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BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, OCT. ??, 1883. 7m VOLUME 2.—NUMBER 61. Professional Advertisements. Offioial Directory. As. C. "•tDKRSOX. E. P. Hexdkrsos. Henderson Brothers, ATTOK.VEY3 AT LAW, AlKF.V, S. % C. Will practice in the Btate and t T nited Statca C’ourts for Sooth Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Choft. J. Zed Guhlap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, * James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will oractioe in all the State and vj nited States Coirts. 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 tills Circuit. Soecia attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, C. Emii Ludekens, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. Will practice in all the Courts of his State. Ail business transacted vith promptness. James E. Davis, Attorney at Law,—— Barnwell Court House, S. C. The State. Governor, Hugh 8. Thompson. . Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary 'of State, James X. Lipscomb. A Homey- General, Charles Richardson Miles. State. Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. • Comptroller-General, WILI.fAM E. STOXEY. Superirttendent of Education, Asbi'Ry Coward. Adjutant and Inxpeetor-General, A. M. Maxigault. United States Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Butler. Congressmen, First District—Samuel Dibble. Second District—Ceo. D. Tillman Third District—D. Wyatt Aiken. Fourth District—John H. Ex-ins. Fifth District—John J. Hemphill. Sixth Distric t—George W. Dargan. Seventh District—E. W. M. Mackey Agricultural Department, A. P. Butler, superintendent. L. A. Ransom, secretary. Railroad Commissioners, M. L. Bonham, L. J. Walker, D. P. Duncan. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. Henry McIver, Associate Justice. S. McGowan, Associate Justice. Circuit Courl/f, First ("ireuit—B. C. Pressley. Second Circuit—A. P. Akiiiich. Third Circuit—T. IJ. Frasef. Fourth Circuit—J. H. Hudson. Fifth Circuit—J. B. Kershaw. .Sixth Circuit—J. D. Witherspoon. SeventAcircuit—Wm. H. Wallace. "lAi .-l v a K a T . > i 1 . SLAVES OF SERVANTS. MISERIES A YD PERPLEXITIES OF CHARLESTON HOUSEWIVES. Eighth Circuit—James S. Claude E. Sawyer. Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts, and give special attention to Convey ancing, preparing Abstracts of Titles and Negotiating Loans. B. F. GUNTER, NEY nra Can Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. Will practice in all the Courts'of South Carolina. Prompt attention gix-entothe collection p.’ Claims J. W. DEVORE. Aiken, 8. C. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, 8. C. DeYore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. MiiTstJte* 104106 in a11 the Courts of C6lhran. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. Cg?" Congress meets on the first Monday in December of each year. tif” The Legislature meets on the fourth Tuesday in November of each year. t-g?" 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. T)r. I]>{TrTca^up, Dentist. -OFFICE ON- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. OFFICE AT Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. -office at- Williston, Barnwell County, S. 0. fc'JP V\ ill attend calls to the country. R. G. Turner, M. D. VAUCLUSE, - - 6. C. Office at the store of G. W. Turner. Real Estate for Sale. Also Houses and Rooms to rent. Apply to Main street, H. SMITH, - - Aiken, 8. C. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, No.th side Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C. The best of material used, and anv style of boot or shoe made to order. ~ Langley Brothers, 104 King St., CHARLESTON'S- O Manufactupers of Ladies' 1 G'Cnt.s' UNDER WE A R. :o: A\ E your Osnaburg Underwear f>r Rheumatism, made b> Langley Bros., ml s.tx’e inoney. pricelist and directions for measurement sent out by Bros., on application. Laugie. CAROLINA SAVINGS BANE. OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 1 Incorporated by the State. 1874. Authorized Capital .#.>00,000 Undivided Profits #20,072 AO Deposits receix-ed and interest al lowed in the above Bank at the rate of Fix-e (5) Per Cent, per annum. Ex change on New York, Liverpool and London-bought and sold. Geo. W. Williams, President. J. Lamb Johnston, Cashier. W. W. Bansiey, AT THE Globe Hotel Barber Shop, AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA, Is now prepared to accommodate the most fastidious xvith a first-class shave, haircut or shampooing. GIN HOUSE INSURANCE. W E are prepared to INSURE GINS, GIN HOUSES and COTTON, in companies of the highest standing. ■. J. C. Sk 4Mr*. Pleasant, ' xtou,t rieville, St. James GoosecreelV Suinuierx-ille), ten town ships of C<*l e t on » fourteen foxvuships of Orangebp r t?j and the entire County of Leximrfon. Secon ii-*--Hampton, Barnw-ell, Ai ken, EdgtV u *^i Colleton—(Brox- son and \wH-reii). Third \bbeville, Newberry, An derson, Picl^fi s a,ul Oconee. Fourth—(irVcnville, Spartanburg —(except WhiV* Elains and Lime stone Toxviishik 8 )' Laurens, Union— TT-XceTff TTbUMi. y- 1 ^ tftU, ■■ "d *}• , Faiflield, Richland ship, Columbia and Ttrnr ville Townships' —(Upper Tow Centre). Fifth—Ytffk, Chester, Lancaster, Union—(Goudeysville and Druyton- vilie), Spartanburg—(White Plains and i/.die done), Chesterfield and KershaxA Sixth-vT larendon, Williamsburg— (Kiugstre^, Sumter, Lees, Johnsons and Lakej, Darlington, Marlboro’, Marion u^d Horry. 