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Messenger. M. L. BONHAM, Jr., [ Editors and JAS. S. PERRIN, j Proprietors. r r TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1885. ' = 1 1 . THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ??? f The present session of the General t Assembly is going to be an important j and interesting one. During the past ' m: . Hummer several onostions have been i ? "1 taking shape and form for discussion be- < fore the Legislature. Doubtless the i lien law will engage the usual amount of attention. Its repeal is being agitated again. It has lost much of its inter- J est however. Few people, farmers or 1 merchauts, seem to care whether or not J it is repealed. As the law is now con- ( strued by the Circuit and Supreme f Courts it amounts to little or nothing. ' Then the question of the continuance i of the rail road commission, must of nocesyity be brought up by certain people we wot of. Of course the usual fight on the university question will oc- ( eur. The friends of other colleges in J the State will fight for the abolition of the "free tuition" feature. As we have said bofore we think there is no good authority in law for making the tuition free. We are heartily in favor of the appropriation for the University. We are friends of that and all colleges, but we think the college should be run in accordance with law. However we didn't start out to advise our legislators. We have no doubt they will look well to all the interests of their constituents, and discharge their duty as they understand it, faithfully and well. We shall watch the sesson y< with much interest, t' , J: ' MR. GALLOWAY. [ i 1 tir. M!_L j 1.11 :u i ub puuuaii ui-uay u. iciwr wniifii vy \ Mr. Galloway to Col. Drayton of the Aiken Jiecorder. The letter in manly, frank and honest, and ought to be a complete and satisfactorv answer to all the charges against Mr. Galloway, made by those in Aiken as well as here. We are very sure that noboby who knows Mr. G. will believe that he would wil fully misrepresent and vilify people and things. He is not malignant and mean. On the contrary he is a kindhearted man, and a christian gentleman. Few.young men are held in higher esteem by their neighbors, and we know of no better criterion of character than the approval of those among whom one lives. Mr. Galloway is a native of this county, a graduate of Krshine College, %. ' an Elder in the Associate Reformed Uhurch at Duo West, and a member of ] the Board of Directors of the Female College. With every enterprise having for its aim the spread and maintenance of christaiu doctrines, he is prominently connected. It is not likely that such a man would be guilty of doing the wilfully mean things that aro sought to be said about him. It is almost an insult .to him to defend him. He needs no defense. People, tired by hatred, have seized upon hj? first letter and distorted and perverted its meaning, and ascribed to him motives thut did not actuate him. But all who know hiui are satisfied that they are .wrong, and ho and we can afford lo dismiss the whole matter withjut further ado. K; TOO PREVIOUS. The prognostications of some people J $n Edgefield that the Culbreath lynch- t 'ina pnuft i ?_ nr. A r\ A T1*- ? . v?nu #r? bHUljUi aio VtlUlljhj. J, I1U pTIS* oners pre bailed, but they are not released from the charge. \Vo know wherens we speak when we say that it ia the purpose of the officers of the State to press the cfisc at the March term of (Court. it-. " ? EDITORIAL NOTES. i, The Ninety-Six and Greenville peopie are talking as though tjiey meant j? business about their Rail Road. One j| reason why Ninety-Six and Greenwood succeed in enterprise? in which Abbeville fails, is that the .citizens of those two places are a unit in anything affectr ing the welfare of those towns. They .... - work together harmoniously and zeal- ; ously. Whereas we are divided into all t |t:;" sorts of factions and divisions. We < agree upon nothing, consequently we j accomplish nothing we undertake. As .was said of us, we aro like a pair of t balky hdrsef. First one then the other J stops and Riaxts, hut they never atari to- ' gothcr. This condition pf affairs is ^ greatly te be deprecated. Ist us bury t all our differences and pull all together r f for the good of the to*rn. Otherwise * we are going to be "left" Already the j | rail road to Elbert/in. ? ?!??