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Qn?mtm ?vAtW.f?mtt. E. B. MUKRA Y, Editor. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1886. Tia RM8s .-.?1.50. 8IX MOUTHS-. 75c. Two Dollar? If not paid In advance. The State Board of Education, by a vote of three for Charleston to two for Anderson, decided to hoid the State Normal Institute for white teachers in the city of Charleston in August. We are sorry that Anderson sgain missed getting tho Institute, but we have the consolation that a most pleasant location has been selected for this year, and live in hope of better luck for Anderson another time. The Executive Committee of tho State Agricultural Society and of the Stato Orange, has decided to hold thu Summer meeting of the Society io AuguBt at Bon netbtville, In the famous agricultural County of Marlboro. Every delegate who can.attend should do so, and those who go vi ill see one of the finest agricul* total sentions of South Carolina, and all things considered, perhaps one of the finest in the world. We were surprised some weeks ago to seo a criticism of Maj. li. A. Ransom, in the Carolina Spartan, charging him with inattention and inefficiency while in charge of the South Carolina exhibit at New Orleans. He is one of the most accomplished, energotio and thoroughly efficient and courteous gentlemen that we have over met, and therefore the sur prise wo have expressed. Enquiry among visitors from this Couuty satisfies us that our contemporary must have visited the grounds while Maj. Ransom w>s absent attending to the business of tho State's exhibit. Tho South Carolina exhibit, a* fax as we can learn, was a great success, and was exceptionally well man* i ^0 - The Colombia JlegUUr says that the State Board of Agriculture have adopted several new rules regarding phosphate mining and amended Others. Hereafter 1 ?ll persons or companies holding phos phate licenses are prohibited from sub letting them.. General rights and exclu sive rights shall not be held at the same time by one person or company. Marine license shall not be granted to any person or company now engaged or intending to engage in mining'land rock. Applica tions for license shall designate the stream or portion^thereof in which the applicant desires to mine, and shall be confined to that locality. Patties holding licenses shall not trade in phosphate rock not mined by themselves. Where licenses have boen suspended for non payment of royalty, resumption will only be permit ted on certificate by Commissioner of . Agriculture of payment of royalty. These changes in the phosphate mining regula tions appear to us to be practical and calculated to protect the State's interest io this valuable rock*. The State Penitentiary is getting Into bad financial condition, owing to an in ability of the Directors to hire out con* vieta ander the stringent restrictions im posed apon them by the Act of the ls?t session of onr Legislature. As a result, reductions are being made in the expen ses upon the Canal, and there ls a proba* bllity that it will have to be suspended entirely before long. The Columbia JUgUUt says : "The Board of Directors cf the Penitentiary met yesterday morn ing, and in accordance with the notice given at the meeting held last month, found it necessary to dispense with the services of Major Lee, the engineer, for the present ; to reduce the salary of afr. Anderson, the manager, to $76 for the next month, and also to redoes the norn* .ber of foremen from four to two, with a salary of $40 each, instead of $56. These reductions have been made for the ensu ing month. The Directors had a confer ence with a committee from the. City Council, and after stating to them tho whole situation, agreed to carry on the work another month, the Directors pay ing the salaries as scaled above,.if the City Council would furnish the necessary material for continuing tho excavation. . The committee from the Council had no doubt that tho amount of material, to tho value of $291.65, would bo furnished by Council. Manager Anderson was in* s traded to oreel a dam across Che work at ? Elmwood evanne for tho preservation of tho completed portion. Whether the work will bo carried on in the month ot* Jins depends entirely upon the Income ot tho Penitentiary from l?*set." The accounts' which have been given to tho world of death and. suffering In\ Ihr little : town of. Plymouth, Pennsylva nia, from typhoid malaria, caused by the filthy condition of tho'town, should serve '^\\f? a warning to all fc-?Tns and cities In our country. No town can disregard its Sanitary conui?OD, and fail td pay dearly for its lack;;?f cleanliness. It especially bohoov43. a growing,- thriving business . place to pay tho highest attention to the condition not only of its streets, bot also ''-. '?y of the premises of its inhabitants. Some years ago .Anderson tancredi considerably from malarial'and - typhoid fevers, but of lato years wo havo been entirely free r ' from malaria, and th?acoarge'of typhoid, fever has been, reduced until Anderson is &? worse, nt least, than any of the towns ' ol equal population in