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THE AIKEN ! RECORDER BY DRAYTON & JIcCRACKEX. AIKEN, S. C., TUESI?», MAY 1883. VOLUME 2.—NUMBER 32. Professional Advertisements. Official Directory. l>. 8. K. I*. Hkxdkiwox. Hcnilerson Brothers. Attorney-* at Law. Aiken, S. C. Will pra-ti.: in tin* Sta f e and Unlt<*d Stat'-s Court- for .South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Ckoit. J. Zed Duxeap. Croft & Dunlap, Attokneys 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, 8. 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, Attorney at Law, Aiken, C. Emil Ludekcns, Attorney at Law, Aiken, C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. All business transacted with promptness. James E. Davis, Attorney at Law, Barnwell Court House, S. C. Hawkins K. Jenkins, Attorney at Law, Rock Hill, S. C. 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- ng, preparing Abstracts 6f Titles Negotiating Lo: ancin and >ans. B. F. GUNTER, Attorney at JLaw, Aike^v' ' V» in pracifervnr UlI l tnVTm South Carolina. Prompt attention given to the collection of Claims. J. W. DEVORE. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. Aiken, 8. C. DeVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. • Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. -office on- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. C. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. -office at- Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. 7 t OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. tar win attend calls to the countrv. R. G. Turner, M. D. VAUCLUSE, - - 8. 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. The State. Governor, Hugh S. Thompson. LirtUcnant-Govcrnor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary <>f Stafe, James N. Lipscomb. r A Homey-General, Charles Richardson Miles. State Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. Comptroller- General, William E. Stoxey. Superintendeitt of Education, Asbury Coward. Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. Manigaclt. United States Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Butler. Congressmen, First District—Samuel Dibble. Second District—Geo. D. Tillman. Third District—I). 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, Lkgaue J. Walker. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. Henry McTver, 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—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. £3?" 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, Edgeiieldf^AiidColleton—(Brox- derson, Pickens and Oconee. Fourth—Greenville, Spartanburg —(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- ville), Spartanburg—(White Plains and Limestone), Chesterfield and Kershaw. Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg— (Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Johnsons and Lake), Darlington, Marlboro’, Marion and Horry. Seventh—Georgetown, Williams burg — (except Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake and Johnsons), Sumter, Kiclihtnd—(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- iiaiusburg and Georgetown. Fourth—Chesterfield , Marlboro’, Darlington, Marion and Horry. Fifth—Kershaw, Richland, Edge- Held and Lexington. Sixth—Chester, Lancaster, York and Fairfield. Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar tanburg ami Union. Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander son, Pickens and Greenville. |THE C ROPS IN THE STATE, UEPORTOF THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT TO MAY 1. MOST TRAGIC OF TRAGEDIES. Increased Acreage Planted in Cotton —The Corn Area the Sutne as Lost Year—Acreage Ibr Each County. [Correspondent News and Courier.) Columbia, May 15.—The State De partment of Agriculture has made a | partial compilation of crop reports from 202 correspondents, representing every county in the State. The fol lowing statement embraces a portion of the statistics obtained. The area of land planted this year incotton and corn is amatterof interest and impor tance. It is gratifying to know that, as indicated by the earlier returns of the correspondents of the department, there has been no diminution in the area of corn planted, while the acre age in cotton has increased. These reports are made on the 1st of May:— One hundred and seventy-seven cor respondents report that the spring has been very unfavorable for fanning op erations, and twenty-five report the season favorable. The cotton area has been increased 32,WK) acres, or 2 per cent, above last year, making the total number of acres in this crop this year 1.141,983. Kershaw County shows the largest percentage of increase, 9 per cent., followed closely by Newberry, with