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CLEARING SALE. ?N OBDEE TO REDUCE OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF GOODS, and to make room for the third large shipment of Dry Goods, expected to arrive daily, we have determined to offer all our lines in this Department for the next thirty days AT GBEATLY REDUCED PRICES To cash^-paying customers! and we wish to assure those who patronize us with their cash trade, that they are only charged one price for the Goods they buy from us. We mean this: That we do not charge one person more for the same article than we do another, and that we deal with everybody alike. In offering this reduction in prices we do not say that we are selling out at or below cost. On the contrary, we are engaged to sell Goods at a legitimately fair profit ; and while we are satisfied with a small profit, can justly say that we are in a position to offer you better goods, prices and bargains than many other houses. We buy in large lots for cash, with our own money, therefore paying no interest on them, wherelty we save six per cent on the goods, four per cent for buying in large lots, and ten per cent interest?a total saving of twenty (20) per cent. You can, no doubtj.-rea'dily seer now^why we can afford to make a large reduction from former prices^?nd still live. We much prefer selling twice as many Goods as we do now at much lower prices than to 3ell h;ilf a3 many at the old-time high prices. ? It is conceded by every Lady who has visited our Store that we keep for sale as pretty and well selected a stock of Goods as can be found anywhere, and our largely increased City and County trade has much encouraged us to try to please the public still better in every particular. We expect to double our sales for the next two months over the sales for the corresponding time List year, and aee.no reason why we should not do so, having more Goods, at lower prices, and increased facilities than formerly. OUR DRESS'GOODS DEPARTMENT Is replete* with BEAUTIFUL GOODS of every texture and shade, and our lines of WHITE GOODS are simply superb. Elegant Novelties in? LADIES' NECKWEAR, EMBROIDERIES, HOSIERY, HANDKERCHIEFS, GLOVES, RIBBONS, BUTTONS, Arid Notions in general. A large an.: beautiful line of HOLLAND WINDOW SHADES, on self jiciiog rollers, just received.. Price, 75 cts. each. Every'home should be provided ?^rpathf them. . IN OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT We carry the usual heavy stocks, and are prepared at all times to meet competition. OneTSundred-ahd Twenty-five Barrels fresh ground Flour just received. Coffee, Sugar, Soda, Eise, G.-ist, &c.} constantly arriving and kept for sale fresh. - Levering Boasted Bio Coffee a specialty. Try a pound, and you will use no -other. ? . Come in and see us?we will do you right. BLEGKLEY, BROWN & FpTWELL. June 10,1886 ?_ 48 E. PEOPLES, Agent for the Celebrated U HIDi (II. FEEDER 1) COHB, Manufactured at Atlanta, Georgia, and to which Pre? miums were awarded at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, Charleston Industrial Expo? sition Feb. 2,1882, and at the South Carolina and Georgia State Fairs 1881. THE TAN WINKLE FEEDER AND CONDENSES can be attached to any other Gin, so parties having other make of Gins and wishing Feeders or Condensers can be supplied by sending in their order in time, and I will guarantee satisfaction. . All kinds of PULLEYS and SHAFTING and most IMPROVED CANE MILLS and EVAPOEATOBS famished to order." Van Winkle King Cotton Press Has long been before the public, and is too well known to need any further description. Its chief points of merit are : It takes very little room, is easily handled, and takes so little pow? er; can be used on all kinds of powers?horse, water or steam. Ginniug and packing can all go on at the same time, without interfering with the Gin. A two-inch belt will pack a 500 lb. bale of cotton. It saves its cost the first season in labor. Bead the following testimonial: Anderson, S. C?Mr. John E. Peoples?Sir: The Steam Power Van Winkle Cotton Press bought from you last Fall has given entire satis? faction. I packed bales of cotton weighing 660 to 725 lbs. in five minutes with all ease, using a 4-inch belt and 25 lbs. steam. There did not seem any more strain on the Press than with a 1400 lb. bale. For durability, strength, lightness of power, small quantity of steam required, economy of space, I deem, it the King of all Cotton Presses?especially ao as the low price at which it can be bought for puts it within reach of every man running a steam Gin. In fact I would not be without it for twice its cost, I would advise all my friends to buy one of Van Winkle's Steam Power Cotton Presses, as you will save its cost in labor in one year. M. A. COBB. BOSS PRESS. I am Agent .also for the "Boss Hand and Power Presses," which are strong, easily bandied and easily erected. STAR PRESS. I am Agent also for the Star Hand Press, which gives general satisfaction. Suitable for traveling Gins. ? v THE HALL SELF-FEEDING COTTON GIN, ; Manufactured at Sing Sing, N. Y., has given satisfaction wherever used. The saws are made of the best imported steel. The saw shaft is the largest made. An ex? amination of other Gins will convince you it is the most substantially built Gin in use. It never breaks the roll, and therefore does away with the expense of the revolving head, as the secret of making the Gin to prevent its breaking the roll is in tho proper shape of the roll box. Every one should examine the improvements in the Hall Gin made this year, especially the improvement in the Feeder. Second-hand Machinery. I have a lot of second-hand GINS and PRESSES, which arc almost as good as new, that I will sell for about one half the price of a new one. Come in and see mo and get prices beforn buying. Juno 24, 1886 JOHN E. PEOPLES, 50 3m J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. Let every teacher in the County re? member that the exercises of the Teach? ers' Institute will begin July 5th", about 11 o'clock a. m. Prof- Morrison will arrive a little after 10 o'clock on tbe down train and go to arranging his pro? gramme immediately after arrival. Be sure to be on hand at the opening and get full benefit of tbe entire session. Misses Minerva and Lucinda Drake have closed their schools. They have done bard work and will appreciate a few weeks' vacation. They will attend the Normal. We do hope the Trustees will make earnest effort to attend the Normal. It will be a busy time with many of them, but we do hope that quite a number may be able to attend the entire session. The public schools for tho summer will open July 19th. If you have not pro? cured a teacher yet, apply at this office? we can supply you. Let the Trustees come to the Institute and select teachers for their summer schools. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. K. A. Bagwell for a few moments about two weeks ago, in Belton. Mr. Bagwell was on his way home from his school in Brushy Creek Township. He reports a pleasant session, and expresses himself 2.3 delighted with the community in which he teaches. It is constitutional with Bob to do faithful work, whatever he undertakes. If his student life was an index to the work of the teacher, his patrons are fortunate. The Superintendent of Education has issued a circular to the following effect: A competitive examination for the Peabody Scholarships in the National Normal College will be held in Green? ville, on Wednesday, August 25, begin? ning at 10 a. m. Seven scholarships will be awarded. Tbe State Normal Institute for white teachers will be in session in Greenville at the time of the examina? tion. I would earnestly recommend ap? plicants for scholarships to enroll them? selves as regular pupils of the Institute ab the beginning of the session, as they will thereby be greatly aided in acquiring euch knowledge as will enable them to pass the examination successfully, and will also receive the benefit of the re? duced rates of transportation offered to pmpils of the Institute. We notice with pleasure that the an? nual addresses delivered this year at tbe Colleges are more practical than they have heretofore been. It is well some? times to theorize, but when a man is called upon to deliver an address on a Commencement occasion to an audience composed largely of students, male or female, it is well if he say something that will give them clearer views of life, with its responsibilities and possibilities. Nowadays, young men not unfrequently leive College with a very incorrect idea of what real- life is. If the chosen speaker at that mile-stone in a young man's life can throw open a door that reveals to him the bright and dark shados of the picture of life, and impress upon his mind the truth that with most men life is what they make it; if he can, by using plain English, banish that abomi? nable idea that an educated man must not work, and that manual labor is be? neath the dignity of a College graduate, then is it possible for a Commencement oration to result in good. We boast of our Colleges, and we have a right to be proud of them, but, beyond the shadow of a doubt, tbey have all spoiled some mighty good farmers and turned loose upon the world some very sorry professional men. An education should not take a man from that vocation in life for which nature has specially en? dowed him. The real object is to develop his; powers, to sharpen bis tools. The speech delivered by the Hon. Mr. Busbee at tbe recent Commencement exercises of tbe Furman University was replete wiih good bard sense and calculated to set any young man to thinking, if he is capable of thinking at all, and will only give it a careful reading. More ?peeches of that kind, and fewer on the subtle theories that ouly perplex and disgust young minds, would accomplish much for tne cause of education and the com? mon good of our country. WONDERS OF THE SEA. The sea occupies three-fifths of the surface of the eartb. At the depth of about 3,500 feet, waves are not felt. The temperature is the same, varying only a trifle from tbe ice at tbe poles to tbe burning sun of the equator. A mile down, the water has a pressure of over a ton to the square inch. If a box six feet deep were filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun, there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom. Taking the average depth of tho ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feet thick on tho bed of tho Atlantic. The water is colder at the bottom than at the surface. In the many bays on the coast of Nor? way the water often freezes at the bot? tom before it does above. Waves are very deceptive. To look at them in a storm, one would think the water travelled. The water stays in the same place but the motion goes on. Sometimes in storms these waves are forty feet high, and travel fifty miles an hour?more than twice as fast as tbe swiftest steamer. The distance from valley to valley is generally fifteen times the height, hence a wave five feet high will extend over seventy-five feet of water. The force of the sea dashing on Bell Rock, is said to be seventeen - tenfr for cacn sTjuaro yard. Evaporation is a wouderful power in drawing the water from tho sea. Every year a layer of the entire sea, fourteen feet, is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their bur? den into the land, and tbe water comes down in rain upon tbe fields, to flow back at last through rivers. The depth of the sea presents an interesting prob? lem. If the Atlantic were lowered 0,5(34 feet, the djstance from shore to shore would be hau ^ great, or 1,500 miles. If lowered a little moro than throe mile.-, pay 19.GS0 feet, there would be a road of dry land from Newfound? land to Ireland. This ix the plane on which t. . great Atlantic cablen were laid. The Mediterranean is compara? tively shallow. A drying up of (ICO feet would leave three diflcretit !;ea.", and Africa would be joined with Italy. Tbe British Channel is more like a pond, which accounts for its choppy waves. It has been found difficult to get cor? rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid? shipman of the navy overcame the diffi? culty, and shot weighing thirty pounds carries down the sinker. A hole is bored through the sinker, through which a rod of iron is passed, moving easily back and forth. In the end of the bar is a cup dug out, and the inside coated with lard. The bar is made fast to the line, and a sling holds the shot on. When the bar, which extends below the ball, touches the earth, the sling unhooks and the shot slide off'. The lard in the end of the bar holds some of the sand, or whatever may be on the bottom, and a drop shuts over the cup to keep the water from washing the sand out. When the ground is reached, a shock is felt as if an electric current had passed through the line.? Electrical Review. The Manufacture of Candy. The word candy comes to us from the Arabic and Persian yand, another name for sugar. Candy-making is a consider? able trade in itself. The census of 1880 reported 13,692 confectioners. There are eight or ten large factories in New York alone, employing perhaps a hun? dred each, and using a hundred barrels or more of sugar a week, besides quanti? ties of glucose. The stick" candy which seems to be an indigenous American product, is of ordinary "A" sugar, boiled down with water and a little cream of tartar to pre? vent crystalization. The mass is taken in batches of about fifteen pounds to a marble table, where it is kneaded like bread, and the flavoring and coloring worked in. The paste then goes to the "pulling hooks," where for five or six minutes it is pulled and twisted and re pulled and retwisted at the hands of a workmsn who certainly earns his liviug. Thence it returns to the marble table, at one end of which is a mental plate, kept hot, on which he works the enndy into its final shape. Stripes are pressed into the batch, two feet long and a foot thick, and 'it is then drawn and twisted out till it is the proper size of the penny "stick," the right length of which is clipped off by huge Bcissors. Clear candy is not knead? ed or pulled. Plat candy is run into pans, and