Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"ie next iace we uo:ico mlrcan 'Iie. ilo-se be:ore the counter and behind the counter. I will not attempt to spech the dihferent -orms of commer ial t. 1Io d. T! re are merchants v. u heseves tit deviatien iII t-i hulness bteaue 0 what they Cat comniiai, custoir. In (ther woids the iulapl:lcatiorn ard universality of a ,in tur i ,t :nto a vit tuc. There have beea large iortines -atiered where there was not one drop or unrequited toil in ithe wine; not. one spark of bad temper tiashing fromi the bronze bracket not one drop of needle-woman's heart blood in the crimson plush: while there are other great establishments in which there is it one doorknob. not one brick. not one tr'nket, not one tliread of lace, but has ulon it the mark of dishoner. What w';nder if, so4ic day, a hand of toil that lad bea wrung, and worn out, and blistered untll the skin ca.e of1f should be placed ag-aiust the elegant wall-paper, kavin: its mark of blood-four lingers and a thuimb; or that, sone day, walk in;, the halls, there should be a voice accosting tle occupaat saving. "Six cents tor making a shirt;" and living in the room another voice should say, -'Twelve cents for an army blanket ;" and the man should try to sleep at light, bt ever and anon be aroused, until vet tiu_ U Ci one elbow, he hould shriek out. --Who's there ?" Une .Sabbath niahit. in the vestibule of mv church after service. a woman fell in~ convulsions. The doctor said she didn't need medicine so mrch as some thing to eat. As she began to revive in her delirium. she said gaspingly "Ei-ht cents! Eght cents! Eight cents! I wish I could get iL done; i am so tired I wish I could get some sleep; bat I must 2et it done! Eight cents! Eight cn!"!' We found afterwards she was making garments !or e'ignat cents apiece. and that she could make but three of them in a (lay! Three times eight are twenty-four! I1ear it, men and wo-nen, who have comfortable homes. soiue of the worst villains of the city are the etmployers of these women. They beat them down to the last pen nv, and try to cheat them out of that. T'he 1%oman must <jepcsit a dollar or two b, fore she gets the garment to work on. When the work is done it is sharply inspected, the most insignid cant Ilaws picked out, and the wages refused, and sometimes the dollar de posited not given back. The Women's Protective Union reports a case where one of these poor souls inding a place where she could get more wages, resolved to change employers, and went t get her pay for work done. The employer said: "I hear you are going to leave me." "Yes," she said, "and I am come to get what you owe me." Ile made no an swer. She said: "Are you not going to pay me?" "Yes." he said, "I will pay you;~ and lie kicked her down stairs. There are thousands of fortunes made in commercial spheres that are throughout righteous. God will let his favor rest upon every scroll, every pictured wall, every t-aceried window; and the joy that flashes from the lights, and showers -trom the musie, and showers from the music, and dances in the children's quick feet, pattering through the hall, will utter the con gratulation of men and the approval of God. A merchant can, to the last item, be throu.luly honest. There is never any need of falsehood. Ye t. how many will, day by day, hour by hour, utter what they know to be wrong. You sav vou are selling at less than cost. if'so, then it is right to say it. But did that cost you less than you ask for it? If not, then you have talsitied. You say' that that article cost you S25. If. so, tihen all right, if it did not, then you have isilled. Suppose you are a customer. You are "beating down" the goods. You say that that article for which S5 is charged, is not worth more than iour. is it worth no more than 4? Thlen, all right, if it be worth more, and for the sake of getting it for less than its value, you wilfully depre ciate it, on have falsified. You may call it a sharp trade. The recording angel writes it down on the ponderous tomes oif eterity -"M1r. So and So, merchant in Water street, or in Eighth street, or in State street; or Mrs. So and So, keeping house on Beacon street, or on Madison avenue, or Rittenhouse square, or Brooklyn heights of Brook lyn bill, told one falsebood." You may consider it insignificant, because relat ing to an insigniticant purchase. You would desnise the man who would falsify in regard to soine great matter, in whieh the city or the whole country was concerned; but this is only a box o buttons, or a row of pins, or a case of needles. Be not deceived. The ar ticle purchased may be so small you can put it in your vest pocket, but the sin w'is bigger than the Pyramids, and the echo of the dishonor will reverber ate throuigh all the mountains of eter nity. You throwv on your counter some specimens of handkerchie?. Your cus tomer asks, "is that all silk ? no cotton in it ?" You .answer, "it is all silk." Was it all silk ? If so, all right. But was it partly cotton? Then you have falsifed. Mlo'eove", yoa lest by the falsehood. The cerstorrer, though he may live at Lynni, or D~oylestown, or Poghkeepsie, will tind out that you have defrauded him, and next spring, when he again comes shopping. he wvull look at yo'ur sign and say: -i will not try there. That is the place where I got that handkerchief." So that by rne dishonest bargain von picked yonr own packet and insulted the Al miight.. W\ould von (dare to make an estimate of how ny falsehoods in tradle wvere vesterday told by hardware men, and clothiers, and fruit-dealers. and dry oods e'stabish ments, and importers. and jewelers, and lumbermen, and coal merchants, and stationers, and tobac conists? Lies abo it saddles, about buckles, about ribbc.is, about carpets, rbout )zlov es, about coats, about shoes, about haats, about watches, about ear riles, about books-about everything. in the name of the Lo--d Almighty, I arraign conunercial falsehoods as one of the greatest plagues in city and town. Ini thie':iext Dla~ce, I notice mechanical lies. The~re is no class of men who d minister more to the welfare of the cit' thanr art isims. To their hand we n st look for thle building that shel ters us$, for the garmerts that el'ithe us, for the car that carries us. 