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V , w^v >- -*n? fp^, ^ gtje: Itvington THspatclj, : ^ ) YOL. XII. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1882. ' , I II III! r????? \ * * '^ THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY By Godfrey JfM. Barman, LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year Si.50 ." " six months..- 75 ?? ?? three months 50 ADVERTISING RATES. 0 Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 75c per square of one inch space tor ncovriiin onr? Sfin xvr sonare for each subsequent insertion. .1 Liberal contracts made with those wish- } ing to advertise for three, six or twelve, months. * Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries over tea lines charged for at; regular advertising rates. Address, G. M. HARM AN, Editor and Proprietor. Worms! Worms! Worms! 5,000 MORE - AGENTS WANTED to sell DR. HOWARD'S Infallible Remedy for Worms. The Doctor sold his Medicine at Lexington during Court week, and it give entire satisfaction. For terms to Agents, address DR. J. M. HOWARD, Mount Olive, Wayne County, N. C. Sept 28 -6m NEW RICH BLOOD! Parsons' Purgative Pills make New Rich I Blood, and will completely change the blood in : the en tire system in three months. Anv person I who will take 1 pill each night from 1 to 12 weeks f. tmarr Kft MtofcAMw) tr% oftnitf! hPAlth. if Aiirh a. ihtner ! , lie possible. Sent bv mail for {Hotter stamps. ? j J. 8. JOHXSOy <S CO., Boston, Mass., ! formerly Bangor, Mc. A6EMT8 WANTED the b?itF'nmil yKnit- ! tin* Machine ever invented. Will kDltapair of Mockmjs, with HEEL and TOE complete, la 20 minutes. It will also knit a gnat variety of fancywork for which there Is always a ready market. Send for circular and terms to the Twombly Knitting Machine Co?? *8 Washington St., Boston, Mam Aug 17 ly. C. MAYHEW, MANUFACTURER & EEALER IN ALL KINDS MARBLE AND GRANITE WORK, MONUMENTS, TABLETS, I * -=>-!>- , I MANTELS Famished to any at bottom prices. ^Westskle of MjJu street, near Post Office, 81A'a c- i HKSramK??"so 1 [el t e<? rith those in want HHRHHUKi^ie Wort; Septra?u ^ v Wr~%ENRY HEIT8CH, j^ESTAURANT. / ? DEALER IN ? j / WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ETC. i / No. 155 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. / . i f BOTTLED LAGER BEER A SPECIALTY I, $ST~ Country orders for Fresh Oysters | promptly filled. oct 27 ly j SCOTT HENDRIX, DEALER IN < WINES, LIQUORS, ; LAGER BEER, i CIGARS, TOBACCO, &c,, LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C. ' Nov 26?ly Free to Everybody! A BEAUTIFUL BOOK FOR THE ASKING! i By applying personally at the nearest office of THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO., (or by postal card if at a distance) any adult person will be presented with a beautifully illustrated copy of a New Book entitled GENIUS REWARDED,. ? OR THE ? ^ STORY OF THE SEWMACRIXE, Containing a handsome ,ond costly steel engraving frontispiece; also, 28 finely en- ' graved wood cuts, and bound in an elaborate blue and gold lithographed cover. No charge whatever is made lor this handsome which can be obtained onlv by ap plication ut the bvanck and subordinate offices of The Singer Manufacturing Co. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Principal Office, 34 Union Square. New York. ?L J. WESSINGER & CO., Local Agents, Lexington S. C. June 15?ly A week in your own town. Terms kjOO and $5 outfit free. Address _ 'w H. HALLETT & CO., Vy Mar. 2?ly. Portland, Mgine. PICTURE" FRAMES, At HARM AN'8 BAZAAR. kT)UY YOUR WRITING PAPER AND _D ENVELOPES at Barman's Bazar. d*< P??day at home. JL \_7 Samples worth $6 free. Address STINSON &. CO., Mar. 2?ly. Portland, Maine. OVEB AND OVEB AGAIN. Over and over again. No matter which way I turn, I always find in the Book of Life Some lesson I have to learn. I must take my turn at the mill, I must grind out the golden grain, I must work at my task with a resolute will, Over and over again. Over and over again m The brook through the meadow flows. Over and over again The.pouderous mill wheel goes. Once doing will not suffice, Though doing be not in vain. And a blessing, failing us once or twice, May come if we try again. Sally and Dr. J. W. Lowman did a Sne