the op-country or ; perhaps the, ; State. This Improvement has been affected by careful attention to the sanitary condition of the city, and the result should encourage our Olly Council not only to continue but to in crea? Hs vigilance over tho condition of . the city. The Summer ia the ? fruitful ^Uim? -dhiaaso/and' our efforts to pro tect tho health of onr cities should be systematic and vigorous. The City Cairn . ell ought to provide for a regular weekly Xnspeetion' of ibo privies* of tho city, 'sud :.i&k&; >It thoroagh; and effective, reqalflng alt cUiseas tokeep'their yards In a neat ?.cd cleanly condition; It would .. more than repay ia; the increased health it woatd gi ve to our people; thereby '.':'add^^-?0:.??0*c^??.; and prosperity of ;*A^de^ bas aplentyto occupy 'tb?,, ti?e of its em ;%j^y?i?,.bttt'U wonld l-a better io neglect the sttjss't^--or.?TW!i. th? order offcha city/ ihaa io bo careleaa abont ita hoAltiii A WRATH'S NEWSPAPER. Tho Columbia Regitter replies to our criticism <. its tirade against Secretary Bayard ai follows : We have only to say that there is not a Northern journal that come* to our office-Democratic, Independent or re publican-that does not mention the withering criticism under which Mr. Bayard has fallen on account of the ap-, pointments made frot: hL; department, and tbhi in view of the personal relation which many of these appointees bear to Mr. Bayard. Tho Anderson INTELLIGENCER may have other intelligence. Tho extract quoted from the Regitter by the INTEL LIGENCES never mentioned Mr. Cleve land. As lo the fact relied on by the INTELLIGENCER tojshow the preposter ous character of the charge that Mr. Bayard is using his position to favor bis personal friends, viz : that all of the im portant positions in the State Depart ment are mode by the President, we nave only to say : We presume that there is no one short of idiocy in or out of An derson who does not know that the Pres ident makes the appointments, as stated by the INTELLIGENCER. At the same timo, it is equally known that these ap pointments In the State Department aro almost exclusively mado at the instanco of Mr. Bayard, aa a matter of course. Heneo they are rightfully and properly called Mr. Bayard 'a appointments. As to the clap-trap about disgruntled poli ticians, if it is meant to bavo any appli- ! cation to us, we bav? only to say that we belong to that happy class that ask noth ing and expect nothing. We have neither sought a seat in Congress, nor have we been a railroad director or any thing but a plain citizen, saying our say with malice to cone. Plain talk some times does good, and wo heartily sympa thize with Edmund Burke, when he says : "I love clamor when there is an abuse. The alarm bell disturbs the inhabitants, but saves them from being burnt in tbeir beds." At all events, wo don't propose to get our instructions of what ls damaglngrto the Democratic party or injurious to the State from the INTELLIGENCER. Per haps we may be ignorant as to these particulars, but our Anderson contempo rary must positively excuse our taking our cue from him. He is equally wel come to his own views. We did not deny that Mr. Bayard was oritiolsed, but wo said that we did not think thti" criticism was merited. It is always to be expected that public men shall be criticised by a certain class of knowing- people, let them do what they may, and the less the critic knows, as a general thing, the more virnlent tho criticism U made. The Remitter is very dictatorial In its discussion of publio affairs, and of course a journal directed by an all-pervading luminary like the Editor of our contemporary, could not be expected to take instructions from any source, much less from an unpretending weekly paper that ls not so fortunato nc to possess omniscience, even in its own opinion, as the Regitter does. We may be excused by the Rcgitter for saying, however, that we were not so presump tuous ai to expect to induce any improve ment in Ita tone or conduct, for such sublimo self-conceit and satisfaction as the editorial department of that journal enjoys is past disturbance even by the giants, much less by the small fry of the journalistic world. We merely scribbled off In our humble work our real senti ments, so that the world, (that is the little part of it that sees the INTELLIGENCER,) might know that while Mr. Bayard, and of cours? ou his account the President, were vigorously condemned by such a great and powerful paper as the Columbia Regitter knows itself to be, os long as it is dominated by ito present sage, yet that some of the. lesser papers of tbs State had no moro knowledge than to believe we were getting a very good government, and that both the President end Mr. Bayard are high-toned, honest gentlemen, who am administering their trust with ability for tho publio welfare. The ac cusation, even coming from tuck a source aa the Columbia Regitter, that Mr. Bay ard is running, and that President Cleve land is permitting him to run, one of the leading departments of this government In personal grooves, ht only discreditable to the little minds who can beliove and