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!/ j1 VOL. VIII. ITS HISTORY TRACEDAL1. ABOUT Till: OKItilN OF Til IS CO AT-OF-A IOIS. Found in Pii^iou's Memoirs, by Air. Tlico. I>. .Jorvoy Fxeoed in-Iy Interesting K? ading tor Soul 11 Cnro* in in tis. Tli? State. Governor Tillman has Imsn trying for months to got an accurate history of the coat of arms of South Carolina. A few (Jays ago Governor Tillman hemd that Mr. Theodore I). .Torvey couhl giro hint h great deal <>f the information he was in search of, and he accordingly wrote to him requesting hi in to send him whateior data he had secured. Yesterday the Gov ! ernor received the following reply: CHARLESTON, S. 0,, Oct. 28, 1803. His Excellency. 13. It. Tillman, (lover nor South Carolina Columbia S. C; Dear Sir?Your letter of 27th was receive ! by me today, and I answer at once. I a volume 2, Drayton's Memoirs, page 372, appears the following account, wich 1 quote: "So soon as the government under the constitution of March, 1 77d, was organized, the necessity of having a public seal became evident and on motion in the General Assembly in was resolved'That IIis Excellency the President and commander it chief, by and with the advice and l* . e A l * * i"iMiscni oi ino privy council may, ami ho is hereby authorized to design ami cause to ho mado a great seal of South Carolina, and until such an one can he made to fix a temporary public seal.' "In pursuance of this resolution William Henry Drayton and some of the privy council were charged with designing the great seal and causing ;t to be made; and in the meantime a temporary public seal was adopted by the President and privy council for purposes of tho[ Sta'e. "Tim first use of this temporary seal (which appears to have been the seal at arms of the President) was for commissioning the civil officers of government and for a pardon issued by President Hut lodge, dated 1st of May, 1770, in favor of a person who bad been convicted of manslaughter before Chief Justice Wil liam Henry Drayton, and his associated justices at a court commenced in Charleston on the 23d of April, 1770. Ln these commissions it was called his (the President's seal, but in pardons and other instruments it was afterwards called the temporary seal of the said colony or the temporary public seal, and it was used throughout that time of the year 1770 until about the 22nd of May, 1877, and on that President Hutledgc issued a pardon under the seal of the said State,'omitting the word 'temporary,' whence there is reason for believing the greHt seal was then made; and from that time the torn- j porary seal does not appear to have i been used. (GovernorJohn Drayton remembers seeing tho die brought to liis father in Charleston.) "The (levic.e for the armorial achievement and reverse to the great seal of the State of South Carolina is as follows: Arms, a palmetto tree growing on the seashore erect; at its base a torn-tip oak tree, its branches lopped o(T, prostrate; both proper, .lust below the branches of the palmetto two shiolds pendent, one of them on the dexter side is inscribed 'March 26/ the other 011 the sinister side 'July 4th.' Thirteen spears proper are bound crosswise to the stem of he palmetto, their points raised; the band knotting them together bearing tho inscription 'Quia Separabit.' Under the prostrate oak is inscribed 'Molioreni I/ipsa Lo caivt,' below which appears in largo figures, '1770.' At the summit of tho exorgue are the words 'South Carolina,' and at the bottom of the same'Anim's Opibusque 1'aratt.' "Reverse: A woman walking on the seashore over swords and daggers; she holds in her dexter hand a laurel branch and her sinister hand the folds of hor robe; she looks towards the sun just rising above the sea; all proper. On tho upper part is tho sky, azure. At the summit of tho exergue are the words 'Dum Spiro Spero' and within tho field below tho figttio is inscribed the word 'Spes' The seal is in the form of a circle four inches in diameter and fourtenths of an inch thick. It was not designed until after tho fort at Sullivan's Island had defeated the Hritish Hoot, as all of its devices will prove. The fort was construct oil or the stems ot tho palmetto treo I which grow abundantly on our sea islands, which grew on Sullivans', Island at the time tho fort was made, grow there at tho present time. ' The arms were designed by \Vm Henry Drayton, and the original, when tho battle was fought, and which executed by him with a pen, bearing a great similitude to what is represented or? the seal, is in the o possession of his son. It, however, i contains more devices, but this is easily reconciled by supposing all he designed was not deemed by the President and the privy council necessary for the great seal. The explanation of this side of the seal is the following: The pal(tin! lit I I'OA nil Ki?!i eltr\i'a Vn?