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AIKEN
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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.
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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.
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