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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE , S.O. Wednesday, June 1, 1887. THE MISSION OF THE PRESS. The Xurnc of Domestic Purity ami the Guardiau of Public Virtue? Tlie Handmaid of Religion ami the Bulwark of Liberty The Great Educator at the Fireside, the Market Place and the Forum. PttEMICMS TO BE AWARDED : 835 for the Best Essay or Story; 813 for the Second Best Essay or Story. The essays or stories tending to show? 1. The value of a properly conducted press as a teacher and exemplar. 2. The moral obligation resting upon parents to ftirnlsh proper newspapers to their households. 3. Convincing arguments that money spent for newspapers is worth more to the general welfare of the family than any equal sum of money spent for any other purpose. 4. Be#lde? the above, any other thoughts or suggestions which may go to impress the people with the fact that the newspaper is scarcely less Important to tho family and the yontli of the country than the school teacher and the pulpit orator. The undersigned desiring to give increased interest to the ooiumns of the Press and Raniter, proposes to award the above named premiums to the best and second best essay or story, upon the subject indicated. Awards will be made by a committee of three disinterested gentlemen. The essays or stories to be handed in by the first of September next, the writers giving assumed names, and keeping back then* true names and places of residences until the awards have been made. This is to insure perfect impartiality in giving awards. The committee will have the right to withhold the premiums, if in their judgment the essaysor stories Call to merit the prizes ottered. All essays or stories submitted to be the property of the Pi-ess and Banner. Addresa PRESS AND BANNER, Abbeville, S. C. Pauper's Paradise?Free Education and Free Beef. The working people and the property holders of the city of Columbia and the county of Rlohland are annually made to pay large sums.of money to educatc the children of white parents and negro parents, who are either unable, unwilling, or too lazy, to earn the money, and they have, we believe, several hundred children of both races in the same aehool In the city of Columbia. The poor people have done themselves a good service in taking, to educate their own children, the money of.their richer neighbors, and In appropriating a share of the net earnings of such citizens as are willing to work, and are trying to accumulatc something for a rainy day. But, we believe, they have neglected a mat ter which is of vital Importance to paupers? a sufficient snpply of beef. These poor people are entitled to a living. No man has a right to amass a fortune while the children ol respectable white paupers are carrying a fox 1? ~""1 fliA fnr?f>c nf Jit in tueir siomncns, muu nUU? v?.^ ...? tie negroes grow dusty form the effects of hunger. The great need of Columbia Is a free beef market, and steps should be taken at once to establish this Important Institution. We can use all the arguments In favor of this beef business that Is now applied to the schools. By having an immense beef markel for the benefit of everybody In the city, the saving would be immense. Only one | superintendent or head butcher would be i necessary, and he could have the beeves killed In the most skillful manner, at the least j expense, and the further preparation of the flesh for distribution could be effected at the lowest possible price. One immense stall with a slDgle superintendent, and assistant beef-ohoppers, would be much cheaper than many smaller stalls with a superintendent for each. Any objection to moiling paupers realize that they are mendicants, conld be obviated by merely cutting of! a bone for those who furnish the feast. If they fail to come for it no blame eould attach to those who compelled their neighbors to furnish the money with which to buy the beef. By giving the rich an equal ohance at the beef, the paupers and their children could get beef In a way which would be fully as honorable and fully as respectable as that which they have provided f?r their rich neighbors. When Columbia gets a free beef market as an annex to her big free school poor folk and negroes would have reason to be happy Indeed. The children could bring their beef homo'from school without even the entra trouble of going to mnrket for their rations. Let the people agitate this matter. Somebody took the lead in the free school business, and we see no reason why Columbia should not lead off in the free beef market. The people need sot hesitate. Beef Is an Important, If not a necessary, part of our food. The public welfare demands that all people should be well fed. No discrimination should t>e made against poor folk, lazy folk, and little negroes. No man should go hungry. Does not the Bible Itself command us to feed the hungry, to cloth the naked, and to give water *o the thirsty ? But where does It oommand us to educate little negroes ? Confiscating the White Man'x Property for Negro Education. The total enrollment of pupils in the schools in this county,outside the city of Columbia is 8,752, as follows: white?males Mi, females 506; colored?males 1,337, females 136. The total number of white pupils is 1,<W8 to 2,704 colored, showing that there are 1.6.V1 more colored children than whites attending school In the county. The total number of children attending the puouc Bcnoois in mcnianu county, including the city of Columbia, Is r>,388, of which 1/J16 are whites and 3,472 colored. These figures show that there are 1,556 more colored thnn whites attending school In the county of Iticliland. This makes a big showing for the brother In black and goes to show what his opportunities are under the beneficence of Democratic rule.?Columbia Jlccord. The Record would boast of Ihe above state of facts, which must. In a measure account for the depression of values anil the lack of thrift at the State capital. The few property owners of the city are mulcted In large sums of money to educate a race of people who have 110 sympathy or feeling In common with us. Will the Record now tell us how much in pensions that city votes to needy Confederate soldiers and their widows? Will the Record please Justify the net which assesses tribute from poor Confederate soldiers to educate these people to whom we are under no special obligation ? Will the Record state whether the asserted anxiety to educate little negroes at the expense of Confederatr soldiers, while the needy of their own number Is neglected, is sincere and realf If so, can it account for our ingratitude to the neglected Confederate soldier and our excessive love for the negro upon any other assumption than that we desire to conciliate our^onquerors? Our fathers did not believe In public education and they had fewer illiterate children than we have today. Tbey stimulated that self-respect which prompted parents to educate their own children. From the Record's statements we infer that the city of Columbia is a good place for pauper children of all sorts, and especially or pauper negroes, but a very poor place for property owners or tax-pavers. The official announcement by the National Orange of Hon. D. Wpatt Aiken's death adds another beautiful tribute to the worth and character of Abbeville's beloved citizen, who was true and brave In all the relatives of life. "Contrary to the Provision* of the Constitution.M Some of our contemporaries, among them the Abbeville I'ress awl Banner, are still claiming that the decision of the Supreme Court, in Aultman, Taylor & Co. r*. iuism wus contrary to the provisions of the Constitution, etc. It'is very easy to say that anything is I unconstitutional, to show It I* quite Another t liing. J list as a spcimen ol a legal argument from the press, we invitcour contemporary to the task of showing the exact particui;w ::i which the decision in question overrides the Constitution.? W'innxboro Xctvs and Herald. Presuming that our neighbor is sincere in his desire for light on this subject, and knowing that a Judge on the bench recently told a lawyer that he di<l not care to hear his (the lawyer's) opinion, but would be glad for him to cite authorities, we will therefore cite