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ti -Rdi~ A. JONES, Pub. and Proicitor. "I F(Iily U1paper D11,."A'd TIVU/U/~ 81,"d/ny Clw~.Wiutr (17a! Vo-, xxii M NIT _ es,Lc ATS{NPE ~U THE HERALD AND NEWS, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDN ESDAY A T .Tc'Wbe,rv. S. C. F1TEN1-i.-O:1C year. $2; six niontl $I; th-ce month., 50 cents ; two rmlonth. 35 cents; one month. 20 cent-; sing copy, 5 cent:, payable in advnale. Expirations.-Look at the printe label on the paper; the (late thereo shows when the snbscription expire4 Forward the money for reiwwal at lea one week in advance. Subscribers desiring the adldre their paper changed must give both th old and the new :Lddress. TERMS OF ADVERTISING.-k1.00 I), square the first insertion, and 50 ets. pe square for each subsequent insertior A&' A square is the space of nine linc of solid brevier type. Noti(ces in! local column 1'e. per lin for eacti insertion for one month, long at inch rates, w:th 25 per cent add-d. A reasonable reduction m:de for :w vertkenients by the three, six. ,r twclv mnonths. The Poor House Matter. A REPLY TO TIE GRAN) JURY---,. WRETCHED APPEARANCE---SOME INTE.,ESTING FACTS. The Observer interviewedl Mi. I B. Leitzey the past week with refei ence to so much of the Grand Jury' presentment as relates to the Poo House. When we saw Mr. Leitze: he had already prepared a writtei statement for publication. wlch i printed in this issue. Mr. Leitze; talked very freely about the inatte; aa(r evidently thinks the Grand Jur: has done him an injustice. Much o what he said in the interview i omitted here because it appears i! his statement which is given belo" Mr. Leitzey showed us the mie chant's bill of goods bought for th paupers the 23d of January, iz.clud ing homespuns, osnaburgs and jeanQ The prices paid did not indicate th.n the goods were inferior, and the: were bought from a merchant whos, ieputation for fair dealing is a suIf cient guarantee that they were al they were ieprese.ad to be. Mr Leitzey in his card tells how th, paupers are clad. In addition. h says one of them has an overcoa that he gave him which though old i quite comfortable. It might appear to some tha st-aw beds are not very comfortabl in winter; but it would hardly be ex pected of the keeper to furaish feathe beds. Some the Gcand Jurors sug gested to the beeper, on their visit that he ought to provide mattresses Ile gave his reason for not doing sc These reasons cannot well be state< he':e; but suffice it to suggest the; are partly sanitary and partly ec nemica!. The ,omnmittee, MIr. et zev says. e:;pressed themselves sat isfied with the reasons given, am agreed that straw beds, which coul he renewed as occasion required. were preferable. On the dlay of th Grand Jurors' visit, all the beds. Mr Leitzey says. had new~ ticking o1 them except two-these two wer< mnade of coin sacks sewed together Mr. Leitzey says thet he told th< corrmittee the Physician had lef medicine for the frost-bitten pau pers, and that he was using it ac cording to the Physician's directions T he committee did nut ask to se< the medicide and therefore it wai i.ot shown to them. lie says hi cannot see how any one is to be blamed or the two paupers havinig their feet frost-bitten. X'hey ar, bo0th idiotic and have not sensi enough to exercise any precatitionis They have good shoes but will no wear them unless made to do it .They have plenty of covering, but (< not know how to manage it. 1I went into the room of one of then: a few nights ago, and found him ly ing on the bed with all the coverin; dIrawn up around his head and neck while his feet and legs were expose' to the cold. There are twelve inmates of th< Poor House, three white, and nin< colored. Of the whites. one has dropsy, one consumption, and one i blind. Of the 2olored. two are blinid one is deaf and dumb, four art either half-witted or idiotic andi tw< have fits-epileptic we prestume quite naturaly they p)resent a wretch edt appearance, as the Jurors say. Mr. Leitzey says, with a good dea of reason, that the name of thec