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/"in i nir ) itaif milium inirnitoBiiwiif^*.-^ nMmfirtlfcwiiir ill mini ?m'nu\m\mnm^\^ 4A* 4^ If JaJ ?% W i a* k> & 11Ik* m MJ W ^ | Adv^ rate KATES REASONABLE. j a.. ?....,_T7",??! Marriage notices inserted free. JOK PKLMLNG A SPEC1ALTT. ftI " # ,. , lf f Obituaries over ten line charged for at 1 regular advertising rates. VOL. XXII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESIAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1892. NO. 43. A,lW G M IIAKMAN Editor . . tmmmmmmmmamBmmmmmmmmammmmmmm . That the Largest Knmrber of Votes Cast Will ??ommate the Suc^ eessfiil Candidate tor Governor. [ EFSTIN BROS [Have plnck enough to make their offer good, and still offer their choice stock of (LIITIIIUi. BUS i K ?AND? B I FURNISHING GOODS, 1 below cost in order to make good their promise. The Reformers or Antis cannot do a better tbing than to maKe their investment when such opportunity is now before them. Everybody should make their investment before the 30th of August, or they will for ever lose meir cnance. Tillman or Sbeppard are sure to be noaiinated, like Cleveland and Stevenson will be elecied next November, provided they lay in their campaign clothing trom UUTIN BROS,, STREET. MrDER COLUMBIA HOTEL. COLUMBIA, S. C. Sept. 7-tf ( 99909 mBUOYANCY OF BODY ? can never 1m realized -when the bowaa els do not act as nature intends they a should. Instead, there Is headcche, W weight in the stomach after eating, jgfe acidity and belching up of wind, low ^ "spirits, loss of energy, unsociability wP _ and forebodings of evil. An unhappy condition, but 0 TDTTS ? Tiny Livsr Pills? will relieve it and give health and? happiness. They are worth ? trial, 9?0?se009 Jan. G?ly. f7w. husemann 1== Gnn and Lock Smith, { and deaxeb in } GUNS, PISTOLS, PISTOL CARTRIDGES. FISHING TACKLE, and all kinds of Sportsmen's At tides, which ke has now on exhibition and for sale at his store. \ Main Street, Near the Central Bank, Columbia, S. C. Aobnt fob Hazabd Powdeb Comtant. ^S^Repairing dene at short notice-^ 'BUS LINE. SQr T A Iv E fM'CAKTHA'S BUSSES UNION DEPOT, COUUIBIA On arrival of all trains, for hotels or -? any part of the city. First Class Livery and Feed Stable, and F ineat Turnouts in the city at moderate charges. Staole on Tavlor street, Columbia, S. C. J. "P. McCARTHA. November 6-tf. "VT7INTHR0P STATE NORMAL COLwV PninmSjft S. C. Thorough I* W lege, ~ Iraicmg and practice in best methods ol iaacbing. Faculty composed of instructors of extensive and successful experience in teaching teachers. Opened to whitf prls over 17. Session begins Septembei '.8. Graduates secure good positions. Each ounty given two scholarships?ono worth 150 a -tension and one of free tuition. *?mpetitive examination August 5 at Court )mse of each county. Address, D. 13. &H!*J801S', President, Columbia, S. C. WE^LEYAN (, Female Institute, STAUNTON, VA. /PENS SEPTEMBER 22, 1892. One v of 1he most thorough Schools fo: Y ng Ladies in the South. Twenty-five tehers and officers. Conservatory course inMusic. One hundred and fifty-two boding pupils from twenty States. C!iUit unexce'letl. Special inducements to pejus at a distance. Those seeking the be>?ebool for the lowest terms, write for Caogae of this time honored school, to m k. HARRIS, P. D? Staunton', yk | IIEAVEjNLY helpers. ! Dr. Talmage Preaches to an Immense London Audience. i The Struggle of St. Paul With Beasts J at Ephesus "Was but a Type of the Struggle Every Soul Must Have witii Evil?Sympathizing \\ itnesses in Heaven. The great outpourings to hear Dr. Talmage preach continue. Probably the greatest demonstration during the past month was that at the town hall, Birmingham, England, when he delivered three addresses the same evening to audiences aggregating 30,000 persons. The sermon selected for publication this week is entitled "Celestial Sympathizers,'* the text be ing taken from 1 Cor. xv, 32, 'T have fought with beasts at Ephesus," and Hebrews xiii, 1, "Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." Crossing the Alps by the Mont Cenis pass, or through the Mont Cenis tunnel, you are in a few hours set down at Verona, Italy, and in a few minutes begin examining one of the grandest ruins of the world?the ampitheater. The whole building sweeps around you in a circle. You stand in the erena where the combat was once fought or the race run, and on all sides the seats rise, tier above tier, until you count fort}' elevations, or galleries, as I shall see fit to call them, in which sat the senators, the kings and the twenty-five thousand | excited spectators. At the sides of the arena and under the galleries are the cages in which the lions and tigers are kept without food, until frenzied with hunger and thirst, they are led out upon some poor victim, who with his sword | and alone isc ndemned to meet them. j I think that Paul himself once stood in such a place, and that