The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 05, 1882, Image 2
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The Recorder.
AIKEN, S. C.
CHA1CL.ES E. K. HRAVTOX, Editor.
Tuesday, September .■», iSSli.
Tlie State Ticket.
Ctorcrnor.
Hroir S. Thompson, of Richland.
/or Lir uf ma ni-(!o vfir nor.
John C. Shkppakij, of Edgefield.
for Conijtfrolfrr- (rcncml.
\V. E. Stonj'V, of Berkeley.
for A tiornfi/- (Icnrral.
(*. R. Mir.KS, of Cliailesfon.
for Srcrctary of Staff.
J. N. Lipscomb, of Newberry.
for Treasurer.
Jonx I*. Riciia boson, of Clareutlon.
for SupcrintcHficnt of Education.
Rev. Ei.i.ison Capkbs, of Creenville
for Adjutant and Inspcctor-Ctcncrat.
A. M. Ma nk; a cot, of Georgetown.
The County Ticket.
for f>j/resenfatires.
JOHN M. BELL,
GEO. W. ('BOFT,
V. I*. WOODWARD,
THOS. J. DAVIES.
for Coindij Couiuiissioners.
W. M. FOLIC V.
J. CAL. COERTNEV,
WM. STEVI-’.NS.
for Pcohate Judrjc.
W. \V. WILLIAMS.
for School Commissioner.
LETHER W. WILLIAMS.
for County Auditor.
DAVID H. WISE.
for County Treasurer.
J. E. MURRAY.
Address of the State Exeeutive
Committee.
We call attention to the address of
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, republished in this issue, and
commend it as a straightforward,
manly document. Every Democrat
should read it and be inspired by the
patriotic advice therein contained.
Strong terms in plain Anglo-Saxon
phrases are used to convey a true idea
of the danger with which we are
threatened by those hostile to decency
and honest government.
The party lines must be tightly
drawn, and every man who is opposed
to the Democracy, whether he styles
himself Grecnbacker, Independent or
Republican, must be regarded as a foe
to our civilization and the best mate
rial interests of our grand old Com
monwealth. There is no use mincfhg
“Almost Home.**
There is an amount of pathos in
these two words that defy the most
sublime (lights of the poet, or the
most finished work of the painter or
sculptor. Home, dear, sweet home,
is photographed upon the human
soul in characters of incandescent
brightness that nothing on earth can
compare with. It is remarkable
fact that no language, save the Eng
lish, can boast of such a sweet com
prehensive term as the word “home.”
The Frenchman has to say “//j«
maison," or my house, when he wants
to refer to what the Anglo-Saxon
simply terms “home.” Dryden says:
“1 lomc is the sacred refuge of our life,”
and in his definition we recognize a
sublime living principle which stirs
the heart and causes the pulse to
throb with emotions of pleasure or
pain such as nothing else can com
pare with. On earth home means
wife, mother, father, children, all con
gregated in one beautiful, thrilling
picture, which stirs a man to deeds of
nobility or sin. In the life eternal
beyond the skies, home means a place
at the right hand of the crucified
Saviour, where joy and peace and
love shall reign eternal. Think what
a beautiful emotionate word this sim
ple term home is, and let every one
of us ponder over our shortcomings
and say if there is not something that
we can do to dignify our earthly
homes and render us in some small
measure more acceptable for that
heavenly home ■which awaits us be
yond t he skies.
The above remarks have been sug
gested by the dying words of that in
tellectual giant, Benjamin II. Hill,
of Georgia. Various are the phrases
and sentences attributed to great men
as their last expressions; but the sim
ple words, “almost home,” which
God in his wonderful providence en
abled him to utter after he had been
deprived of speech by a fearful can
cerous disease, surpasses them all for
simplicity, manly fortitude and Chris
tian faith. God bless the man for tliis
beautiful and healthy legacy to our
Christianity and our manhood.
No Fight of Ours.
“In a letter of our Aiken correspon
dent, published in the News and Cou
rier on the 19th of August, it was
stated that some of the defeated can
didates at the Democratic primary
election were “very sore, and showed
their soreness very plainly before the
board by their speeches, conduct and
general opposition to its action.” We
are assured by those in a position to
be fully informed of tho facts that
this statement is erroneous. We re
gret exceedingly that we should have
unwittingly placed the defeated can
didates in what they consider a com
promising position before the public.
