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EDGEFIELD, S. C., ffURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1888 I VOL. XL vin--NO. u. Hu CnAnnonilrkP. HADST THOU NO BURDENS OF TAINE OWN, LORD JESUS f Som? of the most wonderful conver sions have been made in the simplest way, an i by apparently the most trivial means. A picture, a kind word, an a: fliction, a noble face-each has bad po' taney Sometimes a tender poem like the following leads to a train of reflec tion that points the pathway to Calvary and the Resurrection : Hadst thon no burdens of thine own, Lord Jeans, And wast thou ne'er by care and grief oppressed, That thou dost cry to all earth's weary millions, . " Come unto me aod I will give you rest?" Ah, never was a heart so heavy laden, And never was there such a cross as thine; No mortal e'er bath known such deep affliction, S _?nJjrl"U~i'.aBl born? the whole world's jbes and mine I -\ A thi-fold burden weighed thee down, tord Jesus, A tple crown of sorrow thoo didst .rear, God'onger for thy people's foul trans ir essions, HetaJtoQ and? mortal malice didst thru bear. Oh, blessed Jesus! all this sorrow bear ing, Acquainted so with pang and bitter J grief, To-thee, thus learning fully how to pity, We come to find a sure, a sweet relief. And net alope bring we our dark trans gressions. But all lift's load of care and all our woe; I It is thy very sorrows, Lord, that bid us, Hadst thoo not wept, our woes how couldst thou know. Thy tears forever tell us thou art hu mar, Toy gr?e?s that thou oiir keenest griefs canst feel ; And so we bring to thee our pain and anguish. For thou dost know our hort and thou canst hetd. Thus finding rest for our hearts so weary. Would we to those about us still op pressed, Echo thy winning, wondrous words of mercy, "Como unto me and I will give you rest 1" MR. BLAINE TO MS "RIENDS. His Views as to lbe SigniGcance or the Election. He Fears It Will Result lu Lower ?i, Southern Domination, and Evil tc the Blacks-Ile Hopes that .Cleveland's Adminis tration Will Benefit the Country AUGUSTA, Nov. 18 -A large num ber of. the devoted personal and po litical friends of Mr. Blaine serenaded him thia evening,' as an expression of personal gol will and adm;:a tion of his conduct of the national campaign. They marched through the streets under the marebalphip ot Col. Frank Nye. When they reached Mr. Blaine"8 house their compliments and friendly regards were expressed in a speech by Herbert M. Heath, Esq , of theKennebec bar Mr. Blaine responded as follows : FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS: The na tional contest is over, and by the narrowest of marginale have lost. I thank you for your which, if not one of j^oue com. rattrfationa, ia one, 1 am sure, of confidence, and of san guine hope for the future. I thank you for the public opportunity you give me to express my sense of obli ligation, not only 'o you, but to all the Republicans of Maine. They responded to my nomination with genuine enthusiasm, and ratified it by a superb vole. I count'' it aa one of the honors and gratifications of my public career that the party in Maine,, after struggling for the last six years, and twice within the period losing the State, has come back in this campaign to an old fashioned 20,000 plurality. No other expr?s sion of popular confidence and esteem could equal that ot the people among whom I baye lived for thirty years, and to whom lam attached by al: the ties that ennoble human nature and give joy and dignity to life. After Maine-indeed, along with thought is always of Pennsylvania. Hew can I fittingly exprees my thanks'fox that unparalled majority of more than- 80,000 votes, a popular ?ndorsement\ which ha? deeply touched my heart,\md which has, if possible, increased my affection for the grand old Commonwealth, an affcticn which I inherited from my ancestry, and which I shall transmit to my children ? But I do not limit my thanks to the State of my reBi dence and the State of my birth. I owe much to the true and zealous friends in New England who worked 80 nobly for the Republican party and its candidates, and to the eminent scholars and divines who, steppirg aside lrom their ordinary avocations made my caupe their cause, and to loyality to principle added the special compliment ot standing as my per sonal representatives in the national struggle. But the achievements for