? u ?? : -.:-? ?-ij. .jjjj vol. i. Abbeville" & c., Wednesday, august 26. iss5 no. 48 ^ 1 9 RienMOND AfiD DANVILLE-. HAILHOAI Patttnger Dtpartmtnt.?lOn nndaftcr Ma> 10th, 1885, j??H.senp?r train service on the A and C. Division will be ah follows: iiortkicard. No. 51* No. 331 Leave Atlanta 6 (10 p m 8 40 a n: arrive Gainesville 8 08 p m 10 32 a ni Lnln a 8 33 p m 10 55 a m Rabun Gapjunc b. 9 18 pm II 25 a m Toccoa c 9 53 p m 11 5G a m Seneca City <1.... 10 56 p m 12 51pm Greenville ? 12 27 a m 2 23 p rr Spartanburg/" 142am 3 34 |? ni Gastonia > UVUf^CO O "??> p fll Bel ton 4 <0 p ni at Greenville. 6 05 p m . No. 52. DOWN PASSENGER. Leave Oreenville at# 9 50 a rn Arrive Reltoo 11 13 a in Hodges 12 23 p m Greenwood 12 48 pm Ninctv-Six UJ pm Newberry 3 02 p m Alston. .* 4 10pm ' Columbia C; k G. D 5 15 pm Arrive Columbia S C. .Junc'n 5 30 p ni IfiHTAKBUKU, CNION * COLI'MBIA K All. ROAD. NO. 53. Ul' PA8RKNOKK. Leave Alston 12 52 p m " Uoion 3 55 pm " Spartanburg, S.U.AC.depot .5 50 p m NO. 52. DOWN PAH8KNOKB. Li ve Spart'g R. A I). Repot .... 10 35 a m " Spart'g S. U. A C. Dapot ..10 50 am " Union 12 50 pm Arrive at Alston 3 40 p m LAURENS RAILKOAD. Leave Newberry 3 30 p in Arrive at Laurens C. H C 50 p m Leave Laurens C. H 7 40 a in Arrive at Newberry 11 10 pm ABBBV1 LI.K BRANCH. Leave Hodges 3 45 p in Arrive at Abbeville 4 45pm Leave Abbeville 11 00 a m Arrive at Hodges i'i 00 pm BL.UK RIDOK IIAlUOiP AND ANDERSON BRANCH. * I> -?1 * ' - jinv* nciiun 4 45 p m Arrive Anderson 5 18pm " Pendleton 5 60 p m " Seneca e ' 40 p m Arrive at Walhalla 7 up't. uoii'l J'as. ARont. SPARTAXHURG AND ASHEV1LLE RAILROAD On and after Apr. Cth, 1885, passenger trains will be run dailv. except Sundav, between Spurtanburp and Hendersonville as follows: UP TRAIN*. Leave R. & !> Dopot at Spartanburp 4 00 p m (.care Spnrtanburjr, A. I>. depot fi 10 p m Leave Saluda.! fi 20 p m Leave Flat Rnrk 7 00 p m .-Jrrive Henderaonvilie 7 15 r, ,n DOWN TIMIX. Leave Hendersonville 7 00 am Leave Flat Rock 7 15 am Leave Saluda 7 50 am Leave .-tir Line Junction ..10 15 a m Arrive R. 4 I) Depot Spartanburp 10 20 a m Trains on this road run bv Air-Line time. nom i rains niavc connect tons u>r i;niumbia and Charleston via Spartanburp. Union and Columbia: Atlanta nnd Charlotte by Air Line. JAMES ANDERSON. Superintendent. T. T. THOMSON. J. W. THOMSON ipHOMSON & THOMSON, Attorneys nt Law, Abbbville, S, C. ?Qp"Office in rear Mr. Lee's. June 8th, 1885-tf. - 100 QALHOUN & MABRY, Atorneysand Counsellors at Law. ABRKVIM.B C. II., S. C. Office formerly occupied by Judge Thomson. '. tf-50 L. W, PRRRIK. T. P. COTHRAK. pERRIS A t'OTHRAN, Attorneys at Law, 51 Abbeville 8. C gUOENE B.GARY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 52 Abbeville, 8. C. <> , JAMES 8. PERR1N, . Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Abbkvii.i.k, C. n., 8. C. t^*No. 1 O'Neill's Range. Jan. 28, 1885-tf 1 53 ROUT. R. HEMPHILL*' WM. P. CXf.LOim. JJKMPHILL & CALHOUN, Attorneys at Law, I Abbeville, S. C. J Will pmctice in all the Court* of the I State. 54 jQENTRAL HOTEL, Km. M. W. Thomas, Proprietor*. Bread atre?t,Aof( aata, Qa. 14 .' . ' * OUR SOUTH AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. MafuJioa, Pernambuco, Bailia, Rio Janlero. Steamship Apvanck, in Front of Rio Janikro, July 17, 1885. Dear A dvertixcr : A week ngo I bade you an unceritnonious adieu at Para, on thn Amazon, as the Consul, returning to the United States, was waiting to take charge of my letter. From Para we steamed down the river, and wore .soon once more upon the bosom of the broad Atlantic, where we took an eastly course for several days, apparently sterile coast. Our nights were illumined by the bright Southern Cross to our right, now rising high in the heavens under the beautiful constellation of Sagitarius?the great Dipper balancing On the left?and the North Star fast sinking beneath the horizon. The equatorial atmosphere was tempered bj' balmy breeze, and at all times a light woolen dress was comfortable, often a shawl necessary, as the swift trade winds swept over the vessel. The great waters are wonderfully beautiful here, varying vividly from every shade of blue to every shade of preen?and elivened often by high leaping porpoises and curious round jelly fish. But I jrrew weary of it, and though not seasick, I was sick of the sea. So much so that I joined the party going ashore at Maranhoa. Thp city stands