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THE AIKEN RECORDER. BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEX. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY] MAY 15, 1883. VOLUME 2.—NUMBER 31. Professional Advertisements. D. 8. Hex demos. E. P. Hesdemok. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Caorr. J. Zed Dcslap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. 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 lo collections. Official Directory. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Emil Ludckens, 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, 8. C. Hawkins K. Jenkins, Attorney at Law, Rock 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. B. F. GUNTER, Attorney at. Law, Aiken, S. C. Win practice in all th£ 'Courts of * SoutTi UarounaT Prompt atlefitloii given to the collection of Claims. j. w. DEVORE. Aiken, S. C. m. n. woodward. Aiken, S. C. DeVore & Woodw ard, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. OFFICE on Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. 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. R. G. Turner, 31. D. VAUCLUSE, - - S. C. Office at the store of G. W. Turner. Real Estate for Sale. Also Houses and Rooms to rent. Apply to H. SMITH, Main street, - - Aiken, S. C. CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK. OF CHARLESTON, 8. C. 1 Incorporated by the State, IHT4. Authorized Capital . ..$500,000 Protits #29,072 50 Deposits reeewvcu and interest al lowed in the above Bunk 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. Russ & Stothart, GRANITEVILLE, - - S. C. DEALERS in DJtUOS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, VARNISHES, PAINTS, Oils, Glass, Putty, Fine Soaps, Per fumery. Dye Woods and Dye Stuffs generally, Spungcs, Brushes*, and all articles kept by druggists generally. ESP Physicians’ Prescriptions care fully compounded. 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. 1HE undersigned, having purchased Mr. Rcntz’s interest in his Barber Shop, would respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens of Aiken. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Sham pooing executed at reasonable psiccs. J. R. BOYCE. At Rentz's Old Stood, Aiken, S. C. The State. Governor, Hugh S. Thompson. Lieutenant- Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary of State, James N. Lipscomb. A ttorney- General, Charles Richardson Miles. State Treasurer, John Petek Richardson. Comptroller- General, William E. Stoney. Superintendent of Education, Asbury Coward. Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. Manioault. 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, Llgake J. Walker. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. Henry McIver, 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—Wm. H. Wallace. Eighth Circuit—James S. Cothran. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. £y Congress meets on the first Monday in December of each year. MTThe Legislature meets on the fourth Tuesday in November of each year. The Circuit Court for Aiken Comity 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, Aloultrieville, 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, and Colleton—(Brox- son and Warren). Third—Abbeville, Newberry, An derson, Pickens and Oconee. ' VoTrRTif^tTreenV'nie, opartunourg —(except White Plains and Lime stone Townships), Laurens, Union— (except Goudeysville and Drayton- ville Townships), Fairfield, Richland —(Upper Township, Columbia and Centre). Fifth—York, Chester, Lancaster, Union—(Goudeysville and Drayton- villc), Spartanburg—(White Plains and Limestone), Chesterfield and Kershaw. Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg— (Kingstrec, 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, 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. WHAT IT WAS, IS NOW, AND IS TO BE. WASHINGTON .MONUMENT. | The new excavation was of a depth j of 13 feet, and made a cellar under the foundation 126 feet square. This was filled with solid masonry, except where the core of earth stood, which was not removed. Then the sides of the old foundation above were torn down for a considerable distance un der the walls of the shaft, rebuilt of j better materials, and spread out fur- The History of What Will Be the Highest Structure Ever Raised by Man’s Hand. [Washington Cor. N. Y. Tribune.] Probably few persons outside of | ther over the new base below, thus Washington realize that the time has 1 distributing the pressure over a much come to speak respectfully of the; larger area. So, 5 - 1 r r , ~ :o: The County. Senator, D. S. Henderson. Representatives, John M. Bell, George W. Croft, F. 1*. Woodward, Tims. 