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r CHARLES E. R. DRAYTOX, Hana-er. AIKEN Save Your SVSoney and Shop By r#1ai| Professional Advertisements. ^, A RUBBER’S NEAT HAUL C., TUESDAY, NOVEIIHER •S 1SS0. VOLUME 6.—NUMBER 3. lie^rsSSTZ-V-l&FZ* XTr - n MACLJt L + CtfAK^ZS.Q* ^07 KING 61 BET, CHARLESTON, S. :0 — C M - (Opposite MasonU; Temple Great Special Sale! 5,00 Pieces of R ijfors :0: — A. A. Silve Plated Flatwae. &c.,&c : O: D. S. IIkmdk’won*. K. P. Hesdebsos. Henderson Brothers, Attorveys at Law, Aikex, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention.givenjto col lections. ' A BOLD IlOUBEB IX AX ADAMS EXPRESS CAR. Hayiland Stevenson, Attorney at Law, Aikex, 8. C. Special attention given to Collec tion. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. Will practice in the Counties Aiken, Edgefleld and Barnwell. of 5,000 pieces of Rogers A. A. SILVER-PLATED FLATWARE, bought an immense reduction from regular prices, to close out certain pattern which they are not going to make again, and which I am selling at the following prices; at My Price. Regular Price. My Regular Price. Price. 250 sets Teaspoonfe sfl |2 00 12.J sets Tablespoons 2 50 4 00 ]50sets Table Forks 2 50 4 00 75 “ Dessert Forks 2 25 3 75 75 “ Dessert .Spoons 2 25 3 75 H-OSoup Ladles, each 2 00 4 00 100 Oyster Ladles 150 3 00 100 Gravy Ladles 00 2 00 100 Fish Knives SCO 4 00 100 Cake Knives 2 00 4 00 100 Pie Knives 2 00 4 00'[ The above Goods are the very best quality of Silver, plated on Xickle Silver, and are perfect in every respect, and only sold at these Low Prices in order to close the entire lot out quickly. Every piece is warranted to wear from five to ten years constant use in any family, if properly used. fySend for Catalogue, giving prices of Watches, Jewelry and other pijverware, and buy where you get the best value for the Cash Money. JIMO. McELREE, Proprietor. 100 Crumb Scrapers 2 0.) 4 50 250 Sugar Shells 45 1 00 500 Butter Knives 4-5 1 00 100 Pickle Forks 45 1 00 100 Oyster Forks 45 1 00 250 Salt Spoons 25 50 250 Mustard Spoons 35 75 500 Nut Picks 18 35 500 Fruit Knives 25 50 50doz t’ble k’ves.doz 3 50 5 00 150 doz T’lde K’ves 2 00 8 75 John A. Mette, Attorn ey and Counsellor at Law, Practices in all Courts of South Carolina, Aiken, S C. James Aldrich. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. LIFE, ACTIVITY and BUSINESS! AT- WM. MULITERIN & CO.’S WE ARE RECEIVIMG LARGE SHIPMENTS OF W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Speeia attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. M. B. Wood ward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts ol this State. Edw. J. Dickerson, Attorney-at-Law, Aiken, S. C. BOOTS SHOES HATS, For Fa’I Trade. — tot We have deceived so much encouragement in our efforts to furnish the peo- Le with a good class of BOOTS. Shi JE i a nd HATS at moderate prices that we have taken special pains to get the best class of stock for our patrons. We have a large stock of wholesale trade, and we guarantee the LOWEST PRICES. Our retail stock includes Miller & Obers, Stacy, Adams & Co, Zeigler Bros. Stribley & Go., and many other desirable makes. For the great convenience of many patrons, we have opened a BRA-NCH STORE, at 523 Broad. Street, four doors above the Augusta Hotel. This store is in charge of ZIVUIR,- J. J. O’OOZtsntTIEIR,, who will be pleased to see his numerous friends aud acquaintances. At both etores patrons can rely on polite attention, and our best efforts to supply them with just what they need in our line. You are cordially invited to call. WM. MULHERIM & CO. (Two Stores. (>23 Broad Street, four doors above Augusta Hotel, and! ( 919 Broad Street, sign of the Large Red Boot. S FALL MASONIC TEMPLE. Will practice in this State all the Courts of Dr. Z. A, Smith PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSE, - - - S. C. i3f"Ofijoe near Depot. Dr. W B Courtney, Dentist- -OFFICE- Ricliland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Next door to Henrv Busch & Co. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. -OFFICE ON- Rfehiaud Avenue, Aiken, S. C. Dr. J. B. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE AT- Williston, Barnwell County, . 0. 2^” Will attend calls to the country Geo. W. Williams. HOUSE, SION AND FEE SCO PAINTER! Graining and Marbling a specialty. Old Furniture polished and made a& good as new. £2f*'Otlice Up-stairs over Beckman’s Bank. Orders solicited. How lie Hoodwinked the Messenger, \ Gamed His Point anti Buuccsfuliy went through the Safe—Filty Thous and Dollars Secured. St. Louis, Oct. 20.