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m CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. Miscellaneous Advertisements. -o F- WITH IRISH MOSS AND Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. The Mont Ffficaciov* Remedy for Coughs, Coups. Consumption and General. Debility. This preparation is retained the most delicate stomach, the taste ofthe Cod Liver Oil i>eing so thor- outfly disguised as to render it pleasant and ]»alatuhle. Each fluid ounce contains fift} percent, of pure Cod Liver Oil, with eight grains of Hypophosphite of Lime and four grains of Hypophos >hite of 8oda. Price, ; Small Size, 50 CU. Prepared by— ANDREW A. KROEG, Pharmacist, Charleston, 8. C. tSTEor sale by all Druggists. Professional Advertisements. A CENTRE SHOT. D. S. Henderson. E. P. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and 1 United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Croft. J. Zed Dunlap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, James Aldrich. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. -PRIVATE- Boarding-House! H. A. SMYSEE, COR. JOHN & WALKER STS., SUMMERVILLE, NEAR AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. THE AUGUSTA HOTEL! Augusta, “ - Georgia. L» E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor. ■T ARGE and well ventillated rooms, IJ centrally located near railroad crossing; headquarters for commer cial men; best $2 house in the South ; telegraph office in building; electric lights. Special rates by the week or month. PAVILION HOTEL. <JkarlcHton, 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 Xlheck toany ona on Train. _ _ _ ^ _ Wright’s Hotel! 8. L. WRIGHT & SON, Pfop’rs. TV. 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, Claude E. Sawyer, Attorney at Lav/, Aiken, S. C. j. w. DEVORE. Aiken. S. C. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. DeVore & Woodward,. Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of tliis State. Edwin R. Cunningham, 541 Broad St., - - Augusta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and Notary Public “with seal.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” Hr. Z. A. Smith, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSE, - - - - S. CSPOflioe near Depot. Hr. B. H. Teague, Hentist. -OFFICE on- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Hr. J. H. Burnett, Bentist. FFICE AT- i Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. COLUMBIA, S. C. tABLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. fSfTRates reasonable. Graniteyille Hotel. MES. N. E. SEiTN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving parties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. .Private Boarding. Most comfortable accommodations can be bad in the healthiest section of Aiken,, at $8 and $10 per week. In quire at this oilice. Private Board!! COLMBIA, S. C. -AT T1IE- “FAIR BUILDING,” No. 1G Plain Street, just east of the Central National Bank. Permanent and Transient Boarders accommodated. Terms given by the week, month or day Good rooms, good table and prompt attention. Mrs. WINTHROP WILLIAMS, P. (). Box 137. GO TO Hr. J. R. Smith, Bentist. OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. eg 5 ” Will attend calls to the country. 0. P. Boolittle, GiLLER AND PICTURE FRAME Manufacurer, 126 Jackson St. Augusta, Ga. Picture Frames Made to Order at Short Notice. NEW MOULDINGS CONSTANT LY RECEIVING. Regilding a Specialty. Old Frames equal to new. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged. W. A. RECKLING COLUMBIA, S. C. P ICTURBS sent, can he enlarged to any size, and will be returned for inspection. If unsatisfactojy no charge. Correspondence solicited. J. A. Wright, -BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,- At the Old Post Office Avenue. on Richland The host of material used, and any tvle of boot or shoe made to order. COHMANY’S Art Gallery! Y12 Broad St. - - Augusta, Ga For tha finest work in all branches of portraiture, copying and enlarging in Crayon, Pastel, Ooil or Photograph. Frames in great variety. Eaeli pic ture a work of art. iy Entrance to Gallery near Con federate Monument. R. N. Richbourg, m COLUMBIA, S. C. [Successor to William Glaze.] ESTABLISHED 1S36. Jeweller, Watchmaker & Engraver Carries everything usually kept in a ' first-class Jewelry store. All orders from the country promptly attended to. Satisfaction guaranteed. Boyce’s Barber Shop. I WILL be happy to receive my old customers at my new stand, on ! Park Avenue, next door to Warncke’s ! Bakery. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing executed in first-class] atyle. a . JOHN R BOYCE, 1 Geo. W. Williams, HOUSE, SIGN AND FRESCO PAINTER! Graining and Marbling a specialty. Old Furnituro polished and made a.- good as new. I^fOtiice No. 7, Up-stairs in Croft’s Block. Orders solicited. aroraves -Manufacturer of- All Kinds of Sheet Metal Work, Tin Roofing, Iron Roofing ! Cutlers and Conductors! Roofs Rc- jiaired and I’ainU d! Mill and E<h‘- tory Work! Hot Air Furnaces, JYn- tileitors, 6c.'-. At some of the Social Short Comings of the Day—Easter Festivals, Konnil Dancing and Freedom of Hahit Do- nonneed—A Powerful Appeal for Altar and Fireside. The following sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. A. Toonier Porter, at tiie Holy Communion Church, Char leston, S. C., on Sunday, April 26th, 1883: * His sermon was based on Colos- slans iii, 1: “If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above.” Dr. Porter said: In the discharge of my official duty to the flock over which in God’s providence I have been placed, I felt it Incumbent on me to bring to your prayerful consideration on last Sun day some of the tendencies of the times in which we live. Our enter prising paper, which, of course, is an thorized to give to the public any of the utterances of the pulpit, spread my remarks before the community, and from all that I have been able to learn, they caused some sensation. Of course you know that I would not have used the words I did unless I had been authoritatively informed, and knew of what I spoke. During the week I have received more than abundant confirmation, and have been strengthened in the position which I felt it my duty to lake. For thirty-two years I have given my whole life to the welfare of this city, and hope it is not presumption in saying in labors abundant I have been able to do some little good in my gen eration. Only one other clergyman, the Rev Dr. Pinckney, has lived among you so**long. I have seen a great many changes in Charleston— the rise and spread and disappearance of some things, good and bad. I have raised my voice in these many years for and against some things, and feel that I would be recreant to that trust which age and an open life among you in the work of Christ’s Holy Church entitles me to hold, if I did not boldly, and without the- fear of any one, call your attention to any thing which from time to time I am convinced is militating against the spiritual welfare of the church. Of course I have no individual contest with any one, nor do I presume to dic tate to others as to their views of proprie y or impropriety. But this 1 have done and will do again; I will call to the attention of members of the Church any inconsistences be tween their lives and the teaching of the Gospel and the Church. I know that even some members of the Church are restive when the clergy presume (as some have said) to tell the people of their faults. I have heard of members of a congregation going Qui of Church and expressing because Lt, had / Bomewhat sharp ly rebuked them for ^indifference to the needs Of the Churih, saying that he had no right to te^ these things. It is just as well for the people some times to understand that the Church of God is not a voluntary society; that its officers, bishops, priests and deacons are not their representatives, elected by their votes, but that it is a kingdom—the Kingdom of God and His Christ—and they are His com missioned oflicers and exercise some authority; and that introduction into this kingdom and member ship thereof, while it confers inestimable blessings, also entails very serious obligations and responsi bilities. If any one wishes to with draw from it, let him or her go at his .or her peril, and join themselves with the rabble who once cried, “Crucify Him.” But this will not prevent a faithful-living ministry from pro claiming, “Repent ami fc* your sins, lest some evil come to you from an angry and avenging God.” T*ow, I propose, to go a little farther into this matter. For several years past the solemn Lenten season has been abused and missused by many members of the Church in this city in great preparation for a so-called Easier entertainment ostensibly for the benefit of some very laudable ob ject. To my certain knowledge, some- parties who last year were drawn into til is vortex were so convinced of the inconsistency of these proceedings and so realized the dissipating influence that they refused to engage in it again. I know of parties who felt constrained to abstain from the Holy Communion at Easter because of the wasted Lent they had passed in re hearsals at the theatre and quid dances after them. Is that one fact not enough to cause any pastor’s heart to ache, and to induce