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vr.Jida AIKEN CHARLES E. R. DRAYTOIf, Manager. AIKEN, S. C., TUI 4* ECORDER. y. v rNE 23, I8S5. A'OLUME 4.—NUMBER 35. Professional Advertisements. r— ■- ■■■■■■— ■■ ■ ■ p. 8. Hkvdkkmw. K. P. HKXDEBwy. HendenpM Brothers, ^.TTORirKVs AT Lav, Aigex, 8, f}. Will praettoe in Mat# an Inited Staten (Tourtn tar South Can Prompt attetytfiffe Kipei. to col- Oao. W. Caorr. /, il*» Dcvlap. Croft & Dunlap, >.TTOBXKYA AT LAV, St, C F" ,M ‘ " " Jabs* Aldrum. Walter AhiIlkt. Aldrich A Ashley, Attorn ky« at Law, Axkkx, 8. C. Practice in the 8tat« aptl United Ptat«« Court* for South Carolina, W. Quitman Davis, ^itornkv at Law, AlKtiV# 8. C. Will practice in thp ptwrt* of thia Circuit. Spec la attonitoh glvm to collect iom. 0. C. Jordan, MY NEIGHBOR. -■rvuAV,-- Attorney at Law, A'^uv, 8, Claude E. Sawyer, Attorney at Law, Aikkx, part II. f hemtated at first if I ought not to put Mis? Knowles on her guard, by informing her of what had passeed, But I fe|t ashamed to disquiet her, no doubt needlessly, by repeating that vague sort of bh|£ter, and a», for the nejpt dAy*. Webster seemed quiet er than usual, I ended by myself for getting his word/,. But somewhat more than a week later, hi* manner suddenly changed, ft was one morning that he had a friend with him, whom he had brought homo the night before and kept to breakfast. This fellow, Moseiyl think was his name, was one of Webster’s own 8#rt, And the two were in oppres sively high spirits, Webster, in parti cular, making a great number of small jokes, pointless, as it struck me, but which appeared to afford him much satisfaction, and which lie accom panied, as I fancied, by sly glances at Miss Knowles for which I should have been delighted to ding the contents of my cofteercup in his face. Towards the end of the meal, Mose- ly reminded Webster of some Jptter wliioh tiip lattpr was to show him. Webster took out his pockefc*bo.)k, and began turning over the papers inside. “This it, (jSus?’ j said Mosely, taking liohj of fim nearest, a square white en velope directed in what looked, so far as I could see across the table, a very peculiar hand, Rut Wabstor drew it back hastily. “No that’s a private letter.” he n»- you. God bless you, and good-by for ever!” . W. OKVORK. Aiken. 8. C. g, wfttoWAKD. Aiken, 8. C. DeVore k Woodward, jAttornby at Law, 8. C. Will practice in alR tha Uoufts of fhla Htote. A Edwin JL Cunningham, 641 Broad 8t.. - - Al!«t’»T A . OA. De«4* s. Plo 4'onimtssioner of t'arolina. New York for South Louisiana, Rhode /Columbia, and Notary /Mai.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” rlda, Texas, Islaml, Djstrie. of tary Pliblh* “wIMi Dr. Z. A. Smith, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLU8E, r c * 8. C. ISTOffice near Depot, Dr. B. H. Teaguo« Dentist. IFFICfi OK- Bichlind Avenue, Aiken, S. C. k. Bttfncrr.WTT' >KFICK Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C, Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. 0. fV Will attend calls to t)ip pmintry. 0. P. DooMtiP, P1LDER AND PICTURE Mil ME Manufacnrey, Jackson 8t. AL’tipaTA. Ga. Picture Frames Made t§ Order at Short Notice, NKW MOULDINGS CONSTANT LY RECEIVING. Rogilding a Specialty, Old Frames /equal to new. sweredj and this time I could not mis? take that he gave one of those cold looks across at Miss KuowJes 1 “a very peculiarly private letter, that I wouldn’t, let out of my baud* for a double X.” “Well, you neadi/’t, be afraid of any making a bid for it,” replied Mosely; I’ve use enough for my double X’s without buying up ojd paper. Now, then! have you found the right tiling this time, or shall I call again next Christmas?” Webster, it appeared, had found the right thing, and the two witty gentle men presently deprived us of their coinpauy. “I don't remember ever to have seen Mr, Welister In sucli an agreea- ble flow of spirits,” said I to Miss Knowles, who, with myself, happen ed to bp the lust gt the table, “I won der wh&! »t hetokeps?” “No good to somebody,” answered Miss Knowles contemptuously, the first word she had ever said to me agaiut Webster. I was about to reply, when my foot topchpd something un» der the table, and stooping down I picked up a paper. ^ his letters—tlio peculiarly private’ one, perhaps,” I said, laughing, and, turning it over, recognized, in fact the marked hand-writing. At the same moment Knowles’ eyes Old Pictures Copied nnd Enlarged. W. A. RECKLING COLUMBIA, H, C\ P ICTUHBH sent can be enlarged to any size, and will be returned for Inspection. If uusatisfuebuy no /charge. Corres|Mmdeiu*p solicited. J. A. Wright, r HOOT AND 8HQK M-ARRH, At the Old Post Office op Rjejiland Avenue, The best of material awl. apd any (yle of boot or shoo ipmje to opder. Geo. W. WililtilllN, MOUSE, SIGN AND FRESCO . PAINTER! . Graining and Marhliiig a specialty. Old Furniture polished pud ipade us good as ne a-. UTOrtice No. 7, Up-stairs in Croft’s Block. Orders solicitei|. W. H. Hargraves Manufacturer of All Kinds of Sheet Met^l