an increased area of 8 per cent., and Hampton with 7 percent., Horry with 5 per cent., and Spartanburg and Lan caster with 4 per cent, increase. Ab beville. Pickens, York and Marion each show an increase of 3 per cent. Anderson, Chester, Union, Chester field, Darlington, Fairfield, Lexing ton, Marlboro’. Orangeburg, Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg have each increased 2 per cent., and Aiken and Edgefield 1 per cent. Greenville, Laurens, Richland, Georgetown and Oconee, have made no change in area, while Colleton shows a decrease of 2 per cent., Barnwell5 percent., Berke ley and Charleston G per cent., and Beaufort 7 percent. Abbeville County has the largest cotton area, 88,727 acres, and Georgetown the smallest, 362 acres. In upper Carolina 9 per cent, of the crop was up cn the 1st of May, in middle Carolina 23 per cent., and in lower Carolina 48 per cent., an aver age for the/ State of a fraction more than 26 pen cent., against 47 per cent, for the sanie period last year. The conaition of the crop compared to last yea/r is: In upper Carolina 73, middle Cafrolina 80 and lower Carolina 78—100 representing last year’s coudi- rion.A. Jll/e amount of A Dreadful Scene Enacted in a Bri dal Cliautlter in South America.^ A horrible affair took place recently at Rio Grande del Sur, near to the Uruguayan frontier. A young farmer was oitten by a mad dog and reme dies were immediately applied to the wound. Cauterization was resorted to, and there was every reason to be lieve that the virus had not entered the victim’s system. When the ac cident occurred the young man was about to many, but in consequence of the untoward occurrence the ceremo ny was postponed for three months, when the medical men who were con sulted on the case gave it as their unanimous opinion that there was not the slightest ground for appre hending any danger from the bite. The marriage took place on the farm and was celebrated with the custo mary festivities. After the nuptial supper was over the bridegroom ap peared to be seized with a flt of mel ancholy. One of love’s '•aprices, said somebody. After supper came the ball, and when this was at its height the newly wedded couple withdrew from the festive scene and retired to their apartment. * About an hour afterwards the house resounded with ferocious cries inter mingled with shrieks and groans. As soon as the guests had recovered from stupefaction, they started in the di rection of the cries. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber. The door was burst, open and a horrible spec tacle presented itself. On the floor lay the young bride in a pool of blood. SJie still breathed, but her body was torn and bitten as if she had been seized by a tiger. In the corner of the room was the bridegroom, covered with blood and foaming at the mouth, scratching, biting and tearing away at the wall and furniture. With a sudden bound he sprang like a tiger upon the invaders of his lair, and lie would have made one or more victims had not a brother of the dying bride sent a bullet crashing through the madman’s b ain. THl Jot talism tbe one Profession ju hieh Money Can Never be Master. From the Philadelphia Times.) Th retiremement of the Jay Gould mam cement of the New York World is an »ther impressive lesson of the impo eneeof money in utilizing jour- nalis i for its own aims and purposes. Who AM) JOURNALISM \\ ith universal schools and requited LESSON OF GOULD’S FAIL- industry which makes the newspaper K WITH THEN. Y. WORLD. a welcome visitor in almost every : home, and with intelligence so wide- in ly diffused as to regulate the power of : newspapers solely by their integrity | and enterprise, it is simply impossi- ! ble for money to create successful journalism. It can make specula tions successful or disastrous; it can control the corrupt political elements of the country; it can buy the venal newspaper and thus make readers cease to buy it; but when money at tempts to control polit ics or trade by controlling public journals, however able and successtul such journals may be when they become the prey of the speculator, the decline and fall of the money-clogged newspaper is inevit- Journalism is now the great teacher of the people; the office of public journalist is the highest trust j in a free government, and money is as powerless to create prosperous and potential newspapers as it is to create vital piety in churches. Money is an important servant of journalism, but journalism is the one profession in which money can never be master. DON’T STAY LATE. A Celebrated Case. [Greenville News, 13th inst.) During the last Court of Common Pleas one of the most interesting cases heard was that of Thomas W. Keller