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VOL. XII. NO 39.
DARLINGTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1886.
WHOLE NO 612.
Charleston, August 31, 1886.
Tho city slept. Across the wrinkled bay,
The cool AtUntie breese saiig paeaus of
rent;
Toil’a tired bands with loosened fingers
lay
Upon the rhythmic billows of the breast.
A million facets gemmed each crimpling
ware
With light supernal from the quiet stars;
And distant Sumter, where the surges lare,
A lion doted, grim with its handled
scars.
Sleep op tho land, peace on the sandy
dunes,
Contentment sweet along the silent
street;
No sad remembrance of war’s lurid moons;
Forgotten now the shot and shell of
fleet.
As when is heard, on chill November
nights,
The homeless wind pleading for shelter
warm.
From fathoms deep beyond the harbor
lights,
So moaned tho earth, and yet no sign of
storm.
Then chaoa cams with frightful shook and
groan,
Amid the crash of architrave and wall.
And, lighting up that night of hell, there
shone
The ghastly glare of biasing home and
hall.
A wail of woe—one vast outburst of pray
er;
Then shrieks of anguish and low moans
of pain.
And on the olouds of mortar-laden air
Cyclopean roars that shake the earth
amain.
There still unharmed above the awful gloom
St Michael’s finger pointed up to God,
Guiding all hearts in the impending doom
To Him whose band, averts the chait’-
ning rod.
The timid hours seemed palsied with af
fright,
And moved with crippled pace along the
strand,
Where weary watchers, straining ear and
sight,
Wait tor day’s coming to the stricken
land.
Light in the East! Dawn on the restless
sea;
Opaline tints aflame in ambient sky ;
Where evening piped her notes so merrily,
Now shattered homes and ruined tem
ples lie.
liruised and eore-stri.-ken, yet he>oio,
brave,
Lustrous in fame alike to friend and
foe,
Mid blaating wind, and shock and tempest
wave.
There Charleston sits, a queen, e’en in
her woe. — Chat. E. Whitney, in
Sewe and Courier.
BOB AND ALF IN TENNESSEE.
I
That Funuy Political Canvass Between
two Brothers.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sep. 15.—
The campaign iu Tennessee this fall
is most remarkable. Nothing like
it was ever seen before iu the poli
tics of any country. Two brothers,
Robert and Alfred Taylor, are rival
candidates for the Governorship.
They are making the canvass to
gether. “Bob,” as he is universally
called, is the candidate of the Dem
ocracy and Aif is the standard-
bearer of the Republicans. Usual
ly a political coutest iu Tennessee
is a series of personal invective,
long drawn oat, and often the is
sues of the canvass are lost sight of.
The campaign this fail, however,
has all the points of a very tine
comedy. It could be reproduced on
the stage with one-quarter of the
realism of the original contest it
would be bound to have long run.
The brothers are on the best of
terms and are constantly chaffing
and jcking each other, to theamnse
ment ot the crowds that follow them
wherever they go. They belong to
one of the best families iu Tennes
see and both have a natural gift of
oratory. During the last few days
Alfs voice has failed him, and rea
lizing that Bob was gaining ground
on the stump in consequence, he
hit upon a plan to checkmate him.
The idea was suggested by an ex-
£ trie nee of Col. Dick Menefee, of
entneky, in a Congressional race
many years ago. Col. Menefee had
served one term in Congress, and
having had a taste of Washington
political life his heart craved for
more. He was a very popular man
in his district, a part of which lay
in the mountain regions, and was
confident of success. His rival,
Judge Hogan, was a very shrewd
man, however, and when, early in
the last days of tbs canvass, Mene
fee visited the mountains on horse-
back, he found that all of bis old
friends In that region were pledged
to vote for Hogan. He could not
understand it, but he saw that un
less he coaid do something to stem
the tide bis defeat was certain. He
soon learned that the secret of
Judge Hogan’s popularity was that
he played the violin at parties.
