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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER JOSEPH F. RHAUiE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, INSURANCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. A. ATTORNEY AT LAW MANNING. S. C. ," Notary Public with seal. WxM. H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. M CLINTON GALUCHAT, PRACTICES In COURTs OP CHARLESTON and CLARENDOX. Address Communications in care of Man ning TDEs. JOS. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. pa-Collections a specialty. W. F. B. HAirswoa-r, Sumter S. C. B. S. Drssiss, Manning, S. C. HAYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW MANNING, S. C. JR. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DENTIST. - orcas - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -Orcz DAYs ingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -OmrnC Houns 9 A. M. to 1 P.M. and 2 to 4 P. M. J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and 6 rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. ESTABLISHED 1852. Louis Cohen & Co. 224 king Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry and Fancy Goods. -0 Wo-Samples and prices cheerfully sent on application. Orders entrusted to me will receive my prompt personal at tention. Will be pleased to see my friends from Clarendon County. ISAAC M. LORYEA, With Louis Cohen & Co., CHARLESTON S. C. Max G. Bryant, Jas.'M. Ln.axn, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, Panrons. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EXt ACT BUS1NESS CENTER OF THE CITY, where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and its MENUis not excelled by any in the South. Notice~ AppI~ietion fotCharter,. NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN -N application will-be made to the General - ssregnbly-of the State of South Carolina, for a .Charter for.a RailRdad, to be known as the WVilson and Summerton Rst Road, leading from a point at or near Wilson's Mill on the Central Rail Road of South Carolhna. in Clarendon County, in said State, to or near to Summerton in said County, and thence, if deemed expedient, to a pint on the Manchester and Augusta Rai Road, at~ or near Antioch, in said County. CORONER'S NOTICE, N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I have made arrangement- with Mr. W. K. Bell, of Manning, to promptly forward me any telegrams' or 'other oflicial comnmuml cations. By this sneans I sh~all be able, in a few hours, to attend any inquest. I'.C. COCHRAN, Coroner Clarendon County. 7. VON SAN~TEN & SON, .FANUY 4GOODS~, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, HEADQUARTERS FOR C R AD-LES. Children's Carriages C.osting from $4.50 to $40 each. 263 King Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Mc~ahanl Brown & Evans, Jobbers of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes. and Clothing. Nos. 224, 226 and 228 Meeting St. Charleston, S. C. Win. Brmester & Co. HAY AND GRAIN, Red Rust Proof Oats, a Spe cialty. Opposite Kerr's Wharf, CHA RLESTON S. C. THE RAIN IN THE SPOUT. Th' cabin's still thar by Sycamore Cick, Th' deares' spot on th' yearth, But th' roof's fell in, 'n' the latchstring's gone, 'N silence is roun' th' berth; Yit many a night neat 'at roof I've leit When on'y a leetle chap. 'N heerd th' rain in th' old eave-spot Goin': Drop, drip, drop. Drip, droppity, drap. Oh, how Iloved th' drizzily nights . (Though th' drizzily days was bes', For I couldn't plow erhoe in the ner), When I olimed to roos'' to res', Up thar with th' shingles olus to my head, Through which th' rain 'ud slip. But what yas that to the ole cave-spout Goin': Drap, drippity, drap, Drop, drappity, drip? 'N 'en when I growed to a great big bq 'N fell inter love bed firs', 'N got yanked out by a rival o' mine, 'N my heart was thumpin' to burs', I thortI never'ud sleep agin, 'N'spected all night to Sop, My grief caved in when the ole eave-sput Went: Drippity, drap, drip, Drop, drippity, drop. 'N arter I merried 'n tuck th' place, 'N got to sigain' notes Which I thort receipts fur li'tenin' rods, Er some new-fangled oats, rd clime up into th' garret thar 'N Us' to th' thunder's clap, 'N fergit it all when th' ole eave-spou Went: Drippity, droppity, drip, Drappity, drippity, drap. rm bal'headed now ez a threadbar' coat, 'N a citizen o' th' town, Isole th' farm for sake o' th' gals, But when I come to lay down rd like to dream o' that cabin root 'N the rain a-fallin' on top 'N sink asleep with th' ole cave-spout Goin': Drop, drip. drip, Drap, drip. drop. -A. W. Beuaw,in amW. THE WAY OF LIFE. Various Causes Contributing to Premature Dissolution. The Bible speaks of three score years and ten as the age to which man may reasonably look forward. It seems as if, at least, sev enty equable, contented and happy years full of such comfort and ?ratification as the members of each class in the community have severally a right to expect-shouldand might be within the reach of every man and woman. In some countries, however, we find this to be much more nearly the case than with us, says theBostons..erald. Amer lcans, as a rule, live too fast to live long. Every person is originally endowed with about so large a stock