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Addreaa, THE 1’EOrtK,
‘ Barnwell C. II., S. C.
South Carolina Railroad;
CHANGE OF SCliEDULE.
3lSL
Up Day Passengers.
(This Train dois riot connect with Train for
Columbia at Brancbnlle.)
Leave Charleston G. 45 « m
“ Branchville 9.55 a m
“ Midway 10.20 a m
“ Bamberg 10.28 a in
“ Graham's ‘ 10.43 a m
“ Lee's lii.57 a m
“ Blackville 11.03 am
•' Elko 11.17 am
" Williston 11.26 a m
Windsor 11.48 a m
“ Montmorenci 12.08 pm
“ Aiken vl 2.21 pm
Arrive Augusta 1.25 pm
Down Day Passengers.
(This Train does not connect with Train for
Columbia at Brauchville.)
Leave Augusta
Aiken
“ Montmorenci
“ • Windsor
“ Williston
“ Elko
'• Blackville
Leo’s
“ Graham’s
Bamberg
“ Midway
“ Branchville
Arrive Charleston
3.30 p m
4.40 p m
4.53 p m
6.18 p m
5.34 p m
5.42 p m
5.59 p m
G.07 p m
6.21 p m
6.37 p m
* f- 6 46 p m
7,25 p w
lO.lOp m
KIOHT EXPRESS.
Leave Charleston 10.15 p m
Arrive Augusta 8.20am
Leave Augusta 7.30 p m
Arrive Charleston 6.Oil a ra
Down Leave Blackville 11.25 p m
Up Leave Blackville 4.30 a in
Connects with Trains at Branchville for
Columbia.
VREIOHT AND ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Charleston .
Arrive Augusta
Lear* Augusta
Arrivs Charleston
Down Leave Blackville
Up Leave Blackville
Connects at Branchville
Columbia.
vith
7.40 am
9.35 p m
6.(Hi a m
6.15 p m
10.24 ii m
4.56 p m
Train for
Magnolia Passenger Route.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD. 1
Acqcsta, Ga., Jan 4,1879 /
" The following p issencer schedule will be
operated on and after tnia date :
Baldoc 12 07 Down
Baldoc 3 30 Up
Allendale 12 30 ITown
Allendale , - 3 00 Up
DAltT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Going South.
Leave Augusta 10 t!Oa m
Arrive at Yemassee 2 05 p m
Leave Yemassee 2 10 p m
Arrive Savannah 4 35 p m
Leave Savannah 4 45 p m
Arrive Jacksonville 8 00 a in
Arrive Charleston 9 00 p m
Leave Yemassee 2 45 p in
Arrive Beaufort 4 02 p m
Arrive Port Royal 4 17 p m
Arrive Augusta 6 "O p m
Leave Yemassee 1 30 p m
Arrive k emassee 1 20 p m
Leave Savannah 10 25 a m
Arrive Savannah 10 15 am
Leave Jackeonville 6 50 p m
Leave Charleston 7 15 a m
Arrive Yemassee 1 ('0 p m
Leave Beaufort 11 23 a m
Leave Ton Loyal * 11 00 a m
Trains run tlirougb between Augusta and
Savannah witbou* change, making close con
nection at Savannah with A. & G. R. R. train
for all points in Florida
Haggage checked through.
Bta^Tiirnugh tickets for sale at all piittci
pal ticket offices.
Robert G. Fi.kmino,
General Superintendent.
J. S. Davant,
GWieral Passenger Agent.
(’hiiflctte, Columbia & Augusta R P.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Chaulotte, Columbia A Augusta R. R. 1
Gk-Verai. Passenger Department. V
Columbia, S. C.* t)ec. 27,18/8. j
tbe following passenger schedule will be
operated on arid after this date:
Ao. 1—A T «^/i< Frpress, South.
Leave Charlotte 1:00 a m
Arrive Columbia 0:00 a in
LeaVe Cohimbia 0:05 a m
Arrive Augusta 10:00 am
A'o. 2—A'ight ExprlH, Nu)ih.
Leave Augusta, 5:55 p m
Arrive Colombia *., k .. 10:00 p m
Leave Columbia. 10:10 p tu
Arrive Charlotte. 3:10 am
No. 3—Day Fattenger, South.