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. Auditor, David H. Wise. Coroner, 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. Hoard of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-officio ch’m. James E. Croslnnd, Charles E. R. Drayton. Hoard of Assessors, B. W. Moseley, Aiken. J. H. Qu at tie ban m, Chinquapin. J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp. James Powell, Gregg. E. S. Hammond, Hammond. Macom Gunter, Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, MeTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefcoat, Rocky 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. Hiunmond. Ex-offlei* Clerk—J. H. Morgan. Washington monument. That un sightly column—as it was for so many years—which used to stand like a big stone stump between the Ionic portion of the Treasury and the broad glitter ing shallows of the Potomac, has within the past two years risen into a stately obelisk, whose marble sides gleam in the sun—a simple and impo sing shaft, which will one day be ma jestic. The paragrapliers, who are still joking about it, are behind the age. It is now higher than any of the Egyptian pyramids except that of Cheops and its companion pyramid, King Shafra’s: and when it is com pleted it will be more than 100 feet higher than either of these, and will he not only the highest known struct ure in the world, but, so it is said, the highest structure which is known to have been ever raised by the hand of man. The great spire of the Stras- burg Cathedral Funs up to the height of ]68 feet; rhe height of the tower of the Cathedral at Cologne is put at 511 feet; St. Peter’s from the pavement to the base of the lantern is 418 feet, and the Milan Cathedral is 355 feet to the very top of the statue of the Madonna. The Washington monument is now 340 feet above the floor of the shaft. When completed, as it will be by De cember, 1885, at the latest, it will be 555 feet high, or more than forty feet higher than the very tip of the slen der pinnacles at Cologne. The com-* parison is an awkward one, perhaps, but it lias its uses, nevertheless—a plain shaft cannot be compared, archi tecturally, with a cathedral or pyra mid; but it is of some interest to re member that while the tower of the Cologne Cathedral will probably taper into the air with a very small diam- -eter, the Washington monument at 509 feet, or almost exactly the same height, will show a width of thirty- live feet on each of its four faces. At the base each of these sides has a width of fifty-five feet, showing that the tapering of the column is very gradual. As one stands near the foot and looks up, the column seems like a great tower of rock growing out of the earth and reaching the sky. Work has begun for this season, and by De cember the monument will probably instead of a founda tion only 80 feet square, that is, ex tending only 12} 2 feet beyond each of the four faces, there is now a founda tion 126 feet square extending 35 feet beyond each face, and running 13 feet deeper. A good many engineers have come at difterent times to visit the monument and inspect this interest ing work. One of them looked at it a long time without saying anything. Then he remarked quietly, “Well, that’s easy enough to do, but I dorr** know one engineer in a thousand would want to try it.” The result proves how well the work has been done. Since the laying of stone was renewed 28,3-55 tons of stone have been added to the pile, and the settlement of the shaft due to this load has been just one and a quarter inches. The settlement is so even that the greatest variation in the sinking of the four corners is a difference of four-one- hundredths of an inch between the southwest and northeast corners. The other two have settled exactly alike, even to the hundredth part of an inch. Tho total pressure now borne by the bed of foundation is 74,871 tons or 02 per cent, of the whole pressure that will lie placed upon it. The line at which the work rested in 1856 can plainly be seen, the old portion of the monument being darker and more weather-beaten than the new. The slow rate at which contractors are able to deliver the marble regulates the progress of the monument. The money which Congress has already appropri ated, about $800,000 in all, will suffice to complete the shaft and pyramidion, as it is called, the pyramid which is to top the shaft at the height of 500 feet, and rise for 55 feet, part of it being of glass in order to light the deep well of the monument. ornamentation of the shaft. When this work has been completed the question of the decoration of the base will need to be considered. The original and absurd idea of surround ing it with steps, emblematic figures, statues, etc., rising to the height of 100 feet, has been abandoned, as