circulate such suspicions. The President and Mr. Bayard, or any other publio officer, may sometimes err In judgment, and thus become the just object or fair criticism. To this they as public men cou d not object, but the personal aspect willoh the Regitter and some dissatisfied newspapers give to crit icism ia worthy of contempt, sad receives it from the masses of the people. Tho Regitter cannot discuss any matter with? out descending to personalities. That ia the height of its argumentative capa* city. IQ replying to us tho Regitter seeks to answer our dissent from its course by personal reference to the Editor of tbe INTELLIGENCER. The Editor assumes that , our remark about disgruntled poll* ticlans was applied to him, and retorts that wo have been a candidate for Con gress and a Railroad Director, He might have added some other positions which ?re,nave heidi, and would like to have held, if he had pleased, to show that we have taken some interest in politics ; but ho could not point to any indication of the disgruntled' politician In our course. Tho INTELLIGENCER nc vor talks, and lt uovor carp* et prominent men simply because they do not prometo the men the INTELLIGENCER would like.to see pro moted.' The Regitter baa been In a rage, not only With Secretary Bayard, bat also with Senator* Hampton and Butler, about the manner in which they discharge their official duties, merely because those gentlemen do not select the men for office that tho R?guler wants, and that paper claims that it representa the people In ito assaults upon thea* gentlemen* It is ?trange that the people have nothing to say 1er' themselves. It strikes ns that the Rtgitttr' bas a boom of the big-head. Its Editor may claim that he wanta noth ing, but the people have u t I forgotten that be permitted his name to be can vassed for the Legislature from Richland County unlit it waa apparent that he had sot the ghost of a chance for etan *?Mf .pectable vote io the convention, ?when be declined to ran. If WA mistake not be ha* been patriotically willing to serve his country ia ott v pillions, bat wo confess that vre ws. no! enough impress ed tilth tho occasions to recall ?hem. Thesa things, however, Lave nothing to do with tho matter Ja band. We anoujd never have thought of theta but for th& RegUttv'a rcrc-in&mtei. While It is assailing SecwtaryBayard and Sen ator* Hampton and Butler we can afford for it to personalia* na alto, from the JUgUto** ebAttdi?o'.n, overything connect od'with the administration is* moot cen surable. The President ought, by alt means, to have summoned its Editor and obtained from bim information as to how the government should be ruo, Theo everything would havo been lovely in its j eyes. We havo no ill-will for the Register. On tho contrary, wo wish it well, and bope that it may some day have an Edi tor who is not a chronic dyspeptic. TO WHOM DOES IT BEXONQ ? A Washington dispatch says that on Tuesday, the 5th inst., a heavy squaro box, wrapped in red tape and securely bound, was found in an out of tho way nook of ono of tho vaults of the Treasury department. The key had been mislaid aud was nowhere tobo found. The box had been in tbe vault for many years and had been almost forgotten. The serviced of a locksmith woro secured and on open ing the box it waa found to contain H bottle of diamonds, a bottle of pearls, a bottle of attar of roBos and a lump of) gold. One of the older employees iden tified theso as articles which had been presented to President Monroe about the year 1823 by tho Japanese Government and which had boen stored in the treas ury pending the passage of on Act of I Oongres9 authorizing their acceptance, j Congress failed to legislate on tho sub [ject and tho articles were deposited in tho treasury, whore they have remained ever since. Cougress should now pass a bill to I turn those articles over to the heirs of | President Monroe. There are somo interesting elections to j como off this year which will, to somo extent, indicate tho impression which tho now Democratic Administration has made upon the country. The Stales to voto are Ohio ia October, and Connecti cut, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia in November, Of those the Republicans carried in the Presiden tial election only Ohio, Iowa, Massachu setts and PonnBylvAnia ; but tho Demo cratic margin was so narrow in Connec ticut, (1,276.) New Jersey, (4,412,) and New York, (1,047,) that these States are fairly considered contestable. In New York and Ohio, Governors aro to be elected, and tho struggle in theso States will bo particularly interesting. Tho Other Side. MB. EDITOR : Ia your issue of May 7tb, I see aa article on License or no License, Prohibition or no Prohibition, in which the writer has fears for tho welfare of the country if prohibition measures are pressed to final success. He begias by lolling how it was when he was young, and comparing that t'mo with the present. Now, I know the writer and would not provoke a discussion, but wish to present the other Bide. In the days of my child hood my grandfather made his own spirits, and the house was