Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I jjpIEiZ TILI-MANS iJKCLADIKU. jje Jbkcs a Statement Cowctrr.in^ the ^portcu "Alliance" iietween Governor jjiepparil, Captain Dawson and Himself. To The Editor of the Greenville tfeics: la the Weekly Xewa of August 17, under the caption, '-Information wanted," you ask the following questions: ;tIiave Cant. F. \Y. Dawson and M:\ B. 11. Till u: an had a conference of any kind, by correspondence or otherwise.. and have they made an agreement 01 j understanding as to their respective I courses in any matter allecting the | public interests or politics in the State? "If there has been or is an agreement or understanding between them, what is it?" As I know no reason "why thev should not be answered*', I will cheer/ fully give you the light you seek. This / can best be done by a short statement of facts. When I commenced the agitation of the issues which form the core ot the formers' movement, viz: The establishment of a real Agricultural College and the reorganization of the department of Agriculture, the JSews and Courier was emphatic In it? approval of the college idea, and did not oppose the other. I started out as an agricultural reformer?without any design or desire to make the movement a political one, except to the extent oi securIiKT ?1 r> .r.- "O .... lnirtjlolww liiV ivxiciativii. ?-wv**j almost before I knew it, I found my sclf swept oil'my feet, as it v/ere, by a grand uprising for political reform; reduction of taxes, purification of the Government and correction of abuses being the leading ideas. Ten years of Republican misrule, followed by ten years of Democratic imbecility, and a growing disregard of the rights and wishes of the masses, had laid the mine. I struck a match for another purpose and the explosion known as the "Farmers' Convention" followed. Its reverberations have not yet died away, and its effects pa>t and to come, upon the future of this State, are plainly to be seen. Capt. Dawson left for Europe in Januarv, the SS'ctrs and Courier up to that time having' been my friend. During Iiis absence the paper somersaulted and began to attack the movement by a series ot insidious editorials aimed at the "call" for the Convention and intended to bamboozle the fanners or divide them. And these changed to strongly antagonistic editorials immediately after the Convention adjourned. Some days after tne adjournment Capt. Dawson returned home and I wrote to ask him whether he dictated the course of the paper while away, and to learn whether i could still use his columns, lie replied he had not, and that the paper was open to me for any legitimate purpose, lie said lie was stiil an advocate ot a farmer's college, but could not swallow some things which the Convention had recommended. 1 suggested that if we could have a conference an agreement might be rescued. Jle agreed to this and we metm Augusta nt ?!io .Tunc '2. and we discussed the whole of the work of the Farmers* Convention, or what I deemed its important work. Xo one word was said about any man's candidacy, not one word about any combination or alliance. The conversation related solely to existing abuses, many of which had not been broached by the Farmers' Convention, and the whole of it might have appeared the next day in Tint without exciting any surprise or con mc-nt. We made"no agreement of any kind, bat parted with the tacit understanding that the Sews and Courier would advocate and urge the w establishment of an Agricultural Culsw^ppy?. as it had done from the start, HBVllt.' I WOUKl CCU5U HIV atlUUKMm iw; the whole of it. not undertake to keep others from advocating the abolition of the Citadel, and there was 110 subsequent agreement between us to any man's candidacy. It can be now seen upon what small foundation rests the lie, started the l.ight before the State Convention mec, about the ' Dawson-Tillman-Sheppard combination." The Columbia ring", which had started that lie and then packed the galleries of the Opera House in the interest of the candidate ot their choice are welcome to their victory. It remains to be seen whether Col. Eichardson will prove the pliaut tool they hope for or whether lie will redeem the pledge he has made. The farmers of South Carolina are awake at last, thank God! and will know how to reward or punish him and others according to their deserts. As I am on the witness stand, and mention has been made of the "parallel courses of Mr. Tillman and of Copt. Dawson in the Convention," I will simply state why I voted lor [Messrs. Sheppard anci Hutson? we did not ran together 011 attorney general and all votes were purely accidental, certainly not the result of any "understanding." Edgefield voted solidly for -Mr. Iiutson lor two reasons: First, because of resentment against Greenville, which had found votes for everybody but Governor Sheppard. Secondly, Edgefield and Hampton are in tiie same Congressional district and arc on very friendly terms. As regards my support of Governor Sheppard. Long before Governor Thompson's resignation and, therefore, before there was the least probability of his being a candidate, Governor Sheppard and I had discussed the issnos r.rpsonlnrl hv thft Farmers' Con vention, and I found him in full accord with us in everything except the calling of a constitutional convention and the abolition of the Military Academy. Therefore, when he became Governor and was naturally considered in the race as his own successor 1 had to decide belween him and others. We made strenuous efforts to find a strong candidate of cur own. "We had tried to convert some men whom we thought available, but failed. They couldn't *:sce it," and when the Convention mot we were virtually ;it sea. We lacked forty votes of being able to control the nomination, and therefore were forced to a choice among the avowed candidates. ZS'ow, why did I urge Governor Sheppard as our candidate? First. Because he came nearest being on our piattorm. \v ltnoiu any seinsn or ulterior design, so far as I could see, lie liad so expressed himseir long before Governor Thompson's resignation, and reduced his ideas t;> writing at my request, after i had decided to support him. Second. lie is a man of ability, who has tilled every \ ositiou he has occupied with credit to himself and to the. State. lie pays his debts one hundred cents 011 the dollar, and there is no blot on bis escutcheon, that I ever heard of, and he had fallen heir to the office, so to speak. 