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. . * • . *. *1 ■ mu 76 L ^ '7s mm •' f ■-■ / ' *>» ■•< , -' ,»* V THE RECORDER. BY DRAYTON & M CRACKEN. AIKEN. S. TUESDAY, MARC I 17, 1883. VOLUME 2.—N0. 14. Professional Advertisements. Official Directory. THE PALMETTO STATE. D. 8. llES&KK-^OX. E. P. IlKKDEKXOJf. Henderson Brothers, Attob*eys at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in the Stale and United States Court* for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Gao, W. Can ft. J, Zed Di slap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. James Aldrfeii, Attorney at Law, Airen, S. C. Practices in the State and United flutes Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at LjTw, Aiken, S. C. Will praetice in all the State and United Slates Courts. Special atten- tio# paid to collections and invest ments of money. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken. S. C. Will practice in the Courts of tills Circuit. Special attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. F. V» . Norris, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all tiie Courts of this State. Emil Ludekens, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. All business transacted with promptness. James E. Davis, —Attorney at Law,— Barnwell Court House, S. Hawkins K. Jenkins, Attorney at Law, Bock Hill, S. 0. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Special attention given to collections. Claude E. Sawyer. Attorney at Law, Aikrn, S. C. Will praotice in all the Courts* and flive special attention to Corivey- ■jrtMdugv p :;g- Abstract# ,uf Tltl and Negotiating l<oaus. B. F. GUNTER, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of South Carolina. Prompt attention given to tiie collection of Claims. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. FFKICK ON- Bichland Avenue, Aiken, S. G. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. ■OFFICE AT Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. ty Will attend calls to the country. Real Estate for Sale. Also Hou-ce and Rooms to rent. Apply to H. SMITH, Main street, - - Aiken, 8. C, The State. Governor, High 8. Thompson. Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretory of State, James N. Lipscomb. A ttorney- General, Charles Richardson Miles. State Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. C»rn ptrolle r- Ge tieral, William E. Stonev. Supeeintenrle/ t of /■khicat on Asbcry Coward. Adjutant and !oKprctor-General, A. M. Manigault. Cniled Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Bcti.er Congressmen, First District—Samuel Dibble. Second District—Deo. D. Tillman. Third District—D. Wyatt Aiken. Fourth District—John H. Evins. Fifth District—John J. Hemphill. Sixth District—(Jeorgc W. Dargan. Seventh District—E. W. M. Mackey Agricultural Department, A. P. Bi’TLER, superintendent. L. A. Ransom, secretary. It a ilroad Com m ins ionrr, M. L. Bonham. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. HenkV McIveu, Associate Justice. 8. McGowan, Associate Justice. Circuit Courts, First Circuit—B. C. Pressley. Second Circuit—A. P. Aldrich. ThinkCireuit—T. ii. Fraser. Fourra Circuit—J. Ii. Hudson. Fifth Circuit—J. B. Ketyuaw. Sixtii Circuit—J. D. Whhersp on. Seventh Circuit—Win. Ii. Wallace. Eighth Circuit—James 8. Coilnau. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. ty Congress meets on tiie first Monday in December of each year. ty The Legislature meets on the fourtii 'Ixiesday in November of each year. Cy The Circuit Court for Aiken County meets three times a year, as follows: Hist Monday in February, last Monday in May, ami second Monday in September. Congressional Districts. First—Charleston and Berkley— (8t. Phillips ami St. Michaels, Mount Pleasant, Moultrieville, St. James Gooaecreek, Summerville), ten town ships of Colleton, fourteen townships of Orangeburg! and tiie entire County of Lexington. Second—Hampton, Barnwell, Ai ken, Edgefield, anil Colleton—(Brox- son amt' Warren). Third—Abbeville, Newberry, An derson, Pickens and Oconee. WHAT SOUTH OAIiOHIXA INO. IS DO- Free Public Schools—The School Taxes—The Penitentiary—Fish Culture. [Cor. Chronicle it Constitutionalist.] CNLUMBIA, S. C., March 19.—At a recent moeti.ii of tiie School Com missioners of this city a petition was presented to them asking tiie use of tiie academy buildings for the free schools s on t ) be established. The request was granted, and hereafter tiie o’d system of private pay schools will tie abolished and free public sclmo's will be substituted. Tills arrange ment ha* been made possible by tiie levy of a special school tax. which was voted by a convention of the peo ple hel l not long sim e. The school uud .v ill lie supplemented by an ap propriation from tne Peabody fund of 1,2 9. It is stated that the effect of this arrangement will be to imwease ihc number of wlme pupils at the schools in the city from lot) to *lo0 or Ob, and increase the length of the session from three to nine mouths. It it generally conceded now that a perfect school system can no» lie ob tained in any country unless it is un der government con'rol, and the ad vocates of point to th lowed the schools. It is a very ditiieult matter however, to regulate in the Southern placed upon the shoulder* of honest labor, atiec-ling poor tradesmen to that extent where their business will be ‘ruined if it is continued. I have it from high authority that there is not a merchant in tiie State that sells *500 worth of shoes in a year that Rocs not deal in penitentiary made shoes. This class of convicts are simllary ultilized in nearly all the Northern prisons, and the Southern merchants