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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?- ! -<~-.~ ALWAYS GO TO HEADQUARTERS FOR DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, Extracts, Patent Medicines, DYE STTJITirs, &o A FULL linc of Paints, Varnishes, Combs, Brushes, Hair Oils, Bay Rum, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Face Powders, Fine Toilet Soaps, Tooth Powders, T otb Brushes, La dies' Hnud Mirrors, Razors. Shaving Setts, Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Sup porters, &c. Pure, High Toned Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders and Soda, Pepper! Allspice, Ginger, and Finest Teas in' the market. Cigars and Tobncco. Best Coal Oil Lamps and Lamp Goods, aud every variety of choice Goods and necessary articles usually kept in First Class Drug Stores mid used in families. PATENT MEDICINES, nil tho . Standard and Reliable ones kept iu ?tock. The sweetest and most deli cate Perfumes and Odors, and n full line of Colognes and Toilet Water always in stock. Chapped hands, face and lips arc very prevalent at this season of the year, and uothing will cure and pre vent this annoying nfnietiot; so effectu ally as a box of Camphor Ice, Cosmn line, or some of our pure Glycerine. FANCY GOODS and Sundries, und a thousand and one other arti cles of general usc nay be fouud in our complete stock. S?y* Oblige us by giving ?JS a call, and you will bc surprised at our LOW PRICES and superior quality of our Goods. With the compliments of tho Season, wc are yours, ?ic., WILHITE * WILHITE. Jan 8, 1885_ GOODS WERE NEVER SO LOW. his fact We are prepared to Prove to our Friends and Customers who may favor us with a call. E are now receiving the largest and moat carefully selected Stock of General Mer chandise which we have ever purchased, and will make it to your interest to 1 and examino fur yourselves. We have added to the lines usually kept by us many w sud desirable ones, embracing adies' Dress Goodsk Flannels, Suitings, Shawls, &c, And the best CORST T cn the market at 50o., worth $1.00. Also, a LAIIGE LINE OF READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, BLANKETS, SADDLES and HARNESS. Also, the Celebrated "NEW GLOBE" SHIRT-the king of all Shirts. It needs ly to be worn to be appreciated. We are agents for the Celebrated Mishawaka Sulky Plows, Cultivators and Hand rtiinj? Plows. The "White Hickory" and."Hickman" one and two horse WAGONS, every ono of ich we guarantee. The attention of Glnnera and Farmers is called to our COTTON SEED AND GRAIN CRUSHER, 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 sett and General Farm Machinery. We are at all times in the Cotton Market, and will do you right. We will pay all Ue3 who owe us for Supplies and Guano an extra price. A large lot of BAGGING and TIES at lowest prices. .Oct 2. 1884 McCULLY, CATHCART A CO. 12_ NAT. .A. TV /r A "KT" IS NOW OFFERING ?OODS AT AND BELOW COST ! So as to doss out his entire stook of Winter Goods before 1st February, 1885. JUST THINK OP IT ! CLOAKS from $300to $1000. SHAWLS from 85o to $5 00. , , BLANKETS from $1.00 per pair up to $8.00. SUKEriNGSatftoperyard. BED TH'Kl NG8 from 8c per yard to 23o. JEANS cheaper than ever. DRESS GOODS ftrnn lOo per yard np. EPS FLANNEL8 from 20c per yard np u. $1.16. Rest PRINTS 6c per yard. SHOES from fiOo per pair up to $8 60 . . BOOTS from $100 |*r pair up to $4 00. r AM?mlneAH% And ss I have onlv a few Trunks, Valises and Hats on hand I am determined to ? them out regardless of cost. ? . Uefore ?JUvim-1 everybody to examine my stock. . ^T W. A. CHAPMAN. ??625.1834 23_ ly gg= n 'ii BB-?-J- 1 ?ny Yow . ?rifo and Children of one of the Greatest, most Elevating and Refining of all the Sciences, C0NOMY SAYS GET THE BEST OF EVERYTHING 1 Ohickertog Piases and Mason & Hamlin Organs RECOGNIZED TRABERS OP THE WORLD forJ^Jj^^ T?'?yeoataR?il. rnnr?.thsn cheaper Instrnments. simply because more care avid *f tWerlat t* used In their manufacture. Only one to buy In a life-time. ?BT THE BEST. J. A. DANIRLSi . AGENT FOB LUDDEN ?ft BATES. THE RACE ISMJE SOUTH. Gravn Problema Atrtiltlus Solution. NEW ORLEANS, January 19.-The first serious phase of the race problem io the South has been ntl ved ; but it? solu tion is likely to present another and a traver problem, involving the two races of the South. After years of fretful strife, made mainly by adventurers who appealed to the ignorance, prejudice ?md cupidity 01 the blacks, the whiles rule Hie entire South, with the active co operation of a considerable li umber of the more intelligentsud thrillv blacks end with the entirely passive assent ol the others. Here, as elsewhere in the Union, and a? elsewhere in every civil] zation of the world, intelligence,'integri ?y and property, when combined, will incviiible rule in the end ; and the haW.te .d' the blacks for political masterv, even if honestly mid wisely led, could have attained ?inly fitful triumphs. As it wu? most corruptly mid unscrupulously led. without fidelity to either whiles or blacks! and without respect for the interests ot par ty ?ir race, deleut came speedily in dir-rc uard of nil the power and appliances of the National Government, and when it came, it left only monuments of shame for friend nnd foe. The nrofligacy aud theft of negro rule in the South alienated the few ol' the men who saw that freedom did not furnish corn mid bacon, and thal blacks, like whites, must earn their own bread by the sweat of his brow ; nod others soon leurned that the bewildering ptomisea of adventurers who organized and voted the blacks, were made to the ear ?inly