—Adams’ Ex press cur, attached to passenger train No. 2 on the St Louis aud San Fran cisco railroad, which left this city a? 8:25 last night, was robbed of over £50,000 in cash, between here and Pa cific, Mo. It opcars that before the (tain left this city a man, who gave the name of Cummings, presented to Messenger Frotheringham, a cleverl3' forged letter, a fac simile of the signa ture of Barrett, the local agent of the express company at St. Louis. The letter stated that Barrett had decided to nut an extra man on the route, that the hearer was he, and that Frotheringham was directed to teach him the details of the business. THE NOVICE AT HIS WORK. The stranger was allowed to enter the car and took the greatest interest in all the movements of the messen ger, apparently desiring to learn quickly the ins and outs of the duties which the letter stated he was expect ed to perform. Frotheringham’s sus picious were not at all arnusedand the stranger impressed him as a quiet and preposessing companion. The two men busied themselves with accounts etc., and all went well till a point be tween St. Louis and Pacific, Missouri, was reached. In the meantime, the new assistant was informed that there was nothing more he could do at that time and lie seated himself in a chair waiting until some new duty should be assigned to him to perform. Frotheringham was still busily ensrag ed over some accounts with his back turned to Cummings. THE PUPIL IN A NEW ROLL. In the course of time it became nec essary for him to goto the safe and turn ingtodoso saw thestranger calmly sit ting in his chair witha loaded revolver levelled a Frotheriugliams head. Cummings cautiouly approached the dumbfounded messenger and told him if he remained quiet and made no outcry or raised no alarm his life would not be endangered, but that ii he acted otherwise he could not an swer for the consequences. Frother- ingham had nothingtodo but submit and,according to his statement,the rob ber bound him.hand and foot, pressed a gag into Ids mouth, tied him to the safe so he could not move, aud pro ceeded with his work. The safe had been left open, and it took but a few minutes for the robber to secure the bank notes and valuablesin the shape of jewelry, etc. He cut open hags containing silver coin, but he evident ly concluded that these were too heavy for film to carry, and he did not disturb (he contents. Of the gold, however, he took a goodly amount and then proceeded to make good his escape. The road at this i>oint runs directly along side of a high bluff, which in places overhangs the tracks, making dangfer of wrecks from collis ion with boulders, which occassional-' ly fall from above on the tracks. The trains, theiefore. slack up at this point and run slowly until the dangerous place is past. The engin eer of train No. 3 did as usual, and thus offered the robber an easy means of escape. He first locked all but one door, stepped on the platform locked the door from the outside and jumped off. CAP DAWN HON EXPLAINS. Some Recent Remarks Made by Him Concerning President Cleveland and Senators Hampton and Butler. To tha^Edltor of the New York World£970u published on the 1st in stant a report of an interview with me in which it was maintained that there was both pain and sorrow in Chart&etou at the failure#of the President to manifest any personal sympathy with our people in their misfortufte, and that not a word had been heard from either of our Sena tor!*. The interview is in most re spects cbrrectly reported, but I told your representative tHat I would not say anything for publication in rela tion to our public 111031 and (lie earth quake, and it is annoying that he should so have misunderstood me as to give to the public the particular things Imo-t desired to keen within the pale of private conversation. In reply' tou courteous question I describ ed to yohr representative the senti ment '‘which was current in Charleston at the time without any purp»se-of criticising or comiemuing anyone*. On my own account I said not hing, Upon my return to the city from New York I found that General Hampton about a mouth ago wrote to Mayor jPourtenay expressing in the most appropriate terms his sympathy with till* people in the terrible calam ity that had fallen upon them. This letter, in the enormous mass of cor respondence at the time, was not fur nished far publication and was not made public until October 6, when I myself had the first knowledge of it. I should mention also that a most hearty letter of sympathy has since my return to Charleston been receiv ed from Senator Butler, who was in Europe at the time of fhe earthquake, aud is now 011 his vvay home. With all the facts before us it is evident that the current sentiment iu Charleston did the President as well as Senators Hampton and Butler serious injustice, and I regret exceed- lythat I should have been the inno cently occasion of causing to gentle men who haveal ways been truetoour people—aud for whom I have the high est regard—any shadow even of pain or annoyanee. J am, yours obediently, F. W. Dawson. Charleston, S. C., October 16. PARTISAN IS M It IIIl L K ED. MISCELL AN EOUS. Secretary Lamar's fusing to Have a nient Revoked. Washington, Oct. i weeks ago, at the request of leading Democrats of East Tennessee, Major J. H. Wagner was appointed United States Pension Agent, at Knoxville, to succeed Robert Taylor, the Demo cratic nominee for Governor. The new appointee was Major of the Thir teenth Tennessee Cavalry, Union army, and was a gallant sol- ; •her. Immediately after his appoint-| merit Democrats of East Tennessee | came here and urged Secretary La mar to recommend to the President a reconsideration of the case and a re- ; Reasons tor Re-; M. Bartholdi is to lie the special Recent Appoint- guest of the United Sii.te- during ills I stay iu New York. Mrs. A. T. Stewart, wij^rx of the great millionaire, died suddenly on Monday, October 25lh, iu New York. -Several The StaLqCauvua.