who purchase from Northern jobbing houses patronize convict labor. The number of shoes made in South Carolina, outside of tiie penitentiary is insignificant, and the wages paid for tiie hire of con victs amounts to considerable, which now perceptibly reduces the taxes of the ca; italists and the workingmen, honest shoemakers and all others, and in the future, with the growth of the enterprise will make still greater re- ductioj. In view of these facts it is strange that any one should be found f>r thee-un voice save th s pleading cr> for light, then there co nes a silence, a calm “Holy enmig i to let us hear The footstepi of angiH'lingering near.” Time then 11 read the pages nature holds up to tearful eyes; opportunity to learn the sweet ministry of the wayside flower; chance to taste the cool of the innssv spring; better than all, light enough to see the burdens pressing so hiavily on our fellowmeu. They are tin es of heart-searching,— these silences of our live:).—and they teach us the lesson of humanity as we have never learned it before. There is no ajl-sufticiency, wherewitli to elot lie ouifelves, when the cry o! wounded hearts finds its eelio on our lips, f>r we then know what it is to suffer. “And so we cry, a weak and human cry, So lieartJftppressed; And so we sight a weak and human sigh, For rest, i-weet rest.” SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. The turpentine farms near Hardee- | ville are booming. A bill has been passed by the Ten nessee Legislature aboli-hhig public executions. The peach crop in (Chester County was injured by the heavy frosts of the past week. Strawberries are commencing to come in pretty freely in tiie Charles ton market, hut they still command from 35 to 50 cents per quart. Ai d, like the pause lietween the to oppose this Indus'ry petition of * convict versus honest, la- lights, they 'jotue^ these silences, to I for consideration, bear new sire I tor” is too small and the advantages derived by the State are patent to all. In a recent issue of the Macon is stated that Worth county seventeen are to tie Graphic it citizens of tried, at the next term of court f r that county, for the murder of one George Kerve, coinmilUd some twen ty years aico. It is staled that Kerce emigrated front one of the Carolinas, and a gentlemen who knew him well tells me that he was born and raised near Erwinton, Barnwell county, in this State, and that he was often ac cused of stealing cattle, end was dual ly tried and e-mv-cted at ..urnwell Court, for that offense. He became the public school sysiein so oblectionable to the good people o. " success which m-.* h»l- t } |al ’section that he was forced to establishment of «ib c.i leave the county. Iverce’s brother usnips), Laurens, Uiuoit-j- (except Goudeysville and Drayton-, ville Townships), Fairfield, Richland —fUpper Township. Columbia and Centre). Fifth—York, Chester, Lancaster, Union—(Goudeysville and Druyton- vilie), Spartanburg—(White Plains and Limestone), Chesterfield and •Kershaw. * Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg— (Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Johnsons and Lake), Darlington, Marlboro’, Marion and Horry. Seventh—Georgetown, Williams burg— (except Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake and Johnsons), Sumter, Richland—(Lower Township), seven townships of Orangeburg, Ciiarieston and Berkley not in First District, six townships of Colleton, and tiie entire County of Beaufort. Judicial Circuits, First——Charleston, Berkeley and Orangeburg. Second—Aiken, Barnwell, Boau- «rr, CoM-ion and Ham..ton. Third—Sumter, Ciar^mi.m, Wil- iiamsbtirg and Georgetown. Fourth—Chesienieid , Marlboro’ , Darlington, Marion and Horry. ’ Fi:th—Eel h i x, Richland, Edge- ieiduml Lexington. Sixth—Chester, Lancaster, Yuri; ami Fairfield. Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar tanburg and I ni .-n. Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Auder -on, Pii'Ucns and Greenville. States, and especially in Soutli Caro lina, where tiie Colored population douoles the white, and where the j . h.tcs pay ninety-nine hundredths of I f the taxes required to support this; expensive system. The two mill con-! -di.uti >nul school tax raised in 1-.82, three hundred and thirty-eight thous and five hundred and iwcnt.-six doU lar.-, and the poll tax one hundred and fourteen thousand f iur hundred and thirty-eight dollars, making the total ta .es collected for scho d purposes our hundred and fifty-two thousand) nine hundred and sixty-four dollars. The whole number of pupils attending school was one hundred and mriy-five thousand nine hundred and seventy four, of which eigtiiy thousand five hundred and seventy-five were col ored. The negroes contribute the very smallest imaginable sunt to the school luxflnud the great majority escape the payment of the poll, so that the whole burden falls upon the wlyte property owners of the State. The education of the masses is almost universally eon ceded to be the greatest protection to society itud the safeguard of property, while it perpetuates good government and sound morals ami inculcates re ligious tendencies in the community, while this is admitted, there are many who oppose the education of tiie ne gro because they do not believe he is benefitted by mental culture. A gen tleman said’to me that one of the Cir cuit Judges of the State who has been on the bench for some years informed him that he had kept a~ repord of the convictions of colored people in his i Hvt» of every six ue- ^ gro»ls con ; icTe . " If.