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f he Press and Banner. I i 0f Hugrh WiUou ami H. T. IVanllaiv* Wednesday, May 17, 1832. Newspapers of Georgia ami South Carolina. "We Mil remember that only a few ! years am* (lie weekly press of <ie<w:iia Veftlly had no power or intlnenee ami iisa factor in me political quest inns of: the day, was u mouth-piece for thehtirj dailies as the;. j;n,*it!mally called. Httl| Vhe state of things exists ira longer,' and papers which were at one time, confined ton cireumseiibed territory now circulate in all parts of the State. Y ielding an influence abioad as well ?s at home. It is iiicte that tlie country pre-s sh;itiM have some iuil'uvtice. and papers which refused to en-, ter the arena, as we said a few years """* ? * IH-Owiiiif tK?. Ifin/'O fltwl flit iiiomiil in a manner that hurls We arc g!ra1 to note tin* charge. A paper that has ii?a pluck T<> express its opinion on matters of public policy is a) inijrhty pnorapology. ami deserves less public recognition than if. receives.'' The above paragraph we find in the! Antlcrtmn -Jitttniai. ciedited to the Kl-\ ' tcrton X'iv South. We failed to s?e; the paragraph in the paper to which it is credited. For some time hack we; have not had the time to read our exchanges as thoroughly as has been our j cfi&ftni, and hence the oversight. In i South Carolina there seems to exist! among the press great independence j and individuality of thought when j spring of their brethren of the press, | whether city or county brethren, and' a notable willingness to "criticise*': 'StateoUlcers generally, is, in ouropin-! ion, manifest. We fear that we are I much disposed to find fault with each V?ther and with public State cllieials, I while we are too much disposed to be[ silent on local matters where there is | a division of sentiment amongthepeo-j "pie or where there may be a reasonablej % * __ A , il.? 1 1! ground ior compieim as u> inu lut-.u officers. It costs a newspaper neither j courage nor the loss of custom to abuse! cither a United States official, a State I officer, or a brother editor, and yet fori these very acts it may be that lorol j papers are not unwilling to accept [ ciedit for being outspoken. We tbink-a great many of our ex-j changes strike out on an independent j line, so far as regard** the opinions of i their brethren, and follow the lead of! none. We know that the Press and Banner has no file leader. Whatever opinions we express are our own, without regard to the opinions of any other, or any number of journals. When \ve fail to make expression 011 any occurrence, in the first issue afterward, we make it a rule to be silent on that question. After a matter lias been discussed, and sentiment has been j ? I ? I 'crystal ize<t one way or uie omer, oe-! fore we have expressed our sentiments, j we make it a rule to let the matter pass, unless we should dissent. We read with more or less eare every ! ^newspaper received at our office, and j especially is this true of the country | press, and nover fail to find every week I valuable matter in some of them, and j our files will show how liberally we have used them in the make-up of our paper. We exchange with no paper from which we do not occasionally make use of to advantage. If it is not out of order, and our brethren will permit, we will offer a| friendly criticism, without special ref-j erence to anyone, more than to another. It is this, that we be more friendlv | . i. in our iMicrcour.se . in h ouue ?nnc, there are about fifty or eighty, inde-. j>eudvnt journals it is to be expected I that each of us in turn may llud some- J thing which runs counter to our judgment. In dissenting from the views of another, we may at all timesavoiJ personalities, and omit the sting which is so often inserted. We take it that each vditor in South Carolina is equally patriotic to every other editor, and that j the public will so decide. For. this reason, in the discussion of any question, let us stick to the matter at issue, aud not lug in irrelevant and offensive matters. Another matter, of which we would SpeUK 111 connection wuu liua, is Uiri {mo common practice of copy ing articles *econd-handed. It is well to publish j promptly, or not at all. It is well, too, I to make our extracts from the papers in which they originally appear, as when taken secoud-hand, they may have been abridged so as to answer the purposes of our enemies,and then from these papers they may fall into the hands of unsuspecting friends, who do their neighbors an injustice by reproducing them. Our enemies arc about1 ten times as vigilant as our friends, j and about forty-times as ready to see a j blunder, or a place where the facts, may be so perverted as to be anything j else than the true meaning of the au-j tiior of the extract. For instance, a - month ago, we published an editorial j of which no notice was taken at the! J Time, except by one editor. By making unjust extracts and unwarrantable remarks, he succeeded in attracting! the attention of another editor, who; totally misuuderstood our true mean-! ing. This in turn was copied, andli-' Daily, our good old friend, Stokes of I the Union Time*, copied it, and now j we should not be surprised to see it j anywhere. The idea which we would impress is this, that we should not be j too ready to entertain an evil thought j of a brother editor whom we know to tie about as true as his assailant and! \hat we should not allow ourselves to j do a brother editor an injustice. Fair: play is a jewel. Register! Register! It seems that our brother in black; will attend to this matter, even if the) plow has to stop. Two or three huu dred men now daily leave their plows in luc lieiu cwuijiij \? mi mi.- iv-1 <juirements of the Registration law, j anil it seems that tne whits men are ' not at-all anxious to preserve their; birth-right. It is to be hoped that the ! law may work well, and that good! government may be secured by this wise legislation, but we confess thatj we do not see as clearly as some people, how this miracle is to be performed. From what little we are able to j Jearn from our exchanges, the negroes I iu all parts of the State take more in-; terest in the matter of registration j than do the whites, and in nearly every instance the registered colored, men largely outnumber the whi'.e; men. The present situation maybe staled thus: The political trials have solidi-j fieil the Democratic party, and this, - - - 1. hasslven a fueling 01 security wmi-u lias had (he effect of alienating the: negro from us, who may now be set j down as a unit against the white peo-, pie. Local grievances of va-ious natures, j hive had the same effect in different counties. For instance the stock law j has made the negroes in some locali- j ties solid against us; and then the! conduct of our criminal courts has! done much to dissatisfy a large ek'-. ineut of the black population. Notably does this appear to be true in Greeuville, because of the execution of the house burners in that city. Whether these complaints Ate well founded or not, does not change the fact, and we fear that the fact may be productive of another fact. The laets which we publish as coming from the Registrar's office need no comment from us. Do your duty iu the premises, whatever your feeling as to the Registration law. ; City and Rural Editors. The Press Assoeia!ion of the State or South Carolina will meet at Marion sometime in June, ami we hope to have a pleasant meeting. Heretofore there h;>s been a skeleton in some of the oil]ces of liie ultTerent editor*, which prevciitvil their turning out vviih their brethren, to lie for once in the year, hale fellows well met. In the State of Georgia, the city and the country editors fraternize and have a good tune, when more intimate and more friendly relations are cultivated, and we see no good reason why the same desirable relations should pot exist between the brelhen of the South Carolina press. While some of its may be cranky, or out of tune, yet the greater number of the editors of S ?111h Carolina are as true and a* good men as there are in the State, and no editor in the State van assume to say tint pleasant and intimate relations with his brethren will not be to him agreeable and benetieial. Our city editors, we know are hard pressed with the daily duties attendant upon their publications, but we think that they might well afford to mingle for a day, at least, with their unpretentious country cousins. Our Charleston, Columbir., and Greenville brethren