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; iwingtoii VOL. XW LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST 9, 1882. NO??T _ PUBLISHED rvi'BT WEDXESDAY By Godfrey ?/!f. Mar man, LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C. TERMS OF SUfifrRIPTlOy.One copy one year .$1.50 " " six mouths. 75 " ** three months 50 ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 75c per square of one inch, space tor first insertion, and 50c per sqnare for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries over ten tines charged for at regular advertising rates. Address, ?? - CL M. HABMAN, Editor and Proprietor. THE RUM-SELLER'S DREAM. A rumseher, one day when his bar-room was empty, dozed off into a sound slumber; an angel appeared unto him in his dreams and brought before him in vivid pictures, the inevitable result of his calling. To his assertion Hurt he eased by the State, and had a legal Tight te sell, the angel, as deputed in .the illustration, pointing to these seenes of crime and woo, says:. \ Licensed to nfnke the strong inan weak Licensed to lay the wise man low; Licensed a wife's fond heart to break And make her children's tears to How. Licensed to do thy neighbor harm; Licensed to kindle hate and strife; iiicensed to nerve the robber's arm; Licensed to whet the murderer's knife. ! Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain, And rob him of his very last;. ^ Licensed to heat his feverish brain. Till madness crown thy work at last I % Licensed, where peace ard quiet dwell; To bring disease, and want and woe; ' Licensed to make this world a hell, And fit man for a hell below. ... l For the Dispatch. < . ?* Eocs* Well, July 31st, 1882. 1 . Arr. Editor:? Crops have greatly ( ^ ? improved in this section doriog the ' . T "past j On-Friday last Dr. Taylor, tjf Co. **>? our < ^/young doctor, D. 51 Crosson, ampu- J c tated the leg of Mr. Daniel Drafts. J f Mr. Drafts has suffered greatly for ' Ihe past three months with graugreen ' of the foot He bore the pain of the t operation with much fortitude, and has been doing exceedingly well even since. Saturday July 29tjr ^as apart ,j by the young folks of tb^? section to arause themselves by assembling at 51 r. T. I. Warner>"priDg {or the purpose of having "'picnic. We attend- t ed, and fou-1^ assembled there quite I a pleap-*Qfc little crowd. We were o jpef oy the smiling faces and warm a hands of the aged parents of that p community, as well as those with n beardless chins, and. above all were 1< the smiling faces of the fair ladies, o Miss Lillah Kibler, of Newberry, was t) there, and contributed much to the s interest of the occasion. She received ii a full share of the admiration that n was bestowed upon thefaij sex. The it young folks participated in making t! love, while the elderly ones were con- I rersiog on their usual topics. Be- a tween one and two o'clock the rich ii viands were spread upon the table beneath boughs that were fanned by ^ gentle breezes. All partook, and all ^ were refreshed by the bountiful re- 6 paah 8( Soon all exclaimed "enough,"- ex- a cept Dr. "Drate," who continued eat- a ing after the others had repaired to v other parts, feasting on the good ti things that remained untouched. h Capt. Hull then addressed the r< crowd in the clear and concise style V with which he is gifted. He handled o the great questions that now purplex ri the public mind, and asked his bear- g ers to hesitate before condemning or b forsaking the Democratic party on u account of the stock law or registra- ei tion law, but to stand shoulder to w shoulder in the coming strife. He i 3 also warned the people in making p Jbeir selections in the coming politi cm uuujpaigu. ? At the conclusion of Capt. Hall's! tl ? address, the young folks amused! r< themselves not in tripping the light j o: fantastic in the way of quadrilles, but vi in the manner of twistificatiou and > Ii other similar plays. This continued J s< until about four o'clock, when the i h crowd dispereed rejoicing o'er the j u past. P. G. in ; \ For the Dispatch. Why I am a Democrat. Because there is no highway robbery and murder, as under Radical rule. Because there is no robbery, rape, murder and burning combined. Because my wife and daughters are not afraid to remain alone at home during the night for fear of being violated and murdered. Because all property is valued in assessing one hundred per ceut. less, and the the tax levy is fifty per cent, less than under Radical rule. ? Because all claims against the State and Coanty are promptly paid. In short, because every man, woman and hild feels perfectly secure and safe in person and property, and the laws ' * - a z.