a knife is run across where it is to be broken into sticks or squares. The drops, fishes, and other fancy shapes are made by passing the paste through a machine, which cuts and presses it to the proper size and shape. Lozenges are rolled out like pie-crust, sometimes printed in carmine with a hand-stamp, and then cut out with dies. Sugar-plums and sugared almonds are made in a very interesting way, by throwing the nut, seed, or other nucleus with boiling sugar into great copper pans, which are shaken-by hand or re? volved by machinery over a hot fire. Rolled over and over in the moist sugar, the plums soon begin to grow, and are "polished off" by each other, while the above steam-worked fans carry off the dry dust. Gum drops are made of gum arabic and sugar, boiled and mixed, seven or eight hundred pounds at a time, in huge copper steam kettles, whence the mixture is taken out into smaller kettles to be flavored and colored. The cheap gum drops and "marshmallows" are made chiefly from glucose. Cream or soft candies are made in a simple way, from sugar mixed with cream of tartar to prevent crystalizing. To give them their fancy forms, a flat tray is filled with starch, which is pressed into moulds by a series of plaater-of-Paris models? a drop, band, face, berry, or what it may be?arranged on a long stick. Into these starch moulds the hot cream is poured, and then allowed to dry. Some factories have as much as 50,000 pounds of starch in this Use.' The drying room is kept at a high temperature, in which "creams" soon become dry and solid. They are then separated from the starch by huge sieves. If they are to be glossed, they are placed in huge tin pans and a cold solution of sugar poured over shem to stand overnight. In the morning the ice BUgar on top is broken, and the "creams" are found coated with fine crystals. The liquor drops are a very curious product. The syrup is mixed with brandy or flavored water, and is poured into the starch moulds. As it cools at the top and on the mould, the crystals make a continuous case, impris? oning the liquor within. The adulteration of candy is chiefly by the use of terra alba, or white clt>y. This harmful stuff can be detected by "dissolving the suspected candy in water, when the clay falls to the bottom undis solved. An ounce roll of cheap lozenges will sometimes contain three-quarters of an ounce of this injurious stuff. The coloring of candies is for the most part, not oY)v igerous, since a piece of-red col orirgjftnatler the size of a gum drop will color 5,000 pounds of candy. Unscrupu? lous manufacturers, however, occasion? ally use mineral instead of safe vegetable colors, and cart loads of such candy have been seized and destroyed by the health-officers in New York. For the most part, carmine and cochineal axe used for red, saffron for yellow, caramel or burnt sugar for brown, and this with carmine for orange. Green and blue candies are to be avoided. These colors are used sometimes, however, in "decor? ating"?a surface treatment of fine can? dies by hand, in which a water-color artist is employed to do art work at wholesale according to the model set him. As for this purpose the proportion of col? oring matter to sugar is about one-mill? ionth, the result of swallowing paint'is not so disastrous as might be expected. In flavoring, essential oils are used, about a pound to a thousand pounds of sugar, and this is worked in during the boiling or kneading. Licorice colors and flavors both at once.?Harper's Magazine. Crushed to the Earth. Marion, June 17.?Mr. Thomas J. Bass, a prominent citizen of this County, living about twelve miles above this place, was killed last evening about 6 o'clock about a half mile from his home. According to the best information re? ceived he started from home on foot to get his mail from the postoffice at Buck Swamp about one hour before sundown, and while walking a path through the woods a large pine, two feet in diameter and bent over the path, suddenly fell just a3 he was under it, killing him in? stantly. When found his body was hor? ribly mangled, and but for the fact that his head happened not to be crushed by the tree he would have been scarcely re? cognized. After dark his wife, thinking that he was detained unusually late, sent over to his brother's who lives near, to know whether he had stopped there on his return. As nothing bad been seen of him, she next sent to the postoffice to know if be had been there, but nothing c?ui'u be "learned of him. The messen? ger on returning was told by a colored man that he had seen him at a certain point on the path above referred to. About midnight his body was found in the position above mentioned not far from the spot where be was last seen by the negro. The deceased was a juror at the term of the Sessions Court just adjourned. The jury was discharged Tuesday afternoon about 6 o'clock, when he returned to his home, and about the same time on the following evening ho was killed. He leaves a wife and four small children. He was about 35 years old. I ? Senator Kcnna, who has contented I to serve as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, thinks that Cleveland will be the Democratic caudi-1 date in 1888. I ? It takes 800 full-blown roses to j make a tablespoo; ."ul of perfume. IS THE NEGRO A FAILURE 1 A Very Strong and Thoughtful Letter. Howcll Cobbin Augusta Chronicle. A short while before bis death Alexan? der H. Stephens asserted that the South had grown poorer since tho war. This provoked much criticism. When, how? ever, it was known he referred to tbe agricultural interest, the foundation of stable prosperity, many who first disputed concurred in his opinion. The fact that this interest is prostrated and suffering from protracted depression will now be conceded. In Georgia, whatever statis? tics may show, no intelligent observer will contend that the condition of the farmers as a class has improved. All tbe fault does not lie at the door of the negro. The former slave-holder did not fully realize immediately after the war his serious loss. The negro's presence still as a laborer blinded bim. I recall, in 1865-66, many declaring they were better off? they no longer had the negro to support. The high prices for cotton helped to fasten upon us the system of all cotton. These two causes deluded us into continuing the life of luxurious ease and extravagance engendered by slavery. Emancipation crippled the individual owner, but did not impoverish the South. The productive power remained undis? turbed other than as affected by the con? fusion incident to the change. Tbe land and the negro, serving as the labor, wrought what prosperity we have had since the war. The free negro, then, has not proven an utter failure. As in slave? ry, he enriched, by his increase and profit of his labor, his master directly and the whole South indirectly, so as a free laborer he has by tbe sweat of his brow materially aided in tbe rehabilitation of the South. Can it be said, then, that tbe negro is not to be depended upon as a permanent^ and reliable laborer, or that he is