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THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH, _ v - . u ADVERTISING RATES: J V / ^ A^Ve^t^e^ue^^W^ be inserted at the | Notices in per I each insertion. i ^ *?*: f Marriage notices inserted free. Jj^ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. : ? - ? ? 1 ? ~~" " "' " _~~~_ IJ" ~ " .--- ~~~.~_ZZ Obituaries over ten lines charged for at _ *, en ; A* . regular advertising ratee. Dne copy one year 51.50 -,, ! ^ ? ? i :::: m:::::;:::::::: s vol. xx. Lexington, s. c., Wednesday, October 8, i890. no. 46. WATER, WATER, ! WATER! $1,500 'WORTH OF V * - ' -v. 5 .. CLOTHING v . .. ' Damaged by water, to be sold at^ 60 cents on the Dollar at L. EPSTIN'S The recent heavy rains have flooded my *tore and damaged about fifteen hundred /IaiIuvij wavIK r\f / ? K/vi on finn O ?'o*.-?ao f g 'f A4VI1U1 C? ?IV4l.a VI VUV4VV HUV V?ViVV?lOj Boys' Suits, Coats and Vest, some Pants, all of which will be sold at 50 cents from original cost. These goods are slightly damaged, they will be sold quickly. These chances do not present themselves at the commencement of the season except in rare instance 8. * * . My Stock"of Clothing for Men, Youths and Children was never better selected than this season. School Suits as a specialty will always be in front rank to sell my goods at lower prices than any competitor. I have also secured the agency for free distribution to my customers only of Webster's Euoyclcpedia,- a valuable book which ought not fail in reaching every l'amily in Lexington county. Publishers price S6. The above book will be given away to every purchaser who will give me their trade this fall For .further particulars call or send for circulars. Call at once anil secure bargains. ^LjEPSTINj, I Ov iVIMlIM O I rvLt I , UNDER COLUMBIA HOTEL. COLUMBIA, 8. C. Sept. 7-tf -LOAN AND EXGHANGEumimmm STATE, CITY AYD COIYTY DEPOSITORY. COLUMBIA, S. C. Paid up Capital $127,000 Surplus Profits 66,000 Transacts a general banking business. Careful attention given to Collections. SAYIYGS DEPART.7IEYT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, payable quarterly on the first days of January, April, July and October. A. C. HASKELL, President TV. C. FISHER. Vice President. JULIUS H. WALKER, Cashier. Juno 19?lv "MILLER BROS.' T&t Are AMERICAN, and the BEST. ' LEADING BUSINESS PENS. And Nos. 75, 117, 1. Acme. LEADING STUB PENS. And Nos. 119, 102, Grant Pen. LEADING LEDGER PENS. And Nos. 101, 506, 030. LEADING ^ And The Miller Bros. Cutlery Co., Mcridan, Conn. manufacturers op Steel Pens. Ink Erasers and Pocket Cutlery. t -A.T' THE ^ B A Z A A R . October 9th?ly. COMMERCIAL BANK. COLUMBIA, S. C. Capital Paid $100,000 Transacts a B taking and Exehang^ business. Receives Deposits. Ink-rest allowed on Deposits. Safety Deposit Boxes to rent at $6 per anunin. C. J. Iredell, James Iredell, President. Cashier. Jno. ?s. Leaphart, Vico-President. ^sov. 28?ly CAR OLINA NATIONAL BANK A T! ? AX ? COLUMBIA, -S . C. ^ _ STATE, CITY and COIYTY DEPOSITOHY. Paid up Capita] $100,000 Surplus Profits B0.000 SimCS DEPAHT.UE.YT. Deposits of S5,0<> and upwards received. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. W. A. CLARK, President Wilie Joves, Cashier. December 4-1 v. mm in i urn hi ii iii ii i r miir Fire Insurance.? ?V T AMAS^^^P^lTsEVEKAL STRONG j ?4" Tire Insurance Companies, and am ^ prepared to write policies on most reasonaLie rates. 0. E. LEAPHAR'L i W / Arp on Politics. He Says Everything is in a Bad Mess. Atlauta Constitution. Was there ever such a political muss in Georgia? Gordon and Norwood and Livingstone and Peek all fussing, and ex-Governor Smith and Judge Hines in the bushes with their coats off. Gordon says Norwood is a demagogue, and uses language on o o - o o Livingston. Of course tliey had to bring poor Tom Lyon into it as a side show. But Tom can stand it. Norwood says he does not like the word demagogue, and he challenges Gordon for a talk. They all seem to | be friends to the farmer, and are ah i most ready to die for him. This sudden and' extraordinary love for the farmer is very touching and pathetic, and I wish there were four or" five .Senators to elect- Such devo1 ' lm vmvoHT(1 ,1 I noil uesfi vco iv man up in a tree the whole thing looks peculiar, and somehow reminds us of- the soldier who got scared early and wanted to go home. So, while the miirnie balls were singing and whistling all around him, he way found behind a tree with his arms outstretched, and was waving them up and down vigorously. "What are you doing, Jake?" said a comrade. "I want to go home," said he, "and I am waving for a furlough." He wanted to get shot in the hand. There is many an office seeker, many a political soldier waving for a fur- j lough now. "What is all