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IMyvP'PWlLii ' * * THE TEE BILL. 8peooh of I. 0. McKissick, delivered in (bo Houie of Representatives, in Doeombor last,in opposition to Hon. W. C. Benet's Bill (o repeal ae much of tbo Fee BUI as allowa ooots to plaintilTo and defendant's Attorneys: Mb. 8fbaksb : 1 in astonished at the introdaotian into this House of tbo Bill now undor consideration. If some illiterate, uninformed person bad introdaoed it, I would not bare been so much astoniahed, but its lntrodaotion by a gentleman of distinguished abilities, of profound learning, brought up at the fast of Gamaliel, and now the corn paaian of a high Priest, who daily ministers in the groat Temple of Justice, does astonish me beyoud deeoription. 1 cannot understand it; it surpasses my comprehension. I am like the old philosopher, who while rambling one evening looking at the beauties of nature, same across a tannery; the tanner's sign was a oow tail hanging down in front of his door, the stump of the tail 1 extending through an auger hole to the inside, the philosopher gated intently at the J 1.11 ii.. i..... ..v.j h. .1 v. imtiy ?uv UMIUVI MAVU nii??. uv \svosa*;\*, uo ? responded, "nothing," but added, "I bare traveled much in iny time; have traversed seas and oceans; have traveled over vast continents; have seen old oeean calm and se- ' rene suddenly eonvulsed with raging billows, * wrecking the mightiest vessels that sail upon the deep; have breasted tho mighty imoen sweeping over tbe desert of Sahara; 1 have stood upon tbe lowering Alps and gat- t ed at the sunlit clouds at my feet while the R thunders reared in the rallies below; have ascended into tho very heavens and listened 3 at the musio ef the spheres, and all these things I could understand and e*plain, but how that oow got through that auger hole, I and coaldn't take in her tail surpasses my t comprehension. And Mr. Speaker; 1 am equally puzzled at the introduction of this ( Bill; it turpaaet my eomprthtntton. For what purpose has it been iutrodaoed? i Why attempt to innovate upon laws the wis. , dom of which has been established by the . experience of agosf When tbis Slate was a province of Great Britaiu Fee bills were established for the people. Tbe oldest Feo c Bill of which we have any knowledge being u established ia 1G94. And since Kngland's | yoke was thrown off this State has ever bad , an established Fee bill. Look back upon the long array of eminent Judges who have adorned the Bench in South Carolina since 1776; leek too at the wise legislators and Statesmen of South Carolina during that " eventful period. Those profound legisla- r tors established Fee bills from time to time, g wbicb met the approval of those eminent Judges. a Now for tbe first time in the history of this State an efiort is mado to abolish a por- ]j tion of our Fee bill, tbe original of which 0" was wisely establiahed by our ancestors. ?*-???> i* u made T Can n be that it la the bastard offspring of (lie war naw wag*U *#*inat lawyers? I deprecate every effort, by fi whomsoever made, to array one class of cili- a tena against another. la erery community p there arc lawyers, fanners, preachcra. physicians, merchants, niechanios and millere. They are neceaaary factors in aaciaty; and 11 itia wrong, egregious'y wrong, to array one a class against another. Cl The author of our present Fee bill was brought up at the plow handles,?was following a lazy mule hitched to a plow, on his native Pea llidge before noma of you were barn, and while some of you ware gal- \ laping corn stalk horses and chasing but- ^ tertliei from flower to flower. He was transferred from the farm to the office of Clerk 01 of the Court by tbe voice of liia district. S Ilia services in that efhee for 1G years made him familliar with our Fee Dills. (| And in drawing up the present Fee hill he had one eye on the lawyers aud officers r' of tho Court, sad the other on the farmers and other classca. And had ha been appointed by a Judge as tl a awora referee to draw up a fas bill equal alike to all parties tho present would have been the identical Fee biil ho woald have * diawn. 11 For no one moro deeply faels far, aad a sympathises with the farmers and laboring D classss than he, knowing by bitter experisneethe difficulties agaiust which tbey have to contend in the great struggle-for human 1 existence. c Farmers, look wall to yaur tote on thia h bill. Guard against tbe sophistry of lr.w- d yera. Think for yourselves. l.cok ror a moment at (he practical effects of (his bill. Suppose I justly owe Mr. II. a will not pay him, and he is forced to sue to it make me pay him. Who ought to pay bis lawyers costs for issuing the necessary papers in (he suit! Every honest person ?| would say at once that 1 ought to pay them, for (he reason, (Lat I am at fault; (be one n Deniable for not paying the debt. Vet if (his n bill becomes law Mr. II. would havo to pay 0, aid costs himself. What injustice te a creditor I What an " open yiolation of everj principle of law and u equity 1 And what a premium (or delaying c the payment of ah hsaest debt 1 a, Such legislation ia wrong, danger om. Before the war a preacher attomptcd 01 to baptise a negro in "much water". The ft' preacher was unacquainted with the ti place; as he went to immerse the negro he 0 happened to step in deep water, both he and the negro went down, and the negro badly strangled exolaimed: "See here, if you don't ^ step this foolishness soma boss will lose a t< nigger;" and gentlemen of this House : if p you don't step this unwise legislation, plaintiff's and defendants will be compelled to incur unjust expenses, v.hile