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KEOWEE COURIER. .PUBLISHED ETEKY THUXSDAY MOKXIXG. K. A.. THOMPSON-. D. A. SMITH. F.. T. JA YNES. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JA YNES. TERMS: For subscription, $1.50 per annum, strictly in advance; for six months, 75 cents; for four months. 50 cents. Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square of one inch or less for the first insertion and tifty ceuts for each sul> Sequent insertion. Obituary Notices exceeding five lines. Tributes of Respect, Communications ol a personal chara ter, when unmissable, and Announcements of Candidates will be charged foi as advertisements. Job Printing ueatlv and cheaply execu ted. Necessity compels us to adhere strictly to the requirements of Cash Payments. WALHALLA, S. C. : THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1893. President Cleveland is in a state of siege by office-seekers. The Australian ballot law has been enacted by the Kansas Legislature. The law is being tried in many other parts of our country. Gov. Tillman bas granted Lavelle, the Charleston wife murderer, a respite for thirty days, to give time for further in vestigation. Tiie highest salary drawn by a diplo mat is that of M. Waddington, the French ambassador to London. His salary is $60,000 a year, besides which he has a large private income. Tho Senators ami Representatives from the State of Alabama have adopted a ulan for filling the Federal offices in that State. Some such plan might be adopted for South Carolina. The State has entered suit against the city of Columbia for taxes said to be due ou the city hall of that place. The amount in dispute is $1,3!)1.34, simple taxes, and 15 per cent penalty. Senator Irby says he was not asked to sign the Senatorial recommendation to the President for the appointment ol (Jen. Hampton to the position <>f govern ment director of one of the Pacific rail roads at a high salary. A most atrocious murder was commit ted at Lincoln ville, S; c.. last week. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Tweithmann. Their terribly mutilated bodies were afterwards found in Mr. TeithmantTs store by citizens whose suspicions' were aroused. Oscar .Johnsen, lire suspected murderer^ ha_s_ since- been captured. It ? >/is been ascertained that he has com mittee, several other murders. Ex-Secretary Rusk said to a Washing- J ton reporter: "Yes. I will g.? back on my farm in Western Winconsin, and resume just where I left off four years ago. I follow farming not for any sentiment or pastime, but to make it nay, and so I shall start to raising hay and grass and breeding sw ine and cattle as of old. Rut I shad always look back with intense sat isfaction to my four years official life, for on tiie whole the time has been spent pleasantly and profitably."' The cotton plant?is of Arkansas, in convention assembled, say: Resolutions wei?- adopted urging a reduction vi acreage fr?.m that of last year, and also advocating greater diversity of crops. The following was also adopted: Re solved, That as the planters of Ai kansas recognize New Orleans as their natural market and the only cotton contract mar ket in the South, we appeal to the Ex changes in that city to change their rules to conform with the rules governing the great grain and provision markets of the countrv. S<>me days agoapartyof revenueoffi C'-rs from Georgia passed through Wal halla with a number of prisoners. The Atlanta Constitution, refelling to the fact, says: ''The charge of conspiracy is very likely to be madeagaiust three reve nue prisoners now in Fulton county jail: .Jasper Johnson, .1. M. Johnson ami Charles Ridley. All three of the men are from Kaban county, that nest of il licit distilleries, and they live within a stone's throw of where the State lines ot Georgia, North Carolina and South Caro lina join and lose themselves in the mountain wilderness of that section." A serious accident occurred to Ers kine's new college building, at Due West, hist Friday evening. A loud crash was heard about dark by the people in the vicinity. On going to the college it was found that a considerable portion ?if the building, including the auditorium ami gymnasiam, was in ruins. It is supposed that the disaster resulted from the ex cessive weight of a brick firewall that the pillars supported above. If the erasa had comean hour or two earlier the painters and workmen, who had ftist left, might have been buried in the ruins. The lo? is estimated at 85.000. A dispatch fr??m New Turk says: The State of South Carolina has effected arrangements through the Baltimore Trust Company with a syndicate of New York, baltimore and Richmond capital ists for placing its new loan ol $5,250,000, which is to run forty years and bear -44 per cent interest. In January "he syndi cate took $2.000,000 of the bonds, which gave it an option on the remainder of the issue up to April 1. R A. Lancaster & Co.. of New York, representatives of the Syndicate there, say that the option was exercised recently. It was charged at one time that Gov. Tillman could not refund the public debt of this State, but this charge, ?ike many others, falls to the ground. Atlanta Constitution : ''Mr. Carlisle was opposed to the nomination of Mr/Cleve land simply because he thought that his nomination would defeat the party as if had defeated it in ISss. Thousands of Democrats ?hared this belief and acted accordingly, and, though they may have formed an 'inconsiderable element,' they were, and are, as earnest and as si: cere in their Democracy as th <se who had a larger" confidence in the ability of Mr. Cleveland to carry the eo intry. No one was quicker to recognize this fact than Mr. Cleveland, andi one o his first utter ances after his election was to the effect that he had no grudg - against those who had seen proper to oppose his nomi nation. The first appointment he announced was that of Mr. Carlisle, who had opposed him. A smaller man than Mr. Cleveland might undertake to dis pl?.y prejudice against those who thought that.his nomination /might not be the best thing for the party to do. A nar row-minded- man would not hesitate to display his littleness, but Mr. Cleveland has not only refused to make such a dis play-be has gone to the extreme of magnanimity, and- has apparently for gottes*r'-at any DemqBJats opposed his nomination," FROM WASHINGTON. The Turmoil of Politics. WASHINGTON, March 9.