Menefee was for a time at bis wits’
end, hot oce night he found a large
company gathered in a country
school bouse with his rival playing
awRy as hard as be knew bow. Call
ing one of the most infinential men
in the room to one side, Menefee
said quietly: “Judge Hogan plays
very
“we like a
“Yes,” was
r
reply;
who is not above
and furnishing mu
sic for ua.”
“1 notice that the Jndge plays
with his left hand up here,” saitl
Menefee. (Hogan was left handed.)
“Why,” said the influeutial citizen,
what do you mean t”
“Nothing much,” replied Mene
fee, indifferently; “only he always
uses bis right hand when he is in
Lexington.” This story went over
the district very rapidly. The well
known jealousy existing between
tue city and country helped it along
and Judge Hogan was overwhelm
iugly defeated.
Alf Taylor has been playing the
fiddling game on bis brother He
has left two or three political meet
ings early on account of bis weak
voice and furnished dance music
for parties. Both of the brothers
are tair musicians and know how to
handle a volin. Bob got on to his
brother’s dodge very soon, however,
and retaliated by visiting half of
the houses along their route, kiss
ing the babies and promising them
all birthday presents when they
grew up. These side issues, so to
speak, began to tell ou the con
stitutions of the brothers, and a
compromise has been arranged.
Bob is to stop kissing tbe babies
unless Alf is present and can come
iu for his share of the glory, and
aleo agrees not to speak quite so
long or so loud until Alfs voice
gets into better coudition. In ad
dition, Bob says he will not men
tion Cleveland’s civil service policy
again during the campaign. For
these < oncessious Alf has agreed to
stop fiddling exsept in duets with
his brother.
THE FIDDLE COME TO STAY.
But as the violiu has been intro
duced infb the canvass they find
that they cannot put it out. Every
where they go they are compelled
to take their violins with them and
play a shake-down after tbe regular
meeting of the night is over. The
brother’s duet played at tbe Read
House here last evening was a very
amusing sight. Their parlors were
crowded and the two biothers sat
close together, surrounded by their
adherents.
“Dixie,” ‘Star-Span gled Banner,”
“Old Kentucky Home” and selec
tions from the “Mikado” were ren
dered in flue style. It was impossi
ble, amid the shouts of laughter
and applause, to say which was the
better man with the how.
At Cleveland, , Tennesse, last
week the brothers addressed the
largest meeting of the campaign
This is a Republican stronghold,
and Alf was in high feather. But
Bob’s followers made up in shout
ing what they lacked in numbers.
While waiting to board tbe train
at Athens for llevelaud a crowd
gathered around the station. The
sun was hot and the brotherssoqght
the shade of a neighboring tree.
Here the crowd followed them and
the jokes flew pretty thick. “Alf,”
said Bob, “would be lost if it weie
not for his little Tariff bill.” “You
don’t want to come out too strong
about the Mexican diplomacy,” re
torted Alf. “You must be refer
ring to Mr Blaine’s guano con
tracts,” said Bob, good-naturedly.
“But what are you going to do
with the publ c domain’ Bob f’
asked Alf, winking slyly to the
crowd. “Sell, it and educate those
400,U00 ignorant Tennessee chil
dren you are always talking about.”
At this moment a hardy moan
taiueer appeared on the scene Hu
approached Ait and said: “I want
a place under the next Governor.”
But before he could reply Bob
spoke up: “Here be is; what can I
do for you !” The crowd laughed,
but Alf got in a neat rejoinder by
saving: “ ‘A public office is a pub
lic trust.’ 1 cannot promise patron
age for votes.” Some one rang a
chesuut bell, and a minute later the
brothers were boarding the train
arm in arm, and bowing their ac
knowledgments to tho cheering
crowd.
The gathering at Cleveland is
typical of what has met the broth
ers all over the State. “Remember,”
said Squire Gant, iu introducing
“Our Aif” to the public, “th^t au
insult to one ot these gentlemen is
an insult to the other,” and this
represents the policy of the cam
paign. There are no side issues in
Tennessee this Fall. The question
isisimply between Democracy and
Republicanism, and both sides feel
tbat tbe result will be a true test of
each party’s strength.