the shafts hurled * at the lawyers will f&Ll harmless at their d feet. i 1 a Tiik Watirmitlon Au.iancb.?Blackvillo, d February 11.? A meeting of the Watermelon Alliance was >iohl bete to-day. There wns represented &,000 acres of lan l, and it was moved and carried that the planting of this acreage should be contingent upon a reduction in freight. ^ A committee wns appointed to confer with the South Corolina Hallway officials, mud in (V,. ...ni r,f IK#;-i, lion in freights the executive committee ordered to reduce tlie acreage to be planted in ^ melons. t After hearing the report of the chiarman , of the executive committee and attending to routine business the meeting adjonrned 1 subject to the call of die executive commute. ( ?A'etrr and Courier. Merchants Want PatinqCustomers anj> Farmers Want Cheat Goons.?Spartanburg ^ February 7.?The County Alliance will meet here Saturday. Tliey are now working at ' the enpply problem. They have secured retinoid rates on many articles in common ^ me by farmers. If (hoy can work the merchants down ton smaller per cent on their 11 goods and get themselves up to prompt paymet ts it will be better all rouad. The rner- li chant has suffered much in the past by cred- j i'ifg men who are very alow. The intereit on | ist duo accounts eat up the profits. One may have a Dice little balance to his credit ' on ins books, but a few slow men and others who do not pay all will reduce this balance t very much. The two-sided problem is this: The Alii' nee u i'i want cheaper supplies, and the t li t ichitits waat customers who will pay \ pminpt^y on the very day they promise. If thr Albance can bring that Mate of affairs , all. ut ii will do g o'l.?A'net and Courier. o ------ 1 It i- staled tliat I here will be this year I six or seven vacant scholursbi|e in the Nash- J vilb- Ni i mal College for tliis .S'nte. Students innst I v over 17 years of age. They are rimmi 1 ivo ycats' tuition and training iu ( eiluiat otl methods, and ?'?! '? per month i Scholar-hips nro awarded by competitive ex- ( ominution. { Me iOeefeft) Inion Hirnes ** up R. M. STOKER, - . Editor Pr? the Friday, February 15, 1899. mj b7 SUBSCRIPTION, f'2.00 PER ANNUM ^ . we POST OFFICE DIRECTORY. offi The P. 0. will be opened {for business 1,01 ftrom 8 A. If. to 6.30 P. M. fr0 The Money Order Department will be all opened for busiaeee from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. fb The Northern end Southern mnila will both eloee promptly at 1P.-M. Any inntieDtion or irregularities should ul> be reported promptly to the P. M. me J. C. HUNTER, P. M. 0 W. C. Keith, the able editor of the 001 Keotcit Courier, died nt his home in Wnl" ,tri lelln lest Fridey. uk oth WSF" We regret being compelled to poet- be )ono a very interesting communication from dt lowdeysville. It will appear next week. it pir Rev. 1). F. Lampley, pastor of the ^ laptist church of this plase, will preach in he Sohoel House near VT. A. Moerhead's - . , ngt tore, at Mt. labor, next Sunday evening at ^ t o'clock. and U%_ The Qreanvilte Convooatien of the ou( Episcopal chureh will meet in The Churoh of ^ he Nativity of this pariah next Wednes- bul lay and continue until Sunday night. Di- ofl rine services will be held morning and night ofeaeh day, at the usual hours to wo ehich the publio are earnestly invited. ara ten 1P5U We almost forgot that we had an jjOI ilection here last Monday for Town Treas- we iror, it passed off so quietly. Mr. James Mj I. Rodger was the only candidate and he j,at ras unanimously elected. A better man #UI or the oflics could not be found. ehi 9L. Don't forget that next Wednesday, tie 'JOth, is the lsst day to make your tax CAE eturns to the Anditor. After that day the 0 per cent, penalty will be imposed upon ^ II who neglect to make their returns. All returns must be made iu person airoct- ^ T to the Auditor, nnd under the formal ^ eth of the person making tbo return. , Sot WQu The Tost Office has been moved into le btor# to ibs burnt building occupied t the time of the late fire by Suith & 1 luntor. 1'" We understand that the Store in which lie Post Office was held has been rented for l'1? barroom. We shall then have three lirosed barrooms in Union, and a fonrth in }' rospect. ^ 4. Wc sincerely regret to learn that | 5. Irs. Carlisle, wife ef Rev. John M. Carsit, died very suddenly, at the residence ? 1 her son-in-law, J. K. Jennings, Esq., in p partanburg, early last Tuesday morn- 9 ig, from paralysis of the heart. Most 'uly do we sympathise with the ha- 1 raved venerable husband. ^ ^ ^ u tdf" Everybody were astonished 'when j? ley awoke and looked out doors laet Men- (iay morning, at seeing the ground covered 7 rilh snow. When they went to bed the H licrhl before the moon wan ahinirxr hriaht I ? 10 nd the skies were clear, hut About ini<i- jj light they cloudeii over, the whito flakes l'J egan noiselessly to fall, and by daylight 13 hey had spread their beautiful wiuttr ^ arpet o?er ihe earili, covered the roefs of ?ousts and encased the limbs of trees ia a 1(5 owny garb. Noiselessly and suddenly it I" ame, and as quietly and suddenly it dis- ^ ppearcd. Ily neon there were no tracts of , except a shallow moisture in tha ground. grtr On Saturday night an accident oourred to the up freight train about a ** tile above hert that was remarkable for ot doing more damage. The front truoks l'u f,the car next to the cab broke loose ia ome way, and it appears they ran along nder the car, one wheel running on the tr^ ross ties in the middle of the track w< rid the other on the end of the ?r( roes ties. They ran in this way for bout half a mile. The inside wheel of the rucks