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THE «'lf AKIjI:* K. It. DKAYTOX, t£dUor. cluriii^ the year. A full the cotton mills of the Htat iinent o State sho. 8 that 4,003 persons are employed, and that the annual product is $J,(X)0,000. Special reports from the whole State show that corn is not lively to exceed sure that compels very many of them the editor of the ie* find /fan/wv ' andM rtelll^e’iee with any other vil- i*t t<iil at the hs m or sidnuing wheel, willget uo Sympath/ i'roin any i-cr^on laces.of tike size in the c oiuiry* and i that they ad»i greatly totlie pro@ijerfty Instead of defamation at the hau. s ol intelligence, of a supercilious editor, whodouhtless Very truly y<urs, roolishly dreau.s that he is made of H. H. HlCKM.\X. better clay, they tdiould rtceive, and do receive, cheering words of ] raise 'the evaxqelj'si' of a baxefui. doc- aml comnieiKlation fn>m all |>ersons whose sympathy and good will are Subscription Rale*.—One ■year. $2.00; , six inontii', ^l.O 1 ). If paid in advance, one two-thirds,of a crop, year. $1.50; six months, i5 cents. : The report bears indications ot the iAteSiK i«-»««•<« cents. OOitaaries at regular rales of ad- great credit on the puluisber.s of the worth the seeking, terti-ing. i Jfr tv* und Courier. The facts staled That, occasionally and at long in-j tlim» Vnust^nT^woBupisnieil by"'"" "true > re a11 ,noBt gratifying, except in re-j tervals, one of their class and voca-| name and a«tdr<-><s of the writer in order to '■ gard to tiie prospects of a short crop cf tion wanders fcway from the path of ; r«<«;vc attention. , i^tj, c . 0 ttoii and corn for the new year. ; strictest virtue, is lamentably true—is I of our.^tate. I am, with much respect, yours, &c., G. \V. < RO.-TT. AIKKN, S. t'., TUESDAY, SEPT. 4. j : We have the satisfaction, however, of Dabblings of a Solitary Crusader. Week pfter week, ever since the month ot June the editor of the Presa and Banner, has been inflicting upon the refilled and intelligent people of Abbeville County sueh idle babblings as the following, contained in his issue • Company of August 29th: “Before the war the manufacturers of New England were no richer than were tbfc'cotton planters of .South Car olina. We see no change in our affairs which requires a change of business principles. We have the same soil we had before the war, and we have the same labor. The only difference is that the many worked as slaves for the few on his own account. But by the es tablishment of factories the old slavery idea can i>e more nearly perpetuated than by any other means. We see no reason either, for abandoning the #ot- ton fields for cotton mills, or for levy ing a tax of 2 cents on homespuns and calicoes which the people are obliged to buy. The elements and every ma terial condition of the country is ex knowing, that our farmers are in bet ter circumstances and that more meat and small grain liave been raised than ever before. a fact deeply to be regretted and de plored. But is that fact even a plau sible reason why females in factories „ , should be detained and slandered as a, '^ e and Banner severely to | class? What vocation in life, wimt, ^ a ' s ^ ^ or *^ 8 u ^ t< ‘ rant ‘ e:1 >r i" m ,r * 1 KIM E—LETTER flDM IX. >1. IHO.MP- 80X, ES J., WELL KM OWN AS A SCHOLARLY OKXi’i^VAN AND AN ACLTE OBSERVER OF MEN AND THINGS. WlLLlSTOX. S. C., Aug. 31, 18b3. Editor Aiken Jiccorder: 1 have read your editorial of the 2Sth inst., in which y^>u take the Ab- . Solitary Information for the Crusader. The .Graniteville Manufacturing provides a comfortable school house supplied with desks, chairs, and other furniture, and sup plements, the public funds with an appropriaiiou of $1,000 annually for the education of the children of the operatives at Graniteville, besides making other provisions for those at the Vaucluse Mill. This keeps the Now each man strikes out school open for ten months under the . actly the same as they were when Calhoun and McDuffie lived. Neither the muscle, the soil, nor the climate have changed—and we bglieve they are the chief factors in the growing of cotton." What can be the object of this soli tary crusade. against factories by the editor of a i > %i , er published in a coun ty that does not o\Vn a single factory and is not likely to have a factory in many a long year is something that we cannot understand. From the above editorial we gather the follow ing