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"AlA tI4t! I-- 2 ;-a . ..- - VOL. III ANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12. NO, 7. .QuloeQ *.l - e ed the Rapahannock, and thn avvauce on Chacellorsville. Iho two i-rigade were riorced by a third and Andersoj in person. With this small force he olb stinately cont'(ted wrv inch of groun nd delaved Hooker's advanct; ut2 Jackson could bring u' his troops, wh< at once asurd1 th otrfisive au-l pre: sei Hooker back to Chancellorsvill,. Whil< Jackson's famCus flank movement was il progress, Ander,.on held Lee's centre The battle was territie, aA Hooker agaii and again tried to break through the thi line. The woods screened the weaknes: of the C afeere i, which was S< fearfully Lrehd, in order to cover th( neces;arVy ground. that in some place the men w, re six feet apart; yet Hooke . as held to his po.SItion until Jack-.or could strike' the fatal blow. ANOY:UM'R IeiMGND. Hokier had har dlv been defcated wher Sedgewick cOssed thbe river at Freder icksburg, carrying Marye's Heights and threatening Gen. Lee's rear. Ho wa first checked at Salem Church. Ander son's tire-d troops had been fighting fox five d.ays and nights, but when Gen. Lee calaI u'pon them, they cheerfully coun termanrc.he( and drove Sedgewick across the river. Anderson, in a marked man ner, received Gen. Lee's thanks for the heroic connct of his veterans, and was recoulnima e.d for a lieutenant general's comni'ssion. AT GETTYSIURG. The second crossing of the Potomac soon followed, and the battle of Gettys burg. Anderson took no part in the battle of the first day. On the second his division, except one brigade which had been ordered to report to Longstreet, confronted Cemetery Hill, which he was ordered to charge when Lorgstreet's fire reached his right flank. This it nevez id, but Longstre(t's attack being hard pressed, Andrson was ordered to make a diversion by assailing the position in his front, which was handsomely done. The works were carried, and had it be, n possible to send him even two brigade of supports, the battle of the third had never been. None could be sent, and reluctantly he had to withdraw to hi original p'aition. The division felt this repulse hlv, and it was stated that it back bad never before been turned to fte Loe. It went into battle about 6.000 slrong; the mornir:g after it mustered less than 4,000. With the army it re crossed the Potomac and, excepting tIe short campag at Brist)w Station, re mained in c:mp until Decenibcr. When Meade advanced to Mine 1Zun it marched to meet him, but Meade retired ;ithout n e=n nt. The rct of that win t-r a 1,assed ardund Orange Court House. TIE PAIGN OF ';4. Farly in the spri:g Grant opened the eamaiga of 18-4. Oa the 5th of May e. rson was gn:.rding the fords of tLe iJan ag:.in;: cavalry. After the bat :.-o that day ,rders w'ere senit h:im to e->M Gn Lee, but they were not re e d. Assumi- t responsibility, ithut ordrrs ts Le supposed, b-ceaue e k ,. he r t be wantd, 1:e LarC:med until unarda' light oi the 6th, and reacecd the neighborhood of the battlefield mo;st ppcituneiy. At dawn of that day, Grant having run over some of the fore in his front was pasUing up the ro-d, endeavoring to gain G-n. Lee's ir. Kershaw and Anderson. coming fronm difl',rent directions, reached the leld bout the same time, and Grant's ef'la were soon rpulsed. During tl:h.. day Longstreet was severely wounded, and Anderson, by his request, was transfer:ed from the 3d corps (A. P. Hill'%) and put in command of the 1st (Lorgtreet's.) THE JEED OF MEIRIT. That night he marched to Spotsylvania . H., reaching ii in time to frustrate rant's ecabrts to seize the heights. He was promoted lieutenant general and his commission dated the 6th of May, 1MA4 thus he was the officer of highest rank from his State. The battles of Spotsyl' vania and Cold Harbor followed the :onstant fighting by night and day until Petersburg wa~s reached; in all theose An erson led the let corps. When Long street had sufficiently recovered to resumt command of his troops Anderson relieved Beauregard, who had been ordered tc Charleston. With this new command e held the lines immediately in froub oj Petersburg, until towards the spring oj 1865, and then relinquished them tc Gordon, and took his place On Gen. Lee's right flank. ANDEEsON'S LAsT BATTLE. When Grant broke through those line Anderson e:-Msed him as best he could gaining a tecnpurary advantage at Gray ellyiRun; but the end was fast appro-"ch ing, and 'exhausted, starving- men cu? do no more. At Church Cr~'ossing a par of his corps under Pickett was badly cut up, and on the Cth of April he fough his last battle, when his corps, reducd t< a mere hardful, could not stand agains the heavy nurabers oppose d to it. FIGiTING F1(oM FIRST TO LAsT. Anderson was with the Army of North ern Virginia from early in 1862 to th< end, was never absent from his comm.ut except when