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tin; lhdger. ;;; Thnrlow S. Cartel . ?)i EDITOR AND MANAGKK. w f t< SATIHOAY a run. tiS, ^ 000. w Your ()\vn Town. c Wo M'c not lioominvj anrthin<;| sppoi.illy ? jw>t I:?Iki11?x on ?ri'noral' nnnoiplos. l>i.l von ovor think i :i anything ahout vinir own town I the town you live mul do business I in? Do volt Inive any pride in it or .hope for it; What vour idea ahort it. anvil wHave k von :itiy sentiment ahout it I w Do von eare a snap ot \nurj ' ? . 1 linger whether people outside ol j it si m!< of ii as a live town, a . Ii 01 o t town, a ofuwino ?and llour- . ishi town, or whet her thev lan^h a il( i i-o \ a i sa\ it i- ilead and , tl pla\ e<I out and no plaee lor livcj peo| le to livid So hnio as vour own premises are in fairlv <?ood repair, does it 1 n make :inv dilVerenee to vou wheth- , . al er the rest <?f \.?ur town is a mass of tn.nhlino, ska ?'?v, ramshackle , "... a I desolation and dilapidation houses riist\ and coining to . pieces, fences leaning six wavs 1 Ol for Sundav, stores dustv and in jjrimv and einntv. streets mini / 1< lit>l?*s .inl nits, sidewalks mcri' . I K pritlis throwjdi the weeds in siiin' I UK r Mini si id y, slippery illld treadierous in \? inter? Hive yuii any ambition for your town?whoever and where ever voti are any sentiment about it? ( )u tin1 other hand, have you any ambition or purpose for your ? self or your children? If you have, does it strike you that you I can do much for yourself or those ci who are to come after you in a n dead town' t)i<l vmi ...... ... * *?* ? * ? * i\. 11 ii v> n uny business, l?ior little, n<> p matter wliat it was, that could s] flourish in a dead town? 1 JSupposii <* you to have the or- o ditiarv kindly iiistinets of hutnan p itv and tliat your selfishness - h which you have in common with t: ail humanity is enlightened, t< what is your idea ahout your own h townf Po you ealetilatc on let- " t.i11lT somebody else do all the e work and spending and pushiny " while you -it -till, a drone in the p h\v< . and simply look on' P> 1 yon hi jure on always reaping ( where you have n t sown, oath- 11 eriny iadelinitel'' whore you kavo not labored' P m't you suppose ( other people will yet tired of pull iny you and a lot of other dead weight and <|uil in disgust, or tro iiwhv to where limy e?n find some* c !)o !\ s < >tv MJi/'-ni:i| and whore \ their Hurts will moot response? | Want thorn ?<> j_'o uwuy, old i Don't like to l>'j stirred up, old 1 Yon look :it vour town it it is f; prospi riiiLT Jind see who has made ( it prosper, or it it soot us dead and i see who litis made it so and just. t hoW IHIIl'll Villi!' wl..?l? nn,l ....I.. I ...... ...... .. Mil' I till I I i II w telliji'ent sellishnc.-s and penny <1 wise pound foolish, suvin^-at-the- v spiyot and-wast in" at -the- hwn?r, " waiting-for-somehody-else-to act- v and- then- discouraging- them- all ' you-could policy has <lone to make! it dead. YYe are talking ti? you Mr I'oor ^ Man as well as Mr Rich Man and j v Man Half YVav Between. YYe h mean you especially, Mr Business d Man, always growling uhout " nihil 1 ulwktll/l I >/? ...I... 4 1 Tf Iiuv ?/\ illlU Wllill I somebody else ought to do and ,, consistently refusing tr? give a 'l dollar for anything unless you are I' directly interested, or to pull a " pound- not even willing to give y an hour of time you know you ,, could spare if you wanted to. jj Does it strike you that if you n have ambition and attachment for 111 your nvD town and intelligent re- v gard for your own interests, it is ^ up to you to do your part in pro- $ & olinir the town's growth and rosperitv and development? The thln<r fur von, Mr Citizen f every class and kind, if yon j ant your own town to l?o a live >wn, is to mend your ways, I ake up and net in the cranio, lift your mind a little from your ivn Inisiness or trade or what rer it is, and cultivate what is died public spirit. I'ndersiand l it if you want to l?e a man and e'ti/.cn you must do the part