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The Abbeville Press and Banner. 1 ' Zm _ j BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. ('., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1886. VOLUME XXXL NO. 17. j _ ===,========' "SECTIONAL LINES." ?? ? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR EXISTENCE! Should the Blame Host Upon Charleston or Upon the Up-Country? Should the Up-Country be Charged with Fostering " Seetionnl " Feeling Because the Mountains nre >ot Will ins: to Yield Everything to the .Beinand of the City by the Sea? If any m>in Is living under the Happy deinstall that .l.,. nn ,.li u>pt!iinal llrit-s In South lao nn..,!)..... Carolina, that idea will be dispelled if be will rend a lew of the editorials and communications In boiuc of I he State papers r-'jfardin:: the proposed State aid to Charleston.? Columbia, Correspondence Augusta Chronicle. Tae assertion Is too sweeping. The correspondent suriiy does not attribute simple ?p|Hisitlon to State aid as sectionalism ? He should not sa.v "some of the Sute ptp-rs"; ho misht say one of thum, for there la only one that h is, so far as we have seen, exhibited any sectional ft-t-llnj: in this connection. That one is the Abbeville Press and Runner. Can the correspondent Dame another? It so, let him do so; otherwise he Mould quality hie statement.?Xewberry Observer. We hart Intended to say nothing more of Charleston's proposition to get State bonds. This for the reasons: tirst, that we believe that Charleston has abandoned the Idea; and second, we believe the people of the country would vote it down, if (he (juestion should be submitted to them. Hut as the Observer has choson to refer to ns specifically, and as a number of other newspapers seem to have assumed for themselves a much larger share of the milk of human kindness than they accord to other "newspapers in the up-country," we presume Uuit wo should refer to the matter a^ain. Hovcver much our words may have i?een susceptible to the implication, webave meant no unlcindness to Charleston. When she acts in the right, Charleston has no better f.'lend than the Press and Hanner, but when ?heseek# to wrong the up-country, we Intend to protest. If it was an improper time to object to Charleston's improper proposition, it tras pre eminently wrong in her to make a proposition at a time when we must either accede to a wrong or subject ourselves to the cha'-geof unklndness. Was it not at the instance of Charleston that the rate of interest was raised from seven to ten per cent? Did not the raising of the rate of interest appreciate me price ui our farms? lists not the high rate or interest oppressed the p?K>r for the benefit of the rich? If it W;is not for Charleston's influence. does anybody doubt that there would be a law on our statute books which would prevent the Charleston factor from charging tea per cent, for the use of his money, and at the same time binding the country merchant to a contract whereby he would puy twenty or thirty percent., additional? Cha l.'Sto.i h is not broken every merchant who has gone Into a foilish contract to ship cotton, hut If the wrecks which she has hIready ma le mean anything, it will require o ily a short time to complete the job. When C'h irteston c m bind a country merchant to ?1?lp five hundred b lies for tneuseot S'.tWJ for six months, or else forfeit *75) besides ten per e?nt. inter.'st, d>e* anybody doubt that the factor will soon wind up the busiues, and take the merchant's mortgaged farm? We believe sixteen tracts of land arc .to be *ild ott n?'St Sale Day at Abbeville Court Hou-e by the Master, and, if we err no', eleven of those tracts are to be sold to comply with contracts t<? ship cotton, or for debts Incurred under the wonciug< of such contracts. All the Master's sales on lu>t Sale Day wore for t! e benefit of Chit rice t-n. A systematic plan of ruining our people Is enough to alarm us, and enough to cause us lo cTyout for deliverance from asystem which is so destructive of our best intercuts, even when developed and operated by our own beloved an?l earthquake-stricken Charleston. Capr. R. It. Tillman has said many things nb iut the trifling abuses to which our people are subjected, but he has never once turned his attention to the wholesale system of tuuikruDtlns our people that is daily pursued in Charleston. We have more to fear irom the Charleston fur tor than from Ihe State government, with all of its extravagance. Was not Charleston excessively anxious to have a railroad coin mission whose cliiel'duly H sh'juld be U>8f*e that the railroads In the Up-country did not m;ike excessive profits ? Lias Charleston ever said one woru about n phosphate commission whose duty It should be to see that the phosphate digger did not charge 59 per ton for rock which did not cost $1, royalty and all ? Did Ihe Radical government ever pass a more Iniquitous act th in that which gave to u favored company exclusive rluhls h> dig liiicsphate rocks from our streams? Why aid our Democratic Legislature ratify that net. If it was not to give Charleston the advantage of the up-country ? Call this "sectionalism," if you will. We m ike no pretense to that humiliating grace which would enable us to fawn and flatter an oppressor while ruining us and our neighbors ?even though that oppressor should be our owo ctly. Charge the Press and Bunnvr with being the only newspaper that Is not subservient to Charleston. It will not be so always. There is a sense of ii#hl ami justice which will assert Itself sooner or later, even against the encroach incuts or our own beloved Chailcston. The h&bit It seems to us. Is common among some of the newspapers or newspaper wiit-rs to deprecate "sectionalism" whenever Charleston's encroachments are resisted by the up-country. For our own part that meaningless cry has ceased to have auy effect upon us. .\or an we D.-iiem mui jvchwik.i >w.i?s has ever been fostered In the up-country, except by the nrglngof measures which had for lh.!?r object the repression of the advancement of the interests of the up-country, or tiie advocacy of some reposition which claimed some special favor for Charleston. As we do not recollect to have hoard or seen one word of "sectionalism" in any newspaper Jn any pirt of the State of South Carolina, which wa< not provoked hy Charleston's opposition to the up-country or by Charleston's asking lor some pet measure which h;ul for i:s object the advanneiuent of its own inter**ts, whether di-irimental to the up-country or not. we will be obliged to >nr friend ol the Xewberry Observer to point out at least oue such tnstar.ee. Jf the 1'rcns unit Banner is laboring under n mistake, and is the only newspaper in the State that has done Charleston a wromj. we trust that we may be shown wherein we have erred,and we trust that we may be directed liowtodo the right. Naturally, the people of the up-country, and especially of Abbe vl.le county, feel extremely trlendly to Char leston. These sections are bound together by many ties, which are strong, ami whtcli thoii'd not be broken ? Then is it nol Charleston's disposiiion to take advantage 01 those friendly relations, that occasions thl< ta'k of sectionalism ? We do not believe nnj man has said a word against Charleston, s?i Ion* as she did not assume to bo the State, or claim someihiu^ because of l*er wealth, 01 because of some oiner reason which was speti ll lo her. If Charleston will treat thecomitry peop!ea? though they were part of the State, possessing equal rights with herself, we venture to sue g-st there will be no opposition to her from t lie iio-couiurv. anil she will never have oe caslon to remind us of our poverty?neithoi will site have need to remind us of her greal wraith. Hut, living In peace with her brcth r-en, she will find a true and stendtast frlenc on every foot of soil in all this Piedmont country. The people of the entire State from the mountains to the sen, natural!