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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S.C* Wednesday, June 8, 1887. THE MISSION OF THE PRESS. The Xnrae of Domestic Purity and I the Guardian of Public Virtue*** The Haudinnid of Religion mid the Bnlwark of Liberty --- The ISreat Educator at the Firewide. the Market Place and the Forum. I PREMIUMS TO BE AWARDED : Pitnu nr Slnrv *i? ivjl 111*, uvo. , 815 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 furnish proper newspapers to their | households. 3. Convincing arguments that money spent J for newspapers is worth more to the general J welfare of the family than any equal sum of j mouey spent forany other purpose. 4. Besides the above, any other thoughts or suggeetlons which may go to impress the people with the fact that the newspaper Is scarcely less important to the family and the youth of the country than the school teacher and the pulpit orator. The undersigned desiriug to give increased Interest to the columns of the Press and Banner, proposes to award the above named premiums to the best and second best essay or tory, upon the subject indicated. Awards will be made by a aommlttee of three disinterested gentlemen. The essays or stories to be handed in by the first of September next, the writers giving asHumed names, and keeping back their 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 essays or stories fail to merit the prices offered. Ali essays or stories submitted to be the property of the Press and Banner. Address PRESS AND BANNER, Abbeville, S. C. He Can Get the Figures. The Abbeville Press and Banner declares that "our fathers did not believe In public education, and they had fewer illiterate children than we have to-day." We should like to see the figures. But even if this statement is true, It furnishes no argument against free education. In fact if illiteracy has increased, that increase is due to the very lack of school facilities which it is the purpose of the present system to supply. It is too late, in this day und generation, to oppose free schools. They are here to stay.? W'iruufcoro News and Herald. * * 4 1111 r* trv ho nns II our cornealpurmj- ?o mmub r- . sessed of the facts which go to prove that 11 literacy among the white citizens of this State has greatly increased since the government has undertaken to educate our children, let him examine the U. S. Census?a book which all advocates of the presentpnbllc school sys* tern seem to have carefully ignored. By a comparison of figures It will be seen that the present per cent, of illiteracy among the whites is about three times as great, when we appropriate half million for educational purposes, as it was in 1830, when only $25,000 was appropriated for public education. It seems to us that those of our brethren who are willing to look facts fairly In the face, might be convinced that the present school system is demoralizing and Injurious to our people." Our friend, the Winnsboro Kcws and Herald, It is fair to state, however, Is In favor of as lit. tie public educailon as possible?that paper being in favor dividing out the public money with the teachers in the largest monthly payments, and consequently for the least possible service. Before the war the price of teaching a public scholar was five cents a day, and we do not recollect that any scholar was ever refused admittance to any school, and before the war we never heard of teachers forming Associations, or Unions, to advocate the absorutlon of the public fund for less labor than was then required for the money. It will not be forgotten that we had better schools under the old system than we have now. No Need for Certificate* of Character. Yesterduy evening three women of ill repute, Mary Elliott, Fannie Hoskins and Jennie Shelby, were arrested and carried before the Mayor on a charge of keeping disorderly houses.?Charlotte Observer. The fact that the women "were arrested and carried before the Mayor on a charge of keeping a disorderly house," Is, we presume, a legitimate subject for newspaper remark, but we submit that this old stereotyped plan of giving a certificate of character to such women or to anybody else, is, nine times out of ten, entirely out of place, and should be abandoned. The reading public have nothing at all to do with the "ill repute" of anybody. Such reports as the above is on a pur with the average newspaper report of a homicide, where a white man has shot a negro. That vehicle of information almost iuvariably gives the slayer a certificate of good character while the same paper almost as certainly certifies that the killed man was "dangerous." These reports, It seems to us, might be stereotyped with names and dates left blunk, and sent to the different offices for use on proper occasions. "UTVktvla r\f nwilflo r\r ^nanrp upp tnn oftpn In. dulged in in the old regulation style of report. If It should be a wealthy and prominent citizen whose name is mentioned the reporter too often lugs in irrelevant eulogy and fulsome praise, but it the name or a poor unfrlendless outcast is mentioned In the newspapers her Bhame and "ill repute" is almost certain to be brought prominently iorward. Too many newspaper men act like school boys, and write after "set copies." Not one reporter in a thousand can give good reason for lugging In a certificate of character to . anybody, and it is seldom indeed that he need to Insert the inevitable "we." The reporter being self-conBCioqs, often interlards his own opinion when stating matters which are presumed to be facts. Endeninc Our Position In a Left Handed Way. . The Palmetto Pott of last week says: "The Abbetdlle Prtus and Banner of last week takes to task the Courts of the State, and especially the Supreme Court, in the following words more caustic than polite, but which we must confess may be to some extent deserving. It is a little unfortunate, however, that It is in obedience to the spirit of our age of iconoclasm to criticise and to seek to degrade all that once was above rebuke, and, in things religious as well as things civil, the tendency is to pull down the pillars that sustain the one and to bedraggle the ermine that once dignified the other." We would be glad if our friend would state wherein our article was not "polite." That paper says the Court was "once above rebuke." Wo think the personal character of the Judges to-day Is just as good as it ever was before the war. We spoke of the judicial errors of the Court, and l.ad no reference at ull to personal character. The best man In the world may commit an error. It Is nut for a newspaper to "bedraggle Judicial ermine." The Court itself must do that, If it is done. The "Rejjiiiter." The announcement is made in the newspapers that Col. J. W. 11. Pope has resigned his position as editor of the Columbia Register^ Colonel Pope Is a vigorous writer, an honest man, and an untiring worker, and we are sorry to lose him from the ranks of journalism, but If he will retire we know of no bettor man for the place than Col. John P. Thomas, whose ability as an orator and a writer is so well known to our people. Colonel Thomas is a flue scholar, a bold thinker, and an independent speaker. We extend good wishes to both the retiring and the Incoming editor. Old Pistol*. The sad accident of last Saturday by which a beloved son of