Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ftp*SCM AGAINST rsttUo aotTf*. ■k' to Bl« ■o of bow Noor He woo to Ytooory -Bo I^aoroo the Million* of A’ JarfS inunbor of pprsoiial and po- - lUical friends of Blaine ornsratletl liim At AufTtiKta, M»., on Tnosdav eveninj: •s *n expression of personal (food will and Admiration of bis conduct ot tfas natiotMl campaign. They marched through the streets under the marshal- shlp of Col Frank Nyc. When they reached Blaine's house their compli ments and friendly regards were ex- pressed In a speech by Herbert M. jlleath, of the Kennebec bar. Blaine responded as follows, his speech being continually interrupted by applause. Friends and neighbors, the national contest is oxer, and by the narrowest of margins wo have lost. 1 thank you for your call, which, if not one of joyon* congratulations, is ono I am aure of confidence and of sanguine hope for (tie future. I (hand you tor the public opportunity you k'ivo mo to express my senso of obligation not only to you but to all the Itcnuhlicaus of Maine. They responded to my nomination with genuine enthusiasm, ratified it hy a superb rote. I count it as one of the honors and gratifica tions of my public career that the party in Maine after struggling hard for the last six years, and twice within that period losing the State, lias come back in this campaign to an old fashioned 20,000 plurality. No other expression of popular confidence and esteem could equal Jhat of the people amouu whom I have iued tor thirty years and to whom 1 am 'attached by nil the ties that ennoble human nature and give Joy and dignity to life. After Maine, indeed along with Maine, my first thought is always of Pennsylvania. How can 1 fittingly express my thanks for that uuparallei- ed majority of more than 80,000 votes, an endorsement which has deeply touched my heart and .widen has, if possible, increased my afleetiou for that grand-old commonwealth, an af fection which I Inherited from my an cestry and which I shall transmit to my children. lint I do not limit my thanks to the State of my residence and the State of my birth. 1 owe much to the true and xealous friends in New . ngland who worked so nobly for the Republican party and its candidates and to the eminent scholars and divines who, stepping aside from their ordinary avocations, made my cause their cause and to loyalty to principle added the special compliment of standing as my personal representatives in the national struggle. lint the achievements for the Re publican cause in the East are even surpassed bv the splendid victories in the West. In that magnifieant cordon of Slates that stretches from the foot hill* of the Alleghenies to the golden gate of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio and ending with California, the Republican banner was borne so lofty that but a single Slate failed to join in (he wide aceiaini of triumph. Nor should I do justice fo my own feelings if 1 failed to thunk the Repub licans of tho Empire State, who en countered so many discouragements and obstacles, who fought foes from witbiu and foes from without, and who waged so strong a battle that the 'change of one vote in every 2,000 would have given us victory hi the nation. Indeed a change of a little more than 5,000 votes would have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey aim Connecticut to the Repul>- licau standard and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks would still be incomplete if I should fail to recognize with special gratitude that great body of workingmen, both native and foreign born, who gave mo their earnest sup port, breaking from old personal and paily ties and finding in the principles which I represented in the canvass, the safeguard and protection of their own fireside interests. Tho result ol the election, mv friend . will be regarded in the mture, I think, as extraordinary. Tho Northern Stales, leaving oiit tho cities of New York and Brooklyn from the count, sustained the Republican cause bv a majority of more than 400,000. Almost half a million indeed of tho popular vote of the cities of New York and Brooklyn.*!hrew their great strength and influence with tho Solid South and were the decisive clement which gave to that section tho control of the Na tional Government. Speaking now, not at all as a defeat ed candidate, but as a loyal and devot- Uiat exerted by (be same number of impress upon it from the bottr of its white people in the North. birth. To illustn the political power of the Government to the South is a great national mis fortune. It if a iniafortune, because it introduces an clement which cannot insure harmony and prosperity to the people, because it Introduces into the Republic the rule of tho minority. The drat instinct of an American is equality—equality of right, equality of privilege, equality of political power, that equality which