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%,n&twn $nttV&$mtx. -E. B. MURRAY, Editor. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1884. TERMS : ONE YEAS._81.50. 8EI MONTHS........-.? 75c. Two Dollars If not paid In advance. The financial distress of 1875 contrib? uted very largely to the popular vote ? received by he National Democratic candidates in 1876. If the bard year of 1888-4 will perform the same service for our candidates in 1884, we will have a very considerable, compensation for our privations. The responsibility for finan? cial distress is often laid to the charge of the governing party, and it is not im? probable that the present bard year will contribute to the fight against the Re? publican party. The News and Courier has rendered the State an invaluable service in the publi? cation of an exhaustive, accurate and condensed exhibit of the progress, re? sources and material development and industries of South Carolina. It has displayed an enterprise, public spirit and ' practical judgment as to the best service which could be rendered the State that is ahead of anything of the kind ever done in South Carolina, and fully abreast of the most progressive journalism of the age. The benefits of this work-will be very great, and our con? temporary will doubtless be rewarded by ?|. the appreciation of all its readers. The Agricultural Department should have it published in pamphlet form for distribu? tion in those quarters from which we are seeking immigration. j ,' -. -V We publish a sensational communica V; tion to the New York Times about pros? pective Democratic troubles,-which are to be brought about in the present Con? gress by obstruction tactics to be resorted to by Mr. Randall to prevent tariff ac? tion at the present session. The hope that Democratic dissensions will arise is . doubtless the source from which these rumors start. We* have no idea that there is the least foundation for them, for several reasons. The first is that Mr. Randall is not a trickster, bnt an able, courageous and upright gentleman, who has convictions upon matters of pnblic policy, and who would not stoop to unfair methods to accomplish any end. He does not believe in tariff revision, and will no doubt exert his influence to pre? vent it. We do not agree with his views upon the tariff, bnt there can be no - doubt of his. loyalty to the Democratic party. . His illustrious services in the past abundantly prove it. The Springer investigating committee ?^if.vigoroos-in its work, will do more lbr the Democratic party in the coming can* vass than any tariff bill which can pos? sibly be passed or agitated at this session of Congress. The principal issue at the present time ought to be the abuses of the Republican administration. That is plank upon which every Democrat can stand, and now in the financial troubles which surround onr people, no stronger or more effectual plea for the votes of the people can be made than by showing the corruption, the extravagance and the general disregard for the interests for the people, which prevails in the present management of the goverment. Mr. Springer in starting these investigations, has struck the strongest ground upon which the Democracy .can stand. The South and West are favorable to tariff reduction, but the Northern and Middle States favor a continuance of protection. The South is largely Democratic while the West is largely Republican. No change of votes of consequence will be made in these sections on either side, let the tariff be what it may. The Sooth will go Democratic independently of the tariff issue, and the West will go Repub? lican regardless of it. In onr opinion, the policy for the next canvass is to adopt the Whig tactics of 1840, when Harrison and Tyler were overwhelmingly elected on an issue upon the abuses of the administration. To succeed, we must carry New York and Indiana. These States can, we believe, be easily carried; if the canvass is made for that purpose. In such a canvass the tariff cannot be the leading issue. The work of the Springer committee will gain more votes if well done in these States than any other work the present Congress may do. TARIFF REFORM. On last Monday Mr. Morrison, of Ohio, introduced into Congress his mnch talked of bill for the reduction of the tariff Its title is pacific, and appeals to the taxpayers. It is "a bill to reduce import duties and war-tariff taxes." The bill proyides that on and after the first day of Jnly, A. D. 1884, only eight per cent, of the duties and rates of duties now im? posed shall be collected, which effects what is termed a horizontal reduction of twenty per cent, on the present duties. No duty or rate of duty shall, after said . first day of July, 1884, be levied, collect? ed, or paid in excess of 40 per centum ad valorem or its equivalent on cotton and cotton goods, 50 per centum ad valorem or its equivalent on metals, and 60 per centum ad valorem on wool and woollen goods: Provided, That no duty shall be rednced below that imposed by the Morril tariff Act of 1861. The fol? lowing articles are to be admitted free under this bill: Iron ore, copper imported in form of ores; lead ore, nickel in ore, malte Chromate of iron or chromic ore; coal, timber, wood, manufactured, not special? ly enumerated or provided for in this act; hay, chicory root, ground or un ground, burnt or prepared acorns, and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used as coffee or as substitutes therefor not specially enumerated or provided for in this Act; jute butts, bristles, beeswax, lime, glycerine, crude, fish, glue or isin- j glass, sponges, dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute or British gum, extract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning, not otherwise ennmerated or provided for in this Act; indigo, tartars partly re* fined, cement, whiting and Paris white, dry; tar, coal tar, products logwood and other dye wood; extracts and decoctions of ochre and ochery earths; umber and umber earths, and sienna and sienna earths; all earths or clays unwrought or unmanufactured not specially enumerated or provided for in this Act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs and bulbous roots and excrescence, such as nut galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibres, grains, gums and gum resins, - herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds, (aromat? ic, not