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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. 1 Xl VJ O. d . Jr\.U rv jj X.KJ, xxl CORRESPONDENCE [For the ADVERTISER. "Watteatoy" Writes a Letter to His Nephew's Folks aud Thanks Them for the .Taters. DEAR JOSEPH, CALLINE, AND LIT TLE MISS BETSEY: Th3 Bible says, "Remember the Sabbath day aud keep it holy," but I wish I had planted them seed 'taters on Sun day A. M. you were so good, prompt, and kind in sending to me. It is said that "cold 'taters on ones own table is better than roast meat on his neighbor's," but I fear I won't have hot nor cold 'taters for our tobie if she and the little ones don't let them seed 'taters alone. You see as how it was this way: One of our little ones had been quite sick for a few days and none of the family went to church Sun day except your "Nuukie" and you see the 'taters arrived late Saturday P. M. and it took some half dozen or more raw ones to satisfy the little ones, right away And Sunday for dinner she had baked'taters, 'tater po, (but they were rich 'taters) 'tater pudding, and 'tater custards, and I only re marked at the dinner table (for we had company ),I believe I would have had a few fried 'taters and a few roasted 'taters. And then I begin to think, and I thought a man can't prosper till he gets his wife's leave, and a thrifty wife is better than a great income, and a good wife and health is a man's best wealth. Bless their hearts, what would we do without them? And it is said they like to have their own way, and the proverb says : "A wife ought to have her will during life, because she can not make one when she dies." And a true wife is her husband's better half, his lump of delight, his flower of beauty, his guardian angel, and his heart's treasure. She is the light of his home and the comfort of his soul. * So \ eat 'taters like the balance of the family Sunday, 'taters for breakfast, 'taters and 'taters?and 'taters for dinner, and 'taters for supper. And one of the little ones woke up in the night and cried for 'iater8, or the 'taters made it cry, I don't know which, (but I think it was the last "which") as it eat several raw oues, poor little thing. And we all dreamed of 'taters, and I dreamed I had one lying across me as big as friend Dan Ouzts, and iu a desperate effort to get it off, I woke and quietly (or as quietly as I oould, for I was considerably disturbed) I got up and took what few seed 'taters there were left and carried them to a secluded spot away un der the hill on the extreme corner ?}{ my little farm and there I placed them under the ground for future reference. And now she and the little ones are sorely perplexed to know what become of the balance of them seed 'taters. Now, in conclusion, for there must be an end to everything, to simply say "Thauky" doesn't seem would exactly do. And to wish you all may enjoy much of this world's good, as we did the 'taters, wouldn't exactly do for great in conveniences followed the pleas urable enjoyment of that bounti ful feast of'tater?, caused no doubt by the quantity eaten and not the quality of the 'taters (for they were exceedingly Cue]. But it is said all sweets ha\e their bitter. And now quiet, or comparative quiet, once more is had at "Wild Woods." But I do say, may a kind Providence grant unto each and all of you great success and happiness in and through this life and eter nal rest and peace in thi> sweet bye and bye. All send love to you all, and believe me, very truly, respect fully, and fondly Your Nuuk ie, WATTEN TOY. # P. S.-She says and the little ones say, "Come to see us and i would be proud, glad, yes come please, and I would shave, kill a goaj, keep the little oues home from school, and all take holiday, even to the cream-filly, "Giuger Suap." The old roan "Ellick" he he is gone. Truly, W. The strong man held up the piano on his chest. He also had the strength to support the player -but then! Alas! Tho player played "D.aisy Bell," and with a groan the strong man collapsed. It was too much for his strength. Tho last straw had broken the camel's back. A_/JL J-VJL J-l JL OFF FOR A PROMISED LAND. Colored People from Atlanta on their Way to Liberia. REV. B. GASTON THEIR PROPHET. Recently Acquited ou a Charge of SwindlingNesrroes, He's Now Hailed as "the Master." Thirty-eight Georgians arrived in New York Thursday midnight on the steamship City of Augusta. They are colored and are bound for the "Promised Land." At least that is what Daniel Brown, Presi dent of the African Emigration Movement, who is at the head of the party, calls Liberia, where they expect to settle. "It is the best country this side of heaven," said Mr. Brown. About half of the party are men, the other half women and chil dren. Most of the men are old, while the children are very young. All come from Atlanta. They left that city Monday, and 3,000people were at the station to eee them off. The Rev. B. Gaston, who has lived m Liberia from 1886 to 1891, and who has