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THE PEOPLE'S R VOL 7.--NO. 33- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 897. OND The Westminster Abbey of South Carolina, INTERESrING SKCETOEI OF AN HIS TORIC CHURCH. Old St. Philips in Charleston from the Establishment of the Church of England Under the Itoyal Char ter of 1005 to the Present Time. Much of the history of the early col onies is written on the headstones of graves in quaint and crowded church yards. These burial places were gen erally close to the doors of the church, so that living and dead might be in touch, and the tombs afforded conven ient and appropriate material upon which to inscribe the simple but im portant annals of the parish. Communal life, in those primitive days, grouped itself about the church. This was the case with the Puritans in Massachusetts, the Baptist dissenters in Rhode Island, the Quakers in Penn sylvania, the Huguenots in South Car olina, and even with the Cavaliers in Virginia. It was a departure from British precedent, asi 'Anglo-Saxon communities elsewhere have sprung up around the court house and the polling place. In America, however, the church was the motive of colonization, and men fled to these wildernesses to establish churches, rather than gov ernments. And hence it is that, in re constructing the life of those colonial days, which are not distant in time, but which we have permitted to become very remote to our minds and feelings, we must have recourse to church walls, entablatures, memorial windows, and tombstones, that have preserved for future generations the story of these conquerors of the wilderness and of tyrants. Fresh interest has been added to this branch of the study of our colonial his tory by the publication of a small mon ograph on St. Philip's Church of Charleston, S. C., by Edward McCrady. Mr. McCrady is senior warden of the church, a distinguished lawyer, and is now engaged upon an exhaustive his tory of the State. He is, therefore, qualified for the task of writing the story of the old church. "The early history of St. Philip's .Church," says Mr McCrady, "is but a part of the colonial history of South Carolina ; and as it has been said of Westminster Abbey that itiwas a part of the constitution of England, so St. Philip's was interwoven into the very fahric of the province." St. Phillip's was founded between 1682 and 1690. It enjoyed the peculiar advantage, from a historic point of view, of being the centre and mainspring of the life of the colony. Its communicants were the chief persons of the colony ; and from its bosom went forth ;governors of the Royal Province, and afterward of the State ; statesmen who planned and soldiers who directed revolution ; and, in later times, politicians who strug gled for and against nullification and secession, and soldiers who won fame for themselves and thclr common wealth. Its dead were gathered back to its bosom; and the deeds of its heroes and statesmen, of its ministers and martyrs, and of Its sons who had lived and striven for others, were fitly re corded upon its walls and tombs. The church or parish represented the civil and social life of the community. The author writes : "The churchmen wholesttled at Bar bados established parishes, and from time to time adding civil to the eccles iastical duties of the parochial officers, contented themselves with that organ ization as the basis alike of civil as of ecclesiastical affairs. The parish thus became the unit alike of church and State, and the election precinct of members of the Commons IHouse of As sembly. The church act of 1706 adopted the names of the parishes in Barbados for those in this province. "In 1716 the assembly went further and adopted the parish system of Bar bados as a model of the government of this colony. From this time until the Revolution, all elections in Charles Town for members of the general as sembly, &c., were held at St. Philip's, the Parish Church, and were conducted by her wardens ; and various municipal duties were imp)osed upon her vestry." The first church was built on the site now occupied by St. Michael's. It was replaced by a church on the site of the present St. Philip's in 1723. Trhis second edifice was destroyed by fire in 1835, and the present church almost an exact reproduction of the former strpcture, was rebuilt immediately and consecrated November 9, 1838. The church was seriously damaged .luring the bombardment of 1863. "During the latWWar the steeples of St. Philip's ancpSt. Michael's, the most'conspicuous objects in the city, served as targets for the, great guns with which the city was bombarded. St. Philip's suffered par ticularly. T1en or mere shells entered its walls. The chancel was destroyed, the roof pierced in several places, and the organ demolished." It was almost destroyed by the earthquoke of 