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E TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN? BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1880. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 49. TREASURER'S OFFICE. XJ^AUOUST 18, 1880. IN accordance with tho Supply Bill, approved February 20th, 1880, notice is hereby given (hat tho books will bo open for (ho collection of 'taxes on Wednesday, Soptember 15th, and will remain opon until tho 31st day of Oc tober. 1880. Tho rato per collum of taxes is ;as follows: Hinte l'urpo J, - ? 4j mills. County Pu JOSCS, - - 8 mills. Past Inde' cdncss, . 1| mills. School T x, - - -2 mills. Poll Tax, - - - SI 00 In all casos where tho May installment has not boon paid a penalty of five per cent, will bo added lo said installment. All taxes remaining unpaid on tho first doy of November will incur n penally of fifteen per ocut. and will bc collected by distress or otherwise until thc 15th of No vember. After that dato tho County Trensnror will proceed to collect by levy and salo as pro vided by law. Taxes arc payable in (ho following kiuds of funds and no other: Gold and Silver Coin; Uuitcd States Currency; National Rank Notes; And for County Taxes Jury and Witness Tickets. All information ns to taxes freely given by mail or otherwise II. F. ALEXANDER, Treasurer Ooonco County. August 19, 1880 40.ti ADG-EB, 30LLEG-E, WA?JIAI!. LA, S.O. rjMIK Fourth Schlnslio Ycnr will begin on thc I Lus I Tliur-day in Scpltimbcr next. Tuition in Coll?giale Department, per annum, $.10, one-half payable in advance. It is import ml (hat thc students be present nt thc opening exercises of thc College ou thc first day. For catalogue and any desired information npply lo JOHN It. KILEY, Chairman of FuClllty. August 12, 1880_39_ WALHALLA" FEMALE SOLLES-E, W A Lil ALLA , S . C. THIS Institution will open ils fourth session .sa:B>TBrassil?ii o, isso. THUMS: Collegiole Department, lon months, $.30 Academic Department, icu months, 10 Junior Department, len mouths, 5 Board, including fuel, lights and room, per month, 10 Execllcnl facilities for studying Music, WON "Work and Painting. Bend for catalogue J 1>. SMELT/ER, President. August 12, 1880 81) 3m JOHN?NSE" CABINE T M A K B lt, UPHOLSTER HAS for sale and on hand what every one needs sooner or later: COFFINS ASID CASKETS, CASKS IX CASKETS, COFFINS Wim ur With o ii t G tosses. fl.mlmliiiiii:; JJ ?I ti ll o ISttrijil cases of (ho inns', improved patterns in thc United States. Prices reasonable, according lo tho limes. September ll. 1870 43-ly w i?Uiof? el lund Irulrnm.nU, Ito KopttlBn ef Bntta, Cup?, rulu, Compon?, routh?, nrum-MaJon'OulfiU.lilli. EMU Itu, Ijunp?, Sundi, Ou IOU, IllnU 00 Org.abJr.ft .od Conducting Stadl, W ff ot Val atti* iDformttloo forUiukUn* Milled bte. McCoth'i Oatt* fol Am.Uar Pknitt, .nd Puinim'i Drum-Mi|?n' Toe ll. ,, * book of 50 PUK, null; J for 10 (?to, LYON & HEALY, State cor. Monroe St., Chicago. September 30, 1880 40-1 tn PERSY, HOUSTON COUNTY, On. Wo have known "Swift's Syphilitic Spcoifio" listed in hundreds of obstinate cases of Syphilis, Mercurial Rheumatism, Scrofula, &o. It made tho most perfect and permanent cures itt every .case. Huon L. BESNARD, EM WAHREN, SAM D. KIM.KN, J. V/. WIMIIHRLY, Judge Co. Court, J. 0. GILBERT, Druggist, J. L. WARREN, of J. W MANN, J. W, Lathrop & Co., Cornily Treasurer, Savannah, Gn., WM D. PIERCE, Shori?T, En. JACKSON, C. C. DUNCAN, Dop't Cl'k Sttp'r Ct. DAV & CORDON, WM. BRUNSON. Wo aro ncquoinlod with the genllomcn whose signatures appear lo thc above certif?calo. They aro citizens of said county, of tho highest ro npeotnbility and character. A. S. GILES, Ordinary Honiton county, Ga. D. II. CULLER, Clerk Superior Court, Houston cornily, Qa. I am personally acquainted willi tho proprie tors and many of the gentlemen whoso signa tures appear lo Hie foregoing certificates. They aro men of high diameter and standing. A. II. COLQUITT. Govornor of Georgia. THE SWIFT SPEOil'lb COMPANY, Proprietors, Atlanta., Ga. Sold by Norman & Bro. and Wright & S' Druggists, Wnllmlln. Call for rt copy of "Young Men's Friend." September 2,188O 42-2m It Looks Like the Empire. Tho omi DOH'S bootu, tho trumpet's blaro, Tho big brass bnuds thot shake tho air, Tho Darno of O rant soon ovory where Why, this looks like tho Empire Tho disciplino of marohing hordes, With uniforme and guns and swords, All of tho best that cash affords Why, this looks Uko tho Empire. Rich meo, who claim to own the towo, And want to keep the pcoplo down, March on, to show tho golden orown That's waiting for tho Empiro. "fis suroly au imposing sight, Tho street aflame with torches' light, And bonners gay and mottoes bright, For Grant and for tho Empire. They throw asido oil idle oant, And G infield cheers arc sadly soant, While oil throw up their hats for Grant Not Garfield, but thc Empire. 