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VOL. VI. M-1ANNING, S. C,~ WT7EDNESDAY. APRIL Q630,19. O TERRIBLE LTrAGEDI Ord!MITTED OVER TWENTY-SIX YFA!i AGO iow ti, a'r Was Unravelod-The Bb, Crawtyand A vng.t J:. Death * V., 'Ath.k - icemrkablo svary. ~FTi!D~ii.3S. C.. _Ar 17.-A ithat reveals the tale of I ile si der, and relates a stor: e .e t rdillainy, was unearthed. .this.co.LIty to-day. Not since the murder of Captait aXwson has South Carolina been sc ' srtled -not since the recital by Me ow of his assassination of that iig'iy estor has there been told a .ory of such a cruel and cowardly uarder. Prominent people are Cons ieted with i perpotration, and irery other detail makes the revels. -on mnott sensaional. An aged man, surrounded by a aily and riches. garnered by fair end fo!l -) a ns, with indications of .mpending dissoluiou, and with a Cme alrendyblotched beyond repara .1, is arrSted quietdy and slentl7 :or a m-urder comm1itted~ nearly awenl s ars ago. This man so rich. e doubly prominent. is S;-utl Jef a rezident of ohi. e,>unty. H brother of one of .he signers of :Ae Mession ordinance. who was a ?. af deep piety and profound learn every way --e is well conneci rd with the~L-ar families of Carolina. tie is about zeventy years of age !1d iS the rih.-est man in this soo AtID OF T1m WA: J-'b about the end of the war, Iauel-eferies killed a neighboc czamed~T S1Lon Sparks. Jfferses on ooan~i of his riches did not go to he war.but hired a substitute. Spark:s was a conscript officer, and about the zlos0e of 18,^4 attempted to compe: Jeferies Vo go into the army, but his towardice was too great. The result was that Jerios went to the woods and hid sw.y from the conscript ofd e. l.ood hounds were put on his .a and by some mishap he never as apprehended. Enraged at the conduct of the conscript officer, Jef (erlicOison ought a difficility with hi;n, andi killed his olicial pursuer. About the close of the war, when rything was in r cm.ition of al most-irrtrievable chaos, the - trial of Jeerci. for this murder was. held. Everybody was interested in the case. and great indignation was expressdz: A-en Of mnians who condemned this ma&der attempted to have justee hitod .out fairly. One of Thes; waz Dr. Alexander White, an inuluential hviian.' Hie denounced the erd -A.chanced to obtain some eing testimony against Jefferiei. This wae soon made known to Je -e -nd his friende, and fell like a -omb shell in their camup. HoW LO stis damagg ev Cridence arid Se Jefferies' lfe was thA qiCs .ion.. Various schemes were hatched o no effect. At last it was determined to for ever silence the tongue of Dr. White by death. The plot was conceived aria consummflated rapidly. In the darkne'ss of a midsummer night im August, 1865, while rocking his moth erless child to sleep in his cc antry ion, Dr. White was shot dead. That shof, was fired through the door. Instantly Dr. White fell dead. The startled child awakenied by the eruel commotion, and the murderers plung ed into impenetrable darknees. Short, lv afterwards the prattling child, se.e ing the blood of the father flowing freely, sat down and dabbled in it. Coveredwith the gore of its father,the child fell asleep, and there beside its parenit rested peacefully un'til its brother discovered the dastardly deed. The murderers of Dr. White were unknown. Suspicion pointed to Sam uel Jefferises, and several others, but none were-arrested and tried for the --ded. Soon afterward the trial of Jeerie~s for the slaving of Sparks was held. Itresulted in an acquittal, despite the fa-ct that Jefenies was u animously condemned by the people. Sine, then he has prospered, and is today a very rich man. His charao. tr has never been good, and many deeds of doubtful fairness, have been laid to his account. All his acts were the fruit of a masterly cunning mind. Time and again he has been aceused of mrdering Dr- Whit., but he and his associates kept their secret well. But his associates, who were o mied tip in the deed, often said pub. licly that he rarely ever slept. and frequntl e saw apparitions of is ictimas. Whether this is true or not it is certain he aged very rapidly and never spoke of his past life. His sole aim seems to have been to conceal forever this secret and make money rapidlyvbut murder will out and Sam el Jefferies is now on the threshold 'f a diirefal personal calamity. As .ssocIaT3 sQ3AL.. When Dr. Whit. was murdered, Jefferis sad a man named Medlin, were intimate asoistes. It was believed that Medln had either been hired by Jefferies to kill White. or that he was an abettor in the deed. Medlin had to leave, and went to Tes. There he died some years ego. and while on his death-bed made a~ statement exonerating him 3ell. an A declaring that Jeffe-ries had madee Dr. White. This confesiot was kept secret by Medlin's family. Not long ago Medin's son told the tale related by his father. Ti3 ARBXsT MA&D3. This started anew the old. ensatioti amog ths few people who wer! worn: to secrecy, The prattling chile wo dabbled unconsciously in ut' pxent-alife-blood is now a man. Wit] nay bits of testimony he has wout the soil around his fathers mnurderer H is a penniless man. but he has beer aided by friends in obtaining testi mon r. and the case has been success fully worke-l up. When Jefferies wai arrsttd at hie home in G+affney Cit: he was si a, a~nd is now guarded i: epuy zheri.fs in his roomu. Not Xuch in the Case. O, rrespo idence of the Greenville News. (j.rr S. C., April 23.