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STBIJB KKOWBE COI/ll I Git. BY KEITH, SMITH fie CO. W CV11A?,11?V, ie?. <o. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ?, 1881. .]|?3aXl.IVE<El3 ?d?" For subscription, $1 .CO per annum, ttrictlyin advance; for.six months, 75 cents. ISP* Advertisements inserted at one dollar per nouaro of one inch or lesa for the first insertion and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. t&jh Obituary Notices exceeding five lines TVibubes of Respect, Communications ef a per sonal character, when admlssable, and Announce ments of Candidates will be charged for as adver tlsemnts. fifSy? Job Printing neatly and cheaply executed VGB* Netessity compels us to adhere strictly. to the requirements of Cash Payments. Spacial Notice. Tboso wh? ?re Indebted to the K no wm: Cou - BUB for subscription, advertising, job work and by boto, are earnestly requested to como for ward end make immediato payment. Wo aro needing money and now is tho time to pay. We know that tho oropa aro short and those who cannot pay ia full can pay us part. The Lion Law This etatuto is hoing largely discassod throughout tho Stato by tho press and people, the opinions being various, though a ma* jority of tho prose, which is supposed to ro iled publio opinion, favors tho ropoal of tho law and regard its continuanco detrimental to tho forming interests. In a number of tho counties tho law is considorod a necessity, furnishing tho only and cheapest moans of oredit to a largo body of our population and whilo all admit its ovils and abusos, thoy claim it forces DO man to avail himself of it, leaving it optional to all to snood thoir pro ducts as they prefer. Thoro is much plausibility in tho idea, that to ropeal tho law affects tho absoluto rights of individuals by impairing thoir credit and denying them tho right to do OB they please with tho fruits of thoir labor, thereby forcing them to become tenants or laborers for wagon. Could not tho samo objection bo put up to a usury law? Why should tho Stato limit tho prico of money by legal en 'nctmcnt? lins not every man tho right to usc hie property to tho host advantage and get for its uso or biro any prico tho market affords? Could not tho samo bo said of | tl io homestead law? What right has tho Stato to say that a man shall not wnivo his right of homestead except by n solemn in strument, which is in effect a salo, thus de stroying his credit and subclituting a pre carious oredit iii its stead? Why should not a Ainu ho permitted to make and soil whis key, or at most, to rnako and uso it without hindrance by tho Stato? Tho loan of money fttbigh interest encoaraged speculation and impoverished the Stato, And so docs not tho lien law oncourogo extrivaganco and specu lation in farming causing too many to fail instead of prosper? Wo hnvo no personal interest or feeling in tho repeal or coutinu anco of the lien law. It is a question for tho farmers of tho Stnto and concerns their interests. Wo want what is best for all ?olas8os"dono, so that wo may becomo a pros perous people A correspondent of tho News and Courier, writing from Abbeville in opposition to tho ropoal of tho lien law, proposes to answer several questions suggested by objections presented to the law by tho farmers in oouncil at Greenville. Tho following is his first query: "Doos tho great number of lions filed or tho vast amount sccurod by thom provo tho necessity of the law, or doos it provo its worthlessness as a means ot credit?" Tho writor says: "What moro conclusivo evidonco could bo produced to show tho ne cessity and popularity of tho lion law than tho fact that over 67,000 small farmers avail themselves of its use?" And estimating Soven persons to ?ach lien, ho reasons that hoarly 500,900 human boings'(half our pop ulation) are dopondent on tho lion law for their daily support. If tho necessity or popularity of a law depondod on tho number Who availed themselves of it, tho liquor li? cense law would occupy thc front rank among statutes, for it draws its patrons from all classes and conditions. It may bo said