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BY E. B. MUKKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THUKSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1886. VOLUME XXII.?NO. 13. ALWAYS IN m FRONT RANK. Lower Prices and Better Bargains! R IMMENSE STOCK OP GOODS ia now arriving daily, and will be com? plete when this reaches yon. Our Counters and Shelves are crowded now with the latest'designs and patterns in all lines of? t Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Hats, Shoes, Notions,. Novelties, And, in fact, EVERYTHING kept for sale in First Class Dry Goods Stores. Now is the time to bny?all the assortments being complete; and as to prices, would Bay thpt we will sell oar goods as cheap, if not cheaper, that any other house can afford to sell them for. The Ladies, especially, will no doubt remember our Grand Opening last Spring, which was acknowledged by all to oe such a signal success,. both in the beauty of the. display, as well as the character and prices of the goods on exhibition. Had we the tiine to spare now, we could make a show of our stock far surpassing the former, and which would be far ahead of any display ever made in this City before. Among the many bargains offered, we have only space to mention a few: 50 Children's and Misses' Cloaks at $3.50?cost to manufacture $4.88. 30 Misses' Cloaks at $5.00?cost to manufacture $5.18. The Children's sizes are for Girls two to eight years of age, and the Misses' for youDg Ladies eight to sixteen years. . These are no shoddy goods, but are good woolen material, handsomely, trimmed in latest style, and cut to fit elegantly. The Ladies know a good thing when they see it. These garments are being sold rapidly even now, and as we will not be able to get our order duplicated, we would advise everybody in need of these articles to make their purchases now. Large line of JERSEYS, NEW MARKETS and SHORT WRAPS. Large lot assorted PICTURE FRAMES at 25c eaeh?worth fully 5c. Ladies, you are cordially invited to calljin when out shopping and examine our goods and prices; we believe firmly that it will be to your interest to do so. At . any rale we expect to leave no stone unturned to please you, both in goods and prices. The Ladies are requested to call for articles which they do not see in the shelves or on the counters, as many goods of delicate shades and fine texture have to be kept in boxes and drawers to keep them from getting soiled, but will take great | pleasure in showing them. Our Grocery and Hardware Departments are also complete now. 400 barrels FLOUR, 40,000 pounds BACON, 55,000 yds. BAGGING,, 2,000 bundles TIES. Ties at rock bottom prices. Large lot Boggy and-Wagon Harnes and Saddles just received. Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Canned Goods, all kinds Farm Tools and Supplies, an assorted Car load of-the Celebrated Tennessee Wagons in stock. Try a pound package of Levering's Roasted Coffee and you will never bny any other. Respectfully, BLECKLEY, BROWN & FRETWELL. PQ ?ALL parties indebted ta us must make prompt paymeut this Fall ? ^"for all they owe us, as no indulgence can be given. We need the money, and it muat come. BLFCKLEY, BROWN & FRETWELL. Sept 80,1886 12 iu:jioval. & CO. Have moved into the large and spacious Store next door to JOHN E. PEOPLES & CO., Where we are better prepared than ever before to serve our Customers. UR STORE is now the most handsome in the City, and our Goods are, beyond a doubt, cheaper than any competitor. We are now receiving our Fall Stock, which we respectfully invite the public to call and inspect. Our motto, in the future, as well as in the past, will be to misrepresent no Goods. We believe that honesty is the best policy, and we expect to sail under that color. Any one who desires to trade in our establishment, liviug in the city or otherwise, will, by casting their eyes around the Public Square, read our two large, conspicuous signs which are now being made. It is said two moves are equal to one burning, but in our case this rule will not hold good, as our numerous customers have extended congratu? lations as a move in the right direction. We have just received some splendid Bargains for-early Fall, which will pay buyers to call and examine: 2000 yards Knickerbocker Prints, dyed in oil. 5c. 2000 yards yard wide Bleaching.6J 2000 yards yard wide Sea Island.6} 2000 yards ? Georgia Shirting. 5 1000 yards Red Plain Flannel.20 1000 yards Twilled Flannel.?..25 . Here ia a big bargain for the Ladies : One*Case Fine Cashmere, ail the latest and desirable shades, includine^ack only 12}c One Case Persian Serge Dress Good?, best goods in the market for tbe/oioney? something new under the Bun?all shades, new goods, only 15c. Twenty pieces Wool Plaids, suitable lor Misses', Children's and young Ladies' dresses. We expect a large sale on those goods, and in order to place them in reach of all, will sell at 15c. We carry the largest stock of Black Cashmere in the city; we are going to make this department one of our special features. We commence in price at 25, 40, 60, 60, 65.75c. These goods are French, imported and double width. We purchased recently 200 yards very fine Black Silk, guaranteed to be impor? ted, and none of your cheap Americau make. One f,'rade retails in any large city for $1.50. and the. other at $2.00 per yard. We offer them at 90c, and the other grade, which is heavy as a board, at $1,00. They arc beauties. One Case Indigo Calico, Martha Washington brand, which is the best. Sold elsewhere at 10c. We expect to sell ten cases before Christmas?hence we offer at the low and uniform price of 7c. Bargain in half Bleached Damask. 50c. Bargain in Turkey Red Damask?dyed in oil, will not fado. 40 Bargain in Black, all wool Jerseys?all sizes.1 00 Bargain in Black, all wool Jerseys?all sizes, with braid.1 25 Bargain in Feather Bed Ticking'-best made, only. 15 Bargain in Misses' solid colored Hose, only. 10 Bargain in Misses' Ribbed Hose, only. 10 Bargain in Misses' colored full, regular made, only. 15 Bargain in Misses' colored full -egular made, only. 25 Bargain in Ladies' solid blac' -?e?no seams. 