Leave Charlotte-. 1 ..11:27 am
Arrive Columbia ....... n . 4:10 p m
Leave Columl ia.. v. 4:15 p m
Arrive Augusta. 8:30 p m
No. 4—Day Pattenyrr, North.
Leave Augusta 9:03 a ra
Arrive Columbia. 1:20 p m
Leave Columbia.. 1:30 pm
Arrive Charlotte. 0:30 p m
These trains stop only at Fort Mill,
Hock Hill, Chester, Winosboro, Ridge*
way, Leeeville, Batesburg, Ridge
Spring, Johnston, Ttenton and Gran-
itpvlllo. All other statiqns will be rc*
cognised as flag stations.
T. D. KLINE, Sup’t.
Jobs R. Macmttrdo. Gen. Pas. Agent.
Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co.
CHANCE 9F .SCHEDULE.
JanuArt 1, 1S79.
The following Schedule is in effect at (his
date:
Fait Mail, Daily.
Leave Charleston - * « • 7 16 a. m.
ArHre at Savannah • * . 1 00 p. m.
Arrive Port Royal - - • 4 17 p. m.
Arrive Jacksonville - . 635 a. m
Arriyeat Augusta * • * . 6 30 p.m.
LeaVe Savannah .... 8 15 p. m.
Arrive Charleston - - <« 9 00 p. m -
Fig hi Train, Daily.
Leave Charleston - • 8 10 p. m.
ArrivnSavannah - - • 6 40 a. m.
i^oav.e Aavannah - - 9 00 p. m.
ArriveCharleston - - - 8 00 a. m.
Pu^Unan cars on all Night Trains.
C. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt.
S, P^lston. 0. F, andT. Agint.
VOL. II.
BARNWELL C. H.. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 1879.
NO. 92.
The Tokea.
BY B. H. STODDARD.
Clnd In purple, he sat In Ills palace,
A powerful klnp. In the days of old;
They brought him wine in a beautiful
chalice,
Whose gems were crusted In beaten gold.
"Who hath jewels like n'ineV” denial ded
The boastful monarch; and straightway
then.
Through his men-at-arms, who at once
disbanded,
Came one, who looked like the Man of
men.
J.
He came in proudly, and held up a jewel.
Held It with both hands over his Head;
Its light was lovely, its light was cruel;
But cruel, or lovely, the light was red.
It shot out sparkles; It was a Glory.
A terrible Splendor, a heart of Fire;
No one light like It, in song or story,
For who had that had his soul’s desire!
Its brightness shone over land and ocean,
Far-reaching—a dazzling, blinding light;
Creating won er and strange devotion,
A sense of Love,and the sense of Might
"Who hath jewels Usd thine?" demanded
IhisMinof men. “Look at my great
gem!
It grew where the rivers aregolder^andcd,
With others—It does not compare with
them!
“ I say to thee, monarch It is a token
Of Masters, that ever on earth remain;
And if by chance any part Is broken,
It is nothing less, but is whole again.”
Thus in Gallic Latin—your Southey will
show it -
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
Wrote the great de J turn, oLan early poet;
But what the meaning, lie did not know.
The Revival of lluninesB.
The Boston Traveller says the re
vival of business has fairly set in, if
every day’s experience and every day’s
news prove anything. Last week vas
distinguished in Boston by the largest
move In flannels known for a long
time. More flannels were sold in that
week than for the six months previous,
and manufacturers decline to fix prices
ahead. Says the Traveller : “ This is
the legitimate result of a settled con*
vlction on the part of business men
throughout the country that the flood
is coming in strong. Another slgnlfl-
cant fact is the starting up of the va-
vious iron concerns in Pennsylvania
and the West. This is, perhaps, the
m St important industry west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and Ra revival,
after so long a depression, Is in the
highest degree encouraging. Witt in
the past three months there have been
several thousands of miles of new rail
roads surveye'd, and within a very
short time a large portion has been
put under drantract. All these things
are indicative of a vast increase of la
bor employment, and thus emigration
to the West from the over-crowded
localities of the East becomes anothet
and* important factor in the restora
tion of business. Parties who are in a
position to be well imformed are of
opinion that there will be a largo ex
cess of foreign immigration this sea-
s n, the news of a large prospective
demand for labor having already
crossed. Still another important fea-
turs is the increase of sales of land
grants, both by railroad corporations
and government. The business tide
ia evidently rolling onward." Let it
roll.