\rn , sonts tlio fort on Sullivan's Island, 1 the shields hearing March 26th and July hhallndo to the Constitution ' of SouthCarolinu which wtis ratified on the first of those days, and to the Declaration of Independence, which was made by the Continental Congress on the second date. The thirteen spears represent the thirteen States which acceeded to the Union. The dead oak tree alludes to the British lleot as being constructed of 1 oak timbers, and it is prostrate under the palmetto tree because the fort constructed of that tree defeated the British licet; heuce the inscription of Meliorem Lapsa Locavit' is appropriately placed underneath it, 1 under which 1776 is in large figures, alluding to the year the Constitution at South Carolina was passed, to the bottle fought at Sullivan's Island, to the Declaration of Independence and of the year when the seal was ordered to he made. The reverse of the arms is said to have been designed by Arthur Middletmi; the woman walking along the seashore strewn with swords and daggers, represents Hope overcoming dangers, which the son just rising was about to disclose , in the occurrence of the 28th of dune, while the laurels she holds , signifies th? honors which Col. ( Moultrie, his officers and men gained ( on that auspicious pay. The sun rising in great brilliance above the ( sea indicates that the 28th of June , was a lino day; it also bespeaks good , fortune." ; I trust this may help you. I think j it is the book to which Oapt. (,'our , tonav alIn les. There are not many , copies, 1 believe; but having one I ] copied it and send it at once, and } will be pleased to have been of any , service to you, but will now close as ( my letter is long. Yours truly, | TI1KO. I). JERVEY. , 'Chis iuformation will doubtless j load to a r< commendation by the , Governor to the Legislature, looking | to the preparation of a correct coat of arms of the State, to be kept at the , capitol. ] What Seigniorage Is. Strictly speaking, seigniorage is | the charge made by any national , govorinnent for coining bullion or. | private account. It usually takes the form of a certain porcentago, j fixed by law and deducted from tho metal brought to tho mint. In other words, when an individual brings to a goverment mint a quantity of one of the precious metals to be coined on bis private account, be will receivo a weight of coins equal to the weight of pure metal brought, less the percentage deducted as compensation to the govern ment for its services and incidental expenses of coinage, and plus the weight of tho alloy. At the present time the United States government makes no charge for coining gold, and does not receive silver, copper or nickle for coinage i on private account. Therefore the ( term soignorage is not strictly appli cable to any transaction that takes ( place in connection with Federal ] mints. , However, as used in current dis- i cussious of tho silver question, the , tertn is taken to mean the nominal ( profit made by tho government on iis purchases of silveFaml the coin- t age of the same. To illustrate: The , present market price of silver is al- ( most exactly 70 cents an ounce, while its "coinage value" is precisely { $1.29 an ounce; so that on every , ounce of silver bought and coined | there is an apparent profit of 59 ( cents. For reasons that have been ( more than once carefully explained, { this profit is rather apparent than ( real, seeing that the "coinage value" | is rather technical than actual. q When it is proposed to coin the ( seigniorage silver now in the Treas- \ nry the meaning of the proposition is j that all the silver bullion purchased under tho act of .Inly, 1890, common f ly called the Sherman act, not already ( coined and over and above the amount that would be needed to furnish standard silver dollars to match each dollar represented by Treasury notes ' issued under tho law, shall be coined * into standard dollars. '< A Lady Cure*! ni'tcr .llaliy Years I Suft'erlng. f "I've been a sufferer from dyspep- \ sia for twenty years. Was in such a fix I had to use the same care with my diet as a baby. Used Tyncr's I )yspepsia Remedy and can now eat , Anything without iticonvonience. It * is truly a great remedy." Mrs. An- [ tony Duncan. Try it for all stom- ' ach disorders. It never disappoints. . Price 50c per bottle. For sale by . all druggists. "I cannot say enough in praise of ' your valuable medicine, Dr. Thach* t er's Uiver and Blood Syrup. I cannot afford to be without your medi- ( cines. "J. W. Ncwson, Casborn, (la. 1 ??