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the lexington dispatch, * b>/^^ i adtert^8ement8 ^e ^nserte^ &0&flT y WHf. Harma*,) ^ for three, six ^ f Marriage notices inserted tree ..-? -^4fcz Obituaries over ten lines charged to> *i ?p|^ TJSRM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. ? ? ~ ? ? J ~ regular advertising rates. 1 ~r^::::;:::::::::"ll~V0L xx. Lexington, s. c? weMat, July 23,1890.' no. 35. | ? J^JSSL t< V?? three months.... ??" , fnpletef|i|ej ITHING wwy \ J AM PREPARED TO OFFER THIS X season the most complete line of Fine Q-- Clothing for the best trade. Very Stylish p: and Nobby Suits in Broad Vails, Chevoits, i Corkscrews and Fancy Cassimer Suits. The fr' best variety I ever had any previous season. mL - My assortment to select from is large and L'*l^s"?arefaliy selected in the best markets and ft- from the most reliable houses North, at _ > My Assortment of OEXLD&SKPS SUITS cannot be excelled by any house in this city. P We. All Wool Children's Suits from }/; $1 and upwa**a worth double the priae. School Suits invariety at very 7ow ^ u. variety, at remarkable *?^e^nre8. - My HATS undoubtedly the largest and best in thii mm city. The Nobbiest Styles in all shades a "Rottom Prices. My Stock of / -uua Ul EXCHANGE- I ' unawraeaaiiL? u STATE, CITY AEft C0IJSTY DEPOSITORY. " ? \ L-V $120,000 n x - N?t Undivided profits 65,000 ? Transacts a general banting' business. ? Careful attention given to Collections. 8AVXYG PEPARYBE9T. 15 . j^P*vo8tts of il and upwards received. 7 * allowed at the rate of 4 per cent. I quarterly on "the first 6 raJ? ?^fcanaa'y^v<iTil, Jtxly and October. b MX A. C. President a g-prl JULIUS H. WALKEB, h June 19?lv J "MILLER BROS.' 5Ep Are AMERICAN* and the BEST. \ LEADING BUSINESS PEN8- j L ** *<^^|||^j$i]iP ! ^ A*P Nbs. 75, 117, 1, Acmh, c LEADING STUB PENS. 1 N?*- 1 Carbon Stab r * Sf and Nos. 119, 102, Ghaut Pkn. 1 LEADING 8QHOW? fgg?r- ?- < University '''^HlBr^WnilmfM^ < AND Nos. 333, 444, IS, . The Hitler Bros. Cutlery Co.. Herkfen, Conn. %piSgpy>-- MANUPACTUHKB8 OF Steel Pens. Ink Erasers and Pocket Cutlery. t r AT THE' 1 -3E5 .A. !Z _A_ Al JtC * 2 October 9th?1 j. / ^ ^COMMfRCIAL BANK. | i I ^COLUMBIA, S. C. ] f^^apltal Paid-"'"-- * -$100,600 * Transacts a Banking and Exchange busi- j [ seas. Becejvea Deposits^ Interest allowed ' on Deposits, Safety Deposit Boxes to rent f k at $6 per annum. I C. J. Isbtikt.i., James Iredell, f f President. Cashier. . ' Jno. S. L kapha kt, Vice-President. I Nov. 28?ly l CAROLINA I NATIONAL BUSK | I COLUMBIA, S. O. < I STATE, CITf aee 101 STY depository. I Paid up Capital $100,000 ^ ;5nrplas Profits 60,000 ' mats department. \ HHb Deposits of $5,00 and upwards received. D Merest allowed at the rate of A per cent. M ?annum. W. A. CLARE, President Rm Jotfss, Cashier. l?irA Insurance. i T AM AGENT FOR SEVERAL STRONG JJ JL Firs Insurance -Companies, and am prepared to write policies on most reasonapie ra tes. I a E. LEAPHABT. j ! bHl Hb l '' HE' - THE WIDE, OPEN- DOOR - < 8UBJECT OF DR. TALMAQE?8 SER- 1 MON FOR SUNDAY, JULY 20. The Brooklyn Divine Telle of the Wonderful Receptive Power of Heaven?The Poor, the Rich, the Sick, the Well, the Deemed end the Ignorant All Welcome. Brooklyn, July 2a?"The Wide Open Door" was the subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon today, the text being behold, a door was opened in heavfej?.1n John had been of a church in Ephesiia. He had beezT&dvea fro^ his position in that city by an indttB nant populace. The preaching of a" pure and earnest gospel bad made an excitement dangerous to every form of iniquity. This will often be the result of pointed preaching. Hen will flinch under the sword strokes of truth. You ought not to be surprised that the Win/? tty?t? makes an outcry of pain when the surgeon removes the cataract from his eye. It is a good sign when yon see men uneasy in the church pew and exhibiting impatience at some plain utterance of truth which smites a pet sin that they are hugging to their hearts. After the, patient has been so low that for W9&s> he said nothing and noticed nothing it is thought to be a good sign when he begins to be & little cross. And so I notice that spiritual invalids are In a fair way for recoveiy^when they become somewhat irascible and choleric under the treatment of the