this racket about any how? Who started it? Who told the farmers that they were oppressed and mistreated and imposed upon by all the rest of mankind? Gen. Gordon says he has been sympathizing with them for seventeen years, and Mr. Norwood has been troubled all his life about them. Governor Smith is awfully sorry for them. Livingston has wept in great anguish fur them. Well, it must be a bad, sad ease, but to save; my life I can't cry a bit. I wish that I could. When I see folks weeping all around me, and I can't ^w?l<iS^i^I3xaid I've got caf-^ I loused in my old age. I farmed as hard as I could for eleven years, and never found out that I was oppressed. I worked in the field with my boys. We planted and plowed and hoed and mowed grass and raised horses and cattle, and sold our produce for a good price. Our corn always brought .50 cents a bushel at the crib and our hay $20 a ton, and nobody ever came and J told me that I was imposed upon, I and I was such a fool I never found it out yet. Joe. Bradley has been j farming right close by for twenty ! years and he hasn't found it out yet. He must be an awful fool. Joe used : to bring his cotton to my gin before > O v o I got up and I asked him one day ! how he managed to make so much K cotton and com and wheat and oats, ! and raise so many fat hogs, and send j his daughter to town to school, and ; j buy a piano and all that. Joe smiled : and said: "Well you must know that j if I do not see the sun rise in the morning I haye a headache el! day, and as my house is down in a hollow, I have got to go to the corn field or cotton patch to see the sun rise." I'll bet S10 that Joe don't belong to the Alliance. He hasn't got time. When ! a rainy clay comes you will liud him in his workshop making a plow stock, or mending his harness, or cleaning out his stable. He saves every spadeful of barnyard manure and puts it on his land. I had one tenant whp worked hard and prospered. I had two others who were always behind. They had a power of business at the j mill or at town or at some meeting house, and when the creek was muddy they were just obliged to j go seining. Their crops wore always ! in the grass, and they are in the grass j yet I reckon. They belonged to the Alliance, and are waiting for something to turn up. This is plain talk, but it is true talk. The greatest enemy the farmer has got is his own indolence. No man succeeds at anything who does not work diligently. If a man would work as hard on his farm as Keub Satterfield does in his store, he would prosj>er. Mr. Satterfield is a good merchant. He, is at his store before I get up. His dinner is set to him on busy dav.s After supper he goes back to his store and works on his books. He isnever idle aim in juaAUig muucj. .il i? tut* p-iuiif way with all trades and professions. It is very nice and pleasant to set about and talk and read the news, but the lawyers in this town who got most all the business on the sti^atsr^ltffnhev entertain no loafers. Diligence, diligence is the secret of success, and diligence ought to be the secret password of the Alliance., I wish I hnew exactly who it is that is oppressing the poor farmer. I think I would get a big stick and go for him. I wish that I knew the distress that hangs like a millstone over my friends Gus Bates and Tom Loyn, and old man Burge, and C. M. Jones and Connor and Tumlin and John Brown, and a host cf other big far 11 i... rrn?,. nil mers in uie count >. j-u-vj got rich enough to leave home when then please, and send their children off to college, but still they are not happy. They seem to think we have been doing something against them, but I declare upon my honor I haven't. They say they want a warehouse and a loan from the government, so they can hold their cotton and force the manufacturers to pay 15 cents a pound for it. J ust so. The great West wants warehouses for their grain, so as to make us pav * $'2 a bushel "for wheat and for conp If this thing all happens, what is to become of me? I won't have more than a shirt and a half all the year round, and my wife will tvcqv Pav pvpti nnf nfltfthimcr undercar T1 Vl** VV*" ? ? Q O merits. Carl and Jessie won't have, but one biscuit a piece and nothing but 'taters to .carry to school. "What will be.o?mc of the shoeni aker and the carpenter and tliG brickmasons and the day laborers"? What will become of ah the poor folks and the negroes and the cotton pickers? I have before me the tables of the last census, and lind that there are 4,250,000 farmers and planters in the United States, and there are 15,000,000 laborers?toilers?working people wlio are not farmers. There are 3,000,000 laborers on the farms who work for wages. "What will they say . a x. sc.fliA9 rri to nour Ht ijoaoiu: umc air 1,000,000 and