him. if lie val ues the souls of his people and lias any sense of responsibility, to call a halt? On tiie Sunday before Ash Wednes day this year I warned my people against partaking in this amusement this year, and if any of you did you went right in the face of that office which is ordained to watch your souls, and in defianccof Him who has said: “He that heareth you hearelh Me, and he that heareth Me heareth Him that sent Me.” Now, my brethren, I ask you ns Christian people and as churchmen and women, if the ordinances of the ! Church have any claim upon your at- i teution and obedience? If so, what H AYING every facility for con ducting our business* with dis-, ... . , ,-.1 • patch and satisfaction, 1 respectfully i c.aim have you to be a Uhnstjuu ora solicit a share of the patronage of Aiken and the surrounding country. W. II. HARGRAVES, 541 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. The Place for Bargains. J. C. Stanley & Bro., Dealers in churchman? If they have not, then what is the reason of Lent? Is it not inexpressibly bad when adults ■ make a shame of it, and expose the 1 Church to the just scorn and ridicule i of those who have discarded the an- | eient, catholic use and custom of the church; and who by abstaining from Bad enough for adults, but it be comes heart-sickening whei! the dear little children are drawn Into this vor- tex-their young hearts aad heads filled* with the emotions which the drilling and dressing and stage effects of a thea trical representation betore immense and applauding audiences inevitably produce. My voice, feeble though it be, is raised in protest against this mis use of God’s fairest heritage. It is iu the interests of the dear lambs of Christ’s flock that I plead with the Christian mothers and fathers, of this Christian city now and forever to put a stop to this profanation. It is easy to swim with the current. I know that I expose myself to un popularity, but I did not give myself to Jesus Christ and His ministry with that view. I am sorry if any one does not like me and is offended because I tell them the truth, but if I was sure I would be stoned in these streets for speaking it, I would speak it all the same. Parents, do you reflect whaj 3'ou are doing with your children? I hear it was beautiful and pleasing and entertaining! Why, of course, it was. If all its naked ugliness was mani fested very many who crowded to see and enjoy it would have shrunk away with horror. Satan beguiles, he paints, he leadens on*from step to steo, he blunts our sensibilities till we are able to enjoy, or at least raise n<r voice against that which our con science would once have scathing ly condemned. The marvel to me was how when that ballet dance was in troduced upon the stage, with those dear little ones the unsuspecting pup pets, that every Christian woman, at least, had not risen and en masse have left the place which their presence countenanced. It may make some angry to say so; but if there is in the religion of Jesus Christ any vitality left among us, I know in the heart of thousands the feeling will rise, when temper is subdued, and say you are right! Christian parents, what are you do ing with your children? Do you think the influence of those misspent sacred days and weeks—yes, even Holy week—has passed away from those .young hearts? How dry and insipid, their prayers at your knees. Bible, what a dull book after.-the foot lights, and the rouge, and the coa^ tumes, and the great thunders of ap plause. What a preparation for their schooldays. What of Sunday-school and the Church? Think of some of the impressions made upon the chil dren themselves, which j'ou have heard, and do you think that God will bless parents or children? Think of a child who had just given herself to God, against her will, c&mpelled to go and do what she had given her pledge openly she would not. These aresome fruits of modern society. * may say .you might as well rp Niagara. If the Christian of this City would say this be abolished^ round dancing Vanish quicker than it came, as firmly as I live that the dc- tion of the day, which is an cret freely discussed, has its iu this pernicious amusement iry glad to find in a recent con with that scholarly and emim n divine, Dr. Junkin, that he agree: “yith my views entirely. I‘do not In vw a Christian minister or a Christ jjn man or woman who has ina'hachy attainment in the Christian life v. vo does not condemn and abhor it. dNJiavc got to rise and assert our- Ther^ is, however, enough truth to make itself felt. I ac ’^YXlge that I have been weak ugf. of the well nuiiifiXiAiiiated. trims nr — porous entertainment. Oh 