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V f . J’**'- t / THE AU RECORDER. Terms of Subscription.—One copy one year, $1.50; One copy six months, 75 Cents. Advertising Rates.—One Square, first insertion, $1 .OO; Each subsequent in sertion, 50 Cents. Special Rates by con tract for three months or more. AIKEN, S. C , MAY 8, 1891. The Industrial School. What do the people of Aiken in tend to do respecting the State Indus trial School for Girls? This is an in stitution about to be established by the State in the town having a favor able location and offering the best in ducements. The committee appointed for the purpose is now traveling about the country inspecting the industrial schools in other States, and upon the return of the members the question of location will be decided. Many towns of this State have al ready sent in their offers, but Aiken has done nothing. Our citizens do not seem to be awake to the impor tance of the institution proposed, and the many advantages that would re sult from having it established here. As is acknowledged by all conver sant w ith our local conditions, Aiken has entered upon a period of prosper ity, and will now push ahead readily, fully ih line with the other towns of the State Our handsome school building is going up rapidly, the ar rangements for the building of the opera house have been completed and this structure will be erected by next winter, the electric works are being pushed, important brick and tile works are being established near the town, and other enterprises are on foot that will be more fullv explained later on. All these enterprises Indicate that there are many people who have firm faith in the future of the place; and what Aiken ought to have and can have is this industrial school. It will pav us well to offer a good piece of land and a large sum of money for this institution. The bids of other towns are not made kno wn, but they are doubtless large; and we must bid large also if we want the school. A large sum invested in this institution will be the best investment Aiken ever made. Some Spicy Cotrospoiulence. • On Monday the Governor ordered an election to be held on the 11th of June for a Judge of Probate to succeed Mr. J. H. Pearson, who has resigned. In addition to notifying the proper of ficers of the Klate, he wrote a letter to Col. John T. Sloan, Jr., the ex-County Chairman of Richland County, In be half of the Democratic party. This letter was at once returned to the writer by Col. Sloan, whereupon the Governor’s private secretary, Mr. J. P. Bean, wrote the following remark- abli letter to County Chairman Cath- from all the States, including Mary land ou the north and New Mexico on the west, assembled and mutually agreed upon a plan of action, which W’as to form a joint bureau to be known as the Southern Inter-State Immigration Bureau; and that the bureau should be composed of one man from each Southeru State, with a general manager, to hgve full power to carry out the desire of the people of the South. Ou the 17th day of De cember, 1890, a second convention was called in like manner to review the work that was inaugurated at Montgomery. The convention was held in the city of Asheville, N. C., and the verdict of the convention was unanimous in saying the South had started on the right road, and that the combination was a grand plan for the development of the Soutii. At the Montgomery convention, Gen. F. B. Chilton, of Austin, Tewas, who was Commissioner of Lands and Immigration for the State, was cho sen General Manager, and he was re elected at the Asheville convention. The wish of the majority of the dele gates was to remove the headquarters from Texas to a point near the north ern border of the Southeru States; and open a representative exhibit of the products of the South. It was thought best to choose either Balti more, Washington, Richmond or Raleigh, and that the selection of ei ther one of them be made according to the greatest aid extended in the way of money and buildings. Ral eigh’s ofler was considered the best by the general management, they offer ing money consideration sufficient to pav the removing expenses of the bu reau, and Ahe use of very large and commodious buildings for the use of the displays. Thousands of people from the Northern States and Europe will visit this exposition, expecting to see ex hibits from every part of the South, and it behooves our people to stir themselves at once and see that a creditable exhibit is sent from tills section. Special information may be obtain ed by addressing Gen. R. F. Chilton, Raleigh, N. C. Exhibits may be sent at any time, and the grounds will be open to visit ors from June 1st, and excursions have been arranged from the North weekly up to October 1st, and from that date daily until December 1st. The intention is that the exhibits at this exposition, from the whole South up to January 1893, shall he removed to the World’s Fair at Chicago. We should not delay in obtaining all the benefit we can from the great work being done for as. The News and Courier of the 7th says, in reference to the enterprise tlie people of Greenville are showing in their determination to get the Atlan tic Presbyterian University establish ed in that cjty: “This city will^prob