> ?? - | hoped so much, is barely mentioned, f The present session of the legislature 1 - will grant our charter, and it is to be J I: hoped we will then proceed to do some* < Mr. Galloway writes a splendid letter ' l|i;; to the Recorder. Let us see if the J |, J?re*? and Banner and Medium who ] f t were ao quick, to publish everything igainst him trill publish this. The nis-spclling of Mr. Aldrich's name, and ;he substitution of Golconda for Ana:onda were typographical errors for which Mr. G. is in no wise responsible. The friends of the Cumberland Gap Road have not given up the enterprise, l'hey hope that at the meeting of the stockholders in Aiken in January, that :he ways and means will be devised to }ut the matter afloat. Hon. Geo. I), rilman, who has no partiele of interest n the road says that he has no particle >f doubt that it will be built. That its nerits will build it. Hurrah ! for glorious plucky little Ninety-Six. one's got a roil road dead ind sure, and "don't you forget it." Ninety-Six we salute you. We doff >ur hat to you. You are head and shoulders ahead of us. May your good uck nevor grow less. 1 new Tale of Horror From Unfortunate Edgefield. N' [Special to the News and Courier.] Edqefiei<d, November 18.?Tho old jounty of Edgefield seems somehow to ae under a dark nnd bloody ban. While :hirty-one of its citizens are in jail iwaiting trial for the murder of Culareath?while the double murder inrolved in that case is still under investigation?the Courthouse is appalled this coming at the news of aHriple tragedy, n which the bloo'l of three of the host :itizens is spilled and an old man and lis two sons hurried off into eternity by ;he hand of the assassin. At noon l.o-day a white man, named Corley, md a negrot named Charles Brooks, galloped into the town with the news of :hi?> most horrible crime. The victims ire Edward Pressley, a white man, who s over eighty years of age, and his two ions Charles and Edward, aged about ,wenty-six and thirty years respectvoly. The murderer is Robert Jones, ilso" white, who married the grandlaughter of Pressley and who lives on ihe farm with them. The scene of the xagedy is about eight miles west?f the Courthouse. The representative of the Hems and Courier, upon hearing of the occurence, it once set out to investigate it and gathered the following details of the lorrible affair : Jones, the murderer, it tppears, came here from Georgia several pears ago and married Mr. Presley's jrand-daughter. The Pressleys rent some aud in the neighborhood, a portion of vhich was occupied by Jones, who. however, paid no rent for it. On Tuesday svening Charles Pressley wenttoJone'a louse and told him that he would have ,o vacate the land as he and his -brother :ould not afford to pay the rent or him. To-dav ahmitll Jnnnc mtered the field where old Pressley ind his sons Charles and Edward were iloughing. A colored roan wbo lives jear the Scence of the murder itutes that he saw Jones go up to Dharles Pressloy and, without any )rords. raise a double-barrelled gun to his ihoulder and empty the contents of both barrels into the bodv of his victim. He hen turned and walked off in the direc;ion of the woods. Edward Pressley, he brother of the murdered man, puting down his plough, started to pursue he murderer of his brother. Jones waited until hp camo up and, then takng a knife, stabbed him in the right tide and ripped the knife entirely icross the chest, killing him almost initantly. In the meantime old Pressley ras in the field trying to hold his son's ilough horse which had been frightened it the sound of the firing. Jones deliberately reloaded his gun, approached ;he old man and shot him dead. He hen went home, mounted his horse and ode off. John Pressley, the only renaming son, was in the house at the time tnd came out after hearing the firing, >nly to find his father and his two jrothers lying dead in the field.. A messenger was dispatched to the Courthouse o get out a warrant. The Pressley's lave the reputation of being respectable luiet and orderly people, the oldest son, (ohn, having served through the war vith bravery. Jones came here about iix years ago from Georgia and settled n the county. His sisters are married lere, one of them bein^ the wife of Mr. 'ark man, one of the defendants in the ^ulbreath case. There is tKe strangest sequel to this lomble affair, however. About 2 >'cloek this afternoon a short, thick-set nap, attired in an ordinary homespun luit, entored the villago, carrying on his shoulder a double-barrelled shotgun, tie went to the postoffice, left his gun vith a man in thnre, 'and then slowly tnd deliberately walked on to the jail, vhich is situated next to the ^ourtlouse, and which hts a front yard, ailed in by an ordinary iron railing. 