THE mKUno EXODUS.
I'.nKlish Opinions.
Arrest of I> T. Corbin.
D.T.,Corbin, ex-United States Dis
trict Attorney, ex-Presbfbnt of the
Radical State Senate, and ex-claimant
of Senator Butler’s seat in the United
States Senate, came to Charleston last
week for the first time since our peo
ple have gotten possession of the State
Government, and ho was arrested on
complaint filed on the ‘15th of August,
1877, in behalf of the State against
him and his partner at law for the re
covery of §24.063.94, collected for the
State from the South Carolina Phos
phate Company, which he claimed to
have retained at attorney’s foes. He
gave bond in the sum of §50,000 for
his appearance at court, Alva Gage, J.
H. Fisher, C. H. Baldwin, G. I. Cun
ningham, and R. M. Wallace being his
bondsmen. Mr. Corbin informed a re
porter of the News and Courier that
he had come'to Charleston on business
and would remain several weeks—that
he expected that his nomination for
the position of Chief Justice of Utah
Territory would be rejected by the
United States Senate, In which event
he would come back to Charleston to
live. His partner, Mr. Stone, he slat*
ed, was now living in New York, but
ho did not say whether it was his in
tention to return also.
Air Exodus from Canada.—The ne
gro exodus is not the only one taking
place in this country. A correspond
ent of the Ohlcage Tribune writes
from St. Albany that every Southern-
bound train from Canada Is loaded
with emigrants to the United States.
Entire families of all ages, and many
of them of an advanced Intellectual
class, are among the number. Noth
ing like It was ever known among the
Canadians before. Their route is over
the New York Central to Buffalo,
thence to Chicago, whence they pro
ceed to Kansas and Nebraska. A few
go to the workshops of New England.
The Canada papers nre preserving an
unbroken silence on the eubject.
* r'
A pint of grated carrot root made
into a poultice and bound to the fet
lock is said to cure the eeratebes in
horses.
[London “ Telegraph.”!
A curious social phenomenon has
suddenlyappeared in the United States,
tho South is menaced by a negro ex
odus; and the Mississippi steamers are
crowded with black passengers, all
bound for Kansas. They are wretch
edly poor, with little or no worldly
goods, and can hardly make them
selves understood; but as if some
watchword had been given, or some
Impulse had become epidemic, they
press northward as to a promised
land. The selection of Kansas Is curl-
ous enough ; for its climate Is far cold
er than that of Any of the Southern
States, and Its soil Is lees suitable for
the cultivation of cotton. No doubt
there is abundance of untilled ground,
but there is as yet little demand for
unskilled labor. Tho only explanation
that can be surmised to account for
this selection of a land of Canaan is
derived from-the past. Some years
before the election of Mr. Lincoln Kan
sas was a battlefield between emigrants
from the North and the South. It
was then polit'ealiy what is called a
Territory, that Is, a district entitled to
a local legislature, but controlled, as
regards many subjects of legislation,
by tho supreme authority of Congress.
At that time this control was especially
Important, as through its means Kan
sas was kop‘ free from the legal es
tablishment of slavery until it became
a State, when the vole of the majority
would decide that issue. Thus it was
the Interest of the South to pour in
planters who, when the local Constltu
tion was made, would by their votes
add another slave State to the Union.
It waswthe interest of the Free Soil
party to counteract this by sending
down a stream of migration from the
North. When the two currents met
the result was ilot. Northern men
were murdered, and retaliation fell
upon the immigrants from the South.
Free fights became common ; “ Bleed
ing Kansas ” was a sensation heading
in the Republican press ; and the ne
groes who were taken by their masters
into the Territory learned enough to
know that there was a party in the
North who fought to make them free.
