The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, April 08, 1891, Image 2

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THE MAlNNING TIMES. S. A. NETTLES. Editor. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8. 1891. OUR SLEEPY TOWN. While we do not desire the reputa tion of being a continuous kicker, we must continue insisting upon our peo ple 'taking a move on themselves,' and place our beautiful town in line with neighboring towns. Nothing but in difference hinders Manning taking on a good, healthy growth; we have plen ty of room to build, and the money is not lacking. If a man has a lot and does not wish to build on it he ought to sell it at a fair price to some one that will build it up, and thus remove the chock from the wheel of progress. We venture the assertion that there is not a townin the State with the same advantages that Manning has but that is making greater progress. Man ning has a number of advantages that would be valuable to other towns were they possessed of them, and at the same time it has a number of things to sap away her very life if the people do not wake up from their lethargy and do something to prevent it. Manning is starving for want of in dustrial food. It needs something that will be an inducement for people to move here, and once the induce ment is held out, be it a cotton mill, a canning factory, a sash and blind fac tory, an oil mill, or any other kind of industry, people from abroad will land among us, and the vacant lots will be utilized. Manning needs another railroad, one that will be a competing line with the road that we already have, not that we have any complaint to make against the management of the Cen tral, but because we believe in the doctrine of competition being the life of trade, and if we get a new outlet from Manning more goods will be sold, more cotton shipped, freights would be less, goods would be cheaper, the exeuse to buy abroad would be less, and the merchants would be doing a better business. An energetic effort on the part of the citizens to push our town forward would soon make it rate among the living towns of the State. WILL 'ROTISIONS COST MORE I The consumers of sugar (and that means everybody) are made glad by the reduction of the price in that nec essary article, which went into effect on the first day of this month, but bow long they will enjoy this reduc tion is hard to say. A scheme is al ready on foot to grab the benefits of the repealed duties away from the people by making a deal between the refiners and grocers to corner the ar ticle and force the price back to where it was before the import duties were taken of. A committee of wholesale from New York visited Phila 'last Monday, to get the large refiners of that city to enter into an agreement not to sell sugar for the present prices. Should they succeed in their proposed undertaking it will take thousands and thousands of dol lars out of the pockets of people who were intended by the law to be bene itted. It would be well to take timie by the fore-lock, and buy up a year's supply of sugar ncw while it is cheap, and then perhaps the monopolists will get tired holding for big prices, and be defeated in their purposes Granulated sugar should now retail at about sixteen pounds to the dollar. Germany for several years had an embargo laid on American pork, and would not allow it to enter her ports, but within the last few days the em bargo has been withdrawn, and the shipment of American meats will be re newed. This is another pointer for our to profit by. The opening of the ports to our meats will nec ewarly make the demand greater than it is now, and the price will go up in consequence. WHO ARE THE BEST PEOPLE 1 'From an interview published in the next column, it will be seen that there are some people, pretended friends of the State, but really ene mies to the people, that have been secretly poisoning the minds of all they could against the people of this State. They have charged the farm ers with being communists, foes to order and decency. Their idea ap parently is to belittle the present ad ministration as much as possible, by representing that the State govern ment is controlled by a set of men 'who have no interest in the success of the State as a whole. But the facts are too strongly against any such ma lignancy. Our State officers are na tive born citizens, and as far as their individual property is concerned are worth many times more dollars than the officers of the last administration. It will be seen that the farmers are treated as an inferior order of beings, while the best people, we presume, are of that old broken-down, would-be aristocracy, who pride themselves on being able to live and dress in asu perior style, and at the same time as much as possible to avoid paying their debts. Secretary Tindal clearly shows that the State is actaully rushing forward in the march of prosperity. This in terview should be read by every citi zen of the State. Gov. Tillman has appointed y. W. Bunch, of Edgefield, secretary and treasurer of the Lunatic Asylum vice H. P. Green, deceased. Bacon and corn have recently taken a considerable rise, and are still going up. The indications are that the present prices will not only be retain ed, but will be higher during the summer. This is bad news to those who have not already supplied them selves with provisions for the sum mer. Mr. Dana's salary as editor of the New York Sun has been increased from $25,000 to $50,000 a year; that of his son Paul from $150 a week to $15,000 yearly; and a similar increase from a like sum was made for Chester Lord, the managing editor. Business manager LTfan's stipend was increas ed to$25,000 ayear. The Sun is said to have made more money last year than in any other year of its existence. [News and Courier, Mar. 30.) WHO ARE OUR BEST PEOPLE? An Entertaining Interview with Northern Visitors, in which Hon. Jas. E. Tindal, Secretary of State, Makes Some Good Points for south Carolina, not Negleet Ing to Make a Slap at the So-Called Aristocrats. COLUMBIA. Mar. 29.