says to every eit- • '‘Your vote is just as good, just izen: as potential as citizen. That cannot United States. the vote of any other be said to-day in the The course of anuir in the South lias crushed out the politi cal Jpower of more than a million American citizens, and has transferred it by violence to others. Forty-two Presidential electors arc assigned to the South on account of the colored population. That population, with more than 1,100,000 legal votes have been unable to chose a single elector. Even in those States wliere they have a maiority of more than 100,(W), they are oeprired of free suffrage and their rights as citizens arc scornfully trod den under fqot. The eleven State* that comprised the Rebel Confederacy had bv the cen sus of 1880 seVAAi and a half million white papulationaud 5,300,000 colored population. The colored population alifcoat to a man desire to support the system of - ▼iolew* and murder, whenever violence and Border are tbdught necessary, thev are absolutely deprived of all political powar. If the outrage stopped there it would be bad enough, but It does i there, for not only is the negro iou disfranchised, bnt the pow- whieh rightfbily and eoustituiiou- to them ia tranferred to Ration, enabling the of the South to influence far beyond ewtuewi m iiimu uueirc bU Pll| Republican party, but by a s cruel inthnldation, and by lluHtrato lust how it works to the deatructiou of all fair elections, let me present to you five States in tho laie Confederacy and five loyal Stale* of the North, possessing for each aec- tion the same number of electoral votes. In the South the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Sotnh Carolina have'in the aggregate forty-eight 'electoral votes. Thev have ju\t 2,800,fJ00 white jicople and over 8,000,000 colored peo ple. In the North the States of Wis consin, Minnesota, lown, Kansas tuid Colorado have likewise an aggregate of forty-eight electoral votes, and these have a n hlto population of 6,000,000 or just double thc’flvc Southern Stales which I have named. Tiitse Northern Slates have practically no colored pop ulation. It is, therefore, evident that the white men in ttiose Southern Stales, by ursurping and absorbing the rights of the colored men, arc exerting iust double the political power of the white men in the Northern States. I submit, my friends, that such a condition of affairs is extraordinary, unjust and derogatory to the manhood of the North. Even (hose who are vindictively opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that if Presidential elec tors are assigned to the South by rea son of the negro population, that pop ulation ought to l)c permitted free suflrage in an election. To deny that clear proposition is to affirm that the Southern white man in the Gulf States is entitled to double the political pow er of the Northern white man in the Lake States. It is to affirm that the Confederate soldier shall wield twice the influence in the nation (lint the Union soldier can, and that perpetual and constantly increasing superiority shall be conceded to the Southern white man in the Government of the Union. Tf that he quietly conceded in this generation it will hardendnto custom until the budge of inferiority will attach to tho Northern white man- as odiously as ever Norman noble stamped it upon the Saxon churl Tins subject is ofdeep interest to tho laboring men of the North. With the Southern Democracy triumphant in their States and in tiic nation, the ne groes will be compelled to work for just such wages as the whites may de cree, wages will amount, 41s did the supplies of the slaves, to a bare Mib- sisteiice^cqual in cash, perhaps, to 35 cenls |>ei\|ay, ifaveruged over the en tire South. The white laborer in the Mortis w ill soon teel the d/sti uctive effect of this upon Ids own \vnges. The Republicans have clearly seen from the earliest days of reconstruction that wages in the South must be raised to the just recompense of the laborer, or wages in tho North be ruinously lowered, and the party lias steadily worked for the former result. A re verse influence will be now set in motion, and'that condition of affairs produced which years ago Mr. Lincoln warned the free laboring men of the North, will prove hostile to their inde pendence and will inevitably lead t<> a ruinous reduction of wages. A mere difference in tlie color of the skin will not suffice for maintaining ait entirely diflurent standard of wages in con tiguous and adjacent States, ami the voluntary will he compelled to yield to the involuntary. So completely have the colored men in the South been already deprived by the Democratic party of their constitu tional and legal rights as citizens of the United States that they regard the advent of that party to national power us the signal of their re-enslavement and arc uflrighted because they think all legal protection for