Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^. | a? Ike Press and Banner. Uy Ilu^h Wilson. Wednesday, Aug. 29,1883. Tlie Crops. While favored portions of llio county have had rAirts recently, tlio county as a whole Is still suffering greatly for tho \ ant of rain. No general rain, to wet the \Vholo county, has fallen sinoo last May, and as a consequence tho corn and cotton crops are very short. The continuous rains in tho winter and early spring, kept tho ground so wet that many I farmers wi-ero thrown behind with their work, and when tho rains in May mid-1 denly erased, and people ware hard pressed lo get tho necessary plowingi done. In manv instancos h continuous | hot sun dried tho bottom land before it: conld bo properly prepared for the seed, I after tho upland was planted. Some farthers trusted to another rain and did' rework at all in their low lands, whiloj friany others merely scratched or broke i hard erouml as well as thoy could,' and planted thair crops. The difficulty with tho?o who planted in dry soil was, that they had a very irregular stand, while those who trusted for anothor rain, wore totally disappointed. For these reasons crops on some of the best bottom hold in tho county nre a total fadure, While in other places tho crops aro Very short. Some of this ill luck, is J owing as largely to the very common' mistako our farmers make of neglecting the preparation of the bottom land, as to any want of seasons. Tf our fanners j Would adopt tho plan of going into tl)0| bottoms as soon as thoy are ready for the J plow we need hear no complalntsabout a failure of crops on these lands. Rut the great mass of our farmers subordinate ^everything to cotton, and for this reason s ho attention is paid to tho corn, until tho | cotton is planted, anil then after tho cot- , ton planting is over, if the bottoms are in j ~ I -, nlmitfil thin* will plant corn?the more enterprising planters l?e-, ing willing to plant cotton too early in the! season in order to plant corn. There is not an aero of bottom land in this county which was necessarily lost, if our people had gone to work to plant j them a? soon as they were in condition. There is no excuse, except in bad mana^Sment, for any man to fail to plant his !>ottom land. As a rule the proportion of low lands to the high lands is ex-( ceedin>;ly small, and there seems to be no reasonable excuse for a failure to plant fhe most valuable hinds on the farm, and trust that the experience of this year may teach our peopele to abandon the common idea that every old red hill-side j must bo planted in cotton before tho bot- j toms are touched. If the bottom lands' in this county are thoroughly prepared: tind planted at the right time the crop is almost certain to bo satisfactory?rain or no rain. We regard the corn crop on bottom land an a certainty under these conditions. This year the corn has been grealv neglected in order to get a laree area in cotton, which was planted in dry soil, was a long time in coming up: the Result has been that the cotton crop in tnany sections is as near a failure as wo have ever had In that crop. In a recent rip to the country we were Impressed vith the fact that in some fields one-half of the cotton is already open?the stalks nverage from three tosoyen or ten bolls. In some instances every boll on some stalks was open. The cotton crop as a whole, in this county, will be exceedingly Rhort. With tho present distressing outlook, it behooves every citizen to look well to the | Fall and Winter crops, and to adopt every j means of economy. Let those who have waste lands enclose them, so that expense of feeding their stock may be reduced to the least figure possible. The hanks of our streams are fertile in | the production of valuable crashes, and if the bottom land is too scarcc to devote more to pasturage, fences might bo built In many instances so as to enclose the' streams, leaving only a small space on each side of the branch or creek between It and the fence. If this is done the cattle will certainly lack nothing in the way of water, and they will live on tho grasses and weeds which would otherwise be so troublesome for the farmer to fceep doA*n. No effort should be spared to secure a good pasture. A high fence will well repav the difference in cost, bv ? feeling of security for tho stock. Let every head of a family sow largely i of turnips ? T>t everv acre of available land bo sown m oats at onco. If bottoms arej cown, at least three bushels to the acre.; Thin is necessary for two reasons. If sown thin they will either he taken in ttie Spring by weeds, or else they will grow so high that they will fall down. When sown thick tho oats choke out tho, weeds and do not grow so high that they fall down. Tho South must become a manufactnr-f ing as well as agricultural section or else take a back seat in the Union. An auri-J cultural nation is n poor nation. A poor, South can never hope for equality of any kind with a rich North. rhe Abficvilir; Pre** and JUtnnc.r'x idea seems to be one that will make the South poor and keep; }?er so.?Augusta Chroniclc <tn<l L'on*titu-\ tionrtliit. tf we mistake not South Carolina made j no protense to manufacturing before the j war, and yet the people of no State in tho] Union were richer. The wealth of a; State or a nation is only the accumulated wealth of its individual citizens. We! contend- that an industrious farmer can make more money on tl>o farm than lie' can earn in a factory. We also contend | that the possession or control ot any bns- i iness has a tendency to develop a butter and more self-reliant citizenship, than does the surrendering of all individuality, that a man may become, so to speakt & mere segment or part of a great ma- j chine, which furnishes the money. Army j officers, soldiers, and other government; employees, are incapacitated for making,' a living at the ordinary pursuits of life, j So factory hands learn nothing but that | business, and the girls learn nothing of' An iimnianlv nnflpsof woman. She be-' V.IV. J comes a mere machine to do one particu- j lar thinpr, and the surroundingsare not' as desirable, as thoso of tho farmer who chooses bo strive by honest toil and econ- J omy to have a home of his own; wherein ' his children may bo reared, as they can-j not be, if they wero in crowded" factories, j Jt seems- to n* that the mare assertion : fliat we must now go back on our pastj record and quit our sparsely settled farms j to congregate at factories in order to be-! come wealthy, fulls to the ground when ' our friend is reminded that the North j does not grow cotton. I?et the North manufacture it. They have the capital. Let us grow tbe cotton, we nave uic soil and the climate, which they have not. The South will not be ready for manufactures until we have more monej' and more people than can be profitably employed on our farms. It will never do; for an agricultural poople to abandon tbe farms and their manhood to become the servants of tha cotton mills. ?? Re-iiulon of Old Veterans. A survivor's meeting of the old vote-! ran* of the Second South Carolina Kegi-1 ment was held at Seneca City, lawt Wednesday. Owing to a lack of publicity, and co-operation on the part of those having the matter in charge, the attendance was small -only about eighty of the two hundred c .id ninety-six who surrendered at Appomattox being present. Col. R. E. Bowen, Capt. W. C. Wardluw, Major S. P. Dendy, Lieut. W. A. Leo, Major D. L. Cox, and Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. i Thompson were called upon in the order in wtiibh they are named, and each of these gentlemen, responded in appropriate addresses. It is proposed to have a second. re-onion some time next year, and a committee has been charged with the duty of making the necessary arrangements. j i W. C. Bknet, Esq., is in Charlotte, K. C., attending Court, prosecuting the Shleldw-SKton case. Owing to the sickness of a child of Judge Gilmer, the Court was adjourned by the Clerk Monday morning, to meet ucxt morning. ;fv? < r ^'-7 ^ A Suggestion. If wo may be permitted to make a sugj gestion t?> our (ieorjria neighbor, thn ,-1h gtumn ? /iru/ti' it' una rjitxut icr ru/c?t<oc, *? \> 1 j would hint to hint that ho would render ! to Georgia a greater service if lie could secure the passage of the stock law for that State, as we havo it in South Carolij na, than he would do if he were to lino the whole seven miles of the Augusta canal with magnificent cotton mills. .The stock law is based upon equity atul strict justice to all parties. Contrary to the expectation of its opponents in this State, it is prfi-cmirtently a poor man's law, and above all other laws, It benefits <!...? iilun ..1,1 ...W.V V...... ..... V..-.-.?, W.^7 .. .V. ow who may he unable to havo rails to split to fence her crop. In fact, every objection which was uracil against the passage of the law has been proved, by acttlal experiment, to have been fallacious. All the laws on the statute books of Georgia arc not worth to the tunning interests of that State half as much as would te the abolition of the present iniquitous nnd monstrous law which requires a man to build a barricade around his farm to prevent the depredation of his neighbor's rasor-back hog. If any, Georgian objects to the stock law the probability is he wants to let his cow J browse on some other man's hill, or feed I Upon the crops of a neighbor whose j fence i? Unable to withstand the attack | of his vicious ox. The Ahh'i'vilh' Prcx.% nnri Jlanncr may' succeed in blockinir manufacturing propress in that part of South Carolina, but: nowhere else. The raw materials have to; be manufactured by sorncbodv. The j people who spin the cotton crop siikI vast-! ly increase its value will bethedoini-l riant power.?Augusta Chronicle and Cnns'itutioii'tl i.tf. The above is mere assertion. Before] the war the manufacturers of New England were no richer than Were the cotton planters of South Carolina. We see no change in our affairs which requires a change of business principles. We have Jio snil wi> hat! before the war. and | we have the same labor. The only difference is that (lie many worked as slaves for the few. Now eaeh man strikes out on his own account. But by the establishment of factories the old slavery idea can bo more nearly perpetuated than by any other means. Wo see no reason I either, for abandoning the cotton fields for cotton mills, or for levying a tax of ! two cents 11 yard 011 homespuns and calicoes, which the people are obliged to buy. 1 The elements and every material condition of the country is exactly the same as they were when Calhoun and MePuflie lived. Neither the muscle, the soil, nor the climate rave changed?and wo believe they are the chief factors in tho growing of cotton. Cavorting Around. The Rev. Dr. Alticus G. Haygood, after ? >._ ? ?. ?1 ?,1.1 ui,?ir Ulithirii; IIIM UiiMjtli-lll. i?