Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i i ' ■ jLta'-timm j® * - Wi *0*^yryrr\'*t:rry>rrzJtr s^rr^: V THE AIKEN / V 'RECORDER. i*g %im • * C1IAIILES E. R. URATfOX, Manager. AIKEX S. C., TUESDAY,, OCTOSER 20, 1885. VOLUME 4.—NUMBER 1. ' MTJ5I0, — The Music House Boarding-House! -pirn ATE- Professional Advertisements, -BY- pf The South - inrttn- llEMO\T» OCTOlUill KAHJtS’BUUCTIUT'Ii BT IXCi, N EARLY O|>oo»ito the Old Stand. TO H. A. £ lton JOHN & WALKER STS.. , SUMMERVILLE, NEAR AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. The superior advantages of this lo cution will be appreciated by every one,.and, with increased facilities, CjEO-O. ROBINSON A CO.,’ will be enabled to furnish the Finest • - PIANOS Manufactured at LOWEST POSSI BLE PRICES. Tho Music House of t South Guarantees to duplicate Prices in Northern cities, saving to purchaser all freight and insurance, besides sup plying STOOL and COVER. Shipped to any point in the South. MUSICAL MERCHANDISE and INSTRUMENTS of every descrip tion. SHEET BOOKS. MUSIC and MUSIC The Latest Publications. Orders filled on day of reception. "Write for Catalogue, Prices, Dis counts and easy terms of payment, (J. 0. ROBINSON & CO. 846 Broad Street, - - AUGUST. GA. THE AIBS'PA HOTEL! Augusta, - - Georgia. L. E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor. J ARGE and well ycutilluted rooms, centrally located near railroad crossing; headquarters for commer cial men; best k- house in the South; telegraph ofiice in building; electric lights. Special rates by the week or month. D. S. Hexdersos. E. P. He:.dersox. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina.- Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Cko*t. J. Zed Dunlap. Crot*t & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, James Aldkicu. Waltf.u Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley* Attorneys at Law, Ai ken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. THEEDGEFIELDLYNCHSRS TWENTY-SEVEN PRISONERS. JO'.'X WILKES BOOTH. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, • S. C • PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS, House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the Sou hi. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Cheek to any one on Train. Kates $2 00 @ $2 50, W. ({uitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. LEO. II. LOMIURil S, (ill, ' FOUNDRY, Machine and Boiler Works. Wright’s Hotel! S. L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at LAw, Aiken, S. C. Claude E. Sawyer, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S-. C. COLUMBIA, S. C. T ABLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. Rates reasonable. gFH Graniteville Hotel. MRS. N. E. SENN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving parties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. j. w. DEVORE. Aiken, ri. C. • B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. DeVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice this State. all the Courts of Edwin It. Cunningham, 541 Broad St.. - - Augusta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and Notary Public “with seal.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” 10 H. P. Engine $495, 15 H. P. Engine $585. New and First-Class ootnplete Power ♦ Cotton- Press Chej^V, Private Board!! COLMBIA, S. C. Dr. Z. A. Smith, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSE, - - - S. C. JSPOflice "near Depot. •at the- “FAIR BUILDING” No. 16 Plain Street, just east hf/the Central Natiopal Jknfc. PflTmy ? .^ 0 ,. i r i m week, moutn^^fciay^ good table'-ari^ffdmpf Engine and Boiler Repairs Promptly ' Done. 'A ' ' . PIPE FITTINGS ALL KIND IN STOCK. 1014 to 1020 Fenwick Street, AUGUSTA. - - GEORGIA. CP~Telephone No. 27. Weppihq )C PRESENTS jo 1 S. Thomas, jr., •> St. Bro., 273 King St., Charleston, S. C., And make your selection from their —beautiful stock of— Dr. B. II. Teague, Dentist. -OFFICE ON- Richland Avnue, Aiken, S. 0. Dry J» H. Burnett, Dentist. ——OFFICE )d rooms, attention. Mrs. WINTHROP WILLIAMS, P. O. Box 137. D. F. McEwen, Diajnonds! V h Jwly!! NEW GOODS! LO WEST DEICES! Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, and Plated Ware! Silver —AND— FANCY GOODS IN GREA T . VARIETY. -ONLY- ££3-00 —FOR SUMMER MONTHS- AGENT FOR * Standad Amican Watchs, (Every watch warranted to givo per fect satisfaction to purchaser.) Mahie, Todd & Co.’s Gold ZPZEIsrE! I D. Julius King’s Combination Spectacles! (Tho best—an immense assortment in store; I am enabled to suit parties by mail, when inconvenient to visit the store.) The largest and best stock of Jew elry ever brought to Aiken. Goods all marked in phuu figures and only one price asked. Personal attention given to watch- work. Fine and ditficult work solic ited at prices of National Jewelers’ Association. #'*»*' . - Jt * ~ ' Je', *-■ -J ' le, Aiken County^S^ C^ R. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE Their Condition In Jail—J-iscajK? of * Two of Them. • Edgefield Advert j^r. At noon on thursday of last week, twenty-two of the twenty five citizens for whom warants had been issued, in connection with the lynching of O. T. Culbreath, arrived in our town under charge of SherifT Ouzts, and quietly entered our jail—as prisoners. Air. -McDaniel, Dr. Kej r and Mr. Irwin Holmes, for good reasons, and upon their word of honor, were allowed a few days in which to report. Dr. Key came in (promptly, if we mistake not, within twenty-four hours. Messrs. Mc Daniel and Irwin Holmes have not yet icoirb in. _This, if we are correctly in formed, is on account of critical ill ness in their families. On Saturday evening or night, Messrs. Wm. Elam and Oscar Burnett two of the younger prisoners, though both married mdn made their escape from the jail, and at the time we write, Tuesday noon are still at large. They left the ; ail yard through a hole in the rear wall —used for purposes of drainage. This has, since this escape, been closed against the egress of any large body by iron hoops and wire. Up to the time of this escape, the prisoners had not only the liberty of the lower floor, but also the yard. I^ow although they remain upon the lower floor, their liberty is more curtailed, and their guard stronger. The escape of Messrs Elam and Bur nett, for many reasons, is a lamenta ble circumstance. At present, Tues day, Sheriff Ouzts is out in the west country, for the double purpose of bringing in McDaniel and Irwin Holmes and rearrestiug Messrs. Elam and Burnett. Before we go to press on che morrow, we shall probably be able to announce the results of the Sheriff’s trip. The Sheriff has hired an extra cook for the prisoners, and is worthily making every effort to ren der them as confortable as possible under the unhappy circumstances. As regards the escape of Messrs. Elam and Burnett, we woujd simply say, in reference to Sheriff Ouzts, that the circumstances surrounding him in this unparalleled crisis, have themselves been unparalleled-^-great, onerous, confusing. And thus stands this matter in its material aspects. As regards its moral and legal bearings and prospects, wo shall say nothing at present, for never in our long newspaper life have we felt so powerfully and painfully im- e neecs^v jf-irtnrh. A Talk Yilitn J. li. Ford, who was Manage.'.'of Ford’s Theatre at the Time of tfce Assassination. Atlanta Constitution. A few 'Uys ago Mr. J. R. Ford, manager of the “Mikado,” was stand ing at the Kimball house entrance talking to Yr. Dooley, the bill-poster, when Dr. Armstrong passed, and Mr. Dooley remarked to Mr. Ford: “There goes John Wilkes Booth.” Mr. Ford glanced at Dr. Armstrong and replied: “That man might be taken for Ed win Booth, but he. is no more like John Wilkt* Booth than a negro is like a snowball. And. besides that, JOHN \tthKES BOOTH IS DEAD and his bonp.s rotten long ago.” A Constihition man heard of Mr. Ford’s em'ihatic assertion of Booth’s death, and desiring to learn what he knew of a matter shrouded in mystery, called uponhim at the Kimball. “Does Dr. Armstrong resemble John Willies Booth?” began tho reporter. “Does Dooley resemble a lily?” was Willist on, Banwel County, S. 0. CST'Will attend calls to the country. 