'That's Jones," said some one, and as he news of the murder had been Known or some time a crowd speedily followed Tones. He applied to the negro turncoy, who opened the gate, and entered he plac? and gave himself up. He was ol lowed into the jail by a ruiacellone>us crowd, but no one made any.atempt to injure him. Upon entering the jail he remarked to tome of the prisoners who knew him hat he had killed three of the best men n the county, but that he was obliged :o do it At this point his relative inter>osed and advised him to say nothing nore, and he obeyed the injunction, rhe murder is very freely discussed on he street Some men speak of it with lepreeation, and fully realize tbata fresh . #^"4 ? it_ % * ivrror, uuiuiu^ au i??v upon in? neeui OF he Hainmond-Culbrpath horror, is a lUggering blow to the good name and iroKperity of tb* county, but m a gontral thing the matter is talked of quite K>olly and as a matter of not more than ordinary interest The tragedy, it ia true, is one that night happen in an? community, bnt he people of Edgefield, who hare an in* eroet in the patriotic old country, can't telp but foci that this a heavy blow, fhe inquest will be held to-tnorrow. J. A. X, Ommnnicatlon. Do* West, November, 13, 1885. CoI. C. K. R. Drayton, Aik*n, if. C. ; I)kar Sib:?Yesterday's mail brought me a copy of the Aiken litccrd.tr, in which you review my letter written to the Abbeville Mxbskkokk on my return fr?art Aiken two weeks ago. I presumed the paper whh kindly sent by yourself and I desire at the first opporl unity to assure you that my letter to the Mesbknukk was not intended to do you or any one else an injury. I desire the more to do this, in as muco as you have invited me to t'o so, stating that it was due to myself and also the citizens of Aiken. If in tbat article a single citizen of Aiken was misrepresented I am free and perfectly willing to corrcct the same?just, as free and ' hearty to do so ns to have written the article 4 It." \? IU uif AH nnoisAUAiv. Allow me to say that your article presents matters in Aiken in a very different light from what they appeared and were represented to a spectator witnessing them during an excited election, the like of which we have never seen and which you say has never been equaled before in your town. I desire to say just here that not a single statement or sentiment was manufactured by me, but I simply reported them as heard in public speeches delivered by citizens of Aiken and what was publiclv and frequently spoken of on the streets. Jfor did I evsn then report the strongest or most objectionable things said by some of the speakers of Aiken her own citizens. While I was there I did not hear them corrected and of course supposed it fair to accept them as true. Your article for the lirst time corrects the muterial points and I am perfectly willing to accept it, cspccially as you have taken the trouble to investigate matters and to ascertain fact:?. When in vour town I was mir rounded by persons wlio were excited on the election, and under these circumstances things and people were in nil probability written and spoken of quite differently from what they would have been on n more ouiet occasion. The public speeches were all on one side for though the opposition was invited to participate they preferred not to do so. Now events occurring thus, a sentiment developed itself that I simply described, strongly 1 admit, though not so strongly as it really presented itself. Allow me, moreover, to say that my article was written in a great hurry one morning to catch the mail and not one word of it was read over. I am the regular local correspondent of the paper to which it was sent; and as I had been absent all week I was pressed for time to meet my obligation with it. After a little reflection, however, I wrote the editors, saying that I had not read the urticlc and to cutout all personal references or anything that had the appearance of being offensive; as ne did not desire such au article to appear. The article did appear just ub written except Rome typographical errors. The Senior editor to whom 1 ?> r<>te was busy in court and did not kuow that I had no written hiiu until I met blm the next weok and al> o after he had written hi* note to yon. il have, however, the Jr. editor's note of November, 3rd. We quote a few words fruin his reply: "Your note of last week asking to .i,? .. r.._ -w ? . j_ < * uiakc a ii:n aitu llllliin in TOUT IClTCr C 11116 too late as we hud already printed that aide of tnc paper. I aiu sorry we did not get ^ sooner." I desire briefly to notico a few points to which you allude in your letter. I would first say thnt I wag aunt to Aiken along with the other delegations on an invitation from those who had charge of tho rail road meeting Wednesday. A delegation could not f;o froui Abbeville, C. II., and wore urgent hat n delegation be sent from here, it was understood to be a public gathering to which all the friends along the liue of road were invitcd. 