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Y E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORANG, JULY 13, 1882. VOLUME XVII.-NO. 52. or errors have cront 5..?? ?u-1 of Mr- Aiken on the Drink and cU Hinoke Mill. ;>,, n IU Congressional Record. the few miuutes allowed me, Mr. irniflu I cannot be expected to say h that is new upon the threadbaie 4cW of internal revenue and tho . 1 hove, however, decided couvic a'upou these subjects, and I desire to -them put upou record. To every inion ot titi' hill I am unalterably ed because in my opinion, should -come law it will he for the benefit u0 few at tho expense of tl .} many, it to results that wc should always in the enactment of such laws as is txHjd by this bill. he first clause of the first section pro to repeal the taxes i pon bauk cu bank deposits and bank capital, to each of these provisions 1 am sed. I believe, sir, that surplus ital should never escape taxation, what better evidence have wo that these specified taxes aro upon sur s capital than that they exist within vaults of bnnks whoso owners ro ve their net incomes from tho traffic them. It has been asserted during debate that a repeal of theso taxes uld cheapen money to tho borrower. 0 not believe it, mr; for if it did, it uld provo that men were willing to rease the profits of trade as a gratuity their customer?, and we all know this never done, for the wido world over it acknowledged there is no friendships /am hi favor of rotainiug these taxes r another reason. Banks are tho only titutioiis iu this country.- whir'i can th impunity openly violato State laws, question whether there is a State in is Union that baa not enacted ?omo cription of usury law, and I do not ubt, but assert without fear of success 1 contradiction, that there is not a bank the United States that pays the least gard to such a law. They tell us that oney is worth moro than the estab hod rate of interest. Ii so, then I ntend that those to whom it is worth much should be willing and patriotic ough to pay a gencroua tax upon it wards supporting the government. Tho second clause of this bill propo to remove the tax on matches and atent medicines. To this I ara opposed, cause there are no two articles in all e schedules of our taritF that can bear, ith less oppression to the people, this x than these two. The chairman of e commilteo on ways and means (Mr. elley) tells us the tax on matches hould be removed because tho law lloiva the manufacturer to buy his tamps in large amounts, and for ^o do ng he gets a reduction of 5 and 10 per nt. upon tho amount purchased, and hese reductions amount this year to ,000,000, while the income from the tax n matches only amounts to $4,000,000. f this bc so, oir, and I understand the entleman correctly, I suggest that if ia committee will introduce a bill re pealing thc privilege thus allowed these holesale purchasers it will readily bo ome law, and thereby savo $5,000,000 to the Government and thc revenue from matches will be increased to $9,000,000. And ho knows as well as I, and we all know, that a repeal of the tax on match es will not enable tho consumer to buy his box or dozen boxes of matches at a farthing less price than he buyB them with the stamp attached. And just so with perfumery and proprietary medi cines. Tho removal of tho tax would not enable Bull's cough syrup, or Sim mon's liver invigorator, or Warner1 j kid ney cure to perform their reputably wonderful alterations in tho diseased human RyBtem nt any le?s expense to those who gulp them than if the tax re main ns it is, and I therefore shall vote to retain it where it is. The first clause of tho second section of the bill proposes to greatly reduce the tax on rccti?ersand wholesale and retail liquor dealers. As an individual, Mr. Chairman, I would favor a prohibitory tax upon the distillation o? u singlo bushel of grain into spirituous liquors. But that is not the policy of this Gov ernment. We have determined to raiso reventio by taxing liquors and tho man ufacturers and venders of spirituous liquors, aud why should wo reduce the tax upon any of the three ? Least of all should we lower tho tax upon tho retail liquor dealer, for ho of all men receives tho ^greatest profit from tho salo of im goods, and does tho greatest injury to Bociety iii tho meantime. I would like to voto for a law making it a peniteutiary offence to open a retail liquor saloon. I know nothing upon which we may so justly levy a tax for revenue as upon apiri' uou8 liquors and upon those men who .anufacturo and deal in them ; and I am ia favor of so levying that tax ns that it will produce tho greatest income with the least oppression. If ninety ccnty per gallon is that tax let it remain as it is. If fifty cents per gallon will increase tho rovenue, reduce it to that amount, for I do not believe the reduc tion of tho tax ou spirituous liquors will materially affect the amount sofd by the retail dealers, and as theirs ia a certain profit I would by no means reduco the tax upon thom. . I had hoped, Mr. Chairman, to have rcacned a redeeming featuro in this bill when I Raw in the second clause of the second section that it proposed to reduce the tax on retail doalers in leaf tobacco in one-half what it isi at present, for I "apposed thia would enable those farmers who grow tho weed to retail tho product ju their own farms to whom they please ; hut, sir, I was greatly mistaken, for tho proposed reduction leaves ?tat $250 upon ?ach retail dealer, and the bill says thirty cents for ouch dollar on Ibo amount of their sales in excess of $1.000," while the gentleman who has charge of fhe bill (Mr. Kelley) reports that he is instructed by his committee to move a couple of verbal (only verbal) amend ments to this last lino of tho second sec [mn. towit; to insert "monthly" after then" arid bofoic "snles," and to sub stitute "fivo hundred" for "one thousand" dollars. This, of course, makes tho ml! as prohibitory as the present law is against, farmers retailing thoir own leaf tabacco tn tho open market. Thc third secii'.