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J 4j v I1 ESTABLISHED IN 1865. NEWIiEPLI{Y, S. C., THURSDAI, MARCH 1.18.PJE150AYA. THUE PLtCE AN) THE HOUR The National Democratic Committee -Select the Day of the Conven tion--A Lively Discus-ion. Special to the Newrs and Courier. WASHNGTON, February 22.-It was evident from the opening of the proceedings this morning that more than usual significance would attach to the action of the Democratic na tional committee. There were rumors from 9pparently e authoritative sources that the Presi dent desired that the Convention should meet in May. so that the par ty could take the offensive at once and make an aggressive camp^ign. This view was strengthened by the fact that Mr. W. L. Scott, of Pennsyl vania, at the earliest opportunity, de livered a carefully prepared speech, in which the advantages of an early opening of the fight were fully set forth. Mr. Scott proposed May 22 as the time for holding the Convention. Senator Gorman proposed' July 3. Senator Pasco supported this. urging that if the National Convention met in May, Florida would be compelled to have two State conventions, one to nominate delegates to the Nation al Convention and the other to nomi nate State officers. This, he said. the Democracy could not afford. Be sides this, he thought it better to have a short campaign. to be con ducted with full knowledge of the plans and the candidate of the Re publicans. Capt. F. W. Dawson, of South Carolina, followed. He argued that the Democracy of the South were never too poor to do what was requir ed of them, that the meeting anr. ac tion of the National Convention, would have influence in inducing the Democrats in Congress to come to an agreement on the tariff question; that the Democratic party would have to meet the allegation that it is a free trade party; that much time was needed to educate the people on that subject; that the Republicans were sure to declare themselves in favor of tariff revision, and that as the Democratic utterance on the sub ject would necessarily be conserva tive, it must appear to the people to be only an echo of the Repblican cry; that the President had won the hearts of the people by his courage and true manliness and that it ill-became the Democratic committee to dance attendauce upon their opponents and play a waiting game. Senator Gorman; in reply,contend ed that an agreement would be reach ed by the Democrats in Congress, but not so early as May; that there was no possibihty of the Democratic and Republican platforms being alike in any particular; that it was better to 1o':ow the recent precedents and hive a late Convention, and that a long campaign would.,not be required. The vote being taken, July 3 re ceived the masjority of votes, and that day was chosen. It can hardly be said that this re suIt is evidence of opposition to the Administration. The Pacific States and Territories generally, as well as some of the friends of Chicago, voted for the later day, because they thought it would weaken the chances for St. Louis. when the choice of the place for the Convention came to be made. It is noticeable, however, that Senators Gorman and Barbour. who are not in sympathy with the Presi Kdent's civil service principles and practice, voted for the later day. At a subsequent stage of the pro ceedings when Senator Vest, of Mis sissippi, in advocating St. Louis said that he was an old-fashioned Demo crat who believed that every public office in the land should be filled by an honest and capable Democrat, the applause by the audience and by some of the members of the commit t.ae was both up)roarious and long continued. Mr. Walsh, ot Georgia, it may be mentioned, voted for holding the Convention on July 3. Th claims and advantages of the several cities were laid before -the committee very handsomely by Mr. Fuller for Chicago. Mayor Frances and Senator Vest for St. Louis. Gen. Horatio C. King. of New York, and Committeeman Tarpey and Congress man S. S. Cox for New York. The committee then went again into secret session, and the balloting began. The vote was: San Francis co 1-d, St. Louis 14. Chicago 13. Ne w York 2 and Cincinnati 1. There was but little variation on the eleventh ballot. The vote was: San Francis co 17, St. Louis 14. Chicago 15. Cin cinnati 1. There were so:ne curious features in the ballo'ing. The eight Territo rics voted solidly for San Francisco, together with the Pacific States, and p ith them w r: Kelly of Minnesota. W~alsh of Georgia. Gorman of Mary land. and Barbour of Virginia. It was a queer and almost inexplicable combination. St. Louis was supported by most of the Southern and Southwestern states and by Massachusetts. while the Notrhwestern states, excepting Minnesota, as well as Chairman Bar num of Connetticut. Scott of P'ennsyl. vania. Clifford of Marion. Sem:ple of Alabama. and Gruhb of D)elaware voted for Chicago. The San Francisco p)eole say that by hiaving the National Convenition in their cIty eight electoral votes can he absolutely secured to the Demo cratic candi<Iates in November. rThey are in earnest and mean what they