The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 16, 1893, Image 1
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The Truth Of History.
The State.
No one who has truly known Wade
Hampton would believe that in the
contest over the election of 1870, or
at any other time, he did aught to
incur just reproach; but there are
many beyond the limits of this SState
who have been led, by the reiteration
of certain newspapers, to imagine
J hat thoro was a bargain by which
yhe Federal troops were withdrawn
irom soutn uuroitna as the price of
a surrender of Mr. Tilden's interests
in the electoral college.
We had this in mind when, in
commenting upon a repetition of
this story by a Charleston correspondent,
we asked Gen. Hampton to
write the true history of that time.
Since then, the New York Sun has
repeated the accusation.
Gen Hampton, in the following
jfletter and the statements attached
to it, settles the question in the most
decisive manner, lie says no more
than sum es to vindicate himself?
lie could say much more if he wish
ed. The proofs are absolute, however,
and will make him even more
honored for his course in those trying
days than he has ever been.
To the Editor of 7'he State: Recently
there appeared in your paper
a letter signed Win. G. Hay lies, in
which the writer uses the following
language:
' Is it not a fact that Gen. Hampton,
Gen. Gordon and others, actintj
for Samuel ?/. Tildea, made a bar
gain in Columbia, in which they
(njreed with the Republican representative*
that South Carolina's vote
suouiu oe.couiitea lor Hayes, if lie,
Hayes, through his present repre
sen tat ires, would hind himself to
withdraw the Federal soldiers from
South Carolina and turn the State
tover to the Democracy? Hampton
knows his is true, and ho knows the
bargain and the sale of the honest
vote of South Carolina."
Perhaps it would have been unnecessary
to notice the charges made in
the letter just quoted had not the
New York Sun, in its issue of the
28th ult.' seen fit to announce what
it calls, "Wade Hampton's Fmlogy
of Fraud," "a bargain made beforehand
between Hayes and Southern
Democrats of the type of Wade
Hampton,'' the political selfishness
of certain Southern Democrats like
Wade Hampton," and to assert that
in the gubernatorial election of 187C
the Republican candidate received a
majority of 3,433 on the face of the
returns. In view of this it is well to
nail the false charges contained in
Haynes' letter to the counter at once
and forever.
Fortunately for the truth of his
tory and for myself, the most eouclu
sive proofs to do this are at hand,
and these shall bo produced. During
the exciting time pending the
decision as to the result of the presidential
and gubernatorial elections,
two distinguished Democrats, Hon.
John B. Gordbn and Gen. Bradley
T. Johnson, wero in Columbia at the
request of the National Democratic
Committee, to look after the intertJts
of the.Democratic party, I sent
Baylies' letter to both of them, and
their replies are subjoined. After
the testimony given by these gentlemen,
it is not necessary for me to
say anything in disproof of the false
charges made against me; and I only
add that Gen. Johnson gives my
exact words in answer to the only
proposition ever made to me by any
lie publican represen tati ve.
Allow me a few words showing
the ignorance of the tSun as to the
election laws of South Carolina.
The vote for Governor at each election
precinct is publicly counted, as
soon as the polls close, bv the managers
and their clerk at that precinct,
*~\and they make and sign a statement
)bf the result. The managers of election
in their respective counties make
out the returns of the election for
Governor in duplicate, and file one
conv with the clerk of the court of
w
the county. This is an open public
record, required to be filed, us open
public records are, in the office in
which records intended for general
public information are usually filed.
They seal up the other copy and
transmit it by mail to the seat of
government, directed to the Secretary
of State, who shall deliver it to
the House of Representatives at the
next session of the General Assembly;
) ^and the Speaker opens and publishes
the returns in the presence of both
Houses. The Board of State Canvassers
have nothing whatever to do
with the vote for Governor. They
are not authorized to canvass the
vote for Governor, and they did not
assume tovdo bo.
