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XVIII?New Series. . UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 29, 1887.' l" /' NUMBER 17.
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THE STOHY OF A DEAD TOWN.
At a time and a place there was a village.
It was scattered over beautiful
green hills, nuiODg groves and sections of
woodland, the houses were divided by cultivated
fields and connected by sociable
foot paths. A decrepit railroad joined it
to the outside world through intervening
miles of hills, valleys and virgin forests.
The village was happy and pcacoful; its
peopio wero frugal, honest and thrifty.
A few of thorn were ambitious and they
ttrrcd tho tillage from its long and pleasant
slumber to tho effort needed to bring
to it the main line of a great railroad.
Then the Tillage woke to ucw and busy
life. It spread and grow; new houses,
stores, waro houses, churches and factories
went up as fast as brick could be laid
and nails could bo driven. New streets
were opened, new people crowded in from
every direction, tho noiso of industry was
loud and constant and trade rushed to it
as a centre from a wido expanding territory.
Business of every kind was booming,
and as tho village grew to a town
and tho town became a oily, the citizens
became prouder and moro sanguine, and
hardly knew a limit to their hopes.
After a while troubles came. Railroads
pooled and destroyed froight advantages;
bad crops further lessened trado; panics
paralyzed the business of the country, and
every industry languished and suffered for
money; some of the city's people who had
invested in local enterprises suffered severely,
but the city retained an abundance
of cash capital for her needs; her merchants
maintained their standing and
credit and their conditions appeared to be
wholesomo and hopeful.
They appeared to bo so, but they wore
not. The town was dead. Its people
had lost their public spirit, courage and
energy, and sooial, political and commercial
lends bad taken from thorn tho power
of acting together. Those who bad monoy
kept it or invested it away from the place
it bad been made. The few who remained
hopoful and ambitious had those qualities
gradually crushed out of tly'lbj re^"^gamzauons
formed foV tho public welfare
perished for the lack of quorums ; all at
'tempts to hold publio meetings perished ;
enterprises were suggested and urged and
nobody could bo got to consider them or to
risk a dollar on tbem ; nobody would put
out any money otherwise than on mortgages
with secured ten per cent. Nobody
would leave hones or counting houses or
let go a dime for the public advantage.
Timj went on. The town did not stand
still. Its trading territory gradually
shrank. Other towns to tho right, to the
left, before and behind drew her trade. Merchants
closed their doors and departed as
their trado dried up ; as young men grew
up they went away to find more lifs aud
better fields for labor ; one industry after
another was removed; fires destroyed somo
and there was nobody to restore them ;
owners of burned property collected their
insurance money and carried it with them
clsewhero, glad to leave. Tho town dwindled
and dwindled. One street nfter
another was captured by grass, weeds and
brush. Second growth woods closed in on
all sides, leaving the clearing smaller each
year.
Empty stores and dwellings stood in
long rows, silent and desolate, with the
rank growth of weeds overshadowing tho
roses and flowers rooted in happier times
by tho care of hands then far away or
cold in death. Of the factories, churches
hotels and warehouses only the walls, with
empty spaces where windows had been and
rotten floors and roofs remained. The educational
institutions were in tho samo
condition, having peiished for lack of
strong local patronage that gave them lifo.
It was a court house town and it gradually
settled down to its Btartiog point around
it* county buildings, post office and boarding
houses. It had become a flag station
on the railroad at whioh nobody stopped,
and in its littl egroup of stores the proprietors
yawned and played checkers among
their dingy stocks all day and plowed thoir
several ways home at night across the
wrnd grown lots of houses where bats and
owl*, snakes and lizzards bad found homes.
Tho arrival of a wagon was an excitement
which brought every man to his door.
