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f . : p twSSSfoiSf FCBU8HED ETttBX WIDNETOAT Bjf Godfrey Jft. Harman, LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C. 7ERUS OP SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year $1.50 " " six months 75 ?? ?? three months.....1 60 AnVAlt Pr tmngtoi Swpattb. V .. 1 V VOL. XYI. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDipDAY,' OCTOBER 6, 1886. NO. 46. 1 ?* A iiAAMiAV CLOTHING, s L % . WORKS ON DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPALS. i 'V . *' THE PRIMARY H flNHHN ES BWMlBHiBBBiWV mm 1 . ' , ' " ' '- ' ; . * / NOMINATIONS ?ARE? , BOUND TO WIN. I want to- tell every Democratic "voter a sait of Gotbes that will last * Siim until tbe next general election lot Dan price. x>nag ywu 4iwkuco <u?d prices with yon and see lor youraelf. The Lexington citizens bare always patronized mo, and I want them do it again this fall ^ j Give me a showing gentlemen, and * I will dear the deck. I will down any " caftrcbAnUb iuy^lioef at lower*pHo6a"" """* y I will give yon better goods for lees money, and the only proof yon will have of my proclamation is to ooene and price the goods, and see for yonrseli Be convinced that my i J preaching is gospel truth. I hay/ laid in the largest stock of CUpnvg thia season of MEN'Sjftm, J Staging froy& 00- ?nd opwards. " YO/THS' SUITS, b /From $2.75, and upwards. / CHJLBBENS> SUITS, / From $2.50, and upwards. ' / sla?TB, ; c * t Prom 15 cents each, and upwards. g e BENTS' FURNISHING BOOBS. g /At lowest prices. e As for my better clashes of goods q I will defy? any merchant North, g Sooth, East or West, to show a bet- 1 r I c ter line than I can. : ^ In addition to the above, I have ! N b#ught j t / 500 BEAUTIFUL MCKEL CLOCKS j C ! 6 Which is guaranteed as perfect time { pieces by the factory to give fall sat- | * isfaotion. All these Clocks will be j ^ distributed to every purchaser of a j suit of Clothes of $8.00 or upwards. < At the same time, I will guarantee I you the goods shall be cheaper, at ! ' least 25 per cent lower than any merchant's prices iu this city or else- j j where. All yoo can do is to give me , a trial. j 1 i PHILIP EPSTIJV, (: i 148 Main Street, 1 l l I COLUMBIA, S. C. i i P. S.?Mr. John M. Stuart, your 11 former citizen of Lexington, will be ; ' pleased to have all of his Lexington . friends call on bim for good bar- j < gains which he h&j in store for them, j 1 cipt. IS?? i k; V*. WHO WAS HE! I """"""" A disappointed and defeated candidate in Williamsburg gets off the following: Who was he did persuade me out, With 4,I xkow what I speak about" > Then help to poke me up the spout ? \ Confound him ! \ho was he praised me o'er his cup. Till I?poor tool!-just "set 'em up," Then went back on me like a pup ? The craw-fish! ? Who told me that the babies cried Td vote for me; and far and wide The very gals were on my side ? I know him ! Who borrowed from me all my 'frocks," Then sneaked up to the ballot 'box And helped to lick me out my socks Who told me that the people said They'd dig me up if I were dead To rbte forme?yes every head ? The liar! Who told me that 'twould just be fun For me to go in on the ran? I'd beat a Byrd or Broclflngton ? Til fit him! Who told me Sutton's longed for me Like 'possum for a.'simmon tree, And that I'd nxan at old Xingetree ? Goat butt him! Who told me Johnsonville was sound, That Scraqton was my stamping ground,. And Td play h at Indientown ? * \ O, Moses ! Who told me that if I would run, Pd beat the balance, two to oue? The blasted, bow-legged son-of-a-gun? He's spotted! After a week's consideration he cools off ' nd wrifes as follows: , Brethren let us he contented We who cast the die and lost? { While we sure by Mends lamented, Liet u t> rarely loot ifie coat. Fay the printer for bis trouble; He did for n8 all he might; And on him 'twere base to double, How that we hare lost the fight. If your self-pride has been humbled, . And your head feels very sore, Think of others who have tumbled From pride's pedestal, before. Thank friends, and never pine that Foes have forced yon to retreat, lis the man of noblest mind that Can the better bear defeat. Hail yoor colors to the mast-heefe! Stand, Hke Nelson, by the ship ! Be a Democrat!?tho^ao^dsadV^^ MtoAffiffawht>per-lip ! ^ And should harm, my county, reach thee, ^ A defeated candidate ! f Assuia, | Sill Asp. i '& Writes of the Farm and the 8 Growing Crops. 