The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, May 22, 1883, Image 1
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.
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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.
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