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K I T\ ' -#•- ' ^ m * p " * ^mt»m ■ $’ >r v '*1' p- ■ rTT >*twr ■’ .rr • •* A4rap^i>' j t " r r' *•" 1 . — ■s^* -. n mz. m m yrtMaLL^."^^ tmm\mrmnr ni . ^ CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN S. C., ft ESDAfc 3IARCK 1(5, 18F0. ‘v*p w'rfi 4M! YOU ME 5.--NUMBBB ?2. ^1408 REMOYAI OGLE TAYLOE MANSION. A BRAKEMAN'3 LIFE IN WiNTEFL fHE WONDERFUL HISTORY OF DON CAMERON S WASHINGTON HOME. 545571*!$ What >Tar He Seen from Its Wintlown—A PhotographJc Camera of Stirring Kventa In the Fast—Stories of Other Houses la the Same Neighhorhopu. MAaiA z*c.cx» Quag lx &.C* 2(>7 Kiiiir Street, Op^i^ite Masonic Temple, CHARLESTON, So. Ca. ■:0' Jew? 1 Palace, the L'..it tey to •‘Cc .WILE BK liEMOVKD TO I TS XBW LOCATION ON KINO STREET, (OPPOSITE MASONTc TEMPLE; ON THE 18ITI INSTANT. The Buildiiijf has been Specially altered and repaired by Mr. McElree. The etiliuK raised and freaooed in oil—a new plate g;hi?s front < f antique design, wnnmiuhted by double rows of small squares of cob.red elas iea has a pleasing and strieking eircet—no otiier store front like it in ’1 he interior Is like a FAIRY PALACE and worth a jour: McElree is now at the North selecting an entire New Stock. Tie: sale will lie in keeping with their surroundings, ahead of anything >vi.r Of fered in thisseetion -if country. During the next TEN DAYS (to 18th instant,) heoff.-rs the entire stock in Its store under the Waverlv House at \ OL R OW N PRICE, AIAEIC \OL K SELECTIONS AND NAME YOUR PRICE is all that is necessary to etieet n sale. • Remember this thing last for these TEN DA YS only, after that we make the prices. EVScEi ree ? s JeVi/e5ry Paia 2»4 KING STREET, _ _ _ - CHARLESTON, S. C. PETERKiH GROSSER 1000 Bushels For S: «Ps u ,3 adjoining .ROSS El) T would respectfully inform the farmers of Aiken and the Counties, that I have on hand 10(K> BUSHELS OF PETERKIN t COTTON SEED for Sale at tlie fidlowing reasonable prices for Casir or Ex change, Viz.: NO cent : per bushels (of 30 pounds) delivered at Aiken depot —75 cents per bushel delivered at my barn—or I will Exchange 1 bushel of PETERKIN SEED for Three bushels of any other Cotton Seed delivered at my barn 2!.j miles from Aiken Speaking of tho old houses at Washing- ton. I took a good look the other day at Ogle Tayloe mansion on Lafayette square. This is the house that Don Cameron bought last fall for »e,000, and the proba bilities are that it will be in the future, as it has been jn the past, one of the social centers of Washington. It is a big, old- fashioned, three-story brick building, with a ridge roof running up between two gate like ends at the top. It has many windows looking out upon Lafayette square, and the statne of Gen. Jackson sitting on a horse, which for ten years or more has been balancing himself on his hind heels. Just across the way, within a stone’s throw of its front door, is seen the ghastly, harn-like'White House, and the whole as sociations of its neighborhood are full or history, its third-story windows can look into those of the Decatur mansion, now owned by Gen. Beale, where the gallant commodore lived at the time he was shot by Barron. Around to the right on the same square is the palace of the million aire Corcoran, where Daniel Webster used to entertain as secretary of state, and where the French minuter took posses sion at the time Corcoran fled to England at the beginning of the war. msTOKXCAL HOfSES NEAR BY. Just below the Corcoran mansion are the nfcw houses of Hemy Adams and John Hay, and next to them, within 100 yards of this Cameron house, rises old St. John’s church, in which a dozen presidents have worshiped, and in one window of which are the memorial paintings which Presi dent Arthur gave to the memory of his dead wife. A little further on is the red brick in which "Charles Sumner lived and | worked, and on the corner between it and I Cameron’s new purchase is a roomy old j brick which President Madison owned at | the time of his death, and in which the j peerless Dolly Madison wore the turbans j which cost her §1.000 a year, in eutertain- ' ing all along down through the half- dozen administrations following that which she presided over at the White House across the way. It was within plain sight of this house of Cameron’s that Bnrion Key flirted with Mrs. Sickles. Looking from its windows Dangerous Work In Had Weather—Jump ing from a Train While in Motion. The freight brakemen wear very heavy clothing, although it is always short, as they have to get around in a hurry some times. I have known the time when I was braking on a freight train, when the train was running fifteen or tw enty miles an hour, against sleet and snow, and a call had come for “down Jirakes.* At such ! a time I have been sitting on top of the car, so stiff and frozen as to be unable to work the brakes at all. We do not mind the cold weather so much on the freights as when there is snow on the ground and on the cars. Then it becomes very dangerous, as when the train is running twenty miles an hour the snow and sand will be hurled up between the cars enough to blind a man and with the ice-covered cars and running as we do, from one car to another, perhaps with our lanterns blown out, it is pretty dan gerous, and a man has to he sure-footed and have his wits about him to brake on a freight in the winter time. * * * Many of the passenger brakemen live at the way stations down the road, and when they finish their work at one end tf the road they take’an express train back, and as it passes the station at which they live, although the train may be going at the rate of from fifteen to twenty-five miles an hour, they will juni[f off and keep their feet, although they have to run perhaps the length of the train before (hey TALE STUDENTS’ ROOMS SI0H » AWPWi ™ E KOREANS - t Journey to Seonl—Ways of tho Nafehroa ‘—Teh Men, Two Shovels. The