authorities to support our assertion that the decision of the Supreme Court in the Hush case was "contrary to the provisions of the Constitution." In the tlrst place, we will ask our brother's careful nttentiou to the reading of the dissenting opinion of Associate Justice McGowan. In tlie second idnce, we would ask our brother to read carefully the judgment of Circuit Judge T. H. Fraser, which we copy into these columns for the.especial benefit and enlightenment of the M'innshoro' News aiul Heraldy and all others who may entertain a doubt on this subject. In the third place, we would ask attention to the fact that certainly seven of the eight Circu't Judges dlisentfrom the opinion of a majority of the Supreme Court. In the fourth place, we would ask our brother's attention to the fact that as lar as we have heard, the Abbeville Bar, except in the individual c.i;-cs where the members are more or less dircctly or remotely Interested, believe the Judgment was erroneous. In the fifth place, we have been reliably informed that nearly all, if not quite all, the lawyers in Charleston believe the Supreme Court erred. Having answered our brother's question at some length we trust that we rany be par. doned if wo now ask him to cite authorities to show that the words "as to" properly mean for the benefit of." It there are law-givers, law-makers, scientific, literary or religious writers who can be cited as authority for putting such construction on these little words? "as to"?our neighbor will do the Supreme Court a grateful service by producing the same. The Court in this dilemma needs ail the help they can get to support them in their monstrous judgment In the Rush case, which is contrary to law, and violative of the Constitution. Ordinarily a Court may cite authorities and split hairs until even good lawyers may have to assent to the opinion of the Court, but In this case the words of the law and the Constitution are so plain, that any one with sufficient education to rend plain English, and with sense enough to goto mill, need not be deceived. The Court is wrong; there can be no rubbing it out, and Judge Eraser's opinion can have no other effect than to prove the error of the Court while it furnishes the strongest argument for the reorganization of the Supreme Court as suggested by the Aiulcr1011 Intelligencer. mm ? The College* nt I?ue Went. Our correspondents inform us of important changes in the management of the Due West Colleges. President J. P. Kennedy and VicePresident Mrs. Kennedy have resigned the management and control of the Fematc Col lege, and Professor J. II. Miller of Erskine College has been elected the successor of Presi dent Kennedy. Tbc circumstances which inducc such distinguished and successful teachers as Professor and Mrs. Kennedy to resign are a source of much regret to all their friends and the friends of the College. Professor Kennedy Is the successor of Dr llonner, the founder of the institution, and under his control theCollcge has increased in usefulness. The Prolessor and Mrs. Kennedy have been teachers all their lives, an d success lias attended their every effort. They retire from the College Willi tlic love and respect ot a large number of personal friends, while the friends of the College regret that they arcgoln>? to leave the institution. Professor J. II. Miller, the President-elect, is a man who, for his years, is pre-eminently qualified for the high and important position of President of a Female College. To fine natural ability, and a symmetrical mind, he has added the result of years of laborious and arduous study. This, added to his line administrative and executive ability, will insure the continued prosperity and growth of the finest institution of the kind in the South. Mr. Miller is a native of Camden, Alabama, and is comparatively a young man. He grad uated at Krskine College some ten or twelve yoars ago, nnd when Professor J. N. Yyoung resigned liis position in Ersklne College he was elected his successor. After he was graduated Professor Miller taught In some of the high schools of the country, and for a term J attended the recitations In the JonnsIIopkins I University. The place which will be made vacant by the resignation of Prof. J. H. Miller Is to be tilled. We are not informed as to who wllj be chosen for the place, but we have heard the naint. ;.f W. L. Miller, Esq., ol Abbeville, mentioned in connection with the professorship. A Prominent Citizen's Misfortune. Our Greenwood correspondent Informs us that Professor S. P. Boozer was prostrated yesterday at half-past twelve o'clock, by a stroke of apoplexy, and that, several hours later, he was In a comatose condition. Professor Boozer is one of the most distinguished educators In the upper part of the State, and his career lias been honorable and successful. He was born in Smithville township about three miles from Greenwood, anil is now about forty-eight years of age. He received his academic Instruction at Greenwood, and his collegiate education at the South Carolina College, graduating from that institution in IffiS. After graduating and up to the time he entered the Confederate service in the Second South Carolina Regiment, he taught school at Cross Hill in Laurens county. He served as courier for General Ker. shaw, and discharged his duty faithfully and fearlessly until he was shot and so seriously wounded in one of the earlier battles in Virginia, that it was necessary to amputate a a leg. Being unable to further servo in the army he accepted an honorable discharge from military duty and came home to his friends, when ho again resumed the business of teaching, and married Miss Alice Bailey, daughter of James Bailey, Senior, in 1S63. Since the war he has farmed or taught school as inclination dictated. Atone time he was Professor in Adger College at Walhalla, and at this time he is co-principal of the Greenwood Male Academy, which, partly owing to his line ability as ? teacher, Is achieving a wonderful success. It has been universally eonccded that he is pre-eminently distinguished as a successful teacher. Professor Boozer is n ready writer, an eloquent speaker, and with a well stored mind, a warm genial nature, and an ever present humor made him a most entertaining talker and a most attractive gentleman. Professor Boozer is a public spirited clti. zen, and has ever been identified with every nntornrkn whir'h liml fnr lie aV>Ia/?? <t>A vi?i>v*|'? ??-v "",v" ?" vnjcut nit- ucntr fit or edvaneement. of the town to which he hits always cherished the sincerest affection and the most steadfast loyalty. His condition had not improved at halfpast tight o'clock this morning. m . ? Lot Greenville Have It.* Although Abbeville could have offered the fifteen hundred acre DeLallowe tract of land and its endowment fund of S12,000,no bid has been made by Abbeville for the experimental farm to bo established by the State Greenville having offered ?15,000 in money with which to buy lands and houRes, Abbevilte may now vote In favor of Greenville getting what we could have gotten so easily. Greenville's enterprise aud pluck deserves the prize. \ \ Judgment In an Important Case. In these columns we reproduce the Judg ment of the Court in the case of Sibley & Co vs. Parks, as being of public Interest. This Judgment should teacii inexperienced young men not to eo into lite mercantile bus Iness, and it should teacii mothers not to sign papers. There is no earthly doubt in oui mind, that young Parks owed his factor Jusl ii. ! did any other debt, and we have n? doubt that he was threatened with criminal prosecution when, in fact, lie had committed no graver offence than that of contracting s debt wiiicii lie was anerwaru unanie 10 pay If ho lind been older and had been more fa miliar with the law, he would never have al lowed his mother to sign the mortgage. Th< case is one which excites sympathy for bolt mother and son. He was scared unnecessar ily, and then induced his mother to sign tin paper whereby she loses her home, but II seems to ns that she should have been excus^ ed from the payment of the mortgage becaust of the circumstances under which she signet it. The Supreme Court, however, if it is of th< same mind, and sees things as it did in th< Rush case, may issue