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?l)C Ittcsscngcv. Bk * ? lv t*l.ntQrfcd at .the postollice as 2ud-cli?sj< ir.ntU'i 16}'! ' _ VUKSDAY, August HI. JSStJ. iSCUSGJUI'TOPX..,. $2 00 g -TtfK CONCRHRSIONAfj PRIMARY , * ?T?rr-r- ? The -Oontvoutioii which meets in Sen3Ca to-morrow.is the offspring of the Convention held there on July 7 th, to take into con Hi deration the question of nominating -Congressman for the 3rd Congressional District by the primary plan. The delegates to that .Convention from Abbeville were instructed 1>y {hi' Con. *ntion which elected-them to sttppor. the primary piun. Thus tUev did. am' J by their earnest advocacy, with the as. ' sistance of the delegates from Oconee; and Newberry succeeded in passing a ; resolution fixing a primary election pro- i vided the State Convention so amended , the Constitution of the party as to per- i mit it. Th? Seneca Convention appoint- ' ed a committee to present the matter to j the State Convention. This they did j I and the State Convention mad<> th<? nee- | essary change. Wo heat it said that it i is possible that the Convention which j maetn to-day will proceed to nominate a J Congressman. We do not think this can he true. Such n course would stultify us in the face of the Congressional ^ District and of the State. It was us who | inaugurated the movement, who carried ' it through with our friettda from Ocoiiop i and Newberry against the opposition of j the delegates from Anderson and I'ick- : ens. Certainly we of Abbeville can not j favor a cause which looks to the repudi- j ation of our own action. We are .oininit- j .ud to the primary plan of nomination. , We consider that the present Convention has but one duty purform. and that is under the amendment to the consti- 1 tution, of the State' adonted bv flu* -J I Stato Convention to fix the time and adopt rules for the government of the I primary election. It is not probable ' that imv one will attempt to gainsay the statement that- the largo majority J of thu people of the District are in favor /if holding a primary election. If the i (Convention desire'then to follow the '' >^'}.ll of the people by all means let it fix i dhe time and adopt the rules for a , primary. Any other courne will not b? < satisfactory. No man, however popular ] or however acceptable, will be well ? received, whose friends bring, about a \ ft uniyation by the present Convention. ! Spanking for tlu> candidate from Ab- j beville, we know that ho has no objec- I utui, wuaiever, to tho primary, and be- ] iieve his friends will do what they can ! to have the primary, and carry out the will of the people of the District. ? Our young friend Mr. \V. li. Tionham. js now associate editor of the Manning J '/'lines, lie \vill doubtless prove quite an ? .acquisition to the editorial fraternity. I The Pickens sentinel, one of the j best weeklies published in tho up coun- 1 ^ try is offered for sale by its pro*prietor s I j\ shock of earthquake was felt in ^Charleston, Suinmervillc and Augusta on |{ th<; 2JKh, This |s entirely too close to t Jbe .comfortable. t . . j )Vcst J>nts. i Dv. Kd.wards is in I'roKperity, Mr. and Mrs. J, 11. Homier are back |( (froin a visit t<? the hitter's mother. Our people fuel gratified at the hand* tl jH?;?e snppo.yjt given J'ruf, Young li (throughout the .county, Dr. Henry lias been appointed a mem- it iber of the L-oard of health by the coun- l,; tcil, in the place of Oapt. Cochran, who (resigned. Mr. \V. \y. Jirice, pf Micanopy, Kla. vi will occupy I'ruill's house this year ,;vnd expects to lake boarders. rt'l We have read an excellent sermon of y< Jtev. Mason \V. 1'ressJy in the 1'hiladel- <,( jdiia tiiKjn/rer. Mr. J'fessjy seems to { ?' S>e succeeding ?'ejl jn his new field of lit labor. su Mr. li. P,. Pnl're of Hw. . ? f %.*iryicrnril | y oflice. took h Hying trip to Spurtiinburg ? < recently. Mr. Dui're js u great acquiHi- bu tion to that otlice. taj i)r. James JJoyce is home again and ci, preached b>stl>I?atli an admirable sermon, tin Dr. I/indsny preaehod two able nor- ? in the- H&ptist church on last Sab- j?v bitli. cai Uev. Gilbert Gordon of Florida, is in * jn town, lie was formerly an Associate I Reformed milliliter. ai' President Kennedy is In New York tiil on buniness. the Kev. J. S. MolHitt. of Chnrlotte, made imj fi pleasant visit to Due West last week. sej Professor Lowry, and Messrs. John and .lames I'ressly went to Moft'attsville last week. Mr. J. T. McftiU was inter- ,fts ,1'Sted in Mr. John I'ressly's visit. Mr. A. Clinkscales is hack at his 9a^( post again ready to serve his ' friends iftr, with his' accustomed courtesy. Yoi ' We congratulate Capt. lionbnm on his |*?