business at their respective stores. Retrospective as to the year gone; :>ur Sabbath-school, the largest in the i jountjupnder Prof. O'Brien as S.upt., aas re^TVed from private hauds, independent of other contributions, more than fifty dollars in cash from j private hands, while our school at the ! icademy has built for it the largest' he county, and (ft^ing the year has] mrolled one hundred and twenty- j seven studenta ? So much for the i jenerosity of the excellent citizens of die Johntown community, among whom none were more zealous than VIr. H. A. Sally and Dr. J. W. Lownan. "The year, fruitful of events, and to 3e rich in the historic past, is another idded to the roll of centuries, replete with errors, goodness and mislakes. By these may we profit. Its j *ood works may be garnered for iinitation in the future while its mistakes ; md errors may well be remembered j 3nly to bo strewn along the pathway jf the future as warnings in life's x>ming years. The year, the eventful year, is dying. Its wail is heard an the evening blast, yet, in the language of Prentice: . ? "No funeral train Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood, ktuk TiffTit the moon beams .j -0?, .? _ rest, Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air is ; stired As by a mourners sigh; and on yon cloud, That floats so still and placidly through heaven, The spirits of the seasons seem to stand,? i i'oung Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form, > * And Winter, with his aged locks,?and j breatho, . \ [n mournful cadences, that come abroad A melancholy dirge o'eMhe dead year, j Gone from the earth forever." With new resolutions let South Carolina, full of the elements of prosperity, press onward, until culminating in Calhoun's grandest prophecies, she shall achieve for herself the brighest dreams her chivalric children. The stock law and other questions before the people are too distracting for a holiday letter, and it beoomes the lover of harmony just now to add no single word to distraction. For the comiDg year let us trust that nothing will divide the party of honesty and of progress b&t? that peace and harmony like the benediction of Heaven may .span our fair, sunny, land with her radiant bow. Festus. Johntowx, S. C., Dec. 31,1881. Hall's Positive Cure for Corns will cure Warts, Bunions, Sore and Inflamed Joints. Sold by C. N. Kyzer. June 8?lv. South Carolina's Success. The following is a list of ?wards made to South Carolina exhibitors in I the Atlanta Cotton Exposition: For best and fullest collection of I minerals from the State, certificate of 1 award and cash premium of $50 to j the State of South Carolina. Agricultural steam engine on wheels, ITozer & Dial, Columbia. Cotton j seed huller and mill, W. Lowry, Columbia. Catawba wine, H. H. Buist, ! Creenville?nreminm of ?5. Lace ' bandkei'chiefs, Miss H-. A. Samuels, i Newberry. Best bale cotton from j I the State, J. K. Schumpert, Newberry, | j $100. Bagging for upland cotton, i Charleston Bagging Manufacturing! j Company. Japanese silk quilt, Mrs. j ' H. B. Buist, Greeuville. Darned j I lace, Mrs. H. A. La Faugh, Newberry. Combined seed planter and fertilizer, j D. L. McKay White, Manning. Pic-! I ture made of cotton, Mrs. H. L. Wier, j Greenville. Seed planter and fer; tilizer, David B. Balantine, Brewerton. Cotton planter, M. L. Donald; son, Greenville. Picture of zephyr, j beads and chinille, Miss Ray Foot, | Newberry. Hand made handker-1 ! chief, Mrs. W. O. Wiecking, Walj halla. Fertilizer, Atlantic Phosphate I Company, Charleston. Firtilizera, Stono Phosphate Company, Charleston. Best collection of rice, H. Bisscoff & Co., Charleston?