information: viz., first, that not withstanding the tidal wave of civil war, which desolated our country, and swept away billions of our property, the editor of the Prcse and Banner sees “no change in our affairs which requires a change of business princi ples.” Secondly, that he regards D e establishment of factories as an at tempt to perpetuate “the old slavery idea.” Thirdly, that he sees “no rea son for abandoning the cotton fields for cotton mills,” as if anybody btt himself ever entertained euch an in sane idea; and fourthly, that in the opinion of this modern Solomon “the elements and every material condi tion of the country are exactly ti e same as they were when Calhoun and McDuffie lived.” Such a string of orig inal propositions strike the average mind with a koen sense of the ridicu lous and would doubtless obtain a high premium from some'periodical in search of the intensely absurd. Of all men in the world we think if Cal houn and McDuffie could arise from their graves and witness the changt d condition of our social and industrial systems they would be . among the most prompt to accept the situation, and recognize in the establishment of cotton manufactories, one of the great agenda* by which South 4'aroll- na and the whole South will regain ‘ wealth, power and political influence. Mr. McDuffie early had a partiality for manufactories, and w'*s one of the . first stock holders in the old Vaucluse mills, then in Edgefield County. In- Meed we are informed that he finally became the sole owner, and that it was under his management that the mill failed. But hear our Abbeville Solo mon again in another editorial of the same issue: “Factory hands learn nothing but that business, and the girls learn noth ing of the womanly duties of woman. She becomes a mere machine to do one particular thing, and the surroun dings are not as desirable, as those of the former who .chooses to strive by hoheftt toil and economy to have a home of his own, wherein his children may be reared, as they cannot be, if they were in crowded factories.” If the'mass of testiroopy which we produce in this issue of the Recorder from a number of prominent and well informed citizens does not satisfy the ’etm anfl Banner man, that when he seeks to detract from the virtue, wom anhood and intelligence of a w r bole class of honest laborers he is butting against a wind-mill that strikes pretty severe blows, he is indeed hard to con vince. But hear him again: ‘•The South will not be ready for manufactures until we have more money and more people than can be profitably employed on our farms. It will never do for an agricultural peo ple to abandon the farms and their manhood to become the servants of the cotton mills.” • ■ ' In the face of the fact that South Carolina has more than doubled bei manufacturing enterprises during the last decade, arid that factory stocks pay large dividends and command enormous premiums on their par value, he gravely states that ‘‘the South will not he ready for manufac tures until we have more money.” We must decline to waste more of of our t ime or space in dealing with sueh wonderful exhibitions of left- handed wisdom, and must therefore permit the solitary crusader to con tinue his inglorious career against a great industry which is infusing new life into our Southland home and pit - viding thousands of her sous and dau ghters wUh honorable and useful em ployment. management of an efficient teacher with competent assistants. The Langley Manufacturing Com pany furnisli a comfortable school house and supplement the public funds with an amount sufficient to keep the school for the children of their opera tives open eight months in the year. In Graniteville there are Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Lutheran churches,4md also a flourishing libra ry association. In Langley a handsome church has been built, which is conducted on the union plan—ministers of ail denomi nations serve at stated times. In all of these enterprises the re- spt-ctive companies take an active in terest and encourage by liberal aid. idurely life with such elevating sur roundings must he devoid of the de grading and demoralizing influences which the charges. Press and Banner man We have been assured by a gentle man who has bad long experience in factories, both North and South, that ->ur native population furnish the most desirable class of operatives that can be