should meet with us. We want the benefit of their more enlarged experience. We are ready with our frendiy ollices to well-repay even the greatest and the highest journalist of the State for such recognition. We have in the past, quarreled too much, and have indulged in too many personalities among ourselves. These errors occurred because of misunder standings, and because wo did not know cach other. Let this be the year of jubilee, when each shall forget his past grievances and his present animosities. Let us meet together in he*rty good humor and a kindly regard for each other. It will be well for us, if we do so. Let country and city editor meet as friends, and let those who have quarreled, reconcile their ditterences. Life is too short, and the businessof newspaper work is too important, lo stop to hale, or to cherish 'ill-will or estrangement. Even if the country editor's friendship is worth little in a pecuniary sense, yet it must be pleasant for the ablest city editor to have (he friendship and good will of even the humblest of tho rural printers. Wo ask that there may l?e full delegations from each of the city offices in the State. Good only can result from such a meeting. ^3* * Tlie Workings of the I,n\r Wldch was to be the Salvation of the Country. Last Monday we called at the Auditor's office where Registrar Waddell was registering the voters of Abbeville precinct, in starch of some facts in reference to the practical workings of the Registration law. It being the dinner hour, the books were closed just then, and the Registrar was in the act of taking his departure for the hotel. Telling him that we desired to know cxactly how many whites and how many blacks had registered at the different precincts, he replied that ovviiii? to the difficulty in keeoinir the record, lie could not tell from his books, but that he supposed we might get the information from Mr. Lemuel L. Guttin who had a record. Turning to Mr. Gu.fHn, he replied that he would furnish the desired information on the next morning. In tho meantime Registrar Waddell had prepared the following statement, which he handed to us. and which we herewith copy for the benefit of our readers: "Opened books of registration at McKettrick's Mill, oti 9th of May, as advertised for three we* ks previous, and registered 213 persons, mostly blacks. On the 10th, opened at Mt. Cnrmel and registered 347, of whom nearly all were blacks. On the 11th at Magnolia, registered 304, mostly blacks. On 12th registered at Lowndesvillo 334, with large proportion of whiles, as compared with the other places. At Antreville, registered 289, tolerably well divided as to color. The blacks generally eager and crowding to register : the whites indifferent, yet manage to get registered." Mr. Guflin subsequently furnished the following figures, with the information that in some instance* a few names may have been added, which lie has not enumerated. The statement below, he says, is approximately correct, and shows very plainly how derelict the negroes have been in reference to the registration : Colored. White. Total. Bordeaux lt>8 ? 217 Alt. Carii.iel WW 95 395 Monterey 290 50 3io Lowndesville... 137 15S 295 1 >1 iiinond Hill 138 151 289 Abbeville 211 037 _Tot aL., H"k) "r-m 2173 About twenty-five colored mell TTore challenged. Some for crimes committed, but principally because of minority. It lias been suggested that the white people will do the principal part of their registering in June. Eleven other precincts are to hear from. Our Jury System. The rule of action which seems to govern the different juries of this country, inaugurates a new order of things which is well worthy of the no-, tice of the reflecting minds of the country. Several years ago a jury of fifteen Supreme Judges was appointed to sit upon the case of contest between Tilden and Hayes. Although there were several questions and several points to be decided yet, strange to say, each man voted every time nc-! cording to his political bias. In Congress we notice from the Congressional Iiccord that various matters are settled by "a strict party vote." And it will be remembered how any Senator or Congressman who has the manhood to vote according to his own convictions, even if contrary to the interests of the political party which he represents, is denounced, and the most offensive epithets are applied to him. Recently we have had a little of that sort of work in the United States Court at Charles ton. 111 the trial or me poiiucin i>n?o:iers the jurors in the jury room voted every time according to his political opinions. For instance, Democrats voted to clear the accused, and Republicans voted for conviction. With an every day example of Senators at Washington ignoring the merits of whatever may le brought before them, and voting the party strength on questions should be decided by their merit or demerit, instead of by the majority of political partisans, it can have but a demoralizing influence, and that influence has just been felt for the first time in South Carolina. The recent Court in Charleston is the first political Court and juiy which' we have had in South Carolina, and it may be only the beginning of a! great evil, and the uprooting of all that Americans hold dear. i * ??o Another "Slate" to be Broken. The Greenville News nominates Hon. George D. Tillman ?>f Edgelield; eoui.ty, for Governor. With all due respect to our Greenville friend, we vole "nay" on that question. WhUe there is no doubt that Mr. Tillman is a good man, yet we do not want to see j hint Governorof South Carolina. For a long time the yews has been a eon- j sistent and energetic ''slate smasher,'" and we are surprised at that paper bringing oul a little slate of his own. We hope the "slate " from the mountain city maybe broke into smithereens We tau't support the Hon. George I). Tillman for Governor. Politics and Potatoes. For expressing a sentiment somewhat like the following we have been soundly abused by at least one editor. We give the following to show that ours is not the only paper that has , urged the business of farming as of at; least equal importance, to the average citizen, as polities: i "Polities are rather <11111 in Georgia !.jtist now, l>ut plowing is brisk. The j mule and the nigger?spell it with two :g's?and the furrow they are cutting, |are of vast deal more importance toI i the average farmer tl an the coalition ; j Jam! how the guano strewn therein is . ,'oing tn pan out, is of greater interest i I than Blaine and Shepherd's connec-l jtion with the Peruvian article. Plow-j i ing pays better titan politics any how, and we areglad to see it more assidu[ously foliowed."?Monroe Advertiser. \ i JcnoK Bono, by his action, has ad-i j mittcd that his zeal, in the effort to| jwinvici uuuigtru w mi j lions of the election laws, has led him iinto I ho error of recording a convic! lion in the Acton ca.se, despite the pro} tests of two jurors. He has ordered ia new trial, which will take place jnext November. If the juries should be drawn entirely from the Republican pariy, the worst results may be feared, especially if the radical party should again assume control of this j State. CHALMERS A RECUSANT. The Shoestring Member Disgusted Willi His Democratic Associates on Account of the Loss of His Seat. | Wo tin< 1 tho following special dispatch extensively eireul.itcd Hast and West: Washington*, 1). ('., May 7, 1NS2.? James Itonald Chalmers, who once sat for the Sixth or Shoestring District of ; Mississippi in the House of Representaitives, did tint linger long in Washington ! alter the Representative who was elected ! by the people of that District was given | hi-; seat. Duringtheshort time, however, i interventing between his departure from : the House and his departure for home he , took occasion to express very frequently, j in language often more forcible than elofioent. bis oninion of the Democracy of' ; the country in general ami the l)oino?r;iey I ] of the House in particular, His opinion I was not a tavoialilo ono. He thought the | i men who {with the exception of eighty-1 jone faithful ones) faithlessly permitted [him to bo unseated were no longer tit j 'companions for him. lie proposed someI what tartly to leave them to the terrible fate which their associates must bring upon them. Ho proposed to join a good cause in the hope ol' finding better comI Dany. J It is understood that the day before he j left he called at the ollice of Secretary ; William K. Chandler (who keeps the I same sort of an eye on