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THE
AIKEN
r
RECORDER.
BY DRAYTON & Mc< RACKEX.
AIKEN, S. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 18S3.
VOLUME 2.—. UilBJER 2.
Professional Advertisements.
Official Directory.
K. P. Hemdeksox.
Tirol Imws,
w, Aikkn', S. C.
Will prwtice in t'te Sta'e and
Ttiit -I St itts <’on t-i for 80 ith (’arc-|
lir:a. l*roni;»t attention given to col
lect!
I>. S. llRXnEKSOX.
Hemlerson
ATT 'RNEYrf AT L '
<ir.n. W. Cnorr.
J. Zed Di/nlap.
Croft & Dunlap,
Attorney/; at Law, Aiken, fe». C.
James Aldrich,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C.
PractiecH in the .State and United
States Courts for South Carolina.
P. A. Emanuel,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S.
—W4f practice in all the State and
United State* Courts. Special atten
tion paid to collections and invest
ments of money.
W. ({Hitman Davis,
AiTo .NEY at Law, Aiken
S. C.
Will praetiee in the Courts of this
Circuit. Siiecia attention given t<
coliections.
0. C. Jordan,
Attorney ,.t Law, Aiken, S. C
Emil Ludekens,
ArroiiNEY at Law, Aiken,
S. C
V’ili practice in all the Courts o
'liis State. Ail business transacted
with promptness.
James E. Davis,
Attorney at Law,
Ham well C <urt House, S. C.
Claude E. Sawyer.
At i’OKN ey at L ■ w.
C.
, Aiken, S
Will pr.iet ice in all the Courts, and
give ‘-pe-dai itienti n t» Convev-
aiiei ig p. paling A! sirae;* of Title
and Negot.a iug Ltia.is.
B. F. GUNTER,
At.o .ney at Law, Aiken, S. C.
Will pnctice in a.l tlie Courts oi
Sooth Caronna. I’r mpl attention
given to the collection o; Claims.
.1. w. DEVORE.
Aiken, 8. C.
B. WOODWARD.
Aiken, S. C.
lie Yore & Woodward,
A rtOUNKY AT LAWpAlftESj sT C.
Will practice in all the Courts oi
this State. •
Dr. B. K. Teague, Dentist.
1FFICE ON-
Riohland Avenue, Aiken, S. C.
Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist.
-OFFICE AT-
Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C.
Dr. J. R. iSmitii, Dentist.
-OFFICE AT-
Williston, Barnwell County, S. C.
iv w ill attend calls to the country.
R. G. Turner, 31. D.
VAUCLUSE, - - 8. C.
Office at the store of G. XV. Turner.
Real Estate for Sale.
Also Houses and Rooms to rent.
Apply to
Main street,
H. SMITH,
- Aiken, S. C.
J. A. Wright,
-BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,-
No.thside Park Avenue, Aiken, 8. C.
The lies! of material used, and an*
style of boot oi shoe made to order.
CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK.
OF CHARLESTON, K. C.
Incorporated by tlie State, IS74.
Aulhoriz d Capital .<Ho00,0©0
Undivided Profits . .$20,072 ."><
Deposits red'ived and interest al
lowed in the above Bank at the rat»
of hive (o) PerCent. per annum. Ex
change on New York, Liverpool an
London bought and s-dd.
G::«. W. Wii.mams, President.,
J. La m ii Jo: i nston , Cashier.
Russ & Slot hart,
GRANITE VILLE, - - 8.C.
DEAI.FRS JN
DJtl'Cr’S,
AIEDM'IX ES,
CJIEM1CALS,
va i:xisjn:s,
J'A l.X TS
Oils, Glass, Putty, Fine Soaps, Per
funiery. J ye Wo'o !s and Dye Si ufl-
generally. Sp .i.ges, Bru^iies, and a!
article-- kept by d ugxi-is generally
Physieians’ Prescriptions care-
full* comp untied.
Bansley,
AT THE
Globe Hof n l Barber Shop,
AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA,
Is now prepared to accomm* late the
most f.tstidious with a first-class
shave, haircut or shampaoing.
BAR3E& SHOP.
f’J'^HE undersignetl have opened a
JL Firstclms^ Barber Shop on 1 no
lens Street, Aiken, S. C., where they
w\ll be pleased to see their friends anil
patrons.
Shaving, Hair Cutting and Sham
pooing executed at reasonable psices.
* ’ AV. F. UORMICK.
. J. ». BOYCE.
The State.
Grort runr %
ITeoii S. Thompson.
Lieutenant-ffovrrnor,
John C. Sheppard.
Secretary of State,
James N. Lipscomb.
A Homey-General,
Charles Richardson Miles.
State Treasurer,
John Peter Richardson.
Comptroller-General,
AVilliam E. Stoney.
Superintendent of Education,
Asbcky 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—D. AVyatt Aiken.
Fourth District—John H. Evins.
Fifth District—John J. Hemphill.
Sixth District—George AV. Dargau.
Seventh District—E. W. M. Mackey
Agricultural Department,
A. P. Butler, superintendent.
L. A. Ransom, secretary.
It a i 1 roa d Com rn iss i on e rs,
M. L. Bonham, L. J. Walker,
D. P. Duncan.
Penitentiary,
T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent.