'llhey a ild a wnhulespread influence. There is muchd derision of what is _called '-uscular Christianity;" but in the latter daiy of the world's prospe'rity, I thk that the Christian wililbe inns caar. We have a right to expec'~t of those stalwart men of toi! the highest possbe integrity. M1any ot themi an swer all our expe' totis, aud stand at th" front o1 reli5 ann philan' thropi: i-nterp.rises. But this class, like the othe rs that I have named. has in it th-e wh'~o Ilack in the elemnt of veracity. 'They cannfot ail be trusted. in timsw wheni tne demand for labor is great, it is impassile to mne-t the e' nads of the public, or do work with that promiptness5 and perfectioni that would at other times be possible. Buit there are orchanies whose wvord can not. be trusted at any time. No man has a right to promise more work than lie can do. There na mechanics wvho sa that they will comie on MIonday, int they do n.ot comne until Wednesday. You pit work in their hands that they tell you shall be comnpleted in ten days, but ~it is thirty. The e have been houses built of which it inight be said that every nail dIrivea, every brick mortared, could tell of talsehood co-i nected therewith. There are men at tempting to do0 ten er iifteen pieces of work who have not the time or strngth t' do more than five or six pieces: but by pro mises never fulliile neep all the undertakings within their fown gra.p. . This is what they cal nring" the job. AS OTHERS SEE US. PREVAR!CATORS, FALSlFIERS, AND PLAIN LIARS. Poor Human Nature, L.as i ~ d l ( Ca - ly-Lying from Couuting RoOM to Shop; from Drawing Roolu to Kitebee; and Yet Nobody rDeceivcd or Any Length of Time. NEW YORK, March 22.-"The Plague of Lies" was selected by Dr. Talmage for the subject of the fifth of his dis courses on -The Plagues of These Three Cities," which he preached to-day. Both at the morning service in Brooklyu and at the evening service under the auspices of the Christian Ierald in -New York, the vast buildings were not large enough to hold more than one-half the crowd who came to hear ti-c sermon. His text was Genesis iii. 4: -Ye shall not surely die." That was a point blank lie. Satan told it to Eve to induce her to put her semi-circle of white, beautiful teeth. into a forhidden i-prico.. or plum, or peach, or apple. Ile p-actically -aid to her, "Oh, Eve! Just take a bite of tis and you will be omnipotent and omnis cent. You shall be as gods." Just the firstlie tha' was ever told in our world. It opened the gate for all the falsehoods that have ever alighted on thIs planet. It introduced a - plague that covers all nations-that .Plague of Lies. Far worse than the lIagues of Egypt, for they weie on the ' anks of the Nile; but this is on the ba s of the Hudson, on the banks of the East river, on the banks of the Ohio, and the Mississippi, and the Thames, and the Rhine. and the Tiber. and on both sides o'' all rivers. The Egyptian Plagues lasted only a few weeks, but for six thousand years has raged this Plague of Lies. There are a hundred ways of telling a lie. A man's entire life may be a false hood, while with his lips he may not once directly falsify. There are those who a. ite what is positiyi urtrue. but alter wa.11s say "may be," softly. These devd.tures f-om tl-e truth 'are called %white lies;" but there is-ieally no such thing as a white lie. The waitest lie that was ever told was as black as per dition. No inve Lor-y of prblic- crimes will be sufficie2t tha omits this gigantic abomination. There are men, high in church and state, actually useful, self denying and honest -in many things, who, upon cer-ain subjects, and in certain spheies, are not at all to be .depnded upon for veracity. Indeed, there are many men and women who ave their notions of iruthfulness so thorughly perverted, that they do not know wi-en they are lyin. With many it is a cultivated sm; with some it seems a natural infirmity. I have known people who seem to hr ve been boln liars. The-falsehoods of their lives extended fgom. cardle to grave. Prevarications. misrepresentation, and dishonesty of speech appeared in their fir. ' utterances, and were as natnral to them as any ot their infantie dis cases and were a sort of moral c:oup or spiritual scarlatina, But many have been placed in circum stances were this tendencv has day :)y day, and hour by hour. been called to larger development. They have zone from attainL ent-toattainment. and from class to class, until they have become regularly Zmaduated liars. .,The air of he city is filled with false boos. They hang pendant from the chandeliers of our finest residences; they crowd the shehx es of some of our muer ehant princes! they fillti'e sidew alk from crbstone' to bro vn-stone facing. -They luster around the mechanic's hamr.iee, and blossom from the end ot the rtier chants yard-stick, and sit in the doors of churches. Some call them "-fiction." SiestyMe them '-fabrication." You mht say that they were subterfuge, disguise. delusion, romance, evasion, lpretense, fab'e, deception, misrepresen -ion~but, as I am ignorant of anything fd~e gained by the biding ,f a God itrage under a lexicographer's bltI shall chiefly ball them what .'tbrtaught me to call them--lie .. i shall divide them into argricultexa', mercantile, mec'ianical, ecclesiastical and soca ines. First, then, I will speak of those that are more particularly agricultural. ~There is something in the perpetual *presnce ok natural objects to make a man pure. The trees never issue -dise stock." Wheat fields are always liones. Rye and oats never ;move out in the night, not iparing for the place they have occupied Corn shoa.s never make night, not paying or the p'ace they have occupied. Corn shocks never make false assignm.ents. Yountain broos are always "carrent."