J THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH, ^ j. J ADVERTING RATES: Hr '~*\ 1^ /^~N jy Advertisement will be inserted at tLe M n - published every wedxesday ^yB ^B ' ^ vj | B fl ) i^wir A Bj ^ rate of 75c per square of one iufcH space tor I M W/^M flj % Id^B '^B/^B ?T^ fif/^B first insertion, and 50c per square for each L/ Uy Godfrey.U-Uarman, 11 1 1 %/ W 1/ B Bill ~fi B BJm BAB E IB insertion. n Wr lV M 5 B / Jfllllh7 B ^ ' B M BL BL/M B B B I-V ] JB B / B 1LPB/B.B . B / B Liberal contracts made with thoee wish.LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C. ^ * W? f^r B^ jiu8to ,or thrtie' or twehe ?jp_ ;, J' v,si%" "'"'' ! 1:?~?>-? - -? Bf" ita? trsnxurrwx . i, -* S" llr ' - ??~~'"V i to"* ? ??". "u-fruu ^ ' ? '? 1 Obituaries over ten lines charged for at B:. Que copy one year SI-50 regular advertising rates. ::;; - ? vol. xviii. Lexington, s. c., Wednesday, august im. . NO 40 Address, G. M. HABMAN, ^p?? ' ?? " three months oO * 7 ^ . .' . ,A -v ^ Editor and Proprietor. [clothing I For tlie Spring- and W: i 8 s Stimmer 1 , jj- ?AT? i-i. ttp&txs&'s* ll t ISO MaTrrSUceL Colombia, K. C. I have just returned from the'Northern Markets with a choice line of Clothing', Hats, Gent's Furnishing Goods, " " ioi A . *i *V T Trunks, Valises, Satcneis, Etc., Etc., equal to any P house in the State. * ' " ) i m I am prepared to offer j great bargains this season j having bought for cash which . (I gives me great advantage j over my competitors. For | v# i gp styles, qualities, and low 4 prices, I can astonish the old j I and young, big and little, I II rich and poor. I can sell ? -fVy*: I: r . I Gent's, Youth's and Boy's 1 Clothing cheaper than the j cheapest. The cji ti zeiisof^Le xingtoH, | are especially* invited to examine my stock before pur- j chasing elsewhere. Thank1 - ;! ing you foy your past liberal | "Xpatronage and soliciting aj ***^3^tinua rfc?of the same, \ - am very respectfully, v * *** L. EPSTIX. ' .{Successor to Philip Epsiin, under Columbia Upte'l Block,) Sept. 7-tf * S65, | v- ^J. $75, $85, $10(1 And upwards, I itiu accommodate you. If you want an Organ for church or Sabbath-school at $ 15, $*.ebbles well slung, and that 300 Gideon; tes scattered 10,000 Amalekites hy ; the crash of broken crockery; hat ;, here is a more wonderful confrSF Yonder n re 1 hp Philistines on the rocks. Hero is Jonathan with his body-guard in the valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez; on the other side is a rock called Seneh. These two were as famous in olden times as in . modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They were precipitous, unscalable and sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan, 011 his hands and feet, begins the ascent.. With strain, and slip, and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one side. Seneh 011 the other. After a sharp tug, and .push, and clinging, I see the head of Jonathan above the hole in the mountain; and there is a challenge, and a fight, and a supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks, and open a campaign whichdemolishes the enemiss of Israel. I sup- I pose that the overhanging and Overshadowing rocks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his lxxiyguard, but only roused and filled them with enthusiasm as they went up. "There was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock 011 the other side." My friends, you have been, or are now, some of you, in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble, lie can go through with it. He gathers all bis en- j ergies, concentrates them upon one |K>int, ; and in the strength of God, or by his own j natural determination, goes through it. j But the man who has trouble to the right : of him and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone, he might endure It, but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him! "There is u sharp rock on the one side, and a slmrp rock on the other side." # Tr> i inm-nfa ' for tlui-woman as often supports tha man ; as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith hi God. Well, this mairof whom I am speaking looks around, and lie finds his family \ is left, and he rallies, and the light comes j to liis eyes, and the smile to his face, and j the courage to his heart. In two years ; he is quite over it. He makes his finan- ? cial calamity t!*e first chapter iu a new era 'of. prosperity. He met that one trouble?conquered it. He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Doze?, yet he soon rose, and be- ; gan. like Jonathan, to climb." But how often it is that physical .ailment comes with financial embarrassment. "When the fortune failed it broke the man's spirit. His nerves were shattered. . His i brain was stunned. I can show you ' hundreds of men in New York whose j fortune and health failed at the same j time. They came prematurely to the 1 staff. Their hand trembled with j incipient paralysis. They never saw i a well day since the -hour wliejj j they called their creditors together for a compromise. If sncli meiP are impatient, and peculiar, and irritable, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met successfully. If, when the health went, the fortune had been retained, it jvpoid pot have been so bad. The man .could have bought the very best medical advice and he could have had the very best attendance, and long, lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to his welfare. But poverty j "d^ a.,.3 /"v?