-Reference was made in the News and Courier to-day to some replies made by Secretary of State Tindal to some Northern visitors who desired to be informed on certain South Carolina institutions and ways and means. The reason why Secre tary Tindal committed the questions and replies to paper will be seen when the paper has been read. It will be noticed that Mr. Tindal had to deal with the mooted question, "Who are the people ?" It has always been un derstood that "we are the people," but these Northern inquisitors go some what further and desire to know what is meant by "our best people." Mr. Tindal was asked for this cate chism to-day and he furnished the fol lowing: "Mr. Secretary, is your State doing anything for immigration ?" "Officially, not much. Some years ago we made an effort to induce im migrants here, but found that the foreign labor could not compete with the labor we have." . "Are your people then opposed to immigration ?" "Well, no. We favor getting peo ple here with either little or much capital, but we do not believe the time has come for importing white foreign labor, though that time is not, perhaps, very distant." "We were impressed in some way, by the census or otherwise, that your white population was increasing from some source. Is that so, and where does it come from?" "As population presses down upon Virginia and North Carolina those people move down here. We are re ceiving numbers of people every year, especially from North Carolina, who make prosperous, energetic, and worthy citizens." "Do you think your people would welcome a colony of English, Scotch, or Germans, who could bring a little money witn them?" "Certainly. They always have." "But we are told you would not like Northern people, though they were of the kind you speak of as desirable ?" "Yes, we would. Who told you that?" "A prominent official of North Car. olina told us the other day, as we were on our way down here, that a North ern man who settles in South Caroli na is a fool or a sneak. He is not want ed down there, and would not be tol erated." "I am surprised to hear that of one of our neighbors. Perhaps he had some.immigration scheme of his own, as many negroes have moved away from North Carolina. The truth is that some Northern adventurers came doWn here just after the war and took advantage of our political condition at the time. They were thoroughly despised, and so were the natives here who did the same thing. But North ern people who come here and go in to legitimate business are not so treat ed at all. The general sentiment is in favor of their coming" "But would your people associate with them ?" "Certainly, if they are worthy of it. Their social position would depend here upon what it is where they come from." "Do you think, Mr. Secretary, that if a number of tolerably well-to-do Northern farmers should come here and buy land they could grow cotton with their own labor ? or must only negroes be used to do that?" "Our own white people grow it with their own labor, and their wives and children gather it, and I do not see why your people could not, after they had learned the business. Raising cotton is not like the farming they are familiar with. It is more like the cultivation of flowers, and, of course, they must first learn it." "How much cotton can be grown upon an acre of land ?" "I could not venture to say what the possibilities of an acre may be. Three bales have been claimed, but it is quite usual for good farmers to make a bale per acre." "What do you call a bale ?" "Five. hundred pounds of lint, or from fifteen to sixteen hundred pounds in the seed." "What can land be had for that could be made to yield a bale from one acre ?" "Almost any of our high clay lands or lands with clay subsoil can be made to yield a bale 'to the acre,' and can be bought at from $5 to $30 per acre according to locality. "About what expense of cultivation and manure does it require to get a bale per acre ?" "From $18'to $25. Skilful farmers who do their own work ought to clear from $20 to $30 upon each acre of cotton when the price is not below 9 1-2 cents per pound." "What part of the State is best for cotton ?" "I think the eastern part, above the lower pine belt or seacoast region, which is too low. That land is the cheapest land in the civilized world to-day, when all its capabilities and advantages are considered. In the time of slavery the best planters esti mated that 5 1-2 per cent. of all capi tal invested could be realized in that section, while 4 per cent. was the best in the up-country. But the up-coun try is better for small grain, grass and stock raising, and will be a great manufacturing centre in the future." "We understand that the farmers in this State largely control politics, which indicates that they are spirited and not a very slow set, but we have been told that the 'Farmers' Move ment' here was a movement toward communism. We would like to have a candid statement from you as to that, and as to how it will affect the rights of property and rate of taxa tion ?" "So far from favoring communism our farmers are a stone wall against it. Communism takes root in great cities, never among land-owning farm ers. What we know here as the lien law, coupled with a scarcity of mon ey, developed business conditions which exacted of small farmers from 50 to 200 per cent. for advances, and fabulously extortionate retail prices for what they used. The Alliance