25 Bargain in Ladies'solid black : e.10 and I ? Bargain in French Woven Corset, only. 50 Bargain in French Woven Corset, only.1 00 Something for the Boys: All wool Kerseys, which we offer at 25c?cheap at 50c. One lot Jeans, which we offer at 15c?cheap at 25c. One lot Jeans, which we offer at 20c?cheap at 35c. ? One lot Cassimere at 40, 50, 6i5c?all new goods. Our stock of Shoes, Bool*, Hats, Caps, Trunks, valises and Blankets is all com? plete. ?ST* Please don't forget the place?next door bel< w J. E. Peoples & Co. on Brick Range. Look for our two immense Signs. Polite attention to all, if pur? chaser or not. LIESSZEIR, ?Sc CO. Sept 16,1886 10 T^A?H^'?oirUMN, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. [For Teachers' Column Anderson Intelligencer.] a state normal college fob white people. Col. John 0. Clinkscales, County School Commissioner, Anderson, S. C. Dear Sir?I have read with much interest your article on Normal Institutes ?State and County. There is much force in what you say. The money spent in supporting the State Normal Institutes would do more good spent in supporting County Institutes. The instruction in the latter would reach more teachers, and would help many teachers who are un? able to meet the expense of attending the State Institute. The law should re? quire County Institutes held in every county, and should require teachers to attend. (The school law of Mississippi requires both.) But should not each county support its own Institutes? As the law stands each County Board of ] Examiners may appropriate two hundred dollars of the school fund for this pur? pose. This seems hardly fair. This sum is nearly eight per cent, of the proceeds of the two mill tax of Chesterfield, while it is not quite one and a half per cent, of | this fund in Spartanburg County. The Institute fund should be a certain per centage of the county school fund. From two per cent, to five per cent, would be safe limits. Let the law require each County Board to have Institutes, and to appropriate for their support such a per centage of the school fund of the county, not less than two nor more than five per cent, therereof, as in the Board's judg? ment may be necessary for this purpose. Institutes are not enough. They are for the benefit of teachers who have not had, and who can not have, the advan? tages of a Normal College. We need a Normal College for our white teachers. We must have an Institution where our young men and young ladies can study pedagogies. I quote from the last Annu? al Report of the United Slates Commis? sioner of Education, Article South Caro? lina, topic "State Normal Training:" (after mentioning the two State Normal Institutes, one for white, the other for colored teachers, the Commissioner says,} "At Claflin University, Orangeburg, one of the three institutions that go to form the University of South Carolina, the three-year normal course for colored students, noticed in former reports, was continued,. with an attendance of one hundred pupils in both 1882-'83, and 1883-'84. There were five other normal schools and departments reporting in 1883-'84.' The normal department of Schofield Normal and Industrial School, Aiken; the Avery Normal Institute, Charleston, sustained by the American Missionary Association (congregational) ; the normal department of Bramard Uni? versity, Chester, sustained by the Pres? byterian Board of Missions for Freed men ; the normal department of Allen University, Columbia (African Methodist Episcopal) ,* and Fairfield Normal Insti? tute, Winnsboro, the last snstained by the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen. All these schools are for the training of colored teachers of either sex, with courses of three and four years. For their statistics see table III. of the appendix." These statistics show there are five hundred and sixty-nine colored teachers being trained in these institutes. Not a word is said about training a white teacher in the Beport. I quote from the catalogue of the South Carolina College (1884-'85): "Appreciating the want of | facilities in South Carolina for systematic normal instruction, the Trustees have provided a course of half a year (three lectures a week) in the Theory and Practice of Teaching as laid down by Pestalozzi, Foebel, and the leading edu? cators of the present day. Instruction will be imparted by lecture and text? book, and an attempt wi!l be made to adopt it to the practical need of the school room." This department is a kind of annex to the department of History and Political Science, tinder the charge of Prof. R. Means Davis. There were four students in the 2nd year, none in the first year, of this "'shorter course for teachers." There are four whites, five hundred and sixty-nine negroes, in South Carolina studying pedagogies under expe? rienced teachtrs. Our State must in self defense establish a normal school for white teachers. The Constitution says: "Within five years after the first regular session of the General Assembly, following the adoption of this Constitu? tion, it shall bi 'he duty of the General Assembly to p. vide for the establish? ment and suppoy of a State Normal School, wbich shan be open to all persons who may wish to become teachers. A negro of either sex, who may wish . to become a teacher, can attend the Normal department of Claflin University, Or? angeburg." Let the next Legislature make pro? vision for such privileges for our white young men and women. The money used to sustain the State Institutes would go far towards supporting a State Normal College. Normal training might be given in a Normal School Department of the South Carolina College, but that Institution is not open to girls, and the ladies, over half the (white) free school teachers of the State, would be excluded. Our farmer friends seem dissatisfied with the Agricultural Department of the College at Columbia. They think a separate' institution somewhere else would do more good. A State Normal College, located at some other point would be worth more than a pedagogical department of the South Carolina Col? lege. This subject grows. This letter may become too long for your column. I will close with some statements of what other Southern States are doing for this cause. The figures are taken from last Annual Report of the United States Commission? er of Education: X oS, St; . 0,075 States. ga? gS* .,6 S?u8 ^ p.Pn & 5 c toal?io Alabama.$ 522,727 0 $ 21,000 Arkansas. 5G1.745 2 5,500 Florida. 172,178 1 750 Maryland. 1,720,204 2 12,500 Mississippi. 803,876 2 G.000 North Carolina 535,205 10 8,000 Tennessee. 955,470 1 10,000 Texas. 1.G61.47G 1 18,000 Virginia. 1,321.537 4 131,403 West Virginia... 907,431 7 0,410 South Carolina's annual expenditure for public schools is $423,473. How much will she appropriate next year for support of a State Normal College for hor white loachora? Wm. S, Morrison. OUR EUROPEAN LETTER. How to sec It and What It Costs. Special Correspondence Anderson Intelligencer. "Well, Van, what do you expect your trip abroad will cost you?" was a ques 1 tiou frequently asked me before leaving home. Approximately I informed them t how much I believed the expense of the trip would be. Some believed me, many doubted, some laughed and called me a tramp, while others thought I was poor iu figures and unacquainted with the ropes of travel; but be that as it may, I have made quite an extensive trip through England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, have returned to America and figured up the cost and it don't surprise me to inform you that it is les3 than the estimate. "Can everybody travel as economically as you ?" No. Ladies, English Gentlemen, American aristocrats and fools would not find it pleasant to travel so cheaply. But a thoroughbred Yankee that knows exactly how many cents there are in a doll ar and what every cent is worth, posessed with patience, grit and shrewdness (o overcome the many difficulties encountered