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M i' * it"- -1 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 3apar? Clover (Leupedeza Striata.) I notite iu \-our valuable paj,er a feood njanv enquiries about Japan clover (Lespeneia striata). This plant was noticed in this State about the year 1849, near Charleston, S. C., the seeds having been brought probably from Japan in tea boxes. About the rear I860 it was discovered in this (Edgefield) county, where it is covering all old fields and land uot cultivated, rooting out broom grass and other grasses. It seems especially adapted to the Southern States, growing with luxuriance on poor land and retaining yitality in the severest droughts. It is a very fine ptent for grazing, cattle kept fat all summer on if, and being a perennial, needs no resowing. It grows with more luxuriance 011 poon land than any plant I ever saw. I have seen it growing nearly knee high in public roads, i. e., that portio r where vehicles do not run. It furnished - v?? . a? ^? nto'n!n tn i a c eumsijr ui uiwvwv. .v , the soil and is the best humus making ' plant in the South. As I have said, it is a good pasturage for stock, and I have just made some of the finest hay out of it I ever saw. All kinds of stock are very fond j of the hay and will eat it preference to most any other. In rich bottom land it will grow two to two and one-half feet high. In caring the hav, it should not have to much sun: if it does, it will sbed off too many of the leaves. TSet* io nn seed saved or sown in this State; all* we have to do is to quit plowing the land; the seoond year thereafter it will be covered with tha clover.?O. F. Cheatham in So. Live Stock Journal. Orchard Grass. Ofthis grass Prof. Lozenby, director of the Ohio experimental station, says: This certainly stands near the head of the lint of valuable forage grasses. It is rapidly coming into favor, and is now quite widely disseminated throughout the State. It is found not only in pastures and meadows, but it is adTNAMflollt? cKor?o/l lilMHtUJiJ LLf JJ&il LSmir ounuvu Locations, such as orchards and along roadsides. This grass is indigenous to every country in Enrope, and is found in Asia, Africa and America. In the United States it was first cultivated in Virginia, in 1750, and was foon thereafter introduced into Eng* lacd. It is quite aggressive and spreads rapidly, but is very sensitive j to good or bad treatment- " It is specially adapted to a strong rich land. It affords pasturage early i in spring and yields a great amoant of aftermath. It often looks coarse, bnt i? reality is tender, palatable and' nutritious. The habit of growing in nflo nr Knn/<Soe moxr ho nverfrtrriP hv* kU4.WV V* VUt4VUV0 Mil* J W w? ~ j sowing the seed more thicklv, and by the use of the harrow in early spring. Some farmers sow it with clover, and like it better than timothy for the purpase. There are few who have given this grass a fair and impartial trial, who are not well plescd with it. It should be cat when in blossom, or very soon after. Ripe orchard grass makes very poor hay. On our trialplats the orchard grass has not been winter killed, and has invariably yielded a larger amount of early foliage than any other variety. It begins to head about the middle of May," and is in full bloom the second week in June. Height, forty inches. Weight of seed varies from twelve to fourteen pounds per bushel. The Cottoa Plant and Soil Fertility. Tke writer has believed for many years that the cotton plant?or, in other words, the much abused "cotton crop"?if properly managed, was a great reaovater of the soil?possibly tlie best renovating crop in the world ?taking into consideration the fact tbat. the.farm, after taking all bis lint cotton for market, still has left on his land the seed, stalks and leaves, and nearly everything made from the soil is retnrned to the soil. In giving what we take to be some o? the causes why certain plants enrich i the land more than others, ^jnd why cotton more than the grain "5w>ps, let us the first take into consideration the effect produced on the soil by the tree. Mention has been made of the forest tree fertilizing the land, and that its teaching should be followed by the farmers, to which we agree, for as with the plant, so also with the tree, some I having tap roots and others only sur-1 lace roots; ana tnose, in eacn case that hare tap roots fertiiize the soil, and the accumulations are of great benefit to. the cultivated crop. Being a caso in point we will take the old field pine, though we are unable say why the full grown pine trees of the* forest do not act in the same way as the old field ?inss in improving the soil. But the old fields seem to be an especial provision of Providence to reclaim old worn out and badly washed lands, which it does to an extent that is unequaled by anything else known to our section of* the country where the land is left by itself to rest, nothing at all being done io it but just to be left alone for some twenty years more or less. These pines come on the land or themselves, and when left slone they take all over the laud, galled, gullied ^.aud all, and will grow and thrive* in the forest, sandy or red clay gullies; stop washes, form new soil or enrich the old where there is any left to enrich. Tqe question is, where and hoy deos it get its fertilizers while growing on what seems to b? sterility itself? This tree appeal's to be a very gross feeder, and sends its roots far and deep into the sterile and hard earth and takes up fertilizers that are deep dow?, too scant aud too insoluble for any cultivation to reach, take up or appropriate. But this tree does all this, penetratingdeepand wide, taking up BUKU 1AU> L\J iVi 111 a 1 IVIJ 5Vli II UUI C* depth of many feet, absorbing them in away to form leaves and bars, which i? thrown down to rot and become a rich' and fertile soil; this crnde matter becoming soluble to feed cultivated crops, the land often appearing as good, if not better, than when first . cleared of the original forest that might have been there for thousands of years. And so it is with the plants, some have tap roots, such as the clover, pears and cotton and some others, all of which enrich the soil more or less npon the same principle as the old field pine, if not to the same extent, being some of them only annuals and not such gross feeders; but they all improve tee soil, going deeper than the grain crops go. it is generally admitted that the clovere can yield good crops of hay and at the same time be improving the soil; why