insti tution, instead of being Poor House shlould be --burying ground for ne groes." He thinks thle negroes some times send their old and infirm ther< to save themselves the trouble of at tending them through their last ill ness and of burying them. The in stances hi mnen:ionms i his eard seen to juit that way, iIe says: barely escapedl the job of burvinIi the four, but had to bury the thiree. Of the three he speaks of, one live. r- iar Chappells. iIe was over 8 vears old, and had eleven growrm childlren. When ordered by th County Commissioners to send fo him, he sent a messenger with hi buggy. The messnger found tha' the old iie,ro was too feele to sit u) in the buzy, i(i that the only wIy to !rIn him was to tie him in so that he could not fall out. le propostdfl to the oI man's childrtn hAt he should leave hin:: that th uy h ring hin to Nt wherry the next fay in a wa1o, and he would! meet them n there an 1, ca;rv himin to t:- poor huse. Tie rpdv wa: -No: lake hin on low. W ar afraid he would die he're norni:g." He atu nothting at all aWter reacb ':;. pwor housoe but live ten da,a. Anlotl" r o-f* the thre,.e -sasi 1,romI IIJl On. S: t n"t:Ing :ar rve ing the Wor louse, ar.d died two days after Who:th n :moia-'. :l it when she was carried there. e The third was From the (,:dlnian place. She was in the las gts.es of consumption. and died in three days. A (.\i) Fl:(2M I . LEi.,ZiEY. Ei)vro, _niu :-Ill justice to myself, I wish to say a few words . concerin,g the (;rand .u-y's -eport about t1he Poor House. s They have niisrepresented . Lings r in some respects as to the wretched appearance of the paupers. That is not my fault; for they come here al s most every week lookinig wretched. y It is no new thing for paupers at a Poor Ilous to look so; for if they did not look that way 'they would f not be received at the Poor House. s And thev come worse than that. I I have reeived some here vitlii two. te. th and f-ur Oays of their d"ath I. have receive(d three here since C! ristmas: one lived 10 days, an. other lived 3 days and the last one .ied 2 days. Two of these didnt t eat a mouthful after they got l(re. I would llike to knov of the Graid 2 Jury w:ose Inult it is '..hat I got or ders last vear to send after four dii I frit pau1rs :11ad at di' erent mes In the first ease I wa'ed two days before I seut on account of pressing Y business at h6me. I sent-and le t ris dead. In the seconol ase, on 5 accoent of some other uirgent lusl ness. I waited the sArme number of t days, and then wenat-and lie was lead. 3 I came to the conclusion -that the ne - groes were just sendinig their poor r and feeble hele to be bu ied ; for they were negroes. So I waited two or three days agaii and then sent Ior the otber two-and they were dead. Whose fault was that? So you see it is nothing new fobr.the ..paupers to Slook wretced at a poor hou-se when -they are so near death as thiat. - As to their recemvna. such little - eare, I have only this osay: They Iare receiving all the care that a Keep I er can trive such people in their condi ,tion. They get plenty to -eat; or. at least. therv tei n: hev do, and I have .no rit to (loubht !.for I go in: their i rooms evav c r so. and1 I see 2: plenlty of bread and other things !y .~ ing about on1 the mantel-.peces. I 3have told them 6f'ten: ifzlhey klid not t get enougli f,o!et me.know.- I aske'd -them this morning if they got enough - to eat. They tol me they grot a .plenty. 3As for the wood to burn. I think I Scan safely say I averagze: six loads a Sweek to the Poor llouse. I haul a Sgreat dleal of wood to town, but that ;does niot inte fere with my hauling Sto the Poor -Ilonse for -we ge(t .back SOl sonehg ev" evenn to' haul a -loadi t I As to' t2C e ',o. t- ten i ('I ,' I -C:n . ot think that thi is my fault;'m for > t hey all have goodl shoes2. It i u I to teir ownVi ca:r,iessnes-s :and tri tling i's ht they aire irost-bit ten . A - t' th cenanittee1 seeing o meo'Ai tl.er had not r'eeivedI aniy med(' 'ii attention. The cuonuittee didi io ask to see the mhilcine, or ther w\ou: hav see i t. for I toxld theml thtI:. G(Iilder hadl left son12 and we were I treating the ca.ses with it The cltiganid bledding of the , pauper'S appeaOred. to the. conittee Svery scait :iai (f aI very inferiorqul ) .itv. i'-o far us the :ing is coni .cernedn, th<i v veryv ne~ar:v all have new - bed ticks that I bougiht on th2e 2:ld of -Janunary. I lad just filled them allF I up with nice clean wheat straw th~e -day before the G rand .1 urv eamne. I ,hiave been furish:ng whieat st:aw for - the Poor Illousw ever since I hav e - been here free of eo-4 to the counitv. 