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BT FORD & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 6, 1890. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. -A. F. TISCHER, V DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES, Fancy Goods and Toilet Articles of all kinds. The Latest Novelties in Holiday and Wedding Presents. FINE CUT GLASSWARE; PERFUMERY, Foreign and American; PAINTS. OILS and GLASS; SHERWIN-WILLIAMS READY MIXED PAINTS,—(nend for color card); IRON PAINT, for Doors and all Kinds of Outside work; is unequaled in price and quality. QrRemember us when you need anything in the Drug Line. 940 Broad st. - - - - - Augusta, Georgia. Clyde’s Net Yort, Charleston and Florida Steamship Lines. WM. P. CLYDE & CO., Gen. Agents, 5 Bowling Green, New York. 12 South Wharves, Philadelphia. T. G. EGER, Traffic Manager, 5 Bowling Green, New York. •uwwnouraiPlwpwup wawowwEiy MURRELL. WILL NOT HANG. MRS. B. N. BUCKLEY j Wholesale Bookseller, Stationer and News Dealer! Photograph Albums, Blank Books, Paper, Envelopes, Playing Cards, Pens and Ink. 626 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. School Books a Specialty. GO WHERE THE CROWD GOES! gw | The very largest amount of goods for the very smallest DL.Il4n 9 price. Novelties without limit, dainty, dazzling, desi rable. Something for every age, taste and purse. The sort of stock in which the buyer finds “just what is wanted." The largest and most com- g lete line of art goods, cut K |a8s < etc *t ever brought outh. " In this line we ¥91 especially guarantee to lead in quality and price. 400 Dinner Sets, 800 Bed-room Sets, 600 Tea Sets, 2,000 Lamps, etc., offered positively at lowest prices. In quality, price and quantity we please all. To look through our DA I A elegant assortment is a pastime, to price the goods is a ■ « pleasure. CP“Our Motto is: “LOW PRICES MUST PREVAIL." CSTCome and learn that it pays to trade with The Leader. BLIGB, 812 BROAD ST, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. iy i These splendid passenger steamers form an unequaled tri-weekly line to New York and the Florida Ports, with state-rooms all on deck, thor oughly ventilated and separated from the dining saloon. There is no pleasanter travelling on the Atlantic Coast, and the trip to Florida consumes only 12 to 15 hours. For passenger engagements address J. E. EDGERTON, Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent, Charleston, 8. C. Augusta & Asheville Short Line. Port Royal & Western Carolina Railway. O N and after March 30th, 1890, passenger trains will run as fol lows, by 75th meridian time: Worth * * Lv Augusta 8:25 a in 3:45 p m Ar McCormick.. .10:40 a m 5:45 pm “Anderson 1:10 pm 8:15 pm “ Greenwood . ..11:40 a m 6:50 p m “Laurens 12*46 p in 8:05 pm ‘•Greenville 2:40 pm 9:25 pm “ Spartanburg.. .2:40 p m 9:48 p m “ Henderson ville6:07 pm “ Asheville 7:00 pm Ar Hot Springs .. .8:40 p m PURE The Fleet is composed of the fol lowing Elegant Steamers: S S ALGONQUIN (new), S 8 IROQUOIS (new), Capt Kemble. S S CHEROKEE, Capt Bearse. S 8 SEMINOLE, Capt Platt. 8 8 YEMASSEE, Capt MeKee. 8 8 DELAWARE, Capt Chichester. South Lv Hot Springs. * * .7:30 a m Lv Asheville 9:05 am “ Henderson ville.9:59 am “ Spartanburg 3:50 p m 6:46 a m “Greenville 3*25 pm 7:00 am “ Laurens 5:25 p m 8:30 a m “ Greenwood.... .6:50 p m 9:35 am “Anderson 3:10 pm 8:00 am “ McCormick 7:57 p ni 10:40 a m ArAuoniftta . 10-05 n-m 12:30 p- THE GREAT AMERICAN DIETETIC PREPARAUOItfOl NURSING MDTHERS.INFANTS AND FOR CONVALESCENTS AND THE AGED. THOUSANDS OF UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS AND CONSTANTLY INCREASING SALES.PROVE MERITED SUCCESS. fft&MNa ocPor^JOHn CARLE ft SONS-NEWYtHOI D. S. Henderson. £. P. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. CROFT & CHAFEE, Attomeys-atLaw, Aiken, S. C. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. \*ill practice in the Counties of Aiken, EdgeAeld and Barnwell. 0. C. J0BDAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AIKEN, 8. C. Andrew T. Woodward, Attorney-at-Law, Bars well Court House, S. G. Will practice iu the Courts of Aiken and Barnwell Counties. His Sentence Commuted to Imprison- ment lor Life. Walter Ashley, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. (Successor to Aldrich & Ashley.) Practices in all the Courts. Special attention to office work. Governor Richardson has commu ted to imprisonment for life In the Penitentiary at hard labor the sen tence of Whitfield Murrell, who was to have been hanged at Edgefield, Friday, September 26th, for the mur der of Preston Yonce. The history of of the case is familiar to all tiie read ers of The News and Courier. The Murrell-Carpenter murder trial, es cape and recapture has been a cause eelebre for years. The commutation is made upon the following grounds: 1st. That the jury recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the Gov ernor, which recommendation,accord- to an almost invariable precedent, has been considered as requiring a commutation of sentence. 2nd. Judge Norton, who tried the case, writes: “I am constrained upon the consideration of the youth of the prisoner to concur in the recommen dation of the jury that executive clemancy be extended to him, and that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. I concur in this re commendation as an encouragement to juries to find proper verdicts. Aside from these considerations I see no reason for the commutation." 