We are quite sure that the defeated
candidates at the primary election in
Aiken are, and will continue to be, as
zealous in the Democratic cause as
those who had the good fortune to be
nominated.”
We clip the above from the columns
of our esteemed cotemporary and
publish it as an act of justice both to
Gen. Capers Declines.
At a meeting of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee, held on
the 29th ult., at Columbia, a letter was
received from the Rev. Ellison Ca
pers, wherein he makes known his
positive and final determination to
withdraw from the candidacy for
State Superintendent of Education,
which was so gracefully tendered him
by the last State Democratic Conven
tion. Gen. Capers says: “I am satis
fied, after a careful review of the
duties of the oflice as defined in the
Statute, that I could not be a faithful
Superintendent of Education and re
main the Rector of my Parish. The
clainjs of the latter are paramount
and must command my unqualified
consideration.”
Gen. Capers, at a previous meeting,
had consented to accept; but, as will
be seen from the above, his duties as
the pastor of “Christ Church,” Green
ville, S. C., renders it imperative for
him to reconsider that determination.
All will regret the inability of the
reverend gentleman to accept, but all
will respect bis reasons.
There will be a.mectingof the State
Executive Committee on the 18th of
September, at which time all the
county chairmen are expected to be
present, when it will be decided
what action is most expedient in sup
plying the vacancy.
Old Charleston to the Front.
The Annual Review of the Trade of
Charleston, published in the Xcws
and Courier, September 1st, is a most
gratifying exhibit of the enterprise
and resources of our grand old historic
metropolis. Next week we may have
something to say abaut it. This par
ticular issue of the News and Courier
is one of the most creditable journal
istic performances ever accomplished
| in the South. We have never seen
! anything of the kind that exhibited
more painstaking thoroughness. We
congratulate our Charleston cotem
porary.
Mu. Wm. H. Paiikek, of Abbe
ville, has been suggested as a suitable
person to succeed the Hon. J. C.
Sheppard as Speaker of the next
House of Representatives. He is a
citizen of Abbeville County and a
gentleman of high character and em
inent ability, and it would be hard to
find one better qualified to fill this im
portant and honorable position.
Addi-ess of the State Democratic
Committee to the People of
the State.
Rooms of the i
State Dem. Executive Coma
i Columbia, S. C., August 15, 1882.)
fellow-citizens: The candidates
nominated bv the State Democratic
• i
Convention at Columbia are worthy j
of the support of the whole people, i
No other political body will, or can,T
ptesent to you candidates for State j
‘Notice to Charter a Road. Tax Notice.
offices who have equal claims to your I
PETITION from J. S. Boyd, L. J.
Weatherabee, R. J. Dunbar, and
other citizens of Aiken County, for
a Public Road leading oflT from the
’ J, old Whisky Road at K. J. Tyler’s,
?sj said road running in a south-west
' direction from said starting point to
a lane between Merritt Toole and
Walter Eubanks’, intersecting the
Augusta Boad near Ezekiel Boyd’s,
thence on by Paul Lowe’s, Hans
Johnson’s, Kadle Place and Jesse
and Barney Foreman’s, intersecting
the Minor Bridge Road, thence to
Ellenton.
[For further particulars as to route
confidence. The Democracy of South
Carolina have received the nomina-
timts with unfeigned satisfaetion^and 0 f l sa i,i ro ad\ see Petition filed in office
are determined to elect their eandi- 1 of County Commissioners.]
kTNTICE is hereby given that all
dates. It will be an unmixed bless
ing to the State, however, if there
shall be a truce to political strife, anc^
N
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persons interested will show
cause, if any they can, at a meeting
honest men, witli honest purpose antf > 'V to L ,C rw*? on ^ ou< ^y>
w ithout regard to their political asso-1 tj ie petition should not be granted,
ciations in the past, unite in voting
for the upright, capable and faithful
candidates who are now before the
people. The Democracy cannot be
expected to continue to load them
selves down with taxation for the
benefit of their former opponents, if
these persist in preferring political
tramps or imported vagabonds to
Carolinians of proved worth and ac
knowledged merit.