-* From the Columbia Reconl, t All; thoughtful persons who hava reaii the speeches which Col. Rich* ardson and other Stale canvassers 1 have been making must he struck with the eon . icing cnamwtor Lf ti»e j argnments used by Utem to vindicate I the Democratic administration frjmi According to Henrv George it costs I ^ ijrb.t.lseuotu. charges have a New York Alderman double Ids i ^ 'i"S'-S salary to be elected. It cost a Con-! l ' n,u,cn 1 um * gressman from $10,000 to $80,000 and a i chw - r K«‘ have beea rather general a U d Mayor from 875,000 to $200,000. The Savannah News says: The Re publican papers are enjoying the speech of Congressman Tillman, of South Carolina, attacking the admin- vocation of tlie appointment, on the j istratiou, as a very sweet morsel, ground that as a member of the Legis- The negro Knight of Labor who 1 created such a rumpus at Richmond h is returned to obscurity, and he is accompanied by his social equality brother Knights who backed him iu the row. lature in 1865 Wagner voted to dis franchise ex-Con federates, and also voted for a resolution to otler a reward for the apprehension of ex-Governor! (now Senator) Tsham G. Harris. To- j day Secretary Lamar made the foi- j lowing response to the persons who | were demanding a reconsideration of 1 the case; “The Secretary of the Interior de clines to recommend a revocation of. wi'l convince the most skopticftl Major Wagner’s commission as Pen- ; it* intrinsic merit. For sale by W Agent at Knoxville, Teun. He * ~ undefined, and have been so fixed wiiii egotism, braggadocio and abusi?. of certain classes of our felldW-fjitl- zeus that while the efftmiona were to a certain degree entertaining, they, scarcely, presented *. tangtb)el8$i^j.ta be proved dr rtDproved. AdouT‘tne ttriV’fira only specific charge was “State taxes are $329,000 w than in ’80,” and tl)i* wa&qwjfk shown to ba untrue- ,The, charges af'e included. In the formulated by Mr. Tlllrtiaft H. A'j 4 » ii t* Physicians use Shtiner’s Indian Vermifuge iu their practice and pre- nouncc it a first-class article. A -:0: O UR STOCK IS NOW COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT, AND casual or careful inspection will show it to be the handsomest and best assorted ever shown in this section. In announcing that we are now thor oughly prepared for the Fall Trade, we will not go into descriptive details about the good*, but simply say that everything Novel, Elegant and Fash ionable in the Dry Goods Line can be seen on our counters and shelves. The Stock includes everything from low-priced, substantial goods to the veri- finest manufactured at home and abroad. We give a standing, unqualified guarantee on prices against every market in the United States; and anyone who doubts our ability to do this is earnest ly requested to put the matter to a practical test. Every guarantee we ofier will be fully maintained. Whether you are ready to purchase at present or jiot, we cordially invite you to call amLexamiue the stock. DALY & ARMSTRONG. JamesA.Stothart, GRANITEVILLE, - S. C. -DEALER IN- CORNER BROAD AND ELLIS, AUGUSTA, GA. We Are Ready, Willing And Al>le To Please. COOKES CLOTHING & HAT STOHE 711 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 1 EADY because we haye Selected with the utmost care Goods that com bine style with durabilty. Insufficient varieti'to make us feel cer tain of being able to please you ? BLE because we have all the Latest and Best Styles and Fabrics In all sizes from the smallest boy to the largest man. Can Fit All! Prices on every piece the Lowest that can be made. W ILLING, yee we should say so; noone can tell ho\y Willing till they see these Goods aud hear Prices. DRUGS. CHEMICALS PERFUM ERIES, TOILET SOAPS, HAIR BRUSHES AND CIGARS. The Stock is frequently replenished so that they are always fresh. Our prices are reasonable, and we will he glad not only to serve our friends of Graniteville, but of the entire sur rounding Country. Janies A. Stothart. H. F. Warneke, Baker and Confectioner AND DEALER IN GrROCEElES TOBACCO and CI&ARS, TOYS, FIRE-WORKS, Ere. AIKEN, - - - S. C -W Fine Line Shirts! Shirts! From 25 Cts, JP TO THE BEST In the Market. —+tOf+— are Receiving a of Dry Goods -FOR FALL AND WINTER, AT F. B. Henderson’s, Dry and Fancy Goods Store. Laurens Street. - - AIKEN, S. C. MIESE Prices run through every department Men’s and Boy's Suits! Men’s and Boy’s Overcoats! Men’s and Boys Hats, Underwear Neck-| wear, Trunks, Valises, Umbrellas <S:e. &«•., are all o fie red in the same way. We have the largest stock iu our Wholesale Department in this Market to select from. A. W, BLANCHARD, Rainey’s Barber Shop. O N Laurens .stre.