1885, A but has been completely repaired. In 1698 It was provided by an act of parlianent that the rector "should en-I joy gll the lands, houses, negroes, cat * tie,j;and moneys appointed for the use, benefit, and behoof of the minister of Charles Town, and especially appro priated a salary of 150 pounds per an num to him and his successors forever, and directed that a negro man and wo man and four cows and calves should be purchased for his use and paid for out of the p4blic treasury." Prior to the Revolution the church was in charge of the Bishop of London, who had found it necessary to send over "commissaries" to represent him. The character of the earliest representa tives of the church had not always been of the best, and the province was used as a sort of ecclesiastical pertal colony. The author says : "No provision had been made by the g'overnment or Church of England for the' episcopal supervision of the clergy who came out to Americai, and it can not be denied that many of them were outcasts of the church at home, some of them of the vilest character.'' A curious use was made of the insti tution of negro slavery. Commissary Garden conceived the idea that the ne groes and Indians could be converted through the agency of riegro teachers, and he published an advertisement in the South Carolina Gazette of March 11, 1743, giving his plans, says Mr. Mc Crady : *"It states thn.t the Sityfo,r. te Propagation of the Gospel, having long at heart the propagation of the gospel among the negro and Indian races in his majesty's colonies in America, had resolved on the following method of pursuing that end, viz., by purchasing some country-born negroes, causing them to be instructed to read the Bible, and in the chief precepts of the Chris tian religion, and thenceforth employ ing them as school masters for t1 e same instructions of all negroes and Indian children as might be born in the colo nies. The advertisement goes on to state that in pursuance of this plan the society had purchased, about fifteen months before,'two'such negroes for this service, and assigned one of them for Charles Town, who would be sufficient ly qualified in a few months, and to whom all the negro and Indian child ren of the parish might be sent for education without any charge to the masters and owners." The necessary money was subscribed, and the school started. The two slaves were baptized, and received the names of [Harry and Andrew. For twenty-two years the school prospered, but An drew died, and Harry "turned out profligate," and "as the society had not invested to any greater extent in slaves for educational purposes, they had no other black or colored person to take charge of the school, and so it was dis continued." In 1140 occurred the famous trial of the Rev. George Whitefleld before the ecclesiastical Court of Commissary Oarden. Whitefield had been warned by the Bishop of L'ndon against too great "enthusiasm," and when he brought his enthusiasm to South Caro lina he was promptly tried by the bishop's commissary, condemned, and suspended. The churchyard, however, and not vestry journals is the real storehouse :f St. Philip's history. Here one can brace the founding of the colony, the slow develop into statehood, and all its aheckered career illumined by the genius of its soldiers, jurists, orators, and statesmen. Here Moultrie, hero of the first victory of the Revolution, has bis appropriate record in the well known inscription : Sacred to the Memory of Major General William Moultrie, Who by his intrepidity and good conduct on the 28th June, 1776, gained with his Regiment, the first complete victo ry Achieved by Preserving Charleston from capture, (;iving confidence to the Union, And show ing that the boasted Navy of Eng land wais no longer Iavoncible. Who in 1778 saved Beaufort from Captivity by gallan ly Displaying his faith ful band of Militia in the open field: Discomfiting an British equal number of Regu lars, and proving the superiority of patriotic valor well directed over the sheltered dis cipline of Despots. Who in 177) by his activity and firmness, again Rescued his native city. Assailed by a formidable British Army, thus thrice Meriting the mural crow%n. Aid who though captured and distressed Rejected with disdain, the splendid bribe, Of rank and emolument in the Enemy's army, demonstrated That a reverse of fortune, could Only adud fresh lustre to his haurels. Though daring in action and in Ilexible inl patriotic Principles, lie was in Society Mild, benevolent, and un assuming. No domestic charactr was more beloved, no friend more Cherished. The Cincinnati of South Carolina have Erected this Second Monu ment of their affection And Gra'itutle to their beloved first President lie died 27th Septemher. 