1 i Oft did the harvest to their sickle ( ield?that's me now at this time? at if the poet had tired he woold * ave been a little mom personal and rrite: - I low doth he slay the peavinee in the patch His bending back, with toll is nearly* 1 roke tut still he buokles boldly to the scratch And peavinee fall at every sweeping troke. I like to have choice of work and ay choice is to cot peavines, with a ;een blade and a cloudy day it is deightful work. Bofc when the sun ome8 out from behind the clouds, I ust dodge ander an apple tree and >088. I can cut and boss two acres > day easy. I don.'t like to split rails lor pull fodder nor dig a ditch nor rease the wagon nor catch a mole tor tote water up a bill, but I am ery fond of cutting down peayines. ["hey are so tender, and the fall so ;racefolly and they cover the ground vith such a clean, green luxuriant tarpet. They are about waist high tow and there is just enough ragveeds sprinkled among them to hold , hem up straight, and from the top >f every weed a peavine stretches its turpentine tendrill up about a foot tnd waits?waits for a sickle. The ?nder ragweeds doD't hurt. In fact ihey make right good forage, better 'orage than John Branson's dog 'ennel. John says that Kingston :attie got nsed to dog iennei oaring j ;be war, aod they like it pretty well when they cant get anything elee. The weather is splendid now for joring peavine hay, and if cot when j in the boom it takes bat two or three jays' son. I've got an acre next to the big road that I make two crepa on every year?a crop of small grain and a crop of peas, and it never fails ?and keeps in good fertility without any other help. Some farmers say yon mast tarn the peavines under, bnt I don't I pat about two tons of hay from that acre in the barn loft, and it is worth more for forage than bbj crop that grows. The corn hangs heay this year. I : nearer knew it any better in this | lection. There won't bo many j Dubbins to feed the steers on, aod I some folks will grnmble about that ! [ reckon. The breath of approaching winter is beginning to be felt. The qnHt is laid at the foot of the bed. The little chape have broken i a. window glass or two- and they I . ( # j | have got to be fixed. The winter's j I wood most be cuj/ -and banied. A ' few loads of pine/m$st be brongbt from tbe mountains. ~ Some rye mufet be sown for tbe milch cows. Tbe j corn crib mast be cleaned oat for the new crop and astiljuatil be pnt under the hnrnii^Frrnrn ifmlwnyn room for some repairs and tbe sooner they are made the better. The' boys are gathering tbe pop corn now and putting it away for winter night frolics. The maypops are getting ripe' and the black haws are turning' Walnut time and cbestnaE time will soon be here and then comes squirrels and 'possums and partridges. The sweet potatoes have, cracked open and ; "bvtrvocl op ground, and if there is ; any better food for the table in win- I ter I don't know it. There used to be a picture in the old school books of General Marion and his soldiers eating potatoes by the camp fire That wasent so bad after all. They may sot be good fighting food, bat they are good eoongh for peace. When they are oandied with sugar it makes a disb fit for a king. < Then there are the Irish potatoes that keep good in the ground all winter. I let the grass and weeds grow over them , and ahade the ground from the sammer'e son. This land is fall of good ] things that the poorest can have if ] they will work for them. Nobody need sailer. If a man will work half his time he ean support a wife and two or three little children in comfort The trouble is not with the necesseries of life, bat it is the luxuries that play the mischief. It is fine clothes and too maoy. of them that keeps the poor man's head bowed I down. It is the strain to keep up 1 with the nabors. It is the going and t xnning and frolicking and visiting, f [t is the sitting up half the night and c ileeping half the day. It is breakfast r it nine o'clock. It is the habit of t lovel reading that is as demoralizing 