-t, two doors south of the "Croi't Block,” Hair Cut ting, Shamoooing and Shaving done wirii care, and after the most approved mei hod. dUThe Trimming of Ladies’ Bangs Misses and children’s Hajra specialty E. CAPERS RAINEY. AH ^pExamipe, For J, 0. LUDLOW & 00, Ssccod Hand School Books. Y OU CAN BUY YOUR SCHOOL Books from me for about one- half the cost qjf new ones. I also keep a full line of New School Books , and School Supplies ll»p Lowest I depression of our people. Prices. , Z. T. STINE, 106 Centre St. (Bridge Row), Ga. August 21, 18S6-6ms. THE MESSENGER’S PREDICAMENT. The messenger inthe meantime could do nothing to release himself not be ing able to call for help. Near Mincke a bowlder had fallen upon the tracks aud the train was delayed an hour before, it could be removed. The conductor tried the door of the express car, but found it locked, and supposing the messenger to he bus3' did not ask for Admittance. At St. Clair he again tried the door and again found it locked, He listened fora minute and heard the messenger struggling to free himself and making all the noise possible by kicking with ids feet against the side of the car The conductor suspected something wrong aud burst the door open, find ing Frotheriugham as above describ ed. He was quickly released aud told Ids experience. The robber got a start of fully two hours, and it was useless to run back to try and find him. The train then proceeded on its way and arrived in thjs city this mormngat 7 o’clock on its return trip THE RORBER AND THE MESSENGER. Frotheringham says the robber was about 24 years old; six feet tali, weightahout twohundred pouudsand dressed in dark clothes with a dark overcoat. He thinks the robber had accom plices as he seemed to be talking with some one on the front platform of the car. Frotheringham, the messenger, is about 24 years old. and. lives in St. Gencvive, Mo. He has been in the employ of the Adams Express Com pany t >r about four years. Superin tendent Damsel, of the Express com pany. says F?v>theringlmm’s record lias been of the best. When asked where Fr itheringnam was, Superin- temiaiit. Lmmsel replied that lie had gone up town with Barrett, a route agent and another man. From the manner in which he made the state ment it is presumed that the “other man” was an officer of the law, though Damsel would make no state-; ment confirmatory or contradictory of this theory. Damsel said that he could not state the exact amount stolen, but it was something under $50,006. Nut iu Harmony with His Con stituents. Johnston Monitor. Mr. Tillman’s opposition to Presi dent Cleveland is. in our opinion, greatly to be regretted. Mr. Cleve land is our President, the first we have had in twenty years and to an tagonize him as Mr. Tillman is doing seems to us to be unwise and im- p »:i :c. Wo believe with Senator Hampton that if we cannot agree, with all the views of our own admin istration, we should at least keep quiet and let it have the benefit of the | doubt. The debt ofgrathude that we jot' South Carolina owe to President j Cleveland should enjoin silence if we cannot bestow praise. But we are j Mad to know that our people general- • Iv take no stock iu this abuse of the' President. They are satisfied with i I his otfcjal record and u ii(.support him ; ; even unto the end We hope and be- i ! lieve be will be his own successor. | We would not have it otherwise if we j could. Ami to this end we shall labor, j and labor cheerfully, attributing to other causes, which to our mind are plain and unmistakable,the low price of cot'qn and the general poverty and A Chihl Born Drunk. New York World. The infitnt sou of a well-known citi zen of Westfield, N. J., though but large enough to walk and talk, appears to be like an intoxicated person. A local phyi.cian, in conversation with a World reporter, gave a history of the case. It seems that the parents were very exemplary young people, and began their married life without a cloud to dim their future. No one iu the town had better habits than the young husband, but some months after his marriage he lapsed a little from the path of strict temperance. One winter evening the man went from his home ostensibly “to watch with a sick member of the village- lodge.” - iHcrdEV- visited Sam GnaohaJk’a tavern. - The trusting wife discovered at 9 o’clock that her husband had for gotten to purchase meat for breakfast aud she went to the market. A stormy wind was blowing and the snow was falling, hut as she passed the hotel tiie sound of a man’s voice in song came to her ears. She listened but a moment. There was no mistak ing her husband’s voice and, scarcely