The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, May 17, 1883, Image 2

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E. B. MUKRA Y, Editor. TIU'I'HDAY. MAY 17, TBKMS: ONE YEAR.?l.no. SIX MONTHS. 7ftr. Two Dollar? If not paid lu advance. THE ANDKIWON PACTOKV. The movement for tho establishment of a cut ton factory at Anderson inn at last taken shape, and we iiave no doubt that within tinny days the capital stock, which ii is proposed to place at a mini mum of one hundred thousand dollar*, will have been subscribed, and the com pany be ready to organize and begin the work of erecting ila buildings before the Summer is over. Col. J. N. Ilrown is in charge of thc subscription list, winch will be kept at the Anderson N'atioual Hank, and Iiis recognized judgment and financial ability ensures the easy raising of the sum necw y to begin work. This is the most import ant enterprise that could possibly be undertaken in Anderson, and will return more benefits to the city ami surround ing country than our people can at firtt imagine. It will increase our popula tion, will increase the size of our city, and will add greatly to our business. It will give a market to the farmer for Iiis produce of all kinds, and will im prove tlie Anderson cotton market. In addition to this, it may safely bu put down to pny the stockholders a dividend of at least ten per cent., sn that every interest connected with or affected by it will be advanced. Anderson is a little slow to engage in any enterprise, but when her people make up their minds to go into any business they never stop until it is made a thorough success ; so that when we express the prediction thal we will Hpewlily have this cotton mill, wo feel satisfied tiiat itt establisment will de monstrate thc importance and prolit of manufacturing, and ensure the erection of numerous similar enterprises. Per sons from the city or country who desire to subscribe to the capital stock of tho propo-ed factory can have au opportu nity of doing KO by calling at tho Ander son Hank. THE COMPAIHTIVE I'ltOKlT. The Providence (Rhode Island; Jour nal, commenting on the earning of iii per cent, by the Grauiteville Factory, as reported hy thc Augusta Chronicle ami Chntlitiitiona/in/, among other things nays : Dut as tho South produces only coarse or moderately line goods, ami AH alic has just now a discrimination In her favor by tho railroad companies, Hbo may believe that us to thia class of goods the east is abolished. To thia assumption there aro two answers. In tho Unit place, tho east ern manufacturer ls not HO caa!ly crushed out ; he in not, without n struggle, to see his valuable "plant" practically an nihilated. In tho next place, if thin could he dono, tito assurance thoruof would put in three years HO many spindles in motion in tho Mouth, owned by Northern men, that the owner? there of wobul he glad tn compromise for a Hteady profit of Keven per cont. Tho editor ot tho Chronicle is a philosopher as woll UH n poet. Twenty per cont, prolit -being assured-would send into tho South millions of money in n month. In tho very nature of things thoro is no Htahility in a business which pays such or anything like mich prom. Again, does tho Chronicle really believe that thoro is a ililt'erenco in the manufacture of common fotton goods, between tho Houth and tho North, of Mixteen per cunt, in favor of ibo former? For our Northern manu facturers, na a ruin, havo hardly nui.de moro thnn flvo per cent, during last year. Since this publication by thc Journal, ibe Piedmont Factory has made its an nual exhibit, which shows its earnings last year to have been 2l \ percent., clear of running expenses. We do not now remember a ?ingle mill in South Caroli na which bas earned less than ten per *'ent. during the past year, which is double the profit admitted to bavo been the ruling rate of profit in Northern mills last year. The explanation that freights aie arranged to discriminate against the Northern mills is not correct in fact, for it costs as much to ship a baie of goods from here to New York, as it docs from that point to thia. When this argument is used by the Northern man, he means to say that the railroads do not haul cotton to the Northern mills freo of freight. A sufficient supply of cotton being raised around our mills, they buy without paying freights or even middle men. The Northern mills not only have to pay the freights ou colton from the South to their mills, but they also have lo pay commissions, insurance, storage, Ac., to at least two sets of middle JP "ii. Of course, therefore, these mills start off at a disadvantage with the Southern mills, and then have to en counter the difficulties of a rigorous winter, wbilo our factories are not im peded a single day in the year from the influences of our climate. Southern milla cannot expect to make regularly ilividends of twenty per cent., but there is every reason to believe that they will continue for years to come, under good management, to earn from ten to fifteen per cent. It is only a question of time as to all cotton mills for the manufacture of the heavier lines of cloth, Ac, being located in the section v. boro the staple from which they are made is grown. In less than twenty-five years, the South will be the manufacturing center of the Union. The Chattanooga Times estimates the New York Herald at tl,000,000, and the profit 60 per cent. It adds : "Consider ing All the facto perhaps tho Herald ought not be too noisy about boasted profita or monopoly. If there ia a mo nopoly io the United States the Herald ia that thing." We cannot perceive