say. Their assertions are given by the 1ias:ern men as a reason for vot ing for San Francisco. Yet it is hard to believe that the majority of the committee will settle upon that city in the face of the objection to it -n eacont ot the distance and ex pense. Probably some of the corn mitteemen now voting for San Fran cisco will tarn t) : t Louis when San Francisco is shown to be impractica ble. Mr. Scott. however, is hopeful that Chicago will draw the prize. as is Chairnan Barnum. whose proposi tion was to meet at the same time as in 18 4, in the same civ. in the same hall, and nominate the samne canidi date for President. The Territorial delegates are count ed on for St. Louis when the break comes. and it remains to be seen whether on any question Congress man Scott and Messrs Gorman and Barbour will he found voting the sante way. It should be said that the rival cities are most liberal in their assur ances of ample accommodations and low railway and hotel rates. San Francisco is lavish in its pledges. and it would easily win if it were easier of access and nearer to the centres of population. To-night there will be abundant caucusing and pipe-laying. To mor row the amirahle contest will he re sumed. To -1 appearances Chicago or St. Louis will get the Convention, and it is doubtful that it will be practicable to change the date al ready settled upon. rhere will prob ably he an effort to revise the termi of the official call so as to conform A to the present political situation. The national committee, however, is nothing if not conservative, not to put too fine a point upon it. 'Tie adjournment to morrow morn ing, by the way, was carried over the votes of Messrs Gorman and Bar bour, and was voted for by Mr. Scott and those who had usually voted with him. St. Louis Wins the Prize. WASHINGTON. February 23.-The election of the National D)emocratic committee to-day means that the policy of the Democratic party in the coming electical campaign will be aggressive rather than defensive, and that the reduction will be fought for on the lines plainly marked out in the President's recent message. I saw last night it was determined to make an effort to obtain a recon sideration of the action of the nation al committee yesterday in making July 3 the date of the Convention. It was the general judgment that the time was more important than the place, and this proved to be the key of the situation. Considerable mis sionary work was accomplished in the small hours of the morning,. and when the committee met to-day it was pretty sure that St. Louis would be the chosen city and that the Democratic Convention would meet before June 19, the day on which the Republican Convention will assemble at Chicago. This solution of the difficulty was rendered easier by the fact that the objections to San Francisco on the score of distance grew stronger as they were pondering. Senator Gor man's appeal to the supporters of San Francisco to join him in voting for a more accessible place and the subsequent withdrawal of C;hicago gave St. Louis an easy victory. In deed, when Mr. W. L. Scott and those who had voted with him for Chicago went over to St Louis. the result was certain. The motion to recons.der was carried by a round majority, though Maryland. Georgia, Virginia, California, Florida and Colorado continued to oppose any change of date By a rather larger majority June 5 was then selected as the day for the D)emocratic gather ing. No OPPosITION TO C:LEVELAN D. The current rep)ort that the vote on the date yesterday had been re garded as a (def eat of the Admninis tration, was alluded to during the session of' the cor-mittee, but on ev ery side there was the earnest decla ration that no such meaning could properly be given to the commnittee's action. SIr. Gorman was especially emphatic in announcing himself to be "an Administration man," and every commateeman who had voted for a .July meeting spoke in the sameI strain. TIIE TAIIIFF QUESTIoN. It is safe to conclude that everyi member of the national committee is for Cleveland. first and last. but ser eral members representing states that are not Democratic, but which must be carried to ensure success in No vember, think that the President went too far, and was unnecessarily definite in his tariff message. Trhey preferred. there fore, to await some tariff legislation - by the Ilouse of Representatives, with the idea, ap parently, that this action would not ut as deep as the President's recom. mendations. The national platform could then he broughit to its level. Those who, on the other hand. ne ept the President's message, as the ighting proved, believe that the Na tional Convention can and will bringT the Democrats in Congress to a more liberal standard of tax reduction than can be expected if the party re maiin deaf and dumb until the tine frCongressional work shall have passed. The high tariff D)emocrats in lhe committee voted generally for a State Con ventionwieteowtrTmm bes oted for an early meeting. Tiisthe explanation of the exist eneCe ofwhat has been denominated the Adiinistration and Anti Admin i-trat.ion