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7** TH E RECORDER. CHARLES E. R. DRAYTOX, Manager. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, JULY, 28 1885. VOLUME 4.—NUMBER 40. Profeasional Advertisements. D. 8. Hkkdcbmx. K. P. Hesdeksos. Henderson Brothers, Attounkvs at Law, Aikb.v, 8. C, Will practice in the State and United Statea Courtfor South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to' eol- leatfone. REQUIESCAT IN PACE. Cleveland sent the following dis- J Ova). W. Cttorr. J. Zkd Dcklap. Croft & Dunlap, Attojlnuym at Law. Aikem. patch to Mrs. Grant at Mt. McGregor: j “Accept this expression of my lieart- THK DKATH OF GRANT AND THE | felt sympothy in tlie liour of your great alHictiou. Tlie people of tlie Nation mourn with you and would reach, if they could, with kindly com- the depth of sorrow which RL'KIAL, The I.MMt Seeue Ahout the HetlMitle of,, _ , , the Ryfag Miliia.-y Chief-His fort tlu * t,tt P th of sorrow Which is Al'ishes. yours alone, and which only the pity Mr. McGreoor, July 23.—At 9 * of can heal *” o’clock last night one of General j Grant’s physicians conceded with THE DRINK ! THE DRINK! all ye who have learned to Jamm Aldkicu. Waltku Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aikkx, 8. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. W. ((uitmau Davis, Attornky at Law, Aikkx, 8. C. Will {M-actlco In the Courts of this Cirauit. Hpocia attention given to eollMCtions. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. Claude K. SiT4/er, Attorney at Law, Aikkx, 8. C. j. w. DKVORK. Aiken. 8. C. n. WOODWARD. Aiken. 8. C. DeVorc & Woodward, Attornky at Law, Aikkx, 8. C. Will practice in all this State. tlie Courts of Edwin U. Cunningham, i 641 Broad 8t., - - AuuUbta, Ga. Commissioner of Heeds 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.” Dr. Z. A. Smith, . PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSE, - - ^ 8. C. KWOfllce near Depot. Dr. B. H. Teagues Dentist. KFICE ON- Eiohknd Avenue, Aikenj, S. C. some caution ttiat the patient might survive until July 23rd. His mean ing was that the sick man might yet be living when midnight should mark the new day. The physician’s indica tion that it was not a prognostication, was borne out and more. The General passed into the first hour of tlie day lie saw its light at sunriso and througli tlie early morning hours lie still sur vived. The advent of July 23rd, however, marked a change in General Grant’s condition which was signifV cant. Tlie chill ut tlie extremities was increasing and tlie use of hot ap plications to keep the warmth iu the extremities and the vital parts were resorted to. They were of some avail, but artificial warmth was without power to reach tlie cause or to stay tlie results of dissolution, which began Tuesday evening ami had been prog ressing steadily though gradually. Hypodermics of brandy were fre quently giveu to stimulate tlie flag ging physical powers, but later this failed to effect the patient, whose vi tality and whose physical forces were so far spent as to furnish no footing for rebound; indeed, efforts of"the medical men were being made because none could stand by inactive and without a trial of an expedient that night prolong life an hour or a min ute. The physicians believed that tlie patient might reach the extreme ebb of his strength ut 1 o’clock this morning and the approach of the hour was anticipated with intense anxiety at the cottage. It passed, however, and the General, lying upon his back and propped by two pillows, lay ujk>ii the cot bed in the parlor, and was yet living, but growing weaker. The inevitable close of the General’s long sickuess seem more and more imiuent. Tlie feeble pulse beats had worn themselves by their rapidity to fluttering throbs that could not be guaged beneath tlie finger of the physi cian. The body was being worn out by its own life current, so rapid was it coursing througli tlie veins. Re peatedly was brandy eutored beneath the skin of the General’s arm, but despite its warming influence tlie res pirations had quickened from forty- fcjpr to tho minute during tlie evening President's Proclamation. Washington, July 23.—Tlie fol lowing jltochunation was afterwards issued by the President “Tho President of tho United 8tates has just received the sad tidings of the death of that illustrious citizen ex-Prcsident of the United States, Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant, at Mt. Mc Gregor, in the Htate of New York, to which place lie had lately been re moved iu an endeavor to prolong his life. “In making this announcement to the people of the United States, tho President Is impressed with tlie mag nitude of the public loss of the great military leader, who was iu the hour of victory magnanimous, amid dis aster serene and self-sustained, who in every station, whether as a soldier or as a Chief Magistrate, twice called to power by his fellow-countrymen, trod unswervingly tlie pathway of duty, undeterred by doubts, single- minded and straight forWni-d. “The entire country lias witnessed with deep emotion