Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ' ~r- - I- - - ? ?-I ft ? ? - "** " * ' % ... - ^jyrawwt'*-'.^' MSWglK iaft3Lrt^?*ggaBMgljegflmiw%?- >?>?> -.^ I |P? rr.,! (| I,M| tuioi I'?u^nx^ '? ?- J.,Q.rr^JiM<iQQKIfc*iManMa?^Ba^ 9 * VOL. XLVI. ~~ WINNSBOR0, $, C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL SO, 1890. ~~~ XO 1*7. |j X TERRIBLE TRAGEDY t c )My:T7:D OVHS TW?NTY-;iX YFARS i * ACQ A. ?v* t!i st>?ry "-V:is Unraveled- Tiie Il.lbv ; - I 'iro*r* 5'?t At u% ?tR i>cn^n > . j I'ativr- A Kema^kabl? Stwi-y. iU*i'. '.\*c>ti"a .<ci. r 3. C.. April 17.?i. >*:i r >rt, that reveals the tala of a c. ; .: der, zmd relatas & story if dei*:>- jy-\i villainy. -wria unearthed 2; tliij equity to-day. No; th? murder of Captain j Oawson has South Carolina* been so j k :arLi'-.I ?not sine# the rcciial by Me- j 9 Oovr ol i.i? &8sass3uatio2i of thai J ^aighiiy lu-.-i tut-re been toLl a 1 <tory >1 a. tcruel and cowardly ! jaurdcr. IV jar-sent people are coz* F lectea with lis perpetr&tior and *very other deUii mrJces the rsrelatio;i .ixo.-iL sviisntiouai. ' | I An agrsd man. sarrouiided by a j f _ .'&niAj .-rd riches, garac-rcd by fair i T J-- ?# ! And foul uu-aiij. vvitii iiicucauuiis wi j .jnpendjii,; dissolution, and v/lth a i name. <ii: o.v iyblotched b?jond repara-! tioii, i* -ested quietly -itid silently j / :<>r a lcurder committed nearly iwen-! :y-siz years ayro. This man so rich, | v.' so doubly prominent, hjamuol Jef- j j* 7 '-lie.*, a resident of th>s county. Ho a brother of one of the signers of : i.:<? :ssion ordinance, who was a r?r.'-?fnnDtl learn- ! fLLI:XJl t'i VACVI/Jf/Avvj f u.g. la 078i y way lis is well connect-; rd -.vifch the- first families of Carolina. j .tie is about seventy years of ag? j **id is the richest man in this ?eo- .: viov.. f . * AffUlD OP TU2 Wa2- j i Jtir.L about tli9 end of tiis v*r, i ' ^ S-vmuei JaiTeries killed a neighbor I a*Hiv-d Silicon Sparks. JefFeries on ! [ ' iccoiuii of his riches did not go to j K die iraxybut lured a substitute. Sparks' vras a conscript officer, and about the j ?los<* of ISlii attempted to compel: j /aSeri?s t>> go into the army, but hie ! f, <5t>w;irdice was too great. The result! .was tnafc Jettenes v;?ni to me wuoas irid bid away fro:a the conscript offi jer. j3Iood hounds were put on his crack, and by some mishap he nevor l was apprehended. Enraged at the | Li- conduct of the conscript officer, J efV* iei iei soon sought a difficulty with W him, and hilled his official pursuer. I About the (tlose of the war, when V * ivoiythmg was in a condition of al; x most irretrievable chaos, the trial of ieiferies for this murder was heid. t Everybody was interested in tho casr, } . otid great indignation was expressed. jfc iten of who condemned this J mt ' murder attempted to have jus*: .*>3 j UUI; i. i.y v/iic it^wwv " w ? i L ' Dr. Alexander White, an influential j local p^j^STctSn. He denounced the i StirS-frer .and chanced to obtain acme | liama^in^ testimony against Joffe^ies. j W This wars .soon made known to Jet-! V y-ies and ids friends, and fell Hie a j ft iomb shell in their earnp. How to | W oppress this damaging evidence and j .Ave JeSeiiea' life# was the que-*,-! tioa. Various schemes were hatched j *o no effect WHITU PUT OUT OF TUB WAY. At last it was determined to for- \ over silence the tortgrae <-?f Dr- "Whita j K-/iQ0fi, Tho runt. WHS conceived I. tand consummated rapidly. In ihs darkness of it midsummer eight in August, 1865, -while rocking his motherless child to sleep in his country home. Dr. "White was shot dead. ThsS shot vras "fired through the door. Instantly Dr. TTniio fell doad. The startled child awak*aod by the cruel j commotion, and the murderers piung* , ed into impenetrable darkness. Shortly afterwards the prattling child, sev Alia Maul nf f-io father rLofraisr ffrdj, eat down and dabbled in it. j t Covered .vifciiths yore of its father,thd j child fell asleep, mid there besid# | : its parent rested peacefully unid I ? its brother discovered the dastard! j * deed. t The mordwers of Dr. "White woro | unknown. Suspicion pointed to Samr uel Jefferies. and several others, bui L none were arrested and tried for th<*> " 1 +>-"o1 ? > fflf i^ooi: aitci?uiu Jefferies for tlie slaying of Sparks j was lieLL It resulted in an acquittal, j S - despite the fact tiiat Jviferies vras nn-' animoualy condemned by the people. \ HH Smc-tb-.n he kts prospered, and is! ?j today a very rich man. His charac. j ter has never been good, and many j i deeds of doubtful fairness have been j ? laid to his account. All Lis acts \rere i 1 the fruit of a masterly cunning mind- j fThiiO and again he has i.cen accasea i of murdering Dr "Whito, but he and j ' his associate^ kept their secret well, j But his associates, who -were not' mixeu up in the deed, often said in:\y ! \ holy that ho rarely ever slept, and ; frequently he saw apparitions of hia j victims, Whether this is true or not it is certain he aged very rapidly and j His sole I K Ul'H; \jrI , - aim s jt'iiis to have be<-ii to conceal |H9^ forever = erei and make money j HL ? rapilly.but murder will out and S&in- j B& ne'l JrtlY; k-3 is novr on the threshold I Wf 0; a direful personal calamity. ASSOCjATjfe SQKJtLrJ. | Vt'L -?a D--. Whits was murdered, i '** Je&rifs- a>-?J s> man named Moulin, j slf' ' "w^-to ssaocnties. * s ^ ?*-. n:? -u?.7 1 it wii oeiievca taut .ucuim i.?-i t?li:ivr vvK?{ hired by Jyileriss to kill or ;h&t ht> w&a fui abettor in dc-<:-:. Mediin had to leave, and t f^rit to Trxfts. Thera he died some y^sr.= .-.go. "eiid while on his death-bed 2s>uiU a .sc.'ii.-iGent exonerating him? c.vif ?.%. i j,.tv^in'r fhat .Tt-fferies ij&d [jiumio.tul Dr. White. This confession vy;;.-> socrei by Medlins faiuiiy. Kot 1 Oil if Meulia's son told the k'J -' rslaieti by his father. THE -VEKEST MADE. TbU m anew the oldaen^ation ?.ui 'ii * tin i.'v; people who wers s*.vorn sev;ocy. The prattling1 child li .ooleil xmcoutic ously in its fp I . " - Mood is now a man. With y I.-is ui 3.f?si4U<oni he ba-3 wound tii? ?oa around his fathers iuurderer. -\ u u pk-?ini:U*ss mun, bat lie has beon niu<\i ii" frien.ls in oi>.lining testimony. :?)