Georgetown Enquirer : volume 08, number 37 - 06-06-1888

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GEORGETOWN, S. C, JUNE 6,1888.
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Slj*j'.-.'lor noiiily lwn honr* In* tbo upon  area Si*»vij><<i^iBl(>iM fiont of tlie Capitol  nl ¦ijBsliington,   'with thousands  uf my ^H>w-oilieuiiK,^ pelted   witb    k1iiii*|i «_*: ?   nloet driven by * keeu.'niitllieiistwind, \-m -to witness the inauguration nfihe four- Ji'   ' loenlli President of lho United Stntes. 'j;      1 bail no "ftionda at ootiri" to seouie f '   shelter for mo under, tbo' siiperb iiiiii .spacious |iui'iico uf llm 0»|iitul,   where tho iifllccrs nf Slutc, nl tbo Judiciary' «if tho Army, of tbo Niivy, uml foreign j.v    luiuiatuiu were congregated, - ii**-'     Fur llio jptlrjinab of lliis quadrennial Coronation of a (-bini Magistrate uf tb*? |5;j''¦* Republic; a Utile platform ol  trough i'. . Iiusrils had been erected-oyer the eii- Iram-o Hlrjis ol tbe Capitol, Tlie whole ceremony.wen -severely  simple.   The ;•¦?•?,, recipient i»f the* exulted -.dignity .about "*\    to lie conferred   via.   clad   ilia plain milt ol black cloth.    A  small  mnhog* *...'¦ •;¦;miy labia covered Willi n red clutli, of ¦¦;"-.   lira Value pf live ilollnrs, nml bearing n ?     Biblo, s brown stuno - |iilclior full of ? ?:culil water,  anil a  toiipcnny  tnuibler, i?   ''constituted   iho; entire .painphoriialia .Willi   bin head . bared lu llm   polling * -totm, ami bis right huml lifted luwai.1 Heaven befure tbo Cbiel Justice of the Uuitcd   Suites,'* the    new   President pledged bis fidelity to the Ontistittition - by aftiiinaliun.   Then mining to llio ' "niuUilllilo present,  all itilegial oflbo . wliole power which he represented,  lie '' eniiiiolaleil lhe fundamental, principle*, .which should govern his actions, The
tbo clilcr Guslis planted ut  Arlington, became the progenitor uf all the weep¬ ing-willows in the United Stales. - Arlington lluuso was plethoric with precious mementoes ol the Wnshiiigton uml Citstjs Ininilies, consisting of some rain works of ml, plain,   china,   furni¬ ture, ornament*, ami u large quantity of v ii 1 u ii bio manuscript*.   Oil the wall hnng  a Kit-lint portrait, lifo size,  ol Col, Daniel  Parke,   the ' ancestor   ol Mr. IJusti., who carried lo Queen Anne llie news of Marlboiniigli's  victory al Blenheim,   It   wns   painted   by   Sir Godfrey Knelli-r.    Near it linng u pic- lumof an old Reformer,  painted by Vaii Dyke?   Thero also woro lhe three- quarter   length   poi traits   uf   Daniel Parke anil Martha  Guslis, by   Wool anion.    There wei outlier portraits of lhe Washington and Custis. families. Ono*"&f. these was the pon rait ol Wash- ington iu tbe costume of a Virginia culuiiul al tlio age of forty years, paint¬ ed by* Charles  Wnlson Pculc.    Near Ibis picture, suspended from   tbo ceil¬ ing, was n lantern, (uimerly lho prop¬ erly of Luwience Washington,   which hung   iu tbo great passngo at Mount Vernon   Hilly   eighty    yours.   Tbere was nlso the  black  walnut sideboard used iu the dining room at Mount Ver¬ non, of elegant wotkmanship; Wash. inglon's   imuwive   silver' lea-ssivice, made ill New Yuik ill 1789 of the old fnmily plate; also pieces ol tho Sevres porcelain  dinner and  tea-sets, called tbo "Cincinnati china," because' Ibey were presented to Goneral and Madam Washington, witb the elegant jeweled Older nf Um-Cincinnati by  French of¬ ficers, and bore  pictures  of tho ordei ilolicnicly painted.   In till the rooms were piccos ol  furniture   and?.many
Mtillliide shouted* prolonged plaudits.
