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2i!ic "Solftlili) 'olnion 2fimts> 1 R. M. STOKES. Editor. J UNION, FRIDAY, APRIL 23 1886. 4 SUBSCRIPTION?SS 00 PBR ANNUM. ADVERTISING. Alll?y?l ndTfrtiiemcnts are published at tlie rate dent-ribed by law. Mf. 1). T. Black i? now burning a large kiln or Brick, and expects to use litem all in erecting new buildings this Summer. ?ofir We notice a few candidates are already announced in one or two adjoining counties. "The early bird,'' &c., probably induces them to take an early start. Mr. George Geddes, our very excellent artist in marble, has just erected a beautiful monument over the grave of our lamented young friend, II. Frank lUwls. It is a very beautiful piece of work, and docs groat credit to Mr. Geddes's taste and skill. . . Bftf- The llaptists have purchased a very desirable lot opposite the Mnle Academy, upon which they intend building a comfortable dwelling for their Pastor. This shows a liberal and progressive Christinn spirit that will grow steadily and bear abundant good fruit. w ? )?*lVe are pleased to learn Hint the peaches are not generally killed, but, except in some low places, we are nvnmiinl ? ?*>??. 1 ?? _ r ? gwu VI W|?. The apple, pear and plum trees are well loaded. If we do not Lave the predicted Easter frost, we shall hare a good crop of fruit. ' Next Sunday being Easter Sunday, the Ladies of the Episcopal church are preparing to decorate the building elaborately with flow- 1 ers, in comnicmoratiou of the resurection of our Saviour. The religious services on that day will be mora than ordinarliy interesting and impressive, and the choir is practicing to give aome new and very appropriate music. ?&r \Yc call the attculion of our readers to I Mr. Bewley's new advertisement. He is running a very low schedule in hardware, and proposes ' to gel it down to hard-pan. Mr. Bewley ia a courteous and highly deserving gentleman, and we are pleaped to know that he is winning his way to a fine patronage. Such men are worth keeping and encouraging. SOT We dearly love children ; and a much esteemed friend at Sanluc knows it, for she 1 brought a bouncing pair of twins to tLe office 1 for us to look at last Tuesday. They made 1 seven for the parents to provide "hog and hom- ' iny" for, und, from their healthy, hearty np- 1 pearnncc, we should think ihev can pnn.n . lots of it. May they never want a good 3 square meal of either. Wc can imagine a smile passing over I * tlie countenance of each of our Judges when 1 they read the compliment (?) passed upon < thoir judicial integrity by Mr. George Tupper, t the delegate elected to represent the Farmers l of the Dorchester club in the State Convention. 1 And Mr. Tupper wants these corf-opt- Ju4g%* j to bo elected for "life or goo<Lh?l?^*tor ! " We ' , can almost see tho Ilea. Judge'Wallace enjoying one of bis heartiest laughs over Mr. Tupper's consistency. To-day is Good Friday and recognized as a legal holiday. There will bo services in ( the Episcopal and Methodist churches, at the usual hour, this morning. ' Good Friday is celebrated in (ho Lutheran, ' Catholic and Episcopal churches as the anniversary of the crucifiction of Christ, and was formerly known as Holy Friday, or the Friday in Holy Week. The early Christians mention it < as a day of rigorous fasting aud peculiar solem- ( nity, and it wits customary nt that time to re- , lease public peuitents from their ban. In Englarfd, Germany aud Ireland, Good Friday is a legal holiday as well as a fast day, and in Rub- < eia and Catholic countries an altar in a separate chapel is decorated with all possible ncagnifi- j cence and called "the sepulchre." Thither , the consecrated hosts is borne in solemn procession on Iloly Thursday, and continues to be visited throughout the day by the congregations. On Good Friday morning the crucifix is approached by the people and kissed. In this country the services in the Catholic chuiches are of a peculiar and impressive character, and in the Episcopal churches the sermons are appropriate to the day?Sunday AVtrs. ? Death of H- J-ThompsonAfter a long and painful illness, from cancer in the face, Mr. Hollman J. Thompson, a man weU known throughout this county, died last Tuesday night, at his residence at Trough Shoals. The Bazaar Postponed' We are requested to stato that the Jlazaar to be held by the Ladies of the Methodist Church, to assist in finishing the Church Tower, baa been postponed from Thursday, the 20th to Friday, the 30th. We hope the new effort to finish tbo Tower ' will be successful, as in its present unfinished ' condition it is doiDg great damage to the beautiful edifice. Fersonal Mention. Misses Agnes and Mamie Iticc have returned home from Fish Dam. G. \V. Davis, of Columbia, is visiting hia friend E. P. McKissick. Messrs. If.