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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31
The Louisiana Legislature has with.

The Louisiana Legislature has with
out opposition voted an appropriation
for the construction of bust or status
of Thomy Lafon, the colored philan-
thropist, who died in New Orleans a
few months ago. The Governor will
have the selection Of the statue, and
will decide upon its location. 1t will
probably be placed in the State House.
It is asserted that this is the first
statue ever erected to colored man
in the South, and one of the first IN
the country. Lafon, who was eighty
years old when he died, lett fortune
of $500, 900, nearly all OF it to charity.
He founded an asylum for old people
and one for girls, and gave the rest to
other benevolent institutions. His
original intention was to make these
institutions open to both white and
colored, but he was persuaded to
abandon that idea because the whites
are already we'll provided with elee-
mosynary institutions.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31
BEwITCHED.

know not If her fingers small
We're brown or snowy white;
Hover / strive can't recall
Their form and tint Alright.
] know it seemed the soitest hand,
The night when first we met;
And, oh, the clasp she gave me
1 never can forget.
know not II her eyes were blue,
Or ietty black, or gray,
They owned very charming hue,
But more cannot say.
Have forgot frankly vow
I'm quite ashamed and yet
The gaze within them cleaning
never can forget.
know not where her dimple danced,
II on her cheek or chin
only know gazed entranced
And felt my heart fall in.
A dimple it's tiny thing
To dream OF and regret;
But how that dimple twinkled
never can forget.
Samuel NJ. Peck, in Boston Transcript.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31
ROUND THE YEAR.

Oh, beautiful world of green
When bluebirds carol clear,
And rills outleap,
And new buds peep,
And the soft sky seems more near.
With billowy green, and leaves, what then?
How soon we greet the red again
Oh, radiant world of red!
When roses blush so fair,
And winds blow sweet,
And lambkins bleat,
And the bees hum here and there.
With trill Of bobolinks-Ah, then,
Before we know, the gold again!
Oh, beautiful world of gold!
When waving grain is ripe,
And apples beam,
Through the hazy CLEAN,
And quails on the fence-rail pipe.
With pattering nuts, and winds, why then
How swiftly falls the white again!
Oh, wonderful world OF white
When trees are hung with lace,
And the rough winds chide,
And snowhakes hide
Each bleak, unshetered place.
When birds and brooks are dumb, what
then?
Oh, round we go to green again!
George Cooper, in New York Independent.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

The Louisville Courier-Jonrnal re,
marks: Congress was quite right to
make Labor Day National holiday.
It does not matter what motives
urged Congress to do such a thing.
There is nothing the American people
need more than holidays. We haven't
anything like enough of them. There
is too much striving and scraping, too
much work and more worry, too fast
a pace and too little rest, too much
burning of the candle at both ends,
too much high-pressure living. We
don't know enough about how to rest.
We too rarely invite our souls to mer-
riment, but keep body and brain bent
mon the wheel of daily cares, and
pride ourselves more upon showing
how far we can defy nature than how
wisely we can conserve its forces. 1t
is telling on us. Nature Is beginning
10 exact its debt, sometimes all at
once in the sudden breakdown OF q
vigorous physique, sometimes with the
usurv of a wicked mind, often in the
shattering of nerves and the enforced
rest that comes too late to comfort
and repair. We have been spend
thrifts of our energies, and have be-
gun to think of economy none too
soon to avert bankruptcy. Plenty OF
holidays, plenty of outings, plenty OF
parks, plenty of nonsense, plenty OF
fun and frolic-that's the prescription
for the overworked. overworried
American. He wants now and then
T. lose the trail of the dollar and cool
The fever of chasing It. He needs to
coin some of his time into health and
happiness and not all OF il into
money"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