disabled by wouds. T< give a full account of his career and. o that of his brigade, division and corp: woud necessitate a history of Ge. aLeel grand army and till volumes. The war was over, the South defeated and place was not in her gift for thu.s sons who had been educated for a miin tarv life end who had surrendered all save honor. in her cause. Anderson r' turned to the home of his boyhood, i.: poverished and without: resources,t struggle on in the efl'ort to gain a meapl support. Utterly uinsuited to this n lite as he was saeess was a bsre p1oseiLi ity. i-str .o Ywed, and iuhi old here c conissbta . red eeid to ab)so.t wa'nt, andU on the. iYrge o ep. S'i oie te12 A 1 'udlow, CO:-d in pr-o: a ..,r~(*** co0 '.1t Ar ito' ts' tre e su. Th ea Zot alevs' ei n h o uet he r f~ hisprg e ; so dtanedwas la:- awhy inL :id gr ad St.Heea C urlieatn h. a fo3 ha beoe theIRSe WA coul OE R.d hella historisn will reohis mia THE HISTORY UF A uHERO. LEAVES FROM THl lE1F OZF yF(IUT ING DICK ANDERSON. Southern Mer in Northern Armies-An Al ternative of Duty or Self-Interest-I. M. Anderson a Case in Point -lReminice-i of His Early Life and the Record of His Military Career. (iy a Meniber of 1his Military Family.) Those officers of the army and navy of the United States who in 1861-62 were called upon to sever their connection with the service of vhich they were jistly proud, and to which all of their youath and most of their mature years ha. been devoted, constituted a brave ani g-'mt band. They thought little of pul ties. Many of them had been for years -r'pa rated .rom home ties, and now, by the action of their States, they were eon fronted by a question of duty on the one hand and on the other of yielding up their own interests and their love for the banner under which many of them had won renown in the past. A DE CATE QUESTION. They had been educated firm beli vers in the doctrine of Stateb' Rights; they felt their allegiance first due to their States, but to obey her call meant for them the sacrifice of hopes of a life-t-mue, and to some want and poverty, in i e of a comfortable support, of which ihey had reasonable assurance. All must be surrendered or else they must be deaf to the call which was imperative awl left no option. How few hesitated, and those who put duty, as they saw it, a' ove all else, surely deserved much from their companions. A SON OF snITER1. * One of this number is the subject of this little sketch. Born in Sumter county, I in the State of South Carolina, of old and honorable ancestry, reared on the soil of that State, there he received his early education. Sent thence to We,t! Point he graduated in the class of 112, and was appointed a brevet 2d lieutnant in the 1st Dragoons, United States A.my. In the Mexican war he served wit' hi s regiment and was brevetted for gallan try. After its termination his prinucipal.eu7tty! wasin the distant West. At Fort K-:ar ney, in Nebraska, he was doding bght duty, and hoping for promotion s -me day. When the war between the Stes became a certainty, though so far away, the cal of the State to arms in 1-r dc fence was immediately obeyed. H re signed his commission in the .- ed Sts+es Army, hastened home and ;.n dered his sword to the Govt rnor oi S -ith L _ -lina, and was appointed colon of the ib, regiment of State Trxp.s, mu, on Sul'ivan's Island. :The lieute'ant colonel of this regiment was another s; of South Carolina, who was soon pointed a brigadier general in the awy of the Confederate States, and whose life's blood was poured out at Ma=unsas, while bearing the brunt of the baitle, and urging his troops to emulate tae steadiness of Jackson's heroes, "standing like a stone walL" When Barnard E. Bee died the State lost a son whose r-b"I ty and devotion to her cause would have been a bright and shining light, and -hose record would have proved him the T eer of the worthiest of those -Lose words flashed in her defence. ANDERSON AS A COLONEL. Peculiarly modest and retiring, aliost self-depreciating in disposition,tbe griet, unobtrusive colonel, who doubted his ability to be of much service, except as commander of a small body of the arm to which he had been accustomed, was destined in a few short months to be known throughout Gen. Lee's army as "Fighting Dick Anderson," to enjoy the fullest confilence of that great com mander, and the love and admiration of as gallant a division of heroes as ever went to war. A PROMIsE OF GREATER Tn1NGS. At Williamsburg Richard H. Anderson was temporarily in commnn1 of Lu-g- I street's division, of which his own un gade (afterwards Jenkins's) formed' a part. There those who knew the mnan and relied on his courage and skill firt had assurance that their expectations. would not be disappointed. Seven Pines Anderson's brigadi. the admiration of the army; it ed the enemy's line and captared .Casey's camp. ~ Of this charge Gen. Johnston wrote! that R. H. Anderson's brigade of