1 did not volunteer uiv service, but went on request. In your article the first point mentioned in the barber shop. I stated that one of the party and not myself weut to the barber shop before breakfast. What the barber said was stated at th? breakfast table, at Mr. Hush's hotel, not privately, und remarks made on the same. This was when I derived the information. The next point I would notice is the reference to the Jiecorder't office, and here you will ptrmit me to say I did not "lead the inquisition." A little reflection will probably recall to your mind the fact that a delegate from another point iirst introduced himself to you and then the party. He it was who first alluded to tbe rail road and to whom vmi showed tbe tile of your paper. I tlien walked over to the table where a penerul conversation ensued, in which all of the party understood vou to say that iustend of being a strong aavocate of the rail road tax this time your paper was "neutral" or word* of that import. Of course your conveisation showed us that you were persouully opposed to the tax and wuuld so vote. This was os I say the understanding we had from tbe conversation, and this was so expressed several times afterwards among ourselves and no one dissented. Your editorial evidently shows that your feelings are wounded by the statement that some of the Germans of vour town had stock in the paper. I am indeed sorry for this, for I did not intend to unjustly wound any one's feelings. A much stronger contruction has been put upon my language in reference to this point by others thau 1 at all intended. We simply intended to say that as i was told certain Germans bad stock in the paper and that through their influence grooving out of this money rela'.ion the paper was neutral but that you yourself were not. I was twicc told tne same thiug while in Aiken and afte)- leaving the same statement was made by a gentleman not of our party. I understood that it was commonly believed and 80 stated it. I was told so by a gentleman whom you know and I did not douM it at the tiuie, nor until I. saw your article. I now ieei mat una information was erroneous, and it becomes me a8 a gentlnman candidly to say 60. 1 do so without reserve on ruaAiug jour article. What you say of your German citizens I am glad to know, for all I heard was just the opposite and there seemed to be a very bitter feeling against them. Much stronger language was used by some ot' the Aiken speukers publicly than anything I reported, nor were the impressions modified by the common conversation on tho streets around the polls. I did not meet {any of them, but fyrmed my opinion from simply what I heard and reported it ?imply as heard, employing the very language used time and again. If this language was spoken simply in heat of excitement then those who used it are to blame, not I, for it is surely natural for a stranger to form his impressions from what he heard. What 1 said about the business houses of Aiken was taken from a speeoh made on the occasion by one of your fellow-citizens and from conversation on tho same subject and was literally reported as heard. As regards Paris Simpkins I simplv say th?t I aid not speak to him at all, did not meet him and was in no way responsible for hi* presence. I did mention him however as a speaker, which you must have overlooked when you say I did not allude to him. As for my part 1 did not push myself forward as your artiele would seem to lndi M. _ * L _ ? ? - ' oue> i dh Doming 10 say u me barbecue (bat day and Bat until the third spaech that night. My illusions to Aiken were entirely complimentary and one of your citisens said to ine, "though opposing the tax, I like the spirit of yonr remarks.'* But my dear sir, I think I esn truthfully ssy that your article is a very severe one, and has the advantage of being deliberately written, wheras, mine was most hsstily written, not resd over snd the last of it not published in which we mentioned things eomplimentsry to yonr town and citizens. You did pi^aiao an injustice in seising upon two typographical errors snd getting wrought up over tnstn. I called the senior editors attention to the fact, and he will bear me out in this* thst Mr. Aldrich's name w?? nrlnM wrong aud that "Golconda" abould hare b?cn Anaconda. I bcjrau tbii It tier to rou personally, but ? I wlrofce, I bava bad o^oafion to allude ? ' . # to others as well an tojyourself, and as it may bo a satisfaction to them, I will ask you to publish it in full in the Recorder. I am aware that unfriendly persons may jeer at my candid denial of intention to wrong any one, but I prefer to do right, irrespective of opinion. I pen it upon tne changed condition of facts as presented to my mind by yonr cUtorir.l. I deem it simple justice to mvself and to the citizens of Aikon. You will please Bend us a copy of the next issue of the Recorder. Yours very respectfully, "R. S. Galloway. The Closing Scents of the Cnlbreath Case. Edgefield, S. Cm November 19.? The arraignment of the defendants was n solemn and dramatic scene. Thirty-one of "our best citizens" stood (conslructively) in the prisoners dock to answer a charge of one of the most brutal and horrible murders that ever disgraced the annals of an enligthened community. Among them stood Mem pnis u. uui breath, a beardless boy of not more than 20, charged with assisting in THE MUltDER OF HIS OWN FATIIEU. Among