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4 pi m :en CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manaser. AIKEN, S. C., TU % JULY, 21 1885. VOLUME 4.---NUMBER 39. Professional Advertisements, j UNCLE ALECK'S PROPHEC Y. D. S. Hexdek- u ox. E. P. HexiytRuox. IIoiiderMon Brotliors, * Attoiixevs at Law, Aikkx, 8.0, Will practice in the State and , United States Courts for Sonth Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo*. W. CBorr. J. Zed Dcjclap. -:o:- Croft & Dunlap, Attokxbys at Law, Aikev, 8. C James Alduicb. NValteu Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Airkx, S. C\ Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. . HY S. A. WEISS, — :o: “Yes. Robert, I know it’s a poor place, but I don’t I'c-cl willing to give it up. It’s been my home as it was my father’s before me; and I did hope”—with a sigli—“that you’d ha’ taken to it, and made it as good as ’twas in his time. Your own poor father never had any luck with it.” “Nor do I expect any mother. It couldn’t find jest wlwt he wanted.” value—and how in that ease he might Here she began slowly and deliber- establish a store there, and after ately to clear the dough from her awhile a postotfice, already needed, hands. Letty seated on the top of the ! with various other prospective advan- porch, looked up with quiet, expec- tages—his mother could scarcely real- CHAItliKSTON COIAilKTOKSHIP. tant eves, “The day that he went away,” con tinued Mrs. Langly, with a long- drawn breath, “he was standing here —yes, right here where you are sitting —and looking all around him on the farm. All of a studdent lie says, ‘Jemmy—Jemmy and Mary'—turning toward me—I’ve one thing to say to y.iu before I go. 8tick to your farm, takes a natural liking and natural tal- f or there’s a streak of golden luck W. {{uitinan Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Hpecia attention givon to collection*. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aikex„ 8, C. Claude E. Sawyer, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. J. W. DEVORE. Aiken. 8. C. R. WOODWARD. Aiken, 8. C. DcYore k Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S, C. Will practice in all the Courts of this 8tate. Edwin R. Cunningham, 541 Ilroad 8t„ - - Ay OUST A. Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New’ York, Florida, Texas, liouisiana, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and Notary Public “with seal.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” Dr. Z. A. Smith, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLU8E, - - - 8. C. 82?"Office neAr Depot. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. .OFFICE OX- Richlaud Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. II. Burnett, Dentist. ty, Is. (J. -OFFICE Graniteville, Aiken Dr. J. B. Smith, Dentist. OFFICE AT—t— Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. fSf Will attend calls to the country. 0. P. Doolittle, GILDER AND PICTURE FRAME Mauufacurer, Jackson 8t. Auousta, Ga. Picture Frames Made to Order at Short Notice. FEW MOULDINGS CONSTANT LY RECEIVING. Rogilding a Specialty, Old Frames equal to new. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged. W. A. RECKLING COLUMRIA, S. C. P ICTURBS sent can be enlarged to any size, and will be returned for Inspection. If unsatisfactoay no charge. Correspondence solicited. ent to succeed at any business, and I’ve none for anything except farm ing. I wish I could per*iade you to sell this place, and let#io set up a store at the cross roads. Wo could make more there without the labor and care tlmtjts costs ns here.” “I ain’t so sure of that, Robert. Perhaps if you’d marry and settle down here with a good managing wife to help you, you’d do better and be better satisfied; and if it weren’t for old David Gardner’s obstinacy you and Letty—” “Enough, mother!” interrupted Robert, flushing all over his hand some, sunburnt face; “it’s no use to say anything more on the subject. I’ll never ask any woman to marry me so long as I know that I couldn’t afford her a suitable help, or so long as there’s a mortgage hanging over the roof that I’d bring her to. A father’s hardly to be blamed for saying that his daughter shall never marry a p»or man, to break herself down as her mother did, with work. So that’s settled.” His mother looked at him anxiously over her sptctacles. If it want for the mortgage, ” she said, slowly, “we might get along. ’Twas that worried your father into his grave—that, and not finding the gold streak—” Her son made an impatient move ment and she added: “Don’t you think you could get a Jittlo more time allowed us, Robert. Maybe when the crop’s sold, and the apples and cider—” “Mr. Davis won’t hear of it mother I saw him yesterday and talk ed it over, but lie insists it must all be paid by the first of August—all, here becomes now!” Robert went out to meet the well dressed sharp-eyed man in his hand some buggy, while his mother re mained