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TtY E. R. MUKEAY & CO. VOLUME XXII.?NO. 22. THE HIGHROAD TO SUCCESS FOR THE FARMER, Is to use a Cotton Seed and Grain Crusher for crushing his Cotton Seed, and in this way you can make your own Fertilizer at home and save money. WE invite your attention to tho letter of "Mr. G. S. Williford, who is a Public Ginner and Farmer of large experience. Read what ho says, and then insist on yonr Public Ginner to buy a Cotton Seed and Grain Crusher. You will like it, and it will pay you: : Anderson, S. C, Sept. 28,1886. Messes. McCully, Cathcart & Co.?Gentlemen: The Barbour Cotton Seed and Grain Crusher which I bought of you last January has given me satisfaction Jnevery respect. I can crush more seed per hour than you recommended the Ma 'cnine to doVfagving speuded-nry Machine to crush 60 bushels per hour, which it did easily with about four horse power. The Seed when crushed is in excellent condi? tion for use as a Fertilizer, and I am satisfied that farmers all over the South should use them as a matter of economy in the use of Cotton Seed as a Fertilizer. All my customers are pleased with the Machine, and I am having considerable addi? tional demands to gin cotton from parties who desire their seed crushed. Yours truly, G. S. WILLIFORD. Do noG forget that we are giving our attention especially to? GROCERIES. PROVISIONS and HEAVY GOODS And can supply your wants at the lowest figures. We are just receiving three car loads FLOUK, one car load BACON, oue hundred Boxes TOBACCO, and large quantities of other Goods, which we wii sell at lowest living figures. -.It will be to your interes t to call ami see us before you sell your Cotton or buy your Goods. We have the biggest stock of Tobacco in upper Carolina, and can please every? body in price and quality. McCTLLY, CATHCART & CO. nov4. 1880 17 .All Kinds of CHRISTMAS GOODS AND TOYS - ax JOHN E. PEOPLES & CO.'S, suc:ee as Dolls, Doll Carriages, Drums, Acccdeons, Boys' Wagons, Base Balls and Bats, Etc. LAMPS and CHANDELIERS,fanoypl1in SILVERWARE, CHINA and GLASSWARE, is LATEST PATERNS. Don't forget that we deal largely in COOKING AND HEATING STOVES, And all kinds of TINWARE AND CROCKERY. Call in and See oru? Patent Churn. Can get butter in five minutes?and it's so, too. [JOHN E. PEOPLES & CO. Nov 18, 1886__19 _ THE CLOTHING BUSINESS. Cr I TIE DRY GOODS BUSINESS! The Largest Stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS Now on hand since the commencement of our business. P. SULLIVAN & CO. Our stock Clothing larger than ever. Our stock Dry Goods Larger than ever. Our determination to sell Cheaper tha? -ever. The prettiest in the market. DRESS GINGHAMS, CASHMERES, TRECO GOODS, and everything. 8&* Don't fail to come in?we will take pleasure in showing you through our entire stock. COFFEE?always tho best. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. Sept 23,1886_11_3m ATTENTION! WE desire to call attention to our Stock of General Merchandise. We are sell? ing everything very close, and will sell REGARDLESS OF COST For next ninety days?consisting of EVERYTHING kept in a General Merchan? dise Store. We give especial attention to buying FLOUR and GROCERIES, aud can meet any competition. LOOK AT OUR WAGONS AND BUGGIES. We CAN and WILL sell you aa low as any one. A. few sets of HARNESS that must be sold. A WORD TO THOSE WHO OWE US For Supplies and Merchandise, Fertilizers, Horses and Mules. The same are now due. and wo MUST have our money, ah we need it. All Notes and Accounts for Fertilizers must be paid by November 1st. We will not indulge you any longer. CUNNINGHAM, FOWLER & COOLEY. Octl4, 1886 U TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY. WE ARE NOW SELLING THE LIEST CARRIAGES, PH2ETQNS, B?GGIES AND WAGONS In Andersen for the Least Money, /QUALITY being considered, and would bo pleased to have you call on us before w you purchase and get price?. We have just received a Car Load of Fine Side Bar Buggies, and other styles, which wc will offer at LOWER PRICES than ever before heard of iu this market. LAST, BUT SOT LEAST, All persons who owe us ono cent must settle with us before November 15, 1S86 for we will put our books and papers in tho hands of tin Ollicer for collection on that date. We mean what we say, and a word to the wise is sufficient. REED & STEPHENS, Main Street, between the University and Public Square. Anderson, S. C, Oct. 14, 188G. f J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. Mrs. Darraeott, though a lady, is one of t he be?t disciplinarians in the County. She has lauglit several years at Sandy Springs, and still holds tho confidence aud esteem of the patrous and pupils. Mr. Sterling has settled down to work at Midway, Miss Callaham at Shady Grove and Miss Karle at Cross Roads' These are all teachers of acknowledged ability, and from them we expect good reports. Miss Lela Roberts, we are told, has purchased a pony, (not a Texas pony, however,) aud now rides to her school. We commend her enterprise and pluck, and congratulate hor upon her improved plan of locomotion. A pleasant note from Miss Olivia Newton informs us that her health is greatly improve^' and that she will again be able to tr'.ch in the near future. Before her /iiction Miss Olivia wa3 one of the mcu successful teachers in the County. We earnestly hopo to see her soon returned to her place of usefulness. Last Saturday the patroDS of Hunter's Spring School met for the purpose of putting a new floor in the school-room and making other necessary repairs. "Where there's a will, there's a way" seems to have been verified fully by the earne?t patrons. They met and went to work in earnest and now the work is done. Would it not be well for other communities to follow their example? Miss Nora Hubbard's school is in a flourishing condition, now numbering over fifty pupils. She is resisted by her sister, and insists upon a scupulous ob? servance of systematic regulations in her school. Some of the teachers in the County have visited Mis3 Hubbard's school for the purpose of catching her successful plans, and express much pleasure at what they saw and learned. discipline as a factob in educa? tion. The work of the school may be divided into two parts?instruction and discipline. Instruction consists in imparting knowl? edge which shall produce intellectual strength and culture. Discipline in? cludes things which secure order in the school,-and the forces which tend to de? velop and awaken the moral nature of the young. An end of school discipline is[order, but this is the least important of ils ends. It comprehends the purposes of forming character and shaping life. Discipline has been looked upon rather as a means than as an end. This is par? tially correct, but it stops at the very be? ginning. The child does not attend school for anything more than to receive training. Discipline is not only a help? er, but has an end of its own, independ? ent of all.others. Instruction seeks food for the intellect; discipline looks toward