truth. But John had so mightily inculpated public iniquity that he had : been banished from his church and sent to Patmos, a desolate island, only a mile in breadth, against whose rocky coasts the sea rose and mingled its voice with the prayers and hymnings of the heroic oxila. Yoir &mnot but contrast the oondi, tion of .this banished apostle with that* J of another famous exile. Look at the* TSSSIf on -Patrnos f?rt^ the . great on St. Helena. Both were i desolation And bart iwfc offenses committed. ESw" ored an! dcepSivrBofe^^11, rial natures. off to die. Yet mark tM^^n|t?afffereuce: one had fought for thep&ftshu abi? crown of worldly authority, th? other for one eternally lustrous. Tin one had marked his path with th< v,iD -Miftwers. th< WT bleached mum uj. uu xui. |o other had introduced peace and goo< K? will among men. The oimh*4^| ith her g and ine:rting9HKHMHHHH| I Helena gathered^l^RHHHBHH irkness, clouds lighted sing, but rent and fringed g -with the lightnings of a wratSKH| od, and the spray flung over the^H >cks seemed to hiss with the eondem- p< ation: "The way Sf the ungodly n< mil perish." But over Patmos the b eavens were opened, and the stormy ai ? beneath was forgotten in the roll tr nd gleam <s? waters from under the si irone like crystal, and the barren- tl ess of the ground under the apostle nts forgotten as above him he saw the en ees of life all bending under the rich o: low of heavenly fruitage, -while the b oarse blast of contending -elements y round his suffering body was drowned o: 1 the trumpeting of trumpets and the b aiping of harps, the victorious cry of & lultitudes like the voice of many p and the hoeanna of hosts in w rambe* soothe stars. o What a m&. ^ot upon which to stand ti md have such a^fe^riotis vision! Had a >atmos been somei^wi ?*. ? x>red 'with the luxuriance^e?xperpetual T mrpmer, and drowsy with breath of y ifhnamon and cassia, and tessella^l & vith long aisles of geranium and cao- ^ ns, we would not have been surprised ? it the splendor of the vision. But the b ast plaee yon would go to if you wanted ? find beautiful visions would be the sland of Patmos. Yet it isafodnd such ^ jloomy spots that God makes the most ^ wonderful revelation. It was looking j hrough the awful shadows of a prison ^ hat John Banyan saw the gate of the ^ relesttal city. God there divided the ^ ightfrom the darkness. In that gloomy ^ ibode, on scraps of old paper picked np kbout his room, the great dream was ** written. a It Was while John Calvin was a ^ refugee from bloody persecution and ^ was hid in a house at Angouleme that c le conceived the idea of writing his ^ mmortal "Institutes." Jacob had nany a time seen the sun breaking L. hrough the mists and kindling them * nto shafts and pillars of fiery splendor * hat might well have been a ladder for he angels to tread on, but the famous adder which he saw soared through a jtoomy night over the wilderness. The 9 right of trial and desolation is the | wane of the grandest heavenly re vela- : ions. Prom the barren, surf beaten ; rock of Patmos John looked up and ! saw that a door was opened in heaven. GOD SEES BVEBITHnra. Again, the Announcement o? suah an >pened entrance suggests the truth hat God is looking down, upon the ?rfch and ^o^rvent of all occurrences, if- o would sain it vide prospect we .'limb up into a tower or mountain, rhe higher up we are the broader the landscape we behold. Yet our most aomprehensive view is limited to only a few leagues?here a river and there a lake and yonder a mountain peak. But what must be the glory of the aarth in the eye of him wno, from the door of heaven, beholds at one glance all mountains and lakes and prairies and oceans; lands bespangled with tropical gorgeousness and arctic regions white with everlasting snows; Lebanon majestic with cedars and American wilds solemn with unbroken forests of pine; African deserts of glistening sand and wildernesses of water unbroken by ship's keel; continents covered with harvests of wheat and rice and matoe; HHBHHBBBBHHHHHHBIBBHBHBHHIHBBBHBBKMBMHbh the ipary of every rone, tile whole world of mountains and seas and forests and islands taken in in a single glance of their great Creator. As we take our stand upon some high point single objects dwindle into such insignificance that we cease to see