The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, August 21, 1879, Image 2

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THE PEOPLE. ^5—’ mL JUk. NEWS. john w. Holmes, editor. THOBSDAT, AUGUST 21, 1879. W> are not neponalble for the vie we of our correepoDdeata. leatlaa'a Sl*ry of Political Wroafc* aad Recoaipcaacs. A correspondent of the New York Times, writes from Greenville to that journaf, bewailing the deplorable condi 1 tion of the Republican party of this State. The impecunious Bohemian starts out with this touching declaration, “Many who, in the palmy days of the Scott and Moses Administrations, were re veiling in luxury, are actually in want ot the common necessaries^>f life ; their worst enemy could not devise a worse fate than has befallen them." The Times correspondent is evidently a political philanthropist of that ad vanced school which considers nothing too good for a Republican and nothing too bad for a Democrat. He has no word of sympathy for plundered Democrats, all his fegrets are in behalf of 'Republicans who have been driven from roguery-and riotous living to honesty and hard work. In commot) with other Republican saints, the correspondent is anxious to bring back the “palmy days of the Scott and Moses Administrations.’* To that end he has canvassed the State and interviewed the lo dors “who still cling to the planfcs of the old ship.*’ As the result of his investigations he repot ts the thorough organixation of the colored Republicans—their determina tion to emigrate unless permitted to en joy the rights of cittsenship peaceably in South Carolina, and their reliance upon the party up North. He closes his communication with a quotation from the comforting propbe otee of District Attorney Northrop, who predicts Republican success and indi cates that they are to be secured, by well known Republican methods : “Much depends, however, on the next census, and the Government ought to appoint none but the most trustworthy Republicans as census takers " No longer able to cheat at the ballot box the Republican party is to cheat through its census takers, diminish Southern strength in Congress and the Elootoral College and give its hungry Micawbers hope that palmy days of good stealing may turn up again. Re* volutions never go backward ; yet wo do not know that the leaders can be more profitably emolovod than in t)u> building of air castles. It may be that penitence may overtake those who are not beyond the reach of saving public grace. The Price ef t'ottoa. The visible supply of cotton is smaller than it has been for years, yet the price goes down while the demand for cotton goods at advanced prices grows stronger. It aeems that capitalists are resorting to Iho same tactics by which they have so successfully plundered cotton planters and made them veritable hewers of wood and drawers of water for hard task masters. We cannot expect a concert of action among planters in withholding their crops. From all the lights before ns we are sure that the planter who pays his debts with his first cotton and reserves the balance until the necessities of man ufacturers foree them to buy, will find that there is money in cotton growing. Honry Ward Beecher Is comtem- planting another tour South. This time he will hold the fort at Mont gomery and Mobile, Alabama. The Mormon Missionaries will still continue the work of proselyting In Georgia, notwithstanding the murder of Elder Standing. Their labors are confined to Chattooga and several other counties, and It is said they have been quite successful in making con verts. The recent heavy rains have saved the tobacco crop in North Carolina. Reports to the Raleigh News Indicate that the yield will be within twenty per cent, of last year’s crop. Durham, N. 0., the great tobacoo centre of the State, Is doubling its business In leaf tobacco. c. All but one member of the staff of the Memphis Avalanche have left the' city for healthier localities, and the paper Is now gotten out by Maj. Fred. Nlcholls, the void Man/ 1 who edited, set type and printed the pdper during all last yeai’s epidemic. A scamp, who represented himself as a Government agent, excited tbs negroes of Holmes county, Miss., by telling them that a free train would take them on the following Sunday to Kansas. He charged every man $1 for a small flag, which was to be his title to a spot of land when ho reached Kansas. The news