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?$?$^~+i* - (.'iv -j?. . . .. *HK^T^aCCKKi\CATCHMAS, Established April, IS50. lBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Enda thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON',-Kj?tablMied Jone, 39??' Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1886; lla?an aittr Sot?te : JforitlshsA every Tueslay, . O. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. Two Bplktrs per annum-in advance. A D V S RT IS S MB NTS . One Square, first i user tion.$ 1 00 Svery subsequent insertion .......v.....--. 50 . Contracts vror three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. . AU communications which subserve private interest* wHl he charged for as advertisements. ' Obituaries 'and tributes of respect will be charged for. Absolutely Pure. ' This powder never varies. A marvel of purify^* strength - and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can? not be sold in competition with the multitude ?flow: test^short weight? alum or. phosphate tmrietti~Sotf<?iOt& cans. ROYAL BAK ?WDER'CO., 106 Wall-st., N. Y IN STORE ' _ __AND ? AA BBLS FLOUR JL\/\/' $5.00 and upwards. -SO BPEARL GRITS, 50&'LES., SM0?Eb C. P, SIDES, Z20OO " D. S. * " " '3000 ** PAT BACKS, 3000 " BUTTS, -12-BOXES EXTRA CREAM CHEESE. IO SACKS RIO COFFEE, 20 BBLS. SUGAR, 50 BOXES SOAP, -15 BBLS. NEW ORLEANS SYRUPS, SO SACKS LIVERPOOL SALT, 5 BBLS. RICE, i .-. T- - ASP ' 'A FULL ASSORTMENT OF SHELF GROCERIES, ALL BOUGHT- LOW FOR OASHr And will he seid so as to compete with any market. Every'day we hear Farmers say the J>jbdePlow is the Best Continue to keep them, in one and two horse. Also all pieces belonging to them. A fuU supply of Hoes, Plows, Rakes, and all other implements needed on a farm. HARNESS, SADDLES. AND PLOW GEAR Just opened A CHEAP LOT OF HOSIERY, HANDKERCHIEFS, TOWELS AND :l :" ' CORSETS. The Ladies should examine the 30c., 50c, and $1.00 Corsets. Have the best thing ever ont in Corsets the "Spiral ' Spring"-come and examine them. Our Hats are in And dint they daisies ? Everv s^vl* of Pelt, Wool and Straw, and at-PRICES EVEN TO SUIT THE HARD TIMES. We continue to keep The Best Stock of Cigars ever offered outside of a city. Cai! and see the handsome MEERSCHAUM CASE that we are going to give away. JBefore buying anything see J/you cannot save money by buying of me. ALTAMONT MOSES, N. E. Corner Main and Liberty Streets, Feb 23 Sumter, S. C. A. J. CHINA, DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines and C* liemicals. MNB TOILET SOAPS, HAIR AND TOOTH BRUSHES. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES, Ac. Ac. PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES AND DYE STUFFS, GLASS, PUTTY, $c. FuU supply of Fresh Garden Seeds. April 9_ PAINT YOUR BUGGY FOR One Dollar. One coat gives aa old buggy the blackest black, you ever saw and a handsome gloss without varnishing. It dries bard in a few hours. "No rubbing ! No varnishing ! No extra trouble. Each can contains more than enough to paint a carriage. Retailed at One Dollar per Can. :?orS?leby U ' PR. A. J. CHINA. T?RED O U T ! At this season nearly ever? one needs to nee some sort of tonio. IRON enters into almost every phy? sician's prescription for those wno need boilding op. ????EST TOKH? For Weakness* I, i issi tad e. Lack of Energy, etc-, it HAS NO EQUAL* and is tho only Iron medicino that is not injurious. It Enriches the Blood, Invigorates thc System, Restores Appetite, Aid? Digestion lt does net blacken orinjurethe teeth, cause head? ache or produce oonstipaticn-other Iron medicine* do DE. G. H. BtSKJJEY, a leading physician of Spring? field, Ohio, says: ** Brown's Iron Bitters is a thoroughly good medi? cine. I use it in my practice, and find its action ex? cels all other fozms ot iron. In weakness, oralow con? dition of the system. Brown's Iron Bitters is usnaDy a positive necessity. It is all that is claimed for it. DB. *W. N. "WATERS. 1210 Thirty-second Street, Georgetown. D. C., says: "Brown's Iron Bitters is the Tonic of the age. Nothing Detter. It creates appetite, gives strength and improves digestion." Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red fines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BUOWX CH E?t! CAI. CO.. BALTIMORE, MD. Most of the diseases which sfHict mankind are origin? ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER* For aU complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of the Liver, Biliousness, Xervons Dyspepsia, Indiges? tion, Irregularity of the Bowels. Constipation, Flatu? lency. Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Elex, Chills and Fever. Brsakbone Fever, Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar? rhoea, Loss ox" Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath, Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down 3??? STflDIGER S HURftHTII is invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases, b^i^HDC a" diseases of the LIVER, ?rill QUIT C. STOMACH and BO WELS. It changes the' complexion from a waxy, yellow finge, to a raddy, healthy color, it entirely removes iow. gloomy spirits, lt is one of the S EST AL* TERAT?VES and PURIFIERS OF THE BLOOD, and lg A VALUABLE TONIC. STADICER'S AU RANT! I Far sale by all Druggists. Price Si .00 per bottle. C. F. ST AD ICE R, Proprietor, AO SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa. Many a Lady is beautiful, all but her skin ; and nobody has ever told her how easy it' is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. ?. WHITE & SON, Insurance Agents, Offer tn First Class Companies. FIRE INSURANCE, TORNADO INSURANCE, ACCIDENT INSURANCE, LIFE INSURANCE, PLATE GLASS INSURANCE, SURETYSHIP ON BONDS. April 6 SEED PEAS. 50 Bashels of early Grey Peas for Sale by A. WHITE. April 6 IMPROVED COTTON SEED. IHAVE ;ON HAND SOO BUSHELS IM? PROVED THOMAS & PETERKIN COTTON SEED for sale. Price 75 cents per bushel, delivered in Sumter, S. C. Address ' G. M. SANDERS, March 9. Stateburg, S. C. FOR SALK MILK COWS ALWAYS ON HAND n. P.. THOMAS, Wedgefield, S. C. FOETSALE, Caeap fer Cash, or Approved Papers " Payable cn Jan. 1,18S7. One TWOiHORSE TOZER & DIAL POR? TABLE ENGINE. One GO SAW BROWN COTTON GIN. One Steam BOSS COTTON PRESS, and About 30 feet of SHAFTING with all nec? essary Pulleys und Belting to ran the same. Apply to or address A. D. RICKER, April 6 Sumter. S. C. ICE CREAM! IDE CREAM! I HAVE OPENED MY ICE CREAM GAR? DEN.. NICELY FITTED UP Especially for Ladies, And respectfully solicit tie patronage of tbe public. I ?rust that ruy efforts to keep open a FIRST CLASS ICE CHEAM GARDEN will be appreciated by thc; public. My long experience in the business is a guarantee . that I will gi vc satisfaction. Orders for family partie?, weddings or pic? nics will be filled at short notice and deliv? ered in any part of town. Price 50 to GO cents per quart. ICE! ICS 2 I will deliver daily from ice wagon to cus? tomers, ice in any quantity, at the following prices: less than 50 pounds, l? cents : from 50 upwards, 1 cent per pound. Special rates to regular customers. Remember that for ten years I have supplied Sumter with Ice, and I respectfully ask ^ufii cient patronage to enable me to keep my ice bouse open 8?I the season. On Sunday I will be open from 12 to 1. W. J. ANDREWS. April G. N, O, PHOSPHATE, COPROLITE MAN?RE. Best and Cheapest Fertilizer Ever Discovered. Send for Circular. FRENCH BROS., March 2. Rocky Point, N. C. ffeftlllAA*"1 WHISKY H A? ITS cured I1U1IInil at home without pain. BOOK III IU 111 of particular* gent FItEE. 2?JL??????B. ll WOOUXT, BL D., AtlanU.O*. H?MOPH0BIA Yl??S. CLARA BELLE'S CHAT CONCERNING A NEW AND THREATENING DANGER. What'the French Savant Asked M. Paiten? -A Question of Highest Interest-In a Few Tears Nobody Can Be Approached with Safety from Contagion. A French savant asked M. Pasteur whether dogs that had been inoculated for rabies would not be thereafter able to trans? mit the disease, and therefore hardly less dangerous than mad dogs? Pasteur re? plied that the question was of the highest In? terest, and he would give his attention to its solution. With the arrival of the Newark youngsters, who are supposed to have been made hydrophobia-proof by Pasteur's treat? ment, this question of the French savant takes on a local interest. If dogs which he has inoculated can impart rabies, so can urchins whom he has inoculated Ii to the several deplorable varieties of small boy there has been added another, and if this other is a ranting reservoir bf hydrophobic virus, then there is a reason to ask whether Pasteur hasn't made it worse instead of better for the human race. "With the usual opportunities for shin? ning np a telegraph pole or dodging into a beer saloon, a man's chances of going through life without being bitten by a mad dog are very good; but, if he must be? ware of the small boy lest the boy prove to be charged with virus, then eternal vigilance is the lowest price of immunity from the horrors of hydrophobia. One of these Newark boys isa telegraph messen? ger. The recipient of a message borrows the boy's peneil to sign for the dispatch; he wets the pencil point on his tongue, and lo! within the period of the develop? ment of the rabies, the man is in convul? sions and beyond human aid. The young? est of the Newark contingent is of the age to swap quids of chewing gum with the children of his neighborhood, and all-will be anxious to have dealings of that sort with him, because, forsooth, he has been to Paris. The biggest ship that sails from Hoboken is too small to carry the urchins that will have need of Pasteur's ministra? tions if the danger suggested by the in? quiring savant really exists. OTHER DAGGERS QUITE AS TERRIBLE. But these Newark children are not to re mam the only disseminators of hydropho? bia. Several other patients are to return soon, also charged with the highly objec? tionable venom. In a few years, at this rate, yon will not know who can be ap? proached with safety and who is to be shunned as you would shun amad dog. If a spoon at the hotel table has not been thor? oughly cleaned with acid you may take rabies from the man who used it last be? fore you. If, in a moment of extreme kindly feeling toward humanity, yon pick np and restore a dude's cane you may get rabies from the frosted-silver head which slipped from his mouth, and the act of courtesy may cost you your life. In rural places, where it is customary for all the wedding guests to kiss the bride, there is no telling how saturated with hydrophobic venom she may become in a brief space of time. The table fork of an envenomed guest at an eating-house car? ries a particle of saliva to the shred of meat he leaves on his plate, and on the following day you are served with the germs of rabies in your plate of hash, or later you get the morsel in a link of sausage-thus realizing the humorist's dream of getting the hydro? phobia from a bologna. Even a casual thought of the possible perils that may arise in this way is sufficient to raise the question whether it would not be best to head up those Newark children in casks and feed them through the bung-hole till Pasteur decides that they may safely be turned loose.-Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer. The Czar's New Parade Pantaloons. The Russian emperor ordered some time ago a pair of new parade pantaloons of his tailor, au Italian living in the great Mass koi, and who carries on the largest busi? ness in St. Petersburg. The czar is very economical, and carefully examines bis own expenditures. Accordingly he asked for the bill for his unmentionables, and found that the price was exorbitant. Im? mediately the czar sent for his adjutant and asked him what price he had been ac? customed to pay for the same garments. Thft price was considerably lower. The emperor flew into a passion, and sent the adjutant to the tailor with the order to immediately take down from his shop the imperial eagle. The Italian handed in a complaint to the ministry of the court, trying to dispute the right of the czar of taking down the eagle, having not re? ceived it from the present but the former emperor. The consequence was an im? perial ukase ordering the tailor to quit the Russian territory. The order will be executed as soon as the Italian, who in the meanwhile has fallen ill, shall re? cover.-Foreign Letter. They Didn't Know How to Sow. Upon an investigation which precluded the introduction of sewing in the public schools of a town containing more than 10,000 inhabitants, it was found that only six of the girls who crowded the schools knew how to sew. Many had never seen a thimble. Further inquiry discovered that many mothers of these children did not know how to sew, but bought "ready made" clothing as they needed it.-Chicago Times. The Legal Profession in the West. Said a St. Paul attorney to me: "There are more attorneys in Minneapolis than in the whole state of Vermont. I can not ac? count for this, except on the ground that the sudden growth of western cities has allured from eastern hamlets their legal talent. The legal profession is overdone in the west."-Cor. Pioneer-Press. This Explains Her Ecstatic Buoyancy. It is said that- the secret of happiness is never to allow the energies to stagnate. This will explain in some degree the ecstatic buoyancy of soul with which an old her. seem to be animated when she gets a chance to make herself at home ina newly made garden.-Chicago Ledger. The Identification of Silk Fiber. Silk can be identified in a mixtxire with any oilier fiber, animal or vegetable, by menus of concentrated hydrochloric acid, which dissolves it completely and imme? diate^', without appreciably affecting any woolen or woody ?ber with which the silk may have been interwoven.-Boston Tran? script. Journalistic Enterprise in Mexico. In Mexico the morning newspapers are sold ir. the .streets the evening before, foi they go to presrs about 5 o'clock in the aft? ernoon. The Sunday morning papers arc .sold Saturday night, and there are none ready for Monday, so that in Mexico there is no Sunday newspaper work done and no Sunday newspaper.-Chicago JoumaL Thought It a Part of the Show. "It ls diverting t? know," says London Truth, alluding to the new budget ol Beaconsfield letters, "that when Lord Rolle tumbled down the steps of thc throne at the coronation, his fall was re? garded by the foreigners present as part of the ceremony, being 'a tenure by which he held his barony.' " Prince Krapotldne's Prison Pupils. "When Prince Kmpotkine was in prison at Clairvaux he became the teacher ol twenty fellow-anarchists. Among thc studies taught were German, English and Spanish. One of the pupils got along so well in English as to be able to translate a book for publication.-Exchange. Edict for the Austrian Benedict. A decree has recently been promulgated i in Austria to the effect that no married Austrian subjeot shall henceforth receive a passport for journeying beyond the frontier without the express consent ol his wife. Where the Money Goes. GOVERNORS OFFICE. Salary of Governor, $2,500 Private Secretary, 1,500 Messenger, 400 Contingent fund, 4,000 Stationery and stamps, - 250 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Salary of $1,000 OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE. Salary Secretary of State, $2,100 Clerk, 1,500 Contingent fund, 250 Stationery and stamps, 250 OFFICE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL. Salary of Comptroller-Genl, $2,100 Clerk, 1,500 Bookkeeper, 1,500 Contingent fond, 300 Stationery and stamps, 250 Printing blanks, &c, 200 For examining tie books of County Auditors and Treasurers, 600 OFFICE STATE TREASURER. Salary of State Treasurer $2,100 Clerk, 1,500 "Bookkeeper. 