-* Km* j oil nit; uiiu fciuu uiiu Mcuiicro tut uuici \ are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their shadows and drop them upon the |x>or man's way. God help him! "There is a s!mrp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." Now, what is such a man to do? In the name of Almighty God, I will tell him what to do. /L)o as Jonathan did? climb; climb up into the sunlight of God's favor and consolation. I can go through the churches and show you men who lost fortune and health at the same time,, and yejt who sjng all day and dream ot iveaven alj night. If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves, and clear eyesight, and good hearing, and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man happy, you have miscalculated. I suppose that these overhanging rocks only made Jonathan scramble the harder anil the faster to get up and out into the sunlight; and this combined shadow of invalidism and financial embarrassment lias often sent a pian up the quicker into the sunlight of God's favor and the noonday of Ids glorious promises. J.t is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when lie has $10,000 in jthe bank, and $50;000 in government securi* ties, and a bioCk or stores ana tnree I ships. "Well," the man says to him- j self, "it is silly for me to pray, 'Give me ' this day my daily bread,' when my pan- j try is full, and the canals from the west j are crowded with breadstuffs destined : for my storehouses." Oh, my friends, if j the combined misfortunes and disasters , of life have made you clinjb up into the arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you will bless him that in this world "there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." Again, tliat man is in the crisis 6f the text who has home ^troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treats a man well just as long as it pays best to treat him well. As long as it can manufacture success out of his bone, and brain, and muscle, it favors him. The *wwldjat|ens the horse it wants to drive. But let a lflSfrEmoAjiis duty to cross the track of the worldTtSeTf~mt*pkJa4jaJi is full of horns and tusks thrust at lum^' 9 They will belittle him. They will caricature him. They will call his generosity self aggrandizement, and his piety ' sanctimoniousness. The very worst per- J secution will some time come upon liim i from those who profess to be Christians. I v John Milton?great and good John j Milton?so forgot himself as to pray, in > . so many words, that his enemies might i be eternally thrown down into the dark- j est and deepest gulf of hell, and be the j nndprmost and most dejected and the i lowest down vassals of perdition! And ! Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to j say, in regard to his theological opponents: '-Put them in whatever sauce you please, roasted, or fried, or baked, or stewed, or boiled, or hashed, they are nothing.butassps!" All, my friends, if John Milton or Martiu Luther could j come down to such scurrility, what j may jou not expect from less I elevated opponents? Now, the world j sometimes takes after them; the newspapers take after them; public opinion takes after them; and the unfortunate ruan is lied about until all the dictionary of Billingsgate is exhausted on him. You often see a man whom you know to be good, gnd pure, and " honest, set upon by the world, and mauled by whole communities, while vicious men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him; as though Lord Jeffreys should write .an essay on gentleness, or Henry VIII talk about purity, or Ilerod take to blessing little children. Now, a certain amount of persecution rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood j for magnificent liattle, and upkes hinj J fifty times more a man than he would J have been without the persecution. So 1 it was with the great -reformer when he j said: "I will not be,.put down; I will he : heard." And so it was with Millard, | the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. i When Louis XI sei^t word to him that unless ho stopped preaching in that style ho would throw him into the river, he replied: "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach it by fast horses." & pertain amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of it, and too long continued, becomes the ropk Bozez, throwing a dark shadow oyer a man's life. What is ija fo do then? Go home, you say. ' Good advioe, j J ~ ^ ?