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fliers * thx m bill Speech of I. G. McKiaeic*. delivered in the Houae of Repreeentativee, in Dwrnbtr tppMlliM U Hob. W. C. Benel'a Bill to repeal ee moth of ibo f?? Bill M allowe oooio to plaintifTe mad defendant'a A t to r no j : Mm. Sruin : 1 ma omtoaiahod at the introduction into thlo Houoo of tho Bill now nnder ooneideration. If oomo illiterate, uninformed poraon had introdaood it, 1 would not have boon ao mueh asioniahod, bat ita katrodaotion by agontloman ofdiotiaguiahod abilitioo, of profound learning, brought up at tho foot of Gamaliel, and now tho companion of a high Prioot, who daily miaiatoro La tho groat Temple of Juaiieo, doee aatoniah mo beyond doooription. 1 cannot underlined it; it ourpaaooo my ooptprehoneion. I am like the old philoaopher, who while rambling oao evening looking at tho beauUea of nature, oomo acroea a tannery; tho tanner'o aign wan a cow tail hanging down in front of hia deer, the atnmp or the tail extending through ao auger hole to the inaide, the philoaopher gated intently at the tail, the tanner naked what he deal red, he roe ponded, "nothing," but added, "1 hare traveled muoh in my time; have traveraed aeaa and ooeana; have traveled ever vaat continental have aeon old oaean calm and aerene auddenly eonvnlaed with raging billowa, wrecking the mightiest vessels thst sail a upon the deep; have breasted the mightj simosn sweeping ever the desert of Sahara; have stood upon the towering Alps and gated at the sunlit clouds at mj feet while the thunders reared ia the rallies below; have ascended into the very heavens and listened at the music ef the spheres, and all these things I could understand and explain, but how that cow got through that auger hole, andcoalda't take in her tail surpasses my comprebensien. And Mr. Speaker; 1 am equally puxxled at the introduction of this Bill; it *urpmt$et my comjtrthtnsion. For what purpose has it been introduced? Why attempt to innevete upon laws the wisdom of which has been established by the experience of ages ? When this State was a province of Great Britaiu Feo bills were established for the people. The oldest Fee Bill of which we have any knowledge being established ia 1C94. And since England's yoke was thrown off this Slate has overbad an established Fee bill. Look baek 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 legislators established Fee bills from lime to time, which met the approval of those eminent Judges. Now for the first time in the history ef this State an effort is mado to abolish a portion of our Fee bill, the original of which was wisely established by our ancestors. ia it made ? Can it be that it is the bastard offspring Ar tne war n?W waged against lawyers? I deprecate every effort, by whomsoever made, to array one olassof oitixens against another. In every community there are lawyers, farmers, preachers, physicians. merchants, mechanics and miliars. They are necessary factors in seciety; and itia wrong, egregious'y wrong, to array one elasa against another. The author of our present Fee bill was brought up at the plow handles,?was following a lazy mule hitched to a plow, on hie native Pea Ridge before some of yon were bora, and while some of you were galleping corn stalk horses and chasing butterflies from flower to flower. He was transferred from the farm to the office of Clerk of the Court by the voice of his district, llis services in that office for 16 years made him familliar with our Fee Bills. And in drawing up the present Fee bill he bad one eye on the lawyers and. officers of the Court, sad the other oa the farmers and other classes. And had he been appointed by a Judge as a sworn referee to draw up a foe bill equal alike to all parties the present would have been the identical Fee biil he would have drawn. For uo one more deeply feels for, aad sympathises with the farmers and laboring elasses than he, knowing by bitter experience the difficulties against which they have to contend in the great strugglrfor human existence. Farmers, look well to jeur vote en this bill. Guard against the sophistry of lawyers. Think for yourselves. Leek for a moment at the rr&ctiiel effects of this bill. Suppose I justly owe Mr. H. will not pay him, and he is forced to' bus to make roe pay him. Who ought to pay bis lawyers costs for issuing the necessary papers in the suit? Every honert person would say at once that I ought to psy them, II,. ... ,l__. * . I.- .L vi las jvaouii, mill i akin si lauu; toe on* Mamable for not paying the debt. Yet if this bill becomes law Mr. H. would hare te pay aid" costs himself. What injustice te a creditor I What an open yiolaiion of eserj prinoiple of law and equity I And what a. premium for delaying the payment of ah homest debt 1 Such legislation ia wrong, dangerous. Before the war a preacher attempted te baptise a negro ia "much water". The preacher was .unacquainted with the place; as he went to immerse the negro he happened to step in deep water, both he aod the negro went dowa, and the negro badly strangled exolairaed: "See here, if you don't step this foolishness soma hose will lose a nigger;" and gentlemen of this Heuse : if you don't step this unwise legislation, plaintiff" s and dsfendants wi 11 be compelled to incur unjust expsnecs, V/hile the shafts hurled at the lawyers will Tall harmless at their feet. The Watihmflon Allianci.?Blackrille, February 11. ? A meating of the Watermelon Alliance was liald here ts-dsy. There wsa represented 6,000 acres of land, and it was muvi'u uuu cnrneu mat in? planting 01 mis acreage should be contingent upon a reduction