0. P. Doolittle, , i (jlLDE# AND PICTURE FRAME Manfffacurer, 126 Jacksou St. .Augusta, Ga. > ♦ -t Pfctu e Frames Made to Order at Short Notice. NEW MOULDINGS CONSTANT LY RECEIVING. Regilding a Specialty. Old Frames equal to new. Old Pictures Copied and EnMrged. ana naked Trifth—of keeping faithfully the straight and narrow path between private feeling and duty to the majes ty and integrity of tho law. These accused men are in the hands of that law. There arc now two well-defined sides—the prosecution and the defence Both sides are well equipped for the ends of justice. And under the great shield of law both sides rest—without comment that might possibly be detrimental to either side. the reply. “Hardly.” “^yell, tkere is no tesemblance whatever between Dr. Armstrong and John Wilkes Booth if he was alive to-day.” “If he wa» alive?” “Yes, if he was alive.” • c “Are you mre he is dt^ad?” “When a manse.esajjpiig he knows it. Booth vas shot dead by Hergt. Boston Corbitt through a crack in the barn in width they found Booth on Mr. Garrettfefann in Caroline coun ty, Va. “Where did you sec Booth after he was killed ?® “I saw Join Wilkes Booth’s body in Weaver*i undertaking establish ment, Fayete street, opposite Haver- ly’s theatr*^ Baltimore. “When w4s that?” “In July, 1865. I cannot now name the date. He was in an ordinary army coffin, wrapped up In a government blanket. I saw his fuc£‘and I would know it to night.” “Is there jio chance for you to be mistakeu aocut its being Booth?” “None in the world. I was too familiar wltk him to have been mis taken. It was John Wilkes Booth, and he is a heap deader than I want to be for the next ninety-nine years. I think he was buried in the Baltimore cemetery. It made me feel bad to see Booth in tint old coffin and blanket, far he was tTman I always admired. He gave mo tfie mate to the pistol with which he shrjt the President. It was a 42-calibre pocket derringer. I gave tho pistol Frank Frayne, the man . ^ wite trying to shoot an~Vm last ot mm “Well, to return, Booth is dead?” “Yes J just .-s dead as Lincoln. Why its all tomfoolery talking about that preacher being Booth,. Booth was a better looking man than be is.” ‘“How old was Booth when ho kill ed Lincoln?” “About 24.” “When, if he was living, be would be 44 years old?” “Yes.” *• Dr. Armstrong is about ” “ Bother with Dr. Armstrong. Life’s too short to be supposing such tilings.” “And Booth hurt his leg when jumping Into the stage from the box?” “Yes. Caught his left foot in Wash ington’s portrait and broke In's leg a!i.<ve the ankle. Dr. Mudd set it.” l‘Dr. Armstrong has a game leg or hip, or ” ■ “You are determined to make Booth alive.” “No, no, just comparing. Booth had long black hair and a sear on his neck?” “Yes, but he didn’t wear his hair so very long. He had a scar on the large muscle of the left side of his neck, three inches below the ear. This scar w r as caused by an operation performed for the removal of a tumor, Has Dr. Armstrong got a scar on his neck.” “Don’t knov'. They say so. Don’i think Booth could have come tolife?’ “Hardly. But lie could conic as near it as the next one. He was a fine gymnast. He introduced in some Shakespearian plays some of th* most extraordinary and outrageous leaps. At least they were.deemed so by crit ics and were condemned by the press He excelled in all manly sports. In every way he was a peculiarly fascina ting man. Every inch a gentlemen.” “He’s dead?” “Good evening.” CONFIDENT OF LKILS KLKCTION. WHISKEY AT WORK. W. A. HECKLING COLUMBIA, & C. P ICTURES sent cafii any size, and.w'ffl 1 inspection If charge. be enlarged to be returned for finsatisfactojy no Correspondence solicited. /. A. Wright, V Full Size SxlO Photograph and Walnut Frame for $3.(10, en- j graved from any old picture. • • Send in your orders at once, wanted* Address Agents JamesA.Stothart, G RAN ITEYILLE, - S. C. GEO. V. HENNIES, Photographer. COLUMBIA, - - S. C. * -DEALER IX- A. P. Fonn, Aiken, S. C. R. M. -Mixson. Williston, S. C." DRUGS, CHEMICALS PERFUM ERIES, TOI LET SOARS, HAIR BRUSHES AND CIGARS. THE BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, One Door from" Laurens Street on Park Avenue. The best of material used, and any tylo of boot or shoe made to order. Geo. W. Williams, HOUSE, SIGN AND FRESCO PAINTEB! Graining and Marbling a specialty. Old Furniture polished and made as good as new. SST’Oflice No. 7, Up-stairs in Croft’s Block. Orders solicited. AY. H. Dawson Murdered by a Drunk en Gambler, in Havannah. « News and Courier. Savannah, October 14.