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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ' ANDERSON, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1685. _VOLUME XX.?NO. 30 ALWAYS GO TO HEADQUARTERS FOR DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, Extracts, Patent Medicines, DYE STTJKITS, &o. a FULL line of Paints, Varnishus, Combs, Brushes, Hair Oils, Buy Rum, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Face Powders, Fine Toilet Soaps, Tooth Powders, Tooth Brushes, La? dies' Hand Mirrors, Razors. Shaving Setts, Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Sup? porters, &c. Pure, High Toned Flavoring Extracts, Taking Powders and Soda, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, and Finest Teas in the market. Cigars and Tobacco. Best Coal Oil Lamps aod Lamp , Goods, and every variety of choice v Goods aod necessary articles usually kept in First Class Drug Stores and used io families. PATENT MEDICINES, all tine. . Standard and Reliable ones kept in stock. The sweetest and most deli- ~ cate Perfumes and Odors, and a full line of Colognes and Toilet Water always in stock. Chapped hands, face and lips are very prevalent at this season of the year, and nothing will cure and pre? vent this annoying adiction so effectu? ally as a box of Camphor Ice, Cosma Jine, or some of our pure Glycerine. FANCY GOODS and Sundries, and a thousand and one other arti? cles of general use may be found in our complete stock. i EST Oblige us by giving us a call, and you will be surprised at our LOW PRICES and superior quality of our Goods. With the compliments of the Season, we are yours, <fcc, WiLHITE * WILHITE. Jan 8,1885_?_ GOODS WERE NEVER SO LOW. This fact We are prepared to Prove to our Friends and Customers who may favor us with a call. WE are now receiving the largest and most carefully selected Stock of General Mer? chandise which we have ever purchased, and will make it to your interest to call and examine for yourselves. We have added io the lines usually kept by us many new and desirable ones, embracing? Ladies' Dress Goods, Flannels, Suitings, Shawls, &c, And. the best CORSET on the market at 50c, worth $1.00, Also, a A LARGE LINE OF READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, THUNES, UMBRELLAS, BLANKETS, SADDLES and HARNESS. Also, the Celebrated "NEW GLOBE" SHIRT-the king of all Shirts. It needs only to be worn to be appreciated. We are agents for the Celebrated Mishawaka Sulky Piows, Cultivators and Hand Turning Plows. The "White Hickory" and."Hickman" one and two horse WAGONS, every one of | which we guarantee. The attention of Ginners and Farmers is called to our?* cotton seed and grain crusher, By 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, CATHCAET & CO. Qct 2. 1884 _12_ IS NOW OFFERING GOODS AT AND BELOW COST! So as to close out his entire stock of Winter Goods before 1st Februarv, 1885. just think of it ! CLOAKS from $3 00 to $10 00. SHAWLS fmm 35c to $5 00. BLANKETS from $1.00 per pair up to $8.00. SHEETINGS at 5c per yurd. BED TICKINGS from 8c per yard to 25o. JEANS cheaper than ever. DRESS GOODS from 10c per yard up. DRESS FLANNELS from 20c per yard up to ?1.15. Best PRINTS 6c per yard. 8HOES from 50c per imir up to $6 50 BOOTS froui $1 00 per pair up to $4.00. And as I have only a few Trunks, Valises and Hats on hand I am determined to close them out regardless of cost. Before buying I ask everybody to examine mv stock. VF. A. CHAPMAN. Dpc 25. im _ _ 23 _ly DOH'T Deny Yonr Wife and Children of one of the Greatest, most Elevating and Refining of all the Sciences, MUSIC. jgCONOMY SAYS GET THE BEST OF EVERYTHING! Chickering Pianos and Mason & Hamlin Organs Are the RECOGNIZED LEADERS OF THE WORLD for Musical Instruments. They cost a little more than cheaper Instruments, simply because more care a id better material is nsed in their manufacture. Only one to buy in a life-time. GET THE BEST. 9 J. A. DANIELS, AGENT FOR LUD DEN & BATES. Jai i; im THE RACE ISSUE SOUTH. Grave Problems Awaiting Solution. New Orleans, January 19.?The first serious phase of the race problem in the South has been solved ; but its solu? tion is likely to present another and a graver problem, involving the two races of the South. After years of fretful strife, made mainly by adventurers who appealed to the ignorance, prejudice and cupidity ot the blacks, the whites rule the entire South, with the active Co? operation of a considerable number of ! the more intelligent and thrifty blacks end with the entirely passive assent ol the other;*. Here, as elsewhere in the Union, and as elsewhere in every ci vi Ii zation of the world, intelligence, integri ty and property, when combined, will inevitable rule in tbeend ; and the battle of the blacks for political mastery, even if honestly and wisely led, could have attained only fitful triumphs. As it was most corruptly and unscrupulously led, without fidelity to either whites or blacks, and without respect for the interests of par ty or race, defeat came speedily in disre? gard of all the power and appliancesof the National Government, and when it came, it left only monuments of shame for friend and foe. The profligacy aud theft of negro rule in the South alienated the few of the race who saw that freedom did j not furnish corn aud bacon, and that blacks, like whites, must earn their own bread by tbe sweat of his brow ; and others soon learned thr.t tbe bewildering promises of adventurers who organized and voted the blacks, were made to the ear only to be broken to the hope. The result has logically been that as negroes became iudustrious and thrifty and the owners of property, they have either voted with the