*TI» Presldont bowed! and retired; aiul [-,,,,,,. ^'„ which Wero once at Mount
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How Utile-—bow exeeodingly iiiaig-1 nilleant to the eyo ofthe true philos- 'ojtlier and litipefnl iip'oslle of freedom— . would any iuler by the grace of bayo- * Hats aiid gunpowder have appoared tip* on t hat rough plat form nl Ne w Hhiii p- ahire pine, Willi all hi« gntidy tiiippings
|;>-S;^l»ft'i>J^«'(n»0^!^^ Si?¦'¦- ^">l>kllui Pietce,'the chiis-on teryani nf fetate of» miglily people, who stood Ihera in all llm dignity of a Irne sover¬ eign, bnt Niidistinguished in forui and Iteming from tlie humble cilizon, by fibhun or oross, by «iar or gutter, by HCeptor ot oiown!   .
Among those who aat  nnder: the slither of Ihe grand poriico of llio OapV ....       ilol   ou   that   occasion   waa   Geotge r-j.?' Wasbiilglon Paike Cilslis, tbe  adopt-
l|.;?* *i\ son nf tlio "Father of bis Country,"
•'-'¦¦' iUliist President of lhe. nation, nml
lb* only (invivoi* ol lhe rxecnlora of III*great pstiini's will. He was pres¬ ent when bis fusttr father look the oath of office admlnistoiwl by Chauecl* Inr Livingston, iu the at reel gallery of lhe old City ball at Nciy Yuik, eUty* four years before. He had witnessed Ihe .inauguration of "every President (idui Waabington to Pierce. Unmind¬ ful of (lie wind and sleet, ho had crash¬ ed the Poinmao Iron) Arlington House. in an open boat to assist at-ibo august ceremonial. I accepted .hi* cardial iu- ».*:.». ¦•.:.. viiation lo uiiend a few daya at Ailing- ton House, where 1 had been a guest a fow times, I crossed the feny al Georgetown ou the first bright morn 'ft'*,,. .* iug (hereafter, nud found Mr. Custis in Ilia Hludio giving mnue touches to his pioture of "Thu Surrender at York- town."
Tho mansion (jet   standing) occu¬ pies . commanding silo over three bun¬ dled feet above tide-water, overlooking the cities of Washington and- George¬ town, with tlie,broad Potomac flowing between?   The building is of brick.aud liresenu a trout,   includrng the two wings, of one bundled and  foiiy feet. ., Tho grand porlieo, having eight mas- i slvo Doric columns, occupied an area of ? sixty Ieet Iront and twenly-h'vb loot in depth.   A park of two hundred ncres, ilottod wilh groves of oak und chest* nut tree*, «nd cultivated ou the river bank, slnped eustward from the Irani; nnil behind lhe mansion   was an old forest abounding with patriarchal trees oelilitriea old, and covering hills and dales over eight hundred aoixn. A por¬ tion of tills foreal haa sinoe disappear¬ ed, and, lh» soil iaoccupied by thete* mains of thousands of Union soldioiu who |ieiiab*d*in. tbo great Civil War of 18010&.  -Oi the verge ol this cem V.otery stand* :o*oliaslof marble inonn- v tneul erected lo lho memory, of Mr, ' *,C|Htls. ? JJeaf llie', northern end of the "' liiuratoi^aT'.yenerable, weeping
iVKwiiiowf tlie"rbflsprlng sa twig' plucked ty?l^n^_-iiti«h^^frourthe fa- Bioii's'iTiillow:- planted ' by .Pope al
Vernon,   In an upper chamber was the bed. on which-Washington died, bold too sauted for nse; and in another room waa the lnigo war-tent or mar quee of the General which was used at Yorktown.   It   was incased* in   Iwo lnigo leathern pouches. J.On my first viol at Atlington Honse; iti'1 1848, I saw*a-living-;rclij. of  tlij Wasbiiiglon   lamilyjnoro interesting llian all the   rest. 'Mra.CustiR, «ec Fil-_lingh,.a -harming woman, Christ- like in character and  disposition, and saintlike in her woiks   of. benevolence and.her petenniul goodness,  then  pro* sided over the household at Arliugtoh. She was liko a innther.nnd a guardian angol in hor care for the physical and spiiilual cpmloit  ot their slaves, and .waa a blessing to thopnur far and near. She waa a most gentle creature—slight in Irauie, sweet in lhe expression of her lair face; her voice was soft and  musi¬ cal, anl ahe retained milch of her early personal beanty.   Hei piely was fervid but unostentatious,  and her   presence was   liko sunlight iu   a   room.    She conducted family worship morning and evening, while her husband, standing, invoked a blessing at overy meal.
