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nL tEle) 0ttLl1b ElI ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTE LAND TENURE IN THE UNITED STATES. Startling Facts and Figures-How Land lI Bebing Gobbled Up. [New York Herald.] The land within the present borden of the United States have been obtained by wars with England and Mexico, - purchased from other nations and trea ties with the Indians, comprising-in all -3,607,604 square miles, or 2,308,866,56( acres (authorities differ on these amounts). In 1803 we bought of France for $11, 150,000 what is now known as the "Louisiana purchase," lying west of the Mississippi River, includigg Texas == and part of New Mexico, and extending to the Rocky mountains, together with Oregon, Washington Territory and the western part of Montana and Idaho. eer~the principal, interest and claims of all kinds were paid, this in vestment cost us $15,000,000. We bought Florida of Spain for SG, 50000. December 29, 1815, we took in Texas, she keeping her public lands and giv ingus her State debts and a three years war with Mexico, which cost us $06, 000,000. After conquering the territory em in New Mexico, a part of Colo Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Call ,ornia, from Mexico, we paid her $15, 00,000 for the greater part of it and py01000,000 for the balance, known as the "Gadsden purchase." n 1867 we bought of Russia 577,390 nare miles of ice and snow, known a Alaska, for $7,200,000. All the rest of onr lands we got when we cut loose 'o- ,from Britain, but had to fight six years toget a good title-first in the Revolu -" "onary War, costing us in reported 'kffled 7,343 and over 15,000 wounded .,and $135,193,100 in money. Afterward Qthe War of 1812, costing us in killed 'and wounded5,614 and in money $107,. 4000. We have paid everybody but the In theonly real owners. But thanks :,,guapowder, whiskey, red tape, pox, choera and other weapons civilization, there are not many of rthetnleft to complain. However, Uncle has paid his Indian agents in be of the Indians (?), from 1791 to the-sum of $193,672,697, to say ing of the lives lost and money is tin Indian wars from King Philip's eaabove,expenditures at blood and Ve been made by the people this heritage to themselves ebildren. Let us see what done with it. tlie Continental Congress, in ce providing for the sale of the Northwest Territory, re for public schools section 16 in hip. This act practically set irty-sixth of all that terri I ~~~hisordinance was drawn by a S of which Jefferson was A .u It recommended among - hings .that all of the Western ~tybe formed into nine States, to named Chersonesus, Sylvania. - enisipia, Metropotamia, Polypo. mi,Pellissipia, Saratoga, Wash. __ ~on~Miebigania and Illinois. isa lucky thing we didn't in that category. The ordinance ~ further provided that after the year - 8DGNiavery should be prohibited in all these States. This clause was lost be. loethe:act was finally adopted. %This act was superseded by the ordi nacof.1787 which provided for the 4ognzation of the Northwest Terri atid concluded with six unalter bearticles of perpetual compact. First ~lgosfreedom; second, trail by jury; id,writ ot habeas corpus; fourth, the ~llof rights"; fifth, encouragement scehoolsand for good faithb, justice and - ianity toward the Indians, and in regard to the exclusion of I 1804Congress provided for the of lands in the Indiana Territory, tomprised the present States of sdin,Illinois and Wis - which act section 16 in each~ was exprissly reserved for *1 pport of schools. Michigan's was estimnated at 1,148,160 acres. iets o.f 1804 and 1824 Michigan also ed48,000 acres to found a univer iWhen it is remembered that eare forty-eight colleges endowed S-land grants and the common els of nearly all the States and Ter eare likewise endowed, some es tcan be made of the provisions ucation. [1785 Congress passed an or dinance eting the Secretary of War to draw~ otcertain townships for bounties Continental soldiers. Meanwhile lesbegan to locate on public lands ut authority and soldiers were ebusy from 1784 to 1786 driving ~ofi'and burning their cabins and 177the price of land was reduced xty-six and two-thirds cents per 3 while Spaniards holding land in jois offered farms free to actual era. S1796 the present system of survey ands was adopted; as recommended efeon and amended by Monroe, 1800 land offices were established the price fixed at $2 per acre, one hdown. 