whiles to assure the safety of both person and property, or they have retired from all participation in politics. There is nothing novel in this feature of tbe race question in the South. The blacks of the South are employed and fed almost wholly by the property owners, und they have everything to lose by political antagonism. In tbe North, and in no Northern State more than in Pennsylvania, tens of thousands of intel? ligent whites vote with their employers for the same fate as the blacks of the Soutb, if tbey voted against the capital that gives them labor. The same im? mutable law that governs the political relations between employed in the North, governs in tbe ^outh, only it governs a much larger measure of intelligence and pride of manhood in Pennsylvania than in Alabama. If intelligent citizens of any Northern State will look about them among their own people in a political campaign, they will see tbe clear expla? nation of what is culled the failure of tbe black vote of tbe South. It is the question of corn and bacon in the South ; it is tbe question of bread and raiment in the North, and that tells the whole story. the race problem of the future. The political revolution that retires the Republican party from power alter a reign of nearly a quarter of a century, will end all effort at political organiza? tion on tbe race line. It bau been prac tically a failure for years past, when there were many circumsianctsto inspire the hope of partial succet-s; and now the whole race issue perishes by the change of national authority. To day there is nothing left of the race organi? zation in politics. There was a shudder among tbe blacks immediately after the election of Cleveland, because they feared the fulfillment of the predictions of their leaders thpt they would be remanded back to slavery; but they already see that their leaders were delib? erately untruthful, and all apprehensions of harshness to their race because of a change of political power have perished. Every possible appeal was made to their ignorance and prejudice before the late election, as has been usual in all election campaigns of the last fifteen years, to consolidate the colored vote us the only way to defeat a return to bondage; but now Democratic success has come ; the whites have in no degree changed their friendly relations toward the blacks, and tbere are few,of the colored race so igno? rant as not to understand that no change in political authority can limit their civil rights. The blacks are, therefore, satisfactorily assured on the one question that disturbed them, and that assurance has taught them more pointedly than ev*r before that leaders are characterless, untruthful and dangerous to tbe peace and prosperity of the colored race. And when it is considered that the active leaders of the colored voters in main? taining the race issue in politics, are the Federal officials in the South, the end of race organization must be clearly appa? rent to all. That there will be a general change of tbe Federal officers in the South can hardly be a matter of doubt. Civil service reform imperatively de-1 mauds it, as nine tenths of them have I prostituted their powers to the meanest partisan or personal ends, and most of them are conspicuously lacking alike in competency and character. Instead of regarding public office as a public trust, they have, as a rule, employed their po? sitions not only in the most unscrupulous way in politics, but they have persistent? ly and systematically disturbed the busi ness and tranquility of the South, and inflamed tbe prejudices of the ignorant blacks to array themselves against the people from whom they must receive employment and sustenance. The civil service of the South, taken as a whole, has been one of the terrible curses of both races, and it will stand out in his lory us one of the indellible blots upon the Government. It will now be changed and reformed, and that will end all race organization in politics. The Federal officials understand it, tbe blacks under? stand it, the whites understand it, and henceforth Ihe blacks will generally divide in politics without regard to the lines of thrift and intolerance, which have been the only lines of division among them during the last ten years, and the division of the blacks presents the new problem to be solved in the Soutb. both races will divide. I have not seen an intelligent politi? cian or business man in the South who does not look upon the now assured general division of the colored voters with grave apprehensions. The race issue in politics, although largely broken in recent elections, coerced the practical unity of the whites. The conflicts of ambition were subordinated to the com mon peril of negro supremacy, and the whites were compelled to stand together to avert it. There was no field lor free lancers in politics among the whites, and their jealousies and conflicting aims were supressed by a supreme necessity to which all bowed without question. Now the issue of black unity aud of black supremacy is an issue of the past. The coloted voters will be indifferent to poli? tics, as a rule, except when appeals to their ambitii n and cupidity recalls them to active efforts. The fivld is thus opened to the long smothered ambition of the whites wbu would gladly have rudely jostled each other in the raco lor promo? tion, and the blacks will be appealed to b ' disputing aspirants. These appeals will not be made to tbe intelligence or to the integrity of the blacks, na such ap? peals would be profitless. They will be made to their ignorance, to their preju? dices, to their cupidity, to nil their baser qua lities, not as ambitious