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or ii. B. MURRAY & CO. A^T^T ^"T----=====- -.- - l D!_--_- ANDERSON. S. C.. THnwsn vY MOIWTXT?4 rvrmiwn J IKK?V VOT.TTM-R YTY -xrn io Reasons Why You Feel Badly. Eaausc your stomach is not doing its work properly Mause your liver is out of order, and wants righting Ritme your Wood 1S ??ni and needs iron in it. '(duse you are troubled with iv.-rvous aches and pains Simse von are vexed with languor and debility, 0CO Reasons Can bo Set Asido by tho Use of Brown's Iron Bitters which will , your enfeebled stomach: and heh) it lo dicre?? ' cn wm .?? languor out. Considering that any man who has a dollar may buy of the nearest druggist a bottle of BROWN'S IRON3ITTERS< there is no reason w?y^n?e continue to fcc! badly, just for the fun of it. way people j; F. irtt-I- _y PRANK E. HARRISON. THE DRUG STORE HAS BEEN OPENED AT LAST ID Broyles' New Building, South Main Street, by HILL & HARRISON. IrpllEY will always keep on hand a FULL LINIO OF EVERYTHING kepi in a First J Class City Drug Store. 1 ,r;"' LAMPS, BRUSHES, all kinds, PAINTS PERFUMERY, COMBS, large and small, MEDICINES DRUG8, OILS, 4c &c' |JA.M:E8 M. I'AYNE IS COMINO TO THE FRONT WITH A TREUENBOUS 8TOCK OF , BRIDLES, COLUBS, SADDLES, WHIPS, &C. rESE Goods have been made up AT HOME. I have also Machine Gouda made of! the heat material and workmanship, which I will also oller at LOWER TRICKS liucsn be bought anywhere in the State. I don't keep Shoddy machine work. I gunr IgKtllGoods sold in my Shop at unprecedented low* price?. I nm deter red not to be undersold hy any one. lisre the largest stock of" Horse Goods that ever was in Anderson. ALL I WANT ?fcrthe Public to call and examine before buying, and they viii be convinced that I ?3CHEAPER and BETTER Goods than, any one, because I understand my business . taring material and made up Goods. 1 sell hand-made Harness from $10 to $30, Mu ti?from $7.50 to$ii5.(K). Collars, Undies, Saddles and Whips as low as can be bought .cy market at ?etail. I also make WAGON HARNESS a specialty. I have all pi? and styles of one and two-bnrsu Wagon Harness. i; will pay any one to jjive me a trial before buying elsewhere, and satisfaction guar c?l on ail doods sold in mv Shop. JAMES M. PAYNE, Over Wtillite & Wilhiio's ?rug: Store. Attg?O. 1883_7_ 8m J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., NO. 12 GRANITE ROW. BOOT? and SHOES, Nought for Cash from some of the most reliable Manufacturera in the country, we are enabled to sell them at the very lowest rates. We sell Southern Manufactured leans, Knitting Cotton and Clark's 0. N. T. Spool Cotton, The Rest in the market. -We want everybody to come in and listen to our price?. G-ood Coffee a Specialty. Sept 13.1883 J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. LADIES' STORE! 1FTER an exteuded trip by the Louisville Exposition, Cincinnati, Niagara, 1 New York and Baltimore M:ISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS IS AT HER OLD PLACE WITH A HANDSOME LOT OF DRESS GOODS, HATS, NECKWEAR, GLOVES, -AND SHOES OF EVERY KIND AND QUALITY. ^elected her SPLENDID STOCK in person, and is ready with her accora fried assistants to wait on the public. ,?e has determined NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD. Give us a call and be con ?etd. JW 21,1881_ 10 ? BEAUTIFUL PARLOR OR HANDSOME ROOM only bo bad with the aid of FINE FURNITURE, but either may be * made comfortable by tho outlay of a little money in good Furniture. ,You will find any style, from the fine8t $300.00 Suites! down to Suites that ty ??t $17.00. You will find EVEEYTHH1NG usually KfT III 1 FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE, ^witiR Goods can be bought CHEAPER of me than any other house in SEEING IS BELIEVING, ??Ml that I ask is that you will call, see my immense Stock of Furniture and ' *9 Prices. to, 1882 GK h\ TOLLY. 14 _. WANTED. COTTON ?OTTON SEED I WP . MLV^ pay Fifteen Cents cash per S?^?OR 10,000 Bushels Sound Dry 2^T* Seed, delivered to us at this ??.?tore the first of November. Will IT**6 Cottonseed Meal for Cotton 8eed. ^aU883 R. 8. HILL & Co., Anderson, B. O. 10 2m arolina College, COLUMBIA, 8. C. ,Qa? M. McBRYDR, President. UT?~?&3&!* * Vacation Juno ?-tSniON FREE. Annual fee Hall. Vr^' T?TT10N FREE. Annus W liTl'J10- DoRrd at Stoward's H ?^va Private families, $12 U? $15 ?175* SxPeni?? ebonld not exceed I. e*,J;?r-re<lul?,*?nenUi for admlsslc St? i?LM' MCBRYDE, President. ANDERSON CITY BAKERY. BREAD and CAKES always on band. Cakes made to order. Fresh Soda, Tunion Cream and Sweet Crackers, Candy S^tioneries, Fruits and Nuts. Deviled1 Meato ?Toas & Blackwell's Chow Chow, Pickled. Groceries and Canned Goods and floans Baskets of every variety. Vases, Cups and Saucers, Chamber Sets and Glass war^. Hammocks, Rubber Musical and Base Balls, Novelties. ToUco er Se gars. Smoke my "Lady of the ?I - -an excellent 5c. Segar. ^ ^ OREEN. May 10,1883 ?