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4AD - - # DEVOTED 'To POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND .0 THE GENERAL INTERET OF TUE COUNTRY. VOL. VII- . PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY,APRIL25 1878 NO43 THEy. SENTINEL TO PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Ternas of Subscription.: One reer... to.*. ..$150 1x Months . . . . . .- . ... . . . . 75 Advertising Rates. Advertisementainsorted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine lines, on LESS, for the first insertion, and 50 cents for each subse quent inset Lion. Contracts made for TnRE1, sIX or TWELVE months, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of Insertions morked on them, will be published until forbid and charged occordingly. These terms are so simple any, c-hild may understand them. 'Nine lines is a square one inch. In every instance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the space. 4W Advortiser's willo.lease'state the num ber of squares they wish their advertisements to make. AW Business men who 'advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. I Owe no Man a Dollar. Oh, do not envy, my own dear wife, The wealth of our next door neighbor, But bid me still. to be stout of heart., And cheerfully follow my labor, You must know the last of these little debts, That have been our lingering sorrow, Is paid this night! So we'll both go forth, And shake hands with the world to-mor rowl Oh, the debtor is but a shame faced dog With the creditor's name on his collar, While I'm a king and you are a queen, ' For we owe n. man i dollar. Our neighbor you saw in the coach to-day, With his wife and his flounting daughter, NNbile we Pat down at. our covei es boardo To a cust and a cup of wiCr, I saw that a tear*drop stood in your eye, Though you tried yout best. to conceal it; I Lnew th9a, the contrast reached your heart, And you could not help bnt feel it; But knowing now; that our scanty fare Has freed my neck from the collar, You'll join my laugh and help ine shout That I owe no man a dollar. This neighbor whose show has dazzled your eyes, In fact, is a wretched debtor; I pity him of't from my very he'art, And I wish that his lot were better; Why the man is the veriest slave alive, For his dashing wvifo and daughter, Will live in Btyle though ruin should come, So he goes like a lamb to the slaughter! But he feels it tighter every day, That terrible debtor's collar! Oh, what would he give could he say with us, That he owed no man a dollar! You seemed amazed-but I'll tell you more; Within two hours 1 meet him Sneaking away with a frightened air As If a fiend had beset him; Yet he fled from a very worthy man, Whom I met with the greatest pleasure Whom I called by name, and turned to slop, Though he said he was not at leisure, He held my last note! so I held him fast! Till ho^freed my neck from the collar; Then I shook his hand as I proudly said "Now I owe no man a dollar!" Ah! now you smile, for you feel the force Of the truths I've beeni repeating; 1 knew that a drowning honest heart In the gentle breast was besting! To-gnorrow I'll rise with a giant's strength q* To follow my daily labor; p1iTt ere we sleep let us humbly pray For our wretched next door neighbor; And we'll pray for the tijge when all shall be free, From the weight of a debtor's collar; When the poorest shall lift his voice and cry; "Now I owe no..man a dollar." A Goon EUoAION.--The late Ed'. ward Everett condensed into ai single brief paragraph his estimationi of what constitutes a good education. Here it is: "To r'ead the English language well, to wr'ite with dispatch a near, ligible hanid, atnd be master of thle first four rules of arithmetic, so as to dispose at once, with accu.. racy, of every questlen oif figures which comes lip in) practice. I call this a good education. And if you -add tbe ability to write pure, gram.. maticaljEiglish, I- regard it as ani excellent education. These are the tools. Yori cnn do muIch with1 them. They are the tonndat ion; and unless you begin with these, not with flashy attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and osophles, are osten tations rubbieb.", The State Ececutive Committee. * Among the business transacted by the State Democratic Executive Committee, at is nWeting. inl th'1s cit'y yesterday,~says the Columbia Regis ter, tl following general plan for conducting~ the primary elections was agreed upon, and ordered to be sent to the v,arlous Couniy Chair men. The men1bers are impressed with the importarce of the sysItem as the best. and faii est method for se lecting candidates to )e voted for in each county, thereby teinding to Ui fy and harmonize the lptty tri-ough out the State. The siggcstionls made in the annexed series are general in their cliaracter, as is entirely projer, tr it would be difficult to prepair details which would o crate with equal torco and smoothness in every locality. The recono,enda tions of the Exective Coriuittee are embraced in the following points: 1. Aspiran-ts for the .osition of candidates should be announced in dividually in any mode deemed prop or by thenselves or their friends, 1)It shouild be placed distinctly before the Democratic party on their own mer its, and not as the eandidate of tny organized body of Democrats. 