*! the case has ;e.-n successfully a .1 up. WhMi J^ftVrk's was his h-;r a ir- Gafifuey City he \v .1 sv ;:n i iv. now guarded by L sv.. :v " i- rzS'b in hi? : vera. ps?v aucli l:f tn<j> Ca-t*. ?jrr-s-po i<le:?<K) of the (*reeuTillt> News. Gaffxey. S. C., April 23.?Consider ?* my niji^.ry*. ?*'V* able pK>:niiienc-<> has been ?iven ; :> the recent arrest of Samuel JeH'ene*. of this place, by tlie various correspondents, from this plr:;**-, Union unJ Spartanburg, and many exaggerated and erroneous statements have been made more for sensation than fact. Mr. Jelieries has all the evidence needed to prove an alibi, so iar as lie is concerned, and the fact of his release 011 a one thousand dollar bond shows that the law thinks it a weak case Mr. Jetferies arrived hero on vesterday from Union where he had gone, and askedan investigation and as i!0 witnesses appeared against hi-u or Mr. Roberts, both were released 1- 1 f!,r. Iiri7. 1 Oil uan, ^-...,. in Union :Jtlioi;gh bond would havs been given here for any amount hud it ?eon required. The statement cf the case in the last issue ox the Carolina Spartan is more nearly correct tii.ii} acy that has yet appeared, and seta forth the facts as related to your correspondent at the- tirn<* of Uie occurrence. A TOUCHING STORY. Sftastoy svid Former Slavw Moot KUr I , JJajjy Y^arij. , Hslbxa, Ark., April 2i.?A very ftf. | fociing- scene was witnessed here to ! day between a former muster and two of Lis ex-slaves. A Terr dignified old gentleman stopped in fronS of on? /-.? i u-wm' stoi cs on Plicenix block ! and inquired of Jilr. Bobert Gordon. j the proprietor, if he could give kisa auy information concerning' the whsar* aboutft of two negroes, namsd P#rry and Troy Wilson, whom h? e%id h? had heard lived in Helena. Ths stranger introduced himself as Dr. White,-of Denison, Tex. >ir. Gordon, who was well acquainted with feko parties sought for. wont around io ike postoffiee and brought back with j him Troy Wilson, who is now a msil j in lliV CllipiCV tXXV j iiienfc on the Arkansas Midland livl-, road. "vYilson aoon met his form or master, ivlxo wepc vrith joy when he s*Tr Wilson and learned of bis ri acta the -world. Les was alsofound snd brought before the Doctor. Tht aaasier and ex-slaraa remained long in qsiei eonversaiion tcith ona ailother, rseounfcing.tiie events that had takan, placo sine* their departure from ki% s?ryi?9. Dr. White slated iiiai the two men Lad been slar#s under him. in Missouri, and that he had hejfvd of tii? terrible fioovta throughout this country. and, not knowing how Wilson and L?e wora faring, had come down here to assist ihrui, if they needed any assistance. After reading them both siibsia.nt.isil presents the parties separated-vA^iison to his work on the train, Lee bo hi# work in the city and tho Doctor to sd* home in the Lone Sear State. \ Doctor^ Enormous Fee. KAK/iT'A.l -frv l^r? lovryAcf jUUKJ XO YJCliCV'wU XJW ^v^.v . fey ever paid to a physician in a- single cas*? was paid by J. H. Flagler, one of the Standard Oil kings, to Dr. G. C. Sheldop of Xew York. A dearly beloved daughter of Mr. Flagler, who afterwards died while cruising on a y.ttch in Son them waters about a year ago, was lingering betwesn lifs and death. There v.-erc not more than two or three chances out of a hundred tfeat she ->voiild be able tc bave her bed alive. The devoted father announced that, if Dr. Sheldon could relieve the suffering in Lis child and aid her in recovering, he would give him the Lirgest fee that was ever paid a physician. }Iiss ilagler rallied and thirdly was able to leave her bed. and in the course of time was suniciently strong to drive out. The vcong heiress to several millions lived to enjoy her great ?J,N-r>r* otir.v il.ii! > v> rl XVAi <V (.si-.: *vl*Vi I Dr. Sheldon was presented .with $250,000 worth of stock in tlie Standard Oil Company. Ko Southern Trap. The Secretary of State on Monday telegraphed Capt. Bourke. in charge of the special train that in carrying the Pirn-Americans on the Southern tour, to return to Washington from Tlirhrr.roul. -Tfii--, was clone bv Secre tary Blaine because so few of the delegates desired to make the excursion. The Socrotary decided that the munbi-r of those .croii^ would not justify the expense of tbe journey, .which would cost as uracil as if the entire conference had srone. The whole outlay would probably have been about ?10.000. A. Sketch of Mr. Randa.ll. a 1 i..r.y~, ! SAiuuri vavunua jLva>i\.u?ia T r?n in Philadelphia. October 10th, 1928. Ke was a son o' a weil known lawyer and distinguished politician cf j Philadelphia. He was educated as a} nierchanf:, and alter being1 four tiraea i elected to the city council and once j to the State Senate, he was elected! to Congress in 1S63. He has since | represented without ijifcerntissicii tho | only Democratic distinct in PhH&dcl- j phia. Ho served on the commiitfief? | oa banking, rules and elections, a~d j distinguished himself by lii-s apssches against the force bill in 287.3, and ttjis s. candid sU* for Speaks? the ner: yo&r, and viu appointed chairman of; the commit.ti-e on appropriations. lie gained cradit by hia success in j ; curtailing expenditure:! by enforcing a i : system of propoviionf.1 reduction in ! ' ^ 1 il 3 iT. I I tiie appropriations, aria on u;s aasia ; Qi Michael C. Kt?rr,7ras oKctsd Spo-ik- j | er, December. lr-76. K-e was ro?jl-; j eeted Speaker in the two fallowing ! congresses, serving in that rapacity | until ISSi. Mr. Ivaudall lias borne a ! conspicuous part in the debates on the tariff as a l?a'l"r of the protections!; wing of the Beiuoeratic parj *? " ________ in r. Sflli Pond. I An:>bks05. April H.?V?"hil? three j men were rowing a boat on Key's lisli j pond, two miles west of here. Sunday j afternoon, the boat capsized and one I of the party. George Wildrop, being i unable to swim, was drowned. He tvas a vQung man about u-i vears eld. He leaves a wife and one child. He will be buried at New Frospoct Church, several miles in thw country. Tho coroner has gone out thold 11:o mniH-st. though the facts are as | at ri-t abovfr. " - ^ . tTm - ,. . ?JJl". Y\. 