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Published Etery Wenesday. S. A. NETTLES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOB. M: CLINTON GALLUCHAT, ADVERTISING AGET. Terms: Srcsenrox RrEs.-One copy, one year $1.30; one copy. six months, 7 a cents, one copy. three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable in advance. AbvrxTINo RArs.-One square, first in sertion. $100; each subsequentinserton. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertise ments. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. ComicizcasroNS must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communi cation of a personal character will be pub lished except as an advertisement. For fsrther information address . A. NETTLES, Manning S. C. Wednesday, OCT. 24, 1888. Year same in Print. -Mr. W. D. Rich, of Lanes, is attending medical lectures in Baltimore. -Lastweek we said C. H. Pack was at tending medical lectures in Charleston. We should have said W. S. Pack. Cotgress adjourned last Saturday at 1 o'clok P. M. M. Fox Brunson, of the Fork section, died last Saturday. Mr. G. Alexander has placed a large clock in front of his store for the convenience of the town. Dave Tucker has promised us a letter very shortly. Our readers may expect - ig good, Mrs. Edwards furnishes ah excellent meal at her bakery, and at a small cost. Be sure to get a meal from her. Mr. P. T. Drayton has our thanks for a lot of nice things from his fruit stand on the Court House Square. The barn of Mr. Morgan Davis was burn ed last Saturday night about 8 o'clock, de tyng all his forage and a quantity of corn. It is a heavy loss on him, and is evi dently a case of malicious incendiarism. 0. Alexander, our popular jeweler, has made some improvements in his store, and will very shortly open out a beautiful line of plush holiday goods, The ladies are specially invited to call and see his beauti ful goods. Tom Peterkin, the colored dude who painted the town so red last Monday a week ago, broke toe restraints placed on his liberty last Friday, and at once silently stole away to seek other conquests, or pos aibly guard-houses. The following Democratic supervisors of electron for Clarendon county have been ap nointed: A. J. Walters, D. J. Bradham,W. T Sprott, J.Brough to ope. cFad din, W. S. Briggs,P P oper, . & . Chandler, R. H. Belser. An interesting revival meeting of several dajs at the Home Branch Baptist church closed last Sunday. There were twenty four acessies to the church, sixteen of whom were baptized Sunday. Rev. D. E. Hardin conduced the meeting, and preach ed someable and soul-stirring sermons. A mule, evidently laboring under an at tack of momentarg inseniry, attempted last turday, at the depot in this place, to com mit suicide by placing himself on the rail road track, in front of an incoming freight rin. He had to be driven off the track mere than once, and the tra.in had to sto to prevent this dire consummation o Purpose. Rev. T. P. Burgess, pastor of the Pres byterian mission church in Charleston, has eigned the pastorate of tha church, be eause he was severely criticised by a num ber of prominent members of his church for his vote in - the recent action of the Charl-ston Presbytery in regard to the aijudiationi of Dr. Woodrow's ease by the General Assembly. ' Mfr. Gee. E. Pritchett, of Goeieyville, lied a serious accident to befall him last Thursday, that came near proving fatal Theoe that he was driving ran away, trowing him out of the buggy. He lay in an inann~ible state for two hours or more. It was at first thought he was seriously and probalAy fatally injured, but at last acounts he was much improved. K. of P. A lodge of Knights of Pythias was organ ed it thispac last Thursday. Forty-aix membrswereinitiated and several more will be ge next regular meeting. Grand suemk Henry T. Thompson, asisted 4 aboi sen other members of the or ewftmo diiret parts of the State, in atitted the lodge. The following is a list of theeOZloeama for the present term: 50past ebancellor, A. Levi; chan ee~m omanderna, W. J. Clark; vice chan tl . &. Wilson; keeper of records and eam), J. H. Lesesne; master of exchequer, A. Wibr; master of fiame, B. A. John son; prltW. H. Ingram; master at arms, A Bad State o[ Affhirs. We make the following extracts from the reetent of the Sumter Grand Jury: The Grand Jury think