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r O > V I |fe\ ' g :. ! fiiMMMSwaiiSia THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH, PUDUPHED ETEET WEDNESOAT Bjf Godfrey dS. Harman^ LEXINGTON, C. II., S. C. TEIiMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One cop}' one year SI.50 " " si* mouths To 44 44 three mouths 50 | *?>-. " * -f - - ^ ^ | . i VOL. XIY. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884. NO. 21. j i THIRTY DAYS ONLY! Since taking stock until the . NEW SPRING GOODS i is received PHILIP EPSTII ; i 1 I WILL OFFER HIS S i ? CHOICE READY-MADE t CLOTHING, ' 7 t F t S.A.TS? l a ' Gents' Furnishing Goods, c * \ ^ V c ? AND ? , D c LADIES'CLOAKS I t< C POSITIVELY d ^ COST. a I am Determined to Reduce my Large a Stock of Well Sea lected p V ' S CLOTHING, I' a g Men's Youth's, Boy's and Children's Hats 1 s ? at PRICES to suit ? everybody. g 8 SHIRTS, NECK-WARE, " 9 9 J y COLLARS, i s Trunks, Valises a I. J And everything kept in a First-class ' Establishment at a ? M t SLAUGHTERING LOW PRICES s ;ratber than carrying over such im- i rmense stock for another season. Now 1 as the time to avail yourselves of this ^ feriHliant opportunity. It will pay 1 ( yon to make the investment in prefereoee to buying United State Bonds i or to lend out your money at 12 per ' cent interest, whereas in supplying ( your selves with my goods I will ' guarantee you an actual saving of 33 per cent. COME ONE! COME ALL! And be convinced of niy onf it r> \t>r' t rvy # uniiAi I am offering, as I will positively not ! extend the time longer than 30 days from this date. PHILIP EPSTIN, J i 148 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. l\ Spt. 13?tf J C \ The Bad Boy. He is Sick, bat Ms Flag is Still There. "Well, Hennery, I am sorry to find yon in this fix," said the groceryman, as be tiptoed into the darkened room at the boose of the bad boy, where j * * it-? I 1 J !i.U i ne louua nun in ueu proppeu up wuu pillows, a pallor on his face that was frightful, aDd a general look of goneness. "Your pa tells me you have been sick nearly a week. I thought things at the grocery store were going on in a solemn sort of a manner. Don't hurt yon to talk to you, does it?" and the groceryman looked for a chair to sit down in. "Xaw, it don't," said the bad boy, J as he motioned to a chair, and the groceryman sat down. "If talkiug j would kill me I'd have been dead | long ago. By the way, I wish you ! would hand me that mustard plaster, j You will find it iu that chair you are | sitting on," and the boy smiled a ! sickly smile, while the groceryman ! got up as though he was in a hurry, | ind apologized for sitting on the plas- I ;er. "No apology is necessary," said ' :he boy. "When anybody comes to j see me they are welcome to the best ! ( ve have got. A soft answer turneth ; iway wrath, and a mnstard plaster i ] wverth a multitude of pneumonia," ! tnd Hennery applied the plaster to I ^ lis chest, and asked the groceryman ! , o hand him a box of pills on the j , able. The groceryman handed the ! ( >oy a box of pills and a glass of wa- : | er, and he took a small handfol of ! j >>iis and a swallow of water, smacked j j lis lips and said: j i "Ah! A nectar fit for the gods. ! ^ )o yon know there is something ; ,bout being sick that takes the cake ? *ou can lay and sleep, or rise np and ongh. And then, the beaotifal med- t jine the doctor leaves! I take is bejuse it pleases the doctor. He is a ice man, but I don't think a man an feel of your pnlse and listen to j g be mocking bird in your heart by t olding bis ear on your shirt, and ^ jll what is the matter with you. ^ rimme a drink. Now I want you to ^ o .some things for me, as I may not all through, and pa is so busy in -*nanvling. Are you there, Moriarity 7 " "Yes, yes," said the groceryman, 9 he saw the boy had something he anted to say; "out with it now, and will do anything you ask me to." J ' "Well, you know that man without j 11 ay legs, that plays the band organ I 1 own on the corner. I want you to ! '' ike my skates to him and tell him?" j D "Great heavens," said the grocery- j 1 ian, "what do you want to send a ? air cf skates to a man that hasn't i * ot any legs for ?" "Don't interrupt the speaker," said 1 1 I ? Ua IamI. a t\ 111 for n t Q0 D&U uoy, UO UO luu& a ^;iu iui a baoge. "Take the skates to him v nd tell him I lend them to him till I c et well. He has got three boys, and bey are too poor to bay skates and r bey can take tarns nsing mine, and shall not miss them, for if I live the 1 kating will be all gone before X get at doors, and if I die there will be o skating wl?ere I am going." ' "Ob, say, hash up, now," said the roceryman. "Yoa are not half as * ick as yon think you are, and there c 5 no harry about your dividing up c our worldly goods. In a day or two c ou will be out as good as new, mak- * ag it interesting for all of ns. What 1 /as the hired girl laughing at when * be let me in? She said something ^ bout scaring tbe folks out of seven 3 aar's growth, jast before you were 1 aken sick;" and the grocer thought f he could get the sick boy to talk 1 boat something funny it would cure 1 lim. "Weil," said tbe boy, as he laughed I o tbe skin was drawn across his i jinc'ued face, "It was awful mean, < )ut ma wanted to know what time < )a got home at nights, since be has | jot to working the ward for .eld**?1 nan. Yon see he comes in all times < )f the night, and tries to keep still so i is not to wake ma up. He comes in ind undresses in the dark, and re- ' tires, and ma don't wake up. I have jot a friend working iu a jewelry store, and I got him to lend me sis of these little alarm clocks, and I wound them all up and placed them around in the honse where I could touch them off when pa came in. I put one on tbe hat rack, and when pa came in just after midnight I touched it off just as he put bis hat on the rack, and I crept bait way up the stairs. Pa was trying to be quiet, and when that alarm went off be looked sick. He didn't know what it was, but he just stood still, with his overcoat half off, and waited for the thing to run down, and bo was listening ail the time to see if ma woke up. I had told ma to pretend to be asleep until the last one went off, which I had placed on the foot of the bed, and then for her to get up and begin to throw chairs around. Pa started up stairs as soon as the clock stopped, in his stocking feet, and just as be got half way up the j steps I touched off the second alarm, 1 and pa stopped, and I went up to the j head of the stairs to get another one j ready. Pa got hold of the clock and ! tried to stop its noise by holding it j under his coat, and he listened for ma agaiD, but ma didn't show up. "When the clock got through sputtering pa came on up stairs, and at j the top the third one went off, and j then he was mad. He thought that { wouid wake ma sure, but she snored j rignt along tnrongn it an, ana pa breathed hard and said some political words. When that stopped I | slipped into the bed-room and whis- j pered to ma that I was going to let j all three go off at once, and she said j all rigbt. So I waited till pa got part of bis clothes off, when I tnrned on all three of them, and I slipped out j in the ball, and then I began to hear | chairs tumble arouud, and pa began 1 to beg. I guess he thought there j was a caucus. When the chairs had | all been thrown I turned up the gas | in the hall and came in as though I had been frightened ont of my bed, I and there stood ma laughing just as j hard as she could, and pa bad crawled under the bed with only his feet sticking out, and I thiuk he was 'now ] [ lay me down to sleep.' Ma coaxed him out, and maybe she did not read the riot act to him. She made him ' promise to keep away from politics iml try to be a man, and I guess be 1 will. But I had to pav for one of the 1 blocks, 'cause pa fell on it and busted :he works flatter thau a tin plate. ' But we bad fan, and I guess my stay- ' og up in the ball waiting for pa gave ne the cold that made me sick, but I eel better now, and I will be out tonorrow. Don't you know that when i person lays and thinks of dying it nakes tbem worse, when if they get o talking about something it braces hem up? Come in again, boss, and vhen I get well I will come over to c he grocery and talk to you till you 8 ire sick," and the bad boy rolled over 1 o go to sleep, while the groceryman ' vent out believing that nothing less F han a cannon ball would kill the 1 >ad boy. ' Pleasant Entertainment. f [For the Lexington Dispatfeh,! Leesville, S. C., Mar. 31st, 1884. . 