2 is base ball or gambling. Rich folks i san indulge in these things, bat poor I oiks cannot Where is the youDg n nan who has the moral courage and lelfdenial to be stingy and save his t! tarniog? I am gbing to live oo a. ? ttraio and send our crippled boy to 0 3ahk?ega to college, but I do it C vith great reluctance, for fear he will v 086 his habits of industry and have n lolitician when be comes bacfc. I5ut v tecan't work on .the farm and I must n lo the best I can for him. How nany society girls of tbis day are 61 sonteot to spend most of their time ^ it home in domestic pursuits, belpiog 6 heir mother t Who are getting ^ narried now adays?the sons and ^ laughters of the rich mainly. The >thers can't afford to marry. The 11 ?oung men have nothing to marry a )n and are not likely to have. Those 8 who have a little are afraid to ven- ? ;ure it on a Booiety girl whose father * s always on a strain to keep her big ^ trunk full of clothes. There are a 11 hundred old bachelors in (Georgia sow to where there used to be ten. 5 But it is all right, I reckon, for they 1 lad better not marry than to marry ind live on a perpetual strain trying 6 /) keep in hailing distance of socieiy ind its follies. But the children are r lappy; I am glad of that. How I 8 lo love to see them romp and frolic 0 in innocent pleasures. What a pity c it is that they will soon get grown r ind take on the deceitfalness of 8 fashion and folly. But I will stop 8 bow for I'm gloomy. I've got a sore sye and it weeps all the time, weeping for Jessie, I reckon, for she has gone and we see her but once a week now. She has gone to a boarding \ school, and I wander around lonely. 8 Carl is going, too, next week, and f then another prop will fall. Farewell, f vain world. I believe I will take to ? reading novels. The Last Days of c Pompeii is a good book for these j c earthquake times, I think I will j t read it again. Bat for comfort in | t troable the Vicar of Wakerfield is the ? best. I will go and cat some more c peavines and get tired and then rest, j Work, labor, toil is the best care for ( the blaes. A man can sit around in ( the piazza and think of bis little j t troubles until they swell and grow j \ into big ones. My good old father | ( used to suffer from rheumatism, and : t when he felt it coming on he would ! , get up and go tramping over the j farm as hard as be coold and get up , a perspiration, and get tired and \ drive the pain all away. This old j body is a carious machine and we , have got to nurse and humor it, or < its pains will afflict the mind and i keep us from being calm and serene. J I bad a letter from a friend this morning that was written with iok | that his children had made from ink j balls. We used* to make that ink ; and I pick np the ink balls now when i I see tbem. They are old time < friends. If he bad written with a goose quill it would have been still better as a memento. I used to run the old gander down for quills aLd if j I didn't get one the teacher wanted to know where was my pen and I had to reply, 'I coaldo't catch the gaader, "sir, he flew'd clean away.' But the old gray goose is all serene now. Nobody oses qoills bnt Campbell Wallace and he iff eighty years old. On bis last birthday he wrote that beantifal Sanday-school address, and be wrote it' with a qnill and witbtint spectacles and one of his children has it as a keepsake. He is the best type of an old man that I know of, and I hope be has another score of years to live and let his light and example shine. I met him the other day at Keely's, and they two were having a high old time over Rnma anftfidntfl. Said he: 'When I feel jnst a little oat of sorts, jast a little blae, I harry roaad here to Captain Keely ana he relieves me. He is the best doctor I know of and his medicine is so pleasant to take.' I wish I had time to ran down and see them both, and take some of that medicine, for I need it. The youngest child gone and two more going Monday,, and the peavines nearly all cat. It is hard to surrender to the inevitable, bat the children most go. Hew loves and new attractions come to them and the old folks are left sitting alone by the winter's hearth. Snch is life and soch has always been. /I'll go down and see 