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THE BY DRAYTOY & McCRACKEY. [AIKEY, S. TUESDAY, AI UST 19, 1884. VOLUME 3.—YUMBER 42. Miscellaneous Advertisements. Professional Advertisements. BARRY’S (SOUTHERN X lULlRIfllh D. 8. Hexdersox. E. P. Hexdeesox. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. THK DOOMED MAX. ANTIDOTE! A POSITIVE CURE FOR Geo. W. Croft. J. Zed Duxlap. M AND TO! -ALSO- [SWAMP k LOW COUNTRY! SUDUDSl -ANI> )F AT.L KNOWN FORMS AND VARIETIES. PREPARED BY E. BARRY, AUGUSTA - - GEORGIA. C^Sold by all Druggists. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practices In the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in all the State and United States Courts. Special atten tion paid to collections and Invest ments of money. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C Emil Ludekens, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C Will practice in all the Courts of this State. All business transacted Aith promptness. Wright’s Hotel! S. L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., COLUMBIA, rjiAffi s. c. [AffLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. Rates reasonable. SUMMERVILLE HOUSE. H. A. Smyser, (Formerly of Aiken, S. C.,) ers inul^^^^^^^Killngeof Summer ville, neur finely situ ated, with splendiiWnves and pleasant walks. Churches very convenient to the house. The house is neatly and comfortably furnished with everything necessary. Rooms and halls well ven tilated and heated. Mails delivered daily. Terms moderate. Apply to H. A. SMYSER, Sand Hills, Augusta, Georgia. James E. Davis, Attorney at Law, Barnwell Court House, S. C. J. VV. DEVORE. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. Aiken, S. C. < DeVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Aiken, S. C. James E. Davis,) (Arthur B. Sawyer Barnwell, S. C. ) ^Columbia, S. O’. Sawyer, Davis & Sawyer, Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention will be given tfl.hu- .utIs collections.' BY ADDISOX ALEXANDER. D. D. There is a time, we know not when; A point, we know not where. That marks the destiny of man To glory or despair. There is a line by us unseen, That crosses every path; The hidden boundary between God’s patience and his wrath. To pass that limit is to die, To die, as if by stealth; It dues not quench the beaming eye, Or pale the glow of health. The conscience may be still at case. The spirit light and gay: That which is pleasing still may please, And care be thrust away. But on that forehead God has set Indelibly a mark, Unseen by man; for man as yet Is blind and in the dark. And yet the doomed man’s path below May bloom as Eden bloomed; He will not, does not, will not know Or feel that he is doomed. RaAnows ho feels that fill is wrU And every fear is calmed; He lives, he dies, he wakes in hell. Not only doomed, but damned. O, where is this mysterious bourne, By which our path is crossed ? Beyond which God himself hath sworn That be that goes is lost. How far may we go in sin ? How long will G od forbear ? Where does hope end ? and where begin The confines of despair ? An answer from the skies is sent, “Ye that from God depart, While it is called to-day repent, Ahd harden not your heart.” jority, Presic It is has H light.J eddi in thJ rejecl “G1 i'j could ever be both right and ent at the same time, the “Glorious Minority" that d the world from darkness to Condemned, despised, reject ring life, they have triumphed end; while the dull majority, ing, rebelling, resisting the ious Minority of its own time, eagefrly seizes upc u ♦ he cast off ideas of tljie minority of a preceding age, andlthus furnished forthwith proceeds to Cjpmbat, and, if possible, to crush thelideas which it will end by accept- ingl when they, too, have .become old anj worn. Meanwhile this burly it, whoso sole merit is his bigness, at* himself, like him of Gath, and claims himself a God. Vox pop- u/3, (JOxdei. f,, “Hear my brazen trum- peft—T blow it!" And so offends high heaven till the pebble from the sling on ti e shepherd lad records another ttriumph for “The Glorioua Minoritv.” "j— — . B. EI..L.IOTT. AnotherqJ|cSouth Caroliim. Thfeves (jic to hts,Ac£ofmt. A New r^lfns dispatch to the New York Tin t 1 under date of the 10th instant, g k the following account of the life ar>ftath of RobertB. Elliott: “Robert. Elliott, a very black ne gro, well «acated and of considerable abililty dii here this merning of ma larial feve He was in Massachusetts and remo’.d to South Carolina dur ing the pwf£ r reconstruction. There he becami fpefcker of the House of Represent)(-'es and afterwards a member $>i Congress, but resigned to accept the iorney-generalship