them is gone. Few persons in the North realize how completely tho chiefs of the Re bellion w ield I lie political power which has has triumphed in the late election. It is a portentous fact that the Demo cratic Senators who came from the States of the into Confederacy, all, and I mean all, w ithout a single exception, personally participated in tholtcbelltoH against the National Government, it is a still more significant fact that in those States no man who was loyal to the Union, no matter how strong a Democrat ho may be to-day, baa the slightest change of political promotion. The one great avenue to honor in that section is the record of zealous ser vice in the war rgainst the Govern ment. It .is certainly an astounding fact that the section in which friendship for the Union in the day of its trial and agony is still a political disqualifi cation, should bo called now to rule over the Union. All this takes place "duringHie lifetime of tiic generation that fought tiie war, and elevates into the practical command of the Ameri can Goveriuiieiit the identical men who organized for its destruction and plunged us into tho bloodiest contest of modern times. I have spoken of the South as placed by the late election in possession of the Government, and I mean all that my words imply. The South furnished nearly three- fourths of the electoral votes that de feated the Republican party and they will step to the command of the Dem ocrats as unchallenged and ns unre strained as they held tho same posi tion thirty years before the civil war. Gentlemen, there cannot be political inequality among citizens of a free Republic. There cannot be a minority of white, men in the South ruling a majority of white men in the North. Patriotism, self-respect, State pride, protection of person and safety for the country, all cry out against it. The very thought of it stirs the blood of men who inherit equality from the Pilgrims who first stood on Plymouth Rock and from the iberty-loving patriots who came to the Delcware ami William "1*01111. it be comes a permanent question of Ameri can manhood. It demands a hearing and settlement, and that settlement will vindicate the equality of American citizens in all personal and civil rights, it will, at least, establish the equality of wldte men under the National Gov ernment, awl will give to tiic Northern man who foneht to preservo the Union as large a voice in Us government as may l»c exercised bv the Southe'-ii man who fonght to destroy tiic Union. Tho contest just closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes and fate of candi dates, whether successful or unsuccess ful. Purposely, I may say instinctive ly, I have discussed the issues and con sequences of that contest without tbe remotest reference to my own defeat, without the remotest reference to the gentlemen who is elevated to the Pres idency. Towards him. personally, I have no cause for the slightest ill-w and it is with cordiality 1 .v At the conclusion of Blaine’s speech be invited tbe large crowd into, hia hojusc and fbf nearly an boor an in formal reception was held. PraM Commrata oa tka Spaaefc. ,The speech is receiving rough treat ment at'the hands of fearless raitors. The New York Herald says: Wc liclicyc that no patriotic citizen, be he Republican, Democrat, Peoples’ Parly man, or Prohibitionist, will read the speech Dlainc made at Augusta last night, without thanking God moat fervently for tho deliverance of the peopln of the United States from the danger and disgrace of haying such a demagogue and incendiary for their President. It is the first instance in which a Presidential candidate, maddened by defeat, lias tried to inoculate his conn- try with sectional passions in revenge for its choice of another man. Unless wo under-estimate the pa triotism of the people, North and South, they will greet it with suah scornful anger every wliere that it will be the last instance, as well as the first, and no future disappointed mis creant will dare defy the warning. In the civil war one great crime was attempted, which lionprublo beiiger- ents on either side regal’d with unatii mods horror. Wc mean tho attempt to inoculate tiic country with yellow fever. Rut it pales in wickedness be side Blaine's attempt to inoculate the country with sectional passions, to tear open the healed wounds of the Rebellion, to permeate the North with a sense of humiliation from the elec tion of Governor UlevclaiitFto the Presidency, to infect freedom with the fear of re-enslavement, to inspire white workmen with the dread of the freed- inen’s competition in their fields of labor, and to impeach the sincerity of thc fflteghm^eof nil Southern white men. \ No rebuke nftoo severe for this vil lainous speech, and the shame of it is aggravated by the fact that ft was ns deliberate as if is dastardly. Blaine’s words arc not un unpremeditated har angue of Itof