Southern politics j which Frank Hatton, First Assistant ! Post-master General, keeps on Northern ! politics) and informed that astute gentlej man that he was "disgusted with the i Bourbons," and proposed to ally himself j with the Liberal movement in Mississippi. Chandler is said to have expressed j his approval in the warmest manner, and j i Chalmers too has departed very much! | encouraged to fifjtt the good fight of pro-1 gress. Chalmers aims to be tho Mabone j {of Mississippi. It is tho policy of the J I Republicans, as the National ana Congressional committees hero have an! noun ced, to aid in every way possible the Liberal movements "in the Southern j States, and, in this direction, to do all that j can be done to secure the return of twice ' or thrice as many Liberal Congressmen I as are "now in the House. If Chalmers ! proves worthy of help ho will be helped, THE STATE UNIVERSITY. ! Election of the New Professor Tester-| day. fAV'rt and Courier.] : Columbia, May 10.?The University j board to-night elected E. L. Patton, of! i Due West, professor of ancient languages; j E. S. Joyucs, of the University- of Ten-; 1 nesseo, professor of modern languages; John M. McDride, of the University of j j Tennessee, prolessor of agriculture; R. i Means Davis, of Edgefield, S. C., profesjsorof history, political economy and con-1 J stitutional law; the lie v. W. J. Alexander, of Darlington, is. C., professor of j mental and moral philosophy and evidences of Christianity, and chaplain. The hoard resolved to change the tutorship of modern languages to a professorship, and added the professorships of ap; plied mathematics and physics to the : present chair of mathematics. The board ! then adjourned till the second Monday in [ August, when the curriculum of the hew | j chairs will bo'arranged. Every member! j of the board was present. Messrs. Poti ton and Davis are graduate of this institution. + ? Small Pox. A correspondent of the Savannah jYews at Atlanta gives a very gloomy account of , the spread of small pox in that city. We j are spcciiielly told that the foul disease ! has really'become epidemic, although the j Board of Health have not so officially declared. The correspondent adds: ; I might till a column with cases where i the health olficials have acted with great j ! negligence, and the disease has been al-| lowed to spread without opposition. For myself arid family I have given up! in despair, and settled down to meet the j worst. We now have Small pox to tho right of us, Small pox to the left of us, Small pox to the rear of us, ttirioll >w,v in Irmit r>f nu I And six or eight times a day tho pesl, j house ambulance or the Vity carts carry j [ tho disease by my residence. I cannot move without coming iu contact with it in some manned Only la-t nigln, a few doors from me, and next door to Col. Chas. K. Maddox, the private secretary of Senator Joseph E. Brown, a white family slipped away! quietly and left a young man in the house j with small pox. Thus it is spreading and being spread; among the while families of the city, and j | not a lew cases hid out and suppressed | from public attention. i Of courso the diseaso is more prevalent I I among the negroes, and nas not taken ; foot-hoid in every part of tho city gener; ally as in the Fourth Ward, yet a few days ] will serve to develop it throughout the ! entire city. Vaccination is not a safeguard unless; ! pure virus is used and tho vaccination! properly performed. A great deal of the;, ; vaccination here has been cheaply and in- j \ effectually performed, and now that tho i diseaso is spreading so vigorously tho: | people are being rovaccinaled in a" more j : effectual manner. My first vaccination failed, but Iain! : now" suffering from a vaccination sulli-j ! ciently effective to keep of a score of epi-; 1 demies. It is next to having the disease: ; itself. As ix)th white and colored people, who; have been exposed, are leaving the city, | I it would be well I'c r tlie authorities of Sa-j ; vannah and other Georgia cities to eom-j | mence the work of protection at once. | j Atlanta waited too long, and now she is| ! sull'eringinall her business interests from the fearful spread of the disease. Some men move through life as a band ; of music moves down the street, flinging i out pleasure on every side through the air to every one far and near that can listen. .Some men iill the air with their! presence and sweetness as orchards in au- I j tuuin days till the air with the perfume' i of ripe fruits. Some women clinj: to their: own house like the honeysuckle over the! ; door, yet, like it, sweeten all the region j i with the subtle fragrance of their good-! ncss ; they are like trees of righteousness i i which are ever dropping precious fruit J around them. There are lives that shine like sunbeams, or charm the heart like j songs upon a holy day. How g?eat a ; bounty and blessing it is to hold the royal gills of the soul so that they shall be 'music to some, fragrance toothers, and ; life to all. It would be 110 unworthy , tiling to live lor, to make the power which i we have within us the breath of other j : men's joys, to scatter sunshine where 011. ]y clouds and shadows reign, to fill the atmosphere wiiere earth s weary toilers must stand witii a brightness which they ; cannot create l'or themselves and which i tlicy Jong for toenjoy anil appreciate. I Skchetahy of the Board of Trustees, Barnwell, has published a list of the candidates for professorships in the South Carolina University with a statement of the recommendations submittod by the ! different candidates. Among those who j wrote recommendations for Professor ; Pat ton of Erskine College we note the ; names of Chief Justice Simpson and Associate J ustice Mc<iowan. As these gentiemen are members ot tho body that has the election entrusted to it, we cannot exactly see what chance other candidates wonld have before them, be they endowed with all the qualifications that learning and experience can give. Professor Patton is an eiLiuent linguist and an experienced teacher. lie is a graduate of the S. C., College, is proud of his alma mater, and would do as much as any man could do to restore her to her pristine glory, lie comes nearer than any man we ever heard talk to tilling the bill of Butler's eliaiacter thai, " Spoke Greek Au nnl nrtili v ti? I U ?Chester Reporter. THE IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS. Let out T'luirr the Bill of Rights and a>trft for Damages Looming up., /Xew Orleans, May 11.?The Supreme i Court has nulliiied the order of District < Jud^e Monroe committioug to prison for ; tv-n days the publisher of MasooKt. The i Supreme Court hold the incarceration to i he in violation of the bill of rights in the < State Constitution. Seven davs of the ; sentence had already been served. A j j suit for false imprisonment is threatened. ] / Liquor Scrcens ? Sunday Selling-, &c? Kcowce Courier. A sercen in its ordinary sense is a shel- | t*r or means of protection or concealment ] and is a thing of common use. Its use J in barrooms, to cut off the view of the i * public to what is passing within, is an old ' custom, but under the late Acts of the < Legislature, one likely to fall into disuse, ' We see from the jVcrberry Herald that 1 most of the saloons liav'e removed them 1 in that town through fear of prosecution. We think this the better and safer course, 1 as their use is a violation of law and 1 might cause the proprietor* of saloons to 1 Ik: put to some cost and inconvenience. 1 While we say this, we admit the law, now about to be obeyed, was enacted in 1835 in much stronger terms and has stood on the Statute books in one or another form ever since. We admit further we never heard of an indictment for its violation, though for forty-six years it llilM IJUUU UJIUUIY *111.1 IliUIJ v i?