~ J/ '*Be True to ^ ON WAY, S, ('., i THK SIC A I SLA NI > SUllKlt-i KKS. Memorial of The Red Cross So ciety to Congress. In the Semite last Wednesday Senator Hoar seno up to tlie clerks' desk a bill and a memorial which ho asked to have read. Senator Turpie objected, retalia tin it unon Senator Hoar for a fimilari objection yesterday. Senator Hoar appealed to him to withdraw his objection, but Senator Turpie insisted upon preserving the "parity of courtesy." Senator Hoar said that the bill, provided for an appropriation of $5,000 for the relief of the sufferers of the recent storm on the sea Islands on the coast of South Caro- | Una, and that the memorial had boon prepared by Miss Clara Karton, of j the Ked Cross Society. At the request of Senator lJutler, Senator Turpie withdrew his objection and the memorial was read. Senator Hoar gave notice that he would call up the bill to morrow morning. Washington Star, November 1. A memorial was prosouted in the House and Senate today from the Hed Cross Society in regard to the Southern storm sufferers. The me uiorial savs: The American National lied Cross, an organization national and inter national, official in other countries and semi official in this, taking charge of tho relief work unprovided for by law, other than the marine hospital and life saving departments af the Government takes cognizance, 3f, respectfully presents this mom ? ' rial in behaif and in the name of ,v 30,0()0 destitute and suffering p pie of the sea islands of our co> On the petition and at the enriJU solicitation not only of South C''01,1 Una's Governor, her senior So' u> '' and most prominent citizens, bu' .H _ r . 1 i i i ?i V6 it. some or me leauing nuuianti: jf the country, the Ited Cross to the field of calamity, and afti *ur( careful, thorough and pninst?' investigation, we, the presidetd. 181 the itod Cross and her field ofi.d tha find this condition of affairs to toe 1' lu a district 145 tniles long, ?d as the islands on tho boundary lino'accn South Carolina and Georgia to CJIn. vi leston on tho north, and from 11i 1 to Head, Folly and Morris islands to a piont inland twenty miles or where the tidal wave had spent its fury, there arc 80,000 people, suffering for the hare necessities of life, hun > u;ry, naked, sick and homeless. Thirty thousand people to feed, clothe, nurse ami shelter for seven months or until next year's crops can he harvested. To do this we have on hand scarcely $30,000, or one dollar head with which to keep every mar, woman and child alivo for seven months with food, to say nothinir of clothing and the other necessities of life. Just to feed this multitude, and keep anything for tho future needs, we are obliged to make this standard ration: One peck of hominy or grits and one pound of pork. Six thousand houses will have to he built entirely, or repaired as ne ueasity demands. Wo have already purchased 500,i)0() feet of lumber, the generous lumber merchants and railroads making it possible to get this large unount {it $5 a thousand feet delivered, with the privilege of duplicating the amount if necessary. The people can raft this lumber to their islands, but saws, hatchets and nails must be had to build the lious;s. The soil on tlie islands is wet and lour, the drains and ditches choked up and useless and vegetation will thrive in but comparatively few plaJos. The people are living on this lamp ground in tents, under sheds md trees and the storm of tine 12th >f October that swept over this district found thorn defenceless and left them in a more pitiful condition than ivor. Malaria in acute form is there, yphoid, typhus and pneumonia will n the near future be epidemic. The condition of the district is as dated. The remedy we suggest is ;hig: TUB ItlaiKDY. The sum of $50,000 bo intrusted :o the lied Cross, upon good and nufficient bonds, in double the imount named, to bo used wholly md solely in the employment of abor in putting the islands in proper lanitarv condition, ilrjiininrr fhn ijinrla 10 that crops may be produced and louses built for the people who are low helpless; through no fault of Jieirs; strict account to be kept and - ouohers made for every expenditure, md if a balance remain is to ho re urned to the treasury of the United States. The lied Cross will undertake to