that liquor is not an article of food, raiment or of nooeBsity in any sonso, but is injurious alike to tho moral or physical man. This wo admit, but wo believe if tho truo considera* lion of all tho lions givon in this Stato was known a largo proportion of it would bo ar ticles neither of food nor necessity, the purr chaso of which injured tho lion or by absorb ing all his earnings, and which, without tho opportunity t? purchase on credit, would have been dispensed with without injury or inconvenience. The necessity and popu larity of tho law proceeds from tho erroneous idea that wo cannot grow profitably our own provisions, and to this idea is traceablo tho greatest injury of tho law, causing our pooplo to look abroad for articles of neces sity. Can wo grow our bread and moat at home profitably? Before tho day of railroads wo did it and wo think wo could now. If up lands will not grow corn profitably th cy will wheat, oats, rye and barley, which aro am ple substitutes. In tho old country but little corn is grown, and tho samo is true in parts of tho United States. But proporly cultivated there aro enough lands in our Stato adapted to corn to supply our wants. Soon after tho war thousands of bushels woro shipped from Walhalla, while now largo quantities aro brought from abroad and sold in this market. A few years ago an old merchant of Greon tille told ?B ho shipped to that placo tho first tierce of canvassed hams over offered for sale thero, arid that ho used most of them himself, finding no market for their salo. Now thousands of pounds of hams, shouldor and sidos aro sold oven in tho upper counties of tho Stato. Somo say hogs dio with cholera, so il* is no longer profitablo to raiso thom. Drought ruins corn on uplands and wheat and oats aro so subjeot to rust that to sovr them is n risk. Does not hog cholera provail in thc North and West and do not thoy suffer moro sorious droughts ofton thur wo have horo, resulting in forest fires, de stroying all vegetation, and have not thc grasshoppers frequontly mndo thoir country a desert, destroying tho very bindoo and stalks of oom and whoa*? Thoy do not givo up, but plant again, and wo believe with tho yumo tilingo and fertilization given to cotton a failure of grain crops boro would bo ruro. We beard Mr. J. N. Iluffamn. an intelligent and practical farmor living bear Colombia, tay only two weeks ago that bo had never bcon forced to buy oom or nie it for family consumption in his long life, but had always .old a shiollamount. Ho also expressed tho opinion that our lands in oura would gene rally pay aboot as well as those of tho Weet por cor?, considering tho yield and price por bushel. Ho is not far wrong, for if lands thoro yiold two or tinco timon a? many bush els por obro, tho Farmer must sell it lor one (bird of what'coro bringa boro, putting tho profit per acre equal if not to our favor. At all events, fro should ?tiivo to ?row o'ur pro vision? at homo os far as practicable, .which, in offeot. would be making all wo need. The effect would bo an imm?diate advanoo in prosperity, ts the lion law responsible for tho folioro to do this or tho failure to diver sify our crops? The latter ufnours'o is the imme diate causo, tho former tho indiroot cause as wo think, and tho real question de to tho wiedomof tho Hob law is whether it has not produood thia state of things and wbethor 500,000 now dependent for support on its provisions have boen iuoroasiug or diminish ing from year to year for eixtcon years. It is plain if thoy havo boon increasing anim? ally that wo aro nearing tho limo when throe fourths df our peoplo will depend on tho law and when its ropoal will bo impracticable. Theso questions wo will speak of in a fur* thor issue Tho Walhalla Female College. Thia institution will open on Thursday, thc 8th of September, with flattering prospects. Dr. Smeltzer sineo tho close of tho last ses sion has secured thc services of Miss Prior* son. of Anderson, a lady of thorough qualifi cation and of experience in teaching as ono of his teachers iii tho collegiate dopurtraont, and of Miss Chapman, of