garden seeds) ana seeds of morbid Srowtb, weeds, woods used expressly for ying, and dried insects?any of the foregoing of which are not edible but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or by other process of manufacture and not specially enumerated or provided for in this Act. The propriety of interfering with the tariff at this session of Congress is alto? gether problematic in its effects upon Democratic prospects, but we believe Mr. Morrison's plan of handling the subject is the safest and best for the present. It assumes that the adjustment cf the Re? publican tariff is relatively correct, bot that it is excessively high. Therefore, without interfering with the proportions, which would provoke a very uncertain and dangerous issue, he merely proposes to bring the duties down to a revenue standard. It, in effect, makes a tariff for revenue with incidental protection, and comes as near presenting common ground for the protection Democrats and the low-tariff Democrats to stand on as any that can be devised. It is certainly a great improvement upon the existing law. the west and the south. The Charles City (Iowa) Intelligencer copies our article of two weeks ago on the presidential outlook, and says: The following from the Anderson (S. 0.) Intelligences states the presiden? tial outlook from a Southern standpoint. It is, too, a very correct diagnosis of the Democratic case generally, and it is true to the letter except where it says the "feeling of the West towards the South is bitter and unrelenting." This is a mistake; nowhere in the country, we believe, is there a more genuine feeling of good will towards the Southern people than here in Republican Iowa. I In what we said about the Western feeling towards the South,, we were gov? erned principally by the . attitude of the leading men from that section towards the South. From those men we have reached the conclusion that the embers of the war of twenty years ago are fresh I er in that section than any other part of our country. We said this feeling was temporary, and 'would give place,. upon better acquaintance, to more amicable I relations. We are glad to have the as? surance of our contemporary that there I is already a good state of feeling there towards the South.* We had no doubt that a paper as conservative and fair as I the Charles City Intelligencer, although Republican in politics, had none of the I feeling of antagonism of which we spoke. We have never seen an unfair or section I al article in its columns, but we cannot I say so much for some of the other Wes? tern papers?eves some of them claim? ing to be Democratic. It is cnly a I question of time until the bitterness of I the past shall give place to mutual feel? ings of friendship and respect. I ANDERSON COUNTY IN 1884. I A Statement of its Industries, Condition I and Prosperity. I The following statement of the agri? cultural, manufacturing and other indus? tries of Anderson County was prepared by Hon. B. F. Cray ton for publication in the News and Courier's great review of I South Carolina, which has jusc been I published, and will doubtless be of inter I eat to our people: MANUFACTURES. Number and kinds of manufacturing establishments: Cotton mills, 2; flour and grist mills, 85; lumber mills, 98 ; other manufactures, 18. Total, 198. Capital employed, $761,300. Value of annual product, $1,029,000. [ Number of persons employed: Whites, 747; colered, 178. Total, 925. Note.?Fart of the above statement is based upon approximate estimates, as no statement could be obtained from the Anderson cotton mills. No statement is given for the annual product of the lum? ber mills, and no statement for "other manufactures," further than the number of establishments and the character of products. The esti? mates given have close relation to the re? ports of like industries furnished from other counties. 2. Number of cotton mills, 2. Names and locations: Pelzer Mill and Pendleton Factory. I Location: Pelzer Mill, on Saluda River, near Williamston; Pendleton Factory, on Twenty-three Mile Creek, near the Town of Pendleton. Capital employed, $527,000. Annual product: Pelzer Mill, yards cloth, 8,840,000; Pendleton Factory, pounds yarn, 242,000. Cotton annually con? sumed: Pelzer Mill, 2,876,000 pounds ; Pendleton Factory, 285,000 pounds; [total, 2,661,000 pounds, or 5,322 bales of p00- pounds weight. I Percentage of net profit, not stated. Number of spindles: Pelzer Mill, 14, 000; Pendleton Factory, 1,600; total, 15,600. Number of looms: Pelzer Mill, 1412. Water or steam, with amount of horse power: Water, 663 horse power. Increase or decrease, not stated. Num? ber of hands employed, S85. No cotton mills in course of construc? tion, organization, &c., in the county. 3. Number of flour and grist mills, 85. Names and locations, not given. Number of hands employed: Whites, 90; col? ored, 6; total, 96. Capital employed, $68,000. Value of annual product, 382, 000 bushels, or $310,000. Class of pro? duct, flour and cornmeal of best quality. Average rate of toll, uniformly one-tenth. Water or steam power: 65 water, 20 steam. Per cent, of net profit, not given. Increase within the year, 25 per cent. 4. Foundries and machine shops, none proper. 5. Lumber mills: Number, 93, Loca? tion and proprietors, not given. Num? ber of bands: White, 232; colored, 140; total, 372. Number of horses and mules, 279. Capital employed, $130,300. Value of annual product, $220,000: Water or steam power: Water, 61; steam, 32; total, 93. Horse power used, 8 to 20 horse power te the mill; total horse pow I er, 1,302. Percentage of net profit, not given. Increase or decrease: No in? crease in water power mills; 25 to 30 per cent, increase in steam. 6. Turpentine stills, &c, none. I 7. Other manufactures: Wagon and buggy, 4; cotton seed oil, 2; door, sash I and blind, 1; planing mills, 3; tin man I ufacturing establishments, 2; brick ma I chinery, &c., 3 ; drain tile, 1; newspa I pars and printing, 2; total establish? ments, 18. Number of hands employed: White, 40; colored, 32; total, 72. Cap? ital employed, $36,000. Value of annual product, $118,000. mines. j Number of mines in the county? Mica, corundum, plumbago and others. This county contributed among the lar? gest of the collections of minerals of any county to the agricultural department. Number of quarries ? There are num-* bers of good quarries in the county, no? tably at Pendleton, Simpson's Mill, : Dark Corner Township, Honea Path, Williamston, on Tugaloo and Seneca] Rivers and Wilson's Creek. The latter has been need for mill-stones. AGRICULTURE. 