1 in a few, few short years we men and women will be under the sod; but if this is to goon, in a few years these children so trained will be the men and women, the mothers and the fathers of the future, and where will society be then ? Where the Church ? Where the spirit of the living God? This is as good a time as any to say that the present condition of our young people is alarming. I ask you, Christian parents, if the family, the fountain of life and the bulwark of the Church and of Society, is not in an unsatisfactory condition? Is there not great restiveuess under parental authority? Is the wish of the mother tiie law of many daught ers and sons? Do you find if vou thwart the wishes of the children that quiet submission is at once accorded? Are you not argued with? Are you not regarded as harsh, as peculiar, as old-time iu your notion? Do you not find the pressure from without so strong that you sometimes give way rather than make your children singu lar, or unpopular, or out of Society? I beg you to look at the behavior of many young people in the streets; the rather loud manners of the streets; the boldness of the intercouse between the sexes; the demoustrativeue^ in the cars; the very shocking behavior sometimes in the church of God—not confined to boys and youths? I am not the only observer. I hear a great many people talking of these tilings. Their private position does not give them the opportunity to call atten tion to where we are drifting. Mine does, and I fear God more than men, and therefore will I speak. Are not our young people going too fast? Are they not being exposed to very many incalculable evils? Are We not tol erating, without remonstrance, the introduction into our best circles of a style of dress at evening entertain ments which cannot be called modest? Are we not letting our young daught ers go out from balls and parties walk ing through the streets at late hours alone with youths? Oh, are we not letting the bloom of innocence, puri ty and modesty be rubbed off, for fear of being thought prudish and old- time in our notions—a bloom which once lost can never be regained? I am perfectly aware that I will not be agreed with in that which I am about to say. I remember very well when in a private house in this city tiie modern round dance—not one- tenth as objectionable as now—was first introduced. It was a shock. It took some time to familiarize our so -, ciety with it. But now every other dauce is too tame aud stupid. I have even heard it said young ladies would not attend a party unless they were to have the round dance. And I have seen with my own eves such exhibi tions on the floor that my spirit has been fired with indignation. Ido not say that I believe dancing is a sin—a selves left in kno e iou^ to permit the introduction of this d#;iee where I had control, but bavsr^Lton? so for the last time. Cir-jpn parents, every one of you, let iFjfcOiLmand go out from your flresiuf s: This thing is done, your daugn.ars shall not dance the round dance,'and you have cut out one of the n;Tiiu roots producing the evils you rl^Mlore. -Yfiu cilnnot trim and fe-ls*"ind that and leave the moralizing influence at work, u do not deprive your daught- hy real good. The generation which* knew no round dance had as happy] a time, yes, happier, because purer,£han any who have indulged in prominent physician to me one week ago—a man communicant of the Churoi:.; “j charge the pulpit with dereliction 0 f its duty. I speak as a physifpsm and I speak that which I knoic 4ih&t the round dance is a i>hy- sical, ^ioral and mental evil unmiti gated; that to it* directly may be traceij^Shysical and moral evil that has hc-jeti irremediable.” My j;\t>rds will fall unheeded on maayYars, but they will accomplish hereunto they are sent. God Is for love to the people, love ‘, love for society, love for love to God, love for the Lord, who came down to in’s womb and went up to ne and Cavalry and the the Garden in our behalf, eak theee plain things to you. te td you incident after painful, distressing, shoek- i have no pur pose to expose blic gaze our shame. If the the things which have been poken about were printed implore that the type be ip. ^ a great deal has be'en done essly—unintentionally to do ut the sober second thought, reflection of the truly will ere fed fight. The “round dance’, which by sheer force of its sensual intoxication, has driven out the graceful and inno cent dances of the past, and is the very plague spot of modern society. The trouble is that it is so bad that we can not tell to maidenly ears the evil truths which would make them abhor it. You may rely on my