Newberry, ns a teacher in tho primary departmont. These ladicB will bo acquisitions to thc town and will.add, from their reputation, to thd known merila and usefulness of tho colloge. Wo understand tho prospects of tho in stitution for scholars from a distance has iai> proved, Dr. Smoltzor having promise of about doublo tho number of hoarders over tho opening last year. Wo hopo thoso flattering prospects will improve and that, notwith standing tho short crop of this year, tho patronngo of the college will bo largoly in creased. No ono should weigh moucy against the educational interests of his children, but should make any sacrifi?e to im provo their minds. Its valuo is not to bc estimated in dollars, being a novcr failing supply ?ntimos of troublonnd difficulty, lt is money, com fort, morality, social elevation and all that beautifies and improves lifo. To tho mother, who moulds and shapes tho infant mind; to tho wife, who is to bo tho companion and ad viser of her husband; to tho daughter, who must encounter tho trials and difficulties of evory responsible duty; to society, which is tho safeguard of young and old; it is a jcwol ol pricolosa valuo. Lot all, then, who can possibly spero tho means send their daugh ters to this worthy institution and fit thom For the high duties of mother, wife, daughter ana society. lt is a good institution. Its course of iii" Btructiou is thorough and as ostensivo ns that of any female collogo in tho land. Its moral and general manngomont is unexcep tionable, tho venerable head of tho institu tion having spont thirty or moro years in tho walks of an instructor, both moral and re igious and intellectual, exemplifying in his long and useful lifo thoso practical virtuo? which adorn tho Christian tho scholar andj the gentleman. Our own townsmon know well and should lpprooiatc how much wo and our county owo ;o Dr. Smoltzor. Ho first sot in motion hero that spirit of progross, ever tho result of .ntcllcotual development, which has so rapidly promoted our moral and material growth. When ho carno hero with tho Newberry Col loge, a moro skoloton of a college, all know Ito built it up to a state of position and valuo by hie solo indefatigable energy. Whon it was taken from his hands and transferred to mother fiold, tho same spirit conceived, shaped and put in operation tho Fcmalo College. Poor in nil but loaming, energy iud Christian confidence; he put his bark on tho eco of fcmalo education, before that lim ited herc, and who is not proud of thc intel ligence and worth of his graduates boro and in other counties. This town and county owo him a debt of gratitude beyond estim?lo. Can wc neglect him or his institution? Is it net, nnd should it not bo, tho pride of our people? Let us thon ono and all givo our Jaughtors its advantages, not looking afar off for something viowod nearer, of less valuo than that to bo found at our doors. Wo wish him all success and feel that he do serves it. Adgor Collogo. The fifth collegiate year will begin about the middle of September. Tho prospect of a largo attendance is good. Prof. Kiley is almost daily in receipt of inquiries from nbroad. Tho drought, which is so doprcssivo lo thc financial interests of tho country, will doubtless turn (he attention of our people to thc placo where their Bons and wards can bo educated for thc least money. In this respect Adgor Collcgo invites comparison with any other Uko institution; and wo aro suro that the advantages and facilities for imparting a thorough liberal education aro not Bttrpassed by any, even of otir older colleges. I Albany (N. Y.) Daily Press and Knicker? booker.] AIIANUONED. Wo prccoivo by ono of our Massachusetts exchanges that Dr. Lorenzo Waite, of West field, an eminent physician of liorkshirc Co. strongly indorsos St. Jacobs Oil. Willi it ho cured a caso of Sciatica that resisted all rog ular professional treatment, and that had in fact boen abandoned ns incurable. A dooD SELECTION.