nearly as many railroad operators and half as many milliners and factory hands, women and children. "What is to become of them if the fanners get up a corner on the necessaries of life? One of England's greatest statesmen was Richard Cobdcm whose powerful speeches abolished the duty on grain and the inscription on his monument is, "JJe gave the poor cheap-bread." T TTAn TYi ^? > ' o ^ ^ ^ OlT I say it considerately?demagogues have led you astray from tlie original purposes of your order. Don't you know that you will never live to see your cotton in a government warehouse? Don't you know that you will never live to see a dollar of that $64,000,000 that your leaders say is coming right away from England to advance on your cotton? Don't you know that all these promises are a delusion and a snare that will fade into mist after the elections are over? I do confess to some grief and mortification over the credulity of my farming frieuds. I feel hut little interest in politics. My politics is for the South to go on prospering as she lias done since the war. The farmer, the laborer, the mechanic, the merchant? every class has prospered. Diligence in business, and a contented disposition will make us all happy. There are 110 people upon earth that have as much to be thankful for as we have. I feel like I am alone in these views, for I know that the press is against me, and most. of the people, but I feel better for having had my say whether it pleases anybody or not. I see politicians dancing and prancing around the Alliance, and talking big about corn and cotton who don't know the difference between a bull tongue and a twister. Heard of one the other day v ho said that there would be a very short crop of cotton for he had noticed that the rod blossoms were falling off. He said that just as soon as the farmer had anything to sell the price went down. Cotton was down and fodder had dropped from ?2 a hundred to SI, and sweet potatoes had already gone down to GO cents a bushel, and in two months from now corn would fall 25 or 50 per cent. We must have a big warehouse, said he, aiul store the produce and keep it until the speculators and the nionoppolists are whipped out. Maybe,, that man wants to be a friend to the farmers, but lie don't know how. He knows nothing of the laws of supply and demand. During the tabernacle meeting 1 had to pay 25 cents for chickens that hadn't done sucking. Before that they were plenty at 15 cents. The Methodist preachers did that, but they didn't mean to and I'm not complaining. I'll do anything for a preacher. Bill Arp. The quality of theJyWd drpemls m'tch upon--gr.od or bad digestion -frriTt assimilation. ?To make the blood rich in life and strength giving eon slituents use Dr. J.II. McLean's Sar- , saparilla. It will nourisli the properties of the blood, from which the elements of vitality are drawn. Sin has many tools, but a lie is t he handle which fits them all. In Memory of Dr. Berley. j For the Lexington Dispatch. At a meeting of tlie Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of St. Andrews church, the following resolutions were adopted. The committee appointed to draft resolutions touching the lamented death of our prstor, Rev. J E. Berlev. who was also an honory member j of our society, respectfully submit the following: "Whereas our pastor, Rev. J. E. Berlev, having been called from the affairs of this life to his heavenly reword, be it Resolved, 1, That in his inscrutable providence our Heavenly Father has manifested his divine will, which is always wise and unerring, in removing hence our late pastor from the scene of his earthly labors and usefulness. 2, That 110 one could have left us for the other world whose life and character and whose example of j faithfulness was most deserving our j closest imitation. 3, That in the death of Rev. J. E. Berley this Society has lost a faithful member and devoted friend, and that we deeply sympathize with his relatives and friends. 4, That a page in pur minute book be inscribed to his memory, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Lutheran Visitor and Lexington Dispatch for publication. Miss Adella Huffman, Mrs. J. E. Huffman, Miss Bessie Haltiwaxgeb, pommjttep. ? ? - /n n Miss Jda ^unamakf.r, vpr. pec. t-r-f. ?? A Fishing Escarsicn Farter For the Lexington Dlspnteh, Mr. Editor: Litelligencft^asjust : reached us of a fishinge!HKh| party on the waters of Black cr^Hi iu Jones' upper pond, known as the p new mill, on Thursday, September ! : 29th, 1800. The party consisted. of Messrs. J. W. Scofill, Sumter Sally i and Govan Jjmite.v, after they arrived' at the spot tlie^ruu*. j for the water ajid }eft everything ashore pole and troll hook, or bob, which was played to and fro by that clever, good looking and