of vitality out ,of which to fashion his life. It amounts to nothing more nor less than the simplest of problems m arithmetio to show that if he draws upon this stock twice asheavily ashe should, the duration of his existence will only be one-half of what it was originally Intended to be. Indeed, the matter stands much worse than this; his life is likely to be at any moment suddenly cut off short long before reaching even the half. A steam engine may use up its fuel in two weeks or one, according to the rate at which it is driven; if it is sufficiently overworked the result may be a general " smash," or such an injury as will necessitate a long and tedious "stopping forrenairs," if, indeed, it ever becomes "as good as new." We hard ly seem ready to recognize the bounds es tablished by nature, but when we have reached them, in our greed and ambition, we summon our will, and, as the expression runs, "live upon our nerve," congratulating ourselves on our praiseworthy display of "American goaheadativeness." Unfortu nately nature has not yet become sufficient ly progressive in her ideas to manufacture constitutions expressly for the American market, and, in the midst of our triumphant tour de force, click, something snaps, and we vanish from the stage, or break down for years, perhaps for life. What are the causes of sudden death-as by a stroke of lightning? They are not ay when only the so-called natural acci ents are considered. D~eath on the instant may result from apoplexy, or bursting of n aneurism within the chest or abdomen; Itmay be caused by the bursting of anab wihnthe chest. Great mental -a tro extreme anger or grief or sen joy etimes kills instantly through otal paayis of the chief nerve centers. O~ofsuden death from hemoirhages af Inns areon record, but they are few n number. Diseases of the heart render he subject liable to Instant death, and they are the most frequent causes. Something may be said descriptive of these accidents and diseases which will in trest the general reader. A correct under standing of them might possibly render us less liable to them. Aclexy, or, as it is sometimes called, bran-troke, is usually de to the rupturb of a blood-vessel within the brain. Instant death Is not thecommon result of this Injury, and yet, as already stted, It sometimes occurs. More often the victimof a severe attack passes Into a ondton of stupor, called coma, in which belies for hours, o even days, and then dies or slowly recovers. There are mav Influences which are os leof giving rise to this accident, whieh a general way we may attrnbute to one of thwo causes: namely, either the walls of the bleod-vessel in ques tion are weakenedby degenerative changs sd so rupture easily, or they are whl healthy subjected to an unusual and too great a pressure from a rush of blood into them, apd give way in consequence. The walls of the blood-vessels degenerate with age; as one grows old the liability of their rupture under sudden increase of blood pressure becomes greater. Age is not the only cause of these weakeningchanges-we may expect them in alleses where the sys tem Is perrganently enfeebled. In an at tack of apoplexy occurring in a person who has passed the age of sixty, we should naturally assume that the bursting of the blood-vessel was due to degeneration of its walls. But in one younger, who had en joyed fairly geod health, we should expect to find that the direct cause of the rupture was too great a blood-pressure. We may retard degeneration, although we can not block the wheels of time. Some men at ninety are far less liable to apoplexy than others of fifty. In a great degree the liability is a questlon of general health. Hence the fear of apoplexy should lead us to endeavor to keep strong .and well. As we grow old we should avoid those influ ences which are lhkely to induce sudden and great rush of blood to the head, such as in tense mental excitement - as in pubhec speaking or in a fit of anger-violent mus cular effort, gluttony and drunkenness, etc. While one dines at popular cafes he has but to look about him and he Is quito sure to see habits indulged provocative of apoplexy. A familia sight Is the man about sixty years old whose highest pleasure is in tickling his palate. He is over-weight by fully fifty ~ds; his facelisred and shining; he is bbursting, and looks as though every important button on his clothing was threat eed. One on a warm day gives such a raag as "wide a berth" as he wouldiacook stoq; he is altogether too hot to sit near. He epinmences tais din~rwt sna ta s " up,' e n meat and other 'I -a. f- of whaimch are wanhed botales of lager beer. As he eats and drimas with one hand, he fans himself vigorously with the other, all the time growing redder and redder, and, finally, when he hoists himself out of his chair, his face takes a purplish hue in consequence of even that slight effort. He is like a violin when in tone; every part of his system is keyed up, " and something is sure to break if the unus ual happens. Let such a man, soon after dinner, become violently enraged or shocked by some unexpected calamity, and the 'chances are an attack of apoplexy is the consequence. Too much importance has, it is true, been attributed