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THE WEEKLY TIMES. 5<t?oti|d Igoitiqulturc, Doinqsfiq (gqonomj, f>olit??&tnrq* gotitiqs, uftd thq Current $eu;s of the gag. VOL. XIII.?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAjBB$NA, DECEMBER l7Ts82. NUMBER 48.' ' l - -fm mmnc u i .. .?i. .. .. .?. . . . . . _ - j_l? ur. ? ?L GOODS! \ J NEV STORE! M^^?fiGES! \ % # * + * *T> ECENT purchases in Oio Northern Cities JL\ enable us to "display to buyers a very LAUOE AND HANDSOME SELECTION OF SEASONABLE Fall and Winter * GOpDS, Adapted to the Wants and Tastes of this community. <(f We hare full lines of Goods in NEW STYLES AND FABRICS FOR LADIES' WEAR * **fyl!TII TRIMMINGS TO^SUIT. Cassimeres* Jeans and Kerseys, FOR MEN ANPSOYS. v ttiqjgrriER WITH "T^ r\ so nrvTTTin BUUTS g. SUUUS, tar ttjs, ' MEN AND B0Y8' CLOTHING. HARDWARE, GROCERIES, &C., &C. All the above goods we are offering at verj low prices, and thiilk it would be to the interest ot everybody to look at our stock before buying. CWCE & MC'LURE ^ : Mar6_ 18 tf Pure Medicines > Drug?, Perfumery, &c-, JW. rOSEY & BllO., have on band and are , constautly receiving additions to a Full Line o^|Tinnra fiThfl MpiI imnoa Paints, Oils and Varnish, '* Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Hair Oils .A Variety of Hair Dies & Restorers Tooth and Hair Brushes, . FACE POWDERS AND TOILET ARTICLES. Fancy Toilet and Laundry Squae. Pocket Books, Statione*$. Lamps of All Kinds, From the finest Swinging Hall Lamp to the wee little wincy tincy Brass Lamp. :o: A Pure Wines and Liquors, (For Medical Purposes,) Port, Claret and Blackberry Wines, Whiskeys, Brandies and Gin. Crab Apple Yinegar. :o: m n > t no o a *r r? ft T n A T>C? x yf j3 jol \j \j m jtx. it jj uxuaxvo. A Fresh Supply of HARDEN AND FIELD 8EED8, FROM FERRY ft Co., SIBLEY AND BUIST. Onion Seta, Jko. To Physicians "We hare ft few Ilypodermio Syringes and flelf-Registering Ferer Thermometers. we Ask the Publio To eali and examine our Stock. Work is our motto, and we ftro always ready to wait on customers w POHHV A ItRO. Opposite Union Hotel. FRESH GOODS AT MBS. SHOPPAUL'S, JU8T RECEIVED -o?c ^ French and Plain Candies. ^ Canned Salmon, Sardines, Oysters. " Fruits and Vegetables. Sam flake and all other tjraokers. Parched Coffee, Teas, Jellies, Spiees. Mackerel, Pickles, 8oda. Cigars, Smoking and Chewing Tobacoo. All kinds of Nuts, Apples, Lemons. s ' - Raisins, Currants, Citron, Fcg^t Bread and Cakes. I)looking and Matches. Soap,^Bkroh and Snuff. Fire Cream Cheea& Toys, and lota off 4rct nice things. CALL AMD GIVE ME A TRIAL. * MR8. M. SHOPPAUL. Sep 29 39 ff * i ADDRESS OF THE STATE DEMOCRATIC 1 COMMITTEE. . 1 The People Urged to Maintain the Organi- 1 zation of the Party, and Prepare by Trailing and Discussion for the Com> plex Issues of the Future. Rooms op tiie State J DemocraticExecutiveCommittee, > 'Columbia, S. C. November 22,1882. ) ( To the People of the State: The Statu j Democratic Dommitleo congratulate the ) people of South Carolina on the success , which attended the effort* of tho Democratic ( party to elect their candidates, and preserve | intelligent, just and economical rule in tho | State. It is especially gratifying to fho j committee to knew that pcaco reigned . throughout the State on election day, and ( that the conduct of the election, under the j stringeut provisions of wise laws, is unns- , sailed and unassailable. With the exeep- | tion of n singlo county, whero tho Democrats 1 placed no candidates in the field, the whole f State is in Democratic hands, and six of the g seven Congressmen are the regular candi- v dates of tho Democratic party. Thcro is ; undoubted cause for rejoiciug in such a t triumph us this, especially as, for the first , time since 1876,a determined cudcavor was s made to defeat tho Democratic party by joining the labors of a few malcontent whites j to the votes of the iguorant and prejudiced ( negroes. ( The political campaign on the part of our i opponents was marked by vulgar viruleuce, x and by unscrupulous vituperation of the most eminent uien in the State. The whole Dcuiocratie party was urruigucd and condemned for imaginary misconduct; audit was broadly asserted, iu dofh.nce of the facts or iu ignorance of the condition and the needs of the Stato, thrt tho time had couie when the D.