THE BROTHERS’ FRIENDLY RIVAL
RY.
The brothers at the Cleveland
meeting exerted themselves to tbe
best of their ability, trying to out
do each other. Alf was the first
speaker, and although his voice was
a little hoarse he got in aeveral
sledge-hammer blows on bis oppo
nent. He began ou tbe tariff and
followed oat the line of Mr. Blaine’s
argument in advancing bis protec
tion ideas. He quoted trom the
Courier-Journal and other papers
to prove that tbe last Democratic
Hoase tailed to do its duty and re
lieve the burdens ot the people. He
said that Prohibitionists oogbt to
support the Republican party be
cause the Republicans are in favor
of inserting a prohibition plank in
tbe platform. He advocated tbe
Kill WAMW.1.
Uurjoli <Up:iriDicBl is.-nipplird with trtry
facility Qcoesnitry to rnuMc us to coapetc
both ssloprice and quality of work, witfc«i< a
those of thaoitisa, ami we guarantee satis*
faction in crery particular or cliargr nothing
for our work. Wo are always prepared le
fill orders at short notice for Blanks, Bil
Heads, Letter Heads. Cards, Hand bills
Tosters, Circulars, ramphlels, &o.
All job work must be paid for
Cash on Delivery-
Blair education bill and came out
squarely for t’.e Hamiltonian theory
of strong centralized government.
He stated his case logically, and
closed with a severe arraignment of
Mr. Cleveland’s administration.
He asserted that tbe Republican
party was the party ef progress and
the young men ot the South should
make haste and'join its ranks.
Bob was an interested listener to
his brother’s eloquence and his re
ply was very happy. Referring to
the Blair bill, he said : “My fellow-
citizens, did you ever hear of the
Republican par:y either doing or
attempting to do anything for tbe
cause of popular education while it
was in power! No.- It is only
when it has been ejected from the
administration of our goverument
that, that in a fit of desperation, it
begins to cast about for some
scheme whereby to get a lever to
raise it into popular favor. It bit
upon tbe Blair bill. It says we
have a surplus iu the Treasury, and
forthwith proposes to devise this
plan of education to tickle tbe poor
man. I say to you tbat there is not
a single dollar in the Treasury of
the United States. We have an un
paid debt. As long as that lasts
the Treasury will coutaiu no sur
plus ”
Tbe applanse was about evenly
divided between the two brothers,
and each received several hand
some boquets. Back at the hotel
tbat night there was a general re
ceptiou. Partisans of each side jos
tled gne another iu the crowd, and
both candidates shook hands with
Democrats and Republicans alike.
Bob and Alf produced their violins,
and the reception closed with a
grand break down and waltz.
There is some talk here ot nomin
ating the Rev. Mr. Taylor, father of
Bob and Alf, on the Prohibition
ticket, and Mrs. Taylor, the mother,
on the woman suffrage platform.
In that event matters would be
come complicated indeed.
Several days ago at Athens an
other feature was introduced into
this canvass which promises to be
come a regular card Some one al
luded to it as the War of the Roses,
and the expression was promptly
caught up by the crowd. It furn
ished the proper campaign insignia.
At once the red rose became the
badge of the Republicans and the
white rose the emblem of Democra
cy. ll spiead like wildfire, and
within forty-eight hours these ids
toric decorations v ere worn iu ro
settes from one end of the State to.
the other. The ladies, too, are tly-
ina the colors of their choice. So
now it is a double campaign, roses
and fiddles, and all canopied over
by the best of good fellowship and
fraternal rivalry.
An incident last night, while the
brothers were at Bridgeport, illus
trates the spirit of t he canvass from
the matrons’standpoint. They per
formed as usual and then went arm
in arm to the same bed As they
came down to breakfast this morn
ing the hotel proprietor’s wife, a
smiling old lady of sixty, approach
ed them with a bunch of the rival
roses iu each hand aud s- id : “Go!.