-Representa tive Springer, of Illinois, who was one of the President's callers to-day, asked him if the rule of not appointing men who had held office under him four years ago was to prevail, as reported. The Presi dent replied in the affirmative, and when asked if the rule was inflexible, Mr. Cleveland responded that it would be so substantially. Thore might be excep tional and extraordinary circumstances which might cause some departures from it, but he could not call to mind many possibilities to justify the change from the policy decided upon. Mr. Springer asked if the rule was also to apply to fourth-class postmasters. Mr. Cleveland's response was that he. had not thought about that, but he gave the ! decided impression that it would I prevail to as great an extent as possible to these small postmasterships. WASHINGTON, March 10.-Senators and Representatives who called on President ( Cleveland this morning received confirma tory evidence of the report that Cleve land does not intend to give offices to ri? se who had been favored under the previous Democratic administration. Ex-Representative Ilemphill, of South j Carolina, called expressly for the pur pose of ascertaining whether thc report was true and received an affirmative answer from Cleveland. It is likely, of course, that exceptions will be made in rare instances, and one of these is said to be that of Judge Goode, of Virginia, who was nominated for Solicitor Gene ral, but failed of confirmation by the Senate. He cannot, therefore, be con sidered from a technical point of view to I have held office under Cleveland. WASHINGTON, March 1". - Secretary Carlisle has received offers from Chicago bankers to exchange S3,000,000 gold for a j 'ike amount of small treasury notes of ! denominations of fives, tens and twenties, i Intimations are made that the amount of j small notes that will be needed will reach $10,000,000. He will forward the small notes at once. This demand for small notes is explained by the fact that with the optningof the weather cattle and main are beginning to be moved. A slight demand is also being felt further ; West, and it is anticipated that th? j demand for small notes, fer which gold will he paid, will continue to increase. So far as the Treasury Department is advised no gold is engaged at 2>cw Yoi k sul>-treasury fo: shipment to-mor j row. WASHINGTON, March io.-"It is per-: fectly cor:cet:. I am very much opposed I to the reappointment of ex-office-hold ers," said President Cleveland this morn ing toa member of Congress, who went to the White House to ascertain definitely what would be the President's policy, ami whether the several rules which have been officially announced on this ! ( and kindred subjects were to be inviola- ; hie and iron-clad. "I will say, however," I 1 continued Mr. Clcvelai d, "that my deter- j mutation of this point will not necessarily j apply to certain gentlemen who are now applicants for positions which they have filled before with exceptional ability. 1 have one or two such instances in my ? mind where 1 think it might be for the 1 gond of the public service to have the 1 former incumbents reappointed, ami while I have not definitely made up my mind even in these cases, it is probable that there will be several exceptions made in the Executive departments in ; this city ami throughout the country, j Von know there are few rules without their exceptions." The Congressman to whom Mr. , Cleveland made these remarks inquired further about tie policy tobe followed with regard to the retention of the Repub lican ofiice-holdcis until the expiration of their t'.m. Mr. Cleveland said that this rule would be followed-generally, but in those cases . where Democratic ?-.'lice holders bad been removed by Mr. Harrison before the expiration of their terms, the same treatment would bc ' accorded to the Republican incumbents. The question of the action to be taken by Mr. ( cleveland in connection w ith those offices which were placed under the civil service ? ales by Mr. Harrison, atter be had been defeated tor re-election, was also broached. It will be remembered that this admission of the civil service rule included all free delivery post offices. ' Mr. Cleveland's attention was called to the fact that in many cases, and especi ally in districts w here margm, w ere close and parly feeling high, these offices were tilled by Republican politicians and work ers, who were kept in place by Mr. Har rison's belated reform. Mr. Cleveland was asked what he would do in cases ol this sort. In reply he said simply: "I will take that matter under considera;iou when those offices are reached." From Mr. Cleveland's manner, however, the inquiring Congressman got the impres sion that when that time came his Demo cratic constituents would have little rea son to complain. Mr. Cleveland also ; told this gentleman that he expected to tili the more important positions in the departments and in the foreign service) as rapidly as possible. Ex-Representative Ilemphill. of South Carolina, who came in later with similar inquiries with regard to Mr. Cleveland's policy, received practically the same answers to his questions as those which are recorded above. There is a general exodus of office seekers from Washington in view of the direct statement from the President that he does not propose to recognize the ' claims of persons who held office under his former administration. The mur-j murings ot the disconsolate place-hunter are loud, deep and in some instances piti ful. WASHINGTON. March H.-A Mugwump ? Congressman from New York made some j startling statements to the Augusta Chronicle representative this morning. ; His disappointment at not being able to Control ceitain patronage in his State; ?.lom pt ed him to divulge what would : otherwise have remained a secret until the proper time had arrived for the scheme to have been carried out. It is a j fact that Cleveland will oppose Crisp, j and it is also a fact that the Xew York | Congressmen will vote for au anti-silver I candidate. Richard Croker is said to j have arranged the combination in order | to save Tam-nany Hall. The first ste]? ; was taken a few ?lays ago when Congress- j man Reckwell. Senator Hill's personal j representative, visited the White House, i As :: result of this interview Senator Hil! called on Mr. Cleveland yesterday and spent nearly half an hour in earnest con sultation with the President. Wlieu he left, as well as when he entered. Mr. Hill never looked happier or in better j spirits in his life. Newspaper men have j vainly endeavored to ascertain from him what passed between the Presideut, and i himself, but ail their efforts have been j futile. But here is the whole substance i of the conversation, if a Congressman's i word is worth anything: Murphy and Hill are to control the Federal patronage of New York city and largely of the State, and in return for this recognition from Cleveland the Tammany Congress men are to support Mr. Cleveland's can didate for Speaker, either Wilson or McMillan, against