in freight. A committee was appointed to confer with the South Corolina l'.allwaj officials, mud in the event of thsir not acceding to the reduction in freights the executive committee ordered to reduoothe acreage to bo planted in melon*. After bearing the report of the chiarman of the executive committee and attending to routine business the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the executive oommilto. ?Netct and Courier. Merchants Want Pati.no Customers and Farhbrs Want Cheap Goons.?Spartanburg February 7.?The County Alliance will meet here Saturday. They are now working at il.e 'apply problem. They hare secured reduced rates on many articles in common use by farmers. If they can work the mertlianie down to a smaller per cent on their goods and get themselves op to prompt payn.ei ts it will be better all round. The merchant has Buffered muoh in the paetby oredi'ii-g men who are very slow. The intereit on | net due accounts eat up the profits. One may have a nice little balance to bis oredit on Inh books, but a few slow men and others who do not pay all will reduce this balance very tuuoh. The two-sided problem is this: The Alliance lien want cheaper supplies, nnd the merchants want customers who will pay promptly on the very day they promise. If the Alliance can bring that Hate of affairs nb.-ul it will do good.?Newt and Courier. ?e-?-? It is stated that there will be this yoar sis or seven vscant scholarship* in the Nashville Ni l mat College for this State. Students must 1 e ovor 17 years of age. They art given two yearn' tuition and training in edueat ?nal methods, and $25 per month (J.l.^l... klwa mmm awne.U.l M AAflinftf if ! an w. I?IO onm IOW y/ vvuij-finiTv rA? urination. I JDeelfg "Hnion times ? R. M. STOKER, - Editor P" th< Friday, February 16, 1809. ik SUBSCRIPTION, f2 00 PBR ANNUM ^ : ws POST OFFICE DIUCTOKY. oil Tho P. O. "will bo opened tfor business from 8 A. M. to 6.80 P. II. On Tho Moaoj Ordor Department will bo all opoaod for buoiaooa from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. x| Tho Northern and Southern maiia will both elooo promptly at 1 P.-M. ' w Any inattention or irregularities should u* bo reported promptly to tho P. M. mi J. C. HUNTER, P. if. o tm- W. C. Keith, tho ablo editor of tho oa Ktovet Courier, died at hia homo ia Wal" sti halla last Friday. ul ot W Wo regret being compelled to poet- tx pone a eery interesting communication from d Qowdejsville. It will appear next week. it 19* Her. B. F. Lampley, pastor of the ^ Baptist church of this place, will preach ia tho School House near W. A. Moorhead's store, at Mt. labor, next Sunday oesnlng at ^ 8 o'clock. ^ The Qreeaeillo Convocation of the ou Episcopal church will meet ia Tho Churoh of tho Nativity of this parish next Wodnea- 1)0 day and continue until Sunday aight. Divine secvices wilt be held morning and *1 night of each day, at tho usual hours to w< nuiuu in puuno ero Mrneiuy invited. to' A* We almost forgot that we had an ho leotioa here last Monday for Town Treas- w< uror, it pasted off se quietly. Mr. Jaetea M] (1. Rodger wae the onlj candidate and he ha wae unanimously elected. A better man vu for the office ceuld not be found. eh " * bo V&- Don't forget that next Wednesday, the 20th, is the laet day to make your tax Wl returns to the Auditor. After that day the ^ 60 per cent, penalty will be imposed upon all who neglect to make their returns. All returns must be made in person directly to the Auditor, and nader the formal ^ oath of the person making the return. _ Hoi tQU The Post Office has been moved into the store a?at to the burnt building occupied at the time of the late fire by Suilh & Hunter. . 18 We understand that the Store in which 7*' the Post Office was held has been rented for a barroom. We shall then have three li censed barrooms in Union, and a fonrth in * prospect. g -m-. 4 W&~ We sincerely regret to learn that 6 Mrs. Carlisle, wife ef Iter; John M. Car- ? lisle, died very suddenly, at the residence 7 of her son-in-law, J. K. Jennings, Esq., in 8 Spartanburg, early last Tuesday morn- 9 ing, from paralysis of the heart. Most truly do we sympathise with the he- 1 reared venerable husband. ^ _ O 19" Everybody were astonished *when J? they awoke and looked out doors last Men- 5 day morning, at seeing the ground covered 7 with snow. When they went to bed the 8 night before the moon waa shining bright ^ and the skies were clear, but about mid- jj night they clouded over, the white flakes l'J began noiselessly to fall, and by daylight 13 they had spread their beautiful winter ^ carpet over the earth, covered the roofs of j5 bouses and encased the limbs of trees la a 1(1 downy garb.- Noistleisly and suddenly it 17 came, and as quietly and suddenly it die- 18 appeared. By noon there were no traces of it, except a shallow moisture in the ground. 19" On Saturday night an aooid eat 00- ^ curred to the up freight train about a mile above here that was rtmarkable for ^ not doing more damage. The front tracks of'the oar next to the cab broke loose ia th some way, and it appears they ran aloag ^ umv*v? ?u? v?| | vuv ifuvvi iuub1u| oh u1v cross ties in the middle of the track w end the other on the end of the cross ties. They ran in this way for eboul half a mile. The ineide wheel of the b< trucks must' have broken at first for pieces " of it were scattered all along the track and 0 most of the cross ties were broken in two. m When the train stopped the wheel attached to the axle was found seme distance from ^ tho track. The coupling pin fortunately held up that end of the oar.'or there iB no estimating the damage that would hare been done. As it was, the damage was only a few broken eroes ties and a erooked track, which was repaired without causing any ^ delay to trains following. M Personals. Vfiaa Panlina A?