_^_ Building and Building Materials. WK. BEACHAM, Contractor and . BnUder, I)ejK>t* Street, ^derKUi s O Dealer in Sash, Blinds, Doors Ac. A .A'? fn^iale of Rough and D.cased Lnm h? Fumines Window and Door, Frames ? Wd doora ?'tee! "cady for he building. Orders for Work or Materials FIGHTING THE EXCISE. A Sketch From tho Laud uf the Moon .bin*,n. BY EMORY SPEER. ! can give nu sufficient reason why the title 'Moonshiner" has been cou fer red on our wayward countryman who per sistently evades the law, deludes the ex ciseman, and bereaves the treasury. It seems inexplainable. The moonlit glory of the semi-tropical night is not jk censo ry to his offense. Its soft light, while bathing tho Blue Ridge in beauty, can not penetrate the shadowed cliff or gloomy ravine, where the "still-' is "set up," and if it be supposed that the be nign influence of the "harvest moon" allures the moonshiner, like the fairies, to live and work out of doors-be it known that the Byronic sentiment, "there's mischief in the moon," is true for him as for other people. This mis chief iu the Bummer confuses his chem istry, sours bis "sweet mash," and de stroys thc virtue of his highly popular product. It is inexcusable perhaps to dispel so pleasant and general a delusion, but there is nothing of moonshine in the make up of the moonshiner. Not until "jocuud morn stands tiptoe on thc misty mountain top," does he begin to despoil the government of ninety cents a gallon, exciso tax on what that gr?a? economist, Mr. Kelley, calls bis "corn brandy and apple whisky." They are a singular and interesting people, who defy" the United Slates of Ame ?ea ta collect a tax ou spirits. They are out of chronological order. For twenty-one years the excise laws have been of force, and yet the patriotic red men, who, with revolutionary ardor emptied the toa iuto Boston harbor, were not more hostile to the stamp tax, or the tax on tea than the moonshiner to the revenue on his mountain dew. The mooubbiuing or "blockading," as it is called in the South, i. e. "running the blockade" to market, of tho revenue bureau, is in the main confined to the mountain country of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. Thc Floridiau may, and does sometimes, make a "run" ol rum from the "skimmings" of the juice of the sugarcane, but this is very iufro quent. The Blue Ridge mountains of Georgia, with their unnumbered spurs and ridges, and the wooded summits ol the Southern Allcgbauies iu Western North Carolina, the "Land of the Sky," described in tho charming story of Chris tian Reid, is the land of the moonshiner. Why the people of mountain countries should be the steady and implacable en emies of the excise laws, has perhaps not beeu explained, but tho fuel is undeni able. The inountaiuera of Western Pennsylvania inaugurated the whisky rebellion of 171KJ, which led Mr. Jeffer son tu make that denunciation of the system as "infernal," which has been the text for ao much oratory in the national legislature. Nu doubt thc trouble is in the difficulty and expense of transportation of the crops of corn and grain over roads almost impassable, The mountain roads and streams, how ever picturesque, are exasperating to man and beast, and sure destruction lo whee! carriages. A ford on "Tiger" creek Kuluin County, Ga., bears and merits thc expressive name "Smash Waggin." Bul the same designation is descriptive ol almost every ford where the mountain torrent is ventured by the hardy team ster. It is a common saying in Nortl: Georgia, "it is worth t^vo loads of corn tc haul one load to market," The price ol a bushel of coin is sixty cents, of a gal lou of corn whisky two dollars, and three gulluns uf whisky can, by the illicit pro cess, be distilled from one bushel uf corn and transported with as little cost. Simi lar conditions existed in Pennsylvania ir 1793, and the hostility to the tax unde: these circumstances produced so violen an in flamat ion that we find recited in tin Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, ou minister to Holland ut that time, a con venation with Pichegru, general en che of the French army there, and the inter cst ?ng topic seems to have been this barm whisky trouble. Perhaps the devote? republicanism of Pichegru apprehends from this disorder a danger to tho younj Western republic, whose recent establish menl had done so much for the rights o man. It was only a little vigorou mooushining. The practice of illicit distillation wit! the quaint and simple mountain folk who are addicted to it, is like tbe craz for the cards and dice with iheinveterat gamester. While successful, its profit are large, and the love of excitement i a strong motive with the moonshinei The people of the moonBhining countr have many of the adventurous charac teristics of the frontiersman. One ma stand in the capitol at Washington, am iu the famous fresco fronting the stair way to the western galleries of the rious of Representatives, a panorama of th westward march of the back-woodsmer in every striking male and female figur he may see a type easily to be modelei in the land of the moonshiner. Tb rugged scenery too, might havo bee; copied from nature, in the mountains o Georgia and the Carolinas. I am not to be understood that tb greater part of tho mountain people ar affected with this unlawful infatuatior It is not so bad aa that. There is healthy and growing sentiment arnon the more well-to do class in oppositio to the "crooked" work. This sentimen however, does not go to the extent c voluntary aid and comfort to the official of the revenue bureau. Indeed, thi might not be unattended by unpleasar consequences to the volunteer. Nor i the moonshiner "unreconstructed." H has no politics in his hatred of the rev< nuo laws. He usually, though not a ways, voteB the "dimmicrat" ticket, bi in the days of violent resistance, no happily past, he eliot hia long rifle i Democratic and Republican officers wit rigid impartiality. It is noteworthy tin the moonshiner, while not a "tetotaller, is usually moderate in the usc of spirit This is generally true of the mountai people. In the eleven counties of tl Blue Ridge judicial circuit of Georgi; until very recently there was but or barroom. One moy attend "court week the semi-annual assize, in any of tl mountain counties, and though the pei pie congregate in great numbers to wi ness the trial of tho causes, to listen t the eloquence of the lawyers, and esp cially to engage in the Georgia nastin of swapping horses, he will see but litt or no drunkenness. If he is entire trustworthy, it is not Improbable he wi be invited to "Uko something, and like Mr. Swiveller, he will psrtakei ol ..modest quencher," he will be piloti into the woods surrounding the com house square." There tied to a ?win intr limb," ? tne sure-footed pony, i watchful mule, who has borne the moui taineer "on hospitable purpose bent from his cabin-home (ar un the side the mountain, or nestling ju some jni cave accessible only by paths guiltless the wheel-track. A suspicious lookn bag is tied behind *^ .trfdIeorb.it ;??u?rf"w3.