on the back-porch mixing dough for the poultry. “There ain’t many of ’em to feed now,” she said, talking aloud to her self, as she had beeu accustomed witli her late husband. “What with chol era and gapes in the chickens, and weak legs in the tuikeys. I hain’t had fAWuck with the lot of n;iss- ing—the best lay] Goldstreak’s lit fa leg’s broke. Ah,j J. A. Wright, -BOOT AND 8II0E MAKER, Door from Laurens Htreet on Richland Avenue, The host of material used, and any tyle of boot or shoe made to order. One Geo. W, Williams, MOUSE, SIGN AND ERE SCO PAINTER! Graining and Marbling a specialty. Old Furniture polished ami made as ew. tr of ’em all, and nothin’ since her me! I’m mightly afeard that she’s Abe only gold-streak we’ll ever know on this place!” “What’s that about a gold-streak, Mrs. Langly?” exclaimed a clear, young voice. And a girl with a sweet faoe and bright brown eyes and a blue-striped chintz dress fitting perfectly to Jier trim figure, stood smiling before her. Mrs. Langley’s face brightened im mediately. “Why, Lot tv. how you do always manage to take one by surprise, as if you’d risen out o’ theyearth and drop ped down from the qlouds! Well, child, you’re welcome! And how’s your mother?” Letty made a suitable reply, and ex plained how she had been sent by her mothpr on some little business connected with quilt-patterns, for the invention of which Mrs. Langly was famous. “You shall have my gold-streaked pattern,” said the old lady, promptly. “It’s the handsomest of all, and I’ve never before given it away—not even to the minister’s wife, who was taken witli it.” “Gold-streaked again!” said Letty, smiling. “That appears to be a favor ite name with you.,’ “Ah, my dear, I’ve cause to think a heap of that name! Maybe it would be better if 1 hadn’t; and maybe again —well, nobody can tell yet.” There was a moment’s silence when she resumed: “ I dare say, Letty, you thought me obstinate and selfish in opposing Rob’s wish to sell tho farm, But I had a reasou child, more on his account than mine; and I think I may’s well tell you. 1 know you're to be trusted not to go and spread it gmongtheiiiegh bors, who would no doubt be hint- in it.’ Of course I asked what he meant; but all he would sav was, I’ve seen it —I’ve seen it by the power that’s given us to look into the future. I’ve seen a streak of good-luck running through your land that’s to better your fortunes in good time. Don’t part with it un til your luck’s found. And that same day he went away, and the first we heard of him after he got home, was that lie was dead.” There was another pause, and Letty said: “And you think there is really a vein of gold to he found on your farm?” “Jeoms thought so. To his dying day he believed in it. Goodness! how much he thought about that gold streak! Why, half Ids time he spent in hunting, and digging, and scratch ing around; and at last he went otf to town and tried to get two men, that was useil to the business, to come out and examine tho land to diskiver gold. “But they only laughed at him, and said no gold would be found in Pike county. And then he thought maybe there was gold money hid somewhere on the place; so he dug under all the rocks, and looked in the holler trees, and wasspeshly keerful in digging in the garden. “But no pot of gold ever turned up; and, meanwhilst, the farm got neglec ted, and it seemed that more bad than good luck was u-coming to us. 8till, almost on his death-bed, he said to me: “ ‘Mary, don’t you soli the farm if you can help it. I believe, as faith fully as I believe in anything, that tlf.it streak of gold-luck will turn up some time. No Langley ever .yet prophesied what didn’t come to pass.” “That was what he said; and so now, Letty, you know, as Robert knows, why 1 am unwilling to sell the farm.” “And what does Robert think about it?” iuquired the girl, with a faint flush on her cheek. “Oh, he thinks it all uonesense— about the gold, and the second-sight, and all. And as for me—why, some times. I can’t but agree with him. And ^hen, again, there’s a feeling i.'. h--* ^ ii^’ in il good as ne £2?“Otlice No. 7, Up-stairs ill C’roft’s j hrg that I’d better be put in a lunatic Block. Orders solicited. W. H. Hargraves .Manufacturer of All Kinds of Sheet Metal Work, I asylum. Maybe you’ll think so your- | self, but at any rate I’ll let you judge. “You see,” she continued, as she slowly worked in another handfull of corn meal, “the Langleys come of I Scotch stock, and, it’s been said that I Rob’s great gran.Fiber I after all—and that it may be given to some folks to see what’s going to hap pen in the future. Just as we know there were prophets of the old, to say nothing o’ the Witch of Endor.” Just at this moment they heard Mr. Davis buggy roll away, and Robert came around the corner of the house. He looked a little excited j'hut that might be from finding Letty there. He walked home with her across the fields to the next farm. When he re turned he said, quite