-! proposes to reduco tho tax upon cigars from $6 to |5 per thousand. It must hs apparent to every ?mothat this reduction, which would amount to hundreds of thousands of donara, would ben ?fit the cigar manufac turera alone, and not those who consumo ?r smoko tho ci jar 3, for thc reduction of ?no tenth of ono cent on a cigar would never affect materially oven tho retail ?Paler, and much less tho consumer. Mr. Chairman, I am aa heartily op posed, to our present system of internal taxation as any man on this floor, not alone becauso of ita oppression, but be cause of tho iniquitous espionage H has established throughout our land. Sir, if l"o system over had nuy virtue it was prostituted by the corrupt crow appoin ted to execnto its provisions. But with WI its faults 1 am opposed to makin? it a scapegoat for the other infamous im positions levied, upon the people through ?w existing tariff. Tho committee of "ayn and means may tell us thal discriin / jana laws, whereby thc ta'x'on "cotton nue Ih?lde?Uta"y educed and S? nue thereby lost, or tho tariff on knit goods was so reduced aa to peril the in or other errors have occurred for which they are not responsible and which they uns bili is tho only method bv which hat comm ttee propose to reduce taxa non, and thereby relieve tho people it Perfwps wise that Congress hasdele gated tho power of revising tho tariff io an irresponsible commission who"never intend tfiat the people ahall have relief Assured that no alleviation of burden T3'?n7 t l,s.bi1'. ?hould it become law, I ask why is it that tho committee of ways and means do not propose to re* duce the tariff upon some of 'hose lead og artic ea which are such necessities to the people, and from which so little rev euue is derived by reason of the existing and almost prohibitory tariff? Sir, for toree weeks we had the tariff commission bill discussed, and without refutation it was proven that no more unjust exac tions could be levied upon a people than aro imposed upon our citizens by the duty imposed upon steel rails, manufac tured iron and woolen goods. But little was said upon the ouestion of tho tariff on cotton goods, and yet I consider it a most unjust tax, ono that could be light cntu or removed entirely without serious detriment to the country. Reduce tho tariff on mnchinery for manufacturing cottou goods and upon the goods them selves, aud our manufacturers ctn com pete with the world, and tin consumers will wear cheaper cotton clothing. Not long since, Mr. Chairman, I read in an English paper that Warnautta and other American longcloths were selling m successful competition with English goods in the retail stores of London. Wherefore thou protect the cotton man ufacturers of America ? From whom do they need protectiou ? Mr. Cuairmau, a halo of cotton weigh ing four hundred pounds, worth f40, is, wheu converted into thread, worth $70. This thread when woven into cloth is worth from seventy-five to one hundred dollars, according to fineness of thread out of which the cloth is woven, for the finer thc yarn the more the goods bring in market, while tho cost of production does not increase proportionally, tho in creased price of labor employed in man ufacturing fino goods, being nearly bal anced by tho decreased amount of raw material used. Now, Bir, in 1880 we exported nearly four million five hundred thousand bales of cottou, averagiug four hundred pounds each. These, wheu converted into tho foods exported from England and ^tner luropean countries, were worth over $400,000,000. How much of this vast amount was imported into the United States? Our tariff averages abowt GO per cent, upon such goods, and we re ceived during that year less than $15, 000,000 of duty from the importation of all cl-.sses of cotton goods. Hence I tako it we imported less than twenty-fivo million dollars' worth of cotton goods, or about one-tenth in value of the raw material that wc exported. Is this not prohibition? Reduce this tariff ou cot ton goods, for as wo havo seen our man ufacturers can compete with the world, and you will bring substantial relief to tho people, regardless of whether they own bank stock, drink whiskey, or chew tobacco. (Laughter.] I feel assured, however, Mr. Chairman, that if tdis cotton tariff were reduced or removed the peoplo would not realize an immcdiato benefit, for at once the mill owners would cry out and lament their inability to pay the prices now paid for labor, and which they contend is thc best paid labor in tho world, which ia not proven, however, by the "strikes" and murmurings of discontent now felt and heard throughout our manufacturing sections. No doubt tho operative would be made to Lei, and perhaps believe, that a reduction of tho tariff was to his injury, but ho would only havo to en large the extent of his vision and look toward the section v.her.co for many years there has como tho wail of poverty, and ho would learn tiiat living wages could be paid there, haudsomo incomes could bo realized from investments in cotton manufactures there, and success ful competition given auy country in the world in the manufacture of colton gooda. , Sir, gentlemen may commissorate tho South as tho gentleuia'n (rom Michigan (Mr. Horr) did a few day3ogo, and wish they might hear thc "buzz-saw" hum ming and the spindle twirling there, as if no euch thing could bo seen or heard in tho South. I say to those gentlemen that in proportion to her white popula tion the South is to day recuperating moro rapidly, and increasing in ber In vestment? in manufactures moro steadily than tho more wealthy North. During those years of depression, from 1873 to 1879, many Northern mills woro closed. Scarcely a Southern mill failed to de clare a net dividend during thc samo time. And since that time Northern mills havo been content with dividends of from 5 to 7 per cent, on the invest ment, as we have been assured by gen tlemen upon this floor. That 7. may not be charged, Mr. Chairman, with making extravagant assertions concerning the net incomes from similar mills in the South, I beg leave to eumbit a few ex tracts from tho reports of residents of some of tho cotton mills in my own State, made to tho stockholders during the past spring. ? Rut, Mr. Chairman, why need I in stance more cases of this sort? These few aro only examples of what is being done by a score of mills in South Caro lina. Rut I may bc asked, if your mills nrc doing so well under the present tar iff, why do you desire to reduce the duty on foreign gooda ? I reply, I wish a re duction on imported goods simply be cause thc present tariff is a protection to tho few mill owners, for whom it is amassing princely fortunes at the ex pense of other members of our national community. In every Southern Stale, I believe, manufacturers have been ex empted from taxation by State legislation for a period of from fivo to ten years, which of itself is a dividend upon tho investment, and it is unjust to other avocations to have an almost prohibitory protection afforded manufacturers of any description. Protected manufactures may build upa country; they certainly do erect palatial mansions for those who invest their money in them ; but wheth er they do not widen the gaps between tho fow rich nnd thc many poor, and thereby in the aggregate oppress a peo ple, is "questionable. . Prepared to believe that such ia thc result, Mr. Chairman, I prefer encourag ing tho mpnufacturcrs otherwise than by affording them absoluto protection from foreign competition. Reduce the tan?, and a sufficient margin for fair net prof its is still left, and no manufacturer should ask more than this. Mr. Chairman, that our Northern friends may seo what has recently been dono in the South, and may know that We have been neither asleep nor idle, 1 beg them to read tho following report, which I havo received from a perfcctlv reiiiiDie source, as to the number of mills that have been erected in tho South since the close of 1880. ****** From these report*, Mr. Chairman, we are not surprised that the census re turns exhibit a material reduction in tho manufacture of all coarse class of cot ton goods throughout the North within the past few years. And I predict that tho day is not far distant when tho South, with or without a tariff, will have a monopoly of tho manufacturing of all coarser cotton goods, and I bclivo that day will come bunging more substantial aggregated wealth without than with a protective tariff. War Telegraphing. Tho Union armv in 1SG2 lay camped on the north bank of thc Rappahannock, opposito what was to bo to thc Union soldiers tho disastrous field of Freder ickBburg. On the bank of tho river, iu tho extreme front of tho Union lino, stood tho house of Mrs. Gray, a long, rambling atone building, whoso front ot three sto ries faced tho river. The roof sloped steeply toward the rear, while the stone Bide was but one story high. Mrs. Gray, herself an elderly widow, received the Union advnnco with every demoustration of welcome, and in tho course of time it became a favorite rendezvous for young officers. A prime cause for this," aside from Mrs. Gray's cheerful hearth and good fare, waa tho beauty of her daugh ter Sallie, a brunette of perhaps twenty years. A young lieutenant was badly wounded by those batteries, and spent all his sparc limo at tho feet of the fair Southerner, who professed such sympathy ' with the Uniou cause. Late ono rainy night a sentinel pacing i back and forth before thc stone front of the Gray house heard a faint but sharp noise cutting thc air. It sounded like J the click of a telegraph instrument and seemed to come from beneath his feot. | Greatly perplexed ho called the Borgeant ( of the guard. They listened carefully and were presently joiued by tho gallant , lover of ?.Sallie Gray. Conviction of treachery smote his heart and with tho sergent he unceremoniously entered the : [hay dwelling. Sallie and her mother, ; despite the late hour, were busily sewing ? by a tablo in the Bitting-room. Tho la; | lies rose in apparent surprise and indig- ( nation at the intrusion. "Step aside if you please," said the icrgcant. . "What does this mean?" ask vd Mrs. [hay sharply. "Frank, 1 appeal to you for protection," , :ried the young lady to the lieutenant. That officer could only shake his bead j ind sternly wave her anide. "You are t raise. You have deceived me," he said , ?oaraely, aa the girl who had promised to j J? his bride sank sobbing upon a sofa. { The soldiers could hear the ticking , nore plainly now. They moved thc ta- y jle, lifted the cat pet, and discovered a j rap-door leading to a cellar of whose ex- ? Btence they bad no suspicion. A light . jelow w.'s in?tautly quenched, but they j fearlessly descended aud discovered a j telegraph instrument with au insulated j ivire running through thc cellar wall, and j ividently passing under tho ?iver to the y jnemy on the opposite side. Crouching , u a corner was the operator, a young . ind handsome man, who had never be- * fore been seen about tb J house, having j ived for days in th" cellar. "You aro ( ny prisoner" from the scrger.nt brought j he distressed wail from poor Sallie of j 'My husband, oh, my husband." The j ?eart of the Uniou lieutenant went back r mee more to tho girl ho left behind him. j But not withstanding thc detection of .his linc of communication, the enemy j loomed to know every movement of tbe , Union troops. Il waa a mystery to ibo J officers how they gained their knowledge. There were no more telegraph wires, and j '.bore was no pftsing across the river. ( \t last thc mystery was solved. Within ? .he Union lines, but in sight of tho ene- f my, there stood a low framo house occu- . pied by a negro who did washing for tho . midien. Ho hung bia clothes to dry in j .he front yard : but it was noticed that in . :he porch there hung threo flannel shirl?, . me red, and ono white and ono blue. ; The negro said they wore not always in , .ho same position, and a suspicious ser- '( jeant finally became convinced that tho , legro used them to signal across tho \ Rappahannock. The arrest of the ne- j jro and tho effectual uso of the shirt to ; leceive instead of to inform the enemy j followed. '. At another time Ibo army of tho Po- , tomac were nearing Berb'r., Virginia. To receive orders in the rear thc troops tiad laid ten miles of insulated wiro, run- 1 linc through the woods, now beneath '.he leaves and again among the tree-tops, ft was impossible to picket tho entire line, I ind a large part of it was exposed ; but 1 it waa thought to be effectually concealed. 1 \ scout lying in ambush ouc day heard i sound like thc ticking of a clock, i Creeping forward, he was astonished to 1 ?oe a "Johnny" in h?3 gray uniform sit- .> ;ing on tho ground and chuckling to hira iclf, aud busily writing. The scout ?prang to his feet and leveling his revol ter, said to the laughing rebel: "What ire you doing^ here?" "I surrender," was thc chagrined reply, the smiles sud Jently disappearing. The scout diBCOv jred that tho rebol liad cut the wire and had connected the ends with a loop run ning into a clock, the electricity securing the eacapement so that the messages tick ed themselves plainly into thc rebel's ear. The ingenious machine was captured with thc rebel.-Philadelphia Pren. i'lIE BICYCLE.