New Orleans' Lynching. After six weeks’ investigation the f rand jury' completed its labors on the lenuessey case, and the killing of the Italians at the parish prison, by pre senting a special report on Tuesday. The grand jury is emphatic in its expression of assured conviction that the result of that trial was due to the tampering of the jury by Detective O’Malley, ami others associated with and employed by him. In regard to the Mafia, it s iys: The extended range of our re searches has developed the existence of a secret organization styled the “Mafia.” Evidence comes from sev eral sources fully competent in them selves to attest its truth, while the fact is supported by the long record of blood-curdling crimes, it being almost impossible to discover the perpetrators or secure witnesses. As if to guard against exposure, the dagger or stil- letto is selected as the deadly weapon to plunge into the breast of back of the victim, and silently do its fearful work. The larger number of the society is composed of Italians and Sicilians, who left their native land in most in stances under assumed names, to avoid conviction and punishment for crimes there committed; and others were escaped convicts and bandits, outlawed in their own land, seeking the city of New Orleans for congenial companionship of their own class. As to the verdict of the jury, and its effect upon the citizens, it says: It is shown in the evidence that the gathering on Saturday morning, March 14, embraced several thousands of the first, best, and even the most la w-abiding citizens of this city, as sembled, as is the right of American citizens, to discuss in public meeting questions of grave import. We find the general sentiment among the peo ple that the verdict as rendered by the jury was contrary to law and evi dence, and secured mainly through the designing and unscrupulous agents employed for the special purpose of defeating the ends of justice. At that meeting the determination was shown that the people would not submit to the surrender of their rights into the hands of midnight assassins and their allies. Tiie assassination of the late chief of police shows the culmination of a conspiracy. His death was deem ed necessary to prevent the exposure and punishment of the criminals whose guilt was being fast established by his diligent pursuit. The condition of affairs in this com munity as to a certain class of vio lators of the law had leached such a state that the law itself was well nigh powerless to deal with them, so far-reaching was their power and in fluence in the trial of criminal cases. Good citizens were profoundly im pressed by repeated and signal fail ures of justice. The Cotton Movement. iFrom the Financial Chronicle, May 2.| As our statements of weekly over- Jpnd, etc., have clearly disclosed, the movemen of cotton in April has been very heavy for so late in the season. There has come into sight during April through the ports, the overland points of crossing and the interior towns 312,863 bales—a total in excess of any heretofore recorded in the month covered, and more than double the aggregate for either 1890 or 1889. The gross slupments overland have been heavier during the month than in the similar period of either 1890 or 1889. The month’s net has likewise ex hibited an increase oyer the preceding two years, and is greater than in any year since 1886. Receipts at the ports for the months have been 268,132 bales, or nearly 200 percent, more than in April, 1890, when the total was 110,053 bales. The aggregate for the eight mouths is 862,813 bales in excess of a year ago, ami 1,154,850 bales greater than in 1888-89. The shipments for the season to date reach the heavy aggregate of 5,- 236,139 hales, and this is over 300,000 bales more than the exports for the full season of 1889-90. Northern spinners had up to May 1 taken 1,756,808 bales, an increase over the corresponding period of 1889-90 of 84,985 bales. Southern spinners had up to May 1 taken 450,000 bah s, an increase over the corresponding period of 1889 90 of 43,000 bales. An additional fact of interest is the crop which was in sight on May 1, compared with previous years, and this is !>hown in the following: 1890-91 1889-90 Total marketed, as above ... bales. 7,922,373 6.976,420 Interior stocks in excess Sept. 1... 206,400 59,999 Against the Sub-Treasury Scheme. Augusta Chronicle. Governor Benjamin R. Tillman writes himseif down an Edgefield Democrat. He is not in sympathy with third party movements, whether engineered by the Farmers’ Alliance or elsewhere. He tells The Atlanta Journal correspondent that he be lieves in fighting for reform inside of the party lines and not outside of them. He insists that any attempt to organize a third party in this state or in tiie South would he an “absolute failure.” Governor Tillman arrays himself squarely against tiffs Cinciu- natti third party scheme and all simi lar schemes. Governor Tillman’s — ' t a si- Total in sight bales 8,128,773 7,036,419 The movement in*to May 1 of the present year is 1,092,354 bales more than in 1880-90. Tiie movement up to May 1 shows an increase in the average weight as compared with the same periods of the last two years, the average this year being 502.52 pounds per