*??." ?><?.'?< a Georgian promptly discovers is what "Sut Lovingood" calls "the bulgo of a jug." The corn-cob stopper is extracted, and the contents are discovered to bo a j colorless liquid, with a fragrant aroma, I not unlike the "shuck" of the ripening I Indian corn. Ii is undeniably exhilirat i ilig, and il" gentlemen ol' experience an? t to be credited, when properly made by ; a skillful "stiller," has tho advantage o'f i monongahela or bourbon, in that it bo ; queaths no residuary headache. This is i tile "mountain dew," now as renowned , as the "righi Holland's," smuggled to the cave of Ellengowan bv the swift lug ger of "Dirk Uatteraick." j The uurelaxing efforts of thc govern : mont ollicers to break up the moonshin ing, have at times diminished the extent j of the depredation on the revenue. Let i there be u large corn crop, and the stills j will be "set up" again, and the thin ; columns of smoke, rising in the transpa ! rent air of these high altitudes, will show j that a "run" is being made which will I make no contributions to what the moon j shiner, as well as other matters of ecoiio I mic science, esteem n too plethoric treas ury. I beard a gentleman in one of the I mountain counties say that be could stand in bis front porch, on a calm day, and see the smoko from five distilleries. Tho ollicers of tho revenuo department j are at this time, many of them, men of : high character and courage. They often j have interesting reports of their "raids j in tho mountains. I have one belorc 1 me, which is a fair average in interest, I The revenue agent, Colonel Ch-n, now dvvoted lo tho flag of the Union, was thc captain of the battery whose enfilading lire of solid sind shattered thc line of Fitz John Porter at the second Mantissas; and afterwards the trusted lieutenant colonel of that redoubtable partisan, led the column of fours in man) a stubborn fight with pistol and sabre ir "Mosby's Confederacy." Tho raid is ii Gilmer, a beautiful mountain county o Georgia, watered by the Elljay, the Car teeny, tho Tickanetee and many ollie: limpid streams with Indian names quit? 118 musical as these, but whose brigh waters are, alas, too frequently utilize* for ihe purposes of illicit distillation, give the account in thc exact language o thu gallant colonel. He is in ambus! with his party, watching iwo distiller ies : "About 7:!10 o'clock the next mornini we beard a strong tramp tm the iiil opposite, and in a lew moments n loni: lauk mountaineer passed within a fev feet ol' us and approached tho distillery but to our disappointment, did not entei He did, however, go to a keg of whisk; biddeu a short distance away and knock ing oui the bung, took a long pull, am carefully replacing the precious deposit walked ofl". One hour more and w again heard footsteps, this time fron our side, and presently two men an preached in their shirl sleeves, ?vident!] ? ready for work. As they reached tb distillery one of them began to call th i bogs, aud soon there was a largo numbe of them collected. After feeding them [ the men went into the distillery, but al most immediately one of them come ou and started back in the direction fror which they came. 1 then ran for th distillery and >ucceedcd in getting ver near the party there before I was di? covered by him. Instantly he gave loud shout of warning to the mau wh bad just left, and who was now out t sight. Exhibiting my pistol, I ordere bim to go inside of the distillery an make no noise, lie said, "Please don hurt me, I won't holler." The warnin was misunderstood, nnd hi. compnnio was soon seen approaching very cauliout ly. I ordered my pusse into the shaun so that lie might come into the tra* My prisoner suddenly shouted, "Kui pap ; run, pap." I seized him, and wit a deputy's baud on his mouth, betwee us wc managed to smother his cries, an his "pap" approached very cautioual; Finally thinking he would come n closer, I made a rush for him, and oui running bim, returned with a most ri luctaut cotnpauion, and began tho wor of destroying the distillery. The wor ' was soon done, and well done-not, hov ever, before a wild eyed man, riding mule, dashed up, drew rein beside m and yelled out : "The revenues ai coming. Tear oui ! Tear out !" Iban ly had time to explain matters to tb gentleman, until over the hill, a breathless, came another, followed in h? baste by still auotber, both sboutin "Tear out ; tear out ! The revenues a coming !" These people bad been i the vicinity of the distillery at which left the deputy collector, and the mooi shiners arriving and proceeding to wor the officers arrested them, and began t! work of destruction. The noise rcachit the ears of these men, they atonco "toe in" the situation, and Bought to save tl distillery captured by me, butas will I seen, were "just in time to be too late Having finished our work, we returned Jasper with our prisoners, who were HOI joined by nu me rous friends, muk ii quite a large party, and the next di they were arraigued aud held over by tl United SlatcB Commissioner." The thoughtful provision of this moo shiner for his hogs, reminds one that ll hog sometimes is himself a guide for tl revenue officers. Your toper is not mo fond of the product of the still than this useful animal of its residium slops and refuse. Not long ago