must' have broken at first for nieraa *s f it were scattered *11 along the track and 00 io?t of the cross ties wero broken in two. m* t'hen the train stoppcu the wheel attacked Cll ) the axle was found seme distance from the be track. The coupling pin fortunately y .eld up that end of the oar.'or there is no etitnating the damage that would have been one. As it was. the damnge was only a few fVri roken erose ties and a ereoked track, rhich was repaired without causing any jjr< elay to trains following. . Personals. Miss Pauline Arthur has retnrned from ah< long visit to her relatives and friends in ces Columbia. son Miss Agnes Hill has returned from an Ge ztended visit to Charleston. we Capt. C. C. Gulp, Col. I. 0. McKissiok, .'apt. Macbeth Yeung and T. 11. flutler, have wil ieen attending the U. 8. Ceurt, now aitting am it Greenville. Each of the above goalie- mn men, we learn, had important eases in tkst 0,|{ :ourt. ft'n Mr II M nrimhftll has aha ha - .WM.r.w on on important business. Mrs. F. 0. Trefxer, haa returned frem iVest Springs, where the haa been an an ax- jo ended visit to her parents. Mr. J. >'. I.caoaster, of Joneseille, came |u lown last Saturday and spent Sundaj with Kr is. fio Our young friend Mr. Frank S. Itobisson eft last Sundaj ta resume his studies at lavidson Collage, N. C. tit Miss Laura Out is visiting her many thi riends at this place. Mr. V?. F. Dates af Fish Dam was in tawn ##| his week. m( bo Dicklkn's Arnica Salvk.?Tiik Dxst >> Ialvk in the world for Cuts, Druiscs, Sores, nil Jlcer-, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tett.er. 'happed Hands, Chilblains, < orris, and nil its ikin Eruptions, and positively cures l'i les vo r no pay required. It is guaranted to give ed Perfect satisfaction, or money refunded, in 'rice 2-> cents per box. For pale by l'os ey no i Rro. Feb. It), ly. 1 p] l'arlies in need of Hay, Oats, l'eas, Drarr. hi 'om, Flour, Farming inplcmentH and Hard ga sure, should call on H. 8. LIPSCOMB, tiO jatlncy City, S. headquarters for such 1 eq jOods. 2-3t I We bad ? visit last Saturday fro a, ' wbilm celorsd citizen and political iraat, June Mobley, who has now the fix Rev. to his name and is preaching Ooepel of peace and good will to his race Sumter Csnnty. 'one, however, still talks polities as glibas ever, and thinks we could bring the ored veters into' the democratic ranks if would give them a liberal share of the ces?say about three out of seven. He, wever, says we must pick our candidatee m the most intelligent of bis race. That's very good talk for the republican pary. e democratic party tried that plan som^ >rs ago, and the republicans laughed at and called us fools, and it will be rembered our readers that we thought too, at the time, and were laughed at by > own party friends for advocating a tight out dessocraiie polioy. And we will e the privilege ef saying here that while ier papers usay claim the dietinotion of in* Ilia Aeial ? S a tU. alaa:*klae?i ...B I..*- u.o? m tav iiLiguivu, mocratic policy in this State, we advanced in the Timks a year before any other pa* suggested it. We wore ridiculed oughout the State for entertaining such idea that a square slraightout democratic it ceuld be made aucceaaful under the a existing strength of the two parties, 1 by many pnpera we wereoalled tlraightStokes in deriaien. Vhat June is fishing for, we don't know; , wedo know this : We've tried his plan political amalgamation and found it to be omplete failure in every respect. We have a over more colored voters to the demoitic raaks, by a straightforward course rard their race, and by giving them an last and fair democratic gevernment, than ever did or ever could by presenting ourves to them with "two faces under one We are getting olong very well with ' present government, and whatever inges may be necosaary, fer the good of h races in the State, the demooratio party I not ba slow or unwilling to make. We mot nfTord to go backwards in the great ward movement of the world. IYt do not see such liberality extended te j colored voters iu Pennsylvania and < io, where the colored vota?is hoaviest at North, as June asks for tbem in the 1 ith. i , List of Grand and Petit Jurors, ( Drawn according to 'aw, on Wednesday, hinst. Tha Graad Jurors te serve one | ir&ud the Petit Jurors to servo during i March term of Court. , Oh AND JCRORS. j . Henry Bennercol 10. Eiisha Wilbanks. S.E.Kay. 11. J. Q. Kuchheit. ; J. O. Kelly. 12. W. T. CunningTinsley Clark, col ham. i J. W. Sparks. 13. J. G. Rice. Cliarner Dawkins. 14. J. M. Kcnnctt. . col. 15. Geo. W. Peake. E. M. Smith. 1(5. J. F. Vaughn. 1 . W. T. Betsill. 17. J. B. Foster. < . Jciho R. Davis. IK. .Irff Davis. Pitit Jurors. C W Austell. 10 J W Koon. IV II Koon. 20 Win Sprouso. Frank Israel. 21 J S Charlss. J T Moorhead. 22 Joe McFaot. E V> (doing. 23 C H Stewart. Qoldcn Harmon. 24 L> N Spencer. J 1$. Foster. 25 F 11 Scott. W (' Wallace. |2o J C Jenkins. Geo W Hill. 27 1* N Mollis. J 0 Faucett. 28 It. T. Easlers. C B Hobo. 20 J W Humphries. H (! 11 Jeter. BO D It Free. Ashemore Vender- 31 J T Douglass, ftrd. 32 W A W bison ant. CT Mabry. 