8&20 anr act was passed to sell i! acre tracts for $1.25 per acre own. Had it also limited al hip to that amounit, land mro ~would have been unknown. the plea of "internal improve :-SYngress, in 1828, actualI3 way to States and individuals acres. The question of grant I he public lands to the Etates edCongress for many years, 1850 bean the granting of land. In September, 1850, Congress granted lands to Illinois for a railroad. The first pre-emption laws were passed under John Tyler's administra tion-September, 1841, and March, 1843-and provided that "by making settlement on a quarter section within ninety days after making entry and paying an entry fee of $2 and continu ously residing on and improving it for six months the claimant acquires the right to prove up by paying $1.25 per acre." In 1853 and 1854 this privilege was extended to unsurveyed lands. September 25,1850, Congress passed an act known as the "Swamp Land act," an act to enable the State of Arkansas, and other States having swamp and overflowed lands, to re claim said lands by ditching, etc. As evidence of the amount of lands thus ceded, Michigan got nearly six million acres. The facts prove that a great deal of this land thus obtained by the States was good land, and also that a large part of it got into the hands of corpora tions and speculators. Taking Michigan as a criterion less than 132,000 acres have been applied for such drainage purposes, while about 5,548,400 acres have gone into the hands of railroad and also private spec ulators for pretending to build State roads. As evidence of how these State road jobs have been managed we quote from the speech of a State Senator de livered in the State Senate in 1867: "Men took a contract, cut the trail through, left the logs lying in every di rection, got the job accepted and got two sections of land to the mile for the job. Fourteen years later another con tract was let to build the same road over again, and another land grabber got two sections more to the mile. How many more contracts will be' necessary to build that road I don't know." The "Homestead act" wrs first agi tated by the free soil democrats in Con ven tion August 11, 1852. They declared that "The public lands belong to the people, and should not be sold to corporations, and should be granted in limited quantities, free of cost, to land less settlers." Inspired words ! This was opposed by the friends of slavery. In 1860 a Homestead bill was passed, but was vetoed by Buchanan. In 1862 the bill passed again, and was not vetoed by that great friend of humani ty, Abraham Lincoln. It provides for the entry of 160 acres on payment of $14,~settlement required in six months, and if cntinued five years can. "prove up" without further cost; or in six months -can "prove up" by paying $1.25 per acre. To a pre emption or homestead claim; can be added a "tree claim" on payment of $14, and having 6,750 thrifty trees growing on ten acres at the end of eight years can "prove up" without further cost. No residence required. Since 1862 there have been 139,413 acres of the people's heritage granted to railroad corporations, and enough more granted to them through States to make over 200,000,000 acres, averaging nearly 20,000 acres to the mile; enough to provide 1,250,000 homes of 160 acres each. Being pressed by the popular demand for a forfeiture of all u.nearned land grants; Congress, by resolution Janu ary 21, 1884, declared "all such lands should be restored to the public domain for actual settlement. Under this resolution seven bills were introduced and six passed by the House, while the Senate defeated them all but one. Here we have evidence of the "in terest" a millionaire Senate takes in the welfare of the people. Congress has also shown its unfaith fulness by permit ting 30,000,000 acres to go into the hands of foreign syndi cates, which will result in transplant ing to our shores English feudalism with its system of lords and vassals; also by neglecting to prevent many million acres more being gobbled up by individual land s%rk's speculation in soldiers' land warrants, through false entries under the pre-emption, home stead and swamp land acts. Again, add to all this a condition of contracted currency, that enable the usurer to take the advantage of new settlers and all hard pressed land owners by robbing them of their land and im provemients by foreclosure. These are.among the methods by which our fair domain, procured at so much cost and dedicated by God to the whole human family (Genesis i., 26), has passed and is rapidly passing into the hands of a'"landed aristocracy,'' wvhile the cry goes up from the tene mients of the impoverished "HOMIES FOR THE HOM1ELEsS." And, again, add the different in dustries that are operating under some form of organized monopoly, sanction ed and sustained by exclusive rights obtained of law makers which enable them to charge the consumer three prices for their products or services, and we have some of the ways that answer the question,. "Why are the few millionaires and the masses ~Thefo~llowing table shows the num ber of farmers owningdiff'erent amounts of land at .there different periods .and abundantly proves that the lands are going into the hands of the few: 180......... -- 5467 16,7 6655 18$..,..,...,... 4..95! 