-AB a mero machine for transportation, tho bicycle is entitled lo a high consideration. In England, and more especially in tho largo cities iike London, the bicycle has taken au acknowledged place with the cab, the om nibus, tho tramway and the steam car. In London thousands of them arc in uso by men who employ them for thc same purpose they would a saddle-lior*c. They go to their business on them in .be morn ing, return on them at night with tho same regularity that other men traverso thc same routs by means of the regular transportation. Thin is tho case often with men who live as many as from six to ton miles from their places of business. They escape the fetid air of tho omnibus, ?hey have no fare to pay, and, as a rule, they make thc journey in leas limo than they could were they to travel by the usual vehicles of transportation. In this direction the matter of economy is of no small account. The person who uses the bicycle to go lo and from bis place of business in Lon don, or in any of the larger cities of tho country, saves not leas than ten cents a day-a not very large sum, it ia truo, but one which pays him from 40 to .10 per cent, per annum on his purchaso of a machine, and gives him the advantage of a most inspiriting and delightful method of locomotion. - Dr. A. G. Thomas, of Columbia, Kentucky, owns a clock that ??nco 1815 hus told tho time of day in hil family. _The biggest man in Louisiana lives four miles weat of Abbeville. His name is Emile Sellers, weight 427J pound?, is m year? of age and is in good health MORMONISM IN KENTUCKY. Tito Apostle* of I.Uit at Work lu the fillet Vlllago of I runt ..villi-. Huntsville, Ky., ia in a stato of wild excitement. For reeks past not ouly Huntsville, but Butler county and tho neighboring couuties of Muhlenber, Ohio and Grayson, have been stirred up as tbey never have been since the war. Tho cause of all the trouble is Mormon ism. For weeks the country has been filled with Mormon preachers and del uged with Mormon tracts. Tho result has been to separate families ; to mako tho husband forsake tho wife and the son i tho father; to make lifetime friends last iug enemies; to mako brothers war upon brothers ; to bring heart buruings and jealousies and bitterness between ?nen in every relation of life. Mormon ism here began in murdor; it is eliding in seduction. Ita votaries have sounded every note in thc scale between these two crimes. A representativo of the Louisville Commercial went to Huntsville to inves tigate the matter aud found all tho ru mors of thc disturbance iu that obscure Kentucky village.fully verified. Huuta villoisa little remote from all inter course with tho ceutrea of civilization and is situated in one of tho poorest counties in ibo State. The people are part and parcel of the place, kind hear ted, hospitable and simple. They have lived there and their father? and grand fathers before them. Evory man knows everything about his neighbors' affairs ; how much land ho has, when ho was married, his wife's pedigree, and his re ligion aud politics for years back. A stranger of fifteen years' residence is a suspicious character, but may somo day tiopo to have his children admitted to tho Tull fellowship of tho place. The village grocery is tho point of central interest. iud asido from current marriages aud ieaths, and how the different neighbors behaved before and after, it is a never failing subject of interest. Newspapers iro almost unknown, savo an occasional iveekly. Rooks aro avoided save one, ind that book they know from cover to :over. From Genesis to Revelations the liiblo is at their fingers' cuds. They aro i*ery kind to each other and a pleasanter md quieter little neighborhood cannot ae found iu tho State of Kentucky. All -his was beforo that memorable April aight in 1880, when two meu, with words >f peace upon their lins, came to preach lolawful doctrines ano to break up for cer tho peace of the quaint little village >f Huntsville, and this is how I learned .he history of its misfortunes. Farmer Rowland, who is also the vil ago postmaster, asturdy, square-set man, old tho reporter how one fearful Btormy light in 1880, he disremcmbered whether n April or May, two strange men came imong them and asked for shelter. They vero Mormon elders. A few days nfter vard they stirred around thc neigbbor lood, and after a bit they began to preach it Union Chapel. We didn't mind them nuch at first, as they talked only about icing good and not drinking and swear ug and things of that kind. Then wo bund out that they were saying had lungs about our women folks, saying our vives were not married to UB ana wo vould have to be married again. Wo mt them out of Union Chapel, and they vent around from house to house preachi ng in public what was good, but telling ho folks in private that they ought to jelieve in polygamy and all that. They lave kept thia up uow for mighty uear .wo years and wo aro growing desperate. They have brought all sorts of trouble nto our families aud have ruiued the seacoof this whole neighborhood. Somo jthcrs can tell you more than I can," ind Mr. Rowland leaned back in his mair and relapsed into silence.' Another old farmer the 'tqui.c told ibout, Dr. Alex. Hunt, who was tho first convert, and who had done more than my one else to spread Mormonism. He studied medicine a year nt Louisville, ind then whenever he practiced he preached Mormonism, and he also gath ?red crowds of the nost ignorant in fence corners and preached thu corrupt ;ospel to them. Ho argued with hit women patients and many of them were soon ruined by his suasions. "The doc Irin ho preached around to" our youiif meu and women," said tho 'squire, "tba they may live together loosely, and, a; they ar? saints, nothing bad will como o it. Our young girls aro told that i amounts to nothing in Utah, and shouli not here. The result of this preaching i frightful." A Methodist preacher then told of i strange tale ho heard when ho was last a Muhlenberg : "Oue evening after sunset two Biran gera, Mormon elders, knocked at the doo of a widow and said they were Mormoi elders and wanted lodging. 'I am a lon widow,' she said, 'and I have no ma about my promises. You will have to g elsewhere. The Mormons looked agai and walked iu, saying: 'Wo will enlei for the spirit moves us to enter.' The they Bat down. Tho woman fied out b another door aud ran over to a neighbor and narrated to him what had happenut He seized his shot gun and went bael The Mormon elders were scated at tb fire, but they ro?o when ho entered, lt poiuted tho gun at their beads and said 'You chaps git.' But they ?aid : 'Th spirit moves us to stay.' Then he said 'And I tell you if you don't leave in tw minutes tho spirit will move mo to bio your brains out.' " "They got up rind left." "Ever since thc Mormons havo bot here they have brought trouble with ol women folks," said another. Alexaud Tompkins was a Mormon sitnpathiz who came from Tennessee. Ho strm up an intimacy at once with kho han some wife of a young farmer, Gcor? Meffert. Soon Tompkins began to s: the spirit moved him to live ?vith tl woman and ho made threats