'Tis thus, by pagcouts and by shows, That bad ambition overthrows Fair freedom's altars, raising thoso Of ono mun rule and Empiro. If freedom's sons would still bc free, Let them beware of what they seo, And register their grand decreo Agaiust both Grunt aud Umpire. Then let tho people, while they can, ? Destroy tho groat imperial plan, Hy voting for an honest man, From whom they four uo Eaipiro. [N. Y. Sun. What Shall bo Done With tho Dogs ? Not to perpetrate a "bull," wc bcliovo in taking the bull by thc horus in thu matter of dogs. If there is any reliance tu be put in statistics ns wc Cud in our tax reports, the Slate is overrun with worthless, half starved dogs, continually becoming rabid and bringing some unfortunate citizen to thc most horrid and untimely death. Thc instances ore not few but many, and the I condition of things is now repeated from year to year. Thc number of dogs as stat cd in the Auditors' reports of 1809 was 07,727. From this report Williamsburg wasoinmitled, which,at nn average estimate, calls for 1,093 additional dogs, aggregating 09,410 in all. Thc Comptroller's report of 1879 for twenty-seven out of tho thirty three Counties shows a dog roll of 00,318 With two-ninths of this statement added to it for thc six Counties of Chest ot fiold, Dar lingtou, Greenville, Picketts, Spartan burg, and Sumter outwitted from tho report ow ing to County Auditor's abstracts not being sent up iu time for Comptroller's report, wo have 14,759 moro, or u total dog li.-t of 81, 075; being an increase of 13,348 dogs in the decade, or 1,334 per year. Now, we do not know, us wc bavo said, how reliablo these returns are-wc should frankly say wo know ' that they aro r.ot ut all reliable-but wc believe that this is bul half thc number of tho dogs iu the State. If wc have a million of people in South Carolina, this calls for 200,(100 fan; Iiis, und, from what wo sec and know for our selves, lhere is at least nu average of o dog to u family, which calls for 200,000 dogs in thc Stale, and there is not a'dog less. Thc oeusus of 1870 states the families in thc State at 151,000. If the Auditor's re port was correct, then there was a dog to ovcry two and a quarter families. Now thc cousus of 1880 calls for 200,000 families. At 81,000 dogs ibero is, then, according to this return, a dog to every four families. Is this ut all tn thc neighborhood of thc truth when so ninny families have many dogs, if sonic have none? Our Impression is, thut there ure not less than 200,000 dogs in thc State, and wc be licvo tho Bafest woy is to pass an Act levy ing a tax of 81 a dog all thc way through, and $10 each for all not roturncd to asses sors. Now, ns thc educational fund n- cds larg er appropriations; we would turn over this dog tax to tho education of thc poor. Would not the food that ia fed out to ono dog keep three sheep, with tho pasturage they may enjoy, but for thc dogs that run them down? At this rate wo would have Ot'0,000 she p in ihe Stale instead of 194. 000, which, with un average of 2.G pounds per hoad, gives 1,500,000 pounds of wool, or, with a good average of sheep well cared for, there is no icasoti why this clip should not reach nu average of four pounds or 2, 400,000 p- unds, worth 0700,000 to 81,000, 000 n year, ?nd ns much more in marketa ble mutton. Ireland, with 1,500 square miles loss than South Carolina, hud about 5,000,000 sheep in 1815, or one sheep lo tho inhabitant, or 154 to Ibo squaro mile, or ono to every four acres. At tho Irish roto of sheep raisirg, ond with four.pounds to thc dip, wo would have a wool crop worth from seven to eight millions of dollars mimi olly, mid a mutton production worth os much moro. Why should not this bo so ? Thore is tho Stoto of Ohio, whioh in 1870 is stated nt 4,900,000 sheep and a clip of 20,639,000. Nor need this sheep ruising dotraot a bnle from our cotton production. Sooth Carolina's cotton aroa ia stated in tho Department report for 1878 at 944,660 acres; eal! it to day 1,000,000. Tho wholo number of aorcs reported for tho Stuto is 10,625,000. ' Now, folding 8hoop