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T~" . r ] ' VOL. 2. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1885. NO. 55. j Fall and Winter R. H. HADDON & CO. INVITE the ladies to inspect ? i ' of PATTKRVS. HATS I BONNKTS, RIBBONS, FEATHERS, BIRDS, FLOW ICRS, RU FFLINGS, SILKS, SATIN'S, COMBINATION' SUITS, EMBROIDERIES, DRESS PATTERNS, CIRCULARS, NEW MARKETS, WRAPS, SHORT WRAPS, and all the novelties of the season. THURSDAY 24th SEPTEMBER, i R. M. HAD DON & CO. We have many Novelties to show our friends tliis season, that they will not find in " any other House in this scction. Cull early if you wish thev'most desirable t jraods, many lines in our stouk cannot be duplicated on less ttian twenty-five per cent.. , advance.* .1? ?: 1...1 ? t - - - - uimun ainunil udl 11.1 mm; lis our at'ck lusts will sell at old prices. I Don't fail to cull and see us, we have some real bargains to offer in the latest novelties. ] R. M. HADDON & Co. ' September lfi, ft 131 PAI.T. nPME A J Jf Ji-aXSi VJti AJi.1 J.1* u B 1885. 0 ALL nre respectfully invited to invited to insjioc.t our stock of MiiiLINERY On the 24fli Septentier Wo linun n An* nn coin n ?? ?.??I ^? * display of MILLINER J", NO VI'JLTIES, HA TS, VELVETS, It 111 B OXS <CC. nrnl a complete lino of general millinery. We would also call your attention to our stock of DRKSS GOODS, PLA1I) ST RIP ICS, AXD PLAIN WORSTEDS, RROCADED nn<l PLAIN SILK V E L V E T S, RROCADED AND PLAIN VliLVKTEiSNS, ' in all colors and prices. IMack nml colored Cashmeres in all grades with trimming to match. Cloaks. New Markets, Circulars &c., in great variety. ' SShoes. Wo have added to our stock a henuti- 1 f?l line of Ladies, Misses and Childrens shoes. Very Respectfully, BELL & GALPHIN. I SScpt. 16, 1885. tf 132 French Candies, Fresh! LEMON CRACKERS, FRESH! SODA CRACKERS, FRESH! GINGER SNAPS, FRESH ! ASSORTED JUMBLES, FRESH! Just Received. l-tf-29 QUARLE8 A TIIOMAS. A. E. Rogers, Wholesale denier in Com, Flour, Meal, Mca. Hams, Lard, Bran, Salt, Molasses, Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Hoap, Ac., will deliver good* at any point on railroad at Abboville prices, lletore buying always ask for urices, mh w? tbavo advantages that few up-country merchants have. A. E. Rogers. IlefroRhmcnt? at the Palmetto. J} Thomas McGettigan, of the old roliaPalmetto Saloon, invites his manj friends to give him a call during Court " week. The Palmetto Saloon is well stocked with first-class refreshments. 1\ : ' Cim & Perriii HAVE in stock a complete assort- . mcnt of Drugs, Medicines. Chemicals, n Dye Stuffs, Varnishes &c. a' ^LSO ALL THE POPULAR L Patent Medicines now in use, ai many of them Non-secret preua- c< rations, consisting of the very pi best Cough Mixtures, Dispentic pi and Kidney preparations, I'heu- it i? matic and Neuralgic preparations and Best Liniments for Man f]j and Horse. V( rHE VERY BEST FEMALE u PRPPARATIONS LYDIA PIXKJIAM'S Female Remedy, m tl BRAPFIKLD'S Female Regain- Q tor" o. HOLMES' LINIMENT AND MOTHER'S t, FRIENI). ^IIOULDKR BRACKS anA SKIRT U1 ? UVUUUlbltO, t, so nocossary to Woman's comfort jwhI health. Also Abdominal Supporters, Campbell's llepositor, &c. DUP'l'URK instantly relieved by us- ^ f*' ing tho Celebrated Fry Truss. s] l'he only truss giving an upward and inivard pressure, same as holding the nip- P' .urc up with the hand. No pressure on '' .lie back. No thigh strap worn. 1st n >rciniuin and medal awarded at Cincinuntt Exposition 1884. pUYOlt'S 1MLK OINTMENT: The J-! ?- best Ccru Cures. Corn and Hunion Pads. ^ AL-a 4- ??: r? ci <itou vAvviiuuw |>icjiai?uiuiin lur Chapped Skin, for restoring Yigor to the Hair, for Preserving and 'a K Cleansing the Teeth. QlJli LINK OF tl ZE^HSrOY GOODS u will be found very complete? consisting of Colognes, foreign f. tt and domestic, llankerchief Kxw tracts in great variety, loilet ^ Soaps from the cheapest to the linest. a i Rah;, tooth, nail, shaving, shoe and clotiiks BRUSHES. Si COMBS OF ALL SORTS. " A LSO many articles for Household nnd m Cookinu: Purposes? ^ Baking Powders, Extracts and pi Spices, nnd Vinegar. tl d; Close Attention Ctven to y PRESCRIPTIONS at all "> ' lc Hours, Night and Day. c, December 24, '8-i-lf 19 1( Speed & NeufSer ?j DRUGGISTS. I KEEP constantly on hand a full, and well w selected stoclt of pure ^ Drugs, Chemicals etc., etc. o All the latest and popular lines of Patent. ?nd Proprietary Medicines. A XXerbine, 01 Lho best Liver Medicine, cures Dyspepsia, f( for Hale only by ?