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THE COURANT. I’ubliHhed Every Thursday, UARTKKMILLK, tiKOKUIA. 7 HE COURANT i* pnbli*Ked erery Thursday morning and in dtlirered by carrier* in the city or maihd, pottage free. at f1 HO a year; n.x, month*. 30 cent*; three month*, 50 cent*, A DVERTISINQ It A TKS depend on locution in the paper, and tcili be fmm inked on applies lion, CORRESPONDS SC E containing important note* eolicited from all parte of the county. A D l>lt KSS all letter*, communication* and te,l~ egramt, and make all dr (ft* or check* i/ayable to TllK COL'KANT, Carterxville. Ga. Official Organ Bartow County. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. SEPTEMBER l<>, HBS. Wk wish again to state distinctly and emphatically that Dr. Felton does not write one word of our Atlanta liters, lie floes not know the contents of these letters until he reads them in Thk COU KANT. Tiik Coukant was the recipient of a fine lot of peaches a few days ago, pre sented hy Hon. G. L. Humphries, mem ber of the Legislature from DeKalb county. Asa rule peaches have been in f<¥ ior in this county —but those were per fect, luscious, delightful. In the long ago we were acquainted in old DeKalb, and this timely remembrance brings back a memory of the happy past. Our old county is fortunate in having so faithful a representative as the Hon. Mr. Hum phries, who is as reliable as he is able. The Methodist foreign mission board is over one hundred thousand dollars in debt with no immediate hope or prospect of getting out of the trouble. What a mockery foreign missions are, when right here at home in Georgia there are men and women absolutely ignorant of the Master’s name. Let us convert our own people, brethren.—Athens Chronicle. To those who are disposed to criticise some of us who presume to speak a word in season, we commend the above to their careful consideration. Let us do our duty to the heathen, but let us also do our duty to the poor people among us, and especially let us be honest to God and man in paying up all just debts be fore we contract new ones. The North Georgia members of the Legisla ture appear to be opposed to the sale of the State Head. We should rather sec Georgia out of debt than to own two railroads.—Dalton Ar gus. Are we to understand by this that the Argus favors the sale of the State "Road for this reason alone? Remember it is a property that returned to the lessees dur ing last year,the enormous sum of $1,130,- 000 as freights and passenger profits. That profit managed hy honest parties for the benefit of the State would soon pay off principal and interest of the State debt and leave the property intact, to be a continual source of revenue to the State. Bro. Argus, you would not sell your printing press and circulation to pay a debt of a hundred dollars, but yon would work that property and pay it without trouble. Georgia will have killed the goose that lays the golden eggs when she sells her bust paying property. SA YE TUP MOSEY. There are now in this State, we un derstand, six inspectors of guano who get SI2OO for a few hours labor on guano shipments. The same persons are also inspectors of oil—for which they get i.U'ge fees. The fees from the oil inspec tion ought to go direct to the State. We also understand that this work is done in the different districts by a man employ ed in tho cities or large towns by these paid inspectors—who gets about S3OO for the work, and the rest, goes clear into the State employee’s pocket. It is said that M aeon, Atlanta, Columbus, Augusta and Savannah, with Rome and Brunswick, pay nearly $7,000 as fees in oil, to pay men who already draw SI2OO each. Ten thousand good business men in these cit ies and in the vicinity could discharge both duties for the SI2OO salary. As it now stands one draws S3OO for making guano tests while the other draws SOOO for letting him do it, and gets guano fees for nothing. This whole fertilizer busi ness needs investigation. VOSt’NT FIT US. 'I lie objection of the Cartorsville Cotrant to tlio proposed schoolhonse for Miss Laura Hay good might equally as well be applied to all mis sionary enterprises. The fact seems to be over looked that the heathen of our land are respon sible for their own condition, amt that work upon them is generally wasted, while those of foreign lands are anxious for the light if they could lo brought to sec it.