how the Herald can be called a monopoly. Any person can start a similar paper next door to the Herald, and run it out of publication if he has the means, the pluck, the judgment and the vigor to do it. The Herald has won its way step by . step, until to-day it is ahead of any paper io tho world, but this is only because it knows how to please the public who patronise newspapers better than, any other paper doe?. It monopolises noth ing, but aimply excel? in ita manner of . doing What nine-tenths of the other i popers in tho country try to do. The fact that it makes a handsome profit doea not aakea the Herald a monopoly. -The first Indictment ha? bee? brought at Nashville under the new law f .. of Tennessee making wife-beating pun ishable ny whipping. OlUt NYSTF.M OF UOVKKNMKNT Il.?.is TKATKI?. L'udor our lunn of gu vern ment liier? are no preferred classes, but all men have nu equal opportunity lor political and, to a large degree, social advance ment. It was thu intention of thc founders nf our I nion lo ba?e its struc ture upon the integrity and the intelli gence of its citizens, hy which the per sonal virtues of tin- citizens are made the strength of the government, and the highest adornment of the repre sentative American. Although the govern ment has not tully worked up to the expectations ol' it* founders in every respect, yet it must be admitted thal it comes nearer to discharging the true [unctions of government than any torin that has yet been devised by mau. Its tendency is to reward merit, and to incite every citizen to personal effort to raise himself in the opinion and respect d' his fellows, in order thal be and his posterity may enjoy social or political position as their tastes may dictate. The present United States Senate afford* a remarkable proof of thc fact thal every nan i-, to a large degree, in this Itepub ic the architect of his own fortune. In hat body, which is of the highest rep 'esentative character in our country, we ind Senator Heck and Senator Brown, who are said to have started in life an 'arm hands, Conger as a lumberman, Davis, of West Virginia, as a brakeman, , Pair as a bar tender, Farley as a stage Iriver, Gorman as a page, Vest as a 1 ..porter, Sawyer aa a laborer, Jonc-, of 1 Plorida, as a carpenter'and Morrill as a ; iotinty storekeeper. Among our Presi tentri we have hail Jackson, who was a 'unstable, Johnson and Killmore, who rere tailors, Garfield, who was a canal mat driver, and numerous farmers, .'rom this it will be seen that whatever le feels may have shown themselves in he working of our system, it has re named truo to tho cornerstone upon vbich its test nf citizenship rosin, ni . . . i rh ich is aptly expressed in the senti nenl uttered hy Skakcspeare . 'Honor ?ir..I -.liam- from N.i condition risc, Art wi-ll your |>;nt, Tli<*rp ..II the honor ll?1?." Il alfords a stimulus to the highest udividuul development, and tends to rle vate the standard 'd' American elli tenship far above that of any other iou ut ry. Tho equality of rights lo every nlizen was ibo highcHt conception of our lystem of government, and it has proven o bc it? greatest glory and surest lafety. We publish elsewhere tiie Platform of lie Democratic party on the Tariff lucHtion in each Presidential election ince 1HUII. From these tarions Plat orms, it will be seen that the party has lot been always of the identical opinion in Ibo Tariff issue-the difference being hat sometimes it declared for free trado tiud sometimes it favored a Tariff for revenue only. The drift of sentiment, however, and tho Democracy's greatest juccosse* have vindicated tho position favoring a Tariff for revenue only. It is impossible to estublish free trade without resorting to un income tax, which it would cost millions upou millions of dol lars to collect, and would provo more burdensome and obnoxious than the present iniquitous system of Tariff pro tection. Tho expense., of tho govern ment have to be met in some way, and it is cosiest, cheapest and surest to collect them by a light tax on imports. To col lect on imports it is only necessary to have Custom Houses at the various ports of our country, whereas to collect an in come tux would require officials in every County in thc Union, the result of which would be corruption, fraud and innu merable villnnies connected with the fis cal affaira of the government, It is bad enough now where the collecting officers are comparatively few iii number, and if they were increased to the necessary num ber to collect an income tax, it would be almost impossible to regulate the collec tion of the taxe* imponed, either aa to getting fair returns of incomes or fair returns of the moneys collected. A Tar iff for revenue is a safe position for the Democrats to assume, und upon it we believe they eau easily succeed next year in electing the President. The Charlotte Journal says that "exper iments made in jute culture in the South appear to show that 3,500 pounds can be grown on an acre of suitable land, that is, a fine sandy or alluvial soil. At thin rate it ought to pay twice as well as cot ton. The average yield of jute in Ben gal, India, is said to be under 1,800 pounds per acre." India, however, has the advantage of on abundance of cheap labor, so that the South cannot compete in the cultivation of jute until a machine is invented for separating the fibre from the stalk. As long aa this has to be doue by baud, India will have practical ly a monopoly in the production of jute. The mau who perfects a machine for doing this work will not only realize a fortune for himself, but will confer as