On the morning after my arrival at Arlington [louso iu 1848, Mrs. Custis, when teady to read the Scriptures, stepped lu a room near by and led out very aged colored woman, not ol quite pure African blood, who waa much afflicted with rhediuntiam. Mri. Custis holped hei to kueel by her side during prayer, and then assisted her to rise and return to her room. After the door was closed I made inquiries con coining the old woman.
"She is the last survivor of lhe bondservants ofthe Washiugton family at Mount Vernon," Mrs. Curtis re¬ marked. "I do not kuow her age pre¬ cisely, but 1 thiuk she must be nearly ninety years old. She remembers tbe hunting-parties at Mount Vernon be¬ fore the Revolution. She was eueh a good care-laker of children that ehe be. came the nurse of Mr? Custis and. his sisters iu their infancy. On the death of Mrs. Washington she remained at Mount Vernon in the family of Judge Washington, who inherited the estate, until we were married, in 1804,.whon at'her earnest request she camo to live with ua and becatno the nnrse of our four daughteis, ouly. one of whom (May, the wifo of Colouel Lee) grew to womanhood. Eleanor, who lives wilh me, waa May's nnrse or bare-taker lrom her fourth lo her twellth year. Weslfoid, Judge Washington's ser¬ vant, ia her nephew and is yet at Mount Veinon. ; They much resemble eaob 'other.!*,  -, .¦¦'.'    .'¦'•>., *
*  "Is she intelligent, and is her mem¬ ory trustworthy?" I inquired. ,'-.?.
"She is remarkably intelligent, and her memory of events in her earlier yeara seems perfectly clear." ,
tis.    "Sho is a lillie doul, lull yon can easily iiiulto her unileisinud yuu."
Mra, (Justia wont to hor room, and soon returning, said, "Yon can seo bor an hour alter breakfast."
I lonnd the aged woman silling in an uini-chnir knitting* stockings, * her room ill perfect ordei. Seated near lieritwnscii6ylocuiivei.se. Her dia¬ lect was that of the coloied ""people in general,"whichfl ahall nol>aitcmpt lo imitate in this record. I made many inquiries ol her touching the daily life or her muster nml niiatiess, and leceiv¬ ed untisfueinry answers. I asked her if aho remembered the yonng Murthn Custis—tiie dark lady—whu died bo* Ipre sbe was seventeen years of nge.