>1AAA fA mon frv I tilUl. J.I11LI/ 15? JU5l? l/HO lUi U *?*?*?* ?V ;go when the world ^abuses him. Go diomp, Blessed be God |or our quiet and ' sympathetic homes- Bm there is many a man who lias the peptization of having a home when lie bus none. Through pnthinkingness or precipitation there ?re many mutches made that ought never to have been lade. -An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple, The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There is many a home in which there is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheep. The clamor of the battle may not liavo been heard outside, but God knows, notwithstanding all the playing of the "Wedding March" and all j.he odor of the orange blossoms and the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. Sometimes men liave awakened to find on pi;e side of them the rock of persecution, and on ihe pfhfT side the rock of domestic infelicity. What slial} such an one do? Do as Jonathan did?climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation, from which we may look down in triumph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenped by the magistrates, and having his name written ,on the l>oard fences of Loudon in doggerpl, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could?acting as though she were possessed of the devi), as I suppose she was; never doing hju? ? kindness until the day she rap away; so that he wrote in his diary these words; *.T did not forsake her; I have not dismissed jicpj I will not recall her." Planting one foot, John Wesley did, upon outside persecution, and the other foot on home trouble, he climbed qp info the heights of Christian joy, and after preaching forty thousand sermons, and ' traveling fwo ! hundred and seventy thousand miles, j reached thp heights of heaven, though in i this world lie had it liard enough?"a j sharp rock on the one side, auc| a sharp j rock on the other." Again, that woman stands in the crisis J of the text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning iiaejgs, I speak from observation. Ah, it- is a hard tiling for a woman to make an honest living, even when iier heart is not troubled, and she has a fair cheek and $$ magnetism of an exquisite presence. now the husband, or the father, is dead. The ex- 4 penses of the obsequies hay^ absorbed all < that was left ft> tl}e savings bank; and | wan and w>sf^d w.dh jfe^ping and ] watching, sh,e goes forth ? a. graye, a hearse, a cpf?h, beheld her ? to contend for her esisfcepge and the existence of her children. When I see such a battle as that open I shut my eyes at the ghastliness of the spectacle. Men, sit with embroidered slippers and write heartless essays about women's wages; tbup th^f Question is made up of tears and blood, $nd there is more bjoo<} than tears. Oh, give women free access to all the realms where she can get a. livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit, Get mPU's wages be cut down before hers are cut dqwp. ifen have iron in thejr souls ant|'cai) stand jt. Make the way free to her of the broker) heart. May Qod put iuto my hand the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but a windowless hut for shelter for many years, rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my Jiopie into the pitilessyvorld a woman's arm to fight tbp Gettysburg, the Austerlitz, tire Waterloo of life, for brpad. And yet bow many women there arp seated between the rock of bereavement on the one side, and the rock of destitution on the other, Bozez and Seneh interlocking their shadow and dropping them upon her miserable way. "There is a sharp rock on the or^e side, and a sharp rock on the other side." What are such to do? Somehow, let them climb up into the heights of the glorious promise: "Leave thy fatherless children; I will preserve them alive, apd let thy widows trust in me." Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise: "The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow and the fatherless." 0! ye sewing woman on starving wages. 01 ye widows turned out from the once beautiful home. 01 ve femaie. leacners, Kept on niggardly stipend. O! J ye despairing woman, seeking in vain for | work, wandering along the docks, and j thinking to throw yourself into the river j last night. 0! ye women of weak nerves and aching sides, and short breath and broken heart, you need somethfcig more than human sympathy; you need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. He knows it all. and he loves you more than father, or mother, or husband ever could or ever did; and instead of sitting down, wringing your hands in despair, you had better begin to climb. There are heights of consolation for you, though now "there is a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who has a wasted life on the one side and an unillumined eternity on the other Though a rami may all his life have cultured deliberation and self poise, if he gets into that position all his self ^KMsgs&on is gone. There ar^ all -the wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words? strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. That rock I call Bozez. On the other side are all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long de- | fiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between these two rock9 Lord Byron perished, and ! Alcibiades perished, and Herod perished, and ten thousand times ten thousand have perished. O! man immortal, man redeemed, man blood-bo*ight, climb up out of those shadows. Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life forgiven; have your eternal life secured. This morning just take one look to the past and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what it threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation; but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. You see from my object that when a man goes into the safety and peace of the Gospel, he does not demean himself. There is nothing in religion that leads to pieanness or 1111 manliness. The Gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did?climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God's favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down; it is to come gloriously up?up into the communion of saints, up into the peace that posseth all understanding, up into the companionship pf flpgels. He lives up; he dies up. O'. then, accept the wholesale in vita-, tion which I make this morning to all the people. Come up from between your invalidism and financial embarrassments. Crtmn tn-k frAm liotironn vrtni' KdPAOfA VVU1U Uf iAVtl* */\ V " VV.?* J WM? MVA V?*>V ments' and your destitution. Come up from between a wasted life and an unillumined eternity. Like Jonathan, climb with'all your might, instead of sitting down tq wring yppr h^nds in the shadow and in the .darkness? f 'a sharp rock pn the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." Tfee Mystery Was Solved. Back th^y had an epidemic of typhoid at A^xerre. No one could tell why. The' disease' appe^ed suddenly. There was. no evidence of contagion. How about the water? Formerly the inhabitauts used river water from the Yonpe, But the town would modernize itself. A pew .quarter wfts built, and all the well to dq folk pombiqed to insure a j supply of -pure wafer"* hy flie aqueduct j of YpJand. The poorer people, as of "pld, went to the river. Now, tlip typhoid attacked/>nly those who drunk the "pure water." Dr. de Cameres, a specialist and expert, was chosen to make a study of the case, and, if possible, to determine the cause of the epidemic. Thp dopfor proceeded to examine the Valand waters at its spurpp. Arrived there he found a farm house close at hand, and, of course, he found that necessary and more or less charming ornament of a farmyard, a manure heap. Inquiring at the house he learned they had a patient FhQ had lately come from Paris ill with typhoid. The plot thickens! The doctor suspected the big manure heap. He would try. So he took a quantity of rosalinine, a powerful red coloring matter, and distributed it freely over the mass. Next morning when the surviving '.'best people" of Auxerre turned on the taps, what was their surprise to find the beautiful Yaland water as red as blood! Tlie pinery was solved.? Catholic World. ITEMS OF* ALL SORTS. \ CUpplffcs from tUe Newspapers ? Para pf wre", Five hundred-dollars per apre pas been paid in aomo cases in England this year for cheiTies on the trees. California expects a wine crop of 25,000,000 gallons this year, an increase of 8,000,fy0p qyer [asfc year. Four men at Gainpsyillq, Fla., in twenty days killed 600 alligators for their hides and teeth. Some people have real good ideas of comfort, and so a Boston undertaker is making two $5,000 coffins. It is reported that 15,000.000 cottonwood trees have been planted in southwest Kansas this year. The verdict of the appointed judges is that British grown tobacco cannot be made to pay. Tvhq did the $'prk received 100 lashes and was banished for three years. A company has been formed at Pittsburg with a capital stock_of $1,000,000, with the object of opening a tin mine in ifexfpo fipqr Puvango. A tract of land has been purchased covering an area of ten miles square. Hah-skin-gay-goh-lali, the Apache who has just been taken to the Ohio penitentiary tq serve g.n eighteen years' sentence for murder, has been ppfc fo work with thread and needle patching prison garments. He says he "no likee squaw work." The island of Foula. one of the Shety > / / -? lands, is tor saie. it is tiires nines long by two broad, and it is famed for its rockv cojists and abundant wild fowl, did is one of the few spots injj&reat Britain in wliich the great skuarft very rare bird^ still lives. ? Correspondents of newspapete will find it convenient to have the front edge of their desks divided, for the distance of one foot, into