*#W?ian Wan ...... ?? ? ?> .UUI UM? 1VIUI UOU IfflU a long visit to bar relatives and friands in ee Columbia. ao Miss Agnes Hill baa returned from an Qi extended viait to Cbnrlaarton. w oc Capt. C. C. Culp, Col. I. 0. McKiasiok, Capt. Maobaih Teuog and T. B. Butler, have w been attending the U. 8. Court, now sitting ai at GreenTille. Each of tbe above gentle men, we learn, bad important enaea in that 0l court. si Mr. H. M. Oriabell baa gone toCbarlee- j^1 ton on important busineas. ^ Mrs. F. G. Trefxer, bee returned from Weat Springs, wbere ahe haa been en an ex- 7< tended visit is ker parents. Mr. J. N. Lemaater, of Jonesvilln, came u down last Saturday and spant Sunday with p us. fi< Our young friend Mr. Frank S. Robinson " left last Sunday te resume his studies at Davidson College, N. C. til Miss Lnnra Gist ie visiting her many th frianda at thta ?! ? ei' Mr. W. F. BtUi ef Fish Dam wu in t?wn M this w??k. m ? b< Bicklkn's Abnica Salve.?Tub Diet i? Salve in the world for Cute, Bruises, Sores, *> Ulcer*, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, end all iti Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles v< or no pay required. It is guaranted to give ec Perfect satisfaction, or money refunded, in Price 2ft cents per box. For sals by Pos tj n< ft Oro. Feb. 10, ly. pi Parties in need of Hay, Oats, Peas, Bran, bi Corn, Flour, Farming implements and Hard- g? ware, should call on It. S. LIPSCOMB, 6< Gaffney City, S. C., headquarters for such e? gdods. 2-3t i BA. We bad visit last Saturday fro ?U r wbllm colored oitixtn ud politico! >imot, Jan* Mobley, who hw now th* 1 tflx Rot. to hii neat* oad 1* preoehio? I t Qoopol of poooe oad good will to hio rooo * Samtor Coanty. . ~ I Jan*, however, otill tolk*politios oo gllb> ( u ovor, oad thinks wo. oould bring tho i lored voter* Into th* d?moorotle ronko. if ] i woald giro them o liberal shore of tho i ices?say about throe out of seven. He, .1 wever, says we must piek our candidates j >m the most intelligent of bis race. That's 1 very good talk for the republican pary. 4 ic democratic party tried that plan sooqh 4 are ago, and the republioans laughed ak '4 , and called us fools, and it will be re- t :mb?r?d by our readers that we thought \ too, at the time, and were laughed at by 1 r own party friends for advocating a -eight out democratic policy. And we will 4 ic the privilege ef saying here that while | her papers may claim the distinction of ] ting the first to advooate the straightont j mocratlo policy in this State, we advanced in the Tim as a year before any other pa* 4 r suggested it. We were ridiouled 1 roughout the State for entertaining suoh ^ 1 idea that a square slraighteut democratic < ;ht ceuld be made successful under the 1 en existing strength of the two parties, < d by many papers we were oalled Uraight- ] t Stakes in derision. < 1 What June is fisbing for, we don't know; I I we do know this : We've tried his plan \ political amalgamation and found it to be | ooraptete failure in every respect. We have | >b over more colored voters to the demeatio ranks, by a straightforward course t nerd their race, and by giving them an | nest and fair democratio government, than 1 ? ever did or ever could by presenting our- t Ives to them with "two faces under one t." We are getting along very well with 1 r present government, and whatever ( anges may be necessary, for the good of ( th races <n the State, the democratio party 1 II not be slow or unwilling to make. We inot afford to go baokwards in the great 1 -ward movement of the world. I We do not see such liberality extended to fi 1 colored voters in Pennsylvania and ? io, where the colored votaais heaviest at ) North, as June asks for thena in the t> Jth. tl , U Liat of Grand and Petit Juror?, g| Drawn according to Jaw, on Wednesday, j th inet. The Grand Jurors te sort# one ? nr and the Petit Jurors to serve during ? March term of Court. ' Grand Jurors. \ u . Henry Bennercol 10. Elisha Wilbanks. m . S. E. Ray. 11. J. Q. Bucliheit. * . J. G. Kelly. 12. W. T. Cunning- ? . Tiniley Clark, col ham. b . J. W. Sparks. 13. J, G. Rice. . Charner Hawkins, 14. J. M. Bennett. ,a col. 16. Geo. W. Peaks. . E. M.Smith. 16. J.F. Vaughn. 01 . W. T. Betsill. 17. J. B. Foster. ? . Jeise B. Davis. 18. Jeff Davis. ? Pbtit Jurors. C W Austell. 19 J W Koon. j] W H Koon. 20 Wm Sprouse. Frank Israel. 21 J 8 Charles. : J T Moorhead. 22 Joe MoFaol. ' E W Going. 23 C H Stewart. B Golden Harmon. 24 D N Spencer. t J B. Foster. 25 F B Scott. 1 I W C Wallace. 26 J C Jenkins. ' i Geo W Hill. 27 P N llollis. i t n >>a i> t p?.? I ?r v a uw??v. A%. x* AjMIOID. C B Bobo. 20 J W Humphries. o K O II Jeter. 30 D B Free. j Ashemore Vender- 31 J T Douglass, ford. 32 W X Whisonant. ' : C T Mabry. 33 T L Hamaa. ' i G C Greer. 34 1) J Farr. < > B W Whillocc. 35 Green Nieholaa, ] I S Ivej. col. J 8 Welsh. 