politicians do in the North, and there is grave danger of thus inaugurating a general Hweep of political demoralization in both races. The Southern people possess just the same human nature that any other people pos-pss. They are likely to be just as ambitious and as mean in promoting mean ambition as the average American politician in every section of the coun? try, and with an immense colored vote, nearly equalling the whites in all the States, and superior in numbers in South Carolina and Mississippi, and in the lowest strata of ignorance, idleness and superstition, what must be the harvest of the obliteration of the race line in South? ern politics? This is the most serious race problem the South has ever attempt? ed to solve, and I share the apprehen? sion of the more intelligent Southern people that the last stage of the race issue will be vastly worse than any of the past. THE XEORO NORTH AND SOUTH. There is much unreasonable miscon? ception in the North of the relative condition of the blacks in the North and in the South. The prejudice of caste is just equally strong in both sections of the country. The black man can no more sit nl the table of the most blatant Republican in the North than he can sit at the table of his old master in the South. The same social laws govern all peoples, and they are immutable. Poli? ticians theorize differently in election campaigns, but there tbpir theory ends. The prejudice of race is five-fold stronger in the North than in the South. The Northern people have no love for the black man, and eveu those who battled for his freedom and enfranchisement, as a rule, cheri-h va?tly more profound prejudice of race than do the Southern people. While the North maintains its deep prejudice of race, the people of the South have a general and strong sympa? thy for the negro. Nearly all of them have played with the negro in childhood, have been nursed by the black "mama," and have grown up with more or less affection for them. Classify it in what type of affection you may, it is none the less an affection that tempers the hard, unyielding prejudice of race that prevails in the North. The distinction between the Northern and Southern people on the race question will prepare the public mind iu the North for the dissipation of another unfounded sectional j.r judicetbat i? deeply rooted there. The educational facilities for the blacks are better in the South to day than they are in the North, in proportion to. the facilities proffered to all. South.Carolina employs and pays out of the State Treasury more black teachers than are employed in all the Slates of the North, and Alabama em ploys 1,100 colored male teachers and 500 colored female teachers. And they provide the best means for fitting the colored people Air teaching. The nor mal schools for whites and blacks in both Alabnma and South Carolina are exactly equal, and ihe treasury of State is large? ly drawn upon to qualify the colored race for teaching itself. North Carolina, Georgia. Mississippi and indeed most oi the old slave States, each sustain more colleges for the blacks than d > Pennsyl? vania or Massachusetts; and just as educational facilities have increased for the whites, whether in common or normal schools or in colleges, they have been equally increased for the blacks so far as Slate appropriations have aided them. In Georgia the colored University ranks with the white University, and even in Mississippi, presumably the most Bour? bon of Southern States, the State does much more lor the ceillegiate education of the black race than does Pennsylvania. I have heard Southern men complain of many features of (heir local governments, but i" have yet to hoar the first one to comp'ain ot the equal education of the two races. And what is true in the matter of education is equally true of the recognition of the black race in Southern politic*. I found f? ur colored Democratic members in the South Cam Una Legislature, nominated and elected mainly by white votes, and in Mobile and New Orleans the black policeman, appointed by Democratic authority, is met on every street, and has worn the insignia of police power for years before a Democratic mayor in Philadelphia firsi recognized the colored voter as entitled to wear the star and blue. In South Carolina alone there are more black Democrats in tepresentative offices than there are black of all parties in all the States of the North. Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, where the black voters hold the balance of power in both city and State, could not elect a colored man to the Legislature or to any other honor able or lucrative office, in the strongest Republican district; but South Carolina Democrats elect him to office, with all the lingering prejudices of the relation of master and slave. Tbo intelligent and dispassionate Northerner who closely observes the relations of the two race^ North and South, is forced to confess that with all our boasted superior devotion to the black race, and with all our assaults upon the South for the oppression of the blacks, the negro is heiter treuted by the South than by the North. I regret to make such a confession ; but it is the plain truth that we theorize about the elevation of the black race with little practice in acccrd with our teaching, while the South theorizes little on the subject, and practices more than it teach es in the considerate care of the emanci? pated slaves.?Letter of Col. A. K. Mc Clure to Philadelphia Times. Dying in Strange Positions. While coming back to the hospital we found Ike Green, one e>f my company, hanging across the fence dead. He gave eiut while we were on the skirmish line, and he