on this cotton a reu, and thcro is no proocss known moro impro ving to tho soil, what is to hinder us from milking ovory noro of this cotton double and trcblo its yield? With tho poa vino and ash clcmont, our const phosphates, combin ed with sheep raising, who oan tell what this million of aorcs would produco in cot ton lint, beside i $15,000,000 por annum of wool mid flesh product. So far as oar mutton is concerned, wc hu vu eaton ns good mutton from our own raiding, on tho coast os wc cat ut the Maui, moth Cave, where they boast of as good mutton as over has been raised in America. This is a subject of too great importanoo to bo habitually dodged. Wo must pursue nomo course which will kill out theso sheep stooling dogs, and wo cannot understand why a groat interest, ouo which means an absoluto revolution in tho wealth producing resources of tho ?State, should bo restrained and rendered utterly worthless because fee ble legislators have uot tho nervo to meet tho question like men. If ever there was a caso of dog in Ibo raangor, this dog quos-"* tiou is ooo.- Columbia Register, ?-?.-> What Superintendent Walkor has to Say About tho Consus? WASHINGTON, October 9.-Scoretary Schurz has made public the report of Su perintendent Walker, of tho census bu reau, on thc alleged census frauds in South Cand?na. After reviewing tho statements made by thc press, allopjint? frauds, and thc action of tho census bureau in investigating the some, Ccu. Walker says: "The extra ordinary gains reported iu certain of tho counties of South Carolina und in tho Stato as a whole over thc census of 1870, demanded therefore a careful investigation. It wes notorious that South Carolina had not proiited materially duriug tho ten years 8?UOO 1870 by itu migration either front foreign countries, or from other Stutcs in the Union. With a slight advautago front immigration it was not possible that an old Stato could have gained in population in tho interval since 1870 to a degree which is shown by a comparison of thc two con duites. It follows as the conclusion of thc highest authority cither that the census of 1870 was grossly defective In regard to the whole of tho State or some considerable puts thereof, or else that tho census of 1880 was defraudulcnt. Thc census of 1870 might have been defective in a high degree, without fraudulent intention, through the incompetence or negligcnco of thc enumerators employed; but the census of 1880 could not have exaggerated the population of thc State without absolute ftnud, inasmuch as thc census law requires tho nanto of every person reported to he written ut length in thc schedules with a score of particulars as regards their ape, sex, nativity, occupation, ?fcc, so that any illegitimate addition whatever to the sobed ule must bc in the nature of conscious and purposed crime." Gen. Walker Ilten gives Iiis reason for believing tho report of 1870 incorrect, attributing it mainly to the de fects of the law under which it was taken, namely, that of 1850, and says there w is moreover lacking iu 1870 throughout the general region one very important subject of enumeration, viz: public interest io thc result. Tho interest generally manifested throughout the United States in tho ninth census was far below that which bas teen shown lite present year, but nowhere did the Utterest in the work ot' thu census full so low us in the States referred io in which political activity under thc Constitution of tho United States had scarcely revived. No specific allegation nf fraud in the enumera tion of South Carolina has ever been made to this office. Thu entire reason for im peaching the integrity of thc recent cen sus was based on thc reported gain of population between 1870 and 1880. Tho result of thc investigation places beyond possible question by uny fair minded mau thc entire fault of tho census of 1870. 