/nucu. The (act is, wo cannot si-c the wisdom or good of such a law, either as a corrective or preventive of liquor drinking. Liquor spenks for ltseli whether, sold openly or behind a screen. Those who use it to any extent have a reel in their walk, a thickness in their speech, h smell in their breath and a glibnessof swearing in their tongue which tells of its presence as strongly as ocular proof, in view, however, of the great temperance boom now spreading over the county and the re-enactment of the law, its violation might cause some friend of temperance, from his idea of the nilblic good, to prosecute \ its violation, anu it also gives to an enemy of a person selling liquor a chance to prosecute for revenge. Tho Act of 183o enacted that "every vc.'dor or retailer of spirituous liquor*, who shall clandestinely, or behind or j within any screen, booth or other place of concealment, exchange, give, deliver, sell or retail any spirituous liquors, shall, on conviction, be lined not less than fifty 1 dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, according to tho discretion of the presiding judge." This Act was amended and continued in force by the act of 1S74. Tn the Revised Statutes, adopted 1 last winter, tho law requires that every ; person taking out a license for the sale of liquor, shall sell tho samo in a room fronting a public street, without any 1 screen, curtain or other device for preventing the passing public from fully viewing what may Do transpiring wiuiin. Tho section containing this provision does not proscribe any penalty for its violation and from this omission two questions arise: 1st. Whether the revised codo operates as a repeal of the Act of 1835, and If it does, then 2d. whether the general penalty proscribed in Section 1G17 "that any person violating any of tho provisions of this Chapter shall, "oil conviction, bo fined not less than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than six months." Without discussing this question, we hardly think tho Legislature intended to punish so severely such a trifling violation of the law, especially when the same and other sections prescribe otiier qualities for various violations. The Sunday luv in reference to liquor selling has been on our Statute books in some form since 1601, when the general law as to laboring on Sunday, selling goods or permitting parties to loaf and drink about public houses on Sunday was passed. It was enacted In 1874 "that any person who shall soli any spiritous or malt liquors, whig or eider 011 Sunday shull be subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollarsor to i ir. prison men t not less than ten days nor more than two months." The revised code makes the penalty the forfeiture of license and subjection to punishment, as for selling without license, and further deprives the party convictod of the right of obtaining a license to sell for two years from the date of the conviction. We are* thus particular in noticing these laws because of the great excitement upon the liquor question in this and other States for several years. In Ohio, where there is one saloon to every two hundred and twenty-three citizens, the people are almost ready to take up arms, because a late statute, now being enforced, has taken from them the dear privilege (?) of loafing and getting drunk on Sunday. In our State it is not the fear of a new law, but a now fear of the old law which troubles tlto mind of saloon keepers. The la?v on ihe subject here is hoary with age. It existed beforo our birth, but has always been a dead letter, except in outward observance. It has no more power, no more thorns now than ueiore. rue oniy question nere is, nas tlie opposition to liquor selling become so strong, or has the moral sentiment become so elevated as to demand and work out its enforcement? This is all and it is a question every one must answer for himself. If lie sells liquor in violation of these provisions of law ho runs the risk of prosecution. It inaj' be ho can in the future as in the past do so as safely as it has been done for a half century. It inay be he cannot. The Cnrcullo and Peach Borer. I Columbia RcgUter.) Professor Stelle's remedy forthecurculio ia nothing new. I myself used it tive-and-twenty years ago, and David Thomas is said to have first proposed jarring tho insects from tho trees to sheets spread upon the ground, in a communication to tho Qcnatcc Farmer, in 1832: so that it has been known at least half a century. The Turk, as we used to cill him, prefers tho smooth-skinned slono fruit,? sin-lias plums, cherries, nectarines and | apricots,?but he also infests the peaches. He is a blackish beotlo, about a quarter of an inch long, in form very much like a terrapin, having a sharp, flat snout or proboscis, shaped somewhat like a lancet. With this he punctures the fruit when it is about tho size of a garden pea, making a crescent shaped incision,?not purpendicularly, but sideways and slanting,? the deepest part being in the center. T.'io egg is deposited undr this flap, which closes and keeps it in place. It soon hatches out a white worm, that makes its way to tin center of the fruit, pcueLrating tiio stone, destroying the germ and causing it to wither and fall to tho ground, where tho rascal subsists on it some time, then, changing his form, burrows into the earth, and in a fow weeks comes out a full fledged curculio, transformations to the cud of the season. Mr. Francis Hulkely, a resident of Richland Fork before the war, demonstrated these facts by actual experiment. Ilo partially tilled wide-mouthed bottles with soil, in which lie buried a quantity of fruit that had fallen Irom his1 trees bearing the mark of the beast, and in about five weeks (according to my recollection.1 witnessed the resurrection of the bugs; thus proving that they produce successive broods in the same season. Later in the year, when the seed is too hard for him to penetrate, the worm courses through the fruit, living on its juices, leaving his well known track, making it what wo call wormy, and in every case showing on its skin the spot where the egg was laid. But the Professor's remedy is nono the less valuable because wanting in novelty i or originality. The.quostions are: Will < it be effoctual? and if not, why not? The answer is, that on plantations'widely separated from others?as was prebably : that of Captain Dunovant in Alabama? the curculio may be entirely extcrmina toil by jarring the trees and killing the in- ; sects as they are caught in falling upon 1 the cloths spread below. lint in towns and thick settlements these means will lail, as they did with roe, for insects have wings as well as legs, and, though not very active in flight, when helped by the 1 wind can go a considerably distance. 1 And so, after catching as many as eighty i of the vermin under a single peach tree in one morning, I found a few days later 1 that nearly as many more had come in 1 from my neighbor's lots, and, therefore, 1 the concert of fhoso neighbors was requisite to success. Planting in a hard yard and allowing pigs and poultry a free < run among the trees would also help to 1 diminish their numbers. The peach borer is an entirely different I creature from thecurculio, inasmuch as it infests the roots of the tree and never t disturbs the fruit. It is produced by a | winged insect resembling a small wasp tImt after midsummer punctures the bark I just above or below the ground, where it ' is soft and tender, and there deposits the ' eggs to hatch out worms that girdle the 1 roots near the surface, betraying their 1 presence by the c.xuiation of gum, im- ' pairing the health and vitality of the tree } and ending in its premature decay and death. Many preventions and remedies haye been recommended for these radi.... I? .... vain, ouvii tws |;a|/ui wuu au/uuu vuc micnucued point, expo.suro of the root-s to the frosts in Winter, lime niortnr packed in 1 poured on them. The most effectual is a { strong liawk bill knife, following the track of the worm, cutting out the dis- 1 eased part of the bark and killing the in- 1 truders. | ?? 