sentiment in the- committee. This view is strenuthenedl by the terms of the telegram of Mlavor Fran cis, of' St. L4ouis, to Presider.t Yceve land. ~v -NrO ~E~ii-: Both the da', and place ar: well spoken of by imfluential Democrats t-night. .June is regarded as a net tz time than July fow the meeting of the Convention, and it is felt that the party in power acts wisely in taking the offensive, without waiting upon the movements of the opponents. ONLY A M-UNDEItSTAYDlNG. Then again there is a feeling of a reliif that what are understood to be views of the President cannot even he said to have been disregarded. I ai assured by the leaders of the July party that they would cheerfully have deferred at once to the wishes of the President if these had been made known to them in ,ine, and that the whole business could then have been disposed of in fifteen min utes. Izt all's well that e..- well. There is no soreness anywhere and no heart-burning. A IIARD FIGIIT AhEAD. Tfhe one thought now is to arrange and coiduct the canvass so that Mr. Cleveland shall be his own successor. It will be a hard fight, and no mere walk over, whoever the Republican candidate shall be, there is no doubt of that. Talk About Polities. 'Thus far there has been no men tion of any candidates for the State ofiices. it is generally understood that So licitor David R. Duncan will run against Congressman Perry. Capt. Geo. E. Prince, of Anderson, Capt. W. C. McGowan, of Auheville, Col. R. A. Child, of Pickens, and the lion. M. F. Ansel, of Greenville, are candidates for solicitor, to succeed Col. .James L. Orr. As Solicitor Duncan will not be a candidate for re-election, candidates for that office are appearing in all the counties of his circuit. Col. R. C. Watts and N. J. Holmes, of Laurens. Col. H1. Farley, of Spartanburg. Da vid Johnson, Jr.. of Union, and L. O. Schumpert, of Newberry, are spoken of as persons in the path of the light ning. There are faict rumors of opposi tion to Congressman Dargan from Solicitor H. H. Newton, of Marlboro, and Col. Pressley Barron, of Claren don. The present indications are that Congressmen Cothran, Dibble, IIemp bill and Elliott will have no - opposi tion in seeking renominations. Congressman Tillman will have a hard fight to get back to Washington. It is said that the Hon. D S. Hen derson, of Aiken, is anxious to meet him in a primary election contest. Rumor has it that Gen. J. W. Moore. of Hampton, and Gen. J. F. 1zlar will be Judges before many years. Candidates for county offeers are appearing in nearly all of the coun ties. "Perfectly Lovely." I n a recent Journal of Eblaation;, Kate Sauborn mentions some of the more common expressions which mar the conversation of you:g people nowadays, and the following is espe cially held up to ridicule: First and last, let me anathema tize "perfectly lovely." But ! that is truly rauseating. I venture to affirm that much abused phrase is used at least ten times daily by every school girl, every college girl, every young woman in this country. It is the stock phrase at Smith, -'Wellesley, and Vassar; in fact, conversation would droop and languish without it. A young woman comes in to see me, and she begins: "OC Miss Sauborn ! how perfectly lovely your rooms are: and isn't it lovely to live in a flat ! and you have an elevator-how love ly !It's just horrid to climb three flights as I had to yesterdlay, although the bridie I called onl was so lovely I didn't mind, you know. Hler rooms were litted uip so lovely with her wed ding p)resents. dor/t you see, and she had on a perfectly elegant reception dress-just too lovely for anything, doncher know? I can't describe it, but it had lots of jet on satih, and twas just lovely. H ecr hair, you know. is just that exquisite, lovely chestnut shade, with a ripple of gold, doneber know, and all that sort of thing. You dont know how I enjoyed your re ception last week, the music was so splend(id: And that pretty woman who whistled, wasn't she bewitching ! julst too love-ly for anything ! And the meu ! you do get such nice men good looking, and such swells! Oh ma and I said. when we got home, that it was perfectly lovely!" I have heard the phrase applied to a young p)ig. to a sausage. to an op. era. to a corpse:! I would like to start a society for its suppression and ex tinction. If a fine of one penny had to bec paid every time it was usd, we could raise the millhon dol lar monument to General G;rant. send 50.000. young wonmen to Mon tana. put all'-the sewing women and superfluous women in easy circumu stances, and send out another Arctic expeditioni. Trer was~ a 1:ttle incident on cablie line car y'es;erday mforning that made all on hoard laugh. TIhere was such a touch of humor in it and so munch human nature, that the mirth was as free and spontaneous as the rp1linrg murmur of a brook. The cal ad ju t stopped at the Priests o1 Pllas hall. and a large, genial faced joval kindi oh' a manm assisted a ladh to alighit. As the car started agaim Se rather earnestly remnaked: I Now there goes my wife to heal '-am Jones tell her Of her faults.' Then, after an impressive