8 Mr. Editor:?We are indebted to he W. C. T. U. for a delightful even- 0 Dg, and although I am unaccustomed o writing articles for publication, I eel as if I, wanted to make known ay appreciation of the efforts which hese ladies are making for the im- ^ irovement of our girls and boys, and or the instruction of the people upon 8 he principles of temperance. It was announced that an enter- & ainment in the interest of the Union j3 vould be giveD, and I went in withmt knowing what to exp&ct They ^ lad a regular programme and a Diector for the performances. All had * >een so well rehearsed that there was K 10 hitch or break in any part The recitations of "We Reap That 01 iVe Sow," "The Lips That Touch ^ J Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine," 'No Drunkards in HeaveD,"and "Go ? Eeel What I Have Felt," vere very a thoice selectioDs, and the young la- v< lies looked sweet enougi to carry ^ jonvictiou to every heart, sen though be words they were otteing failed ^ 0 do so. The readiog9 ol"The Tee- w otal Mill" and "The Great National ^ Evil" were most excellent All the 01 ,'oung gentlemen acquitted tbem- ^ lelves in the most handsome manier. 8f The ladies, through their Diretor, ^ requested an expression from th(citzens, and a most eloquent respnse 86 was given. Directing attentio to 11 .he remarkable, and almost soeraatural appearance which had een observed in the heavens early it the svening, with the young moon juggling to throw the light of he pale beasaa upon ttw- -glowing p^jratna J ^ of tinted skies and twinkli^ stars, *01 these small beginnings of tl work for "God and Home andNative *e' Land" were compared to th moon co iu Apogee, and words of cooenda- ^ tion and exhortation were iven to ref stay not, but to cry aloud an spare ^ not until the very zenith wasached. urr 1 return many thanks to tj girls ?* and boys for enlivening our d town na with this glimpse of somethiojright *et and cheerful, diverting our tughts cei for a time from the rain that 11 wet ac* the ground too much for corolant' * "-ill /?nf. Ar, ma jng, lot) irUBb tuut ?... VU. ?v bean vines, and the cyclones t; will Pof come blowing around in theghts to scare ^ood, easy consciepceat of 8?h their lawful rest. I hope th^will ?^r< not forget the promise tbeyiade mo about giving us another enttin. En ment very soon. > * * the .... 1 . . - i , mir Pleasant and Harmless.?Norm's the: Neutralizing Cordial contains ndx- tior ious drug or mineral, and is pertly elec harmless. The roost delicate i Qt can take it with impunity. Jjold |Ere effects follow its use. See adv. ph s A / * J Democratic State Convention. The State Executive Committee of the Democratic party has issued the following call for a State Convention: Rooms State Df.m. Ex Com'tee, Columbia, S. C., Mar. 17, '84A Convention of the Democratic party of the State of South Carolina will be held at Columbia on Thursday, June 2Gth, 1884, at 12 o'clock m in Wall nf fcho Wr?nno nf Ron resentatives, for tbe following purposes: 1. To nominate candidates for Electors for President and Vice-President of tbe United States. 2. To elect Eighteen Delegates to represent tbe State in tbe National Democratic Convention, which will meet in Chicago on July 8,1884. 3. To nominate candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and for other State Officers. 4. To elect tbe State Democratic Executive Committee to serve for tbe ensuing two years. 5. To transact such other business as the Convention may deem proper. Each county iu tbe State will be represented in tbe Convention by twice as many delegates as tbe number of its representatives in both branches of tbe present General Assembly. Tbe County Executive Committees are charged with tbe duty of arrange- j 8 moots for tbe election of Delegates to 8 tbe Convention in accordance with 1 tbe rules in force in tbe several counties. By order of the Committee. T.? T T-. . _ tFAJIM X l&UAtt, \juaiiuiau? Wilie Jokes, Sec. f v Timely Beaarks. v ii The Chairman of the State Demosratic Executive Committee has issued ^ i call for the State Democratic Con- c renion to assemble at Colombia on ^ he 2Gth day of June next, for the mrpose of electing delegates to atend the National Democratic Con- ? ention, to be held at Chicago on the Ith of Jnly following. The call also >rovides for the nomination of State ? i .1 il I 11' ? T> i~.