Work, Tin Hoofing, Iron Hoofing! {Jut ter a and Cundurtofs! Noftf* R r ~ jmirrtl and Puintft)} MW OUtl Earz tory Work! Mot Aif Funumfn, IV/i- titatore, hr. H AVING every facility for con-j confidence as you would resjiect mine, ducting our butiipp>s with dis- i ^aipp>i Ifpptlpy.” Apd with tlipt she j fell op the superscription, and her face grew white toher very lips. “My God! can it be—!” she gasped. —“Give it to me—the letter—the let ter”—impatiently, as I |ooke4 at her in bewijdepipept. I gave it to her, she tore it open, east one glance at the the signature, and then her hands as if palsie/i lef the paper fall, apd she sat staring straight before her with a look of blank dispair as I hope never to see again in any human face. . “What is tip* wrh t ‘r °f that letter to you?” I pried, with a pang of keeu, though undefined jealousy. “He wq.gacht* ifSr^ipy husband,” she {laid slowly, as if every word was a w^jght dragged from her. Then, with a sudden, feverish haste. “You did not expect to find menu imposter! Bpt remember, I warned you! Ah, you are silent! You would not drink that pledge of friendship now?” “Not to friendship,” I brqkc in, roused from jny stupor, “but to love! Why should a man you hate stand be tween you apd—” “Stop, Mr. Denvers,” she interpos ed gravely, stop, beforeyou speak any word to 4i***trpy the single pleasant memory of all my later j’ears. Do I look like a woman,” she continued, lifting her head, proudly, “to sacri fice hqpor to happipgss? Jfpve I given you a glance or tone that could let you think that?” “No,” said I bitterly, “yop have been prudppp** itself! it is so easy to be pnident, when one is so cold; so easy to say—G«4 for I do not love yop J” There wps p ipqmept’s silence; and then a voice, hut' voiop, but as I never heard it yet, 8|>eak my paipe; ‘George,’ it said, softly, “I do not say—(Jo, for 1 do not love you! but. Go because I do love you! Hqsli! You know me well enough to know that means good-by forever;—not one word more, if you would Ip*VP n ,e believe you worthy of my confession.” 8hc had known how to use an ap peal ipipossihlc to resist. I set my touth to fcpcp bfipfe the struggling word, while she continued, “I count on you to help instead of hindering me. I feel bni stunned, too bewildered to think dearly.” 8j|e tpok up the letter again, and lonkci) at it **» if some sort of conflict were going on in her mind. “Nonsense!” she said fliis ally,with a bitter Ijmilp; }! *ueh delicate Scruples are misplaced between hus band aipi wjto! I "ill respect your “Not quite yet,” I pleaded. “You will let me have one look, one word at the very last —I must, I will!” She hesitated; my face, perhaps warned her not to tax submission too far. . “You will promise nje. then, to make no attempt to change my reso lution, or to keep any hold on me? for Heaven, that knows ail I have borne and all I could not bear, in the old life, Heaven is my witness, that would return to it sooner than—I have your word, then?” You have my word,” I answered, perceiving by the determination in her features, that any hesitation would be worse than useless. “Come again in an hour, then, you will find me ready. My preparations, like my friends, are few,” s^e said with another of those bitter smiles; and with that we separated. I walked through the streets like one in a dream, seeing nothing befoYe me, nothing but what I had left be hind—the woman I loved passionate ly, and In one little hour’s time was to lose forever. But, with all the passion and will that was la me, I vowed that I would not lose her thus. I will fulfill the letter of my promise to her. I would not seek, by world or act, to sway her from her conscience; but I would keep myself informed of her movements, and contrive, some how, sooper or Jater, to be hear her; I would wait for her till death, if need were; but let her pass wholly and for ever out of my life, I neither could nor Would, On reaching the railway station, even my preoccupation became aware of some unusgul excitement. J join ed a knot of eager talkers, and learned that there had been an accident to a passenger on one of the eastern trains just ill. The stranger, Who according to the general testimony, had appear ed to be in a singular nurry and ex citement, and jumped off the train before it was fairly stationary—hud somehow slipped and fallen, and—had been taken up for dead. I made my way where the body was lying. It was that ofu man some thirty yearsof age,evidently belonging to the wealthier classes. The face, which was not disfigured, was hand some, in spite of the traces of passion and dissipation. He was quite dead; they had given up trying to restore him, and werp searching the body for identification. One of them, as I ap proached, had just opened a pocket- book filled with papers and marked inside with a name. I read the name over his shoulder. It was James Hunt- ley! 8trange chapter in tlu*_str»ntr*‘ >0- TTfiinue “mrerwoVen with toy life! This man’s death, so sudden, so little to