to the so-called ap oplectic constitution, consisting of short, ness of the neck, with considerable embon point, and what is known as full habit. These characteristics do not mean that there is a decided tendency to apoplexy, and yet a man so formed ought to live much diffcr ently than he who is "lank and lean." An aneurism is a tumor formed by the dilation of an artery, as the result of the bursting of its inner and middle coats. It is more liable to occur in persons in whom de generative changes in the arteries are tak ing place. It may be directly caused by great mental excitement, violent exertion, lifting, etc., or local injury. The larger the artery in which the aneurism forms the more serious it is. If within the chest or abdomen, there is little chance of recovery. The progress of aneurism is slow; death is sudden in a proportion of cases from rup ture. Large abscesses in the chest have been known to burst and cause immediate suffocation. Such accidents are rare, and so, also, as we have already said, is sudden death from hemorrhage of the lungs. In those cases death, doubtless, is also caused by suffocation. Strong impressions on the mind will ever reflect their influence on the vital functions, and strengthen or pros trate their energies. "Joy seldom kills," it is true, and yet if the subject be of a deli cate and sensitive constitution, and more especially if he labors under any complaint of the heart, the consequences on the nerv ous system of sudden ana immediate joy will always be attended with hazard. Many instances of fatal effects from that passion are recorded, and the assertion has been made by some able writers on mental hygiene that sudden joy is even more hazardous to life than sudden grief. When extravagant joy follows unexpectedly terror or grief, the danger from the shock to the nervous system is heightened. That fact has been illustrated by the sudden death of criminals who have been pardoned at the point of execution. That.terror, grief and anger are sometimes instantly fatal at once paralyzing the nervous system and stopping the action of the heart-are well known, for the instances have been many. In disease of the heart these powerful emotions are potent agencies of evil. If death does not occur from a sudden, intense shock, the organ is enfeebled by every such experience. In all forms of heart disease death is lia ble to take place suddenly, and in a large proportion of cases the evil comes after violent over-exertion. "Heart trouble" may exist in V person for a long time-even years-without its presence being sus pected. Such a one enjoying comparatively good health, and not being conscious of the need of unusual care, is quite sure, sooner or later, to make some violent effort-"run to catch the train or the like"-and "life's thread is snapped." Rupture of the heart sometimes takes place when that organ has suffered from what is known as fatty degen eration, and its walls have been weakened thereby. Such an action rarely occurs in persons under the age of torty. " Is it a quick death, a painless death?" is a question which is frequently asked of physicians. We believe that in the majori ty of cases where death comes on the in stant-as by a stroke of lightning-it is painless. As has been said, pain is the product of time. To expericnce pain the impression producing it must be tf'nsmit ted from the injured part of the living &ody to the conscious center, must be received at the conscious center, and be recog nized by the mind as a reception; the last act being in truth the conscious act. In the majority of deaths from natural accidents there is not sugicient tune for the accom plishiment of these progressive steps by which the consciousness of existence is the frst and last fact inflicted upon the stricken organism, the destruction is so mighty, the senseof it is not revealed. MATER NAL ANXIETY. Hew a Boston Doctor Relieved a Fash lonable Woman of a Great Care. Arlo Bates, in one of his gossipy letters to the Providence Jounal, writes: There dwells in a semi-genteel quarter a widow who as worth a quarter of a million; and whose family consists of a pet dog, herself and a small son, the importance of the three coming in about this order; in any case the boy comes last. * * * About a month ago the pet, who was at the seashore with his mistress, was taken 111. Mrs. Blank sent for her physician, who was staying in Boston, to come down to Mount Desert to see the dog. He refused to leave his hu man patients for a brute one, and so, al though she was very angry, she was forced to come to Boston with the invalid, because, as she explained to an acquaintance, she "could not run the risk of exposing Filomel to the chance of being treated by a dotor who did not understand his constitution." Arrived in town the dog improved, but the widowe's child, who had been brought along, began to sicken. The doctor ordered the boy out of town, and as the widow was too anxious about her spaniel to leave it, the son was confided to the care of his nurse, who took him to the seashore, at a place not so far removed from Boston as to be out of the range of the doctor's care. The child, neglected by the nurse, who fell Into a violent flirtation