11. ..Mk'i.liiOsiA, & 'LSitfis*uishvil lis prist minister of Georgia, ilied at his home in Macon on Tuesday. & AiM0F rni- ALLUXCLj T'nZ REi-ATiONSOF THE !ORDER TO PU3LIC AFFAIRS. A ri?$n and I'ractieal Statoiueat From ? !'n?mlncat Farmer - i W?Td>H?irt Polj files. Col. 5. T. Stacfcbouse. president of tii? Farmers' Alliance of South Caroliria^ina vrritten ilie follov/ing letter to Mr. 31. J. Pate oi Deak BaoTirt;?.?Your letter c.;i-tvlniag clipping, "The Alliance and i*.~ ; Aims." an. i resolutions in reference to mi'n:- by Jiaoiberg Alliance, \vsa tv?'-;>:ve?3 *l:r--?rt?f my ebsonea from homo. Pc-rh.**?s T can best answer your letter by stating as briefly as possible I />/\tinniru 3 r* 1-i! .-l 4 innci A? <> ii^>t -i. vi/iiv v i t t-\y Vv v-ulv xuuvuvxio v_-x flie Alliance to politics. v The first declaration of intentions in f>':r consiiiurion say?;: "To labor j for the educaliou of tiio agricultural classes the science of economical government. iu a strictly noa-parlioan spirit.*' This declaration is full of sugges- ! tive thoujrhts. The thought suggested is iiint these classes need ?:o Vie educated ::i tha soieaee of oeonomi- : cal ;<overmnent? This leads natural- i iy to the inquiry, h&vo these classes been careless about lina Kind oi education, and if so, has this carelessness made thorn victims of vicious legislation?legislation that is unequal and oppressive to these classes? The Alliance assume# (and think cor- < roctly) that such has been the case. Tariff protection might be- cited as an illustration of this kind ! unequal and oppressive legislation. And it may be well to reihark here that tar- : iff protection is more distinctively a ; party issue (as between theivro great political parties in this country) than any other. Tariff protection taxes the agricultural classes?thg largest consuming 'classes of manufactured products?to build up and enrich the- ' great manufacturing industries of this conchy. Tlio Republican party favcrr. the protective policy. The 1 Dwuuoralic party opposes it? The Aliircnco .bids its mfcmbership to'froe : themselves from partisan prejudices ?Ilia great party blind?ana to examine this question in the liglit of : reason and right, and then do vrlaat would be for the greatest good to the greatest number. ' Then, if vre take up the financial or ' money question, vrhieh is more & ' class than a party, question?neither ' of the great political parties having | looked after the interests of. the ag- ' rienlraral classes in the j5iisnci.il leg- ! kktion for the country since 1365. 1 in nroof of this tto misrht cite the ex- ' t-vaordiaary privileges granted to the National Banks, the discrimination ' against the fanners' securities in the establishment of theae banks, the de- ( monptization of silver, the reduction in the volume of currency by the re ; tirement of the United States' bonds ' and til* canceling of National Bank 1 notes, and in short, the establish merit and maintenance of a financial ; policy that is surely reducing the great middle class to a condition of : dependence and want;. This policy, if long continued, will make a strong ' and centralized government a necss- ' sity to protect the rich and to hold ' the poor in subjection. As remarked, this is more a class than a party question: but partisanship lias bean ' the blind that has blinded the farm- , nig classes to the great wrong that was inflictsd upon them. Of course, if all the great farming clasess could have freed themselves from party and sectional prejudices and if they , had been educated in the science of political economy they would have stood together and these wrongs could not have come upon them. In the above brief allusions to the necessity of educating the agricultural classes I have trenched on tho sea* ond important suggestion, jiz: tho spirit in v,-hich it is to be done?"In a strictly non-partisan spirit." That party zeal hinders or prevents investigation is too patent to require demonstration. This might be illustrated' by a case in our own State and in your (Barnwell) county. I noticed quite recently that an honored and distinguished Carolinian, a citizen of ynur county and one of the most dis iinguislied faixaers in the State, was repo: ted to have said: i:I am a Democrat lirst, second a farmer." By which I understood him to mean that his love and his allegiance to the Democratic party was such that lie held it would be wrong to discuss .State policy inside the Democratic party, for iVar of endangering Democratic supremacy in the State. I am sure th-it my distinguished friend held, as i tiiero is nothing ctisiionest hi the administration of our State government. This being admitted on ail sides, where could be the danger of the proposed discussion of State pol^y?inside the Democratic p;irty:> Surely, there could be no danger from such discussion if it be conducted i;i a non-partisan.non-factious?aad Alliance members will en, iK.ige in such discussion in no other ; spirit. Jv.it Lhc State Alliance h-is made no j other Legislative demands nnd ;i:i an j organization is not called "pon to 1 r.v<;< ih- <lr-Ti>:nu1s rjllt forth br t;ie "Farmers Association." The Allianro does net iiiterfer? v.-jiu the pclilicnl or religious pn>f^rei;c?is of it;-; jjicMibcrs. It i*j Demo-1 crniic majirity ml*' of the member-} ribip. Legislative demands lonmv laled l?y the Scute Al'ianc? would be frubmitted to the sub-Aliia?iees for ratification. Y/hen ratified, it would become a State Alliance demand and the membership would vote for no man who was not pledged to work for its legal enactment. j The Alliance makes no war on any j political party. When it warts legis lation it don't ask the candidate if he J is a Democrat. Republican. Whig. Know-No tiling or a Greenback er: it.! himjily takes a pledge that he will, if elected, work .o secure the enactment of its measures and let him take | liis chances. J Tii? word "lr-bor" la the deelara{tion which we have boon e*\;i:nu>i mean-* rhbrt at pt>r'onnan<-o? it me-1118 there are to i .o no oroues in tliv Alliance* hive isiiilc this educational work' is needed. Xow a \vord in reference to the article from the Barnwell People and agggSSSg-r''z* ^-' . - - 1 '/Tr I close, and It-: nic say that i s<e i nothing in it to condemn. Your 1 solicitude lost tJLe Alliance ship should he vrreckcu in tin? stormy sea f of politics was no doubt shared by thousands of as ^ood Alliance men as there are in the State. Your fear : that the Alliance might become clan.i. 1 .. _ r l. l.. .? I11SI1 tt'Kl 161 ll?