spread like wild fire, and selling their cows for (2, their chickens for a penny a piece, and other possessions at ruinous rates, 1,000 negroes bought flogs and gathered to wait for the train that never came. The papers are teeming with well- nigh unintelligible accounts of a per sonal difficulty between Senator Oonk- llng and Ex-Senator Sprague, o[ Rhode Island. It Is alleged that Sen ator Sprague does not live happily with his beautiful young wife, and that Senator Conkllng has been ex ceedingly attentive to her. Sprague returned to his home, near Providence, after a few days’ absenoe, to find Lord Roscoe” a guest at his house He ordered him out, and drew his pis tol to enforce obedience, when the conflict ensued, and was speedily in terrupted. It is said that a hostile mooting subsequently took place, but this Is denied. It Is a disgraceful af fair for all parties concerned. The Denver (Ool.) News states that the Hon. D. T. Oorblo, late of South Carolina, visited that city lately, and was induced by a sharper to Invest 910,000 in “silver brick,” which were represented to be very pure and a great bargain. Mr. Corbin discovered, when too late, that the brick wore of the haaftet «••»«* —- Hr. Corbin was as unlucky labia silver speculation os he was In his aspira tions to represent South Carolina In the United States Senate. The Fi !■ Ouell Blade Diamonds. According tv the Columbia Register, Proi. Bibikov, of that city has discover ed an almost incxhenstible deposit of coal on the plantation of Col. Paul F. Hammond, in Aiken county. According to Our distinct recollec tion, the same bed of black diamonds was discovered by a corps of Confeder. ate engineers shortly before the collapse of the Confederacy. A special from London says that the well known financial agent, Jamee McHenry, la unable to meet his liabili ties. A tremendous run exists at his offloe on Victoria street, Westminster. His liabilities are estimated at five million dollars, and his assets are be. Ueysd to be very small Eight oars pretty well filled with colored men of the better class, being well dressed, and having money, ar rived at East St. Louis last Wednes day from different points in Missis sippi, en routs for Kansas on a pros pecting trip. They were provided With round-trip tickets, and It Is un dent )od if they were not favorably Impressed with Kansas they will try some other State. Tbs funeral of fames Snowdon, a colored man, took place from St. Paul’s Church, the principal White Episcopalian Church In Augu»ta*Ga., on the I4th. The church was filled with colored people. The rector of tbs church officiated, and a whits choir sang. There were s number of whits citizens In the church during the v The monthly reports of tho various Cotton Exchanges of the condition of tho crop for July, which wore pub lished during the past week, are cheer ing In tho extreme, and raise high hopes of a good yield, and consequent ly, of a prosperous business season at the South. The only danger that seems to be dreaded Is shedding, from the continuance of heavy rains, but as that fear was expressed at the end of July or first of August, and the heavy rains have not continued, the pros pect is certainly fair for an abundant harvest. It Is rumored that parties residing In England hold mortgages on vari ous town lots which were conveyed to to the S. CL R. It. Co., before the rail road was built, and sold from time to time by the road to various persona, and that they were previously mort gaged to parties as above stated. We know nothing of the correctness of the report. Nevertheless, wo hear It has produced spme little uneasiness among the lot owners.—Aiken Review The Secretary of State, under orders from the Cabinet, has addressed let tors to the Governments of Europe, protesting against the liberty with which they allow their subjects to come to this country, as avowed Mor mons. The position taken by the Sec retary is that the laws of the United States make bigamy a crime, and that the United States Supreme Court bus. tains the validity of these acts. Con sequently the authorities of the Euro pean Governments permit the Mormon emigrants to leave their shores with the avowed purpose of committing this crime against qqr laws. The Louisville Courier-Journal, of August 13, says: Yesterday afternoon, at Grace Church, Mr. Wade Hampton, Jr. of Mississippi, and Miss Kate O. Phelan, of Memphis, were