never without a supply, though he never drank lt to excess, for ho was a staunch Seceder, and regarded the law of God and man. But if you will compare the socioty of that day and this, you will Bee a vast differ ence. In the first place, the population was not half so dense, and boys were only boys until they were' of proper age. They regarded their father's commands and example more than at present, and the habit of public drinking had not become so common and dangerous to j society. Besides, the colored peoplo were in a condition not to have free access to it as they have now, which is one of the strongest arguments in favor of prohibition. The writer speaks of the members of so-called temperance.societies, and lam sorry he wrote of them as he did, for' although be it said to their shame, that some of them drink, yet some of our best mon and women belong to those societies, I and because some of them violate their pledge it cannot disgrace the whole, for they are accomplishing and aredestined to accomplish great and valuable results, (and I may be excused for sayiag here I that I am dot a member of any auoh society). I would invite him to visit | Hart County, Ga., and ask any responsi ble citizen what has buen the result of prohibition in that County, and about two-thirds of the Counties of the same great Stile. Has it been to increase drinking? No. They will tell you their towns are free from drunken men, and la I the neighborhoods where the stills j abounded most the men are never seen j under the influence of whiskey, as they wei o so often-so OFTEN before. There are some things I know, and that is one | of them. The ambition of s great num ber of moo, even yoong med, before the prohibition law over there, was to devise some plan to get whiskey for some occa sion-often the occasion of some dis graceful row, or dangerous conflict. Now tnt state of society has been improved beyond computation in these localities, and prohibition hu contributed no small part to these results. He advises tbs city to prohibit the | aale of whiskey. Thoa tar we agree, bot when he says make it Indiscriminately free, sa it was forty or fifty years ngo, I am surprised at the idea coming from a sober man, aa he claims and I know bim to be. Why, air. if such waa the case oar corn-cribs would be almost emptied of their contents and carried off between lights to the nearest boiler.- Our society would beco mo un con troll abb., our labor ' worse than worthless, Courts ?nd prisons wOuldl be fall to overflowing. This is no high drawn picture, bot the facts sustain the, argument, and I ch al longo any man to search the records of wet and dry sections and report the facts ac they exist. Well, he says whiskey la acaree now. Bo it is in tho country, and would to God (with all reverence) It waa much moroso. Ko say* ttr.t men who go to town on business,ko., often get two mach whiskey, thiaking tboy may not have the chance soon again ; bat my observation is thai some men who go the most are tho often* if|&aght, and those who go seldom aver imbibe to exoess. He con ry producing a ! good deal i of I to provo that all things aro not 1, bu? very good, which' altfjprV kt bellote the truth. He cays that Christ miraculously made j wine on a certain occasion ; but remem ber H ?a* ? to bo used as an article of I food ot a eapi^r, and not to get draak and carouse cn. Think you Cfcrialjwwild haro made it for this purpose? I think not. As for the Bible advising its mod erate ute, you will And many places con demning its emproper uso. I think it says in one placo "cursed is every one that puttetb the cup to his brother's lips." And what does this teach ? if we are not to withhold the temptation from our brother. When I hear my neighbors, it may be my best friend or my near kin, say I do wi?h the temptation to drink ?ras removed, I cannot but raise my arm, though puny, aud strike tho evil to tho utmost of my ability-not to extinguish it from toe couutry, but to put it aiong with other medicines, where it may be had by physicians when the case really needs it. It is a medicine, and should bo so clashed aud used ns tho Ilible truly recommends. Now, I dislike a newspaper quarrel, aud hope this may be tho last of this discuss ion that I shall bo engaged iu, but the Bible says "Curso ye Moroz became he cometh not up to the help of the Lord." JOHN G. MCCUBRY. Why is Our Laud Filed With Drunk ards ! Mn. EDITOR: Fifty years ago distille ries were thicker ovir the country than pig-pens are now, and every man had bis peaches and corn made into strong drink and his closet filled ; his table was never set without it, his side-board had the decanter and glass always inviting you to tako a drink. Day by day the little boys learned to lovo it, taking a drink with pa and ma for their stomacho's sake. Pa found out hie mistake when it was too Into, and threw away the still-house, (but not until the law compelled him,) and no more was tho closet filled with the drink of death. But be could not tear out and throw away the love for it which ho had implanted in those boya. Father and mother had encouraged them