1 have been accused of hypocrisy in voting for a lawyer, after making such a blow about farmers" rights, and the question asked T *??/? *i/*vf nioi n> 11V 1 uni XJVV v/i'i/vcv vui vwiii I tv "con rent ion? I had no reason to i oppose him, lie was in accord with j our views, we had been playmates at school and friends ever since. lie lived in Edgefield and was lier son. "What reason did I have to antagonize him ? I had never clamored lor a "New Peal," and 1 had asserted that the farmers' movement only aimed to secure oar rights?not to ostracise or impose on other classc*. I am damned by the editors and reporters because they say this is my purpose, and when I disprove it by voting for a man who i> not a tanner, I am "damned because 1 do so. 1 am in the interesting situation described in the doggerel: "He can and lie can't. He will and won't: He'll !- damned if lie does, And he'll be damned if he don't" The farmers of South Carolina rnii*t decide the question as to whether I have betrayed them, misled them or deceived. I do not claim to be infalli-: blc, but I do claim to be honest and unselfish. I defy any man to prove the contrary. Ii' the people send the right men to the Legislature we will secure our rights as farmers and al! needed reform politically. If we do not, [ will then, if alive, try to find i out why and to tell them who. is to blame B. Ii. Tillman. Edgefield, S. C., August 24, 1SSG. THE LATE DR. IIAYA'E. A South Carolinian Who Lived <in His Wife's Earnings as Long as He Could. [Froni the Philadelphia Times ] Years ago Julia Dean, a very pretty and engaging actress, was a great favorite in all American cities and bad a host of admirers in her train. Having mind and character likewise, all who knew her esteemed and honored her. In an evil hour she listened to tiie impassioned suit of Dr. Ilayne, son of Robert Y. Hayne. of South Carolina; was fluttered by his preference. bne was somewnat amuiuous socially acu accepted him, having no idea that a gentleman of his antecedents and exalted profession would think for a moment of allowing her to remain cn the stage. Dr. H'ayr.e was, it is said, always talking of the superiority of his native State, of his father, the eloquent Senator, of his illustrious ancestors and imaginary illustrious self. No one who had heard his vaporings'would have believed him other than the embodiment of the most sensitive honor and most majestic chivalry. "When he pressed her to hasten the wedding day she gave as a reason for deferring it that she had certain theatrical engagements to fill, and that shewas anxious to complete these before changing her name. But he was so persistent that she yielded at last, and was delighted that his love was stronger than his much vaunted pride. She regarded it as an extraordinary concession that he should be willing to permit his wife, known to be such before the world, to act even for a few months. When her engagements had expired he showed, to her surprise, no objection to her entering into new ones. Her surprise deepened into painful amazement and mortification when she saw, as time went on. that he made no opposition to her supporting him. lie had no income of his own; he did not try to practice his profession: he merely traveled with her and shared her earnings, or rather took by far the larger half. She loved the man. She would have been onlv too happv to work for him night and day liad lie been ill or disabled. But to see him, robust, in comparative youth, lounging around hotels, smoking, drinking, playing billiards, and talking about being a gentleman, wholly at her expense and without lite least regret, tortured her pride and rendered her wretched, as it would have rendered any womanly woman. 2\o amount of love could endure such an experience. It turned to contempt anil he was aware of it. But lie did not care so long as his bills were paid. She kept her own secret locked in ! her heart, for she respected herself and outwardly rcspectcd him. But the time came when she could no longer bear it. She left him, obtained a divorce and he became the late Dr. Haync. How he managed afterward nobody knows or cares. TViiile Tli rc is t,ife There is Hope. Many of the diseases of this season of the year can be averted by a small i amount of care and at little cost, by ! the timely use ot' Ewkank's Topaz | Cixciionw Cokdial. It cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Choij era Morbus and like complaints. JYo j traveler should be without a bottle, as j it wil! prevent any disease that would j no doubt arise from the change of water, food and climate, without its use. The most valuable mctlicine in the world, contains all the best and most curative properties of all other Tonics, Bitters, etc., etc., being the greatest Biood Purifier, Li^er Kegulator and Life and Health-Restoring Agent in existence. For Malaria, Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Nervous Headache, Chronic Rheumatism, etc., etc., it is truly a Herculean Remedy. It gives new life and vigor to the aged. For ladies in delicate health, weak and sickly children, nursiiur mothers. See circulars wrapped with bottle. j Charleston, S. C., Sept. 1, 1885. . i H. B. Ewbaxk, Esq., President of i The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., ! Spartanburg, S. C.: Dear Sir?I have j used a case of your Topaz Cordial in ! my family, and as a Tonic and Appej tizer I can cheerfully recommend i: to j all who arc suffering from Debility , and lack of appetite. My children, ' especial!}', have been much benefitted | by its use. Respectfully, Hutson Lee. Ask your druggist lor hwiiAXK s Topaz Cinchona" Cordial and take no other. The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., * Spartanburg, S. C., U. S. A. T!ie \ew Silver Certificates. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has began to print :he new ten dollar silver certificates. They :trc printed on the new distinctive paper, which was manufactured expressly for them. Each sheet contains four notes, and 5,000 impressions were taken in the first day's printing. Thirty days will be required to finish them, as they have to go through several processes. It is not expected, however, that they will be put in circulation much before the middle of November, when the new one and two dollar silver certificates will be ready. : tim /lufi/m p/M* CTM'il !