feed and clothe these people Irotri the funds and provisions given >y our generous citizens if it can bo elieved in tho manner prayed for. Free rations must not be given, as that demoralizes and pauperizes. If the lands are uot drained and litched no crops can be grown, vhich will keep tjhe people in un im I ryoor^ this minute in < '~A |? token of the four Word, Your Work, ami THURSDAY 1 poverished condition. W'c pray your favoraldo consider - i ution of this memorial and immidiate' notion l>y joint resolution, for if: icliof is denied the world will soon j rinaf with the humiliating cry that a 1 famine exists in the 1 nitod Statot. of Amorica. Clara Barton, President of the American National i Hed Cross. ci i;m:i,ani>siiiNSTiii;mi.l The Last Null Driven la Tlie Cheap Money Collin. Washington, November 1. Si 1_ ver purchases l>y the Government censed to day. The purpose for which Mr. Cleveland called Congress in extraordinary session was accomplished at 4 25 this afternoon, when lie affixed his signature to the bill to repeal unconditionally the purchasing clause of the Sherman law. The struggle in the House was short. Only twenty seven men could be rallied for the hist stand by the silver leaders, Messrs Bland and Bryan. Mr. Bland and his colleagues, knowing that further opposition was futile preferred to sacrifice the opportunity for a few hours1 debate ottered by Mr. Wilson in order to force the majority to bring in the cloture and concur in the Senate amendment by puress. But even in this they failed. Their small following might have succeeded had they been led by experienced and skillful parliamentary tacticians, Neither Mr Bryan nor Mr Snodgrass, his lieutenant, is well versed in parliamentary procedure, und when.thrown off their guard by 0, ^ { rni||isi raetion they exposed j | and $!/htiiling to follow one s, . w i lu g,n- lion wnh another. lurch I'oanufs'erwhelmcd tlieni by bushol owing motion to Older g.j COT'jP'stion. H was car* Iviile, Grdinal'tr. The filibusters r only ,jOW ''Ii<\I1,M)l)1,lS' ,uu* n?tn* us if OooclT^honi to do except > the ?Ijty minutes under N K\V At,e r?dtle of oratoy,. cost confusion and jjj g* f its conclusion the Sr? I ^f*on Mr Bland's free v? ,,,, . I /ltute. Lhe majority ^ j ' ( 'J Then came the ! ^ ?\v" yoneurring in \ho Sen- j jovi- Jj,l(h'?mits. The vote stood 1 ^',e 8ai\'is i'oirence and 04 against, maw j fxeeuuoriginal hill passed the i liter- I ty-tlii-August 18 tlio vote stood .,'io 1 <)(), so that although the to tal vote to day was smaller the proportion was practically the same. The final vote was taken at 2.50 IV M. The bill was engrossed immediate-1 ly, and twenty minutes later at 3.10 ' the formal announcement was made 1 to the Senate that its amendment i had been agreed to by the House. The bill was hurriedly enrolled by Chairman lVarson, of the committee on enrolled hills, and at 3.30 was presented to Speaker Crisp for his signature. Bill for Government Telegraph Sy~tem. Washington. (let. 30. Senator Butler this morning introduced a bill in the Senate which has for its object the establishment of a Government system of telegraph lines. The bill directs the organization of a board to consist of the secretary of State, Secretary of War and the Post master General, who are directed to arrange a system of telegraphs connecting various sections of the country with the city of Washington, with connections along those lines at such cities as shall best sub serve the public good. This system is to be carried on as a part of the postal railway system of tlie country and discrimination in rates is prohibited, except that a lower rate is allowed for press messages than for current business. The carrying on of the telegraph business by individuals or corporations is not prohi bited. The bill is voluminous and deals largely with the details of how the lines shall he constructed. An appropriation of $5,000,000 is made to begin the work. Now for a New County. The St tie. G it kh swoon, 3. Cm Oct., Oct. 31.A thorough canvass has been made of the territory from which it is pre posed to form a now county, with Greenwood as the county seat, and it is found I hat there is littlo or no opposition to the scheme, unless it comes from Abbeville Court House. An enthusiastic meeting of free hoi ders and taxpayers was held here tonight, which adopted the plan unanmously. The town of Greenwood proposes to pay for all surveys ami maps, nnd to erect tho public buildings without cost to her country friends, who ire, regardless of political faith, heartily in favor of the now