not the cotton plant, that returns all "back to the soil again, -which is not the case with the clover? And the case is worse with the grain crops which feed from the - land. And it is not possible that those plants and trees that have tap roots, such as the pea, clover and cotton, as well as the* tree, draw heavily ot ammonia from the atmosphere through tqeir leaves, while their roots penetrate deep in search of mineral food. They seem more independent of ammonia than the surface roots plnats. flow is it possible that a good commercial fertilizer should impoverish the land of its humus, or anything else that is valuable, and that, "too, when used on crops where all is left on the land that has been supplied by the fertilize!?? and the soil? Show* us yonr crops made without the aid of fertilizers, and we will show voa our crops made by the aid of fertilizers. In what MMMia?p?aa? tana? aaa?? way is Ihe liurnus being exhausted when oUe tests for the present year, j but tipon lands that have rasted two or | three years, possibly it would not i 8 show so well by a good deal. With j three different brands of superphosphates, the cotton with each is three ; or four times as large as where there is | J none, and it is just row and row about. How is this cotton of several times the size of the other to make less vegetable matter and hmas than the! nther thht is ?o much smaller? Again i' is it not presumable that those who spend their money so freely for J manures would appreciate the homemade as much as those who do not?? E. F. in Southern Cultivator. < . ] COMING TO THEIR SENSES. The Colored People of Virginia Declare Their Independence of the Kadicnl Pollti cians. The colored people of Virgiuia held a State Convention at Lynchburg last week. The following address was - f orttKnoiocm ilUUjACU AtlilU vttbuuoiuoui " To the Colored People of Virginia: Whereas we, the colored people of Virginia, believing as we do that the time has come for as to call a halt in the unqualified support we have given the Republican party, do here, in convention assembled, solemnly declare ourselves politically independent in all matters which pertain to us as citizens of this Commonwealth. We have for ' twenty-five years adhered to our former political associates with unparalellcd fidelity, because in those dark days of Reconstruction the Republican party proved that it was the only party to which the colored man of the South could consistently ally himself. To that end the colored voters responded and raised to power and place men who grew wealthy while administering the laws of the' United States Gov| ernment in the Southern States. We feel ever grateful for what has been ! done, but now the time has come for I us to think, act, vote and speak for ourselves, and especially so since the Republicans have practically abandoned us in former campaigns and in all matters where the negro ought to have had recognition in proportion to voting strength and intelligence. We know, too, tnat many of our race have been murdered in the Southern States, but the causes which led to these sad occurrences which have spilled outblood and created the bitter race antagonism which now retards our progress and makes it difficult to live in the land of our birth, are largely traceable to the mismanagement of Federal officeholders in our sections. "The foregoing reasons lead us to adopt such methods and to so demean ourselves a3 to make friends of those whose interests are identical with our own. We therefore appeal to the colored people of our native State to look well to the altered condition of affairs and in the future to make such political alliances as will most advance bur interests educationally, financially and politically. We feel sure that there is throughout broad limits of the Commonwealth a general disposition on the part of the white people to accord us all our rights before the law and to meet us heartily in every advance we make for the upholding of our people: It behooves us then to use our ballots in such manner that we may drive out all discordant elements in Virginia, whether they be headed by natives or aliens to the State. We also condemn the raising of the raising of the race issue by any class of men who essay io lead the masses, because it can do nothing- but prove detrimental l? our cause and our interests. We therefore ask the hearty eo operation of onr people in Virginia to the success of our movement. "We have cause to be thankful for the liberality of the present National Administration to our people in the South. We also believe onr relations to the State debt are such as to justify us in hoping that Virginia wili be relieved from her present financial embarrassments by aid from the Federal Government, which will enable her better to provide for all the material interests of her citizens and to bring about that universal good feeling which onght to exist between the two races." A COWAKDLY DEED. The First Tragedy of tbo Political Campaign in Virginia, Jndge George W. Ward, editor of the Examiner and Commonwealth's Attorneyibr Washington connty, while about to enter the Colonnade Hotel at Abingdon, Va , on the 27th nit., abont 4 p. m., was tired upon by Dr. William White, Independent candidate for State Senator, who had been concealed in & store-room nearly opdosite the hotel. White stepped oat. of the door and discharged one barrel of a shotgun loaded with buck-shot at Ward, who fell face foremost, but, recovering on his knees, drew his pistol and fired three shots at a young relative of White*?, who was on the opposite side of the street behind a tree. Whi^e in ! the meantime had stepped inside the store, bnt hearing the firing he came oat again and fired the second barrel at Ward, who fell. While he was lying on the ground two ot White's relatives (one of whom Ward had already shot at and whom he thought had shot at hiin) walked tip and fired seven shots at him (Ward), all of which took effev-t. Dr. White and his two relatives have been arrested and bailed in the sum of $7,000 each. Great excitement exits in Abingdon and vicinity, ( but no fear of farther violence is entertained. A DESPERADO SHOr. [ A Jsecro Lunatic Killed by a Coaeiable is Scmmerrllie. There was great excitement in Sum- . nerrille, twenty miles from Charles- i ton, on Monday the 28th inst. That ; morning, before day, Andrew Slower, ; colored, who had been in the State Lunatic Asvlnm, went through the i village firing off bis pistol and raising * i a disturbance. He assaulted his own i wife and daughter. He then left his ] house and went out on--the edge of the 1 village and assaulted a widow woman 1 aud her daughter, who are white. 