* UVIIUII j t ie education of the negro, while so large I a per cent, of his own race are deficient I in that respect, has turned up at a political love-feast at C'hatauqna, N. Y., where ho Joined in the singing of "war songs." If that Reverend gentleman would stick to the business of preaching tho doctrines and following the example of the Prince of Pcaec, and leave tho negro alone and j let the war songs remain unsung, he j would no doubt do a service equally ns; acceptable to the Great Master. The negro is as free as anj' of us, and j his progress during eighteen j-earshasl not been so much slower than our own | that wo need feel any solicitude about him. lie is able to take care of himself, and should be allowed the privilege of doing so. ? . The appeal of the Charleston Xors and Courier to "bring the mills to the cotton" is apt to be more popular than the attempt of the Abbeville. Press and Manner to stop mamuaciuring auogeiucr.?:i?ifusta Chronicle. Exactly so ; but we do not subordinate our convictions of right and wrong, to popularity. Wo mi^lit add that it requires very little effort to set one's sails to float with the current, but to swim against the tide does require something. The Columbia Yeoman. Our good friend, the Columbia Yeoman has just celebrated its fifth anniversary. We congratulate friend MeJunkin on his energy and the excellence of his paper. Our best wishes attend this honorable and upright journalist. It is the cheapest fnpor in the Stato and deserves a much wider circulation than it has. The News and Conner' to be Enlarged. Wo find the following statement In tlie Xms and Courier of Monday, nnd we take pleasure In presenting tlic facts to our renders. Wv arc glad to know tluit the Xcws and Courier has decided to adopt the eight-page form, with the siiei'ts cut and pasted, so that It may not be compelled to Issue supplement*. The en argument of the paper will enable the proprietor to supply a mug-felt want in the inat fer of miscellaneous reading. Nearly every render would like something of that kind every day. but heretofore it often occurred that local contributions from the various neighborhoods in the State, and the telegtnpfc despatches from all quarters, would till the piper to the exclusion of that sort of matter. There is in our mind no doubt that local contributions should lie set in very small type, or else they should be boiled down?not by the omission of Interesting facts, but by the erasure of all sivplus verbiage. At present the .\ivsuml Onu-icr seems to >e enjoying the kindly feelings of all the brethren of the country press, and their congratulations and good wUhes expressed toward their city eontemparary on the purchase of Its new suit must be very pleasant to j men who have worked so energetically, and with such marked success, as has resulted from the labors of those connected with that paper. Greeting Captain Dawson on his safe relurn from his extended trip across the water, .tnd trusting that no word may be said to mar the harmony and cordiality now existing between that paper and any one of its country cousins, wo ici ir.c /veicx una twiner I speak for itself in the following words: The" kind words of our contemporaries, In South Carolina and elsewnere, which are published in t4ie Xws ami Courier to-<lay, are veiy, very welcome They assure us that we have ll.e good wishes of those who know what Journalism Is, and who, there/ore, can measure,Justly, its totioisimil responsibilities. It ins never been our expectation to have all of our contemporaries or one inlud with us in matters of public poliey. The most that we have desired and all tftftt we can wish is, that they shall have confidence ill the rightfulness of our Intentions, as ita have confidence In thoir's. and that (hey shall, in determining their own course, give to v?liat we say as much consideration as its reasonableness and force shall require. This Is the frame of mind in which lh" Xncx and Otnrivr receives the suggestions and monitions of its j contemporaries In the State. Onr special purpose in alluding to these | tIIIm:s to-day is to emphasise the tict the; the Xcu-snnd Ooaricr has Just taken a step of 1 the utmost importance and significance. For | yeais oast the circulation of the several cdi- j tions of the paper has la-en steadily increasing and the demands on its space have been j rouvmcnsuintelv urcenf. Any one who ex-! amines theXeu-? ami Oouritr wiil see that we j are publishing three or four times as much | telegraphic news as we published ten years j ??? nnii iliiit the volume ol information con-' eerninn allalrs In the Stale, and In Ihc South j at large, swells from season to Reason. Onn ; result l\ that while the AVitw and Courier eon- j tains more absolute news than ever before, it lias not space for that mlsecellaneous matter which Is deeply interesting to a large part of | the public. The bare record of the events of the day occupies so much space at to leave no ' sullielent scope and verge for the presentation and discussion of literary, scc'olopii al and scientific questions. In our view, therefore, In order to satisfy the Jnst expectations of a ; liberal nnd discriminating public, the AVjm ' and Courier must be enlarged, and must, at the caine tlnie, be put in .1 portion to print; Its several editions more rapidly thun ever; before. Until about ten years ngo the Acur* and Ojuricr was printed 011 single cylinder l*resses j which had 11 capacity of from 15I0 to 1,501) lm- | pres-dons an hour. These proved inadequate 1 to the demands upon them, and we obtained , a double-cylinder l'ress ?ith a capacity of 3.- ! iVIXl Impressions an hour. Thedouhle-cyUnder press Is now entirely Insufficient, and the: ; yew* nnd (Xiurier has made a contract \vltli! I Hoe & Co., of New York, for a press which Is as far In advancement of the d uble-cylinder as the double-cylinder Ik in advance of tho oid Washington hand press ot fifty years ago.1 The press which we have ordered Is known as Hoe <fc Co's Web-Perfecting Type Revolving Pres<r. It prints from an endless roll or web 1 of white paper, which Is cut ott'in the press.1 The capacity Is 12.0*) papers of elaht or twelve ] paces an hour; the papers being completely nrixioil nf. that rate, misted at the hack, cut ' folded and counted. I pon completion oi the new prc-8, the AVv.t and Courier will become an ek'ht page paper of the Mze of yew York Herald. The If eekly JWt//r, nl the same time, i will he similarly enlarged, and he made a. twelve page paper, and It Is well within the probabilities that in the course of a few years the y<ws and Courier, every day, will appfar as a twelve pane paper. Instead of publish-' ; lug snppllmcnt*. when there arc unusual calls I for spat e, the yeu>* and Ouurier will be Issued as a twelve page paper whenever till* Is found | desirable. The Press wchave-described will I be delivered In about six months, when the | change in the form of the yews and Courier will take place. The press Is the iniestof the many admirable Inventions of Robert Hoo A Co.. and so far, we believe, only one oth'er of the kind has been ordered by a Southern newspaper. This Is the press now building for the Atlanta CotistUulion, and which will be delivered to that enterprising Journal In a few months. The cost of the Well-Perfecting: Type-Revolving Press ordered by the yeios and Courier will be nearly S.W.000, while the cost of the moot expensive press we have used hither* to wa? about St),OtX). i ' I M Talmage's Tabernacle. UXATS AND CAMELS. Sermon, by the R<*v. I)r. T. DeTYilt. Talmairo, Preached in (he Brooklyn j Tabernacle. f/Va/iA: Lctlle't .Vurtclfty Afugatlne.} ' "V<> blind eiiliU'f, which irridn ?t a pint and swal! low a ounii'lMiith.w xxili, 'M. \ A !proverb Iscotnfatct wisdom, knowledge In c uinlcs, ii library In a sentence. the electricity of many clouds discharge*) In one bolt, n river put through ji mill-race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text lie means to set torth tho ludicrous behHvlor or those who ; mrtke a great bluster about small sins and 'have no appreciation or great ones. In my text a small Insect and a large quadruped are brought into comparison?a guilt audit camel. You have, lu mus-uni or on the desert, seen the laMer?a great, awlcward, sprawling creature, Willi back two stories high ami stomach having a collection or reservlors for desert travel; an animal forbidden to the Jews as ?b->d, and In many literatures entitled'"the ,.t.in ..r ii.a 'IncAri ? Tim n-iifjf mi(?!:on ol Ill the text is In I In- grub fo: in. 11 I* born In pool or pond, after a few wo ks becomes a chrys".1 ict, stmi I lien after a few ?la.vs becomes the gnat as we recognize i?. Kutthe insect spoken of in the text in In Its very smallest shape an>l It yet inhabits the water-for my text isa misprint and ought to road "strain out a gnat." My text shows you the prince of inconsistency. A iiwn after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water ho is about to drink there lsagnib, or the grandparent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or strainer. He takes the water and iiours It through the sieve In the broad light. He says, "I wou'd rather do anything almost than drink tills water until this larva be ex lirpated. This water is hrough under Inquisition. The experiment Is successful. The water rushes through the sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the Insect and drinks the water In placidity. Uut going out one day, and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert." the cant el which the Jews were forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has no compunctions of conscience. He suffers from no Indigestion. He puts the lower jaw under the camel's forefoot and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel's back, and gives one swallow and the dromedary disappears forever. He strained out a gnat," he swallowed a camel. While Christ's audience were yet smiling at the appositeness and wit of Ills Illustration?lor smile they did In church, unless they were loo stupid to understand the hvperbole?Christ practically said to them. -Tim', Is you" Punctilious about small things, recklcss about atlaiis of great magnitude. No subject ever writhed under the surgeon's knife more bitterly than did the Pharisees tinder Christ,s scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put them under a microscope for examination, so Christ finds His way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts It under the glass of inspection for all genera* tions t-> examine, 'i'hese Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter them and compllmcnt thorn; nnd how they ni list hn ve.writ lied under the red hot words as He said: "Ye fools, ye whlted sepulchres, ye blind guides which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel." There are in our day a ereat many gnats strained out. and a gn at many camels swallowed, and it is the object of this sermon to sketch a f?w persons who are extensively engaged in that business. Urst, I remark that all those ministers of the Gospel are photographed iu tlic text who are very scrupulous about the conventionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be crave and solemn. There Is no room for frivolity In religious convocation. Hut there are illustrations and hyperboles like that of Christ In the text, that will Irradiate with smiles any intelligent auditory. There aro men like those blind puldesot the text who advocate only tl.ose things In religious service which draw the corncrs of the mouth down, and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of th< mouth up. and these men will go to Installations and to presbyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets ('till of line sieves to strain out the gnats, while In their own churches at home every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons a cradle, and drawl-out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul In a pew with tier fan keeps the tiies ofT unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it Is worse tosleett In church than to smile in church; for the latter implies at least attention, while the former Implies both the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical Infirmity, or from long wathlng with the sick, tedliusness will sometimes overpower one ami drowsiness will sometimes overpower one, but when a minister of the Gospel looks oft' upon an audience and llnds healthy . . . i.i drou-. illld unci 1K?-!H V ...... siiicss, it is lime for hi in to give out the doxology or pronounce the benediction. Tlic great fault of church services to-day Is not too much vivacity, hut too much somnolence. The one is an Irritating gnat that may he easily strained out; the oilier Is a great, sprawling and Kleepy-e.ved camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath-schools, In all our P.lble classes, in all our pulpits we need to brighten up our religious message with such Christllke vivacity as ttc find in the text. I hike down from my library the biographies of ministers and writers of past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to hringsouls to Jesus Christ, and I find that, without a single exception, they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when lie advNcd the 15r.a 11 tea, as they could not make they sod respond, telling them to call louder, as their cod might be asleep or gone a-huntlnsr. Job used it when he said to his self-conceited comforters: "Wisdom will die with you." Christ not only used It In the text, but when lie ironically complimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying, "The whole need not a physician," and when by one word He described the cunning of Herod, saying, "CJo yc, ami tell that f >x." Matthew Henry's "Commentaries," from the first page to the last, coruscated with humorasSummer cloiuls with heat lightning. John Uunynn'swritings areas full of humor as they arc of saving truth, and there 1? not an aged man here who has every read "Pilgrim's Progress" who does not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as lie wept. Chrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, John Wesley, George Whltefleld. Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney, and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of God, consecrated their wit and their humor to the cause of Christ. So it has been in all the ages, and I snv to - " 1 u-lm flnntnr IIIUHU JUUIIB llll-illUiill.li r?i in these serviccaSahbath by Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as scimcters and then take tl ein into this holy wnr. It Is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspentloti bridge from eye to lip, and It. Is soon crossed over, und a smile is sometimes as sacred as a tear. There Is as much religion,' and. I think, a little more, in a Spring morn-! Ing than In a starless midnight. Hellgiousj work without any humor or wit in It Is a banquet w'Jlh a side of beer, and that raw, and no condiments, and no desert succeeding. People will not sit down to such a Ik*nonet. I'.yj all means remove all frivolity and all pathos and all lightness and all vulgarity. Strain them out through the sieve of holy dlscrlmi-! nation ; but on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian Church to-day, conventionality, coining up from the Great Sahara Iiesert of ecclesiastleism, having on its back a hump of sane:!-; monious gloom, and vehemently refuse to; swallow tlr.it camef; Oh, how particular a great many people are about the liiflnllesim- j als, while they are quite reckless about the magnitudes. What did Christ say? I)ld He not excoriate the people In His time who were so careful to wash their hands before a) meal, but did not wash their hearts. It is a bad thing to have unclivin hands; It Is a worse thin" to have an unclean heart, llow many people there are in our time who are I very anxious that after their death they shall' be buried with their face toward the Kust.and I not at all anxious that during their whole life, they should face in the right direction,so that they shall come up in the resurrection of tlici Just, whichever way they arc burled. Howl many there are chiefly anxious that a minis-! * ? llw' /wimn In tlu? llnit nf1 ItSl" >'l IIIC UW(W r....... V.....V ... ...... ... apostolic succession, not caring so much whether he come* from Apostle Paul or Apos- J tie Judas. They have a wiiy of me asuring a gnat until it Ir larger than aeumel. Again: My subject. photographs all those1 who are abhorrent of small sins, while they are reckless In reeard to magnificent thelts., Von will find many a merchant- who, while he Is so careful that he would not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying fur it, and who. if a bank cashier should make n mistake and send in a roll of bills tive dollars too much, would dispatch a messenger In hot hasto to return the surplus, yet who will go Into astock company In which after a while lie gels control of the slock, and then waters the stock and makes Siooooo appear like S200.000. lie only stole $100.000by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. j One of those men engaged In such an unrieht-' eons act, that evening, the evening of the j very day when he watered the stock, will! find a wharf rat stealing a Hrooklyn totrjla\ from the basement doorway, and will go out ami catch the urchin by tjie collar and twist' the collar so tightly the poor fellotr cannot J say It was thirst for knowledge that led him j to the hishonestnet, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: "I have been looking \ for you a long while. You've stolen my paper j four or live times, haven't you?'' and then the old siock-garnhler. with a voice they can I hear three blocks, will cry out, "Police, po-! lice!" That same man. the evening of the] day In which he watered the stock, will kneel I with his family in pnnerand thank (iod for the prosperity of the day, and then kiss his children good nluht with an air which seems I tosay,"l hope y?>u will all grow up toheas| irood as your father!" Prisons for sins iusee-1 tile In size, but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins animalcule in pro-1 pOril(M), HUk HIA-HI/ itlin UVJ ?%>. ...-i l<iulty. A poor boy slyly takes from the banket of a market woman h choke pear?saving ! some <?ne else from the cholera?nml you | smother him Id the foul atmosphere of Ki y-j motul Street JnII or the New York Tomhs. i while his cousin, who hs?s liecn skillfull enough lo steal 6.7),0(in fn>m the city, you will j mnke him a cnr??ljdnte for the New York I.ck- j Islature. There la'n grent. deal of uneasiness j ami nervousness now among some people In I our time who have gotten unrighteous fortunes?a (treat deal of nervousness about j dynamite. I will tell them that(?od will put j under their unrighteous .fortlines yometmm:' more explosive than dynamite, the earth-' cjuakc of His omnipotent indignation. i It is time that we learn in America that sin i Is not exeu*able In proportion as it declares | large dividends ami has many outriders In! equipage. Many n man Is riding to perdition | postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper Is n gnat. To steal' many thousands of dollars is a camel. There j Is many a fruit dealer who would not consent i to steal a basket of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but who would not scruple to depress j the fruit market; and as Ioiir as I can re-: member we have heard every Summer the peach crop ot Maryland Is a failure, and by I the lime the crop comes in the misrepresents!-1 tii*n makes a difference of millionsof dollars, i A man who would not steal one peach basket | steals fifty thousand peach baskets. Go down ' into the Mercantile Library, in the reading-1 rooms, anil see all the newspaper reports of | the crops from all parts of the country, and I their phraseology Is very much the same, and the same men wroiethem, methodically and! Infamously carrying out the huge lying about; the Krain crop from year to year, and for a j score ol" yenrs. After a while there will he u j "corner" In the wheat market, ami men who hail h contempt for a petty theft will burglarize the wheat-bin of a nation, and commit larceny upon the American corn-crib. And In this hot wrath'jr some of the men will sit In churches and in reformatory Institutions, trying lo strain out the small gnats ofscoundrellsin, while in their grain elevators and in their storehouses they are fattening hose camels, which they expect after a while to swallow. Society has to be entirely reconstructed on this subject. We are to find that a sin Is inexcusable in proportion a? it is great. I know In our time the tendency Is to chnrgc religious frauds upon good men. They say, "Oh, what a class of frauds you have lit the Church of God in this day" Hnd when nn elder ot a Church, oradeneon, or a minister ot the Gospel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath-school,, turns out a defaulter, what display heads there are In many of the newspapers?great printer type, five-line pica : "Another Saint Absconded !" "Clerical Scoundrellsm !" "Religion at a Discount!" "Shame In the Churches!" while there are a thousand schundrels otrtslde the Church to Where there Is one Inside the Church, and the misbehavior of those who never seethe Inside of a Church Is so great it Is enonch to tempt a man to become a Christian to get out of their company. Bat in all circles, religious and irreligious, tendency is to excuse sin In proportion ns it Is mammoth. Even John Milton In hls"Paradlso Lost," while be condemns Satan, gives such a grand dcscrip -- ?,, Itlon of him, you have hard work to suppress .your admiration. Oh, this straining out or j hinall sins like emit*. and this gulping down peat iniquities like camels. Tills subject I does not (jive the piclure of one or two persons, but is a bailery In which thousands of j people may see their likeness, For instance, |nlI those people who. white they would not I rob their neighbor of a fart hi in:. appropriate ; tin' money and the treasure of (lie public. A i iimn tins a liou-e to sen, unu ne tens uisvunI tomcr It In worth Next- tiny thensseswor winles around and says It is worth $15,1)0(1. I The Government of the I'nlicd States took oil' the tux Iroin personal Income, among other reasons, because so few people would tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply lie was ahout. to he handed over to the overseer of the poor. ('arefill to pay their passage Iroiri Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling In their SainN.ga trunk ten silk dresses and a half-dozen watches from Geneva. Switzerland, telling tlie Custom ilou.-e otlieer on the wnarf, "There is nothing In that trunk hut waring apparel," and putting a ? "> gold piece in Ills hand to punctuate the st atement. lieserihi'd in the text are all those who are particular never to break the law of grammar | ana who want all their lan^nauc an rioi|ui-in. specimen of syntax. straining out all lh? ini accuracies of speech with n tine sieve of liti erary criticism. while thrnu.-li their con veri ration go slander end innuen<lo ami prnfanlI ly ami falsehood larger than a whole caravan j of camels, when tliey mi-ilit hotter frne'.tt'e i vvery law of the language and shock their ini tel'eftual ta?tc, ami better let every vcrh seek jin vain lor Its nominative, ami every noun j for Its government, ami every preposition | lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives I and participles and pronouns Ret into a graml I riot worthy of the fourth ward on election I day, than to commit a moral inaccuracy, i Heltor swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are much alarmed about the small faults of others and have no alarm about Ihelr own great transgressions. Titer-' j arc in every community and in every Church I watchdogs wlio feel called upon to keep their j eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder If that man Is not i dishonest, if that man Is not, unclean, if there j is not something wrong about the other mall. ! They are always first. to hear of anything I wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell t /? ?t-rwin Thnv iirn sol I'-.miioi n t ed detectives. ] I lay this down as a rule without nny exeep] Hot), that those people who have the most faults themselves arc most merciless in their watch I it!: of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot, they are full of Jealousies and | hypercritielsms. They spend their life in i hunting for mnskrnts and mnd-lurtles in stead of for Ilocky .Mountain eaeles? always I for something mean Instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors'Imper feet ions through a microscope, and look at. ! their own Imperfections through a telescope | upside down. Twenty faults ot their own do I not. hurt thein so much as one fault of wimebody else. Their neighbors' I in perfect ions litre like gnats, and tliey strain them out; ,thelr own Imperfections are like camels, and ithey swallow them. Hut lest some might : think they escape the scrutiny of the text. I : have to tell y<?u that we all come under the I divine satire when we make the question of time inorc prominent than the question of I eternity. Come now, let us all go into confesjsional. Are not all tempted to make the ,question, where shall I live now? greater j than the question, where shall I live for ever? , How shall leet more dollars here? greater l than the question, How shall I lav