-mocracy should be removed from power, aud bo succeeded by the combination ot contradictory elements which, animated by the expectation of public pluudcr, hud undertaken to oppose aud defeat, the Democratic party. The most shameful part of tho whole business is that the officers ot tho Federal Government, who are appointed for the pub lie service and whoso wages are paid by the people, gave unhesitating, unremitting and unscrupulous support to tho anti-Democratic candidates. The election fuud which was raised by assessments upon tho tens of thousands of persons ij tho Government service was used freely in South Carolina. The demagogues, who pitted themselves Mrainst the candidates of the Democratic 1 iiiototfcd v officers of tho Uulted States Governmeut, and by the money filched from the lean pockets of Governmeut clerks?whether poor or well-to-do, whether men or women ?iu every part of the country. Great as the difficulties of the political situation wero, the Democracy have elected their candidates as tho lawful aud legitimate Result of a just aduiiuistration, wise notninutiona and liberal priuciples. It is also a welcome fact that the manner in which Federal patronage has been abused is admitted to liavo had much to do with the political revolution in tho North and West at tho November election. The Stato Committee, however, a cannot be uumindl'ul of the circumstnnco r that thoro is in the plenitude of our strength g an element of weakness, and that the party | should prepare in time for a contest that e will be more severo than that through which the Democracy have passed. D The platform of the Democratic party e adopted in the State Convention last Au- t gust announces, in general terms, tho prin- ] eiples which should be tho rule of our t political action and conduct. Tho Demo- t craoy in that'platform demand economy with o efficiency in the conduct of the Qovernment, v popular education as tho bulwnrk of freo p institutions, honost home rule, fair trials by I impartial juries, reform of the civil service, a the prohibition of assessments upon the t public servants, for political purposes, for t any reason and in any disguise, a reduction v of the duties on imports, and the sacred t maintenance of the public credit, National I and State. Here is tho chart for our guid- g ance, and if our path bo illumined by tho c declaration that what wo most desire is \ "justice and equality in tho State, so as to t ensure harmony and good will between the races," aud that what wo look to and work ( for is an "indissoluble Union of indestruct- < ible estates, wo cannot go astray and shull be proud of our position as Democrats and as members of the party which represents the great principles of American progress. The Democratic party is the soul of action. It has confidence in man and an abiding reliance in his high destiny. It seeks the largest liberty, the greatest good. Its object is to build up the great interests of the many to the loast detriment of tho few. It remembers tho past without noglccting the present. It establishes the present without failing to provide for the future. It cares for tho weak and permit*? no injustice to tho strong. It is tho pioneer of humanity and the conservator of nations. It fails only when it ceases to be true to itself. We reoall hero tho essential prinoi_i n J i J t.__ pics 01 isciiiuuraiiu ihuu as ucuiarcu vy y Thomas Jefferson eighty years ago: "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peaoe, commeroe, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliancos with none; the support of the State Governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic ooncerns, and the sorest bulwarks against anti-Republican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole Constitutional vigor as the sheet-anohor of , our peaoe at home and safety abroad ; a jealous oaro of tho right of eleotion by tho people, a mild and safe dRrrcotive of abusos ' which are lopped by tho sword of revolution i where