8eVEN-rifi—Georgetoxvn, Williams burg — (exedjM Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake a»d Johnsons), Sumter, Richland—(L<i*\ver Township), seven townships of cVrangebnrg, Ciiarleston and Berkley njbt in First District, six townships of (Colleton, and the entire County of BeaUifort. JtidicKil Circuits. First Charleston, Berkeley and Orangeburg. . Second—Aikeri, Barnxvell, Beau fort, Colleton anti Hampton. Third—SumtfT, Clarendon, Wil liamsburg and (Georgetown. Fourtli—Chesterfield , Marlboro’, Darlington, Clarion and Horry. Fifth—Kprshaw, Richland, Edge- field and Lexington. Sixth—(-Chester, Lancaster, Y'ork and Fair-field. Seventjh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar tanburg {and Union. • Eightli—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander son, Pickens and Greenx-ille. / ; q ; / The County. / Senator, j D. S. Henderson. Representatives, M. Bell, George W. Croft Woodward, Thos. J. Davies. Sheriff, Milledge T. Holley. ) Clerk of Court, Wm. M. Jordan. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Co mm iss ioner, Luther W. Williams. County Commissioners, Wm. M. Foley, J. Cal. Courtney, William Stevens. O. P. Champlain, clerk of board. Treasurer, J. E. Murray. A uditor, David H. Wise. Coroner, S. P. Kitching. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Ex'ans. who constitutes the Board, xvith the folloxving ex-officio members, x iz., the Auditor and the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Hoard of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-officio eh’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. H. L. Muyson, Hammond. Macorn Gunter, Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, McTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefcoat, Rocky Grox-e. James M. Cook, Rocky Spring. J. D. Taylor, Shaw’s. Jas. C. Hammond, Shultz. R. S. Hankinson, Silx-erton. Isaac W. Foreman, Sleepy Hollow. James K. Brodie, Tabernacle. R. L. Ex-ans, Windsor. Chairman—E. S. Hammond. Secretary—Jas. C. Hammond. Ex-oilk'-io Otorit—J. H. Mnrg**. John F. 1 ( / A Domestic View of the Hired Help of the City. [New s and Courier.] “Yes,” said a lady jee-terday to 9 Re-porter xvlio had asked for her ex perience xvith servants, “my servants, I may truly say, have been the one trouble that has darkened my house hold happiness. I don’t know Unit I am any better or any worse off than my friends and neighbors, hut I do know that they cause me all the anx iety and trouble th-t^ I have had since I undertook housekeeping on my own account. I can’t readily see the force of the remark-that xvas made by some body some years ago, th*at the same xxar that liberated the slax-es in the South liberated also the whites. It may be true of the men of the South, >ut I’m suri^. has .made'a slave of me and orhpmy pf my*i%i;iitrymen.” And here the little matron, the bright est ornament of a happy and content ed home circle,’indulged in a sigli which evidently came from the bot tom of her heart. “Do you find them so x T ery trouble some, then ?” “Troublesome? The woM does not begin to convey the extent of the agony and misery they cause me. My life is at times rendered a burden by them. I don’t know lioxv to account for it. I’m sure I pay them as liber ally as I can. I always give them what wages they ask, and I try to be as pleasant as possible xvith them. Who sometimes I ant afraid toask my cook to bring me a glass of water, and 1 would not dream <>f asking her to sxveepout and dust the dining room or fear that I should give her mortal offence. At first I tried to be mistress of my own house, but I soon gave it up. THE ETIQUETTE OF THE KITCHEN and the servant’s hall is stronger than the rules of social life above stairs, and any infringement of it brings tiie most direful punishment upon the head of the offender. My household is not a large one, and its menial du ties are such as could easily be per formed by one industrious xvhite woman. I hax’e three colored persons. My cook gets geven dollars a month. She comes here in the morning, cooks the breakfast and-dinner and goes home about 4,or .