} look to Charleston, their cnlef city, will pride and pleasure, and if they only fini in her citizens some evidence of frlcndshii ?nd fair dealing, they will bind us to her as v ilh hoi>ks of steel. if there is not some reason, why should th< people of the entire State not be as one! There must be an actual or imaginary cau?< for "sectional" feeling. No man would wil fully seek to irray one part of the countn against another, and we think it wonld be it order fur some of tho^e who assume ho'j airs In deprecating ' sectionalism'* to show wherein thoi-e jf us arc wrong who oppos? Charleston'* cncroaclinienls. It is ou c mvictions of wrongs Inflicted, or proposed that call for the assertion of our rights, railier than a compromise of our principles, to i people who have thcarrogancc to claim some thing because ihey pay more taxes than w< do-bec itise they are richer than we are. I this Is not In a measure asking the up-coun try to sacrifice their self-respect?to bo*' dowi oua worsnip mew goiut-u ran??u iuv.- ijimv; mistaken. If a doubtful measure Is propose! In the Legislature, we think it will not be de tb it Charleston, or some of her friends liave oiten urged Its passage because "Char iVfiton pays one-flftil of the taxes" or in oihe words, the measure should receive favor be cause Charleston Is rich and we are poor 'Another stereotyped phrase Is. "for the goo< of the Stat'j" when Charleslon or Columbia li to receive a special and direct benefit. If the Press ml ftamwr is the only newspa per in South Carolina which in opposed to ad vancing the interests of Charleston at tin expense of the up-country, men give us tin crt-rtit. We recognize in Charleston a worthy par of the State, but wo nrc not willing for that clt j* to claim special privileges and advantages for her citizens because she pays more taxes than we do, or, In plain English, because she is richer than ire arc. Nor are we willing to Involve the people of the state to restore Charleston's property at a time when our farmers have lost more by Vhe floods than Charleston has lost by the earthquake. We recognize the hue and cry which Char' leston made against us on account of the 1 treatment which were accorded to convicts on our rallroals, and the fact is patent that ' they were taken from us. 1 We are also aware of the fact that Charleston to-day has convicts in her phosphate 1 beds, and we have the authority of the Regi ister for saying that many, very many, of the , pardons recently granted, were for the alleged reason, that the convicts had returned from the phosphate beds either dying or broken In health. Not a single word of protest, so far as we have seen, has been uttered by either of our daily papers against this ter; rlble and disgraceful cruelty. Their knowledge of the English language seemed inade quatc to describe their loathings of the treatment which convicts received ou railroads in the up-country. We recognize the fact that while the News and Courier u nd the Re flitter were urging an extra session of the Legislature to relieve the distress In Charleston, that laborers were receiving higher wages than ever before. We recognize the fact that there was at the same time over two million dollars on deposit in the National Banks of that city, which was there without interest?idle capital. We know at the same time that our farmers aer poor and hard pressed to pay their store bills. We know that many of them, beoau?e of the flood* In the spring, lost all crops on the bottom lands, while the crops on many of tbo hills were ruined. We know that the loss of crops by the floods and rains was as much the act of Providence as was the destruction of houses by the earthquake. And yet when the city of Charleston Is able to let two millions of dollars lie Idle in her banks?her newspapers are urging t he people ol the State to issue oonds for the benefits of that elty. We know that wc arc assured that wo will lows nothing by the issuing of bonds. We pres.une the same assurance was given | In VtJS. when Charleston wanted bonds to rebuild her burnt houses. As a result of the Slate's generosity at that time, we have good reason to believe that more than Ave hundred thousand dollars of the present bonded Indebtedness of the State Is due to that act. We know that Charleston has two Senators, hut we do not know of any good reason why she should have two when we have only one. We know that the enumeration of the people of the State should have been made a year.orso go, and we know by the defeat of that constitutional requlremen-t that Charleston continues to hold seats In the General Assembly to which she is not entitled and which, we think, the proud old city should scorn to lake. If the Prexxand Banner Is the only newspnper In the State which Insists that ttio upcountry Is the equal of Charleston, while It protests against our making humiliating compromises of our rights becauso the people of Charleston are rich, and we are poor, then gl\e us the credit. When Charleston was stricken, every heart in the up-country went out in sympathy for her and her unfortunate citizens, and these ?f Il,u I m mo. muiir^ ivon pcupiv xm Hiv u|/~ww ??/ j | .......w dlntely ~ave as liberally as their limited means would allow. Although the disaster occurred on the night ot the Hist of August, when the country people were absolutely moneyless, they raised something, and sont It forward with tlielr good wishes and with their sympathy. They had not innch money, but they gathered together something, and attested tlielr gocxl feeling. Under these circumstances, then, was It kind in Charleston to propose to lake our boudrs lu lUehjurof oursympnthy? If It was wrong In us to protest against the act of In volvthe up-country to rebuild Charleston, should that elty have urged such a financial measure In the very hour Ibul our sympathies were touched? I We believe the city of Charleston deserves exactly the same consideration from the Leg- j islature that is accorded to any other part of theState. Ifwearealone In this sentiment then Rive the Press and Banner all the credit We presume, as a matter of fact, (hat the Press and Banner has uhout as much of the milk of the human kindness as Its brethern possess. We ehtlm 110 more, but claim as much. We believe thefe Is not n newspaper on the soil of South Carolina who Is more sorry for the existence of "sectionalism" than the Press and Banner. That "sectionalism," we think, exists chiefly in Charleston. We certainly do not know of its existence In the up-country, except as Charleston provokes it. To those "unco truide" brethren of the press In various parts of the State who may have assumed to be better, than the Press and Banner we would surest that it might be as well to "let another man praise thee, and not thine cwn mouth; a stranger and not thiue own lips." A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE, j - Verifying Our Statement that 81.B0C j Property Had Been Damaged 81,050. n..AA6 /.?