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ESTABLIISHEDa IN 1865. 'WER,S . HRDY A - - = = - -...--=- - ,J-S - PRICE_$5 ER NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1887. _ _____ ESaAnLISHEI)nsNnnn6a.n___ ____ _____$1.50 A -' THE GREAT NU3IBEU OF' Di VORCES IN STATES THAT GRANT THEM. A Demand for Uniform Divorce Laws. Atlanta Constitution. Tue need of stricter regulations in the matter of divorces is generally acknowledged. Before the war divorces were very rare in the South. Of late years they have become alarmingly fre quent. Over thirty divorce suits were returned to one term of Fulton supe rior court. It is true that a great majority of the patties to these suits were negroes. Most of the divorces in the South are sought and obtained by negroes. But this does aot alter the. moral aspect of the situation. The negro is a citizen. If he is often a weak and erring citizen, on that very account, the law should brace him to proper conduct, instead of in viting him to a loose construction of his social duty. The recognized pol icy of society is contrary to divorces. The only apology for a law which recognizes them is that in some cases a continuance of the matrimonial bond would involve hardship and suffering to innocent parties. Legal divorce was instituted as a desperate remedy for desperate evils. The di vorce laws of nearly all the States are different. In some States they .are shamefully lax and disgracefully administered. South Carolina has no divorce law. Illinois seems vir tually to have none, for divorce has come to be regarded there as a mere matter of form which can be obtained on the most frivolous pretexts. Such States are the Canada for the matri monial defaulter of States which pre serve a sterner code. The adoption of uniform divorce laws in all the States of the Union would be a great reform. This subject has more than once bedh considered by the Ameri can Bar association. At more than one meeting of the Georgia Bar as sociation there have been expres sions in favor of uniformity in di vorc4 laws. Still nothing practical has been done in this direction. At the last session of Congress the commissioner of statistics was di rected to collect statistics of mar riage and divorce in the United States. This work, if faithfully per. formed, will present valuable data. It may have the effect of prcw 'ting a reform in divorce legislation. But lie idea that this action of Congress is a step preliminary. to national con trol of divorces is absurd. It is sur prising that some newspapers are to be found which speak out in favor of a constitutional amendment to this effect. Congress and the general government have no more to do with matrimonial contracts than with any other contracts which are made in the various States, for the only legal status of~ marriage is that of a civil contract. The bureau of statistics was established for the purpose of collecting and publishing information on all subjects of importance to the people. Congress did well when it direZ,ted the collection of statistics on marriage and divorce. There its duty and its power over this subject ended. The States must regulate marriage and divorce. The States should, however, enact strict and uniform laws which will strengthen the failing pop)ular regard for the sanctity of the marriage relation and restrain the loose and reckless granting of divorces for insufficient causes. There would undoubtedly be some' difficulties in the way of obtaining this uniformity, but it is surely ob tain able if the people desire it. The National Bar association, composed of lawyers from every State, might formulate a divorce law which might prove acceptable to the various State legislatures. The governors of States might appoint commissioners to meet and draft such law. The method of the reform is a secondary question. The country needs the reform and ought to have it. A Word trom the EdgefieldJury of in quest. Edgefeld Chronicle. The Hon. George W. Turner was foreman of the jury of inquest which sat upon the body of.John Miller, the negro mj supposed to have been killed by young Willie Swearengin. Mr. Turner, as we all know, is one of the truest and most truthful citizens of our county. Hie has written us a letter in which lie objects strongly, though in a manly and honest way, to what he calls our '-stringent cniti -- cisms and reflections upon the jury of inquest." Mr. Turner says very distinctly t'hat neither was the testi mony clear enough to himself or to any of his fellow jurymnen for them to conscientiously name the person w.o i nfle the fatal womrd. He says: -It is very probable that Wil lie Swearengin did kill the negro, but there was no reliable testimony to that effect introduced before the jury of inquest. The testimony of Dr. W. D. Jennings, sr., was that he came to his death by a sharp instru ment. Willie Swearengin was not present, and made no statement