1 A Gold mine in Edgefield. t About four years ngo a boy while cross- 1 ing a field belonging to Mr. IJ. W. Tim- < merman, who lives only two mile* from s Pleasant Lane, picked" up what lie sup- i posed to tvo a piece of brass* Ho showed a it to Mr. Timmerman and asked what it was. Mr. Timmerman, told the boy that 1 bo did not know, but that ho (the boy) U might have it. It afterwards proved to f ikj a solid piece of gold in its natural state i 1 und the boy sold it for &K). There was <considorablo excitement about it at the i * time and some prospecting was done. This circumstance was almost forgotton however until Monday of last week vvllpn Mr. Timmopmuti nlnwa/1 ii n onnll. or gold uugget weighing about livo or six ounces, and worth probably $150.?EdgeHeld Chronicle. Mules, Carts and Hand. [Laurenaville Herald.] Sixteen fine mules and carts arrived in j our town Wendesday evening last, having been transferred from the Augusta and Greenwood Railroad, and will be irnmerliately put to work on the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Road, between this place and Saluda River.?Between seveotv-five and one hundred hands are expected to arrive to-day, from the same Road, and the work will be pushed rapidly forward.?This really begins to look like business, {<< Cultivating Corn. Ed. Southern World?Yon anil I ire not acquainted personally, but we are in the matter of reading. Now, I want fust to say a word or two to your twenty , }r more thousand readers, about cultivating corn for kernels. I have had some! 3xperienc9 in this matter, most of which ! lias been dearly paid for. A point, how- j aver, I have made it in my life to try j never to repeat mistakes or blunders, and i when I lind the things 1 have done pan jut badly, or not as they were exneeted Lo, I think the matter over and enoeavor to find why the thing failed, or what was most instrumental to failure. If you wont pet out of patience with me, and this is asking adeal too milch of a straight chinking man like you, I will tell you what I believe to be the best wav to till corn for grain. If you don't think as I do no harm is done, ami if von do only in part, whj then you can disjoin what you regard as true or near true from what is in your notion wrong. I must premise that corn is a Southern plant in origin, and that its first cultivation was in a hot and dry c lunate with a long summer. I must say that corn is not a moderate feeder, and that it needs an immense quantity of food for its appetite. Let it he known also, that corn | stores tip the food out of which it makes | its grain in a large and comparatively useless cob, which is useless only as a I storehouse of food for the grain ; that the! immense abundance of fo rge leaves and | big stock are all storehouses for food out of which the grain is to be fabricated.] That it sends out an abundance of roots i thai travel 011 or near the surface and which go far away in all directions from the stalk in search of food material, all of which is carried into the leaves, stalk and cob to bo used for forming anil riponing the seeds. Now one point about corn is that its roots are the most active part of; the plant, and being gross feeders need! ample ami readily obtainable for thestalk. j Anything that interferes with the integ-i rity and centinuitv of the roots, such us lack of moisture or root-enttinir by tlm farmer's blundering methods, or exres sivc growth of weeds absorbing moisture and eating the available food on the ground that should go to the corn, alii these arrest tho gro.vth of the seed part, and in lieu of ears there is lbund a wonderful and abundant lot of aborted ears, or else a great lot of nubbins when there should bo large ears. Now you must recollect that all our Southern'country is in a hot and comparatively dry climate in summer. This rain fall,'though apparently liberal, and would be for a northern climate, vet in ours the moisture of summer is only limited and hence tho soil is but partly supplied with moisture, hence all our crop of plants have to put out about twice as much root to enable them to gather sufficient food for thejnecds they naturally sustain. Now I said that the roots of corn go about just under tho surface of the ground and extend far away in all directions. The reasons for this has already been given and one more may bo added, via; our subsoil is comparatively barren and olten vsry hard, hence the reason of the large surface rooting of (torn. Now there has been a great deal said about deep plowing and deep culture, but so far as Lean read and see, much less is said now than was tho custom in former years. In this soil I have found that the deeper corn is cultivated the less i* the yield, that is in ordinary seasons. Deep cultivation as a matter of course must cut tho roots in a farreaching degree, and every root cut during dry* hot weather is just so much life and food taken away from the plant. I have seen fine appearing corn altogether ruined bv lettinir in the nlow or cultivator three or four inches deen during cultivation in drj* seasons, and trom that moment, I could sec the corn fail, and tho hnlf-develo[>cd ears dry up, and others to stand-still ever after. I liavc seen tho tassels dry up and tho silk grow black in two days after a deep cultivation in a hot dry season. Now Mr. Editor, I have suffered in this way myself, and one occasion 1 saw a very promising and delightful piece of corn just tetotallv ruined by reason of one deep cultivation 011 a hot dry day, and what was most striking in this particular corn, was the escape of about 12 rows, which went 011 to perfection and made good corn though it only received very shallow cultivation with a common Ihreo cornered iron straight toothed small harrow which only hetchc.lcd up about an inch of the surface of the ground and did not godown deep enough to disturb the roots. Three years ago I had the finest crop of corn I have ever had in this State, and [ laid all the succoss to hetcheling the corn ground as soon as the corn had commenced to peep 0111, with a Thomas smoothing harrow, just driving over the ground just as though no crop was on it, and this was repeatsd every week until the corn was too hiirh for the harrow, in fact it whs 12 inches high before I quit this way of cultivation. Some timid souls would say, "didn't the harrow pull upyour corn?" No, only onco in awhile a hill was disturbed, and the growth was so rapid and the uostnf cultivation so little that I wondered why thia plan is not better known and practiced. In fact, I say with no reason to fear consequences, that the first thorough cultivation of corn is the paying one, that is during its early growth. Nor tins harrowing just killed millions upon millions of weeds jtiit as they started. It kept the ground loose and mellow, and prevented rapid rooting of the corn. Well, the after culture was done with a three-cornered steel straight toothed drag or cultavator worked in ttie ordinary way with one mule, and my corn was better than any my neighbor* produced, though I oniy used 100 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre and sowed broad cast at that. The repeated harrowing wore it into the soil. In a short while the roots extend all over the ground Another very remarkable feature in my crop wits the absceneo of barren stalks, but m.y seed was of the best quality, that is, had come from a kind that produced good crops regularly for years. Now, as regards seed, I must ask yon to thunder in the ears of your readers that every thing dependson a good yielding quality of seed if you want to raise corii profitably. Withoutwishingto worry your patienco out, I must beg you to let me say I am a convert from duep culhiro for corn, to the shallow. In wetsea sons when moisture is abundant, deep culture answers very well, for cutting its roots in this kind of season stimulates tho production of oars and restrains growth of stalk and leaf. Itt dry seasons in our hard clay soil I am a linn anvocateof good shallow culture from tho yerp outset. But I have more remarks to make, but one would naturally infer from what I have written, that dee,? culture of corn is a rule of practice in this country. Nothing is farther from the truth, but the method of working corn with a bulltongue and plowing deep gashes in the row, hardly enough to damage the weeds or loosen tlie soil, but just enough to play havock with the corn roots, constitute the vicious practice of farmers generally, and is both slovenly and destructive. It is obvious that any plow that keeps the ground clean of weeds and loosens and tines the suriace soil lor an inch or two is all i.hat is really needed to ensure good corn. Hut in point of fact there is the necessity of doing this at least 4 or f> times during the growing season, and tho best I tool lor accomplishing the purpose is a: simple straight toothed steel triangular harrow, titted with adjusting hinges so as to allow of its being made narrow or wide, rts may be needed, provided with a pair of common plow handles. Cut I have one more remark to make on this matter which I know will inspire opposition and contempt from a lnrge share of your readers, for man is the only xuperstiiious nnimal on the earth and is the one particular being that feels that what ho knows is right and that all reformers are wron?. Let me bog of you, Mr. Editor, to tell us til how wretchedly foolish and short-witled it is for the corn-growers to "pull lbdiler" before the com grain is matured. The fodder contains the nutriment, out of which, the kernel is matured and perfect2d. All that we get by pulling fodder before this