My majority 011 the face of the
returns duly sent and received by tho
Republican Secretary of State and
certified by him, was 1,134 votes.
Throughout the whole controversy,
before the Board of State Canvassers
and the courts, these two propositions
wero held alike by the Repub
CO>
lican and Democratic candidates for
Governor, and their counsel. The
controversy was on other lines and
ahout other issues.
The truth of these propositions is
known tc all who took part in the
proceeding, and becomes patent to
all on the slighest acquaintance with
the history of tho proceedings, in
ami out of tin* Supreme Court, with
the Constitution of the State, or the
reports of the trials.
I hopo that tho Sun, however
much we may differ in our estimates
of the couduct of the candidates for
the Presidency, will do me the justice
to correct its mistakes, and to
admit that 1 never entertained the
idea of sacrificing the chosen leader
of the Democratic party.
The following letters, bearing on
the matters charged against me, will
throw additional light upon tliem.
Yours very respectfully,
\vadk hampton.
washington, l>. o.
To the Editor of The State: On
my return from Georgia my attention
was called to an article in your
paper of recent date, under the heading,
"Was Tilden Sacrificed?"
Your statement was entirely true,
that our correspondent "is greatly
in error" in charging that Gen. Wade
Hampton made a bargain to have the
vote of South Carolina counted for
Mr. Hayes in consideration of having
the Federal soldiers withdrawn
and the State government turned
over to the Democrats. It is not
only true thai (Jen. Hampton made
no such bargain, but he made no
bargain of any character, nor consented
to anv arrangement looking
to the possibility of sacrificing Mr.
Tilden's right of claim to the vote of
South Carolina.
1' wai my fortune to be in South
Carolina duringa portion of the memorable
campaign of 18?G, and to
remain in Columbia at the request
of the National Democratic Com
mitteo and ot South Carolina Democrats,
during the exciting scenes
which followed, and I know of my
own knowledge that (Jen. Hampton
positively refused to entertain for an
instant any such suggestion.
The charge is without a shadow
of foundation. I repeat, that no
such bargain was made or contemplated,
and no such suggestion entertained
for a moment, either by
Gen. Hampton or by any one or more
of the Democratic counsellors as
sembled at Columbia. It remains
only to add that the whole story is
an unmixed falsehood in all its parts
and in every particular.
llcspeet fully,
J. B. Gounox.
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 1.
Gkn. Wade Hampton.
Dear General: 1 recollect perfectly
the facts about the proposition to
swap the State vote for the State
government.
I telegraphed full accounts of
everything that transpired every day
to the Richmond State, Baltimore
Gazette and New York Herald. 1
have those contemporaneous accounts
before me now. .Judges Denny and
Settle, who represented the Republican
National Committee at Columbia,
proposed to you, in the presence
of Gordon and myself, that if you
would say to the crowd that came to
your headquarters every night that
you believed Jlaycs had carried the
State, then the State government
should be turned over to you. You
promptly replied that Gordon and
.Johnson should go over the returns
with an expert, Denny and Settle
being along, and that you would announce
the result as certified by all
of us. To this Settle replied, laughing:
"Oh, we have hal our game
with that pack, and hive thrown
them away.1' You then saiu; "I will
not make such a declaration to be
President of the United States."
These were your exact words, and
they can be founJ reported over my
signature 111 the Richmond State of
December 4, 1870. That day was a
stirring day in Columbia.
Yours truly,
BllADLKY T. .foilNSON.
Wo have been permitted to see another
letter from Gen. Johnson to
Gen. Hampton, recalling memories
of those days, and take the liberty of
making these extracts from it:
"The morning the Rille
Glut,s were ordered to Columbia
yon had only to raise your band
and Roger's garrison would havo
been swept off the face of the earth.
But you held them back, and
I know no more remarkable illust
ation of moral force than your control
and their obedience?honorable
to both. You had only to say, "There
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...V-J MIC Uinu I1CII11 HIIU tn? IlI'lMg
on Sumter would have been repeated.