journey to Seoul would be pretty tedious were one’s eyes hot So constantly attracted by strange and novel sights. Everywhere one sect • tall and stately Koreans clad in thin, holiday-looking, flowing robes of white, purple, green oi othetr^blue. The onter robes are, in the case of the coolies, fair ly clean, but, like charity, they cover amiflrttnde of sins. For Korean nndergarfhonts, like Korean cuticles, are In spite of the prominence which the 1 seldom On friendly terms with water. The pops of rich men hold, there is a well- 1 people seemingly have little oc-nothing to defined spirit to suppress any attempt at > do. When at work they rarely bestir flafhy display. Most men dress fashion- themselves so busily as to endanger the .DORNED IN THE MOST ELEGAN1 AND LUXURIOUS MANNER. —« —————- Extravagance in Decoration Not Sale for thfc Convivlally JjirilncU—Another Side to the Picture—A Type of tlu ihtrcuie--.Living Economically «fhj . - ably, but very few exquisitely, to use that word in a well-understood sense. The stHHo of a student’^ apparel has, however, certain characteristics that make it dis tinctive. Tliat Wherein the affluence of a sttalent’s allowance first asserts itself is thdfnroish/ng of his apartments. These consist of a study and two small bed chambers, usually occupied by two j tryBuls. Many of tnese rooms are adorned , ii«R> most elegant and IpXUHbus tram-1 about Ewalls are decorated with lin- j blade. crT ta, with frieze.and dado oit tasteful ddflgu. Smyrna rugs erfv^r the flrKrr'of t Ajelated woods, and high-art fnrrifture. Wiis Seed is very prolilic and was planted by me in 1884, on a portion of my Avith snch gratifying results, that in 1885 1 pi: nted my entire crop with 8$eod. I have realized thi* year from b-lnercs (notwithstanding the "favagesof the Caterpiller and excessive rains, followed by drouth; 400 Pounds of Lint Cotton from Each Acre. y Cotton from PETERKIN CROSSED SEED, gins easier than any other Cotton and makes a net return from 100 pounds of seed Cotton of 40 pounds of good lint cotton. M>’ entire crop averaged this figure. ItEFHltHNOKS.—Milledge T. Holley, Jr.. & Bi'o., who ginned my entire crop. Also, Messrs. Lewis Bradwell and John N. Wigtall who planted 'this year some of the same Seed. Address DANIEL CROSLAND, Aiken, S. C. Nov. 24, 1885. CARPETS AND SEE! 1885. PJew Goods. Fa's Trade. 1885 Window Shades and Lace Curtains Wilton, Velvet, grain Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, Art Carpet, Window Slindys of every size and Color, embracing all tbv New Styles, Cocoa, Caton and Napier Mat tings, Floor Oil Cloths and Linolaunis. Luce Curtains, Window Cornices and Poles, New Walnut, Cherry, Ash Ebony and Brass Cornices and' Poles. Turcoman. Curtains and Draperies. Upholstery Goods. Raw Silks in a variety of Pattern-:. Fringes in all Colors. Hair Cloths, Cane and Gimp and BtiUoms. Wail Papers, Borders and Decorations. Just Opened For Oil Paintings, Engraving and (Tiromos. .fats, Walnut and Rubber Weather Strips out cold, and all sold at Lowest Prices. J ARISES C, BAILIE & SONS, Chronicle Building, 714 Broad 5tro«t, Augvista, Oa. Brooms, Dusters, Baskets, for Doors and Window, to Bondb-rasit -Mam faeturers of one might have seen the tragedy in which Key was shot by the irate husband, and, had he continued to look, lie could have seen them carry Key into the old Seward mansion which adjoins this, and in which less than ten years later the assassination of Stward was attempted. If'this old house formed a plate of a photographic camera throughout all these years, and the scenes recorded on it could be repro duced, what a history of our country pud its great men it would form! If its walls were photographs how many witty bon mots could they give forth! It was built in 1828, the year in which Jackson was first elected president, and it has been from that time to this the residence of the Tayloes, one of the richest of the old u.m- ilies of the country. MII.UOXAIKE OF THE YEAR 1800. Col. Tayloe, the father of Ogle Tayloe, was one of the millionaires of 1800. He owned thousands of acres, and hundreds of slaves, and he built the great octagon mansion, in which President Madison once lived, and which, during a part of Madison’s administration, when the White House was burned, formed the j presidontial residence. Ogle Tayloe, the j man 'who built the house, was the in- j tin ate and confidant of half of the great ; nvn of tho country for over forty years. : He roomed with John A. Dix at college, Brussels, 3-plv In-! and during the time he was at Harvard he was associated with Prescott, the historian. In 1817 he was private secretary to Mr. Rush, the American minister at Paris, and it was shortly after lie was married that he took up his residence in this house, which is now to be occupied by Senator Cameron. During his whole lifetime he was a great entertainer, and Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and Gen. Jackson often sat down at liis table. It was at this house that Gen. Harrison called just before he was taken with that ‘ sickness which killed him. and it was in i this house that Gen. Scott was dining one i day when a terrible thunder storm came I up in which hail fell in such large stones i as to go through the heavy plate glass at ; the capitol. It stopped the Tayloe dinner i for the time and knocked the glass out of 1 the windows. Gen. Scott was much 1 alarmed, but after it was over he drank ! his champagne with great gusto and | called, the hailstones with which it was | cooled “celestial ice."