in travel, for instance to dispel a greedy European of the idea that you are noth? ing more than a bag of gold, to satisfy them that a twenty five cent meal is not worth a dollar, and if you are obliged to indulge in that abominable practice of feeing to be able to inform them that just because you are unfortunate enough to be a Yankee, that you don't propose to pay a day's wages for a five or ten minutes services. Such a person, de? priving himself of a few of the luxuries, cau make such a trip, if he live within 800 miles of New York City, for $300 all told. I have been absent from home more than fourteen weeks, have purchas? ed clothing, guide books, etc., that would make quite a respectable bill, and it has : cost me altogether several dollars less than the above amount. But many have been over the same ground and doubled or perhaps trippled this amount and have seen no more and perhaps not as much as your humble servant. Now, then, I will tell you how to do it, and if my style of travel suits you, adopt it and give it a trial. But let me say right here kind reader, if you have been rocked in the cradle 15 years of your life and slept on springs and curled hair matresses the bal? ance of your time, and have had kind mother or a waiter to bring your meals to your room, read this article if you like but don't adopt my plan?it won't suit you. First, decide whether you will travel by wheel or not?my advice is to travel in this manner by all means. If you wish to see Europe as it is this is your only means, unless you travel on foot, railroad travel is no comparison. You can do the trip with any ordinary bicycle, although I am particularly partial to the Star. I have used it on all kinds of roads by the side of the best machines, aud-I am satisfied that there is no wheel that answers the purpose of touring as well as this. If you wish to purchase a wheel of another kind, purchase in Europe, as they are much cheaper there. But if you have ?" wheel, by taking it apart and packing it in a box you will be able to ship on board the vessel as baggage, and by being careful in?buildiog your box, it will cost you nothing, as it will come within the number of feet allowed you. Pack with your wheel all extra clothing that you can't carry in a hand Batchel and leave the same, except what you positively need, where you begin your wheeling tour. Box tight and you will get single express rates to New York. If you ship by express don't forget to ship in care of the steamer you wish to sail with. Buy a second-class or a scal? per's ticket to New York and a second class steamship ticket. If you can afford to be extravagant its more.convenient to travel first-class, but I prefered to deprive myself of this privilege and use the extra expense fur another purpose. After the voyage is completed calculate to be your own cabman. In the country you will have no use for a carriage and in the city use your wheel if you don't care to walk. Should it be rainy, travel on a street car or a buss, a^d wherever you stop engage only your room. Lodgings can be engag? ed in any of the cities of England and Scotland from 15 cents and upward per night, depending on the length of time you engage your room and the location. It is cheaper and much pleasanter for two to travel together. In London you can get meals very cheap. At any of forty different cocoa rooms located in all part3 of the city you can get lunches very reasonable that you can make answer for a breakfast or a tea, and there are plunty of restaurants where a warm meal can be had from 25 cents up, depending on-the quantity and quality, paying you under? stand for what you order and no more, unless you choose to fee the waiter. One dollar per day in London will lodge and board you if you are economical, but you will need considerable in addition to this for guide books and sight seeing, and what is true of this city is also true of all the larger cities of England and Scot? land. When traveling through the country it will average a little more than this, as you will generally stay but one night in a place. But by careful man? agement even here you can travel on this amount. In selecting a lodging place don't be in a hurry and register at the first brown stone front. Such a place usually swarms with white aproned fel? lows that are very polite and attentive, but service and fees, which they all ex? pect, will make a long string of figures I assure you. Keep on the look-out and near by you will generally find a house conducted ou a smaller scale, clean and comfortable, and for rates much less than the former. It's a good plan to join the Cyclists Tour? ing Club. It costs but one dollar, and you will be able to get special rates at hotels that you could not otherwise get. But make up your mind to stop here only when you are unable to recure a good place that is cheaper. Not being able to speak the language of the country, travel? ing upon the Continent may cost you a little more, but good and cheap lodgings, and meals are to be had in almost any country that you may choose to visit, and a shrewd yankee can get them if he choose though he. cannot speak Ihn lan? guage. Now don't misconstrue my letter and get the idea that everybody would find it convenient or possible to travel on this economical plan. Even members of our own party prefered a more expensive plan, and which is alright and perhaps advisable if you can afford it. But there are hundreds of other wheelmen, and others like myself who of necessity must adopt, if we travel to any extent, some economical plan like the one I have sug? gested, and for their benefit I have writ? ten this letter. If you desire to travel upon the care instead of the wheel, you can perform the same journey for the same money, as the trip can be made in less time than wa have made it. The same by railway I should think could be done up nicely in eight or ten weeks, but by all means travel by wheel if possible. Many Europeans make walking tours, who are not wheelmen in order to see the country as it is and become acquainted with the country people, their customs, habits, etc. There are many things I had intended to mention, but on account of space will of necessity have to omit. Hoping that I have not entirely failed to interest the most of you, I bid you all good-by. Van De Venter. Physicians Puzzled, Rochester, N. Y., September 27.? If such a thing as witchcraft exists at the the present time, then this city has a genuine stamp-on the-bottle case of it. Leonard Westveer is a paper hanger who resides at No. 11 Huntington street. Mr. Westveer's family consists of himself, wife, two daughters and a son, twelve years of age, named Arny. The family is of Butch descent and well to do. Its members have attended the Dutch Re? formed Church here, and are considered among the leading members of the con? gregation. It is the boy Arny about whom interest centres. Five weeks ago he was seized with a form of St. Vitus's dance, and for fully fifteen minutes was unable to control the muscles