Bob aud Col. Alf, Pm not a politi
cian, and 1 don’t know anything
about politics, but I want you to
accept these dowers because it
makes my mother’s heart glad to
see two brothers making a canvass
against each other and yet treating
each other as lovingly as they tell
me you two do. Let me see you
shake bauds before you go.
They took the flowers, shook as
desired, aud laughingly took tbe
train for Tu lahoma, wtiere they
spoke to uight.
Senatorial Fishermen
(Cor. of (he Philadelpbi* Times.)
Point of Rocks, Md. September
16.—Along tbe Potomac near this
little mountain station is one of the
Auest Ashing places in the Sotltb.
It is only thirty miles from Wash
ington aud has long been tbe favor
ite resort of legislators who have a
penchant for the rod. Phree rocks
jutting up from the stream are
known as tbe “Senatorial Rocks”
aud oue further down as tue “Pres
idential Rock.” The people ot the
village are ever eager to tell of tbe
famous Ashing excursion here three
years ago, when President Arthur
aud Senators Hampton aud Vest
sat ou those rocks through four
long hot days and caught nearly
lour hundred Ash. Nearly every
week daring this summer oue or
more Senators have been seen perch
ed ou tbe rocks angling for the
sportive swimmers. According to
the testimony of tbe villagers, Sena
tors Wade Hampton, Vest aud
Keuna are the most (icisisteut and
successful anglers, with Edmunds,
Frye aud Gorman as good seconds.
Hampton was here four times
during the spring and early sum
mer, and stopped over for two daya
alter Congress adjourned. He is
tbe most silent ot all the Seuatjrial
fishermen. While bis negro body
servant keeps tbe hooks baited and
a mysterious dark flash ever at bis
master’s baud, the Senator is con
stantly bent forward, with eyes in
tent ou the sparkling, except when
tbe passing flsb bites. Then, un
like most Senatorial fishermen, be
does not get excited and give the
line a tremendous jerk which throws
the Ash high iuto tbe air and back
agaiu iuto the water. As if alraid
of hurting tbe swimmer, he elevates
tbe pole ireutly until it is above the
surface, draws it in slowly, lets the
negro detach it; then in a moment
the line is once more sinking in tbe
water aud the Senator is bending
forward as if his life depended ou
catching every motion of the string.
It is said that be has never lost a
Ash iu getting it out of the water,
and tbat no man who has ever ap
peared on these Ashing grounds
has been more successful than be.
A catch of sixty Ash in oue moru
ing is credited to him. From those
caught, he selects a dozen or so for
dinner and gives the rest to a.iy oue
who will take them.
I here are some queer stories a-
float here about his servant going
into the village three times a day
to replenish the mysterious dark
flask, but no eye witness of the oc
currence could be found. Besides
it was a time when Senators Vest
and Blackburn, of Kentucky, oc
cupied the adjoining rocks, so if
there be ;:uilt Hampton should not
bear it nil.
Vest is hardly inferior to the
South Carolina Senator in handling
the rod. Occasionally he gives way
to a little excitement when there is
a particularly sharp nagging at bis
Hue, but, generally speaking, he is
a calm and scieutiflc fisherman
He was the teacher of President
Arthur in tbe science and this ac
counts tor the warm friendship
which exists between the two. Just
before Congress adjourned Mr. Ar
thur wrote to the Senator, saying
tbat as soon as his health permit
ted ho would like tc have another
week at Point of Rocks, Senator
Vest is not so silent. He inter
sperses his catches with stories
about his fish successes in Mis
souri and out at Yellowstone Park,
but all the time keeps a close watch
on his line. He has. perhaps, the
finest fishing tackle tbat has been
seen in these parts. The rods are
of a pecnliar cherry colored reed
and his reels are silver. Tho set
cost, it is said, about 8150.
