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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1886. VOLUME XXIL?NO. 11 JOHN E. PEOPLES * CO. EXPECT TO CONTINUE THEIR CROCKERY BUSINESS, A nd in order to build op a good hide, they are offering their stock at very ? low prices. They have a large stock of? * Hand-Fainted China Decorated Sets, Opaque Porcelain Goods, Granite'-aatid C. C. Ware, Stom and Glassware, / Fruit Jars a Specialty. They have some SILVERWARE that they will sell very cheap. Also, a lot .of BIRD cages and-FEATHER DUSTERS. They have a large stock of? STOVES AMD RANGES, ' That they will sell cheap for cash, or on time to good parties. They have an im? mense stock of all kinds of TINWARE of their own make. They manufacture EVAPORATORS, and sell Breunan & Co.'s Celebrated? CAffE MILLS, FEED CUTTERS. SAW MILLS, &C. . On short notice tboy do all kinds of Tin BoGXnng, Guttering and Roof Fainting As cheap as any one. Before baying your PAPER, PAPER BAGS and WRAPPING TWINE, call and examine their stock, and get prices that will compete with any house sell? ing same quality of goods. August 12,1886 V 5 AUGUST, 1886. have made our last Reduction of the Season in all our Departments. OUR STOCK OF SUMMER GOODS MUST BE SOLO, AS WE NEED THE ROOM FOR OUR LARGE FALL STOCK. 9?, Come in and see for yourselves, and you will find prices LOWER THAN * EVER BEFORE. August 5,1886 W. A. CHAPMAN. 500 Bushels Yellow Rust Proof Seed Oats, Red Rust Proof Seed Oats, SeedBarley and Rye, Glover and Grass Seed In stock and to arrive. Bagging and Ties, Fresh Groceries arriving by every train. ALL of the above we will sell for Cash cheap. Give us a call before buying. Sept9,.1886 B. F. CRAYTON & SONS. NEW CROP TXJRTsTIP SEED, IMMENSE LOT, JUST ARRIVED, AND THE BEST UIT JABS -? AT ? SIMPSON, RE ID * CO.'S DRUG STORE, Waverly House Corner. July 22,1886 2 CONSULT YOUR INTERESTS ! i m BEE? ?fe STEPHENS will be pleased to quote their prices and show the numer? ous styles of Carriages* Phrotons. Baggies and Wagons of their manufacture, Western or Colnmbus, to any one who intends to purchase. We have a large stock to seloct from, and guarantee satisfaction to every purchaser. For neatness ana durability oar work cannot be excelled ia the Southern States. " Be sure and see us before you buy, and wo will make it to your interest to do so. We sell on time to good parties. Call at the right place. Our Factory and Show Rooms are on Main Street, between the Square and University. Anderson, S. C, July 15,1886 REED & STEPHENS. "OUR COMBINATION FENCE, f MANUFACTURED BY THE SULLIVAN & BROTHER FENCE COMPANY. Chicken Tight, Mule High, Bull Strong! Durable, Handsome, Portable, CHEAP! PUT op for convenient handling in bundles of 50 feet or more. Nothing but sound Pickets and bc3t grade Bessemor galvanized Steel Wire used in the manufacture of our Feucing. THIS IS CERTAINLY THE FENCE OF THE DAY! - And is FAR SUPERIOR in many respects to any other kind of Fouco ever in? vented. The above cut exhibits its appearance, and the Fence need only be seen to be appreciated. Oners for fencing filled promptly, and all correspondence in regard to same witf have oar immediate attention. THE SULLIVAN & BRO. FENCE CO., StTXXirVAN & BRO., Proprietors. Anderson, S. C. T^A?H^'?OI/?MN. J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. ATTENTION TEAOHEES! The examination of teachera will be held in the conrt house, Friday and Sat? urday, October 1st and 2nd. White teachers will be examined on Friday and colored on Saturday. Be on hand promptly at 9 o'clock a. m., and be sure to bring a supply of stationery. The Rev. Mr. Pressley has been em? ployed to teach at Generostee next year. We hope the people in that neighborhood will give bim strong support and that his work may be pleasant and profitable to all concerned. Mr. W. W. Sadler closed his school last week at Ivy Hollow. Weston will go next January to Davidson College. We commend his pluck and ambition, but regret to lose bim from the princi-1 palship of the Ivy Hollow school. We arc glad to learn from the Plain dealer that the Honea Path School opened well. Prof. Watkins is meeting tbe success his ability and fidelity to profes? sion merit. He has tbe hearty co-opera? tion of the thinking men around 'Honea Path. They have a good teacher ; they know it, and hold up his hands. The Slab town School under the effi? cient management of Mr. J. P. Smith, assisted by Miss Mary Boggs, is in a flourishing condition. They have now over fifty pupils and expect others. The house will soon be thoroughly renovated and rendered entirely comfortable for the children in tbe cold winter months. We understand Mr. Boleman has re signed bis position as principal of the Townville School, and will devote him? self, in tbe future, to farming and selling goods, He has done good work there for years, and will take with him the best wishes of patrons and pupils. We hope the Townville people may secure a worthy successor to Mr. Boleman. The competitive examination for ca detships at the Citadel Academy has been postponed to Sept. 30th. 0, how the boys are studying! Well it will do them good, even if they fail to win the cadet ship. The effort they are now making will be of incalculable benefit to them. Two vacancies are to be filled. Messrs. Humphreys, .Geer, Brown, Baker, Evans and Welch, are the competitors. Pull boys, pull 1 Mr. C. 0. Burriss, tbe teacher at Hunter's Spring, has sent us an invita? tion, in behalf of his patrons and the citizens generally, to hold the next meet? ing of the Teachers' Association there. Mr. Burriss