up treasure In heaven? The question. How shall I j pay my debts to man? greater than the question, How shall I meet my obligations to (God? The question. How shall Igain the (world? greater than the question. What it i | lose my soul? The question, Why did God j lot.Kin come into tlie world? creator than the question. How shall I cot It extirpated from my nature? The question, What shall I do I with the twenty, or forty, or ninety years of i my suhlunnr.V existence? eroater than the question, What shall I do with tlie millions I of cycles of my post-terrestrial existence? iTime, how small It 1<! Kternlly, how vast it. Is! The former more in<d<Miiflcant. in comparison Willi the latter than a sunt Is insignificant when compared with a camel. We 'dodged the text. We sahl, "That doesn't, mean me. and that doesn't mean me." and with h ruinous benevolence we are giving tlie ! whole sermon away. Hut let us all surrender ; to the charge. What an ado about things I here. What poor preparation for a great oterJnity. As though a minnow were larger than ;a behemoth, as though a swallow took wider i circuit, than an albatross, as though a nettle | wore tailor than a Lebanon cedar, us though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a j minute were longer than a century, as though j time were higher, deeper, broader than eterinlly. Sr. the text which flashed with llghti ning, if not as Christ uttered It, is followed by t lie crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future?ttie on'coming, overshadowing future. Oh, eternity, ; eternity, eternity! j More About Cheap A (Ivor Using:. [Krnwcc Vourirr.] I The AbbnWtf Prcits rtntl Jiunnn- has partly i Anticipated us on a question which incrllstho .consideration of t lie press of the entire Stale. jTlic practice of advertising through agencies ; has become bo common that It is no rare i thing to receive from Cincinnati, New York jor elsewhere an advertisement of somecolj lego or business within our State, and often ! not fifty miles distant from us. Agents will accept and forward tojournalsadvcrtlsements . at any price, often o'l per cent, below regular rates, reserving to themselves 2'> per cent, of the bill, and leaving to the newspaper only ..yi to 6') per cent, of its regular rates. The i newspaper does the work and the agent pock lots the profit. Whv is this? Do our mistiness men prefer to foster agents or the press? |Can they not by dealing directly with tlte i press get as good or better terms than through [agents? Would not n paper, which aeecpts , through on agent nn advertisement :tt 23 per , ccnt. discount, more readily accept it from ;ihe house, or If the'house can pay SI for a i given ndvert'sement throrgh an agent, why ! could It not pay the SI to the newspaper, withI out giving an a'/ent all the real protit ? We advertised the Wllllamston Female Co!; lege for some time directly, hut finally we reicelved Its advertisement at. 11 lower rate . through an n!?ent at. Cinclima:!. less 2"> per cent, commissions. We refused it. We now : have on our table refused an advertisement, of : Woflbrd College from nn agency at Cincinnati. oflering one third regular rates, less2> : per cent, commission. Do our people prefer i to give foteigners the profit, if any, to patroi Izing home Institutions ?Jiredly ? Agentsare making fortunes without In any way contributing to the prosperity of the country. Suppose the advertisement of tin; Mechanljcai Kxhlhitioi! at Charleston tills fall should i he given 'o forty newspapers in the State at an average of ?.V) each, then Hie agent, out of , 82,'jOO would get SVK) for tendering the adver; tlsement to publishers. If agents be necessary, jthen their commissions are too high, l.awI yers col led and forward small sinusal. 10 per I ccnt. and large sums at 3 and sometimes .1 per j cent commissions, while advertising agents . claim 23 percent. | Now we claim ll-.ls agency business ought l to he either cut off or re.-tricted, and unless It i he done we may wiiuiw mc mm.' ?nni ? J business of our towns and counties will be ( forwarded from New York or Cincinnati or [some Norinern eitv at 2~> per cent., discount, j We have n6t been Ions: connected witb Journalism, but this business bas grown and Ik i crowing too rapidly for tbc l'oo-1 of the press, i How can it be checltcd ! We think by a pru|dent, concerted action taken thmngh the Pi*1''* Association We are aware that this ; body should not. and would not attempt to limit the prices at which any Journal should j insert advertisements. Such action would be I unwise and unjnst alike to advertisers and | and Journalists, for no one could be expected to pay for an advertisement In a Journal havj Inir 1.000 subscribers the same amount he | would pay to one with a subscription of 2.000 I to.r?,000. Let I hen every publisher be free to j to accept or reject any advcrtlsemet, whatever price be offered, but the press can, without injury to itself or tbc business Interests of ! the country, ntrice to accept no adveriisement through an aireuey of any business in this .state, or. If they choose, elsewhere. This I would not cut o!f advertisinir. It pays the | business man to advertise, and Ifheeannot j reach the press throiiL'h agfiits lie will reach jit directly. This would bring the press and business Into nearer relationship and by dli reel communication the parlies could fully j understand each other and make terms satisfactory to both. The only effect would be to [cut off agents who produce nothing and who [contribute nothing to the press or the public l interests. Their commissions could tie shared between the Journal ami (lie business man upon fair prices for the work. if the AsaocUt:Ion should disapprove this ! plan and deem It best to preserve the agency j business as a convenience lo advertisers, then \ It niightaisreeJustly and fairly to all parties i that a commission of 10 per cent, was suindent compensation lo agents, and agree not - " It, IU SIlTCl'I'l 1U I ll<1 linn mi,* ?vt m i i irviiMin ... I which n larger commission was claimed. ! We are not in fnvor of hampering the press j wllh any unreasonable restrictions, bill we ?!?> think the press of the country owes it to itself land the public not. to allow Itself to be made ! a tool of to enrich agents who live o!I its hard i earnings. It may be replied every publisher has per, feet freedom to accept or reject any advcrti>ej ment on the terms otlered. This weadtnlt. hut while the agents holds the advertisement he holds the trump card. If you reject, the advertisement Is pone, while if there was no middle man the same advertisement would come without the commission, or one-fourth, being taken oil', and even then If the price was too low I lie putilishcr could reach directly the | ears of the bu?ln?-ss man and come to some I ; terms promotive of the Interest* of both, Too ofien pecuniary embarrassments force pubUshers to accept terms through agents they would not accept directly, for to reject them loses them entirely, licsldes the practice of advertising through rgencles is not only too common, but It has reduced prices below a fair living, has crippled the press and is constantly tcnuing to farther reduction. While we accept or reject advertisements at pleasure, ami could till a is column slice* In six mont hs a' prices offered, still we think some under-i standing should be had among publishers by | which they tliev could, wit hout reducing j their business, obtain fair compensation for! their work. With this view we throw out! these suggestions, to which others could be added. I The Senntorsliip. [ .1 iI:I'll J'rrortlrr.] The Xrwb'Tri/ OU.trrrrr, upon "good author- 1 Ity," announces that Senator Hampton would preter to retire to private life "so ilial he could devote more time to ills private business; yet ' while the | eople want his sei vices, he is atj their command." I 'i i'i-i ?iii iwivh niui niiiiii'ii>o. If fiovernor Hampton wnnis tin* ofliee l?*t him say so.and; ami we have m? doubt Dial the Legislature j will cheerfully reeled liiiti a*a recognition j of the liluh appreciation in \vhIcli his past ser vices are held by our entire citizenship. Uut ' It is an ahMiiilit.v tor any man to suppose! that it is necessary for him to sacrifice Ills prl VB?e business because "the people want It Is ) services." There are too many patriots lying' aronnd loose, ;ilmo?tdylng for an opportunity i to serve the people, who possess piv-cniinent j (nullifications for the olllccs to which they as- j tiire, for any such wanton personal saeriflee to ; be made at a (line like this when we are at.' ueace with all nations ami at enmity with none. The only dltllculty in the way Is that the offices won't go round and the talented statesmen who itre cooling their heels while j Impatiently waiting for their turn, would like nothing better than to hear that others he- ' sides Governor Hampton wanted to retire to) private life "so that they could devote more time to private business." If Senator Hampton is really in earnest' about Ills private affairs requiring his otieii- ' tlon, all he has to do is to announce the fact , distinctly, and we feel sure enr people would' cheerfully release him from hisSenatorlal du-' ties rather than his private business should ' suffer detriment. With such men ns (Sovcr-j nor Hugh S. Thompson, Judge Wallace, Col.' C. H. Slmonton. Judge J. 11. Ive.*Wiaw, Hon. j Ilenrv Ituist, (ten. Samuel McOowun, and a; long list of dark horses liitciieu out m me woods rcmiy to be chosen, there will rfoi nrise liie slightest Inconvenience In creditably filling the Senator's plnee on short nollcc | In conclusion, however, we would inliilly remark that Senator Hampton lias too good a thing of It not to realize the fae.t, and In onf opinion he will very likely conclude that fil's. "private business" Is not so presiding after all a-i to preclude his acceptance of another Senatorial term. Jfo Slurs. (Augusta Chronicle.) The Abbeville Pre*s and Manner mistakes us. Wo do not cast any slurs oft Calhoun and Mc- j Duffle, but respectfully dlsfccnt from their opinions on the tariff under chanced condi-! Hons. The grandson of John C. Calhoun has; publicly stated ttiat his Illustrious ancestor wn? deceived about the negro. We think that his tariff opinions do not apply Ht this time. i--' ?? _ CHANCELLOR CARROLL. The Dcrath of the Distingninhed Jurist--A Fatal Spider Bite--The Fu? neral in <;roenville--A Tribute 01 llespcct. [Suntlay A'cttf*,] | a HKENVII.I.E, Aui/iist25. ?('lutnccllor Jnmoi Parsons Carroll died yesterday at (,'resnr'! Head iiml his !?(? !