them in the minutiae, and we behold only the grand points of the scenery. But not so with God. Although standing far up in the very tower of heaven, ! nothing by reason of its smallness escapes his vision. Every lily of the fi^ld, every violet under the grass, the tiniest heliotrope, aster and gentian are as plainly seen by him as the proudest magnolia, and not one vein of color in i their leaf deepens or faded without his | this door in heaven God MS^KfFuman conduct and the world's moral changes. " Not one tear of sorrow falls hr-hospital or workshop or dungeon but he sees it, and in high heaven makes recora 01 iu? ran. The world's iniquities in all their ghastKness glower under his vision. Wars and tumults and the desolations of famine and earthquake, whirlwind and shipwreck spread out before him. If there were no being in ail the universe but God he could be happy with such an outlook as the door of heaven. But there he stands, no more disturbed by the fall of a kingdom than the dropping of a leaf: no more excited by the rising of a throne than the bursting of a bud, the falling of a deluge than the trickling of a raindrop. Earthly royalty" clutches nervously its scepter and waits in suspense the will of inflamed subjects, and the crown is tossed from one family to another. But above all earthly vicissitude and the assault of human passions in unshaken security stands the King of kings, watching all the affairs of his empire, from the introduction of an era to the counting of the hairs of your head. f A WAT OP ENTRANCE FOR PRATERS. Again I learn from the fact that a o.i- door in heaven fa opened that there is fofc f?vr nravers and Ih hi naj. ui I oi egress for divine blessings. It does I not seem that our weak voice has I strength epough to climb up to God's ear. Shall not our prayers be lost in I the clouds? Have words wings? The I truth is plain Heaven's door is wide I open to receive every prayer. Must it I not be loud ? Ought it not to ring up with the strength of stout lungs? Must jmSfikbe a^loud call, such as drowning ft chieftaur^Qr like the shout of som< B is as good a^-hattle? No; a whispei ft wishof the soul m^t^md the mer< ft i as good as a whisper, i^^^tilance ii |l I high ajh^nmljljgiustaste=<a, be made \ )t oken voi^MwBHjj^HHftj nid rags and^^HHH|^HN|^Hp ostfuBy to a aging amid tears and p8HHB|^^HH at my Redeemer liveth. 6*e6i^ihatilaase-jBas-jnnSli^H JL UUppvsD buav uuuv *io and classic elegance in the prayerHB ! the Pharisee than of the publican, t it you know which was successful. \ ou may kneel with complete elegance s a some soft cushion at an altar of ala- i aster and utter a prayer of Miltonic c lbliinity, but neither your graceful I osture nor the roll of your blank verse i ill attract heavenly attention, while ] yer some dark cellar in which a Chris- t an pauper is prostrate in the straw t ogels bend from their thrones and cry 1 ue to another, "Behold, he prays!" i hrough this open door of heaven i hat a long procession of prayers is i mtinu&Uy passing 1 What thanksgiv- i igal What confessions! What inter- 1 ea^Ml. What beseechingsl "And { ehold, a ctborwas opened in heaven." ] IT IS OPEN THAT WfrlLAJ LOOK IN. ] Again, the door of heaven 1* opened j y allow us the opportunity of looklg in. Christ when he came from , tethlehem left it open, and no one tnce has dared to shut It Matthew < tarew it still wider open when he came o write, and Paul pushed the door arfcher bads when he spoke of the f lory to be revealed, and John In Rev- 1 lation actually points us to the harps, nd the waters, and the crowns, and tie thrones. There are profound myssries about that blessed place that we annct solve. But look through this ride open door of heaven and see riiat you can see. God means us to ook and catch up now something of he rapture, and attune Our hearts to ta worship. It is wide open enough to see Christ. , behold him, the chief among ten thou- ( and, all the bannered pomp of heaven ( it his feet With your enkindled faith ' ' 1 * ~\^^r oo&on&ionguieeermjusjsL>j.