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We, the undersigned, having received great and permanent benefit from-the cse of "COM P??Xt>.OXYGEN," prepared s-cd adminis? tered br DES, STA?KKY & PA?.EN. of Philadel? phia, and being satisfied that it is a hew dis? covery io rard ic* ? sdenee; ?nd all that is claimed for ir, rooster ita duty which we nwt tn. the many tboiisands who'are suffering fronfj?hr?nieand-? so-called* "irenrabie" <lis ?*se*fo3o ail That -ire can tb make4ts 'Virtues known and to inspire the public with confiV dance. Wa have persons?kno WI*K3ge of Ors. Star ker* Palen. They are educ*u>d. intelligent, and conacientiui>s physicians, who will not, we are i ar?, make aoy lp?a?eoien?t? which they do oot~know or believe to l?e'.tr n?", nor pub twbaay testimonies or reports of cases which acf'?e? genuine. ' /- . WM. D. KELLY,, 7 ?* Mender of Congrexs iront Philadelphia. T. S. ?HTKl-lf. Bcktor and Puhlvshtr "Arthur'* Hom Magazine," Philadelphia, z .Y. L? CON RA ?) >?4i>.r? Editor of "lutheran Obttr*er%" . . " * .r . Philadelphia. . PKLSMrLrai?, Pa , Jess i, 1S82. In order to meet a n?tunu ioquiry in re? gard to onrprofessional .md personal stand? ing, and to give increased confidence ia oar Statements and in the eeau'-nesa of .our testi SMniais and reports of cases^ ire print the above card from gentle.-nen well and widely ksown and of the highest personal character. Oar "Trsatise?n Compound Oxygen" con? taining a history of the discover-, of and ?sod? of ac lion of tilts- remark ab ?e curative agent, and a large record of surprising cures hr Consomption. Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi? tis^ Asthma, etc., and a wide range of Chron c diseases, will be teni free. Address Dre. STARKEY k PALEN. Jjg&j Hil Girard Street, Philidelpnia., Pa. A KS??ABLE RESIDENCE A" 'W^Lri??ATSO FARM,of one hun? dred and* ten acres, about sixtyVIea'red, situated one mile from Sunder C H., S- C. A beautifoj prove ef-Ure onk? v^ind the dwelf?ng, with wei* and fine spring ot water. Terms accommodating. Applv to Jar/ 15 : A. WHITE. Ageht. FRESH ARRIVAIT For ?? &boois in the Countyj Teac?iers j and Paroo ts will do weli to get my prices v " ta . brfbre 4>urchaiing. I SX^TES, COPJY BO9KS, CRAYONS, Book Straps attd Bi pi, P^r, Pens, Pencils, - _ ink, fte.j. 'Parents .will please send their children to - J. A. SCHWERIN, Li*s -Book Store, opposite Court House. ? ? 'T - * j ' - - FRUITS, 7 ^CONFECTIONERY, Ac, in r?Rm, - ? ? , % K - -Oct 7-3 T LIENS, I /TITLES, MORTGAGES, BILLS OF SALE, BONDS, ? And Other Blanks in Variety, V, ?OH SALE AT THIS OFFIQE. OUR STANDARD BEARERS. FOR PRESIDENT : : GROVER CLEVELAND;* of New York. FOR TICJB-PRESIDMiT : XHOS. A. HENDRICKS, ; 'of Indiana. ? ' --?-o STATE TICKET. For Governor : Huon S. THOMPSON. For, Lieuteuao t-Governor : JOHN C. SHEPHERD. For Secretary of State : J. N. LIPSCOMB. For Treasurer : J. P. RICHARDSON. For Adj t. and Insp. General : ;A : M i M ASIO A?KCns For* Comptroller-General : 5 W. E. STONEY. For Attorney-G-eneral : q C. R. MIL*S. . - .* For Superintendent of Education : . ABB?RY COWARD. For ^oDgresff, Seventh District: COL.. WILLIAM ELLIOTT. . For^licitor Third Cireint; T. M. GILLA ?CD. C?TOTY TICEJiT. For Repr?sent?tives : RICH?*D-D.X*E. E J. REID:M?LDBOW, F. M. BECKHAM, E. M. COOPER. For Sheriff : . MARION SANDERS. For Clerk of "Court: W. H. CCTTINO. For Judge of Probate : T.V.WALSH. For School Cou missioner : E. C. ROGSRS Por Coroner : ...DJ Apu> . -*3?or County Cooa m 'if si oners :. F. M. MELLETT. _ S. L. SHAW, R. ? MCLDROW. IN TIME TO COME, The flowers are dead that made a Summer 1 splendor ' By wayside uoofcs and ou the sunny hz!I, And with regret, these hearts of ours grow tender, ST " As sometimes ?ll her hearty will. ?Ve loved the blossoms, for they helped to brighten The lives so dark with wearying toil and care. Hopea ab?*dreams forever help to lighten Tbe heavy fbads yte Iiear. *. How.like the flowers, whose transient life is : ended, The hopes aod dreams are that, for one brief hour. Make the glad heart a garden bright and splendid About Jove's latticed bower* - One little boor of ai mo*! perfect pleasure, A foretaste of the happiness to come, Then sudden frost-the garden yields its treasure, And stauds in sorrow dumb. 0, listen heart I The flower may lose its giory Beneath the touch of frost, but does not r ." die; In spring it will repeat the old, sweet story Ot God's dear By and By. Ic heaven, if never here, the hopes we cher? ish The flowers of human lives we count as lost. Will live again. Such beauty cannot'perish ; And heaveu bas no frost. Eben E. Rexford. Free Trade in Money. Mr. Editor: Allow roe to call public attention through your columns, to the subjoined article on "Free Trade in Money," from the New York Indepen? dent. Why should free trade ?ot apply to money as well as other commodities claiming exemption from import duties ? Is there any reason that the value of money should uoi depend upon the law of supply and demand as well as the price of other commodities that are regu? lated by that law ? Cau the planting ?nteres?, of this country prosper while they are com? peled by t&? greed of the money lender to pay 10 per coot, interest? We answer, never. Is it right that the State legalizes such extortionate inter? est ? Let our Legislators answer. X. Y. Z. There was a time when ecclesiastics thundered forth their anathemas against the act of taking any interest for the use oCmoney- lent. The act was deem? ed a 'horrible and