temper. They are tho studied utterance of cold-blooded ma lignity. Since he cannot rule he would ruin. He would . cprso his' country with jcaioasy, and discord, and misery, because lie himself is jealous, discord ant and miserable. ' But we bolievpHint* there is small danger of harm from' Such words as his at this day. "We'have faith that evil he would wreak upon his connt'ry will be visited on bis own head. If (lie Republican party docs ubt unload itself of Blaine after this speech, it will add damnation to defeat. Tho YVmrx.comments after this man ner: i Blaine took the occasion of a sere nade at Angustalast evening intended us a personal compliment bv tus towns men to deliver the most bitter and mischievous sectional speech that has been heard in the North for many a day. » An honest defeat seems to have ex- tiiiguished all the generous sentiment which he professed to have when lie penned his letter of acceptance, or rather it shows that the letter was paraded in the hope of winning South ern votes, and having failed in that lie shows ids real teinjier- He belittles the Northern influence that contributed to bis defeat and treats the result as a transfer of the control of the government to the South which, lie professes to believe, is fraught witii misfortune to the coun try. Ho shows no conception of the principle that the Government belongs to the people of the whole country and not to a party or section. He endeav ors to revive old antagonisms and hatreds and to inflame the fears of the Southern negroes. A more unpatriotic, mischievous and bitterly sectional and narrow spirit than Blaine exhibits in defeat is incon ceivable, and adds another to the many causes of congratulations that the country lias been saved from an ad ministration dominated by such a spirit. " Tiic World writes: There is little that is new in his voice from the valley 0/ humiliation The American people have heard re cently about all that he has to say of the danger of admitting the South to a full participation in the affairs of the Government, and about all that he is able to say on the subject of protecting our industries. ~ • The verdict pronounced against him has been emphatic. He lias been told that lie is not wanted. He has been told that ids stories about tiic Southern people arc slanders, and if lie had more sensibility and just a shade of personal pride lie w'ould have quickly subsided when the fiat was pronounced against him. Blaine seems determined, however, to leave nothing nndonc to prove that lie is entitled to the contempt of- all true friends of the Republic. His im placable speech may disturb and dis quiet tiic poor negroes of the South, but the country will see in it only the cowardly rancor of a defeated candi date and relegate it to the limbo of tin helmets, .shrivelled plumes and other discarded campaign properties. A Haitian niva on Fire. Havkrhiix, Mass., November 20.— The Britkett building at the corner of Washington Square and Emerson street, comprising KMrcral stores in the basement, the Crai|liton House, Mrs. Clark, proprietress, and several board ing houses in the rooms above, was burned this morning. The fire origi nated in the hotel and quickly spread to the roof from the stories above. The hotel had twenty-nine inmates, who barely escaped with their lives. Several tied their bed clothes together and camo down on the outside, of the building. One man was badly cut by sliding down on a telephone wire. A baby was tied up in a sheet, and thrown to the fire-men. Katie Gilmartin and Josie Branahan jumped from the fourth story window, and the Gilmartin girl received fatal injuries, while the other girl was seriously hurt. The origin of the fire is unknown. Varthar AeMturta of tfe* Mysterious nqHWkt IMaMtes !• tho MoMMalas. LYNpiBuitG, Va., November 20.— Tho cOontiea suffering from the new and fatal disease,, before reported, are Leo and Dickenson, and the fedge of Hcott, in Virginia, and Hariand, Lee and adjoining comities in Kentdeky. Owing to tbe isolated position of the district particulars are hard to obtain. Hundreds are aaid to have died, and, allowing for exaggeration, it can be affirmed that the mortality is large. Postal- Clerk Wells, who has just ar rived from that section, after having had tiie disease, gives a sad account of the epidemic.