—W. H. Dawson, clerk at the Marshall House was shot to-night by Jack Walsh. Walsh eat his supper at the Marshall House and afterwards appeared to be under the influence of liquor. About half-past 1) ho went to the office and and asked if a certain name was on the register saying he wanted to shoot the man. Dawson b^gan to look slowly when Walsh became abusive. George D. Hodges, the proprietor of the house, walked up and cautioned him to be quiet. He became more' violent and directed his abuse priuci- cipally at Duwson, calling him a pup py. Dawson, seeing that lie was drunk, protested mildly, saying: “Oh no, I am not a puppy, Yon don’t mean that,” Hodge laid his hand on his shoulder and .threatened to put him out of tho house. Walsh had a pistol concealed at his sidepocket. He raised it,striking Hodges in the breast, and fired it at Dawson; the ball en tered near the eye, penetrating the VrRiSiciileu apple off her head.” “What do you know about tho as sassination, Mr. Ford?” “ At that Jime I was manager of Ford’s theatre. As you know, the assassination was on the 14th day of April, 1865. It was Good Friday, and tlie play for tho evening was the ‘American Cousin.’ About 11 o’clock I was at the theatre talking to my brother, H. Clay Ford, who was the treasurer of the theatre. -I had just told him that Mrs. Lincoln had sent a messenger to engage a box, and that I had sent the tickets and would go and put the necesssary local notices in the afternoon papers that tho Rfesi- dent would be at the theatre, when we noticed ‘John Wilkes Booth coming down the street. ‘There comes the handsomest man in Washington,’ said my brother, pointing, at Booth, who was faultlessly dressed. AVheu Booth came up he asked for his mail, and brother gave him a letter which I think was from a lady. He sat down on the steps and read it. It was written on cross-barred paper and contained four pages. When he had finished reading the letter my brother said with a wink at me: ‘John, we’ve got you now,’ ‘How?’auswered Booth. ‘Why, President Lincoln and Gen. Grant in one box, and Gen. Lee in the opposite one with his hands cuff ed.’ Brother said this to guy Booth, "knowing his Southern sympathies. ‘THU COWARDLY CUR,’ said Booth, as lie rose up erect. I saw that lie was angry, and told Harry that I must go up to the Treasury De partment and get a stand of colors to decorate the boxes, as was the custom when the President attended the thea tre. Booth walkcM.1 offiwith me and ask- Some Striking Sentences of Sam Jones. St. Louis Globe Democrat. “RUT.” Do you notice that when wo talk about people we never use the copu lative conjunction? Wo use the dis junctive “but.” You ask about A. and the answer is, “Well, he’s good, but he don’t pray in his fam ily.” How about Brother B? “Well, he’s a good man, a very good man, but seems to like his dram.” You can take tlus disjunctive conjunction “hut,” and chip character all to pieces with it in a minute. You can just take any fellow in this town near ly aud say all about him. “He’s good and kind.” Then commence to “but” him, aud the first thiqg you know" they butt him offthe bridge, and^ that’s -INSURE Yo ur Gin Houses Best of Paints and Oils constantly kept on hand. brain. Dawson fell and was carried into the back olfice, and thence to ; ed me to go in and take a drink with ids room, where he died in about an ' him at the KirkwootThouse. As I did GLAD THAT HIS CHILD DIED. If I have anything special, in refer ence to my wife and children, to be grateful for, it is tliis: 1 have no child that ever looked into my face when I was not a consecrated Chris- tain man. God gave us one when I was wrecked, wayward aud godless. That little child livod and looked in my face when I was godless aud pro fane and wret^iod, and God took her to heaven. I shall live a Christian as long as God gives me a child to look into my face, and when I get to heav en* I will fall down and beg par don of that sweet little angel that she Oversaw me when 1 wasn’t a Chris ta! n, [Tears] MONEY AND COMMUNISM. “Yes,” you say, “Jones is preach ing communism.” I am not. I tell you this to-day that there is not a man .in this country that fights communism stronger than I do. I have no sympathy with this low- down rack of God’s creation going around