—“Carp” in Cleve land Leader. themselves, but still they st-ldom, if ever, lose their feet It is quite a trick to jump oft, and takes considerable practice before it can be done successfully. The way to jump is j always with the train and on the left hand side of the latter, letting the right foot rest on the step and the loft foot string from the step Then jump so that the left foot will strike the ground first and the right foot immediately follow it, j so as to be able to run. Some of the men j jump from the middle of the train or i front, but most of them go to the icar car ! and ’ump, so that if they fall they will not j roll under the cars. The only regular I train hand I ever heard of being hurt by jumping was a man who lives in Dorches ter, and who was struck on the head by | the car steps as he ,umped and was badly hurt. The best man I ever saw, and the i ohly man who could hold his feet and stop | himself without running at all, was a man ! who is now conductor on the Derby road. I He could jump from a train running i thirty-five miles an hour and stop without \ running a foot.—New Haven Journal. Frotleiv. of IJeating and T-ighiijifc, The problem ’of heating and lighting : becomes more and more complicated every year by the electric light and nat ural gas discoveries. Thirteen years ago Gen. J. S. Casement, of Painesville, Ohio, put down the first natural gas well in this i country. He told me about it recently, j “I ran a pipe down 062 feet,” said he. “At ; that depth the drill di-opped tv. q yards in one jump. The gas immediately began to pour, and it has supplied my house with beat and light ever since. The only trouble I find about it is that it deprives the women folks of a fire to poke. It is my standing joke at home that in the absence of a fire they poke at me. There have baen a number of wells ' put down in Painesville, but none of them were successful except mine, j Mr. De Patiw, at Albany, Ind., has spent ; JSOO.OOO in ineffectual efforts to strike nat ural gas by boring. It existsdn veins and with satin upholstery and expensive tapestries, is ranged about the room in | graceful negligence. On the walls hang paintings and en- st»p ; graviugs with subjects Lesp calculated to appeal to students’ taste. ' The Queen Anne mantel is full of costly bric-a-brac, and the space not occupied by the-.e fan ! tasies is filled with programmes, German | favors, barber shop signs, prizes, society | plaques, trophies, photographs of “con- I quests,” and the host of other mementoes of events dear to the college student. RATHER DANGEROUS FOR THE CONVIVIAL. It must not be supposed, however, that extravagance in (let crating apartments carries with it. necessarily, the idea of prodigality or fastness. There is nothing is the possession of handsome surround ings tljat should induce a student to for sake his scholastic pursuits. It very often happens that elaborate quarters are occupied by a man of most correct and studious habits. - It is really rather dangerous for a man of convivial tendencies to adorn his room expensively. It frequently occurs that a company of hilariou; guests will trans form a collection" of Parisian statuettes into an array of reminiscent torsos; saliu- cAvered couches will, under their etfu- rtvc influence, assume the doubtful de signs of Gobelin tapest ries, Smyrna rugs will take on the mysterious weaving of an Indian shawl and valuable paintings will acquire peculiar blotches and blemishes that bury its authenticity in a mysterious gloom that ought ordinarily to enhance the worth 100 fold. It has happened within the memory, too, of bhe of the youngest inhabitants of Yale, that an oc cupant of a $2,000 suit in Farnum, enter- tained*a gathering of classmates at “an evening tea,” and when he awoke the fol lowing afternoon he sent for a teamster to haul away the debiis and spent an other $1,Out) in refurnishing his quarters. AKOTHER SIDE TO THE I'ICTURE. But it must be said in mere justice that the style of adorning quarters at Yale is as a general thing not near so extravagant as that prevailing at some other universi ties. Three thousand dollar.-) expended on rooms in Matthews or Weld at Har vard is quite au ordinary proceeding. In Beck hall there fire several suits, the safety of their two-feet pipes, which botb men and women are constantly smoking. Imagine the following scene, witnessed by us on our road to Seoul. A small field, perhaps fifty by seventy- five feet, ten men. two shovels, two long ropes about an inch and a half in dinn- eter. Each shovel blade was about the si of a dirt"shovel-blade in America. The handle wa* twelve feet long. XbArope was tied the handle six inches above the "One man bad hold of thy handle and fixed the blade in the ground, two others were grasping each end of the *ope, making five men in all. At a given signal all four would give a huge tug. Result, a small clod of earth thrown from six to ten feet. It was a sight never to be forgotten, these ten men manning two shovels. One lusty Irishman would do more in a day than these ten in a week, with their frequent restings. From Chemulp to Seoul the soil is not very good, but it is fairly well cultivated. A league this side of the city the road crosses the Hau river. Here is a sight never to be forgotten—the loft}' bank ris ing in steps from the water’s edge crowded with noble looking men lazily smoking their long pipes, lounging about In every attitude; the huge, cluinsily- built, but skillfully-sculled ferry-boats, and the ffcw women of the Tower classes busily engaged in washing the outer gar ments of their lordly husbands, while above all stretched the tiled roofs of the mud huts, giving a very picturesque re lief to the background of rugged moun tains not far away. From this river the road gradually ascends to Seoul, and winds through a succession of crowded villages and towns. One may travel 'all over the country’yet if ho leave out Seoul he has not seen real Korea.—Cor. Intel Ocean. 1 you must strike one of them before you, .-afftfrnnient of which entailed an expend! get the gas. Its beauty is in cleanliness and convenience. I heat my house by steam. The boiler is heated by gas, fed automatically. The heat register is auto matic, and tho (voter feed in the boiler is automatic. All that is necessary is to look the thing over once a day. In cooking, we can have a hot fire or a mod erate One in a second, and no kindlings to split.”