^ lie attributes it to min eral poison in tho waters of the drought-dried wells, and says that a strong and disagreeable mineral taste like that of copjieras exists. At the time he left but few’ springs were flow ing freely and the pcoplo were com pelled to drink this impregnated water. Although the name of the disease is unknown the people call it cholera, and were it so it could not be more dreaded or disastrous. The symptoms are described as similar to those of Asiastic cholera, followed by terrible hAnorrhages in tbe bowels, and those attacked either die or recover in about a week. It is frequently fatal in twen ty-four hours and sometimes even in a much shorter period. In most in stances it visits an entire family, and it is considered so contagious "that in some cases persons die alone, their friends being afraid to go to them. There are no figures representing the actual mortality, but it is estimated that over three hundred have perished in the Virginia counties named, and considering tiic sparse population and the number taken, the percentage is large. ^ At tiie late election, tiie num ber of deaths considerably affected the majorities at various precinct*, and thirty new graves were counted in a small cemetery. As one result the pooplo are demoralized, and local busi ness interests suffer. A like scourge visited this section in 18o£. The coun try, whjch is extremely mountaiuoirs, is of high elevation above the level Of the sea. Cattle are »lso dying in the same section. General rains have fallen in this State for two (fays pai-t, and it is probable that tlw drought in the infected region is now ended. PiTTSBima, November 21.—A special to the Post from Charlestown, W. Va., says: Information received here from Perryville, McDowell Conutv, in this State, near tiic Virginia border, gives a frightful account of the ravages of the so-called cholera in the extreme southwestern counties of Virginia and adjoining territory of Kentucky. Making every allowance for exag- ur.Uiou tiie loss of life lias already 11 appalling, while the couditkm of the survivors is terrible in the extreme. No rain lias fallen in the Oumberland Mountains, in w Inch the infected dis- tiict is situated, for four months, the drought vutailing not only the almost total failure of the crops, but tho' cut- tlng otf of the supply of water over a wide area. Difficulty was experienced in obtain ing water for the stock as early as the middle of August in some localities, but 110 actual sutl'eriug occurred among tbe inhabitants until about the cud of September, when, the ordinary sources of supply having for the most |*art failed^ tin) mountaineers were compell ed in order to sustain life to obtain water for household purposes from what were known as “poison mineral’’ springs in (lie monnfaiii, or from the small amount remaining in deep holes in the beds of creeks. The persistent use of this water soon developed n peculiar disease, as deadly as Asiatic cholera in its nntura, which has since raged with terrible fatality over half a dozen counties in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Tbe loss of life thus far is variously estimated at from 400 to 800. Among children and adults well up in years the mortality lias been greatest, but no class lias been - exempt. In a number of instances, especially among the folks of McLean’s Greek, • tributary of the Big Saudv River, and in the valley of the Powell River emptying into’the Tennessee River, whole families have perished, while in numerotu other cases but one or two memberg of the household sur vive. Few recover from the disorder, sixty to eighty per cent, of those at tacked dying, this being accounted for bv tho fact that pure water is still un obtainable and tnnt proper food and medical attendance cannot be had. The drviug np of (lie streams has ne cessitateu the stoppage of numerous small grist mills along the mountain valleys, and tha population for the most part appears to be in the most abject want and misery. The locality is almost inaccessible to the outside world, there being no railroad within many miles. What tha Laeal Pap«rs Say. Lynchbubo, Va., November 21.— Tiie local papers in tbe counties visitet with the ratal scourge make only brief mention of its ravages, but further in formation shows that tbe former re ports were not exaggerated. The Gaysvilie, Wise County, Times says that 150 deaths have^occurrcd in that county. The disease has spread over a considerable section, but is worse in Wise, Lee, Buchanan and Dickenson counties. Rains have fallen there in tiie last two days, and the water sup ply, which was very foul and which was supposed to have been the cause of the trouble, has been replenished, and the disease is reported to be abating. Physicians describe it as acute typhoid dysentery. Aid tor the Sufferers. St. Louis, November 21.—In the Cattlemen’s Convention to-day a col lection of $1,200 was taken up for the sufferers by the drought in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, and turned over to Col. Hunter for trans mission to Messrs. Jubal A. Early and Charles W. Britton, of Lynchburg, Va. MX MAJOBITtf. Tbs Vote of the Palmetto State-Clereland’* Maturity Over AS.OOO. [Special to ths Sunday Nem.] . * COLumtA. November 22.