Supreme Court,
W. D. StMPsyN, Chief Justice.
Henry McIvek, Associate Justice.
S. McGowan, Associate Justice.
Circuit Courts,
First Circuit—B. C. Pressley.
Second Circuit—A. P. Aldrich.
Third Circuit—T. B. Fraser.
Fourth Circuit—J. H. Hudson.
Fifth Circuit—J. B. Kershaw.
Sixth Circuit—J. D. AViihersp •on.
Seventh Circuit—AYri. H. Wallace.
Eighth Circuit—James S. Cothran.
Solicitor Second Circuit,
F. Hay Gantt.
ZW Congress meets on the first
Monday in December of each year.
tiSUThe Legislature meets on tin
fourth Tuesday in November of eac!
year.
£2T The Circuit Court for Aiken
Comity meets three times u,year, a
.oilows: Hist Monday in lebruar
cist Monday in May, and seeon*
Monday in September.
Cougr^ssioiial Districts.
First—Charleston and Berkley
(St. Phillips and St. Michaels, Mount
ideasant, Moultrieville, St. James
iuosecreek, Summerville), ten t«<w -
ships of Colleton, fourteen townships
n Orangeburg, and the entire County
•f Lexington.
Second—Hampton, Barnwell, A -
;en, Edgefield, and Colleton—(Brox-
;on and W arren).
A l;:iovi!lo N<x^-rw-r.V, Ail#
lerson, Pickens and Oconee.
Fourth—Greenville, Spartanburg
—(except AA'hite 1‘lains and Lime-
01R PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.; Of course there would be found some
. * i contumacious persons upon whom
| they would appear to bear hard; hut
SENATOR BUTLER’S PLAN FOR no man who wants to do his duty to
IMPROVING THE ROA US.
He Advocates the Amendment of
. the Presi.xf Law so as to Re-
QUiKt: all Persons Liable to
Road Duty to Pay a Tax of si, I ^
and the Appointment of a Su-I
pekvisor of County Roads, who
shall give Bond for the Faith
ful Performance of his Duties.
[Written for the News and Courier.]
Edgefield, H.C., July 24.—Having
pointed out what I conceived to be
the defect in the road law of this
the public would complain.
If this plan can be carried out as a
supplement to existing law, how much
money would it raise? If I dm right
j in my estimate of the number of per
sons in the State liable to road duty,
would give tlodiOOO annually or
OUR HIGH WAVS.
to Senator Butler’s Plan
Thompson, Esq., of Wil-
Object ions
br if. M
listott.
»■ WlLLISTON, S. C., August 3.
Editor of The Aiken Recorder: •
I hu\'e just reaiI in the News and
Courier of to-day Senator Butler’s
letter containing his proposed plan for
improving our public highways.
I think his plan is not only objec
thereabouts, the sums raised in each tiunahle> i IJasIllU ch as it prn’poses to
county to lie expended in that county. repair the Road , aw a8 it stanc i 9 wit h
Let us take Edgefield as an example. a f eW amendments, hut it Is im-
\\ e have about b,000 voters; say we practicable in its additional provision
have 7,000 road hands. Assuming f()r ra ^ ing a roa( , reVenue hy a per
that the full tax of 41 a head should
he collected, we would have i-".000 an
nually. Of this sum, perhaps $2,000
capita tax upon those subject to road
duty. If you will refer to my letter
... . , , . , i . t til 1 — publisiied in The Recorder in its
tetate, and est muteu as best lei^uld i w*ould he exnended the first vearin an ■ ‘ e o.u x- i .oo-i
ue capviiulu mi nisi 2 eui ill ail lssue of 8th November, 1881, you will
\v4ta tiic dutu in !)OS8e88ion tlie j out lit and for watres &c Iph vinir i ai- * w • A ,
4 / 1 . , "uuiiaiiuiur f 11K j t )* e f 0 |j 0Win g suggestions stated
approximate cost of maintenance, 11 to lie laid out on the roads. (Just here artiiM^tely •
sliali now submit propositions which I should like to have the number of
I think will neatly strengthen and miles of public highways in this couu-
-tone Townships), Laurens, Union—
except Gotideysville and Dra.vton-
ville Townships), Fairfield, Richland
—(Upper Township, Columbia and
Centre).
Fifth—York, Chester, Lancaster,
Union—(Goudeysville and Drayton-
ville), Spartanburg—(White Flain-
tnd Limestone), Chesteriield and
Kershaw.
Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg—
Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Johnsons
ind Lake), Darlington, Marlboro’,
Marion and Horry.
Seventh—Georgetown, Williams
burg—(except Kingstree, Sumter,
iA*es, Lake and J hnsons), Sumter
dichlaml—(Lowei Township), seven
townships of Orangeburg, Charleston
md Berkley not in First District, six
ownsiiips of Colleton, and the entin
County of Beaufort.
>^idicial Circuits.
First— uarleston, Berkeley and
Orangeburg.
Second—Aiken, Barnwell, Beau-
ort, Colleton and Hampton.
