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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-20

, THE WATER SUPpLY.--The following
is the report Of tho policeman on tho
water supply measurements taken on
Monday mOrninr. :,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-20

RIpGEwAY HIGH School. fol-
lowing pupils Of the Ridgeway High
School received for the month ending
10th April marks. over 95.-maximum
being 100:
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-20

Administrators Notice-T. X. FL
liott, Administrator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
The Senate and the Presidents
Appointments.

The course to be pursued by the re-
publican senators in regard to the Pres
ident's nominations seems to be as good
as settled. The majority have no dis
position to prevent the President from
filing the offices with democrats, or to
refuse to confirm appointments that are
properly made, but they will insist upon
seeing the charges upon which the eX-
ecutive has pretended to base his action
for the removal of several republican
ofiice-hoders. A Washington dispatch
says that while few of the older men,
bers have agreed with Senator Ed
munds that no removals should be con-
scented to, nor appointments confirmed,
save those that commended themselves
to the senate, the majority, led by Sen
ators Allison, Evarts and Hoar, are
averse to an issue with the President
which would result in four years bit
ter and Improbable contest. However,
all are well agreed that where republic
can oflice-holders were suspended or
removed for cause other than purely
political the President must furnish
the charges preferred against them.
Should he decline to do this, the sena-
tors will oppose the confirmation of the
appointee. If he will acknowledge
that his removals were made for the
partisan purpose of putting democrats
in office, the republicans will be salts
fed, as they say they want nothing
more than to have the political bearing
of the charges admitted, and then they
do not care how soon the democrats are
in all the offices. 1t is thought that the
President will furnish the papers in
each case demanded by the senate; and
the republicans expect that the " often
sive partisanship" humbug will then be
thoroughly exposed, while it will be
shown that the President has widely
departed from his professed intention
to make no vacancies in the federal
offices except for good cause. 1t is
suggested that the republican senators
will regard certain nominations of the
President as unfit to be confirmed.
where the appointees have been con-
nected with some infamous transaction
like the contingent conspiracy in
Maine and the suppression of suffrage
in the South. The Boston Journal
thinks if the senate should refuse to
confirm such appointments it would be
Just punishment and deter others from
participating in the crime against free
| suffrape
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

Helena, Montana, and it is concluded
(though it cannot be stated as a GER
tainty) that they have their origin in
the vast regions of snow and ice near
the Arctic circle, farto the north of our
signal stations. The waves are found
to move in different ways: One degree,
directly eastward, over the great lakes
and across New England, not being felt
south of the Ohio Valley; two degrees,
southeasterly, covering the entire coun-
try in their progress; three degrees,
southerly, from Montana and Dakota to
Texas, thence through the Gulf States,
and finally northeastward over the At
lantic States, such waves being some
times felt at st. Louis and Shreveport
before reaching st. Paul and Chicago.
The number of waves belonging to the
three classes, during the first six months
of the years 1881 to 1884, was twenty
two, forty-seven and nineteen. The
second class thus appears more fire.
quently than the other two combined
Fifty per cent of the waves APP
peared simultaneously at Bismarck and
Helena. They generally reach Omaha
eight to sixteen hours after their APP
pearance at Helena, the distance being
$50 miles; St. Louis, twenty-four to
thirty-two hours, distance 1,030 miles
Galveston, twenty-four to forty hours
distance l 900 miles; Nashville, the
same; Buffalo, twenty-four to forty.
eight hours, distance $50 miles; Wash.
ington, thirty-two to fifty-six hours
distance ,953 miles. The difficulty in
the prediction of the waves is the same
that embarrasses the prediction Of
storm-center tracks, for the former fol
low the latter. A special description is
given of the cold wave of March 10Th
1888, in which the fall of temperature
in twenty-four hours was general,
twenty to forty degrees over the coun
try. The most marked falls of temper
ature follow well-developed storms, an,
accompany an area of abnormally higl
pressure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

ers. If an extension of civil service
reform principles is deemed to be pro-
foundly essential to the morality of our
politics and the interests of the public
service in the future, these should at
once be reduced to definite system.
The people should know precisely what
the reformers desire in reference to the
extension of the systematic official
tenure, the restriction of the political
action of oflice-holders, and the estab-
lishment of civil pension list. When
the demands of the reformers have
been clearly formulated, whatever of
positive merit may be discovered in
them will not long lack an active popu-
lar support; but if they are found re-
pugnant to the spirit of American in
situations and poorly adapted to our
principles of government, they will as
surely be rejected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Cold Waves.

