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\ I 4 TM THE AIKEN '7^ 2<-* RECORDER. BY DRAYTON & M'CRACKEN. AIKEN, S. C, TUESDAYRpRIL 17, 18S3. VOLUME 2.—NO. 27. HENRY BUSCH IMtOPHIKTOR OK THK BUSCH HOUSE Cur. Richland Avc. and York St., Professional Advertisements. D. S. IlK.Nl>ESMO!f. K. 1’. HeNOKRSOX. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aikkx, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Cboft. J. Zeu Duxl.\p. —AXD DEALER IX— GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Laurens street, Aiken, S. C. Waverly House, Chaki.eston, S. C. T HIS favorite family Hotel is situ ated on King street, the principal ' retail business street, and nearly oppo site the Academy of Music.’ The Waverly, under the new manage ment, has recently l»een renovated and refurnished, and is recommended for it* well-kept table and home comforts. Kates $2 and $2.o0 per day, according to location of room. The Charleston Hotel transfer omnibuses will carry guests to and from the house. G. T. ALFORD, Manager. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, s. c. PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons atall trains and'Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Cheek to any one on Train. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, Official Directory. James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Airkn, S. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 3. C. Will practice in all the State and United States Courts. Special atten tion paid to collections and invest ments of money. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken. S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Special attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Attorney at Law, Aiken, Emil Ludckcns, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. All business transacted with promptness. SUMMERVILLE HOUSE. II. A. Sinj'ser, (Formerly of Aike^ S. C.,) H AS a fine large house and cottage for the accommodation of board ers in the beautiful villageof Summer ville, near Augusta, Ga., finely situ ated, with splendid drives aud pleasant walks. Churches very convenient to the house. The house is neatly and comfortably furnished with everything necessary. Rooms and halls well ven tilated ami heated. Mails delivered daily. Terms moderate. Apply to H. A. 8MYSER, Sand Hills, Augusta, Georgia. BROWN'S GLOBE HOTEL AUGUSTA. - - GEORGIA. Located in the Centre of the Business Portion of the City. :0: * B. E. BHOWN, Manager, FormUrTy of Ihe Planters Hob-I, aTT gusta, Ga., and the Highland Park Hotel, Aiken, 8. C. James E. Davis, Attorney at Law, Barnwell Court House, S. C. Hawkins K. Jenkins, Attorney at Law, Book Hill, S. 0. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Special attention given to collections. Claude E. Sawyer. Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts, and give special attention to Convey ancing, preparing Abstracts of Titles and Negotiating Loans. THE “WINDSOR” CAFE AND RESTAURANT! R17 Broad Ptrce*. Augusta, Ga. (Former site of National Exchange Bank.) rpiiE handsomest Cafe in the South, JL to whicli is added a Restaurant of superior excellence for Ladies and Gentlemen. New York Oysters (“Blue Points” and “Shrewsburys”) in the shell always on hand, and Game of all kinds in season. Table d’Hote Dinner 1.30 to 4 p. m. Ladies entrance adjoining Bank of Augusta. JAS. T. MULHALL, Proprietor. B. F. GUNTER, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. —practice in -ailil—£2imri; south Carolina. Prompt attention given to the collection of Claims. The State. Governor, Hugh S. Thompson. Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary of State, James N. Lipscomb. A ttornry- General, Charles Richardson Miles. State. Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. Comptroller- General, William E. Stoney. Superintendent of Education, Asbcry Coward. Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. Manigault. United States Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Butler. Congressmen, First District—Samuel Dibble. ' Second District—Geo. D. Tillman/ Third District—D. Wyatt Aiken. Fourth District—John H. Evins. Fifth District—John J. Hemphill. Sixth District—George W. Dargan. Seventh District—E. W. M. Mackey Agricultural Department, A. P. Butler, superintendent. L. A. Ransom, secretary. Railroad Commissioners, M. L. Bonham, T. B. Jeter Legake J. Walker. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. C. Henry McIvek, Associate Justice. S. McGowan, Associate Justice. Circuit Courts, First Circuit—B. C. Pressley. Second Circuit—A. P. Aldrich. Third Circuit—T. B. Fraser. Fourth Circuit—J. H. Hudson. Fifth Circuit—J. B. Kershaw. Sixth Circuit—J. D. Witherspoon. Seventh Circuit—Win. H. Wallace. Eighth Circuit—Janies S. Cothran. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. Congress meets on the first Monday in December of each year. The Legislature meets on the fourth Tuesday in November of each year. E3T*The Circuit Court for Aiken County meets three times a year, as follows: first Monday in February, last Monday in May, and second Monday in September. Congressional Districts. First—Charleston and Berkley— (St. Phillips and St. Michaels, Mount Pleasant, Moultrieville, St. James Goosecreek. Summerville), ten town ships of Colleton, fourteen townships of Orangeburg, and the entire County of Lexington. Second—Hampton, Barnwell, Ai ken, Edgefield, aud Colleton—(Brox- sou aud Warren). Third—Abbeville, Newberry, An- . | dersoiv Pickens and Ocouee. j—rtvcuiii ■uinimiu, -Pjpan.niniiig SCARED AT LAST. THK DANGKK OF SOUTHERN COM PETITION ADMITTED. Consternation of the Eastern Manu facturers at the Kcfiisal of the Rail road Pool to Help them—Some In teresting Interviews. ' [From the New York Commercial Bulletin.! The recent determination of Com missioner Fink to allow no reduction of rates or reclassification .on dry goods is not pleasantly received in Worth street. It is openly asserteci that this was his intention from the first, and that he was unwilling even to entertain the idea. Why shouk the trunk lines sacrifice what was al ready theirs out of deference to the wishes of the dry goods dealers? Prominent firms differed as to what would be the result of tins action One gentleman said : > “I look upen this as saying to the dry goods trade that the railroads had them in their power, and woukl not yield an inch. In this we can plainly see the evil effects upon the commu nity of the plan of pooling. We can do nothing. All the main lines have joined together, and we cannot act on one to induce it to take more reason able rates than another. This means a building up of the South and West, and a consequent lessening of the im portance of the North and East, so far as this course can act. There is no pooling arrangement in the South, or at least none of sufficient importace to amount to anything, and the rail roads there offer special concessions to manufacturers, enabling them to deliver their goods in Chicago for less than we can. This is one great advan tage that part of the country has over us; she has a second in the ease with which the raw material can be pro- cmed. We have to buy it in Fall River from cotton houses in New York and other places, paying com missions and weighing, and then transportation. In all that part which relates to the manufacturing of heavy goods, she has decided natural advan tages, and if she could improve them would undoubtedly drive us out of the market.” BUILDING OP ANOTHER RODE. A second gentleman thought that the true remedy woukl be to build another road, not subject to the whims of Mr. Fink, Mr. Vanderbilt or Mr. Gould. Nothing had been asked of the Trunk Lines that was not fair and honorable. There was a natural reason why domestics should be carried for less than groceries or crockery, for they suffered no injury on transit, and an accident to the train, while it might destroy the worth of the other commodities, would not injure the cloth in the least. A carload of coffee from New York to Chicago cost to send thither seven ty dollars, while a carload of domes tics isjeharge^for ,at $150. The tar, red ink. There was the signi- clause on one side: “We get Ix>w Rates of Freight to all tant Points.” The illustration a large factory, apparently built, and a line near it says fare the largest cotton aud wool- lills in the Southern States. I J. W. DEVORE. Aiken, S. C. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. DcVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Dr. B. H. Tea sue, Dentist. -OFFICE on- Desirable Heal Estate for S-A-IalE. SEVERAL very Uj ings in the center Dwell- Town: Eleven desirable of the One Elegant Mansion of Rooms. One Delightful Cottage of 7 Rooms. One Cottage, beautifully located, ti rooms. One Large and Elegantly Located H< •use on Park Avenue, S rooms and Cottage in yard. One Large Villa, half mile north of Town Hall, with 30 acres of land, 9 rooms and outbuildings. One Splendid Residence, 2 miles west of the town, and 40 acres of land. 204 Acres of Valuable Pine Lands, Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. OFFICE AT Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. K. Smith, Dentist. OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. 0. IS 1 ” Will attend calls to the country. Beal Estate for Sale. Also Houses and Rooms to rent. Apply to H. SMITH, Main street, - - Aiken, S. C. cornering on the streets of the town. K. J. C. WOOD, S. OTT, Real Estate Agents. Buss & Stothart, GRANITE VILLE, - - S. C. DEALERS IN DLL US, MEDICINES, C HEMIC A IS, VARNISHES, PAINTS, Oils, Glass, Putty, Fine Soaps, Per fumery, Dye Woods and Dye Stuffs generally, jsp:;:;;;es. Brushes, and all articles kept by druggists generally. tW" Physicians’ Prescriptions care fully compounded. CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK. OF CHARLESTON, S. C. Incorporated by the State, IK74. Authorized Capital ...$500,000 Undivided Profits .$20,072 50 Deposits received and interest al lowed in the above Bank at the rate of Five (5) Per Cent, per annum. Ex change on New York, Liverpool and London bought and sold. Geo. W. Williams, President. J. Lamb Johnston, Cashier. ’pTwas originated twenty years ago, a J ter the failure of the supply of cotton —(except White Plains aud Lime stone Townships), Laurens, Union-, forniiHSi oc< . asioMe(1 by tlie Wl ir; but (except Goudetsville and Drayton- w hile these articles, which then sold ville Townships), Fairfield, Richland —(Upper Township, Columbia and Centre). Fifth—York, Chester, Lancaster, Union—(Goudeysville and Drayton- ville), Spartanburg—(White Plains and Limestone), Chesterfield aud Kershaw. Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg— (Kingstree, Sunder, Lees, Johnsons and Lake), Darlington, Marlboro’, Marion and Horry. Seventh—Georgetown, Williams burg— (except Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake and Johnsons), Suifiter, Richland—(Lower Township), seven townships of Orangeburg, Charleston and Berkley not in First District, six townships of Colleton, and the entire County of Beaufort. Judicial Circuits. First—Charleston, Berkeley and Orangeburg. Second—Aiken, Barnwell, Beau fort, Colleton and Hampton. Third—Sumter, Clarendon, Wil liamsburg and Georgetown. Fourth—Chesterfield , Marlboro’, Darlington, Marion and Horry. Fifth—Kershaw, Richland, Edge- field and Lexington. Sixth—Chester, Lancaster, York and Fairfield. Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar tanburg and Union. Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander son, Pickens and Greenville. -FIRE- BAZAR ! GLOVE-FITTING! Insurance on a Solid Basis. IHE undersigned would call atten- T -PA TTERNS!- For sale bv Mbs. FORD, Park Avenue. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Noithside Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C. The best of material used, nnd'nny style of b»ot or shoe made t*> order. PRICES It E I) U C E I) . OBT. D. WHITE MARBLE iNlli WORKS! LANS FURNISHED. ALSO ring property against fire in compa nies of unsurpassed reputation and at fair rates. In cases of losses occur ring, I heir friends placing business in their hands can rely on their 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-class companies. E. J. C. WOOD, SIBERIA OTT. W. W. Bansley, AT THE Globe Hotel Barber Shop, AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA, Is now prepared to accommodate the most fastidious with a first-class shave, haircut or shampooing. BARBER SHOP. rj^HE undersigned, having purchased Mr. Rentz’s interest in his Barlier N __ _ _ ! Shop, would respectfully solicit the 19 A ||| patronage of the citizens of Aiken. ■*•*•■ "* Shaving, llair Cutting and Sham pooing executed at reasonable psices. J. R. BOYCE. At R<*«lrSi Old HHihW, AH*vn, S. 4. Reeling St., cor. Horlbeok’s Alley, Charleston, 8. C. The County. Senator, D. S. Henderson. Representatives, John M. Bell, George W. Croft, F. P. Woodward, Thos. J. Davies. Sheriff, Milledge T. Holley. Clerk of Court, Wm. M. Jordan. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Commissioner, Luther W. Williams. County Commissioners, Wm. M. Foley, J. Cal. Courtney, William Stevens. O. P. Champlain, clerk of board. Treasurer, J. E. Murray. .4 uditor, David H. Wise. Corone r, S. P. KITCHING. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Evans. who constitutes the Board, with the following ex-officio members,* viz., the Auditor and the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Board of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-officio ch’m. James E. Crosland, Charles E. R. Drayton. Board of Assessors, B. W. Moseley, Aiken. J. H. Quattlebaum, Chinquapin. J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp. James Powell, Gregg. E. S. Hammond, Hammond. Macom Gunter, Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, McTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefcoat, Roeky Grove. James M. Cook, Rocky Spring. J. D. Taylor, Shaw’s. Jas. C. Hammond, Shultz. R. S. Hankinson, Silverton. Isaac W. Foreman, Sleepy Hollow. James K. Brodie, Tabernacle. R. L. Evans, Windsor. Chairman—E. S. Hammond. Secretary—Tas. C. Hammond. Ifer-oflMn Otoi-k—J. H. Mratfua. at thirty cents or over carried this im post easily, it should be known that they cannot now afford it, when the charge has been reduced to eight or nine. The cars can be well packed and there is no after claim for dam ages. southern manufacturers. “Can the South make these goods?” replied a manufacturer who was in the city. “She can, undoubtedly, if she will, but I think she hardly will at present. There is considerable being made down there now, but it is hardly manufactured after the best styles or with the newest machinery, and the goods that they sell in com petition with us are those in which weight is a chief quality. No thin, light goods are made there now, and they labor under special disadvantage of having to import all their skilled labor. That is a serious drawback in manufacturing. If all the stock of a particular kind of labor is in your mill, and no more nearer than fifty miles, what ni'e you going to do in case of a strike? Wiiat can you do if there is an epidemic, or if several of the skilled hands get ill? Where mills are together, a lower rate of wages prevails than where they are apart, ami there is no Lowell or Man chester in the South to yield a supply of hands. The entire number of spin dles in Alabama is but three hundred thousand, aud they are mostly in small establishments, averaging about two thousand spindles each, and hav