county with the "Gate City" of South Carolina as the county seat. A prominent lawyer of Kugeliold says that county will endorse the plan, and those seen in Laurens county are in favor of the new county. Kditor "Bob" Hemphill is in favor of the plan also, though ho is tho Senator from Abbeville. riCmj Mortgage Sale. ^ I'n-is'. I S4 ' A , OF s,,lTll ( A |t'OLNTV OF IIOKKV. -/???Kvirti,o of thopo '"' " in, it if our Coui i try." NOVEMBER, i> HAMPTON AT THE HELM! IIH WILL HOLD DKMOCItA < ' \ lO I T h i i t \ a itMpn iii v 1 rx ii ItATKS. As Ghinf for South Carolina of the National hoajrno of Democrat ir (Hubs, llo Will Organize lor Victory if Democrats Wish ItThe Kditor of The State has re ceivod the following letter from Gen. Wade Hampton: Washington, D. 0., Oct. 31, 1893. | My Dear Sir: Seme days ago you called attention through your paper ' to the fact that I was Vice President of the National Association of Demo cratio ('Inlis, and since then I have seen in several of our Democratic pa pers reference made to your statement, and in one instance t he question was asked why no action had been taken by myselfI have waited to ascertain the \iew8 of the Democratic press of South Carolina, for these papers represent, in my opinion, the only true Democratic sentiment of the State, and this sentiment should be expressed by what are called the (.-onserva tive papers. My own judgement is clear, that the time has come when the line should he drawn between i those who stand on the Ocula platform and those who stand on that of j the National Democracy. No man who upholds the former can claim properly to he a Democrat, ami unless our people choose to support the fallacies of the Ocola adherents j or to he led into the Populist party, tho true Democrats of the State! should organize to maintain the principles of the Democratic party asset forth ui tho Chicago platform, j If my Democratic fellow citizens agree with me that this is the truOj policy to ho adopted, I shall at ouco) proceed to organ i/.c National 1 )otnocratic, Clubs throughout ilie State, and 1 .shall exert my utmost efforts to keep the State where it properly 'belongs, in the great IJemocrutic column. I believe that this can bo done, for our people will scarcely now, in the hour of victory, forsake the Hag they followed so steadfastly and so faithfully when that llag went down in defeat Unscrupulous demagogues have, by false promises, misled many of our most holiest men and they | have brought shame upon our proud State. I still have abiding faith in the men who followed the starry cross through trials and carnage; who bore, with the heroism of martyrs, the sufferings of the reconstruction era, and who, with a devotion and pluck never surpassed, rescued the State in '70. Those uien cannot forget tlm past, nor can they forsake the banner under which the victory of '7b was won. If I can once more give aid to my State 1 shall gladly enlist in her ser~ ' vice, and I shall rejoice to join those who seek to maintain her welfare, to protect hor honor and to save her from shame and disgrace. I am very truly yours, WADE HAMPTON. N. < I. < Ion/ales, Esq. ' TK IIOI I'll or THIS T IC IJ'l'l 1.1 Silver Senators Surrender To l'uhlic Opinion. News mid Courier. Washington, October 30.?At 7.28, by a vote of 43 to 32, the Senate, after one of the most remarkable and memorable parliamentary bat-! ties of a generation, passed the bill unconditionally repealing tho purchase clause of the Sherman silver law. The end was reached at the conclusion of u continuous session of fourteen days, after sixty.one days of debate, during which five volumes of the Congressional Uecord had hecn filled with speeches amounting in the aggregate to about twenty million words, a stream of talk that would stretch in cold typo from the seaboard sixteen hundred miles into the interior, from I libert y enlighten ing the world in New York harbor to tho foot bills <?f tho ltoclcy Mountains. The closing day of the great struggle for the repeal of tho purchase of silver was one ct intense excitement. The galleries were packed to the doors, every seat in the Senate was occupied and tho walls were lined with Ucprcsentatives from tho lower hl'Atinh of ( V?iirrr/>ati THn -* - " i?