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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1884. VOLUME XX.--NO. 10 IN FOREIGN LANDS. I prisons ore still uap<l ?nd r?..~. -.u?- ! -<~-.~ REMEMBER THE OLD MAXIM, LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP !" KU fl o 09 M V -? a o ft o ? 7-1 co H ? YOU wish to makcjyour frieuds bnppy. Of course you do. Then follow our advice, uud present each with a handsome Holiday Gift. Come at once aud make your se lections from our stock of beautiful CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, which is the largest of the kind in the city, and sure to please. Elegant Goods. Endless Variety. Moderate Prices. Now is the time to make your se lectious. Dou't wait until the last moracut, when tho choicest, perhaps, will be then sold, We will store away your Presents, if desired, until you wish to carry them home or else where. Christmas present*. Wedding and i Birthday Gifts ! Before you buy them cai! and see us. Our Holiday Goods are uow being opened, display ing the highest decorative art, and are strikingly beautiful. They must bo seen to be appreciated, and are certaiu to please the taste of your relative or friend, and the selection of auy of these Gifts will bc highly ap preciated by them. We have thc handsomest Plush and Velvet Manucure Sets, Shaving Sets, Smoking Sets, Dressing Cases, Thermometers in plush frames, Whisk Brooms and Holders, Writing Desk and Work Box combined. Also, Fiue Cut Glnss Cologne Bottles, Fin est Extracts aud Perfumery, Beauti ful Haud Mirrors, Shaving Mirrors, Velvet Whisk Brooms, Gift Cups aud Suucers, 7 ^ae Goods, Plush Frames for Placqucs, etc, If you don't care unythiug for the above, we have the best 5c. Cigar iu the city, a box of which will make a good Present for some of your smoking friends. Besides the above, we have the largest stock of Lumps seen ia the up-country, nnd the greatest variety, one of which will make a useful Present, and be an ornament for any Parlor or Drawing Room. 09 Which is Fittingly Shown by the above. GOOPS WERE NEK [This faot We are prepared to Prove to our Friends and Customers who may favor us with a call. rllTK are now receiving the largest and most carefully selected Stock of General Mer . T chandise which we have ever purchased, and will make it to your interest to call and examine for yourselves. We have added to the lines usually kept by us many new and desirable ones, embracing Ladies' Dress Goods. Flannels, Suitings, Shawls, &c, And the best CORS?T on the market at 50c, worth $1-00. Also, a IA. LARGE LINE OF READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, BLANKETS, SADDLES and ?ARNESS. Also, the Celebrated "NEW GLOBE" 8HIRT-the king of all Shirts. It needs jonly to be worn to be appreciated. We aro agents for the Celebrated Mlsbawaka Sulky Plows, Cultivators and Hand {Turning Plows. The ' White Hickory" and "Hickman" one and two-horse WAGON8. every one of (which we guarantee. The attention of Ginners and Farmers ls called to our COTTON SEED AND GRAIN CRUSHER, py which you can crush your Cotton Seed and make your Fertilizer. Get our prices on Plantation and Gin House Scales, Cotton Gins, Feeders and Con densers and General Farm Machinery. We are at all times in the Cotton Market, and will do you right. We will pay all ties who owe us for Supplies and Guano an extra price. A large lot of BAGGING and TIES at lowest prices. McCULLY, CATHCART A CO. Oct 2, 1884 12 _ THE NEW FIRM. CUNNINGHAM & FOWLER, Successors to J. G. Cunningham & Co., dealers in MtY GOODS, GROCERIES, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, ^d a full line,of EVERYTHING usually kept in a General Stock. "Also, the world-renowned DUIe Piow. Agents for P"" ?lekory Wasons, and the Columbus) Boggy, rt? hat tn rt? ?rid for the aoney. .- .?-<-VT v.- .. . . ^ We want all the money that is dueT thia ???no, or Jtherwise. The Books, Notes and Accounts of the F'rnll0; JLJ? W,B dogbem. C. Ob. are in our hands for collection, and must be settled m some way. Thanking our friends for past patronage, we esk a continuance of the same. Come ?owens. We will do you right. CUNNINGHAM Ac FOWLER. OetS.Mft* ... i laj i NOTICE. IO? BART & CO., IA SK your neighbors to examine their . "-rkB| ?(?.*?*. K*. Title DeMsar.d fro if U?av nro miss- 1 55, 57 OB (I 59 ?artet WOST, CHARLESTON, S. O, THE LARGEST FRUIT Afrj PRODUCE HOUSE IN THE SOUTH. TM PORT and keep constantly on band Bananas, Cocoannts, Oronges. Pir.o Apples, ApplesTLemone, wats, Batoins, Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, N. O. and Va, Peanuts. VovSMSM ? .? C* Title Deeds and kee If thar are miss ing- Call on the Clerk of Court for them, .nd save your?ol vea ranch trouble. I A small Farm, lt nu les from Anderson ptll?uy School, to rent. Good houses aud attora. JOHN W. DANIELS. Jfov 20,1884 ' IS 4 Kf?TIOB FINAL SETTLEMENT. r \* . The undersized. Executor of b? Estate of Jacob Mooch et. deceased, ??**>y gives notice that be will, on the day of December, 1884, apply to tho odgeof Probate tor Anderson County for .Final Battlement or said Estate, and a '?charge from said Executoiahip. _ w . J. T. MO?CHET, Ex'r. Hov ?,1884 ? 