t1ums nodded their yellow heads, and
reached the ears of little boy who
was playing "all by his lonesome" in
the old-fashioned summer-house at the
foot of the garden.
'Tummin', mamma" came back the
quick answer, and Mrs. Pond, Davy's
mother, went back to her pleasant
sitting-room and the company of a
neighbor who had called.
Hes strange child, Davy is"
said the mother.
This was no gossip she was talking
to, and it was relief to speak of Da-
vid's peculiarities to one who would
listen to her, and aid her by advice or
sympathy. The child's father looked
upon her fears as the expression of
rank heresy. His Davy-his little
mani There never was such a boy in
the world, none as bright and COM
Fashionable. At the same time the
father knew that his boy was not quite
like other children, or why would he
prefer to play alone rather than with
the little ones of the neighborhood?
''Yes," Mrs. Pond was saying, she
talks to himself nearly all the time. l
cah hear him in the arbor, and have
stolen down there often, but he was
always alone, playing with the leaves,
or talking in low voice. And he has
hallucinations. l know it, because he
talks in his dreams of playfellow he
calls Angel"
''Perhaps," suggested the neighbor,
cautiously, she really does see the
angels. I read in a book once story
Of an old lady who had died but
couldn't rest in her grave because she
had hidden her will, and her niece, to
whom her money was left, could not
find it. So she came back to earth to
try and show her where the will was.
The girl could not see her, but walked
through and through her, but the dog
could see her and the child in the
cradle, and it reached out its hands to
her"
"That," said Davy's mother, "is
only book story. I couldn't believe
it il I tried"
vi believe there are influences we
do not know how to receive" said the
other women; 'some are born of flame,
some of flesh and some of the spirit.
Perhaps Davy is under control; he
may have visions"
At that moment the little fellow
came running in. He was a pretty
boy, but not heaithy-looking. Hi
soft, curling hair lay in rings on {
pale, high forehead. A blue mark
said to predict early death, lay between
his delicate brows. The same blue ap
pearance settled about his mouth. HI
painted with the exertion of running
Mrs. Pond looked meaningly at hel
friend and began to question the child
in the lingo of mothers.
"Where has Davy been?"
"Playin' wifi Angel"
"Why doesn't Davy bring Ange
home?"
CANCEL won't come"
"Where does Angel go when Dav,
comes in the house?"
"Davy doesn't know"
The child spoke with sad regret
even as the little boy in the story o
the Pied Piper, who all his lif
lamented that because he was lame h,
did not get to the cave in time to b
swallowed up with the other children
but only caught one glimpse of tn
wonderful country into which the,
were gone.
Another year has passed over Davy'
| vallnru hand He ic in O nnrr nnn,tr,,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

A-V-Y, oh, D-a-v-y,
come home /;
m-a-m-m-a Wants
you.
T h e mothers
call rang out clear
and good natured-
ly shrill over the
long garden where
t h e convolvulus
bells were closing,
and the nastur-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

Since Denmark established dairy
schools and made q science of butter
making 100000, 200 pounds of butter
have been exported from the country
annually.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

when they were performing in Guiana;
that it was a native of the Brazils, and
that its classic name was "Irigono-
cephalus mutus," and that the natives
of that part of the world regarded it
as sacred. All of which was n rodo.
montade out of madame's textbook on
the education of snakes. But the peo-
pie swallowed it all and felt that they
were getting their moneys worth.
Next madame laid her pet on the
shelf while she turned the baby snakes
loose.
The crowd lost sight of the ribbon.
decorated pet in the excitement of
seeing the new excitement, and so did
madame herself, and it was not until
she had finished her performance for
that time and reached out for the
pythoness and the anaconda, that she
missed it.
There was an instant clearing of the
place, people tumbled over each other
in their haste to get away, but never
again did the eyes of Madame Houssan
rest upon her $50 unique pet" He
had vanished from her horizon forever.
The doctor, who had given Davy up,
his father and mother and few sor-
rowing friends, sat by his pillow and
famed him necessarily to keep the
breadth of life in his frail little body.
There was no sound of talking or weep
ing, but in utter silence which was
suddenly broken by the sweet song
of a bird
They all heard it and on each it
had peculiar influence, something
uncanny, like the speech of mani
mate things. But Davy was transfg-
ured. He lifted himself on his pillow
and, with incredible strength, screamed
at the top of his voice:
"Angel-my boof'l Angel"
The astonished parents looked at
each other. Then, before they could
speak or move, strange thing hap
pened, so strange that l, its historian,
will not ask you to believe it without
the evidence of stranger things that
have previously occurred. A long,
sinuous, brilliantly-marked snake dart
ed in through the open window and
sought Davy's bed. Those present
fell back in fright. The next mo.
ment it was clasped in the child'a
arms, was caressing every line of his
wasted face, singing that weird song
that sounded like a harp's vibration
and twining itself about the frail body
with loving clasp. And Dayy was
restored before their very eyes, say
ing over and over again in his blessed
baby patois: ''Me love Angel-me so
glad"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