pause --Yet when I try 'to tell her of then at home there is a terrible racket. cn't uesta women." HISTO! Y OF %iOYTCI VAZiOLIZA. The erort!os or the !'st. the Q:'ory -t e- reent-4The DIocument 4n that .iid be Preserved. . -Zpcial to Krs and Courier. Mv attention has been called to an editorial which a:s publihed in, your issue e.f the 4th instant on the im portanee o! preservitrg tie historical data of South Carolina. The arti cle as titeim one. and the fact that the K,-r. im/ Corer has thus taken up the suiject is an earnest of a gen eral awaken ng of int.rest in a topic whlcli deeply concerns all - patriotic citizens and natives of the State. To preserve the records of their past should be the glory of any peo ple, and especially of a people which ,have so iuch of which to be proud as have the people of Noutli Garolina. And yet it is a melancholy fact, and one which c:nnot he too often im pressed upoo the public, that many of-*tie most valuable sources of South Carolina history are in danger of be in lost throu(_h sheer inatter.tion or negli.gence. I speak not of those public documents. such as legislative enactments, oflicial rcports and judi cial proceeding. which tbe State has always preservedi with a careful and generous hand. but rather of those minor details which are forgotten until they are wanted. Some o- the most important of these neglected hits of history are parish registers. charters of charity organizations, the proceedings of town councils. biogra phies of public ne i and local. celeb rities: old sois and.. customs and hundreds of usages and customs which. if preserved in some substan tial and :aecessible form. would throw a flood of light" on the political and social life ott e State. Now all of this has in a. great measure been already done for the colonial and revolutionary periods M Ramsay, )alciho. Dravton, Moultrie, Brevard. Sims, O'Neall and others,. Since th; days of these men, bowev er, the science- o" history has. made such wonderful :progress that many fields of investigation have been opened up which we'e - scarcely thought of thirty years ago. In'spite, therefore. of the careful treatment of some subjects by these old histo rians of the State, there are other branches of inquiry'for light upon which the pages df even the best his tories of the State will be turned over- in vain. Original sources on such subjects afford-even less.satisfac tion, foir the few which remain -re often mutilated ' beyond. recognition. In thus recouintibg the trials and tribulations.of any one whose tastes may incline him to enter the delight ful and fruitful field of State history I do not wish to discourage him, but to illustrate the great need of tracing the stream to its fountain head, and the ease with which that course might with some care be followed. Thie case is niot a hopeless one, and the difficulties which present them-. selves can be easily overcome. To accomplish this result, however, will reqluire promp)t andl active worls. No one man in South Carolina can hope to achieve the splendid results of Mr. IIubert Bancroft, of California, whose researches, I believe, called forth the article in the News a2nd Courier. Gold mines are nearer to San Fran cisco than to Charleston. But there are already workers in the field~ and their labors might be encouraged and supplemented. The South Carolina Historical Society has in its library at Charleston the results of untiring andi patriotic work. It is to be hoped that your suggestion as to the publi cation of some of thne -material thus collected will be speedily carried our. Of the Southern States -both Mary land and Vrginia have of lute years been more active i-n this matter than South Carolina hras and the results have been most gratifying. As a matter of fact. some States which were unborn when the history of South Carolina had been several times written, no0w do- more in the way of co iectinig andi puishing his torical ma:terial than South Carolina does. arnd I recently heard of one man. but I hope th.at I was maisin formed. who, eame: all of thre way fromn the far West to write tire life ot one of tihe revoliitionary heroes of South Carolirm. Anrd yet everything relating to the histo)ry of tire Stat- is accorded a hearty welcome at ihome and abroadl. This was notabuly thre case with a pub lication, a few y1esrs ago, iby tire State board of agriculture, of the volume (-ntitled --South Carolina." w icas a clear and dispassionate account~ of the history. economy, ed uentional advan taeCs anid natural re sources of I he State waIs produactive ofmiod i nlfl Oi iriuence, arid wans miore highly praised than airy single book pubiished' in~ the State for many yea8rs. A nothI:r most pileasinrg arnd irmpor tant work in pre-se-rvi ng the histori cal material of the State is that which has been (lone by tihe woman who, by erecting mermorial shafts to record thre death of those who perished in hattle. lave at the same timin.. fur nishedl an] (-ndurinZ authority to tire studenit of the c-ivn war. I also un-i dersta:nd that thie v-arious regimernts of subliiers who went to the war