engaged in manufacturing, and he expressed the opinion that if such views as those published by the Abbe- viile Press and Banner were generally entertained by the press of the Slate, it would run every native female op erative out of the factories, which he would regard a great m s ortune, as iheir places could only be filled by foreigners, who would be ditlicult to instruct and hard to control. The Savannah Morning News of the ist of September comes to us with an eight-page sheet, showing Savan nah’s trade aiid prospects, and con clude*! an editorial on the subject with the following words: “The outlook for the future of Savannah is bright. Her citizens have reason to rejoice ami not to complain.” The report shows great elaboration and reflects great credit on tiie enterprising publish* n of the News. circle in society, whether high or low, rich or poor, does not occasionally yield a viclim to lustful passion? So tar as my observation extends, un er ring sister is as promptly and com-’ pletely ostracised by her associates in the factories as in any other sphere or pursuit in life. What more could they do? 1 he late war between the States de prived many ol the most respectable and worthy families in South Carolina of husbands, fathers and brothers, who died or were killed in the service of their country. These main pillars of support were rudely t;;ken away. What could the widowed mothers and orphaned children do but .seek em ployment before the sewing machine, the ptower loom or spinning frame? Several sueh famil.es did- come to <iraniteville at the close ol the war and some are still coming, seeking sueh work as is adapted to their age and sex; and the Wages paid them no, onl3' enable them to live eomiortuLl> and virtuously—to maintain their so cial and moral status—hut in severa. instances, very many in fact, to aceu- mulaie and lay by something for “a rainy day.” A few—and not a very few either—have measurably recov ered their independence, and have re tired from the arduous labor of the factory. The men have become active and thrifty merchants and tanners, and the women worthy wives anti mothers, and constitute as respecta bie and estimable a class of men and women too as can be found anywhere in South Carolina, Abbeville County not excepted. James H. Giles. ality. It is very natural that The! place. |pl aspect of the Press Prosperity of Charleston. The News and Courier's Annual Review of the Trade and Commerce of Charleston, which was published in a four-page supplement on Satur day, September 1st, affords a mos. gjatifying exhibit of solid prosperity. Business to the amount of $75,GU0,00( has been done, and a large number oi new undertakings started.. Local manufacturers employ t),'>U0 persons, and the value of their products wgs. over f9,2o0 U00. The phosphate anti fertilizer bftsiuess has grown to enor inous proportions, the amount of Car olina phosphates exportedsmd manu factured being 339,000 tons for the yeai ending September 1st. The exports nf cotton and naval stores have beei the largest e.ver recorded, with oh evceoli ;n. *fhe c’tvdub: has Kva Overwhelming Evidence in De fence of the Honorable Wo men Who Labor in Factories. Below we print letters from some of our most prominent citizens, man fully vindicating our industrious and noble women, who prefer to earn their bread by honest toil in cotton factories, from the cruel aspersions upon their womanhood by the editor of the Press and Banner. These gentlemen have also seen proper to uphold our hands in the righteous cause we are engaged in by a strong and outspoken en dorsement of our editorial iu the last issue of The Recorder. For the sake of our noble women we feel grat ified at this testimoniol of apprecia tion of the efforts we have ma le in their behalf. Perhaps we remained silent longer than we ought, but for this we have endeavored to make amends by the completeness, of their defense. The letters which we publish below from six different, respected and use ful citizens constitute in the aggregatc- a more thorough and complete vindi cation than anything that the most gifted editor could write. The six letters form a compact mass of irre- fragible and lucid testimony that is simply overwhelming, and places the womanhood of our female operatives upon a lofty pinnacle of virtue for the admiration of the good and true o: both sexes and of all conditions of society. Iu the name of