his prolonged and patient struggle with the painful dis ease, and lias watched by his couch of suffering with tearful sympathy. The destined end has come at last, and ids spirit has returned to the Creator who sent it forth. The great heart of tlie Nation that followed him when living with love and pride, hows now iu tlie sorrow above him dead, tenderly, mindful of his virtues, his great patriotism and services, and of the loss occasioned by his death. “In testimony of respect to the men- ory of Gen. Grant it is ordered that tlie Executive mansion and tlie several departments at Washington be drap ed in mourning for the period of thirty days, and that all public business shall on the day of the funeial be sus 7 pended, and the Secretaries of War and of tlie Navy will cause orders to be issued for appropriate military and naval honors to be rendered on that day. “In witness whereofl have hereun to set my hand and caused tlie seal of the United States to be fixed. Done at Washington, this 23rd day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the Independence of tlie United States tlie one hundred and tenth. i x Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. * OFFICE A1 Wiillston, Barnwell County, S. 0. Fir wm attend calls to the country. 0. P. Doolittle, 81LBRR ASD PIC TURK FRAME Manufacurer, 13* Jackson Bt. - - Augusta, Ga. ' f Picture Frames Made to Order at Short Notice. MRW MOULDIKQR C OX STAX T- LT RECEIVING. RegHdiag a Specialty. Old Frames equal to new. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged. W. A. RECKLING COLUMBIA, 8. C. P ICTURB8 sent can be enlarged to any size, and will lie returned for inspection. If unsatisfactojy no charge. Correspondence solicited. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, One Door from Laurens Street on Richland Avenue. The host of material used, and any tyle «f boot or shoe made to order. Geo. W. WillianiN, HOUSE, SIGX AXJ) FRESCO PAINTER! draining and Marbling a speenilty. Old Furniture polished and made us good an new. fflTOfHce No. 7, Up-stairs in Croft’s Block. _ Orders solicitsd. W. H. Hargraves ut near the sick mau-i two ad been passed, and tKe evi- dfTiices of nearing death were ^nulti plied. Increasing respirations were not alone ,®Vjre rapid but more shal low. The lung and the heart were giving away. 80 weak had General Grant grown at three o’clock that, though bo frequently attempted to doze,, he was unabi” any longer to clear the gathering muccous from his throat. It accumulated and remained. As four o’clock drew on and daylight came, the point had been reached when expectoration was impossible. There was not left enough of strength, and from four o’clock on there was, in the throat, a significant rattle of mucous that was tiliiiig tlie lungs and clogging the throat. At 3 o’clock the General asked for water, and after that it is not remembered that he ut tered any word. At 4 o’clock the breathing readied fifty to the minute. An hour later tlie respirations had reached sixty, and between 6 and 0 o’clock tlie finger nails had become blue, and the hands showed further evidence of tlie progress of numbness at tlie extremities, and at every breatli the mucous clogging in tlie throat was growing noticeable. An embalmer from New York will be summoned to preserve General Grant’s remains, but the local undertakers will undoubted ly conduct the immediate details and convey tlie remains to New York. When tlie body shall have reached New York, tho question of a post mortem will be considered and de termined by tlie family. Touching the place for the burial, tlie General a month ago indicated three places as suiting his wishes in that direction. The choice, however, was narrowed to two, owing to tlie natural wish of the General that his wife should rest be side him. A strong desire lias been expressed to the family that the bu- j rial should take place in Washington, j and efforts have been put forth to ! make New York the last resting place 1 of tlse General. Before his death, j however, General Grant left the j choice of the burial spot entirely to ! Col. Fred Grant, imposing only the | condition that the spot selected | should he such as Mrs. Grant might “T/F. Bayard, “8ecretary of Htate.” Thursday a meeting of tlie Cabinet was called for 11 o’clock instead of 12 the utnial hour, to take actiop on tlie death of the ex-Prcsident; F. T. IK-nt Talks. Col. Fred T. Dcufc, Gen. Grant’s brother-in-law, who is now a resi dent of this city, was asked yesterday if he knew what placo had been se lected for the General’s burial. He replied that he did not, although he had made inquiiies on the subject when at Mt. McGregor recently. From remarks then made to him by a member of Gen. Grant’s family he in- fered that a positive selection had been made by the General, but it was known only to himself, Mrs. Grant and Col. Fred. Grant. He was inclin ed ta’hink. however, that tlie Gen eral t.