from South Caro,i ina hrave for somec timrne past beeni actively engage~d in se-cur in the name-s of all 9f their comra de(ks. This work. I am confident, is n tot su fferi ng for ary lack of sympa ithy an i Leoragemfent. and when co'mpleted. it nrot~aluready so. it will be of i estimiable valune. Both in histori-al ua i geneaogical i n'-osn irat ionls the student of the re vol ution. ary peri i wvill hnt d hisel f seriously handicapped on ac-conunt of tihe fail ure by the State to preserv-e compiet( muster rolls of the Colonial regi rii~Ut. The action, therefore, of the surv ving soldiers of the civil war in thu collecting the names of their comrade is full of interest and encouragemeni All of such data relating to so m< mentous an epoch in the histor of the State will some day he wort their weight in gold, and it is to b regretted that more officers and so diers have not emulated the exampl of Mr. J..F. J.Caldwell of Newberr3 and reduced to writing histories c their regiments, as Mr. Caldwell, ha don~e in his "History of Gregg Brigade.' To me it seems that the lack of ir terest in the subject am(.ng peopi gener.ally is a prime cause of the it activity which prevails in collectin and publishing the historical m: terial of the State. It should, then fore, be the duty of all the disciplE of .Clio to evangelize the uncoi cerned. I apprehend that the coui tv papers will gladly aid the Neu and Courier in its efforts on the sul ject. In every town there are me who have acquired by their age an literary attainments a perfect min of information concerning famil: town, county and State history. '1 some extent- the county papers a ready publish reminiscences of theE gentlemen and they are always rea with interest. Such men are tl: true historians, and it is to be hope that they will continue their wor and that others will follow their e: amples. A county papei containin such articles, and on file in the roon of the South Carolina Historical S< ciety at Charleston, would be f much prized by the future historia as a medimval chronicle now is 1 the historian of Europe. . And again, in those communitih where - a historical society does n< already exist, such an organizatic would prove itself an endless sour< of pleasure and profit. I have knov such societies, the members i which have contributed articles to tI local papers by simply working ha moniously together and industoious! gathering all: of the old speeche diaries, public letters, traditions at other matters of interest. This m terial would be carefully filed awf and when a sufficient quantity hi been collected, it would be assort( and-classified, and in the local pap or, State Historical Magazine, whe there is one, there would pretty so< be published something of interef For this work young lawyers ha, been found especially adapted sin< by the examination of titles at other records they' soon acquire, fortunate enough to search mat titles, a great deal- of useful infc mation relating to local history. As a last, and I think, the me important method by which more i terest in the history of the Sta could be awakened, would be i more general intoduction into t schools as a study. When I was school in South Carolina all of t instruction in State history which t children received was that limit quantity which filtered through th< brains from the compact pages of -'general history." Unfortunate the same criticism may be ma about the schools of nearly eve other State. And yet it really do seem that Camden, and Cowpens, a: the events which led up to the could be made as attractive as Mai thon, and Salamis, and Tarentu There can be no question about t relative importance of the history Greece and the history of his Ste to a schoolboy in South Carolina. Very respectfully, BT:an JAMEs RAMAGE. New York, Monday, Jan. 30, 181 One Will Pray and the Other Wou London Ti '. Thc archbishop of York. has issui a prayer asking God "to remove tt great. trial which Thou hast sent u -i. e'., the small por epidemic.( this Dr. Dallinger, of Sheffield, w is an eminent man of science as w as a divine, says: '- ilyield to no man in rev jence for true prayer, but I will t you without flinching that I cann and will not, pray for the removal the smallpox scourge. It would a mockery of God. Let us do o best, and then in baffled agony< to God for help. But here we ha not helped ourselves, and how de we ask thc almighty to help us? I do our duty, act up to our knowled; and surely as the smallpox cui came among us by physical la broken, so it will depart from us we see to it that physical laws: obeyed." Leaped to His Death. AmE~N, Feh. 22.-George Powe of Portland, Maine, a guest ati IIigh land Park Hotel, jumped frot fourth story window of the he. about hialf-past 9 o'clock last nig during a fit of tempcrary insani and (lied from the effects of the I within half an hour afterwards. '] The only other occupant of his to at the time was his nurse, Mr. El The terrible fall was broken by pJiezz roof, and from there lhe fell the ground. An inquest was held d cay and a verdict that the decea: ca-ne to his death during a fit temporary insanity was rendered Ten Years at Hard Labor. W1xNonBoI, February 21.