it would destroy the effect of the obelisk. Whatever plan may be decided upon, it seems safe to predict that it will be one consistent with the grand sim- duct_of reason,' provoca he fired reality, J and giv' who has whether with hii whether mitted As we slaying ii no offen which caf Thompson, we must, in ler the standpoint, the nd the proof from which fatal shot. This is, in y to the whole position; tne unhappy gentleman aid the penalty of his act, t was one of guilt or folly, life, we ask in fairness nough does not remain ad- stify the killing? ve already observed, nian- rarely justifiable. There is between man and man ,'trstify it. But it is true men safest there are God, and virtue. Neither i else in the be-aboui 4.JU feet high. piicity of the monument^which is it^ origin of the monument. chief merit. The engineering feat by which a new and enlarged foundation was in serted under a structure 150 feet high and weighing 71,500,000 pounds, as the monument was when work was begun in 1878, is one which can only be ad equately described by Col. Casey, the engineer in charge, and he says that, though often urged to do so, he shall not write a line upon the subject un til the monument is completed. Per haps it will make the story more in telligible to go back a little. The plan of a monument to Washington in the city bearing his name was, as many will remember, formally approved by Congress in a resolution passed less than a fortnight after his death, and which requested that his family per mit his body to be buried under it. The monument was to be erected by the United States, but nothing was done. In 1833 an association of lead ing citizens here was formed, which, having collected enough money by private subscription to begin work, secured the site from Congress in 1848 and laid the corner-stone on July 4th of that year. In the eight years fol lowing the shaft was carried to the height of 156 feet, where work was suspended for lack of funds, and no stone was laid on the shaft from that time until August 8, 1880, an interval of twenty-four years, during which the slavery agitation, the'eivil war, and the convulsions growing out of it, united to distract the public mind from a work peculiarly National and suggestive of peace and unity. But one of the great reasons why the flow of little subscriptions from all over the land was stopped, was the belief, which became general, that the foun dation was not strong enough. When Mr. Corcoran, Dr. John B. Blake, and other citizens here, succeeded in indu cing Congress to undertake the com pletion, which it did by a resolution in the centennial year constituting a joint commission, it was found that this belief was correct. The monu ment, which, as already stated, show ed a breadth of fifty-five feet on each of its faces at the base line, rested upon a foundation only 80 feet square and 23 feet deep, and poorly construct ed at that. Below this was the ground, of rather a yielding a nature. If they had gone on heaping stone upon the monument, the result would simply have been that the weight would have driven it downward like a punch. It The True Code of Houor. [Louisville Courier-Journal.] In this country the forfeit of the life of the wife-seducer to the vengeance of the husband is accepted as an un written, but inexorable law. This is restricted by no geographical limita tion. Even in the Sickles case, where the proof brought out upon the trial was most damaging to the defense, conviction was impossible. Reason in such matters says, “Why add to the ruin already ■wrought the crime of murder? Why visit upon the male paramour the fatal conse quences of an act which may have been invited by the woman in the ease? Is it not enough that a guilty wife lias destroyed herself and dis graced her home, by a course of tur pitude, the nature of which she was bound to comprehend, but that the husband shall precipitate himself in the destruction and stain his hands with blood on account of so faithless and base a creature?” On the other hand, feeling, more potent than rea son, steps in and says: “This is the one offense among men which can only be expiated in blood. The law is able to righten nothing. It can give no adequate damage. It is helpless before that blight which, worse than death, deflowers the fireside, disman tles the household, and thrusts into nature itself a poison and a doubt.” Hence, as no man can be said to be above suspicion, so every man knows very weil that he takes his life in his hands when he allows himself, either by his lust or by solicitation, to appro priate to himself the wife of another. Jest as we may about adultery, it is by no means so common as the imag ination and levity of the world, which loves a scandal and