knowing what she did,she looked in at the barroom window and saw her hus band there in a state of intoxication. Some time after this little episode a son was born to the parents—a fine, healthy inf Hit, bright and comely. Several months latter the child began to walk and talk, they took him to the physician. The little one could not walk without staggering in a most tin seemly and ludicrous manner, and could not lisp baby words without a strange hiccough . and hesL tation. The doctor, aver ring that if he had seen such symp toms in an adult he should have pro nounced them due to intoxii a ion and nothing else, with little difficulty ob tained an account of the unfortunate material impression that provoked the peculiar malady with which the child is afflicted. No line of medical treatment could he used in such a case and reluctantly the physician gave up the infant boy Ip endure his strangely miserable life. The parents of the unfortunate child are very sensitive about his con- di’ion, and do not permit visits from strangers. It has, however been ar ranged that the parents shall take him before a specialist in nervous dis eases that there may be a localization of the malady if possible. It is a very rare case, and among its features is the odd fact that alcohol in any form and iu any quantity, acts on tne child like poison. sion says Major Wagner was appointed upon therccaminendaEoaof theleading and best citizens of Tennessee, and by parties who represented him as a man fully qualified, in integrity, in tellect and character, for the duties of the position, and as a man endeared to the people by his consistent sup port, during the past twonty years, of their highest and best interests. The fact brought out against him since his commission was issued, that lie had given an unjust and unwise vote for disfranchisement when he was a young man, not more than 21 years of age, immediately after the war, when passions on both sides wore aroused to the highest pitch, should not now he used to ostracise him from a public trust among a people to whose rights and in lure-da lie has ever since been true and loyal. We have all been contending that the is sues of the war and the passions growing out of it should not be ki p' alive, and I do not know of any in stance iu which precept can better be enforced by example than this. Both i ies in Tennessee showed courage to fight, and I am confident they have also that higher quality—mag nanimity mutually to forgive.” Platt & Co_. Mr. Gladstone calls his study the “Temple of Peace.” There are three writing desks there. At one Mr. Gladstone does his political writing, at another his literary work and the third belong * to Mrs. Gladstone. The Don’t Gentlemen or ladies who contem plate canvassing any part or all of their time during the present season, will find it greatly to their interest to make the acquaintance of B. F. John son & Co., subscription book publish ers of Richmond, Vu. they have the most attractive and fast selling books at the lowest prices. A Washington paper says the Pres ident took particular pains to notice the babies at Gov. Lee’s reception in Richmond the other day. This may point to tiie fact that he is a candidate for re-election, or 1 it may p >int to some other foot. Whether it nos any par ticular significance or not, the people are glad to know-their President is fond of babies. “extravaganee and imbecility.” Col. Jlichardson, as theyhead of Democratic ticket and tbe uresent , financial officer of the StHte. nils, 111 his Beyeral speeches during thin cam- tnal ; p a jgu, given a full and faithful e*pi>- si lion of her financial offiiirs.^abnot-^j only vindici.te the administration from tiie charge of ektrtivflgaitce mwl imbecility, but’fa thetnSHve*:c0li9Cl-''* i: tute a valuable eonlri but tout lo itiran financial history of the State, autl.. furnish a source or Valuable informa tion to all who really wish to be In* formed of the facts as to that impor tant subject. In this respect, a» Well as in ifie seriousness aud dignity upd courtesy which characterize them, bi« utterances are in striking contrast' to those of the assailant of the admlui*- tration. dr.v/ * a wifnoop* c / It was no more than natural that, the farmers, who were su^ethig the t inconveniences and embiuTAssments of hard times, who were to debt ati4 conscious of no prospect pf an Impeoven. ment in their attairs, should be at tracted by the confident proTCBfWvtli'df a fluent man that ho. fgas able au4'* If LM1 «».