1805, in the 76th year of his age. The Bnrkr-like phrase, "the shel bered disci pline of despots," has gone iround the world. The heroic and self-sacrificing lives of Jacob and Re becca Motte are commemorated by an inscription cut into the marble top of their hospitable sideboard. When a party of British, attacked by Ameri cans, took shelter in her residence, and used it as a fort, Rebecca Motto set fire to the house to drive out the invaders. The inscription follows : Sacred to the Memory of Jaco,b anid Rebecca AMotte. Hie was an upright, benevolent, and Patriotic Citizen: D)eservedly beloved and respected by all who knew him; Being infirm and adivaneed ini Age. Hie survived but, a short time the Capture of Charlest.on, And the consqluenit Misfortun'e of ll is Country : Hav'ing departed This life on thie 20th (lay of .January, 1781. aged 513y ears. In 11er the meekness and fervent Piety of the Christian, Trhe most benevolent of human Hearts. Andi( the most humble and unobtrusive diemean or. WVere happily lelndedi with the firm P'atriotism of the Spart an M atron. For her civic virtues, thme Hlistorian of her Country Has dlistiinguishecd her among the daughters Of ('arolinia, themselves' distinguishied fo,r unmshiaken l"idel ity3 to their Coun try, 'The tears of fthe iindignent, to who she acted as a Sister, TPesti fy to her uinbhoundedl Charity. 'The unfteignled sorrowvs of (lie circl'e in which she movedl, Anmd of which she wa~s the ornamemt And (lie dIelighat, p,r,cl am h,ow~ am iable a11n1 uassu miing Were her sociail talents; And her bereavedl and, (disconlso late chiilren D)edicate this miarb,le, to commemorate the excellence Of the domestic character of boith their l'arents. She dliedl on the 1oth day of .1 an - uary, 1815 in the 77thI year of her age. The remains of John C. Calhoun also rest in the little church yard. Trho author writes: "Upon the death of Mr. Calhoun the city council.of Charleston unanimously passed a resolution that, in their opin ion, the city, the ehief metropolis of the State, mIght with Propriety ask for herself the d istinction of being selected as the final resting place of that illus trious man, and that the mayor, in be half of the council and the citIzens of Charleston, should communicate with the family of the dceased and earnest ly entreat that the remains of him they loved so well should be permitted to repose among thorn. This request was acceded to, the bodyv was brommht to thi city and received with the grandest, the most imposing and solemn ceremonies. St. Philip's churchyard was at once do signated as the temporary resting place. There were two reaso"s for this selection. First, the close, historic connection of the church with the com monwealth of which Calhoun was the greatest product. and, second, there was a peculiar fitness in the circum stances that Bishop Gadsden, the rec tor of St. Philip's, had been a classmato of the great man at Yale College." "During the war the remains wore moved and secreted in the eastern churchyard and taken back to their original resting place in the west ern cemetery in 1884. The wealth of memories hoarded by the old church yard and the church may be apprecia ted from the following extract : "Of the dignitaries of the church in the line of the episcopate there lie around her hallowediwalls two commis saries of the bishop of London, three bishops of the American church, and seven ministers who had served at her alter. Of chief magistrates, two colo nial and three State governors are bu ried within her precincts, besides num bering among her worshippers two other colonial and four other State governors who are buried elsewhere. Six colonial chief justices worshipped in her sanctuary, four of whom are bu ried in her cemetery. Two presidents of the Continental Congress and two signers of the Declaration of independ ence were reared in this church, one of the signers resting near her walls. Ambassadors and ministers have gone from her to foreign lands, and members of Congress have been again and again chosen from her members. Sold iers of all the wars in which South Carolina, province and State, has been engaged lie within.her gates. And there also are to be found the graves of men of science." THE. CHARLESTON "YEAR HOOK." A Treasury of Illstory and Reitinis conce-Value of the Latest Nun ber. New York Times. There are so few really historic places in this country that it is strange any one of them should have escaped the historians of the brief life of the Republic. Such, however, has been the fate of Charleston, S. C., which is not only one of the oldest cities oi the American continent, but which has preserved longcst, in the dry air of its stanch conservatism, the customs and memories of our Colonial and early National life. The historians have gathered their material elsewhere: gleaning their facts from British ar chives, and getting their local color s from Massachusetts and Virginia. Charleston, the