Third—Sumter, Clarendon, Wil-
iamshurg and Georgetown.
FourUt—Chesterfield , Marlboro’ ,
larlington, Marion and Horry.
Filth—Kershaw, Richland, Edge-
eld and Lexington.
Sixth—Chester, Lancaster, York
md Fairfield.
Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar-
anburgand Union.
Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander-
on, Dickens and Greenville.
The County.
Senator,
D. S. Henderson.
Representatives,
’ohn M. Bell,
improve the law as it now stands. .
I should first amend Section 1,084 of
the General Statutes by striking out
“twelve” in the proviso of that sec
tion, and inserting “three,” so that it
would read: “Provided,That not more
than three days’ work are required of
any one hand in a year.” And in
Section 1,089 I would strike out the
w rds “three” and ‘ twelve” in the
tiiird line and insert in lieu thereof
tlie words “one” and “three” respect
ively; so that this part of tlie section
will read “not less than ‘one’ nor
more than ‘three’ das Sj” &c., &e. The
edeet of these amendments would be
to reduce the minimum and maximum
of working days to one and three re
spectively. With these changes, and
perhaps some others of minor impor
tance, I should allow the present Jaw
to si and, and supplement it by one,
two or more sections embodying the
lb.lowing propositions:
f irst. I should levy a tax of one
dollar a head on every able-bodied
male person liable to road duty, io oe
levied and collected by the county
treasurers; to lie paid out ou a warrant
of t.ie county com mssioners; to be
ucnominated a “road tax,” and kepi
apart and dedicated exclusively to the
construction, repair and maintenance
f the highways ui the county w here
e elected.
Second. I should provide for the
appointment by the c uuty cornmis-
s.oiu-rs, by and w itii the advice and
con sent of the Senator and Represeu-
tat.vis of the county then in office, or
a Inajority of them, I a competent
stipe*visor of county roads, whose
salary should he fixed by law at say
fi.ty or seventy-live dollars per month,
who shall enter into a bond with ap
proved sureties for the faithful dis
charge his duti<n and can
putoic iWpcYry <1%nTTh««Terms
tody. Tlie county commissioneis
F. 1*
(ieorge
Thus. J
W. Croft
Davies.
Woodward,
Sheriff,
Milledge T. Holley.
Clerk of Court,
Wm. M. Jordan.
Probate Judge,
W. W. Williams.
School Com m issioner,
Luther W. Williams.
County Commissioners,
Win. M. Foley, J. Cal. Courtney
William Stevens.
O. P. Champlain, clerk of board.
T reusurer,
J. E.. Murray.
Auditor,
David 11. Wise.
Coronr r,
8. P. Hitching.
Jury Commissioner,
R. L. Evans.
who constitutes the Board, with the
Row ing ex-officio members, vi/..,
die Auditor and the chairman oi the
Board o! County Commissioners.
Hoard of School Examiners,
Luther W. Williams, ex-officio ch’ni.
James E. Crosland,
Charles E. R. Drayton.
Board of Assessors,
B. W. Moseley, Aiken.
J. H. Quattlebaurn, Chinquapin.
J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp.
James Powell, Gregg.
H. L. Mayson, Hammond.
Macom Gunter, Hopewell.
W. E. Sawyer, McTier. ,
^lartin Holley, Millbrook.
Daniel Jefcoat, Rocky Grove.
Janies 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. 8. Hammond.
Secretary—Jas. C. Hammond.
Bx-«fl«>« Cferk—J. U. tA***'*-
should .have jniwer to authorize the
supervisor to organize aud equip with
the necessary outfit under the direc-
t.on of sai 'qnmissionerff a f-rce of
abie-bodied iu *“rs, twenty, fifty or
one hundred, as the exige ’cies may
require, whose wages should be fixed
by the commissioners, and when fully
or ., n zeil and equipped with a full
c lupleiiientoi' .m. roved implements,
tents, wagons or culs, mules, »&c., to
enter upon the construct! n, change
and repair of the public roads', begin
ning at the court house and putting
in perfect repair the first ten miles of
road 1 al.ng theret >, and extending
the work from mouth to mouth, or
year to year, until the main highways
and thoroughfares are completed, and
then the less frequented parallel and
crossroads, until every public road in
the county has been put in good eon-
d lion.
This supervisor, with his force,
should he kept constantly ai work on
the highways and if, alter once get
ting the roads iu good condition, it
should be found, as I have no doubt it
would lie, that the head tax provided
was in excess of the requirements for
maintenance, it could lie from time to
time reduced. Tlie supervisor should
be indictable and removable for any
neglect of duty, besides liable in a
civil action ou his official bond, for
the loss, destruction or damage to any
property in Ids charge. There should
be established in connection wi.h
this and all other taxes disbursed by
the commissioners a proper system of
accountability, by requiring them to
submit annually to the grand jury, on
the first Monday in March, an item-
Fed account of their receipts and dis
bursements, aud publish Uie same iu
a county paper. Besi.ies this, the so
licitor of the circuit should be required
to examine aud inspect this annual
statement of accounts and make a
written report on the same to the pre
siding judge at the next ensuing court
after the publication in the county
paper, that such orders may he taken
as t .e interest of the public may re
quire.