damnable sin.' de? serving of the censure of the Church aod, indeed, expulsion from the Chris- . tian fold. The earlier laws of.England made 1t an offense, and generally during the Dark Ages, it was denounce 1 as a monstrous wrong. The ground on .which this opiniou was based is the command of Moses, prohibiting the lending of money or anything else for increase amotig thc Jewish people. The statute reads thus: 'Thou shalt not give hin.? (thy brother) thy mouey upoo usury nor lend him thy victuals for increase/ 'Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother ; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Uuto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but uu'o thy brother thou shalt uot lend upon t usury.' The usury here forbidden is of two kinds-usury upou money and ; usury upon natural productions-and in both forms it rs prohibited as be-j tween Jews, while it is allowed when the Jew is a lender to one not a Jew. Tfiti conclusively shows that the pre? cept was designed to serve certain local purposes w between the Jews, aud never iuteuded to be a moral mandate of universal aud permanent application. It was the political law for Jews when Jews only were the parties to the trans? action, while it gave them an unre? strained license to take usury of stran? gers or foreigners.- The latter would have beeu wro%g if the thing itself was essentially wrong. Michaelis, in bis 'Commentaries on the Laws of Moses,' hence very properly observes : 'Any such prohibition of interest in our age and country would, however, without a doubt, be unjust toward len? ders, a great hardship on the one-half j of.the citizens, who have no landed prop-1 erty, aod destructive to trade of evei description ; and among all the ren nants of ancient laws, it would be dif cult to find one which, in the prese state of society, it would be more foe ish and hurtful to revive and enforc It could only suit a state so constitute as was that of the Israelites by Mose Hence, we may see the fol of urging the Mosaic prohibition t Christians, whose social and politic situation is quite unsuitable to it. . . . . Politically speaking on tl subject, it would, in modern times, I the greatest error which a legislatui could commit to prohibit interest for, without it, commerce can nevi flourish. . The perfect equity of the interei principle, once so furiously denounce by eccla'siasties by a false application ? the authority of M oso, is seen in tbn things: 1. The advantage which tb borrower derives from using the capiti of the lender 2. The advantag which the lender might have derive froin keeping the capital in bis ow possession and use, but which he fore goe3 to the benefit of the borrower, c The danger of loss, which the leode must always incur, aod for which h ought to, have some compensation These considerations settle the cquity'c the general doctrine of interest upo capital lent ; and it is only io the dar] period of supersilicn that the proposi tion has ever been disputed. Com tuerce aa 1 credit-are mutual compau ions, so intimately allied that the form er can never flourish without the lat ter ; and, if the interest priocipl were discarded, that would be the em of credit. The real question of modern ci viii zation is not whether interest is equi table, but whether aud how far its rati should bc regulated by law. The geu eral thought of the world, until, with io the last half-century, has been tba it should be absolutely a matter of lega prescription enforced by forfeitures au. 'penalties. Tins opinion, however, h rapidly -giving place to its opposite, and leading to legislation which leaves ?lie parties free to make their own agreement as ta" the rate of interest, the oue shall pay and the other receive. By acts passed in the second and third years of the reign of Qu^en Victoria, England, after undergoing a great many.eh.angei? and fluctuations of policy on this subject, abolisheJ all her usury laws, and now allows with impunity that which she once treated as a renal offense. Her example has been imi? tated by ten states of lilis Union ; and there is a strong* tendency of public sentiment io the other states to move tu tho same direct iou. . The probabil? ity is that iu less than twenty-five years, tho American people will very generally follow the legislation of England. --Having borrowed their usury legislation from England, we think they will be wise to borrow its abolition from the same source. As to ihe question whetjrtfifelaw fhall regulate the rate of iuierjm, or the parties be left to esei?^^fep?r vwu dis? cretion in the matter, ^S^abuiit four extracts from very eminent sources. The first is from Jobo Locke, the great English philosopher who says : .Money is a universal commodity, and is us necessary to trade as food i? to life; and every one mu-t have it at what rate he can get it, and invari? ably pay dear wbeu it is scarce. You may as naturally hope to set a fixed price upon the use of houses or ships as of money. Those who will consider things beyond their uames, will find that money, as well as other commodi? ties, is liable to the same change and inequality ; and the rate of money, is no more capable of being regulated than the price of land.' The next ts from Jeremy Bentham, the eminent judicial - philosopher of England, who says : 'As well might a clause be added fix? ing and reducing the price of horses, lt may be said against fixing the price horseflesh that different horses may be of different values. I answer, not more different than the values which the use of the same sum of money may be of to different persons ou different occasions. The third is from Lord Brougham, who said, in WIG : .The repeal or tho modification of the usury laws ts a measure, in the present agc, which nearly all mankind agree is perfectly safe, and calculated to afford the greatest measure of re? lief, and is, besides, ionocuous a!ike to the borrower, to the leuder, and to thc state.