of the State. Aul he collapse of his party in South |'*olina Elliott removed to New Om^is, where he became special ageiV r the treasury depart ment. ‘Unta iuately allying himself with the o^dtioti to Kcliog he was luce that time had PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, S. C PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and ■Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Cheek to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Augusta Hotel, LEWIS & DOOLITTLE, Proprietors. Large and well ventillated rooms; Rates $2 per day; centrally located near railroad crossing; telegraph ollice avid barbershop in the building. Augusta Hotel restaurant and lunch room; choice wines, liquors and cigars. tSTMc&ls to order at all hours. GraniteviUo Hotel. MRS. N. E. SENN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving parties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. SEN D FQH^TCEl tlSt. aasCTET. RepainrvQ' - a'/S pe'ci Ally. $ Dr. B. H. Teague, D list. -OFFICE on- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. II. Burnett, Dentist. OFFICE at Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE AT- Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. Will attend calls to the country. -THE- Georgia Chemical Works. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fertili zers. M. C. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. Russ & Stothart, GRANITEVILLE, - - 8.C. -DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, VARNISHES, , PAINTS, Oils, Glass, Putty, Fine Soaps, Per fumery, Dye Woods and Dye Stuffs generally, Spunges, Brushes, and all articles kept by druggists generally. tST Physicians’ Prescriptions care fully compounded. Langley Brothers, 1G4 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C., Manufacturers of Ladies' and Gents' UNDER WEAR. o A LOT in the Town, with Dwelling > ■ ef tWree tooths,~ uh utlky terms. Apply to CLAUDE SAWYER. H AVE your Osnaburg Underwear for Rheumatism, made by Langley Bros., and save money. tSPFull price list and directions for | measurement sent out by Langley Bros., on applieat ion. PflLMEnO WORKS ESTABLISHED 1850. GEO. A. SHIELDS, Proprietor, Manufacturer of STEAM ENGINES, BOILEBS, SAW MILLS, Grist Mills, Cane Mills, Cotton Presses, Etc. Pulleys, Shafting and Gearing, Pipe and Fittings. Iron and Brass Castings made to order. COLUMBIA - - 8. C. FROM THE PRESIDENT OF BAYLOR 0NIVERSITY. “ Independence, Texas, Sept. 26,18S2. Gentlemen: Ayer’s Hair Vigor Has been used In my household for three reasons:— 1st. To prevent falling out of the hair. 2d. To prevent too rapid change of color. 3d. As a dressing. It has given entire satisfaction In every Instance. Yours respectfully, Wm. Carry Crake.” AYER’S HAIR VIGOR la entirely freo from uncleanly, dangerous, or injurious sub stances. It prevents the hair from turning gray, restores gray hair to its original color, prevents baldness, preserves the hair and promotes its growth, cures dandruff anil all diseases of tho hair and scalp, and is, at tho same time, a very superior and desirable dressing. PREPARED BY Dr. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. The Glorious Minority. Tho following is from The Bistoury, a medical journal published at El mira, New York: We Americans are so accustomed to the rule of the majority that we have come to accept it as a sort of Divine Right, which it is almost blas phemous to question. “ Vox Populi, Vox Dei,—The voice of the People (with a big P) is the voice of God,"— is the popular shibboleth, and a de nial of this faith, or even a half hearted support of it, would be enough to ruin the prospects of any “rising politician." But, suppose we drop the “Bird o’ Freedom" business, and look at tho matter calmly and dis passionately, without fear or favor, shall we find “That the voice of the People is the voice of God,” and that the majority ought to rule be cause it is more likely to be right, or that the reverse is true, and that the rule of the majority is “government by the most ignorant because there lappens to be most of them?” In every community there are a few people who know more than the mass of their fellow-citizens, and the jium> nt wTse and true is not so large as those who possess these desirable qualifica tions in a lesser degree. Noah had an overwhelming major ity against him on the ark question ; Lot would have been defeated for mayor of Sodom by an unprecedented majority; Pontius Pilate permitted the sentence of crucifixion to be pass ed upon Jesus in obedience to the dictates of a majority of the people of Jerusalem, notwithstanding that he himself was obliged to declare, “I