married. Rev. L. P. Tschiffeiy, the rector, offi ciating. The groom is the son of Sen ator Hampton, of South Carolina, and the bride Is a member of one of the moat distinguished famllfes of the South, her father, recently deceased, having been one of the foremost Southern statesmen whe gave their services to the Confederacy. Tho parties are at present exiles from the yellow fever country, and took advant age of their meeting in Louisville to blend their Uvea and fortunes. That# were no attendants, the Immediate members of the family present being the mother of the bride and Mr. Jaa. Phelan, her brother. Mr. and Mrs. Hampton left the city immediately for * Tho Joint meeting of tho State Grange and tho State Agricultural and Mechanical Society was held in Cheater, last week. From the full re port of its proceedings, we make the following extracts: In speaking on Fish Culture, Col A. P. Butler, of Aiken, said : An acre of land would support one person with great labor, while an acje of water could be made with a little care to support many, with no trouble but the gathering of the self-propagating, self-supporting harvest. Experience showed that fish culture could be made a source of vast profit. From one river in California last year enough salmon were taken to fill 14,256,000 cans which were put up and shipped. The planting of salmon in other Oafi- fornla rivers bad proven a great 6uc- cu88; the increase and production were immense. By artificial means Off salmon eggs' In every hundred could bo hatched, while by the natural process only 8 per cent, were saved. His efforts so far had been directed to planting California shad and salmon in South Carolina waters. Migratory fish had been selected because they were the most profitable and required the least trouble to propagate success* fully. He sketched briefly the process of artificial propagation, and gave some interesting figures as to the breed ing of different fish. Oae salmon bad bees known to produce 25,000 eggs, a brook trout from 100 to 500, shad 5,000, and herring 50,000. On the same subject Maj. T. W. Woodward said : Ho had known one trout an inch and a quarter long to consume sixty-one silver fish within twonty-four hours. This voracity was largely due to the exhaustion of the food supply in small bodies of water. All fish were more or less cannibals, excepting those of the sucker variety, which devoured eggs. He himself had raised trout of six and a quarter pounds. He, however, regarded the carp as the coming fish. As aa en couragement to Col. Butler, he men tioned the fact that on a recent fishing expedition In the Broad River hun dreds of young shad were taken, (be ing carefully returned to the water,) which were doubtless the products of tho labors of the Fish Commissioner either of this State or of North Caro lina. Gen. Johnson Hagood was essayist on “Stock Ralelog.” Among other things, ho said : Oar climate was a semi-tropical one, and it had been found that plan^a native to tropical countries flcirished and paid best in this soil. He thought the same rule would a^iply to breeds of animals. The Esser and Berkshire hogs that have flourished best here were of tropical an cestry ; the broad-tailed and merino sheep were respectively of Syrian and African evtr»ef.inn • •»* Ue of India were our best, and the male our most serviceable and endur ing work animal, was the descendant of tropical ancestors. Our scrub stock was of greatly mixed and European extraction. In speaking of Brahmin cattle, ho alluded especially to their prepotency—power of Impressing tbel r characteristics upon their offspring. Ho had seen tho principal characteris tics of the brejd perfectly developed in an animal which had only one thirty-second of Its blood in him. He thought it best, however, to cross them with a colder-blooded European race to adapt them to this ollmate, In which their tropical descent rendered them already acclimated. Tho Merino sheep, with his magnificent growth of wool, was naturally acclimated here, and the broad-tallod Syrian, crossed with tho Euiopcan, made the finest mutton in tho world. He thought the hog needed here was an InTusion of tropical blood in our own improved stock. The Essex and Berkshire had become to$ cold-blooded to suit our climate by long residence and breed ing In the colder countries of Europe. He himself had crossed Berkshire and Essex on Improved native stock with gratifying