- L. Ooss, E. It. Wallace, F. M. Farr, I). Johnson, Jf., C. C. Culp and Hon. William Munro, left here last .Saturday for Hoanoke, Va., to attend the Hail Itoad meeting at that place. A. F. McKissick is At home on a short furlough fromCollego. Mrs. W. McB Kloan is on a visit to her parents, Dr. and Mrs, J. M. Oibbes. Miss Sallie Ilix, tLe accomplished Principal of the Jonesville Academy, came home for a few daya last Friday. Miss J,ula Hemes, of Jonesville, was in town last week. We are glad to sec Mr. J. T. llill, Sr., once more on the streets, Mr. Hill has been on the sick list for some time and we are glad to announce that he is much better. Mr. J. L. Gaffney, recently of Gaffney City, bag moved his family to Union. We are glad to have Mr. Gaffney among us. Mr. P. F. Dawkins, now doing business at Woodruffs, cnlled on us Thusday. lie (ells us ^ that Woodruff is booming with business. They e have twenty-five stores there now, apd arc A building mare. J ?h? Farmers Convention. 1 It will be remembered that our only objecioa to the present farmers' movement was the < eature which certain politicians persistentlj i leman-led should be the promineot element in ts organization. We hare warned the farmers i bat bj incorporating that element in the more- I ment It would be a disorganizing element, as it would open the door for the most extreme politicians and sohemists to come in and capture the whole organisation, and divert it from the great and grand purposes which the farmers themselves intended and their unfortunate condition now demands. If the movement had been styled '-the Farmers political Association, it would, we beliove, have fallen still-born ; but under the attractive nair.e of "Farmers' Clubs" and "Farmers' Association," it has captivated the farmers and secured for it a respectable following from that eminently conservative clue of our citizenship. The convention next Thursday will presents motley assembly and, we fear, prove our warnings to be well grounded, judging from the different characters and occupations of the delegates elected.' There will be in it a majority of "simon-pure" farmers, then will come the landlord farmers? those who live upon the high rent they exact from their tenants?then the merchant-farmers, (he Dr. farmers, the Lawyer farmers, the Political farmers, the office seeking farmers, and our old friend, George Tupper, a simonpure democratic politician, broktr real estate agent and retired editor, who acknowledges that he does not own or work a farm, will be there to represent Dorchester township club, of Colleton county. 80, it will be seen that eTery element now in our Legislature, in about the same proportion as to occupations, will constitute the Farmers Convention, and we shall then see exhibited a practical illustration of the fitness, the influence and ability of selected representatives of the various vocations in discussing public mb&sures, and in conducting legislative business for the puhlio good. That reforms are sternly demanded no man of ordinary intelligence will attempt to question ; and we sincerely hope the farmers convention will formulate such a wise conservative, just and equitable scheme as shall commend itself to the good sense and approbation of all classes of the people. But if the time of the convention is consumed in listening to political cranks and schemists who have ridden into it on some political hobby or to gratify some indefinable theoretical whim, by which the farmers are to be benefitted only in the far-off future, its meeting will remit in more injury than good to the farming interest. We, however, sincerely hope that our Tears will be found groundless and that much practical good will be the result. Labor Trouble in Angnsta. The Presidents of the eight cotton mills of \ugustaare in trouble with their 3,000 employ- ( >3, who have, through the executive board of , the Knights of Labor, piesented a bill of griev- , wee to their employers. The Presidents have lent a temperate and liberal communication to the operatives, proposing a conference with them but positively declining to recognize any outside interference. Upon receiving the communication from the Prbidents of the mills the Knights of Labor held a meeting and passed the following resolutions : 'Whereas, our exeoutive board has been positively ignored by the mill presidents, and as it is positively contrary to our constitution for us to adjust any grievances other than through our executive board ; therefore be it resolved? 