The recollections of that contest prob
ably linger still in the traditions of the
freed men ; the word " Kansas ’’ has
for them, no doubt, the charm that
“Mesopotamia” had for Sydney
Smith’s old lady, and now a new gene
ration seek in the former battlefield a
realization of those blessings of free
dom so often shouted in their ears by
their champions in the North, though
never yet adequately realized.
But are not the negroes emancipated ?
Have they not been an object of pro
tection—nay, of care—to the United
States authorities for years ? Has not
the party devoted to their interests re
tained power for nearly two decades?
Have not statutes been passed and
soldiers moved, all to secure them not
only freedom, but electoral rights?
Tnls Is true, but the result has not been
altogether satisfactory ; it has not, at
all events, fulfilled the rosy visions of
the Abolitionists. Some consequences
of the great (Jivil War have been grati
fying, although they abundantly in
dicate the utter failure of the best
authorities to farecast social and poli
tical events. It was said by the Demo
crats that the planters of the South
lived in dally dread of a rising of the
blacks; and a repetition of tho mas
sacres of Sc. Domingo was prophesied
by a personage no less eminent than
President Buchanan, who, in his last
message, spoke of “tho white mother
clasping her child In agony to her
breast,’’ whenever she never heard an
Unusual disturbance at? night. The
Abolitionists were half inolined to ad
mit this peril, tracing it, of course, to
the “ infamous 6f uelties ” of the plant- P Hence the exodus wo see going on.
ers. The war came, and all these fears
were set at reaL Over many square
miles of t‘ rrltory plantations were left
In the sole charge of black men, also
entrusted with the care of the women
and children of those who had gone
North to fight Tor a Republic "hav
ing,” as its Vice President declared
"slavery for the corner-stone of Its
Constitution.” Under these circum-
stancos—calculated, it might be
thought, to provoke even a tame, ser
vile race into striking a blow for liberty
—the negroes remained quiet. A few
ran away when Northern troops came
near, but the great part remained at
home working for tketr masters, and
protecting their masters’ children and
wives. These facts certainly prove
that the negroes as a race could never
have had any strong desire for free
dom, and It also indicates that the ser
vitude they endured must have been
considerably mitigated in Us practical
effect. Had they been as a rule treated
with anything like cruelty they would
have avenged their wrongs, or at least
have absconded. But no outrages
were committed, and ouly a few thou
sands went North. Thus the "best
authorities’’ on both sides—the al
armed Democrats who prophesied a
St. Domingo, and the Abolitionists
who sjioke of a tortured population
panting to escape—were proved, as
" best authorities ” so often are, to be
utterly in the wrong. Aaother proph
ecy has been falsified. The South as
serted, and the Nerth hardly dared to
deny, that cotton could nst be grown
by free labor; that the negro eman
cipated could not supply the ready and
regulated toll required at certain sea
sons, and that the South would sas its
staple Industry utterly destroyed.
Here again the most eminent econom
ists have been proved wrong. The
yield of the South has more than
equalled the quantity produced before
tho civil war ; even Jefferson Davis ad
mits that in this matter he and his
friends were entirely mistaken, and
that the abolition of slavery Is an eco
nomical gain to the white man. While
referring to unfulfilled prophecies, we
may mention one more, freely repeated
during theconttest. It was said, both
in America and here, that the North
might conquer, but could hever con
ciliate, the South, and that the two
oould never again be one. The pro
gress of American politics has also up
set this calculation’. Ex-Confederates
are ia office; a majority of Democrats
rules Congress; a Democratic Presi
dent was within one vote of entering
the White House ; and all the discon
tent that now permeates United
States politics comes from the Repub
lican press. Southern politicians boast
that they have accomplished what Lee
and Jackson failed to achieve. They
have “captured the Capitol,” and
Northern men admit the fact. Thus
the “ Union as it is,” once the political
motto of the South, then the war-cry
of the North, has again enlisted the
sympathies of the Dem cratic party,
whose right wing has always been, and
is still, the votes of the " solid South.”