great a boon upon the South as Whit ney did when he invented the cotton gin. [ The atheists are not countenanced in the government of Great Britain. Bradlaugh, a representative infidel of the day, who was some time ago elected to Parliament, baa been kept out of his seat because not believing in a God he could not wiih any meaning take the oath of office. To relieve him, several unsuccessful bills looking to granting permission to affirm, have been before Parliament. The latest was defeated by a vote of 271 against, to 1C5 for the bill. Sir Stafford Northcote leading the ma jority, and Mr. Gladstone voting with the minority. Thus England seta the nations an example of only allowing men who profess a belief in God to make her laws. If she could go a step further, and only have those who act up the belief, it would be a great deal better. Several Counties in Georgia have adopted the Stock law, and it is becom ing more popular all over the State. The Atlanta Constitution says that it ie gradually taking hold of tho Stato, and the people may as well make up their minds to adjust themselves to tba plan shies provides the? every man snail take Bars of that which is his. Thus Georgia la preparing U> follow South Carol inn's sxample. The Augusta Chronicle anti CoMlitH' tiunolitt nays : When you go to Now York, next year, electricity will have taken the placo ol .steam oil the elevated railway. Edison's company promise* t'> roliove Now York of the smoke, thc noise, tho Hying ashes, tho water leaking, and other nuisances that have attended tho uso of atcam on the elevated roada. Tho plan ia to uso thc rails a? conductors. Th? locomotive will ho a moving dynamo. Thoeleetricl ty will he picked up Iroin the tracks, A" ?non ai this is done, the same pow er will he applied to our ordinary rail road", and the rate ol' speed will he very greatly increased. This prediction seems to he highly imaginary, but they are not -o much ho ai thc railroad itself one I.mulled years ago, the telegraph li itv yean ago, or thc telephone live years ago. Tili? is eminently the day of scientific development. NEWS r'UOM EVERY (H'AKTKK. A Widow Shoots al a Doctor. M EM I'll IH, TKNN., May 11. -.Mrs. John Ennis, a widow, whoso husband died in 1*7*, attempted to shoot Dr. H. W. I'urnell, a well known physician, at noon lo dav. in thu courthouse. She claims that ?)r. i'urnell promised to marry her, l.ut refused to keep his pledge. A Murderor's Beturu Home. ATLANTA, May 9.-Thirty years ago William Etliches, husband of the woman Afterward notorious as "Jule Thompson," murdered a comrade in Caloola County. Ile Med and has never been heard of un til to day, when he returned. His wife, the witness, and i very one of whom he had any fenr are dead. Ile has been in Cuba since thc murder. He is instituting ?nils for property left in '.he hands of sn agent ami which has since grown valu able. & Pennsylvania Donator "cerco the Whit? H ouo o Ii ovo lo IIA It lt l.-ii: I * lu ;, May H.-"The acci dental, not providential, President of thc I'oiled States," bc said, "spreads his costly liquors before his guest* at State dinners with six wine glasses to every cover. I have no apology to make for advocating constitutional reform. Un der the administration of Messrs. Hayes and Garfield reform began at headquar ters. The hollies and jugs wee dumped into the Potomac. The national mansion was s.-rubbed from cellar to garret and dedicated to sobriety, virtue, purity and prayer. How changed tho situulion to day ! It is enough to make every patri otic citizen blush and hide his face for shame. Arthur in the Custom House ?H Arthur in the White House. The Ethi opian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spot*. Driven out of tho New York Custom House by Hayes, as thc Master drove the Scribes and Phari sees out of the temple with a scourge; made Vice President by lue votes of the people and, no less than sit months after the inauguration, President by a crank, taking the oath of office in his own par lor in New York city in such indecent haste, at 1 o'clock in tho morning, so soon after the death of President Gar field nt Long Branch, and then carrying into the temple of virtue and purity his nasty, filthy, New York custom house and pot house p-actices of cord playing, treating, Sabbath breaking and Sunday fishing excursions, he gave nil the public evils national sanction and notoriety." Tho Augusts, Elberton and Qbicago. The board of directors of this compa ny yesterday met at the company's ofBce. Captain C. S. Dwight, chief engineer, rendered his report of the entire Burvey from the initial point on the AugUBta and Knoxville road to Elberton, a dis tance of nearly seventy miles, which was highly satisfactory. The profile showed tho heaviest work tn be in Columbia, and tho lightest in Elbert county. Tho president staled that the company were already at work grading the road from the point of departure from the Augusta and Knoxville rond. He thought it advisable to advertise for sealed propo sals for gruding and in the event that any of the bids wer? ea?iafactnry to the company to accept the same and then discoulinne the work by the company. Colonel John L. Anderson, of Danborg, a member of the board, then stated that there was some dissatisfaction among the stockholders of Danburg on account of the present survey, and" asked that another survey be made by the way of Danburg to be adopted in the event that ir was more desirable than the present one. Messrs. Walsh, Jackson, and Al* exander thought the request reasonable and by motion of Mr. Walsh, the presi dent was requested to have the survey rm.do. The question of calling iu futur j installments was left with the finance committee, composed of President Ver i'ery and Messrs. M. A. Stovall and W. N. Mercier. It is a subject of congratulation to our citizens that work has begun on thia im portant enterprise. That our city will reap great sd van tage from this line of road is not to be questioned, for it will euable us to recover the large and lucra tive trade of Franklin, Hart, Hebersham and Elbert counties.