^d notselected Washington, hut possibly West Point. Come near, think, And hear me speak of the drink, the drink: Come, male and female—come, age and youth. And list while I tell the simple truth. It’s ha<l for the brain, it’s bad for tho nerves. For tlie man that buys and tlie man that serves• j It's bad for the eyes, and it’s bad for the breath, It’s bad for life, audit’s worse for death -_ It's bad for the pocket, it’s bud for the fame. It's bad too when often it bearath no blame; It’s bail for friendship, it’s worse for strife, It's bad tor the husband, it's bad for tlie wife; It’s bad for tho face, where the simples have come, It's bad for the children, and bad for the home; It's bad when the tradesman's Lilli arc to pay, It’s had—oh! how bad—for a “rainy day; It’s had when it nerves a man to do The crime that he's not accustomed to. It is had for the culprit who sighs in jail, It's bad for his wife—so pale, so pale: It’s bad for the strong, and it’s had lor the weak. For the sallow tinge that it lends to tho check; It’s had when the social glass we take, And bad next niorning when wo awake: It’s had for the day when you have to rent, Anil had for the child with the pitcher sent; It is had for the young who schooling lack, Aud bad for tlie clothes on the drunkard's hack; The ruffian's joy, the murderer's hoi»c, The passport oft to tlie hangman's rope; It’s bad, as myriads who moan below, Could tiiey once return, would be fain to show; It’s had in tlie morning, it's had at night. Though tlie talk is loud, and the tiro burns bright: It’s bad, for It leads from bad to worse— Not only bad. but a giant curse; The poor man’s bane destruction's gate, The church,s shame, the blight of the state; A poison fly, with its venomous sting. That makes our glory a tainted thing. MARCH OF THE WHITE MAN HE IS FAST BECOMING THE MAS TER OF THE GLOBE. pay FROM COLUMBIA. A Point on the Hamburg Riots—Flor ida and the New Orleans Exposition —State Board of Agriculture — Par don. Augusta Chronicle. Columbia, 8. C., July 21.—An old frlond—Prince Rivers—has got iuto trouble with his pastor, aud publishes a card in The Aiken Recorder ex- houeratiug himself. Among other tilings he says that the reverend gen tleman accused him of getting up tlie Hamburg riots and then siding with tlie Democrats. That preacher is as tonishingly ignorant of the facts re garding tiiat little unpleasantness. I think Rivers can get as many certifi cates as he wants that he didn’t get up tlie riot, and if lie sided witli the Democrats the aforesaid Democrats were not aware of it. At least a part of them, who were anxious to see him, ou that eventful occasion, I am sure desire to congratulate him on to Wliut Makos Calamity of Life. Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. When along-sufferiug fisherman ac cidently and unexpectedly finds a big trout has actually grabbed bis hook and shows fight and darts around and pitches and cavorts, and lashes the water, and bends tlie pole almost double and you brace yourself for the great occasion with hope iu your eye and your heart in your mouth and bg- gin to draw him in and up and out, and just at the inexpressible moment of success and triumph he gives a llirt and falls back—oh, what a full was that, my countrymen! What goneness, what helplessness, what crushing, subduing feelings come over a man. He could n’t smile if he was going to be hung if he didn’t. It is worse than t"* have a cow die, or to be left by tlie train. I have experienced that, and gone home as humble as a M-et dog. It is a $10 grief over the loss of a half dollar fish. Manufacturer of ! ^ b >’ h * s si,k ; His remains will ! ! Ik* ivmoved to New York by special j All Kinds of Sheet Metal Work, ! tJain, and there prepared for burial ^Tin Roofing, Iron Roofing ! II The News at WaMhiiijjiou. Washington, July 23. — Shortly after 8 o’clock this morning, tlie Presi dent was informed of the death of General Grant. He immediately di rected that tlie flag on the White AVTXG every facility for con-• House should be placed at halfmast. Gut (or* and CondwtornI Roof* Rr- jHiitrd and Painted! Mill and Far. ioru Work! Hot Air Furnaces, Ven tilators, Ac. • Chester Ahead on Snakes. The Chester Rulletin vouches for the following as a true snake story: Mrs Janies K Hicklin of Richbourg, went into her lien house and caught ono of her fowls by the tail to pull her oft' the nest, hut discovered that the fowl was swallowed up to the wings by a large chicken snake. Mr Hicklin was called and with his trusty rifle lie lodged three balls in tlie snake’s head before it con sented to give up the ghost and tlie fowl. Upon examination tlie snake rr wjrf^^uWally Wlieved fffot Rlvi spent tiie night in the Savannah riv<? to get away from those whom the preacher now says were ids friends. Tills was strange conduct for a man to be guilty of who liad incited the riot, and who was on tlie side of tho people from whom he was running. Tills is a great mistake of the Reverend Taj’ lor. If Prince was on the aide of the Democrats that night, I am quite sure that neither Prince nor tlie Democrats kuew it. I poticc that a hill has been proposed iq the Georgia legislature to grant the right to mine phosphate rock, to any ot)o who