUNISHMENT.
A .Missionary Who Had ItCOU Unfortu
nate With His Wives.
The story is toid of a missionary
who. as some otic remarked, "had boon
unfortunate with his wives." This
missionary had married ut home and
taken his wife with him to India.
There after two years, she died, and
the broken-hearted widower received
permission from the missionary board
of his church to come home.
Hi re he promptly consoled himself,
ami with his second spouse returned
to the Hold of his former labor. But
fate was . till unkind, and at the end
of ti year ho was once more beraved.
Agaiu ho sought tho permission of
Iiis board to return homo, but this
time thoy gently but firmly declined,
saying thoy did not fool justified in tho
expense of giving him two holidays
within two years. They suggested,
dolicately, however, that if his desire'
was to recoup himself for Iiis recent
loss, it was possible for hint to depu- ,
ti/.e a friend to secure for him a now ?.
partner of his joys and sorrows. This
no accordingly did, and, aftor consid
orablo correspondence and sundry do- 4
lays, the twico-boreavod widower re
ceived word that the bride selected for
him was on her way to his arms.
The day the steamer was signalled
tho bridogroom-oloct went down to
moot it, accompanied by a married
friend. On the roturn of tho latter to
his house, he was pounced upon by his
wife, who demanded all the particulars
of the meoting.
" Did Doctor Smith 800U1 much over
come when he saw Miss Brown V was
the first question.
" Well-yes?a little."
" Wasn't, he overjoyed ?"
'* Well?overjoyed is not just tho
word, perhaps."
" Why, didn't ho say he was de
lighted ?"
" Well?no?-not exactly."
" But, at I'mst, he seemed pleased ? '
"Weil [ don't quite kjuW.'v
" For mercy's sa(ce\'tc1i me just what
he d ill say and do."
" Wei.'," with evident reluctant .
" when he saw her she was at tl i
other end of tho deck, and she w,l(
pointed out to him by tho friend sho
had traveled with. Smith locked at,
her for a ininuto, and then he passed
his handover Iiis oy08, and I hoard
him muriner audibly : 1 tied hair t
for the third time and after so much '
prayer !'"
-?" Mandy," said Farmer Corntossel,
" wouldn't, you like t<- boa 'mancipated
woman an' go to the polls an' vote?"
14 No, sir." was the positive reply, " i
don't think it is fair tor the men fur
women ti r bo try in' to grab tho office;."
" Why not?'1 "Because ?.? woman ii
alias smart enough tet tum her hand
to anything that conns along1, but
polities is ail some men arc lit for."
?The Commercial Gazette i
letters to ail members of the flop
can national coramittoo statin,'
the nomination of MoKlnloy al
Louis being conceded, it was doi
to gather preferences for Vice f
dent. The replies are published an
show that witli the exception of throo
preferences for llobart of New .Jer.-oy,
the members ol tho national committee
favor Thomas B. Reed for Vice Presi
dent.
- m * ?. ??.?. ?
?The high seas Include the whole
i extent of sea BO far as it not the ex
clusive, property of any particular"
i country, The rule of International
; law is that every country bordering on
tho sea has the. exclusive sovereignty
I over the sou to the oxtent of threo
miles from its shore, but all beyond,
. and which Is not within three mile-, of
some other country, is open orcomnion
to all countries.
It docs'nt take much medicine to
' cure Malarial Fever, provided you take
I Simmons Liver Regulator, tt is just
; the remedy for Malaria and all Spring
ailments. And you don't need to tako
much of it. "Simmons Liver Regulator
broko a case of Malarial Fever of thrco
years standing? for me, und less than
one bottle did if. i *uil use it w]
need of any
I DunoaeUu^

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