134.889 354,749r 781.574 Y 1 to 1001101 to 900 501to ,000.Ov'r 1,00.' Ae- tres. Acres. jAcres. Acres. .180.,, 608,58 4S7,041 20 319: 5,361 1o..., K75422' 585.051 15873 3.720 J880..,..13,810J l695,983j 75,9J72) 28,578 The tendency of the larger estate to absorb the smaller is only too apparent. That the owners of land of from fiv hundred to one thousand acres increa ed nearly fivefold in the last ten yeal and that owners of one thousand acrn and upward increased nearly eightfol are facts full of significance. In order to show where we are ten< ing let us compare ourselves with Et gland and Wales. Omitting Londo and wnste places, moorlands, crow property, roads, lakes and rivers, t1 balance of land in England and Walt was owned as follows in 1873: 7o3, a8 121,983 72,6401 25,39! 312,3171 4,71 :0 P. 2.719 1,515 5A 2231 66 12i From the above we find that ovt seventy-two per cent own less than on acre, and that 10,307 persons hold ove two-thirds of the whole. Of these th Duke of Northumberland owns 181 616 acres; the Duke of Devonshire 126 904 acres, while twelve other noblemei own from .51,517 acres to 87,356 acrc each. Who among us can fail to see the this evil legislation is filling our pooi houses, insane . asylums and prison with the dejected and discouraged prc ducers of this land? Shall the greed an avarice of men wipe out the benefit derived from the sacrifices made in tb revolution and rebellion that all migh have an equal chance in the race of lifE God forbid! Shall we, of the nineteent: century, permit such a heritage to go t our children, that they in turn mus spill more blood to recover these los rights? Or will we, by a united an overwhelming ballot, peacefully solv this great problem by electing a Con gress composed of those who wear th scars of this unequal distribution (f th profits of labor-the farmers an workingmen? MERLINDA SIsI.s. HoRToN, MICH. A WOMAN'S TOWN. A New Venture in Habershai Connty What it Means. [Atlanta Constitution.] Some Georgia people have wondere+ a long while if these stories about West em towns with female .mayors and councils, were all truth. Many more have stopped to wonde what sort of mayors and financiers th women made, and have laughed at th idea of women discussing the intr iat question of public policy. Many others have wondered if an; other such state of 'affairs would eve exist down South-say in Mississippi c Florida. Not many of them ever drearr ed that the like would be in Georgia. But it may. A bill is already drawn up and read to be introduced by Mr. West, of Habei sham, to incorporate the town of Denr brest, in Habersham county. And a provision of that bill is thi women shall be eligible to vote an hold office. "The town," said Mr. West, yeste: day, "is to be built by northwester capital, and in a few years is bound t be one of the most important in its set tion of the state. It is to be mainly manufacturing town, but a lot of tim and money will be spent in developin the really valuable mineral resource of that immediate vicinity. A grei many of the workmen came with thei families from the northwest, and it bound to be a big town." "What is the idea in making .th women voters eligible to hold office?" "The idea is simply to put the tow and great business enterprises on high moral basis. Women can hand: the prohibition question a great det better,than men, and the town is to 1 free from deadbeats and loafers. It to be a strictly prohibition town, and moral, model town in every respect. "The first mayor and council are I be men and after that all women. "The town is four miles from Clark: ville, the county seat. It is on tI Blue Ridge and Atlantic railroad. ] is just four miles from Cornelia. on tIa Richmond and Danville." "Is there any opposition to this ide about women voting?" "None in Habersham-not a bit. have no doubt that some people wi oppose it here in the house throug some old fogy prejudice, but I believ and hope, that the bill will pass." "If so, Demorest will be the first suc t wn in the Southern States." "Where does the town get its namne! " From the Demorest H ome Minim and Improvement company, its foun< ers." "Have you any idea who thet. first f male mayor will be?" "Not the slightest." The Modern Duel. (London Tit-Bits.] A couple of good natured Frenchme got into a quarrel and chfallenged eat other to fight. On the morning of tI duel they and their seconds tramp4 through the woods to the fatal spc when one of the duelists, the challen; ing party, tripped and fell. His secot helped him to his feet. "I hope you are not hurt?" said tI other duelist. "I'm not much hurt; I only bumpt my nose on the ground." "Does it bleed ?" "Yes, a little." "Heaven be praised ! Blood flow and my honor is vindicated. Give n your hand, old boy?" If all so-alled remedies have faile Dr. Sage's Cat.arrh Remedy cures. a, by drmggists The First Days of a Little Lab. [Montain Wool Grower.1 s About five minutes after a lamb is d born he is on his feet. The unsteady earth under him now heaves to the - right, surges up and then down, and -' whirls and twirls with him while he n staggers and struggles, and twists one n leg around the other like a vine around e a tree, or else he spreads those meni s bers all out until they look like the forks undera weather vane. Ife tum bles down for the fiftieth time, and for the fiftieth time renews the fight to se cure that footing in the great world is from which only can he reach