-In case of the State versus Chiar Veal, charged with assault with ragzeous intent, the jury, after a I hour's deliberation, returned a Idict of guilty. and the Judge sente ed him to ten years at hard labol Birth and Presiden tiul Eligibility. s s1etr York Herald. The agitation as to the place c General Sheridan's birth and hi eligibility to the Presidency i; brought to the HeraFd a batch of ii e quires concerning the law on th . subject. e The Coastitut'o i says: No person, except a natural br f citizen or a citizen of the Unite s States at the time of the adoption < s this constitution, shall be eligible t the office of Presidei,t. From this it will be seen that i e our early history any person < . alien birth, if a citizen at the time the adoption of the constitution, wi . eligibls to the Presidency, Alexa der Hamilton, for example, w. s eligible though horn in the We . Indies. There is still no constit . tional barrier to such persons, bi time has barred out all but citizei - of native birtb. n What is meant by a natural box d citizen ? In general, a citizen bor e t in the United States. But this not a rule without an exception. Pe o son3 born in a foreign country me . be native born citizens of the Unit( ,e States. On the other hand the] d may be those who first see the lig ,e in this country who are not citizer d -children of foreign Ministers, f< k example. Born at Washington the are citizens of England, or German g or whatever country their father re 5 resants. Parentage as well as pla< . of birth is to be considere . in dete s mining the citizenship of childrE n born either within or without ti y United States. A child born abroad of Americe s parents is in law a native bol )t American citizen and, if a male, el n gible to the Presidency. Tbat is, ,e the parents are citizens, and, lil n Mr. Blaine and family, are mere )f travelling or temporarily sojournit 1e in foreign parts. And the same m, r- be true of parents residing abroad f , years-as in the case of a iinist s or Consul in the service of our go d ernment. It matters not wheth a. tbe.parents are native or naturaliz citizens should take a foreign wi d in a foreign country a child born d them abroad would be an Americ. r citizen, since the citizenship of t e father determines that of bo n mother and child. t. Among the questions asked in t e numerous communications we ha :e received is this: Suppose a pers d was born in Texas before ts annex if tion by the United States, is he V natural born citizenand eligible 6 the Presidency? Our reply is tb he is not. He was born on forei= st territory, in a foreign country. I n. is an alien by birth. He became te citizen, not by virtue of his birl ts but by what is termed "col-ecti .e naturalization." He is therefore at naturalized, not a native born ci 2e zen. ae And this is also true of all perso ad who were born in Florida. Louisia tir and California before and becai a citizens after such territory was ly quired by the United States. Th ]e are not native born but naturaliz ry citizens of the United States. ad Committed to Jal for Beating I m- Lancastnr Le]ber. of On Tuesday last Mr. R. D). B ofrier, of Mount Pleasant, N. C., ,te response to a message from his sist Mrs. B. F. Welsh, swore out a per warrant at her request against B, ,Welsh, and thle matter came.up >once for a bearing before Trial J tice B. J. Witherspoon. Mrs. B. '-t We 1 , his wife, John R. Welsh, father, and Mrs. Harriet Welsh, mother appeared as witnesses agai ad the defendant. T.be testimony v tis such a narrative of brutality and c ,n elty on the part of B. F. Welsh )n his wife as to arouse the hot ind bo nation of the many spectators n all had gone into Court to hear the p ceedings. er If it had not been for the long a ell patient endurance of his nodle w ot, who has for so long a time sought of bide her troubles from the public, be Isavage husband would long ago b: ur been incarcerated to prevent his c ry Irages. On Tfuesday, however.1 e patience was exhausted and the st< re of her wrongs was told. We vent ,et to say that a mnore shocking hist eof cruel and brutal treatment b; se husband to a wife has rarely, it' es ws been told in a Court before. 'J if testimony developed that he I Lre cursed her, kicked andi beaten I leaving his marks and bruises on body, that hie had pursued her w~ sticks, on one occasion with a bute knife, presented pistols at her he threatening to blow her brains c rs, pursuing her from her home to e jmother-in-law's in the dead hour5 ai a' the nigh.t, where she fled for i tel tection lht, The trial justice, after hearing ty, testimony, was so impressed with 'all gravity of the chargcs against 'he Idefendiant and the danger that omwife was in, that he required a b is in the sum of $53,000 to keep ,hel peace. Hie was committed to jai to jdefault of bail. to-' _ _ _ _ :ed ProhIbition in Abbeville. The election on the question license or no license of the sah intoxicating liquors in A bbev County is ordered for the 3d the March. It is generally conce: les that prohibition will prevail. At t-ville County has twelve or thirt, alf: incorporated towns and villages w -er. in its limits, and all except Al nc- ville village have laws prohibiting -'in. sale of intoxicating liquors wit their limits. Israelite and Christian. COIX.vAu, Feb. 23.