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j * Marriage notices inserted free. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. / ? ~ ? ~\T^ " Obituaries over ten lines charged for at ?eT f ~ \ regular advertising rates. |5 ^OL. XX. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1890. NO. 48. ~ three months 50 J (WATER, | ||C ^ .c-, / tWjM, WATER! S1.S06 WORTH HE MXOTHIX t w t Damaged by water, to be sold at 50 cents Ky- on the Dollar at X. EPSTIN'S The recent heavy rains have flooded my ! store and damaged about fifteen hundred j dollars worth of choice fine Overcoats, Boys' Suits, Coats and Vest, some Pants, -^aiijof which will be sold at 50 cents from original cost. These goods are slightly damaged, they will be sold quickly. These chances do not present themselves at the commencement of the season except in rare instances. r1- stock of Clothing for Men, Youths and Children was never better selected than this season. School Suits as a speci11 "r* I \?/ft tin Ka 4*% vnnl* cell m V tkiiy it in ainuja uc m nuui iuuiv wu smi?txtj?r goods at lower prices than any competitor. I have also secured the agency for free disI tribntion to my customers only of Web ster's Encyclopedia, a valuable book which m-. ought not fail in reaching every lamily in Hjr- Lexington county. Publishers price $6. B?* - The above book will be given away to every K^. purchaser who will give me their trade fc,; . this fall. For further particulars call or send for circulars. Call at once and secure bargains. Bmhia, S. C. II Sept. 7-tf -LOAN AND EXCHANGE? STATE, CITY A YD COf.YTY DEPOSITORY. COLUMBIA, S. C. .Paid up Capital $127,060 Surplus Profits 66,000 Transacts a general banking business. Careful attention given to Collections. SimeS DEPART.HEYT, Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent. payable q-xarierly on the first Wvs of January, April, July and October. A. C. HASKELL, President. H C. FISHEB. Vice President. .BNflrTT T TTTC? XT \IT * T T/T>f> * ^asmer. CUEBY, : SOODS, rGoods \nd ;ed a splendid ?d stock ol Millinery td Notions, etc., and onway, an experienced are taste in charge, who le management by Miss Everything in this remarkably low prices, acquaintances are sinpect my stock. w mu mm m. m mm mm m a m m HI J A. KncNTiUN, : ^ PmerciaTBANK! | fcoLUMBIA, S. C. ] Transacts a Blinking and Exchange bnsiHffi ness. Beceiv e > Deposits. Interest allowed |p> on Deposits. Safety Deposit Boxes to rent c. J. Iredell, james Iredell, President. Cashier. Jso. S. Leaphalt, Vice-President. 11 1 ' t CAROLINA jftfATIONAL BANE ; CjOLUM BI A, S. C . j Bp STATE. CITY and COIW'TY DEPOSITORY. ! } Paid np Capital $100,000 i B Sarplns Profits 60.1KH) : ' SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of S5,00 and upwards received, j Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent i fif per annum. W. A. CLARK, President ! * WnuE Jones. Cashier. Decern t*r 4-ly. Ht Fire Insurance. 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April 16th, 1800. lv\21 . WILD COREOPSIS. A 6ea of blossoms, golden ns the glow Of morning sunlight on a wind rocked bay. Beneath the breeze of this rare autumn day J n Heaves in soft undulation to and fro. ' like Incense, floating o'er the marsh below, Come fragrant odors of the late mown bay. Beyond, in harmony of green and gray, The graceful tamaracks tower in stately row; And w>ding through the shimmering waves with song Upon hii-hps a fair haired youth 1 see, Who swing? off the saffron blossom bells. Back roll the j'ears?a melancholy throng. And 1 behold it? sea girt Sicily Theocritus amid the asphodels \ ?Congi egationalist. X RACHEL'S EXPERIMENT. > "I wouldn't have believed it of you, j Rachel," said Mrs. Edmonstone plain- i tively. "No, I wouldn't, nV unless Betsy Tacker, the manty maker, had told me; and Betsy she neycr-tblcl a lie no more than George Washington did." "Why, mother, what are you talking 1 about?' Questioned Mrs. Thomas Edmon stone, untying the elder lady's bonnet strings and relieving her of a splint basket, a black silk bag, a waterproof cloak and an umbrella. "And I've come to see if it's true," added the old lady. "If what's true, mother?" "That you said yon wished there wasn't no such person as m?me!" faltered Mrs. Edmonstone. "Mother, you know I never could have said such a thing," cried out Rachel. "Well, it wasn't quite exactly that; but Betsy Tacker she heard you say you wished there wasn't no such thing a9 a mother-in-law." - i r-k _ v _ ? !at. _ l a : 1 "uai cnea xtacnei, wnu a uysienctu little laugh, "I plead guilty. I did say that. But, oh, mother! it