Crisp. While such a 1 course would hardly benefit Senator Hill, it appears that he had no alternative, and in order to still be master of Tammany be was forced to enter the combination : upon the terms stated. If this is true, '? and circumstances point that way, the ' great deal will create a furor all over the country. "Senator Irby will be chairman of one of the important Senate committees," said Arthur P. Gorman to the Chronicle representative to-night. This news, which reaches the public for the first time, and exclusively through the columns of the Chronicle, will be very gratifying to Sen rtor Irby's friends in Georgia and South Carolina. He had a long talk with Mr. Gorman this morning, and took occasion to use some able-bodied English. He had learned, and correctly, that a bitter per sonal fight was being waged by his ene mies, both in Washington and at home, against his appointment to one of the chairmanships, and proceeded forthwith to Mr. Gorman, chairman of the Senate reorganization committee, for informa tion, as well as to state his side of the matter, which he did in language classic and graceful. Senator Irby talked but-a few minutes before Senator Gorman frankly said : "Mr. Irby, no matter what opposition may be hurled against you, it is a settled fact that you will be chairman of an import ant committee." Senator Gorman and Senator Irby have been quite intimate, if not cordial, since the latter entered the Senate, and it is due probably to Mr. Gorman more than anybody else that the young Carolinian is to be so prominently recognized. Senator Irby called at the White House ! to-day at 12 o'clock and was in conierence | with tlie President for mole th n half an j hour. He declined to state the purpose ; or purport of interview, but with his usual smile said: "Our friends, the enemy, in South Carolina w ill have some thing revealed to them in a short time that will surprise them." Sc it is a fact certain that the Carolina patronage will be divided equally between the two fac tions. Incidentally it can be stated that, although the impression is current that Ben Perry, of Greenville, is to be Collec tor for South Carolina, he will not receive the appointment. This information is j from an unusually high source and tho-1 roughly reliable. The leaders of the South Carolina j reform movement that assembled in Washington during the inangaration seemed to have had more important biisi ness than sight-seeing. The rank and file of the reform movement in the State j have, to all appearances, been satisfied with the leadership of Tillman and Irby, hut not so with ..onie of the lieutenants. One of ?he State officials announced to a ! supposed enemy of Gov. Tillman and j Senator Irby that the following combina tion Imd been agreed upon: Congressman Shell, win? signed the prepared manifesto ; in 1S90, and who all at once recently ! became so disgusted witli the politics and politicians that he had himself inter- ! viewed, announcing his retirement from ! politics, is to be the anti-Tillman candi-' dat-: for Governor, posing asa healing plaster between thc two factions. Sena tor Butler is to be their candidate for re-election. Gen. Farley is to succeed j Shell in Congress. Mr. Talbert is to have no opposition from the Conservative fac tion for Congress and is to receive the! Conservative support. 1 he position of Adjutant General is ; said to have been offered Capt J. H. Tillman, eldest son of Congressman Till man, but it is likely he will not accept. '. This statement is not 2 conjecture, but j an absolute fact, if the prominent gentle man in question can be relied on. All the recommendations for Federal posi tions substantiate what has been said. 1 It is said hythe aspirant himself that Senator Butler is making every effort to have the notorious lyncher, Caughman, <if Lexington, appointed Beading Clerk of the United .Vates Senate. Ile now bolds the office of Fish Commissioner by appointment from Gov. Tillman, but for the sake of being Reading Clerk has renounced his allegiance t<> the reform movement. The supposed treachery of j Congressman Shell has excited universal indignation and disgust among the reformers. Lively times are ahead in South Carolina politics and the campaign of 1894 promises new and interesting STATE RIGHTS INVADED. Gov. Tillman Expresses His Opinion of Judge Simotitou's Decision. _ Coi.r.MUiA. S. C., March 10.-Gov. Till man expressed his opinion to-day on Judge Simonton's decision in reference to the dispensary Act. He said that as he was away at the time the decision was rendered, he took the first opportunity of expressing himself. He said: "1 consider it a more outrageous inva sion of State rigiits than anything yet coming from that source and it bears all the marks of a job gotten up between Simonton and those two lawyers to give him an opportunity, to hedge by a seem- \ ing decision in favor of the State to ob literate the unfavorable decision in the railroad cases. If this is not so, how did he get up such an elaborate opinion in so short a time? He Knew he had no jin isdiction in this case and says, so but he could have said it in three words and dismissed the request for au injunction without going into such a long and labored opinion over it. "I expect him to propose a receiver for the Governor's office before I go out, but he will have a happy time getting pos session of it. for he has as much right to vacate my office as he has to maintain an injunction against the execution. The part to which I object is that he should claim in the slightest degree that lie has anything to do with the State's dispen sary law. He had no right to pass Upon ?t in any form whatever or take cogni zance of it under any circumstance until ' it went into operation." His Perpetual Motion Story. [Oreenvilli- News, March H.] An ingenious story was told in the de- j fense of G. T. B?ughmah, tried and con-j victed of counterfeiting in the United : States Court yesterday and sentenced to three years in the Columbus. Ohio, peni tentiary, with a line of $500. Baughman is from McCormick, in Abbeville county, and was found guilty on eight counts. The money he manufactured was made with Babbitt metal and consisted of nickels, quarters, half dollars and dollars. The story of the defense is about as fol lows: Baughman claimed that he had invented a machine, which, had it ever j been completed, was intended .to accom- j plish the heretofore impossible feat of perpetual motion. The counterfeit ! money was not intended for circulation | but was to be used in the invention. Ry experiments be had ascertained that a silver dollar was the exact size required for certain wheels, and the smaller money was to be used for weights and other purposes. Finding the required size of these wheels thc alleged inventor made . mould of Babbitt metal and manufac tured eleven dollars from the same ma terial which were to be serrated with a file and used as a part of this wonderful machine. Before its completion the au thorities pounced down upon him, and after his preliminary hearing before the United States Commissioner, in Ander son, he became convinced that the inven tion wasn't practical and destroyed it didn't save a piece Of it to bring into court as a means of proving that this brilliant idea was anything but a fantas tic story and a myth, originating in the mind of the clever counterfeiter as a loophole through which to crawl out of a ticklish position. . . 