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W-r "7- *7; r' 3jmttmmman 11111 i:a i Press and BannerJ AJIlitiVILLE, S.C. I ** " j Wednesday, Nov. 13,1884. j Tin.1 Presidential Election. While we have not the official connt, i and while the election is admittedly nn j oxcecdiiVs close one. nnd although both | )Vtrties are claiming the victor}', yet wej think it reasonably certain that the I)em-1 > ofiraiic party have elected their candidate, i All eyes have been centered on New' York from the first, and our hopes and Tears were sensibly affected by the vary- | lug telegrams which were brought over the wires. For a day or two the suspense was painful to many, while others were confident all the time and never entertained a don'-1 as to the fin:il decision. Tint those who were confident of the! success of the Democratic party, were not averse to having their own opinions! Plrengttiencri r>y mo expression <>i vim.-; current beliefs by their neighbors. Every man asked every other man whom lit' met, a question which none could answer, and the greatest numbers frequent- j . ed the Democratic headquarters every d ly and every hour in scarch of the latest | despatches, and the dally papers were ea-! gorly sought on the arrival of the mails; at two o'clock and at six o'clock. The 'Charlotte Observer and the Greenville \ AVh*? came at two o'clock, while thej Charleston Xews awl Courier, the Colum- j bia Register, i\nd the Augusta Chronicle came at six o'clock. Thursday night a grand display of fire- j works and hondfireswas made, and near- j Jy everybody in the village w;is present . to take part in the jollification or to lend j their approval. Every white citizen of, tho village was more or less exuberant. A few of the colored people either did, ?.? Iho nou-j nf tlin election of a I Democratic President or hoped that lie: would not be permitted to be iiiangurated. and that we might in some way bo denied the enjoyment of the fruits of the, beard-earned victory. We are inclined to the opinion that the election of Cleveland to the office of Pros-; ident has taken the wholo country by surprise. It is not to bo denied that a very large part of the Democratic party j }iad no faith in the election of their man,1 and it is well known that while they vot- j ed for Cleveland that many of them bet { their money on Blaine. The Republicans j if pcs.Mhle, seem to be more surprised than were the Democrats at the apparent result of the billot. It is perfectly cer-:( tain that no considerable number ofj Northern Republicans ever dreamed of such a contingency as tho election of Grover Cleveland. There will be, we presume, no contest over the election in any Southern State,1 *nd it is a matter of great congratulation \ that the scene of tho contest should be transferred to a Northern State, where' some of their methods and manners tnav' w I , be investigated. The Republicans hav-J iug used the civil and military power of , the country to harass and worry lis in the, SoiVlh for the hist twenty years, the Southern people must breathe freer at the,' pronpect that a change is to take place,j! and that we are oOce more to be reinstat- j cd in fact, ns well as in name, as members, nf Hia <rrp?t Fe.leral eomnaet. With the!' " I election of a Democratic President the: army ?f government spies which now infest the South will soon disappear when | we in South Carolina will receive just!' protection, and will have to bear no great-1. er burdens than the most favored of the Northern States, Money at Interest?Mortgaged Farms. Without knowing more of any man's , business than he knows himself we hope , 'that it may be proper to ask the alien- j tion of investors in real estate to" the un-l' ! 1 profitableness ol much of our lands, as|' well as to the thousand and one risks!| which the owner of large landed estates i, must take ; while, on the other hand, the! \ possessor of a good mortgage is never subjected to any loss, inconvenience or J trouble. The average rate of increase in the wealth of the country is estimated at, * only a little over three per cent., and ex- j perience has proven that lie who pays., seven per cent, interest on the greater, part of the money which he uses must, j' - _ 1-1? i i>,. ' y.?yiiMr <?r i;uoi, nciumc uaurwtupv. -examining tho onice of the Clerk <if Court j it will bo seen that the number of mort- j' gages which arc satisfied, except by the I sale of the hind, is an exceedingly small j per cent, of the whole. Now, when we can get ten per cont. for our money, soctired by mortgages of good farms, no man shrmld own more land than he needs for his own comfort orj which may bo necessary to satisfy some: peculiar want or to answer to some need-1 ful or imaginary dralt on his gcner-J, osity. At a time when tho largo | majority of our people desire to borrow money, giving the be-it possible security, ' we should lend our cash. There is scarcely a farm in Abbeville county , which will pay ten per cent, of profit on the market price, without making any allowance for wear and tear of land and buildings, to say nothing of tho annoy-1 anco and risk attendant upon advances to | laborers and the trouble of collecting) rents. Under tho present law, authorizing the lending of money at ten per cent, interest, the shrewdest of our citizens arc not going to buy lands to hold as an investment, and even if they should, at an unguarded moment, do so injudicious h thing, they will not be long in finding their error, and, as a matter of course, ?iw*?r ii'ill OAAM coo fn t im? tin. profitable property to another, who may need it, or who may be willing to hold it with less profit. This unloading and this general awakening to the fact I that it is better to hold, than to give a| mortgage, will no doubt have a depressing j effect on the market value of our lands. With a high rate ol interest the valuo of real estate must necessarily go down,! high interest boing a fatal blow to' the best interests of the landowner. Al-1 ready the prices of our firming lands, j which are sold for cash, aro below zero. Men who have ;he ca>h that will command ten per cent, interest do not want to buy land. They prefer to lend on j mortgages. j At credit sales the prices run up higher, because the bidders, as ? rule, have but little money, and less to risK. Capital is cautious, and men who are able to pay and who are alive to their own best interests, do not buy at credit sales f xcept under peculiar or special circumstances, whoro a particular piece of property may ! Vie abnormally valuable to them. Buyers at credit sales, are therefore almost exclusively from the poorer classes, who in many eases may be barely able to make J tbo cash payment, and who, with that i. hope which springs eternal in the human i breast, pinnae into debt, risk the earn-! irigs of a life time, and trust that reliefI, may come from some unknown source,' which succor in a very large majority of j ca<e?, never comes. Let him who lias as much land as ho, can cultivate, avoid all credit purchases.' Let him who lias money, more than ho i can use, lend it to his neighbor. Let the poor, who nny have but little money or little property, not risk it all by going in debt at public Rale to buy a tract much larger than he can pay for. .< Let him who may want land, buy at; cash sales. If ho has uot all the cash with which to pay, then let him borrow from bis neighbor and buy at cash sales. Lot him never buy at e edit sales. Every man should own a homo of his own. To get this he should save some money with which to buy, aud then he should buy no more than he needs, and; is ablf, in a great measure, to pay for. Don't buy lands which arc far removed from your home. Land.* npon which there are no substantial houses are not desirable. We have had experience in building houses, which coat more than tho land and houses are worth. Buy improved tracts. Unimproved lands ate n>>t worth halt as much as those with good and suitable houses on them. At cash snies there ar?* tow bidders, wlioj iirr not n|?t waste their money. Atered-! it taleo L:. t i c art many more bidders, wh-> ?