—New York Tribune. Trades: Door keel) 0 ALL KINDS OF BR Proprietors of the Old and Pojuilnr- £ 7 Esti-i uusur-) For information, I DirLAIGLE AND AUGUSTA BRICK YARDS, establish:.! in ls20! mated production since then 250,000,003 Briek! Quality and color passed North or South. I.arge stock always on hand, address BONDURANT, JOPLI^G & CO., Augusta, Ga g?—■■■ T HAVE secured Pattern Gins at reasonable pri (.'ASTINOS of all kin< BS S - and propose to is in Iron an Bra >S! ikiinj.'h RIBS for makes of : at short Special attention given to Repairs. mtisiacliQii notice. • guaranteed! THiX~ P£NaiiT01iX>0^flBY)f*3ar Nos. G15, G17 and G10, Kollock St., CIIAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor. V M AUGUSTA, GA. t'ENDLETON, Sup’t. ALFRED BAKER, President. JOS. S. BEAN, Cashier. THE AUGUSTA SAVirJGS BA? OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 5* 8 Cash Assets Surplus Interest on Deposits of oo.ooo.oo .50,000.«>o Five to Two Thousand Dollars, and Upward Received. Sums r(OneDolllar -O Dh'c< ior<‘—James A. Loflin, E. O’Donnell, Eugene J. O'Cornncr, Alfred Baker, E. R. Schneider, W. B. Young, William Sehweigcrt, Edger R. Derry Jules Rival, Joseph S. Beam, J. Henry Bredonburg. DOWN TOWN G8EEN MARKET! CAN SUPPLY FAMILIES WITH FIRST-CLASS VEGETABLES. THAT IS: NOLTHERN CABBAGES. TURNIPS, BEETS, CARROTS. ONIONS. POTATOES, APPLES, BANANAS, ORANGES, LEMONS, COCOANUTS, NUTS, RAISINS, CITRON, CURRANTS, &c. ALSO SELECTED GROCERIES IX GREAT VARIETY! Goods Delivered at the House. Call (it the VIINNA BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY ! W. T. HQFFRflAN, PAliK AVKNVE, - - - - - AIKK.V, S. C. ■S •« . ’ <r Electric T.amps for Parisian Carriages. The success of the incandescent electric lamp for private carriages in Paris, as a substitute for candles and oil lamps, is pronounced complete. Not only the regu lar side-lights are included in this plan, but the interior of the vehicle is illumi nated by a lamp sufficiently powerful to read bv, and in some instances a similar lai np is placed fer novelty on the head of the horse. The lamps are connected by wires with small accnmulatsrs placed under the driver’s scat. They are small in size, being only about eight inches square and four inches high, each of such accumulators being able to supply a lamp of five-candle power for the space of some six hours. During the day they are re moved and charged with electricity from a dynamo machine or otherwise, and at night they are ready for use.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Small Cnatig.* uc tr.* yosHvfTf-e. Another thing people like to kick about is the refusal of the postoffice clerks to take torn notes and great piles of nickels and pennies in payment for stamps.” “Are they not bound to take them?” “Not much. The government has a treasury for the redemption of mutilated currency, and there is no more sense in expecting the postoffice to redeem it than in expecting the paymaster of the navy to da so. If it was once understood that we would lake torn bills, we should have no other ...oney to handle and nothing else to do. We would embark in the banking business, and somebody eLe would have to be hired to attend to the postofficc. Then, as t<5 nickels, three-esnt pieces and pennies, the postcffice regula tions expressly provide that we are not bound to take over twenty-five cents' worth from one person.”-Chic*uro Journal One Way of Treating Carbuncles. The Lancet publishes an article giving an account of the successful treatment of carbunculous diseases by the injection of the officinal solution of ammonia. Dr. Arendine claims that it destroys the bac- illnriJt In all malignant pustules, and is a specific in this class of diseases. As phy- siciang have found the carbuncle always dangerous, and almost beyond the reach of remedies, the suggestion may prove cf great value to the profession and to suf ferers.—Inter Ocean. An Abnormally Sharp Young Man. A young New Englander landed in New York with nothing but his car pet-bag and a license to practice law. Au old lady fell on him in the street breaking his arm. The cause of the disas ter took him to her house, nursed him and insisted on his taking a vacant room and becoming a member of the family. The young man ti?mair.c-u in his pleasant quar ters, opeued a law office, and .began to make money. There were two (laughters at the house, both very plain. The elder had a little fort une of $14,000. and the lawyer engaged him self to her with the mother’s consent. Af ter awhile he made money so rapidly that came engaged secretly. One day the old ; lady was on her death-bed and urged an immediate marriage. The young rascal hurried off, secured a license and a preacher and returned. When everything was ready il.t bridegroom without a word ! joined hands with the younger daughter. The ceremony was over before the other girl found voice and protested. The dying mother saw what had occurred and went off in a spasm.