South Carolinians bore a prominent part in the contest. At one time outflanked and almost surrounded, he not only avcited its danger by masterly manceavring, but held the .ground he had won. IN THE THIcK OF THE FRiAY. During the seven days of battle around Richmond Anderson was in the thiek of the fray. At blood-stained Gaines' farm he was conspicuous. There, as nigh: approached, and McClellan still held the plateau around the house, Longstret rode up to Anderson and said that the position must be carried before nigh'. and that his brigade was the last he had to send. This was not pleasant tidings~ to wearied troops who had been fighting for twelve hours, but Anderson promptly answered, "If any one brigade can do iP mine can." In a short time McClellan was driven from his last vantage gre nrd and the "masterly change of base" was a forced necssity. GOING U'P HIGHER. Anderson was new promoted and had to part with his old brigade. His5 dii sien, comapcsed of brigades from X irginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Missi sippi, which had not previously se" much active service, soon proved Ise. worthy of its gallant commnander, an' gain.-Il a reputation second to nome i.. the armi' With it he had a place h Sc' --d Aanassas. Thence he led itit j and, where, by daring auduen: . he. . ted in Lolding Framnklin'sh~ in ch.ck at Pleasant Vaiky until Ji per's Ferry surrendered, and thee Lar back to the aid of Gen. Lee's attenu army at Sharpsbunrg. In that battle . derson we severely woundett, b'ta tained the command of his division a the crisis had passed, when he wa i from his horse fainting froma locs blood. At Fredericksburg his positionwa the left of Marye's Hill, where Burn was expected to make his attack, however, made his tight further to right. Hisi infantry was not eg ib't his batteries did good iiervice AN OBsTINATE FOEMAN. For the remainder of the wite' -. arson's command remained near Fre1.Ne ricks'rurg. Two of his brigades hiele United States Forti where Hooker cross I I life and perhaps tell how the men trusted I s! and revered the man, how the great Lee 2 again and agai gavc expre0sion to the - confidence he reposed in him. The i I friends who knew him in life will re l imemb -. the aniability of his t!mper, >!his lion-like courage, coupled with the i modesty of woman; his siuceri!v and I . guilelesuness, which caused him to'think! i no evil; hs patience under misfortune. his unbounde 1 patriotism, his reliability i in emergencies, his willingness to take I I grave responsibility, even though the lhonor and rewards were for others, and > with one consent will accord to his muem ory the proud place it deserves in the annals of his people. TI! -.A She Uiai Her Own Ways and Mut Take the Consequence<. 'rom the K ansas City Times.) Tt is truthfully asked if something i o can. .ot be done to protect our women, t the poor lambs-something to guard i them against the wolves of fortune- i hunters, footmen, body servants, coach- f men and the like. No, nothing can be done. Nothing z ought to be done. God, in his infinite N wisdom, never intended that anything ;i should be done. It is simply a question of the survival of the fittest. Every is wILk of the world these women uponl whom so much sympathy is being wasted , have to minister unto them Moses and t the prophets. In the way of warning, E line upon Inue and precept upon precept c iome to them even in their dreams. IT, tchn, they get into a matrimonial hell there let hem be. Lazarus will no more t go to them with a drop of water than he s went to the rich man, praying like a y dervish for cne. If these affairs are v affairs of the heart let them break or c hard-n. Women fit to be American a wives and motbers ought to be courted t in the good old way, and go to. house- I keepiwg in the good old way. They do n neither of these things when they per- I mit themselves to be imposed Tupon and finally preyed upon by some foreign c mountebank, the smell of a civet cat on t his hair, a huge brass watch chain and dirt under his fLnger nails. The only g wor'r about all this bogus tittie busi- a ness is the wonder that American girls gently nurtured, daintily surrounded, 1 sobgt for by stalwart, chivalrous, well known maen of their own country-per- t si.st i going abroad to find husbands, a and even after they have gone abroad that thley cannot til the uPehback from h tho pare gold. It does aoper as if thv t'ven his ro-alclothi nd ns l ..ni; 1 that all the rogues whose 1t r iL-e 0 enlded I_, C.ir Vr oay nI g I I d Vm the occuliar limp a man dater he Is once worn l the ob'r (f gai" i vcul the iantity of ro(Jme ha Jim of a Florentine coun; thai v.ai-t- q coasis'Iotched with wine, and cravats : iraved her and there about the midnle, wolaid give warning that some Freh e valet had come wooing in his master's cast-off clothes. But fashionable society is much to t blame for this, say the apologists of the b sweet little lambs. No doubt. Fash lsociety in somne of the largerid ciiies is monttrous, but society cannot - kil- the woman who does not want to be ' killed. The glorious crown of pure, truev womaanhood was never vet stricksun from I earthly brow, unless that brow bent in fi acqaiesc-nce to the hand of the despoil- a er. . However, it is useless to moralize. ( The American girl is pretty well under stood by the country. When she wants C to marry she will marry, even if she r marries a wooden Indian in front of aa cigar store. 