-Mise Addio Tl. Hoi? ligrtworth, daughter of Capt. C, L. Hollings worth, of this placo, lins Loen olocted by tho Board of Trustees onO of tho teachers m tho Columbln Fomalo Collogo. Miss Addio is a first honor grad?alo of tho Wcsloyan Fcmalo College, and is in ovory way worthy and woll qualified to fill tho important position to which sho has been called. The collogo is cortainly fortunato iii scouring her sorvicos. -Pickata Sentinel. Hopo for tho Bluo Bidge. Like a olap of thunder from a clear sky Col. J. W. Fry, Superintendent of tho Columbia & Greenville Railroad, aooompa? nied by Col. Dunn, Chief Engineer of tho Clyde Company with assistants, esme to Walhalla lust Monday ot ? o'clock A. M. by apeoiol train. Tboy set to work thai day to surveying tho old route of tho Blue Ridge Railroad Company and tho survey is now being mddo with o viow of eomplotiug tho road, if in their estimate tho cost bo not too groot. Wo understand from good author ity that the company ootually intend to build tho road if tho cost bo roasooablo, oed this, too,* would bb our natural conclu sion, gathered from (lie sound judgment and business energy over displayed by this groat corporation. Tboy oame with no sounding of trumpets or cymbals, but quietly, and without loafing or gasing to any ono, set to work. This looks Uko business and is so different from all previous efforts that we talco heart from this faot. If completed this road will bo a grand thoroughfare and will help no little to develop a Heh oection of country abd onlargo activity throughout this State It is a tuftttor beyond local benefit, os such a trunk lino to tho coast finds no parallel in Ibo South in poiut of shortness, length and tho undeveloped rich ness of tho country it traverses. By ?ot? ting thc Charleston road, or what is better, by building n short lino from Ninety Six to Port Royal abd Charleston, tho road will pay better and belter for a century to como. Wo hopo tho ourvey will provo sotii-faotory os to oost and that what is now speculation will shortly becomo notual reality, and this much talked of lino bo built. Wo will give any information we obtoin hereafter, as no ono of us has boen able to sec and oonvcrso with tho authorities on thc inten tion of tho present movement. Provisions High. It is (o bc* regretted in a year of such general soarcity of orops in tho South, that corn, flour and ba^on, tho staff of lifo for mon and beast, should command higher prices than over before known in tho West, with no advonoing tendency. It is 60, nov* cr?beles?, and wo can (ind only contentment in thc bciiof that through tho resulting suffering our people may ?carn wisdom. It is un ill wind that blows good to no ono, and truly would it bo so now if our people fuil to sec in their present strait tho press ing importance of striving hereafter to depend moro ou homo farming for these indispensable articles. Corn in quantities is selling at ono dollar per bushel cash here, flour seven to ten dollars per barrel and bacon from twclvo to fifteen cents per pound. Wo doubt if it would not bo a Godscud to our people should theso arti cles hold at these Ggurcs for several years. Thc high price of cotton some years back and thc low price of corn, flour and meat turned tho attention of our people to plant ing cotton to thc exclusion of tho grains, Many actually believe now and openly con tend that wc cannot profitably grow those articles of prime necessity except on low lands. Even theso are badly prepared one worse cultivated by many, holding thc profil poor compensation for tho labor. This it all an error. Thc seasons have not chang?e on tho average year, and when necessity GO requires, cora and whoat, with roughneS: and stock, will again abound. Necessity can only drive people to try diversifi?e farming, and if the present stringency ii: breadstuff* effect this, it will, in tho cud work us moro good than hann. Hard Timos. Many beliovo Ibero will bo greater suffer ing for provisions in this Stato noXtyear thai in 184?. Tho drought has been so genera tho prico will bo high notwithstanding ou railroad connections, and in this Stato vor; little acrcogo has been given to tho cereal and tho y ?old por nero is small. Thc crop of corn and cotton, wo beliovo, will