who is so i'll he muHt be carried on q
pillow all the way. He had fallen
sick and faded from Che day, almost
from the hour, when the family LETT
their old home, and he was torn, sob
bling and unhappy, from the old arbor
and his "dear Angel.
His mother had been very patient
with him and the kind neighbor who
came to see him off told him that
angels went everywhere; they were
not subject to rules like other people,
and did not need to be conveyed by
steam cars or boats from one point to
another. But Dayy was not comforted.
1t was strange then and it seemed
stranger afterward when they thought
about it, although none of them sus-
pected the truth. Davy's father took
it for granted that the boy was play
ing that he had an angel visitor, Just
as children play "house" or "com-
pany"' to amuse themselves. Once he
had stolen on Davy unawares, not to
surprise any celestial visitor-the big,
healthy man would have laughed at
such delusion- but to make the boy
scream with the happy surprise of see
ing him. And he had heard a strange,
low singing, something like the sing
ing of bird, but of no bird he had
ever listened to, and it surprised him
greatly. When he pounced on Davy
from the door of the arbor the boy
was alone, but there was q strange
rustling of the leaves and bushes, as
if from some invisible presence.
"Were you singing, Davy?"
''No, papa"
"Who then, my boy?"
CANCEL" and the child hung his
head.
And Mr.. Pond did what he was sorry
for long after He shook the child
angrily, and insisted upon a descrip-
ton of the angel who was supplanting
father and mother in the heart of the
boy. But Davy would only sob and
say, as he had often done before, that
his angel was 'boo'ful, an Davy loves
him"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

Sow YOUR wild oats if you want to
reap crop of bad results.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

Another year has passed over Davy's
yellow head. He is in new country,
but he knows little of it. From the
garden of Iowa to the garden of Michi-
gan Is not a great change to child
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31

How the snake came into the pos.
session of the circus can only be
guessed. In its long search for its lit
tie human playmate it had probably
been captured, when its beauty and
tameness made it an attraction. Natu-
ralists familiar with the species as
sured the child's parents that the
snake was as harmless as a kitten, and
as it caused the little fellows speedy
restoration to health, it was endured by
them, if not loved. That it had found
Davy by some powerful occult faculty
seems certain. 1t was soon known
that this was the attraction that had
escaped from the circus, but the cir
Gus had gone its way and knew moth
ing Of its performers fate. And Davy's
prior right to his Angel was never
disputed. Detroit Free Press.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-08-31
ANGEL.
BY MRS. NJ. L. RAYNE.

ll.s.sss8es Any. oh. D-a-,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12

The election of Assistant Attorney
General Barber to succeed Attorney
General Buchanan was the most i'm
portant work Of the Legislature Thurs
day. Mr.. Barber is the youngest man
who has ever filled the Office. He is
not yet twenty-six years old Solicitor
G.. Duncan Bellinger vas candidate
also, but he went down, ae Mr.. Barber
was in the line Of promotion
Many new bills we're introduced III
both the House aud Senate.
The following of interest to Sumter
were introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Moses and in the House by Mr.. Man
ming.
TO autborize.the issue Of $15. 900 of
bonds in Sumter county to raise funds
for past Indebtedness aud for repairing
aud furnishing court house. Mr.. Man
ming.
To re-epact the act cbartering the
Sumter aud Wateree Railroad Com
.papy and to extend the same.
To incorporate the Farmers Mutual
Insurance Association of Sumter
There was quite lengthy and anus
ing discussion of the bill Of Mr.. Burns
to prohibit drunkenness and oursing.
Senator May6eld's bill to encourage
manufactures was unfavorably reported,
but a fight will be made for adoption
over the committees report.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12
Successful Raid on a Texas
Pacific Express.