*' good fortune. Now wo salute thee as fenj ^ Oeneral." H- S. G. pru The Colonel and the Farmer,---A Tale for Politicians. (!ood morning Mr. Hayseed, how are yo?i this morning ? Your cotton is lookiug very tine. People may talk about crops being ruined, but I see now it takes only good judgment mid intelligence In make good crops even this vear. And how is your wife? 1 don't think you deserve inucli credit for your success, when I think of what a line wife you have to baek you Wall, mebbe not, Colonel. I reckon iny old hldv does belli lllimi' riiriit amort K..I ami hitch your horse; you'll fitiil it mighty { hot talking out there in ihe rontl. t'ome over here in the shade and let's set down. Shall we set <ki the t'enee like you politicians or in the gr?HS like us tanners ? In the {truss, you say : all right. Here, .Jiiu, bring me that watermelon out ot'that cotton row there. (Sot a kuifc, Colonel ? thank you. This here watermelon is sort er like some of us tanners, looks green on the outside an?l sorter seedy too, but ain't so had when voii try it; and this knife ofyours's sorter like you lawyers, tolerable sharp, loo slippery to get a good grip on. and when there, iwiuert'iil hard to shot tip. Try a halt'<?t" this here watermelon. Mow are things around the court house? J'rettyduU. Mr. Ilavseed, pre It v iJnll. Town people are having hard times. Yon farmetv are the UACKUONK Ol' Til K t'lM'XTKV, and the happiest too. Think so, Colonel ' How come yon ain't a farmer, if that's the way you I'eell about i. ? Well er, well yes, the fact is, I never found it out until it was too late. K.vastlv so. 1 rceko.i, Colonel, that's the way with lots of litem fellows that hang around town ami coiur about election time talking about Ijow ha, pv ihe fajun-rs are. 1 reckon th.-y all didn't tit:d it onl lilt it was too late---poor devils 1 I'cyl xurrv for *em. Well, to elu.iiire .'he subject, a r. JIha seed, 1 } :nu nut for tli e Legislat it re, as you Liiou*. 1 ! haven't got time to see everybody, .->41 I u;n ! going around to oi ly th<> best and most inlSii- ! cntial people in ihe country to trv t<> :ret lheii IIT!;o siux'iiil thing I'm nj|jiiin?; on ! Jfi 111 o I ioi:u;c?; grj:sri?N. That South Curolina College is a ! vv.ixlc j of thi' people's in m;v, .Mr. Hayseed. Wall, I dunuo. 1 iisiil to sorter think the ; whole public school business was a humbug, hut you people persuaded me out of that, ami j now if we are iroing to have public schools we i might as well tinish the tiling ami have a college loo J Kee all the: other States have got ! their public schools uml colleges, and I don't ! see why we can't have 'em too. Well, but you see, Mr. llavseed, there is no" use for a college here, with all our church colleges. Wall, I don't know what about that. Colonel. I See lhal there were over two hundred boys from this State at the College this year ?more South Carolina bovs at this college than at all the other colleges put together? and these church college* have not about as mauy, and some of \mu more, than they ever ha?l before. Oh ves, of course, Mr. IlavReed, but you see these boys are almost all from the low country, and you know that's how the college was started. Those low country fellows, who try to run the Slate, had no college to send to. No, I reckon that won't hardly wash, Colonet. 1 took the trouble to count, ami leaving [>nt. them from Columbia which is iust nluim null way. I riuikI <>nt l hut the Imvs were just about .half and hull', about Si or DO from the up country. Well, however that may be, this c.illejre is just run KOH TUK ErlSCOPAI.IAXS. Vou know they haven't pot a church collejie in the State, unci .so they make the Stute run n college just for them. ... . . . Wull, as to (lint, Colonel, I ain't' willin* to iidiuit by u lonpchot, tli.it we arc all such fools tluit the Episcopal church or any other one sliurcu, can make us do what we don't waul to do. 1 remember thut's what you said two ( rears upo when you- were spcuktn' around liere, but 1 reokoti you tnust have looked i srooked or Hiav .be not looked ut ali, us 1 see | but there ain't but two Kpiscopals in the : Faculty and of the 21Ii boys there this year, i here were only about ili from Episcopal Cam- < 110.4?the i).hers all Methodists,- baptists, i I'rosbyteriatis and the rest. So it looks like irou're sorter busted u?uin, Colonel. i Well, I may have been mistaken, of course. | lint, Mr. Hays'jeil, you are a f irmer, you know, i ind that college is just run for the lawyers | ind people of that sort. w* -11 i - iiiiim Miy mat's very kind and con- j ?idera K* of you Colonel, see in' as how vnu'rv < 1 lawyer, but 1 reckon you're sorter off again, i ?s 1 see thai of ilic 213 boys there this year | i good deal over half were farmers' sons. ! Well, at any rate, Mr. Hayseed, the college t ? not much account. It is no better than our i ;hurch colleges uml not as good as the mosi i >f them. i But some mighty good boys went there Yoni this county, Colonel. Oil, I'm not running down the boys them- ' (elves?they're all right, but 1 Well, the collude buildings are pretty good, ' !reckon. 