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Travelers’ Guide-
South Carolina Railroad,
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
VOL. II.
-N.
BARNWELL C. 1L. S. C..-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1878,
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NO. 57.
Con tract i
Ur first tnsertio
No comnaunleatfon
less accompanied by t
the writer, Bet M
but an » guaranty 1
Address,
DREAULVO IN' THE TRENCHES.
BT CORBOS M CAEE.
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CuARLKSToif, March 1, 1878.
On and after Sunday, next, the South
“Carolina Railroad wilt be run as fallows:
ion ACOCRTA,
(Sunday morning excepted),
Leave Charleston . . 9 00 a. in. 7 30p. m.
Arrive Augustaj . . 5 00 p. ut. G bo a. m.
FOB COLUMBIA,
(Sundiy morning excepted),
Leave Charleston . . f> 00 a. m. 8 30 p m.
Arrive at Columbia. 10 50 p.m. 7 45 a. m.
FOB CUABLE8TOX,
(Sunday morning excepted).
Leave Augusta ... 8 30 a. m. 7 40 p. in.
Arrive at Charleston 4 20 p. m 7 45 a. m.
Leave Columbia . . 6 00 p. m. 8 00 p. m.
Ar. Charleston, 12 15 uightand 6 45 a. in.
Summerville Train,
(Sundays excepted)
Leave Summerville 7 40 a m
Arrive at Charleston: 8 40 a m
Leave Charleston 8 15 p m
Arrive at Summerville 4 25 p m
Breakfast, Dinner and Supper at BroBchvillc'
Camden 7\ain
■Connects at Kingsville d^ily (Stnrdays excep
ted) with day passenger train to and from
Charleston. Passengers from Camden to Co
lumbia can go through without detention on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and
from Columbia to Camden ou Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays by conuection
with day passenger train. H «
Day and night trains connect at Augusia
with Georgia Railroad and Central Railroad.
This route is the quickest and most direct
to Atlanta, Nashville. Louisville, Cincinnati,
Chicago, Si Louis and other points iu the
Northwest,
Night trains for Augusta connect closely
with the fast mail train via MaCon and Au
gusta Railroad for Macon, Columbus, Mont
gomery. Mobile, New Orleans and points in
the Southwest. (Thirty-.six hours to New
Orleans.
Day trains for Columbia connect closely
with Charlotte Railroad for all points North,
making quick time aud no delays. (Forty
hours to New York.)
Thftfrainson the Greenville and Columbia
and Spartanburg and Union Railroads con
nect closely with the train which leaves
Charleston at 5 00 a in, and returning they
connect in same manner with the train which
leaves Columbia for Charleston at 5 30 p in
Laurens Railroad train oonnectsat Newberry
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Blue Ridge Railroad train runs <lai y, con
necting with up and down trains on Green
ville and Columbia Railroad.
S. S SOLOMONS,
Superintendent.
S. B. Pickrvs. General Ticket Agent.
I pictured her there in the quaint old,room,
Where the fading fire light starts and falls,
Alone in the twilights tender gloom, v }
With the shadows that dance bU the dhn
lit walls. • - i
n. ,
Alone, while those faces look Silently down
From their antique frames iu a grim re
pose—
Slight scholarly Ralph, in his Oxford gown,
And staunch Sir Alan, who died for Mon*
trose. ,
lit.
There fire gallants gay in crimson and gold,
Thcrcarc smiling beauties with powdered
hair;
But she sits there fairer a thousand fold.
Leaning dreamily back in her low arm
chair.
&.