the Re oublican cause in the Enst are ever ijurpa8sed by the splendid victories in the West. In that magnificent cordon of states that stretches fron ?he foot-hills of the Alleghanies tc i he Golden Gate of the Pacific, be finning with Ohio and endiDg wit! California, the Republican banner wai lorne so loftily that but a single State failed to join in the wide acclaim o triumph. Nor should I do justice to my own feelings if I failed to thank j the Republicans of the Empire State, | who encountered so many discourage ments and obstacles, who fought foes from within and foes fi om without, and who waged so strong -a.battit 1 that a change of one vote in every 2,000 would have given us the victory in the n:it?Dn. Indeed, a change of little more than 5,000 votes would have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey, and Connecticut to the Republican standard, and would have made tue North as solid as the South. My thanks would still be incora plete il I should fail to recogniz with a special gratitude that gre*t body of workingmen, both native a?.d foreign burn, who gave me th^-ir earn est support, breaking from old per soual and party ties, and finding io the principles which I represe, ed in the canvass the safeguard and pro tection of their own fireside interests . The. result of the election, my friends, will be regarded in the future, I think, as extraordinary. The North ern States, leaving out the cities ot New York and Brooklyu from the count, sustained the Republican cause by a majority of more than 400,000 -almost a half a million, indeed-of the popular vote. The cities of New York and Brooklyn threw their great strength and influence with the solid South, and vere the decisive element which gave to that section the control of the national Govennnent. Speaking not at all as a defeated candidate, but simply as a loyal and devoted American, I think thetrar.s fer of the political power of the Gov ernment to the South is a great na tional misfortune, because it intro duces au element which eau not in Bare harmony and prosperity to the people, because it introduces into a republic the rule of a minority. The first instinctof an American isequah ty-equality of right, equality o? privilege, equality of political power that equality wh'ch says to every citiz-n : 11 Your vote is just as good, just as potential as the vote cf any other citizen." That cannot be said to day in the United States. TLe course of affairs in the South has crushed out the political power ol more than 6,000,000 Ameritan edi z^ns, and has'transferred it by vio lenee to others. Forty-two Presi dential electors are assigned to the ^Vtfli* ' I tr "gee u ?tey "gf^?ra errafser popula?oD, and yet the colored population, with more than 1,100, 000 legal votes, have be<n unable to choose a single elector. Even in those States where they tuve a majority of more than 100,000 they are deprived of free suffrage, and their rights as citiz?n3 are scorn fully trodden under foot. The elev n States that comprised the rebel Con lederncy had by the census at 1SS0 7,500,000 white population and 5.300, 000 colored population. The colored population almost to a man desire to support the Republican party, but by a system of cruel intimidation and bj violence and murder, whenever violence and murder are t hought nee essary, they are absolutely deprived of all political power. If the outrage stopped there it would be bad enough, but it does not stop- there, for not ODly is the negro population disfran chised, but the power which right tully and constitutionally belongs to them is transferred to the white poi u lation, enabling the white population of the South to exert an electoral in fluence far beyond that exerted by the same number of white people in the North. To illustrate just how it works to the destruction of all fair electio; 8, let me present to you five States in the late Confederacy and five loyal States pi the North, possessing iueach Bection the same number of electoral ? otee. lu the South the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina have in the aggregate 48 electoral votes. They have 2.800,000 white people and over 3,000 000 colored people. In the North the States of Wisconsin, Min nes80ta, Iowa, Kansas, and California have likewise in the aggregate forty eight electoral votes, and they have a white population of 5,600,000, cr j st double the