<? ir) Olv I ill ?illj SC.*. C members of the order will, I think, prove unfounded. The Alii am e ; method leaves each member free to vote for th? candidate of his clioic", k provided he is right on measures. :u.d % education in tiie sci-uce ox political i economy is ?ehed 'iti to secure unity ;;; support o/ m~a:iure5% and it mu::t be kept hi miad thai the State Ai1 Q j c i!i * 4411&1VV xi*.' v** "Adiiu -, consequently each member "will deter- v inme for hiuis-1? his duty as to t:i*u \ riTici measures. I said duty; yrs, cii:u 1 is the word?duty: it curries tlio idea 7 of relieving polities ui ssnthuuifc and \ looks to tlie xovvaring of a-comnny s efficiency iu government. There is another iciest iu the ari'icL ' from the Barnwell People which the 1 Aiiimioo Ji: otherhood should never ^ :'ovgei: The danger .01 i: wiling tli-f r' \ ipo^i/^a c?V?in n'it!? - ..If eA"il-,>v: W-v , * OHl|/ .) \Ui OV ITUV ? look io choir o?vn advancement from fchotir owinee lion wit a our orde), " OiMcf-ficokcr.s should iind noeiic?/ui- 'J agembnt to outer the Alliance. Ai- \ Liancs association will better qualify * us to select wisely our servants t<> till the eince*. ? ?**? * v In conclusion, it may -not not bj :i improper for me to suggest to mem- ^ bers of our order that in the discus- ~ sion of the questions of State policy, :i as oitizens, nut as an organization, ^ that they take into the discussion s that broad charity which "construes ^ words ar.d deeds m their most favor . ? .. r ;ibie light, granting Honesty ot pu>- * po~.e and good intentions to others.**' ? E. T. Stackhouse. } Preside-:it S. C. S. F. A. \ Profitable Farming. e _ The Atlanta Journal mentions Mr. a James B. Hiumieut, of Coweta ccun- g by. as one of the champion farmers or 1 Greoraria, and the figures produced f <?eem to warrant the desismation. Air. v Hurmic.utt farms on an intensive plan, c and last year his clear profits from L lifty acres of land worked with two s mules were $2,000. The figures are as follows; 000 bushels of com, 28 i; bales of cotton, 700 bushels of oats, ii 52 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of t barley, 800 bushels of rutabaga tur- i; nips, 12 tons of clover hay, and a little a d? ever}'thing else. For instance, a Erom a half acre he made 205 gallons i of ribbon cane syrup, sold $30 worth ? c>f cane and put up 5,000 stalks for t seed. On live acres in cotton lie f used four tons'of commercial fertilize! f] md gathered seven bales (although t the crop was considerably iniured by I i hail storm) and made a clear profit J ?122?land and mule, rent and wear a af machinery being- counted in the s ^penses. Altogether he had thirty I lores in cotton. Ke gathered the c 300 bushels of com from seven acres c Df thin land, heavily fertilized with I soirmost. For the last seven vears o Mr.Hunmcutt has farmed on the in- f tensive system, and duiing that time a bo has never made less than forty c bushels of corn to the acre. This is C certainly a good showing for s two- t mule farru. Col. Tliomas "Williams, ^ [>f Eliriore county, Ala., also comes a forward as a successful farmer. On C 500 acres of laud he raised last year 1 l>00 bales of cotton. Kis other crops a were in like proportion, and he raised v "hog and hominy enough tor nome I consumption and had some to sell. s Honest Doctor*. All honesi. conscientious physi- j cians who give B. B. B. (Botanic ? Blood Balm) a trial, frankly admit 3 its superiority over all other blood ] medicines. v Dr. W. J. Adah*, Rockmoct, Ga., writes: "I regard B. B. B. as one of the best blood medicines." - Dr. A. H. Roseoe. Nashville. Te;m., ; writes: "All reports of B. B. B. are t favorable, and its speedy action is j wonderful." v Dr. J. W. Rhodes. Crawfordvillo. , Ga., writes: "X confess B. B. B. is the j best and quickest medicine for rlieu- c mutism I have ever tried." r Dr. S. -J. Farmer, Crawfordville, ] (to,., writes: "I cheerfully recommend , -r> i> i-> .. r.? j. aJ. JL>. -L>. US 11 JJLIIU LUXliL" ttbl YC. ? Its use cured an excrescence of the t neck after other remedies effected no i perceptible good.'' Dr. C. K. Montgomery, Jacksoo- j ville. Ala., writes: "3Iy mother in- sisted on my getting B. B. B. for her ; rheumatism, as her case stubbornly [ resisted the usual remedied. She j experienced immediate relief and her [ improvement has been tralv wonderfill ; Dr. G. W. Earle, Pickens. S. C., j writes: "I recommended B. B. I>. to , a man who had suffered for years >; with a malignant ulcer on his teg, , that seemed to resist all other treat- j nient. After using four or five hot- t ties the ulcer begau to hoal and his i is now sound and well." ?The biggest seizure of smuggled t cigars ever made at Key West was > made Monday, 150,000 valued at j S2.~.O00 wore seized. 'J.'hry had been smuggled by the master at-anus of 1 the war ship "Galena" as stores. ! ?His Ffonor the Mayor of Allan- ; ta. Oa.. Has revoked a license to sell 1 liquors.grantcd to a woman of that ] city. The ground upon which he ba- , seshis action is that to grant a liquor 1 li/uvni:*! fn <? irnw.fin icj pnntrftvv to i RQur.il public policy and good morals, < becausc she is a Ionian. It would i be interesting to hoar the opinions of Elizabeth Cady Kt\nton, Miss Susie < B. Anthony and Miss Frances E. Willard on the subject. ?Mrs. John Nichols. formerly of I Florida, daughter of the Kc v. i\Ir. Bryant, of Montioello, died ill A;lanta on Monday so suddenly that an inquest will be held to investigate her death. She lived unhappily with her husbnnd. ?Two Florida men cut down a bee tree and secured several hundred pounds of honey.