is enthusiastic in the cause of education, and bo is the community in which he is so fortunate as to reside. We enclosed bis letter to the President of the Association. Action will be taken as soon as a meeting of the Executive Com? mittee can be held. Belton, indeed the whole of Anderson County, may be proud of young Camp? bell, tbe successful competitor in the ex? amination for a Bcholarshio in the Nash ville Normal College. Mr. Campbell went to school to Mr. W. F. Cox several years, at Belton, one year to Ligon & Reed at Anderson, but for the last year he has been at home. He has nob been idle, however. His whole time has been given to study. He not only prepared himself so well for the examination as to be able to tie tbe highest competitor in a class of twenty-six, but during the time has thoroughly learned the science and the art of stenography. You can't keep some boys down?othere you can't get up. How many of our teachers have read Wickersham's School Government? How are the teachers spending this vaca? tion, anyway ? Are they all at work ? What kind of work ? Do they expect to teach again when the schools open ? Is teaching, with the majority of them, their vocation, or avocation ? If their avocation, then the sooner they surrender their certificates the better. If teaching is your vocation in life, then we may be sure that this annual inier regnum will not bo allowed to pass by unimproved. Your business, my friend, is to fit your? self for the work that awaits you. What are you doing to make yourself a better teacher than you were when your school closed ? Are you busy all the day long ? then can't you give two hours, or one hour, at night to reading? You can't afford to be wholly idle. You can afford to wearout but don't rust out. Reep your? self bright by the thousands of means that lie around you, whatever your con* dition in life. If you teach just to fill in a little time that may suit your con? venience, you will never make a teacher To be honest with you, the school-room is not your place. Shift your sails and try something else. The Carolina Teacher for September comes to us filled with a number of very readable and suggestive articles. The first, "The Choice of a Profession," by Prof. H. P. Archer, Superintendent of the Charleston schools, is burdened with truth that a majority of its readers can appreciate from an abiding sense of a mistake made along the line he so forcibly points out. Let the young man just starting in life, if perchance such an one should read these lines, commit to memory the following sentences from Prof. Archer's pen, and repeat them every morning before breakfast for a month: "All callings, it is true, are hon? orable, provided they are honest; but a mistake once made in this direction, is a calamity alike to the individual who makes it and to the community in which he lives. It is a calamity to the individ? ual, inasmuch as ho can never hope to succeed in that for which he has no tal? ent, and to the community inasmuch as he can contribute nothing to advance its interests." Nowadays, it is getting to be disgusting to hear young men speak of "looking around for a job." Our boys ought to be so trained that "a job" would be awaiting them when they reach the age of strong, active, young manhood, The truth' of the business is, the misap? plied forces from a misconception of one's aptitudes for certain professions or call? ings are simply alarming. In our South? land, since the war, aristocratic notions have toppled and fallen, but there is still lingering in places and in families a dis? position to look upon manual labor as somewhat degrading to the son of a pro? fessional man or a man distinguished in any way whatever. But while mean prejudices of this kind do misapply forces and make lives failures that might have been brilliantly successful if directed in the proper channel; while many a man wakes up in middle life, or old age, to find himself a third or fourth-class law? yer in consequence of the fact that he had decided to be a lawyer in spite of natural endowments and for no other reason that his father was a judge; while even the sacred desk itself has been polluted by men wholly unfit and un? called to the work?men whojeould ride, into position and power on the wings of their father's fame; still, it is an indis? putable fact that a greater number go annually into uncongenial and distaste* ful callings, from sheer ignorance of their capabilities, aptitudes and endowments. Then, if this misapplication of forces is attributable to ignorance, not of tacts, figures, or theories, but of one's self, where must lie the remedy ? The boy, somewhere in life, inevitably finds him self confronted with the question, What can I do ? The remedy must lie within the reach of every thoughtful parent. "Know, then thyself etc.," was not spo? ken to children. Boys may be induced to become soberminded and thonghtful enough to study their own fitness, or want of fitness, for certain callings, in a measure; who better than a parent can learn his likes and dislikes, his aptitudes and abilities. "Train up a child in the way he should go etc."?has that not latitude enough to cover the point in question ? How should he go but in the calling or profession for which God has specially endowed him ? After the pa? rent, who better than the teacher can as? certain more correctly the qualifications of a boy for any special work ? Do you not find in your school boys that might become famous as farmers, mechanics, lawyers, physicians, teachers, orators, sculptors, or poets ? Start the child "in the way he should go." Young Rhett'!