** n?m? mirB-iiNl iwf V iQm i> > mm- ? may not bo ay cautious and who havo loss to risk. A salV, solid in.m cannot, afford t<> bid a"iiinst the moneyless man. Uosidt sall the trouble and risk attend* ant upon tho management of a farm, tho probability is, with our immense surplus lands lying waste, that the market will; be glutted, and that real estate will go j in uch lower, after great numbers of our' white and colored citizens shall have; sought new homes in the far West. For i this and other reasons the safe and more j profitable business of lending money, j will be much . more desirable. Let thoso who have no money, save a : little from their wages or their products, j Nothing pays like interest, and nothing bears down like interest. Southern Cotton Mills. It seems that all tbe newspapers are throwing up their hats for cotton factories, and making the wildest gesticulations to prove the prosperity of tho South by the fact of an increased number of cotton mills. We nover hear anv anything about tho neglected and dismantled farms. We never hear anything aboxH the fact that our people pay annually for mules, horses, corn, bacon, split basket*, horse collars, nnd axe handles, more than all these factories are worth. They never tefer to the fact that every count}' pays many thousand dollars for commercial fertilizers, which are inferior to home made manures which could bo saved and | made on every farm. There is no use of! disguising the fact, tho farm is the foini-J tain head whence tlows all our prosperi-1 ty. Although we can raise a mule or aj horse as cheap in South Carolina as tha same animal can bo raised anywhere on ; the continent, yet wo pay in Abbeville many thousand dollars every year for imported stock. If farming does not pay. wo would like for somebody to tell us why the following named prosperous citizens make; money at the business: J. Marion Pruelt, J. S. Klugh, W. II. Brooks, Thomas W. Morton,; John A. Devlin, R. .T. Nirkles, James II. Britt, R. II. Devlin, II. P. Mcllwaine, J. L. Dreunan, Francis Ilanry, T. L. Haddon, Robert Pratt, W. B. Magee, R. W. Haddon, A. B. Ellis, Patrick Roche, John C. Douglass, W. P. Magee, B. O. Verell, Capt. P. Arm strong, Robert Anderson, Albert Clinkscalcs, Nathaniel Anderson, j A. E. LpssIv, II. T. Sloan, Stephen Elmore, John H. Wntson, J. D. Fonehe, A. K. Watson, J. F. Coleman, J. II. Latimer, W. W. Purdy, A. B. Kennedy, T. II. Kltigh, W. W. Kennedy, W. W. Kltigh, William McNeil, John P. Barrett, John M;Neil, D. S. Benson, W. A. M oore, Capt. John I.yoii, Robt. Hagan, W. T. Bradley, John ilaican, J. F. Wide man, Isaac A. Keltcr, T. A. Cater, Jacob Clamp, Win. Cook, Henry Clamp, r. H. McCalla, W. R. Dunn, J. E. Todd, J. R. Iladdon, J. M. Razor, C. A. Butts, r. M. Graham, J. E. Bradley, J. II. Morrah, W. H. Parker, J. E. Brown lee, J. Y. Jones, J. I). Pace, W. P. Kennedy, It. II. Hughes, J. L. Kennedy, L. Sheppard, J. J. Loniax, John Gaulden, Foster Cromer, Wesley Cromer, G. A. Cromer, .1 C1I \\r P C\.. . OIlHrjJ, 1> . f. i cnisuu, Win. Barmore, W. G. Rice, A. 0. Collins, H. T. Fuller, M. B Magee, Robert Major, Davhl Busby, F. W. R. Nance, Robert Dunn, J. W. Fooshe, j Henry Brewer, H. P. Mageo, Seorge Speer, Christopher Shaw, J. C. Foosho, James II/Rice, jiileon P. O'Neall, J. PI. Chiles, IV. T. Cowan, J. S. Britt, , F. V. Pruitt, J. P. Kennedy, , Tohn McDill, - R. S. Galloway, i ['. C. Brownlee, Frank Lee, John Stuart, Sam Morrah, I Clarence Duun, T. \V. McMillan, I M. B. Clinkscales, S. W. Cochran, ( S'ewton Mo A clams, Warren Foosho, , rames T. Baskin, W. C. Fooshe, r. T. Cunningham, Dr. T. S. Blake, Fohn Morrah, Milton Blake, 4 Ramsey lihike, Hilt Magee, Jalvin Winn, Ilarvey Clinkscales, L A*. T. Henderson, 0. P. Hawthorn, V. G. Cochran, Jesse Magee, II. (i. Klugli, Koueri .iic.vu;ini3, J. M. Kiimrd, K. L. Williams, Tohn Cheatham, George S. Wilson, > ind at least five hundred other prosper- i jus citizens of this county, who cither ' ma le their money at farming, or earned j' enough at that business to start them in j' other lines of business. Nearly all of! these men improved their time in one or I more of the hundred ways a farmer can < make his spare lime profitable, and nearly all of them raised their own provisions j and generally had enough to divide withj their less thrifty neighbors. ' There are hundreds of farms on which i good mules and horses could be raised, mid yet a mule or horse colt could scarce- < ly be found in a day's journej*. On nearly every farm thtre are very many acres of valuable land which should be enclosed by a fence and used as a pasture, but which is now lost or is unprofitable, i All the lauds which lie out, and pay : no dividend, is just so much dead capital, t iat should be utilized at the earliest moment possible. No farmer need think to prosper who does not make some provision for a liberal pasture. No larmer need expect to prosper who neglects to sow barley, wheat and oats, and who has to buy hisj f'li-Kinr noi.rl ft\mrt!;iin if ht-. I *' ? J? docs not prosper while he has not plenty of cows and, when conditions suit, he has not a colt or two in the pasture. No fanner has a rigot to complain at his lack of thrift as long as ho neglects to gather manure on his lot, and in consequencc is compelled to buy comparatively worthless commercUl fertilizers. Newspaper Circulation. The Xewberry Observer is indignant atj the ill treatment in the misrepresentation i of its circulation by advertising agents. It says: Tho American Newspaper Catalogue! for 1S84, issued by Edwin \lden A Bro., j advertising agents, of Cincinnati, pre-j tends to give the circulation of newspapers published in tho United States. In this publication the Newberry Observer is put down as havinga circulation of "JOO.'' Our circulation is considerably more than double that number; and we cannot imagine where they got their information. It is barely possible it is a piece of petty malice engendered by the fact that we have refused to lend the use ol our paper to cheap advertising agents. At any rate, it is an infamous outrage." Tho Observer, no doubt, is correct in its guess that "it is a piece of petty malice1 engendered b}' tho fact that it has refused to lend its paper to" starvation advertis-j ing rates. Some ot tho patent medicino t- ... It*. tKnf flu IP nrnf i\r>r*iV*rI'm 1 ! iigCIUS II1IU1 III U4 lllllt ItlVJ JJtW I'lVIVUVti position for their advertisements for a whole year for tho same rates that the saino paper would charge a local advertiser for three insertions of an advertise- j ment of same length?betides giving <Zj copy of the paper free for the whole gear., It is quite reasonable to suppose that tho ( Observer is no favorite with the agencies; which propose to get advertising at, starvation rates. Wo will hold up the; hands of tho Observer in demanding a fair compensation for "foreign" advertising, and we hope that our brethren generully may refuse to take patent medicine, advertisements for less figures than they i charge home or local advertisers. We; are informed by a large advertiser that, lie gets his medicines advertised in tho; best part of many papers "top of column, next to reading matter," appearing ev-; ery week at two dollars a squire bg the \ year?and to prove that tho publishers! comply with this contract, they send him | a copy of their papers every week,/rcc o/j charge. Tho rates which are established throughout the conn try is not high enough to make any of us rich, and as for our own part, we hope to steer clear of all' dead beats. Imagine an editor sending j his paper for a year and publishing an ugly cut of eight inches in length, in preferred space, extolling the virtues of a patent medicine in vulgar terms, and receiving therefor tho munificent sum of! sixteen dollars. Tlieeditor that works for j such figures will never be at a losw lor a *' p'.atr to put bis profits. j Tho Tomprrancp Movement. Tho friends of prohibition in Abbeville count.}' hic presenting petitions to our people, for their signal:!row, praying tho General Assembly of the State to .submit the question of prohibition to an election by the whole people (if Abbeville county. We favor any movement which looks to the welfare of the people, and we think that there can be no doubt that something should be done to stop tho drinking of intoxicating liquors. How the abuse of liquors is to bo ?toppod is a difficult problem. We aro firmly convinced that one glaring wrong exists in the gt'iintin? of liconses by incorporate villages exists in (ho fact that thoy are allowed to put the license fees into the treasury of the respective Corporations. The license fees certainly increase the price of tho liquors, and as a largo per cent, of the whiskeys are sold to country people, it is a direct tax on the country for the bonefit of the town when tho license fees are placed in the town treasury. Tho old storeotvped answer that a town where liquor is sold needs additional marshals, and should, therefore, receive the license foes which are paid by whisky dealers, is no longer of force. If the town people want the license they should tax themselves for tho additional ex i * J 1 perisu huu uutut;prnv uiunutnirv ui tuu license fees. Ah well tax tho county for anything else that we need. Why not tax the county to keep up our streets? It would certainly be as equitable to tax tho county to keep up our streets ns It Is to take from the treasury the money with which to hire our town marshals. If the whiskey license fees were put into the county treasury, where it properly belongs, we would not now be compelled to submit to an extra levy to pay for our new bridges. We are sorry that