/ ? nnt/ic ii? nA'f ; I 11IV A.KJL HiV, uuiuo 10 iJ v/?? ; being transferred to steel. The plates will be ready for the printer about the middle of next month. The design for the ten dollar plate was commenced some time be- ! fore Congress ordered the new notes. This ! is the reason why the larger denominations i are so much nearer completion than the j new small notes. As soon as the plates for the new one and two dollar silver certificates are ready, the full force of printers will be employed to finish the notes as rapidly as possible. But it cannot be exi pected that they will be put into circulation ! much before the middle of November, if, i in fact, they are ready quite as soon as that. The Railways of the World. The lines of railways in the five divisions of the earth cost, in round numbers, slG,000.000.000; and would, according to Baron Kolb, reach ei?ht times round the " lobe, although it is but little over have a century since the first railway worked by steam was opened between Darlington and Stockton. Sept. 27. 1825. and between Manchester and Liverpool. Sept. 15.1830. It is shown that in France, previous to the existence of railways, there was one passenger in every 335,000 killed, and one out of every 30.000 wounded: whereas between 1*35 and 1*75. there was but one in 5.178,800 killed, and one in 580,450 wounded; so that we may infer that the tendtnoy to accidents is yearly diminishing. Railway traveling in England is attended with greater "risk than any other country in Europe. A French statistician observes that if a person were to live continually in a railway carriage, and spend all his time in railway traveling, the chances of his dying from a railway accident would not occur till he was 9G0 years old. Tuesday Mr. Hampton Littlcfleld, living npiir Hobbvvillo. in Snnrt:mli!ir<T killed with a rock in the hands of Tobe j Uice. a 17-year-old neirro working 0:1 Mr. ! Littlefield's place. The murderer was I abusing a little negro boy. and when Mr. Litllefieid interfered hit liini above the eye. from which he died immediately. At last accounts the murderer had" not been arrested. The cactus is at present the fashionable decorative plant. m UEAERAL \E\VS ITEMS. Fact* of Interest Gathered from Various Qaarier*. Cholera is raging in Cores. Henry Ward Bccciicr is ill in London. I)-.- ;]>: Cnlvcstnii tornado &200, I 000. =~ " " The world's cotton supply is 1.238,409 bales. A drunken citizen of Montgomery shot j and killed a policeman Thursday. Prince Alexander is free and on his way to his home. The Maine campaign promises to be a : red hot one this fall. Ferguson, the Gladstouian candidate, has been elected in Lcith. Preparations are being made for whole sale evictions in Ireland this winter. Dr. L. S. Pitting, of Baltimore, aged 23, committed suicide on Saturday. Thirty-six out of severity-one thousand ! persons in Saxony commit "suicide. The New York hank reserve is now ?G,728,87o in excess of leaal requirement. A Presbyterian congregation was hooted .and stoned by a mob in Belfast Thursday. Rev. J. C. Beeehcr committed suicide at Elrnira, X. Y., "Wednesday. James G. Blaine made his second speech i in North Berwick, Maine, Wednesday. Bart "Wall was killed by Lewis Ellison. : "Wednesday, in Atlanta. Ellison is in jail, i About 700 passenger trains enter and leave riiuaueinuia uauy. The report that yellow fever had up-! . peared in Florida is untrue. The delegation from Ireland to the Irish National League are on their way back. Master Workman Powderly declares that the anarchists and the Knights of Labor are antagonistic. i It has now been discovered that the girl for whom Moore was lynched in Macon is a notorious creature. Business part of Earlville, N. Y., dei stroved by lire oil Saturday. Loss ?100,000." Victoria and Indianola, Texas, were almost totally destroyed by the storm of Friday night." Dr. C. C. Beers, of Boston, is in jail on the charge of aiding Mrs. Iiobinsou to mu: der her daughter. AVm. J. Kendall, of Boston, swam successfully in a cork vest the whirlpool rapids | of Niagara river for .$1,000. Mrs. May, of Dahlonega, Fla., died recent hr from being stung on the uose by a hornet. The street car :ic-up in New York has ; been amicably settled and the cars are run; ning as usual. i The tirst bale of sea island cotton of the I present crop was shipped to Savannah from I Florida Thursday. Mr. llarpcr Gilmoro, son of the Mayor ! of Sandersville, Ga., Tuesday night shot j and killed Mr. O. A. Broughlon. In Boston Mrs. Carr. of Jacksonville, ria., lias sued Jr ranees Collins lor $oO,lwu damages for enticing her husband. There have been 76 suicides this season in London owing to losses at Monte Carlo. | The last is a foreign lady who lost $12,000. The Democrats of West Virginia, have j nominated C. E. Hogg, over Eustace Gibj son, incumbent, for Congress. The Master Cotton Spinners' Association, ; of Bolton. Eng., have resolved to reduce wages. A strike wiil follow. John and Leander Nelson, negroes, were lynched. Tuesday night, at Magnolia, La., J for murdering a negro named Collins. A four-year-old boy died a horrible death from hydrophobia at Forth Worth, Texas, Wednesday. There is a workingman's party to be organized in Chicago to take an active part in the elections. Mr. -J. W. Pitcher, has purchased the St. Catherine gold mine at Charlotte for the sum of $23,000. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have nominated a State ticket and a negro for ; Congressman at large. The husband of Mrs. Harriet Beecher i Stowe.died Sunday in New Ilaven. lie i was 84 years old. Reports from Washington to the effect ; that Gen Joseph E. Johnson is dying in ! St.. Louis is incorrect. Mr. Whitclaw lieid, has ordered the pricc ; of composition on the Tribune to be raised : to 50 cents per 1,000 ins. . It is probable that another call for $15,j 000,000 8 per cent, bonds will be made in ! the second week in September. jirs. oiianowe amun, 01 \\ asiungton, is out as a candidate for President of the United Suites in 1(388. At last one of the whirlpool cranks has beta drowned. Probably the rapids craze will now adjourn for a while. The government has expelled from France an English clergyman on the ground that he is a partisan of the Orleans princes. The New York street ears are running i under strong police escort. The strikers ; are beat on violence, and a general tie up is feared. jtlr. Louis Ludekins and 31 r. Edward T. Shaw were drowned off the beach of Sullivan's Island Thursday afternoon while bathing. The irrawady river burst its banks TuesI day," and destroyed millions of dollars worth < f property aud drowned many people. The Memphis Appeal says that five times ! as many negroes voted the Democratic ] ticket in that city at the recent election ns j ever before. It is stated .it Berlin that Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, was deposed and made prisoner during an inspection of troops at Widdin. The female friends of the Chicago anar chists raised $4,000 last Thursday for the expense of appealing their case to the Supreme Court. It is now* believed that Prince Alexander is confined in a monaster;,* near Sofia. It is rumored that Premier IvaraveloJI has been placed under arrest. The Pope deplores the spread of socialism, rationalism, etc.. and exhorts the episcopal to guard the sanctity of the marriage tie. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the past week are I7i for the United Stales and 30 for Canada-SOI. Sister Eulalie, Superioress of the Immaculate Conception Academy at Newport, Ivy., wr.s accidentally burned to death A XltA&OVdJ Governor Gray, of Indiana, has issued a proclamation against lynching, and oilers ?1,000 reward for the conviction of any one engaged in such crime. Deputy State Comptroller Thomas E. Benedict, formerly editor of the Xe.w York Press, has accepted the appointment of Public Printer at Washington. John Grubbs, of the Ocean Steamship Company police. Savannah, Ga., dropped dead in the street Thursday as he was going on duty. Heart disease. C. T. Palmer, of Richmond, Va., manufacturer of agricultural implements, has made an assignment. Liabilities, ?87,000: assets half that amount. The State Prohibition Convention met in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, represented by 044 delegates. C. S. Wolfe will be their gubernatorial candidate. Dr. S. A. Richmond has been acquitted of the murder of Editor Strong, of the St. i Joseph Herald, it being found by the jury ] that he "was insane ;;t the timeaudissostiil. ! A collision occurred on the Camden and Atlantic railroad between a crowded cxcur sion and a fast newspaper train near Philadelphia Thursday. Seven persons were injured seriously. A special dispatch from Freeport, 111., ; says a maniac and a murderer were locked up together in Carroll county jail, and the insane man beat the other with a club so ^ badly that it is thought he will die. ' Two of Mr. Calvin Seago's boys, living near Augusta. Ga., were playing with a ] hoe. throwing it to one another, when one ' of them failed to catch it and it cut his nose entirely off. i General Henry II. Sibley, an officer of 1 the old Uuited States army and a Brigadier General in the Confederate service, (lied in a Fredericksburg. Y:i., on Monday last, in 1 the 70th year of his age. Senator Evans. C. C. Ferkins aud Miss t Matthews, while carriage riding at Wind- t sor, Vt.. We?lnesday, were upstt. Perkins was killed and Senator Evarts and Miss ) Matthews severely injured. I TIipto wfis :i <ras nine three feet lon-r and one end solidly plugged found in Chicago ' ] Sunday, and the police officers, thinking itj a bomb, tossed it in the lake, being afraid to examine it. The oleomargarine tax v.-ill l>eeorae oper ative just abouf the time the Fleridc. hotel keepers are arranging their schedules of prices for next winter. It will be a hard ! season for invalids. In Massachusetts, with an excess of GQ.000 women, it is said to be hard to ?ret a woman who can do housework. They have been spoiled by factory woik and dabbling in literature. An old lady of seventy, being left a widow and destitute, on bring aske:l what she would do to make a living, said: "I'm sure I cannot tell, unless I become a balletgiri." There is another case of complaint against Mexico. An American mining company lias been lined by Mexican authorities for j living the American flag over their prem- i iscs without fir&t.obtaining permission. Mr. James Oatc-s, of Lincoln county, N. C., was found dead in bed at the house of his adopted daughter, Mrs. Kebman, near Charlotte, Wednesday, where he had stopped the night before. Heart disease. The citizens of the storm swept sec-Lion of Texas have issued an appeal to the American | people for assistance in the way of fond and clothing, as sickness and death are staring the unfortunates iu the face. Gov. Fitzhugli Lee has been invited by Mr. W. II. Mullen, the District Workman of the Knights of Labor, to deliver an address of welcome to the General Assembly of that order upon convening in Richmond on October -?. The Bulgarian provisional government has been overthrown and the old ministry reinstated. There is a general revulsion of popular feeling in favor of Prince Alexander, and he has been asked to resume his duties as sovereign. Cutting is free, but the question as to the right of Mexico to punish him, an American citizen, for an oileace committed in , Texas, remains as it was before this step was taken. IIow long are we to await the whims of Mexican officials? The total losses., as far as known, to Texas, from the Gulf storm are as follows: Human lives lost. 38; loss to crops, ?1,000,000: loss to city and town property, -100,000: loss to shipping and harbor improvements, $900,000. The Republican State Convention met in Hps Indiana. Wcdnesdav. and completed the State ticket, as roliows: j Auditor. Cupt. Lyons; Attorney General. ! A. .J. Bilker; Clerk of Supreme Court, G. | I>. Pray; Supreme Court Kc-portet, K. C. j Ebersole. The recall of the French embassador at the Vatican is regarded in Paris as the lirst step towards the disestablishment and disendowment of the church in Fraucc, v.'hicli it is thought will be the result of the Pope's refusal to recede from the position he has taken in relation to China. The executions at Gweedore, in the district of Donegal, Ireland, have been concluded. The total amount of rents eon- j ccrned decs not exceed ?50 yearly. There j were 150 policemen and bailiffs and sixty ! cars and' beats engaged for 11 days in the ; proceedings at a cost of ?100 a day. -j 1 lie printing contract niauu sumy i;iuc i since by the Democratic Congressional I con:milicc with Gibson Bros., of Washing-1 ton, has been transferred to another firm, I Gibson Bros, being under the bnn of the i I typographical union and the Knights of | Labor, because they employed non union workmen. The Democrats certainly have a fighting chance at least for the next Senate. There are now 42 Republican Senators, including Riddlebergcr, and 154 Democratic. Twenty-; five Senators go out of ofiice on the 3d of I March next. Of these 1G arc Republicans and 0 Democrats. Of the latter, seven j have already been elected or are certain to i he clecte'l, namely, those from Delaware, Maryland. Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, and it is almost certain that the Democrat from West Virginia : will be succeeded by a Democrat. This j leaves only one of the nine to be elected? i I one from Nevada?and he, unfortunately, | will be succeeded by a Kepubiican. BRIC-A-3HAC. The trub great In wealth's estate Is the man of push and vim; The battle of life Is but a strife, And we all must fight to win. Let us, then, As business men, Proclaim to all creation That those arc wise "Who advertise In every generation. A letter of introduction?I. Ever)* bonnet lias a "b" in it. Proud flesh?The haughty man. A gentleman of color?A painter. A worn glove is the image of its paw. A niau on skates is necessary slipshod. The photographers' song: "Wait till the clouds roll by." It is pleasant to know that oysters "r" to he "unusually fine." Wives who are always blowing up their j husbands are domestic magazines. When a baby is born it is usually red, but it soon becomes a little ycller. Silver still holds its own in the way of personal adornment. Roses, of all other flowers, arc preferred for table decoration. It is not safe to back luck against hard work for a long race. Painting on glass is all the rage among artistic young ladies. Texas may not be able to go to war, but she stirred up a first-class hurricane. The great stud}- of politicians now n-clays is how to make a record. 2sow is the time to give attention to sewage and drainage. It is very English to go without your overcoat this weather. The heaviest mash on .record was when truth was crushcd to earth. Good taste is the result of judgment, not of wit. A blind man is very sympathetic. lie will never sec anybody suffer. A Boston bo}* calls himself Compass, b-> : cause lie is noxeci so oiien. Fastidious men have every day canes: and an extra one for Sunday. It lias been well said: "We take less i j pains to be happy than to appear so." j ( Every dollar invested in permanent im- 1 provemeat is that much on interest. < The patriotic citizen who is ' 'in the hands of his friends" is now abroad in the land. t We hear much about the pipe of peace. .< Is not the stove-pipe the pipe of quarrels? ( Lawyers dress prelt}' well, not with stand- j '? ing the fact that the}' occasionally lese a | suit. ] The man who is a splendid listener in 1 company doesn't fall far short of being a t genius. s Russia is blowing such a stupendous bubble that its bursting cannot be *'ery long t, delayed. u The man who advertises ''IIow to be- I come rich" usually lives in an attic and 1 r 1 lT UA1M& u:i live lumjjiv^. The brayest boy will quail when lie ap- c pears in public fur the first time after he has 1 had his hair cut by his mother. a The Boston girl never says 'Tt is rain- 1 ing pitchforks." She says: "It is raining * agricultural implements." "Who shall it be'?" asks a Chicago stock- f. yard poetess. We don't know, but who- ' 2ver he is he has our sympathy. "Why do dogs have fleas?" a young nat- s. jralist asks us. Dear boy, that's just what :he dogs are anxious to know. Money and time are valuable: but a man << nay be miserable with both when he has i, nore of either than he can spend. u Bangs having gone out of style among 1; 'h v " , A roung ladies, the rolling-pin and washjoard begin to look more hopeful. Some statesmen are continually putting heir cars to the ground to hear what poserity will say of them. Acting Captain Xewuham had the Voluu:eers out lost night for a drill, preparatory :o the Lexington trip. Why is a women deformed when she is mending her stocking? Her hands are where her feet ought to be. Tcliing the truth about it afterwards Joes not make it right to cut down a cherry LICL". A Connecticut paper enriches the language with "recentmost." It means the latest. Mrs. Grundy says that people who are superstitious can never l>e induced to wear pearls or garnets. "You have a natural ability for acting, Green. What ever kept you oil the stage?'' "The stage manager." Syracuse has a bill collector named Child. The people of that city have a Child among them taking notes. Mr. Gladstone's enemies in London derive great pleasure f::om repeating these four lines of doggerel: The number of men who are disappointed | in luve doesn't compare with the number who are disappointed in marriage. 'Twos at the tailors' convention where the delegate arose and said that what the country wanted was measures, not men. "Murder will out," declares the proverb, and apparaatly in Connecticut the murderer will out, too?out of the way of justice. Many people contract disease simply through tue fear of it. The imagination has a "wonderful influence on the human body. The Italians who come to this country must have a strong attachment for their native land. The}" bring so much of it with them. Xo musical man can ever claim the proud distinction of being an American composer until he has written a "President's march/' Pushing the pencil is hard work when you are quite three-fourths sick. But a daily paper is like death and taxes?for it knows no refusal. "Into power he comes the third time, "With projects so dark and so sinister, That no longer we call him the Prime, But rather the Past-his-Prime Minister." Kissing through a veil is allowed in Boston when women kiss each other. As such kissing is mere lip service, without heart I LIU I liltllWJO J-Av/ uuiviva^v,. . The world is making progress, undoubtedly, but it is a stern fact, nevertheless, that it pays better to be a freak in a dime muscuni than to be a poet. Chihuahua, the Mexican city (capital of State of same name) that has been figuring prominently in newspaper literature lately is pronounced Cha-wah-wah. Every fond mother thinks her boy will shine when he grows up, but the speculation is seldom realized except in the cases of those who become boot-blacks. The Boston man does not say "I know on which side my bread is buttered;" he says: "Excuse me; I know on which side my stuff of life is oleomargarined." Some one claims to have found out that ihc bushel of com which the distiller buys for thirty cents is evidently sold to the drinkers for ?40. oO. It is said that Confucius was never known to speak at meals. lie probably sat at the middle of the table, then, where everything was handy. A writer describes a beauty as having "an exquisitely moulded face, of which two dark hazel eyes arc the central feature." Vriwuv. r?nco ci1iiafn/?9 ?? lO iiVQV/ kJiVLACtCVVi . Kentucky and Missouri have laws making gambling a felony, but in either State murt!er seems to be considered about as mild a form of dissipation as croquet. Bees near a distillery stay drunk all the time, and make no honey. Bees are a good deal like men. They don't care for honey when they can get whisky. "What is wanted in this country/' said the bride, as she examined the wedding presents, "is not civil service reform, but silver service reform. This set is plated." A bottle of the oil of pennyp -.1 left uncorked in a room at night wiil be the; means of driving out every mosquito or any other blood-sucker before morning. "Why don't the newspaper men of the country step to the front?" asks an exchange. Their modesty about exhibiting the patches in the rear may have something to do with the matter. "There ure, of course," says a Chicago paper, "two sides to the dre?sed-beef j question." It may be added, says the Advertiser, that there are also two quarters to each side of dressed beef. . She had false teeth and false hair, but she was pcachy cheeked, bright eyed and pretiny xuj lucu, auu nau mi angenu luuipur; so he said: "With all ihy false I love thee still." ' These are hard times," said a young collector of bills. "Every place I went today I was requested to call again but one, and that was when I dropped in to see my girl." "Pomade, sir?" politely said a barber to a crank\ customer. "No," he growled; "I don't want any olemargarine on my head."' "All right, sir; I never like to put butter on cabbage heacls." "While the female sex is clamoring for rights they never seem to take into consideration the fact that all the best poetry descriptive oi me cnarm anu innocence 01 infancy is written on girl babies. "The upper class lives the longest," says a writer on longevity. We have no doubt of this. The private soldiers are all dead, and only the captains, majors and colonels remain. It may be a good thing for defaulters to commit suicide and so rid the world of their presence, but Tt would be better still if they would perform the happy dispatch before the embezzling begins. In ye olden time a liar was legally punished by having a hole bored through his | tongue. If t his were the custom now-"there are men whose tongues would resemble. porous plasters. Among the very inappropriate things usr-d as charms for watch-chains are wheels wil'i jeweled hubs and spokes, and little! gold safes. A safe! What next? A refrigerator ur a coal bin. Philadelphia seems to be a paradise for Iwms imblpmpn Xn infr/pn r>f tlmf. orinr) town can resist tliem when they go into minute particulars about their grandfathers. Lightning struck a piano in a house in York county, Mc., and thoroughly demolished it. This will strengthen the theory recently advanced by a scientist, that lightDing is possessed of intelligence. "Walking-sticks still continue to increase in size, and unless the limit is soon reached i'-.e average young man may be mistaken [or a base ball player who has just purchased a new bat. It fills the heart with gladness to know .bat when one goes to a dime museum to ;ee the living skeleton one is not to be deceived by any kind of make-up. The liv?-? rr- c-1-/%! rttrcn t-? r\n/lf ? llii OCVCAV*lVJLL |SUllO. While Maine fights Canada and Texas vars with Mexico, we sincerely hope the Dakota office-seekers will not lake advance of the crippled American people and crede from the Union. The fact cannot b* ignored, whether we vill or no, tiiat the labor question overtops ill others at present in the importance of ts problems andjthc difficulties which arise n attempting to solve them. People lock to the newspapers to find iiit what is lor sale. Advertising is within he reach of all. 2so business firm can iTord, in these days of active competition, o be unrepresented in the columns of the tress. Strange are the bequests which people ometimes make to perpetuate their own unity. A man lately lequeathed &300 to church in New Jersey, on condition that ?s hell should he tolled on every anniver:iry of his death. Radiant memories and rare old jokes are ne old sauces for suppei*, but the}* too will cause a commotion among the chestnut ells.'' The rare old jokes must be wrapped p and laid on the shelf, if it takes "the u;t four leaves in the family Bible.*' Mine. Modjoska's Pug I>og. Actresses and their managers, in these clays of red-hot competition, devise ingenious plans to keep the name of the "star" prominently before the public. An innocent-looking paragraph goes the rounds stating that Miss Soand-so carries a crocodile's tooth in her pocket as an amulet; or that she travels with two servants, four birds, and six cats, with a monkey thrown in by way of a comic tooth; or that she has lost diamonds worth $10,000. But the following is a true story of Mme. Modjeska: A little while ago, while performing out West, she purchased a pug dog. Her manager saw in this trilling occurrence matter for a pleasant puff. He waited on one of the "leading citizens" of Louisville and induced him to make a formal presentation of the dog to the actrcss. An elaborate red and gold collar was purchased., and when the dog was invested with this ornate equipment the* "leading citizen" came upon the stage at the end of the play, and in a flowing speech presented the black- j muzzled canine to Mmc. Modjeska, who expressed deep thanks in a few choice phrases of prettily fractured English and then gracefully withdrew, clasping puggv to her breast and kissing him effusively. Reporters were present, of course, to chronicle these touching incidents, and for a week ingenious little paragraphs floated up and down the stream of Western journalism, in which - ' >" ?i.: * * the liberality 01 tne "leaning cuizcw), | the handsome pug, and Madame Modjeska's shining talents were curiously mixed up. The dog had paid for himself ten times over. The pug, however, was not to be a source of perpetual joy to his fair mistress. He usually accompanied her to the theater, a servant holding him well in leash. One night in Philadelphia, when the actress v,*as playing "Adrienne Lecouvreur," during* the last act, when she was writhing under the baleful inlluence of the poisoned bouquet, by some mischance pugg}* slipped his noose and walked gravely on the stage, and recognizing his mistress, reared /tnmiftoIIv mirrn liis hmmf-hflS iillliOVXX wimvis4?j ?