1 know of no reason therefore why any fur lltc. charge should bc made against the enumeration recently brought lo u conclu sion hy the commissioned und sworn officers I of the government iu South Carolina. The I presumption which existed in that work ? hos been completely overthrown and e strong counter presumption has been crea ted by verification upon tho ground of schedules or the inhabitants in tho cases of eighteen enumeration districts hucces sivoly taken for special investigation on account of their exceptionally questionable character. Gen. Walker closes with a consider .lion of thc object urged against tho reasonable - ness of tho result of thc census of 1830, derived a comparison of thc ratio ot in crease of population in South Carolina between I ho years 1820, 1800 and 1880 After stating that thc population of the State increased 41 per cent, during the first mentioned period of forty years and forty one per ocnt., or tho Blimp percentage bo . tween 1860 mid 1880, a period of only twenty years, he says: "Such a comparison, however, is not fair without refeicnoc to eenuin general causes operating. During tho two poriods from 1820 to 1800 South Carolina was a beehive, from which swarms woro continually gong forth to populuto the newer cotton growing States of tho South? west. Detwocu 1820 and 1880, immense tracts of fertile, lands belonging to tho Creeks und Cherokees in Georgia wore ceded to tho United States and were largoly occupied by South Carolinians. Later iu tho poriod un activo emigration of whites from South Carolina sprang up und was maintained in favor of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, while South Carolina negroes were poid in grout oum . hers to cultivate tho cotton, rico and sugar Holds of those States. Still hiter tho an nexation of Texas made further drafts upon tho population of South Carolina. With rcforcnoe to the emigration from tho Stato between thc years 1800 and 1880, thc roport oonoludes as follows: Wo do not kuow fully what effeots tho destruction of slavery and tho vast ohango resulting in tho conditions of labor havo produced upon the emigrating propensities of thc peoplo of South Carolina, Wo do not know that tho negroes sro uo longer sold South to cultivate (ho louds of Yuzoo, lied Uiver and Brossos. It is rcosouoblo to supposo that concurring oauscs may have checked in an unequal degroo tho outward move ment of tho white population. A com parison of "froo" natives of South Caro lina living in other States in 1800 with whito natives of South Carolina living in suoh States in 1870 shows tho number to havo bceu respectively 193,380 aud 147, 574, a reduction of 45,000 <n ton yours, between 1800 and 1870. College 13 <1 II cu lio ii foi* Men o?" If u Minc ss. A few days siaoo, says tho Western Recorder, Dr. Basil Manlv placed in our bauds a small pamphlet with tho abovo title which is full of cxcclleut thinking and equally excellent practical suggestions. Although it has been published for sumo years, wo had never beforo seen it, and wc presumo that most of our readers havo been similarly unfortunoto. lt was written by Dr. Broadus, of this city, and like all tho production:) of bis peu, is at once graceful and strong, full of sound common sense and practical views upon u most im portant question, and wo shall make no apology, even at this late day, for n few ex tracts therefrom. Referring to thc immature and oftcu ab surd judgments which arc formed both by boys themselves and their friends while forming plans for a career in lifo, Dr. Droadus remarks: It is said that when Mr. Moody first spoke in a prayer meeting, his pastor ad vised him not to attempt that ngain, os bc hud evidently no talent for publio speaking] und now, let tho crowds that hear his prcuohiug tell, ond tho thousand of con verts. And tho lad himself will often err likewise. At one period of my boyhood I road Cooper's novels, of which my father was very fond, until I became enamored of Indian life, and fully resolved that as soon as I became "u man," 1 would go lo tho Missouri Territory (as they used to oall it") among thu Blackfoot Indians, get to bc a groat bunter and lighter, marry n squaw, the daughter of un old chief, and succeed him as chief of thc tribo and live and die in paint und feathers. Would any sensible father ond mother havo said, tho boy has got hi* hem) on that, it shows thc native bent cf his genius, and so lhere is no uso in sending him to hu u ding school? How do you know, then, and how does your sou know, though he moy havo no such silly fancies us thc boy just mentioned, what is his destined calling for life? And espe cially is this true us to tho miuistry of thc Gospel. If ti tuan must !JC divinely called to this work, that will often happon much later in life that) thc proper time for enter ing College. In response to thc question "When eau wc say that one is un educated man?" Dr. Broad us well says: 1. An educated mun is one whoso mind is widened out, so that he cm toko broader views, instead cd' being narrow minded; so that lie cm see thu different bides ot a question, or ot least, can know that all questions have different sides. 