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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1885. VOLUME XXL?NO. 16. offers Extraordinary Bargains in D ? 11 e br ? ? U ? j AND SIM VELVETS. Silks, Satins, Trimmings, Laces, Notions, Hosiery, Gloves, Jerseys, Ribbons, Cloaks, Circulars, Newmarkets, Jackets, Misses'and Childrens'Cloaks, -AT Mock Bottom Prices. Jeans! Jeans ! Jeans! The best Goods made in America, at lowest figures ever known. ?hoes, ?Hoes, ?hoes. An immense stock in Children, Misses', Boys', Mens' and Ladies' Shoes, from the cheapest up to the very best hand? made goods made in this country, AT ASTONISHING LOW PRICES. ClotMng! Clothing! It wUl pay you to examine my Clothing and compare prices before yon spend your money elsewhere. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. I can certainly suit any one wishing anything in that line. Prices very low. TRUNKS AND YALISES, Bought direct from the manufacturer, and you shall be suited in price as well as quality. Consult your own inter? est, and examine my immense stock of Trunks before pur? chasing elsewhere, MR. W. C. KEITH, Who has lately returned from Florida, is now with me, and will be glad to serve his many friends and customers, and give them GOOD BARGAINS. CALL EARLY AND SECURE GENUINE AND SOLID BARGAINS AX The Great Bargain House OF A. LESSER v Granite Row, Anderson, S. C, \Oct22,1885 15 9 Wimms I LIVER AND HEADACHE PILLS, An Effective and Reliable Remedy for all Liver Complaints ! All people in all countries are subject more or less to Liver Complaints. Over ! eating, rich food, lack of exercise, over? work, and in fact, any violation of the laws of health causes the Liver to be? come torpid, and when it does, then follows an almost innumerable list of diseases torturing in their nature and dangerous in the end if not promptly attended to. The most common are: Costiveness, Billiousness, Diz? ziness, weakness, Indiges? tion, Dyspepsia, Nervous I ness, Fains in the Side, Back and Limbs, Foal Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Impure Blood, Giddiness, Heart? burn, and, worst of all, Nervous and Sick Headache. All the complaints named above arise , from a Torpid Liver, and to be cured of them the Liver must be aroused and caused to do its work, otherwise the bile and poisons it should take from the food of the body aud supply to the bowels aa their natural purgative, will poison the blood and aggregate the disease. Stimulate the Liver to healthy, vigor? ous action, and it will secrete all the impurities of the blood. The blood, thuB deprived of all waste matter and poisons, pure, rich and life-giving, will course through the veins, driving disease from the system and restoring health and strength. While WILHITE'S LIVER AND HEADACHE PILLS act direct? ly upon the Liver and Bowels, aud make pure, rich blood, they do not in their action debilitate the system and leave one in a worse condition than before taking them, but they contain a powerful tonic for the Stomach, and if taken one at a time occasionally, after having taken a full dose (from two to three), they will build up the system. They are indeed a splendid Stomach Pill, and, for this rea? son, have proven to be an Indispensable Remedy for the painful and distressing maladies, HEADACHE and SICK HEADACHE, which occur so frequently and extensively. These dreadful evils in their various forms are the direct result of a disordered Stomach, caused by in? digestion or an inactive Liver, and can be relieved and permanently cured by the use of WILHITE'S LIVER AND HEADACHE PILLS. A large proportion of the American people are subject constantly to these dreadful diseases and drag out a miser? able existence, trying in vain to get re? lief from outward applications and seda? tives, while the source of the trouble is overlooked. WILHITE'S LIVER AND HEADACHE PILLS strike at the root of these diseases, in acting upon the Liver, thereby removing the cause and restoring health. Thay are purely vegetable, contain no deleterious Drugs, and are a reliable remedy in all cases of Liver diseases and their various compli? cations. PRICE 25 CENTS PER BOX. PREPARED ONLY BY WILHITE & W1LHITE, DRUGGISTS, ANDERSON, - - S. C. Oct 15,1885 14 ESTATE SALE. UNDER an agreement among the heirs at law of Elijah Brown, deceased, we will sell at public auction, at Anderson City, on 8ALESDAY IN NOVEMBER next, the following Tracts of Land, belong? ing to said Estate, to wit : TRACT NO. 1, or Homestead Tract, containing one hundred and ten and one half acres, more or less, bounded by Wm. Burriss, A. G. Fretwell and Tract No. 2. TRACT NO. 2, containing seventy-seven and one-half a;res, more or less, bounded by Tract No. 1, John A. O'Neal and Blue Ridge Railroad. " TRACT NO. 3, containing forty-two acres, more or less, bounded by Bluo Ridge Railroad and Wm. Burriss. These tracts are situated from 2} to 3 miles Northwest of Anderson C. H. Tebms op Sale?One-third cash, balance om.credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, to be secured by bond and mortgage, with privilege of antici? pating payment. Purchasers to pay extra for papers. A plat of these lands can be seen on the premists. PETER R. BROWN, JOHN BROWN, Attorneys in fact of heirs at law. Oct 8, 1885 _ 13_ 3 ESTATE LAND FOR SALE. BY virtue of the power conferred on us by the last Will of Matbew Snipes, deceased, we will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C, ou SALESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1885, the following described Real Estate of said Mathew Snipes, deceased, to wit: LOT NO. 1, or Home Tract, containing 170 acres, more or less, situated on Rich land Creek, in Varennes Township, about five miles South of Anderson, adjoining lauds of Martha A. Masters, et al. This Tract has a good dwelling house and out? buildings. LOT NO. 2, containing 127 acres, more or less, situate on Richland Creek, in Va? rennes Township, adjoining lands of Wm. McCown, et al. LOT NO. 3, containing 77 acres, more or less, situated in Varennes Township, adjoining lands of Wm. G Watson, et al. Terms of Sale?One-half cash, aud bal? ance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, to be secured by a bond and mortgage of the premises. Purchasor to pay extra for all necessary papers. THOS. F. DRAKE, ELIZABETH