1,500 Bookkeeper Loan Department, 1,500 Contingent fund, 250 Stationery and stamps, 2o0 ST ITE HOUSE AND GROUND?. Salary of keeper, ?500 Janitor, 160 Two watchmen, 800 Repairs State House, 200 Improvement State House grounds, 200 OFFICE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Salary of Attorney General ?2,100 Assistant Attor? ney General, 1,500 Contingent fund, 200 Stationery and stamps, 60 Expenses of litigation, 4,000 OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. Salary of Superintendent of Education, 2,100 Salary of Clerk, 1,200 Contingent fund, 200 Stationery and stamps, 150 Books and blanks for pub? lic schools, 800 Expenses State Board ex? aminers, . 300 Conducting Normal Insti? tutes, 1,500 ADJUTANT GENERAL'8 OFFICE. Salary of Adjutant GenM, ?1,500 Clerk, 1,200 State armorer, 500 Ordnance Serg% 400 Contingent fund, ' 150 Stationery and stamps, 150 Expenses Adjutant Gene? ral's Office, 1.000 Maintaining militia, 14.000 Confederate rolls, 500 JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT Salary of Chief Justice ? 4,000 2 Associate Justi? ces, 7.000 Salary of 8 Circuit Judges, 28,000 8 Circuit Solici? tors, 12,500 Salary of Clerk Supreme Court, 1.000 Salary of State Reporter, 1,000 Librarian supreme court, 800 Salary of Messenger Su? preme Court, 250 Salary of Attendait Su? preme Court, 250 Contingent fund Supreme Court, ' 500 Bocks Supreme Court, 1,000 STATE LIBRARIAN. Salary of State Librarian, ?625 Contingent fund, 200 Stationery and stamps, 200 Purchase Supreme Court Reports, 450 REGISTRATION AND ELECTION. Salaries Supervisors Regis? tration, ? 7,000 Blanks for general elec? tion, 800 Books and certificates su? pervisors registration, 2,000 Commissioners and mana? gers of election for per diem and mileage, 20,000 HEALTH DEPARTMENT; Salary health officer, Char? leston, ?1,800 Healthier, Hilton Head, 800 St. Helena, 800 Georgetown, 500 Keeper at Lazaretto hos? pital, 400 Buildings at Port Royal, 200 State Board of Health, 3,000 Maintaining quarantine, 1,600 Repairing keeper's build? ing at quarantine sta? tion at Charleston 2,575 ^PENITENTIARY. Salary of Superintendent, $2,100 Physician, 1,200 Clerk, 1,200 Captain of guard, 1,200 Chaplain, 600 LUNATIC ASYLUM. Salary of Superintendent, $3,000 Per diem and mileage, regents, 2,000 Insurance of buildings, 3,OOO Support of, 70,000 Purchasing books for pa? tients 50 Centre building, 41.110 Repairs on new building, 700 SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY. Salary of librarian, ? 500 Repairs on buildings, 1,000 Insurance on buildings, 1,000 Support of schools, 15,000 Salary of assistant professor of agriet?-'?re, 1,700 Salary of professor of ap? plied mechanics, 300 Equipping department of applied meciiauics, 1,200 SOUTH CAROLINA .MILITARY ACADEMY. Insurance Citadel buildings, $ 400 Support beneficiaries, 20,000 DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND A8Y" -M. Support of ?10.000 Insurance on buildings, 331 Drainage, 200 Purchasing organ, 1,200 CATAWBA ?ND1AN3. Support of $800 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Per diem, mileage and sta? tionery certificates, ?30,000 Pay officers a?d employees, 6,000 Contingent expenses, Sen? ate, 400 Contingentexpenses, House of Representatives 600 Engrossing and enrolling department, 2.500 Public printing, 15,000 MISCELLANEOUS. . Civil contiogent fuod, ? 1.500 S. C. Agricultural Society, 2,500 Columbia water works, 1,000 Repairs executive mansion, 700 Completing consolidation, 1,000 Harbor master, Charleston, 1,100 State board of equalization, 1,000 Muster roll of soldiers of the Revolution, 300 Artificial limbs, 9,000 Interest, consols, 352,796 d?ficiences, 27,028 Ag. College scrip. 11,508 Claims passed, 3,000 CouDty Auditors' salaries, 21,900 Total amount of State taxes $932. 144. To this must be added the Coun? ty taxes and 2 mill school tax. Running the Blockade. A Story of the Times that Tried Men's Souls. Twenty-six years ago on Thursday on the 1st of April, 1865, an incident took place off Galveston harbor in vhich Capt. Sim Adkins the Nestor of Charleston harbor, then the gallant commander of a dashing blockade run? ner, the Fox, bore a prominent part The story is best told by John F. Mackie, then a sergeant in the marine corps, aud doing duty on the United States Steamer Seminole, one of the blockading squadron off Galveston har? bor. Mr. Mackie relates bow the Fox was discovered about 10 o'clock in the morn? ing 'right abeam/ bow all hands were called to quarters and the Seminole started in pursuit of her prey, a long, low steamer about eight miles to the eastward, burning black smoke, steam? ing rapidly to the northward and west? ward. The stranger sighted the Semi? nole and changed ber course instantly from west to northwest, and steamed directly for the Texan shore, distant about eight miles, which trends rapidly northeast above Galveston. By this course the stranger would strike the shore in about an hour, unless prevented by us from so doing. If successful, $he could make an inner channel which runs between the shore and a sandbar which runs along the Texan coast, dis? tant about half a mile from the main? land ; but on this bar there is only about ten feet of water ; inside there is twelve feet, and sometimes fifteen feet. The Seminole overhauled her prey gradually and prepared to open fire. When within two miles of her we open? ed fire on her from our eleven-inch pivot, exploding a shell right under her bow and nearly deluging the ship with water, but doing no further harm. While we were reloading the pivot she put her helm 'hard a-starboard'and ran across our bow, heading directly for thc shore-distant about a mile and a half-apparently intending to run her? self ashore. While this was being done we were not idle; the change, of course compelled us to 'shorten sail.' As soon as the last man reached the deck Capt Clarey shouted i 'Put your helm hard a-starboard, sir.' 