bale, against 496.71 pounds per bale for the same time in 1889-90 and 496.21 pounds in 1888-89. Christian Association Work. The following essay, recently pub lished in tiie Edgefield chronicle, was written by Mr. E. J. Mims of Edge- field, and read by him before the the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion County Convention held in thal town. It is republished by us by spe cial request: Nazareth was a small place, wicked and contemptible. All who lived there were supposed to be degraded ; and their company was avoided. This place having been the home of Jesus from his infancy to manhood, the prophecy was fulfilled saying: “He shall be called a Nazarene.” was a name of infamy put upon our bless ed Jesus both by the unbelieviug Jews and Gentiles. Tiffs title they always gave Him by way of contempt, be cause He was supposed to have come out of this city. Among the first acts of his ministry was to choose disciples or followeis. Having al ready chosen aguodly number, he next finds Philip and saith unto him “Follow me.” Now, Philip, being much elated aftpchis exitorlatiou, im mediately thouglifc of his best friend, whom lie wantedVto share the bless ing, 1 - l “-> 1, 46-47, “Philip ud saith unto him: 1L Moses on Inaring of this conven’iou, were astonished, even a? was Nathaniel. So much so that they have, like Na thaniel, actually asked: “Can any good thing come out of Edgefieid?” , Tiffs humiliating query need not be an wer‘d now. Future results shall speak louder Uihii words. Nor shall j the.-e be accomplished by might or by : power, but by Uie Spirit. ! See the very foundation of the Young Men’s Christian Association! For several years previous to its or ganization by Geo. Williams, of Lon don, he, with a few Christian friends, held prayer meetings in their bed rooms. Tiie answers to these prayers have been felt all over the whole world, in the rapid advance!) ent of the great cause. Even tiffs little Association in Edgefield may altiib- ute a great part to its success, so far to its having been principally a Young Men’s Grayer Association. Now for the secret of success of the Young Men’s Christian Association. It is the spirit of prayer! The hearts of the young men are now peculiarly united all over the whole world. They are unconsciously keeping and guard ing their brothers in all lands. Let ters are in daily transit from brother to brother, association to association, country to country, and continent to continent, bearing sucli requests as tiffs: “Pray for me. my dear brother, and ever r* member that you have a place in my petitions to the throne of mercy.” In tiffs ever prevailing spirit of p.ayer, brothers, friends, and whole communities are borne up to God for His blessings, as the paralytic was carried through tiie house top to Jesus. Edgefield has at last fallen into line, and is now in position to receive from and impart blessings toothers. And may spring showers of mercy ever keep us alive to the sweet and tender memories that cling around the bless ed Easter. Southern Baptist Convention. The annual convention of the Southern Baptist Churches convents at Birmingham, Ala., today. The delegates from North Carolina, South Carolina and the eastern part of Geor gia, left Augusta Wednesday night in two Pullman cars, and reached Bir mingham last evening. The following are the delegates from this sec'ion: Rev. Lansing Burrows, Rev. G. L. Hunt, Rev. Thomas Walker, Rev. J. S. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hickman, Mrs. W. R. Walton, Mr. J. D. Cole and Miss Louise Cole, of Au gusta; Misses Nicholson, of Ridge Spring, Rev. G. L. Ki.ight aud Mrs. N. E. Seim, of Graniteville; Rev. J. G. Williams, of Allendale; Rev. W. D. Rice, of Grahams; R. A. Turner, of Johnston; Rev. D. W. Key and J. C. Hair, of Williston; Rev. C. B. Er win and A. B. Hooten, of Bamberg; ami J. B. Burekhalter of Barnwell. Union Meeting. The union meeting of the second division of the Edisto Baptist Asso ciation will be belli in the church at Wagener on Saturday, the 30th iust. The following is the programme: Devotional services by H. W. Saw yer at 10 a. m. Introductory sermon by R"V. L. Sewell at 11 a. m. Mission sermon by Rev. H. L. Baggott at 11 a. m., Sunday 31st. Quekiks. 1st. Is it right and in accordance with the teachings of the scriptures for church members to dance? 2a. Are all Christians under obliga tion to contribute to missions? 3d. Are all Christians under obi tion to support their paj First speaker on Jewell. First speaker £,'8 The Dorchester Hotel, in Summer ville, will be sold at public auction on the first Monday in June, in the town of Walterboro. The decree for the sale was filed Monday by Judge Izlar in the ease of Win. M. Bird & Co. against the Summerville Hotel C om- pany. Tiie proceeds, it is feared, will u>»t do more thau pay outstand ing debts, amounting to atiout $20,000. A new laud company was organized in Augusta on Wednesday tor the pur pose of building up the heights just across tiie river. It is styled the Caro lina Heights Land Company, and they have bought a 1 rge tract a !