be looked for, had come to cut the “George,” she answered, looking at me with the sunshiny eyes in which there was never any ice now, “dt> you remember saying, the day w-e met, that I was a believer in physiognomy? I think the mischief was dono when you looked at me with your generous, houest eyes, and offered* me that rash pledge of friendship; but I did not know it then, she added more grave ly, “or I should have run away from you.” “And you dare to tell me so?” 1 said assuming a jesting tone, for I didn’t want those old troubles to cloud her face. “Don’t you know that is high treason now? From this time forth you are to consider yourself as having no past, nothing but a present. Tbe tyrant has spoken ? Do you mean to obey ?” ‘lobey, George,” she said, hej love^ ly dark eyes looking earnestly into mine; “and I thank Heaven for giv ing me a present that makos obedience easy.” I took the soft, white hand that was so near mine and—but go back to your own honeymoon for the rest; for tausc my wife’s quotation, “I never kifs and tell.” [Concluded.] IINGTOX MONUMENT. amir ter It yeti they ’ lar ac that will the lightnl eided temj fearing strike even TEACHING EIXCOIiN TO HEAD. Unclc ATie’s Cousin Hanks Tells About | ‘ the Roy’s Early Education. New York Mail and Express. Denis Hanks, the cousin of the late President Lincoln, is still living in an 1 Illinois town, and a correspondent of | A EITTIiE IHjACK THUNK. ctsHls ArrapccnicntK IditlonnI Safeguards, rashington Post. (ittee of scientists whoex- 'ashington monument af- luck by lightning have not j the Indianapolis Journal has succeed- E , , l respectfully latch and satisfuetiui) of Aiken ami Mi'p country. W Wt WAKGRAVES, Ml Broad 8t:, AHglMft, (la- Tbe Place for JtaFg&mS’ # f € t Stanley 4 Bro„ Dealers jp-- — |lN A, GLASS, E AjyTAflN WARE [mf IIouaezFitrnithWQ ' ajmbia, ^ r a e, “n e will fojlow l at qt»ee—wl»JV opened the Jotter again read it ‘.hrough deliberately. !*I haye pofinic to loose,” she cried,! when it was finished.. T!l u t 1,,an 1 ^Yebster, lifts sqineliow discovered myj seepet 4imi betfaypd R to—to him”— ; striking the paper. Bis letter, he wrjica good Qod! lie may be here, then* ut any time—ihj* v Pry day! No, I have not an instant to spare.” Hfie stood up, and holding out both her bunds, looked long fttid pafnestjy in my face. 1‘Good-by, George,” she said; wher ever and whatever my life may lie, it Will t** the brighter for the memory of knot of all the doubts, the difficulties, the dispair which else might have en veloped the whole future of two lives. It seemed to me, that if ever I saw the finger of Destiny in any human event, I saw it there. I waited only long enougli to make sure that there was no mistake, and then hurried back to Miss Knowles —to Miss Knowles?—that is, Mrs. Huntley. Yes, for the first time, I realized that it was a husband’s dreadful death that I was hastening to communicate to his newly made widow, and I shrunk from my task. I knocked gent ly at her door. She opened it, and seeing U}<? for the first moment in silent surprise; then, put- ing the natural interpretation of her own absoibing thought on my return, so much before the time set, she cried out, “Jain too late, then, after all? He is here already?” “You have nothing more to fear from him,” I said gravely, trying to break the shocl> to her by degrees. But she did not nudersthand, “Nothing to fear, do you mean, from—from my husband?” she said slowly, with a perplexed look in my face. “You have nothing to fear from the man who was your husband,” I re peated distinctly. This time she caught my meaning. She grew white aijd !ipr lips tienjbjed so that she could sUarely ^articulate the word, “Tell me—” I gave her the briefest and most softened outline possible of what had happened. She stood like stone, only fier face showed that she heard. I never saw in any human countenance such an expression as that ip fiers tVldK* she listened—pity, relief, awe, all struggling together. Then she moved her lips, hut I heard nothing; suddenly she dropped to the floor and burjed her face in the sofa- cushions, while a voice I should have known for )}crs, said: “Go—leave me alone!” I had no words tor such emotions jus hers in that moment; J could only obey her in silence. As I walked ft'Viiv, iny mind going overall that had occured, I could not help recalling the old saying, that | man proposes and Qod disposes. This j scheme of Webster’s, laid witli such ! malice and treachery—\ye had reason afterward to think that lie hat} hftd ae- | cess to her writing-desk, and so dis- | covered lief secret—.