-Bevengc. Years before the war, while sectional feeling was boiling toward fever heat, one of the young Rhetts of South Caro? lina, says a Washington correspondent, was sent to Harvard University. At that time the students were sharply divided by Mason and Dixon's line. The North? ern boys were led by a big bully from a New Hampshire farm, who thrashed everybody in both parties, but displayed his partiality by thrashing the Southern boys twice to the Northern boys once. The university has changed wonderfully since then, of course, but at that time it was more like a great English public school in Borne respects than like a great English university. Young Mr. Rhett had not been there long before he was knocked down by a young Mr. New Hampshire. It was a novel experience for the Carolinian, and he could only think of one remedy: be promptly sent the bully a challenge. Hew Hampshire made no immediate reply. This natu? rally increased the curiosity of the other fellows as to what the outcome would be. One morning New Hampshire waited at chapel door for Rhett, and quite a crowd gathered when he arrived. "Did you write that?" asked the New Hampshire boy - savagely, holding the challenge before Rhett's face. "Yes, I did," said Rhett, pale of face but defiant of heart. New Hampshire said nothing more, but deliberately tore the challenge into snipe and bits and threw them in Rhett's face, when he and the other boys went into the chapel, leaving the dazed Rhett alone. Mechanically he stooped and picked up the pieces of paper lying at his feet, then he went over to Boston, playing with the bits of paper in his pocket as he walked. In the afternoon he reappeared, but said nothing to his nearest friend about his visit to Boston, nor did he disclose his plans for getting even with his enemy. Every day for weeks he visited Boston, and when not away on these trips occupied himself with his text-books. One day, when a num? ber of his fellows were standing on the campus, among them the bully, young Rhett made his appearance for the first time in many days. "Come here," he said, calling the bully by name. "Come here, yourself," was the reply. "Meet me half way," said Rhett, and the bully consented. As soon as New Hampshire got within striking distance Rhett quickly knocked him down. Surprised and maddened, the bully rushed at Rhett, when he was again felled, and every time he got up Rhett skillfully defended himself and offended the other. At length the bully, badly used up, fell helpless at Rhett's feet, who put his foot on bia breast. "Let me up," moaned the bully. "Not just yet," said Rhett. "You got a challenge from me once ?" "Yes," groaned the bully. "Instead of replying to it like a gen? tleman, you tore it up and flung the pieces in my face," went on Rhett. "Yes," was the reply, with an effort. "Well, I saved the pieces, and you've got to eat them before you get up," was | the cool reply. Thereupon he slowly fed the fallen bully the carefully preserved bits of pa? per, and they were all eaten. Rhett had utilized his Boston trips to the best ad? vantage with the most scientific sluggers of bis day. It was not until ho bad suc? ceeded in knocking down one of his in? structors that he undertook the bully. ? A Wisconsin farmer, going down a hill with a load of hay, locked one of the wheels of the wagon. The friction of the wheel upon the ground struck a spark which ignited the hay and started j a fire that required eleven men to extin? guish. ? Here's the difference: When doc? tors give a man up his chance for his life is gone. When lawyers give him up, his mouey is gone. OUR EUROPEAN LETTER. Down the Rhine. Spcc?d Correspondence Anderson Intelligencer. A MO o'clock Friday, July 30th, we mount our wheels at Strasburg and begin our journey down the Rhine. We are instructed to wheel to Kahl, a small vil j l?ge across the river from Strasburg, ! and then to take a road running north along the Rhine toward Heidelberg. We soon reach the opposite side of the river, and along the suggested road we spin at a lively rate, but in a few minutes our way begins to get rough, and there seems to be but little travel over it for a public road down the Rhine, but our faces are in the direction we wish to trav? el, so we press on and shortly our road divides out to a narrow foot path. We consult one another upon the propriety of continuing this route, but some one reminds us that it's the mark of cowardice to turn back, so we move on until our foot path is no more, and the beautiful valley of the Rhine becomes a fancy. We are somewhere in a swamp with our faces toward the north. To the right of ub we discover an embankment, and upon it we push our way until we arrive at a point were a small stream intersects the Rhine. We can wheel no further for its water in front and upon either side of us. In the distance we discover a fisherman mending his nets, we call for assistance and soon his long narrow skiff shoots across the waters, and we with our wheels are soon landed upon the opposite shore. We gladly fee him liberally, and shortly find the right road to Heildelerg, and press on. Nothing occurs worthy of mention during the remainder of this day's journey. We stop for the night in the little city of Ettengen, 45 miles from Strasbourg. We reach Heildelberg tbe following day early in the afternoon. We find the city beautifully decorated, for Festzug, which is to occur the follow? ing week. It is the five hundreth anni? versary of the university and all Germany is expected to participate. Visitors from all parts of the world