'Hard a starboard, sir,' answered the officer at the wheel the same moment, putting the wheel sharply about, and the ship turned on her heel as if she knew what was expected of her and started directly for the shore, with the stranger, now right abeam, starboard side about a mile off, bringing our whole battery of five guns to bear on her. The captain cried out to forward rifle : 'Fire as soon as you are ready and without further orders, only don't waste the ammuni? tion. Pivot there, sir; fire carefully, and aim at the wheel-house and at no other place. Sink her, her if possible ; go ahead and show us what you can do. Quarter-deck battery (six eight inch guns,) take good aim and fire as rapid? ly as you can ; aim at the wheel-house : don't let her get away from us.' All this was done in less time than it takes to describe it, and as we were now nearing her rapidly it seemed in? possible that she could escape us. A shell from the rifle exploded over her; a shell from the eleveu-incb burst close beside her, and the ibree and eight-inch shell guns were sending their compli? ments thick and fast, but strange to say not a single shot had struck her. She seemed to bear a charmed life. We were about half a mile distant from each other and about a mile from the shore when she suddenly changed her course to south southwest and start? ed to run down along the coast, head? ing directly for us. It was now nip and tuck. The stran? ger was going to run fer it, and had the bar between us. Our only chance was to sink her before she got in. Nothing now could save her, as the steamer Penguin, which had been after thc other sail, which, by the way, was a passing friend, now joined us iu the chase, and opened upon the flying steam? er with no better success than btfore, her shots flying wide of the mark. The most tremendous exeiteuicntprcvailed on board each vessel. Capt. Clarey raved and swore and stamped in an iutcusc but subdued tone, but all to no effect. Shot after shot went over and exploded beyond on the shore; some exploded short and covered the steamer with spray, some in the air, others cut thc water just ahead, some just grazed the stern, but not one touched her apparently. It seemed impossible to strike her. Thc men worked thc guns as if they were only toys in their excitement, and load? ed and fired as if their lives depended on tkc accuracy of each shot. So rapid? ly did we lire that we had to wait for the smoke to lift before we could see for the next shot. We were now rapidly approaching | Galveston harbor, and it seemed as if I she was going to get away iu spite of us. Since changing our course last j time we were both saili?g, or steaming j rather, deadlto windward, but she being I the lightest draught was making better time than we, and ?lowly but surely get f ting away from us. Her captain for I (he last hour had been walking the I bridge between the wheel-bouac?> with j both hands in the pockets of bis pea jacket, smoking a cigar very unconcern? edly ;: but that there was a feeling that their lives and property bung only on a single thread was manifest in the way those wheels flew around, leaving a track of boiling, foamy sea far < <urn, and the thick huge volumes of black smoke that poured out of thc funnels told a story that did not need a trumpet to announce. The channel now began to widen, and if she could only hold her own for twenty minutes she would escape. What must have been the thoughts of that captain as he walked to and fro on that bridge, with the air full of flying missiles, now hid in their smoke, the next minute drenched with their spray; again, in a second or two later one flying a few feet. above his head ! He never flinched an inch or changed his manner, but kept quietly on as though it was an everyday affair. Fate, says Mr. Mackie, decided in favor of the flying steamer. In spite of every effort that could be made to prevent ber she reached the Bay of Gal? veston, which is nearly three miles wide, and as the channel is very dangerous to vessels drawing more than ten feet of water, and as we were getting into three fathoms again, with intense chagrin we gave up the chase, sending as a parting compliments an ?lever.-inch shell with our regrets. As the flying steamer passed out of range her captain hoisted the Confede? rate flag and dipped it three times, at the same time taking off his cap waved it towards us and bowed gracefully in our direction his adieu, steamed in un? der the guns of the fort at Galveston and dropped his anchor, safe at last. We returned the salute and went back to our station for the night, as it wa9 now nearly sundown, after one of the most excitia^days that, we ever spent, with less credit to ourselves than could possibly be supposed under the circum? stances. - ?f? t $ tm A Few Observations. 