—Atlanta Constitution. Thk Couhant yields to no one, in hon est respect for the faithful Christian work of our missionaries in China, nor are we objector* “to a school house for Miss Laura Haygood” in China. As an hum ble Methodist, a native of Georgia, and one who has a warm interest in the heathen of our own land —we simply begged for a less costly school house in China for the Mongolian that a little more attention should bo given to the heathen in our midst, whose morals and manners so vitally affect our progress and civilization. If it is also true that the Methodist Foreign Mission Board is SIOO,OOO in debt, we now think the $25,- 000 school house should wait until other money matters are settled. The present state of things in joining Territory with six hundred Chinese murdered, burnt out and driven into exile by our own white heathen, would indicate the necessity for a little attention to home missions while we are so absorbed in re gard to China. We do not like the Con stitution to limit the promise of the Father to our own heathen; and what shall lie said of the people who allow their own households to suffer while they grow maudlin over Mrs. Jellaby’s heath en in foreign lands? We confess to a much greater interest in the poor white and colored children in Georgia—upon whose good conduct so much depends for us and cur children than for the Chinese who are very choice spirits in China—in a $25,000 school house, but who are de spised lepers, hated and butchered in civilized America. Rev. Sam Jones: l have little taste for theology and botany, but I love religion ! ud flowers. \ TIIK XVAGE* OP MS—DEATH. On Monday mornine, August 31st, a rnan by the name of Tom Davis bade his fashionable family good-bye, and went to his down-town office, in New \ ork City. His home was an elegant one, and his estate was valued at SGO,OOO. His family consisted of a wife and three young boys, under fifteen years of age. They have been gay, fashionable people, all the summer, with the visitors at Co ney Island and Kockaway Beach. This was the outside history, but Tom Davis did not let his family into the secrets of his inside history. Most likely, they were* entirely innocent of his trade and ignorant of his real character. He be gun life by clerking for a clothing swin- dler on commission. His duty was to be guile purchasers into clothing stores, and for every fellow he fleeced he was paid a commission. He next speculated on false jewelry—sold it for real—and made many dollars. When the war broke out he managed a bounty brokerage, in which the soldiers were swindled. At this he made a great deal. Then he ran a faro game. At this he is reported to have lost so much that he turned to pock et-picking in his necessity. He then followed prize-fighters around, betting on muscle, and gratifying his taste at the same time. He was a pal with a bank robber, his brother-in-law. He always escaped prison, however, and generally made money. Ho next took to betting on walking matches, and he made six thousand dollars on Rowell in a rowing match. He raced horses, and he manag ed roller-rinks, lie kept all this busi ness from his family, however, and they floated on the top of the wave of pleas ure. Such was the situation on Monday forenoon, when he met a great brawny Texan at the Continental Hotel, in New York City, and made an appointment with him to call at Davis’ office to finish their business that had been negotiating some days. The Texan went at two o’clock, and Davis sold him SIO,OOO in counterfeit bank bills, for which the Texan paid SSOO cash. The room in which they sat had a partition. In that partition was a door, hut it was conceal ed behind a large desk. A3 the Texan sat there he saw Davis place the counter feit bills in the Texan’s saehel and push the saehel towards the edge of the desk. He also saw a secret hand slide that sach et behind the desk. On this he arose, placed a pistol to Davis’ breast, and called out, “I’m on to your game, gim me back my money.” The hidden con federate was afraid to push it back at once, and the Texan shot Tom Davis. He died on the spot. The Texan was arrested, admitted the shooting, and the saehel was recovered, filled with three bundles of blank paper, resembling the missing counterfeit bills. Davis’ broth er was found to be the confederate, and the secret room was full of the tricks of the trade. In the dead man’s pocket there were nearly six hundred dollars in good money, and his desk was full of stocks and bonds, which were examined and spread around in this blood-bespat tened den of crime. We have carefully traced the career of this man who led dual lives; one of fash ionable respectability at Coney Island, with a brilliant wife and three bright young sons, and the other in a counter feit den, dealing in “sawdust.” Such a life had a fitting close—the work he did was worthy of the wages he received. What a lesson to the boys of this coun try ! Honesty is the best policy, hero as well as hereafter. From tricking inno cent people into shoddy clothing his descent into crime was rapid and easy. From a little beginning, the coun terfeiter progressed into the intricacies of great crimes—and he found—the wa ges of sin to be death! Ah! but who can tell the agony of that wife and chil dren? AS EX PLAN A TION IN ORDER. The telegraphic wires are sending the news far and wide that Chinese laborers in Wyoming Territory are being massa cred by white citizens their homes burnt, and the survivors driven belter skelter into hiding places until tlieir pur suers catch up with the homeless crea tures to complete the final work of mur der and destruction. The Pacific coast is said to be ripe for a similar massacre, and it is evident the Chinese must either go or the United States will