'hirst, That we, the operatives and employes of the mills, do absolutely decline to confer with the Presidents or any other persons except through our executive board. 'Second, That we endorse fully the action of >ur board. 'Third. That we forward to each of the pros taenia wnoae names appear on tbe circular distributed through the mills to-day a copy of these resolutions.' Colored Knights of LaborGalveston, Texas, April 20-?A special from Texarkana, says: It has been discovered that within the past three weeks the Knights of Labor have organized several colored assemblies in the vicinity of Taxarkana, both in Arkansas and Texas. The movement is regarded apprehension. And well it may be so regarded. A few days ago a dispatch from Mississippi slated that colored lodges have been organized in that State. If the organization should become general throughout the cotton belt, and the farmhands in this State should take a notion to strike for $20 a month and $1.00 a hundred for picking cotton just at the most critical times of cultivating and gathering the crop?an idea not altogether new among them,?what hope would be left to uur already impoverished farmers, for extricating themselves from their financial difficulties ? If there is no profit in raising cotton at present prices and present wages of labor, how will the farmers come out when it costs them GO to 100 per cent, more? rhis is a serious question, and should receive terious thought now, before the matter has , (one to far to be met peaceably, r*. I Monthly Agricultural Bulletin. Ms. Editor.?Enclosed please find a package ( >f the Monthly Bulletin giving tests of varieties ] >f cotton made during the past three years on 1 .he Farm of the Agricultural Department of j the South Carolina College. ( You will be kind enough to give them to I any of our farmers who may feel interested toough on the subject to call for them. There are several farm lessons to be learned horn these experiments, particularly by those i who wish to make similar tests for themselves. I ')ne very important point is most forcibly illusrated, and that is the very great importanc# I md necessity of having a perfect stand and the t ess the farmer sustains for the want of it. < It will be gratifying to Union County farmers i o see that in a test of fourteen different vari- I dies the Thomas seed sttood fourth in list. I Pk? ? . 1.; _ - A a A ik. i. ik* J a. i uo 1UVUISO UIWIIU5 ? VT IVO IV IUO ?urp ?nu mo 'eterkin (the highest) making 480 lbs of lint 1 0 the acre. ] Any Farmer sending Lis name to Dr. I. M. 1 dcBryde, South Carolina College, Columbia, I. C., will receive these monthy Bulletins as hay are published, Very truly D. P. DmcAjf.' ' It will not disappoint you. It is the best rtiole known for purifying the blood and bulling up the health and strength. For 26 years rysipela* broke out in blotches on my face. I >und no cure until I used Parker's Tonio two egrs Ago. It is the medioine for me?-E. C. H. rha Road from Charlotte to AugustaUnion sent the strongeat' delegation that sould have been selected in the county, to repleaent her interest at the llnilroal mooting at Roanoke last Tuesday. They will also represent the most eligible and cheapest route for building the railroad. If the Baltimore and Ohio road is at the back of the scheme, those two important advantages will hare more weight in locating the line than the assumed importance of any city or town between the termini of tho road. A great through line, like the one proposed, always builds up and makes cities towns and business along its own track. _ Col. Foreacre, former Superintendent of the Air Liue lload, once told us that after deterinining where the terminus shall be, the projectors of all great through lines then select the most eligible und cheapest route for building the road. After that their great aim is to build up the country through whioh it passes. That plan is most forcibly and successfully illustrated in the building and management of the Air Line road. While Spartanburg and Greenville have increased in population, business and wealth, all along the line of the road thriving villages have sprung up, hanlsocie residences, commodious churches, flourishing sohools, and a general appearance of enterprise