tho witnesses for the State wns this boy's grandfather and his uncle, the father and brother of the murdered man. As each prisoner's name was called he rose in his seat, raised his right hand and answered "not guilty." Two dim kerosene lamps stood on the Judge's desk, one on the clerk's desk and one in front of the attorneys' table and only partially dispelled tho deepening gloom of twilight. At the question "Ara you read)' to come to trial ?" propounded by the | clerk, Gen. Butler arose and said : "Will the Court inform us whether it is the intention to insist upon going on with tho trial in the absence of ono of the leading counsel for the defense, who will be called to Colombia on Tuesday next on imnortnnt public business?" (Lieutenant-Governor Sheppard.) Judge Iludson: "You must first answer 'yes'or'no'to the clcrk's question. If yon have a motion for a continuance you mar make it and give your reasous for it, and the Court will pass upou them." Gen. Botler: "I dont like to nay that we arc not ready for trial, because I am not certain about it. If the counsel can all be here and we can get all our witnesses, we will be ready. At any rate we are not ready to go on this evening, and unless we can conclude the trial by Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock, we won't be able to go on anyhow. THE MOTION FOR CONTINUANCE. At this stage the roll of the witnesses for the defence, about one hundred in number, was called, and some of them failed to answer. Gen. Butler then formally moVed for a continuance of the case on the ground of the absence of material witnesss and the expected absence of the leading counsel iu the case. T..J n..J?amt * - ? uuujfi: nuuauu , "ITUCQ UOCS liODgrMB meet, Gen. Butler?" Gen. Butler: "On the first Monday in December, you rllonor." Judge Hudson (to the Attorney-General:) "What do you say, Mr. Miles ?" Mr. Miles: "We consider the motion addressed entirely to the discretion of the Court. The State is ready for the trial at this term of the Court." The Court: Anything to say Mr. Sheppard ?" Mr. Sheppnrd hnd nothing to say, except that it would be impossible to have the case ready for immediate trinl. Mr. Sheppard declined to say anything in advocacy of the plea that he had important public business to attend to on Tuesday next. The Uourt knew that over forty-Tour witnesses for the defence were absent ami this he considered a good ground for the motion for u continuance. Major Gary invited the attention of the Court to the amount of labor that the counsel in this case had already been called upon to perform. He had no hesitation in saj'ing that as far as he was concerned he was not prepured to go to trial at this time. Judge Hudson, the counsel having exhausted the argument, said that the Court recognized fully the merits of the motion. The Court, he s?5d, laid no great stress upon tne fact that fortyfour witnesses for the defence were absent. Those witnesses were in the county and could easily be brought into Court. The Court, however, recogn'?7n/l il\n fflnl K ?i f /(..nnoAl 1. iiiavu biiv iav/ii i>uaw vt/uiinui DUUU1U IIJIVU abundant time in which to prepare their ease. It knew that important public duties would call the leading counsel awny in a very short tiuie, aud was satisfied, from the progress made thus far, that the trial would consume considerably more tiuie than could be tievoted to it if it began now. There was another point, however, to which counsel for the defence had not alluded, but which had great weight in determing the decision of the Court. The condition of the public mind in Edgefield, in the opinion of the Court, is such at the present time as is not calculated to ensure a full, cali.i, free, fair and impartial trial of the case. Even if the defendants were ready for trial the Court would hardly be disposed to enter upon the trial at this time. The motion for continuance was therefore granted. A MOTION FOR BAIL. There was no applauso in the Courtroom at this announcement, although the Court House was evidently crowded with sympathizers with the defendants, but there was a palpable sigj of relief on the sido of the room occupied by the prisoners. The Attorney-General then submitted an order providing that the defendants, _ 1 _l a. !_ 1 ? * ? eigm in nuraoer. wno naa Deen rsieiKed on bail should be remanded to tho custody of the Sheriff "until delivered by due process of law." This produced a sensation. It was evdent that the programme of the defence provided for no such contingency. The motion for bail for the prisoners had evidently been set down for a later period of the programme, and a vig* orous protest was at once instituted against this *'unhoard of proceeding." The Attorney-General, however, explained that the defendants who were under bond had only boon bailed to answer the indictment : that the indictment had been rendered, and that novr they would havo to give bail to appear for trial. The Attorney-General also iutimated that the ofder had been pre? , * 4 : i ' ' pared at the instance of tlio Court. Governor Sheppard urged in support of the motion for bail that it would be a severe penalty upon these defendants if they were confined until the next term of Court. They were If oknt1.kmax of 8taxm?f<9 in the community in whieh they lived? j not ordinnrj' violators of the law. He would venture to say that there w?a no community in South Carolina where in equal number of men could l?e arrested who would represent so tnueh ehniacter as was repii.