19 ? TUE PRESIDENTS XESSAU E. Sensible Views ?od Recommendation* Ex pressed Most Politely. Tue more important parts of President Arthur's Annual Mesnage, which was presented to Congre-s yesterday, are as follows : Since the close of your last session the American people, in ti.?exercise of their highest right of sufirage, have chosen their Chief Magistrate for the four years ensuing. . When it is remembered that, at no period in the country's history has the long political contest which custom arily precedes the dBy of the national election, been waged with greater fervor and intensity, it is a subject of general congratulation that, after the controversy at the polls was over, aud while the slight reponderance by which the issue had een determined was as yet unascertained, the public peace suffered no disturbance, but the people everywhere patiently and quietly awaited the result. Nothing could more strikingly illustrate the tem per of the American citizen, his love of order and his loyally to law. Nothing could moro signally demonstrate the strength and wisdom of our political institutions. Eight years have passed since a con troversy concerning the result of a na tional election sharply called the attention of the Congress to ito necessity of pro viding more precise and definite regula tions for counting the electoral vote. It is of the gravest importance that this question be solved before conflicting claims to the Presidency shall again dis tract the country, and I am persuaded that by the people at large any of the measures of relief thus proposed would be preferred to continued inaction. FOREIGN RELATION?. Our relations with all foreign powers continue to be amicable. With France the traditional cordial relationship continues. The colossal statue of Liberty enlightening the world, the generous gift of thc people of France, IB expected to reach New York in May next. I suggest tbat Congressional action be taken in recognition of the spirit which bas prompted this gift and in aid of the timely completion of the pedestal upon which il is to be placed. THE HAWAILAN TREATY. The Government of Hawaii has indi cated its willingness to continue for seven years the providions of the existing reciprocity treaty. Such continuance, in view of the relations of that country to the American system of States, should, in my judgment, be favored. Our relations with Germany, a country which contributes to our own some of the beBt elements of citizenship, continue to be cordial. TUE DUTY ON WORKS OF ART. Much anxiety has lately been display ed by various European Governments, and especially by the Government of Italy, for the abolition of our import duties upon works of art. It is well to consider whether the present discrimination in favor of the productions of American artists abroad is not likely to result, as they themselves seem very generally to believe it may, in the practical exclusion of our painters and sculptors from the rich fi?los for observation, Btudy and labor which tbey have hitherto enjoyed. MEXICO. During the past yent the increasing good will between our own Government and that of Mexico bas been variously manifested. The treaty of commercial reciprocity, concluded January 20, 1883, has been ratified, and awaits the i centu ry turi ff legislation of Congress to become effective. This legislation, will, I doubt not, be among the first measures to claim your attention. A full treaty of commerce, navigation and consular rights is much to be desired, and such a treaty, I bavo reason to be lieve, the Mexican Government Btands ready to conclude. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. With the Republic of Ni carag u u trea ty has been concluded which authorizes the construction by the United States of a canal, railway and telegraph line across the Nicarauguan territory. By the terms of this treaty sixty miles of the River Ban Juan, as well as Lake Nicaragua, an inland sea forty miles io width, are to constitute a part of the projected enter prise. This leaves for actual canal con struction seventeen miles on the Pacific side and thirty-six miles on the Atlantic. To the United States, whose rich territory on tho facific ia, for the ordinary purpo ses of commerce, practically cut eff from communication by water with the Atlan tic ports, the political and commercial advantages of such a project can scarcely be overestimated. It is believed that wuss the treaty is laid before you the justice and liberality of its provisions will com mand universal approval at home and abroad. CURAN INSURGENTS. This Government bas more than once been called upon of late to take action in fulfillment of its international obliga tions toward Spain. Agitation in the Island of Cuba hostile to the 8panish Crown having been fomented by persons abusing the sacred rights of hospitality which our territory affords, the officers of this Government have been instructed to exercise vigilance to prevent infractions of our neutrality laws at Key West and at other pointa near the Cuban coast. In the only instance where these precau tionary measure:) were successfully eluded the offenders when found io our territory were subsequently tried and convicted. THE SPANISH TREATY. The growing need of close relationship of intercourse and traffic between the Spanish Antilles and their natural mar ket in the United Statee led to the adop tion, in January last of a commercial agreement looking to that end. This agreement bas since been superseded by a more carefully framed and comprehen sive convention which I shall submit to the Sen ato for approval. It has been the aim of this negotiation to open such a favored reciprocal exchange of produc tions CL .