'Captain Keelyl?Atlanta Constitution. ' Great Storm ia Texas. Jities Inundated and Hundreds of nouses mown Down. St. Louis, September 28.?Advices rom the southwestern coast of resas, particularly in the region of he month of the Rio Grande and rom some interior points, give accents of a great rain storm and onch destruction of property during he past week. From the 21st to the ISd a tremendons rain storm and inrricane swept over the vicinity of irownsville, Texas, including Mataaoras. Twenty-six inches'of rain fell op to be night of the 23d, and the wind is aid to have reached a velocity of early one haadred miles per hour her two hundred houses in Browns^, ille were blown down and a. large nmber damaged, rendering homeless^ ver 300 bonseS were leveled and jany injared. ' . The entire rear part 'of the city, mbracing over thirty blocks, was ooded to the depth of from three to ight feet, and the people living there rere resected only with the greatest ifficalty. All the sarroanding country was anndated, many boases blown down nd crops destroyed. .There is great offering in both Matamoras and Irownsville. In the latter pjace fnlly eta t :i: ' m~A In civ laujutco at o uoouvubO| auu IU vuv >rmer 400 families are homeless and 3 want. Afoar-masted steamer was wrecked 0 miles south of the mouth of the lio Grande and is said to be a total 388. Her captain and crew were aved. At Colorado, Texas, the river has1 isen 25 feet, and at last accounts was till rising. All tributary creeks are verflowing, and large sections of ountry are submerged. Very heavy ains have fallen in other sections, nd much apprehension is felt for the afetyof property. Not Long*. How long will we be missed when ve are gone ? Not long. The best md most nseful of us will soon be orgotten. Those who to-day are illing a large place in the world's retards will pass away from the renembrance of man in a few months, >r, at the furthest, in a few years afer tHe grave is covered over the renains. We are shedding tears above 1 new-made grave, and wildly crying >ut in our grifef that the loss is irreparable; yet in a short time the tenIrils of love have entwined around )tber supports, and we do looger miss be one who is gooe. So passes the world. But there are those to whom i loss is beyond repair. There are nen from whose memories no wonao's smile can chase the recollec-< lions of the sweet face that has given 3p all its beaaty at death's icy toach. There are women whose plighted Faith extends beyond the grave, and arives away as profane those who would entice them from a worship of their buried love. Suoh loyalty, however, is hidden away from the public gaze. The world sweeps on besides and around them, and cares not to look upon unobtruding grief. It curves a line and rears a stone over the dead, and hastens away to offer homage to the living. It is said by experienced farmers that 1 bushel of oat seed per acre is sufffcient if sown in September and October; 1$ bushels in November and H bushels in December. i AaothCarthquake Theory. Intere stilonclnsions of a Scientist Formei Connected With the CoArvey Department. ToucH the Charleston earthquake, k Current of last week prints following interesting communicAfrom Prof. Herbert BartlettTwViton, Iowa: "Jnst after the cloa oar civil war, and when the Son lad tacitly consented to accept t itaation, I, with a number of oth< was detailed from the CoaakA ey Dep&rtment for the ing a thoroogb inspectfCa the Atlantic coast from i the moj of the James River to ) I PeuaaoolFla. ?We found, after leaving J reefs of Hatteras, that there weboral deposits lapping on the gran in the shape of a mitre joint*- tfSnpQn farther investigation, that aea the entire States of North Carolina Sooth Carolina, the State of Geo a as far as Aognsta, and the entire Se of Florida were resting on a fosation of coral, which wss a part^the same* immense body that ax led as far into the ocean as the Go# ream and South far below Penaaecl n the Garribean Sea. This body of ral had an immense sag, the oenti >f which was abonfc two milee fro the shore. This sag was what me the deep Water of the channelW was merited out for vessels rating from sffi Northern ports to Chaxst(^/Bnrt Bojral, Savannah, the So&ern States and islands. The east M to great body ware eit^fStid' op, or the body sprang fjbtai, and, if bent, the npper'or b ':ed side was subjected to the terri istrsin of the weight of water as ret! as of the body itself. Consultii scme abort-hand notes made at fat time, we find oar impreeswns *pr888jg there: "There is every reasn to t^lisve ?hat this rock (ooral) ofthe bottom of this sag is continual/ either vesting away or invA? uMa conaeauehR? deepening the ohannel^as the measutdmei.