~ The tsold on the grain is ne . er counterfeit. The sunrise never fiarv -s in false colo:s. The dew sports only genuine diamor ds. Taking farmers as a class, I belies e the.; ate truthful and fair in dealing, and kind-hearted. But the regions sur rounding our cities do not alw'ays send this sort of men to our markets. Day .by day there eriiat through our streets, and abtut the marlet, houses, farm agos that have not an honest spoike in their wheels or a truthful rivet from tongue to tail-board. Dajring the lhist few years there have been times when domesiu econc,:-- y has found red on the farmer's firk ni. Neither high taxes nor the high price of dry--goods nor the erbitancy of labor, could excuse much tat the city has witnes :ed in the be havior of the yeomanry. Ry the quiet firesides in Westchester andI Orange conties, [ hope there may be seasons of deep reflection and hearty rej entance. Rural distriets are ascustomed to rail at great cities as given u a to fraud and evey form of unriahteousness; but our cities do not absorb all the abominalions. Our citizens have .;earred the im pot lance. of not always trustig to the sire and style of apples on the top of a farmne?s barrels as an indication of what may be found farther down. Many of our people a accustowed to watch and see how cor-ectly a busi'el o1 beets is measured; and there are not many honest-milk-ca'js. Deceptions do not all clustee round city halts. When our cities sit down and weep over their sins. all the su rounding coxitry ought to come in ar'd weep with them. There is often hostil ity on the part of producers against tra ders, as though the man who raises the corn was nece.sarily more honorable than the grain dealer, who poeurs it into his mammota bin. There ought to be io such hostility. Yet producers often think it no wrong to soatch away from the trader; -and t~hey say to the bargaLi maker., "You get your money easy." lo they get it eas' ? Let those waio in the quiet field and barn get their living exchange places with those who stand to.-day amid the excitements ol commecr cial life, and see if they find it so) very easy. While the farmer goes to sleep with the assurance that his corn and barley will be growing all the night, moment by moment adding to is rev enue, the merchant tries to go to slee1 cojacious that that moment is cargo may be broken on the rocks or diamaged by the wave that swecps clear across ti~e hurricane deck; or that reckless speculators may, tat very hoar, be plot tng sonre nronetary revoluuio', or the burglars be pt ;mng open his safe, or his debto rs fleeing the town, or his landlord raing the rent, or the tires kindling or the block that contain.s all his estates. Easy ! Is it? God iie'p thermerchante. it is hard to have the j imns of the handi blistered with out-door w~ or buj.a more dreadful process whQtlilac merean m l aetes, the brain is consumed ! H ow' mch wvrong~ to hj -'oit anda u sult to God a mechanic w ould save, if he promised only so much as he ex pflctedI to be able to do, Society has no rigIht lo ask yon imposibian-s. you ca nnot al vay s calculate correcuy, ad dou IDta fail beaus' ym01i canni Oi get the hl.p that you a 1t1epate. i It ?IOw I :m speak.il5 i of the wi ul ma!Ik ing of proinises that. you kniw vyon cannot. keep. Did you say that. that shot! would be mended. that coat re paired, those bricks laid, that iarness sewed, that door grained, that spouit lixed. or that window glazed. by Satur day, knowing that you would neither be able to do it yourself nor g-t any one else to do it? Then before God and man you are a liar. You muny say that it makes no particular difference, and that if % ou had toId the t ruth you would have lcst the job, and that peo ple expect to be disappointed. But that excuse will not answer. There is a voice of thunder rolling aumong the drills, and planes, and shoe lasts, and shears. which says: "*All liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone." I next notice ecclesiasUcal lies: that is, falsehoods told for. the parnose of advyfnc iug charches ard sects. or 'or the purpose of denleting them. There is no use 1l asking many a Calvinist what an Arminian believes, for lie will be apt to tell you that the Aminian believes that a man can con vert himself, oc to ask the Arminian what the Calvinist believes, for lie will tell vou tnat the Calvinist believes that God n'ade some men just to (aun the-n. There is no need of asking a predo-Baptist what a Baptist believes, for 1'c will 'Ie apt to say that the BMptist 'elieves immetLion to be positively neerssary to salv.ation. It is al most iu'oossib'e for o0'e de.iomninaton of Christians, without prejrdice or mis: epre sentatloi, to sZate the seniiment of an op posing sect. If a man hates Piesbyterians, and you ask him what Presbyterians be lieve, he tell you that they bereve that there are infants in heli a span long: It is strarge also how individual churches will sometinis make misstate-nents about other individual churches. It is espeeia!!v so is regard to falsehoods told with refer ence to vrosperous erterprises. As long as a chireh is feeble, and the sinrgiing is dis cordant, and the minister, through the poverty of the church, .1ust go with a threadbare coat. and here ad there a wor shipper sits in tl e end ot a pew, having