--For the sde f ond time within a year the Israelites, - s of Columbia are called upon to en- ur s dure the shock of having one of-their eh fair maidens forget her people, disre- bl e gard her religion and unite herself cc with a Christian. The firat of these events was reported in this corre-. P n spondence six months ago, the second w (I has just occurred. Some months in f ago W. E. McCartha, a lawyer, 23 m o years of age, came here from Ala- h bama. Before he had been in.this sp n city many weeks he met Miss Camile th >f Peixotto. a Jewess of' thirteen or p >f fourteen years of age, a daughter of fiz is J. C. Peixotto, a resident of this city lo i. and a man of some means. An at ki is tachment sprung up between the fi= at young couple and they met in secret p i- a number of times.' Their attach- it it ment became stronger, and they re- t1 is solved to become one in spite of the Jewish law. This resolution was- i u carried into effect at 4.30 thisafter- al n noon, when Mr. McCartba and Miss -s is Peixotto appeared at the residence w r- of the Rev. W. C. Lindsay and were ai y married by him. b d The bride sent a note to her pa- at e rents' to communicate the news, and ir it then the couple took the afternoon -. s train for Spring Hill, in this county, in )r where the groom has a position. a y When Mrs: 1eixott, heard of the sl y, affair she became greatly incensed, ' and proceeded in .haste to search en- s! e. availingly for McCartha. The father f< r- of the girl was no less angry and o n demonstrative at her conduct in mar- S i1 rying a gentile. There is mourning in the family -as for a deceased per. e .n son. .i . Wnat Blaine Would Have Done. if p Vew York Herald. - The possibility of Blaine meant LV the ascendancy of daring, ui'ncer r tainty, adventure, inventive genius, er the policy of dazzling government v. b'y lightning flashes; pottering over d er Chili and Peru and those lazy, half d clothed, greasy communities near the -l fe eqator, who live on bananas, doze int to the sa.nd: and think-they are repub v Ln lics, governing by sensation. one sur ie prise foilowirg another, and result th ing either in marvelous triumphs or ;gniominous, irretrievable ruin. This ie was what we were to have in l3laine, e and the fascination involved in such. n a -policy of fancy and caprice, the s. wooden nutmeg Bonapartism, was a among the sources 'of his st.ength.. to We shall have, on the. contrary, 'in at republican policy, promises of good r behavior, serene common sense, I anthracite rather than petroleum. a care about the finances, no sentTnen h, tal grievances over-suffering nation-' e alities, no Cuban revolutions or an a nexations, protection intensified, lay t ti- ish appropriations, and no philoso phical illusions that will disturb us vested rights. And we shall have a na party organization inspired by the ne fiercest passion known in moral Lc- science-such a 'pasSion as we read ey about in buccaneer.ing st-ories of the ed Spanish Main-the passion for gold. fired by the knowledge that the treas ury is .burdened to an overflow with li gold. General Harney's Dinit. ar- Texas Siftings. in The following story is told of Gen er, eral Harney, when be- was in com' cemand atCm erde. Texas. He F.was an intensely dignified officer, and at if there was one thing he -detested u.more than another it was undignified F,. haste. One evening, just as he was bi about to hold dress parade, he per is ceived that he had forgotten ois ist handkerchief, and as the weather was -as very hot, he said to his orderly: ru'Go to my quarters, quick, and to bring my handkerchief." S The orderly touched his cap and ho started-for the quarters, several hun ro. derd yards distant. After he had proceeded a short distance, remem nd bering that there was no time to lose, fe. lie broke into a trot. to -See that d-d scoundrel running ~he as if the Indians were after him. If ve there is anything I hate it is to see a ut. soldier running instead of marching er properly. IIere, my man." contin >ry ued Ilarney to another soldier, '"go re after that man and tell him to walk, .ry d-n him!" e a The se;.ond soldier st'rted after er, the first, but as tne first one kept on he' running, the second one saw his only ad jchance to deliver the message was er. ito hurry 01). so he. too. broke into a her~ run. T'o say that Harney swore is ith to use a mild expression. icr I lere, sergeant, go after that man ad. and tell him if he don't stop running ut. I'll hang him up by the thumbs." er The sergeant started out on a brisk of walk, but as his predecessor had a ro. good start, he too, began to run asi hard as he could. the "Ift all three scoundrels ain't run the ning like jack rabbits !" ejaculated the Harney. --i'll show 'em," and tucking his Ihis sword under his arm, lie started 'nd in pursuit as fast as lie could run, the b