1 Thae Petticoat. |t Few people seem aware how enorma ously a petticoat dress of any sort in creases the apparent size of the hipsun til they have seen the same personsma , dii'erent-i. e., two-legged-dress. T~he habit of wearing a dress which cau~ses the duality of the form to be concealed 9 is the true cause of all the errors and I strange contortions which seem in- 1 separable from women's dress. It com-n pletely alters the character of the tigure Sand causes an ordinary wai.st to look large and clumsy. Dress a man in a w'oman's skirt and his waist immediately appears large out of all proportion to its height, andI this result is the true cause of the compression of the waist among most European natio-'. Till it is re moved, it is vain to argue against tightI lacing. The majority of women also seem unaware how unibecomaing a thing is the tight bodice, which is the stereo typed form on which their drcss bodicest a"'e made They unconsciously try to 't *improve up~on it by making imitation ve:ts and waistcoats and falls of lace down the iront. But with a loose, flap ping skirt atn artistic and becoming form< of bodice is out of the question, for on~ly atight bodice can give the hourglass pinch t1 rendere d necessary by the globular form -the legs a'sume when encased in skirt . -From Dfress. eip the Little Ones. 1 After thirteen years of unsectarian work in rescuing, feeding and caring for -outeast and abused little ones, the so ciety. Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children makes a special appeal to thei o 1ublic for assistance. During the pai ear it has rescned from degrading and'. vicious associations over :3,000 children, 1 aind 'as prosecuted 2,029 neglectin1 purents and employers, of whoma 1,9> i ' were conviecd and punished. besie his the cases of 2,5US children wer in vestigated at the request of p)olice j ices, the result beig th~at sm 1. were" s-et to iCstituttBiSanth- n der foud to bte i~urope 'bjct . har, ben to gathenr in n'o ti -e.i abased children, who, to d uae edI in itS rcepin ho.W"ss 'invlu Th. oi. .ety is ut of debI, but'i '-eeds moneyv to *.large ad cotnuei work. It is ,upported en i.l yvl unta"" conributions, and r-eies m Subscriptions may be sent to th trei: urer, William L. Jenkins, No. 100J Ea.t Twenty-third street, New York city. dont is well enough to be generous. Loi dntbe genercus to a fault. A fault is not e ntitled to any suh r-onsideration. I EX-111ISTE CON ON TU RKEY. I Tutrkis-h Salaam--Turkish Hais- Ik Lh Womec. .&c. The Hon. S. S. Cox's lc. ture, "Ob servations upon Turkey," says the New Eork Sun of October 3, formed tL prin :ipal part of tile enterhtinment given by he Steclier Association at the Windsor Cheatre last night. Three policemen tood at the cntrance, and declared it vas impossible for another man to get nside. Judge Alfred Steckler had hardly fin shed his brief introduction of Mr. Cox vhen the audience fixed itself for an our's lauglier, and it refused to put tef into any other attitude toward the botinguishedi lecturer, in spite of the ident fact that he sometimes tried to >c serious. Mr. Cox began by naking a [urkish -alaam as the most fitting way 0 express his recoguitiin of the honors; b)out to be l1 aped upon him. He first ried to touch his boot toe without bend og hi. huees, then placed his hand on vhat he said was his heart, stuck his iuger in his mouth, scratched his head, ,nd concluded with a sweeping dancing 2aster's bow. The audience didn't care hether all this was good Turkish or ot; it was funny, and they laughed. "The Turks always begin the day with unset," said *Mr. Cox, and everyuody mughed again. "MV mother-in-law sed to tell me that the Puritans began heir Sunday at sunset Saturday, and I ever went back on 'Sunset' when I ould help it." Mr, Cox referred to his trin in the oudan under the guidance of the Sul in's comssioner: "It mvay seem a trange thing for a man to go f. 1 ar -ith only one wife, but, as the n;an ho had his head cut off, it w:s the l(iy ne I had. The Sultan has 414- wives, nd he has to have their names p' ut on le doors cf their rooms. for my-,rt have always found one just aT . lueh as I can manage. Whe. i mat i ,hedive he said: "'Your Excellency, how is it your Duntry has grown ,o fast in popula on "'The attractive forces of our mimi ration laws and of our Constitution,' I swered. "-Dut have you got any of my people ver there?' " 