* and watched t)ic thrilling scene. In vain the people at the wings endeavored to coax him off. He seemed to be interested in Adrienne's emotional and startling attitudes. In vain the actress scowled at him. Not comprehending the nature of licr gestures, he rushed about the stage in the maddest manner, whining and howling alternately. To say that the audience shrieked with laughter is hardly to convey an idea of the amusement afforded by the unexpected intruder. Of course the great scene of the play came to an abrupt end. Modjcska fled in dismay; her maid, terror-stricken at the roar of the audience, rushed upon tbe stage, and. in endeavoring to seize his pugship, caught her foot in the carpet and fell sprawling, with her head in the flowers that the actress, a few moments before, had flung to the ground. The curtain descended in double-quick time; the void's, with violent objurgations fiercely intermixed, was heard behind the scenes; and the spectators ncarlv '"laughed their heads off" as they made their way to the street.? JV1 Y. Tribune. Fror.de, in his new work, "Oceana," calls Auckland the workman's paradise, and says that 8 shillings (*2) n day is the common wages, and the cost of living is less than in England. A poor clergyman's wife asked the price cf some hot house grapes, and when told laid them down with a sigh, at which the dealer sympathizingly remarked: "'Tisn't the likes*of you that can afford them grapes; we keep them for the workingmeifs ladies." Counterfeiting a Valuable Artieie. The publisher of the Madison County Record writes from Huntsville, Ark., as to the effects of Brown's Iron Bitters on his wife. Mr. Daugherty says: "My wife has been using the Bitters for some months; the effect in her case is remark! ahlp " TTft alsn -writes that owinrr to counterfeits and imitations, it was difficult to get tlie genuine article. _ That difficulty has now been remedied; imitators have been exposed and put to flight. There, as elsewhere, Brown's Iron Bitters can be had of all the respectable druggists at a dollar a bottle. * Strange, is it not? a woman's eves And ruby lips, and all the rest, Should give a man such ecstacies And fi;l his bosom with unrest? Strange, is it not? Strange, is it not? that those same eyes In after years with rage should Hash, And those same lips in angry cries Should threaten his thick head to smash? Strange, is it not? A Columbia school girl lately puzzled her teacher with the inquiry, "If the eldest child of an English ruler succeeds to the throne, what would happen if the eldest child was twins?" The girl was very much surprised at the teacher's inability to answer of! hand, and tried to find cut from her mother; but the question still agitates the town. I -T-% T l IT /\ re ^ A l MllS W 011S BUY THEM AT HOME.: * THE BEST MAKES OF PIANOS AND ORGANS -SOLD ATFACTORY PRICES FOE CASH i ? !JJt? EASY ENST4LMENTS. ! ] DELIVERED TO NEAREST DE- ! POT, FKEIGHT FREE. Write for prices and terns to j 3f. W. TRU2P, Columbia. S. Jur.c30i.ly _ __ | 1 At this seasun nearly every one needs to rse gOBM sort of tonic. IiiON enters into almost every ;>bysiciin's prescription for these v. ho need buildinc rp. ; " ^ ^ l! | llTl^jjg i For Wcahnes!', T.-ass't'-ide. TLnck of j rinprpy. <fcc., it HAS NO FQIIAL, and is the oiil v Iron medicine that is net injurious. | It Knriches the Kiocd, Invi so rates r!:e System) K&stores Ajipeii t?, A!it Cigestioa It does not blacken or injnre the teeth. can3cheadache or prodnce eoi'^tip-tion?other Iron mediciitcs do j Dn. G. n. Br;rrrr.KT, a leaning physician of i SprinjrSeld. O.. says: "Brown's Iron Bitters is a thoroughly cood medi- J cine. I ase it in my practice, and find" its action j cxceis all other forms of iron. In weakness*, or a low j condition of the system. Brown's Iron Bitters m | usually a positive necessity. It is all that is classed | for .t." Genuine has trade mark and crossed rod lines en ! wrapper. Take no r.thor. Hade only by f BROWS CHEMICAL CO.. BALTIMORE. MP. j Ladies' Kai?"i> Boon?csefal and attractive, con- j tair.inc list of prizes for recipes, information abont , coins, etc.. riven away by ail dealers in medicine, CT ' iruuir-d to any addrcsc on ruaaipt of Sic. stamp. I Most of tha diseases which afflict mankind are originally caased by a disordered condition of the LIVEfv. For all complaints of this kind, 6uch aa Torpidity of tie Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation. Flatulency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (sometimes callod Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flui, Chills and. Fever, Breakboao Fever, Exh-iustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diarrhoea. Loss of Appetite. Headache, Foul 3reath, Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down 5??? STAOISER'S fiUBfiNTii is Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases, bat all diseases of the LiVER, will KfWrZtC. STOMACH and BOWELS. It changes the complexion from a wasy, yellow tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes low. gloomy spirits. It is oao of the BEST ALTERATIVES and PURJF1ERS OF THE BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC. SYABICER'S AURANTSl Fox sale by all Brcggists. Price S1.00 per bottle; C. F. S7AD2GER, Proprietor. 140 SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa? PEACE. INSTITUTE FOR YOUXG LADIES, RALEIGH, SORTH t ASOLL\A. rplIE FALL TERM COMMENCES OX J. the first Wednesday of September, 18S6, and closes correspondingtime in Jane following. Advantages for instruction in ail the branches, usually tauaht in lirstclsss Seminaries for Young Ladies, unsurpassed. Building nested by strain, and in every w.iy as to equipment, etc., equal to any "in the South. A fail corps of FirstClass Teachers engaged for session commer.cing in September. Terms as reasonable as any other institution offering same advantages. Correspondence solicited. For catalogue, containing fail particulars as to tern:5, etc., address liKV. 15. BUPAVELL A SOX. AugllL2?n Principals, Italeigli, X. C. "3Iess Sisa h forpo c &*.o \ummm urnum, Established in 170.1. Tire 93d Yearly Term begins September Sili, 1SSG. For Catalogue^ giving full particulars, address, Ma]. R. BINGHAM, Supt., Bingham School P. 0,. Orange Co., K C. iii P" K7AWS STFmorZ>R.SCOTT'S bcantia S, s? * 9 SifeSifauiul Eisctrio Corsets. BSfl ss 1 ?Samn!e Iree to ifcose becoming agents. Is LSI a ON" r^sk, quick sales. Territory given. ?. ^-?T-y.