< T3<i enii selusfic^ D Ad •ill*} on Newspapers and Prosperity. The Richmond Whig, in an article “Newspapers as an Index of a City’s Progress,” uses this language: When we glance over the columns of a newspaper from a city we h»*.ve never seen, and see its advertising columns filled with fresh aud attrac tive advertisements of furnaces, foun dries, machine shops, manufacturing establishments, wholesale and retail stores, hotels, <fce , we immediately say to ourselves, if we do not speak it aloud: “ That must be in a very lively town and business must be in a very flourish ing condition there. Moreover, its inhabitants must be an enterprising, progressive, go-ahead people. That is no doubt a good place to live.” And if we happen to be thinking about changing our location, our minds are at once directed to that city as a desirable place to locate. Indica tions to thrift and prosperity make a favorable impression upon every one, and in settling down to business every thrifty, enterprising man is at tracted to a community where those characteristics predominate. St. Michael’s Steeple. News and Courier. In regard to the statement recently made in the News and Uourier that the ground under St. Michael’s Ghurcli and steeple had risen, and (lull the.steeple had not settled down. Mr. John K, Gour iin, eiiginneer and surveyor, suvs: “The top of the two centre pilasters of St. Michael’s porch are respectively one foot and one-hall Workingman Who Work. Atlanta Constitution: About the worst fellow in tiie world is the work ingman who does not work. The “Professional” workingman who hangR about the street corners and whispers, conspires and agitates. Usually he is a tramp, without property or local interest, ready to skip out when the picking grows scant. He thrives by disorder and fatttms when the real workingmen are starving. His opportunity is a strike or a riot, aud he busily sows the seed of discontent. When elec tions come along lie sells the votes of the workingmen who would kick him out of the town if they suspected it, and, pocketing the money of Lis Inirchaser, of course, fails to deliver the Vote. He is despised equally by ti, e the man who buys him as by the men ' Mm whose votes he pretends to sell. These fellows never last long. As soon as they are found out they are kicked out. Then they pack up their carpet bags and try the next town. The real workingman lias the sym pathy ami respect of all good people. The man who stands in tiie light of ids forge—who earns iu the sweat of his brow his sweet and honest bread —whose strong arms shove the plane or wield the hammer—lids man is the since of the land and its strength. He can find no safer adviser than his oa n clear brain that by the side of his bench or in ids shop patiently works out its problems—and no safer influ ence than the wife and children that cluster about the hearthstone It is a sad day for him when he yields to the soft-handed idler that plots only to •A Oil-ago woman with a four months-old baby at the breast, was a delegate to the Knights of Labor con vention in Richmond. In order for the mother to get into the hall with her baby it was necessary to make the infant a member of the order. ’Ihi child may be said to be the youngest knight on record. The income of the John Hopkins University for the year ending Aug. 31, 1886, was $225,922.38. The to’al expenses were $ 182,020.96, leaving a balance of $ 40,904.92. The greatest expense item was $ 126,028.26 for sal aries. The various properties of the university amount to $4,359X00 4 >, aud consist of rail way stock and Baltimore real estate. children over to want and starvation. The workingman who does not work, is a bad egg, and the workingman who does work will do well to fight shy of him. Picking Cotton bv Machinery. Anderson Intelligencer. The Mason’s Harvester has at last been perfected and put on trial before an invited party at Sumter last week. A staff correspondent of tbe Colum bia Register reports that it worked admirably, doing tbe work of ten hands. This machine if successful will, we believe, prove the end of cot ton raising in the up-country if not in the State. The Southwestern cotton fields are vastly more productive in cotton than ours—iu fact the measure of a crop out there is the capacity ol the hands, to gather. With us tin ability to cultivate is the measure. Give them a machine picker and they will so far exeell us in cotton culture that we cannot compete with them. Hence, we believe that thi.- Carolina invention is destined to change the region of cotton culture in large measure. It will be a blessing if it forces our people to raise supplies instead of all cotton. The perfection ot the cotton picker is another triumph of inventive genius by which labor i- lightened and the productive power o; man increased. Less than fifty year ago the whole cultivation of cotton and its preparation for tiie cards wa- donebyhand. To day, very little i any of it need be done by hand. Tiie land is prepared by sulky plows, the fertilizers put in bymachinery, and the seed planted the same way. The cotton is chopped out by machineiy, and cul tivated, and picked, aud ginned, and packed by machinery. With except perhaps the single working at which the crop is reduced to a stand, on well prepared grounds it is not necessarx for the cotton planter to do more than manage the machinery which has been given him by invention to make a