36 J T Whelchel. * Hotea From Bedaiia. Ms. Editor. We bar* been thinking all a while that we would find aomething new 1 writ# yon before thia time, but it aeems at newa don't atart around much in our liet neighborhood. People in thia aection * ire been generally busy aowiag eata for e paat few daya, and a good many . t ylng to oontiaue the aowing while the anther ia fine, though it ia so cold and the ound ae frozen they can only plow about df the day. We do hope the weather will i ao that all may aow aa many apring oata they will nead, for we all know that a ng crop of oats goes a good waya toward eetinga abort crop of corn, especially \ ben the ahort crop of corn has to be haul- t i about 16 miles over as rough roads as ere is in the county. < We are beginning to hear tbeciy of "hew | uch cotton I can make thia year. I wan't \ make ao much cotton, and .1 don't knew i I'll plant much corn," and auoh like ez- 1 essions. Mow we are all ready To uj t in't do that way, bat you plaot mere corn, i id let me plant more cotton. Now, if we oeuld get in the habit of being t mad with eur oorn, like it ia in some pin- < o; far inatanee, in Oeorgia. By the way, i me of onr neighbors hare been out to \ eorgia on a visit, two or three weeka, and ] e boar they aay people in Georgia hare . irn two or throe years old, and had it piled >ent in open houses and in pens. Netithstanding the elose rocky soil there, eorn 1 id gourda grow. We hoard there wae a 1 an there that wanted to make a half bushel , measure his corn and wanted to*make it itcfa gourd, so be sawed off about two * id a half feet of the top of the gourd and 1 id enough left to make hie half bushel. ] h my I weuldn't we bate for anybody to t ;t a dip at our corn pile with that gonrdT . We regret to loarn that oar talented ouag friend and promising physioian, Dr. toLeod, is to leave us for North Carolina. re hope he may be as successful in the fairs as he has boon in the past. We hope rank is net leaving us on account of the lanoial depression of the people, for if we e poor we don't keep Doctors poor liks we > the preachers. 1 We feel like we are keeping up with the < mes when among ether enterprisee we < ink of the nioely finished and well furnish- ' I new store of Wilbnrn & Co., near Cross < eye, and the large dry goods and grccefy *' tabliahmeat at Sedalia under the manage- ' ent and vim ef the new firm of Minter, Bo- 1 >, and Ratchford. Somebody thinks there < money in me county, ibougli it don't ake much difforonce, so thsy sell on tim$. This commodity mourns ths loss of one of I i most amiable sod pious women snd de- j >ted wife, Mrs. Msrgsret Spsrks, who pass- d 1 from the trials of this life Tuesday morn- r ig last, to that resting place from whence a ? traveler ever returns; t rell tox we think the answor to his exam- j >e is, B steps 7s, A 108; while A gained a t alf step in time, B stepped far enough to d tin 1-6 of the distance passed by A, so the 1 > steps which we have to start with is t mat to 6-6 of the distance to be gained, f 10-2. f 1 - Bdagi ot Jonsarille. Kit. Eomi.?Tht loot two vwki of di roothoc hoe gloon 'the brmtn t|okiio? wgltljoran work, end o lerge amount wis here boos iowb. It is to bo regrett hoteo a moll amount of sets wore town li oil, the, winter boa bean so mild t fewthpi wore sown then ore looking fit t think the forners bod bet iar risk sowi kt leo?t holf of the oot crop In the foil, o if lhaqr should get killed tbej eon sow ogi ? ike spring. The Formers' Alliance is ereoting soi wskslkp in our country. It seems tb tfe goiu^toeopcentrate their pnroboses o mly {tttrjtti o few of the merchants wl shorn they can moke the best terms. Tl sill oertoinly bring profits down to o am morgin. 'Whet the result will be, the Te phone is net eble to oommnnicote ot pr int. The Alliouoe men soy they wont (ueoo ot thn advanced rote of three dolls per ton. The gunno merchants bel bett look out, or somebody might get burt. It way be very well for formers not ise ony guane, but there is onf thing tb rlolw. two aakiA I tkl-b Ik.. k. N? VlViU^ III W Uiva A IU1UA IUOJ UiBAf groat mistake, and that is, sslliog th sot ton seed to tho oil mills. It looks li here won't bo soed enough loft in onr cou trj for planting purpose*. I think the i iianoo had bettor take tho matter in ha ij another season and keep the seed home to keep up their exhausted lam rbey might very well do without guano they would put all th* ootton soed back hoWl. As ta^*?vown, it is beautifully carpet with snow this morning for the first tii this wintejf. It slipped upon us last nig without any warning, as It was clear a right at bed time. Mr. 0. B. Long ha# opened a grocery ai lupply store ander the MMonio Ha Charlie proposes to give heavy weight ai pod measure, proesed down and ehaki ogether, at rock bettem prices, for cash. Messrs. A. O. Sprouse and W. F. Ham into bought out Mr. N. C. Rollins in t! rrooory business, and promise to de as wi or their patrons as any other house in t] city." Oar LivAry Stable must be doing a got usiness, as it seems to he th* centre of i raotieu in town of late. Messrs. McWhii tr A Crawford, its ownora, it seems, co is* up a mule or a horse in qaiok time, an im Back can ride him around and sho imoTTfn good style. Thr* Steam Mill, owned by Messrs. Col an A Whitloek, has made some ohango s ownership. Mr. Coleman's two son homas and Robert, having bought out M Fbitlock. So the mill is now owned ai anagod by J. II. Coleman A Sons. Mies Florence Boyd, after suffering ii maely for eleven weeks died in great peai n the 28th of January. Her remains wei irrna oy nor parents 10 NewDerry count ad deposited netr their old homestead. Mrs. Ella Rowell has had a protraote ilness from which she is recovering. Oar eotton market has been quite lirel or seme days; the plstform and th .round around it has been covered with tl leeey article. Good prices and better roa< .4A?otfUtcaused the rush. One man In our community, and he "enter, loo, earoe into one of the stores ur town the othei day to pay off the last < lis indebtedness, which was ten or twel< lollars, and presented a hundred doll sill I Tou ought to have seen that me shant shuffling round to get up the chang Pity we