'Oh, yes, we have two. I shipped acm yesterday from Alexandria. They W-ll, W6 all riht. They couldn't c of much more use to me, anyhow.' "I am perhaps the only man in Amer :a wio has ever shaken nands with tie 'hsraeoi of SHe W _as a little;: utv, "bu I shoo hands with him. nder is not co rauch that h1 was a - wI imotlitiy, but that he was able ' lreserve his immtodization. --he great fig-ht of the cen2tury wr, %t beabout Br1 -ia or Roumelia but: ihl take .hee in Afghanistan, between Ie ard ianimal Russia and the sea ani ua Gr at Britain. Some of those pr.s t will live to see Te climax of the lecturer's eloquence -as reached when he began to describe le Caucasian women who replenish the arems of Constantinople. "They appear on the streets as women o in New York, but the eyes-the eyes! -such eyes as I never saw elsewhere. 1 'hese women belong to the stock from; -hich our ancestors sprung. They are; catiful, wonderful woman, compact in I >rm, noble of mein, graceful in move ent, and musical in speech. TheV urkish race will be replenished from; laucasia time and again. "On the bridge between Scutari and 'ontantinople seventy-two nations are ;presented in the passers to and fro, ifferen.t in costume,lknguage and man .er. How does the Sultan harmonize bese diverse nations? The secret of. overnment is the same that was oh erved in the ancient empires of Greece! d Rome--it is home rule-the sse f tribal relations which has prevaited com the days of Abraham. Each tribe as its head, and its own system of taxa ion, and this plan prevails from the :uprates to the Adriatic. Crete has its wn legislature. It is this system which* as kept the Turkish Empire together o long, in spite of its many enemies." MIr. Cox gave some specimens of Turk-! sh humor, and mentioned the fact that aore would be found in a certAn book bout to be published. In conclusion he aid that he hoped the day was far dis nt when the amiable, just, honest and igilant Sultan should lose his hold upon! be Orient. P'earl Fishers of the. R~ed seas. Some 300 boats of from eight to twenty ons burden, and with crews of, in the ggregate, about 2,500 men, mostly no ro slaves, arc engaged in the pearl fih ries of the Red Sea, which yi eld from 10,000 to $150,000 a year. On'ced f the income the owners of the vceri etain; the remaining two thirds are ds ributed among the crews, whi ch s 'k s . average of $30 to $40 a year to every nan. In Lnoaer days bjeddah'. 1:'.r 1eeea, in Arabia, was the port whiere a he pearls were taken and soki; butt since~ he government imposed an imup rt dmy if eight per cent. up~on the peadrls t:: ishers commeinced carryin g tneir shels o MIassowah and Suakin, on the A frian oast, where they have only one per cent. ii duty to pny At present the latt er orts receive about three-quarters of the tire yield, hardly one-quarter of it s!!l ~oiug to Djeddah.I From the-se iion ho pearls are transported to Caoan Uexandria, in lower Egypt. whenc m. t i them go to Trie-te, upon the A'dri*' e, few only reachig London and re diretly from ELgypt. -Fci Uusi in. 1.1here .in:. e aer to, Tre. V an : oromadwl u I, arI': r yr i int\rl'eeAc. iethum dollrs auth to keepl rht 11)1 fcalh~ th eh wealthy(i men. CUINA'S GREAT WALL A MI'l. Surpribilg Statement Made by a e Missionary. 5Ylom the London T:mt .) Abbe Larrien, formerly a missionar t C:dnha, has publishc: a paniphet ;l aris, Leroux.) on the Great Wall 0 China, to demonstrate that this struc'thrc does not exist and has never ex d. The popular belief ii that thii wll stre-wies for about eight hun-'r.ed leal 's aer 'hina, from the sea to the i. , of Kan..;. That it is wholly coustructed of cut tore, and is thirty cubits high by twelve broij. It is believed to run straight on regard less Of obstacles. going dIown valleys and up mountains. without br-ak, except such as tine hac .iade, along its whole course. This notion originated with a Jesuit named Martini, who visited Chiua about 1650, and his description was fol lowed by subsequent writers. M. Lar ricu has lived for szveral years under what would have been the shadow of the Great Wall bad there been one; he has tudied the writings of recent writers especially Abbe Hue-who have crossed the line of the alleged wall in various places, he has likewise studied the Chinese history of the subject, and his monclusions are as follows: (1) The term "Great Wall" is at the bottom of all the misunderstanding, and it comes from the Chinese expression, "the wall of the ten thousand li;"- (2) as described by artini and other writers who have opied him, this wall does not and never lid exist; (3) a Chinese Emperor un loubtedly did conceive the idea of a mreat wall from the Gulf of Liao-Long ,n the east to Kan-Su on the west, and ris, though never realized, had a be inning; (4) all along the proposed line >f the wall square towers of earth, or o1 marth faced with brick, were constructed Lf considerable distances