1. Number aud kind of improved ag? ricultural implements ? Grain sowers 10, reapers 200, sulkey ploughs 75, guano distributors 1,000, barrows 300, stump pullers none; total, 1,585. Steam engines in ubo on farms, and horse-power ? Number in use 155, aver? aging from 6 to 12 horse-power to engine; aggregate horse-power, 1,395. 2. Head of improved stock, &c. ? Very few sheep. Cattle: Jerseys, 125, Ayrebires, 25; total, 150. 3. Efficiency of colored labor as com? pared with last year and with efficiency five years ago ? About the same as last year and better than five years ago. 4. Supply of colored labor as com? pared with the demand and with the supply and demand last year and five years ago? The supply is about equal to last year and better than five years ago. 5. Proportion of white to colored farm labor? About equally divided; perhaps a few more colored than whites. 6. Number of hours to full day's farm work? In Winter from 9 to 10 hours; in Summer from 12 to 13 hours. 7. Wages paid male and female farm laborers? Hales, from $8 to $a2 and females $4 to $8. 8. Extent of field work done by women and children, white and colored? The white women and children of the county work in the fields only when driveu by necessity. The colored women and chil? dren out of the towns generally work in the fields. 9. System of labor most in use ? La? borers usually work for a part of the crop, though many hire for wages by the mouth or year. Pay stated above. 10. Cost of producing merchantable cotton? Can't say definitely, though at the present prices many think it not re? munerative to grow cotton. 11. Percentage of cost in raising, packing and ginning cotton ? About 50 cents per hundred is paid for ginning and packing cotton. 12. Condition of colored farmers as landowners and tenants? Very few have been, successful. 13. Progress of colored farmers in saving money and acquiring land ? Do not think colored farmers are making any progress. 14. Number and nationality of foreign horn immigrants in county? Number 150, pretty equally divided between Irish and German. They receive from $12 to $15 per month, are good laborers and seem anxious to acquire homes. . 15. Opinion of Stock law, &c.? It has greatly reduced the expenses of farming, has added very much to the quality of the stock, and is giving very general sat? isfaction. 16. The Lien Law and its effect? Public opinion is very much divided as to the Lien Law. There was a much stronger disposition to repeal it twelve months ago than at present, owing to the shortness of present crop. t 17. The Prohibition Law, its obser? vance, enforcement and effect? The Prohibition Law is not in force in the town of Anderson, but the State law is rigidly enforced and is working well. 18. Quantity and kind of land for sale, its character and price ? There is but little land for sale in the county. Price ranges from $8 to $20 per acre, according to location and improvements. 19. Number of cotton gins, &c? Number 275; average to gin four to five bales a day. Average distances hauled to gin two miles. Charges for ginning from 1-15 to 1-25. Cleaners not enough used to give satisfactory answer. The House Passes the Bill for the Re? lief of Fitz John Porter. The morning hour having been dis? pensed with, the House at 12:45 p. m. went into Committee of the whole, with Springer, of Illinois, in the chair, on the Fitz John Porter Bill?general debate being limited to three hours and forty five minutes. Wolford, of Kentucky, resumed his argument, begun last Saturday, in sup? port of the bill. He criticised the speech made by Horr, of Michigan, lecturing ex-Confederates for voting upon this bill. That gentleman had said that ex-Con? federates had no right to vote upon this proposition. Horr shook his head. Wolford said that he was glad he mis? understood the gentleman. He had un? derstood him to say that as Porter's conduct had helped the Confederates they were interested, and had no right to vote. Horr explained that he had argued that good faith should prevent them from doing so. Wolford was happy to hear that it was only a lecture on faith. The gentleman had assumed that the ex-Confederates were interested, and had argued that self-respect should prevent them from taking part in this debate. The gentle? man would have no respect for the ex Confederates if, like himself, he had been in the front, and he would not have attempted to scare them upon a question of faith. He regretted that in this Con? gress a gentleman had expressed such sentiments. He had thought that the ex-Confederates were here as members of the American Congress, with the right and duty to vote on every question. He hoped that no man who had served in the Confederate army had got so mad over the fight that after twenty years he could not do an act of justice to the man who had fought against him. He hoped that no man whould get up and say, "I can't vote on this bill?I am interested? 1 am still mad." He understood that his Confederate friends were here loving the flag and loving the country; that they were here saying, to-day and forever, that they had left behind them the bitter feelings engendered by the war and everything that divided the country. Were men forever to stand and quarrel over old issues? Let Congress go for? ward and say that it is ready to do jus? tice to a wronged and injured man. Milliken, of Maine, inquired whether he was to understand that the gentleman asked members to vote for the relief of Porter as an act of conciliation to his Confederate friends. If it was asked on that ground he would vote for his relief. Wolford replied that he asked it on the highest grounds ever presented. He demanded it only as an act of justice to a long injured man. [Applause on the Democratic side.] Wolford passed on to a review of the case, and was frequently applauded by members, who collected around him in the centre aisle, but his remark^ were at times so low as to be in? audible. Calkins, of Indiana, began his argu? ment in opposition to the bill by the statement that he knew there was no doubt about its passage. William Walter Phelps, of New Jer? sey, (Republican), who represents the district in