full crop of cotton, and yet the pros- K erity of the country is not enhanced y its excessive culture Grains, grasses, stock, fruits and meat are the legitimate products of this part of tin Stiitc, and all of tin* in mentions to fa cilitate cot ton raising will only serve ultimately to prove it to our people. There is a rumor current in Wash ington to the effect that Blaine aud Conkling have made friends,"and that the latter will bea strongBlaine man in future. This is probably one of current jokes of the season. When Colliding gets to advocating Blat/ie for the Presidency he will !lo'.ibtlt,'. < ’3 be taken up us a lunatic without apy delay. The Knights do jn.'t allow their offi cers to avail themselves of the usage of polite society; When Mrs. Pow deriy told a visiting delegation at her house the other day that her husband was not at borne a stalwart iron pud- Jler jokingly replied: “Noneof that "or us,” and playfully pinioned iic" inns while her companions ransacked die house, and found the Mastei Workman hard at work in his private .oom. it which he was ,to. ape&k.tni €tita(< most interesting subject,,would bu-oo" numerously attended, .,Bvit tliAt was no proof that they were!diBfritttsfteil , with their tried atnT trusted’ bubHb servants, or thab they Were going to give more than a ment.to this “new-I comrade.”- eutcrtujnr ,itn%diwa ——* nj i i-.. Wi J One of the successful books that has been sold in the South for years i.*« Lion. Alexander H. Stephens’ “His tory of the United States,” witli an appendix by Mr. R. A Brock, Secre tary of the Virginia Historical Socie ty. B. F. Johnson & Co., of Rich mond, Va., have made quite a “hit,’ and their agents too have enjoyed a bountiful harvest selling this valua ble work. It seems that none of the Republi can philanthropic politicians who art troubled about the wage question, so far as it relates to the negro laborers of the South, propose to come South and give the darkies higher wag* s than they are now earning. Tiie crocodile tears that are wont to be shed over the wrongs of the poor col ored man do not evoke as many sym pathetic votes as they did a few year.*- ago. By the stroke of her pen Queen Christina, of Spain, freed not less than two hundred thousand Cuban slaves a few days ago. Cuba inaugurated a scheme of gradual emanicipation In 186;). At different dates the slaves over a certain age were to be liberated and the owners receive compensation the youngest to be set free in the yeai 18K). Instead of waiting the fulfil ment of this plan, the Queen lias now anticipated the final act by liberating ill slaves who were still in bondage. One of the oldest and most reliabl* -ubscription book publishing houses in the South is that of B. F. Johnson, <k Co., of Richmond, Ya. They issue nothing but the most attractive and popular books, being adapted to tin wants of the Southern people, which accounts for the excellent success o : heir host of agents. Both members >f this firm have canvassed in year.- 'one by a great deal themselves anc know how to supply the wants ot agents and the public. AboiU a Second Term. From the New York Sun, (lnd.) If the people of the country want inch,aud one foot two inches below the Mr. Cleveland for a second term, they tops of the southwest column of the ‘ "ill surely have him without regard porch, which has not changed its j to any notions contained in his letter i wliich resembles that Doctor—Ah, looking badly yet, I see. You have evidently not been fol lowing my instructions about taking exercise. Patrick—Yis; I walked half a mile yesterday. “Good. You remembir I told you that you must always have some ob- j *ct in view when you walk, so as t< 'et your mind < fl* your lroubles. ] iop'* you inadc yesterday’s ou:jng t; mat fer ot business of “Yes; I whit and tary Xu".."—Omaha some I-ind.” b night a cenie World. position,either upor down, and serves ! of acceptance. That is a document as a bench /past f >r all other levels, j written for an occasion that lias pass- , These differences of one foot and one ! ed away. A new day brings new ; and one-half inches, and one foot and light, and it is right and proper that two inches, show that the steeple has : this should be so i sunken, and unequally, which last in ”* * r eon! The Colored people of Detroit, i Mich., arc agifSiing tiie ap|>ointir ent •of colored policemen in that city. statement is ubnfirmed by the fact tiiat tbe east wall of the bell cot is cracked.” A close friend of Col. Boh Ingcr- sol! siys th it “the great unhelievei has taken his first step into the valle; of the shadow of d-atli. The.throa trouble with wliich ite is afflicted am which killci by his doctor- incurable and they have told him The detective guard at tiie tomb of the late William H. Vanderbilt is to ‘becontinued all winter. But if Cleveland is not to have a second term; if the Democrats are not going to nominate him and elect him in 1888, where is the citizen whose | destiny it is to beat the great Grover in the National Convention? Up to the present hour there is no sign of j euch a political phenomenon. 