expert fisherman, Mr. Sumter Sally. On their way down stream to the mill, Mr. Sally made a catch of j twenty-five of the finy tribe which | he says beat any catch of the kind ! he has made this ceason, Shortly j after the conclusion of the days work ' they called on Mr. John McCarthy \ * - I and family and were soon summoned to a dinner that fully explained why the ladies of the Black creek section are generally the plumpest, fairest and most sweet tempered of their sex. It was nearly -i o'clock before the banquet ended, and the low declining sun warned the excursionists that it was time to break cam, but late as was the hour all gladly deferred their departure for another half hour to listen to an impromptu concert organized by some of the party and recruits that came in, who sang a number of pa triotie, sentimental, comic and other melodies, the rest of the party joining in the chorus when their happened to be a chorus. In fact every body was so full of music that as the carriage rolled away one of the party turned "Brian O'Lynn" into a sheep shearing song, and above the noise of rattling wheels the listeners heard how "Brian O'Lynn hnd no breeches to wear. So lie bought him a sheep skin to make him a pair. With the wooly side out and the skinny side in.' "They'll he cool in warm mea.ther," says. "Brian O'Lynn." Risliton, S. C., Sept. 30, 1890. He said* "My love I am sorry to disappoint you about the picnic, ljuf my trotter has a lame foot." That's nothing! "We've got plenty of Salvation Oil. The Detroit Free Press fiend has been punning on Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. His is only gratitude, for all thinking men know its merits.?Ex. A Dsn of Rattlesnakes From the Cefuhibtri Record. Yesterday Mr. Jake CorleVa wcllL'awii TiOYiTicrtrvmnii wli/i rpnt.a nrwl i lives on the Piatt plantation, about three miles from the city across the liver, was ip tlje cityjmd__siated that he had (iiscovereiTaTcraw'ling, squrim iiiir Jon of immense rattlesnakes on the place a day or so ago, which was literally teeming with the posonous reptiles. The den is located in a cluster of large granite rocks, and he said alrea ly his empoyees had slain thirtytwo of the venomous creatures within the past few days. Among them was an immAise fellow with pointed fangs, which is supposed to be the king of the tiibe. After he was killed it wa ; found that he had twenty-seven rattles and a button, which indicates that he was at least about twentyeight years old. The others had | from ten to twelve rattles, and this j fact shows that the monsters have been j habitating the rocks for vears. Mr. i o * Corley stated that those that have been killed are hardly a circumstance tn the number that inhabit the rocks. and lie says that one of his farm hands counted twenty or more of these large reptlies a day or so ago lying in the crevices of a large rock, which seeni:<ft>betheir principal den, sunning ths^HBvcs. In order to exterminate pem, as far as possible, Mr. Corley ; says that he expects to blow up the rock bed with dynamite, as the only effect ive means of ridding his place of such dangerous neighbors. " 4 ft State of Ohio; City of Toledo, ) ss Lucas County, ) Fban^ J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney <fc Co., doing business in the City ->of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of all's Catarrh Cure. ( FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to!before mo and subscribed in my presence, this Gth day of De comber, A. Jd. 168(i, (\ A W. Glf.asok, (seal, j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and a;ts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for te gtimonials, free. F. J. JIhENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Q. j J^Saldpy Druggists, 75. 4G. ""t ' Millions of Dead Letters. J g^to^rhriLiident D. P. Leibhari, of N&S9n|^fefejj^^fHcc at "Washing1 e bis : ^8 p tions to He piectsnj^Bunhatter are senjOTTTTTiffl^ to the Dejd Letter Odice !)y reason of incorr^t, illegible or deficient ad dress, insufficient postage or insecure closiug. Inhere is a daily average of more than; twenty thousand pieces. Letters containing nothing of value are not recorded. Packages are recorded, antf if not claimed within two years are s<j>ld. A large prop*.,tion uf the packages sent to the Dead Letter Office to be) restored to the owners because of 'the absence of anything i . ! i I to mdicat ownership. Of the unclaimed mail matter rei ceived at thje office during the lmal I year, 451,000 were letters misdirected ! ?that is, mjjt address to a postpffice or addressed to a post office without the State bejtng given. No addresses whatever w&re to be found on 24,000 letters, ma^y of which contained money, checks and drafts. Of let ters sent to domestic