there is nothing iore pertaining to the county deserving he apecial attention of, or mention to the Cort, except the presetent of one 3. E. toex and Laura Atikins for living in fornication. Other eses of this nature ae been reported to. and considered by the Grand Jury, but the Grand Jury while stisfied the charges are true, have not con ieting evidence,- and therefore think it im proper to bring charges. Two of said esses are against white men of some social posi tion, and high connections, who have and are raising families of children by colored women, in deflamee of deeent society and law. The Grand Jury will give informa tion in their possession in reference to said ame to the succeeding Grand Jury. The Grand Jury recommend the estab ishment, by law, of the whipping poet for hpunishment of petty ofinces and here by ask the Legislative delegation of Sum ter county to introduce and urge the pass age of such a bill at the next session of the L a5UO Jury would also reet at this stage of the Term, Willis .Brown, and~annie White, for living itt adultery, the said Willis J: Brown, having a livig wife the sister of said Fannie White, and ising children by both womei, under the smm. roof, a conlhitioni and practice worse than Mormonismr, and ask that the parties be brought before, and tried by this Court, as the outraged entiment oi~ the immediate Ammunity and the county demand it. Nan Eilled in Samter, SUXrnE Oct. 16.-Early this morning a fatal accident occurred at the Camperdown Cotton Mills in Sumter. Joseph Jeffreys, while employed; got his bleeve caught im the shafting, and'in his efforts to get loose was taken upby the shaft and killed al most instnl.No one was in the room ahe the afarhappened.- The body was found hanging on the shaftng. A jury of iquest was immediately summoned, whose verdict was that Joseph Jeffreys came to his iah bimeiderual strangmlation. Rosin Hill Notes. Ross HI., Oct. 20ti.-At the last meet ing of the Connor Mounted ides Ca:t W. S. Briggs having served as cap:_ eight years resigned. The three lieuten ants also followed suit, and the company elected a temporary chairman, and appoint ed to-day to meet at Rosin Hill, for the purpose of electing four eonmissioned officers. Inasmuch as he had served so long, Capt. Briggs most emphatically de tmited to enter the race for re-electioi. Private A. L. Lesesne being the next most pd ular man in the company was enthusi y elected captain without any oppo sition. A very spirited and friendly elec tion then followed for the lieutenants. Ex-Lients. J. H. Diuglc and B. F. Weeks were nominated for 1st Lieut.: Serg'ts W. M. Butler and J. W. Mims for 2nd; and Serg'ts Ed P. Briggs and D. E. Wells. for 3rd. R. F. Weeks, W. M. Butler, and Ed P. Briggs were elected respectively. TL eandidates elect in regular order respoided to the calls of their comrades in short, but appropriate speeches. J. Ashby Weeks, of Packsville, who grad uated last June at the Porter Academy, will enter upon a civil engineering course in the South Carolina Colle"'e this week. The survey of the $utawville R. R. is on ly Ave hundred yards below here en route for Sumter. Capt. Peake thinks it will center Rosin Hill-Oh ! it makes our heart bleed to think that the hopeful and beauti ful town of Rosin Hill is now to be burst by a B. R. Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour, We've seen our fondest hopes decay; We never loved a tree or flower, Rut 'twas the first to fade away. OCCASIONAL. Good Advice from Jordan. Joan.r Oct. 19.-Things are moving on quietly at Jordan; the mercantile business presents quite a prosperous appearance, but the farmers look sick and heart broken. A great deal of their trouble has been caused from over-planting themselves. This asser tion will hold good from a common sense view of the matter. For instance, take a boy and send him off to school; give him too much to do when he first begins, and instead of advancing he will begin to slip back, and will continue to do so until his burden is lightened. Just so it is with the farmers; just as long as they continue to plant too much, they will continue to slip back, and finally find themselves at the foot of the hill, perhaps never to climb it again. Now this fall there has been a panic to get cotton picked, some could not get hands, and some not able to hire them. Whereas if they had