-Consider able prominence hae been given to the rececut arrest of Samiel Jvff&riC-s, of this place, by the varloas cor. uondlent.;. froma this place-t. UnioIu anid Spirtanburg, and many exaggerated and! roneous atments hav.e be-:. made more for suieation than fat. SMr. Jeiferies has all the eience neede &to po. anl albi, 8"ar as he i concered, and the fact off hisre lease- on a one thousand dollar b shows; that the law thinks it a weak Mr. 7eferioa- arrived h(re on e terday froml- Uniuon whee he h gonie,'ad. asked. an investigttionan as no wtasses appearedh aga.inst im or Mr. R"orts. both were releae on I ght bail. easily giving the hond in Union aIthough bod would hawe bpen given bore for any amount had it leen requue-. The statcieWnt o the c-se in the h-tissue of the (ro l'un' Soacrtain is more -arly corrm t.an yn that has yet appeared. and sets forth the facts as related to your correspondent at the time of the oe A TO UCHING STORY. Xaoter and Formet-r Mave Mest Arr Many Ter.,s. HLUA, Ark.. Apil .-A very af fecnag scene was witnessed hifre to day~I oetveen a former master andI two of his ex-slpves. A verydigniid ol gntleman stopped in front of one of the groery stores on Ph:x- blook and inquirod of Mr. Robert Gordo, the propritor, if he could give kiln any informfation co ncernng the where a b,,) of two ngro-s, named Psr-y Lee and Troy Wilson. whom he said he had heard lived in Helens. The ztrang:er introduccd h imnlIf a Dr. White, of D~enison, Tex. Mr. Gordou, who was well -equintKd with tG parties S st for, WCnL Ound to tke postoffce and brouht back with him Tiroy WIl.on, -ho1i now mail agent in the em1ploy of tho goe ment on the ArkasaPs Midland Rail rerid. W'Nilson soon met hs fErmer master, who -ept with joy when he sAw Wilson and learned of his ries ; the world. Lee was alcofeDund and broughb before the Doctor. The ste. and ex-slaves remained long in qniet sonyersation with ons an other, recounting the events that had taiken placs sine tiheir depart from his srviee. Dr. Whi*e sated that the-two men had been slavea nn der kim in Uissouri, and that he had heard of the terrible floods through out this country, s:nd, not knowing how Wilson and Lee were faring. had come down her$ to assist hm, if they neeed any -assistance. After sading them both substantial pte: enis the parties separa.ed- Wilson to his work on the train. Let to his work in the city and the Dotor to i ho.me ix the Lone Star State. A Doctor's Enormous Fee. What is believed to be the larget fes ever p'aid to aphyician ina sinle~ case was paid by J. H. Flagler, one i i t of the Standard O.1 1 ings. to Dr. G C. Seldon of New Yao-k. A dea rly bloved daugto r t M r. Fltler, who afterwards dd r hil mcusing on a vatch in Southern witers about a year ago, was lingering between life and death. There were not miore~ then two or three chainces out of h uindred that sh would be able tC leave her hod alve The dleoted father announced thaLt, if Dr-. Sheldo n could relieve the sun'ering in his cha and aid her.n recovering. he would give him the largest fee thatt was ever paid a physician. Misst Flagler rallied and tinally was able to leave her bed, and in the course of time was sufficiently strong to drive out. The young heiress to several mnAlins lived to enjoy her greatt wealth for a long time afte-r this, an Dr. Sheldon was presented with 4-230,000 worth of stock ina the Stand ad Oil Company. No Southern Trip. - The Secretary of State on Monday oftelghed Capt. Bourke. in charge oftespecial train that is carrying the Pan-Aercans on tihe Southern) tour, to return to Washington from Richmond. This was done by Secre tary Blaine because so few of theo delegates diesired to make thee cursion. The Seerotery decided the the number of those going would not justify the expense off the journeyv w hich would cost as nmech as if the entire conference had gone. The ISamuel Jackson Randal was born in Philadelphia, October 10th, 1823.1 He was a son of a well known law ye andi distinguished p~olitician o Philadelphia. He was educated as a merchant, and after being four- timies elected to the city coune-l and once ito the State Sonate, he was eletedc to Congress in 1863. He haa since represented w''thout intermi1ssion the ony Democratic district in Philadel phia. He served on the comnmittej on beang, rules and elections, andQ distinguished himself by his speecheal against the force bill in 1875, and was year, and was appointed chairman of the commiaee on appropriations. IHe gained credit by his suceess in eurtailing expenditures by enforcing a system of proportional reduction in the appropriations, and on the deathj of Michael C. Keorr~was elected Speak er, December- 1876. He was re-el. eted Speaker in the two following Icongressos, sc-rving ini that eapacityI until 1881. Mr. Rlandall has borne a) conspieuous part in the debates on th tariff as a lea-de-r of the pir;tec tiounst wirneo the D.:i:n-e..tic par.~ Ajan.a. April M.-WVhile three men were rowing a boa .. on K ?