all the seat to himself, religious sympathizers of other churcl'es will say. "WI'at a pity:" But, let a great day of prosper .y come, a'id even.ministers of the Gospel, who oaght to be rejoic d at the l argeness and extent of the work, denounce, and misrepresent, and Calsify, starting the suspicion in regard to them.elves. that the reason they do not like the cora is because it is not ground in their own mill. How 'ong before we shall learn to be fair In our religious criticisms: The keenest jealousies on earth are- church jzaiousies. The field of Christian work is so lar.e that there is no need that our hoe handles hit. Next, I speak of social lies. This evil makes much of society insincere. You know not whrt to believe. When people ask you to coi.e, yoin do not know whether o- not they w-nt yoa to come. When they send their regards, you do not know waeth er it is an expiesslofn oZ their heart, or an external civility. We have learned to ta'te almost everything Pt a discount. W ord is sent, "Not at home." when they are only too lazy to dress themselves. They say, "The fuiaace he; ju-t gone out," when i truth tl'ey bave had no fire in it all winter. They apologize for the unusual barrenness of their table, when they never live 'nv better. They decry their most luxurious entertainments, to v.in a shower of ap proval. They apologize for their a'.pear ance, as thoagh it were unusual, when a ways at home they look just so. They would make you beleve that some nice sketch on the wa.l was the work of a mas ter painter. "It was an heirloom and once hung on the walle of a castle; and a duke gave it to their grandfather." When t]-e fact is, that painting was made by a man "down east." and balted so as to make it look old, and sold 'with others for $10 a dozen. People who will lie about nothing else will lie about a picture. On a small income we must make the world believe that we are affluent, and our life becomes a cheat, a counterfeit, and a sham. Few persons a-e real'y natural. When I say this, I do not mean to slur cultured manners. it is right that we should have more admiration for the sculptured marble tian for the unfknown block of quarry. From many circ'es in life irsircerity has driven out yl :..city and en )iusasm. A frozen dignity instead floats aboat the room, and iceberg grinds ar,ainst iceoerg. You must not l-ugh outright, it is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash rapiidly across the room; you must glide. 'There is a round of bows, and grins, and flatteries, and oh's! and ah's! and simpermng, and nambp.mbyim--a wo. 'd of which is rot worth one hood, round jior ert peat. of laugh ter. From such a hollow ro' nd the tortured guest retires at the close of the eveningr, and assures his host that lhe has enjoyed him self! What a r-ound of insincerities many peo ple run, in order to win the favor of the world. Their life is asham and their death an unspeakable sadness. Alas, for the poor butterflies when the frost strikes them! Compare the life and death of such a one with that of some Christian aunt who was once a blessing to your household. I do not know that she was ever offered the hand in marriage. She lived single that untarmmelled she mIght be everybody's blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visited, or the poor to be providled with bread, she went with a blessing. She could p'ay, or sing "Rock of Ages," for any sick pauper who asked her. As she got older, but for the most part iu tie was a sunbeam -just the one for Christur as Eve. She knew better than anyone else how to fix things. Her every p 'ayer, as God l'ea'rd it, was full of everybody whol-ad troub'e. The bright est things in all the house dropped from her fingers. She l'ad peculiar notions, but the grandest notion she ever bad was to make ou happy. She dressed well; auntie al ways dressed well; but her highest ado..1 ment was that of a moeek and quiet spipis which, in the sight of God, is of great pric-e. When she died, you all gathered lovingly about her; and as you carried her out to rest, the Sunday-sel-ool class almost cove'red the coflin with japoricens, and the poor pm pie stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly; and Ith~e man of the world said, with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies;" and Jesus, as unto th'e maiden in .Judea commiuand~ed, "I sayvunto thee, arise!" But to manv, through insincerity; this life is a masquerado ball. As, at such enter tainments, gentleiren and ladies appear in the dress or kings and queens, mountain bandits or clowns, and at the close of th~e dance throw off theIr disguises, so, in this dssiated life, all unclean passcos mo~ve in mask. Across the tioo: they trip merri lv. Th'le lights sparkle along the wall, or drop fremn the eeing-a cobort of'li.: Tue music charms. The diamonds glter. Tle feet bound. Gemmed hands stretched out clasped gemmed hands Danci'ig fett respond to dancing feet. Gleamninv brow bends to gleaminai brow. On with the dance: Flash and rustle, and i liht r, and immaeasurab!e merry-ma kin"' But the languor of death comes over the limbs, and blurs the sight. Lights lower: . Foor ho'! low with sepulchral echo 31usic saddens into a wvail. Lights lowe: Thle maskers can hardiv now' be seen- Flower e~ch(l ange thei fragrarce for a siceni odor, such' as cones from garlands that hav e hun0 in vaults of cemeteries. Ligh'ts lower: 3ists fill the room. Glasses raittle as though haken by sullen thunder. si" hs seemi caught among the curtains. Scarf falls from the shoulder of beauty,-a shroud: ights lower: Over the slhppery . oards, in dance of death, glide jealousies, disappomt ments, lust, despair. 