taught these people to combine and buy at whoale priceand bnrehak1 down this extortionate condition of things. That simple act of self-de fence and common-sense, created some consternation and great disgust among those who had profited by the faru ers' ruin. As to taxation the farmers fully realize that they must bear di rectly or indirectly the greatest por tion of the burden. Hence they con tend for rigid economy, to which cap ital will not object, as it also dislikes to pay high taxes. The 'Farmers' Movement,' as it is called, was organ ized to get an agricultural and me chanical college established. Those who opposed the college were defeat ed and those who advocated it were elected, and that is the whole of it. The charge of communism is simply an unfounded slander upon the Scate." "But we have been told that all your best people, or those who claim ed to be the best people, opposed the movement, and that is the talk in Washington in connection with com munism. How is that ?" "Well, who the best people are is a question. Those whom we consider to be the best people were to be found on both sides. As for those who claim to be "the best people" some may have been vain enough really to es teem themselves so; but "the best people" never trumpet their superior ity. Did you ever know a really sen sible and virtuous man to proclaim his superiority to his neighbors ? That was simple nonsense, a political ma nouvre to beat their opponents. The people at large very readily distin guish between those who sympathize with them and those who do not, and they have elected officers who own quite as much or more property, and who have really more interest in the protection of property than those who were turned out." "Do you know of any capital drawn from business since the election, for fear of its not being safe under the present government ?" "On the contrary, more new enter prises have been started than ever before in the history of the State. I have issued nearly one hundred com missions for new enterprises since the 6th of December, and have letters al most every day from. capitalists of other States inquiring what conditions to lend money or do business here are required by our laws. Here is a book in which the commissions are registered, and here is a letter-a sample of a great number, from the shrewdest and most prudent business men." "Are your own business men sell ing as readily as usual on credit to the farmers ?" "Yes. Our fertilizer companies have sold over 50,000 tons of commercial fertilizers, more up to this time than they sold during the whole of last year." "How did you ascertain that ?" "Well, a tax of 25 cents per ton is exacted upon every ton sold, and the receipts from that show the fact." "Why do you exact that tax?" "These fertilizers are analyzed by the State to prevent fraud; that is, to ascertain if the fertilizer is wvhat it purports to be. It is for the protec tion of farmers and also of honest dealers and manufacturers against swindlers. The 25 cents per ton de frays the expense of affording this protection. Our farmers spend Bev eral millions of dollars for fertilizers, and the temptation to fraud in such an immense business with uneducated people would be very great if there was no way to detect and punish it.' "Well, Mr. Secretary, would you object to our repeating what you have said to us ?" "No. There are no secrets in what I have said. I only ask that you re peat it correctly. I am glad to talk freely with you or any other strangers who come here." McCafferty Married. CoLrmBA, Apr. 4.-Charles McCaf ferty, a well known Texan, and Miss Blanch Starling, youngest daughter of Capt. W. D. Starling, of this city, were married this afternoon. There being some opposition to the match on the part of the young lady's parents, the couple met by appointment on Plain street, and were driven to Edge ~wood church, about two miles from the city, where, in the presence of a few friends and the minister's daugh ters, they were married by Rev. S. D. Vaughan. They then boarded the Soutir Carolina train going towards Charleston. Capt. Starling was in formed by letter of the affair. Too Hard for a Hatchet. SuxrER, Mar. 29.-There came very near being a murder here last night. George Elliott, colored, and his wife were having a fuss, when his mother in law came upon the scene armed with a hatchet, which she drove into George's head. The mother-in-law was arrested and put in jail, and it was at first feared that George would die, but later in the day he was up and able to get around some. . His head proved too much for the hatchet. Spring, beautiful spring is upon us; but winter dry goods are not at all oppressive thus far. Boys have been ruined because they had to stay at home and turn the grindstone, when they should have been allowed to go a fishing. The ladies of Winnsboro have start ed a canning factory of their own, in which all the officers and directors are ladies, and all the employees are to be young ladies, except in that por tion of the work which is too rough for feminine hands to do. The smallest of all the States, Rhode Island, has the largest popula tion per square mile, or 31,844 per sons. The figures of the last census show that if the whole Union were as densely populated it would contain 945,766,800 inhabitants. The Attorney General has decided that the act passed by the recent leg-1 islature to prohibit the sale of pistols and pistol cartridges, does not pro hibit the sale of rifle or other gun cartridges. As pistols and guns take the same kind of cartridges this de cision will make the law a nullity. I Secretary of State Tinchd says: More new entei-prises have been start ed since the present administration went into power than ever before in the