1 They fled from the house. Constable i Limestone, a son of Judge R. J. Lime- i stone, went . Ike aext morning. He I drew a revolver and Limestone shot ' him dead. 'Tbecorooc.1 bald an in- j quest at once. - The verdiet was "jus- 1 tifiable homicide." After. assaulting his own wife and dauerhter^ he set fire i to his-own boose, and it was bnrned to the gjapnftl Haalso-flredtJie house of the widowamfr herdaoghter after they fl^ed,.- ft-Volso burned up. The universal verdict of Charleston, where Flower is well known, is that be was suffering, from delirium tremens, and did not know what he was doing. -?i**?Hi Earned to Death, and Restored to Life. I know of a man -nearMaxey's, Ga., who for ten or twelve years was almost a solid sore from head to foot For three years, his appearance being so . horribly repulsive, he refused to let any J one see" him. The disease after eating his < flesh, commenced on his skull bones. He I tried all doctors and medicines without j benefit and no one thought he could pdssi- ' bly recover. At last Ik began the use of ( B. B. B., and after using six bottles, his seres were all healed ana he was a sound ' man. He looks just like a man who had been 1 burned to death and then restored to life, ^ The best men of the county know of this ] case, and several doctors and merchants ] have spoken ot it as a most wonderful case. , JOHN CRAWFORD, Druggist, * Athens, Ga. ( NEW YORK FASHIONS. ! : I J05IETH1NG OF INTEREST TO OUK j LADY READERS. [titatinir Cockney Accents and English 1 Style*?latest Wrinkle in Stockings. (Special Dispatch, to the Baltimore Sun.) New York, September J30.?New York becomes more English every fear,--With the fall of the leaf the sweet cockney accent Is once more heard on the bill, (Murray Hill, of coarse). It is not the genuine article, but it is an excellent imitation of it. Nobody ever heard a well Englishman or woman speak in the dialect which in New York passes for translantic English. It is peculiar to the district that lies within sound of the Bow Bells. Another phrase of anglophobia which is more fragrant in the nos? A.'MA?tAA?? \es [HIS OI me UlICUrril^UTU ^au 10 the great lavender boom, which makes the streets of New York smell like a linen press of the last generation, and brings before one pleasant thoughts of lorelv English cottage gardens, and particuly Anne Hathaway's classic bit of land. At every street corner, so to speak, stands a man with a large basket of lavendr flower, either loose or in envelopes, on which is printed a remark that laveoder flowers are nsed by the Qneen and the royal family, and this is the genuine English article. It sells rapidly at three, five and ten cents a package, and "there's millions in it" for the enterprising pseudo or real Britisher whose thought it was to ecent the New York highways with the herb so sacred to rural domestic purity. . ? AA?? WIIIAK annAii I'OrrflC X11 it LVJUIUIUliiLjr \v iiiwi guuvuKigWo lavender as an article of popular commerce it is not be wondered at that tailor gowus not only exist as before but show more vitality than ever. It is probable that they " would have died a natural death long ngo, like most New York faahion?, if the sudden appearance of the great Redfem among us had not given them a new lease of life. Then, too, the prominence accorded to tailor go.vnsin the trousseau of the Princess Beatrice has exalted them in the eyes of all American believers in the right of the royal family to load the fashions. The favorite materials are Scotch and English cheviots, in warm combinations of color. The least expensive cloth for a really fashionable tailor gown costs $5 a yard. The draperies of the newest gowns are plain in front and very bonflant at the back. The onlv per missible buttons for the top coats are large metal ones, which should harmonize in tone with the cloth. High military collars with stiff linings are frequently made with postillion backs. All the woolen materials of the soasen are rough and coarse in texture, and consequently more than usually effective and stylish. Smooth fabrics are not good form. Euglish homespun, in browns, grays and slate blues, mak e the most desirable street costumes for ordinary wear. Similar materials, with floss silk, generally black, woven in squares and giving a flussy effect, are known to the trade, and the dressmaker as "nigger-head." The sonorously-named woolen cloth is combined with plain goods of the same color and kind in suits. Serges of coarse texture are favorite materials. Some of them have rasied stripes, an inch wide, contrasting with the ground. A darker brown serge has stripes of two lighter shades of brown. The same combinations of bine and red which have prevailed during the past two seasons continue in favor. The blue is a trifle brighter in the newest costumes. Embreidery is still used on woolen -costumes Many of the imported patterns 'gowns are heavy, with applique designs] in velvet. .Others are elaborate with openwork embroidery, lined with contrasting color. A very handsome dark blue cashmere of the new shade has a red lining showing through the open spaces of the embroidery. Velvet and damask brocades, with large figures and wide stripes, continue in favor for evening gowns. Colors and designs are, if" possible, more pronounced than last season. A curious and novel material is the tiger plush. It would require a person of Cleopatra presence and Semiramis beauty to carry off a gown wholly or partly composed of this eccentric material, and even then she would look like a perambulating hearth-rug The general style of these costly and certainly sumptuous fabrics suggests wall-hangings and furniture covers. Velvets in r>Join onl/-*r trill olen ho mnoh worn. and velveteens are always popular. Far trimmings will not be as universally worn as last winter, although they are always tnore or less in fashion. Handsome silk cord ornaments take their place. A. favorite design consists of heavy qnlpure epanlettes, with' several rows of cord forming loops from one to the other across the front of the garment. The covering of the New York female head becomes more and more hideous. Even the nice little capotc bonnet is so modified as to lose its dainty elegance, and as this was the piece de resistance of sensible people, , it will be seen that things are in a bad way. The new capotes have the crown defined like a Normandy bonnet. and in some cases it is