on an eminence 400 feet above the sea, and had once 3G,000 people and an important commerce. The ravages of yellow fever and smill pox, however, havo materially reduced both population and trade. At Maranhoa again wc found the accommodating street cars, drawn by stunted mules. The better class of people here seemed to bea?rf*t improvement upon those of 1'nr*. As we traversod tho ?tr. o*s o" Maranhoa, it was Sunday, but I noticed the stores, well stocked with varieties, were open, while most of the many churches were closod. Proceeding through the town far into the suburbs, we found some very handsome residences?of glazed, variegated tiles. While peeping over the front of one of the finest, a pretty and graceful Renora appeared on a balcony and invitus to enter. After welcoming uh with hospitable gestures, she disappeared, but returning quickly bringing her hus band, ivtrho apoko both English and French?a very handsome and wealthy young.man, educated in New York and Paris. On this occasion he wore a yellow blouse, like a fisherman in an opera scene. They conducted us through parterres of tropical plants, up through a broad balcony, into a large saloon, with brightly painted walls, tiled floors, and many fine engravings. Here wine and water were handed, in every qaaint earthern goblets, by a fantastic young negrcss in a decollete pink cottton gown, short waisted a la Josephine, and many heads and earrings. The host then conducted us through his fruitery and back yard?a wilderness of cocoas, btfnanas, sapodillas, figs, grapes, pineapples, bread-fruit and India rubber trees. The hostess loaded us with fruit and rare flowers, and bade us a graceful adieu with a magnificient parrot perched on her shoulder. Those are people of the very highest class; indeed the gentleman is a nobleman?a viscount. This 1- -? - 1 " * iiiuu cpisoue nsa mc cnarms 01 decided novelty, and rested us, as it were, fcom the monotony of the sea. We ftnd real equatorial fruits insipid, lacking in flavor. The want of well marked seasons, I imagine, is the cause. Vegetation here never dies, and frost are unknown. The two seasons are wet and dry. It is dry now; but still, even in the country, with paling fcnces and many negroes, reminded rae of our Carolina middlo counties. But again we "go down to the sea in ships," and again steer out eastwardly. The ne7t salient event in our voyage is the rounding of Cape St. Roque, from which point the South American Atlantic coast slants rapidly in to the South West. In a few hours after rounding T>~ a?i 1 * - VIIj/o tj(? ivvi|UQ| ww IIIIU uurseivcs DB? fore Pernambuco, filled by the natives, St. Yosef. On account of dangermiu corals reefs in the bay, the Captain awaited a pilot A remarkable coral reef, like a solid wall of masonry, rises abovo the surface of the, waters, and extends a half mile out to soa. At the extremity there is a lighthouse and a fort. The harbor was full of ships from all parts of th? world, indicating a large foreign trado. The city is one of the largest and most important on this coast, with a population of 125,000. Its si to, however, is low and unhealthy. In Tact yellow fever prevails all the time. But nevertheless we went ashore, and mw Pematnbuco in most of its prominent aspects. One of its principal churches?Magnifies to All the Saints" ?I found very interesting. It is rich is baa reliefs of saints and ^historic events of the Roman Catholic Church. Ik is almost too gaudy, however, with highlg colored pictures and ifhages of ; the Virgin?-and the greatest profusion pf artificial flowers. 'A life-like image of the crucified Christ in the tieput ' ' ' ;/" ( , ' **A M L-:'; '"? 'v ,j ' chre, watched by Mary, was bo realisti< as to be absolutely appalling. I ob served several negro men in priestly robes. Wo ' conversed with one e thoso in a sort of mixed Portuguese Spanish and French, and found him quite intelligent. The private house? here are handsomer than in any city wc have yet seen ; and the gardens ol bright Brazilian flowers are supremely charming. Imagine gigantic cacti IOC feet high ! The beast of burden arc fine fat oxen and very small mules and horses. The oxen draw carts heavily laden, while the mules and horses bear their burdens saddle bag fashion?from huge baskets of fruits and vegetables to two bales of cotton, one on either Bide. The inhabitants evidently improvo in ?Ki?wuiuiivc uuu