#. Try our BLACKBERRY CORDIAL for p Summer Complaint; and our Compound Syrup Harsnparilta with Iodide Potash, for tin. tl Ulood. ^ BED JiUG rOISOX, c! the most canveniont way of destroying tiiese ^ insects. ji DIAMOND DYES, j, all the Staple and Fashionable Colors, it A full line of Fancy Gooriff, c Met Articles, Stationery etc. etc. I > ri The best brands ef it Cigars, Tobacco, andJCignrettoH. ti A complete stock of White Leads, Paints, b Oils, Varnishes, etc., etc., Paint Brushes, e Window Glass. Golden Machine Oil. c We sell the celebrated Harrison Brother's Prepared Paint; tbe best in the market. a Special attention paid to the Prescription Department. I PhyRicinn'* preacriptionH and fa.nily re- c cipcs filled at all hour* of day and night, by t1 experienced and competent hands. .. Orders by hand or Mail, promptly attended 1 SPEF.fi , / FDFFER. April 29, 1885. tf 83. t - I ... Our Trial Justice System. 'o titc Editor of the News and Conner: The trial justico sj'stetn, which has nrn made the subject of so much cor:spondencc in your valuable paper, has I ways been a vexed question in the egislaturc. It way never more than an experiment; i iiti?;ui|)L tu jiruviuu mr till* cnnngou ;>ndition of our population. The ox miuent has not proved a success. The roblein is what can be substituted in s stead ? In the summer of 1877 the House juiciary committc, in special session, deoted many days to the discussion uf lis question. Three plans were premtod and earnestly discusscd. No one I" these obtained the concurrence of a mjority of the committee, and all of 10111 wore reported to tho House withut recommendation. "When tho report line in, it soon appeared impracticable > obtain the approval of tho House for iy one of tho plans reported. Ami the latter was postponed indefinitely. Since nit time tho question has come up in no sliapo or another. Xo one has solved to problem. Theoretically the present system is a ood one. Its purposes are to secure a >eedy disposition,of small matters in titration with the least possible ex enditnre of time and money to t'ie tipants, and to punish promptly tho linnr hronrlws: nf tlir> i?riminn1 Inir Tr? lese ends the State is divided into cerlin small districts, an! for each district lore is a justice. lie is named by the overnor and is appointed by and with le advice and consent of the Senate. Of aurse it is impossible for the Governor > know the qualifications of the very ir^e number of persons, (about four undred in all,) who are appointed to lis office. He must rely therefore upon iformation on tliis point. On whom in leory could he better rely than upon lose who have been selected by the eople of the county as their repres^ntaves in (lie Legislature. In this way. it onld seem, proper persons could be losen to administer justice in matters > small as not to warrant the expense id trouble of a trial in the Circuit ourts. The system, however, has failed to ve satisfaction. I'is not eas to say hy this is so. It cannot he because the (lice is underpaid. Trial justices are at underpaid in this county. We say lis judging hy the best test, the cometition for vacancies in the office. At te last selection there were four camliites for the position of judical trial istice, each one of thein a competent ian. There wore six candidates, at iast, fur ministerial justice, and the mice between them was very nar>w. We believe that, if wo can judge hy le same tests, the same result would r\t\rtf?V iii f Kn n/mnlino T m ,'J'V (II ill vuu Vbiii;i luuiiui;^, 1 %, uiiij UU lat the best men arc unwilling to spare le time from their other avocations to ischarge the duties of the office. It ould he impossible throughout the tate to make the office the sole support f the persons holding it. There are >ur hundred trial justices in this State, n average of $300 each would be $120,X) per annum. It cannot be that good men cannot be >und for this office. There arc many xcellent trial justices in the State, erhaps the difficulty may exist in this, lat the jurisdiction of the Courts is nsed on the amount, and not on the liaracter of the qnostion involved, 'roquontly cases come up before these ustice which would puzzle the best ndges. They may have too groat lat,ade in preliminary