our tcmperance friends omitted to ask the attention of our Legistors to this groat wrong which has ev r been perpetrated upon the whole people. Let those towns which think that bar-rooms add to the sobriety, morality, and welfare of its inhabitants, pay for the advantages which they thus secure In the sale of whiskey. ? Delayed Publications. Many of our oxchanges delayed tho issue of their papers last week in the hope of beimr able to furnish their readers with the result of the Presidential election, and at last were compelled to issue their papers without giving much more definite information than those Ihey could have done if they had camo out on their regular publication days. We have at times felt disposed to wait for news ot an exciting nature, and were never more tempted to do so than we were last week, but we stuck to a resoluwhich we made many years ago, to print the paper on time, no matter how little it might contain. Wo ofteu make close connections with tho mails, and a few times wc have missed mailing our papers on Wednesday tosomo of the offices in this County. During all the time that wo have been in the business we do not recollect to have missed mailing our paper to Greenwood, Lowndesville, Montory or Ninety-Six. Only a few times have we missed pending the paper on time to Duo West and Donaldsville. Oftencr, when closely pressed, we have not got our paper off to Hodges and Cokesbury, bonause we have two mails a day to these r>l../.no n ? rl niKam lota fnr t lw> nArlliixr K1""". trip, it goes by the evening train. While we lully sympathize with those who seek to publish late news, and therefore delay their publications, yet wo are now, more than ever, convinced that a publisher errs by any delay to get news. [11 exciting times the people ride miles to the post office to get their papers on arrival of the regular mails, Mid it is a vexatious disappointment to thorn if the paper does ntyt come. In tbe rccent election, the force of this is particularly applicable, for tho reason Lhat the delayed piper give no sufficient additional information to compensate for the previous disappointment. Viewing tho matter from this standpoint, we hope that we may never yield :>ur convictions of the necessity of a prompt publication, to the desire for late news in a deferred issue of tbo paper. ft Doesn't Waste Jloney Advertising. When the South Carolina College was first opened at least some of the country newspapers were generously asked to advertise that institution free of charge. : riie next year a small fee was paid directly to the editors for advertising, but the profits 011 a live dollar advertisement was loo great for the average impccnnious country editor. Next year tho advertising was given by contract to an agency, which agency with great prodigality offered a five dollar advertisement to some r\f onnr?ffnr thrr*A rinlliirS less agent's commission, or in plain English, two dollars and a quarter for a five dollar advertisement. When the college advertised ever so sparinnly the attendance was about two hundred students. We do not pretend to say that advertising had anything at all to do with the attendance upon the exercises of the I South Carolina College, and we do not pretend to say that the professors of that college would not prefer- to do even more labor at the same pay. We see no good reason for the reduced attendance at the South Carolina College, and do not claim to account for the fact, but such a condition of affairs, is to be noted, at a time when the denominational colleges have more students than they have had for several years. Erskinc lias more students in its classes to-day than it has had at any time since the war. Wofford College, wo j see it stated, has this year, nearly twice i as many students as it lntd last year, and j >ve are led to believe that the Newborry | College is holding its own. Fur Utah University was never on a better basis. Why then, should tlie dcnominntion.il colleges have marked such unusual progress at a time when the South Carolina College baa lost one-fourth of its students? We no not claim that the advertising of the denominational colleges, while the South Carolina College was not advertised, had anything to do with the prosperity of the ono, or the decline of the other. We merely speak of a fact. The Cry of "Wolf." Some of our campaign speakers cried . out that while we were all right at home ! in Abbeville that there was great doubt that the more distant parts of the State would vote for tho right Presidential Elector?, and wo were also warned thnt every vote in the up-country would be needed to carry the election for Cleveland and Hendricks in this Suite. The result goes to prove that other counties were not derelict in their duty, and it now seems that there was no danger at all. The speeches of our orators so impressed us with tho danger of the situation that we really thought the chances were that the vote of South ! Carolina would be cast for Blaine and ! Logan. We see no use of deceiving the people, I and are totally blind as tc the good that anybody could hope would come from J the oft-repeated cries of danger when in fust, there was no dangor at all. For our own part, we think that nothing is ho good as the actual facts. The people want facts, and being furnished with the facts, they ure competent judges, and have' never Deen derelict in their duty. Hero-! after we hope that our orators, who are! supposed to know the situation, may have a clear vision, and may not cry j "wolf" when there is no wolf. The "wolf" may bo in reality ut our doors; some day, wheu the people may disre- j gard the cry. Wo liko the plain outspoken manner in whicn Capt. F. W. Dawson reviewed the Presidential situation while in New Yoik. These predictions, based upon; information, and alter a careful weighing of the facta, almost proved more than a1 prophecy. The Georgetown Enquirer, a highly} prized exchange paper, has reached its fifth year, and bears all the evidence of thrift and prosperity. May it livo forever and prosper all the time. Who Lnnghcd I Mr. XV. W. Keys, associate editor of the Baptist Courier, in a letterdesciibing his recent attendance upon the Abbeville Baptist Association uses the following remarkable language: "Many of those who laughed at the handful* of Baptists who undertook the propagation ot our principles in that section then have lived to know uh better and to admire the zeal and energy displayed in all that has been done for the advancement of the kingdom of the Saviour." In the first place, we deny that anybody in this locality ever "laughed at the Baptists," and we utterlj* repudiate the insinuation that we were a set of heathen until the recent building of "Baptist churches in every toWli in Abbeville County." We also deny that Iho Baptists have \vithirt fourteen years developed or brought to light any Christian truth which was unknown to us btefortu The Baptists in Abbeville fourteen years ago, were rot among a set of pagans, or Mahommedans, or idolators. They were then at home, among Christian men and brethren, who worshipped the same Lord and the same God. The history of the Baptists in Abbeville county, we presume is co-equal with the history of Christianity within our borders. Nobody in this county ever laughed at the Baptists or set a stumbling block in their whv- On the other h uid. wo venture the assertion tiiat there has not been built, within fourteen years, a Baptist church in this county, that did not get the hearty approval and liberal support of every neighboring Christian, whether Presbyterian, Associate Reformed Prresbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, or non-professing Christian. Outsiders have lent their aid and encouragement in the buildingof every Baptist church in this county, and we think it ungracious for the Iiaptuit Courier to speak of us as though we were heathens, while it rejoices in conquering and converting and christianizing this county by the "propagation of I our principles," which'arc in 110 essential) particular different from the religious principles which ate held by every other Christian in Abbeville county. The Baptists have made wonderful progress in church-building within the time specified, nnd 110 one has been wore free to say so than wo have been, and no one has more frequently referred to tho high honor which that church deserves, for its zeal and energy, but we protest against the Bnptist Courier coming amongst and writing us down barbarians until the recent organization of the Abbeville Baptist Association, and we also protest against the insinuation that the Baptists are the only p2ople in Abbeville county who are working "f<%r the advancement of tho kingdom of our Saviour." DM They Make the Affidavit? Various of onr exchanges have recently folded within their respective sheets, advertising circulars or