> reached here this morning |anti whs transported to Columbia today fo interment tinder thechartre of Col, E. M. Hen ( rook, clerk of t!? United States Dlstrlc I Court, who whs his near friend and kinsman The cause of Judge Carroll's death was ery sipelus, which resulted from the bite of i spider. About a week ago he was walking li tht wonds about the famous mountain peak and bis fare came In eon tact with a splde web, wliicii was KU?pended in the open air lit t ween two trees. The spider alighting on 111 chin, near the under lip, Chaneellor t'nrro! brushed it off with Ills band, lint was bittei ! b.v it in the meantime. He was faithfully at ' tended in his Illness by Dr. ! '. A. Mile*, 'nit al (era week's suffering the distinguished f.'arn i lini.'in breathed his last. lie was about sov , ent.v-tlve years old. .Indue 1 try an and the tin escorted the remains t<i I tic depot. The follow I tig gentlemen were the pail-bearers: Hon. H ' W. Melton. Senator W. II. perry. Solicitor .1 ! L. Orr. .1. II. Hey ward. Ksi|? Isaac M. Hryan : lNi|., D. P. Vomer, Esq., flcorac Wcstniorc land. , and J. 11. Whllner, Kki|. I'pon the call ot the Culled Slates Dlstrle Court thin morning. District Attoiney Meltoi iiriist', and. In n very touching manner paiu i glow lug trlhulc to the virtues of tlic emlnen Jurist. To all the* relations of life the honorei deceased had always exhibited the true char jnct-erof the Christian gcnlletnan. lie vvn 'the true type of the South Carolina gentle i man anil of the .South Carolina lawyer of th 1 ohleti time. j Judge Bryan wept an<l wns overcome wltl omoti >n us he ordered the Court adjourned. Die Arrival and lleceptiou oi th Remains at Columbia. I roMTMlilA, August 25.?Ex-Governor ISor I ham. Senator Wallace,and Mr. Andrew Craw I ford went up on the morning train to tnec the remains of Chancellor Carroll and aecniu j pany them In Columbia. On the arrival c , the down train from Greenville this evenln j the liar of Columbia, In a body, and a larg : number of citizens. In carriages nnil on fool | were In waiting at the depot, and in token r j respect Joined the Imposing procession wblcl accompanied the bony of the Chancellor t his family home on (Jervnls street. James I'arsons Carroll wns born in Chnrlei ton in April, 1809. His family wereoflrlsl descent. James Carroll, Ills father, had live In Charleston fir many years^ and had ther marrieu a .miss nir.?oim. nm iium-i <i.?in wliile lie wns quite a boy, young Carroll live I during much of his youth with relatives I Edgefield. Ho ii(tended the South Carol In I College at Columbia, but fulled to gradunti I having, with a number of student* since di< tlnguished In different fields, left the coilcg ! In consequence of participation In thefamou "College rebellion" in 182". Soon alterwnri he began the study of law under his brothei In-law, Col. Whitfield Brooks, of Kilg'?tle!i j In IKiO he was admitted to the liar at Colun: ; bla, and thenceforward devoted himself t ! the practice of his profession at Edgeflel I Court Ilou^e. Long neforo the war, he ha j becomc the leading member of the Bar a j tli.it place. I About, the year 1SU Mr. Carroll fought n dtu I with the famous Lewis T. Wigfall, afterward | United States Senator from Texas. Mr Wis fall bad Insulted Col. Whitfield Brooks, M 'Carroll's brother-in-law, and, as Col. Brook ! was an old man and his sons were abseni , Mr. Carroll took up his quarrel and chal j leneo/1 his opponent. A duel ensued In whic I neither combatant was hurt, and the matte | was amicably settled on the field. Whe I Preston L. Brooks returned to Edgefield h j also took up Ills father's cause and fought I .i.w.i .. HI, \t- W.'Irrf .lt In u'htoli hnt.b urine i pais worn wounded. ] In IkVh Mr. Carroll, nller ft licaleil contc.' will) Will lain (iregg. the founder of theGrar jltevllle factory, was elected Slate Senato from Edgefield by a considerable mnjorltj In Dor-ember, infill, Mr. Carroll was elected Chancellor of the Court of Kquity, his cor ! temporaries in that office being Job Johnsor Benjamin F. Dun Is in, George \V. Dargan, 1 II. Wardlaw. and John A. Inglis. Heoontlt ned to be Ciiancellor until the ofllcc was alio ishrd by the Reconstruction Constitution c ; lKfirt, bavins: resided continuously in Coiuir bia since 1K.VJ. i Chancellor Cafroil, upon his rotlromen ] from the Bench. renewed bis law practice fl the Capital. lie tore the war he had been I I partnership with John K. llacon. Alter tli j war, he was a member of the successive firm of Carroll, Melton ,t Melton, Carroll it Mel tor i Carroll. Melton a Janney, and Carroll <t Jar ! ney. For the last few years he has practice alone. Mr. Carroll married in early life daughter of the distinguished Judge lierrlei of Savannah, Ga.. who survives him, wit three daughters. Chancellor Carroll's tastes were not rolll cal. Beyond bis service in the Senate, his or ly important, political appearance was as member of the Secession Convention of 18m For tlfty-three years lie devoted himself t the law. and his practice was lucrative, as h died possessed of considerable means. Cliai cellor Carroll was a very aide lawyer an Judge. He was also a good and lovable get tlernan. Courteous, brave and kindly, hi spirit was always you'htnl. and, while hi manners were of the old and honored sehoo he was fond of Hie society of younger mei Dying at n ripe old age. bis loss is yet felt I lie <.fidiv nreinalure. and his fnmlllar face wi be long" missed in Columbia and elsewhere 1 the Slate. ? <? * To Prevent Washing Away of Land.* One ot the great fi'ismck-s to be overcome I Southern farming Is the washing away < lands. This applic: especially to that portlo of the South in which cotton is the stapl ! product, and in which a greater proportion ( I the land is kept In Used crops, requlrlmrclea culture. Various means have been rosorte | to at different times to overcome this obst: cle, but with littl" success. Horizontal cu J ture, hillside dl'chlng. deep ploughing, i have all b.;eu tried but found wanting I I many respects. The terrace system. originated hy Wm. I Orme, of Alatmma, eppears to l>e at Hie proi ent time the accepted mode on lands that, it cline to wash. It is understood by compan tivcly few people, and as its success wher I tried is very apparent. Wm. P. Harden, I Cobb coniily, (."a., who whs the tlrsttotry ho i/.ontal terracing in his State, fives In a letif to the State Commissioner directions f? those who may desire to adopt tiie tcrracesy: tcni. 'J he best and chenpost plan Is to employ n I engineer or an expert, who owns a theodollt or an architect's level t-> lay out. the lan' Begin at the highest point In (he Held an run a level line, then another exactly thre feet fall from the first, and soon until Hi j Held is gone over. It seems difficult for soin | people to got a clear Idea at this point. Whe the field Is completed there will be just thix feet perpendicular fall from one terrace to th other, but the terraces will be at very diffei ent distances from each other?some ten fee others t wenty, thirty or more feet apart, at cording to t.hc various steepness of the sn face. For the same season the terrace line wilt rarclv he narallel to each other. After running the level line, run n furrw along tlic l;;vcl line with a small one-hors plough merely to mark permanently the levt line. The terrace can be made at any futur convenient time, either with n one horse e two-horse turning plough or even tiding side-hill plough. Mr. Harden prefers a one horse turning plough. Hy running one fur row above and another below the one ?I read made, was to have the base of the terrace Ju? three feet wide, and If some of the origin: turf is unbroken all the heller. The land wll become terraced by a few years' cultlvatln: Th" gradual terracing by cultivation Is in only less expensive, but it Is bettor in th end. Mr. Harden claims, and it appears to hav I been proven by experience, that three let : tail between each terrace Is right; It suits ai I grades, and any material variation from thi rule results In lailure. The terraces are liahl to break the llrst year before the sod is forrr ed; If so. they should be carefully repalre and raised a little higher at the weak potn so as to force the water to some other point. A good plan is to fertilize the terrace at th beginning with a good commercial fertilize and sow a hardy grass for the purpose of forn lug a sod. also furnishing a good pasture. in laying oir the rows alternate by rtir ning one row parallel first with the terrace then the other so as to throw the short rowi II any, between the terraces. Ills claimed that lands well terraced can not wash alter the first, year, us the water I not allowed to collect in any one place, but I j forced to spread over the surface and flow over In a gentle sheet. Terraced lands can j not be ploughed as soon after a rain as othi land ; as the water from the ordinary show? is caught and held by the terraces, and th I water furiows of the level rows prove to be t ; Immense value in limes of drought and als ! acuu/ lis :i lurim/.iT. ! No field should be expected to take euro < I more water tli:m fails on lis own surface. 1 | there be anv untcrraced hinds above, the wa j ler from these lands oiii-ht to be conveyed o by a ?ood ditch. One man with a goo marker can lay nil' about thirty acres per daj ! .Mr. Harden has practiced this system of te' riicinu for ten yrnrs. He has one field of tc I acres on which nine crops have been crow Islnee terracing?seven In cotton and two I j wheat?and though nothing but a one-hor.s turning plough was ever used, this land l>< ! fween I he terraces is about level and there ar | no washes. i Sensible Remarks on the Labor Ques i lion. (Oirolina Spartan.) Senator Htiller thinks the .State could w.l 'spare of Iter colored population an : sutler no detriment. In f;ict, It would lie j positive advantage to got rid of ihein, and til their places with white immigrants, lie In j lieves that the negro is a failure as a laborei and that lie is becoming less eflVetne ever, year. Tliere are many who will not ngre with the Senator, If lie is correct, then tli condition ot both races Is worse than it wr. in lSi/ii. This is not the case as to the whlto Better churches and school liouscs are foun In nearly all the counties. The mass ot pet pie is becotnini! more lntelli:>cnt. Proper!, t is becoming more evenly distributed. Man, of that class known as "poor whites" bel'or j tin' war are now respectable land ownon [Tliere is an upward tendency on the parte our white population. Now, how uliout 111 negro? In POO lie was without churaclct without virtue, without tiersotial rights, i mere chattel hiiiI nothing more. At the closi of the war lie was turned loose without i month's rations, or a decent-suit of clothing (tra foot olland, or a single tool, and told ti go and live on bis freedom. That was id nil teen years ago. Since that time the nc?io ha received more advice than any race that eve existed. Ills old owners, by virtue of audio rity,advised him; then came the carpet-bai: '/ in - then the Drenchers. All felt that the; wen* divinely authorized to advise the negro Notwithstanding tills load of 'tin vice, he has nuived forward and upward. We know tha they 111! our Jails and penitentiaries, am crowd the criminal courts, They have per verted the boon of irecdoin Into uuhrldlct license. What more could have heen expect <mI when five millions of slaves were unman aeled In a single day ? They would have beet more than human if they had sudilciilj chanted from the slave to the honest am, virtuous citizen. While far too many of then are vicious and lazy, yet thegreat multitude In our up-country an: Improving their con dltion. They are hulldlrg better houses, buying laud and slook, building churches, edu eating their children, and many of them art leading upright lives. Now wo would not like lusee one-third of the negroes tulgraU from our State at once. They may not labor .TIH days In the year as they did when thej were slaves, yet tlie;r labor is effective enougli to increase all our agricultural products. As laborers or tenants they have been doing pretty fair work. There is room for Improvement: hut so there is with the while people The negro is here with us. He Is a part of out citizenship. He should enjoy all the rlghu nnd prlvlledges granted to any citizen. Wr should get all the work out of him that i.v possible and pay him full value for the same. We should not cease to advise htm. Advlci is such an easy thing to give, especially to n negro. Hut by all means we should tescli I)iin, by 'precept and example, to labor hard, m imike bis home comfortable to be fair In nil his dealing. Give lilni a fal: chance, If he wishes to emigrate, let him pc In peace ; If lie wishes to stay with us let. Iilm stay and live in peace. Therein no question between white and colored labor. We wanl all that we have of both kinds, and our farmers could Bland a little more ol either. An Editor ivlio Knows a Good Bfan Wlien he Sees Him. IA ufftufa Cftroniclc.] Gen. R. It. Hemphill, of the Abbeville Medium, Is a man of solid sense as well as sterling worth. He Is a clear thinker and a bold writer-; , EIGHT DAYS IN A WOMAtfS LIFE. < I.?FIRST LOVE. ? Qlr?r?f? rr?v avpc Vinvf* snPtl him. I ri To all else I'm blliid; I Only Ills dour Image Kills my heiirt and mind. Even hi nil my day-dreams j One loved lace I see, 5 Changing blackest darknes?, s Into light for me. r All besides Is cheerlcss, Cold,and dark, and drear; I Even my sisters' vblces Charm no more my ear. . Rather would I, weeping, i Klcefrom all mankind, i Since my cars have seen liim, To all else I'm blind. r II.?CHIEF. !; He, the handsomest. of all men, ' Oh, how penile, kind and irue ( Golden hair and stalwnrt body, Tender eyes of clearest blue. As the I wlnkllngstftrs Above us Calmly shine on all below ; So the glances of his blue eyes Set my flu tiering hcitrt aglow. Shine, Ostars, In golden beauty, , On your pathway through the sky) Send your quiet, rays upon us,? iluim? ho and weni-v I ! 