heartiest support and co-operation in all efforts to remedy so flagrant an evil. Faithfully yours. Robert Wilson. Franklin Street, April 27,1835. Dear Porter: Your sermon in to day's paper is a trumpet of no uncer tain sound, and I heartily thank you for Jt. It pleased me to find you had, in the matter of “round dances,” re turned to the position I have always held about them. To-day a reporter from the News and Courier called on me as an “in terviewer,” but as I have always seen more harm than good come of that practice. I declined to be interviewed on the subject of your sermon, as I would on any. other subject. With this exctq'tion j’ou may count on my support as a elericul brother who instructs his people from very much the standing point you now occupy on these questions. Yours very truly, Jno. Johnson. T cold mi we w brok .iali bus tof them r them ' " hat i9 perish this I be rii whicl at your out O] ioned, circle piauny pomi the evils to which we are jd, I am talking to those who ted sheep and the lambs commit DteA'ei 1 care — courso I cannot than r n y remarks go further ty flock. Ido not wish toregu- hear i *»l n trol any one else. If others God’s truth in vill do good, what is not will as it ought to perish. But ,y to j’ou, my people: “If ye Christ, seek those things 'e above where Christ sitleth hand of God.” Train ildren for God. Keep them the evil—let them be old-fash- let them be out of the charmed yotrf? °f the best society'; remember are a IS&glven them to God uud they God bers of Christ—children of pledgjeirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, hann<M to fight manfully under His devil J 1 a £ ai *JBt sin i the world and t he God si ^ring them up thus. Then if an d gboffid lay His hand upon them be sar** 161, them to Himself, you will to evfl e< * s tiug which must come uot ei r y s?Qsit ‘ ve i loar t tliat y ou had a thefP OSfc< t them to the influences of j^vn^tiical exhibition ; when you lie the ei to die yourself you will have vou ^ going away to tell Him on eaj^ tried to bring up the children ture fi 1 * 1 lia d given you, in the uur- <)piui QC * a< i*nonition of the Lord. ons ol Bishop Howe and Other Members ofthe Clergy.* CfiARLESTON, April 28, 1885 your ®ear Brother Porter: I read ’Xe\v.^ trmou >vhich was printed in the much* an< ^ Courier yesterday with You hderest, and thank you for it. for t jave struck a good sound blow otbei u th ft nd purity, ami if it has no test. e iiv c t it will be an earnest pro- Tb< „ • iect l ” 0 P () rter called upon me to col A New Diagnosis of Grant’s Case. Carolina Spartan. The sudden turn in the reports of Grant’s disease has surprised the country'. It is enough to bring the skill and knowledge of the attending ihysicians into ridicule, if not con tempt. A little incident may throw some light on this cancer business. About three weeks ago a small party of gentlemen were spending a social evening in a private parlor in New York. They represented both the po- itical and financial interests of the country’. An evening paper was brought into the room. One of the party picked it up saying: “Well, et’s see how poor Grant is getting on. le will hardly’ live another day.” One of the party present, who knew something of the Grant-Ward affair, said: “Pshaw! that’s all stuff. You need not believe a word of the dis patches. Grant has no cancer and there is nothing at all the matter with him. As soon as Fish is sent to Sing Sing, Grant will go to Europe with his daughter and after a time he will re turn a w’ell man. Arthur will also re turn to New York, from which place lie has absented himself since the- inau guration. Getting Fish out of the way aud Ward where he will tell no tales, will have a wonderful curative effect o» the cancer.” Now these words were spoken when Grant was ^t his P-FlfcAV invest! was goiogon. Soon Fish wasISWTt to prison. In less than two days Grant was pronounced better aud bis im provement has been so rapid that a European trip may’ not be necessary to restore him. Arthur returned at once to New York and entered into partnership with his old partner in the practice of law. This is a strange sto ry and the distinguished man, who declared that nothing was the matter with Grant, when the country’ looked every moment for the announcement of his death, may know much more of the true inwardness of this Grant- Ward swindle than he was willing to^ tell that little party’ in a private New York parlor. The public may learn more of this strange story’ as the case develops. There is no doubt that prominent men are connected with that swindle, whose names have not been brought to the front. We tell the tale as told to us. It seems like a true one. We leave it for phy sicians and New York reporters to work up. Mr. John. B. Harrell, of Georgetown, Dies in Great Agony lYoin Hydro phobia. Correspondent of the News and Courier. Georgetown, April 28.