- who oppose iiis educa'.ion n o sue:. ' t j )e as these to pro\e tlial education onhim the ability to commit greater cMiiiys. .They r.ay Unit if the iie;uvies are to be ‘‘hewers of wood and Dick induced an ignorant negro, wh belonged to the Rev. Joseph Lawton, t" fire the residence of Gen, .J. I). Er win, and it was sun tiling in that oc- ‘•urrenee that lia* n s! Kerce’s leav ing. The man . eeio -always to have had an uneonquer ibfi f.ussion for cat tle stealing which ultimately cause I ids death at the hands of Judge L”'»eh. Mr. C. J. IIr.sk, the £‘u eriuten lent of Fisheries, recently received five housund California trout eggs fr -m the United States Fish Conjmission er, thaf were taken and impregnated in Calffornhi and shippeii in ice ears via Chicago to Columbia. They rived in splendid condition, and were within forty-eight hours after arrival transferred to the trays and hatching troughs, which had been prepared f >r them in U.e Agricultural Department l) ilildiug on Main street. As Mr. Husk was engaged at tiie State shad hatchery in Edisto, he put Mr George E. Fuduy in chnrge of the trout eggs iicre. A few days ago they began to hatch out and now tiie troughs arc alive with them. Hundreds of visi tors call every day to see them and the young salmon are the chief attract ion in the city. Richland. *gth, new hope, into our fainting spirts,—as tiie tearful ca! in that broods lo’er the heaving sea, when the glimmering of the dawn breaks over ]J’.e sibrin-washed shore: or like the dvwy darkness that closes the weary day; or like tiie star-light dimness of ^Udnight; and so we find >< i vf*kt. Julia A. Fi.itc i. About $0,000 of the last dividend of the defunct Freedmen’s Bureau Bank will go into the pockets of persons living in or near Ciiarieston. Rest, sweet rest. What SOUND DOCTDINE. Good School The Silences oi' Life. [Written for The Recorder.] In the economy of nature every shade of light, color and motion has its place and influence. The light ning flash, the crash of thu'nder, the gentle kiss of the dew-drop, tbc zeph the CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK. OF CHARLESTON, 8. C. 1 Incorporated by the State, IS7'.. Authorized Capital .JjCWKMjOO Undivided Profits fj<21),072 5< Deposits received and interest al lowed in the above Bank at the rate of Five (5) PerCent. per annum. Ex change on Now York, Liverpool an London bought and * dd. Geo. \V. \Vii.?.:A'rs, President. J. Lame Jo in. ton, Ca-bier. FIUE- Insurance on a Solid Basis T HE umlersigned would call atten tion to their facilities for in*u- ring property against fire in eompa nies of unsurpassed reputation and at fair rates, in cases of losses occur ring, Uteir friends placing busine.-s in their nands can rely on tttcir personal attention to their interests in settle ment of claims. They ask a call from property own ers before placing their insurance elsewhere. Terms as low as any reli able, first-eluss companies. E. J. C. WOOD, SIBERIA OTT. The Cotiuly. Senator, D. s. 111.KDKItSON. Jtrpr-sentuti ccs, .o!iu M. Bell, George W. Cruft Bansiey $c Renz, -AT THE- Globc Hotel Barber SIiop, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Are prepared to accommodate the most fa-tidious witii a first-class sha. e, haircut or sliampooing. BARBED SHOP. HE undersigned, having purchased Mr. Rentz’s interest in his Barber Shop, would respectfully patronagethe clt'Lgns ‘\1 solicit the: x 1 Wo >uward, Th is. J. Davies. Sherijf, MA.j.kdgk T. H i.m.ky. Clerk of (’ourt, Wm. M. JoitilAN. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Commissioner, Luther W. Will:, ms. C 'ounty Comm issiuner, f ,Vm. M- Foley, J. Cal. t ou.tiKo, Widitin Stevens. O. P. Champlain, clerk o. o ar.:. Treasurer, J. E. Murray. A udiior, David II. Wise, Caron- r, S. P. Knviuxo. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Evans. who constitutes the Board, with the .ollowing ex-oflicio members, viz., the Auditor and tiie chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Hoard of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-oflicio ch’m. James E. Crosland, Charles E. R. Drayton. Board of Assessors, B. W. Moseley, Aiken. J. H. Q’lattlebuum, Chinquapin. J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp. James Powell, Gregg. E. S. Hammond, Hammond. Mac;.41 Gunter. Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, MeTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefceat, Rocl;y Grove. Janies M. Cook, Rocky Spring. J. D. Taylor, Shaw's. Jus. C. Hammond. Shultz. R, 8. Hankinson, Silverton. Isaac \V. Foreman, Sleepy Hollow. James K. Brodie, Tabernacle. R. L. Evans, Windsor. ^airman—E. S. Hammond. ^tary—Tas. C. Hammond. ■Ik:>flletk—J. U. MoagMO. drawers of water,” and they cannot, as a race, be anythingeise, tiiat they are far more eommdcnt and of greater value to the 8tate without echo d training than with it, and they ask if all of them are to he educated what is to be done with them then? They leave the fat ms and the workshops and endeavor to secure positions in the cities and towns, where the physical labor is lighter and the compensation belter. The well known unreliability of the negro, they assert, will ex clude him, .« rule from such posi tion--, and then what is lo become of him? This little learning has lead him from the humbler places and the higher walks of life are not open to him on account of his c- lor and pro verbial immoralty. Feelingthus, and conscientiously feeling so, it ■* n »t -uprisng that very many tax payer* are hegining to raise objections to the urther payment o‘‘ a tax that tiny believe is worse »han waited. On the other hand, However. (T ernor Thompson’s free sdiool record e'.ecte 1 him to h's ex ilted posiiio -ill 'wing a strong and eom-l .