it was not only figuratively but literally that he had "fought with beasts at Ephesus.'' j The gala day is come. From all j the world the people are pouring into ! Verena. Men, women and children, j orators and senators, great men and | ] thousands upon thousands j I come, until the first gallery is full, ' and the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth?all the way up to the twentieth, all the way up to the thirtieth, all the way up to the for- ; tieth. Every place is filled. Immensity of audience sweeping the ! great circle. Silence! The time for j the contest has come. A Roman J official leads forth the victim into the arena. Let him get his sword with j firm grip into his right hand. The ! twenty-five thousand sit breathlessly watching. I hear the door at the j side of the arena creak open. Out ! plunges the half starved lion, his tongue athirst for blood, and with a roar that brings ail the galleries to ; 1 their feet he rushes against the j sword of the combatant. Do you know how strong a stroke j a man will strike When his life de- ! j pends upon the first thrust of his i blade? The wild beast, lame and ! bleeding, slinks back toward the side j of the arena; then rallying his wast- ! ing strength, he comes up with ; fiercer eyes and more terrible roar j than ever, onlv to be driven back ! with a fatal wound, while the combatant comes in with stroke after storke, until the monster is dead at his feet, and the twenty-five thousand j people clap their hands and utter a j -i x 1 I SHOUt 111 til liiah.es iue eit^v ucujuic. Sometimes the audience came to see a race; sometimes to see gladiators fight each other until the people, compassionate for the fallen, turned their thumbs down as an appeal that the vanquished be spared; sometimes the combat was wild beasts. To one of the Roman amphithe- i atrical audiences of one hundred j thousand people Paul refers when he j says. 4'We are compassed about with i so srreat a crowd of witnesses." The | . ! direct reference in the last passage is j made to race; but elsewhere, having j discussed that, I take now Paul's fa J , vorite idea of the Christian life as a ; combat. f The fact is that every Christian man has a lion to hglit. Yours is a j bad temper. The gates of the arena have been opened, and this tiger has i come out to destroy your soul. It < . has lacerated you with many a wound. You have been thrown by it time and again, but in the strength of i God you have arisen to drive it back, j j I verily believe that you will conquor. j j I think that the temptation is getting j weaker and weaker. You have given 1 " 1- Al^i. l\^ it SO 111 11 LiV TVOUIias llitlL iae | 1 is that it will die and you will be vicj tor through Christ. Courage, brother! > ' Do not let the sands of the arena j | I drink the blood of your soul! ' | Your lion is the passion for strong i j drink. You may have .contended | ' j against it twenty years, but. it is strong J of body and thirsty of tongue. You have tried to figlit it back with broken bottle or empty wine flask. Nay! that is not the weapon. With one horrible roar he will seize thee by the throat and rend thee limb from limb. Take this weapon, sharp and keen?reach up and get it from God's armory?the Sword of the Spirit. With that thou mayest drive him l>o o rwl nr\T\ nit oi%T VC*V'U UiXU VyVcUV|UVX. Before I get through I will show you that your fight is in an arena around which circle, in galleries above each other all the kindling eyes and all the symyathetic hearts of the ages; "and at every victory gained there comes down the thuudering appleause of a great multitude that no man can number. "Being com?ocon/l oKonf en n rlnnd rif |/aoocu uiyvuif IMVU wv VMV v* v witnesses.'' On the first elevation of the ancient amphitheater, on the day of a celebration, sat Tiberius or Augustus, or the reiging king. So, in the great arena of spectators that watch our struggles, and in the first divine gallery, as I shall call it, sits our King, one Jesus. On his head are many j crowns. The Roman emperor got his place by cold blooded conquests, but our King hath come to his place by the broken hearts healed, and the tears wiped away, and the souls redeemed. The Roman emperor sat with folded arms, indifferent as to whether the swordsman or the lion beat, but our King's sympathies ave all with us. Nay, unheard of condescension! I see him come down from the gallers into the arena to help us in the fight, shouting until all up and down his voice is heard: "Fear not! I will help thee! I will strengthen thee by the right hand of my power!" They gave to the men in the arena in the olden time food to thicken their blood, so that it would flow slowly, and that for a longer time the people might gloat over the scene. But oui king has no pleasure in our wounds, for we are bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh, blood of bis blood. In all the anguish of onr he.irt nn r ^ J.11B ilitiU Ui SUITUW5 UU1C a piUb Once in the ancient amphitheater a lion with one paw caught the comhatart's^word yriL 'if- i -ir..., paw caught his shield. The man took his knife from his girdle and slew the beast. The king sitting in o o the gallery, said, "That was not fair; the lion must be slain by the sword." Other lions were turned out and the poor victim fell. You cry, "Shame, shame," at such meanness. But the King in this case is our brother, and he will see that we have fair play. He will forbid the rushing out of more lions than we can meet; he will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able. Thank God! The King is in the gallery! His eyes are tt;? i 4. ,,0 u;q Oil US. jliis jural b >11111 no. mo hand will deliver us. "Blessed are all they who put their trust in him/' I look again, and see the angelic gallery. There they are?the angel that swung the sword at the gate of Eden, the same that Ezekiel saw upholding the throne of God, and from which I look away, for the splendor is insufferable, flere are the guardian angels. That one watched a patriarch; this one protected a child. Shat one has been pulling a soul out of temptation! All these are messengers of light! Those drove the Spanish armada on the rocks. This turned Sennacherib's living hosts into a heap of one hundred and eightyfive thousand corpses. Those, yon^ + 1-* /-* Pl^VicfiYVQO /IQVAI LifcfX", CLltlUl/trU LXJ.C vunobuiag ^uiui over Bethlehem until the chant awoke the shepherds. These, at creation, stood in the balcony of heaven and serenaded the new born world wrapped in swaddling clothes of light. And there, holier and mightier than all, is Micheal, the archangel. To commaud an earthly hosts gives dignity; but this one is the leader of the ten thousand chariots of God, and of the ten thousand times ten thousand angels. I think God gives command to the archangel, and the archangel to the seraphim, and the seraphim to the cherubim, until all ! the lower orders of heaven hear the commana ana go ioim ou mc juigju behest. Xow, bring 011 your lions! Who I can fear7 All the spectators in the angellic gallery are our friends. "He i shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the I lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt tlnu trample under foot.'' Though the arena be crowded with tempatioiis we shall, with the angelic help, strike them down in the name of our God and leap 011 the carcasses. Oh, bending throng of bright angelic faces and swift wings and lightning foot! I hail you today from the dust and struggle of the arena! I look again and I see the gallery of the prophets and apostles. Who ( -lilh, in |Hl| IIIIHIMIMIBIIIIIII I ~ , | are those mighty ones up yonder? j Hosea and Jeremiah and Daniel and i Isaiah and Paul and Peter and John j i -r mi i at i ana James. mere sits rsoan waning , for all the world to come into the j ark, and Moses waiting until the last Red sea shall divide; and Jeremiah waiting for the Jews to return: and John, of the Apocalypse, waiting for j the swearing of the angel that Time j shall be no longer. Glorious spirits! j Ye were howled at, ye were' stoned, j vc were snit, rmrvn! Fhev have been ! ill this fight themselves, and they are all with us. Daniel knows all about j lions. Paul fought with the beast at Ephesus. In the ancient ampitheater the people got so excited that they would shout from the galleries to the men in the arena: "At it again!" "Forward!" "Ono more stroke!" "Look out!" "Fall back!" "Huzza! Huzza!" [ So in the gallery, phophetic and apostolic, they cannot keep their peace. Daniel cries out, ''Thy God will deliver thee from the mouth of the lions!" David exclaims, "He will not j suffer thy foot to be moved!'1 Isaiah calls out: "Fear not, I am with thee! Be not dismayed!" Paul exclaims, "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" That throng of prophets and apostles cannot keep still. They make the welkin ring with shouting and halleluahs. I look again and see the gallery of Al _ L "XTT1- - * TT 1. me martyrs. hiio is mat.' xxugu Latimer, sure enough! He would not apologize for the truth preached, and so he died the night before swingo o ing from the bedpost in perfect glee at the thought of emancipation. "Who are that army of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six? They are the Theban legion, who died for the faith. Here is a larger host in magnificent array?eight hundred and eightyfour thousand?who perished for Christ in the persecutions of Diocletian. Yonder is a family group, Felicities of Rome, and her children. While they were dying for the faith she stood encouraging them. One son . was whipped to death by thorns; another was fiunor from a rock: another 0 , was bghcaried- A.t In^t fb^, vrothfv-' j bJiaufe a mart jr. There they are togotlier?a family group in heaven! Yonder is John Bradford, who said in the fire, "We shall have a merry supper with the Lord