been busy for nearly taree years in the South inducingpeople of bis race to emigrate to the "Promised Land," was to meet them here and take charge of them on the long sea journey. At noon Friday the entire party was still on board the City of Au gusta. The men and women were looking very solemn. The Rev. B. Gaston, their promised tuide and mentor, had not appeared. For hours groups of meo, women, and pickaninnies watched on the ships deck, gazing at the city and the sea. Then a big, thicknbodied, bushy-whiskered black man step ped up the gangway. The crowd uttered a shriek of delight that startled the deckhands. There was a rush for the newcomer. A tall young woman got to him first. She threw her arms around him and squeezed him and kissed him a half-dozpu times. 1 'The master's come ! The mas ter's come!" she shouted. "Oh, he's here ! He's here ! He's here ! He's here! He ain't forgot us! Ke'6 come ! He's here ! Mr. Gas ton's come !" Then 6he released Mr. Gaston, and ran around and shook hands with her companions. All the others, men as well as women, hug ged and kissed Mr. Gaston, and he returned the hugs and kisses. He was complete master of the crowd. They hailed him aB a Messiah, and were ready to follow him to the >orth Pole if he said so. So mel ancholy a half hour ago, they beamed all over with unctuous de light now. "Bless you, my children, bless you,', said the Rev. Mr. Gaston. "You're all here, bound for the Promised Land. The Lord don't forget his children. He watched over you, an' he will watch over you until your long journey ends. We are in the hands of the Lord, au' he will protect us." It was evident that Mr. Gaston was a master spirit, and there was no more sadness on the City of Augusta after his arrival. The entire party sailed Saturday morn ing for Liverpool in the American liner City of Berlin. At Liverpool they will be transferred to a vessel of the British and African Steam Navigation Company, which will take them to Liberia. They pay $75 apiece for the journey from Atlanta to Liberia. The Rev. B. Gaston is pretty well known in this county. He was recently tried in Atlanta on the charge, of swindling negroes, but was acquitted. It is said that he is closely watched now by the At lanta authorities, who intend to see whether he is deluding the ne groes. He told a reporter that all the Liberian immigrants were happy, which statement differs from some of the reports from that country. He said that the people would go to work raising coffee and fruit. How toKill Nut Grass. John Astell. I have seen several inquiries lately for a method of killing nut grass. I used to think the only way to get rid of it was to move off and leave it but I have found a better method of treating it. I had about one acre of very rich garden land thoroughly seeded down with it. I could raise a win ter or early spring crop but it would choko out any corn or cot ton crop I could plant. Five years ago I raised a crop of Irish potatoes on it, then planted it in corn. Before it was large enough to hoe, it was a mass of green nut grass, aud to get it out of the hill I pulled up nearly all the corn. It was very dry at the time, aud by the time 1 was through, my corn was nearly all dead, but the grass was doing finely. 1 concluded to try heroic treat ment on it. Sol took a Planet (Jr.) cultivator and tore up every blade of corn and grass in the field, using a hoe around the fences. In about four days a new crop came up. Then I cultivated it the other way, always in the hot sun The fourth time I plowed it deep, aud I got another pretty good crop of grass started, which I cultivated as before. In one mouth, I think, I had sprouted and killed every vestige of it, ad not a stalk has appeared since, and it bas been planted ' corn or sweat potatoes every j si nee. You can take this for what it is worth, but the only way to get rid of it is to keep it from seeding, either top or root, and cultivate and ^germinate all dormant saed and kill them by cultivation in the dry hot weather ot May and Juue. SKIMED HIM ALIVE. A Negro Literally Flayed and Burned in Kentucky. BARB0UR8VILLE, Ky.-From Har lan County there comes a reliable story detailing the terrible Arturo which Len Tye, a ne^ro wit com pelled to suffer for his inhuman crimes. Tye is the brute who, about a yearfcgo, murdered Miss Bryant on the railroad between Jellico and Williamsburg, and for which he was hanged only loug enough to try and make him confess. He did not confess at the time, however, and was allowed togo, and little has beeu heard of him since until this report comes from Harlan County. Tye went there siuce that time and kidnapped a young girl, a farmer's daughter, and kept her secreted for a long time, until a party of hunters fouud her in the woods tied to a tree. They lay in wait for the fiend, and were soon rewarded by his appearance, when they tied him and proceeded to skiuhim aliv*1. Before he was dead his last vic tim built a fire upon his head, and thus he was roasted alive while his skin was being peeled from his body. Tye confessed to the murder of Miss Bryant, it is said and also to having taken three other girls in Kentucky and Tennessee, and kept them the same way he did the Harlan County girl until they died for want of shelter aud pro tection. Railroad Taxes. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 14. Mr. Dearmond (Dem), of Missouri, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported to the House to-day, with the recommendation that it pass a bill to prevent interference iu the collection of State count}', and muuicipal taxes assessed against corporations. The measure, the re port says, is desigued to put cor porations that are in the hands of receivers appointed by judges and courts of the United States in the same condition with respect to the collection of these taxes as if no receiver existed. Rank Treasen. The Columbia State says : uIf the statement attributed to President Cleveland that the pass age of the Bland bill will be de structive of the repose which now surrounds the financial condition of the country was really made by him, it is an unfortunate remark. Tho 'financial repose' of the coun try is the repose of stagnation. The money centres may be satisfied with this 'repose' but the rest of the country isn't, and the sooner the Pre?ideut understands that the better it will be for him and his party. A veto of that bill, ap proved by four-fifths of the Demo crats in Congress will give au im petus everywhere. The repeal of the State bank tax may be ob jected to on the same ground ; but it has toc?me. Prosperity for the country is better than 'repose' for Wall street." IT COMES AT LAST! A Grand Victory for Gov ernor B. R. Tillman. OLD MAN SIMONTON HAD TO COME To Time My Son-Hurrah for B. R. Tillman and thc f Reformers. CHARLESTON, Mareil . 13.-The State gained a decisive victory over the railroads in the United States Circuit Court to-day, when Judge Simonton filed a decree in the much litigated railroad tax cases. Last year the assessmen.t. on all the railroad property was arbitrarily ?aised by the board of equalization. The railroads refused to pay the taxes on the increased assessment and carried the case into the United States courts. They, however, tendered the amount of taxes on the old assess ment. The case decided to-day was brought by D. H. Chamberlain, receiver of the ' South Carolina Railway, to test the constitution ality of the assessment made by the board of equalization. The court, in a lengthy opinion, decided that the assessment was not uncon stitutional and orders the receiver to pay to ?.he'State the balance due and a'so costs of the action. THE JUDGMENT. A Vivid Picture of-the Great Day, hy a Negro Preacher. The most wonderful sermon I ever heard, said a business man recently, in conversation with a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter*,* was delivered by a colored preacher in South Carolina, shortly after the war. I happened to drop into a large gathering of colored people one night and was informed fchaf a new preacher was about to tried, by The preacher arose back of a pu-Js pit that had?, beer? improvised from a barrel turned bottom up ward, on which was a lighted cau dle stuck in a bottle. He began to read the Bible, but stumbled at every word, spelling some through out before pronouncing them. A man in the rear said, 1 Go ahead with your sermon, and the preacher ceased reading. He stood up at length, and in the dim flickering light of the lone candle looked more like an apparition than a mau. His subject was "Thc Judg ment." Here came in that wonder ful imaginative power for which the colored race is noted. In going about during the war he had be come imbued with the military spirit, so he began by giving a vivid word picture of the hosts of heaven lying in their tents asleep the night before the judgment day. Then he worked up to a point where the bugle sounded to pre pare for tho descent upon a sinful world. He pictured the heavenly hosts hurriedly ruuning out of their tents to form in line of bat tle with the Great Commander in front. Then he described the still ness that reigned when all was ready, awaiting the command to advance. By this time the who le congregation, including myself, were sitting with nerves strained, excited in the extreme, and as the preacher described the tramp, tramp of tho mighty host approaching the earth. I saw several members, terrified, get under the benches. He then fol lowed a courier coming down from the distance, who reported, "Death ou a while horse" as having ap peared far away. When the preacher described the Commander detailing a squad of his soldiers to "Go capture Death," a terrified groan came from the audience. Finally ho brought the army of heaven down to earth just be fore day break, and had them resting on their arms, awaiting Gabriel's trumpet. Pie pictured at length how quiet everything was, then putting his hands to his mouth he imitated the bugle call, which so terrified and completely unstung his audience that tfie greater portion of it arose hurriedly and rushed out of the building. In all my life I have never heard a sermon that had such a startling effect upon congregation. He-What a sad faco that wo man has. She-Yes, poor dear. She must have cither loved and lost, or loved and got him.