* * I remember the great meeting
before the Democratic headquarters
at Columbia the day it was attempted
to pack the State House with
roughs. I remember how the wires
were hot that night with orders to
the clubs to report at once, and how
bv 9 a. m. we had 2,600 old soldiers
of the Army of Northern Virginia
on the spot, and by sundown there
wore 5,000 of them?and then they
4Bo True to
rWAY. s, T
wore all brought up before the
headquarters, and your speech was
to this effect:
"T am glad to see you all here,
come to see the State Fair. There is
very good stock out there, and I hope
you will all go to see it, and be very
particular to behave in an or
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UVJ I j IIIIU <| II IV ( mil lll'l I. M.llll WMI
nil to ieniembor that 1 have been
elected Governor of South Carol inn,
and by the God above I intend to btj
Governor! Go home and rely on that,
I'll send for yon whenever I want
you.'
"That speech, and the yell that
responded to it, made you Governor
add no huckstering for advantages,
110 trading for benefits, was part or
cause of your success. Let South
Carolina and South Carolinians remember
until the last syllable of recorded
time that manliness and courage
bore tier through the ordeal ol
1870, ten thousand times more try
ing than Cornwallis' or Tarleton'f
raids or Sherman's dragomide.
"No man or woman or child will
ever blush for the means by whicl:
the redemption of South Catolimi
was achieved, but will always say
with crest erect and face to heaven
'My blood was there?.my peoph
took part in that heroic achievement.'
With these glowing words, so tnu
and so worthy to be remembered, wt
can close tho record of how \Vad<
Hampton won!
TILLMAN'STOI'IOItS IN A FIX
No 1 >isi>ons;ii-ies jit Which t<
Slake flieii* 'l'lilrst
Columbia, February 5.?Special
The Prohibitionists and Good Tern
plars are working on the freeholder!
to avoid having dispensaries. The
liquor men are disconcerted, and dc
not kuow'exactly what to do. Tin
scoie wf candidates who want tin
appointment of State commissions
are working the "wires" to get t in
plum. Tlie religions papers ar(
trying to prevent the signing of pe
titions for dispensaries. The Prohi
bitionists will in a few days issue j
pronuncianumto defining ttieir position
and outlining their plan of action
for the future.
The Administration is getting its
coders ready to receive the 11101103
which it expects will begin to poui
into them on about .Inly 1. 189J
The prospective candidates for county
dispensers have, it. is understood
tried in vain to get petitions for dis
pensaries sighed by a majority of tin
freeholders in the county town ii
which expect to "dispense" liquor
The neighboring distillers are per
haps getting their long distance road
cart in condition for use after the
1st of July.
It really is not such a long time
before the day for the Evans dispen
sary law to go into effect, and every
one is curious to know what is being
done about it. The State authori
ties have to wait 'and see what the
liqor men and teetotlers are doing.
Notwithstanding the advice ol
Governor Tillman to acept the situation
and do the best they could
with the dispensaries, the Prohibitionists
are not inclined to sign the
petitions.
The liquor men are still looking
atound, so it is said, and have no!
vet mapped out their plan of action
The selection of counsel is being
left to the Charleston members ol
the association, and whoever thev
select will be acceptable to the othci
dealers, as their interests are the
largest. It is expected that counsel
will be selected from Columbia
Greenville, and perhaps other sec
tions of the State.
Governor Tillman has for the pas!
few days been so busy with other
matters that he has not had time tc
think about the successor of hit
Anderson appointee. The appointment
will hardly be made for n
month or so, unless Governor Tillman
changes his mind.