2. Valci aspirant fir tle positi,w Af candidate, when ie act-epts the mi1a1 ion s l made, shall imIledi Ilely I (tify the County Chairman inl % riling of the facit, nid in ti,e same com11inicatiol staUe that he is a imetjer of isome l. cal club, and sjb scribe to die fliowini, pledge: "I a'gi ce o abde by al.d s1pj)(Irt tie nomia11inoms kii the Dvmocrane i art , auld II)nt () CIe t eithier a uelili tionl L)Ir all office froill a11 othl er1. sII,ce 1"aa tle regularh cnituted Dei,t. erawicmgizin. 3. At lCst fI'e days before the prilliary election, the C(uInty Chair min shall nlotit the Democratic Ulubs of the awpirlints who have Abwe qualbieId t hemsel ve3 for the p)o -3ition of candid.1ate and Votes cast for ainy o'thier perFson or personis shall not be couinted. 4. On thle day fixed for this pri mi;ary election, eadh local cILu b sihall hold an election for candidlates of the Democratic paUrty, and ieport thle result in writing over the Signatures of the mfatiagers to the Coumn' Chair m-an. ALt th is elect ion none1 bn it members of the local clbs shaull vote, an)d each member before being~ al lowed to vote shall take the follow. ing pledge: "I solemu,ly affirns that I am a dulv enrolled member of this Democratic Clubi; t hat I bhve not voted at thiis election, and that I will abide by and sust aini all nomina ions made by r I e Det m crat ic panrty, whlet her for Federal ,-rat e or co'unzty ofhicers." 5. Uipo'n the f ollou ing 'lay,,t ihe Counts Chairman and at least two miembers of the Count) Executive Committee shall assetmble at the couty secat, and aggregate theo votes reported, and before sundown declare the candidates selected. 6. No one shall be declared the niominiee of thle lparty uniless lie shall have receivedl a majority of all the votes cast in) then primiary election. i Should no candidate for any particular office receive a majority of the v'otes cast, the County Chai man shall so declare, and order a second election to complete the nomi)1 nations8 ini suicietnt time before the genera) election. I once defended a man chairgedl with the awful crime of murder. At the conclusion ol the trui I aaked nim what c' ul d have induced him i to stain his bands with the blood of a felh>w.Yeing. Turning hisa blood-shot eyes full ' ponf me, he replied: ?Mrt. Webster, in my yout h I spent the holy Sabbath in evil amusements instead of frequent ing the house of prayer anid praise." McEvoy's Conf,s1ion. I.c is well known throughout 'the State that what McEvoy supposed were his last mon ents on earth, when his coffin was just outside the jail door, and lie supposed he had but an hour to live, that he evinced a disposition to tell m-hat he knew of more than one murder, other than the one for which he was to die, ,which had been committed in S. C. It is said thal MCEvoy was.I ersuad ed, the day upon which lie was tuL have been execnted, not to put a halter aroun the neck of any man unless it would save an innocent man's life, and that he had concluded to let his knowledge of these murders be bu ried with him. Be this as it may, since his respite lie has thought bet ter of the matter, and various inter vi,ws with Col. Claude E. Sawyer, a member of the House of Repres(n tatives from Aiken county, has given1 hilm tle info1rma'ion in hlis posSession touching the murder of W. E. Saw yer, Jr., in February, 1874. The statements of McEvoy were conveyed to Governor 11ampton, which indu6ed that officer to offer a reward for the arrest of any party, r)1' parties, who were engaged in the mliurder. Acting upon the revela tiuns ofAMcEvoy, Colonel Sawyer jind ir. Sombrl., a de uty sheriff of Aiken ciunty, proceeded a fe/w days ago to Etina le, a sma!l town ill Darto, count, Ga., and there ar tested Sidoimon Ault man. The al ter surndrewed ieadilY, reqnired no I (riUis:Til fro'ni Governor lnlmptio., Iut CbfseIe'ld to U1rn to South Caroli,. at unce. We learn thlt Au111.111an1 prol(sted his innocence %%-1.i(l)n his way back to this -tate wkt illM . ISawyer and Scnlball, utit tiln reciching Aiken jail broke down, aid mids a clean .breitst li it. inn licating ElIj:i D. Vatson and Mtiltonl A. Vats,n1, two white men, Who are fist consin., (1n1e residinig at Ninety-Six, in Abb-vile county, and the other at J ohnsiton, ini Edge field county. The two Watsons were ariested yeCs'erd'ay, and are" at presen t coni