1 ARP'S REGULAR CHAT/ He Thinks Every th in? is Looking Lovely Now. [Atlanta Constitution, March 12.] The spring is fairly upon us, and it is really the birth of a new year. The sweet odor of violets is in the air and the alder tags are blooming in the glades. The robins are bobbing around and the setting hen comes clucking from her ,' nest. Fire is on the mountains, and the busy farmers are burning brush and clearing up tue fence rows, or hauling 1 guano to make the biggest crop of cotton the world ever saw. That is what they j told me in North Carolina, and I reckon it is so all over the cotton belt. The poet says, "Whatever is right," and so we will have to be reconciled and let the farm ers do just as they please and take the consequences. In fact, it is risky and ? impertinent to advise a man about his j, business. But editors will do it, and I :. heard a farmer tell one not long ago that , lie could run a better newspaper if he would give it more attention and sive thc farmers less advice. Well, it stands to reason that a man who hos been farming ' . all his life knows more about it than a !, iown-raised editor who never farmed a |, day. j The farmers arc in earnest now. Poli- ! ', tics has settled down in the old ruts. ! The Ocala platform is dead and buried, and all the vain hopes that inspired it , have vanished away. Just as the "forty acres and a mule" ployed out with the !. darkey, so have all the expectations of j some bh; thi.ig from the government played out with the People's Party. It i was a delusion and a snare, and nobody i bur a few politicians profited by it. It is at last an admitted fact that the farm- : crs must depend on themselves and not on the government. Paternalism is the ' curse of a State or a nation, and I am glad to see that Mr. Cleveland is going to | put his foot down upon it. Protection for protection's sake must go. We want no more infant industries. They must start full grown and compete with the' world. This pension outrage must be I reformed, for itgrows bineras the years ' roll on. lt is the politician's hobby, and he rides on it into office. Over eight ; hundred thousand are now on thc rolls, and not one-fourth of them ever saw a battlefield. It is nothing but paternal ism, and it has gotten to bc an epidemic Most everybody wants some help from the government, and if they can't get it one wa}- they will another. Our revolu tionary fathers, who were wounded and I disabled, drew pensions, but, in course j of time, they died and thc pension stop- j ped, but now the pension keeps running on and spreading out to widows and chil dren and grandchildren, and most of them are to foreigners who fought for the money that was in it and nothing else. ' Just go into the national cemetery, at Chattanooga; and see the names on ! thc headstones, and you can't pronounce half of them without a corkscrew. Forthe honest, patriotic soldier we have the pro foundest respect, but we rebels know something about the foreign hirelings we bad to light thc last two years of the ; war. Paternalism is run mad. One hundred and eighty millions of pensions is more than tlie government can stand. The nation has put Mr. Cleveland there to reform, and we believe ho will do it. The salaries of thc government officials are toolarge; Millicns could be saved by a healthy reduction, and then there would j not be so many office-seekers. IIc-v is it ; t hat our Governor and our Supicme Court Judges <;et only about half as much as a United States Marshal or a Clerk of a United States District Court? How is it that a little post office like Carters ville pays $1,600, when there are ten men and twenty women who would take it for! $1,000? Let us get back to the economy of our j fathers, and then the duties on the neces saries of life can be taken off, and the common people can get their shoes and blankets cheaper. Washington is called the father of his country , and now we j want Mr. Cleveland to father the coun try some, too, besides little Faith, and take the burdens otl the people. That is all the paternalism we ask for-a clean and honest administration. Kill the! monopolies and the trusts. Let Hawaii j alone and the Nicaragua canal and every- j ' thing else that calls for more money and more taxes. Don't fret so much about ; the money or the scuffle between gold' and silver: it is doing very well. I once was young and now 1 am old, but I have never seen the time that there wasn't enough money in town to pay lor every thing the people had to sell. I farmed for eleven years, and my corn brought nie 50 cents a bushel for every crop. It isu't the kind of money, whether gold or silver or paper, that concerns us, but it is the solvency and honesty of the banks, for per cent of all the business is done : by checks and deposits. There are j enough dollars anil dimes to do all the rest Who ever sees a piece of gold Coin? Who ever looks at a national bank bill to see what bank issued it? They ; are all good, from Maine to California, lu my opinion, the world has no better currency, and I di ead to see the dav when any mau or set of men can issue their own bills and foist them upon the [ country-we have tried that and suffered. Let well enough alone. What old Geor gian does not recall the failures of Geor gia banks in the an^i-bellum clays-not only the wild-cat banks that were intended to fail, hut good bank.> that failed through great finaie i.d revulsions? There were failures at Macon, and Columbus, and St. Mary's, and Home, and Kinggold, and j Atlanta, and many of us have got r?