have so few sueh renters in tountry. Old Mr.; Vox, after swearing before tl Clerk,;now swears that he will go for t Law breakers. He is exsetly right. If i the officers of the law would do the sat We would have lees drinking and gambli: about the towns and in the woods, oft on Sanday. Telbphoxx. [You'll catch it, Mr. Telephone, for ca lag Mr. Vox *'old." His wife has a sr ItgM how,"and she is not in the best humors, bat any man's eyes are in dang When he calls the head of her family < Mr. Vox.?Edttob. Cure for B*nd StaggersMia dob, Feb. 8. Ml Bditob.?As meningetis, or bli itaggers, is now prevailing as an epiden amongst the horses io this county, save valuable animals having died, of my kno idge, and others being attacked, prom ne te make known a very efficient remec which I learned during the war, when a rere and fatal type attacked the horses in >elievf, the Fall of 1861. The remedy v tuggested by Gen. Hampton, and prot rery sucoessful, if Used in time : Throw the animal, and with a ah: iliok, the else of the finger, one inch sh >f the length ftrom upper angle of nosti tnd^swer angle of the eye, (external met ire,) grasp it light in the hand, Introdt it into the nostril, making several qui: ihort, upward motions, until blood flo freely. Let the animal rise upen its f indletit bleed till it becomes faint, llsrding does not cease, plug one or be lostrils with eld rags. If this does not su wed in arresting the bleeding blow into t loetrils finely pulverized sulphate of ire loping this may prove a blessing to some ny fellow beings, prompts me to make mown. A. E. Faht. According to the Atlanta Cotutilutu David IIollyTi . a Connecticut farmer, h a falling out with a neighbor, seme yes ago, and swore be would dance on ! enemy's grave. The neighbor died, a Holly vane kept his vow. Tbsn came a i ries of surprising events. His horses a sows died, bis barn burned down, and t >woev was made utterly helpless by aetrc it paralysis. The farmers In (ho vicio Aj (Bat when Hollyvano made this wich k?a at^al? ? 11-j a in?i oiu?r uru repnau iuri u? woi invoke Ik*, wrath of God upon him, pray for his rain. Tboy believe that t iead man's prayar has b**n answered. Eommt.?That is what yon ought lave, in fact, you must have it, to fhliy < oy life. Thousands are searobing for laily, sad mourning because they find tot. Thousands upon thousands of. doll i .re spent annually by oar people in l tope that tbey may attain this boon. A 'et it may be bad by all. We guaram hat electric Bitters, if osed according lirect'ons and the < M persisted in, w ring Jrou good digest cB and roost the i noa dyspepsia and ail diseases ef Liv itomeeh and Kidneys. Sold at 6>e. a M pit bottle by Peeey ft Bra., droggis s News from North Paoolet. >j Etta Jamb, February 11?Mr, Edit to you seem to "hoot" at our method of ] 0f tenting a oold, by bathing the top of id head with oold water.* We uee it as a { Mt tentite, you ueo it aa a cure. We are aol hi under the advioe of a man who aland* u] the top round of hia prefeaaion?medic ?g and aurgeiy?you are following the whin Bd aome "cranky" old woman. For toothac dn we would rather risk a first-class "coty uro one of thoee old fossils of the fortune-tell pe stripe for wbioh this county in ita balo; aj days was'proverbial. Dd We are sorry that the bridge lotting Lih Thomson's mill last Friday turned out so liia definitely. The plan and specifications p all posed by the county commissioners are go It. and "will make a bridge," aa Unole Qeo ei_ Garner, says "for the grandchildren. no are afraid a great many of the gra ira children will be here in time to build unless our county finanoes improve health. to Aa a mere cipher in the community, ay would suggest that the propoaed stone a lara be substituted with suitable timb -?_ lk?t ??...) Ik. 1 IJ #? 10 ur r?vmix4 v tuo unu^u tur i ur k? >ears, and that is ai long aa the bridge \ n- etaud anjwaj, unless it is covered. Bj t U- tine we hepe the county will be able nd build a mora permanent structure. At at matter of economy we hope the county 01 Is* miesioners will take our suggestion for w i if it ia worth. on The prospects now are that we will 1 one of onr best oitixeos in tbe person ed Mr. C. W. Whsonant, of Wilkiusville. ne has bought some building lots at Rio ;ht Grove and will perhaps remove there sc ad time this year, our community has "but uch people to lose as Calvin, ad Mrs Vox's bealing finger has tura 11. out to be a felon. She's not the first p ad woman in this county who had to put sn with a "felon." Mrs. Hon. A. A. Sarratt of Skull Shoi eg has the largest hen egg we have ever se< he longitudinal circumference is 8 inche til lalitudinally it measures 8 inches in c be cumference. We want Messrs L Brown and John Estes to see it. Mrs S. )d satisfied that it is a hen's egg, and wh it. Mrs. Pacolette Sarratt says anything it's r. Our farmers have done more plow! ,n than they have this early in the season id ten years. Qo it boys,. That's the way w lot our start,?but it was down bill. The answer to our sum of two weeks i e- is: A makes 108 steps and B. makes in steps. s, A correspondent sends us the followi r. for this week's issue : id "If 1 past midnicht is 1 1-6 hours mi than 3-5 of time to midnight, what is n- time of dayf" Boys try it. se Service on mail route from Yorkville re this place has been cuitailed, omitting Yo y villeand Rebinia. It will start from Hi ory Grove after the 25th inst. Vox d Not at all, Vox, we never tried y< j "top dressing" for a cold; but we hi e practiced it for many years, as a prevent ie for teothaohe, and have recommended is practice to others, and in but few