is prone to chat ter, is wont, in its idle talk, to work itself into a habit of believing. To the most casual and disinterested ob- sevation, the slightest equivocation in the relations of a man and a woman is set against them. They are required, if summoned at all, to explain. Gos sips buzz; rumor invents; slander conspires and magnifies; and, unless the explanation be as simple and ob vious as it is complete, it shall go lucky if some disgrace does not follow. Trying the Thompson-Davis tragedy by this standard, how does it fare? * * * * Desperate cases require desperate remedies. Mr. 1 Thompson did his duty, and only his would probably have settled unevenly, , ( j ut „ lUU i there is no man of sense or and we would have had either a new j i, !a leaning tower of Pisa, or perhaps no tower at all, which would have fur-! nished either way a line paragraph , for the newspaper correspondents, but I would not probably have been of much benefit to any other class in the a " d of the scene. Of the dead man, it is needless to sjieak. Those who knew him describe him as the soul of generosity and spirit who, standing in his place and surveying all the circumstances with a bleeding heart, but would feel, the supreme act having been done, at least one thrill of satisfaction amid the grief and horror, the desolation honor. It may be so. He may lie in below the foundation already built, he dug from under it all around a core of earth 44 feet square, directly under the centre of the foundation and mon ument; and the 71,500,000 pounds of weight stood on thi* pillar of earth. A terrible temperance lecture if it be so. But sympathy with the dead must not blind us into wrong to the living. There are other innocent hearts that bleed outside of the Davis mansion, and, in lookingint* the eon- that, in th >se parts of the world where the defens - of the home is held above all law, v hi re the inmates of the home are i ecognized as sacred trusts, and where the invasion of the home is punisheijl v\ ith death, there are wo- happicst and chastest, illdren reared nearest to re are fewest scandals, rivate, and a higher, of morality and 1, * * * entucky, nor anywhere hrld, are the passions and follies of men and women likely to pay much regard to law. Sometimes love and dpmetimes lust, sometimes sorrow an« sometimes anger, some times therspirit of adventure and sometimes! fhe spirit of mere caprice, will lead Ipoor, erring mortals—not wholly pt Averse or wicked—astray, and more’ the pity! But the shot gun is mij! itier than the courts. It is a universa Reveler. It simplifies and cheapens the law, and brings it to the door of thy poorest when need is, and long may its policy prevail, mute sen tinel by (he fireside, guarding the honor of tfl 1 women, protecting our our children, a menace to are weak and a perpetual cradles a wives tha terror to li >ertinesai:d libertinism. WOMAN AND FAME. , BY MRS. HEMAXS. “Happy—happier far than thou, With the laurel on thy brow; 8he that makes the humblest hearth, Lovely but to one on earth.” Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame! A draught that mantles high. And seems to lift this earthly frame Above mortality. Away! to me—a woman—bring Sweet waters from affection’s bring. Thou hast green laurel-leaves that twine Into so proud a wreath: For that resplendent gift of thine, Heroes have smiled in death. Give me from some kind hand a flower, The record of one happy hour! Thou bast a voice, whose thrilling tone Can bid each life-pulse beat. As when a trumpers note hath blown, Calling the brave to meet; But mine, let mine—a woman's breast. By words of home-born love be blessed. A hollow sonnd is in thy song, A inockerv in thine eve. To the sick heart that doth hut long For aid, for sympathy: For kindly looks to cheer it on, For tender i^eccnt^ that are gone. Fame, Fame! thou canst not be the stay Unto the drooping reed, The cool fresh fountain, in the day' Of the soul’s feverish need; Where must the lone one turn or flee?— Not unto thee, oh! not to thee! SOUTH CAROLINA NEW’S. Edgefield has five barrooms. Li quor lieens $125. Municipal revenue therefrom $625. The Charleston Hotel is to be cr- larged so as to add thirty new rooms to that establishment. Dr. Milburn, “The Blind man Elo quent,” is now delivering a course of lectures in Charleston. MEDICAL ETHICS. W’ade Hampton’s Successor. “Richlai d,” the well informed Col umbia CMtkpondent of the Augusta Chroniclethus concerning the senatorial! succession: There are already some surmises being made as to Wade Hampton’s successor.' Of course it is understood that if thp old hero will accept a re- election tfiat it will be tendered him with all the love, admiration and ven eration that a grateful people can be stow, but_it is said that lie is tired of public life, ifnd it is whispered that the ways of the politician are distaste ful to bii.u. He cannot denounce his in public for slandering and lock arms with them He loves every foot of i soil and her people are dearer tff~him than his own life, an insult offered to them is an insult to him and .regarded as such, and a man opponents his people, in private- Carolina TffTh i l .a»!W.flP!