-sive <-ii- dor-e-nen? oi his course in advovafin tiie educate-n of ail cla-ses miv! col -rs >'ime alone can toil wiio is right, b \ nai:.. thinking pe iji'e are reluctant:, forced t > the cone us on tliat so far .lie result of a large expendi lire <1 m.hlie funds for their education li > been a dismal fail ire. Th -ro are many olliers who a !mit t's it the ies:<! at [ireseiit is not encouraging, h J they eonlend that it is due t > 1 mg year- of h indage, tiie influence iviiieli cannot i>e eradicati-d in a singk generation, •-•n that with the educa tion of success;vt- g t aer. t:o..s tiie ni'-i ill be elevun d morally ami religious ly, and t-.iey wil. tieeome mare i.-Lin- gviit wo ueis and heiier eit.zeiis. Per- naps it is well t • continue the expe.. ment and let the fut ire i.eeiiie . question w hid: is at present inv Iven ins* much doubt. It is sur. risin.. now ii ird it is t * please the maj >rit\ of niatikiiid. Wne.i tiie Deni era * c'tne into power in South Cur li ; ihey toilnd the » en;tenlia.i/ an emu in ms harden upon the t ;.\ payers o Tie Slate, ami it was a serious maiaei to determine what d.sp sition slio-.h. be made of the convicts s> a* t re- l.e’ euii imp iver.she*! people of si efi a liigiitful incubus. All manner -t schemes were proposed, and the best brain and ubiest talent in the Ma e were ealiid into requisition to dev.se some plan to reduce the expenses M the institution. The very best thing chat could have been done wa- done. A board of directors, com posed ot practical men, and superior superin tendent, were elected and the whole conduct of the institution was left to their good judgement. Under their magnificent management it has not only been self-sustaining hut last year | component of the Uni- plashing broo crested billows, all are parts of the great plan verse. It is not so easy to point out the mission of silence; we are prone to judge it as an effect rather than a cause, and oftentimes regard us a cir cumstance <>f existent principle, that which is in itself a mainspring of ac- Ohjects of grand proiKirtions tion. attract our attention and claim our consideration because, according to our philosophy, (heir magnitude d >- mands a* correspondent place in the working of i he great law of cause and effect. Yet it is in silence that the grandest projects of the centuries are conceived, ft is in silence that the mightiest forces of nature are born. The vol canic fire soiou ders in the b >s >m of the rock until, with one mighty lean, i! fio r.-ts tiie poisoning bonds and se.it- r -rs its desol '.ti 'ii far and wide. In silence oo/ingout from the bos m o*‘ some sleep'r.g lake, v, inds the tiny branch, iii<*h is !o hevome a mi riify river, rolling it-'- n-sistless li<!e orei- miied ho ncs and w. stud fields, ulciice, t -o, the nohiest eoncep* the hum in brain ar- uuf »ide< :ons o: ami i; p >wer of eloquence shake the i.ot the silent power s but the grand :>u!co“m dices? We Iiave a faint the onn.lyet-nee of tiie formed t'.e resUcss lire- . or the gran 1 AIiihk- he \v hat ro ves •f 'h .-e in 11 •o iception o b nd wiiieh reined Utnr rMige, or of the It out tiie husl ConWtltntes a Teacher. McTier, March 17,1883. Editor of The Aiken Recorder. As there has been a groat deal said about schools and school teaching, I here give you some of my views as to what a good teacher should possess: First, he should he a man of good sense; second, he should have goo ! eyes; third, lie should have a thorough knowledge pf the branches taught in our public schools; fourth, lie should understand the* nature of children and how to apply useful knowledge to them. Now, Mr. Editor, I say that every graduate of pome institution of learn ing or colic'® is not a fit subject for a teacher. T every teacher ought to be a true believer in Revelation; and ought to instruct, his pupils in the doctrine of a common salvation by constant eftbrts in pointing them to a er; -dfied anjj arisen Saviour, and show them by a gV*d example that they too must be tru i,believers in that Saviour before ihey iver can be saved. I am not me of those who believe that becaus “a teacher lias been grad uated at sot ]e seminary he is the man for a teaclv t. The teacher who does not prnctic what he teaches is sail ing underfi Ise colors. ‘ If I say to my children, * Boys, you must not get drunk, you must not. swear,” and I get drunk Snd swear myself, I am teaching tl -nn something that they do not be! we; in short, the knowl edge of Dt&ne Revelation and a se rious stud>*n)f its doctrines and pre cepts muHj accompany every other species of information i> we wish to see mankind reformed and moralized. It is in |lii/ Sacred Scriptures alone that the will of God, the natural.©har- a ;ter of ujpu, the remedy of’moral of moral conduct and :as» rejects the revelation infuses to study and in- vestigate^Si trutiis and moral requi- sitions t^vcontain, can never expect to rise td^K sublime heights of virtue atid to thtHaorai dignity of his nature. But were We Scriptures studied more and univdphUy colijoined with otlier studios or every' branch of useful knowledge, weshould ere long behold a wonderffl tratisf >rmation upon the face of tlieinoral world. Men are said to be educated who have a knowledge of the Greek anil Latin classics and* <>f pagan mytliol- ogv, in ilgs. Acquisition of which five years areppent-at the grammar school and t.vo the utii\ersity. But such departments of knowledge generally have no connection with reliirion and the truth* of Revelation. What aid, I say, ca i then be expected to moral ity and r£ig3on from such instruction, where ti*o acquisition of words and >hrases, and the absurd notions ajid