examinations in riminal enses. Perhaps this power ugut iu ui* laivun away iron! 11 ?inle justices. Whatever may be tho cason it is .evident that the system i unpopular. In a country like ours his is Enough. No law not sustained y public opinion can be properly enjrced. The question then is, what substitute an be found for tho trial justice sys9m ? None can bo found which can ccotnplish the full results sought in bis system, cheap, prompt justice, rithin easy reach. We can only adopt he next best thing. Let thero be in ach county one County Court. When he counties arj largo let portions of he county bo set off, Tor each of which Court can bo provided. Give to each Court the samo jurisdicion now givon in civil and criminal ' .AJ ' * ' A"'. eases to trial justices, with an appeal to the Circuit Court. Give each justice a fair salary. Let him be appointed by the Governor for a long term. Besides this, let the Governor appoint for each county so many committing magistrates as may be necessary. Let these issue warrnts to be served by the sheriff or the constable of the County Court, and returnable before the County Court or the Court of Sessions as the case may be. Let them be compensated with costs on each wartant upon the certillcate of the County Court Justico or of the Circuit Court Judge, as the case may be. that it was rightfully issued. The blanks for the use of these magistrates to be provided by the County, and accounted for by each magistrate. They can also be conservators of the pence, and, perhaps, have a civil juris diction in matters of contract to the limit of twenty dollars. It is difficult to devise ascheinc which will apply equally well to all the counties in this State. Let as see how it would operae in this county. We now have seven trial justices in this county who, with their rnn<fnl?lnc pnef A" HflTl ?n?>nm City of Charleston : One judicial trial justice, .$1,000 Two ministerial trial justices, at $700, 1,400 Three constables, at .$400 1,200 Jaines Island.* One trial justice 100 Ono constable 100 Moultricville : One trial justice, 100 One constable 100 McClellunville : One trial justice 100 One constable 100 St. Phillips : One trial justice, 700 One constable, 1(X) Total $5,000 We propose a county justice having jurisdiction over the city, James Island and Sullivan's Island, at a salary of say .*2,000, one constable $500, then make a county Court, with its place of tvial near the Six-mile House, and give it jurisdiction between the two rivets from Ten-mile Hill to the City Boundary and give that justice a salary of $1,000, constable $500. lletnin the Libil justice at McClcllnnuillc with the same salary and constable as he has now. This would make the expenses : l*'or the City of Charleston, $2,500 l-'or St. Phillips, 1.500 McClcllanville 200 Total $4,200 The County Courts could sit every day in the week but Sunday, and dispa'.ch any business brought before them. No objection can be made to the insufficiency of salary, and, as they have no connection whatsoever with tho issuing ... .1.- * ? " ui nuiiaill.1, IIIVV tailliui UU SUSJIL'CIUU Ol promoting litigation. Is this not worth a trial ? Inquirer. On Thursday, the 122(1 instant, the voters of Aiken Township will decide whether or not the said township will subscribe #47.409 to aid ih ; building: of the Carolina. Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad. The friends of the road and the opponents oT the road arc equally certain ol sir ('CSS i this election?the friends to carry the measure the opponents to defeat it. It will bo u hard-fought battle.. God give victory to the railroad ine,n. What may that forty-seven thousand dollars not bring r ( Ia 9 Anik aT ?. ia! ( >..o* ? " -? * vitu . viiv? UI i??u UIIU IllOSl wealth-bringing Always in all the South.?JCdf/c field A deer User. Col. T. W. Higginson's opinion in a recent letter expressive of bloody-shirters savs: that nil the accumulated speeches and resolutions of my Republican friends do not seem tome to manifest so much common sense as the brief remark of Sergt. Harry Williams in my own parlor : "We have made up our mind to quit politics until we have got education and property ; then, perhaps, we will try politics again or the still pithier saying of the old colored man in Atlanta to Edward Atsinson : "You can't put ignorance on top of knowledge and make