33 T L liames. G C (Ireor. B4 1) J Farr. It W Whitloc*. B5 Green Nicholas, I S Ivey. c?l. J S Welsh. BG J T Whelchel. Notes From Ssdalia. Ms. Editor. We have bean thinking all > while that we would find something new writs you before this time, but it seems it news don't start around much in our iet neighborhood. People in this eection re beeu generally busy sowing oata for ? past fow days, nnd a good many are ing to oontiaue the sowing while the ether ie fine, though it is so cold and the >und se frozen they can only plow abeut if the day. We do hope the weathor will so that all may sow as many spring oats they will need, for we ell know that a g oropof oats goes a good ways toward etinga short crop of corn, especially C11 IU0BIIU11 tiuy ui uuril 11*^ l?J OC XI All I* I About 1C milts over as rtu gb roads as re ia ia tlie county. iVc are beginning to hear the cty of "hew | ch cetton 1 can make this year. I wan't make so much cotton, and I don't knew I'll plant much corn," and suoh like ex- 1 !B*ioni. Now we are all ready to eay i l't do that way, but you plant mere corn, i let m( plant morecottea. S'ow, if we could get in the habit of being i sad with eur corn, like it ie in some pi*- i ; for instance, in Georgia. By the way, i ne of our neighbors hare been out to i orgia on * visit, two or three weeks, and hear they say people in Georgia have t n two or three years old, and had it piled tut in open houses end in pens. Netibstandmg the elose rocky soil there, eorn 1 it gourds grow. We hoard there was a 1 n there that wanted to make a half bushel measure hia corn and wanted to'make it icfn gourd, so he sawed off about two ' d a half feet of the top eflhe gourd and I d enough left to inako hie half huthel. i my I wouldn't we ba'e for anybody te , t a dip st our corn pile with that gourd? We regret to learn that onr talented ung frisnd and promising physician. Dr. oLood, is to leave us for North Carolina, e hepe be may be as successful in lbs fure as he has been iu the past. We hope ank ie net leaving lis on nccount of the ancial depression of the people, for if we e poer we don't keep Doctors poor like we the prsschers. We feel like we are keeping up with the nes when among ether enterprises we ink of thenicely finished and well furniahnew eloro of VTilburn & Co., near Cress 'js, and the large dry goods nnd grccery lablishmeat at Sedalia under the mausge ent and rim of the new firm of Minter, Bo, and Hatchford. Homebody thinks there money in the county, though it don't sae wiucn uinersnce, 80 t ney sc-i 1 on it me. This community mourn* the loss of one of i moat amiable and pious women and deled wife, Mrs. Margaret Sparks, whopassfrom the trials of thin life Tuesday morog last, to that resting place from whence i traveler ever returns, fell fox we think tho answer to his eiame is. II steps 7s, A 108; while A gained a ilf step in time. II stepped far enough to in l-t> of the distance passed by A, so the l steps which we Ii?tc to start with is ual to hfiof th? distance to be gamed. 10.2. v. Doinga at Jonesville. lift. Editor.?The last two weeks af dry weather has given 'the farmers afchsace to beglft fftrm work, and a large amount of ?ta have been sown. It is to be regretted that so small amount of oats were sown la?t fall, as the winter has been so mild tlie few that were sown then are looking fine. I think the farmers bad better risk sowing at least half of the oat crop in the fall, and tf they should get killed tbey can sow again in the spring. The Farmers' Alliance is creating some commotion in our country. It seetus they ate goingt^j concentrate their purchases and only pstrohfo a few of the merchants with whom they can make the best terms. This will certainly bring prefits down to a small margin. What the result will be, the Telephone is net able to communicate at present. The Alliance men say they want no guano at the advanced rate of three dollars per ton. The guano merchants bal bettor loek eut, or somebody might get hurt. It msy be very well for farmers not to use any guane, but there is onl thing tbey are doing in which I think they make a great mistake, and that is, selling their cotton seed to the oil mills. It lteka like there won't be eeed eneugh left in our country for planting purposes. 1 think tbo Alliance had better take the matter in hand ht innlhir BMiinn and kann thn aaad at "J ? r ? home te keep up their exhausted lends. They might very well do without guano if tbey would put all the cotton seed back on thalaid. Aa to in> tewn, it is beautifully carpeted with enow tbia morning for tbo first time this winter. It clipped upon us last night without any warning, as it was clear and bright at bed time. Mr. C. R. Long has opened a grocery and supply store under the Masonio Hall. Charlie preposes to give heavy weight and good measure, pressed down and shaken together, at rock bettem prises, for cash. Messrs. A. O. Sprnuse and W. F. Humes have bought out Mr. N. C. Rollins in the grocery business, and promise to de as well for their patrons S3 any other house in the "city." Onr Livery Stable must be doing a good business, as it ssems to be the centre of atractieu in town of late. Messrs. McWhir;er & Crawford, its owners, it seams, can lixs up a mule or a horse in qaick time, and lira Buck can ride him around and show lim olTfn good style. The Steam Mill, owned by Messrs. Colenan k Whitlook, has made some change in its ownership. Mr. Coleman's two sons, rhomas aud Robert, having bought out Mr. Wbittock. Se the mill is now owned nnd managed by J. fl. Coleman & Sons. Miss Florence Boyd, after sutlering intensely fer eleven weeks died in great peace on tho 28th of January. Her remains were sarriedby her parents to Newberry Couuiy end deposited near their old homestead. Mrs. Ella Rowell has had a protracted illness from which she is recovering. Onr eotton market has been quilo lively for seme days; tho platform and the ground around it has been covered with the fleeey article. Good prices and better roads 1 ??ir * * rnitiorl fh* rush I One man in our community, and he a renter, too, came into one of the stores "f our town the other day to pay off the last ot his indebtedness, which was ten or twelve dollars, and presented a hundred dollar bill 1 You ought to hare seen that merchant shuffling round to get up the change. Pity we have so few sueli renters in eur country. Old Mr.