with the head waiter of the hotel where they were stay ing, grew worse. One afternoon the doctor took the train down to see the child, and found the poor little fellow ill in bed, and left wholly alone, while the nurse was out walking with her friend, the head waiter. The doctor, who is a man of some de termination, took the invalid in a carriage and drove across the country half a dozen miles to the cottage of his sister, into whose care he gave the small sufferer. When ho returned to town and told the mother of what he had done, she said, effusively: " Oh, doctor, you have taken such a load from my mind. Now I know Georgie is safe and I can give all my mind to poor FilomeL" _______ Artificial Emeralds. The method by which Messrs. Hautefeuille and Perry have succeeded in producing very beautiful crystals of emerald has been described to the French Academy of Sci ences. Silica, alumina and glucina (with traces ot oxide of chromium) were fused with acid molybdate of hthia, a temperature of from 000 to 7~00 degrees being maintained for fifteen days. Crystals about one twenty fifth of an inch in diameter, with the min eralogical and physical characteristics of the natural emerald, were obtained. Knocked Hlm Out. A pastor sometime since sought financial help for an important charity. Among those whom he asked to give something was a lady who unfortunately bore a vinegary face. She declined to give money, but ONLY AFTER THE SPOILS. DR. TALMAGE'S OPINION OF WHAT POLITICAL PARTIES WANT. He Says They Don't Care Whether It Is High Tarif, Low Tariff or No Tariff at All-Offices Are What They Want--The Clergymau's Sermon on Clouds. Rev Dr. Talmage preached on Sunday in the Brooklyn Tabenacle to a largely increased congregation. His sermon was on the "Chariots of God," and for the first time since he returned from his vacation Dr. Talmage introduced a little of politics. His text was from Psalm ci., 3: "Who maketh the cloudshis chariot." "We go into raptures," he said, "over flowers in the soil, but have little or no appreciation of the 'morning glories' that bloom on the wall of the sky at sunrise, or the dablia in the clouds at sunset. We are in ecstasies over a gobelin tapestry or a bridal veil of rare fabzic, or a snowbank of exquisite curve, but see not at all, or see without emotion, the bridal veils of mist that cover the face of the Catskills, or the swaying up holstery around the couch of the dying day, or the snowbanks of vapor piled up in the heavens. "My text bids us lift our chin three or four incties and open the two tele ecopes, which under the for -head are put on swivel easily turned upward, and see that the clouds are not merely Si interesting signs of wet or dry weather, but that they are embroidered canopies of shade, that they are the conservatories of the sky, that they are thrones of pomp, that they are crystaline bowers, that they are paintings in water color, that they are the angels of the mist, that they are great cathedrals of light with broad - aisles for angelic feet to walk through and bow at aiters of amber and alabaster, that they are the mothers of j the dew, that they are ladders for ascend- 1 ing and descending glories, Cotopaxis of belhing flame, Niagaras of color, that they are the masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. When I read my text it suggests to me that the clouds are the Creator's equipage, and their whirling masses are the wheels, and the tongue of the cloud is the pole of the celestrial vehicle, and the winds are the harnessed steeds, and God is the royal occupant and driver 'who maketh the clouds His hariot.' Having pictured in language of burn ing eloquence the beauties of nature, of the clouds and the beauteous appearance both at morning and evening when the sun rises and sets, Dr. Talmage con tinued: "A chariot made out of evening c!oud! Have you hung over the affrail on the ocean and seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the pavements of a calm sum mer sea, the wheels dripping with the magnificence? Have you from the top of Ben Lomond, or the Cordilleras, or the Berkshire hills, seen the day pillowed for the night, and yet had no aspiration of praise and homage? Oh, what a rich God we have that He can put on one evening sky pictures that excel Michael Anglo's 'LastJudgemenft'andGhirland jo's 'Adoration of the Magi,' and whole galleries of Madonnas, and for only an hour, and then throw them away, and the next evening put on the same sky, something that excels all that the Raph- I aels and the Titans and the. Rembrandts I and the Corregios and the Leonado da Vincis ever executed, and then draw a curtain of mist over them never again to be exhibited! How rich God must be to have a new chariot of clouds every eve ning! "But the Bible tells us that our King also has a black chariot. 'Clouds and darkness,' we were told, 'are round about him.' That chariot is cloven out of. night, and that night is trouble. When! He rides forth in that black chariot pestilence and earthquake, and famineI and hurricane and woe attend Him. Then let the earth tremble. Then let nations pray. Again and again He has ridden forth in that chariot of black louds, across England and France, and it ily and Ru.'iia and America, and over all nations. That which men took for the sound of cannonading at Sebastopol, at Se-dan, at Gettysburg, as Tel-el-Kiebir, at Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings of the black chariot of the Almighty. 