A smarter, ngwer nod brighter town in
the county at last captured the court bouse
and jail, the post office of the old town
was abolished and the last inhabitant fob
lowed thoso institutions?all save one. lie
was a wealthy property owner in the besl
days of the town ; he had nover attondec
a meeting or gathering of any kind, boinf
too busy by day and too tired by night
and withal dreading a subscription list 01
an application to take hold of some new
thing. But his faith that somebody
would do something without his help, o
which he would reccivo mo3t of tho benefit,
had never faltered. Tho land where
the towu had Mood was too much cut up
and eooutnbcrcd for agricultural use and
was left wild, end the Last Inhabitant
wandered alone through weeds and brush,
groves of pine saplings and lines of vino
covored ruius, holdiug tenaciously to his
faith. Ilis fellow citizens, tho snakes,
were grateful to him for providing them
such congenial aud secluded homes and refused
to bito at his bare feet. Tho attention
of tho authorities was attracted to his
case and he was taken up one da; and carried
away to tho poor house.
As tho wagon climbed a long rod hill
overlooking the towu at sunset that day
and the Last Inhabitant lookod back at
tho desolation and silcnco, where, in days
gone, his eyo had seen the light of tho descending
orb flashed back from thousands
of windows, and his ear had caught the
whistles and humming an 1 ringing of factories
and all the soundB of happy and
busy life?as ho fooked back ho dropped
his head iu despair at last, and said, 'The
old towu is dead.'
'It has just finished decaying,' said the
driver, who was a thinker. 'You and
your like killed it ton years ago.'
Such things have been; such thiugs
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i*m%mj uvj uuu nuu buu WUUiblUIlO ?U UC&VU UC*
scribed continued, such a thiug will be.?
Greenville Ncics.
Maruied Women's IIioiits.?The decision
of the Supreme Court filed to night
in the case of Aultuian, Taylor & Co. et
al. vs. J.N. Rush and Eugeuia J. Rush,
will make a great sensation in the State
and unsottle many business transactions.
It is to the effect that a married woman
oannot mortgage her separate estate for
the debt of ber husband or any other person.
The decision is a very long ono and
cannot bo copied to.night, but a harty
canning of it enables the liurcau to furnish
the following outline ;
Tho action was founded nn tirn nnlm
given by defendant and his wife for the
purchase r.f a steam engino. These notes
WSre secured by a mortgage on a tract of
ruui n?frtfcin? irtthu, H
the wife, which niortgago was executed by
the wife, her husband joining therein.
Two defences were put up : First, breach
of contract ; second, no liability on the
part of tho wife on the notes and mortgage,
she being a married woman. Tho
master of equity, to whom the caso was
referred, reported that there was no breach
of the contrae. In this report the Circuit
Judge (Hudson) concurred. The master
also reported tho defendant's wife liable,
both by the terms of tho statulo and because
tho contract was for the benefit of
ber separate estate. The Circuit Judge
did not concur in the last branch of this
second section of the roport, but eustaincd
the master in tho first, holding that the
liability of the wifo was fixed by the mortgage,
and he ordered a foreclosure.
Tho Supremo Court says: 'Tho main
question in tho caso is as to tho liability
of tho wifo on her mortgage, or rather,
the liability of her separato estato for a
debt contracted by her husband, to which
sho was a party, and to sccuro which she
executed the mortgage in question, although
the said debt was not contracted
for the benefit of her separato estate. This
brings up squarely the question whether a
married woman can mortgage ber separate
estato for a debt not contracted for its
benefit * * * Tho boundary of tbc
question is the Constitution and the Act of
the Legislature upon the subject of the
'rights of married women.' The Court
theu proceeds to examine at length tho
constitutional provisions contained in Article
14, Section 8, as follows : 'The real
and personal property of a married woman
held at the time of her marriage, or that
which sho may thereafter acquire, cither
I f. * * *
uy gui, gram, mncriianco, acviao or otncrwisc,
shall oot bo subject to levy aud sale
for her husband's debts, but shall bo lu-ld
ns her separate proporty and may bo bequeathed,
devised or alienated by her the
same as if she were unmarried.' The provisions
of hw touching upon the question
arc also exhaustively discussed and the |
Court decides that the married woman has
not the right to mortgage her separate estate
for a debt not contracted for its benefit.