Mr. R. W. Majors, of Greenwood, lost his life is one more solemn warning against the carelefis handling of firearms. The list of accidents by which human life Is lost Is appalling, and almost sufficient to cause pistols aud guus to be banished from lilt? iiuuacnuiua. it ia a icuuui uuug vw w ?..v innocent subject of an accident whereby life or limb is lost. It is a dreadful thing lor a loving brother's carelessness to make one chair vacant around the family hearthstone. Within the last month two accidents of this kind have occurred in Abbeville county, and two bright young lads have been in that time needlessly laid in their graves, for whom two sorrowing brothers will mourn until they shall be no more on earth. The writer ol this paragraph in bis youth, accidentally discharged a gun, which came so near killing a sister, that he laid his gun away, and never used It again, except when circumstances demanded It. The old pistol which killed Mr. Majors son last Saturday had been loaded since 187G, and when the brothers were playing with it, the load was discharged, and a bright little boy is no more. Let the "Palmetto Pout" be Ju?t. The last week's issue of the Abbeville Press and Banner has gone almost into personalities. and the exulted head of our Church is most bitterly calumniated because he dares to exercise the rights with which he is endowed by virtue of his high office.?Palmetto Post. We submit that our brother has done the Press and Banner an Injustice in the above. The Press and Banner remarked upon the Bishop's official action, and upon the facts as given iu the newspapers. For the Bishop's personal character the Press and Banner has due and proper respect, but even if our friend in a fit of uuklndness should choose to put an evil construction upon what we said, it is still unjust to us and to the Bishop personally, whose private character and moral worth it has never been the desire of the Press and Banner Io depreciate in the least. The Press and Banner "calumniates" nobody, and we hope that our brother who would not intenHnnoiiviinns n wronp. will set us right be fore bis readers. Capital lata .Hunt be Grateful for the Country Editor's Solicitude. 'Our moneyed men should go to work and build a cotton factory and a cotton seed oil mill. They are paying institutions. Then we should have a wood working factory, to make wagons, plow stocks, and all those thlugs. Factories give employment to intelllgentand skilled labor, and would help more than anything else to build up our town. We desire to see it a manufactoring town, and then we would feel that it was on the sure road to permanent success." The above i6 a fair sample of the average country editor's advice to capitalists, and we take it for granted that the capitalists are profoundly grateful to the various impecunious editors for their solicitude in behalf of those of their number who do not know how to manage their money. The capitalists, as a rule, are doing very well. It is the idle and the improvident citizen who Is not thrifty. We have a wealth of bone and sinew in this country, and the sooner we utilize it, the better for us and the country. The few capitalists can take care of themselves. Sickness, Doctor's Bills, Deatb, Funerals. These are terrible words to most of us. We can avoid all if we obey the laws of health and keep our wells clean. The recent rains will send surface water Into our wells. The Bunace waiei vuul is uiwricu uiuu^u naj which Is poisoned with death producing germs, will certainly brine typhoid fever. Typhoid fever entails terrible consequences. Let us clean out our wells, and take no risk. No matter how clear and sparkling the water, If It contains the poison which makes typhoid fever, the evil which follows, will come to our dwellings. Let no man forget that there should be no case of typhoid fever. Typhoid fover Is absolutely and positively a filth disease, and we may be to blame If our households are afflict* ed. Draw all the water out of your wells' and do it now. More Xejjro Children Burnt to Death. Another Instance of a colored woman locking her little children in the house, before taking leave of the premises, Is related by our Greenwood correspondent. This matter of burning dwellings and negro childreu is becoming monotonous. There seems to be method In the process, and the story is always the same. Scarcely a week passes that the newspapers do not record the burning of a negro cabin in which little children, were stored and safely locked. The frequency of such occurences should lead our Legislators [ to devise some means to stop child murder In this way. A law wbicb would severely punish any one for locking children in houses would be effective, and wonld no doubt stop this plan of child-murder. The number o of children that have been burnt to death ; Is appalling, and the act deserves moral < censure and legal punishment. A Calamity Tor Clinton. We see that the Clinton Enterprise threat- ' ens to add an "Educational (?) Department." ( Of course an "educational department," so- I called, means warfare on long term schools, j and the advocacy of the early exhaustion of , the public fund. These "educational depart- ] inenjs" are wrongly named. Is it a part of the teachings of the ''Teachers Unions" to take | charge of the local press to advocate high ( salaries? We have failed to notice that any j "educatlonol department" has acted for the , Interest of the children. We bellevo they all | want big pay for the teachers, and conse- 1 quently short sessions for the children. The children are sadley in need of representation i among the press of the state. Injurious to the Author, nnd Harm- 1 Ie?H to the Object of His Spile. J The article in the Churchman In reply J to the News and Courier Is about as objectionable a piece of literature as we remember to have seen in print. We believe that any inan possessing good intelligence, or claiming to be a priest, with a commission from the MostHigb,should blush to acknowl- ] edge the authorship. In the eyes of the pub. i lie it must certainly be more damaging to , the writer than to the intended victim of his theological hate and his editorial mlsrepre- 1 sentation. Can't BUI Arp be Nupprenaed ? ! Bill Arp now writes much for the newspa- i pers. If some enterprising editor could hire him to stop writing he would do the public a < great service. His stock of Ideas seem to have been long since exhausted. The .dManfa Con- ( stitutian has contracted with Dr. W. L. Jones to write exclusively for his paper. Now, if , the Constitution, could manage to suppress Hill Arp the fame and greatness of that paper would be immortalized. Banner-Watchman. The "trade issue" or the "Review of the Railroads, the City of Athens, and Its Surroundings," by the Banner-Watchman is the finest specimen of newspaper enterprise tliat we have seen In many a duy. The Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway makes a prominent and interesting feature of the paper. ? Query. If that part of a newspaper which Is devoted to the pecuniary interests of the toacber in enabling him to appropriate the public fund for the least service possible, may be properly called an "Educational Department," what may the remaining columns of the paper be properly called? Dk. Wilson is off to Atlanta, to be gone a week. TasSom of Temperance