was not able lo get into a wagon. After getting rested, I suppose he started to hunt us up, and while climbing over the fence he was struck with a bullet, and there he stf?pped. The ball passed through his stomach and spine. Ho wa? no coward, or else he would have faced the other way when he had such a gooil chance. Several dead men have been found in hollow loiis or behind logs or rocks, as theiugh they had been wounded and crawled in there to protect themselves. One poor fellow sat behind a big tree wiih a Bible in his hand. He had been passed a deizen times and me>re during the day by ambulance drivers ami burial squads, but they had all thought that he was a'ive, He had been shot in the thigh, and he had gone to this tree for protection; taking his Bible out, he thought, ue> doubt, that he would find consolation in reading it, but while sit ting there a ball cut him through the hack of the neck deep enough te> break the spinal cord. His head dropped for? ward a litt'e, and there lie tat.?Pittsburg Dispatch. ? After much deliberation h Wiscon? sin jury decided that, kis-es are worth one cent apiece wheu taken at wholesale raten. OBSERVATIONS ON* IRELAND. Rev. R. Lnthan, in Yorkville Knqulrer. The question is often asked, "How do the Irish live?" Thi* is not an idle qttes j lion, but it is naturally suggested by all the circumstances in the ease. Tbe whole island contains only 20,815,460 acres and nearly one-seventh part of this area is covered with bogs. In addiiion to thi9 a large amount of the surface of the coun? try is mountainous on the borders, and rendered unfit for cultivation. It may be safely said that the cultivable surface of Ireland does not exceed 15,000,000 acres. The population of Ireland, accord ing to the census of Ib'Sl, is 5,746.214. Divide the whrde number of acres in the island by the whole number of the popu? lation and we get a fraction more than two and six tenth acres to each inhabi? tant. Perhaps Ireland has an inhabitant for every two acres of tillable soil on the island. The question, "How do the Irish live?" is, it will be seen from this, a proper one. A"t one time, the popula tion of Ireland wa9 nearly twice as large as it is to-day, and the area of cultivable land much less. The area of cultivable land in tbe State of South Carolina is as great, if not greater, than that of Ireland, while the population is only about one sixth as large. At present, the Irish are largely engaged in slock raising. Of the winde island, only about five millions of acres are planted in crops, while ten millions of acres are devoted to pasturage. The farms in Ireland are small?very small ? when compared with farms in our coun? try. They vary from less than an acre lo more than five hundred acres. Of the latter class, there are onlyvabout fifteen hundred on the island. The greatest number of farms contain more than thirty ucres aud less than fifty. Tbe number of very small farms?those containing less than five acres?is gradually decreas? ing. In 1841 more than one half of Ire? land was embraced in, as they say, hold ings, varying in size from iessjthan one acre to five acres. Those small farms or holdings were ruined Ly the potato blight of 1847. Tbe tenants were unable to pay the rents, and all that could, left the country. The houses in which they lived are still standing, but without in? habitants. The tendency, for perhaps half a cen? tury, has been to increase the sizs of the farms or holdings as the population de? creases. The agricultural products of Ireland are wheat, oats, barley, rye, bere, bean-*, pease, potatoes, turnips, flax and mangel wurtzel. Since 1S47 there has been an annual falling off in the eultivatian of wheat. This is true with regard to the cereals, but of none is it so remarkable as of wheat. In 18S0 Ireland produced only about four million bushels of wheat, or less than one bushel to each inhabi tant. Flour and wheat are shipped from various parts of the world, and so cheap is the freight that flour sells for less in Ireland than it does in our Southern markets. Wheat is taken across the At? lantic on the ocean steamers for the nomi? nal sum of thirty sis cents per ton of twenty-two hundred and forty pounds. The result is that comparatively little wheat is produced in Ireland. The year 1847 seems to have been a kind nl revolutionary period in the agri cultural history of Ireland. In that year more than seven hundred thousand acres were sown in wheat; at present there are less than one hundred and fifty thou -and. The falling off in oals has been about one-half, decrease in barley has been very little, while rye has fallen off about one third. Bere, which, so far as I could discover, differs nothing ftom barley, and from all that I could learn differs only from barley in that it has six rows in Ihe head or ear, is at present cultivated only to a limited extent. Tl e cultivation of beans has increased. In ippearancc the beans of Ireland are very unlike those in our country. I was told that they will not grow in any part of the United States. In some par's of Canada they do well. The Iri-di bean grows on ?I stalk which attains about three feel in height. The pods which contains the beans are short and larger than any that grow in our country. I think that beans are largely cultivated by the poorer classes of the people. The beans are white, at least what I saw were white, and I was told that they are very strong food. Horses are fed upon them during the winter season. In Ulster province flax is more largely cultivated than in any other part of the island. In fact nearly all the flax produced in Ireland is produced in Ulster province. In 1880 there were in all