to be broken to the hope. The result bus logically been that as negroes became industrious and thrifty and the owners ?if property, they have either voted with tho whites to assure the safety of both person and property, or they have retired from ali participation in politics. There is nothing novel in this feature of the race question in the South. The blacks of the South are employed and fed almost wholly by tho property owners, ?nd they have everything to lose by political antagonism. In the North, and in no Northern State more than in Pennsylvania, tens of thousands of intel ligent whites vote with their employers for the same futo as thc blacks of the South, il they voted against the capital that gives them labor. The same im mutable law thai governs the political relations between employed in the North, governs in the South, only il governs a much larger measure ot intelligence and pride td' manhood in Pennsylvania than in Alabama. If intelligent citizens of any Northern State will look about them among their owr, people in a political campaign, they will see the -dear expla nation of what i i culled the failure of the black vote cf the South. ?l is the que-tion of corn and bacon in the South ; it is the question of bread pod raiment, in thc North, und thal le'.is the whole a'o ry. THE RACE PROBLEM OK THE FUTURE. The political revolution .'hut retires ibu Republican party from power alter a reign of nearly a quarier of a century, will end all effort Ht political organisa tion on tbe race line. It has been prac tic-ally a failure lor yeurs past, when there were many circumstances tn inspire the hope of partial succei-a ; and now ibu whole race issue perishes by the change of national uiithuriiy. To day lhere is nothing left of thc raco organi zation in pol'itics. There was a shudder among the blacks immediately after the election ol Cleveland, because they feared the fulfillment ol the predictions of their leaders th>>t they would be remanded back to slavery ; but they already see that their leud?is were delib erately untruthlul, and all apprehensions . of harshness to their race because of ii change ol political power have perished. Every possible appeal was made tn their ignorance and prejudice before the late election, us hus been usual in all election campaigns ol the last ?ideen years, to consolidate the colored vote as the only way to detent a return tn bondage; but now Democratic success hus come ; the whiles have in no degree changed their trieudly relations toward the blacks, and tbere are few. of the colored race BO igno rant as not to understand that nt? chungo itt political authority can limit their civil rights. The blacks are, therefore, satisfactorily assurtd on the one question thal disturbed them, and that assurance has taught them more pointedly than ever before that leaders are characterless, untruthful and dangerous to the 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 ruco organization must be clearly appa rent to all. That there will be a general change of the Federal officers in the SOJU) can hardly bea matter of doubt. Civil service reform imperatively de mauds it, as n'.ne tenths of them have prostituted their powers to the meanest partisan or pemoual ends, .ind most of them are conspicuously lacking alike in competency and character, instead of regarding public oflice as a public trust, they have, as a rule, employed their po sitions not only in the most unset upulnua way in politics, but they have persistent ly and systematically disturbed I he bus! ness and tranquility of the South, nnd inflamed the prejudices of the ignorant blacks to array themselv s against the people from whom they must receive employment and sustenance. The civil service of the South, taken as n whole, has been one ?if the terrible curves of both races, and it will stand out in his tory as one of the indellible blots upon the Government. It will now be changed and reformed, and that will end all race organisation in politics. The Federal officials understand it, tbe black? under stand it, the whiles understand it, and henceforth the blacks will generally divide in polities without regard to the linea of ibrilt and intolerance, which have been the only lines of division among ibem during the last ten years, and tbe division of the blacks presents the new problem to be solved io the South. BOTH RACES WILL DIVIDE. I ha?c not seen an intelligent politi ciao or business man in the S?iuth wbc does not look upon the now assured general diviainn of the colored v??ler? with grave apprehensions. The rac* issue in politic*, although largely broker, in recent election*, coerced ibe practical unity of Ibe whiles. The conflicts ol ambition were autxirdinated to the com mon peril of negro supremacy, and lb? whites were compelled to sisnd togelhei tn avert it. There waa no field for fret lancera in politics among tbe while?, anc their jealousies and conflicting aims wert inpressed by s supreme necessity ti ?hieb all bowed without question.. N??? the issue of black unity and of blacl supremacy I* an issue of the psst. Tbi co im cd votera will be indifferent to poll tics, ss a rule, except when appeals ti their nmhiii. n and cupidity recalls then to active effort?. The field ia thu* open ei to the long ?