find no fault in him”; Copernicus was in the minority on the solar system; Galileo on the question of the earth’s rotation—but in all these cases the minority was right, and the majority was wrong. It will not do to come down much closer'to our own times for instance, lest we lay ourself open to the charge of partisanship; but the fact that any idea or opinion is held by the minority is jirima facie evi dence of its correctness—that is, if it is a new idea. With old ideas it is different; for thick-headed as the ma jority necessarily is, it is not abso lutely proof against the introduction of correct ideas, if they can bo forced upon it with sufficient persistency for a sufficient length of time; but it does take time, and meanwhile the “Glorious Minority" have gone for ward to a still higher plane, and are as far above and beyond the majority as ever. Why, if one wanted to test the probable truth of auy new statement in science, it would be safe enough to tell it to the first teu people who would listen to it, and if six or more accepted it to lay it away as a proba ble fallacy. The majority are usually wi:oiU’;i iind, Thcy^accept a new humbug with an eagerness proportioned to its absurd ity, aud reject a new fact in science with an incredulity which varies in versely to its inherent probability. That statement too strong? No, we think not. Look at the instantaneous popular acceptance of the Blue Glass cure. The central idea that the whole was greater than a part (the blue ray alone than the entire spectrum) was a self-evident absurdity, and the thermo-eicctric theory by which as serted virtues of blue glass were sought to be explained, was equally ridiculous; but the majority believed it with great enthusiasm and a una nimity very much the same as that with which it refused to believe in the locomotive, the telegraph and the tel ephone until these tilings were forced upon its acceptance by the cold logic of physical success. No, we don’t want to be with the majority—we don’t want to be in the wrong. “For wide is the gate and broad is the way, and many there be *■0 in thereat." If we can have c *iiee we want to be one of that t ot company. “The glorious mi nority,” every time. When old Harry Clay said, “I’d rather be right than be President," he said a noble thing, worth all the buncombe about “all men being created free and equal," &c., &c., that that prince of dema gogues, Mr. Thos. Jefferson, ever wrote; but at the same time he passed Ths Gospel of Temperance By Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. What amazes and shocks me is to see tho wine bottle where it Is as fla grantly out of place as a bonfire would be on tho floor of a powder-mill. No Intoxicant has auy business to be on the table of a family which contains any boys, or on the table of any mis cellaneous social party, or in the cup board of any professional man, or anywhere else, in short, except possi bly in the hands of a very discreet and careful physician. Every bottle that contains alcohol contains a ser pent. « The serpent in Eden was not a more perfect embodiment of deceit A bottle of Bourbon or of Burgundy will deceive the very elect. I am con stantly called to labor for the reform ation of persons who began with the most honest resolutions to drink mod erately, but their glasses insensibly enlarged and deepened until they be came literally a pit of damnation! Some of the hardest cases I encounter are of those whose names are enrolled on church registers. In yonder lecture- room I have heard a man pray most pathetically for deliverance from the tempter, and yet lie has been tracked to a drinking-saloon on his way home from the praj-er-meeting! More than once he has been the subject of most loving personal efforts (once or twice of necessary church discipline), and still does he cry cut in agony from the bites of the serpent which he deliber ately put into his own bosom when he was a young man. He never whines about being “a poor unfortu nate victim,” etc., etc.; he squarely admits that he is a heinous sinner against God and his own soul. But shall | ^* 1 —^ — >eopiU U'liu, Trom thoughtlessness or from the tyranny of fashion, will set wine-bottles where they will produce just such conflagrations? In my hon est iudgment, Pat O’Rafferty, the grog-seller, will have no heavier ac count to answer for in the “great day” than will those reputable and professedly Christian people who place bottled serpents on their hospit able tables for the temptation and poisoning of their guests. Half the drunkards in the laud had one or more partners at the outset. God’s Word solemnly declares, “Be ye not parta kers of