defenceless woman we thank these honored fellow-citi zens for their spirited and noble utter ances in so holy and blessed a cause. We print them in the order in which they were received. A KOVL CALUMNY, ATTRIBITTADLE TO IGNORANCE rathe'r than malev olence-letter OF CAPT. JAS.'H. GILES, ONE OF AIKEN’S MOST HIGH LY BBaPECTED AND CULTURED CIT IZENS, AND SECRETARY OF THE ORANITEVIL L,E MAN UFACTUB1N O COMPANY. Gbakitevlle, S. C.. Aug. 30,1883. Editor of The Aiken Jiee.order: The insinuations of tiie Abbeville Press and Banner touching the chas tity of the female operatives in facto- riea is a foul calumny, in so far, at least, as the Graniteville mills are concerned; end, if the editor of that hebd miinal had been within striking tistanee of the strong arms of their male friends, he would have been most summarily felled to the earth for penning it, and convinced—if the ar- gumentum ad homincm could con vince him—that he was Ruilty o’ falsely defaming a most worthy class >f girls and women. But, perhaps, charity should prompt us to ascribe the inditing of such a alse and slanderous paragraph to ig iiorance rather than malevolence—to ■xiverty of thought and argument, ather than tb a deliberate purpose o! •ielitming the character of a most worthy and estimable class of females whom necessity, not volition, 1 as ‘ ••reed to do hard manual labor to: »ir own support or the maintenaiici f v.dov.ed mothers, infant brothers .. sDtvr*, or fue’ ie, su trcnuuntei SHOULD BE STERNLY REBUKED AN; THE MISCHIEF UNDONE—LETTER FROM MR. M. F. FOSTER, SUPERIN TENDENT OF THE LANGLEY COITON FACTORY, AND ONE OF TIIE MOST EXPERIENCED FACTORY MEN I.v THE SOUTH. Langley, S. C., Aug. 30,1883. Editor of The Aiken Recorder: I cannot but express my extreme disgust at the views advanced by the Cress and Banner, which are not fact and are not sustained by any known authority. Honest labor, constantly stimulated by the pressing necessities of life and surrounded by home intlu- euecs that come through the fainil\ relations, and the restraints exercised ny good management of our cotton fact' ries will not degrade or bring down the virtue of the women em ployed by them. There is very much that will tend to elevate the scale ol virtue in any • well regulated commu nity through the medium of public- schools, Sunday-schools and churches. It is a well established fact that the more intelligent and educated the op eratives, the more useful they become to the parties employing' them. No more virtuous women can be found among any class of people than among the factory operatives now employed in South Carolina, find especially in places where family help is employed. The grade of this class has been most wonderfully improved in the South since the close of" the war, and can not he ranked to-day with the factory operative of twenty years ago. Taking our own community at Langley, which is composed wholly of factory people, and I will venture an opinion that in any other industry in the State of South Carolina you will not find more virtue among the women than among the same number located at La ugly. There can be no goad reason given to sustain the theory that the manufacturing interest is de moralizing in its tendency. The facls all prove otherwise. That there may congregate towards sueh communities of working peojile jiersons of immoral habits, there can be no question; but a well organized management will not encourage it, and their own sense of the fact that they are not wanted there will cause such persons to seek other localities, where they will have* greater encouragement to exereisu their immorality. I consider it a very nnfortunabe matter that the Press and Banner hns given its views to the public in the manner it has, and I think it should lie sternly rebuked and the mischief undone which it has so foolishly in augurated. Yours, &c., M. F. Foster. Recorder, an Aiken County journal, ! should not permit any class of its citizens to be maligned, even by way of innuendo, without expressing its 1 sense of just indignation. As one not | in the thick of the fight, I can calmly j look at the contest and appeal to rea- J son alone. y 1 In the first place your cotemporary is wasting his time and talent in inau gurating any opposition' to tiie intro duction of manufacturing industries within the State. The laws of trade will settle that question. If the State is rqie for their introduction and pre