'MP. EDITOR : Bid you ever live in a neighborhood or communitv of borrow? ers? 'Well, buddie what do you want ?' 'Maw sent me to ax you if she could git a teacup of granulated sugar ; says she will pay you back when pap goes to town.' You are pretty lucky if you get back a bad article of thc 'brown sandy/ and short measure at that. Coffee, tea, bacon, flour, turpentine, castor oil, and purgative pills are all commodities of exchange. Smoothing irons and scour? ing mops are also scarce as well as many other necessaries, too tedious to men? tion. I hear of one Iuckleps fellow who made application to a neighbor to loan him a couple of shoats nntil next^Ciirist mas, promising to replace them if he had to go to Georgia for them. Well, the average Georgia shoat is a bad one,' with his long snout, flop ears and cuss? ed appearance generally. The ordinary flea would desert him for a velocipede, provided the eogieer would put on brakes 'en passant.' Sufficient to say, tbe fellow didn't get the shoats.' The above communication appeared recently in the Anderson Journal, and while it is not remarkable poetic finish it con tai ? s several germs of solid truth. Who has not lived in a community of borrowers ? Where can a community free from borrowers be found this side or on the other side of the Arctic re? gions ? We have no doubt that even in Hades'some of the culprits try to bor? row cooler spots from their more favor? ed neighbors. Borrowers have no par? ticular clime or country. They are to be found everywhere and anywhere, and will borrow from a pin to a thou? sands dollars and down again to a chew of tobacco. The 'chew tobacco' bor? row is generally a first class dead bea:, fraud, sponger and nuisance. He never sees you uuless be wants a 'chew.' He is always 'just out.' No matter in what way you are engaged, you must dig your hands in your pocket, and pull oat your favorite plug and hand it over to bis tender mercies. Sometimes he is delicate about the matter and will call for your knife. This requires another dig in your pocket, and you may be certain that the knife will slip in the borrow's favor-about three chews will go for one. Sometimes thc sponger is more sociable, and presuming that you are equally so, will just tear off what he wants with his teeth. The newspaper borrower is another nuisance. He (or she) just thinks that a newspaper is common property, and will get as mad as thunder whenever the paper is refused. The borrowing of groceries is generally a polite way of begging, and it frequently happens that a mean article is returned for a good one. Some people usc thc best of every? thing in the line of cooking and others 90 for cheapness. In thc country this habit is excusable, but in cities and towns, where there are grocery stores aL all the corners, the practice is deserv? ing of censure. True Southerners. I .-;-. "Immediately on the close of thc war many Southern-born men, some who had been good soldiers, hastened northward, ready and eager to crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. Others have spouted sentimental patriotism, avowed rapturous affection for the blood-ccrncnted Union, sung peans to Federal heroes, and given themselves over to negrodom with shameless pub? licity. They hiive not yet ceased to splutter flattery in the magazines, to cringe on the rostrum, and f:i\vn in the parlor, either in shallow sincerity or in* deep hypocrisy, ls it needful to say that such men are not representative? The true Southern mau has been silent. Having no apology to make for the past, nothing to repent of, nothing to regret, save failure, and being incapa? ble of whining sycophancy, he deems it further virtue to suffer quietly what cannot be helped, and to protest against aggression only by such effectual means as are yet within his power. The opin? ions he held iu '61 are unchanged, and I were the general situation to recur, bc would do as he then did, only guarding more providently against overwhelming numbers and resources. Were he not ever prompt to resist interference with his domestic concerns, and to repel armed invasion, he would be unworthy of his race."-Prof. Davis, Virginia University. What Our Editors Say, S. C. Advocate. There is a strenuous effort making these pass few year? to- make a hero of John Brown, the crail lt who started out to burn, pillage, and murder, and ended his miserable career at Harper's Ferry by sentence of law. That slavery was wrong, and that the abolition party was a party of high moral' ideas might be confessed, without by any means allow? ing that John Brown and bis like were anything but crazy, blood-thirsty fanat? ics richly deserving the fate that over? took some of them. The South will never consent to such a falsification of history as that attempted by the Brown worshipers. Nero, Cortes and Guiteau are just as worthy to be canonized. Carolina Spartan. Professor McBryde, of the South Carolina College publishes in the Cotton Plant his test of several varieties of cot? ton for the last* fnree years, giving vield per acre and per cent, of lint. lu "f 885 Dickson's cluster headed the list with 1478 pounds to the acre, making 32J per cent of lint or 477 pounds. Dun? can's Mammoth made only 30 per cent, of lint, while the Peterkin cotton made 1256 pounds to the acre, and 3S? per cent of lint, or 480 pounds. That is, 1256 pounds of the Peterkin made 3 pounds more Hot than the 1478 pounds of Dickson's cluster. While the Pro? fessor is cautious and would not draw sweeping conclusions- from these results, he thinks they are in favor of the Pe? terkin-, but they also show that the i Jones and Dickson Improved are de? servedly popular. "A Cat May Look at a King.