* Vox, after swearing before the Clerk, now swears that ho will go for the law breakers, lie is exactly right. If all the officers of the law would do tIre same we would have lees drinking and gambling ebout the towns and in the woods, often on Senday. Telbfuomb. [You'll catch it, Mr. Tolaphone, for calling Mr. Vox "old." His wife has a sore fingex flow, and she is not in the host of humors, but any man's eyes are in danger when he cells the head of her family old Mr. Vox.?EnrroR. Cure for Blind Stagger* Mbadob, Feb. 8. Mr. Editor.?As mcningetis, or blind taggers, i* now prevailing ae an epidemic amongst tho horses in this county, sever*1 valuable animals having died, of my knowledge, and others being attacked, promp.s me 10 man# Known a Tory eincieni reineiy, which I learned during the war, when a severe and fatal type attacked the hordes in, I believe, the Fall of 18HJ. The remedy was suggested by Gen. Hampton, and proved very successful, if used in time: Throw the aniieal, and with a sharp lick, the size of the finger, one inch short of the length from upper angle of nostril, end lower angle of the eye, (external measure,) grasp it tight in the hand, introduce it into the nostril, making several quick, hort, upward motions, uatil blood tlowe freely. Let the animal rise upon its feet and letit bleed till it becomes faint. If hle-ding doe* not cease, plug one or both nostrils with eld rags. If this docs not succeed in arresting the bleeding blow into the nostrils finely pulverized sulphate of iron. Hoping this may prove a blessing to some of my fellow beings, prompts rao to mako it known. A. K. Fast. According to the Atlanta Constitution, David Holly vane, a Connecticut farmer, had a falling out with a neighbor, corns years ago, and swore he would danco on his eneo j's grave. The neighbor died, and Hollyvane kept his vow. Then came a series of surprising eveuts. His horses and cows died, bis barn burned down, and tha owner was made utterly heirless by a stroke of paralysis. The farmers in ihe vicinity say that whtn Hollyvane made litis wicked boaat the'other roan replied that he would invoke the wralh of God upon him, and pray for hia ruin. Tbcy believe that the dead roan's prayer has been answered. m KuritPST.?That is whnt you ought to have, in fact, you must have it, to fully onjoy life. Thousands are searching for it daily, and mourning because they find it not. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are spent annually by our people in Ihe hope that they may attain this boon. And yet it may be had by all. We guarantee , that electric Hitters, if used according I > direct ona and the > ft p?r?iated in, will ring you good digest is and roust the demon dyspepsia and aa diseases of Liver, i Stomach and Kidneys. So d at 6 "e. and f 1 per bottle by Posey & Bro., drnggis 0. Hews from North Faoolet. Etta Jane, February 11.?Mr, Editor, you seem to "hoot" at our method of pre| venting a cold, by bathing the top of tha head with cold water.* We US'' it as a preventive, you uto it as a cure. We are acting under the advice of a man who stands upon i the top round of his profession?medicine i and surgeiy?you are following the whim of some "crauky" old woman. For toothache we would rather risk a first-class "conjuror," < | one of those old fossils of the fortune-telling stripe for which this county in its halcyon days was proverbial. We are sorry that tho bridge letting at Thomson's mill last Friday turned out so indefinitely. The plan and specifications pro posed by (he county commissioners are good, and "will make a bridge," as Uncle George i Garner, nays "for llio grandchildren. We , are afraid a great many of the grand, children will be here in time to build it, unless our county finances improve In health. < As a mere cipher in the community, we i would suggest that the proposed stono pillars bo substituted with suitable timbers ! that would suppsrt the bridge for 12 or 15 years, and that is as long as the bridge will stand anyway, unless it is covered. IIr that time we hepe the eounty will be able to build a more permanent structure. As a matter of ecouomy we hopo the county com- i missionors will take our suggestion for what it is worth. The prospects now are that we will lose one of our best citizens in the person of Mr. C. W. Wh sonant, of Wilkinsville. He has bought some building lots at Hicory Grove and will perhaps remove there some time this year, our community has but few such people to lose ns Calvin. I Mrs Vox's beating finger has turned ( out to be a felon. She's not the first poor t woman in this county who bad to put up 1 with a "felon." < Mrs. Hon. A. A. Sarratt of Skull Shoals, I hna tho largest hen egg we have ever seou. 1 Its longitudinal circumference is 8 inches? t laiitudiually it measures 6 inches in cir- i cuuiference. We want Messrs Lena | Brown and John Kates to see it. Mrs S. is c satisfied that it is a hen's egg, and when a Mrs. I'acolette Sarratt says anything it's so. t Our farmers hare done more plowing ? than they have this early in tlio seaaon in ten years. Go it boya,. That's tha way we J got our start,?but it was down bill. c The answer to our sum of two weeks ago 1 is: A makes 103 steps and B. makes 72 1 steps. A correspondent sonds ue the following for tb is week's issue : < 'If J past midnight is 1 1-5 hours more than 3-5 of timo to midnight, what is the l time of day?" Hoys try it. j Service on mail route from Yorkville to i