-The Water bury. BEiCE. REIGN? Di. RIO ll r 4 Admiral .TDa Gama Escapt ph -a e French Steamer. ADMIRAL MELLO HAS DESERTI His followers-If Caught Th< rf "Will in all Probability be I1 Court Martialled.' r .--*.?. . Rm j?fc JAJIEIHO, M?rch 14. Ffor?n?f* Peixoto is triumphal Tjlie.Ins?rg?nt vessels surrender? la&t night without haviDg answe ?S?with a ?ir.gle gun shot tl ca^nupLyiding" from the hill to ba leges",", * . /The^-'f?port that "?Admiral c Gaina had fled was confirmed th mewling. He souglft safety on tl Fipnch cruiser Magan. '. JThe American ' officers of tl governnfeiit-war ships came aehoi this 'afternoon. * T?hey report thi tal ?rews of the" vessels are we and delighted that<b,eygot throug without a* fight. Excepting tl oracers, robou^y aboard Peixoto men-of-war seems to have bee eager for a battle. In coming up the harbor th: morning the government fleet S? ?ut?d-the United States flag an Rear Admiral Benham. The Unite States fieet'will "disperse soon. The men aboard the America war ships are in excellent healtl The end of Insurgent power in tb harbor has been welcomed wit joyiib the city. Exchange has in: proved 25 p^r cent. Business is a usual. Not a symptom of disorde has appeared in the city. The. piecfple are' preparing i celebrate' the collapse'of the ic surreotion. The'Aquidaban an Repul?icaj whioh"constitute aoou all that ns. ?eft of^the Insurgen causeare*.reported" to be inT^Sout: Brazilrajj, faders. Both "arousal to he dialed, . .?,, -,. . A^^ra?iA?^lo, has just bee: sjj^ggjlf?- ?tc^^ctf ..Mon tey ide* He has deserted his followers a Admiral da Gama deserted hi officers and men on the harbo fleet. The Insurgents sailors here wil be pardoned. The officers will b court martialed. How Jimmy Tended the Babj I never could see the use o babies. We have one at our nous that belongs to mother, and sh thinks everything of it. All it cai do is to cry, and pull hair, an< kick. It hasn't half the sense o my dog, and can't even chase a cat Mother and Sue wouldn't have I dog in the house but they are al ways going on about the baby, anc saying, "Ain't it perfectly sweet?' The worst thing about a baby is that you're expected to take care o him, and then you get scolded af terwards. Folks say, "Here, Jim my, just hold the baby a minute there's a ^ood boy;" and then, ai soon as you have got it, they say "Don't do that I Just look at him That boy will kill the child! Hole it up straight, you good-for-nothing little wretch !" It's pretty hard t( do'your best, and then be scoldec for it ; but that is the way boys ar< treated. Perhaps after I'm dead folks will wish they had done dif ferently. Last Saturday, mother and Sue went out to make calls, and tole me to stay at home and take care of the baby. There was n base-ball match, but what did they care for that? They didn't want to go to it,and so it made no diffi renee whether I went to it or not. They said they would be gone only a little while, and if the baby waked up, I was to play with it, and keep it from crying, and "be sure and not let it swallow any pins." Of course I had to do it. The baby was hound asleep when they went out; so I left it just a few minutes while I went to see if there was any pie in the pantry. If I was a woman, I wouldn't bo so dreadful suspicious as to keep everything locked up. When I got back up stairs again, the baby was" awake, and wes howling like he was full ofpin8. Sol gave him the first thing that, came handy, to keep him quiet. It happened to be a bottle of French polish, with a sponge on the end of a wire' that Sue uses, to black her boots, be cause girls are too lazy to use the regular brush. The baby stopped crying as soon as I gave him the bottle, and I sat down to read a paper. The next time ,1 looked at him, he'd got out the sponga, about half of his face was jet bl This was a nice fix, for I k nothing could get the black his face, and when mother c .she would say the baby was sj ed and I had done it. Now I tl an all black baby is ever so m more stylish than. an all w baby, and when I saw that baby was part black, I made my^mi'ud that if I blacked it over it would be worth more t it had ever been, and perh mother would be ever so m pleased, so I hurried up, and g it a good coat of black. You should have seen how t baby shined ! The polish dried soon as it was put on, and I 1 just time to. get baby dres :again, when mother and Sue ca in. I wouldn't lower myself repeat their unkind langui When you've been called a .mure mg little villian, and unnfctu son, it rankles in your heart ages. After what they had saic me, I didn't even seem to m: father, but went up stairs