ing from twenty-live to thirty hands all told. These operatives are not na tive to the South, and come from New England and the British Islands. I believe that in the course of time they will build up a large manufacturing industry in the South, but they have not yet done so. To the extent which they can manufacture coarse, heavy goods, we shall be driven out of tbe markets which to them are most ac cessible; but the growth of the fur West and the increased quantity of goods that they need is more rapid than the multiplication of the mills in the South, and the special rates that they get between Atlanta and Chicago,* while less than we pay be- tween^jb'ail River and Chicago, will not vary much when the goods are sent out to Montana. We can get through rates for the Pacific slope about us cheap us they can from Geor gia or Alabama. At any rate the competition is one we must stand.” DIMINUTION OF WESTERN ORDERS. “Have you noticed any difference in your Western orders?” was asked of a prominent agent. “Yes, in sev- earl cases that I could give the reason for and in many that I could not. There are a multitude of little facto ries starting up all over the West and South that ultimately are going to do us much harm, and have done some already. 1 do not know that the pro position which Mr. Fink rejected would have been of permanent value to us, for the Southern roads would have been obliged to make correspon ding concessions. We must give over sending a few grades of domestics to competing points and try to turn our attention to something else. The Soutli are already crowing over us. Here you will see,” said he “a circu lar prepared iu the interests of their manufacturers. It bears the compli ments of the Eagle and Phoenix mills, Columbus Georgia, and is made up of extracts from Northern newspapers. I.sheadings read: ‘Southern Compe tition—The Northern Dry Goods Men Driven to the Wall—Complaints that Southern Manufacturers are Driving New England Operators out of the market—The Remedy Sought One which would lie Suicidal on the Rail roads.’ ” Here he handed the repor ter the circular, which was gay with an illustration of their buildings, and had ita margins decorated with print- thibition at Hethca. of The Aiken Recorder: ng kindly invited by Capt. John mphries to attend an exhibition .♦lose of his school session by idents of his school on the 28th month, .we gladly accepted, in the morning of that day we .•d up Morgan Holley and put •ossing the Ed is to at Cook’s . where we took lunch, but had Oftuei >r Morg .u, which we regretted, f<Jr atcr ibcolu lady and the children arm jgamLchildren, next comes our horwv but thattrouble was soon made fix*on arriving at the house of wung friend, Joseph Johnson, In was unharnessed and treated big bundles of fodder and an {11 of corn, eacli ear as large as |orn of a Texas steer. While m was eating and friend Joseph jiaving for the exhibition, we Jd down to see our old friend teady. We found him plough- hit he stopped, and said he did [op to talk to everybody, but was rs willing to stop*for a chat with [ingof the Old Gang. He was glad to see us, and asked many )ons, and then struck oft' on the tt of rattlesnakes and enlight- Jbs smartly on the habits of that Ju* and other animals, and their i'er of procuring%heir food, foi ls a very close observer and a lerable naturalist with all; but |we struck him on the fence law, iwned, shook his head and said, here, Brother Williams, if you fiat way of thinking you had fsing low in this section.” md Joseph was tlum ready, so fcok Mat’s tater-grabbler, hitched organ, took in friend Joseph, i hour’s drive brought us to i, where we expected to meet a little crowd of boys and girls W. PEKCIVAL. aP su i A Visit to his .Sash, Ooor anil Blind Factory. We recently visited this extensive factory and were most favorably im pressed with all we saw. Mr. Perei- val is a young Charleston mechanic, apparently but little over thirty, but his knowledge of his business is based upon many years of patient labor and dilligent application to business. For eight years he was foreman of‘another large Charleston sash factory. About three years ago he commenced in rather a modest way a factory of his own, and by strict attention to busi ness and by furnishing to customers only the very best material and the very best work, he has built up a busi- ness which has grown to be one of the largest in the Southern States. . Entering the grounds through the two story building in the centre of the street front, which the handsomely lettered sign over the door points out as the office, the visitor finds himself in an inner court or yard 100 feet wide by 120 feet deep. Standing with his back to the office building, which he has just passed through, he secs on his left the main building or factory proper, two and a half stories, ninety feet long and sixty feet wide, and at tached to the rear of this a boiler room, entirely new, twenty by sixty feet in dimensions. In front of him, on the east side of the lot, is the brick warehouse, sixty feet long by forty feet wide and two stories high, and to his right, on the south side of the lot, is the immense lumber shed, 120 feet long by 25 