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THE DISPENSARY LAW. A 8THOXCJ DGI'hAi K lt\ \N Alil.K l,t\ \V Y Kit. The State Hn? tliel'owor to I'rolillili i In* Liquor Tea tlte hikI Suhjrrt ?In* 'I'ratlp to ItpstriclioiiN and I'oluc Supervision. I'nivvrsity Law Iteview. [Tho ant hat- of tlie following art iritis i'rof. C. C. Tiedcnutn. of the 1'diversity of Now York, who is ti recognized authority upon tho police powers <>f a State, and a lawyer of eminent ability. | The South Carolina Dispensary Law is. for America at least, an untried and novel experiment, not only in the restraint and control of the consumption of intoxicating liquors, but likewise in governmental interference with the freedom of trade. Heretofore, the control of the liquor Irudo has Wen routined to total prohibition of the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, and sacramental purposes, and in,, .,v?...? .. is - > uv UAOVklUU ?>1 Jl I1UOUVU iruiu IdlOBU who encase in its sale and manufacture. And the chief constitutional objection to such legislation is the charge that the personal liberty of the private consumer has been unduly interfered with by the rigid removal ol his opportunities of procuring the liquor he desires to consume, and the indirect prohibition of his use of intoxicating liquors by confining its sale for other uses than as a beverage. Notwithstanding this serious objection to the constitutionality of the prohibition law, total prohibition has been sustained by every court of last resort, before which the question has been raised. As a practical question ol constitutional law, it must be considered as settled that the state government has the power, unless exuresslv restrained hv enlist it at iomi I provisions, to prohibit altogether tho huIo unci manufacture of intoxicutiug liquors, or to subject tho trndo to wtiatovor restrictions and police supervision, short of total prohibition, may bo suggested to tho discretion ol the Legislature. And in tho majority opinion of the South Carolina Supreme Court, it is conceded that a law, which prohibited the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquor, would be constitutional. The South Carolina Dispensary law does not undertake to prevent the consumption of liquor by those who desire it, but aims to diminish or removc altogether the evils of the liquor trade, by prohibiting all private trade in intoxicating liquors, and providing for the future prosecution ol the trade as a government monopoly. If therefore, the constitutionality of this dispensary law can be successfully attacked, it must l>o on some other ground thau that it is in the nature of a sumptuary law, and that it unduly restricts the personal liberty of the citizen. The only practical restraint, to which lu,' is subjected, is the necessity of purchasing his liquor from the State, and of drinking it in some other pluco than where he purchases it. If the Dispensary Law had provided for the establishment of a private monopoly, granting to one or more parties, or to a private corporation, the exclusive privilege of the manufacture and saleof intoxicating liquors, it would bo impossible to successfully contend against its constitutionality, as long as you concede the constitutionality of prohibition laws. If it bo within the power of a State government to prohibit an objectionable .trade altogether, it is within its discretion to avoid the evil of a promiscuous pro-1 socution of the trade, either bv exacting it tiiiri. r....... II i... .. Q ? ( 1IW1IOV II V/III HIUOU >1 II" | cnguge ill it," which operates ais u partial prohibition, or by grunting to 0110 or moro parties, the monopoly of the trade. If there was at any titno any doubt as to the power of a Slate government, as a police regulation, to convert into a monopoly, a trade whose unrestricted prosecution threatens the public with disastrous evils, that doubt was solved by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the celebrated Slaughterhouse Cases (Id Wall. .'10], The Legislature of Ivouisiunu had granted to a private corporation the exclusive right of maintaining a slaughterhouse, for the slaughter of all the cattle for the New Orleans market, and compelled all the butchers of New Orleans to bring their cattle to the promises of this corporation for slaughter, upon payment of a reasonable lee to the corporation. The reason for the establishment of this monopoly, was the inability, in a inn en inure iiKu nun 01 Louisiana, ol throwing arouiul the slaughter anil salt; of fresh moat, the police supervision which is needed there, for the preservation of the public health of the city of New Orleans. The Supreme Court of the United States declared that, in order to preserve the public health, the State may make such a monopoly of the business of slaughtering cattle, without unduly interfering with the personal liberty of the butchers of New Orleans. The same conclusion is reached in other eases, in respect to the construction of gus and water companies and railroad companies. No one has any so called natural right to construct a railroad or gas oi' water-works, and lay pipes through the highway [See Tiedomans Limitations of Police Power i luf>]. The public welfare requires that these devices for human comfort shall be established as monopolies to be enjoyed by the public at large, upon payment of a reasonable compensation. In many of the States, a very high license, in many cases, *2,000 is ex ] acted of the liquor dealer. Such a license, which is plainly imposed as a | ponce regulation, maiccs oi me trade u monopoly, aw to those who are thereby prohibited from prosecuting it, because they areunabloor unwilling to pay the lice use, for the exuetion of such