of his lower limbs. The fit pass? ed off and no other symptoms appeared until he retired in the evening. After getting into bed he was seized again with a shock, which apparently affected all the muscles in his body. The boy cried for help and bis parents entered the room. Ab they did so they were astounded to see the chairs and other furniture moving up and down, seemingly in unison with the movements of his muscles. The chairs would rise six or eight inches, while the bed and bureau would shake perceptibly. Finally the shock passed away and the motion ceased, only to be followed, as the family state, by noises or rappings which seemed to come from the walls and ceilings of the room. The rapping also died away. Since that time Arny baa had the fits or shocks at intervals of two or three days. They are now increasing in frequency, and hardly a day passes without one, though tbey do not increase in violence. In each instance the shocks were accom? panied by the moving of articles in the vicinity of the boy. Residents of the ! neighborhood soon heard of the peculiar case, and it was generally believed that the story told by the family was a hoax. Several prominent residents called at the house one evening to see for themselves. While there the boy was attacked so strongly that it required two men to hold him in his chair. Meanwhile everything in the room, except the carpet, was in motion, chairs rose to two feet high, and a heavy centre table was lifted several inches above the floor. Since tho evening mentioned parties have been at the house almost daily to wit? ness the strange phenomena. Among those who called are Rev. Peter DeBruyn, pastor of the church which the Westveers attend, and Rev. Mr. Meirsman of the German Church. Young Westveer has had medical attendance for about a month, and has been watched by three physicians, who say thoy are all puzzled by the symptoms. They Bay he is not troubled with St. Vitus' dance or epilep? sy, and are inclined to believe be has heart disease. The physicians scout at the idea of witchcraft, but cannot account for the-movements of furniture and the rappings which accompany each spell. As ft Pill Vendor, New York, September 26.?It does not seem quite natural to associate Samuel J. Tilden with a pill factory, but it is a fact that he was deeply interestad, finan? cially, in the first concern that went into the pill business in this country, Tilden & Co. have a large factory at New Leba? non and a New York headquarters on Liberty street. The troubles about that remarkable will have developed the fact that for many years previous to his death the statesman bad been the main stay of the concern which, one time came near going undei. And the main point at issue now between the heirs is whether certain debts of Tilden & Co. shall be paid by the active members of the firm, or by the estate of the always and now doubly silent partner. Not only did Til den & Company venture before all others into the business of pill making, but they were the first to manufacture fluid ex? tracts. To this day pills and fluid extracts arc the leading features of the business, and eight or nine articles on the list are specialities that cannot be obtain? ed elsewhere. They are protected by trade marks but are in no other sense patent medicines as they are never dis? posed of to the public, and public patron age has never been sought. The concern deals directly with the wholesalers and the physicians, and the names of the drugs and compounds if printed would be insignificant to all but the trade and profession. Many of the plants from which the extracts are developed are cultivated by the company at New Leba? non, a considerable area of ground being devoted to this purpose. Such chemicals as are necessary to the production of the medicines manufactured are made also at New Lebanon, and in fact, the man? ufacture of chemicals is a part of the business. Tilden & Cp. are making lots of money. The statesmau kept out of eight as to his connection with tho firm during bis lifetime, but it does not follow that his voice was entirely silent in its councils. The office that still has bis name on the door on Nassau street, whero he met his clients as a lawyer, is suspiciously near the headquarters of the drug factory on Liberty street?just round the corner, in short. ? The political news which comes to Washington from different sections indi? cates quite clearly that the Republicans in the pending Congressional campaign will not derive nearly so much benefit from tariff agitation as they anticipated. The Republican Congressional campaign committee commenced business with the idea of having tho bulk of their cam? paign literature consist of high-tariff tracts, but there are, perhaps, a dozen Congressional districts, naturally belong? ing to the Republicans, where it would be disastrous to circulate such documents. As in the most liberal Republican calcu? lations looking to the control of the next House of Representatives no allowance is made for tho possible loss of any districts now controlled by that party, the situation is somewhat embarrassing. ? Old Horace Grcely said many good things, but none better or truer than this: "That is a deplorable moment in the life of a young man when he concludes that there is any easier way to make a dollar than honest work for it." AUF'S LETTER. f I id Visit to Towns In East Tennessee. Atlanta Constitution. When a man goes meandering around through another State, it becomes him to see the bright side and the best side of everything. He is no welcome visitor who comes along with a flaw picking face and hollers "school butter," and is alwaysi telling and bragging how they do things where he lives. When there is just causo to praise, praise should be given quite lavishly, for it makes the people notonlj content but proud of their homes ana country. By invitation I visited East Tennessee the other day, and sojourned at Sweetwater, a thriving railroad town that takes its sugary name from that beautiful valley and the stream that runs through it. The valley is about twenty miles long and half as wide, and lateral? ly flows with milk and honey and other products of a generous, well-preserved soil. There is more butter and nicer butter shipped from that station than any other along the line. The platform was crowded with cans that coutained from twelve to twenty pounds each, and as I looked over the labels I saw that their destination was Atlanta and Eome and Birmingham and Chattanooga and other towns along those lines. Wire coops were crowded with chickens and box? es packed with eggs. There were barrels of sweet potatoes, and there were scores of barrels and sacks of flour which came from a mill near by that ground 2,000 bushels of wheat every day. A pound of flour is the daily ration for one man, and here is a single mill that feeds eighty thousand people, and yet it is a mere cipher in this great business of feeding the millions. Will this thing never stop ? Will the people never get enough ? Can't