> o’clock in the after noon, carrying with iier, of course, provisions enough to feed her idle hus band and two or three children. The woman who does my washing gets «ix 'dollars a month, (five in family,) and the soap and starch. She comes for the clothes on Monday morning and returns them on the following Satur day. The nurse whom I hire gets know that my servants are frequent attendants at church. They go to prayer-meetings, class-meetings, or parties and society picnics at ail sea sons of the year, and at all hours of tfie day and night. All the colored churches hold early morning serx-ices, and most of thrm night services of some kind ex-ery dry in the week, and I suppose that they are unwilling to deprive themselves-of these social ad- x’antages.” IS THERE A REMEDY? “Can you thiuk of no-remedy for the evil ?” The lady looked up at this question and smiled as she answered; “I’m sure I can’t say. The fact is that I am kept in such a. continuous state of anxiety battling with the evil, as you call it, that I haven’t the time to de vise a remedy. The present ex il keeps me too busy to give me a moment to devote to speculation. If I xvere to stop to think for a moment, I am pos- ilix’ely certain that cook would get mad and leave me xvethout breakfast in the morning, or that nurse x\ r ould negroes coming into the city he interior. The servant sys- crude and irregular, owing to mliar character of our people as to the surroundings. The av- welling in Charleston is not for economical housekeeping es, and our housewix*es are meXi dependent upon help than their mo; efavored sisters Who lix'C in flats in Northern cities, and xvlio can al- waySj 1 at a moment’s notice, get a brtj£fa c 'f or dinner served from a res taurant within a block of the dwel ling- If the cook of a Charleston fami ly, Is often the case, fails to come in ffime to prepare breakfast, there will be trouble in that household. Mamma cannot send a messenger boy to the nearest restaurant and have br<4»kfast served in ten minutes, but is Kst to the choice of preparing it her- seillor doing without it. There are, of course, exceptional cases, but a very larie majority of the housekeepers of Chprieston hax'e the same miseries, tfujsame troubles, the same anxieties concerning their servants that are so tale ve^' doubtful that any means can be devised to remedy the exTl. TEE BLACK BELT IX VIBGIYIA. Y «’onnty lu YVhich White Men and xym non HaVe no Rights Against the I t.-teks. Correspondence Nexv York Sn'n.J I/U 'HnoNrq Sept. 29.—Mecklenburg CoJLty is in xvkat is known as the Belt of Virginia, the negroes x’anish. I have tried to educate a good- pictured by the lady whose servant, but, although I have tried Statement is given above, and it seems hard and honestly, I have nex*or reap ed the benefits of my labor. If I get a girl, xvhieh is a very hard thing to do, and strive to teach her and pay her xvell at the same, time, she max r remain xvith me a year or so, but not longer than that. I had one several years ago, to whom I xvas much at tached. She ggnie from Orangeburg and had no relatives in the city. She was a neat, orderly, kindly disposed -ervant anil professed to be very deep ly attached to tlie cWTlren, and I be- 1' vc that she xvg#-. After remaining wit’p me for something e\*er a year and a halfshe left, stating that she was to be married and intended lo set up housekeeping on iier oxvrf iff count. I .vas honestly glad t ) IfearYof this, although sorry to part with her, and gave her something to start house keeping with. Tiiis was two years ago. Some weeks since I met her in the street, and upon asking her how she xvas getting along, was surprised to hear that she had never married. She said that her intended husband had gone off to consult his parents and had never returned. I did not pursue the investigation further. A SUGGESTION. “I suppose that the problem will xvork itself out in the fu ure like all the problems which you nexx'sjtapa* men are discussing, and if is possiblc-J^v‘T that MISCELLAN EOUS. Ex-Senator Sharon is said to admit that his income is $100,000 a month. Poison, it is said, can be detected in the ashes of persons who have been poisoned and cremated. Daniel Webster’s monument at Marshfield, Mass., has been defaced by vtftudals or relic-seekers. “The greatest good to the greatest number,” says the politician. “And the greatest number is No. 1.” A Boston paper thinks well of the custom xvhieh prevails in London dry goods houses of giving lady customers a cup of tea. The fact that Blaine has rented his Washington house is pointed to by some editors as a sure sign that he is after the White House. Black largely outnumbering the xvhites, and M:ihone’s great strength is in this dis trict- Since his advent the blacks ImV-c become so insolent and riotous that many whites speak of leaving tlm County, ji letter from a man in Mecklenburg" says that a xvhite wo- mp , with a bed-ridden husband and tbpie small children, xvas cultivating a small tract of land. Near iier lived a rariftless negro, who made a prac- ti<A' of pulling down her fence and turning in his hogs •and children, when they to the children and does chambermaid work about the hou-e. She has every other Sunday afternoon for herself, leaving the children to my care. Now you would suppose that these servants would be contented xvith their places, but