and thrift are visible every few miles, while the property for twenty milos on either side of the road has increased from '20 to 600 per cent in value. , Our observations of railroad building is, i that when they aro built and controlled by cities or promiscuous initiviUual subscriptions, there is but little back-bone to them ; they are cramped for means, and arc either run in the interest of the point where the most money has been subscribed or have their termini at unimportant points and are subject to the exactions, delays or interest of roads they may intersect, to tho injury and inconvenience of intermediate points and pass.engers ; but when built and managed by railroad companies, of long through lines, especially, there arc no local preferences to gratify or consult, and the influence and efforts of tho company arc exerted to the utmost to make business for the road all along the line, by encouraging an increase of population, an increase of industries nud an increase of business at as many points as possible throughout its whole length. ? Borne Fancy FiguresOur friend of the Columbia Rrgiitrr makes the following brilliant cotton showing of the work of the Southors farmers for the past ten years, and asks some very pertinent questions upon it. In the first place, if there has been any money for the farmers in cotton at 10 cents, it is a mystery where it has gone to. But if there is no money in cotton at 10 cents, why in the name of common sense do they continue to raise it, particularly with prospeots ofnot gettingnine cents for tho next crop. With such an aggregate showing as the RegUter makes, it certainly docs seem that our farmers "ought not to be begging around for money and advances" to make their crops. But it will be ever so until the lien law is repealed and the price of money is reduced to a reasonable standard. But who is to blame for tho deficit in the produot, and Jhn price^the farmers havfc to pay for lAm, but the fsfffvrs themselves f They aro the only persons who can produce them, and if they are kept poor and dependant because they oannot make money raising cot'on at 10 cents and buy their supplies, are they not keeping themselves poor, by continuing such a policy? Tha Regitter very plainly shows why the southern "farmers are as they are," and, as we bats often said before, all the political reforms which can be inaugurated cannot better their condition so long as they allow such an enormous amount to leak out and be dissipated. They have made in the ten years ending with andinoluding 1884, some 07,314,000 bales. This they have sold in the home markets at an average of ten cents per pound, which foots up for 10 years in cotton alone $2,C98,5U0,000, or nearly two thousand seven hundred million of money. Did men ever make a better showing under the circumstances? Ought our farmers, if they have got anything like their own to want a dollar to conduct their business with? Ought they to be begging around for money and advances from any man ? What has been the matter? Our farmers have had to buy at least four-fifths of the food deficit for their consumption, other classes consuming the rest. We see in the ten years a grain and flesh defioit amounting to $1,670, 000,000. This shows for our great planting class in the period an expenditure of $1,336, 000,000. If this has cost the planters 120 per cent, more than it could have been bought for with the cash or at fair rates, wo see $267,000,000 sunk and gone out of our great Southern production in ten years. Put that in the planter a hands to-day, and where would they be? The truth is, this enormous loss has leaked out and been dissipated over the whole Union, and hence our farmers are as they are. Newberry- Grrs tiie Roan.?Newberry, April 19.?Mr. James Y. Culbreath received a letter from President Mitohell, of Augusta, to-day, accepting the offer of (50,000 made by Lhe citizens of Newberry when Col. Mitohell eras here on the 10th in order to secure the Augusta. Rdgefleld and Newberry Narrow nUa:i.A.4 ?? ? J* -a a_ 0> mau^o imiiiiiiiiu, uil k"? uncut rOUlO 1T0IH Edgefield to this place. Col. Mildnell expects to start from Augusta on (lie 21st with the engineers, and begin the surrey nnd continue until he reaches Newbcrny. 