met lant Monday night. ' THE POCKET NERVE. OUR SYSTEM OF LAWS IS CRITICISEDTEE FARMERS ARE LECTURED. lion. F. A. Connor Writes n Letter, which will Receive the Attention of Every Iteailer oi? the Pre** and Banner. Editor Press and Banner: There Is considerable restlveness among the people on the subject of taxation, as was indicated by the "farmer's movement" of last. year. J don't mean to speak ol it as a dead movement, though it has nut exhibited much lite for some months pust. No candid fair-minded man can object to a combination on the part of tanner* to better their condition by new methods and by the reiormauou 01 governmental abuses. The objection to this farmer's movement, that they will mix politics with it, is all bosh. For the object they have in view could not be accomplished without having some political phase. Politics is the science ol government, and for the preservation of the safety, peace and prosperity of the State, and the protection of its citizens in their rights; and if you eliminate all politics you take the very life out of the movement, and make it merely an agricultural club. And what could such an organltation do towards reforming governmental abuses, if there be such. There certainly has been depression enough in their business of farming for the last few years to arouse them to unity of effort in finding a remedy; but they are unlike the professions, in" that thoy have never been known to stick together long enough to accomplish their object. It Is possible for them to do so, butwili they dolt? Judging the future by the past I fear not. It will take wise, prudent leaders all over the State, and there certainly ought to be intelligence enough among them to furnish such leaders. There are other things to engage their attention besides the ordluary taxes levied to run the government. So far as the State taxes are concerned, I do not see how they can be materially lowered without lowering the dignity of the government, and lessening the efllclency of its administration. There are but few States inj,he Union that levy as small a tax as south Carolina does. This, then, is not the burden that Is bearing the people down and we must look for !t somewhere else. Natural causes of course have added to our depression, but I don't propose to suggest a remedy for them. The whole St&te tax is less than Ave mills, and yet It takes nearly as much to run the government of Abbeville county. There is no sense in this, and no necessity for it. The county machinery is too cumbrous lor sucli a population as ours. It was the policy of radical legislatures to create offices lor their leaders: it should be ours to lessen them for the good of the people. It is not for me to dralt a county government more simple, more efficient. ana less expensive than the present. I merely wish to direct public attention to it, and every thoughtful man cbd suggest some change. .If it were my present purpose to go into this subject I might ask what is the necessity for a Master in Equity, paid County Commissioners, with so much power and so little service, paid Superintendents of Education, anda Jury Commlsssoner? Sve don't seem to be as patriotic as before the war. Citizens do uot seem willing to serve the public without pay, because it is provided for them, and of course they will take it. Drop it, and you will And plenty ol patriotic, public-spirited citizens who will give a small portion ol their time lor the public good. Another evil is, we have had too many lawyers in the Legislature to make laws for our government, and to suborn their owo interests. Is it not human nature for them to keep outol sight their ices una commissions v me object suggestive of this communication is to bring to the attention of the people the subject of mortgages, and the expense of their foreclosure. I trust the lawyers and officials, and printers will pardon me for telling the people how severe a tax is all this machinery to them. Let me say that the people who give mortgages pay all the expense of foreclosure If their property will do it, and any man who mortgages a tract of land and submits to a foreclosue, will pay in costs, in a single case, more money than would pay his taxes to the State for ten years. If people aro obliged to give mortgages I would advise them never to give the old style mortgage that has to run through the court machinery, for attorneys, clerk, sheriff, master, all the printers iu town, and the auctioneer, are to have a dig at it before it can begotten through. Use the Scotch mortgage, or,as it is sometimes called "lightning mortgage." I will show the vast difference In the expense of the two by an example of each kind which I had foreclosed this year : One was of the usual kind, and 1111 order of foreclosure was obtained from the Court with the following bill of expenses : Attorneys ?3S oo Clerk 9 70 Sheriff. 1 50 Muster 21 00 Printing. 12 00 Filling u-blank deed 3 00 Making a grand totnl of. 20 Now in this case there was no answer made to the twenty dollars summons and complaint and attorney, no litigation, no wltuess- ( en, no specch. The land sold brought Soon. The next case was a tract of land sold under a "Scotch mortgage," where power to sell was given by the mortgagor. The costlu this case i was: Advertising S3 00 Auctioneer 1 00 Total 00 It must be borne in mind that the mortga- < gor Is liable for all the expenses of foreclosure. , What a burden of tax this is upon those who ttud it necessary to mortgage their property to 1 carry on their business. why then give or tuke such mortgages ? Lawyers will discour- . age vou <ron? taking or giving a inortgiigo 1 with power to foreclose, hut I can hardly say ] this is disinterested advice, tor I see that t some lawyers, and some Judges, take them. , Now, I am not charging these officials with doing any thing wrong, for I suppose their charges are in accordance with the fee bill. But the "Fee Bill" is wrong, and who made ^ It? The lawyers in the legislature, with the acqulcsence of the farmers. They know that : these exorbitant charges are all wrong, but > they are on the statute book, and lawyers i will avail themselves of it, for there Is a good [ deal of human nature to the square Inch In . lawyers. One of the Intelligent, conscientious | officials In the case above rel'ered to, admitted to ine that they were too high and should Lie t reformed, and that this subject was now before the Bar Association. I would not array i>ne class of our citizens against another, but 1 tiero are stern facts to face. The Intelligent | lawyers In the legislature, though in the mi- 1 norltv, control legislation, and are respond- . t)le for these high, exorbitant, I may say, fee J L>1 lis, and if they are not more considerate of ' the interest of the large mass ot the people i they will be left at home, and the legislature will be tilled with farmers and others, Inexperienced In legislation, and perhaps as great I svlls, or greater, may follow. a But why go to law at all ? Is it unreasona- i ale to suggest that in nine cases out of ten, * inferences between neighbors can be settled ' ay a Jury of their selection with iar more [ justice and equity than by the average jury I irawn for our courts. A system tor this pur- t pose that would work well, and save a large . tmountofhard earned money could be for- * mulated by the farmers clubs or conventions. 