of I I 111:111 nnu :i citizen. Take nil active, intel'ioont in rest in evei ytliinur tliat is proose< 1 for the m I v: uit a ire of your \vn town. (in to meetings and M*ve on eoininittees when you are anted. Lnennraire ev? rybodv h ? i- trying to do soinethinir | it- vour on 11 town. (iive an our or two of this occasionally! ?r the public and general service, n i l"t 00 a dollar or t wo now and ien in the same cause. Don't a-k yourself: "Can't I et out of doinir anything4' Let it lie: "W hat and how | ineli can I do to help this! loiiir?" \ town of poor people who are ive, alert, <;o-ulic.id, public-j linted. will prosper and yroir. town of millionaires each intent uly 011 his own immediate husi s- and leaving the General in rest to he looked after by some inly else miisl surely die.? tvcnville News. VOivK MILLS INVKKASK. Prosperous Factory Will Add to Its Kipiipment. jH-ri.d lo The State. Yorkville, April 4J I?The York ntton mills last year trebled the tpaeitv and buildings of their till, and have now eoneluded to irther increase their capacity rto er cent, raising the number ot pindles front 10,000 to 10,000. 'hey have jn>t purchased <50 acres f additional land to he used as a ijivtnrn fin* !?? .<>. im i'1'iiinnr.s, Mini live Wuilt a nuuilior of ih?\v cotyues, sonic of tliciii two storv LMiMiit houses. This year thev avc erected a verv neat anil coin-, lodious chapel, which is occupied very Sunday I?v tiie different lim-ters of the town, and have a irosperous Sunday school under management of Mr. I' M i rimes, superintendent of the nil. .'ontracls Let for 1 lie* Krection of the Cat aw ha River I5rid?;c. At the meeting of the hoard of oiintv commissioners in York i1!e v? sterd iv there were twelve Thiers for the contract to erect he bridge over the Catawhn liver at Sutton's ferry. The iridic contract was awarded to Icoroe \Y Crusts, of Atlanta, his nice beino S7,T.'?o. 1'he contract o erctt the approaches to the iridi?o was jjivcn to .1 M Kino, f (ircenwood, S C, whosw hid ,as ?.V.h?. '1 lie contraetors have ntil Ortolan 1 r>111 of this year in diich to complete the work.? hick Hill Herald. roisi?f: > tu k <; i< \ v i<: A startling incident, of which Ir. John ()l> vor of IMiilji<!cl|iliiii, >?s the subject, is narrated l?v iwi :is follows: was in a most readful condition. My skin was Iniost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue oated, pain continually in hack nd sides, no appetite?gradually rowing weaker day l? v day. Iireo physicians had given ine up. ortunately, a friend advised tryig Klectrie Hitters; and to my reat joy and surprise, the first < ttle made a decided improvelent. I continued their use for ireo weeks, and am now a well i in. J know they saved mv life, tid robbed the grave of another ictim." No one should fail to y them. Only 50 cts., gunran>ed, at Crawford Hro's Drug tore. 0 WILL NOT lU'N. 'J L;eut (iov Scarborough Out of 1 tlio K.k j for Ko-elcetion. Lieut (iov Scarborough will not he a candidate for re-election. \ He has definitely made the an- \ nouneement that his business en- \ gageincnts this summer will not f permit bis making a canvass of the State. This does not neeessari- ( Iv imply that lie will retire from ! I public life, for ll is likely that bo ' 1 will return to the senate frum p 1 lorry. There will he a number of | candidates for lieutenant governor. 1 ! Mr. Coie L Please has already an- i n inneed himself ami several others > i are quietly feeling their way be- > fore announcing them ;el\es. Col. I dno. T Slean i> being urged by ? friends to make the race, but he : has not decided whether he will I do >o or not.-?'I lie State. .< The Platform of 1 '.mo. < ? i! Senator IX-micS, of Virginia, is J quoted as having said in an inter- I view a few days ago. ' 1 hope the Pciuocralic nation- 1 al convention will have t.ie emir- 1 age to make a platform for I'.UIO. That would seem to be the rational thing to do ? to build aj platform with reference to present circumstances and re.