For the collection of this tax I
should require the county commis
sioners to have prepared a duplicate
list of persons liable lo- road duty iu
their respective counties, to be revised
fr nn year to year in tlie month of j
June, one to be furnished to the eoun- j
ty treasurer by which to collect tlie
tax, one to be kept ou tile in the office
of the county commissioner. And I
ty, so that i could make some calcu
lation as to how far this money would
go in its relation to the whole number
of mdes, but 1 regret to say the infor
mation is not at hand.)
It is safe to say, however, that with
an average expenditure of twenty dol
lars a miie*the roads can be put iu
lirst-rale order; some sections costing
perhaps fifty or seventy dollars, others
hot more than five or fen dollars per
mile, so that the $j,000 would improve
2-.0 miles of road. The second year,
iiaving an outfit, there would be a
larger fund available for tlie roads, and
iu five years’ time every road in Edge-
field County would be in good condi
tion, and after that easily kept up at a
slight cost.
Perhaps in arranging the details of
this measure it would be necessary* in
the larger counties to provide for more
t.ian one supervisor, ami other chan
ges might be found advisable to make
it couiorm harmoidousiy with the
present law, but these are matters for
tlie legislators, who will be informed
as to the exigencies of their respective
constituencies. Superintendents of
idgnway districts and overseers could
he required to e i-operate with the
supervise, &c.; but, as I have said,
these are matters of detail that I shall
net attempt t» settL* her a, but m ly
formulate as an a ue.nl.aunt to the
Road law, if the suggestion meets
with favor. Tw > sections, I should
say, would he ample to embrace every
thing suggested in the foregoing when
it has been put in pr iper form.
It will perhaps, be asked why I adopt
tlie form of a personal or head tax?
For the reason, among others, that it
is uniform, the first essential iu the
■ nip iskion of any tax. It is moderate
and not oppressive. It neither dis-
fe ^el iminates in favor of or aeninst a;
r s- Cols’? or’pers-JuftU It Is e^ifj^ollecTeiJ,
or if not collected, tlie penalties can
be readily applied. It reaches all
classes and conditions, and makes all
adke contribute to a common put pose
in which all are equally interested. It
is fair, it is just, it is reasonable; and
after canvassing every plan that sug
gested ksetf or was suggested by oth
ers, I have h t upon this as the best
and ni< stjnst.
It would not be fair and just to im
pose this tax ou property in view of
die circumstances surrounding us.
Property a;n aoy pays the expenses ot
Government, except the pqll tax
.\ hich is dedicated to educational pur
poses. It pays® also a two-mill tax
fir educational purpo.-es of which
others than its owners get the greater
benefit. And it must not be forgotten
that the tax for the construction, re-
pair and maintenance of bridges and
ferries is now collected on property
alone; so that an equitable distribu
tion of the burden of a road tax can be
ne^f'accomplished in the manner in
dicated by a personal or head tax.
It has.occurred to me that a pr ivi-
sion might be incorporated in the sup-
pi* mental sections pr. posed that
criminals undergoing sentence in the
e lu.ity jails for petty crimes might be
m >de to pay their board at least by
being made to work ou tlie high ways
under the direction of the supervisor.
I do n-.t know how far this may be
practicable, or whether it will meet
the appro;iation of tiie public. For
myself, I can see no objection to it,
and it is worthy of consideration. The
courts might he authorized to impose
a tine, and, iu default of payment, so
many day* work on the public high
ways. It would be a great saving of
expense to the county, and where
tines are paid they might be paid over
t<> tlie county commissioners and be
come a part of the fund for working
tlie roads.
If this scheme is practicable and can
be carried out iu all essential particu
lars. I should feel confident we would
have a rapid and permanent iniprove-
diately
repeal of all former Road
lawi
ystenri of general taxation for
the ^^struction and main (affiance of
public roads.
That the County C >mnf ssioners
reportfeach year the sums necessary
for neiid expenditure in their respec
tive counties.
4. Iijaat the roads be divided into
ascertained sections.
5. That tlie sections be worked by
contractors for each year, selected by
the County Commissioners after due
advertisement.
6. That eaeli contractor enter into a
bond iijyi the faithful .performance of
thcw^^fcnd maintaining the same in
propek condition auriug the year.
7. Tiiat no money be paid tlie con
tractor till after acceptance and ap
proval! of the work by the Count}*
C' .’ip,Ssioners.
8. TlJat all damage arising from bail
repairy«>f Toads and bridges lie recov-
erabhYunder contractor's bond, when
negligence can be brought home to
him.”.
The. g)bove plan avoids the objec-
tioname feature of creating a salaried
officerj as suggested by Senator But
ler, and throws the responsibility of
sOpervlisiou on the County Commis
sioner*, on whom it should properly
devolve, substitutes responsible con-
traetops with selected hands of their
own •boosing instead of an office-
holdeijchosen perhaps through politi
cal fir'nritisiu, with a crowd of un
skilled hands called out compulsorily
from 1 heir proper avocations, and
savesnie counties the exjiense of an
outlajTin tools aud vehicles liable at
all tinjts to sutler damage from per-
functory guardianship.