vs. J. G. Grapn, Samuel New man, J. C. Dempsey, Cicero E. Ran dall and Pinckney Wyatt, suit for $5,- 009 damages for alleged false imprison- Lthe leg; people read or respected his olina 4 r>V r cent, in excess of last year, 4 r-v r iddlb in middl’c Carolina 7 and in lower Carolina « per cent, more, and 32 per cent, of me entire crop is fertilized with homo-made manures. The corn area is practically un changed, the returns showing an act ual increase over last year of only 3,288 acres, making the whole area devoted to this crop this year 1,359,- 593 acres. Fairfield and Lexington meat and arrest. Keller was suspec ted pf having been the party who committed an o at Greer’s on .Tv keying the prisoner to the see Miss Holley saw him, but did not identify him. The trial of this case resulted in a verdict for the defendants and developed evidence which seemed to point toward Mr. Keller’s guilt, and it was then predicted that he would be arrested and prosecuted. That prophecy has been verified, for on Friday he was apprehended. The ease was heard before Justice West- Jay Gould found himself the possessor of a few millions a dozen yearf ago, with all the shrewdness that te has exhibited in his gigantic spec illations, which have multiplied his {Ains to an hundred millions, he committed the common error of less shrewd men of riches, in assuming j able, that lb could command politics, trade and ^t>cculation by buying newspa pers. He saw how great newspapers cohtrdled public affairs; how their hone* and intelligent admonitions conseved legitimate business; how gambling speculators were awed by the wiolesome criticisms of fearless editor, and lie was weak enough to believ: that if he could control a few leading newspapers he could control both plitics and business. His'irst adventure was in the pur chase *f the New York Tribune. He paid tl0,000 for a bare majority of the stock, ind imagined that the influence of hE New York journal would be potent under his control as it had been yider Greeley’s fearless, rugged integrty. The result was just the re verse “of Mr. Gould’s expectations The piper ceased to pay dividends The hearth of home is beaming With beams of rosy light. Amt lovely eyes are* gleaming. As falls the shades of night; And while thy steps are leaving The circle pure and bright, A tender voice, half-grieving. Says “Don't stay late to-night.” The world in which thou merest Is busy, brave and wide; The world of tier thou lovest Is at the ingle sit'e. She waits for thy v. arm greeting, Thy siniic is Her delight; Her gentie voice entreating Says “Don't s ay lute to-night.” The world, so cold, inhuman. Will spurn tinx i. thou fall; The love of one pure woman Outlasts ati.l O.aines them all. Thy children \\ in cling ’round thee, Let fate he dark or bright; At home no shaft will wound thee. Then “Don’t stay late to-night.” THE POLITICAL SITUATION SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. when is became its owner, and con- tinuedi mprotitable for a full decade, when ip xas restdrd to popular respect and prysprity by Mr, Gould’s retire ment.'" Mi Whitelaw Reid, with all hiseu.inen capabilities as a journal ist, and wih all the prestige of the great jourtul founded by the greatest of Ameiean journalists, could not make he Tribune prosper while a speculidve millionaire was its reputed owner. Nor was Mr. Gould content with tvning the Tribune. He evi dently dan ned the control of polities of bothparties and the business of a contimit. He next bought the New York 'arid, then bought the Denver News, icn made a big but unsuccess ful bidbr the Chicago Tribune; but the 11193 he multiplied his newspa pers tin more he was criticised and MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. how the largest percentage of in- moreland at Greer’s. During the hearing the victim of the assault ex pressed the belief that Mr. Keller was crease, 7 per cent, in excess of the area of 1882. Grot nville follows next with an increase of 5 per cent.; Orange-! her assailant, reiterating the state- burg, Berkeley and Charleston show j meut made upon the stand during the an increase of 3 per cent.; Laurens, j trial of the civil case, that Mr. Keller —:o: CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK. OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 1 Incorporated by the State, 1874. Authorized Capital .#<>00,000 Undivided Profits . #29,072 .>C 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. Willi a ms, President. J. Lamb Johnston, Cashier. Russ & Stothart, GRANITE VILLE, - - S.C. DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHE MIC A LS, VARNISHES, PA J NTS, Glass. Putty, Fine Soaps, Por- rnery. Dye Woods and Dye Stuff* generally, Sponges, Brushes, and all articles kept by druggists generally, the Auditor and the chairman'of the Physicians’ Prescriptions care fully comp' utwl»*4r'— Oils. The County. Senator, D. S. Henderson. Representatives, John M. Bell, George W. Croft, F. P. Woodward, Thos. J. Davies. Sheriff, Milledgk T. Holley. Clerk of Court, Wm. M. JordAn. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Comrnissioncr, 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. Coroiu r, S. P. Kitching. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Evans. who constitutes the Board, with the following ex-officio members, viz. Oconee, Che. terfield, Edgefield and Beaufort 2 per cent, increase; York, Aiken, Marlboro’, Sumter, Clarendon, Colleton, Marion and Newberry 1 per cent, increase; Anderson, Pickens, Kershaw, Richland, Georgetown, Horry and Williamsburg have made no change in area. Darlington shows a decrease of 1 per cent., Barnwell 2 per cent., Chester and Spartanburg 3 per cent., Union and Hampton 5 per cent., Abbeville 7 per cent., and Lan caster 8 per cent. The condition of the crop compared with the same pe riod of last year is in upper Carolina i 85, middle Carolina 80, and lower Car- I olina 79. The stand compared to an j average is 83. Fifty-three per cent, of I the crop is fertilized, and 40 per cent. I of this fertilization is with home made manures. joimijkt He has finally learned the t money cannot make suc- influential newspapers, and osed out his uewspa- quite a million was- possessing more money 7m to build up a rival to the ’idger in this city. It has bedn the vain attempt of to command the power of ted 1 than Publii general money journalism, and the result has been all: rnj “was more like the man” who attacked her than any one she had yet seen. The Justice thought the ease made out strong enough for investigation by the upper Court, and Mr. Keller has therefore been committed to Spartan burg jail to await trial there before the | of money vanished and in the full- uniforn^ failure. Journal after journal has risen and fallen, and the Ledger is more prosperous and influential to day than ever before in its long his tory, and the efforts of money to sup plant it have perished like tracks in the sand. In like manner, millions have been wasted by men of money to supplant the New York Herald. Offended wealth has time and again resolved to have its own organ, its own newspaper, its own social arti cles to advance the shoddyite, and its own money reports to bull or bear stocks ls the interests of the gambler demanded; but the money of the man Court of Sessions. He is confident of acquittal and protests his innocence. This is a very remarkable case and resembles to some extent a similar one which occurred in the West not long since, which created much com ment. A Blast at Cock Fighting, [St. Paul Pioneer Press.) If there is anything in the lower j levels of what is called sporting life, j where brutalized men vie with trained ! brutes in the production of savage, As soon as the full list of correspon-I bestial, cruel and degrading speeta- dents is completed, the department! cles, a shade more revolting than what will receive returns from every town-j by coarse satire is styled the manly ship, avd the above estimates as to ; art, it is cock fighting. The only just acreage will then be revised, but it is parallel to this vile amusement of thought that a revision will show only brutalized minds is the so-called sport very slight changes of the figures, as j of the rat pit, where a dog or a man is they have been carefully made up pjt into a pit swarming with savage from reports of experienced eorre-j and fraiuic rats, and matched to kill spondents, and there is evidently no i a given number with teeth and hands decided tendency to change the areas ; within a given time. If tiie distinc- in any of the principal crops. ! t ion between the two is capable of The following table shows the num-j measurement, cock fighting is more ness of time his newspaper also. And what is true of the New York Herald and the PhiJadelpiiia Ledger is equally true in nearly every city of the Union. Money is ever repeating the blunder of assuming that it can control public opinion and the chan nels of trade by the prostitution of public journals to public deception, and it doubtless will continue to dis play its singular weakness by contin uing to buy or start newspapers to lan- —V. Richard & Bro., of Augusta, Ga., have failed. The liabilities of the firm amount to nearly $100,009, and the assets a little over $88,000. —Recent events prove beyond a per- adventure that Irishmen are not adapted to secret societies, and that secret societies are a curse to Ireland and the Irish. —The Commissioner of the Freed man’s