from each oth ut these were never joined. together .y any wall as was originally intended. [a some of the defiles along the route here are walls, but these were intended :o loe these particular passages, or -hey are merely th- walls of villages, mIa are not parts of a larger semUae. Eence the only part of the scheme of he Great Wall carried out was the con truction of these scattered towers, T.e est never went beyond the brain enceived it; it was never more than a aney, and it is now a myth. This hge Dhinese wall, says Abbe Larrien. is a auge Chinese lie, and as for the milln soliiers which were said to guard it Wi' t tud day, they are m thlikewise. leged Great Wall is a favorite exeur ion for Europeans visiting Pekin, a"'I uch a question as whether it e-st aT' r not should be an easy one to stA lefiitely. USE OF TIIE WEED. %, Change Taking Place in the I'e of Tobacco. (From the N. Y. Commercial Aiver'iser Every tobacconist recogiizcs th! greot 1hange that is taking place in wist rray >e called in a rather new eense the pub ic taste. Any average tobacconist, hose trade is not chiefly among salo: mad truckmen, will tell you he does not -ll one-half as much chewing tobaczo a.: 10 did ten years ago. Very likely he will be unable to guess why it is, but he man't deny the fact. I asked one of them bout it the other day. He said: "The ch nge is due to a variety of yanscs. It is a great deal more apparent ir- in the East than in the West and Sodh, but it is going on all over the :ouiitry. One thing is undoubtedly the trength of public opinion that it is an anclanly habit. It is hard for a man who cPews to keep evidences of it from ais ch 'bhes. That fact n'akes it inevita >1e thad J1ic bit should go down be ore the inersasing attention to dress, hat is a feature of modern life. Then a reat many refined and well-intentioned persons have waged war against it for ears. It was inevitable that some afect shouM1 follow their crusade. "But the principal causes are right ere: There is a great deal more dyspep tia and stomach trouble in the country ow than there used to be, and no per son can chew tobacco who has a weak tomach. James Parton says in his amous pamphlet against rum and bobacco that the stomach will hold out igainst the weed longer than the lungs. Tames does not smoke or chew, and herefore he doesn't know. Common experience shows that he is wrong, and doctors support the verdict of common exprience. The action of the tobacco uice, which trickles down the chewer's hroat, is to paralyze the stomach. It will do that long before smoke will have my perceptible effect upon an ordinary pair of lungs. "Then the cigarette has done a great leal to put an end to the hab~it of chew ing tobacco. The growth of the cigar te practice in this country is, as they :ay of Western towns, 'phenomenal.' The consumption of cigarettes has loubled many times over im the last fteen years. About seven out of every >n cos who are growing up now mk :~.mt es. And after a boy has smoked ei4aettes a fewv years he not only has no asto for tobacco in any other form, but he has no constitution left to stand tehewing tobacco. It is curious 0ow boys will take cigarettes. I believe it is very largely because of the iuss th at is made about them. It has g >t to be th ommon opinion that cigare.tte smok ig is the most injurious practice known I. 'That is just why boys adopt M.I Cgs them an object of a~vful inter t to C'.tie bys and to girls. It is mo hing to a bo's foolish prbde to kow to tha'pro ple have marked him out as one whoe is ushing with irighxtful t::merity to ear-y d~struction. XX hethe- that is the ca eu' of it or not, it is perfectly certain titt more and more cigarettes are being sai ever year and less and less chewvm% tobacco. All of the beu~ makes. t65 cash ati baanca November 1, at spot cash pn:e. on a Piano. Si10 cash and balauce 2Nu vember 1, at spot cash pri-caou: Organ. Delivered, freight ires, at vour nearest depot. Fifteen days t.t tii-.i and freight both ways if not satibiactory. Write for circulars. N. W. TRUMP, Columbia, S. C. Aming butter makers and dealers lai: country the general opinion has bteul tat butter churned from sweet cream is not .s good, and will not keep as well, as that ma from sur ceam. ': o Attorunev Genc ral I le i ..... - endared in rm : t. th . reet of Comrptrolilr u *. y, !