results, while his pure breeds died mysteriously aad sud denly. He thought the best cross for the Brahma cattle was the Alderney. He had had a cow from this cross, which he had known to give twenty-two carefully measured quarts of rich milk lu one day, the animal weighing prob ably one thousand pounds. He found that In this cross the Alderney did not suffer deterloratloh la milking quali ties, and the offspring was increased In size and symmetry. He had not found the Brahma more vicious than other old male animals, and their re putation for jumping was, he thought, also a slander, as he had never known them to d^elop any peculiar talents to that direction until they had been taught by lazy cowherds making them jump over slip bars to save the trou ble of taking them down. One-eighth or one-tenth of tropical blood in ani mals would renden them proef against tha malarial Inflences of the climate- He particularly cautioned them against numerous and indiscriminate Grasses, giving some remarkable Instances of the characteristics ot ancestors crop ping out in descendants of tha third and fourth generations, after lying dormant in the intervening ones. He did not regard inbreeding as being in jurious unless carried beyound the limit common to animals in their na tural stats—two or three geaeratien*. Inbreeding waa certainly * for better than resorting to inferior Mock for zlrc or dam, Twice in and onoe out was a good aad generally accepted rule. He spoke also of the liability of animals to lose their qualities within a few generations if (mused. For in stance, In pointers, no matter how good the breed/ If the parents were not taught or worked for two or three generations the deeoend&nte would be useless for hunting purposes. Hold Your Cotton Back. [Prom tho Chronicle and ConstltutlenalUt.] The planters of the South are apt to be governed by former experience, and, as the September price for cotton was sb much higher 1 last year than later on, they may deem It wise to hurry forward their crops this year, in order to get the better price. So I have thought it proper, Messrs. Editors, to offer this suggestion tnrough your widely circulated paper, hoping that papers throughout t)ie South wilt copy it, and thereby have some concert of action among our planters. Without going into figures, it is known to all that the world, for a great many years, has not been ao bate ot cotton as now. While trade is better than for many years, and goods commanding a better price, and many factories at the North are running night and day to supply the demand for goods—with very little cotton to spin—they are confidently looking for large receipts during August and Sep tember, touJteep them going and pre vent -a famine. Last year they re ceived at the ports 290,000 bales, up to October 1st. This year they are look ing for 400,000 bales, upon the sup position that it will be pushed for ward. These are the facts. Now for the suggestion to the planters: You do not llkelo owe any money before October 15th to November the 1st. Work to get your crop picked out and saved and don’t ship a bale of It until you are obliged to, and you will got a much higher price for it than now. How high, depends upon yon. Keep your cotton back is tho advice of one who knows. Cotxo’.». STATE CiEEANlNO.^ five ^joung men Aiken county has reading medicine. Hogs and cattle ar'', dying of hydro phobia in Fairfield,, Boar huntlr^j ©n tho Santee la now In order. Several were killed last week. The Lancaster Ledger reports a slip’at frost In that section on the 9th Instant. A colored man,living near Anderson, was poisoned last week by eating a watermelon, and died In a short time after eating It. Capts. Ray and Ulmer, and Private J. P. Zors, of Barnwell, attended the Reunion of the 17th Regiment, at Chester, last week. The King’s Mountain Military School opened last week with a fair attend ance of young men from various puits ot the State. - oauiUeu has four capital, wheel wright and blacksmith shops, and double that number of experienced blacksmiths and workers In wood. Several cases of typhoid fever, prin cipally among the colored people, have been reported In York county, and one death Is said to have occurred from that cause. Adam Barker, of Edgefield, commit ted suicide last week. He had a quar rel wiih his wife about one of his children, shot himself twice and shuf fled off this mortal coll. A convict in