a dro of fine porkers were driven to market a Southern city. Their route led past registered distillery. Scenting the f miliar process from afar off, they sto ped. With one thought they faced tl distillery, and with a celerity wbi< rivalled that of their relatives in Iii bl it story who "ran down a steep place in the sea," they broke column for the eu culent elops. A revenue officer standi by asked the driver, "Where did yt buy them bogs?" On investigation was found that the mountaineer charge of their early education h maintained an unregistered distillery a tranquil spot, which would no don have escaped the vigilance of tho "re*, nues," but for the inconsiderate and u grateful conduct of bis pigs. A deputy marshal carelessly saunter into the front yard of a citizen who w a suspect, but against whom there n no inculpatory proof, "I found a blocks still down there on the branch," said t deputy. "Wat brat ch? I know not ing about it," replied the honest y< man. "What sort of a looking place it?" "Nothin" portickler," said t deputy, drawing a powder-begrimm Smith & Wesson, and wiping it on 1 coat tail. "There were some mighty fi hogs lhere, and I shot 'em accordm' law. It is a pity that me,"', don't belo to nobody." "Jc-rusalcm 1" bewail the innocent one. "Yer hain't si them 'shotes,' hev ye * And with tl he made a bee-line for the still house, whose existence a moment before he h been supremely unconscious. It is p haps unnecessary to say? that bis "shot* were in their usual health, and wi clamorous for their accustomed be vern There are many ludicrous facta brou| out on the trial of the moonshiners, s nobody enjoys them more keenly th the large audience of moonshiners w are ever present in the Federal cou room, many of them awaiting their ti on similar developments. "1? company with Gaston," said Dep uty Collector Wilson, a bravo follow, who liai himself been shot through thc budy in a struggle with a desperate moonshiner, "1 left Gainesville on a 'raid' through the Mud Creek settlement. That night we tore up a distillery at Crane's and just before day we arrived at Meeks'*, lt was under the side of a mountain right un the creek. A font log across the creek lcd righi into the 1 distillery. Tho top of the flied was level with tho hank above it. Gaston climbed np thc bank, and made a hole in the roo ", and then concealed himself in the laurel, which grew thick all around. 1 would not cross the footing, because I knew that when Meeks canto in thc morning ho would seo my tracks in tho frost; BO I went down tho creek and waded through where there was a 'riHie' ; (i. e. a shallow). I hid io the lauri ! ut tho end ol' thc footing, and waited lor . Meeks to come. Wo waited till ' out ; sun up, and 1 beard him coming down I tho trail through the bushes, lie was ? whistling anti dancing. Ho would walk j a few steps and then stop and dance. I Ile felt good. His feet kept time splcud : id. He came down to tho end of thc log, and looked across tho creek into the distillery. Ho then went across, went in, aud began to work. Ile made a tire in the still, aud began to stir the mash. Canton understood I was to give tho ?ig ual, when ho would drop through tho hole and catch bim. I stepped to thc end of thc log and waved my handker chief to Gaston, Oaston, pistol itt hand, dropped through tho hule, ami Meeki bolted out with a loud yell. Ile was thc worst scared man I ever saw. He wa? half way across the log before he saw nm, and stopped so suddenly that he fell in the creek. The water was pretty deep there. When he came up he blew thu water out of his mouth, and as soon as ho could get breath, said : ' Don't hurt me, boys, I'll give up." He swam and waded out, and we took him in. Hi was pretty cold by tho time wc gol through chopping up tho still, but wc gave him a big drink of his own whisky and bc soon laughed at himself as heart ?ly as we did." It is sometimes true that the moon shiners retaliated on the revenue officer Very recently, a party from the head quarters iu Atlanta were "raiding' through Picken* County. As the conn try was open, they were traveling in . large carriage, which belonged to one o the deputies, and while u long way fron home, were having a comfortable tour One day they cut up a still, and thu night they lodged at a neighboring hotel in the cou td ry town, leaving their car ringo standing in front of the house The morning came, and the stalely am stylish carriage of tiie deputy uppearei ai if during tho night il hud been struct by a cyclone. Its cushioned seats wen disemboweled, the curtains and canop; slit in ribbons, and thc wood-work cl? ?ted to pieces with the ax. Tho dem returned to the capital city, wiser men. A more fiendish revenge, uuu calculated co barrow aud perm.... embitter the official temper, wasiiiilii .< on a party sent out by Collectors-|i a gentleman now high up in tho posta service. They were sixteen in number well mounted, on spirited and handsom chargers, which tho collector had hirci from a livery stable in ChultBnooirn They were out for several days, and wini in tho presence of thc enemy their cam; was pre'ecled by a cordon of pickett After inflicting greal damago on th moonshine industry, they returned, atti at the ond of a long day's march, campe? within a few miles of tho eily. Ibu night all vigilance was relaxed, and lb pickets slept. Hut, when thc revell! aroused them, to their horror and amaze meut, the gallant horse?, which hu? borne them so proudly, were in Ibo eon dilion of Tom O'Sbaoter'fl mare. Th tail of every horse bad been tithe shaved to the hide, or else "nicked" i such fantastic and barbarous fashion tba no decorous deputy could bestride hit wilhout incurring the jeers and ridicul of the populace. Tho party romaine? iu camp all