1 Aye, it is the chariot of storm-cloud armed with thunderbolts, and neither man nor angel nor devil, nor earth nor1 heaven, can retist Him. On those boule yards of blue this chariot never turns1 out for anything. Under one wheel of that chariot Babylon was crushed and Balbeck fell dead, and the Roman Em pie was prostrated, and Atlantis. a whole cor~tinent that once connected1 Enrope with Arnerica, sank clear out of sight so that the longest anchor of ocean steaer can not touchithetop of its high est mountains. The throne of the Ciesars was less than a pebble under the right wheel of this chariot, and the Austrian despotism less than a snowflake under the left wheel. And over destioyed worlds on worlds that chariot has rolled without a jar or jolt. "This biack chariot of war cloud rolled up to the northeast of Europe in 1812,1 and 400,000 men marched to take Mos cow, but that chariot 'of clouds rolled back, and only 25i,000 out of the 400,000 troops lived to return. No great snow1 storm like that had ever before or has ever since visited Ruissia. Aye, the chariot of the Lord is irresistible. There is only one thing that can halt or turn any of His chariots, and that is prayer. Again and again it has stopped it, whled it around, and the chariot ofC black clouds uder that sanctified humant breath has blossomed into such bright ness and color that men and angels had to veil their faces from its lnstre. "On that pillow of consolation I put down my head to sleep at night. On the solid foundation I build when I see this nation in political paroxysm every four years, not because they care two centst about whether it is high tariff or low tariff or no tariff at all, bat only whether < the Democrats or the Republicans shall have the salaried offices. Yea, when I European- nations are holding their breath, wondering whether Russia or Germany will launch a war that will in cianadine a continent, I[ fall back on the< faith that my rather drives. Yea, I ca.st ..a an anchor a plnit tl~.s as a column of strength, and liftthis as a telescope, and build this as a fortress, and propose without any perturbation to launch upon an unknown future triumphant in the fact that my Father drives. Yes, He drives very near. I know that many of the clouds that you see in summer are far off, the bases of some of them five miles above the earth. High on the highest peaks of the Andes travelers have seen clouds far higher than where they were standing. Gay Lussac, after he had risen in a balloon :3,000 feet, still saw clouds above him. "But there are clouds which touch the sarth and discharge their rain, and. though the clouds out of which God's hariot is made may sometimes be far away, often they are close by, and they couch our shoulders, and they touch our lioze; and they touch us all over. * * * Next Dr. Talmage brought his hearers t the time when, at the end of the world, the chariot of God would again-be seen. "By that time," he said, "how changed this world will be! Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all mossed and lichened, its poorhouses all palaces, its sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues, and in the same pasture-field lion and calf, and on the ame perch hawk and dove. Now the ihariots of clouds strike the earth, filling ill the valleys, and covering all the nountain sides, and halting in all the emetries and graveyards and over the waters deep where the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus. A loud blast of the resurrection trumpet is given and the bodies of the dead rise and join the Spirits from which they have long been Separated. Then Christ our King, rising in the center chariot of cloud, with His wcarred hands waves the signal, and the shariots wheel and come into line for glorious ascent. Drive on! Drive up! Jhariots of cloud ahead of the King, shariots of cloud on either side of the King, chariots of cloud following the ing. Upward and apast starry hosts, d through immensities, and across in initudes, higher, higher, higher unto be gates, the shining gates! Lift up four heads, ye everlasting gates, for Him who maketh the clouds His chariot, and who through condescending and uplift ng grace invites us to mount and ride with Him! THE CORNER ON jurE BAGGING. What the Master of the State Grange Has to Say About It. To the Patrons of Husbandry of outh Carolina.