- {oiiiing the property of the North Augusta Cotupauy. The State says: Arrangements have been made to turiffsh the companies arriving in Columbia ou tbe morning of tin* 14ili witli breakfast at Agricul tural Hall to save them tiie inconven ience of marching to the camp aud back again for the parade. At a popular election Asheville has appropriated $675,000 for town im provements. Charlotte has appro priated $10,000 for advertising the town. “THE BEST.” It is easy to say of anything, especial ly of a medicine, that it is “the best”; but to show the reason of its superiority to the satisfaction of the public, may bo quite another matter. When we affirm, however, that Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is superior to any other blood medicine, we make no inconsiderate statement, but tell the plain, unvarnished truth. Other so-called blood-purifiers may pro duce a temporary exhilaration, which is mistaken for cure; but the cures effect ed by taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla are radical and permanent. It not only purifies the blood, but renews and in vigorates that fluid. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has been in use for the better part of half a century, and has achieved a success which is without parallel in the history of medicine. People early learned to appreciate its value as a purifier of the blood, and the lapse of years has only confirmed. A Household Remedy FOR ALL BLOOD and SKIN DISEASES Bi B. B. Botanic Blood Balm U r<ifA<s SCROFULA, ULCERS, SALT V^urgs RHEUM. ECZEMA, ovory form of malignant SKIN ERUPTION, be sides being efficacious In toning up the system and restoring the constitution, when Impaired from any cause. Its almost supernatural healing properties justify us In guaranteeing a cure, H directions are followed. qCIIT CDCC illustrated OCN I Hitt “B«>«k of wooden.” BLOOD OALM CO., Atlanta, 6a. and strengthened the popular opinion \ | euJi w j 1 j c h is considered very essen- of its merits. Only the choicest and most approved ingredients enter into the composition of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and these are secured regardless of cost. It is on this principle that the Honduras sarsaparilla root is exclusively used in this prepara tion. The domestic variety is cheap and abundant, being indigenous all over the American continent, but it has little medicinal value compared with the richer growth of the tropics. There fore it is that the extract of the Hon duras root, solely, forms the basis of Ayer’s preparation, the other ingredi ents being stillingia, podophyllum, yel low dock, and the iodides of potassium and iron. The effect produced by these ingre dients depends largely upon the pro portions used, and it is only by the greatest skill in compounding them that the remarkable alterative and tonic qualities of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla are secured. The appliances of Ayer’s laboratory are unique and costly, and experience shows that their use results in producing a compound extract of far more curative power than can be obtained by any other methods. This fact, together with the most attractive, liberal, and original methods of adver tising, readily accounts for the world wide reputation and enviable success of rer’a Sarsaj An Ordinance For the Furnishing of Light and Water to the City of Aiken. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,! County of Aiken. f Be it ordained and enacted by tbe City Council of the city of Aiken in Council assembled, and by the author ity of the same: .section;!. That the exclusive right be, and is hereby given and granted to the Carolina Light and Power Com pany, a body corporate and politic, and their successors in office, to use any and all of the streets of the city of Aiken, for, aud during the period of twenty years from the passage of this ordinance for tiie purpose of plac ing and erecting their poles, and run- niii 'and placing their electric wires, and for doing any and all acts that they may see fit, in order to enable them to establish a system of electric lights, and for furnishing power for motors, for the city of Aiken. Skc. 2. That in consideration of the establishnu nt of said electric sys- tral to the welfare of the city, the City Council does hereby agree with the said Carolina Light and Power Co, to take during the whole of said period —arc liglits of eight hundred candle power, at three dollars per month for each light, tbe same to be placed as follows: on Laurens st., on Park Avenue, and one at each rail road bridge crossing. Should the Ci ty desire more lights it is understood they are to have them at same rates. Tiie City further agrees to take four incandescent lights for the Council Chamber and one for the fire engine house, at fifty cents a mouth for each light all of said lights to be lit at dark and kept burning all night. Skc. 3. That the said company is to be exempt during said period from any license fees which said City Coun cil may be able to [dace, but are to be held for all ordinary taxes as other property holders. Sec. 4. That this ordinance and grant are passed! i,*on the express con dition that said company must be ready within nine months to supply said lights to the city.orelse all agree ments herein are void. Sec. 5. Thai the terms of this ordi nance must lie accepted by the said company by a writing under seal, to be filed with the Clerk ot the City Council.