1 Oh, Yes,they ought to be, tliev c??st the ' State enough money, but * Well there isn't auythiug let* but the fac- ' ilty. Well, that's exactly what I mean. Tliev J >rag about tlie faculty, but, sir, 1 tell tliev 1 ire no better, (and not as good, for Unit mat- 1 er,) than the faculties in our church colloifcK. Now Colcnol, you're getting in water that'e ' . long ways too deep for me. When vi.u get r o discussili' the ability of college professors, have to drop out of the game?the limit's oo high, lint anybody that can count can a ee 'hat we lnlve got more professors in our '| >tate college than we have in our church col- " >ges. No, of course that don't prove any- '' liing, unices they are worth something, and, 1' s 1 said, J ain't able to judge much about a liat. Now, mind you, I'm not going to run t( own our church college^. I'm not going to !l! ny that it ain't us good as Yale or Harvard w r any college in the United States, but here's I" ?e way I look at it, supposo, Colonel, you ,IJ nd a (arm, don't you wish you did, how hup- 111 v you would be and how much fun yr.u'd ,,f ive being the ''backbone of the country,"? lit 'spoHe you did have a farm, and we want- w I to hire hands. Now, 'sposo I went out an' ai ferred $150 a rear, an' you v?nt out an'ofrred $75, all' 'spose 1 had the money to hire J'1 ?out twice as many hands as you, who do "l hi reckou would get the best hands and who > you reckon would get the best and most ?rIt done? Now, 1 don't ask you who would r certain get Hie best hands, but who is it ?r cely, look in' at the thing from' a common use stand point, would get the best, and if >u had an old ten dollar bill anywhere about . air clothes, that you didn't want, who Ul. mid you jratlier bet on gettiug the best wt nds ? Oh mo, you say ? Well now it cer- S?. in IV would look* that way. And so, although (1 n<? you, I aiu't agoin' to run down my no, qrcli college, yet I ain't got no more sense nil to think that if the denominational col- Jvc rea offer only about $1,000 for a professor, *JJ d we offer $2,000 in the State college, I sav ' e got a sort of fool notion that if we ain't wo refill, will get the 8r< B at 1EKT 1MIOKKSSOK8 IN TBI 8TATK COI.I/KGE. Cau? i* ??*<' ?'* ? " ... mi i never Hiiia me professors tlx Ilie denominational colleges were not bh tio ixi as (ho others. and I won't say it, but I thr nfrnid it ain't likely, at leant, it don't look tlei it way to a man upa tree who hasn't got ^ thing but ? little borne sense to fro by. exi la, ha 1 Well, Mr. Hnyseed, sinco you.your- th?j f nay that you are not able to discuss the to i litv of college profassors, suppose we drop hat t feature, and now 1 say this, that the Statu leg i no business to tax people to support a V com.kuk, ooop, bad ok inmfvkkkkt. x ,)c* wot 'es, I know you said it, Colonel, I know yon 1 it; just as I've heardja heap of other fel- Soi t say it, but thoy alius stopped with that. y l see the thing seemed so plain to them the hunt any proving, on account of them be* ,)Uv so smart, that they ocnldn't imagine an old 0 cr like me who couldn't see it until it was tins red to him. Aud now an far as "the State" (j(), :v. v':}-'.v ' v.c> IYv ,' ?*t; xtiiL . taxes us, Colonel, I reckon the people are "the State"; an* if a majority of the people cIioomo to spend a part of their money in supporting a college, it sorter seems to me like a feller must have a heap of gall to stand up an, tell j 'em tliev ain't got no businesf do n' it : of course they ou^M n't to spend the money foolishly just because they happen to be iu a majority, but to do what eve.y other State in the I'nioti does can't be sut.li u terrible ioolUh scheme. Well, ?>f course, Mr. Hayseed, I didn't exactly mean lluit the State had no right to no j it, but 1 don't think she ouirht to attempt to I furnish higher education. 