$25. Tims to Stop. There are now two or more measures Before the General Assembly ' looking to the creation of salaried positions by it. "It is proposed to organize a Railroad Commission with three members?there is bat one now?at a salary of three thousand dollars each. The other one is the," J ?penmr of lars to fix up the buildiDg and eighteen thousand dollars annually for the salaries of necessary professors, j When will our law-makers stop establishing offices to be paid for by wring- ^ ing taxes from the people? It is full time to stop. Although this is 1 but a little State, it appears as though j we must have as many officers, com- ^ missions and public institutions as New York, Pennsylvania, or otlfer large commonwealths of the Union. ( There are ouly five hundred thousand people in South Carolina, leaving out ' of calculation the colored people.? j We do not mean to count out the negroes, but they are not tax-payers to j any considerable extent, as their emancipation from slavery is too recent for them to have had opportunity to accumulate property. And yet every legislative session brings a new position to be filled by or through the ioflaence of the state liovernrnent. It is about time to stop, aud let our office-seekers go to work and help develop the latent interests of the State. Let persons live for and | not upon the State they seem to love j so well.?Enterprise and Mountaineer. \ Too Old. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were startii^ j for church. "Wait, dear," said the! i lady, "I've forgotten something; will j I yon be good, now, and go up-stairs ! and get my goats off the bureau ?" "Your goats! what new-fangled ! thing's that?" replied Jones. J "I'll show you,", remarked the wife. ; and she sailed up-staire, and down again witlf a pair of. kids on her hands; "there they are," said she. "Why, I call those kids," said the J surprised husbaad. "Oh, do you?" snapped the wife, j "Well, so did I once, but they are so i old now, I'm ashamed to call them anything but goats." They went to church. The next I day Jones' wife had half a dozen pairs ; of new gloves in a handsome lacquered box of the latest design. Thomas 0. Thompson, Esq., the j ! Mayor's Secretary, who, some few j I days ago, slipped on a banana peel j I aud sprained his knee writes that St. j ! Jacobs Oil "acted like a charm."? j j Chicago Tribune. For the Dispatch. Letter trom gojmtown. Not a Christmas day comes to good old Lexington without your correspondent wishing a happy one for them. There I spent my first Christmas in South Carolina and around it clusters many, many happy memories. With us we have spent the holidays happily. A few parties, some private "nogs" and with no public bar-rooms iess liquor has been used than during any Christmas within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. At Johntown Academy on the 23d instant we had a Christmas tree tastefully arranged and bounti- j fully laden by the fair hands of our ; ladies. The trete was the most beau-! tiful known within the history ot this ! section. During holidays Mr. H. A. Ashland Outrage?The Criminals Prepare for Death. Full Confession, * Cincinnati, Jan. 1? An Ashland, Ky., dispatch says: Ellis's strange conduct excited the surprise of a citizen who told detective Heflin of ifc .Heflin then sent for Ellis and locked him in bis room at the botol where I Ellis lirst said thai, last summer, he | had heard Craft and Neal boast that j before ChristmMj&*y>oald carnally 1 know Miss Tbtfk&s and Miss Gib- ! bona. This uoming, in j*il, Ellis j denied that Oraft and Neal were' guilty, but'su^fittenlly r -his first statemsni^'wying in was| compelled to retjr*ctpyJjfr^ri*?Der8> j who were in the ^e bodies of the victhbl wB^axhnmed to-day and the-woui^0 e*gined. It was found they csS^Pon* exactly | with the statew^ position of the pa^es whefihe murderous blows wetL8^ruckJgpiis k*8 made all death, aQd expects it.h DeteqPW Heflin J thinks he w swtor in the! tragedy, fconiession is! due to the- others would give the informatu0 The three mei irl'e8'ed are Wm. Neal, Ellir Craf^11^ Q*>rge. Ellis, all white. Ellis 8 ^la': and I Neal awakened bi^ on oight of the murder and him to go to Gibbon's house. wot reluctantly. They entered byft ^O<^ow,.and Neal and Craft oairft&^ the two girls. Emma Thomas them and said she would ker m?lh?r' Rob-1' srt, the bay^r*! tken obo?t to give!' the alarm J&n Craft strnck on 1 thehe%d wAB^8'kfllujg him in- | ^ntly^ that her i time t . ome, and amid the piteoP child for mercy f be an(f killed w# WUa H ind Neal are married. Craft is sin-!; ?1& Thejj were all present when i ? i.; j , , ? ? liiDraH nnrl UIIUUUU ? rwiueuyg nao uiuuu^, , Dn e of then; drove the hearse at the funeral, theoiher was pallbearer. ( Later.?lan. 5.: A