1 suppose an election will be ordered in the two townships in this county soon.? Cor. Nexct and Courier. Maj. Bioes Newspaper Extracts. We gire in another column a few of the newspaper extracts which Maj. Rice, in his article last week requested us to publish, bqt for want of spaoe, we co uld not then comply. We intend to be just and fair to all who wish to ase our oolumns in respectful and manly dissuasion of matters of public interest, whether our opinions are in accord or not, which, we think all will will allow, is abundantly verified in Maj. Rice's case, for some months past. We would now he willing to publish all the selections of Maj. Rice, but they would fill at least three columns, and we cannot spare that ipace. Vsrt Remarkable Recovery.?Mr. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester, Mich., writes: 'My rife has been almost helpless for fire years, so islpless that she could not turn over in bed alone, the used two bottles of Klectrio Hitters, and is 10 much improved, that she able now to do her >wn work.' Electric Bitters will do all that is claimed for hem. Hundreds of testimonials attest their (rest curative powers. Only fifty cents a botlsat J. W. Posey. 1 Undo Billy Speaks to "White Man-" Fkikm) Stokes : It was my purpose not to write any more for the present on the whiskey question. But a maxim in war is, "never do what your enemy wants you to do" impells this article. The writers on tho whitkey side have plead with united voice that we on the other side will stop writing up the subject. Brother Kli begs us to keep tbc further discussion out of the papers. Now conies While Wan and with a wail of piteous weakness says do stop writing for the papers. Thanks to you, Mr. Editor, for a fearless paper that makes itself to be dreaded both by demagogues and whiskey advocates Go on, sir. You arc driving home and clinching nails in right places. Stop, please stop?1 echo the prayer?do slop the discussion says Whito Man. Your side must be badly worsted in the fight. You seem to bo down under your load in the mud aud out of soap for a clean up. No wonder you beg for quarters. But we dare not do what we know the enemy wishes us to do. So in answer to White Man's wail to don't, I notice bis opinion, that "there was as much whiskey sold in tho county when Union was a dry town, as when it had open barrooms and more when strictly dry, &c." That is, the drier you make tho town the wetter you make it. It must be grently to the increase and profit of the whiskey business, according to Whito Man, to have the town dry. There is more whiskey consumed when strictly dry than when wet. That's Whito Man's opinion. Well, why object to dry, if it increases the business of your side? Your opinion is too thin, sir, even to find honest lodgment in your own mind. Your opinion is not even your opinion, nor any body else's, for if dry did, as you say, so increase the whiskey business, why do you not advocate dry as the way to increase your busi. ncss ? Why go round sniveling and crying do stop the discussion, if dry helps your side to an enlarged business ? 'White Man says "Prohibition has been tried in a number of States 'and any one at all posted knows that it has proven u "signal failure." This is a reckless assertion, that shows White Man is not posted himself and therefore not competent to speak. . Or, if posted then he is not reliable and still incompetent. Prohibition, a signal failure ! I challenge the proof, and if he is as posted as lie claims, he can give it. We want no bald assertions. The issues arc too important. We mean business. Give us facte not mcro assertions. Give places, States and Towns where these signal failures have occurred. Be careful to specify. Leave 110 gaps down, for we will find them and drive out this curse and make you yet believe that Prohibition docs prohibit. And I hold myself ready to answer, Mr. White Man, with facts and statistics showing that prohibition has not failed, but is a marvelous success to-day. There is a partial success only in such places as Union, we admit. But its end is at hand. An incensed and outraged town will find officials that will not be recreant to their trust, ere long, and will show that prohibition does prohibit. Mr. Editor, lias the time not about come for a meeting of the citizens, to request our official servants to move on the whiskey shops and beer saloons or to step down nod out, and to put y<vrti?ia?aiiv ^riu umlie jome effort to en""force tho law/ Why, it is cbmmon to hear It said that the Council know that bonds of saloon keepers have been forfeited. That somo of its own members can furnish proof of for" fciturc. What a condition have things come to? Mr. Editor, 1 heard a quiet, peaceable christian gentleman say, some two months ago, "are we to sit down here and