tliis place has been cuttailed, omitting York- f villeand Hobinia. It will start from Hickory Grove after the 2oth inst. Vox. ' 1 Not at all, Vox, ws never tried your i "top dressing" for a cold; but we have I practiced it for many years, as n preventive for toothache, ami have recommended the p actice to others, and in but few instances have we known it to fail. We are over 73 years old and, if possible have wet the top ef our head thoroughly every merning, and 1 never had the toothaehe, to hurl much, but twice, that we rembetnber; and one of those times we bad neglected to do so for nearly a week. Our old friend Col. It. J. Gage once told us tli at he honestly believed the practice prevented toothache with him. Mr. .McDowell, of A?h;villo was a groat sufferar from toothache uutil we told him of our preventive. ITo tried it and some years after he told ue ho had not had the toothache since. There's no whim about it. Dsn't decry'cranky old women,' as you call thorn; I they are often the best doctors in family sickness,?Eihtor. ? The Cuimf. or Three Negroes.? New Orleans, February 7.?The Times Democrat's special from Summit, Miss, says: "News lias reached here of one of the base-1 crimes aver committed in this community Mrs. Sallie Gordon's house, in Amite county, twelve miles from here, was visited by three negroes during a heavy rain storm. They asked for shelter and were allowed to come into the house, where Mrs Gordon aud her five children, the eldest being a girl I t years old, were seated by the fireside. The men at once made known their purpose, and at the point of a pistol mother and daughter were forced to submit. The mother otfered money and cotton to protect her daughter, but the offer was refused. The community is wild with exoitement One negro was caught and was inme- 1 diately dispatched. The others are at large, hut every effort is being made to catch them. The negro who was caught is supposed to hnvo made a confession implicating a number of otlisrs." FiNr.ttR Nails.?My son had a breaking out on his face as a ringworm, then 011 his hands a* a tetter, then it came in spots en his hack and hips. His finger nails seemed about to drep off. and his condition was alarming. Under treatment of physician* he grew worse for fivs years. He began to lake 8. S. S. and tlio eruptions began to disappear. Ho continued to take it and every sign of the plague left him. He owes his restortion to Swift's Specific. W. O. Cross. I.ccsburg, Ga., Sept, US, H 88. i Tiikkk Bottles.?I regard S. R. R. at s certain cure for Bheuniatistu, as thro# bottles cured me of that trouble with which 1 had been painfully alliicted for several years. I,. O. Willipord. i Bock Mills. R. C. Oct. 27. 1888. vie* wa.iw. ?.n .^l .j * _^ .e .iiiiq jviiit a^if i?tiuiuis nu utrvcu i?U Ol my children, and they were badly afflicted I with that disease, which resisted the treatment of my family physician. I waa persuaded to use Swift's Spacific by seeing an account of cures in my county paper. The < improvement was apparent from the first lew doses, and in a short time my children 1 were cured, and are still sound and well. ' John Williams, Lexington, Vs. 1 Swift's Spkcific is entirely a vegetable < remedy, and is the only medicine which permanently cures Scrofula, Blood Iluniors, t'anccr and Contagious Blood poison. Send ' for books on I'.'ond and Skin diseases mailed 1 free THE SWIFT SPKCIFIC CO. j Drawer Atlanta, Ua. The Confederate Certificate, which hax just been published by the Walker, Evans 1 & Cogswell Co., Chnr'eslon, $. C., is a band- 1 some engraving, fit for any parlor. It can be used by individual survivors, er for the dea l, or for a Certificate ?>f Membership in Associations. The ' bnrlvston Ass< ciation ,v I as adopted it. Price, on paper, ?1 ; on I 1 nrclitoen', $2. Agents wanted everywhere to canvas- on I era! terms. Outfit l nee. l Musings From Biverside Joa. Rivkrsidb, Feby. 11.?"Riverside Joa' can very wall afford to take a rest, and give p the readers of the Time$ a rest also, when D there are auch a number of intelligent and a interesting correspondents in different parts p of the coauty. I read them all and like to 5 Bee the fine display of sparkling aud bril- -j liant literature. It has the tendency to j( make your humble servant appear like the distant star, whose minor light is eclipsed j( by the brilliancy of the noonday sun. a llut will you wonder that Riverside is so ^ behind the age when 1 tell you there is a j 'ady in one mile of this soribe, whe, though ^ more than threo score years of age, baa p never seen the greatest invention of the age ^ ?the steam locomotive? This satisfied and ^ contented Homilite says the cotton gin is jnst about as much as she can stand. But would not some of the readers of the ^ iiMhH envy even ner eonuiuon, in ail nor ignorance, whin they learn that this good ^ old relio of the better days, "lives at heme and boards at thest-me place," pays cash for what she gets all the year round, owes nothing, and is perfectly independent. ^ Imagine her in her quiet homo, perched upon the summit of a towering hill, over looking the turbulent waters of the river '' Broad, a hundred feet below, as they unove along in their silent majesty. We can but D think that the time ie not far distant when " those now idle waters will tell the passers-by ? of the tens of thousands spindles and thousands of looms above that furnish employ- n mcnt to hundreds and thousands of labor ers, the year round. ^ If aoy one thinks that "Riverside" is sit- 81 uatcd in an out of the way and desolate ye- p gion, with a rivor on one side, the bills on Lho other, a creek on the tother, and another K sreek on the other, we beg te inform sueh 11 hat they are simply mistaken, that's alt ll 17o get our mails three times a week, more 14 >r less. The mail rider, Henry Brown, rune tie special "mail train" on time with a big 11 lead of steam en, and blowing off all the r imo. We have only one objection to our mail h ider; he sometimes, and not unfrequently, ^ ;ets off the track, and takes a near cut and 1,1 intirely different route, giving some of the Cl imallor stations the go-hy. "Uncle Sam" is ft he paymaster and will scarcely know the n lifference. ^ Do you think "River side" is aleoping? ^ tfot n bit of it. We have the mathemati- ' dans on this side the ounty. Mr. J. W. ' lughes, Jr., says he has aolvcd Vox's walk N ug problem, and that B makes 72 and A ^ 108 steps when they are together. 