/? T>r, Iin/lf jCj'IUUI X HOO Uf(U Dear Si??I notice In your paper of the 20th a paragraph headed. "Damaged by the Earthquake," in which you have made some great mistakes and injustice to Charleston. , i ask you to make tne following corrections: It is true that the person owning the properly you speak of has oflered to take 81,600 for it several years asrn, but that person and the agent who manages il really believed it to be cheap at S2,200 at the time they proposed to , sell at SI,wo and for reasons which I will not jgive was willing to make the sacrifice. On J the lot were I hree houses, or at loa*t one brick, one frame house and one brick kitchen. The brick kitchen was entirely demolished and the two-story brick house so badly ditm, aged that the city authorities ordered it took I down or made safe, which can only be donel by tearing down a large part of the house. : The wo-xl house was hadly damaged by the !j ciiiinnnys falling on shed rooms and roof he-1 side ruiulng the plastering. The agent who] manages this properly says that it Is the I worst damaged property on tlint street. Be shies there has been more than ?;J00 spent In repairing this property over and above what] was spent in making good ihe damage from ; the cyclone last year since it was ottered for 13! .00(1. _ I J You Mirely have forgotten tliat I stated u 11 had bten insured for #2,101 until the last year or , so the Insurance Ims been reduced to s2,oiio. I I think you will admit that no person of or. dlnary business capacity would have their . properly over-valued when they know that in ! case of lire they cannot even recover the full J value of the property burned. f I am as strongly opposed to tiie State being i in any way responsible for the rebuilding of I the ruined City by the Sea as you can be, but , j still I am always for Fair Pi?vy and Justice. I Abbeville, Oct. 20, lHM. Notk by the Editor.?'The above needs no reply. "Fair Play and Justice" admits all | j that we said, viz: that the property had been offered at 51,C'K) and that it had been damaged II ?1,!'50. The matter of Insurance needs no consideration. The insurance companies seldom, t! or never pay, all the policy on which they " take a premium. Two neighbors of our friend t recently lost their dwellings by tire Neither , I were paid anything like the full Insurance. 1 ? ? \ THE SAVANNAH VALLEY RAILROAD. i ! ('nllliiff Freight Rates to Xeir York [ from Aiiiiersoii?Whnt Competition in Dolngr for Anderson tt May l>o | for Abbeville, When IVe Get Our >' New Ron<l. j A urjustn Chronicle. r Anderson, S. C., Oct. 21.?Some lively cnttihg has been going of Into between the . | Columbia and Greenville and the Savannah i Valley railroads. Last season our rate to . I New York was seventy-eight cents per hun?! dred on cotton from here to New York. That f was when we bad no competing line and was . entirely at the mercy of the C. & (?. Now the i rate has been reduced to sixty-four. Last f I year Anderson shipped nearly twenty thous11 and bales of cotton, take the same number of y bales as a basis of calculation and average ,, I them at 4"j0 pounds each and we have a saviti}; .of twelve thousand and six hundred dollars or r I a difference cf sixty-three cents per bale. Of 1.1 course this is only a small pirlion of the to>.! till amount it saves us, for we ouppose a rej'duction bus been made on other classes of g ! freight in the same proportion. At one time | we had some doubts as to whether the Savan. | nail Valley would injure or improve Ander. i son, but with these facts staring us in the a face, we are bound to acknowledge that it B will be of almost inestimable benellL t' ^lellin's Infant foot!at Speed ? NcuflVr's.10-5 TILLMAN'S STATEMENT. ! ? "A SMALL TAX PAYER'S" FIGURES KNOCKED INTO PI. , The Distinguished Farmer Hire* Some Examples In Arithmetic, which the Efficient Bookkeeper will Find Difficult to Rub Out. To the Editor of the News and Courier: Tlic Weekly News and Courier of the 13th of October, Just received, brings me the article of "Smult Taxpayer " and your editorial on the same, together with the account of the campaign meeting at .Spartanburg, in which without being mentioned specially, Farmer Tillman and his "charges" are plainly alluded to. I have stirred up a hornet's nestand am catching It on all sides. I feel that I am right. I know that I am honest, and although the unequal tight?one farmer against the field? waxes hotter hnd hotter, I will never desert my colors or give up the contest us long us I can sustain myself with "facts and figures" and arguments. I arn not tlirough with the Joynes matter nnd the analysis of fertilizers, etc., but am waiting for some proof winch has been promised me. I will in a few days set that "specific charge" in its true light before the people. Butjust now I want to reply briefly to my other assailants on the subject of the increase in taxes from 1SK0 to 1885. In the first place. I wish to make f lic issue perfectly plain and unmistakable. 1 have never attacked the "honesty and ability of the State government-," us charged by "Small Taxpayer." I have never used the word "corruption" or anything which would Imply it in connect ion with the State Administration. I havecharg* ed extravagance and ' imbecility," but It cannot be shown that I have ever separated the legislative from the executive branch of the Government, or held tlia Inst ne responsible al?ne for the ills we bear. The attempt, then, so Industriously made to place me in a false position before the people, should be stopped, merely as a matter of fair piny. While r have ever taken the pains lo weigh well all the words I ultercd or wrote, I may have used some that could as well have been left out. I have reason for the faith that Is in me, nnd facts to back all specific charges. Another thin?; it will not do to try, by implication even, to make it appear that those who agree with nie as to the management of our public affairs are not good Democrats and have not Ef'>t the right to criticise. In South Carolina Democracy means white supremacy?nothing more: and every sensible man recognizes this us a necessity to the preservation of our civilization. My Democracy is. "like Cesar's wife, above suspicion." * * It is Idle to try to accuse nsof antagonizing the ]>cmocratic party because we exercise our rights as citizens to find fault with its management. The Democratic party is not on trial and no defence of It is needed. Therefore, those who have been commissioned as its standard bearers display uoor taste and le?s judgment lo seek to crush and silence all criticism of Its Administration during the past five years, by mere assertion. It is tlie history of all governments that where only one party exists . a In OA/viuip l.tfup niwl Cltl <r. uurrupinm vnrvpn ... nvw... . M.vu. .*..u nation prevails. We have already readied the latter stage, and the other Is not fur off unless a chanue takes place. It rankles In some men's minds because I have used the words' Democratic Imbecility." What word better expresses the condition of that large and overwhelming majority of Demoerailc votvrs who "pay taxes and vote" the ticket without ever seeing or hearing the men they are to vote for till after they are nominated? !Io\v better shall I describe the "peanut brigade" In the General Assembly, who know little about our laws or constitution, and are too lazy arid Ignorant to learn, aud who have b< en manipulated by the sharp eliy chaps, like clay In the potter's hand's? Often without knowing it. Why do we cling to our Radical constitution and the expensive and cumbersome county governments left up by our Yankee masters? The govern meet was fashioned by scalawags aud negroes to rob and oppress taxpayers, and seems to tie kept because some who "got dar" first could never gei their own consent to stop the numerous leaks *n the treasury left by their predecessors, the Radicals. * * * Is the almighty dollar alone worshipped? Why Is that cancer on the body politic, eating and gnawing its way Into every taxpayer's pocket, the trial Justice system, not amended orubolished? because It brings grist to the legal mill aud keeps a full docket from which fh.?iawverR can hone to turn an honest pen ny ? Costs, constable lees, "clouds of witnesses," where one would do, petty ne^ro fights, to be settled by a jury, crowded lulls and heavy "J) cents per diem" dieting blils, tills is the way the money iroes, ye poor "Imbecile" Democrats, hut l lie oligarcy of lawyers who run the Legislature and the Slate Government "can't ?"e it" and won't remedy it. I have been asked to tell who constitute the "oligarchy" we arc going to "meet at Phlllppl." Well, here they are and no mistake; but the "IUiik" about which I am asked to explain Is made up of all sorts nnd kinds of