was under such strong provocation, and 1 never meant you. How could 1, when you have always?always been so good to me?" "I knew it couldn't be true," said Mrs. Edmonstone, setting herself in the easiest rocking chair and nodding her cap strings comfortably. "But how came you to make that ex-tra-or-dinary speech. Rachel, about mothers-in-law in general?" "It was Tom," said the young wife. "He was so aggravating!" "Thomas always was aggravating," said Mrs. Edmonstone, stirring the cup of tea that Rachel had brought her. "And what was it about now? The breakfast cakes?" "Oh, you remember about the breakfast cakes, don't you?" said Rachel, with merry mischief sparkling in her eyes. "No, it wasn't the breakfast cakes this time; it was the shirts." "The shirts!" "Well, you know he said it was such a wasteful, extravagant proceeding to buv shirts ready made," explained RacheL "He said the linen was poor, and the work regular slop shop style, and he declared you always used to make his shirts at home, every stitch, before ho was married." "So 1 did," ad^rovledged Mrs. Edmonstone, with that was in the old times^^^J^^^fe^could buy J* W*' P? ' B "jiwwwiwj^y in times andrTGSf toms," sighed^pichel. "He wanted home made shir^, and home made shirts he would have!" "And you made 'em?" "Yes, I made them." "You were a great goose," reflectively spoke Mrs. Edmonstoue. "And?and Tom swore dreadfully the first one he put on" "I don't in the least doubt it." "And he said they set like weal bags, and that they twisted his neck around as if he had just been hanged, and grasped him on the shoulders like a policeman! Oh, I can't tell you what lie didn't say!" "Bless me!" said Mrs. Edmonstone. "He told me his mother's shirts set like a glove, and fitted him perfectly? and why couldn't 1 turn out a shirt like those? And it was then, mother dear," suddenly flinging her arms around the old lady's plump, comfortable neck, "that 1 lost my head, and told him I wished there wasn't such a thing as a mother-in-law in the world! And Betsy Tacker sat in the sewing room altering over mv dolman in the spring s tyle, and I suppose she must have heard me." "Don't mind it, my dear," said Mrs. Edmonstone. "No, 1 won't," protested Rachel. "But, oh, those shirts! I've been ripfVtnrrt orvorf on/" cannnf* f/v. yiiig tiiciu a^ai v a.iu ot cjli^XXA LV gether again, and rounding off a gusset here and taking in a plait there, until I've got so that 1 djrearn of 'em at night, and the more I try 'em 011 the worse they fit, and the more unreasonable Tom becomes. 'My mother never made such work of it as this!' says he." "Thomas forgets," observed Mrs. Edmonstone severely. "And I'm sure if things gv> on like this," added Rachel, pushing her short brown curls off her forehead, "it'll em\ in a separation on account of 'incompatibility of temper.'" "No, it won't, my dear," said the mother-in-law. Here, get me the pattern and some shirting muslin and a pair of scissors." "What are you going to do, mother?" eagerly questioned Rachel. "I'm going to make Tom a shirt. But don't you tell him, Rachel. We'll see whether it's Tom or the pattern that has altered." Once more the mischevious light came into Rachel's bright blue eyes. "I wish all the world was mother-inlaws," she cried gleefully. "Why, why didn't I think of this before?" "One can't think of everything, child," said Mrs. Edmonstone consolingly. Thomas Eraondstone welcomed his mother cordially when he came home froin business. "I'm so glad you've come," said he. "We can have some of the nice old fashioned dishes now. Rachel can't seem to get the hang of them, although she has always had your book of recipes to guide her." "Rachel's a good deal better cook than ever I pretended to be," said Mrs. Edmonstone. "They have patent egg beaters and cream whippers and raisin seeders, and all that sort of thing, now that they didn't have in my day. I never tasted nicer bread than Rachel makes, and these popovers are just delicious." "You're just saying that to encourage Rachel," said Mr. Edmonstone, with an incredulous smile. "Things will run smooth now you've come. That's one comfort." "Oh, 1 shouldn't think of interfering in Rachel's kitchen," said the old lady. "Please do, mother," coaxed the wife, not without a certain quiver in her lip. "Do let Tom have a reminiscence of the old days while you are here." "Well, just as you children say," conceded the mother-in-law good huinorediy. She remained a week at her son' house, during which period of time Toi was all esultant complacency. "This," said he, "is something lik