be obliged to hang its own white citizens by the score for murder. Will somebody please explain the rea son why the Mongolian is so precious to Christian hearts when the Pacific “rolls between”, and so obnoxious to American people when there is nothing but land in the way. In other words the Christian churches spend millions to evangelize China and when Chinamen come among us to honestly earn their daily bread in a land of churches and bibles, we give them mmuie-balls and the torch of ex termination ! If converted Chinese are taught by Christian men and women from America to believe that this a free country, where every man and woman can learn Christ without hindrance and if these poor converted heathens come here to seek a Christian home, and en deavor, by working honestly for it, to be no burden to the people living here, why do our do our people return shot and powder as a welcome, and kindle in cendiary torches beneath their humble abodes—as a hint to shorten their stay ? Just as sure as there is a God in Heav en this will bear fruit that will taste bit ter in the years to come! We have made hypoeeutical treaties time and We claim all and give none in our policy—and when the Chi nese come as laborers—to increase the wealth of our country —we butcher their bodies and leave their souls to get along as best they can in bloodshed, cruelty and injustice. As gamesters would say, “ Put up or shut up,” and it is time this question was settled and a fair explanation given. Mr. llarry Phixizy is making the Athens Chronicle one of the very best weekly papers in Georgia. Tke Coc kant feels that it has a rival worthy of its best efforts, and we extend the right hand of fellowship to an able arid active contemporary. TUP I) EPIC IT IS TUE TREASURY. The present existing deficit in the treas ury, upon the statement made this morn ing to vonr correspondent by Treasurer Hardeman, is over $250,000. A few days awo the State was forced to borrow $30,000 to pay for work on the new capitol, and she has already exhausted or nearly so a temporary loan of $172,000. It is prob able that there will be a like deficit in the treasury next summer, and each succeed ing summer, until this running deficit is wiled out by a sufficient increase in the rate of taxation. In explanation of this deficit, it is stated that it grew out of a change in the fiscal y< a-- in 1881. At the instance of Comptroller General Gold smith, in 1877, the fiscal year was chang ed so as to begin October 1, instead of January 1. In 1881 the fiscal year was changed back to Janary Ist, without making any provision for three months ] o ,t_Gt.>ber, November and December. The failure to make appropriations to cover these months created the deficit in treasury, which still exists. The State is prosperous enough and rich enough to have an easy treasury. While it would be unwise and an unnecessary and outrageous burden on the people to carry a large surplus, there ought always to be on hand funds to meet the current expenses of the government. It looks like bad financial management to see the State run out into the street every sum mer and solicit small loans. Even accepting the statement now made by the financial committee it must he plain to them that the margin in the treasury is far too small and uncertain. It is small and uncertain enough for De cember 31, ISSG when the taxes have been coming in for three months, but how will it be in the August preceding. It does not need further argument or figures to show that the matter is a press ing one and a serious one. If is to hi* hoped that the finance committee and tin* Legislature will find some way to meet it better and ill a mure business like way than they have yet done.—Atlanta Cor respondent Macon Telegraph and Mes senger. It is due to the committee on finance to say that they hope to come out square and even, if the state has no bad luck this fall, and if taxes come in as assessed, and no state depositories break and the appropriations of this legislature do not exceed $17,000, they hope to see the state pay out, and leave a small amount in the treasury to run next year’s expen ses. Let us hope they will find the way easy, and the road smooth to the desired end. Our thanks are due to the bravo men on the committee who signed a mi nority report that made a full examina nation necessary. There is no wrong doing, no defalcation, but the state has a heap of money to raise, and our people should go slow, when that money comes out of the tax-payers of Georgia, who, in .the rural districts, have worked so hard and lived so plain, during the past three years of poverty and poor crops. Man age the state’s business on common sense principles. When times are hard, let all draw in expenses, and when they are flush, go ahead within reasonable limits. ATLANTA LEXTER. Atlanta, Ga. Sep. 7,1885. Te latest development in the Arm strong matter, is that the vestry of St. Phillip’s church was in session nearly all day Saturday, investigating the case. The result of their deliberations was the promulgation of the following resolu