The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, December 07, 1883, Image 3
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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.
L'on rt s.
A. HLYYTI!-:. W. 1). MAyynt .* )
BLYTIRE & MAYFIEL)
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the past, and say to thlein that his
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