-:atisfaction guaranteed. Address DR. SCOTT, 342 Broadway, NEW YORK, j MjSLIE3.3LiX:M" Magazine For Jsrje or ?null smmc, all st?j. Tlie stroaccit ihootisi accuracy guaraati*?!, anil the oaly abcoluteiy sa.'c rifle oa t BALLARD GALLERY," SrORTINfi AND TARG: Illustrated Catalogue. ffiAELIX FIK.E :Ms& m th ? I ? Ml About twenty years ago I c'lscovered a 1! nounced It cancer. I have tried a number of p nent benefit. Among the numb >r were one or was like fire to the sore, causing Intense pain. S. S. S. had done for others similarly afflicted, g the second bottle the neighbor > could notice ih !3 health lind been bad for two jt three years?I ually. I had a severe i/uin in my breast. Aftei me and I grew stor.ter than I had been for seve g a little spot about the size of a half dime, ant | every one with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair tria 21ns. XA>'CY J. McCONAU< Feb. 1G, 1SSC. Swift's Specific Is entirely vegetable, am ft .Impurities from the blood. Treatise on Blood 9 . THE SWIFT Ashley Soli The Solubla'Guano'isXhiglily concentrate< Grade Fertilizer for all crops. ASHLEY COTTON AND CORN COiTTt tvo crops and also largely used by the Truck ASHLEY ASH ELEMENT.?A very chea; tilizer for Cotton, Corn and Small Grain Cro; Vines, etc. ASHLEY DISSOLVED BONE: ASHLEY trades?for use alone and in Con>post heap. For Terms, Directions, Testimonials, and f( Duplications of the Company, address THE ASHLEY PHOSPJ Nov25L1T laess pills ivcrc a xrcnderful discovery. ICo others jr relieve all macnsr of disease. The information a: he mairclous poarcr cf these- pills, they would walk rithout. Sect by mail for 25 cents ia stamps. IUu he infenmtien is vcryvaluable. I. S. JOHNSON & "JIOT E FRIEND" MAKES CHILD-2SIRTH EASY. The time has come at last when the terrible agony incident to this very critical period in a woman's life can be avoided. A distinguished physician, who passed the greatest portion of )iis lifi> (v,ioiv\ this branch of" practice, left to ehildbearing woman this priceless lesacv and life-saving appliance, ""THE MOTHERS' FIUEM)," and to-day there are thousands of the best women in our land who, having used this wonderful remedy before confinement, rise up and call his name blessed. TVe receive letters from even* section of the country thanking us for placing this prepara- y tion in the reach of suffering woman. One lady from North Carolina writes "us that she would like to thank the proprietors on her knees for bringing it to her notice, as in a previous confinement she had two doctois, and they were compelled to use chloform, instruments, etc., and she suffered almost death: but this time she used "3IO filERS* FRIEND," and her labor was shoit, miick and almost like magic, rvow why should a woman suffer ill* A Tlr-s ??** ?. 4.^** .T.iv, vail v*. v v/iu it. >> c v^iii prove all we claim by living wit/wasa, and anyone interested ca:i call, of !\,ve their husbands do so, at our oflice, and see the oiig'inal letters, which we cannot publish. This remedy is one about which we can not publish certificates, but it is a most wonderful liniment to be used after"flie>-,*?^q lirst two or three mouths. Send for our treatise 011 the Health and Happiness of Woman, mailed free, which gives all particulars. The Bradfield Regulator Co. Bex 28, Atlanta, Ga. Sold by all druggists. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. OUR BABY'S FIBST YEAR, by Marion Harlaml, also containing much valuable Information. 4S page book. seat 011 receipt of 2 c:nt stamp by l:eed& Carnrick. Mercantile Exchange Bid's:, n. y. Parker's Tonic A Pure Family Medicine Tliat Never Intoxicates. If you ire a lawyer, minister or business man exhausted by mental strain or anxious cares do not take mtoxlcatlzg stimulants, but use Pakkek's Tonic. It you ar<? a mechanic or farmer, worn out with overwork, or a mother run down by famMl* AP l.AIIC^AI/1 t * * r | vi vju.civ,0, CI J* I A^A?.IV o XV.iJ.Vt If you have Dyspepsia, Rheumatism. Kidney or Urinary Complaints, or it you are troubled with any disorder or the lucgs, stomach, bowels, biood or nerve you can 03 cured by I*arkkr's Toxic. CAUTION !?Refuse all substitutes. Parker's Tonic Is composed 0i the best remedial agents In the worid, and is entirely different trom preparations or ginger. Send ror circular. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. Park&r's Hair Baisam i-. finely perfumed and is warranted tj prevent railing or the hair aud to remove dandruff and itching. June3o-4w UISCOX & CO., 163 William Street, New York, Soid by all Druggists in large bottles at One Dollar. CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. rr.IIE minor that the Principal will reX move to Columbia, S. C., is a mistake. He has purchased, the controlling interest in the CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE: has spwdt S4,0C0 in renovating and improving the buildings, and is now making more valuable "improvements than ever. The building is lighted with gas, warmed with the best of wrought-iron furnaces, has hot and cold water baths, ' and first-class appointments as a Boarding School in every respect No more experienced and accomplished corps of Teachers is to be found in the South, and the Music and Art Department are unsurpassed. .Fuil session begins September 1,1SS6. For Catalogue annlv to the Principal KEY. WiL'K. ATKINSO'N, AugllL2m Charlotte5 N. C. ?as. .-?/ BEST IN THE WQRLp- 4$ ET RIFLES, worM nrownM. Seid for ARMS CO., New Have a, Conn. | OrueiMs. f- I Lttle sore on my cheek, and the doctors pro- 9 hyslcians, but without recclvjig any pcrmatwo specialists. The medicine they applied I saw a statement In the papers telling what i procured some at once. Ecrore I tad used at my cancer was healing up. My general had a haaking cough and spit blood contlnr taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left ral years. Sly cancer has healed over all but 1 it is rapidly disappearing. I would advise 5HEY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Co., Ind. ^ i seems to cure cancers bj forcing out the and Skin Diseases mailed free. SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. rble Guano. 1 Ammoniated Guanc, a complete High >UXD ?A complete Fertilizer for these ers near Charleston for vegetables, etc. p and excellent Xon-Ainmoniaied Ferps, and also for Fruit Tree?, Grape ' ACID PHOSPHATE, of very H:gb > )r the various attractive and instructive HATE CO., Charleston/S.[C. ; like them in the world. "Will positively cure rouai each bos is worth ten times the cost of a I gjggga be mode ^realize 100 miles to gf t a box if they co-did not be had stratcd panpiiht free, postpaid. Send for it; CO.. 22 Cu.cJ.o:a House Street, 3GSTCX. MASS.