My ibtter concludes as follows, (and
herein/is the gist of my objections to
the ^^mArable Senator’s plan, from
sn^v to differ)
“f
contai
not operate ^
nor equalize the burdens entailed upon
the citfizens of the State in maintain
ing our high ways efficiently. A large
body <if electors would be practically
exempt from taxation, owing to the
fact that they own no property sub
ject tq assessment ; and the construc
tion of Section 2, Article IX of the
State Jonstitutiou presents an insur-
mouii able obstacle to a legislative
poll tax for road purposes. But the
quest!on seems to me to resolve iGelf
Into this: Shall we go on in this slip
shod iuanner with regard to our pub
lic highways, with all its attendant
disadvantages, merely because we
cannqt include iu a tax bill a prole
tariat) class? Such a course is penny
wise and pound foolish. Let us make
our pkths straight, safe and enduring.
A subsequent amendment of the
Constitution can be made to extend
and equalize the burden.”
For* the benefit of your readers I
give you the text of the Constitutional
provision above referred to, so that
they may be able to judge for them
selves us to the practicability of Sen
ator Butler's plan:
“Art. IX. Sec. 2. The General As
sembly may provide annually for a
poll tax not to exceed one dollar on
each poll, which shall be applied ex
clusively to the public school fund,
and no additional (Mill tax shall be
levied by any municipal corporation.”
Senator Butler’s proposed “Road
Tax” being a poll tax, cannot be en
forced. It is equitable,—but it is not
lawful.
H. M. Thompson.
A Bashful Bridegroom.
Georgia seems to be pre-eminently
a place of unique experiences. The
Sumpter Republican tells the story of
a youug man down near the river who
was to be married on a certain night.
He had seen and loved the girl and
was too bashful to do his courting, so
meut ip our roads, aud an increase of , l>y proxy. The day
about twenty-live per cent, in the j h: * <1 arrrived, the guests assembled,
value of real estate wherever good | tlie license procured, tlie parson on
roads are made. In fac t, I should ; the bride ready, but the
have no doubt about it. Other advan- j youthful gr om did not turn up. The
tages accruing are so numerous that I friend who had done the courting
' w*ent out, and, after looking around,
A tiorr*>r in Ischia.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-three
has already fairly earned the title of
the year of horrors. It opened with
holocausts and shipwrecks, and each
■ icceeding month has almost uni
formly added to the roll of disasters.
The last catastrophe is the ter .lie
earth quake in the island of Ischia,
near Naples. The towns of Casamic-
ciola, Fork* and Lacco are reported to
have been completely destroyed. Tlie
shock iu its intensity and destructive
effects exceeded that which shook the
island of Chio iu 1881.
Earthquakes, the most disastrous of
catastrophes, are cpiite common. It is
estimated that fully a dozen of them,
more or less destructive to life and
property, occur every year, and tiiat
the surface of the globe is never free
from their continued operations.
When serious whole cities have been
destroyed and fertile districts laid
waste. It is estimated that recorded
earthquake’s haveebst the lives-of ful
ly 13,000,000 human beings. 60,000
persons perished by the famed Lisbon
shock, and in the Calabrian earth
quake, near the close of the last cen
tury, 40,000 lives were lost.
Earthquakes often change the whple
topography of localities. Egypt has
been singularly free from their effects,
but visited iu 1740 by a destructive
one. The effects of tlie Lisbon earth
quake extended on one side as far as
the Southern shores of Finland, as far
west as the St. Lawrence, and were
felt in some of the islands of the West
Indies, an area of over 7,500,000 square
miles. Assuming that the earth’s
crust affected was but twenty miles in
thickness, 150,0U),000 cubic miles of
solid matter were moved. When
the shock is ne u* tlie shore or the bed
of tin* ocean, the earth wave is com
municated to the sea — Hie ocean
swells, retires from tlie beech, and a
giant wave rolls in upon the laud. At
the Lisbon earthquake tlie sea ro>e
sixiy feet at Cadiz. The most satis
factory theory of these disasters at
tribute them to pulsations in the fluid
matter below tlie earth’s crust propa
gated in waves of translation, caused
by tension of elast ic matter, and fioat-
itig on its surface the superimposed
rocky crust of earth.
The island of Ischia, the scene of
the last disaster, is ab mt eight mi.es
southwest of the Neapolitan coast. It
is seven miles long and four broad,
and contains twenty-six square miles,
being about two and a tia|f times as
large as tiie District of Columbia.
Near its centre Mount Epomeo, an
extinct volcano, rises to the height of
2,6j0 feet. The soil is very fertile,
yielding superior, wine, figs, corn aud
otiier products. Sulphur abqpnds,
was situal
and had a population" ol
Forio was beautifully sit late!
fine harbor and mineral baths,
population of 6,701. Lacco was sltua*
ted iu the north-western part of the
island, aud had a population of 1,593.
The government has taken prompt
action in the premises. Three thou
sand lives are reported to have been
1 ist, ami the number of wounded large.
Relief movements have been organized
throughout Italy.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
THE GUINEA COW.
Judge Withersimon has refused the
motion todisbar lawyer Nix, of Green-
* ville.