are flocking here to witness the great jubilee, and it is expect? ed to be one of the greatest events in the history of Heidelberg. We employ a guide and visit the Castle and other places of interest. We were not permit ed the pleasure of seeing the Great Tun, as they were filling it for the Festzug, tbe first time since 1764, no visitors being admitted for three days. Think of it, my reader, a huge cask with a capacity of 283,200 bottles filled with wine to cele? brate the anniversary of a University. How would that do for an American School? Uncle Sam has'nt the only red nose in the world. The colleges of every country have tastes and customrthat seem strange to a foreigner, I suppose, and if the German student would visit Harvard or Yale they would imagine our boys a tame lot of ( creatures, for in the German University ( a fellow is considered a dastard if he hasn't tbe pluck and the nerve to stand up before a fellow combatant and have bis face cut into mince meat. It is expected that each student will fight at least ten duels with sharp swords before completing a college course, and mo?' of them have occasion to fight many more, for if a student fails to tip his hat proper? ly or by accident or otherwise pushes or comes in contact with a fellow student, cards are exchanged and a duel arranged for. The whole body is protected but the face, and the one that can do more carv? ing in fifteen minutes is considered the best man. The most skillful surgeon in the city and a professor in the University is employed by the year to sew up tbe wounds, and he must have plenty of business, for the display of frightful gashes upon these heroic sons of Germany is simply terrible. There are many things here that Americans might criticise, but for all that there is something about Heidelberg that lovers of the beautiful admire?the narrow valley, the broad plain, the vine crowned bills, the woody heights, the green waters of the Neckar, the silver-flowing Rhine, the venerable Castle ruins, the abundance of contrast in color and form unite to compose one harmonious picture, the Artists from all nations have loved to paint, and as we turn away from the charms of this city we carry with us sweet rememberance not easily forgotten. We continue our journey down this romantic river, stopping now and then at places of interest. A short distance from Worms we dismount to examine a pecul? iarly constructed tricycle propelled by electricity. A German invention not to be sneered at, but we hardly have timo to appease our curiosity before the gentle? man and his two sons mount a very com? fortable spring seat and spin around tbe curve like a railroad engine. We are not amazed, for a yankee is prepared to expect most anything, but we are satisfied that Edison.isn't the only man that can make a horse out of a little lightning. The main attractiou at Worms was the Luther Monument, which is one of the best that we have seen in our travels. We tarry a Bhort time at Mayence, and then wheel on to Westbaden, a great summer resort of Germany, an attractive city and pleas? ant place to stay if you have plenty of tbe yellow lucre. On the evening of August 3d, we reach Rudesheim, a noted place for celebrated wines. Upon the hillside far above the village the Germans have erected a very large and handsomo monument in com? memoration of the victory over the French in the late war. It is said to be one of the finest pieces of sculpture in Germany. But our stay is brief at this place for just over the river is Bingen, "Fair Bingen ou the Rhine." Words as familiar to an American school-boy as "Mary's little lamb." But it's not neces? sary to inform you of that fact, you have doubtless all sung it, for its rarely spoken you know. We are anxious to stop in this little old city, so we wheel down to the ferry and cross over. Vax De VENTEB. ? A Chicago minister preached last Sunday on "What can I do to be saved." It would seem that about tho first movo would ho to get nut of Chicago. ? He stood under the window and sang, "How can I leave thee." But he did leave, and bo suddenly that the dog went back of the house and wept. BILL AKP. He Writes of the Farm and tho Growing Crops. "Oft' did the harvest to their sickle yield"?that's me now at this time?but if the poet had lived he would have been a little more personal and writ: How doth he slay thepeavines in the patch His bending back, with toil is nearly broke But still he buckles boldly to the scratch And peavines fall at every sweeping stroke. I like to have choice of work and my choice is to cut peavines, with a keen blade and a cloudy day it is delightful work. But when the sun comes out from behind the clouds, why 1 just dodga under an apple tree and boss. I can cut and boas two acres a day, easy. I don't like to split rails nor pull fodder nor dig a ditch nor grease the wagon nor catch 11 mule nor tote water up a bill, but I am very fond of cutting down peavines. They are so tender, and they fall so gracefully and they cover the ground with such a clean, green luxuriant car? pet. They are about waste high now and there is just enough ragweed!, sprinkled among them to hold them up straight, and from the top of every weecl a peaviue stretches its serpentine tendril up about a foot and waits?waits for i. sickle. The tender ragweeds don't hurt. In fact they make right good forage, bet? ter forage than John Branson's dog fen? nel. John says that Kingston cattle got used to dog fennel during the war, and they like it pretty well when they can't get anything else. The weather is splen? did now for curing peavine