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gh zi.slqg 4]ege.ifgr. A. V. HUDGENS, 1 J. R. I1AGOOD), Editors. EASLEY,'8. C., DEC. 7, 188". [From the Greenville News.] A Card From "Sigma" THE EASIWEY NESSENGEl k not. a very laige newspaper. It is about; the size of a common pociket hlandkerchief. and does not Seem to set the co1ntry nire with its brillieicy, bit it seems to have ill-hiumiior eniough for the "New York Ilerald." Did you ever not ico, Mr. Editor. that a big- Newfoundland can take a joke with good nature and dignity while a small terrier of the bench leg variety-is forever snapping and snarl ing at whoever apIroaches him ? 'H E NIESSENGEt upsets its very sm)lall vial of wrath oin me because I N ery innoeitly an1d good itilre(ly call 46d attention to a ridiculous error' inl its church notices by which it. made the Slulday school services beginl at 1) p. in. I did not think the matter important enough to demand th siging of my Iaime inl full, and I don't see yet that it requires the solemnity of an order of e ourt to give it force. If THIIIE 3ESSENGER en't. Staid havinga lit tle iii i madte of its e(rrors. it .should be mic carefil in proof read - g.R espect fully (Whose full iaie is kinown all over 'ickens Counitv.) I is name we presume is George Washington Singleton. A man and yet not a man in the true Sense Of the word-who, has re eeived as his rich heritage the I ime-honored naime, of "The .11ather of our Country," has more than once provren his own unwor Ohiness to bealr that name, while he has so unserupulously sacrificed principle to self-aggrandizement. on the blazing altars of an11 alppai renitly trealceroums heart ie, "'in his half-acre of existence,"' with stupleu1dous etibrts trying to tell, what might he, a wise and an un wise wor'ld, of the palramouunt im portanice of 'Big I."' has through i s r'ecenit Jett er t~o the ''Greenrvi lle -Newvs."failedI Igoiiously to es tabl.lish1 such a. c2onviction ini the miinds of those who k now him well. V a in, ah vain, will the Newfound land howls of '"Sigma"' be, if lhe hopies by~ them1i to establish an envi ablue namne throughout hi s native Couny. he aysof his~ ' 'pris tine glo{$" 'were few. They disap peared with revolving years. and1( t he pr~~eet 11inds himii in spite of his great I.%xertions%, a poorI victim, "'lying ' impa)3t iently Voni his back, and hugging the delusive phlani tom1 of hope., tha: at some dlay he will rise a. --giam1) in his sirength"' to achieve t hat niotoriet y in his 'own (Coty for' wichl he has so l ong been laboring. Away frm home, he might as well '' wendl his way'' to work for honor and re Well, with the above p~relude ani nexed to a few remarks in direct reply to "Signia's'' letter, we will answer him in the terms ofhik own argument. We will- pierce him with the bayonet'. which . he thrusts at us, and she'ar him with the Scissors of iis own hand. Not withstanding the' fact, that We are the terrier (logs of noike, The bench species inl Sigima's sight; An) he, e'niine of New-founfd-land lResisting wvit h his mnight, The snarls and siaps that to him 1sound Undignified, at least, WW'll make him think before we're done, There's someting in the be:ists. 'Tris true the terrier (logs are small when comp'ilared to a digni fied NewfoundlanId, and THE MEs sENxom is diminutive when placed alongside the % New York I lerald," but. at the same time tiere is anoth er truth which 'stares us in the face' an1d it is this THE MESSExNaE iS sumliciently amiple to measure Mr. Singletoni's wolid-he hiuge 1)i opor. tions, and to tell the story of his lfutile life. Ile does not require I the jounialistic labor of a score ot years to declare his depths, tle vivid imagination of a Milton to depict his worth1, or the universal knowledge of a Shakspeare toI give the world a sliolit Lcc)lllt of hisi " touch ig intelleCt'' an(l tr-ansl(endelt geniis,' hut tlie rep r-esentatives of' Tu; M ESsENEII, vlo are unable to set the world afire w iih their brilliancy, could, comparatively Spealig, inl a short space of timte )IrOduce a disquisi - tion onl manivof th1 p1'ia-es of his reproachiabl )chlaract er. D~oes he kmo~w what hiis reput a tion is at home? Ilhe is a man that snapls and snarls and miakes the bu)IsineCss ot others his~ bulsiness. A man that at tempts to act a con spicuous part in 'the granal driana of life,' when lie is onlIy tit to act the part of a cuirtai n-roller'. Let the "G.reenvi lie News'' arnd the readers thereof, mark well this fauct, that "Sigma," "whose rell nme'' is G.eorge Washingtoni sin gleton, is t oo well known ini Piek ens County to enlist any special amount of .symp)athy oni his side; and that in getting aui Order from the Courti to lend solemniity to his "facile peni,' ' woulId be ot little consequence in turninmg the minds of a sensible peCople to the act. of reverencing a manm who is as far remnoved, genierailly, froml reCveren.. tial !on)sidertation als the mioun tains are fromi the sea-board(. Andl before this grand end is e'ffectedI he must "inniocenitly and~ good-naturedlly'' withdraw .from the position of dictator, andl occu py that place in life to which his tlenTt assigns him. JrNIOn EnTron. (peaed i Golmi bia on 'at nr-day, J110. A. Miteli bein' arraiglied h eforc a jitl'y composed entirely-of Greenbacl ers~and.Republicans wit h John Agnew ex Cireenubicko eandidte, of lhlbia, foreuuani. Every Democrat wis made t~o "stald asidev'" J W Rector. t his county, was chal lenged by the defece ald ex elided. Judge RPryanl dissenit-ed from Bond's decision in the "stand aside" Imatters, which imakes it certainI that Ohe prisonler caii not. be iiprisonled he fore the appeal which will be taken to the U. S. Sliprevile Court. if he ' is fo un guilt y, is ICd. The talking of evideiee began yestelay. ---G reeiville -Capt. Kirk, amd his corps of eI Win )eers have staked out the Greenville an( .allrense Hitailrhoal to a point onl William Gok I d -smI I1ith ' pl:ce. The road is to cross the middle of Green's place and m a trestle which will be a1hout t wo h)undtred feet frotu ii <hnn1. Ih'e road % ill then take the side of the hill bevoid :1l1 go ot to Laurel ( reek. T lrad starts nOar a t he Fair (Grounds, passes thrilo-gh 11. Stone's hmnd and thencve to the pond :as stated.,-Gruen ville News. -SeIator Feli'visil, ()f la tairel s, hs b)eeni udinit ted to practice il- h 1.. S. 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