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E NEWS LN' THE STATES.
flTZHUGH LEE'S MESSAGE TO THE
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
li* p lan for Srttiln* the State Debt—The
etrikluE BnktmiD-Tbe Mnunohu-
ectte Flood*—John H. Ooucll
Dead — General New*.
Bicbuosd, VA » J
itz Hugh Lee sent In* flrat message to the
pcisluture to-day, treating entirely of the
ate debt question. He colls the attention
the Legislature to recent decisions ren-
red by the Supreme Court of the United
ntes which seriously affect the rights and
terests of Virginia. "Vor while we be-
, Te iu the sovereignty ot the btote, and
at under the constitution of the United
ntes she cannot be Bued by citizens
itliin her limits or by those without; and
kilo we recognize no distinction between
e State and its officers, because the State
ta by its Legislative, Executive and its
clicial authorities and can net in no other
l¥ . we are also firmly per
iled that the constant conflict
tween the courts and the State is an ag-
ition to the body politics and should
ase. Our financial condition, already
ffidently embarrassed, will, it is feared,
, f tiU further complicated by them, and it
hooves all departments and the State
•emment to labor and confer together so
,t lf possible a remedy may be provided,
e people of Virginia, idler a long and
imonious ugitotian of the debt question
ched in 18Hi and 1882 u settlement which
tinee reached the sunctioaof both polit-
parties of the State. From the
dtion thus taken the people will not re-
i). That sentiment reflects still the over-
"iming will of a majority of the people
Commonwealth that was reached
era long and exhaustive ugitutiun, nuj
lewnl of which would be injurious to the
( rests of creditors and of tho State, and
. representatives of tho people stand
deed to its maintenance nnd
,uld invoke every resource of law
■essary to enforce its acceptance by the
ditors. The governor then gives a re-
v of the States condition during nnd
e the war and the present situation of
irs as to the possibility of paying the
and says: "Rut it is vain to recupitu-
the difficulties of the situation, unless
• with a purposo of suggesting a rerne-
After a most careful consideration of
situation, with n full sense
official obligation, with n con-
ousncs.s of the difficulties which
round us, with a knowledge that oppo-
in to the sentiment which we have de-
■d is serious, 1 earnestly aecummend to
General Assembly of Virginia the ap-
intment of a commission whoso duties
all he plainly defined, whose powers
ill he carefully prescribed, guarded nnd
sited, that no misconception can be in-
ged in on the part of any one. Such
amission should be only empowered to
dain fthe [sentiment of 1881 and 1882 to
creditors ami point out that which ad-
esses itself to their interests as well os to
interests of the State. It should be
ithed with no other power and have no
jtr duties to perform but to urge them to
•ede to the settlement Virginia has de
ni; to represent how fntile had been tho
jir efforts in the past to resist the detcr-
natiun of our people, and that the future
id out to them only a prospect of intor-
nalile legislation, injuriona alike to them
d ns, that the achievement of more illu-
v triumphs in conrts are fraught with no
stantiul advantages to litigants on the
r side. It would be the duty of the
nniisston to point out to them the vast
tried nud unexpended power which re-
«* in a united and resolute ' people, and
ution them ugainst the danger of nrons-
" -mhlio sentiment which might bo for-
of all sense of justice, and taking
insel only (rom passion, destroy inter-
s which we arc now striving to protect
is believed that if those
ding the outstanding indebtedness of
htatc could not through their commit-
come face to face with such a commis-
u here iu Virginia, or clsewhero, and
ir and see for themselves, confronted by
hhom facts as they exist nt present, and
impressed with the uncertainty which
, i *? *“ 6 fulnro and arises from the
ettled problem which constantly exas-
harassed the publlo minds by
a decisions of the coarts, they would be
ling to fund such outstanding indebted-
« into bonds of this settlement,
h action upon their part
*e« the problem nnd terminates the agi-
on. \irgmis will act in good faith,
pay the debt thus ascertained nnd ac-
»ced in by both contracting parties,
ansa her revenues will prove nbnndant
to to without increasing the hardens on
people.
A JUST VERDICT,
•d*»d Against a Mean Bet of Railroad
. Offlcl»U.
^ February 17.- In the
n or ttuiuim Guyton v*. the EvansviUe
riulroad, and brought here
tun«nlle on a charge of venue, the
„ a verdict for the plaintiff
awarded damages of *2,1)83. The case
ecu m court four years and has si
ted much interest. The tactsa.-e these
irn, ‘ brakeman on a special train
mg south which colUdad with a freight
“f *** Wedged between the teuder
but succeeded in prying hiin-
“*•- H ® was badly injured and bleed-
itElu but femembered that the
nan. » p **“. DRer t ~ in WM due in fi »«
n,fk^ i U .° RAthered himself np. tied hia
R th *. r ' , “ ,c f round bis mangled mind, and
— fl, B Ataggered up the track to
^““".•l’l*tubing tr«in. Twice befell
■““" WaailveO, but with indomitable
#ti “\ ro *A»»eb time and reached a tres-
,. * “fibdrtd yards from the collision
P^figer train came np, thus
* “ Ji'ig serious loss of life. His signal was
J2“'b«n the brave fellow fainted, and
M.II. 1 unc ouacioiu for two days. He
but was a cripple for life.
lrc»g WUt * d physician's bill to the
««1 d company, but payment was re-
Sl.. 8ait . WAS instituted for *10.000
and’^L *^ r * eTCT!j changes of ve-
re.itn°' hcr de **ys *be trial came off with
result os stated.