—An ex amination of tbe electoral vote of tbe State, aa tabulated, bnt not. yet de clared bv the State board of canvas sers, giving the following results: MV. W. C. Beuet, Gen. W. L. T. Prince and Col. J. D. Blanding, of tbe Democratic electoral ticket, each re ceived 69,890 votes; tbe Hon. John L. Manning received 69,889 votes; Geh. B. H. Rutledge 69,881; Mr. Isaac M. Bryan 69,845; Col. Robert Aldrich 69,772; the Hon. John E. Bacon 69,- 764, and Gen. John D. Kennedy 69,- 690. The Republican-Independent candi dates for electors received the follow ing votes: W. D. Crum, 21,730; W. D. Durham, J. C. Hunnicutt and J. E. Wilson, 21,681; C. C. Turner and F. II. Clinton, 21,580; W. W. Russell and Thomas Baskins, 21,579, and M. II. Collins, 21,551. Comparing the vote for Gen. W. L. nn Prince, one of the three Democratic electors receiving the highest vote, with that for Dr. W. D. Crum, the Republican-Independent candidate for elector, receiving the highest vote, there is the following result by coun ties : I Prince. Crum. Abbeville 3,638 7« Aiken .1*865 481 Anderson :....2,719 137 Ham well 3,247 1,034 Berkeley ...1,231 1,870 Beaufort 251 2,044 Charleston : 3,054 941 Chester 1,858 350 Chesterfield ,...1.508 355 Clarendon 1,2fW 560 Colleton..-. 1,891 818 Darlington 2,669 750 Edgefield 3,673 307 Fairfield 1.808 197 Georgetown 270 805 Greenville . 3,439 441 11.1111111 *. 11 1,007 581 Horry ..,.1,311'- 379 Kershaw 1,400 407 Lancaster. 1,780 557 Laurens 2,098 50 Lexington 1,835 304 Marion • 2,890 907 Marlboro 1,707 455 Newberry 2,121 325 Oconee 1,182 212 Orangeburg... 3,000 * 1,704 Pickens 1,320 404 Richland 1,701 870 Sumter rrrrrtfr. 1,085 925 Spartanburg 2,938 423 Union 7^., 2,302 124 Williamsburg 992 741 Yark...' ...2499 832 21,730 09,890 Gen. Prince’s majority 48,160. A comparison of the vote for the Democratic and Republican-Independ ent candidates for elector receiving the lowest number of votes shows the following result: Gen. J. D. Kennedy, (Dem.)... .09^90 >L II. Collins, (Rep.-Iml.) 21,551 Gen. Kennedy’s majority 48,1161 This is but 21 votes loss than General Prince’s majority. There were 1,237 scattering voles for electors al large, and 1,001 scattering voles for other electors. These votes cannot be classified according to party. The returns of the election for State and county officers in Horry county have not been received yet, and the board of State canvassers have ad journed to rc-asscnible on Monday afternoon, when it is hoped that the result for the whole State may be do dared. -will, wish that bis official career mav prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to tbe country, mid that Ms Administra tion mav overcome tbe etoberrossmeut express the Scrofula ever known. You need not taka Kcr*feila. Are any member* of your family thus afflicted? Have they scrofulous swellings of the glands? MVe they any scrofulous sore* or ulcers? IT so. and it should be neglected, tiie peculiar taint or poison, may deposit itself in the substance of the lungs, nroducing consitmition. Look well to the condition of your family, and if thu* afflicted, give the proper remedy with out delay. But use Uiat which makes abso lute cures in the shortest space of time. The unerring finger pf public opinion points to B. B. B. as the most wonderful remedy for our word—you need not know our names— merit is all you seek. Ask your neighbors, •sk your druggist ask or write to tboee who give their certificates and be oonvlnoed which tb* iwcalitr ^cTlu^ The east of tha Campaign. New York, November 20.—Messrs. Bariniin and Smalley, of the Demo cratic National Committee, wore to gether at an up-town hotel to-day. They were auditing a limited number of bills yet remaining and closing up other matters of business incident to the campaign just closed. The total amount of money received by tbe Democratic National Committee was $333,000, and of thia sum $52,000 was received tbronfih tbe popular campaign fund in amounts of less than $500. Tbe National headquarters will be en tirely vacated to-morrow. —Arthur Clark, steward of the brig from Port Simon, Coau Rica, died in a hospital in N$V York from yellow fever on Tlmrsdnr. There is no fear of tbe diaeaae apraadinf* aged thirty-two. Alene, just arrivea 2o*U Rica, “A Mingle Fact is W orth a fthip-l.oad of Argamrnt. n Mr. W. B. Lathrop, of South Easton Mass., under date of Jan. 7, 1884, says “My father had for years an eating cancer on his under lip, which hat been gradually growing worse until it had eaten away his under lip down to the gums, and was feeding itself on the inside of bis cheek, and the sur geons said a horrible death was soon to come. Wc gave him nine bottles of Swift’s Specific and he has been entire ly cured. It has created great excite ment in this section.” TwIMed Honrn. Mr. J. R. Stewart, of Macon, Ga., a well known and trustworthy gentle man, makes the following statement: “My son, who was between'three aut four years old, was all drawn up with rheumatism. His hones were twisted, and ho was all doubled out of shape He suffered intense pain, bad lost his appetite, was cross and