should discover such deposits in that State, for a term of years, upon the payment of $500 and a royalty of $1 per ton. Georgia must offer greater inducements than this, if she wants to start out prospectors. In South Carolina we can give miners any amount of territory wanted, with an a!)iiiidance of phosphate rock, upon tlie payment of $1 a ton royalty. Alincrs will thus, by coming here, save the cost of prospecting for rock and the $500. I have just received from Judge Hebring, the Florida Cqmmissioner to tlie Exposition, a copy of liis final re port to the Governor. It gives a full and concise statement of tlie really splendid exhibit of tho State, and the results following it. Tlie Commis sioner states that fully 20,000, and per haps 25,000 people were induced to go to tlie Florida exhibjt, and many per sons have settled ami invested largely iu lauds. Judge Hebring deserves great honor for the creditable exhibit I .nude under most adverse circum- uuices. He was one of tlie most ac tive, intelligent and indefatigable of tlie Commissioners, and was worth as much, by his hard apd well directed efforts, to his State as was tlie splen did collection of its resources and pro duets. He made many friends by ids genial and courteous maimers. He deserves all the success lie attained, and I congratulate him ou tlie re sult. The Astonishing Change Wrought Iu Two Centuries—A Possible Conflict Between tho Teuton and Slav. lioudon Spectator. Among tho little noticed but most important facts in tho history of the world is the enormous recent increase iu the number of white men in it. It is barely two centuries (1683) since those races, though even then the most energetic of mankind, formed hut a small fraction iu tlie total of humanity—probably 10 per cent, of the whole—and were by no means certaiu that they could defend them selves'against tho remainder. The 8troairi^dt v Aalntic conquest had not stoppedjfor the Turks were at tlie gates of Vienna; an African fleet was dominant iu the Mediterranean; Asia knew nothing of the whites except in one qr two tolerated settlements ou the coast fringe of India; Africa be longing exclusively to Africans; and though vlie whites had mustered South America, where, rend in tlie light of subsequent history, their con quests were incredibly rapid, most parts of North America still felt In dian war’s to he terribly and even formidable events. Even a luin lred years later the white people, though under the operation of tlie still unex plained kjw which at one time fosters aud at another time restricts tho growth of the people, were increasing slowly, but still only a hundred and fifty ihillions, or probably a sev enth of tlip population of tlie globe. They hadl indeed, annexed tlie two Americas ;and Northern Asia, thus quintupling the area of their estates upon the 1 lanet, and probably multi plying the r fixed wealth by at least twenty-folil—a country being always the largest item in the wealth of any race or nat ion—but they had only be gun to set’ le in tlie Western Conti nent ; they bad but commenced to con- quorin Southern Asia: they had visit ed, but not occupied, Australia, and in Eastern Europe and Western Asia they were only slaves to tlie Asiatic horde. Th ? century, however, ending 1884 has be m marked by an advance so rapid aud so unbroken as to he scarcely cr.*dible, and to present one of the most startling facts in history. The white races iu and out of Europe, under tho influence of some still mys terious call upon their energies, have multiplied 'nearly threefold, and are to-day, aw iir. R. Griffen has shown in his recent Society lilress to tlie i,000, ..’tatistical I’lie lowering of tlie flag was the first! 3' ou,1 g Guinea fowls, six Guinea lowl ducting our business with dis patch and satisfaction, ] respectfully 1 s .• , . . . 1 ^..r.ru solicit a share of thw patronage ^fj that the citizens ot N\ ash-: Aiken aud the surrounding country. Tlie State Board o,f Agriculture will meet next Friday, July 25th, at 11 o’clock a. 111., at the Commissioner's office. Tlie regular meeting of tlie Board is on Wednesday, July 2t*th, hut the date lias been changed on ac count of other important official du ties that will engage the attention of the members next week. Maj. Charles McCann, representing the Southern Electric Company, lias been in tlie city several days endeav- wus found to have swallowed fourteen I 0 1 rin « to effuCt «°iuearrangement " itli the city authorities for the introduc- as indeed Wjch Increase lias been, outside of IilRa, nearly impossible,the white men Jra now, by the best calcu lations, o^tithird of the entire popu lation of th^world, Instead of being, as they we^Tonly two centuries ago, a little morl than 10 percent. They have, moreover, if anything, increased iu physical strength, aud have so developed41 brain, and consequent power of org mization, that It may be doubted If the whole remainder of mankind, e ron if all were reduced to equal weapons, could seriously in jure the wli ite third, which, again, if it clioso to act together and employ without pity the weapons its intelli gence has ft tabled it to construct, could in afliv years reduce the re mainder on » world to an uninhab ited desert^^Exeept in the South 1’a- cific, where, f>y one means or anotlicr, they kill ttjt the darker man, the white races >10v/ no tendency of that kind—thonTrh, v.