- "When they finished crathennsr the honev thev '. coin-1 {mence&.io-mvt-stigttto the top of the i tree :md found vLr re e^mes had j built their nests. They gathered up 140 dozen of eggs. It is supposed j the gentlemen will buy an incubator , DOCTORS ANI) PASTORS. "'ARALLELS BETWEEN TWO VERYLIIMPORTANT CALLINGS >r. T^Iinu^f Thinks It Would lie "Wtrll iiT nil Miirslci's Wi>pa !Vwtn'.v fini? i>n yv.pS r? * '.S'ere .Ministers. Dr. Talmago look for til;.- text o: iiaSand;tyscrmo]i,'M>i.ttLe:..'Il,5."Ti>e rccv-ive tlieir sight. aud the lume v;dk, the L-p^rs are cleansed, and tlie leal i\- ar." He said: "Doctoi*." I said to a diwtinfc-inaliel iiinr.-or. "do you nor got worn out vitli consaoj rly Boeing so runny vourds and bvokon bones and diioeiitiojw oi the ham:uj body? " *,*01: 10:" he answered, "all that is over^,-;uv \)\ mv j: >y in curing thoiu.'" A ubliias i Ox more merciful ini never iita-.- i;o vn from heaven thau the ai t t . i 1: - u vuuiruiv;o."' TVIIU vus??x^ urt-n-u the earth so eaii}r that one of he firs: wa$tr> oi' the world wa.-a doeor. Our tippled and agonized ' ai;iiuu race called for a surgeon and utnily physician for many years before hey CuUio. The iii .it surgeons who ,n:-j\vered this call were ministers of cliglon. namely, the Egyptian priests. Liid what a grraid thing' if all clergymen wore also doctors, all D. D.'s. 7e:?-! IL D/s, for there tiro many cases rhare body and soul need treatment ,t tht same time, consolation and rir?/!i/or?o tliAfilnrrr. ^l^v\>Yv.nfi/?c Ls the first surgeon* of Hie world were lso ministers oi' religion, may these wo professions always be in full ympathy! But under what disadvanuges the- early surgecn3 worked, from lie fact that the dissection of the huuan body was forbidden, first by tho >agans and th?n by the early Chris litiift. uiuag tii*- u'.uttn llxvz>v ike the liumaii race. were dissected, nit no human body might be unfcltid for physiological and anatomical exploration. and the surgeons had to fuess what was inside tho temple by oolong at the outside of it. If they ailed in any surgical operation they rero persecuted and driven out of the ity, as was Archagatlius because o: lis bold but unsuccessful attempt to iive a paueni. But the world from ths very begin Q? kept culling for surgeons, and their List skill is spoken of in Genesis, rhcrc they employed their art for the ncisions of a sacred rite. God making urgery the predecessor of baptism: nd -we see it again in II lungs, wlier? Lhaziah, the monarcn, stepped on omt; cracked lattice-work in the he palace, and it broke, and ho fell vr. f'nr. nm-i.iv linn;* in fhr> Inu-or looi, and bo was so hurt that lie sent o tho village of Ekron for aid: and jsculapius, who wrought such wonLers of surgery that he vras deified, itu. temples were built lor his worhip ai Pergamos; and Epidaurus and .. 3odeli .-ins introduced for the relief if ihe world phlebotomy; and Dnmoedes cured the dislocated ankle of ung Darius, and the cancer of his meen: and Hirn)oe rates put success ul hand 011 fractures, and introduced juputation; and Praxagoras removed bstructions; and Herophilua began libsection: and Erasistratus removed mnors; and Celsus, tho Iloiuaii surgeon. removed cataract from thn eye, nd usod the Spanish fiy: and HeiioLorus arrested disease of throat: and Qexander, of Tralles, treated th? eye; .lid HLazas cauterized, for the prevention of hydrophobia; and Percival Jott came to combat disease of the pine: and in our own century we have md a Boux and & Larray in France, nd As ley Cooper imd an Abemethy n G-roj?t Britain. and a Valentino rlott and Wiliard Parker and Samuel ). Gross in America, and a galaxy of iviag surgeons as brilliant as their >redecessors. But notwithstanding all the sorgial and medical skill of the world nth what tenacity the old disear.es lang on the human race. snd most of hem are thousands of years old, and n our Bibles wo read of them; the :arbuncles of Job and Hezekiah; the >alTiitation oi' the heart spoken of in Deuteronomy; the sun-stroke of a hud carried from the nelds of Shnicm. crying, '"My head! my head!" vine Asa's disease of the feet, which vas nothing but gout: defection of cetb, that calle i for dental surgery, .be skill of wliicb. quite equal to anybing modem, is still scon in the tilled uolars oi' the unrolled Egyptian uummics; the ophthalmia caused by he juice of the newly ripe fig, leav "? <vnl r> st the roadside: -Jo i" "I'- , , ipilepsy. as in the case of tho young nan often falling into the tire and )f.ten into tho water; hypochondria, is of Nebuchadnezzar, who imagined limself an ox, and going out to the ields to pasture; the withered hand, vhich in Bibie times as now, came Vom the destruction of the main irtery, or from paralysis oi' the chief aerve; the wounds of the man whom he thieves left for dead on the road ;o Jericho, and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil and wine ?wine to cleansc the wound, and oil ,o soothe it. Thank God for what surgery 1ms done for the alleviation tn.l cure of hum am suffering. But the world wanted a surgery tvithout pain. Doctors P&rre and Elickinan and Simpson and Y? arner iij.l Jackson, with their amazing genius, came on. and with their allies- i &etics 1>! -numbed the patient- with | narcotics ana ethers a? the ancients lid with hasheesh an;! mandrake, anil finietedhim for awhile, but at the return of consciousness distress rctum?tL The world has never seen but i-.iie surgeon wlio could straighten the crooked limb, cure the blind eye, or reconstruct the drum of a soundUss ear, or reduce a dropsy, without rvoin .it the time, or any pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grandest gentlest and most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw, or ever will see: and He deserves the confidence and love and worship and hosanna of all the earth, and hallelujahs o? all heaven. "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear." T X--- 1-icsrJ o ?/vn/-?