hay, and if cut when in the bloom it takes but two or three days' sun. I've got an acre next to the big road that I make two crops on every year?a crop of small grain and a crop of peas, and it never fails?and keeps in good fertility without any other help. Some farmers say you must turn the peavines under, but I don't. I put about two tons of hay from that acre in the barn loft, and it is worth more for forage than any crop that grows. The corn hangs heavy this year. I never knew it any better in this section. There won't be many nubbins to feed the steers on, and some folks will grumble about that I reckon. The breath of approach? ing winter is beginning to be felt. The quilt is laid at the foot of the bed. The little chaps have broken a window glass or two and they have got to be fixed. The winter's wood must be cut and hauled. A few loads of pine must be brought from the mountain. Some rye must be sown for the milch cows. The corn crib must be cleaned out for the new crop and a sill must be put under the barn. There is always room for Borne repairs and the sooner they are made the better. The boys are gathering the pop corn now and putting it away for winter night frolics. The maypops are getting ripe and the black haws are turning. Walnut time and chestnut time will soon be here and then come squirrels and 'possums and partridges. The sweet potatoes have cracked open and heaved up the ground, and if there is any better food for the table in winter I don't know it. There used to be a picture in the old school book of General Marion and his soldiers eating potatoes by the camp fire. That wasen't so bad after all. They may not be good fighting.food, but they are good enough for peace. When they are candied with sugar it makes a dish that is fit for a king. Then there are the Irish potatoes that keep good in the ground all winter. I let the grass and weeds grow over them and shade the ground from the summer's sun. This land is full of good things that the poor? est can have if they will work for them. Nobody need suffer. If a man will work half his time he can support a wife and two or three little children in comfort. The trouble is not with the necessaries of life, but it is the luxuries that play the mischief. It is fine clothes and too many of them that keep the poor man's head bowed down. It is the strain to keep up with the nabors. It is the going and coming and frolicing and visiting. It is the sitting up half the night and sleep? ing half the day. It is breakfast at nine o'clock. It is the habit of novel reading that is as demoralizing as base ball or gambling. Rich folks can indulge in these things but poor folks cannot Where is the young man who has the moral courage and self denial to be stingy and save his earnings? I am going to live on a strain now and send our crippled boy to Dahlonega to colloge, but I do it with great reluctance, for fear he will lose his habits of industry and have to be a town lawyer or a small poli? tician when he comes back. But he can't work on the farm, and I must do the best I can for him. How many society girls of this day are content to spend most of their time at home in do? mestic pursuits, helping their mother? who are getting married nowadays?the sons and daughters of the rich mainly. The others can't afl'urd to marry. The young men have nothing to in airy on and are not likely to have. Those who have a little are afraid to venture it on a society girl whose father is always on a strain to keep her big trunk full of clothes. There are a hundred old bach? elors in Georgia now to where there used to be ten. But it is all right, I reckon, for they had better not marry than to marry and live on a perpetual strain try? ing to keep in hailing distance of society and its follies. But the children are happy ; I am glad of that. How I do love to see them romp and frolic in in? nocent pleasures. What a pity it is that they will soon get grown and take on the deceitfulness of fashion and folly. But I will stop now for I'm gloomy. I've got a sore eye and it weeps all the time, weeping for Jessie, I reckon, for she has gone and wo see her but once a week now. She has gone to a boarding school, and I wander around lonely. Carl is going, too, next week, and then another prop will fall. Farewell, vain world. I believe I will take to reading novels. Tho Last Days of Pompeii is a good book for these earthquake times. I think I will read it again. But for comfort in trouble the Vicar of Wakefield is the best. I will go and cut somo more pea vines and got tired und then rest. Work, labor, toil is the best cure for the blues. A man can sit around in the piazza and think of his little troubles until they swell and grow into big ones. My good old father used to suffer from rheuma? tism, and when he felt it coming cn he would get up and go tramping over the farm as hard as be could and get up a perspiration, and get tired and drive the pain all away. This old body is a curious machine and we have got to nurse and humor it or its pains will afflict the mind and keep us from being calm and serene. I had 8 letter from a friend this morning that was written with ink that bis children made from ink balls. We used to make that ink and I pick up the ink balls now when I see them. They are old time friends. If he had written with a goose quill it would have been still better as a memento. I used to run tbe old gander down for quills and if I didn't get one the teacher wanted to know where was my pen and I had to reply, "I couldn't catch the gander, sir, he flewd clean away." But tbe old gray goose is