the nation fast a few days and get rich. The statistics say that it takes twenty million dollars to feed the nation a day. Let us all quit for awhile. Tanner quit, and now there is another feilet who is beating Tanner's record. He has taken no food for forty days and still keeps strong and lively. But they say he has the elixir of life in a two ounce vial. There was a fair going on at Sweet water?a lively little County fair?and they had fine cattle and good stock of all kinds, and big potatoes and turnips, and beets and pumpkins, and immense ears of corn. I measured one that was six? teen inches long and large in proportion. There was a great variety of handiwork of the ladies, and lots of preserves and jellies and beautiful butter. There was a negro there from Knoxville with his fine stock of horses, and the committee had to tie the blue ribbon on them whether they wanted to or not. There was a girl baby show for all ages over six months, and as the committee were young men they tied the blue ribbon on a baby about sixteen years old and gave her a' kiss as the premium. Bob and Alf were all the talk everywhere, and the people didn't seem to have much choice between them. The brothers were there the other day, and when the Democrats began to shout for Bob he went round among the boys and said in a whisper, "Boys, don't make such a fuss over me. Alf is over there and I'm afraid you will hurt his feelings. Alf is my brother you know." This brotherly politics is having a good harmonizing influence over the people and the two great parlies feel kinder to each other than they have since the war. What pretty names they have for the towns of East Tennessee. There is Cleveland, Charleston, Athens, Philadel? phia, Sweetwater and Mossy Creek all in a row. I stopped at Cleveland, where I had never stopped before, and found a lovely town, with more beautiful homes than any other town of its size. Eich Seople live in Cleveland, and there is a Tethodist female college that cost over a hundred thousand dollars. It is chock full of girls, as sweet and pretty as an old man's eyes ever looked upon. You can find a college for girls most every? where you go. But most of the boys have to put up with a high school and then go to work. This generation of girls will be smarter than the boyB. The consequence will be that in a few years the women will iake the lead and be running the machine. I don't mean that they will be holding office, but they will vote and they will control the moral leg? islations of this country. I don't care if they do. I am perfectly willing for the experiment to be made. Let them vote. I'll bet they choose good men for office. One thing is certain, they would improve the manners of mankind, and would improve their morals, too. If I wanted to insure the election of a temperance man for president, I would do it by a flank movement. I would first organize a party on female suffrage and make that the issue. Just let the women have a chance at whiskey and they will knock it out of sight. The still-houses would tumble like an earthqunke had struck them. They are having some little embarrass? ment at Chattnanooga with one of their schools. The situation reminds me of Judge Tourgee's experience in the Fool's Errand. Those good people up North who believed everything they read in Uncle Tom's Cabin, and still believe every bad thing that papers and politi? cians tells on us, are very liberal to the poor negro, and keep on sending money down here to educate him. It seems that the Freedman's Aid Society sent a hun? dred and fifty thousand dollars to the Conference of the Northern Methodist Episcopal church at Chattanooga, to be used for the Christian education of the negroes. So the Conference decided to plant a University there and connect with it a theological department. They further decided to let the white folks come in and get a little education, too, so as to give a high social tone to the concern and let the two races progress together in fillial relations. But when they got everything about ready for busi? ness and had elected their faculty it was suddenly discovered that the white folks were not coming. They wouldn't mix worth a cent, and so after much tribula? tion and prayer the local board decided that the white folks needed a Christian education more than the negro and so they made a right about face and left the I poor darkey out in the cold. They opened the doors last week and began with 130 pupils. While they were arranging the classes there was a knock at the door and two very respectable colored young gentlemen applied for admission. William Wilson is an exhor ter in the church, and Lewis Gibba is the church steward and has been a deputy sheriff. They desired to complete their education in the university that was built with the freedman's money. They were met at the door and wore asked, "Who sent you here ?" They replied, "No one ; we came of our own accord." The col? lege dean then said, "I do not doubt your right to be admitted, and personally I have no objection, but you know how it is. If we admit you, then the prejudice of these Southern rebels will break up our school. You boys have now the very best opportunity of your lives to shew a high Christian spirit. Just with? draw your application and let us have no trouble. If we admit you it will ruin the institution at the South. If we reject you it will raise a howl all over the North. Now show your Christian man? hood and withdraw and save us from this embarrassment." But the "boys" still persisted and put theirdemand in plain language, and said: "Will you admit us or not ?" The reply was "No, but the faculty will meet and give you a formal answer." This was the situation at last advices. It is a sad case of Sylla and Cuarybdis. The mistake was in giving the money to the Northern Methodists. They should have given it to the Southern rebels and then the negro would have gotten il, every dollar of it. They are the best friends the negro has got. I was talking to a learned judge the other day and he said that when a negro had a case in court he was more sure of justice than a white man, for the juries leaned to him rather than against him. But let the negro go North and try to get in a white school.