A MOTHER'S carelessness.
to Death and BU
T Injured.
‘fere*.
Cmftv
to
J-schooI, leaving fonr little children
bttie girls named
IwhILik * aeighboring honse came in,
v« V**’ were playing the lire in the
■KbUr iJd 7 < * pUin K “ lU, '» ® lde »*
the it,’,,***®”. 7 y*Ai»i put some kindling
''hVrd^ i r a ?P°. ur * J ° U °P<>“ while
r-. in “ “®‘<* The flam*,
■ion f„iEl22i Wi ^S.the oil can and an ex-
i *ii ii » ^ The child who had the
“ d » t-oy«robl
re that ha died in
tires °tb* r Rmith children nnd
weavWtore were terribly burned, bnt
whe explosion wss beard a
'kutn.&t.Th* “otire was 'ladly dam-
i ttn°fcmito Te lg“ £°" b-a *
vms«L who is away on
b "• “°t be*rd of the accident.
TIILMACON^WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1886
HUrtiras 1,1 ■ ■ - - — * * *
A Heartless Mother.
wSTSSi ere^atl-^tc^ 4
her two children, aged “u^ ami S nr l Cr
thrusting them under the wheels o d f a moV
^ l L ,telB A‘v tr “ 1D - Tha children were rel
8U A the “°«>cc arrested l.y a polloe-
rnan. The woman turned savaaelv Sn itfl
ofiicor iinfl ovni.. ntin . w 1 ®
officnr and exclrimcd' °“ lhe
that for? My husband is a drunknr.1 ^°i d ° HUp, ««AH»tbA Sout.h-It will Take Thro-
that for? My husband is a’drunkurd.' I am
tired of life| but I want to f, et rid nf
childron firat." Her husband apneaLd^r
fore Justice Meech this moruingfimdStated
of thi" TTlf? h ' ,ll . ,ittcm Pt* ( l to toko the life
Of the children g once before with an axe
her U tr,trr:&l~l-: rh ®A«ticesent
her to the Martha Washbi 0 ton i,o t lf,„ ^ nt w,®™ 1 ™ 0101 ', MlS8 -. Fobmary 15.-Col.
fine of *50. B n * l0lue with a Rlauton Duncan, of this city, hns uddressed
Attempted Murder ami Ar*o n . onitea Metes Benator from Virginia, in
Riaiominotos, III., February 18—Three which he discusses at length the future of
lays ago David Sheltv. a wenlu...'* the negro nice in the United fOntc Tin re_
, —reuruary 18 Three ««iim** ul icugiu tue ruturo o
days ago David Shelly, a wealthy farmer ^e negro race in the United States. Here
residing near Shirely, Ill., armed with two ^ ers 1° the civil, political and military his
guns, went awny from home. To-dav he l ? ry of Virginia, and expresses the ‘hop.
went awny from home. To-dav he l ? ry of v ‘ r R* Dia . ““>1 expresses the hope
fonnd secreted in nn oat bin in his Daniel will coneidec
i. This afternoon members of , Deed >* o£ the South apart
his family attempted to take him fr0 “ th , e P arty vie w- He as- ,m,r
to his house. He jumped suddenlv 8cr *"that the question which predominates *hty, crone whose rnsliinancy and andaci
from his hiding place and fired a number ® ml darkly overshadows the future, not on-
of shots, inflicting serious wounds on his * y , r d the South, but of tho entire country,
brother, Levi SheTty, his wife, sister-in-law Ill 6 80c ' a '' n V rn l and politidnl condition
and his son aged seventeen. He then set “'t" 6 negro race in connection with the
fire to the barn, which was entirelv con- white race. He terms it a "calamitous
Burned with it* nntitnn» u i «ia iwm ‘iBnoer winch threatonB direct
—_—**, „ ossvau wtu* emireiv con- , * , ^ » emunmou
Burned with its coutents. Losb 110 000 <,fWI Re r which thfeatens direct destruction;"
Shelty then made hin escape to tl/e timber a ? iert ? i j iat tliere no precedent in history
three miles away, where it is believed he "\u Q 1 “ fenor R superior race living to-
has committed suicide. Ilia wife and ln equality; says it is an anomaly
BiBter.in-law will die. which must hear most bitter fruiU. He
proceeds as followu:
‘‘Senator Sherman,
„„ Chinamen. “Senator Sherman, and other great
SEATTLE, W. T*. February 18.—When the Northern leaders, have announced that they
Chinamen were driven ont of Spohomish ‘“tend to rnako their battle-cry hencefor-
v-ity last week thoso who had property in- ward—redaction of tho Southern strength
, rests were made an exception, being al- in Congress and in the electoral vote to
lowed to remain. They were notified, how- accord with the number of negro votes
ever, that they must leave by Monday. On which are yearly counted ont and disfran-
Monday, when told to go. they refusod, chised. They stato tho open secret that, in
saying they intended to remain. Later that hundreda of loealitiea in Southern States
night a dymamte cartridge was exploded lhere has not been a fair count
nnder their house, wrecking the building, “^d a fair election within the past
but not injuring the Chinamen. The Chi- ten years. That means agitation and fa-
nnmen then moved into a portion of the naticisin in the north, nnd excitement, and
building that was not destroyed, and ex- incitement to bloodshed nud violence
pressed their determination to stay. This throughout the South.
moi-Ling a number of shots were fired into ‘To abstruct from the Sonthem vote by
the house hilt the occupants were still un- legal enactment, that they shall not have
injured. At last accounts tho Chinamen 1,10 nagro counted in, would require a con-
still held the fort.