inches and factions, for the purpose of measuring their printed matter. This simple .device does away with the inconvenience of a wbodcn rule. The flag of the PedeeJ^ight artillery was never surrendered, but the war ended in defeat was hidden ??nder the color bearer's coat, and by hin\ carried back to the lady who. four yestrs before, had given it into his keep, and by her has been religiously kept ev?r since, and onlybrought out upon occasions of the ba?fcery's reunion* . . Aluminum, the silvery metal that used j to cost $240 a. cpiiy thirty-five years ago, is nOw produc?7St tlife^rupp gun works at Essen, Germany/ for twentyfive cents a pound ^??0&wbri clay everywhere contains from to pounds of it in' every 100 poi;qjj^g?dJtjs likely, within the next become more common ewcct Missouri conta/s)s jJP manufacturing establishing, furnish employment for about I 5Q.G5&nersons. The capital employed is about/$200,000000. The material annually^ used and worked up amounts to $800,000,000, and the products put upon the market amount to $500,000,000, whlfjijhe wages paid are uearly $100,000,000v A review called Der Frauenfeind, or "Enemy oMVoi^an,'' is, to l>e started ii* Vienna. TfieodIto!e7*Herr Grose, has set before himself the object of emancipating man from his subjection to "that doll woman, whom idiots' idealize and fools bow down before _as to divinity." He says that there are exceptions to this denunciation, and generously exempts whole classes of the sex from the scope of his review. J f Tlxe Russet Leather Shoe. Hie rus$et leather shoe is frankly con-, fessed by tf certain literary and common sense dude to be really tlie lazy or the economical man)a shoe. Its chief merit lies in the fact that it does thot lieed to be blackened delisted. Jt js the experience of gentlemen who tfre Sensitive about their foot wear that a shoe ought to be polished about as ofterTas a cleanly man washes his hands. iW patent polished shoe is objected to on Ttke ground that it has become greatly cheapened, and, like thfij&hioe Albert coat, has been driven out pf fashion^ reafth, because the toughs ha?e adopted it. Besides, in hot weather, (.he patent leather shoe is very heating, so the russet leather shoes finds favor In the young men's eyes.' But-if coolness and economy are wh^fc are desired, why uot go farther east and get those^wonder/ul shoes that the Chinese make with', braided straw? They are nearly the same color, ?re'lighter and cooler, while- they arc also far more unique.?New York Evening Sun. I Bibles Put_Jnt? Circulation. . JVore copies of the Word of God,, in wlacle or: in part, were put into circular ticlrby the Ecftisb aud Fpreigl* Bible society during tfie last y?ar*than existed in wqrld at the beginning of tin pfesent century. Adding the cirtv.!;. tid>ns of other Bible societies, the number w?uld be vastly greater, -i&lissiona r v Herald. / J A^ thrifty Scotch chemist proposes to disppse of corpses by putting their various materials to profitable use, Ahead of Keely'a ''Motor." Several newspapers have referred to a new invention by one William Timmis. which, if successful, will revolutionize motive power. The inventor is an unnrAtantfmsa Kncylicl'j mor?hsinin vAvidinr, in Pittsburg, ^a., who claims to have in.vented a machine by which untold motivo power can be stored or used without the expenditure of fuel. The story goes that he has begi engaged for years in perfecting the tnventiqp, and 13 now negotiating witq the governments of England, Russia and the United States for the sale of the right to use his discovery, which, if after examination it proves to be what he claims, wifi/revolutionize the motive powers of t$*woild. .{Je claims to be able to creates, pressure of 2Q?000 pounds per square i?ch?more titan sufficient to propel the largest ocean steamer afloat _ or to move e^hty laden freight cars in one train. T The machine seems to be simply an air compressor of the simplest sort. It consists of one smalt cylinder (six horse power), with a balance weight of seventyfive pounds, Whjpi} rqn? ft? entire apparatus; a wither smal| cylinder, .five inches diamejer, with seven inches stroke, compresses die air into the tank from which the power is utilized. Under the piston plate the inventor has placed two layers of b^containing eleven different mi nereis,magnetic influence of which is the secret of tlie inventor. The advantages he claims are durability, economy and simplicity. Experts have examined fbe raaphine $n$ pronounce it a success. In submitting Vis design to the governments named, Mr. Timmis claims that the pneumatic generator cannot only be applied to war vessels as a motor, but can be used as $ defease against hostile attacks by^esns of air chambers placed behind the ^rmor plating.?Scientific American^ ' 11? i W#5-Vl?P r<*t A Frenc^^hysipiah named Raoul, who long dispeeSeff drugs on a man of war, finding life very (lull on board ship, stepped outside his professional line