A Stampede ol Medical Students'
St. Kouis, Feb. 7.?A sensation
was createcFto-day by the announcement
that the eight/ studonts atten.
ding the college of I'hysioians and
Surgeons, at the corner of Jefferson
avenue and Gamble street, had left
for home, on account of the sudden
death of three students. The excitement
was intensified by a reporl
that the deaths were caused by what
is feared is typhus fever. The dead
are George Heron of Western Kentucky,
died Friday; Fred H. White
of San Antonio, Tex., died this mor
ning and David 15. Brown of thif
city, this afternoon. The students
were attacked by symtorns which
the physicians were unable to ascribe
to either virulent scarlet fever, cere
bro spinal memincitis or cerebral
typhus, and in issuing the death
certificates the facts were submitted
to the health department. In the
case of the student White the health
commissioners issued a certificate oi
scarlet fever. It is believed th<
disease was contracted in the dissecting
room.
Hall's llair Renewer enjoys th<
confidence and potronage of people
all over the civilized tvorld who us<
it to restore and keep the hair a nat
urnl color.
Your Word, Your Work, and
III! HSDAY FK
, FA I liU RIO or Till: whisky'
, TRUST,
?
, 'I'ln* A trail's of the Circuit t'on
> wrn in Hml Shape.
There probably will be but few
mourner? because of the financial j
disaster which has befallen the Wilis
! ky Trust, the full story of which is
i told elsewhere in the llerald today.
This impudent and audacious
' corporation has for several years
dominated the trade in distilled spir;
its throughout the country, wiolding
its power in a mostarbritary manner.
It was the product of the largest
share of such good and by its ingeni
iottsly contmcd rebate system man
aged to get the entire trade tit its
mercy. While owing the most of
the large distilleries in the West, it
" adroitly managed to secure control
of the output of those, West or East,
, which it did not own, so that it exercised
an absolute monopoly of the
I products of all such establishments
i and was enabled to lix prices at its
t own will, regardles of the ordinary
, laws of commerce.
, It is popular error to assume that
? the product of still is available only
' for drinking purposes. From one3
duarter to one-third of the Whiskey
i Trust's output is pure alcohol, requir?
cd for medicial purposes, in the me
ehanic arts and otherwise than in the
manufacture of intoxicating bever
ages. This fact was brought out
} (dearly last week in ti e vigorous
protest made to Congress by the
; drug trade taction of the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation
i against the passage of the Scott hill
, to increase the tax on distilled spir>
its. In the protest it was alleged
? that at least one half of the total
} production of cologne spirits, high
[ wines and alcohol is consumed in the
> arts and manufactures, while alcohol
i enters into the manufacture of almost
every article in the pharmacist\s eat
alnguo..
t But the Whiskey Trust, in the
rui.se of a public benefactor seeking
to relieve tfie assumed necessities of
the Treasury, caused to be introduced
, in Congress a b; 11 to increase the tax
r on distilled spirits from ninety cents
. to one dollar and twenty-live cents a
gallon. Meantime, calculating that
it had the. passage of this blil as
sured, it proceeded to accumulate
' its products bycoroding its producing
, capacity to the utmost ami buying
, up all the outsidcs supplies it could
command at the same arbitarily ad'
vancing prices with a view to check
ing consumption, so that it niiglit
j have an enormous stock 011 hand
when the Scott bill should pass, the
, effect of which would be to add
' thirty five cents to the value of every
gallon of such goods 011 which the
, ninety cents tax had been paid. It.
[ is estimated in our review of this
, operation that the Trust now controls
about ninety million gallons
p of these goods, their profit on which
by reason of the increase of the tax
I would have been thirty one and a
half million dollars.
There was 011 hand in the country
J - ? J
on the 1st of October last in the
r neighborhood of oi.e hundred and
!. sixty-five million gallons of diatiled
spirits of all kinds, the amount of
^ which has since been increased by
: the extraordinary productions of the
| Trust to probably two hundred mi 1 ?
