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s. rn tt T? X XIXL RUER CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN S. C., TUESDAY, APRILS, 1886. VOLUME 5.—NUMBER 28 IP .A. ID Gt- JET T 7 THE MAMMOTH FURNITURE STORE MAN, BEGS TO CAUL AT TENTION TO THE FOLLOWING AWFULLY LQW PRICES— GOODS GUARANTEED: An entire Walnut Be<l-rooin Suite, full Marble Top, 10 pieces, $39; a very Large and Elegant Solid Walnut Parlor Suite, covered with Plush, only $42.50] an Elegant Walnut Parlor Suite, covered with either Go/^d ITair Cloth or Fancy Ramie, at 42T.50; a Large Assort ment of Poplar Bed-room Suites, full Marble Top, at $32; or, in Wood Top, from 16.50 to 25 dollars. A No. 7 Flat Top Cooking Stove, with 50 pieces, for 13 dollars; No. 6 Step Stove, 25 pieces, $8.75. • Eveiy kind and every articleof every kind in the Furniture, Bedding and Stove Line; also, a full line of Window Shades, Carpets, Rugs, Clocks, Pic tures, etc. In Undertaking Pepat tment you can find Cofllnsand Caskets, Gentlemen's Rohes, Ladies’ Robes, ddd Fellow’s and Mason’s Trimmings, and a full line of all other trimmings. Any information Will be cheerfully given. Write for full particulars and prices. , ? L. F. PADGETT’S V ' > Furniture Store, 1110 and 1112 BROAD STREET, - - _ _ AUGUSTA, GA. Professional Advertisements. A DAY WITH JKF: KK>0\ DAVIS. D. S. Hexdeesox. B. P. Hexdebsos. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiii.EN, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. CARPETS AND GOODS -a- 1835. New Goods. Fall Trade. 1885 -J^TWlow'Shades and Lace Curtains, Wilton, Velvet, Brussels, 3-ply In- grtTHi Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, Art Carpet, Window Shades of every wize and Color, embracing ali the New Styles, Cocoa, Caton and Napier Mat tings, Floor Oilcloths and Lioolaums. Lace Curtains, Window Cornices and Poles, New Walnut, Cherry, Ash and Brass Cornices and Poles. Turcoman Curtains and Draperies. Ebony Upholstery Goods. Raw Silks in a variety cf Patterns. Hair Cloths, Cane and Gimp and But toms. Wall Papers, Borders and Decorations. Fringes in all Colors. '<?! John Cary Evans, Attorney-at-La\v. Will practice in the CountU Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell. tlolin A. Mette, Attorney and Counsellor at Law,' Practices in all Courts of South Carolina, Aiken, S C. James Aldrich. Walter Asuley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. Just Opened For A!l Trades: Oil Paintings, EngravingandChromos. Jats, Walnut and Rubber Weather Strips out cold, and all sold at Lowest Prices. Brooms, Dusters, Baskets, Door for Doors and Window, to keep JAMES G. BAILIE & SONS, Chronicle Building, 714 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Bondurant, Jopling & Co, -Manufacturers of- ALL KINDS OF BRICKS! Proprietors of the Old and Popular DeLAIGLE AND AUGUSTA BRfCK YARDS, establish ; J in LS20! mated production since then 250,000,000 Brick! Quality and passed North or South. Large stock always on hand. Esti- color iiusur- For i. . rmation. address BONDURANT, JOPLING <Sr CO Augusta, Ga. GIN MBS! GIN MBS! I HAVE secured Patterns and propose to furnish RIBS for all makes ol Gins at reasonable prices. CASTINGS of all kinds in Iron an Brass at short notice. Special attention given to Repairs. Satisfaction guaranteed! Tilff PEHDLETOift FOUMDRyniiorMflCiagjt^SaKS Nos. 615, 617 and 619, Kollock St., - - AUGUSTA, GA. CHAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor. WM PENDLETON, Sup’t. ALFRED BAKER, President. JOS. S. BEAN, Cashier. THE AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Cash Assets Surplus - $;*oo,ooo.oo GO.000.00 Interest on Deposits of Five to Two Thousand Dollars. Sums of One Dolllai and Upward Received. O -Directors—James A. Lofiin, E. O’Donnell, Eugene J. O’Corpner, Alfred Baker, E. It. Schneider, W. B. Young, William Schweigert, Edger R. Derry Jules Rival, Joseph S. Beam, J. Henry Bredenburg. JOSEPH THEE MAN, MERCHANT TAILOR, 5 ^ 618 Broad street, Augusta, Georgia., * Would respectfully anounce to his friends and the public that he has now >• on hand and is dqdly receiving, a select stock of Spring and Summer Styles, Consisting of SUITINGS and TROUSERINGS, etc., which he will mak< ,up in the Latest Style at Lowest Prices. Satisfaction guaranteed in every particular. T II BARRETT MANUFACTURING CO. 18 NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH NEWSPAPERS WI*l FINE NEWS PAPER! When taken in quantities of fifty reams, or over, we wt«! deliver oui paper free to any point in South Carolina at 6 cents per pound. Tin- Recorder is printed on paper manufactured at Bath, S. C. We are also pre pared to furnish the trade with BOOK, MANILLA and WRAPPING PaPEII! * tw PATRONIZE HOME ENTERPRISE! ^*3 I. G. BARRETT, Pesidept, - - AUGUSTA, GA, THE AIKEN WAQOi -MANUFCTURED by- P. B. MATHEWS, (Opposite the Ashley House,) - - - AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, T HESE Wagons .are made of first-class .material, and in the most workman like manner. Improved Axle Cutting Machine for taking up lost motion without the cost of new axles. Hnggies made to order at short notice, or •ordered at Manufacturers Prices from the best makers. Repahiag and Paint Jog promptly attended to. Satisfaction guaranteed. DOWN TOWN GREEN MARKET! ^ CAN SUPPLY FAMILIES WITH FIRST-CLASS VEGETABLES. THAT IS NOLTHERN CABBAGES. TURNIPS, BEETS, CARROTS, ONIONS. : POTATOES, - APPLES, BANANAS, ORANGES, LEMONS, COCOAS UTS, NUTS, RAISINS, CITRON, CURRAlxTS, Ac. •-* ’ ALSO : . SELECTED GROCERIES IX GREAT VARIETY! Goods Delivered at the House. .Call at the VISNBy BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY ! W. T. HOFFMAN. ----- —■ - - AIKEN, e. c. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. B. Woodward, s. the Courts Attorney at Law, Aikex, Will practice In this State. all Edw, J. Dickerson, Vttorney-at-Law, Aikex, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this Slate Dr. Z. A. Smith, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSE, - - - S. C. EgrOtfiee near Depot. Dr. W B CourtneJ\ Dentist. -OFFICE- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Next door to Henry Busch & Co. Dr. B. H. Teague, Bentist. -OFFICE 0X- Riokland Avnue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. B. Burnett, Bentist. -OFFICE AT- Granileville, Aiken County, . C. Dr. J. It. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE AT- VVilliston, Barnwell County, S. C. iTST’Will attend calls to the country’. Edwin B. Cunningham, 541 Broad St,, - - Augusta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District ot Columbii , a:id Notary Public “with -seal.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” Geo. W. Williams. HOUSE y SIGN AND FRESCO PAINTER!' Graining and Marbling a specialty. Old Furniture polished and made as 'ood as new. 5®“Ofiice Up-stairs over BeckL an’s Bank. Orders solicited. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Two Doors from Laurens Street on Richland Avenue. The best of material used, and any !,yle of boot or shoe irnade to cyder. 0. P. Doolittle, J1LDER AND PICTURE FRAME % Manufacurer, 20 Jackson St. — Augusta, Ga. lTcIui'S Frames Made io Order at hort Notice. XE IK MOULDINGS CONSTANT- L Y RE CEIVIJS G. Regilding a Specialty. Old Frames qual to new. JamesA.Stothart, - S. C. GRANITE VI LIE, DEALER IX— DRUGS. CHEMLCAIoS P ERFUM- E LUES, TOILET SO A PS, r * V 1 R BRUSHES AND CIGArfS. The Stock is frequently replenished so that they are always fresh. Oui prices are reasonable, .and we will be glad not only to serve our friends ol Grauiteville, but of the entire sur rounding Country. James A. Stothart. JheXpuceXMX^U r T^O buy your Tinware, Crockery, A_ Glassware, Lamps, Jewelry, Spoons, Knives, «&c.. Forks, Combs, Brushes, Bucket*. Spectacles, Pins, Needles, Soaps, Baskets, Dolls, Vases, and every’ other thing, is at THOS. MEAD’S 3, IO and 17» Cents Store, No*. 516 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA., Headquarters for TOYS of all kinds. H. F. Warneke, Baker iuid Confectioner AXD DEALER lit GROCERIES TOBACCO and CIGARS, TOYS, FI RE-WORKS, Etc. AIKEN, - - - S. C His Iteeonclllaliou With Zachary Taylor Alter Eloping wilh His Daughter, New York Sun. St. Louis, Aprils.—“I weut to the Exposition races at New Orleans the other day with Jeff Davis,” said Col. Pat Donon recently: “The party, for whom I had admission tickets, in cluded Mr. Payne, an old friend of Mr. Davis, and Col. Robert N. Ogden, popularly known as Bob Ogden, and one of the most brilliant men in Louisiana. Col. Ogden had been tell ing me of Mr. Davis* wonderful memory, and I had often heard of Jt from others, but when I met him I had a personal demonstration of it that more than realized all that had ever been said to me. He had never seen me but once in my life, and that was nearly twenty-three years Ago, when, as a boy’ with a face as smooth as a girl’s. I was commis sioned in Richmond to raise a battal ion of cavalry in the mountains of Virginia and Kentucky; and vet he recalled my face instantly. “The ex-President of the Southern Confederacy is apparently in much better health now than he was then, and looks little older. He walks with a firm step, and carries himself with military erectness. I told him he seemed stronger than when I hud seen him all those years ago, and he said J was right; his health is better, and time has, all things considered, touch ed him lightly’. Speaking of my liv ing in Dakota, he gave me many in teresting reminiscences of the time lie was stationed in those then un known and savage wildernesses, as an officer in the United States army, 51 years ago. Then there was not a white settlement north or south of Prairie du Chien, ami the whole vast region northwest of Port Dearborn, now Chicago, swarmed with Indians. I told him that I never took a party of friends over the Chicago, 1 Milwau kee ar.d St. Paul railroad without pointing out to them, near Portage City, Wis., the log cabins that mark the site of old Fort Winnebago, where he was stationed more than a hall century ago, and that, associated with his name, it was one of the places of inteiest.to which the railroad conductors and brakemen always call the attention of tourists. He seemed pleased to learn that his name had gone into tiie classics of that beautiful region of lakes and dills. I did not tell him the whole story that always accompanies the view of the ancient fort; that it was here he came aftei eloping with the only daughter of oh! Zachary Taylor, and that the people o Prairie du Chien, then a frontier post, showed their sympathy with the run aways by’ giving them a big reception as they passed through to the last out post of civilization, Mrs. Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, whose husband shared Mr. Davis’ imprisonment after the civil war, and who is one of the most remarkable women the South ever produced, gavi me the' sequel ttf" this elopement scrape. Gen. Taylor never forgave either Davis or his daughter until the night after Davis led the fumou.-. charge of his regiment of Mississippi riflemen at Buena Vista. About mid night an orderly presented himself at Col. Davis’ tent and and announced that Gen. Taylor wished to see him at headquarters immediately. Tin two men had never spoken since the one had stolen the daughter of the other. Davis knew the pussionaL temper of the old man, and instantly conjectured that the sudden and per emptory summons boded no good to him. In deep anxiety lie hurried to tin General’s tent, entered the door and saluted without speaking or moving a step inside. The door was closed in a moment, and “Old Rough and Ready,” with his arms outstretched, rushed forward and embraced his long- ignored son-in-law, exclaiming, ‘By , my daughter knew you better than I did. Forgive me! Forgive me! ’ “The reconciliation so dramatically brought about was a lasting one-,- and to the day of Old Zach’s death, six teen months and four day’s after his inauguration as President of the United States, he and Mr. Davis wen- friends. “Though he is now far past the Scriptural life-limit of three-score years and ten, Mr. Davis is a charm ing companion for an afternoon oi commonplace races, and the range of his information seems almost infinite Col. Ogden gave me an amusing in stance of the effects of this semi-om niscience on an untutored native of the Southern swamps. Nick Du- cheheville has a hunting lodge, near the east end of Lake Ponehartrain and is a noted character in his region He is an expert on dogs, hunting and fishing, and all accessories to these sports, and is a good-hearted fellow, who will, now ami then, or ofiener, get on a howling spree, and is al ways grotesquely’ profane. Out on a gun ning expedition with him three or fourWeeks ago Col. Ogden happened to mention Jetf Davis. Nick said: ‘That air’s a man 1 want to see. I wa- an’ Col. Oguen is the greatest man in the world, sir. He’s bigger than I , , ^ . T ~7, George Washington an’ Napoleon thc Bonaparte, sir! Mr. Davis, I want you to come out to my place an’ stay a week an* it shan’t cost you a cent, BILL AKi* ON CIVIL SBltVICK. Head—The on thc Honest Truth. sir; not a d—d cent, sir! By gum, Mr. Davis, you’re jist the man we want for Governor, sir! A man that knows as much about dogs as you do could beat all h—1, sir!” “And Nick, I understand, is still solid for Mr. Davis, first, la>t. and all the t ime, for Governor of Mississippi. Louisiana, or any other Htate into which his rough diamond admirer’s nomadic pursuits may take him. “I could fill a small volume with the entertaining reminiscences and anecdotes which made memorably pleasant an afternoon of clumsy smateur races, with untrained plug horses and young society men as the material, but one more, containing a scrap of never-befq£e-pi|blished Con federate secret history, is all I have time to give. A getitleman of the party ; who has for many years been one ofi the most intimate friends of Mr. Davis, told me that the Confederate ex-President once declared to him that he considered Albert Sidney Johnson the greatest man he had ever known. He regarded him as the greatest in every respect. He thought, if he had adopted statecraft as a pro fession, lie would have been the great est statesman of his age; if he had chosen art he would have been the greatest artist; if science, the greatest scientist; if law, the greatest lawyer. As a soldier he had no peer on either side during the war, if he ever had in American history Mr Davis added: “So great, so absolute was my confi dence in his abilities that on one oc casion during our struggle I tendered my resignation as President of the Confederacy to my Cabinet, provided they would put Gen. Johnston in my place. “Does this not put a somewhat new face on many of the current impres sions of Jeff. Davis’ character? Does it not materially change the prevalent idea of his ruthless st liishness and am bition, and show him ready to sacri fice himself for the sake of his section and people? Whatever may be the verdict of history as to his patriotism, I must say I can see no difference in that respect between him and many men who now holds seats in the United States Sen ate and House of Representative, Judgeships in United Staies Courts, and commissions as United States Ministers to foreign governments. They all fought and failed in the ■;aine cause. “However the future may write him down, one thing is cerlain: This country lias produced few more