*_ 11_ _ J oi ice iaua are lmpartiaiiY auujiuit.tered irrespective of party, color or condition, and tbe finances of the St'.le and County are all honestly applied and accounted for. Fellow-citizens, can you beat this for retrenchment, reform and general good? Now you can "rest under your own vine and fig iree" without fear. Could you ever do so under Radical rule? Stop and reason with yourselves, and see if you think more for the welfare of an old cow than you do of the woman who gave you birth, the wife of your bosom, or the virtue of your daughters. If you think more of the former, we don't want you in our ranks, neither does the dumb brute wish you; therefore go where you properly belc og, among the filth and scum of creation. Throw your mothers, your wives md your daughters into tbe society of those you honor with your suffrage?the rogue, gambler, drunkard, depraved and vicious, neither afraid aor ashamed to commit any deed, no matter how heinous. Can you ana miL^oa tuese. nrcnmatances go tyack under Radical Rule? Hew have yoa entirely for-! jotton your cry for deliv^^ace^r 80 ; many years? Hy^""8000 bave y?n' jecome forged restless and discou-1 *nted, y?en prosperous? Tbue Blue. ? ~ For the Dispatch. Totes from the Land of Penn. a _______ Since .my last letter I have been aking additional notes in the land of ^nn, some of which I trust will be f as much interest to your readers s the writing of them has been a Measure to your correspondent. The aajority of your readers, I know, bejDg to the farming profession, most f the fair lasses who read its love I lies are farmer's girls, most of the taid matrons who look up it cookag recipes are farmer's wives, and lost of the sturdy hands that open ,s pages at the nooning hour are bose who drive the plow. Therefore , deem itf;worth the space here to jot, paragraph on Pennsylvania farm-! It is now midsummer, and the 'ennsylyania harvest is at its height.! Iverywliere broad fields of golden rain sway out before the eye, preenticg the pleasant sight of peace j nd plenty. And as great in number 8 the wheat fields are the busy haresters, Dot harvesters with the old me "cradles," as we see them at f ome, but seated upon the cunning saper drawn by two great horses., fith this wonderful machiue the lord ! f the fields drives along at a brisk ite, cutting as much of the heavy rain in a day as four-good men can : iud. These reapers are universally sed; the old time cradle is almost nlirely abandoned. Pennsylvania hejit produces, on an average, about j 0 bnsbels to the acre?that is oil lmroved farms. This is a capital region for gra?s. 'he spiky-topped Timothy looks over ie fence at you along almost any \ jad, and the half bluish appearance f this great staple gives a pleasing ariegation to the rural landscapes, u gathering this also the poetic old :ythe, so often seen iD picture books, j as been given over to rust and disse, and it will be supplanted by the ew improved mower, which is more I in sympathy with this fast, progressivo age. Timothy grows to the height of 3 and 4 feet, and yields an immeuse amount of hay. A gentleman told me a few days ago that four acres of Timothy yielded him a suffi- , ciency of long food for two horses and several cows for a whole year. Why our Southern farmers don't sow grass is a mystery. I am sure it grows well in the cotton fields, and believe it would well as a crop. The old method of plowing corn is ( almost entirely abandoned here.? ( Cuhivators are used which simply . stir the soil about the roots, and better corn I never saw. Corn is now about waist high, and looks very . promising. The Irish potato is a great crop with Pennsylvabians, and . ' is planted in great quantities and j eateu all the winter. The sweet potato is rarely seen here. I have not seen much honey, bat i this country can certainly flow with j milk, and that of the richest quality. ! Great Jersey and Alderny cows graze ^ in the green pastures, and return heavy profits for their keeping. A ^ | cheese factory is located near the hotel where I am stopping, and the c I farmers drive by every morning with i from 30 to 50 gallons of milk* each, j iTheysell it, I think, for about-two ' j cents a quart, which seems very low. Wood land in this part of the State is very scarce?most of the land be- ^ i in a nndor nnlfivftfinn. Thfi farms aro ; I ?? r I geuerally small and lund^js high, j From any small elevation a great number of bouses can be seen. A few days since I stood on.Ti.be s^e ?f c j a ridge and counted GO farm bouses ^ ! in sight, just on one side of the road. | Small villages are scattered along the pikes at every secoud or third mile. g There is one sound that I miss out o ! here in the country, and a sound j.( [ which every SnntWnor wnnlJ r?.i_ ijjivjjx.M miss?it is tbo song of our Southern mocking bird, in vniu.jp, since the* Ortt hnjinninj of -FpTTT q -fcargTlistened for his happy notes,; v but alas! he sings not here. These e, short, cool summers, where the mag- j nolias do not grow, are too uncon- j genial for him, aud he dares not risk j his health by singing so far North. ^ He loves the tropical Sonth with hsr blue skies and green valleys, and has n no sympathy for a land less favored and beautiful. His friend, Mr. Robw bin, summers here, but he has a poor song and seems generally out of a practice. ? The nights are generally cool here, j ^ Peaches are not ripe yet?blackber-1 ries just turning. Hkxry H. Buckingham, Pa., July 15, 1882. * ci a Th.0 Habit of Saving. a Children who have a little money tl ought to practice saviug something, tl Many boys aud girls of to-day hardly fi know a higher use for money that e: comes in their hands* than spending it for some foolish thing as quickly d as possible." To such, a lesson in c< self-denial and economy is very im- e: porlant. As goes the boy's pennies it and dimes, so, very likely, will go the man's dollars aud hundreds by and by. Without having the spirit of a p miser, the person accustomed to save has more pleasure in laying up than r( a spendthrift ever knows. f* The way to keep money is to earn it fairly and honestly. Money so ob- tl tained is pretty sure to abide with its cl possessor. But money that is inherkerited, or that in any way cornea " without a fair and just equivalent, is 03 almost certain to go as it came. The k young man who begins by saving a few dollars a month, aud thriftily increases his store?every coin being a BC reoresentative of good, solid work, |w honestly and manifestly done?stands 18 a better chance to spend the last half 01 of his life in affluence aud comfort1 w than he who, in his haste to become si rich, obtains money by dashing spec- J' ulrtions, or the devious means which oJ abound in the foggy regions lying be- iE tween fair dealing and actual fraud. Among the wisest and most thrifty S men of wealth the current proverb is "money goes as it comes." Let the young make a note of this, and see S that their mouey comes fairly, that it ti may long abide with them. tc Platform of the Dsaecratic Party of South Carols* for 1882. ?f i The Democratic party of South Carolina, in State Convention assembled, reaffirming the_ principles and declarations of the State platforms of 1876 and 1878, aad their continued devotion to tie principles of the National Demofliatic party, and pledging to that party their earnest 10-operation and lapport, declare the following principles aaformolatiDg the policy of the Soajb Carolina Democracy in State and Federal iffairs, and invite the aid aod support 5f all good citizcug ic carrying them into effect: 1. Wise and jaafc legislation, the mpartial administration of equal aws, economy ?^th efficiency in 3very department of the State government. tir" 2. Popular education "4s the bulivark of free institutions. Liberal ippropriations for the pnblic schools !or the whole people. 3. The systematic efforts of the Sepnblican paihr to obstruct reform md. destroy jpod government in South Caroline by turning to patisan >nrposes the appointing power of the federal government is a standing nenace to the people of this State ind a growing danger to good citiens in every part of the Union. Che Federal offices in this State are nade political infirmaries' and trainnor Rf?hnnlo for the defeat of honest ;overnment in South Carolina. 