instaa have we knewn it to fail. We are over a years eld and, if possible have wet the of ef our head thoroughly every msrning, s oi never bad the toothashe, to hurt much, re twioe, that we rembember; and one ef th ar times we had neglected to do so for nea r- a week. Our old friend Col. R. J. G ;e. once told us that he honestly believed ur practice prevented toothache with him. b McDowell? of Asheville was a great suffei be from toothache until we told him of i he preventive. He tried it and some years af ill he told us he had not had the tooiha ne since. There's no whim about it. De ng decry'cranky old women,' as you call th en they are often the best dootors in fan sickness. ?Editor. ?1 ^ ? The Crime or Three Nrorobi ,re New Orleans, February 7.?The Times D ?' or rat's apeeial from Summit, Miss, sa ;er "News has reached here of eae of the ba jU crimen ever committed in this coamnn Mrs. Sallie Gordon's house, in Amite ceui twelve milen from here, was visited by tb negroes during a heavy rain storm. T asked for shelter and were allowed to c into the heuse, where Mrs Gordon and five children, the eldest being a girl lio years old, were seated by the fireside, ral men at once made known their purp wj. and at the point of a pistol mother i daughter were forced to submit. | mother offered money and cotton to ] J < tect her daughter, bul the offer was rsfui se- The community is wild with exoitem t I On* negro was caught and was im ras dialely dispatched. The others are alia but every effort is being made to oatch th re" Th* negro who was caught is supposed have made a confession implicating a n irp her of others." ort 1 ?' ri) Finobr Nails.?My son had a break ' out on his face as a ringworm, then on M~ hands as a tetter, then jt came in spot* ic* his back and hips. His finger nails seei ;k, about to dr*p off. and his condition W| alarming. Under treatment of pbysici be grew worse for five years. He began eet take S. S. S. and the eruptions began If disappear. He continued to take it i ith every sign of the plagu* left him. H* n .. bis restortion to Swift's Specific. l?" W. G. Cnost " Leesburg, Ga., S*pt, 28, 1C88. n. Tiikbs Bottlbs.?I regard S. S. S. a of certain cure for Rheumatism, as three I |, ties cured m* of that trouble with whiol had been painfully afhioted for sev< years. L. O. Willifohi Rock Mills, S. C. Oct. 27, 1888. on> Nine years ago Scrofula attacked two my children, and they were badly afflie "*.* with that disease, which resisted the tr< moot of my family physician. I was | ntJ suaded to use Swift's Specific by seeing | ? 1 " improvement wu apparent from the ? few doeee, and in a ahort time roy obild . 0 were ourod, and areatill sound and well JOHM WlLUABI [*j. Lexington, Va. ll? Swirr's 8rxcirio is entire!/ a vegeti remedy, and is tbeonly medioine wbioh ] " mahenti/ cures Sorefula, Blood Hum Cancer and Contagious Blood poiaon. 8 for books on Blood and Skin diseases mal to free TtfE SWlFTSPECIFIC CO. an- Drawer 8, Atlanta, Oi It ?w it The Confederate Certificate, whioh are just been published by tbe Walker, K? the & Cogswell Co., Charleston, 8. C., is a ha nd some engraving, fit for any parlor. It lee be used by individual survivors, or far to dead, or Tor a Certificate of Membership 'ill Associations. The Charlvston Asoceial is- has adopted it. Price, on paper, $1 ; or. parchment, $2. Agents wanted ev< nd aharato canvast on liberal terms. Oi free. Musingi from Biversid* Jo*. or, Bitiudi, Feby. H.?"Riverside Jo*' >ro- can very w*U afford to take a root, and giro tho the roadoro of the Times a root also, whoa >re- there are auch a number of intelligent and log interoetlug oorreepondonts in different part* pon ef the coanty. I read them all and like to lino see tho floe display ef sparling and brili of liant literature. It haa the Undanoy to ihe make your bumble servant appear like the r," distant star, whose minor light is eolipsei ing by the brilliancy of th* noonday son. yon But will you wonder that Riverside is so behind the age when I tell you ther* is a at *ady in one mile of this seribe, who, though in- more than three soore years of age, has ro- never seen the greatest invention of th* age od. ?the stoam looomotivef This satisfied and rge oontented Homilite says th* ootton gin is We jnst about as muoh as phe oan stand, nd. But would not seme of the readers of the it, Times envy even her condition, in all her. in ignorance, when they learn that this good old relio of tho better days, "lives at heme we and beards at the seme place," pays cash pil- for what abo gets all th* year round, owes era nothing, and is perfectly independent. 16 Imagine her in her quiet homo, perohed will upon th* summit of a towering hill, overhat looking the turbulent waters of th* river to Broad, a hundred feet below, as they movo i a along in their silent majesty. We osn but )m- think that the time is not far distant when hat those now idle waters will tell the passers-by of the tens of thousands spindles and thouose sands of looms above that fbrnish employof mcnt to hundreds and thousands of labor He era, the year round. ory If any on* thinks that "Riverside" is sit?me uated in an out of the way and desolate^refew gion, with a river on on* side, th* hills on the other, a creek on the totAsr, and another ed creek on the other, w* beg t* inform sueh oor that they are simply mistaken, that's all up We get our mails three times a week, more or less. The mail rider, Henry Brown, runs tls, his special "mail train" on time with a big tu. head of steam en, and blowing off all the s? time. We have only one objection to oar mail lir- rider; he sometimes, and not (infrequently, en geta off the traok, end takes a near out and is entirely different route, giving some of the ien smaller stations the go-by. "Uncle Sam" is o. the paymaster and will scaroely know the ng difference. in Do you think "River side" is sleeping? we Not a bit of it. We have the mathematicians on this aide the oiunty. Mr. J. W. igo Hughes, Jr., says he has solved Vox's walk 72 leg problem, and that B makes 72 and A 108 steps when tbey are together, ng Mrs Joe has returned from the wedding of her younger sister, in Fairfield county, ire Miss Clara W. Chappell, who was united Id the the holy bonds of wedlock to Mr. Norbert A. Burnside, of Richland county, eight miles to from Columbia, 'fhe occasion was a pleasrk ant and profitable one for the parties most ck- interei'ed. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Neely, also of Richland. The bride reoeived quite a number of very hand>ur some presents. The wedding took place en eve the 16th ult. The bridal party boarded the live 4 oclook train tho lame day for their future the home onMilloreek. The table wss heavily ces lnden with me many nioe things generall* 78 served on such occasions. May their life top boat steer safely down the stream of life ?sd and bear its preoieus burden safely oer th but billows of life's turbid sea, and anchor at ose last "within the* vale" on Canaan's happy rly shore. Jon. ** CoLLArse or the Psoirio Guano Compant.?Wood's Hell, Mass., February 8.? dr. The works of the Pacific Guano Company rer were attaohed yesterday by the Lynn Instiour tution for Savings, ann they have assigned to John C. Ropes, of Boston. The liabilitar tiss are abont $1,000,000. The company's chs headquarters are at Boston aad beside* n't works hero, they have mines at Beaufort, ea. S. 0,| aod works at Charleston, S. C. The ' selling agents of the company are Glidden "v & Co., of Boston, who are endorsers of their paper to a large amount. The latter firm will probably assign. John O. Ropeo is of the firm of Ropes, em- Gray A Loring. He says that the Paeifie iys: Quano Com Dan V assigned, as the I/vnn so* i Savings Bank bad baooma alarmed and bad ity attached the property. Ropes ia the temoty, pnr ?ry assignee, aad a meeting of the creditiree ore will be called to-day, when a permanent bey assignee will be appointed. He says: "I one den't believe the company to be insolvent, her Its capital stock is $1,000,000. Messrs. 14 (Hidden & Co. have not as yet assigned, bit The will do so to-day. Technicalities only pra> ose, vented their assignment yesterday." snd Thi SriTS or ths Stats.?The Pacific The Quano Company ia the defendant in the pro- somewhat celebratad oase of the State of led. South Carolina against the Pacifio Guaao eat Company. The litigation extends over thr me- past seven or sight years, and is being conrge, ducted on the part of the State, by Messrs. etn. Smythe & Lee. i to Its Business in Charleston.?The busturn nesa of the company in and throagh Charleston was very large and profitable. The failure, therefore, ie not attributable to :ing ?oy losses here. The belief ia that the bis failure was eaused by the discovery that ?D their guana islands in the Pacific, whtob aed were deemed to be of enormous value, have was not turned out as antioipated, and are precans lically valueless ia comparison with ths ^ rtnat The ???.???? ?a ? ? - ---|J v o vvrnri AUV vvuipnuji ?u I Ml M UVUIU WtJ ; t? learned yesterday, kept no aoetnnta in the ?4 banks in this city, was 1 ' Bewaei on Teavblih a Dentists.?New i. Orleans, La.?Etienne Dssehamps, a traveling dentist, earns to this country six years > a ago from Franoe. He became acquainted hot- with the Dietsoh family a year ago and sooa i I became intimate in the household. Among ?ral the family wsrs twe girls, Juliette, age i . twelve, and Loranee, aged nine. Desehamps asked their parents if he might ?f take them out for a walk. Permission wa? ted granted and Deachamps took the girls to rat- his room, lis induced tbeeirier giri io ist jer- him apply to her nostrils a bandkerchie* an Maturated with chloroform. When she beThs cams unconsoious he endeavored io get the ri,i younger sitter to smell of the vlnl. She re-1 rem fused to do so eod stated she wee going I. home ts tell her father. () Deeohampe made no objection, bnt told her to say that he wee going to commit salkble cide. The girl pre this meeeege to her ,er. father who, in oompany with eeveral polioeom, men, went at enee to the house. An enen(i trance wae forced and the bodies >of bot > j,d man and girl were found lying on the bed nude. The girl was dead but Desohamp* bad some little life In hie body and was taken to the hospital, where be is now dying. hM An examination showed that murder was not the only crime .committed by l)end sohampe. can the No other spring medioine has woo for it. > in self suoh unirersal confidence as Ayer*e lion Sarsaparilla. It is the m?st pewerful cornon binatioa of vegetable alteratives ever offered iry- 10 the publio, and is acknowledged by the itfit medical profession te be the beet bleed purifier* Intereetia^Joi^AaSi^^^^^^^^^l! Baktoo, Feb. 11?ii I l.BTt ju ft two peruting my "daily," and round that I was not in muoh of a readable frame of mind, and beginning to tbink of tho pant, tbo preeent, and tho fatnre, I thought it would bo a good time to writo a few itotaa for the Tmaa; bht I fear they will bo very die- J jointed. . ^ . ,>.V Our Temperance Lodge no t at. Its regular appointed time, loot Thuroday evening, at 7 P. M., in tho 8antuo Academy, and in. atalled its offioere for the preaont quarter. 