a companion judgment and thus save Mrs. Parks harmless aguinsi any debt she may owe. We need not be sur prised if the Supreme Court, should lorbic \Tr? Pni*lr<s in nnv? the debt. to Franels Arnold A Strange Proceeding:. Mr. Julius Mills, of Chester, lias renounced allegiance to theG? C. & N. It. It., and thinkf timt Chester ought not to vote a tax for th< benefit of the road because the corporation i> rich and thoroughly responsible. It would s?em that a corporation which is able tc build the road would be the safest firm witfc which to entrust money. The Press and Banner opposed taxation to a poor eorporatior because of lack of faith In their ability tc carry out their part of the contract. Mnjoi Mills is perhaps the first man who has evei objected to entrusting his money to a corpor ation for the alleged reason that they were rich and perfectly respousidle for their con tracts. Major Mills has certainly discovered some thing in finances. Chester, will doilbtles? regret the act if she refuses to contribute hei share to the upbuilding of the town. New Daliy In Augusta. We see by the newspapers that a new <lallj paper Is to be started In Augusta, Georgia We have no doubt that they will start tin paper, and we feel equally confident that the time will cotr.e when the projectors will "wis! they had no stock In it. After they liavt wasted S100,000 they will abandon the'enter price. We plaec the prediction on recordTjif. temperance campaign Is progressinj In Anderson count}*. Anderson will, 11c doubt, close her bars. Abbeville will follow her good example when we get the proper law on the books. Whiskey must go. We have heard pleasant things of the Mur ray-road law In Anderson county. When the storm has passed Senator Murray will re celre the well-done of his constituents. rev. d. McNeill turner, d. d. After an Abwencc or Seventeen Years he IteturnH to the People by Whom he lind Twice Been Called to the Office ot PMBtor?IIiN Sermon nn<l n Hearty Welcome Back. A large audience assembled in the Court House on Sunday last, to hear a sermon from the Rev. D. McNeill Turner, and to participate in the other religious exercises of the occasion. The text of the discourse was from Hebrews xll: 2 "Who for the Joy that was set before him, endured the cross despising the .shame, and is set down at the right hand ol the throne of God;" and the Doctor spoke with his usual force, earnestness and ability; exhibiting the same clearness, coherence and logical power of thought an of old; the same felicity anil aftluence of diction; and even more than his former unction and irnpress! vctioss of delivery. The sermon was about an hour In lenstli. and was heard with market! attention. Passages in it were unusually impressive, and afleeted many of the audience to tears. Dealing as the sermon did, with .in..trinoi! which Hp nt. till? foundation of the Christian's faith, and furnish the grounds of the Christian's hope, it afforded scope for the exercise of the powers of the logical speaker and the impressive orator. To furnish a brief abstract of It would be but doing it scanty justice, but we will at least suggest Its leading topics. As preliminary to his main subject, the preacher adverted to that mysterious union of soul and body, which form our dual nature, and affords a faint topic of that sublime mystery, the union of tlie divine and hnmnn nature, which enables the Saviour to work out the wondrous plan of human salva tlon. "The cross" as set forth in the text, according to the speaker, was not merely the final act of crucifixion, but involved at leasi four elements of sufiVrlne: 1. The divine abasement In the assumption of our nature. 2. The temporary triumph of the powers oi darkness. 3. The trials of a suffering life, and of an agonizing death. 4. Tho withdrawal of the divine favor In the crowning agony. So "the Joy" as set forth In the text, was treated by the speaker, according to our recollection, in a fourfold aspect. 1. The anticipation of the final triumph over the powers of evil. 2. The extension of Christ's kingdom "from the river to the ends of the earth." 3. The glorification and sanctiflcatlon of the saints. 4. The consolation and Joys of the Holy Spirit. The conclusion of the discourse was ( specially impressive wherein was set forth the offices of Christ, as onr Saviour, our Exemplar,our Intercessor and our Final Judge. At the conclusion of tho exercises the Doetor was greeted by a large number of Iris old friends, M ho were glad to grasp Ills hand and "see his face once more." At night he preached to a large audience In the Methodist, church. On Sunday next he will preach again in the Court House, and the Sunday following In the Court House. THE COLOR QUESTION IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sotnul mill Conservative Views or the Methodist Brethren. Southern Christian Advocate. If the eftort is persisted In to mix both races l n the same Cliurc-h and toentitleeach to the same rights and privileges, the breach will be widened instead of healed. Race instinct on both sides revolts against this, and it Is utter folly for the Iiishop and his clergy to set themselves against it. Fine spur: theories of universal equality may sound very well on paper, but no well-wisher of cither race should attempt to enforce these ideas In any of our ecclesiastical organizations. The best interests of both races demand independence and separation. With these, let there be the closest and most helpful fraternal relations. This, it seems to us, is the only practi cal unci NCnslDie SOIUIIOU l?l me mini I|ur.-IK>I| as it effects us In our ecclesiastical affairs. This was the happy solution of this question made by the M. E. Church, South, some years aco, when our colored members were set up Into p. distinct eccleslastlal body of their own, with their own Bishops,clergy, Conferences, it'c., and yet all sustaining a close fraternal relationship to the parent body. Something of thtekind, let us hope, our Episcopal friends may effect during the coming year. Certain it is that the color line Is here to stay. It cannot be wiped out by Legislatures, ecclesiastical conventions, or by the arbitrary acts of Church prelates. What God has put asunder by race and blood, It is useless for men to attempt to unite. Perfect unity and equality In Church relations will soon come to mean perfect equality In social relations. If the colored Episcopalians must now have equal representation In the Convention, may there not come a day when they shnl I be sufficiently xtmmr to clect. a colored Bishop? And why should they not, if at nry time they have the majority of communicants and the majority of votes in the Convention ? IT they receive the ministrations of a white Bishop now, why should not the white Episcopalians be served by a colored Hisliop then f On t he question of law it Is likely that BJsliop Howe and his supporters are right, but on a question of expediency The Advocate sympathizes with the seceders. The Epl*eof?ai Church and the causc ofChrist have nothng to tain, but much to lose, by the admission of colored members and delegates to seats in the Convention. The fact that, this Is done iu other dioceses is no argument in its favor. Even while we write thepapers inform us of trouhio In the Diocese of North Carolina because liishop Lyman Invited all the clergy, black and white, of his diocese to an entertainment at his house during the recent Convention In that State. Be this as it may, It is evident llial tlio mixture of the two races In the same Convention, with equal rights and priviieees, Is a long and important step towards the obliteration of all race distinctions In our social lite. Equality In the one will inevitably lead to equality in the other. Our Episcopal friends owe it to themselves, as well as to the Master, to do all In their power to evangelize the colored race. They owe ltnone the less to their Anglo-Saxon blood and to the civilization of the century to conform their plans to the traditions of the race. It is only as they do this that they can hope tor success either In their white or their colored work. . THE INFALLIBLE COURT. A CIRCUIT JUDGE SHOWS HOW I1IFALLI BILLITY MAY ERR. I The I'iiIhuIiiI and lincoiiNtltiitloiia I Judg ment of (he Supreme C ourt o > Koutli Carolina In made Pert'ectlj ' Clear. I 1 Valuable and Instructive Matter which ii Published for the Benefit of the "Wlnns boro News and Herald," and all othe: , Persons who may have a Dout>t as t< , whether the Supreme Court In 1he Rusi case Rendered a Decision Contrary t< Law and against "the Provisions of th t Constitution.