The principles declared by the State
WM. STEVENS,
Chairman Board County Coin’s.
Attest: O. P. Champlain,
Sept. 5, 18S2-4t
Clerk B.
C.
Notice to Bridge Builders.
given that a
be built over
, ....... Horse Creek on the Hamburg Road,
Convention as formulating the objecle and that the contract for building of
XTOTICE is hereby
new bridge will
Mr. C. P. Pelham, recently on
trial for robbing the mails at Lancas
ter Court House, and whose case we
gave some account of last week, has
been acquitted by a jury of his coun
trymen, much to the satisfaction of
his friends.
The Democratic State campaign
opened at Anderson Court House on
the 81st, with great ecled. Col. H. S.
Thompson, Hon. J. C. Sheppard, Col.
J. N. Lipscomb and others made ex
cellent speeches.
L\M> Y;
and intentions of the Democratic
party are intelligible, liberal and
progressive. They look to the pre
servation of Honest Home Rule as
the paramount need of good citizens
of every condition in life, and they
pledge to all the people the just ad
ministration of equal laws, and econ
omy with efficiency in the conduct of
the Government. In the broader
arena of National affairs the South
Carolina Democracy stand pledged to
the reform of the tariff system, so as
to lessen the burdens on the people,
and to the reform of the civil service
as a means of purifying politics.
When the political workers shall no
longer have a hundred thousand
Federal offices as a lure and bait for
their hungry dependents, the power
of combinations of unscrupulous
politicians will assuredly be broken,
and for every candidate, within his
party, there will be a fair field and no
favor. The Democracy demand like
wise that the Federal Governniet, by
liberal appropriations from the treas
ury for educational purposes, help the
Southern States to convert the pres
ent and rising generation of freed-
men into intelligent and responsible
citizens. In all tilings the South
Carolina Democracy solemnly hind
themselves, before their fellow-coun
try-men, to pursue that public policy
which will make the whole people
content, by securing their rights,
guarding their privileges and foster
ing their growing prosperity.
The State Executive Committee re
mind their Democratic fellow-citizens
that, while the control of Soutli Car
olina has been won by the party, and
with that control has come the intel
ligent administration of governmental
affairs and peace in every Carolina
home, the power of the Democracy
can only be maintained and consoli
dated by eternal vigilance and untir
ing effort. The Democracy are not so
strong that they can afford to disagree
or divide. Disunion now would be as
perilous as in the historic campaign
six years ago, when the StateAwas
wrested from the grasp of the igno
rant and corrupt. Toleration mere
should be within the party l|pcs.
There is ample scope and verge
the of irulivkhml
said-bridge will be given out at said
place to the lowest bidder, on Septem
ber 22, 1882. Plans and specifications
will also be given out at the above
mentioned time aud place.
A well secured bond will be re
quired from the person to whom the
contract is awarded.
J. V. GEORGE,
County Commissioner Aiken Co.
Aug. 22, 1882-4t
XTOTTCE IS HEREBY GIVEN
. that the Tax Books of Aiken
County will be open for the collection
of the* balance of the Taxes for the
fiscal year 1881, as follows:
Graniteville, Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 15 and 16, 1882.
W. J. Woodward’s Store, Mondav,
Sept. 18, 1882.
Low Town Wells, Tuesday, Sept.
19, 1882.
Rouse’s Bridge, Wednesday, Sept.
Ellenton, Thursday, Sept. 21, 1882.
Silvertnn Academy, Friday, Sept. 22.
Hankinson «& Page’s Store, Saturday
Sept. 28, 1882.
Langley, Monday, Sept. 25, 1882.
Langley, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1882.
Aiken Court House, Wednesday,
Sept. 27, 1882.
Montmorcnci, Thursday, Sent. 28.
Windsor, Friday, Sept.* 2?J, 1882.
Kitehing’s Mill, Saturday, Sept. 80.
H. D. Ott’s, Monday, Get. 2, 1882.
H A. Sally’s Store, Tuesday, Get. 8.