-mothered ambition of ih whites who would gladly have rudd; jostled eaeh other in ibn race for promo lion, and the blacks ?ill be appealed i b disputing aspiran ia. These appeal ?0100? be made to tie intollrgetreo ort ilie Integrity nf thc hincks, nu such np penis would be profit let?. They will be ? .onde to their ignorance, tn their preju- ! dices, to their cupidity, to all their baser rpia lilies, not ns ambitions politicians do in the North, and there is grave danger nf thus inaugurating a general sweep of political demoralization in both races. I Thc Southern people possess ju-i the j "ame human nature that any other people ' [M,8spss. They nre likely to be just an ? ambitious and as mean in promoting j mean ambition ns the average American . l>olitician in every section of the conn- I try, and with nu immense colored vote, ! nearly equalling the whites in all the j States, and superior in numbers in South j karolina and Mississippi, and in tho! lowest htrata of ignorance, idleness and I .tiper*! i thin, what mu-t bethe harvest ol Mc obliteration of the race tine in South .rn politics? This in the most serious race problem thrt SoUlSi ha* ever attempt ?d lo mlve, and 1 share tiic Rpprchen don of the more intelligent S ?uihern jeople that the Inst stage of the race ?sue will be vastly worse than any of he past. THE NEO no N0HTII AND SOUTH. There is much unreasonable iniscon :eption in the North of the relative iondition of the blacks in the North and n the South. The prijudice of caste is list equally strong in both sections of he country. Tim black man can no nore sit at the table of the most blatant tepublican in the North than he can sit it thc tallie of bin old ma-ter in the louth. The same social laws govern all .copies, and they ere immutable. Poli icians theorize differently in election campaigns, hut there their theory ends. The prejudice of race is five-fold stronger n tho North than in tho South. The S'orthern people have no love for the ilnck man, and even those who battled or his freedom and enfranchisement, ?s i rule, cheri-h vastly more profound irejudice of race than do tho Southern teople. While the North maintains its leep prejudice of race, the people of the South have a general and strong sympn hy for tue negro. Nearly nil of them mve played with the negro in childhood, lave been nursed by the black "inania," md bnve grown up with more or Iis? ifiection for them. Clnssify it in what ype of affection you may, it is non? the ess nu affection that tempera the hurd, inyiehling prejudice of race thal prevail* n the North. The distinction between he Northern and Southern people on bc race question will prepare the public nind iii the North for the dissipation ol noiherunfoundedaectional | r judice that s deeply rooted then*. Tho educational scilitics for the blacks are better in the louth to day than they are in tho North, n proportion to. the facilities, proffered o all. South Carolina employs ?ind pays ul of the Stnte Treasury more black eaehern than nre employed in all the itutes of the North, and Alubnma em ildya 1,100 colored male teachers and iOU colored lemale teachers. And they irovide thc best means for fitting the olored people for teaching. The nor uni schools for whiten and blacks in both V 'ahuma nod South Carolina nre exactly quill, und the treasury of Stnte ?B large- i y drawn upon to qualify the colored race ur teaching itself. North Carolina, li orgia. Mississippi nnd indeed most m lie old slave States, each sustain more olleges for the blacks than d . IVnmyl j .ania or Massachusetts ; and just ss dui aliona I facilities! have increased for lie whites, w hellier in common or normal elmo)* or in culb get-, they have been qunlly increased tor the blacks so fur us Male nppropiiaiiotiB lave aided them, ii Georgia ihe co'nred University ranks ,ith the white University, and even in dissisaippi, presumably the most U>.Ur ion nf South*rn Stales, the Stnte doeB , inch more lor the collegiate education f the black rnce than dues Pennsylvania. , have heard Southern men complain ol , nany 'culotes ol their local governments, ?ut I* have yet to ht ar the first one to ump'nin ol the equal <duration of the i wo races. And what is true in the natter of education in equally true of he iccogtiiticn of the black race in muthern politic?. I found h ur colored leim eiatie merni cm in ihe South Caro ina Li gislature, nominated and elected iininiy by while voie*, nnd in Mobile .nd New Orleuns the block policeman , ppoinitd by Democratic authority, is netonevtry street, and han worn the nsiguia of police power fur year? before i Democratic mayor in Philadelphia first ecogiii?>d the colored voter as entitled o wear thc star and blue. In South /orolina alone there are moro black dem?crata in irpresentative < thees than here nre black ot all parties in all the iibten of the North. Pennsylvania and Miilodelpbia, where the black voters . .old the balance of power in both city ud State, could not elect a colored man n the Legislature or to any other honor ble or lucrative office, in the strongest tepublican district ; but South Carolina ; democrats elect him to office, with all be lingering prejudices of the relation if master aed slnve. Tho intelligent nd dispassionate Northerner who closely bserven the. relations of the two race forth and South, is forced to confess that ritb all our hoasted superior devotion to be black race, and wiib ali nur sumi?lt? ipnn the South for the oppression of the docks, the negro is better treated by the louth than by the North. I regret tn linke such a confession ; but it is the .lain truth that we theorize about the levntion of the black race with little .raelice in acccrd with our teaching, shilo the South theorizes little on the .ulject and practices more than it teach * in tho considerate enre nf the emanei >aied slaves.