Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTEIN STATES. A New York dispatch says that a Herald reporter interviewed General Sherman in regard to the long article by Senator Wade Hampton on the burning of Columbia, 8. C. The Senator’s story of that event filled eleven columns of the Charleston Newt and Courier. The Herald says: The article from beeinning to end of its eleven columns is a bitter attack upon Gen. Sherman, and bristles with such phrases as “Gen. Sherman’s reckless disregard of truth," “utterly unworthy of credit,’ “he shall be dealt with as all defamers deserve,” “base and cowardly assaults,” ‘Sherman ia convicted by his own statements of glaring inacuracies, not to use a harsher word,” etc., etc. The closing paragraph of Hampton’s story begins : ‘There seems to be here the usual discrepancy between the statements of Bherman and those of truthful persons. ’ Gen. Sherman read the article and then said: “Why, bless your soul I I have no answer to make to this stun. Lord bless you I it isn’t worth the trouble. It's such an old, old story. Wade Hampton knows as well as Ido that I didn't burn Columbia, but that be did. I have told the story in my memoirs. The whole question as to who burned Columbia was sifted by the international commission, a not overfriendly body, before whom the British owners of some of the cotton destroyed brought their claims. If they could possibly have shown that the United States burned that cotton they would have done so. Ana they failed. And that settled it.” Clement Abthub Day was executed at Utica, N. Y. t on Thursday. Tbe culprit clapped bis hands after the death-warrant was read. He smiled as the cap was being drawn over his face, and when the body was cut down the smile was still there. The crime for which Day was hanged was the brutal murder of a loose woman, Johanna Rosa Cross. Day was jealous of the woman, with whom he had been living for some time and feared sho would leave him. A violent explosion occurred at tbe Dupont Powder Works, at Wapwallopon, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., by which four men were killed, many injured, and a great deal of damage done. The new Methodist Church, 300 feet away, was completely wrecked. There were two tons of powder in the building. Thero is no trace of the packing-house left, not even the foundation. Rocks weighing over a hundred pounds were blown to the top of a mountain a quarter of a mile away. •At the February meeting of the Board of Trustees of Princeton College the resignation of President McCosh was accepted, to take effect at the end of the present school term. A minute was adopted making provision for his future relations with the college. He will remain at the head of tha School of Philosophy, and an honorarium was established for his benefit of $2,500 a year. The board then received tho report of its committee on the selection of a successor to Dr. McCosh. The committee unanimously nominated Prof. Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., for President. The board elected him unanimously on the first ballot, there being no other nomination made. Dr. Patton was formerly a resident of Chicago, was for several years editor of the Interior , s>d was tho instigator and chief conductor of the famous prosecution against Prof. David Swing, which eventually resulted in tho latter’s withdrawal from the Presbyterian Church.