w: him almoft if I was goi?g church, or something that did hurt much. The baby is beau ful and shiny, though the doc says it will wear off in a few yea Nobody shows any gratitude all the trouble I took, and I c. tell you it isn't easy to black a ba without getting it into his e) aud hair. I sometime think it hardly worth while to live in tl cold unfeeling world. How They Loved Him. Washington Post. "Gen. Robert E. Lee once tc me of an ovation he received th touched him more than any den stratiou ever made in ?is hono] said the venerable Judge White, Virginia, to a Post man at the N tional. Following closely on t surrender of the Southern arm the commander-in-chief of i. Confederacy went to pass a seasc at the home of his particul friend, E. R. C?cke, who la November ran as the Popnli ?Bftndi^ate-?or. - Gq.vprnnr agajn Col, O'Ferrall. After a few wee! of the most hospitable and el gant entertainment General. Lt was called to the presidency i the Washington and Lee Unive sity. Bidding his kind frieni adieu he started for Lexington c horseback and alone. He had goi some miles and was passir through a rather dreary stretch < wooded country, when he espied plain old countryman mounted c a sorry nag coming toward hir As they passed each other bor bowed as is the fashion whe strangers meet in out of the wa places, but the old farmer in th homespun suit started hard at th soldierly figure as though nc quite certain of recognition. H went his way a little further, the turning his horse around, caut?re back and soon came up with th General again. "I beg your pardon, sir, but i this Gen. Robert Lee. Did I eve meet you before, my friend?" "Then the old Confederat grasped the chieftain's hand am with the tears streaming down hi face said : 'General Lee, do yoi mind if I cheer you. The Genera assured him that he did not mind and there on that lonesome pint bordered highway with no one elsi in sight, the old rebel veteran witl swinging hat lifted up his voic< in three ringing rounds of hurrahi for tue man that the Soutblanc idolized. Then both went theil way without an other word boiu? spoken." BANK OF CHESTER ASSIGNS. Depositors Protected'ahd Stock holders "Will Lose Nothing. Columbia Stat?. CHESTER, March 13.-The Bank of Chester made an assignment to day to protect the creditors at large. It was through due consideration of the directors that such a course was taken. The depositors will be paid off in full and the stockhold ers will not suffer, as the assets are sufficient to protect all the liabili ties. President J. J. McLure had just returned from New York where he had gone to raise the necessary cash funds to carry on a satisfac tory ^business and the inability to procure enough funds to tide over the summer months oused the as signment. Owing to the tightness and scarcity of money, collections on the notes maturing at this time of the year could not bo made. The assignees are John J. Hemp hill, and J. Lyles Glenn. The ac tion of the board of directors is approved of by tho whole commu nity. 1 MAY LYNCH GOV. WAITE. The People Worked Up to a Frenzy. WILL HOLD THE HALL IF IT TAKES Dynamite to do It-The Military Gathering from all Over tue State. DENVER, March 15.-The politi cal fight waged by Gov. Waite cul minate^ to-day in the most ex citing scenes, and mob violence was imminent many times during the day. Fortunately the common citizens was calm and collected, and the prompt action of leading citizens, in leaving their business and appearing in solid bodies to be in time to consider *tbe situation carefully, caused a delay that prob ably prevented bloodshed, and the probable assassination of Gov. Waite. In all probability, had a shot been fired, a mob would have quickly formed, and have captured the Governor before official assist ance could have reached him. At 6 o'clock the intelligent that the Governor had called upon Gen, McCook, to preserve the peace, set tled all fears of a contest between the militia, and the police, backed by as fearless a lot of deputies, ?worn in by the sheriff as could possibly be gathered together. Soapy Smith's crowd of sports had been sworn in as deputies, and they were placed at the hall to await orders. From 2 o'clock until long after dark a dense mass of humanity empacked in front of the City Hall, and upon the streets adjacent. They cheered and chaffed and joked, yet did not hesitate to ex^" press indignation at the situation. IN MOTION TO ATTACK. On Fourteenth street the First Regiment of the Colorado National Guards stood, flanking the Chaff 'Big?iV Artillery, consisting of ? four gattling guns, with cassion, filled with, ammuntion. Their positon commanded the entire front of the hall, and once the militia was un der motion for the attack on the hall, when Secretary Lorenz ar rived with a message from the Gov ernor to stay the attack for half an hour, to permit a conference looking toward a peaceful settle ment. From that time until the United States troops were called out, the most