uiiciii^eiivuas wo iravcj further South. At Pcrnaiubuco we are joined by a pleasant gentleman, who is a deputy of the National Assembly now in session at Rio. Adieu to Pcrnambuco! And again oh the bosom of the deep sea. This time we steer out into waters of tho darkest blue, indicative of great depth, and quite out of sight of land. A merciful Providcneo has brought us safely through thus far, and realizing God's nana?great ana gooa?more than at any period of my life, 1 lay me down in my narrow berth in peactf and trust. On the 4th of July, our national holiday, at 6 o'clock in the morning, while hundreds of church bells were chiming musicaly for early mass, Ilahia, the bccond city of the great Brazilian empire, shone before our wave weary eyeB iu all it* superb beauty. The lovely bay of All Saints, like a rippling lake, lay before us, thickly .jotted with shipping of every clime. The greater part of this bay's semicircle is occunied bv the ol> |>i>r?o ?i/iui i iuu? h iuiii 411 a nuiian chair, and tried to imagine myself a belle of the time of Queene Anne and George Int. The Bahian nogress is alao picturesqo. She woars a costume like a senator of ancivnt Hom<>?a toga. At Bahir, the fear of yellow fevei again hurried our movements ; and again, as at Paru, I looked with lon^inp eyes nt the great and handsome opi-r* house, brilliantly illuminated on account of Home extra performance. Not only French, but often first-class Italian troupes coiue here. But we must nol spend a night in the midst of yellow fever. Consequently we again tread that monotonous gang plank, and are soon "rocked in the cradle of the de?p." Between Bahia and Bio we draw i veil?bccause the monotony of tiea life is uninteresting aliko to narrator and reader. On the 14th July we descry banks ol beautiful blue and green mountains which denote an early arrival at a haver of rest?Rio Janerio, the capital of th? great western empire whero wo neec have no serious fear of yullow fc?rr and where, after a month on the ocean we may sleep on a hud?and drink fresh milk, even though it he at 25 rent* i pint. But we feel sincere regret at having to separate so soon from the pleas ant passengers of various nationalities with whom we have been brought inU such close fellowship of late. Oui ship's commander, Captain Beers, hii daughter, and her accomplished frient from Brooklyn, Miss Risk, have contrib uted vastly to the pleasure of a voyagi which has secrrud more liko a pleasuri trip than a journey of 0,000 miles. Om life on the Advance has been one ol luxury and happiness But now we round the rockpy prom ontory of Cape Frio, and will toon entei the Bar of Bio of Rio Janeiro. Hen we reat aoveral days before aailipj southward to Montevideo. And do yot not think that thi* magnificent imperii city deserve* a separate and distinct let ve? in the Advtrtiitr V?[R. C, B,, ii Kdgejitld Adverfitcr. , i. V.* ' -a'1 . : Merging the Military Academy Into the Unnirerstty. r The opinion of our respected contemf porary, the Newberry Observer, that it , would bo wise and proper to merge the i Military Academy into the University, " does not strike us with the same forco ?y i which it seems to do the Observer. T It is true we want n great University ' in the Sti te, beyond which it will not be necessary to go to complete -any educat tion needed. As we understand, those I entrusted with this matter are steadily pursuing that end. Notwithstanding all the talk about the low standard of qualification on which students arc admitted i to tho college, we take it, upon the best of authority, that all that was practicable has been done in this direction. When the college was first opened, manyyouths applied for admission, who owing-. . to the hard surroundings of our people, had not enjoyed such scholastic opportunities as could have been wished. IT I - ? *1-- -i ' \juuvr iihj circumsiaces, to have sent these youths.away, would have been to , discourage them and to defeat tho very object of reopening the State College. This was to put the opprtunities of higher education alongside of every youth in the State who wanted it. To make requirements of these boys beyond their opportunities, and turn them away, was to forego the very purpose of the institution. To admit them where it was possible, and help them up the rugged path with tho loving hand of a tender, watchful mother, we humbly submit, was the better and