'Torn leaves and w ithered garlands only hialf hide the uli ered feet. T :e stench of smoking lamp wicks almost quenched. Choking damps. C hilliness. Feet still. Ihands folded. E yes shut. Voices hushed. Lights out: Sufirering in Montna. -ST. PAUL, MIinn., MIareb :2.-Ad ices from Cut Bank, MIont., the pre sent terminus of the Great Northern E~xtension, state that the heavy stormi of six wveeks ago totally suspended work of all kinds, throwing 2,000 men out o! employn:ci. ..\ large number of the men started to traver-se the deep sn.ow to Summit. 110 miles further West, and mnny perished from cold and exposure. The record so far is seven fr-om fr'eczimg, hie large numbers had ai-ms and 1"g rozen. It is also certain t'at a grea's many have perished of whom no traces have been found, and w~hose bodies hiave ade food for wolve and coyotes. TiE U)iEAD1 MAFIA. HOW THE MEMBERS WREAK VENGE ANCE CN TH EIR BETRAYERS. 1 Full 1) -Scriptinfl of the Society that has Ca-ust d o Much -itoodshed in New Or lean-i -z Shouli h)e Wiped Out. The La 31alia is a secret organization composed alost entirely of Sicilians, and was founded by an Italian cut th roat named Malia at l'alermo a hun dred years ago. The members are for the most part criminai and counter feiters. id hesitate at no atrocity. The inhuman cimelt y of somiie of the Nlafia agents is almost b:-yond human ere dence, and savors of the brutal barbar ity of the midale ages. Vincenzo Ar diti burned a victim's house in New Orleans. hoping to burn the owner at the same time. Ile was sent to the penitentiary. organized a branch of the Maiia-for house breaking purposes only-amoong his ftllow prisoners, got out, wei to St. Louis awl murdered a foe of the Mafia there. Ile wevnt to Chicago, opaned a saloon, enticed an obnoxious iellow country mian inb it and stabbed him in lhe back with a knife so long that it stuck out onl botth sides of the dying man as he fell to the iloor. le went to New York, opened a store, fired it to get the ilsurance, aul was unsuccessful. Ile vowed vengeance and La Malia on a felow couintrymian whom he believed instrunirntal in causing his defeat. Ile invited his victim to a private apartment to have a glass of beer, of fered a beaker with one hand, and with the other, by one stroke of the razor, laid the poor wretch's fice open from his forehead to the point of his chin. When the wounded man, almost by a mciAc. recovered and was able to leave ti- Chamibers Street hospital he was afra:d to complain against Arditi, who went scot free. In October, 188, Anto: i) Flaccomio was assassinated in the shadow of the Cooper Union building, in New York city. Flaccomio had been adjudged a traitor to the organization, of which at one time he was a proiniuent member, and it was said that Carmello Farach, who was murdered in the Staten Island woods four years before. had been en :olled in the same society. The unjus tjiiabl aIlling of Farach was one of the causes that led to Fiaccomios re imova*, but the cause of his assassina tion was the testino:y that he gave shortly before his assassia tion against some of its countrymen, who were count'-rfeiters :is well as brother mem bers of L:i Malia. Flaccomio was sen tenced to death, and two brothers, Carlo and Vincenzo Quarrara, were se lected to kill him. The former plunged the stiletto into the doomed man's heart. 6:gnor I'llio of New York city, the Italian consul. is authority for the state ment that the fir.st that was really known o. the order was at the begin ning 01 the present century. in the town of Silini, Sicily, where a family of nine nanmed Giavanni. of considerable social position. were murdered in as nyiav weeks. The father went first, being fouid at his very doorstep. Seven days later the mother followed. 1er dead body was found in almost the sauve location as that of her hus band. The authorities were unsuccess fL in tracing the murderer or murder eis, and several days afterward the bodies of the two oldest children were found dead in bed. The others fol lowed in regular order, until the fami lv was coinpletely annihilated. A tough character of the towu named ipAi was arrested on suspicion and confesed. ie revealed the existencee of the order, and said that {Giavanni and his family had in curred the anger of the band by betray ing a criminal who was a M1afi.a to the authorities. Sipoli had been instruct ed, among et hers, to commit the mur der. le was tried, and although the best counsel was employed to defend him on a plea of insanity by the Mafia he was convicted and sent to prison for life. Several witnesses for the prosecution were after ward murdered by the Mafia. The government, becoming aware of the lawless nature of the orgamizciion. at once took me asures to have it sup pressed. but the efl'orts provedl futile. La 31afii. continued to grow. A police oflicer in 18633, in Milan, discovered a mark by which a member of La Mafia cotld be kriown. It consisted of a small scar immediately under the ear, caused by burning. In this way great numbers of criminals were aftterward run down and brought to justice. The society- then gave up the mark, and the police~ ollicer one year afterward was found dead, stabbed to the heart. La Mauia is a modern organization based on medieval sentiment. It is re lated to the Camorra, of Naples. It is a society confined not to the Italians, but to ~Sicilians. the baser.kind of Greeks. who bring their national cus toms, their secret societies and tradi tions of imurder with them. If a Si cilian believ-es that lhe can provide for the protection of his person and prop erty without having recourse to law that per~on is a Maliosa. Hie may be a bully, a blackmailer, a murder, but in whaever he does tne public opinion of Sicily supports him still. The code of ethics which maintains him is caed "omerta," or manliness. Not long ago a weidthy proprietor ws <Iiiv to his home in the neigh borood