-Letter of Col. A. K. Mc lure to Philadelphia Time?. Dying In Strange Positions. While coming bnck to the hospital w? bund Ike Green, one of roy company, tanging across the fence dead. He gave ?ut while wo were on tho skirmish line, ind he was not aide tn get into a wagon, .tfler getting rested, ! nuppnse he started o hunt na np, and while climbing over he fence be was struck with a bullet, ind there he stopped. The ball passed brough his stomach and spine. He ?a? io coward, or else be would have faced he other way when be bad auch a gora) thane*. Several dead men have been found in lollow loga or behind Inga or rocks, a-? bough they had been wounded and trawled in there to protect tb ernie ko?. )ne poor fellow sat behind a big tree arith a Bible in his hand. He had been [?asard a dozen times and more during he day by ambulance drivera and burial iquntls. but they bad all thought that he aaa a'ivo. He had been shot in the high, end he had gone tn this tree for uoteciion ; taking his Bible ont, he bought, no doubt, that he would find immolation in rending it, but while sit ling there a ball cat bim through tbs isck of the neck drep enough to break ihe spinal cord. Hi? head dropped for rard s litt'e, and there he taX.-Pitttburg Ditpatch. -. After mach deliberation a Wi s con on jury decided that kis-es are worth me cent apiece wheo taken at whr.l?**ale rats?. . OBSERVATIONS OX IR KLAN!). Kev. ll. Latttan, lu YurUvillr Kuqulrrr. The question is often asked, "How do the Irir.ii live?" TM* is not an ? < 11 que* timi, hut it is ri a t ii ml ly suggested hy H 11 the circumstances in the ease. The whole island contains only 2O,81.r),4C0 iteres und nearly one-?eventh part of thU area is covered with bog?. In addition to this a Urge- amount of th surface nf the coun try is mountainous un the hordern, and rendered unfit fur cultivation. It may ho safely suhl that tho cultivable surface nf Ireland does not exceed 15,000,000 acris. Tho population "f Ireland. Mccord in? to the census nf 1881. is f>,74G 214. Divide the whole number of acre? in the island hy the whole number of the popu lation und we get a fraction more ihm two and ?ix lentil aires to each inhabi tant, Perhaps Ireland hus an inhabitant for every two acre-? of tillable soil on t'.ie ??hind. Tho question, "How do tho Irish live?" if, it will be seen from this, a proper ono. At "ric iime, the popula timi of Ireland was nearly twice a-? L'rge xs it is to-.lay. and the area of cultivable land much less. The area of cultivable laud in thc Statu of South Carolina is ni great, if not greater, than that of Ireland, while the population is only about one sixth largo. At present, thc .rish uro largely engaged in stock raising. Of tho whole island, only about five millions of acres are planted In Clops, while ten million? nf acres are devuttd to pasturage. The farms in Ireland ure small - very small - when compared willi lanni in our coun try. They vary from less than nu nero In moro than five hundred acres. Of the Intter class, there are tinlyknbout fifteen hundred un the island. The greatest number of farms contain more ihau thirty acres and less than fifty. The number of very small farms-those containing less than five acre-*-is gradually deoreas ?og. lu 1841 more than one half of Ire land wa H embraced in, as they say, hold ingi, varying in ?iz?j from lesnjthan one acre to live acres. Those small farms or holdings were ruined Ly the potato blight ol 1847. Thu tenants were unable tn pay the rents, and nil that could, ?eft 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 increa-o Hie siza of tlie farniB or holdings as thc population de creases. The agricultural products ot Ireland are wheat, nats, barley, rye, here, benn?, pease, potatoes, turnips, llax and mangel wurtze.l. Smce 1S47 lhere lins been au annual falling oil' in thc rultivntian ot wheat. Thia is tm? with regard to the cereals, but of none is il so remarkable IM of wheat. In 18S0 Ireland produced only about four million bushels of wheal, or less than one bushel to each ?nimbi tant. Flour and wheat are shipped from ' various parts nf the world, and so cheap is tho freight that Hour sells for le-s i i 1 Ireland than it does in our Southern market-?. Wheat is taken across ihe Al- , laiitic on the ocean steamers for the nomi nal sum of thirty six cents per lon of twenty two hundred und for'y pound-? Inc re-uli is thai comparatively little , wheat in pr? du ced in Ireland. Th? year 1847 seems lo have been a kind ol revolutionary period in tilts agri cultural history ol Ireland. In lhat year more than seven hundred thousand acres , were sown in wheat; at present there , are less than one hundred and fifty thou -and. The fallir?a off in oats has been , sbuut one half, decrease in barley has been very little, while rye has faller, oil* , ?bout one third. Here, which, KO far ns , I could discover, differs nothing fi om ? hurley, and from all that I could learn Idlers only from harley in that it bas six . --nw* in Ihe bead or ear, is al present cultivated only to a limited extern. Tl e cultivation of beaus has increased. In tppearancc the beaus nf Ireland are very unlike those in our country. I was told lhat they will not grow in any part of the United States. In some parts ot Canada they do well. Tho Iri-.li hean grows on ii Mall; which attains about three feet in height. The pods which containa the tu-ans are short and larger than any that i ?row in our country. I think thal hean? ? ure largely cultivated by the poorer i lilaree* of the people. The beaus are white, at lenst what I saw were white, and I was told lhat they are very strong food. Horses are fed upon them during iho winter season. In Ulster province Bax is more largely cultivated than in any other part of tho island. In fact : nearly all the flax produced in Ireland ii? (.reduced in Ulster province. In 1880 there were in nil Ireland less than one hundred and fifty fight thousand acre.