«.'|lii v Tffi>trntio' itoesritot-r receive \v4e Hampton’s hand in pri vate. Fr> these and other reasons it is said th» he' 1 will retire at the expi ration of lis term. . The StKe in rich is great men and can furniK another able colleague to the galla»B Butler. Gen. James Con ner woubdlno doubt be elected if his health pielnitted, the eloquent You- mans wowd have a large following, ex-Goverilr Hagood would make a splendid Ace, Governor Thompson would be lard to beat, George Till man woull create great enthusiasm and would Ihave the young men be hind him. (Chief Justice Simpson, if he could bel.nduced to enter the race, wouldgive IMS competitors great troub le if he didl’t carry off their scalps. Maj. ThvecUe G. Barker, of Charles ton, wuuT-> fiave a magnificent sup port wnile Mayor Courtenay’s splen did official record in Charleston would secure him a foothold in the begin ning'if. the contest that might ulti mately \earrv away the prize. Among; the younger men who might possibly come to the front if the contest was prolonged,—Lieuten- ant-Govcjrnor Sheppard; Hon, George Johnson! of Newberry; Hon. D. S. Henderson, of Aiken; Hon. E. B. Murray, iof Anderson; Hon. A. S. Smythe, jof Charleston, may be men tioned as!possible candidates. It will be seen,) threfore, that we have an abundance of Senatorial timber, and while it would please the people to have an; of them elected, they still hope thas Senator Hampton will re main at if is post and continue to serve ; with that devotion that has i/.ed his whole life. South lonors all of her great men d of them, but she loves the members of his The Condoned Mistake a Young Doc tor Made at the Outset of His Prac tice. The other evening they were hav ing a jolly time over in Schneider’s back room, when Bill Matson came in and apologized for being late, say ing that his grandmother had got the measles, and he had been after a doc tor for her, at the same time winking slyly at Schneider. “Sho! You don’t say so!” ejacula ted Blifkins as he stirred up the su gar from the bottom of the glass and crowded the lemon peel up against the side. “You will have to be care ful with the old lady. Bill, especially when she gets to teething. What doc tor did you get?” “Jones.” “He’s a good one. I’ve known him ever since he commenced practicing. He got into trouble the first thing by saving a man’s life, but he dont do so any more.” “Tell us about it, Bill.” “You see, there was old Noxon, who used to have a row with his wife about three times a week. He got cranky, and made up his mind to shuffle off, so he filled up with lauda num and went to bed. When the old lady found him he was colder’n a wedge. She went to screaming, and as fast as the neighbors came in sent them off after a doctor. Some of them went in one direction and some in another, and it wasn’t long before the doctors began to congregate. “^mTTtiT'gOt there''fir.'rtr• ttHtt looked the old man over. ‘Dead,’ says he, and went away. Then Brown came in. ‘Dead,’ says he. Jones was the third one in, and he rammed a stom ach pump down the old man’s throat and pumped up the drug store. Then he reversed the action of the pump and flooded the old man with water, and after sloshing him around for awhile, same as if he rinsing out a cider barrel, he pumped out the water and then flooded him again. Nvxon wasn’t in the habit of taking so much water in his’n, and pretty soon he be gan to gasp and kick. Before morn ing Jones had him all right, and went away feeling dead sure that there was but one first-class doctor in the world. A few r days afterward lie presented his bill.” “What’s this for? says old Noxon.” “For saving your life the other night, says Jones.” ell, I didn’t ask you to. I never yed you, and I’ll not pay it. You’d no business coming in here and jambing your old pump down my neck. Brown is my family physician and I’ll,not pay anybody else, says Noxon.” The Barnwell People says Gov. H?