-e tike it, iu tlie dawn of iiistorjflthej exterminated pretty ally in India—but they png disposition to take the whole eartli ami ley please. The Chinese great race remaining said to he truly inde- ee from the predomi- ce of tlie energetic Ho pour iu increasing lie remainder of tlie They, indeed, alone cean. Tlie Chinese ips, and a few small by dark sailors, most- vers, or pilgrim ear- about tlie coasts of Eastern Africa, hut es of the world, and t slffps, and its mer- are all alike while, id bombard a white )ort an army across a if sea in tlie face of a iwliite men, who now •Jy Europe, except a Itch Constantinople occupy two-thirds of freely, es do siiow possessio govern it are the which cn| pendent and nathig inffu white men, streams over earth’s surfs traverse til keep a few vessels maun ly pirates or riers, still h Southern Asl the lighting 1 its great tra cautile ninriii No dark race harbor, or tra hundred Julies' prohibition Ji exclusively e corner on stands; wl numbers, and at their present rates of increase they will in 1984 lie a thous and millions, or much more than half of then existing mankind. Tlie Chinese have recently shown some resisting power; the English have ap parently—it may prove only appar ently—halted, indecisive in their search up tho valley of the Nile; hut the general movement sweeps ever forward, and within tho century it seems more than probable that every corner of tlie earth will be ruled by white men, and that the ''audax lapeti genus,” as Horace perceived them to he, will he the only independ ent race within the planet, which their tireless enterprise will then have rendered quite visible and very small, Not oven internal war arrests tlie rush, still less human volition. Be cause Germans and Frenchmen fought France is in Tonquin, Tunis and Madagascar; and in spite of Mr. Glad stone Englishmen are reaching the Zambesi, are encamped in Egypt, have gained full footing iu Borneo, are legally reigning on the Niger, and looking with greedy eyes on all the remaining lands of the South Pacific. It is difficult to read such a record without feeling that the quarrels of old Europe, of which we make so much, are not rather petty affairs, or without doubting whether after all Prince Bisnmrk does very greatly af fect the fortunes of the human race. The ultimate law-giver, who scatters tlie nations, and who has taken off the ban of sterility from tlie Aryan to inflict it on the Turanian, seems to be stronger than he. Tliis world is the heritage of tho white man—that is tlie first lesson of Mr. Griffon's figures; hut there is another also which the Englishmen will do well to think over patiently and, if they can, without hatred in their hearts. They have no right to anger witli the visible will of God. If Mr. Griffon’s figures are correct—and, subject to son:3 arrest of «exsisting law, they must he as correct as if they were merely unapplied calculations— there is but one race on earth with whom it behooves the Teuton in all his branches to keep friends. The supremacy of the white man will in tlie end—and, recollect, children may he born to day who will see the end, and then be younger than Sir Moses Monteflore—he the joint supremacy of the Teuton and Slav. In 1984, when the world contains 1,000,000,000 white faces, 600,000,000 of these will lie English and German and 300,000,- 000 will he Slav. There will practi cally be jao oilier white races, the French not increasing, the Spaniards increasing, slowly-^if indeed, as , iu Mexico, they dp .not rathe;- su so dfnavlan lTayG^_ and fjie irishman, trii helping only to swell the power of the race he professes to detest. If tlie Teuton and the Slav can keep friends the world is theirs, and if not there will be the most terrible struggle re corded in history since the white bar barian fought the white Romans and their dark allies. We are not sure that an agreement is possible until a fight has taken place, for tlie Slav aud Teuton seem unwilling to compre hend each other, though there is not between them tho internecine hatred sometimes observed in history; but If their statesmen could arrange terms on which the conflict could be permanently avoided a huge mass of misery might be saved to our immedi ate descendants. To avoid the quar rel will he difficult, for the Slav is just now strangled, aiul to reach the open water and so take his natural part in the greater movement of mankind lie must pitch himself on somebody, belt on Turkey or England or China; hut tiie means of avoidance are worth the study and patience of years. Man kind is not very likely to be happy when all is done, for in all this niove- shall read less about the cherry tree and more of tlie man. Naught surely that is heroic will be omitted, but side by side witli what is heroic