allow a few roughs to rule^this town and dofy the Law and the wishes of the majority ? Efcry body knows these beer saloons ore selling whiskey. Our Council knows it. It is now conic to that point when I am about ready to join any dozen good eitizena and go to these Baloons and just give them so many hours?not days?to remove their beer and whiskey from the Town." That showed tho cyclone was gathering. Another man, not a church member, said more recently, "the time for uction lias arrived. I aiu willing to go withu half dozen good men and say to the saloon men you have no license. You have forfeited it. Now you must clean out this business from top to bottom from beer to whiskey, and do it instautcr." They have defied and overthrown the law ; let us show them that our patience is about exhausted. These th? tl.nl ?Ml nllJL. UIC iuu IIIIIUVIIII^ U1 IHV DiVIIH mill TTlUBliri&O somewhere. Those in guilt look out for the lightning. Mr. ?. I have no time now, or you the space, for me to reply in full to White Man'a further utterances. His declaration that the culture and leading papers And money are all on the side of high license, is not and cannot be sustained by the proof, bet him bring it or confess that he is unworthy to speak for either side. I have just time on this point now to add that the curse of high license is, of all ovils the very worst?worse than free license to any town or community. When necessary I am ready to prove it. White Man charges to prohibition the sins following: 1st. That it encourages some to violate the law by sell'ng whiskey on the sly. 2nd. That it encourages others to practice deception, &c. Such stuff ! ! ! Powerful arguments against prohibition, that it encourages tome to violate the law and some to lie to get a drink. That is bad. Better far, have no Prohibition and then yo? won't encourage such violations of law and lying. Better have no Prohibition but high license and low barrooms, and gambling hells, and indecent streets, and riots and rows and billingsgate, nil, just bccausb it is more to the taste of "White Man." Oh! that it should be the taste of any Man, much less a wbite man. By the wny, this White man seems to know a great deal about the depots and the whiskey that comes through them, and the increase of UIO WIIIBRV/ UBBIUIKI B1IIOO IU> IUHU ftcui ury, I suggest to the Council' that lie would make a good witness, if thej icant any, to prove violations of law. Hut don't send to the country among farmers, us he claims to be, to find him. His ear-marks betray him. He is nearer home. Watchmnn, what of the night ? It is fall of promise. Already we sec a town awaked to a I sense of the outrage perpetrated on it by a few ' law breakers. Already the beer srloons are < much more cautious as to whom they sell to. | Already drunkenness is decreasing, Already the business would be ruined If we could just get a tittle back-bone in some places where , there is none. We are making one, we will ] soon have it done, Stiff and staunch, and then ] prohibition will prohibit, to the satisfaction of | all who seek the good of our village. I Uxclx Billy. t Haj- Sloe's Extracts. The vote of the club was teken, resulting in tha unanimous aleotion of Col. Tuppar as tha k| delegate from Dorchester township to tha Farmera' Convention. Col. Tapper arose, amid great applause, and gave expression to bis thanks for tha uneoliot- . led hror so unexpectedly bestowed upon hior. Ha spoke at length upon tha naeeasitlaa of tha ? day and the duties required of tha people at c< this hard season whan all seems dark .and r( gloomy, especially to the bone and sinew of tha Slate. Prominent among these duties, ha said, w was organisation and concerted action. The P' farmers bad called a convention, and they have 01 violated no law of the laud in doing so. They were going to meet together to devise ways and means of bettering their condition and of thus elevating all useful olssses. He felt assured kl that the Convention would conduce to the publio good and tend to bring about a wholesome reaction in affairs. And he said: "And now, fellow oitisens, look at the judiciary of our cs State. Ought not our Judges to be eleoted for life and during good behavior ? I think so, for I have nolioed that lawyers who are members w of the Legislature have more influence iu eourt, are more courted by Judges, and are generally more successful in their doubtful oases, than lawyers of superior attainments wlft si are not in the Senate or tbo House In fact, th the member has the ear