-Auyutta Chronicle, May 12. Tbs Oouthrorn Baptists. GALVESTON, May IO.--A dispatch from Waco says: The Southern Baptist Convention was called to order yesterday. Dr. Mell, of Georgia, in the chair and .r)63 delegates being present. Dr. Mell was chosen permanent president and United Stales Senators J. E. Brown, of Georgia, and S. D. Maxcy, of Texas, Dr. Forman, of South Carolina, and Dr. Wm. Williams, of Baltimore, were elected vice-pr?sident?. Dr. Burrows, of Kentucky, ?...A Mr. Gregory, of South Carolina, were re-elected secretaries. Dr. Tupper, corresponding secretary of the board of foreign missions, read a long report. The board received a donation of $7,500 f.oPi Mrs. El li og te,-, of Tuske gee, Ala. ?.he report sbowB mhvio* stations ir Mexico, Brazil, China, Africa and Italy. The total receipts for the past year were $64,000. Balance on band April SOlh $6,000, disbursements for the China mission $15,000, African $5,000, Braeilian $5,000, Mexican $3,000, European $12,000. The Convention will hold three tes ?ions vlaily. At the afternoon session Dr. Titcberoer, of Georgia, correspond ing secretary of the home mission board, read the annual report covering tbe work in the Western and Southern Sute? and Territories. There, has been $73,000 raised and expended by the State board. The total receipts were $45,000, balance on band $6,018. The report says that $100,01)0 is needed for mission work in the Southern States. At night a sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Braddock, of Kentucky, autistics place the num ber of Baptists in the world at 2,800,000, in the United Sutes 2,000,000, chu robes 13,400, preachers 8,000. Struck By Lightning. NEW YORK, May 10.-The Standard Oil works at Jersey City were struck by lightning at half-past 8 o'clock thU morn ing. Up to 9 o'clock seven Unka of oil had exploded. The fire is raging with terrible force. The works have benn abandoned. Thus far 600,000 barrels have been destroyed, including 260,000 barrels of refined oil stored in the ?tona house. The railroad is on fire. The oil tanks ara saved by shoveling dirt on them. Six Uvea have been lost; none of the bodies have been found yet. EVENING.-Tho fire is under control, but it will burn for some time before all the paterial is consumed. It U thought ihaj. th? lost will exceed $1,500,000. Twelve Urge Unka, eighteen carn, six barges, a dredger, three do.ks and five j brick building? wtre destroyed. The quantity of oilconsumcd is not known. Among tbe losers, besides the Stundard Oil Company, are several otu?r oil firms, who each los? from 400 lo 700 barrels of cylinder oil, which ?vas stored in one of the warehouses. The flash of lightning that started the fire was witnessed by the firemen on watch in an engine house in Jersey City, a mile away, il was of blinding bril liancy, immediately a huge sheet of flame shot up in the air with a deafen ing .oar thal shook the neighborhood and was beard for miles around. The canopy of smoke rose above the oil works und spread itself over ibe city like the pall ot a volcano at the commencement of an eruption. Then followed explosion after explosion, rivaling tbe crashes of thunder, and the extensive oil winks were soon a roaring mass of llames. Before ? o'clock seven immense tanks were blazing. Rivers of fire swept around the bottom of the other tanks, while the flames bombarded them from above. It was soon discovered to be useless work lo play upon the flames, and all efforts were directed to prevent them from spreading. This was partial ly successful until nearly 5 o'clock, when tank No. 7 exploded with a terrific re port, and the blazing oil spread with lightning rapidity. Fire Chief Ferrier and a number of men were within ten yards of this tank when it exploded and were saved almost by a miracle. Dropping the hose, which was soon burned lo ashes, they fled for their lives. When they mustered to gether ut a safe distance six of their rumber were found to be missing. The smoke was so dense that it was impossi ble to tell which way one was going, and it is thought that the unfortunate men ran towards the water of the bay and were lost. The hay was a sheet of flaming oil, and the long trestle bridge of the rail way, about a quarter of a mile long, run ning from the works to Black Toll's Island, was burned down to the water's edge. Fragments of the iron tanks were hurled half a mile by the force of the explosion. Many people in tho neighborhood va cated their houses. The space burned over covers an area of about three-qusr ters of a mile along the bay and a quar ter of a mile inland. The wind blew from the Southeast. A slight change to Northerly would have caused the de struction of the Eagle Refinery Works aud an indefinite amount of valuable property besides. A Model Southern Mill. The president's report of the opera tions of tho Piedmont Colton Factory during the past vear is very encouraging. The net profits during tho year amount ed to 21 ? percent, on the capital atock of $000,000, or over $105,000. Out of tho net earnings a dividend of 10 per cent, was paid to the stockholders, the remainder ot