the forces which control the feelings and the will. Discipline searches out mo? tives, looks down into the human heart to find most of its springs of action. Discipline demands character fully formed. Instruction maksa scholars, discipline develops roeo ; in this particu? lar sense the subject is to be treated. It may be divided into the Discipline of Force, the Discipline of Tact, the Dis? cipline of Sequence, and the Discipline of Conscience. If in a school, order aloue be the cud, the best way to secure ii is by raeaoa of force. By this a teacher can compel pupils to remain silent, quiet will reign supreme, and all disorderly conduct aud childhh mirth may be banished. This influence may reach the playground, and all tho exuberance of youthful spirits can be crushed out. Often school committees want a man who can govern a school whether he can teach or not; thair idea of- a schoolmas? ter is that of one possessing strength and courage; hut of that moral power which governs with a look they have no idea, but think that the government of force is easily administered and the teacher with roa and ferule should have no diffi? culty. This is the time sanctioned meth? od of governing schools. It was common in Greece and Rome, and King Solomon thought it a wise precaution in bringing up the children in Judea, and in this country whippings have been in use as a raeanB of punishmont. An investigation made recently by a school board revealed tho fact that a teacher had been whip? ping for such ollences as whispering, looking off the book, misspelling words, not standing in line, not folding arms, making faces, shuffling feet, and throw? ing paper balls. This whole system of bodily punish? ment and torture is uunecessary, arbitra? ry, aud demoralizing; and the order se? cured by its means is too often at the sacrifice of what is best aud noblest in the child. And yet the young must be taught to be orderly; their success iu life and the well-being of society ds maud it. If to spare the rod is to spoil the child, it should not bo spared; hut the true teacher knows that such altera? tive is unnecessary. His pupils obey i him through love and not fear. The worst that is in boys will yield more readily to kindness than to the h?rdeuing influence of punishment. The Discipline of Tact h that which preserves order aud promotes moral growth among pupils. It substitutes strategy for force. Order in the school? room teaches iCciSOLii of order. Pieuty of wor: is tho panacea for the breaking of school room laws. Skill 0:1 the part of tho teacber, willingness to do his duty, and love for the children render whip? ping almost unnecessary. Wh?.t is to bo thought cf tho moral effect cf the school discipline which whips a child for breaking a pane of .glass, up3ettiag an inkstand, 01 coming late to school V Did you evtr know au instance in which by bodily torture a lazy b ?y was mado industrious, or a mean boy a coot! boy ? The time has come for euch a form of dine'; line as shall free it fruir; itsf.bilraty character and make it more in accord- j ance with our ideas of justice. When a ' boy h;ts placed a pane of glass in a brokeu window, and repaired any dam? age thai iie has wrought, ho ha-; done about ai] that ahould le retired of him. A pupil who plays on the way to school may be deuied li e privihge:! of playing at recess; one who is idle may be made to work whiie his mates are at play ; the habit of bad lauguagc may be broken up if the pupil be isolated from his follows. The advantage of the Discipline of Consequences is beyond, comparison. It enables the teachei to remove hi-i per? sonality. Instead of a monarch, govern? ing according to his own will, he becosnca a judge, and governor according to law. Tiic discipline of force lives behind a feeling of resentment. It would not bo difficult to awaken a spirit of revenge ugainst an arbitrary and tyrauuical m;-filer. The Discipline uf tho Conscience i;i the nio.it dilli: ult part o ' the teacher's I. require.-; the moat profound knowledge of humau uaturc stud rnro skill ia using it for 'he purpose. No clumsy hand can teach the conscience of the child ; it draws back at the approach of the ungentle, the unsympathetic, and the impure. It is the very Holy of Ho? lies of the soul, and none but tho divine? ly authorized High Priest can enter its Bacred precincts, or minister at its altars. None but a conscientious teacher can administer the discipline of conscience. A teacher must love the right and d;> the right, hate the wrong and avoid the wrong, if he expects to make any pro? gress in the moral training of the young. The teacher's example has a powerful influence upon the young. Wc grow like our idol?, and the idol of the child is the teacher he loves; the teacher's life settles upon and moulds the life of the child"; the example of the true teacher is a con? tinuous sermon. The great teachers of the world have not been its famous famous scholars, but those who, by word or deed, have been able to influence for good the young of whom they have charge. The times demand better moral train? ing. Our schools may bs in better order, and our methods of teaching better, but it is a question whether tho art of form? ing character has advanced much be? yond what was done in days gone by. We are overlooking the individual train? ing which alone can develop individual character. Conscience is wanting to-day in the marts of trade, in the store and in the office. Elements of shoddy are found in the clothes we wear, the houses we build and the furniture wo use. Your profess? ing Christian brother will cheat you without a twingo of conscience; which has grown callous uuder what he consid? ers the interests of business. The church seems to forget that no one can be a true Christian who is not honest at all times in thought, word, and deed. The function of the public school is not to make scholars, but to send forth men and women to he useful in society, and so to teach that conscience will be recognized as God's best gift to man, and that to deaden its instincts is to commit eternal suicide.?The Progressive Teacher. An Essay on Drink. Drink makes a man a fool. Take the wisest man and make him drunk, and he is as big a fool as the most illiterate and. silly is in the same condition. In fact, the wiser the man the bigger the fool? for more reasons than one. Men, in the flush of their young manhood, who would not stoop to anything beneath the dignity of gentlemen when 3ober, have oeen known to borrow money whe-n drinking, in order to get more of the very stuff that was even then making them lose thoir solf respect and forget their manhood, with all "the true, tho beautiful and tho good," and became troublesome to their friends and the community and liable to violate the law and be punished for their recklessness. While slightly under the influence of liquor, and not enough to bo detected by ethers, acts hav? been com? mitted and words uttered, unconsciously through tho effect* of the stimulant, which would make