-ponsive to ? the suggestions of the hour, bull all or nearly all of the Pemocratic 1 i State conventions thus far held ^ have re allirined the Chicago plat- j form of 1 mm;, which contains this , um<>ii<r its other plunks: We declare that the act of 187ft, demonetizing silver without the knowledge < r approval of tlie Anieriean people, has resulted in the appreciation of ;?nld and a cor- ? responding fall in the prices of j couiinodities produced hy the peo- r pie, etc. !( 'l'he Nashville American resur* roots the platform and quotes from it the ahove plank, ami then comments as follow^: There is considerable hysterical talk to the < >1 cl that the I'lliea^o , platform must l>e rcatlirmcd word ?? v?wm, wi.imui mi' eI'Msloii i)T a syllable," etc. Is the plunk ' just quoted also to he roatliriiud ' {If it is, how ?*ati the I>cinoerary ' defend it { It is a nattier of eonis tiiiiii inf<>rmalion hat the k,j 11. > of commodities prolo'< d l>; the j people"' have risen, not fallen, even though we now have ;i ?*old 1 standard "fastened" upon the ' people. Senator 1> nicl's sensible ?ri ner? I al statement of the need of a l'.HKt platform is apt to fall upon dull oars, hnt when the I).- in. ti. managers are confront* 1 ui'h the language of tile ( 'llil'Ugo platform, with the facts in tlx* cast) set opposite it, they will he apt to pause awhile and modify this platform ju>t a little. l'hey have already found out that the people of the country are not stark fools, and there is yet a slight chance that they may profit hy the knowledge. Charlotte (Jhserver. j Children Give Dewey a W atch. . Washington, April 25 Admiral j Dewey todpy received a delegn- , tion at lleauvoir, his country | home, which represented do,out) , children in the northwest, ''"lie delegation presented to him as a token of regard and esteem a I . . heaiitifiil gold watch and f??I?. ' The money for the gift was raised ! l?y 1 ennt subscriptions. 11111*1 KF t.\ six iroi US. Distressing KMnev and Madder : 1 Disease relieved hi mx hours l?v "N kw ' (litKAT Hntrrif Amkkican Kiunky,' Unit .'' It la a ureal surprise on no-i count of it* exceeding pioinptO"ss in 1 , relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and , hack. in male or female Relieve* re ' tenlion of wa'er almost immediately. 2 I f you want (piles telief and cure this ( is the remedy. Hold hy J ]<' Mackey A Co , Druggist, Lancaster. H C. ( I MM) OF FIENDS HANGED. Vn Ambush Murderer inula Wife Shiver. Nushvil lo.Tenn, April 'J.*> ?John iVntsoti and Bill Brown, both vliite, and Sonnio Crane, colored, vore handed today at McMinnvillo or murder. W. tson was convicted of having ni the ni^lit of December j sum ins neighbor, ,lames j lillis, from amhiish :is the lattei ; vas entering liis own homo. Brown was charged .villi com* I llirity in the murder of his wife Mary. The Ira^cdv took place n a nihin at Viola, n'earMcMimi , ;ille May .*>, lSt'.s. The woman vas shot through the head as slie ay sleeping hy her husband's Tie. Biil Brown was arrested iikI made a confession, iinp'ieatin'jf lis hiot'oer .Jolin and told of '.ho onspiraev hetween the two to ( ;< t rid" of the woman. Bill was jonvioted hut .John never went to rial, having heen murdered in ail hv a nenro. Sonnie Crane, the ne^ro who ,oday died !>v Bill's side in eN>iration of hiserime, wasadouhle milder, \u Attempted (hitrane In (ireen ville County. special to The Slate.* ' ireenville, April - '>?.lim A alker, a nejjro, 4 0 years old, ? i.........i.. i * ' ? ifioii^ui uric uiniiv irom Piedmont,charged with an attempt :?> ravish lie attempted to out- i Kthel, the d-yeur-old daujjht r ?if Tom MoColl, a wagoner. The le^ro was brought hero in a bu<jSy by a constable before the people if Piedmont knew it, ami put i piil. There is some talk of Ivnchlint no trouble i- anticipated. Ilieshcrilt is eontident that no mtbreak will be made. Piednont is It) miles away, and cx iloiiirnt i< i-fnili .* I v If - ?