tions : Resolved, that after careful and thor ough investigation of the reports which have been printed upon Rev. Dr. Arm strong, it is the opinion of this vestry that the facts do not demand the with drawal of confidence in our esteemed rector. Resolved, That we hereby tender to Dr. Armstrong and family our sympa thy to the mortification and distress to which he has been subjected, and in the work of the Master wo invoke the mer cy ana blessing of God upon his life and labors for the good fit' others. The appearance of the resolutions in yesterday’s paper created considerable discussion. The public seemed to regard the resolutions as evasive. They do not say enough. They simply feay “ the facts do not demand the withdrawal of confidence in our esteemed ,“ rector.’ Now, if the unfortunate charges against Dr. Armstrong are not true, it is due to him and to the public that vestry should have explicitly said so; and this the in vestigators do not say There is more at stake in this case than the mere reputa of Dr. Armstrong. The mere of an individual will not repair the wrong done the cause of reli gion. The wrong can only be repaired— even in part —by an absolute acquittal of the Doctor from all these uncanny charg es, or of his conviction. Compromise will not do, and evasion is worse. I have no opinion as to whether the Doc tor has, like all Christians, tripped on the narrow, thorny path or not, for the re port of the vestry, in its resolutions, is not explicit. Yesterday, Dr. Armstrong preached — his first appearance in St. Phillips since these ugly reports of his conduct in Cin cinnati. He began by saying, “I cannot, my brethren, suppress my feelings wnich are upon my heart just now, nor conceal the deep appreciation and the unfeigned gratitude which I teel to the press of the city of Atlanta and I might say to the whole people of Atlanta and to the mem bers of my own parish and to my vestry for the l sympathy, confidence and strength that they have given me during the last two weeks when clouds were rolling over my life. Believe me, that that appreciation and gratitude are com mensurate with the sympathy, confidence and strength which you have given me.” The Doctor chose for his text the 21st verse of the ninth chapter of Matthew: “If I may but touch His garment I shall be whole.” AX OLD CLOTHES FIGHT. Some time ago Mr. Brandt, of Rich mond, introduced a bill prohibiting im portation into this State and sale thereof of second-hand clothes. The committee on public health reported the bill unfa vorably. To-dav Mr. Brandt moved to disagree with that report. He wanted the bill passed because the importation of secand-hand clothes is the most prolific means of introducing diseases there is. He read letters from the health officers of Macon and Savannah, certifying to his position. Mr. Watkins, of Gilmer, of the com mittee on public health, opposed the bill. The second-hand clothing imported is always of the best class of goods. Be fore they are sent out they are thorough ly steamed and disinfected. The men handling these clothes would not subject themselves to danger of catching obnox ious infections or contagions, and they are more subject to the possibility than any one else. It is cheap, new clothing dealers, who want a stop put to selling second-hand clothing, because it com petes directly and successfully with them. The report was disagreed to, and the bill read a second time. It will likely pass. LEGISLATION FOR BARTOW. On Saturday Mr. Fite’s bills to abolish the county court of Bartow county and to establish a city court for Cartersville, with jurisdiction over the whole county, were passed. It is provided that the solicitor general, clerk, and sheriff of Bartow Superior Court be ollieers ex-of ficio of the city court. The judge is to be appointed bv the Governor and con firmed by the Senate. Judge G. S. Tumlin, the judge of the county court, it is said, has given entire satisfaction, and he could be ap pointed judge of the city court without opposition; but as he has decided not to be a candidate there are several appli cants for this judgeship, among whom are J. J. Conner, J. B. Conyers and E. 1). Graham. The bills now go to the Senate. THAT CORNER STONE. The laying of the corner-store drew only a moderate crowd from outside the city. Gen. Lawton’s speech was deliv ered in a tone so low as not to be heard twenty yards from him. The address is praised by old Georgians as being pru dent and judicious. The Masonic cere monies were the feature of the day. Senator Davidson, as Grand Master Ma son of the Grand Lodge of the State, of ficiated. The ceremonies were interest ing, and performed smoothly. NOTES. The local option bill comes up Tues day. It will create great discussion. Your exchanges continue to copy from these letters without giving credit. Most of them got their information on the Armstrong affair from the Coukant. The Rome Courier, or Bulletin, credits these letters to Dr. Felton. Please “twig” its ears. The House held an adjourned session at the opera house Fridray night to see the minstrels. Mr. Connell