any sober, sensible person thiuk the "guilty" man must be either tight or "a natural born-fool." All owing to the mean liquor shoved off on him. A man who takes but ono drink de? serves no more credit than ha who lakes two. The principle is the samo all the way through ; tho cause and effect the same in the one case as in the other. If ono drink satisfies one man and it takes more for another, both should be held equally guilty, on tLe principle that if one drink: did not satisfy tho former he would lako as much as the latter. It in a weakness to drink, in the seute that iL is a weakness to gamble, etc. It is a habit, a passion. We aro all weak creatures of habit and passion. Ono has a /ouduess for one thing, and ono for auother. What suits one, docs not always suit another. In many cases the gambler does not drink; in many cases tho midnight thief does uol drink. Their ruling passion is not. tho cup that intoxi? cates; they are iutoxicatod with the love and excitement of their avocations. Often the man who drinks Las no other fault?his fault is moro hurtful to himself than to others. Free from the effects of drink, he attends to his business and miudti his own affairs; but under it? in? fluence, he neglects his bnsinessandspeaks and acts as he would not bo guilty of doing when sober. A man whose refined uaturo and cultivated taste would shrink from tho very thought of evil, loses his better self whon under the control of drink, and he deliberately commits those very bins from which he recoils in his Eobernc-ss. He gets into bad company and becomes involved in ugly scrapes. It is easy enough for the free mau to say he could quit drinking. Let him contract the habit and he will find then that if ho abandon it he will deserve inoro credit than if he bad never begun the habit. The. grandest exhibition of the human will that can be, is recorded whan a slave breaks his bonds and stauds lirm. Why don't you take one drink and quit ? Yes, yielding to the temptation to take one drink and quit has been the prime causo of the loss of many a mighty and magnificent mind that could have make its future as grand and glorious as its past bad beeu infamous and inglor? ious. Edgar Allen Poo once thought he was strong enough to lake one drink and quit. Ihn in the brilliancy of his intel? lect, nright in tho circle of letters as the evening star in tho circle above him, found to his cost that he could not lake one drink and quit. Prentiss, the match? less Mississippian, uuder the power of | whose gigantic mind a concentrated ,; congress swayed for consecutive days, ones thought he could take one drink and quit. But iu the pride of his intel? lectual strength, in tho glory of his tower? ing mind, iie too found to his cost that be could not take one drink and quit.? Newbtrry Observer. Senator Hampton's 111 Luck. A private lolfei received in Columbia to-day conveyed the intelligence of i singular, but fortunately tot serious ac? cident to Senator Hampton while bunt? ing deer in his Mississippi plantation on the l?lh instant. The Senator aria a party of young men went out hurtling on that day and during tho aflornoou Senator Hampton becamo separated from the party. While riding through tho woodu where vines were very thick his guu was caught by a vine arid given such severe jerk that h was discharged, the- load of buckthofc entering the back <;.'' Li:i hor-iVr head, killing him instantly. The dead animal fell upon Cen. HampLou but he managed with some difficulty to extricate inuvjolf. Jn the meantime Liu rest of the hunt? ing parly, supposing thai Senator Hamp? ton hud given up the hunl aiid gone home, deserted the field, but upon arriv? ing at the house of ihc Senator found hy I wa i not there. At S o'clock thai evening, j as Hampton had not put in an appear- j Mice, a party was about to start in search [ of him, when the Senator walked up very j much exhausted, but not seriously hurt. ; He had been walking for four Bolid 1 hours It was a considerable distance j from where ho had killed hi- horse to his home, and walking in hi.-i disabled con- I dition ihrocgh !i;c woods had boeii very ! trying r.nd fatiguing.?New.", and (.'niii-.r, ; .V C< Uli' r '1 ? A correspondent writes : ''I hiii in j love with a yoaog lady, but to-i basSfcl j tu prop >ri>. Who cm help m?: ??u|. ,,)' Wc should nay nor lather could ; tiial is, .? if you happen to stay too late. ' GOVERNOR RICHARDSON. Inauguration 0r the >'e\v Governor. Governor Richardson was inaugurated in the Opera House at Columbia on Tuesday, 80th ult., in the presence of both branches of the Legislature and a large crowd of spectators. After taking the oath, the Governor delivered the following address: Gentlemen of the Senate and Howie of Representatives: It is with a d.-ep sense of the responsibility and obligation I assume, that I have.just taken in this solemn presence the constitutional oath of office as Governor of South Carolina. With no ordinary emotion, and with a heart full of gratitude to the people of this State, through whose partial kind? ness I am the recipient of this exalted houor. I this day enter upon the dis? charge of its high duties, to the faithful, honest, vigilant and patriotic execution of which I pledge- the honor of a devoted son of Carolina. Sincerely distrustful of my own abili? ties, I confidently rely upou you, their choscu representatives, for such wise, liberal and conservative action as will render the progress of tho State in ma? terial prosperity rapid and the executive administration of her affairs easy. To the most unobservant and indiffer? ent it must bo apparent that these are times fruitful of vast aud pressing prob? lems, social, industrial and economic, both in State aud national affairs, which demand for solution the ablest talent and j most unselfish patriotism. Notwithstand? ing the dual nature of our institutions and government, investing the citizen, as it doe3, with varied duties and interests, the peculiar condition of our State, socially and politically, during tho dark days of reconstriclion, rigidly confined the attention of our people to tho seem? ingly hopeless and Herculean task of wrestling from a chaos of corruption and venality in all their hideous forms, and. of universal malfeasance in official life, such as had never before disgraced the anuala of a civilized community, order and good government. How successfully, how marvelously, this has been accomplished, need I attem pt to describe ? Surely, it can ne*ver be possible that the deep, soul-burning humiliations, the crushing tyranny, the ruinous taxation we so loug endured, the bold effrontery of loathsome vice in high places that stalked in open daylight through the streets of this beautiful capital, have so soon passed out of mind and been forgotten liko the idle terron of a dream, amidst the quieting, restful surroundings of the renewed peace, order and good government we now so bounti? fully enjoy. To the people of Carolina, I verily believe, one of the greatest mis? fortunes