- " 11Beware of the Spectacle Man ( ->tatesville Landmark. Folks who don't want to In* lumbutjoed should beware of pen>lo who peddle spectacles?ap airently a most prolific and profit" dilo source of fraud. lint then folks want to lx? hunihu^ncd. l'hey just can"' Ii%?? without .t. A few days a^jo a citizen who represented hitnself to he a brother d Rev John Wakefield, of Salisbury, wont about town and sold pectaclcs to vursous unsuspeetino ladies at a very hi^h price. Some d' them bought from Inm because 11o was supposed lo be l'"V .1 ?hn Vukelicld'-s brother the latter ? i IVc-bv 11 i i in inii -o > , 'vv.1 Ul bury ? ami they argued that ti?o brother of u preaeher must necessarily be a good num. Alas for human weakness But others bought under tint idea that the man was l>r. Wakefield, of I'liarlotto?who is a brother of lie v. lohn?or at least the doctor's representative. Anyway, they anight spoAu los?many of them?and paid f<>r them in goo ' coin of the realm it the rate of three or four times Ihoir value. Now dhcy are dis-ttisfied, hut the good Mr Wakelield or whoever he is has gone on to green fields and pastures new. Bring along the next humbug! We'll all bo ready to give him business. THAT TllltOKKlNO II KA ILICIIK Would quickly leavo you, if /oil used l>r. Kind's Now Life I'illrt. Thousands of su Herein have iroved tfceir matchless merit for sick un<l Nervous Headaches. I'liey make pure Idood and strong lerves and build up your health. Kasy to take. Try them. Only J5 cents. Money back if not aired. Sold by Crawford Bros, Iruggist. | * I 1CM1 GRANT AGENT CON- $ VICT ED. si * f. .1 \Y Napier, of Georgia, Falls I ai Afoul of tho Law in 1 u Marlboro. ri Special to The State. i n ncnnettsville, April ?For- ri haps the tirst trial in our State ??f one indicted f<?r carrying on the laziness an emigrant agent j'I without having tirst obtained aj license therefor was had in our) court today. ' |C Mr .1 \V Napier of (.ieor??in was the defendant and the jury after living out onlv a short while returned a verdict of jjuihy. The a sentence of the court was that he C p:i\ a tine of ?."><10 or he iinpris.-. r oned f ?r six months. The <jues- li tion of tiie constitutionality of the ti net was raised I?v the attorneys v for the defense and lolljij and a'de ' arguments were, made on both t sides. .Indue Klu?;h in his charge v to the jury and in deciding tlii> o point dwelt at length on each see- j r tion of the constitution said to he li violated by the statute, and held o tliat the net did not violate cith<*r h the Statu or Federal constitution, ! I?ut was a proper exercise of the h p lice power of the State and that ^ the sum of charged for such I license was not i-vi-ewiv-* lli-lo charge \v:is able mikI clearly ex I pressed nn I altogether n strong vindication of the justness and c eonstitntionalitv of this net of the a legislature. It is likely the case n will lie appealed t.i the supreme v court. t MANY INSrOKM'S ARE HE~|l IN(1 KILLED. i v Attack Ameiieans Determinedly' in Several Instances, .'too Slain |' in North Ilocos. I1 11 Manila, April 20, 0:10 p m? About 300 of the enemy have been killed recently in Norte I I i... a:? i^i i ? - * 1 a ."i w, IIH HIUUI^ 1 '< It I < I S IIJJ 111 11 11 < I the attack on 15?toc(0 April 10.1 when from 0<>O to 7<to rebels, a tpiarter of whom were armed with rilles, deti rmincdly attacked ^ the Americans, eharoinj; their, position* and tijjhtinif at close; ipiarlors. The cn^a^ement lasted all the afternoon, the enemy horn- ' y in^ the town, lint they were re I I '1 after the arrival of Ameri- i 4 can re-enforcements. . ! I'lie insniirents ?/cnoridlv ?.