—Mr. John Burch Harrell, a young man of about twenty-seven years of age, died to day from hydrophobia. The circum stances of the case are about ns fol lows : One night about the first or middle of February, Capt II. T. McDonald, the stepfather of the deceased, heard a setting hen under his dwelling- house making a great fuss, as if it was being disturbed by a dog or something else. He rushed out of the house to see what was the trouble.. This aroused Mr. Harrell, who with his family, consisting of a wife and two children, were living with Oapt. McDonald, and he also went into the yard. He espied a small dark object running across the yard. It went under a small outhouse. He went there and found a block and chain attached. He pulled the block, and brought out a small dog owned by one of the negroas on the place. As soon as the dog saw Mr. Harrel she made for him, when a terrible conflict ensued. Mr. Harrell kicked the dog off sev eral times, but so determind was the brute that Mr. Harrell was forced to take hold of the dog, which by’ this time had bitten him severely through the hand and on the arm. Mr. Har rell finally succeeded in overpower ing the beast, and getting his knife from his pocket cut her throat. No one at the time thought that the dog had hydrophobia. The wounds of Mr. Harrel healed rapidly and his health was good, and it was not until Saturday morning that he felt any efiects of the disease. On that morning he said io his family, I have a peculiar pain in my shoulder and back. He then said to Capt. McDonald, “I am taking hydropho bia, and it will kill me.” From that moment ha began to get worse, and by Sunday night it was clearly’ seen tliat the case was hope less. This morning he was frantic, foaming at tiie mouth, and could only be kept in bed by main force. He had a horrible stare in his eyes and a fear fully wild appearance. He retained his consciousness, however, aud knew all who came around him. The sight of water would set him wild and bring on convulsions. He only couid be kept quiet by heavy doses of morphine. He showed symptoms of great.agony, though he never com plained of pain. This is the only case of hydrophobia known in this section for many years. “I wish I had wings like i*a aug*' 1 . 1 saida little boy on a fann, nAp taken a strong fancy* to tho -yours chickens. “Aud what wouIdYdn do if you had?” “I$>et you I wouldn’t Lave uo chicken hawks 't?rr* tlna place.”— Chicafitr rj‘crr/ef‘7* m '~ mm * It is stated that Uhiuese doctors make their prescription^ verylW/e— about two feet ftuig—ealHiflr to 20 Ingredients, So that the!- will have faith in them. WhCiHhey come to this confitry they soon Wan* to make small prescriptions arid Irirge hills. *• ' It is said that 'ex-Tanfmany Grady wan ts to go to Congress for the express purpose of aunoying and Irritating President Cleveland. Hb wants to a kind of political flea t ris It were.* If he should be ejected the Pt^si/wnt may have to lay in a large supply of insect powder. - - v ' ' i* hlu ^ * i Over 100 children have dfed"ffbm measles every mouth tills year ic $Vw York. The disease is of a verwMtf al type, one-third to one*-fonrth tfl'*the cases terminating in death. were three times as many-deaths £rcnii measles in that city, the past winter, us the winter before.’’•* Mr. John Cdhen, another of 1 the large liquor dealers of Athens* had his barrel sign taken down last Wed nesday. This is the last’of the'whole sale liquor houses in the city, and only’ a few weeks more and the fewre maining barrooms will have their doors forever sealed. “Well,"how did you like {he sermon to-day?” “The sermon?” .-‘Yep; you were at church, TterenR you?” “Why, yes, certainly.” ‘‘Thefc you can tell me how you likqd the sermon, suppose. You heard it, dkiu’t you?” “Heard it? Certainly not. belong to the choir.” ' * Some counties of Virginia have many goort immigrants from U}e North because of the neglected condi tion of the public roads. Ills difficult * to convince people that good roads make n country more preferable,and ands more valuable for every purpose except for taxation. This fact strong point. ^ ■ - - * Now they talk about running ifex- President Arthur for the;*Governor ship of New York, with a view to Life being again a Presidential candidate in 1888. It may well be imagined th«t he will be wise enough riot to go into that scheme. He will remember the fate of his friend and feUuw stalwart. Judge tfolger.