of 1alermo. Six bullets wh1izzed by him. None of them hit im. No. ,omla~int w.as made to the pole , yet within'a fIew months ev-ery box i..; b It t -ir. rt m 'he at * n- e. aaimi -o. was r.imnself as s ?n inat:: .1 miia ha0' attacked a Maosa. Hi e w:;s miore powerful thatn his assai at. .s*lians1. justify these crimes. Evry -ely nk no..s the authors, yet niobody inteIrfee; Sdid a guide of a recen trav'.elh-r in Sieily: "Yonder home blongvis to , inost resneetable man-a highaly. repetZable man, sir. The otlher ay h'le kille d his cook. One of the most respec-able men in these parts, sir. Murdeir is the corner steo of the so to tell an fm. k'Copo Mafia wishes to ur it. No mdy~ d ares bid against him. f any body is o I oolhardy lie wold~ he shot mi-. da from behiid a wall or ten eprMli runs'~ for the mayor aty of a yd.i. nobody runcs against him. IltLi inaibl hast a unmanirious rection. ii- and mayi be red with a do;zen ar:h'-r- a::d his packets full of blUakmi l. Not a ser'.ant can be dis clbar-'. w..ithjout re'er-ene to the un-I sein'Maih. I he Mialiosi rule theirm d is Ir-ts s espots. 1If ty have rival r s the i eie th-eides-. he Cam or rita of Napltes hive ini italy atnd thrive, jst os the M~imi of Sn-lly The polii:ed powe of 0 the( Cainmm rl is boen ye ii uitains an un dlergro:.nd exit.e ce. .and has three rus. oce in; tue lirst gra le is it-d -* ;z'one Id idalVita." a youth of a 113) Th ~-mo r- advani'ed pupil s stried --1>iciut di?? Sfarro." The laso-d -hir is 1 thCauorrista. The oi marks out th'e victim. follows him' anl da ly teetiv on him. The l'icioto isintted into the secrets ofte c '?raternt. IIe merely gets a andfl of sous i rom the (2amorrista. Il iiv.es i hoplS of reachingz the third grde, ani saen day, by means of an atisi ~tab or' u~inusually lonir termi in pson, h-- 's advanced to the sacred band.l IIe'iakes the oath on crowned kves with hnIs~ hands immersed in his 0'.. n ble h ll i then licensed to mrdier wh~oms~oever he pleases. '.The Camrsa hias two degrees of punish ment-n is: lmte sureg'go or slash from at rzor, *ne other is th:e collettatti or stab with' a kni . Tu Cj- saw :ig uht has assumed anew phae. ini v, 'ch he state is the aggres sor. \Ve earnsti hloe that the Mtate wi'.'win its ligh eventually. A full 1cont o the. case as it now stands i .ll be fouind in our columns this WHY HE DID NOT MARR?. A Most Laughabin Story About A Youuz Man and a Bull. One of the most laughabie storits of a uovine ind that has ever tickled the ri)s of tie "only amnimal that Lughs" is the one in which Mike Finck describes his ride in the "antural state." on Dea con Smith's Taurus. W\e defy a cynic, in fashionable trowsers, to read it arid not burst a but ton or two off the place to which sus penders are hitched. It is simply "enor mous. Mike iook a notion to go in swim ming, and he had just got his clothes ofy, when he saw Deacon smith's bull making at hui. The bull was a vicious animal, and had come very near killing two or three persons, consequently Mike felt rather -jubus." Ile didn't want to call for help, for he was naked, ani the nearest place from which assistance could arrive was the meeting-house, which was at the time lilled with worshippers, Among whom was the "gal Mike was paying devotion tc." So he dodged the oull as the animal came at him, and managed to catch him b'y the tail. Ile was dragged around till lie was nearly dead, and wheii he thought he could hold no longer, lie made up his mind that he'd better "holler." And uow we will let hii tell his own story. "So looking at the matter in all its bearings, I cum to the conclusion that I'd better let some one know whar I was. So I gin a yell louder thati a loco motive whistle, and it wan't long b fore I seed the deacon's two (logs a coming down like as if they war see ing which would get there fust. "I knowed who they war arter they'd jine the bull agin iie. 'So,' sez , 'old brindle, as ridin, is as cheap as walking on this route, if you have no objections, I'll jist take a deck passage on that ar' back o' yourn.' So I warn't very long gettii'g astride of him. "Then. if you'd been thar, you'd have sworn thar war nothing human in that ar mix, the sile hIew so orfully, as the critter and 1 rolled around the field one dog on one side, and one on the other, trying to clinch my feet. I praved and cussed until I could not tell which I did at last-and neither warn'L of no use, they were so orfully mixed tip. "Well. I reckon I rid about half an hour this way, when old brindle thought it war time to stop to take in a supply of wind and cool eff a little. So when we got around to a tree that stood thar, lie naturally halted, so sez 1, boy you'll lose one passenger sartin. So I jist chun up a branch, kalkalating to roost till I starved, afore I'd berid round that ar way any longer. "I war makinV tracks for the top of the tree, when I heard sumthin' a makin' an orful buzzin' overhead. I kinder looked, and if thar wasn't well; thar's no -ise in swearin'-but it war the biggest hornet's nest ever bilt. You'll 'gin in now, I reckon, Mike, 'cause thar's no help for you. "But an idea struck me tlen that I stood a heap better chance ridin' the bull than what I was. Sez I, old feller, if you'll hold I'll ride to the next sta tion, anyhow, let that be whar it will. "So I jist dropped about him agin' and looked aloft to see what I had gained by changin' quarters, and, gen tlemen, I am a liar if thar wasn't nigh a half a bushel of the stingin' varmints ready to pitch into me when the word 'go' was gin. "Well, I reckon they got it, for 'all hands' started for our company. Some of them bit the dogs-about a quart struck me, and the rest charged on brindle. "Ihis time the dogs led fust. dead bet fer the old deacon's, and as soon as old brindle and I could get under way, we followed, and as I was only a deck passenger. 