five Southern States which I have named. Th ase North ern States have practically no colored population. It is therefore evident that the white men in those Southern States by usurping and absorbing the rights of the colored men are exert ing just double the political power of the white men in the Northern States. I submit, my friends that such a condition of affairs is extraordinary, . Tr just and derogatory to tie man hood of the North. Even thoie who are vindictively opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that, if Presidential electors are assigned to the South by reason of the negro population, that -population ought to 1 be permitted free suffrage in the elec 1 tion. To deny tht?t clear proposition - is to affirm that a Southern white man i in the Gulf States is entitled to > double the political power of\a North er'u white man in the lake States-it i is to affirm that a Confederate, soldier i shall wield twice the influenc? in the ? nation that a Union Boldter can and f that a perp?tuai and coBtanjjl/ .in cn aeing superiority shall be con to the Southern white man ii government of the Union. Il be quietly conceded in this gt tioi), it will harden into custom, the badge of inferiority will ? to the Northern white man as ot ly as ever Norman noble stamp upon Saxon churl. Tnis subject is of de-p infere the laboring men of the North, the Southe, n Democracy triump in their^rates and in th9 nation negro will be compelled to work just such wages as the whites decree; wages which will amour did the supplies of the slaves, bare subsistence equal in cash pei to 35 ceut-i per day, if averaged the eutire South. Toe whits lal ia the North will eoon feel the B tr active effect of this upon his wages. The Republicans have clearly from the earliest days of reconsi tion that wages in the South mut raised to a just recompense of laborer, or wages in the North i ous'.y lowered, and the partv ] steadily worked for the former re The reverse influence will new bi in motion, aud that, condition of ai will be produced which years Mr. Lincoln warned the free labo men of. The Nort!> would prov9 tile to their independence, and wt inevitably ?ead to a ruinous rediic of wages. A mere difference in the coloi the skin will not suffice to main an en ti ri ly different standard wag?s in contiguous and adjie States, aud the voluntary will compelled to yield to the involunta So completely have the colored i in the South been already depri by the Democratic party cf their c stitutional and legal rights as ci ti :: ot' the United States that they reg the advent of that party to natio power as the signal cf their reensla ment, and are affrighted because tl think all lagal protection for their gone. 1'V.v persons in the North rca: how compefely the chiefs of the billion wield the political po\ which Las triumphed in the late el tion. l-l is a portentous fact that Democratic Se?ators who come fr the States of the late Confeden I all-and I meau all without a sin exception-personally participated the rebellion against ihc uatioi ^. " ,'.-r. * - <i gStrfatm t K niticeiit fret that in tho?? St&tVt man who was loyal to ibo Union, nutter how strong a Democrat m ?7 be to-day, has the s?ght? ch.aw'3 of political promotion. T gre*, avenue to honor in that eecti* i- .he record cf zealous service in tl wu-against the Government. It certainly an astounding fact that tl section in which fiiendship for tl Uuion in theday of ;ts trial and agony 8'ill a political disqualification shou be called now to rule over the Uuio Ail this takes place during the Hf ti .ne ot the generation that fought tb wir, and elevates into practical con maud of the American Governmec the identical men who organized fi its det-truction and plunged us inl the bio diest coitest of modern time I have spoken of the South as place by the late election in possession c th? Government, aud I mean all thd my words imply. The South furnisl e 1 nearly three-fourths of the elec toral votes that defeated the Repub! can party, and they will step to th command of the Democrats as ur. challenged and as unrestrained a th?y held the same position for thirt y-ars before the civil war. Gentlemen, thero cannot be politi ca! inequality among the ciiizens c a tree republic ; there cannot be muioiiij of white men ia the Soul ming a majority of white men i the North. Patriotism, self r?sped pride, protection