the earnings being turned into the reserve fund for use as commer cial capital. The mill now bas 23,024 spindles and 540 looms, of which 628 spindles and 30 looms were added duiing the year. Tho mill, machinery and buildings are in first class condition, aqd the only indebtedness of the company an its entire property is $2,399.96 due on new machinery, which amount ran be paid at any timo. The cost of the prop erty now stands in relation to the capi tal stock of $500,000 at $21.28 per spin dle, and in relation to the total cost of $710,171.48 at $30.84 per npindle. The difference of $210,171.48 between the capital stock and the cost of the property hos been paid out of the net profits, over and above the dividends. The expenses for repairs will probably be very small for the next few years, and the whole net profita can be applied to dividends and commercial capital, until the latter is largo enough. Considering that the past year was one of unusual hardship and disappointment to manufacturers, as well as to all other fensons engaged in any kind of trade, 'resident Hammett thinks "the result of the year's business very gratifying." Is there a cotton mill in New England that has done as well ? There is a stead ily increasing demand for ibe goods of the Piedmont Mill. The stockholders do not ask for special concessions from the railroads. They are ready for any honorable competition.-Afars and Cou rier. Cotton nilla In the State. The president and advisory board with the committee cn subscriptions of the Darlington Manufacturing Company met Monday. The Committee on sub scriptions reported $85,000 subscribed, and that they did not propose to relax their efforts until they bad raised at least $150,000. The advisory board, wita a majority of the stockholders, have ap plied to the clerk of Court for a charter under the name of the Darlington Man ufacturing Company. A gratifying fact in connection with the Newberry cotton mills ia that only $20,000 of the $157,000 of capital ?tock comes fro ii outside the otate. Of the $137,000 raised in the State only $10,000 cornea from outside Newberry County, viz., $3,000 from Columbia, $2,500 from Abbeville, $3,000 from Charleston and $1,500 from Oreen ville. Of the $127,000 raised in the County, $118,000 comes from the town of Newberry. President McClure, the president of the Bank of Chester, who is interested in the organization of a cotton manufac turing company at Cherokee Ford, on the Broad River, Union County, is very much encouraged in regard to the suc cess of the protect. The idea is to util ize the site of the old Maguetic Iron Works at the point named. The situa tion ia a splendid one and the water power is practically unlimited, and a good judge has expressed the opinion that there is force to run every spindle in the State. A good deal of the money baa already been subscribed, and it is thought that the scheme will soon take practical shape. The charter baa been obtained, and it is understood that the new mill is to be dubbed the "Magnetic Manufacturing Company." The Union J\me? ia authorized by a responsible gentleman in that town to say that he will make one of forty to raise $160,000 for the purpose of build ing a cotton factory in the County of Union. The Time* adds : "Surely there are forty persons in this County -vho can command $4,000 each, or eighty $2,000, or one hundred and fifty $1,(00, and are willing to subscribe it to such a laudable and profitable enterprise? Or, if there art not a sufficiant number able to contribute those sums, there are hun dreds able and willing to subscribe smaller amounts, from $100 to $500. to make up the necessary total. The ball of enterprise is now started in this County, in the direction we have long tried to send it, and if there is any spirit of public enterprise among our people, now is a chance to show it." - In riding across the bridge over Csne Creek. Tn Lancaster County, last Saturday night on a blind horse, Bob Witherspoon, colored, and the horse were precipitated into the creek below, a distance of forty feet The horse was killed. The negro boy fell head down wards on a rock and was not injured. - Returns of tbs procreas of cotton planting show that work is later than usual in every State and Iudicata that on May 1st 74 per cent, of the proposed area was planted, when the usual pro portion is said to be Sf per cent, fn* Virginia and North Carolina it was very late. The percentages planted were: Virginia 16, North Carolina 86. 8outh Carolina 76, Georgia 78. Florida 96, Ala bama 83, Mississippi 82, Louisiana 81, Texas 75, Arkansas 72, Tennessee 67. Au Eccentric Congressman. Not the leaat remarkable feature of the Jersey Cattle Show at Greenville last Monday wat tho address of Col. D. Wyatt Aiken. It was a mixture of pol itics and agriculture, and rather out of place at a meeting which wa* intended presumably to advauce the industrial interests of Greenville County, without regard to the character of a man's poli tics or the color of bis skin. All that Col. Aiken said about agriculture was appropriate ; much that he said about other matters was reckle?s and crude. Ho strongly opposed the Lien law as a curse to the farmer, ?md denounced the change recently made in the l.'xury law as "a greut evil." He criticised the management ?d' the Penitentiary, and denounced the policy of leasing convient to Northern capitalists to make shoes and stockings within the prison walls, because at the expiration of their term of service they would bc turned out of prisou as expert mechanic-* to compete with honest laborers. lie favored the hiring