centre of a distinctive and richly endowed form of American life, and, besides, the capital of what might be called the democracy of the Huguenots, a rarely gifted peoplo, who have touched, influenced widely, and enriched the National mind, without having been absorbed by it-has not been exploited and its magnificent storehouse of history and tradition made a common possession. The neglect of that city as a source of history and as a storohouse of ma terial from which our earlier life and customs might be portrayed with exact truth has probably been duo to two causes. One of these is that Charles ton has altogether fallen out of the sharp competition of American cities, and having lost it, commercial rank, has with it orfeited it, climii upon the attention of the annalist. The other is, perhaps, that the conspicuous part it played in the tragedy of 1 i;1 has brought it for the time being under the ban of history. Be the causes what they may, the por-trayal of the National life has sulfer-ed by this neglect. The events that led to our independence, the record of the str-uggles of the young RLepublic, and the simpjle and virtue insp)iring customs of the found ers of our present gr-eatness during the p)eriod when "p)lain living and high thinking'' was the r-ale of life-these can never be adequately depicted by a historm-it who has not saturated his mind with the ''atmosphere" of Char baston. T1he picture will lack truth In its sp)irit, freshness and faithfulness In Its color-, and breadth in its concption. It is because the Charleston of to-day is still the Char-leston of yester-day, and pr-eserves as in a miniatut-e which is daily becoming more obscurme, Our Colonial and early National li fe. About twenty years ago William A\. Courtonay, shortly aftcrwar-d Mayor of Charleston, conceived the idea of col lecting and pr-eser-ving sotme of the historic recor-ds and ttraditions of the city. When ho was clected Mayor- he at onlce put his idea into prtactice and began the publication In "Year- Books" of all the annals andi memoirs connect ed with or relating to Charleston that he could get together. Ho rnansacked the p)ublic library and1 all the p)rivate librar-ies of the cit,y for- material. Uie sent to the lBodlelan Libr-ar-y and to the British Museum, and had the Shaftes bury Colonial p)apers transcibed, and procured dozens of rare and valutable manuscripts that had ncvct- been pub lished on this side of the Atlantic. All of these were issued in the "Year Book," until that modest annual be came recognized the worlId over as one of the most Important sources of his toric material. Mayotr Courimtenay kept the "Yearn Hook" up to its high standard of excel lence during the eight years of his ad mninist,ration. After him, however, there camne Mayors "who knew not" history or tradition, and the ''Year Book" fell back into the wallow of po litical recornds and mnunicipil reports. There hats since been an elfor-t to) te store the publication to its formet rank. The precsent Mayor-, J1. Adger Smnyth, has just had published a "'Year Hook" that is almontst the cqlual of any numb)er in tihe series. The latest issue of the hook contains besides lCdwtar-d MceCrady 's Iinte mono graph on 80 Il'h ili p's Ch ur-ch, a collec tion of sketches and remniniscences of Colonial, 1 lwol utionaty and ante-bel lumn life. A mong the latter at-c "Cx tracts from the D)iary of the llev. Oliver Hlart, fro-m 1740 -- 1780,"' and "Ro1minisenesm of ( ' C hamrleston,'' hy the late William G. Whlil den. Oliver Hart was a pastor of the I b.p tist Churcoh in Charlemton, and was sent by the Committee of Safety, with Tenant and nraytnn. into the unnpe part of the l'rovin,o of South Carolina to persuade the people to take up arms In the cause of freedom. The apostle of the church militant succeeded In his mission. Th following quaint title was prefixed by himself to his diary A MEM('lUANDUM -Conltnining Sono of the Most lItuwanrkabtle (ctu"r'nees 'n lrovidlence, Itelat ive to or Noticed by tilt U nliwrti T1'raiveler towatirds (lit New Jeruasnlein, Who dlesires ever to esteem iiimhsrI It St raunger ai 8olourner in this lDreary Wildlerness. ily OU I V E lIt IA It'l', A. M., Pastor of the Ilaptist Chureh, InI Clas. 'I'own, Sout h Ca('rola. 1By Falthr he sojourned hi the Lanl, as In in Stratnge Country. Itch. iI.. l. In Mr. Whilden's "Reminiscences of Old Charleston," are given the follow ing descriptions of some of the ante bellum customs of the people. Writa.ng of "Our (Irandfather's Ilouse," the author says: "In the corner, as you entered the door in the dining room, stood the 'wino cooler' of polished mahogany, In laid wit.h wreaths of satin wood, octa gon in shape, about three feet high, on six spindling cuaro legs, divided in side with compartments, each to hold a bottle of wine. The centre was line(i with lead to hold ice or water. Being on roller s it was wheeled u p to the side of the host at the head of the table and the cooled bottles handed out as needed. 