-?tenle'l >?y tae**c defendants. Gen. Itutlor said Lhat a very different, condition of things existed now from what existed when the tlrst application Ioj bail was made. These men. he reminded the Court, hud voluntarily surrendered themselves to the sheriff; they had been confined in jail for six weeks or more, and the ends of justice had been fully subserved. The defendants were luw-abiding citizens, not vagabonds. and he felt it flue tr? thorn thnt l>? should say that they had been unjustly dealt with. Erroneous and exaggerated impressions had been circulated respecting them. These impressions had been circulated by artificial means, (the telegraph,) and the defendants had been almost the victims of a ''hue and cry." After all, the people of Edgefield wore more concerned about this case than anybody else, and he would venture the assertion that there was not a man in old Edgefield who asked anything else than a full, fair, freo and impartial investigation. This is what the defendants demanded for their own characters, for their families and for "tiie character of old kdgekield." The Attorney-Genernl, in response to the invitation of the Court to ?x?ress his views, said that it was the province j of the State only to call the attention of' the Court to the law of bail in criminal cases. The whole matter in the phase in which it was now presented to Ihe Court was a question solely in the discretion of the. Court. As a matter of law the defendants were not entitled "of right"' to hail ifter bill found. The Court was fully advised of this, and must art on its own responsibility. Tho coun sel who represented the State were glad that the duty and responsibility of deciding tho question was transferred from them to the Court. This ended the apparently inexhaustible argument, and the Court at once proceeded to render its decision. THE JUDGE GRANTS BAIL. "When tho grand jury returned a true bill against the defendants/' said Judge Hudson, " the constitutional right to bail was exhausted. The application for bail now- could not be considered as a matter of right, but only as a prayer to the Court Tor the exercise of the power conferred nn a Circuit Judge by the common law. Under ordinary circumstances, after a "bill found," the Court would not admit a defendant to bail ; but there might be extraordinary circumstances under which bail might*be allowed. In this case, to have granted bail before now, would hare been the exercise of a judicial discretion, which would not have Eeeu warranted by the circumstances of the case. At the time when the applcation for bail was made the Judge of the circuit was literally on his way to the locality to hold the Court. At this staee of tlio proceedings, however, the circumstances are different. There are thirtv-one men confined in the couutv jail. We are now on the eve of winter; the jails am admitted to be badly and insufficiently furnished; to keep that number of men in jail would entail a heavy expense upon the countv. The Court cannot iguore these fuel*. Tne circumstances are auch as the Court cannot but regard as cxtraordinarr and peculiar,' and, therefore, with no intimation of any opinion as to the 'weight of the evidence,' the Court will, considering the peculiar and extraordinary circumstances of the case, grant the motion for btil. The order for the renewed bail in the case of ihose who have already been bailed will be signed. Their bail was onlv for their appearance to answer to a trim hill Wl?r?n Hm mi-. ties have been arraigned their bonds will have expired, and tliev must bo peliyered into the custody of the sheriff until hey have boen released by duo process of law. All the defendants will be required to give bail iu the sum of $2,6oO each." This ended the Culbreath case mid Courthouse and jail were both speuily emptied. The prisoners all gave hail within an hour, nnd after spending n short time in town repaired to their homes, leaving the unrivalled Jones, the only performer of a triple murder, to his own pleasant reflections, the only occupant of the county jail. WALTER L. MILLER, Attorney at Law, abbevim.e, 8. C. B^-Offlco formerly occupied b)' Judge Thomson. oct '21, '85. lyr W. JOEL m now offering for stalo a Complete and Stock of merchandise for Fall and Wintei with Well Selected, Seasa Goods containing Many Real bargains. 