-lics hid away that we sometimes look at : nd I lament. I know one man who bas a ! package of $4,000 of Kinggold money j that broke before the war. It is the Common people who suffer from spurious money; the smart, swrcwd traders get rid of theirs before the collapse comes. Now 1er. us all go slow. Mr. Cleve- j land's election does not mean a bonanza ? to anybody, but it does mean honesty of j administration, if it is possible for him j to control it; and I believe he will cop- j trol it. Mr. Harrison was honest enough, but not broad enough. He wanted to jump on Chile with both feet, and nearly the last thing he did was to annex Hawaii on paper. But he was a pure man and did the best he could. Let us not idolize any man, for we are all men and not gods. When Mr. Hayes died a friend of mine expressed his surprise aud said he tln ughthe had died several years ago, but remembered now that it was Arthur. Blaire will soon be forgotten, for such is the nature of political fame. What a j troublous life they live! Think of Toombs. and Stephens, and Gordon, and (Jolquitt and all their heart-burnings, and then turn away and say it is better to live calm and serene under your own vine and fig tree and take comfort with ' those you love and those who love you. There is nothing in this life that will ; compare with the love of wife and chil- i dren and the daily intercourse with good ! neighbors. May the good Lord give this , blessiug to us all and make us content. : BILL ABP. One car of genuine red rust proof oats, 1 six hundred barrels nour>and a large lot of X. 0. molasses, sugar and rice, bought : for cash before the late advance, which we will sell cheap for cash, or on a credit until fall. The Carter Merchandise Co., Westminster, S. C. . Cotton May Yet Become More Valua ble for its Seed Than Lint. [Charleston >"e*vs and Courier.] The latest number of the Baltimore Manufacturers? Record contains a letter from Mr. C. B. Warrand, of Savannah, Sa., in which the very interesting infor mation is stated that there is in opera tion in that city a truly unique manu facturing establishment, it being the Daly one of its kind in the world, "whose cotton seed oil is manufactured by a secret process into rubber, not a substi tute for rubber, but bona fide rubber: such at least some 'of the best experts baring pronounced the product to be." lt is not a hoax. The 1st of April is more than a fortnight off, as yet. This story is told in good faith, and with full particulars by Mr. Warrand, who is, we believe, a chemist and a citizen of Savannah, and is a well known writer on industrial topics. The discovery of the mificial rubber, he says, was made by an irtist of some prominence who was ex perimenting with cotton seed oil to pro duce a varnish for art painting, and who, is has so often happened in such cases, stumbled on a product entirely foreign to Ins expectations. The discoverei states that his process is so simple that it is not patentable, hence his only safeguard is in keeping it a secret. The only informa- ; tion he gives is that he uses 15 per cent j af genuine rubber to produce an article \ which cannot in any way be distinguished from crude India rubber. As soon as his discovery was made he went at once to Boston, where a uumbei of experts pronounced the product genu ine rubber, and would not believe that i such an article could be produced by j artificial means. A prominent rubber manufacturer recognized at once the value of the discovery, purchased an in terest in the process, and placed $30.000 in the hands of the discoverer to estab lish a factory near Savannah. A site of live acres was purchased four miles from the city; a high board fence was erected : around the property, and the factory was j built in the enclosure and has been run ning for months. Nobody knows what ; is going on inside the factory except a ' few ignorant r ? groes; and nobody is ad mitted within its doors. The bare facts alone arc known that crude cotton seed oil, costing about DO j cents a pallon, or about $135 a ton, is carted in, in five ton lots, and that tons of rubber, worth about a ton, arc carted out and shipped to a very promi- | neut rubber dealer and manufacturer in Boston. The value of the new industry to its discoverer and his associates ls indicated bv thc fipures we have just given. It is ot easy to over-estimate its value to thc South and to the world. Thc uses of j rubber are increasing every year, and the demand for the article is taxing the natu ral supply already. If the artificial pro duct can successfully be employed for all or most of the purposes to winch the natural product is applied, or would be applied if its cost were cheapened, there ; will soon be a market for all of it that can be made in'the South, and the cotton farmers will be directly and greatly bene fited by the increased value of the raw i material, cotton seed oil, which they, must supply. It has been predicted that the seed of ? thc cotton plant will some day represent a larger value than thc lint, and that it may yet come to pass that the crop will be planted mainly for the profit in the j seed. It really begins to appear as it the prediction, wild as it seemed at first, will yet be verified. A berry or nut-or whatever .'t is-that furnishes at once a wholesome table and cooking oil. the ! best kind of food for all cattle, a sugar ? fifteen times sweeter than cane sugar, a rich fertilizing agent, and material for the making such varied articles of use fulness as Alabama strings, erasers, galoshes, gum boots, bicycle and bug. v tires, hospital beds, soldiers' overcoat*, i ladies' wraps and car buffers and springs, has a future before it that it would be j vain to attempt to outline or to limit. j A gold mine has been discovered on Mr. W. B. Lowry's place at Yelma, Edge field county, South Carolina. Mr. Lowry ' has struck two rich veins and he intends having the gold mined. A sample of the quartz gild was exhibited here to-day, says the Atlanta Constitution, and experts who examined it say Mr. Lowry has pot afortune in his gold mine. New Advertisements. Attention, Ladies. OUR BUYERCHAS CONE TO NEW YORK and he has instructions to buy thc FINEST AND LARGEST line of Lais' Bress Goods that has ever been shown in this County. We are determined to surpass any thin?: \ we have ever shown before. The Ladies of Oconee appreciate FINE GOODS and" have patronize'.! us well, and we feel that : they will at least give us a look before i placing their Spring Orders, and we will ' say right here if you will do us the kind ness to look that is all we ask. We arc ! going to have all the novelties on exhibi tion, both in DKESS GOODS AND LADIES' WEAR, of all kinds, and our customers can feel assured they are pet ting the right thing when they buy from us. Trusting you will not forget us, and thanking you for past kindnesses, we are Yours trulv, M. W. COLEMAN & CO., SENECA, S. C. March IC, 1893. CITATION. IN* THE COU KT OF PROBATE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, \ COCXTY OF OcOXEE. J BY J. W. HOLLEMAX, ESQ., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Mrs. Roxie Moody has made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of