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__ ? y . I i * . . - ^ T , I ^ITR W * 4 HT lilt $% ?/t?$ es^munvr ti^r && ^nnT^)In ( A Family Ifcwepaper i Fur the Fromotiuti of the J'oliticil, St-cial, Agricultural and Commercial IiUcr**t?. J TElkMEJ: $1.50 a Yjcaa. MJITOH AM? <U.?**Aul.H. 1 I rATABI.G IS AdTANOK. - ttir hlluua, ^TaMJAKI j\H, S. <>., Kki)KUaK.Y:.3, !>-i> 3 ~5, ~rr $FT ~ l.OUKNA > fi ? . ; J < I his \vh? ttie mtmiinii'iilitl himiv; I of li.f ?.>r |t> ri? I ) "The yeatsi-rer p ?! wi,\ l> , I< iren??; The hiiow is on the Kratet a^ain; U I'iei miii's low down the ?ky, l.orcna; , The fio-t k i'mii< where i!m* flower*! thuve twen Hut 'he h urt tii ot>s on a- w ru.ly j M W11 i.?I the Mlllltlier ilHNH Wele 111 tit^h 'Oh/tli# Miu ran ? rer dtp -o low As ilown ail*? lion's r oml e?n s'-ty ' <)h, the miii run nevei. etc. A huiidi/tl ni'iiitl'M have pansnl. (>ii reiia. Since l ot I hi'M ihat han.l in mine, tftld felt tie t-i-at Idirh, l.oivint, i " Though mine cat fetivr fir than ih'ne " A huinls" I un litti* 'iwa- ll "Wi'i\ May, |?< When up i he hilly *! pe we e imt>cd st .To watch tt>e <lyi i; >r tit" 1 ?>* 1'j\iut hear Hie <!i*(a:it chti'eh he'ls 4..| cliiliie, (I, To wali'li the d\'njj of the tiny, ? "< '/j We V;.vi il e?eli in I er t' en, l.ort iia, More than ? v?;r we dtred to tell; 11 A ? - - I 1 - - . *- ? ' ' * * . oiiw mil wnu w.- ulikJIU l.llVt* tii f II III LnrciiH, tl Had hut >111- 11 vi11^ prospered wel . || 'Slut, then, pas!1 if yeain hitv ^um (|j I'll ii"t call U|? their -hadowy f>>rm? i|( I'll s'4y tii thrui lost years, h'eep on, Sleep on. nor hvol life's pel; ini?1 ' ; oi storm I'll say to lhaiil, etc. The ttory of <t e |>u>l Ijorcmi, j <Jj Alas, I eire not to repeal! \ Til" hopes that eotilil not hist. I.orehu, t,( TheV ltveil. tint only 11 v?*>l to cheat, 1 Would hot oitu-e e'en one reeret. IV 'l'<i /ankle in tour bosom now ? "For if we t?y we may fn tt 't." Were words of tliuie ye*rs ii? ?, For 1" we try, etc. ; J? it Yes t' ese weie woids of thine. l,o- I , <1 rena ? I . They ure withl . my memory yet? They touched mum- tender chords, Lo j 1! SP.-int. 4 Which thrill and tiemhle with r.i | . diet, | si I'm not thy woman's heart which I jj spoke - I ,,, Thy In hi t was a. w ays tm- to me. ^ \ ditte stern and nieioiiitf l?r.?kn 1 he tie whieh linked my sou', to (hep ^ .A duty s'ern, ?le ji tinnier* umih now, i.orini, '^'lie pa?t Ih (he eternal past; j. Our In-HiIm will ponn lie low, I.otena L. Life1* ( (i in elibliik out ho fast. Tliere Iku fill lire, oh, th ink Ooil! Of life thin ih mo hbihII ii pnit ? 11 ""Tin iIuh( to ilust l>eiiMili (lie soil, ci Hut there, up (here, * I Im heart to, henri. Of life thin. elc. ' f( 1 Nothing The Heathen. " ei A eolored ovangelint, who was ioliciting subscription* for 'do po' ' heathen sinners what live 4crost <le ocean,1 said, in the conrMe of Jiiis remarks: JDe? think or dem, dear broth- I onii?dctu po' benighted |>eop!o? a tgoin"' aronn' stark naked in a cli- e< mate dat's ox hotoz do place whur > Jots er you is gwino tor! Not a tl / .(.-ll oe plnsf (nr ilai/ (.??.. L !? ?.? ~.V. >I?J "?>-? , I iBiit just here an old deacon a -arose and said: May I ax de hruddor one quoB-1 lionf -Ten, suh; en two, cfyou likes.' ! Well,' exclaimed the deacon, |c ' Wringing his fist down on the pew railing, 'what I wants ter know is l1 ?di?. What <!ocs dem nuked heath-1 en want wid cloze in u climate cz E hjit ex datf In my opinion, what 11 ?fe raly need moa' in umbrellas!' >c A criminal a*.mult was made on ^ .Maggie Seabrook, the 7-year old j" ?4*aghter of a widow lady in CoNuuAift last Thursday evening by CMm Coleman, a 16 year old ( -colored brute. Whan caught be walll jtrebably he summarily dealt * with. I _ _ f MP* Itch on human, mane* on home 6 4Ues and all Monk, curea in 90 minute* r ?W Wertford's Sanitary i-otion. Tbl* aweer fella. Sold by J P Jfecksy A Ca, Druggist, Lsnosstsr, SO 1 iVOm-is.w nn SlSlililil 011 'pi?IJ ' ( T '1 I liti Lilal.itii. o Light Yet on the Cause ol the Disaster. ORE DIVERS WANTED. ettin^r Out Undies and Valuables From t te Ship?luves titration Will Not he Made For Several 1 fays. 