for person ands,Jet; for country, all cry out against it. Th Vrry thought of it stirs the blood c men who inherit equality from th Pi'grims, who first stood on Plymoutl Rjck, and from liberty loving patriotE who came to the Delaware with Wt I Lam Penn, lt becomes the prima question of American manhood. I demands a'heaaing and a settlement and that settlement will vindican the equality of American citizens ii all personal and civil rights. It will at least, establish the equality o waite men under the national Govern m^nt, and will give to the Northern mm, who fought to preserve th? Union, as large a voice in ?ts Govern ment as may be exercised by tb j Southern man, who fought to destroy the Union. The contest just closed utterly dwar.'s the fortunes and fate of candi dates, whether successful or unsuc cesaful. Purposely-I may say in^ stii.ctively-I have discussed the is sues and consrqueaces ci that con test without reference to my own defeat, without the remotest relereuce to the gentleman who is elevated to the Piesideney. Toward him per sonally I have no cause for the slight est ill will, and.it is with cordiality I express the wish that bL official ca reer may prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to the. country, and that his A'Ii.;"?yisfr'ation may over { como i bxr embar'assmentd which the I peculiar source of its power impo-ses -i?pon it from the hour of ita birth. At the concision of Mr. RI speech, he invited the Urge eroi to his house aud for nearly aa an informal reception wa? held, dreds passed through the rooms Thc Most Complete Retribu? ? ve lice Recorded by History History does not record more plete retributive justice thau tl eull of the political work of th? publican party with the South. Afi# the war when the Sou States bad baen whipped back the Union at the cost of all their pie owned except the naked they walked on, the repubJi an gau the evil task. Eich weak prostrate Commonwealth was BI by the strong hands cf the co:.' ors, bound with craftily devised cl and loaded with pond?rons and pressive burdens that it might be er a slave, a too! and n prop foi conspirators. With an impregn solid Republican Soul h the Rep cans hoped and believed that would perp?tuit? their power would hold the country with a that no wickedness or recklessne their's could weaken. They belii they had secured perpetual contr the Union. But the South developed sti*i unsuspected by her most dev friends and ardent admirers, by one the States with tbs t straining cf every nerve, with tiring fortitude, with mighty long continued rifjrt, lilted away immense weights thal crushed th snapped every iihU ol th-> he chains and rose to their feet. T stood at laet in unbroken line, hi ing fast all the new political po giv?n them to aid the Republi party and menacing thu party v one hundred and fifty three nf four hundred electoral votes boi together, massive and threatening a boulder of flint poised above it. Now the blow has fallen. South with the power given her sustain the Republicans while was their slave has smitten then deadly blow, and with the help four northern States has overthro their vast power, overwhelmed tl magnificent organization and cru.'! and scattered their wonderful i cbinery as lightning bo'ts crush ? scat 1er. The section that they tended to make solidly' their's w negro1 'YO:- s "noa ??usr.-'u'r.u."Cu?-:!:?j.' ??ag governments is made :=oiid agaii them by ba*e an.i fear, and t strength they created lo be th' refuge and unlailing st?y is th< most dangerous foe, has destroy lLe:o, and stands now to keep th< down, humiliated, defeated a ruined. Many of the men who aided devising and executing the plo! a dead. Maybe they eau find com:', in looking back and ?eeitig that wh they designed as a curse Las drVrlc ed a blessing and that what they i tended to be and to nuke perpetual hideous wrong has worked avir.dk tion of the right. Bat there is : such comfort for Jas. G. Blaine ai John A. Logan, ringleaders in t original conspiracy to destroy ti civilization, th? honor, the happine and the possessions ol millions people for a party advantage. Now that they are wallowing the bottom of the pit they diggi they can find no consolation in tl happy acclamations from their i leaded victims greeting their dow fall.