*' The State ok South Cakomna, i County ok Abbeville. I In the Court of Common l'leat!. George R. Sibley & Co., Plaintiffa, agains Sarah K. Parks, Smith, Parks & Co., am s Francis Arnold, Defendants. ; This case was heard by me at the term o i the Court held In February, 18R7, on the plead ings, evidence and argncn'entof counsel. I The action has been brought to foreclose i . mortgage on a lot of land executed by Mrs . Sarah K. Parks, a married woman, ti secur a note given to plaintiffs by the defendant? . <miih l'jirks it (Vi. and nlso for fiid<rmen against the defendants. Smith, Parks & Co, fur the amount of the note and Interest. The defendant. Francis Arnold, who Is ii I no way interested In the above matters set up In his answer a prior mortgage 011 th 5 said lr>", of land, and asks that his rights unde i ills mortgage may bo protected in any orde . made in the cause. * The defendant, JamcR E. Smith, one of th ' members of the firm of Smith, Parks ?fc Co > In his answer pleads minority. If there 1 atiy evidence on this subject it has escapei me, but there has been no such formal con sent as will glveme Jurisdiction ofthls brand i of the case. The affidavit furnished me as t the default of Thomas N. Parks aud Jame L. Talbert bears date after the adjourntnen * of the Court at Abbeville, and I have doub as to my Jurisdiction to order a Judgment b; default against them. All questions ther( fore as to a Judgment against the members c the firm of Smith, Parks & Co. are reserve* . to be heard by the Court hereafter. No demand is made against the dofendan Sarah E. Parks, exeept for the foreclosure c the mortgage and the payment out of th i proceeds, if sufficient, of the note and inter . est it was given to secure. This demand 1 resisted by Mrs. Parks as to the raortgag held by plaintiffs on two grounds: 1st. That the said mortgage was obtainei by duress. 2nd. That Mrs. Parks wns, at the time c . its execution, a married woman. 1st, As to duress:? Thomas X. Parks, a member of the firm c : Smith, Parks & Co., was n.ilep-.ion to Mr; . Parks. Plaintlft's had sent money to him o to the firm of Smith, Parks At Co., with whlcl ' to purchase cotton to be shipped to plaintiff! ' At the time tills morigage was given, P. I Tobin, a member of the Jlrm of Geo. It. Sit ley it Co., plaintiffs, was prosing for a settle incut, and smith, Parks ?fc Co. wen; not abl to ship the cotton or to refund the mone; - sent to them. In some wav it. seems tlia Thomas N. Parks was the member of th firm of Smith, Parks it Co., who was callei ' on to make the settlement and account fo r the money sent to thenv. He admitted tlia tliey had money whleii tliey had not investei in cotton, and made several unsuccessful e torts to borrow the money to repay to plain tiff the amount due. A settlement was Until ly made by Thomas X. Parks signing th firm name to the note sued on in this ease . and the execution by Mrs. Parks of the mnrt gage to secure It. The amount was then du and payable, lint the note was given at t> days for$1,'125.00 with interest ats percent per annum. It is now claimed by Mrs. Parks that sh executed tills mortgage because of threat , made to her by P. li. Tobin. who acted fo plaintiffs, that if It was not executed Iter step i sou, Thomas X. Parks, would he sent to tin , penitentiary for misappropriating tohlsowi use or that of the firm of Smith, Parks & (A), the money of the plaintiffs; that u prosecu tion was threatened and that the mortgage was given "to compound and settle said prose cutlon." and that plalntifTs in consideratlor thereof "desisted" from "prosecuting the sai< Thomas X. Parks." It is incumbent on th< defendant, Mrs. Parks, to make out tills de fence by a clear preponderance of evldenci and in this way remove the presumption arts ing from the mortgage Itself In favor of tin validity and sufllcicncy of the consideration and of the full and free consent of the mort gagor to the terms of the Instrument. I am satisfied from the evidence that Thos X. Parks, himself believed that lie had com mitted si criminal offence and that he was Ua ble to be sent to the penitentiary therefor whatever may be the facts. In this view ] ruinb ???ot \fru Porlru />nnnnrro(l nn/1 Ir consequence thereof and also In consequenci of her fears that a criminal prosecu tion would be commenced against Thomas X Parks she was under more or less excitement and in distress when the mortgage was execu tel. There isaconllict of testimony, as to some facts I regard as very important. I have nol seen the witnesses, but a careful examination of the testimony lias led mo to the conclusion that before Tobin met Mrs. Parks at. all slu had been informed of the difficulties in which Thomas Parks had became involved and that she had told him that she would giv? n mortgage on her lot to raise money to save him irorn trouble. The only direct testimony as to whether any threats were made to her personally as to criminal proceedings against Thomas N. Parks is that of Tobin and Mrs Parks herself. In this they contradict each other, and it will not be proper without some aid as to the character of the witnesses, whicli ' I have not, to find in favor of the party whose duty is to prove a fact as Mrs. Parks ' ought to da here. Indeed I am inclined tc think that in the condition of Mrs. Parks mind at the time, she may have made the mistake of attributing to Tobin statement.' before made to her by her step-son. Thomas N. Parks saVs that she knew of the debt tc Sibley it Co., and had told him the day be/on (the execution of the mortgage) that "rather than see me prosecuted * * * if I coula mi*c the money she'd give the mortgage." He had offered the mortgage to others, I find that no warrant of arrest had been Issued and Mrs. Parks had not been Informed that any warrant had been issued. The extent tc whicli Tobin did go was to say that a serious criminal offence had been committed?a stale of things of which Thomas N. Parks had been informed by his counsel, and of which Mrs. Parks was apprehensive, if not actually informed by her step-son before the interview between Tobin and herself, when the mortgage was executed. I do not find that there was any promise by Tobin, who acted foi plaintiffs, not to prosecute Thomas X. Parks if the mortuase was given. It there was any iTiminu' onense commiueu, 01 wnicu mere is n<? sutlicient. evidence before me, I find notbing in tin* testimony by which it appears thai plaintiffs bouud themselves nolio prosccutc therefor. There Is conflict or authority on the law applicable to this case and nothing directly to the point at Issue in our own State reports. "Threats of a criminal prosecution for embezzlement and of a civil action for money charged to have been fraudulently withheld, not Imputing a purposeto make any unusual, harsh, oppressive or illegal use of process is not duress." Lander vs. Obirt, 45 Texas, 53!