The success of the Democrats, how
ever, has been too complete, and has
tempted them on to a perilous insol
ence towards the inferior race. When
“carpet-baggers” reigned In the Gulf
States on a basis of Federal bayonets
and negro votes, the Southern whites
organized u secret system of terror
known as the “ Ku Klux Klan.” When
President Hayes withdrew the troops
the system was continued with less
secrecy and mors ease. The negroes
legally had votes, but in the eyes of
their white neighbors that mattered
little. Each of the Vicar of Wake
field’s daughters had always a sover
eign in her pocket, but on condition
that It was sot to be ohanged : and a
corresponding prohibition precluded
the use of the negro vote. Black agi
tators wore well fligged; and some
were shot or hanged. It whs an under
stood thing in certain districts that a
negro who persisted in going to the
poll, unloss he voted the Democratic
ticket, was a marked man. Whole
districts were thus u bull dozed ’’—that
is. the offending blacks received each a
“ bull’s dose ” of flogging. The gift of
electoral privilege was thus made “a
mockery, a delusion, and a snare; ” it
added, In fact, to the unhappiness of
the negroes’ lives. Their white neigh
bors always suspected them of the
heinous sin of Republicanism, aud only
by extreme submissivenees and com
plete political abdication could a man
of color purchase security and ease.
Consequently, whether Republican or
Democrat won, ths negro, over whose
trampled body the fight was fought,
received the greatest number of kicks.
His friends the Republicans avenged
themselves by trickery at Washington
for their electoral losses through in
timidation in the South, but the social
condition of the negro was not thereby
improved. In compensation for the
White House they had lost, Mr. Hayes
gave the Democrats free leave to rule
the South, and the liberated slaves
have had to feel ever since the pangs
of a new kind of social serfdom.
If
it should assume large proportions It
will mean a second catastrophe for the
South. Without black labor, the agri
culture of the cotton aud sugar States
Is doomed. To avert this calamity
the leading Democrats have hastily
summoned u “ black and white” con
vention at Vicksburg. Formerly, when
single negroes ran away " from ser
vice,” the planters organized chase by
bloodhounds, nigger-drivers, and a
Fugitive Slave Law, assented to by a
subdued but sullen North. Now no
tuch weapons are at their command,
The laborers whom they oooe treated
as actual, and more recently as politi
cal, serfs, are free men and migrate to
the North, aided by New England soc
ieties, which Cnerlsh recollections of
the " underground railroad,” to which
“ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” gave fame. At
tho Vicksburg Couvention the negro
delegates declare themselves ready to
listen te the conditions offered by the
whites, who, it is said, will vote for “ a
reduced rent of land, lower food prices
and better recognition of the civil and
political rights of the colored race.”
Thus the stream of emigration may be
turned back, and emancipation will be
justified by the final reconciliation of
the two races, on a basis of legal and
social equity.
A 4Jroat C'anae wf Depression.
fWa.hinxton Capital ]
In view of the unhappy condition of
affairs in Great Britain a national cau
cus was held to Investigate the same
with respect to discovering its prime
cause. The result of this investiga
tion will be of equal Interest to Amer
ica as to the United Kingdom ; for our
habits, as our language, are alike, add
the same social mistakes of life are
common to both nations. After care
ful inquiry and search, the positive
fact was ascertained that a useles lux
urious condition of action was the ac
tive agent that tripped upon the heels
of industry, and alcohol was the same.
It was found to be an astonishing fact
that duitng the past four yeais the
amount of money expended In Great
Britain for Intoxicating drink amount
ed to no lees than two billion seven
hundred and seventy-eight million one
hundred sixty thousand (Wlars. This
ia but four millions less than the
sura total of the foreigo trade of the
country. In 1830 there were but 50,-
000 public houses lu England ; to-day
there are 200,000, an evidence of the
enterprise of the day. If the amount
of money fooliebly expended In IntoxH
eating drinks was deployed in the reg
ular line of trade, It would vastly In
crease business, and send a flowing
current through the now sluggish and
stagnant ponds of trade. Luxury In
Its best shape is bad ; Jn its worst as
In this, destructive, demoralizing and
to be abominated. Few men who hab
itually driuk will deny that their bar
expenses are largely in excess of the
entire cost of supporting a family.