- Greenville i\rws. Malanie Hauls to he ?overiior RICHMOND, VA., November 24. Muhone has abandoned all hepe succeeding Limself in the S-.tiaie at has turned L?3 attention, it is belie ed, to the Executive chair. A Go emor as well as al! of the olher gc eral officers of the State ??re to 1 elected next year. Mahone seems have determined to make .one moi fight for political recognition. It for this reason that- hi.-: ?rienda in tl Legislature have so persistently oj posed any change in the electic laws. As the matter now stands t has control of about one half of ti machinery in the St;<te. it.ia throup fear of 1 sing this in,ari election i which he is credited with being candidate for the highest place to t filled in trat contest that he hi waged such a determined war "^-.iu; any proposition which contemplates new system. To day, for the thir time in the past eighteen months, th Democrats in the Legislature mad another attempt to repeal the presen obnoxious system of appointing th eiection officers of Virginia. TL bill for(thia purpose has parsed bot j branches of the Assembly, and is noi ! in the hands of the Governor. Thi I J last effort will uo doubt be sucoessfu' : The trouble in each of the other case i grew out of trifling technicalities I which the Mahone party took ad va ut age of. As in all of theother schemes j this last one gives the power of ap ' pointing the flection ( ulcers to loca ;bjjards, chosen by the Legislature, in stead of to the local judiciary as a ; present. It is stated that a member ol th ' legislature has already drafted a.bil to reduce the Railroad Commission t a siugle commissioner. I here t?U mur 1 a small villi KiHcd by .^Temperance Mob. : An Olli? SalooiijSK?eper l<'atally Beaten and Iii-* ?.jiocii Destroyed. Ci.KVj;r.ANn| 0 , November 21 - j The details oi~i startling tragedy, oe curring in .Kjpx County, reauhe I jhg. Bladensburg is Sf less than 1.000 in habitant!?, sil a ted about twelve miles South ol' Mount Vernon, tue County seat. For m?.t y years prior to last wiuter there ias no saloon in the town. Ia F'-irnary a man'named JohnjChapiu jioved with his family from Mount Mernoo to Bladensburg and opened a ikloon, to the great dis gust cf the c;i?izenp, most ot tbeiu, Prohibitionistij Chapia took nj? his r&sideace in atoase, in the rear ol' j his saloon, tiijR?tiring the psmA sum. ! mer tutuh Itzling became a-inifest j b?tweeu Charit and the leading Pro I bibitiouiats o-.'j the place. Between j midnight ano '.daybreak on Sunday ! uiorniug a m~) ol' men, composed ot' ! leading Prohibitionists, bearing axe?i ! flicks an.i shovels, made a fiirioiH at I i. ! .sault upon the! s-iloon and residence. Chapiu refnaei them admittance, and i they pelted Ms house v;ith stones, one ol which, ?passing through a win dow, struck ?phapin on tho head, i fracturing hi; skull ?P.<1 throwing ? h uito the ?ioor. The mob th-en forced its way] through the rear of| the Louse mtclthe saloon, opened 'he Iront doors, aw*- proceeded to com pletely destroAjwith axes, the bar fixtures aud Mature of the place. They then to-J| 'e stock of liquors I piled it ig j street, whisky were ?p; rolled from the cellar, and th? '.ole stock w^s made a huge bon?r:Ba, the centre of the street, in IrBscjantime Chapin was lound to be kmfy injured, and some , of the mob w~re dispatched to Mount I Vernon for eJ'dical aid. Two phy ' sicians arrive if.sarly yesterday morn . ing, but were J o late, Chapm having breathed his He bave;? a wife and several children. There is intense excitement through* our Knox County ever the outrage, md ?t band oj Mount Vernon roughs swear Ihey^'w'll aveDge ChapiuV: death. M^f trouble is feared. The Slonumyats to Calhoun and J Lee. Tlie help.'ur^cess of the South in Bome.impfet.ajVwgspecta is exe ?I?UVU n>l two '. iv^iaces ot tuc- tuon'., ments ereet.'-i>Jver the remains ol lion. John C. Calhoun ?ind of Gen. Robert E. Lie. it is stated, upon the anthorif^jwof stonemasons who bave'test'-d^y iraalities ol granite obtained froU .