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'HE CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1892. thanksgiving.*^. ith quickened heart ani with hended head Blew the botrnty that never ends, The great, sweet gifts of life it send?, lope to the living and rest to the dead; For the boundless wealth of good it spends t thanksgivfng sting an 1 ?ai<3. And most for the blessing of home and friends. The pale years wane and falter. And melt away like snow. Bat on its holy altar Love's fires unchanging glow; To dear, familiar places. Lured by its gentle light Come back the dear, dead facei Out of the awful night. Beside it, cm Thanksgiving. Ths kindly feast is spraad. And old, lost hopes are living. And old, fond wards are said; Said by the ksng-rtilled vofe*s, Heard by the bfearf. alone, And memory rejoico In the sweet undertone. . \ ^ \ Though years the head may whiter?. The heart shnil not grew gray; \ Younjr thought* thai. thrill and brighten Poetess the smiling day, T r, all our best and dearest A losing cup wa ftil. To friebds that are the nearest. To lojra Time cannot kill. The hearth'3 alight, and the feast is sppea.i. Blest be the love that never ends, * For the hope of the living, the rest of the j dead. Be thanksgiving sang and said, And most for the gift of home and friends. ?New York Sun. A Thanksgiving Surmise. BY HELEN FOKRE3T OfelAVEf. ? T was the close of a brief autumn day; the last level beams of the saf xon-tinted sunset were peeping through the plate-glass case ments of the ! great Eighth ave nue store, and Kitty Kasson, tortured with a ! ?plitting headache and wearied with the incessant buzz of questioning voices, ' pressed both hands over her fprehead j and asked herself : "Will six o'clock never come? Will j these people never go?" The floor superintendent came up. '?Miss Kasson," said he sharply, j what ails you to-day? I have heard more than one complaint. Is it simple inattention? or don't you care whether you retain your position here or not?" Kitty looked piteously up. 4 'My head aches so H' said she. 4 'But I didn't known. What can I do, please?" * -Here's a lady asking for mode-col ored gloves, and you've taken out the box of blacks," said Mr. Irwin, impa tiently. "Really this won't do!" **Kitty murmured a wort? or two of apology, substituted the mode-colors for the blacks, and set herself to be as at tentive as possible. . Headache or no headache, it behooved Mr to give satisfaction. She had not only herself to support, but the ailing mother, whose board she pattd at a cousin's farmhouse in the Connecticut Valley. To her every dollar meant its full worth, and when she saw girl cus tomers of her own ^ge scattering the i contents of their purses with reckless disregard, she could but wonder. But when the crowd of 9 hoppers had ebbed and flowed itself away, and the much-betumbled and becrumpled stock w is replaced in boxes and on shelves, and the girls were departing, Kitty came to Mr. Irwin's desk. "Welt?" he said impatiently", biting the handle of his pea, as he glaneed up ; from the big book before him. i 4,Mr. Irwin," faltered Kitty, "Ij. haven't had any vacation this year. Caa j have a week at .Thanksgiving?" Mr. Irwin frowned. "You had the chance in August," said! he. "No, we can't spare you at Thanks* giving, Miss Kasson. Three "of the girl* j ? in your department have been ahead of you in securing that time, and, as yot "OH, HERE'S A LETTKlt POS TOC-V mxM Imow, -we are extra busy at this time of year." "I ccakla't go in August." said Ktzj. ! She did not like to teJl the superin tendent that she had lent her saiar* for the sooth of Angust to poor Matt iStn cia ir, to pay for a sen. -cots* trip foe oer oyMOttfire amc, that the sister had i n died at Ocean Beacbr-a:*3 that Mary Sin clair had never been .nble to regQythe indebtedness. How true it is that *':t is the po<^r wlso are good! to the poor ! '?Couldn't I possibly ? " "No, you couldn't!