doing nothing, and wanting everything everybody else lias, and I have got no sympathy with the fel low that has got a a big pile of it, and Tiie A’ircinia Democrats ConnHngou a Sweeping Victory. * * Washington 8tar. Congressman Barbour, chairman of the Democrat ic State commit tee of Vir ginia and pianagcr of the campaign there, speuas a good deal of his time in AVashingtou, and not infrequently he bolds conferences here with some of his lientenants. One of the latter, .a Democrat who lias ample opportunity for 'getting a correct knowledge of the situation, said to a Star reporter to-day. * There is no doubt of the election of I^ee and of a Democratic legislature by good, safe, even big majorities. 'T’he one tiling we have to coiitenfl against is a feeling of overconfidence among our people. They arc too much inclined to think that the elec tion can be carried without much effort, and what we want is to get all the Democrats to turn out at the polls. For the first time in the history of political battles in Virginia since the war the negroes are divided.*' There are numbers ol them who will not vote for AViso and the Republican ticket. You can safely ’say that the most authentic advices received from all portions of the Htato show that we will elect Lee and a good working majority in both branches of the Legislature. Oh, as to who will succeed Mahone in the Senate It is too early yet to say. It is my belief that Mr. Barbour will bo elected without opposition.” AN F.LKrUiYXTINE OPKKA-HOUKK. The "Whiskey Traffic at War With All Proper Teaching. .Southern Journal, Lousivillc, Ky. In speaking of the Prohibition work in the South, a friend of ours,— a minister of the Gospel—who has traveled extensively over the South, informs us that all that is needed, is to get tho churches right on the question; that the whole country calf* j not properly be judged by a few large cities. In smaller places the traffic is in the hands of men of respectability,to a large extent; store-keepers, in many instances, who keep a barrel of whis key or a regular saloon bar ire the rear of their store. Some of these men are not only church members, but church officers, in high standing. One minister told him: *’I kuo.v Prohibi- Xew berry’* InveKtment and •uhat is to Como of it—Au Opera-Houso for Sale. . ^ News and Courier, The people of Newberry arc just now concerned about their handsome opera-house* aud a meeting has been called of the citizens to determine what to do with it. The facts connect ed with the case arc os follows: “The opera-house was built at anexpeuseof about $23,000. A portion of this has been paid. Most of the money was fur nished by Mr. D. Henry Wheeler, who holds a note against tho town for $18,93525, with iutorest from April 3. 1882, secured by a mortgage of the opera-house and the lot upon which it 4s located. The note and interest is now $24,592 80. This amount is stead ily growing at the rate of $3 68 a day. One can readily see that it would take only a few years to swell the debt to an enormous amount; about three years mid a half more would carry it up to the cutirc valuation of tho real 1 estate owned by tho town—$29,060. Of course this should stop. Buthpw? That is the question—auuestion that tho council cannot decide. The o*dl- nary expenses of the town absorbs the present revenue from taxes, licenses, lines, &c. "What tlieu? Something must be done, evideutly. What? That is for tho citizens of the town to say, and therefore tlie meeting wilt bo called. No date lias been fixed, butl. it will very likely be the 2d or about the 3d of Noveuber. It is to > late now,.. says the Newberry Observer, to yUfeousa the wisdou and propriety of building a $25,000 opera-house. It hjw^ beeu built, and tlie town owes fn r iR.und must pay every dollar. ' ques* lion is, how? MAILS FOR CUI IJs The Law Under Which t! vice via Tampa will I (shed. ly- N«w Ser na- Estab- tion is right aud I am in favor of it, but if I preached it in jtiy church, I would drive two-thirds jOf mv congre gation from me, and y(V*ould have to quit the ministry to make a living for my family. I will g;ve you one in stance: One of my members became beastly drunk, whipped his wife, tried to murder a neighj&pr, was jailed and •vily byjjie Of