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The Easley Messe nor rulit like v lordh, the mare it's shook, it shines. VOL. 1] EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1883. NO. ffhI 9Musleg Mvesenger. Entered at the Postojice at Easley, S. C., as Second Class Matter. I UDGENS, 1 AGOOD & CO., Prop'rs. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year, strictly in advance......$1.00 Six months " "o ..... 65 RATES OF ADVERTISING. Onie square (1 inel) 1 insertion ...... 75c .Each subsequent insertion ............ 40e Liberal discolmit oil contracts or by the colhimu, half or qtutrter column. Marriage loties free and Solicited. Obituaries over 12 lines charged for. Correspondents. to isire attention, must give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin !ois of our correspoldents. All couniiilcations for the paper must be aldressed to the Editors ; buisinless letters to the Pubislier of the MESSENUo E , E asley, S. C. THE WIFE. His house she enters lhiere to be a light Shining withii len all wit hout is night; A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Douibl ing his piensures, anIld his czares divbdiilg; WiVinniig him back, wNhenl mniglingi in the throi, From a vain world we love. alas ! too long, To firesile ha-Ippiniess and hotirs of Blest with thaLt charmIU the certaility to please, How oft hr eyes rea(l his ! her gentle mind' To all his wishes, all his ihoights, in cliled ; Still subjet-ever on th: watch to bor roW Mirt h of his mirth and sorrow of his sortow. [For the Messenger. The Usury Law. MESSs. EDITOnS: I would be glad if you would plblish a few ( bouiglts for me oIn t he Usury Law. I look on it as oie of the vexe(d question.s ill political econoilly which 110 man can solve, notwithital(nilg Somle tre .so poWitive t hat; Iman canl pay only 7 per cent, ilterest. Let us see inl the lirst place vhat per cent. man (does pay. All who use mianuifactutred goods pay a tariff of over 40.per cent. on woolen gooods 70 per cent.; on some dlrugs ab)out 200 per cenut.; and on bibles 25 per cenit., etc., etc., all this to the manufacturer. IDoes the mercehant pult on aniy thing ? I suppose t hat he aokis somewthing over 253 per cent., be sidles the freighit. I t hink I kno1w some three score who are trying to niuke a living by the pro tIns on an hu~mndredl dollar stock of goods. L ami niot prophmet enough to say hmow large tile hving will b~e ; but .l hope, for thme sake of thme cuistonmers, it will be mfoderate. Th~e In ternal Revenu oniC01 whiskey ando tobacco is pre't ty heavy on1 thme users of thlese articles. W'here a muan takes it-.by the drin k, esp~cially, say 60 drinks to the gallon, at 10 cents each, $6.00. The farmer looses at least 10 per' cent. an nually inl death of stocek, such as hog and( chmicken chIolera, cowV and horse diiaseos etc. with m.a... oth. ways and places of loss and wastage. The average man makes 150 bushels of corn (the whole crop). Ills horse and dogs eat 100, leaving 50 for bread for family. As for meat. clothing and all other bills, I knov not how hie pays them. I cor)fess the more I look at this subject the less I know of it. I wouild not be sirprised if Virginia, Massachusetts, Maine, Coniecticut, Florida, etc., made a pretty good guess at what interest a mall Can pay when they said by t hair laws we do not know, and fixedl no limit. Now. h-ve I hese men who are so emphatie in their assertions that man ran only pay 7 per cent., solve the problei ? or are they simply tickling the popiuhtee? Ye earthly Gods, who can show by demonstration that you have mastered the problem? Pleae step out.. and let the world lift yoi to your proper mumaln sphere. It rather strikes me It Iv 4 1erage imian.) ought to draw a boitty of abouit 207 per (eit. Why fix a limit to money, the lost steady inl value-of any commodity we hainile, anol allow lmn to sell blind hIorse; 20 years old for yoing and som l coltS, and meanl wihIiskey Ih it cost aboutl $1.50, for $().00 per gallon, anld many, Inany A other suIeh thing for 100 to 1.000 per celt. protit ? Please Messrs. E ditor%, get. some one who canl luiulltle this subject; to Jet us know if there is any other chli-ce than living, as far as it is concerned, in a bwefagged oceanl without a compass. I aml) M) Ildvocate of neither high tariff nor imterest. SUBSCRIHEu. AN,, UNUSUAL. Noissi.