to the jury. Two negroes being sworn, said they did not see Swearengin with a knife, nor did they see any tussle between Swearengin and the negro." We are very glad Mr. Tur. ner has spoken-and so distinctly. And perhaps, after all, we who are not upon our solemn oath, and have not the life of a fellow being in some degree in our hands and upon our conscience, often speak too quickly. That jury was composed not only of good men, but extremely sensible. ones. If they did what their con sciences approve, no one has any right to upbraid them. An Fdgefield Delegate Writes Pleas ant Things about Newberry. Pharon in Edgefield Chronicle. NEwRERRY, S. C., April 17. The good old county of Newberry is very dear to all Edgefield peo ple, both as a neighbor, and also from the free in'erchange of citizenship and commerce that exists on either side of the Saluda. The county is prosperous and fertile, while the city of Newberry teema with all the pro gressive evidences of wealth and in dustry. To stand on an elevation, and look around upon her numerous spires, her lovely residences that dot the hills, her large brick stores and smoking factories, makes one feel all the inspiration of city life. Why is Newberry so growing a place ? 1st. She has a large and flourish ing College, provided with able pro fessors, to teach the young men that knowledge is power. 2d. She has a large Bank which scatters money all around. 3rd. She has a huge cotton factory running 10,000 spindles, turning out 15,000 pounds of cloth a day, selling readily at 7 cents per yard, and em ploying 500 operatives, who have built an extensive annex to the town as residences. 4th. She has the railroad and tel egraph at her door. Until Edgefield gets these four concomitants of modern civilzation, she will not prosper. The Y. M. C. A. Convention here is more than a success. The city has thrown open wide her gates anid welcomed the Convention in glowing words and a most abundant hospi tality. Mayor G. B. Cromer, un der the corporate seal, gave us wel c ame in a pretty speech. Geo. S. Mower, Esq., the President of the local Y. M. C. A., welcomed us for the Association, and the Rev. Mr. Scott for the churches. And above all, the kind and amiabie womanhood, of this dear old place, who have al ways shed such a halo of light about the homes of the city, greeted us with loving smiles and tables abound itng in plenty. The beauty of this place is that the people are both able and willing to entertain in abund ance. * a * -e * * The large and handsome Opera House, with lovely cupola, is one of the ornaments of Newberr-y. * * -* a . * During my stay here, 1 have gone out and looked on the graded road which will soon bind together with bands of steel, our town and New berry. The Newbcrry people are very much rejoiced at the happy prospect of soon being practically our next door neighbors, and mean to give all the aid in their power to help complete the grand enterprise, so beneticial to dear old Edgefield. Aud to the generous, the hospita ble-, and the prosperous citizenship of graud old Newberry, not only the delegates here, but the whole State, owe a debt of gratitude, for the zeal ous co-operation and lavish mani fest ation during the stay of the Con vention in its midst. On yesterday, Saturday, the city was full of wagons from the country, come in to get rations. The farm ers here, as in all other portions of our State. make the mistake, of not raising their own corn andl bacon; and the same old story of the lien, the store-account and the freight bill isnarrated here. We do hope to see the day when the R. R. cars will cease to be smoke-houses and corn cribs, when all our hard-earned money will not, like the sun, be mov ing constantly toward the WVest. Till then, we' will, for the most part, be poor. Rutjuerford B. Hayes has quite re coveg1ed his health and is vigorously intedsted in the spring chicken LONDON'S STREETS. b They are Carefully Swept for Physical e Dirt, but the Moral Filth Is Appall- g in - tl T. C. Crawford, in New York World. f Within certain limits there is more t freedom in England than perhaps in k any other country in the world. But C once you are outside of those limits, the restrictions are greater than any- b where else, except Russia. The au- tl thorities of London appear to be n largely content with keeping the streets absolutely clean. The pave. ments are a marvel of solidity and e excellence. They are kept perfectly fi clean in the most remote and poorer tl quarters by a perfect system of street s' sweeping. But the supervision of P the streets appears to cease after the b mere dirt and filth is cleared away. tl There is apparently no control over 0 the lawless population which wanders u about the streets of London the min- s ute that night appears. Begging of the most impudent and shameless C character is unchecked by the police. The rudest kind of altercations and e: rows may take place under the very li noses of the police without attracting h their attention. It was only recently d that a criminal, having committed a tl murder, visited one of the police sta tions to satisfy his curiosity. He g was known then to the police as the w murderer. Some time afterwards, in 0 the course of an'investigation, the a fact of this visit was discovered. li Police were asked why they did not " arrest the man, and the answer was t1 that there had been no reward put n up. It is one of the most notorious a facts of London life that shameless c women walk the streets in droves, and appear after a certain hour of the fl night to have the right of way and control of the streets. Nothing that 0 has ever been written about this has " approached a semblance of the real Z truth. The police pay no attention b to them. They may be as drunk as 1 they please, shout or sing as loud as h they like, or be as annoying to pass- a ers-by as they may see fit. The po. k lice ignore them entirely unless a citizen cares to go through the form. g ality of making a specific complaint 1i against a specific personage and will a agree to appear in court to prosecute. Naturally the average citizen is not anxious to go through so much noto- t riety and formality, and so com- h plaints are never made. The only i safe rule to follow to spare one's self I annoyance in walking the streets of London, I am told by English people, ~ is to ignore absolutely any remark, ~ request or complaint made to you by c any stranger. If you set your face like a graven image, and turn neither to s the right nor to the left, you will rarely, 1 if ever, be suspected of being an un. sophisticated foreigner, with feelings and sympathies to be worked upon by the harpies and beggars who prowl the streets, fighting like cats 2 and dogs, howling, shouting and drinking, warring for human prey. i] b "Too Late-Terrible Words--Too Late." s Ciharleslon Dij>atch.d The following pathetic letter, writ ten by the father of the late Col.a Jones, who was recently killed in an encounter with Col. Johnstone, at b Newberry, appeared in a late issue of the Netcberry Herald: Mr. Editor: Permit me through your paper (the only way I can reach themh all) to express to the good people of 0 Newberry, both town and county, how u mnch myself and family feel and appre- h ciate their spontaneous, beautiful, touch- a ing sympathy for us, in our sad, heart rending afflicetion, caused by the tragic death of our beloved Johnnie, our Ben jamin. It melted our hearts, softened a our feelings, and enabled us to bear up I under this sore bereavement with more a fortitude that we could otherwise have e done. The very remnembrace of it now touches our hearts and melts them to tears. It is sweet to know and feel that 0 we have the warm, gushing, heatfelt 0 sympathy of the whole commniuty in1 this hour of trial. God bless them for i9 it. t: What een I say that w~ ill sufficiently h convey our appreciation at the tender, h un:iring devotion of the young men, andl his physicianc, to our dear John nie,t from the ve.ry moment he was wounded s to the breathing of his last breath? I ha~ve- not 'iords sufficient to express how mutch we alppreciate their be.autiful devotion to him, and their untiring ef forts to save him from a premature grave. It has impressed us with a fee: ing of gratitude which will never, never grow weaker while life lasts. It was, in- E deced, beautiful to see the gentle. tender, t watchful attention which they gave him during the whole time of his suffering, i and especially during the dark, melan choly hours of the night. I have never before seen such pure, unselfi-h, un tiring devotion in all my life. Ma:y God I bless each and all of them, and may they | have at their bedside the same kind of devoted attentions if they should ever 4 be so unfortunate as to need it. After the sad end had come, and our dsitr baby-boy was no more, our hearts ~ are aan tenderly and deeply touched 1 y" the floral offer:ngs of many beautiful "reaths made of fragrant flowers and vergreens, by the deft hands of woman, aided by the promptings which only e tender, loving, sympathetic heart of oman is capable. Our hearts were ill before, but this delicate, loving, nder expression of sympathy and indliness on the part of the ladies, tused them to melt and flow out in ars. May the choicest blessings heaven of a showered down upon them, and may teir hearts never be laceratetl and ounded as ours have been. L. J. JONES. We have here the most touching tpressions of gratitude from a 6ther to the people of his town for teir loving kiudness to hit dying >n who fell a victim to his own im ulsiveness and the imprudence of a rother lawyer. We deeply symnpa tize with the father and the family P the decased, for in this case a val able life has been unnecessarily tcrificed, and it is hard to see The young, the noble and truly brave, ut