=i made iWeoty ympritgfcjgj .cord theSepth to be twelve feet lea fewr-ao^'; and if ihis increased dw^npjbcoD'iDQQg. a catastrophe lific in the destruction of 'life 1aoc! property/ And now, as the reading and scientific people are cUscri&sing the great disaster that baa overtakes Charleston, and expressing theii wonder snd surprise why a so-called earthquake shonld have occurred al that point, where, as they say, there ii no volcano near, I, as an engineer am lover of science, as well as a believe: of-and m natural law, cannot set anything In this occurrence but tbi natural results that sooner or late: would inevitably follow the condition named?either the breaking of thii formation, or its sudden sinking to i much greater depth. In either case the results would be the same. I an now of the opinion that it hai broken, aad at more than one point as a farther bending would hav< hardly produced suchj a widespreac devastation, while a break woald til nn th? wflftt aide of the mass, whicl I am inclined to believe reached a far back as the French Broad River bending thence sonthwest and endinf with the west line at the base of thi monntains that form the bonndar line between the Carolines, Tennesse and Georgia. From the weight o the body resting upon it, I am in clined to believe that, at the janctioi of the Ashley and Cooper River (which is the site of Charleston) an other break or crack occurred on ac connt of the thinness of the coral, a the phosphate rock came throngh i at several points. If this should b so, it wonld account for the destruc tion of the city and consequent los of life. Let it be borne in mind tha this coral deposit, and the island that compose a part of it, are com posed chiefly of carbonate of lim< and have all been formed from lim once contained in solution in the w? ters of the ocean, and which was Ion since precipitated and deposits where we find it. I see nothiDg t prevent us from believing that th action of the ocean water could dif solve this lime deposit; when it coul no longer bear the weight place upon it, it must perforce be sundere in twain, and the natural result woul be jast what we see. ThiBformatioi reaohing farther south after reacbin Port Royal Island, is less capped c ' sagged. The west side, terminatin j jast at the city of Augusta, we lapped on the sandy, hillocky portio of the city where the elite of the cit had their elegant suburban home These sand deposits simply indical ; that there bad been an ocean's shoi i in the days when the earth we ! young. If the edge of the coral tilte | up at this point, many of the hill | undulations of this part of the cit | would disappear, as they are forme | like wrinkles from being pushed b I the coral, and this part ol the city would be mach levelerthan formerly. I do not know whether this has really been the case. I was oat of the reach of newspapers at the time, and so do not know how the country far removed from Charleston fared. Nor have X seen any scientist's explanation of the event." Wiggins' Predictions. He Issues an Address to the People of the United States. To the People of the United States: The prediction pablfsbed in the Vrt?!r nroco ond ASflArtfid to be | XA O n XVI a ^/tVUWj ? ? I mine, that a great earthquake will [ devastate New Orleans, Galveston and | other Southern cities along the south I of the thirtieth parallel on Wednesday, the 29tb instant, is a falsehood. ! It was originated here by their own correspondents and for their own purposes. I never received any reward except unstinted abuse for weather or other predictions, my sole object being to protect public property and save human life, and in this I have treated the United States, the home of flay ancestors, the same as my own country. Two years ago I foresaw that a great storm would occur in the North and South Atlantic from September 29 to October 1, 1886, and that an earthquake period would occur in America from Angus! 