^ ratic State Executive Committee, to 1 erve for two years, ail by the same * et of delegates. In many sections f the State there exists much oppo- ^ ition to the plan set forth by the Jhairman, (i. e.) to nominate the ^ Itate officers at this Convention; the pposition is well grounded, for the >lan, if carried out, may do some miahief. It is entirely too soon for any ach work, and although the chances f many of the present incumbents re fair, the matter of a choice has ot been in the bands of the people >ng enough; consequently what may e done in this matter by the Conven- 0f on cannot be saiu to be the deliber- W] te work of the people. We have no y lea that anything more than the usiness lor which this CooTeDtion is ! tit died will be transacted. The connes will be very apt to instruct their q, elegates against the nomination of a st< tate ticket, and at a later day select ^ new set of delegates to a Conven- m{ antion for that porpose. The ap- to earance of a ticket so early in the "0 eld wonld very naturally canse the ^ arty to experience more uproUr and fl0| ork than it wonld if put off until oc le fall months. We hope that when lr County Chairman calls the Conn- [ r Executive Committee together, the >irit of opposition to nominations p8( f the June Convention will be so all eat as to rule when that body as- dis mbles at Columbia.?Barmoell Sen- pre t el. ria vot Ths Campaign in Edgefield. Car the The State Democratic Executive iiai immittee having issued their call ma r a combined Convention on Tburs- by y the 2Gth of June, twelve of our ^ve low-citizens must be elected at our whi ming County Convention?on the mo; th of May or thereabouts?to rep- I lent Edgefield in said meeting, per e publish the call in another col- eacl in. Although one of the purposes of t this State Convention is "to nomi- >ng te candidates for Governor, Lieu- ^ lant-Governor and other State offi*8," still such nominations are not 3 ^ ually made obligatory at such time, r do we much thick they will be de then, inasmuch as a strong op- j^evi litiou to nominating State officers e8^a in f-arlv has alreadv if ^ J - le8ll f tbroughoat the State. In fact )Dg hints are already coming from jDg re than one quarter that our ?|tate ;cuti?e Committee are joggling in pjea interest of the present State ad- we j listration. The prospect jqst now, jafac refore, is that the State Conven- y0ar i in June will do little else than :t Sooth Carolina's eighteeu dele- roaQ 38 to the National Democratic ^aj. sidential Convention in Chicago ^Je r |"oly 8th.?44vertiiser. ?8 9 ) e Opening the Campaign. By reference to the official call of the County ChairmaD, it will be seen that the Democrats are expected to bnckle on their armor for the coming . conflict. Delegates are to be sent from the local clubs to the central clob which meets here on salesday in May. This will be an important meeting, and it is incumbent on onr people to send their wisest and most discreet me,n to the May meeting. A Couuty Chairman, a Secretary and a Treasurer are to be elected. Delegates to the State Convention are to ba.-fc??ct-d, and time will prove whether our people are free and independent to do as they please, or whether they will humbly submit to the dictation of the Chairman of the State Executive Committee in his order to seud delegates to Columbia, which virtually tneans to re-nominate ; the old State officers. Nobody has a j word to say about the present State j officers except in praise. They are i ill true and good officers, but we see [ ao use of the Executive Committee j outting them iu charge of affairs for j mother term. The State offices iD ; Uolumbia are positions of honor and j jrofit, and we see no gcod reason for | ceeping the same men always in the jest places. They have had a good erm, and we think they might stand aide for others who are jnst as deserving and fully as competent.? ibbeville Prem and Banner. The June Nominations. We are trnly gratified to see that; ery, mtny, of onr exchanges agree rith n8 abont this Jane basinesa It roold be a monstrous wrong to nomoate State officers at that time, when be whole bone and smew of onr iarty is at bard labor, trying to reoperate from the misfortunes of the ast year, aud nnable to join in poiiics. There can be no geDerous, arty welcome and outpouring of , ur voters.