-this plot, I say, 1 on which lie had counted to crush ! Jief utterly, had been the instrument, • in the lupuls of a mysterious Provi dence, of wording her deliyerencej working it after a terrible manner, it it true, but not the less freeing l;er« fu ture fron; a life-long shadow. I passed by the history of those sad days, days of suducsg if not of mounts ing—the months of seclusion and wait ing—to a time when I could claim her for my own before the eves of the world, and call my neighbor, my friend, by the dearest name of wife, “Eleanor,” I said to her on our wedding-day, asking the A Thought tor “Our Girls.” Our Sunday-School. “My hands are so stiff I can hardly mid a pen,” said farmer Wilbur, as he sat down to figure out some accounts that were getting behindhand. “Can’t I help you, father?” said Lucy, laying down her bright crochet work, “I shall be glad to do so, if you will explain what you want.” ‘Well, I shouldn’t wonder if you could, Lucy,” he said reflectively. ‘Pretty good at figures are you not?” “It would be sad if I did not know something of them, after going twice through the arithmetic,” said Lucy. “Well, I can show you in five mimutes wl/at I have to do, and it’ll be a wonderful help If you can do it for me. I never was a master hand at ac counts in iny best days, and it does not grow any easier since I put on my spectacles..’ Very patiently did the helpful daughter plod through the long lines of figures, leaving the gay worsted to be idle all the evening, though she was in such haste to finish her scarf. It was reward enough to see her tired father, who had been toiling hard all day for herself and dear ones, sitting soeozily in his easy chair, enjoying his wpekly paper. The clock struck nine before her task was over, but theheartyWThauk you, daughter, a thousapda. time,” *^#1 r Mir'*T» xyoop— '‘It’s rather lookiiR up, where a mjyi.can have such an amanuensis,” said the farmer. It is not every far mer that can afford it.” “Not every farmer’s daughter that is capable of making ore,” said the mother, with a little pardonable ma ternal pride, “Nor every onethat would be willing, if able,” said Mr Wilbur, which last was a sad truth. How many daugto tens nyght be of use to their father in this and many other ways, who never think of lightening a care or labor! If asked to perforin sonje JitRe service, it is done at best with reluctant step and unwlllingair that robs itofall sun shine and all claim to gratitude. Girls, help your father. Give him a cheerful home to rest in when even ing coiner, end do not worry Ids life away by fretting because he cannot afford von all the luxuries you covet. Children exert as great an influence on their parents, as parents do op their children. rmal report or the changes esirable to prevent a simi- As it known, however, rineja? recommendation nditioiial points on ic monument for the strike, Col. Casy de- ke immediate steps for prevention from lightning, mt a chance bolt might tonument again and cause mage before the entire changeMMch might be recoin me tided 1 could bftude. With this view, after submitinlri is plan to one of the com mittee, mj immediately approved it, as It w* in Uie direct line of their intended.'*, commendations, Col. Ca sey weuLo Philadelphia yesterday and ordtod four copper rods three- quarter^! an inch in thickness, which are to*.k,end to the outside of the roof of j|e monument, one for each face of t;e roof, and to he in direct connectia with the four copper rods which exend from the iron pilliars which q/V*pose the framework of the elevator^o the base of the capstone The fouradditioual rods will each terminals in seven brancing gilded needleI’ftuts. It has beep determin ed by jjperience that the interior lightulty-rod apparatus is capable of conducing all the electricity that could posibly come from any storm, and witithe additional outside facili- lought that all danger from will be averted. There with the aluminhm tips, tie lightning rods on the monumeut forthe lightning d be conducted thence into It is almost jmposible to strike at such an angle as to pscajtt^o roof with its many at- tractlanlpWprkmen are now engaged in consfjioflngfliie scaffolding to sur round tie roof, apd It will be in place by next t’hnrsday, when the rods are expectei! to arrive. Unless some un interferes the new lightfiirrj rods will be ip place and ready fot duty next Friday night. In case tht committee have any addi tional rc'oniniendatious to make they can be carried out without interfering with tip precautions taken ip ad- ce the accident occured has been daily receiving communications from every part of the pountryrivlng advice and recommen dations futureiAl»cUftn £? the • agent inL^o^imtry has written toGol. Casey ii| glowing terms of the peculiar advantages of his rod, which, if placed upon thdmonument, will insure safety in the future. Many of them evidently believe ftfiat nothing has ever been done to prevent tlje monument from sftruck. SoYne of the recom- preventions are ridiculous, ymous letter received yester day adv j sc;{ i that tho entire roof be covered with metal, and that the cov- oject ten inches beyond the ic shaft, so as to ward off the ed in drawing some interesting re miniscences from him. “I taugh him to read, spell and ci pher,” says Mr. Hanks, “He knew his letters pretty wcllish, but no more. His mother taught him his letters. If ever there was a good woman