'ashinirtou. Fel> 2 I. Several re>rts eaine by telegraph to the ate and na\y departments todav oiu Havana. All of the naval ihle<rrams, however, ho re the itc of ye-tenlay, while.that from en Lee to the -tate department as prohahlv sent late la^1 nii*ht, i?iu??h marked ree* ived this morn i??. None of these mo-.,sai?es new an\ li^ht upon the eause of le Maine disaster and in faet tin* lieers in tiie navy department n Iocs not steal Anything.' The precaution was Datura nough, bet the form in which i rat conveyed was unfortunate ur when the shopkeeper return d, a few minuteo later, the bo; ried out: 'Pa, he didn't steal anything watched him.' ivc about re>iI them>c|\es i 1 lie belief that n??t 11inlt definite 11 this point mo be known for svcral days. 1 ho reason for this eliuf is that tin* operations of the Ivors upon the wreck of the lainc an- hoinjjr confined at pros it to the recovery of the bodies f the dead, still entangled in tiereek and the recovery of the (doubles, neither of which can e neglected, while the. other ranch of the work, namely the ivestijration of the cause of the isaster, may lie more properly ft to the conduct of the court of upiity. Cum Lye's dispatch is a> fallows: Havana. Feb 21. ISJH.? As stant Secretary of Slate, Wash iL'ton. (irerdneed of diveistc et c fleets and bodies from tin reek. Two aie now employer lit t we Ivc or Siiteeii eould be Used. |:j bodies have been buried, cry few found today, 1>iit ov u no hundred ^opposed to l?o con ned in ship. Sailors now in twe panish hospitals, number 11. I isited them \eterday. All will 3cc>vcr except two. They an nnforfable and well eared for. (Signed) Lee." Acting Secretary Day made the dlowiiiL' answer itmnedinlflv ? e raided: "I lave calledattentior avy departinent' t?> your request >r clivers. Same wijl l?e couipli I with. (Signed) Day.'' he House Votes .in Appropriation of $200,000. Washington, Feb. 1ft.?Tin louse today promptly urn! on nimously voted the $200,000 ask d for by the Secretary to tin iftV" to recover the bodies lost ii he Maine disaster, and to rai? he wreck, if that is deemed : id vis ble. Faithful Walchmnn. The truth of an old sa\ ingabou hildren and fools is newly illus ratofl bv a story in a Londo ft|>er. A gentleman went into a fane; oods store. It was early in th fiorning, &nd in order to maki hango the shopkeo|K.r was oblig d.to go upstairs after the casl ox. Ah he went out of th oom, he said in a whisper to hi ittle (ton: Watch the irentleman that h y , was rented i?y the Tillman mo\ p uujnt in order to give u jolt to o o of the faithful. Now that t - phosphate royalty pays the St? \i very little, there is 110 earti e reason why this office should i s lie abolished?hut the legistati refuses. Reform promised 0 lower taxes and reduce the nu Iter of offices, hut reform I 1 done just the reverse. You m t always count on the kind of refoi i that South Carolina has had f * the last seven years doing exacl f the opposite from what it promits ?Darlington News. I SPAIN IS VKItV MMiRY. Premier Su^n >ta KNpn?sses (in1 Sympathy and Swears Fricndshi|) to tli?" I'nitcd States. New York, February I s*. ? I'l Madrid correspondent of tl World sends the following hi thori/.ed statement by 1'rimo Mil ister Siijjiistu: 44 We were ?jrievt and painfully surprised at tl J catastrophe to the Maine. \\ felt it douhly so because the ss : occurrence took place in our w ters. We cannot forget, tl i sympathy shown to us bv Anier ca. when we hist our cruiser, tl Kena Reroute and the minister < 'marine has conveyed to (it Woodford, the condolence ot t! 