A Mlaaoiirl Temperanco Convention.
Sedalia, Mo., February 17.—The “Sub
mission" convention held its first meeting
in the city last evening. About 150 dele
gates, representing different temperance
organizations in Missouri are in attendance.
Resolutions were passed demanding of the
next Legislature the submission of n con
stitutional amendment forever prohibiting
the manufacture or sule of intoxicating
liquor, including wine and beer, also the
passage of a looal option law similar to the
Georgia law. Tho following resolution was
also adopted;
Resolved, That we will vote for no wan
for the next Legislature who will not pledge
himself to work and voto for such consti
tutional amendment and local optioulaw.
Death ot John II. Dough.
Philadelphia, February 18.—John B.
Gough died this evening.
THE SILVER QUESTION,
A 7 ,mt G*" Coinage Committee
\\ ill he Relieved or It* Comlilerulmn.
Washington, February 18.—There is a
possibility that the contest over the silver
question nssy bt practically transferred
from tho coinage committee of the House to
the committee on banking nnd currency,
Daring a recent session of the coinage com
mittee, Chairman Bland intimated very
strongly that unless some positive action
was taken by bis committee on the matter
at issue, the snbjeot might be taken ont of
their bands by » prompt report from the
committee on banking and currency oh
some of the propositions before
that committee relating to tho issne
of silver or coin certificates on
bullion deposits. That Mr. Bland had
some tangible gronml for his remark is ap
parent from the fact that the committee on
banking and currency hiut determined to
begin next week the consideration of meas-
» es relating to silver ooinage, with a view
formulating a hill to be reported to the
Honse. The committee will first consider,
at the instance of Mr. Dingley, the Reagan
bill, providing for the issne of silver
certificates of the denomination of
*1 and *2, in addition to certificate*
authorized nt present. It will endeavor to
reach an argument on the question os to
whether the publio inti rest* will best be
served by the issne of the silver certificate*
of small denomination! or by the resmnp-
tion of the issue ot *1 and *2 treasury
notes. The decision of the question, as a
consequence, involves some very decided
action upon the silver question. A careful
review of the composition of the committee,
ss stated by its chairman, dcclnrea the fact
that notwithstanding th* addition of Mr.
Findlay, a monometallic majority of seven
of the members are opposed to the suspen
sion of the coinage of silver.
WOMEN IN CONVENTION.
Eighteenth Annual Hessian of the Wouinn'e
HulVrage Uonveullan.
Washington, February 17.—Tho eigh
teenth annual Washington convention of
A ramons Sleeper’s Last Bleep.
CVncIsad. O.. BpecUL
old, died this afternoon. He boa long been ana mnm, is nui a mulct in comparison
famous as a sleeper since th* fall of 1880, to tbs mighty gulf of iniquity and unmor-
when he sustained s fall on a stone side- shljr »»d fearful consequences which im-
walk. bines that time he ha* frequently pead over ns from the nagro problem."
slept from three to five day* without tha Sir. Duncan frankly admits that be eon-
•uuutliSIUw as# luJnre anrafi anml f. .«* an in. as jsA * a pa«**aJ— W
PAINTED BLACK.
-TWELVE PAGES.
COL. BLANTON DUNCAN’S PICTURE
OF THE NEGRO.
Uuuilred Year* for Him ta Equal In
Education III* Hrotlier of the
North—A Ciuuimrlion.
Courier-Journal.
- open letter to John W. Daniel, the new
United States Senator from Virginia, in
. ......... .. q.., 1 u II ouu'
stitutional amendment which the South
ern States, if so inclined, could easily de
feat
"The allotment of equality and the fran
chise of the negro was never legally accom
plished. It was done by the world, and by
the declurulioa of carpet-bagger Legisla
tures—uot expressing the sentiment of the
overthrown Confederate people. It ia no
more legal to-day than any enactment
which, through tho some instrnmcntulity.
"men, mroiigu me same instrumentality,
should have transferred the title of all tho
lands of the defeated whites to their former
slaves; and yet We are powerless to set that
outrage aside.
The Southern negro race, twenty years
ago, was scarcely more fitted for self-gov
ernment, to appreciate the duties of citizen
ship-the puntyof the ballot—than were
the Kangaroos of Australia or the denizens
of Central Africa. In two decades there
has been no promess mentally, morally or
otherwise. To-day they are a'masa of pau
pers, not one in a hundred rising above the
common herd, and, if left to themselves for
ten years, nssuredly would retrograde to
the status of their savage ancestors.” •
Col. Duncan then goes on to say that it
THE BELL TELEPHONE SUIT.
When It Will He Tried—Th* Connrctlon
of Mr*«rs Garland *ud Lamar.