- sh~ pnd, two miles we(st of bhere. Sunda afternoon, the Loat capsized and one off the party, George Waldrop. being unable to swim. was drnowned. iHe' was a young inan about 21 year-s old. He leaves a wife and one child. He will be buried at Niew Prospect Chrch, sereral miles in the countrv-. IThe coroner h~a- ru ' ut t hI d the inq~ueSt. thouJ.ZL th he-ts arc' as sTeI ed abo.ve. -Lr. WV. H. Mc-Iutostt adis guisiicd Baptist minister of Georgia. died at his homie in Maicon on Tuw& ray' A IS OF TI1E A LLANCE. THE RELAT!ONSOF THE :ORDER TO PUBLC AFFA!RS. A Plt1U ad P'rac!caPJ statement rrom. a 1utroutin T'armr-A Word.Aboal Pol. Col. . T. Stackihouse, president of the -'armer Alliance of South Caro inahs writ ten th - following letter -0 Mr. M. d. Pate' of B D1a BaoT1z.-11ur letter c: - r lppig. -The Ai'ance and it Lm,"' anli r lutionin reference to .- he B Zabrg Aliiane. was we.tiveo uring my abnce from Periips I e - best &nwer your a by sta. ing-' a) brily ajsosib~le :~ I c0v 0to bc the relatons of k.) A c toh LIies. Tho i-rst declaration of initeations I-a oirz .om,,Litution says: *To labor or thl education of the agricultur.m1 b u i e scicnoe of economical permn1'lhlC:t. in a :strictly non-parti Thi': d--laration is full of Suggeo iv -,::ht-. ThL lhoght. sugges !d i that 1-hose elassoes neetd to be ~ . 4 - . i e frdnaua Soteimiuiry have these classes ien -areless ab'out this kind of edu '"ion, and if so has this cares 1. a he'm victims of iciousleg .laon -legislation that is unequal i.ed p to these classes? Ths 4LA';ncO asoe(and we tLink cor that such has becu the case. -i r te'tction light be cited as ml ulstr'aion of this kind of unequal m p(s' ivo lstion. And it na ewell to remark here that tar if re'io i more., distinc-tively a rij -- (as betwecn the two great lii a partie. :n 4this country) than my .~. Tariff protection tz.ros : - aliurl clas+-the larget onsuing clasues of manufacturod - Cis-to build up and enrich the c" mnifacturing indusis('3 of hs country. The Republiean party Iare-m thn roective policy. The )smocratic party opposes it. The 11ance bids its mnembership to free lhev1'es from partisan prcjudices -th. great party blind-and to ex nin this question in the light of -eason and right, and then do what ould be for the greate t good to ths 7:aateet number. Then. if we take up the financial or noneY question. which isi more a lass than a parLy qunstion-neither f the gat political parties having ooked after the interests of the ag lra classes in the na1cil leg. lation for the country since 1805. 11 proof of this we might cite the ex raordixtry privileges granted to the istional Banks the iscrimination gaint he famuers' securities in tho stAlshmntof theso banks, the de amnetizatiioi or silver, thn reduction a th vu e currency by the re iremntt of the United States bonds 1d the cancein"g of Nrtional Bank ot0s, and in short, the establish Ient and :aintenance of a financial >olicy that is surely reducing the reat middle class t-.o a condition of _enendence and want. This policy, l ong enntinued, will make a strong nd centralized gzovernment a necce ity to protect the rich and to hold he poor in subjection. As remarked, is is more a class than a party 1ut5ion; but partisanship has been t~e blind that has blinded the farm ng classe to the~ great wrong that asu~ indieted upon them. Of course, all the great farming clasess could ~ae freed them selves from party nd sectional prejudices and if they ad been edacated in the science of olitcal economy they world havo ood together and& theCs wrongs oalM not have come upon them. In the above brief allusions to the tce:sity of educating the agricultur I claises I have trenched on the se. :ndimportant suggestion. viz: the piit in which it is to be dOne-"in strictly non-partisan sp'iit" That arty zealhbindCers or prevent invest' ~aton is too patent to require deflmon tration. This might he illusrate va case in our own State and in our (Barnwell) county. I rnoticedi ute'recently that an honored and isinguished Carolinian. a citizen ofi ua coun.fty and one of the mot dis ingishd farmecrs in the Stute, was ep'rted to ha-:e said: -'I am a Demo rt lrst, second a far'mer. " B which un.sood him to mean that his ov and hi allegiance to the Demo -rc party' was ?.uch that hec held it vold be wr-on. b> discuss~ State pol cy inside the Demnoe.ratic party. for' e:r (of endangering Democratic su1 remacy' in the State. I am stu'e hat :ny dist inguished friend held. ias [holdtbat ihere is nothing dishonest ni the adiniistrationi of our State overnment. This being admit ied m all sidies, where could be the dan ;er of the~ propotsed disc'ussion of Stt policy-inside the Democratic a~ry? Surely, there could be nto ante from.- such discussion if it be ond uct in~ a non-partisan~non-fae on '-and A..lline miemibers will en ag in such d!iser:;-ioni in no other piit. But the State Alia~nce has madc no ~ther Legislative domnands; and~ as an ranin is not called upon to pr*ss upon tuhe demandls put forth by .h 'Farmers' Association. The Allianjce do0es not interfee w'ithth politjial or relhigiu pr'efer 0nc? of its members'. It is Demo -rat"e ma'Jjriiy rule of the memnber .hip Loilative demandsh formu. laed tha~ State Alliane-m w'oul he *uianItd to the' sub-AlliaTICs for atiication. When ratified, it would the. 