poaceable remedies are unprovided ; 1 absolute acquiescence in tho deoisioos of tho majority?the vital principle of rcpub- I lies, from which thcro is no nppoal but to ioruo, the vital principle and immediate )arent of despotism; a well disciplined aQ nilitin, our best reliahco in peace and for ;be first moments of war, till regulars may su olicvo them ; the supremacy of tho civil ?' >ver the military authority ; economy in tho of jnblic expense, that lubor may bo lightly ro jurdencd ; the honest payinont of our deb s iud scored.preservation of ti^e gublja faith ; ;ricoutfcgcinent *of agriculture aid of com- ~ ncrce, as its handmaid ; tho diffusion of in- 'u formation, and arraignment of all abuses SI kt tho bar of tho public reason ; freedom jj >f religion ; freedom of tho press ; and freedom of person under tho protecion of tho habeas corpus ; and trial by in urics impartially selected. These princi- wl lies form tho bright constellation which has th rone beforo us and guided our steps through jn ku ago of revolution an 1 reformation. Tho . visdom of our sages and blood of our heroes 0 lave been devoted to their attainment. m' They should be tho creed of our political sti uith, the text of civil instruction, the touch- ;s itone by which to try the eorvices of those ^ vc trust; and should v.e wander from them . n moments of error o# Of alarm, l?t us hasten j111 o retrace our steps and to regain the road in vhich alone leads to peace, liberty and th afety." # is A. more forcible exposition of Democratic tr( )rinciplcs is no where to bo found; When!ver and wherever they have been sh* guide P'1 >t tne party tncpartylias been successf ul, and re; ts success has been honorable to itself and de iseful and advantageous to the couutry. In the judgment of the State committee, ho active organization of the party in this State should bo continued, iu order that the an Democratic clubs may bo in full vigor when pr he time shall come for entering upon a new an aolitlca! campaign. The Democratic clubs Q0 :an now be made politicial schools, so to , ipeak, in which the pr nciplcs of the Demotratic party in their practical application rci ihall be taught nud explained. A genera ca ion of South Carolinians has grown up since jjj, ho secession of this State, and those who ;.j^ ind not seen the light when the first gun of ,he war was fired in Charleston Harbor are ut low of full age aud capable of casting bo heir.gvoto at populat elections. They Jol lave grown up in the midst of turmoil and pa excitement. War was their cradle, rc- . sonstruction their nursery, revolution the lt ittcudant of their early youth. For thorn, is for many who are older, the name of pa Democrat has uo special significance, be- an rend its local and limited meaning as the pv lesignatioa of thoso who possess the intellilyrg,! bti .. lilt? OIUIU. JTV IB luumpvuwiuiv IU H1C "? are of the Democratic party in South Car >lioa anu a paramount, necessity for the ed naiutcnanco of good government, that the an foung people of the State, and the older 'p| lien besides, shall become fauiilar with the Democratic faith as taught by the Fathers cr >f the Republic, and shall see in the Dotu* ^ )cratie party something nioiothan an agen- th sy for preventing misrule and for securing tei Icccnt government in the State. The whole j3 jcoplc should be made to understand that .. mly by tho assertion and supremacy of Democratic principlcscan the United States by >o maintained as the Republic of Republics, m; md that ouly through and by tho Domo- wj xatic party, which has been from the be[inning the party'of the people, can repubican institutions in their full vigor and ?