tonight!'' Yonder is Henry Voes, who exclaimed as he died, "If I had ten heads they should all fall off for Christ!" The great throng of the martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastened to their hands, and other horses to their feet, and thus they were pulled, apart; they had their tongues pulled out by red hot pincers; they were sewed up in the skins of animals and then thrown to the dogs; they were daubed with combustibles and set on fire! If all the martyr's stakes that had been kindled could be set at proper distances they would make the midnight all the world over bright as noonday. And now they sit yonder in the martyrs' gallery. For them the fires of persecution have gone out. The swords are sheathed and the mob hushed. Now they watch us with an all observing sympathy. They know all the pain, all the hardship, all the anguish, and the injustice, all the 1 privation. They cannot keep still. Tliey cry: "Courage! The fire will not consume. The floods cannot drown. The lions cannot devour? 1 Courage! down there in the arena." "Why, are they all looking? This night we answer back the salutation they give, and cry, "Hail! sons and daughters of the fire!" I look again, and I see another gallery?that of eminent Christians. What strikes me strangely is the mixing in companionship of those who on earth could not agree. There is Albert Barnes, and around him the i ?i. . i.; 1. ?i presoyiery wuo meu mm jlui ueiciodoxy! Yonder is Lyman Beech er, and the church court that denouuce him! Stranger than all, there is John Calvin and James Arminius! Who would have thought ihat they would sit so lovingly together? There is George Whitefield and the ministers who would not let him come into j their pulpits because they thought him a fanatic. There are the sweet sing ers, To plady, Montgomery, Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts and Mrs. Sigourney. If heaven had no music before they went up there they would have started the singing, j And there the band of mission aries?David Abeel, talking of China redeemed, and John Scudder, of India saved, and David Brainard, of the aborigines evangelized, and Mrs. Adoniram Judson, whose prayers for Burmali took heaven by violence! All these Christians are looking into the arena. Our struggle is nothing to j theirs! Do we in Christ's cause suf- i fer from the cold'- They walked \ Greenland's icy mountains. Do we | suffer from the beat'? They sweltered | EHMUBaHnaEaBtanaataauetettKcm-?n -? in the tropics Do we get fatigued? They fainted itli none to care for them but eanibals. Are we persecuted? Thej were antliematized. And as they lok from their gallery and see us faltr in the presence of the lions' I soe:i to hear Isaac "Watts achlressing us a his old hamn, only a little chaugec Must you be varied to the skies Ou flowery bds of ease. "While others fov^ht to win the j rize. Or sailed throigii bloody seas? Toplady shottrVn his old hymn; Your harps, ye rumbling saints, Down from tl? willows take; Loud to the prise ol love divine, Bid every strng awake. "While Charle "Wesley, the Methodist, breaks forh in his favorite words, * . i l T a nttie vaneu: A charge to Jeep you have, A God to gorify; A never dyin; soul to save, And fit it f<r the sky! I look again md see the gallery of our departed. Many of those in the other galleries wo have heard of, but thess we knew. Oh, how familiar their faces! They sat at our tables, and we walked to he house of God in company. Hare they forgotten us? Those fathers and mothers started us on the toad of life. Are they careless as to what becomes of us"? And those children?do they look 011 with stolid indifference as to whether we win c? lose this battle for "XT 1 T eternityj x>ay: -l see mat emm mulling its hand over your brow and saying, "Father, dcnot fret," "Mother, do not worry." They remember the day they left us. They remerater the agony of the last farewell. Though years in heaven, they know our fares. They remember our sorrows. They speak our names. They watch this fight for heaven. Nav; I see them rise up and lean over and wave before us their recognition and encouragement. That gallery is not full. They are keeping places for us. After we have slain the lion thev expect the King to call us, saving, "Come up higher!'' Between the hot struggles iu the arena I wipe the sweat from my bjrovy up. my right hand to clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking, while their voices come ringing down from the gallery crying, "Be thou faithful unto death and you shall have a crown!" But here I pause, overwhelmed with the majesty and the joy of the scene! Gallery of the King! Gallery of angels! Gallery of prophets and apostles! Gallery of martyrs! Gal lory of saints! Gallery of friends and kindred! Oh, majestic circles of light and love! Throngs! Throngs! Throngs! How shall we stand the gaze of the universe? Myriads of i :? ? Uii ua. ?vijuauo \jx hearts beating in sympathy for us! How shall we ever dare to sin again! How shall we ever become discouraged again! How shall we ever feel lonely again! With God for us, and angels for us, and prophets and apostles for us, and the great souls of the ages for us and our glorified kindreds for us? shall we give up the fight and die? No! Son of God, who didst die to save No! ye angles, whose wings are spread forth to shelter us. No! ye prophets and apostles, whose warning startle us! No! ye loved ones, whose arms are outstretched to receive us. No! we will never surren Sure I must fight if I would reign Be laithful to my Lord; And bear the Cross, endure the pain, Supported by thy Word. Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die; They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. When that illustrious day shall rise. And all thine armies shine In robes of victory through the shies, The glory shall be thine. Mj bearers, shall we (lie-in the arena or rise to join our friends in the gallery ? Through Christ we may come off more than conquerors. A soldier dying in the hospital, rose tm in bed the last moment and cried. T ? - -"Here! Here!" His attendants put him back on his pillow and asked him why he shouted "Here!" "Oh, I heard the roll call of heaven and I was only answering to my name!" I wonder whether, after this battle of life is over, our names will be called in the musier roll of the pardoned and glorified, and with the joy of heaven breaking upon our souls we shall cry, "Here! Here!" Julia E. Johnson, Stafford's P. 0., S. C., writes: "I had suffered 13 -i - ?i ? i: years wun ecxcnju aun ao tiiucs confined to my bed. The itching was terrible. My son-in-law got me one-half dozen bottles of Botanic Blood Balm, which entirely cured me, and I ask you to publish this for the benefit of others suffering in like manner." 45. Como Together. i j ; To the Editor of the Dispatch: j Let it be written once more that i the Conservatives in the recent oarnj paign were not in antagonism to the j interests of the farmers, but honestlj' I Kalinrc] U*of tlio cnr>i"?p>a<< r>f fliPir ticket would be best for that class of our people as well as others. majority of the Democratic voters of the State thought differently. The time for crimination and recrimination has passed. The result has been as expected by thoughtful men 011 both sides. The large vote on both sides clearly demonstrates the danger of the existing antagonism and the importance of bringing together again as speedily as possible the two opposing wings of the Democratic party in our State. Our plain duty now is to come together solidly to the support of the whole ticket at the general election. Patriotism dej mauds that we labor in common to j restore again the State's credit at liome and abroad. The writer believes that he reflects the views of the Conservatives of county and State when he declears j that we are all prepared to bow to the expressed will of the majority of the white people of South Carolina and to aid, with our votes and influence in the election of the candidates chosen by the people. Nothing, however, that we can ever j hope for from State legislation will repay us for the disasters which must result from the persoual bitterness and social differences engendered by these heated campaigns. Let us hope that all differences may be reconciled and such plans devised as may bring us together again before j it is too late. "W. T. B. septemoer o, lovz. ? Office of S. Cherry, 21 Drayton Street. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 16, 1890. Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Ga.: Dear Sirs: I would like to add my testimony to the almost miraculous effect o< -in - the MVuj Ingraham, a woman living oi^ my place; she had a constant cough, sore throat, debility, etc., and was emaciated to a degree that she was unable to get out of bed unaided, being given up by physicians; she had taken the ruinous socalled Blood Medicines without the least effect, until being put under the P. P. P., she immediately began to improve and is now in as good health as ever in her life. You can refer to me at any time as to the effect of P. P. P. in the foregoing case. Yours truly, Samuel Cherry. For sale by all druggists. P. P. P. A wonderful medicine; it gives an appetite, it invigorates and strengthens. P. P. P. Cures rheumatism and all pains in side, back and shoulders, knees, hips, wrists and joints. P. P. P. Cures syphilis in all its various stages, old ulcers, sores and kidney complaints. P. P. P. Cures catarrh, eczema, erysipelas, all skin diseases and mercurial poisoning. P. P. P. Cures dyspepsia, chronic female complaints and broken down constitution and loss of manhood. P. P. P. The best blood purifier of the age. Has made more permanent cures than all other blood remedies. The Laughing Owl. Kansas City Times. Over twenty years ago, traveling on foot through a rough