^ said 'Mr. Irwin, an^s^uraed to his big Jooks asiif the case were cfe^ed. Kitti# aa*son went quietly home to the solitary\aU bedrooarthat she shared with a hollo^-^yed stitcher in a. corset factory, whose\ cough kept her* awake half th? night. "V The| made tfremSftUes a cup of fabu lously weak tea, and mSbkjJat bread and buitter, with a pan of clamsT'Vhich Miss Skerrett had cooked over a neigh bor's stove, to give some reliafc to it. They sat with shawls around them, and left the door into the* hall open, iu hopes j that some current of warmth i rom the I down stairs rooms might set th3ir way. "Ob, here's a letter for you, which I'd I nearly forgotten!" said ifias Skerrett. "It got slipped under the bread plate. Kitty opened it and read it eagerly. Then her head dropped on her. hands; she burst into "tears. "2fo bad news, I hope!" said Miss Skercett, who was mending the worsted glovas which had so often been i mended before. "So," said Kitty. "Not&ing * but what I might have expected. The old home is sold ? to somebody * from the West!" "But it hasn't been really yours for a long While, has it?" said Miss Skerrett. "^eft. no!" Kitty admitted. "But as long as Squire Taft owned it, there was; some chance of our buying it back. When I first came to New York, you know, Sarah, I was sure I . could sell the novel I had written, and rebuild the fam ily fortunes. I fancied it was only a matter of a year or two. Now I know what nonsense it was. No matter. I'm young, and tolerably strong. But it'll come hard on mother ? poor mother! ? who has kept hoping all her lifetime for things that never came. I've got to write to her, now, that I can't be at home for Thanksgiving. They won't spare me!" Miss Skerrett shrugged htr thin shoul ders. ?'Well," said she, "what you haven't got can't miss. I never had a Thanksgiving!" jKitty did not not answer. She was thanking of the red November sun, the ! aromatic scent of dead leaves, the sound ol church bells chiming across the frosty ^ fields, the smell of burning beech logs oc the old stone hearth. And all that night long, when poor ' Miss Skerrett slept and coughed b/turns, ' Kitty Kasson lay awa&e and thought , abcut Thanksgiving " stop! " CRrED KITTY. I -She was unusually qmet and dejected the next day. Mr. Irwin frowned a little. "We want our girls to be spry and smiling," said he. "The customers don't like to see a death's -head- a ad bones behind the counterl" So Kitty tried to look cheerful, while | all the time she was asking* .herself : j "How could Abiram Taft break his | I promise to me? How could he let his father sell the old home, when he told . me I should have the refusal of: it? Of { course, I couldn't buy it; out tfee blow ! wouldn't ha7fr eome so sudden if I had j kao;vn beforehand." ; Mis? Skerrctt was full of a new plan when Kitty cime home that nig-'nt. i "Kitty," said she, "you felt bad about ; icsinj your Taanksgi ring. Let's hare j a little one of our -own. A chicken , won't cost much ? poultry is alwajs eheapif you wait until the night before i Than k^iring. And Mol will let us cook it in her oven, tod we could hare a few rout chestnuts and two red apples, and a cranberry tart from the ^baker's. It won't cost so much if we jom together. "But i* wouldn't be a real Thanksgiv ing," said Kitty, shaking her head, with a sad smile. Just then the letter carrier's whistle sounded in the hall below. Dow flew Kitty, and with another l&wer, directei taw tfms in Mr^ Copley's* sutf hand-rritinx. C Kitty turned pale. . L ; "Open it, Sarah," said she. "I can't. Either mother's sic'c or? or she's dead!'' "Neither one nor ti^e other.," said Sarah Bkerrett, who had male haste to jreak the seal. "Snail 1 read it to you?" "Dea.r Krrrv: C3meto Thanka.^iring rhis rear, and brm^ your friend Hiss Skeirett. Do not fall. It is to be a sur prise to your niacher. So no moce at repeat. "Fro n roar cou?ia, Daaoava Coflst." Kitty grew re 1 and white. "Oa, but I can't!" s le. jpj H "Oh! but rou must!" said Mas 8ker 0 "Wnat will i?r. Irwia say!" "What he pleases. Oh. Kitty, we are such slaves all our life long, do let us have one free and risk the con sequences !" Hie dimples came into Kitty's cheek. . "We will!" said she. _ It was a stormy sunset that brooded, in its red magnificence,., over the ralley that night; but Thansgiring is ooe of the few things that stormy weather can not spoil ; and as Kitty and Mis3 Sker rett stepped" of the train, a gust of sweet scented air came up\ from the pine glens, the leaves rustled under foot, and the red barns in the distance