that could occur would be obliv? ious disregard of a former experience that, upou the least cessation of vigilance on their part, might, and would almost surely, agaiu become a terrible possibility. The same elements of evil are here, the same forces: present, though latent; but to this generation, who are the witnesses of and the surferers from certainly the most anomalous and extraordinary con? dition of political aud social life under which a people ever lived, T do not think there can ever come any deluge of Leth? ean waters so overwhelming as tc sink into oblivion the bitter momories of the past. Sad, indeed, would be the sure results of criminal forgetfulness of a lesson so roughly taught, so heroically learned! Iso, this can never be. We are again in the house of our fathers, as masters and rulers, aud we are here to 3tay as such for all time; but to stay inspired by tho true instincts of liberty and animated solely by a high and patri? otic purpose to dispense even-handed justice, to maiutaiu the purity of cur institutions, and to secure to all classes aud conditions of our citizens every legal, constitutional and inherit light of man. With the ir.cstimablo advantages of good aud honest goverument ouco more surrounding us, like a life-giving atmos? phere, how bright tbo prospect for rapid advance in all the arts of peace and in accumulation of the wealth to which our wonderful resources ef soil aud climate so justly entitle U3 ! True, wo are just at this time in a eoudiiion of great business depression, common to every inteicsl of the whole world, aud iu no way peculiar to ourselves, save,.perhaps, in complica? tions arisiug from the transition phase, through which our agricultural industry is now passing. To this great interest we should certainly give promptly that al tontiou which its importance to the gen? eral welfare so imperatively demands. We should approach its consideration with that calmness of judgment and freedom from paasiou so essential to reaching wise conclusions. The Depart? ment of Agriculture, to whose charge its interests have been oatrusted, and whose development has becu the object of such saruest, faithful and successful efforts, should be sustained and fostered. Al! laws upon our statute books tending lu the retardation of its development, or calculated to direct its energies into un? profitable channels, should be at ouce repealed, and such measures only as are absolutely needed for ita proper encour? agement should be enacted. "Perfect freedom of action aud judg ineut is the most efficient incentivu to successful exertion in all the occupations ?f life. This it is the duly of govern? ment to insure tc every citizen, whether walking iu the paths of commerce, fol lov.'ir.g the professions, or gathering the wealth of nature from our teaming forests aud causing our fruitful fields to yield their abundant increase. I speak as a farmer, who loves his calling with an ardor inherited from ancestors devoted solely to the tillage of tho soil, and whose instincts, affinities and sympathies are, therefore, naturally and warmly enlisted iu the successful furtherance of that first, grandest and noblest of pur? suits. A fair field, untrammeled oppor? tunities, c^'aet justice, freedom from discriminating legislation, and feush encouragement as is entirely within the legitimate sphere of goverument, is all the American citizen asks or needs, and constitute the very fundamental princi? ples of the liberty for which Washington fought and conquered, and in defense of which our heroes crimsoned the countless hili? and valleys of tho Sunny Suuth. May the geniu.-* of liberty preside for? ever over our destiny and direct all our ef? forts to the accomplishment of so glorious a triumph iu governmental science. Amidst the abundant caused for con? gratulation, wc certainly possess one in the restored credit and improved finances ?l the Stale, brought to reucwed life, as it were, from a condition of almost abso? luta decay aa? death. We should r,i>: forget to scan closely tho expenditures of the government, and restrict thorn within the limits of a wise and liberal economy. Ti;i.-> is but simple justice to the taxpayer, who, however cheerfully :wid uucom plaiugly he may pa\ his quota of tribuio, should net be subjected to greater burdens than the necessities of government im? peratively demand. But it should aiso bo remembered that the smallest and fewest appropriations arc not always the wisest economy. Government is business, and, like any other business, requires for it - successful conduct the use c.i money ; ?>uca, for instance, as for tbo adequate compensation of (.'iiioiuis, the proper iiminteiiai;co of choritablc r.ud penal hij-tit til ions, the prompt payment of all public obligations, the liberal support of common echoold aud highci institutions ol ii .;i.ling, the accessary expenses .if legislation itself, aud the numerous oilier incidental purposes that fool up no nw nir.idcrable amount. \V? have already achie-'oil much in ill! .viiy of economy, having reduced expenditures to a point that places tho government of this State among the cheapest, if not the very cheapest, of the States of the Union. A comparison of our expenditures with those of any other Stale will, I am sure, fully justify t his assertion. While looking, then, with continued care to the exercise of this cardinal virtue of economy in the admin? istration of our affairs, especial attention should he paid to maintaining the credit of the State, now at a point of ex? cellence never before reached in the his? tory of her finances. If this credit is fully sustained the opportunity will soon be presented; by the early maturity of our securities, of refunding them at a much reduced rate of interest, and thus relieving the taxpayers, by a single trans? action, of an annual burden of perhaps one hundred a::d fifty thousand dollars. This surely will prove a measure of econ? omy that would be sensibly felt as a relief to every industry and occupation, and should enlist, therefore, for its ac? complishment, tho active sympathies and co operation of all. A practical test of tho feasibility of this project must sonn bo mads in tho case of cur deficiency bonds and stocks, which mature as early as July, 1SS8, for tho refunding of whicb timely provision, will have, of necessity, to be made. But however rigid the ideas entertained upon this subject, however great the apparent necessity for retrenchment and reform, thero is ono direction in which they cannot bo exercised without stifling the young life of the people and snap? ping tho very sources of our material and intellectual strongth. I allude to oar public schools and the system of colleges we call the University. The one i3 the essential complement of the other, and neither can accomplsh the full measure of its usefulness without its necessary coadjutor in the grand work of educatioa. In the common schools are to be laid the broad foundations, and in tho institutions of higher learniug are to be