impure i^ctieeo connected with Ro- nan andpGreeiau idolatry form the prominetflobjects of attention, and no Diutri'ctiais in Christianity are com Wiliiamston Township, in Ander son County, has voted a subscription of $0,000 to the capital stock of the Carol mi a, Cumberland Gap and Chi cago Railroad. At the Ta«t session of Court in Georgetown Judce Aldrich sentenced thr *e men Ben Thompson, Jas. Fio-‘ and Gus,Saunders to five months in the penitentiary for malicious cruelty to an ox. On Tuesday Inst the sloop Sheer- water, while on her wav to Charleston from Wando river, with a cargo ef o«k wood, was swamped near the citv. Her crew was saved by a yawl from the revenue cutter. * The owner of the McCormick gVd nrne In Abbeville Couotv has given lots forth" bniidintrof church edifice-- to tiie Methodist and Baptist denomi nations. Work will be begun on these church buildings vary soon. The commission of DuBose Egles- tnn as post-master at Wlnnsboro has been signed by the President. Con- "ressman Evins, backed by all the leading men of tiie town, irrespective of party, favored tiie appointment. Tiie Northeastern Railroad Com pany have declared a dividend of three per cent, on the capital stock, or $1.59 nor share, payable on and after April 10th. This will be good news to the stockholders, who have been waiting a very long time for a dividend. President Arthur has re-appointed ■T. H. Goss as post-master at iSiion Court House. A se’eetion has not yet been made for the Florence office, but it Is said that Bens, who was rejected bv the Senate, will not be renomi nated. . On Monday night, March 19th, the Rev. L. T>. Bass, of Timmonsville, 8. C., a “Baptist minister, while on his way home from a midnight train, was knocked dotvn near hjs residence and robbed of near _fifty dollars His .■PrayWA” ' _____ ^ ^ alarming.' No chip to the robbers. Ells^ Hicklin, colored, near Rioh- bimg, Chester County, heate«l a shovel red-hot one dav last week and spanked her five-year-old child with it, because ‘be child would not say its prayers. The shovel was applied f o the naked skin, and the child’s flesh was horri- hly seared. The ease of PiekfUis County against Anderson Countv for $1.462.80 for the ejection of a line fence when the Stock law first w -nt into operation in the lower portion of Pickens County, was heard by Judge Wallace at An derson last week. The Judge decided that Anderson County was liable for the amount sued for. Tiie Great Storm. Here is the prediction which Prof. E. Stone Wiggins mads last Septem ber : ‘•A great storm will strike this plan et on the 9th of March next. It will first be felt in the Northern Pacific and will cross the meridian at Otta wa at noon (5 o’clock London time) of Monday, March 11, 18*3. No ves sel smaller than a Cunarder will be able to live in this* tempest. India, the South of Europe, England, and especially the North Am "ricr.n conti nent will be the theater of its ravages. As all the low lands on the Atlantic will be submerged. 1 advise shipbuil ders to place their prospective vessels high up on the stoek-s, an 1 farmers having loose valuables, as hay. cattle, ect., to remove them to a place of safety. I beg further most respectful ly to appeal to the Honorable tire Minister of Marine, that lie will per emptorily order up tl;;- storm signals on all tiie Canadian coast not later than the 20th of February, mid thus permit no vessel to leave harbor. If this is not done hundreds of lives will hejost, and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed. No vessel, what ever her sea wort! ones*, should be out of harbor in any part of the world, file navies of all nations should be in safe harbors not later than the 5th. danger from lightning everywhere w itliiu the tropics. Great tidal wave .n the Gulf of Mexico, and tiie bay o! Bengal amt the China Sea. The ther mometer will range five degrees be low zero all over Canada from the 5th to the 11th. The storm will continue, with varying intensity, to the 16th, when a general rain will begin and continue for forty-eight hours. Un usual floods in the maritime prov inces.” The thing Mr. Wiggins seems to fear most now, ia the enterunce of a bullet into bis head from a weapon lischarged by one of the numerous foolish people who took to cover at his suggestion. The Professor should go on an arctic expedition with How- gate. Assassination in Barnwell. A correspondent of the News and Courier, writing from Ellen ton under date of March 17th says: I have just heard of a murder committed last week on Mr. George Boyd’s place in Barnwell County, a few miles below the Aiken County line. A negro man by the name of Jake Ashley was ■‘hot while lying asleep in bed in his house afid killed. He was riddled with buckshot and lived four hours liter the shooting. The shooting was done at night by some unknown par ties. Tracks around tiie building in dicated that four versons took a hand in the work, and some parties who heard the shooting say that six shots were fired. Ashley was a notorious character, a professional house-break er. He was tried last fall in Barnwell for breaking into a smoke-house, but was acquitted. While he was in jail his wife ran away with a turpentine hand working in the neighborhood, so he only had his children with (flm, and one of them was in bed with him when he was shot. The child was unhurt. No clue to the guilty parties have been discovered. GFNKKAIj NKW8. —Tiie first Jewi-h marriage in Mr* drid for 200 years occurred a few days ugo. —Scores of colored persons, fright ened byAViggiiiS, joined the church iq Denver. —Mr. Tilden’s house in Gramercy- Park is now said to be the richest