of the Court. The 0] Judge wants his vole, (hat's what's the matter. . The whole system is demoralising, and who 111 then doubts that I he Judges are sometimes tampered with. I might net hesitate to approach them myself if I was in the General Assembly. (Laughter.) All save Judge.Pressley, ui "present company excepted." (Applause.) tl As their delegate to this Convention, he would jj endeavor to carry out their wishes to the fullest extent. Ilis sentiments were too well known to need repetition, but at all times he wouia ao ins wnoieautyasa uemocrat, in opposition to confederated Kings and Cliques that dominate over our unfortunate Slate, and have d lowered it deep down in the mire of degrade- t] tion. (Applause.) tl Going to Get There Too!?If we remember w correctly, the Straight Out Mpvement began in w this State very much as the Farmers' Movement has begun. Vigorous newspaper articles from Edgefield, and n few ringing speeches, a rattling fire cf opposition from the wiseacres of the State press, and protest and ridicule s< from leading men and correspondent marked bi the start. The Greenville New* was one of the h first newspapers to fall Tnto line with ^ Edgefield. Sotno of its contemporaries handled the movement tenderly and gave it half- n way countenance, just as they are doing with the Tillman movement now. The Straight-Outs were laughed at. They were variously described as shot-gun democrats," "wrockers of the 1 State," fools and lunatics. But they got there w all the same. We believe the Farmers" Move- b ment is going to get there too.?Greenville Newt. u The Good or the Greatest Number.?Some people are so apt to impute impure motives to the action of others. Mr. Tillman, of Edgefield, who, by all accounts is a most successful far- p mer, came to the conclusion that there was too little done in the State for the farming class of people, and commenced tbo agitation of a Far- 0 mere" College, which idea was at once seized tl hold of by those interested in the farming inter- << ests and heralded over the State. The farmers all over the State were at once aroused to the importance of the subject, and each county in turn became interested. The question assumed ^ such proportions that the politicians became alarmed, and, in order to stop its further considerations, because they wero not the origins- st tors of the enterprise, cried: "Oh, it is only a political move?Mr. Tillman wants an office." Such unjust imputations are unworthy the considers: ion of the good people of the State, b should not be countenanced anywhere. What matters it who makes the move, so that the end . in view is for the good of the greatest number? 1' Colleton Prett. No Regard roa the Paon.a?We believe that our nominating conventions and our Legists- . tares have disregarded the wishes of their constituents, ?nd we believe some of the city news- n papers have not only not been watchful of the v interests of the Farmers, but have jeered them and ridiculed them or their representatives as being "three for a quarter." Prett and Banner. GATHERINGS. C Ellis Williams, colored, who was arrested C and put in the guard house at Anderson for some improper conduct in the presence of C ladies, was taken out by indignant citizens, and 150 lashes put on his bare back with notice C to "git." He is supposed to have "gotten." Isaac Ileyman, of Chester, has a goose egg a 8 foot long. Geewhillikins! i Charleston is to bare an art exhibition soon. * The Floral Fair begins next week in Charles- y ton. The State Convention of the Y. M. C. A. of I South Carolina was held in Columbia last week. A Farmers club has been organized at Oleoo j Springs, with the following officers: President, ?. Smith, Vice President, J. W. Stribling, and y Secretary, II. E. Williams. Henry Carson Jr., recently killed four wild I turkeys at one shot in Abbeville county. They weighed 40 pounds altogether. A The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor of South Carolina, will hold its 10th annual session in Georgetown, on April 21st. The County Commissioners of Newberry have 8 decided to repair the Court House. 