>. In Fulton vs. Hood, 31 Penn. St. :Ui5 it was held "that threats of a criminal pr.isecnlion aeainst the son unless the father would give u bond were no defence to the bond." In Smith vs. Itowleu, <# Barb. .r>02 it was held that "where the plaintiff's husband was charged with embezzlement and she at his request and on tho agreement that there should be no prosecution, conveyed iter real estate to the creditor, she cannot avoid the deed for duress." A different doctrine is laid down In Foley vs. Greene (14 It. I., OIK) 01 Am. lie)j. 419. and in the cases on the authority of which that ease rests. In Foley vs. Greene a son was charged with defalcation and ills own mother furnished security for the amount by giving a note and mortgage?the note and mortgage were held to be void. I find no case in which relief has been given beyond the cases where the parties were either husband and wife or parent, and child. In Foley vs. Greene, there were not only threats of prosecution bntau actual agreement that if the security was given "the whole matter of defalcation would be kept quiet and no criminal charge would be made against the son." The testimony in this ease does not ni'"" mij uuimut'ui iiiuuu uy iwuiii ca^itw ed or i id plied not to prosecute Thomas X. l'arks. I am satisfied from the whole testimony that Mrs. Parks would have given and was prepared to give Francis Arnold or any other person u mortgage to secure the loan of money for the exigency and would have been In the same state of mind In reference to It as she was as to the mortgage now held by the plaintiffs. The money was duo to the plaintiffs and then payable, and being unable to make the payment lhe time of payment was extended toCu days which was deemed a very important Item In drawing the papers. In the absence of other objections a mortgage given to secure the debt of another coutracted at the tlmo or the extension of an antecedent Indebtedness is upon a sufllclent consideration. I do not. think that, a mortgage given by a parent, <>r a child, husband or wife (If the wile has the power to mortgage her property) i to secure a debt due to one whose funds have been embezzled and whohasbcen informed of such embezzlement, cither by the creditor or by the defaulting debtor, and who has been thereby made apprehensive of a criminal prosecution, imprisonment or disgrace to the debtor should l>e held void unless there is clear proof of fear of an immediate arrest under a warrant, or at least of some agreement express or Implied on the part of the creditor not. to nrosecute. It ought not to avoid a mortgage that the ni'>n,..??or nau heard of the embezzlement and hud seni,?s fears of a criminal prosecution merely hoped by the mortgage so fur to satisfy the private claims as to remove J'1? A. on the part ot the person injnred to Institute criminal proceedings, 'lhoreare civil rights of creditors at stake In all such cases and it ought to be allowable for them to protect themselves, while it might not be proper for the Courts to sanction a transaction if a part of the consideration was to1 - compound a felony or misdemeanor. The| conclusion I have readied is that tiiere lias | been no sutticient proof of duress in the execution of tills mnrtjfn^e by Mrs. I'arks In any . view we take of Uie'iaW under the cases above ' cited. f 2d. As to the power of a married woman to mortgage her property to secure the debts of f another:? The question as to the right of si married woman to mortgage her separate property to secure the debt of another person is now pends ing In the Supreme l.'ourt of this State, anil If this were the only question In the ease now " before me 1 would prefer not to render any r Judgment on It until the point was settled In J lilts I'iWUIHII. H.-V.U.U l.u, or, however, to hold this cusc over as there i arc other important questions raised and j which ouuht to be passed upon. I propose therefore to state as briclly :r- i 8 ain able my reasons for the conclusion which I have heretofore reached and on which in other cases I have acted. I hat a married woman has the right, to mortgage her separate property iu the same way and on t lie same consideration and for the name purposes for t which an unmarried woman could do so. j I will perhaps be able to make my meaning clearer by setting out in full the article of the if constitution and the several sections of the |. Acts of the Legislature which refer to this subject. a Article XIV, Section 8, of the Constitution i. of lSfti is as follows: e "The real and personal. property of a woi "man, held at the time of her marriage, or t "that which she may thereafter acquire, , "either by gift, grant, inheritance, devise, " "or otherwise, shall not be subject to levy and n "sale for her husband's debts: but shall be s "held as her separate property, and inay be e "bequeathed, devised, or alienated by her r "the same as if she were unmarried: Providr "ed, that no gift or grant from the husband to "the wife shall be detrimental to the Just e "claims of ills creditors." Tim PovkoH Sit'itiifos nf IfcT'J nt. nnfi> nrm s tains three (3) sections on the subject of the j rights of married women taken from the Act i. of 1S70. They are as follows: I) "Section 1. That the real and personal 0 "property of a married woman whether held s "by her at the time of the marriage or act "crued to her thereafter either by gift, grant. ,t "Inheritance, devise, purchase or otherwise y "shall not be subject to levy and sale for her ^ "husband's debus, but shall be her separate [{ ''This Section Is now Sectlou 203.) of tho General Statutes of 1882. t. "Section 2. A married woman shall -have if "power to bequeath, devise or convey her sepae "rate property in the manner and to the same . "extent as If she were unmarried: and '//' dys "ing Intestate her property shall descend In e "the same manner as the law provides for "the descent of the property of husbands; 1 "and all deeds, mortgages and legal Instru""ments of whatever kind shall be executed if "by her In the same manner and have the "same legal force and effect as if she were un"married." This is now Section 2o3ii of the )f General Statutes of 1882. i, "Section 3. A married woman shall have r "the right to purchase any species of property i "in ber own name and take proper legal couj "veyauces therefor and to contract and be { "contracted with In the same manner as if )'. "she were unmaiTied: Provided that the hns>. "band shall not be liable for the debts of the c "wife contracted prior to or after their mary "rlage except for her necessarv support." t Thlssection is now Section 2037 of theGenere al Statutes of 1882, as amended by the insertion i of Ave words: "as to her separate property" ,r after the word "contract," as will hereafter apt pear, and the effect of which amendment Is il the question now before me. f. Under the law as It thus stood our Supreme . Court beld in Rons vs. Linder. 12 6". C. p. 592, I- Hull vs. Clinkscales, 15 S. C. p. (KM and Pelzer, e Rodgers cfc Co. vs. Campbell, 15 .& C. p. 5S7. that . ti married woman cou la ulna herself personal ally by any contract by which an unmarried e woman could be bound nnd In the same tnan0 ner and as a consequence a judgment against her for the breach of such contract was followed by all usual consequences of Judgments. e The two last of the above eases in 15 <S'. C. g were heard by the Supreme Court at the Nor vember term, 1880, ana the final Judgment of i. thatCourt was rendered some time in 1881. It e seems to me that the words of the statute giv3 Ing a married woman a right to make a contract are very plain and the only question on ' which there should have been any doubts was e the constitutional one, whether the Legisla(. ture had any right to add to the powers given 1 to a married woman by the Constitution of j 18f<8, by giving to her In addition to the power , i over l:er property the right to bind herself pcr1 - sonally und nenerally by a contract In the same 5 manner as if she were unmarried. At the April term of the Supreme Court in ? 1881 was heard the case of Wiltcvs. Wolfe, 16 S. C. 256. In which It. was Held that a married wo1 man under the Constitution and Statutes as they then stood, and as above quoted had the right to mortgage her separate property to se1 cure the debt of her husband. This judgment . of the Supreme Court was tiled in November, 1881. i It was thus that the Constitution and Stnt, ut.eH stood, and were construed when the IjC.g, islature amended the law by adding to Section 3 above quoted the five words "as to her separate property," and the Section became Section 2037 of the General Statutes and is as follows : "Sec. 20:>7. A married woman shall have 'the right to purchase any species ot properly "ly in her own name and to take proper legal i "conveyances there/or, and to contract and i "be contracted with an to her scpnmte property , "in the same manner as if she wore unmari "rlcd: Provided, That the husband shall Ti 'i I ,-i>e iiaoie lor uie ucihs 01 i.iiu wne contractu | L "prior to or alter their marriage except for . "her necessary support." It will be observed that Sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1870 cover the same general ground t, as does Art. XIV, Sec. 8 of the Constitution of JSCS. Section 1 declares that, the property of