3d. A petition from A. S. Tompkins and Gary & Evans, attorneys for the prisoner, setting iorth that “the Cou-*t under the law cannot take judicial cognizance of the recommendation to mercy, in so far as it relates to ti~ judgment of the Court,” that “h only hope under the law now lies wit the Governor," and that he is only 18 years old. 4th. A letter from Solicitor Nelson, who prosecuted the case,saying: “You will see that a case of murder was clearly made out against Murrell and Carpenter—the latter not having yet been captured since his escape from the Edgefield jail. The jury saw fit to commend them to mercy, and I am frank to say that the law does not require a commutation on that ground, but it has been regulated rather by common usage. I will not presume to advise you on that point, as it is not my duty to do so, and, therefore, leave the matter of the commutation of sentence entirely to your sound Judgment." * 5th. A petition signed by ten of the urymen who convicted Murrell, ask- ng that the sentence “be commuted to a lesser penalty, as the jury recom mended the defendants to at the time of rendering the verdict.” 6th. An affidavit by W. H. Ouzts, sherifi'of Edgefield that one of the jurymen, (S. B. Mavs,) assured him that his understanding on the jury was that that the recommendation to mercy by the jury would have the ef fect of saving the lives of Murrell and Carpenter, and that it was made with that intention. 7th. Petitions signed by neadjr 2,- ci" * " ~ ii THE SOUTH SINCE 1880. Gratifying Facts of Oar Recent In dustrial History. From the Baltimore Sun. The progress of the South in the last ten years is one of the most grat ifying facts of our reeeut industrial history. The advance in the assessed values of real and personal property in the South, exclusive of Delaware, Maryland and Missouri, between 1879-80 and 1889-90 figures as presen ted, they show an aggregate growth in ten years from $2,164,792,795 to $3, 685,868,273. This expansion of values —the products of Southern muscle— has coincided with a reduction of the aggregate of Southern debts from $204,035,020 to $170,814,534. The twelve States here mentioned since 1880 increased their railroad mileage from 17,808 miles to 38,892 miles, not to speak of the 2,500 miles now in pro cess of construction. Cotton mills have grown from 142 in number to 230, while the number of spiudles and looms has been quadrupled. Pro ducing pig iron at a cost of from $8 to $12 per ton, while in the North ern States the cost is from $12 to $20 per ton, it is not surprising to find that the pig fron production of the South has grown ic the decade from 350,436 tons to 1,780,909 tons. The lumber production has increased in the same time from $46,979,062 in an nual value to $108,378,000. The in- Mries of the South have never been ®^wersifled as in the period just Manufacturing on a large ale has been added to mining, and *here has been a phenomenal move ment Southward of Northern facto ries of various kinds. Yet the cotton crop suffers no diminution. It will, in fact, be larger than ever before. Including cotton seed, the crop brought her farmers last year over $400,000,000. The aggregate value of all Southern products in 1890 is esti mated at $1,907,598,500. an increase of $800,000,000 per year since 1880. There is a hope fora country witli such ca pacity for growth, provided sectional patriots in quest of “an issue" can be induced to suspeud the production of force bills and other like devices for destroying peace and order. Curing Pea Vines. A correspondent asks for my meth od of curing pea vines for hay, says W. J. Northen in the Southern Cul tivator. If the conditious always re mained the same, it would be quite an easy matter to establish a fixed plan for doing farm work. Indeed, if the conditious were always the same, a few years’experience would soon es tablish a farm policy that every farm er would recognize and adopt. What your correspondent then really wants to know is, not how to save pea vines when everything is favorable, but wh^n the weatLifi&.. the labor, the io ^tr W tffi Fca FREE EDUCATION FOR GIRLS. How Girls Can Get a College Educa tion Without Cost. A most praiseworthy movement is about to be set on foot by The Ladies’ Home Journal of Philadelphia. It proposes to give to any young girl of 16 or over who will send to it, oetween now and January 1st, 1891,the largest number of yearly subscribers to the Journal, a complete education at Vas- ear College or any other American college she may select. The educa tion offered includes every branch of study, with every expense paid, the Journal agreeing to educate the girl irrespective of the time requintd or the expeuse involved. To thib hi also pinned a second offer which gtiaruti- * tees to any girl of 16 or over who will secure 1000 yearly subscri >ers before January 1st, a full term of one year at Vassur or any other preferred college, with all expenses paid, thus making it possible for andj number of young girls to receive free educations at the best colleges. Any girl can enter into the competition, and any sucii can be thoroughly posted by writing to The Ladies’ Home Journal at 435 Arch Street Philadelphia. Frank Leslie's Popular Mouthly for October. A portrait of Speaker Reed, and a fm 1-page pictvre of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, which formulated the McKinley Tariff Bill, are included amongst the illustrations accompany ing au interesting and spicy article on “The House of Representatives." by Frederick S. Daniel, iu the o ct -°* ber number of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. A powerful poem, “The Cyclone,” by Joaquin Miller, is dedi cated “to the destroyers of forests." James Ricalton describes Simla, the Summer capitol of India; and Pierre Morahd contributes some highly en tertaining Reminiscences of Foreign Residents and Old Times in New . York City. “Beyond the Eud," Pro fessor Boutelle’s new serial story, be gins iu this number. Wide Awake. Foot Ball and Base Ball at Ando ver are the subjects of two stories in the October number of Wide Awake, and this announcement alone should be euough to make every boy in Ai ken waut a copy. But Wide Awake has several other stories and much miscellaneous reading of an entertain ing kind, and is altogether an excel lent magazine for young people. D. Lothrop & Co. Price 20 cents a number, Subscription, $2 a year. The Savannah News says that the continous rains of the past ten days are having a very telling effect on the rice crop now being harvested. Rice covered