all serene now. Nobody uses quills but Campbell Wallace and he is eighty years old. On his last .birthday he wrote that beautiful Sunday-school address and he wrote it with a quill and without spectacles and one of his children has it as a keepsake. He is the best type of an old man that I know of, and I hope he has another score of years to live and let his light and example shine. I met him the other day at Keely's and they two were having a high old time over some anecdote. Said he : "When I feel just a little out of sorts, just a little blue, I hurry round here to Captain Keely and he relieves me. He is the best doctor I know of and his medicine is so pleasant to take." I wish I bad time to run down and see them both, and take some of that medicine, for I need it. The youngest child gone and two more going Monday, and the pea vines nearly all cut. It is hard to surrender to the inevitable, but tbe children must go. New loves and new attractions come to them and the old folks are left sitting alone by the winter's hearth. Such is life and such it has always been. I'll go down and see Cap* tain Keely. Bill Ait p. The Theological Seminary. The Board of Directors of tbe Presby? terian Theological Seminary met in the Seminary chapel yesterday morning at 9.30 o'clock, under a call from the President. Mr. James Hemphill, Presi? dent of the Board, presided, aud Rev. T. H. Law, Secretary of the Board, was at his post. There was a full attendance of tbe Board, as follows: South Carolina Synod?Hon. James Hemphill, Judge T. B. Fraser, Rev. W. J. McKay, Rev. S. L. Morris, Rev. T. H. Law, J. Adger Smith. Georgia Synod?Rev. William Adams, Rev. James Stacey, George W. Scott, W. C. Sibley. Alabama Synod?Rev. F. B. Webb, H. L. McKee. South Georgia and Florida Synod Rev. W. H. Dodge. After transacting some routine busi? ness, the Board took up a communication from Dr. Woodrow, requesting?in view of the recent action of the General As? sembly in acquitting him, and pending tbe appeal from that decision to the Georgia Synod?that he be relieved of teaching in tbe Seminary until a decision shall have been reached in the matter. A majority of tbe Board voted in favor of granting the request, and it was declared the action of the Board. The members from the South Carolina Synod and from the South Georgia and Florida Synod 'voted in favor of the request. Those from the Synods of Georgia and Alabama voted against it and submitted a protest against tbe action of the Board. The Board then adopted a measure requesting tbe controlling Synods to close the Seminary until September, 1887, when it is hoped the difficulties existing ivjll be adjusted., The Seminary will, therefore, not enter upon tbe exercises of the Fall term, which was to have begun next Monday. Dr. Tadlock remains and will have charge of the buildings, the library and the grounds during the bus* pension. Among tbe other work done by tbe Board was the re-election of Dr. Hersman to fill tbe chair of Biblical Literature. Against this action the members from the Synods of Georgia and Alabama t.gain submitted a protest in view of tbe condition of affairs existing in regard to the Seminary. Dr. Lefevre, of Virginia, who had been previously elected to the chair of Didac? tic and Polemic Theology, and had ac? cepted the professorship under certain conditions, was requested to hold open his decision about tbe matter under the present contingences. The Board finished its work yesterday afternoon and some of the members left on the outgoing trains. Several who remained will leave for their homes to? day.?Columbia Register, 16<A inst. Rival Brother Candidates. Chattanooga, September 13.?A nov? el scene was witnessed here to-night. A. A. and Robert L. Taylor, the brother candidates for Governor, were in this city on their way to appointment. Besides being fine debaters and eloquent stump? ers, both gentlemen are accomplished musicians, the violiu being their favorite instrument. Large numbers of the friends of each assembled at the hotel where the two brothers were stopping aud occupying the same room. After a general interchange of friendly feeling all around, two violins were biought in and they were asked to give some music. Each took an instrument, and moving their chairs close together they began, and for a time delighted their hearers with some music as fine as wus over heard here. They would throw in occasionally the "Arkansas Traveler," "Rosin the Bow" and local melodies which fairly set the crowd wild. Two candidates for Governor of a great State, brothers too at that, sitting together in ft most friendly and brotherly manner play? ing the violin for the delectation of their friends, is a sight probably never witness? ed before on the stump. The brothers prescrvo the same friendly relation, and nothing is said to jar tho sensibility of oithcr. ? Tho fund in Boston for the relief of ths Oharleaton sufferers amounts to 153,293. Fine Stock in Upper Carolina. The Oconee driving association held its first annual exhibition of the trotting stock and other stock of the county on the 1st and 2d of September. It proved a very successful and credit; ble exhibi? tion, showing to our people and people from other sections what great progress is being made in the line of breeding and improving the stock of our country. The judges of the stock on exhibition were selected outside of the county, and were men who we are satisfied dealt fairly and justly and impartially with all exhibitors on the grounds, and the highest evidence is the general commending and approval of our people of the awards made