Gov. Thompson has given orders for
the arrest of the anti-iencedaw Ku-
klux in Lexington.
Tlie Greenville, Laurens and Spar
tanburg railroad is making satisfactory
progress tow ard completion.
Bishop Howe will consecrate the
new Eniscopal church at Chester on
the third Sunday in tins month.
A mine of gold discovered in Green
ville county. South Carolina, is yield-
ingore that is estimated to be worth
•seventy dollars per ton. * ,
Senator M. C. Butler has written to
the Commissioner of Agriculture at
Washington for his quota of Winter
wheat for distribution.
A cropper on Capt. R. B. Watson’s
place, near Johnstons, has two acres of
old miLLuuml corn tiiat will j-ield one
one lumared bushels.
Congressman E. M. Mackey has
been seriously ill at his home in Mt.
Pleasant but as the devil takes care of
his own he is now in a fair way to get
well.
Flora Moire, colored, died in
Orangeburg county, recently, aged
110 years. She w r as brought from
Africa about the time of the Revolu
tion.
Mr. Standmore Watson, at the Wat
son Cross Roads place, in Edgefield,
says he has two acres of cotton that
will make between four and five bales.
Would not take four bales for it.
Mr. Frank Moulton furnished em
ployment to fifty-three ladies yester
day, and that many dozen or more
pairs of hose were taken home as the
beginning of anew industry in Colum
bia.
Tbe Edgefield Advertiser tells of a
promi lent farmer of the Ridge who
ship '0*1 to his northern factors eleven
buirels of supeib Irish potatoes, and
the factors returned to him as his net
prouts seventeen cents in postage
stum is.
It is estimated that there is already
in sight enough criminal business to
occupy the greater part of the two
weeks' allotted for the October term of
Court for Ciiester county; and there is
still two aud a half months to be
heard from.
“They
right
The Georgetown IVmessays:
say the Western Union is ail
again; yet we read a dispatch yester
day from Charleston, dated on the 1st,
asking a gentleman to take passage ou
the next days steamer, which was not
received until the evening of the 2d—
eleven hours after tlie departure of
the boat.”
A Useful Animal that Requires but
Lit tie Food and no Shelter.
(Atlanta Constitution.)
Lowndes County is really the home
of the Cuinea eow, about which so
much has been said and written. The
history of these cows is a dim one,
but they were first bred by Colonel
Staple, who lived on the Florida
line just above Vandosta. They may
or may not have been brought over by
j the Minorcans. They were certainly
bred up and perfected by Col. Staple.
He was a man of large wealth, aud
lived on a superb estate, where he
kept open house for years before tho
war.
It was his idea to breed a cow that
would be suited to that country—a
scant feeder of small bulk, free milk
ers, docile, hardy, and wide rangers.
He succeeded in getting an admirable
little animal that could live on the
native pasturage of the pine barrens
and stand any sort of exposure. It
averages thirty-five Indies in height,
has an immense bag, is as gentle as a
dog, and asks but little other food
than what it picks up. For years it
was known as the Staple cow, and it
was dubbed the “Guinea” after sotno
of his herd had been sold in Thomas
and elsewhere.
Col. Staple died some years ago, but
his wile and sons own his estate, Mr.
Richard Staple being in charge of the
old homestead, tor some time but
little attentiou was paid to Guinea
cows, and it was only alter those sold
to outside counties had created «uch a
demand that it was tuought worth
while to breed them largely. Mr.
Staple told me that he could have
sold a hundred of the cows easily du
ring the past year, aud says he could
place fifty of them at oi\ce at one
hundred dollars each. I* have for-
worded several orders for them and
have never yet been able to get one
filled.
Ou the Staple place there is now a
herd of perhaps forty pure Staple
Guineas, headed by excellent Guinea
bulls. It is the intention of Mr. Sta
ple to breed cows for the market, and
by next year he will doubtless be able
to fill a few orders. He is determined
to send out nothing but choice cows,
well marked and of pure blood.
A cOrrespomlent ol the News and
Courier, writing from old Allendale,
under date of August 5 says: Mrs. M.
P. Kho.it s lost her dwelling house by
Mr. John R.
* . A. Crouch have
each operated threshers in the Mount
Willing aud adjoining sections of
Edgefield county. Mr. Peterson has
threshed 14,409 bushels, Mr. Watson
about 13,000 and Mr. Couch about 12,-
000, aggregating nearly 40,000 bushels
of win at and oats. The proportion of
wheat to oats threshed by Mr. Peter
son is about one-third, or 4,527 bushels
o. wheat to 8,882 bushels of outs.
The Louisville Exposition. *
The Louisville Exposition was
opened strictly according to the pro
gramme on tlie 1st instant. A dis
patch from that city says the day was
a general holiday, there being no bu
siness done whatever. With the first
streak of daylight crowds of people
commenced pouring into the city from
every point of the compass and trains
were doubled up. By 9 o’clock the
main streets were so full that it was
difficult to pass along Vie sidewalks.