1 \L least it Is worthy of trial, lu view of the jucertainty of the law. Lawyers dlttcr about 1 aw. Judges differ, even the .supreme Judges t Jitter and rush Into errors occasionally. . There docs seem to be a necessity for leglsla- 1 lures to frume laws so that judges at least can understand them. I might say something i ibout the cost of winding up small estates i aut the above may be regarded by some as sufficiently querulous. 1 F. A. CONNOR. v Cokesbury, June 6, 18S7. t " ' a Prohibition ElcctioiiN. t Wo copy from the Charlotte Observer the fol- j lowing facts as to the Prohibition election in | the places named, which took place last Mon- i lay: Charlotte, license majority 40. Last June the license majority at a similar election was , 129. ! The majority for prohibition In Kalelgh Is i 11, out ol u total vote poiieu 01 z.oio. ; Concord, N. C., June 6.?'Township?Prohi- , bltion 324, anti-prohibition 111. Town of Concord?Prohibition 227, anti-prohlbltlon 1)9. J Winston, X. C., June U.- The vote here to- f (lay resulted In u complete victory lor the s "wets." ? The election In Monroe to-dny resulted in a ^ victory tor ttie prohibitionists by a majority . at 54. It will thus bo seen that prohibition Is gain- | ing ground,and that the territory for licensed ? whiskey is being constantly circumscribed. Abbeville, it Is believed, will fall Into line at the proper time. ;i Fighting Their Hat ties Over. ' There Is on the part of many old soldiers an h Irresistible desire to visit again the battle c fields on which they twenty-live years ago t Faced shotaud shell amid scenes of death and t destruction. To gratify this desire Judge s Lyon and Cuntaln J. E. liradley joined the c sxcursionlsts on their trip to Washington, j" During their absence they went to Munasses, rj find of them we find the following notice in ], Lhe Fairfax Herald of J tine 3: ' On Tuesday, Judge J. Fuller Lyon and Capt. t I. E. Bradlev, ot Abbeville, S. t\, (formerly s members of Co. C., 7th S. C., Infantry, lkmbam's brigade, C. S. A.) were here for the purpose of re-visiting scenes made familiar to them in the early days of the war. They took * private conveyance for Manasses In order to Jl see again the spot on Hull Kun where they first experienced the sensation of being under (Ire. They were pleasant gentlemen and we o hope they will come this way again and stay t longer. p d The Infant of Judge Kausom died yester- y lay. 3 9 The anarchist organizations in Chicago have disbanded formally. Eighty-one of the eighty-eight counties in Ohio are organized for prohibition party work. A terrible cyclone has occnred at Calcntta. A local steamer with 750 passengers is missing. Lightning conductors were first set up for tho protection of buildings by Franklin shortly after 1752. Dr. X. S. Davis, of Chicago, during a half century or practice lias not once prescribed alcoholic, liquor. One more whack at railroad legislation, and the conductor will have to pay his fare like the passengers. The United .State.'? liquor traders have agreed to raise, by a trade tax, ?1,500,000 for political purposes in 1888. Ex-Vice President Win. IT. Wheeler, died at his home in Malone, N..Y., at 10. 10 o'clock on Saterday morning. The bodies of 000 Chinese are about to be disinterred at San Francisco and shipped to China for final interment. The citv council, of Athens, Ga., has dismissed one-third of the police force sinco prohibition went into effect there. Mr. John A. Elkins and Mre. Elsie E. McKnight were married by Rev. T. E. Morris on the evening of May 20, 1887. W. W, Corcoran, the aged millionare and philanthropist of Washington city was stricken with paralysis last Monday. The five men who took the most active part in the plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia on March 13, were executed May 10. The otter's real value is recognized by the Chineso alone. They train them to fish, and a well-trained otter is worth ?200. "Where the ablest preachers get the largest salaries, the religious census makes the worst exhibit.."?Rev. Dr. May lifts in Western Advocate. The bonds of the Asheville and Spartanburg Rai.road have been bought up by a syndicate believed to be acting for the Richmond & Danville Terminal Company. The forest fires, which have devastated the northern peninsula of Michigan during the past fortnight caused a total ioss of $7,000,000. Eight lives are known to have been lost. The central crater at Mount Etna besan erupting May 31. The flow contin ucs andis increasing in volume. Heavy clouds of stnoko and masses of stones anil cinders are issuing from the crater. A woman at Grand Rapids, Mich., recovered >'9,500 damages against a rumseller who sold liquor to lier husband, under the influence of which lie killed a man and for that crime was sent to prison for life. The Clarendon Enterprise says that William II. Young killed a spider the other day that was so large that it drew a young chicken into its web a foootfrom the ground. The spider measured four inches from tip to tip of legs. A column has been erected in Rome on Monte Pincio, with this inscription: "The neighboring palace, once the broperty of the Medicis, was the prison of Galileo, who was guilty of having seen that the earth revolved round the sun." A preacher in the Northwest is said to have preached ail entire year for a salary of two dollars, payable in bacon. The n?.u.vVi?.r r,,,. ?i,;u U(l[JC71 >U1IVI1 Id (lUI.IIUIlbJ IU1 lino ?u?vtrnution says that the reverend gentleman escaped from the place with his life. Henry George, who is clamoring for a division of property, roceiyed ?75 for an hour's lecture the other night. The janitor of the hall received only 75 cents, but Mr. Georgo did not offer to divide with him.?Norri&tovm Herald.. l>r. A. Webster was married Juno l to MissS. 0. Purduiri, the matron of the Industrial Jlomcof the Clailin University. The ceremony was performed on the campus ground of the College immediately after tho closing of commencement exercises. Sixty-five thousand persons, now residents of Europe, hold tickets for America, and are only waiting for tho steamers to bring them over. Europe has many great statesmen, but they don't appear to know how to make life worth living for their fellow-countrymen.?Jioston Globe. An employer in a Rhode Island factory town recently paid his employees 3700 on Saturday in new bills secretly marked* Dn tho following Monday $400 of these bills were placed in bank "by tho saloonkeepers of tho place. Tho cloekmaking industry of Connecticut, which has supplied such a large portion of tho world with timepieces, was jtarted a century ago by Abiel Peace, who whittled out his lirst clock with a acknife. jjui mero is not suuiuiuuig iuuiluh^ wrong in our school system if the work )t instruction is made so laborious that .eacbers need to rest one-fourth of tbe fear? Change they probably do need; jut their regular work should not be so Manned as to depress their natural vigor. kVe need healthy men and women to rain the young. Rev. T. D. Witherspoon, pastor of the [?'irst Presbyteriyn church, Louisville, Kentucky, has been elected to succeed lev. Dr. James Woodrow in the chair of S'atural Science iri Connection with Reveation, in the Columbia Tlieologibal Semnary, South Carolina. 