* The last is from Mr. James Birch Kelly, a distinguished English writer, who in a treatise on this subjeet, pub? lished in London in 1835, said : .All experience teaches us how un? profitable it is for the law to fix A max? imum rate of iutcrcsi applicable to every period. When there is little demand for tuohey u can be borrowed for less than thc legal-rate of interest on good security. When ti?e contrary is the case the law is evaded, and more than legal interest i> given ; for whatever may bc the municipal regulation, there is no axb'iii better established than that money, like water, will find its own level ; that it is governed by the same rules, as to production and distribution, which affect al! other merchantable commodities; that the rate of interest for its use is no more capable of being regulated by law than are the rates of insurance or the price of labor ; aud that free traJe iu money is the only way of makiug it abun? dant.' Such are the views winch procured the abolition of all usury laws in England. They have entered upou the same task io this country, and in the end will succeed. All such laws are against public policy while they^reaily arT-^rd no protection to borrowers. -m m > Table Hock and several thousand acres of contiguous lands, after having changed owuers a number of times j since the Kevoluti-mary War, have ; finally passed into the hands of a Ger- | mau Syndicate, which expects to pl a ?I f , a thrifty Germau colony in that .land j of the sky.' at an early day. Thc tract contains 135,000 acres, :,at a consid? erable portion has been taken up aud j settled by squatters, so that the num- i ber of acres at the disposal of the Syn- j dicate is considerably reduced. Perfection in Petticoats. Prospect Correspondent Utica Observer. The people of this part of Oneida County never brag, but we have a young lady in this village who has merits deserving of public notice. She is a blond of medium height, blue eyes, clear cut Grecian features, and is ac? knowledged to be pretty even by en? vious females, and has borne /way all the best prizes in school for years. Her education wa=. pronounced by our late school commissioner as being as good as that of any teacher in the fourth dis? trict. She can bake, wash, iron, cook, make garden, sing divinely, sew on a button or patch, make and fit all her own clothes, spin the yarn and make her own stockings, mo-j the floor enter tain a bouse fal! of ministers or an as? semblage of young people, make tatting, crochet, bevel a lambrequin, knit in? sertion on a slipper case, or quilt a pumpkin pie She never was known tc call your attention to the door scraper or mat, never spoke a cross word or bad a cold dinner on washing day, never ate a chocolate caramel or chewed gum. She wears none but her own hair and teeth, and was never nearer a corset than the outside of a dry goods counter. She never had a beau in her life, yet our best young men would be at her feet with the least encouragement. She can row a boat, shoot a gun, climb a tree and throw a fly, or land a trout io a manner to wiu the admiration of any sportsman. She never gossips aud never attempts to take a hand in another womao's knitting work, and is never seen upon thestre?ts in the evening, unies-? going to church ar to visit the sick. Her father has been a. widower for over a dozen years, is a pillar in the church, social and sought ?fter by all, yet manifests no desire to ?hange housekeepers. She was never known to torture a piano in her life, manifests no fondness for?ats or poodle, >r cur dogs, aud doesn't kno.w George Eliot's best novel from a hencoop, yet ?he is thoroughly conversant with all be important questions and news of the lay, and can quote history till you can't ?rink. We are not related except h rough our respected ancestor Adam, ind no young man must consider this J brown out as an inducement for the j ady in question would not look favor- j ibly upou his suit a moment unless she j vas convinced that he was thc equal of j ?er father, and it would be strong proof ! ?he would require. She is a thorough- j joiug politician with Democratic pro- j divides, and would work over the j nrasb-board and soapsuds six months for j he privilege of voting for Gr??er i Cleveland. &g An Important Search. While Mr. M ?son of South Carolina, j s very near to the perfection of a cot- \ on picking machine, which, if a final I success, will undoubtedly revolutionize ! Southern agriculture and labor, Mr. j fidisou announces that he will devote ? he next five years of his lit* to i he dis- j ;overy of a process whereby .furnaces, j coilers, steam engines and dynamos | will be eliminated. He is a Wm be- I iever in the happening of this improb- j ible event within a decade and hope? j ;o advance it in a briefer period. He j jays : j Working at the problem now seems ? to me very mach like driving a ship j straight for the face of a precipice and j when you come to grief pickiug your- j ?elf up and trying it again to-morrow, j There is an opening in the barrier ! somewhere and some lucky mau will j 5nd it. I have got far enough 1 to know that the thing is possi- j ble. I can get quUc a current ; now directly from the 'combustion ?of j fuel. Jablochkoff tried his hand in the j same thing someye^rs ago, and so did j some Germans, hut the results were laboratory curiosities only. Such a discovery would turn the in? dustrial world topsy-turvy. Power would become ridiculously cheap, a steamship could cross the ocean at. nominal cost, and poor men could own and run carriages. Neither Mason nor Edison may _ per? sonally succeed in their vast under- j takings, but they are on tho track of j what is at least possible, and may sow | the seed f<rr another man's harvesting. \ We 6uspeet that the individual who is I alive teu years hence will be witness ! to many marvels in locomotion, illumi-i natiou.and labor-saviug that are now ? only inchoate developments or scientific j dreams. -Augusta Chroncicle. Dogs. The following from the Fairfield Neics and Herald meets our views on the dog question. Messrs. Editors : There is a ques? tion of no small importance that should be agitating the minds of our people us well as that of cotton and corn combined with the general hard rime?, and that is the dog question. For the last week or ten days I have been making some investigations in regard to the dogs in this country ; their con? dition, their uses and their annoyances. The first thing thar caused me to look after them was, that I, being in thc stock business, always have hog food prepared at night to be fed next morn? ing. This food after being set avray at night, began to disappear, which caused mc to sit up at night after everything was quiet, to sec what be? came of it, and I found that the half fed curs of the country were consum? ing it. My remedy was thc free usc j of the shot-gun, which gave me fem- ! porary relief; but being surprised ai; the condition of things. I started out I to see how many dogs lived wi:hin the radius of one mile square of n?y abode, and must admit that I was utterly as? tonished at the number and the!! mis? erable Condition. They numbered ! fifty three, and ont of this number ? eight were owned hy white people and . forty-five by colored people, which j serves to show in the first place who : are the dog owners, and iu the secoud place that there must be within the border lines of Fairfield county at the i lowest calculation 10.OOO dogs ; in the third place, if these dogs each cou- : sumed only one-eighth of a bushel of i meal per week, it would foot up 1,250 bushels of meal, and for thc whole ; year h would run up to 65,000 bushels, i Now those figures seem to bo cnor- '. mous, but they are true nevertheless, and it must indeed be a scantily fed dog that does not consume four quarts of meal every sevi:n days of his exist? er-.'-. This G5.000 bushels of meal would feed 5.000 pigs twelve mouths, or it would feed with the assistance of pasturage, 2.000 milch cows a year, and you can make your own milk and butter calculation. Now for the divilment that this curl tailed bench-legged brigade does: First, thoy have caused -hoep hus? bandry to become a thing of the past; second, they break up al] the wild turkey nest? and kill the young ones, together with robbing thc partridge nests, in addition to destroying hun? dreds of young birds ere they are full fledged and able to get cut of their way; in fact they are destroying ali the game of the country; they keep hydrophobia raging . throughout the length and breadth of the land, and we know, that it keeps man, woman and child in dread for their lives, be? sides destroying a number of valuable animals, lt 'U almost impossible to have a decent fox chase on account of these despicable curs. Now the ques? tion naturally arises, what is the reme? dy for this increasing evil ? Shall we have a dog law as one of the organic laws of the land ? Shall we resort to taxes io the form of license, or would it be better to have dogs assessed so muchjjer capita, or what would be the best remedy under the circum? stances? In short, what would best suit the people ? I am no man for in? creasing taxes, a? our burden in this line is already heavy enough ; still I am of opinion that some st^ps should be taken to check the increase of ravenous, half-starved dogs. that will soon cause us to emigrate if some- | thiog is not done, and that shortly. The more "niggers" in any one com? munity thc more dogs aod gourds flourish there, and us T live in one of these communities, if I cannot get gen? eral relief I must have individual re? lief from the poison bottle. Let us hear from different parts of the county. S. H. RUTLAND. A Black i^vtiio* ^lack Di? Butle^8gear*i-say8 they will not Vote^fojp^idler Baskin s. tis > Butler^pea?Lis a light colored ma? lana, whojapBWfce of the lights of 'dV^fejid^lTd party.' Ile has at vari? ous times held various offices, but is uow a free citizen, tnthout public em? ployment, and his utterances may therefore be regarded as not emanating from an official source. Spears is very much exercised over the nomination of Fidler Tom Buskins ns elector on the Republican ticket tor the Seventh Con? gressional Districr, and, being encour? aged to ventilate his views by a seduc? tive reporter who met him yesterday, delivered himself as follows: ?ou can just say that the colored voters of the Seventh District will not. vote for Bus? kin, and that's the long and short of it. We wonjt go to tue poils to vote for such wapiti We were