And the roseate shadows of fading light
Softly, clear steal o’er the sweet young
face,
Where a woman’s tenderness blends to
night
W.fh the guileless pride of her knightly
race. - - ^
v,
lie clasped in
a listless
Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Charleston, S. C., •Tan. 5, 1878,
On and after Monday, January 7,1878. the
trains on this Road v ill leave Depot of
Northeastern Railroad as follows;
Ea*t Miil Daily.
with the Port Royal, Air-Line and Coast
Line of Railroads to divide its once am
ple revenues, there should have come
such a decline iu the net income of the
South Carolina Railroad since 1873 as
to have rendered it imperatively neces
sary to adopt measures of financial re
lief. President Magrath’s path ever
since the war has been beset by difficul
ties, and it must be said to his credit
that he brought the road from its ruins
in 1865 to the highest point of income
it ever attained, eight years later. If,
since the panic of 1873, lie has not al
ways been able to command success, he
has at least deserved it; and it Was no
mean tribute that the representatives of
all the diverse interests engaged in the
recent proceedings, and even Judge Bond*
himself, should have joined in the ex
pression of a sense of his integrity, abili
ty and unselfish devotion to the service
of the road.
And now a few words iu justice to the
Syndicate. In the last months of 1876,
when the political future of South Caro
lina was uncertain and the critical aspect
of things in Columbia was reacting un
favorable in business circles, the Presi
dent and Directors of the road foresaw,,
from the statistics of income before them,
that to meet the falling off in business
and the uncertainty of the «oining year’s
income, fresh efforts must be made to
bridge over one or two years of what
they honestly believed were difficulties
which would give way before the then
expected change of State governmeaU
The road had some stock of only nomi
nal market value and other sccuntics
much depreciated from their face values.
ISo bank or banker would entertain a
proposition fora loan on such collaterals.
At this juncture five directors, the lion.
Henry Gourdin, G. W. Williams, Esq.,
James S. Gibbes, Esq., F. J. Pelzer,
Esq., and L. D. DeSaussure, Esq., of
the Committee on Finance, came forward
and offered the use of their names as
personal mtprantors for a loan of two
hundred thousand dollars for the purpose
of mamtaimng the credit of the company
and carrying it forward to better times.
The fruit of this generous move was that,
within *xty days, by their united efforts,
the interest on the floating debt of the
road, then carrying rates ol 9, 10 and
12 percent, per annum, was reduced be
low 7 percent., and a saving effected of
nearly $50,000 a year in tlie interest ac
count of the company The aid of the
Leave Charleston , -
Arrive at Savujnah
Leave Savannah
Arrive Charleston -
3 15 a.m.
9 00 a. iu.
5 00 p. in.
11 00 p. m.
Accommodation Train, Snndayf Excepted.
Leave Cliarleston - - - - 8 00 a.m.
Arrive at Augusta - - - - 5 15 p.m.
Arrive Port Royal - - • 1 50 p. m.
Arrive Savannah - - - - - 3 50 p. m.
Leave Savannah - - - 9 00 a. ni.
Leave Augusta - - - 7 30 a. m.
Leave Port Royal - - 10 20 a. iu.
Arrive Charleston - - - 6 80 p. m.
Night raitettycr, Sunday* Excepted.
Her small hands
way ■ . • _ .
On the old romance, which she holds on
her knee, ,
Of “ Tristram,” the bravest of knightStn the
fray,
And “ Iseult,” who waits by thesoumling
sea. ’ •
Vt.
And the proud, dark eyes wear a softened
look,
As she watches the dying embers fall—
Perhaps she dreams of the knights in the
book,
Perhaps of the pictures that smile on the
wall!
^ VII.
What fancies, I wonder, are thronging her
bruin t
For hercheeks flush warm with a crimson
glow.
Perhaps—ah ! me, how foolish and vain !
But I’d give my life to believe it se.
vtn.
Well, whether I ever march home again.
To offer my love and a stainless uame.
Or whether I dje at the head of my men,
I’ll be true to the end all ihe same 1
Pegram's Bat. Artillery, A. N, V., Dec., 18G4
The Mouth 4 nroliuti I'ailrond.
[News, ami Courier.]
The contest in the United States Court
over the South Carolina Railroad ease
has ended in n change of the controlling
management of the road, Mr. John II. | that they were doing a great and needed
Fisher having been appointed Receiver. 1 service to the road and to Charleston.