which Porter lives, spoke at length in favor of the bill. Speaking for the one most interested, he expressed his regret that any unkind allusions to the dead or the-living had beeu made in the course of this discusnion. In his long pursuit of justice, Porter himself hacf never made any imputation on those who impeded him in his pursuit, and he must not be held responsible for any un? kind allusions which had been made on this floor, either by those friendly to the bill or those who were opposed to it. Let all those allusions be eliminated from the debate, and let the case stand upon its own mer.'t, He spoke for Porter because he was his constituent and because it was his duty. It was also bis pleasure and his pride, because he believed Porter to be an honest man and a loyal soldier. "The mills of the gods grind slowly." It was twenty-one years ago Monday of last week since the last signature was put upon the verdict of the military jury which drove him out of | the army and made him a leper whom bis own Government could not touch with an office of pro?t or trust. This verdict awarded him such infamy that, for a time, Iscariot and Arnold were his only competitors. Boutelle, of Maine, protested against the passage of the bill and denied that it was the unanimous desire of the men who fought under Porter to have him reinstated into the army. Then a number of short speeches were made, all but two being in opposition to the bill?the exceptions being Laird, of Nebraska, who served under rorter, and who made an eloquent appeal for his old commander, and Henley, of California, who criticised the action of Cutcheon, of Michigan, in casting imputations upon General Grant and then striking them out of the record. In reply Cutcheon expressed his high appreciation for the high military abili? ties of General Grant; but being pressed by Henley with the question, "Why did you strike out your remarks ?" he was compelled to admit that he left them out because he wanted to?an admission which caused much merriment. The committee then rose and the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. Curtain, of Pennsylvania, then took the floor to close the debate in favor of the bill. He knew Fitz John Porter well, and in the beginning of the war the General was a most enlightened and ardent advocate of military discipline. The record would show one significant fact, coming not so much from the living as from the graves of the dead. The first citizens who asked for redress of his wrongs were Horace Greeley, Henry Wilson and himself. Certainly, the fidelity of those persons to the Union could not be questioned. Porter had never approached him to ask him to be his advocate. He was pained to hear a distinguished member of the House (Keifer), over and over again, say that Porter was a ccward. Before God, he never knew a Porter who was a fool or a coward. [Applause.] He had never before come across a man who bad the temerity to say that Porter was a coward, and be never would hear it again. He gave an interesting history of the move? ments of the army of the Potomac in the beginning of the war, and nearly every member in the House stood in a circle around him and frequently ap? plauded his remarks. He dwelt upon the services rendered to his country by Fitz John Porter and ridiculed General Pope's proclamation, which, be declared, rattled and glittered with generalities. If General Porter had violated orders, if he had treated his superior officers with disrespect or contempt, it was the duty of that superior to have taken away hii ensign of rank immediately and put him under arrest. Referring to the fact that Cutcheon, of Michigan, had elimina? ted from the record bis imputation upon General Grant, he congratulated that gentleman upon the good taste which he had exhibited, and that between the time of the delivery of the speech and the publication of it be had time to re? pent.- He criticised the speech of Horr, of Michigan, for its expression of opin? ion that no ex-Confederate should vote upon this bill, and he took it for grant* d that men who, in error, but in the belief that they were right, had fought in a great war, were better men than quarter? masters, paymasters, sutlers and contrac? tors. [Laughter.] In a brilliant pero? ration, which was warmly applauded, he appealed to the House to do justice to the wronged man, and at the conclusion of his speech he was heartily congratu? lated by his party friends. The bill was then passed?yeas 184, nays 78. [Of the South Carolina delegation, Messrs. Dargan, Evins, Hemphill and Tillman voted in the affirmative. Messrs. Aiken and Dibble are neither recorded as having voted nor as being paired.] North Carolina Penitentiary, A member of the staff of the Chron? clc examined the wardens reports for 1879 and 1880 and found that Mr. Ca? ble's figures and statements and quota? tions are correct. And a horrible show? ing it is. But it is only proper to say that the period covered by these reports was the period when the convicts were confined in the temporary quarters, which have now been abandoned. "There is," says Mr. Cable, "no hospital record given concerning them, (those at work outside the penitentiary,) nor any physician's account of their sickness." No such record or account was published in the warden's report?which neglect the war? den will himself agree was a mistake but Buch record and reports were made and kept regularly. And no convict has ever died or ever been sick but the dis? ease and the cause of death are on re? cord. Mr. Cable, therefore, has made only a just and accurate description from the facts that be had. Unluckily all the facts were not published. But during the years when the convicts occupied the old quarters the prison was inhuman, no doubt about it. Now, however, there is not a more humane or more nearly scien? tifically perfect prison in the Union than the North Carolina Penitentiary. A member of the Chronicle's staff visited it on Tuesday: and, as everybody knows, who knows anything about it, the North Carolina Penitentiary marks an entirely new era in prison construction and man? agement hi North Carolina. The death rate in the Penitentiary has decreased steadily since the occupation of the pres? ent building. In 1881 it was less than 6 per cent., and in 1882 less than 3. This is not a bad showing when it is remem? bered that the penitentiary is