upon tips earth, she was one; a true Chris tian of the Baptist church; but she died soon after we arrived, and left him without a teacher. His father couldn’t rend a w’ord.” possible he had no school ing “Is on it kies it lightnl will twenty roof of to srik the gr for a lioi Onfy about one quarter, scarcely that. I then set in to help him. I didn’t know much, but I did the best I could.” “What books did lie read first?” “Webster's speller. When I got him through that I only had a copy of Indiana statutes. Then I got hold of a book. I can’t reckoleet the name. Maybe you kin if I tell you some thin’ et was in it. It told a yarn about a feller, a nigger of southin’ that sailed a flatboat up to a rock, and the rock was magnetised and drawed the nails out of his boat, and he got a duckin’ or drowned or sopthin,’ I for get now.” “That’s the story of Sin bad, ip the Arabian Nights. ,f ' “That’s it; that’* the book. Abe would lay on the floor, with a chair under his head, and laugh over them ‘Itabian Night’s’ by the hour. I told him it was lies from end to end, but he learned to read right well in it.” “Had he any other books?” “Yes. I borrowed for him the Life of Washington and the Speeches of Henry Clay. They had a powerful in fluence 011 him. He told me after wards, in the White House, he wanted to live like Washington. His speeches show that. But the other book did the work. He was a Democrat, like his father and all of us, when he began to read it. When hec’oied it he was a Whig, heart and sopl, and he went step by step till he became tbo leader of the Republicans. being mended An anor enng pi face of 1 bolt p them. Apintv the Roman Catholics. A disj li4 tch from Rochester, N. Y., says “T Rev. Algermon S. Crapsey and tin, Cremation in Berkeley. The Burkeloy Gazette says: “Hen ry Laurens, whose ashes pre buried at Mefkm plantation, on the Cooper River, in Berkeley county was cre mated. By his will his body was to be wrapped in twelve yards of tow cloth and to be burned until it was entirely consumed. This request was literal ly complied with in the presence of liis friends. His ashes wero then to he collected and, being deposited ip an urn, were placed jp the family sepul chre. W. N. Mitchell, who lived at “Fairfield” plantation, near Brough ton Swamp, was also cremated. Many years before his death, which occured in 182(5, he purchased hjs owp cofiin, which was of iron, and kept it by him. After his death, according to his will, his body was to be put in this coffin and was to be consumed to ashes in it. It was then properly secured and locked and the key 11;row 11 in the middle of the Cooper River. There was another provision in his will that his remains should not be buried, but to he placed somewhere above ground in the woods, on two brick piles, with brick enclosure around it. This wish was complied with. His execu tors placod his cnfiiu in the pine land near his former residence, about two miles west of the twenty-eight mile stone on the Monek’s Corner road, j where it may he seep pt the present day.” ' j The English sparrow promises to be ; a destructive and perippnept pest to 1 America. Instead of destroying ! worms and insects, as it was supposed : it would do by those who introduced i it into this country, it has destroyed the eggs and driven out the native birds tiiat did tips good work. Be sides it depredates upon all the frqits and berries, especially the figs and grain. A writer in .Southern Georgia complains that these sniall birds hpvc extended their depredations tq tbe buds on the orange trees and nearly destroyed Ids prospect of p crop. It was hud enough for these pesja to drive away our native songsters with out depredating on our choice fruits, inevitable We hope a council of war will lie im- Bo"- A. Cleveland Coxe, bid.op of the Diocese of West ern Nen York, have disagreed about a ceremony introduced into the ser vice of 8 t. Andrew's Church, of which the fora er is rector. About two years ago Mr. Crapsey began to make use of eueharh tic lights, liglitiiig the to dur ing tho leadingof the comm union ser vice. Ft; r sometime it lias been under stood Hi at Bishop Coxe objected to this practice^ and during his visit to the city las week he formally requested that it l e discontinued. Accordingly the ceremony which had proved odi ous to tl i e bishop was omitted Sunday morning. The omission was explain ed by M r . Crapsey by the reading of a long letter which he had written to Bishop Coxe defending his opinion. He tells the bishop in this letter that he subiiiit.s in the interest of peace, and not because he is convinced that lie is wrong. 