to kill Mt fert if he did not give her uu to hil Meffert becamo excited and bloodsh was looked for between tho two nu They mot once but were parted heft any blood was spilled. One cvonii however, Tompkins full of rum, start towards Mefl'ert to enforce his clai George was chopping wood. They qu: rcled and Tompkins reached for his p toi. It was a fatal move. Mefl'ert spra at liim with tho axe and made oneswii ing stroke for his right arm, another his left, and Tompkins, armless, stagg ed off. Meffert followed him, the fl fell again and again, and the Mormon \ left literally hacked to pieces. Moil then left the country and went to TCJ whero his wife t-fju joined him, and he licved her innocent. The Mormons c tinning their preaching, debauching women and putting iridescent and obsc pictures on tho walla, thc people at determined to drive out tho Mormon ders and their disciples. Forty fi armed men m<-tono evening not long ; determined to preserve tho peace of neighborhood. Tho Mormon preachers, who had this time been reinforced by two ot from Utah, were a milo or moro dis from town and lind a littlo band gath j around them. At first they deierim to fight and a bloody battle seemed ' minent? bultlioy ?aal!y thought bi of it, disbanded their forces and made a long detour round tho town. They have not been near Huntsville fiuce, but aro expected back at any time. Tho vigi lance committee disbanded without do ing anything. Before they left Lee Jen kius, cue of tho anti-Mormons, yelled out: "If there is any Mor mo a hero let him hold un his baud." Randall Vaughn held his linnd up. In an instant Jenkius stretched hun out, and if cooler men bad not interferred he would ha-;? boen trampled to death. Some of tho convert* were very simple ir-Jeed, and took what tho ciders told them as true without tho least suspicion af a doubt. Several of thc women were naturally very quick nm' intelligent. It would take columns to tell all these peo ple have to say of Mormonism. Fami lies aro broken up everywhere. Dr. Aleck Hunt's two sons, William and Henry, aie nearly crazy on nccouul of their father's Mormonism. And so it runs. Fathers separated from sons and mothers frorn children. Worse than all is the emigration which is going to take placo next Fall, when all tlio Mormons are going to leave. It is no wonder that the peoplo are noarly wild. If tho wife be a Mormon and tho husband not, she will leave him to go to Utah and lend a life that it is mild to call prostitution. Just forty years ago Mormons camped at Huntsville onco before. They took away with them then a great many of tho best people. They got old Aleck Hunt to sell his land and go with them. Ilia wife and daughter accompanied him, und he had $2,500 with him. They first took bia daughter from him, next his tvifc mid then his money. The old mau ??ot blind nt last and started to wander jonie. Ho died over thero n blind beg gar. The Mormon preachers aro expected jack in a week or two. If they como here will bo some lynchiug done, ns tho icoplo through all thc neighboring couu ioB aro desperate. If no other law will protect them they will have to resort to nob law.- Cincinnati Gazette. Ufo In Central Africa. Central Africa, for centuries almost un known to tho civilized world, has been, br tho last ten or fifteen years, thc chosen leid of tho moat intrepid traveler? and ixplorers. The names of Livingstono md Stanley have becomo household vords throughout Cbriatondom, and tho jeography of tho "dark countiucnl" has :onsed to bo the absoluto and forbidding uyBtery which mado a wide and dismal dank in tho atlases of the last genera ion. Willi these famous travelers we nay fitly associate their German cutoni iprary, Dr. Guetav Nachtigal, who baa ;iven tho world sumo exceedingly inter? isling and graphic sketches of tho lifo ind customs of the natives of tho kingdom of Bagbirm. These children of nature appear, aa far is can be learned, to have been wholly lespoiled by any touch of modern civil zation, a"d aro innocent of the slight est symptoms of artificial culture. Their IreBB is a model of simplicity, the whole lutfit consisting of a shirt reaching to he loins, leaving thc other parta ol thc jody uncovered ; and many of them re jard even thia brief garment as too arU ocratic, and content themselves with a mud kerchief around thc head or even a ?w feathers in tho hair. Tho Kingdom of Bagbirm is not of argo extent, and ita sovereign ia atnbi ious, not unlike bia civilized brcthern, o increase his dominion by tho nnnexa ion of adjoining territory. Meeting vi'.h resistance in tho prosecution of heio designs, ho resorts-again after tho nanner^. the most enlightened polen atea-io the employment of force. Re heating rifles and artillery of the Euro jcau pattern b ung who.ly unknown in lint region, hu substitutes lances and :luba, the only weapons known to the War Department of Bagbirm. Tho nethods of defense adoptea by tho inva led community are rudo but efTectivt. [nstead of digging rifle-pits, or erecting ;arth-worka, tho tribo simply mount the rigantie. cotton trees, among whoso pro moting branches the ?ance? of tho attack ing party cannot reach thom. Thia tree is admirably adapted for the purpose of a refuge or fortification, being high, and having usually no branches lower than Qfteen feet from the ground. Tho branches, moreover, arc very thick and ?;row almost horizontally ; so that by ayi " aticka across them and nddiug a covering of straw, a foundation ?B ob tained for a hut, in which u wdiolo fami ly, including the doga aad goats, can live comfortably and socially. A single tree ordinarily contains two or three families. At night, when no attack ia apprehended, tho dwellers in thia singular habitation c...io down and lay in a frosh sl-?ek of water and provis ions, alway, u.iing thc latter aB securely aa possible. These natural forts are found, whenever assailed, to bo almost impregnable, so long as only the nativo resources of warfare aro used against them. Having no fire-arms, the enemy cannot reach thom except by storming each tree, and any attempt to set fire to it ia met by tho besieged party, who ex- j linguish the flame by pouring water upon ?tor beating it down with sticks. Both in attack and defense, but es pecially in tho latter, ? these people dis play the most stubborn courage. The incmbora of tho tribe of which a con quest is sought will fight for their liberty to thc bitter end, knowing that tho sure result ol defeat ?R a horrible death br hopeless slavery. As a last resort, rather than submit to capture, they will climb to the top of tho tree and throw them selves down to meet inevitable death. Tm; ROOMS or TUB GIRU.