11 Mrs Joe has returned from the wedding >f her yeungor sister, in Fairfield county. ^ MiBS Clara W. Chappell, who was united in 11 the holy bonda of wedlock to Mr. Norbert Burnside, of Richland county, eight miles 11 rom Columbia. The occasion was a pieas- 1 tl int and profitable one for the parties most interes od. The ceremony was performed * oy the Rev. Necty, also of Richland. The * oride received quite a nnrabop of very hand- 1 tome presents. Tho wedding took place > " the 15th ult. The bridal party boarded the 1 V oclock train tho Same day for their future f home on Mill creek. Tho table waa heavily laden with I tie many nice things general. ^ served on eucli occasions. May their life ' boat steer safely down the stream of life " aud bear its preoious burden safely oer th '' billows of life's turbid sea, and anchor at 1 last "within tho vale" on Canaan's happy " shore. Joe. v CoLLArsa or tiic Picirio Guano Com- , riNT.?Wood's Hell, Mass., February 8.? , The works of the Pacific Guano Company were attached yesterday by tho Lynn Insti- v mtion for Savings, arm they have assigood v to John C. Ropes, of Boston. The liabili a ties are about $1,000,000. The cempauy's headquartcre are at Beaten and beeide- c works here, they have mines at Beaufort, c 8. C., and works at Charleston, S. C. The a nelling agents of the company are Gliddcn c & Co., of Boston, who are endorsers of their ^ paper to a large amount. The latter firm will probably assign. . 8 Jehu C. Ropes is of the firm of Ropes, u Gray & Loring. He says that tho 1'aoifie j Guano Company assigned, as the Lynn Savings Bank had become alarmed and bad attached tho property. Ropes is tho tern- v nor iry assignee, and a meeting of the credit- \ <> -8 will be called to-day, whan a permanent j, ass-gnee will ba appointed. He nays : "I don't believe the company to be insolvent. Its capital otock is $1,000,000. Messrs. 11 (Hidden & Co. have not a? ye' assig'?r?1, bu t will do so to-day. Technicalhies only pre- v vented their assignment yesterday." ^ Tua srits of tuk State.?The Pacific Guano Company ia the defendant in the 1 somewhat celebrated case of the State of a South Carolina against the Pacific Uuaso f Company. The litigation extends over the past seven or eight years, and is being conducted on the part of the State, by Messrs. * Sinjthe & Lee. a Its lit'stNRss in Cuari.kston.?The buei- i, nets of the company in and through ? Charleston was very largo and profitable. The failure, therefore, is not attributable tn 1 any losses here. The belief is that the r failure was caused by the discovery that [ their guano islands in the 1'acifio, which were deemed to be of enormous value, have not turned out as anticipated, and aro prac * tically valueless ia comparison with the cost. The company, eo far as could be j learned yesterday, kept no acceunte in the , banks in this c'uy. , tl Raw auk ok Travimno Dentists.?New Orleans, La.?Ktienne Deacliamps, a travel ^ ing dentist, came to this country six years ^ ago from France. Ho became acuuainted with the Dietsch family a year ago and sooa a became intimate in the household. Among the fnmily were tw# girl*, Juliette, age i q twelve, and l.oranee, aged nine. I)* echanips asked their parents if he might take them out for a walk. Permission wa- ^ granted and Deschamps took the girls to < Ins room, lie induced theidder girl to let j, him apply to her nostrils a handkerchic .. atnra'cd with chloroform. When she be- 1 mme unconscious he endenvored t> get the younger sister to smell of the vial. She refused to do so and stated she was going w tome is tell her father. p l>cschamps made no objection, but told t) ter to say that he waa going to commit sui- p ride The girl gave this message to her ct lather who, in company with several police- it men, went at once to the house. An en w irauce waa forced and the bodies of hot N man and girl were found lying on the bed ti nude. The girl was dead hut Peschanap- h had sonic little life in his body and was ta- hi kea to the hospital, where he is now dying st An examination showed that murder wv ,i ot the only crime .committed by L)j- ic ichamps. hi No other spring medicine has won for i(. elf eucii universil confidence as Ayer's tarsnperilln. It is the most powerful com- Ht unation of vegetable alteratives ever oTered o the public, and ie acknowledged br <hs ai uedical profession to be the belt blood n (uriflor. Santco, Feb. 11.?As I have just teen erusing roy daily," and round that I was ot in muob of a readable frame of micd, nil beginning to think of the past, the resent, and the future, 1 thought it would a a good tima to write a few items for the imbs; bin I fear they will be very dislinted. Our Temperance Ledge ma t at its reguir appointed time, last Thursday evening, t 7 P. M., in theSantuo Academy, and in. tailed its officers