0 The Farmers Convention of the State of South Carolina, will convene in Columbia on April tl 29th. P Dr. J. C. Maxwell, the present Senator from C Abbeville county, positively declines re-election. P He has represented Abbeville county many g years in the Legislature, and a better man cannot be often found. E Who will comnose the tioket to be nut in the field by the Farmers Contention ? B. K. T., can't you tell us T p * * I Another Cyclone.?St. Louis, April 16.?A o Skidmore, Missouri, speoisl to the Post-Dit o patch says a fearful cyclone passed oter Monroe 1; township, Nodaway county, Missouri, last otening, destroying dwellings and outhouses and killing thousands of dollars' worth of stook. Three persons were killed and many injured. It Many of the wounded are not expeoted to lite. h St Louis, April 16.?A dispatch from St. a Joseph, Mo , says : A destruciite cyolone pas- F sed over Burlington, Mo., last eremng. The d railway station was blown to atoms and great tl damage done in town and in the surrounding o cuuuir/. inu uojro living near (OWD were n killed. Many other persons were seriously in- II jured. There waa a heavy thunder storm at Louisi- fi ana, Mo., at 11 o'clock this morning. Fred. L Elye and Robert Stewart were struck by lightning at the saw mill of the Freeman Manufacturing Company. Stewart was instantly killed, g * * 7 a A Tie vp in Baltimore.?Baltimore, April R 16.?At noon to-day the officers of the Knights c< of Labor ordered a tieing up of all the care of the Union, the Peoples' and the Central Companies, is and the work was done as rapidly as the cars reached their stables The police authorities were at once notified and. forces were sent to j all the stables to protect the property of the companies, and any persons who decided to accept employment. These inolude all the lines of the city known aa "bob tail," and leaves the lines of but two companies running. No demonstration of violence has yet been made ai The entire police, nearly saven hundred men, is on duty, and any attempt at violence wil\ l,e promptly suppressed, w! Momst to Carry or thb Btriks.? Fhilaorlpiiia, April 16.? Grand Master Workman Powderly has to-day issued a ciroular to all da members of the Knights of Labor, appealing to them to contribute every dollar they can spare a<! to belp oarry on the strike in St- Louft and filially and the Southwestern railroads. *d * __ Oor Buuday Column. ' Look not every man on hia own things, but so upon tho things of othors. 8ome pray for holiness as if it woro someling entirely apart from their every-dny life, unething that had nothing to do with their induct in their domestio, social, and business stations. They sing "Nearer My God to Thee," ith glowing ferror, but never tliink that the rayer can be answered only by uplifting their *n lives to the plane of God's requirements. holiness means anything at all, it means sing true, honest, upright, gentle, patient, ind and unselfish.?S. S. Timet. There are things from which a man cannot , cape if he wouldthere are voices from tho ithful or unfaithftil past which pursue him horevor he roes In all charity believe that your brother deres to hold only Christ's truth ; but be sure iat you hold it yourself, whether he holds it r not. This is the best undcnominafionalitm i the world.?Spurgeon. The tyranny of capital in the hands of mean en leads to the tyranny of mobocracy. Add le fury of drunkennoss, and you have tho conitions that will make a real crash some day. Fitzerald. High license is surrender to tho whiskey evil. There will be no strength in the blows tat men will strike, nor forvor in tho prayers iat women will pray, for success in a contest here no vital principle is involved. Away ith the cheat!?Exchange. IIow will the man, who cannot epjoy tho srvices of tho earthly sanctuary every Sabith, manage to ciyoy tho services of tho eavenly sanctuary, where every day is a Sabatli, and tliero is no night ? Nay, sir, tho ew nature must bo secured here. The Supreme Court of Georgia has affirmed to decision of the Superior Court agaiust the hiskoy men of Atlanta. Tbcy have boen eaten at every point and yet further litigation iay be hnd. The devil dies hard ! Tho communist denounces the ownership of roperty as a crime, then insists that it is an utragc that he does not come into possession f a bit of nn estate himself. He is opposed to lie ownership of property?in others. ? TFV* rn Paper. Tho total receipts of the American Bible ocicty for February were $35,464.43. The ital issues from the Bit^e House during the me month were 00.440 volumes. The N. Y. Tribune says: ' 'The liquor traffic olds a mortgage oyer every cradle and a deed rittcn in heart's blood over every human fe." Whatsoever thy hand findethto do, do it with liy might ; for there is no work, nor device, or knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, rhither thou goest.?Bible. 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