living. I feel myself a boy again whe I taste these apple fritters." "They're not bad," said Rachel, wh had made them with her own skillfr hands. And she helped herself to a lit tie of the sauce. "And why don't you learn my motfc er's knack of making such pie crust a this?" demanded Torn. "There is n dyspepsia here!" "I'm glad you're pleased." said Rache with a guilty glance at her mother-ir law. "Oh, by the way, Tom, the last of th set of shirts is finished now. Will yo put it on to-morrow?" j' "I suppose so," ungraciously uttere Tom. "Will set like fury, I dare saj i like *11 the rest of them!" "You might at least give it a trial." "Didn't I say I would?" still more ur j graciously. "Those shirts will be th j death of me yet." he added turning t S his mother with a groan, while Rach* ! sat steadily observing the pattern of th table cloth. The breakfast sat smoking on the 11 bio next morning when Mr. Edmonston came into the room twisting himself s if he were practicing to be a huma j corkscrew. Mrs. Edmonstone glance j timidly up at him. | "Don't it fit, Tom?" she questioned. "Fit! Just look at it, will you?" he n torted. "Fit! Hangs like a window cu; j tain around my neck?pinches my wrisi | like a pair of handcuffs! 1 feel as if ! were in a strait jacket"?writhing in I onil f-rn "(Th rmir/hthftV I'aui&liViJ ivy c?iiu 1.XV* V/Uf * ?%? % | known it beforehand?you haven't a j idea what the word fit means. I wis) mother,you could teach this wife of mir j how to make a decent shirt!" "Thomas," said Mrs. Edmonstor 1 solemnly, transfixing him with ti j glistening spheres of her spectac] I glasses, "you're not very polite. I mad ; that shirt." "You, mother!" "Yes, 1 myself. Just as I used t , make shirts for you in the olden tim< ! that you're always sighing after. I'\ ; been working at it ever since I've bee j in the house. Throw away the patten ; Rachel, and don't waste any more tiiu j trying to make your husband's shirts, ! *h? RddetL "It's an economy of tim j and temper, as well as of money, to bu them ready made. Tt's Tom that's i fault, not the work. And as for ti cooking you've been praising up so eh I quently all the time I've been here, haven't touched a pot or a pan. It's a | her?your wife's work. So much fc ! imagination. Oh, you needn't hang yoi ' head so sheepishly?you're neither bett< ! nor worse than other men," went c ! Mrs. Edmonstone. "And I never sa the man yet that didn't need to hear : wholesome truth now and then. You') | got the best and sweetest little wife i ! the world." j "Mother," pleaded Rachel, trying 1 I put her hand over the old lady s in out] ! but Mrs. Edmonstone resolutely pe j sistecL "And it's my advice to you to try ar tr^j-t her^aa ' t "l-ratner cranky of late." said Tom se consciously, "now that I come to thii of it." "Cranky! I should think so," said tl old lady. "I'm sure I don't know win the world's coming to. Here's litt Georgv toddling around with his woods cart. The first you know he'll be tellin his wife about the wonderful success* his mother used to make in this, an that, and the other thing. We've all g( to come to it." "And Georgy '11 be right," said Ton who after all had a magnanimous strea through him. "What a crab I've bee all this time. Hang the home mad shirts! I'll buy 'em out of the store nes time! Kiss me, Rachel?and you, to< mother! And be sure you let me have dish of scalloped oysters when I com I uvjmu uiiiiitri. i uu u^oicia iwiLiK J cooked. He ate bis breakfast and departet j And when he was gone young Mrs. Ec ! inonstone looked with shining eyes t old Mrs. Eumonstone. "Oh, what a nice thing to have a mc ther-in-law!" said she fervently.?Shi] ley Browne in Fireside Companion. Russhi's Modest Start. John Russhi began his career as a wail er ten years ago in Delmonico's. In year he managed to save $500. Anion the guests he was accustomed to wai upon was Russell Sage. One day afte Mr. Sage had finished an unusual! hearty meal he became quite talkative Russhi mentioned that he had save $500, and timidly asked if Mr. Sag could suggest a good way to invest it. The financier thought a while, am taking a small piece of paper from hi pocket wrote the name of a certain stoci upon it. Russhi's $500 soon grew t< $5,000, and so on. He still works as ; waiter, and it is safe to say that none o the people who order him about i aware that*he possesses so much money ?New York Telegram. One Uund Washes the Other. Plymouth, Mich., has three factorie turning out toy air guns. Several shrew and far seeing manufacturers of glas eyes are said to own stock in these con cerns.?Minneapolis Tribune. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy tin sense of smell and completely derang< the whole system when entering i through the mucous surfaces. Sucl articles should never be used excep' as prescriptions from reputabh physicians, as the damage they wil do is ten fold to the good you car possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured byF. J Cheney &. Co., Toledo, ()., contains no mercury, and is taken intent ally 1 i "l _ 11 il i i i hikl acts uirecuy upon me oiooa ant mucous surfaces of the system. Ii buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sun vou get the genuine. It is taken in ?/ O O ternally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, b] F. J. CHENEY <fc CO., Props. Toledo, O. JMT\Sold by Druggists, To. 4C>. A n Independent ha.<? no beginning, no end. JIE MUST liE A RADICAL. There in no halfway ground ?Speech of Senator M. C. Butler October 31, 1878. A line of new lamps ami fixtures fancy butter dishes, goblets, turn biers, pitchers, mugs, cake stands water sets, etc., just opened, and al cheap, at the Bazaar. 9 TALMAGE ANt> HIS BANJO. I Why His Neighbors f?i Brooklyn Miss Him e | When He Takes Wis Vacation, n I The Rev. Dr. TaIrcaJ?e is sadly rnissec j by his neighbors in PrNPoklyn in more 0 | ways than one. So if j it is a "pi63-53-111 ^ ! tiling to be missed" th^ popular preach | er probably has pleujty of pleasure, j Everybody knows thaiN the doctor ii ^ fond of music, but tbcjf unawan that lie can expertly |.?Iay the banjo j Yet it is true. X. [ I Before he departed his vacatior i- ; he pretty regularly Viiade tlie earlj evenings melodious with the mel e low "pink-a-punk, par k-a-punk, pank u pank-pank, thrum-m-ros of his favorih musical instrument as 'he sat in th< 3 back parlor of liis residence on Soutl 7* Oxford street. The I windows wen j usually open, and the {touching strain; | of some old time mei&iy floated oui l" j upon the air. When he began strollers in the ad j jacent park paused to listen, and peo e pie in nearby houses,1 came to theii windows in order that \ they should noi t_ miss a single note. Sdeh sweetly tune e ful airs as "Annie ijnurie," "Comin is Through the Rye" and "Away Dowr n Upon the Suwanee Ribber" were fa <1 vorites with him, and when he playec them his eager auditor? always felt lik< joining in the refrain^ Rut now tin house is silent and thepanjo laid away r" No wonder he Ls missed^ ^ During his absence) a young mai i with a cornet, who lives on the saim J- I T i i street, has seemingly ^ried to fill tin n vacancy. He is not aiA expert, and tin j way he can murder music wouiu ix amusing if it was not so awful. Even blast he gives with his cornet sound ie like the wail of a losjt soul or a clau te peddler in distress. Still he has beer te persistent. Even duritf,' the hot, humic ie nights of the present month he ha clung to his post at an open windov and kept up a steady, car rasping blare 0 People in the vicinity closed thci windows with a vicious "bang!" bu e still he kept up the fusilade of mutilat ed and discordant notes. There seeinet ^ to be no relief from infliction unti * a happy idea struck Aw across th< e street. He opened a v^^^w, and witl y an energy born only o^H^afr bawle< n out: ie "Fishl Fish! Fish I Nice, fresl > fish!" 1 The cornet player did not at firs 11 seem to understand the meaning of thi )r cry, for after a brief cessation of tor ir ture he resumed his work. But thi -r cry was repeated, this time leader thai ,n before, and the youhg man stopped a closed his window and went away, ant his comet has not since been heard I he practices now he probably plays ii the cellar. V The neighbors long w T.nlniJi/TA and his r- Herald. ^ The Streaking of eounaa^MBW^^BW If ""o/rtTn circulation 'the^Tdays. ^Hjhi ik time was ten years he sBd "when a man rece^SB^counterfel le bill on an average orafi^A week. I it is rare that a man wL'^S^Bles a grea deal of money runs acrossacounterfei ln bill once a month now. Most of th< ? expert counterfeiters are in prison, anc those who are out are so closely ^ watched by the detectives that the^ have little chance to work. 3 "No new talent in the counterfeiting k line is being developed, and the chance: n of detection are so numerous and cer le tain that the ambitious young crool :t turns his abilities in other directions ), Now and then a clevej counterfeit ap a pears, but the secret service men run ii ? down so quickly that it does not paj il 'cnpjrt nannla1 ffr\ pini *1 nnr 1/ IV C4. t tv Jlipu IV I Ull (V VU1 rency factory of their own. There is some counterfeiting of small silvei . pieces carried on, but the work is sc base that it rarely gets into general cir y culation, only the ignorant people bein? r_ deceived by it. Counterfeiting will lx one 01 the 'lost arts' before manj years."?Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. tFire from Steam Pipes. & In an article on the danger of fire ^ from steam pipes it is said that after ,r wood has remained a long time in conv tact with steam, hot water or hot air pipes the surface becomes carbonized, d and during warm weather the charcoal e absorbs moisture; when again heated the moisture is driven off, leaving n 3 vacuum into which the fresh air cur 3 rent, circulating around the pipes, rap^ idly penetrates and imparts its oxygen 0 to iite charcoal, causing a gradual heat^ ing and eventually combustion.?Berlin Letter, s Salt Freshens Bouquets. In the first place put a little salt, a tablespoonful or more, in the bottom of the vase. Then till the vase with ? ice broken into pieces the size of a walnut. On this put the bouquet, the same as you put the stems into a glass of water. Never put any water into the vase, however. Enough comes from the melting ice and salt.?New York Journal. ' A Mexican was running a mowing 3 machine in a field of alfalfa near Las 3 Cruces, N. M., when he uncovered a t colony of skunks. A number were i killed by the mower, and the Mexican t called for help to assist in exterminat3 ing the colony. The fight was kept up 1 with pitchforks and clubs till fifty-two ctiinlra -urr.ro clr? mrlitoror^ I "V?V A choke bore gun is one the bore of 5 which is slightly constricted near the muzzle. The arrangement is used in j sporting shotguns, and is intended to 1 keep the shot from scattering, and thus a to make the fire more close. Sister Jennie Didn't Rhyme. Ruskin refused to commend Rossetti's poem "Sister Jennie" toThack' eray, when the latter was editor of the Cornliill Magazine, because ' "guinea" did not properly rhyme with ' Jennie. That may be so in their literary fild, but when it comes to the domain of usefulness no authority, i, i i...i 11 i wnaiever its eminence, uui w uum - have fouiul a delicious jingle between > "success" and Dr. Westmoreland's 1 "Calisaya Tonic." The very way in which it so firmly establishes itself ; in every home is eloquent of its vir! tues as a home medicine. To it care | worn man and enervated woman inj stinctively turn. It is pre-eminently * ! the boon that medical research has 5 conferred 011 a beseeching world. It ' | furnishes instant relief for a torpid " 1 liver, dyspepsia, chronic headsche . I 1 -f i:i, UIKl loss Ol UppfLitf, yeiiciai : anil serious blood a malarial poison. I It is a "dead shot" against chills and } fevers. For sale at the Bazaar at 50 4 cents and ?1 per bottle. 49. Judge Haskell's Theory. * } From the Greenville News. 1 Judge A. C. Haskell tided to defeat J Tillman and the Tillman men beat s him in the Democratic party. ^ He tried to organize a bolt among the anti-Tillman men and he was out voted and beaten in two conferences. He called a meeting to be comj posed of men who he thought ; would act with him and his call i gathered 1G8 men, representing j twenty of thirty-live counties. 1 j Seven tenths of the Democrats of j the State favored Tillman. Of the a j remaining thrc '-tenths three-fourths ' ! favored standii 2T by the nominations. Judge Haskell's theory evidently is that he and his little faction contain j all the wisdom, courage and patiro3 tism there is in South Carolina: that i the remainder of the white populaj tion is unworthy of confidence and 3 cannot be entrusted with the keeping 7 of the State. s He proposes to assum that work ! with a small fraction of the white i men of the State?including few who 1 j have heretofore been prominent in s | peace or war?and the mass of the 7 ; black vote. . A vote for Haskell is a vote of r ) want of confidence in the ability of t the white race to govern itself and - the State. It is a vote to appeal 1 from the white man as a failure to 1 the blac1 7ote for redress of griev& ances and relief from dangers not 3 yet present. 1 A vote for Haskell is a vote to establish in South Carolina?at the 1 best?the rule of a few whites des potically controlling us with the t massed black vote. It is a vote of 2 endorsement of a man who has so much confidence in the superiority oi ^ 1 J 4-V*rt4- r\$ oil C ! 111S 0W11 W1SU.OI11 U>Ci nxav w **? 