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Schumacher is never beat in buying and he always beats in selling. Thc man who grumbles at Schumacher's prices would grumble at twins-if ho had 'em. " Saved !" cried the buyer, clasping the dollar to his pocketbook. Ile was trading with Schumacher. " Money makes the mare go" lo Schumacher's. The farmer drives them to buy and save his ninney. Schumacher's store glitters with attrac tions and every one is a bargain. Ladies who don't want to appear in Print should see Schumacher's Dress Goods. The cool air isa gentle reminder that you need some Winter (Joods from Schumacher's. Never say dye to your old clothes, when you can get new goods so cheap at Schumacher's. M How very cheap ! How very choice !" the people arc ?ill crying. They praise Schumacher's goods with cheerful voice ?iud back it up by buying. Where is the man thal couldn't alford a new suit ? Send him to Schumacher's. The largest and best stock of 1 J?bbers ever eon is at Schumacher's. ll will make you feel wann jusl lo look at those Stoves at Schu macher's. VDU HIV mil nf Pocket every time you trade at any place but Schu macher ff a man can save a dime on every dollar he spends with Schumacher, how much does he loose when he goes to any other store and lays out his hard-earned cash? Pring your answer lo Schumacher's store. People searching for a comparison for something small say, " As small as Schumacher's prices." The pic nie season is not over, linyera are having a daily pic nie nt Schumacher's. For richness, variety, prettiness and profusion Schumacher's slock is ahead of all. Hardware al hard-up prices is what is drawing the people to Schu macher's. The man from Hogback says he'll bedinget! if he ever saw the like of Schumacher's slock. Those who scent bargains will find bargains in cents at Schumacher's. It is a notorious fact thal the only bargain store in town is Schu macher's. "That's thc Tiuket !" cried the man who saw the figures on Schu macher's price tickets. Contented people are rich. According to that thc richest people ?ire those who trade willi Schumacher. .links says he and his wile differ on ?ill but one question, and that is, Schumacher sells goods cheaper than anybody in (own. If you Witnl lo buy goods cheap call on yours, truly, OTTO H. SCHUMACHER, Charleston House, WAI.HALLA, S. C. 0 ?jp"' Goods Packe?! and Delivered I*'ree. October SM, issn. TEACHER'S COLUMN. d^jr" AU communications intended for this column should bo addressed to S. 1*. Stribling, School Commis sioner, Walhalla, S. C. Our next visit linds us at Ttigaloo school, in Tugaloo Township, taught by Mr. A. 1*. Johns, a son of S. II. Johns, Ksq., of Bachelors Retreat. Mr. Johns is a self-made man. This community has quite a number of children in her bounds and needs the services ot just such ii luau as Mr. Johns, full of energy, perseverance and kindness. The teacher told us that the children were easily man aged, and that they generally recited well, and that they seemed interested in their studies. Those questions answered aflinnatively, the conclu sion, that progress i: their watch word, is almost inevitable. The citizens of thal community deserve a good school located permanently in their midst. Their academy, with a little repairs, may be made com fortable. All school houses should bc supplied with black-boards, large enough to employ a class of 12 to '20 pupils at once. It will greatly facilitate thc teacher's work and ren der his instructions in nell more thorough. The next point in mir visits is the "Rocky Ridge" school, in Tugaloo Township, under thc tutorage of Miss R. O. Walker, a daughter of O. I. Walker, favorably known to many of our citizens. .Miss Walker's school was composed of about twen ty pupils, all of whom, though in a small cabin and very uncomfortable in all ?ls appointments, were, or seemed to bc, very intent on theil engagements. We examined sonic specimens in ch i rog ra j ?li y which re flected not a little credit on the teacher. The children were very obedient to the teacher, who seemed to have a quiet, controlling intiu once. Wc have often thought that a lady teacher who possesses this gift was more successful than a male teacher in governing a school. It is not necessary that the teacher hold th?' rod in his hand all the time. The determination is thc important ele ment. S. 1'. STIMUI.INI;. Progress of the Mexican Trade. The Mexican Economist, the best authority on Mexican finances and statistics, gives some facts and figures regarding the condition of trade bc tween Mexico and the Knited States which arc regarded as rather start ling, and which differ materially from those given out at Washington. It snys that in the fiscal year 1SS7 HS the value of thc exports from tin United States to Mexico was in American coin ?19,2<?l,()?f>, and that the value of exports from Mexico to the United States during the same period was ?28,294,000. These ligures arc regarded as the most ac curate that have ever been obtained, and show that exports from tin United States to Mexico are several millions larger than heretofore stated by either Mexican or United States authority. --?.? ClllC'ACO, October 22.