* Abbeville Medium. When Ben Tillman - began his series of articles on the Agricultural College and other kindred subjects many of the "ins" laughed at his efforts as if the excitement was sporadic and would die out by such- treatment. They "reck? oned without their host'' for the people soon paid heed to his vigorous articles and the laugh is very low now. The controversy has developed a peculiar sensitiveness to criticism on the part of our office-holders. This should not be so. Getting mad at Tillman will not vindicate any administration for it can prove nothing and nobody is yet afraid. "A public office is a public trust"' and the holder is a legitimate object of criti? cism. If the conduct of at office can? not be inquired into thc old doctrine of accountability to t?e people will soon fall into a state of "innocuous desue? tude" and we will have masters over us. For our part we like to see the thing going on. It cannot do any harm and may result in much good. All county officers are subject to investiga? tion by grand juries, but we never hear complaints from them. They do not attempt to divert publie attention from the true object of such examinations but are mo;:e than willing to submit to them. -? Greenville Newt. The strike on the Gould system of railroads seems to be going to pieces. It will probably be another hard lesson to the laboring men that a strike should be the last resort and should be made only whep the grievance is such as to require it and to appeal to the sense and justice of the public. A strike is like everything else in this country. It must have public sentiment behind it to make it successful. While it can not depend ou public sentiment altogether for support, the moment tha? the ap? proval of that sentiment is forfeited fail? ure comes. This is no country for socialism, com? munism and riot. The people are rougher in handling such things than any government can be. The poor misguided fellows who undertook to fight at Fort Worth learned that to their cost. This present strike seems to have been begun on a frivolous cause and carried on in a wrong spirit.4 Feeling is hardening against it everywhere, and the workingmen who have been led into folly will pay the penalty. The Bailroad Strike. Abbeville Press and Banner. For our own part we would say that we hope an example will be made of the ringleaders of the great strike. It will not be denied that every man, employed by any of the railroads, had a perfect right to quit work at any time when not under contract, but no law-abiding cit? izen can endorse their acts of lawless? ness. They deserve punishment for breaking the engines and throwing I them from the tracks. For destroying bridges or doiog any injury to any other property they should be severely pun? ished. For using force to prevent other men from taking the places which they had vacated, they deserve to suffer, and we trust that deserved justice will be meted out to them. Lawless strikers should be taught that property has a right to protection in this couutry, and we know cf no better time to teach the lesson than now. If the laws of the country are not sufficient to punish these destroyers of property and outra? geous interference with the rights of others, then we think it time to provide protection to labor and capital. While it is a matter of perfect right for any man to quit the service of any corporation, yet the presumption of for? bidding others to take the places which they allege they do not want is not to be I tolerated. If this country can protect us in the possession of money, or can afford the guaranteed protection to the laborer, I then it ought to do it, and it ought to ; punish the ringleaders in the great [ strike. "A Pieayimisii Folicy." Aiken Recorder. The circular respecting information concerning disabled Coufederate sol? diers, has been forwarded to us by the Comptroller General, with the state? ment that the Legislature made no ap? propriation to defray the expenses of carrying out the provisions of the act, and that there is no way in which he can reach tho.se interested, unless the newspapers of the State will generously publish the circular. Of course Comp? troller General Stoney is ia no way to blame, but it is different with the Leg? islature, for it is- the same p'rayon'si policy of detestable meanness which pub jects tbe press of the State to so many drafts upon its* time and capital, If a new carpet Had to be bought for tbs. legislative halls or new desks for tba members, very good care would be taken io provide for payment, and it would be thought a freak of insanity if the Set" geaut-at^Arms were to write to the car? pet or furniture dealers, and state fciftt the Legislature had decided that new