3 other fellow citizens that he despises ' authorities, repudiates the action ol majorities and recklessly stirs wrath, doubt, fear and confusion when the 1 great body of the people had fought j their fight and were looking for i peace and rest and the opportunity * to do business and restore normal conditions. ?ke a worker until e I so IhoroBpyesecuted wthat ever ^ Judge Hashell must submit. t ' . t Good Advice. t 3 1 Several years ago I was covered 7 with boils to such an extent that my 7 life was in misery. After trying a number of other remedies without ? auy benefit, I was advised by a wholes sale druggist at Columbus to try S. - S. S. (Swift's Specific). One bottle ^ of S. S. S. cured me entirely. I have not had a boil since. To those * afficted with boils or skin eruptions t I give the same advice my wholesale r dvn orcrist nrovp mp tftkft S. S. S. ? "06""' o ?David Zartman, Druggist. 3 May 10, 1890. Independence, 0. > a prompt cure. : I was cured sound and well of a > case of blood poison by S. S. S. As ' soou as I discovered I was afflicted with disease I commenced taking Swift's Specific (S. S. S.), and in a few weeks I was permanently cured. George Stewart, ! May 7, 1890. Shelby, Ohio. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis. cases mailed free. SWIFT'S SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. Plaster Houses. An innovation in building has been suggested which, although it can hard ly yet be said to nave been lairly tested, seems to possess excellent points. The framework of a house is erected in the ordinary way, and for large buildings Iron or steel may be used. On the studding of this framework a metal lathing is nailed, which covers everything except the doors and windows. The meshes of the lath are diamond shaped and the surfaces are turned at an angle. The lath is first coated with a mixture of mortar and cement, afterward is auded an inch of cement which is finished and lined in imitation of any kind of stone. The cost is said to be but little in excess of the ordinary methods.?New Y' -k Commercial Advertiser. Not Much. j A certain priest was attending tne I deathbed of a wealthy old lady, and ! picked up his ears when he neard her a&y slowly and with difficulty: "Father?I've?given?you" "Stay," cried he, anxious to have witnesses for this nuncupative testament; "I'll call in the family." When the family had assembled the old lady resumed: "Father?I've?given ?you?a great ?deal of trouble." And exhausted with the effort she fell back end expired.?All the Year Round. Malaria produces Weakness, General Debility, Billiousness, Loss of | Appetite, Indigestion and Constipation. 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At no time since 1860 have we seen the intelligent white men of our State in political hostilities; and this fight is fraught with i the greatest consequences 011 account of the great danger with which we are alwavs confronted here of being again subjected to the rule of men who have neither the greatest intel- j ligence nor even a respectable minor part of the wealth of the State. It goes with the saying that the welfare of the State rests in the Democratic party. Both the Till- j man and Haskell tickets call them- j selves Democrats, and in political faith have been Democrats, but they cannot both be nominees of the Democratic party. The nomination of the Tillman ticket must have been by the Democratic party, because it was made by a call under party law. legularly organized, and the Executive Committee are now peacefully, lawfully and, by proper succession, in possession of the records and treasury of the party. The Haskell ticket has been nominated by a convention of gentlemen called without party authority and outside of party organization and party machinery, and, being thus nominated, they must be Independents so far as party rule and law go. Democrats in political faith they may be and doubtless are, but they are now Independent Democrats. We concede to every man the right to ! withdraw from his party and join another, or set up one for himself, but we cannot see any good that may , now or henceforth come to this State from such action. These Independ'1 3 ents are men 01 Dram ana socuu position and cannot be driven from | their position by abuse. They are 9:mply mistaken in their notions of loyalty to the State, and instead of 1 feeling resentful toward them we should pity their short sightednetp . and error and show them by our ex ample Southern ^Dgaocrats 1 political crises. No good can come from Independent movements, but they will come into the body politic, chaos, instability, unprincipled men, discordant political principles and a breaking up of the financal and industrial fabric of the