unfitted' to be the land tenantry of the South ? To answer this question fully and intelli? gently we must consider the influence of the negro upon our material development before and since the war?the effect of his presence upon our progress, both as slave and freeman. Did his presence impede our full development before the war? None will deny that slavery was injurious to the non -slave-holding and labor class of whites in tbe South. I presume that it will not be claimed that slavery developed either economy, thrift or industry in tbe slave-holding class. Slavery enervated the slave-hold? er even to dependence upon the slave, hindered the progress of the non slave? holder, and made the South as a section dependent upon the North. Before the war T. R. R. Cobb, addressing tbe Alum? ni Society of the Georgia University, recognized this dependence. He declared the North furnished our teachers and literature. Not a text book was written or printed South. The North supplied our fabrics, machinery, what little we needed, our household goods, our garden and agricultural implements, down to tbe axe-helve used by the negro upon tbe plantation. He deplored this depen? dence, and urged our people to arouse from their lethargy. After the war B. H. Hill, addressing the same society, deplored the still exist? ing and ever increasing dependence. He' never uttered a more absolute truth than when he declared tho defence of slavery had enslaved tbe South, hampered her mind, contracted her resources, dwarfed her material development and'.Ijisolated her from sympathetic contact with the world. His utterance provoked criticism ?but, as often with Mr. Hill, be but anticipated public opinion. Has twenty years of negro free labor altered our status of dependence? In truth it is worse. In the main, we are still dependent upon the North for our books, fabrics, machinery and implements of trade and agriculture. Before the war we did mak? a support first, and cotton as a surplus crop. Now, after twenty years of free negro labor, we are literally dependent upon tbe North for bread and meat. Tbe testimony of all who work the negro is that he is growing more unreliable as a laborer. The tutelage of the time of slavery benefited tbe negro solely through his faculty of imitation. He now contemns the white man's opinion and example. It is true he is of a cheerful spirit and easily contented. A little seems to con? tent the negro?a full stomach and no work save when hunger impels him. This tends,to make him unreliable as a laborer?improvident and thrifiles?. The negro thus, at present, unfitted to be a reliable laborer, is slowly becoming an independent tiller of our lands. He is gaining this position neither by merit, nor with tho voluntaiy consent of the landowners. After twenty year3 of struggle to work the negro under intelligent control, which is best alike for landowner and negro, tbe former, exhausted in device*, patience and purse, is in despair gradual ly yielding his land to negro tenauts. This he does, not from choice, but coer ciou of circumstance as stated, with the firm conviction that the negro tenant will impoverish tbe land, as he has in many instances already bankrupted the owner. The evil is great and a speedy remedy imperative. The mcst hopeful I have seen suggested is white immigration, both of farmers able to buy aud cultirate the lands and intelligent laborers. Artificial increase of white tillers of the soil will overcome the present dis? proportion in numbers of the negro, and natural increase of same, which threat? ens disaster to our agricultural interests. Every inducement should be offered; advertise our advantages of climate and soil, pure water, health aud cheap lauds adapted to varied culture. The State should open its treasury to this end ; an efficient bureau ot immigration should be immediately and permanently established. The landowners should co operate in the way of easy purchase of lands?both as to price acu time of payment. If it could be constitutionally done, tbe State could well afford to buy the lands and denate tbem to bona fide settlers?title conditioned upon certain period of occu? pancy aud improvement thereon. In a few years the State would be amply repaid in increased value and revenue. I think the tendency of such immigration will be to distribute the negro gradually over the whole country. Necessity will compell him to seek work on terms con? sistent with a profitable utilization of bis labor, both for the land-owner aud him? self. Proper control and tutelago of example will develop any latent virtues. The negro problem involves more than merely our material growth. In fact, this U only embraced in tbe broader problem his presence involves. If we go on as now, the negro in abnormal disproportion j to the whites?as a product of slavery? and this disproportion increasing, what of the future? What will a century, or even less, yield us, social .19 well as mate? rial ? Hutaraty" speaking, .judging by the past and present, without knowledge of the future, the cloud grows more dense and angry. Every agency to augment the difficulty of solving the problem grows more active, while nur resources seemed lessened. Will thc.cnd be con? flict of races? This seems" the natural result. God has implanted in the heart of the negro, as well as the white, race antipathy. 71- is equally strong in each race. Struggle and not peace seems the natural law. It is not to bo conceived as possible that tho white ma:V4?ijl finally surrender to negro supremacy, wlratfiver tho condition of the races. Nor that trie while will abandon Iwially tin* fair see to negro exclusive posyesaiou. Conflict mu?t have but one termination?the weaker will go down, llcnco if the ne? gro hoa capabilities possible of develop ment after long tutelage under proper influences and examples, bis interest as well as that of the white, imperatively demands an influx of proper white im? migrants to overcome this disproportion and to give permanent peace and pros? perity alike to the land-owner and negro. Grant the negro's defects are not inherent. Grant there is no danger of social degradation of the white. Grant that with proper influence, and patent and well directed effort, the negro wi1. ultimately develop into a distinct race citizen, contributing at every point to our common growth and welfare abiding: beneficial results. Still such influence as indicated is to be secured more speedy ly and substantially by immigration of whites. This will alike arrest tendency to destruction of the negro by conflicl; and degradation of the whites in charac? ter, at least, by contact with the negro ic present relative numbers. As a political factor it needs no comment to 6how thin tendency to corrupt the white. A pur? chasable voter invites bribery and fraud, which, while it fastens the negro depravi ? ty upon him, tends to debauch the white, A thriftless, dishonest laborer, working only under the compulsion of hunger, invites dishonest dealing by the employer to equalize results. These evil tendencies should be neutralized. We must, at all I