In couise 1 do," she answered. "1 was a smart gal, almost as old as she wus. Oh, she was so -purty and so good! Il seemed as if the Lord want¬ ed her, sure, and I bought she wus tun good to slay ill this wicked world. Her dying made muster und .mistress almost sick und very sorry a long time, lliey loved her ao; and poor masfer Jack, her binthnr, touk it so hard wc thought he'd go crazy. 'But somehow he soon got over it. 1 "spects it was 'cuiiso he got in love with Miss Nelly Culvert, and mairied her soon after, wnrds. She was pnity, tool Tbey lived at Abingdon, not lar from Mount Vernon, most of tbo timo after the war was begun; nnd I lived with lliem from lhe time when their first baby was boni nntil Muster Jack joined master tii go and fight Cornwallis. Then be left young mistress anil" her four chil¬ dieu nt'Monut Vernon."   '.'•'¦*"-
?"Mastbr Jack, as you call him, never came buck alive?" I said. "Oh, he did .noil" she exclaimed. It wa*s diel.nl, dreffnl! He was so good, and every body loved hiin so. Oh, it was so dreffnl! I was building a. lire in ni'mfiess' robin one Irosly morn¬ ing? jusl at daylight," sho continued, "when there was a loud kuock at the west dour, I ran and opened it, and Ihei-o stood a soldier holding tho bridle of his vory sweaty horse, u-lio   handed
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a lingo bunch bf fiowers (rum the fields, for it was a wm in day in M.iy. I re- luembcr huw sweetly she smiled. The lever bad left her uud she was very pale and su weak that she could baldly spenk in a whisper. Oh, sho was so good! Sho appeared to me like an angel lying thero. Al dusk that night she wns un angel, fot sho bud gone to -heaven."    ~   ¦¦
A few weeks after my visit to Ar lington House, in lhe spring nf 1853, Mrs. Cuslia'depuited from earth, ami ill tbe full of 1857 her hnsband fol¬ lowed her. The spirit of the last relic nf tho bondservants of the beloved pa triul dcfiurted in tho summer of 1855. Benson J. Lossiso, LL. D.
THK 1MJ1IGUATION SCHEME.
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iress?tliaiCdrn\vallis"is whipped aiid a prisoner?' r ran and told her. She was very happy ami thanked the good Lord, Then she sent me to tell the stablo boy to takec'are'of the soldier's horso and tell the soldier to stay to breakfast. When I came back mis¬ tress waa just dressed. She went to Master Jack's room to tell the good news to his wife. When she came back she opened, the letter. ' Il was from master, aiid told her that Matter 'Jack was very sick at the .house of bis uncle Colonel Bassott.'.nt Klthain, in Kent, aud might not get well. Oh, how . troubled tke poor women wero! The coachman was ordered to mnko the big carriage and best horses ready as quickly a. possible, and as soon as we had breakfasted the two women, tho two yonngcr children and me to take care of tbem, started for Eltham. We travelled all day and a greater part of (he night as fast as we conld, slopping only to feed the horses. VVe found Master Jack dying with tho camp fe¬ ver, so Dr. Craik told us.
"Master oaine at daybreak.-^He rode all night. A few minutes alter he came Master Jack died. Then mus¬ ter and mistress wete alone in a room for a while, and yonng mistress and 1 and the children were in another room. By and by master and mistress* came in. He toqk yonng mistress' hand and said many kind words to comfort her She was ciying and sobbing as if her heart would break. Mistress told me afterwards that he said * to 'the poor mother, that he wonld take tbo two ohildren thai were there, Nelly aud Georgo and bring ihem up gs his own. And ho did. Nolly, wlio was then nearly three years ohl, and Geoigc, who was a baby, lived at Mount Ver¬ non until master himself died. George —Mr. Custis—lived there uutil mis¬ tress died, more than two yeara after- warda."'.
"Were.yon in tho room  wheu your master died?" I asked.
"I was thero a few minntes before. I came up to the room—it waa ah' up per chamber— with something. I re¬ member seeing Christopher (who had taken tho place of old Billy ns master's body-servant) and hia wife Charlotte, and Molly the seamstress, standing at ouo end otthe room, looking: muoh troubled.. .A' fo\v tiiinntos afterwards Molly oamodown and told me master wat dead.
'•?"Aud'you were wiili? yonr mistress when.she died?'
-j.'^Oh yos,'*-,8he*an8wered;; "all lhe time;: tor I was to her iwhat iChrislo* ,jil-«V'^aa:t.o-''iB,«ler^8j^*^Mil;bf;fBvier *l"il-i'-U0.mu|;l-, biuttglit- into Wr jjooin
A Queer Case. A' mnn named Gn'iing wns np be* fore an Anslin polico judge lhe olhcr dny, charged with committing un as¬ sault nnd buttery npon the person of another individual named Gobang. A rather stupid witness wns sworn, wheu the following dialogue took place: ¦ ,
Judge—"Did yon-aee the quarrel?"