—Atlanta Constitution. ture of 810.000, ?12,000 and even $20,000. In the latter dormitory there is at present a young man—from Calforuia probably— who has his furniture insured for $15,000. There-is another side to the picture. Up untier the roof of East Divinity hall the reporter saw a room that may serve as a type to the other extreme. There was no carpet on the floor; the furniture consisted of three straight-backed chairs, an old- style lounge covered in green oil cloth and i la-gc home-made table. I : pon the board pl:u v d a'oove the lire place to serve as a marital were some old books, two half- consumed candles and a clock with a dis mal tick-tock. There was not a picture on the walls— nothing anywhere to relieve the dullness of the place excepting a blue flag that hung under the dirty, unused gas-fixtures and indicated that the occupant of the den had once rowed a successful oar in the class boat races. The occupant sat at the table straining fits eyes in the twi light over the pages of the philosophical essays of somebody or other. It was plain that his scrupulous economy' restrained him iroiq 'figuring tub''rickety German of ork. KaixlaU’ii AY ay of Apologfrinz. If he thinks he has done wrong he gritf his jaw and is sorry in his soul, but he sel doid searches out the man he has unjustly treated and tells him so. A newspaper friend of mine who has done many favors for Randall told me a story yesterday which illustrates this phase of Randall’s character. He had CoYne into Randall’s committee room to ask him for informa tion upon a certain point, and Randall in replying made his answer so shortand brusque as to be insulting. The newspa per man, who has a very sensitive nature, showed by his face that he was much hurt and turned to go, when Randall, not ing his countenance, called him back just as he wa,s going out the door and said “Mr. Blank, have you any idea how a ma: feels when he has the gout?” “No,” was the reply. “Well,” continued Randall, “he feels as though 10,000 needles were piercing hb feet and legs in every direction and squirm ing about to find the tenderest places.” And this was all. Randall then turned to his writing, and paying lio more atten tion to the man went on as though no one was present. He felt that he had done wrong in speaking so crossly and this was his mode of making reparation.—Carp in Cleveland Leader. Tillman’s Convention. Laurens Advertiser. expressed rify of tii Artist’s Proofs and Second Impressions. The artist's-proof pictures are always good investments for the reason that there are only so many struck off, and after a certain time they become scarce and valuable. The price is fixed by the publishers, who notify dealers of the in creased value of the picture as the price increases. The same plate is used in all pictures, yes, but there is a difference in these pictures according to whether they arc first or last impressions. The first im pressions arc the re-marked proofs. These have a certain mark, a little design of some kind just beneath the plate and are signed by the artist and etcher. These are the most valuable. The second im pressions are the artist’s proofs. These do not have the design, but have the auto graph. The third and so on are the re gular edition* A remarked copy of a new picture can be purchased with the certainty of feeling that its value will go up just as all the copies are sold. It is a sure and safe investment.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Nightingale for the King. The king of Bavaria has been much dis tressed because his manager, Herr von Perfall, had failed to provido'him with a real nightingale. In Wagner’s “Parsifal" the song of rt nigh tin gal j plays a part iu the story. This is u-it ally produced by a skillful flute player behind 'flic scenes. “Tills will not do,” said ttie exacting royal critic; “ive ought to have a real nightin gale.” Herr von Perfall promised to do what he could to ward .engaging a nightin gale as one of the company. There is a man who sings in the public places in Munich who has a rare capacity for imi tating the songs of different birds. He was diligently schooled aiyl conveyed tc the king’s isolated theatre. His majesty believed that he was listening to a real nightingale at the next performance oi “Parsifal,” and sent a most flattering let ter of thanks to the director.—Foreign Letter. Some weeks ago we e grave doubts as to the sitieer movement wiilch has been organizi with Capt. B. R. Tillman as leade for the purpose, as it is claimed, el benefiting the farmers, Since Use we have watched every movemeil and from the indications so far, qn can scarcely doubt but the who} tiling was organized for political pur poses. \Vc see not the least ob jeetion in having organization for farmers all over th •ountry, indeed, we favor this, but le .hem organize for the purpose of bene iiting themselves and their neighbor by discussion of agricultural matters and seek to protect the agrieuitur 1 interest if it is n< t protected. Bwi when one man comes forward am makes a wholesale denunciation of al existing institutions and seeks to tun die farmers against every othei class of citizens,and because tney hob the balance of power, seek to over-rid* the rights of all other eitizun and capture the government, •we must enter a protest. The govet i. ment is for the people, of the peop! and by the people, and it is a bad tea ture of politics when one class con. bines for the purpose of forming « monopoly. Tlio Varying Tastes of a Swell. “It is hard to keep up with the varying tastes of a swell." said a leading dealer in i do The Habits of Miss Kate l ielil. I had a letter the other day from a teacher in a normal school who was get ting up a paper on the literary traits of our public women. So she had a lot of questions she wanted me to answer. She asked me: “What are your habits?” I had an awful good mind to answer, “Bad.” Then she wanted to know who were my favorite authors, and I said, “The authors of my being.” Then she must -know under what conditions I wrote, and I could only answer, “Under every possible condition conceivable;” and then amid what surroundings, and I re plied, “In surroundings that change as often as I change my boarding place.” And so on. Well, I really wrote her a pleasant letter about it all, for notwith- •tanding all that gush I didn’t want to haft her feelings.