hazards, preserve the purity, integrity and supremacy of the white race. Had there never been any outside agi? tation, and the conscience of the South ever remained dormant, sooner or later she would have awakened to, and been appalled, by the problem involved in the increase of the negro even as a slave. Sudden emancipation and enfranchise? ment of the negro is rushing the problem to a solution, but it nevertheless existed in slavery. The black cloud was gather? ing all the days of slavery, and has only burst upon us with the violence of a cyclone by suddcu freedom and its sur? rounding. The Acquittal of Ferguson, John 0. Ferguson, on his fourth trial, was acquitted of all legal blame for the killing of Arthur M. Benedict. The readers of the Press and Banner are familiar with all the facts of the homi? cide, and any rehearsal of them here would be superfluous. Every man in Abbeville County who has intelligence enough to read a newspaper, has, it is presumed, made up bis mind as to whether it was a crime to go to the store on De? cember 24,1884, and shoot the Jew while he was quietly pursuing his daily work. But whatever opinions individuals may hold as to the justifiableness or unjusti fiableness of the act, and whatever the public may think of the jury for the verdict, Ferguson has been legally vindi? cated. Through the solemn forms of law, he has been declared innocent of any offence whatever. The jury have declared that it was no harm at all to "kill the damned Jew." The theory of our system of govern? ment is, that juries not only reflect the sentiment of the couutry, but that they also, "without fear, favor or affection," award exact justice in accordance with the law and the evidence, bat we think that verdict did not reflect the sentiment of the intelligent and respectable public of Abbeville Coumy, and we believe the verdict was not in accordance with the law and the evidence. It seems to us that there is something wrong in our jury system. While it is no trouble to punish, even to u cruel extent, for offences against property, yet the law is seldom enforced for the protection of the life and limb of the citizen. The Court at every sitting, proves that proper? ty is jealously guarded, but the records of the Court prove that juries are drawn which refuse to convict for offenses against the person?no matter how aggravated. Is a peck of corn in a neglected field of more consideration than the life of a human being? Is the price of a pig more sacred in the eyes of the law than the life of a citizen? With this state of affairs how long will it be before we will be compelled to resort to lynch law ? If the present jury system, by which all offenders against the person escape punishment is continued, we must organ? ize for that protection which the law refuses to give, and the excited and incensed mob must finally be called upon to administer certain and speedy justice. ?Abbeville Press and Banner. That Boundary-Line. Mr. Arthur Winslow, engineer, has completed the field work of his survey of the disputed boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina, on the line between Mecklenburg and Lancaster counties. He spent three weeks in mak ingjtbe survey, the work being done by direction of Cupt. S. B. Alexander, of Charlotte, the Commissioner on the part of North Carolina. The survey was made some years ago by the South Caro? lina Commissioner. He made a compass survey. Mr. Winslow'8 survey was what is technically known as a venier survey, in which a venier and theodolite were used and the exact course was taken from the stars. Numerous errors and varia- ? tions were discovered in the old survey. In all Mr. Winalow went over thirty miles of line. The greater part of the country is fine farming land, but near the Catawh.i River there is some laud almost mountainous in its roughness. In a dis? tance of five hundred feet there are val? leys one hundred and fifty feet in depth. By Mr. WinsJow'a survey, made with the greatest care and accuracy, he states, about seven thousand acres of laud here? tofore claimed as South Carolina territo? ry, are part and parcel of North Carolina. Most of the people in this territory Mr. Winslow found to be very well pleased with the change which throws them into Mecklenburg. They are in a strip of country far from Lancaster, the county seat of the county of that name. By the change of counties and States they get within ten or twelve miles of Charlotte, their new county seat. Of course some of the residents in the territory do not like to leave South Carolina, on account of old associations, etc. Mr. Winslow will to day begin to make?up the maps, etc., from his survey. The papers will all be placed in the Governor's hands. It is probable that a board of arbitration will be required to adjust matters satis? factorily in all respects.?Raleigh News Observer. ' ; ? A great deal of talk has been occa? sioned by the mention of the fact that the President always used new money. Some people laughed at the idea that he banded a crisp new $100 bill to Dr. Sun derland for his marriage !'ee, and, again, that he put a crisp new $5 bill in the col? lection plate at the Oakland church. People said: "Why, the President must have money made especially for himself." The truth is, the President always receives new notes direct from the treasury. He never gets old notes, except in change when he pays a bill or makes a purchase. The United States treasurer, on the last day of each month, sends the President his salary? $4,1GG.66?the odd change in bright, new silver and copper cents, and the notes all new and the latest issue. Mr. Cleveland, like his predecessors, keeps a private bank account with Riggs & Co., and the day after he gets his salary he makes a deposit, reserving enough to pay current expenses. It is said that his ac? count has shown as large a balance aa ?3-3,000, as he has an income besides lr.s official saury. Before he entered public life he made from $10,000 to $lf>,000 a yfittr by his practice, and his expenses were iJQfc more than $2,500; lie has saved much of his first year's salary, but now that he is i.iarried his expenses will increase. MONTANA'S FRONTIERS. A Class of Women Different from Those in tbe States. With tbe remarkable development of tho Western Territories has grown up a class of women totally different from their sisters in the States. The very fact of being in a new wild country, often left alone to looklafter the herds and flocks, has made them wonderfully self reliant and independent. I run across women up in this country so full of pluck, grit and endurance that I verily believe that in a stand-up fight with hostile In? dians or marauding horse thieves they would be equal, man for man, to the same number of cowboys or soldiers. These ladies by reason of their wild life on the frontier do not by any means lose all tbe gentleness and refinement of their sex. To be sure, they become somewhat roughened by hardship and exposure, but through it all they still preserve their womanly traits, and when tbe necessity arises for them to ride, hunt