feet wide, and with a ca pacity for storing 350,000 feet of lum ber. On the north side of the main factory building is another lot, about 15 feet front and 120 feet deep. To meet the demands of his con stantly increasing business, Mr. Per- eival has supplied himself with all the latest improvements in machine ry, and there is no class of work in his line which he cannot turn out in the most elegant style at prices which cannot be undercut by any respectable house in the business. We wish we had space to mention all of the interesting things that we SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Edgefield wants a hotel. There has been none there since the tire in 1881. The Greenville Baptist Sunday- school has given $100 to Furman Uni versity. It is proposed to have a show of Jersey cattle at Spartanburg some time in May. ■■ —- — 1 '■ -ye Since the present season opened, 13,600 bales of cotton have been ship ped from Abbeville. Under the new assessment, the total taxable property of Newberry county is given at $4,384,242. The Court of Sessions for Horry county adjourned last week without sending a single convict to the peni tentiary and only a few to jail for short terms. ami fieir parents; *but to our great saw; but we cannotdose this notice surry^e by sundown the crowd was imr* for a country neighborhood, am ju the opening of the exhibition thet-use was full, the yard was full, am^the road was full,—and to say th£ y*b« performance was wonderful is'nijt' saying too much. T'*: school is a very large 'one, and the Luiunacy and promptness shown by s4v, little and big, indicated evident sjg n | of energy, talent and applica- tioiUfmong students and teacher, and the lyhole aftair certainly reflected grea^ttHiit on all interested. Some tlj e names of older students might be Mentioned as rather excelling otha? in the performance of their P ar H:.but where there were so many and^i did so well, it would be invid- i°uftto> discriminate. the school and in the exhibition wer; r j» ie families of Cofer, Johnson, Gtt,|p^,*nnedy, Kitching, Culler, Brog- den, Miu e r, Garvin, Curtis, and others uhat Y» cannot recollect. We noticed ihn f ]*). MjKItt, who was once a , _ assisting in all the ment 8e viral songs .by the whole school, underjtlie direction of our old friend Carson Keel, were most admirable, and the minstrel performance was just good enough. Mr. H. W. Brown, a gentleman of intelligence and thor ough education, took part in the ex hibition aud rendered valuable assist ance. His part in the act of “The Last Loaf” was par excellence. 'In conclusion we would say to the people ot Bethea neighborhood, keep up your school and keep Capt. John C. Hifinphries at the helm, for he is the right man .n the right place. At 12 o’clock the last curtain fell, and your depone-.t had the pleasure of taking under Ifis wing and driving six miles with Miss C. K., one of the most intelligent and fairest daughters of Edisto. We spent the balance of the night with our old friend Ed. Kitching, and had fi di for breakfast, fresh and flut tering right out of the waters of Bur- kelow. L. W. W. Dr. Briggs’s Ghost Story. [Frpmfthe Life of Professor lie Morgan.] Dr. :Briggs, when quartered in the Hill Country, used to meet once a week with the officers and others, Ihe custom being to breakfast at each other’s house after the sport was over. On th6 day for Dr. B.’s turn to receive his fri'-nds he awoke at dawn and saw a figure standing at his bedside. Hav ing rubbed his eyes to make sure that lie waft awake, he got up, crossed the room and washed his in cold wa ter. He then turned, aud, seeing the same figure, approached it, and ree- ognized a sister whom he had left in England. He uttered some exclama tion and fell down in a swoon, in which state he was found by a servant who came to call him for*the hunt. He was of course unable to join his hunting friends, who, at breakfast, on theJkjerurn, rallied him as to the cause of ills absence. In the midst of the talk lie suddenly looked up aghast and sntd, in a trembling voce: “Is it pos.-iMe that none ot you see the W'o-j f or ungentlemanly act, and when without mentioning one of the most ingenious contrivances that ever came under our observation. We allude to the Norton Door Check and Spring. This device consists of a cylinder, piston, spring, and self-adjusting valve. It is provided with suitable brackets, and is adapted to be attach ed to the top part of a door and the frame over the door. In it are two great powers; namely, the Spring, which is sure to close the door, draw ing the hardest when it is nearest closed; and the Cheek, or the cush ioning of the piston on air, which brings the door to a stop for an instant near the jamb, then quietly, but sure ly, closing the door and latching it by the operation of the spring, being reg ulated by the automatic valve, which permits the air to outer the cylinder freely while opening the door, and while closing exhausts the air, more or less, as the force exerted on the door to close it is greater or less. The parts of the device are so arranired to- ir'-tber that. Die <rreater x the for'-e ex^ erieu to Close tne i*vor,,~V**v4ircater re sistance will he