such is not the ease. THE aYRANNY OF S ERVANTS. “They do their work tolerably well, but they keep me in constant fear and trembling. I know perfectly xvell that the very day that I pay them their wages the chances are just even that either one of them may lea\ r e me without a xvord of warning, and for no earthly reason that I can see. A re monstrance at the presence of the cook’s husband in the kitchen will give mortal offence, mid if I tell the nurse to help the cook to bring in the dinner the chances are that she xviil leave me the very next time I pay her.” EXCEPTIONAL CASES. “Is this trouble general?” “I know of very few of my friends who are exempt from it. Here and there you will find a family who liax-e a faithful servuut xvho has been xviih tuem for years, but the cases are .ex ceptional. I knoxv of a friend who has had a man cook in his employ ment for a number of years. But he is paid $15 a month, and is given sev eral rooms in which his family live on the premises. There are, however, very few of us who can atford to in dulge in the luxury of a male cook, even if we could find such a treasure. Then I know another iauy xvho uRs a lamiiy of six persons. One white woman a German, does the cooking, washing and Housework. She gels per month. I have seen tnat woman finish her work, hax'e the Kilcneii and house cleaned up, and tune tue children out for a want m the du»K oi uie ex’euiiig. Such treasures, however, are very scarce iu this city.' 1 SERVANTS ON IHE ISLAND. “I understand that there has been great difficulty in obtaining servants on tue island .'” “Yes, it’s true. When I wanted to mox-e to the Island this summer I had tue greatest difficulty in getting ser vants. Tne colored people seem to dislike living on Uie island, and you can’t get the average nurse or house servant to move down tnere except by the oiler of enormous \\ ages, while many of them reiuse logout any price. The nurse whom 1 hau employed last spring was a very good woman. £>he seemed to be loud oi the children, did her work eheeriuily and suited me x'ery well. She had no connections in the city—I mean, of course, no fami ly ties. As soon as she learned that xx e xvere to uiox'e to the Island she at once toid me she could not go, aud all persuasions of mine iu the way of in creased pay failed to induce her to do 80.” “Can you account for this?” “I have been trying to imagine some cause for this feeliug among them—for the experience of every family on the Island is the same—I fail to get at it unless it may be that there is no ‘society’ on.the island. I xv^iM bar Tv be i>r:n that my come to men’s and woman’s estate, may be able to get good servants. Those of us wiio lix'e in the'present generation hax’ejiotb mg to do but to bear the ills xx-e h:.\ e with the best grace xve can muster. A reform might be elleoted by a kind of combi nation on the part of employers, but t T i-UH i'H>~l_ cable here. “Do you mean a combination against servants?” “Yes, but not perhaps in the sense you xvould infer. I don’t mean a com bination to keep down the price o.'j wages, hut a combination not to em-i ploy shiftless and worthless servants, i In other words to employ no one without xvhat is called in England ‘a character,’ without which very fexv persons can there obtain a situation. To render this eifectix'e, hoxvex'er, ‘characters’ should not be looselv and carelessly gix'en as many now are. If Mrs. Smith has a serx’ant xvho leaves her employment, she should not give her a ‘character’ unless she deserves it, and Mrs. Smith having givemher a ‘character’ should not only sign her name but Iier address to it, and if Mrs. Jones desired to hire that servant Mrs. Jones should, before doing so, take the trouble to ascertain its genu ineness. The difficulty in tl>c way of this, however, is that there are so many colored people here, and so many shiftless, worthless ones that very few of them remain long enough in one place to earn a ‘character.’ You might throw out the suggestion in the columns of the News and Cour ier, however, and perhaps you may be able to axvaken sufficient interest among the house\vix r es of Charleston to bring out the expression of other views xvhieh may possibly lead, to a remedy. I confess I see nothing to to feed on her ciffc. She complained in vain, and her isolated position made her power- le^i. At length she got a dog and dijnve the hogs out. Thereupon the negro assaulted her, and, with foul epithets, threatened her with death. She applied to a lawyer, aud he said if^kfing her ;i>109 would secure the p’Aii.