reared the beautiful and lofty structures, of intel? lectual development, that render a people prosperous, happy, great and respected among the nations of the earth. [Ap? plause.] Such institutions are not like mushrooms?the growth of a nigh;. They require long years of patient sacri ? *fice, of patriotic effort, of liberal and unstinted support, to attain their full statue and grand proportions, where their pinnacles, reaching to the sky, will shed a beam of transcendent brightness over tho land, vivifying every industry, and warming into active life every dor? mant energy. In the matter of education we cannot afford to contract. Tho true policy should be to broaden, to deepen and to widen, 03 the resources of the Stain per? mit, until the last vestige of mental darkness is swept from our borders, an? every child in the State shall become the recipient of the beuiguant influences of thorough instruction. The accomplish? ment of this great work, with us, cad only be gradual, for none but the will ? fully blind can fail to see and feel the prevailing embarrassment, so widespread and universal. But, at least, no step backward should be taken. The march must be over onward, with the steady determination not to be outstripped in tho race by our sister Stales of the Union, who are bending every energy to tho most complete and perfect development of their educational systems. South Carolina, among if not the first to establish a system of free schools, im? perfect though it was, has the added in? centive of a noble ambition to maintain her ancieut proud position amoug tho most advanced and progressive of the States. Nor will the fruits of such a liberal policy be either meagre or desti? tute of a certain and abundant compen? sation. How richly has she in the past reaped the reward of her liberality to her institutions of learning ? Need I tell of the illustrious names lhat have illumed her anuals both in peace and in war? Of how her sons, trained in these institu? tions and imbued in every fibre of their being with Carolina sentiment and Car? olina dovoiiou to principle, have carried her flag often to victory, but always to giory, and have won for her a reputation for loyalty, learning and eloquence not bounded by continents or oceans ? How 1 the heart thrills with emotions of the loftiest State prido as wo read of-the men who were indeed giants in those dajs, the acknowledged peers of the greatest and be3t in the land. Not to mention a hundred others almost equally famous, I have no hesitation in assertiug lhat the production of two such men as McDufiie and Thomwell, both poor boys, would fully compensate for every dollar expend? ed in the maintenance of the institution which nurtured them. The South Caro? lina College and tho Slate Military Academy, as tho capstones to a perfected system of common schools, and aided by other institutions of a similar character, will most assuredly prove, in tho uol distant future, the unfailing source of prosperity, happiness and advancement in all that olevalcs and ennobles. From their gates will issue an annual stream of cultured Carolina youth, with hearts filled with grateful love of country, whose genial and refreshing iufluence will permeate and spread through every nook aud corner of this fair and beauti? ful State, and will, like running waters in a d.-.-ei t land, cause to spring up every? where new life, vigor and wealth. But there is auothor direction in which we mu-t look with thoughtful care, if the interests of the people are to be pro? tected against burdensome and unequal taxation, aud are to be relieved i'rem the unnecessary and unjust impositions ''"a: are crushing them to the earth. With two separate aud entirely distinct centres of power in our most happily conceived form of government, there is a constant necessity that neither, in the exorcise of its functions, should ever escape tho vigi? lant watchfulness of the citizen. The momentous events of our rf-cent past, teeming with the clash of armies, politi? cal convulsions and mighty problems yet unsolved, have contracted our range of vision, and bounded our interrst almost wholly within the limits of State lines. This should no longer be the case, when as now, the overpowering cause of press- | ure has nearly ceased to exist, or, at J least, its incentive. The time has, then, i surely arrived when our attention should | be directed with careful scrutiny to the operations of that centra! government in our duplex system which is so far removed from popular Observation as to give it comparative exemption from responsibil? ity. In its remorseless absorption of legitimate Stato functions, in the cruel exercise of is dangerous powers of 'axa lion, all the more dangerous from their insidous nature ami manner of opera lions, there is well founded cause for vigilant and anxious solicitude on the part of the people of tin.' Slate. Tonsider for a moment the matter of Federal taxation and expenditures, and the imagination, accustomed to regard siniplv State revenues, n appalled by thoir immensity, amounting to nearly i'.'?.1} million.-: of dollars, about one million for ev?ry member of 1)10 federal House of Reprcscn'atires, dollars per capita for every man, woman aud child in America and, therefore, =?ix millions for Ibis little impoverished State of South j Carolina. How insignificant, then, in j comparison, appear the expenses of our I own State government ? But. add to this j vast sum that paid through the operation J of the present unequal- and iniquitous i Inrill' to monopolies and protected Indus- j trie-!, and who can fail tu recognize the great, if not chief, cause of the wide? spread unrest and iliseonlt nl pervading \ all classes and conditions of the people ; of this Union, except, of course, the j l e u'iieinrie-i of this onerous and unjust sy.item'/ The admiltedl- correct calcu-; hit inn of three dollars tribute :o piotco liou to every otic of revenue, llr.it actual* ly reached the coffers of the genera! gov? ernment, make; the annual guidon stream that ti -ws unconsciously Northward from the boundaries of ^ou'h Carolina a con? stant drain from our midst. From fifteen to eighteen million of dollar*, not a siugle one of which is evc-r returned, save the paltry amount of meagre appropria? tion so grudgingly given ;o onr rivers and harbor4, and the few salaries paid to Federal officials in :'iir :nid>t. Such an mormons drain upon the retourre-? of any community is of i's?lf sufficient to sap the very life blood of their prosperity, and, unless put a ?top to, must inevitably consign them, with the resistless power of fate, tc a coudi lion of endless aid hopeless poverty. In closing these purposely general remarks, which have insensibly exceeded the limits originally intended, I would bespeak your calm, dispassionate consid? eration of the many grave matters of Slate pressing for attention. 