the life giving milk. His mother-particularly if it is her first-in her crazy anxiety to help, knocks him down, steps on - him and does-without leaving out a 2 possible exception-everything she r should,not do, while she leaves nearly e everything undone that might help the r little fellow toget the desired nourish e ment. "Oh, the poor, dear little thing, isn't ' it too bad," says the sympathetic stran a ger. "The confounded pair of idiots!" S frets the impatient shepherd, who does not care to drive them uutil the lamb .t finds milk. In half an hour his sides - bulge out. And as the shepherd slowly s urges the old ewe towards home the lamb goes reeling and rolling along d like an old tar just ashore from a year's S voyage. e About the first error the lamb makes t in life is to mistake the shepherd or his dog for its mother, and many are the a maneuvers that must be gone through 0 with to make the new arrival follow the right party. His next error is like t ly to be an attempt to walk on air when he comes to a place where he should e go down hill. His ten minutes' exper ience in life has made him believe that e all the earth is a level plain, and in e broad daylight he steps off the top of a hill just as serenly as a man steps off the landing of the stairs in total dark ness when he is certain that the stairs are yet twenty feet away. The result is a great surprise in each instance. - The lamb picks hiniself up, and con tinues down the hill; he soon comes to the conclusion that everything is down hill in his life, and not on a dead level. Upon getting to the foot of the hill, he still tries to continue downward, and as a result runs his nose into the ground r and looks ' surprised again. He now e comes to a place to get up hill, and e goes up just as our man starts.te ge up e stairs in totardarkness when he thinks the stairs are still twenty feet away. 7. Our lamb is now getting very suspic r ious., He was pushed over and growled.i r at for following the dog when he thought it was his mother; the shep herd kicked and abused him for follow ing him; he tumbled down hill when y he saw nothing unusual in the looks of the ground and up hill again under L- similar circumstances. In this frame of mind he comes to a shadow cast by t a neighboring hill. This is the most d appalling thing he has yet seen in life. He stands in the bright sunshine; r- twelve inches ahead of him all the n world is black. How shall he get over o that terribe line? It-~must be worse - than going down hill or up hill or-run a ning after a.dog that growls or a man e that kicks. It surely looks much more g frightful than any of these things. His a mother is in the shadow and coaxes t him to come along, but he will not risk r it; he stands on the edge and bawls at s the top of his powers. The shepherd with his big foot conies to the rescue, e and our little lamnb is lifted from sun light to shadow on the end of a No. 9 n boot. a He trots along after his mother for a e few yards and meets a new difficulty. t This time it is from shadow to sunlight. e It looks rough, the situation seems to s present no end of difficulties. He walks a across the line with fear and trembling only to find it very simply and easy, o and concludes that things are not so bad as they look, He has already be ~gun to find out that things which seem e easy in life lead often to disaster and t forbidding things often present no real e danger. A t this time lie is about one hour old; a for a whole hour he has been running his respirative, circulative and locomo tive powers as an independent being, Iand has become quite a lamb. Just at h that instant a carriage drives rapidly ~along the road. His quick eye sees it; lhe thinks perhaps it is his mother and h that she is running from danger. He strikes out after it. .It is wonderful what an hour has done for him in the iway of development; he runs faster 1than the shepherd, faster than his mother, and is in imminent danger of getting under the horses' feet or the wheels of the carriage. tis here that the dog comes in play, if ha. understands his business. He runs up alongside of the lamb, pushes it over with its nose, jumps upon it, and holds it down upon the ground wh ts nose utlthe shepherd coe hup. .The shepherd takes the lamb and estands it upon its feet so that it can dsee its mother, who has come up to t,within a few feet. He holds it until it sees its mother on a move and >T-'-t dgo. The old ewe licks off the face of a sadder and wiser lamb, lets him have e another dose of liquid nourishment dand together they.get home. There is only one thing that is five hundred times as funny and provoking by turns as a lamb, and that is five hundred lambs together when they are s, about a month old. The shepherd sits e down and watches the five hundred lambs all in a bunch by themselves, playing, running and frolicking~, and he d laughs. When he has tried, and tried ,3 in vain, to get the samne five hundred down again, but he does not laugh this THE time. A young lamb has no way of telling The which ewe