bo fount to bo less limn has been anticipated. Tak ing them at a half crop and tho fact that th supply on band must bc limited, all ina expect hard times. Tho prico of corn ranged in New iori Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis on th 27th of August bctweon G8 and 7- cents pc bushol. These aro figures ai which it ha been generally shipped hero by rail an they ind?calo scarcely. Tho following letter from Senator Brow to tho Atlanta Corni Hui ion will bo found ii tcroBting in ibis connection and should stiir ulato ovory man to husband his resources an turn everything to account: CAI. HOON, OA.< August 27.-Editors Coi slitutiom Tho crops in all this section m cut very short by the drouth. I havo latel been to Arkansas, and (hoy aro tho shortc I have ever peen all the way. Tho fall crop such as potatoes and turnipn, promiso voi little My opinion is that tho prospects f< provisions for man and beast for tho domic year arc less promising than any 1 havo ov< scon. In thia emorgoncy our peoplo shoo bo extrcmoly careful to savo everything th. will sustain life. There is now a very larj quantity of oom in tho Stato that has i ear. Tho tassel is dead or dyir -, and i amount of rain could causo it to moko cor Much of Ibo fodder Is still green and t ?tnlk is green. All obeli corn should bo o down immediately just bolow tho gre blades and after lying in tho sun a day or ti it should bo carefully shaoked and etal tied tightly around tho tops of t shocks. As soon ns tho stalks aro dry in t shook it should bo put undor sholtor. this way a vast quantity of good food I stock, which is now wasting, could bo savt ! It will bo greatly ncoded noxt wintor. I mulks should bo cut that aro not yet in tass a? in tho caso of good rains, they might ma com. Whoo it dnos rnin pooplo should e ..heavily of winter variotios of turnips. thoy du nut grow largo (hoy may muka halad. Your papor circu?alos cxtonsivcly and I trust you will warn tbopeoplo of their dangor and do all you oon to induce them to preparo for tho eevoro trial whioh awaita thom. I oxpcot to epond a fow doy? on my plantation, away from railroads and tolographs. JOS? Pit E. BROWN. Exhibition of Mr. ?Jolomau'a School PAIR PLAY, OOOSKK COUNTY, S. C., August 2G, 1881. MESSRS. ?intons: Tho closing exorcises of this Bohool carno off on tho 26'tli instant iu tho academy building, winch is located near Mr. Morgan Harbin's. Ttio exercises consisted of | speeches, dialogues and compositions. Thoro was also an examination in the afternoon of tho various classes. Prof. N. MoAulay and Mr. Wm. P. Calhoun were invited lo address tho school and thc community on the subject of education. Prof. MoAulay was unexpectedly called off on business of a pressing nalino and Mr. Calhoun hoing too unwell to mako an address prevailed upon Mr. BolemaO to tako his place; and Ihougb not present when ho spoko, I havo no doubt but that Mr. Bolouiau delivered a good address, as ho is a man that docs not do things by halves. Tho exercises as far as I heard them were creditable, lo both teacher and pupils. Tho pcoplo of that community havo beor? for years without a school, having to send to Townvillc. a distance of about, four milos. About two years tsino'o tho community deter mined to build them a school boure and they soon pul hp a blinding and employed Mr. Q. N. C. Dolcman to teach for (hom. Holli teacher ami patrons descrvo a great deal of praise for (heir zeal in tho causo ol education. Whore Micro was formerly chaos in tho mailor of schools Ibero is now a woll regulated school under a vory officient teacher. 