men; and ramifies every county. I know them when I see ihem, but the list is too long and large to give It here. "Small Taxpayer" belongs to it I am sure, and while he pays a "small tax" and claims to hail from Berkeley, I feci satisfied he is also a tax-eater, anu grabs his "'potatoes" out of the State bank. "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau." But this gentleman, be he taxpayer or tax-cater, has done me a real kindness. lie accuses me of being ' illogical f.r.d unjust," and is "at a loss to know where I obtained my Information." Well, as i have said before, 1 got it from the Comptroller's reports, and unless that olllce keeps two sets oi books, one to publish for the Legislature and She other to furnish we "mercenary scribblers" when wanted lo annihilate a presumptuous farmer who dares to criticise. I would like to know how so many men, all claiming to gel their information I from its reports arrive at different conclusions. i have only two reports, those for '81 | and '85, and here is how I prove by them that our State taxes are S3Ul),000 more in 'S5 than 'Ml. I Mark you, I said "taxes," and not "expenditures" and I did not say they were St'JIMMJ "more than was necessary," as was charged I by Spartanburg. Here are the "figures" and I defy "Small Tax payors," or the At* its and Courier, both ol whom have accused me of falsifying the record, to deny or disprove their accuracy. Statisticians can prove almost anything hy Jig. ures, and the two men who claim to have ' disproved by assertion by my own witness," may have misled the Nev;x and Courier, but I would suggest that you do not take tilings on trust about me any more, and examine the record yourself, unless you wish the News and Courier to be considered the organ of the "King," who are trying so hard to crush me. Here are the figures: On page 10 comptroller's report for 1S8U T find the total assessment stated as tielng ?133,0C2,I?3/ The tax levy was 4% mills, giving the State tax us 0 -2,01^ The phosphate royalty w;is G5,:W Total for 1RR0 $ 697,335 On page 31, report for 1885, the total assessment is put nt 3149,973,.16c The levy was 5)4 mills, yielding a tax or. 8tl,.12f The phosphate royalty was 170,2N Total for isss 5 1,(117,771 Dcduct 18-:0 (j'JT.tfSt Balance 3 320.3* I did not take the trouble to find out how much of the two levies was collected, oi where the money goes. The percentage o inisttikes and nulla-bona returns is about 'tin name in both years, I judsre. It will be claimed that there is n large surplus In the treasury. Well, so there was," estlmat ed last October at 3244,(MM) in round numbers Out it. is the accumulation of several years, I) not of 18 alone; and, besides, we tax-payers who are not tax-eaters, are afraid ol large sur plusses. They beget extravagance, anil in tlu lace of the grinding poverty of the people i wise statesmanship would hesitated to ask foi a single cent more than was absolutely need to administer the government with etlieioncj and economy. For whose benefit is this largi surplus kept any way? The banks witli which it is deposited? J>o these banks evei lend any of this money for which the Stati receives no Interest to tax-payers at ssliylock - Ill 'I',. V IUIU> I IIIIII nillunonvi i and th<! Xeics ami (burier have I lie floor. A few more words and I am done. "Si.ial Taxpayer" says I am a "leader who lias as sumod the duties of reformation," and tin nominees of the Deinoeratle party, in theli Spartanburg speeches, have dignified mj charges hy undertaking to refute or d!sprov< them. They are honoring a poor farmer, whe voices the sentiments and wishes ??f his M | lows, over much. I am no prophet, nor tin Is .ii ol a prophet?ain nothing but a plain i blunt man. who tells Ills thought* and vlewi I straight at the mark?Out I predict that if tli< LeglslatUie. at Us next session, does not gran I relief, and give us "retrencluncnt find re form," and pay some heed to our Just, de inands, the "Farmers' movement," whicl some have vainly imagined was dying, wil sweep the State, two years hence, as it ha! swept some of the counties this year. Oui j State nominees ean better employ tliemseivc! In pointing out how and what to do to^ivc re lief to the people than to defend the Demo cratie party. Tliey were nominated under tin Impression that this would lie the purpose of the con line Administration. The next campaign we will have the (speaking before the nomination, and then von will see crowds, sure enough, and we will spell reform with a big "R." 13. R. Tubman. Roper's, S. C., Oct. 16,18S6* MORE ABOUT THE ATLANTIC, GREENVILLE AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. A Card From Col. Pope, Secretary and Treasury. [Enterprise and Mountaineer.] An various statements hare been made In ' regard to the assets and liabilities of the At-' iunilc, Greenville and West3m Railway Com-, puny, will you please publish the following I 1 statement In reply to a special dispatch to the ) I Augusta Chronicle, dated Grsenvllle, 8. C , Oct lith, from 11 statement made by W.J. Kirk,' Esq., Vice-President and chief engineer: "He snys tiie condition of Ihe road has been misunderstood by the public, tine assets available being amply sutnclert to complete the grading and pay every doll ir ol the debt." I I give you the assets ami liabilities of the ! road In two sections for this reason : First, | north of the Saluda River 110 work has been bonds sold with the f xceptlon of one I bond for live hundred dollars at cents on j the dollar, and used south of the .Saluda.' Sccotui, tlio bond norm 01 me saiuua uiver i cannot be used to pay the debt of the ro;id un-! til the grading is completed, through the town- j ships that have voted the tax. "Section 4, the amended chartcr : That a sufficient amount realized from such bonds fihall be retained toj complete the grading through the county or township in which it is Subscribed." LIABILITIES OFTUE ATLANTIC, GREENVILLE AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY j SOUTH Of T1IE SAL CD A RIVER. Amount due the chief engineer, salary $1,801) per annum S 1,33.3.00 Amount due the secretary and treasurer. salary 3!XW 407.87 Amount due the auditor, salary ?200... 87.75 Amount due bank Greeiville, due Oct. 27. 1886 5,000.00 Amount due Alex. Stewart & Co., Cukesbury division 632.32 Amount, due Alex. Stewart & Co., Ninety-Six divl-lon <511.50 Amount due W. E. Suliivi-.n & Co., 1,2*5.36 Amount due engineer cor-JS 682.10 Estimate chief engineer jinisn grading through Cokesliurj Township. 9,000.00 Estimate chief engineer grading from Jolinslou to Hamburg. 21,200.00 Right of ways, damage to crops and attorneys fees 5,000.0') 540,382.10 ASSETS SOUTH SAl.UDA RIVER. Amount bonds on hand Ninety-Six Township 3 7,200.00 Amount bonds on hand Cokes-bury Township 4,000.<Vi Amount notes on Trenton 1.700.IH) Amount notes on Jolinst >n 3,180.00 Amount notes u. \V. Turner and oih o r.nn n'i $18,GS0.U) Less 25 per ccnt. discount on bomls aud note 4,670.05 $11,010.00 Leaving a deficiency nouth of the SuIuUh River or ?n,:i7i!0. Thefo has In-crt HO sale of bonds for cash for more than 70 cents on the dollar, excepting the one bond reported ul UU ccnt*, and placing the bonds and notes at it per cent, discount, which Is good collections on subscription notes, leaves a debt soutn ot Saluda River of thirty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars and ten oeuts, ($31,872.10,) the debt of the road that was reported alter the I meeting of the Directors on the J7ih of September. The calculation was made by 1'resf> dent Hnremott. I nave to him ;!i,i>J7.IO ol tlie liabilities 'nd chief emrneer Klrlc gave the balance, maising tbeiiis?!,l(M.Ot). Thcestimate of the chief engineer foi Krudinit from Ninety-Six to Johnston?JtO miles?is (30,0110) thirty thousand dollars. The bonds of ihe three townships of the thirty miles amount to(^.a),?K)) thirty thousand six aUndred dollars, and are hot Included in the assets or liabilities, us one equals the other. the assets ok the road nouth of saluda klvhit. ; Sullivan Township $12,*W.oo I Dunklin Township ll,9(K).o<? | unit Lawn Township X,?iO:i.OO j Piedmont and Pelzer Maul'. Cos 15,000 uo 348,300.00 | Suppose that wo can take the assets north of i thesaludft 1th er to pay the liabilities south of the Saluda River, at face value, and not | take off the 30 per cent, discount on the bonds, | ak tlie former price. Liabilities in excess o.