< He tried WeRt Point under the protection and backing of the govern? ment, and he couldn't stay there. He has tried to enforce the amendments to the Constitution, and he can't do it, North or South. But he has settled down to nature and nature's laws, which are stronger than human laws, and be is more contented right now than he has been at any time since the war. If this money was given to educate the negro he ought to have it, and if he goes before a rebel court he will get it. But, somehow or other, we are not calm and serene. I don't like the confi? dent asaurance with which these scientific men predict another great earthquake and a storm that is to sweep destruction over this fair land next Wednesday. About^ this time the usual equinoctial storm is due, but we understand that and are used to it. But if it is the conjunc? tion of great planets that is to shake up tilings and make the earth change its center of gravity, I don't see why the disturbance should be greater at one place than another, for the earth is revolving at the rate of a thousand miles an hour and presenting all sides to the planets. The truth is that ever since Mr. Wiggins predicted the earthquake at Charleston I feel a little too serious to make fun of these prophets. If we dig a hole in the ground it may start a crack that will open. If we get up on a Pied? mont escarpment, the tornado will have a fair chance at us. So I reckon we had better do as Mr. Grady said at Charleston ?"trust in the Xord." Tber? is comfort now in that Scripture which saith "no man knoweth the day nor the hour." And so I reckon the earth will hold to? gether a while longer. Bill Arp. Tho Chinese in America. ^ BY CHIM GIM. The greatest number of our people in America are found in California. To obtain a satisfactory idea of them, it will be necessary, first, to ask who are these people and how came they here? It has been said that they are coolies; that means that they belonged to a degraded caste in their native land. There is no caste in our country, nor any more in the United States. The mistak? en ideas which some have on this subject have arisen from the confounding of the Chinese and their customs with those of India, where the entire social system is widely different. The Hindoo word coolie is one of those indicted upon our people, in whose language it has no equivalent and who have no caste or class which it represents. It would be justly held degrading to English laborers of whatever occupation in China to be called coolies, and it is not right to attach to our people the hatred of a social debasement which is peculiar to another people. Our emigrants here are just what those of any other people are, farmers, carpen? ters, stone-masons, brick-layers, shop? keepers, book-binders, tea-packers, gar? deners, cooks, and just what an equal number from any other country might be expected to represent in the variety of their occupations. Even some wealthy sons coming over to this country with the intention of making a large fortune have been reduced into hard laborers, because tbey are ashamed to send home for money while they are in this rich country seeing others making their for? tunes. Some that speak English best have been employed in factories, as clerks in stores, as interpreters in offices. Again it has been often said, the Chinese came to this country as employees and bondsmen of six different stock companies, or by capitalists. Now, let me say that the mistaken notion of the American people in this matter arises ! from their not understanding the true nature of these companies. There are six of these companies and each one rep? resents' the district from which it comes. When any of our people visit any other province of our country in considerable \ numbers, it is our enstom to have a com? mon quarter or place of assembling j which we style a gathering place or com ! pany's house, being wholly provided with food and lodging at their own cost by contribution. Wnen our people emigrate to any foreign country, Asia or America, for instance, they immediately organize and begin to erect a bouse for common headquarters. An agent or superinten? dent is selected who registers the names of the members and manages the affairs of the company. By-laws for the government of this company are formulated, and these are rejected at pleasure by a majority vote of the members. Servants are employed to take care of the building, cook the food and attend to the sick. When an emi? grant steamer arrives on the Pacific coast, messengers are sent at once to learn to what company the passengers belong, which provides express wagons to bring their baggage, and kindly receives and takes care of them until they find their friends or get employment. Their names are registered and they become members of that company. Each man is required to pay into the common treasury ?6.00 for defraying the expenses of the company. They do not come as employees or bondsmen of any company, neither are their wagons con? trolled by company. They come as men, they come as private individuals, they come seeking their fortunes. If any does not have the means to pay his pass? age, he borrows of his neighbor. Our people come to the American shore just as and other people?the German or the Irishman. They come as laborers willing to put their hands to whatever will yield them a livelihood; in fact, there is as much variety represented in their employments as might be expected of an equal number of emigrants from any other country. When any one wishes to return to China he must notify tho company two weeks before the time of his departure. This gives his credi? tors an opportunity; he cannot go off ?iiying nothing about his debts. His name is put upon the bulletin boards and be is expected to square all bis accounts befoie he returns to China, whether those debts be owing to Americans or China? men, and no one can take passage in the beme-bound vessel without a certificate issued by the company. These cumpa nies, instead of making bondsmen?as the people suppose?make freemen of them, secure their individual interests, and prevent unprincipled men from tak iing advantage of those whom they have dealings. No Chinaman is held under obligation to the company by any bond stronger than his own desire to be con? nected with it. For instance, when a Chinaman in one of these companies becomes converted to Christianity, he finds the idol worship there obnoxious, offensive to him, and withdraws from the company at his own pleasure; his mem? bership in that company ceases just as the membership of an Odd-Fellow ceases when he leaves off paying his dues and withdraws from the lodge, only the Chi? naman has no dues to pay to his company t xcept the initiation fee of ?6, which he paid when his name was registered. The Christian convert having thus withdrawn from the company it has no more juris diction over him. If he wishes to return to his native land he can do so by simply paying his fare. He is not obliged to secure a certificate from tho company before he can get passage in a steamer,1 The members of these companies arc no more slaves than are the members of any other voluntary association governed by rules, established by majority and e.ecting '? their own officers at regular periods. No Chinamen are owned, imported or em? ployed as slaves by company or individu? al. Only a few of the women have been brought to this country by outlaws. It was 'provided several ypars ago by our government that no woman should be sent to this country except with her fam? ily, and she must get a pass from the government. Thank God, now there are Christian homes which were opened for them by Dr. Loomis, and Re7. Gibson and others. Many of them were free from their masters and went to these homes and received Christian instruction and