1 pledge myself to an earnest, active unwearying co operation in all your efforts for the public weal, and shall, as far as lies within the scope of the authority with which I have just beeu invested, give faithful expression to popular will, and see that the sacred honor ol South Caro? lina is preserved in all its unblemished purity and integrity. Gentlemen of the Assembly, we have a high aud glorious task before us, in which no loyal son of Carolina should fail to do his full duty, with unflinching and self-sacrificing devotion. We have rescued this beloved State of ours, the heritage of our father*, from the igno? minious rule of tho stranger and the alien ; but it is left us yet to make her restoration perfect and complete, nor should we cease, each in his sphere, to regard bis life services as consecrated to this holy work, until we see her again rehabilitated in all her ancient and resplendent garments of wealth, prosper? ity, power and honor. [Immense ap? plause.] Fratricide and Suicide. Atlanta, Ga., November 26.?This afternoon about 1 o'clock live pistol shots were heard in a room in the Lovejoy building, on Broad street. Officer Gar vey and Emmett Stanley, a young busi? ness man, rushed into the building and were told by a woman named Mamie Johnson, who has a room on the secoud floor, that the reports proceeded from a room in the back of the hall, occupied by R. P. Hill and 0. C. Hill, brothers. The men tried to open the door but 'it was locked, and there was no response to their continued knocking. A latch key was secured and the door opened. The Hill brothers were found lying on the floor, 0. C. with a bullet through bi3 heart, quite dead, and R. P. with a bullet in his brain, breathing his last. In a few moments he was dead. The floor was covered with blood, which smeared the faces of the dead men. A Remington pistol, the only weapon found, was on the floor a few inches from the right hand of R. P. Hill. The five chambers were empty. There were sev? eral bullet holes on tho wall near the bodies, and the position of the dead brothers and the direction taken by the bullets, together with the appearance of the wounds, indicated that R. P. Hill had killed his brother and then shot himself through the head. 0. C. Hill was shot in two places. One ball had entered his left arm, about three inches below the armpit, and_ rang? ing upward into the shoulder. The other had penetrated the heart. A siugle shot had killed R. P. Hill, the bull entering the side of his head back of the right ear aud passing out of his loft temple. His head was terribly swollen aud blood gushed from the mouth and nose of his brother on bis eoat sleeve and left breast, which was marked by powder burns, showing that the shooting had been done at short range. The dead brothers presented a sickening and most ghastly sight. An officer was placed at the entrance to the building to keep out the curious and excited crowd attracted to the spot by the awful tragedy, the news of which flew quickly over the town. Au inquest was held ever the bodies, and the drif of the evidence was to the effect that both men had been on a pro? tracted spree, but the testimony failed to develop the nature of the quarrel between them. They were both seeu drinking on the street this moruing, but it was proven that they were together in their room last night and on perfectly friendly terms. It was further shown that when sober they were very affectionate, but when in liquor frequently had violent quarrels. The most plausible theory istbat while drinking this moruing they met in tbo room and quarrelled, when R. P. Hill seized his pistol, which was usually kept in a dressing case on the bureau, and, having killed bis brother in the heat of passion, realized the crime and turned his weapon upou himself. The verdict rendered by the jury was based on this view of the killing, and is endorsed by public sentiment here. The dead broth? ers were the sous of the Hon. D. Pike Hill, once a prominent lawyer of this city, but now living on his plantation near Dal his. A Crank Among the Law Makers. Atlanta, November 24.?McGee,the member of tho Legislature from Murray, is in a fair way to achieve fame. He is imposed to monopolies and big cities. He was elected as a special representative of the farmers, with a little admixture of the Knights of Labor. After his election lie called a meeting of his constituents. The meeting came to the conclusion that there wore too many rich folks, aud that iibelr increase should be cut oft". The result is that a bill has been in? troduced in the Legislature to limit the profits on "store goods." It is provided that uiercb .its shall not charge a profit of over fifteen per cent, on the necessa? ries of life, such as corn, flour, bacon, r.nd coffee. Penalties are provided for speculating outside of these figures. * The friends of tho bill aver that it will bring about a revival of prosperity among the poor; that the State has as much right to regulate mercantile profits s.s \* has railroad rates, and that laws should bo made for the benefit of the poor entirely. The serious part of the matter is that, notwithstanding the ab? surdity of the bill, it stands a chance of passing the House. The Art of Mlxintr J.fqnors-. "Oh, yes, it is a good den! of an art to mix "drinks properly." said the bar? keeper as he set tho cocktail on tho. ma hogony and put 15 cents in Iho drawer. "Some barkeepers make big wages, too, because they can mix a drink in a fancy shape; but that's nothing compared with v hat sr-me men make- that can mix the Honors Ihemso'.vr-f?. Almost any man can put a little Angostura and syrup and whisky in a gla-s and shake it up, but when a man can put some raisins and p-.ire spirits and a low drugs in a barrel r. id make pretty good iiqunr he's an artist and a danny. Those follows eome high, h it tho wholesalers have to have 'em. I i;?,n" tme big liquor house in Chicago that p'?vs a man 610,000 a year to make liquor for them. The other houses have tried to get hin?, but his firm won't let him go You take a man that can have "iC head of the house say to him nt sup? per: 'Casey A: (Juraeoa want 100 barrels of '78 Maryland rye tight off,' and can go and make up the whole order out of the ra.w material and get it barreled by f> o'clock in the morning, and lie's the li fu Of the business. Ten thousand n year ain't much for him,"-?Detroit Journal DILL AUF Tlilnkrt tin: Boys Niwrtjllore Muscle Edu? cation. It is the same old story. For nearly thirty years, I have been helping the cWldren get their lessons at night, so that they would feel encouraged, and not give up in despair. A child who gets no help at home has a hard time and so does the U'rteher. Some parents think that as they pay the teacher to teach, they are' relieved from all trouble, sand so if the chiid .