SNIPES, Executors. Oct 8, 1885_13_4_ j. 3. clark, MERCHANT TAILOR, WOULD respectfully inform his friends and customers that he is now loca? ted on Main Street, eecond door below the Post Office, where he would be happy to serve them will. Custom-Made Clothes in the latest and most approved styles. Sept 3,2SS5 8 3m BAKERY. The undersigned desires to call the at? tention of the citizens of Anderson to the fact that ho is now selling 25 Bread Tickets for $1.00 Try my BREAD and CAKES, and I will guarantee satisfaction in every in? stance. WEDDING CAKES A SPECIALTY. A nice line of Confectioneries, etc., always on hand. Also, n ice parched Pea? nuts. Farmers, when you visit the city call and get a Lunch or Sandwich?cheap. Respectfully, m. j. Collins, JVviRU9tl3, 1885 5 [Original. Does Prohibition Prohibit ? Mr. Editor: We hear it alleged on many hands that prohibition does not prohibit. We propose to notice a few of the objections urged against the attempt to prohibit the retail of spirits. It is urged that there would be just as much whiskey drunk with prohibition as there is without. Inasmuch as we are not omniscient, and cannot see what transpires in secret places, we are not prepared to say with absolute certainty whether this is true or not, but we are commanded to know the troe by its fruits. If it does not prevent the drink? ing of whiskey and other intoxicants, how does it come that in the same vil? lages where, with open saloons, the men under the influence of drink were nu? merous, and oftimes noisy and dangerous to that degree that a staff of three or four police could scarcely keep order, when the law closed the saloons you would scarce see a drunk man once in a month ? We see that this is the experi? ence of Hartwell, Ga., and the writer of this articlo can bear testimony in regard to the village of Easley, in Pickens County, from personal observation, that with open saloons it was often the case on certain days of the week, particularly on Saturdays, that the marshal, with two or three assistants, could, -vith great diffi? culty, maintain order. The Legislature of South Carolina, at the instigation of the citizens, closed the saloons. One year after they were closed we were pass? ing through and happened to see the marshal. He made the remark that he saw no use for the place to have a mar? shal ; that sinco the saloons had closed he did not have occasion to arrest any one once in three months, and that it was a waste of money to pay him or any one else to stay on the streets to suppress disorder, when there was no order to sup? press. We have not said that there was less liquor drunk in Easley with closed saloons than open ones, but as soon as the saloons were closed, if they drank it, they had the decency to stay out of sight and out of hearing until they become sober. With open saloons ladies rarely walked the streets unprotected on Satur? day or any very public day. With the saloons closed, they walk the streets on Saturday or any day that they choose to do so. Again, it is urged that the closing of places where it is openly sold puts temp? tation in the way of the druggist. Now, what we have to say about that matter is, that of all men who deal in material things, a druggist ought to be the most conscientious, for he weighs out life and death in grains, scruples, drachms and ounces, and we believe that as a class they are so. They live with the fact looking them constantly in tbo face that the least error may result in death to a fellow-being, and the law is already rig? orous upon them in regard to the hand? ling of certain articles which are ad? judged to bo poisonous. Why are tbey so particular about Buffering just any one to carry from their stores tartar emetic, strichnia or even opium? It is because they fear that these things, in careless or ignorant hauds, may do the work of death. Well, if our druggists are a caro ful, conscientious class of men, as we believe they are, then rest assured when they know that it is the will of the think? ing, reasoning part of mankind that they are to deal with whiskey as an article like other poisons?needful for only a few things, but needful withal, and still a dangerous thing; when it becomes to be embraced in the things that they handle under the most stringent laws as poisonous, they are a greater set of fools than I have over taken them to be if they do not treat every one who applies for whiskey with great rigor before listening to his request. Then, again, it is urged that when men are forced to buy it in ten-gallon lots and take it to their homes to drink it, they will drink worse than if they could walk to the saloon and get it at pleasure. We admit that the habit of drinking is a tyrant with iron baud. Hence the necessity for keeping our boys and young men from ever contracting the habit. The unnatural thirst for it in either the tippler or the confirmed ine? briate is proof that it sits on the throne of a tyrant and wields a sceptre of iron. Those who have contracted the habit and suffered it to bind them hand and foot, we know, will use great effort to reach whiskey?many of them to their dying day?but many of those who have not gone thus far, when the saloon is closed and they can no longer just step in and take their morning or evening glass, rather than be subject to such inconve? nience, will make a strong effort to stop, and, happily for themselves and all con? cerned, they will give it up for life. And that bright, ruddy boy?the father's hope, the mother's joy?will never slip into the saloon with a so-called friend and take the first glass, and by so doing have the seal then and there put upon him for the final destination of the drunkard's grave. He will never buy ten gallons at a time and slyly take it to his room for the sake of getting a drink, and when a generation has passed there will be uo drunkards nor tipplers here. But it is said, why legislate about a thing which is harmless if moderately used ? Let every man restrain himself and be a man, and not to have a law to do for him what his own powers of self control ought to do. If every one could exercise eelf-control over his temper, tongue, hands and feet, there would be no use for law in regard to anything. But they can not do so. There is a weak point in one man in regard to one thing, and in