-? cultivated in flax, and nearly one hun <<red and fifty-three thousand were in Ulster. Turnips and potnloea are largely culti vated in every section of Ireland. In our Southern country turnips are usually ?own during the tnnnib of August. lu Ireland they are sown in the month of May. Generally, they are planted in rows and carefully worked ; rarely are th''_v sown broadcast, an we do. The heat of the sun is not sufficient to kill the young plants, as it won ! d do in our South -rn country. In Ireland very little attention in paid to vegetable g?irdenr?. Cabbage is planted everywhere all or zr the potato fields. The edge* of the potato b??is are planted in cabbage, and wherever there in u mi?s in tho bed a cabbsge i ? planted. It i ? eMen by iht people **? we eat Js, and is fed totbestock in winter. In appear mice, in taste, and in nature, Irish cab bage differs very much /rom that grown in our country. It ia not so largo, does not "head up," as wo nay, and in taste it in milder. In fact, I could scarcely tell, from tbe taste of it, that it wa? cabbage. Thia may be accounted for, in part at least, from the fact that the rooking of cabbage in Ireland is very different from what it is in our Southern country. We boil cabbage with fat bacon-the fatter the better, we think. The I ri-li boil it with beef. I confess I did not relish it. The greatest difference that I observed between cabbsge in Ireland and cabbage in America, ia that in Ireland it takes part of two yen rs to make cabbage. The plants are "set o'.t," as we say,;in the Spring of one yo; r, and the cabbage are ready for use dering the Sum mer of the next year. I irge quantities of hay are produced In ireland. The greatest di Iii cully the farmers have to contend with in raising hay in the want of sunshine to cure it. In addition tn thin, it rains a great deal in Ireland and the bay ia liable to be damaged by rain. The cultivated land of Ireland, gener ally, in very highly manured, and the bay in liable to he damaged by ruin. The culti vated land of Ireland, gener ally, is very highly manured, and the yield 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 meda of tilling the soil in Ireland is not practical in our Southern climate. Were we lo tnanur* I our fields as heavily as the .well to do j fermera of Ireland manure their field?,1 ase would make nothing. Our climate ia to ?dry and our Summer auna are too hot. The average yield of potatoes to the acre in Ireland ta about twelve thousand pounds, OT five hrag toro. Here it m try be mentioned that the Irish farmer* bave a very indistinct iiien of a bu-hel. Every I tiling in Ireland ia bongin and Hold by weight. Thc ton, thc bing ton or two thousand two hundred mid forty pounds, is UH lumiliur lo the Irish Tinner as the half bushel measure is to a Southern planter. Sixty pounds of potatoes being regarded a bushel, the average yield ol potatoes in Ireland is over two hundred bushels. The average yield nf turnips is about twelve tims. 1 think that both the roots and tops uro weighed. The average yield (d' hay is about two tons. The average quantity of wheat is about twenty eight bu-Itel*. The average yield of o ns is somewhat greater than that of wheat, and of barley and rye a third greater. Tue climate of Ireland is not well adapted to either wheat or out?. The defect i* thal the moisture is so great that neither wheat nor oat ripen ?ell. Tho potato of 1 roland is good, but no better thtlii Cali be raised in any part of the two Caro lions. I have often heard it said thal in Ireland it was not nu Uncommon thing to foe nt the same time on the table both old and new, or fresh, potatoes, and thal the old were the better. This dm-s not correspond ?villi what I HHW. 1 saw n grent many old potatoes, that is, pol al art ol the )car previous, but they were by no means pood. They were lull of black spots. They were not, aa wo would say, rotten, bul they were badly damaged on account of ?ge. They were far better than our old potnlocs, kept in the same way, would have been, but they were not otar so pood us our "nev." potatoes are. As n general thing, the Irish fannel s live well. They do nut eat as much hug'* lard as wo eat, hut they live us well, if not better, than the same class of persons do in our country. They have nu ubini danoo of good milk* ?"id butter, and many of them have cheese. Oatmeal mush and milk, or ns they call il "stir about," is as palatable a dish ns ever was tasted, and il is full of nutriment. It is this oatmeal that gives to the Irish Ind Iiis muscle and the Irish lass her rosy cheeks. As a general rule, tho Irish people, thoso of tho better class, buy nil their broad except oat bread and potato bread. Tho bukers in the towns and cities send nut their broad wagons several limes during ihe week all over the adjacent country with bread. From these wagons thu farmers buy an much bread ns they need. This bread is decidedly good. It is mndr. of good Hour and is we ll baked. Thc om bread is baked ut home. Th a ia usually baked in thin cakes, s ud is generally very dry and hurd, but well tasted. From what I saw, I ?billi: that very little out bread is used. The oat meal is generally made into "stir ubo.it." Pol ito bread is made by mixing potntoes and Hour together, ut is done sometimes in oar Southern country, We, however, uso sweet potatoes ; the Irish use I ri-h ?uti.toes. It is