-lands foot, most of the time, they lay a 11 the blame on the teacher. I know a good lady who got so worried with helping her child with her lessons that she wrote a note to the teacher, and told her that she wanted [to swop work a while. .She wanted the teacher to teach her child the lessons, and she would hear her recite them at home. My experience is that it takes both teacher and parents, to make a good scholar. We are most through with this business at our house, but when our little girl comes home Fri? day evening, to stay until Monday, and brings an armful of books with her, I buckle down to her Laliu and her arith? metic, and help her, so that she can spend a happy Saturday. She had seventeen sums to do last night and they bothered me right smart for they were these tan? gled up things about if Bix men can dig a ditch 100 rods long in ten days, how many men[can dig one a'thousandjrods long in 11 days. It takes me some time to get the hang of these things, but I get it after scratching ray head awhile. The little girl is patient, and learns easily, but Carl is like all the other boys. He frets and gets tired, and throws up his sponge sometimes and says "oh shucks, I just can't do these sums, to save my life." But after awhile he rallic? and ftrics it again. I am pretty dull on Latin and ail I do now, is to keep our little girl company and get tho lesson with her. I used to read Latin, and my first book was the old Historia Sacra, and I have great rever? ence for it yet. In fa*t, wo old time folks have reverence for all thoso old text books, even to Webster's spelling book, that has been condemned and abolished. I still remember my exlutalion when I passed the mile stones one by one and mastered the long words and the hard words. There was more attention paid to spelling then than there U now. Why one of my grand children who is a musi? cian and is away up in arithmetic and geography, wrote us a letter the other day and said he was learning to play on the "catarrh." He sings through his nose, 1 reckon. The very pictures in the old blue back speller are cl.1s5.jc. to my mind. There is poor dog Tray who got into bad company, and the mild maid whose vain fancies caused her to spill her milk, and the lawyer's bull who gored the far? mer's ox, and the rude boy who was up in a tree stealing apples. There was an impressive moral to all these pictures, but still I can't say they kept the girls from wanting fine clothes, or kept rude boys from stealing apples. But we have bet? ter methods now, I know, and I am glad of it. We old folks appreciate the im? provements more than our children do, for they don't know how we had to strug? gle to get an education. Why, when we wanted a peu to write with we had to run the old gander down to get a quill. It was a great day for the geese when steel pens were invented and gaodcr quilliDgs were abolished. They ought to build a monument of feathers to Joseph Gillott. There are new methods and new ma? chinery now, butlhoseoid books and limit? ed facilities made some good scholors in their day. There is more in the boy or girl than in the kind of books. Some things I know can't be changed, for three times six are still eighteen, and always will be I reckon. Education is now in reach of everybody. That is education, in books, and 1 wish that we were paying as much attention to education in morals and humanity. The nature is on a boom about developing the mind, but it has not advanced one step in morals in hall'a century. In fact, it look* like the more education the less morality. I wonder it there is uo way to carry both along together. The statistics idiow that crime has more than doubled in Massachusetts in the last ten years. In loS'J there were twenty thousands committals to prison in that highly refined and cultivated state. Of all the convicts sent to their state pris? on, more than half were born ou her soil, and more than half were under twenty-five years of age, and most of them had received a good education. It is the same in New York. Out of 2.300 convicts in one prison, 1,900 had received education in colleges, or academies, or public schools. It is a fact that among the whiles where there is the least educa? tion there id the least crime. The ratio at the south is far less than at the north. How loug can we keep it so if our people do not wake up to tho importance of training the children in morality. Pub? lic opinion is forcing the parents to edu? cate their children. Why c innot public opinion demand that parents shall con? trol their children and restrain them from idleness and viciousness. In every community there are a lot of bad boys growing up, and everybody knows them to be bad, and all predict they will sooner or later bring somebody to grief and come to grief themselves, but nobody does anything for they don't know what to do. One bad malicious boy will ruin half a d?z;n that arc not so bad. That boy should be taken charge of aud placed in a house of correction. When the parents givv up control the State should take it. The chief justice of the supreme court of Illinois, says: l,It cannot be denied that as a people we are undergoing rapid deterioration, our social, political and commercial morals are sinking. We are rapidly drifting to an unknown coast whose atmosphere is laden with poison ; and death." The statistics show that ninety per cent j of a? the burglaries and robberies com? mitted in New York city, are by young men under twenty-five years of age. Heaven help us ! Will our own young men ever come to this ? The distinguish? ed Mr Augell, of Massachusetts, siys: "It is certain that education of che intel? lect will not stop the growth of crime but will rather give it increased power." Well now what is. the remedy?can't we mix tip more work with all "this fine education ? A boy who is going to school thinks that a little study is work enough, but he 13 mistaken?when school is out he should work Komo at homo. Work is the thing?play some but work more. The old fashoned boys had to work. When they came home from school they had to chop wood and feed thoctock,rod if they got Saturday evening for frolic they v.'ere doing pretty well But sein.; 1 boys don't do anything now but study, aud nut so overly much of that. Mow many young men in our towns and cities a'C making a precarious living?living off of somebody else." and they say they! can't got any work to do, by which they J mean they can't get any employment j that -nils theii fastidiousness! and they go about, and talk about Jay G uld hav- j iug all the money! Well, he has got more than his share, I reckon ; but there is. a round silver dclh.r left for every day's work that a young man will dc. The chances for a young man In make a for tune, honestly, are vor; ?lim , but be can make a living. These. I?ig speculations arc running our young men crazy! Why, i' make- my old head swim In read about tluso big railroad, r.chemt.s and changes, and see how a few men main millions by a scoop?scoop is tho word now. The money kings scoop up a railroad that is worth ten miili r? as easily as a darkey scoops up a -t,"Vi?! full of dirt. Then the president and ail the employes have to root and make room lor another set. It is: ?ui scoop and thou scoot. We com raou people look on with amaze nent and feel helpless, surely they would scoop our iittlc paich of land and then make us scoot. I wonder if our wive?