Thejudgmont of tho Supreme Court
is that the judgment of the Circuit Court
i be revised and that the ease be remanded
, with leave to plaintiff to apply behw for
. judgment against tho defendunt; J. N.
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i iiuin iui iiiu amount auo on the note.
^ Chief Justice Simpson delivered the opin|
ion. Justice Mclvcr Glcs n, dissenting
r opinion.
The practico of having a wife's separate
^ estate mortgaged to secure her husband's
r debts has been very prevalent in
f South Carolina and this decision will upf
set it abruptly.
Good Advice, Gratis.?Is it bettor to
put tbc best foot foremost, as far as poverty
is conceroed, dress, go out and give
parties, play tho fine lady or geotiemau,
cash or no casb ; or is it bettor to own right
up to the siu of poverty, and trust luck for
being woll treated ?
Let's see ; If over wo did roason a matter,
we would this, uow; but being only
one of tbo 'weaker vessels,' and a poor
specimen at that; wo never did sit down,
wun our long lace on, and reason like a
man?it isn't in us. We only 'jump at
conclusions,' and jump into hot wator sometimes;
but we can boast of having had a
rich experience, nud if anybody who is,
unfortunately, poor and proud, would liko
to hear about our experience, hero it is :
Tho time was when wo had plenty of
everything, from cidor to souce ; (and tho
time it, whon we are not over-supplied with
either the extremes, or the bctweens, in the
matter of 'faring sumptuously.') How we
happened to be so nicely housed and petted,
was, even then, to us a mystery ; for we
knew wo didn't descrvo it; but we found
out since that thero aro some two or three
others in the wide wide world, who havo
had the good luck to fare better than their
deserts; and in this we have great consolation.
'Misery loves company, you know,
?but about that experience.
May-be wo diden't sport as tall a feather
as any of our neighbors ? What little sense
we had, passod at a hundred per ct. over
real value; and wo felt ourself a privileged
character, to sav and do whatever we nleasod
for we had always the same good genius at
our elbow, whose name was cash,?who wa8
very agreeable to everybody, and wo never
was quite sure who had the most admirers,
ourselt or cash. Sometimes wc did feel
a trifle jealous of him, and thought how
delightful it would be to bo loved for our
own sake and not as V\s protege. Perhaps
ho read what was in our hearts, for he went
off ono day and novcr returned. 'Gono,
the offieious old fellow !' wo said, without
crying; 'and now won't wo have a good
time of it ? We shall bo loved for our own
intrinsic merit^omo up nearer, ^e,r? Jcar
But wat do you think, reader ? 'Where
is cash,' said one?'Gono has lie?' said
another. 'Good bye,' said the third, a
fourth, a fifth, and five hundred. And so
they dropped off one after another, like
rotten apples from a crab-tree. ?. Aud wc
didn't cry then; but moderated our desires
and ambition, as much as possible, took
down our tall feather ; took to rhymes
and moonshine, and sang:
We care for nobody;
Nobody cares for we.'
Well, after all, there are some pleasant
things about this poverty ; (like sugar in
a cop of wormwood tea.) Nobody asks
you to 'trade on account,' nobody asks you
to'holp build Meeting Houses' or 'cducato
pious young men,' nobody looks pitchforks
if you don't give a dollar to the Hottentots,
and nobody oheats you, for you've nothing
to lose.
So. pood neonle. ono nnrl nit fbia i? ntif
advico, gratis : Don't bold out falee colors
after cash goes off; but just ring a bell all
over Christendom in honor of his departuro
and cry 'Poverty 1' till the woods ring; for
if you don't you will miss of seeing the
greatest racing and chasing 'ever you saw;'
a herd of tiro-footed buffaloes in full flight.
Excepting six, we have found 'human
critturs dreadful scary'?(but please consider
this as confidential.)