-I have watched with a ;reat deal of interest the discussions as o the best means to defeat the specula. ors in their corner in jute nagging, by which all cotton producers are forced to >ay nearly double this season, for bag Sing, what the same article brought last eason, and am induced to suggest a few houghts to the members of the Grange roughout the State. I certainly would e glad to' see the Grange oppose by very available means this iniquitous ,ombination, and adopt every and all lubstitutes for covering cotton that can e used, and while this is Grange prin siplee, to co-operate and solidly fight against everything that is calculated to e detrimental to the farmer's interest t is equally our duty to direct these ;fforts intelligently, so that we may ac :omplish our purpose and not be the infferers thereby. It seems to me that there is very little elief for the farmers for this season. l'e manufactories have sold all their gagging to the speculators, and they ave sold and made their profits out of she merchants, and unfortunately as a general thing the merchants have al eady such a hold upon the farmer that ie can force him to sell his cotton as oon as it is gathered from the field. EPor the farmer to refuse to buy bagging it present prices and hold back his cot ;on seems to me to be unwise, for he Jereby withholds from his creditor for time at least what is justly due him, mud this will not reduce the price of >agging, but certainly will come a great ossto the farmer. His cotton will lose n weight, his interest account will be creased, and most probably get a less rice for his cotton. Then again for the armers to cover their cotton with any ubstitute that will not be merchantable ~overing, such as is prescribed by the lifferent cotton exchanges, or that will njure the staple will entail a loss on the armer, for all reclamations will most ~ertainly be paid by none except the >roducer. If we can uce any closely-woven, light, trong material, well covered with extra ands, at a cheaper cost than bagging, >r when Patrons live adjacent to facto -ies where their cotton will he accepted acked otherwise than in jute bagging, hen I would advise such covering. If we can induce our Southern mills to nanufacture some strong cotton mate ia, suitable for covering cottou cheap r than jute bagging, and then the nembers of the Grange and all cotton >roducers unite and give such mill or nills their entire patronage, upon con lition that such mills will never enter nto an unjust combination, nor allow peculators to do so, against the farm r, then it seems to me we will have rained that relief that is now out of our 'each. I think the cheaper grades of otton could be utilized in this way to dvantage both to the mills and the onsuers. The present state of things tertainly convinces us how utterly in le power of speculators the farmers ire, and we should now make every fort to place ourselves in such a condi ion as to be able to resist similar com uination in the future. Fraternally yours, W. K. THOMPsoN, Master State Grange of S. C. Maine. The drift in Maine is all in the Demo r:aic direction. It must be renmmbered hat all the Democrats need to do is to hold vhat votes they had in 1884. Such a cur -ent as that in Maine would give them New ork, New Jersey. Connecticut and In lina by largely increased majorities. would overcome the slight Republican plu ality in Michigan and would make Rhode :sland and New llamipshire exceedingly loubtful. When we jeiect that Minneso a, Illinois and~ lowa are much more trongly impreguated with taritt reform loctrines than any of the Eastern States, he outlook for a vast break In the Repub ican column is remarkably promising. in Francisco Examiner. It Is said that there is a good crop of wild herries this year, and old-fashioned p~eO le will have tonic sufficient for a cheerful vrinte A VERY GOOD ANSWER. Governor Richardson's Reply to a Re markable Request from the Republican Remnant. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 27, 1888. To His Excellency John P. Richardson, Governor of South Carolina. Sit: At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Republican party of South Carolina, held in the city of Colum bia on the above date, this committee was appointed to wait on you in person and present for your consideration and action the following preamble and resolution: Whereas a general election will be held on the 6th of next November, at which time candidates for electors and Congress men will be voted for by the people; and whereas the whole election machinery Commissioners of Election, managers. clerks, etc.-with the exception of George town county, being entirely in the hands of the dominant party in South Carolina, has been productive of the suppression of a free vote and honest count. And whereas by virtue of a vastly pre pondering number, we think it would be but an act of simple justice, and in the interest of fair, full and honest election that representation be granted to the Republican party; therefore, Be it resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that His Excellency, John P. Richardson, Governor of South Carolina, be waited on and requested to appoint at least one Republican Com missioner of Election in each county, and, through them, one Republican manager at each of the voting precincts for electors and Congressmen through out the State; and whereas in the Seventh Congressional District of South Carolina, (known as the "Black Dis trict") which was set apart by Demo cratic legislators for the Republicans, but which has been invaded by the Democrats, and an almost solemnly im plied pledge broken and the free will of its electors stifled by the partisan actions of boards of election officers composed entirely of Democrats; Therefore, we respectfully and earn estly appeal to your Excellency, in the interest of fair play and an honest elec tion, and in the name of 150,000 people, to accord us representation in the man agement of the approaching election. Resolved, That we ask this as Ameri can citizens and representatives of one of the great parties of this republic, be lieving that we are entitled to it as an act of simple justice. E. M. BnAYToN, Taos. E. Mrrn, STEPEn A. Swans, Tnos. A. SAxoN, G. E. HnmoTr. GOVEBSOR RIOHARDSON'S REPLY. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ExEcrTIvE CHaMBER, CoLmBIA. S. C., Sept. 28, '88. To E. M. Brayton, Thos. E. Miller, Stephen A. Swails, Thos. A. Saxon, G. E. Herriott, Committee on the Part of the Executive Committee of the Republican Party: GErrrnMRr: I have carefully consid ered the preamble and resolutions which in behalf, as you claim, of the Republi can party of South Carolina, you yes terday presented for my consideration and action, as well as the remarks made by Mr. Thomas E. Miller, a member of your committee, in advocacy of the same. In announcing to you the conclusion at which I have arrived, it would answer no good purpose that I can perceive to expose what must be so evident to those thoroughly acquainted with the condi tion of parties in this State-the fallaci ous statements of the one and the un sound reasoning of the other. It will be sufficient simply to say that in my jndg ment a departure from the wisely estab lished methods and principles upon which these appointments are made would endanger the perfectly free, fair and peaceful elections-the professed object of your desire-that are the proud boast and the highest achievement of Democratic rule in this State. It may, with great truth, be said that honest elections are the true tests of pure government, and constitute the only faithful expression of the popular will, which it is their sole mission to elicit. No machinery, however perfect, nan accomplish a result so essential to representative government without the instrumentality of agents, both intelli gent enough to thoroughly understand the law and to carry our, its provisions, and of that high probity of character that will command the confidence of the elector and be a sure guarantee against the evil and corrupt practices once so dominant in this State. Those dis graceful scenes and unscrapulousmanip nlations of elections so confessedly prevalent during the days of Republican rule, are now, happily, things of the past, and can never return under the benignant sway of Democratic princi ples, to curse and blast with horrors the peaceful, prosperous course of all the people of South Carolina. To the eternal honor of our State and the ~emocratic party, it can now be said that our elections-are the freest and airest in the world, and that not a sin gle citizen of hera, no matter what his rank, 'color or condition, can, under her just and equal laws, impartially admin istered as they are, be by any perversion or intimidation debarred at the polls from the free and full exercise of his uffrage. There is not only perfect freedom in voting, but the amplest pro tection afforded the voter. I shall, therefore, with a deep sense of the responsibility resting upon me to pre erve, to the best of my ability, the purity f the ballot so happily restored in this State, appoint to the important position of Commissioners of Election in the several ounties, men of such known intelligence, bigh character and unquestioned patriot [snm as will give ajl the people of South Carolina the con fidlent assurance of having in the coming elections the fullest, freest and taireat expression of their will. To these boards will be entrasted the lesignation of precinct managers, a duty [ am sure that they will not only discharge faithfully, but the responsibilities of which they will justly appreciate. I have thus frankly and succinctly stated the main considerations that will guide my action in the appointment of tese election boards, but I cannot refrain from bringing to your attention, in this onnection, the fact that your committee can scarcely be said to represent an organ ized party, as the comatose condition of the remnant of the Republicans in this State for many years past would surely justify the non-recognition of alleg~ed rights and consequences so urgently demanded an tongly asserted by you. I will only add that the whole people of South Caro lina-every voter within her border-can safely rest in the absolute assurance of having at the coming elections the fullest opportunity of expressing their will through the constitutional and American method of a perfectly free ballot and fair count. Respectfully. J. P. RrcHrAnsoN, Governor. ANSWER TO FRED DOUGLA58. Republicans are Not the Owners of the Colored Vote. (From the New York Star) The letter addressed to the voters of the country, signed Frederick Douglass of the District of Colombia, Robert Smallsof South Carolina, John R. Lynch of Mississippi and other prominent colored men, has excited much indigna tion among many of their race. While the letter is addressed to the people of the country at largo, it is wholly an appeal to the colored men, and contains many gross misrepresentations which are uttered for the purpose of misleading the