addresses, 08,000 were held for postage. Fortytwo thousand letters were sent to fictitious addresses, 80,000 unclaimed , parcels of merchandise were received, OO OOO eViom f?nnfn.irrnor rnsli Ui 0 amounting io $48,642: 4.000 held postal notes aggregating $5,300,27, 000 enclosed- drafts and checks representing $1,471.87}. Three million contained no! address of the writer. t Lead Poison Cured. ) V I am a paihter by trade. Three years a?o I hlad a bad case of Lead j J O , Poison, caused by using rubber paint. I was cured in a short time by S. S. S. The medicine drove the poison out thjrough the pores of they skin. WhenjI first commenced taking S. S. S., ljny system was so saturated with poison that my underclothes were colored by the paint be ing worked jout by the medicine through the pores of my skin. I was mivn.l on + irnlv bv S. S. S. T took nothing else, ftnd have had no return ? : since. C. Pvrs Leak, | Waynes ville, Ohio. i our 'little child. Our little girl, Jessie, had Scrofula for six years. We tried tlio best physicians of New York and Philadelphia: also Hot Springs, Ark., without avaii-XSwift's Specific (S. S. S.) cured her. B. Wagner, X. Water Valley, Miss. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis easofJ; mailed free. SWIFT S SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. iVhe Begistev* of Saturday says: YT i T I i j A Before imteu states uomniissioner Bau^kett, Silas A. Corley of Lexington bounty, was held to bail, yesterday ,Nin the sum of $250 to appear befork the United States Court at the February term to answer to the chargeV>f selling liquor without a revenue license. \ % \ The Majority Rules. ! Col. J. A. Hoyt Does Not Side With Judge Haskell. Augusta Chronicle. Greenville, S. C., Sept. 30.?I interviewed Col. Jas. A. Hoyt, exChairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, to-night on the manifesto of Judgo Haskell. Colonel Hoyt said: In regard to the letter of Judge Haskell published in the News and Courier of to-day, I can only say that it does not surprise me at all and that it is consistent with the position maintained by Judge Haskell for several months. It is needless to say that I do not agree with him and that I think it suicidal for any portion of the Democrats to take such a position. Captain Tillman and associates were nominated by the Democratic. State Convention regularly convened under the lawfully constituted authority and representing an overwhelming majority of the Democratic party in the State. These gentlemen were not my choice for the position occupied by them but they were duly chosen by the representatives of the Democracy, and I am bound to support them at the polls because they are the nominees of the party. By this oourse I do not endorse an iota of the charges made during the campaign by 3SIr. Tillman and others, nor uphold for a moment the slanders and misrepresentations of the past six months. I am not one whit less opposed to the methods pursued b^' inen get into office and control public affairs, and will not abate my opposition to such methods within the Democratic lines. I am going to vote for Mr. Tillman as the choice of the majority, who have a right to govern and direct the affairs of the party. That is all there is in it, according to my judgmentt ^unless I proposed join another I am f olly conSecurely jHsHHWu^n^qestmy oi 4-1% OTVrl "\T O ' tflC 1/t'JUyyil <yl,LU uutvv ?*+JV? iiotional. We cannot disrupt the party in South Carolina upon local issues and expect to continue it as a controlling and united force in Federal politics. There is too much at stake, not only as to the peace and security of pur own State, but in the great contest which wjl} be waged two years hence when the electorial vote of South Carolina will help to decide questions of immeasurable impor tance compared with the futile aspersions of the Tillman campaign. ? ? - A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life. It was just an ordinary scrap of wrapping paper, but it saved her life. She was in the last stages of consumption, told by physicians that she was incurable and could live only a short time; she weighed less than seventy pounds. On a piece of wrapping paper she read of Dr. King's New Discovery, and got a sample V-.LJ.1- - J 1 1 -1 1 1 V.4. ^ uotue; il ueipeu nor, axitr uou^ui, a large bottle, it helped her more, bought another aud grew better fast, continued its use and is now strong, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 140 pounds. For fuller particulars send stamp to W. H. Cole, druggist, Fort Smith. Trial bottle of this wonderful Discovery free at anw drugstore. Judge Haskell's Letter. He Adv^s' Kxtreme Measures to -S Defeat Tillman. Judge A. C. Haskell has written a I long letter to the News and Courier