*,and chil? dren arc safe from their all devouring greed. Nearly every railroad in Georgia is now owned in New York. If I was in thejjlegislature I would stop this thing. Weghad railroads once that belonged to our^people, but we haven't now. I am glad that Atlanta has waked up, for if Atlanta cau'l hedge against the money ring then nobody can. A syndicate can make a town or destroyiit at'their pleas? ure. Here are the cotton buyers of Carlersville, shipping their cotton to Cedartov.0, so that they can get through rates back to New York and our railroad commission is helpless. But they need not be helpless for they can repeal every charter that violates our laws and it is a violation when they combine with roads outside of the State to oppress our people. As Governor Gordon eaid in bis inaugu? ral the sovreignty of the States must be i?re.-.crved at all hazzards. We want' railroads?lots of them?but it looks like that when we 6tart to build one, it is scooped before it is half done. That is all right if they will tote fair, but corpo? rations have no souls, and they have to be watched. Their power is now gigantic ?it is fearful. I was assured while in North Carolina that one, .corporation owned that good old State and controlled its legislature. Shame upon euch an admission! Do they control oura.jfiWill they control it? Let us wait and see.^. But let us not borrow trouble or havW gloomy apprehensions. Suilicicut unto the day is the evil thereof, but still let us not go to sleep in security. We must fortify as we go along. Our people are not yet desperately bad?I mean our Southern people. We have nearly a million whites in Georgia and only 148 white convicts, whcreas.in Massachusetts and New York there are thirteen hun? dred white convicts to a million of people. Just think of that and take comfort. Now let us keep our boys good if we can. If we guard the boys well we will have? no (rouble with the men. As for the girls, we have no trouble now. There is but one while female in our penitentiary; I reckon it must bo as Dr. Woodrow says, that man evoluted from the animals, but woman came directly from ihe hand of h J ? ?. tor. Bill; A nr. Married on Horseback. A novel and thrilling runaway niar riago occurred a few days ago in William? son" County, the facts about which have just come to the surface. A young man, well-to-do farmer, about ten miles East of Franklin, and a beautiful girl, the only daughter of an old and rich stock-raiser near-by, were the two brave parties. They had been knowing each other for ? years and had been engaged for some time. The old man opposed the mar? riage, not because of any especial objection to his'daughter's suitor, but becauso he didn't want to marry any? body. Several attempts to run away bad been frustrated by the stern parent, who told tho young man if he tried again he would - kill him, and if they married ho would kill them both. Nevertheless, remem? bering that faint heart never won fair lady, the lover braved the danger of losing his life and made another plan with his sweetheart. On the day set the young man dashed on a horso up to a by-way near his belov? ed's house where she was wailing\for him, and taking her up behind him he galloped away. The old man, who kenr^ a close watch on the young lady wbeJr^^ ever she left tho house, seeing what was up, in five minute.i was in his saddle and tearing after the flying couple. The would-be husband and wife made straight for the hcuse of Mr. John Buchanan, the nearest magistrate. The old 'Squire was found at bis sorghum mill, and when ho recognized the pair jumped <m a bile of cane, and as they were on horseback, before half a dc.:en breaths could bo drawn made them one, and none tco soon. On the top of tho hill in the dis? tance was seen the irato sire. The br. ^o and groom dashed off in an opposite di? rection, and when the pursuer Came up the good old'Squire with a merry twin? kle in bis eye, called to him, and in kindness for the young folks, detained him for a few minutes. The couple got away, the relator said, and the next day they wrote a note to the father, telling him if he ever wanted to sec his child again be had better extend his forgiveness. The letter was productive of good results, and the old man has his daughter and the young man his wife in one and the same person and are friendly.?Nashville American A Story: About a Bible. There was a little boy who wauted a Bible very much indeed?wanted it more than anything else he could think of. But he was a poor boy, and could not afford to buy one; for he lived a good many years ago, when Bibles cost more than they do now. One day two strange gentlemen came to his house and asked his mother for something to eat. Although she had only plain food, she gave them a welcome to what she had. As they ate, they eaw that the little- boy looked sad. They asked him what be wanted, and he told them a Bible. His mother said: "Never mind. Don't fret about that. I'll tako you to see General Washington next week." "But I'd rather have a Bible than to see General Washington," the boy said. One of the gentlemen seemed much pleased with this, and told him he hoped he would always be fond of the Bible. The next day the little boy received beautiful Bible, and on the fly-leaf wi written, "From George Washington." The little boy did not know it, but he had been talking to General Washington himself the day before. S1& did not Triumph. ?'You look very much excited, dear,' he said, when she entered the parlor where lie was waiting for her. "Well, I should think I ought to look excited,'' she answered; "I've j-.:-:t had the most awful argument with ma." And she be? gan to weep hysterically. "Why, what is the matter, my darling?'' he inquired, as. he slid an arm around her waist at d endeavored to soothe her; "what was the argument0" "Oh ! how Cbn I tell you? She s.sid you were only trifling with me, and that you would ne\er pop the ques? tion ; and I told her she did you a great injustfee, for I believe you would pop the question to-night, she said you wouldn't, and I said you would, and we had it hot and heavy; dear George, you will not let ma triumph over me will you?" "Wh ?hy certainly not," answered George. "I knew it, my darling," the dear girl exclaimed ; "come let us go to ma and teM her how much mistaken she was!" And they did, and mn didn't seem to be so very much broken down over the affair, alter &\\.?Boston Courier ? Gov. David B. Hill, of New York, is descrihed by a political enemy as a man who docs net drink, does not "smoke, does not use improper language and does ';ot seem fond of amusements, though ho is not a churchman. His ambition is political Miecess. He is a bachelor, with? out a stain on Iiis moral escutcheon, and may be waiting to marry when Prcsideut of the United Stales. ? The shortest route to a man's heart i; said to be through his stomach. In tha*. case a good cookery book is the most reliable marriage guide.