2. An educated man is one who hus thc power of patient thinking, who can faulen his mind on u subjoot, and hold it there while ho pleases; who can keep looking ut a subject until he sccs into it und secs through it. if anybody imagines it easy to think, in this steady way, lie hos not tried it much. 3. Again, an educated mun is one who hos sound judgment; who knows how to rousoti to right conclu.-iot s, and so to argue to convince others that bc is right. 4. And finally-not to speak now of imagination and taste, important as they arc-an edu cated mun is ono who can express his thoughts clearly and forcibly. Of course there is a most important scn90 in which all true education is self education and there ore many among our most promi nent business men who have trained them selves in tho hard slow school of life. This development of the power of thinking, and that broad equilibrium of judgment which gives the power of seeing clour through a difficult subject, mid of coming to wiso conclusions concerning it-this gives real power in the praolioal ulf.iirs of lifo, and in acquiring this, Dr. Broadus thinks that a good school is of tho greatest advantage. A college education is of grout advantage to a mm in his home life. If a mau succeeds in business, ho will, ob selves Dr. Broadus, naturally wish to make for himself 'a bright sweet hom c." Wealth alono cannot make this. I am not speaking now of tho ono thing that is needful, but consider how much culture contribute to the happiness and highest well being of a growing family. Almost every mau who has a financial prosperity aspires to this. Some sucoecd notwith standing thc luck of carly nd vantages, but very few under such eiroumstuiccs attain true und high culture. Many a worthy gentleman of middle age, fondly watching his growing children, und longing to in spire thom with a relish for tho delights of history, pootry, nod popular soience, to seo them bathe their young minds in tho sweet wutcrsof li tera turo resolves winter after winter1 that bc will road upon certain subjects, buys a number of books, begins, and next summer remembers that ho hus dono almost noth ing, and mourns, nguiu and ?gain, that he did not acquire rc Mug habits, and u bosis of literary kuow,^ubo in Iiis youth. And sooth to say, many of our girls aro now re ceiving 6 pretty fair cduoation, and we men aro so quick in picking up nud turning to account n knowledge of general literature, that our young mon must get a better ed ucation than has boon common, or they will ?1)4! many eases find themselves unpleasantly inferior to thoir wives. ? As to tho importance of having educated men as le tide re in BOoicty, Dr. Broadus well says: In our current polities ono of tho groot wants is that of intelligent loading citizens. There is unioh humbug now a-doys about reading and writing. Somo of our uow light philosophers seem to think that if wo can only toaoh overybody to read ood write theo tho masses will all voto wisely and do right. But what do they need? Tho fuot is, tho mosses need, and always have, lead ers to tell them what to do; tho only ques tion is whether thoy shall bo led by dema gogues, or poisons not muoli wiser than themselves, or by men worthy to load, qual ified to lead wisely. So, too, in our churches, tho most crying need at present is for an educated membership. Wc have beard n groot deal about educating our ministers, but educated private members of both sexes, oro just as necessa ry. Thcso, where do they exist, give iulercst to .Sunday schools ond prayer meetings, diffuse correct ideas of Christian benevolence, and givo sympathetic appro, elation and moral support to au intelligent und active pastor. These oan meet iu con versation thc subtle infidelity which is spreading its poison through all our society, which the p.istor oftca declines to preach Against lest lie merely advertise, instead of curing, which is seldom mentioned to him tn private because its advocates do not really wish to have their errors corrected. Oh how much wc do need n larger number of thoroughly cduoutcd and truly devoted men and women in all tho churches! Soo to tho Congressmen Thc I0B8 of Congressmen in Ohio and Indiana is a powerful incentive to tho solid South to send a solid Democratic represen tation. Thcro is danger now tb at tho small Demjoratic majority in Congress may bc lost, a result whioh would bc disastrous ia