by them. The judges were Jugde Cleveland, from Piedmont; J. R. Arnold, from Charles? ton ; H. H. Hill, from Abbeville. They are three men who combine all the quali? ties of both head and heart to make a success of any exhibition. They made everybody happy on the fairgrounds that came in contact with them by their genial faces and honest equinine coun? tenances, and everybody in town felt good, over their horse-talk and clever, good humored social ways. The Driving Association are very much to be commended for their spirit, activity and enterprise in the building of a track;] and the erection of buildings at an expense of $600 or $700, where the trotting horse could be developed and the stock of Xhe county could be shown and exhib? ited. The public spirit of the projectors of this new enterprise, once of doubtful, now of certain success, is manifested in-1 the money invested in the experiment j and the low price for admittance. The design is not to make money, but to promote the raising of a better and more remunerative breed of stock. The bene? fits redound to the county and State, not only here, but in the increased interest of | all our people in this profitable branch of agriculture. The spirit which led to the organization of the driving association began only a few years back, and has already spread among the people of this section, and will grow in interest and lead to similar enterprises in other parts of] the State. The experiment has already proved not only that we can raise stock profitably here, but that we can propagate | breeds competitive with the blue grass region of the United States. To this end we look for a larger and better exhibit each succeeding year, with greater inter? est both among visitors and exhibitors until the association shall give to our county an enviable reputation for blooded stock and greatly add to the value of j property of all kinds in the county.? Walhalla Courier. For Farmers. The following suggestions are made for the benefit of planters and cotton ship? pers by one who has handled cotton and seen its condition after roaching the sea? ports: 1st. A bale weighing over 500 lbs. is undesirable for the following reasons: In handling (when it is often necessary to do so in great haste) it is liable to have the bands bnrsted off atone or both ends, which invariably causes loss in weight before or by the time it reaches seaport or the Northern mill to which it may be consigned. The standard weight of a merchantable bale is 450 pounds. The planter loses by heavy bales, as the bag? ging and ties usually cost less per pound than the cotton sells for. This is so evident that it is surprising that any farmer would be so extravagant in baling his cotton, as not to put plenty of bagging and ties on it. 2nd. Every bale should be securely sewed up at each head or end with twine. No bale should be considered ready for market until it is properly sewed up with twine?not ravel thread pulled out of j the bagging. Merchants selling bagging and ties should keep twine on hand and call the attention of farmers to the im? portance of using twine in putting up their cotton. 3rd. Cotton is often ginned before it is properly dried, having been picked just after rain or heavy morning dews, being put through the gin and cut to pieces. A far greater amount is damaged by rushing it through the gin running at double the speed it should, cutting and tearing it to pieces, destroying the fibre, detracting in many cases }c. to lc. per lb. from actual and merchantable value of | the staple. The crop of Chester County alone ia damaged by bad ginning and handling many thousand dollars per an? num, all of which is clear loss to the till? ers of the soil. It would astonish our farmers to know how much is lost by careless handling, picking, ginning and baling their cotton crop. It is to the interest of our agricul? turists to husband their resources, partic? ularly a year like the present when there is such a short crop of cereals. Handle your cotton so aa to get every cent out of it possible.?Exchange. Eqnal to the Emergency. Col. Scales, of North Carolina, while discussing a glass of Glenn Spring's water in the mountain country, told us the following anecdote: At the Yorktown celebration some of | the boys, feeling waggish at the enter? tainment, spied out the British Consul at Richmond near by, and insisted upon his responding to a toast of "the day we cele? brate." The bold Briton, nowise daunted, rose and began thinking on bis feet. He substantially spoke as follows: "Gentlemen, I am placed by you in a somewhat delicate position, but I hope to represent, however feebly, the pluck of my country, which needs no endorsement or recital here or elsewhere. I am sure that Great Britain is mighty and magnan? imous enough to look with complacency upon the prosperity of one of her chil? dren who, after a family quarrel, has at last set up for himself and is an apostle of liberty. So far as this immediate celebration is concerned, I can safely say, on my own responsibility, after an elaborate examination of this locality, that had I been Lord Cotnwallis I should havo evacuated it a damned sight sooner than ho did on a certain memorable occa? sion." Music by the band.?Augusta Chronicle, ? A large increase of the corn crop of, Indiana is reported, State Couvention of Farmers. I desire to call the attention of the farmers of the State to the following res* olution, passed last April by the Farmers' Convention: "The committee on permanent organi? zation reported as follows: We recommend that an organization be formed, to be known as tbe Agricultu? ral Association of South Carolina; the ' members of this association to consist of delegates elected by County Agricultural Association or Conventions on tbe basis of representation in both branches ;f the General Assembly, said delegates to be elected on saleday in October, and* to hold office for one year. The first meet? ing to be held in Columbia on Tuesday of fair week, next November." The Convention provided for in the 1 above resolution will meet in Columbia .