handbills in violation of the post olUco laws. Under tho head of "Supplements," paragraph 417 of the Official Postal Guide for January, 1S34, theso words may be found: "No supplements containing any advertisements whatever can be allowed in the mails at the second-clao rate, unless the publisher make affidavit that the. game rates are paid to him for the advertisements contained in', the supplement as for those in the body of the paper itself We quote also paragraph 419 : A Supplement which contains any advertisements whatever must bear the title, date, and number , of tho paper which it purports to supplement, and must be printed at the olDi-e of publication of such paper, except in the caso of supplement containing legal advertise men ts, such as tax suit*, which may be printed a another office than that of the paper wit!) which they aro mailed. Paragraph 421: "No supplement can be accepted as legitimate which contains one or mure large displayed advertisements, not in common with advertisements in the paper itself, or in which the reading matter is composed almost entirely of clippings, J or of recommendations of ihe persons or things advertised. Paragraph 424: "The words "supplemerit to" etc., printed on a poster, handbill, or special advertisement . . does not change its character from third to second rlass matter . . but subject the publisher to a fine of ten dollars for every package mailed containing such inclosures. ^ ^ Ti:e Proper Thing to Do. Wo fully concur with the News and Courier in its expression of the opinion that an Independent Rcptlblican should be put in the President's Cabinet. The Independent Republicans made Cleveland's election possible, and wo think we should recognize that fact by putting one of their number in the cabinet. Wo trust i Cleveland may not make a partisan Prcs- j ident, and hope that ho may conduct the great office in such a way as to convince tlio most blind Republican that the government will sutler no detriment in Democratic hands. A liberal policy will break the backbone of a. 1 this bitter hatred to the Democratic party and to the South. It seems to Us that many Republicans, in surrendering the Government to tho Democratic party, feel as though they were capitulating to a foreign power, and that American liberty was in peril. Let Cleveland convince all such persona of their error. John Kellj's Vote of Value. Tho close vote in New York shows the importance of conciliating all factions of the Democratic party, and the utter folly of reading anybody out of the parly must bo apparent to the blindest of tho blind. If the Democratic party had acted on the suggestions of some hot headed and over zealous Democrats, and read John Kelly and Tammany out of tho party, Cleveland Would not now have had the ghost of a shadow of a chance for the Presidency. Without the aid of John Kelly and Tammany, Cleveland's election would not have heeh possible. If Ben Hill had not assumed t> drive Mahone out of the Democratic party, he might not huvo led the Republicans in Virginia against us on the 4th of November. This is reputed to be a free country, and we do not see the use of making every man an encmv who does not agree with us ou aon essential matters. The Greatest Question. Tho greatest and mcst important question now before the American people is, What are you doing to add to your own mutprinl nrnsnorif v ? A frond tlirnin patch, a good milk cow, a mule colt, and sufficient pasture are of infinitely more] importance to you than the election of Cleveland and Hendricks. When we say this we do not mean to underestimate the inostimable blessings which Democratic rule will vouchsafe. Sow barley and wheat, and then build a pasture fence. Crowing. Several of our exchanges have sportfcd big "rooslehs" at the head of their columns within tho last week. The News and Courier had a big one at the head of each column on the first page last Friday; the Augusta Chronicle had a five column rooster of tho very biggest pattern; the Charlotte. Observer had an eagle which J covered a largo part of the first page,' Bcrearring "Cleveland is Elected." The j Register had a sufficiency of victorious] pictures, but the Greenville News put the biggest head to its news columns. It is evident that the average editor of this State never considers any article ap- j pearing on the first page of a weekly pa-' per as original. A few weeks ago tho Spartan had a column on Artesian wells and for want of room, it was placed on! uiio uini/ vuf ui tuii. We read tlie article about artesian wells ' with pleasure, and intended copying it,: but it never occurred to lis that it was editorial. Why not put your advertise- j mentson the first page so as to leave room j to put editorial matter in the place where! such matter is usually found f The Easti/ Messenger is tt thoroughly live and wide awake paper. The people appreciate it, and its success has been so great that it has beeti enlarged to a six column papor, and its circulation is now , nearly eight hundred. The Yvrkville Enquirer, with characteristic energy, gives about eleven columns of the trial of a prisoner charged with burning a barn. r: ' ' SCENES IN NEW YORK. ! . j unscrupulous scheme3 to mislead the people. Indignation of the Business MenHatching a Consplraey-The City in au Ilpronr?Polleo for Blaine? Tlie Winners and the Lowers. [From I he New York 'times of Friday.] ; Uncertainty as to the actual result of the Presidential election caused an Intense feeling ol excitement In this city yesterday. The numerous down-town bulletins were watched eagerly all day long. The crowds, however, which assembled In the vicinity of the newsKaper olllces weie not so large as tho>e thai locked the streets on Wcdiu-8-lay, nor were they as turbulent. There was a general belle! that Cleveland's election whs assured, but the persistent ellorls of the Blaine claimant* to ilgure out 11 Republican majority In this State Introduced Into public sentiment un element of perplexity. The anxious thousands who filled the down-town streets were given so great a variety of Information by the bulletins and the evening p.ipers tlmt conviction tn each Individual case was almost immediately followed by doubt. The newspapers controlled by Jay Gould and his friends kept the public mind excited by making extravagant claims In Blaine's Interest. That the Associated Pre-s election returns were being manipulated lora purpose was apparent to the ciear-headbd business men ol Wall street. As soon as business opened in the Stock Exchange, reports, purporting to come from the Associated Press, were circulated that Blaine was clceled. These reports were given with great posltl veneas, and for a short time they produced a declued ImpresI slon. cnusliiK an unexpected steadiness In the price of stocks. The cur-marks of Jay Gould were soon (Iciectetl on ninny of those BlalueIsh report*, however. and with ? promptness itint Indicated a universal dlsgusl with Mr. Gould's methods, the market went down, and remained weak uud unsteady during the day. IIATCIIING CP A CONSPIIIACY. Fifth avenue. In front of the Republican National head hilar ters, was almost as closely packed with people yesterday morning us it hn<1 been during the excltcmcnt on Wednesday nkht. Hut the night's elation had been dispelled, and the Associated Press dispatches, even as docioied In the up-stalrs rooms before announcement, left little ground lorl'ope that Blaine had carried theNtatc. A feeling or utter gloom settled on the crowd, Hnd men asked each other no longer If lilaine had a chance, but how lur was Cleveland ahead. The authorities at headquarters manifested no disposition to relieve the depression, and nothing was lacking to complete the funeral situation except formal concession of Republican defeat. Hut (lie Ingenuity of the leaders was not exhausted, even In the face of the truth, and white they could not bring themselves to' send messages ot reassurance to tnecrowd below, they set to work to find a way out of their trouble, If such a thing were possible. As may be supposed, measures to this end were conducted with the utmost secrecy, but with desperate purpose. John I. Davenport and John O'Brien were summoned uptown. Stephen B. Ficuch was sent for, to meet them. Then Jay Goud was called suddenly from Wall stieet. and his cab drew up near the National headquarters. The President was also ! summoned from the Flith Avenue Hotel, I and Governor Cornell Joined the pn*t.v, which [comprUed also Mr. ttlklus and Chairman I Jones, ol the committee. There Is rea-on to believe thnt the Daven! port-O'Urlen-French meeting had special reference to the manipulations of L in.' I?l:ind retuin*. Mr. French halls from fug Haiho<*, In HuH'olk comity, anil tils acquaintance with Querns comity Ik also intimate. Am doubt hud been expressed in certain quarters In regard to the exact return* from se*er.il preI vinc;h In those counties, Mr. French's knowi| edge ol localities was brought to bear on the ! probabilities or working up ligurc that might furnish Long Maud's share in the balance against Blaine. The conic:euce had lasted hard.y two hoars when, anout 4 o'clock, nr.noiini-emeiits were made from the committee rooms that wiped out the piuiality of 2.I.0U conceded toCleteiand h l noun, and credltcil Blaine with the lend. Then the crowd wti hcuilquartcis awoke. Cheering wns heard lor the first time since the night before. Bullcthis followed each other down stairs in quick succession. They mil Blaine's plurality up with eu?