a ' married woman shall be "her separate prop> erty." Section 2 declares that she shall have [ the right to bequeath, dovUe or coiivcy her separate property In the same manner and to j the same extent an if she were unmarried and i includes also properly -purchased by her and j not mentioned In the Constitution, the power ? to purchase being conferred by Section 3. \ Section 2 also provides for eases of Intestacy, i and then provides that "all deeds, mortgages, , " * * * shall be executed by her In the ? "same manner and have the same lesral force "and effect as if she were unmarried." So far I the Constitution and the Acts, Sections 1 and > 2, contain provision only for holding property ' and for the mode of disposing of it by herself or by law in cases of intestacy. r It will be observed now that Section 3 of tlip > Acts of 1870 refers to a new subject matter and s covers a new class of eases. It, gives to the married woman certain personal rights: the right to purchase property in her own name and t.o make contracts and at the same time protects the husband from the common law ' liability for certain debts of the wife and which the marriage had cast upon him while . it transferred to him her property. While Sections 1 and 2 may only have defined or perhaps eulargeii the powers given by ' tlie Constitution certainly none of the powers conferred by Section :i can, by the most, liberal construction, be deduced from the Section of : the Constitution referred to. 1 It will readily occur to the mind that this unlimited power on the part of married women to make contracts may have led to serious evils growing out of a woman's affections for iter husband, or others, and her want ol ' business training, now so much neglected in their education and modes of life. It was not on iiiipominnn thin"' Cor il In (lament. to be , rendered on such contracts, and for the pay' mcnt of which not only her property, then in possession, but nil future acquisitions by inheritance or otherwise were liable. It was when the law had been just construed so as to ' lead to these consequences, that the amendment or 1882 was passed. It Is my view of the purpose of the legislature, that it was intended and that the amendment bears no other i construction than that a married woman was by it confined in making contracts to those 1 which were "as to" or "in regard to" or "in respect to" her separate property, and of which lu some way the separate property whs the subject matter. There has as yet been no decision , of the Supreme Court as to whether a married woman can be held personally and generally liable even on such a contract. All that is decided in llubetuchl v*. Jlawh it- 117shoff, 21S. C. 401, Is that a married woman cannot since the amendment of ls>2 be held liable as endorser for her husband on a eontract, which had no reference to her separate property. In WUle vs. Wolfe, supra, the Supreme Court held that Mrs. Wolfe, a married woman, had a right under the Constitution and Act of l>70 to mortgage her separate properly to pay a (lout or ncr imsoaiHi, hiiu < .> itiiiiiwi u.> mi miconclusion says that by the Act ol ISTli, all "deeds mortgages and legal Instruments of "every kind shall be executed by her in the "same manner and have the same legal force "and effect ns If she were unmarried." The Court does not anywhere base the right to mortgage on the ritriit to make contracts. The power of alienation irlven to a married woman in the Constitution is not a mere naked power, and seems to me to be merely one of tlie incidents of her estate in her .ifpartite property and if she is limited by that word to a conveyance in fee it would be inconsistent with the estate which the Constitution vests In her. However this may In* the word convey is substituted in the Act Sec. 2. for the word alirtuite used in the Constitution. and not only so but the Act uses the words, "to the same extent" as <|tialifying the power of a married woman to convey. It must mean eltIter to convey the whole estate or some less Interest in the property, and I i see 110 reason why under this section a married woman may not convey on condition, and such condition as is contained in the I mortgage. Stewart on husband anil wife, Sec. IPtS, note 21. Whatever may be the true I ground on which the decision in Witte vs. i I Wntfe is based, that case settles the question. ' j as to the power of a married woman to morf- i gage lier sepuraif prupcry. j?rmr n> un- > amendment In the (General Stalutrs of ISS'2. I She (1 id then have such power to mortgage as : security for her husband, and if lor him, I take I it for any other person. I The amended section is subsequent to tlie 1 one which rciers to the power to convey, and t the execution of mortgages, and if l?con?ly- : tent with, may modify or even ivpeal it. i In the view I take of it, these sections refer f to different subjects, and have uo necessary j connection with each other. Sec. 1 and 2 refer to property, and Sec. 3 to personal rights. If however iu this I am not correct and the section as amended does modify the preceding section it must be because a mortgage Is a contract and a contract too in the sense in i which that word is used in the amended sec I lion. If.*i mortgage is ii contract and noia conir.ua in the sense of the amended section then the amended section can have no reference to it. IT I hen ii mortgage is a contract. In the sense of contract in the amended section it. must, certainly lie one of those contracts a married woman lias a right to make for it would seein almost absurd to say that a written instrument which describes a tract of land and conveys it tus a security for a debt is not "as to" or ' with respect to" or in "regard to" that tract of land. I assume that, as laiil down in W'Utt: v.*. Wot/e, before the AetoflNX'2 a married woman had this power to give ? mortgage. If a mortgage is not a contract In the. sense ol the amended Act, then the amendment cannot ull'ect the c;w*e one way or the other. If a mortgage is such a contract then it certainly is "as to,'' or "with regard to," or "with respect to" the mortgaged property, and, under the amendment itself, a married woman has the right to make it. I see 110 escape Jroin the dilemma. There is nothing In the amendments which requires that the contract of a married woman shall be Intended for the benefit of her separate property. Ills Imrdly necessary to discuss the question (Jones on Mortgages,|<115) whether an unmarried woman, or any other person under no disabilities, can mortgage property to secure the debt, of another contracted at the time or where there has been some new consideration, as the extension of time, iu reference to an old debt. If a married woman has this power of mortgage at nil then the mortgage can i>e supported by any consideration which would be sufficient as to other persons. This being a mortgage to secure the debt ol a step-son, steers clear of that class of cases, Wliere mere is iuiiiummil against the subjection of J ho property of a married woman to pay her husband's debts by any device of the parties. In this case the defendant, Mrs. I'arks.did not sign tiie note and no question can arise as to her liability on any deficiency niter applying the proceeds of the sale of the mortgaged premises. The amount due on the note of Francis Arnold, which is not contested, is six hundred and six 21-100dollars ($6U?.SH<>0.) The amount due 011 the note to plaintiffs and covered by the mortgage of Mrs. Parks is fourteen hundred and sixty-six 00-100 dollars (Suas.MMuo.) It is therefore ordered and adjudged, That the mortgaged premises described in'tlie complaint. be sold by the Master for Abbeville county, after due advertisement, 011 Salesday in November next, or 011 some subsequent Salesday for one-third cash, and the balance on a credltof one and two years, with interest from the day of sale, the deferred payments to be secured by the bond of the purchaser and .a mortgage of the premises so sold, and also a policy of Insurance In some reputable insurance company to an amount sutlicient to cover the amount remaining unpaid on the bond for the purchase money. It is ordered, That out of the proceeds of sale the Master do pay first the expense* of sale and the costs of