-, at 12 o'clock on Tusday, November 0, and transact such business as it may deem proper. Notice will be given of the place to meet in. Many of the counties have already appointed tbdr delegates. I would urge upon tbe farm? ers in every County to be fulJy represent? ed by their best men. Where counties are not already organized, a mass meeting can be called any time during October, or on saleday in November, to elect dele*.', gates; or tbe Democratic Clubs can meet in a Farmers Convention and send dele? gates. This organization is bound to exert great influence on tbe future welfare of our agricultural Lnterests, and cannot fail to prove beneficial not only to farmers but to all other classes. B. E. Tillman, Chairman Executive Committee Farmers' Convention. Destitution in Texas. Washington, Sept. 13.?.First Audi? tor Obenowetk has just returned from a ' month's visit to Texas. He gives a sid picture of the destitution and suffering there on account of tbe drought. He is astonished that there has been so little said on this subject. He says.it is esti? mated that in Jack County not twenty bushels of corn and wheat have come up. The drought extends from beyond Fort ' Worth np into the Fan Handle. This is a fine grazing country and a large amount of stock is kept there. This year, how? ever, it has been impossible to supply the stock with water. People have been obliged to haul water for household pur* pose for twenty and thirty miles. There are few running streams and few artesian - wells. A great deal of stock has famish? ed. In large tracts of country the people have almost nothing to eat. They made no gardens and have no potatoes or other vegetables. While Judge Chenoweth ? was in Texas be presided over several relief meetings where people were collect? ing seed corn, wheat and money to send-" to the sufferers. He says tbe farmers in tbe regions affected by tbe drought are generally of small means, and depend upon their products from year to year for subsistence. They thus find them? selves immediately in want when their crops fail. Moisture and Lockjaw. Dr. Felix L. Oswald says in Home and farm: Moisture, in the form of a vapor bath is an excellent remedy for tetanus, or lockjaw. The immobility of the jaw ! is only tbe cul mi native symptom of a complaint which might be defined as a rigor of the opper motor muscles. The affection begins with a peculiar stiffness in the back part of tbe neck, rendering j every sideward motion of tbe bead pain? ful or even impossible; before long the cramp-like sensation ex tends to tbe spine; tbe patient feels impelled to bend forward to relieve the strain on the shoulder mus? cles; headaches and a feeling of general \ numbness beget a disposition to sleep, and on awakening from a fitful nap the teeth feel set as firmly as those of a power? ful steel trap. The patient leans bis head on his clutched fist, while spasms of the neck muscles often beget a sensation as if tbe binges of the jaw bones were mechan? ically riveted, and could be moved only by a breaking force if not by a mira? cle. Yet a steam bath, or even a wet pack in sheets drenched with warm water, is generally sufficient to accomplish that miracle. The combined Influence ot warmth and moisture seem:* to relax the rigor of tbe muscles; first the spine, and by-and-by the neck and jaws feel the relief, and by continual friction the danger of a relapse can be obviated for . a - quarter of an hour, after which the abnormal symptoms will be reduced to a lingering numbness, as after a stunning fall._ The Bee's Sting. Tbe bive and its inmates afford, per? haps, a more interesting field for micro? scopic research than anything else in the whole insect kingdom. Take the bee's sting; why, that alone might occupy all tbe rest of this paper.' Tbe sheath makes the first wound, and, inside it, so managed that they inclose a tube-like space down which the poison runs, are two darts, all built in such a strictly mechanical way that?Mr. Cheshire says?they remind him of the guide rods of a steam engine. The poison is gummy, but it is prevented from clogging tbe machine by a gland which secretes a lubricating oil. The queen's sting is bigger than the workers' ?drones have none?but it is practically barbless, and can therefore be easily brought away instead of being left in tho wound and thereby causing the death of its precious owner. It is a formidable weapon, the sheath so bard that it turns the finest razor-edge; but a queen never stings except in contest with another queen; she may be handled with impuni? ty. Of tbe worker it is a mistake to say that it always leaves its sting in the wound, and dies from tbe loss. If it generally does so, tbe fault often lies in your impatience; bear it like a hero, aud tbe bee will work its sting round and. round till it is able to withdraw it with? out impediment Of course you get pierced deeper and deeper, but then, consider, tbe creature's life is saved by your sufiering.?AII the Year Round, ? "A chair of matrimony is talked of at Vassar College." Of course it will be a rocking chair strong enough to hold two.