offered; w^./vT>uently no slam or jar can occur. It is truly a useful ami economic device which not only obviates the disagreeable noise of door slamming, but which actually causes the door to last three or four times longer than if submit ted to incessant concussions by the ordinary spring. As a great deal of building seems to be in contemplation in and around Aiken during the coming summer, we take pleasure in calling particular at tention to the advertisement of this deserving and enterprising gentle man. Address E. W. Pereival, Char leston, S. C.. and you are sure to re ceive first class work at reasonable prices. Two “Statesmen.” (Ottawa Times.j We have a good thing on Alex. Vaughey, one of our representatives in the Legislature, and it is all the more interesting because it is strictly true. Here it is: A short time since, on the adjourn ment of the house, Representative Vaughey walked into the cloak room for his overcoat, and found sitting there a very black gentleman of Afri can extraction.aud a republican mem ber of the house. Vaughey took the colored gentleman to be a “common nager,” in the cloak room for the pur pose of waiting on the “honorable members,” and taking down his coat said, “Here, you fellow, help me on witli my coat.” The colored gentle man obeyed the command promptly and in a style perfectly satisfactory to our distinguished representative. At this point the republican member of the house, above referred to, said to Representative Vaughey, with his j hand on the colored gentleman’s] shoulder, “Allow me, Mr. Vaughey, | to introduce you to Senator Johnson, of Louisiana.” This completely broke Vaughey, to think he had ordered a Louisiana State Senator t;- perform tlie work of an ordinary nigger; but he soon recovered himself and said to “Senator Johnson,” “Excuse me, sir, Frederick Lewis, a native of South Carolina, but a long resident and suc cessful business man of Charlotte, N. C., out his throat with a razor in that city on Thursday night. He was in sane. The Spartanburg Herald says that Gen. E. Capers, Capt. J. B. Patrick and Dr. J. Tl. Maxwell will conduct a competitive examination for the West Point and Annapolis Cadetships to be held in Greenville on the 24th of this month. Tlie Greenville News says: Dr. Sims, the Aiken boast, is free of the courts. His case is one over which Judge Lynch has undisputed juris diction. We would like to see an im provised jury in Aiken give him a taste of black snake whip just for luck. State Democratic Committee. [Columbia Register April Uth.( In view of the necessity for the adoption of some, measure for the de fense of citizens involved in the ne farious election cases now being insti tuted, General Izlar, Chairman, called the Committee to meet yesterday. There wa* n full attendance last night, ami the subject was fully discussed. Information was laid before the committee as to tin: extent to which the effort lias been made in the sev eral Counties to drag the Managers, Supervisors and prominent citizens into the United Stales Court upon the flimsiest pretexts imaginable. The facts elicited show tiiat besides the large number whose arrests have been noticed by the daily papers, in Mar ion County alone over thirty-three persons have been bound over by United States Commissioner Lida, who has* acted in utter disregard of the rights of tile accused and carried on his examination at Florence with a degree of assumption and impu dence which would have put Jelfries to the blush in the days of the “bloody assizes.” Tiie committee adopted a resolution selecting General LeKoy F. Youmans of Columbia and Judge A. G. Ma- grath of Charleston as assistant coun sel to the local counsel for the defense in the cases which may be made be fore the United States Court. It is the determination of the com mittee, as representing the sentiments of the people of the State in this mat ter, that the means and talent of tlie Democratic party shall be laid under contribution to the fullest extent nec essary for the defense and protection of the accused in these cases, and their actions will be fully endorsed by the white people of the whole State. t£at eter- Thc Abbeville Medium says the State Board of Health has de mined to establish a meteorological station at Due West. Very costly and perfect instruments have already been ordered and will shortly be on hand. Professor Hood will have charge. The question as to the best means of getting the public roads properly worked is now receiving a good deal of attention all over the State. The grand jurors of various counties have recommended in recent presentments, that the roads be worked by a system of taxation. Judge Mackey was in Chester last week. He expressed freely his earn est protest against the course pursued by Melton and Willard in the arrest of citizens now being made in South Carolina, and declared his purpose to render whatever aid he may be able in the interest of the accused. “So watch Tom.” — — _ Judge Hudson, in his address to the prisoners in the Richland court, on whom he was about to pass sentence, said that “it was rare that he had to pass sentence upon those who had experienced the restraints of slavery and had since been made free.” It was the young of the colored race, who had been brought up as freemen, who composed the great criminal class of the State. The Edgefield Chronicle says: Mr. J. Rufus Dorn, who lives in the neigh borhood of Celestia, has passed through our town several times re cently with oat straw nicely packed in bales, which he tells us he finds a ready sale for in Graniteville at $1.20 per hundred. This isun article which many of the farmers in the county look upon as of little valuef^while for rough food it is probably as good as fodder. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Edgefield Monitor says: A mad dog was killed near our office some timii_ag<^and we hear of others in tlie near neighborhood. We also read of them in all parts ot the country. In view of their number and consequent danger to the people, a vigorous “shot gun policy” directed against dogs generally would almost seem advisa ble. A dead dog in a compost heap is worth two mad dogs on the rampage. Major Woodward, county chairman, has issued an address to tlie Democ racy of Fairfield 1 , calling for contribu tions to pay the expenses of those who have fallen into the hands of the Federal officers. He begins by —Tlie Railroads running to Char lotte have agreed to build a $50,000 union depot. —Chicago’s municipal election was in favor of the Democrat* by a ma jority' of ten thousand. J. H. Townsend, of Anderson, has bought a cotton seed oil mill, and will soon begin operations. —A bale of cotton was sent from Charlotte N. C., a few days ago which weighed 1,658 pounds. —Jay' Gould lias a private flower garden on the Hudson, in which the plants alone have cost upwards of a million of dollars. —Glass shingles are now being man ufactured at Pittsburg,.Pa., wich are said to be more djuruble and impervi ous to rain than slate or any other material. —Sumter can alsoboastof some very' fine teams of horses, worth from five to eight hundred dollars a pair, most of which are brought out and sold by’ resident dealers. —A law’ has beep passed in Maine to forbid killing of Mrds and game on Sunday, but an amendment to pro hibit fishing on that day was voted down with a rush. < —-“arourne,- tmr n^rniTf^Hepuidlean candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, has defeated Sprague by twenty-five hundred majority. Spra gue is not a desirable man for Gov ernor of any State. -Courier-Journal: Any allegations of Mr. Arthur as to the number and size of the fishes be landed in Florida should be received with all credence due tlie statements of so distinguished an allegator. —The Sunday edition of the New’ York Herald contained one hundred and thirty-two columns of advertise ments, and was an octuple sheet. The Herald is the Colossus of news papers and a mine of wealth to its owner. —The way Washington papers pub lish advertisements for offices in the departments, oflering $50 in cash and $5 a month after the appointment is secured, is the best commentary on the sincerity of Arthur’s civil service reform professions. —A St. Petersburg, Russia, dis patch states tfcat fifty thousand men will be present at the coronation of the Czar, as s guard of protection. They’ arc to be fully’ armed and move around as a sort of special police among the crowd. —The celebrated Dismal Swamp, in the southern part of Virginia, is fast losing all its romantic charms under the invasion of utilitarian man. The moras-es are being converted into fer tile fields, canals and railroads pene trate it in every direction, and even Lake Drummond, that famed haunt of ghostly maidens will probably soon be drained. —Every business man should ad- vetise, if nothing more than a card, stating his name and the kind of business lie is engaged in. It lets peo- j pie at a distance know who are the , ^ ^ ^ '“'"business men in the town. The mg, “Thegrand Radical-Negro-Green- , paper finds its way into thousands of back pow-wow recently held in Co- 1 places where hands-bills cannbt reach. ‘ A card in a _ board and can man funding there?” They all de-! dared there was no one. “I toil you ! there rs; she is my sister. I beg you | all to make a note of this, forwc shall hear qf death.” All present, sixteen in number, of, whoiiv Sir John Malcolm was one,! made an entry into their notebooks of' the occurrence and exact date. Some ! months alter this, by the first mail ! from England tnat could bring it, ! came mb news that the sister had died i at the very time of the vision, having ! on he/ death-bed expressed a strong ; wish to see her brother and to leave two y oung children iu ids charge. A Churlish President. A telegram dated Field, Fla., April 10, says: President Arthur and party- arrived at noon yesterday, all well, after pending Sunday at Sanford. The President is iu bad humor at tbe annoyances of travel and the impor tunities for a public demonstration, which he positively declines. The party visited the orange groves at Sanford, Maitland and Winter Park. Secretary Chandler fell out of a wagon near Winter Park and suffered a se vere sprain, but was otherwise unin jur. d. The party left on a steamer last evening to go down the Kissimee River, sixty’ miles, for fishing. The Seminole