1 G-*n. Grant, is regarded as so. The operation wliich was perform cd in Piiiladclphia Iasi Sunday war not successful, and it is thought he wil live as long as he can light the d:- ease, his strong physique is in hi favor. He is very cheerful and genia as ever, hut bis wife says that this h for the sake of his family, and that u heart he realizes the fatality of the dis ease. He has given up lecturing, and will probably make no mure tqieeches. TU& BicllmuiMl Vb*tt,R ;«< M Suvatinah News". ' £ ' •• 1 " ' “ No very satlsfhrffok^ ex)>Tl(ndtf6h of the .failure'of ifffs. Cleveland and itlier ladies to- aodoitipany ttiO Prew- ident and.party to Richmond haafceea given. Explanation* have been pub lished, hut it is not known that they, are tha true ones. It was arrahtred thttf. Mrs. Cleveland and seveltol .of the :{ •” wives of members ot. the •. UeMuei • - ' should be of the President}#} par >*, and the Governor of Virginia 1 ud »r-, ranged for a receptidd. At the last moment he wns ttottfled that heifhttt- Mrs. Cleveland nor,-any of tihe.oifraan* laiies who were expected to accom pany the President would visit , mor.d, and that the President hlhutaOTb-'” ‘ would not be able to attend tne reeep-,_ tion. . «... • !. * . / In Washington it appears to be be- leived that it was decided at a mec -. ing of the Cabinet that it Wofrldn’t be wise for Sirs. Cleveland to take a prominent part iu a great teceptiou with Miss Winnie Davis, the daugh ter of the ex-President of the Cbufetl; eracy., Political reasons it Is clainvcOi. destroyed u'hat promised to be a very pleasant and enjoyable aftaii^ not only to the expected visitors Uiit t*» the people of Virginia who had gat tier ed at Richmond. Assuming that this explanation is the correct one, was not the Presidtmt and his advisors altogether too timid? If the original nrogrmme had been i carried out tliechancea arc that no at tempt would have been made by the Republican press to make political capital out of the affair, eve” if<M»n-* ducted ou a much more magnificent scale than was proposed. A few '■apers might have alluded to it, but it would soon have passed over as having wo significance whatever,- It is a question if the President didn’t make a mistake. k •JL « l Knights ot Labor. | # • Anderson Intelligencer. The Knights of Labor are just clos ing a ten days’ session of their Con vention to legislate for the good of the order,in Richmond, Va., at which they have discussed many of the snb- ;-.*cts connected with questions which are disturbing the relations between c ipital and labor. Tiie present session of tiie Knights lias not been calcula ted to help the order at the South, hir o has persistently advocated.In prac tice and theory social equality a nong the races. There are many ad- " vantages to labor from organization, b it there are also many dangers iu it. i'iie trouble is that fanaticism, and extreme agitation are likely to result, and when they do, then begins a war •etween labor and capital which fa ixely t» prove injurious to both. Iu o ir judgment, the system of strikes which aro practiced by these organ izations are unreasonable, and should ne prohibited by law. Of course any >iau has the right to change his place >r‘ labor or stop work whenever his contract expires, birt lie should not be allowed to make other men stop work who do not wish to do so, and whose contracts hare not expired. Th s is particularly true where they gosu far n to stop new men from coming Into •ontract for the places they have quit. Hie whole genius of our country is. opposed to tbe system which would allow any man, or setof meu, to inter fere * with the contract or dny other man. or set of men, and' the Knights of Labor should be confined by law within this limit. As we pave said, we think the order has greatly weakened itself in the South with the white labor by attempting to champion race social equality. Tbbi is one of those extremes of funutiefa.ii which we mav look for. and v/liieli are calculated tp injure‘the laboring men. Vn Ill-Advised Pica lor Mercy. Philadelphia Times 11 nd.) * It was specially ill-advised for the' *ighest tribunal ef the Knight* « f I,ats»r io make a formal idea for mei* •y to tbe lawless cowardly lyid mu - lerotis anrclilsts. It will lie plausibly MiMtrued as dee.l irtnirn lioiid of sym pathy bet ween labor and vagabmid- imii; .between the law-nbidiiu work ingman and tbe lawle-s idler; l»e- tween the sovereign citizen of home and country and the alien destroyer >f industry and government. v > s- We are going t » have meeting •noiigh/dep u I upon it, at this don, as the indications are that onr Legislator* are likely l.» have * Long *es*u»u. Muq, pf .them are new liMrls itid. nn b r .lic^lind of :j. R TjJhijaq,^ will idir Up'alt sorts of strife atid cod- tentiou. whi *h will f;>kc au Wiitur to settle. Palmetto Post.