'Spanish navy. Our represent tive at Washington will convey I t'ne American government tl svmpathy of our sovereign uati< land the cuverninent. You in: I have noticed how central, ar sincere has been the friendly a titudo of our press in commentit upon this unfortunate entustr plie. This and the equally frien* ly conduct of the authorities ar people at Havana will <j;o a cr?? way to convince America that v svmpathi/.e with her iiiourninc f? the calhiut crew and officers 4 i % * iuu .name. "1 do not apprehend any tro bio in our relations to America, mil firmly persuaded that tli 1 purely accidental catastrophe w ' i make them closer, if possible, ai cement them with sympathy. ; cuunot^iia y? u iui> Irish dotai j of the theory or origin of tlie a cident, but 1 am aide to state tli the sources of information. Spa | Uh and foreign, are unanimous attributing it to an explosion the interior of the vessel simil to those that hu\o occurred in tl | American warship Cincinnati ai several vessels of European pie I ers in the la^t several years." I Thanks For The Foundation. ?j An old itin -r ml e dored preac 1 er, while c??nd ictovjj services at i>r??trnete<i in tin *, was inturrup ed by a ir'-soi.*?r, wli ? riishe I ^ an I e\ ! ii nnd, excitedly: Parson, ?| li^htuiu' struck y j house, en burned it tor de gnum i The c ?n .'relation expected d see the parson collapse under tl information. but 1io did not 'Burned de house d iwii, did il 'Yes, mill!' Well, did it hurt do land wli II i,; do house m uz on#1 'No, Hull!' 'Thank do Lord fer dot!1 i I claimed the parson. 'Tlmnk L >rd de land's lof | Kn in wo'll sine on onj*e *227, 'II< t'Firin n Foun latiou 1 I'hank soi . brother for do nine.1 ThootKoe of uhosohnte insoeci ELEVEN MILLION HALES at N-ill's Circular oil the Supp Consumption of .Cotton. New ()rlcun?, Fch. Ik ? Mr ,(* ; M Neill, the well-known* cott< u*1 statistician, today issued n eircul " to >Ho probah e supply >ii "" consuprion of American cotftnn f the current season. After reviei i!?u the results ?>f previous senson 1 e Mr Neill says; k,In America tl Southern mills are doinj; well su ?l": will prolmbh consume 100?,0( ,cv more ImiIcs than lust year. It i the reverse is the ease with- tl H* Northern mills. NN*ith these pr I n.ises we may now form a f? nit-a of the uctutd consumption 10 Amerieau eotton during the ye ,l*;??ndinj; the tirst of SoptenuX' , 1M*k Now >is to supply ? Eur u> pean and Amerieau mills stoe >M j September I. 1807, 400,00 l.v j visible supply, American, 1st I September, 1M<7, 80b,<>00; on * of lst?7-'tts?11,000,000 hales. ! Total supply of American f ?* | the your 12,200,000 from whi '" deducting total consumption of j l<* countries 0,050^000, and you a !l^ , left with visible and stocks of 3 vc i;.or000 against K00,000 and spi ,r ners 400,000 la>t year?l,20%i "f Goo. Viwildc and invisible excess u" September 1st over last year 1 1 1)50,000. While 1 have used ci 1,8 figures of 11,000,000 bales in t In 11 ! B])ceulations, it is quite inanifc I from the average that the cri ' will.lte considerably more, il.i ' No l\ntan>rlinu Alliances. at Monrot' Knquirer. Bi'voiul all doubt tin* mulleta 111 i question is to be the issue in t ill' . . ... ^ next national campaign. Address were issued on the loth by tl chairmen of the Democratic, I* ptllist ami free silver Kcpnblie! national committees urging fusii 'on silver. In each address t advocates of free silver are urgi to wipe out party lines and mu h a strong tight for the white met a l'he campaign is some distance o it- li t now is a