upon the political situation iu the State, urging the Anti Tillmanites to run an opposition ticket. His reasons for further opposition to Mr. Tillman are substantially the same as those on which the opposition during the j campaign was based. In conclusion ! he savs: I therefore unequivocally advocate | an opposition ticket, to organize a minority if we can do no more, but to control the government if possible. With this Democratic ticket in the j field we should ask the support and maintain the rights of colored voters as we did in 1876. I would not mistake the colored people. The white man controls the property and will control the government, but when the white race divides it is a question with the colored race which party | will best govern the State. On this ! .1 A- i. i 1 TI.a | Tiieir vote mum uepemi. iuo j wretched spectacle of purchase and : bribery is almost sure to follow, j Therefore I wish that the race could lie disfranchised if we oould have a guarantee of their protection. But that is impossible. Their right of suffrage is their nominal protection; the class of -white people they sup port is their real protection. Friends may raise a great outer} against any allusion to colored voters. I ask them is it without precedent"? I ask them and some of the most vi rulent to name the municipal elec tions outside, perhaps, of Charleston aiul Columbia, when this vote hag been called to the front? I ask for the returns on the elections held tc impose the bonded debt for the constructions of railroads and other pur poses during the last twelve years. These returns will show that the Democrats whose interests were at stake did not hesitate to outvote the taxpayers by the aid of the colored voters. To end it in a word: It seems to my humble judgment more import ant at this day to oppose the election of Mr. Tillman than it was to oppose the election of Mr. D. H. Chamber lain in 1876. Friends, loved and es teemed, charged me then with folly or madness. I will be charged in like manner now. The results vindi cated my judgment then. God onlv knows the future; but my conscience is my law, and no party will or race terror shall strip me of the right tc say or do what my sense of dutj dictates. Ladies, if you want your stoves tc look as good as new, use Lustre Stove Polish, only 10 cents a box. And your kitchen tables, tin ware etc., to look neat and clean, try the kitchen soap, at the Bazaar. Columbia During Fair Week. The committee to prepare a programme of attractions for fair week, among the many pleasing features have decided that the city be illuminated every night during the Fair bj arch lights as was done last year and the year before, and that open aii performances by ministrels and jugglers on elevated stages be given or Main street every night. Athletic sports, greasy pole climbing and the like features to beaisocomAjMg paraa?rmfe^5l of the CoSBbki military companies and an exhibitior drill of the Columbia Zouaves is tc be arranged for. Several bands of music are to be stationed at various points on Mail street every night to play for several hours. Other attractions not yet fully de cided upon will be suggested by the committee, and it is believed that the line of street attractions which will be arranged for, will exceed those oi any Fair yet held in that city. Damage to the Eice Crop. The News and Courier says: Froir all sections of Georgetown county re ports are coming in of the greai damage which has been done to tin rice crops by the recent terrible spel of weather. A combination of un fortunate circumstances, such as ai east wind, a freshet in the rivers and an almost continuous rain, ha; caused the waters to overflow nearb every- plantation in the county. Bic< is floating about in the fields, or be ing swept into the rivers and com pletely lost. Some of it which wai stacked is sprouting, and all of tin rice which had been cut is consider ably injured. Twenty-five or thirty per cent, will scarcely cover the dam age, amounting in dollars and cent: to about $150,000. The accounts from the Coopei river and Ashepoo sections are n< better, And the Savannah Newi oriv^a aivnilflr rli?nnnraonr>i> rfvnorti fc>' ' * D?? concerning the crops along tb< Savannah and Qgeechee rivers. Eupepsy. This is what you ought to have, ii fact, you must have it, to fully enjo] life. Thousands are searching for i daily, and mourning because the] find it not. Thousands upon thous ands of dollars are spent bv our peo pie annually in the hope that the] may attain this boon. And yet ii may be had by all. We guarante( that Electric Bitters, if used accord ing to directions and the use persisted in, will bring you Good Digestioi and oust the demon Dispepsia anc install instead Eupepsy. We recom mend Electric Bitters