day, and their triumphal: entrance into the city was postpone until the shades of nighl would coucei from the ribald youth tho melauchol aud unusual appcaranco of the cavalcudi When thc astonished gazo ol thc liver mau fell on tho steeds, it is said that i a very loud voice he made sundry bini phemnus remarks, which are unlit fe those puges, and pointing to one of tb fiery, untamed steeds, who was rathe more dilapidated than the others, he it quired, with many expletives "Who i the- do you suppose would hire horse with a tail like thal?" The labor and the fatigue of th officers in tho apprehension of thc otlem ers and destruction of the "plant" ai arduous aud severe. A deputy collect! who "locates" the distillery, cuts dow the stands, spills the beer, chops up th still, and seizes the illicit product, or tl deputy marshal who arrests the oilende must be skilled in the science of woot craft. He muet ride like a cow-boy, au on foot bc as much at home among ll rocks and scaurs of the Blue Kidge i the McGregor on his native heath, li must be discreet and courageous, and is most unfortunately true that at timi a quick eye, and steady hand with revo ver and carbine, are sudden and imper five requisites. Ordinarily, the caplun are made without serious risks, but, no withstanding, the careless temper of tl moonshiners there have been iu the pa the most tragic conflicts. In these ei counters, there is nothing fluttering our country save the determination the officers to do their duty, nnd tl courage of officer and outlaw ; but in tl supreme emergency the ludicrous pha of tho moonshiner is generally conspic ona. "We set out," narrates a revenue ol cer, "to take the distillery of M Wejygow there would be a despera fights The distillery was located iu hollow, surrounded by dense forest When the party got within a hundn yards of the house M-n, who w inside, called out with an oath, 'Cou no farther. I'll kill tho last one of yoi Tho posse pressed on without rcpl Wheu they arrived in thirty yards, M thrust his gun through a port-hole ai fired at them, hut before he could wit draw his gun it was shattered by thc rifle balls. He seized another gun, ai part of the stock waa shot oiT. Tl firing now became incessant. D-s, tl deputy marshal, and M-n were firing each other through the aame port-hoi while his other deputies opened fire < M-n from the rear, through other poi holes. M-n had already been wounde and at this unexpected attack he cri ont to D-a : "1 surrender. For Goc sake, don't let your men kill me "Open the/loor, theo," said D-s. "I w protect you." He promptly threw opt the door, and rushed into D-s'embrac Though one of his arms bad been bi ken, between the wrist and the elbo and two fingers shot from his left han ho managed to hug D-s around tl neck, saying: "Honey, don't let the kill me. D-s assured him he shou not bo harmed. It is hard not to admi the daring of the bravo outlaw, and wi but a moonshiner, at such a momei would apply to his captor the endearing appellation "Honey.*' Tho random moonshiner baa not ceasefl industriously to ply his vocation ; but tiie lighting, we trust, is over, and the oflicers of tho internal revenue bureau penetrate the wildest regions, and tako into custody the most hardened offend ers, without display of unusual force. This is largely due lo the personal cour j age of individual officers, and to thc conservatism and considerate 1 temper which has for sonic time past marked the policy ol'the treasury depart ment. Trivial violations are not prose cuted. A liberal discretion i* given the ? government counsel, and often sentences . are suspended after conviction, and the I sword of justice is held above the con victed ono hy a thread so Blender that an untoward movement on his port will precipitate the impending punishment. : This liberal policy of the government is ! likely to prevent any local encourage i ment to tho violations-, and if the protea ! sional offenders are vigorously proseeu j ted, this queer compound of good humor ! and daring lawlessness, of insouciant I deviltry and cunning smuggler)*, of liar I dy endurance and weak self-indulgence, will live only to enliven the pages of fiction, and to idealize the reconstruction era of thc great revolution, which has made a new America. To this end, nothing will so largely contribute as that growing devotion to the institutions of our common country, and that respect for its laws, which is a characteristic of the youri,: men of tho South. A NORTH CAROLINA ROMANCE. The I.mo: tl Ulili n I'milculs ol un OI<l Safe - Lucky Find tor un Ui-filmu (liri. The correspondent of the Cincinnati papers writing from Jamestown, N. U., says : This (plaint old place, which Wet in tho centre of one of the Quaker set tlements, was during the war a fa vc ritt resort of ' refugees," by which name were designated those persons whost homes in the Eastern section of the Statt were inside the danger lino or in Conn ties already held by the Federal troops In this sleepy town these found a haver of refuge and made themselves comforta ble, to remain while tho war lasted They brought hither their money, ant in the old fashioned hank stored Con fed crate bonds and currency in grea amounts. The crash came, in tho lula 1 Silo, and Stunemau'a raiders whirlet down so near that most of the refuged prepared to Hy. A little later tho wa; ended. The big old safe, as solemn a thc grave, and as chary of its secrets was shut. Hut few of the depositors hat withdrawn the now hopeless currency i continued. .Some of the refugees lind died, other had been suddenly called away, others a tim last moment, amid all thc excitctneu of thc hour left. The bank, a dead cor I pnralioii, ceased to exist, dying as it bat lived-lustily. Years rolled by, encl