planted in the spring what they could have manag ed independent of day-labor there would have been none of this trouble. A large per cent, of the farmers of our county will not make a half-crop of cotton this year. and it is not caused from the flood of rain that has lately fallen (it is true that has cut them off some), but it is sim ply caused from planting their lands year after year, without rest or manure, until they have become so dead that they will not produce anything. I have seen crops in different parts of the county. not this year alone but other years, that will take, on an average, five acres of cotton to produce one bale weighing five-hundred pounds. Is that farming? No, it is simply working and ogling yourself to death to keep alive. And if there is not a change made. the farmers will soon have to mortgage their landsto get something to go upon, and in a few years more the mortgagee will foreclose and they will be left homeless. Then the working class of our people will be nothing more than lackeys for the wealthy. I know comparatively little about farm ing, though I performed six years of man Ulabor on my father's farm, but my opin ion is. that when the farmers of the South come down to planting just what they can manage themselves, and manure that high ly. and beware of little expenses (for as Poor Richards says, "A .mall leak will sink a great ship"); and raise their own meat and make their own butter and other necessa ries of life, then our country will behold with delght a near bricht future. Then and not until then will . e see it. There is an excursion running on the Wilson and Summerton R. R., in conse quence of the colored Baptist Association held at Taw Caw. Last Thursday was the first day. There seemed to be agreat many passengers, and one of them received a ve ry painful hurt in trying to jump from the train as it passed Mr. Avant's store. He got his shanks pretty badly skinned, Mr. Avant's clerk is our informant. M Why Wear Mou'rning? Earron MIamauG Txm-You ask many other questions pertinent thereto, stating that it is an idle custom, expressing the opinion that it should be abolished, and the hop that some one will discuss the sbject aving your kind permission to doo inthe columne of your paper, Inow of fr some redlections; premising that I have long since been strongly in favor of reduc ing the habhiments of mourning to a sim ple badge, and the burial case and clothing, stictly to what is necessary to decency and serity. The subject is naturally of a three-fold chaetenr: first, mourning or sorrow for the locs nee..innsd by death; second, express ing that worow by clothing our persons in gnant= eta specified color; and, third, repesetto the bodies of the dead by cloth 'n md eneasing them in a decent manner. human heart has ever been possessed othe emncinneof love and sorrow, and it is as natural to express the one as the other. H'sbes Hebrews, and Christians have mourned for their dead from the earliest aea~ y more the dumb brutes were per mutted by thei Creator to Share these emo tions with the nobler creature man, and the fall of Adam did not suffice to drive them wholy from their breasts. It was not dispeasing to God that the Is raelites mourne at the death of Jacob, and the Saviour in his humanity wept with the weeng siaes of the dead Lazarus. In our day exessive grief for the dead is soetimes indulged in, but the tendency is in the direction of indifference, near rela tives of the dead making little or no break in their social festivities. D)ifferent colors have been adopted in dif frent countries to express sorrow for de patdfiends. In Europe the color is laksgnfng privation of life, and ence of lgt,. In China, white as denot ing purity. -In Turkey blue or violet, blue expreasng the happiness which it is hoped the detased enjoys, and violet sorrow on the e'ke aide and hope on the other. in Egypt, yellow because death is the end, and lowers and leaves become yellow when thf~ fade arfd fall. In Ethiopia,' brown, because it denotes the earth whither the dead return. 