^ The Chairman of the j )emocratic Executive Committee and , is brothers may pat np the sickly ( ry of expense and economy, incon- ; and ennvflnipnee, hnt that La t-j >llv, rd(i1r none Of their business beg it relates to a subject of such , ital! importance. We will, we hope, ( s pita-doned if we suggest to them ^ le propriety of studying the lessoD j f the "feather aud the camel's back." 'ainden Journal. t Among; the Philistines. t A New Story In The Savannah * c weekly i\ews. e The opening chapters of another the serials writteu by home authors ! ill appear in the Savannah Weekly j sni's of Saturday, April 19th. It is entitled "Among the Pbilisies," and is from the pen of Mrs. jra Lipmau Hussey, of Forsyth, | i, the author of "Herzchen." This jry introduces among its leading aracters a wife who, loving one j in, marries another, and who finds I n ber consternation that she cannot j ff with the old love and on with j ei 9 new" at her will. She is consci- J tious and true, and at last through j si ich trial and suffering becomes a I foted and loving wife. j hi ?be Savannah Weekly Nates is a I HI .aimoth sheet and contains eight J ^ea of reading matter, comprising | m the news of the week, tolegraphic i ac patches up to the hour of going to ; 988, agricultural items, original se- cli Is, etc. Special departments de- ! ce ed to Georgia. Florida and Sooth ! hs rolioa news. ro the farmer, mechanic or artisan, j ba i business or professions) man who i foi re "toot the advantages of a daily j sti il, the Weekly Neicis is the medium \ which he can be informed of j * I I nts transpiring ia the busy world, ether in his own State or in the a"n st distant parts of the globe. . qU n addition to a first-class newspa- 1 at a moderate price, we offer to bo h yearly subscriber a copy of any 0f he published novels of the Morn- cei News Library free. ho ubscription two dollars a year, in jD^ ance. Address J. H. Estill, No. fhitaker Street, Savannah, Ga. ] : : ?- . len 25 Years Old.?Messrs. Francis he? /berry & Son, London, England, i*'1 blisbed for 125 years, write; As a -hot imonial from one of the oldest to 5 houses in Great Britain, respetft- cau your household remedy, will- 0o if 5 bt be of interest to yoq, W aire Goi sed to make the 8tatentfepP,..tbat not jave sold gt. Jacob's Oil wfthfsatitjou tq the public for Beveral A 8, and that owing to the e*>raor- Gk nary merits of the ajticle, the de- a hi d is continually increasing, and Wh we have heard of maty? favora- the eports regarding its great virtue savi pain-cure remedy ing The Blair Educational Bill. We are delighted to see that Sen| ator Butler fights the unconstituJ tiooal, unwise and dangerous effort i to nnfc the State common schools j under the coutrol of the Federal j Government contained in the Blair ! educational bill, regardless of the unconsidered clamor from this State. Gen. Butler is right. The bill ought to be killed and buried, and in time the people will understand the real merits of the question and applaud the opponents of the disgnised assault on the righfs of the States and the American theory of government. If Congress has the right to help our State schools it has an equal right to suppress them; if it can assist onr State government with gifts of money it can direct its policy and proceedings. The Blair bill is in direct opposition to the principle of local self government that thousand of Southern men gave their lives to defend. The News and Courier's advocacy of it is only another instance of the incompetency of that nespaper to see an inch ahead of it or to understand political principles. Let Senator Batter stand to bis gnos and harden bis heart against the reproachful sarprise and tender regrets of his friends in Colombia, of which the News and, Courier tells as pathetically as if he bad been guilty of some apostasy, secure in the consciousness that he has decidedly more sense than his loving friends in Colnm&& and knows his own business. We believe lie can coant on having this end of the State at his back anyhow.? Oreenville News Uatio the String. j ? i Said one of the mast successful merchants of Cleveland, 0., to a lad f who was opening a parel: "Young j man, untie the strings, do,not cut j them my boy." ' I It was the first remark that he bad j made to a new employe. It was the 1 ?