'The fashions of the world change,' and those who have been accustomed to partake of its contents. now that it was aill gone and never refilled, have failod to return, and for years it was debased to the humble purpose of a sera I) bux, its glory had departed, and, like its owner, it seemed to b growing larger in body and more spindling in the legs. "The sideboard, with its deep draw ers, six in number, and three closets, was large enough to contain all that could be put into three or four of the more fashionable kind now in use. On each site, like sentinels, stood the slop:rig top, knife, fork, and spoon cases lined with green laize; alongside of each stood the silver bottle stands, containing cut-glass decanters, and in the centre the goblet and tumlblers for daily u.se'' llis sketch of the old Fl liott mansion reveals with a single stroke the mag nificenee of former times, contrasted with the poverty and stern necessities of the present. "The E,lliott mansion-now the Charleston Water Works-was built prior to the Ii;;volutionary War, and has some peculiarities that will not probably be repeated in house archi tecture. The stairway of solid marble goes frott basement to attie, and with out a support exeepton the side toward the wall. The upper stoi- is one large room, covering the entire buildlog, ex cept the hall, and was built for a hall r:)om. The view from the window looking seaward is as fine as there is in the city. On the side of the main stairway is t private or secret, stair way, built in the solid masonry, with an opening on each lioor. Servants, in showing a guest, would conduct hin to the foot of the main stairway, and, di recting him up, would meet hit at the landing on the next Ilioor, and so on to the upper story, or ballroom No s:ir vant was allowed to go up the main stairway with colpany.'' The funeral customs of old Charles ton were exceedingly interesting from this distance. They must have been intensely wearisome and trying to the mourners. Mr. Whilden describes them AS follows " The handing around to the mourn ers of cake and wine has long since passed out of u-c. It was done with -oi'innity. A cake called funeral cake was sometimes used cut into blocks probaly early in the settlement of the country. The friends fre-quently had to come for miles, (scattered as they were, on their lantationis, ) and to make a feast wvould have been out oif '"On the airri val at the house, the la dies were showvn into one0 roomi, the gentlemen into another'. T1hte hats of the latter were taken charge of by a servant and carried iinto a roon , w here several ladies were busily emiiployed trimming them with erape, which cor'sisted of a band arouind tite hat and two stremmers, about three feet long, from the back, and a pai r of black or w hite gloves d istrilbuted ,to each per1 son. Tihe ladies' boiinits werec covered with black hoods and a cape to cover the entire shouldeors ;they werec also provided with gloves. ''A master of ceremonies, p)rovided~ with a careful ly p)rep)ared list, took at priom inen position at the foot oif the main stirway or elsewhere, called tt the names at the door whiere the ladies wer'e assem bled :then the master of ceremonies (cailed out the nattes of the gentlemen to escort the ladies, and so on, till the assembiled ladies were all p)rovlided for :thte remiin ing attend ants fell into twos, all walkIing:hirough the stre ets, In the rear of the hearse omr on the pavement, no one riding ini a conveyance. "'At t imes the collini was borne thr-oug h tie streets by the pmalIl)hear(rs, arnd no henriso tisedi. At aL funeiral at, the Scotch urch-e once wvine and cake were handed to thtose iin the priocessiont on the sidewalk. Some fuinerals weire priecedled through the streets by wvhat were t,-rmetd waiters, (namely, t,wo, four, or six negro woimeni, dIressed in wh Ite, wit,h a black scarf over'i thiet shtoui(der reachting to the k flees.)" -The most dilflicoIt problem of rail - road1( op)eration, how to comn Ll0icaite with a moving tiai n by telegraph, has been solve-1 bty a vouing Ch icago inven tor. Geot-go V. '1: , 71,, ia former' tele gr'aph opeatiLtor, has devised a system' whtich will shortly hb put in operation on the Il'ennsyl vania I toad, whereby every train on the line is in constant comnmunicatiori with the station next ahead, and when dlesi-ed with the trai n dispa)&tcher' or' anyi ttelegrap)h sta tion. TJhe dlevice whiicht rail way engi ners declar-e will retvoluttionlze railway telegraphinug, is an adaptation of the etr'eet, ri'llway trolley. -l'resident William L. Wilson, of Washington andi Laeo University, has r'eceivedl a cheek of $1,000 from ex Presidient Cleveland for that institu tioni. The money is to be used for the university accord(ing to Prof. WilI son's judgment anfd the name of the donor is to be kent a anenrt. 