tough but palatable he Irish uso no cofTee, or nt least, very little; but they uro great tea drinkers. The lea they drink ia tar better ihau what we Uso. lu fact, nu one whu baa drunk the ten used either in England, ireland or Scotland, can drink the stulT which we call tea. ?So far na I remember, i dill not see a biscuit in Ireland. I do not think the peuple usu that kind of bread at all. The hospitality of the Irish people knows no bounds. It is without n paral lel. Wo Americans, who aro in a con tinual rush, na if our very existence ilepetided upon the rapidity of our move ?lents, eau loren no idea of tho marvel mis hospitality of an Irish funner. When a stranger knocks nt his dnor mid a ?I; ? lor lodging for the night, ho does riot rack his brain for au excuse lo turn liim od', or go into tho hotiro to ask bia wife, hut promptly replies with a glow mi; countenance, which betokens u warm heart, "'Ye*, come in." In bia own house an irishman is a gentleman. Injurious Talking. A Frenchman, speaking of a person known to bia comrades, said: "His mouth costa him nothing, for he alway? upeiiH it nt the expense of others." There ure multitudes of persons to whom fiat remark will apply, Exaggeration mid defamation ure two fertile sources of .mcial mischief. We meet with persons who sensitively shrink from tho deliber ate violation nf truth, who will habitually over-color their statements to such an extent that a falso impression is conveyed to ihe mind of the listener. They thus lower th? tone of their own mind, de stroy ihe power of accurate perception, diminish the confidence of their friends and sow thc seeds of much error in the world. They soon discover that they are not credited even when they speak soberly. Their moral drafty upon social confidence are dishonored. Hut 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 nf a broth er pilgrim-that which "cuts men's throats with whisperings"-that which ia adopted hy the envious rival who setks lo build ''his name on the ruins of another')- fame." Little does tho slan derer think what a bitter harvest he wil'. himself reap from the calumnious words he bus uttered. A lady visited Philip Neri on one occasion, accusing herself of b?ing a slanderer. "Do ynu frequently fall into this fault'/'' he inquired. "Yes, very often," replied tho p?ullent. "di dear child," said Philip, "your fault is great, but the mercy of Qod is greater. I now bid thee d<> RS lol low.- : (io to the nearest market and purchase a chicken just killed and still covered wilh feathers ; then walk to a certain distance, plucking the bird as you go. Your walk finished, return to mc." The woman did ns di rected, and returned, anxious to know the meaning of KO ?jugular au injunctiou. "You havo been very faithful to the Aral part of my orders," snid Phillip ; "now do the second part and you will be cured. Retrace your steps, pass through all the places you have traveled, end gather up one by one nil the feathers you have scat* terell'" ''But," said the woman, "I cast the feat hors carelessly away, and the wind carried them in all directions." "Well, my child," replied Phillip, <>o it is with your words ol slander ; like the feathers which the wind baa scattered, they have been wa Oed in many di rec linns. Call them back now if you can. Qo and sin no more." Tho Governor's Old Friends. Gov. Porter, of Indiana, tells a very funny story on himself, acknowledging that for once in his life he was (Inured. During the recent campaign be went into a small town to make a speech. He be gan something in thia way : ' "My friends. I am glad to meet you again. I always like to come to Blank? ville, and tn see, aa 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 I" And the Governor saya he wr-.s en broken np by thia untimely irquiry tor details that be could not name a man. The Hoosiers laughed good naturedly, > and tho Governor joined in too. "Name 'on, O over nor, asme em 1" hat become a bywtrM In tbe Howitrr Bat?. _ v'' A FAT BLACK BOTTLE. Filled to the Coi lt Willi I-Ivo Dollar Trena il ry Notes, Thorn cam? lo light in Manon ye?tor day A Now Year'? story that would fitly iidnrn u temperance loclurc. A bright litllo girl gave away what was regarded as a pleasing secret. Il happened in this way : Tho Telegraph mao stumbled into a millinery store yes terday and while wailing to get (he at loni inn nf the lady who make? the female population pretty, id'.y listened to a conversation bel ween a custnmer--evi . lent ly tho wi ft? of a mechanic-and the milliner. Tho lady was looking at ft very pretty hat (or her iitllo girl ?rho ?tooti at her sitie with hungry eyes. The hat wa-? purchased, and the Telegraph man mentally thought it looked like extravagance for a mechanic's family tn throw away four, dot I ara and a half on a little girl's hat. As this was tho only purchase in which the child st emed interested, she sided up to where thc Telegraph man wu? Blending and arlleasly said: "We dot lots er money nu v." The reporter here mentally cursed lu ?i<ell for torgetting lo buy a ticket for .ie hint lottery drawing. "When did ynu get it, sis?"' "l'spa broke th' buttle. "Broke the buttle?" "Essur; th' buttle was jus'as fuller money na it tond be, nu' we's '?ch now " Nt? true reporter can bo idle wheu Much au item as this is in speaking dis lance, and it was not more than a few ' minutes before tho child's mother was persuaded into leiling the following story, and yet she never dream, d thal every word of il waa being jotted down by the shorthand Gager o? memory upon the thumb worn pago of n mental note book : "I have passed through the