the defendant, Francis Arnold, and to the said Francis Arnold the amounts above found to be due to him with interest thereon from this date; that the Master ilo then pay to plaintiffs their costs as against the defendant. Sarah E. Parks, and then the amount of their debt as above found with interest from this dale if there be so much on hand, and if any surplus that he do pay the same to the defendant, Mrs. Sarah E. Parks. It is ordered. That on compliance with the terms of sale the Master do execute title to the purchaser for the premises so sold, and that oi? the production of said deed and a certified copy of the order conllrming the same the purchaser he let into possession of the premises so sold; and that by such sale and the execution of title to the purchaser the said Sarah E. Parks and all persons claiming under her since the tiling of the notice of the pendancy of this action be forever barred aud foreclosed of all right and equity of redemption of, in or to all and singular the mortgaged premises so sold and conveyed. All questions raised In this case and not herein adjudicated aro reserved and parties have leave to apply for any orders necessary to carry out this decree. T. B. ERASER, 21 May, 1S87. Presiding Judge. IS BLACKGUARDISM TO PREVAIL IN OUR PULPIT. The Southern Christian Advocate Gives the Evangelists a Sound and Deserved Lecture on the Subiect oT <?oo<l Maimers. [Southern Christian Advocatc.] A few days ago the following dispatch appeared in the Doily RcaisUr of this city: "Andkicsox, S. C., May 17.?Messrs. Leitch, Haynes and Marshall are here, on their way to attend the Holiness Convention at Newberry. They got left yesterday In Seneca, and therefore caine down here on the frieaht train to enthuse the people of Anderson with their doctrine. They have made a very unfavorable impression by their manner of doing and saying things. Last night Mr. Leitch was making some rather comical remarks about women's "bangs and bustles," at which some of the audience laughed, and he thereupon denounced them as 'black-hearted villains.' They say some good things, but more that ousht not to be said in a religious meeting. The Holiness Association will be here some time between this and the lstof .Tune, so these men say. Our people 'are not favorably Impressed with this detachment of their forces." Knowing how little deoendence is to he put in the average newspaper report of such occurrences, we passed this by without giving it serious thought. II seems, however, that the /{ef/i.i/er correspondent w is right, a? we. learn from the following, taken from the last Issue of the Xr wherry Observer: 'The Observer called on Mr. Leitch athiB boarding house yesterday afternoon for his version of the affair. Mr. Leitch says that Mr. Marshall, Mr. Henek, of Tennessee?not Haynes?and himself held a meeting by invitation in a church in Anderson Monday night: that the church was crowded, and several persons knelt at the altar for prayer; that some persons in the back part of the church created some disorder by giggling and talking; and to reprove them for it, and to stop it, he (Mr. Leitch) said: 'I hope there nre no black-guards in Anderson.' when asked 11 1IU UNITU l l It- liillKUil^U iUUIUU(ir<l LVS liiltlf IIV rcpied tliat he did, under tlie following circumstances: During Ills talk or sermon, lie said some women are more concerned about their hangs and hustles and their personal appearance t lian a.botit their sonis. At this remark some one in the church laughed out; and lie then said 'Yon black-hearted villain, your heart is not riiilit before God.' This is certainly prelty rough language to use In a church or in any religious assembly." We know Mr. Leitch as an earnest and successful evangelist Whether he has been regularly licensed by the Church which he represents, we do not know. Wc regret'exeeedingly, however, that he ever used such language in the pulpit, or out of It. We regret that lie seems not (from the interview quoted above* to be conscious of how seriously he has offended good taste and good morals in the use of such epithets. We regret that lie has not acknowledged his error, with due apologies for the same. Such o(Tenses against grod morals and good breeding from our religious teachers are well calculated to bring religion into contempt. Oh! for a holiness that will give men clean lip* as well as deart hearts ! "You black-hearted villain" is more the language of the slums than of the pulpit, and any man who uses such epithets in the name of God should be invited to step down and out. Few would dare apply such words to another except from behind the breastwork of a pulpit. Hut when a man Is at once profane and abusive, even the pulpitshould not shield hint from responsibility. Some spirited "laugher" may yet teach, in a forcible and unceremonious way, a le-son of good manners and morals that the Advocate would fain impress by milder and more peaccable methods. What. Is to become of us IT the spirit ot blackgua>d sm is allowed to prevail in our pulpits, that are hi ing given over so largely to th" evangelists, so ?n lied? Is If not timet) <all a halt? Can any permani n'. good result from methods that arc so at varience with good taste and the gentle, loving spirit of the Gospel ? If good is accomplished, does it outweigh the evil? Are these questionable methods ne-'essary to the success of the evangelist? Does his power lie in his coarseness of remark and 111s inueceiu aouse 01 me smner? Under the lend of certain evangelists, Hi is is Inst getting lo be the popular style among some <>f our young preachers. It is for their snkes chietl.v thai we write so plainly and yet so earnestly. The first qualification for a successful ministry, aside from personal piety, is good breeding. A Gospel minister should always lie the gentleman. Whenever ho forgets till*, he dishonors fiod and disgraces his high and holy calling. Slinri for Kiglit Outs. Xcws and Courier. Kvery stream in South Carolina should he lull of good, edihie lisli; and would be if the tisli laws were stringently enforced. That it is not impossible to accomplish this desirable result ha. been amply demonstrated by the successful experiments that have been made in the propagation of shad in the Hudson. For thiccdnys in the early pail of this month between TO.UJO and 7S.IXX) shad a day were I'lio retail prices sunk lower than ever l?ol?>ro Kinc North Kiyer roe-shad were sold lor lifted! cents each, and bucks lor eight cents. < The addition of the members of the Legislature from Hip upper part, of South Carolina : s directed to these facts. There is no reason < ivh.v t lie people living along the ureal rivers i n upper Carolina should not haveanahun- i lance of shad for their tables in the spring ' .inu?. It may honctH a handful of llshermen I it (icorgetown and elsewhere on the coast to I teep the mouths of the rivers so obstructed as < o prevent the run of lish; but the people who I Ivi* in the intcriorshould not be deprived of < he privilege of eating lish. for the profit of 1 my section or of any local interest. The Leg- 1 stature ought to take steps to scenre the en- ] orcenient of the laws that we have, or should mass other luvvs that will keep the riveruopeu. TOO HEALTHY FOR DOCTORS. j THE SALUBRIOUS AIR AND GOOD WATER j MAKE THE TOWN A POOR PLACE FOR PRACTITIONERS IN THE HEALING ART. Crop* and Cyclone*? Kicking .Vale* ami PIoiim Preacher* ? Lovely Maidens?Thrifty Farmer*---Resting; Teaclier^-Tlie Grave Taken Innocent Childhood, and Closes (he Career of an Aged Citizen. Ninety-Six. S. C., May 31.1887. Mayor Watson ami Mr. Duncan Phillips have returned from WashIngton. They were well pleased and enjoyed their trip. Major Fouche reports the pinder crop in fine condition. He confidently looks for fifty bushels per acre. ; Ninety-Six is exceedingly quiet/ No cyclones. no biz meetings and not even a ghost to be seen in the town or Its suburbs. Mrs. W. L. Anderson, Jr. lias been on a visit to her parents at Georges, S C. Mr. Mc. Turner is the bos* landlord. His tenants have the best crops about town. The far famed "kicking mule," once the property of Col.Sam. Walllngford, is no more. She klekrd everybody that came In her roach and finally "kicked the bucket." Miss Bessie McLaughlin, of