many of them were converted. The second fact given by some people said, "The Chinamen are not willing to become citizens and their presence ex? cludes other laborers and servants." It is hardly fair to say they do not be? come citizens because they are unwilling. The difficulty is not so much to be found in their wills as the unwillingness of the American people to admit them to citi? zenship. I saw in the daily papers last April in Washington City, D. C, that an intelligent Christian Chinaman applied for naturalization papers and was refused. Had there been nothing in the way but his own unwillingness he would have become a citizen of the United Stales. But the grave difficulty of being refused prevented bis being naturalized. About the same time another Chinaman brought his wife to the Pacific coast. They asked permission to make their home in this country (desiring to become citizens), but the wife was forbidden to land. It is true that the Chinese do not become citizens, but it is hardly fair to say that the reason of it lies in their own unwillingness. A third fact: "They live here chiefly on rice, earn a dollar a day .and spend less than one-fifth of it, and the rest of their earnings are carried out of the country." Well, if they do make a little money and sen^ it to China, they do nothing more than other people do, but they spend money here, too, and live by their own toil, as men have a right to do in a free country. No envy is borne in China toward a man that tries to make his living by bis labor. There need be no fear of our people crowding the white people in this wide land. There is room for all. But we have always understood that America is the home of the poor and oppressed. I believe that God brought our people to this country, not for good alone, but for that which is infinitely better?a knowl? edge of the gospel, a knowledge of evan? gelical trutb. And it open3 up to Chris? tian America a wide and important channel for missionary work. Our peo? ple come to America. They are heathen. They go to mission schools. In that way many of them are induced to attend church on Sabbaths and bear the Word of God; tbey become converted?they are still Chinamen. Their deepest and ?nderest sympathies are for their heath? en brethren. They are ready and willing to carry the blessed gospel truth to them, and to day there are Chinamen, converted on the Pacific coast, serving faithfully as missionary pastors in the city of Canton, China, aud they can accomplish more ? among their native brethren than is pos? sible for any foreign missionary to do. God forbid that the American people should throw away this splendid oppor? tunity, but may tbey improve it by treat? ing our people kindly and charitably and in a Christian spirit. God had made this nation great and powerful; in its greatness, you must stoop down and help us up.?Tlie Interior. Fighting With a Jersey Bull. Mr. J. E. CockGeld, a young man of Lake City, was a few days ago engaged in mowing hay. In the field was a very large Jersey bulLbelonging to Mr. J. H. Blackwell, of the same place. As the mower approached him he began pawing the ground and making other demonstra? tions of fight. Mr. Cockfield knew that he was fierce, and fearing that he would gore the mules, stopped the mower, and approached with a whip to drive him off. The bull ran a short distance, and Cock field thinking him gone, started back toward his machine. Hearing a slight noise, he turned just in time to glimpse the mad beast rushing upon him. The next j instant he was hurled forward several paces, and the bull dashed on over him. Eortunately he bad struck between the horns. As be sprang to his feet the bull had turned and charged again, knocking him down and attempt? ing to gore him as he lay. Cockfield seized his horns and pressed himself clc3ely between them. The bull waved him frantically through the air, but he clung on for dear life. At length he managed to throw himself behind the horns, and caught the beast firmly around tbo neck, chocking him. He managed then to get one hand in the bull's eye and gouged it most effectively. This was too much for the brute; he got away and fled, leaving Cockfield in possession of the field of battle. During this unique aud terrible encoun? ter a colored woman ran towards the contestants, flourishing a grass-blade; but she might as well have been armed with a blade of grass. A negro ran up with a fence-rail, but he too was afraid to take a hand in the melee. Mr. Cock? field was thoroughly shaken and a little bruised but ?*.?/S*rjously hurt, though completely unVeV-Vr^>ind exausted by the fearful ordeal, Wmcli he passed through successfully only by cool bravery and presence of mind.? WilUamtburg Herald. Why is it Thus % It has been estimated that the cost of producing a bale of cotton will average ?31. Now suppose tho bale to weigh 500 pounds at 8 cents, it will bring in the market $40; a net profit of $9. There? fore the farmer who raises ten bales of cotton has the handsome income of ?90, 1 and he who raises twenty rejoices in twice so much. From this" we see that the man who can make 100 bales of cotton may do very well, but he who makes much less had best try something else. We are astonished at the vast amount of cotton that is planted, when it is universally admitted by our farmers that it is an industry in which there is little or no profit. Still thousands of acres were planted this year and as many more will be planted again. Why is it? Is it because they have contracted the habit of raising cotton and can't shake it off even tho' they are willing to admit it is a bad ono. Tbey have handled the soft stuff so long that tbey can't quit, cr still worse have they inherited it from their fathers? Is this strange facination for cotton fields in their very blood, a great appetite handed down from sire to son ? We cannot tell. Would that our farmers would rise in their strength and with one great effort overcome this mighty passion for hoeing and plowing cotton and with all respect to their fathers turn their attention to something else. We heard oue of our most experienced farmers remark the other day, that any? thing, even raising grass was a better business. We will not insist on total abstinence, ono may indulge himself if be wishes in a few garden spots around the house for the sake of "auld lang syne," just an occasional acre will do no harm, it may serve as a geutle reminder of the unprofitable days that are gone.? Greenwood Tribune. ? A negro girl in Laurens county bears thin lovely name, "Fair Rosa Beauty Spot Temptation Touch Me Not." MARY'S BRAVE EXPLOIT.'