_ ! j. iioiu't' ul.;b kjuigvi'vi i ?j, jv/u^ ut*9s for chronic cases. Many a sur- i geon, when he has had a patient brought to him, has said; 'YYhy vras not this attended to Jive years aco?. You bring him to me after ail powers of recuperation are gono. You have waited until there is a complete contraction of the muscles and miss - : V -J ligatures are formed, and ossification has taken phu-e. It ought to have been attended to long ago." But Christ the .Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. One was a hemorrhage of twelve years, and Ho stepped it. Another was a curvature of eigh teen years, unci ?ie straigntened it. Another was a cripple of thirty-eight years, and he walked out well. The eighteen-year patient was a woman bent almost double. If you could call a convention of all the surgeons of nil the centuries, their combined skill could not cure that body so drawn out of shape. Perhaps they might stop it from being any worse, perhaps they might contrive bracks by which she might be made more comfortable, but it is. huma-nlvspeaking. incurable. Yet this divine Surgeon put both His hands on her, and from that doubled-iro posture she be gun to rise. and the empurpled face began to take 011 a healthier hue, and the muscles begun to rei?>x from their, rigidity, and the spinal column began to adjust itself, and the cord* of the neck began to be more supple, and the eyes, rhat could si?e only the ground before n:>vr. looked into the face of Christ wiih gratitude, and up toward heaven in transport* Straight! After eiglitcr.?'. weary and exhaustive years, straight! The poise, the gracefulness, the beauty of healthy womanhood reinstated. The thirty-eight years case was a. man who lay on a mattress near the mineral baths at Jerusalem. The were five apartments where lame people were brought so that they could get the advantage of these mineral baths. The stone basin of the bath is still visible' although the waters have disappeared, probably through some convulsion of nature; the bath 120 feet long. 40 feet wide and 8 feet deep. Ah. poor man: if you have been lame and helnlcss ihirtv-emht years, that mineral bath cannot restore you. Why, thirty-eight years is more than the average of human life! Nothing but the grave will euro you. But Christ the Surgeon walks along these baths, and I have no uoubt passes by some patients who have been only six months disordered, or a year, or iive vears, and comes to the mattress of the mail who had been nearly four decades helpless, and to this thirty-eight years' invalid said: 'Wilt thou be made whole?" The question asked, not because the Surgeon did not understand the prctraetedne.is,the desperatoness. of the case, to evoke the man's pathetic narrative. ""Wilt thou be made whole?" "Would you like to get well:" "Oh yes," says the man, "that is what I came to those mineral bath for; I have tried everything. All the surgeons havs failed. ana an tiie pivsupuons nave proved valueless, and I nave got worse and worse, and I can neither move hand or foot or head. Oh, if I could only be free from this pain of thirty-eight years?" Christ, the Surgeon, could not stand that. Bending over the man on the-matcress, and in a voice tender with all sympathy, but strong withal!omnipotence, He says, ''Rise!" And the invalid instantly scrambles to his knees, and then puts out his lno Q*n/1 iVUi, iii.3 AW V X W\_/ L7j CVAO.V4. then stood upright as though ho had n?:.'Vor boon prostrated. "VVLijs lie stands looking at the Doctor with a joy too much to hold, the Doctor says: "Shoulder this mattrsss! for you are not only well enough to walk but well enough to work, and start out from these mineral baths. Take up thy bed and walk!" Oh. what a Surgeon for chronic cases then, and for t t c-nromc cases now: In sps:il-:iu^ cf Cluist a.-; a surgeon, I must consider-ttiin. as an oculist, or eye doctor, and an aurist, or ear doctor. YVas there ever such, another oculist? That He ^ras particularly sorry for the blind folks, I take from the fact that the most of Kin works was with tao diseased optic nerves. I have no time to count up the number of blind people mentioned wiio got i lis cure. Two blind men in one house, also one wiio was bom blind; so tliat it was not removal of a visual obstruction, but the creation of the cornea, and ciliary muscle, and crystalline lens, and retina, and optic nerve, raid tear gland; also tlie blind man of Bethsaicla, cured by the saliva which the Surgeon took from the tip of His own tongue and put upon the eyelid:-: also two blind meu who sat by the wayside. In our civiiizodage we have blindness enough, the ratio fearfully increasing, according to the statement of Boston and New York and Philadelphia oculists, because of the reading of the morning and evening newspapers on the jolting cars by the multitudes wko live out of the city and come in to business. But in :iic lands where this Divine Surgeon operated. the cases of blindness wore multiplied beyond everything by tlie particles of sand lloatiug in the air, and trie night dues falling on the eyelids of those who slept on the top of their houses; and in some of these lands it is estimated that twenty out oi a hundred people are totally blind. \ mid jill that crowd of visiouless people, what work for an oculist! And j i do not believe that more than one ! out of :? hundred of that Surgeon's j euros were reported. Ho went up i e.nd down among' t'hos- people who ; were feeling slowly their way by staff.! or led by the hand of man or rope of j dog, iind introducing ilieiu to t3:e! faces of their own household to the j sunrise and sunset, and tho evening j stur. He just ran rlis hand over the | expressionieHj face, and the shutters of both windows were swung open, j :ri;i the restored went home crying: j "I sec! I see! Thank God. I see!"' That is the oculist we all need. But this surgeon was j:ist us wonderful as an aurist. Very few people have two good ears. Nine or ten people are particular to get on this or i that side of you when thev sit or walk 1 " - 1 ! j or ririo witii you. ooemse mey uti\e one disable11 car. 3Iany have both ears damaged, and what with the constant racket of our great cities, and the catarrhal troubles that swoop through the land, it is remarkable that there are jmy good ears at all. Most wonderful instrument is the human ear. It is harp and drum and telegraph and telephone and whispering-gallery all in one. So delicate : ml v.'