<?? ? . ag<:rcs>ivc in that province. Thev I capture.1 an American provision ' wagon near Lapo. The Americans ' having obtained evidence that the alcaldes i mayors of Lupo, Mags- j ingal, Cabngas and Siimit wore j h< ii treacherous communicu, lion with the insurgents, imprison- 1 | ' ed them and horned Lapos' town ? hall. J j 1 There have hoen several minor 1 lipids ;n the province including an * ' attack hy liuO insurgents on! | ; La vug, April 17, 40 of whom i j were killed and SO captured. Officers icport that the men of the j Thirty-third regiment and Third cavalry hehaved splendidly under , 1 very trying circumstances. There j j wero no American casualties at! Ihitoct?) where 1^0 insurgents j were killed and 70 erptnred. , Itch on liumnii cured in tin minuteby Wool ford's SiBtary Lotion* 'lain . never f dln. Sold by J F Mackey ?V ; ( l o . Dm Ziri.it- 1 j ill *i?i -r s <' The New Oil Mill and Ginnery. v The .stockholders of the Farm era' Oil and Ginnery company ( mot Monday at the otlice of the H County Supervisor to make u permanent organization. The following are the directors: U A H Means, Col K K Bowen, G AiJ Norwoo<l, It C Williams, ,1 H i Yawn, ,1 W Whitmire, \N l'Cun ningham, A W McDavid and ,1 \V a Gritlin. The capital stock is * >" l*h,K A IN IN | J M 15 000 and there are about I'JO ockholders, nearly all being irmers of Greenville, Anderson ml Pickens Counties. The plant ill be located on the Southern nil way, near the new Brandon till. The capacity of the oil till willbc twenty-live tons of aw seed per day. ?Greenville lountaincer. 'UK W AR RELICS PRESENT VAX /(>1 lllanding Takes the Flag ami Vase to Columbia. Yesterday the venerable vetern of the Mexiean and Civil wars, 'ol .1 D lllanding of Sumter, Jarived in the city, bringing with lim the historic ilag of the Paluetto regiment that served in the vsir with Mexico, and the colcirated .Jackson vase presented to lie regiment. Col lllanding rent directly to the governor's dliee and turned these invaluable elies, together with all papers renting to them, over to fiov Mebvoenoy to lie placed in the State louse and there seen rely kept. The extensive correspondence iet ween Col lllanding and (iov deSweenev leading up to this deivery of the war relies to the ;overno?* has already been pubisiied in The State. t ol lllanding was as full of nthusiasin and patriotic fervor s ev??r yesterday, and it almost uade him shed tears to bid fareroll to the old Msg and the vase. no hiis given the State ull his itle to the vase, ami lias written o all the other survivors of the egiinent urging them to do likevise. Col Blanding says ho has been irged to bring these precious elies to the Louisville reunion, ait he felt that the relies should ?e in the State house and would lot delay. Ills meeting yesterday with old Uncle lYilliam" Koso, the coined veteran of the famous regi nont, was most atTecting. Col lilanding says the Mexican riir I....... ?I. .... ...miiii-i Ilim; aniilK JJ?OUU 111 land, and it is now their earnest lesirc t<? erect a monument to the neinorv of their heroic and dusting colonel ?lint let* ? who fell on dexican soil, facing the enemy in cittle. He proposes to write the Mate house commission asking hat hotly, if it has one of the nurhle columns, now on the State muse grounds, left after the State muse is completed, to donate it (? form a portion of the proposed nonuiiient. ft un> Ma> 1? wort io you more limn $;00 f \ <ni Ink v it ? !?i <1 who ."'ii s lie I< 1 ing r on iin'iii (eneiie** of waler during ilrep i nri's old and y unyr alike. It uresis the trnii'i e h! oi>ee. 5>1. .**o <1 J F Mao?ey & i o, Drui^ nd, l.au inter, H (' ELLIOTT & . CRAWFORD. Milieu for tike money ? Mulea lor yood paper? Mule* any way yon want 'em ? Mil lea to work or mules toeaper. \7 tT C* WK NONV v vi: in J ? our h*? I>l ? every nm< ! ?i? V? J eeivahle kind *?f a mule -From the ?juiet and ?!???!I?* to the e?iive and frisky?from thp domestic ?luq to the Hi perh young Western mile Another cur load of the latter wind received last week. Konieniber, we well either for the a-h or good paper. Our present stock of Horses cannot it* eat. Some nniuhcr one saddler* itul harneaa animals. ('all and we our stock of ail kinda. We'll alao ehow^you some of the heat aid cheapest liturgies and Wagons rou ever raw. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD. T?ojqj ijo? r>n* pi^q in pjoa aini> o| ipfnb pu? ?q?| oj HIIJ M|U|?n 4A)invi:'t UOUIUM POOH U| PIOQ ojno