1 The United Brewers' Associotion at j Baltimore last week passed resolutions ippropriating ?5.000 for the brewers of Michigan, ?5,000 for the brewers of Texas, md ?3,000 for the brewers of Tennessee, 1 he money to be used in defeating Pro-. 1 libition in these States. It is to the in- J erest of these men to give money ; their ! trolits allow it. While temperanco men i :annot conscientiously buy votes, they 1 night to spend fully as much as the ' jrewers will spend in that way in dis- j ributing information and making ap- ( )eal. < TheSoutli Carolina Press Association j net in Charleston last Thursday night. Ur. W. M. Jones of the &partnnburg I Herald delivered an admirable address in 1 vhich he discussed railroad discranina- 1 ions. The JVece.s and Courier extended . m invitation to tako a boat ride around i lie harbor which was accepted witu >leasure. The meeting adjourned on Friday, and at live o'clock several mem>ers of the Press Association sailed lor ''Jew York. Franklin J. Moses, who, as Governor >f South Carolina, at one time occupied a arge share of public attention, but who s now an occupant of the Massachusetts State Prison, has been pardoned by (jovirnor Ames, and will be releasted from jonfinement as soon as the customary onnalities am be complied with. The Grange career of Moses finally culminated in the forgery of the name of Thomas >Ventworth lligginson, the author, early n the year 18S5. In October of that year 10 was sentenced to three years in tho State prison. It has been represented hat Moses was in poor health and could lot livo long. Tho course taken by lightning is not ilways explicable by any laws yet ' niown. May fi a thunderstorm passed ver Bingham ton. Two boys were in the ame bed, One was instantly killed, the ither not injured. At Stamford, Conn., welyo or fifteen years ago, three boys ook refuge from a storm in a barn. They J1 at close together in a rcw, 'j'lie comer j ?ne was uninjured, tho others killed. In j . tent, a .side-show to a circus, were a j lumber of persons, black and white, t The tent was struck, livery Negro was 1 lilled and not a single white person. *' 'He sendeth forth lightnings and d i scorniteth theni, or directeth them, is yet true, t o far as science can show, in many cases. ? Never before has such bargains been oireral J] ? you will Unit lit \V. E. Bell's. 0-S ?; The Palmetto Saloon enjoys the reputation f selling more pure gooils tor medicinal US'3 s ban any other saloon In the South. You can r eta milk shake, or any other temperate e rink. Terms cash. Bring the money with p ou, or send It with i.be order. Tbommj r IcQettlgau, Proprietor. C-S ; TIE SIN JF INDIFFERENCE, i PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PA- ] RENTAL DUTY, THE HIGHEST TRUST AND THE MOST IMPORTANT HUMAN OBLIGATION. Althnueh Peter luul Denied liis I.ord, I Vn< IT a l'lilrnvtoil Him liitli <lx> Feeding of UIm LainbN. ? Delivered in the Methodist Churcli, before ! the Abbeville County Sabbath School Conference, at Abbeville, May 6, 1887, by Rev. W. Smith Martin, Fourth Anniversary Orator. "Feed my lambs."?John xxl, 15. Our text Is suggestive as well as applicable, and we take It, as a foundation lor the consideration, of parental duty, and parental responsibility. As we are about to consider the most vital subject underlying the social institution, and the religious lile of the world, I would insist that we in the very outset of this occasion, feel the force of this command as applied to us. Such a force is necessary, in order to feci the applicable effect of Divine truth, touchingand supporting the main principles of our 1 Christian lives and characters at any time 1 uuu UUUU mi uutnoii'ii^ As the chief mission of Christian parents should be to rear, educate, and protect the lambs intrusted to their care, I deem It appropriate to call to mind by way of reinem- 1 brance, the solemn duties of this solemn relation. It is the first and all Important sub- 1 jftctin time of war. and In time of peace?In t'me of any and all preparation for higher and nobler attainments in the world of cirll- ( Iisatlon, and in the advanced steps of religious I Ight and Improvement. The world cannot advunce to the neglect of 1 this subject. It must keep puce with all growth, all improvement.iand all true civilization. All history shows that when this Is ! neglected, there is a corresponding nbaternentof all the essential traits of true life and 1 character, which, if not neglected, lead to per- ! fectlon, and culminate In heaven. This family relation Is divinely designed as 1 the chief auxiliary forcultivnting, developing < r.nd bringing out all the purer and liner feelings of the human heart, the development of which Is a vast uncertainty, without these I home aDd parental Influences. This Peter had once asserted his willing- I ness to die with Christ, and then when the trial hour came, denied ever to have known ' him. Having repented, and having wept bitterly over his shameful folly and cowardly 1 J'all. he was again restored to the favor and 1 confidence of his Master. The whole scene of human trial as enacted 1 and endured by the Saviour was now over, j The struggles of tho cross had passed, the ' death groans which had possessed his soul 1 toad ended, and the glory of his resurrection 1 morn had already gilded Golgotha's bloody : heights, and the hearts of the auxious disci- ' pies had been gladdened by the confirmation of an eternal salvation, In behalf of a lost and ruined world. The Saviour and his dls- 1 olples had partaken of their last meal together, and now before his final departure he ' would settle and strengthen Peters faith by way of remembrance. This question, ' {jimon Peter, son of Jonas, J lovest thou me f' doubtless called to his mind the denial he had so recently made, and 1 then the command which followed Peter's answer, "/-feed viy lambs" could hardly be forgotten In this connection, especially when he had It so frequently repeated to him. Christ told Peter to feed the lambs, notwithstanding his past unfaithfulness. He did not give him any special plan by which to do the work, but lefthim to do it according to the best and most eftectunl means afforded. This Is God's economy to-day, both for Sunday school and parental training, as well us for all church acd evangelical growth. God's plans for the accomplishment of right ore very elastic. We are never shut up to any apostolic rule or mode, but wc are always left free, to adjust divine machinery, so at to suit ; the times and the demands of the hour. i Now, the lambs referred 10 In the text, were i the weak and helpless followers, who, like ( Peter, were liable to fall. Jesus Christintend- \ ed that Peter's experience should be worth something to him. and that ho should protect , and enlighten those under his care, and there- | by fortifying them against his own mistakes. He was exhorted as a test of his love for ( Christ, to feed the lambs and the sbcep of j God. ,> The force of this passage Is only felt when i we apply it to ourselves, and I claltn that as ( it enlarged Peter's conception of life, duty and < responsibility, as he stood related to those he | was expected to teach; so we to-day, should feel its force, as parents, standing closely related to our children, as Peter was to those under his care and spiritual guidance. The responsibility "of training