J. L. Moody, deceased These are, therefore", to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. L. Moody, deceased, that they be and appear before me, ? . the Court of Probate, to be held at Walhalla Court House. S. C., on Friday, the 31st day of March, 1S93, next, after publication here of, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be grant ed. Given under my hand and seal this the 15th day of March Anno Domini, 1S93. \ Z7.1 J. W. HOLLEMAN,' ( ~v~ } Judge of Probate. Published on the 16th day of March, ISS3, in the KEOWEE COUKIEK, Walhalla, Cc All thc clements which nature requires, to make thc hair beautiful and abundant, are supplied in Ayer's Uair Vigor. This preparation keeps the scalp free from dandruff, prevents the hair from becom ing dry and harsh, and makes it' flexible an'd glossy. Sanford Deas was shot and mortally wounded on Main street in Lancaster last week by Robert R. Kennington. Kennington was on trial in court for house breaking and larceny, and Deas was one of tiie witnesses against him. Deas was unarmed. Will Langston, of Clifton, was run over by the train and killed, last week, near thc Air Line depot, in Greenville. GOODS CHEAP Enough Will Sell Themselves. Fine It'?Her ratent Flour, ?4.50 a barrel; Good Roller Family Flour, -<:l.T-> a barrel; New Orleans Molasses, 25 and :>5 cents a gallon: Plow Lines for half a cent a foot; Pot Ware. 4 cents a pound; Brass Bound Cedar Buckets, 25 cents each; best quali ty Kille Powder, 25 cents a pound; best Axe you ever used for "."> cents: heavy Dnss Plaids. 5 and ii cen ts a.y ard; Outing Flannel, 5 cents a yard: best yard wide Sateens, 10 cents a yard; standard Ilick ory Shirting, S cents a yard; yard wide soft finished Bleacbings, S cents a yard; ladies' fancy colored Hose. 5 cents a pair; best fast ' lack Hose, 10 cents a pair: good Cotton Hand Towels. (> for 25 Cen ts; good everyday Suspenders, ~> cents a pair; heavy wool Jeans. 20 cents a yard; wool Jersey Shirts. 50 cents each: Cotton Out ing Shirts, 25 cents each: white Linen Shirts, 30 cents each: Silk and Velvet Dollar Cravats for 50 cents each ; regular fifty cent ( ra vais for :J-"? cents; big iot of Linen Handkerchiefs for 5 cents each; ladies" fine Dongola Hutton Boots for ?1.50; India Kui Hoots, with patent lea ther tips, for $1.35; big line of grain and ki<l. Lace or Button Shoes, for Shoo; whole stock, calf skin, ladies' everyday Shoes, lined throughout, for SI; calfskin baud-made Shoes for 75 cents: men's whole stock Brogans for S5 cents; Mil waukee oil grain Shoes for $1.25; Con gress and Lace Gaiters for $l-23; Boys' line Hals for ^i) cents: Men's V st two dollar Hats for $1.25. Thes*- are all good solid values. The best goods for the money ever shown in this part ot the country. If you lived in the largest city m America you could not do better. C. Furber Jones, j ?TORE AT TOm AM?* EE. March 9, IS03. Master's Sales. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1 C'ot'XTV OK OCOXEE. ( IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. I)Y virtue of Decretal Orders, to me ) directed, hy His Honor James F. Izlar, Presiding Judie Court Common Pleas for Oconee county. South Carolina. Februarv Term, ls'.?:;, 1 will sell, at pub lic ourcry. in front of the Court House door, in Walhalla, S. C., on Salesday in APRIL NEXT, during the legal hours of sale, the following described REAL ESTATE, and upon the terms men tioned in each case, to-wit: Mrs. S. M. Hunzinger, Plaintiff. ) against !. W. O. Alexander and others. Defend's. ) VLL that piece, parcel or tract of land situate. lying and being in Oconee county, on both sides of Conne ross (/reek, adjoining lands of W. 0. Alexander. J. W. Alexander. S. M. Hunsingcr, K. IL Dill worth and Wm. Adair. containing seventy (To) aero, more or less, thc same being seventy acres of the tract of one hun dred acres set apart to Francis Jane Alexander as her share of the estate of James S. Alexander, deceased. ALSO. VLL that piece, parcel or tract of land situate in said county and State, lying on the East side of the pub lic road leading from Walhalla to West minster. S. C.. adjoining lands of S. M. Uunsinger, W. M. Gossett and J. W. Alexander, containing thirty acres, more or less, the same being the remaining thirty acres, more or less,of the one hun dred acres si t apart to Francis Jane Alexander as her share as aforesaid. TERMS : o.half cash, balance in one year, with interest from ?lay of sale, to he secured hy bond of the purchaser and a mortgage ot the pre mises. Purchaser aUowed to anticipate payment, it' desired, and to pay extra for papers. J. W. HOI LEMAN. Master. Mrs. J. M. Nevil!.-. Plaintiff, ) against , Hattie Hamilton, Defendant. ) VLL that certain lot of hind situate in the town of Seneca, in the county md State aforesaid, adjoining Cherry street and North First, street, the same l?eiug tiie Eastern half of the one-half acre ?ot No. SO in the plan of said town. TERMS : Cash. Purchaser to pay ex tra for papers. J. W. HOLLEMAN", Master. W. C. Tatham, el al.. Plaintiffs. t against / A.C. Fret well, et ah. Defendants. ) VLL that certain piece, parcel or lot of ?and. situ if e. lying and Geing in the town of Walhalla. S. C., in the County nt Oconee and State aforesaid, hounded on the South by North Broad street, on the West by Catharine street, on the North hy McFall alley, on East by Cobb ?ot. Containing one acre, more or less. TERi S: One-half '-:tsli. balance on a credit ot one y cir, with interest from da v of sale, credit portion to be secured by bond of purchaser ;.nd mortgage of ;.remises. The purchaser to pay extra for papers. J. W. HOLLEMAN. Master. c. E. 0. Mitchell. Plaintiff, ) against < Eliza J. Miller, et ah. Defendants. ) t LL that piece, parcel or tract of _TV land, situate, lying and being in the County and State aforesaid, on Fuller's ' reek, waters of Conneross Creek, of Seneca Liver, containing seventy-eight ICI es. more or less, adjoining lands set ipari to P. L. Holcombe, ':... ?a <-f Hugh ?{?air, estate of Messer an I others. ALSO, i LL that piece, paree.' or tract of _rY land, in the State and County afore said, containing sixty-nine ;.nd one-half acres, more or less, being the same deeded to J. H. Holcombe by L. L. Jar ran!, and adjoining lands o'. J. L. Hol combe, estate Shields Martin, Henry Wilhams. W. IL Hunt ard others, lying On both sides of the public road running trom E. P. Verner's to Bachelor's Re treat, being part of renshaw land. TERMS : On ?