Savings and Trust Company has declared a final dividend of 7 per cent, in favor of the creditors of said company, making 02 per cent, in all. —Augusta Evening News says: The Boston Avertiser thinks Massachu setts will always lie able to retain the boot and shoe monopoly, and gives many reasons in support of its posi tion. But it fails to mention the chief reason—the ability of Massachusetts to get eheap hides from the State pau per institution. —Joe Brady’s father and mother, not yet sixty years of age, had twenty- five children, of whom 20 were boys. The father is a man of excellent char acter and held one position for forty years. Up to a recent period Joe was a pious young man and enjoyed the confidence of the clergy. Secret so cieties ruined him. It is told that a prominent Iowa pig breeder keeps his hogs, except when fattening, on artichokes. He s on.good, lai\d this crpp will *>ro- “ ‘ ffc*-'fteTp^FHt-Vo'fiinn an> other crop. loj^a is one of the largest corn and hog produceing States in the Union, and it sounds rather strangely to hear of anything cheaper than corn at the West. —As the result of a number of ex haustive tests, it is said that “corn will shrink, from the time it is husked from the field or shock in the autumn and stored in well protected cribs, from twenty to thirty per cent, by spring. The soundest and best corn shrinks the least or twenty per cent. So that forty cents a bushel in the fall is as good to the seller as fifty cents in the spring.” —A California paper says that Chi namen who deal in unstamped cigars paste pieces of red pepper and fish scales on their faces, and, when brought before the court, begin to scratch off’ the scales. Then some body yells, “A leper!” and the Judge holds up his hands in horror, saying: “The defendant is not guilty; get out of here, John, as quick as the Lord will let you!” —A special from Dublin, Ireland, dated 14the inst. says: “Joe Bradv The white Baptists of South Caro lina have 640 t hurchisund 58,782com municants, and the colored Baptist number 90,000. The Anderson InteUigereer says: “We are informed that there has not been a single car-load of Western corn shipped to Anderson this spring. Ella Wood, of Union, a little girl six years old, lost her life a few days ago by pouring kerosene oil from a can, in kindling a fire in a cooking stove. Tiie Greenville News says “It is safe to say that it will be a long time be fore Col. Aiken is invited to speak anywhere else outside of Abbeville County. The Charleston cotton mill has now 50 looms running, and is adding to the number daily as fast as the looms can be harnessed and weavers pro cured. In the ease of Malloy against the New York Herald, on the first trial the plaintiff got a verdict for $20,000. A new trial was granted and the plaintiff got a verdict for $2,500. The committee on subscription of the Darlington Manufacturing Com pany reports $85,000 subscribed, and that they do not propose to relax their efforts until they have raised at least $160,000. The Institute for white teachers will open in Columbia on the 7th of Au gust and close August 31st. The In stitute for colored teachers will open at the same place July 5th and close August 1st. Riley Anderson, of Greenville, will not be hung this month, an appeal having been taken in his ease. Riley will thus have a little more time in whiqh to prepare himself for an exit out of this world and his entrance into the next ■world. Th< holder ton m .annuel meeting of the stoek- of the Bellemout cotton fac- Sumt^r, was held recently >rt suboiDted, from which it was hanged at eight o’clock this morn ing. A vast concourse of people gathered outside the prison yard in which the execution took place. A strong force of cavalry, infantry and police were present to preserve order. guish or die unlamented. j There was no attempt at disturbance, The successful public journals of ] however, the coxvtl conducting itself the country have been started, as a i with creditable decorum. rule, without money. The Ledger was founded by three wrokiugmen, whose capital consisted of their intel- —A horrible story comes from New York of a young medical student who recently returned to that city from his ligcnce and industry, and they thus j j lome (*j eve j an( j t Ohio, after having founded, without capital, a newspaper attended the funeral of a voung and property that would be eheap at three millions. The Press was started bv beautiful sister. On his first visit to the dissecting room he was attracted Col. Forney when he had no capital, j t o a corpse hy the ribaldry of his fel- und he made its grandest success with t low students who were dissecting it, her of acres in culti and corn in each county Upper Carolina. Abbeville Anderson Chester. Greenville . Laurens Oconee .... Pickens Spartanburg. i Union York .... 