Witness—"Yes, 1 seen'it."
"Who struck the first'blow?"
"Gobing. Ho hit tho othor fellow gobang!" smiting his right fist into the open palm of the other hand, with a loud report. '   **'"'¦
-"i)id Gobang hit him back?"
"Nn   he   didn't   hit" him   in   the back." . '   •"¦ . "Where did lie hit hiuiV''
"He hit him in the lace, go bing!" Another fist puutoniime.
"Wus that oil?"
"All of Gobing?"
"No, allot the lighl?"*'.
"With Gobang?"     . '     ,
"I'll gobang yon if yon don't answer ray question properly. 'Now tell a straight story ol this affair."
"Well„your honor, I Btood talking with him—"
"With Gobing?"
"No, with Gobaug;; and  the other fellow eame up amTnit"—*   . Vlt^m_^"X^:^yVi0fVAX
'.•No. Gobang was the follow that came up, and theu it was go bing! and go bung! (more fist pantomime) first one and then the oilier? Then they clinched and weut down, llio other fel¬ low on top." Gobing?"
No, Gobang. Then the polico come, and, your honor, that is all 1 know about il."-"'
"Well it seems to have been u drawn game, any how, ftom your account of it. You can go home, Gobing, aiul yon too, Gobang."
"Aud where sholl I go?" askod the witness. -?*'--¦
I    "Gobang!"—Texai Siftings.
¦Clergymen Must Not be Imported.
Syracuse, May 22.—In the United States Circnit Conrt today Judge Wallace presiding, the unit was de¬ cided of the United States against the rector; church wardens, nnd vestrymen of the Chnrch of the Holy Trinity, New York'city, bronght to recover the penalty of'$1,000, imposed by act of Congress upon every person or corpor¬ ation offending against its provisions by knowingly encouraging the immi¬ gration uf any alien iuto the Uuited Stntes "to perform labor or service of any kind, under contract or agreement, express oi implied." Tba demurrer, which alleged that clergymen are not included in the operation ofthe law has beea ovorruleil. The*defendnn«, a religions corporation*, engaged Mr. Warren, an alien, residing in England, to come to this country and take oharge ul its church aa pastor." The act made it the duty of the United Slates Distriol
Attorney to bring suit- to'enforce  the penalty proscribed.
He Married Nino Times. Jonesboro, May 20.—Nero, an old negro here, who belonged in slavery times to the Koohee family of Henry Connty, asserts that he is 108 years old, has been married nine, times, and is the father of .117'ohildren. He has been preaching eighty-six yenrs, still has all bis senses, and ¦ is now about as active as a boy. His last wife is living and ia 67, years old. Major Price has known the ohl negro for forty yearn,'and, saya that he was* au old man .when he first met  him.
—It is pleasBUt to conlrart the na. tive and spontaneous eloquence of Son¬ ator Blackburn with Ihe.sl tidied phrases of Senator Ingalls,-.of- Kansas, "in sweltered venom sweating got." Sen¬ ator Blackburn apoke from tbe impulse
Somo Rciiaons Fur Believing Tlmt it Is a Plau to K iiuuuize thu Smith.
[From the Kewbcrry Observer.! Tho Greenville News, rcfciring to some remarks made by the Due We*i Piesbyteiiun nud the Newberry Ob¬ server, relalivo to the "Southern Im¬ migration Association", says:
"An a matter of fnct this is not 'a Protestant conntiy' or a Protes'.unl Suite, lu the eyes of the government all religions and beliefs stand on exact¬ ly tho same ground, the ouly require¬ ment being a decent respect for tbe practically nniversal belief uf tho peo¬ ple iu a Supreme Being Omnipotent and Holy.
"There - are so.me kinds of Romnn Catholics wo do not want iu the South, just us there ure some kinds ot Protes¬ tants nntl some kinds of Jews wo do uot wnnt. We hnve noneed or place for huidea of Italian or Knglish or German ur French peasants, or lor colonies of Polish or Russian Jews. Bnt the mat¬ ter of letigiou or belief has no proper place ih tho disonssion and ought nol to be considered, lt ia other qualifica¬ tions to which wo should attend.