wiser course. Nor did this policy in the bezinnine ' at all militate against building up a groat institution, which would grow in ' usefulness and stretch out its educational rounds up to the highest standards. It was a beginning. The holy Scriptures itself tells us: "Despise not the day of small things." The child must creep before it can walk; and the University unless we have been willfully deceived has been steadilj growing in usefulness, whilst it has steadily lifted its standards of scholarship from time to time as the opportunity presented itself. This much for the University so far as its scholastic course is concerned. But the institution has attached to it the school of agriculture, where tho opportunity should be afforded of educating our. youths in the practice and science of agriculture. This is one of the fundamental propositions of the establishment, and it is ono which will be looked after sharply by the great agricultural class of the State. We have heard it I claimed that only three young men have j been graduated in this course. If so, I ?l r...n : ') 'hu- ? *-? nuvou inuib in lb ; 1 IIU grailURUUIl Ol' these three mean's the opportunity for' all who should havo sought the same course of instruction. If fanners and > planters sending their sons here preferrt ed that they should take a scholastic course, to the exclusion of the agricul tural, what^was to bo .done about it? , If the young men themselves, with the , permission of their parents, preferred , the scholastic course, how could the t Professors control it ? You mav lead a , horse to water but you cannot make him L drink. Technological education is a new i *w:? i? ' ?--!* ? ? i tiling ntiii u?, xi in a u;jsi uusiruuie , thing to establish such schools iq coni nection with our University. We must bend overy effort to bring the public mind up to a realization of this educa| tional departure. Here we will find ; ample room for all the best efforts of L our State University. t The Stato Military School, on the oth er hand, is a very different thing. If it wore only its object to teach boys to be t soldiers, it would be something, in a . country relying on its citizen soldiery fnr Hafnnco* Km#- ao ?va Itmaw L .va ?*V?VUHV| HO TV \J nil nuvil) VIllO (? i by no means the true object sought in this school. It is the decipline enforced i in these schools and the practical course i of instruction pursued which are chiefly I sought. This school was originally intended to put that sort of education as p largely alongside of young men without the means of obtaining a liberal educo, tion as possible, whilst it opened the full , opportunity of such a course of instructI tion of young men of better means who needed or preferred it. The institution was rery properly L located in Charleston, where, from the i presence of a large city population, it . would be put "alongside of more poor , youths needing such an education than > anywhere else in the State. This is ? none the less the case to-day. r Not only this; it was best for the s State not to put all its eggs in one basket. I It was best, all things considered, not to . have only one educational centre, where ! might grow up an illiberal ring senti9 ment that would discriminate against r worthy men who had been educated [ elsewhere, or who had struggled up to the top by their own unassisted efforts. The presence of two sets* of citizens, r educated under distinct influences, ? would hare* tendency to break up this I sort of illiberality, which had manifested i itself to no, alight degree in the State I Tk* denominational colleges Also pre sented a solid front to this sort of feeU i ing. It oannotjbe doubted by men of liberal sentiments that this is a whoU> some chock on what might otherwise degenerate into the erection of a class in the bosom of the State to whom would be confii.ed the honors and emoluments of office. We have had enough of this sort of thing in South Carolina any way; and it has had a steady tendency to dwarf us. Looking at things from this standpoint, we would not touch a hair of the Military Academy's head. If it has fallen into some confusion, let us not make a howl over the matter nor turn half the State loose for the vacated office of Superintendent. Let us go to work as grown *"en in our own best interests to .store order in tbo institution and to selcct* Superintendent upon a calm and deliberate view