opposed to him ianthe "State Convention, where I made a rafe-agc i list him, and wc 'int going to swallow him at all. I've been adco catlnsitbc lights of the colored mau ever ti nee I g rowed up. and Fin advo? cating them now. What I say the Democrats have given us the Black District, and wc should have black men to represent us. The least that could have been done was to put a black man on the the elec? toral ticket. I'll tell you one thing, if they expect the colored people io that district to come out and vote for Smalls and Haskins, they are calculating on nothing. Old Buskins has been run? ning fur office all his life. He's like Tom B. Johnston here in Charleston, a chronic candidate for office. He's cra? zy for office, and he has never yet g#t one. He tried the Democratic party, and bc couidu't even get to be a consta? ble. Nov/ he's trying to get into office on the backs of the colored men. He makes me sick. I tell you bs can't do it, because tho colored people won't vote for him. No sir; they won't. The colored voters of the Seventh Dis? trict want to be represented by colored men, cad the sooner old Buskins and his tribe understand it the better for them. Fm a Republican, F VG always been one, but I ain't a fool, and I don't think the' colored pcop?&iu the Seventh District are^such foolscap Baskins aod the rest take them to be.. I'll tell you one thing its going to do. Its going to beat Smalls for Ccogress as sure as shooting. We'd vote for Smalls as fat as that goes. I don't think much of him myself, but stiil the colored folks would vote for him because be's a col? ored man, but the Haskins business ha.^ made them all sick, and I dou't believe that half of the voter:: will come out on election day. There arc hundreds of colored men in the districr. who are able to represent their race on tito electoral ticket. Now why didn't they put one of them there instead of old Haskins ? Who is he any way? If ho is a Re? publican, he is changed to one siuce ? saw him last, and he is a poor shont anyhow. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if Smalls is beaten, and it will serve thom right if he is. If they are going to load d"wn the ticket, with that kind of trash il ouaht to be beaten anyhow.' - i .i i, , i m,m Something Like Samson. 'One meets some peculiar people in society nowadays,' remarked Mrs. Uppertiiu. 'Now there's Mr. X-. [Io.. . talked at pur party last night ! Why he all bat monopolized the conversation. He himself a modern Samson.' *A modern Samson ! 1 don't sec fie analogy,' replied her husband. 'Didn't you ever read your Bible, dear?' a s koo! Mis. Upper tea, arching ncr eyebrows. 'About as often as you do,' re? torted Mr. Upperten. 'hut I can't see the faintest resemblance to Samson in X-.' 'Didn't 3'ou ever read,' inquired Mrs. Upperten, 'about Samson going around killing people with thc jawbone of an as< ':' 'Ah ! By Jove ! I must remember that for the boys at. thc club.' - - I A friend to every body is a friend to nobody. What Our Editors Say. Clarendon Enterprise. Eight years ago, with a mighty effort aod amid great enthusiasm, the yoke of Radical corruption was thrown off, atid the era of Home Rule begun. Since then our State has made rapid advance? ment, and is ?rill growing in wealth. But our prosperity depends altogether upon Democratic rule. Let the State j again lapse into Carpetbag rule, and high taxes and a depreciation of real es? tate will inevitably follow. At present, with not more than four exceptions, the rate of taxation in South Carolina is les? than in any o'hcr State, and the cause of its being higher than in tho. j three j or four Sutes is the large public debt ! created and left by this same Carpetbag Ra.:leal party. No claim is made of perfection in the rule and management of the Democratic party, but the VL'-.W agement and ?uccess of this partv lias been as superior to vhat of Radical ruie as refined goid is to tarnished bras* There is uo immediate fear that the State is in danger of slipping from Home Rule, but, in almost every part of the State, there is an apparent apathy in politics. This will not do. The election this year is au important one, and should interest every one. There is a better prospect of electing a Democratic President this year than ever before, but as sure as the people stay away from thc polls, the other p?r ty will be elected. Thc uegroes in Clareudon county are better organized this year than io any previous cam- j paign, aod they can and likely will be : manipulated.by some carpetbag thief j lt is time-high time-that the people all over the county rouse themselves and get to work. The Slate and coun- | ty ticket entire must be elected, and the majority of the votes cast io this county must be for Dargan and the Cleveland electors. If every Democrat in thc county will but do his duty, the election ia safe. Let us be Moving. people in^^^st world should have an undying hatred for the re? publican party and all its represen? tatives the people of Greenville should. The history of this town is not an ordinary one. As Greenville stands she is a living testimonial of thrift, honest labor, courage and persever? ance. Almost every dollar of capital here is the result of hard work, economy i and gradual accumulation. Our peo? ple, with very few exceptions, have made their way without advantages of capital, influential connections or favor- I ing circumstances. They have toiled ; zealously and sacrificed and denied \ themselves faithfully, and have built up a city of which they can be honestly ? and i-arnestly proud ??U which promises ' to continue its wonderful advance and ? become more promiueut aud powerful ? every year Whose fault is it that our town, like ; all the other material things in the State, stands always over a volcano? j Whose fault is it that our people 3re ! forced to face the possibility of destruc- j tion every two years and to strain every j nerve to beat back a eatnract of robbery i aod violence-to strive agaiust a horde j of conscienceless banditti not only ; threatening to steal and ??cstroy all the j results of ou?