"As a newspaper printed iu a com¬ munity where Protestunsism is in ov¬ er-whelming preponderance, we du nnl hesitate to say that any number uf llo¬ man Catholic immigrants will he wel¬ come bete provided they are industri¬ ous, honest, thrifty peoplo with the means ami habits to make them useful citizens aud valuable helpers in tbo work of building tip.the conntry. VVe do not believo there will be anywhere iu this section uny mote enquiry bf the religion or the right kind ol a man tliitii thore would be of his politics.
"Wo are sorry tu see talk of that kind entering iuto the discussion oi this question among intelligent news¬ papers. Il is likely lo create au im¬ pression thnt we aire about two bun lied years behind thc time and have not yet reached the period ol time wherein meu ol all chntchesaud creeds cnu Bland nnd work together on a basis ol common Amorioanisra, common in¬ terests and common hopes for uuw ami hereafter."
The News does not I rent this mat¬ ter with its usual discrimination. We beg to remind our cotemporary that thero is no attack made , on the Catho¬ lics or the Catholio Church. The dis¬ tinction is this: If Catholics, or any other religious uect, choose lo spend money and lime to bring in immigrants of their peculiar faith aud for the building up of their particular sect, nobody has a right to object—to object would be religious intolerance; but it is not the province oi tho State to givo its influence aiid money to snub scheme.   .
That tho "Southern Immigration Association" is such a schomo as do sciibcd, there can be uo reasonable doubt. Hero nre tbe facts, quoted from the Associate Reformed Presbyterian; tho conclusion is inevitable:
"If the evidcuco which we have ul* ready giveu is uot sufficient to show lhat the .'Southern Immigration Soci¬ ety' is a Roman Catholio colonization scheme, wo present some additional facts, taken from the Noith Carolina Presbyterian, whicli makes the wholo matter plain—loo plain to be disputed. Tbe testimony of Bishop Becker him¬ self settles it:    -
" '1.' The inanguralor of tho plan was J. D. Keiley, or Bishop Becker; opinioiis me divided hs Io wbich, but it makes no difference, for both are Ro onanist's. -
" "2. The super prominent figure of the whole was Cardinal, Gibboiis, tbo official representative oi Ibo Romish Church in this country.
" '3. The first three spenkorii or act¬ ors, and the most important, wero lhe Romish Bishops.
" '4. A Roiuau Catholio editor of a daily newspaper was ono of tho speak¬ ers—the only editor su honored.
" '5. Tho chairman of each of lhe business committees ivas a Romanist— tbo same J. D. Keiley.
"'6. Ou each of the business com¬ mittees was u prolate of*the Romish Church* and all the prelates hud plocos assigned them.
" '7. The controller aud director o' affairs, duly appointod by tho conven¬ tion, is J. D. Keiley, aforesaid Roman¬ ist.
'" *8. Not a singlo poison duly cred¬ ited appears to have been presont ns a representative of any Protestant Church.
" '9. Not a single Protestant mem¬ ber of any committoe was considered ot enongb inipottanco to be nnmod in tho published leport. -'
."'10. While the Kom»n Catholic Church was lepresonted by Cardinal Gibbons, in hia red berctta, and by Bishops Kain, Becker.Nurthrop, Mooro, Haul, Rademmeyer, Jaussens, Maes, besides these the Vicars-General of Cincinnati and Richmond,. Bev. Dr. Foley,'ot Baltimore, and 'a number bf
respouileni-o Biiliimuie Suit—while the Romish Church was thus presented nnd represented, not a single Protes¬ tant miuister, su fnr as appears, was 'oven in attendance upon lho conven¬ tion.'
"Wherefore, wo conclude thai tlto public will sustain ns in lhe assertion that the convention was only, really and truly '« sclii-uu' for lite coloniza¬ tion ul thu Soutli wilh Roman Catho¬ lic.'