put in his appearance this morning, the first time for over a week. Larry Gantt seems to have “smoked him out of his hole.” Adjournment cannot bo had before Oct. Ist. The Courant’s article on the Western & Atlantic railroad last week was a sen sation. Copies of the paper were eager ly sought by senators and members. Chamberlain & Boynton’s really mag nificent store building is rapii&y nearing completion. It will be occupied within a few weeks. Lizzie May Ulmer appears at the opera house here on the 10th inst. The committee on finance have report ed favorably a bill to levy a special tax of one-half mill tor building the capitol. You will remember that the capitol was to built out of the surplus in the treasu ry. This bill provides for the surplus, and that is the only surplus out of which the building could be erected. The House meets in the afternoon from 4to 0 o’clock. The night sessions proved unpopular, and were abolished. They may be resumed later on. THE REASON WHY. The state sentae rejected recently Mr. Northerns bill requiring the teaching in rhe public schools of the hygienic effects of alcohol and other stimulants upon the human i r one. The bill had been called for by the W. C. T. U., in session in Columbus, in May; by the Stute Temperance Associa tion in June, in Atlanta, and perhaps by every temperance orgauiz ri*m in the state. The teachers of the public schools themselves favored it, and, so far as the writer knows, without exception; the state school commissioner favored it, and there was not a shadow of opposition manifested to the bill by any of the edu cating or moral forces in the country. The measure was certainly backed by all the elements which had a right to be heard on the subject. Why then should it have failed of prompt passage? Clearly, if the matter be referred to its own merits, only one of the two answers can be given. Either the subject of hy gienic instruction must have been regard ed as of too little relative importance to occupy any of the pupils’ time in school, or, the teaching must have been presum ed likely to propagate errors, or inculcate false views into the minds of children. As to the former of these objections, we may answer, that a modicum of modesty in law-makers who are not themselves teach ers, nor, presumably, experts in the science of pedagogies, would naturally suggest to them that some deference was due to the men and women who have the teaching to do, or to supervise, and who, with no additional cost to the state, are willing to take upon themselves the labor. Some deference was certainly due to those moral and religious organizations which have been chief promoters of the intelli gence and morality of the country. But is not hygiene of enough importance to demand for itself a place among the re quired duties of the common school ? Is it not of a* much value for the pupil to know his own body and that which is ben eficial or injurious to ii, as to know the map of Africa, or to solve problems in compound proportion? Would not the poor slave of alcohol or tobacco gladly give up all his geography and arithmetis to be free from the thialdpm of an arti ficial appetite ? And the probabilities are that he would never have lost his man hood and h&y become the object he now' is, had the truth **en thoroughly ingrain ed into his very fibre in his childhood. The great arriy of inebriates who com menced tippling through social influences, or, perchance, through somebody’s pre- scription, how had the common school teacher but torn the veil from the stinging adder, aud j 'shown the wreck of nerves and muscles, J which alcohol strews in its track. Say- j ing nothing of crushed hopes, and bleed- j ing, despairing hearts, which curse the day of their birth and die ; nothing of the crime, poverty, and mental and moral degradation which always follow such in dulgence, still we have a thousand reasons why the child should know what will ben fit or injure him. In fact, no other study in his curriculum has*such direct bearing up on his health and his morals, as that which teaches him to*conserve and prop- erly use his wealth of nerve and muscle forces, from which all the energies of life must be developed, and upon which all industry must depend. Is it of no im portance to the child to know these things? It seems too absurd to even discuss such a question. But what of the other horn of the dilemma? Is error so likely to be in culcated that the patriotic senators seek to prevent it. It was proposed to use, as a text book, a little work of 207 pages, pre pared by Prof. Palmer, Dean of the Med ical Faculty of the University of Michigan. This work, entitled “Hygiene for Young People,” was prepared by its eminent au thor especially for common schools and intermediate classes. It is richly illustra ted with cuts showing the forms and mu tual actions and relations of the various organs of the body. The whole bodily apparatus is presented in its natural, healthy state, as well as in its abnormal condition, as superinduced by the use of narcotics or stimulants. All is presented