*h Hii'iounceineiiL ?jn-* of iheui declared that if Cleveland were to poll every vote in the unreported precincts, he could uoL overcome the advantage thi'ti ussun-d to Blaine. The meeting to which Gould, Cornell, and the President had been summoned furnished the Immediate means of reaching the crowd. These parly chiets decided to pursue Wednesday's plan of claiming everything. A display of candor In conceding New Jcr sey ami Connecilcut was a shrewd ruse to allacli pnusibiliiy to the most extravagant c>nlms lor other States. Indiana was given out as sure for Blaine on full returns. No conces>lons were ma le to Cleveland In any Noithern State except the two named, Kv,n Virginia was dalineil, with promlsU of West Virginia, and possibly oilier Snmhcrn States. These claims, laier In the aIt'-rnoon, were formulated Into an address, which Cnalrman Jones and Secretary Fcsser.deli Signed, In which t'iccioiai vows ?pie ciiiiuicu ior Blaine lit the Northern States alone. 'l'he ud' dress KaJil that In this Slate the votes cast tn I New York and ),sS2 outside precinct* gave Cleveland only 148 plurality, while the 163 picclrictH yet. to be heard from hud given Garflild 2,171 plurnllty. General slalrns were noisily gree'ed by the crowds, hut the chief concern was over tills State, and the { onsplratois took pains to allay that hunger with boast# as w I'd and wlJe of the truth as could be patched up. At times the cllnnix of extravagance was reached when, from Jay GuuM'u company n dispatch I was read Increasing Blaine's plurality hy tfuu i on account of a "mistake" In the count in I one of t>ie Ric hmond county preelm ts. The crowd roared over the claiiril' and then fell Into line behind the committee In lis behalf. There was enough smartnes> up stnIrfi to keep the names of Queens and Suffolk coup lies out of the bulletins, although muse who had access to any of the oftlcers about the building had no trouble In learning tlmt the reported gains we:c traceable In a generous degree to those counties. DKMOCttATS WATCIIISO THK PLOTTERS. The roor*'\ of the Democratic National Committee were tilled all day with people, but there was none of the excitement or uproar which characterized the afternoon per.'orrnancesatthe Republican Committee. Bulletins were read occasionally made up from actual returns, which steadied confidence In Cleveland's election. Conclusions in this respect wire uuvarying. Atone time intheafIcrnoon ttiere was u demand for totals on the electoral ticket lor the .Stale, which was met by the response that the conunlltec stoon by the figure* of t h j night before, which were I'hls was Mibstantlally correct, hut In view of the mansic.-t attempt of the Republicans to count Lhe Stale for Blaine ataii huzza rds, chairman Barnum said that the Democrats would certainly not help on that scheme by publMiliig all they knew, Mr. Barnum and Senator Gorman spent only part of the day at headquarters. They had a room at tlie Filth Avenue Hotel, lit which all advites reached them (Inrluu the day, and from which they issued Instructions. They were advised of the Republican confeienccfl, both of the local und National bosses, and set wit ten <in iioum, devised ut mistime ail attempts ut fraud. In connection with tlie design (-n Queens comity u story reached them (U u Uetiuoilotu trick in I'erry Belmont's district. which Mr. iielmont wild he would undertake lo punish. At Amltyvllle the superintendent of tiie in-line asylum, named London. was so eager in Ills partisanship, Mr. Hcimont said, that lie brought a large load of lunatics to the polls with hiiAuud voted them for Hlninc. V.? one seems to have challenged them, but when louden was?>keri altcrward about It lie tried to Justify himself with the plea Mint the persons he hail voted were not limine, but were detained at the asylum "on y for the serious troubles," whicii did not Impair their reason. THE CLEVELAND PAKADE BROKEN UP. The same great crowd that has tilled ihe Democratic National Headquarters, In Twenty-iourih street, th onged the building from sunset to midnight la-t night., ebbed and rlowed, shouted, roared, and applauded, and went wild With enthusiasm o\er every mention of Cleveland's name. About 8 o'clock the Seventh Hegiment Buirl galliered In front of tlie building, and In 15 minute*: was at the head of a procession of 4/ 0I or f),<)00 men, ?i,d with enthusiasm. Senator Gorman made a cheetlnc sp>ech, and the procession marched down Huh avenue, shouting Cleveluud'n name and slnginu campaign son^a. At Ihe Manhattan CluO house, at Fifth avctiu>-and Filteeiith street, the procession stopped and, surrounding the building, cheered ana In and again. Tvoor three gcniicmeii in the build* ing made short speeches troni the window und then ihe procession turned and marched up (lie avenue again. At Twentieth sireet, according to the statements of a number of reputable ueutlemeu in the profession, Capt. \Viiilhnis, Detective Dunlap, and a s<|Uad of lour or Ave policemen Blood In wnltiug. When the head of the procession reached this point, aceoiding to these gentlemen, Capt. v\ ililaimuind his men rushed out into the street and roughly Inter feied Willi the parade. Manners oil whlcn were inscribed "Jay Oouid's Prosperity?Men ouioi Woik, ' anu si in I lar ill* vices were loin from the hands of Lite men turryliu Ihem ami trampled undvr loot by the policemen, ><nd tlie procession was broken up. Cupl. Williams saiii (hat lie 111 terfered Willi the pa ruder* because they were tramping the streets wlilioui a permit. He simply told them to disperse and they did so without canning any trouble. Not a cross word was spoken, according to Capt. Williams, nor wan there any ncce.-sity for making uu arrest, CLUBS FOK CLEVELAND MEN. About 8:.'!0 a throne of enthusiastic citizens obtained a Cleveland banner and organized an impromptu parade. They begun the march with a score 01 panniers, but before they hud proceeded a block tuey numbered u hundred, and in llfieen minutes they had increased to."**). Willi theCleve.and bunncriit their head they marched down Chatham street lo t liu.mbcrs, and llien across Wlillum up to lJeckm.'in street, where they were Joined by a numoerol boys bearing burning brooms hs torches. In iron I 01 the Tribune building they slopped lo giuon and hiss and shoual "Itills! rats!" in derision of the printers in the tall tower. They then surged about the urtlce of the Times and nave three cheeisfor Cleveland and three llmcn lh.ee for 'independent Journal ism." shouting and up pluuding, they murclicd down Nassau street wlili a number of pasteboard tombstones inscribed wltli epitaphs of lilulne, and then they turned up MHideu lane to the Wesleru Union building mid shouted: "Blood, blood! Jay Could'* blood!" Next itiey marched, silll shouting and applauding; through l'ark liow and back again through Nassau street, where some one cut Ihcropeot tlie Maine and Logan banner at tlie corner ol Maiden Lane. They hooted find graoii' d again beiore the Western bdlldiug, and went on down OrcenwUh street. The moii were peaceable and made 110 deuionstatlon beyond applauding and shouting tor Cleveland and in derision of lllalne, but at tlie corner of Greenwich and L>ey streets they upip umlilenl v assaulted* wlthoutil IllOineiit's warning, l?>" asquud of policemen under (.'apt, | Berghold. who u.vil their dubs without mercy. A grent many of tlio panniers were severely clublnd, and nil the spectators were loud in their denunciation of ihe police.1 Several of the men \v lii) Inni taken part In I the parade met and formed a committee, who 1 stated their grievance to a reporter ol thej Tunes. L>r, Cyredius Thompson, ol Port Richmond, who was passing through Di-y street at the lime of the assault, ac? ompanlcd j the men nud said the clubbing was unjustlfl able. Joseph rskelly, an onlooker, was (severely injured tiy blows Upon the head, and others, as proof of the good faith of their assertions, showed murks of hard usage. C;ipt. Herghoid said lie had only dispersed a lew boys and arrested a drunken man. The crowds before the bulletins continued to alternately hiss and clietr and applaud and groan until long after mVdnight. Tlicy marched occasionally from and building to another I shouting the old familiar campaign cries, nud j anew one, Improvised for the occasion : "Sick? sick?Blaine?is?sick.', The temper of the crowed was such that a veiy little thing would have precipllutcd a light between the lilallie and Cleveland *ympnihizersat various times, but fortunately nothing of the kind occurred. The shouts ngalnst Gould and the West Union Telegraph Company were so bitter and ugly that a large forced oi policemen was sent to guard me Dey street building of the coinpuny tor the night. 