ana most ornate in America. —In Denver an Indian has been convicted of forging a signature to a bank cheek. Civilization is marcing on. —In predicting ro much extra wind, it is plain that Prof. Wiggins was la boring under the supposition that Congress was to -it through March. —Just now Eastern and Western journals apiwar to confess that th» North is nutch more of a sinner than tiie Soutli. There eyes are being opened. —The Charleston Nc«v» and Courier says “the farmers ate going to rule this land.” Ninety pto* cent, of law yers in Congress, chiefly elected by fanners, rule the land. —“My boy” said a politician to hia son “lean a little toward everything and commit yourself to nothing. Be as round at a bottle and just dark enough so mat nobody can see what’s in you.” —When Mr. Arthur arrived at the Tabor wedding ceremony ho said un der his breath: “I thought I was in vited to a weddinlg, but this seems more like a funeral.” He lias never been the same man since. —The London police are in possej- sion of a clue to the explosion in the office of the local government on Thursday. A woman observed aud lias fully described tiie apparence of a man who was appearentiy placing an infernal mucuine against the building. —The New York Tribune notes what it calls “another illustration of the growing divergence between tho Northern and Southern Democracy. The former stands for free-trade and free rum, while the latter is rapidly coining over to the side of protection and regulation of the ii^pr traffic.’’ 7 t- cinnati napers t na idli nuuica JW. The mere acquisition o* ,hicli roi’-t the migbty wow i ie owr it flooded banks of nit’ure— The Supreme Court has affirmed I 1 the judgment of the circuit court in ! the case of Alary Belle Jones against R. H. E. Puller for breach of promise le ] of marriage. Tiie action was brought of their j f° r $10,O'M), which was tried at Laur- of pure ens Court House last yeaa some time and virdic-t tor the full amount was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. \‘jtt uoi fi m iteveiMiion wnten snomn r he Supreme Court orders that the be a slii ling light t > all around them, unfortunate defendant pay the $10,0!)0 lot expect pure morality from t j n This is expensive sport eer- owever high they may statin them, v genera tffll t...! ar The ft -i niiic:. >ilt-iic.-. -.iK - no less >n tor blind eyes and deaf inve OiDV-i. O r i'.n.vriTi-t aiajcty n. that the fir • an I -lie ippciled in the ng flames that don !s with feat* remhie at the when foaming e c those—' iu litei ieg!»c(rj ivligioi forth by th'* rising need not expect <H to grow up in tl^it unsha- i’ in Revelation which should ry acquirements—who either oppose the great truths of W. H. Sawyer. in Orangeburg; ion if u*e.l by tit B -ing who moves in iiir!v.*i'id. Weslnn’ ’••re-e’ice of the r sh li'-ht p t’v* lo verin ma riifieodee; we vo ce of tho storm, avc j -l;r> their hau ls !; of the hour. Put the still, sm li v -ice, the cry o iruished so ils, the wails of those fainting by the roadside, those claim i-t our u’t<* :tion. The earth ro’ls on in its orbit, the song and the dance 11 our ears and mov * our feet, tiie whirring wheels of the world’s in hi*try till the air with their ceaseless thutioer. What are we doing? Ah! the story is a grand one, is it not? We are heaping up our treas on's; we are filling our coffers w ith shining gold; we are saying— “Soul, thou ha*-! k goldtn day, a .star-lit night. Mirth, and nni>ic and love without alloy.” We are struggling over the souls of starving men to fame and power. Stop! stop, oh mighty wheels in your evolutions! Humanity is being County. Mitchell, colored, was killed by W Rom Trezvant, also colored, in tiie Extern p< rtion of Orangeburg few weeks since. The eir- e* of tiie killing as related deed a most brutal one, and taiulg. The Charleston Xeice and says: “A fishing smack there was expended from its earnings $10,000 for the Columbia canal, $0,000 j ground beneath your relentless power, for buildings for ofliees, $5,500 in the j the groans of the dying, the curses of purchase of land, ;2,000 for building | miserable lips, are rolling up to heav- barracks, and on October 31st, 18*2, en with your every turn! Such a poor County cimr-ta m * ke it sea ry of ■ >u \V for so lam cnebe ell wcifi nigk upon Courier engaged in crabbing landed at market wharf at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon with probably the largest cargo of crabs that has ever been brought up to the city by one boat. There were two men in the boat and they had been crabbing off Fort Johnson since about 7 o’clock in tiie morning. The boat loaded down to her gun- 1,500 crabs, the f the morning’s work. _ ify has a parallel in the hi*to- i which was loaded do r County. It seems that jeal-• wales contained over Xl existed between tiie parties ; result e o time, on account >rf a colored j fid that Trezvant fc ad thr at- The Ikfrt Royal & Augusta Railway **ival. Finding Ural Mitch-j, a8 i^ued a neatlv printed circular ttS-r- JSr‘"I I to <*«• >'»’ "V ; - id concealed himsel- near the i B”.val B.oad who are engaged in truck if he approached. He sprang {farming, with a view to shipping it to m and dealt him a blow upon | ilie mar aet bv rail. In order to build the l:ei|i with a heavy cluo, which- . r * , lh , , n * 0 felled lira to the ground. He then j 11 ” s .>- stt m * an - tnat -b* pu- P*- dragged his victim to a forest near by, j tnay share its heuefits, a list oi low and,nf|jr beating his bruins out with the cUli, hurried him in a shallow grave, which he covered w :th straw that is. might not attract ntiention. had on hand in easli and available as sets $55,084. 