'iIE PtIMAlRY I'LECTION. MDcLaurin's Majority Is Twelve Thoi sand-TiO Vote Was Light in A Parts of tihe StatO. The following table shows the vot in the recent primary election fo United States Senator. The figurc are not altogether olliclal, and th totals will doubtless bo inerease slightly when all the returns hav been received, but the voto was thi smallest over polled in the State COUNTIlES. u . Abboville ...............(602 "11)11 21 Aiken ...... ........... 62.1 81 :3: Anderson..............I1(16 621 2"1 am bere'..............:uo i 2: lIaIrnwelI...........4: 17o leaufort................1:3 101) 2 Herkeley..............:337 121 2 Charleston............12W3 102 2 Chester.................i85 (l Cherokee.............113 21, )"1 Chestcrlic ILd.............587 211 1.1 (larendon............. 1:2 5!1 :3. U oleLctn............... 3!)!I :07 Dorchester................;,I I70 1.i I)iarlitngton ............ 11s 24 :31 Idlgelield.............. . 32 l'airfield ................1 2 282 5 l"lorenee...............1 115 11: L Greenville............. 702 "I7S 1 Greenwood..............187 1.. 11I14 Georgetown.............21:3 1 Ilam pton ..............:! 7 1: 18 Ilorry................... 131 SN 77 Nershaw...............171 375 11 I .neaste r"............... 731 221 2.1 Laurens ............... .8 8 71 II:: Lexington ............ 117 :5:1 I11 \Iarion....... ..... .... 2 1 M arlboro............ 9 I13! ON Ne ber'ry..............(l ;11) 11; Oconee................41;11 257 :: ()rangehur ..... .......111(1 772 1 I'ickens....... ....... .1 I 11 I Richland....... ...... 11.1 285 1t' Spartanburg.... ...... :32s 1:32 1.2.1 Sum ter. ................ 113 2711 3.1 Saluda.......... ......4 34 202 2 Ilion............ ..... 1 :14 21 i1 W ill iamsl bu r ... .. .....13 t1 :1: York ..................11(1 1) 21 'I')tt l ................120 4 11117 517 MiV UIIN ON THE, L.8T112 The 1)elncr1s Il ave PuI A(ide I"a4 dortied:10 10y I l.:epe Time foi lt ting ex pression from Sen ittoir tie I'turi n was sent to the Atlanta Constitution the night of th(. olcc :ion : In riesponse to your req1uest I wl l say that I I.tin of cour se, (le-ply gtrate" ill to thne pIo5le of South Carol.i ti tImis imark ed evideuce of thner :'enl tlence nodiu esteem. No manit cottlk have th is feeli ng more si ncerely t liar -. The result is particularly gratify to in vi..w of the character of the( I liht that has been made upon mhe and of Lte ser'ious Iiiness whIiichi hais prie. vented my parici:pating in the earn I,aigniing dur~ing the piast tlhree weeks, It is nieed less fo4r t1u0 to add that in my4 future service in the S~enate as In my1 six sear's of ser-vice in the lower house of Congress, my entire energies shall be devoted to the wel fare of my State, for God k now s every thr mob of miy heart has been for South Carolina and for that whliichi I bel iev'e to be the good of her IpoIple). As to the niean ing of miy endor~se moent at the hands of the peiople I can sav that (lut-int_ this camn rngl myt' - healhasbeento Ineintelign!e :t-e hono itlhlthe 'Ci5i 19th le:107l Whil my !)pOeilt hav 170)el t.1 vc"yhi inhumn nture that :h: there ~ ~ Uis ofinrnc f( lru ic 7 "It s, to, n inoe-cn7n :by thc ill sm'ei'esiit,my 1051t ii : the tail1 ~l iestin may have ~lnsccessfu i:n some mdidual iistancc, b >t forth hill ere est indefci ~ I th !pe.op:l: iv Inni I 'eprsen tan-lt !oi ld>th I kpul len pary to i ce- th.e So tia inork..h.t.e.b.l.n.e.o. te country. ~lMie le w Ull ON Tlli( theCSevte wThe te Inoo'ratae Pt Ail) fc itha 'eligarti ttralY aViws in Sohrlina regardtheresute. The 0(ffionexpresin Iro thn ao thelaurinU Pa sto ti the Alantha Cost iXyears the nihto ttheoe tionr :p aeol ee Usin say th an i amof couldshou tdeepl grat fulr tie pcon ficon Saun, faroTlinano is o mean tovidenyofthi agant denceand estem. or o mn thouh tive I ths eng wo hinerbey thal i. fThe reformltu is berieverl tgratify (ng indo vibof mhen foraprant oh ligener,atlhy. behn mdeciupon of and ofthe ferous ies whrivch has pon aented myfth mantciang theotie am agnIngng tg rthel of thi reimweks aIt( isf&i nedls ou et addlInat in myt fuureerIc isyno n the e ast. m six'ersof death of ,hy ler house soulGd knosassryithob of kiy er haee South alit andmfr the ahc bok beluto she thad wiott "mAy tlo theanig of shor edorse menteahe (hand0storie was eresa atei that itming18is cmand my a pelsbeen tolihe and pintellige, therdi honorth ad thirt eas, and he peio. Whle foy ohents ape adpfe ae. agrtinin Veian littur ofthat s wote bas (nd man, thei vlul, shw peohe stuc the geat afvtergemcai We Expect / l H I ~THIS 0 I f you do not get t4 must not fail to come to and all a cordial invita pleasure in showing you of goo(ls as it has ever l see in these parts. We fall trade, and shall endc terest, one and all, to giv are now offering Some Rare Bar In unseasonablo goods. We certal lot of 11on's i'ur 1lLats, ranging in i S. each. We aro beginning to ri right hero that it will pay you to I to the Rtacket, and know for yo 1tACN lT STOlU for one dollar. are not stuck on us much, I. o., not not stop until you are safe in the S want and as cheap its you canl buy Wishing for you, one and all, f Bryan's Pro Silver, with Uncilo Se your servants to please, NEW YORK E 'atsley, h.