1 lay in their Winter supplies can not only gat HEA80NAHE PRICES. XX A Oar line of hats cannot be surpassed. SHC Oar stock of .Shoes is Tory Urge, ladies, citon Our line of ready made clothing is always seei Always in atoek a complete line of stand Twilled White, Red and Blue Flannels, ] Proof Goods all prices. Blanket;*, Roboi injrs, llosiorTi Ac. Thcso goods arc all them. | October 7, '85. 135 . ' f. * .? .*' " "V.M r? m I M ll?l?M?WiUM?? Communication. Messus Hi>itok8 :?So lunch has been aaiil in two or three of the County papers lately it I >???i t "11. S. (i's." letter on his trip t<? Ailv'-ii, and the impressions on his mind of men and things while there, that one feels inclined to woi.der and inquire how impressions are made. 1 notice that. *'H. S. G." asserts very little of his own knowledge. May not he suffer from misrepresentation by those who review him as much if not more than they think he misrepresents things about Aiken ? No one that knows that correspondent can brlieve for a moment that he wilfully misrepresented any body or any thing, lie is incapable of such a thing. Our impressions of a place are the result of what we see and hear. This correspondent visited the town in question at an unfavorable time to hear as kindly things spoken by one citizen of another as doubtless are generally spoken there. Still he heard them, they were spoken on the streets, and from phblic rostrums. He was not bound to secrecy and is surely not guilty of all the sin. Let us examine the review mado of him by the Aiken Jtccorder of 10th instant on the question of house building. The correspondent says he '*did not see a single house being built." Ho does not say lie hunted all over the corporte limits. It is likely he saw principally the business part. The Jiecorder charges him with blindness from "partizanship." There are hard words lor a writer to use. especially under the deI'oft tliof J??1 vikiivm '1>?W - ut;nllCfl IU UL'ai YUrj gently" with "It. S.G." They make an impression just as other words spoken in Aiken on *'R. S. G." Notice that the $45,500 worth of buildings and repairs are stated to have been built within the p.ist year. Surely "R. S. G." could not be expected to see houses being built after they were finished. Of the $13,300 worth of houses not yet built, some are only under contract, and may be tho lumber is not eve a in sight of a visitor. If not, how could it be seen ? The Iitcorder does not say it is. There is still a balance of the $13,300 to account for, and which might have been seen by the correspondent as this part is "in process of erection." It is not said, however,- what proportion of the .$13,300 is thus in view. It may be very small. Itniavhft on tlir> nutaltlrii! r>f J ? ~ ' " " 1MV town where visitors are not likely to be. It is not located by the Recorder. Wherein then, did "U. S. G." sin in not seeing what is not claimed as being in sight V True, sometimes things that are not in sight, and which one would like to see, make impressions by their absence. An illustration is at band in what the editor of the Hecorder did not see in tho State Fair at Columbia a week ago. In his issue of 17th inst., he says (speaking of the Fair), "We regret, however, that in all the departments we noticed but two exhibits from the progressive and wide awake county of Aiken.*' The writer italicised the word "two" to show that sometimes the fewer we see of the things wo would like to see, the deeper the impression. No wonder that as the whole county of Aiken whose territory is brond, and whose soil is generous, a county with three splendid cotton mills. and one paper mill, besides other public pnblic industries, made only two exhibits, it should make a very deep impression on any friend of progress whether he lite in the couuty or out of it. I have no doubt if "ft. S. U." were there, and thought of the matter at all, it made an impression on hiiu. He would certainly be at liberty to writo about it or what others said about it, when he returned home. No doubt it just happened so this year and may not occur again in a score of years. Still, for the time being, the fact cannot be changed. These racy correspondents are no doubt at times indiscrete in what they say but that is too common to justify such an out-pouring of wrath on this correspondent for this hastily written letter, that asserts remarkably little when you examine it closely. Observer. SALE OF LAND. I WILL sell at public auction on Saleday in December next "The Burnett place containing TWO HUNDRED acres more or less bounded by lands of James Carlisle, James Lomax, Isaac Carlisle and utherrt. This land is located four miles west of Lowndesyille near the Diamond Springs. E. A. Robertson. Terms Cash. >4or 10, '85. IITH & SON \ Magnificient t uees. 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