the employ of Mr. CliH- by, on the Edgefield and Trenton Rail road, was killed on Monday last by tho falling of the bank above were he was at work. A colored man by tho name of Wm- Adamson was stabbed with a knife by Neill W. Blair, colored, and ex-County Auditor of Kershaw,at Camden on Sat urday night last. Adamson died ia a few minutes after. The murderer Is now in jail. Hon. James 8. G. Richardson, an eminent lawyer of Sumter, and for many years reporter of the Supreme Court of this State, died last Monday week, at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Ylrglnia, aged 64 years. A ferocious bull dog attacked and severely bit a small child of Mr. C. F. Tillman, of Lancaster county, one day last week. But for the timely assist ance of a gentleman near by, who killed the dog, ths child would have been devoured. A remarkable and disastrous freak of lightning occurred In the Fork last Friday afternoon. Mr. J. R. Meredith bad left bis house and gone to mill, and his wife and children had gone to a neighbor’s house, a quarter of a mile distant, leaving no one at borne, when a cloud came up and a fearful crash was heard, and in twenty min utes Mr. Meredth’s house, a two-story frame building, together with his household goods, were completely des troyed.—Anderson Journal. Last week the barn and stables of Mr. Jamee Epps, formerly of this (now of Laurens) county, were entirely con sumed by fire, together with their con tents, consisting of five mules, one horse, five calves, one hundred chick ens^ and a large quantity of corn, fod der and oats. From hie suspicious behavler on the night of the fire, a colored laborer, residing on the place, was at once suspected of the fiendish crime, and upon being closely Interro- T O MAKE jg O if F V gated be confessed having dono the will pW aMwer deed, implicating * 1 — J *' another colored la borer on the place ae bis accomplice So malicious were they that they tied the dumb animals together to prevent eecaptig—Nmbcrry News. A I-riroad, [FV>r tho People.] Man was created an experiment, wo man a success. When God made mon ho pronounced hri work very good, bu 1 in his daily walks through the garden, on closer observation, he discovered many defects in Adam, and finally de termined to improve on him. As all artists require that their models shall bo perfectly stationary, He caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while in this state, the Lord formed and fashioned woman. After a critical ex amination Ho pronounced her a perfect success, placed her by the side of Adam, awoke him, aod hid behind the bushes, that, ho- might hoar mas’s unbiassed opinion of her. Adam suddenly ur- roused from his sleep, was struck dumb with astonishment and admiration at beholding such a beautiful and lovely -creature. He fell pu his knees at her feet, and, as soon as his tongue was loosed, began making suit to her in the most extravagant manner. Eve, entire ly overcome by his declarations of love, threw both anus around his neck, and imprinted such a royal kiss, that the electric shock from her sweet lips, knocked Adam senseless to the ground. Seeing what damage she had done, Eve became very much alarmed, but with true womanly instinct, picked up a shell ran for water and brought with her a Palm leaf as a fau. Bathing his ffce freely arid usuig- her faji vigorously, he soon revived, is how e^mes it 'that she is " the better nur*\e of the two down to the present *'mp, having first practiced that art. EraYd. ———— A dispatch frjm Quebec, dated the 15th instor'^ gA y g ; a difficulty be tween Ir'jfti and French Canadian ship laborors, culminated la a bloody street Tho French Canadian laborers, Upon the ground of Ill-treatment, re cently seceded from the General Ship- Laborers’ Association and formed an independent organization of their own known as the Ship Laborers’ Society of St- Roche. TTie morning, in order .to snow their numerical strength they marche 1 iu procession through the streets in a body about three thous and strong, but while on their way to tho Cove they were attacked by a large force of Catholics from the orig inal Ship-Laborors’ Society, and a desperate fight ensued, lu which it is reported that five wsro killed and many wounded. NS IF A D VER Tt SEMENT8. A A’>F A I) VEliTISEMKNTS Franklin Bros. COTTON COMMISSION REVXOLDS STrEET, ATiaUSTVA, a A._ liberal Advances made —ON— CONSIGNMENTS IN STORE. ang21-3m FBAN’KUN BROS. II M. LANIER, —WITH — R.P.BAYLEY&C0. imroRTKiifl or CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, (fee. 27 HANOVER ST, aug?]