The strenuous, though unavailing, oppo- ' These arc thfffacts. They form the best
sition that was made to the Receivership, ! answer to the ridiculous language in re-
on the part of most of the Charleston in- gwd to the Syndicate in which some of
tcrests represented in the case, had, we the counsel at Raltimoro saw fit to ini
fancy, even a deeper root than the grave dulgc. Rut in truth, wherever the char-
objections formally urged in argument, tmter of the gentlemen composing the
Syndicate is known, they need no vindi
cation.
being already overfilled, but at bis
earnest entreaty, * frbe more,” she was
taken In. When b* saw her safe out
of Lift failing arms, to said ; Good
bye,” dearest Maryj we shall meet in
Heaven,” and went down without a
struggle. Husband* and vives have
been brought up-doeeiy clasped to
gether, resisting the rude divorce of
grappling hooks ; rvjothers are found
holding two chtldreo, the little ones
having still toys and dolls In their
benched hands. Yesterday, a family
of four were raised* and brought on
shore, all firmly locked and interlock
ed together In the strong embrace of
death—of something stronger^ than
death. “ Many waters cannot quench
love,” and th§ love which can master
the wild selfish terrors and the mortal
agony of such moments, and hold its
own, and to its own,.tre;vds down the
deeps of death in the triumph of a
blessed immortality. ' So awfully Sud
den was the collision, and so strangely
slight the shook, that many of the pas
sengers who were in the cabins, talk
ing, eating and drinking—the younger
portion playing and singing In the last
ebullition of their holiday glee—could
scarcely have guessed what had hap
pened. or had not time to change song
or laughter to prayers, before they
went plunging down, thus coffined to
gether, into their murky, watery grave
Divers have been sent down, and it is
reported that owing to the density of
the Thames water it la impossible for
them actually to see anything on board.
One of them says thas in the cabin, in
the after-part of the ship, he felt bod
ies •' packed four and five deep.” Can
anything be imagined more horrible
than such a blind groping through the
dense and slimy water among Ahat
ghastly company—silent and oold aud
rigid, waiting in awful pAtieuee for
their uplift to the- light, but not the
life, of the upper world! Little chil
dren were under his feet everywhere,
and babies floated against him as gent
ly as sea-weed in the restless watery
dark.
A M*L.E1NID11> THIULl’K.
Herolnm dI* ihe Rowthera Peo
ple In War and In Pewtllence.
MYMTfilltir.K or
rfiSYK*.
YELLOW
Is tUe Pestilence Infectious?—
Aii Unprofessional Opinion.
[From the New Q*lc iPaThnes.]
That the hyRotht s^}^ rorUagiou or
Infect! n will not answer for yellow
fever is sufficiently shown iu the fact
that other places, Subject to daily and
hourly and most intimate intercourse
with New Orleans, aud lying in the so-
called yellow fever belt, have thus far
remained entirely free. What the real
[From the London Standard, September J.J
The younger among us esnnot per
haps remember the keen, warm sym
pathy frith which the English of 18G1-
’65 witnessed the heroic stiuggle
maintained by their Southern kinsmen
against six-fold odds of numbers and
odds of position, resources, vantage
ground, simply incalculable. Even
those who from sympathy with the
Northern States were unfavorable to
the cause of a great nation revolting
against a real tyranny could not but
feel proud of our near kinship with
that Incomparable soldier—so desig
nated by their enemies—which, on fifty
battle fields, maintained a contest such
as no other race has ever In modern
times maintained, and at last, when all
hope was gone, held for six months,
with 45,000 men against 150,000, a
a slender line of earthworks thirty
miles in length ; who marched out
28,000 strong, and after six days’ re
treat in face of a countless cavalry and
overwhelming artillery and Infantry
pressing them on all sides, surrender
ed at last but 8,000 bayonets and sa
bres. It Is this people, the flower and
pride of the great English race, on
whom a more terrible, more merciless
enemy has now fallen. There can bo
now no division of sympathy, os there
is no passion to excite and keep up the
courage needed for the occasion. Yet
the men and women of the South are
true to the old tradition. Her youth
volunteer to serve and die in the streets
of plague-stricken cities as readily as
they went forth, boys and gray haired
men, to meet the threatened surprise
of Petersburg—as they volunteered to
charge again and again the cannon-
crowned hills of Gettysburg, and tp en- ’
rich with their blood, and honor with
the name of a new victory, every field
around Richmond. Theirsiaters, wives,
mothers and daughters are doing and
suffering now as they suffered from
famine, disease, Incessant anxiety and
alarm throughout the four years of the
civil war. There may be among the
various nations of the Aryan family
one or two who would claim that they
could have furnished troops like those
which followed Lee and Johnston,
Ktuart ard Stonewall Jackson ; but wo
doubt whether there bo one race be
felde our own that could send forth Us
children by hundreds to face in towns
desolated by the yellow fever the hor
rors of a nurse’s life and the Imminent
terror of a martyr’s death.