section in the eastern part of Missouri, I found myself toward sunset in a solid German settlement. They almost without exception keep cross dogs, usually bull dogs of savage ferocity, nftmi dn.n <rorr>us for their owners if an O x proaelied after boing loosened from their chains at nightfall. For this reason it was hazardous to travel after sunset, sc I began an hour before sundown to find a lodging place for the night, but the Germans either could cot or would not understand me. The shades of night were gathering when I saw with pleasure the light of a camp fire shining on two white covered emigrant wagons in the woods down below the road I was traveling. They proved to be Americans, and when I told them how I was situated they gave me a friendly welcome, and we passed a pleasant evening by that camp fire. After we retired to rest and perfect quiet reigned in the camp, there arose oil the still night air the most hideous, diabolical laughter that ever greeted the ears of mortal man. The boy lying beside me made a fair imitation of the sound. "What is itf' I asked. "xiiat," said the j father, "is a laughing owl; the boy is mocking it in his sleep." Some time after, still prospecting in Missouri, I reached after dark a ff>rw liniwp mill wbipli wi? nl<n n tavern, on the Osage river, in a thinly ; populated district. The house was tilled with mulattoes and negroes of all shades, from that of a new saddle to a pot black. The ferryman was preparing for spring work on his | farm so there was 110 room for me. j Two negroes rowed me across the river, and going up the bank I soon louiid by the starlight a road which j I followed but a short distance when ! my way was barred by a fence. As I hoped to strike the road again at another point, I turned off into an apparently new road in the woods, but soon in the darkness lost my landmark, the fence and my way, too. To stay in the woods on a very cold April night was not desirable, so I listened earnestly for some sound of a human habitation, as the crowing of a cock or barking of a dog, that would lead me to a house. Standing there in that impressive silence of the woods at night there came at length a welcome sound, a lnw lanorVt n.s from n. disf.fmnn. from some negro hut. perhaps, but better to sit up at night, even in a negro shanty than to stumble around in the darkness in the strange depths of the Osage woods. I started in the direction, traveled some distance and listened again for a repetition of the sound, when suddenly, right overhead, arose that unearthly, blood curdling, fiendish laughter. I have stood face to face with a furious maniac and looked 011 his glaring, blood shot eyes, lips flecked with foam, face of a cadaverous hue, and heard his forced soulless laughter until seemed as if more in con tact with some hideous demou than a man; yet to me that night that horrid laughter of the laughing owl was a greater strain on the nerves than the demoniac laughter of the j maniac. However, the laughing C|wl had, done ;ue a go xl turn in bringing rue back to the road again, for his voice was the low laughter in the distance I first heard. I climbed over the fence, followed the road about a mile, roused up the inmates of a farm house, and was comfortably lodged. I have examined works on natural history, but cannot find any description or picture of the laughing owl. As I never saw him, ho exists in memory and my imagination only as some imp of darkness. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who Lave used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.?A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Itheum and other affections caused by impure blood.?Will drive Malarial from the system and prevent, as well as cure all Malarial fevers.?For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters?Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded.?Price 50 rtfo orwl 41 00 nor Ivitflp nf. flip V^to. C4lU\4 V XtVV |/VA MVWVAV W V ^ Bazaar. New Method of Washing. The ill effects of soda on linen have given rise to a new method of washing in Germany and Belgium. The operation consists in dissolving two pounds of soap in about three gal Ions of hot water, and adding to this one tablespoonful of turpentine and three of liquid ammonia. The mixture must then be well stirred, ami the linen steeped in it for two or three hours. The clothes are afterwards washed out and rinsed in the usual way. Gov. Tillman has stayed the Execution of John Williams, the negro who murdered Mayor Henneman of Spartanburg sometime last year, until October 17th. No cause is given for his action. Capt. Jarnigan of the South Carolina penitentiary, returned from Atlanta, Ga., Friday, with four escaped convicts who were captured in that city. The Columbia health authorities, are bestiriug themselves, to have the city thoroughly cleansed to keep cholera away. Columbia people are rejoicing over clear drinking water at