abruptly: “Mother, Mr. Davis wants to buy the farm. He’s has offered more for it that I ever dreamed it would bring. He seems quite anxious to get it; and when I told him that you objected to part with it, he actually offered to let us off with the balance of the mort gage, provided the business is settled at oniee.” “Why, Robert, what can he mean?” “I don’t know. There’s something in it I don’t understand; but, if you’ve no objection, I’ll go over to G to morrow and see Lawyer Funnel 1 about it.” Robert had expected to be 011I3' oue day from home; but he stayed three. And, meantime, the one hired boy, going to bring the cows from the meadow, reported that there wore a number of men passing through the farm, looking about, examining the ground, and acting in a strange and unUccountable manner. “Good gracious!” thought Mrs. Langley. ‘‘They surely can’t bn sus- picioning the gold streak?” .She was very anxious for her son’s return. When he did come she no ticed the bright glauce, and the brisk manner in which he dismounted from his horse and came straight toward her, as she stood at the steps to wel come him. “Well, Rob, I tec 3*014 got good news.” The best of news, mother,” he an swered, eheerfulR*. The tears came into her eyes, “I shall hate to give up the old home, after all.” “You need not .give it up, mother. in | We won’t sell the farm. Mr. Davis e.it grai n iher Linguy, over j %vas eontemptuous- mk nit., hud ilie gilt o second-1 jy t tq ni f fortunate^* we escaped the T L—t ' at ls > • s ‘' oi, 't r hih! kimwiug' t ;. ap h 0 baited so nietdy.” Tm Roofing, Irou Roofing ! Jtlnngs that aregoing to happen. I’ve' about it In putfe’s* and Condiu tu paired and I'aintt tori/ Work, 1 Hot Air Furnaces, 17a tilators, Ac, n 'AVIXG even* faoi!it\* for con- _ dueling our business* with dis patch and satisfaction, I respect fully solicit a share of thw patronage of Aiken and the surrounding county'. W, H- HARGRAVES, 541 Broad St., Augpsta, Ga. t tins. Rants R( j the fami^v, but never did f think “ WI13*, onl.v this, mother: T1h*3* are ‘ much ol it, though my husband— going to run a new railroad through “Wlo*, what is it all about, Rob ert?” The Place for Bargains. Stanley A Bro., —Dealers in — J, c. poor, departed J cents—believed in it as firing- as be did in summer and winter. He said these things conic b\* a mysterious law ot natiir’. Well, about eight years ago old Uncle Alick Langley paid us a visit on this farm, i had seen him btu once before in 1113* life—for he lived down to Tennessee, a long wa3* from here. Him and .leems, the3* walked all over the farm, and it was a far better cultivated place than now, though nothin’ compared to what it was in 1113* father’s time. ize the idea of such good fortune. But her first words showed how much she had the happiness of her son at her motherly heart, when she said with moistening e3*es: * “You and Letty can marr3* now, Robert!” Some few months after this time, Mr. Robert Langley stood with his mother on one side, and his wife lean- ingonhisarm on the meadow-slope, watching from a distance the bus3* la borers throwing up a cla3* embank ment, where the new railroad was to bo laid.\ The sun was slowly sinking to the horizon, and his almost level ra3*s shone redl>’on the yellow cla3 r , fresh ly turned up and gleaming in a long, bright line against the green fields be3*ond. • “Dear me!” said Mrs. Lang] “I never knew there was so much • 01113* on the land; for all father’s talk about a clay substratum over there, and Ids plowing in clover and marl. How- red and yellow it looks! and how that long line of wet cla3' shines in the sunlight, like a streak of gold. ” At this, Letty turned with bright e3*es, fullof a sudden surprise. “A streak of gold? Oh, Robert, how strange!” Can this be the streak of gold-luck that 3*our father’s Uncle Alick foretold?” Mrs. Langlej* sank on the grass3* bank, quite “shaken,” as she declar ed, with this realization of the fulfill ment of the propliec3*. “Maybe,” she said, presently*, “he did r’aly see it by the gift o’second- sight; or ma3*be, being a clever, far sighted man, he might have got an idear that a railroad would have to run from G to L sometime, and pass rigid through the farm, or nia3*- be, ho might have heard somebody say as much, when he was speculatin' round the country. I’d like to know which it was.” And to this day she has not made up her mind on that point. FKOM COLUMBIA. Those Who Go to Resorts—Resigned —The ConvietsMattcr—Columbia Cu- ual. Augusta Chronicle. Columbia, 8. C., J11I3’ 15.