* assets south Saluda Itivcr 631,372.10 And on hand to grada the road 3<j miles 210,927.90 Now take off 3J per csnt. on S5tl,:>0> bonds north of the Saluda lilver. the same as other bonds were sold at $ 9,900.00 This leaves ?C,0S7.!)0 to grade road 30 miles from river to Greenville ? 6.977.90 Yours truly, F. M. 1'UI'Ji, Secretary and Treasurer. Nlncty-Slx, S. C., Oc:. 13th, L-8B. Ninety-Six, S. C., O^t. 19?A greatdcal lias I DCeil SaiU UI1U wnticil I Itul.Y in H.8UIU IV mi | financial standing of the A., G. <fc \V. railroad, lalsoin regard to t he pioposed transfer of II lo i the Tennessee company, President Haintnclt j has written one or two articles, your railroad correspondent from this town sevoial and one j or two from Johnson. The last I saw was from your Greenville man, saying Cupt. Ki.rU was in U.tccn vllle and said the matter v.'as ' not correctly reported. We were not in drbt 1 and had enough asuets to pay uli liabilities and finish grading the road. As the inciting on the 1th will !>e one of the . most Important the co npany has or ever will have, I think each township that is interested should send as delegates, the very best men they have, men of anility, integrity sind good Judgment. These men are to e;ecl a preI sident,'board of directors, ??c. They are also to decide as to whether we shall accept the oiler of the Tennessee company or not. I think these men should t>e 1 men who are open to conviction. They ' should take the proposition of the Tennessee 1 company aud examine it carefully. Then make a most thorough enumination of the fiuauiiul standing?our liabilities and assets. Then, n? men of business, decide whether It , Is best to accept their proposition or to eon1 tinue on as we am But if thefe delegates , conic here on the 'th with their iniiids so poisoned against this Tell nessco company (as some are try lug to have done) that they are going to refuse this otler though it. should tie ' to our interest to accept, tliey may give Uio . road a blow that it will be a long time. If ' ever, recovering from. Wo I say lei wisdom . be used in selecting your delegates, and every f thing work for the best. I hope sill papers in* 1 terested in the rond wilt give some notice of J this?the Monitor, sit Johnston, Abbeville, : Laurens and Greenville papers, as the road 1 runs through these counties. DIRECTOR. The EiirthqciaEte at Stiuiinicrvlllo. I' News Courier. ' SiiMMF.UVlM.B, Oe.tober 2:2.?The most severe earthquake slive Aug. "1 visited Suin' merville to day at-'2:1'* I'. M. It wa? preceded at 5:20 A. M. by u. somewhat slighter shock. The afternoon shock caused considerable f damage In the way of crocking nearly all of > the chimneys which had been rebuilt since August SI. ' The relief committee held a meeting to1 nisiit and tlnd that at least s.-venty-li ve chimr neys are so badly damaged that they will , have to mine down. They estimate the ilam' age to bnildimis at three thousand dollars. ' A number of geysers have been discovered i where an oily water spouts up conlinuusly. r The water has an odor similar to that of kero' isene oil and is accompanied by Hue sand of | different colors. The people of the town are thoroughly I worked un aaraiii.anrl ureal uneasiness is I'clt ' by nil. The durntion of the phnek Is estimated sit " from twenty to tiilrty scKonds, and its force f wns sogr<iit thnt persons found it exceeding' ly UUHeult to open cl<??>r.s or got out of their ' houses to what they considered a safei locall> ty, and some riven are reported where per sons were thrown down by the sliaking. l>ur-1 inii the day numerous slighter shucks liavo i been felt. I SlipeivlSCTS of I'. I Of til) II. The following supervisors of election have . been appointed for Abbeville enmity by the . j United States Ch en t Court, .Ttidvre Siim-nton, I j presiding: lu-mocratic?J. 0. Miller, T. (J. = Ibiker, W.vatt. Aiken, I*alayctte shi-ppard, .T. r|N. King, I?. A. Shannon, J. I>. McDIII. <!. M. < I Smith, It. t'. t'iilvef, John I.yon, James Cuth.! ran, Jr., W. T. JJmdiey. .'I O'AX'T. IIL'lill L. l'AKLKV Is 111. BLAINE ON THE SuUTH. THE LABOR QUESTION LOOMING UP WITH THE PROSPECT OF AGITATING THE V'HOLE COUNTRY. Ten Thonsnnrt Persons Tnrn Ont to !!p.ir a Npcccli on the IJlooil^ Shirt ' JJIair.i 's I(len of the Effcct of J.oiv Wnsfs in the South?Other Political Xcws Noted. PrTTsnruo, Oct. 20.?Mr. Jamrs G. Blaine it (hi n^sed n crowd of 10,WW persons here to-day on the subject of the bloody shirt. He said: | Colore! men are now, and have been for ten years, entering Into imtpy of the mechanical induatri-s. In Birmingham, Ala., in Chattanooga, Tenn., and in various pans of Virginia tlicy are making pixlron at wages of from sixto seventy cents per day. The product of their labor hus'has far been so small that lite important fact I ain now statins has attracted comparatively no attention; but if the quantity wirich they manufacture atlain large proportions it will necessarily compete in tlie markets of this country with pi^iron made in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and they, themselves, will compete with men here who are paid SI.SO per day. What response is to be matte to that by our working men who receive the better wuifes? The answer will be Just this: That I cither the great body ol workinamen in the i .South must have justice done them and be inirly compensated for what they earn l?y the sweat of their races, or else tne nortnern laboring men must be Injuriously ufl'cctecl. This statement, when first mude by ine, was I trift with ridicule ami derison, but wh?*n tliut great. organization of the Knights of Labor met in the national convention in Richmond, Va., the otiier day under their Chief, Powderly. whom I take to be a man of extraordinary ability and perception, [prolonged cheers] the first thing liiey ran against was absolute unwillingness on the part of the dominant white nice of the south to allow colored laborers or i that region to have any benefit from the I Knights of I^iibor or from any other organization that could protect them in their right to be paid tt:c wages they earned. By a strange coincidence I received this very morning a letter from the .south on that subject. My correspondent gives ine an appall ing picture of the south, anil in one portion of j his letter says: "Hut al'tvr ail, we are ahead of you in the north in respect of labor, for In a great, many parts of the south we have e.-tablislted the eight hour law for the colored man ?eight hours In the forenoon and eight hours in the afternoon." (Universal and ioug continued merriment.