- * -tjb ■ Is '• 1 fit. give 11 y public amusements, but by devoting danC e, the poetry of move- CHINA, GLASS, EARTAENWARE And House-Furnishing Goods ! f i COLUMBIA, - - SC. their time to preparation for a great carnival after the season has passed, r/aily partake, if possible in more utter worldliness than if they bad gone on in the usual routine of a not over spiritual life? meat stirred by music, is beautiful and innocent; but I defy any one to find poetry or grace or elegance in the boisterous rush of the modern round dance, tiie heated flushed faues of men and women in this monstrous suffrage, but I declined to not if*' 1 011 l * ie 8T° UIJ d that I would mon^ U3 wvifcwy’ou. -To print a ser- U p 0 Jaud then take a vote of clergy my s* 1 is not to m y notion. But lest youjlenee should be misconstrued by fash‘I 10 shake hands in this r^u on what you have said. upon re oue spot, however there mini perfJ men] 1 but ] which I congratulate myself- was no church to be built, or ter’s salary to be raised by the mances on which you corn- may be small comfort, This is something when nowadays nee for the church, and eat for urch, and drink for the church, ave theatricals for the church, ||we begin to think that we are a j J3 Jug Christians after all. This is tlj 060 ^ a church object in the affair j u silver lining. 0 . > p ( Jrhat you have said about wasted t i OJ jtunities in Lent, by r prepara- a(r r e for Easter holidays, I am fully’ “ 41. Bu{ I will say no more, save thank you. Respectfully yours, W. B. W. Howe. A Common Mistake. Atlanta Constitution. It is a common mistake to regard the term negro as synonymous with African. Tiie word negro does uot denote a nation, but an ideal type con stituted by the assemblage of certain physical characteristics exemplified in certain portions of Africa and their descendants in America and the West Indies. In Africa the area occupied by the genuine negro man with black skins, thick lips, depressed nose and woolly hair is exceedingly small com pared with the remainder of the con tinent. As a rule tiie prevalent color in Africa is that of the Arabs, the In dian and the Australian. The true negro districts are the Senegal, the Gambia, the Niger and the intermedi ate rivers of the coast, parts of Sou- dania, Seminar, Kardofan and Darfur. People who are certainly’ not negroes inhabit the whole coast of the Medi terranean, the Desert, the Kafir and Hottentot areas soutli of the line, Abyssinia uud the middle and lower Nile. This does not leave much terri tory for tiie typical negro. It is gen erally admitted that the negro intel lect is inferior not only to the Euro pean but to that of the lighter lined African tribes, but it is superior to that of the Australians. Bushmen and Esquimax. That the active influences of freedom and civilization will ma terially advance the status of this pe culiar race, is a hope indulged in by philanthropists am! statesmen. Time is the very essence of this great problem. President Grant and the Ladies. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat w>-.i|TAngrc ns on- thusiastic about hors^^ksthe men. They unhesitatingly p-lace the Wrses before themselves as the great attrac tion of the State, I remember hear ing a conversation between Gen. Grant and a Kentucky girl at the St, Louis Merchants’ Exchange in 1885, when President Grant was visiting the St. Louis fair. A number of ladies were introduced to the Presi dent, whereupon he spoke in very high terms of St. Louis, the fair, etc. “You are mistaken, Mr, President; we are not from 8t. Louis,” laugh ingly said one of the girls, “we are from Kentucky, a very line State, you know, which possesses three things all men of taste must appreciate.” Smilingly, the President asked her what they were. She answered: “We have the fastest horses, the pret tiest women and the finest whisky in the world.” The President re plied, “Your horses are certainly justly renowned; I have some of them on my farm near here; yourself and party prove the correctness of your second observation, but whisky is ouo of the things that requires age, and your men consume it so fast that it rarely lias a fair chance to become good.” The girls thought that, if Gen. Grant could not make a long speech he was apt at repartee. A London Journal-tella-ibis story of Mr. Spurgeon, who lately visited San Remo. On oneoccasion. whtm At* ■ 1^3 redoubtable preaehei; was o^dcY/ad by " the douaniers to give up to them. tain fruit which he- wtis earryinfi Thereupon he retired three paces WjjSf the French territory and ate it. ,— An exchange spys the negroes have made two important