-ried under the flag of either countrv, as to make the intercourse between Cuba and Porto Rico and our selves scarcely less intimate than the commercial movement between our domestic porte, and to insure a removal of the burdens on shipping in the 8p?n isb Indies, of which in the past our sbip owners and ship masters have BO often had cause to complain. THE NEUTRA MT Y LAWS. - I recommend that the acope of the neutrality lawa of the United States be so enlarged aa to cover all patent acts of hostility committed in our territory and aimed against the peace of a friendly nation. Existing statutes prohibit the fitting out of armed expeditions and restrict tba shipment of explosives, though the enactments in the latter respect were not framed with regard to international obligations, but simply for the protection of passenger travel. All these statutes were intended to meet ?pedal emergencies that bad already arisen. Other emergencies have arisen since, and modern ingenuity supplies maana for the organization of hostilitiea ? without open resort to amed vrseels or to ?libu6teriog parties. I see no lesson wby the preparations in thia country for the commission of criminal acts, such as are here under consideration, should not be alike punishable whether such acts are intended to be committed in our own country or in a foreign country with which we are at peace. The prompt and thoiough treatment of this question is one which intimately concerns the na tional honor. TUE CONSULAR SERVICE. The legislation of the last session effected in the diplomatic and consular service certaiu changes and reductions which have been productive of embarrass ment. The population and commercial activity of our country aro steadily on the increase and are giving rise to new, varying and often delicate relationships with other countries. Our foreign estab lishment now embraces nearly double the area of operations that it occupied twenty years ago. Tho confinement of sucb a service within the limits of ex penditure tbeu established is not, it seems to me, in accordance with true economy. A community of silty millions of people should be adequately represented in ita intercourse with foreign nations. A project for the reorganization of the consular service and for recasting the scheme of extra territorial jurisdiction is now before you. If the limits of a short . r .ion will not allow of ita full consid eration,! trust that you will not fail to make suitable providion for the present needs of the service. THE REVENUES. The ordinary revenues for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1884, were $348, 519.869.92. The public expenditures during the name period were $290,916,473. Leaving a surplus of $57,G03,39G as com pared with tbe preceding fiscal year. There was a net decrease of over $21, 000,000 in the amount of expenditures. The aggregate receipts were less than those of the year previous by about $54,000,000. The failing off in revenue from customs made up nearly $20.000,00t of this deficiency, and about $23,000,00C of tho remainder wns duo to the dimin ished receipts from internal taxation. The secretary estimates the total receipts for the fiscal year which will end June 30, 1885, at $330,000,000, and the total expenditures nt $290,620,201.16, ir which sum are included the interest oe the debt and the amount payable to thc sinking fund. This would leave n sur plus for the entire year of about $39,000, ooo. EXTORTS AND IMPORTS. The value of exports from the Unilec States to foreign countries during thi year ending June 80, 1884, was as fol lows: Domestic mercbaudise,$724.964, 852 ; foreign merchandise, $15,548,757 Total merchandise, $740,513,609; specie $67,133,383. Total exports of merchan dise and Bpecie, $807,646.992. The cot ton and colton manufactures included ii this statement were valued nt $208,900, 415; tbe breadstuff* at $162,544,715 tbe provisious at $114,416,547, and tb mineral oils at $47,103,248. During th Barne period the imports were as follows Merchandise, $667,697,693; gold am silver, $37,426,262. Total, $705,l23,95i THE SILVER COINAGE. I concur with the secretury of tb treasury in recommending the immedi ate suspension of the coinage of Hilve dollars, aod of the issuance of ailve certificates. Tbe number now outstand ing is nearly one hundred and eighty fiv million whereof but little moro tba forty million, or less than 22 per cent are in actual circulation. The secretar asserts his conviction that unless thi coinage und the issuance of silver cei titrates bo suspended, silver is likely, t no distant day, to become our sole mela lie standard. The commercial distort ance and the impairment of nalioni credit that would be thus occasioned ca scarcely be overestimated. I hope thi the secretary's suggestions respecting tl withdrawal from circulation of the or dollar and two dollar notes will recen your approval. It is likely that a coi Biderable portion of the silver no encumbering the vault? of tho treasui might thua find its way into the currenc INTEBXAL REVENUE TAXES. In my annual message of 1882 I r commended the abolition of all exci taxes except those relating to distill spirits. This recommendation is nc renewed. lu case those taxes shall 1 abolished the revenues that will still i main to the Government will, in ti opinion, not only suffice to meet reasonable expenditures, but will afib a Bt'.rpluB large enough to permit su tari/f reduction as may seem to be a visabie when , he results of recent ret nue lawa ?nd commercial treaties sb; L*te shown in what quarters those i duciionn can be most judiciously affecte FOEEION TRADE. One of the gravest of the proble which appeal to the wisdom of Congr for solution is the ascertainment of I most effective means for increasing < foreign trade, and thus relieving t depression under which our induetr are now languishing. The secretary the treasury advises that the duty investigating this subject be intrusted the first instance to a competent cc mission. While fully recognizing i considerations that may be urged agai this course, I am nevertheless of opinion that, upon the whole, no otl would be likely to effect speedier or bel results. That portion of tho s?cr?tai report which concerns the condition oar shipping interests cannot fail to cc mand your attention. He empbatici recommends that as an incentive tn investment of American capital