bril liant and accomplished men, and no more instructive and delightful com panion for an afternoon of tiresome races.’" Hon. Patrick Walsh, Augusta Chronicle: Dear Sir—I have just received your circular letter, inviting answers to a few questions coucern- i now she is entitled to half and a few ! over. She went solid for Cleveland and he should go solid for her. Let I Sherman howl, and Ingalls bate, and 1 Logan wave his carmine integument; what does that matter? We have got i used to it." in fact, We like it. It shows that the snake has bit- himself, and is dying of slow poison." Why, ^ I ' '-A AO \ ^ A AA jb^ W A O A V# W J M OV/ A ■ • V V AA J y ing President Cleveland s mode of ad- s j r ^ jj ie ^ortli got ricli off of the war— ministering the Government. • immensely rich—and the South got BILL WOI lOlilFS WEDDING. in his war four years, an’ t ain’t n< ver laid eyes on him yit. Wiiat kiu’ o’ man is he, Colonel ?’ “Col. Ogden replied: Nick, Mr. Davis is a great man, a very greai man. There is nulling he doesn’; know. Why, Nick, he knows mor about medicine than any doctor you ever saw, and more about horses than any of our sporting men. He can tel i you more about hunting and fishing than any of our hunters and fisher men. He can sail a boat or put on i. fly better than either of us. Why. Nick, he knows more about boats and guns and dogs than botlx of us put to gether.’ “Nick’s eyes had been gradually swelling during tills eulogiuni, and here he burst out with: ‘By gum, Colonel, he must be a great man! Know more about boats and gnus and dogs than I do. Lord, what a whale he must be! I’d give a dollar jist to look at him, by gum!’ “About a week later Mr. Davis was sitting in the office of one of the little lakeside hotels, with a party’ of gen tlemen who were out on a duck shoot ing excursion One of them had a handsome blue setter, and the Con federate ex-Chieftain was explaining how that particular strain of dogs originated in this country’, staling, I think, that the ancestral canines were presented to John Jay when he was in Europe, abeut the first of this century, and entering into an elabo rate disquistiou on the various breeds of hunting dogs, their qualities and characteristics, the modes of training them, and their value for different purposes. Col. Ogden’s friend Nick, pretty drunk, had entered the room during the talking, and learning who this marvelous discotjrser on dogs was, had listened in open-eyed and open-mouthed amazement, and at last, swept away by his enthusiasm, rushed up to Mr. Davis, and, sticking out his huge, grimy hand, exclaimed, in tones that conic, be heard a quarter of a mile: “By gum. sir, Mr. Davis. I want to shake hand- with y«»u! I’ll be d- tl if you ain’t the greatOet man I ever seed, sir! By gum, sir, a mail tluil know*! mure about dogs than me A Ceremony Enlivened by the Element N of Danger. From a Columbia (Texas) Letter. An exciting and dramatic incident occurred here last evening. Sunday morning two men rode into town. Their remarkable appearance at once attracted the attention of every one. t’liey were covered with mud and car ried a perfect arsenal of rifles, pistols and knives with them. One wasxi man over 60, with long, gray’ hair and blood in his eye; the other was a man of 30 years, built like a giant and wearinga terrible scowl on ids face. They were father and son, William Wofford and Sum Wofford, from the backwoods ol Matagorda county. The old man said he was looking for his “darter Kate,” who had “lit out” with her cousin Bill Wofford. Yesterday the father and son located the runaway couple, who were occupying a small fisher man’s tent half a mile outside the town. When old Wofford found out the location of his erring “dartel.” a large crowd of curious men and boys fol lowed tiie terrible-looking pair to the vicinity of the tent, as the old man kept continually examining his gun and saying: “rfahi, I’m go.’en to kill himsuah!” As they neared the tent the crowd fell back, while the old man and ids giant son approached with rifles in hand. Suddenly the flap of the tent was violently thrown open from the inside, and there stood Bill and Kate, each holding a terrible Winchester rifle one covering the old man, Hie otliel the son. Old gravhead and Sam glared like two will beasts on the brave lovers, and Bill called out: “Do you s’pose I’m go’n to give up her aider we done tramped it to gether all the way from tiie Colorado to Brazos? Not much; she’s mine’s, and you may stan’ there now and see us married.” The (fid man and Ham, under cover of the suggestive Win chesters, slowly moved back, all the time facing the boy Bill and his Kate, who had the drop on them. Mean time a courier had gone to town for a license and a preacher, and after near ly two hours, during which time Bill and Kate never took their eyesolf the old uniii and Ham, and threatened to kill either should he raise a hand, the preacher and tiie license arrived. During the ceremony tiie bride groom kept his rifle at a hali-cock pointing towards his father-in-law. i i e preacher was so afraid they would open hostilities while lie was there that he could scarely finish