—To-day is the middle of the dullest month in the year. Eveo'one who cun' do so has leftibr the summer resorts, or is preparing for moving. The far mers are anxiously' watching the crop developments, ami have no time or thought for any thing elsg^P^^B jl’lxe rneri-hunts are idle when.tirs far- mers are working, the summer terms of the Courts are generally over, and the lawyers are out of employment. So that general stagnation prevails, which is aggravated by' the burning sun. News, therefore, can not be raked up, and eveir newspaper people can find nothing to stimulate their brains or imaginations. Politicians are absent and quiet, and the farmers don’t come to town, so that the cor respondent finds two fruitful themes for discussion, politics and tunning— entirely removed from his reach. But notwithstanding this condition of affairs the young politicians of Ab beville county* find time to make up a State ticket to be nominated next year. Commenting on the ticket, Gen. Hemphill, the veteran editor and an experienced politician, says lie thinks it might he improved in some respects but tlxe General knows that these nominations are a little premature and yields to the general laziness of human nature prevailing in July, and postpones naming his suggested modifications. \ man said lobe a resident of Au gusta, by the name of J. JE. O’Brien, seriously stabbed \V. C. Becker, in a common house in Charleston, yester day. Becker’s wounds are dangerous. O’Brien was arrested and the matter is being investigated by the proper authorities. Gen. Edward McCrady, Jr., the, commander of the first divison of vol unteer State troops has resigned and Gen. J. W. Moore, of Hampton county, will probabably be unpointed to succeed him. Gen. Moore is the State Senator from Hampton county. Just as the excitement over report ed abuses of convicts in South Caroli na’s subsiding it is renewed in Georgia. If the half of abuses told- of the treatment of these unfortunates is true something should be done speedi ly* to have all of them returned to the penitentiaries where they' can have proper treatment. Thesy’stemof hire- ing them out is wrong in every* respect. The State should, if possible, make »Y Keporteil Agreement to Agree upon Mr. Jervcv- The President Waiting — Painting a Portrait —Odds ami KikIh. Nep-s and Courier. WAfimxciTpx, D. C., July* 15.—Sen ator Haruptoh was always a welcome, guest'at the White House during Mr. Arthur’jj Administration, anti probably received as many courtesies from the latter as any* member of Con gress. Republican or Democrat. He seems to occupy a, similar position in the estimation, of the present Admin istration, akd when lie calls upon President Cleveland he is usually the recipient ofc many little attentions not bestoweJ upon his brother Sena tors. Several days ago he lunched with the President, and while seated at tho' table, it is saitl, the con versa-’ tion drifted on to the Charleston col- lectorship. The Presiolent made nu merous inquires as to tho qualifica tions of th^ humorous candidates, whereupon (Jen. Hampton remarked that he had resolved that he would not express an opinion on the subject until be halT been invited to do so either by' the President or Secretary Manning. The President replied that he appreciated this position, and add ed that,if other members of Congress would mafb suggestions only when called upon to do so, the Executive wouh^bo leas embarrassed and could place a higherT'wlue on Congressional recommendation. Said he, umjer the present system some members of Congress endorse several persons for one and tin same position, and then complain if someone other than their favorite is t elected. A few days after Gen. HaiKftou’s visit to the White House the president called upon the secretary or the treasury' for a brief of all tlie.pap«i!’s filed in the Charleston collectorship case. Last Wednesday the papers were sent to the President, and it, was $aid at the treasury depart ment that after looking over the list of applicants the President, Secretary Manning apd Senator Hampton con cluded that the appointment of Mr. Theodore . ). Jervey would be most'ue- ceptable tc the contending factions in Charleston- .This information, coin ing from t m^smirce it did, led me to believ*TTI»iiit the matter was practi cally decided, and that the formal an- nourteemept of Mr. Jervey*’s appoint ment woifl'd be made in a day or two. I saw* Secretary Manning on the subject last Saturday, but he declined to say anything further than thalj the President now has all tiie facts before him;: nd will, in his ow*u time, make tho sek'Ction. A q oiive of South Carolina, Mr. Albert GPerry, Is to have the honor of painting President Cleveland’s por- This high priv- lestly sought by nu- ■iiquiirumtkm day GR ANT AM) LEE. CONFEDERATE RELIEF FUND. Meeting of the Generals at the Stir- Investment of the Proceeds of the Re- render—The Version in Grant’s New i ‘ cent Baltimore Bazar. Book of the Famous ami* Much \ Baltimore Sun. Talked of Event. . The Committee in charge of the fund General Grant s book, to be publish- rert ii zet j f rum the recent Confederate ed in a few* monhts, will contain Bazar has invested the principal, following reminiscences of Lee’s sur- amounting to $31,000, in a way to se- render: “I found General Lee had been cure tiie largest income for present needs. The amount has been been brought intoourliues and conducted to divided equally between thoSafeDe- a house belonging to Mr. MclTean, and 1)osit atld Trust Company. the President has uerry has his studio and enjofs the reputa- g one of the fiRest portrait this sldeeof the Atlantic, rsonal friend of Senator and the commission to portrait was secured through Carolina Senator. The tis£ has had sever. ’ iuter- 1 the President, anu it is first sitting will be given tho fiscal year ending June internal revenue coilce- uth Carolina, as shown by- report of Collector D. F. ere as follows: .