- good has sold a three months old Jer sey bull calf to Mr. W. T. Walker for fifty dollars^ The shipments of cabbages to New York, which has lately developed so largely, promises to become quite an item fn the truck trade of Charleston. Mr. Henry D. Elliott of Port Royal is a candidate before the Democratic primaries for sheriff of Beaufort coun ty. The election takes place on the 22d inst. Rev. MJ. Whitman men who will “give thirty dollars for mudeating carp that won’t reward you with a bite, and not five cents for the spread of the gospel.” The Barnwell Sentinel says: The oats crop around Barnwell is not as fine as last year, and in ease there is not an average corn crop made the supply will not hold out. Senator Hampton has accepted the invitation extended to him to deliver the oration on the occasion of unveil ing the Confederate monument at Camden on the 20th of June. The Greenville Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals pro poses to prosecute any person who carries chickens with their legs tied and their heads hanging down. Judge Witherspoon has decided that grand nephews cannot inherit under the statute of distributions in this State and that a bar keeper can collect his accounts by process of law. J. C. Whitaker, the colored indi vidual who acquired notoriety several years ago by mutilating his ears while a student at West Point, for which act he was adopted by the Republican party, is now filling a professor’s chair in the Avery Institute, at Charles ton, S. C. The Edgefield Advertiser says: Mrs. Pickens, in organizing the Mt. Vernon movement, seeks a Lady Di rectress for each county in our State. Mrs. John C. Sheppard has accepted this post for Edgefield County, and is already moving energetically in be half of the Mt. Vernon entertain ment on Monday night next. The name of Judge Cothran having been suggested as a candidate for Congress ‘ from the Third district, that gentleman publishes a card in the Abbeville Medium in which he says: “I have neither the desire for the po sition indicated, nor the vanity to be lieve that my services as a member of Congress could in anywise be indis- p^usuble to the welfare of. the State.” “So away went Jones to Brown’s office and tried to get him to induce old Noxon to pay the bill.” “‘Jones,’ says Brown, looking out over the top of his spectacles, I never thought you was a bad sort of a fel low, but you’ve done a very foolish l >y his pec pi character Carolina and is i. Wade Legion tell of !lj|Becds of daring and many acts of kindness during the war which prove sol well, “the bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring.” community. STRENGTHENING THE FOUNDATION. Obviously the foundation needed to be strengthened, and Colonel Cassey addressed himself to a task which a ' a bloody grave, and the awful havoc good many engineers would have pre- j which has followed may be the con ferred not to undertake. Going down sequence of nothing worse than drink. ' A .1 iisi Judge. The editor of railway journal was recently] brought before a police jus tice, charged with having thrown a large in^-staud, two ten-pound paper- weightsidad sundry other missiles at the head of a visitor to his office, in flicting painful injuries. It appears that the person assaulted was the in ventor -of an automatic car-coupler, and c.ilb d* on the editor for the pur pose of exhibiting a model of his de vice and explaining its operation. On learning this fact the magistrate de clined o here any father testimony, and fined the complainant one thous and di liars, observing that it gave him pi jasure to recognize in the eon- ducjjpc the journalist on the occasion referred to an example of forbearance under Singularly exasperating circum stance 3 which lie believed to be al most ' ntlfout a parallel. thing, and I hope you’ll profit Didn’t I say he was dead?” “Yes, says Jones.” “Didn’t Smith say he was dead?” “Yes, says Jones” “Well, that settled it! The man was dead and you had no right to say that he wasn’t. When two old doctors, 1 ike T | .^ty a man is dead, It s 'unprofessional and discourteous for a young man, a beginner in prac tice, to dispute their word. We’ll forgive you this time because of your youth and inexperience and wiil hush the matter up for you, but be very careful in the future and make no more such mistakes!” An association of the miners and manufacturers of phosphates and of fertilizer dealers has been formed in Charleston under the name of “The Southern Phosphate and Fertilizer Association of Charleston.” Its ob ject is to make regulations for the pro tection of the phosphate and fertilizer business, and to look after the interest of the business in the Legislature ami elsewhere. The Sumter Watchman says the crop reports from different parts of the County are conflicting. From the upper part generally good stands of corn and cotton are reported; while from the Southern and Eastern por tions, contrary reports are made. In the Concord section, and below, plan ting is generally backward, ground wet, and some farmers ploughing up and planting over. The Edgefield Advertiser says that Thomas