for the present quarter, will state here that the installation would are taken place earlier, but the D. G. W '. failed to get bis commission sooner, 'he Chaplain eleot, Rev. M. B. Kelly, in ormad the body that he oould not Berve, on oeount of distance, and asked them to lect another, when Iter. C. K. Willeford ras eleoted aud duly installed. Our so. iety is growing rapidly, and is beginning > put on the appearance of manhood. This tooting was the most interesting one since ur organization. Wo ware glad to hare rith us one of the Union msmbers, Pro. ohn Eison. Yesterday Rsr. Charles II. Willeford reached a very interesting sermon at 8a>m, from Ezekial, 47 : 9, but owing to ill- C* ess he could not preach at night, hut mere 'tig prayer meeting held, as usual, every unduy niirht when there is not preaching. Cotton is nearly all out of the country ow, but there is a great many bales at the epot, awaiting shipment, and some yet to c sold. There was over a hundred bales old hero to-day at fair prices?for^ the rice of cotton these days You, Mr.*BJi>r, have boon epeakiug of Uniou as Buck a ood cotton market, but it caunot beat i>anjc, iu prices paid. All the Fall Santuo as been running a'O'igside Union. Nearly 11 of the Goshen Hill people have been auling their cotton here this spason, sayig thst they can get better prices hero, hero was one yonng man who thought that o had not enough offered for his cotton, so M auled it to Union, and received ouo-eighth w f a cent less there than here. Last week otton was selling here at from 8@9| ; yes, nd some oven at 9.40. There have beon wo regular buyers for the Pacolet and Glenalo cotton mills?Mr. L. B. Jeter, for the jrmer, and Messrs. J. R. Jeter & Son, or the latter; and for some time past Mr. 1. C. Byers, of Gaffncy City, has keen hero, low, you see that Union caunct turn down amIiia am a a *41 a wV a t alt Vt aii>*K i 4 a UlUU m uviivu ouuuti^u IV ?>> a Lttie place with oalj seven stores. If the land here was obtainable, I do not elicve Saatuc would wait until it was as irgc ai Union before it would build a Coton Factory. Do you know why the people a ho country will not go inte a Fact ry i t Inion? It is simply because the people here won't go in tirat. It seems as if they rant the country "folks" to do the work, nd bring the money to their doors, and hey receive the benefit without any expendturo themselves. I believe if they woull ake the lead, libcrully, the country would ollow. In two issues ago our brother corresponlent, J. T. A., of Kcltou, said that he hought the farmers ought to sow a great nany oats in the Fall, and if they should lappen to be Winter killed they could sow gain in the Spring, thereby having two Lances at a crop. 1 think that is pretty gool ; but a belter ray, 1 think, is to break the stubble land, vhen it is possible, immediately after "laying iy," and all the shattered oats on the ground rould come up and make a good stand rithout sowiug any, nud you would save esd. If there Bhould not liappon to be nough to make a stand, the ground would lot be hurt by the plowing. And if they hould come and be Winter killed, why, it ould be sowed again, as J. T. A. says, jook wherever you may, and all of the tubble fields arc almost covered with volA.I. If ll.A.. AA..I.1 1.AAA llA AH LU1CCI 11 1UCJT MV u?ll uu>u uvvu (lowed last Fall, find thecals had cotue up, >od one-half had heen frozen out, there rould have been eneugh left for a stand. Ve have some fine looking oats where we md a watcrn elon and pea patch. Thanks, to Vox, for his compliment to ay humble Bolf, and also for the prave of he "Santuc boys," as soldiers during ihe rar. As it is nothing to me, directly, for 1 mow nothing about the war, only what is old ine, it is indirectly, as I had Uncles ,nd cousins who were killed in i*. and my ather's person bears the battle scars now. It snowed last night, and this mornong 1 ras surprise I when I awoke to find ab ut n inch of sno v on the ground. Now, I ad not taken a hunt?except an occasional 'dear" or "flower" hunt?in the last thlrecn months, Be I went out and made tho abbits "g?t up and git" for a while. And , though cut of practice?not much of a hot at best?think 1 killed about every lternate fire. St. Valentine s day is coming, and I won. er if there is going to be any "Hilly ucks," (billet deaux) sent flying through tic mails. IV e are very g'.ad te have in our neighorhood this year, Ilev. and Mrs. C. It. filleford They arc quite an acceptable ddition to Santuc. We arc sorry to learn that Mrs. Cliar'oito Iregory is lying quite ill, at her home. Little Jeter Cornwoil. who has been connod to hia room and bed so long, on acsunt of an ailment of the knee, in rapi My nproving. Ho i9 now able to walk, about a ttle. K. W.J. /C A Scrap of Papbr Saves Hkk lirk.-v.y ras juet aa or linary scrap of wrapping ~~ ? aper, but it eared her life. She wis in te last stages of consumption, t?!d by hysioians that she was incurable and )UiJ live onjy a short tirno ; she weighed ! ? than seventy pounds. On a piece of rapping paper she read of Dr. King's ew Discovery, and got a sample biltte ; it clprd her, she bought a Urge bottle, it elped Iit more, bought another and grew riter fast, continued us use and is now r tig, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 140 ounds. |<or fuller particulars -> ud e'amp ? W. il. Cole, Druggist, Fort >>ii th. Trim ottlea of this wonderful Discjv?ry free at . W, Pescy h Pro'*. As a toilet article Ayer '? I *. < r Vigor anils unr valed. It clcansoe the scalp id remeve-i dandruff, cures itching humors, tores the origin* color to a led and ray hair, and promote! its grotr:ii. I