it stny ihcre." Robert 1>. and Miss Carrie, son and daughter of Col. Tho;\ J. Mafiet of Silver Street, and lipps and Miss So' phie, son and daughter of Hon Thos. C. Brown of No. 2 Township, left Saturday for l)ue West. The boys go to Grskino and the young ladies to tho Female College. Holiness Meeting. Last Monday night found us seated under, the famous revivalists, Sain Jones' tent which was moved from Cartersville, Cia., to Augusta opposite St. John's Methodist Church. The tent is madi! of thick heavy canvass and will seat live thousand people. During the day the audience is comparatively small to what there is at night. At night it is lighted up with electric lights making it almost as light as midday. Around the tent are found several policemen and during services the densely crowded congregation is perfectly quiet. Services commence at 7.30 and when that time arrives and before, there is a continual rush of people flocking i*i masses to secure seats mid In* ft.HO pvnri- lnwwli " V J 'v",w" is thickly crowded with peoyle listening to what is falling front the lips of some of the greatest ministers the church can send out. Among the most famous to whom we listened were llevs. Watson Smith, McDonald Porter and others. Among the lady lecturers were Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Inskip. These two ladies are the most remarkable women of.the nineteenth century. Mrs. !nsk:.p is a lady of medium height, weighs about 175 pounds, hair partially gru}' and flowing down in curls behind. Mrs. Smith is a lady of medium height, weighs about 125 pounds and is of very fair complexion, light hair flowing down behind in beautiful curls. Her face is the most pleasant that tho writer has ever yet beheld, gonial and continually swimming in smiles that seem to fall direct from heaven's door, and her petitions are very earnest and effective. When she lectures her eyes are continually lifting themselves heavenward as if she was waiting for God to speak from heaven and answer in words direct as if ho was human. All who know her know nothing but to love her. If heaven communicates at all or speaks a single word to bo heard, she must be one of the favorite* that will hear. How can the world help but love her, angelic in her motives and persevering in her undertakings. With such zealous chiistians the meeting can be nothing but successful. The singing I think excelled anything to which I have ever listened to, accompanied by Mr. Gill. Most of the songs were entirely new to the people of Augusta and very few could join in the singing. While the singing was going on ami also during intervals, shouts could be heard from new born souls, claiming to be entireiv eleasened. from near the speakers stand, that being the most sacred place. 1 wish I had the tiivc. to say nioro but as time is precious will be compelled to close. Xeverinthe history of my life, have I had such a pleasant time, as was enjoyed last week, some of tho most charming young ladies of tho Sfatc, among them were, Misses Bessie Shiver, Lizzie Jones and Mamie Rogers, the belles of Georgia. Miss Rogers lives near the Park and pleasantly did I spend the time walking up and down the isle-? of the park guided by Miss Rogers who took pleasure in showing 1110 all the charms of nature belonging there. J. A. Harmon. "NTnt. Rnm +n Shnt. On the 3rd of September we published an account of the accidental shooting of John Price, colored, at McKenzie's mill in this count}', a few days previously, by which a part of his skull was blown off and his brain exposed. There was an air of exaggeration in the statement, yet the leading circumstances of the affair, as published, were strictly true ; and what may seem more astonishing, the wounded man is now well and working regularly in the cottonfiel-J. Xot only was a portion of lii? skull blown off?severed from the head?but it is stated as true that at least one-third of his brains spilled on the ground whnre thev were left. The snvfir<>d part of his head was replaced, and uniting, it healed up almost without a scar ; and as a physiological phenomenon, it is asserted that notwithstanding the loss of his brains, he now has moro sense than beforo the accident.? YorkviUe Knmtire.r. ? ...J ? By direction of the Govornor, Attorney General Miles will appear for the State with the Solicitor of the Fifth Circuit