'embership would vote for no man who was no's pledged to work ris leg" enactme-nt. The Alline m~ake:; no war on any piolcl jprty. When it wants legi:+ lation ii dont er the eniudidate; if he is aLDmocrat. Reputbican. Whig, Kno Nothing or a Gr'eenbacker; it snply tan a pledge that he will, if eeu. work to soecurs the eunt mnit of its mneasues and let him take his chiances. it o.,a i brd irf 'ce to t oe in ih2.tiaefo thie Brwi le thiueae 10CIT01I -_________ -S 0R PARALLELS BE TWEEN TWO VERY'M PORTANT CALLINCS Iyr. Talmage Think% It Would te Well if al mintsters Were Doctors and all Doctors wore MIznisters. Dr. Talmage took for the text of '.undasermcn.Mattthew11,5.-The blind receive their sight, :Ind the lame walk, the lepers Sao Clensed, nd the deaf hear." He said: "Doct-or, I said to a distingsLa surgeon "do you not got worn out ih cnstany seeging so ma-ny wolunds an d hvoken bnones and dis locatiins of the human body?" "Oh io;" e an.wered, "all that i o-:er come by miy joy mn curing them." A sumer or more merciful art iver caLd down from Lave tLan them ar of ure'. Catastrophie and dies e A Vt, L earth so eary tha. one of the fxt wants of tc worl d was d Joc itor. Our cippldtand agonized hu un ratc called fr a' surgeon and riy ph:.1 t 4.ia for man ye7ars before thy LCaw(m. Th lret sturgeons who ans5 sred thid call were ministers of rigini namey, the Egyptian priests. adi wh~ a gni;d thing if all clergy men'l11 we0re also doctors. all D. D.'s, wero M. D.'s, for there are many cases whore body an oul need treatment at the sam, tie cOMsolaLior and edicineC thn.ogy and Lerape uties. A strgons of the worldwefr'e two prosons always be in ful synpalhy: But under what disadvan ages ,he early surgeon worked. from ite fact at hle issetion of the hu Lan body was fcfbidde. -irst by the pagai aid th0n by the early Chr-is ians! Apes. being the brutes most l:ke the humar. race, we(ire i ,t ~jJj,,ML-jJ)C, t-ral -! )C U but no human body;.ih beuf1d ed fo:'rbhyiogical and namil 0orAion, andhe stugeon's ii. to guess what was inside the temple by looldng at the outside o; it. I they failed in any srical operatn fthe were psc~uted and drivn ut o theG city, as was A rchatgathius because of his boll but unsuccessful attempt to s'ave a patien-t. But the world from the very begin ing kept calhug for surgeous, and their fir'-t skil is spoken of in Genesis, where they employed their art for the incson~ ofl a sacredrite, God making the praeecessor of bapli; Ind we i sgai in iH 'Igs,h A-hazih, the monarch, sepp.d on -me Craclied latti-e-work in the the palace. and it broke, and h fell fromi te upper t11oor to the Iower Sani he was so hurt that hse ent So the village of Ek1ron for aia; and ESi:lapius, who wrought such won ders of surgery that he was deiied, and -pkls were bui for his wor ship rt P-rganos; and Epidrarus a.nd Polirius introduce~I fur the rCief of the wora pidebotom'y; and Damo ed es eurtd ihe dislocated ankle of ing Da-ius, ad 'he cancer of hia queen: and Eippoev"s put suec ess ful hand n riacturs, and introduced :urputaion: and Pr aaoras removedt obstruetioins; and Heropliius began dis'secin: IL Erasi.ratus rcmoved tumors; and Celsus, te Roman sur goon, removed cataract from the eye, and us'd the Spanish fly; and Hello (ous arrested disease of throat; and Aexander, of Tralles, treated the eye;! and Rhaziis cauterized. for the pre-J vntLion of hydrophiobia: and Pe rciva Pett camne to enlmbat disease of the spine; and in our own century we have had a R~oux and a Larray in France, and As ley Cooper anid an Abernethy in Great Tritain. anid a Valentine Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel D. Gross inAmerie, and a alaxyeif lwedecessor: But notwithstanding all iho euri cal and medical skil of Lhe world with what tenacity the old diseases hang on the huma ~r .., and mnost of them are tho"usands of'yers old1, and in oar Bibles we read of them:' the carbuncles of Job and Hezokish; the~ paiitation of the heaort spoken of in Decuteonomy:" the sun-stro'ke ofa ebd caxrried from th e ields of Shu nem, ervin, "My head m ad! Kin'- Asa's disease of the fet .hl was nothi but g-out:0 deion 01 teeth. that caliled for dea surgery the skill of wich2, quite egral to any thing mod' rn, is still . een in' te tid molars of the~ nnrolled Eg~ ian mummies:; the opnthalmie' caused by the juice of the newly, ripe fig. lear ig the people blink at the roadside; eilepsy a in the cas of th'. young man often falling into tl1 a re un often into the w ater; hypochondA, as of Nebuchaldnezzar, who imagined himself an ox, and going out to' the fields to pasture; the wi?thee ad which in Bible tie ae n~ ow. en~t from the desrtruin of :e m rtry, or from paralysis of h he Ierve: the w ounds of the maan whom the thieves left for d 'd on the roa t Joricho, and whiomnthe gen Sama ritan nursed, pouring in oil and win" -wine to cleanse theI wo)und, and( on: to soothe it. Thnk God for wha surgery has done for the alleviation and cure of humiam .saftermg. But the world wanted a ugr witout pain. Doctors F arre and Hickman and Suip on 'nd War'er and Jackson, withi I'tramzn eeius. camne on. ana( msithhrzm+ heies benumbed1 the patient with narcoics and. ether' as the ane did 'r i hsh~es and'hi roma'5.andJ qu(ieted him for~'~ awhil, but iat the re turn of conlscioC'n'IO distre.: retur. d. The worldi h s nve sen u one~ surgeon' wh'o couhi stai.ti the 1~oe limb, Lare tiO ''lind -7 o rconsruc theaun of a sud le a.or reuc a~ dropLLy, .with-% d taln i the. time, cr any ,~i ) L and tza sugo w'sJeu Chri4 th mihtie.-. gra.ude'- entes ny serves .'o confidlence and lo-" and worshii.