to love it, and their love for it will never die, for to those drunken sons were born sons, and the old love for strong drink was born with them, and to-day they are reeling over the land looking and acting like idiots, forgetting that they are men, made in the image of God. Yes, that love is there yet, and it muBt be crushed down as much as possible, by putting strong drink out of their reach-clear out of the land. That love is atrooger than the vilo poison with which they try to quench it with, and it will take a mighty effort to put it out of their reach, but it must be dono or the nation will sink to perdition. Take it from them ; it iu a serpent that charms men and twines around them its deadly fangs' and presses them to death. When they see or smell it they forget everything, every love, and every promise, aud plunge into its sparkling beauty. V.'hen our fathers were giving them a little every day, 'hey did not know they were cultivating a love that would never die. They did not know they wera digging graves for drunken sons and b) oken-lieartcd daughters. They did not Kuow they were building poor-houses, penitentiaries, jails, guard-houses, and lunatic-asylums ; and as they did not know it they must be forgiven, for it ? too late to gather the thistle seeds they ?owed (through mistake) for flowers. No one neod to ask why is it so many of our people, old and young, in the church aud out of the church, are given up and addicted to thia useless and wicked habit of drunkenness" ? The reason is obvious. A mighty host of mothers, wives, and sisters cry out from their aching hearts Away with whiskey I Away with strong drink I We prefer to lose a few who might die for the want of it, than to lose a whole nation, who drink and die because they can get it. NAIVETE. Temperance In tho Grange. ,: MR. EDITOR : Under the above cap tion a Granger has suggested the impor tance of discussing the question of tem perance in the Grange, and calls for the opinion of brother Grangers in regard to it. We think the suggestion a good one, and will, no doubt, receive the hearty ap proval of all who feel interested in the causo of temperance. The question would, no doubt, elicit a spirited discus sion. It would, also, infuse life into the Grange for the time being, at least. Besides, it would give rest and relaxation to the farmer by turning his mind to channels of thought not connected with his daily business. By all means, let the question be discussed by the farmers. All would, no doubt, like to have their opin ion as to where spirituous liquors should be confined. Whether in towns or in the country f Evidently it should be pieced where its use is leset lisble to be abused by the young and thoughtless, as well aa the old and inebriate, let that be where ii may. _? . A FARMER. . The South Carolina University. The Colombia correspondent of the Nats and Courier, on the 7th inst, gives the. following account of the proceedings of tbs Trust?es of tho South' Carol i na -University: ? - The report of President McBry do, con sidered by the trustees last night and ap proved, showed that the courses of in struction at the college would be still further extended next session by the ad dition of three new studies. Professor Davis wilt give a courso in pedagogics or the methods and principles of teaching, nod one in physical geography, b:4h courses being for teachers. Prof. Bar ney will give a conree in chemical tech nology. The college, will next year offer to students fifty distinct courses in til? collegiate department,^ si* sub-fresh' men courses and two courses in law, making fifty-eight courses (or distinct classes) in all. This is tn addition tc the sections into which many of the lar ger classes ore divided and tho courses given to post-graduate students. These improvements will still further advance the popularity of the college, which grows year by year and ia already im pregnable. The fol low i og is a Hat of the m em ben of the board of visitors'for the Sooth -Carolina Collegt Relented last night at the mectiog of tho trust?es : Col. ?, W. Boyd, Darlington, chairman ; Ooh J. H. Rion. Fairfield ; the Eon. O. J. O. Hat ton, Hampton ; thc Roo. Wade Hamp tot. Richland ; Judge J. 8. Colhrao, - Ab . b?rille; JudgeW. H. Wallace, Volon; tiioEev. Ellison Csptw,Greenville; the 'Host Joseph B. Earls, Sr. m ter ; the Hon. A. S. J. Perry, Charleston, and the Hon. J. S. Murray, Anderson. The visitors will hov* their first mect iog on tho 37th instant and attend tho examinations. - A White burrard hu appeared in the neighborhood of Jordan. The ne groe^ confider it a bird of exceeding iU The Augusta Chronicle says Hon. Geo. D. Tillman says a generous uso of lemon juice and a diet of buttermilk- will cure or prevent malaria. Mr. Tillman prac tices vrhat be preaches and is a model of physical and mental health. - A well-to-do citizen of Windham County, Connecticut, shortly before his decease sent for a lawyer to make his will. Hia wife aud daughter watched proceedings. After generously providing for them, tho Bick mun directed the law yer to deaigoato $500 to his aged