fied im thle coun ityj jail of their ie specrive counlties. Our informant, a gent lemn w ~ho arrived ini( Colum. bia yesierday, and who is well ac quajinted witir thie accnsed parties, st ates -hat A umain, w ho is quite at y ou ng muat--not 30 years of age yet -says t hat since the couiussion of I he crime A ultmani's hiairi has inirued fromii a rav en t>lacknless to be as white as cot ton, and that he says that day or nigh t, sinice thle comiiSoni of ~he bloody deed, lie has never had a momn,'ilCi peace of in d; that the mnurdered 3'oung man has been ever before him i, wvhether sleepdig or awake;lIike B3anquo's ghost, lhe would niot down, anid niow that hie -has coni fessed h is part ici pat ion in thle foulI mu11rderP, ho feels greatly relieved in body and mrind. Mi McEvoy's counsel, was in tihe city yesterday for the. purp~hose of calling 41pon1 the ~Governor in Me Evoy's behail It is not know n what the result of his interview with the Governor was upj to a late hour last ighit.-Columbia Registeir, 16th. A BAn MIIJronY-"Mary, my love, d.o you rememiber the text ib is morn-. ig'' No, pa, I never can remem-~ ber the :ex;; I have such a had me rmory." "By the way, (lid y'ou no tice Susan Jonii"? joined in Mary's mother. "Oh, 'yes; what a fr'ighit! She had on her last year's bonnet done up, a pea-green silk, a black miantilIla, brown boots, an imitation of U oniton collar, a' lava bracelet, her old e'mr-i inigs, and such a fan!" "Well my deat, your memory is deth ttnily b)ad." Experience may be a dear teacher, but she isn't any dearer than a pret ty school ma'am. A Reakedy Needed. On Saturday night lat a posse of South'Carolina revenue officials, un dor the leader*hip of one William Spiings and Joab Dill, crossed the South Carolina line on the Saluda Mountain, . and proceeding to the house of Wade Levi, & citizen of this State, arrested him on a charge of illicit distilling. The 1)(see then raided the houe of Win. Howard, who, on hearing them approach1, wit h his sons fled from the premises. As Sprins was in the act of firing at one of the fugitives, Howard's wife ca ught his arm and prevented him from dischargin his weapon. Sprringi, enraged at the act, cursed and abused her, and struck the poor creattuie repeated blows over her hands and arms. They then band cuffed Lvi and carried him to Greenville, where lie was committed to jail. B .th of these high-handed and outrageou acts were committed upon North Carolina citizens, and in this eon ut v---a,mnitted by revenue as to the i.s of the key. LHe opened lhe box. It contained the last check which Hannuah de Rot hschiklh would ever sign as a spinster. Beantifully wriitten in her own fair hand, it was drawn in favor.of Lord Rosebei ry ?1,000,000, p)ayable to his order. A writer says: "'I huave seen womns en so delicate that they were niraid to ride, for fear of the horse rnnning away; afraid to sail, for .feaLr the boat might upset; afraid to walk, for fear they might fall, but I never saw one afraid to h)e married, which is far more riskful than all the others pnt together." This is a world of seconidhianded goods. Every pretty girl has been some other fellow's sweethear't. The "Letta kick" is the famous method of bouncing trails into the band. A Tremendous Revival The religious revival that is now in full blast in all of the colored cburch. es here beats anything of the l4Ind ever- known. The revival started with a series of sermons on hell de livered by a leading colored preach er, and the vividpess with which he pictured the flames of the eternal re gions was enough to extite the aver age inhid, lot alone ignorant and su perstitions negroes. The chuirches have been besieged by thousands, who could not get in. There were six hundred penitents at Mt. Zion Church, five hundred at Brooks, tour hundred and fifty at Ebenezer, two hundred and sixly at Memorial, one hundred and fifty at Bengas and large numbers at other churches. A group of sable vua-dens, just from church, rushed to Franklin Street, the swell avenue of Richmond and, stationing themselves on a cor ner, stopped all the fashionable prom(naders and urged tuom to seek religion. The scene was remarkable and picturesque. At all the tobacco factories the negroe operatives be camne so wrought up on the subject lof their salvation that thcy could do nothing but shout and pray. Hin dreds had to be discharged. In one of the churches rs little girl* named Martha Hlodge jumped up in the middle of the sermon and yelled that she saw a vision. The moon, 8he saId, was bathed in blood, which was a sign that the world was coming ti an end. A t. one of Ihe hotels a col ored v.iter named Henry Barksdale was converted while carrymno a plate Of soup to one of tihe guests. lie dashed the soup down on the floor and gave vent ft his feelings by shouts peculiar to theEthiopiai race. The police have arrested sundry shionters on the street who appeared to be deranged.