sents the necessary inducements for their successful prosecution, they will take rootjiere in spite ofi can say. If not, you cu ture, and a collapse will With regartl to the m the question and the vie and Banner lakes of it,^I am bound ;o say he has made a grefts mistake. I feel assured that the writer of the article you so Justly complain of, has drawn his conclusi ns from other ex perience than that which he has ac quired from Ids surroundings—a for eign experience in fact, untested and uncorrected by cosmopolitan experi ence, hastily adopted without due de liberation. ‘ * 1 deny positively that any hdiiest calling has a tendency to degrade; I deny that associated labor, under proper maniigement and control, has any such tendency; I denv that the (admixture of the sexes, either in schools or factories, has any such ten dency, but the reverse, through ihe operation of moral emulation 1 have not had a large experience among fac- t >ry operatives in thisSta:o, but liom what iittle Ido know, *1 am satisfied that ihe morals of both male arid fe male will compare favorably wi.h a like number of citizens engaged in any other avocation. It is evil teaching, therefore, even to hint at class distinction amnng.-t us where there is no room n-rit, unless the evangelist of the baneful doctrine desires to see realized the horrors ol another Cokelown in South Carolina. H. M. Thompson. UNMANLY STKICrUGES—INSTEAD CI TE A til.\G DOWN BY INUEXDO, WE SHOULD SEEK TO BUILD L*I* BY EX . COUKAGEMENT —LETTER OF HON. D. S. UENDEESOX, STATE SENA O FROM AIKEN COUNTY. . Aiken., S. C., Sept. 1st, 18"3. Editor of the Aiken Recorder: I have read with irucIk.ptf«*nj.e, your manly reply to ihe stru- tures of the Abbeville Rres. and Banner on the virtue of tin female'operatives iu the Factories o the State- Instead of tearing down by inuendo, a system which ho* open ed up a new field of labor tp hontsi and needy females we should seek to build it up by encouragement. As far as Aiken County, and tin many factory towns I have visile are concerned, tiie faeisd > not susia.i. the charges and fears of the Press an Banner. Neatness and thrift, happiness am contentment, can he seen on all sides in the Factory towns of Aiken Count'*. Good schools are kept up, anti in got> churches religeous services are had. The indications of a moral, religious and orderly people are to be seen on all sides. I know of girls who hav*.- worked in the factory to be married into good circumstances and to make the best of wives. I know men who are of the best citizens in our com munity who started life as factory boys. I gladly give my testimony on this subject, and it is based on official aiu friendly relations not only with the officers, but the families of niunj* o the operatives in our ia.-t.iries Respec fully, D. S. Henderson. —The Puritans of New England had their own way o r " testifying bow much they thought of the fenmle sex. If a man and woman v ere con victed of a capital crime, they hanged the inan and burnt the woman. The New ; York Ledger rec ids i.n instance of j th.s fine discriiniuat.on. It occurred | in 1775 at Cambridge, when twoser- ! vants were executed for poisoning were draw n on a of execution, and (Mark, it fellow of about thiity, was NOTICE. Municipal Election. OFFICE CLERK A TREASURER! Town Council o; Aiken. [- Aiken, S. C., September 3, IS .3. > A N OTTO F. WIE i| o, -WHOLESALE GROCER AND DEALER IX- t ieir master. They i sled to tne place hanged, and Phyiis, an old creature, was burned t<> death. Elec’ion will b * held at the Tou n Hall on M >XDAY, tne thn ins... for the purp se <>f electing one Intendant and st-r e tiie Town of -tiing year. Tiie polls will open at 10 o’clock a in., amt cl se at 3 p. in. Mes-rs. R. S. Agnew, G. C. Edmond, t >n and Ale .ander Williams, colored, are ap pointed managers at the same. By order of Council. J. R. J >RDAN f Clerk and Treasurer. S t p. 4, 1883-U LIQUORS, CIGARS k TOBACCO! six w irde.is, »o j ! “ je v t n r°t h T ; .T, 1 /•, Aiken .ortheea- ELOel,,*41 t .1 _) IN LOTiIa FROST’S celebrated SELF-RAISING eaL* >r.ite l J J Tf/Lt OR VC.vEtS. ^“Offiee and Saltsro in !81 East Bay; Warehouses, Nos. 108, HO 112 114 and liG East Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. Tax Notice. —'File Edgefi.?ld Chronicle any*: The Augusta Citron iclc appears to be much j OFFICE CLERK A TREASURER i Towu Coj.ii.