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Plouqujno Ur Gold.?On Sunday
morning (wo men drovo up to the resi
denoe of William Tufcbs, Sr., who livei
near Fort Worth, Toxas, aud told kini thai
in 1865 an Indian woman, fbnring thai
she would bo plundered by raiders, buriod
an iron vessel containing $1,000 in gold
under a corner of the house now occupied
by Mr. Tubbs. Upon moving away ah<
conoludrd it was safest to lsavo it whore
it was. Upon her deathbed, a short time
ago, ahe revealed the secret to theso twe
men,and in retoru for kindness they had
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oliujtu otr, im< Di^atunca to mom nei
buried treaearo. With Mr. Tubb's permission,
(hey dug at (lie spot indicated by
the Indian woman. The iron pot was un
earthed, and in it was found a canvas bag
containing good coin to the amount of more
than *$1,000.
After these facts had bccouio goncrally
known Capt. Bcwloy, who lives near Mr.
Tubbs, said that on lust Monday afternoon,
while ploughing in a Geld ucar his bouse
he saw sticking in the earth a shining substance
which proved to be a S20 gold piece.
As he ploughed on he fouud more gold
pieo$a, and theu he called his hired man,
Ed. Carpenter, from an adjoining field. By
nightfall they picked up 2S2 coin4, all $20
gold pieces, which amounted to $5,640.
This startling discovery hnS sent the
country wild, and every person who owns
as much as ten acres of rrrniind hns irnno ?n
*- - o" ???** bvuv
digging for gold. Ilawk Ilcnsou says be
found $35 in Confederate money iu an old
slump oq his place. The next day ho received
an offer of 8100 an acre for his place
but be refused to sell. In 1349 the Ton*
kawa Indiana sold to tho Texas Government
a part of their reservation for 840,000 in
gold. As the tribes were encamped for
nino months about where Captain Bcwlcy'a
farm is, it is probable that they hid a part
or alI*of this money where they then were.
Bewlev thinks there is more gold hidden
in thiftffeld, so he has posted his eutire
farm, tod waruB all pcrsous not to couio on
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Wade Hampton's Belief in Pkayer.
?The lovo and admiration iu which ho is
held by tho people of South Carolina are
illustrated in an incident related by General
Hampton when he was recovering from
sickness.
*1 am certain,' he said, 'that my life was
saved by the fervent prayers of the people
of Soath Carolina. I was at the point of
ac&iD ana naa lost all interest in lire, when
I received a letter from an old Methodist
minister, a friend, telling me of tho deep
and devout petitions put up for my restoration
to health by the Methodist Conference
thon in session at Newberry. Tho lettei
closed by beggiog mo to exercise my will
to livo in responso to tho supplications oi
tho people of the whole State, who wore
praying for mo night and day in everj
household. When I heard the letter read
I promised my sister that I would heed the
kind, loving words of the man of God, and
arouse my will to live. That night I fell
into a deep sleop and dreamed most vividly
that I was in a spacious room in which J
was moved to all parts of tho State, so thai
I met my assembled friends everywhere
I remember most distinctly of all, old Beau
fort, where I had last been. I saw immenst
assemblages, and as I looked down upoi
them a grave personage approached mo anc
touched me on the shoulder and said t<
mo : 'These peoplo are praying for you
Live ! Live !! Live ! 1 !' I never realize!
anything liko it before. It seemed a vis
ion. I awoke the next morning feelin|
tho life?blood creeping through my veins
and I told my family that tho crisis wa
passed and that I should get better.'
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Feb. 2t>, 1887. Gentlemen?I have had f!?
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j Massacre or Christian Converts.?
- Advices received from Sydney N. 8. W.,
t per steamer Mariposa, give tho latest part
tioulsrs regarding tho attempted asaassii
t nation of Premier Baker, of tho Tonga
I Islands, by converted Woeleyao natives.
I Tho correspondent of the Sydney Herald
I at Sava, Fiji Islands, writes, undor date of
i February 17, that Mr. Baker believed that
I an organised attempt to kill him and to
) overturn the government wee to bo made
t by the Wesleysns. He sent for soldiers,
I and a large number of indiscriminate ar
r*sta were made.