~ and ',hsauna of 'l thert :d hLb lujahs' of all heaven. -Th b ldr, lve their sg'ht. an .h "m I n iotic.; this SIurgeon haIa 'm nO.ss for (hronic e''. May 'r gon, wh 1 ' he ha ha. a.pt roit, to ,bu. h - You bring a u t o' Iof recuper~2a en are gone You h ~waited unti. ~hcre is a ompleteo con k'..ao & re mnaeloe a.nd *tle I close. andl leL Ile5~ ha a nlothin in it to Conde-!mu. Yomn slC-itude lest, the Allianc shij sIhould be -wreckedt in t1it -tormyu oI oli15 VS :Ds nI,) doubt shared 1 thousand of as good Allian'e me As thxer'e i'r i -;he State. Your feu that the A11ioice miglit become clan nish anid refune to vote for any save mem111bers of the order wid. I thik prove unf.:a e. Th,- Allinet method leaves ("icll inelb-r free tc voit for the adidate of his choice pr'ov1ided ha is riht on measures. ant Sedutc'tion in th' s~cinc of politie:d .m ii.I b . Ai~'iXn%-J tosn un be e 1 m. n dhat St' ate Al lianceL has subm Icc' iO no demands. consquenticlyV ' iac Uewhwill dtter mine for himself i.+dty a's t1 m and m*"I ures. said dutY: ye' tIat is hewod-dty i e~-resthe id-ea' eI reliing ~l~ p)ohti of 0 "aimt and LE loks to the maring of -conomn and ieiency in government. There is another idea in tI articl frori the Barn'ell People which the ~Allance Brotherhood should rever fort: The danger of load<g the Ailanc;' shin v A: self-seekers. who look to their own advancement from theGir cneetion witn our order. Ofiee-soekers should find no encour gemnent to enwr the AJl.'e. Al liance association will better qualify us to 'elect wisely our servsnts to In co-nclusion, it may int not be improper for mc to suggest to mem? bers of our order that in he discu3 sion of the question, of State pobey, ai Ptizens. not a1 an organization, that they take inito the discussion that broad charity which "construes words ar.d dleels in their mod favor abie light, granting honesty of par pose and good intentions to others. E. T. STACerUsF.. Pre!-:ident; S. C. "-. F. A. FromIfabe I.arming. The Ataia Journal mentiona Mr. James B. Hunnicut. of Coweta coun t,. as one of the champion fariners of Georgia, and the Egures produced seem to warrant the designation. Mr. Hunnieutt farms on n intensive plan. and last year his clear profits from I ffty acres of land worked with two mules were $2,000. Tic figures are as follows: 500 bushels of corn, 2$ bales of cotton, 700 bushels of oats. i t'2 busthels of wheat, 50 bushels of I arley. 800 bushels of rutabaga tur nips, 12 tons of clover hay, and a little of everythiug else. For instanee. from a half acre he made 203 gallons of ribbon cane syrup. sold S:30 worth of cazie and put up 5,000 stalks for seed. On five acres iii cotton he usedI our tons of commercial fertilizer and gathered seven bales (although th crop was considerably i nJred by a hA:il storm) and made a clear profit $122-land and mule, rent and wear of machinery being counted in the expeIses. Altogether he had thns tv acres in cotton. He gathered the 500 bushals of corn from seven acres of thin land. heavily fertilized with compost. For the last seven years Mr. Hunnicutt has farmed on the in tensive systcm. and during that time he has never made less than forty bushels of corn to the acre. This is certainly a good showing for s two mule farm. Col. Thomas W\illiams, of Ehnore county, Ala., also comes forward as a successful farmer. On 500 acres of laud he raised last year 500 balies of cotton. His other crops wore in like proportion, and he raised -hog and homniny" enough for home consumption and had some to sell. A policy in the Valley Mutual Life A ssociation, on the ten year re newable plan, at age 40. costs only $14.25 per annum per $1.000. See advertisement. --A wealthy citizen of Dover, Me., was mortilied the other day. He had just been making a clean breast of his deplorable financial condition to the assessors, and going to a gro cry sto're soon after he was appalled to find that the assessor had taken his statement so literallyv as to rder a barrel of flour, a cod-fish and home other thig sent to him at the toYwn's --Mrs. Willingham, who recently eloped from Atlanta, died in Wash ington, D. C., suddenly on Sunday. Sucide was suspected, but her friend1s deny it. --The trunk of a rose bush grow ing at Ventura, Cal., is said to be three feet in circumference and the first branch it throws out is twenty one inches in circumference. It runs over a lattice work, and though more than a wagon load of bougha have been removed it covers a space of about twelve hundred square feet. It yields thousands of flowers and is fourteen years old. I-The biggest seizure of smuggled igars ever made at Key 'West was made Monday, 150.000 valued at $25000 were seized. Thry had been smuggled by the master-at-arms of the war *hp'Galena" as storea. 