Dleaied at the back. All the trimrain?ris piled oii in front. Looj>3 of ribbon and flowers, wings, or tips, all form pyramidal effects. In the round turban hats imported by hatters or made here after the English models the same tendency to concentrate all the effect on the very front of the hat is noticeable. Many of the hats are trimmed with little besides a piece of velvet of a bright color, pleated into the shape of a fan and placed almost upright against the front of the crown* The ordinary walking hat, in dark straw or felt, has a crown even higher than that of last season. The brim is narrow, and the trimming is massed in front. Some hats are shown in felt which approximate to the once famous Rubens hat, but they indicate the turning of the tide, an'd it is to be hoped that next season we shall be treated to hats suited to a Christian state of civilization. At present the streets of New York appear to be peopled with female Hottentots as far as regards the tiead. The latest wrinkle in silk stockings is to hare snakes on them. The snake's tail begins below the knee, and :he reptile wriggles down the leg. His neck stretches along the middle of the foot, aad his head ^points to the toe. A. scarlet stocking has the snake in white, with his outlines defined by small black beads. Larger ones form :he eyes. The wearer of "these uncommon hose willj not hare snakes in tier boots, but snakes in her slippers. A Fasting Girl. In Cincinnati a. sixteen-year-old girl recently died after a fast of fifty-two .lays. She had been attacked by something like paralysis which rendered it impossible for her to take nourishment, rhe human system cannot thrive without good food and good ability to Jigest it. Weak and impaired dlges T> T T>:a. ,iou is reciuicu uv mown s uruii ?>n? :ers?better than any other tonic in the svorld. Mr. J. E. Freeburg, Pomeroy, [owa, says: "I used Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia and poor appe.ite; completely cured me~." It will ;nre yon. * COLUMBIA'S ANNUAL FETE. This Xear to Surpass All its Predecessors-*- 1 The Preparations in Progress. (Frura the News and. Courier.) Columbia, October 1.?President 1 Duncan, of the State Fair Association, was bnsy yesterday arranging for the ! f special attractions at the fair. Citi- j zens propose to tatce in nana the mat- < j ter of a competition of State Volunteer j Troops, at the fair, and President j Duncan has expsessod his belief that if i 1 the attendance of a sufficient number ! , of companies can be secured and the J citizens support the project, his society will contribute materially towards the 1 prizes. The idea is a popular one and s if it is carricd out will certainly draw a large crowd. Six weeks' practice < will be sufficient to insure good drill- ( ing, and all companies can make a fair start, as the Columbia military have ^ not drilled with a view to conipetion. . There will be room for all who coine. By means of the notice recently given in this correspondence sufficient ' interest has been manifested in the 1 proposed tournament in fair week to ensure its being held. About thirty ! knights have already signified their < intention to compete. There is a pretty tournament drill which can bo arranged if a dozen ladies ride with ; the knights, who will also attend the oiaie uau 111 ineir imnusoiue cosiuuies. President Pierre of the board of trade is absent in Chicago, but the fair committeec of the board have decided to have a grand display of fireworks, ! and, upon Col. Pierces return, will 1 definitely determine whether to have such tin exhibit as three years ago, or j get Paine to reproduce here the spec- . tacular piece given at Coney Island last summer representing the destruction of Pompeii. If the board doc? ; not have a display of day fiiresvorks, President Duncan will try to get his , executive committee to make it. The sportsmen of Columbia are trying to arrange a shooting match for fair week for all gun teams in the State. This will be backed by the fair authorities. The intention is to devote the entrance fees for this match and ?he tournament entirely to the prizes. It will be seen that the fair this year will have many attractions besides the splendid exhibits. 1 11L UAU*>U was arranged yesterday and is as follows: First day, Tuesday, three-fourths of a mile dash, purse $75. Seven-eighths of a mile dash, purse $100. Half-mile dash, for saddle horse, purse $60. Second day, Wednesday, threefourths of a mile heat?, purse $125. Three-fourtns of a mile heats, for twoyear-old colts, pure $125. Threeeighths of a mile dash, for unkept colts, South Carolina raised, purse $50. Third dav. Thursdav. three-fourths of a mile dash, purse, $75. One mile heats, purse, $150. Half-mile heats, for saddle horses, purse $75. Consolation race, three-fourths of a mile dash, purse $100. Consolation race, for saddle horses, half-mile dash, purse $75. Entrance fee 10 percent. The specialty of this programme is the attention given to races for saddle horses. On Friday a milt race is proposed, open to the'State, and it is expected that purses for other races will be made up by the Columbia hotels, restaurants, <fcc. Excursion rates are just announced on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta and the Columbia & Greenville KaiU roads and their branches. The highest round-trip rate on any of the roads is $3.50. A QUADKUPLK LYNCHING. Terrible Soqual to the Mnrder of two Families?Four Negroes Hanced to ? Tree. On Tuesday night four negroesJerry Finch, his wife, Lee Tyson and .Tr?hn PiJtiahftll ? wprfi lvnr*.hftd OllP mile from Pittsboro, Chatham county, N. C. They were taken from jail and their bodies were found suspended to a tree near the public road. This is a terrible sequel to the triple murder of the Finch lamily on the night of the 4th of last July and of the murder of the Gunter family near the same spot some eighteen months ago. There were two of the Finch family?Edward aged 79, and his sister aged 81. They were found on the morning of Sunday, Julv 5. lvnchiu<r on the floor with their throats cut. Near them lay their servant, a negro boy. aged 16. All had been knocked in the head with an axe, Snspicion early rested on the negro Jerry Finch and he was arrested. It was "a great task from the first to prevent the lying of these parties. Lee Tyson was afterwards arrested, and some time later John Pattishall was taken on the charge of being concerncd in the Gnnter murder and possibly in the Finch mnrder. He was said to have been seen near the spot where the Gunters were