-A look into a girl's room will give one an idea of what kind of a woman Rho will proba bly become. A girl who keeps her clothes hung up neatly, whose roon* ? clean, will bo very apt to make a good wife and a successful woman. Order and neatness are essential to our comfort ns well a? to that of others about us. A girl who throws down ber things any where will do things in a slovenly, care less way. A girl who does not make her bed till after dinner, and she should al ways do it herself rather than have a Bcrvant to do it, and throws her dress or bonnet down on a chair, will mako a poor wife niuo cases out of ton. If all the world could seo how a girl keepa ber dressing room many unhappy marriages would be saved. Alwaya oe tidy about your person and your room, as if all your friends could always seo you. Get into tho habit of order anti neatness, nnd it will come casv with you in life aflccr warda. - A farmers' convention in East Ten nessee adopted a resolution favoring compulsory education. - At Farmersville, La., a curious and wonderful animal has been found which has neither hair, down nor feathers, 1 tueks, horns, teeth nor fangs. It has a . howland eye resembling those of a ser pent; a cover similar to tho shield of an armadillo, the tail of an elephant and : tho clothes of a hyena. When at repost 1 it assumca tho tmnpo of a biscuit eon 1 structcd during thc lalo unpleasantness THE FATAL AFFIUY AT CAMDEN. Tho l'articulant of tho Killin;; of Co), lllitlr by Mr. Hall? - Purely a Personal Matter. Dispatch to (hr JXCWS amt Courier. CAMDEN, S. G., July 4. Major L. W. R. Blair, the Greenback eaudidu'o for Governor in 1880, wa? shot aud instantly killed in Camden to-day, about ll o'clock, in a perioual encounter with Capt. J. L. Hallo. Tho circum stances connected with tho affair arc as follows : For home time past there had bot ex isted very good feeling between Blair and Halie, ami meeting each - ?her on tho street to-day, Capt. llailo was accosted hy Major Blair, who asked him (Hailo) 'if it was true that ho had been mak ing certain statements concerning bim (Blair). Capt. Hallo promptly replied that he had. Whereupon Major Blair called Huilo "a damned liar." Hailo thou asked Blair to retract his language, which Blair refused to do. Hallo then loft Blair, and walked a few steps and entered tho County Treasurer's oflico followed hy Blair. Upon entering he closed tho door, and in a minuto or two returned with a rille and pistol. Blair waa then standing within a few feet of the door, and was again requested by Haile to retract his offunsivo language. Blair still refused to do so, and putting his right hand in his bosom advanced to wards Hailo. Huilo then (ired at Blair thrco times, thu balls taking effect in the right lung aud through tho heart. Blair fell demi. The cau?o of the encounter was purely personal. Immediately after tho shooting Capt. Hailo re-entered the tax nilico and sent for Sheriff Doby, in order to surrender himself. A largo crowd of negroes as sembled in front of thc building, and at one time it trad thought that an effort would probably bo made to mob Capt. Hailo. Upon Sheriff Doby's arrival he summoned u guard and convoyed thc prisouer to tho county jail, where ho ia now confined. Tho body of M?jor Blair was removed to the Town Hall,'where an ii.qucst was held tiud tho following verdict rendered : "Thu. tho deceased carno to bia death by wounds i illicted by a gun in the hands of James L. Hailo." The body of Major Bla'r lay in tho Town Half until about 5 o'clock thin afternoon, when it was conveyed to hin lute residence, about thrco miles from Camden. The funeral services will lako place in Camden to-morrow. After Capt. Hailo had been regularly committed to jail upon a warrant issued by tho Coroner, his counsel, Major W. Z. Leitucr and Mr. W. M. Shannon, made application bofore Judge Kershaw for a writ of habeas corjnis. Tho appli cation will bo heard at G o'clock thia evening. Capt. Haile is a prominent and popu lar citizen and a native of this county, and resides mitbin a few miles of where Major Blair lived. THE PRISONER RELEASED ON HAIL. CAMDEN, July 4.-Since Bending the above tho application for bail upon a writ of habr?s cor?>us had been granted. Judge Kershaw admitted tho prisoner to bail in thc sum of live thousand dollars for his appearance at tho September term of tho Court, tho bond to be secured by three or moro auretics. In tho ordei leavo was granted to thc Solicitor of thc Fifth Circuit to apply at any limo for r recommitment of the prisoner upon giv ing four days' notice. This proviso wai made from the fact that tho Solicitor hat been informed by wiro of tho intendet application for bail and no answer hat been receivd from him. Tho Cour House was well filled during tho hearinj of the case, mid immediately upon th< order being mudo Capt. Hallo gave th< required bond mid was released fron custody. Maj. W. lt. Blair waB the son of don Jas. Blair, who was a member of Con gross from this State from 1821 to 1825 and from 1829 to 1834. On April 1 1834, Gen. Blair died in Washington b; bis own hand. Maj. Blair had reside for many years upou the cstuto left hie by his father sonio milos below Cannier in Kershaw county. Ho was well edi jatcd, and devoted a naturally strong iii lolled to scientific researches. He wt for many years the editor of the Camde Journal, and was regarded as a writer < considerable ability. During tho warb was an officer in Nelson's battalion. Ht good's brigade. After serving crcditabl for two yours, ho was forced by ill heult to retire. Ho was commanding in u] pearance, being over six feet iu heigh and vory erect in his carriage. After tho '.tar Maj. Blair devoted hie self to planting in Kershaw county, at lived rather in seclusion until 1878, win ho took a prominent part in the endear then made to form a Greenback party this State. Two years later ho waa tl candidate of that party for Governt and ran against Gen. Uagood, thc Doi ocratic candidate. Blair received 4,2 votes. Maj. Blair was recklessly brave, ai dbnoscd to bo aggressive in act a word. The letters ho wrote during 1 cauvasa for Governor and during t present year were bitterly abusivo, and ia a matter of surprise that a cellini between Blair and some one of thc whom ho assailed had not taken plc before. CERTAINLY HE WOULD.