seemed as ' SCRS. COPLEY PREPARING THE TUEKEY. if it were but yesterday that she had left them. r ? * Mrs. Copley was at the station, rubi cund and short-breathed as ever. .. "There's awaggin' back o'the freight house, " said she. < ' Wait a spell, girls, till the tram's gone by. The hoss, he's ekeery of the cars." "But what do we want of a wagon?" said Kitty. "It isn't a quarter of a mile to your house, Cousin Deb." "We ain't a-going there!" said Mrs. Copley. "Your ma, site's moved." "Moved ! Oh, Deb, I know I haven't been able to be very regular in the pay ments of late," said Kitty, a sudden suf focation coming into her throat, "but I surely? surely you haven't let them take ! her to the town house?" "Wal, I guess not?" said Mrs. Cop- j ley. "Get into the waggin. You'll I see!" ? | Abiram Taft was driving. Kitty 1 viewed him sternly, scarcely returning j his nod. "You arc not vexed with me, Kitty?" said he. "You have broken your word," said j si e in a low voice, while Mrs. Copiey j pointed out the various places of interest ! to Sarah Skerrett. "You did it out of spite, because? because I wouldn't mar ry you. xs "I may be a pretty mean man, Kittv," j said he, "but I ain't as mean as all that. Get up, Bonny;" with a lash across the ' old red horse's fat back. And they drove along in siience i until ? "Stop!" cried Kitty. "Here's the* old home. Stop, Abiram, and let me j have one look at it. And there are j lights in the window ! Look, Sarah? 1 there's the window where I used to peep : out winter nights and watch for Santa ! Claus's coming. There's the big flat i stone where we used to playjack-straws, j and the apple tree, where the red gills- j flowers grew. And, oh, Sarah I am I dreaming? There'3 mother coming out \ to the gate to meet me, iust a* she al- ? ways did. Drive on, Abiram! I I think my brain must be going." "I guess we won't drive on," said Ahiram Taft, alighting and deliberately I tying the sorrel horse to the post. "Your brain's all light, kitty. It is ! your mother; and you be comia' home ! again, just like you always did. Tue j house's your mother's, Kitty; I deeded 1 it to her, I bought it of father with the I proSts I made in that Western ranch ' affair. I never felt quite satisfied about i that foreclosure business, and this is what I call restitution money." "But," cried Kitty, "the old furni- | ture ? the dear, tail clock and the high topped chairs ? ." "I managed all ^hat," saii Abiram , simply. "I sort o'lplanned to have it all -dovetailed io bji Thanksgiving Div. You see, Kitty, I kn^w rigat weil yon dpn't love ra^; bat*' for ail that, no oue can stop as from loving you an 1 work ing to make you happfc. I couldn't no how staad the idea of your betn' shut up m that kig city store yke a bird in a; ^age. Go in, Kitty, t I^on't you see your; mother waitm' for yoi^iL /? "Bat ? but you'll comX* and spenl Thanksgiving Day with us^o-raorrow, Abiram?" faltered Kitty, still lingering out under the lilac bashes, although her nand -vas tightly cla?pe<l in her mother's. "Da yon want m? to, Kitty I" "Yes, I do " "Then I'li come!" B ick to the old nearch ran Kittr. The familiar criccet still ciirpel betweea its stones; the kettie sang the same sleepy tune over toe nr?. "Oh, mother, mother,"' she gasped, | "how happy I a^n! Oa. hay cai we ever ; pay Abiran Taft back?"' \ Tne little, biaci-robsd widow smiled | as she took a pin of hot oiscuit o it of the oven and the steaming teapot I further bac i on tae stove. r; "Taere's only one way, daughter, that i know of," said she. ."Yoa're sneered at honest Abiram and laogaeJ at him fell these years, but now?" "Now," said Sarah Skerrett, turning Kitty around so that she could look full into her eyes ? "now she loves him. I can see it in her eyes. _ Ah, Mrs. ]?as son, time has taught her mora lessons than one P' t l-: And Mrs. Copley, singeing the pin feathers off a fat young turkey in the back id tehee, mused to herself. "Well, I shouldn't wonder if "that tangle came straight arter all. Me anaX Copley got engaged on ? Thanksgiving Day. It always was a l&cky time." The pleasant custom of beginning a Thanksgiving feast by laying five ker nels of corn upon the plate of each per son at tne table, in commemoration of the time when the Pilgrim founders of New England had'butrfive grains of corn each day to eat, serves, so far as it is ob served., a double purpose. It must, in the first place, render th mere physical enjoymebt of a festival keener to perceive the plain contrast be tween the fare of those hard days of the past and the plenty of the present. A little nibble at the hard kernel* of corn, with a momentary attempt to fancy that this is all one is to have, gives an added zest to roast turkey, cranberry sauce, minseund pumpkin pies and things of that sort. But the custom may also bring to mind the real meaning of the Thanksgiving festival.