1 am iu faver of public schools, but 1 think the State ought to stop there. i Well, do von know, Colonel, I used to think tli.it v. ? *' ...... in ?"ii miii ino prencliercomc i onn<i here ciillfctin' subsetipiiou.o t'uwui'il.s ! mil* church college, ami then I thought.that if I the church iifi'iioil u college, may be the Stale (!id U>??. Oh ! hut that's quite a different thing. You know Ibe el. rch need.. educated voung uuii for iiri'iiclu't'n. | So vou wouldn't advise a feller to send his son to tlie church college unnss tie meant 10 make a preacher of him 1 Oh you. of course, the church needs educa- I led men who are not preachers. Weli, hm may he tne State needs educated men too. I Of course Mr, llavsecd, hut you see the cases are not aliKc. Hie >tatc taxes every ont> alike, while the church asks lor volunt.iry subscriptions. It exerts a moral auil not a leg.. 1 toree. Hut uicbbc the reason is because the church | ims't KXKiir any li:i;ai. poiick; hut as far as any dillerelice between 'em is concerned, I'll oe hanged if 1 didn't as lief have the slierilfalter me with bis execution as to have the preacher tackie me in the prcs- i ence of my old lady oil ttie subject ofheipin' 'Ju-church college; one is just about as sure j In leteli me as the other, but we ain't talkiu' | >o much aboui how the money is raised, as } wh..l it's raised for ; and it seems to me like it it 's a good investment for the church to raise a huiuiivtl thousand dollars to endow u college to educate Seventy tivo or a hundred bovs eVeiy \may be it might be a good tiling for i in* Si .ii., too. W ell, really, Mr. Hayseed, I'm not so uiicjIi npposeo to tiie culU^w ilseii. It in hero now, aim here to stay. Judccd, I am rather in favor oi i.oproviiiii' it and making it much better | man it is. ii ii t what 1 am uualturahl y opposed 1 to js i lie "fhki: tuition" feature, and that's the issue we want to make ! with mo people ii in not tair to the poor j Hum 1i.nl ?l??"'-i - ? ?.I JUtV IIS 111 lICTll HS> | his ricii neighbor to educate iiia .-tun, th State { has u>> business to educate vicli ii>> u > .sous true, and it i.-s nut tail' t<> the churen <-ol leges i.o liuvv lii v<ilii|ioti: tvitli ilie. South Caroimu cullvuc, not oil the basin ?>t merit, but IiuihIi- ! cupped by free tuition, when these colleges have Mi|H>oried the Mute in her adveisity, Ulltl Hold on, Colonel, hold on ! My gooilness, bow von can talk 1 Vou must remember tliut you ain't taking to one ot your.?muri lawyers l)tit to an old slow tliinkiii* teller, and you'll have to go .tluii and weed out .some oi them tiiu uorus, if you uant me to keep tip. i ain't one ot tue.-e lieiv lawyers that euu think of jibi'Ut mx things atonee; and tlieu talk about, something Unit tliey slill ain't thiukiu' about, tint ii'.-. as iniieli us i can do to think ubmit one thin^ rignt hard, ami now to keep l mm goin'over toe same ground twice, let'* sorter look back and sue Wliut we've gone oxer? v\nul tvi'vti u^ivvil nil, Ijct'oi'u We talk about this "live tuition" liunilienn. Xoiv you 'Say li ;i von'are wjlbn' lor I lie State to Inure a couefje, ami want it to be improved, but you don't like tlie '"free tuition" part. Is that it t Kxaeily, sir. 'i'..ai's my position, exactly. All rignt*, we'll just cniiiiUter ,Umi."inuoli as sett ied, .?:?' now utioiiicr tiling, I oelieve yon arc ii great l.ublic school man, Colonel ? Ves sir. I went to the Legislature ou that iss..c six years ago. and 1 have always idenliticd myself with public schools, ami wi?h'\re L'ould run tiiein t'oriunc months lu.it .mi, And now, Colonel, we. are ready to begin, and I'll try to hold up my end ot the log, if you'll only talk slow an' about one thins; it a time. Now, first, t?J make the tiling u Utile easier, 'spose there were no denominational . ullegcs in the Stale, would you be opposed to free tuition then V Well, Mr Hayseed, Iliad never thought ol it much in that way, but 1 belicre 1 stiouhi jc. Vou sue, getting his tuition tree A.ipa the manhood ot the student, ami destroy* tne [lie self-reliance of his parent#. Mebhe so, Colonel, inebbe so ; but if a hoy joes down there now an' it costs . him about }dju to get through, 1 don't exactly, 1 reckon it's on account ot my not being a lawyer, b,ui I don't see bow it would brace up his mftiiluind iny to slap another titty dollars ou him. Hut o hurry on, Colonel, I'll just lemind you tl}*t' ron ilidn't .nay anythinir about this "sappiti' " justness when you were ruuniu' for the Legislature on the HKEK St'HOOI. TICKliT ; >ut iliat be the little fellers haven't got no miuhood to "sup," and that's whv the free !?? ?.