25 to October 15, the greatest strain being on September 29, south of the thirtieth parallel of north latitude, and so made my report to the Cana* dian government. This is the suno and substance of my prediction and of my knowledge on the subject, and the newspaper talk of devastation o: States, swallowing op of cities, and of rnin generally has originated wit! the New York press, for their owr advantage and to frighten religioui n'tiw 1nn?fi/?a (hmnffhoilt th< | OUU VbUVft .u?..w | United States, at the same timi 1 abasing me personalty. After hating (- ared tbe lives and vessels of tbi Gloaeester fishing fleet in March >v}88$, when the Hall fishing fleet J wajah laughed at my prediction, wa ( ^oR^ttbink yob will My I am de serving of better treatment Jta , this; will not again ooonh Only on In n- ^ TitIt ?t jmu j"l wwefct, will in fatmre publish my pre , dictions, and then only over my owi r signature.- The New York Herd gibes at my name, bat it should re r member that it was a Governor c I Massachasetts, a Wiggins, and m . own ancestor, who first raised th 3 standard of American freedom, j E. Stone Wiggins. # \ A Dangerous Hon. r The most dangerous and peacabl 9 man in all the Uoited States lives i 9 Murray county, Georgia. He i \ kind-hearted, good-tempered, neve , had a quarrel iu his life, wooldn i hart a fly, and everybody is afraid c 9 him. Abont a year ago he was en! ? ting wood when the axe flew off th ^ handle and killed a man who ha 1 had come to pay him $50. He neve t got a cent of the money. i The next week, while ferrying b friend across a river, he ran the bos > against a snag and bis friend ws I drowned. About a month later h a felled a tree on a stranger who wa f lying asleep in the woods, killing hii e instantly. Not long after he shot ? f a wild torkey and killed a neighbo whom he didn't see at all. a Three weeks later he lighted a kei s osene lamp, when it suddenly ez - ploded, burned to death a colportec > to whom the inoffensive Georgian ha s i courteously extended the bospitalitu t of his home. All this man's friend e run when they see him coming. E i- is himself afraid to extend any kin( 8 ness save to his enemies, of whom 1: ,t has none. s His last public act was to cross tt [. street with a ladder on his should* ?, | last 4tb of Jnly, while a processic e i was passing, and when somebod i- shouted to him 'to hnrry on' 1: g obligingly turned around and start* d back. The procession was laid oi o and the day was spoiled, e -3 Gathering Com. d ? ^ President Duncan, of the Sta J 1 Agricultural Sooiety, writes as fc ^ lows on this subject in theSeptemb< Monthly Report: S i As soon as it is dry, by all meai ,r | gather, and don't leave it a tempti g i tion to both man and beast. W 18 I prefer putting up in the shuck, ac n as every few baskets are turned i J I sprinkle a handful of dry salt; it w: s. ! toon nnf. wAovil and von will hard :e ever find a shuck or cob in yoi e trough. ts ? d Half a century ago in Turkey ly was considered a shame for a yomf ty to read. To-day tyo schools for gii id in Constantipople have been esta >y lieheJ by the Sultan himself. NEW^avi, Eighteen Modern Fighting Ships to he Constructed. The United States Soon to Rank a9 a Second Rate Naval Power?Ships in Process of Construction?The Present Available Fighting Force of Oar Navy. Washington, September 28 ?Chiej Constructor Wilson states in regard to that portion of the new navy oi the United States, whose construction has been authorized by Congress, thai it will number eighteen ships of al classes, to cost $20,000,000, and thai the last ship should be afloat foui years hence. Xo device koown t< secure their efficacy as flghtiDg ma chines will be omitted. Their arma ment will be of the modern high powered guns, the largest con tern plated being the twelve-inch breech loading rifles, carrying a missih which weighs more than eight hun dred pounds and requiring more thai four hundred pounds of powder, fo The theoretics oovu ?0? raoge of each weapons is abon ' twelve miles. Seven of tbeee ship are to