-/ It exptesses the conviction that afflic tion, adversity, privation are merely trials of our character, a3 a nation and as individuals. Sometimes it happens that a Thanksgiving seemB almost inappro priate. There has baen great personal loss, or some public tuhinity ; a pesti lence may have carried off thousands, or the times have been^haird for the people. ' But these things are the five grains of com upon the plate; all may be sure that the account will be much more than righted; that our debt will be much greater than all our thanks can pay, our table more beautifully .spre^l than we deserve. ? Youth's Companion. Thanksgiving Preiaf&jons. ??ST A good dinner w one of the things we generally have reason to?be thankful for, and although Thanksgiving Day means a deal of work for the ordinary house keeper, she is happy with it ail if she is making others happy. If she has .planned so that the greater share of the work can be done the dav before Thanksgiving, she as well as her company will be saved from much uneasiness. Mince pies may be baked a week betore and are reaily better for having stood a few days. Pumpkin pies are just a? good if bake! the day before they are needed. Chicken pie may also be baked tue d iy biiore and warmed over fo&dinner. Tnerc arj many little things that, taken serarateiy, do not consume much time but aitogct Vii* repay one for attending to the a th-; dav or evening before. Fruit mty be nil prepared ready to be put oa me table and set in a handy place. Vegela jlej may be washed and put in a cool pla:2 over night. Dishe3 that are only use I for company occasions should be ail ready and in a convenient place. An extra table in the kitchen. at such time> is a great help. I generally bring my handy cutting table into use. I used to think it quite an art to be able to wait upon a table gracefully, but I found that one great secret of success was to have plenty of room and go about the work quietly ? Mrs. Clay. Prjlltabie f>r Him. r*4Have we any special reasoa to give thanks?" asked Mrs. Boneser, as htr husband packed his surgical case oa Thanksgiving Day. "We have," replied the doctor, put ting in an extra roll of plaster; "we should be thankful for the invention of foot bail." \ No >'eck in Hi?. The Minister ? liWeli, my little man, ?what are you thankful for to- lay f" Bobby ? "That the Tnaakjgivia' din ner's mos1 ready." Somebody has said that if Pastern were paid a royalty on ail the money he has saved to the commercial . world he j would be the richest manr on earth.; / ? j. A Cloud oa the DIXIE NEWS. r J | The Sunny South Gleaned and Expito mized. All the News and Occurences Printed Here is Condensed Prom* Charleston, 8. CM has another savings bank? the Commercial. The mayor of Lynchburg, Va., Hon. Robert D; Yancey was married Thursday eight to Miss Rosa Faulkner. In the Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals at Richmond, B. Larey Hoge was admitted to practice in the court. The new trunk factory to be built at Petersburg, Va , will be quite a largo affair. With the most modern machin ery. ~ _ * a -v The Hebrews of Charleston and Sum ter, 8. C., are each preparing to build a synagogue. One will also be built al Charlotte, next year. Work on the Ocmulgec river is being pushed forward rapidly, and within a short time the channel will be clea* from Macon, Ga , to the sea. Congress " ap propriated 125,000 for this work last session. The Atlantic Coast Line are making" extensive improvements in its terminaV facilities at Columbia, 8: C. It intends putting in additional side-t?ck to reach industries heretofore shut off from such a