"Let ns see; however, what says Bishop Becker, win, a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes, 'is recog¬ nized as tlio originator of lho coloniza¬ tion movement', and who 'was honored with the ofiico of presenting the reso¬ lutions of lhe preliminary committee to the convention.'   Here it is:
" 'It seems to us that select coloni¬ zation of Catholics iu Ihe Southern States would, first, bo ol tlie greatest advantage to those wbo choose to come Sonth; second; it wonld advance lho interesis of those States; (bird, the railroad companies wonld have nricli more actual work and tho people great¬ er facilities than up to the present; fourth, the Church should take the initiative before others rnsh in and oxclndo foreVer fioiii competition nn any favorable footing tbo Catholic element. (Italics ouis).' "
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE UATTSR. '
[From the Greenville News.) The   Newberry   Observer says its opposition tn Iho  ptoposed  Sunt hern immigration organization is based on the belief thnt the movement is one by tbe Roman Catholic Chnrch for church purposes.   If we believed as the .Ob set ver does,  we wonld heartily unite with il.   No government in this conn try has the right to favor or disciiminnto against any denomination, sect ur creed or to help or hurt it.    The proper posi-, tion for a repnblican form  of gutorn- mont is to ignore the existence of such organizations   and    treat  all  citizens alike.
Onr understanding of tbo special mat tor in qnstinn is that certain railroad men and others formed a plan for stim¬ ulating immigration to tho South and invited officers of the Catholio church to help iu it, knowing the wide knowl¬ edge and connections of those officers with European conntrioB and the influ¬ ence they cau use among large popula¬ tions.
The assumption that the movement is sectarian or denominational is cun Irndicted by the fact that invitations to lhe Hot epi ings meeting were sprend fnr nnd wido and among tho people of all the Southern Statos, regardless of their religion aod politics. The meet ing at wliich the organization was form¬ ed probably had twenty Protestants for every Roman Catholic. Surely il would not have been organized so il its pnrpose had been to promote any scheme of the Roman church.
Wo cannot see any more reason in tbe crnsade a few newspapors are mak¬ ing against this immigration organiza lion than we found in tbe frantic ssreams of the Christian Neighbor, we beliove it was, a tew years ago that the Episcopalians had formed a conspiracy j lo capture Soulh Carolina, llie fear being based on tho accidental fact that several of the. State officers of that time wore members of.that denomination.
Fii, Hay will; if prolonged, strike lllo' * city nf St. Louis; where the bniii'entiort of tbo miglily Deiiiociuey uf llie United Stales meets in jusl ivvii iveeks' tihiB' after tbe terrific apparition. In Fr»- miiiil, directly beneath tho blood dilj)- piughiind ol vetlgeniice; thero cowered and shivered a trembling wretch, who; Iwelve years ago almost tii lhe day .and at that veiy sjiol first -conceived the" ambitious mid avafieiolis hopes that were gratified, a few mouths later, by means of a ciitno matchless hi political history.
He has been punished; aiul perlta(iir ho has nothing fllllher lo loar. Biit retiibnliun hns not yet been denlt iif sufficient volume upon lho Party (if Fraud. Tlio chief criminals are stilt! boasting in public of their purl in lhe' crime of 1876. lu lhe Senate ul the* United Stales the Republican leaders who plotted and executed thn over¬ throw of freo snffiago in Amcfica slill dare to defy the justice ol God mid man, and to challenge the lato that hair been too merciful lo them.
The Republican party deserve to be* beaten to destination!
That, in our opittiuti, is the illtWp'fo' tation oftho prodigious hand which all- * peared aa n sign in the akies ol Nurtn- Western Ohio, right uver the hiding place of Rutherford B. Hayes,, its threatening linger pointing to St. Luiiil; —New Tork Sun.
LAUGHED  IN   THE   l/ACE  OF   A* CORPSE.