1-His Honor the Mayor of Atlan Ita, Ga., has~ revoked a license to sell lqors.granted to a woman of that etv. The ground upon which lie ba s ehis action is that to grant a liquor lienfse' to a woman is conitrary to :ound public policy and goodl morals. because she is a woman. It woubt be interest ing' to hear the op)inions of ELabeth Cadly Stanton, Miss Susii B. Authonyv and( Miss F rances E WVillard on the subject. I-Mrs. John Nichols, formerly of Flida, V daughter of the Rey. Mr. Br" n. of Monticello, (iedl in At lan'ta on Monday so suddenrly that an in(Iuest wil be held to investigatE her death. She lived muabappily with her 'ihusband. -To Florida men cut dlown a bec ree acnd secured several hunrid pounds of honey. When they igh ed gathering the honey they cLoL' mencEd to investigate the top o1 it re.JYd foun2d whereC cranels E built tht'ir nlests. They gather"d ur 140 dozen of eggs. It is supposed the gentlemen will buy an incubator L decadence, or remove temporary ob SStr-uctionS, but no71t more: than One ; naly deaf ear out of a hundred is .ver eurcd. It took a -God to make Cth 1r, and it take a Gd - o make the ear. and it takess a -God' to m*n +. That nakes me iu-ious to see how Christ the Surgeon succeeds as an artist. are told of only two cases He operated cn as an car surgeon. His rien 1Peter. naturally high tempe'red, saw Christ insulted by a man by the name of Malchus, and Peter lot his sword fly, aiming at the man's head, but the sword slipped and hewed off the outside ear. and our Surgeon touched the laceration and anotheor bloomed in the placo of the one that had been slashed away. But it is not the outside ear that hears. That is only a funnel for gathering sound - and pourirg it into the hidden- and mio:-e elaborate ear. On the beach of Y'Lake Gaileo our Surgeon found a a * dnb. The patien1t dwelt i . silence, and was speech l He coQUld not hear a note of muic* or a clan of thunder. He oui not call father or mother or wife or children by name. What >wrcnwakeni thIat d.ull tympanum or a ca.inL:'! of small bones, or re(i-:-' rhn~ auit~oivrerve or open - gate between th- brain and the out-ide world. The Surgeon put His fingers ini the deaf ears and agi tated them, and kept on agitating the vibration gave vital -;dl the dead-parts. and they rsn P0d1 whnr our Surgeon wiL an- !is ugerS from the ears the 0r ofound. were clear for wE cweet oices of m'usie and friend ip .Lr t Iho 'Is* time in his life hA. herd the dash of the waves of Galee. Through the dejsert of pain ful silenc had been built a kings highway of rsonan:ce and acclama on. But yet he was dumb. No over leaped over his lip. e'was clhinedunderhis tongue. er~diztion ad a-centu.ation were tO hiM an impossibility. He could exipress neitLer lov. nor indignation nor worship Our 'Surgeon, having unharedhis ear, wiu now melt the . e o his to"ngue. The Surge:n wil use the same liniment or salvo Lthat Ej used on two occasions for the! cure of blind people, namely, the I 2i.-ure0 of His own mouth. The application is made. And. 10, the rigidity of the dumb tongue is re laxed, and between ihe tongue and tet4ere bo rn a Vhoie vocabula:.y. and word -,ew~ ito spresSion. - HLe not .ly heard. but he talked. On. gate of hs body swung in to lt soaud e nter -nd the other gate '--an 'out to Ile sLouna depart. Why is it t;.t wle ote "seurgeons used nive a forceps. and probes', andi stros.;-opes, thisSrgeon use Ly(i the Ontmetof His o,-n lipS? To sow thaL' all the enrative power we evr fel comes straght from Christ. And if- -'1 11- ', no, we shall be aSa rock ond dmb as a ni.. Oh tLh grI-eate-st of ..l atrists, ConI-pol us to hear, and help us to spcak! But what were thesurgeonsfees for alI tLese cures of eyes and ears nr. ton-guties and withered hands and erooked backs? The ski and the n):Iiilessnss of the operations were worth hunreds and thousands of dollars. Do not think that the cases He took were all moneyless. Did He not treat the nobleman's son? Did Henor doctor ithe rulers daughter? Did hec not effect a cure in the house of ar centurion of great wealth, who haeut of his own pocket built a synagogue? They would have paid Him large fees ii He ha'd demanded thm, and there were hundreds of wealthyv people in .Jerusalem, and among the merchant castles along Lak Tibeias, who would have given this srtu-eon houses and hands and all they- hadL for such cares as he could effe 't. F3or critical cases in our time gel surgoons have received $1,000, "->000 and~ c in one caso I know of. .000, bu~ ~t the Surgeon of whom I -peak rcecived not a shekel. Rot a --'mv, not a ?arthing. In His whole -ceilx life, we know of Hi~s having had ..: c2 ents. When His taxes wer due,~by His omniscience He knew . of a fish in the sea which had sw'alowed a piece of silver money. as .iare apt to swallow anything bih.and He sent P'eter with a hook ~whc' rought up that fish, and from isi mou .was ex;tracted a Rioman stat--er. r 6:4- centis. the only money IHe ever had; and that He paid out for ta'xes. This grearest Sur-geon of all the cent uies ga've all is services then, and offers all His sericies now. --ee of allO chage "Without money ~'and without price youmay spiritualy hve your bhudc eyeas opened, and vos e ears imbar'red. and your du~a togue looseneiL and your .rs hald. an~d your soul saved. Wha a grand thing for- oar' poor mian raceO when this Surgen shall have~ completed the treatment of all the world's wounds! The day will cme when there will be no more eck, and no more eye and ear in fir-I raities. for there will bo no more blind or defaI. and no mere deCserts, for theC rcaud earilh shall be brought under aroricr uue, and no more blizzards =er swiokes for the atmosphere will1be expturgated of scorch and1 ci.adno maore war for the swords shjll co'm'e out of the foundry bent -1. uuhoos. While in the --"---nly country we shall see those who vwere the -rictinre of acc'ident or malormatwin or ?eredita:' ills on car t. b cm the athletes in Elysian iede. Wh~o is that man with such brilinteys closebefore the thrcne Whv thLi3 -the'man who, near Jeri chlwas' blina, and our Surgeon ed-. his ophthabl.a:.