convenience. Win. Mi ler, who killed Jack Witton* in Iredell County, N. C. , on the 1st, wa? convicted of murder in Iredell Superior Court this week, and sentenced to be hanged in January, but apnealed to the Suprereme Court. W It is reported that a company is being' organized to purgjjpse 20,0j0 acres of land in^Craig vf\ W, Va. This land will be dmaed iata tyn plantations for thi cultivation of su?h products as the soil i best adapted to? , A large tract will t>? set apart for sheep ana, stock raising The location will be ucar the town m Gfaig City and Xew Castle* jThe Association of Southern Cannes representing the Slates it Virginia' .North and S.uth Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Ken tucky, was organized at Savannah Tues day. A resolution was passed which will be sent to every canner in the Sou'h for signature^ protesting against the duty on tin and demanding its repeal. It is reported that a large cave, equti in size an,d beauty to thnt in Lurar, ha been discovered near Harrisonburg,' Va The discovery was made while blaslint ? for rock. Thus far twenty-four rootm have been found and further exploration will, it is thought, open manv^ more. People from all the neighboringf towns are gathering at the plac i and collec tint specimens of stalactites, some of wh ic^ are remarkable, beautiful. " THE INTER STATE COMMISSION. A Decision on~Eong and Short Hauls. WASfirxGTON, D. C. ?The inter-state commerce commission an nounced its de cision of the case brought by the Oeor?e railroad commission against the Cin cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Kailway Company, ths Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and ether railroads and stejmship lines, seven cases in all, mvoling rates for longer and short er hauls from Cincinnati and other Ohio river points, and from New York and other nor. h Atlantic ports to points in sou hern territory. Among other points the commission ho?ds that the fact of a receivership for a defendant carrier subsequent to com plaint fch uld not interfere with the pro gress o; a proceeding brought merely for the purpose of railwav regulation The phrase -common control, management or arrange in nt for continuous carriage or shipment,' in the first section of the "act to regulate commerce," wus intended to coverall interstate traffic carried through fines3 rai1 ?r poit *atei md port r"ji The competition of markets on d fftr ent hires for the sale of commodities at a given point served by both lines does not create cireumsta cesund conditions which the carriers chu take into acrount in determiniog^forlrhcftiiselves.in the first instance, wlwth?r tlsey rue justified in charging more for shortvr thau for looser distances over their line. ? Two cues were dismissed, and the others defendants are ordered to cea*e and desist from charging more to short er than to longer distance [oints njen-v tioned iu the compUiuts or file applica tions for rel ef under the proviso clatise of the fourth section aod show cause tnereon, with n a time specified. > Twin City Devastated. Winston, N. C. ? Fire was first dis c?)V. red a few minutes after midnight in the drug store of 3rown & Brown. After it was extinguished it ignited a?:iia aud spread rapidly, resulting in the destruction of nearly $300,000 worth of property. Two blocks were burned [ up by the flames, one of which is the I finest in the city, on which 6tood the , | hn'idsoroe now First National Bank | building. Betides these the tobacco ! warehouse run by Abott & Jones and I livery stable run by A. M. Simmon9. In i the latter eleven horses perished. The k>il ; w ing is an estimate of th" 1 sses by t?u .o^!^SS4'wImw; ! other conteot3, $3,000; Hanes building. 115.0 0; Brown &, Brown, drug?sts. $10,000; A. Kadden. clothiers, $5B)0, onther contents, $3,000: Buxton buud ! ing. $10,000: Rosenbanher <? Bros., i clothier?, $40,000: Pepper building, $10,000; Caldwell & Ruff, merchant?, j $15,000; B. J. Sbeppard. leaf tobacco | factory, and stock, $19,000; tobacco : warehouse and content?. $10,000; livery I stable and horses, $5,000; leaf f&ct9ry ! owned by M. Tjrogan estate. $5,000; ; brisk grist mill, $5,000, with sucdrv ] losses whictuwiH in a tot*l segregate ' i about $-300,000-; insurance foots upwards i i of $20^,000. Nearly every buijding w ill i i K? renlaeed at oucf Burning of Shenandoah College. s ST.