—Interview in ' Inter Ocean. Oyster* Said to I’roinote Health. Raw oysters before breakfast are now Indulged in by many people who believe this process promotes and enhances health. This is a belief in which some medical men coincide. It is related of tho celebrated Dr. Leroy that he was in the habit of swallowing two dozen raw oys ters every morning before breakfast, and used to say to his friends, presenting them gentlemen's goods. "Here, for instance, in lawn ties—a very small matter, appar ently—they wanted them half an inch wide lust fall, but I can’t make them too wide for them now. They want them a full one and one-eighth. The latest col lars for these tie? is two inches high, with only the smallest piece of the edge turned over. The‘pointers’have not caught on in this city. There is a change also in full-dress shirt bosoms—you want thirty- four pleates in them to be real s\tellish.” -—Philadelphia iTcss. United We Stand. Johnston Monitor. We think that every true mat should deprecate and discourage tin spirit of rivalry and opposition wiiicl seems to be cropping out between dif feicnt sections of the State, nior< especially as it regards the upper an* | lower country. It cannot poxsi idy do any good. and nia\ a great deal of harm. Lc helps Nothing; New Under the Snn. Londoners have been making much ado about nothing in connection with Tenny son’s new poem, “To-Morrow.” They ac- , . . _ _ cased him of using a motive which had j ^th the shells: “There, behold the foun been used before by Mr. Aide. Where- Nation of my youthful strength!”—San npon Mr. Aide and various other persons ha.-ten to stats that it is a very old story. , ia’.med alike by Germany, Scotland, and ; New England Heans for Congressmen. Every day or two I see the Massachu setts members wending their way iu groups over to tho senate wing of the cap itol about lunch time. That queer under tow which keeps the two houses so far eeparate, though they sit within a stone’s throw of each other, also generally makes the- members patronize their own restaur ants. On inquiry it turned out that the Massa chusetts men went over to the other end to get some baked beans, which Senator Frye’s protege. Landlord* Page, serves in regular New England style. Those over at the house are weak in their color and baked in a mass, while - Page has a knack of putting his beans upon the table with i and pla* e l on the the real Yankee red tint and each bean i President’s order, perfect in its form. This is what catches the New Englanders, who all potronize Page’s bean-pot during the week. But he tells hie that he has made no money since he came to Washington, and on the contrary has actually lost some. He says the senate restaurant is not a paying property, unless liquor is allowed to be sold over the counter. us spend onr ammunition on men am measures that are more foreign to us and not so nearly allied it) interest progress and prosperity. We shoul* recollect that wo profess to be a part o the solid South, and we should,'by a! means, he united at home and not al low our local lines to be broken. Al professions and callings form an iu segral part of the body politic, an* each, in its pi ee, is necessary to tin well-being and harmonious working of society and government. The far tuer, the lawyer, the doctor, the me enanie, together with the office hold <‘rs should all harmonize their erf'.irG for their own and tho public good, am he mutual cause. in the comtuoi Francisco Argonaut. ago an American the same them# in a short story.—The Argonaut. Wales. Not kmc t - .gazinist trifled wit Only Wnutfd To He A*snred. *1 should have no objection,’' said a hen-pecked husband, “to my strife hav ing the L^.*. «vor*l, if I could only bi assured that it would bo the very last.” - The Gates on Oiled Hinges. Dying, urged Henry Ward Beecher in his pulpit on Sunday, is usually painless, and passing out of life far easier than be ing born. A man with dyspepsia may carry a little hell in his stomach. Men ge out of life with the gates on oiled hinges. “Being ready to die,* Mr. Beecher con- eivi*i»<<t, “is being ready to lire right.*—De- iruii Free Press. Cleveland's First Veto. T1 e President sent t<> the Senate on Wednesday last a message declining to approve the Apt for the relief < John Hollins McBIair. McBlairwa? a lieutenant in the regular army \vh* was wholly retired .'roni ihe army b; the letiring board" in 1861, but wa> subsequently restored to the army retired list by tin After twenty year- lie put in a claim for longevity pay, on which the Court ofCiaims decided tliu: his restoration was illegal. He then had a bill introduced in Congress sus pending in his case the law regulating appointments to the army, aiul it is tiiis bill that tiie President vetoed. He says McBlair’s claim is devoid o merit and the bill establishes a had precedent. The Spot on the battlefieo of Get tyslnirg, where Gen. Hancock was wounded is marked by a wooden post Itis proposed to place there a ganih M.nldt-r on which idmll lie inscribe- tl.e 'impl f. <•: that there, <-n July ’v«3 «■•!». \V. 28. Hancock wn wounded. WASHINGTON LETTEK. ’orrespondence o{ The Aiken Recorder. Washington. March 8,1886. There are many indications that he Capital will capture Iheexpositien which is projected for tne celebration n 1892 of the 4(JJth’anniversary of the liscovery ot A rue Heat It has already >eeu settled by p4ihlic'b{flnioiS that *ome Aineri* au city must prepare to honor this important anniversary, and hnt it must be the grandesp exposi- i n the world ever saw. New \ ork, 8t. Louis, Chicago and the city o‘. Mexico lufcve carefully considered the •ubjeet. But the great World’s fair ‘uimot be successfully held in four American cities at the same time, md public preference naturally turns o Washin, o i the Capital of theUnited States, and the Capita! of the leading lution of the sixteen sister republics ff tlie three America?. Tiie proposed plan Is to open a •ermanent exposition of North, South ind Central America, in 1889, the cen- enniai anniversary of tlie adoption of tie Constitution of the United States. Then iu 1892 tlie World’s Exposition s to be open in honor of the 400th au- dversary of Columbus’s discovery. Preliminary iribasures have been 'aken to materialize this project by calling citizens of Washington. The irand enterprise has'been mapped out n detail, and encouragement comes from every side. The main question uow is iiow to enlist Congress. Keua- or Gorman, of Maryland, has intro- iueed a measure for this celebration n the Senate, and he says he has .