is its mother, and the mo ther only knows which lamb is her own by the scent. Hence, while very young it is a bad plan to have too many L together, for the ewe may be confused and by so many lambs, or become partially indifferent, and the lamb perish for the want of care. When a few weeks old, Stat however, they know each other by the the sound of the voice. In a band of 2,000 or 3,000 ewes, a ewe may call her lamb, ho and the lamb will answer from the whany other side of the flock. They will go the as straight to each other, right through sho r the whole band, as they would if they sho were the only two animals for a mile ,rou nd. us. -- Port The Comfort of Country Homes. to C1 and: [Carolina Spartan.] from Not long ago a farmer from another thro1 county was in Spartanburg and he rode Ash >ut in two or three directions through Colu the county. He said in talking about ,Gree 3rops and crop prospects: "I am sur- routA prised to see such shabby barns and prac stables in the county and then very othei ew of the houses are painted and they haps are generally unattractive every way." and Rather to silence him we said: "Well, throi [ think we are doing about as well as as w, he common run of farmers in your Colu :ounty, anyway." His reply was: "Yes, pracl [ know you are, but your people ought belli< o be doing much better. You have Coln ood lands and there are signs of pros- Witt >erity here that we do not have." We Laur sk the.thousand farmers of this coun- see si y who read the Spartan to stop right eoml 2ere and read the above paragraph over limb >efore they go on with what is to fol- hand ow. the c Do our country homes have a dilapi- at an lated appearance? Are the barns and fourt tables tumble-dowi affairs? Is there good t want of comfort inside our houses? vile are the front yards destitute of flowers milef Lmd ornamental plants? Is there a momn eneral lack of paint on our buildings? Wi ['his is the accusation made against us hind md by one who expects better things with >f the farmers of this county. There the Lre several reasons why this condition shoul >f things does exist. In the first place toget armers do not like to build fine barns, just i when they make nothing to put in othei hem. Any sort of shelter 'will do as an movv mpology -for a stable for a horse fed on bold WVestern corand rairie.hay. A house ly no ;hat ismortgiged does- not need paint- -via F Land that is washing into gullies does is pr iot require good buildings. Are these nah i Mxcuses enough? -If not, you ean get dred ?p a doze_sther good ones for your- And ,elf. airli It is very evident that other counties meaw tre looking to Spartanburg farmers to from et an example in home improvement. NC 'hat should stimulate us to -move for- been ward. There are hundreds of farms the n that are not mortgaged. All that is be wanted is a will on the part of the som4 and owners. Many of the children are It is ashamed of their parent's homes.. The k~no3 bare walls, dingy with time and dust,A bhe scanty furniture, the want of booksA and papers, the primitive style of cook- tc ing and serving food have driven many te boys from the parental roof and madecil the girls -sour and discontented and t turned them into nobodies. Some times a boy comes from a comfortless, dreary hu bome and becomes useful, if not great. the [t is the rarest thing that a girl from such a home ever amounts to more than a cook and mender of old clothes, te When a boy gets large enough to wear te a starched shirt-and goes out to visit a ~neig:bor boy and finds that each one tr has ra spoon in his coffee cup and a ber good knife and forlk and the table neat Ly arranged and a better style of cooking ln than he is used to, he is going to get . dissatisfied. He will not stay at home nity ofr long, when there is ~nothing to attract of himi.lu No one in this day and time shouldha plead poverty when it conmes to making .ng bomes, attractive. It does not cost tunm much to paint a house. A few flowers of tk demand a little care. The inside orna- very mentation may be very cheap. Women she rod are always handy in fixing up things, so if the men will givethemhalfachance. mat The money from two bales of cot-ma ton will transforma many of the old frier mn dingy houses in our county and make te them quite attractive. Then when it tr comes to building a barn, it will cost no more to build a good arid pretty one than an old flat-roofed, sway-backed affair, withou t boxing or other effort at - ornamentation. We ask the Spartan- C( burg farmers in this very abundant ya year to consider this matter well and eg begin improvements at once. road --- - --wife Beware of Canned Meat. unel facti CH ATTA NOoGA, August 26.