-A coin pletc jury was secured in thc Cronin case late this afternoon. When this work had been finished the State's attorney asked for an adjournment for two days, in order to give tlu prosecution time to make out a plan for the presentation of the case Thc defense objected ami Judge Mi Connell compromised by adjourning the hearing until Thursday morning Thc impannclltng of thc jury com ineneed August Ith. Allowing foi thc time occupied by thc court i the drainage commission and thc ad journment asked for by tho State' attorney, seven weeks have been ot copied in getting a jury. One thou sand and ninety-one jurors hav been summoned of whom 027 havi been excused by counsellor cause In addition to the 1,091 special venire men summoned there wer also twenty-four on the regular pam disposed of. Oie hundred and seventy-five peremptory ohallengi have been used, (d' which thc dofensi has used ninety-seven. At the time the jury v s sworm in I higgs, a dc fendant, had three peremptory ebal longos left and thc State twenty-two Company never disturbs mo. If rich people come to sec me, I know they have good enough ni bonn If poor people conic, I know I ha\ as good as they have. . Quarrels would never last long the 1 rouble was only on one side. HILL'S SPEECH IN FULL. S'ew York's (iovonior to tho People of the South. Tho following is the concluding ?ortion of Governor Hill's Brooch, lelivored nt the Atlnntii Exposition >n Wednesday, lGth instant : I nm glad that you have given me .his opportunity to see the South mder its new conditions- to see for nyself what you have Accomplished n this struggle of twenty-live years -to fool thc spirit of progress which las been breathed into this new land >f liberty, and to carry back, per iaps, a broader idea of oi|r common nterests. I was glad that in this xposition, wherein are collected the ?est products of thc industries of ix vigorous States, I am able in the ?rief time I am to be with you to ;et a comprehensive idea of what he whole South is doing. lt is my good fortune lo become cquainted with the New South in a Stato which, though one of the old st of the Old South, is one of thc lost progressive of tho New ; in a egion which received the severest ?light of war, but which shows now he greatest degree of revivification ; a the city which represents the re ovored energy, proud spirit, wealth, ntolligonce, honor and vigor of the ejuvenated land. When I reflect upon thc scones yllich took place in this vicinity inly twenty-five years ago ; when 1 eflect upon thc desolation which ollowed Sherman's famous march to he sea, and think of thc discournge nent, poverty, distress, broken icarts and broken spirits, which he oft behind, and then look about me ipon these sc?nes of prosperity, his re-buildcd city, these flourishing ndtistries and this hopeful people, I marvel at the transformation. The corld has known nothing like it. In the long list of wars on the >agC8 of history none tells a story of neb wonderful recuperation. No ietory of battle was ever so great 18 this victory o? peace. As a Northerner old eno'Jgh to have ob en ed the tendency of the ante iclluin South, 1 am amazed ; as an Vmeriean citizen, proud of my coun ty's institutions and form of gov irnment, I am rejoiced. When Sherman's persistent anny inarched nto old Atlanta he sent this nios age to the North, stirring every icart which read it with a glad feei ng of patriotism, and giving assur mce that the terrible war was ncar ng its end : "Atlanta is ours and airly won." What better word can 'on send to your countrymen in thc North, citizens of Georgia, in this wenty-fifth year of your new mc ropolis, than this same message of neouragement which Sherman rrote : "Atlanta is ours and fairly von," won by your indomitable pcr evcranco and by the exhibition of [iialities which challenge the adtnira ion of the world, Thc South's prosperity is an allur ng theme. When I sec what thc South has accomplished under cir cumstances so adverse, and realize hat even now, strong as she is in imb and body, she is but a child, ?till in thc stages of development owards thc highest civilization, I un optimist enough to feel confident hat she will meet present conditions