-hment of the ofiending party for wrong and insult he would cheer- un fortunately Ira skin xvas xvhite aud that of the ader black, and for that reason lie 'rf.s compelled to advise quiet sub- ri >sion to the wrong, no xvhite man i bite woman having, in his opiu- "any practical rights against a back man or black woman in the C-unty of M cklenburg. The letter sf.’s: “Negro mobs have forcibly ta- colored prisoners charged with Senator David Daxus daily becomes so fond of His new married life that he giddily reiterates his purpose of never again entering politics. Col. John S. Mosby has written a letter denouncing Mahone and his methods, and violently objecting to the Republicans affording him any support. f There are six distilleries of rum in Massachusetts, and most of this rum is exported to Africa, the population of Massachusetts preferring to bring their own beverage fn m Kentucky. In connection xvith the recent arrest of the Russian army officers implica ted in Nihilist plots, a large depot has been discox*ered at Charkoff contain ing arms, gunpoxvder, dynamite bombs and printing apparatus. The cable is mysteriously silent as to the name of the distinguished American lawyer who was refused permission to defend O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey. It is understood, hoxvever, that it is Guiteau’s brother- in-law, Scoville. pen, officers of the law and conserx’a- rs of the peace have been treated itii contempt and stricken down by tL se mobs tor no other offence than tTa, of endeavoring to arrest their ijjolxus proceedings, and to assert in a Proper manner the supremacy of the law ” Upon an application for bail rt*cently made for a white man, a ne gro Justice of the Peace, iu anuoun- Gngxhis decision, said: “Send him to Tail; Greenland shows no sign of an open inland sea. Let us assume that the theory of an open polar sea is equally groundless, aud stop sending men into those ice-bound regions to lose their lives in a fruitless search for xx'hatdoes not exist. The total receipts of the Brooklyn bridge from foot and car passengers and vehicles since the opening has been $05,504, which is dixfided one- third to New York and two-thirds to Brooklyn. The receipts will probably never pay a fail; return for the invest ment. . The xvomen in Binghamton, New Y'ork. begin to like to handle the bal lot. A year ago only forty-eight of them voted at the school election. This year over three hundred of them walked boldly up to the polls and cast vvfil 1 “eJi" ax**. their tallots. a ini< the strongest prejudices. he ought to be sent to hell.” Itamlatl’s Chance. • Within the last six months the Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal sent out Circulars inquiring about the Speaker ship contest. The replies to the cir culars are summari zed by the Couricr- ■iournat as follows: “There are 191 Democrats in the next House. The caucus will not hax’e more than 190. From the South come 101, East 42, North and West 5ff. Randall’s friends flaim that when Cox is out of the jlvay 15 out of 21 New Y'ork members are for Randall. This is exaggerated, putgrant it. Nov,- gixe him 12 from ^Pennsylvania and half of the remain ing 9 Eastern votes'. Give him25 from the South, the most claimed by his friends, aud 5 more than he can, and he has 56; out of 53.in the West his Imost sanguine friei ids only expect 15, which added to 50 gix es him 71, or 21 l<:8s than enough to nominate in a caucus. Alfonso's Boom. [Augusta Chronicle.] A few weeks ago King Alfonso, of Spain, the son of Queen Isabella and an unknown father, xx as not very pop ular among virtuous people at home, not to speak of the mamy thousands of persons who conspire against royal ty. He had an unpleasant notoriety when he left Madrid for Berlin. Now, in a totally uulooked for manner, he becomes the temporary idol of all classes. All this lias come about be cause Prince Bismarck, who plays with kings as with puppets, sent him the uniform of an Uhlan regiment now stationed at Strasburg. It must be remembered, iu this connection, that while the Germans were celebra ting the conquest of France by unveil ing a statue on the Rhine, the French were mournfully decorating a statue of Strasburg as a counter demonstra- tipn. Public feeling was wrought up to a high pitch, and it was not difficult for the new honor of Alfonso to make him offensive to the Paris mob. The poor puppet dared not refuse the gift of the German Emperor and yet what a fool he was, unless that xvas part of (he contract, to show himself in Paris as a Uhlan Colonel of a Strasburg regi ment! If the Devil himself had sug gested this scheme of putting France and Spain at daggers’ points, it could not have been more ingenious. It must not be forgotten that Franoe is a Republic, and a standing menace to Imperialism in Europe. One by one her natural allies have been eliminat ed by Germany, and Spain, in a mo ment of madness, may, through her puppet King, be arrayed against the French just as Italy has been. If the French had been xvide-awake and phlegmatic they might have com prehended this hostile trick and dis counted it by contemptuous silence; but the Frenchman as described b}’ Voltaire, goes off piff! paff! pouff! and diplomacy has to step iu and try to explain away xvhat the angry but honest crowd intended. Some of our esteemed contemporaries look upon this outbreak as a mere tempest in a' teapot, showing