* ' '* 1 1 ...... . ..tin viii. mu uow ik it that the Vol- schools don't "destroy the self-reliance >f the parents,"-utf you put it, Colonel t ' Oh, well, you see the term in so short they uive to rely mainly on them selves alter all. Just so, colonel, hut I thought 1 understood on to say that you'd like to make it nine iionths,?just think of what a lot of "??i|)piii" hat would do. Well, Mr. llav seed, perhaps you are right, tut dont you think that it is wrong for the ich man to have his son educated at the 'col- i L-jje free, just like the poor man ? No, Colonel, 1 reckon itk my old thick head gain, but it don't look that way to uie. On lie other hand, it lout* ?? ??" >l-: ? - - ? ? ?e una WIIV. quire Wilson over here pays taxes on three Imusand acres of land, and Dick Smith down tie road is a renter ami don't pay no tax but pule tax. Now I think Diekv's hoii oughtn't i have any tuition x> pav because its as much 1 > he can do to go now, but I do think it < ouid be kinder rough on the Squire after , iiyin' all hid taxes to support the colle^wH to ive to go an pay a big tuition fee, when the an who don't pay any taxes goes free. . Hut 1 i 1 said before, to hurry on. Colonel, you ^ ive to remind you again that that niiit title a av of your great public school. There.- ri^h id poor go free and equal, and, really C olotie r ic way 1 think it oughter be, I' Itntcv ! to row the public school up to you so njnc ' it you are such a great public school ..man c at* I think its a pretty good way toheudyou e Oh, I'll admit the force of iho argument " awn from the public schools, Mr. Mayweed it all this IS PUBKI.T SI'BOl'liAT1NO c denominational colleges as are here, and lilu if there were no colleges but the Stute llegos here, I should object to free tuition ' o say that now its very unjust tollies .dcliiinat ional colleges. . "1 Well, before we begin on that, lets see where 1 are now. You say that von don't . object st the colleges itself, and tliut you think a w tie more money to make it a better coolege C< uldn't hurt, aiid that you don't object to te ie tuition in itself. Now lets drive down te ?eg here and then we can uo on , ??IVI III (I now your only point it* that it uiut fair to ! denominational colleges, to charge no tui* ly n. Xow you musn't get buck to any of St ?se other points, becausc we've done net- Lc il them, Jerp well, air, you hnte staled my position ictly, and now "first I say it isn't fair to iko 'people whose consciences compel them ,n< <end thoir sons to their church college, to 'c free tuition at the South Carolina cn!- n" e, P';' Veil, but Colonel, I reckon Its ir.y thick "J d again, but I cant exactly see how it ild help a man who is sending his son to church college, to charge the boys at the ith Carolina cotlego tuition. J Tell, of coursu that would do away with ? eollego altogether, ha wouldnt hare to Xj taxes to bupporl it. JL h. well but hold on. Colonel, you ar* get- a : back again, you said rou didn't want to . _ iway with the college* out wanted to itn- AB prove U. Well, any bow, Mr. Hayseed, it is certainly UNFAIR TO TBI CHURCH COM.KliKH to take a?vay their students by offering free very tuition at the State college. Now let's look at that a little, Colonel, I could say that our church colleges have jrot about as many students now as I hoy evurhad, but of course you would say that they would I have had more if it hadn't been for this tree tuition and aatherv'aint anyway of finding that I out, we had better naas ??n V - . i mi -?ii v i 111 :> | | tree tuition hurts t he church colleges, but I dotit it bcneKt somebody. I Why yes, I suppos- it buuefits those who ! attend the Slate colleges. I . Well Colonel .since the college is open t<? I everybody in the State it is a quesnion of whether we benetit the Ohurch colleges or I benetit our own sons and ourselves. I , uh, no, sir, you look at it the wrong way entirely. I AK- uc so Colonel, mebbe so, I aiut as sharp as you lawyers, but that's the way it looks to a common horse sense old teller. Now Colonel , how would a tuition charge in the South Carolina college help the denominational Colleges. Why it would put them on an equal footing with t'ue Mate college. Hut bein' on an "equal footing" wouldn't help tlieiu willr.mt something else. \\ etl .?tr. Ilayseed, it would help lliciu by I giving ineni mure students. Exactly .so, and where would thein students come tro.ii, Wh\ they would come from the South Carolina college, 1 suppose. .lust so. And who would he the most likely to leave on account of the tuition fee the poor or tlie rich Y \\ ell, the poor, I suppose. .lust so. Aiul suppose soine of those poor stucctita were too poor to pay tliig tuition fee I or to go to t lie church college, since you say i tliat would be on an equal tooting, what would I these tellers do-Y \\ ell, or, lets us see, why I suppose they ; ' would uuve lo slay ai home. I >1 ust so. Now, Colonel, you're ! A KltlKNU OK 1'IIK I'OOIl MAX, 1 know that, because 1 heard yon stiy so once when you weiw down here electioneriug around like now, 1 say are you goin' to tell the poor people Unit that's the way you are goinj* to j ireal llieiu. Now this tuition fee uint fan11 in iuv: rii"ii mail eiitier, but