Ireland less than one hundred and fifty eight thousand acres cultivated in flax, and nearly one hun? dred and fifty-three thousand were in Ulster. Turnips and potatoes are largely culti? vated in every section of Ireland. In our Southern country turnips are usually sown during ihe month of August. In Ireland they are sown in the month of May. Generally, they are planted in rows and carefully worked ; rarely are th^y sown broadcast, as we do. The heat of the sun is not sufficient lo kill the young plants, as it would do in our South? ern country. In Ireland very little attention is paid to vegetable gardens. Cabbage is planted everywhere all over tbe potato fields. The edges of the potato beds are planted in cabbage, and wherever there is a mi>s in the bed a cabbage is planted. It is eaten by the people as we eat it, and is fed to the stock in winter. In appear mice, in taste, and in nature. Irish cab? bage differs very much from that grown in our country. It is not so large, dots not "head up," as we say, and in ta>te it is milder. In fact, I could scarcely tell, from the taste of it, that it was cabbage. This may be accounted for, in part at least, from the fact that the cooking of cabbage in Ireland is very different from what it is in our Southern country. We boil cabbage with fat bacon?the falter the better, wc think. The Irish boil it wilh beef. I confess I did not relish it. The greatest difference that I observed between cabbage in Ireland and cabbage in America, is lhat in Ireland it takes part of two years to make cabbage. The plants are "set out," as we say.Jn the Spring of one year, and tbe cabbage are ready lor use during the Summer of tbe next year. Lirgc quantities of hay are produced in Ireland. The greatest dilli culty the farmers have to contend with in rai-ing hay is tbe want of sunshine to cure it. In addition to this, it rains a great deal in Ireland and the hay is liable to be damaged by rain. The cultivated land of Ireland, gener? ally, is very highly manured, atid the hay is liable lo ^>e damaged by ruin. The cultivated land of Ireland, gener? ally, is very highly manured, and ihe yeld of those crops which are adapted to the soil and climate is proportionally great. The soil is well manured and it is well cultivated. The mode of tilling tbe soil in Ireland is not practical in our Southern climate. Were we to manure our fields as heavily as the well to do farmers of Ireland manure their fields, v.e would make nothing. Our climate is to ?dry and our Summer suns are ton hot. The average yield of potatoes to the i acre in Ireland is about twelve thousand I pounds, or five long tons. Here it may I be mentioned that the Irish farmers have a very indistinct idea of a bushel. Every? thing in Ireland is bought and sold by weight. The ton, the long ton or two thousand two hundred and forty pounds, is as familiar to the Irish farmer as the half bushel measure is to a Southern planter. Sixty pounds of potatoes being regarded a bushel, the average yield of potatoes in Ireland is over two hundred hushels. The average yield of turnips is about twelve tons. I think that both the roots and tops nre weighed. The average yield of hay is about two tons. The averagequantity of wheat is about twenty eight bushels. The average yield of oals is somewhat greater than that of wheat, nnd of barley and rye.a third greater. The climate of Ireland is not well adapted to either wheat or oat.?. The defect is that the moisture is so great that neither wheat nor oat ripen well. The potato of Ireland is good, but no better than can be raised in any part of the two Caro linas. I have often heard it said that in Ireland it was not an uncommon thing to see at the same lime on the table both old and new, or fresh, potatoes, and that the old were the better. This dors not correspond with what I saw. I saw a great many old potatoes, that is, potatoes of the jear previous, but; they were by no means good. They were lull of black spots. They were not, as we would say, rotten, but they were badly damaged on account of age. They were far better than our old potatoes, kept in the same way, would have been, but they were not near so good as our "new" potatoes are. As a general thing, 111? Irish farmetB live well. They do not tut as much hog's lard as we eat, but they live as well, if not better, than the same class of persons do in our country. They have au abun? dance of good milk and butter, and many of them have cheese. Oatmeal mush and milk, or as they call it "stir about," is as palatable a dish as ever was tasted, and it is full of nutriment. It is this oatmeal that gives to the Irish lad his muscle and tbe Irish lass her rosy cheeks. As a general rule, the Irish people, those of the better class, buy all their bread except oat bread and potato bread. The bakers in tbe towns and cities send out their bread wagons sereral times during the week all over the ndjacent country with bread. From these wagons the farmers buy as much bread as they need. This bread is decidedly good. It is made of good flour and is well baked. The oat bread is baked at home. Th s is usually baked in thin cakes, and is generally very dry and bard, but well tasted. From what I saw, I think that very little oat bread is used. The oat meal is generally made into "stir about." Potato bread is made by mixing potatoes and flour together, as is done sometimes in our Southern country. We, however, use sweet potatoes; the Irish use Irish potatoes. It is tough but palatable. The Irish use no coffee, or at least, very little; but they are great tea drinkers. The tea they drink is far better than what we use. In fact, no one who bas drunk the tea used either