the changes of the latter days, and the Herald says: “Europe has seen the day when the establishment of any sort of political relationship between Germany and Spain xvas a signal for the marching of French armies, Austrian armies, Spanish armies, Dutch armies and English jinnies; and, inde ing only from the time of th the German Imperial crow crown of Spain dox%n to th] tion made in the time of Na: to put a Hohenzoliern on the Hp^TIRh throne, no single point in Eiirope*.n politics has led to so many wars. Aiut now the billing and cooing of thj» Ger man and the Spaniard excitej^OTily a its—and .” Very of yore, hope lor, but it will dc no harm to x'en- j (all caucus. Now for Carlisle’s tilate the subject” ^chances: We predict the following xvhat is paid to serx’AXTs. f vote on eecond or third ballots: Ala- .aa, , ^ * • av. i bama, 5; California, S', Illinois, 8; At the close of tins interx’iew the I _ Reporter called upon lady friends, and interx’iew sex’eral other i listened to the dis-j inn] recital of their household xvoes, which xvere very much in the strain of the interx’iexv gix’en. There are probably fully 15,GOO colored persons employed in Charleston as domestic servants or “helps.” The wages paid run from $2 up to .$39 per mouth, and it is probable that one-half of these change their situations ex r ery month. -\n average female cook gets from $6 to $s a month, with board and lodg ings found. Most of t^em, hoxvexer, perfer to li\ r e away from the premises on xvhieh they are employed. Color ed women who cook and wash foi families of six persons get from $7 tr $9 per iqonUi. Children’s nurses 1 wages range from $4 to $9 per month ( depending upon the age and experip ence of the help. Housemaids ge^ from $4 to >6 per month. The mal<} population find employment as dri . x - ers of \*ehieies, hotel waiters, house . servants, and sometimes as cooks , with xvages ranging from $0 to $30 pe r month. In the spring season a x T er large portion of the colored popt tion get employment on the straxvl ry and x-egetable farms in the suburl In the winter many of them are ei ployed “along shore” and in the co| ton presses. Tiie hotel xvalters gei ally find employment at the xvaterii places in the North in the summ< loxva, 2; Louisiana, 3; Michigan, 2; Missouri, &; New Vork, 'Mr. Cox not beingin the race,) 12; North Carolina, 3; South Carolina, 4; Texas, 8; West Virginia, 2; Arkansas 4; GeorgiaS; Indiana,.8; Kentucky, 8; Massachu setts, 2; Mississipvi, 5; Nevada, 1 This is the way a Philadelphia paper puts it: “‘Six baked beans and half a cup of coffee for one!’ yelled the xvai ter. It was the dinner of the editor of a great Nexv York daily that had just reduced its price to half a cent a copy, and the other eaters all looked up aud murmured, ‘I swow!’” John Kerwin, just after sentence in Albany to four years’ imprisonment for grand larceny, turned aud shouted at the Judge: “I would like to murder you. I hope you xviil rot in your grave!” The Judge gave him another year. Very few men can carry on a i conx ersation with a Judge xvheu he isn’t off the bench*. The wool growers of Ohio are ma king tiie situation rather unpleasant for Senator Sherman. They succeed in making it pretty plain that “they are taxed precisely as much to raise wool as the liquor dealers of Ohio are taxed to sell beer and whisky.” The senator, although he has a way of handling facts to make his side appeal- right, fails to satisfy the Ohio xvool- groxx-ers. Buttered eggs are the latest luxury xvith xvhieh rich Nexv Y’orkers tempt their appetites. The liens from which the eggs to bo operated upon are ob tained are kept in the lofts of houses in the lower part of Nexv Y'ork city. Boys are hired to xvatch them, and as soon as an egg is dropped it is dipped in melted butter. Being yet warm and the shell being susceptible the llax'or of the butter is absorbed. But tered eggs sell for about 75 cents per dozen. few fools in the Paris s Grev> apologizes for the smalliucidents this magazine and, while it is that nothing serious will\eventuate, it cannot be forgotten that\accidents * | just as trifling have been tin* signals of bloody war. \ The World takes a broad and philo sophic view. It says: “The best thing the French can do is to learn ( *o re member the xvar with Gernujuy as one of the natural disgraces of^Kperi- Lsm, and to strix’e to become » true republic, strong in its devotion to freedom aud and its reliance upon the people. Its example will then be of more danger to German royalty than the most powerful armies it could put into the field. The French have a greater triumph, a more magnificent monument, than the Germans, in the simple fact that their republic has noxv lasted txvelve years, and that they are happy without emperor or king with out court, croxvn or throne, and with more liberty and popular self-govern ment than the people of Germany enjoy.” This is cleverly put and would amount to something substantial if France were anything but a Republic in masquerade. The only lucky party, outside of the Germans, is the son of his mother who went away from his kingdom in disgrace and comes back in something like glory. Verily the words of Hamlet are sus ceptible of many x’ariations: “We know what xve are but knoxv not what xve shall be!” The egg is considered one of the best remedies for dysintery. Beaten up lightly, with or without sugar, New Jersey, 1, Oh so, 9; Tennessee, 5; and swallowed at a gulp, it tends, bi- Virginia, 1 Wise« msin 4. Total 116. Cox will probably have more x*otes on the first ballot than Randall; not less than 45, perhaps 50. Springer wil hax-e 7 or 8, and tin re may he 10 or 12 scattering. The c« mtest may narrow down between Carlisle and Cox.’ This figuringlandi Mr. Carlisle iu tiie Speaker’s chair v . ithout much of contest. An army office r who has recently visited Gen. Han cock says that he is in a x'ery serious ( ondition and that he xviil nex-er be a M-ell man again. He also states that Hancock’s physicians are x T ery grax’e whenex-er his name is mention ed, that the injury to his knee is x-ery sloxv iu healing on account of the impox’ei.ished conditition of his blood, aud, in condition to all this, he is suffering from and old kidney affection of a ve ry serious nature. aud return in the winter. Many the city negroes are attending scL -o but very many of them are street va, abends, and there are always unen i A writer in the New Y'ork Globe complains that most of the colored office-holders in Washington hold menial positions . After office hours they are expect ed to do the “chores” of their Repulolican, white bosses. The same correspondent says that :- Senator Hampto n has done more its 'emollient qualities, to lessen the inflammation of the stomach and in testines, and by forming a transient coating on the: e organs, to enable na ture to resume her healthy way over a diseased body. Txvo, or at the most three eggs per day xvould be all that is required in ordinary eases; and since egg is not merely medicine but food as well, the lighter the diet other- xvise and the quieter the patient is kept, the more certain and rapid is the recovery. Nexv Y'ork papers are not having all the fun in their effort to acquire a large circulation. According to the New Y'ork World "a nexv evening pa per has been started in Philadelphia xvhieh is shaking the toxvn on its mouldy foundations. The proprietor believes in advertising, and lie is ma king a noise in the xx'orld. He has a brass band, uniformed at bis own ex- p» nse, which parades the city at all hours of tiie day, distributing his “dodgers.” In addition to this he is preparing to run a fair in the interest of his paper. He pays prizes to news boys and nexvsdealers xvho sell large numbers of his papers.” The Democrat of sCarrollton, Mo., says: “OnThursday ‘Jim’Laxvten in- vited fifty neighbors to see him beat his own time of two years ago, when his xvife baked bread in eight and a quarter minutes after the wheat xvas standing in tiie field. At 6 minutes and ten seconds after 4 the Buckeye reaper stood at the corner of the grow ing wheat. Men were stationed e\’- ery few feet along tiie line of grain ready to seize an armful as it fell from the reaper, and to rush with it to the threslier close by. The mill was just sixteen roils distant. At the drop of tiie hat the mules sprang to work, and in a minute and a half about a peck of threshed wheat was in the sack and on a horse that began a race for the mill. A minute and seventeen sec onds later the flour xx'as delivered to Mrs. Laxvton, and in 4 minutes, 5 sec onds from the starting of the reaper the first griddle cake was eaten. In 4 minutes 39 seconds from the starting of the reaper a pan of biscuits was passed out to the spectators.” TEARING THE BIBLE TO PIECES. The Rev. W. H. H. Murray Gives the Result of His Investigation. [New York Times, Oct. 1.] Rain was falling, and only about 250 persons went to Chickering Hall last ex-enitig to hear the Rev. W. H. H. Murray speak on the subject of “Chris tianity vs. Theology.” Mr. Murray came upon the stage wearing a long black coat, black trousers, black neck tie and xvhite collar. His iron-gray hair was parted on the side and brush ed up high. His moustache was hea- x-y and plentifully sprinkled with gray. His face was ruddy. One but ton of ills coat, the middle one of the three, xvas left free. Into this ojiening in the brest of his eoat he thrust his right hand, upon which were the three fingers that were imitilated while ginning on Long Islaira some yeflrs ago. The defects were scarcely noticeable. His presence was com manding, and the audience, although small, applauded him x'igorously. He placed his book of notes on the read ing-desk, under a bright light, and without a word of introduction started out. His tones were loud, and as clear as a bell. There was a peculiarity about th^prouunciation of some xvords as though he were partially tongue- tied, but it did not detract from