-i. o Aiken [- In the Court H*'u**e.) exercise ! over what the Cress &. Bai - nerhad tusuy a-piiust factories. Sure- ! 1* t»ur Augusta Contemporary dots not believe thi.t anybody in South Car li- na endorses what the Abbeville paper said on that subject. Tiie people of this State are as much interested in the building of factories as the people of Georgia are. The Augusta Chronicle does the people of this State injustice when it insinuates that we are opposed to the building of factories iu pur midst. ,lf t here is any «man in Edge- field orStfhfti Carolina opposed to fue-, lories lie ought to have a guardian ap- i pointed at once to take charge of his affairs. ‘ —It is proposed i n Dresden to collect the old steel pens and sell them for a fund to educate poor children. The steel of pens is of the best and can be u -ed in many ways. . There is already a society of smokers which saves the tips cut from the ends of cigars fora similar charitable purpose. WULBERN k PIEPER, * WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALERS IN PROVim, LlQiOi, TOBACCO, M, tt AIKEN, S. C., Sep. 3, 1883. "XTOTICE b* hereby given that the Ax Tax B >i>ks for the Town of Ai ken are noiv open for tiie collection of taxes for th« n-cal ye ir 1883, and will remain open until tiie 1st of Novem ber next. All who fail to pay their taxes within the aforesaid iime will be pro- 107 and lOD East Bay, CHARLES!ON, S. C. C0€ cuius t b ess. AN, Clerk and Treasurer. Sept. 4, l-8i-9t Sshool Nolice. T HE exercises of Miss RAVEN EL’S SCHOOL wiBcoinmence Monday, September l.th. Terms for advanced English bran ches. $2 per month; Primary, $1.50; French, 50 cents per month; Mush*, $10 .er quarter; C disthenies, 50 cents for joining tiie class. MISS L. S. RAVENEL. 'ATTENTION FARMERS. G eat Reduction in Hardware Prices A T the old stand of Capers A Munnerlyn you can bim* all sueh goods as are a!*- usually kept in a well filled hardware store at GOST DPZRJZCESI .0c., P c?r„L K iM «•- «-* ^ - 1 , w n< ! ^ l ‘,l t ‘ h - forn ^ rI y H ,ld for ♦1*50, 75c., 50c., can now be bought at $!.H0. $1.15, 55c., 40c. In the same ratio we are selling off the entire stock. We liave on hand me Double-Barrel Breech Loading SHOT GUN, formerly held at 43, which mc now offer at $21. Similar reductions on all other guns. We offer you Farmer's Friend ami A very Pony PLOWS for j* 2.59: Oil* er Chmed PLOWS Nos. Al, A2, 3, 10, Co. 19, 2), for v3.50, $3. v>, $4.55,$->.80, $7.00 •p i .IR7) O* AH parties i ndebted to said firm of Capers A Munnerlvn will please make oayment to us during the next thirty days, as all notes and accounts are in possession of mortgagee. \.'vx-.*AN AND Til— What a puzzle the little child is in the domestic economy 1 How the mot iter gives of her own life and strength to support the life cf her blessed little youngster! How the child kicks, and laughs, and crows! I low the chied grows, and is heavier and heavier every day. And yet she lifts him, and tosses him, and plays with him, and takes care cf him by day and by night. Is it any wont km the mother breaks down? Her back aches. Her stomach fails her. 1 ler liver is bad. Her blood is thin, and she says she feels poorly. Yes, yes, poorly—very poorly. Give mother a bottlfe of Braze n s Iron Biiiers. She needs the iron in her blood, which that w.ll put there. She must have strength, or she will be a confirmed old invalid. Brawn's Iron L'iUcrs helps worn and weary women into new life, cheerfulness, and vigor. Tell all the mothers you know. 3 July 30, 1883. J. E. McCRACKEN, A. S. TOWNSEND, Agents of S. J. Joye, Mortgagee. E. W. Percival -Manufacturer of- W. J. POLLARD, Augusta, Ga. POLLMB, 11 J. L. ROBFRTSOX, H. N. RFID, Aiken County. Anderson County. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS -Cl*- -COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS!- Manufacturers and General Agents for the folio .ving Ma -hiuery: MOULDING, BRACKETS. STAIRWORK! Meeting st., near Line si., (ha'lestcn, S. C. Vo. 730, Reynolds street, - Augusta, Georgia. 50 Pollard Champion Cotton Gins, 59 Pollard Champ' 1 n Feeders am. ondensers, 25 Ne 1 eO A <^0 > rielfC >.t>n Gins, <2 per saw;. 