1-Jc cites BjsliopDoano, of All>a,ny | Bishop Potter, of New York, ajid other high authorities for the correctness of Ids position, and plainly itates that he thinks the cere mony iij accordance with the ritual of the chu^eh, and one with which the bishop uo legal power to Interfere, The roadjijjr of the letter caused a sen sation the congregation, which al most unanimously agreed with the rector. J>t U* Stir Ul> the J* resident. Banner 'Watchman, Athens. (Ga.) We are convinced that Mr. Cleve land means well, ami will eventually fumigate the South of that hungry hordesif carpet-baggers and radicals that have so long inflicted and op pressed onr pcclionfl^^our ncoule are «liafi'iTg*siiTnyTTTuTe^W^RffnTl1^S amr' u gTVfc BrO to growing weary and discontented. We blame ouu Senators ami Congressmen for this, and do not believe that they have brought the right pressure to bear upon the administration. Presi dent Cleveland has never visited the South, and hence lie is not properly posted in regard to the character of the Ftderal ofiiei-hoi !crs thn s upon us. He doubtless considers them on a par with those of tho North, which is a grievious mistake. In fact, the very sweepings of the North and South-have been placed in power here—dishonest and traitorous whites and ignorant and depraved negroes, whose only claim to recognition is their servile and partisan devotion to Arthur and Ids party. Since our rep resentatives refuse to interest them selves in tiiis matter, it behooves the people to take up the gauntlet and en ter their own protest. To this end we ask Mr. Polhill, Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Commit tee, to at once convene that represen tative body, and let them, in behalf of Georgia, lay their grievances before President Cleveland and urge him to hasten the work of his promised re form. This demand, coming from such a source, would have a good effect and we believe will result in having the last rascal in Georgia dis missed. Let Uie Stiite press consider this suggestion, and if it meets their approval, help us put the ball in motion, J Randall Now Wants. ,c Courier Journal (Dcm.) ion is that Mr. Randall who has abandoned all hope of again Occupy! ig the ^Speaker’s chair, seeks to retain the Chairmanship of the ConunM tee on .^ppiopMations and that, to. compass tiiis design, tie is ready t<i agree not to oppose the new tariff hui of the next Wayfe and Means ('oinmjttee. Qf course flic ad- ministn ttion and Mr. Carlisle will not be sntisR e( ] wij.li ins mere promise to this effect, but will require him to give a sufficent bond or garrfttitco, Neither the country nor the party eaq afford o ■ wijl consent to any further shuffiin ; upon this great issue. The time I14 j gt, last come for liquidation. question which I suppose every lover since Adam’s time asked, “tell me, 1 when did you begin to care for me.” mediately held for their total ex termination. Who will prescribe a remedy ? Turn ’Em Out, Says Logan. Ftom the Chicago News. Just before General Logan left for Washington he said to a friend: “1 hope every Republican who asks to lie retained by tiiis Administration will be turned out of ofliee. I have re ceived letter after letter from Bepub- licans in ofliee urging me to exert my self to havp them retained, I shall not humjlato myself in that way. I would rather help to get Republicans of tlint sort out. In fact it is strange to me that a Republican would ask a Democratic Administration U* keep him in office. No Republican would ask Cleveland to appoint him, if lie was out of office. A petition for re tention stands on the same principal. It is virtually asking a Democrat tor an appointment. Jf a Republican would not ask tor an office lie should notask to be retained in one. If he is holding an office and is asked tq res main on account of Ids faithful ser vices, it is another tiling. In that case he lias a right to accept, but he is clearly wrong in asking to be tct taiued.” And Why Col. Win. H. Jolmslon lias Gone on a Trip to Iiomlon. I'nm the Macon Telegraph and Messenger. Col. Win. B. Johnston and daugh ter, Miss Mary Ellen, left Macon Sat urday night for a trip to London, England. While it is nothing unusual tor Col. Johnston to slip away from town and be gone a month or longer, especially at the opening of the Summer season, a trip to London created some sur prise. On inquiry, it was learned that Col. Johnston’s trip was .purely a business one, and grew out of a Con federate bond transaction. It seems that just after the war, the effects, furniture and plunder of the Southern Bank at Savannah were sold at auction, the bank having suc cumbed to the fates. In the plunder was a small black trunk, which gave no outward signs of the contents, but Col. Johnston, who was something of a Mrs, Toodles, thought it possessed a value, and it was knocked down to him for $0. When opened it was found to contain $1,500,000 in Confederate bonds. Of course at that time there was no demand for Confederate bonds, hutCol. Johnston saw fit to send them to Mr. Hutton, Treasurer of the Open Stock Exchange, at London, to be held subject to his order. The years flitted by ami there was 10 demand •tor the bonds except from curiosity hunters, until a few months ago, when a mysterious call was made and a good price offered tor them. It will be remembered that the dust-covered archives of nearly