3Mourning, or sorrow for loss byv death, and the expression of that sorrow in some form or ether, is not merely a custom, but the expression of a noble Giod-like senti. ment. Yielding to e'eessive grief is wrong. Al lowing the manifesxation of it to be govern ed'by mere fashion, 'r respect for the opin ios of the world is wrong. Wearing the habiliments of mourning merely for show is hypocritical. Purchasing costly garments and burial cases is uiseless extr-avagar.ce, and whien by doing Jo the survivors are straiteid for food and clothing, or the creditors are deprived of their just dues, it is siinply dishonest. As it appears to me, the t'endency now is to indifference to los of friends by death, and increase of expense in makinga show of sorrow which :s not felt. A little more than fifty years ago one of the wealthiest men in Clarendon counity died, and' one of his neighbors was paid five dolars for making his coffin, and I have no doubt his family mourned in heart more ~than many nowaday s who almost starve 'themselves to bury their des 1. Th- se, t is one tlat sL>l12 have the serious attentw:n of all persons. We should be too sincere to pretend to a degree of sor row we dio not feel. a'd the most of is are t. noor to pit mech money in the grave of otr dead. Respectfully. J. M1. B. ~ Greeleyvilie, S. C., Oct. 10. Greeleyville Notes. GREEii.u.E. Oct. 2.--Col. Wm. Elliott, representative from the 7th district, ad dressed the people here yesterday. We were much pleased with him, and with I what he said. TLomnas W. Kendall formed a Farmer's Alliance here on the 16th. Mr. George E. Pritchett was thrown from his buggv by a running horse, and serious I injured. Rev. Mr. Workman has returned from a visit to his father, who is sick at his home in Camdei. J. M. B. A Great Day for Wofford. SP~u~dBRGOctober 20.-Yesterday the' Founder's day was celebrated at Wofford College. The Alumni Association deter mine1 last summer to build a hal!. and the corner stone was laid yesterday with impos ing Masonic ceremonies, with Past Master W. K. Blake, presiding. There was a large procession which formed in town and marched over to he college, headed by a band. It was prposed that the 19th of Oc tober be declared hereafter a holiday in the college and fitting school. The students applauded this motion with great earnest ness. Judge Kershaw was prever ed from attending the celebration, being in the middle of an important trial. He regretted it very much. as he wished to say a few words to the Woflord boys. He stated to your correspondent that he had found Wof ford graduates all over the State and with but one exception, they were filling posts of honor and usefulness. This is a high trib ute from a worthy man to a worthy instita tion. POWDER' Absolutely Pure. This powder never vares. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. -.id o/ O can. Ron.n haxxXO PowDFrn Co., 100 Wall St., N.Y. Annual Meeting COUNTY COIISSIONERS. OrcE or COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The Board of County Commissioners for Carendon Co., will hold its annual me~et ing at 12 o'clock, M1., on the sixth day of November. 1888. in Manning, for the pur pose of examining all claims that may be presented against county. All persons holding such claims are hereby notified to present the same on that day, to this Board. By order of Board - J. E. SCOTT, Clerk B. C. C., C. C. Managers Federal EectiOns. The following is a list of the Managers of Federal Elections, as appointed by the com misioners of said election. Polls will open at seven o'clock, on the morning of the sixth of November next, and will close at six o'clock P. M., the same day: Fontsros--W. A. Sparks, P. W. Webber, J. M. Mc~ov. Mti-ssro--L L Bagnal, Calvin White, Louis Appelt. JonoDA-Joseph Sprott, Jr., W. G. Frier son, R. P. Horton. C.&zzozs-Isaac C. Ingram, S. P. Holla day, A. S. Briggs. Fuzros-H. B. Eichardson, E. M. Fraley, J. B. Richardson. Fonx-W. H. Gaillard, E. D. Hodge, J. 1. Montgomery. Paczsv1...-T. A. Bradham, J. L. An drews, J. W. McCauley. WzEseoosr-R. R. McFaddin, E. S. Kennedy, R. E. McFaddin, Jr. Mors-J. W. Osborne, M. C. Moore, B. B. Thompson. By order of the Board of Commission ers of Federal Elections. A. LEVI, Charmnan and Secretary. Manning, S. C.. Oct. 22, 1888. Election Notice! ITE, THE UNDERSIGNED) COMMIS VVsioners of State Electior.s, hereby aip point the following named persons as Man agers of Election to be h'.