a while agQ'fottis^nguisn hinjself, and the results have bee? so noteworthy that the Paris Society (^ Commercial Geography has just honored hint with one of its medals. It occurred to him that the use tui products 01 Tahiti, that large apid lovely island of the society group in Polynesia, could be greatly increase^ by judicious importatiobg^'roni the flora of otffer countries. So he ]aid a considerable part of the world under contribution and in course of time m$ny hundreds of foreign plants were doing theif bpsf to fake root , in the soil of Tahiti. , Among his collections were rubber trees from Madagascar, ebony, teak and red cedar frpiq "Australia, tobacco frpm Java pud .the ftip Grande, cotton from Georgia, -hemp from Manila, cinnamon and nutmegs from the Malay archipelago, grapes from Madeira and Teneriffe, coffee from Formosa and a very large variety of grasses and fruit trees. He established a nursery near the phief towq pf -fahitj wd (i0 has already proved'that the larger part of his plants will succeed in this favored island. Grape culture, which he introduced, Is already beginning to enrich the. country and it is said that through the effort of this man alone the aspect? pf the yeg&tqtye kingdom in Tahjti are undergoing a remarkable change for the better.?An'alyst 4 A Collector's Antique Weapon. A gentleman uptown who a taste for collecting queer specimens of antique uric-a-brao showed a reporter, the other day, a formidable looking weapon, that he said was over four hundred years old. It was a Persian executioner's sword and ? i "j naa oeen ptjrchased bva fnend ot tne collector's firoffl" an old priest, while travelling-through the shah's country. The ;blade was of Damascus steel, about j 5 feet long and 1 8-4 inches wide, and j is double-edged. The extremity was ! roundedfpnS each side of the blade, from j the hilt to"the point, was completely cov- J ered witfi curiously etched figures. The etching was quite deep, and the surface of the figures highly polished. They represented hunting and1 war scenes, and included the figures of men, horses and other animals. v Near the hilt the surface of the blade on both sides was covered with Persian characters in silver Damascene work. The cubic ^lettering was of a peculiar sort that has hot;been in use in Persian work of this kind for seventeen turies past. The legend inscribe<^&3 trans-: lated by a Persian scholar, foiHMLan invocation to Allah. -The hilt was of wrth hands. It was inlaid 'with fine Damascene work in gold and silver, and in'some places the threads had nearly been worn away by usageT" The sword weighed about five pounds.?New .York Evening World. * - i Candidate* as Debt Payers. There is one important .test which, as far as memory ser ves^&ee iiave never known applied to candidates, vi2: Prompt payment of debra^4>c^s he pay his debts? But, .as some imkw^fid pay who honestly are unable to^^o^jhe test may be expressed somewhat" "differently. Has the candidate- the rep&atigg^of be- ing a good paymaster, or, misfortune or mistreatment by oBHr men, lie is una Die to pay, aoes ne avesfcmcient proof of a willingness and^jprpose to pay, and that as*soon as he canOgiiesllydo so? A man who will eflQe, dodge, refuse or decline to pay . jiiBt debts should not be sent to theJppslafure or congress, or put in anjr?c^5ce*c^ honor or trust, high or low. fin sifting candidates it would not be out of placo for voters to inquire: Does he pay liia s debts? Does he ttr to pay?--CoUliBbia (S. C.) Cliristian Neighbor. The Destruction of Oaks. Sea Cliff, Queens county, N. Y., be| . camp agitated over the destruction of her oaks^' and sent to State Entomologist ; ' JGntner a number of twigs broken off by the ivfncj,, Upon examination Professor Lintrtpr found the cause to be depredations by the -beetle known as Elaphidon pareUehjm, or oak pruner. After the egg is laid on the tip the larva burrows itself in the wood, and at its changing period cuts ground $ie spptioQ just beneath the b?rk> sq tl\at the first strong wind breaks off the twig. It Is said the best way to kill these insects is to burn the twigs.?-Chicago Hexgld. THE FAtt SEX. ? m A New York girf has varied^ the cus- i torn by being married at sunrise, Iilig. John A- l^ogan *s having a portrait bust of herself made by Mr. Flaunery, the sculptor, who made a bust of her husband, Mrs. Leland Stanford's* jewels are val- j ued at a roflnd million. Her diamond j .necklace is the finest in the United States i and possibly in the world. It poist $74r | 000 and consist? of targe "'blue tint5' solitaire^ Queen Victoria lias decided to import { a number of Indian servants for her per- i sonal establishment. Lafst year she sent i to India for two, who always stanff, j robed in their natiyo-piptaresque attire/ behind the royal chair. Miss Ethel Sprague, who is living with her mother at "Edgewood," her home, j just out of Washington, recently entertained her young friends by giving a ; "blackberry party." The novelty of this i party was that the guests helped them.