a license makes it impossible for more than a limited number to make a profit out of the business. [See Tiedeman's Lim. of Police Power \\ 101, 105.] All these monopolies have been sustained by the American courts. But the South Carolina Dispensary Law does not create a private monopoly. but a government monopoly, and this is the ground, upon which the Supreme Court of South Carolina pronounces the law to be unconstitutional. They hold that it is beyond the power of government, without a special grant of author ty in the Stute constitution, to engage in a business or trade, a* a government monopoly even though the purpose of such a monopoly In; the promotion of temperance and the reduction or removal of the evils of the liquor trade. Whatever may bo one's own opinion of the wisdom or expedience1 of legislation for the promotion of tornperanee, or of the correctness of the opinion of the South Carolina Court, as a question of constitvtional law, one must admire the courage and professional hraver.v of the majority of the court, in pronouncing a law to be unconstitutional on so fundamental a proposition of political science, when the whole trend of public and judicial l opinion, under the socialistic influences of the day -which are nowhere stronger than tiiey arc to-day in the State of South Carolina is tiriuly and pcrinancntly set in the direction of recognizing the power of tlie government to assume tlie prosecution of what has hitherto been a private business, whenever such a policy serves to promote tlie public welfare. It has now become a matter of common experience. for municipal governments to encase in the business of supplying private consumers with water, gas, and electric light ; and nowhere, in this country, except in South Carolina, has anv court pronounced against the constitutionality of laws, which vest such powers in municipal governments, liy way of justification or explication of this radical departure, the theory is advanced that the municipal corporation has a dual character, a public and a quasi-private character, and that it owns and conducts its gas, electric light, and wator plants, in the latter character. [Ticdcinan on Municipal Corporations III \ llla.j This might be urged as a ground of distinction between State and municipal monopolies, but it is not an important distinction : and it must give way to any permanent popular demand to tho countrury. Judged by tho trend of judicial opinion in this country, tho South Carolina Dispensary Daw, in so far as it creates a government monopoly of the li<|itor trade, must he held to he constitutional whatever opinion wo may entertain of its wisdom or expediency. CllUISTOIMIKK <;. "1*11.DKMAN. Univorsity of the City of New York, May, fOI'Mi IN A IIIBIjI*:. Strang' ltoiiiuncc Connect <*<1 With it liosl Mai riaj;*' Cert illealc. New York Recorder. John farroll, a saloon keeper at 1(5 Clinton place, has unearthed a romance that he modestly declares beats anything he ever heard of. Its chief actors belong to prominent families in Virginia, and tho scene of some of its most interesting episodes was the old New York hotel, where Mr. far roll presided over a cafe for twenty odd years. When that favorite resort for Southern visitors to thofgroat metropolis was torn down a few months ago ' many parting ceremonies were observed by those who had made it ! their homo for so many years. One of tho most interesting was a peculiar service in the cafe. Many^years previllllSilv till* Will' V.ll'L' ^n/.i.du hud put u Bible in each of the hotel's rooms. When tho clearing out time came Mr. Farrell had gone through all of tho rooms and collected the Bibles. On the last, night of his stay in the house, drinks?cocktails, li/./.os, Hips, Blinds?wore free in his cafe, and with every one went one of the Bibles. As the party waxed hilarious some startling jokes were perpetrated, hut the revelers were brought to their senses by the discovery of a marriage certificate between the leaves of one of the IJihles. It was dated in this I city in lhSU, and was to the elTect that [ Anna CJarinan, of Danville, Va., had I been married to Ralph l'reston, of Richmond, by the Rev. Dr. Deems. Mr. Farrell took tho cortillcato. He I concluded to write to Ralph l'reston. lie did so, hut he never got any reply, lie put the certificate away in his safe, with the comment that the world is very small, and that it might come into use some day. He had forgotten all about it, when, a day or two ago, a middle-aged woman with an exceedingly pretty face, her attire black, as if for mourning, her manner refined and retiring, timidly sought him in his new cafe in Clinton place. He was dumfounded when he learned she was the Anna Gorman whose name and identity he mid pondered over so often. She told him she hud eloped with Ralph 1'reston. whose father owns a 1 arge estate near Richmond, in 1 Si> 1, after a civil marriage, unci they had come to New York and had a minister unite them. Then they had gone to the New York hotel and taken the bridal chamber. She had put the marriage eortilioate between the leaves1 of a 13ibio in the room. Shu intended to take it with her when they loft, but had forgotten even that she had put it there. When Ralph l'reston learned she had lost it he began to try to get rid of her, she said. They had gone buck to their home, but he bad refused to recognize her. She could not remember what she had done with her certificate. In the meantime she had a little boy baby, but her husband's proud family had not allowed her take their name. About a month ago she read in an old copy of a Now York nowsnaner how tho liiblcs in tho Now York hotel hud been made the subject of a saeriligious servico in tho cafo of