course, such afction could not go unnoticed by the church authorities. "Hie erring brother was notified to meet a church committee and stand church trial for conduct. He came to the front and faced thuAnusic bravely, and, In answer to questions, said, the whiskey that made sucli afoolofme, I bought from, brother , a deacon — was Washington, Oct. If L—The Post master General is about . to make an- effort to transfer the H svaua service from the Foreign Mails Bureau to tjvo. office of the Second / umUJaut Dmt- - master General aud cl # *»a4.ivwit?i the domestic steamboat postoffice nppropriuE year included a provi the department to co tension of the don service from ports in Deacon - won’t any away. That’s tho way I feel about it. I have found out that money is like a walking stick. One will help you along if you are lame, but fifty loaded on your back will break you down. That’s so, and the matter with some of you people is that you arc loaded down with money. Money is like guano; if you will put it on too thick it will burn up everything. And so money if you load Ron too heavily, will spoil a man. n this church, called, and said, ‘ the whiskey I sold to this man 1 bought from Elder , who'made it.’ Tills deacon aud elder are leading men; their families are among the best and they are liberal supporters of the church in every way. So we just had to let this case drop." This is just one way in which my hands are tied.” It seems indeed, very queer, that they will ask God to deliver them from evil, and at the same time, wink at the worst evil iu existence. It is the worst kind of mockery, Rtid neither minister nor congregation can long insult their Heavenly Father by such actions. The whiskey traffic is at war with all proper teaching. The keeper of a low drink den; with saw dust on tlie floor, and lewd pictures on tlie wall, with gamfiling tables aud other inducements to rob men and their families of well-earned and honest to foreign ports wl points donotexcee ing under tlie terms department had p tisement that will day or two, call for rendering steal between Tampa, A iniles iu leiigtl lying between Ke and the actual t? being 24>£ liouw semi-weekly. If « to be reasonable i will go into op next. service.- The iCtti bill-of last sion authorizing ntract ,tor the ex- icstlo steamboat theliikted States. ierv the distance* d 200 miles. Act- of this .caife the repared an adv*<-. be Issued within it ing ; tps proposals nhoat mail service irida, via Key ly ninety miles of it jrAVcst and,Havana allowed i, the service to be the bids are found n amount the service pratioh January 1st COUNTER#" * J—~ Secret Service 4 Where the ij u od a Large S c.. Pittsburg, United States raided a cauu > ers iu Clariou. 1 ilTEKS FUIjIiJ-lD. XBoers Rai^i a Camp e*»r was 9fan uiaotun-tl do, i.. . ('•’ I’A., October 13.— Secret Service officers, of eleven cou uterfei t- Jounty yesterday, cap turing six of t iom, tlie others escap ing into tire woods. The prisoners were brough t ( *> this city and at,* pre liminary lit a ring before u United States Com n: issiuner this morning were held fi >r trial. The officers re fuse to give Lhe • names of those arrested as they hop a f jo secure th e rest of tho gang before nany-days. The coun terfeiters h av ) been plying their vo cation quite successfully in Clarion, Jefferson and Forest counties. They have been en gaged in the manufac ture of spnrio us silver dollars, and had thorough sys terns of placing them in circulation. The ease is one of the money , does not even try to hide his ; * ar » es ^ ‘ n counterfeiting Hue that calling, he makes little or no claim on has beeu wbr. led up in this section for respectability ; he desecrates tlie Sab bath and violates the law, disrespects the church and all other moral teach ing, but is not near so dangerous a man in the community as the deacon, tiie elder or minister, referred to above. We know many instances where ministers have lost mouey be- The richest man tlie world ever saw | cause of their manliness and consis- was one of the best. Abraham could ! ^ e,,e y > where they have been boycot- many years. Pistol n and Whiskey. 