-half cash and balance in one year .with interest from day of sale, credit porth n to he secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises. .Purchaser to pay extra for papers. Sold at the lisk of former purchasers. J. W. HOLLEMAN, Master. March f?, 1S93. l0-4t !FEFOT?E LIVER ~T->3NT-TS. ! Cures DYSPEPSIA, LIVER and I KID.VEY Troubles when all else fails. -25c. SOC, 8 LOO. LIFE MEDICINE COMPANY, SpartanburK, S. C. m and Opium cured at home wi_ Ajfl out pain.Book ofpar llh I ticu lars sent FREE. SI B.M.W00LLEY.M.D. Atlanta, i?_ Cgice Whitehall St. TUE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, \ C'OCXTY OF OCOXEE. J IX THE COt'KT OF PROBATE. "VTOTICE is hereby given that applica LN HOI: will be ma'de to the Judge of Probate of Oconee county, at Walhalla Court House, S. C., on Monday, the 3d day of April, 1S93. for leave to make a final settlement of the estate of John HI Stapel, deceased, and thereupon to be discharged from all further liability therefor. ~ A. G. STAPEL, Administrator. March 2,1S93. 9-?t < AN ORDINANCE, TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE TOWN OF WHLHALLA FOR THE TEAE 1393 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. BE IT OKDAIXED hy the Intendant and Wardens of the Town of Walhalla, in Council assembled, aud by the authority of the same : That a tax to cover the period from January 15th, 1S93, to January 15th, 1894, for the sum and in the manner hereaftei named shall be raised and paid into the treasure of the Town of Walhalla by the 30th day of June next: SECTION 1. The sum of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed value of real and personal property foi ordinary town purposes; also the sum ol 50 cents on eacJi one hundred dollars of assessed value of real and person..! property for interest and retiring of rail road bonds. 8EC 2. Ten dollars a day by any itine rant trader or auctioneer offering to salt within the Town of Walhalla any goods, wares and merchandise, at auction o? otherwise, to be paid each day ic advance : Provided, the provisions of this Ordi nance .shall not apply to the ordinary dealers ;n county products. SEC. 3. On all circuses and other shows a tax of one to one hundred dollars pei day. in the discretion of the Intendant, shall be paid. SEC. 4. On each and every billiard table and on each and every pool table kept for prolit a tax of 85. bagatelle table 85, and ten or trine pin alleys 85, in advance, before license for using the same shah be grained, and any person opening such establishments, without first obtaining license for the same, shall be fined fbi each day they are kept open a sum noi exceeding 85. SEC 5 On each and every keeper ol livery or sale stables the sum of 825 foi the year in advance, and no person oi persons shall let out for pay in any man ner any horse, wagon or other vehiclt without paying the following tax: Ead one horse and vehicle, 810; each tw< horses and vehicle, 815: ?his section no! being designed to affect draying. SEC. C. On each and every dray where any hauling is done for any one. other than the owner thereof, the s im of 8-T for the year in advance. SEC. 7. On each and every meat market butcher stall or wagon the sum of $1< per year, payable in advance, provide?; I that any one wishing to dispose of beef 1 mutton, veal, pork or goat at retail ma} I do so by paying 81 for every beef or 5( j cents for each mutton, hog. goat or calf unless the same be sold in bulk. SEC. 8. On each and every person whe I shall open any room, tent, "booth or cai for the purpose of taking photographs, j daguerroti pes or other likenesses tin sum of 81') for the year; 85 for a les; . period than one year. ! SEC. 9. That each and every persor liable to road duty, under the laws of tin State, other than ministers of the Gospel, teachers of schools and students, sha! work on thc streets ten days (or pay- at the rate of fifty cents a day) under th? direction of the Intendant or some OIK in his stead, under the same penalties as prescribed by the laws of the State foi ? any refusal or neglect to perform saic i work: Provided, that any person sha! I be permitted to pay on or before the I5tl ' day of April a commutation of 84. SEC. 10. That the tax on real and per j sonal property/, as provided in Section 1 shall paid according t< the assess ments, made by the Board of Assessors consisting of three persons, to b< ? appointed by the Intendant; Provided i that in every case any party shall hav< the right of an appeal from ~.nch assess ment? or valuations to the Town Counci any time before the first Wednesday ii April next. Any property in town oi I the first of May, not returned to th< ; County Auditor, is to be listed by th( TOWT Treasurer for taxation. SEC. ll. All taxes herein levied (except such taxes, licenses and .assessments a: are required to be paid before entering I on the business hereinbefore mentioned] ; shall be paid on or before the first day o) July next, and, >f any person or persons shall fail, refuse or neglect payment o! taxes herein levied within the time speci ; tied, the Treasurer of the Council i: hereby authorized and required to i.?l< fifteen per cent to the amount of the ta: to the person thus neglecting or refusing and. if the tax and penalty tims impose? arc not paid within twenty days, it shal bc the duty of the Treasurer to issu( executions therefor immediately and col lect the same in due process, or be fillet j 85 for each case of neglect. SEC. 12. Be it further Ordained, Thai any person found drunk in tnt Town of Walhalla, whereby the peaci . and good order of the town ma] i be impaired, or the convenience of othei persons interfered with, shall be guilt] of a misdemeanor and punishable at tin discretion of the Intendant within th? limits ot his authority. SEC l'-'>. He it further Ordained. Tba : all places of business or amusement mus' be closed on the Sabbath ?lay. and th? violator of this ordinance shall be sub ject to a penalty of $25. SEC. 14. lie ft Ordained, That any per son riding or driving upon the sidewalk: or leading a h ?rs. thereon, except t? j cross the same at a regular crossing, ni placing any obstruction which rna} impede a free passage, shall be punishe? at the discretion of the Intendant withil thc limits of his authority. SEC. 15. lie it Ordained. That any per son caught in the act of public indecent'} on the street shall be guilty of a misde meanor and be punished at the discretioi of the Intendant within the limits of hi: aurhority. SEC. !.'