^ImoSievery country in the ci-ji/.o.j Worl-. thal which is quarried|| Fairfield!' County, in this State, las not its "-pial any. whero ; andjyet the p!a?e ol Mr. Calhoun's ka) sleep, in theron ol his native State!je marked \ ? stone quarried ia Iliode Island, tobi sbap ed in Kentucky and thence ivan? ported to 'hi:State. lu like banner the recumbent statue of GUff. Lee, which reata over his gravo in ;be little chapel at Lex ington, Virgnia, waa sculptured from marble tnkt'.nfrom quarries in Ver mont, while lione of the s ne kind, and which'h?a co ?qual in America lies undistorted is its original bed ju Alabama. l|.is related, as proel cf the quality tff th-3 Alabama stone, that when a dock cf it was sent l y the anlhoriti'S of that State to be in corporated it the Washington monti' neat, many tears ago, it was refused upon the ground that it was Italian marule and not a native stone, as it w?s rr qui redfto be. The fact tijat the greatest ol ail the pohticaland military leaders ol tie ?oath not sleep thtir l;;sr. sleep under memciial stones h?wn bom the heart ol'lhe New England hills is exceedingly significant of the inli mate and peculiar business relations existing between dili'erent parts of the country.t Well would it be flit .-vere eqaallweioaificantof the renew ed Federal mations which every sin cere lover ol his country, devout!)' \ hopes have rjow been established, to j lie maintained henceforth and foi ever. -Sunday Nixes The Plague iii- Kentucky anti H'esi j Virginia. LOUISVILLE, November 2G.-The Courier Journal publishes a long statement from a staff correspondent, sent to investigate the ravages of the j tire.d disease in Eutern Kentucky and Westert! Virginia. His report j ld that the eiateoients have riot been ! exaggerated. Hun ?re ls of persons j have died and many others are seri ! ously ill. It' some sections it is im ? possible lo kjcp a record even ol the ! diad. Thole are no physicians and the only me?eines to be obtained are I coinpounded|i'rorn roots and i.eibs. .The disease^s called an aggravated j form of " Ihrt.'' The epidemic is at tributed lo impure Water, caused by the drought.- The corn crop is good, but people ar<* starving tor want of aid in securing it. Blaine deleated in every State where he waited the bloody shirt. His deieat meats that sectionalism is ii dead issue. . Hereafter North ai d South will mMn little more than Mist :,nd VVett. Ria?H- U iii KOI MUK. Still Exceling ti) bc a Prviuinriil Ac tor In Political Matters. WASHINGTON. Nov? rn' er -?'< -Mr Blaine s. friends are droidedly pleaded that he is coming to Watbil'gton ut an early day. The idea ot a stre nade or something else to show ?bat be bas lost noni' ol their esteem has been started. One o; Blaine's devo ted followers, when passing the Whire House .since the cedit, just a-GeLtr.I Arti ur tvas coming out, kttrpolated a conversation on tin HU1 j -?:t v. i t Ii the remark, poiuting to tt-e I'rcs! dent, ,;?? beean stand it B.'aine CHU." Blaine ta?-r. H re thawing compaiisi ur ol thia kind and pow:iii< out where the.rt sport.-i bi I: ly . I 'i-f y ?i ya de leur Lidotiga. Btirch-.?.l did no Iciiov littler,' hitii ; " : u' i'Le:? men knew what they were do:ng The.* tali:. 1 vee, about Arthur lourye?in hence. Ail the facts cl the r?cent ligbi will keep lill then, bet-them try it" Mr. Blaine will mt itt a, recluse this WI?I1.1, tu r n dill'?rent to poiri-i question-! nul movements. A gentlt-ioan troui M. ii e says tbat it has not occurred to li'iu that he has been 1'ma?y * i i - j. * sed o?, and tlml.be expects at tin; }-rof-er ?rne und in lija own way '"> be i:t actor in a IF ii ra. "BUine may imf,' ..?iii".] !..., "txneel to be Piesidmt, bm be reckons on helping to maketlnm lor some tim-; to come. Reports ol' plans ior electing Gen eral Arthur Lo the Se.r.ate Ly the lt? publican?, ?.ml also Mr. Conk'ing by a combination ol Republicans am' Democrats, are i nier es* ing to R otbe? Blaine's followers and presumably le bim also. It is understood that a number ol decided Blaine Republi cansare io the New York Legislature and that liiey \vili be heard trcia in cv.se either enterprise is attempted. That's ali Blaine's f riends say about it at present : but they say it with ar evident meaning. While Mr. Blaine's Augusta speech pleases his followeis. especially those who say that " -Tic; Blaine is bou id to be hean! from s ?oad deni yet," he is criticised for riot m;iking it sis or eight weeks agc lt is just what Logan was for mixing with the tari!!' argument and on thal mixture making the fight, fie was overruled. New York, ?t waa urged had calico, the West lard and New England clocks and hair r-?n?_to ?el! ? 1 -h raise an is&r-e that might tUinl South ern buyers. This m.