--Tho ot! evening as a muscular citizen was passi a house on Montcalm street a lady, w stood at tho gate, called out to him : "Sir ! I appeal to you for protcctioi: "What's the trouble?" he asked, ns stopped Bbort. "There's a mau in the house, and I wouldldn't go out doora when I orde I him to!" "Howouldu't, eh? Wo'll seo ab that!" Thereupon the man gave thc won his coat to hold, and sailed into tho he spitting on his nanda. Ho found a r down at the nupper-table, aud he eau him by the neck and remarked : "Nico style of a brute you are, Conic out o' this, or I'll break every b in your body I" Tho man fought back, and it was until a chair had been broken and table upset that he was hauled out d by the legs and given a fling through gate. Then, as tho muscular cit placed his boot where it would do most hurt, he remarked : "Now, i you brass-faced old tramp, you mov? or I'll finish you." "Tramp! tramp!" shouted thc vu as ho got up, "I'm no tramp ! I own property aud live in thia house!" "You do?" '.Yes, and that'? my wife holding coat !" "Thunder !" v 'lispered the victo he gazed from o to the other, and i/.ed that tho vs..o had got square him ; and thou ho made a grab f< coat and slid into tho darkness- wit! shirt bosom torn open, a finger 1 bitten aud two frout teeth ready to 1 out.-ifttroit Free Press. --* - Thc dog? of Georrjia cost mon . her preachers. CURRENT TOPICS. Tho First Balo of Cotton. GALVESTON, TEX., July 4.-A Gon zales special Bays : Tho first halo of now cotton passed hero to-day en r"uto from Myr-rsville to Houston. Smnllpox Among the Indians. ST. Lons, July 4.-Special dispatches report that smallpox is prevailing so ex tensively in Indian Territory as to bo a Eerfect scourge. At Muscogco there avo been 200 cases and ucarly all hnvo been fatal. Large Yield of Wheat. YANKTON, DAKOTA, July G.-Reports from tho Red River Valley, tho great Spring wheat section of Dakota, show a prospect of 18,000,000 bushels of wheat, or doublo Inst year's crop. All root crops are in good condition. Resignations. WASHINGTON, July 4.--Mr. J. Ban croft Davis, Assistant Secretary of State, has resigned, to take effect on tho np Bointment of his successor. Mr. Walker laine, third Assistant Secretary of State, has also tcudcrcd his resignation. Two Sion Killed. MACON, July 5.-Just i\fter thc close of tho political convention hold yester day in Jefferson villo,TwiggB county, Ga., John M. He ilford shot nud killed Jeff Wood and John Johnson in a druukon row. Benfurd waa slightly wounded, hut escaped. A Texas Tragedy. GALVESTON, July 5.-A ?Yew? Bren ham Hpecinl says: C. W. Johnson, a young man recently from Kentucky, was ?hot in thc head and neck by Miss Clara Christian, aged eighteen. The cause of tho tragedy waa a scandal put in circula tion by tho deceased. A Frightful Disaster. PiTTOBUHO, July 4.-Intelligence has just been received hero that the steamer "Sciota," with an excursion party on board, collided with thc tow boat near Mingo junction, Ohio. Ono hundred persons aro reported drowned. Tele graphic facilities aro meagre, but addi tional facts will bo forwarded as soon as possible The Crops of Tennessee. NASHVILLE. July 4.-Commissioner Hawkins of tho Bureau of Agriculture finished his crop report up to tho lat of Juno to-day. Tho average for tho St.-do ia aa follows : Corn 10G, oats 113, cotton 74, tobneco condition 107, acreage 117, sorghum 101, millet condition 102, nero ago 111, Irish potatoes 122, sweet pota toes condition 90, acreage 102, applea 118, peaches Ho, grapes ?04, berries 121, melons 88, garden producta HG, buck wheat 104, peanuts 88, stock peas condi tion 105. acrcago 100, wheat yield 144, ryo 114, barley 100, clover hay 108, graBS bay 103. Adventures of a Lady Balloonist. OSWEUO, N. Y., July G.-Madam Adelle made a balloon ascension from thia city thia afternoon. Sho was carried out over Lake Ontario after throwing out jvorything to keep up, hoping to strike i current that would carry her hack ovor tho land. She snw a tug on tho lnko, npparently following her. She then opened tho valve and came down in tho water, about seven miles from tho land, clinging to tho bnlbon. Sho waa dragged through tho water several miles, and was dually picked up in n very exhausted condition by a tug which was on tho lake with an excursion party about seventeen miles, weat of tho -jlty. Sho waa in the water nearly an hour. fii?phcs? congratulated. WASHINUTON, July 0.-Orcat interest was felt boro in the result of the election of Gubernatorial delegates it> Georgia. Last night every Georgian was asked frequently what was the nowa from his State. When Ibu papers announced thia morning that Stephens had swept the Stato, many friends called to congratu late him. Ho went to tho House, and waa at once surrounded by .membeis, who warmly congratulated him, and ex Sreased the opinion that Georgia had one the best abe could. It was an ova tion Mr. Stephens seemed to appreciate highly. This afternoon ho walked up and down tho long hall in front of but room, leaning on his servant's arm, and looking better than I have seen him this winter. He will bo in Ano trim for his inauguration. Killed hy Bis Insano Grandson. COLUMBUS, PA., July C.-A dreadful murder was committed near hero on Sat urday. Jak" Wright, an old Indian doctor, has n many years had au insane grandson living with him, on whom ho was trying to perform a cure. On ac count of occasional viol oat spells the grandoon waa kept confined in a pen in one part of tho house On Saturday bo waa liberated for a short time. sVheu tho grandfather was putting on bis boots tho young man seized an axo and dealt him A blow on the back of the hoad, crushing tho skull and causing instant death. Ho then hacked up the body of tho old man. His aunt came in while ho was at tho horrible work. Sbo called her husband, and tho insane man was again Bhut up. Mr. Wright waa literally cut to pieces. A Wonderful New Sort of Cotton. ATLANTA, June 30.-Attention is now attracted to a new sort of cotton plant I which bids fair to prove immenBoly val uable. For many yaara Mr. A. A. Su bcra, of Macon, has been carefully ex perimenting to hybridize tho cotton plant | that growa wild in Florida with the com mon okra. Tho cotton plant uacd ia ol that species which is found on tho low landa of thc Calooaahatchio River. The new plant retains tho okra stalk and the foliage of tho cotton. Its flower and ! fruit, however, is strikingly unlike either cotton J: ofctfl Tho plant has an aver aga height o feet, and each plant has only cut b>oom. This is n magnifi cent flower, very much like tho groot 1 magnolia in fragrance and equally cs ! large. Like tho coton bloom, the flower ia wbito for several days after it opens, after which it is palo pink,and gradually assumes darke: anadea of this until it becomes red, when it drops, disclosing a wonderful boll. For about ten dava tnis boll resembles the cotton boll, and thon its growth suddenly increases as if hy magic until it finally reaches tho size o', a big cocoanut. Not until it reaches this size does tho lint appear. Then its snowy threads begin to burst from tho boll, but are held securely in placo by the okra-liko thorns or points that line tho boll. One inexperienced picker can easily gather SOO pounds a day, and fast hands much more. Wcro th? only ww I ing that of labor in gathering tho lint, ' the result of Mr. Suber'e experiment ' would entitle him io the lasting gratitude of the Southern finnier. But thia ia not all-there aro no seeds in the lint. Each boll produces about two pounds of very fine long staple cotton, superior to the sea island, und at tho bottom of thc boll there aro from four to six seeds, resem bling persimmon reed. This new cotton, thereforo, needs nc ginning.