the young is fearfully groat in any department, but that of parents, moulding thought and feeling which < are to outlive family relatives and bo lost only in the Infinite possibilities of eternity, , is by far the most Important work and the ( most fearful responsibility of life. No higher , honor could be conferred upon us than to have in trust the future welfare of our own offspring, and yet no greater responsibility 1 could be imposed. A lasting honor always carries with It re- i sponslbillty. Peter's fall did not slacken responsibility norrenderlessblndinghlH lifetime obligations. His denial of Christ did not for- , ever disqualify htm lor feeding the flock, and J protecting those who were entrusted to his cure. Faith in Christ made the doubling Peter strong, and armed with this panoply, he ? was ready to do and to dare. His own exper- t ience had been to him a warning, and raith i In God made him sympathetic, and with the j enlightenment of the spirit he was a quali- t tied shepherd of the fold of God. Llsteu to the application, every parent in this congregation, and then think of your own case. As the shortcomings of Peter failed to lessen his duty or Ills obligations to God, so your shortcomings and parental failures fail to release you. God expects, yea demands, just as much of you as if you were fully up to the f great demands of the hour. Duty done, does . not make the demand for future duly any s greater, and duty left undone, does not make the future demand any less. ti.q ?r>caihiHtlpR nf vnur life and vour dutv to your children, are fixed and determined by the unavoidable circumstances which surround you, and God expects you to reach i that standard. * it Is with you to fall, or not to fall, but re- c sponslblllty stands the same. The possiblll- * ties of Peter's life were Just as binding when he stood blisphemlngly denying Christ, as when lie stood before him and said. "Yea, Lord, tbou knowest that I love thee.'' Peter had tried toshift ofl'theresponslbility.and ignore thedivine claim, but it still remained. So It does with every man. Asa parent you ~ may try to lighten your burdens by entrust- _ Ing the moral and spiritual education of your J i-hlldren to others, but my friend, your experiment will fail. Some think if they can get the Sunday- F ichool to take charge of the children that they are free and tlio children safe. This is e Mie of the biggest mistakes of parental life. Sunday school prlvjlegesdo notlcssen parent- . U work. They only act as auxiliaries, 16 as- \ sistln fixing Indelibly upon the young mind . ?. . .1 . ?rfrilt), n in<I Iieiiri, MJU gl'UUl irniMfiin UI W! v.mw., r and of God, which we are expeetcd to begin it home. The Christian parents who are liv- Cl Ing and depending on the Sunday school or any other institution to do the work entrust- n 2d to their care,are laborlngundera delusion, 81 ind practically transmitting to their chil- {} Jren a lamentable indifference. The great command made of every parent is J* io "feed" the "lambs," and Sabbath school ad- IJ vantages are but part of tho food wc are ex- a. pected to impart unto them. 81 This expression has a high and spiritual significance. It means more than looking alter bodily wants. It means more than intelectuni improvement. It lias reference to the ifeof faitli, of love, and of spiritual attainment. Parents in this country need but Utile injunction as to the bodily comforts and jeneflts of their children. There need be but 1J lttle said to them as to the pleasures and so:lal advantages they should give them, but the greater and higher interests of the chilIreu have to be constantly insisted upon, and _ ?veu then, thousands grow up unfed, to fain- * sh and die for want of parental spiritual care. }, how terrible the thought of a boy or a girl jeing parentally neglected so far as the high;r traits of nature are concerned, while the ittle grovelling, perishing customs of life are magnified until the enlargement becomes a ?iii! The tlrst duty ol the parent Is to look ifter, cultivate, and improve the puro and _ spotless traits of its compound nature. To ~ succeed at this, one thing must be won, and mo lesson carefully taught. L First, you must win the child's confidence. L And secondly, you must always and from the L very beginning, teach it Implicit.obedience. L Prom this statement you can begin to see L pvhat your lile must be. You must be consist- L :nt yourself, or else you never can win the ' L ;tilid's confidence nor force his obedience. IL I'he child must feel your spiritual power. He L nust see blended in you, consistency of char- Licter and life. Confidence besets familiarity, i L - . ..n.lorstamt I L 1?1U IIIUII lilt- jmiviii van ?... ? he child. Oh, that we as piirents could be A iroused on this subject. First of all, live! A ight yourself, and then talk to the children ibout religious life and feeling?what they! ire, and what they arc destined to be. Hrcak | y |own every barrier and let the child bntathe! reely and freshly of the spirit of love wlthiu j-1' 'ourown heart, and you will thereby build a j ortltlcatlou of protection around the young j ifc that will tic stronger than a Chinese wall, | ind which will be able to resist the contlnu-1 *' ins attacks of Satan. j ^ Parents frequently fret too familiar with *' heir children about the coarse, common, I very-day subjects of life, and yet remain to-' al strangers to them, so tar as spiritual iti-i'*1 ercst is concerned. O! how I pily tlie child iho has great religious anxieties and fears Ai lervading the mind, nnd yet lias no parent to! ? rliom lie can go to have these agitations re-' ieved. I vil Such a state of things frequently hauntsj o-ealled Christian homes, and tliis is thtCgu eason why so many, of whom much better is ; ' xpected, drift out, and are lost in the whirl-it'll loot of popular sins. Tlie boys and girls are I < eared Indltl'erent to all religious culture. J Parents protect your children aud feed them I i Jti the pure word of God, and make them believe It oy the fruit of an exemplary life. A want in your life will be seen in the life ol your child. If your religious life Is Indifferent nnd only professsonal, the child will be Indifferent too. In short, the absence of your Influence for good, makes It present for evil. The child Is just what you make It, and that may be the result of Indifference on your purl. If your wantof decided opinion or action agaiust the whiskey traffic, and against moderate drinking. niiikp voursoiin "drunkard, vou are as accountable and as responsible as "if you hail been actively opposed to prohibition. We uwe our children more in the form of decided opinion than we arc apt to think at first glance. 