tho extreme. Wc cannot alford to lose a singlo representativo, and a heavy rcs . pousibility rests upou every Democratic voter of every district. .Remember that ouc vote may lose tho party a Congressman, and that ono Congressman may hold thc balance of power in thc House. Should the election of President bo thrown iu tho House, that ouu vote may decide it for our weal or woe. Should Hancock bc elected, our triumph will bc spoiled, and efforts to socuro for us fair play and justice hampered by n Republican House. Should Corfield succeed, with a disappearance of tho Dctnoorotic majority in Congress would go down the hist barrier bctwecu us and thc destroying flood. Democrats! If United States Commis sioner A. Dlytho were in Congress bc would vote for Garfield, tho hater of thc South, tho bribe taker, tho perjurer, the suborner of peijury. Ho will bo under t?'c 1 ttdcrship of (Joukling, who denounces ul) Southern white men ns thieves and murderers, and oil Confederate soldiers ns traitors, deserving death. He lives and expects to livo on thc supremacy of tho Republican party, and his past is sufficient proof that bc has neither sympathy nor respect (or tho whito people of his own Stute. Stoibrand is a degree less guilty, being a carpet bagger, ond our natural enemy. Let both tc laid away with thc other broken, discarded and forgotten po . litioal rubbish in November. [ G teen ville Newa. COLUMBIA, October 13.-Tho Republi cans of Richland County met io Conven tion to day at 12 o'clock, at Enterpri e Hall. C. A. Carr, county chairman, crib ed the meeting to order. I observed in thc hall about fifty of thc worst looking negroes I ever saw nnd only two whito men-Bar num and JiCc. A motion was mado to nominate permanent officers, which brought half ?1 dozen members to their feet asking questions, making points of order, and so forth. Tho following seven names were placed in nomination for president: James Wells, Nicholas Shelton, A. C. Carr, Pelham Jones, Thomas Brown, Sei po Starling and Sam Thompson. A motion to dose nominations produced much bitter discussion, during which the hull trembled with discord. The scene was thc most disgraceful ever witnessed in convention. Several burly members from tho rural dis tricts were very drunk and tried to rule tho meeting. I have never peen a moro tur . htilcnt concourse of politicians. An hour was consumed in fruitless efforts to restore order and tho meeting broko up in a row. At 4 o'clock the remnant reassembled at thc s.iino place and went into secret session, excluding reporters and everybody clso They remained in session until to night, but their proceedings have not transpired yet. My attempt to interview several members failed signally. llumoi has it to night that tho Conven tion discussed at length tho advisability of plnoing a county ticket in tho field, but having no available material out of which to construct thc tiokot decided to endorse Messrs. C O. Marshal nnd J. II. Toylor for tho Legislature, and support Dent for Sheriff I am also informed that William Kino, a noted gambler of Columbia, was no II in ri ted for Clerk of Court. Nogru groupa about tho streets to night arc very jubilant over tho news from Ohio and Indiana. If it bo confirmed they will hold a mass meeting cither tomorrow night or tho next night. I hove talked with prominent Ropublioans, and leam that tho Democratic reverses in tho West have made it probablo that they will run 0 full State ticket, and there is much talk of calling n State Convention next wcok. Tho Ro ? 'publican executive committee ht.s boon in session, but it is impossiOlo to loam anything of its proceedings. SALT LAKE CITY, Ootobor. ll.-Mor mon Conforcnoo, whioli adjourned yesterday, was choifly notublo tor tho filling of tho first Presidency, wbioh has boon vaoant ! sinoo thc death of Brigham Young. John j Taylor was cleoted President, with Gcorgo Q. Cannon as first ond Joseph Smith as second counselor. Mr. Cannon is tho dcligotc to Congress and was renominated on the 7th inst. Joseph F. Smith is a nephew of tho original Joseph Smith. Johu Taylor was thc ranking member of tho Twelve Apostles Mr. Canuou is regarded us tho ruling spirt-thc power behind thc throne--ulthougli Wilford Woodruff, ranking member of tho Twelve Apostles, aud not Cannon, is thc heir apparent according to precedent. KINGSTON, N. Y/,. October. ll. Col. A. J. Clements, tho Greenback candidate for Congress in tho Fourteenth District, has managed to get