be armored, the heaviest prob ably carryiog sixteen inches of steel 1 as a protection. There will be "pro tected cruisers"?that is, vessel 1 whose thick lower decks of Steele dij - their edges below the water line an< i serve as a protection to the ms > chinery, magazines and other vita , parts of the vessel. The others wi > be four steel crnisers, two gnnboatf i one first class torpedo boat, and on I dynamite gnn cruiser: I Of the stoel cruisers, the Dofphii f 1,500 tons, is completed and recen 1 iog her armament; the Atlanta, 3,00 ) tons, is upon her triai trip and he i armament is being tested, while tfa Boston, 3,000 tons, and the Chicag< 3 4,500 tons, are well advanced in coi 3 struction. Five of the armored vet I sels are of the'double turret monitc 9 class, each designed to carry foe > heavy high-powered guns, tbrowin > 300 pound shells with a possib 8 range of ten miles. Congress hi * now supplied the means for finishis t these ships, a&d' the work is pn 0 gressing rapidly. The Miantonoma! J will be ready for ser*? 0 has her engines in place and is near ^ ready for her'armor, while the Tc h ror, Amphitrite and Monadoock^ 3,815 tons each?are now receivii 7 their machinery. 6 The other two armored ships ha not yet entered upon their first staj of existence, their construction ha ing only been authorized by Coogre last session. They are to be of 6,0< tons displacement, to have doufc e bottoms, engines designed to dri' d them at a speed of at least sixte< is knots an honr and complete torpe< ir outfits and armaments of the mc 't effective kind, and arh to cost n >f more than $2,500,000 each. Ti t- dynamite gun cruiser will be a no e elty, comparable probably to nothii d now in existence. The Secretary ir the Navy is authorized to make contract with its inventors for i a construction, and the department w it have little or nothing to do with t! is work beyond passing judgment up< e it The conditions contemplate t ? construction of a vessel 130 feet Ion n proportionately very narrow and it very light draft, with exceeding >r powerfal engines, guaranteed to I capable of producing a speed r- twenty knots. The plans of tl t- craft look to the placing of the m ir chinery and other ordinary applianc d of the ship toward the bow ai ;B stern, leaving the region amidshi '8 for the magazines and pneomal fe guns, the latter being fix%d in po 3* tion and having a high elevatic ie The dynamite missiles will be throv like bombs from an ordinary morti ie With all these vessels afloat t sr United States as a naval power w ,u outrank Brazil, Chili, the Argentii lj Republic, Cbina, Japan, Greet ?e Norway, Portugal and Sweden, ai '<3 will be abreast of Turkey, Spai Holland and Denmark. She will st be outranked by England, Fran< Germany, Austria, Italy and Rossis Chief Constructor Wilson estimat the aotive life of the wooden w te ships of our present navy as follow i]. The Tennessee (the only one class sr as first rate), six months; the Tre ton, Omaha and Vandalia, secoi ig rates, and the Mohican, third ral ten years; Lancaster and Brookly ,re second rates, and the Adams, I. id liance, Essex, Enterprise, Nips in Tallapoosa and Yantic, third rah ill six vears; the Hartford, Richmoi ]y and Pensacola, second rates, and t ar Juniata, Ossippee, Quinnebat Swatara, Galena, Marian, Iroquc ! and Kearsarge, third rates, five yea it ! These, together with the iron shi iq Monacacy, Alert aod Ranger, tbi Is rates, and Michigan, PalosandPin b- fourth rates, constitute the availal fighting for<?e of the present na' ADVERTISING RATES;' Advertisements will be inserted at tLO rati of 75c per square ot one inch space lor first insertion, and 50c per square for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Notices in local column 10c. per line each insertion. Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries over ten lines charged for at regular advertising rates. Address, G. M. HABMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Th9 most powerfol of their weapons are the converting gons having a range of perhaps two- milee?excellent arms for operations again* t wooded ships and ancient fortifies tioos or for shelling towns, bat inefficient against modern armor. The very best of these ships is held by 1 oar naval authorities to be far behind 1 the times as a reliance for offense or defense in nctaal warfare. The list of ironclads comprises more than a " [ dozen monitors, bat none of them I are in condition for service at this f time. With this showing the United i States is placed by her own anthorit ties at the foot of the list of naval | powers in the essential matters of t ships and gone, there being three r Sooth American, two Asiatic and fif) teen or sixteen European powers . which outrank as. The CM 2T. & L. Railroad. * Judge Pressley Grants a Temporary 9 Injunction. - i r The injunction case of Jacob L. ] Dominick, et al., against the County t Commissioners 01 juexiogtou cuuuiy, , s was concladed at Lexiogton jesterk day. The action was to enjoin the e defendants from delivering to the _ Colombia, Newberry and Laurens 8 Railroad Company bonds in payment p of the subscription of Broad River & township, and to enjoin the railroad b. company from receiving and negod tiating such bonds. The case was il elaborately argned two honre Tuesday 9, night and six hoars Wednesday by e Messrs. Melton and Monteith of Colombia for the plaintiffs, and by i, Messrs. Carlisle and Mower of New f berry for the defendants. The mo0 tiun heard by the conrt was for a r preliminary injunction untH the mer>e its of the canse could be heard at the . 3. next term of conrt for Lexington i- county. 3- Judge Pressley granted the tempot rary injunction prayed for, and re?* quired the plaintiffs to give a bond of g $500 to pay any damage resulting le from the injunction in case it should ? eventually be dissolved. >g The temporary injunction was granted on a prima facie showing by the plaintiff's counsel that a majority at JBroadJEUver township had not signed fh's ?/ ly tion to^tbe County Commissioners of *- Lexington praying them to order the ? election in Broad River township in ig aid of the railroad. Whilst holding it necessary to look ve into the qaestion as to the freehold era, Judge Preasley intimated that he v- held the incorporating act as valid, &s notwithstanding the error in the tiDO ! tSe. The latter point was ably argued % >le | by the counsel on both sides, but ! without decidiog as to this point the bo court held that the prima fade show1? ing as to the freeholders was snf>st ficient grounds upon which to grant ot the temporary injunction.?Coluvibia i Register, 30/A. v-1 ?? 3g| Cluverius Must Sang*, of a Staunton, Ya, September 30.? This morning the Supreme Conrt of 1 Virginia, sitting here, handed down j the papers in the case of T. J. Clu3n verios, who stands convicted of the murder of Lillian Madison at the old reservoir in Richmond, Ya., with ?* the endorsement that the petition for a rehearing as denied. This remands the case to the Hastings Conrt of Richmond, by which a time will be 118 fixed for the death penalty by hang? a" ing, unless executive clemency interes poses. id j _ P8 | The Charleston calamity is booed j to be felt injuriously to the remainder 8l" of the State in many ways. The ID* destruction of that much property vn from any cause would damage the *r' State financially, not only by reD6 ducing its working capital, which incidentally injures the people of the 06 State, but it will directly injure every ? !e' | man in the State by necessitating an 1 ! increase in taxation. It will be I almost imp9ssible to avoid an in| crease in taxation, for the destruction 3e' | of Charleston will take from the k' j taxable property of the State from 68 five to ten millions of dollars. It ar will reqaire excellent management 8: of the State's finances to avoid an 0<^ increase of from one to two mills for n" State purposes. It will be seeo, 3(* therefore, that the State is interested e; in no small degree in the speedy j rebuilding of Charleston.?Anderson j Intelligencer. ic, | _ 38? | The dwelling house of Mr. Joseph ac* I Edwards ill Edgefield county, was j burned down on Monday night by '? 1 accidental fire. The house was a MS I ---3 Ann an/9 n?aa Dew U LI It ?aludtiig vuv > ouva ??? r0- partially insured. p8 * ro Important to ui Fexai.es.?If na(ta, | fering from auy disease pemlwr to ^ )le ! your s? x, Brad field s Fietualu Regoity. j lf.o!: ?U1. cure you. tf