3 s to th~e b)ilnkets and coiverina , eah -bed has abo'ut. from ) nix to e!h 21 u - ke-s on it nod an ohl qui tOfs:n - sort. The E!ao:k ts are vervy worn. Inbt still I had thou..s:t I ec.uld unk hou the weat h lr~ r1:n [2old so lonig I sunpro-e I wd!l han to buyii w My obje0)ct' hat, been cv er sin2ce Ii:e )been here to lout the coulnty to as lt tie expense as puss::>. 21And now as to the clothing. They r all have two new suits apiece, be Ssides their old clothing. All that -I ere alo nbe up had on new su,ts the da the Grand Jurors were here. with the exception of coats; the liai (W Old Coats. which I thoul'-ht were T)j Cnolug0h. And the eloth that I ought on the 2:3( of Januarv is not 1:1r all mI:ule up yet. and if the cloth -in ferior I will have to go back on !mmerchant I bought it from, but I di) not thiink!, that anv set oF men that disp,1to 0e4 to do what is It enn say tiat it is intferior. if they will ex :u!ine it closely. T r' ad to the ['in. that is not~\ b u Inss: but as the c('!Mmit (, (I n- a(;uit him anl I replied to Ir qI tlle it (Iule hil --n- !th-1m to make soir ex"'lana'tion. The emnmittee aid 1 >. ! that t hey hat' hec:I the Pvll hamnt donle his dluty, and asked mec whant I thought abont it. I replied that that was not My busess. Upon their pushim; the question, I told them that I had said heretofore I thou-it lie was not carrving out his contract fullV. That remark applied to last year. At that time his contract was to visit the Poor I louse every oth.er week. Soine times lie 'lid not come every other week. IIe has never refused to come when sent for. This year his con tract is to come every week; and lie ha.r come every week, and so far as I can judge is giving the paupers every needed attention. )ne of the frost-bitten is up and goIng- about as usual. The other one is nut doing so well. Respectfully, Feb. G. 1ssG. TP. n. Lirrn. The *l1owing ca'L was hauled in for lublication last week hv Dr. Gillr, but was unavoidably omitteul A .\ o i 'OM Dn. 1 EiDE. Grz;nl Ju;y in their presentnent to the Court last week, in referring to the condition of the inmates of tie poor house used the following lan guage : -Thie committee saw no med icine or anything that would go to show that they had received any medical attention. Their suferings have been undoubtedly very great. anid some relief should be given if possible. This we regret as a most serious matter, and should re Ceive the immediate attention of this Court or the Couuty Commissioners. It the physician employed for the purpose receives pay for visiting the paupers he should be held strictly to account for any dereliction of duty." The above language refers to two cases of frost bite. As I occupy the positioni of physician to the poor house I propose to clear up what I slpposc must have been a misunder standing on the part of the commit tee. so far as it relates to the per formuance of my duty as Ccunty Phy sician. .Mv contract with the Coun ty Commissioners for the present year is to visit the poor house once every week, oftener if necessary, or if sent for. I have performed that duty up) to the p)resent. During the recent cold weather two of the inmates were severely frost bitten, and their feet at present are in a very bad condition. They are both comupletely broken down in con stitution and are of unsound mind, onie being a confirmed epileptic. It is therefore almost impossible to keep themi confined to their rooms and the proper covering kept upon them. At my last visit (since the romumittee made their visit) I found that one of the cases referred to d been out in the snow barefooted. Any reflective mind will -see that this Lxp)osure was no fault of mine, andu so far as I am aware, it wa.s the fault >f no one. I1 the stateen t of these tw\o pa Lents witA disordered minds were woA antin. I wouldt say that upon01 iniii ry they in forme me Iin that they had sufTeri d v ery little lain. I don't th.ink tere has been a time within the last thre cy~ears that there has not heen a supply of muedicint on hand at the poor' house, and espe rially someth:ng for the relief' of 1ain. TIheire was a supply on hand :Gt the t: th le conmmittee made their visit, and esp)ecially for the cases referred to. (91 course it was not left in the hands of idiotic pantients. 1 (10 not wish to cast any reflections upon the gentlemen composing the coin mittee, but feel in justice to myself that I should emnphathize the state :nenit maide. that there was an abun dan t sujpply I iof medi:cine on hand at the~ p4oor hlouse. andl hadl the proper inqjuiry been niale the committee would i ave been convinced of the fact. I was in town. and if the Grand .1urv could not satisfy themnselves con;cerning the treatment of the cases n uestion. they could, with very lttle troube to t cemselves. have seen mue. I know it is the dtuty of the Grand Jury to see that all county ofSees are kept in proper condition, their duties. anl 11o one Is more wil In to com. to tl:eir support in thq lirection tha:i myvl1. but 1 do thin h t . stt!ellts Cont'ilned in thei report sh1o1ubl( a far a I de h enrret. M co(nt I.:- with the Cll iii ers for 16'V5) w-as to visit the poi hose twice a mont!i. oftem-r if ne( ussar;. or if s-nt for. That contrae was as faiti"flly per'ormed as th ne01,is fthe ca-;C reciu'ired. I mu. L:; eora elolin.. t Mrs. Leitzev has shown the inmate Your, ept rly What Our Exchanges a,ra Talk ing About. THE P0oo1 MAN c LiE. We return to the consideration o the claim put forth that the Sout Carolina College "is conspicuousl, the poor man's college." from whi we were compelleu to desist las week, owing to lack of space. At the recent session of the Legi, lature, a measure was adopted b: the Senate which placed ample safc guards around every young man rc ally needing aid, then present in th State College or who should be presen thereafter, but requiring tuition fee of those who were able to pay. Thi measure was passed clearly in th interests of indignant and need: No1u men. What was its fate The triewils of the poor man's collez in the Ilouse of Representatives r( Jeceted it. Why? It protected ti poor man (mly. If the measure ha, hecome a law, it would have disir tegrated the opposition to free tuitio: and settled the question at onec But these tender-hearted legislator4 spurning so peaceful a colution, ani throwin,_ their armts around the 15 young men who are not poor, virtu ally said by their actions to the pe( ple. "We will enact no laws exci sivelv for the benefit of the poor." At the door of the State Colle;t let us suppose, two young men ar knocking for admittance. One i able to pay his board and actual e3 penses; the other is not able to mec these necessary outlays. To th one the door is opened. and to th other it is said :"A young Ina ought not to be permitted to go t a college without some expense. The pa.ymfenlt of board is necessar, to test his manhood, and show whieth 3r or not he is worthy of an educt ;ion." "I am told," pleads the rt iectedl vouin' man. 't hat there are 15~ well-to-(1o young meni here to whoi a1 gratuitous bounty is given; wh; shouldl rnot they be chairged for th~ tuition they can pay for. that tht benefit of the appropriation may b allowed to us who, otherwise are afte all shut out?" "The State mus know no difference between her cit! zens," is tile response. Tile one goe in to join his 50 comnradhes; the othe returns to his 50,000 fellows, to dit it may be, "a mute. inglorious 311 ton." Tile "poor man !" Who crimes are committed in his name ! Baptlist Courier. Feb. 11th. At the meeting( of' the State G rang in Charleston last week, a comnmitte was appoinited whose duty it is t watch the Legislature while in sessiot and work against the passage of law -iical to the agricultural interest of the State. Now we supp)ose thier is nothing wrong in all this. bulti seems to us that the influence of th farmers would he fair more potent f the ballot box, in the~ primaries thu it would he in th legi slativye lobb at Ciolumhbia. Th'e better lan ist scud mnen to Columbia who 1o ie need watch ill.