[aracUL roaSKsrONDZNCZ DAILT TCLKOnAPH.]
Washington, February 16.—For several
days past there have been frequent confer
ences here between the President, Solicitor-
General Goode, of the Department of Jns-
tict% nnd ex-Scimtor Thurman, senior conn*
sel, who will be associated with Mr. Good©
tn conducting the telephone suits sgainst
the Beli-Hubliard Company, and for the
purpose of outlining-the leading features,
and especially the selection of the place
where the suit should be inaugurated . by
j > tiV D J* cd s,atc ®’ Trial by jury hoa boon
decided upon, and in order to have the
case removed as far aa possible from the
corrnptiDg influences of the Bell-Hubbard
ring, it is understood C. lumbus, O., has
been agreed upon as the most suitable
place for the trial. Never in the history of
the country, not even excepting the infa
mous star-routers, has there been a ring
or a monopoly so indifferent to publio mor
ftlll.V* Al* rittit U’lincn ennl.. 1 « .
ty could bo exceeded iu its attempts to dis
grace the character of public officials.
It does not often happen that a company,
deliberately planned, stimulatedbyavarice,
backed by wealth and urged on by the in
dividual as well as tho concerted action of
nil its members, fails signally and irrevo
cably upon the very threshold of its first
open endeavor. And yet, such already
has been practically the fate of the misera
ble plot of tbo Bell-Hubbard telephone
cabal n«ninst the official life ami private
reputation of Messrs. Garland and Lamar,
of the Prusideut's cabinet. And u general
knowledge of the motives and a timely ex
posure of tho unsciupulons means used by
tho conspirators, coupled with a wido ap
preciation of the beautiful private life and
irreproachable public career of tho gentle
men assailed, solely nnd effectually pre
cipitated the fiasco. For the intended vio-
tnns took no single stop toward self-vindi
cation The hundred channels of retalia
tion open to them they declined to utilize,
and otiose to let popular opinion, unin
fluenced by word or net of theirs, mete out
impartial justice to maligners and midign-
eil alike. Micure in the rectitude of their
own acts nnd intentions, tbrir dignified
reticence, uuder provocation, is in striking
contrast with the volumiuions abuse and
tncks of their traducers. They are cer-
ta'nly not ignorant of the methods employ
ed to effect their disgraco nnd official de
capitation. They know, for it is an open
secret discussod upon the streets, in the
hotel lobbies, in newspnper row, and even
in the department corridors, that
tho emmisKiiriea of tho ring have
been in tho market buying up newspaper
correspondents and such other influences
suitable to their purpose, as con d be real
ized by present bribery or golden promises
for tbo future. And yet, the traduced have
made no sign. They knew, for the Wash
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times knows at least, ho speaks with the
emphasis of one who is sure of his gronnd,
that a more copyist in Mr. Lamar's own
office was approached with a bribe of ten
thousand dollars for papers appertaining to
the telephono cose then in his possession,
and that tivo thousand dollars was paid in
hand for a single article in a certain New
York paper, which, on oceaBions,
is load in its dennnciationB of
venality jiml a mercenary press. The
i^oi. Duncan tnon goes on to say that it Ye V ail v * mercenary press. The
has taken ten generations nnder the most °* this is himself cognizant of the
fuvorablo circumstances to make the North- wet that a friend was solicited to sink his
eru negro what he is—immeasurably ahead convictions nnd tarnish his honor by giv-
of his Kouthem brother and that the lat* in f* tb ‘’ ui( i °f his pen to thecruHnde of tho
ter, owing to his vastly superior numbers ringsters upon tho official probity of tho
and tho different cironinstances, cannot be gentlemen they sought tlrst to pillory and
brought up t j the same plane in 300 years, jwbseqnently to ostracise. But, it is hard-
l ever. ly neccsiorv to be specific. In the eager-
He proceeds to give v&rions reasons for Jf* °* ^ e ‘ r ^ont, the hunters forgot to be
his belief. Among them are the following: ^no of their pursuit is
'lliit 111 A KrillllliiVII IvIlUsia )>nva AL. OVlTVWb^Tt* IlHLrkpil YVlfll OffMotl/i/.u nf ll.ele
ms belief. Among them are the following; 'H*orct t, ana the lino of their pursuit Is
That the Sontbera whites have neither the •TMjJwkiro marked with evidences of their
means nor tho inclinatiou to cultivate the “•“ods. The silent cquinimity of tho
minds nud morals of the negro; that the Attorney-General and the Recrotary of tho
attempt would be useless, as they would Interior is, therefore, as I have said, in
remuin nnder the enrse of God against Ham; v l'’Y of the. knowledge they possessed of
that education alone will do them no good, thr 'r cnomy's tactics, in common with the
and will only result iu making nnscrupul- 0 <itside world, in strikiug contrast
ous leaders of tho brighter ones among v ith the voluble mouthing* of the hunting
oua leaders of tho brighter ones among - lln me voluble mouthing* of the hnntinj
them; that, a* mongrels inherit the vices of l‘® c ^ “ n d {to bangers on. It has been some
both race*, bv the urowth of unv luro* nm. where said "the more slander renma* Iim
both race*, by the growth of any large pro- said "the more slander repeats hci
portion of muluttoea, the offtpnng of brut- Mjertioni, tho better; becanso when fandl
uh white* and r isxolnto nrgresses, tho sit- '*rize<l, their boldness will not astound tin
i*h white* and r issolnte negressts, tho sit
uation would be so much the worse; that
the blacks cherish race hatred, and would
be ready, if abte, to light the fires of a Han