| You often hear from democrats in Alleghai ny county, perhaps elsewhere, that the republicans were served just right, because they put negro suffrage on the south and that It litis returned to plague them. Well, 1 deny it Ideny.atidl want to make tlmt denial as Inr. lllgible and forcible as I can. I deny that the republican party, In Its system of re-coustruction, started out with the idea of forcing he south to take negro suilrage. I had a small part in that legislation. What we did was tills: Wc said to the South: "There is the litli amendment to the constitution. Thai amendment is of Inestimable advantage. Tnat amendment makes the citizenship of the United Stales national. It conserves and preserves the national credit. It conserves and preserves the pension of the soldier. Il prevents men whose hands have been made bioody on lieldsof battle, against ? ? in llin i Zt n/nrn. I'lllUIl Hi , IIUIU F...? ...V vv...., niont until Congress, by a two-thirds majorl:j\ shall rclc-.sv th:iu from ti-cir disability." wo said to them: "Atfrce to this amendment nnd come in; hut you will find In tliiit amendment this provision: (I am giving you the popular inclining, not taking the exact words of tlie law.) It'you exclude the negro from voting lie must be excluded from the Oasis of representation, but If you will give him the right to vote, he shall at once he put in the basis of representation." That was a perfectly fair ar.d square proposition. A representative is bruod upon a constituency; and it they do not allow the colored man to be inI eluded wlthlu the constituency then those | men ought to be reckoned within the basis ol | representation to Increase the number of representatives umoiifftheir enemies; but If you ! will do one, we wilt do the other. You infranehlse the colored nniu we will increase your representation. Tennessee, alone of all the Southern States, accepted that condition a;.d came In at once and the other ten rejected it In their legislatures; scornfully, piomptly, absolutely, by an I overwhelming majority; not one-tenth of the ' votes in any legislature being in favor of it ; What was the United States to do? 1 go over I this because I have seen In one metropolitan Journal what purported to be a correction ol a j statement which I had made, as though 1 ! had made a mistake and had omitted an essential part. When these States rejected the fourteenth amendment, what was the United Slates governiiulit todo? That form of reeonstrni tion had failed. It was dead. Was the United Slates Congress to sit down with their tin tiers in their mouths and say : Gentlemen, our soldiers, our gallant commanders, like > our candidate for Governor In ii ...i...,ni,, r..l>m>p<l Imvn whtnueil vour* I iTfiiiuv ?? ??? j - . r? ? | off the field of battle. We stood up to flight (111 the last rebel soldier had surrendered, mid I now is tlie Congress of t lie Uuiied states to I a e l(i tow I edge itself absolutely unable to recouj .?truct those .States on a basis of loyally. I We said : "If you will not eome in on ft basis of lite fourteenth amendment, which ulves [ you your time and your Judgment to deterI mine when the ne^ro shall come to suffrage | and shall increase your representation, when ! you do bring him to suflruge; it you re.'ect i that, shall we let you in, as you demand to be j let In, without condition, without cjuallticuj tion, to come in us our masters ?" So, under tlie lead of that great commoner of Pennsylvania, Thaddcus St ephens, [cheers]?honor "to his on mory and peace to his a she a?we suiv.: ' Jf you wili not reconstruct those states we | will empower the colored men to join with a I few loyal white men, and we will have reeon| striutlon by the use of colored votes, if tie white men do not enforce it. [Applause.] Then we passed the til'teentb amendment, which gave suffrage to every man in the United States who was duly naturalized or was I born on our soil. I want now to make tills | qualification. I don't stand here to justify the form of reconstruction merely by the fourteenth amendment, leaving to the Noulh I the right to determine \\ hen tin- negro should come to suffrage. I thick that in the providence of God, through the ^tiff-necked and rebellious conduct of the Southern men, who would not accept reconstruction on tho?e conditions, we were brought lo a betierjud-rment, and that partly through their obstinate and unreasonable spirit,and through the inspiration of God's Justice, by which tho Republl! can party were influenced, we were driven to enfranchise the colored man and do Justice \ 1!nf I ii-nnt. frill flmirlv t,i j lor mur iviivcioa/ ^...v ? ...???... rf ... keep your minds on the fact that we did not force negro suffrage on the South unfil tliey | themselves had made it an indispensable measure of reconstruction. We have lived tti ' see negro sull'rage in ihe Mouth absolutely de' strayed. Where lie is in a majority of five Uj one, the negrocannot elect u representative. | The Soulii takes 35 lo :I7 representatives iu Congress, and the same number of Presidential electors in the United States; takes them by force, fraud and violence, and counts tlieni In the Democratic column. That is what .they do exactly. It reminds tne of a story very pertinent to (ho case. 1 heard it not long since in New York. A | southerner said to n northern man : "Lei. us play a game of billiards lor the next j presidential election two years hence?H)l Ipoints." Just file number of electors thai is. So they went down to the Fifth avenue hotel to settle the election two years in advance. The southerner took up a cue and said: "Well, I will count of 1-io 111 tills game; ' those arc mine without playing for them." He added: "You see then that I have got to set only -IS while you have to set -til?" I confess. gentlemen, that I am utterly at a loss to denounce fraud, and the wrong which is so - .1.1. U...,||,??? .In... I Wfii illustran'u oy iium?u>i^. i^'uihciu ? ?.lioiis are worse in point of .political morals I tlian is the gambler who invites a youth into j h'.s den ami P'ays against liitn with loaded j dice. (l.'heers.) It is not Republicanism, It Is not Democrnj cy. It Is not heaven's jusiioc, It Is not man's ; fi'ir piny. What we demand in this country ' Is that wcshall not play a stake for the presidency mjalnst men who are shaking dice nt .us. You say wc cannot do anything. W? i oiezlit to be able hi do something. Wc ought ' to be al.le to make as solid a north as they ' have made a solid south. I Now gentlemen, I do not hold out to you 1 the slightest belief on my part that the Re I publicans have any prospects of currying a soul hern Mate. The white men have the political power of that country in tbc'r grip, ; At llrs*. tiiey said tlicy would not let the negro come to Congress, as soon as they got power fostop him. Well, the iicsrt'ocs stepped | aside. Then they said they would not let the j carpet baagcr come to Congress. Well, tin; I .- prtM luit/vpr elotied. (Laughter.) Now they iiy t;iey will not let the native white man . inic.* t<> the front.. If tin" coloictl nun vole fin |lii!:i. ^liiiu^litor.y I That eloses up the avenues pretty tightly, Tliut wonlil speedily settle the question; 'J'liey have t iufily-llvc reprrsc-n tat Ives in I'onuresJ from Hie eleven Slates that were In the rebels | Iio*5. With I lie exception <?I", I believe, one In ; Ylnr'nta, from a white fuiistitnene.v, anil one I i;i'!? iini s-ee, iliev take in tiie whole of them, allhoiigh in seveial of these Stale:--, three al I iea-l, I t'o eyfoM-U race are iu llxe majuiiiy. TEA TABLE TALK AT TROY,' A Bird's Eye View of the People and I2ie Lively Little Town. Troy, a C.. Get, 25,1886 "We have had several shakes in the lust week. Mr. Jeff. Pyles, of Augusta, is on a visit to a friend at tills place. I Messrs. Davis, Chiles, Burnett, Kennedy, j i Taggart, Pressly and Chiles went to Augusta I the oilier daj*. From all reports they had a gay lime. Mr. G. G. Cnlhoun was In town Saturday. Mr. Calhoun took the first degree in masonry in the evening of the same day. Mr. J. M. Visanska spent Sunday in Abbe-; vlllc with his parents. Mr. Ch?rlle Lyon, of Abbeville, passed through town Sunday. Hon. J. E Hrudley was In town Monday. v? ..Kon/.iiiiKr in thn Assrwlntp Reformed Presbyterian cTiuroh Sunday. Mr. Bradley assisted Dr. Sloan in his meeting at Cedar Springs. Mr. Smart preached a very Interesting sermon Sunday evening. Mrs. Giles, of Greenwood, Is visiting relatives in town. Mr. J. M. Kennedy says he Is the best looking young man In town. Mr. A. J. Davis and Miss Jennie McCaslan will be married Wednesday, 27th. We notice your correspondent from Brad lev says Mr. Blum, our butcher, wl:l moveto that plwe. Mr. Blum says, ' Me no move from