And cui bono ? Except false stimulus,
that re-acts lu inattention to business,
chronic dyspepsia and continued ill-
health. We are not total abstinence
nor puritauicai, but it is the business
of all men, and the office of all sensi
ble people, to decry useless and In
jurious excess. Aud certainly none In
the records of folly exceeds the absurd
aud Injurious use of intoxicants.
|L iM ytfiltmyf BgttB 0» *«*»«» oL
ways give yaur msm aadPost Office aiidr*^.
2. Bittiness Uttcnand ooetBanicatiatisto
be published shoifid b* written on separate
•beets, and the objret of Aeb ifcleaMir imli-
cated by neesesafy note when *
8. ArtielestopaWI*aM«mlfcpMA.be writ
ten in a clear, legible head, ea4 wasaly eww
side of the page.
4. All changes in
reach us on Friday.
Hung: for Wit'otturder.
Robert Skelly, white, woe hang on
Friday laet at Blackshear, Piercocoun
ty, Georgia, for the murder of bis wife,
in December last. Skelly had long
suspected his wife of infidelity with a
ceruin citizen of the county whose
name he refused to divulge. His Sus
picions were fully confirmed in the
early part of December last, when ho
exacted a promise from his wife, so he
asserted at the time of his arrest, to
abandon her evil course. On the 13th
of December, however, according to
his statement, he again discovered hh
wife with the same party. On tbit
evening he returned home greatly In
censed, and after abusing his wife for
.her faithlessness, he commenced beat
ing her, and finally knocked her to the
floor senseless. He left the house, but
returued lu about au hour, and (lading
bis wife still unconscious, was, as be
stated, " possessed of the devil,” and
seizing a three-legged stool deliberate
ly boat the unconscious woman over
the head until her skull was crushed
in. She lived until the following day,
suffering great agony, and died with
out having uttered a word In reference
to the affair. Great Indignation was
eqpressed lu the neighborhood, and ft
was feared that violence would be used
towards Skelly, who was sent to Sav
annah for safe-keeping. At the spring
term of Pierce Superior Court he was
tried and convicted, and sentenced to
be hung on the 23d of May. On Thurs
day, 22d, Skelly made his will, witness
ed by the sheriff of Pierce county and
officials of Chatham county Jail, leav
ing his two children, Walter and Isa
bel, to the care of the Sisters of Mer
cy at Savannah, and his personal prop
erty for their support. There were
over fifteen hundred persons present
jR the execution. Skelly confessed his
guilt, and said that the man who caused
him to kill his wife was present in the
crowd. He was perfectly calm and
unconcerned, aud met his fate with
resignation.
King's Nlettnlnln 1780-1890.
The Carolina Spartan says : " It is
time to be thinking about the Centen
nial celebration of the battle of King’s
Mountaiu. This must be a national
affair. The battle-field is in South
Carolina^ and it becomes our State to
take the initiative in this movement.
We are sure that our sister-State
North Carolina will second the move,
aud we would suggest that the Meck
lenburg celebration would be a favor
able opportunity for an expresson of
opinion. South Carolina is anxious
for the celebration. Let us begin in
time so that we may make the occa
sion worthy both of 1780 and 1880.
The descendants of Campbell, Cleave-
land, Shelby, Sevier, McDowell, Lacy,
Hawthorn, Hill, Hambrlts, WUIUme,
Chronicle, Mattocks, Hobby and many
other brave men who stormed the
mountain peak, will rally with rejoic
ing the 7th of October, 1880.”
MACKEY IN WAftHINOTON.
He Telle ike Thrllllwg Tale of
Federal Bitll-doslag la Seaifei
Carolina.