he can pay il and will pay il 0iii arc you uoiug to have the nerve io gel itn on the stump ami tell the pour man thai yon arc in favor of keeping up a State college, hut yon want to charge hint a big tnitloil fee so a.s to run hint oil' to uoine other college or make liim stay home? Mcbbe >ou will. Comiicl, ui.'bite you will, but I am Highly alrieit thai when you get on the Mump your text will In* about how the South Carolina college, run for lue lawyers, and lowco mi try people is crushing out the church colleges, et celery. Yes Colonel, 1 am mighty air.iiu tuai will be your text. Now we've been milling a lonir time an* I lie sun's getting powerful not, so lets quit. Hut first, Colonel lets see il I've got your position exactly. You uint opponcd to the State college, and you want io improve it, and you aint much opposed to tree tuition in Itself?beiu' as how you are a big free school man but you want to charge a tuition fee so as to help out Undenominational Colleges. Yes, Mr. Hayseed, that's about my position. Just ?o, In other words you are in favor of us TAXIS OCH8KI.VKS TO Hl'Pl'OHT A C0I.LKUK for ourselves an' then charge ourselves a big tuition fee sons to make ourselves j^o to some Jollier college. Oh no ! i'uy dear sir, what 1 mean is?well? that is, I dou't mean that any. Why There, ColyneJ, that'll do. 1 reckon its inv old head again. ?ll" 1 was a lawyer, 1 reckon I'd see what'you did mean, but among plain common sense people like we ur ; around here, t'm mighty afraid, Colonel, that you'll have a hard time persuaditi' them that you don't mean that. By the way, before you go, how do you stand on the agricultural college question ? You know we farmers are talking about bavin' oi.e like that one out in Mississippi. Now out there* they jrave them $300,000 to get fixed up on au' then about $30, 1)00 a year. And they dou't charge any tui tion, and not much board, so that a feller can jret through ou about $75 or $80 a year. Now. won't that sorter crush the denominational colleges, and take a way students and take in ,i good mituy of those students that leave the ' Mate college? And won't you fellers be mautiu'to put it on an'"equal footing" and 1 churgin' tuition and so on ? How do you stand on that question ? Certainly, you have a right to know my j position, and 1 shall he glail to define it, for l am one of those men who think with Cleveland that "public otlice is public trust" and a-man's constituents have a right to know if ( lie represent themjustlv, and 1 alwavs have . im- luiiTu.sis oi my constituents at heart, and I think that any mail who bet ray & his trust 1 should go down to his grave "unwept, unhoU- j ored and unsung." I hope you understand t inv position. ('ant say I do, Colonel, but I reckon its my head again. So long, call again, when you're comin' tliis way and we'll discuss* tariff some. 1 i ? , __ j C'utn J. N. King. * Wo understand that reports detri- > mental to our honored fellow citizen j ''apt .J. X. King, wore in circulation e incl : , v.iu iwent primary election 11 We aro glad to have an opportunity to jorrect these slanders. Oapt King's ivar record i* as good as any man's in ^ South Carolina. No man did buLtrr service or went nore promptly to the front than he ? lid. In the campaign of 1876 he was 0 i faithful and untiring worker for Jlhe ' lemocratic party. Capt. King is u good ind a useful citizen. In the recent; tock show at Ninety-Six he took an .1. ctivn interest, and hyf the exhibits he c, tad on hand it is clear th%t he is a model armerand a man of thrift hnd enterprise, f elected he will make one of the host ommissioners Abbeville county' has ? ver had.?The Greenwood Tribune. C _ k Sheriffs Sale. fo It Tarrant against James Clilliam?Execution. . co 3Y Tirtuc of an Executions to nic di- hr reeled, in the above stated ease, I will sj( >11 to the highest bidder, at I'nblic Auction, . itliin the legul hours of sale, at Abbeville . nort House, on Monday the lith day of Sep- *,l] mher A. I)? 1H8H, all the right title and inrest of Jamot? Gillam deceased, the follow - on doscribedproperty, to wit: All that tract or parcel of Land, situate,, ine and being in tho Cftuntv of Abbeville - C J .1 " * - me <11 nouiii varonna, and known tin the ? tng Hottoni Plantation and containing FOUR HUNDRED ACRES, ^rc or loss, and bounded by lands of W A ndcrs, M 1$ Lipscomb, the Saluda River Yj d others. Levied on and to bo sold as the tpcrty of. James Giilatn deceased, to satisfy io aforesaid Execution and contb. \ -wTERMS?Cash. I J. F. C. DuPRE i?jp Sheriff Abbeville Countv. tv Kxxg. 10, 1886, it. ?,0 jlUGENE B. OARY, m<J A tll ] attorney and Counsellor at Law, bos BKVILltK, 8. C. J . ^ -? > v mmmmtmmmmmmmummmmmtwtmmi tmmtmmmm\n ? in An Ordinance ! i against gkksm lit: xx ixc. at laiu>k ox Tin-: stii.:i:ts of j i) ij r. \ l J,UK. I j ?