•very reason to believe that the bill which appropriates 100,000,00* to de ray expenses, will be adopted. It Is ilso suggested that umemorial, signed by fony or fifty representative men of the country, would evolve the result desired, and that Senators would then have something tangible to work on. It is proposed that the btiilttrfsgs for the permanent exposition be grouped around the Washington Monument. Space cou'd there be assigned each of the fit teen republics of Spanish America and the Portugees empire o! Brazil to erect a permanent building for the display of their resources ami ittractions. It would*, in effect, he a permanent Congress of the three Americas, and something in harmony vith public sentiment, ns is evidenced >y numerous bills recently introduced n the Senate and House t*v provide or a temporary convention of Aim ri- ;an nations. Yesterday being another 'air fourth of M arch, ft recalled the gibat scene of a year ago when a new ehifef magis irate, representing a hew policy, took his oatli of office arid e.vferect npon his duties. The year that hht passed has been fruitful in events uhd m times the new P'-esident’s burdens have sorely taxed all the resources of .lis mind and body. It is too early to render a verdict on jVfr*'(Olevelaud’* administration, bnfc the record of the drst bill will stand the test of time, particularly with regard to tho Civil Service. ' ’ ’ . . *• The parties have .squarely crossed swords in the Senate over the right of that chamber to review the Presi- lent’s reasons. Tiie controversy will be taken advantage of by those who favor open sessions to urge their views rhey argue tliat if it is Wrong for the President to act ou secret informa tion, it is equally unjust and un American for tlie Senate to do the <ame thing. This position is a strong • ne logically, and is finding more ami more support among Senators. While there is no danger of war oi .•evolution by reason of the Issue that sas heen so sharply sprung between the President and tlie Senate, alto gether too much time is being squan- lered on it. The country is more in need just now of wholesome legisla- . ion ou various subjects than it is of political distractions or questions hi 'onstitutional privileges. Opluiou-} of the President’s.message o tlie Senate seem to be divided on •trictly party lines. Tlie Republican Senators hold that it was a needless md foolish misrepresentation of their position, while the Democrats of the senate consider it was an able, •ourageous and timely document. It las stirred up bath parties ami has awakenad more party feeling than ias been shown before this winter. The coming discussion is sure to bw u bitter one. ‘ • The House of Representatives ha? spent five days in discussing the Pen sion Appropriation bill to which not i single member has any objection to make or any amendment to propose. Toe Senate is still wresiling with tin Educational bill which has drifted, into a bad position so far as it:- .•bailees of passage are concerned, b^ reason of some objectionable amend ment. • “ * Senator Ingalls has just presented in tlie Senate a petition as he said ‘'oi great length and extraordinary inne- niracy,” signed’by citizens of Kansas, evidently of foreign birth, pr ymg for he abolition, of the Presidency. He said lie presented it with pleasure, al though it was ‘based upon entir*. misconception of tlie com-titation, an*, impairing ignorance of the history t< .vhieh it refers. It: sked for Europe an methods of Govern mem. Palmetto. The Object of the SeiRite. Phil<ulcl})hla Tmf.es {Ind.) The Republican Senators have aised Hie point tliat tho President cannot remove any. of their partisan dficers without the Senate’s consent. nit knowing the unsound ness of this position, they have tried to eon C'al it by pretence of their right !*• isk information. The value of tin minority report is not so much in it.- irgumenri,which art familiar,as in iff UHtanee that the real qonstn n sh d : it* met on Tts constitutional basis, i'lico win ne, of course, si long d - bm* on t e • papers and it will not be a pr: •tie--, debate if the sp**:»kers will keej *> the point. Tiie sob r discussion o' onstitntional questioi s is one of th* host useful functions of the Senate But a Senate stru ;gling to keep pos ( ssion of a few punry offices is a sp. e- acle as undignified as unpatriotic. He Means to be President. Mew York Star (Dem) The President’s fight is the people’s fight. It is the fight of the Democratic party to whom the people gave powei The ; oo 1 old party is always at its best iu a fight. Nothing else so fill.- it with enthusiasm and fuses it into unity. It delights to stand by a mar who" has tlie pluck to lead it and old Jackson’s ‘ By tlie Eternal” is still music to its ears. It will love Grover Cleveland all the better if he swears a still rounder oath that the peonle liave elected him President, and President lie means to be. Mrs. Eglantine Randolph, who died at Washington, a few days ago, was i he widow of Lieut. R. B. Randolph, die man who pulled Gen. Hickory Jackson’s nose at the Alexandria, \'a.. wharf, thus seandalizitig Jll’.e worshippers of the hero of New Orleans. • SMALi S' STEP. ► v-UOrll t*.R. Tho Woman Found Dead Amid Pot* ertjr and Squalor. The Palmetto Post says that Char lotte Williams^ a stepdimghte:* «*f Congressman Smalls, was foun t dead in her bed on Monday morning m Beaufort-, under circumstances af the greatest poverty and neglect. * Y.’hrh iier two' little' children woke they found their mother atiif snd