Domingo holocaust; that they love whisky,
and care nothing for honor, virtne, or re
ligion; that they can not appreciate kind-
nos*, and are best ruled when treated like
dogs. Col. Duncan then udde:
"What should the real statesman do when
Radicalism proposes to red uoe Hon them po
litical strength? Meet them more than half
way, and suggest s return to the only legal
status, of 1860, when Southern citizenship
was confined to the white race. Accept the
proposition of Northern men and let the
Sonthem people resume their legal righto
and restore the franchise where it belonged
before the revolutionary method* struck
down sovereign Rtates. lteouce the vote
and strength simply to the representation of
whites. Let the South voluntarily place it
beyond pendventure that it* voice shall
shape political contests, and let the North,
with its intelligence and manhood, act, as it
will then do, when fanaticism and falae-
tuuuiuton convention ot win then do, wben fanaticism and fslso-
the National Womans oaffrage Association hood shall have lost its power, to keep the
began this morning. Seventeen States and Union intact and its people harmonious and
Territories ware represented. There wss a in concord. The South in national councils,
large attendance and much Interest wss after performing each abnegation, would
manifested. To-days sessions were pre- have tenfold influence.- Our statesmen
aided over by Susan B. Anthony, who, on would wield a magic wand
taking the chair, announced that President "Whst U the excuse in Southern loeali-
Eliasucth Cody Stanton was ill at tie* for unfair elections? That the negro is
her home and wonld not be able toot- sbrute, unfitted to rule or to select the
tend the convention. Elizabeth Cody servants ot the people; and, if granted the
Stanton was re-elected president and Sasun power, would destroy not only the proper-
K; A n ih on . y ’ AI**®dn doslyn Gage, and ty and blot out the civilization of commu-
Phebe W, Cousins vice president’s at Urge nitiee, bnt banish perforce in time the
for the ensuing year. It was announced w hites unfortunate enongh to ba there resi-
judiciary committee of the House dent—aniens massacre ahonld be pre-
will give the representatives of the con- ferred."
vention a hearing on the 21st inaL, and also Mr. Duncan then quote* from Bev. J. F.
that a petition from the national Msocia- Tucker, of Jackson, Miss., os to the social
tion and many local and state organizations and moral status of tho Southern negro
have been sent to members of Congress which he pictures os of the lowest and most
praying for the passage ot the sixteenth degraded character; affirms that there has
amendment to the constitution. been no improvement in their mental and
No effort toward general petiton workha* moral condition; that they will sttal from
been made. At tho evening session a-p*per each other.
ob “woman suffrage and the labor ques- Tbo writer then takes np tha successive
tion” wo* read by Clara B. CeUsy, of Northern influences exercised on tho negro
Nebraska. Rev. Rush It. Shippin read s ill the South by designing men for political
neper on "the advance of woman” and was influence—first ss Republicans, then a*
followed hy Ads C. Smith, ox-pension Democrats. These men, he asserts,
agent of Chicago, in an address on "wo- scrapie at nothing to retain power; live in
men's work.” concubinage with negresses, and openly
to* n . defy the Uw. After further quoting from
The Oroat Monument Hill. lUv. Mr. Tucker to the effect that negro
Washington, Febrawry 18.—Senator parents are willing purveyor*, and that
Hoar, from the committee on library, re- even while men there have been known to
ported favorably to-day the Mil introduced heater their mulatto daughter to white
by him yesterday to appropriate (250,000 me n- Mr. Duncan adds- B
for a monament to G*n. Grant, to be erect- tr™™ ,
ed in Washington. **
mind of tho Christian and tho moralist ss
the foulest in the Union. The Mormons
have intellect, education, refinement,wealth,
David Mnlcahey, a single mso, 21 years end yet Mannoninu, in its extent srsdseope
d, died this afternoon. Ho has long been aad; danfjer, is but a rivulet in comparison
mnnw mm m nlnnnnw stltM f*lft frail nf 1 tiV I I to the mi *htv cm I f of fuirmifrw . *
uudciMUaJiiig, and tho charm of novelty
will not bo mistaken for the power of
truth.” Had the telephono couspirators
been sensible of the truth couched in this
aphorism they would surely ntver have
helped to vitiate their own work with
"dsinnable reiteration.” They would bavo
realised that the whisper of secret scandal,
the covert nttack by innuendo or subtle
suggestions, which admit of no public in
vestigation, are infinitely more potent
against spotless reputations than
open charges persistently repeated
and which most stand the test of publio
scrutiny, ever con be. But, blinded hy
passion and maddened by the mere pros-
•-••'•MVUVAt tut IUOIU
pect of having their grasp upon a collosaal
monopoly loosened by judicial procedure,
r-v '—wg JW'HVRU piGLAumu,
they abandoned the customary secret and
safer methods of scandal for the bolder but
less productive methods of open and per
sistent defamation. This course carried its
own corrective with it. I’nldlc attention
was challenged by the public nature of the
onslaught, and the public judgment has
promptly marked its reprobation of the con
spiracy and tho conspirators, hy the en
dorsement which it has placed on the char
acters of the maligned. Hie passive de
fence of pare lives end honorable public
records wss never more successful against
organized attack. A policy of vituperation,
retaliation ot labond self-vindication would
not have been half so effective.