other men’s sins”; how much worse to be their tempters! The one momentous truth that must be instilled into the minds and con sciences of the young is that nobody can safely tamper with an intoxicating beverage. On the bed-rock of entire abstinence alone are they safe. I am willing to confess on this public page that I would no more dare to tamper with a wine bottle than I would dare to thrust a firebrand*into one of the pews of my church edifice. The ven- orable president of my college told me how often in his student days he used to listen to the eloquent sermons of Dr. ; but those very sermons were delivered under the inspiration of the wine-cup I The excuse was, “I lawyer" BHi, ty, was' Stanley and the Congo Atlanta Constitution. The honors that Stanley is now re ceiving in Europe are but just trib utes to his wonderful explorations and peace conquests. His bravery, perti nacity aud skill are deserving of all honor. He is a man of rare mental and physical gifts, and in the course of eight years he was able to do what all before him had failed to do—he opened up to trade and travel the heart of tne dark continent, the Con go basin that contains at least ten million peaceful people, and possibly forty million. Stanley went to Africa to find and succor Livingston, who was then cast away in the dark, mystcriou* land of fever aud death. In this mission he i was successfhl; and after he had given Livingston needed aid he immediate ly began a course of exploration that far exceeded in. ran&e and value *U reviougegbrts W* Africa. Tl THE FARM AND FIRESIDE. ALMANAC FOR THE WEEK- AUGUST 12j Tuesday 13!Wednesday.. 14;Thursday.... 15 Friday 16: Saturday 17jSuud:vy 88; Mon day tnm IISES SUN SETS MOON R & S 5: 7 7: 1 10:13 6. 8 7: 0 10:55 5: 9 6:59 11:43 5:10 6:58 morn 5:11 6:56 0:37 5:11 6:54 1:37 5:1: 6:53 2:42 Dill Arp Talks on Every Day Snbjects. Tho crops are laid by, but there is no rest for the thrifty farmer, and it is a blessed thing that the thrifty farmer don’t wapt any. Achangeof work is ajl-the rest he wants. Sop^jolks are constitutionally lazy and worlC-qnly when they are obliged, and they actually glad of any oxcuse to sti They like to go to mill and they like to Jika _ marked »bill- ^ A part in Europe>and was said tofcaye been a protege of Charles Sumner. Indeed, Is reported that Charit iesuxnner fe't that the at tack of P.Lton Brooks was fully avenged -jhe seat which that gentlemanTad occupied in, of Reprelntatives w: black maiW^khom the AbolitioaLjfcad given - lie life. 1 Jicit was a strong and log ical speak •, in the House of Rep- resentativi wa $ looked upon as a man of ni.pe than ordinary ability. The follo\jrijr truthful sketch of El liott was pwdished in The News and Courier in Re winter of 1870: Elliott a Massashusetts black man, a py>ege of Charles Sumner, and camef/South Carolina after the war in seajch of fame and fortune. In the Reco^tnictidn Convention he xploretTMTl mapped; pie of that imltognse section of the earth’s,surface were de'scEiljgd, and all other leading mysteries of tfm region explained. About aeVen years ago he marched from the east coast directly across the continent, coming out on the west coast at the mouth of the Congo river. He then made known to the world the possibilities of the mighty river- was rathe ed to the where extre»3 in 187^ During with Scott’s by the ments w vote of th South Cau can preach better with the help of a stimulant." He delivered a discourse once on the sufferings of our Lord that melted his auditory to tears; but his nerves were all on fire with Port wine while he was preaching! How this brilliant minister of Christ fell at last into open intemperance, and how bitterly he repented, and how he re formed and was reinstated, is still re membered hyafcw^^^ceonle. His CYCLONE INSURANCE. T HE Home Insurance Company of New York issues policies for damages by Cyclones or Hurricanes i a severe criticism on the goodness and and Storms. . goo d sense of the majority by showing how inherently improbable he felt it to be that under the rule of the ma- IdnipoHry fall is a warning, trumpet- tongueJ, to all of us hot to “look upon a cup tnat stiugeth like a serpent.” The only gospel of temperauce I have yet learned, or which I dare to preach, is: Let it alone; it is a deceiv er; it hath power to cast both body and soul into hell. This is the prin ciple to teach to the rising generation. On this bed-rock of entire abstinence they can build safely. On that im mutable rock let us maintain and en large the temperance reform. omiuent, and was elect- use of Representatives, played some ability and itiy. In 1870 and again elected to Congress, terms