off in bloom for death's cold grave." But no words of ours, nor the gen osity of friends can restore the sun gbt of happiness to the home which as been shrouded in gloom by a eed which is even now deplored by te perpetrator. All comes too late. Of the dead we can say nothing but iod; for the living antagonist, who as also severely wounded, we have mly the kindest sympathy. Both e the victims of the rash deed-one ngered in agony and died, the other ill walk the-earth in sadness during te days of his natural life. But either, perhaps, will ever know the guish he has caused to the inno ;nt of the home circle. Youthful blood, hot words, a few ishes and reports and the tragedy as begun, not completed-for God aly knows the train of misfortunes hich follow such terrible deeds. he letter above tells in unmistaka. le terms that one family, at least, bowed by the weight of grief, but ow and when that grief will end is knowledge not given to mortals to now. It may be that a heart broken ither will sink prematurely to his rave. Perhaps a mother or a sister, ke Niobe, all tears,-will never smile gain, and in their despair cry out >r "our Benjamin," "who was and not." Or there may be in the pic. ire, "another, not a sister, in those appy days gone by," who like some >ne flower of the wilderness will pine a solitude. It is too latenow to say what ought > have been done, what might have een done, to have prevented the re ent tragedy, but it is to be hoped iat its results will prove a lesson for >me of our quick tempered youths ithe future. SBright Career Cut Short by the Deadly Pistol. A dispatch from Newberry dated spril 2d, says: Mr. John B. Jones died this morn ig having lived nearly a week since e was shot last Saturday, and having ffered agonies of pain sinee. He isplayed a -great deal of nerve irougho~ut the whole affair, was cool ad collected at times, and conscious lost to the last moment. The Rev. E. P. McClintock has een very faithful in his ministrations >the wounded man, and Mr.'Jones yuna' great comfort in talking with im in regard to the future. A bout 12 'clock last night his mind cleared p, it seemed, almost entirely, and e called all the family around him, d, after kissing them good-bye, ne by one, all knelt in prayer. The arting was one of the most pathetic nd touching scenes ever beheld. [e seemed to realize the situation, d, after telling all good-bye, pass :1 away. Mr. Jones was the youngest son f Major Lamnbert J. Jones. He was ne of the most prominent young twyers at this bar, full of promise, ith a bright future before him to be us lut down in the spring-time of is young manhood. The blow to is family is a heavy one and hard > hear. They have the hearfelt ympathmy of the entire community. forribIe Lynching Afrair In West Virginia. EW YoRK, April :3.-A special ~om Procton, WV. Ya., says: The odies of three negroeCs, brothers, amed Sylvester were found hanging > a tree on the road side, six miles ast of here, yesterday. Each body ore a placard on which was written: Nigger thievery must be broken up." he farmers in the neighborhood ave suffered depredations at the ands of unknown persons, and it eems they finally settled on the ylvesters as the guilty omnes. These egroes lived comparatively com ortably, yet scarcely ever did any HE IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN JUSTICE. Three At'emp:s to Hang a Man who was After wards Found Innccent. Atlanta Constitution. Human justice is a mockery. It makes terrible mistakes, and never makes reparation. Perhaps we have not, as in Shakespeare's day, lean, lank and hungry judges who will hang the guiltless rather than eat their mutton cold, but we have occa sionally stupid judges, prejudiced ju. rors and perjured witnesses. The penitentiaries of every State contain innocent men, and in some instances the wrong men have suffered death on the gallows. A remarkable case in point is re ported from England. About two years ago a maiden lady of consider able wealth was murdered and robbed in her summer residence. Her man servant, a man named Lee, was sus pected, arrested, convicted on cir cumstantial evidence, and sentenced to hang. Three efforts were made to hang Lee, and each time the rope broke. The hangman was horrified, and other officials shared his reluctance to pro ceed with the business. When the facts were reported to the home sec retary, Lee's sentence was quietly commuted to imprisonmet for life. Now for the climax. Recently a woman who was Lee's-fellow servant confessed on her dying bed that she killed her mistress. She declared that Lee had no connection with the affair and stated facts strongly con firmnatory of her confession. It is some satisfaction to know that the government at once ordered the release of the man who 'had so narrowly escaped an infamous death, and now proposes to offer him a pecuniary compensation for his in juries. But there can be no adequate compensation. There is no remedy, no compensation for such a frightful wrong. When men engage in the adminis tration of justice they should do it with fear and trembling. At best human justice is fearfully imperfect. A Sword in the Hand of a Falling Man Pierces a Friend. RALEIGH, N. C., April 28.