killed and next morning was in another county and told the first news known there of the- crime. Detectives from Richmond worked up the case. The verdict of the coroner's jury was long delayed, they feeling that if it was adverse to the prisoners they would be promptly lynched. The majority of the people "appeared to be well sa'tisfield that these people were guilty of both murders, for the two were mysteriously connected. ?"The divorce between Mme. and M. Nicolas (Nicolini) has been legally pronounced," says the London Worlds "and nothing now stands in the way of the great tenor's union witn tne most celebrated soprano of the dayexcept the time prescribed by law, ten months after her divorce, which will expire in May next." ?Doctor Talmage says that no man an be a Christian if his stomach ia ont of order. "Religion itself," he 6ays, "will not keep a man cheerfnl if he has dyspepsia. A cnp of coffee and an egg is no kind of equipment for a day's work. I take three good meals : and I eat more on Sunday than on any other day of the week." ?Fifteen lunatics were before the county court at Galveston, Texas, for examination on Tuesday. The mother A /y' t?l ^A?VAt%f AAtl TTTY\S\ vi a iiaiiusuuic gni ut otjvomcuu v? w<_> was among the number advanced to give her testimony, and was so overcome with grief that she dropped dead in the court room. ?Mr. Thomas Stevens, who is going around the world on a bicycle, has reached the heart of Persia in safety and trinmph. The machine is, of course, a wonderful novelty in those regions, and the adventurous rider is everywhere received as a veritable curiosity. ?The Boston Globe on Tuesday published over five columns of special dispatches and interviews from all the manufacturing towns in isew Hiiigiana. The general result indicates that the approaching winter willjbe the busiest one for many years. -J ?John and Russell Heard, two negroes, attempted to murder John Findlay, a well-to-do white planter, near Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parties of men , are scouring the country in search of j them. Findlay's condition is critical. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. JIbs. Wi.nslow's Soothing Sracr should always be used for children teething. It soothes 1 the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, ( cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for , diarrhoea. Twenty-flve cent3 a bottle. JulyHLtyl i ? A _ .a 1?IB????MMMi TEE XEWS OF THE STATE. Some of tlie Laio&c sayiujrs and I>oliijr? in | .south Carolina. ?Daily freight trains are now run j on the Blue liidge Railroad. r>i,w.L',.i. i.mam I siderable extent in York county. ?O. T. Cnlbreath's life was insured for $2,000 in favor of hi- children. ?Greenville and IVIzer have been placcd in telephonic communication. ?The annual fair of the Piedmont Fair Association is only two weeks off. ?The Newberry County Fair will be held on thfc 28lh, 29th and 30th instant. ?There were three deaths in Camden [luring the month of September?all ;o'ored. ?New buildings are going up rapidly in Charleston and old ones being improved. ?M. A. Waldrop, of Greenville, exhibits a stalk of cotton with 143 matured bolls. ?The residence of Mr. Jerome C. Miller, of York, was burnt by an accidental fire, --Capt. H. F. Edwards, of Darlington, was found dead in his bed on last Friday morning. ?Iioad-workcr3 in some parti of Abbeville county are cxcu6cd on ac count of heartache. ?The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina will meet af Lexington 011 the 23rd inst. ?A sturgeon weighing 100 pounds jumped into a boat crossing Sand-J5ar Ferry and was cap!ured. ?Spartanburg banquets the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad men on the 13th inst. tv.? t>.,r> :ti JlIJC OIUIC v^unvciuiuii Wiil meet at Newberry on Thursday before the third Sunday in November. ?Robert L. Connor, son of Mr. L. D. Connor, of Cokesburv, was killed in a railroad accident in Arkansas. ?A protracted meeting at the Baptist church in Williamston has attracted much interest and worked great good. ? J. A. Attaway, of the Red Bank section of Edgefield county, claims to have discovered a coal deposit on his plantation. ?A young man of Abbeville courtly gave a cow and calf, a shotgun, a sow and seven pigs and six dollars in cask for a hound. ?The next term of Court for Edgefield county will convene 011 the second Monday in November. Judge Hudson will preside. ?A wild turkey gobbler runs with a drove of tame turkeys in Orange- j bursf during the dav, but at night goo into the swamp. I ?-Sarah Scott, a colorcil woman, died suddenly on a steamboat in Charleston as she was on her war t<3 St. Helena Island. ?The good will, material, etc., of the Rock Hill Herald is offered lor sale by Francis W. Williams, assignee of J. M. Ivy & Co. ?The Associate Reformed Synod of the Sooth was in session several days in Due West. The next session will be held at Bethany, Miss. ?John Benson, convicted ot killing another colored man in Laurens and recommended to mercy, has been sentenced to be hanged November 20. ?Capt. H. F. Edwards, of Palmetto, Darlington county, was found dead ia his bed on the morning of the 30th alt. He was perfectly well the night before. ?William J. Cunningham was tried last week in the Lancaster Court for the murder of Robert Bowers at the Haile gold mine on May 12, last and acquitted. ?W. G. Smith, of Anderson county, from one-sixteenth of an acre expects to make about 100 pounds of good tobacco, which at 25 cents a pound would be worth $25. ? In Abbeville county, a few days ago, a colored woman tiring several milos from the village, who has been somewhat notorious for her immoralities. was visited and whkmed br th? "regulators." ?The new Catholic church at Abbeville will be. dedicated on the fonrth Sunday in this, month with appropriate ceremonies. Work on the new Methodist church in the same town is progressing rapidly'. ?The gin-house of McDaniel <fc Brooks, at Modoc, Edgefield county, was accidentally burned on the 26th ult.y together with 25 bales of cottoa belonging to farmers in the vicinity. Loss about $2,000; no insurance. ?It is said that Mr. O'Shields, | well known .farmer in Spartanburg, has been warned to leave the county affpr hp c&thf rs his eron. the charge being that he warned the sheriff of the approach of the late lynching* party. ?George D. Wadley, Superintendent of Construction of the Georgia Central Railroad System, will commence work on the Savannah Valley Railroad immediately, and expects to complete it inside of eleven