point is completed, is just robbing the ear of its nutritious material and lowering the food value of the kernal. If Southern farmers wish to prosper Southern farming must mix up scientific principles and methods with its manners. Now, Mr. Editor, don't say in a kind of lialf mad, half indifferent way that you would like to measure the ears of this writer, nor that your eorrcsdondent has not gone on and bored you with an automatic introduction that his ears arc not well covered. However, I must bid you ;ood bye for the present. Zea Mays. Watermelon Culture. Mr. Fred Little, of Allen's station Richmond countv, (<?., said in liis essay it the Georgia Agricultural Convention n Augusta : In his opinion the best land or watermelon culture, was a sandy oam, and if possible, a piece which had aid out for some time and had grown up ; n small pines and broom sedge. lie lieu |jiuri:uuu iu hid iiicuiuu ui umuro. When llie plants aro well estubished they should bi? thinned down to mo plant to a hill, if large melons are delircd, and this is very requisite if! f the melons aro intended for sale. There i tretwo varieties very popular in Augusta -the old rattlesuke and the scaly bark. Ie had known melons to bo sold in Auensta that weighed over seventy pounds i iach. Those always 1 ring lanry prices. j iosaid in answer to . question of a lelegatu that tlio tlrst of April is early i inough to begin planting the seed. Don't Whip a Frightened Horse. It seems to be a characteristic failing of I nost coachmen to lap the lash on a horse | hat exhibits fear at an objest in the street >r besidothe road. .Mr. lJergh, president | >f our society for the prevention of; .NitAbif oniifinlu cni't in thn nrrron t\f I hat society, what every reasoning being i >ught to know, and that is never to whip rour horse for becoming frightened at m\* object by tho roadside, for if ho sees i stu m p, ft log, or a heap of tan-bark in ho road, and, while he is eyeing it careull}', and about to paw it, you strike liim nth the whip ; it is the log, or stump, or he tan-bark that is hurting him in his ray of reasoning, and tho next titne lie vill be more frightened. Give him time o sm?*il all of these objects, and use the >ridlo to assist yon in bringing him careully to those objects of tear.?Scientific Imcrican. Success with an Orchard. "In three years." says a practical fruit grower, "I improved the production of my tm it trees from fifteen to two hundred bushels by treating them in the following manner i "I first redured the top onefourth, then hi the fall I plowed the soil ns well as I could, it being quite rockv, and turned a short furrow toward the trees. As I worked from them I lfct the plow tall a little lower, and when between the tree I allowed the plow to run deep, so that the water would settle away from them in the spring. I hauled a fairqualitv of course manure, pulverised it well, and marked out hills, manuring each hill. I planted corn and beans and pumpkin*. The following spring I repeated the same cultivation. My trees began to crow very last, and that fall I harvested seventy bushels of verv good apples. The following spring I manured for tho third lime, planted it to potatoes, which crew very large, but rotted badly. I made up the lo.-s however, by harvesting two hundred bushels of hirco fruit. 1 chanced tho production of u yellow belle(l.)wer tree from three-fourths of a bushel to seven liushelx, and sold them for $1.25 per bushel, which I think si very good return for my labor. From my experience I sun of the opinion tliat most t'ees liaye too much top for tlio amount of roots and a deficiency of nourishment for producing si developed fruit. I like fall or winter pruning. Always cover the cut wth grafting wax or thick paint. After removing the limbs by thinning out the centre of tho tree it has a tendency to grow broad. Toa many varieties are b -.d." Slick to Pie Farm. Wo need in the country and on the farm, the very class of wide-awake and energetic boys that at tho beginning of each winter season thoughtlessly hurry oil'to the largo cities with a view of obtaining [some more genteel occupation than that jof farming. '1'he promised "diploma" from the business college is the iqmt fa faux that lures him from a pursuit in | which he is sure to make a good living, J and, if diligent, ultimately secure a competence. It is a fatal mistake on the part of thousands of farmers' boys to suppose that after a few months' study in a commercial I college, they will be fitted for a position 'in some fust-class wholesale cstablish! ment, supercede some of the old clerks, ? "! i-iirlu no and become hesid book-keeper and then partner in the establishment. No greater mistako eonld be made. Aetunl business is so different : from the mere theory of it. that it is nee; essary to completely drop the latter from I the mind, before it is able to grasp in dej tail, the former. Real success in any business depends u|>on experience?tho bej ginning at tl.? bottom, and step by stej working one's way up. Tho prosperity of tho people of thf .South depend upon tho agriculturist. Il ! is, therefore, of moment to every citizen j that he wisely plan for the future. lie ! should not by erroneous economy, cripple ; his own resources. His failure involve; us all. ! The independence of tho farmer chiefly consists in the satisfaction of knowing ; that his corn cribs are sufficiently full tr ! supplv the start'of life. \\ hen this is the I !?.J I cast!, 1115 ? IIIUU|I<;IIUI-IIV !..? n.v,. o.u.avi 1 pri'-e of cotton, if he is out of debt. The millions of dollars which are eve 3 yoar sent out of the State to purchase coir 1 ami other provisions had better he kep ! at homo. It would add to the presen comfort of every fanner and planter, anc j relieve him of tho external worry aboil supplies for the future. True, an acre planted in corn, o I sown in small grain, may not yield a: I much in money as when planted in cot [ton. But tho value of cotton varies s< j much, and the plant is subject to so man; 'accidents, as to make it very unreliable [to meet tho demands for food, whirl must bo mot at any cost, 110 matter hov great, Extknsivk Tir.Lt;nino of Oats.Much has be'en said in these columns re centlv about the exten#ivu and apparent ly prolific crop of small grain which i j now about being matured in this county I bui the record would not be complete di< I we not allude to the extensive tillering o 1 tho oat crop this season. This was forci | bly brought to our attention yes!erda; jbyMr. S. W. Ross, of Piueville Town ,shi]s who exhibited two spwcimei j bunches. They were each originate frou j a Mlnglo giain, and one had tillered ou j into 100 well grown stalks and the othe 102. A head plucked at random from tin | largest bunch showed 61 perfectly devel j oped oat seeds, which showed si prod lie j of 6,100 from the single seed.?Charlotte j Observer, May 7. 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OX nnd after Sunday, Nov. 20.1SS1, rassen uer Train Service on the Atlanta nnt Charlotte Air Line division of this road wil be as loilows: I EASTWARD. j Leave Fast Mail. Express. Mail. No. 55. No. 5i. No 53. Atlanta 3 15 p m 5 30 a ir Arrive I Gainesville 5 31 p m 7 42 a n 'l'oeeoa 7 25 p m iv S 00 p m 8 10 a m Srneoa 0 3H p in ft 17 p ni 10 47 a n: Greenville 10 02 p m 10 51 p m 12 15 p n Sfiartanb'g II 17 p in 12 15 a in 1 AS p ni Gaston ia I 29 a tn 2 50 am 4 01 p ni > Charlotte 2 30 a in 3 52 a in 5 00 p ni westward. Leave?Fast Mail. Express. Mnil. No. 54. No. 50. No. 52. Charlotte 12 10 a m 10 25 p m 12 30 p ni i arrive? ; Gaston la 1 04 a m 11 20 p m 1 24 p ni I Si'nrlanb'K 2 57 a in 1 50 p in 3 45 p rn Greenville 4 10 a in 3 30 p in 5 (3 p ni Seneca 5 II a tn 5 111 p in 0 5n p in Toccoa 0 5*1 a in U 20 p in 8 00 j> in Lula 8 11 a m 0 11 p ni liainsvine f> h.' a in u i.? p m Ar. Atlanta 11 UU a m 12 U") a in T. M. R. TALCOTT. (ieneuil Maunder. 