-The unusal noise created by the steam esca J1pimg from an engine which Nwas left on situ day night. Ipol the side track of the Air-Line Railroini, created the wildest exeitement ill I he nIighlborliood aromnd our town, to the distance of five miles. Many were so hadly frigheid that they aroIse(d th -h. children and engaged in fervent prayer. There was a general shaking of hands and bidding good bye 'Aion1g those who h1 ul seen tw predic. tiol which t11s been going the romund in our newspapers, inl reference to the world comnlifg to an end during the present month. One of the oldest men in 011 communtiity was consulted, and he declared that inl his long life Ie had never heard1 anyv noise resembling it, amd it mutis~t be Gabriel's trumlipit uslherinig In the last great day. Some thought it would he best to assemble the neighbl)ors together while others suggested it woull be better to go into Senecsi and be with the multitde of the town, and a nuimber did reach it about; daybreak. Th'1e excitement con tinuned till thme eniginteer took~ charge of lisk engine ear ily Monday moninlg. The purWpose of this is to bring to time notice of tile authorities of our orderly town this un pardonable negligence of thme R~ailroadl emiployees, with the re (juest that our Chief of Police will nev er p)eJrmit it againi to create so gret i disturbance .-Seneen ( S. C. ) Free l'ress. -A ghastly story comeis from IBohe-. mia. A mnani at Usenmo who was ap parienitly dead hwi( just beeni low'er'ed mio thle grave whent the mourners were horllhed1 to see thme collini lid be gin to move andi( lihe linen shroud grd nally appear', until thme corpse at last sat tip. The iman said thati throughout his illniess lhe had heard all that 11ad( been sidh. THe was a wa re t hat they thought him dead, but was unable to make' any sign. lie was taken home, and thmere( is now every prospect of hi.s recove rv. More Encouraging. Mr. John Pergusou and Col. I[. P. Hammett, who Were delegates fron this city to Aiken to attend the meet Ing of the Stoekholders of the Iuin berlald Gap & Chicago Railroad, re tirIed last IIigit. A representitive of the "Nws" intbervie wed Mr. Ferguson in reference to the result of the meet. ilg uuaid Greenville's prospects. lie said that Ie haid remained in Aiken until the 14th, while Dr. Mauldin, Col. HiamineLt and Mr. Carrier left on th( 13th, the I wo first naimed gentlemen having gone to Col tmia M ergn son said that a nutiber of delegates from other localities arrived oi the 14th anl also quite a lire party of stockholders. All the stock wNas rep. resented. Quite a volutiniiious report was received firom the Agent of tI he Company in Europe. iring the meeting a telegrai was received from the Agent wh'ch stated thas the tmon ey Iecessary to build the road wotild cert ai v he secured. No decisive ac tion was takenl by tihe meting. The old oflicers were re-clected, wit h he except ion of (ol. King. Vice lreshlent. was elected inl Ils placte. One fact. was establi h -d, (Ircenville will 1ot get I hel main litie. Mr. Ferguison says I lit the atittide of the dirtectors and stockhiolders was very friendly toward Greenville. Thi llPickelns replresenta t ives are thorolugily reconciled and h irmony prevails, the relations he tween tihe Pickens and Greenville del egates being of a lost plea t natue While Greenville cannot exactly ob tain the main line yet her' ehatuces of securing a large share of the benetits to be d(eived f rom The roadl are thotuglit by Mr.. Ferguson to be much01 better thain ever before as desira ble coIne.. tion can be made with the road. Mr. Ferguisoi will remler a full and detail etd rej port of the result, of 1h visit of t he delegates before the Concil, in a fe w days, and uitili thi he lthinks it better nt; to publish a stat ement of Green ville'e posi ion in Ithe Imatter. Ile is very meh encotrated and expresses the belief that Iih-. roai will certainly be biilt.. le says that the, directors ftlly realize G reenville 's in portance in a butsiless View, 'and seeim deter mined to give her a ehumee to rp) tie advaitages which will accrue whtn tie road is built.