same length of time in the history of the State. Since the 6;th of last K September he has issued nearly one a hundred commissions for new enter-I ries. HOUSEHOLD NOTES. MRS s. A. NETTLES. To those who have some knowledge of water colois I will give a few hints. You CanL imake a host of lovely things, such as photograph, haLtdkerchief, or glove cases, cushions, bags, sachet and toilet sets, by using those india silks which come to us already deco rated with flowers as beautiful as na ture makes them. The designs are really artistic. From a bit of this silk fashion your work, whatcveir it may be, wad, line, and perfunie it. Always try to cut your silk so as to leave the design as entire as possible. Then in water colors touch up iluw ers and leaves, making the shadows darner and high lights brighter by a bit of color. If there are liues or guides or anything conventional in the pattern, outline with gold, and if a scrap of plain background shows, try to arrange it so you can lettet these in gold, "gloves," "photographs," or whatever it is to be used for. From this you may fashion many things of beauty which few would believe were not really and truly hand painted. Their cost would be nominal as the remnants of silk can be procured very cheap. But you say you cannot paint, therefore this is of no use to you. Well, suppose you try your needle in stead of the brush. You can make a lovely cover for a small table out of a large linen doily, without iringe. The designs worked in the damask are all you could wish for beauty, and worked with yellow wash silk will well repay the trouble. Now if you can crochet make a wide insertion and edge to go all around the doily, and line it entire with yellow sateen, only outline the design with chain or ken sington stitch which are now so fash ionable. Som WAYs or COoKrG EGGS. Poached Eggs.-Into well salted water that is just boiling drop an egg one at a time, remove to buttered slices of bread. Poached Eggs.-Fill a frying pan with boiling water, add salt and vine gar, break the eggs one by one in a wet saucer, slip in the boiling water three minutes. Poached Eggs.-Fill half full of wa ter patty tins, put on stove and when they boil drop an egg in each, cook until set, remove to hot plate, season with pepper and salt. &rambled Eggs.-Break as many eggs as wanted in a bowl, break gen tly with a fork, place a piece of but ter in a pan and melt, when hot turn in the eggs, stir continually until set, serve hot. &rambled Eggs a la Ham.--Put butter, pepper, and salt in a pan when hot, drop in the eggs, and with a knife cut in the centre, into which put chopped ham. Scrambled Eggs with Potatoes.-Chop boiled potatoes very fine, break eggs in a pan in which is salt, pepper, and butter, scramble until they are set. Scrambled Eggs and Dried Beef. Chip and scald dried beef, put in pan with butter and pepper, drop in the eggs, stir all the time, serve hot. Eggs Baksd with Crackcer Crumbs. Cover the buttered dish with fine eracker crumbs. Put each egg care fully in the dish and cover lii htly with seasoned and buttered crumbs. Bake till the crumbs are brown. Rumpled Eggs.-Beat three eggu and two ounces of fresh;butter, add a teaspoonful of cream, put in pan and keep stirring for five minutes, serve on toast. &S~ollped .Eggs.-Mii equal parts of bread crumbs and ham, season and moisten with milk till soft, fill patty tins and drop an egg on each, bake eight minutes. Curried Eggs.-Boil and cut in slices ten eggs, fry two slices of onion, when done add a teaspoonful of curry powder, one pint of stock, and a cup of cream thickened with flour, cook a fewv minutes, then add eggs and heat well. Italian Eggs.-Boil and mash a few bits of garlic, and two tablespoonfuls of capers, two anchovies, salt and pep per, vinegar and oil. Put this sauce in a dish and slice as many hard boil d eggs in as you wish, serve hot. Boiled Eggs.-The fresher the bet er, boil about two minutes if you wish the white set; a fresh egg will ake three minutes if you wish the yolks set; to boil hard for salads take ten minutes. Boiled Eggs.-Boil i hard, remove the shell, set in a hot dish and serve with sauce. S.ux.~os Onwzr.--Take a plain ome et and when ready to fold spread >ver it canned salmon moistened with cream and seasoned with pepper and salt. HOWV'S THIS! We offer one hundred dollars reward for my case of catarrh that cannot be cured by :aking Hail's catarrh cure. F. J. CRENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. 3heney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transact tons and financially able to carry out any >bligation made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Tole do, Ohio. WADING, KINNAy, & Mar.vXN. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's catarrh cnre is taken internally, acting direcily upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Prica 'i5c. per bot le. Sold by all druggists. CHANGE OF AGENCY. f he Great Southern 31lusic House 3Iakes New Agents. Special notice is hereby given that J. B. Eillough & Co., of Florence, S. C., are no onger our agents for the sale of Pianos and Jrgans. Our arrangement with them hav ing been mutually discontinued, we have tppointed Z. GODBOVLD, of Manning, S. ,to sell for us in the counties of williams >urg and Clarendon. All our patrcns can >uy from him at our prices until further iotice. We are the sole Southern Agents or the leading instruments of America. uch as the celebrated Chickering, Jllason dJ lamlin, M3athushkek, ad Sterling Pianos, and ~Iason & Hamlin arnd Sterling Organs. Our rade is far the largest in the South, amount ng to nearly half a million dollars yearly. Ul intending purchasers will find that we an save them money, an d it need not be said hat it is