The recent storm and cold snap"
in extent and severity were almost I'M
precedented in the memory of the pres
ent generation. Every part of our
country except the Pacific coast seems
to have been embraced within the linn
it's of this storm. The cold in the far
South is declared to have been the Sc
verest known in that section for fifty
years. Many parts of Europe were
visited by severe and destructive storms
at the same time, and the snow-falls in
Austria and Hungary were remarkably
heavy. In Vermont the temperature
ranged from twenty-five to forty-nine
degrees below zero, in Minnesota and
Dakota, from twenty-five to forty-five
degrees below, and fifty-two degrees
below was indicated in Manitoba. All
through the Middle States and the West
low temperatures were reached. AT
Mobile, Alabama, the mercury went as
low as three degrees above zero. The
orange crop is destroyed and the young
orange-trees are ruined. In North and
Middle Florida the results of the freeze
would seem to be as disastrous as those
of the cold snap of 1885, when the or
ange groves were mostly destroyed. A
Jacksonville dispatch says that proba-
bly, every orange and lemon-tree in the
state will lose its leaves, and the belief
of the best observers is that most of the
young trees, except where protected,
are killed. 1t is estimated that 500, 200
boxes of oranges, worth 81 100000,
were destroyed by the frost. In North
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Lou
isiana the weather is represented as
the coolest since 1887, and there has
been much suffering in consequence
among the poorer classes of people who
are unprepared, either in their habita-
tons or raiment, for such unusual Wis
itations. Twenty-four persons have
been found frozen to death in South
western Kansas, and six in Virgins
and South Carolina.
Cold waves and their progress are
now well understood, since the facilities
for getting information concerning
storms and meteorological phenomena
are available in every part of the coun
try. The cold waves are found to fol
low an area of low, and to precede al
area of high, pressure. A writer il
Science says that within our territor,
they nearly always appear first a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Notes and Opinions.

SECRETARY LAMAR has decided
against the Bell telephone patent.
HARMONY is said to be restored
among the English liberal leaders.
The President will probably veto any
measure increasing the volume of silver
currency.
GREECE is still bowling for a fight
with somebody. Where is Sullivan
Philadelphia Press.
RECENT English elections were char
acterized by more drunkenness and
rowdyism than for years past.
THERE is vague intimation that the
new Chicago paper, The Hog, is the or
gan of the democratic oflice-seeker,-
Hartford Post.
THE forty-eight chairmanships of the
house of representatives are classified,
sectionally, as follows; South, thirty;
West, eleven; East, one; Middle States,
six.
THE Ohio house of representatives
has appointed committee to investi-
gate the charges of bribery in connec-
ton with the election of Senator Payne,
two years ago.
THE Providence Journal says " SEN
ator Blair's hill for million-dollar monu,
ments to Lincoln and Grant, to be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

In q communication to the Free Press
Mr.. C. T. Ward of Burlington makes a
conclusive answer to the Brattleboro
Reformer'S foolish suggestions in re-
gard to loans made by savings banks
outside of the state. He remarks !.
"The Rqormer's assertion that the
depreciation of all values is due to
the scarcity of money is too absurd for
comment. The trouble is not because
too much of the money has gone. 1t is
because too many of the young men
have gone. If they would stay at
home there would be better demand
for farms and better home demand
for money. To remedy the evils of
which the Rgormer complains it pro-
poses to have law made compelling
savings banks to loan seventy per cent
of their money in the state. Its next
suggestion will probably be a law COM
pelling seventy per cent of the boys
raised in the state to stay at home.
Both would be equally efficient in pro-
ducing the result aimed at. So long as
Young men can do better, or think they
can do better, by going West, they will
go. SO long as money-lenders can dc
better, or think they can do better, by
sending their money West, they will
send it, In either case it is experience
and not law, that will regulate future
action -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