. lion gallons, or a supply equal to
, two years' consumption. Should
I there be probability of the passage
of the bill increasing the tax all of
. these goods remaining in bond would
be quickly withdrawn while the
h ninety cent rate continued, so that
the holders of them would realize
, the benefits while the government
. would receive no relief from the
higher tax until these should be
k consumed. Thus, while pleading
the necessities of the federal Treasury
as a reason for the legislation
projected, the manipulators, and
. especially the managers of the Trust
were scheming to monopolize all the
r profits, leaving the Treasury no better
off than before.
The story of this gigantic specu[
lation reads like a romance, lint unlike
the romances of literature, the
end is disappointment and disaster,
i The Trust emerges from it sorely
. wounded and crippled* It is today
on the verge of bankruptcy, with a
- treasury seven hundred thousand
[ dollars short of the demands upon it;
a rebate fund of two million dollar*
, head in trust for its customers, alienated
and lost; its storehouses
t crammed with goods which must bo
, disposed of on a surfeited market.
, ami but four million dollars of man,
nfacttiring property to show for
tliirty-live million dollars of capital
I it has cost. Hut if the result shall
be either the absolute extinction of
[ the iniquitous Organisation, or the
, withdrawal from its commercial
i support, the public will he the gain'
er and no tears will bo shed.? N. V.
5 Ilerahl.
??
Don't waste ttme, money, and
health, trying every new medicine
? you may see advertised in the papers.
. If the cause of your trouble is in the
j blood, liver, stomach, or kidneys,
. -take Ayer's Sarsaparilla at once, ar.d
be sure of a cure. Take no other.
ifour Country."
BKU A.KY 1<>, 1!
lie Kc|?t Ills Word. Ii
A man who is constitutionally a
incapable of telling the truth is a <'
diflieult subject to manage. He re >'
jiiires such drastic treatment as '
Colonel Cockrill, the managing ed h
itor of the New York World, once '11
administered to a man who r.evor n
toid the truth when a lie would an
8wer. Cockerill was then editor of 0
a struggling weekly in a Western c
town, and one morning a follow n
walked into the oHice. saying. ' If ?
you'll send mo your paper, I'll bring sl
you a load of wood next week." 11
The editor suggested that he would 1
prefer to seo the wood lirst. P
.? -iMl t II ? ? ?
vmi, unit it ue nu right, stiid the "
subscriber''' u.Ilist you send mo ^
your paper, and--." 8i
' See here. How am 1 to know ?'
thatTyou are going to keep your 0
word?"
,fKasj enough. If that load of ''
wood ain't here by next Saturday ''
you'll know that I'm dead. If I'm ?
living I'll bring it myself, or I'll '
send it, one or to'ther" )
"All right, I send the paper, and 11
take the wood." 81
The paper was sent. A week P
passed and no wood came* Anothor a<
week went by, and still no wood. ^
The editor wrote a glowing obi- 11
tuary, of his delinquent subscriber. Cl
lie paid a touching ouolgj to) his '
manliness and integrity.
He said that his word was his
bond and that in all his dealings he "J
was teliability and honesty person- 's
ifted. There was not a degree of ''
praise and exaltation that the editor ('
did not use upon tin* subject. 11
The next morning Kditor Cockorill 81
looked through the olllec window 111
saw the "corpse" approaching, with
lire in his eve and a copy of the "pa 01
per in his hand. The editor suddenly w
became busy. The door opened.
In walked Mr. Delinquent. "
"Say there!' he exclaimed.
The editor turned and started in ('
aina/.etneni* "What!" said he. "You
alive? I thought you were dead
Dot me congratulate you."
4*Of course I'm alive. What do *'
you mean by this infernal article in ei
your'paper?" 3"
"(Mi unit? said the editor bland
ly, That? Why you told mo that
if the load of wood you promised
was not here in a week, you'd he dead, (
and I took v?n for a man of your
word"
The lire faded out '.lie delinquent's
eye, and going closer to the desk he
said. "See here, young fellow its
no use tyring to get a head of yon .
I will bring that wood next Monday
it it rains brimstone and pitchforks."