\rsTON,f Va. ? The Sbehandoah ! Normal College at Basic City, Va . which wms burned, together with nearly all it? i fontents, was a large three-story frame s ructurc. The property was leased by Prof. G.% W. Hoenshe! who had a flour : isbing ?ehool attended bj about 100 j male :\cH female students. All esc-ifjed ! ; irj safety, thou gh macj !os> th ir rffecU. ! j Th?? l<?a i? ?.* tlA ft?W j. ol membership. asion composed of *'tj years old or ? fifty and a hua WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. V ^ What i ? Being Don* Toward# Repre tenting the South at Chicago. TENNESSEE. The schooner Mary, built by -Captain Bettes at Clifron, on" the Clinch river, to carry a floaVtg exhibit from Tennessee, has arrived in Chicago. It is loaded with products of East Tennessee, includ ing gold, silver, copper, ^xinc, fifteen kinds Of matble, onvx aajj relics ^ fiora Tennessee bittlefields. Whe route was ' down the Tennessee river to the Mississip pi, then up to the Illinois, and thence through the canal, making iu ail a voy age of 2,000 miles. SOUTH CAROMSA. s" One of the most interesting of the curios to be sent from Columbia, S. C., ?o.tJ?e, World's Fair will be a photograph which is.soid to be the fust takea in Am erica. It is the picture of Major J. G. Gibbes, and was taken December 15, t854:f when this gentleman ? bad just re turned from Paris, where Daguure had just discovered his process of photo grapliv.' It is p.inted on the cornci of an otit yellow sheet of wri.ing papar and while somewhat indistinct, the likeness can be plainly pcrceived. The W order's Central World's Fair Ciub has secured juany interesting Indian relics aud other curios which they will send, KLOBIDA. Florida'* State Luilding at Jackson Pork, Chicago, is new under construction aud \^ork on it is progressing well. Fouo da ions are finished and the frame uork for thecal Is is being put up. fcincei' is to be a reproduction of Fort Blarioo at St Augustine, its uuiquc architecture and historical associations have cau-.ed ^?t to attract as much attjeutiou as auy other State building on the grounds Commissioner Jackson will endeavor, to obtai'u at the comiug Pensacola Tobacco Fair some good exhibits of Florida grown tobacco for thk Colu ubian Exposition. By request ofc the Horticultural De partment, Mr. Plant is forward ng from * he Tampa Rxf. Hotel gardens a i arload of choice plants, and next spring will *end a larg. r number. These, with tho.'c already r. ceived or expected from the Ponce de Leon gard-ns, will make a very beautiful display. Mrs. Ellen Call Long, whose efforts to introduce silk culture in Florida haw been untiring, has had made from silk produced iu Florida an elegant American fliig, and has prerenud the 6ame to Mss I 'otter Palmer, the head of the woman't department of the World's Fair. KCNTOCKY. The appropriation msd# by the legisla ture for a Kentucky esfefliit is not yet ivailub e for the purpose intended, , Qwing to a constitutional point beinj: raised as to its legality. The commis siooe s at last advices had not deterniiuen w hat cours ; to take, auc^will prajjabl\ wait the action ol the courts. LOUISIANA. I The picture of Acadian life in Loui* i na will fonu a prominent part in the State's exhibit. At the last meetiue ol the Worn tn's Auxiliary, Mis. Paul Leeds, delegate from New Iberia, said she hoped to have the pleasant life of the Acadian <> well depict d in Chicago. One of the ro nis in the State building.will be sc! apart for this exhibit, and fitted out it ' simple fashion like the homes of the peasants, furnished with looms aud ( wheels. cards and cotton, the rep recent a tiou being completed by the woman weavers plying the shuttle. Part of tin room will be converted into a bcud u decorated with fabrics woven on the loom, and other articles for use and orna ment will be t-howu. Mrs. Preston John son hopes to get | emi ssion to use pa;: 3 of Charles Dudley Warner's articles ??n tlit.