* fficiency be maintained and'prcscrvcd. of There are many complex questions that by nust bo decided by tho people at the next ()p lection and the next, and it is needful that ho people shall pass upon thcui deliberatey and intelligently. The State Committee r,v topo, therefore, that the Democratic clubs th; hroughout the State will be made a means th< if instructing the people, so that evory good wa oter, by the discussions iu which ho shall larticipate and tho expositions he shall sc lenr, will be instructed as tojiis own rights bo ,nd the rights of his neighbor, his obligation It o himself and those around him, his du- i\l ics to the t'tntc, and his duty to the Union rhich our fa.hers in tho original. Thircen States formed and cemented with their scl >lood?the Union which, under Democratic It ;uidanco, shall be the homo of liberty and eft if piogrcss and of comfort lor all those who m) >y birth or by choice, have the privilege to >o culled Americans and freemen. James F. Izl.vk,Chairman. J. D. Dai an. J. Otey Kkko. 13 }. W. Cbopt. Jno. B. Ekwis. nu X P. sojourner. C. J. C. lIllTSON. 3. B. Oaky. Oeo. Johnstone. p 3. B. Mubray. C. St. O. Sikklkr. mi iVm mhmua r i' tnnn . - Villik Jones. Giles. J. Patterson. P. Srono Farrow. Jno. W. Williamson pe F. F. Hiiame. J. D. McLpcab. ad iVh. Elliott. . Job. II. Earlr. F. W. Dawson. , . rj Murker nrar IIock Hill?Rook Hill, Novem>er 20.?A murder was conrmittted yesterday 011 Sunday) about 2 F. M., fivo miles north of this place, on Mr. S. S. Milling's plantation. Lew* in s Felt us, colored, struck and killed Sandy )e: Workman, colored, with an axo. The wound vas in the left breast, about seven inches long, tutting two or three ribs and entering the heart ibout two inches. Workman lived only a few ninutes. As usual the quarrel was about a soman, th e- lo A Kind act.?The lady and her little infant, p( eft here destitute by the sudden arrest and |0 'emoval to New York of her husband, charged g6 sith horse stealing, went home to New York yes- au erday, on the steamship Santo Domingo, of the 8|( 3lyde Line, in care of Capt. E. C. Reed, by inritation of the proprietors of this line. This p, jonsiderate attention to an innocent lauy, left jc unexpectedly in a strange city, without friends >t means, was timely and muoh appreciated.? y*wt and Cowitr. ^ A Farmer's Qitarrel. ?Little Rock, November 22.-At Denton's Mill, Soott County, on Monday, ki a stabbing affray occurred between John M. Wal- p, Iter and Albert Crulohfield, two farmers. Both were terribly cut, Walker died yesterday of hi? Injuries, and it is believed Crutch field is roor- vi tally wounded. at ','<'^^Pw^^C9on9wlio eat ( ggs hav y extent of the trafBo in thct CCtt' 4^R>S)Pkfc?i8t delicacies. The lucreaf jB ?nd ite development 09 on the MtjSKftho country arj re all mark^H ijL journal that ha| institute r? f uJj^Bu' h?s r o^^jjjditi g the ami tor assert New Yoric#Ctty *;*2>ne 1101V auionnts *t i8,000,00# per annum. Throughout tli nion therd afo eaten 875.000,000 worth < ;g? each year. The improvements achieve importing permanence to that frcshncs liich is oho of the essential attributes 0 e egg to make it marketable are certainl geuioui. The recently invented proces Crystallization is one of tho most curiou ctho Is of guarding against this blight c lleurpss. 13y its agency tho natural eg cbungod into an ambcr-hucd vitreous sul ince, which, while reduced in bulk, h: ipartci to it the property of romiinin; edible condition for yeats and resistin e deteriorating effects of climate. Wb: more singular than this is that when thu jated the eggs can be transported to au ace Without injury, nud can afterward b stored to their orginal condition who sirable by adding the water which ha en artificially removed from too shell.lis simple process is called "desiccating, d the principal companies engaged in the eparing eggs arc situated in New Yor d St. Louis. It is said that neither aa! r extraneous matter is employed in pro icing "desiccation." The egg is uierel duccd, by tho removal of the water, to nsolid itcd mass of yolk ao l albumen.? :gs are also preserved by the process c iuiing," and thus preserved they may h ilizel for every purpose excepting that c iling. It is a custom of some unscrupu js dealers to palm these "limed" eggs o purchasers as "fresh country eggs," am can be done with ease and success. Ii c "desiccating" process such fraud is im ssible, for tho very sufficient reason tha egg tl^at is taiutcd, even though it b er so sightly, caunot be crystalizcd at al WarClodi , November 20.?It is repor , iu diplomatic circles that the Argentine J Brazilians are abiut to go to wu lie question at issue between