>. Be it Ordained. That any per son convicted of keeping a disorder!] , house w ithin the limits of the Town o Walhalla, shall, upon conviction of MIC! offence, be tined a sum no less than 82-' : nor more than 8:'?". and the owner oi j lessee of any dwelling house or othei ! building situated within said tmcorporat? j limits who lets <;r sub-lets any sud dwelling to any person or persons, tob? used as a bawdy house or ?louse of pros titution, shall, upon conviction, pay ; fine Of not ?ess than >5 nor more that $30, for every day upon which such hons? i or building may be used or kept, ami b? otherwise punished within the discretioi of the Intendant within the limits of bb ; authority. SEC. 17. Any person or persons wh< i shall be guilty of lighting, rioting, usin; i profane language, or other disorder!] conduct within the incorporate limit 1 shall be subject to a fine and imprison ment at the discretion of the Intendan within the limits of his authority. SEC. IS. It shall be the duty of th? j Marshal to arrest ail persons guilty o i misdemeanor or lighter crimes withii I the incorporate limits of the Town <. '. Walhalla, by violation of the law: of the State of South Carolina. Oco nee county, or by violation o 'any Ordinance of the Town of Wal I halla and bring them before the Intend , ant or a Warden acting in his stead, wh? j shall ??ave such power to pas* such onie ; in the premises as, in his opinion, justic? j may require, consistent with the autho ! rity of the Council in such case provided ! SEC. 19. Be it further Ordained. Tba i it shall be thc duty of the Marshal o: I Policeman, after the arrest of any per son, whose violation of any law inter feres with the peace and good order o the Town of Walhalla, or the comluct o: the person arrested after the arrest i: made is such as to impair the peace am ' good order of the town, to closely confin? I such person and produce him as herein ' after directed for examination or propel administration of criminal justice as th? case may require. SEC. 20. lt ?hall be thc duty of th? Marshal to prevent ball playing ami othei amusements by a collection of boys o men in the Main Street of the Town o Wal lalla, and he is, to effect this, author izeu to arrest all persons so engaged an? bring them before the Intendant f<> j examination and punishment. He shal j also disperse any crowd assembled oi I the sidewalk. I SKC. 21. He shall arrest all person; I found throwing tire balls, or shootiu? I guns or pistols or other lire-arms, ?>r fire I crackers and sling-shots, within th? incorporate limits of the Town of Wal I halla and bring them before the Intend ] ant for examination and punishment, b] fine not less than five dollars. SEC. 22. Any persons found guilty o injuring shade trees by hitcing horsei thereto or otherwise, inside the incor poration, shall be fined in a sum no exceeding $5, in the discretion of th? Intendant SEC. 23. The Marshal is further author ?zed to arrest any person found on th? streets between 10 o'clock P. M. and .' o'clock A. M., who cannot give a satis factory reason for such presence on th? streets during these hours. SEC. 24. " It sball be a misdemeanor foi any person to cut trees on any of th< streets of Walhalla. SEC. 25. That any person who shall bi .guilty of running a horse or mule oi ( Main Street shall be subject to a fine oi ! imprisonment, at the discretion of th< j Intendant within the limits of his autho 1 rity. i SEC. 2t). That any person or persons ? having claims against the town must pre i scBt them within GO days or the same j will he debarred from payment, unless a > satisfactory excnse is rendered. SKC. 27. That any dog running at large, j within the corporate limita cf the town, j between the 1st of August and the-lst of i October, without a muzzle, h liable to be seized and retained by the Marshal for a period of twenty-four boars, during' which time his owner can redeem him by paying the sum of two dollars, and, if not so redeemed, the dog is then to be killed. SKC. 2S. All residents and owners of property wiitin the corporate limits are expected to keep .their premises in a clean and healthy condition, and any one failing to remove nuisances, when requested to do so, is subject to be fined live dollars and cost of removing same. SKC. 2'.?. That it. is unlawful for any person to leave melon rinds or other such trash on the streets of this town, and any person so doing and refusing to remove the same is liable to be arrested and pun ished within the discretion of the Intend ant. SKC. 30. Resolved. That all laws enacted by the Council heretofore, not in conflict with these Ordinances, are considered in full force, and that each and every one of these Ordinances shall be in full force after the publication of the same. Done and ratilied in Coun ted and the Seal of the corpo ration of the said Town of Walhalla affixed thereto this the 6th dav of February, 1S?3. EL D. "A. RIEMANN, Intendant. W. J. Bn.\.Mi.KTT. Clerk Council. I. HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF Furniture, CONSISTING OF BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS, WASHSTANDS, TABLES, CHAIRS, ) I MATTRESSES, ?fee. These goods-will be sold at a reasona i I ble and living profit. Give me a call. ' October 22. ISM. SCISSORS SHEARS. Do you want a , i 'good pair of jjSCISSORS ! AND SHEARS? If you do, call and examine my 11 : immense line. Every pair war ranted. C. W. PITCHFORD. January 12. IS93. DENTISTRY. Dr. G. C. PROBST. Dentist FFICE IX THE OLD >MELTZER BUILDING, on North side of Main Street, Walhalla. S". <'. Onie? hours: 8.30 A. M. to : P. M. and 2.30 1'. M. to G P. M. Februar- 23. 1808. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. ALI. persons having demands against tlie estate ot" W. J . Hix. deceased. , ! are rei pi i rei l to present the same to the ! undersigned, dulv proven, bv the FIFTH .. I).' V oF MARCH. 1S93. li J. W.SHELOR, t Executor, i February 2. IS93. ?-4t Fresh Beef, Fish ?i 0 c TT7E will have FRESH BEEF every Vf day an.l F1SE AND OYSTERS % once a week at our market, next door i above the Post Office. Call and see us. > Will colle* t accounts evei v Saturday, f i Moss A CP'^NSHAW. >? February 0, ISM3. t>-:J:n - Oats, HayJ Milk Cows, Fodder. JjTTTINTER GRAZING and RUST \\ PROOF OATS ar cents per 1 : bushel. lo Tons of choice Pea Vine. Crab ami Cherokee Grass Hay, county raised. t'> nice young half Jersej Milk Cows. 3,000 bundles of splendid bottom Fod der. All for sale ar hard time trices bv J. P ST Ul BUNG, Richland, S. C. Februarv 0, 1S93. W. L. DOUGLAS 33 SHOE Ncft'ttp. Bast Calf. Shoe In the world for the pr!co. W. L. Douglas shoesai??oldeverywhere. Everybody should wear them. It ls a duty yoe owe yourself ta get the best value tor your money. Economize In your footwear by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoe5,which represent the best value at the prices ad vertlsed above, as thoosands caa testify. OS- Take No Substitute. _se Beware of/rand. Sons genuine without W.L. Douglas i .amo and price ?tamped on bottom. Look tor lt when you buy. W. I* Douglas, Brookton, Maa?. Sold hy F, E HARRISON, , WALHALLA, S. C M. W. COLEMANS \ SF^ECV'o?'ne?: March 2,1893, ..c. Address ^^-12, ACASTA, GA.