mouths. ?There are thirty-seven practising physicians in Newberry county, one of whom is a colored man, Dr. Z. W McMorris, who graduated in 1883 at Meharrv School of Medicine of the Central Tennessee College, Nashville. ?Miss Cynthia Duckett, of Newberry county, while feeding her chickens caught one of them, when a rooster flew at her and spurred her on the > back of the hand. The hand became j very sore and blood poisoning resulted, which caused death in a few days. ?Gen. E. W. Moise, of Suinter, and Mr.Xeroy F. Youmans, of Columbia, hare been retaiued by a Jewish society in North Carolina to aid in the prosecution of J. C. Ferguson, at Abbeville, for the killing of Arthur Benedict. Mr. W. C. McGowan and Capt. M. L. Bonham, of Abbeville, are still retained in the ease. ?The annual session at Due West of the Southern Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church was largely attended, delegates from nearly every Southern State being present. A committee from the United Presbyterian Church in the North was present, and important steps were taken looking to a union of the two churches. ?Farkman and Holmes, two of the alleged lynchers of O. T. Culbreath,' have been arrested and lodged in jail at Edgefield. They will apply for bail. It is said that warrants for about twenty other persons suspected of being implicated in tlie murder will be taken out at an early ^ay. Indignation meetings are being held in various parts of the count}'. ?The Columbia Record says that the sinking fund commission has servori MntifA nil thp. IpRSPPfi of stores ill flip City Hall and Opera-Honsc building to pay their rent in future to the commission on account of taxes due the State by the city on the building. The city has disputed this claim of the State. Taxes have not been paid on the building for years. ?The old Star Fort at Cambridge, in Edgefield, the Advertiser says, still remains as a monument to the memory of those who shed their blood for liberty in the great war with our mother conntry. The trench which General Green had dug in trying to undermine the fort is still open, and the marks of the pick, made over a :entury ago, are distinctly seen. The trench is "200 yards long", 4 feet wide and o feet deep. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Facts of I uteivist, Gathered Ir.?m Y;irioii* II.IUVI ? ?Bicyclist* :ue satisfactorily used as orderlies in rhe Austrian array. ?Tlie estimated decrease of llie public debt for September is $12,000,000. --A Jersey bull wa< Sold ill New York the o'ber day f??r $2,*000. ?Id five years '.hi:S"Uth hns increased its production* ?.">00,000,000. ?The Earl of Shaftesbury died in London last week. ?The small p>/x in and around Montreal is sprerdin?r considerably, ?Her Majesix's and C'ovcnt Garden Theatres, London, are to be removed. ?A grandson of (Jrattan has been selected to represent Dublin in Parlia mcnt. ?Terrible flood.-; are reported in South Georgia and along the Florida line. ?The blacks of'Virginia are declaring their independence of the Republican party. ?The Bank of Pliilipopolis has closed and general anarchy prevails in commercial circles. ?It is again reported that President Cleveland is to be married. This time it is to a young widow. ?The introduction of the whipping post in Maryland lo punish wife-beaters has had a salutary effect. ? Hfiirv KmiL'pn n Pliitinrnnii ami Mary Head, a white woman, were married in Augusta on Thursday. ?The Prince of \V:i!e$ tfoes to more balls and dances than any married man of his lime of life in Loudon. ?Experiments in growing bamboo in Yuba and Sutter counties, Cal., have proved successful. ?The report that Jonn Kelly, of New York, had been seriously ill is contradicted. ?Kansas brags that she ha<? never had a breach of promise suit since the State was admitted to the Union. ?Chief Justice W.tile was a passenger on the White Star steamer Adriatic, which arrived at N<*w York on Saturday. ?A riot occurred at Bell's Corners, Ottowa, Canada, lust week, over a dispute whether Riel ought to be hanged or not. ?Two hundred Pigeon Indians have left their reservation in the far Northwest, and arc now on a thieving expe dition in southern Montana. ?One of the buildings of the insane asylum at Warm Springs, Montana, was burned on Thursday and three inmates iost their lives. ?The cholera in Spain continues to diminish. The number of deaths daily is le^s than two hundred, and the number of new cases less than five hundred. ?Mail communication between th"c City of Mexico and the United t>tate3 was resumed last week. Nine days' accumulation of mail matter was received and distributed. ?The subscriptions to the Grant monument fund arc still coming in, but at a fearfully slow rate. The total amount of the subscriptions on Tuesday was SS2, 620 74. ?There was an interesting hog- trial in Georgia the uther day. After hearing all the evidence the court de tided in favor of the plaintiff, and then took the lu>g for costs. ?Lieut. S. A. Cook, of ilie revenue cutter Corwin, died hist Thursday at the residence of J. F. G-. Smith, in Martinez, Cal., whose daughter he married the day defore hi? death. ?It is reported that the commander of a Portuguese gunboat is to buy 1,200 slaves from (he King of Dahomey, to work on a coffee plantation in St. Thomas. ?New Hampshire has followed up j liquor prohibition with tobacco prohi- j biticn, punishing by a fine of $20 the sale of a cigarette to a boy or a girl under sixteen years of age. ?John S. Wise and John Ambler Smith a claim agent of Washington, had a light on a railroad -train last j week. Smith called Wise a liar, and a scuffle ensued, in which Smith was worsted. ?The Philadelphia Ministerial Union has adopted resolutions de-1 nouncingr the special postal delivery system as involving violation of the Sabbath by the carriers. ?Major James Ralston, a well known farmer and extensive cattle dealer of Rockingham" county, Va., was run over by a train and killed on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad on Tuesday night. ?The Central Park board of New York is very much worried at the crumbling of the Egyptian obelisk. It is said to be dne to the severity of onr winters. Scientists are trying to devise some way to prevent it. ?Miss Alice B. Jordine, of Coldwater, Michigan, a graduate of the academic and law departments of the University of Michigan, entered Yalelaw school last week. She is the first lady ever entered in any department of Yale outside of the art school. ?The Massachusetts State Republican Convention met at Boston last