the two go1 nmeuts is the samo wthat has kept Soul rncrica States iu a condition of turmc roughout the greater part of their exi nee. It isa question of boundary. Thoi a largo tract of territory called "tl issions," which has been held practical I the Argentine Confederation for a gre; my years. Brazil has set up a clain ilch has never been abandoned, that th ritory is part ofits possessions. The cuus tho controversy is a confusion in tho nam two rivors. There are two streams calle the samo name, one of which is soutl the disputed territory and the other norll ic Argentines claim that the norther or is the boundary lino uud Brazil claia it it is the southern. It is reported th: ) nations nre putting their armies on r foothiug and are purchasing war vc; s in Kuglaud with a view to pendin stilities, which may commence at any tim is understood that tho good offices of it nericuu ministers to tho respective go* umcntswill be proffered, with tho view * :tiing the difficulty without resort to arui is notczpcctcd, howevever, that thei 'oris vifill result iu a very long postpone jnt of the war. An Editor's Business.?An cdito a mule whose bizccss is to investigate ispapcr. lie writes editorials, grinds ou etry, inserts deaths and weddings, sorl nnuscript, keeps a waste basket, blows u o '"devil," steals matter, fites out othc ople's battles, sella h:s paper for a dolls id fifty cents a year, takes white beau id apple eass for pay, when he can get ii zes a largo family, works nineteen houi it of twenty-four, nozo no Sunday, gel mined bi everybody, lives poor, di( iddlc-ngcd and often broken heartci r? _ i:r? . fives no muDiiy, is rcwuruuu iur ? mu i il by a short but free obituary puff in tf ispaper.?Juth Billings. Thb Riout Wat.?If you think of anythir at can be done to beautify or build up yoi wn, go and do it. Keep your oapital at homt itroniie home industries ; help yourmerohan sell more so they oan soil cheaper. Al way 4 your work done in your own town if possibl bscribe and pay for your home paper, don eal or borrow the reading of it. If you folio ese suggestions and your town does not ir ore and build up it will not be your fault.tca StaU litgiiter. Absentmirxledness has been oonsiderc te mark of a great man, btfl a follow nevi els very big abotst it when he lugs a nn] in away front the table Id hiahandlterohi >ckct. * ? a. Db\tii or Tuublow Who.-NewYojk, wf mber 22.?Thourlow Weed died this niornin . Are minutes before ft o'clock. - -i- ? 1 - - i e Shall tiik Girl \Viiistlk ??Thequesie lion itf now asked why a girl uiay not whistle >e quite as ftiuch as a boy. This is followed 10 by tho question why a boy should be nllowy\ ed to whiffRu at all. To somo people, even d ;o for them to couccive'of it. Comparatively ic few girls whistle. They have naturally af thought that if it is thus for tho boys it id must be quite as bad lor themselves, is As whistlers the boys have generally done f themselves aud their art such iujusticc y that whistling as a means of making agrces able music, has not commended itself cither s to their parents or their sisters. A boy )f practices whistling not as a musical accomg plishmcnt, but, for tho most part, simply as )- a means of making a noiso. In this ho rents dcrs himself disagreeable, for noiso without ' music is seldom considered lovely. The g refinement of the girl is generally greater it than that of tho boy. She studies tho art ,s of making herself agreeable, while h?r y brother impudently expresses his lack of ic carc as to whether ho is agreeable or not. u The girl stops before learning to whistle, and s asks whether or not her whistling will make - her coyipany desirable. Having an idea " that it will not, she refrains, is The injustice which most boys havo done k to themselves in the matter of whistling, It aud which they have also iu consequence - done 1 lie girls, is that they have whistled y badly. Often there is no more t une iu their a whistle than if they were whistling to call - a lost or missing dog. This kind of whis>f tliug is not worth imitutiug, either by his c sister or his grandmother. If the girl >f eugages iu it she merely makes herself disl