the cere mony. After tiie marriage the «Id man delivered a terrible curse on both, and said lie Would spare their lives now provided they never set foet in Matagordo county. “If you do,” said he, as he shook his long, dirty, yellow locks and vio lently struck his rifle with one hand; •if you do, you’re both on you deuo soon as you cross the hue. for when I’m gone Ham lie's there. You’ve got the whole world before you, ’eept Matagorda county. Now go.” With this philippic the old man and son depaated forlorn, while Bill pulled down the flap of tfie tent. It seems-now that there is little or nothing in politics save offices and spoils, and the question is: Who ahull fill the one and be filled by the other? I thought that question was settled long ago at the polls and that all of us would go into office or get something ouiside and be happy. 1 think that Mr. Cleveland is a great and good man, but be misunderstood the boys when he heard them shout ing, “Turn the rascals out,” and now he has been thirteen months hunting for the ‘rascals’ and hearing evidence on both sides; and the y/ay he is pro gressing it will take him thirteen years to get through. Well, that is a kind and charitable view to take- It is a hard duty to turn a good, honest man out of office when the office is his chief support. But time about is fair play and fair play is a jewel and twenty-five years of “ins” ought to satisfy any reasonable party or par tisan, whether offensive or defensive. I believe that our boys would enter into a solemn covenant, right now, that if they were allowed to stay Ini for the next twenty-five years they would all step down and out and give up the lease “and make no claim for betterments. Personally, I will do that and give security. Now, if there were any great na tional questions that divided the par ties—questions like the tariff, or Blair bill, or the silver business, or the Mormons, or the heathen Chinee— there might be room for control of the Government. But the parties are split up and mixed on all these, and there is but one single issue on which the boys can form a straight line, and that is the offices. Mr. Cleveland was elected on that single issue: “Turn the rascals out”—by which we meant turn them all out. Not that every mother’s son was a rascal, but the honest ones were scarce and in bad company and under bad control, and had to play shut mouth and be acces sories after the fact like a receiver of stolen goods; and so we bunched the whole concern together and called them all rascals. But suppose there are no rascals, and all are honest and capable and deserving. How long is a man to hold an office, a public* office that belongs to the people? Is not twenty-five years long enough when there are a dozen outsiders who want it? Why, we Democrats here of the Solid South won’t let a Demo crat stay in half that long. Rotation is the word. Rotate. I used to have some grand Utopian ideas about reform, and I thought that may be the good men of the whole country could get together and make a new party that wouldn’t steal and they could be elected and run the machine on the pure and honest prin ciples of our forefathers; but I have abandoned such hopes. Reform is a good word, but in politics it don’t mean anything—not a darned tiling. A few years ago I sent a boy to An napolis to stand an examination for a place. There Were 140 candidates and only 25 to be taken. The boy was smart very smart, and thoroughly prepared, but lie was a Democrat and got number 27. The 25 taken were all Republicans, every mother's son, and some of them didn’t have sense enough to get out of a shower of. rain. But their fathers, or their uncles, or their cwusins were Republican mem bers of Congress and offensive partis ans to boot. Offensive partisans! Well that is the poorest excuse in the world to turn a man out for. Wiiere is the re form in turning one offensive parti san out to put another offensive par tisan in. We holler hurrah for our side, and we ought to. Tiie people turned Arthur out and made Blaine take a back sear, and that meant turn them all out even down to the postmaster at “Ty Ty” and “Too-night” and “Hardtimes.” whose office don’t pay fifty dollars a year. Turn the republicans out is the word. I admire Mr. Cleveland for many things, but he can’t run with tiie rabbit and bark with the hounds. His ad ministration has got to be Democratic or nothing. Those Republicans have held the public offices so long they really believe they have a warranttei title or fee simple to them and their heirs forever. They don’t confess to a quit claim, and they won’t quit claiming either. Why it pretty near takes the military to get them out. Mr. Cleveland ought to wake up from iiis Utopian dreams, his “olmoxiou- desuetude,” and shake his am brosial 1 «>eks and say “file left, march.” He will lose some good men and get some bad ones in their places, but we Can’t help that-, the country can’t be worsted. It is.high time that a new set were in training poor—intensely poor—and ihey would keep us poor forever if they could. I want a pension, right now, to make me feel friendly, and they won’t give it. And if Mr. Cleveland dpnt hur ry up with the offices our people won’t care a? ban bee who is President. Nothing *' from nothing and nothing remains; and if we are to get nothing, what is the inducement? As Cobe says, when ’ he don't care “11,8 all optionu- liow a thing goes: ry with me.” Chas. H. Smith. FI BED AT iOi.M). Maj. George T. Jackson Sent to the Chain Gang. Augusta, Ga., April 19.