safest to buy from a house of es ablishid reputation. Remember that we >lace instruments in your owcuhomes on fifteen uys test trial, pay all freight, give ac connpletc ulit free, and a si.c years guarantee with every' trument. Tfhe purchasc of a Piano or Organ Jans a large investment. Bleware of un nown instruments offered by agents of oubtful responsibility. Write us or our uly authorized agents. JUDN& BATErs SOUTHERN MUsic HorsE, TWENTY-THIRD S. C. V. Duty A round Charleston -Ordered to Vir ginia--Burnin- up the Rei Bugs. BY A .,PlIOTT (WA~I). While stationed on Sulli'.an's; Islami, dur ing the winter of WG:4, we cinirtunally had the beach to picket at night, and sufl"-red a great deal from the cold windls swoeping over the island. We used to Lu c.nut:nuall y provoked with our rifle pits. We worked hard in throwing them up and arranging them in order, anlid then in a few days they would be level with the ground. The reason of this was the sa1.1 was danp and after being thrown .11p and :posed to tI e sun and air would beco:e dry, so much so till they would ielt down and at.e on the Iev el, and where the riti-- pits ouight to have been thcre would be little or no signs of them. It was daily expected that the Federals would attack and try to capture Sullivan's Island as the next best thing they could do towards captnring Charleston. They haa by this time exhausted all Y.tnkee cunning and patience, and hadn't taken the "cradle of treason' Yet, and to all appearances they wer. very likely not to possess it for some time to come. There were a good many troops on the Island at this time, and the Yankees must have been aware of it, for they never tried to take it b% approaching in barges and trying to effect a landing. This was about the surest way for them to have cap tured the Island, but they did not like to risk this style of warfare. The troops on -the Island were very vigilant, and would no doubt have had an easy time in licking them if they had tried to capture it by the barge proecss. I have no doubt the Yankees thought so too. This was that time when active military operations had about ceased in Virginia and the West, and the troops on both sides had gone into winter quarters. This was why the Federals were showing some activity about Charleston. Things went very well with us while here, except the Yankees would pay us their respects by occasionally throwing a fifteen-inch Parrott shell into our camp. These shells, or the throwing them into our camp, never did us any harm, and so we never paid much at tention to them. The year 1863 passed by and 1864 was ushered in, and found the old 23rd still on Sullivan's Island, as rebellious as ever, and like all the rest of the Confederales, still defying Uncle Sam's authority. Matters continued about as they had been all along. The Yankees hadn't got Charleston yet, and the old "city by the sea" was as defiant as ever, and all Yankee land stili disap pointed. ORDERED TO FORT SUMTER. About the first o- March about half of the 23rd were detailed for duty in Fort Siumter. On reaching the landing at a point on Sulli van's Island the detachment of the 23rd were soon on a small steamer, which very cautiously moved over the waters of Chales ton harbor for Fort Sumter. The night being dark the trip was safely made. On reach ing the fort the dttachmefit was not long in getting in. It was dangerous in going to and froi tie fort and had to be done at night ani v.ry cautiously at that. The Federals could have easily sunk the boats had they been in any way apprised of their movement. It was not more than twelve or thirteen hundred yards from their guns at Cunimings' Foint to where the boats had to pass to reach the fort. For these reasons the troops could but feel relieved when they reached the fort from the island, or the is lanct from the fort. The Federals had the heaviest guns I have no doubt around Charleston that they had in thvir service, and it would riot have taken but a few min utes to havec sent the hoats and all on them to the bottom of the channel. Fort Sunmter was not a pleacant place we soon found out after gettiug ini there.. T1he mortification we. had to endure was great. The Yanks could strike and the Confederates couldn't strike! back. In the bombardments or during the bombardments everyv 0nn hn the fnet bail been dismounted or buried beneath the ruins of the fort on the sea facing off the fort and the part of the fort bearing on Mor ris Island and the Federal batteries on thins island. The troops defending the fort had to rely mainly on their rifles and valor for its successful defense. I believe there was a piece or two of cannon of light calibre in the fort. These though only could be effec tive in case the Federals approached in barges and attempted to capture the fort by storming parties. On the side of the fort next to Charleston in casemates of the fort which the Federals had failed to knock down in their protracted bombardment were three heavy guns. These guns were in just such a position that they could not render any aid to the fort or its defenders except in case t~o Federals could have buc ceeded in passing the fort. One of these guns was used as a sundowvn gan as it was said. Every evening just as the sun was setting the Confederate flag wvould be lower ed and this gun would be fired. The gun would be fired to assure the gallant and no ble people of Charleston that the game old fort still lived and was in possession of its gallant defenders, and the Federals had one day more-to swell and add to the record of the siege of Charleston. This detachment of the 23rd while in the fort and during one of the bombardments of the fort, hadi twvo men wounded, one losing a leg by a frag ment of a mortar shell from