-ie Logan mad ?nd be is not over it by ADV means The speech i; for In:?ire USP, say Blaine! te?, who begin to count theil chickens again. Blaiuo's Angueta speech is borrow ed ii' ?a Butler, who made it more than or.ee b: the canvass. The ?deas never were Blaine's, fie wen' bael" on them years ago. The taking ol ih?tn up now is a characteristic dodge. His opposition'to the favorite meas ores ol his patty, embracing ile treatment ol the ve v points he ra?ste i:i his Augusta sie eb , bis hob nobbing willi Southern tuen and his plans for eullivating the Southern Democracy ;?o longer thari three years ago, when it seemed that bi* occupation was ab m. gone, are all recalled now. it ii.aine i-, brilliant be :- one ot" ihe mos) inconsistent ol our public raen. As a kile 'flyer he is not excelled. (H. the thirty-six members compes ?ag the Senais ol ti.is State fifteen are new members,and oi these twelve lin ve serve 1 previously, either in the Senate or house oi representa!ives 0_ the 120 thembers ol' the House ol Representatives thirty nine mein | her? ci' the last house were re eiec'ed and eighty six are new members, but ot these latter about a score li ive seen SH vice as legislators atone or more previous terms. . . . A large proportion cl ib-1 :;ew ele ment in each branch ol the legisla ure is ol young men from twenty rx to thitty ?ve.-Coluvibh-J?eg?lcr. . -m -Vi?- - - The supreme court ol Iowa bxs in formed a young wit? who married a man knowing him,io be intemperate, and then applied for a divorc? un i':.e ?round that Jit; ir; a confirmed drunk ard, that, she voluntarily chose a drunkard for a busband, and should discharge tuc duliea ol a drunkard's wiie. '" fl ?sj lailure to ketp H pledge ot reformation, made bet?re m tr riage," says the court, " does not jus tify you iu deserting him. Having knowingly mar.ied a drunkarci^you must m ike yourself c mtent with i e j sacred relationship." A number ol presbyteries ol the I Presbyterian church have been in session at Ninia, Ohio, during li e: pas* week for the pm pose of laking measures to have organs excluded .'roui churches. Resolutions to lay the matter before the next General Assembly were passed. The preaby- 1 teries represent a number of States. ! Simon Knowles, who died in Mid dletown, N. V., las! week, j lined the freemasons seventy-seven years ago. Ile was ninety eight years bl Mt?, and at the time ol bia death was ive-i/n^g^ a pe ind cm of $8 a month, having sei vt d all through the war ot 181 ._' J{(> voted at eve*y jiresidetiti.il election since 180S, casting his |asl vote for Cleveland. ?-ti i . ??SS?? ?afp ? . ' - %?M. m?h*. ?? ? ? ?sert KS*^ '??> \ 2. > (m m SM m ?-s Ca?i lu- lyiinci ?lie lar^-) stock ol* Carnages, Buggies, Phietohs, 1 toad Carts, Piaulai ion Wagons, (alf sizes, 1 to fi liorsc) Single and Doub?o ?j?i-n^gj S?cTrJ.les, Belting, Leather -I" all kinds, Wagon Material, fecit jjec. VOll T?E WEXT THIRTY OXYS 5 ?ill OMVe* Sph'iBargain* in a Lol ol* OPE;* and .TOP B5*?? I ES, U Lees Than Mannr?ir?urtW Prios. TM? sc Boggles ar.- all line North*rn and Eastern makes, whicdi I ?ii! tjuwnvticfi v?'v<dto thJbett. Call and examine them ?? ?SOL ? TE JJ ARG AIN S. uni convince Ives.tliiit chev i te o:t:l) v JJU\ ht\sn?if"l olyleF, at ea : tW Girch^-as, Bckinge, Cotton Flannels, White and Red ?von*, iJt.'l .*?:>r?ii!sfc Shawls*, l'anta Goods, Gassimeres, Waterproof ?. H. GOODYEAR, Ag't,, 'S??c???pv to IC. II. MAY ?? CO., Ar.-?./TA. GA., OPPOSITE GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK Sales Rooms, ?nia?l si. . Factory, 703 Kllis St. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 8; 1*84. ? ' ' , , ? Knit Sv-^intev Groods ! I have !rje ! to ? uv Tr .-ic tba would please aiy customers-a Stock thal lyould vxc ?% y ''\ revrJuslv bought and prices cheaper; and lam u > thal I lit v- * . -.. !? h Wirti . xiv: junee, means and facilities of buy iog to the bc-.-L ad.virr.fci ;? ii ? ihsparjed to t lier extraordinary inducements to purchasers. ,Whi!eii N,?w Voik, I bougliit, many .Goods at prices lar. .be? low their true v;Jue>,.a'rj?l . i!-r them accordingly. Thu mtution of a few viii piV? II ' 1 til fnc wonder?ul cheapness of the many. rrafcitev??h Snir,tui'j we?.have, sold heretofore at 61c, we are now ?lliuj^al 4?M-rr v! . I yt:.- piece.ri.il ss-^s^S^SL^^ssriTi i,,.? .?i teaMa c rn vard.-poiinvRiy not :;,e shO<tciy rt^co :..t Mr r---r }ard, il ?ir, C.INUKI el.. = {. i . reto? n:? 10c. I1 rib!? -..^.'rh t'olorod ?Jashm??ies, Black Cashmeres, Bmck and blored Sill; an i S ttji s; Velveteens, Plush, All wool Suiting Flannels, from 0c. and r.p. Rplepdirl T. ."