good time for fr in silver Democrats to resolve i make a straight tight and ma o' "entangling alliances" with not i!' We are eternally opposed to fusii to The Democratic nartv should i li- its standard, make its platform the best interests of the poop nominate men loyal ami wort and by its merit command t iat support of all patriotic men. I Democratic party injures it? when it goes a whoring af X strange gods. Broke Jail in Ihirnwell. >w The poatotln-o - ifo ot'iick who got in considerable work Barnwell county HotiH- time hi or known as Dan Smith alias 1 Murphy and Frank anil Front ne Smith succeeded in breaking ',c in Barnwell Saturday evening i making good their escape. 1 l,y sheriff offers reward of ifl75. ?<>* .. ? ,re The Piedmont tobacco workt Rock Hill were burned last Frit m * morning by an accidental ti Loss $11,600. Insured for $7,0' It ia estimated that the small| rni scare in Charlotte baa cost ?r city $50,000. Uy. as. atfT* Iitc-MiCiueoO'- '?r water ?ui ab-cp aionpod immediately by !)i Omtchom's akft Dioaanc <> ohkniriMi ami a-iutt* alike ?Price - Hoxt bv J K H- *.? A Co Drug, m Leoeaater, 8 i. CHILI) DIKS ON Till-; 'I'llA I > i ' v A llaby Loft 011 Cnptirjr Ros< lioro's Trn?n? It whs jed? Death Came in II Three Hour*. hi ut* , (1 reenville, S. C., lnw had tliw n<i | ^ sensations lately; The smallp<?j< the-niarriairtv of Mr I) M llodirui ivand now a sadden nnd myaterioi is, J . death of 11 babv. tie . The facts of the Intter hecani id |() known here yesterday after tli nt ^OU Carolina jKipors were rt I | ceiveit As learned from Captui Kd lCoseUiro, who eame in la> e. evenir.** on No. 12, the* wer "'I these: of I t . Caiiftain ltosohoro was crmdm ur i tor in eh a r ire of No. :?,*> Thursda rt , inortiintr. A few miles froi a-; (ireenville a passenger in tire da k h .. !roach heard a pectiliar >oiirxl nt - der one-of the seats. An investi <>" ration whs made, and to the as >1M tonishment of all on Isiard, a bar ket was found eontainin<r an in or (j fant tlireo days old. C?|>tai ,, I ltoscboro was informed of tli ill fact. He was like the nan i re !"\\an?r" with 4the elephant o 1 his hands.' lie did not ktun n! what to think or what to do. Tli ?* I child belonged to no one on lioard ^ | Several of the pass< timers recalle< having seen an old man hoard tin ! train at ( Ireenville, S. C., un< lie) , shove tVie basket nndov flw? lie , , They thought nothing <?f the mat ter until the little ei y from tli ^ basket had told them that tlier i wn- a human life in the basket Kvcrv one became interested f ; the child. A ph3 sici.n1 was o board and Captain Koseboro-aske him to look after the chil 1. II had not lone to watch o'er it however, for the little thin" die. ,1>S buforc the train reached Atlanta " It seemed to have been drummed 0 After death it oot perfectly lilac 1,1 in the face. The doctor did a he could to save it, but the ini1 chief had been done before tli child ivn< tint ???? iho 'CI. , I I * ' 1 " I little body was taken to Atlant land given in charge of the police ' j Telegrams were nt once sent t ee | Greenville, describing the. per so who left the bundle on the trair | Kvery effort will be made to fei 1C* ; ret out the mystery and to mak >n* the guilty party suffer.?Chai lotte Observer. to1 I ' Didn't Like The Anthem. hvl ? the J 'lie Fifty years ago the Presb terian of Scotland insisted th the servico of praise should be e; ter t 1 pressed by singing to plain, sir pie tunes the Psalms of David 'Rouse's Version,' or in 'metre This custom, which many regar ed as a precept of worship, e t>rs plains the following anecdote: 111 An old Scotch lady who had i relish for modern church niua >an was expressing her dislike to t h singing of an anthem in her ov Itt" church one day, when