-bl on Tuesday, the sixth day of November, 1888, at their re-1 spective Polling Places. ronEs-rox. . A. Burgess, Ervin P'-ewden. M1. S. Cantey, Jr. MANING. W. 31. Plowden, P. Bt. Thames, J. R. Ridgill. H. A. Tisdale, R. C. Plovrden, J. Elbert Daevis. T. H. H. Gentry. L. T. Fis~h4or; P. H. Broughton, J. W. Weeks. C. D. DesCh:.u~ps. John C. Duratnt. W. B. Pla;den, J. B. Tindal. rAexsvu.1.r.. A. W. Tham'e , J. H . Edr:s, C. P. Mc.Knight. wIrEnusPoON. H . Wheeler. J. M. P'i;er, S. C. Turbeville. R.B M. Thompson; -. T. Ch~aler. ,Jr., 'J. F. Cole. One of the above named in:n.agers at .-ach Bo\ will call upon the Bo,:rd of Coxmis soer% at tcraing, betnen Oct. 30th and November 3d. 1Sas, to receive Ballot Boxes, Poll Lise, and-izatructionls, and to be quali W. J1. CT.ARK; I Clairmaa, ,1. AND)ERN)N MILLS, C. H. PA CK, commissi.,oer of StteEietes NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS! FERDIN AND LEVI, togin's Old Stand. SUMTER, S. O. Goods Well Bought Are Half Sold AND Pair Honest Treatment for All My $OstoHers ARE Two of the Ruling Principles in My Biusiness AN IMMENSE STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE SPECIALLY SUITED FOR THE Fall and Winter. MY CLARENDON FRIENDS AAN ESPECIAL LY INVITED TO GIVE ME THE1liR 1AONAIEs FERDINAND LEVI, SUMTER, S. C. Clothing! Clothing :. !_Clt g!!! .. To The Po 1e cf Clarencoln. 3fI. ! Betlehem; A C. D .I have been in Manning for a year, and J. W IN N thepeople have had ample opportunity of Fall Sift Il2 finding me out. I feel proud of the fact -Has Just Opened Up The Largest Stock of- that my trade has steadily increased, id that I number among my reular custom- Instruction thiooofgb. giove { ~~A~NAU erac many of the best families in the town 6'd decisive, apnea~ia ffrtfy to die MEN'S R and country, student's sense of honor 'nd S T DRESSesad ar eiln the iprtat matter of den. has been the cause of this. I desire to re- G o and bd. Business Suits, School Outfits, turn thanks for the liberal patronage g me, And to solicit its continuance. L OCATIOCN FIYE; -A\-D- Breakfast strips, in canvass, 12i cents- Tition from S$1-00 to $. x.0 per mpnih. PL N ATO CLO HIN vrbe~. C~hoic Hams, sugar cured,~ Board in ob3 families $7A0W per teonth. PLANTTATION CLOTHING 1Acn- or rmMna oFi th In Canned Goodls, I have all kinds, just $20 or frmx ody.o00d. rm~ Ever Brought to Sumter. bonght: Okra and Tomatoes, Tomatoes, O ~~~~~~~~~Pease, Corn, Peaches, Apples, Salm~on, etc..fateI tcas a rsti Cz- REA 0IETY OF B ]o.loun Sausagae, Creem Cheese, Macaroni. rniap. Flour, Bacon. Lard, Grist, etc. Ov'ercoats~. L.inen, Woolen. c'nd Flannel ULn&J'liCC(U. i aetets n haetsosi hsknmarket, and for quality, can beat the market. lN -O0 500 Boodle Cigarsbest 5c cigar in town. U Call quick, before allare gone. A No trouble to show ouds o t IBeforepurchasing call t my store, and 77fe> d Q-AL F A TE ST Se my goods. Gi e inc chance to sell B~r ]3JT BEs, TMRLL AN D 1-Ysm ni ylow prices. M.KALISb'Y ?g, e1o' e~1 i~~ AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. Opst .G i~n C. anzg8c rremendous Stock Just in, Fresh From Northern Markets, 'and I B. D A NF EL DMANN C O d. AT H Lowest Prices L Peaig AtsbeeheldeReli.bs Clothing House of re t r turnh tl~hehasforh iera paroal givenies D. J. IBN.reks siainp Streeti SUcnasER, S. C.cents I AD 33IOSTEIs OF ewJewelry Pal ee TEAS. Ci amES, BRA cDIE, ALES NJJ LIQUO Is~~~22 eents.eeY 1. 282 nI Cnetreet, Of EVERY St, WOLs Al RETAL CHARLESTOB, S: Cu ae o. Cra Ce K G eTsIfeE, ;- A 0AIEYO OBetween Society amtd (ear CH AI "ST( 0; TH3E LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK ~C?>ttrit order~s filled #fff care. LOWEST PRICES i Fall Announanent.T N THET SO lHEIN STATES. 0 SPECIA.I.~ BRHGAINS GodWtlCSile Watches, Waterbury Watches; and LOUi1S CO HE'N C O G o d W t h s1 rSecond H and W atches.[ F E CH CLOCKS.B CehhARem TON? S. CC SILVER PLATED WARE, A D WEDDING PRESETS; Largest variety of fall and win'te* goods, from dll Che le tifi SpectaecCS, Eye Glasses, manufactories, ever displ' *ed- if Soth Carolina:' Gr~lDI8ADEDa Gs.gDCANES, W.ALKTNG" AND &LL KINDS OF JEWELRY AT SILKS, SATINS, EMBROIDERY, LDE'JDEWkIVL CO'MBIN .ION SUTITS, TRICOTS, E'LA2.'NtELS, CASHMERES, McElree's New Jewelry Palace, , FUR, FEATHERS, AND ASTRAK.HAN, 207 King Street, CHARLESTON. S. C.AN)5A . Sra re, Ti ae erct n _&ith 'tn sJ]~ CLRTAINSCAa'ET Adeii, CttTflL th e' At thehLoimptrtoistbmettercof' Slate or Ti RoofingTdneipromptlmby 0i0stocass.0orkee.mConihtr. rdes iledwit Dsptc. By ou SOVE a 234Kitg tretBoAR Eom ON to FrdC;e ~i B. M. MASERS, CaFlouurn Bacon. LardHAIGrist,, etc.