4. Honest hone rale. The Demoracy of Sputh Carolina, representing he taxpayers of the State and a majority pf the whole people, invite nd have the right to expect the ympathy and support of their fellow ouctrymen in their strenuous efforts 3 preserve afl^intelligent and equal " " n t~ 5' ?,ho P^ce^f ToriesI i political cases in the Vtrited States' lourts 'in this State is ft crTuoiuu". " iolation of the inalienable right of very citizen to a fair trial by a jury f his peers. 6. The extension of the. franchise, 3 a political result of the late war, as enlarged enormously the number f present and prospective voters squiring education in the public ihools. The burden was increased, bile the ability of the State to bear was diminished. The Federal overnment, by liberal appropriations om the Treasury, on the basis of literacy, should help the Southern tates to cure the evil of npn-intellieut suffrage. A national dauger alls for national action and national id. 7. Civil service reform, appointments to minor offices under tests iat will indicate the qualifications of je applicant, promotion by merit, a xed teuare of office, and no removals, rcept for cause. 8. Blackmailing public servants, uner the guise of political asssments, inverts the public treasury, to the stent of the contributions called for, lto a campaign fund for the admcement of a po-litical party, thus txing the wholepeople for partisan urposes. 9. The present, protective tariff ;bs the many for the benefit of the iw. The duties on imports should a decreased, and au early repeal of le duty on cotton ties,' on the malinery used in the manufacture of )ttoD land wool, and on tools and agcultural implements, will stimulate tanufactares and be a welcome relief > the farmer aod laborer. 10. It is most desirable that the iternal revenue taxation be abolished, > 90on as this can be accomplished ithout rendering permaneut the exting protective system. Rigid econny in the conduct of the government ill hasten the day when the tariff iall be as moderate as in the early ays of the Republic and the army of See holders employed under the iternal revenue laws be disbanded. 11. The public credit?national and tate?must be religiously mainlined. 12. In the conduct of affairs in this tate the Democracy have been aclated by but oue desire,- and that is > promote the greatest good of the State. Only within the Democratic party and by party action can defective legislation be remedied without imperiling the safety and well-being of the State. Democratic unity is public safety and private security. 13. In the State, justice and equality for all, to insure harmony and good will between the races. Iu the Union, no sectionalism in policy or feeling. An indissoluble Union of indestructible States. One flag, one country, one destiny. Certainly He Would. The other evening as a muscular citizen was passing a house on Montcalm street, a lady who stood at tho gate called out to him: "Sir! I appeal to you for protection !" "What's the trouble?" he asked as he stopped short. ,fThere's a man in the house, and he won't go out doors when I ordered him to!" "He wouldn't eh? ' We'll see about that I" Thereupon the man gave the wo-; man his coat to hold aDd sailed into j the house spitting on his bauds. He found a man sitting down at the sup-: per-table, and he took him by the! neck and remarked: "Nice style of a brute ^ou are, eh ?; Come out o' this or 111 break every bone in your body ?" The man fought back and it was not until a chair waa broken and the table upset that he was hauled out doors by the legs, and given a fling through the gate. Then, as the muscular citizen placed his boot where it wonld do the most huat, he remarked: j ' 'Now, then, you brass-faced old tramp, you move on or I'll finish you." j "Tramp! tramp!" shouted the victim, aa ho got up, "I'm no tramp! I OjFji tbi? property and live in. this i UOU^GI - . ?