('. l'A NS SCORt'S TILLMAN. He Believes the Great Majority of'th e Peo0pi0 41' Ilt M1 at 811 nd1.1(or-No the Principles Aivocated( by lim, an are Opposed I4) (Itoe T,a111li Views of T1illmaln andi MCLaturin, i1x-Governor .John (ary lvans was in Coiumbia when the returns camle to hand, and when asked for an cxpreb sion of opinion about the general re sult, lie said: "I entered this race reluctan.ly, after being assured by my friends that the chances for winning were re mote, but I decided, after hearing Mr. Meblaurin's speech at Sumiter, and u1pon the de fiance of my enemies to make at light-not on any factional or sectional lines, but, upon the platforii of the Democratic party, and to fight for these principles, which have alway, been dear to every South Carolinaian and upon which alone rests our pros perity. I have been much gratilied by the n;unner in which mily speechs have been received throughout, the State, and I have received the coininendatioi of many of my bittereat political enl uiies. "The great, majority of the people o0 South Carolina believe in the princi. pies aLdvocated by nit', and are opposet to the attitude of both Tilhntan ant 1cLaurin in the United States Senate Under the lsh of the conservativt prest, their followers have voted with out reg ard to principles, being actuated more by at desire, its they termed it, to destroy factionalism in our local politics. An inspection of the vote shows that not 25 per cent. of the farm ers of the State have voted, and not half the )emocratic vote of the State. The cause of this was the disgust on the part of the Rieformers with the present State administration, and its detls and tldickerings with men who have always been their enemies. Added to this was Senator Till itan's atdvocacy of MeIl'uri'n's tatitTl vilews atid h1is atsser'tioni t,batt AlLaurin wias "'with him,"' and and tbe defeat, (If the one0 mfeanet tile defeat of the other. N atutridlly, 0our friends wvere at sea, andi they remtiained att homue, r'efuin g to vote against thleir' honest conviction, buti,t,t the satme time, featring that an Iitjury might be done Senator T1'i llman, whIo 11as posed~ ats it reCformI latdea', but hats never led when a crisis was on ihand. I had expected an honest and hontorable tight but I regret to say thai such was not the cat-e during the lasi four' datys oIf tile catmpaign- -slanderoma circulars were issuaed to poison th< mItinlds of t,he pleopIle without giving ut a chance to replly. The sickness o. my chilef opponent, while 110 lay in bet wr'itinlg manifestos and endorsing cir enulatrs containing peorsonal attacks ot inc-hut more of tis hereafter. "I hiave ino regrets to make for th< campaign atnd no apologies to oifor. shaill continue the ight along the sam, lines atnd shall not sulk, but t,ake any de feait philosophically, as I have an abid ing fatith thatt the people of the stat will yet see the injustice which hii been (lent the Democratic party by er dorsing a man who has repudiated thi und(orling p)rinciplos of the p)art EiND) 0F THEl CONSTABULAILY. lThe M~uniicipal Aut,oit.ies Will I Relied Upon to Enforce thie Dispel sary Law. Goveranor Ellerbe has decided to d i band the constabulary force, and su -prised the reporters with this al 3 nouncement when was it was not c - pIected. Governor Ellerbe stated that on Oc , 1tt he would withdraw all constabh ( from the towns and cities the State an would only keep a few fot' work inl t,h I rural districts, where tile bra'ss buittonl e and blatons of policemen are unknowi y Most of these, it Is utndei'stooad, will b set to work in tihe "maoonshiIno'' coiui t, wi ch is traveled by wagj,ons tha sell "'biockatd'' to thirsty souls whl will not paitroniz,e thte places tbo Stat' Ls has provided to .iupply their' wants. - Governor fEl lorbo has decidled .0 >f tur'n overi tile en forceonnt of the li i)ponSarty latw to the imunicipail auitllan n is-fthe( townls aind citie.s andit ats i--povisio)ns. Th'iis is Just exatctly whia d imany pecoplo oif Sout,' Cai'olina havi gsaid shoul d have been (lone fi'om thn ,very first. They will accordingly bi ra muchei pleasedI wvith tihe Governor' ,e act,ion, as will atlso miiany who hiavi w hi ther'to nyjheld the constaoular3 e feature' of thte dispenlary system. ifaUder the now scheme, tile consta bios wIll not, be ipermtitted to amake an, o Try Ourselves > Easley before Fall, you see us. We give to one tion, and will take great as nice and as cheap line >cen your good fortune to are preparing for a big avor to make it to your in e us your patronage. We ;ains - - - - nly can interest you I We have one )rico from $1.25 to $1.75, all to go at scoivo our FALL GOODS, and say Iold to your dollars until you can get, urself how much you can buy at the We are aware that our competitors in love with us. But bo sure you do tore where you can buy what you any where. rood success, and William Jennings m's seal, E. Pluribus Unum, we are ACKET STORE CLYDE & NALLY, Proprietors. arrests or seizures in any town or city where there are municipal police. They must do their work entirely in the country districts and few will be required for that work. The police will i. ven h) expected to watch the railroad stations, where hitherto a large part of the work of the constables has been done. Governor Ellorbo did not say what he would do in case the municipal authlori',ies of any town or city failed to enforce the dispensary law to his satisfaction. lie did not say whether withholding of profits or putting on of metropolitan police would be the punishment. He said he preferred not to make and threats, but would trust the municipal authorities to do their whole duty. Governor lllorbe said the constab ulary force cost $52,03ti.66 last year, and this cxpense would be practicall, wiped out by the adoption of his new policy. He further thought the dis pent:ary law would be better enforced, provided the municipal authorities would cl-operato with him. He gave a month's notice of his intended action in order to give the constables a chance to hunt for other jobs. GOVIRtNORt. WILLIAM TRYON. iForgotten F'acts of History Which Are Very Intoresting. Tho Augusta Chronicle, in response to a request from North Carolina, gives the facts about a legend con cerning a colonial governor of North Carolina, from whom Tryon mountain and village receive their name. William Tryon was born in Ireland in 1725, and after receiving a military education, served with distinction in the British army. He married a re lative of the secretary of state for the colonies, and was sent to North Caro lina in 1764 as lieutenant governor, the governor (A rth ur D)obbs) being stricken in years. In 1765 he died, and Tryon became governor. Governor Tryon waLs a soldier and a nolitician. He ruled w ith the des potism of the soldier, hut when he saw it was impossible to do as he would, he had the effusive blandishments of the politician, and flattered men into doing what he de Hired ; so that the anomaly was pre sented of a hated governor, who was openly confronted and defied by his pecOple, but who soon after was living in a p)alace builded by an appropria tion of $75,000 voted by the legisla ture of the state for the purpose. This was pronounced the finest building in America at the time, and a distin guished visitor from South Carolina declared that in the land of palaces they had nothing that would equal it. This palace was located at Nen , bern, and, prior to that, Governor STryon had resided at Wilmington, so that he0 probably never saw the locality which now perpetuates his name. .But Wheeler's Ilistory of North Carolina toils us that the p)resent e counties of Polk, Rutherford, Cloe 'land and Lincoln were originally all econtained in Mecklenburg county. After the turmoil between Governor T ryon and the people during the effort to enact the stamp act,, and when the governor's p)'rlamantionl was published announcing that parliament had re-] pealed the odiious act, the peop1)1 were on so rejoiced thaIt thecy not only appro ii- pr'iated 15,00i0 p,ounids storling for the erection of a palace for the royal govor nor1, hut they cut aI county out of Mock s- lenbu)rg and namedii it T.Lryon. This r- was in the fall of lifit. In 1779 they ri- at,templted to offaco his5 memory by e. cutting Tryon county into Rutherford t. counties of Cleveland andl Polk have a5 been cut from these two. Probably dI during the existence of Tryon county 0 (which' embraced Polk county, where H Tiryoni Is located) the m->untain re - eved its name, and it stuck, though ) the county name was changed. Tihe battle of Alamanco was fought, aLnd the contentions betwoon the Reo lJators andl the government all oc curred during the administration of Governor Tryon, and It was his cruelty to prisoners that,t HO embit,tered the peoplo)1 against im, if n 1771 he was applointedl go)vernor of New York, where his crueities and unp)opularity were continued. Hto returned to E.gland in 1778. and rose to the rank of ieoutenant general before his death in, London in 178$. Josiah Martin. who succeedled him as governor of North Carolina, was the last of the royal governors. .--Ho that, (cases to be useful to oth ers becomnes a burden to himself.