And for one once in his life lie
kept his word. ? Kx.
Whore Licorice Grows.
On the bat>ks of the Tigris and
the Kuphrates the licorice plant is
ehielly grown. These great rivers
How through llat, treeless prairies of
uncultivated and nearly uninhabited
land. For throe months of the year
hot winds blow and tuo temperature
reaches 104 degrees, says the Boston
Traveler.
For six months of the year tho
climate is moderate and salubrious,
and for three months bleak and wintry,
the thermometer going down to
HO degrees at night.
The licorice plain is small shrub
with light foliage, growing to about jj
three feat lugh where its roots can h
reach the water. It grows without *
any cultivation. No lands are leased
for the purpose and no objection
is made to its being cultivated. It t
grows on red-earth soil and also on v
light, almost sandy, where the wood 8
is best, provided it has plenty of c
water and the ground is not more
than fifty yards fiont the actual river <
or stream. . 'J
The wood, after once being dug o
up, grows better afterwards. The s
time of collecting is generally dur- ^
ing the winter, but it is possible all j
the year round. The root when dug j,
is full of water and must he allowed t
to dry, a process which takes the ^
best part of a year, It is then sawed I
or cut into small pieces to a foot
long. 1
The good and sound pieces tiro '
kept and the rotten ones are used 1
for firewood. It is then taken in nn* J,
tive river cants to Ibissorah, whence a
it is shipped in pre?seu hales to Lon- J
don, and again from there to Anier- ^
ica, where it is used largely in the "
manufacture of tobacco. c
The black licorice sticks sold in 1
drug stores come mostly from Spain c
and are made of pure juice, mixed 11
with a little starch, which prevents e
it from melting in hot weather. n
The word "licorice" is of Greek ori '
gin and means "sweet root."
Washington'* birthday recurs on \
Wednesday next for the one hun- c
dred and sixty first time. He died
in December, 1700. On the 22d of i
February, 1800, his birthday was
commemorated in a solemn manner, 1
393.
y religi us exercises and memorial
ddresses, and has been fittingly {
elvbrated ever since. We give our
oung readers some incidents in the
fe of this great man, to illustrate
is religious character. The day i
fter lie took cotntnand of tlte army
n order was issued in which we find
he following injunction: " The (Jenral
requires and expects of all others
and soldiers, not engaged on
ctnal duty, a punctual attendance
n divine service, to implore biosings
of Heaven upon the means
sed for our safety and defense.*'
it the end of the war, ho aocotnanied
his resignation of his comtand
of the armies of the United
tales by an address, in which he j
lys: "I consider it au indispensable!
uty to close ill s solemn act of my (
(Ticiiil life by commending the in
iterosts of our dearest country to
l\e protection *>f Almighty God, and
lose who have the superintendence
f them to his holy keeping." On
lie 30th of April. 1780, General
Washington hucatno President Wash
igton. In his inaugural address he
iid: uIt would ho peculiarly improer
to otnit in this, my lirst olliciul
tit, my fervent supplication to that
dniighty Heing who ruies over the
11 iverse, who presides in the conn
iIs of the nations, and whose provi
ential aids can supply every human
efect," etc. And at the close of,
le address he repaired to the church
nd publicly worshiped God as the
ing of kings and Lord of lords.
) his subsequent address to the
overnors of the different States, he
lado eight distinct references to a
tperintending Providence. These
o the last words of that address:
It remains then to ho my ii tin I and
ily request that your Kxoellonoy
ill communicate these sentiments
> your Legislature at their next
leetinir. :liuI licit tho.v mnv I?a
J " fV "
l'i 1 as the legacy of one who has mi mly
wished, on all occasions, to
0 useful to his country, and who,
iren in tho shade of retirement, will
ot fail to implore the l)ivine hi nounion
upon it I now tnaUo it toy
truest prayer that (lod would have
on and the State over which you
reside in his holy protection: that
c would incline tho hearts of tho
itizens to cultivate a spirit of suborination;
.... and finally that he
ould most graciously ho pleased to
is pose us all to do justice, to love
lorcv, and to demean ourselves with
liat charity, humility, and paeific
Miiper of mind which were the char
cteristies of the Divine Author of
ur blessed religion, without an
umhlc imitation of whose example
1 these things wo can never hope
> he a happy nation." Dr. Deems
ivs: "All that is part of his pu?>lio
fe. Hut it is a long and consistent
ourse of behaviour; so long and
onsistont that it would be very dif.