American steamships the Governm shall, by liberal payments for mail tn portation or otherwise, lend its act assistance to individual enterprise, i declares bis belief that unless I course be pursued our foreign carry trade must remain as it ?3 to day -alu exclusively in the bands of foreign One phase of this subject is now esp ally prominent in view of the repeal the Act of Jone 26,1884, of all ?tatul provisions arbitrarily compel? in, : Am can vessels to csrry the mails to from the United States. As it in ne sary to make provision to co mi. en the owners of such vessels for perron: that service after April, 1885, it ls bo that tbe whole subject will receive e consideration and will lead to tbe en ment of such measures for the revivs oar merchant marine as tbe wiador Congress may devise. THE NATIONAL BANKS. As tbe 8 per cent, bonds still const! tbe chief basis for the circulation of national banks, tbe question boa avert the contraction of the carri caused by their relire m cn t, la one of stantly increasing importance. It at tb be generally conceded that the governing thin matter exacts from banks excessive security, and that i their present bond deposits a Is circulation than is now allowed nt grated witb safety. I hope that the which passed the S?cate at the session, permitting the iesue of I equal to tbe face vatua of the depo bonds, trill commend itself to the proval of tho Henee of Repr?sentai RIVERS AND HARBORS. The funds with which the works for tin? improvement of rivers and harbors were prosecuted during the past year were arrived from the appropriations of the act of August 2, 1882. together with euch few balances as were on hand from previous appropriations. The balance in thc treasury subject to requisition July 1, 1883, was $10,021,649.55. The ! amount appropriated during the fiscal I year 1884 was $1,319,684.62, and the i amount drawn from the treasury during the fUcal year was $8.228.703.54, leaving a balance'of $3,112,580 GS in thc treasury subject to requisition July 1, 1884. FORTIFICATIONS. Tho secretary of war submits the report of the chief of engineers as to the practicability of protecting our im portant cities on the seaboard by forti fications and other defences able to repel ; modern methods of attack. Thc timo has now come when such defences can be prepared with con?deuce that they will not prove abortive, and when the possible result of delay in making auch prepara tiona is seriously considered delay seems J inexcusable. For tho most important cities, those whoso destruction or capture would be a national humiliation, ade quate defences inclusive of guns may be made by the gradual expenditure of $4)0,000,000, a sum which is leas than a victorious enemy could levy as a contri bution. A*n appropriation of about one tenth of that amount is asked tor to begin tho wot , and I concur with the secretary of war i urging that it be granted. NEW WAR VESSELS. The recommendations of the naval advisory board approved by the depart ment comprise the construction ot one steel cruiser of 4,500 tons, one cruiser of 3,000 tens, two heavily armed gunboats, one light cruising gunboat, one dispatch vessel armed with llotchkiss car non, one armed ram and three torpedo boats. The general designs, all of which aro calcula ted to meet the existing wants of the servico, are now well advanced and the construction of the vessola can bo under taken as Boon as you shall grant the necessary authority. THE NAVY. In this the last of the ?tated measoges that I shall have the honor to transmit to the Congress of the United States I cannot too strongly urge upon its atten tion the duty ot restoring our navy ao rapidly as possible to the high state of eiheiency which formerly characterized it. As the long peace that has lulled us into ?sense of fancied security may at any time be disturbed, it is plain that tho policy of strengthening this arm of thc service is dictated by considerations of wie J economy, of a just regard for our future tranquility und of a true appreciation of the dignity and honor of the Republic. REDUCTION OF POST AO E. I conlidently repeat the recommenda tion of my last annual messngo that the single rate postage upon drop letters be reduced to one cent wherever the pny ment of two cents is now required by law. I approve the recommendation of tbe postmaster general that the unit of weight in tho rating of first class matter should be one ounce instead of one hal! ounce as it now is. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. The attorney-general renews the recom mendation contained in his report of Inst year touching the fees of witnesses and jurors. He favors radical changes in the fee bill, the adoption of a system by which attorneys and marshals of the United States shall be compensated solely by salaries, and the erection by tbo Government of a penitentiary for the confinement of offenders against the law? of the United States. TUE EXTENSION OF OUR COMMERCE In tho cour.