not simply a penitentiary, but for lack of better di? vision of such work in North Carolina, and for lack of reformatories and special prisons for tbo decrepit and diseased convicts, it is all these things combined. A much larger proportion of feeble con? victs are sent here than to Northern penitentiaries. Mr. Cable will be glad to be informed that in the matter of prison reform the North Carolina Penitentiary has within three years stepped forward at least two hundred years in improvements. Mr. Cable's discussion, to prove that the lease system is wrong, that is another question, and one that is not now pertinent. But Mr. Cable, and all other humane persons who think of a prison in any other way than as a placo of torture, may well feel heartily ashamed of most of the county jails in North Carolina.?Raleigh Chron? icle. Who is the First Lady 7 Washington, January 30.?President Arthur has decided a great question. He offered his arm to Mrs. Carlisle and es? corted that lady to the bead of the table at the State dinner given at the White House this evening. Mr. Arthur held a short consultation with his sister early in the day. It did not take him long to decide the question, Who is the first lady? "The title properly belongs to Mrs. Carl:Jo," he said, firmly, "and she shall have it, cost what it may." Mrs, Frelinghuysen stood waiting expectantly in the reception room before dinner was announced. The guests were chatting easily together. Aleck appeared in the doorway and bowed to the President. Mr. Arthur arose and^gracefully tendered his arm to the Speaker's wife. Mrs. Frelinghuysen was the third on the list. She looked for a few moments as if she was sorry Bhe came, but the cloud soon passed away. ? Under Mississippi law a woman is liable to indictment for assault if sho strikes her husband ; but the man is not liable for assaulting if he uses a switch no larger than his little finger iu doing ho. It is now proposed to bo amend the statutes as to give the wife the same im? munity that her husband enjoys. Randall And The Tarriff. Washington, January 30.?Notwith? standing the frequent protest made by the friends of Mr. Randall that "the brakeman" is not holding back the an? nual appropriation bills, in order to be prepared to use them to prevent discus? sion of the Tariff question, the fact that none of the promised appropriation bills have yet been reported justifies the pre? vailing impression that he is committed to precisely the line of tactics indicated. Being chairman of the committee on ap? propriations, he is not only in a position to control the actions of that body, but he appears to be able to prevent the wish? es of the majority, as expressed in Mr. Carlisle's doctrine, from having their natural expression. Mr. Morrison is working upon his bill and Mr. Hewitt is preparing his, and both will soon be ready to be submitted to the ways and means committee. The consideration of the two hills will consume a fortnight before they can be so harmonized as to enable the committee to report one bill, embodying the points of the two meas? ures, upon which an agreement can be reached. If there isany doubtabout Mr. Randall's intention to block the way to tariff legislation by bringing in the ap? propriation bills just as the tariff bill ii about to be reported, that doubt can only be removed by an early report of those appropriation bills which involve no difficulty in their preparation, and which were announced as ready to be reported during the holiday recess. A month has passed and the bills are withheld. The belief that Mr. Randall is deter? mined to prevent even tariff discussion is not only expressed by the Democrats, who hoped to see an honest effort made to secure a reform, but is shared also by those Republicans who desire that there shall be no discussion, no reduction, no change. Mr. Holraan, supposed to be an independent and public-spirited mem? ber, must suffer the imputation, at least, of being dominated by Mr. Randall, in the appropriation committee, if the re? port is true that he is to introduce a res? olution calling for an amendment of the rules which will provide that a motion in committee of the whole to strike out the enacting clause of a bill is to take precedence of all other motions and to be decided without debate. Such a rule would practically be the application of the previous question in committee of the whole. No one doubts that if such a proposition-should come from any one else, Mr. Holman would ordinarily be the first member to object to it. Mr. Randall's sagacity ii evinced in selecting a man in whom there is general confi? dence to propose a change which would excite suspicion if it emanated from any one except Mr. Holman. By adopting it the House would put it in the power of Mr. Randall and his protectionist friends on the Democratic side, reinforced by the great bulk of the Republican side, to kill any tariff bill as Boon as it came up for consideration. That this is possible is admitted. Mr. Randall's forty odd Democratic allies stand prepared to make the alliance necessary to carry out this programme. He has said that there shall be a square vote upon the tariff question, and he would probably have :.dded, if he spoke what he thought, that that vote would include members of both parties who are for reform in the affirmative Hat, and the Democrats and Republicans who are opposed to the tariff agitation and change in the negative. Up to this time the delay in reported appropriation bills has only been the subject of occasional remark. From this time on the delay will be criticised as an announcement of the Randall programme to render fruitless the victory of the Tariff Reform Democrats who elected Mr. Carlisle, in order to express their belief in a principle. It is a game of strategy. Mr. Randall's aims are politi? cal. They appear to be practically the aims of the minority. The movements of the defeated candidate for Speaker, who is now suspected of a design to wrest from the victorious candidate the legiti? mate results of victory, will be watched with interest wherever the business of Congress is followed. The prospect is not encouraging to those who have ex? pected to see Mr. Carlisle's election fol? lowed by consistent legislation. Should Mr. Randall's schemes tail in the House, the Senate would still be left to the high tariff men as a bulwark of safety. With