regard to another thing in another man, and we have to have law to brace up these weak points in one and another of our race. Well, the weak point in a great many men (who are otherwise no? ble) is a fondness for the social glass. It grows, the taste grows, till this noble work of God falls a dishonored mass of ruins, fit only for temporal and eternal death. Legislate against anything, ani? mate or inanimate, that can be fruitful of so much mischief. Is it a poison ? It is certainly so. Look at the effects. Can any thing that is not a poison pro? duce such pernicious effects ? A "good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit." In January of the year 18G1 the writer of this article was on board the steamer St. Charles, on the Alabama River. Between Mobile and Montgom? ery there was a victim of delirium tre? mens on board. The poor wretch came tearing out of his state-room, believing that a huudred fiery devils were in hot pursuit. He leaped from the upper deck of the steamer far out into the cold ami muddy waters of the swollen river. A boat was quickly 'launched aud the un fortuuato man was snatched from a wa? tery grave. He was easily managed for a little time, till the shock and chill of that leap had passed off. But with the rcturn of manual strength and quasi consciousness, what a terrible state of things was on that vessel! His impre? cations upon those who had snatched him from a watery grave, for not suffering him to drowu then nnd there, were "blasphemies that might have made the cheek of darkness pale." There were a number of ladies on board. There was little room that could be spared. He was forced into his room by the com? bined strength of seven men, and it took the seven to manage him. We were on a part of the river where the banks were unteuanted swamps, and he could not ho isolated from the crew so that his horrid utterances could not be heard. Thus the day went by, much to tho discomfort of Captain and passengers. Can we pro? nounce any thing that has auch (Jirg effects not a poison? It i3 certainly a poison. Then, if so, let the people, who are, or ought to be, sovereigns here, order tho druggist to take it and put it on the shelf along with his arsenic and tartar emetic, and print poison and the picture of death's head on it as he does on other poisons. Wo know it is contended that the druggist cannot get along without it. It is, indeed, the chemical base on which some of our beat medical compounds are united. We do not propose to restrain the druggist from having it; but to say that the world cannot get along without it is asserting a great deal. According to Moses, this world has been running now nearly six thousand years, and according to what is stated about the discovery of distillation, this world did run for over five thousand years without it. We strongly suspect it could run without it again. But we are not proposing that mankind undertake to do without it?only to put an effective check-rein upon the monster and make it behave itself. Though in this article we write over our own name openly, and propose to be held responsible for every syllable in it, we do not write as a minis? ter of the gospel, simply as a citizen. This is rather a civil than a political matter. Let the people vote on it and separate it from personal favoritism ; but when the people have said, let all classes obey. Our experiences with what little of legislation we have ever had in regard to restraining the making of spirits have been in a way that was with the forced consent of the Southern people. They did not bear out United States Revenue Officers, because the law was passed to raise revenue with which to wage war against us. It was repugnant to the peo? ple just after the surrender on this ac? count. A State law passed by the people, or a County law passed by the people, of State or County, for the regulation of civil and domestic afiairs, of course, if the people pass it by a free, fair vote, they are interested to see it carried out. It is with the consent and with the de? termination of the element to be govern? ed by it. It will be effective law. Hugh McLees. Dr. Curry's Appointment, Washington, October 21.?Rev. Dr. Curry, tho newly appointed Minister to Spain, spent the day at the State Depart? ment, whore he consulted with the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, with his predecessor, and with Mr. Williams, United States Consul-General to Cuba. To a reporter of the Associated Press, Dr. Curry said ho expected to leave for his post on the 5th of Novem? ber. "It is said, Bir," remarked the reporter, "that you were once in com? mand at Andersonville, and were in part responsible for the cruelty practiced toward the Federal prisoners." "I never was in Andersonville in my life," replied Dr. Curry, "and I never had command of Federal prisoners in my life, except such as I captured myself, and those I turned over at once. I can? not imagine how such a story got its start. I shall bo glad if you will make my denial broad and emphatic." "Tho critics of your appointment," continued the reporter, "question the propriety of sending Baptist clergy near a court so strongly Catholic." "The criticism is unjust," was the reply. "It would be a strange thing if the strongest demonstration in the coun? try?you know we are the strongest?were to be disqualified for diplomatic offices on religious grounds. A man's religion, I hold, is a thing between his God and himself, and one with which the Govern? ment has nothing to do. I am a little surprised at the criticism too. The hard? est struggle I have had when in politics was as a candidate for Legislature in Alabama during the "Know-Nothing" excitement. The issues, you remember, were two?one a proposition to deny to foreigners the privilege of natualizatiou aftBr six years residence, and the other proposition to disqualify Romanists from holding office. My County was a pivo? tal one, and my competitor tho ablest man on that side of tho State. My success was very gratifying." ? "Were you an anti-Know-Nothing?" "Yes. I was a champion, I can't say of the Catholics, but of the principle of Americanism, which is embodied in the Constitution, of equal rights and privi? leges for all." "Of course you anticipate no objection from the Spaniards to your reception ?" "Certainly uot. The Spanish Govern? ment knows my mission has nothing to do with religion." "I am very much gratified by two things, I may say three things," continu? ed Dr. Curry, "when I was objected loon the ground of bring unknown, so strong a Republican paper as the Providence Journal vouched for me and said I was all right. Again, Mr. Washburn's card was exceedingly gratifying, coming from a Republican leader, himself having been eight years a Foreigh Minister. But the expression of approval from tho colored people of the South have been exceedingly hearty and pleasing. My long connection with the Peabody fund has made me widely known among them and they have taken pains to express their approval of ray appointment." "Shall you renew negotiations for a treaty to Spain?" "I can say nothing on that subject." Awful Explosion. Wilkesbarre, Pa., October 21.?A terrific explosion of gas took place in No. 2 slope of the Hudson Coal Com? pany, at Plymouth, this morning, caused by a miner! who entered an abandoned portion of the slope, which was marked dangerous, with a naked lamp. One man, Denis Titus, is dead, and 14 are frightfully burned. Most of these can? not recover. The miner who went into the aban? doned opening and fired the gas, with fatal results at No. 2 shaft, was Peter Zelintzkey. There were two explosions. The first was of gas, which was followed by another, sweeping everything before it, sending a flame nf fire up the slope and above the fan house and knocking the shingles and timbers from a breaker 400 feet above solid earth. Zelintzkey was not killed bat was removed from the slope with only his boots on and no hair on his head, but was otherwise uninjured. The scene that ensued was terrible. The victims of the disasters lay in every di? rection. Titus was killed, and when found lay two hundred feet away from his kit of tools, which he was examining at the time. When the gas was ignited all the men in the slope were thrown to the ground, or against the cars or ribs of the gangways. The lights on their heads were extinguished by the shock of tho seeou? explosion, and all were in confusion, making their way through the flames and managing with difficulty to reach a place of safety. A Horrible Affair. Washington, Ark., October 21.? Reliable news is received from Pike County, that Churchill, the murderer of Dennis Brooks, was killed by a mob and not by the brother of Brooks. Since the mob burned the Polk boyn and the Mur freezboro jail, a few weeks ago, the pris? oners have be<m kept iu an old wooden building. Churchill was captured and confined there. Last night the mob collected, saturated the lower part with coal oil and fired it. Churchill appeared at the grated window and piteously beg? ged the mob to shoot him, but the flames soon reduced tho building and the victim to ashes. A coat of paint has no buttons uojr? OLD SLAVERY TIMES. Rill Arp Tells the Children a Story. Atlanta Constitution. "Papa, please tells us a story. Tell us something about runaway niggers." I had almost forgotten that there ever was a runaway nigger. Good gracious I what a long time ago it was. Here is a whole generation of people under thirty years of age who know nothing about slavery. It is seldom that we old folks talk about it to our children. We tell them frequently of our frolics with the little darkies, and how good old Aunt Peggy wa3 to U3 and how we used to bunt with Big Ben and Virgil aud Uncle Sam, and we repeat some of the ghost stories they used to tell us, and all that, but the idea of slavery hardly ever comes in. These darkies all belonged to the family and just lived with us. That is all. We were all bunged together, and it was understood that when one of the boys got married and set up for himself he wa3 to have little Dave and Buck and black Dan and Aunt Sally, for he had always claimed these and they had always claimed him. And Miss Tavy had picked out her vassals in her early childhood and nobody need lay any claim or expectation to Tip or Sinda or Beel: for they were to be hers and they knew it and were proud of it and took a peculiar interest in the young men who "come flying around Miss Tavy." They even dared to venture their coun? sel and were loud in their praise.of their favorite. This was right, and it was natural, for while she was choosing her lord they were choosing a master, and a harmonius choice was a good thing all round. Old Aunt Peggy was an oracle in her way. She was little and old and wrinkled, and smoked ber pipe in the chimney corner and never talked much. But she sat and swayed backward and forward and listened to the children?the black and the white. She called them all children if they were under fifty. But ever and anon she would give a grunt or shake her head and say "dat won't do, my chile. Better mine how you talk, now; better mine. I hear do screech owl last night and he talk to me he did," and she would make up some mysterious words that the screech owl said. Aunt Peggy believed in frogs and lizzards and owls aud bats and cats and snakes and jack o'lanterus and charms and con? juring. There were secret mysteri?s about them all, and they had to be pro? pitiated and kept amiable or some great harm would come upon the household. Where tho old negroes got all this super stitutious lore nobody knows exactly, but it is uot confined to them. There have been just such superstitions in all ages and couturier Macbeth .consulted the witches and they made their charms by seething that horrible gruel made of frogs and lizzards and owls and bats and adders' tongues and goats' gall and a Turk's nose and a tartar's lips and other unpalatable things, and then cooled it down and settled it with a barboon's blood. Those old time negroes would have made splendid witches if there had been any with school to go to. It suited their nature and suits it yet. As a race they delight in the marvelous when it in mixed up with the horrible Old Undo Sam was a good old darkey and the chil? dren loved him. He was familiar with spirits aud graveyards and had shook hands with rawhead and bloodybones and, when freedom came, he gave full play to his fancies and got him a little long-eared donkey and a pair of specta? cles and rode from cabin to cabin by day and by night, calling himself "Doctor Sam," and professing to cure