thought that in that far future, In the
day when you and I and all of us shall
have been gathered to pur God, I could
see a great and happy State and peo
ple, Our children’s children—wise by
the errors we have committed, chas
tened by sorrows we vicariously have
borne for them, Instructed by tbe ex
perience wo have gained—shall build
up a new and great country. They
will lift up South Carolina and place
her where God intended her to stand—
wRh a united, free and happy people,
walking on tbe great road to national
prosperity ami peace. I have c een tbe
future, and I have worked for it; I
have prayed for It. And, surely, if in
the Providence of God it is given to
us after death to look back upon the
scene of our labors here, even the
pleasures of Heaven would be bright
ened by such a view. I trust in God
t may come. It would be the highest
reward that could come to me If In
tbe heart of those descendants of ours
yet unborn they could say that I have
worked for South Carolina. I would
eel If God had left me sensible then of
any emotion, the greatest throb of
pride tbat could stir my heart. And
would want no nobler epitaph to be
placed on my tombstone than that I
had been true to South Carolina, and
n war and In peace had done my
whole duty to her. God save our
State, ant^God for all time to come
bless her people.
Lf.'Vj
Syndicate was given without any kind oi* explanation is no one at this moment
compensation, beyond the consciousness
- 8 50 p. m.
'> 45 a. in.
7 25 a. m.
Leave Cliarleston - <
Arrive Port Royal -
Arrive Savannah
Leave Savannah - . . lO'OOp, m.
Leave Augusta • « » 9 00 p. in.
Arrive Charleston - - » 8 45 a. in.
Fast mail train '.vifi only stop at Adams
Run, Temassee, Grnhamvilte and Moutciih.
Accommodation train will stop at all sta
tions on ttiis road and makes close connoction
for Augusta and Port Royal and all stations
on the Port Royal Railroad,
Fast mall makes connection for points in
Florida and Georgia.
C. R. GAD8DKN, F.ngr. and Supt.
S. C. Bovlstox, G. F. iuhIT. Agent.
WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND
AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Gkxf.b.u, Pvsskxcrb Dkpabtmknt,
Columbia, S, C., August 6, 1877.
The follovringSchedule will be operated on
and after this date ;
Night Expren TYain—Daily.
GOING NOBTH,
Leave Columbia . $ .
Leave Florence > . .
Arrive at Wilmington
GOING SOUTH.
11 15 p. m.
2 40 a. m.
. C 32 a, m.
6 00 p. m.
10 02 p. m.
1 25 a. m
Leave Wilmington
Leave Florence -
Arrive at Columbia
This Train is Fast Express, making through
connections; all rail, North and South, and
waterline connection via Portsmouth. Stop
only at Eastover, Sumter, Timmonsvifie,
Florence, Marion. Fair Bluff, Whitcville and
Flemington.
Through Tickets sold and baggage check
cd to nil principal points. Pailinun Sleepers
cn night trains.