1 Listen to my si erit praying,? I Joy? for him may multiply. II IIow can I, a lowly maiden, ' Duro to riilHu my thoughts bo high ? - Only some errand, qileenly lady? s iiIn lienrt'K choice tHIl be, I know ; - Rut. I'll always pray kind Heaven e On him blesslngHto bestow. I, Happy I, If he la happy, Weeping, for him I'll rejoice; Breaking heart, oh. hush thy murm'lng, b Since none other lis thy choice. III.?RAPTURE. i'* How enn I believe?realize It? t Do I dream, or ain I awake ? i- How can he, so high and so noble, For me all others forsake? E e IIIh clear eyes shond lovingly on me, I, Me whispered?"Forever I'm thine." if It seems but- a bright dream of Heaven, Ii Such happiness ne'er can be mine. ? j Oh, let me die In this rapture, Awtiy irom an mourning ?nu tcnri i i' Breathing out life In his loved arms, E'en death would be robbod ol Its fears. ? IV.?TH E KINO. d Dear ring upon my finger, n How could I from thee part? 'i I pretM thee oft to my warm lips, -< I press the olt to iny heart. p j O brllllnnt dreams of girlhood, s Korevormore farewell! 1,11 thought, one time. I could not r- My lmrrowlngsorrow tell. J' Dear ring upon my flnecr, " Dear little bund of gold ! ,i My blinded eyes are opened,? ,1 The worth of 1 lie Is told ! ll Oh, I will love and serve hlrn, And Hot to him alone ; 'I And find within Ills blue eyes, iH Warm love as ever shone. r. I)enr ring upon my finger, s How could I from thee part ? I, I press thee to my warm lips, I- I presj tbeo to my heart. 'J V.-THE BRIDAL. n Help me, my slstors, 0 Joyfully robe me. f1 This Is the happiest day of the year. l* Weave In my dark lock Blossoming myrtle? 11 liveliest crown that a Urlde can wear. 1 >r As I, contented, Joyous and hflppy, a Leaned my head on my true-love's breast, l- Portly he whispered : i, "Sweetone. be patient; \ Hastens the day when we will be blest." jl Help me. denr si?tcrs, Help me to banish Thoughts of un weariness?anxious fears, i.et me wllh bright eyes Joyfully welcome it, Him, the hope of my life, without tears. 11 May I endeavor c To be as he Kills me. N "The Ktin of his llfe-bl" sweet evening star." ' Love him In meekness And truestdevotlon, jj i And never with cold words his happiness mar. i, Being blooming roses, h Lllllt'sand violets, Strew them, deur sisters, across my glnd way. I- But my heart falls me i- to lenve you. my waters, a And never to hear your fresh voice# in play. ]\ VI;?MATERNITY. c Within my arms?upon my heart, (J My little treasure?his counterpart! > r-ove Is pleasure?pleasure Is love, Is Happiness snch as In IleaVen above( is I, True love has blest me In the past. j. j True love will cliCer me to the last. ,'j' Who can but lote a little child, J, j So pure, and helplest, and undcflled? | A mother only can tru'y know j The purest love we feel below. > Oh. how I pity careless man ! ii! Enjoy such love he never can. ,'J' Si c how she looks and laughs at mo, M.v precious llltlo mystery 1 >f Within my arms?upon my heart. n My little trua-juie-A/j counterpart! VII?DEATH. ?" The deepest grief my life bas ever known, ' I bow beneath. Thou s'cepcNt, leaving me to weep and moan, > The sleep of death. *- My love, my life! Without thy cheering i- smile i- The world Is drear. ? Vcs, I have loved thee, husband, and can live 1h No lon^or here. r r L'pon a wretched. love-forsaken wife >r The curtain falls; s- And yet I think there's somethiug sweet In life, n When baby calls. jc VIII.?THE DAUGHTER'S DRIDAL. Dream away thy slad days, '* In this word Ueflled! 0 Daughter, dearest daughter, c My own darling child ! n Think, before the bridal, rw i hp ivl mil n"-?hoPt, c Take u mother's blessing, '* 'i liy new life to greet. See me hoary-headed, r- Wasted, thin, and pale; is But I once was youthful. I,ovelyt strong and hale; >v Loved as now thou lovest, e Wiwl., hh tlion, a hride ; I Thou, like me, art floating e Down lllc'a broad'nlng tide. ir ft And Rft Time's swift pinions Hear thee further on, (ju>iI'd thy life's beat treasure,? y Guard the love thou'st won. il Once I said In rapture ,1 What I now can prove : II I,ove alone Is pleasure,? Happiness Is love. 'J Since I laid my dear one c In the silent grave. But thy love none other ,, Did my spirit crave. ,f Though my heart wa*> brokCD, ' Courage still was mine ; And my husband's ashes ? Was my dally shrine. d Think before the bridal, t. Of the wlndln^-sheet Take a mother's blessing e Thy new life to ureet. r Should thy heart be broken, i- Do not weep and brood; For the pain of living >- Is the noblest good. S The Spirit of True Journalism. Is Carolina itpartaiu lH The Press and Iinnntr calls on the editors * of the Stats for tlielr opinions In regard to '* their controversies. In these days when the1 'r war paint Is rubbed cO and peace and brother-' r ly love prevail, he xhorts I ho brethren to! e consider whether they shall use (garbled ex-1 ): had?, or cjuotothe w hole article when tney ? wish ti> make an attack. Now wo take It, that anything that Is worthy of an attack Is worth 'J quoting. If the whole urllcle be necessary to 11 a fair and full understanding, gl ve It all; but '! If one sentence will serve your purposeand '{ not prejudice the case of your opponent, then (l L'lve that ono sentence. No man should be; '* condemned without a hearing. This principle] r* holds In newspapers, an well as In courts. An I 11 editor should never take up his antagonist n and lynch him, and that isjust what Is done " when opinions are misrepresented, or quota-] ' * tlons made in such a way to to convey a dlf-l L'* ferent meaning from that Intended by the c | writer. I The editors of this Slate as a general thing] arc gentlemen. it Is seldom that one of our i number resorts to shameful, personal abuse1 and gives expression to such thoughts mid feelings as should bring a blush ot shame to every decent man. >ow and then, from II some causo or other, ono transcends the d hounds of drcency ami gentility and pnbu lishes that which does not hurt the one atII tacked, but rehonnds with double force j. anal list (ho aggressor. A fair, manly, earnest r, discussion of principles and polices should be v encouraged Positive convictions should tie e expressed In unmistakable words, for It is; e through fair and fearless discussion that s' knowledge Is brought to the-people. Asa i .general thing It Is not well to reply to a j personal attack. If one editor calls another a h thief, or a liar, or fool, he makes either a true y or false charge. If true, and oneattemptsto ' y reply, It may be proved; If false, the public e will tlnd It out, and come to the conclusion i i. that the assailant is raising the cry of thief to i if avoid dctcctlon himself. Because an editor I 0 says you arc not as good as you ought to be, do not come out and Inform the public that i ii his grand fat her was hanged for horse-stealing; s or if one. In ills weakness, or wickedness, i 1 should call you an ass. do not by your retorts I convince the public that the charge may be [J I correct. If there be any one that you dislike, . j never say anything unpleasant about him. j k If one should sink beneath that plane of . i- courtesy where every editor ought to stand, , . never notice him, unless It be to help him up , .again. If humorshould ever be attempted let j , It bo refined. That which Is coarse and tends ( i, I to offend, should never be Indulged In. If a , i i brother gets up an Innocent laugh at your c.\- , tlpense by some little harmless pleasanty, do . j | not got angry. Join In the laugh and enloy ( . | the fun. You can make nothing by a reply : , 1 | unless you keep In tho very best humor and | . say something more laughable than your us. jsallant. Hut remember that wit Is a dancer- f i ' ous weapon in the ha ids of the wisest writer. Hewarc of the manner In which you use it. I Finally, the newspaper is for the Instruction i' and elevation of the readers. All that tends 3 . | to the accomplishment of this grand object. 1 . should be dlllcently sought after. That which I . degrades Journalism should be studiously t .! avoided. t Help Yourself?Then Prnj. [CfiriMian yeiohbor,] fl ' Mnnv there arc who pray to the Father In ' 1 j hcnven to <lo for thein and others fhnt they * I arc commanded of* (Jo<! to do themselves. , | only wlicn men have done all they can do to ' : holp themselves ctin they, In faith, eall upon " "1 (Jor for help, nor ean he fully appreciate dli vine comfort, dell verance and strength until 1 he Is conscious of his need of these blessings, J ': and thin need In felt an it should be only when : lie has done all he can do and realizes that he !1 needs divine help to bring the desire of his j l heart to pass. He Is then prepared to pray? ^ t to ask, to seek and to knock?and he will j then pray, and ho will then receive, And and ? p have opened unto hiin the door lending Into s " the abundant riches of mercy and grace s ' which Ood has promised to them who come j] ' i boldly unto the throne of grace. m , ,| " s ' 8 Mr. James R. Sondley died at (he residence 0 I of Mrs. Sallle .Halfncre Saturday inornlng. t 18th Instant, of consumption, in the 23d year | of his age. Mr. Sondley came to Newberry t from Due West about a year ago, and was r I clerking for Mr. J. 0. Havlrd until recently, b I Ho was a young man ol fine character, and ft ' was well tboughtof in the community. His funeral was preached In the Thompson Street Church Sunday by Rev. E. P. McClIntock, I.and he was burled In Rosemont Cemetery.? P j Neu-berry Obtcn'cr, ' 8 Onr Exemption from the Disasters of Nature. [Newberry Herald.] In rradlng ko often lately of grent disasters Ituthavc befallen other countries and communities. the thought struck us that Newberry, with many other of the upper counties, has been singularly exempt from such. We have not had the opportunityo( cntelully reviewing her history with this thought in mind, out 80 far as we remember or have Winmfut frntn others fto overwhelming calami Ip has ever rolled across her peaceful breast. Insolaled cubes of destruction of life mid properly by tbo llghtniiiK's sudden flash or lhe passing breath of some more than common wind ; or it may be by the mere suggestion of some plapue. have of course occurred ; and indeed some of her citizens may have, in exceptionally unfavorable crop years, more or less really felt the pinching* of poverty. But the record of her pnst will lie searched to vain, we venture to say, to find instances, where the Vis Major has at one fell below stilled the whole people by the awful maulTestation of his power. No opening earth had ever yet yawned for Its human lood ; we have had noupheavlng mountlin ever and anon to consume us with eruptions from its howeiH afire with disease; no angry cyclone has ever as in come of her sister eon titles and in the neighboring States, nwcpt h<* fair fields leaving them waste and bare; gauut famine malignant plague, or other noxious pestilence has never stalked abroad spreading desolation and despair throughout the lund. Even when the whole country lately resounded with the shock of arms, Newberry was "Oiniiaratlveiy exempt from hurt to her firesides, it Is true that her sons freely perished on the border, but our hearthstones and household gorls were left untouched. We, in town to be sure, have, of late, had more than our allotted share of disasters by tire, according to the usual rules of accident; hut whether all of them were a(vld*>ntnl of otherwise, none can fairly be attributed to tlic Act of God. In none of them, too, has fhert been lose of life and In most of Ihem there has been adequate compensation for the loss of properly. Wo are not able, did we feel dlsposed.tr enter Intoa discussion of the physical reason* for this exemption from I he disasters ol Nature; nor do we feel qualified to preach t sermon?to account