agreeable. On the other hand, if a whisif tlet of cither sex whistles a good tune in a J graceful manner tho result may be pleasant n enough. The whistling machinery is sus? ccptiblc of culture to a high degree. Those it who have doubts as to this will be convinced c on hearing a trained class of whistlers 1. either boys or girls. There are many organ pipes which ure not nearly as musical.as a well executed human whistle. If the girl will whistle well, let her whistle with the s largest liberty she chooses tocnj >y. There is nothing very demoralizing about it. ' ?l'/iilaifcfj>hui Times. ,11 Disfranchisement in Massachusetts 8. ?The Stalwarts were very vigorous in re their appeals to the people to keep them iu l0 power, iu order that there shall bo free ly suffrage in tho Southern States, and yet it (t is found that there arc ouly Gve States ij , ^ the Union in which there is a smaller pror8 portion of voting population to tho number Q of males than in Massachusetts. No man c can vote thcro uuless ho pays the Stato, ^ City or Couuty tax, and uuless he can read I tho Constitution and writo his name on the , registration list. This is Republican law,u making. If a man changes his residence i8 in Boston after May 1, his nauio is liable to u bo dropped from tho voting list. If he has a not paid his poll tax ho is disqualified. ? The collectors will not attempt to force him tf to pay it until after tho registration, when ~ he finds himself disfranchised. Thou they i(t will put him in jail if ho docs not pay, and he loses his vote allthcsame. T.iO number f of males of voting ago in Massachusetts Is 502,018, and at the election in 1880, the s_ * ' jr number of votes cast was 282,512. More than two thirds of the voting population was disfranchised by the tax and educational qualification. This is worse than in r South Carolina, where there is reason for a limiting the voto because it is a certain'y t that the uncontrolled vote of the whole negro is population would give the State Governp ment to knaves and fools and destroy tho sr peoplo by taxation. There is no such danir gerin Massachusetts, but nearly one-half of is the voters arc disfranchised by the Kcpubli" t, cans.?News and Courier. 8 A Draft of tiie Imagination.?"My t8 father, said Gilhooly,solemnly, "was more 's sensitive to colds than anybody I ever knew. 1. The slightest oxposuro gavo him ft cold." >f That must have been very disagreeable.' ie "Indeed it was. lie never could sit near n draft for a minute without catching a cold. I remember on ono occasion he was sitting in the office of a friend, whon all at once my father began to sneeze. Ho insisted ,r that there was a dratt in tho room. Every *5 effort was mado to discover where the draft ' was, but in vain. Tho doors and windows 8 were closed and there was no firo place, but *5 my father kept on sneezing and insisting 't thero must be a draft in the rocm, and so _ .i ?> ..tin >>* ??T_ .k. ?* mere was. ?i* nuru wan it: iu me n- cnvelopo on the table, and it was only a lit? tie draft for thrco dollars and forty cents." ? Texan Si flings. >d Too much responsibility : "Has yer got ;r any chilluns in dia heah houso V* asked Matilda Snowball of an Austin lady to whom ^ she wanted to hire herself as a cook and wash lady. "I hnvo only one child?a littlo hahy." "Den I ain't gwine tor hire . * myself to no family whnr darnm no chilluns, ft- or whnr do ohiliuns am so small dat all do ife stcnliu' tftrd dc breabin' oh do Ji>hes am put I off on me." ? Texas S flings. A Pki.ise Item.?"Jeptha," said Mrs. Jonc9, as she was writing a note to her dressmaker, with her mouth full of stub pens and an eraser, "how do you spell polico ?" Mr. Joues started and nearly dropped the paper he was r.ading. "Mercy, no ! I dou't uican that kind of r. ? police ; this is a garment something like a dress." ' Oh," s lid Jones, in a relieved voice, "well, I never heard of but one way 6f spelling the word p-o-l-i-c-e." "Yes," auswercd Mrs. J. thoughtfully, "that's the way I have spelled it, but there seems to be several uicauings for the same word." "Easiest thiug in tho world," mumbled Jones, with one eye on bis paper, "it means comfort, protection, &c." "Docs it ?" asked his wife, innocently, * "well, I never heard of the police comforting oi protecting anybody yet. I thought it was their mission to assault people?thoro ?she continued, placidly, "I'll send that note off this moment ; I hope Madame Bias will be at home." Shu was: tint 1 elirt nnirlit ' J "?