0, how alarming is this parental indifference, and how awful it is in Its two-fold i-on sequences ! Home parents tell us they are not opposed to Sunday school work, nor the good thai work can do, hut they never embark in the enterprise, They are not In opposition to family religion, but they never foeil I heir children on the diet. They do not ubject to individual piety?they like to see "Verybody pious, but they never take much Individual stock in the commodity. They asxent to the religious instruction of the chilli cn, but they prefer others to do the work. They believe in good religious literature being kept up In the family and in tlie Sabbath school, but they never take a religious newspaper, and they never give one dime toward meeting Sabbath school needs. My brother, let me My once for all, you may live non-commital, hut you must die decided. Death will brims out the positive phase of every man's character. The exposure Is Inevitable. You inay not be viciously wrong In your parental teaching, but at the bar of God indifference will amount to criminality. More trouble lies along this line than along nny other. Greater evil grows out of this want of interest than does out of any positive stand against t lie right. Christ says, "feed my lambs." give them religious training, and teach them, pructisally, decision of character, but you are allowing them to ramish or to be red on the low, grovelling husk of sin, which always leads downward. You are accessible to the food, and in reach of all the necessary facilities to make your homes as full of happiness, and as blooming as primeval Paradise, but If you coon at tills poor, miserable rate, indifferent to all the Interest of home and fireside, leaving all to chance, you may expect your daughters to grow up vain and heartless, :ind your boys to drift off into prodigality, dissipation and ruin. And then when the work is done, when the experiment is over, when your offspring ?row up to sauden your heart, and hasten you, a premature, gray-haired sire, to the grave, yon will have no one to blame but yourself. O parents, let me beg you to become awake to the interest of the hour?to the interest of your children?and the im puriHiiiiuie uiiiucucjb ui juiii uumvo. * vu L'an afford to be short-coming In providing for the bodily wants of your offspring: you have not committed a criminal offence, if you lie without leaving them a fortune, but oh! If you leave them no religious example, no precious mottoes and mementoes to cherish ind upon which to feed, no legacy in the form of u christian character, then you will have failed in your own lite, and will have left your children poor indeed. Fortune cannot supply the neglect, and the honored name of an honored sire cannot take the place of a defective and an irreligious education. My brethren, from this hour let us resolve to love more, and see after home religion and the institutions which protect youth, and make sanguine our fondest hopes. Make the children happy but do not Indulge them. Make them ornamental but useful; wise, but not slaves to curiosity. Teach them to be eheerful but not vain, obedient but not slavish, respectful without fear. Train them to 'love God and keep his commandments, for tills is the whole duty of mau, for God shall bring every work Into judgment with every <ecret. thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil." A 111 I c ted J People}? Sympathising; Xcighboni. Dokaldsville, 8. c., Juno 7,1887. There has beeu considerable sickness in and iround Donalds. Dysentery is the prevailing ilsease. Several deaths have occurred. The families of Mr. W. J. Donald and Mr. J. C. Said well have been sorely afflicted the last few days. Mrs. Corrle Donald, wife of Mr. W. J. Donild, died June 1st. Her only child, a sweet little girl of eighteen months, died June 5th. A bright little boy of Mr. J. C. and Mrs. ?aldwell died Juno 6tli, aged seventeen months. These two children were in the vms room. When one was taken out to be juried the other one was laid out on the same table. The sympathies of our community go jut to these families in this their hour of afJiction. 1). R. - By using one cunof prepareJ carriage paint i-ou can paint your buggy for ?1,00 no varnish nee Bsary. Sold by. P. B-Speed. 4-20 Most any article, likely to be wanted, in the Irug line can be found at P. B. Speed. 2-10 Everything on our centre counter has been narked down to prices far below New York :ost. We are determined to close out these joods at once. R. M. Haddon d* Co. You can buy a nice dress at less than manufacturers cost at K. M. Haddon & Co. Don't full to see the bargains ofl'eied this iveek by R. M. Haddon & Co. . < Notice to Debtors & Creditors * LTj persons indebted to the estate of < A. JAMES H. CARLISLE, deceased, will uake immediate payment, and all persons willing claims against m? suiu csiutv *vm ireseni ttic same to the undersigned within 1 hlrty days from date. < J. W. CARLISLE. | June^S, 18S~, -it* Administrator. The Abbeville Hotel, : By J. C. MILLER. PHE TABLE IS WELL FURNISHED. The JL rooms are large and comfortable. 'Iran- ' lent and regular board to suit the times. < May IS, 1887, tf Notice to Creditors. ] \ MEETING of the creditors of the firm of j J. D. Chalmers & Co., is culled for the 8th ( f June, 18S7, at eleven o'clock, A. M., in I lie toreroom whore J. 1). Chalmers & Co. recent- I y did business. ? RICHARD HILL, j Assignee. < May 25,1S87. 2t 4 < Che State of South Carolina, ! ABBEVILLE COUNTY. '' 'robate Court?Citation for Letters of Admin- ] istratlon. < >v J. Fuller Lyon, Esq., Judge Probate court. IITHEREAS, Alice Logan has made suit IV to me to urant lier Letters of Adilnistration of the Estate and efl'ects ol \ <aac Logan, late of Abbeville county, de- , ?ased. j These are therefore, to cite and admonish nit 1 lid singular the kindred and creditors of the n ild Isaac Lojian deceased, that they be r nd appear before me, In the Court of Pro- < ate. to be held at Abbeville C. H? on Mon- i uy, June 13, IS87, after publication hereof, at I o'clock In the forenoon, to show cause if I ay they have, why the said Administration f. liould not be granted. t Given under my hand and seal of the , Court this 28th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven and in the 111th year of American Independence. Published on the 1st day of June, 18S7, ^ i the JVc.m and Jtmuter, and on the Court c louse door for the time required by law. f J. FULLER LYO.N, , Judge Probate Court. . June 1,1SS7, 2t 'iedinont Air-Line, Richmond & u Danville It. K.? Columbia & Greenville Division. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. a IS KKFKCT MAY 9, 1SS7. <j (Trains run oa 75th Meridian time.) SOUTIIBOITSD. SO. 52. SO. 2. ? vc. Ashfville 11 30 am r ve. llendersnnville 12 42 pin 4 ve. Flat Hii'-k 12 55 pm ve. Spartanburg 8 50 pm ; ve. Wallinllu S .>> am t ve. Seneca 0 17 aui II ve. Abbeville 10 45 am j( ve. Laurens S 45 am ft*, ureenvuu*.... j 4u mu ve. Greenwood 1*2 5G pm c* ve. Ninety-Six 1 2i) pui 0 ve. Newberry 3 OS pin ? rr. Columbia 5 07 pm S IK) pin rr. Augusta 9 20 sun *J 20 pui P N01tTIIH0U.NI>. no. 53. No. 1. ; ire. Columbia 11 00 am 10 00 am re. Newberry..., 1 03 pm ve. Ninety-Six 2 30 pm 11 re. Givenwootl 'J 52 pm rr. Greenville, 60 pm .1 rr. Laurens 5 45 pm rr. Abbeville 4 :!4 piu ,r rr. Seneca I! 02 pin (i< rr. Wulhulla 0 35 pm __ S r. Spartanburg 3 IS pm ? rr. Flat Rock 5 53 pm . r. llenilersoiiville Jj "? pn> S1 r. Asheville ? 1" pro t. Atlanta l'? 