of tho situation, of the best interests of the institution and of society, and with no sort of reference to anv mnn'H nsnimlinna ?? omV.; tions. Full time should be taken to rnnke a wise and proper selectiou of a Superintendent, not cor.fiuing the choice to any locality or to any given group of men in sijht.?Columbia Register. Crime North and South. We pick up a New York newspaper at random?the first one that presents itself?and we look over its columns to sec if any good3*-goody land human passion has sway ; if crime is committed; if the law is violated. And what do wo find in this single paper picked up at random, and bearing date August 13th ? It is a daily paper, and thefore gives only one day's record. 1. A young tnan named Armstrong. 20 years old, whose mother is away, secretes himself in his stop-father's house, and when the step-father comes home at night shoots him with a pistol and lrlls him because he does not furnish the ! young man with as much money as ho wants. The detectives trace the crime to him, and he confesses. And this does not occur in the slums, but a three story brown-stone house in a fashionable part of tho city of New York. 2. Burton T. Ikash, a Now York lawyer, swindles a friend out of $150. and his aunt out of #49. and skips. Burton belonged to the creme de la crevie. 3. Kx-City Librarian Barclay and a man named Lacky fight on the street with fists and sticks. Whjn the fight begins flacky has a lady on his arm. d. We quote in fall: Two ^irls named Cora Guild and Flora Shaid, aged respectively 11 and 12 years were playing und??r a shade tree at Bedford Park, in the Twentyfourth ward, yesterday, when a tramp came along and sat down beside them, tin a few minutes the girls ran home screaming, and tho tramp walked down the road. When the children told their mothers about (he conduct of the tramp an excited crowd of women was gathered. they started after the tramp. They chased him at the top of his speed across the fields to a wood lot. and there he eluded them. The police were afterward notified, but the tramp was not lound. 5. We quote ngnin : A policeman found an unconscious man on, last Monday evening on the pavement in Sullivan street, near Canal. He was bleeding from a contusion on tho forehead. He was taken to BttUevue Hospital, wher he died on Tuesday mgni. C. We quote again : Screams were heard early yesterday morning from tlife first floor of the rear tenement, 520 West Thirtieth street. A scuffling was heard, and then a pistol shot. A woman rushed from tho room into the courtyard and across it into a, narrow alley loading to the street. After the woman a man ran with a smoking pistol in hi < hand. The woman ran to tho Thirty-seventh street police station and said she was Pauline Vanderbilt, and that her husband, Frederick Vanderbilt, had shot her. He was jealous without cause, she said. Mrs, Vanderbilt was taken in an ambulance to the Roosevolt Hospital. 7. We quote again iu full: Mrs. E. Delnamhtrove. residinsr on Tenth avenue. College Point, was awakened at 2 o'clock yesterday morning by a burglar near her bod. She caught him by the hair and screamed to her husband for help. Her husband fired a revolver at him, but the fellow released himself and ran out of the house. Blood spotit wore afterward found on the sloop. A few small artioles. were missed. R. We quote tgain in full: Irma Balars, a sixteen-year old Hungariau girl, tfcrew her baby into a vault at her home si 60 Clinton street vester day. The child was found dead. The mother wag put under arrest, and removed to Bellerue Hospital as a prisoner. This is one day's record in the city of New Yprk, as reported 07 one newspsymper. The whole record oocapies less spsce thsn the -ATstos and Courier gave to the ]rby row, and scarcely one-fifth the space occupied by the little fisxeo with the emigrant agent st Waterloo. There is material enough in thu alw>ve record to'furnish our esteemed contemporary with "lawlessneW article* for *' v. ? ; .. . ;..f ;>V: six months. With such a record in V South Carolina it could just literally rercl in a "campaign of civilization." But the point wo wish to tnake^ is, that the newspapers of the North, where crime is many times more common and more revolting nnd more varied than at the South, assume the missionary work of exposing and chocking crime at tho South, nnd represent the Southern peo- ** pie as barbarians