- ! selves off the bushes that grftvy so. thickly in the garden of this fine old place. The fdea is an attractive one, much more so than would lie that of a "strawberry party" i? one had to help one's self from j the vines. Speaking of Mrs. Alice J. tthaw, the ! American yvhistlfO", The Saturday Review | of London remarks that many people j have been ask%l out to hear her, regard- ; ing the whole thing as a joke, and have j come away in simple ponder at the un- | looked for display of her powers. They \ have found her a sound mpsipian and a subtle mistress pf her particular art. They have found that, through her special medium, she could fill Coyent 1 Garden with ecstatic trills or sink into the softest whispefed notes the execution of which only years of rehearsal could achieve. It may be difficult to conceive | a whistling prima donna; but the fact is , that whistling as a fine-art ja \yp?thy of attentive stqdj. fhoge who have once heard Mrs. Alice Shaw cannot fail to realize that* if whistling were cultivated as a fine art by those who, in addition to musical endowment, - have strength of vocal chord, a high roofed p^latex and a flexible buccal ? apertuiy, they might be trained to take part in a concert, as of many clarionets, with an effect more j . thrilling than the most exquisite instru- i mental music has ever pop jit red up. and which, from its novelty alone, would be , more surprising than any concert hitherto heard, whether instrumental or vocal. / ( Symptoms of Jcl(yll aod Hyde. Edgar S. Kelly, the cpinppser, relates j : in The Theatre that a short time ago a j ! student devoted tq chemistry and of a j speculative turn of mind, was deeply 1 impressed by Mansfield's Dr. Jekyll. A 1 i few weeks afterward he was pn two occasions ^wakpnqd by strange convulsive motions of the musples of the. throat, and looking into the * mirror he was startled to find that his features were so distorted that nq one would recognize them, and U ro&ts some time before they became' related. For years he had felt that ho wns possessed' of an evil spirit which tempted him to > / lr> mid ?ik?seasickness can be reciilated bv a svstem of breathing. One must sit still and breathe 1 regularly and freely according to a fixed | schedule. The man who volunteers Iheinforma- , tion.that hsffr sober is not to bo believed. ?-Washington Critic. I ff-A Minister's Conviction. ^ i Rev. O. W. Winkfield, of Union ' Point, Ga., suffered terribly for twelve ] ye&rs from articular and sciatic rhen- I matism. He consulted numerous t physicians and tried ail sorts of inedi- ( cine, Finally he began taking the j j Swift Specific as a forlorn hope, and ! by its Qse he was, entirely restored, j 1 He writes: "I feel like a new man. I j Cannot attribute my miraculous and j 1 perfect care to aDytbing but the . Swift Specific. I know that it alone | \ cored me, for nothing else had done j me any good for twelve years. I owe ; t my restoration and strength for labor j | and religions duties alone to this I gtand remedy, and gladly make this i statement for the benefit of all guffeters from this most torturing disease? rheumatism. /Treatise pn/Rlood and Skin Die- , eases mailed free. 1 The Swift Specific Co.. Drawer 3,^ 4 I Inn I A .? auauva) un. ?- _ '' Piatt Sptfsga PwagMtpbs. j Mr Editor:?I am settled here uq- ! i til spriog, and have dow over forty ; | papils. The young teachers who have I been with me this Summer have taken j schools themselves and are teaching j t in adjoining townships. I think von j 1 will bear from some of tbem4 fts one ' part of my instructions to them was ? 4 to take an active interest in the moral social and political affairs of the set- i tlemehta in which they might locate and traosmit a record thoreof to^ex- ! , iDgton to ?0 chronicled in the ! ( colotnns of our favorite Dispatch. I | ^ believe in live teaoberf, 'and faithful i work will iSake them, but my experi- < eoce leads me to believe that it would ] reqpire a modern Hercules," armed j with electricity, instead of & club, to j galvanize so ;,e patrons and school^ trustees into active co-operation with j the teacher in his noble task. Some, j please remember, ar,d not nil diserve ! f this, for the patrons of Piatt Springs i A.oademy have just supplied the build- j j iog with seats and desks that rest the : , % I back and feet and hands and give the ! g pupils train a ebance to work. t Piatt Springs will be the scene -of 1 j an exhibition by the pupils of the j Academy, and a picnic and basket i dinner giva them by their parents j and friends od Wednesday, August i 22nd. .. | The farmers aye happy beoanse the | season now well advanced gives promise of an encouraging yield* * Mr. W. It FalUw is uow teaching acceptably at Smith Branch. There they have found a good teacher and they intend to keep him. The weekly meetings of the Piatt Springs Christian Association