sister, who was needy. The wife and daughter remonstrated angrily. Quietly the sick man said: "Make it *1,000 for my sister." Another protest from tho grasp ing pair. "Make it $1,500, squire," coolly Baid tho legator. "You shall not!" shouted tho woincu. "Make it $2,000," taid tho will-maker serenely, and hero tho ladies concluded to hold their tongues. Thc lawyer kept the secret for years, but gradually it leaked out an a warning to the Bullish of all classes and sexes. - A partv of gentlemen consisting of Col. T. B. Brooks, formerly of Gen. Giliinore'sstaff, Major Gilchrist and Capt. Chichester, visited Morris Island yester day to look over the site of Battery Wigner, the scene of military operations on the island during the war. Theso gentlemen report that nothing whatever is left of the old fort or of thc approaches to it-nothing, that is to say, of the Con federate works or of the parallels by which tho Federals made their way to them. It was with difficulty that the pro* 'inent points could be located at all. Ole Battery Wagner baa gone into the sea, and the island seemB to be following it.-Neta and Courier. - Secretary Mauning bas directed that the issue of one and two dollar notes be discontinued for the present. It is said by some that this action has been taken for the purpose of forcing the sub sidiary coins into circulation, but this is denied at the treasury department. It imitated that the discontinuance became necessary by reason of the excessive issue of these notes of late, and because they are coming back to the treasury for redemption in about aa good condition as when first issaed, w'jicn adds a very con siderable item to tl o expense account of the department. Tbe oH?r of the sec retary is simply in 'nc line of economy. - Charley Power, a Laurens County negro, has invented a new plan for plant ing cotton seed. Ha hitches one mule to a common plow, then be fastens a line to the foot of the plow and ties the other end of the line to a planter behind. Charley then places a woman to guide the plow and one to guide the planter. The foremost woman, of course, has to straddle the line. Charley himself rides the mule and overlooks the whole busi ness. - August Muller, a young German, who lino been residing in Baltimore for several years, went across the water recently to marry the girl of his choice whom ho supposed had remained faith ful during his absence. Finding, how ever, that she had married another, ho started back to thin country on board of tho stoamehip America, and during a stormy night, in mid-ocean, jumped over-* board. Before taking the fatal leap he deposited all his money with the Purser. - It in estimated that the State of Florida received during the post Winter at least one thousand new families as Sermanent residents within her borders, he major portion of these new-comers are of a class possessed of meant suffi cient to improve the property purchased by them ?nd to live comfortably. They are geuerully intelligent and progressive. - The wife of an habitual drunkard in Buffalo, N. Y., has obtained a verdict of $1,000 damages against a liquor seller who persisted in selling her husband whiskey after he bad been notified to desist. The verdict is a righteous one, though two of the jurors rendering it were saloon-keepera. ,- A poultice of garden leek leaves will, it is said, cure the worse case of corns. The leaves must be bruised and wrapped in a soft, thin cloth. Judging from some talks we once had with a trav eling chiropodist, thia is important infor mation to not a few persons of both sexes. - Dr. Meitkerke, an English physi cian, believes that a single patent sooth ing medicine ho can name "is the un doubted cause of the death of 150,000 children annually in Great Britain alone." - Wheat experts in the Northwest estimate that the yield this year will be about 413,000,000 bushels. This with 121,000,000 bushelB left over will make a total of 534,000,000 bushels. Of this amount 315 000,000 bushels will be re quired for home consumption, loaving 219,000,000 bushels for export. In case of war they estimate that about 140,000 - 000 bushels will be exported, leaving about 8,000,000 bushela on band as a surplus. - Jim Gaillard, colored, working with a pistol at Abbeville on Thursday, shot hia sister Lizxie Gaillard. Tbe patient is in a critical condition. Gaillard waa immediately carried before Trial Justice DeBrubl, who upon examination released the prisoner, as the facta showed that the ahooting was accidental. - An old Connecticut deacon, says the Hon. A. Payne, when asked by a Bhode lui ander if the people in Connec ticut kept Sunday, replied: "Yes, sir aad everything else they can lay their nanda on." - A young lawyer of Sylvania, Ga., went through that town the other day driving a portion of hia first law fee-a yearling steer. The fee consisted of $8 in money, a stack of fodder, a allder watch, an old sow and the yearling. , - v for raising 'possums, and fatteuing them for the market, is eaid to be among tho new enterprises of.8nar tanburg. 1 . .". ' Patay Boyd, of Lancaster, acciden tally smothered her baby to death last . H?