whole commonwealth. And wh it is it all fo. ? Becaut e. au cat* Tillman ic npvcnnallv nn. , V^V-J t J pleasant and uncouth, and because he has charged the State government under the party with fraud and mismanagement. I ask if these Indei pendent gentlemen, who have herctoi fore been considered the flowers of , South Carolina chivalry and patriotism, will endanger the polical status of the party, the commercial and manufacturing of the State simply because they do not like Tillman, or because he has said things untrue? Can our Governor make laws for the State? Can he control the Legislature? But why nominate other State officers if Tillman is the only man tvbo lias done wrong! It is useless to multiply words. Indejtendentism, even if it comes through the best people of the State, cannot and must not be tolerated. Have we come to this that threefourths of the white people of our State cannot say who must be the | nominees of the party without this fearful stab? Never! But be sure that every man goes to the polls quietly on the 4th of November and show Col. Haskell and his followers that a majority of the white men of this State shall and will rule, and we must beat him so badly that 110 man will ever agaiD dare to raise his head as an Independent in this State. Let every man constitute himself a committee of one to see that his neigh1 ? .t . *1 - T-V Dors voie me reguiai" x^emuaiiinticket, and if they are indifferent or infirm take your wagons and buggies and carriages and carry them to the polls, and elect the regular nominees at all hazards?but quietly and peacefully. C. M. Efird. October 14, 1890. The New Discovery. You have heard your friends and neighbors talking about it. 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If for the sake of personal dislike to leaders, the Independents ruin the party which is the White Man's party, and the party of con| servative and intelligent colored pecj pie of the State, they will be con I i ?Li?c j viciiiiicu uj ttii tile ptfupie ui me OLiitf; tliey will be condemned by all the people of South Carolina as traitors, not only to their own interests but to j the interests of the entire State. "This movement is leading back to the condition of affairs from which they were rescued in 1876, and if they get back to it the people of the State will not help them out of it. In South Carolina it is not a matter of local issues or personal preference; it is a matter of" life and death. "There is only one way by which we can hope to maintain honest government, and every true citizen is bound to adhere to that, whatever 11ID ULSIXIIUJUO U1 J^?C1 BUlia UX XWCJli questions; and the way is to obey tlie voice of the majority of the Democratic party. If he does not he is a deserter, and shold be so treated."' The First Step. Perhaps you are run down, can't eat, can't sleep, can't think, can't do anything to your satisfaction, and you wonder what ails you. You should heed the warning, you are taking the first steps into Nervous Prostration. You need a Nerve Tonic and in Electric Bitters you ?. :n i ?? - wui uiiu uie exact remeuy lor res toring your nervous system to its normal, healthy condition. Surprising results follow the use of-this- ? great Nerve Tonic and Alterative. Your appetite returns, good digestion is restored, and the Liver and ? Kidneys resume healthy action. Try. a bottle. Price 50c. at any drug store. Straightcut Independent Kadicais. "An Independent is worse than a Radical." ' Oh. wad some power the giftie gee as, io sec ourselves as oiuers see us. "Who is playing Mahone in South Carolina to-day? Who is bidding for the negro vote now? Who is arraying class against class? "Who is trying to put the bottom rail on top once again in South Carolina? Who let the cat out of the bag in Columbia the other day by saying, 'it is not Tillman we are fighting, but the Alliance?" Why did Governor Richardson apsioners pf Election? Who are the Carolina to-day? Then why is it thus? Is there no corruption?nothing "rotten in the State of Denmark?" Then from whence come this offense to Democratic nostrils? Let every man answer these questions for himself, and may the genius of white supremacy guide you aright. J. L. Shulek. Selwood, S. C. For Over Fifty Years, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children f while teething, with perfect success. . 9-0 It soothes the child, softens the 2^- CJ (/ ' gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggists in all parts of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. 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