all diseases of his raco by the mysterious art of conjuring. He carried his professional outfit in an old greasy sack before him, und be was the most ludicrous burlesque upon the medical profession ever seen, I reckon. I would give five dollars for a photograph of the whole concern a9 it used to slowly perambulato the Chatta hoochee region of old Gwinnett some twenty years ago. I prevailed on the old gentleman once to let me see the inside of that bag and take an inventory. Besides nearly everything that Shake? speare named, he had every curious bug be could find. Betty bugs and June bugs and tumble bugs and the devil's riding horse and the devel's darning needle and a green snake and a thousandleg and a lot of herbs, such as hemlock and jimpson weed and snake root. Ho assured me that bo bad to use nil these things in the very bad cases he came across in his ex? tensive practice. But the children wanted a story about ruuaway niggers. Well. I never saw a runaway nigger. That is, while he was a runaway. I have seen them after they were caught or come in of their own accord. We boys and girls used to be awfully afraid of them. They wore classed among our very worst boogors, such as bears and panthers and Indians and ghosts. Children were always on the lookout for one when they were going through lonely woods. Sometimes we found a hogbed where an old sow had littered her pigs and we pronounced it a runaway's bed and got away from there with celerity. They were very scarce in that region. I do not remember but one and he was suddenly cured of his pro? pensity, for when he came back home his master run him off again and made him stay in the woods until he was properly humbled and begged to stay at home. I never thought that'I should have a runa away nigger, but I did. Our colored household were, as I thought, devoted to us aud I knew that we were devoted to them. Our maid servant, Mary, had j nursed all of our first children and they j loved her. A neighboring gentleman owned her husband and as he was a high strung darkey they did not get along harmoniously. One night he took to the woods, ?r somewhere eine unknown and he stayed there. In course of time his master got tired of this and offered a reward, but the reward did not seem to catch him. The police frequent? ed my premises by night, for they suspected that Mary har-hored him, and so did I, but still Anderson could not be found. I didn't like the darkey but Mary was faithful and kind, and she begged me with tears to buy Anderson. So I interviewed his master and bought him?bought him in the woods, and that night when I went home aud told Mary that Anderson was mine she clapped her bauds for joy, and went out hurriedly and in ten minutes came back with Anderson who was smiliug and fat with his long rest under the fod? der in my stable loft. It was about two months after this that the foul invaders run us out of Rome. It was about midnight when I aroused the servants and told them that I was going and their mistress was going and the children were going and they could all do as they pleased With one accord they declared ;they would follow us to the end of the earth, and so we fled together and camped out together, aud Mary had our baby in her arms, anil when we reached Atlanta our teams and ncrvants camped on the suburbs, while i we went into the city to more friendly quarters. Next, morning Mary and An? derson were gone. They had runaway in the night and returned to Rome. Well, I couldn't blame them, for Anderson was not attached to me, and he longed for freedom, and he persuaded Mary to go. That was all of it?no, not all, for when we got back to Borne, in 1S65, they were there, and Mary was repentant and came to us for protection again. Her husband had joined the army, and when the armv left ho rau away from them and lost his pension and his bounty, and later on ho run away from Mary and I don't know where he is now. But Tip, the faithful Tippeoanoe, would not leave me. I did not own hto family, but he left them on that dark, unhappy night and followed us to Atlanta, and in a few days I made him go back to take care of things and see after the welfare of hi* wife and children. To keep from being suspected as a spy ho, too, joined the colored regi? ment as a cook, and stayed a few days and one dark night he swam the Ousta naula river and went down the Western bank of tho Coosa about ten miles and swam that river aud by a circuitous route reached Atlanta in safety and followed our for? tunes until the war was over. Well those were the ODly runaways I ever had. Two ran away from me to the Yankees and one ran away from the yankees to get to me. Mr. Lincoln's proclamation was nothing to Tip. Tip was with me in Virginia. Tip was always faithful and affectionate. Tip deserves a pension from somebody and I wish I was able to give him one. But Tip knows there is a home tor him at my house whenever he is homeless. There are thousands of white men whose chances for heaven are not so good as Tip's. "Run nigger run, tho pattrollor catch you ; Run ntgger run, you had better get away." They used to sing that song and pick the music on the banjo. They used to dodge and flank the patrol like the smug? glers or tho moonshiners dodge the reve? nue laws. They enjoyed the peril of it, and sometimes would go on a night ex? cursion without a pass rather than ask for one. If they planned to rob a hen? roost or an orchard or a watermelon patch, it was better to have no pass, so as to prove an alibi. "Let Dick pass to bis wife's house at Jim Dunlap's and stay till Monday morning." That was Dick's passport and protection, but Dick must keep in the road, and not go skylarking over the settlement." Nevertheless the petty stealing would happen and so a law was passed making it a crime for a white man to buy chickens or produce from a negro without an order from his master. My uncle bought ten chickens from a darkey one Saturday night and they happened to be stolen and the fellow who lost them reported it to the grand jury and those chickens cost my uncle twenty - five dollars. If they bad not been stolen it would have been all right and no harm done. The negroes stole little things then just like they do now. They eujoy ed it. It was their nature. They were not hungry. I have known them to rob an