Troy." 1 ho farmers are pretty well through picking cotton. If the present dry weather continues they will get through the first of December. The best county paper in tho State?the Pre/ut and Banner. Mr. McKellar will comtncnce his school next Mowday. Messrs. VVIiite & Co., have ginned over three hundred bales of cotton this Full. A nesro boy nine years of age broke into Mr. J. M. Chiles' store last week. A sound whipping was the penalty. Mr. J. F. Wldeman, Mr. W. T. Bradley and I Judge AlcCaslan, are utlcudlug Court this weofc. Maj. Glover lost a fine cow Saturday night which fell in a ditch. We would call the attention of our council to the bridges In the place, also to our streets. Horse back rides seem too be all the go with our young ladles. Good crops will be made in this neighborhood. Mr..I. e. Tittle says he will make between 25 and 30 bales with two plows. Now and Then. FACTS WHICH TZLL. ? colonel IflCUHruson m nu ri^uim whicft lie <Mc? mid the 1'isnfK which he Ignores. Newberry Obsancr. Col. Richardson does not., of course. Intend to dccelve the people?as "the politicians" do ?by his comparisons; nevertheless it Is a fact that, standing alone, his comparisons are misleading. For instance, he says the per, capita tax in South Carolina is S1.83 and in Georgia 52.00. lie stops there, and leaves the | impression that taxes are. therefore, a heuvier burden In South Carolina tlmn in Georgia, j He should go further and show not only the ! avorageper capita wealth, and the proportion j of taxpayers. We shall do this for bim, by presenting three points of comparison which enter Into the question. What Col. Uichardson docs say: Til ever capita tax In South Carolina S 1 83 " " Georgia 2 00 " " Pennsylvania 7 00 ? " New York IX 00 , " " Massachusetts 13 00 What he does not say: The per capita wealth in South Carolina is $135 " " Georgia is 193 " " Pennsylvania i8? 400 < " New York Is 5-J0 " " Massachusetts Is. 810 The per cent, of whites In South Carolina Is.30 I " " Georgia is 53 " " Pennsylvania Is.. .08 " " New York is M " " Massachusetts is .99^ Now lei It be borne In mind that the whiles pay nearly the entire taxes. To Illustrate: 100 persons In South Carolina pay ?183; but this it mount Is actually paid by 39 of the 100? making $4.'>7 to each. In Georgia 100 persons pay SaK); but this amount Is actually paid by 53 of the 100?making ?860 to each. And so on for the other States named. There Is still another consideration. We , should consider not only the burdens of tux* atlon, but the benefits also. South Carolina ! has free schools open three months and a half; she has very Inferior school houses; she pays her teachers S~J7.nO a month. Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts hove I elegant school buildings; thpy run the Aill term; and they pay their teachers three or Tour thucs as much a month as South Carolina does. Report of Railroad Earning;* for the Year Ending Jnly 31, 1888. Mr. M. t. Bartlett, of the railroad commissioner's office, has prepared for the Aewt and Courier Beaureau the following table, showing the income of the railroads ol the State for the year ending July 31, 188C, as compared with the previous year: TOTAL EARNINGS FOB JULY. : I 1SS5. ', Ashevllleand Spar'g $ 28,571 80 5 29,583 13 I Atlanta and Charlotte. 1,09tySK5 72 1.135,708 111 ' Augusta & Knoxvillc- 114,990 02 142,939 85 j Jiarnwell Railway 10,814 68 11,*>22 51 I C. Fear A Yadkin V'ly, '91,030 18 216.796 28 Central of S. Carolina,.. 85.581 G2 89,11 i Clin.- n and Savannah, 439,292 94 467.K85 04 Cliai., C? !. and Aug'la.. C30,0t3 92 W7.922 04 (Choraw j.nd Chester 35,-109 10 31,183 59 : vl.ei'i.w and Darling'n.. 89.060 84 80,992 90 ' Clierawand Salisbury... 25,010 49 21,9-31 19 | Chester and Lenoir 73,499 (il 71,331 31 [Cot'iaand Greenville... 587,020 78 573,904 58 II ISntrtwville 7.08X 48 1! (iren d, Lau. & Spar 48,468 60 Laurens 33,553:8 25,54150 Northeastern 500,<>23 54 500,7.19 43 | rt. Royal and Augusta 297,171 09 309,!74 77 South Carolina R'way.. 1,188,944 85 1,139.861 31 spar., I'll Ion and Col'a, 80,620 il ?7.918 84 \Vll n. Col. and AUg'tii, 679,283 39 70S,031 82 Totals 30,155,397 68 $6,411,339 59 INCREASE, DECREASE AXD PERCENTAGE. Inc. Dec. P. C. . Ashvll'.c and Spar'g..S 1,01133 3.54 Atlanta ?& Charlotte.. 41,822 41 3.S2 | Augusta A Knox.le... 27,940 23 24 03 ' Harnwcll Railway 077 SI 6.25 C. K. ,V Yadkin V'ly... 122,766 10 130.56 Central of S.C..? 4.2*0 49 4.90 Clia^t'n & Sav'nli 28,502 10 6.51 1 Char., Col. & Aug 11,858 12 1.86 Cheraw ?fc Chester 4.396 51 12.13 1 Cheraw & Darlin'n 8,016 88 9.01 Clieraw .t Salis'by 3,0">6 30 12.22 Chester it Lenoir 2,165 30 2.95 Col'a & Greenville _... 13,062 20 2.32 Bwtawvilfr 7.0S8.48 Greeti'U L. <& Spar 4.s,i08.6G Laurens Hallway 8,011 78 24.17 ' Northeastern 715.K9 13 l't. Royal & Augusta, 12,000 68 4.04 s. c. Railway 49,08* 31 4.12 Spar., Union,Col'a 1,701 39 1.96 ' j Wil.i Col. X* Augusta, 2S.748 43 4.23 Tot (lis...^...'..1 mi,945 9S 90,003 87 Net increase .". $245,941 91 Net pr. ct. increase 3.9S9 'Six months. The report of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Vs.lley Lai I road for 1*84-85 only covered six 1 ' ..<i.iIa n.tuMoa frts onnli' tn I mum ur?, win it- tin- luuiin .... -rfj '[ the whole year. This accounts for the great 11 Increase in the reported earnings of Mils new '' line. No report of the income of the Geor?eI town and Lane's Railroad In lSs'4-85 has been '! made, and tjiercfore that for l.?85->6?amountIntr to?17,7.X39-ls not given in the tabic. ) These figures show that in 1SS5-W! eleven i railroads increased their income, while there i was a decrease in tlie ense of eight others. 1; Two raliroads were not In operation in 1881-85 are reported in the returns for 1N<<5^6. I The income of ad the roadst in I&N0-8G wa* ill.-viy,against ?'li,l(Vi,.W in 1881-85, a net in Crease of ftJl'i.iMt.W, or within a fraction of 4 'j per ecu I. The Georgetown and I-ane's Azures are not of eour.se included in this summary. ? . ?a>- ? m* ? ! THE SYNOD AND DR. WOODROW. A Tolrjrrnplilc Kcqnesl lo Resign and '! n l'roni|>t Tclcivrapltic Refusal. OiirttAW. October 22.--In accordance with t j the resolution of theNyrrod Dr. Woodrow has 1 requested by telegraph to resign his petition. ;| At midday an answer was reclevcd f.-oin l?r. ! Wood tow, dcclinldjr to reslun under the clri cn instances. Tlio Synod then passed a resou, , lion to the ctrecl that, with the concurrence of the other S> nods, the boan! of diiertors of 1 the Th'Hilo^ical Seminary rcctnest him to re sign, and if he shall uot uccedc the board 1; slia'l declare the professorship vacant. Gen) erall'y the action of Synod has been an en, dorsemcnt of the acts of the General A?semt bly. Synod wi:l adjoin 11 t< -night, the Woodrow matter bavins been disposed of; PERTINENT PENCIL POINTS. ALl THE NEWS ABOUT DUE WEST. v.*??? ' -M Grandmother* and Gmndchildren-Jnrors whose Rate of Travel Exceed* the Speed of the_ Telegraph?Welcome Hom^'DK JLathan?The Lit*. erary Clab?Ekeellcnt Teacher, and Other Matters. Due West, 8. gt, October 25. 1888. ' J, Mrs. J. H. Chiles of Braaley Is visiting her daughter Mrs. J. B. Bonner. She comes mora ?