for the stady of the Sabbath-school lesson and practice ia music are generally f well attended. Meetings aye held on ! Wednesday evenings j Mutton corn and roasting ears are qow a welcome addition to the bilj of fare, and the pleasures of the watermelon are unspeakable and indisjribable. Mr. Samuel P. Harsey met with a painful accident last week ' hat confined hitn to the house for a few days. While running uear Mr. William j ^ Martin's mill his foot caught beneath j * jome slabs anil he fell leaving the : j akin from oue*of his toes. r . Our road overseer does not excuse i students from working the road*. I j ^ *ave one of my young men who wan I warned to work a written notice I hat j ? , j He was attending school but iL was no j ^ood. He had to work. j * The preaching at the protracted j meeting held at Sharon or Cross Roads M. E. Churoh was exception- j ibly good. The pastor, Rev. Mr. j Ferguson, were assisted by the Revs ! 6 4 1 John Inabinet, Lewis Rast, and SimoD Shumpert. Money will soou begin to circulate, cotton is coming, and gionera are preparing f r a busy season. Mr. Jas. J. Smith has returned from Aiken where he was occupied io building a mill. The young aod beautiful Mrs. Drew, of Blackfille, ha^ returned after a pleraant week spent with her aunt, Mrs. D. E. Crafk^f Mr. Wash Hntto, your "Lexington - Musical^ Woncler," has gone to CoMr. Johnnie W. Or^Siftas left Mr. " Malone and entered tfribusiness bouse of McCreery>& Bro., as a clerk. Mr. J. L Johnson is enjoying hie facation. His father, Mr. W. M. Johnson, is a happy man in the possession Df Jlmmie and his trio of lovely sisters. >> Mr. and Mrs. John Roof are enjoy log ttieir boDeymocm among tbeir relatives around Piatt Springs. Tbe new mail rente from Bast's ?tore to Mr. Lawrence Goodwin's will be a great convenience. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Inabinet are risiting friends here and are prond of [he progress of their nephew, Willie Wise, at school. Mr. Jas. V. Smith still remains with ne. . A sad year has this been for tbe Seese family. Early in the year Mise ^ Maria died, a few weeks ago Mr. Jacob, and now Miss Charlotte is lead. Flowers and tears?tears and lowers for the dead. Some good farmers say that we lave been having too much rain. Craft & Richter are doing a hoe msiness. Mr. G. A. Goodwin is said to few planning tbe erection of a steam milt. Miss Idella Craft has a flourishing ichool at Cedar Creek which in my poor opinion, she is fatly competent :o teacb. I wish we bad more ladies n the profession. FrrsGEBAiitk Advice to Mothers ? " . Mrs. Winslow's Sootsmo Srsnp ahoQldalwawtf^H used children cutting teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it prodnoea natural, quiet sleep by relieving, tbe sbild from pain, an? tbe little chernh awakes as "bright aa a button.** I&- ? ??is very pleasant to taste. It soothes tbe child, softens the gums, allays all p&io, relieves wind, regulates tbe bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from eetbing or other causes. Twentyfive cents a bottle. Jane 27?ly. * Negroes Leaving the OK 0. P. i Newburg, N! Y., August 12.?The Rev. J. R. Thompson, who is a resilent of this city, is a Bishop of tbe African Methodist Episcopal Zion Jhurch, and has a Dumber of the Southern and Western States under lis charge. These he visits frequenty, and has just returned irom a tonr ibrough the Southern States. Ha ^reached two sermons in Goldsboro, . C, last Sunday, and delivered bree Sunday-school addresses io the same city. Upon his retorn here he was seen iy a reporter. Tbe conversation ook a political turn. Bishop Tbompiod said the colored oeonle of th? - - r i ? Soth had in a large measure forsaken he G. 0. P. So far as he could earn, the colored people would largey support Cleveland and Thurman. 3e said the colored people had joutjrown the fear that was preached nto them four years ago. and Hbat 9 ,be poverty and misery that was then sredicted for the ex slaves by the Republicans was now known to be only i scare. The Bishop said that President Cleveland had made a splendid ecord, and instead of making life niserable for the old slaves - of the South, &9 the Republicans tried to nake them believe he would, be had lone everything he could to assist ? hem.* And, with a significant wink md smile, the Bishop added: "And 'ou'Jl find plenty of our people in the* tfoith here who will support Cleve*ud and Thurman, " Consumption Surely Cured* To the Editor :?Please inform our readers that I have a positive emedy for the above named disease. iy its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently nred. I bhall be glad to send two .r.fi nf niv rfimedv fref. to anv of our readers who have consumption v f they wilLaeod me their express and >ost < Oi ( address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocum, M. 0 181 Pearl Street, New York. Ic.a iu small quantities during t&* y easoo, for sale, at the Bazaar. 9 ' -/ ?, . ' ... ;:?a