orchard and give the fruit away. The best negro would carry something contra? band to bis wife's house Saturday uight if be could get it. But the clever, indus? trious negroes had no fear of the patrol. The patrol knew all in their beat and never asked a good negro for his pass. The patrol was made up of the best citizens in the naborhood?and they took it time about in doing night duty in their own vicinity?when thieving got bad they went out frequently and raised a big racket and the mean darkies caught it bad. But when everything was quiet they would not go out once a month. Sometimes the darkies made narrow escapes and would jump the back window when they spied the patrol coming, aud then the race was to the swift, sure enough, and the old song came in : "Run, nigger, run, de patrol catch you I" Many a good Btory have they told us boys, how they fooled the patrol and got away.. It was more of a frolic than a fear, and one success made them bold and ready for another. Such was negro life in our young days, and it wasn't so bad, so very bad, after all. Bill Arp. All the Bad Gone Ont. Tbey were going to whip a man at the public post at Glendale, Va., and three or four of us rode over from the Malvern Hill battle-field to see the operation. The culprit was a burly, big negro, and the audience, numbering about 500, was mostly composed of blacks. When we reached the scene the man was already triced up. They had bis wrists lashed to a cross-bar on the post, his sleek and greasy back was bare, and he was trying hard to work his courage up to meet his fate like a while man. "Hi! dar Moses?doan' you wish you hadn't?" queried one of the crowd. "Nigger, you go 'long I" "I'll bet he'll squirm like an eel!'' "An* you'll h'ar him holler a mile away!" He answered most of them gruffly, but one could see that be was "attled." When the official Anally appeared, strap in hand, Moses broke down and began to beg. Not one black person in that whole crowd seemed to pity him. Indeed, bis own wife pushed into the front rank, her face covered with a grin, and called out: "I dun tole ye, ole man! Reckon dey am gwine to tickle ye all over!" The official laid on the strap and count? ed out one?two?three?and so on in a loud voice, and when he bad reached thirty-nine old Mose was the worst licked darkey in Virginia. After the third blow he yelled and whooped and prayed and begged, and his wife sat down on the ground and waved her arms around and shouted: "Jist you harken to him I Ho hain't got no mo' grit dan a boy fo' y'ars ole!" After the licking one of our party in? quired of Moses how he felt. "I feel dat do bad has all gone outer me, sab." "And you won't steal again ?" "No, sab. If you should lay a mill yun dollars down dar in de road dis chile wouldn't uever tech it. No, sah. He'd jump de fence an' make a break fur de woods I" "This will bo a warning to you." "Yes, 3ah. From dis time out I ain't *wine to do nutfin: but git up camp-meet in's and show dose yere niggers de path to glory!"?Detroit Free Press. Rose's Rascality. Atlanta, October 21.?Chas. Rose was to day convicted of burglary, for which ho will to morrow bo sentenced to twenty years iu the penitentiary. Rose has had a singular history. Eighteen months ago his wife, Jennie, was found shot to death in her home. Nancy Frazer, a cousin, was the only inmate of the house with her. Suspicion fell on Charley who was known to be intimate with Miss Frazer and Miss Clara Suggs. The women were arrested also, but suffi? cient evidence could noL be found against them. Four months later Miss Frazer died, alleging that Rose was guilty of tie murder of his wife. A week later Miss Suggs took mor? phine, and before death told her compan? ions that Rose killed his wife, and that she helped him. The robberry of the Richmond and Danville pay car followed, of which Rose was undoubtedly the hero, but sufficient evidence could not bo se? cured. Fie followed this by the burglary of a railroad freight car. The last offence was the burglary of Bieser's saloon, and he was only convicted because he was found in possession of tl-e goods. His career is now ended. Brotherhood of Liberty. Baltimore, October 21.?There closed here to night a three days session of the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty. This association is organizing branches iu every State and Territory, and its otject is to raise money to test in the courts all infringmentn of the rights of the colored people as guaranteed them by constitutional laws. Rev. H. John? son, of this city, was elected President. Tl.c body was addressed by Frederick Douglas, and all the leading men of the race arc taking interest in the movement. ? Nothing tries the soul of a inprj mors than a shoo peg, SAM SMALL'S STOUT, A Graphic Sketch of a Mis-Spent Lin;? now the Chnugc Came. St. Joseph, Mo., Herald. Mr. Small spoke last night eloquently, grandly, forcibly, and delivered one of the most remarkable discourses ever listened to in this city. It was a story of his past life, from his youth up, and con? tained an account of how, step by step he fell, and then went lower and lower in disgrace and sin, and how at last he was raised to be a man again through the faith of the Bible. The account was a most touching one, and went homo to the hearts of many. The Herald has no stenographic report of the sermon, and will not attempt to produce it in long hand, for its beauty and power would be marred. Mr. Small has very kindly consented, however, to write the sermon ?it was delivered extemporaneously al? most?and to allow it to appear in the Herald's pamphlet edition of the revival sermons. Tho speaker began with his life when he was a boy, and told how he grew up surrounded by holy and hallowed influ? ences ; how he went to college and there fell into bad company, was tempted time and again, until he fell, and began to drink liquors. He went through college, applying himself assiduously and unceas? ingly to his studies, and drinking to keep up life and energy. He graduated finally, almost a physical wreck. Going home, he soon recuperated the lost phys? ical strength, and then began to thirst for something more than the quiet rou? tine of daily life at bis father's home. He came to the city, began again his drinking for stimulous only at first, aud then to gratify a