1 ec Dee Index. To write ag ainst pistols and whis key is only to- bring public attention to a subject seemingly threadbare. But In the light of the Lancaster nmvders, 1 he-(Edgefield lynching, the Summerville horror, the Stephney Riley tragedy with other recent -THROUGII- ! Our MIXSON & CO-i "Whit Lead is of tlio best and we kpp all kinds of Colors. very W. H. Hargraves hour. AValsh fled but was captured by deputy sheriff Franklin before he had been gone fifteen minutes and was taken to the police barracks, where he was identified. He was unarmed, but a revolver was found on tipi street near the entrance to the hotel. There not drink I declined, and excused myself by saying I was iu a hurry to get to the department to see a gentle men. That was the last time I ever saw John Wilkes Booth alive. After I got the stand of colors I went back to the theatre, and brother Harry and -Manufacturer of- All Kinds of Sheet Metal Work, Tin Roofing, Iron Roofing ! had been no previous difficulty be-, I decorated the boxes. The blue regi- tweeu the parties. Walsh is known as a gambler. Dawson was a Charleston man who had been in Savannah four years. INSURANCE AGENTS j Laurens Street, - - Aikkx, S. C.! » The Factors and Traders Insurance! Company cover gin houses and eon tents at the same rates charged b; other first-class companies. Aug. 18 th; 1885-3ms. THESE GOODS ARE ALL BOUGHT FROM THE MOST EE LIABLE DE A LEES, Gutters and Conductors! Roofs Rc- paired ami Painted! MW. and Fac j “ s “ l>igl-ton«l gontlemmi. gen- tor, Work! hoi Air Furnace*, ren-! ial “•“« "°' 1 ** ‘""I “ n " v "“ r " tilators, &o. • 1 frieu ‘ ls * Tlic llotel was fuU of e ue8ts ’ at tlie time of the murder, and there II AVJNG ducting our every facility for con- business' with dis- I respectfully mental flag was placed in .tho centre and the American flags above. A picture of Washington was placed on the pillar in the middle of the box. He was esteemed by all who knew him | This had never been done before. After we were through with this I went to Baltimore With John T. Ford’s wife’s sister. I returned to Washing ton at 10:20, and when I reached the was considerable talk of lynching the murderer, but he was hurried oft" to -AND- H. F. Warneke, Baker and Confectioner AND DEALER Lf GROCERIES TOBACCO and GIG AES, TOYS, FIRE-WORKS, Etc. AIKEN, » •* - S» C. The Stock is frequently replenished that they are always fresh. Oui prices are reasonable, and we will be glad not only to serve our friends ol Graniteville, but of the eutirc sur- foimdiugCountty. , * ' % James A. Stotiiart. • t Owens’ Barber Shop. patcii and satisfaction, solicit a share of the patronage of; the barracks. An inquest was held Aiken aud the surrounding country, to-night, and a verdict in accordance with the facts was given, i Tlie remains of the murdered man i will be sent to Charleston on to-mor- I row afternoon’s train. W. H. HARGRAVES, 541 Broipl St., Augusta, G: receive my old neW stand, on ■y WIL be happy to 1 costumers at* hiy Curfe Street EdSTShaviug, Hair Cutting and 8,'hampeartif&> eXecutet!" in IfrSt-elBSB siyle. / LEM OWENS. R. N. Richbourg. COLUMBIA, s. c. [Successor to William Glaze.] , ESTABLISHED 1S36. Jeweller, Watchmaker & Engraver Carries everything usually kept in a first-class Jewelry store. All orders. _ , ,, frinp the country promptly attended i °f Indians are prowling around the to.* Satisfaction guaranteed. ' country. Indian Depredation. Galveston, TEXAS'/October i!?—A Special from Dallas’to the News says: “TheIndians, last Saturday, surprised and drove off 125 horses belonging to the San Simon Cattle Company and killed four men and a number of cattle in the valley. Several other parties theatre I saw some one bringing what I supposed to boa drunken man out, and I asked: ‘What drunken loafer is that?’ I never dreamed that it was tlie president. Mr. Lincoln was car ried across theyitreet to Mrs. Better- son’s home. where he died next morn ing about twenty minutes to eight. I saw him Just before 'ho died. Tiie night he was shot*! took my first drink of liquor. Tlie theatre was ’surrounded by the military ami I was ‘ placed under arrest. I was cold, ami coujjl gpt no fire to warm by. I was released the next day, but several days afterwards was re-arrested. II. Clay, John T- and myself were in prison over twelve weeks. Don’t think they ever did know why they arrested and imprisoned qs.”