'fHK GAMBLERS' HEAVY 1IETS ON BLAINE Whatever an xlcty may have been caused In the mind of timid citizens by the claims of Blaine's clcclion, was not visible In the i- -. ... , . >& /- ; crowds ?t the floAnum House. nnrt other tip-1 town resort* whore fo.-ti|ig is indulged in, !a*?t night. On WeonesJuy anil nearl} nil that night the unmolers. who nave I/eon putling out their money on Maine, i-ongregated at all tliese resorts u;;i! noisily and osteniatlously otlercd great odds on his success. Wherever a group gathered it wa* sure to to Invaded by oncoi' iIh- fraternity, bawling 111* offer*. fomenting the exeltemonl.nud lending eo or to tlie rumors of Mr. Blaine's microns. The programme wa? part and parcel of the grand game of bluff practiced by the arch gambler down town In the stock market and in newspaper bulletins, and, like his scheme, was Intended simply ab a cover to allow Ihem to hedgd and get out of a portion of their losses. The same scheme was worked In 1*76, and to n ureal extent i>y ihe same men trying lion during Wednesday. That good reason exists for the desperate otfnrtaof these worthies. Is shown by the fict every whore ndverted to last night, that unless Blaine we.s counted in, one t.oted bookinuklug firm would, in sportlug rarlance, "go broke," so much had they at stake. Notwithstanding Ihe lying reports ot the gamblers, hacked up by the equally misleading bulletins atsome newspaperoftlres, which were disseminated with the utmoat Industry In every resort last nigh', the unhappy sportIne men found t"ker* vvrry where, and from even money beta the odds quickly roll to 81,000 lo tfio-i, then to $400, and In several instances to 3iV. AH the pool-rooms were closed last night, and the hadltues and bookmakers met at the Hoffman Houes* Where Al Smith bet Lewis 8. Qreiiner, of the Turf, S-VCO t#i JtVYl nn f'lov.'lunfl'fi un/voyu Tn u four inln. utes, In h corncr of tlie ofliee,34K,00') Was put out by the hookmakers nt odds of 31 ,t>00 to Sl'fl. Ex-Sheriff James O'llrlen made a bet of S1.000 at this raie, Ho extensive was the proprietors of the hotel refused to become stakeholders for any inore parties, they then holding, bo the clerk united, mora than SWO.OOO in stakes. "Butcher" Smith, a well known Washlrgton Market but.el:er. was everywhere In the the throng ottering 51,DM) to S4t?> on Cleveland. This was nt a time when the Republican National Committee had sent In one of 'U characteristic bulletins claiming the State positively, There were plenty of men having the means and inellnotiun to bet, but there were few takers. Men wild they would not risk their money, even at such tempting odds, if they had to win it back by a fraudulment counting in of the Maine eandidatc. The same was true everywhere, but where the Republican elcmett was strongest?at the Fifth Avenue Hotel?betting was quite active, and always at the odds ruling ft trie Hodman House. At the St. James Hotel 17,000 was put up during the evening, the odd* in every instance belnir 91,000 to SWI. A bonk maker ai the Hoffman House gave some Interesting details of the amount at slake by the members of the fratenernity as follows: D<ve Johnson is said to have ventured S-i3.MX), and he stands to lose KO.OCO on Cleveland. Kelly ?fc Bliss have perslhtent ly backed Mr. Blaine's eh inces and are currently reported to have an lminenes amount involved. Plill Dwyer, the butcher and turfite, has put out i3O,0U0 on Cleveland, mostly nt oddsot SiuOto&O. On Saturday last he commissioned one of the large bookmakers to bet SIO.OOOou Cleveland's uUc-ess. "DinK" iJavIs, the man wTio achieved notoriety a yearor two ajo by ills snceessiul assaults upon the luro banks of ttie country, has watered an en or moiis amount upon Bluine, and hu* steadily refused to hedge." Popnlnr Indlcen?The People Will Assert Their Right*. (From the iV<tr York Herald of Friday.) At 11 o'cllck yesterday tuornliijf Mr. Field, proprietor of n<e >-ail and Express, friend and puriner of Jay Goii.d, passed Fill.li Avenue Hotel oil Ills w?y down town In company witu an elderly gentleman, chucKlIng and Imigiiinh' to 11icir heart*' content. ' mere goes <J> ruus Field," said u^man on the sidewalk. "Hush," said his friend; "for God's sake don't ni.-iiUon that Mali's name or call aitenHo!-, to li. In ten minute- he'd he mobbed.'' Absuid, bombastic. crule, dirty, lo.ced us this mUht be, II was iieveitiiek'ss an.exponent of tne popular indication 01 public lecilug. in the couiseol an hour Jay Gouid's name was mentioned In the Astor House over a hundred limes, uuil more than a hundred tliiYaleniint remarks w. ie made about him and Ins property,.based In ti.e beuef that he and Field uud all the iiionopoM-lIc gang were dociorlng returns. Intending wlih tclcgiaph service, holding back tue news and stiniug the \oice ol Hie public, it was tioilccd that many of the bulletin* aud utteiances from (he press were credited to the Western Union A'ele^raph Company rather than to the Associated i'ies?, uud many queries were put as to the meartilng of that repoi l, the universal an wer being that "Jay Gould was doctoring tue returns. ' I'reclsei.s how that Idea obtained lodgment In the pui lie in 1 d It wouid be ditlicult to say, buta candid report would beabsurd did itl.ill to specify this iliustiatlon of general distrust of Jay Gould and his metlioos, of Jay Gould and his nelleis, of Jay Uould mid hi* delermluution. It rculiy seemed U a eami on-ei vcr of uflulis in ibis city y esieiday, at every Mgnilieant point, as tliuuuh li w.iK a question between Jay Gould aud B.ulne on the out side and th<*publlcund (ii'over Cleveland on the oilier. Said a weil known sporting man: "if i leveland'x elected God knows he Is welcome to It; hut if Jtiuine's e.eeteii liod also Knows that tne pub;lc owes It to him to see tluu he gets it, utid my cane s on my shoulder ready lo do Its puit." The president of an insurance company. in whose hands are inauy, many, many millions ol the people's dollars, said In Ihc presence iiiiid liL'iirtliLr of two MMifAii nf linut'. era lu the Asior House rotunda at three o'clock yesterday iinernoon:?"I believe, us tlrinly us I know I hut I stand lie-re, Ui.it Urover Cleveland bus carried the Stute of New York. If.I ant wlih equal firmness eonvlneed that the vote of the Empire State lit to be cast for JuiiU'8 G. Blaine, tlic creature of Juy Gould, I am ready to do whut I did tn ^6!?yes, even lew than that, tor I then earrled u sword?to shoulder my muskets,and to merdi with my lellowcluzcus to the heudquaile-.; o:'tliedeviltry that somersaults the wi'l of the jHJople, and nut only to pull down the house In whlrh tire rntc.il lives, hut to hoist him hit;l>er than Hainan ever *wung. The lime has come when the icople must assert their right". No man re-ipc ts money uml )U power more than I. No man despises money and its iufiiuiy more than I. Mom y In the h:.nus of men means aid and comfort, help and assistance to the great mass of the liumuii race. Money In the hand* of rascals, scoundrels scliemers and thieves means oppression, a traverse of the popular will, a subversionoi Republican Institutions and a crcation of an absurd and apelike aristocracy, which I, for one, am not disposed to submit to." The applause that followed this ruber oratorical burst rung through the rotunda like an echo und filled the spaces of the halls, so that masses of men rushed in from the adj ieent street and becume multitudinous in their cheers as they vociferous it their indorsements not alone of the sentiment but of the feeling in which the sentiment was born. Real Estate Transfers. James Gainbrcl to Sarah A. Hall, 10J^ acres, 4th township, love and atieetlon. bounded by T. A. Hudgetis, S. A. Hull, M. Hall, Riiu others. S. G. Thomson to M. M. Thomson, inter est in 480 nores 10th township, SI,500. bounded bv W. 1'. l>evlin, Samuel Wharton, and others. W. B. Bowie to Mary C. Rudclltf, 100 aeres. Gill township, love mid att'ectlon und SOOO, Iwiun le?i by w, F. Iladellff. H. W. Bowie, II. Goidon, M. A. Bowie, and P? ter Henr?. W. B. Bowie Ui Melinda A. Bowie, 153 acres, 61 h township, love ?iid ufteetlori and S500, boiindcd by H. Gordon, B. II. Eukin, Asa and Ilenry Bowie, and others. Mi I ledge B. Davis tn Ja*. Buehnrnn, 1 house and lot, 1-5 ueres or 1.8 by 61 feet, S"J)0, bounded by G. A. Visaasku, magazine street, Clara Rlctacy Mary K. Dukcr, trustee, to Geo. C. Groves. 