for Pyspepsif and all diseases of Liver, Stoznacl and Kidneys. Sold at 50c. and$1.0( per bottle by all druggists, * v ' ' Kershaw county will hold hei third primary election on the lltl October, for the third County Com nussioner and County Auditor, th< other officers being elected in tin i first and second elections. Thej adopted the majority plan. ? The old reliable Swift & Courtney parlor matches, (brown heads) ar< sold 12 boxes for 10 cents, at tin Bazaar. The Clemson College. ^ ^ Tho Institution Bids Fair to Be' An Honor to the State?Thj^gricultural Department Expects to Be Open About One Year J?rom Xow and the Year After t>ie Mecliaui1 cal Department. President Strode, of the Clemson f"V\Tlnnrn m o ji? -ii w me jraimeiio School Journal, after describing the progress of the work ^ Fort Hill, gives some interesting A?cts about that institution: x ''The plan now is to open Oi^mson ( for agricultural students one^ year ^ from now and at the end of year to have mechanical hall, etc., ready for reception of students in this department All the rough t work here is being done by fifty cori?? victs, furnished bv the StaiO. This diminishes very much the cost of ? building. "An immense number of visitors L come to Fort Hill to see the work going on and the Calhoun relics. Nearly r oae hundred in one day was the re( cord once. There seems to be 110 ^ ltroocuiujj tut; tutcicot in tiiia 1111c. "For the information of vour far> mer readers I will state that the?? course at Clemson will be planned | for the reception of students who ( have gone through the ordinary pubi lie schools of the country. Others , who have had better advantages can begin higher. It will be so arranged that any farmer who can afford to have his son at home doing nothing i can afford to send him tc Clemson A \ College. The full faculty will not be # selected until next summer. All of A the important members of the fac, ultv will be selected with great care s from men who have already made a - record for faithfulness and ability. r It is the hope and expectation of ^ I those having the fortunes of the Col lege in charge that it may be recog nized in a very short time as- the t leading Agricultural, and 5 College of the South. ) Gem son bequest>w<teK?yafflro^MHH^HBH0 l the Potomac. The l grant to all the Agricultural Colle^^^^ > will be a great help in the way o* W annual revenue. All the arrange- ^ j ments of the College will be. of a t character to teach its students that [ labor is honorable. Students that desire to do more work than is re- t i ./ _n *ii i 1 quireu 01 au, wlu nave meir interests > also attended to. It would be well ? for the youth of the State of limited ^ 1 means to make preparations in tho f year before them, before the College opens, to be in position to accept the advantages which this institution * will offer them later. The instruction will be of the most practical and thorough character. If a stu1 dent should stay here but a part of the timo in a full course, it is bek lieved he will return to his farm life a happier and a far more useful man, * as a healthy, progressive spirit will be stimulated by all the influences of 1 the College/1 7 1 Tillman to Northern r 9 \T elect W. J. Northen lias received a letter from Captain B. R. Tillman, Democratic nominee for Governor of a South Carolina, in response to an invitation extended him to deliver an ' address at the approaching State fair in Macon. In his letter, Captain Tillman says: "I acknowledge, with thanks, your kind letter of September 15, and appreciate very fully your congratulations and expressions of good will. You are to be felicitated upon having^ obtained, without a struggle, the 110m- ~ ination for which I had to fight so hard. As Simon Pure farmers "and representatives of the agricultural i classes, our course will be watched 7 throughout the United States with ^ great interest. "Before you there is only plain . sailing, while, on the other band, the r labors of a Hercules are before me k and lynseyed critics by the score are ' ready to advertise any blunder with j a chorus of 'I told you soV. i "Being, in a large measure, unfa1 miliar with the duties before me, my time will be devoted till our LegislaI . 1 ture meets to studying the many im-> ) portant measures confronting us. and I will have no leisure for speech making abroad or at home." The circulation of the blood? quickened and enrichened?bears life and energy to every portion of the body; appetite returns: the hour of rest brings with it sound repose. This can be secured by taking Dr. J. TT "XTnTiOflTi'c Snreflrvorilla ' The export of canaries from Ger* many is very largo. Every year > I about 130,000 of these birds are sent ~* to America, 3,000 to England, aiuj J about 2,000 to Russia.