cold be side thein. Tno'dgrik squalid apart ment dh which shevlffas tuuml 'yas In the basement of alt old neglected house, \y;th nr. window panes i:> tho sashes, and th'o tire-place .with UC -* apark of fire or.a cinder, and her^aiy covering was a (ftttt quilt upon uV.ok- ety bedstead, (ind some fneuger fbml- ture and tinware lay aboHt the dirty floor. A bottle of gin, with light wood chips steeped in the liquor, was at the bedside. The spectacle of poverty and squalor as presented to the jury of inquest was sickening. Bhe was a woman of doubtful repute. The colored men composing thejunr were loud in their counemnation of Brnnlls for his alleg ed neglect of the family. A verdict was rendered that she came to her death from want of attention. • *. * Another Word to Spartanburg' Farmers. Carolina Spartan. Intensive farming consists In mak ing the largest crops possible, accord ing to outlay of muscle and manure, and nt the same time inproving tho land. Big crops at the expense of soil is about as foolisli as the man who desires to become strong and thinks lie can do this by overloading^»tho stomach with food. Byp-qiejisia and all sorts of diseases are tWi ♦Mbit. The old idea of enlarging the- acreage planted and increasing thajiupiber *>f oales of cotton has resulted In do hie ing the finest portion of our state with gullies and worn out old fields. Tho new idea is to plant fewer acres, iiV'ke more manure at homo, buy Ube By .such as your soil needs, subsoil your land until you go down eight to fif teen iiudies, cultivate ihe crops thor oughly every ten duy", and thereby double tlie yield. All thia is possible and practicable rig’-jt heveiu Spartan burg county, and the progressive, i"ic- qessful farmers are going to try ihis intensive system. They will be *iOw coming to it, but they will come all the same. Tiie farmer who thinks will car. ful-. lv£onsidn’ the distance he will go ’his different crops. Experience wijt be u!s oest guide,and ihiawiii be an*: »ool that even fools will learn in, why her farmers do or not. In pitching - crop due allowance should he made t*> so one-fourth of the time by rain, a -d, in giving distance four weeks of du nght should always be provided fw-, Tho proper distance of cotton may be dis cussed hereafter and our tu-mpiS m e in vi ted to give th* ic opiDim s on this subject. When crow^ od the yeiid is always light. Tho old plan of having rowtrtbree and uhalf to four feet wide bos hr-uernt onr yield do.»2i to about twelve bushels to the acre and thin Includes the 'illu vial lands on our sSvera. In prepry ing uplands plenty of di.^'unco- should be given. Any distance that, will give about twenty feet square to. each hill of corn is about right, an ft the wider the rows tne less work is _ required. Borne of our juasuw**.- 1 ssful corn rajseia. rnniriTTFeir rows seven feet-wide'and the hills about three feet apart. This distance will give 2074 hills to the acre and every one will make a fair oar of corn if proper ly viiltivated This allows for a row of peas in the middle which may be planted to the plowing before tlie last. Six feet ‘three and a halfo. live by four wi}l give about the same-results. If you have heretofore heen crowding your corn and making noth ing but little wormy nubbins turn over a new loaf. " Try rows this year five feet wide. Cut a meas ure and use it until yon get the hang of laying ofTa wide row. By degrees you will be aide to come to th*; seven- foot row, with the peas in the middle. The following table is published for the consideration of such farmers as will think at all. NUMDEU OF IIIELSTJ THE ACKE. 0 * ' Hows in Fcc.t, Hills. 14.520 ,.7;260 4,840 . 5,445 .. 3,6.30 2,722 . 2,904 . .2,178 .1,742 2.420 . 1,815 ..1,452 . 2.074 .1,556 Suppose that the times are hard and money scarce, what docs that matt r with tlie farmer if he is out *>i de d, and even if be should owe a few nnu- dred dollars? If he happens to he frugal and industrious, he can make cotton and pay up. Pigs and potatoes, corn and cabbagi, peas and turnips, grow as well in hard times as flush, and what matters it at last if a good crop and ready sales are assured? •Suppose our rulers lieeome proud of .heir little brief authority, ami show a disposition to favor r.ngs, cliques and monopolies, the farmers and their friends are numerous enough to turn them out at the next electionund put itlicrs in their places If the kii-m rs don’t have fair play, it is their own fault, for those that arc for them are more th -u those that be against thein. Let them be true to themselves, and stand ng shoulder to shoulder, presei ting a solid and unwaver ing front, there is no power m the rilate that could oreak ■ • eir lines or encroach upo ".heir Ti:ht>t. Then .let os I tear no more of tie- wrongs and oppressions p:;-.. tieed upon the fanner. He has the author ity to demand Ids rights :v:’. i the power to maintain them, and if o fails to do it, let him accept toe - i * i. a- tiou and take the consequences.— Johnston Monitot. After a lengthy discussion the Vir ginia Senate lias passed, by a vMe of 22 to 8, a local oof ion Irill, which re quires tliat the election, to determine whether liquor traffic shall oecontin ued in any city, must he participated in by a number equal to a majority of ibe votes cast at the last preceding election. The bill exempts distilleries, which are allowed to manufacture for various purposes, but applies other wise to the entire traffic. Tc become a law the measure must now be con curred iu by the House. The exodus of negroes from North and South Carolina promises to he unusually heavy this month. It is said that they are offered from $12 to $18 per montji to work on the Western farms. Doubtless many of them will wish before the year ends th , *f they. »v- -G bs-1 never h'*'»r.| of the gr a* Many of them, however will nW atht- edly Improve their condition by the change.—Savannah News. :%■