so simply that any intelligent child of ten years can easily understand the whole subject. In fact, the writer knows of children who read the book for the enter tainment and instruction it affords. But does it teach error ? Which of the honor able senators will dare attempt to convict the author either of falsehood or of mis statement? If the book contains either, it is before the world, and can easily be re futed. On the contrary, nothing in it is controverted, nor will refutation be at tempted by any respectable, competent authority. The subject, then, both from its own importance and the trustworthi ness of its text-book, demands a place in the curriculum. Why, then, was it re fused? The real motive is too apparent to be dissembled. The liquor party would not have the truth taught to the children, and their most obedient servants in the senate of Georgia dare not disobey their mandates. The good people of the state may desire the plain, unvarnished truth of science taught to the children, but the red-nosed bacchanals of the saloon need but raise a warning finger, and the average senator falls into line with an alacrity that would be amusing, were it not disgusting and humiliating. The truth cannot be taught in any in stitution under state control, provided, it may militate against the interests of the dram-sellers. Was ever the slavery of a great state more abject ? If “scientific instruction on the effects of alcohol upon the human body” inculcates falsehood, why do not the “saloonatics” meet it with counter-science and over throw it ? Is anything easier or more con vincing than scientific demonstration ? What honest man fears the truth? No better evidence of the baseness of a cause could be furnished than the unwillingness of its adherents to have the clear, impar tial light of incontrovertible truth thrown upon it ? Yet there is, to-day, the atti tude of the senate of Georgia with refer ence to one of the plainest, most unmis takable propositions ever submitted to a body of even ordinary intelligence. Nearly half the states of the union have already incorporated such instruction in their public school system, and it is only a question of time when Georgia will fol low suite. The time, too, will come, when these servants of the liquor ring, now dishonoring the Georgia senate, will leave their records as a legacy of shame to their children. This senate has enacted but little legislation of value ; it has pre vented much which the interests and morals of the people loudly call for. The good of the state imperatively demands that these obstructionists and tools of the rum power be severely left at home, when the next legislature is chosen. One of the People. AFTER DR. GREGORY'S SCALP. N. Y. Sun. Washington, Sept. 3.—“ Do you know we are going to have Gregory remoyed from the civil service commission as an offensive partisan ?” inquired an Illinois democrat to-day. “Well, we are,” he continued, “or rather we are going to see whether the administration means business and intends to enforce its own rules as impartially when civil service reformers are involved as when a poor clerk is the offender, We are going to find out if a civil service commissioner can go about the country and then home to vote, all at government expense, and not be called to account for it, when other men are removed for the same thing. Here Is what I mean,” and the Illinois man drew from his pocket some papers and read as follows: The enacting clausa of the civil service act provides that the members of the commission shall each receive a salary of $3,500 per year, and each of said com missioners shall be paid his necessary travelling expenses incurred in the dis charge of his duty a3 a commissioner. The duties of the commissioners, as in terpreted by themselves, causes them to travel about the country overseeing ex aminations of such persons as desire to enter the civil service of the United States. On November 10,1884, Dr. J. M. Gregory was paid the expenses for a trip which he made to Illinois, of which the following are items: Oct. 27—Fare to Chicago, limited express 50 Oct, 23—Cab 25c.; meals en route, three dollars 3 25 Porter, 50e.: sei vice and pa pers, 20c 70 Oct. 29 and SO—Service, papers and cars 1 05 Oct 31—Hotel, Grand Pacific 15 It Xov. l_Fare to St. Louis 8 70 Omnibus, 50c.; dinner, porter and papers, $1.55 2 0o Xov. I—Lodging, Decatur 7o Service, porter, breakfast 75 have been thinned, Nov. s—Omnibus, S' - . Louis, 50c.; papers and service, 95c 1 45 Nov. o—Hotel bill, South’n hotel, 1 45 Fare, Chicago, $8.70; berth $2, 10 70 Carriage, 50c.; porter and pa pers and service, $1.10; meals $1.50 3 10 Nov. 7—Fare, Washington, $17.50 berth $5 22 50 Nov. B—Porter, 50c.; meals, $1.50 carriage, 50c 2 50 Notary ’3 fee 25 Total $lO5 07 This expense account was made out in regular form upon blanks for that pur pose, and sworn to as follows: United States to John M. Gregory, Dr: For traveling expenses, while travel ling in the discharge of duty under or ders of Civil Service Commission from Washington to Chicago and St. Louis and return, as per itemized statement, $105.