As virtue U ita own reward so is it its
own defence, l’ublio opinion may proclaim
it spotless, but the pure iifo itself extorts
the verdict.
I have ehosen to speak particularly of
this Bell-Hubbard versus Garland—Lamar
business a* a hold conspiracy on the one
side against private worth nnd public prob
ity on the other. This salient fact has been
too generally overlooked by the impartial
public in the common desire to investigate
the nlterior designs of the conspirators and
the bearings of their preliminary work
thereon. Of course, ss I have said, the
public have taken cognizsnce of the attack
on the two cabinet officers in question, and
have, in no uncertain terms pronounced
judgment upon the aggros*ore. The
scheme to degrade them a* honorable men,
ass mean* preliminary to their removal
from the cabinet, has recoiled upon ita in
ventors; and the plotters are, in conse
quence, the batt of decent men’s contempt
end popular indignation to-day. But that
a connnn v y wss set in operation to libel
the private, anil official character* of stain
less men, considered apart from any other
idea, does not seem to have impress
ed th* general mind with a
proper sense ot He hideous
and criminal authority. Common libelors
seldom go uuwhipped of justico if the law
be invoked against them; those certainly
should r.ot who, inspired by the basset nruT
most sordid motives, deliberately conspire
lo outrage public morality and make »>n-
onble men infamous. It is to be hoped
that the law is not inadequate to their pun
ishment The verdict of popular opinion.
‘INKIE‘8 REVENGE.
BT ELLNN HUNT JACKSON.
“What a perfect shamo that Hhe got here
to-day!"
"8h—8h—, she might hear you."
"Nonsense! Sho is down in the recep
tion room. I don’t suppose, if she is from
the backwoods, she has got ears that can
hear through doors.”
"Girls, I am ashamed of you. How can
you he so unfeeling towards your own
cousin?"
*3“I don’t care, mamma; she is sure to be
nskvsrd and dowdy. How con wo hove
her at the dinner-table to-uigbt? I shall
die of mortification to have to introduce
her to Mr. Morris us our cousin."
"Perhaps she will be too tired to come
down to dinner after such a long rido. It
is a little awkward to add another to a set
dinner party.”
"Oh! mamma, bless you for the thought,
ion can tell her that she is too tired. You
can arrange it, I know !"
‘•Well, I’ll try!"
These were the sentences which fell on
tho cars of Priscilla Bent as she sat alone,
waiting to see the annt and cousins whom
she had come all the way from Kansas to
New York to visit, of wUobb welcome she
felt as sure ss if she bnd known them nil
her life. It was by a blunder of the ser
vant that she had beon shown directly np
stairs into the drawing room, which com
municated by folding doors with the room
vh .e were sitting mother and daughters.
"Pinkie! What a name!" continued tho
’ speaker. "Who ever heard of such a name
except for a dog?"
“Her name U Priscilla," replied the
mother; “but Pinkie was given to her by
her father, when sho was a little girl, on
account of her pink cheeks."
“Well, I shall call her Priscilla."
"And I, too."
“Yoar father will not like it." **td Mrs,
Bent. “But we must go down."
A swift rush of three women down the
staircase, three lnuil exclamations of dismay
ot tho sight of tho empty reception rooms,
looks of wonder and a smothered whisper
of vexation.
"How stupid of Ben? Do you suppose
sho heard?"
These were the next scenes in the swift
little drama which hero began so inauspi-
ciuusiy nnder Mr. Silas Rent’s roof this
morning. And next to these followed one
which acemod almost a justification of all
that tho Misses Bent had said in regard to
their cosin. Slowly rising to her feet,
grouping her umbrella firmly in her loft
hand, roBe a toll, an exceedingly toll young
woman, who exclaimed in n nasal voice:
"Well, I was jest a-comin’ to look ye up.
I didn't know as that fine black gentleman
- - * »•*»» ““w oinvn UHVUJIIU
o yourn hod condescended to let yon know
I was here. I'm most tired to death. I'll
tell yon; four days and four nights in tho
cars is enough to kill an ox. Bnt I'll be all
“ " * ■ Viiwogu vw rase* sees US, X It UU U1I
right soon's I get ray coffee. I reckon
braakfast ia all cleared away
by this time, bnt I don't
wantmnch, only a cup of coffee, if the cook
hain’t thrown it out. I’m real glad to see
you. I s’pose uncle got my loiter, didn’t
he?" And panning in her breathless search,
pretty Priscilla Bent looked sheepishly
into tho face of her equally shame-faced
relatives. If they had not been too gnilily
disturbed in their own minds of fears of
haring been overheard iu their inbospiia-
blo comments, they might have detected a
strange look on their Knneas cousin’s face,
a strango mixture of twinkle
and terror. Bnt they saw, heard
nothing except what so thor
oughly co roborated their worst feani-
Kven Mrs. Bent herself, who had resolved
beforcMmd to be thoroughly kind to tho
child of her husband's favorite brother, was
thrown off her balance, and, iu spite of
herself, the welcome she gave was curt and
cool.