-c of this communication reference baa more than once been mad? to tbe policy of this Government ai regards the extension of our foreigr. trade. It seems proper to declare th? general principles that should, in mj opinion, underlie our national efforts ir this diiection. The main conditions o the problem may be thu? stated. Wi are a pooplo apt in mechanical pursuits and fertile in invention. We cover i vast extent of territory, rich in sgricul tural products aud in nearly all the rav materials necessary for successful manu factures. We have a system of produc tive establishment!! more than Bufficieu to supply our own demands. Tht sage of labor are BO great, and the scale c living of our artisan clausen 1? euch a tends to secure their personal com for and the development of those bigbe moral and intellectual qualities that gi to tbe making of good citizens. Ou system of tax and tariff legislation i yielding a revenue which is in excess e the present needs of the Government These aro the elements from which it I sought to devise a scheme by whicl without unfavorably changing the con dition of the working-man, our merchar marine shall be raiaed from its enfeeble condition, and new markets provided fe the salo beyond our borders of the mani fold fruits of industrial enterprises. Th problem is complex, and can be solve by no "ingle measure of innovation c reform. The countries of the America Continent and the adjacent islands ai for tbe United States the natural mar of supply and demand, Itisfromtbei that we should obtain of what we do ni produce, or do not produce in sufficienc; and it is to then that the surplus pr? due tiona of our fields, our mills and ot workshops should Sow under conditioi that will equalize or favor them io . con parison with foreign competition. Foi ?atbs of policy seem to point to this cn 'int a series of reciprocal commerci treaties with the countries of Ameri which shall foster between us and sho an unhampered movement of trad The conditions of these treaties sbou be tho free admission of such mcrcbs dise as this country does not prcduce, return for the admission, free or under favored scheme- of duties, of our oi products .* the benefits of such excbani to applj only to goods carried under tl flag of the parties to the contract; t remo/al on both sides from the vessel? privileged of all tonnage, dues a notional imposts, so that those vessi may ply unhindered between our po and those of the other contracting parti though without infringing on the i served home-coasting trade ; tbe remo1 or reduction of burdens on tbe export products of those countries coming ii the benefits of the treaties and the avo ance of the technical restrictions a penalties by which our intercourse w those countries is at present hamper Secondly, the establishment of the ct solar service of the United States ot salariad footing, thus permitting t relinquishment of consolar ieee, not oi ce respects vessels under the natioi flag, but also as respects vessels of I treaty nations, carrying goods entitled the benefits of the treaties. Thirdly I enactment of measures to favor the e* ?traction and maintenance of a ates carrying marine under thc flag of i United States. Fourthly, the eatabli meat of an uniform currency basis tbs countries of America, so thai coined products of minea may circu? on equal terms throughout the whole system of Commonwealths. This would require a monetary union of America, whereby the output of the bullion-pro ducing countries and the circulation of those which yield neither gold nor silver could be adjusted in conformity with the population, wealth and commercial needs of each. As many of the couti tries furnish no bullion to tho common stock-, tho surplus production of our mines and mints might thus be utilized and a step taken toward the general romonitization df silver. To the accom plishment ol the ends so far as they can be attained by separate treaties, the negotiations already concluded and now in progress have been directed, and the favor which this enlarged policy bas thus far received warrants tho belief that its operations will ero long embrace all, or nearly all, the countries of this hemis phere. It is by no means detdrable, however, that tho policy under consider ation should bo applied to theae countries alone. The healthful enlargement of our trado with Europe, Asia and Africa should be sought by reducing tariff bur dens on such of their wares as neither wo nor the other Amorican Slates are ?tted to produce, and thus enabling our* selves to obtain iu return a better market for our supplies of food, of raw material and of the manufactures in which we excel. It seems to me that many nf the embarrassing elements in the great national conflict between Protection and Free-trade may thus bo turned to good account ; that tho revehuo may he reduced BO as no longer to overtax the people, that protective duties may be retained without becoming burdensome, that our shipping interests may be judi ciously encouraged, tho currency fixed on firm basis and above all such an unity of interests established among the Statea of the American system as will be of great and ever increasing advantage to them all. POLYGAMY. Tho report of the Utah commission will bo read with interest. It discloses the results of recent legislation looking to the prevention ano punishment of polygamy in that territory. I still believe that, if that abominable practice can bo suppressed by law, it can only be by ibo most radical legislation consistent with the rest mint-, of the Constitution.. I again recommend, therefore, that Con gress assume absolute political control of the Territory of Utah, and provide for the appointment of commissioners with such governmental powers BB in its judgmeut may justly and wisely bo put into their bands. THE CIVIL 8KKVICE LAW. The good rosults anticipated have been moro than realized. The system bas fully answered tho expectations of its friends in securing competent and faith ful public servants, and in protecting the appointing officers of tho Government from the presBuro ot personal importuni ty, and from the labor of examining the claims nnd pretensions of rival candi dates for public employment. The law hun had the unqualified support of the President and of the heads of the several departments, and the members of the commission have performed their duties with zeal and fidelity. NATIONAL BANKRUPT LAW. in view of the general and persistent demaud throughout the commercial com munity for a national bankrupt