making the old safe and its secrets mor solemn still, us it stootl cobwebbed ii one of the lower rooms of the gloom; tdd brick bank building. (tumorsof its contents being ol valu began to be created in tho fertile field imagination, and it was whispered tba in its deep rt cesses lay piles of Holid sil vcr, vast quantities of bonds, jew cir wortli a prince's ransom, and finally tlu conten?a of the safe became a matter c daily conjecture. Last year the "boom in Confed?ralo bonds began. Sleepy old Jamestown was insensibl to "boom."' The word was too new What of it ? Hut, nevertheless, one da; two hoary-headed old officers of thc lon dead bank hobbled to it, opened thc doo and entered tho musty room, in a reces of which sat the great sale. They trici tile lock ; il would not open. A lock smith was sent for, but even his efibrl were unsuccessful. The old men gav up the attempt, hut o' hers took up th work. Keen speculators bent thei hearts on getting into tue safe. A mai modern in his ideas, said he would sc that il was forced, but kept his own cour sel. Oil Wednesday laut another proc?s: sion, if so it might bo termed, entere the building, one of thc men who con posed it being a man whose bullet bea and cropped hair gave him Ihn aspect < a criminal. Ile looked at tho safe. Tl ethers retired. Half an hour later thei was an explosion. Returning, the part found tho door of the safo open. TL man, a pardoned convict from tho pen tentiary at Haleigh, who in by-gone dni had been a "cracksman," bad mai sncedy work concerning tue antique saf The old man, ex convict, two speculate in Confederate bonds and half a doze spectators were in the room, while ou side were a curious crowd of perhaps 01 hundred. The safe was ransacked. From i capacious depths were taken out qui $3,000,000 in Confederate bonds, wbi nearly a million in State bonds and much in Confed?rale and Slate current was also discovered. The bonds were tied in rolls or in bo es, and thc names of tho owners cou be found in but one case. (Jn a lari i roll, the largest, was found tho nam "Adam Exum, 1803." Unrolled, tl bundle was found lo contain 1,500 $h Confederate bonds. What the long de. owner had paid full value for, and wh had for long years been so much pap j only, had again become of worth by o i of tho strangest financial movements j modern times, for the bonds were wor j $0.50 per $1,000. Hut strange aa pus; events might see I future ones were even more curious, i was found that Ezum had gone to Chi j lesion, S. C., in October, 18G3, and not ?og has since been heard of bim. 1 son, a soldier, bad been wounded, b married after the war in Virginia, h come back to North Carolina, died 1871, his wife following a year later, a their child, a girl, bad been placed in orphan asylum. Tho action of the e hank ellice rs was prompt and ju When told about tho girl, so poor, desolate, they sold the Hoods, on whi were her grandfather's name, and si j the money they brought, $8,250, to Raleigh bank, notifying the superinti dent of the orphan asylum where t girl was being cared for. The case is a curious one in all its peels, and is attracting much attenti in the State wherever known. The g is intelligent and modest, and tbougii great fortune cornea to ber, yet I strangeness of its coming gives it an terest which would not ordinary atti to it. The girl bas been sent to a leadi school. - The young doctora who have bi let loose from the schools on a confidi and physic-loving public are likely to many experiments very iutereating to except, perhaps, the subjects of tb? They remind one of the illiterate fell who, on being told that a certain pat! waa convalescent, said, "Why, thal nothing. I can cure convalescence three hours." ANSWER THIS.-IS, there a pen living who ever saw a case of ague, b iousness, nervousness, or neuralgia any disease of the stomach, liver, or li noys that Hop Bitters will not cure? TUG AUTUMN TINT. Hill A rp Mourin* HM Want of Poetry for Uti' Kennon ?if Decay. Atlanta Constitution. Tin' poet? hiivc never written many ver?cs to autumn. They have never written any in its praise, for they are not sweet on falling leaves and the decay of n iture. and the first chill that comes from old winters breath, ?lui ibero is Borne thing very soothing to nie in tho season that is now upon us. I like to see thc fading leaves and thc beautiful colors that adorn the woods, and tho russet brown of tho corn and thc fleecy cotton in the field. Thc children arc mighty happy now picking chinkapins and gathering chestnuts, and walnuts, and mnypops, and black haws, and musca dines; 'Possums are getting ripe too, and sweet potatoes, and young squirrels,! and fall apples, and sugar cano and it keeps tho little chaps busy investigating all these good thing*. Thc fatning hogs have been brought into closer quarters and on turning corn into sausage meat. and lard and sparc ribs and souse and cracklings and a heap of good things. I believe 1 lind rather sacrifico a fut hog upon tho altar of appetite thar, any other animal, for ho cares less about it and would agree to dio by contract for three months'feed of corn. So it isa fair thing ntl round. The autumn of thc blessed southern laud is not Uko tho autumn ol' old England where thc oui poets lived. Tliey fol! into raptures over Italian sunsets just because they bad lived so long in fogs and mist and hard ly e.'er saw thc sun go down at all. Travelerstell us that tho Italian sunsets will not comparo with ours. It is our delight these fagrnnt evenings to sit on the piazza and watch the illuminated clouds nt sunset and listen to the chil dren ns they find a dog or rabbit or a lion or a hear or some other animal in thc shifting clouds. Sometimes it is a huge giant and sometimes a whale, but il is always a