Keuna, of West Virginia, who
was out on the river yesterday, has
the reprutation of being the cham
pion angler of Wekt Virginia. Un
like every other fisherman, Sena
torial or otherwise, he carries a real
bait bottle. This may be accounted
for by the fact that he is a temper
ance man iu private life The West
Virginia Senator goes about fishing
iu regular backwoods style, Diess
ed in jean trousers tucked in boots,
a blue shirt and a short rusty alpaca
coat, he looks like the typical dwel
ler on the banks of the Potomac
He digs his own bait, attends to
his own hooks aud manipulates his
catches with his own hands, in
fact he believes in carrying out tbe
role to tflie letlei than playing the
gentleman angler. He loves to tell
stones about his great doings on
tbe Kanawha, aud the truth ot his
tales are corroborated by bis home
people. He ranks uext to Vest as
a hsh-story teller and is infinitely
more truthful.
Senator Edmunds, who is now up
in Maine handling the rod, is known
to every villagerabout here. What
is strange to Washingtonians, they
speak of him as tbe “jolly old bald-
headed fellow ” He is certainly
bald, and his looks justily his be
ing called old, but just how the
people got tbe impression that lie
is jolly it is hard to gudbs. Perhaps
be thaws out away from the dignity
of the Senate chamber. Perhaps
the mountains aud the river and
the simple, country people recall
the days of his childhood and stir
the sluggish blood iu his veins to
its youthful vigor. Perhaps the
Senate restaurant-keeper kindly
puts a good supply of cold tea iu
valise lor use on the Potomac, or
perhaps—but after all it is all only
guesswork. The Vermont Senator
is like Hampton iu silent contem
plation of the waves aud like him,
too, iu scientific management of his
rod. in the latter part of July last
he caught fifty-six fish before noon.
His attire while ou the river is the
same as he wears in the Senate
chamber,, with exception of a big
broad brimmed straw bat, which is
palled down over his ears. Frye
aud Gorman have gained fame at
Point of Rocks, also, but they are
too busy with their home cam
paigns this summer to give any
time to angling. Frye never car
ries any rods with him. With a
common line wound around a bit of
wood he starts for tbe river and
outs a pole on the way down. In
fact, be gees about tbe matter much
alter the wanner ot a schoolboy and
seems to enjoy itail with a thorough
ly youthful appreciation. He was
oue of President Arthur’s favorite
cow pan ions, under tbe preceding
administration. Senator Gorman
lives only a few miles from Point
of Rocks, and frequently brings his
guests up here tor a day’s Ashing.
He is exceedingly food of tbe
sport. When ho makes au uu-
u&ually large catch he is as glee
ful as a child. While on his way
from Hagerstowu to Baltimore, a
few days ago, he had to stop over
here for half an boar to await his
train. He spent bis whole time
down at the river bank looking
longinglyat tbe “Senatorial Rocks.”
He said tbat hr soon as the political
conventions in Maryland were over
he would come here for a week and
hriuc the President with him, if the
latter had not got enough of the
sport up id the Adirondacks.
M L. R.
A Rejoinder to Tillman.
(From the Sunday News )
Columbia, S. O., Sept. 16, *80
Mr. Tilliuau waxes wrathv. He
objects to “insinuations ” iuueu-
does,”&c. Now. what he means by
this is that I said a certain state
ment he was reported to have made
was “untrue” aud “uulair ” Those
are not very emphatic words, but
to ears polite they convey no doubt
ful meaning. Mr Tillman is evi
dently, by natuie a very obstinate
man, and his head is so very hard
that he terms polite language “in
sinuations.” Now, I wish to put
the same idea in words that he is iu
the habit of using iu order to bring
tbeir meaning down to the level of
his comprehension. .When he said
that Prof. Joyces told him that
the South Carolina College offered
to make the aualvsis of fertilizers
for the South Carolina department
of agriculture for 85 each, in my
opinion, he bed—1-i-e-d. No insin
uation about that I hope, Benjamin!
When he says that I am “Col.