his most note worthy eiploit was his visit to Colum bia in the iliterest of Governor Scott when that officer was threatened ehment. Elliott, as defeated impeachment of the substantial argu- never fail to secure the Radical members of the ina Legislature. lu 1874 he resigTedliiis lucrative seat in Con gress U> seek election to the House of Representatives, where the salary of the membeis is a bare $600 a year and mileacre -cn—» n come waiTTthe public do not know They do Hqpw that, he managed to live in extravagant style on six hun dred dollars a year, and a gratuity of one thousand at the end of the legis lative session. This gratuity he sold for a small sum, in advance, last winter. » As Speaker he proved to be a reck less partisan. The appointment of the committees is an example of his way of doijig business. On the com mittee of. ways and means, with eleven members, he put one Conserv ative. Thl Conservatives had one of the nine ihembers of the committee on claims 4nd had no representative at all on tqe committee on contingent These are the money and ing committees of the liott from the first was a strenuous < pponent of every proposi tion lookir g to retrenchment aud re lief, and v< ted for the passage of every injurious b 11 that ivas vetoed by the Executive, The crowning crime of his career ,s Speaker was his part in the electjJn of Moses and Whipper. Elliott Mjted for both the drunken gambler snid ruined debauchee, and took thtTflwor in support of the nomi nation of xVhipper. In his speech ho hipper was “a man of d culture, refinement and an whose election ivas y the Republican party." accounts, money-m! House. said that learning; dignity, a. demanaed In conclusion he said he would “measure I he Republicanism of the members < n the floor by the votes which the; • cast on this occasion.” Some weel s later, having quarrelled with Whi i)Der, he denounced that ipan of “ refinement and dignity” from the^toeaker’s chair as an “in- torial Africa, flowing from an interior basin that was at once healthy, fertile and exceedingly populous—a river of larger commercial possibilities than the Nile. Portugal had long claimed the territory at the mouth of the river, but had done nothing to establish a claim upon the great Congo region. Even her claim to the mouth of the mighty river was disputed by Eng land. Stanley came out in 1877. In 1876 the chief geographical societies of Europe met at the invitation of Leop old, king of the Belgians, at Brussels, and formed an association for the ex ploration of Central Africa. At that time they proposed to go to work from Jlanzabar way, but when Stanley hat! told the story of his explorations, the man and the work had met. The in ternational Congo association was or ganized under the auspices of King Leopold, and Stanley was placed in charge of the enterprise. He began about five years ago to open the river to civilization. The stream is navigable from the sea to Vivi, a distance of 115 miles. In the next 200 miles, or up toXeopardville, there are many cataracts. At Leop- pool, arid beyond are several thousand miles of navigable water. Stanley established twenty-two trading sta tions under the blue flag of the inter national association, made treaties with the natives, placed steamboats on the navigable portions of the river, and opened roads around the cata racts, and to-day the heart of Africa is open to any merchant or traveler who desires access to it. In carrying out this grand work Stanley acted with intelligence and skill. He had very little trouble with the natives, and his French rival was soon com pelled to confess failure. The territo rial sovereignty of the Congo basin is unsettled, but no settlement that the European nations can make will de tract from the glory that must always surround Stanley’s name. He has added to the known world a vast re gion, and he will rank among the very highest who have given to mil lions e benefits of religion, civiliza tion an^ commerce. He is an Amer ican, and a newspaper man, and if he returns to his home land he will bo accorded a reception that would not probably fall to the lot of any other living man. a KOf><3 ’ behaves himself de cently, but he 16ves to talk so well he can’t work. He will talk about the weather for half an hour without stop ping. He came to my house tho other day to borrow a spade and said he was in a powerful hurry to get back. With out thinking of the consequences I just asked him if the storm damaged his corn any, and that started him. He told about storms and hurricanes liow it drained the larger part of equa- from way back to his boyhood, and tgvale,-a: and a tew?;"-- --—-Ti For his