John Hutto’s, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 18S2
J. G. Sally’s Store, Thursday, Get. 5.
Jones’ X Roads, Friday, Oct. 6, 1882.
J. K. Kneece’s, Saturday, Get. 7, 1882.
Wilson Gunter’s, Monday, Get. 9.
Hatcher’s X Roads, Tuesday, Get. 10.
Hamburg, Wednesday, Get. 11, 1882.
Banck’s Mill, Thursday, Get. 12, 1882.
Vaueluse, Friday, Get. 18, 1882.
Vaucluse, Saturday, Get. 14, 1882.
Aiken Court House from the lOtli to
the 31st of October inclusive.
Penalties and costs attacli Novem
ber 1, 1881.
The Levy is as follows:—
For State purposes. 4?4 mills
For ord’n’ry Co. purposesS mills
For special Co. purposes y, mill
For school purposes 2 mills
MORAN,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Sportsmen's Supplies, Rurber ani> Leather Bkltino, Farm
Hells of all sizes. Bumps, Woouware, Tinware, Potwakk.
AGENT FOR THE
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Champion Wire Fence,
-ALSO FOR THK-
Application for Charter.
'VJ OTICE is hereby given that Jos.
J-x Thomas, Louis Cartledge, S. P.
Picksley, Adam Madison, Alexander
Jones and H. C. Crocker have applied
fora charter for “The Bethel Benevo
lent Society of Hamburg, S. C.,” and
that said charter will biPgranted in
thirty days from date, unless legal ob
jection thereto be made before said
time.
W. M. JORDAN, c. c. P.
Sept. 5,1882.
Making a total of mills
on tlie dollar on value of taxable
property.
J. E. MURRAY,
Treasurer Aiken County.
County Treasurer’s Office,)
Aiken C. H., S. C. ^
August 15, 1882.)
PAY YOUR TOtfX TAXES
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The No. 2 Press makes a bale weighing from 500 to 600 pounds. Size of
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We particularly call attention to our splendid Stock of TINWARE,
packed in convenient boxes so as to save freight.
NO. 45 HAYNE, Corner of MEETING STREET,
NO 78 MARKET, Corner of MEETING STREET,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
-FOR TIIE-
S TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Aiken County.
By W. W. Williams, Esq., Probate
J udge.
Whereas, Joel A. Gunter hath
made suit to me to grant him letters
of administration of the Estate ami
Effects of Lawson Gunter, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and ad
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said Lawson
Gunter, deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in tlie Court of
Probate, to be held at Aiken Court
House, on September 9, 1882, after
publication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the
forenoon, to shew cause, if any they
have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand, this 26th day
of August, in the year of onr Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two.'
[seal] W. W. WILLIAMS,
Probate Judge Aiken County.
REGISTER YOUR NAMES!
Fiscal Year Commencing' Aug.
15th, 1882.
Office Clerk and Treasurer j
Town Council of Aiken,
At Court House, August 21, 1882.)
N OTICE is hereby given that the
Town Tax Books are now open
at my office for tlie collection of the
above taxes, and will remain open for
that purpose until the FIRST DAY
of NOVEMBER next. All persons
who fail to pay within the time afore
said will be proceeded against accord
ing to law.
J. R. JORDAN,
Clerk and Treas. Town of Aiken.
Aug. 22, 1882-Ot
CLOSING OUT!
X
1,000
B USHELS RET) RUST PROOF
SEED GATS, grown especially
for seed, for sale by
WM. G. MOOD,
Peaeedale, near Aiken.
SMITH & CRANE,
-successors to-
SPRING and SUiVmiER CLOTHING!
I N ORDER to do tins I will give some most extraordinary BARGAINS
for the next THIRTY DAYS in Ready Made Clothing. * Such chances
never offered before as now at
OAK HALL CLOTHING STORE, No 614 BROAD STREET,
(). K. CLOTHING HOUSE. 746 BROAD ST., Under Globe Hotel.
HZ. IBIROOIKIS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
E. R. SCHNEIDER,
Importer and Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
FINE WINES, CIGARS, BRANDIES
to:b .a. aao,
^INERALlWATERS^mS^ESymiutPORTERlALEyEfC^
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