Mr. Furroll. Like a flash it oocurrod to her that she hud put the cortiliouto in the Hiblo. Slie hastened to this city. The woman biP'st into tears as she finished her story, ami waited in trembling expectation. Without a word Mr. Far re 11 went to his safe and unfolded the certiiicato before her delighted eyes. She seized it and kissed it, and said she was going back to establish her claim as Kalp Preston's wife at once and t he legitimacy of her child. " 1 knew? 1 felt?that she was the one whom I had been looking and waiting for all this time," said Mr. Far roll to a Recorder reporter last night. " Yes, 1 gave the certificate to her without any hesitation. From what she said I judged she was as much anxious over establishing her claim to the Preston property as anything else. She said she had been unable to establish her civil marriage to Ralph Preston satisfactorily, and the family had always insisted ihat no jyoromony had been hold." j Tho woman said she was going to leave for* her Southern home at once. Dr. Deems is dead, and it was too late last night when the reporter got to the rectory of his old church for any examination of tho records. The woman promised to write to Mr. Farrcll as soon us she got homo and hud begun proceedings to establish her claims as Ralph Preston's wife but he hasn't heard from her yet. - ? ? It appear that Thomas .Jefferson invented the modern plow. There wero plows, of course, thousands of years before the time of the sago of Monticello, hut he first laid down the mathematical principles that underlie the construction of the plow, and so enabled a blacksmith to make one. A plow consists of two wedges, a cutting and a lifting wedge, and JofTorson discovered and enunciated tho proportions of each, and there lntion each bore to the other. Lie fore his day no two smiths made plows alike : now they are all made in accordance with a mathomatical formula. Ma^n tic Nervine, the great restoraivj, will cause you to sleep like a child. Try it. Sold by Carpenter liros., GreeLvillo, S. C. ? / f Till-; SI 1,1,NT 1IKHOK8. Men anil Women I'nkiiowii to Kamo? 'I i The siiiivriiiKH ami Privations of the I'licoiiiplaiiiK Murtyr*. Ami (iod said, hot uh tuuku man in our { imago a: d our likeness ?(Jene*is 1:2t>. < Thorn is something exceedingly en- ' eouraging in tiiis statement, with which 1 tho IJiblo opens, l>eeauso it places man 1 j on a high level. The work of creation was well nigh t llnishod : the myriads of stars had 1 j wheeled Into linn, ready for their 1 i inuvch through ages ; the earth teemed 1 with frnitfnlness, every manner of N creation rejoiced in life, and tho whole ' machinery of the universe had been sot v in motion. Yet a sense of incompleteness pro- 1 1 vailed, something wus wanting which ) would give significances to the whole. Without that something all that had boon done would fall short of perfeo' tion. Then euino the imperative sug| gewtion : "Let us make man." Hut j what kind of a being should lie be? j The inumerablu host of angels and ! arehangels must huve been (Uled with ' curiosity as they looked on the wondrous spectacle of revolving worlds, | conscious that the purpose of creation was to be revealed. The house had been built, but it was without an occupant. "What shall be the shape ' land what the characteristics of this I new beingV" they asked, and the answer oamo back : " Let us make man ( , in our image, after our likeness." Then he must bo a creature with aspirations, with a thousand possibilities, with a royal nature, with the ! capacity for exercising sovereignty , over physical forces and over himself, ' ! a very Cod in miniature, whose inani| fest destiny is the companionship I which IJeaven provides. *] j It may be true that we are prone to evil, that wo succumb to temptat ion, | that we have accumulated an uppull! ing amount of depravity, but the liko' noss to God is still in the soul and has j not been educed. Theologians may ] | toll us that this depravity is total : but no man can sit in impartial judgment I on himself without seeing that tnu elements of true l/roatness remain and ; i.'un bo so dovelopod that ho .-shall become wholly good instead of partly ! bad. Tho dignity of human nature is ] a persistent fact which no amount of I tho theological controversy can elimi- . unto, and no man in all the multitudo | but .feels at times the pulsing of higher 1 j hopes and the consciousness that lie I may yet fulfill his mission. Mon and women are nobler than we *" I think. In the great fabric of tho com- ' I munity are golden threads of personal heroism, of self-sacrifice, of calm and quiet endurance, that lias never been told by orator and never sung by poet, i The heroes and heroines of ordinary Jl life are too numerous for counting. ( Men and women are daily facing einor- ' gencies which require a loftier cour- 1 ago than was over displayed on the 1 hold of battle. The physical daring t which under excitement and the im- u pulse of a love of glory stands amid * shot and shell and bears the flag aloft 1 through a shower of bullets may be 1 altogether admirable, and is certainly ' worthy of the rewards of honor which J it receives ; but there is a nobler daring, and it deserves a far higher meed ' of praise, as when the young man * catches a glimpse, by a Hash of light n- ( ing thiough the darkness, of the in- H evitablo results of his evil life, and ^ with a mighty efforts breaks from the ( entanglement of vicious habits and in N spite of cajoleries and gibes and ieers 1 } claims possession of himself ami main- J i tains the elaim with a will that no * . cii'oumstaneos can break. Who can tell how many experiences ' ' of this kind occur ever year in a city ' j like this ? Few hear of them, for they " are wrought in silence or solitude. 