-A whole-th sale poisoning occurred here to-day maui through the use of impure canned- forti meat. Lydia Mildman keeps a colored mor boarding house and has ten young mengr boar ders working at one of the furnaces. com One hour after dinner to-day all the pai boarders, Lydia Mildman and her pos young daughter, were taken violently Uni ill and have all been unconscious since, how The girl and two of the boarders will day die. wife Dorn ~-- ~mill Hoopskirts Again may come into style, but it is hoped . net. The transformation which will city bring back that style of crinolines Mrs. ought to be indefinitely postponed- her Transformations in the health of thous ands of women throughout the country hav have taken place during the past few Scot years. Pale, haggard, and dispirited, is al: they have become bright-eyed and was healthy. The secret? Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which cures all who those chronic "weaknesses" and dis- clus tressimg ailments peculiar to women. une ROAD TO CUMBERLAND GAP. true Gate of the West to the South Atlantic Shore-Newberry on the Line. [Columbia Register.] t Columbia, Newberry, Laurens Greenville keep Cumberland Gap ew all the time. It is the true gate e West for the South Atlantic 1 ss. A line from that great Gap to t 3nuth Atlantic shore is surely im Ling at no distant day, and they get the first line built, if it bears reasonable relation to the wants of nterior cities and the ports of our e, will hold the situation for alH >w, let us see what we have before s The distance from Savannah, t Royal and Charleston is 330 miles imberland for each of these points, s from Wilmington 360. A bee line Charleston to the Gap passes f agh Columbia, Spartanburg and ville. But a line passing through mbia, Newberry, Laurens and nville and by the. Big Pigeon through the mountain belt is Mally as near an air line as any r, the slight defection costing per three miles or less in distance lost securing the most favorable route igh the mountain belt. We may eli then accept the Charleston, t mbia and Greenville route as ;ically the Air Line route from Re- r >n Roads to the great gate. From t mbia to the Gap is 230 miles. 1 our Columbia, Newberry- and t ens road finished to Clinton, we ' >me 63 miles of the route an ac >lished fact. We already have this of the great route thoroughly in t , with all the means in view for t ompletion of this part of the line a early day. This shows us one- u h of the Cumberland Gap line, as o as an accomplished fact. Green- a must have soihe ten or fifteen e graded between that city and the f( itain pass. .th this before us, what is there to n er our going to Cumberland Gap a )ut delay? All it wants is that d several communities at 'interest i, Id put their heads and resources her and the money can be raised tl s easily and speedily as on any sl line in this country. If wedo not s at once in this matter,.we lose our F on the situation, which we plain- t w have. A line' from favanna j arnwefl;Ta1rens and Gree ille tically an air line from Savan o the Gap; Itis less than a hun- t miles from Laurens to Barnwell. - from Laurens to savannah the s ne distance is some 178 iiles, and y ured on the same map the air line Laurens to Charleston is 140. c less than seven companies have f organized to take advantage of ,eat mineral resources that have t so long locked up in the lone- I hills behind this Gap now opened. r the greatest mineral region of ,the I vn world.r city springing up in the wilderness ~ nd the mouth of the Gap in Ke.n- 2 y'. It will be literally sprung u,pon ( world with every facility of modern 's zation complete,just as if the new s ~ad been fifty years in existence. c t business men with millions be them see that here the trade of ;reat West will concentrate for the est outlet to the sea. We stand I y'to move first, and to move on ~ hortest line from the Gap to the s This was the inceptive idea of the i and route advocated by the Regis- ' ears ago. The Columbia, New-t i and Laurens road is the old Mid- I idea revived and well in hand. C people ever lose such an opportu- ~ as now, awaits us and have it ed a second time. We warn Co )ia, especially ; her whole future ~s upon her moving now, and mov is one man, in seizing this oppor by. She will get the co-operation e other communities at interest surely, if she goes after it. And oes now with sixty odd miles of in her hands as good as done. We id not lose a day in .pressing this er home on our. neighbors and ds above us. There is not a mo t to be lost in this important 'mat Let us move, and move at once! ! [rs. Dorsett, of Columbia, InherIts ISpecial to Charleston World.] >LUMBIA, August, 28.-For the last Mr. H. W. Dorsett has been an neer on the Columbia & Greenville1 at moderate salary. Yesterday his received notice of the death of an e, who was engaged in the manu ire of silk in Paterson, N. J., with information that she had been e an heiress to one-fourth of his1 me, valued at over $1,000,000. This ling Mr. Dorsett received a tele 1 from New Jersey telling him to e on immediately. But duty was mount, and Mr. Dorsett took his on his engine when it left the m Depot this morning. He will,| ever, get a leave of absence in a or two and proceed to put in his1 's claim to this princely sum. Mrs.] iett's uncle had amassed over a ion dollars and the entire amount to his four heirs. r. and Mrs. Dorsett came to this about a year ago from New Jersey. Dorsett had previously lived with1 uncle there. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsett1 one daughter who married Mr.1 t Cooper, of this city. Mr. Dorsett out .50 years of age. Mrs. Dorsett a Miss Pope, daughter of Mr. Pope was superintendent of the Vau e cotton factory, in this State. Her] e's name is Pope WHEN TO LOAD YOUR GUN. L Lesson in Minitary Matters by Editor Hemphill, One of the Veterans. [Abbeville Medium.] Last Friday a negro woman was ac identally shot and killed by a young vbite boy at Mt. Pleasant near Char eston. The boy gave himself up to he Sheriff. The negroes came to ether in great numbers for the pur ose of taking the boy from the Sheriff ,nd "getting satisfaction" out of-him. n that locality. the negroes out num er the whites and are' a lawiess set rben excited. The Sheriff acted with iscretion and firmness but matters as umed such a threatening aspect that wo companies of militia were ordered D Mt Pleasant from Charleston. Their ervices were not found necessary but 'e are of opinion that this show of )rce was timely and no doubt prevent d violence. Recently in commenting on the Cal oun-Williamson escapade we told ow a duel should be fought. .Basing ur observations upon the reportof the 'ews and Courier correspondent who ras "on the spot" during the cam aign of the Charleston militia on the -outier near Mt. Pleasant we will by ointing out the military mistakes in bis movement show how such things Liould be conducted in future: The eporter says that Maj. Von Santen >ok command at the wfiarf in Char ston, "bayonets were fixed" and the T, -oops embarked. This indicated ner ousness for bayonets should not have een fixed at such a distance from the ene of hostilities. It was impossible cn stick a man with 'a bayonet at dis mnce of three miles and the bayonet T dds greatly to the weight of the gun, nnecessarily exhausting the soldier a the march. Arriving at Mt. Pleas- E at, the reporter says, the troops dis nbarked and marching in column of W >urs proceeded to the supposed scene ca r battle, "with fixed bayonets, loaded to iuskets carried at the right shoulder b ad at a quick step." As above in- b icated the bayonets should have been 0 i their scabbards at -this stage of the roceedings. It was too soon to load 01 ie muskets which, more. properly, s iould have been carried at "right w aoulder shift" as it was called in [ardee. - It is not ugual to load until me to-fire. At second Manauas the mmand to whieh the" editor-4ftni 4I edium belonged did not- load. .tqi rithin less than a hundred yards a Lie enemy, asharp firegoing onamong* he skirmishers at the time. At the %me battle the most thrilling sight to s was a :large regiment advancing at trail arms" until'within twenty steps f the enemy before delivering their re. In actual war nothing so stirs the a rue soldier's heart as an order to load. aoment of this kid weln e wed Cershaw's Bridgade on the York River t ailroad below Richmond in 1862. We ri divanced through a body of woods, a le :entle shower had fallen, the rain trops on the ' fresh Sp'ring foliage *b parkled in the rays of the-declining a un a few bullets from the sporadic fire. f the pickets were clippinig the ti ranches of the trees overhead, young -ga 'hompson, a college mate from New- I erry and a members of the 3d S. C., - ad fallen on our right, we confronted a he enemy; the tread of their host was e oftened by the intervening distance tA rto a srbothered sound. The order to y 'load'" came in clear, incisive tones, a d housand ramrods rang out in glorious ii esponse as they sent home the deadly t! artridge for the bloody strife. The ten- n ion was at an end and thinking only h hat we were there to die if necessary 1< or our country the line advanced with 1' tuick and springy step and unbroken d ront but not fast enough to overtake hi he retreating multitude. One such noment is worth more than years of v he prosaic pleasures of times of peace. g The New settlers. e: [Walhalla Courier.] a On Friday of last week a company p >f thirty-three Germans arrived at alhalla, coming direct from Theting lause:i, Province of Brunswick, King- tl lo of Prussia. The following are their a lames: Fredrich Biemanmi, August a )tersen and wife, August Otersen, Jr., l1 Fohn Otersen, Andreas Otersen, wife Lnd three children Henry Otersen, wife and two children, Fredrich ,Teilkuhl, rife and five children, 'Diederich Ra >ens, wife and eight children, Miss atbecca Helmers and Miss Annie schuma.cher, of Gustendorff, Germany. ~ [hey have come to Walhalla to make his their home, and if they are pleased, ~ here is a colony of about one thousand vbo will- sail for Amzerica and make C )conee County their adopted home. Death from Tight Lacing. (St. James' Gazette.1 A verdict of death from tight lacing n s, perhaps, still to be sought among C he curiositiestof law. But a Birming sam jury have come near it in a ver ict of death from pressure round the I vaist. The victim was a poor servant. a irl who died after a fright, and her leath was attributed by