1-ti iu'cie?t In 1319 acre*, y>3'), bounded by Dr. W. M. Tiigyart, and otln rs. Marshall P. DcBruhi and Mnrmn F. DeBruhl lo Anna B. Bowie, 1 and 2-"> acres, llili township, .ViO acies. botindi'd by Main street, M 1*. and M. F. Debruhl, R. H. Wurdlaw und Misses Cater. Win. Henwrlght to Wm. L. Seawrlyht, 10'4 iicres, 4th township, i-l-'-O.?.), bounded by Jus. Sea wright, Win. Seawrlglit, ami oth< rs. Tlios. H Walker to F. W. and Geo. A. Waeener, 50 l>y Ion feel. Mh township, S2.flM.i6, bounded i>y Main and Giifflii Streets. K. F. MeCaslan to F. W, and Geo, A. Wegener, 1% acres,8th townsliip, 8.',9 3.;fi, bounded by Bradley street, Grltlln stieet, Gen. P. 11. Bradley. Win. C. Ynune tn Euirenlu N. Young, 150 acres, nth towu*hlp, 8400, bounded by G. K. McCain, J. M. IdUimer. '<nd others. J. B. Smith to Hilly C. Iligdon, 'JO acres. 4lh townsliip, JJOO, boundedby .Nancy Kichey and J. B. Smith. HiibL W. Lltes to R. A. MeCaslan and L. D. Slillllday, lird I'resnviei Ian church. 1 acre, 9th township, 8>, Inainded by It. W. Lltes, J. W. Pre-Hly, Greenwood street. M. B., J. M.uiid I. E. Carllle, to Mary I? Carlile, Ml acres, 13th township, 870", hounded by S. F. Epps, M. I. t'arllle, Mary Oliver, A. Z. Bowman, &c. E. G. Giaydon to W. V. Cllnksclalcs, ct al, as trusters. 1 lot, lltli township, :'M0, bounded b> AnderMtn road, d'c. S iniuel S. Baker to T. O. Baker, 1 acre. 15lh township, 3-IX), J. E; Caldweil, S. S> Bakt rund public road. J. E Caldwell to Samuel ft Baker and Tlieo. G. Baker, 7 acres, loth tounship, 83'jo. bounded by J. 1? Covin, M. K. Caldwell, u..d public road from Calhoun's Mills to Vienna. Samuel S. Baker to i'heo. G: Baker. 3J, acres 15th towmhlp, 8-1-0, bounded by S: S. Baker, J. L. Covin, and public road; Jos. A. A-jnew to A. C. Collins, 31 acres, 2nd township, 8-iOU, hounded by Thos. Stuart, W. G. Ueed. Jus. Agnew. Clnra Itlehcy toS. II. Jefferson, VA acre nnd house, 11th township, ?J.O. bounded by Km. ma Hicliey, Magazine street, and G. A. Vlsanski. 1). J, Wardlaw to Mrs. F. M. Brndlcy, 1 acre, 9th township, 8123. A. E. Bradley, R. W. Lltes and Church stieet. Mary A. Perrin to S. E. Henry, 15 acres nnd 21 acres, and 1 house and lot, 11th township, 82.100. bounded by Rev. A. A. Morse. R. H. Wardlaw, and public road, June iluuncs, M. P. DuPre, K. I>. Coogler. I). A. K Jordan to Jett'eraon Fisher, 5 acres, 7th township, 81'fl. hounded by R. il. Devlin, Mrs. Julia McNeill, D. A. K Jordan. 1). Al. Brauynu to Wm. Rickets. 13 acres, 5tli township, SIM, bounded by D. S. Branyan, Wm. Rickets,ct ill. T. W. Branyan to Win. M. Rickets, Si acres, 5th township, 83 to, bouuded by J. R. Hlnlon, Jus. M. Latimer, et al. lYho is He Talking About ? Cnmden Journal. The duty of an honorable, truthful and fearless JouriiHliftt Ih t<? discharge tils obligation* to the public without fear of censure or hope of reward. He who represents this hluli cal!? lngantl panders tothetasteof every moving ripple Upon the wave of popular excitement, piays prodigal to his noble avocation, and Is not w hat he should be. Independence without prejudice or pas-Ion, real witnout blindncss. prudence without fear, honor without b'-mllnK the hnee areall attributes worthy of the exulted calling of a Journalist, When correct censure should be like snow balls upon the breast works of iron and adamant. Il short, It is no little responsibility to move In the (ireat circle of the newspaper orb. But we are continually forced to notice the wenk, sickly and Insignificant manner in which many, yes. very many, of our esteemed country colemporarles drill along with the tide, saving yea or nay to everything which comes up before them. Manhood, courage, bold defiance of |>opular clamors are to them as foreign ns polar bears are to Africa, or gorlint are to the North Polo. A ftw sweet personal notices, n few exaltations, a few hnppy puffs to good advertisers and the public Interest sinks away and IS lost slsrhlof In the whl>Ipool of what benefit* the poor interllner who pretends to respect! a M>?lltuencey In whom he has no Interest: outside of the dollar. This is by no means: ad vantageous to the calling of the press, but; respects tlio vacl atmg serf who bends liie supi-le knee to power tluiL "thrift may follow favnliiu." No. indeed! I lie indelible lights of honoriibledlscUNHloncann.it be tllckered out by Mich subserviency. It Is degrading a pro fesnlon lilgn in its willing and noble It fis attributes. N?wspn|?<-r Advertising-. The newspaper Is so comprehensive In lis scope, so universal Vn administering to the wants of all classes, and of over.v occupation in life; it brings,?? It were, thefinanclal and eonitnercial innrTSets of the worW (o onrt counting rooms, so that It may be truly said | that a good advertisement In ? wldely-cir-j cula ted newspaper si the best of all possible' salesmen--one whoneversleepsand fs never; weary, who goes aftef business early and late, who accosts the mcrchar.t In his store, the lawyer In his office, i he student in his srndy, the cultivated woman at the family flreside, who can he in a thousand places.it once, and address a million of people each day, saying only the best thing at the right time und in. the boot mauncr. j j Miisters Sale. ' i Charles P. Roberts, as Administrator, I against LulU ft. Wakefield, and others. By virtue of nn order of sale made In the above stilted case by tho Hon. A. P. Aldi lch, Judge Second Circuit, on 31st day of October 1884, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville C. H., S. C., on 1st day of December 1884, that being Sale Day, within the legal hours of sale, thefollowirg described property, situate in said State and County, being of the Real Estate of W. M. Wakefield, deceased, to wit: All that lot or parcel of land, In the town of Ninety-Six, having | a depth of. Ninety-Four Yards and a Width of Fifty Yards. and bounded by lots of W. II. Perkerson, ! J. A. Moore, and others. Also, that lot or parcel of land, containing One-Twentieth of One Acre, j more or lew, and bounded bv landa of W. | II. Perkerson, the above described lot, J. A. Moore, and by Cambridge utreet. TERMS OF SALE?One-half the first lot cash, the balance in twolve months, secured by mortgage. The wholo of the purchase money of the second lot cash. Wilh leave to purchaser to pay all cash on both lota. Purchaser to pay for I papers. M. L. BOX HAM, JR., Mastq^ Nov. 7, 1884, 3t Master's Sale. A. F. Calvert as Administrator, etc., against Martha Hagau, et al. By virtue of an order of sale made in the above stated cast; by the Hon. A. P. Aldrich, Judge Second Circuit, on 3rd day ol October, 1884, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville C. H.t 8. C., on first day of December, 1884, within the legal hours of sate, the following described property, situate in said State and County, being of the Rt?l Estate of George Nirkles, deceased, to wit: The two story building in the town of Hodges with the lot on which it stands, contain ing Three-Fourths of an Acre, more or less, bounded by lands of G. M. Hodge*, and W. A. Moore, and by the Public Street. Also, that tractor parcel ol land, containing Two Hundred Acres, inore or less, and bounded bv lands of J. A. Ellis, J. K. Keller and others. TERMS OF SALE?One-half cash, balance in twelve months with interest from day of salet secured by bor.d of purchaser and mortgage of premises. With leave to purchaser to pay all cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. M. L. BON HAM, JR., Master. Nov 6, 1884, 3t Master's Sale. Joseph Ellis, and others, against Margaret McAdams, and others. By virtue of an order of sale mnde in the above stated case by the Hon. A. P. Aldrich, Judge Second Circuit, on first tliiv of November. 1884.1 will sell at du!> lie outcry ut Abbeville C. H., S. C., on first day of December, 1884, that being Sale Day, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property, .situate in said State and County, being the Real Estate of Robert Ellis, deceased, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land, containing Seventy Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of H. P. MeGdp, Robert Prutt, estate of James Todd. TERMS OF SALE?One-half the purchase money to be paid in cash, balance in twolve months, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises. Purchaser to pay for papers. M. L. UONHAM, JR., Master. Nov. 6, 1884. 3t Master's Sale. M. E. Brown, and others, against John S. Brown, as Executor, and others. 13 Y virtue of an order of sale made in tho above stated case by the Hon. A. P. A Id rich, Judge Second Circuit, on 31st day of October, 1884, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville C. H., S. C., j(i the first day of December, 1884, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property, situate in said State and county, being of the Real Entate of Rebecca R. Brown, deceased, to wit: All (hat tract or parcel of laud, containing One HoDdred and Thirty-Two Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of J. E. Calhoun, M. J. McCelvey, C. A, White, and others. TERMS OF SALE?One-half cash, balance on a credit of twelve months sc cured by mortgago. Purchaser to pay Tor titles. M. L. BONIIAM, JR., Master. Nov. 6. 