every family in the land were searched for Confederate bonds, and brokers throughout tho country were paying good figures for them. Col, Johnston sold his $1,500,000 to a New York par ty, and gtvve him an order on Hutton, in London, for them. Strange to say, Hutton {refused to deliver them, and Col. Johnston instituted suit to recover, the case being set tor July 5. Col. Johnston’s attorneys in London cabled him to be present at the hear ing of the suit, and it was this busi ness that takes him-across the water. Why Hutton holds the bonds, and what amount of money figures in the transactions, is not known here, but certain it is the amount was sufli- cient to induce him to take atrip to London at a time when his presence is due at Crab Orchard Springs, in Kentucky, or White Sulphur, in Virginia. A Favored Town. Prohjbitioii does prohibit in the town of Bennettsvillo in this Statq. We take the items that follow below from the BennettsvilleChronicle, and ~TtTT~?rhT A Lively Fight Over the Prohibi tion Question. Edgefield Chronicle. The prohibition movement has made rapid progress in Georgia during the last few years. Already a largo majority of the counties in that State have voted for prohibition against tho sale of liquor,and now strongelforts aro being made to induce the legislature to pass a prohibitory law forthe State. The Augusta Chronicle has always opposed this prohibition movement, and in the course of its remarks uses the following language: “The Augusta Chronicle favors tem perance In all tilings, but it has regard ed the extreme, radical prohibition movement as an assault upon person al liberty, an abridgement of individ ual freedom which may prove moro dangerous to us as a people than tho hated whiskey which so many slaves to tobacco regard as tho sum of all villainies. If it shall he dictated, by statute, what we shall or shall not drink, some other fanatics, who “compound the sins they have no mind to,” may rise up and prescribe what shall or shall not be eaten, the more so as an eminent physician de clares that gluttony causes moro dis ease than liquor drinking. We do not understand how a people, jealous of their personal freedom, shall surrender to such a despotism. Be sure that thiscrusndc will not stop at whiskey, hut advance, in a regular Puritan fashion from one stage of tyranny to another.” It is somewhat surprising to see an intelligent journal, like our Augusta contemporary, talking such none- sense ns this. Of course no sensible man would favor a law dictating what we should eat or drink, and wo do not presume that the teinperanco peopla. of Georgia expect to propose such a law. And we fail to see any more despotism in the law against the liquor traffic than there is in the law against carrying concealed deadly weapons. Tho drinking of whiskey causes men to com mil crime, but the u*c of tobacco does not, neither does gluttony. Tiie intemperate use of to bacco may cause disease,but itdoes not cause crime. While it is universally admitted that the intemperate use of whiskey leads men to commit thefts, outrages and murders. And tills is the strong point in favor of prohibi tion. It is a strong check upon row dyism, lawlessness and crime. : ii". t Had Sansasres in His Pocket, Liverpool Courier. A minister in one. of our orthodox churehcs, while on his way to preach a funeral sermon in the counti.jr (i cdll- i*2! !BZE without note or comment: Tiiis is perhaps one of the few towns in the State where the services of a police or town marshal are really unnecessary except for the collection of taxes and the superintendence of the work on streets. For the last year there have been but one or two arrests, and those for the most trivial offences. The first, as wall as wo remomhor, was on account of a little fight between two negro Women, and the second, two or three colored boys for misbehaving around the depot. The Mayor has nothing to do except to manage the finances of the town. We attribute all to the absence of the sale of whiskey within tfip to>yii and county. No town can boast of a more quiet, law- abiding people, wlnto and colored. Well may our people be proud of their town and county. Even under Re publican rule the sale of whiskey was not allowed in the county; and now that the county government is, and probably will remain, in the hands of our best citizens, we shall confidently hope that for the next quarter of«<i century at least the sale of liquor will be opposed and kept out. God grant that it may never again be sold on Marlboro soil! aecf vrnnh.