for the moral aspect o the question by trying to fathom the ways o ITIni U'hmp nnttis "arp mint flnrilrnr nut." \V( simply record wlint seems to us a fact?ont for which the commonest gratitude compels ub to make acknowledgment and lie grateful Verily the good Lord has delivered uh as n country from "lightning and tempest; frotr plague, pestilence and famine; from the bat tie and murder, aud froin sudden death' And did we not an a people often recoanl/.t tliIh fact with grateful hearts. we would foi our base Ingratitude deserve helng swept bj the bund of the Almlnhty Into an obllvlor longer and deeper than that In which faithless and haughty Ponipcll were burled by lh< ashes of Vesuvius. Carelessness In Handling Cotton. \ Newberry Herald.J There npppnrs to be great, complaint 011 the part of foreign manufacturers about the man tier In which the American cotton N gather ed and prepared for market. It Is estimated that the staple reaches them adulterated witli sand and other foreign matter to an amount averaging ten per cent of the weight of th< cotton. No one who Is at all familiar with the average way I11 which we handle oui great staple, from the tline It Is cathercd lr the field until It Is sold, can wonder at elthei these figures or complaints. While we ar< glad to think that these cases of deliberate and fraudulent adulteration are exceptlonnl we must admit that there Is a degree of care lessness exhibited by the average farmer lr I he handllug ot his crop, the results of which If they do not naturally suggest fraud, at al events materially affect the price of Amerlcar , i,>1... m.1.1 I. .. I'l'tiwn biiiuiiKiiuia III" 1YIFIIU. i ins taicnw ness Is exhibited when the cotton is picket Iroin the stalk along with the dvled leavei and limbs or from the ground covered wltl: 8ft nd ami dirt; when Ills trumped by tniiddj feet Into the basket, wagon or house: when In and after passing through the gin It n needlessly exposed to the Hying motes ; whei: In the packing. It Is mixed with trash am again st:iined by muddy feet; when after be ing nacked, It Is left until sold exposed to al kinds of weather. These are some of the sins of ihe fanner ; we will not follow the oottor Into the hands of the Railroad and the Com mission Merchant. It Is said that I his hasnf fected the price of our cotton in England hal a cent per pound as compitred with Indlat cotton; in India. Ihe Inspection being strlc and the penalty lor adulteration heavy. Much of this evil Is tracenb e undoubtedly to that system ol negro tenantry which pro ceedson the theory that it is better to teni forty acres superficially than twenty ac-rei well; but our white farmers are not withou blame. Our staple Is naturally superior to the pro duct of any other country and its tnarke value in the world should not be depresse< through our carelessness. There must beat improvement in the handling of our grea staple; and If our cotton crop is to be as shor this year as Is generally made out. a mos favorable opportunity i* presented for the in stltution ol this reformation. What littii there Is to be gathered and prepared for tnar ket, can be carefully gathered and prepared. Tlic Shfep Gnib. During the hot days ot mid-summer, slieej often huddle together with their noses upot the ground, or In'some other constrained posl tlon. This is done, partly at least, to seeur them from the attacks of the presenting Glad fly (QStlrws on'.t), which is the parent of th annoying (Jrub ln-thehend. This Insect i closely related to the hot-fly, that. deposits It eggs upon the neuk, shoulders, and loreleg of horses, from which they are removed Iv the teeih of the animal, toallay the itchlnu and are taken into the Htomnch, and develoi Into the troublesome hots. The female sheei (jad-fly alms to deposit her eugs In thenof trials of the sheep, and the animals, apparent ly aware of the erteots to follow, try to pre vent It. If the eggs are laid, they soon hatch and the young grubs asend the nostrils, grenl ly to the distress of the affected sheep. Th worms" attach th"mse!ves to the sinuses o the nose, by means ot hooks like those of tlv horse l>ot, and live upon tlienmous secretion of the Irritated surface to which they ciln* When fully crown, the drubs work their wa; down through the narrow openings, by whirl they entered when first hatched, and acali eause the sheep much pain. The grubs fall t< the ground, and burrowing for a few Inches become chrysallds, which develop Into th perfect flies In about two months. The grub pass from the sheep In early summer, am the flies come out of the ground from July t September. A daub of tar upon the 110s# i the best preventive, and snould be frequent! applied during tho summer months. Thl may be done by sprinkling some meal or sal over tne tar In a through, when the slice will apply it themselves as they eat the mea Home farmers plow furrows In the pasture, t furnish the sheep a good place to bury thei noes. The sheep grub is not fatal, but ver; disagreeable, and doubtless has a bad eflee on the general health of infected sheep. 1 any one desires to study the grubs, lie ma; find them In many of the heads of shee killed at the shambles.?Amcricau AgricttUut ist for August. l)oes Senator Hampton Want to Re sign 1 | Anderson InteHigrnrr.) The announcement by the 2Vowberry Obtrr l-rr upon 'good authority" that while Senato Hampton would prefer to retlro to prlvat llitf. "so that he could devote more time to hi private business; yet while the people wan his services he is at their command" is takci as an Indication that Senator Hampton 1: willing to be his own successor In the Senate This is all nonsense. If Governor Hamptoi wants to be re-eleetc?d to the Senate he ough to come out like a man and say so, but It h really has private business that it would bet tor promote* his interests to attend to, let mil stand aside and permit me of the equal); able and patriotic men in our State to cnte the race for the Senatorshlp. The people o our State honor Hampton, and doubtless n ions: us he wants to be Senator and represent the sentiment of the peop'e, he can con tin in In the Senate, but we think the people lik< hlni too well to force him to neglect Ills prl vate affairs to represent them In the Senate This style of political dactylics will not serv Senator Hampton In this case, for he Is not > better Senator than Judge Wallace, Col Simonton, Gov. Thompson or Judge Kershaw or a dozen other men In theSUite would mak< und there is no reason why the State shouli force him to make a sacrifice to serve her Let us have uo more of this gush. If the Sen ator wants to continue in the Senate he cai be rc-elcetcd without opposition, but If hi does not, then we are In f.uorof relieving hln and sending Judge Wallace, or some othe good man lo take his place. Infallible Cure for Hog Clioicra. [Palmetto Yeoman.] Mnj. John Alexander, of this city, met t gentleman from Lexington county the otliei day. who said that he had lost 35 houn fron cholera, and it looked like he would lose tin balance soon, whereupon the Major nskei i_._ ?i... .ii.i ,1.,. tir ...... Illlll nilj III; lull UUIr I'll I C llll'lll , III V../UKH III said he would if he knew how. He was thei told to take what Is known as "smart weed,' make a tea of It, and give It to them. If they are very had oil they mav be drenched witli It, If not li can be put In their food and feed II to them. The beta way Is to mix it with meal, making a sort of ransh. The gentle man tried the remedy at once, and reports that he did not lose another hog. Others In his neighborhood, hearing of his success, tried the remedy, with the same result. A cure so simple and so easily obtained?for "smartweeil" grows everywhere?should br generally known. ? * ? Re IIoNoitARi.e.?Boys and young men sometimes start out Into life with the idea that one's success depends on shsirpness and chicanery. They Imagine If a man is able to "get the best of a bargain,'' no mntier by what deceit and meanness he carries his point, that his prosperity Is assured. This Is a mis. take. Kndnring prosperity cannot be founded on cunning and dishonesty, The tricky and deceitful man Is sure to fall a victim, nooneror Inter, to the Influences which are forever working against him. The future of that young innn is safe who eschews every "hapeof double-dealing, and lnys the foundation of his career In the enduring principles of everlasting truth. The .Vcic York Herald, sponklng of Judge Rlack, says: "If the Democratic party lacks living leaders thev cannot do better than bor row some principles rrom wie ia.*r pumicmteritnccs of one of the ablest of their departed spirits." In a recent Interview (Ills last) with i correspondent of the Herald, lie hud this to lay upon the tariff, and it would be well for iveak-kneed Democrats to ponder over his a Iterances: "The Democrats must meet the larltr i)ue?tlon boldly?It has become too jroad for Democrats to attempt to straddle ; .hey must declare lor a tariff for revenue ony, adjusted to meet the demands of the gov>rnmetit administration with strict Integrity md in the most economical manner." TnE State Fair ?Tiie presence In the city resterday of President Duncan, Secretary ilolloway. Mr. K. L. Itocheand Col. A. l\ I?uter, had a tendency to remind our people of he State Fair. These officers were engaged (trough the day In devising and discussing dans for advancing the Interests and forvardlng the ends oi the State Agricultural ind Mechanical Society at its exhibition in November. The improvement of the grounds ind buildings was considered and will be at-1 ended to. Various changes, additions and j nlarcenicnts are contemplated and will he* arried out and perfected in dife time. The usy notes of preparation will soon be heard, I nd no pains or expense will be spared to nnke the approaching Fair equal if not supe-i lor to any one that has preceded it.? Palinrlio | feoman. - A Freak of tub. Lightning.?Dr. T. S.' llake, of Ninety-Six, lost, two fine mules Vednesday of last week by lightning. Dr. {lake was at the time, sitting In his piazza nd saw the current of electricity when it truck his barn,and went immediately to the pot, believing that the contents were set on Irn- hnforp hp rciichort It hp wnv smoke Issn ng from the straw In the loit of the barn, and ucceeded in smothering the tire by heaping , traw on It till water was brought, and put It1 mt. Descending to the stables below, he found wo of his mules dead in one stall, but no vis-1 ble signs of violence could be found. Some imbers near by were shattered to pieces. Ten ninutes delay would have resulted in the iiirnlng, perhaps of the entire premises.?Saiida Arffua. An Iowa editor, being asked by a correspondent If hogs paid, has looked over his subcription list and dccldcd that tbey do not. igg nyjl. pcshixo the savaxxah vat.i.et b. b, i ti?iiai?/i.i _ r*> ii.a (ka i & v i nnuvuii.?in uic iiuunici ui mc At ? At Road to tbe Ueorula Central. It was eminently wine to kocp alive tlie Interest of the Individual stockholder*. nnd In tills way to popularize t'le Institution. We are In formed that the 825,000 subscribed by the A. & K. Road to to the 8. V. K. It, will be paid over promptly nnd that thin enterprise will be pushed forward to completion at once. Also the ?uin of 510,000 Is to be paid to the extension of the (J. L. & 8 R H . but Immediate attention Is first to healven to the H. V. R. R. ThU change of the property of the A. & K. Road seem* to meet with tho approval of our people. Wo 1 may expect soon to see a treat Improvement In the rolling stock nnd general outfit ol the road.? Qretnxiood Argut. A Sin'oclar Operation.?Dr. F. L. Parker, the weil known oce.illstof Charleotorv, has recently performed a delicate and successful operation. One of his patients was troubled with an aflectlon of nn eye, which necessitated the removal of half the conjunctiva or . ' white" of the organ. Dr. Parker wished to save the eye Intact. He therefore removed the conjunctiva or white of a rabbit's eye, and with a plecrof tills filled the vacancy made i by the absence of the diseased part of his pa tlent's eye. Dr. Parker attended the case , carefully, and much to the surprise of physl cmnti una otncrs, me iransnianieu pari or me j n?hl>lt's optic was nsRlmllatt'd by nature, and now the human eye, once harassed by a dUor-. der. In perfect. | Paints and oils! Paints and oils! Paints ; and oils! just received at Miller Bros, tf I j Paint brushes, full line, at Miller Bros, tf II Are you going to paint? Miller Bros - will mix any shade, tintor color you may ;! desire, out of pure lead and oil. Give ', thom a will. tf j Tiie Town Council have bought one > of the Tiso Well fixtures, foi the public ? well, which were brought down from Greenville by Mr. Adams. It works , satisfactorily, and is one of the best inr ventions ever offered to the public. It i empties its buckets, without spilling and r splashing the water. Is safe because It films a self-acting break. And is easy to . draw, having two buckets. Mr. M. L. ij Bonham, Jr., will explain its workings, and take orders lor fixtures. 