Cfcttlesburg, , Ky., dispafch says: Judge Brown , fearing that it great crowd from Ashland would prevent the hearing of ( the cases of $ie Gibbons family mar3erers, orderid the steamer Mountain Girl to get qp steam and take the prisoners to Maysville, Ky., for safe keeping, bat owing to the. difficulty 3f getting the prisoners on board the 3teamer, the Sheriff put them on a i ferry boat and started down the river. A mob then took possession of the steamer Mountain Girl and started I in pursuit. It is thonght that the < prisoners will not get to Maysville alive. Maysvilee, Kt., January C.?The Ashland murderers arrived here at 10 o'clock last night and were safely lodged in jail. The Mountain Girl was a mife or two behind at the time and abandoned the pursuit on learn ing that the prisoners were guarded by militia- No boisterous demonstration attended the landing here, but it required the utmost efforts of the civil and military officers to keep the immense crowd^om rushing on the boat. *Indian Depabtment, Washington, D. C.?I am anxious to introduce Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup among my Indians, having used it myself for several months, and think it one of the finest remedies I ever found. I assure you, it is the only thing that ev^r relieved me of a protracted cough, brought on by exposure while on the Sioux Commission last year. A, G. Boone, Agent for Poncas and U. S. Commissioner. Col. George Bliss, Special United States Attorney in charge of the Star! Route cases, has received assurances j from the newly appointed Attorney' General, Brewster, that in a tew days he will give him special authority to j pursue the suits with all prompti-j tude. Brewster further says "the I uttermost penny taken from" the U. | S. Treasury must he recovered, and | that he will take an active ^art in the prosecution, and lead in person for the United States. Stats News. Tbe Saluda Factory has lately been considerably enlarged. In a few weeks it will have 10,000 spindles in operation. Col. B. W. Edwards and family, of I Darlington, were made seriously ill j recently by mince pies made from! material purchased in the town. Even those few of our State exchanges which were issued during j Christmas week are unusually barren i of interesting news items. Grateful to Invalids.?Florestojfc is trrateful to invalida irecnus'- _ t sickening effect of most perfnmes. 12 The negroes emigrating from Edgefield are leaving Atlanta for Texas and Arkansas but mostly for Texas. Some are stranded in Atlanta for want of means. " , Col. John H. Fisher has been elect- , ed President of the South Carolina Railroad, and the new company is now in full possession and perma- , nently organized. ( Isaac Reed and Andrew Mannin ger, colored, ?a$rrelled over ten cents J worth of pie at Walhalla. on the 28th ^ u'lt, and bo/h began to shoot. Manninger was killed. , The Colleton Press says that Mr. ( Isaac S*uls, while firing off his pistol I at Smoke's Cross Roads on Christmas { Eve, accidentally killed his little son, 1 who was standing near by. t i -V " -T r -' A yonng son.of Mrs. Celia Herring, 1 Marion, wag twisting a whip, and 1 jtrack b pistol on the mantel. The 1 weapon was discharged and the ball (penetrated the boy's head, causing nstan t death. j t Tommie Blease, about ten years of i * ige, the yonngest son of Mr. and Mrs. c F. H. Blease, of Newberry, accident- je dlvjihot and-kijled himself by play-j1 29th December. Thursday morning last eleven pris- j | Dners attempted to .escape from the | inderson jail by battering down the ( door. The noise aroused the Sheriff who drove them back by firing his revolver thjoogh the door. J There is said to be great unrest in ( Sumter among the negroes there and j ( that at least five hundred families are j preparing to leave the county in the! early spring. The farming interests; j are alleged to be greatly imperilled. The Camperdown Cotton Mills, near I Greenville, S. C., during the past i year used up 5,000 bales of cotton, manufactured between $350,000 and $400,000 worth of goods, and declared a 12 per cent, dividend for the year. * Hall's Tetter and Ring Worm Specific cored a tetter on my wife's head that had troubled her a number of , years. I have used this remedy with eminent success in my practice. Dr. G. H. Hunter, Late City, Florida. June 8?ly. Abbeville Medium, January 5tb.: The hard times are beginning to be felt in this section. At Greenwood three firms have adjusted their bus iness. J. H. Oldham for abouf $6,000; B. Reynolds & Co* for about $13,000, and McNeill & Davis about $11,000. Israel Gittelson made an assignment of all his assets yesterday to Benj. S. Barnwell, for the benefit of bis creditors. Liabilities, about $10,000, and assets $7,000. These are among our most respected firms, and we regret their embarrassment. ; rT" M ^ ?