11 | Such a Hercules does not become x ! famous by his acheveinent, hut lie is ^ I nobler than any Olympic god that 1 ever found a place in history or ' mythology. 11 There are wives who hear the brunt 1 of ill fortune without a murmur, bus- 1 hands who struggle with povorty, or ^ impending poverty, with a calm 11 fortitude which excites the pity of the 1 "cloud id witnesses" in the upper air ; ' i both men and women who have secret ( I sufferings so great that their hearts * are healing a dead march to the grave, hut from whoso lips no word of complaint escapes, and girls by the score who keep themselves unspotted in spite of fate, preferring the loneliness of a dingy room with honesty for company to the gaudy surroundings which j are bought with impurity of life. 1 These are not rare instances by any means. If you could peer into the I souls of the passers by you would find | them at overv corner. These !?? .> i.tw> silent gods and goddesses of out* modern day, whoso statues are not to bo found in any t'unthcon, but will certainly bo found in tho temple of eternity. They belong to tho unrecognized nobility?to that peerage of tied who are doomed to suffering today, but will rejoice with great gladness to-morrow. One illustration will sulllee. It is a pathetic story, but it is also a true one. The aged father needed constant care, and the daughter, thinking her first duty was to him, bade her suitors good night. While watching at bis side she developed, a frightful and perhaps fatal malady. Though she might be saved by an operation sho refused to submit lest anxiety should hasten the parent's death. " I am nothing," she said ; " lie is everything," and so the malady reinforced itself week by week. She deliberately and knowingly spent herself for him, and he fell into his last sleep unconscious of the sacrifices which that noble soul was making. Total depravity ? It is blasphemy to utter the words in such a connection. Hotter far the language of Gonesis: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Human nature is like an armful of hickory in the fireplace, with an armful of pine underneath. Tho hickory needs only to bo kindled, and it will fill the room with genial heat. Men and women can do anything under the proper inllueuco. The capacity is there ; supply the motive, and there is no degree of heroism which may not be attained.?Now York Herald. ? Bamberg has a prodigy in a young n jgro named John Salley, who is about 1*.) years old. lie attended a local school and afterwards wont to ClaMin. Ills ir<>nill>J i? nut 1 : n ^ . .-.y tiW V/UVy OlVUytl 1UI 111^ ^ knowledge of mathematics is as won- ? dorful as his memory. Ho can answer any question in Assyrian, Kgyptian, i Roman, Grecian and United States v History. Ho knows arithmetic by heart, lie was givon the following ox ,. ample which ho worked in live minutes : A cube contains .'{,000 cubit inches The edges ai'O to each other as c :2, .'1 and -1. Find the length of each ,] edge? It requires somo originulity to s work that example and ho worked it. j - ? ^ - ? v R. C. Taylor, Murfrot sboro. Tenn., writes: "I have used the .Inpaneso ti Rile Cure with great satisfaction and J success." Sold by Carpenter Rros., y iGroonville, S. C. v AMlCltr SYDNKY JOHNS I ON. lie ltoiuni'kalih' Inscription on the t Tomb ol' t Ik* Grcm Confederate! Ltcadcr. It is stated tliat during tho Federal < leeupatlon of Now Orleans under Gen. j ] $. F. Butler tho gravo of Goti. Albert i iydney Johnston who eame so near naking a Confederate vletory out of 1 he Shitoli tight, and who was slain in hat engagement?was subjected to d is- < espectful treatment. This may or > nay not have boon true, but it is fur- | .hot* stated that one morning there vas discovered, written on a sheet of j lotepaper, fastened to the rude board, | vhieh was then its only headstone, \ ,li is epitaph: I behind thi < stone .is I dd. for a season, All ert Sydney Johnston, (Jeneral in the ariny of the Confederate i States, I Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee, On the sixth day of April, A l>., Eighteen liundred and sixty-two. A man tried in many high oilices And critical enterprises, 1 And found faithful in all. i lis life was one long sacrifice of interest < to conscience, I Anil even that life on a woful Snhtmth ? IS,I 1... Yflnl.l no Iw.l I ! .'?? ?iv Iiuxvwilim I'l lll? nniiltrv's need. Not wholly understood was lie while lie lived ; tot in liis death his greatness stands confessed in a people's tears, desolate, modest, clear of envy, yet not wnnting n thai lirni ninhition which makes men great and pure, In his honor impregnable, In his simplicity sublime, So country e'er had a truer . on. no < utse a 1 nobler champion, No people a holder defender, 110 principle i a purer victim Than the dead soldier Who sleeps here! the causo for wliieh no perished is lost? Tiie people for whom he fotight are crushed? The hopes in which he trusted are shattered? The Hag he loves guides no more the charging line: [tut his fan e. consigned to the keeping of that time, which Happily is not so much the tomh of Virtue as its shrine, diall, it) years to come, lire modest worth to nohlc deeds, i n honor, now. our great Captain rests, , A bereaved people mourn him, Throe commonwealths oroudlv claim him, And history shall cherish him Among the e chosen spirits who holding their conscience unmixed with hlame Have been, in all conjunctures, true to t hem selves,! heir country ami their (lod. A come pendent of tho Charleston 3umlay N ws gives tho following in 1 egurd to the author of this famous in- > icriptlon, which was clipped from tho iutmy South several years ago : Soon after tho fall of (ion. Albert Sydney Johnston at the battle ofShiloh < mil tho tn.nsfer of his remains to Now Hrloans a iady visiting tho cemetery ound pin ted to a rough hoard that 1 osted on t io temporary tomli the fol- I owing bountiful epitaph. It was writen in a t olicalo hand with a pencil I md t he rain had nearly obliterated tho hnraoters hut she made a verbatim , 1 opy of th i manuscript and sent it to 1 mo of the New Orleans papers, with ' lie request that, if possible, the iiutiio if tho author should lie published. ' 1'11 its was g uully done, and the exquisite I ines went the rounds of the press of ( 1 his country and I'inglaml as a model < ' if Knglish composition. Lord 1'aimer- 1 ton pronounced it "a modern classic, ! 