^PjMM?gtav?UnatIcally fos tered in China, and 330,000 trees were .set ont last year in Hong Kong alone. - The oat crop in Edgefield County is put down at leta than half of an average Insurance License. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OJTICX or CoxnaoLuta Oamnui.; Tr r,T.n~92H!*?lA> 8? Cf, April 20,1885. T ^2$22 Man'ldin, of SM. T?^00' 8,- R" A??ot ? The Equi table Lifo Association, incorporated bv the State of New York, nae complfed wit? th* leanWUons of the* Act of Sba mSS Assembly entitled ?An Act to raguUtethe Af^deaof laurance Ctompaniw not In. cornered In the Rtntoof South Carolina," Mauldin, Agent aforesaid, to take risks and transact all boxiness of Insurance in thir. ^tiii?irberkm?iy of Anderson, for and STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, AjflDEOsosr COUNTY. SM HOMOS ft Uffon, judge 0f jfVobot?. tWHJ?KA8, O. T. Chapraan las ap piled to we to a^thto^wo^XcV 5?lE^-^-*l^Bw,08*1 Htate of "ISP * ' Chapman, deceased. j?^??*"of SSS fifi? *i Anderson Court House, on thu ffi-fiL?L*?* *rtor\uwg! ?on hereor to ehew cause, ir any lh*v BEPORT OF THE CONDITION 07 TH? . National Bank of Anderson, AT Anderson, in the State of South Carolin?, ?t tho close it bu?lnri< May 6th, IBM s ?ESOUECE3. Lo* IIB and Discount*...?....I1W,030 67 U. 8. Bonds to secure Clrculstlon. M,%fr, ?? Other stocks, bonds sud mortgages. 9,9" ? Real Estate, Furniture ?nd Fixtures. 9,000 00 Current Expenses and Tar.es paid. MM OJ 1'rcmluius paid.............. MW ?? Ililli of other Banks. l*fi& 00 Fractional paj>?r currency, nickels, pen nina . 108 Ti epe<3e!f::::zz:.:..::.::. ?#? % Ixittl Tinder Notes. V?? 00 Ucdciupllou Fund v. Uh U. H. Treasurer, (0 pei ctnt of circulation,). z?*&o w Tutsi."...1809,55? 20 LIABILITIES, Capital Stock paid in.? ^fiOO 00 Surplus Fund. ^.^J 52 Undivided Profit*. *V;? ? National Bank Notes outstanding. *o,0W Ou Dividends unpaid. "".,;? ludi?iduulDci>o3itssubkitloi-beck. ^{'r" S Demand Certiocates of Di-potit. II,?? W Duo to other National Banks. -1 TuU].SS09.556 19 STATK OF SOUTH CABOL1NA,) Cou.siv or AHUEUSOX. J j j A. RKOCK, Cashier of tho ?bot? named Ba?k, do solemnly swear that thc above statement ls true, to tbo best of my knowledgo ami belief. ' J. A. BROCK, Cashier. Subscribed aud sworn to before me this lill? day of May, ISW.^ g< puU|# Correct-Attest : O. II. P. V*HT, I , JOSEPH N. HUGWX, ^Directors. HVLVKSTBK BLI?CKLBV,) May 14,_>j885__ _ii_i_ Insurance License. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL, COLUMBIA, 8. C., April 1, 18*5. ICERTIFY that J. A. lirock, of Ander son, S. C., Agent of The Home Insurance Co. ot New York, The Insurance Co. Ol' North Amorlca of j Pennsylvania. The North British ami Mercantile Insu rance Co. of London und Edinbarg, and The Imperial Insurance of London, has complied with tho requisitions of the Act of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to regulate the Agencies of Insurance Companies not incorporated in the State of South Carolina," and I do hereby license the said J. A. Brock, Agent aforesaid, to take risks and transact all business of In surance in luis State, in the County of | Anderdon, for and in behalf of said Compa nies. Expires March 31st, 1886. W. E. STONEY, Comptroller General. May 14. 1885 44_1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ANDKHSON COUNTY. Tty Thc*. C. Ligon, Judge of Probate. WHEREAS, Baylis C. Brown has applied to me to grant him letters of Ad ministration on the Estate and eflecta of Spencer Brown, deceased. These are therefore to cito and admon ish all kindred and creditors of the said Spencer Brown, deceased, to bo and ap Kar before me in Court of Probate, to held at Anderson Court House, on tho 30th day of May, 1885, after pub lication hereof, to shew causo, if any they have, why tho said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 11th day of j May, 1885. T. C. LIGON, J. P. May 14, 1885 44 2 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP ANDERSON. ' COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. E. C. Long, Plaintiff, against Francis Moore, Sarah Kl tod, Caroline Murphy, Jofloxson-B. King, Fan nie Williams, Sarah C&son, Dora King, John King and Noah B. Moore, Defendants.-Sum mem for Belief-Complaint no/ Served. To the Defendants Francis Moore, Sarah Kl rod, Caroline Murphy, Jefferson B. King, Fannie C. Williams, Sarah Coson, Dora King, John King and Noah B. Mooro : YOU are hereby summoned and required to an swer the complaint in this action, which is filed In the omeo of the Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas, at Anderson C. II., 8. C., r.nd to servo a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at bis office, Ander son i'.H.,s.e., within twenty days after the servie* hereof, exclusivo of the day of auch servlco : and if you falito answer the complaint within tho timo aforesaid, the plainUff in this action will apply to tho Court for the relief demanded in tho complaint Dated Anderson, ri. C., May 1st, A. D. 1BS5. E. W. LONG, PlalntlfTs Attorney. [SEAL] M. P. TainBLB, e.e.e. ? To tho above named Defendants : Take notice that