1 havo boen informed (hat Mr. Boloman has had as high ns ninety pupils. When our people mako np (heir minds (0 havo schools and to employ good teachers and not depcud upon our farcical freo schools BO called tho county will bo greatly benefited and tho children will rcocivo their duos^ Oilier communities should do as tho community iu which Mr. Boloman (caches has done-employ good l< achers and run their schools (eu months instead of three, and then (ho children wiil receive proper instruction. They cannot bo properly (aught otherwise. Tho happy and smiling faces of Iho pupils especially pleased mc. They all seemed to outer into (heir work with hcarly good will. Mr. Uolcman and his school havo my best wished for thc futuro and hopo Ilia*, lilia will not be I li o last timo that I will have tho plctiBiiro of visiting Ibo Behool. There was a good crowd present and it was (rooted to a nico basket dinner. \Y. P, C. Fort Madison Items Ail tho building iola of thc original survey of Port Madison havo boen sold und som o of them havo doubled in valuo within thirty days. Eight housos aro now in course of construction ami tho demand fur lots is so great that an addition of ten acres will bo addod to tho original aroa of tho town. A committee has been appointed to lay out and build a sch aol homo, which will bo done at once Tho houso will bo a model ono and tho best in tho county. Capt. Grcono's great mill approaches com pletion. This will bo thc largest mill bo tweon Richmond and Atlanta, nnd will run n 52 inch, a GO inch and a 72 inch saw nnd will include much moro machinery for tho purposo of making barrol heading, box stuff, shuttlo?, sp wis und bobbin*, plow beams and handle-), shingles, ceiling, &o. Tho Tugaloo River was never known to bo so low. Tho corn along tho rivor bottom is good, but all othor crops in this vicinity aro mined by tho drought as clsowhcrc. Tho Richmond and Danvillo Road aro put ting in a new railroad bridge nor JSS the Tu galoo at (his point. Thc second span is al most completed. 0. Tho Freak at Prospority-leo Suro Enough in August* Wo received a postal card from Pros perity Saturday night stating that ico had formed there tho morning previous. In response to a telegram requesting particu lars thc following dispatch was sent us, too lato, however, for Sunday's issue-Colum bia Register. PROSPERITY, S. 0., August 28.-Ou Friday morning, August 26lh, ico was seen io a keg of water standing in front of W. S. Birgo's 8toro by sovcral of our citizens whoso integrity is undoubted. It created quito a sensation and has been tho (opio of conversation ever since Tho night was perfectly fuir and no rain or hail had fallen for several days. A. II. K. Is it possible that a remedy mntic of such common, simple plants as Hopa, Biichii, .Mandrake, Dandelion, &o., make SO many and such marvelous euros as Hop Bitters duT It musk bo, for when old nnd young, rich and poor, Pastor and Doctor, Lawyer and Editor, all testify to having been cured by them, wc must bolievo and doubt no longer.- Post. An application has been received by the superintendent of immigration ot Gustie Garden for 100 fumilies to work in Southern cotton factories, and Mr. Blanton Dunoan has filed an opplicitioo for a colony of fam ilies accustomed to farm work to nettle on a tract of lund in Texas. Thc superinten dent says it is impossible lo supply one-half tho mon, women, boys and girls that arc wanted on farms and in factories. Farm laborers oro paid 812 to 8l5 per month and "found," and from tho present outlook tho farmers will retain their hands all win ter. Fuctory hands oro paid 81 to 81 25 per day, with steady work tho year round. Railroad laborers aro in quick request ot 81.50 per day. CiiiCAao, August 27.-A groat Aro broko out last ovoning in tho paoking ostablirhmont of John C. Ilaioly, formorly known na Rio kor's, at tho Union stock yards. Pour mil lion pounds of bacon, fifteen thousand barr?le of pork and other miscellaneous stock woro destroyed, involving a loss of $1,000,000, On tho samo day, in tho same houso re? condy in Memphis, Tenn., n bouncing baby was born, nn ngod lady diod and a young coupla word mumed. The Gale eu the Goaet. CHARLESTON, August 20.