of convicts to railroads, or their employment al cracking stoues to build public roads. The speaker next criti cised the law exempting manufactures from taxation for a term of years as un just, iiueijual and inexpedient. He did not think it Mas righi thal farmers should pay taxes and thal manufacturers should be exempted. Such a distinction was opposed to the spirit of the Consti tution, and did uot encourage manufac tures. To cap the climax Col. Aiken denounced the public sc.iool system of the State as a grand humbug; be de clared that the funds were "wasted, squandered, thrown away ;" that the negroes got most benefit from the schools ; and finally, that he believed the negroes should be educated, but that they should have while teachers. Such was the address with which Col. Aiken endeavored to interest the intelli gent mid progressive people of Green ville. Many will endorse Iiis views upon ibe Lien and Usury lawn, and there may be some who will agree with him as to ibo exemption of manufactures from taxation ; but hi? notions as to the treat ment of convicts and hi? strictures upon our system of public* Bchools will be generally repudiated as reckless aud er roneous. The wonderful growth of manufacture-i io South Carolin?, sines the passage of tho Act of 187? is thc best evidence as to the practical wisdom of that meas ure. Every dollar added to our manu facturing industries will in the cud add to the tuxahle values of the Stale, and the exemption of manufactures from taxation is an indirect benefit to every mau, woman and child in the State. The idea of Co). Aiken that convicts ohould not bo employed at making HIIOCS iu the l'cniieniiary because they will become competitors with honest outside mechanics ?H ridiculous, and bis argu ment that, because n certain negro teach er on his place turned out to be a forger, all negro teachers are lacking in morals is as absuid as il is monstrous. As well Hay that because Oakes Ames was a pub lic plunderer all oilier Congressmen are also thieves and unworthy to be trusted, and that because the New York peniten tiaries are crowded with white convicts all the other white people of New York are criminals. Such au argument is as unworthy of Col. Aiken as it is disheart ening to those who would like to admire bim. Col. Aiken has a greut deal to learn yet. He will find out after a while, perhaps, that nothing he can do or say will retard the growth of geuerous sentiment or stay the progress of the State.-Xews and Courier, - The last reports from the storm in South Georgia show that it went over the track traveled by the cyclones of the past decade. The killed in Georgia are estimated at 45, and the injured at 100. The damage done is estimatod at $250, OOO. On the little creek in Coweta County, (Shakes'? Creek) $50,000 worth of dams were destroyed. Carp and cher fish are floating about in the fields by the thousand, and negroes with seines are making rich catches. *#*"Middle measures are often but middling mensures." There are no ''middlings" about Kidney-Wort. It is the most thoroughly refined "flower" of medicine. It knows no halfway meas ures, but radically uproots all diseases of the kidneys, liver and bowels. It over throws piles, abolishes constipation and treats the system so gently and soothing ly as to prove its true kinship to nature in all its praises. It is prepared in both liquid and dry form. - A little 12-year-old girl io Knox ville, Iowa, was frightened to death by a severe thunder storm a few nights ago. She had been quite well the day before, but awoke during tbestorm and besought ber mother to take her to her bed, "for she ~as afraid of thunder." Her supplica tions were unheeded, and soon the moth er was aroused by tbe child's difficult breath i ag. Approaching the bed with a light she found her in a dying condi tion, and in a few minutes she breathed her last. - The line of breastworks which in 1864 was thrown up around Raleigh, ?. C., is now nearly obliterated. But in somo places, for hundreds of yards, the the nearly perfect line yet stands. Grass grows luxuriantly and keeps the earth iu shape. In one or two places csnnon lie rusting in tbe grass anet ooze. Much of the line, which was continuous, runs through cultivated land, and can only be discovered by a red band on the lighter soil. Yearly the plough is put ting in its work, and ere man y yenni not a single sign of Raleigh's only defences will remain. - Some of the independent republi can papen*- are complaining bitterly nf the preliminary "blunders" of the civil service commission. The only "blunder" that has thus far been committed is the fact that the Independent papers have persistently indulged in the belief that there could be such a thing as civil ser vice reform under Republican auspices. Tbe commission has made no "blunder." It was organized in the interest of the Republican machine, and it will be run in that interest to the ead. Meantime, the Independent papers will continue to regard it as a non-partisan affair, and thousands of really honest Republicans will be none the wiser. - Laureosville Herald: We are prat tled to learn that the grading of the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad is progressing satisfactorily, aU along the line. - A Baltimore dry goods merchant is making bis 110th trip across the ocean blue. - The new Presbyterian Church at Union is nearly completed, and the ladies are working bard for it. - The Tennessee Legislature having made gambling a felony, all tho houses have closed. TBE MAT QUEEN. Who shall she ber When flowers are blooming And hearts rejoicing. And nature assuming Her richest adorning. The Queen remedy shall be, Norman's Neutralizing C*?