week, and nominated State officers. Several speeches denouncing the South in thp nlrl tlh1nnrlv-?li?rf" sfvlp wr>rf? delivered and applauded. ?Services in memory of Gen. Grant were held last Thursday'evening under the auspices of the local comtnandery of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Metropolitan church of Washington, at which Gen. Grant was a regular attendant. ?Franklin J. Mc*cs, Republican Governor of South Carolina under Re?onstruction, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment in i the Massachusetts State prison for obtaining inonev under false pretenses. ?The Bashi-Bazouks have sacked and destroyed several villages in Rou mena. tmm ? ! -moma/mxgae>? ; ' " OH! MY BACK Etcry strain or cold attacks that weak back and nearly prostrates yon. p ? ||tf I S ' THE = IP? 151 BEST TONIC ? Strengthens the Muscle*, Steadies the Serves, En-riches the Blood, Gives New Vigor. Da. J.L. Mtees. Fairfield, Iowa, says: "Brown's Iron Bitters is the best Iron medicine I have known in my 30 years' practice. I have found it specially beneficial in nervous or physical exhaustion, and in all debilitating ailments that bear so heavily on the system. Use it freely rn my own family." Genuine has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BROW* CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MI>. Lad US' TTi>m Boos?useful and attractive, containing list of prizes for recipes, information about coins, etc., given away by all dealers in medicine, or mailed to any address cm receipt of Sc. stamp. ft n I B 9 A J *n4 WHISKY HABITS cur?l I 8 V I 8 1 lug at home without pain. BOOX 8 awl of particulars sent FREE. ? nilii' X- W00LLEY, JL D., AtlanU.Ga. FOR COUGHS AND CROUP US* TAYLOR'S _ Ai/rr g W?TJT*lL.XlTTSr. The nreet gum, u gathered trom a tree of the same name, growing along the snail streams la the Southern States, contains a stimulating expectorant principle that loosens ' the phlegm producing the early morning eoogh. and stimulates the child to throw off the (also membrane in croup and whooplng-oough. 'When combined with the healing mucilaginous principle in the mnllsin plant of the old fields, presents ta Tatlok's Chxboicxi Rixidt o? Swxxt Gcx MciLsn the finest known remedy for Coughs. Croup, Whooping-Cough and Consumption; and so palatable, any child is oleased to take it. Ask your druggist for it. Price, 25c. ani 31, WALTER A. TAYLOR, Atlanta, Ga. U? DR. BIGGERS' HCCKLEBEBEY CORDIAL tot DUrrhcea. Dysentery and Children Teething. For sale fcj ^drussists. ..t> TB ITTJe i u I I a 25 YEARS m USE. The Greateat'Medical Triumph of tlie Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of appetite* Bowels costive, Pain In the head, with a dn!l sensation in the bade part* Fain ander tho shoulderblade, Fullness after eating, with a disinclination to exertion of body or mind, Irritability efftemper, Irow spirits, with U l?eilQK OX Uitvilii uc^icwcu auuiv , Weariness, Dizziness, Flattering at the Heart, Dots beforo the eyes, Headache over the right eye, Restlessness, with fitfai dreams. Highly colored Urine, and CONSTIPATION. TUTT'S FULS are especially adapted to such cases, 0110 dose effects such a change of feelingasto astonishthe sufferer. They Increase the Appetite,and cause the hody to Take on flesh., thus She system is nourished, and by their Tonic Action oa the l>igestivoOrsans,ItexrularSto?lsaro groducedj^Price^5c^44M?arraySt2jWjY. TUTT'S EXTRACT SMillLU Benovates the body, makes healthy flesh, strengthens the weak, repairs the -wastes of the system with pure blood and hard muscle; *>..w/\re crotom {nriwraf/M? t.ha brain, and imparts tke vigor of manhood. $1. Sold by drajr^ists. OFFICE 44 Murray St., N?w York. THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR How the Unsuspecting are Often Galled. CAPITAL VERSUS MERIT. It is possible that money dipped into a bounteous supply of printer's ink, is to be j used to teach false ideas. Why is it that such persistent anathemas should all at once be hurled against the use of "Potash and Potash Mixtures?" - Those who insist that Potash is a poison do so because that is the way they have of fighting B. I>. B., as the latter contains potash properly combined. Opium, morphine, strychnine, aconite, whiskey, etc., are all deadly poisons, and are daily destroying the lives of. people, and why do not thesv men cry out against them? "It is. because there is no money in sight to do so. Potash is 11 -t regarded as a poison, and very seldom harms Any one; but those who abuse it are using a vegetable poison ten times as violent. Iodide of Potash, in proper combination, is regarded by the medical profession as the quickest, grandest and most power! u! blood remedy ever known to man. Those who believe in revealed combinations and Indian foolishness are surely in a condition to become rather "cranky" in their ideas at any time. We assert understandinglv thar Potash, as ..~?j i> n 1 U2>CU ill WJU XtL kJ, XJ. u.% xo Xi\/u a poison, and the public need not place any confidence^ in assertions to the contrary. Why is it' that in or.e thousand letters which we receive wc n-ner hear a word against its use? The truth is; B. B. B. is working such wonders in the cure of all blood poisons, scrofula, rheumatism, catarrh, etc., that others are trembling in their boots, and cry aloud, "poison," "fraud," because they fear its triumphant march. Let any man or \v< man ask any respectable doctor' or druggist if we are not right. Do not be deceived, but go right along and call for B. B. 13., and be cured. It is making five times more curcs in Atlanta than nil other blocd remedies combined. We don't say that others are poisons or frauds; we are not that easily alarmed, but we say ours is the best, and we have the proof. Send for our 32-pagebook, free, and be convinced. Sold by all druggists. BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga. FOl'XD. FOB I.ABIES Oto. A REMEDY endorsed by the best Physicians and Druggists at "its home. A REMEDY that Mr. C. YT. O'Neill, Goodwater, Ala., says raisc-d his wife from an invalid's bed, a'nd he believes saved her life. A REMEDY of which a prominent Atlanta merchant said: "I would have given $5C0 as soon as I would a nickel for what two bottles of your medicine did- for my daughter." A REMEDY in regard to which ?. J. Cassell's, H. D , Druggist, Thomasvilie, Ga., ! says: 1<I can recall instances in which it afforded relief after all the uraal remedies had failed." A REMEDY about which Dr. R. B. Terrell, LaGrange, Ga., writes: "I have used for the. last twenty years