1884, 3t Masters Sale. Nelson T. Sassard, and others, against Susan Sassard, and others. 13 Y virtue of an order of sale made in the nbovc stated case by the Hon. A. P. Aldrich, Judge Second Circuit, on Int day of November, 1884,1 will sell at public outcry at Abbeville C. H.t S. C., on Sale Daj', 1st day of December 1884, within the legal hours of ?ale, the following describt-.d property, situate in said Suite and County, being of the Real Estate of Henrietta Sassard, deceased, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land, containing Two Acres, moro or less, bounded by lands of Margaret Sassard, W. A. Clark, R. H. Wardlaw, and others. TERMS OF SALE?One-half the purchase money in cash, and the remainder in twelve months secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of the premises. Leave to purchaser to pay all cash. Purchaser to pay for titles. M. L. BONIIAM, JR., Master. Nov. 6, 1884, 3t Master's Sale. Martha I. Wardlaw against W. P. Wardlaw and G. H. Wardlaw. "D JJY virtue of art order of sale made in the above stated case by the Hon. A. P. Aldrieli, Jttdgo Second Circuit, on 31st day of October 1884, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville C. H., 8. C., on the first day of December 1884, within the legal hours ol sale, the following described property, situato in said State and county, being of tho Real Estate ol W. P, Wardlaw, to wit: AH that tract or parcel of land, in the town of Abbeville, contaiuing Four Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of W. T. McDonald, K. E. Hill, and Magazine and Uuena Vista streets. The said land will be sold in two lots, as follows: Tho front lot with two acres, more or less, and all tbo buildings thereon, fronting on Magazine street. Tho rear lot with two aci es, more or less, fronting on liuena Vista j street to the rear of R. E. Hill's lot. TERMS OF SALE?One-third cash, and tho balance in twelve months secur- ' ed by mortgage. Purchaser to pay for)' titles. M. L. BONIIAM, JR., J Master. j Nov. 6, 1884, 3t Dress Flannels. ONK of the leading articles Tor ladies Winter dresses. All culms ut it. M. IIADDON ? CO. Sept. -I, ISM, It t TBI CR1ATEST -SENSATIONIN ABBEVILLE! 18 CAUSED BY THE WONDERFULLY Low Prices that P. ROSENBERG & CO, Are selling their extensive FALL and WINTER STOCK. No one should full to give them a cull when lit need of uny GOODS kept by tbetn, they are determined to give ENTIRE SATISFACTION IN WHAT THEY SELL YOU. Their stock of Men's Youth's and Boy's CLOTHING Is to be sold .so that every one tnay wear Good Clothes at A small cost. The wny they will sell 8H0ES and BOOTS of all kinds, Is a Wonder In Itself. GENT'S HATS aid CaPS In *reat variety. and as cheap n? you could wlab, LA* DIES DRESS GOODS ALMOST GIYEN AfAYTheir 8T0CK of DRY GOOD*. NOTIONS TRUNKS, JEWELRY, ROGER'S TRIPPLE PLATED SILVERWARE, GROnSRfES, HAHDWARK. SADDLES.and BRIDLES. CROCKERY etc., Ik complete and market! down to aalt the time*. They will sell you a package of ibe beat CALICO, enough to make a quilt for Twenty-Five Cents, and have other (treat bargains too numerous to mention. Call at once and be nulled. P. ROSENBERG & CO. Sept. 24. 1881. tf FALL ANDTIHTER GOODS ?:o:?:o:? Constantly on Hands a Large Assortment ?of? Dry Goods, Notions, Domestics, Hats, rHnftiincy "Rrtnfa anrl Shoes, Groceries, and Nearly Everything Wanted by the Trade. V. JOEL SMITH & SON, Abbeville, C. H., S. C. Oct. 1, 1884, tf Guns! Guns! I Breach loaders and Implements Shells, &c., at the CORNEB QUAELES & THOMAS. 8ept. 24, l^W, If Seal, Mcllwaine & Co. JJ^VEon hand Almost every variety 01 CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS, which fhoy offer to their-customer* on the mostudvuntagcous terms. RiPAIRIKG A SPECIALTY. With the best of workmen In every branch ol our business, and an abundant supply ol lumber. and other materials, we are prepared to do all klndi of repairing in the very t>eM manner, at the shortest notice, and on the mom accommodating term.*. All work fully warranted. SEAL & McILWAINE, Washington Street. THE Branch House OJF* CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON -ATVerdery is Full of FALL and WINTER GOODS of all KINDS. Prices as LOW as the LOWEST. Give them a CALL. Sept. 24, 1884, tf Estate Notice. PARTIES Indebted to the estate of Edwin Cox, ?le?>ea?ied, munt settle without de? Iny, and creditors will present their claims to EDNA COX, Administratrix. Sept, 17, 1881, tf Two Hundred Bushels RUST FROOF RED OATS FOR SALE BY W. H. PARKER. Sept, 17, 1884. tf Our Stock of DRESS coods will be aitrnctlve embraeihR mnhy of the new futiriques that are |u?t out. Trlmmltipn to n:atch nllthedreca foods. R. M. HA J) DON A CO. Sept. 24, 1WU, tf Debtors and Creditors. ALL ppraons having claims agalnHt the HsiRtf'ofDr. W. C. Norwood, deceuaod, will precent the same, and all persons Indeht?d are requested to make Immediate payment. MRS. M. E- NORWOOD. Administratrix. Sept. IT, 1881. tf Satin Duchess 1]*0R pnrty dre*?c?. There ia nothing equal to the "Sutln Duchwa" prire veiy mod>ratc. U. M. IIADDON & CO. ^SBSBSBSBBBBBSBSSSSSiSBEiSSBlBSBBBSSNew Store! M NEWGOODS'I WE WOULD CALL THE ATTEN-^H| tion of the public to the fact tlrnt we bave just completed our new wtoro and bave received a good aMortment of J.. _?Hfl Dry Goods, 1 Notions, 8ho s, I | Groceries, Hats, H 1)Am ao4t/ia Jtrt% HI i/UiUO?SUV0f MiVl M GOODS given in exchange for COUNTRY PRODUCE. ' Give as a Call. nH GALLOWAY & SON, 1 Due West# S- C. n October 22, 1881' 3m PERKINS I mimmm I COMPANY, I MANUFACTURERS OP nnnoo cacu di mnoH uuunojondnjDumid) g MOULDINGS, B BRACKETS, Yellow Pine Lumber, Etc, jH Estimates checrfully rendered. Addret?-^^H Perkins Hannfactirii|[ Ca, 516 Calhoun Street, Augusta, Ga, Oct. 8, 1881. 6m. CIIIHffl THM I H Are Openings rm.-.:- r~ Tir^fi H J. ireiJ. UttlgU ttUU ff OU-BB Selected Stock of All Kinds of H GOODS. fl And are Beady to B3 SERVE THE PUBLIC! AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICEM Witt Advertise More la Detail : Next Week. I Sept. 17, 1884. tf HH WlUBM \\r E PRESUME thnt the fact Is cmrratlj^^M U known thnt we keep constantly hand a full supply of the purest Drug*, Drar^^^B ulst Sundrcs. Patent Medicines, ChemieaU^^^H Paints, Oil, Fancy Goods, Stationery, Tobnc^^^H co, bcgtir*, &c. * resh goods con?tantly arriv^^^H ins. To bo sold at prices to suit the Special figure* to PRACTICING PUYSI^^H . CIAN8. Would like to call the attention o^^^H the local and country Doctors to the fact tha^H^S we keep a full supply of Sharp A Dome's Ellx^^^H Irs of Calysava, Iron and Htrichnla. Irot^^HB Quinine and Strichnla, Pepin Bismuth ant^^Hfl Htrichnla. These are the best tonics soldfl^^H You know what you are taking and we guar^^^H an tec every bottle to be a* represented. DJH^H PleHHant and nourishing food for the siek^^H^H Sea Moss Farina and Lieblg Extract of At last we have got a cure for Nenrahti?-BHH| FreligVs Remedy?sure cure for Netiralgn^BBH Rheumatism and otiier painful affections. DEATH TO TBI INSECTS Ry using the Persian Dalmatian Powderfl^^H ' you may fiwejrour animals, fowls, houses nn^HHH plants, of bed hugs, moths. flies worms. rnoclM^I ex, inooqultofl, anu, fleas, bird lioe and oilifH^I Insects. It makes them skip. Harmless iS lunuklnd and animal*. Have Ju*t received a Urge, rnrled and gen^H^H erolly selected lot Tooth Brushes. I style tfndjirice from 10 cents up. Hair, ' ing and Infant Brushes, Soaps, Soaps, Hon i Col Kate Palm S<?t>?Klder, Flower and Ro*e>|^^^H the cheapestand best Soap housekeeper* ca^l^^H ' use. Turkish bath 50 cents a dox? n. Co'gst^HB Palm 2> cents n pound. Ruwian lUtb. lt<me, P?nhy, 7lh Regiment, 5 cent* a Oh?anexll and don't forget that jroo <"* gel a dollcloua drink or Ice SocLct^H for 5 cents a rl*** at the DRUO EMPORIUS^^^^B If you don't believe It try U. SPEED & LOWKY.flH June 25, 1SS4, tf i mimim Under the HH New Hote^H Will he Fonnd H New Fall Good^H at low Prices ^B QUABLES & THOMAsfl _A.bbeville? 3. CSept, 24, 1884, tf " CINCINNATI IB REPOSITORY ABBEVILLE, S. C. |H TJERSONS WANTING I^^^B 1 WAGONS, BUGGIES, ^^^B HARNESS, HI WHIPS. HALTERS^ ^D^B RUGOY CUSHIONS, BHH AXLE GREASE, ^B^l PLOW GEAR. HIDING WHOLES. HAMK STRINGS, Ac., Will do well to call before purchasing, will not be undersold. THOS. BEGGS.HI March 14,18X3. tf COTTON WEIGHING. IIIAVK Just bought a fine set of SCALE capable of weighing -i tons have removed my old scales replacing with Ihe Howe patent, eeiebiateil for aeiur^^B^B and Just weight*. If you wl>h your eot^^^^^^H weighed promptly be -lureto remember place and call on inc. J. g. Oct. 1, loc4, tf jmm