—The re mitter in-.the ease of the State vs. George T. .fa^Kgon was enUtvd upon the minutes of "TtrrH^umid Superior Court to-day, and the boTiy of the* de fendant delivered over to the Sheriff. The sentence goes into effeeVijnmedi ately and Maj, Jackson left to-night io enter upon his six years’ term of ex piation. The*case.stands out promi nently in vindication cf thc dignity and impartiality of the law, No de fendant ever stood higher in the es teem of his fellow citizens. No case of like importance involving suen large amounts and sucb woful conse quences has been pushed to a speedier trial and final sentence in this sec tion. While this vindication of the law inspires renewed confidence on the pari of our citizens, there is noth ing lint sympathy and compassion in It will take our boys ten years to get expert in the spoils lousiness as the Republicans are now. It will tak*- a year or two for the natural dilfi- dence to wear off"and to get familiar with all the avenues and nigh cuts to the overflowing treasury; but the\ will learn in due time. They wiii first look and then linger, then em brace. But any change will be fo. the public good, and if our boys go to plundering it will give a wider spread of national favors and save filing a bill for distribution. So let Mr. Clove land reconsider his ways and lie wise. I would like an office myself, a sort nf a sine qua non; but I see no chance There used to be a \vay of creating an an office just to lit u man, hut I don’i hear of it now. Mr. LeDu« and Mr Luring did remember me and appoint ed me agricultural correspondent foi ni> county, but there is no pay attach ed to it—nothing but a few turnip and tobacco seed—a id that is ilie way all over tiie South. The Democrats fill these sort of offices and the Re publicans the others. What we all expected was a change—a change unanimous and ubiquitous. We wanted to see the whole grand army of one hundred thousand officeholders pack up andiJ j come out and fall into line, tuid-'MrrTi ! Cleveland stand <)iijJlfi.-xU»ine of iht Capitol, with buff wand in his hand and here Imh exclaim in a voice oi thunders “Now, let the procession proceed.” ~Mr. Cleveland has got an idea that he was elecjted President over the whole people, and that now he is no longer a partisan or a Democrat. That fs true, so far as executing the laws is concerned, but no further. The truth is, he is not the whole people’s Resi dent. Just half and a small fraction over elected him: The others didn’t want him, and they don’t want him, now. He is not their President; they don’t claim him. Ingalls skins him alive and the party is delighted, and ‘Hit him Augusta for those who suffer from i one accord exclaim this fearful blow. Old Town Convict j again, Ingalls; hit him hard.” So far Camp, Jefferson county, is the Major’s j f avors ar e concerned, Mr. CTeve- destination. Albert Guerry, of South Carolina, is painting the portriat of Senator Wade Hampton. He portrait of John iihptou. He painted the accepted C. Calhoun. How Thomas Olieyetl Orders No! Wisely but About Four Huuurcd Decrees too Well. From thc Lafayette Comet. The’y engaged a new porter the Lahore house last night. He was an active young man, with Hibernian type of countenance and large, horny hands about the size of hams'. Every body liked hiiq, Uo was so cheerful, so obliging," and so vigorously and scru pulously exact in carrying out every order given him- On last Tuesdays Mr. J. B. Johnson, vice president of the Omaha, chilled plow works, put up at the hotel. Mr. Johnson is a very dignified and pol ished gentleman, and extremely par ticular about his room and service. That evening a very extraordinary* thing occurred. Some say it was about 9 o’clock, others place it as late as 10:30. At any rate, somewhere near that time Mr. Johnson was amazed to see the door of his room open and a man step in. “Who the devil are 3*011?” asked Mr. Johnson. “Oh, I am the porter.” replied the stranger, deliberatedly removing his coat and rolling up his sleeves. “Well, what is the meaning of this singular intrusion?” inquired Mr. Johnson. Thomas did not reply. He spit upon his Lands, executed a rapid and fantastic jig ami leaped suddenly upon the astonished : gtie'st- Help! MurdeH’4 bellowed Mr. John son, crazy man killing me!” “^hut up, ye dhirty spa p .