famous Florida plea Web ster was paid $1,000 in ten $100 bills. He was engaged in study as the money was handed him, and, after giving a receipt, resumed ids work. That night the money could not be found, nor could the most diligent search re veal any clue to its whereabouts. A number of years afteward, Mr. Web ster, turning the leaves of a book long unused, found a $100 bill. On turning the next leaf he found another, and so on successively until the entire ten were brought to light from the place where he had absent-mindedly put them as he studied. For information and rates enquire r E. J. <’. WOOD, or S. OTT. Ex-Gov. St. John, the Prohibition candidate, says he expects to get at least 30,000 votes in the State of New York. He thinks he will poll a very large vote in Missouri, Kansas, Ar kansas, Illinois and Nebraska. In the North he thinks the Prohibition vote will be drawn princibally from the Republicans, aud will make the result doubtful in some of the Repub lican States. ' Three datrs after the election Gov. Chamberlain gave public expression to his view s. He show ed that Elliott secured hi i absence from Columbia, assuring him that the election should be postpoupd until after his return to the Capitol, and said: “The conspira cy appears* to have been carefully con cocted. Tiie color lino, the party line, and the line of antagonism to my ad- mi nistratif n, all were sharply drawn. * * * * I look upon the election of Moses aiid Whipper as a horrible disaster, j* * This calamity is in finitely grda ter, in my judgment, than any that hp-s yet fallen upon the State, or, I might add, upon any part of the South." 'fbe whole Union throbbed when theinews of the election of Moses jiny Whipper reached them, and the hejad and front of the conspi racy was Robert B. Elliott, the Radi cal candidate for the office of attorney general, j There is not a .worse or more dan gerous and^unscrupulous fellow in the State than R. B. Elliott, and he stands or falls ■wfith the rest of the ticket. The election of Chamberlain will car ry with it the election of Whipper. Any courJtenance of the one is aid aud comfort to the other. A relent less foe of jeconomy and reform, capa ble, vindiqtiv’e, and with no law but his own appetites and passions, R. B. Elliott is |he exponent of the lowest and most oppressive form of South Carolina Radicalism. Col. Coward and June Nomina tions. Abbeville Medium. Wo do not propose to enter into the fight now going on over Col. Coward, as it Is too late to bring about any good result. It would be more effect ual to keep quiet until just before nominations are made two years hence, and then open fire. This discussion about Col. Coward, however, is one of the evil results of the recent June nominations. The people feel hurt that these nomina tions were forced upon them against |their will and against the expressed of a* teHJon From 411 accounts John Kelly’s sore head.is improving, while Ben Butler’s Is getting worse. Ben ought to quit batting himself against the wall and hasten on that sea voyage. w.»ueS ot a Clubs that nominations should not be made in June. They thought it was a settled matter that nominations would not then be made; therefore no cry was raised against any one before the convention met. Tins was the understanding; therefore it is no strange thing that people should grumble, as they were virtually de- privsd of saying whom they wanted for officers. This being the case, the News and Courier shows a most blaud and childlike disposition when it asks why these complaints were not made before the nominations took place? The News and Courier ought to have known,—as it is generally a well in formed journal,—that the prevailing sentiment was against June nomina tions, and no one, it seems, outside of an interested few, knew that nomina tions would be made against the pre vailing sentiment. To prevent the News and Courier from falling into another like error, we shall state that had there been any idea of nomina tions taking place in June, complaints against others than Col. Coward would have been presented, but the people were misled and deprived of the opportunity of so doing. They were taken by surprise, and they now have a right to show their sentiments, though, as we said above, this is not the proper time. ■\V liile the nominations as a whole are not liked, the people of South Carolina will stand to them to a man; but it will be done with the distinct understanding that they will not again be gulled two years*hence. We would again advise, that as we cannot now help ourselves, that all discus sion of the matter be dropped. The convention made a fatal error; hut we can