- -? "Yes, and that'8 my wife holding! your coat!" "Thunder?" whispered the victim, j as he gazed from one to the other, i and realized that the wife had got i square through him; and then he made a grab for his coat and slid into the darkness with bis shirt bosom I torn open, a finger badly bitten, aud ; two front teeth ready to drop out.? j Free Press. ^ ? Paid a Sill. , I A Detroit lawyer took in a new boy | the other day, and as^he had suffered ! f/-? snma orf.ttnt frrim the deoredatioub of the former one, he decided to try j the new lad's honesty at once. He j therefore placed $15 in bills under a: weight on his desk and walked out j without a word. Upon his return,: half an honr later the bills were gone j and seventy-five cents in silver had! taken their place. "Boy! when I stepped out to get a draft on London I left $15 under the ! weight!" "Yes, sir." "And now I find only seventy-five ; cental" "Yes, sir, but you see you hadn't i been gone five minutes when a man j came in with a bill against you of j $14 ,25, and I paid it. I guess the! change is correct." "You?you paid a bill ?" "Yes, sir?there it is, all receipted. The man said it had slipped your mind for the last four years, and so?" He didn't get any further before he was rushed for the stair, and be isn't i in the law business any more.?Free i Press. I The design for the long'delayed j monument to the illustrious Jefferson j has been completed and, approved, i The memorial of plain granite will be > simple and lasting, like the character and fame of the great Virginian. It: is disgraceful that his resting place j has not long since been fitly marked, but mortal hands can erect no grander nor more abiding tributes than he j reared for himself in his ringing ar- i raignment of British tyranny, and the venerated seat of learning of which | he was the father. | I Miscellaneous. ! i The crop in the Northwest prom-1 | iscs to be better than ever before. Rutherford B. Hayes is repoted as j hoeing corn and enjoying himself. j Within one week 1,000 Jews have J : left Lemberg, Austria, for America, j The Kentuckey wheat crop is sup- i ! posed to reach near 13,000,000 bushJ" els i The bronze statue for the Confeder- i j ate monument has been delivered at i | Charleston. * ' , For aged men, womeu, weak and!' j sickly children, without a rival. Will j 1 not cause headach. Brown's Iron 11 Bitters. 1 The Democratic Convection for ' the Fourth Congressional District ' will be held at Spartanburg on the 1 loth instant, to nominate a member ' to Congress from that District. By invitation, Prof. li. Means Davis,! | the editor of the Winnsboro* News j ! \ and Herald, delivered an address to I the teachers of Edgefield aud the public, at Johnston, on Friday j evening last. Highly Esteemed.?The youthful j color and a rich lustre are restored to > faded or gray hair by the use of Par- ^ ker's Hair Balsam, a harmless dress- fc ing highly esteemed for its perfume c and purity. 43 Thousands of grasshoppors have recently appeased on tbe farm of Mr. ? John Baiterree- near Rock Hill in J York County. They have * literally c torn tbe corn blades to pieces, bnt t have not touched the stalks or the n I ears. & The Barrett Manufacturing CompaDy, located at the old Bath Paper v Mills, provided, on Friday last a ^ splendid barbecue for the enjoyment a of their employees and a number a gae?ts. JttiryjJWpagsed J -Q&Blgae?rfIy7 ? - ^attwi^ u t , | | ^ ^ a drfction programme does not contem- ^ plate the (iistbissal of a siDgle one ol~ g Raurn's henchmen. Of coarse not. There are eight millions paid in salaries to revenue collectors, and the ^ Radical party scoops 2 per cent, of ^ that amount?$60,000?for campaign . purposes. The Height of Folly.?To wait ^ nntil you are in bed with disease you ^ may not get over for months, is the ^ height of folly, when you might ba a easily cared daring the early symp- g toms by Parker's Ginger Tonic. We g hare known sickly families made the 0 healthiest, by a timely use of this c pure medicine.? Observer. 43 c Leading Republicans are said to I be very gloomy about the present * outlook, for the party, as bossed by Hubbell and Robeson. Their only hope is iu Southern "Liberalism,*' c "Greenbackisra" and "Iudepend- 8 entism."- Nice fellows these who arejc trying to save Guiteau Radicalism i through Southern splits. jr ! I Kendall's Treatise on the Horse.? i' This valuable book telis you what to 1 do for your horse when sick, and 1 treats of every disease to which a * horse1 is liable. No person owning a * horse should be without this book. ' For sale ouly at the Dispatch office. ^ Price, 25 ceuts for a single copy, or five copies for $1. Send o? call and get a copy first opportunity. 