1 'iceronian in its language." l'ublie ' iiiriosity being aroused tho authorshin vas trueeii to John Dimitry, a young > 1 mtivo ??f Now Orleans and a son of \loxundor Dimitry, who boforo the ? var occupi *d a distinguished position I u the Stale department at Washing ' on. Young Dimitry, though only a 1 ioy, sorvtd in Johnston's army at ' ihiloh, ami, on visiting Now Orleans M mil the gi avo of his dead chieftain, i vrote the lines on the inspiration of he moment and modestly pinned them 1 m the head hoard as the only tribute i io could olTcr. When the question j iroso concerning tho form of epitaph i o he placed on tho monument erected I o the memory of the dead Confederate j general tho committee of citizens in I barge, with one voice, decided upon j his. and it is now inscribed upon tho i iroail panel at the base of the statute, i itc. In my copy the linos begin with < he word beyond and not "behind." A Tale of Two Capitals. , A friend of mine, recently deceased, | old mo, if my memory serves mo cor- \ ectly, that he had the following facts | rem Duron ilaussmunn himself: Or- , lered by Napoleon 111. to submit plans , or tho renovation of Paris, the Uaron , vas for some time at a loss to moot the wofold requirements, of tho contem- j dated in provements for the now ireeis nail 10 Dii lit Olico beautiful and o laid out is to be readily commanded >y artillei y. Suddenly he bothought lim of in< dcrn Washington, lie semred a p an T>f that city, and this coined on examination so exactly to neet the necessities of the ease that ic tinally s ihmilted it to the lCinporor. Hie result was that the plan in the nain was accepted, and modern Paris viis built upon the lines of modern A'ashingtou. Thus is explained a eerain similarity which strikes every >110 who is familiar with the two capials. although one might naturally sup>ose the American city, heing the ,'ounger, to he the daughter, instead >f the mother. Put General Wash11 gton more than half a century oarlier lad ordered L'Kufant to design him a dun for his seat of government in nueh the maimer as Napoleon III. had !ommundc< Huron llaussmann. Now, i'Knfant was not only a Frenchman, nit a roi>jd< nt of Versailles, and he unloubtedly oorived his inspiration from lis earlier in round in gs : eonse(|uently .Vashingtou was an enlargement of the loyal Park, with its alleys extended a to avcnu'8 and its numerous tlower>eds and pi rterros enlarged into eirdes and qi ail rants. Thus by a transiceanic lea p liaron llaussmann took rom the New World what he could iavo seem d at his own gate. So nueh for a merely curious artistic loineidence. Hut in light of recent levelopniei ts in our capital, asingular nqulry sug rests itself - namely, wnoth >r General Washington, in laying out ( ho city, ?1 i i nothuvo in mind tho samo , ivofold object that Napoleon the Third md when laying out Paris. To be uro, tho present industrial army novomont now bills fair to end in ridi- ' !ulo. Hut at some later date a more t losperato one may require to bo eon- ( rolled by artillery, and then the broad ' ivenueH and straight streets of the 1 apital may be appreciated for other ' ban tncro s 'thotio considerations, and, 1 it the eont ary, serve as an additional * iroof of fur-dghtedm ss North Aineri- s an ltoviow for .1 one. I ?Adjutant Gcnoral Karloy has ro- ' oived and accepted an invitation to 1 elivor the annual address before tho Indents of Waterloo high school in ..anions county on Thursday of this ! I /oek. I < If you h: vo sour stomach and foel ) i.lions, and your head aches, take a ' apunose I vr Pellet, it will relievo on. Sold 1 y Carpenter liros., Green- 1 ,11c, S.C. If FACTS ABOUT MAUR1AGK. L'iii-Ioum and IntcrcMing; Statistics in Iti'KanI lo the Conjugal Kclittion. Carroll I). Wright, buporiontendont ?f the census of 18JKJ, reviews in Tho Forum for Juno tho statistics of sox, niarria . o and divorce. It will surprise many persons to know that tnoro aro more males than females in the total population of this country. The exact ligures in 181H) were : .'i2,<M?7,sNn males and I..'{"() females. Contrary to another popu'ur improsdon, it appears, too, that married persons form a larger percentage of Lhe total population of this country lhan they do of Kuropeun eountrics. rhere arc more married people, too, in our large cities tliun in our farming listriets, relatively to the whole number of the inhabitants. Fuels of interest to young peoplo ontomplating matrimony are that Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Cleveland ire the Amcriuau cities where most nurrying is done; piesuinabiy, the conditions there are moro favorablo n> iin* muniKJiiuiiL'i; 01 nomes man in San Francisco and Boh ton, wliioli aro peopled by finvc"- married folkrt and more single ones than any other cities in the Union. Ireland and Scotland show the largest number of bachelors and spintors and the smallest number of husbands and wives of alt countries furnishing statics. Who would have thought t hat to be the ease ? It will shatter another generally accepted opinion to be told by Mr. Wright, that the total number of divorced persons in this country is very small amounting to only about one-third of I per cent, of the total udult population. Another analysis shows that tiiero was hut one divorced nersu/i to every 18o married persons living in the United States in 18'JO. Mr. Wright's article allords a great variety of other interesting information, and, as a study of the conjugal conditions of the republic, it is reassuring on many vital points. Marriage is evidently not a failure in America. The Atlanta Journal says that Mr. Wright has been called on to explain some puzzling figures in his recent report. Mr. Wright is a famous statistician, and his reports based on ioe census rui/iirns arc read and siuuietl with great interest. Still, his statement that there are 1177,000 more married men than married women in the United States is provoking considerable discussion. It is generally supposed that there is a married woman to correspond with every married man. Mr. Wright's ligures are all the more surprising because widowers and ilivoreod men are accounted for in another table. In referring to his statement that Diir married men outnumber our married women by .'177,(><M), Mr. Wright admits that "at first glance it seems paradoxical," but assures us that it "can bo readily accounted for." His explanation is that many of the men who immigrate to us from other countries leave their wives behind. The force of this explanation is somea but impaired by Mr. Wright's ligures for other countries, which show that there are more husbands than wives in Kngland, Scotland, Ireland, tiermany, Astriu, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. Where, then, do our surplus married men cotno from? Where have the l77,tM)<? extra married men in this ountry left their wives? it is suggested that this is a proper subject for international investigation. As die New Yorld World remarks, "The Id-metallic sinks into secondary signilicanee compared with the bi-marriago issue. We must maintain the double standard in the world's connubial cur eney." ?? SWNTIOll 1HAN Til 10 WIND. Passengers (o lie Taken from New York to Chicago in Six Hours. i uo r.ievateu suspension Hievatcd Uailwuy Company has boon organized to build a railwuy on an air lino between Chicago and Now York. The listanee is 7f>0 miles, and Invontor lohnstou says it can bo covered in six liours. A double track road is propos3d. The rails will bo in the upper part of an elevated steel structure, and the ears will be suspended from the trucks and have no support beneath them. The Manges on the outside instead of the inside of the rails as on ordinary railways. Invontor Johnston says: "The speed to bo obtained with light trains on tho system is practically unlimited, and depends altogether on tho ji/.o of the wheel used. Sixty miles per hour could easily ho obtained with safety on a liftoon inch wheel, and 120 Lo b*it) miles per hour with a thirty to thirty-three inch wheel on long runs of straight track. " Tho cars are about six foot in width by twenty feet, in length, with a seutillf 1'll.lllie.it V llf tllit'tv luov/ili a 'I'l... o v w> v" " VJ J/VI OUI'Oi -1 1 1 ^ weight of tho ear proper is 1,800 pounds, of tho trucks and motor, which uro above and upon tho rails, 4,200 pounds, ami of tho passengers 5,000 pounds, making the strains upon a 150 foot spun, with a loaded train of two :ars upon it, nineteen and one-half tons when the train is at rest. "Tho cost of construction for this1 system does not exceed 20 per cent, of die cost of steam elevated roads under u'dinary c iron instances, whilo the trussing of streams and the overeomng of obstacles to buildings can be lecomplished by the use of longer ipans without a material increase in txpense. About $ St), 000 per mile fully lovers tho cost of construction of a bur-track road and $10,000per mile its iquipinent, while a two-traek road can >e built and equipped under$00,000 per nile. " There being no solid structure to let us a sounding board, tho noise is ess than that of any other system, j The flexibility of this system gives an W#?n.w.hhs AS s ? * * inicuuun) iiioi/iuu iu rutins, and roieves of all jolting and noise of the Mgic structuro. There is perfect freeloni from dust, smoke, steam and clnlers, and in matter of speed, it is beyond comparison." Senators Hutlor and John Gary [ Ivans have been invited to deliver ipucehos at Little Mountain, Newberry Jounty, July 1th, and have accepted tho invitation. Governor Tillman has ilso been invited. If our Little Mountain friends can induce Governor Tillliiui and Senator IJutler to meet on the ilump in their town, tho crowd will bo i) largo that it will tax the barbecue [>r ividora to feed tho multitude. Dr. Sampson Dope, has also been invited to attond and will do so if business does lot conlliet. -Voice of tho Deople. Ladles, if want a pure, delicate soap for tho complexion. Carpenter Bros., Jrecnville, S. C., Druggists, will a y.tys recommend Johnson's Orii ntal Slodicin il Toilet Soap. ?Hart's Battery will hold their anmal meeting at liambtrg, S. C., on tho 27th of June. M i:\ A NI> WOMISN. Light and llitght Hnylnp* Ahout lVol>l<> (loncrally. \ tcllIM)!! (il )bi' No matt can cat cocouuut pie often ami bo happy. Nil mail unit his wife ever a ircod on the money quest iou. Diu any one over know a man to j apologize to his wife 'i Kverytbiug a girl bus on the walls of Iter room is pinned on. When some people adopt a new style it is time for every one else to l drop it. Talk about sensational trials: wait until you hear the recording angel's testimony. For some reason, girls who tiro i ngaged complain most about