. iiidrousis its construction that jthe most difficult of nil tilings tore-; I construct U tii j auditory apparatus. 1 j The mightiest of scientists have put j I their skill to its returning, and some- j times they stop the progress of its - - decadence, or remove temporary obstructions., but not more than one really deaf ear out of a hundred thousand is ever cured. It took a God to make the ear. and it take a God to make the ear, and it takess a God to mend it. That makes nie curious to see iiov:Christ the Surgeon succeeds as an artist. Tv o iivn <n1il n+ nnl t- twn TTfi I operated on as an ear surgeon. His frien /1 Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted by a man by the name of Malehus, and Peter let his sword iiy, aiming at the man's head, but the sword slipped and hewed off t.lir- nntsirta cnr. fir. J our Snr<?eon! touched the laceration and another bloomed in the place of the one that had been slashed a*> ay. But it is not the outside ear that hears. That is only p. funnel for gathering sound and pouring it into the hidden and more elaborate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon found a < i-; af and dumb. The patient dwelt in perpetual silence, and vras speechless. Ho could not hear a note of music or a clap of thunder. He could not call father or mother or wife or children by name. What power can waken that uuii tympanum or roach that chain, oi' small bones, or revive that auditory nerve or open the gate between the brain and the outside world. The Surgeon put His fingers in the deaf ears and agitated them, and kept on agitating them until the vibration gave vital energy to all the dead parts, and they respond, and when our Surgeon with cirew ilis lingers trom tne ears tne two tunnels of sound were clear for all sweet voices of music and friendship. For the first time in Lis life he heard the dash of the waves of Galilee. Through the dosert of painful silence had been built a kings highway of resonance and acclamation. But yet he was dumb. No word had ever leaped over his lip. Speech was chained under his tongue. Vocalization and accentuation were to him an impossibility. He could . jT-rvrr.cc -npi+bnr !r>rr> r>nr nor worship. Our Surgeon, having' unbarred his ear, will now melt the shackle of his tongue. Tho Suigeon will use tho same liniment or salve that He used on two occasions for the cura of blind people, liamely, the moisture of His own mouth. The application is'made. And, lo, the rigidity of the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth were born a whole vocabulary, ana words now into expression. He not only heard, but he talked. One gate of ills body swung in to let sound enter, and the -other gate swung cut to let sound depart. Why is it that while other surgoons used kniVes. and forceps, and probes, and spectroscopes, this Surgeon used only the ointment of His own lips? To show that all the curative power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. And if He touches ks not, we shall be as a rock and dumb as a tomb. Oh thou greatest of ail aurists, compel us to hear, and help us to speak! But what were the surgeon's fees for ail these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withered hands and crooked backs'? The skill and the painlessness of the operations were worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do act think that the cases He took were all moneyless. Did He . net treat the nobleman's son"? Did He not doctor the rulers daughter? Did he not effect a cure in the house of a centurion of great "wealth, who had out of his own pocket built a synagogue? They -would have paid Him large fees if He had demanded them, and there were hundreds of wealthy people in Jerusalem, .and among the merchant castles along Lake Tiberias, who would have given this surgeon houses and lands and all th?y had for such cures as he could eiiect. I- or critical cases m oar time great surgeons have received Si,000, 85,000, and in one case I know of, ?50,000, but the Surgeon of whom I speak received not a shekel, aot a penny, not a farthing. In His whole cart lily life,, we know of Ilis having had but cents. "When His taxes were due, by His omniscience He knew of a fish in the sea which had swallowed a piece of silver money, as n.ro mVr. fo swallow anvthincr bright, and Ho sent Peter with a hook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth was extracted a Roman stater, or f>21 cents, the only money Ke ever had? and that He paid out for taxes. This greatest Surgeon of all the centuries gave all His services then, and offers all His services now, free of all charge. "Without money and without price" you may spiritually have your blind' eyes opened, and vr.nv dpfii' o:irs unbarred, and vour dumb tongues loosened, and your wounds healed, and your soul saved. VvTiat a grand tiling fox* our ?)00r human race when this Surgeon shall have completed the treatment of all the world's wounds! The day will come when there will bo no more sick, and no more eye and ear infirmities. l or there will bd no more blind or deaf, and no more deserts, for the round earth skill be brought under arboriciiUure. and no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will be expurgated of scorch :ind cirJi, and i!L? more war for the swords shall come out of the foundry bent mto pruningbooks. T?Yhile in the heavenly country wc shall soe those who were tho victims of accident or formation, or hereditar; 1.11s on earth, become the athletes in Elysian fields. Who is that man with such ' '"* ' I-- -!.