12. This splendid result lias been obtained only by the best an<l wisest management. Among i other means adopted by the directors j for the support of rh<- penitentiary 1 was the hiring of convicts to work iu i a shoe factory established within the weak voice! Who lias an ear keen enough to hear that cry in the busy hum? Who can reckon of the forces so silently working their dreadful end; in cowed hearts and broken spirits ? And the merciless wheels go on. Ah! What is that? Silenc- ! The air is still with an ominous calm; the Mitchdl being nii c 3ed from the com- suspicion fell upon Trezvant, and iu was arrested. He confessed the eftne and made a full statement of theyffsir. He said that upon leav ing hk home the night of the killing he toftt a spade with which to dig tcWirs grave. He is in jail. Mit walls of the institution wiiieh has; still, small voice has uttered its com- yieU'ed a handsome revenue. Many i martd. Peace! l»estill! and hits pierced j of the convicts engaged in this work ; through all the jer and the harsh rat- —tifi are long term men, some life prison- tie and din. 8 : ’ uce!*tlie bnsy wheels ers, who could not be hired outside ol arestili,the very heavens bend in lis- the walls. Now some of the pajier- tin the Stale, without duo considera tion, are saving that the shoe maker- throughout the State are waging war on the officials of tiie penitentiary f-»r placing these shoes in cha way of th- trade. They say that while it is le gitimate it is certu.niy a hardship tening awe, for God. has touched the chords of the human heart and woke the vibrating note of pt.in. It Dthen •we feel the tender influence* lost in I the mad rush of existence. When j sorrow has laid its seal upon the lips j and they ace d* mb because the soul i- j rooked in the tempest, and has no :bks that Do Noc Lie.—Brad- ■ publishes n table showing the ^dividend declared by the eot- mfacturing industry of New pi for each year from 1833 to icluaive. D;ir‘ng this period jst dividend was paid in 1866 — cent, and the smallest in 1876 tr cent. In 1881 the average id amounted to per cent, 1882 to 7*4 per cent. There is contrast between these fig- the profits realized by tiie mills in this and other South- at s. Accordittg to the Inst re- the State Depurtuient of Ag- ■ the net profits of the eott- n South Carolina in 18^2 ranged >20p«r cent. rates will he operated during the sea son from all siations to Augusta, Charleston, Savannah, Baltimore, New York and all the principal cities of the West and Southwest. The list also contains the names and addresses of reliable merchants in that line wim may be communicated with as to pri« ces, ect. ^ T!ie splendid granite which is found in tiie neighborhood of Wimtsboro and ottier localities of Fairfield County has long been recognized as the ftnt#i in toe country for building and orna mental uses. The Charlotte, Colum- ! bio. and Augus’a Railroad commenced ) work on Monday. March 19th, on a track which will crmne' , t their road with a quarry on Major Tom Wood ward’s place, which, when completed, will greatly facilitate the delivery of the rock and the development of an important Industrj' at that point. The road will be four miles long, and will connect w th ‘he Char'otte. Columbia and Augus a Rai'r a 1 at what is now known &» Robertaon’a. I of an of swindling which was recen vived in that city and which was posed by the associated charities. Word came to one of the districts that a woman in great distress on account of the death of her husband. Several charitably inclined Chri-tian women visited the house, and, ascending to the loft, they found an Irish woman weeping over what was supposed to lie the remains of her husband. The sunposed corps was stretched out on a couple of chairs, and reverently <*nv- ered with a white cloth. The woman sobbed most bitterly, and the scene of distress was so realistic, that the la dies witnessing it were moved t«> pity, each of them handing tiie woman a goodly amount of money in order to enable her to defray the "exneneess of the burial. They * proceeded down stairs, when one of tiie party missed her handkerchief, and it flashed across her memory that she dropped it in the death chamber. She returned, and behold her astonishment as she entered! Tiie supposed corps, a healthy looking man, wa* sitting erect in one of the chairs, and was as sisting his wife in counting the mon ey that had been given for tho burial. An Atrocious Brigand.—Among the old-time brigands of Southern Italy perhaps tiie most atrocious villain was Giona La Gale, whose death has "pist been anounced in the Genoa pa pers. He and his brother Ciprtano acre surrendered by the French au thorities, into whose hands they fell many years ago, on condition that they*should not be executed, and they were accordingly condemned to life imprisonment. Not the least nf the terrors which they inspired lay in the common belief that they were canni bals. They emphatically denied this accusation, but Giona is said to have acknowledged its truth on his death bed, and to have added to the long list of “last words” this amazing contrib ution: “Human flesh is the bast; I prefer it to all.” —In a recent, conversation with a Reporter for the Sews and Courier Gen. Izlar, chairman of die Slate Democratic committee, spoke very warmly concerning the outrageous attempts on the part of the minimis of the Fedt*nil Goveruuienj to secure victims for the April Assizes. It was very deal* to him, he said, and to every oilier citizen of South Carolina, that the so-called prosecutions had degenerated very naturally, from the character of those in charge of them, into a