one of the Fed eral batteries on Morri4 Island striking him on the leg and crushing it. While the 23rd, or this detachment, w~as in the fort they were under the fire of two of the Federal bora bardments. After this detachment of the 23rd had performed thirty days', and it may be truthfully said thirty nights' duty, they were relieved by other troops. After being relieved we marchedt out of the fort and taking a steamer were very cautiously land ed once more on Sullivan's Island without any mishap in any manner, having had the honor of being among and a part of the defenders of historic old Fort Sumter. ACTIVE OPEBATIONs FOn 1864. It was now April, and after reaching our camp at Battery Marshal we remained there till about the 20th of that month, when the 23rd again received marching orders. This time the order came to repair to Wilming ton, N. C. On receiving the order the 23rd was soon in line and on the march for the wharf at Mount Pleasant. On reaching Mount Pleasant we were soon on a steamer making for Charleston. We reached Charles ton some time in the forencon. After reaching Charleston wye remained, if I re member correctly, till the next morning, when wve took cars by the Northeastern rail road and in a short time were on our way to Wilmington. About this time th2 Federals were show ing a good deal of activity in every quarter, and the Confederates were equally as active. Gen. Grant had been made Lieut..General of all the armies of the United $tates. His success at Vicksburg and Missionary Rlidge made hint the hero of the hour on tihe p~art of the Yankees, and it w"as believed by the North or these pretended Union lovers tiat it was going to be but a question of a few weeks ere the great rebellion, as they had nicknamed the resistance of the South, would be crushed, and their great armies (for such they were in numbers) would soon t::iumphantly return to Yankeeland amtid tae plaudits of Yankeedom for having crushed a noble peole which they outnum bered five to one. A NORTH CA~ioLINA PLAGUE. On reaching Wilumington the 23rd pro ceeded to a point in eastern Noi'th Caroli na about twenty lve miles from Wilming ton on the road lceading from New ]3erne to Wilmington, and called Virginia CreekI. The creek we never saw', and wvere always puzzled in imagining how this section of' country ever came by the namen. Natuire certainly would have performeid an extra ordinary feat if it had caused a creek to flow ovi-r the sand beds of that part of North Carolina. At this place we located our camp in a piece of pine woods and an ocean of wire grass as high as the hips in some places and higher in other's. We had not been here long before wve fond out we] had invaded a new enemy's country, that of the seed tie'ts and red hugs. 'They at taked us with vigot, and iad~e maity in roals among our feelings of contfort, and continued to attack us on all sides an.I at all hours of the day and night. When their orenting was urged beyond endurance a Uaptain in our army went out in the wire ~rass region, struck a match, and being a fire," there was a conflagration among and in that wire grass region. The city of the seed ticks and red bugs was destro ed, and the gallant Captain got showers of praise bestowed upon himself, he not having' meanness enough in him to Say some of the ticks ndail red bugs were thw ca'iu' of their city being burned, startingl the contlagraLtion themselves. Aflter this piece of business we were only slightly annovel by the remnant of that natin. The last . .( of that lire it was mak: time throu'gh thatt wire grisis regioi'n of Northeastern N'rhi Carolina at a spee.1 lht seemed uneqialled by the flight of a carrikr piee. 'n, intent on reaching New Deine before it ever slackened its spee.l. ON T0- IM.o The 23nl reniainxed at Virginia erek till about the iuidle of May, then we oer' or oered to Petersburg. Un reaching Wilming ton it was not long bfore the 23rdl was on boar'd the cars and soon ons the way to Pe tersbuig to re i.force Gen. Deaureg'trd's forces; the'n at Pctersbure to defeat General Butler and his hosts that haL reacbed the vicinity of Petersburg an. was making great eiThrts for its speedy capture. The fiery ball had now opened. Gen. Grant felt con fident, and was moving on Richmond with a heavy force for the capture of Richmond as his pat of the job of ending the war, leaving and entrusting the capture of Peters burg to the hero ot New Orleans. That hero had never made hioself famous but for one thing: insulting unprotected women. The 23rd arrived at Petersburg in time, 1 -t not in time to take a hard with Beaure gard in defeating Butler, he having defeated bim before Evans's Brigade conld reach Pe tersburg, though making the distance in due time. It seems at the time Butler com menced operations around Petersburg he managed in sone way to get some little ad vantage, and in his glee he like the shallow Pope telegraphed in different directions that he held the key to Richrond, meaning he would soon bo in poncsion of Peters. burg. It so turned out that no one ever saw the "key" but Butier, and he only in imagination. Butler was soon forced to withdraw from the immediate vicinity of Petersburg. Knowing there was a premium of two hundred thousand dollars upon his head lie was desirous of not taking too much risk. Ben thought tco much of his head to let one of those ragged Confederates around Petersburg get it, and very plainly showed his appreciation of its value by not staying too long and too near Petersburg. After Evans's Brigade reached Petersburg they commenced marching and moving from one position to another. The Federals were now very busy moving from point to point or threatening different points, they having so many men they could carry on