in England, Ireland or Scotland, can drink the stuff which we call tea. So far as I remember, [ did not see a biscuit in Ireland. I do not think the people use that kind of bread at alt. The hospitality of tbe Irish people knows no bounds. It is without a paral? lel. We Americans, who are in a con? tinual rush, as if our very existence depended npon the rapidity of our move? ments, can lorm no idea of the marvel? ous hospitality of an Irish farmer. When a stranger knocks at his door and asks for lodging for the night, he does not rack his Drain for an excuse to turn him off, or go into the house to ask his wife, but promptly replies with a glow? ing countenance, which betokens a warm heart, "Yes, come in." In his own house an Irishman is a gentleman. Injurious Talking. A Frenchman, speaking of a person known to his comrades, said: "His mouth costs him nothing, for he always opens it at the expense of others." There are multitudes of persons to whom that remark will apply, Exaggeration and defamation are two fertile sources of social mischief. We meet with persons who sensitively shrink from the deliber? ate violation of truth, who will habitually over-color their statements to such an extent thai a false impre-oion is conveyed to the mind of the listener. Thpy thus lower the tone of their own mind, de? stroy the power of accurate perception, diminish the confidence of their friends arid sow the seeds of much error in the world. They soon discover that they are not credited even when they speak soberly. Their moral drafts upon social confidence are dishonored. But perhaps the most injurious talk is that which detracts from the character of another?that which openly or in dis? guise strikes at the reputation of a broth? er pilgrim?that which "cuts men's throats with whisperings"?that which is adopted by the envious rival who seeks to build "his mime on the ruins of another's fame." Little does the slan? derer think what a bitter harvest he will himself reap from tbe calumnious words j he bas utiered. A lady visited Philip Neri on one occasion, accusing herself of being a ?landerer. "Do you frequently fall into this fault?" he inquired. "Yes, very often," replied the penitent. "My dear child," said Philip, "your fault is great, but the mercy of God is greater. 1 I now bill thee do as follow.-: Go to the! nearest market and purchase a chicken j just killed and still covered with feathers;! then walk to a certain distance, plucking j the bird as you go. Your walk finished, return to me." The woman did as di? rected, and returned, anxious to know the meaning of so singular an injunction. \ "You have been very faithful to the first j part of my orders," said Phillip; "now I do the second part and you will be cured, i Retrace your steps, pass through all the 1 places you have traveled, and gather up | one by one all the feathers you have scat- J tereTT" "But," said the woman, "I cast! the feathers carelessly away, and the wind carried them in all directions." "Well, my child," replied Phillip, "so it is with your words of slander; like the feathers which the wind has scattered, they have been wafted in many directions. Call them back now if you can. Go and tin no more." The Governor's Old Friends. Gov. Porter, of Indiana, tells a very 1 funny s'ory on himself, acknowledging ; that for once in his life he was floored. I During the recent campaign he went into : a small town to make a speech. He be j gan something in this way : ? "My friends, I nm glad to meet you ; again. I alwny? like to come to Blank vilie, and to see. as I do now, so many old friends." ! Just here a tall gaunt Hoosier, in a coonskin cap, cried out in an inimitable voice: "Name 'em, Governor, name 'em !" And the Governor says he was sn broken up by this untimely inquiry for details that he could not name a man. The Hoosiers laughed good naturedly, and the Governor joined in too. "Name 'o n, Governor, name em !" has become a 1 bywnxl in the Hoower State. A FAT BLACK BOTTLE. Filled to the Coik With Fivo Dollar Treas? ury Notes. There came to light in Macon ye-ter day a New Year's story that would fitly adorn a temperance lecture. A bright little girl gave away what was reganled as a pleasing secret. It happened in this way: The Telegraph man stumbled into a millinery store yes? terday and while waiting to get Ihe at tention of the lady who makes the female population pretty, idly listened to a conversation bei ween a customer?e vi dently the wife of a mechanic?and the milliner. The lady was looking at a very pretty hat for her little girl who stood at her side with hungry eves. The hat was purchased, and the Telegraph man mentally thought it looked like extravagance for a mechanic's family to throw away four dollars and a half on a little girl's hat. As this was the only purchase in which the child seemed interested, she sided up to where the Telegraph man was standing and artlessly said: "We dot lots er money now." Tbe reporter bere mentally cursed himself for lorgetting to buy "a ticket for tbe last lottery drawing. "Where did you ge? it, sis?" "Papa broke th' bottle. "Broke the bottle?" "Essur; th' bottle was jus'as fuller money as it tood he, an' we's 'ich now." No true reporter can be idle when such an item as this is in speaking dis tance, and it was not more than a few minutes before the child's mother was persuaded into telling tbe following story, and yet she n^ver dreamed that every word of it was being jotted down by the shorthand finger of memory upon the thumb worn page of a mental note book: "I have passed through the ordeal of a drunkard's wife, and I am too happy now to go over what and how much I suffered. My husband drank