^ lU. 1-/1 J 1 I UlBt 1CBBUU IUU 1EIU UttU tu 1CUIU, nuu it involved the principles of success Dr failure in bis busioess career. Pointing to a well dressed man behind th? counter b? said: "There is a man who always whips ' :>ut bis scissors and cuts the strings )f the packages iu three or four 1 places. He is a good salesman, bnt ' :e will never be anything more. I v jresume he lives from band to month ^ tod is more or less in debt The ^ rouble with him is that he was never aught to save. a "I told the boy just now to untie t he strings, not so much for the value b tf the strings as to teach him that r iverything is to be saved and nothing I pasted. If the idea can be firmly a mpressed upon the mind of a begin- s ier.in the life that nothing was made o o be wasted, you have laid the mndation of success." h Penalties. o E Q The penalty of popolarity is envy. The penalty of thin shoes is a cold.. ^ The penalty of a baby is sleepless ^ ights. The penalty of a pretty cook is an ^ mpty larder. The penalty of a good father is a a! lver knife, fork and spoon. $? The penalty of kissing the baby is hi ilf a doller (one dollar if you are ne beral) tothe nurse. '*1 The penalty of interfering between eh an and wife is abuse, frequently dc icompanied with blows from both. hi The penalty of buying cheap Dthes is like going to law?the jD, rtainty of losing your suit, and ge( iving to pay for it. an The penalty of remaining single is vo iving no one who cares a button r you, as abundantly proved by the jn ite of your shirts. we The penalty of a legacy, or fortune, ^if the sudden discovery of a host- of >or relations yoju never dreampt of, d a nnfrber of debts you had 0j ite forgotten. ? The penalty of lending is, with a ok or an umbrella, the certain loss it; with your name to a bill the -tain payment of it; and .with a rse*, the lamest chance of eye seej it back again sound. 0G1 citi Do You Doubt It??Mr. Frank No- ma , G8 Jefferson Place, Baltimore, ej? ird so much of Norman's Neutral- Sui ig Cordial that he purchased a oth tie for himself and another to send apj his family. He has never had cou ise to regret his purchase. Header tiff ou douht the efficacy of Norman's and rdial, try a small bottle. It does Coi cost much. ; mm ......vus the I colored boy at Fountain Inn, Pari >enville County, in order to kindle re poured kerosene over the wood, is d ile so doing the can exploded and coat flames ignited his clothing, He >d himself by running and jump- G into a mud puddle near by. pric ? T-' Miscellaneous News Notes. * I Boys will find a nice stock of India rubber balls aDd marbles cheap, at the Bazaar. The '"wild woman" has again made her appearance in a swamp in Ker- i shaw County. California is at presont prodaciDg not far from $18,000,000 of gold and ; silver bullion annually. The new Kimball House in At- ! i lanta will probably be finished in May. ! It is to be fireproof throughout. I 1 As by flattery a man opens his i ' bosom to his mortal enemy, so by j 1 .3 3 U- -V. .1 il t iisiimviuu auu oiauuei Lit) SIHll.H [Lfe j 1 same to bis best friends. ; 1 On Thursdjy last a kerosene lamp } 1 exploded at Ceutral, S. C., instantly J 1 killing Miss Ella Paine, a young and I ' interesting young lady. A colored nurse at Norwood, "N. C., s recently gave the child she was nursing a dose of "Rough on Rats," which ^ caused the child's death. r: Col T. Stobo Farrow, of Spartan- v burg, has been formally announced j as a candidate for re-election to the t office of Clerk of the State Senate. f. Seven-eighths of the cases tried at the recent term of court for Williams- j b burg County were