--Richiond Dispatch to Cincintiati Eniquirer. A Feline Nurse. Calling at a farm house the other dav; says -ai writecr in an English pa peri, I was told I was j:ust a day too late to see .a very wonderfulii sight a1 nilrsing some' little chickens. It appears the c.it had a famuily ot dead kittens a few days before, and the same morning some fi ve or six chicks were hatched. As there were others to conie out, thle lady of the honee took the jumst hatched chicks in to the hou8e till all wore hatched, and Placed the m bef ore t he fire in t he sittinig room, or, as we say- here, the keegPing room. PuSy, greatly to the hiorror of the good lady of the house, took a great fancy to them, and could niot be kept away from themn. Wish iug to see what would take place, the owner allowed her' to comre niear, when-she began to str'oke them down with her paw in the most aflection ate manner, and after awhile, lying downm,-gat hered them well under her. There shie lay all the day; in the evening they were taken from her, but the next day she did the samei; but the third day, fearful of accidents, they were taken from her and p)ut undler their propeh)r mother; who had now hatched out her' whole brood. I wonder' what pussy would have done with them? A wife's love is the golden chain wh'ich noiites her to her husband. It has a thousand delicate links, forged by sympathy, self-respect and mu tual confidence; sever but one of thin and the chain is as completely bro en as though a bunAdred were destroyed'. Alh, parson, I wish I could. carry my gold with me, said a dying man to his pasLir. It might melt, was the consoliing anlswer. The music of the future-Sixty day' notes. The D-dest Liar.:1 There was a great many Oristian people who acted as though they be4 lieved that -the Saviour, when be said, "Suffer little children to- cuM4 unto me," had a raw-hide concealed about his person, and only wanted to coax them within reach of it. Evea when they do not beat their offspring, they lie to and deceive them, Bud then expect them to tell the truth. 'Ilhe lecturer told a story about a lit tie boy in Grand Rapius, Miot. The child's father and mother had prom. i6ed to take it riding with them the next ime they went out. Weeks passed and still the promise was un fulfilled. At length, one bright. moriiing, the father And mother went quietly out of the rear of the house, got iuto their carriage and drove away. As they were going out they passed the front piazza, in which the child wasstanding with his nurse.. The little fellow looked up into the 111rse' face, pointing to his departed I:arents and said: "There go the two d--dest liars in Grand RapidbP Ingersoll's Lecture. Maxims by Beamin Franklin. Many foxes grow gray, but fewm grow goodI. Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him to running. Drink does not drown care, but waters it and makes it grow faster.. Having been poor, is no shamo, but being ashamed of it, is. The wise man draws more advan, tage from his enemies th4n the fool from his friends. Keep conscience clear, then never - fear. Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disap appointet; strive to be the best, and you may succeed. Honest Toml You may trust him with a house full of untold mi.l stones. There is no man so bad, but he se-a oret,ly respeots the good. Courage would fight, but discretion won't let him. We are not so sensible of the great est health as the least sickness. A good example is the best ser-. mon. A quiet conscience sleeps in thun der, but rest and guilt livo far asun He that won't be counseled can't be helped. Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. What is serving God? Tie doing good to man. Time enough algays proves little' onongh. Hie that cannot boar with other people's passions, cannot govern his own. He that by the plow, would thrive, hi inself must either hold or drive. lie that keeps- his shop, his shop, will keep him. THE NEW SYSTEM.- " lia, be gani a second street woman the other mnorning as she laid aside the daily paper, "what is this new metric eye tern prioposed by Alexander Ste p hens?" "It is a very wise measure indeed, my dear, he rep)lied. Suppose you want a new dress costing one dollar per yard?" "Under the metric system yon write to your father in Wisconsin tor the money to buy it with. The money comes, you take half of it and buy me a pair of pants, and then you use the rest in purchasing fifty cent dress goods. Ih is a very good measbre, very good." "And they propose- to make it at law, do they?" "They do." "Well, sir!" shle exclaimed, show' ing a red spe:'on each cheek "whon the metric system comes into praQ's tice in this family, divorce will fol low, and Alexander Stephens 'is a fool, sir, a fooll"-Dett'oit Pree