^iui7- u low their palms wave and hear how heir voices ring. Floods clapping their lands, streets gleaming with gold, uncounted multitudes ever accumulating n number and ever rising up Into gladler hosannas. If you cannot stand to ook upon that joy for at least one , lour, how oould you endure to dwell unong it forever? You would wish rouraelf out of It In three days and choose the earth again or any other ilaoe where it was not always Sunday. My hearer in worldly prosperity, iffluent, honored, healthy and happy, ook In upon that company of the re- j leemed, and see how the poor soul in aeaven is better ofl than you are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate, Signer in power. Hearers, afflicted md tried, look in through that open loor that you may see to what gladaees and glory you are coming, to what life, to what riches, to what royalty. Seaxers, pleased to fascination with this world, gather up your souls for me appreciative look upon riches that ^ever fly away, upon health that never itafcens, upon scepters that never i ~ i break, upon expectations that are never disappointed. Look in and see if there are not enough crowns to pay us for all our battles, enough rest to relieve all our fatigues, enough living fountains to quench all our thirst, 1 enough glory to dash out for ever and ever all earth's sighing and restlessness and darkness. Battles ended, te&rsd wiped away, thorns pluoked from the] bosoms, stabs healed, the tomb riven-* what a scene to look upon! WE MAY ENTER HEAVEN THROUGH X? Again, the door of heaven stand* open for the Christian's final entranoej Death to the righteous is not climbin* high walls or fording deep riven, but is entering an open door. If you ev<* visit the old homec^md where you vefl born, and while fsBSgpfend mother al yet alrve, as yougo up the lane in fron i of the farm house, and put your han* 011 the door and lift' the latch, do shudder with fear? No, you are to enter. So your last sickness only the lane in front of your Fath^n house, from which you hear the of singing before you reach the d^H And death, that is the lifting of latch before you enter, the greetings aim embraces of the innumerable family*^ the righteous. Nay, there is no * for John says the door is already ' What a company of spirits have alr^B\ entered those portals, bright and ing. Souls released from the eai^fc prison house, how they shouted as went through t Spirits that sped V from the flames of martyrdom, m&kf^ heaven richer as they went in, pourii^ their notes into the celestial harmon^. And that door has not begun to shtt. If redeemed by grace we all shall ent^ it. This side .of it we hare wept, bui on the other side of it-we shall nevei weep. On this skjawe may hare growi .sick with weariness, bnt on the otha side of it we shall be without fatigue On this side we bleed with the wax rior's wounds, on the other side w? shah have the victor's palm. Whei I you think of dying what makes you i ^nntract. what makes you breath I' 1 o deep and sigh? What makes yo loomy in passing a grave yard? Fo >wer of Christ, you have been thin] ig that death is something terribh be measuring of lances with a powe; il antagonist, the closing in of a 001 ict which may be your everlasting d< bat. You do not want much to Sin f dying. The step beyond this lii jerns so mysterious you dread the tal 1g of it. Why, who taught you th ssson cf horrors? Heaven's door ide oper and -you step out of yoi ck room inii^ose portala; N0tn?s long as Wp elap s the salvation of Jesus I : press upon your <*widepfttion^^M|H dl ye travelers of the desert, uHh ;hese palm trees. Oh, if I could gait^H >ef ore you that tremendous future unflB vhich you are invited to eater?don^^B ons and principaBtte^ day wijft^^B light, martyrs under the throat^HJB :he four-and-tweiity eiders failing IS M t, stretching off in great dw^HH foe hundred god forty and four nj^H iand, and thousands of fchousarJ^M host beside hosft rank beyond rank^Hp infinite distance; nations of the sav^V beyond nations of the saved, until a^r gellc visions cease to oatehr^hythiflt more than the faint outline of whole! empires yet outstretching beyond the! capacity of any vision save the eye of Tl God Almighty. Then, after I had fin- I ished the sketch, I would Hke to ask you if that place is not grand enough i and high enough and if anything could' be added, any purity to the whiteness of the robes, any power to Reclaiming thunders of its worship. And all that may be yours. How's This. We offer One Hundred Dollars regard for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., props., Toledo, O We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Bjsnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous, surface of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. 