fretful. He was reduced to a mere skeleton, am had to be carried about on a pillow. As these cases of rheumatism, wliere the bones were twisted and the joints, were all crooked, hud for years baflioc the skill of the most eminent physi cians, I determined to use Swiff’s Specific, as I had seen testimonials from men whom I knew to be trust worthy, of similar cases it had cured. I used two large size bottles of S. S. S. according to directions, with the most satisfactory results. My son com menced improving with tho first dose of the medicine. His sufterings dimin ished daily and his nppatite increased; he became cheerful and in good spirits. Gradually he regained use of his limbs, the twisted bones and joints straight ened out and in less than two months he was entirely cuted, and could walk and get about as well as any child of his age. Beware of imitations of Swift’s Specific, gotten up by unprincipled parties to deceive the public; some of these frauds bear the lie on their faces purporting to be vegetable remedies, when they arc really nothing . but strong solutions of mercury and potash. Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free to applicants. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. New York Office, 159 W. 23d St., between Gth and 7tli Ave nues. Philadelphia Office, 1200 Chest nut St. ' • Jotiflabl* Homicide. Jackson viLMc, Pea., November 22.— A special to the Times-Union, from Madison, says: “On Wednesday night a negro broke into the house of n widow and daughter, living in the out skirts of this city, and attempted to outrage them but was defeated in his purpose and ran. Arniste&d Williams a negro, was arrested on suspicion and lodged in jail.' To-day he was identi fied as the author of (he outrage. This afternoon several hundred people went to the jail, broke it open and shot Williams, kiHing him instantly. To anybody who has disease of throat or lungs, we will send proof that I’lw’s Cure for Consumption has cured the saline com plaints In other cases. Address, • E. T. IIazeltine, Wairen, Pa. .XBX MX.# X02t& (tmctAL C(Ui&T. Ail Apparent Dlacrepanefen in Ketnrus AatlatoctarUjr JBxplalncd aad-theOfBelal Declaration to bo Made To-Uajr. Albany, November 20.—Jbc State Board of Canvassers met at 4 o’clock thia afternoon. Ex-Senator Conkliug was present for a few minutes. A protest to tho effect that titty-four greeu electoral ballots bad been cast in Delaware covnty for the Republican electors was read, and on motion of Attorney-General O’Brien was ordered to be entered in the proceeding*, and the return was passed us received. The Kings county return showed a slight discrepancy, but this was ex plained hy the countv clerk and the return was passed. The discrepancy in the Richmond county return was explained by Comity Clerk Cornelius A. Hurt, ile presented the original tally sheets and stated-tbat the error in tho return before the Board was owing to un omission on the part of the copyist to insert the names and votes of two Butler electors. The mistake was not apparent in the sepa rate footings, appearing only in the totals, and a comparison of the origi nal with the statement transmitted to the Board verified his account. On motion of Attorney-General O’Brien, which was unaiiinionsly adopted, the clerk was permitted to correct the return. All the returns have been received and a tabulated statement will be ready for Signature to-morrow noon, to which hour the Board ad journed. RHEUMATISM AlUKragU a practitioner of near twenty years, my mother Influenced me to procure B. B. B. for her. She had been confined, to her bed aevcral months with Rheumatism which had atnbbornly resisted all the usual remedies. Within twenty-four hours after commencing B. B. B. I observed marked relief. She has Jnst commenced her third bottj^ and Is nearly as active as ever and has been m the front yard with “rake in hand,” cleaning np. Her improvement is truly wondeiful and immensely gratifying. C. H. MONTGOMERY, M. T). Jacksonville, 4|a., June S, 1S84. KIDNEY TROUBLE For over stk years I have been a terrible sutlcrer from a troublesome kidney complaint, for the relief of which I have spent over $»0 without benefit; the most noted so-called remedies proving failures. The use of one sin gle bottle of B. B. B. has been marvelous, giving more relief than all other treatment combined. It is a quick cure, wmle others, It they cure at all, are In the distent lutnre. C. n. ROBERTS, Atlanta Water Works. Scrofula. Dr. L. A. Guild, of Atlanta, who owns a large nnrsery and vineyard, has a lad on his place who was cured of a stubborn ease of Scrofula, with one single bottle of B. B. B. Write to him about the case. Frank Joseph, !M5 Jones street, Atlanta, has a son who had * sloughing, scrofulous ulcer of the neck, and had lost his hair and eye-eight, finding no relief. One bottle of B. B. U. healed the nicer, eradicated the poison