intense anxiety prevailed. All sorts of rumors floated about. The sheriff issued an order to ar rest the militia and take their arms away. A friend of the deposed members of the fire and police board went out of the City Hall to apply for a warrant to arrest the Governor. A committee of the most in fluential citizens were arguing with the board, with the mililia, with the Governor and with .the police, but nothing was accomplished. The Governor declared he would order the militia to fire upon the City Hall regardless of crowds of spectators, and the police board within maintained their position to resist attack. "What is your name?" asked the police magistrate. The prisoner: "I stutter a little and with your Honor's permission I'll spell it 0, double t, i, double you, e, double 1 ; double you ; double o ; dee," whiskers on the prisoner were shorter than the moss on this chestnut, but the clerk made the propcv entry without any trouble, and so can you. The new pastor of a country church said to one of his Deacons : "I find that Brother Linkum has very liberal religious views." "Yes" replied the Deacon, "Brother Linkum is more liberal in his views than in his contributions." -Chicago Standard. W. N. BURNETT Successor to GEO. B. LAKE, CYCLONE & FIRE INSURANCE. Office over Bank of Edgefield. Peterkin-Cluster. PETERKIN-CLUSTEK COTTON SEED, for sale or exchange. Ap ply to K. H. BUTLER, Edgefield, S. C. or ADVKRTISEU Office. GEO. W. CROFT. JAS. H. TILLMAN. Croft & Tillman, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS, EDGEFIELD, (Norris Building) S. C. Will practice in all Courts of South Carolina and Georgia? FOR THE THOUGHTFUL, SELECTED. Egotism is an unhatched devil. To a mule's ears a mule's voice ie music. Read about Jesus, how he suf fered and died for you. Believing the word of God will always give rest and peace. There is no such a thing as the right use of a wrong thing. It is the one who will not forgive who is always in the wrong. It takes dark days to show us that we really do trust in God. . Trials never weaken us. They only show us that we are weak. No man can have a Daniel's God who is Lot willing to go to the lions den. All cannot be rich, but all may ? become well off by being con tented. Days which begin in darkness and storm often end in a glorious sun-set. God has promised that the man who will have mercy shall re ceive it. Faith is the one thing that makes the Christian seek after he has lost everything else. I* Living without a plan is as fool- . ish as going io sea without a com pass in the ship. . Paul preached resurrection as a truth, lived it as a fact, aud waited for it as a hope. You can never pay your debt to God by money you have stolen from your neighbor. Don't be always asking who Cain's wife was. It is none of your business. Don't be always hanging around the whale that swallowed up Jonah. ' If Jonah had minded his own business the whale would not have touched him. If you .don't mind yours you will be swal lowed by a worse vvhale. Tillman's Fidelity to Duty. Frank Leelie's Weekly. Governor Tillman of South Carolina is by no means an ideal personage, but he has displayed some qualities as an- executive which must commend him to the approval of law abiding citizens. His course in reference to the en forcement of the Dispensary law has certainly shown that he is absolutely fearless in the per formance of what he conceives to be his duty. This law has been stubbornly resisted in Charleston, where something in the nature of a conspiracy against it and the officers with its execution has been organized by the liquor in terest. It is said that spies and spotters dog the steps of the con stables and harass them with threats of personal violence; that this defiance of the law is encour aged in more influential quarters ; and it is this state of affairs which provokes Governor Tillman to agressive action. He meets the bulldozing of the liquor sellers_ with this declaration: "The law will have to be obeyed. I will stop illicit whiskej'-selling in Charleston if it takes all the mili tary and constables in the State to do it, and even if we have to kill a few of these Italian cut throats and bulldozers." There is no mistaking the meaning of this declaration. The Governor is not wise, perhaps, in his talk about killing, but he is right in his de termination to maintain and en force the laws, and if he should actually employ tho military, as he says he will if necessary to do so, and those who defy him should become victims of his displeasure and their own folly, right-minded people would overlook his intem perance of speech in their approv al of his fidelity to official duty. TOBACCO! TOBACCO! We have a fine lot of excellent quality-Virginia and North Caro lina Chewing and Smoking. We invite you to examine our goods and see our prices, We will save you money. We have a fine lot put upMn CADDIES OF 10 AND 12 POUNDS for the convenience of our farmers in supplying their hands. JAS. M. COBB. ?