38. ... y .e t ?-Secretary Blaine. New York, July 16.?A Washington special to the Star says it is believed at the State Department that as soon as the McKinley bill becomes a law Secretary Blaine will resign, issue a manifesto giving his views on reciprocity, and enter the race for the Presidency in 1892. nggsL. m ^^^Hj^^HatFive Hundred Thous ^B^^Brs Can be Saved?We JHH^^^Klical Change in Our Form ^BH^^Hment?John Sam is in ^HH^b Church but Wrong Pew. Come Over to the Till^^^^HHoped that this political ^^|H^Rvas to-he one of educapeop?^^?mjd be ^BW posted m all matters re-1 Ieir government, and that I re5 and substantial rebe advocated and urged jople in such a way as to relief from the burdens of id make the government >us and effective in the t of the law. I fear, howbe turn given to the camnake it one for the mere scramble" for office, and in this ^scramble - that the reforms in gov\ ^rnment, which our people so much \ >eed, may be lost sight of. I do i. \ ot, however, intend to let the meth |^3dfl adc^ted on the stump abate my '" advocacy of the reforms which I think should be made in the admin fstratiohvof. government. i have ever been one of those who think th?t we need a radical change % in our fprm of government. It is too r * expensive and too burdensome for a 1 jthihlv settled population like ours. r % is the New England idea of gov' ertment .and teaches the doctrine ^ thit every seryice, however small, b refSeredi the government, must be * P^f for.' Under it we have over ten r tkoflWf oftce-holders drawing sal0 ariesw^-fifty dollars up to four U i-T xrr:?u xl 1^1,3^ Ijlujuohjj.^ VYlUii west? uuiwuumcio there is Constant and growing demandfoan increase of salaries. In the large amounts expended salaries, the court expenl" ses in th^ounties, upon the princi? pie of p>ang for every service ren,e dered, arf constantly increasing in the way_n? constable, witness, and. trial justicifees. In the County^of Ig HamptoJ^x was informed by the ir County Cmmissioners, that the fees: of trif^-justice and constable ^ amount^? last year, to over foir Ml < i * ^Hpgovernnd^^H hence ?pu 15H^H[ sentiment abroaSK b ^Bork the roads by taxa- * j^vwho are familiar with Hon of the last four or ^ How that the commuta- 0 H is bocoming very popu- S he citizen, able to pay, ^ >rfrom two to five dol- I Hun, whife the poor man Puis ten or twelve days, [der this form of govern- ? ketfie position that if you 13 body else who does any- 8 the State, why not pay the * labors on the road as well 8 immissioner who superin- v f Vnm? To pay one and >e other is a manifest injus- ' lis, however, the form of J itt which teaches the doc- 11 you must pay_ for every 8 vicious one? is not tne J Hk government which pre- c I Mrb^tetiie Constitution of 1886 ' H Ker,JBfc__ That every citizen of ^Ve comunity is due his State some Moortionf his time, free of charge, ? Rrorn a^nse of duty and patriotism, ^ V prefer^ie? Uhder it our counties c were fovenied by a system of * bdai'ds^iy^gommissioners of poor, 1 commissiorrs of roads, commission ? . ^rsofpubliouildings, etc., who served J Bithout pal- By division of the la Upr and reusabilities, which now ? Bll on the Cflnty Commissioners, Rhe counties governed by these rboards withouiiny large tax upon purse or time, ad hence the expenses of count governments were comparatively mall. hfow the taxes to support tnepcounty governments and schools are learly twice as much as that paid t: support the State Government, art in some counties ] i three times as ntfch. The-difficulty, 1 ?oo, in controlling these expendi- j %ures is, fhatyo^ have no one body I S&fce whom you can { hpld resptmsibifcjor expenditures. i ] This year the f General Assembly, 1 composed of one hundred and sixty ] irien, levy and jappropriate seven t hundred and^Kty-three thousand < dollars direct taxis, while the County 1 Commissioners aad Trustees of each i schoo} district lew and appropriate j a million and four hundred dollars, i ndt collectively,'but acting sepa- ] rately; that is yotr State taxes are governed by one hundred and sixty i and' your county.a)id school