2' Waterto.vi. ■Engines, 20 C. & G. Co per Engines, 13 second lim I Cotton Gins, $1.50 pe aa ; 10 Oneida Em Dies, 5 Kiioole 1 ng n s, loO Smi h’s Hand Press, ITa oek Ins -i.ators, Dean Stea n Pump-, Mill* irne’s < eleorated R li, r Breast otton Gins, Feeder- and l ouden^ is, Conner’s ^eed Cot 0,1 Clean rs, Siiaf ngs, Pui.eys and H ng rs Steam an 1 Water Pipes, ' ittings, ete. etc. A f !i ne of machinery o al kinds in stock and for sale low. Call ami exainim tuck. Be certain t< > consult i:s bcu re buying, and save money. Cott’s ( ot m Presses or ste m ami a a er powers, Belting, Lacing. Belt Hose, Ac., ■ e. Fairbanks Standard Seales. Call and seethe largest stock o machinery D Fie South. POLLARD, ROBERTSON & REID. FRED VOGT, D EALER in House-Furnishing Goods, Paints and Oils, Glass ami Putty, All kinds of Cistern Pumps, Roofing, Guttering Varnish and Brushes, ud Sheet Iron Work. All kinds of REPAIRING! done with dispatch and neatness. Main Street, Aiken, South Carolina. At Powell's Old Stand! WONDERFUL BARGAINS! -AT- M N. BRUM CLARK -IN- BELOW COST, from this'date until !st October. A large number. 5 J ATS, suitable tor Mbses’ School Hats for the Fall season; LACES and other l-aney Goods at reduced price; pretty Nains »ok and Swiss Embroider- es also marked down. FLOWERS at cost. Call and be convinced. We have just received new styles in Mourning Goods. MRS. N. BRUM CLARK. EST’Crepe renovated by Shriver’s Patent Process. ^TTZR.ItTITTTIR.iK: I V©a Oven Bros. T HE Largest and Finest Stock ever offered in Augusta. Five car just received. All the latest s f yles, and nrices cheaper than ever. is your chance. We are going to move on <he 1st of October COMPETITION. Y> lo-isd Now D y 5 PROPRIETORS OF TIE duced and thy Value of city s-r-p • .t Jum increased froth 70 to 140 per cent. I fathers. Such is the irresistible pres- 'IT IS A SHAME THAT THE EDITOR OF ANY PAPER SHOULD ATTEMPT TO MAKE HONEST LABOR A DISGRACE TO OUR WOMEN—LETTER FROM MR. H. H. HICKMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE GRANITEVILLE MANUFACTU RING COMPANY. Augusta, Ga., August 31, 1883. Editor of the Aiken Recorder: I note in the last issue of your wide awake and valuable paper, your stric tures on an editorial which appeared in the Abbeville Press and Banne, some time since. It appears to me t be unnecessary for me to add anythin^ to what you have sai 1, except to en dorse fully your answer. If honest labor does not promoti virtue, then all former theories go for nothing. If the editor of the Press and Banner, would visit Granitevilh and Vaucluse on a Sabbath day, lit .vouId be surprised. He would see a' church, five hundred res|K*etable atm and well dressed women, who work D hese mills, many of them of mo-- respectable families of South Carolina vho have accepted service in thes. nilis to make an honest living, am bey are as resitectable as a rule, as ; ike number assembled iu any churcl 11 South Carolina. It is a shame tlm; he editor of any paper sliou Id attempt to make honest labor a disgrace to mi r.Kxl women. Who prefer to lab*, other tiia.i\>cg. But why need I discuss the question SLANDEROUS IMPUTATIONS, WHICH DOUHTLEhS ARE 1 ONDEMXED BY H.S OWN PEOPLE—LETTER Ki OM HON. GEO. W. CROFT, C AIRMAN DEMO CRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMI1TEE AND REPRESETATIVE FROM AIKEN CO. Editor Aiken Recorder: I read with much pleasure your able editorial rebuke of the Abbeville Press and Banner tot the unmanly ami slan derous imputations cast upon ^u*! heads of maiiuiaeturing operftTves. I The article in the Press and Burner is j so lacking in merit and is so grossly ; unjust to laboring women, that it at once excites tbe severest condemna tion. No such views as those express ed by the editor of the Press and Banner could have any influence in an intelligent community, and doubt less are condemned by his own people: but it is proper that you should* have given him tiie rebuke contained in your last pa|>er, that the public—and especially those women whose lot in ;his life compels them to earn their support by daily labor—may be as sured that the editor of the Press and Banner is al me in maintaining such unworthy opinions of the morals of hard-working people. We have been taught that labor is honorable an I ennobling, and such is | the practical experience at least of! >ur manufacturing towns. They are I centres of education and Christian in-j duence, and hare afforded many .ip- ■ portunities for the worthy poor boys ^ tnd girls of our County f »r rising and ■ bettering their condition in life. You will permit me to say that you have performed a noble duty in defending our honest snd worthy manufacturing laborers. 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