-Corretpon dence New YorJ- &u.n. News and Gossl.p - The city debt of Memphis is about ?4,000,000. - Texas haa nearly 2,400 convicta in her penitentiary. - Some 2,000 Choctaw Indians atl'l live in Mississippi. - One-half of tho human family dio under 17 yenrs of age. - Rutherford B. Hayes is reported as hoeing corn and enjoying himself. - Georgia's wheat crop thia year will bo tho best raised in twenty years. - The Fruit Fair of North Carolina will be hold In Greensboro, August 8. - Ono hundred and fifty soldiers of the war of 1812 etlll livo in Kentucky. - Tho Kentucky /heat crop is sup posed to reach near 18,000,000 bushels. - The prospects of the Louisiana rico crop were uever better than at the pres ent time. - Of tho 30,000,000 acres of land io Mississippi less than 5,000,000 aro under cultivation. - Four hundred and forty-one pounds of tea has been raised on ono acre of ground in Georgia. - Tho reduction of the National debt luring the fiscal year juBt closed foote up the handsome total of $151,084,351. - In 1881, North Carolina produced 3,000,000 pounds of copper, being sur passed only by Michigan, Arizona and Vermont. - Five Culpeppor county, V?., far ;ners have recently sold an aggrcgato of 10,000 pounds of wool clipped tr?na their awn sheep. - It is now prcuicted that in tho near rutare tho wino aud grape interests of North Gin ulina will eclipse tho cotton ind tobacco. -i The wheat crop of Tennessee is esli Dated at 12,000,0?u bushels, nearly eight jushols to each man, woman and child n tbo State. - A colored man recently plowing roar Opelouaas, Louisiana, unearthed a ar of Spanish silver coina of 1779, worth ?18,000 to $10,000. - Over 75,000 Texas steers aro now jeing i riven through tho Indian Tcrri ory to tho Weat and Northwest. In the lroves aro 10,000 horses. - Tennessee has 25 copper furnaces hat turn out 2,600,000 pounds of copper ?ach year. Tho State has al?o 18,000,000 icrea of unimproved land. - Thirty-ouo murders havo beon cotn nitted in Pittaylvnnia county, Va., since 1875, and there has been but ono bang ng during tho same period. - Willie Morris becamo joyous at a Wilmington, N. C., camp meeting, and ell over Annie Williams wbilo the latter vas kneeling in prayer, and broke her mck. - Thomas Forgueaon, of Woldon, N. 3., carelessly poiuted an "empty" shot nm at bia thrco-year-old brother, but it ?vent off just the same, and the child waa .oro to piecea. - James Kirkland, of Levy county, I'la., met with a horrible death whiteout bunting recently. Ho stumbled and fell sn a aharp Btake, which pierced through his body and held him until he died. - Tho Washington correspondent of the News and Courier aays the R?publi que in Congross proposo to avenge tho South Carolina redistricting by unseat ing all of tho Southern members whose .ai.i are contested before adjournment. - A- Irish coroner's jury returned a rordict that the deceased came to his icath from exposure. "What do you noan by that?'' asked a relative of the lead man. "There are two bullet-holes in lis skull." "J ust so," replied tho coro ner, "ho died from exposure to bullets." - Tho PostofBco Department officials >ay that when the final statement of thc receipts and expenditures of the Post office Department for the fiscal year end id June 30th is completed, it will show that the postal service was self-sustaining fairing tho year. This will bo the first j ear since 1851 iu which the receipts of tho Departmcut havo balanced its ex penditures. - Tho will of Gen. George Washing ton, on filo in the Clerk's office at Fair fax, Fairfax county, Vc, has received so much wear and tear from strangers who desired to examino it. that the Clerk found it necessary to inclose it in ? glass caco in order to preserve it. The ,vdl is written on heavy caroled paper, about note size, and ove ry side '.a covered. There aro twonty-sov?? pages, all of which have Gen. Washington s name at tached except the twenty-third, which ended with tno wonh "City of Washing ton," and it is supposed that in looking over il tho Geucral mistook tho words for his signature, and thorofore failed to sign the page. Tho entire will is iu his own handwriting, and waa written in 1799 tho year ho died. - "Well, brethren," said a Maine minister to somo of his fellow-evangel ista, "I never was guilty of laughing in thc pulpit but onco. Some years ago I had in my congregation an old man who universally went to sleep in church and snored loudly throughout the entire ser vice. One Sat-batu morning, glancing in bis direction, I saw him as usual, with hil head back enjoying a nap, and right above him, in tho gallery, a young man was rolling a largo quid of tobacco around in his mouth. AB I looked ho took it out and, pressing it into a ball, poised it carefully over the open mouth below.^ I become so interested in the proceeding that I forgot to continue tho sermon, but stood watching the young man. With a wicked Buiiio ho took careful aim and dropped it squarely into the old man's j mouth. With a gulph the sleeper started up and with face red as a beet rushed from the houBO. The people no doubt were horrified, but I could not have kept from laughing if a sword had huog over my bead ready to fall. The old mau did not como back for several Sabbaths, and when ho did he changed his seat and re mained wide awako." Tho Generali? Experience. Perusing a recent copy of the Chicago Times, wo observed the following state ment from Genl. Loib, of tho Chicago Democrat : "St. Jacobs Oil, is the remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia, without any manner or doubt; and people who BU uer from th eso disease* ought to be mado acquainted with that fact. When ever I had occasion to usc tho Oil I found it all ita proprietors claim for it.