-"J ?n avaaIap i JLD6 emux OI gUUU Ull^cuo 10 than the influx of uncertain men. No effort is made to keep at home - i those "native and to the manner bofri." i _ v while every inducement is offered to j bring the free lances of Europe into > our household. This is all wrong. It! rests with our legislators to rectify j the evil if it can he cured. Either > create an anti-emigraton bureau Or ; abolish the immigration bureau.- If our own people could be kept here j their natural increase would rapidly , fill our waste places that there would i be no need for the Macedonian cry that we all ore raising to the home i hunters of tl*y01d World.?Barmcell People. I General News. Postmaster General James has surrendered the postoffice to Howe. Daring 1881 there were 38,60^' deaths and 26,130 births in the cj6' of New York. j Mrs. Cruz, of Florence, Cal.,gav'e birth, on Friday last, to six perfectly formed female children. Guitean held a New Year'/ reception in jail, and it is said that probably two hundred people, a large proportion of them being ladies, called on liitn. Ou the 27th ultimo Congressman ? a to the effect that the contest olYhe ' latter for his?eeat would be vigorously pushed. Jay Gould, Rassell Sage and Cyrus W. Field obtained control of all the New York elevated railroads, and cleared a profit of $3,500,000 in the transaction. Gabrel White, a negro, was hanged at Walterboro on Friday for the murder of Frederick Bellinger, colored, in 1879. The cause of the murder was jealousy about a woman. When the trap fell White's neck Was broken. A great deal has been said of late about what, has become of the Confederate gold. President Davis aas been charged by some with having ;aken a large portion of it, but the atest developments point to-the fact hat with the exception of that part ^ vhich was paid to the soldiers, a ( ? i i. ?i-i it.. t.:t hod sioie u irom uie wagons wmie hey were passing through Wilkes 2oanty, Ga. > 1 There is considerable excitement * it Keokuk, Iowa, over the fact that >etween thirty and forty medical stu- ( lents have been stricken with a dis- * iase that is pronounced by the Presdent of the Board of Health and ^ eceived from Chicago was tisett in he dissectiog room of the medical ' :ollege, -and that the subject had ( lied of small pox. . f r i Thus far bills for the new *ppor;ionment have been introduced intbe ' House providing for 293, 307, 30$ ( *nd 319 members respectively. All ;hese bills go to the Census Committee, where they will encounter the plan devised by Superintendent of Census, Seaton, which assumes the additiou of one member to each State by this higher number and assigns the extra members to the States which show quotients from such division nearest the Federal ratio. It takes all the drumming and dragooning we can do to bring the Democrats to the polls, while the ReDublicans cannot be held away. By taking a plain, practical commonsense view of it any man with a single eye can see that registration is surely the forerunner of the deathknell of the Democratic party in South Carolina. Suppose though the alleged necessity for the registration law was the real reason for urging it ?