medical wit- *a esses to the fact that she was too :ightly belted to enable her to stand he wear and tear of any sudden emo ion. She was a notorious tight lacer; 2er collar fitted so closely that it was .mpossible to loosen it at the critical ' :noment, and under her stays she wore Sbelt so remorselessly buckled as to a )revent the free - circulation of the 'I Aoidb Gentility-As Some Understand It. [Manchester Times] Genteel it is to have soft hands, But not genteel to work on lands; Genteel it is to he in bed, . But not genteel to earn your bread; Genteel it is to cringe and bow, But not genteel to sow and plough Genteel it is to play the beau, But not genteel to reap and mow; Genteel it is to keep a gig, But not genteel to hoe and dig; Genteel it is in trade to fail, But not genteel to swing a flail, Genteel it is to play a fool, But not genteel to keep a school; Genteel it is to cheat your tailor, But not genteel to be a sailor Genteel it is to fight a,duel, But not genteel to cut your fuel; Genteel it is to eat rich cake, But not genteel to cook or bake; Genteel it is to have the blues, But not genteel to wear thick shoes Genteel it is to roll in wealth, But not genteel to have good health Genteel it is to "cut" a triend, - But irot genteel youilothes tomen - Genteel it is to make a show, a But not genteel poor folks-to know;' Genteel it is to smirk.and smile, But not genteel to shun all guile; Genteel.it-is to be a knave, But not genteel your cash to save; - : Genteel it is to make a bet, But not genteel to pay a debt; Genteel it is to playat dice, But not genteel to take advice;. Genteel it is to curse and swear, But not genteel old clothes to wear Genteel it is to know a lord. But not genteel to payyurboard; Genteel it is to skip and hop, But not genteel to keep a shop. OHIGH OFFICIALS EBARRASED. e President and the 'Secretary ofSin Victims of Circumstances. There is a story of a Presidential er irsion down to the -Eastern shore o aryland. - The party embraced See tariesBlaineand Windom andotheml',' 2ey went to church and were f. nate enough to hear an excellent on from the venerable Pro nta t piscopal Bishop of Maryland, who as there to administer the rite. Infirmation. It was a rare listen to a discourse from a clery an who did not improve the occasilo referring to those high in author y by preaching or praying aitlem. ie President and the t*o te on either side of him, sat tisfaetion. But their peace pf as suddenly and rudely dsple ae offertory was sung. At-the: r words: etnyon -ghtoshinebefore i te. TheaPresdtet andMr ane ht btwe a n athe ever do to make such a small confr. ition.* hs He that soweth a little shall e,and hethat soweth plenteo ap plentiously. * * * veth a cheerful giver. a r; The Presidentewent, to hispock ok and the Secretary of-State i his vest pocket withnervous fIg Zaccheus stood for'th and said. te Lord: Behold, Lord, the-hal if xodsIgive to the1poor, andiftIhave ronig to any- man Irestore fourfold.e The plate was only four pews away that the President found in his pock book was one fifty-dollar note and a n-dollar greenback-nothing smaller. that Mr. Blaine found was two ten cllar'noVe-nothing sm aller. .To put i a nickle or a dime only was not to be A iought -of. To give ten dollafwas tore than either cared to do; besides ow ostentatious it would look! Each oked at Windom, sitting there calm r', the richest of the party, with his Dllar note in hand. He shook- his ead. Charge them who are rich in this 'orld that they be ready to give and lad to distribute. There was no time folMfurther pocket cploration or consideration. With a nile of commisseration at each other, rid something like ghoulish glee .on - Vindom's -placid countenance, .the ' resident and Secretary of State each lanked down his ten-dollar note for the poor of this congregation." An4~ s 2e worst of it is, said one of the part' fterward, that the Lord would prob- -' bly give them credit qply for the dol er or two which they intended to ive. A Valuable Dog. [Special to Charleston World.] APPLETON, Barnwell Co., Aug. 2. ippleton has a gentleman, Mr. J. Y. ' 'alhoun, who knows something about ogs. He raised a hound for which Japt. H. WV. Richardson, ex-colleetor f the port at Beaufort, gave him a ood price, and since sent to Liverpool, ang, to a dog fair, in which it tool bird prize, and was sold for $3'75. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars re rard for any case of Catarrh that can ot be cured by taking Hlall's Catarrh ure. - F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known .J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, nd believe him perfectable honorable i all business transactions, and finan ially able to carry out any obligations 2ade by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O5hio. WVALDING, KIssAN d& MABvIN, Wholesale Dru -ita Toledo, Ohio. Cashier, Toledo National "Bank, Hail's Catarrh Cure B taken it ally acting directly poi the -bood nmucus surfaces ofthe syteie-~p 'estimonials sent free. Price 75.jer >. ottle. Sold:by all.druggists.