law I hope that the differences of sentiment which have hitherto prevented its enact ment may not outlast the present BCSB?OU. THE CHOLERA. The pestilence which for Che past two years has been raging in the countries of the Er.st, recently made its appearance in European porta with which we are in constant communication. The then secretary of the treasury, in pursuance of a proclamation of the President, issued certain regulations restrict ing for a time the importation of rags and the admission of baggage of immi grants and of travellers arriving from infected quarters. Lest this course may have been without strict warrant of law, I approve the recommendation of the present secretary, that Congress take action in the premises, and I also recom mend che immediate adoption of such measures as will be likely to ward off the dreaded epidemic, arid to mitigate its severity in case it shali unhappily extend to our shores. U. 8. OH A NT. I recomsoeod that, in recognition o' tho iminent services of Ulysses S. Grant, late General of the United H taten nnd twice President of this nation, the Con gress confer upon bim a suitable- pension. CONCLUSION. As the time draws nigh when I am lo retire from the public service, I cannot refrain from expressing to tho members of the National L?gislature with whom I have been brought into personal and official intercourse, my sincere apprecia tion of their unfailing courtesy and of the harmonious co-operation with the Executive in so many measures calculat ed to promote the best interests of the nation. To my fellow-citizens generally I acknowledge a deep sente of obligation for the support which they have accord ed me in my administration of the Exec utive department of this Government. Docs Shelter Pny ? With the beginning of cold weather, the necessity of giving the stock smple protection becomes apparent. Wise far mers not only sgree to this, but experi ments have shown the wisdom of giving the stock warm shelter during Winter. To obtain tho comparative effect produced by both shelter and exposure, the Ohio Experiment Station separated 10 bogs into two lou each, giving one lot the best of shelter while the other lot was given but ordinary shelter. This experiment was continued from Dec. 7, 1882, to March 29,1883. Tho pigs were fed rd ike -corn in the ear twice daily, and plenty of pure water at all times. There was but a difference of two pounds in the amount of corn consumed by the -two lota. 8,240 pounds of corn were fed to the pigs in the closed pens, which made an increase of 850 pounds io weight. 3,242 pounds of corn were fed to the pigs io the open pen, which made an Increase of 220 pounds. The sheltered eoimsls required 91 pounds of corn to make one pound of increase, while those io the open pen required 13 pounds. From fig ures giren by the Station, the pigs In tbe open pen during the coldest periods re quired 17.6 pounds of coro to a >ke one pound of Increase, while those in the closed pen required only 7.5 pounds of corn to moko a pound of meat These flau rea are facts, and speak for themselves. Wo cannot afford to allow stock to stand shivering in cold barns ell Winter. Plaster up the ruptures lo the wells, replace broken panes of glass with whole ones, corer the cracks in tbe sides of the bera, ah in irlo the roofs, end prep*;? I for Winter. It will pay overy time. -- Well-executed len-dollnrconntcrfeit notes, upon the Cincinnati National Bank, of Cincinnati, O., ere te circula tion. . TH BILLIN G INCILENT OF TUB WAR. How Ilagood Iteocued tb? Flag and Bared lil? Il rix *do fro Di Capturo, from General Beauregard't Jljitoru. It tras during the attempt to regain the use of tho Weldon road by tho Federals on the 21at of August, 1804, tbatGenernl Hagood, of South Carolina,distinguished himself in a personal encounter with a Federal officer. Owing to inaccurate reports of his scouts General A. P. Hill, who commanded tbe Confederate forces against Warren's ex pedition, mistook the exact position of the enemy's line ou the left, and, through General Mahone, tv ho labored under tho sam? error, Hsgood'a brigade WAS ordered to press the rear and flank of the Feder als. He was to be supported by Ave bri ndes of Mahono's division, supposed to e already in front. The brigade drove the skirmishers from their rifle pits, but found itself in presence of n strongly in trenched line, crowded with men and ar tillery, extending right and left as far as could be seen. The five brigades of Mahono were not there. General Ha good saw at once what a perilous strait he was in, and stopping himself, shouted again and again the command to halt} but ihw crash and rattle of twelve or fifteen pieces of artillery and probably twenty-five hundred rifles, which bau now opened upon them at close range, drowned his voice, and the fury of the baute was upou bis men. Moving for ward with the steady tramp of tbe double quick, and droning upon their colors, these devoted men, intent only on carry ing the position before them, neither broke their alignment uutil it was broken by the irregulur impact upon the enemy's works, nor stopped te fire their guns till their ruBh to ob tai u tho parapet was re pelled. When General Hagood saw his men thus rushing upon certain destruction, and bis eflbrts to stop them unavailing, he felt that if they were to perish he Bhould share their fute; and with Molony and Martin and Orderly Stoney, he fol lowed the advancing line. In fifty yards Lieutenant Martin tell, shot in the knee; a few steps farther on and Captain Molony fell, shot through tbe bead, and Hagood and Stoney alone reached the ' works-the latter shot In the shoulder but not disabled. The 25th and list regiments being on tho left, from tho oblique direction of the