|M The Heroic Action of a Carolina Girl hH lie Revolutionary Siege of Charleston. From the Ixmdon Lilly Leaves. During the war between England and America in 1779, General Prevost march? ed from Savannah and laid seige to Charleston, but hearing of the advance of General Lincoln, he struck his tents and made a rapid night retreat to Savannahr then crossing the Stone ferry, he fortified himself on the beautiful island of St. John. In this island stood a splendid mansion, surrounded by extensive pleas? ure grounds, made beautiful by tropical vegetation, and where the voices of the birds were rivalled by the laughter of happy children, at play. Eor in this; house there lived fifteen children, eight of them having been born there; the other seven little orphan cousins, adopted, by Mr. and Mrs. Gibbes on the death of their mother, Mrs. Fenwick. Mr. Gibbes was an invalid and a crip? ple, who could only be moved about the I grounds in a chair on wheels; but hei seldom required the attandance of his faithful black sjrvants, for the children?; frisking around him, always furnished a spirited team from their own nunibersr Only he bad sometimes to submit to the sudden desertion of all his eteeds, and enteicd merrily into the general con? versation and fun when his carriage was brought to an ignominious standstill, whilst from behindthe great trees peeped laughing faces, with cries of "Papa!": "Uncle Robert!" Over all this social brightness and joy the neighborhood of hostile soldiery brought a strange terror, which was increased tenfold when General Preyost selected the ground-floor of Mr. Gibbes' beautiful house as quarters for his troops, leaving the family to crowd themselves' as best they might into the upper roQmt. No more games at hide and seek in the park for the children now, nor excursions on the bath-chair for the invalid, and all feeling of home was taken from a bouse shared with such inmates. Mrs. Gibbes was obliged to take her husband's place in mannging the estate^ and domestic affairs, leaving the entire* charge of the children to the eldest daugnter, Mary Anna, a girl only thirteen,' years of age, whose calm bravery made them all feel less frightened in ber pres? ence. St. John's island was only thirty milea> from Charleston, and when the American'; officers heard that "Peaceful Retreat," the name of Mr. Gibbes house, was in the hands of the enemy, they determined to rescue it, and two galleys were at ?nce. despatched up the river with orders to dislodge the enemy, but not to fire on the ; mansion. A thick plantation skirting? the river was the point bebind which tbey anchored, and then the darkness and, stillness of the night where broken by the flash and roar of cannon booming on all sides of the British encampment. Officers and men, suddenly aroused from the sleep they had thought so secure, were rushing about in dismay ahdj confusion, and you may imagine the:tern ror of the family up stairs when awafcenedj to the horrors of a midnight attack-. They soon found that it was conducted^ by friends, but tbey knew nothing of the* orders to preserve the house, and thought it best to make a rapid escape. So the poor invalid was carried into his chair, and the household crept out by a back door, brave little Mary carrying one, and sometimes two, of the terrified children^ It was a new experience for them tobe wandering in the darkness, with only tire few garments that tbey bad hastily dress? ed themselves with to protect them from the pitiless rain, the little ones stumbling in the deep mud, and crying in their childish helplessness. But it wasFworee when the road at the back of the house, which ther had chosen for safety, brought them near the river and exactly within range of the guns. Theshot rattled past them, aball cra^d ed through the trees close at their eitro, aj charge of grape-shot cut the boughs! overhead, but Mrs. Gibbes and Mary] each staggering onward beneath tbeil burden, cried aloud to the Father inj heaven to be their shield, and most won* derfully He protected tbem, bo that tbey/ bad passed unhurt through the terrific: fire storm and reached at last the house of one of their field hands, quite out of reach of the guns. Into this little place they thankfully crowded,and Mrs. Gibbes in a state of utter exhaustion, sank upon a low bed; but as the children, clustered round her she started up, the mother's eye missing one of the fifteen. "Oh, Mary! where is John ?" ;> The poor little girl looked around, and then with a moan of anguish, cried? "Oh, mother, mother! he's left !" That was the worst moment of all.; The little child was one of the orphans and very dear to them. Mr. and Mrs.; Gibbes, mastering their emotion, consult-, ed earnestly together, and then their attention was turned to Mary, who had knelt for a moment in prayer at the side of the bed, and then arose with a calm, steadfast face, saying: "Mother, I will go for baby." The mother thought of the house, per? haps even now in flames or filled with" bloodshed, but to all she only answered: "God will talfe care of me,'-' and pressing her child in a passion of tenderness to her heart, the mother let her go forth iu charge of this Divine Protector. ~~v~*' 1 "Cannon to right of her! - Cannon to left of her! Volleyed and thundered P . But unimpeded now by any burden, the brave girl sped along the dangerous path, God covering her head in the night of battle, and came at last to the old home and to the room where this boy had been sleeping, and opening the door she saw him sitting up in bis little cot. stretching out eager hands to her ana' cooing with delight. Only a few minutes more, and sbo came for the third time into the terrific hailstorm of shot and shell; but rushing through it as though she bore a charmed life, and clasping the child with a clutch that almost frightened him, she came out of range of the guns, and within range of the many eyes that were straining tbenv, selves for the first glimpse of ber. "Out of tbe jaws of death" she was welcomed with thanksgiving too deep for words. The boy thus nobly rcscured lived to become General Fenwick, famous in tbe war of 1812. The tablet to the memory of Mrs. I Sarah Gibbes stands now on the wall of St. Paul's Episcopal church in this city. ? Wm. Henry Fitz Lee, son of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee, has been nomi? nated for Congress by tbe Democrats of the Eighth District of Virginia, to suc? ceed Barbour, who voluntarily retired. "Runy" Lee as he is best known, W3s a Confederate trooper and won distinction as such, and was once set aside as a Con? federate prisoner, to be executed in retal? iation for some colored Federal soldiers' who had been condemned to death, in the early days of colored troops. The death sentences were subsequently remov? ed all around and Lee was exchanged in due time. He has been farming since the war and has not figured in politics beyond one term of service in the Legis? lature. He will doubtless be elected, and will make a very unassuming but useful member of the House. ? A Minnesota man, who knows the Indians of the Northwest well, advances the theory ; that they are increasing instead of diminishing in numbers. He says that they have been steadily follow? ing the buffalo Westward, gradually moving from the Atlantic coast to the far West, and multiplying as they moved. The first Government report mentions G0,000 Indians; the lost total number 1 reported was 230,000.