• ...$61,937.15 19,247,76 9,463.79 3,869.53 Total... The tofal $64,518.23 collections for the y*ear ending June 30,1884, were $93,896.95, thus shoeing that the receipts of last year onl^exceeded those of the previ ous year ay* ,$621.28. Notable Address, mer s club meeting, Capt. liman, of Edgefield, made y notable and tii^ely re- e showed that his county— d old county” to the vith 1,200 square miles and 50,WO persons, is practically bar ren of manufactures. Except rail road •» employees, everybody is independent on agriftUure, directly or indirectly, rt: He said: lerchants have no customers i£,ou:* doctors no patients but our lawyers no clients but There is a farmer on one lie other of every business tor sur “On but faij fariYfe? farme side c transa produ nishe, cial a * * wealt the val chant, J com Uncle A! ck didn t seem t< CHINA, GLASS, EARTAENWARE At\(l IIowte-Eurnishinff Goods! COLUMBIA, - - S think much of it, though. Tie n he! roari 1! went over the country looking lands to buy for his -on, Alick *w ll ; JitO tuoni L t i u* l f V thought of coming this way to sett If * ! laid is ti if a good prospect offered. But id 1 even the end he gave up the*idea as lie! ! which I our farm. Wliat! exclaimed tho old lady, in ! dismay*. “Cut our farm in two with a i railroad and spile u completely*? So : that’s what’s those men were after j when they came to trespassing on our place yesterday! But I’ll see! i whether they’ll venture to do it again ! i Surely, I in Left you’ll not submit to i •see the farm ruined and—” “Hush, hush mother!’ , Calm yourself, and le. in ! And when lie made it : ! her how the li Uroutli their-farm *.\ ho said, exobiin." :i ak u ion, and the farmer being tiie and creator of wealth fur- le oil which lubricates theso- industriul machinery. * * other communities where Is'iilso created by enhancing of raw material, the mer- £wyer and doctor do not de- theni self-supporting, but should care i pend ol farmers except indirectly, for them even if they* do not earn their j We raisb the food they consume and expenses. They* are not sentenced to are the aest customers of the inanu- tlie penitentiary* to produce a revenue facturert.thus again show ingourselves for the State but to punish them for the indispensable element, the main- the crimes they have committed and | spring as it were,of society*. Of course reform them if it can be done. The it will lie understood that I do not law* never contemplated that they* mean otir farmers when l talk about should be put in the hands of individ- feedinjfVoopIc, as we don’t even feed mils for private gain and it ought not ourselves. We to ho permitted by the State authori-1 order df things ties. There is an abundance of public | mere! work that they could be engaged in ; while and be humanely oared f<#r and madeimakii to bo of public service, and they! cents should be employed in this way when i cents, not confined wiihiu the walls of thej Being an exclusively j 'nitoniiuiv*. * j cnuntg-JUapt.TiUiiuui proci '•it toft for the i that Edge tie id "ountv can was tnere with one of his staff officers waiting niy r arrival. The head of his column was occupying a hill, a portion of which was an apple orchard, across a little valley from the Court House. Sheridan’s forces were drawn up iu line of battle on the crest of the hill on the South side of the same valley. Before stating what took place be tween General Lee and myself I will give all there is of the famous apple tree. Wars produce many* stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed. The wa$ of the re bellion was fruitful in the same way. The wonderful story* of the apple treads one of those fictions with slight foun dation of fact. As I have said, there Was an apple orchard on the side of the hill occupied by the Confederate forces. Running diagonally up the hill was a wagon road, which at oue point ran very near one of the trees so thut the w’hcels on that side had cut off'the roots of the tree, which made a little embankment. General Bab cock reported to me that when he first met General Lee he was sitting upon this embankment with his feet in the road and leaning agaiust the tree. It was then that Lee was conducted into the house where I first met him. I had known General Lee in the old army, and had served with him in the Mexican war, but did not suppose, owing to the difference