these move ments very well. The Confederates having so many less men than the Federals, these movements were calcilated to tire and wor ry them. Gen. Grant had by this time, which was the last days of May, found out he could never reach and possess Richmond by attempting to carry Lee's position by as sanlt. His experience in the severe onsets lie had with the Confederates convinced ] hEn that he could not. So lie now gave up iae attempt, and after a weary and circuit ous march succeeded in getting his army south of the James River, with the deter mination to try his Vicksburg manner of operating. He commenced intrenching and erecting strong and impregnable earthworks and to fix for regular siege operations. His army, without any chance of truthful dis pute, outnumbered the Confederates at least four to one. The Confederates alter discov ering what was the intention of the Feder als, settled down and began to intrench them selves and prepare, like the Yankees, to take care of themselves. [To be c:'ntinued.] A Horal Easter Offering. Formsvox, April 4.-There are moments when the impeded circulation of thought conies to a solemn pause; when the mind, wearied by the past, bewildered by the pres ent, refuses to look beyond the conscious ness that an over-mastering will has solved for us, the great problems which have per plexed our live. Wearied by the past, did we say ? The past ! Oii! golden realm, peopled with shadows, shall we sever the mystic tie which bridges the chasm between nowe and then, which links the fretful present to the tran quil days that are gone ? unch were the soliloquies of your corres pondent, a waif of destiny, who watched the tide of life flowinc' in the direction of. the MethodisL enurcu, of rne giornous .z:aster morn of 1891. It was a soft, fair day. Light, fleecy clouds drifted across the daz ziing sky, coquetting with the golden gleams as they danced over the quiet homes of Foreston, and gilding the church spires peering bravely into the blue ether, voice less messengers from earth to heaven. There were gracious touches from nature's magic pencil, waich transformed the forests, in their silent grandeur, the violets in their nests of green, and the sombre landscape, into a cef-etd'ouvre of surpassing beauty. In the distance glittered the dewy plains, "When 'stead of one unchanging breeze, There blow a thousand gentle airs, And each a different perfume bears." Lovely forms and faces flitted by; wve heard the echo of angels' voices, and almost caught the rustle of their wings. Spell-bound, we followed one of Fores ton's f'airest nymphs, who glided on, serene ly unconscious of the havoc she had perpe trated in our young affections. WVe entered the church, just as the solemn overture of the organ died away, and the choir rendered, with magnificent effect, the sublime Easter hymn, "Christ arose." Over the chancel, and in the recess, inscribed in letters of silver, were the sweet words, speaking to the heart, "Christ is risen," and "Our pass over." Everywhere an Eden of flowers met the eye. They peeped out from pyramids of moss and ivy. There were other flowers, too, with brown and violet eyes, forming tableaux of breathing lovliness. One, es pecially, stole our thoughts away from the deep significance of the day, with its radi ent memories, and hallowed associations. And Mr. Editor, it is our great misfortune, to be always, too Lte. While wve are hesi tating, trembling, fearing to turn the key of destiny, some o'ther fellow, not half as good looking as your co::respondent, steps boldly forward, bears oft'::he prize, and we are left hors de combat. But we digress. As we glanced around the church, we saw many, whose kind faces, revealed their gentle graces of mind and ::baracter. We ,vuuld like to live amongst these people, whose purity, moral excel ence, and genuine hospitality, have dis pelled dark shadows of doubt and disap pointment, and encouraged us to look heerfully, to the future, where the fairest flowers bloom, where the wine of hope bub bles up to the lips of the wearied pilgrim, ard, where, in the blrue distance, sleep fairy isles of joy and love. But now to our sweet Easter day', whose sun set royally behind banks of gold, crim son, purple, and brilliant pink, melting in o a soft, rose-ti ntedl gray. The day is dead, but not its teachings. Far beyond the crys :l deeps does our prayer ascend, that the esson taught by the viewless flight of its blssful hours, may be one of perfect peace, alth, and hope. LE Nonm. An .Pta1:m've CamhiaJd POCKET ALMANAC and MIEMORANJDUMV BOO0K advertising BROWN'SIRON BITTIERs the best 'Tonic, given away at Drug amct Sgeneral stores, Apply at once., Wasting Our Money. It costs about one hundred thou and dollars each to bury dead con ressnmen and senators. The past ongress paid out over one half mil ion of the people's money to bury he members antd senators who died. Unider the constitution they haye 1 ust as much right to appropriate ouey to bury deadi citizens as dead :ongressmnen. BJut you have never eard those statesmen who are so y luick to say the ownership of rail vas by the government and the sub r ~reasuryv are unconstitutional, say a ord about these appropriations for ~uneral expenses being uniconstittu ional. These same stattesmen could ave saved half a million a year to the eop~le in the last twenty years if they. ad 'oeen as quick to yell "pater'nal-f. smn" and "unconstitutional" in funer ~is as they are in sub treasury mat ers.