-en!” ex claimed Thomas, obtaining a firm grip upon tiie bust of his trousers and propelling him rapidly “nt of the room, “it’s none of the I kes of yi that’s wanted in a dacent house. But, my good man! gasped Mr. Johnson, his words coming by excited jerks, “there is some mistake! Let me explain!” “Niver a word, 3*0 hoodlum!” re plied Thomas, rushing him toward (.he stairs; “we’re on to ye! ^"In- house has had 3*e spotted!” The next instant the guests in the corridor were amazed to see two fig ures, one spluttering and kicking and the other grim and determined, shoot (lov/n the stairca e.plunge through tl a lobby and disappear into the outer darkness. In a few moments Thomas reUinud panting and rolling down his sleeves; “What in the name of heaven were you doing?” asked Mr. Weekly, the proprietor, when he recovered suffi ciently* from the shock to speak. “I was firing thatdhirtv blackguard Jolvnsou,” replied Thomas. “Firing him? Hold me, somebody*! who put such an infernal idea inti 3’wur head ?” ‘•Here she Is,” replied Thomas, with an injured air, holding the slate before the proprietor’s eyes. “ By — the—great—horn —spoon, ” gasped Mr. Weekly, and swooned awa,. This is what he read: “Fire No. 40 at 10:30.” land is the President of those who -voted for him, and the officers ought to be* so apportioned. This would give the South a good showing and she is entitled toll. She has not the shackles which bind her, tu.br a one-twentieth part of the offices, and the rumsellers’ tyr.mieal, soul desire. nig oligurcliy.” Au.. be said .n slentor ian tones She will do it, hersons have said it, and thin demonstration war* rants my telegraphing to Washing ton, 'Richnioqd* will be free, and the Christian Temperance people all over the South will join in the halleld- jah.l I said it made n*e sad, yes, and glad too. I was glad 1 GeOrgia-had tote to represent her, so courageous for tfcid (right.- Sad iq “know no voice from | my own State is’rassed in Congress ' on the side of temfleraifcie. Stv^dcp still to feel we are doing less thaii’ahy other State. 1 am gmug to break every other engagement and go back to South Carolina for two-week j in May. Will the District Presi'dcqts gif immediately to work, and plan meet ings for me. I have calls from stran gers living where some of our officials live, and they know nothing of their being an officer in their town. Dear sisters, let me plead with you to shako off thc.deadiy apathy, and go to wrork I- long t<t Inffp thy own State, and would so glady do it if she would give me the chai ce, * Gov. Colquitt wore the white rib bon badge of our order in his button hole when bespoke. And now, to change the subject, I was on the train the other day, when a gentleman passenger said to another ‘the boys from his place; were going to Wofford College soon, meases had prevented their going sooner’ A no the* man rose up and taking a paper, read 1 most horrid account of Spartan burg, and the Wofford students, and said the nearest road to perdition for b(»3*s was through Wofford College. I think he rgad it from the News and Courier, and the writer was bUrriilfft down the town to ged rid of the rats. He was opposed to Prohibition, and instead of saying the whiskey ele ment was stronger than the Christain and the men in office who had sworn to enforce the laws, which they re* ceivea salary for doing, did not keep their oath, and ought be be arrested and put into pri-on. he thought the law ought to be repealedy : besause "it could not enforce itself. A -Repuli- can sitting in front quizzically said, ‘If the Democrats-*have not any bet ter men ta mit in office than that man describes bow long do you think the people will submit. lam think ing, if the Democrat party don’t look shurpe it will follow ours, and have to step down and out. People are getting mighty sick of having men in office to whom an oath is nothing more than idle breath, and spoils all they care for.’ Instead of its being the Pro! i iltionits who are going to de stroy* the Democratic party it is th# anti-Prohibitionists who are doing it. I speak at theUniversitv of Virginia .mi Thursday, and next week must afen, tend the Georgia Convention at Ma con. I hope South Carolina Temper ance Orders will be represented there, they are cordially invited to send fraternal delegates. S. F. Chapi::. Letter from Mrs. Chapin. From the Temperance Worker. Richmond, Va., April 12. Dear Worker: I have been in this ilstoric city one week, and have spoken teir times. The enthusiasm on the questions of “Prohibition” is quite as great, as in Atlanta. Ever.y minister of every denomination, white and colored, has declared for and is zealously working for it fliree, or four prayer meetings an held daily in different parts of the cit3*. The finest churches, are con sidered none to good, in which t< plead for this great cause. An im mense tent is also erected. Senator Colquit, spoke twice yesterday, t< thousands. The Anti-Prohibitionisti- say the people of Richmond, hav« g me raving mad. They*, are gettlnj. tie sinews of war from every direc ion. One of them said in a speed they had $100,000 sent to help them But Richmond will be disenthralled Such grand men such earnest women such brave Pauline ministers, “ready to bo offered” if need be! Wha imes we a.e living in. I am glad to be here, an uuong such people. Grand old Vir ginia! Rum sellers will not be allow d to rule your proud State and die late to your rulers. I felt sad as i listened" to Gov. Colquitt’s burnin<: ' words, as he placed tiie Mother o. Slates., and the Empire State, skit b.v side and towering above thei, Southern Sisters, in that they dare< sa3*, “Our capital cities shall no long er be disgraced h3* a traffic in souls e will net sell our M inhood. Oui boys are-the hope of.our land, an even if the fictitious revenue, claim- 1 1)3* the rum sellers were a fact, ten i thousand times the amount would no buy my bo3*, nor your, nor yours; N amount of license can miy for them He literally annihilated, those Chris tains yvho had been stupid enough t< be caught in the snare of high liscens- anil so placed themselves side L'* sid« with tipplers, and rum seller^, Wh said if we can’t get a whole loaf-WU" will take a part. HigUReeiise para lyzed Jemneranct effort, and was th. mirTsellers dodge, to make his busi ness respectable. As many soul.