The President rested well and was
ready by 11 a. m. to take his part in
the exercises of tiie dav. Tlie Presi
dential jiarty left the Galt House in j
carriages, escorted by a body of police j
and military organizations and moved
by the most direct route to the Expo- |
sition. Their way was a most perfect;
ovation tlie entire distance, thousands !
of people cheeringas the distinguished j
visitors passed them. Tlie great main
building, capable of holding 20,(KM)
people, was filled completely, and the
crowd was too thick for comfort.
President Dupont, of the Exposition,
welcomed the President and Presi
dent Arthur gracefully responded, and
concluded by starting tiie \ast ma
chinery ami pronouncing the Expo
sition open. The crowd was wild
with enthusiasm. The Presidential
party left for Chicago, Wednesday.
The managers of the Exposition were
most agreeably surprised at tlie un
locked for crowds on the first day.
Tiie Columbia Register says: A ne
gro on the Sundav night train on the
Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta
Railroad, when asked for his ticket by
Conductor Allison, gave the latter
some unculledfor “sass,” whereupon
the conductor' punched his head as
well as his ticket When the negro
got to Lexington he repeated his “im-
perence,” and placed his hand to his
hip packet, us if to shoot. Captain
Allison jumped at him and plied the
negro with sucii rapid and telling
blows as to force the precipitate re
treat of the dusky warrior.
The Newberry Observer says: All
South Carolinians rejoice to here of
Senator Hampton’s good health. By
tue way, we do not hear much of late
about his resigning and re
tiring groin pnlitice. We have
it ;r im good authority that while lie
would prefer to retire to private life,
so that he could devote more time to
his private business, yet while the
people want his services he is at their
command. The truth is the Senator
is not half as “tired of politics” as
some who have aspirations would like
him to be.
them
shall not attempt to enumerate
in this immediate connection.
M. C. Butler.
A Daughter of Cetewayo iu America.
[Providence Journal.]
Eva Britton’s Little Game Plaid Out.
I The New Orleans Daily State has
! been overcome. It says: “Eva E.
i Britton, who claims to l>e the editress
Columbia Register Saturday: A dele
gation of citizen from Lexington
called on the Governor yesterday and
raprt s hie 1 an alarming state of affair-:
in parts of that county, where the op
ponents ot the stock law daily viola
ted its provisions; that the law-abid
ing citizens were at tlie mercy of these
desperadoes, who used the torch and
threatened the shot gun to intimidate
the peaceful inhabitants. Thedelega-
tion petitioned the Governor to take
steps for the protection of the farmers
against these incendiaries, whieh will
he done at once. Wc have heard re
cently that this baud of outlaws have
defied arrest.
Dog Laws.
(From the Nashville American.)
The result of the want of the proper
dog regulation in Tennessee is that no
man of small means can keep sheep.
The dogs—worthless, yelping, Infer
nal curs, ninety-nine per cent. :•[
them—take tlie chance away fruit:
1* farmer# to add materially t<
their incomes by keeping small flocks
uerally of one of the'
ot* flesh foods, and reduces the taxa
ble productive property of Tennessee,
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The only man who can keep sheep »
in the State is he who invests largely
enough to justify herding his flock.
By-and-by we hope wealthy harders .
will breed great flocks on our maiuia-
taius and in our valleys, and have-
them guarded by men armed with
double-barreled guns and standing or
ders to the herders to kill e>tery dog
coining within range. ThaA might
reduce the brutes sufficiently to ena
ble the small proprietors to iadulgein
small bunches of sheep, aud raise
their own wool and mutton.
. . , .... ... . ! of a paper called The Hurricane, is in ;
found him sitting or lying in a horse I . * :
n J * 1 town to solicit subscriptions f>r heN
can; everybody iu there is married
, . , r f , , , * may UOt bC geMer ?, 1 ! ,y kM °T t0 but vour girl. Come on.” “Get her
when the county treasurer reports to thtt majority of our intelligent fellow-| u> come out door8 and we , u marrv
the co.am.ssioners a hst of deliu- I citizens that the Princess Amazula,
hundred good-natured people iu tills !
charitable town who remember Eva’s i
; former visit with emotions of deepest)
lueots they should have authority and ■ daughter of the late King Cetewayo, I 'the InTuse.” * Tile'friend went : dis K Jwt ’ The - V * re ,>e, * ev <,lent individ-
should be required by law to arrest j-^ides in our midst, as it were, with |. . t tlie Vi rI ami parson out
said delinquent aud deliver him to V erv few marks of reverence tor her ’ f ^
the supervisor, t > be w >rked w ith his j rova 2 state. Such, however, is the
were married. The company waited
two or three hours, and, ou l>effig in-
squad ffi Hie same manner and under f aett the p r i UCt ^ s being a denizen of ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
the same regulations as liis hired la- 1 Christian Hill The Princess ioined V* U ” U,D ’ ml "*\ ''**
. s (. ,, '- ur, * ua, ‘ 1 ri mess JOJ neu vited to 6U p.^ r were ,„troduced to
borers, or the space of three days, an i*,,,.!,, T> om >o Ujffiffi t r , )Une at U at >e i . . • ^
. ’ - ... an 1 loni 8 Laoin troupe ai Lape t | ie bride and groom. They iiecame
and tor tailnro to comp*\ ^ ito tnoso nnii tlum slit* to : • ■«• « .