Through Freight Train—Daily, txcrpl Sun
day*.) «
GOING KOBTH.
Leave Columbia ....
Leave Florence. . . . •
Arrive at Wilmington. . •
GOING SOUTH?
Leave Wilmington, . * •
Leave Florence. . • , .
Arrive at Columbia
6 00 p. m.
4 80 a. m.
12 00 m.
2 80 p. m
2 85 a. m
10 10 a. m.
The experience of our people of fete
years as to the practical effect of Rc.
cciverships, under the State Courts, has
Itardly been such as to iodine them fa
vorably towards that species of legal
remedy ; and a large proportion of the
Charleston bondholders had come to re<
£ird the motion for a Receiver with a
vague distrust, if not with positive alarm.
It is but fair, however, to say that the
Receivers controlled by Judge Bond
have not hitherto given occasion for re.
prouch, and it is to he hoped that the ap
pointment of Mr. Fisher, whose admin
istration of the Air-Line Road in a simi
lar capacity was, we believe, eminently
satisfactory, will enure to the benefit of
the largo number of suffering creditors
of the road, mostly in Charleston, who,
in the present posture of affairs, are con
fronted with serious embarrassment, and,
in many cases, with aQtual distress.
President Magrath, who is now re
lieved, has been thirty?two years an offi»
cer of the South Carolina Railroad, and
for half that period its President. Sue
cceding Mr. Caldwell in 1862, he had
to face the trials incident to the latter
half of the war and to struggle with the
terrible embarrassments incident to its
close. In 1865 eighty* five miles of the
road had been destroyed; rails, cross
ties, trestles, culverts were all gone.
Everything needed for the restoration of
the road was held at the enormous prices
of the period, the iron to replace the old
rails costing eighty dollars a ton, though
now worth but thirty-five dollars. The
Sterling debt, to the extent ot $2,500,~
000, had matured, and three-quarters of
a million in bills of the Southwestern
Railroad Bank were pressing for pay
ment. The new exigencies of traffic
and transportation demanded the coutrcl
Arrires at Florence at 3 30 p. m.
A. POPE, G. F. AT. A.
J. F. DEVINE, Superintemlcilt.
.-IU ‘w -
PULYL’CSS AI.ILK BIOKROR.
Toucliins: IncidcntM of the Lut-
aatrophe on the Thames.
London, September 14.—All England
la overawept by a great surge of hor
ror and pity and grief, caused by the
terrible collision in the Thames be
tween the powerful iron screw steamer
the Bywell Castle and the large, but
fragile, steamer tho Princess Alice, in
which tbe latter was cut in two, and
sunk in less than three minutes. Few
of all that multitude escaped, except
such as were able to swim—though
doubtless some strong swimmers were
dragged down by drowning and despe
rate human creatures—as thick in
the water,”-one witness said, “as a
swarm of bees.” I am afraid there
was tho usual amount of selfish, sav
age brutality. It was unconsciously
shown in the accounts of some of the
survivors. One says; “ I cannot swim,
but I managed to keep my head above
water untH I was enabled to grasp a
rope, by means of supporting myself
on the bodies of human beings, still
afloat, and by moving from ono to tho
other. What a ghastly causeway,
what a death bridge to life, was that 1
Another survivor, one of the sort who
always survives, relates that he was in
the water with his wife and child—he
holding on to the anchor-chain of tho
By well Castle. He told his wife to sa
crifice the child, which she held in her
arms, and cling to him, or she would
be lost, but she would not give up the
baby, and so they were both drowned.
Verily, she chose tho better part. Yet
there were several touching Instances
of devotion and self-sacrifice. A story
is told of one of the lost, a young Lon
don manufacturer, which recalls the
heroic death of the captain of tho
Northfleet. He supported in the water
of important connections and improved
Local Freight Train We. Columbia Toes- l>oth involving largo cash ^"younr^l^ricarrirrtr
ULijkm.* j** nn« on*. —^ Uiwicr t 6SC cirCUIUflt&DCOS) ** I was betrothed, till he wna noarlw AT.