is she has met past conditions, that ?he will surmount the obstacles bo oro her now ami in thc future as ?ho bas in the past, and that .she will lot rest in her progress upward and lownward until she lins attained the nil statue of Statehood; but while iXpl'CSsing this confidence, I would lot have you understand mo as depre dating present dangers oras hold ing tho obstacles which now con rout you. I do not need lo tell you what hey are, bul ? can warn you, lest in .our flusli, of success ami prosperity ?on do forget them. Some of them ire less formidable, doubtless, than ve of the North imagine ; some of bein aro local to your conditions, ind have not been contended with Isewhcre, and some of them you mist join hands with us in overcom ng-for they threaten us as well as .on. G-oat problems will have to be grappled with, and thc North is Witching to see how you will sol VC hem--watching, perhaps, with a ittle too much of thc Pharisee's onccit, impatient at times because hey ari' not solved m o rv readily, >ut watching, nevertheless, with lalriotic anxiety and fraternal inter est, realizing that upon your solution ?f them depends the prosperity of mr united country, and to a large extent thc BUCCOSB of our free insti tulioiiB. Ono of thcBc problems und tlie one, probably, which IUXB most inter ested the North, is tho education of the masses. The worst foe to our Democratic forms of government is ignorance. In meeting and disarm ing it you have no easy task. It is a startling fact, indeed, which was revealed by thc census of 1880 that in some of your States half tho population could not read or write. The census of 1890 will make a bet ter showing I am sure. Awakened interest in educational malien*, no ticeably in many States, is certainly a good augury. Wo have not for gotten in thc North that upon you was placed, when tho war ended, tho responsibility of instructing four million freedmen in the duties of citizenship ; but we do some times overlook the fact that in your land the system of common schools, which we regard as one of our most substantial institutions, is even now only in its infancy. We are not un mindful of the prejudice which you must combat to establish them sparsity of population and the ex pense of providing separate schools for whites and blacks. Hut we are proud that in spite of such obstacles, school houses aro dotting your fields and ornamenting your towns, and we trust that with the greater aggregation of wealth may conic the wider diffusion of learning. Your city, foremost in all that pertains to the South's welfare, has made most commendable strides in this direction, and no small part of her glory is reflected from those beautiful halls of study where Geor gia's youth are educated. In the field of industrial enterprise you have great opportunities ; your resources are inexhaustible, see that they aro not monopolized. Von have a century of industrial progress in the North to study and profit by ; avoid our mistakes. Discourage such legislation as tends to enrich the classes at the expense of the masses. Diversity your industries so that your invested capital may bc moro permanently remunerative and pro duction may not be overdone by the pursuit of narrow lines of enterprise. It is within your power to do much towards securing suitable relations between employees and employed. Thus far you have been particularly fortunate in avoiding disartrous la bor agitations. Your workingmen have been reasonably content, but it has been largely due to thc quality of your labor and the nature of youl industries. When there shall be col lected in your manufacturing cition large bodies of workingmen ; when rivalry for employment and good wages shall have become keener you will have to meet serious ques tions, and if you would take warn ing from thc North's experience you will prepare to meet them now Your employers must realize what yours have been slow to realize, thal one man's rights are thc rights o another and that that policy is th? best in business enterprise, as else where, which is founded upon tba fundamental principle of human con duct-to do unto others as you wouh have them do unto you. Let thc benefits of your prospcrit; bc enjoyed-not by the few wh< would usc them for their own selfisl cuds, but encourage that broad, hu man charity which looks to the great est goo?l of the greatest numboi remembering that that state of so eiety is the highest in which intclli gence and wealth are must cquall divided. Von have within your bordei vast numbers of an unfortunate an long-oppressed ?ace. Left Budden] by the result of war to their ow resources, uneducated, superstition and helpless, but patient,, docile an ambitious, it is your interest, as it i your duty, to lift them out of th state in which fate has placed thci and help them to assume the rcspor sibilities ?