TUe Ohastly Performance bf ti Voting* Woman at thu Morgue [From tlio New York Sun.] When the newa oftho finding of the* body of William D. Cole, the missing elevated railway gateman, waa printed in the papers on Monday, a young wo¬ man who said she was his   wife callod at the  Morgue and nsked after bitti; Murgue Keeper While said  the body hadn't eome around yel, and the yonng woman loll .Yesterday the body came Xd tbeMorguo. Cole was 22 years uld.and  . had been drowned iu Little Hell Gate whilo fishing on April 21. His remains' were   nhrScflgiiizublo   except by   th* badges* fouud uu  his ololliiug.   Tiie' young   woman   called, again   at   Ills' Morgue yesterday and   eaiv Assistant Morgue Keeper   Joe   Fogarly.    She' was neatly dressed in blsck.    Fogarty led the way   to where the   body  lay. The faee waa nearly eaten away hy the' fishes.
of a manly breast. , The speech of In- galls was-inspiredJ>y deliberate male- yo'.iiitio.—f'lliladeljtl.ia Jiccord.   ? '- lather distinguished piiest's,'—ijee «ur»
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Tho Hand of Vengeance. Tho interpretation of the wondorful phenomenon observed in the sky over Northwestern Ohio at midnight be¬ tween Monday and Tuesday is nut difficult if the lime and plnce of the.] portent arc considered.
The most vivid description of the prodigy is thut which comes from Fin Ilny, iu Hancock County. Tn the affiighlod inhabitant of Findlny there appeared iu the Northern heavens a giant hand, woll formed, and as dis¬ tinct ns if painted upon lho black back gronnd ol the sky. l'lio index finger uf this nwtul hand seemed to be point¬ ing directly at llieio, "an if warning the peoplo of somo woe abutit tn fall on Findlay." Hundreds ol citizens, breathless with excitement, watched the impressive spei taclo. Through Iho vast shadowy hand waves of blood- red light "snrged as regularly as heart boats iu a human breast, and then fell off at the end of the lingers in drops of the same color." Tbis lasted for an hour.
The people of Findlay need leel no alaim. The'amen is not for them. The bloody finger pointed not atlheui, but over tlieir heads and fnr away,
The hand appeared  in the heavens
directly over Sandusky County and
the town ot Fremont.   A Bit aightline
I drawn from Sandusky County through
young woman calmly.
Fogarty pressed baok tho lips and showed lho teeth.
"That's him!" exclaimed the yonng' woman. Then she laughed, lt was rather a hard laugh, but not at alt hysterical. "I told him Pd laugh itt his face aftor he was dead," said she. "lie was nuy husband. He heated me cruelly. I said I'd langh In hia* faco, ami I do it nniV."
She laughed again. Sho seeraod not mure thau 20 years old, Hei blue! eyes wore cold.
Joo Fogarly is used to scenes ol ev¬ ery sort of weakness, passion and sor-' row, bul he confessed last night that this scene staggered him. He had never its like before.
My God!" he exclaimed, "ho it dead! Don't yon see he is dead? For' God's sake let by-gones be by-gonesl He is dead I"
But the girl only latlglled bitterly.- She leaned over and peered into the1 dead face. Then she laughed aloud .- But this time il waa nervously.
"Ho is dead!'' repealed Fogarty' deeply, "and he Was yonr husband!"
"Hal" exclaimed the woman, "f told him I wonld langh in his tleatf faco."
The laugn. tltti limo Wa* almott hystericnl.
"This would be nn awful thing lo* get into the papain." suit! Fogarty.
"I don't oaro if il gets iu every piu per iu tho land!" The girl almost* shrieked this.
Later, on being questioned, ahe said that ihey had not been married lohgr* bnt that three time* he had broken up'' the home, and once, when she was in a' condition most in need nf Bympall'y* and help, hehad deserted hot.
"It was thon," aho cried excited1" ly, "that I told him I would laugh in* bis dead (ace. No, 1 don't want the' body. Do with it an you will." . After sho had left, Robert Colo, the gatekeeper's father, called anil made- arrangements to have the hniial take- place from tho Morgue. Mrs. Cole* luld Fogarty that she was working; at hor trade of dressmaker al SU East Eighty-fifth street.
Two dollar* pays lor Tiik EHquiMc* for ono year—cash in advance.
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