their vaccination marks hurting them. The great hardship is not in doing your best, but in convincing othets that you are not doing your worst. The difference between theory and fact is the ditTereneo betw < u ti e work vou actually do ami intend to do. Tho Lord no doubt lias often notict d the vast difference in the prayers ot an engaged girl and of a married woman Wo havo always had an idoa that tho phillsopher \v ho takes everything as it comes, without swearing, has a hard time of it. A girl who, sixteen years ago, refused to marry a certain young man until ho hud 4*mado a name for himself " is still waiting. A widower who had one hud in the grave lias taken u out and |>ut it in a yellow shoo and is having his house refurnished in bridal stylo. An old girl who has been noticing a great many years, says t hat no bride ' has tho bridesmaids at her wedding 1 she originally intended. Every woman is looking for a prince for a husband, and it novci' occurs to | her that princes arc extremely scarce j and very ditlicult to please when found. j Every 0110 thinks that others around him might make om ?\oik easier fori him. Tho thought that lie might make the work easier for others never enters his head. I It is a great and unpleasant shook, hut when a good man goes wrongevoiy j | one say? that he is not surnrised. that I ho suspected something was wrong all < the time. ? It is worthy t?f note in these times of ' abusing the men that thoro are more ] men able to earn potatoes and beef- ' steak than there are women who know < how to cook them. i This is the season of the year when : the loafer tolls of how many cords of wood ho split in the winter. In tho ' winter ho tells how many tons of hay he raked in the summer. A man roso up in one of the churches ( to signify a willingness to be one of a ( number to contribute *10 to the church , debt, and his wife pulled him down by the coat tails before tho minister saw , him. j The men and women find so much : fault with each other. Why don't i they build a wall from San Francisco ' to Now York, and let the men live ? on one side and the women on the other V i A strong, mi tided woman who sup- i ports her husband remarked recently that she wouldn't ia.ve the conditions ] reversed. " You've no idea,'' she said, < " how swoot and atYectionato a man is ' who is dependent upon you for his ' spending money." mmM' jw VOTK AS YOU I'LCASH. \ Chairman Mitchell Says no one is ltcHired to Surrender His Keligious , j or i'olit ical Opinions \V lien lie Joins \ the Alliance. j OFFICE OP CHA1UMAN i > Ex. Com. State Alliance. ? WnnmvAwu s; t' in.,.. 1 twin \ 1 1 To tlu; Kditor of tho News and ILernld: ' I notice a, communication in your paper of May 30, from Mr. K. G. Palmer of Uidgoway, in which ho calls upon j me to state " yes " or " no " as to whoth- 1 er tho Alliance, as a body, is bound by tho demands about which I questioned ' tho Governor. In reply I would say no , one is required to surrender his indivi-1 ' j duality when he joins the Alliance. , I The obligation taken when becoming | a member of the Alliance says that it ' j will not conflict with tho freedom of i your political or religious views, henco ,1 would say a man may boa member \ , of the Alliance and > > in support ] i a i bill) lIUIMUIlUSi (Signed.) T. r. MrrcuisLi,. ] ?Hardy (Jill, a colorod man, was 1 taken by force from the jail in Lan- < caster Sunday morning botwoon 1 and i 2 o'clock, by a party of twenty-live i men and carried about three miles and | ( lynched. He assaulted and wounded a < Mrs. Clark who resides near Lancaster. 1 . i ( | %TilK 7M CK IS WON i ?over to good health and rendered 1 impervious to disease when the blood is pure and the liver active. For > the liver is tho sentinel which per- i mits or forbids the germs of disease I to enter the circulation of tho bipod. ' You ought to bo germ-proof . against Grip, Malaria, or Consump- \ tion; you will be?if you take Dr. I Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1 When your ilesh is reduced below J a healthy standard, when you are troubled with pimples and boils, or < ii j"" ui?v*.3 ui/,/,y, weaK JUKI sleep- j t less spells ? it's best to heed the 1 warning. 1 Build up your strength, purify tho ' blood, ami set all tho organs of tho , body into activity, by taking tho "Discovery" It's guaranteed to benefit or euro all tho diseases resulting from impuro blood or inactive liver, or tho money paid is refunded. For a perfect and perma- ;j nent cure of Catarrh, take Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its proprietors offer $500 reward , for an incurable case of Ca- { tarrh in the Head. Costs only 50 cents. i k cTi)\ vnr r\QP ^ t\ OllUViUtLi VilvJUi How an Enemy was Foiled. Tlio following grnplilc statement will bo read with Intenso Interest: "I cannot describe the numb, creepy sensation tliatexlsted In iny arms, hands and logs. 1 had to rub uml beat those parts until they were sore, tooverconie In a measure the dead fouling that had taken possession of them. In addition, I had a Mrange weakness In my back and around my waist, together with nn indescribable 'gone' feeling in my stomach. Physicians said it was creeping paralysis, from which, accord* Ing to tholr universal conclusion, there Is no relief. Oneo It fastens upon a person, they say, it continues its insidious progress until it reaches a vital point and the sufferer dies. Such was my prospect, l had been doctoring a year and a half steadily, but with' no particular benefit, when I saw an advertisement of l?r Miles' Restorative Nervine, procured a hottlo and began using it. Marvelous as it may seem, hut a few days had passed beforo every hit of that creepy feeling had left mo, and there has not been oven tho slightest Indication of its return. I now fool as well as 1 ever did, and have gained ten pounds in weight, though 1 had run down from 170to 137, Four others have used i>r. Miles' Resloratlvo Nurvinoon my rccomondution.und it has been ns satisfactory In their cases as in initio."