strain on their little fancies to make something out of it, whether it fits or not. lint it is a grand panorama and a big canvass, and takes a long brush to paint ll. Nature's artist is mighty busy now painting the green leaves with tints of red and pink and yellow. He has begun on the maples and sweet gums and poplars and sycamores, and touched them up beautifully, and after while he will give them a brighter coat. He slipped up on us unawares and painted our china trees when wo were away from home, cr maybe bo paints at night. I went to sec Mr. Bradley the other day and as I looked around his ntudio nnd saw the heauti lui work with which he and Mrs. Hacen has adorned the walls, I was moro charmed thnn ever with the arl. It catches nature on the wing and keeps her for us. It ?H refilling and in structive in till its tendencies. It is a positive pleasure, an innocent luxury to visit such pluccs and I feel a peculiar pride in the encouragement that our wealthy people are giving to such schools as Mr. Bradley and Mr. Moser and M?SB Franklin have established. It ?B an opening for our girls that conies in a good lime for most everywhere the pa reuts are asking 'what shall wo do with our daughters?' They want to work and earn a living but what can they do." lu thu lust year a sweet young girl from home has made live hundred dol lars with her pencil and crayons. She received fifty dollars for a picture of tho kh?dives wife which she enlarged from a photograph. But painting from nature is a higher grado of tho art. Prang makes beautiful chromo? by machinery, but l'rung must havo an original to be gin on. Somebody must take tho field, and thc forest, and the stream, and tho mountain and work from nature. Here is room for our girls, nud plenty of work for those who have Inste and skill. There is money in it, and pleasure and refine ment. Vinnie Ream got five thousand dollars for a single place of sculpture. They say Mr. Voorhocs was chairman of the committee to employ an artist to make a statue of Mr. Lincoln, and he gave the job to Vinnie over all competi tors. One of them got mad and said thal if ho had have been a pretty little woman with two black eyes ho could huvu got tho job himself. Somebody told Mr. Voorhecs about it and be got mad too and said ko couldn't make him a pietty little woman but he could give him two black eyes, and if he didn't keep out of his way ho would do it. Thc trouble with moat nf the girls is they are in two big a hurry to get mar ried. When they got through Behool or college they begin to look round for a feller, and as fellers of tho right Bort are scarce they kill time for a year or two and then mate with somebody they don't want exactly and the union is not happy. A girl lind better not marry at all than to marry badly. Most of our men are poor and they can't nfTord to marry. The girls and tho boys are all on a Btrain to keep up with society. But if a Sirl can support horself sho is indepen ent and eau lake her pick when she does marry. Mr. Whittier told me that he bad to send to Michigan for girls to work in his office, that he could not find thom hero and he was now paying one eight hundred dollars and another a thousand. That is a bad sign for us. It is a reflec tion either on our girls or our system of education. There are many inviting fields for girls that are not yet occupied. The world is lull of picture cards, and Christmas gems and tney ought to make i.'ie designs, for new patterns are wanted every day. Photography ie an art that would just Buit their taste and there ought to be a gallery attached to every female college. How nice it would be to adorn the walla are fill portfolios with lovely likenesses of every class that grad uates and every teacher and distinguish ed visitor. How nice it would be to see a lady in charge of a gallery in every town. How much hotter she could ar range the dress and the position and how kindly tbr children would take to her gentle voice. I know she would get the patronage of all the young men and could have a trunk full of handsome pictures to look at on Suuday if she wanted them. Mr. Prang offered two thousand dol lars for the beat design of a Christmas card, and a Boston girl got it. Well, I reckon I am a poor judge, but somehow I didn't think much of that card. Bos ton is tho hub though, and Boston girls must live. Southern girls are teaching now all over the land, and that is a good sign. Before the war we used to get all our teachers from New England. But they didn't teach very long, for our young men and widowers married them, and they made good wives and good mothers and they raised up good rebels. They don't come now and our own girls have monopolized the business. There is a nice young lady teaching not far from me and she hos 65 scholars. Another one has started s school close by and my little chaps are going and now J havo to hear their lessons every night, for they are in the cautious state and dou't want to be kept in at recess. A little boy tickled Carl on the foot yesterday and he got a mark for cackling. He says he couldnet help it for it just cackled itself boforo he knew it. I like these country schools. Hy happiest memories are of thc years that I walked two miles to one of them and carried my dinner in a bas ket, and played on the road, and at cess and noon, and stood up in the long class and spelt hard words and como times got head and told my good mother about it and received her approving smile. Those smiles and those tears. What a world of love wero in them. HILT. ARI*. A PERPLEXE? BRIDE. Sorrows or a Woman who Married ono of Twin*. A Milwaukee special 8ay3 : Un Wed nesday last a young couple, evidently from the country, visited the office of Justice Hensler and requested him to make them