27?tf. ' IB By the last ceusus returns there 1c aro ODly 76,898 voters in the State of! Rhode Island and 47,663 of these are j f disfranchised iu violation of the Cou-1 ^ stitutiou of the United States. Thus I I Q Rhode Island deprives three-fifths of j her adult population of the right ofjj suffrage. Should any Southern State j ? n * a attempt such a game the entire North j j. would set up a howl. The Superior Polishing Soap.? This soap is harmless. It contains! a - . I. no acid or grit, and is pronounced oy j i those who have used it to be the best j 1 cleaDer and polisher in existence. It! 1 is especially adapted for cleaning and ;s polishing silver, jewelry, plated ware, j g mirrors, windows, show cases, nickel! ] plate, glass, britania, white paint, and j t for tin-ware it has no equal, making |c it look better than new. Price, 10c. :e J For sale at the Bazaar. 27?tf. j a Row it Pays to Take a Paper. The testimony of Bill Arp is: Some papers are not much account as to appearances; but I never took one that didn't pay me, in some way more than I paid for it. One time an old friend started a little paper away down in South "Western Geprgia, and sent it to me, and I subscribed just to encourage him;. and Sb after a while it published a notice that an administrator had an order to aell several lots of land at public outcry, and one of the lots was in my county. So I inquired about the lot, and wrote my friend to attend the sale, and run it to fifty dollars. He did 30 and bid off the lot for me at thirty 3ollars, and I sold it in a month to the man it joined for one hundred, and so I made sixty-eight dollars sle&r by taking that paper. Why, father told me that when he ivos a young man he saw a notice in i paper that a school teacher was wanted away off in a distant county md he went there and got the sitlation, and a little girl was sent to lim, and after a while she grew up nighty sweet and pretty, and he fell n love with her and married her. 'low, if he hadn't taken that paper vhat do you reckon would have >ecome of me? Wouldn't I bo some >ther fellow, or may be not at all ? Mas. jnsse James' Restitution.? Several years ago the notorious Jesse ames, recently shot in Missouri, ade a raid witn a jmall party on he office of a coal mine in one of the noautain towns of Kentucky, and ook a valuable watch and chain from Jbarles Dovey, of Philadelphia, who ras in charge of the mine. A few lays ago Mr. Dovey received a packge containing his long lost watch, ccompanied by a note from Mrs. esse James, asking him to send her receipt for the same by retchro mail. Ire. James recently expressed er jjower, to those whom her ha*. A Flood in Kentucky.?Cincinnati, .ugnst 2: Details from the sudden ood in Mason County, Ky., chroo:le some loss of life. A negro cabin n the bank of Limestone Creek was rushed into the Ohio River and two romen occupying it were drowned. )u Lawrence Creek, near Mayesville, family comprising three adults and ve children were engulfed. Their ouse was torn to pieces and all but ne man were drowned. Near Manheater, Ohio, the house of a man lamed Barnes was washed away. Sarues escaped, but his entire family vere drowned. The assumption of the Radicals tbat tvery negro is a Republican voter is i direct insult to our Afro-American sitizens. It treats the negroes as nere machines having no political ights or volition. This very assumpion of their political guardians?if t were true?is overwhelming proof hat the negro ought not to be alowed to vote at all. Their inca- ^ >acity is most lamentable, bnt it is a _ ibel on the race to claim they are- no n >etter than a drove of sheep. Abundant evidence has been aduced o show tbat there was an immense imount of fraud in the Star Route lases, but the trouble is that the jerpetrators were iudicted for conspirng, and that conspiring must be irst established before this evidence an be introduced. Oa this techlicality the Secretary of the Repnbican National Executive Committee md his pals now mainly rely for reeping out of the penitentiary. A great number: of Arabs were shot it Alexandria for looting. They do hing8 differently at Washington, [he Republican Congress has been ooting the Natioual Treasury for icveral months, and no one has suggested that the members be shot. Che Robesoii9f Reeds, Iveifers, Hubjells and Hiscocka raUier thiuk they mgbt to be rewarded with another ilection in honor of their naval, river ,nd harbor looting jobs.