>K it Ordained by tin* Towti Council J A' of Abbeville. South Carolina and b}' tin; authority of tin* >.-nin? : That it shall bo unlawful, (rom this I (late, for any j^eose to run at larjje on j the public streets of the town. It shall , ht? the duty of the town marshal to take | the Kome into custody. And the owner < or owners of the same shall l>" required ! to pay over to the town treasurer the ' sum of one dollat an costs. .1. S. HAMMOND. .Funks F. Mii.i.kii, Intendant. Secretary. Au Ordinance TO 1MIKSKHVK QCIFT AND OliDEH IN TlIK TOWN OF AHliKVILLK. BK it ordained hy the Town of Abbeville 0. and hy the authority of the same. That Section 1 of an ordinance to preserve qu'et and order in the Town of Abbeville be amended by striking out the word "Twenty" in the sixth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "one hundred." so that the said section shall read : That It*. - ii any person or persons shall commit assault ami battery or shall in any manner whatever engage in any combat or light within any private or public house or any other place within the corporate limits of Abbeville, such person or person* may be fined at the discretion of the Council, not exceeding one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in lieu thereof. .). S. HAMMOND. Joxks F. Mil.t.Kit, Intondaiit. Secretary. Sherffl'sTjdeT ^ 1 11 K. Ilea chain against J \V Nichols?Execution. BY virtue of an Execution to me directed, iu the above stated case, I will sell to ttie highest bidder, at Public Auction, within the legal hours of sale at Abbeville Court House, <>n Monday the sixth day of September A I) 188t>, ull "the right title and interest of J W Nichols in the following dtscribed property to wit : All that tract or nuro..i #.?" ihiki, situate lying ami being in tin? town of Abbeville, County of Abbeville, South Carolina, and known ats the Lee 1'lace ami containing ONE ACRE more or les-*, and the buildings thereon, hounded by lands of W A l.ee, K .1/ lladdou, Vienna Street et al. Levied 011 and to be sold as the propertv of .1 "NY Nichols to satisfy the it foresaid Execution and costs, TKKJ/"S?Cash. J. F. C. Drl'RE, Sherifl" Abbeville County, S. C. Aug. 10, 1S80. Monroe llros. ?Ir Co., and others vs. Jno. A. Moore?Sundry Executions. BY virtue of sunrirv executions to me directed, in the above stated case, I will tell to the highest b'drier, at public auction within the legal hours of sale, at Abbeville C. j ii .... m? --- * .. , uMHiuur, uii> urn nay ot' J^ept , IStili til the right, titiu ami iutrest ot John A. Monro in the following described property, to kvit ; Ail that tract or parcel of land, situate, ( lying and being itt the County of Abbeville, i State of South Carolina, coutaiuiug i TWENTY-TWO ( 22) Acres, nore or less, bounded by lands of .1. 1'. Phil- , ins, Luther Kiuard, Mrs. Sherard anil others. \lso, all the interest ot the said .lohn A. , Moore, (being one-third in a tract or pared of and in the County and State aforesaid, eonaiuin^ TWO HUNDRED ACRES, nore or less, bounded by lands of Dr. W. I., > Vuderson, Jiyncs Seal and S. 1). Marshall. Vlso, ? )NK LOT OF LAND, and the TWO-STORY , HUICK STOKE illlLDlXO hereon, on Cambridge street, in the town of (iucty-Six, and lately occupied by Jeff D. loore as a general store. Also, all the interst of the said John A. Moore (being oncalf) | IX A LOT, and the STOKE Rl'lLDINO j ithereon, on br idjje t>treit, in the town of Ihielv-Slx, and now occupied us a drug store. it{ ;?t tlic town of Xiuety-Six, on the same day an days following, all the goods, warea 1 mi iiiL'rcimuuwte ?f the said Jno. A. Moore, J nusistiug of dry goods, shoes, Imts, clothing, nrdware and such other article* as are nun- | iiv kept in a drst-class country store, inliidinj; one iron safe, platform scales,Stc. eried on and to be sold as the property of n idin A. Moore, to satisfy the aforesaid excutions and costs. T tilt MS?Cash. .J. F. C. Dt'l'UE, S. A. C. t| Aug It), 18?ti, tf f\ 3TATE OK SOUTH CAROLINA, S J ii| COUNTY OK AtlBETII.I.E, 15 Kx Parte. Lui.a X. Quaim.ks. Petition r Homestead. f'1 in Xotice is hereby given to nil persons inccrned, tlint Mrs. Lula X. Qnnrles is applied to me to have the llomeL?nd exemption allowed by law set oft' her in the personal property of her h isband. the late 11. P. Quarles, deceased. J[| Dated, July 20tU, 188(>, and published ce a week for four weeks in the Ab- T ville Messknoku. J. 0. Klugh. Master. f) When DU VISIT AUGUSTA. PJ ? )OX'T forget to go to the elegant bar of K S Anderson, in the August* Hotel, k Anderson is a native of Abbeville conii- p although for a good many yeurs lie has ; n doing business ut EclgeHeld ('ourtlioiu . ^ /hile stopping in Augusta you cun get no ' A rr elegant, place to stop than at the Angus- , Intel. Mr. Doolittle. the proprietor, is tk? s hotel mau of the {"South. uiiv 8th, 2 mob R. S. Anders ^ IBHHHIHBHnHi Atlger College, Walhalla, s. C. Faculty : 1?kv. J. lJuoiiKi*kiiku, A. M., Chairman, I'rulVsstii' ?f Mi'iilnl ami Mural Science, etc. Maksiiai. S. Sikiiii.ino, A. 11., Prnlossor of Mathematics. \V. l>. Simpson, .Ik., 11. S., Professor ?