~ WhLo is that :eet and qu1aenl womnan be-fore the one T1a was' the one whom our Suwee fau1 bent almuosi, double, ; col omai phre and e :mde er traght. Winoi at~ listeonn; wit~h suc'h rap;ture to ec uude' ei\ven sclo Liting e )U.i.r' , eyb resp~onding to *-umpet, and theo nniself joining in h nthem' Why, that is the man w 'hom ouri Surgon found deaf an~d . za on the bench of Galiilee, and by w ni m crowds(~ ar"atheringwith< aadmiing look ad tha~nkpsiing, and c" ofv- what' Hedid fo1 r me! HE idformyfamly O)h. e ur "o of A the centures the ,jeulist, the Aurist, the Emancipator, th an o'u' No pay He took on ligat u rc e formed. and ossificatio: 1sa la. It ought to m hej I teienied to Ion: ago. Ba Ch-: e u med to prcf: ete ra cas. Oute was a hemor r of tw l'. ve years.and He stoppet .. Anothlier was a curvature of eigh teen y-ars, and Ie straightened it AInothler was a cripple of thirty-eigh years, and he walked out well. TIi eighteen-year patie:t was a wcma2 bent almozL double. If you coul 6all a convention of all the surgeonr of all the centuries. their combinci sfl could not cure that body s< drawi out of shape. Perhaps the mght stop it from being any worse perhaps they might contrive brace by winch she might be made mor< col-iortable. but it is, hlmanlyspeak ng. ineurabl. Yet this dine Sur geon put 1)ct Hi- hands on her. an' from that doubled-p posture she be g~c to rise, and the emnurpled flet began to take on a healthie hue. an the muscles began to relax fromn th rIdity, and th- s-pinal colunm begna o ajust its'If. 'nd thec ds of tO: F eck began to be mnore s-, theo eyes-. that coul! :-- only:1% Mq)(flO., -2Cu) U10 1 fiwe of Christ wlit tudi. a ni tow~ra h-aven In tramnp:or. 'S'traig Afte-r eihtenweryad exha~ustin( fanes the beat of healthy womaIn hoo'.d reinst .I The thiirty- igh as' Case wa N i man who l:, o- 1 mattress near t n m'neral bae atJrundem. Tli w , 'ive apa nts wiere Lame pL o ple we brouglhllt o th at they co( ,- the adzatagc of tlese miner' bas T Stonle basin Of t.he bati s sill visible although t .at 'sm convuli-on of 1ature: th bf/ il feet lon- I 1 . wide an310, doep. ,i por manu: if nu ha t beeni tlnw, and lp hit ore o.a. Why. hi- L e asi Noth g bu C.h g V wil eure you. 1'ut- Chrit th.'-rgeo walks alogI: ths bathsLaI' I have no)dot"n S Onlyv six mon0ths dIoonkiwred, ol-ro yer, or five year;, anl h cmies to ti aittss Of tfle mian who had been nearly four decade's helplesand it I s tairty-( ght years' invalid said: "Wil. thou be made whole?- The question asked, not because the Sur geen did no undestand the protrac. t s dQEeatoness, of the c:se, to' evoke lhe man's pa.th(ecnarradte. "W 1,i o b male- whoe? "W ul yoU lke to get wellr "Oh yes," says the an., "kut is what I cae tothese miIr batit ir: I have tried every thing. All the surgeous Lava failed, and a!1 th pre iption have proved v1uls. and I hae got worse and wors, and I can neither more hanoI or foot or heald Oh, if I could onv be froe fromf this pain of i year Chri . Surgeon. could m11:n on tho mIttress and in a tendr with allI sympath.y. buit .Strong wh al U mipt1-nce, h 'ays, *Ris-: And zth i. li i--1; st;--antly crmbe o his knes, and t' en puts out his rgh4 o thn h-is left loot, and the1n stood upriglt as though 'he had rever been prostrated. While he siads looking at the Doctor with a joy too much to hold. the Doctor says: "Shoulder this mattrass! for you are not only well onough to walk but well enough to work, and start out from these mineral baths. Take up thy bed and walk!" Oh, what a Sur go)n for chronic cases then, and for chronio cases now: In speakning of Churist as a surgeon, I must consider HimD a-; an oculist, or ev e doctor. and an anrist, or ear de tor Was~ there eve-r such another ocaist? That He wasparticularly sorry for the blind folks I take fr.om the fact that the mos- of His workcs ws with the~ diseased optic nerves. I have no time to count up the umbe-r of lind people mentioned who nt his cure. Tw'o blind i.en 0n1on hose. also one wno was bornt ohnu: so that it wa nlot remova of 0 viua obstruaction. but th'e creation of the conea, andell 'iary mfuscle, and er'rs taline lens, an retina. and optic nervO, and tear glan~d; also the bind man1 of Dethaida, eure.d by the saliva which the( Surgcon tCoo froth tinco of Hs own tongue~ andl put upon th eld u also tw blind m]en who, 3at br. th ways -ide. In our ciilized age~ we h-tve bi ,nnss enough, the ratio feardly increasing, accordling to the sam tof Boston and New York and'hiladelphia oculnists, because o th reai.: (f the morning and eve-n ingubsapes n the jolting cara by ie muhi tudes whoe live out of i eli :m -come00 ini to b1uiess. But i ptie1'os of sand iloating inl thea andi th'e nght du::. alng on mae eyido those whio slept o the to o thei hoss and in some of these 1::d it is e.stima'ted that twentyr out of ai hundred people are totmlly blinud. Amid . all that crowd of visionlcsf pr ople, wa'ttwork for :n -ocui'st: And I1 do no believe(. that mnore than one ~ut oa ndred of that Surgeon's eure wer reported. Hie went un an dov-u among those people whoe sm Is an sst... andteev 'C 1. -ju.' ra Hi (and ove th i:: zresii:d trace. nd thet -hutters ndtheg restornd. it is omrin That ithe aocul' we alld nedr.tl. Uu hisiaa~ iurgeo h justuv a wo .2) to 2(odt -?rs.Ol Nin r e : d of you winte~s I r C--.. .. oneI diale