and out-laws. This is not surprising when the leading paper of the State seizes with avidity upon every offence happening in the State, magnifies it into something awful, and represents whole communities and counties in a state of lawlessness bordering on barbarism ; while the jVeww and Conr- Eg; icr itself and one and another of the rural newspapers are engaged in waging a "campaign of civilization." . And our esteemed eintempo'gry ha ;s itself with delight when a Northern journal pats it encouragingly ?n tho back, and poses before the Country in i the guise of little Jack Horner, who 14 sat in a corner. Rating his Chiislinas pie; S#r He. put in his thumb and pulled oul a plum, -*? And said, 'What a good boy am I.'" But perhaps it is all right. Maybe it is the proper thing in the "New South." We had been under the impression that courts?judges and juries?-were the proper parties to punish crime; but may be not?this may be the business of newspapers. Or it may be that South Carolina judges and juries will not do their duty unless whipped into it by newspapers?perhaps they are in league nun me i;ruijijiut uiussuH'?one rurmi newspaper says they are "exceedingly w. kind" to theiu. Ahyway.we belive the ^ criminal record of South Carolina will compare favorably with that of any State in the Union, and we believe that South Carolina judges and juries do their duty as strictly and impartially as any in the Union : and wo further believe that the slanders put upon the poo- / "* pie and the courts of the State by cer- ' tain newspapers aro an Unmitigated wrong and outrngo.?Newberry Observer, ' . 1 TIio Revival of tho Whipping; Post. An in inexpensive mode of punishment for grand larceny, has been found Anf nf iKn wA?ba fl,??? vrv?w uv mv I<111f yuu nvmo uunii uu > ^gr.r. ; Last week about $26.00 in money was stolen, and about the same time one of the hands, whom we will call Tom, went off. A comrade,- whom wo will B call John, said that he bad seen Tom with $25 just before his departure, and it was accepted that Tom was the thief. When pay day came, however, Tom returned for his pay, all unsuspcious of 8 the plot that had been hatched against him. The first intimation that Tom H had of his own guilt was when paymas- \1 ter Hagood proposed to make restitution / to the mnn who had been robbed by /i turning over to him Tom's wagds'. 'Then it all came out. The cyclone broke'loose, and John cowered before it, and guilt m was stamped on every lineament of his I duskv visaze. Tom's righteous Indiana- I tion was shared by his comrade, and when Hagood told Tom he had to give John a flogging Tom was io for it. For a few moments it seemed that the -would be a hendly combat. But John's arm was weakened by a bad cause. . His-courage deserted him on the very brink of the battle and ignominious!y he turned and fled. "At him, boys!" cried Hagood, and the Tom O'Shanter 1 chase began, over hill and dale and fluid and fence he fled. Fear lent wings to his feet; he was distancing his | fiery pursuers when dispair seized him. The house of Mr. Allen Weir was close at hand. He rushed into it calling upon Mrs. Weir to shield him frou? his ioes. Without waiting for a promise, he bid^"* under the bed. His pursuers "tracked him to his lair," and Mr. Weir eagerly surrended him to his fate. He was taken back and given the choice of a fair and open combat with the ireful \ Tom?the anciont "gauge of battle4'? or 01 ceing wnippea witn & switch, lie chose the latter. Tom mad? him kneel down; ho made him stoop forward; ho , mado him bond orer, and John won't steal any more monej in that camp, and he's never again going to pat up anothor job on Tom.?Spartanburg Herald. m?; ? Gush, like flatter/, may become ao ' fulsome as to be disgusting, - Tho tone of most of the Southern paper* in reference to Gen. Grant haaboen kind, >Qnd magnanimous, bat manly anf) naif respecting. The Atlanta ConttitHtion cannot be be placed in. thia category n recently interne wen uen. Robert Toombs and pnbliahea the roandUn uttorancea of an old man whoae past great* neat give them at) importance which hia proaeni imbecility does not entitle them to. He ia published aa a peaking dtaparagingly of Lee end con tarn ptnonaly of .y| Davis, in order to glorify Grant,'and the Co**h'tutipn pnbliahea a *?irw?t I monwl. Fo^r oldfootubafI ntitutinn deacrVea I for oxpnatng the the ol?l g mM.?Spartnitbvrj MtralU. :g