correct it two years hence. Woman’s rights and man’s rights have nothing to do with such part ners. In fact, all human laws are dead letters to the good. They do not need them. Laws are made for the Imd, and the frail, and the envious, and the jealous. I was thinking about this the other day in your town when I paid a friendly visit to a good man—a courteous gentleman—away up in tho third story where he kept his insur ance office, so as to have quiet and time for work. But he can’t dodge the callers and importunners even there. I have never visited him but what somebody comes and wants something, for they know that it gen erous and he is kind. There was a strong mi ruled women there who had come all the way from Cl i a petition, for woman’s talked pathetically about i leant' deel how a man hung to a sapling and never got nary bruise, but the wind blew his breath away and dident give him time to draw another, and so he died for want of breath, just like a cow dies when she loses her cud. He couldent work bellowes in such a wind. And he told how another storm blew an old cow head foremost against a poplar tree and stuck both her horns in it so deep they couldent pull her out by the tail, and had to saw lier horns off aud leave ’em in the tree, and they are now there. And so he kept on and on until I told him I had to go, for I was in a hurry too. That man has lost half of his life in talking. It always scares me to see him com ing. But there is plenfy to do between laying by r the crop and gathering time. August is the best month to cut the winter’s wood. It will burn freer, and even the red oak, that sometimes burns black and goes out, will burn well if cut down in August and sea soned a while. I’ve got the boys cut ting my winter’s wood now and will haul it up and stack it. Two of the fire places want wood two and a half foot long and the others will only Mb and then we cut it in two as we need it. Fifty cords will run us through a winter, Then there is the stove wood to get up, and that is a careful job for I never let my wife or the girls have any cause of complaint about wood or water in the kitchen. The wood must be dry'and split up fine and not too long. I saw up hickory and ash with the cross ent and after splitting up put it away under shelter, and I haul up the chips from the woods to sprin kle in. It is not much trouble to pre pare a frugal meal if everything is handy. The boys catch the chickens and fix them all ready. I won’t let my women folks do that. It is not a sightly job, and nobody' ought to have it to do but niggers nohow, confound ’em. But I believe in independence. I like to see a family independent and self-reliant. I know families who arc always alarmed for fear their cook will quit, and they don’t know whore to get another. And the young married folks nowadays are in the same fix about nurses for their babies; well, nursing is hard work, I know—nurs ing a fretful child is the hardest work I know of. I’ve had a hand in that business for thirty years and I would- ent go through it agaiu for a house full of gold. Many « night have I walked the floor in my long, white garment with a baby in my arms singing a lit tle monotonous song, while I was so sleepy I could hardly walk straight. Mrs. Arp had done her share over and over when she had tried and tried to quiet the little thing, and worried over it, and patted it, and nursed it on both sides, and at last, in a fit of despera tion, straightened up and said, “Here, William, “take your child.” I always Hother ativiiB? promptly; she always said “your child" on such occasions, but when ever I ventured to punish one of ’em she looked indignant and said “my r child." She will let me own ’em sometimes. I am sorry' for these y'oung folks who have about two on hand and are just beginning to get a fair taste of the consequences of cun- nubial bliss. I saw one the other night trying to quiet a little year-old and after long and patient efforts, he to had prepared a Wi! for the ’egislalure to pass for women’s veiWv aud protection. She talked about non entity so much that the colonel atop- lied her for a moment and said, with emotion: “My good woman, that may all be so up In Chicago, but it is not so at my house—by no means. My wife is an entity—a veritable living, moving creature. She has all the rights she wants, and I have all I want. We are a mutual protection society. It is my right and happy privilege to keep my wife In money, aud it is hers to keep me in a state of sweet humility and devotion. Really, madam, we do not need your law, and you must excuse me.” The strong minded woman didn’t subside nor wilt, but proceeded