members of that race and stealing their votes from Cleveland and Thur man. Among others who have expressed much displeasure at seeing in print such misleading matters as is found in the address referred to is Hon. Charles H. J. Taylor, ex-Minister to Liberia, and one of the three negroes who are members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Taylor is one of the few represenative men of his race who object to the misnomer "colored men." He holds that the term carries with it no distinction of race, and believes that it should be obliterated from our anthropological vocabulary. Mr. Taylor is a Democrat from con viction, and has possibly given more attention to the welfare of his race than either Fredrick Douglass or Blanche K.. Bruce. He is certainly a man of rare intellect and well capable of speaking on the topics touched in the misleading screed signed by Mr. Douglass and the eleven others. Mr. Taylor is in the city at the present time, and was seen by the Star reporter yesterday. When asked his opinion of the letter, he said: "I regard it as most unfortunate for the Republicans at this time. While it is intended to whip the negroes into line, it falls short of its purpose and goes- to show that the Democratic negroes are not only giving the Republicans much concern now, but have done so for some time past. It proves that the negroes are no longer united. Negro Democrats are everywhere congratulating -them selves on being able to bring all the negroes of Republican prominence to their knees and forcing them .to recog nize the division they represent. "I intend in a few days to publish a full and complete reply to all of the arguments contained in Mr. Douglass' letter as to why the negroes should vote the Republican ticket. I candidly be lieve that any intelligent negro- who has heretofore been in doubt as to how to vote will conclude, after reading this Republican screed, to vote the ,Demo cratic ticket. "I shall not deny that there are out rages in the South; I shall not deny the unpleasant sta.e of things reported as existing between the races, by Republi can politicians, but I shall charge -that party which removed the political dis abilities of the front men in the Rebellion with each and every putrag& If negrs have been killed on account of polifies, the murderers are Republicans. The party heretofore posing as the -especial friend of the negro ought to have known, and I believe did know, that to invest men entirely poor and extremely. igno rant with the right of suffrage, -to con tend with men of wealth and intelligence was to make targets of the former for the guns of the latter. Poverty and ignorance must always tall under in any contest with wealth and intelligence. "The question of color and race has nothing at all to do with it. Let the negroes and the white men of the South change position, not in color, but. in wealth and intelligence, and the, negro would dominate just as- the whiite mian does to-day. I have'an idea that .if re ports were coming North that the negroes were killing the white people, instead of vice versa, old Yankees who havn't seen their muskets since the war would polish them up and rush to the rescue. "If Mr. D)ouglass and the other signers of this letter tell the negroes that in this ehetion the election of Harrison is of no less importance than the necessity at one time for the election o: Lincoln, consciously or unconsciously they send forth a falsehood. I fail to see What more power Mr. Harrison will possess to right the wrongs of the negroes of the South than did Mr. Hayes, Mr. Garfield or Mr. Arthur." William E1. Gross, president, and George W. .Brooire, secretary of the Cevdand League, an association of colored campaign clubs, have addressed a letter to Rev. William B. Derrick, in viting him to a public discussion on the political questions of the day with a man they will select of their own race. Mr. Derrick is the recognized leader and orator of the Republican voters of. New York. The gentlemen who send him the challenge express the opinion that it would be well to have the colored voters of New York understand the real que-s tions they are to vote upon in the coming election, and express the hope that Mr. Derrick will agree to submit the issues to the colored men of New York, that ~thy be able to judge of them in Hygienic View of Baldness. A physician recently expressed him self on the fLabject of balid heads, stating as his opinion that baldheaded people die sooner than those who have a good head of hair. Ia many cases they take old eavily, and go off with pnoumonia r contract cousamption or chronic bronchitis. The doctor urges all bald headed men to wear a skull-cap at all times, as wigs are unfashionabie, onending that if the hair were not in tended as a protection to man he would have been created without any. He has noted many cases of pneumonia, and, where thepatienitis a male over forty years old, the proportion is over one-half in fa vor of being baldhieaded. Bald heads are ne of the signs of a state of civilization ncluding ease, luxury and high living, bat also point to physical degeneration >f the race. Those who are bald should adopt the skull-cap or other protection fr the head.