L. Stalnaker, who escaped from the Georgia chain gang two years I ago, lias been captured in this County ! and will be returned to the Georgia J authorities. Stalnaker is a white j man, about sixty years old, and was serving a life sentence for murder committed in Waynesboro, Georgia, about eight years ago. He is u native of Edgefield County. The Columbia Register of tho 8th inst. says: “A case of unlawful fish ing was tried before Justice Marshall yesterday, and the prisoner was found guilty and sent to jail for thirty days in default of paying $20 line. The ease was tried under Section 1678 of the General Statutes, which makes it unlawful to fish with nets or in any other way in the creeks, rivers, etc., of certain counties therein named, be tween the first of May and the first of September.” A movement is on foot by the mili tary for a convention to he composed of Major Generals, Brigadiers, Col onels, Lieutenant Colonels, Majors and two representatives from each company of the State Volunteer Troops, for the purpose of eonsider- Al*,' :in<j Hugj'estinj to the next I.egis- Thc Home of 'Washington. The following appeal of Mrs. Pick ens, the vice-regent for South Carolina of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associ ation, we hope will strike a respon sive chord in the heart of every patri otic Carolina woman: Edge-wood, April 26,1883. To the Women of (Carolina: As your vice-regent representative in the “Mt. Vernon Ladies’Association,”! can no longer deter a direct appeal to you for assistance in raising funds with which to e-ft rv the room In the mansion of Washington at Mt. Ver non, assigned by the council to the State of South Carolina. Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, Pennsyvania, Connecti cut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin. Illinois and the District dT Columbia «ire now each represen ted by a restored and furnished room in the mansion. Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Alabama will complete tli^ir rooms during this summer. 1 feel sure that it is owing to my own hesitancy and reluctance that Carolina is last in this work of commemorative love, but I hud neith er the heart nor the courage, amid the gloom of her own bitter necessities, the struggles of her burdened people, to ask aid for any object, however worthy, outside of her immediate in terest. Yet, now that her woful night is past and the dawn of a happy pros perity begins, I am emboldened to- make this effort to enlist that devoted love and pride of State so character istic of her daughters in days gone by. Those heroic days in which, counting all the cruel 'past, they gave their all of life and love and fortune, “so vainly yet so holily,” sustain in honor and dignity her faith, her truth, and her rights. I scarcely need to remind you that it was a daughter of Carolina, MissPamelaCuningham, who with broad intellect and strong heart called to the women of the land to co-operate with her to save this hal lowed and historic spot from desecra tion and decay. In the generous re sponse that came from the common heart of the country the work of Mrs. Chesnut, your first vice-regent, and the lady managers in their respective districts, was pre-eminent. After the title to tho property was secured the rooms in the mansion were assigned to the several States hy act of coun cil, thus concentrating the work of the resjieetiw vice-regents in their efforts to restore from the mold and dust of time the home of Washing ton, and admitting a laudable State pride into their harmonious whole. To Carolina was given the “Break fast” or “Morning Room,” and it is for the purpose of restoring this room to its or'giml beauty that I call upon the daughters of Carolina tor--aid. I have adopted the precedent set by your first vice-regent, Mrs. Chesnut, of a lady manager in each district, whose collections will be sent to May or Courtenay, of Charleston, who kindly consents to act ns treasurer of the fund. » Lucy H. Pickens, Vice-Regent Mount Mernon Ladies’ Association for South Carolina. At qr'e of the churches at Danbury, Ct., ol Sunday, the opening piece on the OK-Hn was from the “Pirates” and the cF^-ing piece from “Pinafore,” and a-*» mling to the “little hatchet” scribe p£)f tho Boston Post, nobody found lf<y fault except the deacon who the music of “I am pai j q<1®) ic plate to ftPIri! King.” A Bad Investment in a Good Rook. A New York letter says; “They are selling editions of the revised New Testament now for whatever it will bring in ounces and pounds in New York. It was a stupendous failure. No one would read it; no one would buy it. Booksellers have had enor mous loads of it that they cannot carry, and, as it was not worth a cent in the market, it was sold as old paper to he turned into the vats in the paper mills and soaked into pulp. A fair edition was sold when the book was first issued to people who were anx ious for curiosity sake to look at it, but as soon as their curiosity was gratified the sale stopped short, and it has never started up again. Half a dozen schemes have been tried by the book publishers to get rid of their useless stock, and a great many have waited patiently in the hope that some genuine interest would lie manifested by Bible readers in the ne\vj.