FoRr WORTH. Tex, Dec. 5.-One
of the most daring train r"bberies ever
committed in Texas, took place eight
miles west Of here and two miles east
of Benbrooko station this evening
about 6 o'clock. As an eastbound
Texas aud Pacific passenger train was
nearing Mary's Greek. it was brought
to sudden stop BY q danger signal
displayed on the ;restle.s
The engineer was covered by three
unmasked men. who boarded the cab
and ordered that the train be backed
up about ha'f mile, when the fireman
was covered and ordered to break in
tho express door. He refused, but the
robbers pulled the triggers Of their
guns and number of shots in the air
brough the fireman to terms. He burst
the express car door with pick. One
of the robbers then kept the fireman
and engineer covered while the other
went into the express car.
The safe doors were opened. One Of
the robbers rifed the safes while the
other kept guard over the messengers.
At 6 O'Clock, the train was stopped and
80 minutes later it was in Fort Worth
the end Of the express run.
The exact amount the robbers secur-
ed is not known. but it is said to have
been near $500 600 in money, gold bull
lion en- route from San Francisco to
Washington, and Texas PaciEo checks.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12
TIE OUTLAW coRNBRED.


MEMPHIS, Dec. 5.-Near Papne's
Mill. Ala. yesterday morning. Chief
of Police Mills Of Bessemer, Ala, and
a posse of officers corned Jim Morrison,
the noted Bib county outlaw. who
recently dynamited his way out OF
Pratt mines prison and murdered
Deputy Sheriff Dexter. MorrisioD was
heavily armed and battle followed
The officers made it so hot for Morri-
sou that be fed, but 5000 fell pierced
by rife ball. He succeeded in get.
ting into dense woods. however,
which the officers did not care to pene-
trate. He is believed to be in the
hands of friends, but mortally wounded.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12
Governor Oates Suggestions
to the Alabama Legislature.

MONTGOMERY, Dec. 5.-Governor
Oates cent long message to the
Assembly to-day. Its chief feature is
the urging of an increase 10 the tax
rate of q mill and the Improvement
ia the assessment laws. He also ad-
vises that the present movement to take
the convicts ont of the mines be check
ed, SO as to make them self-sustainipg
tha. the number Of judicial circuits be
increased SO as to expedite the admin
issratiou Of justice and prevent lynch
ings, aud the making of felony the
carrying Of concealed weapons, in
order to suppress that practice.
Because Of the repeal of the Federal
election laws, be advises the abolition
of the present separation of State aud
Federal elections.
He recommends that law regulating
contests 70. State Offices be passed,
which is 10 accord With the Populistic
demands.
Iu the light of the peaceable repeal
Of the State bank tax by Congress, he
suggests the enactment of State
banking law, based on deposits with
the State treasurer of solvent Federal,
State, county or municipal bonds
The other features Of the measure
are of minor importance. The one that
excites the most comment is the recon
mendatioD of contest law. The bulk
of opinion in the past has been against
such an enactment, as was demonstrate
ed by the failure of the assembly, two
years ago, to adopt similar recon-
mendation by Governor Jones The
position of Governor Oates opponents
in this matter is that only the assembly,
as at present, should be charged with
the power of going into a matter OF
such great magnitude and concern as a
contest for State Office; and that any
statutory regulation would put pre-
MUM on such undertakings and lead
to chaos. as in West Virginia some
years ago.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12