THE house of representatives has
passed, one hundred eighty-three to
seventy-seven, the Hoar presidential
succession bill precisely as it came
from the senate. The negative vote,
with two exceptions, was cast by re-
publicans. Since the bill passed the
senate certain defects have been dis
covered in the measure. 1t was found
that if the republican party should
elect the president and vice-president
in 1888, and they should die before
their Inauguration, under the bill as it
has passed a democratic secretary of
state would succeed to the presidency
for a full term, in opposition to the eX-
pressed will of the people. In this
view of the matter, we think the repub-
licans who voted against the bill in its
present form were fully justified in
their action.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

THE reelection of Senator John Sher-
man by the Ohio legislature, last week,
was a signal defeat of the democratic
conspiracy to defeat the popular will.
The lower branch of the legislature
promptly unseated the democratic mem
bers from Cincinnati who obtained their
certificates by fraud. If this action had
not been taken, the republicans would
still have had four or five majority on
joint ballot In the senate, Tuesday,
Thurman received twenty votes and
Sherman seventeen, a democratic ma
iority of three. In the house Thurman
received forty-one votes and Sherman
sixty-seven, a republican majority of
twenty-six. In the joint convention,
on Wednesday, Sherman received
eighty-four votes and Thurman sixty
two. Senator Sherman has been iden-
tilted with the republican party from
the beginning, and has never wavered
in its support, because he believed that
the success of its principles and poll
cies would best subserve the country's
welfare. He is now in his sixty-third
year, and the close of his present term
will make forty years of continuous
public service in congress, broken only
by the four years he was secretary of
the treasury in the cabinet of President
| HAYES.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

THE senate, last week, confirmed the
appointments of Messrs. Edgerton,
Trenholm and Eaton as civil service
commissioners, but not without oppo-
sition from several republican senators
to Mr.. Eaton. The law requires that
all the members of the commission
shall not be of the same political party.
1t was objected that Mr.. Eaton was
nominated by the President to repre-
sent the republicans, when he was not
a republican but a mugwump, and had
made democratic speech. Mr.. Eaton
intends to resign his place in about a
month, when the President will have
an opportunity to appoint man who
will be more generally acceptable to re-
publicans.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

when sufficiently strong to do so.
There is little question but that slavery
in Brazil is now doomed to early ex-
tinction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
Minor Notes.