cult to conceive how any ma i of
ny character could maintain it if he
ad not a private character of deep
ml unaffected piety.
There cannot he as much evidence
3 this point as to invariably saying
(race'at t'ae table, constant attend
uce at church and most devout
ehavior there, and the holding of
raver in camp; and yet we have
diat is quite conclusive. His aid,
Jol. Temple, has often been heard
i say that on sudden and unpexontnil
v-iaita 11/ul. i .w. ?.
.m.vw iiivv ?? noillll^luii h 111*11'
uee, ho has moro than once found
im on his knees at his devotions."
l most interesting incident in the
fo of the great ( 'Onimander in chief
as been related as follows: "While
tationod with the nnnv tit \ral!ey
'orge, he was, fi'ef|uently observed
i visit a secluded grove. This exited
the curiosity of a Mr. Potts, of
ho denomination of 'Friends,' who
fatch his movements at one of these
essions of retirement, till he pereived
that ho was on his knees and
ngaged in prayer Mr. Potts then
e'urncd and said to his family,!
()m niUMc in !o /' (he was with tin*
1'ories), assigning his reason for this j
pinion." (Jen Knox, who was
pccially devoted to the person of
Vashington as his commander, and
iad special knowledge of his habits
localise ho always had free access to
im, was also a witness to his visits j
o the grove at Valley Forge, and
.new that they won.' for the purpose
of uninterrupted prayer.
4 Peter Piper Picked a Peek of
'ioklcd Peppers," was a line of al 1
iterative nonsense, that the children
ised to say. Nowaday s (le y can
iracticeon the Perfect, Painless,Powerful
Proj crties of Pierce's Pleas
ait Purgative 1V* 1 lets. It will im 1
iress a fact, which will be useful to
aiow. Those Pellets cure sick head*
telle, bilious attacks, indigestion,1
onstiny. sugar-coated pills', easy L<>.
nke, and, as a laxative, one is sufli.
:ient for a dose. No nioro groans
nul gripes from the old drastic rem
dies! Pierce's Purgative Pellets are
is painless as they sire perfect in
hoir effects.
Fight the liipior rallic like yon
Vould an epidemic, for it is carrying'
>ff its thousands.
Many a church member would
climb the North Polo" to kiss the
noney God.
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II.' iras llnlil OHIce Without 111nipt
ion SIikm' I S'JS.
From the Troy Times, January 1*1.
Though Postmaster Pofcer Luusin
of Lish.Vs Kill. Watervliot, has ?erveil
in his olllee for 40 year?, ho is
not tho oldest Postmaster in the
Stuto. I [o is a quarter of a century
behind Kosvveil lieardslcy of North
Lansing. Tompkins County. Mr.
lieardslcy received his commission
from President John Quincy Adams
and has carefully preserved it. It
hears dato of June 28, 1828. Mr.
Ileardsloy haw held the olTice without
interruption ever since, and still does
business at the old stand. He was
in his nineteenth,year when he re
coiveu Ins appointment, and is, therefore,
nearly 8 A years of age.
In a letter two years ago to a gentleman
at present connected with
the Times, Mr. Heardsley stated
that he had been able to make his
own quarterly returns with only two
or three interruptions during all this
long period. He has mailed letters
of some of the families of his neighborhood
for five generations. In the
letter referred to he stated that the
revenue from the office for many
years did not exceed $15 or $'30, hut
after tho coming of the railroad it has
risen to $50 or $00.