- Acadiaus, written in 18ft7, and wants to have these, together with p?rts e>f Evangeline and a skctch of the Acadian*, bound in cloth woren by these people and ornamented by their artists.' . j The c-ieule kitchen department will be in the hands of a s Ock company anu appehr as an annex to the Louisiana ; building. The contract for the construc tion of the State building has bieu let at a cost of $14.-500. The World's Fair"' Association ha3 decided to have {he grounds about the buildicg betuififuliy laid out aud embellished with ail the j plants and tree3 and shrubs typical of Louisiana The structure will be a inuiy j one, and represents an old style planta- : tioD house. with the lower story- cement i ed an-.l < rnarnerited in characteristic style. Tall columns, broid galleries and tiny panes of glass will form distinctive features of the famous mansions of day* gone by. Improved Condition. [Columbia S- C. Record. ] We hear much complaint among the farmers of short cotton crops throughout .the State, much of which is well found ed, but we a e not so bad off as one would be ltd to suppose by hearing th'-se com plains - Th-' truth i?. South Caroliua i? better off than she has b?en any veur since the war. The past twelve month# with it' low price eif cotton and burden of d'bt h?s been a blessing in disguise. Jt did wiwt,; nothing else could <iu, outl-wm c-'s to turn fr<"-rn o.tton * cultbre to "the cuiture of p rains iot Itrtste consumption, and paitiallv to^tclsidBO for ft money nop. The result is our corn cribs are ip many instances fil'ed to everfl >wing. [ aud every f*rm ia the St3te h*s m ore | i corn of h</mc pr duction that for twe - | ty rears. Mu~h in re at has b on ! rnise i than formerly. a'l <f w hich re lieves ?i= '( the necessity of sending the < monrv for. exit cotton, to ite West In thv meantime, our people have had a m ;t wholes tne lesson in economy, j With no mone. and no credit a' luc be ginning r A '0- tu' v wfe for ed lo econ omize. and n:*M v.! I Live t h*v d "i:o if: a practice they will not so<>g forge;t. Ali they want to do n-jw to increase their prosperity is to continue to diver s:fy their ei- ps Root crops are the cheapest -*toek food they c^n raise, and take the place, io many instances, of grains most admirably, c rtainij making a 6 e supplement, and the sooner they appreciate the fact the l>e-.ter. North Carolina's New Chaef Justice. Rai.eioh. N\ C - <iov r^or Holt ap pointed Jame K. rhepperd^to be Chirf Jus ice of the jSmth Carolina Suprem> j Court, to succecd August S. Merrrmon. dccea-ed. Mr: Sbepperd has fgr some j yean been Alsocu ejJus ic? of theCou t. j fie began business *iu iif< as a telegraph | operator at Wa-hiVj^ton' D. C. He studied law and-bec^ne prominent in ^rhe profession. The uuctmor has aifo ap pointed Armwtenu li-irweUJ-of Charlotte, to be Associate Justice, vice Sbepperd promoted. ' ;? j, ; j-)- i I 1 3 \ . i : r i * ELECTION ECHfljBS. Ger.pral Disciisuion of th( Po!itif*j Excitement, ^ A Full Cabinet Slat# Ma?* Wttij ?Gray, cf Delaware, for 8ecraUrjr ! of State. For the first time in the this Government women voted Cor idential electors. Wyoming has suilrnge. to, is s*id that Gov. Flower if* be Senator Hkcock'ssacceaaor, [and Ho * York Democrats 8 re of thg opinion ? th 4 hie desire bpgrtt!5e3T Hie Washington represenUtiveaOf t il Associated Press figures out the ?< rt House as follows : Democrat* 21$-. I * publicacs 120, and lOFusioaiats orWn) parry men. ^ Joha Davis, theriff-ciect of ' lit 8i If cpuuty, Texas, was killed by bialffet 4? Win. Irvin",becaus3 he said Irviu dtd wt work for bis election . A man at Bobbin. W. Va , Ate a Oft 4" ed rat iu the presence of an opera ho: tU full of people Saturday- nigbt, io'k ment of an election bet The coot called for the- eating of a raw rat but 1 Democrat allowed the Republican have it cookeck, ' r Ex<>8ecretary Whitney stated t< I Courier-Journal correspondent that tto der oo -circumstanccs would he becofl 16 fl member of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. Il he accepts any position it wlU, Jo At] probability, be that of minister to- Kog Ian J,. V South Carolina wil Wade Hampton fortli^ cretary of War ia Clevc (Jonerai Ifampton while was for years chairman* mittce, and took an active iotereft .ia affairs. _ r / .x. tj W iK?ft6TEoi, Tbs*. ?Chief Turuey, Governor elect of TtOMfl %.] lying dangerously ill at hi* home ttft this city. Judge Turnty ia onlte ft