funds by j three men. Add to this the power ! which the counties have to contract debts in aid of railroads and other < public enterprises, then you can j < have fcome idea how hard our expen-1 b-n-rvK rlnTTTI QTirl Within I opo a+tf w uo ?? ? .. moder^ bo'jnds. To remedy this evil we should .have one single body to levy/ fcolleet and appropriate taxes. ; Then yob can-hold them to a strict ; accountability^ The theory- and practice of our pregeni^crm elf government is, that the Legislature, composed of one hundred and sixty Representatives of the people, should be responsible for the expenditures of the State taxes, while; the County Commissioners, acting separately in each case, are responsible for county taxes.. Thus you wild find that every member of the General Assembly is watchful of the State levy, but only those from each county concern themselves about the county taxes. ether words the Repgfcentativos from each I county analflwunty Commission-v ers make up the levy from that county and the Representatives from other counties pay no attention to it , whatever. If these county expenditures were made general upon the State, then you would have a greater watchfulness over county expenditures, and with the change of the form of government a lesB tax to support it. In this way I think that at least five hundred thousand dollars might be saved to the people in taxation. If by this change we can save this large amount and an additional hundred thousand by the reduction of the rate of interest paid on our public debt from 6 to 4 per' cent., then it is necessary that the drift of this campaign should be changed -"aa&ffia&e-QBS-.of business and not one of mere fiippMir"n5ntici^ir-t?d- slander. In this campaign our people are confronted with this proposifinn ftrft we tn have a simple change of office-holders, or are we to have a reformed government'? Unless there is a real and substantial change in the form and methods of administering the government, then a simple change in the officers who administer it is useless, except to give others privilege of office. In addition to these reasons for reform ir our government there are others which are weighty. With the advent of this New England government idea South has come the further idea that government is a machine, which each interest of the community may use to promote its own private ends. Instead of being an institution for the protection of life, liberty and property, it is made a machine to promote that interest of the community which may have the control of it This idea has taken strong hold on the people North and is getting a foot hold South, and the Congress and many State Legislatures in the United States are used for party and private purposes. Is it not time for South Carolinians to halt and think before they let this doctrine take complete possession of mmm dvided and that interest which con-, p rols the most money will be the le nost powerful ft The reforms which I think are e; >adly needed are as follows,' ^ 1st. Such a change in the levy, a ollection and appropriation of taxes, ic is will make one body, to wit: The \b General Assembly, entirely and solely & responsible for every cent of taxation | aken people, . ;1 wiLi> uiui&gkKMgm f disbursing public money, / , 3d. The government of counties- in y system of boards, similar to that ^ rhich prevailed prior to 1868. qi If these changes could be made a tr urge and substantial saving of taxes ai oiSd be made and the burden of th Itate, county and municm&l taxes ifted from the shoulders of our peo- tt >le. pt The danger now in this State is H hat these reforms which the people w o greatly need may be lost sight of di a the eager purshifc of office for the fo ake of the gains which may be got- m en from office, and if this should be C o, this public agitation would be pi iseless. ti It should be so directed as to gain si rom it real and lasting benefit. If tot, and this new idea of government hi 3 to be our guide for the future, with li 11 of its expensive machinery, then r< rou may expect increase of taxes, in- S irease of offices with the increase of tl realth and population. U I am sorry that I could not go to ti rValhalla and have the pleasure of u ieeing my friends face to face again, ft ^ Vitt o narc Apt liltVt3 LHJCiA XC\^ltUCU uj cv Mvn ?