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. nr T HE undersigned, having purchased Mr. Rentz’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 prices. J. R. BOYCE, ,At Rantz’s Old Stand, Aiken, #. C. Board of County Commissioners. Board of School Examiners, Luther \V. 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, Miilbrook. 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—Tns. C. Hammond. Ex-efflcf* Clerk—J. II. Morgan. Total Middle Carolina. Aiken Barnwell Chesterfield ... Darlington Edgefield Fairfield Kershaw Lancaster Lexington. Marlboro’ Newberry Orangeburg Richland Sumter Total . Lower Carolina. Beaufort. Berkeley & Charleston Clarendon Colleton Georgetown Hampton Horry Marion Williamsburg tion in cotton Cotton. Corn. . 88,727 49,397 . 64,087 51,252 53,236 40,833 . 49,977 53,945 . 61 J'e9 47,805 . 15.945 25,109 21,903 29,506 . 56,495 60,536 . 50,267 40,45.3 . 62,139 53,374 523,465 452,210 36,893 54,997 . 78,334 95,991 49,698 30,618 6*2,105 52,490 . 85,902 63,646 74,722 a8.7S4 . 40,271 23.642 . 38,1.33 22,043 24,892 44,767 . 41,655 33,396 . 66,744 34,688 75,892 70,46.3 . 31,510 18,071 . 65,725 53,442 .741,566 636,948 12,578 18,924 . 22.154 31,369 27.724 31,178 . 13,828 49,696 362 4,389 . 25,197 31,626 . 2.680 12,722 55,137 59,635 . 17,292 30,896 savage and cruel, since the agony in flicted upon the born brutes by their human imitators is more protracted, and death comes more slowly to put a Rascally Curiosity. The following from the Atlanta cor respondence of the Augusta Chronicle of the 16th inst. 's a case where we think twentv-five lashes on the bare little financial aid. The Times was ; an q discovered tiiat it was the body of lounded only eight years ago with a sister. He is now hopelessly in- nominal capital, and it has long been ' sane from the shock, paying thrice government interest on j a million. The New York Herald' was started without capital. , rent liv5j ^ on a Bennett was its sole editor, reporter, business man and salesman, and now j t j ie c .]',. five millions would not buy it. The ' <• ..... .... ' At tne age 01 «i.y ne muj an me ue- TMtvc./l F fl r r Lvionviiia Inbum was started in like manlier * Ldwaid r. Stokes, o (.leciiMlIe. . .. [ . ;\elopmeut ol strength ana muscle who was once sent to jail for contempt by Mr.,Greeley, and lie died leaving , USUH jj v j n a j. l( ] 0 f fifteen. At twelve i of Court by Judge Thompson Cooke, million. The Sun "as , his b( .; ird wa5j rowr aild g,ay hairs i “nd remained there eighteen months Mr. Roach without capi- ,, nrit / . i rather than purge himself ot the eon- t il ami was made the most nrosner- ' - v, at t i^htten, he is as* j tempt, was sent to the Greenville tal.anu "as made the most prosper-| rWlWlt !IU „ ny old man of eighty, i jail by Trial Justice Furman for con- -There is in Schuyler County, Mo., a young-old man who, without appa- has in eighteen years passed through mnges of four score, he had al! the de- Discussed by ex-Gov. Seymour, Who Also Gives His Views on the Tariff. The New York Mail and Express publishes an interview with ex-Gov. Seymour regarding the political situ ation. He was asked: “As a Democrat, whom Democrats revere, do you feel that Mr. Tilden Is the man who could effect a union of the Democratic elements of New York?” “Tilden,” answered the ex-Gover- nor, “is an able in-jn, hut one whose habits of business have been such as j to render him misunderstood by Dem ocrats in the country, or, rather, diffi cult for them to understand, and the same characteristic may result in a misconception of any man, even by those whose business habits have been similar to his own. This difficulty was in the way of ihe unification of the Republicans us well as the Dem ocrats, so that there are now clearly marked issues between the parties.” Regarding the tariff’, he felt that this country was surely entering upon a new relationship with the world. Gov. Seymour said: “We have seen that both France and Germany have shown an inclination to shut out the products of our country. If Glad stone’s administration should be over thrown and the Tory party should come into power in Great Britain, it will properly impose tariffs upon our grain and other kinds of food export, for the land-holders of Britain are se verely pressed by onr competition. Those who oppose free trade in Brit ain are aided by the speeches and ar guments of high tariff men in this country. All classes now study our products iu making up their opinions as to the business prosperity of our country. If the policy of our Gov ernment aims at cutting oft’ all Im ports, it will end in the destruction of our export trade. I think this will be the principal subject of discussion in the near future. In the Presiden tial campaign next year I think It will be the subject that will most occupy the public mind, without regard to party platforms. I think the true policy is in adhering to the revenue tariff. I am friendly to the manfact- uring interests. 