in onr ages and rank, that he would probilbly re member me, while I would remember him more distinctly because he was Chief Engineer on tho staff of Gen eral Scott in the Mexican war. When I had left the camp that morning I had not expected the result so soon that then was taking place, and Con sequently was in rough garb and I believe without a sword, as I usually was when on horseback on the Hold, wearing a soldier’s blouse for a coat, with shoulder straps of my rank to indicate wdio I was to the army*. When I went into the house I found General Lee. We greeted each other and after shaking hands took our seats. What his feelings were I do not know. Being a man of much dignity, and with an impenetrable face, it was impossible to say whether he felt inwardly glad that the end had finally come, or whether he felt sadly over the result and was too manly to show it. Whatever his feelipgs were, they were entirely concealed from ob- servation, but my ow n feelings, which hud uuen quite appaTThUon reetTpC'or' his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoic ing at the down-fall of the foe that had fought so long and gallantly', and had suffered so much for a cause which I believed to be one of the Worst for which people ever fought: and for which there was not the least pretext. Ido notquestion, however, the sinceri ty of the great mass of those who were opposed to us. General Lee was dressed iu full uniform, entirely new, and wearing a sword of considerable value, very* likely* the sword that had been presented by the State of Vir ginia. At all events, it was an entire ly different sword from one that would ordinarily be worn in the field. In my rough traveling suit, which was the uniform of a private with straps of a General, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely' dressed, six feet high, of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought of until afterward. General Lee and I soon fell into conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old army and I told him, as a matter of course, I remembered him perfectly, but owing to the difference in years, there being about sixteen years difference in our ages, and our rank, I thought it very unlikely I had attracted his attention sufficiently to be remembered after such a long period. Our conversation grew so pleasant that I almost forgot tiie ob ject of our meeting. General Lee at that time was accompanied by* one of his staff officers, Colonel Marshall. I had all of my* staff with me, a good portion of whom were in the room during the whole of the interview. Tito Farmers of Ridge Spring— The ISaptist Convention of Edgefield. R’lOiiK 8KINO, July It.—V’e hud a line rain last night. Our farmers are j tionist with a vengeance, in much better spirits in consequence I God dispisesa coward. I had rather posit and Trust Company. Mr. B. F. Newcomer, President, and the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company Mr. John Gill, Fresident, and these institutions will pay over to the Society of tho Army and Navy* of the Confederates States in Maryland a certain sum every year, diminishing every five years, until in 25 years the principal is extinguished. For the first five years the amount realized will be$2,695 64 per annum; for the second five years, $2,155 53 per annum; for the third five years, $1,- 617 36 per annum; for the fourth live years, $1,078 '£? per annum; and for the fifth live years, $539 11 per annum. An the end of the 25 years - it is esti mated that iu the natural course of tilings there will be very few, if any members who may be in need- The mode of investment adopted realizes the highest rate that could bo obtain ed for safe investment. All persons receiving aid must be members of the the Society* of the Army' ;ind Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland, but may. come from any State. There is no cost attaching to what is known as passive membership in the society, so that the condition amounts simply to requiring that the names of the person aided shall be entered on the society’s roll. The distribution of the fund will be entrusted to a vis iting committee, which will investi gate all applications for relief in order to see that no deserter, pretender or unworthy soldier is aided. Rev. Sum Jones Whisky. I believe liquor is a good thing in its place, and I believe its place is in hell. If I was in hell I might drink it, but so help mo God I never will drink it on this earth again. Some folks say don’t mix politics and religion. When you hear a fel low talk that way you may know he hasn’t got any religion to mix. I would mix religion with politics, but not politics with religion. A little religion will help politics. It will make it clean and decent. We want truth, justice, and temperance mixed with politics in this State. I spoke to tho Legislature of Tennessee on this subject the other day. They are talking abouf a constitutional amend