Alabama, is vls itlnz Mrs. Geo. M Anderson. Miss Hessle Hill, of Greenwood, has been visiting friends in town. Farmer Beacham has had for several days as many as thirty-five hands chopping cotton. In addition to a large cotton and corn crop, Mr. D. H. Thorn pk ins has over fifty acres of pens planted. lie is a good farmer. Miss Nannie Matthews, of Edgefield, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. P. M. Pope. Mr. McGhan, of Aiken, passed through town Inst week with several fine horses for Ashevllle, N. C. Capt. King is making some needed Improvements to the bridge over Wilson's creek, near Ninety-Six. "Among the things that were" Isour bottom corn. Upland corn is the Bafest crop. Our division of Sons of Temperance Is still 011 the advance. New members at every nir. Iv fni* nlnnlinl must. co. Mr. A. G. Hurt, one of Greenville's most, promising young business men, was la town Inst week for a short time. Among the visitors to our town In the last few days, are Rev. W. H. Lawton, of Orangeburg; Miss Minnie Bozeman, of Greenville; Col. Alex. Stuart, of Greenville; Mr. Thomas D. Jackson, of Augusta; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bailey, Laurens; Mr. Ed. Penn, Greenwood; J Mrs. W. S. Wlghtman, of Anderson; Mr. W. H. Mays, Greenwood; Dr. G. F. S. Wright, of Columbia; Col. A.Coward, Rev. Mr. Corley, Newberry. , Messrs. J. D. Moore and John A. Watson spent last Sunday In Chappells. Mr. J. H. Rice. Jr., who has been teaching at Snntuc, Union county, having completed his school term, has come home to spend the vacation with his parents. Dr. C. C. Taggart, who commenced the practice of medicine here a few months ago, has concluded that the good health of Ninety-Six will not warrant his staying, so he has moved to Vaughnville, Newberry county. While the Doctor only stayed with us a short time, nevertheless he was very agreeable and popular, and we commend him to the good people of Vaughnville. Mr Freeman G. Martin, living In Edgefield county near Nluety-Slx, died on last Friday, the 27th, at the advanced age of 75 years. During a long life Mr. Martin enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who came In oon- ' tact with him. He leaves a wife and three children, who haye the sympathy ot a largo circle of friends. Mr. J. A. Stuart, one of the best farmers of > our section, called in to seo us a few days ago. He represents his crop as doing well. His . neighbors say ho has %flne crop, the fruits of close attention to business. Nothing Is mora, beneficial lo'acrop than constant fast work.'. Last Sunday being the fifth Sunday, the three Sunday schools met In the Presbyterian fhnroYy nnfl u/pta flHdrPJWPd hv the RftV. Mr. Corley, of Newberry, at 11 o'clock A. M.t and in the evening the Rev. W. H. Lawton preached in the same church to a laree and appreciative congregation. Rev. Mr. Corley preached at night. The mnny friends of Mr. W. P. Lipford sympathize with him in the loss of his child Inst week. EAST END. WELCOME ECHOES FBOU A DISTANT HILL. Kind Word* Tor the "Pi-chh and Banner," The Road Law Should be Publishcd">HeaIth, Sickness, Life, and Death. Mt. Cakmf.l Mny 30, 1887. Mr. Editor: In a recent Issue of your puper I noticed tin nrticle setting forth the law on trespass; and I have heard it spoken of by some of your renders In very complimentary terms and as being instrumental in doing much good, and placing the law before the masses of the people who would never have an opportunity of seeing the Statute book. Your readers would like you to give them the "lload Law" in a short plain way so as to be understood by the people. Your correspondent Joins in the request that you from time, and at your convenience ventilate these laws of common every-day use, and bring them before your many readers in a condensed form iiuu 111 piuni muguugc IU uc uuunsvuvxi uj all. We are still longing and waiting for rain. Our grain crops are In sections almost gone, corn and cotton will sutler soon if we <lo not hnve raiu. Sickness Is still in our community, Mrs. M. C. Powell is better. Mrs. Isa Morrab Is quite sick. Mt. Carmel's public schools will run four months and three weeks. A heavy storm of wind here on 26th inst. damage excpt to fences. Mt. Gunnel's town council will place its Ordinances before the people soon. Look out for them, as they will be enforced to the letter. T. O. Baker Is going ahead with his college. Worlc still progresses on the Presbyterian church. Mt. Carmel's Temperance Social and Literary Club met Friday evening 27th inst., President Patterson in the chair. Several addresses were made and recitations, essays, and readings by several ladles A^er which five new members were added. Upon the whole, our club Is fast gaining ground and Interest promises to be of lasting benefit to this pec pie. Our High School had Its usual interesting exercises on Friday afternoon, Mr. J. P. Smith delivering a pointed and timely address on education, which was well received by a large crowd of visitors, assembled to hear (lie varied and interesting exercises of the afternoon. I think all went from those halls of learning feeling wiser and better, for the Instruction and pleasures of the afternoon. Miss Mercler of Georgia Is here on a visit to her father. Capt. Betts Is moving toLowndesvllleto take charge of a section there. We regret losing him but. congratulate him on bis good luck. The sick of our community are Improving. Miss Fannie Dyson of Newberry is visiting relatives here. Prospects this morning for rain are good. JUST THE MAN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. -? The Testimony of a Former Pupil as to Mr. John Gadsden's Eminent Fitness for the Plaee. Sewanee, Ten jr., May 21,1887. Editor Prcs* and Banner: Hearing that President McBride expects to resign Ills post at the South Carolina College, and hearing also the name of Mr. John Gadsden, of Suinincrvlllc, proposed as his successor. I beg your permission to make known, throuzh your columns, my own personal knowledge of Mr. Gadsden's rare abilities as u disciplinarian. I attended Dr. Porter's school in Charleston for about three and a half years during which time I was necessarily broug it into frequent contact with Mr.Gadsden.be being the principal of the school, aod I can state that few Indeed are trie menwnocouiu have tilled that high position in the admirable wnv in which he did. Mr. Gadsden is a man of the deepest rcliidous character, having the highest sense of duty and honor. Mo is moreover blessed with a sound and vigorous mind and endowed with a large share of sterling common sense. Possessing to an eminent degree the amount of sternness nccessarv to the head of an institution, he unite* this quality to an affability which wins the love, and a dignity which commends the respect of all those over whom he is placed. I feel that in paying Mr. Gadsden tills tribute, I voice, though very inadequately, the sentiments of all or, at any rale, of almost all of die alumni of the Holy Communion Church Institute, who knew that institution In its prime, when he was its principal. There Is 110 vacillation in Mr. Gadsden's character. He knows how to stand firm in all cases and to adhere to what. Is right, be it against opposition or not. Therefore the most implicit confidence can be placed in him, since every one knows that he will.stick to what he has laid down as a rule. Not that, he would persistently cling to any rule which proved to be inadvisable, for his sound common sense would prevent that.; but in general he closely observes all rules laid down, as Indeed, lie utiilfnluhlv should. PosResslnir all these and many other excellent qualities essential to the head of an Institution of any sort, whether it be a school or a college, Mr. Gadsden Is ultnir:ibly fitted for the position for which his name Is proposed. To sum up briefly I would >ay that as a Christian, a scholar, and a jrcnllcman, Mr. John Gadsden is just tlio man for the Presidency of our state College, and I as me ill his former charges desire to express, ii my own county paper, my humble opinion ivhieh is derived from my own pergonal expl* ience and also irom the similar experience of fellow alumni of the Institution iu which he resided. I remain, Yours very respectfully, 0. T. PORCHER.