%3 1An of th:- (ue in bi; r; .s to the correctness of --,ian and practice in rela tiou to te taxat!.e of bonds, secured by moriget of la:.s in this State, held by ifreign land lan comIpanies. The opimon uluy coniirnas the Comptroller Gienerl Ho. W. E. STONEY, Comptroller Gen In respouse to your request for rmy i opirin a; to whjther bonds secured by mtotgag.s of honds in this State held by foreig 1kn -n companies are taxa!l in tlis S e, I bc to say, that in my opiuion such bonds are ncaf taxable here. Th supreme Court of the United States, in he case of the State tax on foreign-held bonds, Railroad vs. Penn sylvaoia, 15 Wallace, 20U, decides the matter in p:oint; that bonds issued by a railroad company are prop(:r:y in the hands of The holders, and whe n held b:: non-residents of the State in which the c ywas incorprated, they !re :!pert-: bev-ond the jurisdiction of that 1at(, and to tax them is not a legitimnate exercise of the taxing power, and this is not afecttd by the fact that the bonds are secured by mortgage upon property situate in the State. The tax laws of a State can have no exlra-territorial oper tion, nor can any laws of a State incon sistknt with the terms of a contract made with or payable to parties out of tie State have any effect upon the contract whilst it is in the hands of such parties or other non-re idents of the State. In t - -ase of Jenkins vs. Charleston, 5 S. C.. 3,3, the Supreme Court of this State decided that the City Council of Charleston may lawfully tax its own stocks, as well as thait owned by non residet s a t owned bv residents ef the citv, a:." ''at such a tax does not imilth. "'aLan of the contract. the sam.:-.:....-t of the Ulnited t n . uay s. Charlevs tono i: S. 2-: r,-er. theOl decii'-: ofi the- Supro Vto SuhCaoi and' in tn.. c :E rs :-. Chr Te:--. tome cen . - I f 'i z .1 .ilva, etched z- - .. : , w -)te ver cpuiar th.is 7:T S.:.. It gol we, woiide S a c with miul ,l 0 ,.: w v - t pom1 n et '.t orte s ..n..ai.. ....h i (eiht legs a to which e TO:e pretty 'L'h~ki.-'L::- isa cioe, is the most recent d in catnlaines. y e t A y 1i u sf -y t o n e - i i ! e, y 1, - Ve, w' c - te edge u tips a: mings of ligu st-l color. A stey! buckle caught tie point of crown i frnt. Tho en!e ! o d . own th' seasofl are mo-It bet ;i n design. An ex quiLite hady pin is sLown in the shape of an Eigish or. doble violet, beaud futy enImie d an restng in diamowl~ on its outer leaf, representing a drop of dw. The link bracelet of newer make is most exquisitely chared and richly adored, iather in conabination or col lectively with diamonds. sai phires or rubia-. Lace pius are shown in enana: forming spray:, and bouquets of small flowers. English wraps of pilot cloths, roughl tweeds, plaided and cheesed Engi:gh wools, cheviots, smooth camei's hair goods crossed with shaggy lines of. del-p color and diaigonal bourettes wial be fashionable. The wraps will have large pointed Loods, rc d silk linings -:nd very pocket fiaps. In many cases tdese wravs will matea the gowns and will be trimnid with braid or embroidery. Others utl Pe in simple tailor style with -machiun2 stitched edgeCs. The Newmaarkets vwill bo richly decorated with applique in silk card with handsome brandebourges and aigiettes to match. English ulsters, red and black~ striped, Eton coats t.J short jackets in French, Londenderry, Russan indl Gldstone, trim and clo- - fttig in the back and cut doui: 1 breated over gold banoded BrIon vests, wilbc eensively worn. Gray continueCs to be very fashionable, and in .c:. -very many of the new ccs tums b~agprepared for the gay - tunan --ni winter sea-on are made whol; of grav .a.is is a style established early in the'summer :season by English royati tv... h fvoitei'. costia:ne- will be of gray wihi cut :-te. ':.ooidene~s and ox t ek-- - and. 1ir cime with cos.i gry giarj and 'ens. Te-e wil :e mre to the. I*eus' .tnmay be, oft 1:rillisut a. a e 'iU "ave m.'ae 1 prevang c'oior.:L t. conulag sea-s a. ti ia tat 00 *t t s a ds 'i, 2 are aI bit .oe deieaw and i the s er- *c . : . g sie i brown, y co.r I iL and blue. a tres. dLLComjot ntiiweek~ with ai mai oca..ta -wu of this peenler .obinaa '.. 1v .kin will be o: a -e- i tint of green, wiUh oserskii .f ~oatn "in ren ..nd pink stripes oi a tn oui. as I dicateb the gruen of the kIt.' The gren of the overskirt is- a bt deeap r than thle -kirt. The drapings will be of lac TRIPLE MURDER. Tr.;dy Near Madison. Ga.--A Negro Man Kills Three 3embers of His Family. A special from Malison, Ga., to the Atlanta Constitution says: The people of Morgan county are aroused by the news of a terrible family tragedy which took place some time be tween Saturday night and Sunday morn ing. About 2 o'clock on Sunday morn ing the clatter of horse's feet were heard by Marshal Beardon, the rider exclaim izJ1 in great excitement as he rode in: "I want a doctor! I want the sheriffi Old man Dow Locket is dead! Aunt Lucy and Mollie have their throats cut and are dying!" The rider was a negro, named Bill, who worked on the plantation of Mr. Anthony Fannin, three miles from town. Upon the same plantation lived Dow Locket, a venerable old negro, and his wife Lucy. They had but one child with them, their daughter Mollie, Sev eral years ago she accepted the love of Alexander Morris, a hand working upon an adjoining plantation. For a while all went well, until je--lousy entered the heart of Morris, and after that there was but little peace. He whipped 'his wife frequently, and abused her so that she was