Butler’s clerk, aud the tail of the
department of agriculture,” he
makes the only truthful statement
that I have ever known him to be
guilty of. The department of agri
culture ueeds uo defence from one
occupying so humble a position in
it as 1 do, but I may be permitted
to say tbat Mr. Tillman has never
made a specific charge of neglect of
duty against this department that
has not been proven false, that it
he will make any more specific
charges of the same chaiacter I will
prove that they are also false, or I
will give up my “potatoes” and ad
vocate his priucip’es.” Will he do
this! No. He will answer that he
is a poor, persecuted, patriotic citi
zen, who is called a liar every time
he says anything for the public
good. And then he will go on and
s ty 'hat the pub ic officials ot South
Carolina feel themselves above crit
icism, aud then write a colui4u or
two about nothing in particular and
everything in general, aud wind up
by claiming iliat he has proven
everything and everybody corrupt
except B. R. Tillman, the sole sur
vivor ot tbe long li*t of In norable
and patriotic men in South Caro
lina.
Mr. Tillman alludes to our past
friendship. He might have left
that out of his coinmuuicatiou, iu
view of the fact that he has forgot
ten a I the courtesies due trom one
gentleman to another, if he ever
knew them. He might have re
membered that no journalist in this
State lias said more complimentary
things of him than 1 have, aud none
have been more willing to aid him
in working lor the good of the pub
lic. 1 h.tve given him credit for
honorable and unselfish motives, so
long as I .believed be was honorable
ami unselfish, aud l have criticised
him when 1 believed otnerwise It
is no “prostitution of my position”
to defend the work of a department
iu which I have been engaged tor
six years, and which I have hoped
had accomplished some good for the
State; neither was it a “prostitu
tion of my position” to corn-ct false
statemeuts regarding that work
whenever and wherever made. I
have dene this ami this only, and
Mr. Tillman’s objections will not
prevent it iu the future.
A word of apology to the readers
oflhe Sunday New* i Mr. Tillman’s
swaggering bravado at theconclu
siou of his letter is evidence enough
to my mind tbat when he sees this
communication be will “come back”
with a tew columns of billingsgate.
1 regret to be the cause of such au
infliction upon your readers, but
trust that they will forgive me.
As Mr. Tillman lives at a “remote
distauce from railroads.” and “ouly
gets his mail weekly,” he may not
see this. Will you kiudly mad him
a copy of the Sunday Hem coutaiu-
ing this letter, and mark it for me.
L A. Ransom.
“Cntting Down the Expenses of the
Government.”
When we hear from Ben. Tilimau
aud others the charges of extrava
gance in, aud graver charges still
concerning the conduct of the Btate
government, it is time for honest
meu to kuo.« the honest facts touch
ing so grave a matter.. Let us sup
pose tbe Constitution so changed as
to put tbe goverument ou bait pay
with tbe salaries of the Governor
aud State officers cut down by half
the present pay ; with the salaries
of clerks cut dowu by half, aud all
the expeuditures of the offices treat
ed iu the same way save the sup
plies aud contracts, now ou so low
a scale that nobody would touch
them at lower figures. Let us sup
pose the salaries of the Judges ami
Solicitors aud officers of court
generally cut dowu by half, the
salaried officers aud pay ot clerks
of tbe two houses reduced. Abolish
tbe Military Academy, reduce the
appropriation of the University to
111 ,508, derived from the Federal
fund, and which the State must
pay in any event. Abolish the
County Auditors, transferring the
work to tbe County Treasurers’
offices, with the necessary clcricul
force, Hiid books and blanks need
ed. Cut off the appropriation to
the State Agricultural Society in
toto, and reduce the miscellaneous
expenses besides Cut down every
thing in this revolutionary swile—
and what then !
What relief will it give the tax
payers, whilst crippling Ihe efficien
cy of every branch of the govern
ment !
The following statement sets the.
whole matter forth, bearing in mind
that some expenditures cannot be
reduced. For instance, the books
and blanks furnished cannot tie got
fot less, ami the public printing is
in the same category :
Present
Reduced
Kxpeudi-
Expeutli-
tore.
ture.
Governor’s offioe.
I 9,050
$ i.950
Lieul. Got.’g gaUry.
1,000
600
Seo. of 8iAte's otfioe
4,; oo
2.309
Oomp. Gen.'s offloa
6.850
3,309
Ally. Gen.’s office.