4(1 pm ^ No's 1 ami 2 ruu solid between Columbia and Abbe *1 lie. , " N'o. 5:1 makes close connection at Columbia for Au- p< sta and Charleston. ill No. 1 makes closo connection at Columbia lor ,,, arlestoli. y., JAS. L. TAYLOR, Oen'l I'ass. Agent. K I). CAKIUVKLL, A. G. I?. A., Columbia, S. C. JOL. llAAS, Trulllc Manager. se ,'V'O OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE REAL FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ARE THOSE WHO DEMAND SIX MONTHS TERMS. ? Tlie "Xcwberry Observer" Thrown a Loaded Bombshell lit those who would close (he Public Schools for tlie Benefit of the Teacher*? The Public Fund In for the Benefit of the Children?Don't Forget Tlli* Fact. ' Perhaps the Observer may be aware of the fact that no matter how small a part of the public money is given to a school per month, for that month no patron is compelled to nay tuition. If the- people who are unable to pay tuition so desire they can send their children to theschool. and the teacher is compelled to receive them. The school will l>e soon overcrowded and the patrons who are paying will soon withdraw their children and their money, preferring a school where their children can receive more attention. ?E. E. Jiritton, Editor Teachers' Column in Marlboro Chronicle. Newberry Obsener. "Plato, thou reasonest well." We have nowhere seen a better argument for long terms. "No matter how small a part of the public money is given to a school per month * * if the people who are una ble to pay tuition so desire, they can send their children to the school, and the toucher is compelled to teach them." Precisely so; and that is just what we are working for?the education of the children of those who are "unable to pay tuition." Tlmt is what the free school system was established for. That is all that it can possibly accomplish. It can accomplish that if those in authority would follow the law, as they ought to do, and give to the children of those who are "unable to pay tuition" six months schooling in the year. What is the two mill tax and the poll tax for but to pay tuition for the people who are unable to pay? Il all were able to pay there would be no school tax. The county treasurer is not simply the medium through which people pay for the tuition of their own children. If that were all, thoy would save the treasurer's commissions and the school commissioner's salary by paying tuition directly to the teacher. Why require a property holder to pay this tax if he is to step right in and get it back? He does not pay it for himself; if he did. lie would nav it. not as a tax, but as tuition, directly to the teacher?without the intervention of any "free school system"?he pays it as a tax because it is intended for the children of those not able to pay. Whatever benefit he may get frotn it is only incidental; the primary purpose is for educating tho poor. It is intended by the Constitution, and expressly so declared, that this school tax shall give six months schooling each year; aud this six months schooling is not intended primarily for those who can get it without a tax, but for those who cannot. The former get some benefit incidentally?they get back about three months tuition. But they would get back just as much if the free schools were kept open six months. Teacher Britton makes a very damaging admission when be says if the teacher is compelled to receive poor pupils because the school is getting public money, "the school will soon be overcrowded." It would be no more crowded for six months than for three. He evidently . .. looks upon the free education of the poor children as an evil to be borne as short a time as possible. ' The Superintendent of Education for years past has lamented in his "Annual Report" the "short" terms, and recommended an additional "special tax" to make them longer. The terms have been "short" because the Constitution has been ignored. They could have been six months just as well as three or three and a half. Suppose a "special" tax were levied sufficient to run the schools for six months without tuition from anyoouy. Who would gain by it ? Those who can't pay now couldn't pay then, and those who pay now wuuiu navu w pay wie whole of the "special tax," and it would be no saving to them ; for it is just as 9asy for them to pay "tuition" directly to the teacher. The school officers insists that the "term" shall last only so long as the school fund will pay the tuition of all the children?those who are able to pay as weU as those who are not. They say if you want a longer torm, levy a special tax. Havetbey ever computed the cost of running a school six months according to the present plan of running it three and a half? It would require a fund of ?260,000 more?or a tax of nearly 2 mills additional. We are quite sure the property-holders would prefer to pay tuition, as they now do, rather than pay this additional "spesial tax," and get tuition free. The real opponents of the free school jvatom uro flirtuA urhrt wnnhl rn air A and thosfi who do make the State Superintendent and the County School Commissioners simply educational brokers or commission merchants?for receiving and paying out tuition fees for a specified jalary?for doing what the people could better do for themselves and at the same iime saye the salary of the Superintendent and tbirty-four School Commissionjrs, besides other incidentals. Tho real friend!# of the free school sys:ein are those who insist that the school und, whatever else it may do, shall give it le:ist six months schooling to children ivhose parents are "unable to pay tui,ion," us the Constitution prescribes. A Word from Peter Cooper. Said Peter Cooper: "In all counties where a newspaper is published every nan should advertise in it, even if notling mere than a card stating his name ind the business he is engaged in. It lot only pays the advertiser, but lets the jeople at a distance know that the counv in which you reside is composed of irosperous Business men. As the seed lown, so the seed recompenses. Never )ull down your sign while you expect to lo do business." The Journal office was honored last veek with two or three brief calls from ?ur venerable and highly esteemed riend, Rev. Sidi H. Brown, editor of the Christian Neighbor and the worthy Cbapain of the State Pre3s Association. He s truly a minister of (he Gospel of Peace, ;nd while here delivered a lecture in the Jethodist chapel on his favorite line of bought, Peace. May ho have many 'ears spared him yet to advocate "peiu-o ,nd good will among inpn."?Anderxon Journal. The total nutnoeroi immigrants rrived in this country durine April is ifficially placed at 78,207. In 1886 the arivals during the same month numbered 0.158. showing an increase for this year >f23,949. These ligures make probable ho statement that nearly 1,000,000 foreigicrs will he added to our population durng 1887. The Mayor of the city of Baltimore has ousented to deliver the address of welome before the Brewers' Convention to meeting In that city, and the temperance eople are greatly vexed. The Women's 'emperance Union sent a committee to ?monstrate with him, and the Tempc-ruce Alliance have expressed their views i very plain terms. Kfforts are being made in England to iscontinue the Sunday postal delivery, l which about 30,000 persons aro engag1. All but one delivery of letters on nnday has been discontinued in Vienna, erlin, and generally throughovt Prnsa, to the satisfaction of the people. On Saturday at Greenwood while the vo sons of Mr. R. W. Major, aged reject ive I y 14 and 12. were playing with leir father's pistol, long unused aud sup>sod to lie unloaded, tho pistol was aocijntally discharged, the ball striking tlie lunjjer boy in the upper end of the heart illintf him instantly. Ladles wlio have summer goods to buy can cure special bargains at Wm. E. Bell's.