from his blood, restored his eye-sight, and placed him on the road to health. A book filled wth won-ierfnl proof from the very best class ol citizens, and recommends, tlcns from the leading Drug Trade of Atlanta, mailed free to any address. B. B. B. only a year old and is working wonder*. Laigebot- blell.OOor six Tor $5.oo. Sold by Druggists Expressed on receipt of price. BLOOD Balm <.t>, Atlanta, Ov E. W. FEIllIYAE. - o o * 0T' FMEHD. NO Mere Terror! No More Pain! No More Danger' ,fm TO This invaluable prep aration is truly a tri umph of scientific skill, and no more tn^ estimable benefit was over bestowed on the mothers of the world. It not only shortens the time of labor and lessens the intensity of pain, but, better than all, it greatly diminishes the danger to life of both mother and child, and leaves the mother in a condition highly fa vorable to speedy re covery, ana far less liable to flooding, con vulsions, and other alarming symptoms incident to lingering aud palnfftl labor. Its truly wonderful effica cy in this respect en- jtitles tiie Mothers’ iFrif.no to be ranked as one of tiie life-sav ing appliances given to the world by tiic. discoveries of modem science. From the nature of the case it will of course be understood that wc cannot pub- dish certificates con- [ceming this Remedy [without wounding tho is„ c Jdeilcacy of the writers, and East Yet we have Hundreds of such testimonials on file, and no mother —to— w i 10 lias once used it will ever again be without it in her time Suffering Woman of trouble. Mother or Child. The DreoU of Motherhood Transformed to HOPE end JOY. A prominent physician lately remarked to the proprietor, that if it were admissible to make public the letters we receive, the “Mothers’ Friend" would out sell anything on the market. Sc.inl for our Treatise on “Health and Happiness of Woman, - ’ niaited fsee. Buadfieu) Kegu.atou Co., - Atlanta, Ga. NEW ADVKKTLSKMENTS. EC I It S II A n’H IMIMtOVF.O STANDARDTURBINE I- ll\c h^sl coi.s ru' tcfl and llu- KluxL glvi ■ibcll'-r perrentage more power und I* sold Tor le-.* Hinney, p-’r Imrse power, than urn oilier Turbine In tho '• irld. _: u—n-w pamphlet sent. uxil AM HKON., York, P». GOOD W O K K. jy 9 DOOR.S. DOORS, i DOORS. SASH S.VS1I sash I -o o Prompt -O LOW P KICKS.. j O ** BUNDS, f BLINDS. BLINDS. , o 1 . Shinmen t. \ O- Tliming. Moulding, Brae cG, Mantels. '«« n v \ g *22 to ST'kl.E* UiUl \ .\ O N»oo Illgui s Uotmfe at hII grett World** Exhibitions ur .■.-vr-itefn years imlv American Organ* •w.ul -d ucli at at*;, F.,r i .ish. easy pajmcula or rear 1 d. Upright Pianos iTr-enlUaM-erj lilx!ir*>t excellence jet Rttninri! in such lav rumen Is, adding to all prcvimur irrpinrenients one nr greater value th in .i’i.v, . urine'mod.pure, refined, mualcnl liir.f - and Increased duraulllty, especially avoid- tng liability to get out ot tune. Illiistraied catalogue irro. JIummi St Hamlin Plan* and Organ <’o^ Boston, i vt Tr* ment St„ N. York. +« E. Utk St., t uicago, UD Wabash Ave. Fate's Tonic Send fur Price List. -< > E. W. PEUMVAL. MEETING NEAR LINE STREET, - Charleston, S.-C-. FALL OPENING. DRESS GOODS. SILKS, PLUSHES, Satins, I,aces, C«>r-eLs, Gloves, White Goods, Table Damask. Ladies’, (Jents’ and Children's Fine* Shoes, Boots snd Bootees. Also, Gents', Youths', Bovs' and Misses’ Hats. — Also?* Gents’ Underwear, Carpets aud Millinery. KT. JOHN'S- KEWING MACHLV i>. Orders bv mail i..vit<*d. DESPORTES At KDMCN'PS, Columbia, s. C. July 2:f-iJ5in A I’url* Family Jletliriue That Sever Intoxicates. If .you h .vo Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Kidney or 1 rlri iry ( omplulnt.*. nr If you aru troubled with aiir dnorder of the lungs, stomach, bow el-, W .'*11 or nerves you can be cured by PamUii's Tonic. , CAUTION!—Refuse all substitutes, barked Tnul Is composed of th" best rem dial iemM* in the wnrid, and 1* entirely different from nrepanmn-ns-of gjiisrcT alone. Send tor circu lar. HI8COX & T'O., IH.'t Yl iiliHiu Ntroct. Xew York. SOc- Aiid tl tdz"s. at dealers In [indlclae. Great saving In buy lug dollar size. Nova-MW Geo. S. Hacker & Son, — MANUFACTURERS OF— Doors Snsli, IHiiuls and Duildiu# Material. ( HARLEMTffUr, fe. C’. OPIUfc] Bstnra to oa with ayouU get by A GUI Dill 901 V 00099 . , In One Month, _ a\b?vjJUit»'< Vrt*lntr. f Your&tf ,173 Greenwich St.N\ Yodt * WHISKY f I \T* J T> cured m( liouK* without |>aln. I»ook of imrliPuhii A Ht-nt It. if. ‘A OOLLKY.M. !>.,Atlanta,Ga. Buy to dm. A certain cure. Not expen.V.ve. Three month*’ treatment in oi ~ ‘ “ to toe Head, H \ Fifty centa. one package. Good for Cold he. Dizziness. Hay Fever, Ac. LI all Dru| Brists, or by mail. T. HAZFXTINK, Warren. FA i Prices Low and Material First-Class. —The commander of the French forces in Tonqnin telegraphs that the Chinese had made a vigorous attack on French fimboat* along the river Claire, aod one sailor was killed and eight W«i« wounded.