-Throughout vos terduy nnd last night an Easterly galo along this const blow with furious foroe and tho soeno within tho harbor from noon until midnight, ns the beary son broke against tho battery eon wall throwing vast Shoots of spray forty feet high ovor tho city wator front, wan grand and terrible Thos. 0. LCHCSOO, n'gcd 23, a son of 'Ohnusellor L? eos no, was swept from'.tho battery ion wall by tho winds and drowned. Threo other deaths resulting from tho galo, thoso of two negro mon and a negro woman, aro to far reported. The damoge to proporty in tho Easterly part of tho city ia widespread, but not of a very serious character, consisting mainly of tho destruction of tin roofs, chimneys, fencing, signs and trees, and the tearing up of the plunking of tho wharves. Tho damago is roughly estimated at $100,000. At Sullivan's in tho soasido suburbs of Charleston, several cottages woro swept away and much other damago was done, amounting in all to about $40,000, but no lives wore lost os far ns is known. Tho Shipping in port had ample timo to proparo for tho gale, and sustained no damago. Tho steamers Oily of Atlanta, for Now York, and Calvert, for Baltimore, which woro to hnvosailod yesterday, remained hore. Tho stoamer G. W. Clydo arrivod from Now York this afternoon, having encountered a hurricane off Capo Foar without damago. Tho steamers Cleopatra, from Baltimore, and Equator, front Philadelphia, aro off the bar. AUGUSTA, August 20.-A t?rrido hurricane visited Savannah on Saturday night. Tho volooity of wind was about 80 milos nn hour. Early in tho evening tho signal service office was unroofed and tho instruments destroyed. A portion of tho Morning News oflico was blown off and tho building flooded. The city exchange was badly damaged. A number of firms on tho bay lost heavily. About fifty privalb dwellings woro moro or loss injured Tho sheds on tho now wharf of tho Baltimore steamship lino were blown ontiroly down. Several Hour and rico mills woro unroofed and their contents flooded. A largo portion of tho city was undor wator for sevorai hours. Tho Central railroad wharves wore badly damaged. Tho public parks woro denuded of porno of their fine?t troos and otherwise injured. Tho destruction of shade trees was vory great. Thc Gnorgin infirmary wus wrecked and tho patients barely escaped-a number being bruised by tho fallling bricks and plastering. The German brig ?Maria Louise, Captain Minke, hud her Stern badly smashed and her rudder, bowsprit and jibbootn broken, lier sides wcro also injured. Thc pilot boat Maid of the Mist collided with a schooner and sunk, and Several tug boats wcro injured. Steamer City of Bridpoton, had a bolo punched in her side A. houso wus swepc down the river and threo occupants, Mis. Stokes and her two children, were drowned. Mr. Stokes barely escaped. Engineer Itiohord Fitz gerald of tho stoamer II 13. Plant was drowned. Tho loss of lifo amuilg coloied people occupying little huhs on rico planta tions aud along tho river was very great On tho Ty bec island tho house of Henry Solomon was blowu down and tho ruins caught fire. Three persons perished. The family of David Bowens, colored, compris ing seven persons, drowned. A colored woman and her four children wcro washed away io their iiouso. All of tho people ot Shad island were drowned. At Fort Pu laski the officers' quurtcts were flooded. Thc telegraph iincs to Savannah arc all down, lt is opprchended that notwith standing thc wumings of tho approaching storm, somo vessels along tho coast havo suffered, aud news of tho disaster will bo received during thc week. Tho storm has been very severe aod pirticularly danger ous to vessels from tho faot that thc wind nh i ft uti frequently, blowing from tho North, Fust, Northeast, Northwest and West. At Bcuufort the waterhouse wharf was washed away, sloops were washed under tho bluff and thc streets filled with water. At tho Port Royal bridge tho connecting wharf willi tho colton compress woro washed away, and part of tho railroad traok was destroyed. Ten negro hands of tho Coosaw mining company, returning homo on Satur day night, went into the ferry house of Port Royal ferry, ten miles from town for protection. Tho house was washed awjy with all the men, who wcro drowned. This is tho only loss of life reported. Sev eral pilot boats und United States tugs were washed ashore. PORT ROYAL. A hurricane passed over hero on Satur day night. On account of the storm the ferryman could not convey passengers across the river. A number of