1 will mate hero that the inetallatiou would Jk hove taken plaoo earlier, but tho D. G. W ^ P. failed to get bis ooamietlou noon or. Tho Chaplain oloot, Bar. >1. B. Kelly, in formed the body that ha oonld not nnrt, on account of distance, and aakad them to elect another, when Rev. C. R. Willeford was eleoted and duly installed. Our soeiety is growing rapidly, and ie beginning to put on the appearance of manhood. This meeting was the moet interacting one since our organisation. We were glad to have with us one of the Union members, Bro. John Eison. Yesterday Rev. Charles R. Willeford preaohed a very interesting sermon at Balem, from Esekial, 47 : 9, but owing to ill- O ness he oonld not preach at night, but there was prayer meeting held, as usnal, every Sunday night when there is not preaching. Cotton is nearly all out of the eountry now, but there is a great many bales at the depot, awaiting shipment, and some yot to be sold. There was over a hundred bales sold here to-day at fair prices?for ^the prioe of oetton these days Yon, MOTBditor, hare been speaking of Union as suck a good cotton market, but it cannot beat Santuc, in prioes paid. All the Poll* Santuo has been running a'ongside Union. Nearly all of the Geehen Hill people have been hauling their ootton here this gpason, saying that they can get better prices here. There was one yoong man who thought that he had not enough offered for his^potton, so hauled it to Union, and received one-eighth of a cent less there than here. Last week ootton was selling here at from 8@9J ; yes, acd some even at 9.40. There have been two regular buyers for the Paoolet and Glendale ootton mills? Mr. L. B. Jeter, for the fnrmss ami Af Aesrs T K Inlaw Jfr Qa*i for the latter; and for some lima past Air. E. C. Byers, of Qaffney City, has boon hers. <jH| Now, yoa sse that Union cannot turn dtiwn San too as a eatton market, although it is a little plaes with only seven stares. If the land here was obtainable, I do not beliera Santno would wait until it was as large as Union before it would build a Cot. ton Factory. Do yon know why the people in the country will not go inta a Factory el Union? It is simply beoause the people there won't go in first. It seems as if they want the country "folks" to do the work, and bring I he money to their doors, and they receive the benefit without any expenditure themselves. I believe if they would take the lead, liberally, the country would follow. In two issues ago our brother correspen. dent, J. T. A., of Kelton, said that he thought the farmers ought to sow a great many oats in the Fall, and if they should happen to be Winter killed they oould sow again in the Spring, thereby having two ohanoes at a crop. I think that is pretty good ; but a better way, I think, is to break the stubble land, wnen u ib possiDia, immediately antr "laying by," and all (he shattered oats on the ground would oome up and make a good stand without sowing any, and yeu would save seed. If there should not happen to be enough to make a stand, the ground would not be hurt by the plowing. And if they should oome and be Winter killed, why, oould be sowed again, as J. T. A. says. Look wherever you may, and all of the stubble fields are almost covered with volunteer oats. If they oould have been plowed last Fall, and the oats had oome up, and one-half had beea frosen out, there would have been eneugh left for a stand. We have seme fine looking oats where we had a waters elen and pea patch. Thanks, to Vox, for his oomplitnoot to my bumblo self, and also for the praise of the "Santuo boys," as soldiers, during the war. As it is nothing to mo, directly, for I know nothing about the war, only what is * iviu uiv, ik in luuireciiy, u i unu uncles and cousina who wer? killed in it, and ny father'a peraon bears the battle scare now. ^ f It anowed last night, and this morning I . was surprised when I awoke to find about an inoh of anov on the ground. Now, I had not taken a hunt?ezeept an occasional "dear" or "flower" hunt?in the last thirteen months, so I went oat end made the rabbite "gat op and git" for"a while. And I, though cut of praotioo?not much of a abot at beat?think I killed about every alternate lire. St. Valentine's day is coming, and I won. der if there is going to be any "Billy duoks," (billet deaux) sent flying through thn rnnlli We ere very glad te have in our noighborheod thie. year, Rev. and Mrs. C. U. Willeford They are quite an aoceptshle addition to Bentuo. We are serry to learn that Mrs. Charlotte Gregory is lying quite ill, ether home. Little Jeter Cornwell. who has been con- ' fined to his room and bed so long, on ao> eonnt .of an ailment of the knee, is rapidly improving, lie is now able w naii ?'mu? TjIH little. e. w. j, mm A Sosap or Papse Saves U?jt was just an ordinary scrap bf wreppid^^^H paper, but It saved her life. w?* fn ), me (Ml stages sr cooiumpiK Mid bj W physicians that the was i ^ble and V could live 0B(j a abort tim* ; wW weighed?;/'. ? flj lees than it'iot/ pound*. On a place of 1 wrapping paper ahe read of Dr. King's ^ New DIsooTery, and got a sample bottle ; U >V/ helped her, ahe bought a Urge bottle, it helped her more, bought anoiher and grew ?j better fast, continued iis uie and is now v:- ' strong, healthy, rosy, plump, welgbiog 140 pound*. For fuller particulars irut) stamp ,A 10 W. H. Cole, Druggist, Fort 3<n th. Trial j bottles of this wonderful Disc???ry frss I J. W. Fetey ft Bro'r. J As a toilet artiols, Ayer's Ils'r Vigor ] stands unreeled. It cleanses tb* scalp . J and rams*** dandruff, cure# itching huaaore, restores the eriginal color to laded god ' 1 gray l&iSr, and proMotot its growth. 1 'l