But nothing appeared to daunt tho terri
ble Pinkie. Radiant good humor shone in
her face; her tongue rau like a clapper, and
when tbo dinner party was mentioned
Pinkie cried;
"Not mncht I ain't too tired. I'll jnet
bonk down, and by 6 o'clock I'll be fresh ss
a rooster! We don't often get a clianco to
a regular dinner party out iu Enqioria, and
I don't mean to mias one this winter. Say—
shall I wear my very best? I’ve read about
the kind of olothee yon New Yorkers wear
to dinners. But 1’v* got some A No. 1
gowns, I toll you. Now, you just show me
piy room, sod I’ll go straight to lied and
stay there till dinner time. You let your
black man bring me up a tumbler of milk,
will ye, along about 1 o'clock, and a dough
nut or hard-tack. I’m used to eatin' heart
ily iu the middle o' the day."
When the door waa finally shnt upon
Pinkie, her aunt and cousins exchanged
looks.
“Horrible!" cried the youngest daughter,
Carrie. "It's won* than I ever conceived.
How coaid papa send for her."
"He has not seen her since she was ten
years old,” said Mrs. Bent dismally. "Of
coon* be coaid not dream that she would
be like this. He has alwaj t sold her mother
was a charming woman, and they lived in
Europe for several years when she was lit
tle. It is horrible, girls.”
"Bunk down!” ejaculated the eldeet
daughter, Sophia.
"Fresh ** a rooster!" echoed Carrie.
“Momma, I shall go to bed myself, and be
too ill to appear to-night I never can live
through it—never! 1 don't believe Mr.
Morris will ever crocs our threshold again.”
"Then he is welcome to stay away! 77 said
Mr*. Bent, hotly.
While the distreesed consultation wss go
ing on between Mrs-Bentandherdaughter,
Pinkie, safe locked in her room, wo* hold
ing one with herself. Tears sparkled in her
eyes, but her face was full of mirth.
“I will!"she mattered. “1 will do it It
will be good enough for them. I know 1
eon. It will teach them a good lesson. But
I shall have to work like a Trojan to get the
dress ready. Letmsseewfaat l have got
that will do. Hoi I have it! That old
tableau dress will be just the thing."
"How lucky I brought it!" she chuckled,
ss she shook oat the foldsof a white muslin
of the most antiquated country fashion.
"Now, I tun go to sleep and rest easy for
an hoar, ‘awkward and dowdy.’ That is
what I wiU be,” and in five minutes mis
chievous Pinkie Bent was sound asleep.
Anxiety and vexation had mode Carrie ill,
and it was with a most unbecoming flash
on her harassed face that she appeared in
the drawing room a few momenta before
the dinner boar. There sat the cousin
from Kansas. Was ever such a figure seen
in a New York drawing room before?
A plain white muslin, made in the shep
herds** style, very full and very short, scar
let stockings, s brood scarlet s*»h, and
worst *f all. on her head a turban of white
muslin, with a scarlet poppy flaunting in
front! This waa what the malicious Pinkie
had done with herself, whose tranks were
foil of exquisite French gowns, such a* her
eruain* bad never owned, and not often
seen. She knew at least that opals on soft
white command a certain sort of respect,
even from her inhospitable relatives.
“Thank heaven eh* wore them. That
will show people she at least bos money.
That necklace couldn't have cost lew
*1,0001
"Yw,” replied Pinkie, nonchalantly, "ms
Ukes ’em best of all she's got They’re
maV I like flowers better. I'm great on
ly for the Kansas cousin. Not seeing Eer,
he accosted Mrs. Rent with true English
Mildness:
“I don't see your niece from Kansas. I
liopo she is not gone. I was coanting on
talking with her the rest of the evening/'
With mingled resentment nnd confusion,
Mrs. Bent replied:
"My nkcewent np stairs immediately
after dinuor."
In truth,-Mrs. Bent wna in a state of ner
vous bewilderment. Without for a moment
suspecting the real cause of Pinkie’s with
drawal, she had perceived that the girl was
greatly movod aa she came swiftly to her
when they were entering the drawing room.
“Aunt, I must ask you to excuse mo. I
artificial flowers; always wear ’em every
day."
'lheguests were already arriving, Mr.
Bent among them, he having, according t
the fashion of New York business men, ar
rived home only in tirno to dress for din
ner. His heart was so full of affectionate
welcome for his niece, whom he remember
ed as a beautiful child of 10, only half a
dozen years ago, that he did not nt first
note anything but the lovely uplifted eyen '
nud tue affectionate voice.
As the dioner progressed even unobser
vant Mr. Bent, became aware that his
nieces attire was not what it should bo
nnd that her voice was too loud. “Bnt the
.women folks can soon straighten that all
out, and the child’s as pretty as a plctnre "
So also thought tho Hon. Mr. Morris,
who, to Carrie s vexation, on being told by
her that theyonng lady in white was a cou
sin, who had arrived most inopportunely
from Kansas, hod exclaimed:
“From Kansas ! How delighted I am !