-ersion; but they have all been grievously left. The book is commer cially good for pulp and nothing more.” laturesuch measures as may ri iui to the greater efficiency-and bettor or ganization of the militia of the State. A large proportion of the officers have been heard from, who express their approval of the convention. The date of meeting will be shortly an nounced! Edgefield Chronicle says: At the last session of the Legislature in act was passed requiring the County Commissioners of Edgefield and Aiken counties to ascertain and xv- port to the grand jury at its meeting at the fall term of Court this year the number of miles of public highways in said counties, with an estimate of the cost of maintaining and keeping the same in repair. And it is hoped that our board of Commissioners will obtain as accurate information upon tins matter as possible. Road over seers and others who have any infor mation regarding this matter will do us a favor by sending it to us and we will publish it. Newspapers as Business Enterprises. [Columbia Register.] One of our exchanges remarks very truthfully as follows: “A newspaper is a business enterprise and must be conducted on business principles. Men are constantly asking favors of space representing money, who would never dream of asking lawyers to take eases without fees, or their doctors to take their pay in thanks. The dead head is disappearing from other de partments of business life, and the newspaper dead-head, distinguished though he may be, must follow. Newspapers being business enterprises must live in a business way. If the public does not support the liest newspapers, it must expect to sec the worst newspapers thrive. The good journal is a product rather than a force. It will not only reflect but rep resent the age it lives in. It is true, and especially true of our own coun try, that newspapers in hands of men having convictions, and believing that they could with this modern lever help to move the worl have accom plished great things. Without them the great movement of the past cen tury for the furtherance of personal,, religious and political liberty would have traveled at a snail’s pace. But this was possible only because they had the support and sympathy of the l»csl men and women of the commu nity. The Nexus and Courier of the 9th inst. says the steamer “Pilot Boy,” Phillips, Capt. Phillips, last night about 8 o’clock, on her way from Edisto to Charleston, when in Stono River, near Church Flats, struck a boat that was pulling out from tiie shade of the trees right across the bow of the steamer. The boat was swamped, and six negroes in her thrown into the water. The boat was not seen by the pilot of the steamer until within 20 feet. The engine was stopped and re versed. but the !>oat was so near that the collision could not he avoieied. A boat was lowered from the steamer at once, and two negroes who had swum to the marsh were rescued, but the other four could not be found. Revolt ini; Deed of Two Masked Dev ils in Connecticut. A telegram from Hartford Conn., dated 8th inst." says: West Hartford is in a high state of excitement over a heinous outrage committed there early this morning. At 1 o’clock tho residence of Mrs. Barnes a highly re spected lady, living 2 miles west of the post office, was entered by two burglars. After ransacking th© house, one of the ruffians, with drawn pistol, stood on the stairs and kept Mrs. Barnes and a crippled grand daughter on the second floor, while the other committed an assault upon another grand-daughter on the lower floor. The girl was then assaulted hy the burglar who had kept guard, his companion taking his place on the stairs. The girl now lies in a precar ious condition. No arrests have been made, but the officers are searching for the perpetrators of this double crime. At the Tewkesbury investigation, Christian Mueller testified to tanning human skins received from various doctors and students, and a pair of uppers for slippers made from a wo man’s skin were shown. Frank G. Haver! in said he remembered a pa tient, who had received extremq unc tion from a priest, being taken by the back of the neck and forced scream ing into a bathtub. He died 36 hours afterwards.