fast growing appetite. He succeeded well in the world, was prosperous in all he undertook, had many friends, but day by day the appetite for drink was fastened more firmly upon him, until it was his very existence. Many times he endeavored to reform and did quit for awhile, but only to fall again. During one of his sober intervals he won the love of a beautiful and lovea ble woman and she became his wife. They had not been married long until he went again into dissipation. Lower and lower he went until his wife's love was gone and his children blushed when they mentioned his name. He was carried home drunk time after time. He was cut with a knife in a barroom and came near dying, and was taken home to be a burden upon his family. Things went on. Matters became worse with him until one of two alterna* tives was left him, a drunkard's death or suicide. His former friends moved in a plane high above him. His associates were many of them the lowest of earth. Oue Sunday while Mr. Jones was preaching in Cartersville, in September last, Mr. Small was persuaded by bis children to take them to the meetiug. He went and sat at the reporter's stand. The sermou was the same preached to men here last Sunday, on conscience record, God. He was deeply moved. Going home he plunged again into the j debauch from which he was not more than half recovered, and kept it up for forty-eight hours, the terrible battle going on unceasiugly. Finally, he went on his knees to God and prayed for four weary hours, and was satisfied that he had found relief, that his sins had been forgiven. He arose a pardoned man. But temptation came anew. The old appetite came back fresh and strong. Again he went to God in prayer, and after two hours on his knees, arose with his appetite /or drink entirely gone. What worked a change in him, worked one in his family. God touched the tomb of his wife's love and the doors were opened, and the old love came back to him, and warmed that wife's heart and life with all its pristine beauty. The hearts of his children welled up with love for him, and they are proud to call him by name. Mr. Small, after reciting the story of his life, only the faintest outline of which appears above, became more gen? eral iu his talk. He referred to the liquor traffic as a great and growing evil. He quoted new and startling statistics, and painted in.glowing and telling colors the evil effects of strong drink. Mr. Small concluded his sermon with one of the grandest flights of oratory ever listened to in St. Joseph. He de? scribed the palace of purity, the human soul, in all its beauty, pictured its grand? eur, aud the nobleness of the Christian character that sat upon the throne of honor in the palace. This sermon pro? duced a better effect than all his others, aud is the best be has delivered here. At its conclusion over a thousand people, unconverted ones, stood up and said they bad taken their last drink, and many of them have long been known as the best patrons the saloons of this city have. About half of this thousand said they would to-night unite themselves with some church. Tho meeting last night was more glorious in its results than any of the others. A Case of Assault. There was a case of assault and bat? tery before one of tho justices the other day, and a witness with a black eye, several strips of court-plaster across his nose and one ear badly lapped over, was asked by the defendant's lawyer if he saw Brown strike White. "Can't say as I did,'' he replied. "Did you see the whole affair?" "Mostly." "Well, how was it?" "Well, Smith and me sot on the reaper talkin' evolution. Jones and Green sot on the gra?s talkin' religion ; Brown and White sot by the edge of the 9traw stack disputin' on politics; three or four bovs was in the barn gettin' up a j dog fight"." "Yes, go on." "Fust I knowecT, somebody called soraebodv else j a liar; next I knowed, evolution, religion, politics and fighting dogs was a rolling over each other on the grass, and every man kicking and biting and hitting away for all he was wuth." "But did you 3ee Brown strike White?" "Can't say as I did." "Did you see White strike Brown ?" "Can't be sure of it. The only thing I'm sure of, Mr. Lawyer, is that my old woman came out with a patl of hot water and licked the hull crowd and had over two quarts left tor the next time." ? Some one tells the story of a well bucket that grumbled because it was kept going up and down the deep well, and could not seo that it did any good. It did not empty the well, for whenever it went down there was just as much water as ever. And when it came up full the water was carried away, and it never knew what became of it. A good deal of our work iu this world seems as discouraging as that of the bucket. We dip away .'it the sin and misery nrotind us, and yet cannot .see that it is materi? ally diminished. We try to do good, hut often we cannot trace the result of our o?forts. Yet our grumbling is as foolish as that of the bucket. If it could have known how many thirsty ones the water carried from it refreshed, how man,, faces it cleansed, how many stains it washed away, it would have rejoiced in its mis? sion. ? A creditor in Mexico can have a debtor arrested en the day the debt falls due. The prisoner is chained to a post five days, guarded by an officer. At the end of the lime, if the money is not forthcoming, the man's labor is sold to tho Government at forty cents a day for as many days as will be necessary to dis? charge the obligation. ? The police jury at Sabine Parish, La., at a recent session, limited the amount of whiskey to be prescribed by physician0- to patients to fou* ounces. Meeting of the Pickens Agricultural Soclelj. The Pickens Sentinel of the 15th con? tains the annexed report <>f the precewl ings of the late meeting of the Pickens Agricultural Society : The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The first business was the reading of the coustilution and by-laws. The signing of the by-laws and constitution was next in order. Several additional names were placed on the roll. The consideration of the published programme was then commenced. Mr. W. A. McMahan was the first heard from on the wheat crop. He sowed land in wheat generally which he had planted in cotton. Plowed up the stalks then ruu the smoothing harrow