>. especially to see her little grand-daughter, wno Is quite sick. , '$? Corn-slilickings are now In order. ,Thfe4ln?i one came off at Mr. W. T. Cowan's lftst ttecK.Mr. Eugene McGee, son of Hon. Jewe 8. McGeeof the Donaldtsvllle neighborhood Is ac Anderson In a large mercantile house. ,5 T...? ~r tl,A (nuA^a r ~ <V,la trallr/J. home from Abbeville,arriving hereabout th<r same hour that the telegram which they had. sent for conveyances arrived. Mr. James Pearson spent Inst Sabbath at home. We are xlad to hear good repoits of him In his new home, Anderson. in addition to the regular Sunday Schools in our churches, which are kept open the whole year, and Include nearly every child In the town, we have well organized Sunday Schools In each of the Colleges and they are. accomplishing a good work among the stu* dents. ' . ' ; We have two excellent public gins herpj owe. owned and superintended by,Rey. J. N.', Young, the other by Capti J: H. Cochrtnfe. But one night last week the whir and noise of, a movable gin, operated b? Kir. Ja*. H. Dunn, was to be heard In the cehtrS of fire toVMi; It ginned six bales of cotton. ^ S ' "3 Due West had a distinguished visltof fasti week in the person ol Mrs. W. C. Sibley, ot Augusta. She had been attending the sessions of the W. C. T. U., at Newberry, and mme here to see two of her cons who are student* In Ersklne. A newspaper correspondent speaks of her as "the queenly president" of the Georgia W. C. T. U. Mr. Jno. W. Ellis has been out selling drugs. He has been very successful, and after u Jew . > days at home will take another trip. , ^ The "wire bed spring" men spent a night lit. town last week. They did not work up the town, and therefore failed to see what accommodating people we have hpre. Two heavy shocks ot earthquake were felt here?one at 5:20 a. m. and the other at 2:25 p. v . ~? m. Friday. The houses shook, windows rattled, and some were frightened, but no damage done. Dr. M. B. Ellis has been appointed to read an essay at the Union meeting of the Baptist churches of the Abbeville Association, wnlcli convenes with Ibe Midway church in Anderson county next Sunday. We hope the Doctor will let us have It for your columns, for we are sure it wl 1 b; nn excellent one. Merrily, merrily ring the wedding bells. 0?i . Thursday evening Mr. Perry Prultt, was unlt? J ed in marriage to Miss Minnie Austin, near DonalJsvllle. Rev, W. L. Presvly, D. D., officiated. The happy couple woohlbetl. if) th? Associate Reformed Presbyterian church Sunday morning. : 1 Our population continues to ItterefcEC; and' we have some of the happiest people here of untf rvlonn In tlta MMintv Vai? triktennA Vr Jno. H. Wrecu came all the way fro?n Anderson to ?ca young Indy who has come to board with biin. And Mr. Jno. A. Devlin can't meet you without a smile because a young gentle* mnn has taken up his abode with him. Mtx. H. P. McGee bas had a neat hot house built for her flowers. We are pleased to see that some of the ladles are taking; an interest In flowers, and h:?ve been surprised at the absence of these delightful exotics In a !own .06 no much refinement. .We hope others wllfc soon follow suit, and that Instead of being ant exception, it may be the rule to see a hot house filled with the choicest varieties In every yard. Miss Claudia Ellis has consented to take charge of the school at Hon. J. 8. McGee's near the Turkey Creek church. Miss El:1s 1m a rtcent graduate of the Due West Femule College, and Is notonly highly educated and. accomplished, but Is a very flne musician,.having taken a prize In music at the late corj?? menceinent, We are sorry she leaves as for a season, but we congratulate the. putronrf of the school in securing her services. - j \ ^< Mrs. Fannie 8oudley Stone died at her liom$ near here last Friday. 8he had long been at sufferer with consumption. 8he was married* about a year ago. She was a daughter of the late Richard Sondley, once of yonr town. She leaves a disconsolate husband and many relatives and trlcnds to lament her early demise. Rev. W. L. Pressly, D. D. conducted re-1 llglous services and her remains were burled I at Greenville church. The Due West Literary CTub beld Its first.; meeting for this terfn at Mr. P. H. McGee'tt> last Friday night. Miss Annie Brice read an, essap on "Burns." The IV Act of Macbeth. was read and discussed. Some choice ranslo was furnished by Miss Crosby.. Rev. Boyi-e H. Grier was elected president; Rev. H. B. Blakely vice-president; Miss Crosby, secretary and treasurer. The club will nold Its. next meeting first Friday night lu November. Rev. T. B Stewart is the next essayist. * Rev. Robt, Lnthan, D. D.t Is off to North' {Carolina to preach at one of the churches. | which he supplies there. The Doctor has no i Idle moments. He Is a Profes-or In Ihe; Theological SemlDary.be write* ibt ftibbalK. school lessons for the Little Banner, Ami sbpplies two^hurches in North Carolina. Mrs. j. B. Hornier hus a mue rose duid wiiii 50 ttibe owes on it. A rear sight for this place. A committee appointed by the Associate. I Reformed Presbyterian congregation to.de-. j vise some plan for raising the iSynodleal a$3 Is^Mwnentsand current expenses, the pus lor* salary not included,havepromptly submitted 1 a report fh m which we glean the following ! facts: The money needed for the above purposes is about IH67. The number or actual I members is about 104, to raise this amount | would require not quite a nickel each l bath, or 82 30 per year, from each member,atiis I the committee have recommended thatfimalL ; amount be coutrlbpted regularly each Sab- ^ bath. ^ PLAIN TALK FBOM A PREACHER. i An Episcopal Clergyman Ridicules the Pretentions of Ills t'bnrch to Superiority. . th I.io Inat QnnHflr mnrnlni'. TtPV_;. Dr. Heber Newton, the well knowu Episcopal Clergyman of New York, paid his respects to the Episcopal Convention, now holding In Chicago. "The general convention of our I church," snid Dr. Newton, "now in session in ; Chicago, is being petitioned to take Huch steps as iu It* Judgment may hasten some practical, and substantial union among the churches of our land. This memorial is.the outgrowth of A tne remarkable congress of chvxcbe? which lias called forth so striking a m&'Aileet&tlon of the growing desires among churches to flVnxynearer together. Mi-lit it not be well to serf- , i ously consider what weneedtogive upfor tlie Take o? on effective union ? We must give np ouf characteristic attitude toward our sister churches. That attitude would be of Insulter?able arrogance were it not for.lis comical uftreiisouableness. We are in sir.conly the flt'tlu of the denominations. In Intellectual forcefulness we cauuot claim to rival Congrejja-: tlonallsm or Unltiirlunism. In organization we do not approach the Catholic Cliurch. In missionary zeal we nre behind thePresbyteri-. an*, and In evangelical enihuslasm as iitr be* hind tive.Methodisis. We have no monopoly of tlfe fralts of the spirit. Otircirspre, to say the least, unbecoming, and if we,pr4u08e Uptake the Initiative In the matter of union wo must lower our tone, at least so far an making our invitation an affront to other cliurche?. Fancy any steps toward union proceeding. from a chinch which should style itself 'the American Cut hoi ic Church.' "We must give up our dream of liturgical uniformity. It is a beautiful dream, buj, wholly impracticable. We must give up our ecclesiastical dream of absorbing other churches and then ourselves becoming absorbed in a reunited Catholic Church. Let. our house of bishops issue a pns:or!al counseling our clergy to refrain from preachinglearned sermons proving the errors of other. rclrurrhes and vaunting the claims of our own I church", and then let the bishopa Ihemsclvesset an example. Let tfintpastoral urge 011 our I ..I....... ?W.. itniu nf fralomttv In ftvprv DOslhlu way with other Christians, and again let oui^ bishops show us the way thereto. Let tha$.. pastoral surest our preaching )i) other pur-? plls. ami let the conventlon.repeal the cnnoowhicli closes our pulpits against tfll non-e^lscopal ordulned clergy." County Ilalscil Stock. \McCwmick dvrwce.] ,,, Mr. W. H. W'hltloek, of th^s courtly, OarrI' d a drove of young hoises and mtiles to Augu tn ncehtly and' disposed of them at g< od 1 prices. These anfnmls were raised on hU plantation near New Market. and are ?s cro<xl as any that, come rrom the "West. All of ilum so '1 w ell, one bringing $275. Mr. Whltlock Is well pleased with hlsexper In.ent at stock mislay and will continue It on. a larger scale. Others might take couisge from his success and give the business a t...r *!??!. \\ e wouid like to hear from others oa tills subject. tv'flg I ryg