heavily and often half of his wages went for drink. He kept a large black bottle of whisky all the time in the house, in addition to what he drank in town. On Christmas Evo night five years ago he came home drunk, and as something had gone wrong with him, he was in the worst kind of a humor. Our oldest boy was in the crib very sick with the fever, and there was not a cent of money in the bouse to buy him the cheapest toy. My husband had been away from home all day and being drunk had forgotten all about his Christmas. I put my husband to bed and returned to the bed side of my dying boy to watch aud weep. It was nearly daybreak when I saw my precious son sinking fast. Kusbing out of the house I called in a lady friend, and then aroused my husband. The sleep had somewhat sobered him, and as he loved his boy devotedly, he was soon bending over the little fellow, beg? ging him to say something to him. "The little fellow slowly turned his eyes toward his father and said : I'm going to die, papa, for I see the angels beckoning me lo come. This hi Christ mas morning, papa; please let me see what Santa Claus put in my sticking. My husband went to the mantle and took down ihe little stocking. It was empty ! He stood still and stared at it for a min? ute, and God only knows the agony of bis heart in that short lime. Ho turned to say, but our boy would not Ave heard him had the poor man's breaking heart allowed him" to speak. Our boy was dead ! "The day before New Year's my hus? band called for the bottle. May God forgive my feelings at that minute, for I wish he, too, was dead. I obeyed him mechanically. To my surprise, he took the bottle in his bauds and, pouring the whisky on the ground, said: 'I will drink no more; and the money I would spend for whisky we will put in this bottle, and all enjoy the contents." You can imagine how happy I was. He had sworn otf many times before, but I knew he was in earnest this time. We made a calculation, and estimated that whisky cost him, taking the past year as a basis, on an average of live dollars a \wek. You see a good deal of his money went to pay court fines for drunkenness. Well, it was decided to put five dollars a week in the bottle for five years, come what would. The time was out last New dear's day, and the big black bottle was broken. Now figure up how many five dollars that bottle contained !" "Two hundred and sixty." "Yes, or $1,000 dollars. But this was not all. We saved enough in that time outside of the bottle to buy a little home." "But are you not afraid in breaking the bottle vour husband will break his reso? lution?" "No; because we have started another bottle bank," said the lady with a happy smile. The husband is a Macon mechanic, well known and enjoys the respect and esteem of all. He says he never knew how much genuine pleasure there was at home wiih his loved ones until he got sober enough to appreciate it. and to fill instead of empty the fat black bottle. How tho Great Soldier Helped a Min? ister Secure a Congregation. The great theological professor, Dr. John A. Broad?s. of ibis city, last week, in telling how church members can aid a pastor in drawing a congregation, told an unpublished incident in the life of Gen. Robert E. Lee. "We should always be in our own places," said Dr. Broadus, "even when one doesn't feel like it on Sunday even? ings, because it is our duty to help the [ pastor, it is our duty to tbe congregation, ? and it is our duty the world. I recall j an incident that occurred a few years ' after the war, at the While Sulphur j Springs, in Virginia. There was pres ; ent a venerable man, to whom all the i world looked with profound admiration. ! His name was Robert E. Lee. He was j a devout Episcopalian. One day a Pres I byterian minister came to preach in the j ball room, according to custom, and he i told me this story. "He noticed that Gen. Lne, who was a I particular man about all the proprieties I of life, came in hue, and be thought it rather stranue. He learned afterwards that the General had waited until all the people who were likely to attend the service had entered tbe room, and then he had walked very quietly around in the corridors and parlors and cut under th<> trees, and wherever he saw a man or two standing he would go up and say gently: 'We arc going to have divine service in the ball room, won't you come?' And they all went. To me it was very touching, to think that the grand old man, whose name was known all over the world, and before whom all the people wanted to bow, should so quietly go around, and fur a minister of another denomination also, and persuade them to attend services." ? During the pa?t year 320,800 steer? age, and 59,500 cabin passengers, landtd at New York city. ? Onr of the sublimest things in Ihe wtrrlti to plain truth. The Prohibition Election Bill. The following is the text of the bill providing for the holding of an* election in Anderson County, upon the question of license or no license, which was in? troduced in the House by Mr. Scudday and carried over to the next session of ihe Legislature, together with the report made by ihe Anderson delegation : "The Anderson delegation, to whom was referred a bill to provide for an election upon the prohibition of the Bale of spirituous liquors in Anderson County a?d to make the result of such election effectual, respectlully report that tbey have carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same be placed on the calendar without recommendations. All of which is respectfully submitted. H. G. Scudday, for delegation. A Bill to provide for an election upon the prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors in aj.denson