advance, firBt struc!: the works; and while they stag gered io get in the other three regiments Bwopt on. When they reached tho ditch there was from seventy (ive to one hun dred yards im rval between tbe two divisions into wi ilch the brigade had bro ken. General Hagood was with Major I Wilds, commanding {the 21st, who wns cheering on bis men to renewed assault (success now being their only hope of Bafety), when, looking tn the right, he saw a mounted Federal officer among the men on the left of the portion of the brigade tn the righ'. with a regimental [ color In his bands, and a confusion and Earleying immediately around him thal etokoned approaching surrender. The I fight was still raging at Hagood's right' ! and left ; there was no cessation on the ! part of his men except in the squad just I around this officer, and none whatever I tbnt was perceptible on ibo part of the enemy. They bad pushed out from the right and left a line behind tbe Carolini ans to cut off their retreat, and this officer (Captain Daly, of General Cutter's staff) bad galloped out of a sally-port, seized a color from the bands of Its bearer, and demanded a surrender. Some officers and men surrendered, but were not car ried in ; others refused, but jus' around him ceased fighting. General Hagood called to the men to Bhoot him and fall back in retreat. They either did not hear him, or, bewildered by the surren der of part of their number, failed to obey. It was a critical moment, and demanded instant and decided action. Io a few minutes the disposition to surren* der would have spread and the whole brigade have been lost. Making bis wsy across the intervening space, ex posed to a regular fire by file from the enemy's line scarce thirty yards off, and calling to bia men to fall back, which they did not do, General Hagood approached the officer ami demanded the colors, and tbat b<? should go back within bis own lines, telling him he was free to do so. He commenced arguing tin hope* lessness of further struggle, and pointed out the line in Hagood s rear. Hagood cut him short and demanded a categoric al i cpi y-yes or no. Daly was a man of nae presence, with long, flowing beard, and sat with I?????CU fein opon a noble looking bay that stood with bead and tail erect, and flashing eye and distended nostrils, quivering in every limb with excitement, but not moving in bis tracks. In reply to this abrupt demand tbe rider raised bis bead proudly, and decisively answered. No ! Upon toe word General Hagood shot him through the body, and m. ho reeled from tho saddle upon one side sprang into it from the other, Orderly Stoney seizing the flag from bia falling bands. There was PO thought of surren der now ; the yell from the brigade fol lowing the act and ringing out above the noise of battle told their commander that they were once more in band, and would go now wherever ordered. Shouting to them to face about, Hagood led them at a run against the line in bis rear, Stoney holding aloft in front the recaptured flag. Tbe line melted before the charge ; but the fire waa terrific, after breaking through it, till the shelter of the valley of the branch was reached. Upon ita mar gin a fragment from a schrapnel ahell tore open the loins of the horse Hagood , rode. i He Did lt Once. "I never knew Sam Baldwin to tell the truth but once." remarked Colonel Foley to Jim Mitchell, of the Boston Globe, the latter being io Foley's store, one day. "If Sam Baldwin told the truth, it most have been by accident," responded Mitchell. "You have hit it precisely ; it waa by an accident, that be told the truth. Sam bad an old sbot>gun that had been IQ tba family forty years, and one day be put two loads ia one barrel, and when he fired the gun buist into a thousand piece?. Wheo Sam waa restored to consciousness, his head was bandaged up, and the doc tora were exploring ulm for relics of the battle. The biggest pieco of that gun that could be found waa about two inobea long,and waa dugout from under bia collar-bone. Then it was that Sam told the truth." "What did ho say?" "He ?aid if be lived to be 1,000 years old, ho would never fire off that gun again, and he never did, for .nobody could find that gun again when there waa nothing of it left to ?re off, except tba p?ceo Sam bad bid away under bis collarbone." "Just aa I said. He aevcr told the troth, unless it happened by ncchlont." - Mr. J. B. Harrington, of Charlotte* wont, violently insane over tho n n n nun co - meht of Cleveland's election, bot be Is gradually regaining mental sound Ue~Tbero aro 150 distinct YsrWlit* of , ho ban a n a. BILL ABF. "Gnaweth a File." Adunia Constitution. And bo gnaweth a file. Well, it ia bard viuda, I know, but sometimes it belps a man to explode, and thrash around under great disappointments. It sets the pent up bile to working, and when he gets rid of ?the feels better. Mr. Blaine feels better now, I reckon. May be that Aug tinta speech saved his life, for I have heard folks say that he erasa very sensitive man and if be got beaten he would kill himself. But the danger is all over now and the crisis is past. Let us pass resolutions of sympathy, for a great man bas fallen this day in Israel. Well, he fell several years ago, but ho dident fall so far nor so suddenly, and thc whole nation did not see him. It was an awful shock this time and be bad to say something, ile had to abuse some? body. He badi Beecher and Burcbard and Nast and the Harpers and the Times, but he was afraid of tbem, and so he tnkcB the solid South for his victim-the old martyrs that has stood tho brunt of a thousand slanders and still lim.. Thank the good Lord, she still lives! They have thrown boomerangs at her for twenty years, but the boomerang isa dangerous weapon in careless