-j^dmeniber^jan c^djft who had just been making sausages. •-VR • Pnrlia- A Lady Nominated 1 ment. London Times. Last night a deputation from the Political Committee of Camberwell Radical ffiub waited upon their hon orary President, Mias Helen Taylor, at her residence jn Hapdngtqn road, South Kensington, to invito her to become a Parliamentary candidate in the Radical interest for North Cam berwell at the next general election. Mr. C. Ammon, the Secretary of the club, pointed out that there was no statutory law against a lady sitting and voting in the House of Commons, and he was certain that Miss Taylor, if she was willing to come forward, would receive a large amount of sup port, especially from the working classes. Iq reply Miss Taylor said it was true that there was no law i» exist ence to prevent a woman sittihg in Parliament, she would feel it an honor to contest the constituency as In earn est support of woman sufterage as well as on other political grounds. If however, there was a fair chance of a genuine workingman candidate being returned by the radicals, she would not like to oppose him. Tiiis point was discussed for sometime, and eventually Miss Taylor consented to accept the invitation and go tq the poll. Carrier Pigeons., The Local Paper. Carolina Spartan. Th e following fr-piq the Keowee Six homing pigeons wero sent from Courier is good reading 1 “You may Baltimore to Mr. Htien, our express be able (o get a large city weekly fill- agent here, with instructions fts to ed with murders, scandal eases, cock I'll® ^ ew Orleans Picayune hits the turning them loose. He sclented I fights, etc., for the same money that mark 1 fijon it says: “One Boston ! Monday, the 8th, and released them | you pay tor your local paper, or less, paper is absurd enough to suggest that! from tho top of the Palmetto House at > hut these city weeklies never adver- the drui |^ aFl }., ) } a ]te r .j ought to he tax- 4,45 a. m. They started together near- tisc your county and make your pro- ed with the support of til® Inebriates’^ ly duo east, but soon turned North- perty valuable. They do not help along your schools aqd churches; they sfty nothing of you and have no inter est in you. A local paper is ft great advantage to any town or community. Stand by j’our home paper, for it is ever on the lookout for your interest.” IJome. Might as well tax murderers of orpin k |, s and widow-makers witli the sup< > r t of their victims. It is the imtiest, virtuous, law-abiding people ’Vh" *v.i v.dFer the evils of vice and crime ii this world.” east towards Haiti more. They reach ed home that atternoon about 4 o’clock. The distance on air-Line, is about 4(/0 miles. The.sa!ne pigeons have been sent to Atlanta this week and will lie released the first favorable morning. and ns she felt very proud of them in sisted on the minister taking some of the links home to his family. After wrapping the sausages in a cloth the minister carefully placed the bundle in the pocket of his great coat, Thua equiped he started tor the funeral. While attending the solemn ceremo nies at the grave some hungry dogs scented the sausages, and were not long in tracking them to the pocket of the good man’s over coat. Of coursy tiiis was a great annoyance, and he was several times under the necessity of kicking the whelps away. The obse quies at the grave completed, the min ister and the congregation repniret' to church, where the funeral discourso was to be preached. After the sermon was finished the minister halted to make some remarks to the congrega tion, when a brother, who wished to have an appointment given out, as* sended the stairs of the pulpit and gave the minister’s coat a hitch to get his attention. The divine, thinking it a dog having designs upon his pocket, raised his foot, gave a sudden kick, and sent tl*P gaod brother sprawlingdown the steps. “You will please excuse me, brethren and sis ters,” said the minister, confusedly, and without looking at the work he had just done, “for I could not avoid it. I have and that dog has been them ever premises!” sausages in my pocket, trying to grab since he came .011 the The Political Situation in Cha?- Ipston. The Columbia Register spys that the Charleston Custom House sito.ft 7 tion may be epitomized thus: “I have it.”—Collector Johnston. “I want it.”—General Kennedy. “So do I.”—Colonel Trenhohn, “Me, too.”—B. R. Riordan. * “I’ll get it.”—Captain Walker. “No, you won’t.”—Senator Butler. “I’ll get it.”—Mr. Mowry. “ You’re right. ” — Congressman Dibble. “I protest.”—Captain Courtenay, “I’ll see about It.”—President Cfcveland. Chorus: “Wait till the alouds roll by.” Dr. Haygood, ofGeorgia: “The Strto should enact and eufirce stringent laws against the sale of adulterated liquors. When men make up their minds to sell liquor, they are very apt to iiiqreaso their stocks. If they would only lie content with watering their liquors! Jiut chemicals—some of them virulent poison—are employ ed, as has been proved by thorough analysis a thousand times. Any In toxicating liquor Is bad for those who driuk; poisoned liquor is slow dealU-s sorpetimes not so slow. Now, if tho State will ‘liccnsn 1 drinking houses, the State should feci itself bound tq sec to it tiiat citizens who buy at its “licensed’ houses get whiskey and not poison.’ 1 • Booth Carolina was represented among the bridesmaids of Miss Julia Jackson by Misses Ella Junkin, J lain i I ton Witherspoon and Laitra Prince. . 1 a-'-- j m