[Nc*« «tid Conrlw.J
Washington, May 28.—T. J. Mackey,
Circuit Judge of South Carolina, teetlr
fled before the Wallace Committee to
day that he was In affiliation with the
-Republican party until 1876, when he
left it. He was present at the election
for State officers, Presidential Elect
ors and Congressmen in Chester, in
1876, and was called on to Interpose
bis official authority to check interfer
ence by tho military and deputy mar
shals at the polls. Several deputy
marshals declared their purpose to
carry the election for the Republicans,
and exhibited a circular, purporting
to be signed by Attorney-General Taft,
addreeeed to United States Marshals,
directing them to disregard the pro
cess of the State Courts. At 2 o’clock
the chief deputy marshal, at the head
of a band of colored men, assaulted
the voters at Carmel Precinct, tearing
the Hayee and Hampton ticketa from
their baode. Several refused to sur
render their tickets and were knocked
down. He subeequently saw the mili
tary, nineteen men of the 18th Infant
ry, march Into the Court-house yard
forming in two lines. Yotere were re
quired to pass to the polls under fixed
bayonets. On complaint made to wit
ness that the voters were Interfered
with by the military, he issued a war
rant for the arrest of Lieut. Hlntop
who commanded the detachment. The
sheriff mode a verbal report that Hin
ton stated that he had been summoned
by the chief deputy marshal to brlug
his troops to the polls, that there was
no breach of the peace except such as
was com ml ted by tho deputy mar
shals who had taken ballots from vo
ters* and further that Hinton declared
that he was Informed that violence
was imminent at the polls and that
there had already been a breach of the
peace, and he asked to be sated the
disgrace of arreet, promising that he
would remove bis troops to the rear of
the Court-house. Witness, this hav
ing been done, Inetructed the sheriff
to take no further actien. Several of
the deputy marshals were engaged in
distributing tickets, and charged col
ored persons, having Democratic tick
ets in their hands, and in a line with
the whites, with betraying their race.
All the deputy marshals, with one ex
ception, were colored men. Their in
structions were signed by the United
Blntes Marshal, the words at the head
of their commission being, "Stand by
your party.” The witness saw, in three
or four iustancee, Democratic ballots
destroyed by these officers. The con
duct of the marshals did not fall under
hie observation In 1878, but be knew
of one colored Democrat who was
threatened.
Cross-examined by Senator Teller i
The Mayes and Hampton tickets em
braced the Democratic nominees for
office, and the Hayes and Chamber-
lain ticket embraced the Republican
candidates. It was declared by Rep
resentative Sayler and other members
of the sub-committee of ths House of
Representatives, on the 3d of January,
that Hayes had carried the State by
from 1,000 to 3,000 votes, and such was
the belief of witness. Hampton was
elected by 1,100 majority. Hs sup
ported tbo Hayee and Hampton ticket
and all the Democratic nominees, and
elds by side with Hampton be can
vassed the State for Hayes, but voted
for Tllden, endorsing on bis ballot as
a reason for doing so, that bayonets
were brought to ths polls to secure
the election of Hayes. The troops did
not Interfere as a body Mith tbs voters,
but one of tbs soldiers cursed a citizen
and threatened to bayonet him. The
only reason given by the citizen was
that be was on his way to the polls-
The ttoops were at the polling place
for an hour. He in 1873 oaw a voter
shot down in Charleston and the shoot
ing in that case was justifiable. In
conclilsion of his testimony witness
wished to say that a jury of the State
Courts, composed wholly of Republi
cans, would convict ths most promi
nent Republican who should wrong a
Democrat, and a Democratic Jury
would convict tbs most prominent
Democrat who should wrong a Repub
lican. ■>
It Is proposed to start a subscription
to purchase a home for tbs destitute
wife of Colonel Cox, who murdered
Colonel Robert Alston, of Georgia.
Mrs, Cox ia represented as a most es
timable lady and teaderly devoted to
her husband, from whom the law now
separatee her. While charitable peo
pie have their band in they might also
inquire Into the circumstances of the
widow of the murdered Alston.