3t. My patrons will take notice that I will he absent for some time from Augusf 4th and give me their orders for machinery for September delivery by that date. R. W. Cannon. White piqnes and lawns at cost at Wardlaw A Edwards. The Light Running Domestic Sewing Machine is the inacino to buy: Why? Because, 1st. it is the lightest running machine on tho market; 2d. it is so j simple that a child can operate it; 3d. ( , it never ?ets out of order; 4th. It will ] sew tho finest lawn to the heaviest cassiinere without change of stitch or ten- < sion ; 5th, it is made of the best material j and warranted for 5 years, for sale by R. R. Had don Co. Buy fresh candies, fruits, nuts and all 1 confectioneries from the Ladies Confectionary. J L. CLARK, i FOR THE GOOD OP THE CRAFT I HAVE CONCLUDED TO GIVE MY I 1 whole attention to nr Shop. Ishulelve 1 * It good ATTENTION. If any person wlsb1 es to have his : WATCIIEH REPAIRED ' Bring thein In. I have all the tools and ma ' terials to do It up In the best of style and at | the lowest rutes possible. If you want youi i I clock repaired bring It In and it will be done right. If you want your 1 JEWELRY MENDED 5 Rr(n?rltnn. If von u-nnl vnur ' SEWING MACHINE MENDED : This Is the place to get It done in thebest 01 order. You can liavenny pieccmade new,or ' tl?e old one repaired. If you wantyourgun or J pistol repaired this is the place to have it 1 dine. All these articles will he repaired in tne best of order at the Lowest Prices. ' (live me a trial and satisfy yourselves? j TERMS CASH. : JOHN L. CLARK. | For Sake of Variety. ? /^"E Brewster Side Rar Bujrey, one Timp' kl" Side Rar Bnirgy, with steel axles a d J Tires, ns good a* the best has been added to 1 the stock of the Cincinnati Repository. C'?li " soon If you want something nice for aSumL> hit evening drive, THOS. BEGGS. May 10, tf All the Rage. AMONGST the stock ol vehicles In the Cincinnati Repository Is a two wheeled 1 "ond Phaeton. It only wants a trial to make " it the most desirable one hors" vehicle in use. 0 THOS. BEGGS. ? May 2,1883, tf h Marshall F. DeBruhl, y 1 j; Attorney at Law, P ABBEVILLE C. H. S. C. [ BARBER SHOR if ? e 11ICHARD GANTT. i? now prepared to do s IV nil work tn Ills department In the he*t j manner and at rea>onal>le charges. Monthly customers shaving, hair cutting and sliamh pooliiir SI per month. Rasors honed and put n In tlie best condition lor iicents each. ? Shop under the Press and Banner office. " March 13, l&j-J, tf e H ? all Soon. " "TO ma Ice way for a Full supply of every kind v 1 of HARNESS, I will Kelt my present stock at greatly reduced pries, at the cinctnt nail Repository. THUS. BEGGS. P May l(j, 1883, tf yr A Bargain. :t A LIGHT family Barouch, slluhtly dam'f A aged, can tie bought cheap by calling at y the Cincinnati Repository. The damage will p not interfere with the wear of It. THOS. BEGGS. May 16,18S3, tf ollars. A NICE lotol extra larjreand heavy draft Collars, Just received and for sale at the Cincinnati Repository. THOS. BEGGS. ? April 11, IHSn. tf S " ????? ?????????? f And Still They ome. f IUST received another lot of those nice ' tf smooth pug-*y Harness, which I can sell at the wonderful low price of Ten Dollurs per 11 set, at the Cincinnati Repository. e THUS. BEGGS. June 6,1883, tf \ Just Received. s O CASES of Millinery, new styles forSums O mer and very chenp. 2 n. M. IIADDON & CO. e May 2), IS83, tf ;3 Breast ollars. IUST the thing fora stylish evcnlne drive, *) nt various prices, at the Cincinnati Itepos-' P ltory. THUS. BEGGS. 1 June <>, 1883, tf j Buggy ushions. 1 fUST received a Job lot. of Bugey and Carf) rlage Cushions, which will be sold very I low for cash at the l.'IN CI .\ > ATI |{ K I'()S I I (J K Y, T. BliGGS, Agent. Jan. 17, I8S1, tt 1 SOUTH CAROLINA I MILITARY ACADEMY ! 1 CHARLESTON, S. C. i Gkn. JOHNSON I1AGOOD, i Chairman Board of Viiitort. | Cor.. J. I'. THOMAS, Superintendent. 1 'I'HK Second Academic Year since re-estnbI lishmeut li.v Ad of t ho General Assemb'y . will becin October :M next. Applications for ! Citdelshlp must lit1 made on or before Scptem1 ber'Jfith next to the Chairman Hoard of Visitors at Hani will C. H.,S. C. Pay Cadets received from any State. Registers or circulars furnished by Superintendent. August 122, l.SSJ, -It T. KURZ. Boots and Shoes, Harness and Tanyard. BEST material used, fine workmen employ ed, custom work made promptly, and at the lowest bottom prices for cash. Hides always bought at the highest market price for cash or in exchange for leather or work. January :5>. 1S?0, ly. ) TF you want something that will become] , 1 your horse, no to tlie ( inetnnati KepuMfory. and set one of those nice rounded bridles and mat tlngalrs, also riding whips for both i ladles and noilIk-mcn. THOS. BEGGS. ! April 11,1883, tf i Children Carriages. RATTAN, new and pretty styles. Also, a j lot of Hoys Wagons? Iron and Wood, at J. D. OH A I,M KUS & CO. i March 14,lKS3.tr I kjKI.F-RAISING Buckwheat at :!> CUNNINGHAM Jfc TEMPLETON. March 14.18S3, tf Shoes. Shoes, Shoes. I ADIKS Fine Shoes. Children's Flue Shoes, j 1 j Ladies and Children's Slippers. It. M. llALMWJN & CO. March 21.18.S3. tf Sheriff's Sale. (ieo. A. Trenholni A Son against John M. Leith.?Execution. BY virtue of ail Execution to me directed! In the above staled case, I will sell to the highest bidder, at public auction, within the legal hours of sale, at Abbeville Court House, on Monday, the third diy of September A. l>. 1KS3, the following described property, to wit: I All the right, title anil interest of John M.l I.elth In that tractor parcel of land, situate, ( 1. !.... .....I Iw.lM.r It. thi. ' i.Kitv* ..I' A I.Im.I'I II.> Ij IIIK "">< "HI'S ?" ., I South Carolina, and formerly known as tliei Williams Place, ami containing EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE j (S25) ACRES, more or less, and bounded hy lands of Geonre Nlckles, Robert Dunn, the Cochran llrlek House Place and others. Also at the same time and place Two(2) Head of Horses. Eight head of Cattle, Three Wagons and Household and Kitchen furniture. Levied on and to be sold as the property of John M. Eelth, to satisfy thealoresald Executions and costs. TERMS-CASH. J. F. C. DuPRE, Sheriff AbbeTille County; ? August 10,1883, tf b' GONGAREE;>B innii uinni/ciH mill) NIMHiM Coumbia. S. C. MB Agent for CHAPMAN'S fl PERPETUAL EfAPOfUTOBjB rHESE WORKS WERE ESTABLISHED^? J in 1S47 by Messrs.Geo. Sinclair and JumcqE^N Vnderson and purchased by me In the yea^BHfl 8-Vl, anrl from that time till now carried oiflVMB mccoHsfully by myself. My Mends and casH^^I ,omcr* will bear witness or the laifce and stafl^^H tendons Jobs executed by me. It was at works where the largest and almost only >f Its class ever executed In this city wasdoneB^^B Mz.: the making of the pipes for the Citwf^^l Abater Works in the year 1808. In the branccB^^H >f BELL FOUNDING, I can say that I havt^^^H nade the largest bells ever cast In the inch an the bell for the City Hall In Columbla^^B| My stock of patterns for ARCHITECTU^^^H tlAL WORK. COLUMNS for Store fronts, I aruennd various, aod In RAILINGS for sonles. Gardens and Cemeteries I have th<fl^^H arrest variety and most modern patterns nany of these are patented and I nave par^^^H :hased the right for this State. In the machine line I enn famish my rons with STEAM ENGINES and BOILERf^^H >f any slzcand description. My CIRCULaB^^^H SAW MILLS have carried off the prize at ev|^^H ?ry State Fair held In this city, and In thell^^^l instruction I have taken pains to combiiu^^^B ilmpliclty with the most useful modern irovemenls, and may Hatter myself tW. CIRCULAR SAW MILLOflnd favor wfth^^^H :ry sawyer who understands his business. The many orders I am steadily receivlnjrAt^^^H SUGAR CANE MILLS prove that the pubtl<^^H| ippreclate the mills of my make, and soitJ^^^B urith my GEARING for HORSE POWEHsM ilN WHEELS, GRIST MILLS And MACHINERY. I have the manufacturing right of PATENTS, such as castings forBttaTTOE^^M roN' AND HAY PRESS and three or fon^^H ilfferent FEED CUTTERS and other Jmple|^^^| I will be pleased to send my circulars to applicant, together with price list or estimate^^^l My prices are moderate, and I assure the pab^HH lie that thev are lower even th?n Him? Notthern mnnnfacttirerc, *nd thai my wor^^^H| will compare favorably with that of any o(m er maker. Address John Alexander, Conoarke Iron Works, Columbia, B.C. NotioeTj DURING a few weeks absence, I will leavc^Hfl my buMnexs here In charge nf Mr. H. PBB McILWAIN, who will be pleascJ towallo<^^M| uny one wabtlng anything in my line. TflOS. BE66S. I I August 1,1883, It USE WELL FIXTURES The ti8e well FIXTURE la hy far thfl i moot perfect nnd complete Invention foiH It* purpose that has ever been made. No danger of children being bart by it I Anybody can draw water with It?from anyfl^^l depth. It la safe, reliable aud convenlenL^H^H Sold by j. j. adams, Greenville, s. c. ib Mr. M. L. BONHAM. JR.,at ABBEVILLE^^H will U<ke orders for the proprietor. Auguxt 1,18H3, 3ni DUE WEST i III! ILEjd FEXERCISES BEGIN OCTOBER 1ST. j of board and regular tuition for the Best facilities for manic and painting. H Fur cujulogue apply to the President. . IIH j. p. kennedy. h August 1,1893, It ANDERSON MILITARY SCHOOLS AvnTDenmr o n a?i/JUMUVi1| 0* V- .HH ? . m 1'HE CHEAPEST FIRST-CLASS SCHOOL^^H InlheVouth. For circulars address W. J. LlGON, XI. G. REED, Principals J August 1.1883,2m H. D. REESEfl ABBEVILLE, S. C.. H Repairs watches, cixx-ks. Jewelry in Die l>ext manner at the low-^^^B est prices. Long experience mid close nnplul^^H cation to business merit consideration from^^H those havinu work to be done in his line. He^^K keeps Jewelry and Silverware foraale. Feb. 11,1883,12m L. W. Perisrn, T. P. Cothban^^H PEEEIN ft COTHBA Attorneys at ABBEVILLE. S. C. J. Knox & Co.I -AGENTS I-ORMR. TOM YOUNG'S | PURE CORN WHISKEY THE host and purest CORN WHISKEY brought to tblH tnark%V^. |B June 22,1881, tf Just Received. OVER 100 BASKETS?Lunch Basket*, MarI;ft Bsiskots. Salcne! Basket*. Key BaakeW, Nursery Busket*. K. M. HADDON & CO. I^H Feb. 2S, ISfCi, tf MB IF you wnnl a nice Sprint; Suit call on CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON. March 1-1,1S83. tf Paragon Axle Grease. I'HE best In iniirkcl. Which I will sell cheap to dealers by the package. Retail irice 10 cenl?, or three lor 25 cents at the Alt-* on <-orner. THOS. BEGG8. March 14, 1883. tf f srnnrnntee STJHIJnJB'S ^^9 BSv3^ MIHAS vEnjiiFroB ? ? \ \?r,'/. '/, *tc->troy (aid exjjel ffuran^Hj VW^- from Hie human bodyJ^^H *".y.jb\' /Ta w iu-vf- ;i>py exist, If nHcd^^^B V3?1 BirorJiiijf to the d're^fl^| Lq *v n /*. (io>?s. 11 i? n safe and I'niile remedy EL-^JL^ MS S'i.E BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND STORE KEEPERS. fcjS^i? 1 David E. Foutr. Prop* [fo.yy.yy- .v v.i T/TIJfOKE, SID* M _____ mm %rTLE POWDERS Hp r^r'up ' ?9! ? "" "Sffl < T'-'? nr LmFl-' ni ? ix Fuwia - - ! n< r. * < nnnntlty of milk ?r ceau ai.u nmke the batter Una' -T r>n"*cnt Almoat *t**t nirienrp inhject. ..ivfc satiwaotiox. Proprietor, IBI rroits.MD. I '/ OF H ledge. f jmct Lit nu crin- IB . Jt ru'tt\ td. i.'tirttt oor j^H| h. CI'Hti.iieri A Co., r. aiu., c^:-mzo. m.: .meat*, QtC