last. Tbe filters have been put to work and they give entire satisfaction. Perfumeiy of all kinds, Hoyt's and Taylor's cologne, bay rum for : the hair, pomade, hair oil, sweet soap, toilet and tooth powder, hair i and tooth brushes, combs* etc., at | the Bazaar. Washington Letter. [From Our Regular Correspondent.] Washington, D. C., Sep. 9, 1892. Mr. Harrison's letter of acceptance was a very decided innovation in that line. It breaks all precedents and instead of being a letter of acceptance pure and simple, it is, in addition, a carefully and skilfully pre pared lawyer's plea for the Republican party in general and the Harrison administration in particular, and like other able lawyers' pleas it is liable to impose on those who are not familiar, and who will not take the trouble to familiarize themselves with the other side. It shows, two, that the stories which have from time to time been told of Mr. Harrison's intention to individually boss the Republican side of the campaign were all founded on the solid truth. The intention has become a fact, and todav Mr. Harrison is the acknowl j edged boss of the Republican Na| tioual committee, which is conductj iug the campaign according to his I orders. It is known here that the j publication of the letter of accept| ance this week was directly against J the wishes ot Chairman Carter and a number of the working members of the committee; they wanted it held back at least a month, but boss Benjamin ordered it given out, and given out it was. Mr. Harrison's attempt to dodge the Force bill issue in such a way as j to leave the impression upon those | who favor that outrage upon ConI that. is sfill wit.ll 1 SUOIUIUIIUI 11 wti ij vuuv iv, u..? j them?as he really is, heart and soul j ?and at the same time, make those ! opposed to it believe that he has abandoned it, is like most efforts of a similar nature?supremely ridiculous. and meets only with meaning smiles in every quarter. Democrats and Republicans alike know just where Mr. Harrison stands upon this question; that, if he be re-elected and the next House of Representatives be controlled by the Republicans, he will in his first mes- \ sage to the Fifty third Congress ask that trbilr . pwpLli !lr the* liotoritfaS Lodge bill of the Fifty-first Cong- ~ gress be passed. There is only one : way for this country to escape the lv fr\fnn 1,1*11 wllir?ll iri iiUllUlt) lUly iUi VV n ? one section of the country would be as bad as a visitation of the cholera, and that is, to defeat Benjamin Harrison and the Republican party. Mr. Blaine's letter, made public the day after that of Mr. Harrison, fell like a wet blanket upon the candidate's pronunciamento. If nullified about half of Mr. Harrison's letter by advising the Repub icans to ignore al! issues, cvvpt three, in the campaign, and than all, for Benjamin, (hi- g?.- -in his own estimation?it no where mentioned Mr. Harrison's name. No Republican with whom I have talked has a doubt about this slight to the head of the Republican ticket being deliberate and intentional ou the part of Mr. Blane. It is a slight, too, that Mr. Harrison dare not resent at this time; but you may be sure tnat he will try to "get even" after the election, which ever way it goes, by jumping on the Blaine Republicans ? wherever he finds them. The milk in the cocoanut, concerning the application of the Iuman Line Steamship company for American registry for two of their best steamers, which was granted at the last session of Congress, was exposed when the bids for carrying oceau mails, under the mail subsidy act of tbe billion-dollar Congress, were this week opened by Mr. "VVanaTim Tnmon 1 ,inp under its I i II tl (\ tT J. > JL iiV ? new American name?Tho Internationai Navigation Company, of Philadelphia?adopted, solely with the idea of getting a slice of this subsidy, was the only company that put in a bid for the Europen service, and the only company that proposes to carry the mails in vessels of the first class. It put in two bids, and Mr. Wanamaker says they will both be accepted. Each of them is for a weekly sendee and in each the compensation asked is $4 per mile. Multiply the number of miles across the Atlantic by 4 and the result by 104 and a sum of money is piled up that fully explains the desire of the stockholders in this company to charge tho flag over such of their ships as ihey could get subsidized so highly. Some people have said that Mr. Wanamaker had some very near friends who were allowed to purchase stock in the reorganized company at a nominal price, but, of course, that had no influence in the deal. Representative Catchings, of Mississippi, is in Washington. He says the Democrats will not lose a single electoral vote in the South, and that the people's party will not have as | many members in trie next as they i have in the present House. He j figures on a Democratic majority of | between forty and fifty in the next j House. &