two months of the session gone, and the tariff discussion not yet opened in the House, it is not difficult to see that if Mr. Randall's shrewdness should only serve to secure delay, it would be nearly time to adjourn before the tariff bill could reach the Senate. Once in the finance committee of that body it would then be in the bands of gentlemen of whom a majority, although Republicans, are absolutely in sympathy with Mr. Randall and the Pennsylvania idea.? Nero York Times. The South Carolina College. There are now 193 students enrolled at the South Carolina College. The semi? annual examinations will begin to-mor? row and last two weeks. The second term will begin on the 18th instant, and the enrolments will then aggregate over 200 for the session. There would now be 200 students in attendance but for the fact that a number of applicants have been rejected on account of their lack of preparation. The standards for admiss? ion are being raised every term and are already very much higher than they were last session. The average atten? dance is very large. Very few students are ever absent. Their health has been exceptionally good. The College is doing its work quietly, but thoroughly and successfully, and the deportment of the students is admirable. The following additional College notes will be of inter? est: The joint societies some time since elected ex-President Jefferson Davis to deliver the address before the societies at the next commencement, but Mr. Davis has declined the invitation, as he has been compelled to decline similar invita? tions from other institutions, on account of his ill-health. Mr. Wm. C. Preston has recently been elected President of the Euphradian Society and Mr. E."G. Seibels President of the Clariosophic Society. A fine choir has been organized for the Sunday services at the chapel, at? tendance upon which is now compulsory. The music is admirable and the services are attended by a number of outside par? ties. One hundred and five.students board at the College mess ball, twenty-five more have a private mess, and the re? mainder board elsewhere in the city. Football is the popular game at the College now, and the collegians are anx? ious to get up a match game, but do not know of any other experts at the game in the State.? Correspondence News and Courier. ? Three human bodies incased in hay and compressed into two ordinary whisky casks came to Chicago from Baltimore by the American Express. One of the barrels contained the bodies of two adult white males and tbo other that of a colored man. The police on making the discovery arrested John Carlson, a veterinary surgeon, who paid the express charges and the driver of the express wagon who hauled the ghastly freight to Charlson's place of business. The bodies were addressed to Faukett, Barnes & Co., a suspicious firm, and it is thought by the police that the bodies were inten? ded for one of the medical colleges. V"Do boldly what you do at all." Boldly do we affirm that Kidney-Wort is the great remedy for liver, bowels and kidney diseases, rheumatism and piles vanish before it. The tonic effect of Kidney-Wort is produced by its cleans? ing and purifying action on the blood. Where there is a gravelly deposit in the urine, or milky, ropy uriue from disor? dered kidneys, it always cures. Wendell Phillips. Boston, February 2.?Wendell Phil? lips began to show signs of /ailing at 4.30 this afternoon and died at 6 o'clock. He was conscious up to within an hour of bis death. Mr. Phillips has been ill just one week, but not until Thursday was his condition considered dangerous by his physicians. Thursday night he failed rapidly, but Friday rallied slightly and passed a fair? ly comfortable night. This afternoon his illness took a critical turn and ho gradually failed and passed quietly away, about 6 o'clock, in the presence of bis wife and niece. Mr. Phillips was in his seventy-third year. The arrangements for the funeral have not been completed, and it will probably not be held for sev? eral days. A Fire in Greenville. Greenville, February 2.?The old McBee residence, a substantial two-story frame building, situated in West Green? ville, near the city limits, and occupied by Alderman M. S. Scruggs, was burned about 2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Scruggs and family had barely time to escape after the fire was discovered, and nothing of much value was saved. The building, which was the property of Alexander McBee, Jr., was valued at twenty-three hundred dollars. It was insured with McBee & Briggs, in the Underwriters' agency, for eighteen hun? dred dollars. Mr." Scruggs's loss in household goods is about five hundred dollars, no insurance. The fire origina? ted in the kitchen part of the building; cause unknown. Greenville has surely had her share of bad luck in the way of fires.?Dispatch to the Sunday Nexus. Abbeville' Juries. On the 25th an interesting trial came off before Trial Justice Harkness. The case was about some cotton, and Oscar Price, the plaintiff, sued John Price, the defendant, for $35. The plaintiff man? aged his own case, and Capt. M. L. Bon ham, Jr., appeared for the defendant. After argument, the intelligent jury ren? dered a verdict in behalf of the plaintiff for $60 40. As the suit was only for $35, the plaintiff was much surprised at his skill as a lawyer. The defendant and his attorney were equally astonished, and not being able to see into it gave notice of appeal. This is not the only remark? able verdict given by an Antreville jury. Some years ago, at an inquest held over a dead body, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased "was killed and mur? dered by some person unknown," that he "feloniously killed himself," and that he "came to his death by accident."