- 07. I certify that the above account is cor rect and just, and that the detailed items charged within are taken and verified from a memorandum kept by me; that the amounts charged for subsistence were actually paid, and were occasioned by official business or unfavorable delays, requiring my stay at the hotels for the time specified ; that I performed the jour ney under order hereto annexed, with all practicable despatch, by the shortest usu ally traveled route, in the customary sea sonable manner, and that I have not been furnished with transporation or money in lieu thereof for any part of the jour ney. Joiw M. Gregory. Sworn and subscribed to before mo at Washington, D. C., this 11th day of No vember, 1884. Thos. J. Myers, Notary Public, Received at Washington this 10th day of November, ISS4, from Leroy D. Tho man, special disbursing agent United States Civil Service Commission, the sum of $105.07 in full payment of the übovo account. (Signed in duplicate.) John M. Grbgory. 1 certify the account is correct and just. L. D.Tuoman, United States Civil Ser vice Commission. “Now,” continued the Illinois man, “according to the records of the Civil Service Commission an examination was held in Chicago on Oct. 30, 1884, and Dr. Gregory attended it. There was one held on Oct. 31 in St. Louis. Dr. Greg ory did not attend this examination. Did Dr. Gregory go to St. Louis on Nov. 1, which was Saturday ? There was no examination to bo held on that day. Did he actually go to St. Louis at that time at all? The hotel bill liled with his account, and tire account itself when closely scanned, would indicate that he did not. On the other hand, we can show that he went to Decatur on the Ist, stayed over Sunday with his friends, went to Harristown, Macon county, on Monday, and on Monday night delivered a bitterly partisan speech. lie remained in the vicinity the next day, and voted, and did not go to St. Louis until the sth, the day after the election. Did lie have any special business in St. Louis the week after the examination had been held? Did he put in more than one day’s work for the Commission during the twelve days that he was gone, and is not $lO5 07 a good deal to pay in the way of expense for one, or possibly, two days’ services? Is it the nearest and cheapest way from St. Louis to Washing ton by Chicago? Was not the whole tour planned, as appeal’s on its face, as a trip at Government expense to make par tisan speeches and vote the Republican ticket? “Here are copies of newspapers giving an account of I)r. Gregory’s offensive partisanship. The Decatur Review says: “The good Doctor’s speech, made in Decatur the week before election, is a subject of record as published in the Re publican the next day. That at Harris town on the night before election was not so fully reported, but exists in the mem ories and the note books of his friends. This one was the more damnable because of its being in the nature of an ex ca thedra given to those supposed to place great confidence in his judgment. He then said he hail carefully examined the charges made against Mr. Blaine’s official life and unhesitatingly exhonerated him from any official wrong, that he believed him to be as innocent as a new-born babe, and that he believed on the morrow the Arritrican people would sustain his views by triumphantly electing Mr. Blaine to the Clxief Magistry of the na tion. If Cleveland was made president the country would be put back to the condition of things in 1861; that the De mocracy of the North w'as but the tail of the dog, and that the administration would be controlled by the Southern brigadiers. He said that any one visiting the two Houses of Congress while in session, as he had done, and seeing the brigadiers, all on the Democratic side, could not help but tremble for his country whenever there was a prospect of the Democracy coming into power, lie meqtioned many names of Senators from the South who had taken part in the rebellion, giving statements of what they had done. He paid his respects to Harris of Tennessee, Brown of Georgia, Lamar of Mississippi, and Wade Hampton of South Carolina, claiming that they still gloried in what they had done and would repeat in when ever they had a chance. lie also said that if Mr. Cleveland was elected Presi dent he would take seventy-five cents for every dollar of property he owned, while if Rlaine was elected he should want $1.25 for every doiiar. l{e said that be fore God he believed that the election of Blaine meant peace, prosperity, and na tional grandeur, while the flection of Cleveland would bring with it a train of evils almost beyond comprehension. Dr. Gregory said also in Deoatur, before a select company, that he believed the elec tion of Cleveland be a public ca lamity, and that Cleveland’s nomination, when spoken in comparison with Mr. | Elaine’3 wax regarded as arearoach. “I don’t know how hero look at these things,” cMKpod the Illi noisian, “but out the Demo crats don’t why, if a cross roads tacks up a political handbill is a tor