1. Y. SA'iK.Sup't. A. Poi'E, General Pa?cnj:er Agent. A New Departure. IADIKS mndc under-war, Children's j Pique, Linen and Gingham Suits, also Linen L Inters in all sizes. II. M. IIADDON A CO. March 29,1S82, tf New mm im W.P.Wardlaw ABBEVILLE, S. C. HAS opened a new stock of FURNITURE over the store of A. M. Hill & Son, and will be pleased to receive a mil from I is friends. Ills stock consists of every variety of KURNITUItK usually kept In a first-class store. All of wlileti is oll'ered at prices to suit bur ti Feb. 21.1881. tf Dr. Wm. D. Jenning's (of Edgefield.) H EPA TIP or Medicine fur Diseases of the Liver, Dispepsln, Comtipation, sick and Nervous Headache and any oilier disorders of the Stomach?.jO cents per hoi tie. April 35,EDWIN PARKER. To Arrive This Week. f A DIES NECIv WEAII, In all the latest I j spring slyles. Mother Hubbard Collars In r.ace, I.lnen and Silk,Sailor Collars, l^tce Points, Itullllngs, Ac. It. M. IIADDON A CO. March 1,1S82, tf summer silks, summer suks. tlHKl'KS and .stripes-ft!I colors?nt lowest j price*. It. M. IIADDON A CO. ! March -"J. 1S82, tf A Woderful Discovery ! | MRS. HUSH'S Speelllc Cure, for Burns and scalds?Spasmodic l.Voup?Inflamed Eyes?Cracked Nipples, Inflamed lircasts,: Ithematisms, Cms and Bruslrs. Try one Hot He, only 50 cunts. April 25, 'ft--. EDWIN PAUKEK. Laces! Laces! I70JI the createst variety und lowest prices! ^ In Luces, cull 011 R. M. IIADDON & CO. ! March 20,18*2, tf / n ,.t }*l mi. j mmmmmmmmammmmammmmmmmm The News and Courier.?1882. ! The News and Courier. In the New Ycnr will have no other object than tohelp the people of South Carolina to manage their own at fairs In their own way. To this end it will cncnurajie the expression of Intelligent opinion on subjects of General Interest, and stilveto be the means of laying before the whole stnte the \ lews ol those who lutvo Komethln* sen<lt)|e t iSuy, und lcnow how losny It. The .Veics ami C't/uriiT wiii nol bp u passive spectator of events. It will utter It* opinions frankly and freely, liiit, holding that what Is wise and true l?:is nothing to fear from analysis and discussion. it will never seek to strengthen Its own position by su-pressim: the opinions of those who honestly differ from it. The Xch'.i mid Out i'-r, with one exception. Is the onlv n<*wsprper In the South Atlantic States which receives tiie whole of the southern dispnthes of the New York Associated Press. :i"d this service wll lie supplemented by special dl-p::tches fW?m every part of the State and the United Slates. Kecoirnizini; the importance of srlvln;.' tiie people the earliest and most accurate IntelllH' nee In <lalean<l National affairs. The ,\7>i/v? and (Yn.rirr will assign one of the tno?t trusted sin>l most capalde members of its Stafl to permanent iluly hi ColumMa. and has stationed sit Washington tlir? gentlemen who earned golden opinions while on duty at the State Capital, Tills will lie a year of ferment and pos-Udy of change In South Carolina, and what lite people require Is to have all the news, willvint fear or favor, nnd 110 matter whom it helps or hurts, The Resident Correspondent of the Xrwx and PnvritT at Columbia will give our readers Information coneerilug men and things which ean be obtained in no other newspaper. In like manner, the Ite*ld>-llt Correspondent of the AViwr nnd Conriirat Washington, Inning no other newspaper to serve and being nobody's henchman, will be In position to report Imparl lallj the ; progress of events and the act-of pulilic men, 1 The treat effort- of the AVic* nnd Cnurirr will : be to get the most news, and to net It tlrst and in the best shape. The purpose Is to make ii u newspaper that no buslnessnian.no planter or farmer, no person interested in public affairs can afford tndo without. The fjmid'i)/ AVhm will retain Its social and literary character. In eonne"tlon with all the news of the day. and the discission of home subjects of local I m port and application will be continued. Hereafter none of ihe news puhlisheil ill the Sunday Xctcs will be published in IheAVinil mttl Oomi't'. Tlie Tri- Weekly edition of the AVie-t and <\)tirfcr will be issued as befo'e, giving the , reader the news contained in the AVicr and Owner, with slight exceptions, at one-half the priee. The W'rckl)/ Xcim will he greatly Improved. The Chess column and the Agricultural department wilt he continued. Puzzles and I'rob eins for young and old will lie m permanent feature, beginning with 111'1 New Year and in a f'W weeks we chall begin the pnblicailon of "Ten Terrible Tales" by an English author of established reputation. Arrangements have been made likewise foras'crial Story by a SnntiiCnrolitviaiilhor whoseworks 1 have attained great popularity in Northern periodicals. Tlieie N not anywhere In the South 11 bettor | Advertising medium t'mn the Xeir* mirl Oinrto*, and in South Carolina It has ihe ndvertis' Intr tii-ld, outside of the entiuential weekly ' press In the country, virtually to Itsi-If. It 1 noes into every part of South Carolina and 01 . the United States, and lus rcu-h-d a eom, mandius: position with the reartintrpuhlfc The terms of tiic iV*wx unci Qjuricr arc as follows: TIIE NEWS ANI) COURIER One year SlOftO Six months 500 ! Three months 300 ' THE SUNDAY NEWS. ' One year 2 00 Six months 1 0!> ' TIIE NEWS AND COURIER TRI-WEEKI.Y* 1 One year 5 00 Six months 2 50 ' Three months 1 50 TIIK WEEKLY NEWS. ' One year 2 00 ! Six months 1 00 ; UNPflRflLLELED ! SUCCESS ^ OFTHE ' MeSeiimlii The white sewing machine, tv best in the WoiId. It Iius iin Or-ciilutint ? .Self-threading Shuttle. ft Self-setting needle It Is mljustutTi' in nil Its wearing naris and J made liom the best of material. Jt,s b?>bln.can he tilled without removing work or attachments. It is ko simple In construction and Mailt running that a child can use it. It will do the 1: lea test langc of work. It has Hit most complete set of useful attachments. It . Is far In advance of any oilier sewing innchine. It Iius been thoroughly tested tor fnui j years in Abbeville county, it is warranted | tor rive years. Remember no mnehlnc is genuine or war| ranted only those sold by our authorized deal ers. And those pretending to sill our Ma,| chines, Needles or Attachments outside o! -j our Agents are fraud*. Mr. J. L. Simpson 1> I our only authorized dealer for the O unties oi ( Abbeville and l.nurcns, ami no Machines arc | warraniid excel t those sold by hlin or those ' whom he may associate with him in the business. llespjcttully, ] WHITE SEWING- MACHINE CO, CLEVELAND, OHIO. i THE ladles, nnd those persons who wish to buy Sewinz Machuries, are respectfully Ihvited to call at Mr. I'.aruwell's, whete they will find the only genuine, warranted and cheapest Machines/samples of the the Machine's ^ worlc, needles and attachments. Oil 10 cents per bottle. All persons deslrlmr to communicate with me on the sunject, will address me at Abbe' ville, y. 0. J. L. SIMPSON. July 1.1, 1SS1. ly. m-rrw tjtidhi ruTTTVn I IXIIi -DJCjO A liliilU 1 . ?EVER OFFERED? For the Price! '| : THE BEST TARES BUTTON KID GLOVE. I Of 1CCI If | kTVJ'l. .1, iWi, Ik i J L. CLARK," 'for the good op the craft j I HAVE CONCLUDED TO GIVE MY I I whole attention to my Shop. I shall give it GOOD ATTENTION. If any person wishes to have his WATCHES REPAIRED I firing them In. I have sill the tools and ma i torials to do it ui> in the best of style and al ! the lowest rates possible. If you want, youi clock repaired lirinj; it in and it will be done right. II you want your JEWELRY MENDED Bring It on. If ycu want your SEWING MACHINE MENDED ! This Is the place to got It done In thebest of 'order. You can have any piece made new, or I the old one repaired. If you want yourgun or pistol repaired this Is the place to have it 'done. All these articles will tie repaired In , the best of order at the Lowest 1'rices. ! Give me a trial and satisfy yourselves? | TERMS CASH. ! JOHfl L CLARK j The Best Engine in the World ! THE ECLIPSE!:' I ! W.R.WATON,agent ! AUGUSTA, GA, j ALSO AGKNT FOll Till*: | Geiser Grain Separator, j Saw Mills, and all kinds of Machinery. Refers to l")r. J, A. filbert, D. C, Wall, and Allen Momgnc, of Abbeville. i May II, 18-1, Cm I I HIDE! ? <? 1_NV ACCORDANCE WITH THE; Act to raise supplies for the fiscal yeari commencing November 1st, 1881,ap-, proved February Oth, 1882. Notice is j [hereby given that the Treasurer's of- j tioe of Abbeville County, will be open I for the collection of tuxes j MONDAY, MAY 1, 1882, and will remain open until June 1st. j The rate per csntum of taxes is as i follows: ! Slate purposes 4J mills. Couuty current 3 " Deficiencies 1J " Schools 2 14 Total Hi mills. | Poll Tax SI. "The taxes shall be collected in two installments, viz: The first instalment shall be due and payable from j I he first day of May to the first day of ! June, 1882, and the second installment ] shall be due and payt ble from the fifj tceuth day of September to the thirtyfirst day of October, 1882." A penalty of five per centum attaches to the first installment if not paid by the first day of June, 1882. Tax-payers can pay all in May if they desire to do so.. Taxes are payable in the following kind of funds and no other: Gold j ami silver coin, United States Currency, National Bank Note*, and Coupons which shall become payable during the year 1882, on the valid Consolidated Bonds of this State, known as "Brown Bonds," also Jury Certificates and tin per litem ot Mate witnesses in th^fCircuit Courts will be received for Coui.ty Taxes not including School Taxes. J.W.PERRIN, County Treasurer. Tukasuheu's Offick. April 5, 1S.H2, 4t Convention of Stockholders of the S. V. R. R. 