* JOHN S. MATTIS0N, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ALL Business promptly attended to. Ornc*-Wlth H. G. $cudday. March!?. 1883_M 3m Fresh Garden Saeda. D'LANDRETH dc 8ons and D. li. . Ferry'? Fresh Garden Bead i and Onion Beta for ud? by A. E. TOWERS. Feb 15, 1883 . 31 WARNING. IHEREBY warn aH persons from har boring <>r hiring James Pettigrew, colored a? he is limier cont met to work for nie this vear. ami has left nie without just cause. "Persons dicregarding this nollie will he prosecuted to the full extent Of the jaw. 1 NV. Q. HAMMOND. May 17. IKK! ** Is WARNING. ALL persons are hereby notified that 1'rcssly Williams ii under contract with me for "the vear 188?, anil has left me without ju-t cann-. Those disregarding this notice will be held responsible JA M KS .1. IK Ht HI NS. May IT, 1883 44 1* PIANOS ANO ORGANS. HAVING arranged to furnish PIANOS or olioANS of the hi st makes, I de sire to call attention to the method upon which I do business, and to solicit the pa tronage ol thc Mutical pilbil*. By buying the Instruments I oHer for hale for cash. 1 can dispose of them at th? lowest possible figures, as I have none ol the restrictions whi. h agents Kelling upon commission la bor umler. I keep on hand a supply or Organs which I will he pleased to exhibit to customers, ami will furnish descriptions of Pianos and prices Oiv.- tue a call at G. F. Tolly's Furniture Warerooms, on !>;.::;:.. Street. Correspondence solicited, and promptly answered. 1 <;. M. TOLLY May 17, 188.1 44 Sin. WARNING. ALL persons are hereby warned not to hire or harbor Simon Dotson, as he is under contract with me for the year 1883. Any person or persons disregarding this no tice will be proceeded against at law. JESSE T. ASHLEY. May 10, 1883 43_2 Sweepstakes Thresher FOR SALE, IS first-rate running order. Only used two seasons. The latest improved pattern. Apply to UEO ROE W. LONG, Kiglit utiles South of Anderson, or to SULLIVAN it BRO. ^iay j?, 188.1 43 3? For Sale Clump. Kf\i~\ BUSHELS CLAY COW I'KAS fj\J\J for sale cheap. Address McBEE * BKIOOS, Greenville, S. C. May IO. 183? J3_ _2_ ANDERSON CITY BAKERY". -() Blt EAD and CAKES always on hand. Cakes made to order. Fresh Soda, Lemon, Cream and Sweet Crackers, Candy, Confectioneries, Fruits ami Nuts. Deviled Meats, Cross <fc Blackwell's Chow Chow, Pickles. Groceries and Canned Goods and Soaps. Baskets of every variety. Vases, Cups and Saucers, Chamber Sets and G lass warf. Hammocks, Rubber, Musical and Base Balls, Novelties Tobacco and Se gar*. Smoke my "Lady of the Lake"-an excellent 5c. Segar. L. L. GREEN. May 10, 1883 30_ tim_ Johnstone & Johnstone, DENTAL SURGEONS. AN PER SON, - - S. C. \\7 E, the undersigned, have this day W formeil a partnership to practice our Profession (Dentistry) in the following Towns, viz : SENECA CITY. 1st week of each month. PENDLETON, 2nd week of each month. BELTON, 3rd week of each month. HUN EA PATH. 4th week of each month. JUT The Dental Olflee will be at Ander son City, where one of us can be found at all times. A. P. JOHNSTONE. D. D. S. THEO. JOHNSTONE, D. D.S. April 5, 1883 38 FISH HOOKS. GET READY for FISHING. LARGE LOT HOOKS, LINES, And nil Kinda Tftcltio, AT SIMPSON, REID & CGYS DRUG STORE. May 8, 1883_42_ SHERIFF'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ANDKRHOK Coi .liv. BY virtue of various Executions to me directed, I will expose to sale on the First Monday in June. A. D. 1883, at An derson Court House, South Carolina, all of Defendant's interest in ONE TRACr OF LAND.. Containing 8eventy-one (71) acres, more or less, bounded by lands or A. W. Poore. Dan iel Ragsdale, J. T. Dean and J. P. Cox. Levied on as the property of John J. Mattison in favor of J. P. Cox and others, against John J. Mattison. TKBMS or SALE-Cash. Purchaser to pay extra for all necessary papers. JAMES H. MCCONNELL. Sheriff Anderson County. H. C. May 10. 1883 43 4 Keep the Ball in Motion ! PRICES DECLINING. Full Stock on Hand and to Arrive. 2OOO LB8' 8TEEL J'LOWS, at jVUU tk:. per pound. 8ingle and Double-foot Plow Stocks 8wede Iron, Heel Bolts, Ac. 1?> Barrels good Family Flour, from $5.50 to $0.50 per barrel. 3,000 lbs. best Rio CofTees, 3 to 10 lbs, to the dollar. 8,000 lbs. Bacon Sides, fat and greasy which we will exchange with you aa cheap as any other man. ^ Porto Rico, English Island, (something fine,) Mu8cavado and New Orleans Molas sea, from 40c. to 60c. per gallon. Good Ric? from 12 to M tbs. to the dollar Granulated Sugar, 9 lbs. to the dollar, or by the barrel 10c. per lb. Light brown Su gar 9c. per lb. Dark brown Sugar 81c per pound. * /. wV&i* ?f ?Prin8 Prints. Cotton ades, light Woolen Coisimeres. Cashmareta "St Will be offered you proportionately A good line of Linen and Cassi mere 8pr ng Clothing, and Hats thst can't be beat for qnality and prices. Respectfully, ?J. ?T. BAKER. March 15.1883_28 fy K l D N E Y -WO RX ? THE GREAT CUBE Ll ! ^?PJMT-l-8-M-l e ia lt la CST all th* painful *<-ff rf thaUl ? PBHFKOTLY CURCO. ? TEA. ?' KEEP the beat Young Hyaon^Irope ?un Powder, Oofong and fen ?E reakfastTeatobehad. TOsatetaW? starch 15,1883 DRESS GOODS, DRESS GOODS, _DRESS GOODs Read, Mark and learn how LOW these Go can be Bought ! BEAUTIFUL Hue of half Vi uMte^ Good*......loc. Worth { fl Klecant lot of Cashmere*, m ?jj the latent ?bude?.12J W?rl|l gi M Plaid, brocaded and Checked Gooda.15 Worlh M Nun's Veiling, in crushed strawberry, crushed raspberry, m ? string pink.'?