will ap pear much that is commonplace. We shall behold tlie great commander re pairing defeat witli marvelous celeri ty, healing tlie dissentions of his officers, and calming tlie passions of his mutinous troops. But wo shall also hear his oath and sec him iu those terrible outbursts of passion to which Mr. Jefferson has alluded, and ono of which Mr. Lear has described. We shall see him refusing to be paid for his services, yet exacting from the family of the poor mason the shilling that was his due. We shall kuow him as a cold and forbidding charac ter, with whom no fellow-man t ever ventured to live ou close and familiar terms.” Some of our readers will say that any writer who speaks of George Washington as an “unknown man” speaks like a fool. From his death down to the present time Washington lias been explored by biographers who rivaled each other in, pursuit of facts. Weems’ hook was out before the old hero had been dead three months, and tiien came Marshall, Botta, Sparks, Irving, Everett, and even J. T. Headley and Mrs. Kirk land. In the face of all tiiis, however, McMaster calls George Washington “an unknown man,” Aside from public life we have the proof, that Washington was a good brother and a good son, and wc all know that home is tlie best place to test character. In his 20tli year Washington became nurse of his brother Lawrence, whom lie accompanied to Barhadoes, tiffs being liis only marine voyage. He took care of Lawrence three months, hut tiie latter was in a hopeless condi tion and only returned homo to die. As a son his first act after election to tlie Presidency was a visit to his aged mother (who lived at Fredericksburg), and it proved their last meeting on earth. At a public dinner given him at the same time, at Alexandria, tiffs “cold and forbidding character” spoke as follows: “Just having bade adieu to my do mestic connections, tender proof of your friendship is hut too well calcu lated to awaken still further my sen sibility to aud increase rny regret at parting from tho enjoyments of pri vate life. All that now remains for me is to commit myself and you to the care of that Beneficent Being who has happily brought us together otter along and distressing separation. Perhaps tiie same gracious Providence will again indulge me. But wordslfail me. Unutterable sensations must! be left the very thing 1 guarded him against. OGod! O God!’ exclaimed he, throw ing up ids hands, while his very frame shook with emotion. ‘Ho is worse than a murderer. How can ho answer to his country ? The blood .of the slain is upon him. The curse of widows aud orphaus—tho curse of heaven.’ “ Mr. Lear remained speechless, awed into breathless silence by the ap palling tones iu which tlie torrent of invective was poured forth. The paroxysm passed by. Washington sat down on the sofa—he was silent—ap parently uncomfortable as if conscious of tiie ungovernable hurst of passion which overcame him. 'Tiffs must hot go beyond this room,* said ho. ‘I looked hastily through tho dispatches, saw the whole disaster, but not all the oarticulars. I will receive him without displeasure; I will hear hhu without prejudice. Ho shall, have full iustice.’ ” Weemsliatchod tho cherry tree ami McMaster the poor family’s shilling. Arcades amho—each wanted a sensa tion. and necessity is the mother of invention. BACK FROM lilUKRIA. What a Georgia Colortsi Woman Says Alter 17 Years’ Stay. Juna Hudson, colored, has returned to Atlanta after a residence of 17 years in Liberia as a colonist. When asked by a Constitution reporter what slio thought of tiiat country, she said: “I never liked it. It is a remarkably rich country, and tlie climate is generally agreeable. I don’t know when I havo felt a day us hot as this. The trouble is with tlie fever, which never fails to attack settlers, and is very fatal. It takes two years at least to become ac climated, and I don’t think tho cli mate ever agrees well with anybody but tho natives.” - • “Is the population growing?” “No, sir; I think not. Tlie natives may be increasing, but there are fewer American negroes there now than there used to be. Nearly all of the fifty tiiat went over In our party died. Some came back. Ou the vessel that brought me to Now York were twen ty-one emigrants returning to this country. They generally get enough of Liberia in six months.” “What inducements are ofTerod to settlers?” “Every family is given 25 acres of land; and they can buy as much more as they want for 50 cents an acre. It is the richest land I ever saw, too. I had a beautiful place with many Im provements. Th«ro were 12,000 bear ing coffee trees ok it, andsof bananas aid ment u no cure for sin, or pain, or poverty; anxiety increases as fast as intelligence, and sympathy—which means suffering—faster than strength ; hut one grand condition of even mod erate well-being is that Slav and Teu ton should learn how to live together n peace. If not the Teuton may some day—in less than a century—find that every third white man is a foe, and that the third white man has the power of ranging behind him the darker races of mankind. Tlie Teu ton lias the art of dominance, but tlie Slav has gained a strong hold wher ever he lias ruled, and can do at least one tiling we cannot—he can conquer the Turanian without rousing his un quenchable hate. Now, the Turanian is tlie onlv race not whito which should in 19S4be strong. W. H. HARGRAVES, 641 Broad St.,''Augusta, Ga. The Place for Bargains. J- C. Stanley & Bro., Dealers in Ami Some-Furnishing Goods! COLUMBIA, - - * SC. many private ones, were placed in a like )K>sit ion. Bells of the city were* , tolled and citizens who heard them J readily recognized their meaning. 