*.? she opened Mrs. J'a nolo and road : "1 shall send the p-iVioo to day?be prepared." "It's the pieces !" she gasped when she came to, "a few miserable paltry silk pieces that I kept out of her last dress?saved in the cutting ! Well, if she ain't the meanest ! Run, Katv, and get them out of the trunk up stairs?the plush is made into a hat?she won't get that. Good hcaveus! What a hard time an honest woman has to get a livin' in this world !" It was Mrs. Joucs's turn to be astoni >ked, when in reply to her uote she received the following: deer Miss\Joues Herewith I sen you all, an every oaco in uii possession an i haf no more so help uio hi hcving You will Pleato to call off the Po Lice wich would disgraiso me forever Yurc tru friend Mary Jane Uias. Then Mrs. Jones hunted up a magazine des modes and found that police was spell-, cd in this connection pelisse, and she said it all cause of her being married to a man who couldn't spell ; but Jones takes a sly revenge by referting to his wife as ,:a distinguished member of the pclLse farce.? , Detroit Free Press. Systkmatic Mail Roiiukrif.s.?Denver, Co1., November 23.?There is no doubt that the mails between Denver and the Eastern Cities, particularly New York, Cleveland and Buffalo, are being systematically and successfully robbed. The New York and Eastern mail which left Denver December 20, 1881, never reached its destination. and since that time losses aro almost con Htantly being reported. The postal authorities claim to have been thus far so successful as to locate the trouble east of the Missouri River, but still robberies go on under their very eyes The real losses in valuables and currency can hardly be estimated, but the losses in drafts, bills of exchange and postal money orders will aggregate over $000,000. Of course theso lost are not real losses, but Denver banks an l business houses have been forced to make their transfer of money through express companies, much to their cost and inconvenience. The more recent robberies occurred on October 7, 17 and 31, and November 7. A Whiskey Murder in Kansas.?Fort Scott, Ks., November 22.?John M. Tilley, Win. O. Wright and Levi P. Blake got into an altercation at the farm of Tilly, near Memphis, in this county, on Tuesday evening, which resulted in Tilley shooting Blake, Killing him instantly. Wright and Blake were drunk at the timo, and were the aggressors. All were farmers and good men when sober. A Whiskey Murder in Pknsacola*?reii3a cola, November 22.?Martin* Villar, a pilot, was stabbed by Tom Qlannon last night in a drunken brawl at the Half-way House, on the Palafax street wharf. It ta feared the wound ia fatal.? Olannon is a runner for a sailor.boarding-houseIt is said he hnd no provocation, lie was arrested and is in prison. A Presentment.?Montreal, November 22.? Mrs. Stewart, whose husband was drowned in Lachine Canal some time ago, told a neighbor this morning that she was going to die during the day. She begged a woman to remain with > 1 - 1.-1 - I r I..! .U.. T.. , I, ? ner HS sue mm II Iiurrur ui "JIUK ??"? *> "? surprise of her neighbor she died shortly before 11 o'clock. Smallpox.?Chattanooga. Novemhsr 20. ?Reports of a smallpox epidemic at Chattanooga are absolutely false. There are some coses here, nut compulsory vaccination is being enforced ' and the disease will soon be driven out of the city. The negroes in Buckingham County, Virginia, have forcibly taken possession of the colored schools taught by whites and refuse to let them be continue! un'ess oolored teachers are em* ployed. 'What Ails This Heart or Sline," bends a story that is going the rounds of tho pnpars. We supposo ho saw his girl out rid* ing with another fellow. ??? ? ? Sixteen Kentucky newspapers hnvs g.\no "-L.? >l. ... ....it.:... ?,!. ? ,ki. .... TTIicrr inw m?wuunm ?"iuvm ?mio ?. * ,