-3m BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. FOR SALE Castor Gil, Lari Gil, Brasbas, aai a Full Assortment D RUG S 1 and MEDICINES AT TI*fe Williston Drug Store. , S, C. aug7-3m. A LIMITED NUMBER 0F active, energetic ^ , . 10 e T K V a * wd profitable basilicas. Good naei* wlU rind .. • rare chance Will thi* advertise* 'enclosing 8 t»Dip for reply, have been ment by letter, !■*>•'>•«» <»• jno bat '.noee who mean buaineee Add need »ppl^. ■ »* ■ «• JPthl8-Iy .eat, r .uwt, JUavxT A Co., 4tl<(§t,a, Ga. INDUCEMENTS; -ooo- GREAT IVDCCEfflENTS. THE AT W. T. ANDERSON & CO.’S. Valences Laco ? 10c. for 12 yds. { Linens for Ladies’ Dusters, 'j Gents’ Linen Dusters, Seventy-live cents. Ladies’ Summer Gauze Vests, high neck and short sleeves, and low nock, twenty-five cents, worth sixty cents. LAW IS S , Fifteen Pieces Beautiful Tilted Lawns, Just received at ANDERSON’S. GRElSrADIISrEB, Eight Pieces Black Grenadines, all wo have. Call and ssev 13 E A C K S I Xt K S > Eight Pieces Extra Quality Black Silk. JTJ S T R E C E I V E D . The Cost Black Silk $1. | The Best Black Silk, $1.29, Tha Best Black Silk, $1.49 J The Best Black Silk, $1.75. *■? / 1 -■••T’ ’ ' ) ' • —7—i—. Every Piece Warranted. TRUNKS AIST R IIAKO RAGS* ^ LADIES’ ASB GENTS’ trAVRi.iXt: tihixa:.^ low, —1— Remnants of* Dotted Swiss. Remnants Black Alpaca. Remnants Table Damask. Remnants Boys’ Cassimeres. Remnants Calicoes. W. T. & , Hi -:o: — WHOLESALE. We are receiving in our Wholesale Department, for early Fall Trade, 5 eases Kentucky Jeans, 20 bales Homespun, 25 boxes Calleo, 25 boxes Assorted Notions. Call and get our prices. Five bales Buuch Yanis, 2,000 pounds Sew ing Thread. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT. W. T. ANDERSON & CO. -OF- BARNWELL -AND- COUNTIES & FEELING DEEPLY INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE Public, I propose to nuke efforts never before entered into for the benefit of the community. To this end 1 have purchased my Stock, and knowing that earnest and honest endeavor will meet with that success which should attend it. I would a sk all who arc seeking Bargains iu Diy Goods, Groceries, Shoos, Bats; Tinware Crockery• Etc- Not to make Purchases before (xumining my Stock, and lean assure them that they will save money. Big Prices will not do in these times, when even tho wealthy cannot afford to waste their money, and the poof require double duty of every dollar and every penny. Prints, good, 5 cts.; best, 5 3-4 cts. per yard. Granitcvillo “C.’’5 1-2 cts. Grauitcvillc “II. R. ” C 1-2 cts. Bleached Shirtings, 5 cts. up to 9 cts. Striped and Plaids, 8^ cts. _ Colored Linen Lawns, Gets. Pinue, from 5 cts. up. Ijadies’ Hose, 5, 7 and 10 cts per pair. Mens’ Half Hose, from 5 cts. per pair up. Large assortment of Corsets, from 25 cts. up Handkerchiefs, Cambric, 5 cts. Handkerchiefs, Linen, 12 1-2 cts. Handkerchiefs, Silk, 15 cts. Best Pius, 2 1-2 cts. per paper. Best Needles, 2 1-2 cts. per paper. Coats’ Spool Cotton, 55 cts. per doz. Ball Thread, 3 cts. per ball. Dress Buttons, 5 cts. per doz. Lead Pencils, 10 cts. per doz. Envelopes, 25 for 3 cts. A large assortment of Embroideries, from 3 cts. per yard up. A large assortment of Shoes at aston ishingly low figures. Best Smoked Sides, 6 3-4 cts. per lb. D. 8. Sides, G cts per lb. A good barrel of Flour, from $5 up. Good Coffee Sugar, 13 lbs for $1,00. Good Coffee, 8 lbs for $1,00. Shoe Blacking, 2 «ts. per box. Lye, best, at 8 eta. per box. „ . I will pay Cash for all Country Produce, and you can trade where you please. All I ask is, give me a trial when vou come to our town, and you will returu homo satisfied. BERNARD ADLER, ftrab a m s, 8. G. aug &-3m. I DOt/T WANT TO GO TO TH® LEGISLATURE, :—-—- ■ ., .. - I do wish all persons who desire to buy Cheap Goods to come and see me. Here are some of my prices— Good Winter Suits, all Wool, $5.00. Good Heavy Pants, $1.00 up. Mens’ Boots from $1.75 up. Mens’ Whole leather Brogans from $1.00 up Children’s ShoeS from 50 cts. up. —A FULL LINE OF— DRY GOODS AT BOTTOM PRICES* Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Hats and Notions AT WHOLESALE 1IGURES. CASH PAID FOR CORN, PEAS AND COTTON. A. RUBENSTEIN, Path-finder ia LOW TRICES. 102-111 WILLUTON, S. 0* Ca-f", r rj V f * 2