county, and to make the result of such election effectual. fie it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener? al Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That the Commissioners of Election for State and Couuty officers for Anderson County shall, after duly adver? tising the time and places and Managers of Election for at least thirty days, sub? mit to the qualified voters of said County on Thursday after the second Monday iii August, 1885, between the hours of eight a. m. and four p. m? tbe question as to whether the sale of spirituous or malt liquors shall be permitted or not in said County; and all such voters as are op? posed thereto shall vote a ticket with the word "Prohibition" written or printed thereon, and such voters as are in favor of permitting the sa'e thereof shall vote a ticket with the words "No Prohibition" written or printed thereon; aod if a majority of the persons voting in said election shall vote in favor of "No Pro? hibition," then licenses shall continue to be granted in such cities, towns and villages in said County as now license the sale thereof, subject as heretofore to the local option law; but if a majority of the persons voting in said election shall vote in favor of prohibition, then no license for the sale of any spirituous or malt or intoxicating liquors shall be granted in any city, town or village In said County, nor iu any part of said County, and any person selling any of said liquors therein shall be subject to all the fines and penalties now of force in this Slate for selling spirituous liquors without a license. Sec. 2. That tbe said Commissioners of Election shall appoint three Managers to conduct the election at each precinct, who shall be sworn, and conduct tbe election in all resppcts the same as State elections are conducted, including the qualification of electors, except that said Managers shall return to the said Com? missioners of Election on Friday, tbe day following said election, the ballot boxes with the ballots, the return of votes, the poll list and all papers pertaining to the election ; and such Managers shall serve without compensation. Sec 3. The said Commissioners of Election shall immediately tabulate und declare the result of such election, and file a certified copy of such result, under their hands and seals, in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Anderson County, and such Clerk of Court shall thereupon serve a copy of said return upon the Mayor or Intendant of each incorporated city, town or village in said County, and schall likewise pub lish, for two weeks, the result in one or more newspapers published in said County. Sue. 4. If a majority of said voters vote in favor of prohibition, it shall be unlawful for any license, to sell the liquors aforesaid, to be granted after said election in said County, and any licenses which may then be in force shall not be valid for a longer period than to Decem? ber 31st, 1885. Sec. 5. That all Acts or parts of Acts be, and the same are hereby, repealed, so far as they may affect the operations of this Act. Sonic Good Advice to tbe Girls. by an "old lady." The Lancaster Jieview has a very sen? sible letter from an old lady to the girls of that town, and closer with the fol 1 ?wiiig advice: "And now let me give you a few bints about things generally. Don't counte? nance dissipated, drinking young men. Yotir happiness in life depends greatly, and I might say wholly, upon whom you marry. If you know that young man to be a wine bibber or a profane swearer never form a matrimonial alliance with him. He isn't worth having. Listen not to his lying promises of temperance and reform. Wien be gets you in his clutches you'll rue tbe bargain. Think you that the leopard will change his spots? Beware of the flatterer! Don't entertain young men later than 10 o'clock at night. Ask~them to retire, and if they are slow to respond do you withdraw yourself from the room. "Don't hang your hair. It is the most revolting practice of which my sex are guilty. When I was growing up we, knew no such things as bangs, and the girls were more beautiful than they are now. Do you think bangs are becoming to girls ? Why are tbey not also becom? ing to men? Do you not think that if the Creator had thought bangs would be lUtify the female sex He would himself have added that ornament.? The mi.st sensible mother of whom I have heard is she who told her daughter that she would ! hang her if she ever had her hair banged. Don't follow that banging practice any longer. "Don't paint. Artificial heauty is tbe poorest kind of imitation. You need not try to improve on nature. If you are not as good looking as you think you ought to be, chide nature, but never paint. Try to make your ways pretty, and then your face will assume a charm? ing appearance. "Lastly, for conscience sake, don't dip i snuff. Tobacco chewing is bad enough, but snuff dipping is infinitely worse. The most heart rending scene is to see the snuff box passing around, each lady taking a dip. Then follows a spell of spitting which would prove efficacious in a Chicago fire. Snuff-taking isefteminat itig and destroying more women than any j other cause of which I am aware lam, indeed, sorry to know that mothers not only usp it themselves, but permit and even encourage their daughters to use it. If I were a young man I would refuse to marry any woman who used the weed. And now, girls, if you ever need any more advice ju-t apply to the old lady." ? ? It is settled now that Grant is a ; good soidier, a poor politician and a mighty poor finaucier. ? Sergeant Mason, who shot at Gu> tvm, is living in peace and quiet on hit I hrm in Virginia.