-rhere was a procession yesterday in Clin. ton in honor of the completion of s railway, and thousands of people lined the streets. Colonel Willian: C. Jones, a prominent young officer was in command of the troops, am Colonel of the Second Infantry Reg iment. His horse, alarmed at the noise, became unmanageable and dashed wildly into a group o1 marshals. Colonel Jones was throwi violently from his saddle, holding fast in his right hand his drawn sword which, as he fell, pierced the body of H. A. James, one of the marshals Both men fell together, while thei horses dasbed away. The sword which was a United States regulatiox blade, transfixed Mr. James fron: back to breast, the blade entering oi the left side of the spine. After passing through the body it snappe near the hilt. The sword was drawi out by the point, which protruded several inches in front, near the breast bone. Th'le accident occu'rred immediate ly in froLt of the residence of Dr. James's father, and both Mr. Jamem and Colonel Jones were taken to thi! house in a state of unconsciousness. Trhe regimental surgeon and other physicians say that the wound may not prove fatal, as the lungs were not touched. Col. Jones narrowly escaped concussion of the brain and the dreadful occurrence nearly drives him mad. Wade Harnpton's Belief in Prayer. Z. L. White, in The American Maigazine. The love and admiration in which he is held by the people of Soutl Carolina are illustrated in an inci dent related by General Hamptor when he was recovering from hi! sickness. "I am certain," lie said, "that my life was saved by the fervent prayer! of the people of South Carolina. I was at the point of death and had lost all interest in life, when I re ceived a letter from an old Methodisi minister, a friend, telling me of the deep and devout petitions put up fo, my restoration to health by the Meth odist Conference then in t.ession a1 Newberry. The letter closed b3 begging me to exercise my will t< live in response to the supplication of the people of the whole State, wh< were praying for me night and da3 in every housebold. When I hear< the letter read I promised my siste: th'at I would heed the kind, loving words of the man of God, and arous< my will to live. That night I fel ntoaaa a d leep and dreamed mos ' vividly that I was in a spacious room in which I was moved to all parts of the State, so that I met my assembled friends everywhere. I re member most distinctly of all, old Beaufort, where I had last been. I saw immense assemblages, and as I looked down upon them a grave per sonage approached me and touched me on the shoulder and said to me: -These people are praping for you. Live ! Live!! Live! !!' I never real. ized anything like it before. It seemed a vision. I woke the next morning feeling the life-blood creep. ing through my veins, and I told my family that the crisis was passed and that I should get better." High Living at Public Expense. The annual report of the House for the past year shows that there has been but little reform in the manner of expending the House con tingent fund. The board of visitors to the Naval Academy last year followed the example df their pre decessors in the matter of luxuries paid for out of the public treasury. Their bill for eatables and drinkables amounteri to $1,042.99, made up of such items as the following: Five dozen frogs' legs, - - - $ 7 50 Six terrapin, - - - - - - 1000 Bunch bananas, - - - - - 2 25 One dozen pineapples, - 1 40 Two bushels peai, - - 2 .50 One box oranges, - - - - 600 One box lemons, - - - - 5 50 Ice cream, - - - - - - 2000 Cake, - - - - - - - 810 Roman punch, - - - - - 300 Five dozen sweet breads, - - 9 00 Sixty bottles Apollinaris water, - - - - - - 6 30 100 Beina Victoria cigars, - - 15 00 Three bottles Hennessy brandy 7 50 Three and one-third cases XXX whisky. - . - - - - - 6000 Chilling sherry, - - - = 5000 Claret, - - - - - 2800 Beer, - - - - - - - 152 00 250 Bouquet cigars, - - - - 4000 100 Reina Victorias, - - - - 22 00 300 Londres cigars, - - - - 3900 100 Conchas, - - - - 5 50 Two cages Pommery See wine - 58 00 The visitors apparently lived on the fat of the land during the few days they were at the Naval Acade my. An Editor's Impressions of Newberry. (J W. Birchmore, in Wateree Messenger. As was stated in our last issue, we were assigned to Mr. D. B. Wheeler's, where we received a cordial welcome, both by him and his family and the excellent young gentlemen of the Newberry College who are boarding with him. To these young gentle. men we ore indebted for many cour tesies extended us. We were very kindly shown through their flourish