A new law in Germany provides that
a husband who may be habitually cruel
or unkind to his wife shall work all
week, turn over wages to his wife on
pay day. and 60 to Jail Saturday night
and Sunday.
The Pacific ocean covers 81. 900, 900
of the 1873, 100000 square miles which
compose the earth's surface, and the
Atlantic covers 31.000,000 more.
Thus these two oceans comprise more
than half the area Of the globe.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12

uct of chimneys. The late Professor
Henry Of the Smithsonian institution
reported that portion Of the haze, Ill
tered, was found to contain the lava OF
volcanoes and fragments Of burned veg
etables. Neither Of these distinguished
scientists added anything to the itera-
ture Of our Indian summer, so when
doctors disagree it is not expected that
ordinary observers will be able to for
mulate any tenable theory of its cause.
The next best thing is to enjoy it's op-
portunities, leaving its origin to the un-
known source whence it is derived.
New England is especially favored by
this after summer guest. In that land
of rocks and rills the stiffness of the oc-
casion is more delicious, the haze more
poetic and the winds more languorous
in their passive acquiescence in this
meditative mood of nature. Emerson
must have written of this period:
Twas one Of the charmed days
When the genius Of God doth flow.
The wind may alter twenty ways,
A tempest cannot blow.
1t may blow north, 1t SILL Is warm,
Or south, it still IS clear,
Or east, it smells like clover farm,
Or west, no thunder fear.
The caprice of the season is to wait
until winter is almost upon US, then to
drop unexpectedly like benedictlon
with sunshine and warmth and rest
fulness that soothes and comforts her
fractions children and whisper to them
sweet promises of heavenly death
Detroit Free Press.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12
United States Of
America.
DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT. FOURTH
CIRCUIT. IN EQUITY.
Alfred A. Hoelett against Charleston.
Sumter and Northern Railroad
Company. atlantic Trust Company
against Charleston, Sumter and
Northern Railroad Company.
TN ACCORDANCE WITH the order of the
Honorable the CIRCUIT Court in and for
The Eastern District of South Carolina, made
on Oct. 2stb, 1894, Notice is hereby given that
all parties having claims OF demands against
Charles E. Kimball, as Receiver of the
Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad
Company are required to present the same
before him at his Office, United States Trust
Company Building, As Wall Street, New
York City, OF at the Office of the Receiver at
Sumter, S. c., on or before the 2nd day OF
January, 1895.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-12

A bill exempsing oounty treasurers
from travelling over the county for the
collection of taxes Was passed BY the
House.
40 unfavorable repors vas made on
the Jim Grow car bill A bill amend
ing the county government bill as to
the pay Of township commissioners.
and another to provide for the appual
examination Of the dispensary accounts,
were about the only two bills Of impor-
tapce introduced
The Senate and House -met-in joint
assembly to elect q superintendent OF
the peniteutiary. directors Of the same,
and Judges Of the third aud eighth cir
cults. Superiosendeot Neal was nomi.
uated aud received the entire vote cast
Messrs. J. W. Lyles. T. j. Cunning
ham, J. M. Spratt, John S.aubs, j. c.
Ashe aud C Alexander we're non'i-
mated for the three vacancies in the
board Of directors of the penitentiary.
On the first ballot Meesrs. Lyles, and
Cunningham we're elected. On the
second Mr.. Sprast was elected.
THE JUDGEsH1Ps.
For Judge Of the Third Circuit T. B
Fraser received 29 votes and Q. w.
Buchanan 125, Buchanan elected.
For Judge Of the Eighth Circuit, Rep
reseDtatiye McSweeny nominated Jos.
H: Earle, Watson nominated j. b.
Brazeale and Judged. J. Norton was
also nominated.
First ballot. Earle, 78; Breaseale,
81; Norton. q. No election.
Second ballot Earle 100, Brezeale
40. Norton 8 Earle declared elected.
General Jos. a. Earle. had friends
from Sumter working IN his interest,
but some Conservatives in Columbia
said they would not have voted for him.
Is conceded that Senator NJ. G..
Buffers opposition TO Earle had a
great deal to do with the latter's election
BY Reform General Assembly