in tho prosecution of tho persons charged with tho murder of 0. T. Culbreath. Subscribe for the Messenger. - ..J Disgrace of Moses. . Boston, October 1.?Franklin J. ' Moses, ex-Governor of South Cnroliun, was placed .it the bar in the Superior Court this afiernoon to he sentenced for swindling ex-lluyor Cobb, Fred Ames and others. Ilis counsel reviewed his ^ career and urged that he had already been suftieientlv t>iini.?hi??1 lmvimr i.iat - ' served a }-ear in the House of Correction for a si miliar offense. It was urged that * i the offi'nses were committed under circumstances of extreme want and they could not be called flagrant violations The defendant was a man of extreme nervous organization and his imprisonment was told upon him. lie was so reduced physically that further imprisonment would probably prevent him from ever performing any service. If the case could be continued for three months V?' there were prominent gentlemen in Doston who would procure *him a sit UilllOU. Judge Aldtich snid it would almost seem that the court was listening to an eulogy upon a man of high and exalted character who had fallen into misfortune. His advantages made his crime so much the greater, and it would not bo justice '.o let men like Mr. Moses go free and send to prison j'ouiig men who never hftd any advantages, either social or cduca- " V tional. lie did not agree that this was a puny onenso. i> o sensitive man would be * engaged in such busi ness, and it was timo it was stopped. Mr. Goodrich urged that Moses be sent to the Reformatory Prison but Judge Aldrich said he did not think J the Reformatory Prison was made for graduates of colleges and Governor. V lie felt required by every sense of uropiety and duty to treat it as a serious offense. The Judge then imposed j a sentence of three years in the State ( Prison. ' Moses seemed dazed by the sentence, 1 and he was led away by an officer like a little child. j A Judge Factory. [Correspondence to the Augusta Chronicle.] V, ] Columbia, S. C., October 6.?[Spe- V cial.]?1 wrote a farmer friend, a few Jl days ago, for some information regard- & ing the agricultural and industrial con- ? dition of his county. He sent me a ? very interesting general statement, and and replied to the balance as follows: j "Now, as for statistics, figures, etc., I'll I just *be dumed' if I take that end of the poker. I have just as much taste for such as Major Jones, of Georgia, had for his rival Mathew Maticks. I }'$ might say something in regard to the wonderful crop of lawyers producod^^^ around or at our county scat. have incorporated themselves JlldirR fnotnrv. nml Inrnod niif tliron .'B fine specimens; sc.vcrul others aro ready for glazing, one or two cracked >> in the kiln; orders for for solicitors by ' the dofcen may be filled on short notice; ' .*>. Trial .1 ustices by the gross always on hand. The enterprising proprietors are at present employing their skill in the " manufacture ^of a Congressman in the ;1 place of the incumbent (a Scotch pat- v.*:v' tern is being used ns a model.) This .-'&1 establishment has been doing an cxten- I sive business for yours, and have orders J ahead for all positions in this Congres- * sional district for all time to come." jf This wonderful fuctory is located in ml Abbeville county. 3 Washington Wirelets. I Washington, October tho 7.?The President appointed Jabez L. M. Curry 'J9 of Virginin, Envoy Extraordinary and jrel Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, vioe Foster, resigned. Mr. Curry served in Congress from Alabama, but is n6w a"' 'M resident of Richmond, Va., and is Presi- ' dent of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is also Secretary of tho Committee |$S in charge of the Peabody Trust Fond. Secretary Endicott has decided not to grant tho requests preferred by Oenw* , . ) als Sheridan, Pope and Howard that-';., J their present personal aidos be made ex'-'. J centions to tho recentlv iasiiArt ?i?i? sending back to their regiments all offl- M cera who have beon absent therefrom and dctached on staff duty four years m or more. m A large delegation from Virginia S] waited on the President this afternoon fl to invite him to attend the State Agri- M cultural Fair at Richmond On he 21st M instant. Tho President said to would ' S consider the matter and let the committee know his decision in a few 4