afraid of her life. Early last week he went home one night and renewed his cruel treatment. He beat her until she fell exhausted in a faint. Some time during the night her consciousness re turned, when she found her husband sleeping soundly beside her. Stealthily she arose, and, slipping out of the house, ran in desperation to the home of her parents, where she obtained refuge. "About an hour ago," said the rider, "I heard terrible screams, which were preceded by a gunshot. Running out I saw a man at Locket's front door, pull ing a woman out, kicking her, 'and cut ting wildly at her with a knife. The neighbors began to gather, when the man ran off, and by the time the nature of his work was known he had disap peared entirely. The woman in the yard was Mollie, the wife of Aleck Morris. Her throat was cut clean across. The people went in and found that Lockett was dead, while his wife was almost dead, with her throat cut clean across, just like her daughter's outside. Then I jumped on my horse and rode into town after a doctor." A party was at once organized, con sisting of the coroner, sheruf and several others, who reached the scene of the tragedy at daylight. Hundreds of ex eited negroes had gathered at the place, among whom the excitement was in tense. All agreed that they would lynch the murderer if they could get him. The moat fiendish forms of torture were proposed for Morris. The wounded wife said that her husband came to the house, as he claimed, to eftect a recon ciliation, and wanted his wife to go back with him. This she refused to do. He theu said he would stay all night. When bedtime came Locket went to bed, sleeping on a pallet on the floor, while his wife, Lucy, got into the bed, in the corner of the room, and Mollie got on a bed in the opposite side. What follow ed can best be told in her own words, as told your correspondent: "Dad went to sleep about 10 o'clock, and was soon snoozing. Mai talked awhile, and she, too, fell asleep, and left Aleek sitting in the door. He wanted me to go back with him, an' sorter promised to go. I was 'fraid of him, an' then I wanted to get some money of mine he had, and I just talked kinder good to him. By and by I fell asleep. When I waked up I looked over to see mam stooping over dad's pallet trying to put out the fire. His cover was ablaze and the room was full of smoke. Just then I saw a man spring on mamn and throw her to the floor. She sorter choked, and I jumped out of bed. It was Aleek. He left mamn and sprang upon me, dragging me out the door to the ground. .Lsaw aknife in his hand. Hie struck at my throat, but I warded it off; the next lick and he cut me again and again. 1 felt the keen edge of his knife. Then he jumped and run. Ateck was was not drunk, and I don't know why he wanted to kill us. Did not know dad was killed until just before you came. The shot must have waked me." In the room Dow Locket lay on his side with his eyes closed in sleep. He evidently died without a struggle, and never knew what killed him. A double barrel gun lay on the floor, with its muzzle not six inches from his head. It was his own gun, and the assassin had to step over his sleeping form to get it from the rack. Sheriff Hillamian at once sent for Toon Powell's dogs. The animals took up the scent without trouble, running in the direction of Newton county. When last heard from they were hal way be tween Madison and Atlanta, while the pursuing party of whites and blacks was being increased as it went along by peo ple anxious to join in the lynching of the triple murderer. Fearful Experience of a Diher. Gardiner Floyd, a well-known diver of Portlaud Me., had an awful experience many feet under water at Mattawamkeag a few days ago. He was at work on a foundation for a coffer-dana at the site of a pier for a new bridge for the Cana dian Pacitic Railroad. He had put a chain around a big rock and given the signal to hoist it, when a large piece of the rock broke off. It feil upon the diver, knteked him down, and pinned one leg anid foot to the botL.af. His crowbar was just beyond his reach, and he feared every moment that his air ,aply would give out. The bottom was of mud and gravel and rather soft. Mr. Floyd set to work to dig himself free wilh E~is hands. As fast as he un dermined the rock he propped it with .mail stones. He dug away for dlear life or j :: half an hour Defore he succeeded u getuing his leg free. is air hose was reugon two points of a ledge, but by carelai handling he got it straightened out : ad gave the sigu-a to hoist. He was completely exhausted wien he reached he surfaee. is: toot and leg were badly buied, but no bones were broken. New York Star. "I ther no b~ahnu in GiU d :0i~r no phriefn theref" Th nk. :o Dr. Fierce, there is a balm in his "'du .\Medical I);eocvery"-a "bahzn r .. -.y oInd" to heailh, from colds, e ughs, conlsmoptionU, bronchitis, and all crn'e, liood, lung and liver affections.