Mr. Baker put the prisoners through a
form of trial, condemned them to death and
the sentences were executed tho same night.
; Boforc tbo sentonces wero carried out the
i acting British Vice Consul, W. E. Giles,
used the utmost exertions to prevent the
< executions. Things wero growing quieter,
i when the newly appointed Vice Consul, R.
, B. Leefe, arrived at Tonga, and after an
i inquiry decided that he had no power to
interfere. Tho storm again burst forth
with redoubled fury. The Wcslcyan mist
sion collage was invaded by an armed mob.
Wceleyans were brutally beaten and their
houses wrecked. Mr. Leefe was again api
poaled to, but again refused to interfere.
Among the earliest persons arrested and
i condemned to death was an ordained Wesi
Icyan minister, David Finan, a man of tho |
i highest position and repute,
i Many persons were under arrest, and
dia cAiuukiuua ircru iu ibkc piaco me any
after the dcparturo of tho steamer which
brought tho above news to Suva, aud thirty
more tho day following. Tho French
and Germans have sent for men-of-war, and
urgent representations have been made to
the govenor of the Fiji islands to interfere
and depose either Mr. Baker or Mr. Moulton,
a Wealoyan missionary.
'
Practical Temperance Men.?Wo i
advooato temperance bccauso we believe
ia tho principle that underlies all progress i
from a lower to a higher piano ef existence i
?the integrity of tho individual.
No one can be ignorant^ tfie does
i re'tfioraf cotK^^lon. No|
one can bo ignorant of tho degrading influence
of intoxicants upon tho physical
and moral man.
Tho effect of beer and liquor is to produce
disease of the nerve centres. If
these become impaired they convey false i
and wrong impressions to the brain as i
well as paralyze the motor or moving agents i
of tho body. In short, they tell lies, i
The truth is not in tbem. They convey |
false intelligence and destroy reason. The i
. drunkard beliovcs his devoted wife bis i
enemy and beats her to death. Tbo love i
he bears his child is turned to hate, and i
he turns her naked into the Winter storm. ]
Intoxicants gradually undermino the
moral integrity nnd leave the victim open
to every tomptaticn. Once the barrier is
weakened that guards the path of truth
and rectitude the man falls an easy prey
to vice.
The man who lives a temperate, honest
life lends his influence to build up a higher
degree of civilization, aod to create that
centre from which radiates those virtues
which lend a charm to ezistenoe, a happy
home.
These are a few reasons why wo advocate
temperance, and no one can look
abroad without viewing the crime, degradation,
murder, theft, that prevail in the
precincts of saloons.' Wo want to see
every member of tho Knights of Labor
living out the best, tho truest thoughts
and impulses God bestowed.
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believe it tj be an excellent tonic.
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Leprosy in Kentucky.?Louisvillo,
' Ky.?A dispatch says: Physicians nro
i. much intcrostod over a genuine case of lep'
rosy here, The patient is John Hastings,
s. who lives with hia parents on Wilson street,
lie contracted the contagious diseaso in
Honolulu three yoars ago, and his cntiro
body is covered with sickening eruptions,
Hastings succeeded in keeping from his
parents the knowledgo of the terriblo die*'
ease, and it was uot until of late that they
knew of their son's ailment. During the
last two years ho has been treating him?ir.
A Remarkable Woman.?Mrs. Sbaekleford,
or I'loasaot IIill, Alabama, is a very
remarkable woman in many respects;
W lieu she graduatod at. Yassar college
and returned to hor homo she had an income
of $50,000. Sho married soon
after and went to California with her husband
where her fortune was swept away
from hor. Sho accumulated enough
money by writing for pnpers to return
home. Soon after her father died and then
her husband, leaving a bright little boy.
She took ehargo of tho estate, containing
3,800 acres, and bad to be on tho go from
four o'clock in the morning until night.