Indians of Walk-in-Water settlefuent are preparing to g ve a “Green Corn Dance” in the Presi dent’s honor. The party will return to Sanford in a few days,*and the plan now fa to go from Sanford to New Smyrna on the Atlantic coast by wngnM, thence up the coast to St. Augufline, where the steamer Talla poosa! will wait to convey the party uireoito Washington. Iconic to Louisiana I will return the j compliment by assisting you in put- j ting on your coat.” The senator said i “all right.” Vaughey then invited 1 the senator to take a cigar; tlie sena-| tor complied, and then Vaughey, to i show that he had no prejudice aginst; any man on account of “race, color ( or previous condition of servitude,” 1 took the arm of the “senator” and the j two walked down town together. But, reader, what do you imagine | were Vaughey ; s feelings when lie was informed that “Senator Johnson” was! a coon who hud just been pardoned j out of the penitentiary! Of course! there was no profanity on the occa- \ siou. ^ j North Carolina Forests.—When | American forests are mentioned, most. ; people think of the groat Northwest; ! but it is said to be a fact that no for- i ests of America will to-day compare ! with those of North Carolina in va-j riety’and luxuriance of growth. This! State contains almost 49,000 miles of! unbroken forest, containing all the; best known species of trees to be; found iu this country’. On the up- ; lands may be found tlie white pine : and the hemlock; on the lowlands,; the palmetto and the magnolia. Of! the twenty-two spiccies of oaks to be found east of the Reeky Mountains, nineteen grow iu Nortli Carolina; and twice as many varieties of trees grow within the limits of this State as may be found in the whole of Europe. For arboriculture, it is oneof the most favored regions of the globe; every va riety of tri|p grows with a rank lux uriance unknown in the North. Some tulip trees may be found more than a hundred feet high, and meas uring thirty feet around at the foot of (he trunk. lumbiu by dirty- Sam Melton and his ‘little dog Snyder’ is ended for the present at least, and Democracy- and common decency, thank God, are still intact.” paper is a traveling sign- •an oe seen by eveyy reader. —Colonel Cole, once the great rail- i road king in the South, is living a re tired life at Nashville. He is said to have softening of the brain and can not live long. Mr. H. Victor New comb, once the young Napoleon of the Soutli, and the most formidable Randall D. George, tbe colored man who recently bought the Reneker . - lands in Colleton county for $20,500 antagonist of King Cole, is living in ... .. New Fork a life of retirement though cash, has been making preparations for an accurate survey of bis property. He is said to be the largest land owner in Colleton. He is quiet, unobtrusive aud business-like in his manners. George is a staunch advocate of the proposed railroad from Green Pond to Branchville. He not only signed the petition to tlie county commis sioners, but gave $25 to the corp<.ra ters to assist in preliminary work, and expresses a willingness to take $5,000 worth of stock to carry tlie road to Branchville. The Laurens ville Herald says: Gen. M. W. Gary’, on some occasion not now remembered, but we think during tlie time that Willard, the carpet bag ger, was a candidate for Chief Justice, made substantially the following prophecy: “Willard is the surviving member of the Moses ring. He will be the liell-weather of the Radical party in Soutli Carolina, if they ever attempt to reorganize.” The predic tion bids fair to be verified in the near future—probably at the next general election in South Carolina. Willard’s conspicuous connection with the pres ent election prosecutions indicates a purpose on his part to come to the front when thr proper time arrives. nigh almost blind and no [mssible hope of recovery. Four years ago their names were wafted upon every’ breeze that came from the land of sun. To day they are forgotten, to-morrow they- may be dead. —We do not know what truth there is in tlie following utterance of the Washington Sunday Gazette of the 8th inst., but as the Gazette is a thor oughly stalwart Republican paper, its declaration can hardly be called a Democratic lie. It says: “We will not speak of what we know of the personal habits of the President. All we have to say is that from knowledge and belief, no such administration ever before existed in this country, and none like it ever should exist again. We admit the shame.” —In New Orleans, Saturday’, 8th inst., Jefferson Davis said at the lay ing of the cornerstone of the monu ment. surmounted by an equestrian statue of Albert Sidney Johnson: “He recognized in him a strong pillar to the Confederacy, and wnen befell on the field of Shiloh, the mightiest col umn which sustained the cause had fallen. He died in a moment of vic tory, and had he lived half an hour longer he would have made Gen. Grant a prisoner or a fugitive. The Confederacy had three great leedere, Lee, Jackson and Johnson, who would compare with the leaden of antiquity or modern times.” At the banquet in the evening the speaker roitenifed bis sentiments. X i • '• ) * wii * • tJFSjm •Lm