'Vf «• i
trWTipt.1 ***’• ’
To pay a compliment Is to tell (be
truth, and to telf ft as thoogfi ^ou
meant It. Ahd the only way to 4« (hat
is to mean It If a girl is pretty or ac
complished i if she plays well, o* sipg*
Yell, or dashes well, of talks well; If,
in a word, she pleases,
name of common sense, Sboindn t eh«
be told of it ? Don’t blurt ii out be
fore everybody. That will only serve
to make her feel uncdmfoftable and
make you appear rldlouloue. Bay it
quietly *ben opportunity offers, hut
say it strongly. Convey ths Idea dis
tinctly and tuilTi so that there may be
no mistake about it. But-don’t aay It
"officially.” Formality iS about the
coldest thing knoYn. Wore than one
maiden has been made happy—say for
half an hour—by A man's taking the
trouble to a pleasant thing abqut a
toilet that ha liked,and many of fash;
ion’s follies have been given up by
girls when tbey noticed a discreet si
lence ooncerfilnK them on the part of
their gentlemen friends. A bewitch
ing little black-eyed beauty once said
to a gentleman: " I like to have you
iay Sweet things to me,.lt seems to
come so easy and natural.’* in gen
eral terms, It may bS said thSt it is al
ways bettef to say an agreeable thing
than a disagreeable one, better tor all
parties. The gallant who, when a young
lady stepped on his toot while dancing
and asked pardon, sa!4«" pent men-’
tion It} a dainty HtUe foot Ilka that
wouldn’t hurt a daisy,” not only told
the truth, but doubtless felt more com-
fortSble that thb lWhr Who.Wttm hts
foot waS eteppM oh, routed oat^
" That’s right; climb all over me with
your grbat, clumsy hoofs.”
There are said to be over 6*000
school teachers In Texas,
Orlfffa er Shavlttg Face.
The custom of sbaVing the beard
woe enforced by Alexander Macedoo*
not for the sake of fashion, but for a
practical snd. Me knew that the sol
diers of India, when they encountered
their foee, bad the habit hf grasping
them by the beard; and so bs ordered
the Soldiers to shave. Afterwards
shaving was practised in the Mace
donian army, and then among Greek
citizens. The Romans imitated the
Greeks in the practice, as they did la
many other things, add spread it to
the different other European nations
yet barbaric, la Urn middle ages, at
the time of the rtnalsanCs* shaving
was introduced, and ths hsbtt was re
tained, though dasaicism gays place to
romanticism; and that, In its turn, was
replaced by realism. The beard was
a source of trouble to Peter the Great;
who,simultaneously with the Introduc
tion of his great reforms in Russia*
tried to Indues bis people-to Imitate
the shaving nations. This Innovation
was resisted by hts subjects With the
utmost persistence, and they preferred
to pay a heavy fine rather than suffer
disfigurement, aa they believed, of the
image of God. To the Russians of
olden times the beard Ysi a symbol of
liberty. In several oountrlasef West
ern Europe and in the United States
the beard was restored to honor only
about twenty years ago, bat sven yet
the majority of men respect the one-
tom introduced by Alexander the
Great.—Columbia Register.
" Where’ve yon been these twe or
three years? asked a Connecticut man
of a jovial old friend whom be met on
the streets. “ I’ve been in the whaling
business,” was ths reply. “ You have?”
"Yes-oat West—teaching school,”
exclaimed tbe returned wanderer.
A Fmraaer's Ylet wry.
The returns shoY that it Yas the
farmers of Oslifornla Yho earrisd the
new Constitution. They gave two-
thirds of the affirmative Votes. They
voted this way because tbe instrument
contains a law providing that unim
proved lands shall be taxed the aami
aa cultivated farms. There- are fifty
thousand farmers In the State who
own only 6,000,009 acres of land; while
five thousand ranchman and specula
tors own 60,000,000 acres, which here
tofore have escaped almost all taxa
tion, or have been taxf*«to a very
email degree. Then there is another
clause In tbe new Oonsituttoo which
filled tbe farmers with admiration. It
provides for the election of three com
missioners who eh all hay# full power
to fix the rate of railroad fares and
freights In the State. The farmers
claimed that they have been obliged to
pay three timet aa much for freights
aud fares as is paid in the Eastern
States. These features of the new ~
Constitution swept in the votes of tfet
farmers, who did net Mks the sections
taxing credits and deposits and die- ,
criminating against capital. Bat they
took that which they did not like In
order to seeure that which they were
specially anxious to secure.
Some men never loose their pres
ence of mind. In New York a man
threw hie mother-in-law but of a win
dow In the fifth story of a burning
building, and canted a feather bed
down stairs In hil arms.
—— '
"I know I am a pertect>«*r in my
' -r
mu maw.
said a yoong farmer to hie
“ No, Indeed, ypnare not.
John; you
yon are more eboep than bear.