1 Business men immediately began CHINA, GLASS, KARTAENWARE 1 draping their iiouses with mourning | and residences in a similar manner j showed esteem for the deceased. NY bile tlie hells tolled, 1'resident and had a large chicken lien half tiou of ^"“nveli fi r e alarm sys- ing had of the death of tho distin- ! ^’ai lowed when it was interrupted in | eo^ele firoalurm'wffr 8851 * guished man, although tiioy hud been ; shallowing the hen by Mrs. Hicklin, 1 y u ,UI tc hrc ulurm Wl11 anticipating it throughout tho night. A few minutes after the White House flag was placed at iialfmast, flags on all hublic buildings and on The tower of the new Philadelphia, wfII, with the exception * and served out five months of his The snake measured seven feet length and twelve inches around. cost , 13,000. in J | The Governor yesterday pardoned ; Henry Holman (white) convicted of j assault and battery at Aiken, May. city building, , 1884. He was sentenced for six mouths of the Washington Monument, he the highest structure in the world; hut, though tlie pressure on tho foundation is nowhere more than nine tons to term. The pardon is granted on the ground of tlie prisoner’s extreme ill ness. While the hot wave is sweeping the square foot, tlie settlement of tlie 1 over the North and West, Columbia more heavily ladon portion lias crack-j keeps a pretty even temperature and ed and broken the polished and sculp-{the nights are delightful. Spreads cured stone in the interior. I were comfortable last night. Nortli Amc| gonia, who AostniTHT most of the Pgoiflc; whd possess, tlie from tlie U ra| who dominal do-Chimi, an They have ing Africa, a hundred poi most silently huge slices li] Africa, Madi the Niger, ai sive region cj is there ratch tlie proces ivij tiie white aeq an irresisi have no e<fa yellow ra«!vi been so inedl and that oil which for i< ing, is beig famines; bt tl goes ou so fasl huge army evi lautic makes ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON. Il.nl From the < 'liieago Tribune. Several callous writers of recent ap pearance have sought to attract alten- |u, and down to Pata-,Tli»5 Father »>r II 1h Coiiritrj' 'e taken possession off Temper The Old Man Swore When New Zealand, and He was Very Mad rger isles of the South jlaiin, if they do not [hole of Northern Asia |othe\ellow Sea, ahd i Uon by detracting from Washington, the whole of India, In* , prominent among them is McMas- ue Delta of the Nile, j ter, who seems determined to make a [cly taken to couquor- sensation by the flippant and cheeky are entering it at a j way in which he speaks of our noblest at once; seizing al-; character. The following is an exani- irtainly without effort, 1 pi G; French Africa, South j ^He (Washington) died in liis. OStli ?ar, the vast valley of j y eu r, and in the heyday of liis glory and his fame. Time has since dealt It is highly probable that McMaster never read tlie above address, and hence may a plead ignorance. One might excuse him on this ground were it not that his conceit is indulged in such sneers as the following: “\Ve shall read less of tlie cherry tree and more of tlie man.” McMaster knows tiiat the cherry tree is a fable, and is never mentioned in any respectable history. It was invented by Parson Weems, who was ns great a charlatan as McMaster himself. He adds: “We shall also hear his oaths and see him iu those terrible outbursts of passion to wlffoh Jefferson has allud ed, and one of which Mr. Lear has described.” Irving says: “Washington inheri ted from his mother a high temper and a spirit of command, but her ear ly precepts and example taught him to govern Hint temper, and to square ids conduct in the exact principles of equity and justice.” Tlie reader is probably aware that “high temper” is a feature in all men of power. “It is, iu fact, ns necessary to power as it is to steel, and it only becomes a defect when it exceeds con trol. Washington's high temper gave liim nerve and energy, and we have but two instances on record of a ter rible outburst.” One was when repri- tiianding Lee for his cowardice on the field of Monmouth, where (as Lafay ette said) the aspect of tlie comman der was terrible. No oaths, however, are mentioned, and there is no proof that Washington ever used profane language. The other “outburst” took place iu the Executive Chamber at Philadelphia, and Lear, tiie private secretary, was the sole witness. The occasion was tlie defeat of St. Clair by the Indians and the massacre of a large