1 think a great dan ger to their success grows out of the extreme view's of men claiming to be their champions. If it is true that policy dujnands a protective tariff here, then it is true that it is demand ed by the interests of other countries. The discussiop of this topic w’ill lie of good use in leading men from minor subjects and parti/.anship, and will build up a lerat 'disac i three jper cent, was declared. Bb’Tibp Howe in his address to the Episcopalian Diocesan convention in Chameston, last w r eek, reported 235 whitt? and 84 colored persons eon firm ed during tbe year, four churches ded icated, three deacons and one priest ordained, and four candidates for or ders. The wheat, cotton and coni crops of Abbeville are reported to be in a most flourishing condition. There isa<;ood stand of cotton, and the farmers have begun chopping. The farmers there are well satisfied with their prospects, and improvement and advance are noticeable everywhere. The Bamberg Chronicle says that there is a woman at Sleighton, Barn well county, who is the mother of 14 children at six births—three at the first, three at the second, three at the third, two at the fourth, two at the fifth and one at the sixth. The lady is not more than thirty-five years of age and is in fine health. George S. Shirer, who some months ago robbed the safe of his employers at Orangeburg and then tied himself by the neck o the steps of the school- house, has been found guilty of breech of trust and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. In order that an ap peal to the Supreme Court might he perfected, Shirer has been allowed to give bond pending final judgment by the Supreme Court. The Intelligencer says Anderson is on a boom. In a period of sixty days there will have been started by pri vate enterprise a cotton seed oil mill and a door, sash and blind factory, and corporate bodies a building ami loan association with a capital stock of $109,000, and a cotton factory with a capital stock of more titan $100,000. In addition to this, another cotton seed oil mill is almost certain to be undertaken before Fall. At the meeting of the trustees of the South Carolina College on the 2Sd instant it is almost certain that Prof. J. M. McBryde, the present chairman of the faculty, will be elected presi dent. He hits not only the high es teem of his associates of the fjculty, but the love of the students. Some time ago the students all joined in a petition to the trustees to elect Mr. McBryde president of the College, hut they were induced to withhold its presentation for the time. it worth a 1 founded by >] ! > . . | X */ O «. T J V* * * J V. .— V. if back should have been added to the ; ous pefiny paper in the country, as u | and seems tottering on the verge of tempt of Court on the 15th inst., for ifine:— “A very revolting and unusual of fense has just been discovered and had bored in the floor. The purpose of prurient inspection needs no plain er recital. It would be difficult to conceive of a more repulsive exhibi tion of depraved purpose. The young man was arrested, plead guilty and w’as fined $25, which he paid.” Total —A German has invented a safe which, in addition to the customary walls and doors of steel, has an at tachment that, on being touched, im mediately flares an electric light on the scene, and at the same time un covers a prepared plate, on wdiich the burglar’s photograph is taken while an is now the most prosperous two cent the grave This is certainly remarka-I twe ” t - '^ our ^ our9 ant * fined ten doi- b!e, but the probability ‘is that it is a i. urH : Ml - Stokes is a lawyer by pro- case in which Nature resolved that for f e . ssl0U aml i» possessed ot considera- once there should be an eighteen- demeans. He is so very eccentric as year-old son who could be managed to verge upon insanity, but is remark- by his father. j able lor his shrewdness and tenacity ’ ' ’ in money matters. * —Laff’erty,^of Boyertown, Pa., set! out recently to eat live goose eggs a ! The condition of ex-Governor Jeter journal. The jxaltimore Sun was the creation of the Philadelphia Ledger men, alid its venerable proprietor, the ivi,ng partner of the old firm of Abel & Simmons, is a million- 176.952 270.435 alarm is sounded. newsp4per property. The only profit able journal that Washington has known,’since the war is the Star, and it was the creation of brain and mus cle—not of money. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the model pro vincial daily of the country, as well as the most successful, was built up from an obscure weekly, solely by the patient industry and masterly ability of the late Mr. Bowles. While it is true that some worthy journals have perished for want of money, it is certainly true that many more journals of once accredited in fluence have perished by money pos- seseinf and perverting them to the day for twenty days, on a bet. At the end of ten days he was confident, anti is reported from Union as very low. His disease is inflammation of the i bowels, ami it is feared that he cannot declared that he could eat ten goose ! recover. This news will he a shock to eggs a day for sixty days. On Friday, his fifteenth day, he appeared in very bad condition. After swallowing two eggs he suddenly stopped, his face be came pallid, and trembled violently. Dr. Funk became alarmed, and Laf- ferty informed him that he could not go on. As he appeared to be danger ously ill, the bet was mutualty declared off. There was great disappoint- parts of the work, which, however, his many friends throughout the State. This is the third week of his illness, and the work of the railroad commis sion has been seriously retarded by it, as it was the habit of the commission to pass upon their work only with a full board present. It was expected that by this time the standard freight tariff would be substantially com pleted, but Commissioner Jeter’s 1.1- ness caused a suspension of important sions; discussions malte the men, as was the case in the days of Webster* Clay, Calhoun, Wright and Van Buren.” How Children Grow. A table prepared by a French savant gives the following data on the growth of children: During the first year after birth the growth In stature is about seven and a half inches; from two to three it is four to five; from three to four an inch and a half; from four to six, two ami a quarter inches annually; from seven to eight, two and a half; from eight to twelve, two inches; from twelve to thirteen, one and eight-tenth; from thirteen to four teen, two and a quarter; fifteen to six teen, two; sixteen to seventeen, nearly two. After this, though growth con tinues until twenty-one and some times for years alter, its rate dimin ishes. J ncrcase in stride shows weak ness of constitution or imperfect health. Looking Up. The Columbia Register says, “It is an encouraging sign to see our own citizens buying back from Northern holders important pieces of property at a good round price. It shows that there is life iu the old land yet. Both the Coluhibia Hotel and the Grand Central have been bought by citizens of our town in the past thirty days, and will be, as we are informed, fitted up in the most elegant style for the accommodation of guests. A promi nent mcichant of our city estimates that property has gone up 30 percent, in the last few months. Another prominent business man in the com munity on this estimate deems it safe to put it at 26 per cent. This would show an increase of at least a million and a half in property values in a few mouths time.” —The subject of divorce proved a most absorbing topic before the Southern Ohio Episcopal Convention. The committee appointed last year made a report startling in its presen tation of the relative increase of di vorces. The report says: “At the ratio since 1870, iu twenty years di vorces in Ohio will equal the mar riages. Five-sixths of the divorces granted in ’82 were for causes not rec ognized by the Bible. Collusion and Laud prevail to au alarming ex tent.” The committee recommended asking for the enactment of more stringent divorce laws, such us to re quire three weeks between the Issu ance of a license and a marriage, with guarded provision for special exigen cies, neither party to a divorce to be allowed to marry within three years after divorce. ment among the spectators. Larferty says that he abhors eggs. He has concluded to stick to his farm work, and says that he has had enough of egg eating as a profession. will now be proceeded with by the re mainder of the board, as there is no prospect of his immediate recovery, and the work cannot be longer de layed. —A telegram from Harrodsburg, Ky. t May 16th says: The Jury re- ( turned a verdict of acquittal in tbe case of the Hon. Phil B. Thompson, for killing Walter H. Davis. The jury was out one hour. The verdict was received with a deafening shout by a densely packed house. As soon as the jury was polled and dismissed," Thompson was crowded upon by friends who warmly congratulated him. He bore tbe ordeal with th« same coolness that marked his con duct throughout the trial. * • ?#> ^ikmrnm