persons were in ferry houses awaiting tho abatement of thc storm when tho house wns curried away by tho high tido. Seven bodies wero recovered to day. Tho number actually drowned is uncertain, os tho rumors conllot, ranging iu number from twenty to forty. Ono washer and one dredge of the Coosaw mining company in Coosaw river wcro lost. No lives were lost. There was considerable damago dono tho wharves and lighters of tho company. Tho estimated dnmngc lo individua! nnd railroad property is S2,000. Tho loss at Beaufort is estimated at $8, 000. Tho losis by (ho storm on the Georgia coast is estimated from $500,000 to $3,000,000. This includes thc damage to vessels and tho city of Savannah and towns on tho rivers nnd coast. PETERSBURG, VA.. August27.-This morn" ing Mr. Thomas G. Watkins, a young lawyer of this city, was arrested nu a warrant sworn out by the Kev. Iloraco Stringfellow boforo Judge E. M. Mann, charging that Mr. Wat? kins and Mr. Wavorly N. Kngland wcro about to ongago in a duel. Mr. Watkins was placod undor a bond of $2,000 to koop tho poace. Mr. Itaglnnd'e whereabouts aro not known. Tho hostilo correspondence rcsultod from an editorial puhlishod in tho Virginian, a Readjuster journal of this city, in which Mr. Watkins was characterized as a political coavongor, of which ohargo Rnglnnd admitted that ho was thc author. Roports from tho tobacco growing distriots in Ohio and Kentucky show a gonoral in* ! oroascd norengo, but tho plants aro suffering ! terribly from drought, and tho pro9pcots aro : that ibero will, hardly bo half tho avora"o LyivMi AUCTION EVERY UTMMTf, OP THU STOCK OF GOODS ASSIGNED TO> mo by A. I. I.KDKOUD for th'p bc nc lit of lils credit ory, until they aro all sold, at bis oM stand la Seneca City, S. C. TERMS CASH. I also offornl private salo his Store Homo lind DwelllHJf until Oolobor 1st, next, and If not previously sold I will, on tho last men tioned day, sell thc sahl Hcai Estate nt auction, TERMS-Ono third onsb. balanoo In ono year with interest from day of sale. .IOmw T. ?ANBEI.., Assignco and Agent of Creditors. Bcplembor 1, 1881 42-?t A ftugaloo Farm FOR SA fil]. ANY ono desiring to purohaso a good TUOA LOO FARM oanfind ono by applying lo the undersigned. It contains ninety nores of bottom and thirty of upland. Can bo bought on reasonable terms. Shunted nevon miles above Fort Madison and six milos from Toccoa, Qoorgia. Address or apply lo T. S. RAMSAY. Sop'onibcr 1, 1881 42-Dt A GOOD FARM FOR S-A-XJE, SITUATED and lyiug on Connoross Creek two-and-a-half miles above Walhalla, on tho publio road leading to Stump House Mountain, containing two hundred acres, thirty of which is gcod bottom land. It was a part of the farm formerly known as tho Wm. Grisham placo and afterwards bolonglng to Dr. Yarbrough, Apply to C. P. SE EBA. Walhalla, S. C. September 1, 1881 42-lf Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge NOTICE is hereby given that tho undersigned, administrator of tho csta'c of Moses Can trell, deceased, will make a final sotllomcnl of tho estato of said deceased in tho Probate Office at Walhalla, S. C., on Monday, tho 3d day of October next, and will od that day apply to Richard Lewis, Esq.. Jtidgo of Probato, for a final discharge ns administrator of said de ceased. Crbditors, distributees nnd nil othors claiming an interest in said estate will tako notice lo appear on that day with thoir claims. JOHN T. CANTRELL, Administrator. September 1, 1881 42 fit Notice to Creditors. James II. Ilullcdgo, Administrator Estate of L. il. Rutledge, Deceased, Plaintiff, against Parthonin Snead and others, Defendants COMPLAINT P?R IIBLIKF, kc. IPURSUANT to an order in tho abovo staled action by Hon. J. B. Kershaw, Presiding Judge. Ibo creditors of tho estate of Nanoy Rutledge, deccasod, are hereby notified to pro sont and provo their demands before rn? on or before Saturday, October l&t, 1881, or ho barred. lUC II A RD EE WIS, Master Oconoo County. Sepl ember 1, 1S81 42-?t CHOICE CANVASSED SUGARS, SYRUPS, ALL GRADES, GRITS Wc are receiving this wcok our FALL & WINTER STOCK OF ES, &Q D. BIEMJLNN, SON & COI