*w j )f Legislature to go to every County o Uourt House and make settlements h rith the County Treasurers, County g ind School Commissioners for their n iisbursements of county taxes. t< Chis takes a great deal of iny time h ind I can't get off at will. fi Respectfully, p J. S. Verses. d Columbia, S. C., June 24,1890. t* m r ? ? ? ' If Endorsed by the Press, a o n "For several months past the 0 readers of this paper have seen each F veek special reading notices, show- 8 ng the wonderful cures effected by a Swift's Specific, better known as Sv u 3. S., and in the face of such testimony we are ready to., say that in all | the world there is not so good a medicine as this remedy. The cures ire simply miraculous. If any of J dut readers are affected with any of <3 the blood diseases that it is known to f 30 effectually cure why do they not r Sfive S. S. S. a trial. The company I who make the remedy is one of the c largest patent medicine firms in the e United States, and are* heartily en- t dorsed the leading men of Atlanta ? and Georgia."?Lake Region, Eustis, 61a- . s Treatise on Bloed and Skin Lis- ] sases mailed free. SWIFT'S SPE- t CIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. ] i c No liniment is in better repute or k more widely known than Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment. It is a wonderful remedy. 5vr sip Fifty Years. . \ ,Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup i has been used for over fifty years by 1 millions of mothers for their children < -while teething, with perfect success. < It soothes the child, softens the gums, i allays all pain, cures wind colic, and 1 is the be3t remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer i immediately. Sold by Druggists in 1 all parts of the world. Twenty-five ' cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for 1 "Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," < and take no other kind. < yy J 1.1- w WUKJJS UP SUUJtt-KiJj&SS, I , , c The Becent Conference?The Demand t of the Hour. ( i Colonel J. P. Thomas, of Columbia, e g on the Situation?He Counsels ^ Moderation and Forbearance on f Both Sides?Some Good Advice. J t The Columbia Register published the following communication from t Col. J. P. Thomas: 1 The special auspices?heated though t honest?under which the recent conference was summoned were not in i the judgment of many citizens prom- 3 ising of good to a devided Democracy ] Bjt^-^aeccdaat_pepple._ However, i cool heads and conciliatory tempers controlled the assemblage and turned < it to sagacious conclusions. The con- i ference has acted with a moderation i born of a patriotic spirit and a keen 4 appreciation of the political situation " It is a grievious error to assume that " the Democrats?called Tillmanites . by some, but claiming to be reformers?are to be dealt with like the banded robbers of the State, against whom in 1876 Hampton and his followers led in their memorable fight and gained their glorious victory. Thoje citizens of South Carolina who have chosen to follow the standard of B. R. Tillman, but who do not necessarily endorse his unfounded charges agaist the State administration and the past record of the Democratic party of the State, are by a large majority good men and truewhite men?Democrats to the core? men with their honorable records? men,in fine entitled to their opionions, and responsible therefor only to their conscience and their State. To abuse them is an outrage upon political fairdealing. To style them, even in metaphor, "the enemy" is the acme of political indiscretion, and to proceed against them as suc^i^j^j^^^ politica^^MakjgflHHH|^HI WheState is in the throes of a pi olitical revolution. Caused or cause- ^ >ss, to revolution exists. It is a ^ ict. Not to see it, is to close one's ^ yes. Not to recognize the popular n( well, is genuine Bourbornism. We ^ re involved in a family quarrel. Ik ^ j Greek meeting Greek. As has een said "to be wroth with one we L )ve doth work like madness in theJH mi?