* have bought out Vanderbilt and ; men \yho would use the church : crimes, all directly traceable to whis- scareely have missed out of the bank ! nn< ^ make a drunkard ot every young j i- e y or pistols, the press aud people of the money of the cheek he drew to ( ,nan » a,, d ruin the character of every ; the State cannot hesitate, for such u pay for Vanderbilt’s estate, and yet ho was one of tlie best men on earth. It is not so much tho money as the sort of fellow that has it. young woman In the community, to satisfy their own selfish ^greed, and horde a few more dollars that misfor tune invariably follows. But the reason, to adopt some method to suppress these enemies of civilization. In treating the ali ments of the human body tlie . VARIOLOID PIETY. There’s a varioloid type of piety. They just put you in bed a day or two and you were out before ll, iyb<>dy i ^j 1)} q'j 1UM corit j X .||j, |} , || lt . rn foirtid out that you were sick. j to either abandon the-church or the varioloid of piety has taken posses- j traffic, and we have yet to hear of a sion of this country; but it ain’t a ; s j n g| e ( . ase j| M; y | ISIV< . catching*. But vou get one of the old- | eJ lhu c | m rch: By brave and consistent minister finally skillful practiioner first applies tlie milder remedies, but, finding these unavailing, he resorts to more heroic succeeds. He lifts tlie veil of respect ability I'rcm tlie soul-destroying traffic ami takes tin* ejoak of religion from j treatment and does not hesitate to lay open the flesh to the bone to get at the root of the disease. Wise leg islators act in a similar manner. In jet one of tlie old- fashioned, confluent cases of small pox, and everybody will catch it that goes into your room. This varioloid typo ot religion that you see nowa days ain’t catching, but you take an old-fashioned confluent rash, uLd when a man has got it, tiie first thing you know his wife will get it, and ii j will break out over the family, and tho whole family will bo consecrated to God. • Col. F. Hay Gantt, .Solioitor of Barnwell Court, is in the city in com pany with his brother and is stopping at tlie Central. Col. Gantt has been in delicate health for somedUne:. .He is on his waU|liotne from the moun tains of Carolina where he lias been spending a few months to regain bis health, but found theclimute uusuited to his case. It is hoped that the change back to tlie climate of his home may prove beneficial.—Am/ Chronicle, October \Qth. .South Carolina temporizing laws have reason, kindness | been enacted to suppress whiskey and pistols, and not without some benefit. But it is*plain that more extreme business, if he has any heart or respect laws must be cuactj*] against these j and firmness, every liquor dealer or * maker can be Induced to quit the for his family. Gen. Loe’s Election Assured. Richmond, Va., October 15th.—Tho State Democratic Committee, Hon. John S. Barbour, Chairman, met here to-day, and was in Session for several hours bearing repot ts from different sections of the State. The news gen erally was very encouraging. From statements made the committeemen feel justified in asserting that the election'of Gen. FitzTiugli Lee for Governor is assured, and that they will have a ihajoritylii both branches of the General Assembly. Representa tive# came from a number of «l«d[i$dful Counties to ask the’ commitiee for help, and were promised all the as sistance tha^ the committee could i afford. evils or .South Carolina will bo shunned as a pest house. If the Leg islature would'extend the local option law so tiiat counties could vote upon the question of license and impose a heavy tax on pistols,a long step would be taken towards suppressing these twin evils. To a few freebooters In the State such a proposition will of course seem puerile, but to tho m«n who have the welfare of the fitate at heart it will have weight. Steep a man’s (train in whiskey, and a mad man is at large, then put a pistol in his hand, a thirst for blood is kindled, which nothing but a human victim wiil quench. Let us hope that the Legislature soon to assent file will be able to enact laws which will strike down these breeders of crime andr thereby tusuretrace in the State. • Vi .m • »fV'' VW .7SP