vindictive persecution of the people of the State at a time when their presence at home was absolutely necesaar. to attend to their planting interests*. Under these cirwimstnces, as chairman of the State Democratic committee, he said he proposed L leave no stone unturned to secure for tho accused the bc-t legal talent that the State afforded and to see that in every way justice was given in the United State- Circuit Court. The de fence o those who have thus been drag ged from their homes and would prob ably be dragged to Charleston for trial in April was a matter he considered in which the whole people of Soutli Carolina should n::d would feel i: a privilege to assist in, and one in which the State in her sovereign capacity should and would lend all the power and means at her control. He was- 'satisfied that tiie cases, if any were made up at all, would be charges of mere technical violations of the law and he wanted those who had lieen selected for the proposed sacrifice to know that their cause wa* the cause of the people of South Carolina, and that eveyihlng which can lx* done is being done and will lie done to insure them absolute justice. —Frederick N. Crouch, the compos er of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” Is a gray-haired man who lives on poor fare in Baltimore. A tattered coat of Confederate gray keeps some of the eold out. He is now out of employment and too old to help himself. He has a wife and five children. He tries to smile cheerily at fate, but admits that he needs help. —Tiie Arizona young man is a dan- f erous animal to have in the house. )own at Tucson, on a recent Sunda; evening, during the business of cour ing, a young fellow’s pistol fell to the lioor, and, being dischanred,' his sweetheart was wounded, iiu eve ning’s sitting closed with the arrival of tiie old folks upon the scene and the calling in of the doctor. —Mr. Stilson Hutchins, the pro prietor of the Washington /W, re cently married a Miss Brady, who is said to be an accomplished lady of 35, and one o& the remarkable features or the wedding was the receipt of letter from his div i»m all , the »e arrival and DeWitt Talmage. afflicted vflth a veiy ii vauce agent, who was both impudent and abusive while trying to beat down tiie regular advcr.ising rates offered aud declared he would prefer to ad vertise his lecturer upon the dead walls about town.” —India is evidently a land where a man may “see snakes” without arous ing the least susniciou that his tem-. pe ranee principles are not all right. During tiie year 1881 snakes are said to have destroyed 18,670 human lives in India, and 254,967 snakes are Said to have been killed. The loss of life is remarkably large unless snakes are used as family pefs, as Spitz dogs and bears are iu America. —Governor Boynton, of Georgia, will find himself embarrassed with the application for pardon from a kinsman under sentence of death, just as Governor Smith, of tiie same State, did in the case of Milt Malone. Alfred Doyle, who is to be hanged in a short time for a murder committed in Grifiin, was related to Governor Boynton’s wife. The last speech made by the Governor was in defence of Doyle before the Supreme Court. —A little island known as Foula, about twenty miiv* we-»t of Shetland, and continuing about three hundred inhabitants, lias been iusolated by continuous storms from the mainland during the whole of this year, until tiie 7th of this mouth, when a boat managed to reach it with provision. The people were found to be in a ter rible state of destitution, and many of them must have been starved to death but for this neighborly succor. —A member of C ngress from a Western State was recently Invited to a dinner in Washington. He says: “There wasn’t anything on the table when I got there but some forks and spoons and bric-a-brac. Presently they brought iu some soup. As I didn’t see nothin’ else, I thought I’d eat all the soup I could, though soup is a mighty poor dinner to invite n fel low to. So 1 was helped lour times, ami then come on the finest dinner 1 ever see, and there I set,” groaned he, “chock full of soup!” —The Lexington Dispatch say*: A mysti rlous robbery occurred in town on triday night last. Entrance was gained through the front door of Bal- lentine A Wessinger’s store by force- ill g the lock catches, and their safe robbed of about three hundred dol lars. It is, indeed, a singular occur rence. Tiie r-ai'e is said to have been locked witii the combination us usual, yet it was opened without injury or the use of tool*, although the party had provided themselves with chL-els, sledge hammer L &c , taken from the shops of James kawl and Mr. George Lybrand, which they secured by the same slight of hand. —Dates from New York of the 19th instant >iate that about 2,500 quarts of Florida strawberries arrived there on Saturday, wiiieh met an active de mand and went off quickly at higher prices—quoted at UOCgTSc per quart. An arrival of green peas from Savan nah took place, on tho 17th in stant, choice sold at $5 }»er crate and some frosted at $3. Fir rida in light supply and general! IS®3.50 {»cr -orate, with some few at ?-4. Elorida string Uni ns were plenty and round lots sold at $3.50(2.4 amt way up to |5. New Florida egg plant sold at $4<^ > per crate, and new cab bage at 35c for large heads. Savan nah beets and cabbage were dull. A few Savannah cabbage hrmigm t2<$ 2.50 per barrel. Bermuda potatoes were quoted at $5<'i6.5'j per* barrel. Koo-sh. per barrel, |5«?6. Charleston •eparagu* ttkgSOo per bunch. peas were fy sold at ••V A-*? it • ■ vSip?' • f.lp DjSK . jffeii J- .sma m ,&■- ‘A:; rJcfi '■>1 ■ m rfilfil fi >1 Jn