- patient, frugal toi!, bul j imperilling fhe safety of our hearth- j stones and our lives ? ?l ?3 the fault of the republican party j and of its leaders, among whom James j G. Blaiue and John A. Logan, irs j nominees for president and vice pre^i- j dent, are conspicuous for their active par- i ticipation in its evil work. Every thinking man knows that a j victory of the radical party in this j Sfate would be worse for us than any j invasion of Goths and Huns was for j the Italian hamlets and worse iu its ! "results than any of the raids of In- i dians that spread horror and destruction through the early settlements of America. This no exaggeration. We know by experience what radical rule was, and we know that it would be j worse restored than ever before. The j robber? would come upou us with greed ! increased an hundred fold by years of I enforced abstinence aud with hatred sharpened and hardened by the many defeats we have put upon them. A. legion of ravening, hungry wolves turned loose among us would would not be half so dangerous as the rule of the carpet bagger, thc scalawag and black political striker Two years of that rule i would leave our fi Ids barren and wasted, our towus deserted and im- ! poverisbjsd and our factories idle and j dismantled, and would send thousands of our best people to seek peace and security in other States, Radical rule once restored would never be shaken off, and South Carolina would before many years be little better than a wil? derness and a mass- of desolation from mountain to sea. The republican leaders^know these thiugs as well as we do, Bot thc knowl? edge does not stay thea? in their effort? to put thc white mau, education, cul? ture and wealth under the reckless and ir? responsible governmentof the black man. the pauper, the professional thief and the bummer. For a political advan? tage they are willing to precipitate upon hundreds of thousands of unoffending people a fate worse than a general mas? sacre. There were some escapes from the day of St. Bartholomew and it passed away. No mau, woman or child io South Carolina would escape the degradations and tho horrors of a restored radical rule, r.nd it would last forever. To pay the republican party and ?ls leaders thc deep debt ot hale aud j scorn we owe them ; to avenge ali the I degradation, misery and suffering they ! have wantonly inflicted upon us and j ours ; to banish from among us their I hirelings and bulldozing u?"lc ?trappers, ! and to ..vert and remove thc danger i ever impending over our possessions, j our lives aud our fireside.-., there is just I one way. j Let us quif ourselves like men from j now until the fourth of next mouth, and laboi day in and day out and roll up a majority here in the mountains beyond I the reach of the black hordes iu the j rice fields, and strong on^ugh to signal to the country in tones that cannot ho ! m ia taken that South Carolina docs not ! forget and is uot afraid-that she is true j to her ancient Democratic faith, loyal to j the core to thc cause of the people, i mindful of the friends who have stooi ? by her so bravely iu her adversity. I equally mindful of those who have in ; suited and oppressed her and sought to j con.pass her ruin, and determined by ! the bein cf 'he good God and the stout j heart? of ber people that thc blighting j fooi of radicalism shall never Sod a ! place in her borders, j Let the honest people, native an'] ! foreign boro, black and white, old and j you:;;?, rich and peor - ail :?viug j South Carolina, stand shoulder to j shoulder and foot to fc?% all for tb? j Commonwealth, all for l?.e comme:; ! weal. Seven Leen days to election ? All j iogelher ouee more f?r that ?itile time ! j Lot Greenvilicfyo better now than she J ever did before ! The danger is bete, j though we do not see it. j Look vp your registration ticket. ! Make sure you ?Lave got it. Dont wait \ until election day when it iv Ul Lc too ! late Neighboring Counties. Clarendon Enterprise : Tuesday, the! I 28th is the day for the ratification of j the Democratic ticket. A number of j distinguished speakers will be present, I and let there be such an attendance and fucli a demonstration as to leave no doubt of what we intend doing Nov. 4th. -Court convenes next Mon* j day -Workmeu are engaged in j leveling and cleaning off the Court j House square. This improvement will j enhance the beauty of the grove. - Saturday was a splendid business day. The streets were crowded with traders and our merchants wore smiling faces. -It is reported that on Santee every? one bas the fever. In other parts of the county there is considerable sick? ness reported, but the health of Man? ning will compare with that of any town ia the ?State. -A bevy of the Academy girls who were eager for a ride from school last Friday after? noon piled on a buggy which, as it was making a short turn, broke down and emptied the jolly