>f citizenship. You hav an enormous labor class-black an white-thc mass of them not y( sufficiently stirred by thc spirit c progress to be conscious of their ow interests and their own power ; thc will not always remain so. You ca do a great deal to avert the clasbin of interests by wisc legislation, b proper regan! for thc sanitary lav, in your cities, by the establishmei of institutions to encourage saving by tim erection of comfortab homes, by economy in public, c: penditures and in private lifo. The experience of the last twent years has proved lo you tho ad vat tage of free labor, Most of you wi {rcnmmhiw predictions y? yoi statesmen before the war, that with out slaves the South could not pro fitably produce cotton, yet with free labor you have raised moro cotton in ten years than you raised in twenty years before Sumter was fired on, notwithstanding that only a part of your population bas been engaged in this industry, and that in the meantime your manufacturing cen tres havo become formidable rivals of the North. I believe that the South is to play a great part in working out tho des tiny of our re-united nation. In her courage, in hoi hopefulness, sn her integrity, in her loyalty, in her enthusiasm, in the public spirit of her statesmen, in their faithful adherence to political conviction ( and in their deep sense of duty to j publie trusts, I behold the qualities | which will preserve intact the theory j of our governmental system, j strengthen our institution and re- | bound to the glory and prosperity i of our country. , It is sometimes said in the North < that the South is solid. So it is- , Bolid for good government, solid for , integrity in private and official life, [ solid in its opposition to the paterna] \ administration of public affairs, solid j against Congressional extravagance, j solid in its renunciation of the errors f u? ibu past, solid for American ideas, , solid in its aspirations for higher civi- ( libation and solid for all that would . make us a prosperous and powerful ) republic. Of such a solidity I am not afraid. I sec no dangers in such unity ns springs from the noblest motives and subserves the most ex alted patriotism. .-?.?*- - - First Impressions in thc South. Mr. A. S. Welch, of New Haven, I Conn., who has come lo Walhalla to < spend the winter, writes to the Camp < News, published in Philadelphia, of I his first impressions in the South. 1 I Ie says : i "I have been in the South for 1 about three weecks and will ondea- J vor to interest the readers of the i News by giving my tirst impressions of the Sunny South. You can form < no idea of the South until after you I leave Washington. In Virginia wo 1 noticed for the first time the log < houses used by the negroes, but by 1 the time North Carolina was reached i these bad nearly disappeared, as they . seemed to be a part of the Old Do- < minion. Danville, Va., is a meal I station, and after a hurried lunch I ' bad a chance to see something of this town which has figured largely < in the political campaigns of Vir- I ginia. It is a quiet, unpretentious 1 town, and it would strike a new I comer as a matter of some difficulty ] to arouse much excitement there. ? Corn and tobacco were the seeming ! staples, and no cotton was seen until I nearing South Carolina. One pecu liarity of the Southern railroad car is the fact that in every seat is a papier-mache spittoon, which finds many patronizers, and is used as a receptacle for everything of no use to the passenger. "After getting into South Carolina one Southern custom was noticed that affords many editorials and ad verse criticisms in the Northern pa pers, thc custom of obliging the col ored people to ride in the smoking car. "All through Virginia and North Carolina the car I rode in bad many colored passengers, but none were seen in South Carolina, although no change of cars was effected after leaving Washington. At the sta tions in South Carolina you would notice the signs "Ladle's lioom," and "Colored Waiting I loom," which of course means one for thc white and one for the colored. There is a re markable lack of toilet accommoda tions at all the stations, but this in a measure is made up by thc more re markable attention of the conductor and brakemen to the wants of the passengers on the train. The con ductor remembers the destination of every lady passenger who is in any way hampered by bundles or chil dren, and in every instance as thc train nears the station, the conduc tor comes forward, often with thc brakemen as well, and notifies