hands. They tell me a man can throw lt clean round a house and it will come back and hit him if he don't dodge. Better quit throwing boom* erangs. They threw one at us when they gave tho negro the vote and it has just got back and hit them a terrible blow. It bit Mr. Blaine in the pit of the stomach and hurt, and he gnaweih a file. Aud it hit Mural Halstead, and he gnaweth a file. And that Milwaukee feller gnaweth a file. I'm afraid that files will be seareo up there, and as they seem to like such viudo, I think I will send them a few old ones from my blacksmith shop-I reckon they aro good eating to folks who like them. But I am sorry for Mr. Blaine-I really am-and I hope our folks will give him tho charity of their silence. Say no more about Mulligan, or Hocking Valley, or Joy, or Fisher. Don't kick a man when he io down. Don't punch a poor coon just to see him bite the stick. They punched us after they whipped us and I never could understand it unless it was like the fellow who killed a dog for biting him, and after the dog was dead ho kicked him and mangled bim and cursed bim until a man wno waa standing by suid, "Don't you iee that brute is dead what are you kicking him now for?" "Dog on him," said be, "I want to teach bim there is a little hell and punishment ' after death." But now let us nil have peace. Let us return good for evil. We have got friends up thore, and for their sakes let us for give and forget. I wish we bad invited Mr. Blaine down to our jubilee and got him to make another opeecb. May be our Sunny South and our hospitality would have affected him and Bet bis liver straight. We could have given bim some S. S. S. besides and sent him borne a bet ter and happier man. I wonder what office ho would like under Mr. Cleveland-some little thing to taper off on-a cousulate to South America. Brazil or Terra Del Fuego, or maybe tho Cape of Good Hope. Good hopes are good things for a disappointed man. There would be a wide field fer bis philantropby down there, for the peo ple are black-solid black. 1 think it would harmonize Halstead and company to give them an office, and we will nave lots of offices. I was afraid we wouldn't have enough people to fill them, but I reckon wa will. Our boys eecm to be right patriotic. There are fifteen volun teers already fur the Garten: vii i o postof fice, and I feel encouraged. They are all good men and willing. I hear that ono man came a hundred milea to take lt as soon as it was vacant. Such patriotism ought to bo rewarded. I was thinking about a snug little sin cure my self, and went down to Atlanta to see about it and offer my services, but a man tackled mc canoon aa I Ht off the cars and took roe away off round a corner and aaid be was after an office, and wanted me to help him get it, and told me how that be had worked for the party for twenty odd years and never had bau nothing, and bo was poor and needy ; and when I asked bim what office it was. he named the very one I waa alter. Well,-1 am easily over come by a friend in distress, and BO I promised to do ell I could, and in ten minutes after I left bim T met another friend who wanted it. and so I prom!e*d bim, and before I left town I had promised six, and I felt relieved to think that I was regarded of so much in fluence and could do ao much good In helping tho needy. It is a good algo to iee that so many are volunteering, for it will give Mr. Cleveland plenty of choice. It is goiug to be right bard on our mem bers of Congress. They have got to play a new role now. Whee the fifteen appli cations for the Cartersville postoffice are . sent up to the Postmaster-General he will do like that officer ni v/ny o does. He wiil refer the arhole lot to Mr. Cl?mente, and Mr. Clements will look over the names to the petitions, and after considering who is the best man for the office and for tho people, and for Mr. Clements too, be will recommend one, and thereby make one friend and fourteen enemies. So there is going to be the dickens to play In tho districts all over the State, ana lota of disappointed patriota are going to get fighting mad. But I hope they will have sense ennugh to spell the word "ac ?uieace," and not go to gnawing a file, 'm sorry for onr members of Congress. V man told me in Atlanta that Governor Brown's mail waa now about a bushel a day, abd it took two clerks to read i hem and file them and make out a tally sheet, so that the Governor could get an idea without reading them. Governor Col quilt got 47 letters in one mail, and 45 of them were applications for office.' It is very encouraging to think that wo ? have got so many who are fitton, for I know they are all fitton; their friends . say they are. ' Sometimes I think I would like to get a good fat office like Mr. Cleveland has always got his. .That is, have it shoved on me. x was ruminating over bia won derful creer. Thero Is nothing like It since old Father Oinciunatua was called from the plow to govern the Roman em pire. But they don't call them from tb? plow now. I have been looking np tho road for seven years for a committee to come after me and take me from the plow, but they don't come, and so l have quit plowing. The shoving process seems to bo unpopular, as a general thing, and now th? feller who works the hardest and. bas thc longest pole generally knocks down the persimmon. So, wade in, boya, end fortify your selves. Combine, confederate, make Ero m i ?es. it is no sin to bold office. It Is onorable, but if you can do anything else and ' nuire a living you bad better do it, fdr fear yon will bo disappointed Said nive to gnaw a file. BiLJi Anr. foal be ra ? Who saya ii Ia unhealthy to sleep in erst Look at the spring; chicken and "oo bow tough ho is. J ~- Tho firstjiewsparer adverUseiaen*