Is no wonder that the debt of the road
should hare largely increased, or that,
can even conjecture. Scieaco falls os
utterly here as It has failed to state
any propositioiwtouchlng the origin of
the disease or nature of its germ and
propagation—any proposition, at least,
which appeals to tho reason of intelli
gent men. An unprofessional person
oalled upon to pronounce judgment
would be apt to say that this thing we
call yellow fever is, in the United
States, simply a malignant type of bil
ious or malarial fever, liable to break
out spontaneously in any place where
the sanitary and atmospheric condi
tions favored its development.' IT
this be not true, why docs It devastato
small interior towns quarantined to
the point of extinction, while It spares
suburbs of New Orleans in hourly
communicatiou with the fever foci?
Why or how.dlfl it appear in Gallipo-
lis, on the Ohio river, m'ore than sev
enty-five years ago, at a time when a
journey from New Orleans consumed
two or thre^ months, or more, and
when, to build up a theory of infection
from here, wne must assume tbat tbe
yellow fever prevailed hero In March ?
The truth is that the infection hypoth
esis will not stand the simplest test of
experience and fact. Where one set
of events seems to support that hy
pothesis, another «et, equally genuine,
contradicts it as positively.
Of course the unprofessional opin
ion above described would be Indig
nantly scouted by the doctors, just as
any opinion advanced by any one of
them is derisively poo-poohed by the
rest of tbe fraternity and received gin
geriy, to put it mildly, by the rest of
the world. Nevertheless it Is as good
and respectable a proposition as any
in the field. The fact Is that at this
season the fever has wandered at its
own sweet will all over the Southwest,
skipping one locality and pouncing
upon another, though both htvve suf
fered equally from the dangers of In
fection, and generally demolishing the
most hoary traditions of tbe disease.
If nothing else has been proved, we
think it safe to say tbat no one will
question our proposition that tbe total
absence of any specific knowledge has
been proved, and, such being tho case,
yellow fever becomes at once a Na
tional peril and a National calamity.
The marriage t>f Miss Jeannette
Ben
What Hampton Haiti at Green
ville.
A Picture of the Memphis Vila-
ery.
[From the Latest Copy of the Ar&lsnche,]
A stricken city l Alas, fair Memphis 1
What sight meets the eye of those who
yet remain In your midst ? At every
thrn and corner* a cry of distress is
wafted on the breeze that' floats o’er
housetops, through your struts and-
alleys. On every side ia-met ftio bow
ed form of some citizen w^o has lout a
marriage tv!
Bennett, sister of James Gordon
nettt, to Isaac Beil, Jr., was solemni-
was betrothed, till he was nearly ex- zed at Newport Thursday. The pres-
hausted, when a boat seemed coming
to their rescue. It was passing by,
ents to the bride were valued at one
hundred thousand dollars.
I do not know that there Is any oth
er point on which I should detain you,
and I find the fatigue of speaking Is
greater than I expected. I will, how
ever, say ono word upon the dangers
that are threatening our party. The
greatest of these, in my apprehension
Is that ef an Independent movement
He who sets up his owh indivlvldua
judgment os a rule of action, aud re
fuses to act In full and perfect accord
with our platform, in spirit as well as
in letter, ts an Independent, and an
Independent at this crisis in our at
fairs is worse than a Radical He
places himself, by his own action, out
side of the pale of our party and he
should be ruled out of the party. He
who is not with us is against us and
should bo ranked among our oppo
nents, for an open enemy Is far less
dangerous than a pretended friend,,
Our party must be kept fully organi
zed, perfectly compact, and thoroughly
disciplined. Every member of it must
yield Implicit obedience to its dictates,
sacrificing, If need be, his private judg
ment to expressed policy, and subordi
nating all personal ambition to the
public welfare;
Another danger lies In ever confi
dence. The Democratic party thinks
It is invincible, and It Is so when
thoroughly disciplined and properly
led, but if we have dissensions and
divisions, and if we allow ourselves or
any men to set up false gods or Indoc
trinate us with political heresies and
lead us fromUhe straight road which
led to victory in ’76 ; If we are neglect
ful or forgetful of the great issues un
der which we are fighting, that great
and Invincible party which has lifted
South Carolina from the depths of woe
and degradation into which she bad fal
len—that party will be scattered as
these leaves now shimmering above
us will soon be scattered by tbe blasts
of October.