-' It is brother ra brother. FoiM H Ki&^y and considerately. fa e good of the goo<f(3d Siat^^tT volvea and hangs trembling m the fa jpular scales. This is the vast lestion that confronts us. To culrate and to restore white fraternity fa id Democratic unity?this is what ^ ,e crisis demands. We do not need now the sons of tunder so much as the sons of ^ jace. We need Nestors more than ectors or Achilleses or Ajaxes. We ^ ant men divine in speech as well as ex vine in judgment The writer is r Brattor or Earle, as the choice pr ay be of the regular Democratic onvention. But we recognize the itriotism and we respect the mo- ^h ves of the Democrats on the other ^ de of our divided house. ajj May we come together for the onor and prosperity of South Caro- 0f na, our common mother and the pa- co rnt of our grand inheritance of ^ tate glory in arms and in art?in 0f le triumphs of war and in the bet- q a triumphs of peace! In the meanme, while dissentions rule and bit- q. jr fueds prevails, let us, after the ^ ishion of CamiUus, who lived 400 ^ ears B. C., erect a temple to Con- jjj ord?that is, use all our efforts? to armonize the warring factions of a Bl rand old party. In 1876 we had len to confront who were enemies w 5 the commonwealth and a menace 5 our civilization. It was right to ^ ght them with all the weapons of olitical warfare and to employ every ? evice, justified by honor, in order 3 defeat the nefarious purposes. It is wholly different now. This i the time for the fraternal clasp nd the fraternal appeal, and no ther method will meet the State's ki eed in this crisis. Let us treat our s| pposing fellow Democrats as our E teers and our friends, and thus, miti oi ating the rage of passions evoked, n< dd to the power and dignity and al nity of South Carolina. w ai Is Consumption Incurable? ? Bead the following: Mr. C. H. ^ lorris, Newark, Ark., says: "Was ^ town with Abscess of Lungs, and riends and physicians pronounced ** ae an Incurable Consumptive. ~~ Segan taking Dr. King's New Dis- 11 overy for Consumption, am now oh P ay third bottle, and able to observe he work and my farm. It is the inest medicine ever made." 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A posse with Mr. Kearse, had gone o Grant's house in search of one krtet, one of the negroes implicated n the former shooting, from ambush, tnd when Grant's house had been nrrounded he opened a window and ired on the posse, and then jumped rom the window, l*ut was* shot to leath before he got to the ground, barter was not at home, having gone o Barnwell earlie^in the morning. The Sheriff has been telegraphed o go down and take charge of affairs, rat in any case more and serious rouble is anticipated. Blackville, July 16.?The Sheriff returned to Barnwell from River's Bridge about noon to-day with his posse. Her reports everything quiet m/3 T>A vttAra ^iflfnrVtonAO UU UU WW. vusvui uauw. - TW^Mre thing Hasten greatly :>v.erdrawn, and parties from feere 3ay there was no use of calling on assistance as the shooting of Kearse was done by an excited negro, who was not one of the disturbers, and who was immediately riddled. There is no race trouble and everybody has gone home quietly. F. M. M. * The Sub-Treasury Humbug. James Island Farmers Protest . Against the BilL At the last meeting of the Seaboard Farmers' Alliance, of James Island, the following resolutions in regard to the sub-Treasury bill were aaopteu; Whereas, there has recently been introduced in Congress a bill commonly known as the "sub-Treasury bin,11 Whereby it is proposed, among other things: 1. 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Because by the establishment fl these ware houses throughout the iinfcry, with their attendant officers id employees disbursing large sums money and responsible only to the ' ovemment at Washington, the inlence and power of the General H| ovemment to interfere in the local Burs of each State will be greatly creased and certainly used for po- H deal purposes. Bj 3. By the sudden issue and equally H idden withdrawal of large sums of iper money the standard of values ? ill be continually changing, which ictuations will be more injurious to L6 farmers than to any other class. Resolved, That our Represent aves and Senators in Congress be ralested to vote against the bill. Electric Bitters. This medicine is becoming so well lown and so popular as to need no >ecial mention. AH who have used lectric Bitters sing the same song a praise.^?a puxtu iubuiuuic uvco )t exist and it is guaranteed to do 1 that is claimed. 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