8,800
8,560
Supi. of Educaiion’s
office.
0 $ 50
4,600
Gen.’s office.
*19,900
18,’00
Henllli Depsrlnaent.
8,100
4.150
Stale Library.
2,035
1.013
Judiciary Departm't
6« 400
28,250
Krgi-tr.itiuu and elec
*
tion.
34,800
18.-00
Stale House and
ground*.
3 300
1,150
Stale University.
17.500
11,408
Military Academy.
30,400
1’eniteulinry officers
9,300
3.140
Lunatic Asylum,
98.000
91,500
D’f ami D’b Asylum.
10,385
7,600
Catawba Indiana.
800
8(10
Legislative Deparlm't. 53.600
33,100
Tax Department.
25-200
12,950
Miscellaneous.
0 700
3,loO
$403,080
$258,081
*Iuclui]ing $14,0UU for maintain-
ing militia.
Hence we see a saving of 8145,-
049. This saving amounts to a
little less than a mill to tlie dollar
ou the taxable property of the
State. Let us see what relief this
will give to the industries of the
State. Tho present population of
the State is about 1,200,000, If
one in twelve of these people is a
taxpayer, the taxable property of
the average taxpayer is 81,480.
One mill to the doll ir to the tax
able property is SI 48 a year. Such
a saving amounts to less than three
bushels ot corn or about 18 pounds
of cotton to tbe average taxpayer.
And this after the mo»t uuhingirig
curtailment pf expenses ever at
tempted iu a civilized State. Com-
ment is unnecessary —Exchange.
News Items.
Geo. Gculd, son of Jay Gould tbe
millionaire, has married au actress
Col. Wm. Elliott, of Beaufort, has
been nominated as the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Black
District.
Goverument engineers are In
specting the injured buildings in
CharlrstoS aud passing upou their
condition.
Tbe old colonial church of St
James Goose Creek, a favorite le-
sort of visitors to Charleston, is in
ruins from the earthquake.
The scientific fraternity predict
tha‘ terrific earthquakes will occur
between the 25th ami 28th of this
month, the greatest force of which
will be felt iu California.
The people iu Abbeville County,
eight to twelve miles from Ninety
Six, have been hearing, for five
mouths past, mysterious rumblings
amis and loarings going ou iu the
earth.
Jeff Davis’s daughter, Miss Win
nie, “the child of the Oontederacy,”
as her father calls her. is ou a visit
to Richmond, where sho is receiv
ing much attention from Governor
Lee aud many others.
Prof. D. B. Johnson, the accom
pH-bed superintendent of tbe Co
lumbia Graded Schools, succeeded
ou a reet nt visit A to tbe North, iu
obtaining $1,500, with which to or
ganize a Training School tor teach
ers iu Columbia
Tbe burdens of the primary elec
tions in Abbeville appear to have
bieu great; no less than fivetdeo-
lions have been held In the past two
mouths, aud they will probably
have three more iu the near
future.
* Col. Jas. N. Lipscomb, a candi
date for Congress in the Third Cou
gressioual District has addressed a
circular letter to bis constituents,
iu which he deAues Ids position
upou the various public issues of
the day.
The Columbia correspondent ot
the Hewe and Courier iu a commu
nication of a recent date says: “The
County Democratic primary dec
tiou was held to day It was the
first primary held since 1880, aud
the presence ot uambere of drunk
eu Sami Hillers ou mir str els
ready to dispose of i heir votes tor a
drink of whiskey, did n. t improve
the opiuiou (teld by the -public or
the candidates of the primary sys
tem in tbeir county
Some Timely and Itvantiful Extracts
from an Old Lecture by ftinl H.
Hayne.