a neighb lI1<' said: I he | ?Why, that is a very old anthei , David sang that anthem to Saul To this the old lady ruplic 1 'We?l, weel! 1 noo for the fii time understan' why Saul thrt re- his javelin at David when the li 00. ?eng for him.' the There to bo diaeae* more ascertain ta I Jure then d 7 ? papain. PhftfetaM my At n> iMmooia. No ai(M bow eater*, or smI - ? <hetdieno<eedTW>rpele aWMke yen. Drown ron Hitter* will core ft. Intalmhl* in * .. Hwm of the aSMMt, Mood Mid nerval .row..' Iron Bitter* I. mU by nil deal en s- i Wfi ihri/wi A; {1Chr ~s *11 \k j Uilvtl/luu~i r.;l t ull.. o *11 Cvnr.p rin<v 1?- I Vj?l VU&liwOs B > E ?" '3'' 5-2 :\ = ! IS pour-tin nraiiulii?*<| Sttjjttr for i 00 j l!? pounds liuhr oiowu Suunr 1 00 W< have the rhcavf^t line "** of C'how n?jf ami Smokin<r I'd acco ^ in town. Also wi* ?-arr\a i.v < iin?' <, of Notioi.s, >nrh as hundUci -hiefs, ^ I>adi(;s' ar.M ( Writs" iiosp, oh etc j 1 ^ . S. < ']|. >rry I Bro. ,o-j * MlSS FK.VNC'KS WlLLAltT?. 11 I ,t I:.io I>isti?o;-,j> heel Advocate v>f t,1 Tomj>eran.ve 11 m P.?-> *? 1 to 11< t Howard. Alis> Frances P Willurd, presi11 dent of tiio Woman's < hristiau Temperance Fainti, died dmrtly ~ j after midnight on the l^.-'n in-1., ' at fhe Hotel Hinpire in No* York '' C'itv. There will he funeral services in New York <it v and later in n I K vans ton, 111., Mi>s Willard's home, where the- hody will he n j taken. i Franco* Kli/.aheth W11 lard was ? horn- in ('hurehville, N V., Sep ? teniher 2s, She was eradicated at Northwest! vn Female I i college, Kvanston, 1.11., in Is.V.t, heenme professor of natwrel science there in lsf>*2 and was principal | of (ionesee Wesleyaii seminary in The follow :ng two ? years she spent in foreign travel, i giving a part of the time to study , in i^.iris and was professor of n aesthetics in the contributing to '' periodicals. In l>71-72 she Northwestern nniwr-ily and dean of the woman's . olh ^o, whore ' j she developed her history of self1 ! eo?erntnent, wiiv ii laid heen adopted h\ other e .n> .. oi 1- I J4 Partridge's Almanac. A pleasant story is told of Far . Iridic, the onetime celebrated * Knjjrlish almanac maker. TruvelA , injz in the country, lie stopped at * an inn (or dinner, and afterward prepared to resume Ids journey. n I The hostler advised him to stay " I where he was as it would certainly r rain. "Nonsenae,** said l'artrid^e, ;o I - - and proceeded on his way lie had not pone far, however, i when, sure enough, a heavy showier of rain descended. Struck hy the man's prediction, Partridge I rode hack and was received hy y- the hostler with a grin. The alat | manac maker ottered him half a x- j crown on condition that lio told u- how he knew it was^oing to rain, in "Well, the truth i>, s'r, that we have an almanac here, called l'ard-11ridge's almanac, and t':? f' llow x is such a notorious liar that whenever ho promises a line day we alto'ways know it will oc the opposite, 'tc | Now, today, your honor, i> set I'c down as a line day in the almanac. vn ? ?... or i So ait it /><-/??*<u On. Mr James June*. ot I tie drug firm *4 11 Jones A ttou., Oowden, Id., in speak* I.' ii>K <?f l)r Kite's New Discovery, says <J that last winter hi" wife was attacked ^ with I** Gilppe, and her case grew so " Merioua that physicians si <'nwtien and >w /"an* could do aothlng ror her. Ii *1 seemed to develop into Huts (onsumption Having Dr King's New Discovery in store, and nelliinr lots of It, he took a bottle h me, and to the Is surpria* of all she began to get better * from first dote, and half dnaen dollar bottles cured her sound and well. J>r ir King's New Disoovery for Ponsutnp* j tlon, Coughs and Oolda is guaranteed i, to do this good work Try it. Free * trie! bottles at Crawfsrd Bros' Drug Bb Store.