ea.Iia ": o kls dmgiidc an1 what ith Lthe eit theL~sl c tarrba tubnata P111. tunes thee aro e aygers ot all earth. Come, now, and let all heaven pay Him with worship that shall i-ever end, and a love that shall never die. On His head be all the crowns! In His hands be all the sceptres! and at hiis foet be all the worlds! THE CC-OPERATIVE METHODS. A Prate.cal Experiment by a Ssae AM aeo...Sery Satisfaetery results The State Alliance Exchange of gouth Carolina, locAted at Greenville, may already be con dered a success. It has now been 1i operation for three months and its success has been such as to firmly establish it in the confidence of the Order through. out the State. In the three months $50,000 of business has been done, and the volume is constantly inrea. ng. The Exchange is a regularly eba - tered corporation with an elaborate machinery, permeating every oonary, township and noighborhood in the State. The plan oftheExehangpwa ufrst submitted to the 1,000 or mcn Sub-Alliances in the State for ratiace. tion. Each Alliance ratifying the plan was entitled to subscribe to not less than one share for the Arst hirty five members, two shares for the Ars sixty-Ave, and so on according to a regular schedule. Each Sub-Alliance elected a trus tee stochl-older, and the sub-trustee stockholders in each county selected from their number a county trustee stockholder. The county trustee stockholders inturn elected nine di rectors, one from.each Oongressimal distriet and two at large. The diree tors elected J. C. Coit, of cheste. feld. president; J. W. Ferguso, of Darlington, secretary and treasurer; and M. L. Donaldson. of Greenville manager. The State Exchange has a paid ta capital of about $12,000. This sum is held to form a commercial backing and it is not available for running ex penses. The current expenses, ineln, ding the salaries of its officrs, are Ue frayed by the brokerage and dia. counts al1owed by dealers and man facturers on business transacted through the Exchange. The ma mum amount of brokerage which the manager is allowed to collect is fixed by a schedule prepared by a con mitttee of the directors appointed for the purpose. the idea being to secur* from this source simply enough to pay the running expenses. If the bzsiness should be so large a to cause the brokerage fund to exceed the expense account the surplus would be covered into the treasury ad every stockholder would get the beo. fit of it in the form of a dividend. While the salaries of the ofeers of the Exchange are fixed by the dires. tors, they are not guaranteed, ad are purely contingent on the nonA of brokerage collected. The business of the Exchange is con dUcted t ij 8=a safeguard being provided regularities of any kind. from Sub-Alliances come t county agents and are a by the cash. These orders on prices current issued w distributed all over the State. Tie prices quoted to the buyer inelude the brokerage and are wholesalequotr tions. The Allianee member buying through the Exchange is thu by the. bulking of orders through te Er, change, enabled to obtain goods in retail lots at wholesale prices. .All fu.nds derived from the brokerage e discounts are turned over to the . treasurer, and neither the maager nor an'y one else can draw on that, fund except through the treasurer. with a draft countursigned by~ti president. The manager is required to make a report to the president monthly of all business transaetedby him and of all commissions and bro:!r erage collected. The coanty agenis are required to make similar re ports to the president, so that the two reporta a~ct as checks upon each other. The State Exchange is regarded as being yet in its infancy. Manager Donaldson is crowded with work night and day. The business is grow ing rapidly and the prospect is that the record of S50,0C0 of business for the first three month: will be far out stripped when the fall season opens. As the plans and methods of the State Exchange become better understood among the memebrs of the Sub-Allinces the patronage grows with a rapidity which idi cates that the Exchange may be come a tremendoua business factory. A Poor Joke, Jinks-Mr. Spicer, I have a $4 bill against you and I would Spicer--My lear sir, there is no such a thing as a four dollar bill, and to-day I am mn no humor for fest img. Vigorous Methods. MrT. Barkling (undergoing a medi cail examination for insurance-Are you going to punch me againlike that, doctor? The physician-Just once more. |IMr. Barkling-Well, before you do~ it just have the policy made out and signed, will you? A Point of Superiority. Miss Manhattan-But certainly you must admit that New Yorkers are the best dressed men in the world. Miss Lakely-Well. anyhow, it is acknowleged that Chicago produces the best dressed beef. -E. Cowles of Eaton Rapid, Mich.. iived in Southern Ohio in 1862, and when Morgan ma~de his raid Cowles, with several hundred other patriots, rushed to the defense of Cincinnati. He served three consecutive days tnd then returned to his plow. He had almost forgotten the circum stance until one day this week when he received a formal discharge from the War Department. -The arrests for drunkenness in Great Britain the past ten years is said to have reached a total of nearly two million. -Chrc.; E. fKiI-aid, ciarged with the murder of ex-Representative Taulbee. was, admitted to bail in the sum of $20.000.