1 had nothin' to do with steerin' the craft; il 1 bad we shouldn't have run that channel any how. "But, as I said before, the dogs took the lead-brindle and 1 next and the hornets directly arter. The dogs yel lin'-brindle hollerin' and the hornets buzzin' and stingin'. "Well, we had got about two hun dred yards from the house, and the deacon beard us and cum out. I seed him throw uip his hand and turn white. I reckon he was prayin' then, for he didn't expect to be called for so soon, and it warnt long neither afore the whole congregration-men, women and children-cum out and then all hands went to yellin'. "None of 'em had the fust notion that brindle and I belonged to this world. I jist turned nmy head and passed the whole congregation. Iseed the run would be up soon, for brindle culdn't turn an inch from a fence that stood dead ahead. "Well, we reached that fence, and I wvent ashore, over the critter's head, landing on the other side, and lay thar stunned. "It warn't long afore sum of thenm as was not so seared. cum rtinnin' to whar I war; for all hands kalkerlated that the bull and I belonged together. But when brindle walked by himseif, they seed how it was, and one of 'em saidJ " 'like Finuck has got the scummage once in his life!" "Gentlemen, from that day I dropped the courtin' biziness. and never spoke to a gal since, and when my hunt is up on this yearth, that won't be any Finks, and its all owin' to Deacon Smith's 5rindle bull." Fell Sevenuty Fee t. JAKG(NVIlLLE, Pla., M1arch 20.-A Tallahassee special to the Times Union, says: "Charles L. Norton, author of the "Iand Book of Florida, came here a few days asgo for the purpose of discov ering the whereabouts of the Florida volcano about which there has been so much talk for many years. J. II. Staley, who resides near Tallahassee and knows every foot of penetrable swamp in mid dle Florida, was engaged to go with him. Wednesday evening somewhere near the supposed great mystery Norton put on spurs and clinmbed to the top of the tallest tree that could be found to get a view of the country. Whoa he attempt ed to come down lie lost his foot hold and fell a distance of about seventy feet. For a long while lie was uncon scious, and when conscioneness return ed begged f'or a pistol with which to blow out his brains and end his suffer ngs. Staley immediately started with him to a point where medical aid could be had. After many difliculties lie reached his home this morning with his ufering companion, and, leaving him there, came on here for a physician. T'ie doctor has not yet returned, but from a statement of the injuries receiv ed Norton will inot live, ie is corres pondnt of the New York World. They' Handled Him Roenglely. C ICA Go. March 23.--Chiarles B it ton went into the barbershop of' F. Pierfolso Saturd ay, and seating himself clled on any me mber of the Mahia in the shop to ~give him a shave. Hie an nouncedl that he helped settling [lie New Orleans troubles, being a member of the mob that stormed the jail. For a imo m-nt the Italians looked at the custo mer and they felhl on him en masse. W'len the "avenger" landed in the street he looked as if he had bee~n in a cllision with a locomotive. The ter riie thumping he received with pokers, hairs and billets o1' firewood may result fatally. Last night the three barbers. Alexader Necozso, Michael lRerelo and Jacob Seaire, wecre arrested and charged with assault on the "avenger." Button, i. is believed, was not in New Orleans and was shimlytrying to be ituunyl. The Hiawaiian Volcano. SAx FaAxeisco. March 19J.--The~ steamer 3Meriposa, from Sydney an~d Ihonolulu, brings news that IIawait'a volcano is again active. Several cones have sunk from 15 to 100) feet. and some have disappeared altogether. T[here have been many earthquiake shocks, but no damage other than the shaking dlown of setne walls has occurred. GAMBLING AT HOT SPRINGS. A City WhIch May be Called the Monaeo of Amcrica. HOT SPRINos, Ark., March 15.-' This city might be called the Monaco ->) America, considering the number of -ambling houses in its comparatively small limits. There are eleven public vambling houses licensed by the city au thorities. and many private club and poker rooms. Thc -private games" are run in hotel rooms, back rooms of sa loons, and other quiet places, where the verdant invalid Is taken in at a social game of poker or fleeced by bunko sharpers. Under the State law the keeping of a gambling house is a felony, yet the city authorities practically license these houses at -50 a month each. On the first day ofeach month a nominal line of $50, the smallest punishment, is entered against the proprietor of each gambling house, and on that day he pays his fine, runs his business without police inter rution. and pays another line the first of tle nex month. These houses are run day and night without any pretense of secrecy. No more attention is paid to the protests of the law-abiding por tion of the community than is given to the complaints of the visiting strangers who are fleeced. All the gambling houses were closed a short time ago, and the opponents of gambihng tlQught a new era had arrived. There was at the time a new clubhouse building. It was to be elegantly fur nished and to be the aristocratic club house of the city. To the surprise of everylb-ody excepting a few on the inside, work did not cease en this structure, which every one knew was intended for a gambling house. Finally it was dis covered that the gambling Iouses had been closed only. in favor of the new gambling syndicate, who wanted a mo nopoly of the business. This discovery caused such a -kick" by the other gain blers that the authorities gave way, and all the houses were permitted to reopen at $50 each per month. Hot Springs also has a lottery. An employee of the Louisiana Lottery Com pany arrived here a few days ago with his wheel, and began business under the iigi-sounding and delusive catch sign -Arkansas Investment Company. Drawings at 11:30 a. m. and at 4:40 p. M." It is supposed that this is a branch of the Louisiana swindle. This lottery is "licensed" at $50 a month by the city authorities, although under the State law it is a felony.