>f l.anjiuu^es. K. A. Simpson, 1$. S., Professor of Natural Sciences, etc. The Fall Session begins September Itith, 1SSC?. Collegiate and ?S'ub-Colleiriatc clasgi >. Tuition ami board remarkably moderate. Health resort. A superior place tor diligent, mental application. For Circular, containing further information, address any member of the faculty, or d. I). VKKNKU. President Hoard of Trustees. Master's Sale, jgTATB OF TOl'Til CAROLINA, CofNTY ok AKDKVIM.k Court of Common Pleas. H. K. Heacham, Agent, against 11. A. Itichey. lly virtue of an .order of sale made in the above stated case, I will offer for sale at public outcry at Abbeville Couit House, N. C., on Salcday in September, 18SG, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property, situate in said State uml County, to wit : All that tract or parcel of land near the town of Abbeville, on I'eudletou road containing TWO UUNDIIKI) AND FIFTY acres more or less, bounded by l'cudlcton road, Francis Lomax, K. K. Ilili, I>r. J. L. Martin, F. A. Coogler and others. Terms of Sale?('ash. Purchaser to pay the Master for papers. J. C. KLCOH Master. gTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Coi'J.TY OF ABDUVILI.K, Court of Common 1'lcHS. . A. .1. Salinas A Son against Jesse (J. Kllis.? Foreclosure. Hy virtue of an order of Kale made in tlio ,* . above slated case, I will otlei for sale at public outcrv at. Abbeville C. 11., S. C., on saleday in Scntcnibcr, 1SSI5, witliin the legal liour? of mile, the following described property, situate in said Mate and County, to wit : One Hrick Store with the hit on which it is built, being the north half of the l'lttrnix Building ill the town of Hodijes, bounded by store of Uohertson Savior & Co., by lands of (J. M. llodges, bv the public square and the Abbeville road. Also, one lot in the tow.n of Hodge*, with a building thereon, Maid lot containing ONE AGUE, more or less. Terms of Said?One third cash, balance in twelve months with interest, secured by bpnti of the purchaser and a mortgage of the p'rem ises. I'urrhaser to pay the Master for paperd and recording. , J. (7. KM'(ill. Master. gTATK OF SOCTH CAROLINA, ( OfSTY OK AnREVII.I.K,* Court of Common I'leas. Francis A. Connor against Henry IF. Owens, Foreclosure. 15y virtue of an order of sale made in the above stated ease, 1 will otter for sale at pub- A lie outcry at Abbeville II., S. ('., oo saleday in September, IKSO, within the lejrnl hours i?f sale, the following described prop rty, situate m said State and County, to wit : All that houae and lot now owned and occupied bv tho said Henry II. Owens, containing ? Acres, more or less, in the village of I'okesbury, bounded by laud of the lot of A. M. K. Church, Alex. Shaw and Joel Town<end. Also, that tract or parcel of land in Cokesiiurv, containing NIX KT Y ACRKS, nore or less, nod bounded by lands of Mr?. VI. C. (Sary, Alex Kllis, Joel Townsend ami it hers. Terms of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to pay he Master for papers. J. C. KM7GH. Master. Speed &Neuffer j t?r r?i T " '? TT" KK1* constantly on liand n full, unci wel! LV selected stock of pnrc < )rugs, Chemicals etc., etc. All 11n* latestand popular lines of Paten nd Proprietary Medioiiuv. Hertoine, le best Liver Medicine, cnrca Dys)>epsia, <jr Sah' only by un. Try our RLACKHERRV CORDIAL for v. hi.iiiiiiiii?? ann our roinpoiiiicl ^vri> Sursaparilfa with Iodide Potash, for the lood. - " BHi> hug roisox, . o most caiivcnieut way of destroying these sects. 1)1 AMOM> DIES, all the Staple and Fashionable Colors f A full line of Kanoy Goods, oilet Articles, Stationery etc. etc. lie best brn nds ?f Cigars, Tobacco, and Cigaretett. tim A complete stock of White brads, Paints ils, Varnishes, etc.. etc.. Puim , , - A#I UOIIVS inflow 01 aas. Golden Machine Oil. Vc sell the colcbratcd Harrison Brother's epared Pain I ; the best in the market. Special attention paid to the ' f Prescription Department. 'hyaician'H prescription* and fa.nilv re- . filled at all bourii of day amd nighty by icrieuccd and competent hands, rders by band or Mail, promptly attended SPEED * NEUFFEfL ,pril 29, 1885. tf 83.