'j'HK A tin mil Convention of the Stock1 holder* oi tlie savannah Valley R. R. ! o, ? iil lie heldat liowr.ilesville.S. C., on the luih day of May, A. 1). Is8& The Taxpayers of the Town and Townships that have >ubscribcd to the capital clock oltlie Company aiv teqne>ted to meet on SATURDAY . the tflli DAY OK MAY next, and choose uot lc*? than three nor tnore tliau tlve delegates lo mid Convention, to wit: The Town of Anderson, at Anderson C. II., at 5 p. m. Ccnlicviile Township, at Hunter'sSprlngat 3 ]>. tn. Van nnes Township, at Flat Rock, at 3 p. m. Hull Township, at Carsweil, at.'l p. in. ti.iv.iitiioh Tinynuliln ut uf Wm Jnniw'iitfl p. 111. Dark Corner Township, at St) era ill's Store, at,.! p. in. Magnolia Townslilpat Riley's School House at ;i p. m. Oaflioiin Townvh'p,nt Mt. Carmcl, at 3 p. m. ]!\ o:dcr ol llie hoard, J. K.. BRAZEALE. Secretary a. V. it. 11. Co. April 12, I&S2, 41 Coiiiiia M Gi' mille R.R. Co. PAS-SENGER DEPARTMENT. SCHEDULE OF CHEAP EXCURSION O lares to CHARLESTON. ilurln-.' the FLORAL FAIR of lheSoulli Carolina lioi lIt'll!Li<ml Society. lluUND-TUJl' TICKETS to CHARLESTON will be sold at all ticket stations on the line <>f ill's road and brandies from A pi it ITtli to 'Js-th inclusive, at llie following rates : Alston >4 (45,1'el/cr 7 00 u "n Prosperity 5 1;) lVixUtMon 8 10 Newl??ny 5 JRSeneea 8 15 Chappelis 5 so Walhalla 8 05 NinKy-SIx (J 13 Martin? 5 >-0 New .Market (i .'^ Clinton 0 00 (in en wood (i JOLiuien* 6 25 iloducs 0 70:.Slro!he:tf 5 00 L'Oi'iialds 7 ('OSheltoti 5 25 Abbeville 7 KlSaiilUi: 5 Co IlomaPalh 7 15 Union 5 85 ; Helton 7 40 Joncsviile ? 15 Wiiliamston 7 (W.Pacolet ((;r> Andcisofi 7 70'Spai tanburg G 70 Piedmont 7 83; Ticket* fold at tIter e rates will 'oe good to returu until Ainli XJd, 1662. J. \V. FRY. Superintendent. A. Pt)PK, General Passenger Agent. April 12.1SS2. It .State of South Carolina. Abbeville County. IN TIIE COMMON PLEAS. Lucy D. .Jones vs Benjamin li. Jones and Elizabeth Joins. I)Y virtue of nuthorPy of an order of Ills Honor .IimI^o Al.lrlch, I will sell on SALESDAY IN MAY, 188.', within the legal horns of tu c, at Abl-evllle, C'. II.. that lot of land lyinur, being and > ! mated in the town oi Ninety-fcJx, said State and Couuty, containing THREE AND THREE-QUARTER ACRES, more or less, hounded by residue of the Homes;rad of >aid I.uey 1). Jones Church lot and School Hou-<ylnt, sintl other*. TERMS OF SALE?CAS1J, Purchaser to j ay tin- papers. M. L. BONIIAM, .JR., ilaiter. March 5, 1882. tf I^Jotice, rPIlE subscriber will bo in his office to regis * ter Schools Claims on i-viiy Muletlay, miiJ on Saturday, iCtli April, and Saturday, 13th May, l.v>-. E. COWAN, School Commissioner. .March 22,18S2, tf CUNNINGHAM AND TEMPLETON, -IIAVE RECEIVED THEIRSpring Stock, I -and arj prepared to serve the public? I DRY GOODS, j CROCKERY, i GROCERIES,! CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, j I April 5,1SS2, If CHARLES AUEREACH, DKAI.Kl! IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE,! ! ABBEVILLE, S. C. ! HAS ACCEPTED TIIE AGENCY OF WannumaUer it Brown, JE^XIKTE! CLOTHING. Have n large assortment of rumples cn hand ; to select from; lune al>o the latest fashion plates to select styles of t'I.< ?THI >'<i. win. cuai'iintic a tit. Will be pleased lor every- ] body to exnmln? samples and prices before ordering a tine Kprlng suit. CHARLES ADF.RBACH. March 20, JSS'J.tf LAND FOR SALE. I have for sale a valuable tract of land con- , tabling 318 ACUKS. It lies on Norris's 1 Creek In one mile of Abbeville, formerly known as tbc "John H. Wilson place." It contains lOt) ACltKS OF WOODf.AN l)?tid the balance, including 110 ACUKs OF Kit'II HOT- | TOMS. Is In a tine condition for cultivation. It will be divided in tracts to suit the purchasers. 21! At'IIIvS and the dwelling and out houses belli* reserved for my own use. Perfect titles and a bargain. W. O. Dl'NDAS. April, If, 1.SS2, 3iu. music. ; " A UTOPHONK.- with 5 pieces of music; . fx price fO.OO? every family should have ' one who have no music In the hou^e-easily ' performed. EDWIN PAI5KEK. March 1,1882,31 X ' THE ELECTORS! ABBEVILLE CDUNTYI Alre hereby notified thatBB the books for the Registration of Voters will bo opened in each township, as fol- HB lows: |K9P Bordeaux, McKettricks Mill, May 9. BlU Calhoun's, Mt. Carmel. May 10. RHfe Magnolia, Monterey, May 11. HHH Low tides vi He, Lowndesville, May 12. HQ Diamond Hili, Antreville, May 13. HH Abbeville, Abbevillo C. II., May 15 and^^H mm Cedar Springs, Fraslerville, May 17. EH Indian Hill, Troy, May IS. BB White Hall, White Hall; May 10. SHE Smilhville. Evans' Mills. Mav 20. fflH Coicesbury, Hodges, May 23. Long Cane, Douglass Mill, May 24. fiffl Due West, Due West, May 25. BB1 Donaldsville, Donaldsville, May 26. |HH Greenwood, Greenwood, May 29. MM Ninety-Six, Ninety-Six, May 30. Office will bo open frotn 8 A. M. to li^^H M. and from 1 P. M. to 5 P. M. ?9E GEO. H. WADDELL, Supervisor Registration Abbeville Co. April 12, 1882, 3t jPffl BARBER SH0P.I o ? ODD RICHARD GANTT. Is now prepared to d^^^H nllwoikln his department In the hc>'^^H[ milliner and at reasonable charge*. Month)}? customers xhRvlng. hair cutting and sliani^^^M pooing 81 per month. Ra?oi 8 honed and pu^lH| in the liest condition for 23 cents each. BH Shop under tlie Preu and Banner office. DH March 13,1882, tf jHHfl THE I FOLLUWING GOODS! ?AT- ? New York CostH TTOR CASH Hj CLOAKS, BLANKETS, DOLlfflH CANTON FLANNELS, HH HATS in all StylesH Embroidered Flannel,H Winter Prints, BR Novel ties! ?AT? HH COMMA! & TEMFLETOlH Jan. 25, 1881, tf j@jfl Notioe. I THE whole of the Hup fence between Abti^^^D vtllc and t'd.'etleld will b* so'd to t^H|^B , lil^'best bidder at the f'ollnwlnx pluci'x: Bflffl White Hull uL J. Jn Ward's on April 3 lit a- M. nam Iniiian III1I, at Mlllwny on April 3, alHU H lJoidcHUX,at Horn's Mine, on April 3,at^HBI p. >1 m Parlies r'aiinini? fei:ce will be renulrcd ! exhibit written contract with CominlxnioiieflHH to thut t-ilect. \ I W. It. McKINNEY. N| J T. BASKIN, JE? IHH| County CommlKlonera^H^I March 7.1S82, tf Bj^B| hVg scudday, B Attorney and Counselor at Law.HH ANDERSON, 8. O- MS OFFERS his professional service* to the izons of Abbeville. Pai ties di siring MB consult with him, may do i>o nt each Ktfil^HIH of i tic Conit for tbo County, or ?y letter nt derson C H. June Li. 1S81, tf HMBj Ins?! -AND- MB Tipmil HAVE now in store n complete lincSH^B all kinds of GOODS. We call ?H^H[ ! ciil attention to otir large stock hHH Fancy ui Domestic Dry GooH Flannels, Woolens, EH ! Jeans, Gents Underwea^^B CLOTHING, H MR 1 III HATS AND CAPS, H CUNNINGHAM &TEIPLET(M Nov. 16, 18S1, tf BBfl SPFAKF&RRfM Kinard's T. 0., S. March 29,1882, Uni NaTicsto Coatractj^BB SEALED PROPOSALS forthe gra^^^B of the entire line of the Savai^^^^^H Valley Railroad ungraded, cither whole or in sections, will ha rcvci the secretary until the Oih day of pMHB 13v order of the Board. J. E. BREAZEALE, MH| Secretary 8. V. R. R. Co^HH Anderson, 12,1S82. HH^D Fancy Articles, PaperTdMHH FANCY Quill rcn Holders, Dice, Only" or Pencil Holder, Pens, 11. lt^HNHfl eils. Rubber tips, Pencils, white tlps:^Rffi9^H Cap Paper, IK lb.; Legal Cap, 14 lb. und I-'ine Linen Legal Cup Paper,Trump Coih^^^^B cial Note. U lb.; Hauly's Note, 4 lb.; N Nole, ."lib.; The Kensington Note, ti lb Cream Octave Not<>. While Ktivelcp^^^HHM match, Linen French Nole, Knv*jlopJ^^H^HB match, Mourning I'aper, Paper Pox. and Km elopes, Pocket Photograph Alt^^^^MH Kb WIN PAltKH^^HI Ma rch 2i?, 1 41 riwi.mAe UUlVUlUOi A LARGE lot of new Cliromos 22 x l'I x SO.) on cxhlblt'on and lor each nt bHH^HS \v. p. waudl.i^^H _A prll 'JO, 1X81. StaU' of South OarolflBB| Abbeville County. IN THE PROBAT COUKTHBBB In tlio matter of the estate of Larkli^^H^^H deceased. IHHH NOTICE Is hereby given that HnrmntBM^Sfl| Ack*-r, Executors of 1-arkln liai^BDn IccciiM'd. have applied to this Court foi^H^^HHH . linrce from their olHce. Ordered, that Friday Mnv 12, 18S2, ik the <luy tor settling raid estate liargc of the Ejccutois. J. FULLER LYO^Hfl^H Judge E'robatc