(that of preventing frauds in elections)?Who violate the election laws to the greater extent ? The Republicans .or the Democrats??Abbeville Press and Banner. On Friday, the 30th ult., at Bentonville, Ark., a man named Eson Bolin was killed in his bed and his wife confessed to shooting him. She justified herself by saying that Bolin had killed two men, was a horse thief, had lived by theft in every place where they had been, had threatened her life at various times, and on two occasions had drawn a knife on her, and that her life was most miserable with him. Her statements were mado in a cool and unmoved manner, while the dead body of the man was so near that she might have touched it. The jury's verdict was that Bolin died at J the hands of his wife; Three of their children were sent to the poor house, and she was permitted to take the younger son, three months old, to jail with her. On Monday she borrowed a knife from the jailer, ostensibly to rip up a dress to make over for her child, but instead cut her throat, and died I in a few moments. *..> \ Wis$ and tftienrisc. ^rgest jjue of candies ever cjtbred iq tWr? ? ? TT^v arket 15 to ke 6e<?u at narman s Bazrtiw How does paiutufhw j - - i , . <=>tree with mv daugbteif?a >v" "It makes ber tooreh^Jparent, replied tbe teacher. 13 *aoe' Deaf lady: "WhaiVdusiJk.^ "Augustas Tyler." Deaf lac-., uj^' ? me, what a name! 'Base's giJer ,7^ > Eliza, you must be making an of la^" On u recent Sunday a Chrlestown, . Mass., Republican pastor ddressed his congregation in behalf <.forejg0 mWTCft. lS'\e?umfi!luu:arn^u'^- ^ China! Look at Indiana?I ju_ dia!" and went on with his sen.? ? n, a smile on every face. Three little boys, on a Sabbath dav were stopped on the street by elderly gentleman who, perceiving \ that they had bats and balls with them, asked one of the number this/', question: Boy, can you tell me whe^ all nanghty boys go to who play ball on Sunday ? Over back of Jobhsou's dam, the youngster replied. Twa Oo/iavo UnnMilftM fi rof fVia stomach, second the liver; especially the first, so as to perform their fanctions perfectly and you will remove at least niceteen-twentieths of all the ills that mankind is heir to, ia this -or any other climate. Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to heae two organs.?Maine Farmer. 11 A Scotch clergyman whose habit ivas to preach hell-fire to his congregation in large doses, had occasion to risit a poor sick parishioner. After mlarging with considerable unction m his favorite topic, he said to her: 'Now, my dear woman, did you ever . ippreciate thc-tortures of the damned J before?" "Nae. nae; never till ye in i.mi K T* A Foolish Mistake.?Don't make he mistake of confounding a remedy Df merit, -wiUi quack medicines. We 3peak from experience when we say that Parker's Ginger -H^nic is a sterling health restorative which will lo all that is claimed for it. We have tsed it ourselves with the happiest results for Rheumatism and when worn tut by overwork. See. ad v.? Times. 12 A Galveston darkey has returned from a business trip to the inferior very much disg^ted. "Didn't ybx * receive any offers to pick cotton?" asked a friend. "Yes, sich as dey was. A man offered me c>oe-third ob de amount I picked, and when I looked at de field I saw for myself dat when it was all picked it wouldn't amount to one-third, so I left lor home." "You was in luck dat he didn't foul yer." "Yer bet I was, Sandy. My refmetic is all what saved me. I tell yer all, send yer children, ter skooL" "What! that coffee all gone?" "Yis mam. There isn't a blessed drawin' left in the box." "What! four pounds of coffee used up in our small family in one week?" "Small family? Musha, thin, mam; there's two of yez, an' the maid, an' there's me and me foive admirers, who has aich a night to hisself, and how ye can make a small family out of tin of us is b'yant me entireiy. I don't know what ve'll do whin I come to fill in t'otber two nights o' the week wid young tnin who wants a sup o' hot coffee for to keep the chills away." * Amcious to Rise.?There's plenty of room up stairs, as Daniel Webster | said to the young lawyer anxious to Jg? rise, but despondent of his chance to do so; but no one need injure himself either in climbing the stairs of fame or those of his own house or business place. The following is to the point: Mr. John A. Hutchinson, Supt. Downer's Kerosene Oil Works, Boston, Mass., writes: Mr. Fatton, one of our foremen, in walking up stairs last week sprained his leg badly. I gave him a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil to try. ! He used it and an almost instantane ous cure was effected.? La Fayette J Daily Journal.