for petit larcony j j] and that by persons who do not even 1 $ pay a poll tax. ; 8, In the House, at Washington, on ! e the 28th ult., the enacting clause of ! S the Bonded Whiskey Extension Bill ' p was stricken out by a vote of 185 j n yeas to 83 nays. it Shriner's Indian Vermifuge de- c< stroyed and expelled worms thirty ! ^ years ago. We guarantee it to do ^ the same to-day, to the satisfaction of 1:1 Bvery one who uses it. The Legislature of Mississippi has innrnnrlafoit 41H 000 fsw lin /icfAK- ^ aj/pi vjyi mwu (piVjWU JUl IUC COlttU' | ishment of a State Female Industrial , ^ College for the free education of girls, I the first step taken by any State in ! I ibis direction. . . ifr The store of Mias Julia Buzzard, i a{ ie?f Fruit Hill, in Edgefield County, j tc was broken into the other night aDd | jtJ obbed of a large quantity of groce- j iea. Four negroes have been ar- j ested and ere now ia jail. i The first State election ia thisPres- | sa dential year occurred in Rhode Is- ol and on the 3d instant. The next ci vill be in Oregon on tbo 2d of June, at Sat the first real test will be the j ta ilaine election in September. ; ev About the only man who has j th chieved greatness in Washington is | ^ he White House cook. He is said j foi o be the very best in the city, and j sa eceives a salary of $2,000 a year. j So le has not caused aa much comment j an s Tom Ochiltree, but bis reputation | otl tands on the substantial foundation f merit. Hon. George H. Pendleton of Ohio, sa as consented to address at Charlotte ^ n the 20tb of Mav, on the occasion J tl? th( f the celebration of the Mecklenbnrg | declaration. Hon. J. G. Carlisle, j ^e' peaker of the House of Representa- I tlCl veB, has also accepted an invitation j 3(0 > be present and to deliver an ad- I Sa^ ress to follow the oration of Mr. i endleton. I 001 ! a e Congressman Ellis, of Louisiana, is j j >out sning the New York Sun for I agt >0,000 damages for libel in charging j ra with having been criminally con- i j ?cted with the-Star Route contracts. ! i cac r?? ft * # ?? ^ ine oun SDinea lor an, ami wtiv i * . a ] ould it not shine a few thousand I ^ >lars worth for Ellis if it has soiled ! i ora a reputation. ; ^oc The prohibition sentiment is mak- j 0f gf remarkable headway in the rural I ju j ctions of Georgia. Last week Cobb ' sisg d Whitfield Counties voted in fa- ' nnr r of prohibition by moro than two | the one. It was also noticeable that ; an j both counties the colored voters j tka: int almost nnanimoosly for prohi- 9h0 ,ion. The Atlanta Conxlitution says thei at within a year it is doubtful if I nor will Jb? sold in Georgia outside Tbt Chatham, Bibb/Bichm'ondyf alton, I Est ' v I . iscogeo and Clarke counties. __ ET^ The Lav on Courting. ! icall ku interesting case was tried in , taxe : Justice Court a few days ago. A j freo izen brought his daughter's young mat( n before a Justice for violently j the : cting him from his own parlor one j 0f m iday evening. After hearing the j 0f ts er side, the Justice 6aid: "It j cans jears that this yoimg fellow was i iff f rting the plaintiff's gal, in plain- j (110r; 8 parlor; that plaintiff' intruded, ' DOth I iuao nnl nn* llIT I * ? uuo ^/Ub WC4 w *SJ MVIWOUOUV. j (^[0S irting is a public necessity and Up < 3t not bo interrupted. Therefore, revei law of Georgia will hold that a It ent has no legal right in a room c^rnc ;ro courting is afoot. Defendant week isckarged and plaintiff mast pay ' cultu a. j bills ' . let yonr letter heads and envelope Se< ited at the Disp.vtcu office. i b$ th ' >?* / ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements will lie inserted at tho rate oi' 75c per square ol one inch space 1 or first insertion. Aud 50c per square lor each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise lor three, sis or twci\e mouths. Notices in local column 10c. per line each insertion. Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries over Un lines charged for at regular advertising rates. Address, G. II.' HAliMAN, Editor and Proprietor. ii i ii i un iii?nun in mi Washington. Letter. [Front Our Regular Correspondent.] March 29th, 1884. Kiitionf inn in lb? Scnotc wiuia^j iu the House of Represenatives, and the anxiously awaited result of the Democratic tariff conference have marked the week at the Capitol. At the appointed hour on Tuesday evening when the caucus was called to order odo hundred and eighty four Members were present. After a talk of several hours an understanding was reached without* anyone being "read out the party" It was decided by a vote of oue hundred and fourteen to fifty-seven, that the Morrison :>i!l should be discussed for a reasonable time ia Committee of the Whole, vhere it should be subject to amendnent, after which it should be rejorted to the House, and then pat lpon its passage. A resolution was idopted declaring that no Member ihonld be bound by this caucus action except so far as hej as a Dem>crat, felt bound by the action of a najority of his party in caucus. It iras also agreed that it was expelient to abolish the internal revenue ax on tobacco, and to reduce that on ruit brandy to ten cents a gallon, 'he benefits of the Educational bill eiDg distributed upon the basis of literacy are to be shared by thp louth in the largest proportion. All ectional objection to the measnre manates exclusively from Republican enators, Mr. Sherman is one of the rorninent sectional opposers, the ian who has so recently been load i profession of friendship for the alored race. As Senator Vance ircibly said in debate npon the ill, "Now when a practical oppormity for teaching the negro presenid itself, Mr. Sherman thought that a ignorant uegro could answer bis urpose at the polls better than an lucated one" The inconsistency of [r. Sherman has been much comlented upon by the Democrats of le Senate. Nor did the Senator om South Carolina spare the Senor from Massachusetts. .Referring 1 a remark made by Senator Hoar : relation to the illiteracy of the old orth States, saying 'it was at the ,il end of all the States in the mat- _ V r of education, Mr Vnnrn ff rcastically of the prostrating effeW, ' such a blow, and said it was espel; ally crushing coming from the Sen-^ or from Tewksburv, the represen. tive of a State that had sacrificed ery principle for gain, the State at was more responsible for slavery an any other, and which, when'it and slavery did not pay in Maschusetts, sold her slaves to the ^ iutb, saDg the long-meter doxology, d thanked God she was not as ber States. The District Judges bill has passed 2 Senate at last. It makes their aries $5,000, per annum, and profits them from appointing to posin iu their courts relatives within 3 degree of first cousin. During bate on the bill nepotism as praced by the Federal judiciary was ithingly denounced, Senator Coke 'ing there had not for several years jn a U. S. Judge iu Texas, save 3, whose nepotism had not become caudal. Early in the week the House voted tinst appropriating $300,000 for i Louisiana flood sufferers but ?r and urgent appeals for relief ised further discussion and finally resolution passed providing that !5,000 of the unexpended amount uted for the sufferers by the Ohio >ds may bo used by the Secretary War to relieve destitute persons he district overflowed by the Misippi. The measure was stroDgly losed by Mr. Rice, of Mass., oa ground the Government was not insurer against water any more n against fire, and -that relief uld be granted by tho localities mselves. 'he long whiskey debate closed on irsday with defeat of the Bouded ention bill by a majority of one Jtesj. jDiuicg its discussion Mr. vitt made a long sp'eech on the sion of the tariff. He took free t le ground and declared emphatI in favor of the abolition of all a on raw material. He wanted whiskey because alcohol is a raw erial used in manufacturing and fine arts. He ridiculed the idea lorality entering into the question ixation and taunted the liepubliwith what he termed their taror protection with incidental ility. Taxation ne 9aui Had ing to do with morality, lie. d by saying lie had been brougit ;o beiieve that taxation is for ine and for revenue only, is thought the tariff bsl! will ! up for discussion iu about two s, or as soon as the IndiaD, agriral, and pension appropriation can lie disposed of. I> 3il piudars, best variety. for safe e quart or bu.'-.kelv at the Bazaar. ? v . t