Thnt i* the State of all others I am most in
terested in seeing. I nm going out there
in the spring. If all tho Kansas ladles
have so wonderful n complexion os your '
oonsin, thnt is another reason for visiting
the region. Pray present me to her, will
you? I should hke to ask her many ques
tions. Perhaps, eh?” he stammered, with
tho carious mixture of diffidence nnd au
dacity one so often sees in Englishmen—
"perhaps your mother will be so good a*
to lot me have the pleasure of pitting by
her side at dinner-that ia, if it will not
disarrange your plans.”
“I am quite sure mamma will not relin-
qnish the pleasure of having yon chiefly to
herself at dinner,” responded Oarrio, her
honrt full of anger and mortification.
Nevertheless, several times in the conno
of tho dinner Mr. Morris heard the shrill
voice, and thonght to himself :
“What a pity the American voiec is so
iiph-pitched!'
When the gentlemen joined the ladies in
fue drawing room Mr. Morris looked eager
agoing up stairs to uhange my dress; I
>s not dressed os I should have been."
“Nevermind, child, nevermind."
Pinkie was gone.
It did not take long for her to finish her
transformation touches. The dAinty white
surah silk with billowy roach of white lace
from belt to hem, tho soft, clinging gloves
to the shoulder, the opal bracelets, the
white ostrich feather and tho white satin
slippers—all were in readiness. Bnt at last
Pinkie'* heart failed her.
"It was a shameful trick to play on them..
I shall cry; I know I shall, and I’d rather
dio than cry before that Englishman."
At last she stole down slowly, hesitating
ly. Black Ben caught sight of her first,
and reeled back wllh excitement
It waa an unerring instinct which led
Pinkie, on entoring tho drawing room, to
glide swiftly to her uncle's side, and put
ting both hands into his, say:
"Dear Uncle Silas, won’t you mako mj
peace with aunt and ask your friends her*.-
to forgive me for masquerading st dinner'"
Before she had hardly half finished speak ■
Ing the company had gathered dote around
her.
•‘I mu*t *ay—" began Mrs. Bent, in a
very angry tone. Bat Pinkie went on reso
lutely:
“1 could not resist the temptation to Hve-
> to the New Yorker's ides of a Kansas
-J, just for an hour or two. Yon know
that I was exactly the sort nf person you
all expected to see from th* West" She
gathered courage aa she saw smiles. “Yes,
you oil know it,” embracing the group in
her appoellng glance, “and we out West
*11 know it. Tbon forgive me. You a*k
theni' to forgivo, dear Unde Biles, won’t
yon?" Bnt Undo Bliss was laughing too
heartily. Ho bent over and kissed her
foreboad.
“I ask them all to forgive me for kissing
you.” he said. “A caiiital joke, pinkie!"
•The beet piece of acting I ever saw,”
cried the Hon. Mr. Morris; “qnite clever,,
very neat. Upon my word, though, I do
not think now, really, Miss Bent, I should
not have seen through it: I don’t think you
could have deceived me.
"I should not have tried,” replied Pinkie
very simply. Yet there was certain unde-
finable something in her tone that made
the Hon. Mr. Morris change color.
There are no words in whieh to describe
the embarrassment of Mrs. Bent and her
danphtcra.
"Had Pinkie overboard what they t.iiil
about her?”
They sounded her as far as they dared,
but they ncTer found ont.
To only one person died Pinkie ever UU
the whole. That was to the Hon. Mr. Mor
ris, after she was his wits soma weeks.
"I thought it was so unjust in them,
Frank,” she said; “so cruel, I'd just give
them u lesson and let them see that mun-
nere may be only skin deep— easily put cu
or off. But I'd never have dons, Frank, if
I'd seen yon first; I wanted to ran out of
the room as soon os I saw yon look at me.”
"You needn't have done so," replied
Hon. Mr. Morris, "for I thought ss soon ss
es f*U on you that I haa nevtr seen so
lovely
.VeTya face before.
“Did you, really?* asked Pinkie.
"Really," answered lb* Hon. Ur.
Morris-
Two Ghaatljr Death-tied*.
The two most ghastly death-bed* on
where a i
auth are the ones where a man die* of de
lirium tremens, and the other where a wo
man dies after having sacrificed all her fac
ulties of body, mind and sonl in the wor
ship of costume. My friends, we mnst sp-
C ar in judgment to answer for whst we
ve worn on our bodies os well os for
what repentances w* have exercised with
our souls. On that day I see coming iu
Beau Brummel, of the last century, without
his cloak, like whieh all England got a
cloak; and without a cane, like whieh all
England got a cane; without hi* snuff-box.
like whieh aU England got a snuff-box—he,
the fop of the ages, particular about every
thing tut his morals; and Aaron Barr,
without the letters that down to o’d age he
showed in pride, to prove bis early wicked
gallantries; and Absalom, without his hair;
and Marchioness Pompadour, without 1 cr
titles, and Mrs. Arnold, the belle of Wall
■tract, when that wss the centre of fashion,
without her fripperies ot vesture.
A ccuom and noteworthy statement h*>
been published in regard to the great river
Euphrates. It appears that this ancient
river ia in dangerof disappearing altogc'.b.r.
Of lata yean the bonks below Babylon have
been giving way so that the stream spread
ont into a marsh until steamers could not
poaa, aad only a narrow channel remained
for native boots. Now this passage is be
coming obliterated, with the pr.jM.Ue result
that the famous river will he swallowed up
by the desert.—Chicago Lmngi L.,r '