At Lafayette, lightning killed two horses for
j. p Combs
Mrs Laura Handy. long well known resi-
dent of Jeffersonville has died in Chicago, aged
eighty three years.
At New Albany, boy named Willard Tull,
lamplighter, was shot, at midnight. in the thigh
with bullet which caused ugly wound. No
body knew where the shot came FROM
Mrs. Kate Harland, pianiste, at Bushnell's
Museum Evansville, took laudanum with intent
to die Prompt medical aid saved her life.
Financial troubles caused the attempt.
J. NJ Hudspetn, dry goods man, Evansville,
owing to dull times and security debts, is seri-
ously embarrassed, and is trying to effect COM
e.c.aisa with creditors. He has been in business
for thirty wears.
The Republicans of Warrick county have NOM
mated the following ticket: For Representative,
Edward Gaugh; aditor j. f. Katterjohn; clerk,
William j. Hargrave; sheriff, John G.. Reed;
treasurer, Ct. r. Jones; recorder, G. c. Posey;
surveyor, Samuel d. Purdue; coroner, Dr. j. G.
Keifer.
The Northern Indiana Milers' Association met
at North Manchester and elected the following
directors for the ensuing year: g. ". futile.
Columbia City; Daniel Strauss, North Man
chester; D. Thompson, Wabash; E. B. Thomas.
HUNTINGTON; E. b. Wolf. Colamer. The board
will organize at the next meeting. which will be
held in North Manchester on June %.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
Nominatlons and Combinations.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The President sent
the following nominations to the Senate to-
day: John Finch, to be collector of customs for
the District Of Sandusky, Ohio. To be Re
ceivers OF Public Moneys-Amos ]. Harris, at
Kirwin, Kan; Alexander II. Baker. Grand
Island, Neb. Ezra w. Miller. at Huron, d. T.
The Senate has confirmed the following NOM
nations:
Consus-H. NJ. Jewett, of Massachusetts. at
Sivas: G. Fl. Wells, of Maryland. at Managua;
Francis H. Wigfall, of Maryland, at Leeds.
L. L. Aune. receiver of public moneys, Fergus
Falls, MINI; Charles Hill, Indian agent at Santa
Agency. Neb.; w p. Christian, register of the
land Office, at Redwood Falls Mimi; w. G.
Austin, special examiner of drugs. chemicals
md medicines, at New Orleans. H. r. Severns
4 Michigan, district judge of the Western dis
riot of Michigan.
Postmasters-M. V. Gibson. Upper Saundusky
-; r. Simpson. Wheeling, w. Va; P. j. RACER,
piedmont w. Va; P. w. Speer, Denver, Col !;
Il. J. Finlen, Streator, III.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Hon. E. E. White, late president of Purdue
University, has been elected superintendent of
the public schools Of Cincinnati
Governor Hill yesterday appointed Hon. Ros-
well r Flower, of New York, electrical subway
commissioner for the city in the place of Charles
+. Loew, deceased.
John King, colored, and his grandson were
burned to death while asleep in a cabin loft in
jefferson county, Kentucky, yesterday. Six or
seven other occupants escaped without injury.
On Monday afternoon water-spout struck the
residence of David Whitaker, near Abingdon,
Va, destroying the dwelling and tobacco barn,
and drowning Mrs. Jennie Mongle. Whitaker
had his jaw-bone broken by falling timbers Two
horses and three mules were drowned The
body of the young lady was found half a mile be-
low the house.
On Sunday four members of the family of po-
liceman John Gehlert. of Cincinnati, were poi
soned by dose of poison which had been put il
their coffee. Yesterday George seventeen
year-old son. confessed that he had done the
work, but refused to give any reason. He was
looked up for assault to kill Mr.. Gehlert is in
a critical condition; the others will recover.
Judge Tuley of Chicago. yesterday rendered
decision which sets aside the will of James
Ward. The deceased left an estate worth about
1922, 000 After the will was made, but before
Wards death, ninth heir was born to him.
This heir brought suit as a post testementary
legatee, under Section of the statute of descent
Judge Tuey decided that the claim was a just
one, and that after deducting the share of the
widow under the will, the minor be given one
ninth of the estate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26

The Governor yesterday paroled VIM. Gilber-
thorpe youth seventeen years of age, who was
sentenced by the Delaware Circuit Court April
10, 1884, upon conviction of the crime of grand
larceny, for term of five years in the State
Prison North. His parents. who reside in York
Pa, respectable people, his father being a
merchant there. He left home to take trip
through the West, and fell in with bad com
pan;ons. who took span of horses and buggy.
He was found in company with them. and was
convicted of completely in the theft His release
was recommended by all the leading citizens Of
York, Pa. and by Judge Mitchell, of the Supreme
Court, and other prominent citizens of Goshen.
Ind, who were well acquainted with the family.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
THE TILE W0 KS STRIKE.
The Employees Still Out, and No Prospects of
Their Returning to Work Soon.

The strike at the tile works presents no new
features. The men still say they will not go to
work until the concessions made and hold
that the firm will have to make them in order to
save themselves from immense losses by reason
of the plant standing idle. The members of the
firm say emphatically that they will not grant
the demands. Mr.. Landers said yesterday that
he thought the proprietors, if they could
talk to the employees themselves, instead of to
the officers of the Knights of Labor could
explain things to them that they would go
back to work.
A meeting of the employees was held last
night to consider the strike, though. according
to the rules of the KNIGHTS of Labor by whom
the strike was ordered, it will be necessary for
the executive board to order them back to work
before they do 1t the general
sentiment of the meeting that demand should
be made upon the firm for the discharge of three
men who refused to join the strike as an add
tonal condition OF return to work by the
strikers. The executive board of the district
Assembly. Knights of Labor, will meet this
morning at quarter before IL o'clock. at No.
1894 East Washington street. to consider the
grievances of the striking employees The pro-
pretor of the works may attend the meeting if
thew desire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
Brief Mention.