removal, a man who makes the Government take him home to work and vote isn’t also a lit subject for decapitation. If Gregory is a reformer, will you p ease tell mo what a spoilsman is?” ♦ ON SULLIVAN’S ISLAND. A Graphic Account of the llocont Cyclone and its Kavnpos. Atlanta Journal. | I lie aged father and mother i between eighty and ninety years old) of our woll known fellow citizen, ,'jt. William B. Burke, of the famous “Old Book Store,” are residents of Sullivan’s Island. The following letter,written by this venerable lady to her son, describes in vivid lan guage the terrible ‘scenes of the late ey olone on that island and the personal ex perience of this aged couple. We print it as an interesting souvenir of that day ot horror and devastation : Sullivan’s Island, September 1, 1885. My Dear Son : Gratefully th inking a merciful God for the preservation of our lives first ot all, I will now try to give you a taint sketch of our experience as a family, A little after midnight we got up on account of the lightning more than the wind, for, although your brother told us when he come over Monday afternoon that the storm signals were Hying, I was very little alarmed and went to bed and slept until that time. The wind and rain kept increasing, and we awaited in much anxiety the time of high tide. I was sit ting in my room with the young baby, as it was the dryest room in the house, the wind having broken the glasses and blown iu the windows of the other rooms. When it was high tide the water was nearly up to the Damon cottage, and when l found it was no higher I breathed a sigh of relief, but looking a minute later I saw it madly rushing by us up the street. 1 remarked to Edmund it was very strange it should be so after high tide, l’ale as death, he nodded his head, and told me to give him the baby, lie threw ashawlovGr him and made for the Roberts’. He said his object was to got as near Welling’s as he could. Aftor a while he caine back almost exhausted, but did not tell us how bad it was, being afraid to frighten us, he said afterwards, and took little Eddie. Returning ho, car ried Emily and stayed. Your father and I then thought we would go over too. I apprehended no danger in going—noth ing worse that wading through the water. I took with me dry shoes and stockings, and socks for your father; but as ‘oon as I got in the water I found it would be very difficult to move through it. It was pouring rain in torrents, so I put my black shawl over ray head and pinned it, as I thought, secure, before I started. With great difficulty I got out our gate. The tide was then up to my waist, when the wind blew mo down, the shawl wound itself around my nose and mouth,and I found it impossible to extri cate it or to rise. I had gown down twice when I heard a voice say, “take hold of mo,” and felt my hand grasped by a strong black man, who pulled me up to a bank of earth near our fence, and told me to hold on while iie went after your father. He was inside our yard, lon the outside. I looked around, and never shall I forget the look of terror and blank ness on his face—uis nat gone and he try ing to grope on his hands and knees. With great difficulty we g'>t him to the fence, aud, exhausted and almost dead, we at last reached Mr. Welling’s, for it was impossible to reach the Roberts’. As soon as I got in I looked over to the house for Lousia and Katie. The}' were still iu it making signs iui help. The negro woman would not help to lift a child, or help in any way. I called for the man who had helped us and was still in the yard and prayed him to go to them. A German who lives on the other side of Wellings’ heard ine, and although he had been very ill, started for them. His wife, who was at Welling’s too, came to me and said, “Don’t fret, grandma; ray husband won’t see anybody lost without trying to save them.” When Katie saw them very near she attempted to go to them, bqt was swept oil’ her feet, and they had to lift her up and bring her. They then caught Louisa by her hand aud dragged her along. I then began to look anxious ly for Edmond, fearing he was dead, for I knew it must be something very unus ual to keep him from us at such a time. I waited in that awful suspense for near ly an hour, when he came in looking like a corpse and with a strong chill. I?e said he had fallen in his attempt to carry over the last child and had been picked up, and if every one of the rest of us bad per ished before his eyes he could not have put out his hand to help us. I’oor fel low ! he groans aloud whenever he thinks of it, and says if the storm signals are fly ing again, and it is possible for human beings to cross over to the citv ho will take U3 over. Thirteen houses in sight of ours were washed away and destroyed. Your kr. Absolutely Pure. 1 his powder never varies. Ain 'irvel of purity, strength an ! wholeso:neness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, a’.inn or phosphate powder-. Sold only in cans. KOYAL BAKING I’OWDEBt'O,. June 4-ly lf>o Wall St. X. V. 4. few more of those oil street lamps left at Y. L. Williams & Cc.