We must be united and move to
getber, for on tbat depends now the
very life of the State, not the mere
supremacy of or another party for an
hour. Your children for generatlona
to come will be influenced by your ac
tion. I am not cow—God forbid that
I should be—advocating a policy sim
ply for momentary triumph ot per
bonal'G'ratification. No, I have been
looking far beyond tbe present day—
for it has seemed to me that t have
been able sometimes to catch transient
glimpses of the future through the veil
that hides it from ua—and I have
relative or friend. f
'The river in a calm Is hurried onward
Through channels of despair.”
Tho small burnt piles of bedding
that are seen on every street but tells
tbe passer-by, “A death has occurred
here.” These blackened spots that
are growing in number daily, and yeir
there are scores of brave hearts who,
remaining, bound by a duty to their
fftllow-man, cannot but shudder In
anticipating that perhaps within the
week the bed. on which he throws him-
self to rest to-night will mark the
street with its burning record of a sac
rificed life. During the day there is
bustle and confusion. Doctors are
hurrying by. The hearse is met on
every square; The Howard visitor is
seen In every Inhabited dwelling. The
change of this comes when bight
has thrown ita mantle of darkness
over all. Then, only the rumbling of
some buggy over the stony street is
beard; or, some nurse is sent In haste
for a pybsician to come and try to
bring back to life the dying patient, is
.met as he speeds in search of the doc
tor ; or, the patrolman, as he walks
bis beat guarding the store or dwel
ling of some citizen who has fled to
escape the epidemic, is seen by some
Howard who has toiled late In the
night to succor tbe orphan children of
a dead parent. Every day brings ita
changes. The form that but yester
day was seen in tbe full vigor of
manhood, to-night lies tossing upon a
bed, aching with fever. The chair on
which a dear friend chatted while re
lating the horrors of the plague, scarce-
y twenty-four hours since, is filled not
jy him who had shown such a brave
spirit the night before—no, he ia in his
bed, stricken down, leaving his friend
to try and write of death’s doings, that
s making such a fearful record in the
history of our city. Who will be left
to tell the tale to-morrow.
New Tor*, 8ept*»b«r !
from Norfolk says that thftf
of W. H. Deale, at Boykhaa,
hampton county, was the *
Bbocklog tragedy ;<**£*
Luther Deale,a young toot
Deale, - ‘
to the room of Miss Moltte
obtain a shot-gun to]
few moments afterwordsl
of firearms In the lady’s i
the family, and on nufatag
room Miss MolHe was found 6b
floor with her skull blown qtf
head and shoulders bathed I
Young Deals in handling the goi
dentally discharged It, akd the wfeoSt
load struck Miss Kelson. She died
after an hour’s uncODSdousnew.
deceased was aslster of Mn.DMtoaitd
on a visit, having come the day be- 1
fore from her home In
county, North Carolina.