?Abbe? ville Medium. The Senators Clerks. On the 23rd ult. Senator M. C. Butler called up hie resolution, that each Sena? tor, except the chairmen of standing or select committees of the Senate, shall be entitled to a clerk or secretary at a salary of $1,000 annually, the same to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate. In supporting this measure he said : "I shall not detain the Senate more than a moment, and simply to say that there are now forty-one Senators holding the posi? tion of chairmen of committees, standing or select, in the Senate, leaving thirty five without clerical assistance; so that if the resolution pass it would involve the appointment of but tbirty-five addi? tional clerks for the Senate. In offering the resolution I had no design of increas? ing what are knoivn as the personal per? quisites of Senators. My object was simply to increase the clerical force of the Senate, and in my judgment increase the efficiency of the public service. I simply ask a vote upon the resolution without further lemarks." The resolu? tion prevailed by a vote of 30 to 13? both Carolina and Georgia Senators vo? ting "aye." ? The Saluda Cotton Factory baa made a large and valuable contract with a Boston firm for furnishing them with yarns until next January at 7J cents above the price of middling cotton in New York. New England yarns were offered at one-fourth of a cent lower, but the superior quality of the South Caroli? na yarns commanded the coutract. ? Twelve million clocks were manu? factured last year, and some are yet be? hind time. ?ST The Diamond Dyes always do more than they claim to do. Colors over that old dress. It will look like new. Only 10 cents. A child's greatest enemy is worms. Who can calculate the misery and suffering a child has to endure who is infested with worms? Shriner's Indian Vermifuge will destroy and expel worms from both chil? dren and adults. Only 25 cents a bottle. For aale by Wilbite & Wilhite. If you want good N. O. Syrup go to C. F. Jones & Co. All grades at bottom prices. We are prepared to sell you Lamps from 20 cents to Filteen Dollars. Before buying give us a call. WlLIIlTE <fc WlLllITK. We keep everything that is kept in a first-class Drug Store, and do not propose to be undersold. Give us a call and see for yonrselves. WiLiirrE it Wilhite. OBITUARY. The visits of death are sad at all times, but doubly so when a young mother is taken. Who can take her place? The words, the smiles, the actions of none art like those of a good mother. A great void now exists in the home of Mr. B. W. Harbin, whose wife gentlv passed away on the lTth of January, 1884. With her young babe by her side she sleeps in the cemetery at Roberts, of which Church she was for a number of years a member. The shock to the family was greater from the fact of being sick only a few days. She was married to Mr. Harbin on the 11th of November, 180'?, and shared his joys and sorrows, and on him and the four living children poured the light of her pious life. May they meet her in Heaven, "where no farewell tear is shed." W. A. H. TRIBUTE OF EESPECT. Whereas, it has pleased our Heavenly Father, in His wise and inscrutable provi? dence, to remove from our midst by death on Jan. 23, 1884. our worthy and esteemed brother, Dr. H. H. Elrod. Therefore Resolved, That in bis death wo, the mem? bers of Sandy Springs Grange, have lost a worthy beloved and brother. Resolved, That we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That a blank page in our Re? cord Book be dedicated to his memory, Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved widow and family our heartfelt sympa? thies. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be banded to the bereaved widow, and sent to the Anderson Intelmgexceu for publi? cation. J. B. Doutiiit, Sec. S. S. Grange. NOTICE. ALL persons are hereby notified not to hire or harbor Jim Hardy, colored, as he is under contract with me for the year 1884. Any one disregarding this no? tice will be dealt with at law. W. G. HEM BR?E. Feb 7, 1384 _30_1* WARNING. THE undersigned hereby warns all per? sona not to hire or harbor my son, Augustus Newton Adams, who is under ace, and has left mo without just cause. MRS. SARAH J. ADAMS. Feb 7,1884 30_1* MULES AND HORSES. IAM just in receipt of a large drove of Mules and Horses, which I can sell low for cosh, or on time to parties who can make good paper. Call at my new btablc in rear of my StorC8' J. E. PEOPLES. Feb 7, 18S4 30 3 MUSCOVADO AND N. 0. MOLASSES, FX OUR, ?AND? STEEL PLOWS, LOW TOR CASH AT J. P. SULLIVAN * CO.'S. THE BEST COFFEE A SPECIALTY. Feh 7, 1884_30_ GARDEN SEEDS, BTJISX'sJ and LANDRETH'9. Large Quantities?-Not to arrive, but on hand, at HILL & HARRISON'S, BROYLES' BUILDING^ South Main Street. Fefa 7, 1684_SO_ _ DENTISTRY. REPORTS are in circulation that I havo quit Dentistry. This is to give no? tice that I can be found daily at the Old Rooms of Jones & Strickland, in the Cen? tennial Building, South side of Public Square. A. C. STRICKLAND. Feb 7, 1884 30 4 Examination of Teachers. BY permission of the State Superinten? dent the County Board of Exam nera will meet in the Court House on Sat? urday, IGth inst., to examine the Teachers who failed to appear in January. There will positively be no other examination until July. By order of the Board. R. W. TODD, Chm'n. Feb 7, 1884_30_1 DISSOLUTION. THE Firm heretofore existing under the name of Reed & Webb bas this day been dissolved by mutual consent. C. A. REED, Ag't. C. W. WEBB. Feb 4,1884. Having purchased the interest of C. W. Webb in the above Firm, I will continue the business at the same stand, where I will be prepared to furnish the best Groce? ries at lowest prices, and respectfully solic? it the patronage of all. C. A. REED, Ag't. Feb 7, 1884 30 Partnership Notice. WE, the undersigned, have formed a partnership under the name of McCULLY, CATHCART & CO., and will conduct a General Merchandise Business at the old stand of McCully & Taylor, on the North side of Public Square, and re? spectfully solicit a share of the patronage of the trading public. This partnership has been in existence since the 2Sth day of Januarv last. P. K. McCULLY, JAS. M. CATHCART, F. E. WATKINS. Feb 7, 1584_30_3_ DOORS, SASHAKD BLINDS ARE NOT MADE BY A. W. TODD, But be is agent for THE BEST and CHEAPEST TO BE HAD IN ANDERSON. Call and see him on DEPOT STREET. Feb 7,1884_30 3m MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson County. In the Court of Common Picas. Elizabeth Nally, as heir at law and Ad? ministratrix, Plaintiff, vs. Joseph Nally, Samuel Nally, et al., Defendants.?Com? plaint for Partition, etc T)Y virtue of an order to me directed by _D his Honor J. H. Hudson, Presiding Judge, dated 4th February, 1884, I will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C, on S A LED AY IN MARCH next, the following described Tract of Land, to wit: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND, con? taining one hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate in Brushy Creek Township, in Anderson County, in the State of South Carolina, adjoining lands of W. W. Phil? lips, Alfred Sheriff, and others, and known as the Real Estate of James 0. Nally, de? ceased. Terms of Sale?One-third cash, and the balance on a credit of twelve months, with intorest from day of sale, to be secured by a bond and mortgage of the premises, with leave to anticipate payment. Purchasers to pay extra for all necessarv papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Masler. Feb 7, 1884_30__ 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having demands against the Estate of German F. Burton, dee'd, are licreby notified to present them, properly proven, to the undersigned within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to make payment. THEODORE F. BURTON, 1 ,, . SAM'L. T. McCULLOUGH, j Jj n5> Jan 24, 1884_28_3* New Advertisements. I CURE FITS! When 1 ia-cure l ao nut mom uier.iy to .top iii.m lor ttlmo and tfieu biro tbem riturn ?B?l?.,,i.n,t,nT,Vi^v eal cur?. I baro mado the dlie?io or r ITS. EPILKl sr or FALLING SICKNK8S? life-long ?tudy. I warrant my remody to euro tho worst caeos. Because othori tinvo failed li uo roaton for not now receiving a, euro. Send _t or.ee for a troatlia and a Freo U?itlo of my InnUIMil remedy. Give Kxpreu and ret Office. It con.s juu ?^d'Sr?: unV. E? St.. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Is located at SEWAKEE, TKNN., upon the Cum? berland Plateau, 2,000 feet above the sea lew* This Sclrol, under the special patronage of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the South aud Southwest; offers the healthiest resi? dence and the best advantages, both moral ajid educational, in its Grammar .School and its Colle? giate and Theological Departments, l-'or the spe? cial claims of this diversity for patronage, apply for documents to the Itev. TELKAlK HOiXiSON, D. 1)., Vice Chancellor, Sewauco, Totin._ Made of Solid Steeljn Best Manner^ REMINGTON! SHOVELS, SCOOPS and SPADES. Remember1 tliat EMIFGT0M GOODS AHE ALWAYS elial>lc. REFWIiiUTOH AGRICULTURAL CO., ILIO?, N.Y. W. H.COLE A: SONS. Southern Ak'Ib, Baltimore, Md. "n-DT?'n Send name on a postal"card to Baugh L HIjJj man .t Co., Albion, Mich., and receive a handsome Plaque. l havo a pu.lt Ivo remedy fi.r 1 Ii a ttbu.o dlao.ia; hi r.?e thousands ofca.ee of tlie wcr.l Uud and of i ?tandlneliavo boon cured. Tiidend. ??> itriinR I* ibi f.< i lu llsolacarv. t!,?t I ?Iii mnd TWO BOTTLE4 rI" -'. tot;?thor with a V > IXA ULE TREATISE on tl.i. diet to any eufieiur. lilve Express ami V. 0. u.lOri'%?. DB.T. A. SLOCt'U, 1S1 fearl St., Suw York Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce St., N.Y, -Fsb7~,T88t 30 4 COTTON SEED MEAL FOR SALE. COTTON SEED WANTED, J. H. TOWNSEND, Anderson, S. C. Jan 31, 1884_20 *_ STORE ROOM TO RENT. THE Room nov. occupied by Julius Poppe, in Brick Range, next door to tbe Anderson National Bank. The best stand in the City for Confectioneries, &c Apply to J. D. MAXWELL. Jan 17, 1884_27_ FIRE INSURANCE. J. H. VON HASSELN, ANDERSON, S. C, REPRESENTS First Class Companies, with ample Capital. Call upon him for information as to rates, etc. Insure your property before it is burned up. Jan 17,1884_27_ly Stock of Goods, &c, for Sale. PURSUANT to a resolution of the Cred? itors of Clinkscales & Hutto, I will sell at Williamston, S. C, on the 20th day of February, 1884, at 12 o'clock m., to the highest oidder, tbe entire Stock?in bulk? of Merchandise of said Firm, consisting of Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Hardware, &c, &c. Also, in one lot, the Notes and Accounts of said Firm. J. B. ROGERS, Assignee. Jan 31,1884_29_3 Notice of Sale. IN order to obtain a Final Settlement of the Estate, the Choses in Action of B. F. Low, deceased, consisting of Notes and Accounts which have been appraised doubtful or worthless, will be sold at An? derson C. H., S. C, on the 19th February next. Terms of sale cash. IVY C. LOW, \ R. B. A. ROBINSON, j ** re" Jan 31,1884_29__3 NOTICE. THE partnership heretofore existing be? tween P. K. McCully and D. S. Tay? lor, under the firm name of McCully & Taylor, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either partner is authorized to receive and receipt for all amounts due the firm. P. K. McCULLY, D. S. TAYLOR. Jan. 14,1884. All Notes and Accounts unpaid and past due will be placed in the hands of John E. Breazeale, Trial Justice, on the 1st of March next. Jan 31,1884_29_ FIRE! FIRE! -o THE Masons having decided to pull down the Store Room I occupy on March 1st, I am closing out my stock of? Watches, Clocks and Jewelry At greatly Reduced Prices. Solid Gold Stem-winding Watches, im? ported movements, for $35? warranted. Large striking, weight or spring Clocks, $3.75, warranted. Good Breast Pins at 75c, warranted. Good Lever Sleeve Buttons, 75c, war? ranted. Gold Wire Ear Rings at 75c Engagement Rings, Necklaces, etc. cheap b b J. A. DANIELS. Jan 17, 1S84 27 Partnership Notice. WE, the undersigned, have this day en? tered into a partnership under the name of W. S. L1GON & Co., for the pur? pose of conducting a general merchandise business at the old stand of W. S. Ligon, on the Southside of the Public Square. By close attention to the wants of our cus? tomers and -fair dealing, we would solicit the patronage of the trading public. Our stock of GROCERIES is full up, and we will make it to the interest of all to price our goods before purchasing their supplies for the year. 11 W. S. LTGON. R. S. LIGON. Jan. 1, 1SS4 GuaDO and Acid Phosphate. We are receiving a large lot of the old reliable Soluble Pacific Guanoand Avid, and the Standard Ediatto Acid Pb.ONphu.te, all of which we arc prepared to sell at the lowest market prices. These are old established brands of Fer? tilizers, ami no one can doubt the reliabili? ty of its analysis or the quality of the goods. W. S. LIGON A CO. Quick Sales & Small Profits. DRY GOODS. JUST received a full line of Prints, Cash? meres, Alpacis, Flannels. A large assortment of Jeans, Virginia Cassimeres, Shirtings and Sheetings, ? to 10-4 wide. Bed Ticking cheaper than ever before, &c, all to be sohl at lowest prices, bv A. B. TOWERS. Sept 27, 1883 11 Blankets and Marsailles Quilts. THE finest lot of Blankets, Crochet and Marsailles Quilts, in Town. -ALSO, Ladies Cloaks and Shawls, and Yankee Notions. For sale low by A. B. TOWERS. Sept 27, 1SS3 11