... ... I ’ sne tame u> rtacu so indignant that all left without par-
regulations w hile so eiiga e ed should | ^ nier j ca . ^ present she earns an ta gi n ir u f th e supper
be liable to Indictment as tor a misde- j hnn^st hut mnd*»«t liveliliiM-id hv let- i
uals who subscribed to The Hurricane
without ever getting a copy of it, not
that they wanted to read it, but they
desired it simply as a guarantee of good
; faith. Men who collect money and
; fail to give its promised equivalent are
A Spartan dispatch says tiiat the
family of Andrew Daniel, a planter,
living three miles from that town,
while at breakfast last Friday morn
ing discovered something wrong in
the taste of the coffee. The coffee pot
was emptied into a slop bucket in
order to draw a fresh pot. Two dogs
drank from the bucket and shortly
went into convulsions, which, how
ever. did not result fatally, owing to
the dilution of the coffee with the con
tents of the bucket. A search reveal
ed the fact that a bottle of strychnine,
was missing. Two negro men aud a
colored house-girl have been arrested
on suspicion and lodged in jail.
honest but modest livelihood by let
meauor uii the affidavit of the su|)er- ting lodgings and doing washing and
visor or county commissioners, or j ironing for the surrounding white
either of them, and punished accor- trash. On being informed of the tragic
dingly. It seems to me that this death of her royal father in South
Town, and thus she came to reach I ^ generally looked upon as swindlers
and confidence sharps, and sometimes >
go to the penitentiary for their smart
ness. Does this frighten vou, Eva,
dear, or do you simply claim to be a
little beggar? If you are the latter,
Correct.
!6an Antonio Express.]
Those who have devoted any atten- why do you stop at the most expeii
would give the public officers power Airica the Princess AmuZula niaui- tion to tbe subject know there is more give hotels in every town you invade
enough to enforce the provisions of g no other couriTmoUrn 1 ng tban in the North regarding the and spend for your enjoyment enough
such a law as 1 suggest, and the pen- that with which nature has provide i S*»uth than there is in the South re jar- money every day to keep a small fam-
alties are not harsh or uureaaaonabie. • her, ‘ * ding Ate North. - -- ily in oomfort for a weak ?”
On Friday afternoon, August the
3d, tlie ladies of the Baptist church at
Camden, saved ice cream in behalf
of their church, and a number of peo
ple partook of it. Saturday and Sun
day fifty-nine |»ersons were taken vio
lently ill, and every physician in town
has been constantly engaged in attend
ing them. Thus far only one hasdied,
a young daughter of Mr. G. D. Shiver.
The cause of the poisoning has thus
far baffled explanation. Whether it
was in the flavoring or front ihe ves
sels used in mak ng the c ntard, or
from the freezers, has not y -f been de
termined. Some say the vyinpfi ms
indicate arsenic, others say zinc. The
whole tow*n i * excited abo it i , and
great sympathy is felt for the afi icted.
A Dry Town.
[Lancaster Ledger..}
Lancaster has the reparation of
being a “dry town.” It is claimed by
the advocates of the prohUation move
ment here, that the suppeession of
the liquor traffic is both morally and
financially a benefit to our people.
In making these statements we do not
wish it understood that we favor the
sale of liquors in Lancaster. But, for
the information of the public it will
not be amiss for ns to state that on
last Friday night almut sixty gallons
of whiskey were received here by ex
press in five-gallon casks, directed to
different parties. On Saturday night
following another cargo came in. In
fact, every train brings in whiskey
and beer rations for the following day.
It is calculated that about $15,000 is
annually s&nt to our neighboring
towns for liquors. If there is any Im
provement upon the morals of our
people, with a few exceptions, since
the prohibition law was passed, it 1h
scarcely observable. Dry town! Ain’t
she?
What Bill Arp Knows.
(Correspondent Atlanta Constitution.)
I know a man who sold a lot of
land the other.day for eight hundred
dollars, and he gave it in at eighty.
He is a rich man, but he is a dodger—
an artful dodger. He has dodged
death and taxes for a long time, but
I’m afraid he won’t he able to dodge
the devil when his time.comes. Gov.
McDaniel a’luded to these eases in his
message, and I hope the Legislature
will provide some remedy that will
reach ’em. Some folks have an idea
that it is no sifi to cheat the State;
biff when a man cheats the State he 1s
cheating every man and woman in it,
for tlie less he pays the more they pay.
If we coujd all cheat alike it wouldn’t.
make any difference, and I reckon we
will all have to do it to keep even.
The Rascals’ Ptc-ntc.
(Washington Star.)
Public business in the Government
Departments is about at a stand-still.
Nothing but the merest routine is be
ing transacted. Subordinates are in
charge everywhere, and when any
thing involving a question of any im
portance arises it is deferred for tbe
return of the legal head of tbe depart
ment. Not only are Cabinet Minis
ters absent, but in some cases the offi
cials who come next to them in huik
for several degrees are also away.
-
—Senator Edmunds says h-* llk<
talk to reporters because be learns a
groat deal from them.
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