or shoot, you will find tbem there, and in tbe end perhaps a little better off than a great many males would be under Bimilar cir? cumstances. There are all kinds of women in the Northwest. From the cultured dames of our best cities the grade runs all tbe way down to the female road agent. But, as a rule, tbe girls of Montana are made of the very best material to be bad on the continent. Scattered all over tbe broad prairies of Montana are refined and cul? tured women, bred in affluence and ease, proud, young and hopeful, called by the misfortunes of their husbands or led by their desires to enter and achieve in new fields the mission of life, to surrender society, the home and friends and scenes of their youth, and march boldly to a far-off wilderness and endure privation, toil, labor and suffering. But these wo? men have grown to be brave, industrious, self-reliant, full of pluck and energy, perfect horsewomen, healthy, hearty, active and independent, and iu many cases about as pretty aud as plump as the very best of climates can make them. Now, the typical Montana girl if left alone will succeed where an ordinary man would fail; With no vices they stick closely to business, and if bent ou tree claiming, homesteadiug or pre? empting a quarter, half or whole section of land, they generally stay by the claim to the end and prove up on time. Many of these enterprising damsels wouldn't have a husband at any price. Again, many after laying the foundation of a comfortable fortune, are taken in by some lazy bachelor who comes loafing along, sees the chance, marries the maid? en and settles down into a nice ready made home. Ourgirls are bread-winners and no mistake. They are up to all sorts of schemes, such as ranching, herding of sheep or cattle, school superintendents and even politics. , The latter should be expected, how? ever, as the females of Montana have the right of suffrage extended to them in case they happen to be taxpayers. As nearly every woman in the territory is a taxpayer, why, of course, she votes, 'as she has a perfect right to do. - In Boze man, a few miles west of here, one can see plastered all over the town placards appealing to the passer-by to "Vote for Hamilton, the people's choice," or "Give your vote to Darcy," or "Vote for Nich? ols and reform." Hamilton, Nichols and Darcy were candidates for the school superintendency of the county, and a fourth candidate was in the field?? man. It is . needless to add that the "horrid man" was beaten by all .three of tbe girls, Hamilton coming out ahead. There is no question but what female suffrage is a benefit to Montana. Female jurors ,in cases which involve intempe? rance, breaches of promise and gaining would hang a culprit on moderate testi? mony. Yet with all this, girls are.scarce in Montana. Tbe town of Maiden close by (tbe county seat of Fergus county), whose name is suggestive of wit, beauty, etc., is in fact a sate retreat for bachelors, since there is not an unmarried lady in the town. Sadie, whence these lines are being penned, is a community of forlorn bachelors with not a female within a radius of fifteen miles, excepting tbe Crow squaws in the neighboring Iudian camp. One old bachelor wandering around, the village has a $70,000 bank account and no one to help him spend it. ? Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. A Contractor's Ghost Story. "I never go much on ghost stories," began Contractor Van Duke, at the Clinton House, tho other evening. The old gentleman bad been listening with more or less attention to a series of tales being told by the guests of the hotel. "You dou't bel'eve in spooks, then," suggested one of tbe gathering. "Well, I don't know," the old contrac? tor replied. "My experience in that direction has been somewhat remarkable. I don't suppose you will believe mo, but the story I will tell you is true. I can produce a living witness to it, and I will it any time make affidavit to its accuracy. Two years ago I was building a piece of railroad dowu iu the Eastern part of this State. Among the people who furnished me ties was an old trader in whom I had little or no confidence. As tbe bills for ties came in I paid tbera promptly and took receipts from every man. I knew to the tie the number used. After my con? tract was completed the old trader used me for tho price of fifty ties. The case was tried and I was made to pay the money. The old man had sworn to his bill, and little or no defense could be made. When I paid tbe money I warn? ed the fellow. I told him he had perjured himself. I predicted for him an unhappy eudiM". About six months ago, I was awakened at one o'clock in the morning 'by this same old trader. It was dark in my room. Ju.-t as plainly as lean see you now he was there in-life. He wak? ened me by calling my name. My part? ner was in a bed in tbe same room just a few feet from me. I called him and told him of the visitor's presence. He said ae could not see him and laughed at me. He told me that I wan dreaming aod sug? gested that I had better go to sleep. While we were talking the old trader called me by name. He said he had been mistaken about the ties, and offered lo return me tbe money. The vision then vanished. My partner talked with me of the matter before we went to sleep again. The next morning he told the iitory on me as a joke, but while we were at breakfast the news reached us of the old trader's death. He had died within len minutes of the time of his visit to me. I have no idea how many more calls of the same character he had to make, but I am satisfied his visit to me was the last one. That story is true as holy writ," the old man concluded. A distressing silence followed its telling find the party broke up before all recov? ered. What nn SO-Ccnt Horse Did. An 80 cent horse in this County has cultivated 22 acres of land thus far this season. Last winter a negro came to B. B. Martin's for a bushol of corn, bring? ing tho poorest and most pitiable speci? men of horseflesh ever seen. Cornelius, a son of Mr. Martin, gave the starved nnitnal a feed of corn und fodder, and getting his sympathies aroused, he begged Iiis father to let him buy the horse. He j;nt his consent and overtook tbe owner nfter he was on his way home, and offered him SO cents for the old frame, which was gladly accepted by the negro. Cornelius began to feed the animal judi? ciously and he was soon ready for the plow and has cultivated 22 acres of land and is quilo lively.?Carolina Spartan. A Wild Western Story. "I was huntin' and trappin' along the ! Columbia River on the Oregon side," i said Uncle Joe, a veteran of the plains and mountains, "and while I was right in the Injun country I kivered my tracks so well that it was weeks before they got on to me. I built a brush hut in a heavily timbered bottom, and thekeerful manner in which I moved around that neighborhood would have done credit to a cat. I used the bow and arrow alto? gether in killin' game, and my traps brought me in a back load of furs about as fast as I could take keer of 'em. "I guess I had bin located about six weeks, and