-New York Times. Married by the Governor. CoLUmBIA. S, C.,'March 25.-The ex ecutive mansion was last night the scene of a brilliant event and the govern or officiated for the first time as a par son-his new role. The mansion was extensively illuminated, and at 8 o'clock the governor united in the holy bonds of wedlock by a cival ceremony Mr. Joseph F. Bennan, of Atlanta, Ga., and Miss Rebecca Cecilia Wolfe, of Winns boro, S. C. The bride was accompanied to Columbia by her mother, her brother in-law, Mr. Ulyses P. Desportes, and his wife, her sister, Mrs. James H1. Rion and daughter, all of Winnsboro. The bride is a lovely young Jewess, while the groom is a young Gentile-a pro gressive business man of the Gate city. -The State. J OSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORXEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. AANNIN, S.LA ;gr-Notary Public with seal. C ALil N HUGGINS, D. D. S., eJ CIIER AW S. C. fir-Visits Manning every month or two professionally. BRUNSON HOUSE, S UMTER, S. C. First class accommodations and excellen table. Convenient to the business portion of the town. 25 cents for dinner. J. H. DIXON. Proprietor. JOB PRINTING. T HE TIMES OFFICE IS FITTED UIP IN a manner that warrants it in soliciting your patronage for job printing. Send us your orders which shall have prompt atten tion. Prices as low as the cities. Satisfac tion guaranteed. Keep us in mind. Manning Shaving Parlor. H AIR CUTTING ARTISTICALLY EX ecuted, and shaving done with best razors. Special attention paid to shampoo ing ladies' heads. I have had considerable exerence in several large cities, and guar antee satisfaction to my customers. Parlor next door to Manning Times. E. D. HAMILTON. A. S. 3. P'ERi'Y. n-. n- sDio~s. i. A. PRINGLE. Johnston, Crews & Co., -WHIOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Notions and Small Wares, Nos. 49 Hayne & 112 Market Streets, CHARLESTON, S. 0. NES S n)DwoRK S AffAC-HMEt1 .'C2 NIO SiIAR E.YsARP. si.LOUI5.MD. nALLAS.TEX. W. E. BROWN & CO. Mainning, S. . FORESTON DRUG STORE FORESTON, S. C'. I keep always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY, STATION ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS, and such articles as are usually kept in a first class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, aid am prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LEAD, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, in qnantities to suit purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M.D., Foreston, S. C. ADGER SMYTH. F .J. rIELZEII, Spec al Partner SMYTH & ADGER, Facters and Commission Merchanis, Nort. 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Office and Salesrooms, 10 and 12 Hayne St., CHARLESTON, S. C. SENDYOU DEING TO TH Al orkuarnted BLND 478 to46Kin St CHARLESTON, S. C SIlK EO~iTE BEST NTE CHIECIAR8ST.. All goos aaned stMN WoeaGesatesunse yrtr mAilget, pop shpmnt. Ou goosdot shrin or war so . -C G.De E& Toan, &OLLmpanyHE - A~~TRn FADWHOLESALE-DA~r l OTSSOESTHENS WholEsaNEW Al3wor guenet a 1ing St., CHARLESTON, . C. O eS .nestStOLbs asSriEMN, olesleoe, tt Aet .THMA . rak &. THSn.OLA NBOH EWOT.,SHlVES, &5P.TEDRESWoesl 235petinleS, CHRLsESTOFNy S.ds, c'rgettoet aortmentlws rceG o es 157 and 169, East Bay, W.TCI EZSCH ARLESTON, S. C. JozN F. WVERNER. L. H. QUImoLZO. JEWLR, ILER& LAEDWAEJOHN F. WERNER & CO., .~Wachs ndJeely epird y Wholesale Grocers -AND CHARLESTON. s. c. Provision Dealers. ESTABLISHED 1S36- 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 31 Carrington, Thomas & Co., ~ Yendae Range, -DE ALE RS IN- OHA R LESTO, S. . m~ammas. A. Mc COBB, Jr. JEWELRY, SIL.VERWARE AND FANCY GOODS, General Commnission Merchant No. 251 King Street, AND DEALERt IN CHARLESTON. s. C. LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, HAIR, FIRE C 12A ZES C, LELI BRICKS, AND FIRE CLAY, LAND PAS TER, AND EASTERN HAY. Wholesale & Retail Commission Dealer in Agents for White's Englishi Portland cemlent. FE I SI--L Ie & 196 Charleston,S. C AN~ ~ PHLADELrnua SINGER. kinds o country -prouce are rpctful u 28 solicited. Office Nos. 18 & 20 Market St., E of EastfBay CHIARLESTON, S. C. to yt ns~~evolvers SEINES, NETS, TENTS, AND SPORTINC COODS Double Barrel Breech Loading. 'Shot Guns, a hoe bored. $S to l00. Single Ureech iLad- - ? ug Shot Guns ,I to :25. Evr kind of t Breech Loading andh Repeating Ritl. s, $3 to $40. Muzzle Loading Double Shot (bins, _ $5 to $35. Single Shot Gans, $2.30 to S12. Eas Revolvers, Si to 820. Double Action Self Cockers, $2.50 to $10. Ail kinds of Car FIFTrEEN DAS "RA Faks, Shot Pouce, Primrs. Snd1 2 " "NOW ,Rut O SoE FrE PA Ne o r . euts ifo Gt~tdC toue AEs1 TEC.A WOOD CO.,'S iarhT. GUN WORKS, Pittsburg, Pa. -RAND ENTRAL -iT . T. MCGAHAN. A. S. UnlowN. iRoT. P. EvA~s. GADCNRLHTL COLUMBIA, S. C. M cAHAN, BROWN & EVANS, 1 the largest hotel in the city, and a" J O B B E R S O F vte , re mo ele d a. n d refit wthough mo JOBBES OFern improvements. Centrally located, and offers inducements for the aceommodati Dry Goods, Notions, ofisptrn.Ha; gt atnd . evtor,&c.Cuisine under supervision of Boots, Shoes and Clothing, Mr. E. E.Post, late of Lookout Point Hotel, Looko'ut Mountain, Tenn. The proprietor bos. 226, 228 & 230 Meeting Street, hj'e bysritattentinhre ants ofghe. F. W. SEEGERS, E. E. POST, CTTART.ESTON S. C. Proprietor. Manag'er.