..'!. v WI fi i . "t 7'.c D?ryd;, by lb? piece. I.MIow C -.^'i" IO ktiiiVetipo.il CoMoin Dii?|kt, Table Linens, Table Oil Cloth?, ' ?iii) > iW.?'1 Ian:>:s. T:,? \- t. iood*.?e. (' :? rt?. . 'jiule^ van i :X\ l<& ,-.i.d for-><1c. something real geed. Chiliiren, Lailji.*' ;?nd NlenJ? I ndervesti*. Colin ed Mulls und a.(uli.?twk-ot* W'Mie Goods. !' M ! l.V'i .. H ankcU iij ..; 1 pr ; air, lo $4.50 for as grod as sold last - ?n al . ' r.iil:V>' I ?oak'a and Dolman; at prices less than last reason. IJ:indl:i .. f : i-t'!\ w- iih i" Parties desiroua of soeurng bargains ?ouid t.Vfiri?t.i? our sioek ot lfi*i?iry, Glovrts, i'pehinga. Collars, Collarette, Fichus, i i: .:. ru \ Iv.l lid.l ns;?illi>ttnd ->atiii Ribbons in all shades. Hamburg Aiging.? und liiM-itu . - .i ia _; . ; .tr yd ;>ni up '.Juitu a variety of laces-12 yards .vir. ? ?'. I. c.-. - .. . ....;!.vi:.- Kana that would have sold at $4 and .f? bia \> -I Spii . .; al ?! "0 >r.il MacrameCord in several colors Ail " <-'!oi - .11/-; lr. i-- ?' ? .'.i lip tier ijualily. Silk Embroidery Floss in all liadw. Ah encllesa rafietyi of Notions Kxint ii !<:... . n - ii .' i'l-M '><??:, SliirU. Collars, Cud's, ?cc, Gents' Hats, Uilir.ii' rv I', iwai . .->.l. nw ut. Crockery rind-Hard ware, Fane/ Groceries, ic. Sil! ?!. -: .. v. ri h I Sin J donfl claim to be the only merchant that can wy ai:d . ?V. l-'u? w? liavo a ?took in quality and quantity second to eon- .- . .!.. . ; !?i -i-i :? We hay) some Shoes thal we sell for just what hey ..!? :.i;vi ?the? thai _? ir.in?rVV?? I do all that we promise Weean certainly ilcise yon.iu I'iiiTdi ::'? iii ri Meh'a Shoes, in common and fine. Examine our IOPI? : nd . ..... e. .a wh. :.. yo? cn'do beet. 1 am selling a great many goods i !<v\. i pu. M. i: - ?netnries can afford toaiake them ; but the factories have ? en . iirq to i< ll ..: ;?i.v |.u iet- >u-as in raise money, and I shall give my custom. ra tin lu ni i. : ?!.-.- k, a.;.|.a jyiae liera to call early, for when this stock is sold may not be .;!.! ti gei.'an ?.tri ?Tsuch j.tic^s. li is imp ..-II'IH IO - I ill ?of oiu G.oili, but I have gone to the very beet naiko', si '. . wirli -i. ?il .'-d'" h fard? and deiirabl? stock of goods, and I simply ask ?o:i lo e i!, anil ex .thine i>ur sl?tk, trad yod will be couvinced that we can do as well ir vmi as Aegii'la. ' .- . . ' ; . ,' 1 ": " ."* ALTIN HART. K'sdlielil C. il ..^ k... ?--i>?. ?7-. lbS4. 'V au* ios. -?Lil BIL VEE sud PLATED WARE, CLOCKS, ftc. I have r.."- iv ! :.':': ivinp tUuy, tue lin st line of thc above goorJs ?ver hr?tnVnt to this. >? :?. .^VR?<B$ LOWER-T^lAN EYER. Agent for h BRAZILIAN SPECT-rMfi! -"WATCHES and CLOCKS repaired and varrantech WiTi. M-HWEIGERT, )ut. LS. y-i. iv] ^ 7:'.2 Brtrad St.. Under Neutral Hotel, Augusta. mn?, N,'" immi CLARK, Cn lin Vinn' AI i rniloii I > an c;ra a I I.ioc ul' MILLINERY She has .-.pared ho'pal ns in hr endeavor to please hor putrous ia SHAPE, iUAiilTYand PHTOK; You Ivi'l l?ecert?ln t?. rind tho BKST GOODS for the I .-'AST MONK-Y at '. .. . \lTi . s?Hlroati Street, (ilse Old Stand,) Augusta, Ga, Never before havo ive had so largo a variety of MISSES' HATS. Tho " JLM Lliv is tho Shade Ha?, ul tho season. Il KA UT.' FIX LACKS just arrived, and a lewliheof FANCY GOOOJS, J-'ANS, GLOVES^ Etc. Apr- -'Jj flu' ?ilil Eiisliioii War is Best i HAVE A nm STOCK - OF rr FURNITURE NYhiei. iprop.HfttnsM?QricKr.YnnlAHSKfta, Ca., Library Building. verv ?MALL MARGINS, and rot'nsiiur 1 -O loHumhugthepiiblii- wiUf^ell known j , . institutions in the T ^S?S ^JTS S HhTt? i lT"?<?> StatoK Kcal business transacted Eon JiV? ? ??%r4mS ; ^?Uei? money. Hoard in city " ...I?.. - .V .h.., ..,. .., iLJil 1.1.1. cheap Time required, 3] to 4 months. T - li i r, Beautina^lplouwawMd? on compte wh:eh yoo.aw? le^mliar, \tltm ^,lirHe .Hl saUsihetory manner. . ! Scud for Circular. mi-/ .^A. m *\ ?i** S-m V> W ?a > Sept, ir, iss4. Tht- ?I )ods aro si) NF.vV ?ITKI FKKSH, ?>1 will uni bu intern;' (s';nu <1. rr>yM3s;lly in v ile iuspocti?n and Cpm Mie?eve V 'II will IM> beno iitteil. E. G. K?SERS, ")Jii ?? 551 Broad St,, ,Vugfe!f?*i4ia? Sopt. 17, 1S64.-4I A|i|>lication for ? hurter. 4 PPLICATTON: will be made to the ?\. noxt Legislature of fc'outh Carolina for a charter for a.Narrow Gauge Rail road from Edgefield C. H. to Augusta, Ga., with privilege of exteuding thellne to Nowhevrv, Ninetv Six or Greenwood. 1884.