himself into trouble. Clements lives in Liberty, Sullivan Comity, where bc keeps thc villogo hotel. On Wednesday last Joseph Bloomer, a farmer who lives about two miles from tho village, ottilie to town on business. While there he drank several limos in Clements' hotel, und bee imo so noisy and abusive that ? Clements ordered him out of the house. Ile refused to go, whereupon Clcmcntp, seizing a heavy spoko of a wagon wheel, struck Bloomer a stunning blow on tho head; which knocked him senseless. It was somo limo before tho man partially recovered conciousness. At last reports he was in a cri tical conditiou, and not expected to recover. A number of persons who sew tho affray claim that Clements was too hasty in using such violence, os Bloomer wos completely under thc influcoco of liquor which ho procured from his assailant. SPARTANliURO, October 10.-An inquest was held this morning on tho body of Capt. Henson, who was found dead in his bed yesterday afternoon, as telegraphed to you last night. A j.ost mortem exami nation was made, but without any satisfacto ry result. Thc brain indicated congestion, but a letter was found in his pocketbook which showed that ho at ono time meditated suicid-'. The letter was directed uTo ull whom it may concern," and is os follows: SPARTAN BURG, S. C., June, 1880. To all whom it may concern: This is to certify that I am losing money every day, and I think that I never will bo ablo to pay all Lowe. Forthat reason I commit tho deed. I am Tho*. P. Benson. I wish to bc buried plain and quietly. Titos P. BENSON. Owing to thc discovery of tho letter his stomach will bc sent to Charleston for analysis. It ia thought thnt he has been contemplating suicido for some lime, and finally carried out that intention. His re mains will bc carried to Anderson for in terment. > t> ?- - NEW YORK, October 13.--Abram Or lando Jackson has begun suit against tho Louisiana State Lottery Company, ond obtaining a writ of attachment from Judge Daniel, to day attaohed tho money of tho company and of its officers and agents in tho National Park Bunk. Jackson, it io said formerly dealt in lottery tickets and pjlicy slips, but his business was destroyed by tho proceedings against tho company. lu his complaint ho alleges that on ono hundred and severity three occasions bc tween July 25, 187G, and September 23, 1880, bc invested an aggregate of 886, 581 87 in the lot tey tickets of tho coinpn piny. Ho brings tho present action under that section of tho Revised Statutes which provides that a person investing in lottery tickets can sue f r double tho amount und recover double thc costs. SAN EKANCISCO, October 13.-Thc rev enue cutter Colwin, which hos ju it return ed from a cruise in the Arctic Ocean iu scorch of tho Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette, reports that on St. Lawrcuoo Is land out of seven hundred inhabitants flvo hundred wore f.iund do td of starvation. Truders had introduced liquor among them, causing them to neglect laying up their usual supply of provisions. Tho officers of thc Corwin express their opinion that tho Jeanette wintered on tho Siberian shore and is now there West of North Cope. Thc Corwin could not get far onough West to verify this belief on account of thc ice. WORK ANO LIVE. -Man was put into thc we rid to work and cannot find tiue happi ness in remaining idle. So long as man hus vitality to sparc upon work it must bo used or it will become n source of grievous, liurassing discontent. Tho man will not know what to do with himself; and when ho has reached such a point tm that he is unconsciously digging a grave for himself and fashioning his own coffin. Lifo needs a steady channel to run in-regular habits of work and of sleep. It needs a steady, stimulating aim-a tondonoj towards some thing. An aimless lifo cannot bo happy or for a long period heul thy. Even if a man has achieved wealth sufiicient for his needs, ho frequently makes on error iu retiring from business. A greater shock cati hardly befall a man who has been active than that which he experiences when, having relin quished his pursuits, ho finds unused limo and unused vitality hanging upon his idlo hands and mind. Tho current of his lifo is thus thrown into eddies or settled i .to n sluggish pool, and ho begins to die. Whon tho fund of vitality sinks so low that ho can follow no labor without such a draft upon his forocs that sleep oannot restore them, then it will bo soon enough to stop work.