All of his life Mr. Heardsley has
kept a small country store of North
Lansing, more popularly known as
Heardsley's Corners, and ho has
amassed an independent competence.
In politics ho has always been a
I)onioorat, though never guilty of
' pernicious activity," and in the
great conflict he was an ardent and
liberal uwar Democrat."
The sixty fifth anniversary <>f his
appointment will occur in June next.
II is unbroken service is the longest
in the history of American o Hi ice
holding. He and his wife (still living)
celebrate I their golden wedding
anniversary nearly 15 years ago
The New York Geographical Society
offered him a largo prioo for his comIII
I-. >. i n n it' li nit it a ? j If) im> i i?j < J. I K.. t
nil ' >i?yii H I IV. I I 11/ " ?I O I v ' ) I ' i O Wl1 i) WMU
ho refused.
??
lOloctrif IJilt or*.
This remody is becoming so well
known and f-o popular as to nooil
special mention. All who have
use I Electric Hitters sing the saine
song of praise. -A jmrer medicine
does not exist and it is guaranteed to
all that is claimed. Electric Bitters
will cure all diseases of 1 lie Liver
and Kidneys, will remove Pimples,
Boils, Salt Bheutii and other alt'cctions
caused by impure blood ? Will
drive Malar al fevers For cure of
IIoadache, Constipation and lndigeg
tion try Electric Bitters?Mil tire satisfaction
guaranteed, or monoy refunded.?
Price oOcts, and $1.00 per
bottle at E. Norton's Drugstore.
Mr. Tilden did not get tno Presidency
because lie was unwilling to
risk a fight for it, not because any
Democrats in South Carolina. Florida
or Louisina sacrificed him. Abrani
S. Hewitt oneo said: <ll >pent three
days in framing a letter for Mr.
Tilden, saying to the American peoplo
that he believed himself to be
the President elect, and that on the
4th day of March, 1877, he would
go to Washington to be inaugurated. This
lcttor 1 took to Mr. Tilden, ami
I did everything I could to get him
to sign it, but lie refused to do so.
David Dudley Field and myself spent
a great while with Mr. Tilden,
hoping to have him yield and sign
the letter. He threw the Presidency
away by bis refusal. 1 still have .
the letter, with Mr. Tilden's writing
on the subject, giving his reason for
not signing it. It will all be made
puoncsome clay. * I believe
that it was Mr. Tikluii himself who
was lurking in the courage necessary
for the trying situation < f th it timc^
D Should he in I'lvrrj Ilotise.fr
.J. 15. Wilson, 371 Cluy St. Shur||L
burg, I'm, -ays he. will not be without
Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumptoin,
Coughs and Colds, tl at it
cured his wife who was threatened
witli I'nomoniu after an ataek of
uLa Grippe," when various other
remedies and several physicians had
done her no good, llohoft Barber, of
Cooksport, I'a., claims Dr. King's
New Discovery has done him more
good than anything tie over used for
l.ung Trouble. Nothing like it.
Try it. Free Trial Bottles at K?
Norton's Drugstore. Largo buttles
50e. and $1.00.
I migrants and returning voyagers
And in Aytr's Sarsaparilla a cure
for eruptions, boils, pimples, eczoma,
u linl)ini< r/lulllii.ir.
-'-W.J " UV.IIH I IV'7UIUII^ I IV/III
tea diet and life on ship-board, or
from any other cause. Its value na
a tonic and alterative medicine can
not be overestimated.
"Notes and Queries" says that
"crank'' is not an American word,
but has long been in use in Derbvs
shire, Knglnnd:
' It is used to de-erilv a man who
' has fads, fancies and notions outside
the common run of those of his
neighbors. A man with a boo in
bis bonnet is crazy, and so are those
who ride hobbies of any kind/'