to) man. There is no prov! ?ion fee's constitution or statute* for i (or in thc-cveut of the death of <rnor- elect, and should"5 Judft die before he is inaugurated, -it ? that Governor Buchanan would hoi 1 893./* NOVEMBER CABttTCT TALK in WASOltfffinflflH W asuington, D. C.? One Of thd noat prominent and influential Demoaitsjo Congress was io the city, fcesh fax rlfaw York, where he took ad active I art In i the reeent campaign. He stood Cl we to Mr. Cleveland during the fight, ti d w<t# posted at all times about what was gofog an. To The 8un correspondent tbij Democrat, who will no# allow the use Of his name, laid to-night that hale t cbn fidout that Mr. Cleveland had gi ran serious thought "to the make uo ^jr.lsiv Cabinet,] except . so Lu a* one quae i> ' concerned. That is the naAe of Gray of Indiana, who, it is saidwlj itiveness, his already been portfolio. Much informal Cabinet) he added, haa-becn indulged in men who had been active in th< paign management, and who wSl after be consulted by the Presided und that the uames of Senator!] and Gray, WiUou S. Bissell of Gov. Pattison ol Pennsylvania, Campbell of Ohio, Gen. "Pat" C Boston, and Congressman V^ilfiam A., Hatch of Missouri would undoubtedly be/, kept in mind by Mr. Clevelaof appointment of Senator Gray ware, as Secretary of State, wc very suitable and timely one it is as it would make way for the Mr. Bayard to the Senate, wl be particularly p easing to him. I Should Mr. Bayard get Mr -Gray's seat and Mr; Carlisle go into the Cabinet, ' Mr, Bajard would pro';ably resume his old/ place aa Chairman of the Finance Comitt^e, ftbicb promotion he cannot get if Mr. Carlisle' remains a fcjerjator aud wants,1 it.: Thel gossip uf the fclatc maker* placed: Gray of-io-iana at the head of tha Interior Department and makes Campbell Pott' master General, Collins Secretary of War, Bissell Attorney General, Pattison Score- ? tary of the Navy, and Hatch Commis sioner of Agricul ufe. PREPAKATI NS FOR CLEVELAND'S IKAUO-. PRATIOK. Washington, D. C ?Already prepar ations ate under way for toe insw juration of Mr. Cleveland on March 4. It is the intention of Democratic organizations in j the larger cities to wake it more notable than aj:y similar event that has preceded it Tammmy Hall of New York, the Harrity C ub of Philadelphia, the Iro i quois Club of Chieago, and other similar j organizations have already senti represent atives to Washington to secure accommj 1 dations for their members, vho will. ' present and participate in the ev< i Estimates are heard fixing the numboj ; marcher* i? the proctsrion, tr eel " | the return of the Democratic pi power, at 50,i)00. SINNED AfMINSI THE Prof^fcsor Smith Seiioi This Charge ftt; Cisciw.vm, O. ? In JKe Sicnith heresy trial Dr. T4**ma,0, Lowe, for ^the pto|- i ecoi-lob, Professor Scslthls objec,^ tion1to,the garget. | He quoted, the ac tion of the General Assembl May last j to the eff- ct that a minister who. changes hie vic*s after ordination should leave the Church, which Christian honor re-! quired without awaiting the? tedious mo-, ceas of dUc:pline. Dr. Lowe, cohclud-i, icg. accus 1 Professor ^3irthv of* ab> against the Hoiy Ghost and! blnsphexaj. Professor Smijjh protested against bemg accused of sin ag.inst the feolir Qbost, Dr. McKibbeo -?wl he had lot been, bat Pro lessor Smith i: -iited that Lowe hvi made such riecu ration an^ asked the pres6;.teiy if t;sc committee thought him guilty of that *ia it would have bead more manly to consider it it the charges . Dr. McKibbea attempted to smooch' matters aud an Jtider demanded that Lowe make his o*n explication. Dr. | Lowe replied that Dr. M- Kibben had made it for hit?*. Th?-re \f*s much feekf inginthe di?usss>&* Sad Dro^mg. Lrxin<ttov. Va, ? N-;** hat just reach ed here of the 3rV*fuog of Gardner Drain, a young farmer of this county, jiear Co'iierst^wn. If ; hid beea attend . iA^ a con huikiri^ i "caving imbibed frwlfLbf tj'ard cs>i r Say {down on , the roadside near a Dond to sleep. On being I arouse i by ais cumpaniotn a little later,^ r jumped sudden y to his feet and spraftg ! over&jence into the pond He ntg t dirowoed ibefore.be 4could be rescue^. ' He lues ty-two y ear* ^old, 'acd be-, longed W a very weU^a^wcj twmUy i? his town. ?. ? >: v I 1