-G reenville News. SOUitH CAROLTINA JtU ROtS.--Wash ington, November 6.-An evening pa per ptblishes to-dav a statent that there is nov otl file in the idepartlenlt of Jutice a report, the con tets of wvhih have never beeni nmale public1. This rep~ort is to I he eff~ct. t hat it is im possible to conviet anyone of an (lee tion ofre nse in Sout hi Carolina. Men womenl ad children are agaitnst it. No jurIy conhl1 be found ih-it would( Conl viet. it is set forth th-it the wives and1 sweethearts of the wvhite men dIrawni for jury (duty say to their husbands and lovers before they go to the court: "You nied not comle back to me iuless you (10 your' (duty.'' This means that unless you g'ive a verdiet for acquittal yoI Call dlepart. T1his report was made by a speciall agenit of the diepartmecnt of justice, inldorsed by the U. S. Dis trict Attorney. --The next house of Represenitatives will consist of 325 miembers, instead of 293~ of the last 'hiouise. Th'ie Eastern States have 75, as before ; the Western States hiave 109 inisteadl of 92, and the Southern Stat~es 121 instead of 100. TheWi Demuocratic nmlitite iS na A Batch of Fires. CIIARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 10.--A special to the "News and Courier" re ports that a tire broke out i the town of Sumter last n1ght and spread rap idly. soon involving in destruction the stores of Mlorris, Hughes, Pate, Hoyt, Desoun, Snares, Bogin, Phany, O'Con tier and Maxwell. At last accounts the tire was still raging. The loss al ready is estimated at $50,000 ; insu rance about $25.000. JACKSON, Miss.. Nov. 16.-The stores of Williams & Williams and Blackwood & Co., at Bolton, were biurlned to-day. Loss $ 15,000. PIT'rsnURG, PA., Nov. 1.-The Ne wcastle paper mill was buried early this morning. The loss is cstinated at. 450.000. LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., Nov. 16. Twelve thousand dollars worth of lWn ber was burned yesterday. Supposed ineendiar. A tire on Cemetery Avenue, Char lotte, N. C., on the 16th, destroyed live houses. Loss $20,000, partly In suired. Thek Greenville Hotel, West End, accidentally caught fire on the 17th, blut was extinu-nished with da7mes to tie amt)OIII1t of $50. A Bro FinE IN NoRFOLK.-A Ilre broke out it Norfolk, Va., at the Nor folk zind Western Railroad on Wednes day. the 14th, at II at. m., in a Ware house of the company. The flanes spread rapidly, and Warehouses Nos. 1. 2 and 3 were rapidly destroyed, The lire was nog under control until about 2 o'clock in .the afternoon In. spite of t he united efforts of the Ports iotith and Norfolk Fire Departtnents a 1nd harbor tugs. , About 7,000 bales of cotton were destroyed, together with twenty-three cars of walnut logs and. two trains loaded with soft coal. Tie loss on cotton will be $250,000,Iand onw Railroad material, freight and rolling stock, $365,000. The entire loss is cov ered by insurance. 'The fire is sup posed to have originated from a spark fron a tinuer's furnace. -Mr. M. H. Majors, a young man of Anderson county, met with a serious accident on the 24th of October last, by having his left hand cut off in a cotton rin. Hle was assisting in running a cotton gin for Dickson & McElroy, near sandy Springs, and in lifting up the boxing that covers the saws of th' gin his hand was caught and before lie could extricate it. it was cut complete ly off and dropped tunder the gin. Mr. naj ors' I Info rtu nate condition being quickly mnade known, the hemiorage int the arm was stop ped by immediately tiein~g a cord tightly ar ioiund his armt above thme elbowv. Hie was then con veyedl home and Dirs. Pickens andl Ducik were sent sent for to fix up the nmutilatedl limb, which had to be ampu tatd aainjust below the elbow. -KeoweeCourier. *-Among recent patenlts issued( is one for the manufacture of paper fr'om' the comumon grasses of this country, and~ the inventor claims that paper mradle by this process will be softer, more tranisparent anid much checaper thant paper' imade from ineni stock. lie (estimates thun acre of ground will produice from :30,402 to 56,340 p)oundIs of green grass, auid this, in turn, wvillI yield about 3,711 pounds of suiperior' p~aper.* -The finest products of the loom go into this year's ball dresses.