-/ nruiiant eyes ciose uciujre uc Why, that is the man who, near Jericho. was blind, and our Surgeon cured his ophthalmia! "Who is that erect and queenly woman before the throne? That was the one whom our Surgeon found bent almost double, and could in no wise hit up herself, jirul he made her straight. Who is that listening with such rapture to the music of heaven, solo melting into chorus, cymbal responding to trumpet, and then himself joining in the jintiTem? Why. that is the man whom our "Surgeon found deaf and dumb on the bench of Galilee, and by - 1 L J two touches opex>?a ear-gate ami mouth-gate. "Who is th?i+ around whom the crowds arc gathering with admiring look and thanksgiving, and cries of "Ob. what He did for me!! Ob. what Ho did tor my family! Oh. vrbrd lie did for the world!" That is the Surgeon of all the centuries, the ! | Oculist, the Amist, the Emancipator, j the Saviour. No pay Ho took on i I?I I m I f I i III f I I ? .~ earth. Come. novr. and let all heaven pay Him with worship that ahall never end, and a love that shall never die. On His head be all the __ _ ?1 crocus! In Eis sceptres! and at Jlis feet be all th? worlds! THE CO-OPERATIVE METHODS. % A Practice* Experiment by a Stat? A1H? acoe...Ycry Satisfactory RosnlU. . The State Alliance Exchange of South Carolina. lcrnf<xl at Greenville, may already be c n -idc-rad a success. It has now been !xi operation for three months and its success has Jt 1- ?J. Z i- i -j uccju ??o tu iiiuixy etrUHJilSH 15 in the confidence of the Order through- j out the State. Li the. three months JS $50,000 of business has been dona, and the volume is constantly increas- '% ing. The Exchange is a regularly cha> tered corporation with an elaborate machinery, permeating evary ?cronry, township and neighborhood in the State. The plan of the Exchange war " first submitted to the 1,000 or mo?? Sub-Alliances in the State for ratifio?- V J tron. Each AUianoe ratifying tb? plan was entitled to subscribe to not less than one share for the first thirtyfive members, two shares for the fir?4 sixty-five, and so on according to a regular schedule. Each Sub-Alliance elected a tru?tee stockholder, and the sub-trustee stockholders in each cou-17 selected from their number a county trustee stockholder. The county trustee stockholders in turn elected nine d> ? .M rectors, one from each Congressional district and two at large. The dire?- >j tors elected J. 0.' Coit, of Chesterfield, president; J. W. Fergusoa* of M jjariington, secretary and treasurer; and M. L. Donaldson.-of Grtenvilk, manager. The State Exchange has a paid is capital of about $12,000. This aura is held to form a commercial backing and it is not available for running expenses. The current expenses, inclxk- v ding the salaries of its officers, are do- ^ frayed by the brokerage and dis- ;. f| counts allowed by dealers and raanuf _ ? ??-? vn uusmess transacted through, the Exchange- The bim> muai amount of brokerage which ti? manager is allowed to collect ia fixed w by a schedule prepared by a com* mitttee of the directors appointed for the purpose, the idea being to secure /^S from this source simply enough to pay the running expenses. If the business should be so large as to cause the brokerage fund to exceed the expense account the surplmiworald be covered into the treasury aad every stockholder would get the bfliaa- . fit of it in the form of a dividend. Wnilo 4-V> e\ ?ro1 -? -^ ? ?* f < uiu siutuig^ ui tuc <jmc?ra m. the Exchange are fixed by the diraetors, they are not guaranteed, sad are purely contingent on the amount of brokerage oollected. The business of the Exchange is conducted with extreme caution,eTe77 (2I safeguard being provided against ir-? . .] regularities of any kind. All orders from Sub-Alliances come through the county agents and are accompanied . by the cash. These orders are ba#ed Ar> rvrinno ? ? ? J vu yiivvo ^IUICUH iiOUOU WWCfi/j Mtfl ' "j distributed all over the State. The prices quoted to the buvsr inelud* the brokerage and are wholesale quotations. The Alliance member buying through the Exchange is thus, by the bulking of orders through the Exchange, enabled to obtain goods in retail lots at wholesale prices. All funds derived from the brokerage or 'J discounts are turned over to the treasurer, and neither the manager xior ajav one eise can ar&"w on itL&fc fund except through the treasurer, with a draft countersigned by the president. The manager is required . v ^ to make a report to the president monthly of all business transacted by him and of all commission* and brok- < \ erage collected. The county agents are required to make similar reports to the president, so that the two reports act as ehecka upon each ?other. The State Exchange is regarded as "h^inc vpf ir> it* o j ~~ ? *yjDonaldson is crowded with -work night and day. The business is growing rapidly and the prospect is that ?. the record of $50,000 of business for # the first three months will be far outstripped 'when the fall season opens. As the plans and methods of the State Exchange become better understood among the memebrs of the Sub-Alliances the patronag? grows with a rapidity which indicates that the Exchange may b* come a tremendous business factory. A Poor Joke, -33 Jinks?Mr. Spicer, I have a $-4 bill against you and I would Spicer?My dear sir, there is no such a thing as a four dollar bill, and to-day I am in no humor for jeat- t __ Vigorou* M>tho<l9. Mr. Barkling (undergoing a medical examination for insurance)?Are you going to punch mo again like that, doctor'? The physician?Just once more. ? JMr. Barkling?V.'oii before you do it just have the policy mude out and signed, will you? A Point of Superiority. Miss Manhattan?But certainly ? you must admit that jSW Yorkers are the best dressed men in tho world. Miss Lakely?Well, anyhow, it is aeknowleged that Chicago produces the best dressed beef. -rw ?E. Cowles of Eaton Rapid, Mich., lived in Southern Ohio in 1SC2, and when Morgan made his raid Cowles. with several hundred other patriots, rushed to tho defense of Cincinnati. He served three consecutive days and then returned to his plow. Ke had almost forgotten the circumstance until one day this week when he received a formal discharge from the War Department. ?The arrests for drunkenness in;~^v Great Britain tho past ten years is said to have reached, a total or nearly two million. ?Charles E. Kincaid, charged with the murder of ex-Representative j Taulbee, was admitted to bail in the. sum of ?20,000.