had become sort o' careless, as was nateral, when I got a sudden eye opener. One arternoon I cum plump on the moccasin track of an Injun, and from the way it circumlocuted around, I soon made up my mind that he was huntin' fur me. I was a bit puzzled at first, because there was only one track, but by and by I figgered out how it was. It was either soma Injun who had slipped off to trap by himself for a few days, or it was some warrior who had had his suspicions aroused and was doin' a leetle investigation on his own hook. If he got my scalp he was so much ahead, and glory awaited him. If he got nuthin' he wouldn't be laughed at by the rest of his tribe, fur none of 'em would know of ' his adventure. The minit I diskivered his footprints I pulled myself together fur bizness, and I hadn't follered his trail over twenty rods before I found that he j was follerin' an old trail of mine. "It didn't take me a minit to realize that one of us had got to die afore that I bunt would be ended. It was a question of fish or cut bait with me. I should be j follered if I left the bottoms, fur that : redskin wanted my life, and I couldn't stay if he did. On bis side, it would 1 never do fur him to abandon the place arter he bad diskivered that I was alone. ! He must take his life agin mine and I abide the issue. Mebbe you kin realize sunthin' of the feelin' which comes over a man when he knows that be is bein' tracked by somebody who demands his life. I'd rayther have had a whole tribe of redskins come whoopin' and yellin' down upon me than to know that a sar pent was dodgin' and crawl in' along my trail, silent, determined and implacable. I bit the feller's trail about half a mile from the hut, and the hour was about three o'clock. I knew that' he must sooner or later strike one of my fresh trails and bring up at the hut, and in? stead of follerin' him as he fellers my old trail I broke off after a few minutes and made directly fur the hut. Near by was a mass of rock which offered a se? cure faidin' place, and if I could reach it without bein' seen I should have an ad? vantage. That is, it was reasonable to believe that he would show up within shootin' distance durin' the next twenty four hours. . "I made the tallest kind o' tracks when I once got started. I had to take the chances of his havin' found the hut and bein'in ambush, and I'm not disputin' that it was a great load off my mind when I got safely settled among the rocks.. I dashed into the hut and got my rifle and a hunk of cold meat, and in twenty seconds more I was safe for the .time bein.' Jist what direction the varmint would approach from I could not guess, but he would be still more puzzled to know what had become of me. Fur the first hour the place was as silent as a graveyard, and I was lookin' and listenin' as only a man can when his life is at stake to git a bint of the where? abouts of the enemy. I finally got a sign. A buck deer cum runnin' past me in a way to show that he had seen a human bein' not far off, and I figgered that the redskin was approachin' from the east. He had made a complete half circle of my faidin' place. Fur the next half hour I used my eyes and ears until my head ached. I knew the var? mint was approachin' the hut, but he was comin' so cautiously that I could not tell the exact direction. "The sun was now gettin' purty low, and I allowed that if he didn't show up purty soon I'd be badly boxed up for the night. I was all on aige and skeercely able to hold myself, when, all of a sud? den, the silence was broken by an awful yell, follored by a cry from some hutSan bein'. It wasn't 'way off, but right there within stone's throw, and I riz up as if I had springs under me. Right there before my eyes, and not a hundred feet away, a panther and an Injun was havin' it hot and heavy, the beast usin' his claws and teeth, and the redskin cuttin' and slashin' with his knife. I was so astonished that I couldn't move for a minit or two, and when I got ready there was no use in movin'. The two varmints rolled over and over a dozen times, too badly mixed fur me to tell which was , which, and then the panther kinder drawee! out of the fight. He might have got fifteen feet away when he keeled over and kicked in a way to tell me that he'd got his full. The Injun uttered a faint whoop as the panther drawed off, but when I reached him he was as dead as a door nail. He had fit it out hand to hand, usin' his huntin' knife, and I'm tellin' you he was a terrible lookin' ob? ject. The beast had tore almost every inch of ciothin' offn bim, and he was bit and clawed until he was like raw beef. "Well, I figgered it out purty easy. That panther bad stowed hisseif away on a limb calkelatin' to make it hot fur me. I reckon he didn't git up there nntil arter I had ambushed myself, and when the redskin cum crawlin' along the beast didn't stop to see whether be was white or black. I was a panther skin, rifle, tomahawk, and huntin' knife ahead, and, although I remained there for three weeks longer, I saw no further signs of Injuns." ? At precisely 12 o'clock on the night of June 30 instant the big clock in the Courthouse tower will toll the knell of all the barroms in Atlanta. When the first stroke rings out upon the air there will be beard a rattling of doors and windows, and when the last ceases to vibrate the barrooms will have been closed not to be reopened for a period of at least two years. Tbc number to be closed is not as large as the uninformed may imagine. Previous to July, 1884, the average was about 120; but, after that time, the license was raised from ?300 to $500 and the average decreased to about 100. Since the election by which it was decided that prohibition should reign in town and county after July 1,1886, thirty barrooms have been closed, leaving a total of sixty-nine in town to be tolled out of existence at midnight on June 30. In a radius of five or six blocks, with the Kimball House as the centre, there are thirty five barrooms. A few of these retail nothing but beer. The majority retail not only beer but all sorts of alcoholic liquors. ? A good many people will be dis? posed to laugh when they read of Ger? man infantry regiments being drilled to the use of bicycles and tricycles, but on the good roads of Europe they might be made very useful equipments for an army. The soldiers could ride them in marching order with less fatigue than they could march and at a rate of speed that might easily determine the fate of a battle. ? Mr. R. M. Stevenson, who recently died in Fairfield, was perhaps the tallest man in the State, measuring six feet and nine inches. Some fifteen years ago he thought it advisable to purchase a casket for himself, as ho would hardly find one to fit in cute of sudden death, so he had one prepared for him which has been pre3erved by one of the furniture dealers in Winnsboro. Mr. Cleveland is ioea^^S BJ tentions to curb tbe extr^B KJ Congress. On Monday be vetoeWBaWI sion bills and two bills appropr?SBI money for public buildings. He BtafH in a message to Congress that during tnS Eresent session 493 special pension