\a-gis of Senatorial courtesy was no protection in the last moments. Gray-haired men, inflamed by tho flery passions that always characterize the close of a hitter contest, did not spare each other. Senetor MorIgftn, with words that fairly burned, neaped Ins denunciation on Senator Voorheos, tho leader of the Adminis tration forces, and Senator Wolcott, the (Colorado Hotspur, concluded a fierce philipic against Senator Carey with tlio Spanish proverb of Sancho Panza, that it was a waste of lather j to shave an ass- The silver Uepuh ! licans, Toller, Stewart, Dubois, Wo\| cott and -lones, Peflfor, the Populist, komna.j i j110 ()! > ; ' s BURROUC anil Morgan, nml tho old war Governor of Tonncsscc, Harris, each inmlo his valedictory. Tho Demo crats wore hot and angry at the do sertion of some of their colleagues, which made their defeat possible, the I'opuliata admonished the Senate that the doom of silver was the doom of the old parties, but there j was something tragically pathetic in the despairing cry of tho silver Sena tors. It meant, they said, ruin and destruction and desolation to the sil ver-producing States. Senator .Jones III..... l : . II .1 11 I I nun ill) t;iii|ilill>n lillill/ Will IIOVCT l)U forgotten by those who heard him, warned those about hini that the oud of tlie light, marked but the beginning of the battle that would bo waged before the people. In tones deep and tragic ho repeated Dundee's famous ilollaneo of (lordon: There lie hills bevoiul IVtland, And friths beyond the forth. If there he lords in the lowlands, There he chiefs in the North. Senator Steward had the last word. When the white bearded Nevadati, looking like an ancient patriarch, sank back in his seat, Yico President Stevenson, for tlm last time, announced that the bill, was before the Senate for amend ineut. lie paused. Senator Voorhocs, the tall syca more of the Wabash, arose. The decisive moment had come. The \ ice President flashed his eye about the chamber. The galleries leaned over. The Hood of light, from the glass-panelled ceiling poured down upon the Senate. The chamber was stdl as death. Not a soul i stirred. lOvcry one seemed t.<> hold his breath. "If there be no further amendments," said the Yico President, solemnly, "the clerk will call Llio roll." "Senator Allen," began the clerk. The suspense was over. The Ibi-i bb.nn I.K...... luiojAil Tlw. ....11 ! w;is ill last being called on tlu* filial i passage of the bill. From all over the chamber came a sigh of relief, I Mr. Bland, the silver champion of the House, stood like a statue behind the Sinate desks while the loll was i called. Senators Sherman and Voorhees, facing each other, bolt upright, did not move a muscle. I Senator IVlTer stroked his beard. Senators Mills and t'ockrell paced impatiently up and down the area in front of the Vice President's chair. Senator 11 ill sat in the front row j talking to liis late antagonist, Sena tor Sutler. It took almost ten minutes to call the roll and arrange the pairs. When the Vice President announced the , vote Senator Voorhees straightened up in his full length. It was a personal victory for him. "I now move," said he, with a nolo of tri umph in his voice, "that the Senate adjourn until to-morrow at 12 o'clock." Before the ipiestion could be put the occupants of the galleries were, jostling each other in their attempts to crowd out of the doors. The Sena tors Hod from the chamber. In sixty seconds none but a few employes remained upon the scone. The long battle was over, the Hold deserted. KICK CANNING. A Progressive Farmer's New use for Lands on the Waocaniaw, ('ounty Record. The Savannah Morning iV< irs says thai on the Waccarnaw river, in South Carolina, a large rice planter has determined to abandon rice and turn <!. i i . .... i - r - i 111? ricu iiuiii!) in iu irucK minis. no will ship "fresh" such <?f his products us ho can and put tho balance i;? tins, lie has erected a cannery on the plantation and has this year put up a quantity of okra, tomatoes and rieo. Tho canning of rice, by the way, is something comparatively new. The grain is cooked ''in tho Southern stylo" and put up in one, two and three pound tins, and, it is said, finds ready sale among Southern people in the North and West, where tho art of cooking rice as it should be lias not yot been acquired. Tho planter referred to calculates that his rice acreage in cabbage, cucumbers, cay I etine popper, okra, sweet peas, etc., for canning, will give a return two or thrco times as large as it would if planted in rice. <* ^ Miulc 11 i in Vint Tho State. Governor Tillman was yesterday asked what ho thougnt about the action of the Senate in passing the repeal bill, lie said he was too mail to say anything, "but," said ho, "just go got my speech at the St. Louis convention, take tho moat out of it j and you will have what I think of tho action of tho Senate. ' Hiirklen's Arnica Save Tho Lest Salve in the world for (Juts, Hruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt. Khoum, Tever Sores, Tetter, Chap ped ilands. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Tiles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to gtvo perfect satisfac lion, or money refunded. Trice 25 cents per box. Tor sale at K. Nor.. ' ton's Drugstore. RI'XIA l>MO FIRM OF 1HS & COLLINS, '"r|i OK YOUH MONK.Y, NO. i . a it \ski;t i i i.i. or ih:ai>s, Oov. Tillman i'nralj z?s the No furies l*iil>lic The St;it?\ Uovernor Tillman hus tho taculty of doing surprising things at the most unexpected times. llis latest move is quite a remarkable one. He has jumped upon tho notaries public of the State, and bringing his official axe around with ono long swoop, takes olT the official heads of all those now holding commissions as notaries in tho State. The head of every man whoso commission dates further back than 18SD fulls in the basket. The Governor puts his surprising action on tho score of a desire to purify this branch <>f the Government but there is a practical result whi h will follow that will net a good revenue to the State Treasury, which tho CJovornor mayor may not have considered. Kvery man who re ccivcs a notary's commission lias to pay $3.12 for it, and when the largo number of applicants that arc certain to come, appear, the State will of necessity reap a revenue of several thousand dollars out of the action of the Governor. When tho Governor whs asked yesterday for a statement of tho re.v sons actuating hint in his action, lie saiil that iiis proclamation fully explained everything that Jinlluonced liim. The proclamation i ssued yesterday is as follows: u Whereas the olllce of Notary Public is one of responsibility requiring intelligence and good character for its proper administration ami whereas the tenure of the ollico has had no limit under the law other than "During the pleasure of tho Governor," that all those who liavo at any time received the appointment are still holding and exercising tho functions of olllce, notwithstanding many of thorn havo lost their commissions; and whereas there have been charges of unfitness and maladministration. "Now therefore I, 1?. K. Tillman, Governor of the Slate of South Carolina, in order to purify tho public service, and make clear the title of every person claiming this office, do issue this my proclamation, and by the authority vested fn me under the statutes I hereby declare that every commission as Notary Public issued prior to .January I, 1889, shall expire on .January I, 1891, and said offices shall become vacant. Applications for appointment or reappointment must be made in writing by the applicant, and must be endorsed by a member of the General Assembly, by the members of the bar, or by not less than twenty citizens of the community. Some of the tnon whose commissions thus become null and void after the first of tho year have hold them for forty years. Strait "Turned Down Two. ' Washington better Align ta < hronielo. Representative Strait, of South Carolina, who turned down ox Congressman Hemphill in the last election, anils himself with little influence at the national capital, and does not hesitate to express himself about it. lie has not received a single ap point men t in his district since the present administration came. "It* they do not think ine a good Demo crat, and refuse m? patronage on that account, then they should throw out tho other reform members of the delegation, for we all have the same politics. I shall insist upon the Republicans in my district being removed, whether they recognize my endorsements or not. ' % ? * * x J The fact is tho ex representatives from South Carolina have more influence than those who defeated them on the Reform ticket. Col. Hemphill isthe thorn in the aide of Dr. Strait. He stood very high in the House, was chairman of the commit tee on the district of Columbia, and was an important factor in local af fairs here, so that when ho was de feated, the man who did it bears the brunt of a good deal of ill nature. Hemphill's endorsements havo con ? / siderablc weight and all the men lie . >-J has pressod for places Jjave landed. < atarrli i 11 t he ilead Is undoubtedly a disease of the blood, and as such only a reliable blood /? putilicr can eflVet a perfect and per- , f manent cure. Hood's Sarsaparilla is I ( n ' the best blood purifier, and it has [cured many severe casts of catarrh. Catarrh oftentimes leads to consnmpi tion. 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