ing college by them. We have never met a more gener ous and noble people than those of Newberry. Coupled with her open. handed hospitality, Newberry is one of the most enterprising towns in the State. A fine cotton factory has been built there in the last few years, and quite a number of new houses are in course of construction. May God's choicest blessings ever rest upon her noble people is our sincere wish. We hope it may be our pleas. ure to visit Newberry again. There is much more we could say of our trip, but our space will not permit. A Solid Fact. A Texas paper expresses a solid fact thus: A county without a live, thorough going, get up.and-get news paper is like a train without a loco motive-dead, inert, motionless and without attraction. Let no business man say he cannot afford to patro nize the county paper. Hie might as well say he cannot afford to do busi ness. The newspaper is really a joint stock affair, and every man who takes any pride in his county ought to lend his support to keep up his county newspaper. Journalism in the West. New York HeraldI. Western Journalism is full of spice and enterprise. Not your ordinary adulterated mustard and pepper, but the genuine article which makes the tears flow and gives you the whoop ing cough. As for instance: "Owing to the death oi the editor there won't be any leader to-morrow, but look out for a ripper the day after." Three Distinguished Speakers for Ab beville Colleges. ) Abbeville Medium. lion. W. H. Brawley will deliver the anniversary at Erskine, Hon. J. S. Cothran at the Greenwood Female College and Hon M. C. Butler at the Green wood High School. Three bet ter selections could not have been made. The people may confidently expect something scholarly and elo Lnnant from ach of themi ARTHUR KIBLER, EDITOR. 8 For the Teachers' Department MR. EDIrOR : I noticed some ques tions in your last isspe, and by your $ permission I will answer some of them. My experience is so limited that my answers may not be of much value. c When my "little fellows" get rest less I give them something new, e. g., send them to the black board and let il them make letters and hgures, if they p do not succeed satisfactorily at that, i I tell them to draw pictures. Their attempts in this line are usually fail. ures. Their pig and birds are so disproportionate as to create a laugh, the pupil has been aroused and is ready to go to his seat. A few seconds will quiet the school. Some times I let the very small chil- a dren go to sleep. As to the boy who is falling be bind his class I cannot speak as a successful teacher. I have a pupil a or two who just answers to that sad c state. This condition of things is t brought about by several causes. It may be that he is at some disadvant- g age, his class mates may tease or n worry him, and in that way discour- c age him. I find in this. case a few 1 well directed words from the teacher usually overcomes the difficulty. If the pupil is lazy, I have succeeded to j some extent by talking in a direct manner, but the best results have been from an indirect talk. By this I mean to relate a story incidentally, i selected to suit the cause in hand and apply it impersonally. I have also , succeeded by getting some person to 1 offer a small premium to the pupil 1 who will come up to a required stand ard. I get some one to offer, a pre. 8 mium, because I am opposed to teachers giving premiums. If the pupil is falling behind because of in ability to keep up, put him back if you have anywhere to put him. There is just here trouble some times. I have a case in hand now; I can't put him back; I have no where to put him. I keep him in his class and hurry him up as much as possible, but I greatly fear I may disgust and make him dislike his book, however. That is-the best I can do for him. A want of time forbids taking him alone. It is because the pupil won't keep up, and all your persuasive art, purchasing ability, etc., have failed, try a little sensible opposition. I had a "won't character" who yield ed slightly to this, but I failed on him in t,he end. However, if there is any thing he will do, get- him at it and let him stay at it, if it is driving a mule and plow. One of the first and most im portant points on the question of promptness I always find to be promptness. I notice in my day school. I notice it in the Sun day school with which I am connect ed. During the school year just closing, out of the two hnndred-days, I have been late but three, two of them I gave notice before hand that I would be late, the other morniag I was prevented by a heavy rain, I make it apoint to be at the school house at least '.lve minutes before school ime, and have had but little trouble except in very bad weather. A very good way to bring your pu pils out on any given morning is to announce the day be'fore that you will make some little experiment in National Philosophy, but this lasts