?James Kane, La Uuo. U. I>r. Miles' Restorative Nervine issoldbyall druggists on u positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Dr. Milos Medical Co., Elkliurt, Did., on receipt of price, ft per bottle, six hot 11cs for 15, express prepaid. It Is frco from, opiutva or duugorous drugs. So <1 by Curpontor liros.. Den tist. - - "? msTKIIU TlXi; 'I'll 10 ol KICKS. How I It** Otlicial 1*?Hcollage is I>?hpt'iiNcd?liic Incqii ilitj ol* the Dint r.biitinn. II .rper's Weekly. The Civil Service Commission has prepared from the oflicial regisVV^^>r " lllue Hook " a statement, which jl Appear in the annual report of the mm mission, soon to be issued, showing t the appointment of otliees at tie: departments at Washington among tiio states and Territories. Under the ^ ivil service law the otliees, without regard to their value, are apportioned According to population as shown by the last census. This principle lias Always been recognized. Uven under the spoils system it was known; and to-day the I nitcd States Senate, which Is governe d by no law in distributing dlices, makes an apportionment among the Senators, allowing to each Senator appointments drawing salaries to a tixed aggregate. In the ease of the Senate places, though, the fact that tie Senator, representing a sovereign State, is as good as another Senator is recognized, and tlio Senator from Texas and the Senator from Virginia share alike. There are still twice as many ollicos under the patronage system as there uro under the civil service laws in Washington. 'The exact number of the former is 7S(m, and of the later 1881. Now the law which applies to the distribution of the civil service Appointees does not apply to the patronoge appointees; and although Lho appointment clerks in the departinnnls clnim Mint, tli.nr >,>>/.? . l... v.'??v V.IV'J nj'J'UI UMMI till* jIHcos as nearly as possible according to the population of the States, the table prepuivd by the Civil Service Commission shows that the distribution is far from etjuitablo. It does not iippcur either that the States of the South, which arc unquestionably Democratic, fare any better under this* administration, or that the Republican States of the North were any hotter treated under the Republican administration ; in fact, no political line can bo drawn. Tho offices scorn to have ueen custriouiod chielly according to the "inlluonco" or prcssuro which ould be brought to bear, and naturally the greatest inllueneo came from the States which wore near Washington. But most singular of all the facts shown i?y this statomont is the enormous imount drawn from tho public treasury by the people in ollieo who claim Washington as their residence. According to ?ho statement of the Civil Service Commission tho District of Columbia now has 21147 of the 11,740 places in the departments, and draws p2,106,001 of tho $18,591,328 compensation. New York has places which pay better ; but though New York has far exceeded her quota of public ollices, the Umpire State has only 1 !!.">:? people in place, and they draw only $1,706-, ?82 compensation. I "^JftWylvania Iruws $1,174,081, Ohio $6o,d78, and 1 llionis $604,285. These four States ind the* District of Columbia together haw $6,251,167 annually from the Treasury?nearly one-half of all that s drawn in sulurios in the Washington lepartments. And yet three of these four States have less than their quota >f places. Now York is entitled to 1114. and has 1258; but Pennsylvania ias 85 less than her quota (685), Ohio 172 less than her quota (680), and illioriis 241) loss than her quota (718). Tin District of Columbia is entitled to I I places, and has 2647. The States which gain by ihis ir? ogularity of distribution are Muryand, which is entitled to 165 appointtionts, and which has 552 ollices, aggregating $6,000,026 in value: Virginia, which is entitled to .'11J ollices, and which has 55)0 places, with salaries aggregating 1,566,818; Maine, ujfcch 7s entitled to 10 t -?1 ?1 * .... w...? v-i?, mm Wliliin Mils |C>:{, with compensation ag<: relating ^:i2,r>50: West Virgiuu, which is entitled to 1 HI oilioos and lias ITS. and a 'ow other of the States which have been able to bring stronger pressure to boar than have the States in the far South or the Wost. lint the great valance to which the majority of tho Utato-J contribute belongs t ? the District of Columbia. It is represented oy men and women who were in many janes appointed to places many years tgo, and who have heroine so identified with the D strict that t uy are now jrodlted to it. JOHNSON'S MAGNETIC ? 1L1 r m-Q Instant Killer of Pam*. Internal and External. V, C.k J Cures 11111 CMATIKM. NF.UKAI/* V Ol A, I/iiiue lint-k, 8|?ralii>? liruer-i, t*\ M Hwellinies Hint Joint*. OOI.lC and r; V e.OKAMPS inxtnntly. QioloraM o ?v> >. \j?t?.y>us Cioup,IMpthcrln, H0T0 Throat, ^^?r^*WB1I^Al>ACllK,ftslt bymnglo. ftiE HORSE BRAND Stock, DouW 'stroniMtf, tcrnoot Powerful and Peneti atinRl.lnlment for Man n- Boast in exl-Uuco. Ltir?o U ?4zo 75c., Wo. size iuc. JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. Vidlaated and Toilet. 1 he Orcnt Skin Cure and ace Benutiflor. Lndieo will find it the tno-t lellcnte and highly perfumed 'Collet Hoap 011 he market. It 1* absolutely pure. Makes tho .'.n Roft and velvety and rostorea tho lout 00mMoxion; la a luxury for tho Bnth for Infants, t nlny* itching. clonn?en tho scalp and prouiotoo ho growth of hair. I'rlco20v. Forealo'.y