ut suddenly remembering his digni. tin ty. he came to a halt and walked stiff ly back to the place where the dlreSs liarad~e was to come of. A Real Test of Endurance. So ChicagoI Tribune. ile A man walks 621 miles in six days. of and the exploit is paraded far and led wide as something phenomenal. be Another man Mght read 621 pages in een the Congressional Record in the same; ih- length of time, and his claim to no be- Itoriety would be hooted at. Yet, ini the jpoint of real endurance, how immeas hin urably his achieven:ent would over-' ton the other. A Study in Black. New York Ierald. Everybody likes: tc :lgok at .a pict e. Ie joedra.n.a.btf arcoal. It is not quite a study in ack and white, becazse the white is nspicuously wanting. The point of outlook is one of the inther Creek coal mines. -A striker io is leaning against a broken pal g, and who bas- not had a square eal for nobody .knows, how ,Iong, s. just said. sullenly to our ..orre ondent, "Ve lives.up to.what we ink is right," and again, "It's.the -inciple. like, of the thing we're ;hting for. We will lose. We always se in fights with the bosses, but we iw we're . right and- we..mean.. to ;ht to the ast." Hungry, iil fed. >lclothel, badly bonsed,.he still sists that 'the principId,.-like, .f e thiim" is 'worth a sacSfiee. "How about' your suffering f:ami ?s" is 'the" next question, aj" the iswer; with a scowl, is -"Coom' ati' e !" A wretched''hut, one child ill ith. diphtheria, but she will get well; iother -one tossing restlessly on the d, siek'ith-fever-.she is doomed id is perhaps dead- before tis' writ g. The sight was -too much-for-the an, who suddenly eried out=with [petuous anguish :--"Dom it, coom vay! " and started -with our corre )ondent for the outer air". When the -miner:got his breath,he Lid: "It's a-bazd to bear. .Its harder r the. woman than-for me... I goes at and -stands .about. inthe :open. b be is there night..and day.". Those strikers. have, not bad an - isy time of .it,.butsemehowthey got -into their heads that. they. w.ere in ie riaht. The picture.is as suggestive as it is itiful. he Thieving Peer and the False Teeth London Vanity Fair: A. certain Briti hpeer suffers froni snia, aniid i name as well as his istressing malaay is kept careiully Dvered uL. The other day his Idid= bip 'pui-loined- his* countess'.~false' eth and tid theminhisboot. }1 w let, who etpties 'the' boot every ight and restores -stolen property Sought- the teeth belonged -to" nother"-lady. and- sent them t9h "er - ith a politely worded note which he - as always nsed for:similar.emergen ies. It was not till the. countes:- s ad inquired for her teeth-and ths - iessenger was kicked. by-the other _ %dy's. husband that things were pu ight. Heavy Life Insurances. - Syracuse JFrnal. = . The mos,t heavIly-insuied man iu he United States is Dr..David, os .:. etter, the aggregate of whosepoliCies.. eaches $800,000. le~ intended to .dd' $200,0'00' more to iake the suis 1,000,000, but his prolonged filees as prevented airy further steps in bat direction. The three other mos teavily-insured men ini the Uitted tates are Hlam4itn'Diston, of Thil uLelphia. $400,000; :George K.- An- , lerson, of Chicago,-S350.000, and P ~orillard, of New. Jersey. $31O000. )r. oes tetter-1eft Pittsburg, Pa. tifs veek in his friy-ate.c'i, accomnpenied >y his . physician and son,, for a. trip ;o California in- search of renewed S ,ealth. - R~ailrOad"Notes . Capt. Lewis has finished the bridge at the' crossing of the Chester road >ver the track of the railroad, mak ng a neat and-substantial structure. ie has also placed the -tempiorary imbers for the bridge of-the -Chester and Lenoir 'Railroad, under which ~he Charlestoni, Cincinnati and'Chi ~ago will run. This b.rdge wilit-e a- -- substantial structure of stone and ron. T be masonry. will be done by -ritiin and Gorton, who are, now making preparations fo.r the work or which an immense quantity of stone will be required. The deep cut -the heaviest work now on Grffina and Gortons contract-approach ing the crossing under the C. and L.; track, is progressing satisfactorily. Our latest information as to the I~ progre'ss of track-laying is to the effect that the rails have been laid to~ a point twelve miles south of Lan easter. Concluded to. Try a Ne w Metho - Mordwntd Traarder. "Young man," said the bank pres ident to an applicant for employ ment; "do yon smoke,' "Yes, sir." "Chew ?" "Yes, sir. "Under adequate provocation" "Play poker ?" -- "Yes. sir. quietly among friends "Drink ?" - - "Occasionally."- -- "Bet on horse races ?" "When I get a good tip.".2 The president scratched his head . and looked thoughtful. After a4 pause, he said : "Young man, you.just turfn in an.d . try your hand at being. cashier of this bank for a whbile." - Not time Genuine Article. A man named Curtis has been im prisoned in New York for acting as a bogus lawyer. Having never taken big fees from boodie-rs for advising - them to run their fraudulent schemes. and then made an oration on the Ii * cense of the newspaper boss, it 'was . evident that he could not be agen uine New York lawyer, and to prison