only for the time being. I leaie the other questions for some other person to answer. TEACHER. What is meant by such adverrtise-j ments as "French without a teacher,"j "German in three months,"and dozens of others of the same nature? Are we getting the educational system so perfect that teachers and pupils can rest in the shade while an educaLtion is being got? We have sweated and worried over things these advertise ments seem to count child's play. H1-ave all the difficulties been brushed away? It really seems that there is danger of forgetting that the educated person is a cultured person, and that method substituted for earnest -work will not cultivate. Mrs. Long reports her school in a flourishing condition. Au average attendance of thirty-five. She will give a vacation about the last of May. Miss Helen Hodges will close her school next Friday evening at 8} o'clock with an exhibition and hot supper for the benefit of the school. A number of teachers were in town last Saturday. We hope they will1 not forget to come to the trachers' meeting next Saturday. The faith ful need not be reminded, but there are a number of teachers who have never attended. In looking around we find that Nos. 6 and 7 townships ave never sent a representative... Tow fellow worker this is not as it . hould be. The benefit to be de ived from these meetings incalco ible. There-re- between 1ty"jnd . ixty white teachers in this county, re ought to have at least forty teach rs preesnt next Saturday. We hope on will make it a pointiit a poistt to ome. Mr. Brown, of Wheeler academy rn the lower part of the county re orts a good school. lie will- gire acation in a few days. THE WAY TO GET REFORM. 'he genuine Article-EIghteen C rats " Fine. New Yor%- Herald. If workingmen have really beguu crusade against humbug and sha rhether found in politics, society.o nywhere else, they have undert+ir, big job; but they have abriiaa - nd, the Herald believes,. a n areer before them. If they pr o demand that federal and municion ;overnment shall be run in the n erest of the greatest number, and ot that of office-seekers and araf ions corporations, their efforts' =fl; e backed by every right thinYmgti an in the country. A crusade of that kind is aeve >egnu at the wrong time, and it 3s' ever without results. The cieff Down with humbug ." and "Down rith sham !" have a right royalrIg a them, and if the men who; bem utterance mean business:-ad Vill deposit their ballots in a way ack up and buttress their convi' Ions politics will very soon be clen,. >atriotic and sweet smelling and-. hall recover from the misruleoft ast twenty years. If wo rant reform, not of the pine dind-tbe kind that politic schemers lowl about when they want to get 'ins" out and get themselves in-bin he genuine article, -eighteen:ar'tc ine, they can have it by'p ogether and pulling all with strength. It is a-grand day fo Repoblic when the laboring >rganize for -the purposeo overnment purer and iO , Let- them go ahead with* =.lr ermination to denounce the "ham in everything. Let them move on the earthwck )f intrenched corruption wre ; they find it. Let them start an. avalanbe: ballots that will bury out ofu t wvery politician who does not b ieve that,public office is ap e. trust. Let them make it thunder a the horizan against the invso the people's rights by.which -n~zf fills its pockets from the anzp the masses. A cyclone of that kind, swe$g across the continent and ige .) sting evils up by the roots, is ~e' thing to be welcomed( not feared. If it is started by the voingmi rather than by the statesmen of the' and, all the better. It will show, what the Heral always asserted, that both the e* and the brain of the wage earneri~ in the right place. A. Justice in Laurens LoninA tr t Money tor His. Jurors. Laurens Advrtiser. In the town of Lanrens, in the State of South Carolina, in the nine.i beenth century, year of our Lard one-~' housand eight hundred and eighty' seveu and in the month of ApriL iudicial officer of this county toldta jury composed of six intelligent men who had heard a criminal case and railed to agree, that if they woid~ aanviet the mar. they would be paid ror their services as jurors, but if.thLey ailed or acquitted hini, they would<~ mot be paid. Extending the Blue Ridge Read. Corresponzdence of the Regiuter. . WArEAL.A, S. C., April 30.-The xetract for extending the Blue- - Ridge Railroad from West Union up7 uto Waihalla, a distance of to niles, will be let on next Mna, Fhis enterprise up-on the part of the ieople of Walhalla, will resultin ~rest benefit to the traveling pub l~4 Earthquake Shoeks. SPoKAN FALLs, W. T., May 1 Fwo sharp shocks of earhs k were felt here af, 1 o'clock ystry morning. The vibrations werek borth to South. Many teaa~ were awakened. There was ol- ,4 moment's interim betweentl shocks. Frank W. Ballard, of The Cor nercial Bulletin of New York,dd an the 23d inst., aged 43 years.