part ot the army. Lear gives us the following description of the scene, which in reality is one not of profanity, hut r.f agony: “The General walked slowly buck- j ward and forward for some minutes 1 in silence. As yet there had been no a | change in his manner. Taking a seat id of instantly is done I’conld is circulated. People tlie money because it' being depreciatbd. Trading almost altogether by barter, take my coffee and got anything I wanted. So with syrup and fruit. But when my property was offered for sale for gold I could hardly got anything for it. The Legislature la trying now to make the'money of the country good. Crops lire bountiful, but every necessary of life Is high. Pork is 30 cents a pound, beef 20 cents, ham 50 cents aud good flour very high.” “ • “What about the government?” “It Is modeled after ours. AH tho officers are negroes, and there are a good many politicians.” “Do the people generally seem to ho happy?” "Well, I suppose so. The natives are happy in their way, but I don’t think tliu country would satisfy those who had been reared in Georgia?” “What is tlie religion of tho people?” “Among the emigrants tliero aro the various denominations Xvc have hero. The natives worship idols.” “Why don’t they send missionaries among them ?” “They do, but it is a hopeless task, think. Among tlie thousands of natives I saw while there only three had been civilized and Christianized. Missionaries are scattered ail over tlie country and they find uo trouble in getting crowds of tlie natives into their churches and schools. Many of these profess conversion and are en rolled as Ciiristuius, hut almost inva riably they go hack to idolatry when they return to their tribes. The mis sionary work in Liberia seems to he making no progress.” “You don’t think the future of tho country looks bright?” “No, sir, the emigrants w.ho have gone there from this country us a rule are not contented. Many of them come hack, and many more would come if they hud tlie means, country is not going to fill up intelligent American negroes, aud f don’t believe the natives will ever ho made into g<sid citizens. They aro ignorant and brutal. They are happy Tho with on the sofa by tlie lire, he told Mr. Lear to sit down. Tho latter had 1. 1 . .i 1 - i- .. . , when they can come down from tho scarce time to notice tiiat he was ex-1 forest loaded with fruits to sell iu tho broke out i towns, and then go hack to miserable huts.” ItV.o still more exten- fid tlie Congo. Nor tsou to believe tiiat Loon be checked, for •e urged forward by ir over which they The increase of the (ich must once have »ly fast has stopped, dark races of India, itury lias been amaz- l becked by recurrent it of the white people lat the transport of a tremely agitated when he suddenly: “It’s all over! St. Clair defeated—routed! the officers nearly all killed—the men by wholesale; the rout complete; too shocking to think of or a surprise into the bargain.’ All tiffs was uttered with great vehe mence. Then, pausing and rising from tlie sofa, lie walked up and down tlie room iu silence, violently agi tated, hut saying nothing. When near the door he stopped short, stood still a few moments, when there was an other terrible explosion. “‘Yes,’ exclaimed he. ‘Hero on this very spot I took leave of him; I wished him success and boner.’ have your instructions from theSecre gently with liis memory, and he has come down to us as tiie greatest of all leaders and the most immaculate of I all men. No other face is as familiar ! to us. His name is written all over ! tho map of our country. V’e have made of his birthday a national feast. The outlines of liis biography are j eye to them,mid will add but one word, known to every schoolboy in the land, beware of a surprise. You know how Yet his true biography is still to be ’ the Indians fight us. I repeat it, be- prepared. General Washington is . ware of a surprise.’ He went off with known to us os President Washington; that, my last warning, thrown into but George Washington is an un-;liis ears. And yet! Toininy’.s Reasons. • Christian at Work. Fond pupa (proudly displaying tho accomplishments of his U-year-eld boy* to the visiting clergyman)— “Now, Tommy, tell the gentleman what you would like to he when you grow up to he a great, big man.” “Tommy, (pointing at the distin guished visitor)—“I’d like to he a min ister like him.”' Visiting clergyman (felt gratified) —“Ah my young friend, you would * You !l**-' 14 clergyman like me, would jyou? And, now, tell me .why tary of War,’said I. ‘I had a strict i WOU ,j t * be , r set fanny to he cut to pieces, hacked, f wh^j'^by womc'i? fnShS impression on the4r before us in his habit as he lived, we butchered,tomahawked by a surprise— parish.” . *• year across the At- known man. When at last lie is you to be a blergyinau like me.'’ Tommy (promptly)-—" Because I heard pa say yesterday that you had tiie softest job of any man ho knew. Nothing to do but to talk a half an hour every Kundavt livefneaon the To .lifter tlmti th.«~i*(trrf»tto»,....l iIogm. h«wd..|2S!SSiTi. ‘JSo.f.M*’. *5 «4.