ment on the liqour question up there. We want this question cleared up be yond-the reach of these little cross roads Judges, who hop up every'jiow and then ami bay soipethingMs tmeon- HtriXltiOiiaTV Wtrpvmit 60—<4o— with such men and put deceut'Tneu of brains and character in their places You can’t reform a State until you send good men to every Legislature. Some men come to every Legislature that meets in Georgia that ain’t fit to go to the chain gang. If y*ou refuse to help suppress the infamous wrong that is being done by whiskey, y'ou are rotten yourself. Some’ of you here don’t know me. I speak plainly'. I use words you can understand. Now you can take the Latin word decayed, and it won’t phase a fellow. If you take the good old Anglo-Saxon word rotten, you can cut his head off. You see, I choose my words. Of course there are always some little spelling-book critics sitting around, who will go back on a fellow’s grammar. I wouldn’t mind being swallowed by a whale, but I would hate to be nibbled to death by minnows. Whiskey is not good for one thing in this world for which there is not soiiietliing*eIse that is better. If the time ever conies when they say to me; “You’ll die if y’ou don’t drink whiskey',” I will say, “Get my shroud ready.” I mean to die sober. If a fellow gets so low that nothing but liquor will save him, I am ready to preach his funeral sermon. If there is in this vast audience one man or woman who never had a re-' lativc or loved one hurt or ruined by whiskey, I want him or her to stand up right now. You all had a brother, or father orson, ora son-in-law ruin ed by whiskey'. My goodness, these sous-in-law! I’d rather have a boa constrictor around my nock than to have a drunken son-in-law. The devil can’t do any worse than that. Some of you old hypocrites that are dillydalling with the whiskey ques tion are going to got caught just that way. The devil is going to slip up on you with a drunken sou-in-law, and I’ll bet he will make you a proiiibi- have reversed tiie and buy from the Ills nearly ftll we consume, fe indulge in tho luxury of cotton, which e Lutind and sell to-day, and everything looks bright j an I cheerful. Cotton is improving fast j The Edgefield Baptist Sunday-school I Convention will convene ot the Fark- ville Church, on the Augusta and Knoxville Road, about thirty* miles from Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday, the 29th instant, and continue three day's. The point >s in easy reach by rail for visitors from Aiken, Barnwell, and other lower counties via Augusta. This organization has been iu success ful operation for fifteen years, and is always largely attended. die at tiie mouth of a cannon doing my duty* than to run away from it be cause I was afraid. God intrusts all the noble causes on earth to men who are game. 1 don’t mean to talk here 1 lore than half an hour. If any of you fellows get tired you know the way home. YYe wouldn't have missed y ou if yjui hadn’t come at all. us ten at nine Near Allendale two lads, sons Rev. Fred Atild, of the Conference, -M. E. f'htir"h,' wi 1‘ im a ■Tee!; uie.-’i 0:10 of >•.' Wesley Williams, a negro living in Buford’s Bridge township, while limiting cranes in a omih! on She -Ith of ; July, shot at an old raccoon and four j young ones, while the old one was of « feeding her young on a crayfish, and oath Carolina killed tiie old U N- r T 4 perhaps would Oil t *tc i ten-fold increase city i:us prov it. At a me ti night an apnnq peases of the made. UOlJ :! iuivit'g ].wvaKfiViVshe voul-.i 1 ■ i were varied. Lund: d ; hi vaPi.4and fertility. I not gr4w pros* vtous * «:••'** | otherwise -do. The 1 was; gages i/i the clerk's ‘hole miserable story. < T. he til; the n and three of the litter were aboul egro used a 11, 1 d iiiit;, liio sa:i4 one, calksi in thi i-hcud crane,” c re very fond. II home in a wheit DISCIPLINE AT THE CITADEL. Two Cadets Dismissed ft»r Breach of Discipline. News and Courier. Fersonal feeling among the Cadel» at the Citadel, over the disturbanc© last mouth, still runs very high, and it is said that many of the Cadets have pledged themselves not to obey any of the orders which Cadet Schirmer might be called upon, os an officer, to give them. Last Friday afternoon while the Cadets were being drilled Cadet Schirmer was iustructed by Captain Hall to watch the movements and correct any errors which ho observed. Mr.Schirmer did os instructed, but one of tho Cadets, whose name is Guest,re fused to obey his orders. The rules of the institution are that students who receive one hundred and fifty demerits for the term shall be suspended. Guest it seems had already received one hun» dred and thirty-six demerits, and for his refusal to obey orders was accredi ted with ten more, leaving him a margin of four demerits. These he received before the end of tho day, and was accordingly dismissed. This irritated Guest, and that night, after the Cadets had retired, lie went to Schirmer’s room and attacked him. In the fight which ensued it seeme that Schirmer was getting the best of it when Wroteu, another Cadet and a friend of Guest’s, came in and also set upon Schirmer, the two of them giv ing him a severe heating. Both Guest and Wroten have been dismissed from the school. They are from Barnwell county, and have re turned home. Bishop Dudley on the Negro Question. Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, has a paper iu the Juno Century, entitled, “How Shall wo Help the Negro?” We quote the following: “Still the problem remains, how shall these alien races dwell In safety side by side, each free and unhampered, in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the pursuit of its happiness? They arc the descendants of oue father, the redeemed children of God, the citizen* of one nation, neighbors with 00m- inon interest, and yet are separated byHhe results of centuries of devel opment, physical, mental and moral—separated by inherited tra ditions, by the spirit of caste, by the recollections of wrongs dono and suffered, though it may be in gener al as innocent in the perpetrator as in the sufferer. How shall the rights of all be duly guarded? How shall tbo lower race be lighted up to a higher stage of human development, for only so can the rights of the superior race bo made secure for the present and for the future, and this Is the chiefest right of them who are now cast down. “I answer, by tho personal endea- vori of individuals of the higher race; by dielr persorffn coutaet with these, their ignorant and untaught neigh bors, exhibiting before their wonder ing eyes in daily life the principles of truth and justice, purity and charity, honesty and courage. Perhaps‘this may seem to bo but the veriest plat itude, the gush of sentiment, tho Lwaddlc of a maudlin religion; but i • all soberness I mean exactly what I say. Lot mo try to explain more fully, “These people need help, that they may be lifted up. I mean, then, that in my judgement that help must be personal and not ollioial; the bund of a friend rather; than the club of an of ficer: the patient counsel of a neigh bor rather than the decree of a court, tiie enactment of Congress, or the proclamation of a President. Tho solomn sanctions of tho organic law thrown round about his liberty, and the robe of citizenship, full, perfect and complete, with never seam nor rent, has been put upon it. The courts have declared its inviolable character, and this decree affirms the negro, tho liberated slave, a citizen. “But does the declaration make him such? I mean docs it. can it, impart the intelligent life, the moral con sciousness, which shall vivify the dead mass and make it a helpful mem ber of the bodj politic? we have had declarations from every depart ment of tiie government that the negro is a citizen; but they are us power less to effect their purpose as were the oft-repeated acts of the Confederate Congress to make the paper dollar worth more than two cents: as nuga- tor3* and vain as the old-time legisla ture of Virginia that there should be a town at such a designated cross-road. The negro is u citizen, and ho has the rights under the Constitution and the laws that any white man has; and yet he needs help, though it may be the black and white demagogues would dislike him to think so—he needs help, personal, individual, pa tient. loving help, that ho may ho fitted to exorcise his covenanted rights, and to do the duties which these rights impose.” Bismark’s Religion. Bismark at Ferricres. If I was not a Christian I would not ser\ o the King another hour. If I did not obey my (tod and put my trust in Him my respect for earthly rulers would he hut small, I have enough to live upon, unit as a private man I should enjoy as much consideration as 1 desire. Why, then, should I ex haust m3*self with unwearying labor iu this world. Why expose m\*sclf to .dilllcutics, unpleasant ness and ill-treatment if I had not the feeling that I must do mv dutv hefnro God and for Hissakc? If I did notbe- lieve in a divine government of liio world p hieh had predestined the Ger man nation toVsomething great and good I would abandon the trade of diplomaev at once, or rathe^I should never have undertaken it. J do not know whence my sense of duty should come except from God. Titles and decorations have no charms for me. The confident belief in a life after death —that is jt—that is why I am a roy alist: without it, I should by nature be a republican. AH the steadfastness with which for these ten years I have veskted ever3* conceivable absurdity, has been derived only from my reso- lute faith. Take this faith from me,and you take my country too. * * * How willingly i would leave it gll. I am fond of emintrv ife, of the fiejus and f he-woefdH. Take nwiy' from me my belief in my personal relation to God, and I am the mull to pock up my things to-m*now, to escape to Yur- zin and look after my crop*. > ■- Xf T*