the object of this action, in which a Summons Is herewith served noon you, is to obtain partition of the tract of lani, of which Thomas B. Moore died seized and possessed, con talntf.g threa hundred acres, mor? or less, situate ia the County of Anderson, State of South Caro lina, to be mado between the owners thereof, ac cording to their rcspecUve rights, or to obtain a salo thereof to bo made and a division of tho pro ceeds, if a partition cannot bo made without pre judice to tho interest of th? owners. No personal claim is mado against you. . E. W. LONG, PlalntlfTs Attornoy. May 14, 1885 44 o OUR INVITATION TO ALL. COME I NOW 18 YOUR CHANCE. WE are again in tho lead, and ready for . action with a mammoth stock of Hew Spring Goods, Such as ara usually kept in a first-class pry Goods House. DonH fail to see our ?H*8.?110 .?ompletc assortment. We con sider it a pleasure to show goods. friowj ?ll we ask is for you to come and Ive us a chance to ehow yon the Goods, f Ton don't buy lt will not be oar faultT ?..?ft . ??? 2hort fe1x5 Bqnandered in the at.-.-opt to do business in the ordinary humdrum method, and we are determined space allotted to us. We adverUae nothing but what we are ready to perform ; and having on hand a argo stock of good nature, as well a. an immense stock of good Goods, we areco* - fident we can please you, - W5 want to ??^nd you that lt is as much a part of our business to satisfy our custo ^tT!?i0">?Goods, ?nd we don't went ?i^*.?w?F S?*8 ** them a fair equivalent. Now, we mean inst that. ?<2Wa?&m2&-*M tniFone of ?*? to ?ve money is to buy Goods of W. A. CHAPMAN. Tho A, B, O of our boniness : And Von will be convinced of what I sa? Yours, very respectfully, ' W. A. CHAPMAN. Jon haye Oom. and SFg! Ajj??M? SS ' i ' * ?) . .. ??V .v*vf\ THE DRY GOODS KING 7 A 14 -OF Announces Extraordinary BARGA If For the Next Thirty Days. YOU ARE INVBT?D To Como and See for Yourself whether we crin sar* youIMoney on all the Goods that you may purchase from us or not ! We are now offering SPECIAL BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS, LACE BUNTINGS, Wool filling-that sold for 20c, per yard, we now offer for 12Jc. per yard. NUN'S VEILINGS, All wool, in beautiful phades, and very desirable GoodB, that very readily eold for| 25c. per yard, we now offer for 15c. per yard. PLAIN AND PLAID BUNTINGS, Very desirable goods. Only a fow pieces to close out during this month, ul we would say right here to those anticipating to purohase, ''-ut paver before voil these Goods known lo be sold at such low figures. The sa quality, of Goodsuii [ retailed iast season for 50c. per yard wo now offer for 20c. per yard only. IMPORTED DRESS SUITINGS, J In very delicate Pink, Blue, Fawn, Silver Grey, Drab and Cream. Lovely! I that cannot be bought to-day for less than 30c. per yard, and that always reltlU] very readily for 45c. and 50c. per yard, we are now offering for 20c. per yard. SUMMER SILKS, Only a few Patterns left, ai.d wo would say to the Ladies that this is a opportunity, never to be had in Anderson again. These Goods aro reUiliogi over America for $1.00 per yard, und we offer them now for GOo. per yard. BLACK AND COLORED CASHMERES. We have the prettiest line in these Gooda in Upper Carolina, and ws kt* j marked them down so ss to DEFY COMPETITION, and are prepared to taUd] in need of a Black or Colored Cashmere Drees. Our regular 90c. Cathmennj have reduced to 65c. per yard. WHITE GOODS. In these Goods we are-beyond a shadow of doubt-Headquarters, and tk?| is no use in wasting your tim J in looking around, for you can save your tims uij money too. We aro offering a very fine India Linen for 123c that never sold fc less than 20c; per yard. : ? '. . ': WHITE AND COLORED LINEN LAWN, I Fully worth 25c. per yard, and would be considered cheap.at 20c, we now o?fe I 15c. per yard only. LACE CURTAINS, You will ba astonished to ace what a class of Gooda that you can buy cv.? ti 12Jc. per yard. . LACE BED SETS and PILLOW SHAMS, That are worth fully $8.00 per pet we now offer for $2.00 per set only. PARASOLS, PARASOLS, In end lc." variety, from the very cbeapeat up to the finest Gooda made, a? vtotyj ingly low dgurea. * SHOES, SHOES. Tlie largest and beat selected stock in the upper port of the State. A' gooda '?hat were never before kept In thia market, at euch low prices M .teffsffl J O'.: to buy In self-defence.' HATS, HATS, |? For Men, Boya, Children, Misses and Ladles of all kinda and\\$?$^ A splendid Men'e Straw Hat for.....?MP A splendid Boya* Straw Hat for... A splendid Ohild'a Straw Hat for.. Ladlee' Cape May, in all shades, only........................wW; Millinery: Groods, TO CLOSE OUT, ?T HALI" PRICE. Clothing 4 Clothing ! - Poehiveiy i* be cloted oat REGARDLESS OP OOST, and wc want you to remember this. 0 j?M?TW ? IUI"? -: SN .-.J5r.4-; IN CONCLUSION We neg leave io eta to to but many coatoaaera tb?; tbfo i? Ordinarily practiced upon ?ur people, bul we ocean exactly what we will emt you very little, ar nothing, to come ?od iospect our Stock PURCHASING 1?MBWHER?. And be con vit ced that ic? will' SAVE MONi?Y ?n. buying jott* M? ? -