Beyond the orbit of Longfellow’*
“red planet Mars,” wheeling in cir
cles which sometimes interest each
other, astronomers discovered be
tween 1800 and 1807 foi r small
planetary bodies, to which Sir John
llerscbol has given the name ot
asteroids. Deviating so much from
the oath in the heavens described
by tue other tenants of onr solar
system that the zodiac uiusl be ex
panded five limes its breadth in
oider to include their orbits, l»ear-
ing with t hem traces of atmospheric
phenomena and gigantic scale;
and what D most remarkable, pre
Renting to the observer’s eye not
tbe form ot au oblate spurid, but
edges rugged and uneven. It has
been conjectured by Prof. Gibers,
of Berlin, that these bodies origin
ally united in one great planet,
must by some strange explosion
have been scattered into space,
whenever they gleam upon us now
with the light dimmed and mourn,
ful ot a fragmentary existence.
A doom akin to this may lie rent
ing latent in the bowels of our own
earth. Sometimes we hear the de
mon muttering his mysterious
language and rolling his thunders
underground, and then, unchained
for a season, he riots iu earthquake*
or soars upou the fumes ot voleasic
exhalations.
Pompeii and Herculaneum were
buried in a night. Lisbon, with
her thousands, vanished like one of
those dissolving “earth bubbles” to
which Banquo compares the wind
sisters iu Macbeth.
Rivers that have flowed tor ages
within their appointed bounds are
precipitated into new channels, or
swallowed up in the vartices of Are
and smoke; tertile plains shiver
like glass beneath the heel of some
malign enchanter, and the whole
globe trembles as with throe- of
dissolution.
And yet, iu the economy of nature
what are these convulsions but tbe
normal vents where through the
earth’s overcharged heart relieve*
itself of the pestilent humors—the
consuming heats which seethe and
boil about the core ot her vitality !
A few days, mouths or years and
her scarred visage assume again the
lovliness of old ; trom the site of
her lava burials and the chasms
which show where her sick agony
was all but mortal, a richer verdure
courts the airs of heaven aud waters
more brightly beautiful flash buck
the splendor of sunlight aud stars.
• The earthquake, the tempest, the
passion ot volcanic eruptions, arc
theretore but visitors of mercy.
Were it not for theT strong agen
cies, we too might have been roll
ing through the “voids iiumeuse,”
shorn of our birth right of file aud
glory 1 Desolation for an hour;
stabi ity for centuries; the up
heaval of ancient landmarks to-day,
aud to-morrow the beginning of a
now order of h armonious law, which
progresses from epoch to epoch,
along pathways of beneficence and
love; sudden deaths to hundreds of
thousands, and the fi.llness of life
to myriads, (icrhaps of ceueratious!
Such are the sublime cominmaa-
tious of Providence. Who, then,
can doubt tbat our wonderful physi
cal system, balanced and jontrolled
by tbe omnipotent arm, is but a
type iu its perlect advancement of
that moral, spiritual and political
world witbiu whose orbit humanity
is called upou to act the drama of
its destiny. Iu tbe conceit of theo
retic reason we may ask : “Where
fore, O God! hast thou done thus
and thus!” Or with the Spanish
sceptic’* audacious hardihood we
may afii'in that “if God Upd ouly
consulted us at the creation, we
could have favored him with bints
to his advantage;” but, despits
uiau’s blasphemy aud folly, the kiu4
“All Father” is leading him through
processes he cauuot comprehend to
the noblest fruition of bia hopes.
“It suits not,” says tho archangel
iu “Festus,”
It suits uot the eternal lavs of God
That evil be immortal!
Yet on this temporary, partial
stage of human action it is often
through evil alone that tbe bigtresc
possible go d is evolved, and is
proportion to the magnitude ol the
evil may he tbe vital graudeurs of
the beuefit.
These are truths tbat we shonlq
ail deeply ponder.
The temptation to utter aksptiS*
ism to “curse God” iu our hearts
ami “die” rises u|K>u too mauy with
a terrible force. Yet from the
depths of sorrow and pain, it we
listen aright, oo*ntea the voice of a
beautiful uousolatiou which seems
to say: “From tho ashes of cor
ruption spring the flowers of ver
dure, tbe rich biooms of earth, sod
so in the loathenomeneas of sin find
error and all “thiuga evil,” lien bid
den away, but slowly gathering Its
powers tor resurrection, the immor
tal “soul of good.”
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