over it. Cottou seed is a good fertilizer. Twenty bushels of cotton seed to the acre was sufficient. Twenty-five bushels of wheat was the most he had made to the acre. November was the best, time to sow, and he had gathered the best crops from red foil. Had never used the commercial fertilizers with success. Had used lime successfully. It would do to sow stub? ble land if weeds and grass were plowed under while green, but would not do well where vegetable matter was plowed under after it was dead. He had not noticed much difference in the yield of corn land and cotton land sowed in wheat, but he preferred land which had been cultivated in cotton because it was better prepared. Dr. Clayton had prepared the land in ridges, then spread the fertilizers, sowed the wheat and harrowed in. This left the wheat in rows, with the row not quite filled up. It seemed to stand the winter better, was more vigorous, and made ?. better yield than that prepared in the ordinary way, which in other respects had the same chances. Cotton seed was the fertilizer used. Mr. McMahan had harrowed wheat in the spring, but was not prepared to say that it was a benefit. Dr. W. T. Fields said that wheat and oat straw scattered over the crop or land sown was worth far more than fed to stock. Mr. Gillespie put the average yield Eer bushel sown at seven. Mr. M. A. ioggs placed it at about six. Mr. C. L. Hollingsvorth had noticed that when it was a gcod crop year, the yield was about ten to one sowed; when it was not a good year, he generally got about five to one of sowing. Land should he plowed deep and as often cs practicable before sowing the wheat. He thought fifteen bushels of cottonseed to the acre would do better than a great? er quantity. Too much fertilizer would make rank stalks, but not much gain. It is far better to sow small acres, and' have it well prepared. If he wanted to use the value of thirty bushels of cotton seed for an acre in wheat, he would take 15 bushels of seed and use the balance in something else, as fifteen bushels of seed contained a sufficient quantity of that kind of fertilizer for an acre in wheat. Mr. McMahan said that it was owing to the quality of the land how much cot? ton seed he would use. If the land was rich he would use more than he would on poor land. Dr. Clayton thought that a good plaa for fertilizing land for wheat, was to plant peas first then follow them with wheat. That peas enriched the soil while they were growing by the absorp? tion of ammonia. In this way they were the cheapest fertilizer, and it was no advantage to turn them under. Mr. McMahan thought that peas plant? ed with corn was an injury to the corn. Dr. Fields dissentedrrle thought as the harm could not be detected by the eye it was not worth naming. Dr. Fields had not Iran very success? ful with oats. Had always got a better crop from sowing in February. Jiad never been at all successful with therfall sowing. If they were sown in the fall, September was tbe proper time to sow them. Oats were never fertilized to any extent. Mr. Reese Bowen thought that the Spring sown oats were generally the best, but fall sown oats were the heaviest when they were not killed out. Mr. ?. B. Richardson had always succeeded best with sowing in September. He preferred red land for sowing them. Fifteen bushels to one of sowing, was given by several as a yield. Col. Hol? lingsworth being called upon, said he thought be could tell the biggest oat tale of anybody else. He had a tenant once, Jack Stephens, who reaped off of a piece of bottom land, 60 bushels to 1 of oats sown in the fall. He thought no farmer could get along without sowing oats, and they ought to be sown in every_ month from July to March. Dr. Clayton thought that threshed oats ground was the best plan for feeding them to horses. He had tried the ex? periment, and knew that the same quan? tity of oats ground would do stock much more good. J Mr. Reese Bowen said he was satisfied it would be a matter of economy to grind not only oats, but corn also. Thfjt the additional good derived from i-Ms was well worth the trouble. j Mr. Looper thought now was the time ?# to sow oats. They were more apt^? make a good crop sown in October tt&b any other time. Wheat nor oats either ? ri?ett Mr. J. E. Gillespie thought from his^ experience that oats sown in stubble land, would do better covered deep. Mr. M. W. Newton did not think a continued oat crop would injure land. There were several important observa? tions on the crops which are not men? tioned, as the discussions progressed rapidly, but we caught enough to give a general idea of their nature. Anecdotes of two Famous Painters. Xeuxis, a famous Greek artist of an? cient times, paiated so naturally a dish of grapes held by a boy, that birds flew down to the canvas and pecked the feu it. But, while his friends regarded the ?ct as the best compliment ever paid to an artist Xeuxis sighed, exclaiming. "Had I painted the boy as true to nati.re aa,. the grapes, the birds would have beet! afraid to touch them I" It is of Xeuxis and a rival Greek that a more familiar anecdote is handed down. The rival was Parrhasius. In the contest between them, Xeuxis paint? ed his favorite subject, grapes. At the exhibition of the pictures, down came the birds agaiu, and flew at the grapes as if to eat them. "Now," said Xeuxis, triumphantly, "draw aside that curtain,, and show your picture.'' His rivtu smiled, for the curtain itself was the picture, painted upon a board to repre? sent real drapery. The generous Xeuxis yielded the palm at once, saying, "I dc ceive birds ; you, an artist.'' An Infernal Machine. St. Louis, October 21.?A startling development in the street car strike to? day was the discovery by the police of an? infernal machine on the Washington avenue car tracks, at Compton avenue, and Morgan street. The machine was a piece of two-inch gas pipe, two feet long, aud filled with gun powder. At either end was affixed a gun cap, so arranged as to communicate with the powder within, and in the centre of the pipe a rod was inserted, which also communicated with tho powder. ? The Baltimore grand jury reports, that the introduction of the whipping-* post to punish wife-beaters haa bad {b salutary effect. ought to be covered deep. lie had r^sed fertilizers on oats with advantage.