- would go down to perdition,.possibl.y from fewer places, and finer places, but just as surely, and it would be no comfort to the poor wife, or mother whose husband and father went down to eternal night, through the snaki yvreathed portals of Delirium Tre mens, to tell them; the llqour that had brought this ruiq on her, wa.- bought at a high license saloon, voteu for oy the ministers and Christain men. When he closed his address, he ask ed all in the an lienee who were in favor of Prohibition to ilse. Every one rose, even in the galleries. The Governor was quite overcome. Willi the deepest e.molien he spoke of tlu relation Richmond sustained to tin whole South. “Oar Richmond, h<* called her. proud capital of our South cm Confederacy, Richmond on tin James, where the S «u:hern hear! au chored through th u»e dark, ewntf*. years, Richmond, is Lying to breai The Kuklux in Ireland. New York Sun. “Whiteboy, moonlight and ribboni societies, murders by night and day,” said Lord Salisbury, “made doubtful the angelic character of the {P»h peasantry.” Unfortunately an an gelic character is something that 110 people possess. Kuklux ami kindred societies, murderers b3* night and da3'» made doubtful the chivalroua cnarHcteitK of IheSoidjfcm Democrats But the Kuklux seefity were the out growth of oppression L>3' carpet bag Governments. When that oppres sion was removed the life was knock ed out the Kukjux Klan. Since the Southerners.have had home rule they have become obedient to the laws and loyal to the Uuioil, If this country should get into a foreign war there would be no; uped td keep an army in the South to hv.erawe the people and guard against another rebelion, Moca light and ribbon societies have grown out of carpet baggovernment in Ireland. They are eyiUr Which can be healed by the same medfciiie ibat cured the Kuklux plague. If England should drift into a war wjtli a pow erful neighbor—and sooner or later she must go there—a bad additionde that misfortune would certainly be a re» belion in Ireland. Should . Glad* tone’s bill be torn to pieces bx- En glish passion and flung into the teeth of the Irish peep’ , it will simply ba acha 1 nge that may be j taken up at an awkward time. ... t A Georgia Farmer Who Loaiu ■* Money. “ f Washington Gazette. Mr. John W. Busby, who lives on the LincpLitou road, &wns one hun dred acres of common ridge laud. He paid two dollars an acre for it, and he nays taxes on it at this rate. He made in 1>85 eight bales of cotton, 120 bushels w. e it, 300 bushels of oats. 125 bushels corn, besides peas, potatoes, &c. He did all the plowing and hoe ing himself with the exception of twenty-five dollars paid out for extra labor, most of which was for saving grain. He cleared two hundred dol lars above expenses and has loaned out the money. He says that in 1832 ho cleared one thousand dollars on this place, and never fails any year to clear as much or more as he did last year When he bought the place some of the old farmers, with an ominous shake of the head, said he would soon have to quit such a poor place or else starve. The secret of Ills success ie that he makes all of his ■mpplies at'•home. The value to a country of farmers is iuestima- ule,i!;_i ’.i' ‘ '■ Colored Knights of Labor. Galveston*, Texas, April 20—A special from Texarkana says: It has been discovered that within the past three weeks the Knights of Labor nave organized several colored assem blies in tiie viiieiuit3* of Texuikuna b >ib in Arkansas and Texas. .'iUrtr ij ri’gCrdetU with appre- ueusicn. ' ‘ Wonderful Faith. Abbeville Messenger. We liaven’t lost all hope of the C. U. G. A C. P. R. We “foug.it, bled and died” too hard for that road to give up hope whilst there is any prospect. We believe there is 3*et a chance. hilt broth-rs have just given $250,000 lepartinent to the 1 Mi The Vanderbilts are proving them selves to be right liberal. They have already made several donations to charitable objects. The four Vandor- ’ ji to add % clinical <U college of Physicians and Burgeons which their father established a short time before his death. Why should they not use their wealth for thc ben efit of humanly? In what better way can they add to their own huppines*? The consciousness ol having do;,e a good deed will In* productive of »». .e real happine-s ihan 1 bev can h .jk io gzin by spe ifiiug their monry fit selfish picas t.es or by <iiiublii._ their millions. 1 . V i .sp zMM a. J