discoveries in the last six mouths: “First, that the. Republican party was not invincible, and second, that their rights a re just as safe under Democratic as under Be-, publican rule. The negro politicians who thrived at the expense of their dupes have not yet made the above discoveries. Thousands of hones^Iki-* dustrious negroes, however, have. *■ For several years past the State of North Carolina has been paying $12) per year as a pension to each of the 2> t ex-Confederate soldiers who lostbolh eyes, both hands or both legs in the war. The other day an old veteran of tiie Fourth North Carolina Regi ment, who lived away* up iu tho mountains, and who had lost* both hands, heard accidentally’ that he Was entitled to the pension. He ^ias al ready got his name on the roll and re ceived about $1,000 of arrears. «yr.- MISCELLANEOUS. The length of Seeratary Lamar’s daily pedestrian tours is said to appall the other members of the Cabinet. Miss Francis E Willard denies the Associated Press report that she re cently asserted that she had a “reve lation” on the woman suffrage ques tion. Dr. Pancoast calls the face “the play ground of the soul.” On this theory the Chicago man’s cheek must be a regular circus arena.—Boston Globe. . Ex-Senator George II. Pendleton, Minister to Germany’, has completed arrangements to sail for Europe on Saturday. He will be accompanied by his wife and daughters. Count Von Mollke lias fully’ regain ed his health at San Remo, but still looks thin and pale, which is not strange, considering tliat he is 84 old. He takes long walks Attorney-General Garland drinks no liquor. When asked why, he re plied that wandering through the cemetery at Little Rock he came to the graves of so many’ bright young men who began life with him but had fall en into dissolute habits ami died, that I he realized that he was about the only years daily. Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet, is 55 year old. He is near six feet tail, slender, with dark, dreamy eyes, delicate features and a low musical voice. His health has always been poor. Chicago Tribune: “If we had the English system of enforcing justice aud the English inodes of punish ment. such as long terms, absolute si lence, hard work, and only a sufficien cy of coarse food, it is likely’ that tho criminal statistics might decrease. A ybar or two of idleness in jail before trial and a year or two of idleness In jail after trial is only offering a premi um for crime, and even the increased discipline of the prison does uot act as a deterrent, us is shown by tbh statistics. # Fred. Douglass says he Will hold on- to his office as Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia if the Presi dent desires him to do so; if not, ho will go to Europe and fly arouud with his white wife.awhile. There is no j good reason why the President should particularly desire Douglass to hold on to his office. He docs not repre sent, or rattier exemplify, tho negro race, although he is &professionaftie- gro. He has liule in common with the people of his color, and he certainly has no claims on the whites. Ho should be allowed to go abroad, an that with as little delay as possibh. Edward Atkinson says that silver is not as valuable as are eggs. This may be true, but a pocketful of the former does not cause as much anxie ty as the same quantity of the latter. —Boston Post. makleston, April 27,1885. ! one left. Then he changed his mode jy c J- A. T. Porter—Reverend and Hher: Please let me thank ! end’ 1 ‘Utmost timely sermon. I k c dse every word . of it, haviftg •»r years enlisted in the same of life and began the present struggle that resulted in his present success. Dr. Mary Walker is lectuaing in a Chicaga dime museum. The oldest clerk iu the Treasury J'apartment was appointed in 1847 at a salary of $1,200. Ho now receives $1,100 a year—an iiiereas»of $200 in thirty-eight years. He has doubtless found it pretty bard to hold his place. Bishop Burnett relates a curious oh cumstance respecting the original pas sage of that, important statute, t?i. habeas corpus act.. ‘ft was carrbsi,’’ he says, “hv an odd artifice in lb.* House of Lords.' Lord-Grey aud LoH Norris were named to be the telki Lord Norris, beipg a man subject., vapors, was not at all times nttentHo to what he was doing; so, a very f ' Lord coming in, Lord Grey counh him for ten, as a jest at first, but see ing Ix>rd Norris had not observed it.* lie went on with this mlsreckoning of ten; so it was reported to the House, and declared that they who were for the bill were (be majority, though it indeed went on the other ( this mean* the bill passed.” ■ _ „ ... ISSiL