the medicine you are putting up and consider it the best combination ever gotten together for the disease for which it is recommended. A REMEDY about which Dr. Joel Braham, Atlanta, said: "J hate examined the recipe, and have no hesitation. in advising its use, and confidently recommend it." A REMEDY which the Rev. II. B. John son, near Marietta, Gh., says he has used [ in his family with the ''utmost satifaction" and recommended it to three families "who found it to be just what it is recommended." A REMEDY of which Pemberxon, Iverson & Dennison say: "We have been selling it for many years, with constantly increasing sales. The article is a staple with us, and o:\e of absolute merit." A REMEDY of which Lamar, Rankin & Lamar say: "We sold 30 gross in four months, and never sold it in any place but what it was wanted again." A REMEDY by which Dr. Da ugh, of LaGrange, Ga., says: "1 cured one of the 1 most obstinate cases of Vicarious Mex- ; stiUtation" that ever came within my ; knowledge, with a few bottles." A REMEDY of which Dr. J. 0. ITuss, of Kotasulga, Ala., says: "I am fully convinced that it is unrivaled for that class of diseases which it claims to cure." A REMEDY about which Major John C. Wbitner, of Atlanta, well ana favorably known all over the United States as a Genera! Insurance Agent, says: "I used < this remedy before the war, on a large 1 plantation'on a meat number of cases, always xnth absolute success." > A KEMEDY about which Mr. J. W. Strange, of Cartersville, Ga., certifies that one bottle cured two members of his i family of menstrual irregularity of many years standing. This Great Remedy is Bradfield's FEMALE Regulator, Send for Treatise on the Health and Happiness of Woman, mailed free. Brad field Regulator Co., Box 28. Atlanta, Ga. Good Pjij- for Asrent*. SlOO to SSOO per mo. raatlo nellinsr our <? rait <1 ?iv l!i.<torT. Famout :tml Decisive Baltlescf tiicWorld Write to J. C. JilcCurcly 4 Co., I'laiaiielpuia, l'a_ j Easy tense. A certain cure. Not expensive. Three jnontos' treatment in one package. Good for Cold Sn the Head, Head&che, Dizziness, Hay Fever, <?c. 1 . V I -Miaiajaiiga Many a Lady is beautiful, all but her skin; 1 and nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty. on the skin is Magnolia Balm. ' ^ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. . M ? ? -=~ ? * A BIG OFF KB. To introduce them we will give away 1000 selfoperatinj Washing Machines. If .you want one send us your name, P. O. and express office at once. TUEXAl IOXAJL CO., 21 Dey St, N. Y. 4 MOSQUITOES, forJS "4 UCSqUlTO BITE. CURE, gives Instant rcller, and <Mves them away. Address SAL I-A DE & CO., S East IStli St., New ^ esa llA VS KK3 it? CAUSES and CURE, , ^ | 1 Ik one who was deaf twenty-eigbt years- ' ^ taw neaieu uy must ui iioica specialists 01 tie clay with no benefit. Cured himneif - in three months, and since then hundreds of others by same process. A plain, simple and . j successml lioiac treatment. Address T S. J PAGE, IKS East 26th St., Xew Tork City, Established FAY'S 1866. Manilla Eooing! Resembles fine leather. For Roots, Outside . Walls, and Inside in place of Plaster. Very tH strong and durable. Carpets and Rugs of same materiaL Catalogue with testimonials and samples FREE. W. H. i'AY & C?-, 6amden, Jfi. J. Pirter's Tsiie. * If you have Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Eidaey or Urinary Complaints, or if you arc troubled with any disorder oi the lungs, stontach, howels, blood or aery? yeu ?ta e?Mt >y Pxbskk's Tonic. nistuA ? w., 16S William Street, Sew fork. v ~~A BURNHAM'S 1 S I3EPE?TE3> &&& 8TA5 ? AJ3I5 JftflTVBBXKS . Istk?BESTconstructed and finished Tur'alne in :lie world - "^O HfetHEiaaBLls ffres fetter pcrc&atage m with. part or rail cxuv>. and is J ^3E*3S3?se%.inlrl Tnr I*K8 VOXRT rw>r \^M gocsePoTrartfc*n aiiyotfcer ^ Pamphlet FREE by BDENHAM BRQS., Y08K, PA. Sert24L4W THE * ; \ GoliaMa Masie lease WILL SAYE YOU ^ TWEXTY-FIYE PER CEXT. BY BUY ^ ING Pianos and tops OF THEM. V EVERT INSTRUMENT WARRANTED DELIVERED AT ANY DEPOT OR: 4 STEAMBOAT LANDING IN THE STATE. ' ' ? j O O 0? WRITE FOR TERMS ANI> PRICES - 0 o 4 SPECIAL TEEMS FOR SHQttT TIME ; ? SALES. Respecifully, COLUMBIA MUSIO HOUSE, ? W. TRUMP, Manager, 128 MATX STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. M Local agents in Fairfield County: * ^ J. 0. BOAG, Winnsboro. A. A. MORRIS, Ridgeway. Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta K. R ^ rxnn-RDTTT.F,TVTTPF-PTT VAT m is.<? io ?Eastern Standard Time. GOING NORTH. NO. 53, MAIL AXD EXPRESS. Leave Augusta 9.05 a.m. . . Leave W. C. A. Junction 1.12 p. m. Arrive at Columbia 1.22 p. m, Leave Columbia 1.32 p. m. * Leave Killian's -.1.555 p. m. ', Leave BIy thewood 2.13 p. m Leave Ridgeray ......2.34 p. m. Leave Simpson's 2.47 p. m. , Leave Winnsboro .3.02 p. m. T T7A \V~hlfrx* Aol' V OO n in > Leave Woodward's 3.43 p. m. Leave Blackstock 3.50 p. m. j Leave Cornwall's 3.58 p. m. jM Leave Chester. .4.17 p. m. Leave Lewis' 4.32 p. m. Leave Smith's 4.40 p. m. < ? Leave Rock Hill ? 5.01 p. m. V Leave Fort Mill 5.20 p, m. Leave Piiieville 5.40 p. m. Arrive at- Charlotte 6.10 p. m. Arrive at Statesville 9.35 p. m GOING SOUTH. no. 52, itail xxd express. Leave Statesville 7.45 a. id.-. r M Leave Charlotte : 11.00 p. m ^ t iio\*?i pinurilli. 1 ot r? *v? Leave Fort Mill ' 1.44 p. m.. Leave Rock Hill 2.02 p. jh.. Leave Smith's 2.22 p. xa;. Leave Lewis' 2.30 p m>, fc{ Leave Chester 2.44 p. m. Leave Cornwall's 3.03 p. m. Leave Blackstock 3.12 p. m. ^ Leave Woodward's 3.18 p. m. Leave White Oak 3.30 p. m? Leave Winnsboro 3.48 p. m, ( Leave Simpson's 4.03 p. m% Leave Ridgeway 4.16 p. m. Leave Blythewood 4.32 p. m. ^ Leave Killian's 4.49 p. m .\rrirc at Columbia 5.15 p. m: . 1 Leave Columbia ..5.25 p. m. Leave W. C. & A. Junction 5.57 p. m. Arrive at Augusta 9.38 p. m. Connection is now made at Chester (by trains 52 and Si) for Lancaster and intermediate points on C. & C. R. K., and for JM ali points on C. & L. R. R. as far as Newton, N. C. , M. SLAUGHTER, G. P. A. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent D. CARDWELL. A. G. P. A. With Hanover's Tailou System yoa can :ut Dresses to fit, without oral instructions. Dress-makers pronounce it perfect. * J Price for System, Book and Double Tnic? ^ ng Wheel, 50.SO. TO INTRODUCE, A System, Book and Wheel will ho sent om ?>* rt/\ a J J icccipt ui ci.w. -tvauresx JOllX C. HAAOYER, Cincinnati, O. OctSllH M 1 i . . # Men Think i " t"\ ' v they know all about Mustang Liniment. Few do. Not to know is not to have. , * .. . ' ?% . J .