crowd into the street. I 0;;e little giri, after extricating ber j self, stood eonteojplating the situation j and exclaimed: "We are all killed.' I Fortunately, there was no serious I damage done. -Salem is suffering i from a six weeks' drought. Mill streams are dried up, and much sick? ness prevails. Mr. J Forman Cole's li ti 1 e danghter, about 4 years old, died from malarial fever on the 7fh in? stant, aud Mr. Joseph Beard died on the 6th instant from same cause. The cotton crop has turned out to bc only two-thirds of a crop with no top tolls. Corn, peas, and other crops are good and fully up to expectations, conse? quently few Hens frill be given next year. It is believed that a majority of the Saleniites are opposed to it aud wish it repealed. Florence Times: On Thursday morning last, a small colored boy was caught io Mr. D. H. Hamby's gin, and the saws cut his arm through lbs bone, and also cut through five of his ribs lo the hollow. His arm was amputated, and tue ether wounds dresssed, and, strange as ii may ap? pear, he is still alive. Tilla is one iuorc to be added to the already targe list of giu casualties so far reported this seasou.-Chickens, butter and eggs arc as s -sree as they ever get to bc in these parts. -The attendance on the various schools in Florence is increasing. -'Possum hunters re? port this game as plentiful, and the sport excellent. Camden Journal : There was a slight sprinkle of rain in Camden on last Thursday, but it only laid the dust for a few hours Everything isas dry now ? as it was before. The dust is almost ! stifling. -Te hear coat plaints from I thc country that in several of the seed j cottou shops they sell wine and beer I as openly as it is sold in a licensed j bar. -On Thursday evening of ! last week a terrine hailstorm prevailed j in the Tiller's ferry section of this couo I ty. Tu o residents of that vieini-y say \ that tii was the heaviest fall of bail ?they ever saw. -Mr. W. T. ? Ledits brought to our office on last Mon d-ny. the largest beet wc have seen in a ; long time. It. measured ll, inches in i diameter and weighs seven pounds, It j is of the turnip variety, and the seed : was piaoted last spring. He bas j one now growing iu his garden that I measures thirty inches in circumference, I and he proposes to take it the State I Fair. It will beat all thc beets on ex I liibition, we think. Fabrics from "Wild Plants. In a shop window iu New York City is displayed a variety of hanks of thread, some coarse, some linc, somo dark-colored, some light? some vari? colored. Sonic of thc thread has the softness of the finest silk, some is rough and rasping as hemp. Il is a curious assortment, and attracts thc attention of many a passer-by. A visit to the in? side cf" the shop is a revelation of a coming revolution in certain agricul? tural products of this country huberto considered useless. In a rear room about 16 by 20 foci, were three or four heavy, but apparently simple machines operated by a small steam engine. Thc room was half lilied with inauy kinds of weeds, weed-stems and leaves, while in one corner were seen barrels cf crude asbestos. One machine is being fed by a young man, who gave to it bundle after bundle of the dry, brittle weeds, while another was greedily dc- ? Touring asbestos, crushing lumps I weighing three or four pounds and | swallowing thom with a groan. The j dry, trash-like stuff led to thc first ma- j chine was converted in a short time ? into tin; coarse, brown thread seen in j the window, while thc ro.igh asbestos -j quickly changed its mineral Hardness ? and became a fiber as fine as silk, j ready Tr> bc spun and woven. The I common cotton stalk,which tho planter j of the South pulls no and burns after I the year's picking, was made into a 1 coarse thread, equal in every respect j to thc jute ot' India, which th? United ? States buys io toe extent of ?6,000,000 animally. Flax straw, which grows in many of the .-.{Mies o? tho Union, which j is cultivated b, hundreds of thousands j of acres for the seed alone, and is burn- ! ed, or left to "ot in thc fields, was con- ? verted into a liber which made an ex- i co.licut and strong coarse linen, and ! which, when mixed wiiii wool in the . process of manuiacture, made an excel- i lent substitute for cottou. Other plant? j of which the greater number were dis-1 covered to be weeds of the commonest variety, were shown to com:-in valua? ble liber. Among them were bear grass, Spanish bayonet (needle), okra, nettle, ramie, pi:-:, baurhor, vviiu cof? fee, the cotton pia.. ', and jute. Most of these plants grew wild. Little or no attention has been paid to their culture. Fro ra these various libers, m a nv of which, by actual experiment wai "dye beautifully and perfectly and, without injury, can be made "bagging, mats, matting sack? for grain, rope, cordage, twine, packing thread, paper btock of the ii nest quality, costly fabrics for wear, substantial fabrics for cvery-day use, 'ind mate-rial for upholstering pur? pose-. From the fibrous minerai as? hcans can be made lire-proof curtains and hangings for halls and theaters, tire-proof ropes, carpets r:id ground? work for oil-cloths, ?no ninny other ar? ticles of luxury and necessity. Ramie ai*a Sisal hemp fiber n>ay Le mlx^d with siik in manufacture, aLd common grasses are turned into tiber fine and strong for wigs and false hair. Ev?u the hard shcil of the cocoanut h dis? covered tc contain a liber which closely resembles hair, lt will not '.pack/1 and is equal to curled hair for up? holsterers' use. Indeed, there are lew of our native products which do r-. ;i contain some quality of tiber, and re? cent exporinients nave demonstrated that the United States pays annually for products which may be made at home the larsje sum of $1<5,000,000.' ?V, Y. Tribwie. '<?