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Miss Wardlafce rejected one lovgt
and married another. This wee si
Juniata, Cal., of wfaleh plane she wal
regarded ae the belle. The
brought together all the f«
folk of the place, including Banff
Barron, the rejected suitor, who Joint
ed tbe rest In seetti In^f ^re^^rtfeit
gratulatlona of the bride. It was aft
terwards remembered; however, then
he acted nke a mah in n da*e-*coBduet
at the time attributed to the too feed
drinking of the-beVettgea that formed •
a part of the refreshments. Just be
fore the assemblage wee aiboat to dts"*
perse, Baron approached the, bride,
boariQg too glasses of wine. Sebandt
od her one and drsnlyt&e other him
self, saying slgnlfldtntly, “Let us
drink together ones more, for the last
time on earth.” She fras rather sad-
deefed, bat supposed that they referred
to .the necessary end of their Inter*
course; and drank tbe wine. . Ik hatt ,
an hour both were dead. Barton had
put poison in the wiOA
We find the following in the Be#
York Tribune : “Ex-Senator Robert
son, of South Caroline, expects to see
a solid Democratic Congressional dife>
egatlon elected from "that Stats thii
Fall. He says the Bepnbhtohs will
make no fight except In the first and
Second Districts, abghe does not think
tbat they can succeed there, as thtf
colored vote can no longer be held tot
them. He la aura that Hampton Wfi|
be elected to the United States Senate^
and hopes to see him a candidate for
Vice- President In 1880. All of which
shows that the Democrats have the
upper hand In ihe State, andarsbound
to keep It”
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Last Tuesday night, in Columbia, &
C., two men, named Littleton Bsyootdl
and William Joyner, became intoxica
ted, and consequently a tow ensued^
when Joyner drew a pistol and shot
Reynolds in the left leg Just above thd
knee, severing, it is thought, ths mala
artery of that limb. The parties Uv4
In Lexington, S. O., and It is said that
no “ bad blood ” had ever existed be
tween them before. Before the police
could arrive on the ground Reynold#
had tied his handkerchief above the
wound and had moved towards hornet
It is probable, if medical assistance did
not arrive in time, tbat he bled to deatta
Proclamation,
I
State ov South Cabouna,
Executive Chambeb,
Columbia, September 24, 1878.
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty
God la His wisdom to visit a portion
of His people, our brethren, with
grievous suffering and mortality; and
wiiread it becomes us, who have been
spared the visitation of the dread pes
tilence “ that walketh in darkness and
letttroyeth in the noonday,” to offer up
our humble supplications for those
who are so grievously afflicted, I here
by fix and appoint Friday, tho 4th day
of October, as a day of fasting, humil
iation and prayer.
And I request all God-fearing peo
ple, not only to offer up on that day
their earnest prayers to the Throne of
Grace that health may be restored to
our stricken land, but to bestow chari
ty on those who, in tbe providence of
God, have been left desolate and be
reaved.
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused tbe seal
of tbe State to be affixed, at Columbia,
this 2£th day of September, A. D. 1878*
and In the one hundred and third year
of the Independence of the United
States of America
WADE HAMPTON,
_ Governor.
By tbe Governor:
&M.8ucb,-
A private letter to J. M. Resting,
the editor of the Memphis Appeal,
says: “Our fair city la literally 6
charnel-house. The sights ate awful
and the soeoes arssad to a degraebloogt
curdling. I can add nothing to What ha#
been given to you dally. I would have
to go into details that would fill vefc
umee. Everyday we put away hun
dreds, and wonder where Grey all ootn4
rom, the city la so deserted.” Mr.
Keating has passed through three y#-
ow fever visitations In Memphis. Of
the large staff of hla paper he Is Oil.
only one left on duty;
*' tu »!. ......i .••.ni,;
Hendricks has Just begun to get mdt
over his loss ot the Vioe-Pr«*idaney.
At a speech at MoBtesoma, LkL, 06
Tuesday night; he hopped off the fiaooUfc
which he has been straddling with the
rest of them, hallooed for greenbacks
as the forerunner' of true sped* ft*
sumption, gave it hot and heavy to
Hayes, claimed Nationalism
steering tail-feather of
and generally bombarded his ti
h undred hearers with etnlght-otttt
trines. Maine fired him.
The Democratic 0(ntoe&tiQ« In
necticut has re-nottinatwjp
Hubbard and has adopted a
platfdnh? It tnakee ae
greenback lunatics, but k
square for sound money,
phatlcafly the
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A Juror in a
trial ofbnedt