with her philanthropy with more vigor than ever, and her black eyes flashed as she expatiated upon her own un fortunate alliance with a preacher >vho imposed upon her and had her put into the lunatic asylum. Fiually the gallant colonel hinted that his time was precious and said lie would takejier pamphlet and refer it to his, lawyer, and if Ids Lawyer said fcign lb he would sign it. Then she turned her attention to me and asked me to sign it, and I said I was away from home and dident live in the county, and never signed such papers until I got Mrs. Arp’s consent, and so I took a pamphlet to look at, when she open ed her gripsack and pulled out two books on woman’s rights, and wanted to sell them at $1.60 apiece, but we re spectfully declined. I dident want to bo buying Chicago books from a Chi cago woman without consulting Mrs. Arp about it, for Chicago is a bad Iffta work up a divorce in my family.* Lastly, she asked us for a dime for the pamphlets, and we gave her a dime and a blessing, and the colonel intimated that if she would depart those coasts she might find more con genial victims. What a comfort it Is that we have not got such women down South, nor such preachers to marry ’em. When I told her that we did not need such laws in Georgia, that our wives were all happy and contented, and when they did not have laws enough that they made them at home, and when my wife wanted anything she simply said, “Be it enacted,” and it was en acted straightway and forthwith. The woman looked astonished and said, “It is not that way where I came from." Maybe it aint. Bill Arp. MISCELLANEOUS. Hon. Roswell P. Flower’s worst en emies say that he has never been a seeker after cheap notoriety. He has always been willing to pay market price cash down for anything of that kind he felt in need of. S One of the most accomplished wri ters and artists of England has re cently been spending a short period at Halloway Jail as an imprisoned debtor, in ordar to expose the gross iniquities of English law under which debt is still treated as a crime. A whole family was poisoned in Yonkers, N. Y., recently, by driuking cistern water that was contaminated with sewage. There was a cesspool within five feet of ^he cistern, and though they hair bbtR'IiMH Cdnieuled" the water was utterly unfit for use. exclaimed in mortal agony: ‘Oh please, Rosa, do please stop crying for the Lord’s sake." I was sorry for him, 1 was, but I couldent keep from laughing to save my life, and I want ed to exclaim: “Stand up to the rack, my hoy, fodder or no fodder, for its your child." There are inventions and inventions, hut nursing children and raising them lias to be done in the same old way, happy are they who can go through it with a philosophic smile. It is the great business of life and can’t be dodged, and it has its comforts and its rewards—rewards that are sweeter and purer and richer than any, ft>r they come to a man when he is old and needs them. Good children who honor and love their parents are treasures that gold cannot buy, and they make sweet and pleas ant the way that leads us to the grave. There is no prettier sight in all nature than an aged couple who live in har mony and have their children and grandchildren around them to give them comfort. Burns never wrote a tenderer verse than “Now we must tottor down, John— • But hand in hand we'll go. And sleep together at the foot, John Anderson, my J<*c. Ipswich, Mass., where Gail Hamil ton was born, will celebrate its 250tU anniversary August 16, aud the dis tinguished tvriter will read an origi nal poem on the occasion. There is no evidence to sustain the assertion that Gail was born simultaneously with tho founding of the town. The time will come when the Brit ish House of Lords will have to go. The absurdity of important ^Kiwera being exercised by hereditary legisla tors is appreciated now by the people of the nation, and it may be that be fore many years there will be as radi cal a change In the government as there was when the barons wrenched Magna Charta from King John. The Irish question will probably be one of the lesser troubles Great Britain will have to contend with in the near future. It appears that gambling is fast dy ing out in the West under the strict laws of the several States. New Or leans is about the only city where gaming establishments are licensed. In other places the frequency of the raids by the police and the strictness of Judges and juries are making the keeping of gaming houses a danger ous, if not unprofitable business. The heaviest gambling this summer is carried ou by the semi-professional swells at Long Branch and other Eas tern watering places.