-?> o? Congressmen's Pocker-feooks. If some Adara Smith of household finance would arise to teach a senator or representative how to live on $5,000 a year, he would confer an everlasting boon on many of thc members of the congress of the United States. Al? though Washington may bc called a cheap piace to live in, and for ?5,000 a year a family cm be supplied with everything that reasonable persons de? sire, yet it must be remembered that? congressman does not often get his $5, 000 intact; and, besides that, there are in Washington two scales of prices^ one for permanent residents and one for member of congress and foreign diplomats. First come the election ex? penses. And a congressman who comes out less than $1.000 out of pockot is considered kicky. Then come?, tho journey of theiamily to Washington-. for congress has not yet allowed mile? age to members1 families, although' after the late private secretary indulg? ence nothing ia the way of perquisites need surprise anybody. Next is Jtho intermediary stage of hotel iiving until a house or lodgings are fourni. Thus,, before his lodgings are secured and he begins to have an idea o? his mocthly. expenses, a targe chunk of the con? gressman's $5,000 a year is gone. It does not take him long to lind oui that he can't do with his income as well as other people Jo. If he is in lodg? ings, his wife must have a reception, day, and, no matter how simple the scale on which it is conducted^ a waiter must be hired to hand in ^tbe cards, and there is usually some slight refreshment. If the wife of a repre? sentative visits at all she has to visit a. great deal, and visiting means a car? riage. Then there are occasional din? ners, receptions at the white house and elsewhere, which it is customary for rep? resentatives' wives to atte'ndj asa that moans costumes, gloves, and carriages. There seems to be a kind of clairvoy? ance among everybody in Washington who has anything to soil or to hire to a member of congress or his family. The wives of members generally be? come well known to the tradespeople before long1, aad the butcher, tho baker, the<^dleslick-maker, the dress? maker, the bonnet-maker, anc? the maker of everything they eat und wear combius against the representative's ?5.000. In tho case of senators e~< ry crcum stance is agrava* ed. There bein?: but seventy-eight senators, an.i not ail ox them paired," the senators' wives are known as well as the Washington monument, and as most of there take infinite delight in having parcels ad? dressed to "Mrs. Senator Blank," tho inuocent creatures give themselves away to thc shop people. The women of sense who are senators' wives, and feel the necessity of making their . money go as far as it ought, studiously conceal the fact that they arc senators* wives when they are "dealing," as the negroes call shopping. .it is as much as my life is wort!;," said one quite solemnly, "to gc into a shop. I can hardly come out alive. They would take ail my money: they would garole rn-", almos r, rather than I should come oat with a sixpence, and all because I married a senator."-Ni Y. Sun. -? m . WIT ANO HUMOI?. Blobson speaks of the butterine manufacturers as a great and growing oleogarchy. What is laughter? asks a scientist. It is the sound that you hear when your hat blows off. We suspect th.V the reason why so many young men arc so frosh is be? ean* they cannot earn their own salt A cure for spring fever which works excellently with a mau is to have a young woman with her features con? cealed bv a veil swak to him on ? lie street He'll forge? all about being tired and follow her miles if necessary to catch a glimpse cf her face. "It is now settled,*1 says an ex? change, "that a newly-married lady ceases to be a bride and becomes simply a wife when she has sewed a butiou on her husband's clothes." lt is this fact that makes u< such happy peopie. The country is full of brides. An Irish bride regards it as an ill omen to rise before the sun on her wedding dav. Her husband may inter? pose no objectiou to such a supersti? tion on that day, but after marriage he regards it an ill-omen if she doesn't rise before the sun and wrestle with thc fire and the breakfast. "H'if you wish to spoil a good boy send Mm to coliegCy" remarked Yeaih* erstone, whose ?on had just returned from a course of instruction ia Germany. "Ere's ?nar!es: just back from the continent you know. What does 'c amount to? "E wont to 'Kiuel ber<r, h'and that accounts for "is lazi? ness." Congressman- "What is that, sir?". Waiter-"That is a small Pottle of whisky, sah, and a glass of watah,, sab." Congressman-**I did not order it." Waiter-"No, sah: I shought rou might want it." Con<rressnian (rfh~rUy)-"What I want I will order." Waiter-"All r..-ht sah: beg your pardon. Will remove it at, once-, sah." Waiter throws out the water. A white sq 'lt caught a *arty of tourists moving across ? lake in Scot? land, and threatened to ea:.sl?e the boat When it st emed tha- the crish was really come, the largest and physically strongest of the party, in a state of intense fear, said, "Let ns pray." "No, no, my man," sho 5cd thc bluff old boatman; "let that ?&??t man pray; you take au oar."