the passenger or passengers and carries bundles, gripsacks and children to the platform, and the further South one travels the more these courtesies in crease. "Walhalla was reaohod Friday? A. M., September Otb, in time for dinner, and it may he of interest to noto somo things ono sees at every meal of thoir stay at any Southern hotel-friod chicken and rice or hom iny. Thc two latter aro eaten as KEOWEE COURIER, [WKBKI.Y,] -KHTAUMSIIRD AT-* Old Pickens in 1840, -MOVKD TO- y Walhalla in 1868. Destroyed by Fire June 21st, 1887. Re-Established August H 1887. vogotnbles and never as a dcBSorl, and robbed of many of thc nico ways tho people of tho North havo of preparing rico at least. Both aro soon a tircBomo dish. Fried chicken, young and tender, is something of a treat at thc North, but whoa I stato tho fact that spring chiokons aro sold boro from ten to twenty cents oaoh and never bought bjr weight, you will seo they are moro' likely to bo a drug on the makct instead of a lux ury. By tho way, they aro never sold in tho markets And if you buy them you must purchase them alive of the farmers and mountaineers who bring them in every day to soil to the hotels and town pooplo. "There is one strange custom hero that is wholly unexplainable and ilso confusing. Thero is no after noon. After 12 o'clock it is ovon ng, and you must say "good eve ling" to those you meet at two or bree o'clock in thc afternoon. If you arc invited lo spend an evening with a friend it means afternoon and .ea, and the word night or the hour .equired must bo stated if you do 10t wish embarrassing situations to 'ollow. I have a number of interest ng anecdotes about Southern hospi tality, the schools, thc colored peo ple, also some idea of the cotton ields, vineyards, climate and scenery iVhioh i will reserve for future arii iles and will close this hy saying I un well pleased with tho South und 1er people." WALHALLA, S. C., September 3. The Origin of Lynch Law. [Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch.] 1 have seen ii brief article, copied 'rom your columns, about the origin >f lynch law. In the article, Colonel Charles Lynch, of Virginia, is mcn .ioncd as the person from whom this 'law" (?) took its name. The truth s, that it as probably as hard to tell iv ho was the founder of lynch law is to tell "who struck Billy Patter son." Appleton's Cyclopedia says, "Ac cording to some authorities, tho Lorin was derived from a Virginia farmer ?amad Lynch, who having caught a thief, instead of delivering lim to thc law, tied him to a tree ind flogged him with bis own hands." Another account says that "in 1G87-8 me Lynch wits sent to America to suppress piracy, but as thc laws ivoro not administered with much vigor in thc colonies, owing to the lifhculty of adhering to the usual forms of law in the newly estab ished territories, it is presumed that Lhis Judge Lynch was empowered to proceed summarily against pirates, md thus gave risc to thc term." Still another account, which seems to rest on no good authority, con nects thc term with Vr. Lynch, the founder of Lynchburg, Va. But it san he traced to a much earlier date in Ireland. In 1498 James Fitzste phens Lynch was Mayor and War ien of (Jalway. Ho traded largely Lo Spain, and sent his son thither to purchase a cargo of wine. Tho young man .squandered the money entrusted to bim for this purpose, but succeeded ill running in debt for i cargo to a Spaniard, by wdiose ne phew ho was accompanied on thc re turn voyage to Ireland, where tho money was to bc paid. Young Lynch, to conceal his defalcation, caused tim Spaniard lo bc thrown overboard, and was received at home with great honor, as having conducted a most successful business operation. But n sailor on his death bed revealed to thc Mayor of Gal way the crime which bis son had committed. The young man was tried before his own father, convict ed and sentenced to he banged. His family and o thc rt* undcrtood to pre vent thc execution; and the father, finding that the sentence could not be carried into effect in tho usu,1^ way, conducted bis son up a "binding stairway to a window overlooking the public street, wiLl> l ?? own hAUfa fastened tho halter; attached to his uer' to a staple 5.,, tho wall, and net ed exceuticmor. iVCCOrdWig to the above lynch law is nearly foMir contin?es old. There is yet another account of tho origi nal Lynch. In the sketch of the old Pendleton District, contained in Robert Mills' interesting "Statistics of South Carolina," (published in 1820,) wo road tho following: "At tho foot of the mountains resides Captain John Lynch, the author of the famous law called by his name, of very notablo offect." MCDONALD PUI?MAN, l?nmsoy, S. C,