bills^ are been presented to him, and that be is advised that 111 more will be presented% in a day or two. He dwells upon the , propriety of leaving applicants for pen- - sions to the regular channel of the Pen? sion Bureau, which is fully equipped to. attend properly to their cases, anu con-, demns the demoralizing idea "that as against the public treasury, the most questionable expedients are allowable." He vetoes the two public buildings bills., because no Federal offices are located at* the places provided for in the bills except post offices, and the postal business of those places does not warrant the erec? tion of public buildings for their e3pctM : accommodation. -V In this connection it is interesting to^; notice the figures showing the expeudi-ij lures by tbe United States Government ; i on account of pensions. The total ^ amount of disbursements on account-of r pensions during the fiscal year ending] June 30,1886, was $65,693,707, being-4p4i increase of $8,420,170 over tho previous^ year. Ten years previous in 1875, jih?!; disbursements on account of pensions;: were only $29,683,117, and in 1865 they *, were only $8,525,153, Bo that tbe pen4 sion disbursements last year are nearly' , eight times as mucu as they were 20years'/; ago, and more than twice what tfiey wereuj 10 years ago. The number of pensioners on. tbe roll?: in 1865 was 85,986. In 1875 they had}' increased to 234,821, and in 1885 thai number had grown to 345,125. Is* there any wonder that there shouWVi be such an expression as "pension grajMj current in this country? Is not tbe!( President right when he insists that Con-:? gress shall cease the reckless passago^efji pension bills at "nominal sessions helji| for the express purpose of their consider-.j ation and attended by a small minority : of members?" In his position he very.) properly recognizes the propriety of) granting pensions to soldiers who are'; entitled (o them under tbe principles .?f | the pension laws. Bet he is also right 1 in thinking that some greater effort shouUjA be made to ascertain who are entitled to.1 them than can be put forward in ftm* \< "nominal sessions." In this very matter of pension legisla-1 tion, and in other extravagances of Con-..5 gress in squandering the public treasure,^ are to be found so:ne potent causes of .; the present depression of business. Aside^ from the burdens of taxation, whicbvgnjjo-i expenditures involved, it is impossibly \ that a great government like this Bhajg? mar age its immense financial loosely and in violation of the ordinary-\ prii ciples of economy without demoral-:-\ izin.j to some t the business of^htfT:; civi'ized world. Free trade and protecv-j tior., the silver dollar, inflation and con: j trac ;ion of the currency, imports*, finan- j cial questions, as they are, are not'so-J important as the necessity for stopping^ the waste of public money that Los beenp going on so long under Republican rule,% and which the President is now so brave-q ly endeavoring to stem.? Columbia Uneqnally Mafchcd, i% If there is any woman in the worlds who deserves our pity, but who would-1j feel properly angry if "it were offered to A her personally and conspicuouslv^^M the woman who is wedded? H whom she knows, and o\? knows, to be her inferior. .V H married in early girlhood, IJSBH found out that judgment must In B foundation for trne love; or perh'apsnsH remained single till well advanced in ligB and then tried to satisfy her hungry heSrf on the mere husks of wedded happiness which she vainly hoped might enfold thjf ', rich fruit ;g?r, possibly, she was a pluirrp homeless girl who was advised to take ojj^ with the ''first chance" to marry for -feaiT she would never have another one; or, perchance, she was wearied in youth by $ over-hard toil, and thought she would^ get somebody to "support" her, whim " usually turns out to mean that she haf, to, really lahor to support from two to half a dozen instead of one. Many a womae is laughed at for "wearing the breaches,'? when she has to, because tbe man in tbe; case won't. Such a woman is not only unhappy and weighed down with double burdens in the care of the family, but whgr^ffifj she ventures out among people, she Jm still unable to enjoy herself very much,! because if she will acknowledge it ewn f to herself, she is conscious of being] ashamed of her husband. Almost every I one if acquainted with such an onetA After once making the mistake, there ,?% nothing left for such women but to make, the most of what is left to them; but|j they ought to be a terrible warning tOK young girls who are in danger of follow^ ing in their footsteps. No, girls, if you can't marry a man tov whom you can look up with resp^ct-apd^ admiration, never marry at all. Single 1 blessedness is far preferable to doumex misery. Old maidbood is honorable, in . this day, especially if onr has a worthy^ aim in life?to help the fallen, suffering,^ or unfortunate of the world, to care for : aged parents, or to educate younger brothers and sisters, or even to pursue -a* worthy career of one's own for love of it.: In a marriage of the highest type, botliv: husband and wife look up to each others for different qualities. This is bliss; tho?] opposite is desolation.?Pee Dee Index^^M Extraordinary Medical Skill, ? One stormy night, when the roads w^H well nigh impassable, a son of Erin ca fl into a doctor's office and desired the cfgl penser of physic to go to see a friend wfl was "jist a-dyin'." He would not tafl no for an answer; so putting the saddH bags upon his horse, the physician startW out upon his journey. As soon as hes:M the sick man he knew it was nearly ovpi with him, and remarked to the courier^ "Peter, you told the truth : your friend? is just at the point of death." "Can't ye do ainytheeng for heem?^ replied Peter. ,rNo; it is too late." "But, docthor, aint ye goin' to givej beem ainything at all at all ?" "It will demo good." i "But, elocthor, ye have come so far, i& would bo too bad to go back without! doin' anything." For the- peace of Peter's mind, thai doctor now took a small quantity of.sugar] from a phial, and placed it upon the dy^ ing man's tongue just as he was drawing ' his last breath. Peter, seeing his friend's head drop back, looked up to tho doctor with big eyes, and said, half in a whisper', "Ob, docthor, an didn' ye do it quick!"?JSar-: per's Magazine for July. ? Grapes may be preserved iu a fresh state until January, February or March": by a very simple device. * Before the; fruit is fully ripened, cover the vino with a guuny-sack, tying the sack snugly about the bottom. In adjustiug Ihe sackr the ends of the canes may be cut away if necessary. Thus protected, the fruit will ripen gradually, and continue tot draw enough sap from the vino to ksep; perfectly fresh several months after the usual time of maturing. Some grape*! growers in the immediate vicinity of the: larger cities make a good speculation by< sacking their vines and selling fruit out of season when it commands three 0% four cents a pound. ? ? A woman never will bo "the oldest 1 inhabitant" She wouldn't admit it.