(i worth 25 Double width Cashmeres.2o worth io fl Plain Ii: Dtings, all wool.25 worth 83 Sj AU wool Nun's Veiling.33 worth 50 fl Lace Huntings, all wool.33 worth 50 fl BLACK GOODS. BLACK GOODS, BLACK GOODS llalf Wool Goods.10 worth 12? I Cashmeres.J* worth 20 I Lace Huntings.10 worth 20 H Lace Huntings.-.20 worth 25 Lace Huntings, all wool.?U and 33 worth 40 Nun's Veiling, all wool, 44 inches.0U worth 75 Cashmere, all wool, 30 inches........00 worth 75 Cashmere, all wool, 42 inches,.. . .76c. und $1.00 word, 90 il Albatross Cloth, all wool, 44 inches.90 worlh 1 io H French Jersey Cord.........1.25 worth ljty fl lllack Silk, from.;...;.to LfiO worth 25 ,& cent, more than thfi price asaed. ? . Beautiful Lawns at OJ and 8c. The Hest Lawns nt 12J, worth l?. White (Joi io endless quantities. tt?r Auy ono ordering any of these doods to the amount of Ten Dollar, ??fl receive them at their nearest Repress Office, express prepaid. Es MARSHALL & CO., Post Office Box No. 4, Greenville, 8. c. fl May 17.J883 g , _22_ 'vj A NEW AND STYLISH LOT SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING! -AT J. !P. Srallivan & Co.'sl 4N?> SUITS COMPLETE AT THE LOWEST PRICES! SHOES. LADIES* and VISSES SLIPPERS, OLD LADIES' LOW CUT. low heeled, brwad bottom Shoes. THE BEST SUGAR AND COFFEES Always on hand at the VERY LOWEST Cash prices. Respectfully, J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. I May 17. 1883_???- '? ? GOOD THINGS TO EAT - AT - W. ?. LIGON'a JUST RECEIVED a fine lot of Standard Canned Tomatoes. Tomato? and Okra, Peaches, Apricots. Salmon, Nardi DOH and Haekl ??rel. My Canned Om ids are of the VEltY BEST QUALITY put up, aud guaran Mao, a fresh lot of Oat Meal, Hagar Cured Ham*, and many other tl mat will tempt your appetite. No trouble to get up a good dinner now. MY STOCK OP DHY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, Staple Hardware and Groceries Generally, Will be sold at the VERY LOWEST LIVING PRICES, and the public are respfctfn'l] lolicited to give me a trial. May 17, 1883 44 W. S. LIGON. T G. CUNNINGHAM & CO., AGENCY FOR OLD HICKORY WAGON. ROLLER BREAST COTTON GIN, HIGGINS' SULKY PLOW. STARKE'S DIXIE. SYRACUSE CHILLED-and other FLOWS. FULL LINE Builders' snd Mechanics' Hardware, Nails, Butts, Knob Locks, Bash Fast, Frame Pulleys, Files, Rasps, Saws, (Hand and X Cut,) Barring Machines, Bench Planes. Bailey's Pat. Planes, Plane Irons, (all sizes,) * Foot Adze and Handles. Bench Axes, Hatchets, Nippers, Plyers, Trowels, Ganges, Spoke Shaves, Saw Setts, (Hand and X Cut.) Wrenches, Brace and Bit?, And EVERYTHING needed by Builders, Mechanics and Farmers. -ALSO, Grroceries, Staple Dry Goods, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes,] \ ay 17, 1883 44 TO ALL WANTING I GOOD GOODS j CHEAPlj ? have a good stock of HATS, CAPS? DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. PROVISIONS. HEAVY IND FANCY GROCERIES. 1 WALL PAPERING, I md many other things too tedious to men Ion, which I will sell low for cash, orto prompt paying customers on time. Give me a call. A. B. TOWERS. Feb 1,1883 _29_ *i?uiO?> csnoji uoausQ '?VOIS V HHO idooxa-A*poqA*mi mojj m? oip jo uossM ejtp msq> Xnq 1,uog ?aiajaoaS ?seq aq> ir? inojj 'aaa? naanve? $ay State Shoes and Bopto, f\S hand and arriving a full lin? of Say I V# Ruile Shoes and Boo s. The but good? in the mnrktt. Warranted not to rip or have w -od or pasteboard In them. Call and sea them. I charge nothing for showing. WUK? ,o?? *. ? TOWER?. Fab 1, ITO 29 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED -o ANDERSON, 8. C., Jan. 23,1883. WE would again politely call the allen Mon of the trading public to the following That wo have now, and constantly keep on hand, a large atock of Goods in the vi nous lines, consisting of Meat, Flour, Coffee, Sogar, Molasses, Dry Goods, Hardware. Shoes, Hats, ?addlery. Yankee Notions, Crockery, Ploughs and Plow .Stocks, Hoes, Hames and Trace Chains. Axes, Nails, Iron, Tobacco, Clothing, And all other Goods generally needed In this market, including the celebrated Ntadebaher Wagens sod Wagon Harness. We are agents for the "Dow Law" Cotton Planter, said to be the beat in UB?. Also, for the Hasard Powder Ct. . of which we keep stored in oar MsguJn? here a full supply, which we sell as cbesplj as it can be bought in any market. We are also still the agents of the wrU renoumed Wando Fer-tlllaer and Ada Phosphate, and of the Waieda Fer* ll ll Ber. manufactured by the aameOcnv Eany, prices for all of which are reason* le, either for cash or at Cotton opt ton. We would like very much to furnlah ?11?' our friends this year their Goods sud Fer tilizers, and will promise to do them justice in every instance. We buy Cotton largely for Cash on ow own and for noooont of foreign bnyen,?a are alwaya in the market. And to those who now owe us money, on any account whatever, past due, vt Jr ?ure you that tee need the money, and * m got to come right away. Very truly yours, Ac, Bf ockley, Brown.* FretweR. Feb 1,1888 29_JL ALWAYS ON HAND AT R. Y. H, Nice's Shoe Shop ON GRANITE ROW, over W. F Store, a fins lot of BEADY MADE GAITERS. * BOOTS AHP J He also keeps the very batstot*? LBATHBB. antf the Finest of JMgS Any one falling to get a fit ont of made work can leave their rn***0^,;"^* certainty of . fit, and. don't forge? ?. will be done according to promita. . I DEFY COMPETITION, whenJjo? manship and stock Are duly consideren. Feb 16, Igg_St_ii The Best Shoes in tho WjPjf Jr Ail now receiving my SpringgKgjg, . Men, Women and Children^??"fg ne celebrated "Bay State"' ?2*?2. beat in the mai kc*. Every P^r*/;^cV Come and eco them. No charge tor ? lng. A. B. TOWER*. Na 4 Granite Row, Anderson, * w March ?S? 1883 W