his speech, which was pleasant to listen to. The question thrust itself on him at liis study door, he said, whether what was put forth as the Word of God was right or wrong. The opportunity came five years ago when he left the ministry to consider it. He found that the thoughts of Jesus, taught so sweetly on the Mount, were written years befre the birth of the foundling boy Moses. He knew that races lived on the earth 100,000 years before Moses. They lived under equitable govern ments, were civilized, possessed arts now unknown, and built cities, be side which modem ones appeared plain. Jexvish books contained no knowledge of the past except tradi tions that were picked up aud were mythical—traditions almost totally swalloxved up by deepening ages. Moses was adopted by a Princess and educated as the son of a Prihcess. The speaker had no doubt Moses wrote out the history of creation as he was taught it by priests xvho were so Jeal ous of their knowledge that they did not trust it to writing. There was not a single book in the old Testament that could be satisfactorily accounted for. Mr. Murray enumerated a few things which Christian theology asked him to believe. F; st, that it xvas only 6,000 years since the world was crea ted. He found for more that 10,000- times 6,000 years human beings had existed on the earth. Secand, that- man was created out of elay and. woman out of a rib. This waa-nn.bet ter nor worse than a dove a. other iu the earlier ages men Jived from 500 to 1,000 years. This w as so opposed to the laws of structure au'd decay as- ix> be incredible. Fourth, that 4^06(9 years ago the world was inundated], and that two of every kind were pufr aboard a vessel no longer than ordina-- ry ocean ships. This was absolutely beyond belief. Fifth, that at the bid- dong of a mortal man the sun and the xvhole solar system stood still. This, too was incredible. The Old Testa ment was the work of a few painstak ing Jews who wanted to preserve the history of their country and gathered together the scraps and traditions. One of them confessed that he bor rowed from the pagans, and thus pa gan fables became Christian doctrine. The doctrine of inspiration xvas not known to the primitive church, but xvas progressively worked up. As taught to-day it was not taught by Jesus to tiie disciples nor by them to tiie people. As it stood to-day it was a bold aud gigantic fraud against the prosperity of the church, the growth of thought, and the disposition of the soul. It was made up by church councils composed of ambitious scheming Popes and priests, xvho packed tiie convocations as the politi cal primaries were now, and often to spite the minority. Progressive thought objected to the whole body knoxvn as dogmatic theology. Men xvere no longer tortured by theology. Tiie laity were takiug the place of priests and letting in rays of light. If tiie fog was swspt away the sea was left, the clouds were sxx-ept away the sky was left. Sweep away the fogs and the fogs and clouds from the dome of Christianity and God was left. Him men would obey, trust, and loxa* and meet what was called death as the birds greeted the sunlight. Then tra dition would be first a curiosity of re ligion, and afterward a horrid relic of barbarism. -If The xx’omen engaged in temperance in Iowa promise to make their influ ence felt on election day. Women hax'e been designated to stand around tiie polls and peddle temperance tick ets, others have been assigned to the duty of praying throughout the day for the temperance cause, and still others have been ordered to preside ox’er tables xvhere lemonade and cake are to be given away to those who This is push- I promise to vote the temperance ticket colored men that any Republican. for 1 ing the adx'ertisingof a newspaer en-lThe women of lowaaremakingax ig- * terprise to tho utmost limit. ^orous fight for temperAUtce, The Japan Weekly Mail gives pn6- j licity to a terrible story which comes by telegram from Hiroshima. It is to the effect that on the night of the 3d ultimo, at about 10 o’clock, a fire broke out at the jail and spread with such rapidity that all the buildings from the First to tiie Twelfth ward were destroyed in a x'ery short space of time. In each ward from 30 to 80 criminals are confined, and it is stated that the occupants of the Fourtli and Fifth wards, 61 persons in all, were burned to death, while 156 prisoners were more or less severely injured. One hundred and twenty escaped, but of these 15 were recaptured the same night. A letter received in Raleigh from a gentleman in Boston gives assurance/ that the North Carolina exhibit at tiie Boston exhibition is already bearing fruit. Tiie display strikes the New Englanders x'ery forcibly when they compare North Carolina products with the yield of their own sterile soil. Sonic companies are formiug to go to North Carolina, and capitalists are considering the propriety of starting cotton factories in. that State* up ■s- N. TV , K/.-/- - - *> i