husband and wife. The name of ibo intended bride was Miss Melinda Pope, of Qenesee, and tho prospective groom was William Conlin, of Neroon. Miss Pope gave her age as 29, while Mr. Con liu informed the justice that ho was lust 21 years old. The justice was a little suspicious that the would-bo husband was not so old as he represented himself, but, as lie swore to the fact, and his statement was borne out by the vigorous protestation of his betrothed, the justice performed tho ceremony. Yesterday morning Justice. Hcnslor was somewhat surprised at receiving a visit from the uowly mudo Mrs. Conlin, accompanied by her legal adviser, who desired a s?p aration from hor huabaud. aha wanted the justico to declare the marriage null and void, aud gave 03 her ii rut reason that her husband had committed perjury in swearing that he was 21 years old, as be hud not yet reached that ago. The justice informed her that it was beyond bia province to undo thc work which ho hud performed. Upon being pressed further us to the cause of this audden re vulsion in her feelings toward her young husband, the lady sobbingly admitted that abe had married the wrong man. She said her husband waa not the indi vidual oho had intended to marry, and that when the ceremony waa performed she waa under tho belief that ahe waa marrying her husband's brother. Her adviser informed tho surprised Justice that there are two brothers named Con lin bearing RO close a reaemblanco to each other that it is almost impossible for their rclativea to distinguish one from the other. Tho brothers are, how ever, the reverso of each other in their characters, one ui them being known and respected as a ?ober and moral young man, while the other is said to be a dissipated scapegrace. Miss Pope, it appears, fixed her affections upon the mornl brother, and when he asked her to marry him, consented. At least, she thought it waa the reapectable brother whom she accepted, but sho baa learned sinco that although her lovo waa given to tho good young man, abe bad been main ly courted and won by his brother. She thinks her position extremely unpleas ant, as abe is not only married to a man she does not love, but is also unable to tell the difTeronco Detwecn her husband and his brother. The Justice told her bo could do nothing for her, and the dis consolate bride departed. How a Clergyman was Fooled. The Rev. Samuel E. Appleton, D. D.. of 1804 De Laucoy Place, tells a good story about a parrot. A young couple called on him ces day and aaken him to marry them. He saw no objections, and in a few momenta they .'were man ?, nd wife. The delighted and happy groom then walked reluctantly toward the min ister, and asked : "Doctor how much is your fee ?" "I have no fixed price, but generally re ceive $10," was the answer. The bright smile of the Jeraey groom Bcemed to leave him then ; but, bracing himself, he aaid : "You aee, doctor, I am a little short at present, but would like very much to pay you. I am a bird fancier, and am importing n lot of educated parrots from London. Now inatead of paying you in cash suppose I pr?sent you with one of these birds on their arrival ?" "I should be glad to have a parrot," admitted the Doctor. "Well, it's agreed to, then. I'll send you one in a few days ; but have you a cage to put the bird in?" "No, x have uot, how much does a cage coat?" "Oh, you can get a good one for $2.50," was the reply. Without any further remarks, Dr. Appleton handed the "Benedict" the required amount, and he departed. The doctor bas never since beard or seen anything of the groom, bride, parrot, cage, or the $2.50.-Philadelphia Times. There was no Collusion. Uncle Ben was confronted with his supposed accomplice in a hen roost rob bery. "Fore de Lawd, Judge, I neber seed dat nigger befo'." "That may be, Uncle Ben, but the evidence goea to show that at first you were in collusion with the prisoner, and-" "'Sku?e interrupahun, sab, but dat's wbar I'ae got de ebidenco on de hip. Hit warn't in Collusion, it war in Harris ville dat I fust met de nigger." Tho court explained the meaning of tho word collusion. "I don't 'spute de elucidations ob de word ; it am kerect', no donbt, but, bc . yo' ia mistaken eein. Dar waa no collu. alon 'tween ua. Hit don't stan' to rea son dat dere waa, kase dat nigger al ways wants de hull profits, an' I neber colludes wid dat sorter a man. I'se a bones' mao, Jedge, an' wbar doro's no chanco fur me ter git nuffin, 1 neber collude."-Texas Siftings. A Female Enoch Arden. About ten years ago tho wife of James Price, of Goldboro, tried to induce, her husband to go with her to Baltimore to educate their children. Ho would not, and she removed to Baltimore, taking the children with her. They correspond ed awhile, Mr. Price living In the town of Clayton alone. Not hearing from his wife for seven or eight years, he married a second wife about three months ago. Last week wife No. 1 went to Clayton, thinking she could induce her husband to ac cor i nany her back to Baltimore, now that abo had accumulated some property. She heard of bis second marriage and did not go to bia honse, but stopped with a neighbor. He went over to see her, and a scene followed. She told blot she would return to her home and leave him undisturbed, and she accordingly return ed to the Monumental City, Mr. Price carrying her valise to the depot for ber. -Gaffney City Carolinian. - Georgia Legislators do not mean io be imposed upon by base i m kati on a of button The Legislature has just passed a bill obliging hotels which use olemar garipe to nave displayed in their roon?, their offices and on their billa-of-fair tho words, "This hotel lises ole margarine." Eyes brighten, cheeks become rosy, muscles ndn strengt!? by the ase of Brown's Iron Bitters..