carpets and new desks were necessary, but had made no appropriation, and that there was no way of getting them un< less the carpet and: furniture dealers would generously suppfy them. Now this is precisely what the Legislature Has dione in tah ra s tance. In fact, it ie tbe meanest kind of sponging, because that body relied upon tbe fact that; the newspapers touched by sympathy would not refuse to publish, for the reise? that it would inflict a Hardship upon tba meritorious beneficiaries of the act. No* profession or occupation is subjected fo? so many drafts Upon its generosity, for which no thanks are ever returned, at the newspaper press, and no profession ?F liable to so many risks and Beary charges for current expenses. Whet* thc beneficiaries are churches, beneve* lent institutions, or needy private rnd^ viduals, we grin and bear it, without, ut teringi complaint, bot wbeu it ia the* great State of South Carolina, to whick we have to contribute our quota of tax? ation upon the capital engaged io our business, we protest that it is a very small, miserable way of doing business. Nevertheless we think our patriotte Comptroller General has done right f? appealing to the generosity of the pre? in bebalf of the wounded veterans, whw baye so many claims upon the sympathy of oar people, and for their sake wa make room for the circular, while at the same time wc protest against this forced levy upon our capital and resources.^ Does'nt it Look L&e a Job, Columbia Register. . We see that we are to get the hard pine necessary for the roofing of tba State House from Baltimore at $28' per thousand. This is very extraordinary tn a State producing as good hard* proa as the world contains, and covered with saw mills on every road running roto our city. How does this fact look for a: State considering it of sufficient impor? tance to go to the expense of making exposition of ber valuable woods, aa was done at the great New Orleans Ex? position, and where South Carolina made the best exhibit of woods of any State in the Union ? With these facta before us, what does this coltract made with Baltimore . contractors mean ? Could there be any difficulty io placing that contract at any of our first class mills or lumber merchants at $15 a thousand? Is it possible, with all tba building going on all over the State, that the very best picked and seasoned lamber could not be placed here at lesa than ?28 a thousand ? If not, it is a most extraordinary condition of things. Mrs. Stanton's Curves. ! Mrs. Eliazbeth Cady Stanton baa written a letter to Miss Rose Elizabeth I Cleveland on the absorbing subject of woman's dress. She thinks that tba custom in oar fashionable circles of "partially denuding innocent girls in. public is being carried to the verge of immorality," and denounces the expos* ure of heck, arms and bast as prejudi? cial to health and offensive to good morals. Mrs. Stanton eannot see why young women should "unveil their charms while men so carefully conceal all theirs," and contends that "if matri? mony is a barter of charm for charm, il is quite as important for young men to display their well-turned throats, chests and limbs, their well developed muscles as it is for the girls to unveil their fina proportions/' And then with ooo sweep of ber pen Mrs. Stanton makes the following alarming proposition, ss which, no doubt, even so bold an inno? vator as she must have blushed a crim? son red : "If oar women cannot be reconciled to such stringent measures as draping all their charms, the display of tba lower limbs would be less injurious to health, as none of the vital organs ara located in that part of the haman organ? ization. The Scotch Highlander bares his legs with impunity to the fierce winds on bis native hills. There would be no special danger in following bia example in oar comfortably heated drawing-rooms. The curve of the legs, feet, ankles, and their graceful motions in walking and dancing, are always at? tractive, and to leave them free and drape the upper part of the body, would seem more rational. If denuding these must be to verify the hereditary ten? dency to old customs, the experiments should not be made on the vital organs.'7 It is just possible that Mrs. Stanton may be built in that way, but Mrs. Stanton dancing around a ball room with her attractive curves swelling in the gas-light, would be a decidedly more striking spectac?e than Mrs. Stan? ton in full evening dress, with arma and neck exposed.- News and Courier. Lesson in Geography. The following questions would consti? tute a good lesson in Geography : 1. Where does the water io rivera come from ? 2. Where does it go ? 3. In what direction must a river flow? 4. Why do rivers wind about ? 5. Why are some rivers larger tbaa others ? 6. Why are some rapid, others slow ? 7. Bo rivers draiu, or water the land. 8. How roach land does a river draia ? 9 What bounds every river basia ? 10. Why is the land near the river banks generally fertile? 11. Where are rivers generally widest? Why? 12. What causes the water to flow ? 13. Have you seen any land thai does not slope ? 14. What if the earth's surface wera perfectly level ? 15* What would result if it wera hard like iron ? 16 Why does not the ocean flow* i uto the ?iver and over the land \