At Carlinvie. Thomas Steady was thrown
from a runaway wagon and so hurt that he can
not survive.
VIM. }. Hill, of Prophetstown, has been sent
to the States prison one year for stealing 1866
from his sister
AT Saybrook, Benjamin Prothero was thrown
from wagon and run over. Both his legs were
broken above the knee.
The garrison at East ST. Louis comprising
militia companies from Sparta and Vandalia,
has been withdrawn by Governor Oglesby.
S. c. French, dealer in musical instruments at
Clinton, and a member of the Christian Church,
has skipped out leaving many creditors, princi-
pally in Chicago.
At Richmond. Samuel Bogert, while intox-
lcated, made improper proposals to young
lady. She told her brother, William Rudolph,
who, while rebuking Bogert, was fred upon by
the latter and killed.
The remains OF Julius Luther were inferred
on Monday at Wilmington. Two months ago
he was relieved of red snake eighteen inches
In length, but he never rallied Friends refused
to permit a postmortem examination of the
body.
The grand jury at Joliet is investigating the
cases OF six persons charged with using dyna-
mite to kill fish in the Kankakee river. Two
wagon-loads were destroyed by one explosion
The citizens of Joliet have organized fish pro-
,tective association, and offered reward of $50
for information as to future crimes of the sort
Monday was a fatal day at Ottawa A glass
blower named David G. Breeze died suddenly
from heart disease induced ny intoGication.
The body of William Hixon, OF Utica was found
in the canal few miles west of Ottawa. He
evidently had committed suicide while in state
of insanity. Mrs. w. e. Scbreed was thrown
from buggy. receiving injuries that it is feared
will prove fatal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
BaSa-Rall.

BALTIMORE, May 25.-Ramsey was again
pitted against Kilroy to-day, and the Louisvilies
won with comparative ease, as the Baltsmore
batters seemed unable to either hit the ball or
take advantage of the battery or fielding errors
of the visitors. Score:
Louisville. --. IL o 3 o o So
Earned run-Louisville. l. Two-base hits
Browning. Strauss, Werrck. Passed balls
Fulmer, 3; Kerins 4. Wild pitch-Kilroy, 1.
First base on balls-Off Kiroy 3; off Ramsey,
5. First base hits-Baltmore, g. Louisville, Z.
Errors Baltimore, 2; Louisville, G.
PHILADELPHIA, May 25-The Cincinnatis be-
gan the game to-day against the Athletics with
some lively pitching, and. at the end of the third
inning had decided lead. In these three in
Tngs they had eight hits including home run.
Not another hit was made by them, however,
until the last inning when Fennellv scored
home run In the fifth. Mrllane. in attempting
to throw out Matthews, threw wildly into center
field, and the visitors became ratified and con-
tinued ratified until the end of the game Score:
Athletics, -----...--.l l 0-1s
Earned runs-Athletics, l; Cincinnati,6 Home
runs-Baldwin, Fennely Two base hts-O-
Brien, Milligan. McPhee Lewis, Fennelly.
Three base hits-Baldwin, Gleason. Passed
bals-Baldwin. a. Wild pitches-Matthews, l;
Mullane, A. First base on balls-Cincinnati, a.
First base on hits Athletics, Is; Cincinnati, 8.
Errors-Athletics. 5, Cincinnati l.
New YORK, May 25-The ball game to-day
between the Metropolitan and St Louis clubs
was won by the home team after lard fight, in
the ninth inning. Score:
Mstropolitans.. o / o As
st. Louis. l o o U O 2-6
Earned neutrality-suspicious. l: ST. Louis, 2
Two base hits-Roseman. Caruthers. O'Neil,
WEIGH. Wild pitches-Lyneh, l; Foutz, l.
Passed balls-Bushong 3 First base on balls
-Metropolsans, 2; st. Louis. 2. First base hits
-Metropoitans, IL; St. Louis, s. Errors-Met-
ropolitans, 5; St. Louis 8.
NEW YORK. May % THE ball game to-day
between the Pittshurg and Brooklyn clubs was
characterized BY light batting and few tielding
errors The visitors, however, did little the
better work in both divisions and won Score:
Brooklyn -..--.1 O / O o o o o.
Pittsburg.. o o o o 8 So
Earned runs-Brooklyn, 2. Three-base hits
--Pinckney Porter. Passed bal-Carroli. l.
First base on balls-Brooklyn, 2: Pittsburg, T.
First-base hits-Brooklyn. 6; Pittsburg, l. Err
rors-Brookyn, g. Pittsburg, g