-AI/awe Iindicalor. Senator George F. Edunds, off ermont, has tendered his resignation] o ake effect November next. for Infants and Children. "Castoriaissowefadaptedtocblrenthat Castoriaeure Colt-, Coftsd*N Irecommend itssuperiortoanyprescription SW 8 wIL, DarrhO06 ruand, known to me." H. A. Acz, X D., Ms Woms, gives deep, and promote@ 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wit urious medcation. "The use of 'Castoria' is so universal and " For several yaw I have recommended its merits so wel known tat it seems a work rU4 and shal alwys continue to of supererogation to endorse it. Few awethe do so' ait has invaribly p odue d benefical inteigent 3mles who do no, keep Castori results." within eay reach." EDWI F. PADZ3, . D., ChnRto 3U~am D D NewAork D Y. he Wnrop,"125th Steetand 7thAve., Late Pastor Boomindale wBormed Church. NewYork City. TM CaXTAU COMPAxr, 77 MUmnr S=r. Naw Yo=z. TH E LAST. POSITIVELY THE LAST FOR THIS SEASON. Parties wishing to purchase will please take notice that I will receive about March 10th 1 car load broke Mules, and about March 26th 1 car load nice driving and work Horses. HORACE HARBY. Sumter, S. C., March 7, 1891. - - - UC I ) Tillman Opposed to the Sub-Treasury. In a recent interview with a correspone nt of the Cincinnati Post, Governor Till nan said: "I do not believe if the Farmers' Alliance rere polled in this State one-half would sup yort the sub-treasury scheme. My guide in naking up my opinion is to observe the re ;ults in- the Congressional districts where, by vote, this has been tested, and I believe ;hat the Alliance of the entire South would epudiate it. Some leaders may foist it, but he rank and file-the thinking, reading neuibers-itterly refuse the absurd provis ons of the scheme." Life Didn't Charm Him. It takes a Georgia editor to see the ight side of things. "We have been lown with the grip three days," says he Billville Banner, "but we are feel ng quite cheerful as we own a lot in he cemetery, and the coffin factory >wes us $10 for an advertisement." Che same editor acknowledges the eceipt from the Rev. Sam Jones of 'a cheerful little book entitled 'Are -ou ready to die?" $yj Epw*efOiS Both the method and results when yrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant md refreshing to the taste, and acts ently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys em effectually, dispels colds, head icbes and fevers and cures habitual :onstipation. Syrup of Figs is the nly remedy of its kind ever pro luced, pleasing to the taste and ac ,eptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any ubstitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, Kr. NEW YORK, N.Y. GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT -FROM THE 247 King St., Opposite Hasell, CHARLESTON, S. C. Upholstering Goods and Draperies of 11 kinds. HE MOST COMPL.ETE STOCK IN THE STATE, We quote a few of our specialties: Brussels Carpet at 65, 75, 85, and Si per elvet Carpet at $1.25, $1.40, and $1.50 ernain Carpet at at 50, GO, 70, and 90c. em aCarpet at 20, 25, and 30c. per yard. Straw Mattings at 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, and rw' a 75,$1.25, S2.00, $2.50, to $9 each. Window Shades at 50, 75, $1.00, and up. Corn ic2 Poles at 25, 35, and 50c. Full stock of Lace Curtains from 90c. to [5.00 per pair. Special attention given to all orders. W e arantee satisfa.ction. To give us a trial -der is to come again, as our prices are the west. ec nd -Tres Manaaer. S.A.RIGBY ---- comes to the front, and wishes to announce to his many frien ds and customers that he has just receive.1 from Northern markets a new and weil s.;, c ed line of spring goods, comprising all (f the newest styles and novelties of the sfeason. Dress Goods. My line of Dress Goods is complete, con sisting of Cashmeres, Nuns Veilings. Bieges, Suitings, Ginghams, 24 and 36 inch Challies, Satines, Prints, Lawns, Muslins, Organdies, and also a complete line of trim nings and silk sashing to suit the above. NOTIONS, NOTIONS. A large selection of Ladies' and Genis' Neckwear and Hosiery, Hair Ornaments, White Linen and Tarkey-red Damask, La dies'and Gents' Linen, Lawn, and Cambric Handkerchiefs, Window Draperies, and a wagon load of other things that I have not room to mention. My stock of is complete, also a full line of Gents' Fur nishing Goods, and Men's, Youths', and Children's Felt and Straw Hats in all styles. Hardware. A complk line of Hardware, consisting of all kinds of Carriage Bolts and Wood Screws, Weeding Hoes, Handled Hoes, all kinds of Sweeps, Shovels, Spades, Axes, Rakes, Forks, and a general line of Farm ers' Supplies. Also a full line of crockery. Shoes, Shoes. I make a specialty in Ladies', Gents', and Children's Fine and Common Shoes. As I have had many years' experience in the different qualities of leather, therefore I can unhesitatingly claim to have as good and as honest a line of Gents', Ladies', and Chil dren's Shoes as will be found in any retail store in the country. Groceries, Groceries. My Grocery Department, the last men tioned but not the least, for my shelves are chock full of the fanciest and finest Family Grocer.es. My ware rooms are abundantly filled with Flour, Bacon, Molasses, Corn, and Hay. IN CONCLUSION. And now in closing my remarks I wish to say that all the goods mentioned in the various deuartments above will be sold at the lowest cash prices and as cheap as will be found elsewhere, and any one doubting my statement will please call and try me with the cash, and they will find that what I say I mean, and what I advertise I have in stock. Very respectfully, S. A. RIGBY, M~anning, S. C. A ..MUNN ? CO. 361 Broadway, New York. FERTILIZERS! PIEDMONT GUANO G0., CHARLESTON, S. C. IMPoBTERs, MANUFAcTUBERS, & DEALERs IN Safest, High Grade, and Guaranteed Kainit, Blood Acids, Dissolved BIone, Solubles, and Ammoni ated Manipulated. Handled by Mr. M. Levi, Manning, S. C. Get prices before buying. HEMME'S RESTAURANT, 228 KING STREET, Opposite Academy of Music, CHALES TON, S. C.