ordeal of a drunkard's wife, and I nm too happy now lo go over what and how much I suffered. My husband drank heavily 1 and often half of his wages went foy 1 drink, lie kept a largo black bottlo ol whisky ull the limo iii the house, in 1 addition io what he drank in town, Ou ! Christmas Evo night fivo years ago he 1 came home drunk, and AS something lind 1 gone wrong with him, lie was in the worst kind of a humor. Our oldest buy 1 was in the crib very sick willi tho fever, and there was not a cent of money in the ' house to buy him the cheapest toy. My 1 htiibnnd had been nwny from home all 1 day and being drunk had forgotten all ' about his Christmas. I put my husband ' to bed and returned tn tho bed side of ' my dying boy to walch and weep. Il was nearly daybreak when I saw my 1 precious ann Rinking fast. Rushing oui ! ol tho house I called in a lady friend, ' and then urouxed my husband. The 1 sleep had somewhat sobered him, and as he loved his boy devotedly, he was ' soon bending over the little fellow, beg- 1 ging him lo nay something lo him. "The lillie fellow slowly turned his ' t-jva toward his father and said: I'm ' going to die, papa, fur I seo tho angels 1 beckoning mo lo come. This is Christ mas morning, napa; ple:ise let me seo 1 what Santa Claus pul in my sticking. 1 My husband went to the manilo and tonk down the little stocking, lt was empty I I Hu stood still and stared at it for a min- 1 ute, and God only knows the Hgony nf his heart in that shorl limo. Ile turned lo say, but our boy would net ?ve heard him had the poor man's breaking heart 1 allowed him to speak. Our boy was dead ! ' The day before New Year's my hus- 1 hand called fur the bottle. May Gud forgive my feelings at that minute, for I 1 winn he, too, was deud. I obeyed him 1 mechanically. To my surprise, he tonk ! the bottle in his bauds mid, 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 imagino h nv happy I was. He hud sworn oil* tunny lin.ea before, hut I knew ho waa in earnest this time. Wu made a calculation, and estimated that whisky cost bim, taking tho past year as a basis, nn an average of five dollars a week. You see a good deal of his money went to pay court fines fur drunkenness. Well, it was decided to put five dollars a week in the bottle for five years, come what would. The limo was out last New Year's nay. and the big black bottle was broken. Now figure up how many five dollurn that bottle contained I" "Two hundred ?nd sixty." "Ye?, or fd,Out) dollars. But thia was not all. We saved enough in that timo outside of the bottle to buy a little home." "But are you not afraid in breaking the bottle vour husband will break bia reso lution?" "No ; because we have started another bottle bank," eaid the lady with a happy smile. The husband is a Macon mechanic, well known and enjoys the respect and esteom of alb. He says ho never knew how much genuine pleasure there was at home with bis loved ones until be got sober enough tn appreciate it, and to fill instead of empty the fat black bottle. How tho flreut Soldier Helped a Min ister n'cc t> to a f Tegul lou. The great theology- professor, Dr. John A. Brnau?a, of thia city, lost 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 bo in our own placea," said Dr. Brnadus, "oven when one doesn't feel like it on Sunday even ings, because it is our duty to help the pastor, it ia our duty to the congregation, and it is our duty to the world. I recall an incident thal occurred a few year? after thc war, at tho White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia. There waa pres ent a venerable man, to whom all the world (miked with profound admiration. Hi* name waa Robert E. Lee. He waa a devout Episcopalian. One day a Pres byterian minister came to preach in the ball-room, according to custom, and be told me thia story. "He noticed that Gen. Lee, who waa a particular man about all the prnpi letica nf life, came in late, and be thought lt rather ?traute. He learned afterwards ibat the General had wnited until all the people who were likely to attend the service had entered the room, and then he had walked very quietly around in tho corridors and parlora and cut under the trees, and wherever he aaw a man or two standing he would go up and a?y gently: 'Weare going to have divine service in tho ballroom, won't you come ?' And they all went. To me it waa very touching, to think that the grand old man, whose name. waa known all over the world, end before whom all j. the people wanted to bow, should io quietly go around, and f?r a minister of another denomination also, and persuade them to attend (services." -. During the pa?! year 820,800 steer age, and 59,500 cabin passengers, landtd at Near York city. : - One of tho subliment th ' ./gs in '.ho wtrrhi ti plain vrtstb. ! Tho rrobibltlou Election Dill. The following ia (he text of the bill providing for the holding of an* election in Anderson County, upon the question .if license or no license, which was in troduced in thu House by Mr. Scuddsy sod carried over to the next session of i he L?gislature, together with the report made by the Ande-son delegation : "The Anderson delegation, to wbnni was referred a bili to provide for an election upei, the prohibition of the sala . if spirituous liquors in Anderson County and io make the result of such election ftfeelual, respectfully repnrt that they have carefully considered the annie, and recommend that the came be placed on the calendar without recommendations. All of which is respectfully submitted. H. G. SCUDDAY, for delegation. A HILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN SLKOS'IQH UPON THE PROHIBITION 0FTHE8AL8 OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS IN ANDERSON COUNTY, AND TO MAKE THE RESULT OF SUCH ELECTION EFFECTUAL. lie if Enacted by the Senate sud Houae of Representativ? a 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 Slate and County oOicera for Anderson County shall, after duly adver* using the time and places nnd Managers nf Election for nt least thirty days, sub mit to the qualified voters of said County on Thursday alter tho second Monday in August, 1885, between the boura of eight a. m. und four p. m.. the question na to whether the sale of aplrituoua or malt liquora alia.I be permitted or not io said County ; and all auch voters aa are op posed thereto i hall vote a ticket with tun word "Prohibition ' written or printed thereon, nnd such votera aa are in favor nf permitting tho aa'e thereof shall vote a ticket with tho worda"No Prohibition" written or printed thereon ; and if a majority nf the persons voting in said election shall vote in favor of "No Pro hibition," then licenses shall continue to be giantcd in such ciliea, towna and villages in said County aa now license tho salo thereof, subject aa heretofore to tho local option law ; but if a majority nf tho persona voting io eaid election mall vote in favor of prohibition, then no license fur the salo of any spiritunus jr malt or intoxicating liquors shall bo granted in any city, town or village In ?aid County, nor iu any part of said County, and any person Belling any nf .aid liquors therein shall be aubject to til the fines and penalties now of force in this State for selling spirituous liquors ivithout a license. REC. 2. That the aaid Commissioners if Elect ion shall appoint three Managers to conduct the election at each precinct, who shall be sworn, and conduct tho ?lection in all respecta the ramo nu State .'lections are conducted, including the pialificatioii nf electors, except that said Managers shall return to ihe said Com* niaaionera of Election on Friday, the day following snid election, the ballot boxes with the ballots, the return of votes, the noll list and nil papers pertaining to the Blectinn ; and such M?nagera shall serve without compensation. SEC. 3. The said Commissioners of Election shall immediately tabulate and Jeclure the result of such election, and filo a certified copy of such result, under their hands and st-ah, In the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Ploaa for Anderson County, and such Clerk of Court shall thereupon serve a copy of mid return upon the Mayor or Intendant nf each incorporated city, town or village in said County, and aimil likewise pub lish, for two weeks, tim result in one or more newspapers published in said County. SEC. 4. If a majority of ?nid voters . vote in favor of prohibition, it shall be unlawful for any license, to aell. the liquors aforesaid, to be granted after aaid election in said County, and any licenses which may then be in force shall not be val iii for n longer prriod than to Decem ber 31st. 1885. SEC. 5. That all Acts or parts of Acts be, and the snmo are hereby, repealed,, so far as they may a fie ct the Operation? of thia Act. Homo Hood Advice to the Girls? , ny AN "OLD LADY." The Lancaster Review bas a very sen sible letter from an old lady to the girls nf that town, and closes with the fol* I iwing advice: ' "And now let me give you a few hint o about thing!! generally. Don't counte nance dissipated, drinking young men. Your happiness in life depend* 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. HM Isn't worth ngvlnrr, Listen not to his lying promises of temperance and reform, when he gets you in bis clutches you'll rue the bargain. Think, you that the leopard will change bis spots? Beware of the flatterer i Don't entertain young men later than 10o'clock at night. Ask them to retire, and if they are slow to respond do you withdraw youraelf from tho room. "Don't bang your hair. It is the most revolting practice of which my sex are; guilty. - When I was growing op wo. knew no such things as bangs, and the girla were more beautiful than they are- - now. Do you think nanga are becoming ? to girla ? Why are they not also becom ing tn men? Do you not think that if the Creator had thought bangs would beautify the female sex He would himself ?j have added that ornament? The mt.ut sensible mother of whom I have beard is ahe who told ber daughter that she would bang ber if she ever had ber bair banged. Don't follow that banging practice any longer. "Don't paint. Artificial beauty is the poorest kind of imitation. You need not ... try to improve on nature; If you uro not as good looking as you think you ought to be, chide caturo, but never paint. Try to make your ways pretty, and then your face will assume a charm* . ing appearance. "Lasllv, for conscience sake, don't dip snuff. Tobacco, chewing is bad enough, but muff dipping, is infinitely worse. Tho must heart rending scene is to see the snuffbox parsing around, each lady taking a dip. Then follows a ?nell of spitting which would prove efficacious in a Chicago fire Snuff taking is entra?n?t ins and destroying mure women th sn any other cause of which Iam aware, tam, Indeed, sorry to know' that moths?? not' only use lt themselves, but penni', and even encourage their daughter* tc? us? it. If; I were a young man 1 would refuse to marry any woman who used the weed. And now, gi rh, if yon ever need any more advice ju*t apply to tho old lady/' - lt is settled nov that Grant is a good soldier, n poor politician and d j mighty poor financier. I - Sergeant Mason, who shot at On'?