She makes 190 bales of cotton and has to
contend with 18G tenants who causo her a
great deal of trouble, but she has always
been equal to every emergency. Oa tho
25th of last January when she returned
home she found a large burly negro in her
house searching for valuables. Pulling a
pistol she ordered him to leave and on his
refusing she snapped tho pistol which unfortunately
was not loaded. lie then
grasped her and cut her with a razor in
twenty-seven different places. She sank to
tho floor exhausted and ho loft the house.
Recovering shortly afterwards, she seized
another pistol and mounted a horse, overtook
him and shot him down. The trial
of this man for cutting her is now in procress
and she has left for New Orleans un
dar the advico of her friends as tbo negro
has threatened that if she did not withdraw
the charges he would havo her murdered.
A Poker Room for Boys.?Indianapolis,
April 20.?Something of a sensation
has been caused by the discovery of a
poker room arranged foe and patronized
by boys between the ages of twelve and
twenty years! Within the last few days
two boys engaged as collectors have disappeared,
having failed to account for money
paid by customers, and in traoing up tho
causo for tffoir flight tho existence and location
of tho place wer?revealed.
It was hidden in a cellar under a business
block icy the centreof
bar was a room, at the 4nd of whioh is
what nnnnars to hn n. lnrirn ica r.liast hut
which is in reality an entrance to a circular
stairway leading into the cellar.
When the place was raided yesterday
there were forty boys playing poker, 25
and 50 ccuts limit, nearly all of them of
respectable families. They were smoking
ind there were evidences that somo of
them had been drinkiDg. The placo was
underground, lighted by gas, and without
i particle of ventilation, and an clectrio
alarm bell connected it with tho floor above
and gave notico of any threatened approach.
For Dyspepsia mid I.Wcr Compnint, linvc you
printed guarantee on every bottle ofSliiloli's Vitati/.er
It neyer fails to cure. For salo liy J. W. l'oscy A Rro
Tiif. Pony of Shetland.?What tho
oamel is to an Arab, the sure footed, tough
fibred pony is to the Shetlandcr. Ono familiar
with their customs has said that
though brod wild on tho heaths, the 'shclties,'
as the ponies aro sometimes called,
can be tamed in one night. The hunter,
throwing his lasso with skill, secures a
frisky colt, and for twenty-four hours keeps
him n prisoner. The small creature hears
no other voice than his master's ; the hun
ter feeds and caresses uim, and gradually
the terrible restlessness subsides. Hereafter
he becomes a docile, affectionate burdan
bearer aod companion. Ho needs do
stable, and has a happy faculty of enjoying
whatever be has]to eat. A dun colored
'ahcltie, of exquisite symmetry, seon
by a tourist, could stand under a dining
tablo, and a littlo lady could seat herself
upon its back without lifting her feet from
the ground. Tbey aro favoritos for tho
saddle; and many are sent to other countries
for the pleasure of ladies and children;?Harper'8
Bazar.
A Girr for all.?In order to give all a
chance to test it, and thus be convinced of its
wonderfal eurative powers, Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
will be, for a limited time, given away. This
offer is not only liberal, but shows unbounded
| faith in the merits of this great remedy. Alt
I who suffer from Coughs' Colds, Consumption,
Asfhms, Bronchitis, or any affection of Throat,
Chest, or Lungs, are especially requested to call
at J. W. l'osey's Drug Store, and get a Trial
Bottle Free. Large Bottles $1.
Senator Sherman's talk to the people
about the benefit of protection to them
reminds one of the conduot of tho hunter
who cut off his dog's tail, roasted it, picked
off the meat aud gays the bone to tho
dog for his share.
Imperfect digestion and assimilation produce
disordered conditions of the system which grow
and are confirmed by neglect. Dr. J. II. McLlean'e
Strenghening Cordial and Blocd Purifier,
by Us tonic properties, cures indigestion
and gitei tone te (he stomach. $1.00. per
bottle.
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