- W oruhm'b n &* So'/) We don't agree wvithl onur cotempt rarv. The farmhrs should send tilei best businmess men to Columbia (in ing the sessions of the Legislatur to assist their Itepresentantives passing such mieasures as to thler may~t seem best to protect their inte: ests. TIhe lawyers, (doctors, rai roads, colleges. merchants and cant have their friends on hand at ever session, and thlere is greater reaso why the farmers should b)e ther< Tucre is no danger of them becon ig proiessional lobbyists.-En. I & N. Editorial News Notes. Governor's Island is in muournin anid the most superb relic of t,he wt on the IUmon sideC has been remove( Gen. IIancock's last public a~ pearance was at the head of Grant funeral cortese. in New York, c 8th of August. Ilow soon he~ follow the Old commandm. - Names of United States Ser. t ators, 'frl: T*NI- EOFTI IE UNITED -TATE's 1 vE.N, EN A N. : ~ T') .' T I AN. 1 . i'i rce Butk--r, Ral ) zard. . acob it ..ohn 1nter, Charles l'inek ne. 1honas Stimpter, .iohn 'avilor. \ illiam simith. Rohert Young layne, .!,hn C. Calloun., 1niel 11liot illu r. John ing*l' Calhioun. .John G nll lard. W illiam,n llarpwr. Williain Si1. Stphn ).Mill,,r. WV1ilim C. Pr, - tocn. Ge lcl)iiflie. An1drew . Blutl(-r. Franklin i11".1Elmore. !Zobe)rt - . liarnwell. B. BriNwel' 1htt, W III. 1F. 1)eSaussure, .Josiah .1. Evans, .% rtiur P. !iyne, James Chesnut. James II. llanmmond, Wade ilamp. toni. Matthew Calbraith Butler. In 180, the llon. 11. F. Perry, of Greenville. and the lion. John L. Ianning, of Clarendon. were elected united States Senators, and Ilon. .J. t B. Campbell. of Charleston, in 18G, to succeed Manning. but they were not allowed to take their seats .lohn . J.Patterson. of Pennsylvania. anJ one Sawyer. were elccte( by the Repub . licans in 186S. At Sawyer's resigna tion Thomas .T. lobertson, a native, was elected in his stead. . John Gaillard was -lected Pvc 'times in succession, (1ying in his fifth term. .Tiohn C. Calhoun was also elected five tines. not in succession, however. Tlhr.e Butlers an(d two laynes have representel the State in the Senate. 0f the Lutlers, Pierce. h!e ir t Sen:.tor elected from South ('.rolina. was retirn(d three timos, A. P . tle,* three times and the prnt ilcu-mbent. M. C. Butler, ,tw:ce, Who Does It? Mr. B. I". Tilian, of Edgefield, has written a series of letters to the News and Courier that have clicited much attention all over the State. Whatever good Mr. Tillman may hope to accomplish will he lost if lie lets his zeal run ahead of his judgment. He represents that thie-e are people who look (lown upon what lie calls the "despised and oppressed class t called farmers." Who are those who e areoolish eliough to hold any such vi-w of the fariners ol this country? ihey must be sadly lacking in ordi nary sense. and ignorant of the con ditions of life in this country if they n.tertai.n anyv such opinion. It can not lbe th e mrerchiants, for the farmers arec thleir customers. I cannot be the jawyer's. for the farmers are their e~ lients, It cannot be the doctors, the nrmners are their patients. N'ur the ari'Lsanas and lboers who if)tnd in Sthem their principal employers. And e it is not the farmn.rs themselves. Alru. STillman is mistaken in thinking that r they are "ouppressed" or "despise(l." t We know whereof we speak, when we say that our, f0,,urs.' here are not Smen tc; puit up) with ''oppression" from r anylbody. And lhe who sought to treat ,them with contempt would speedily be .sent to the "'right ab)out." They are t the majority of our p)opulation. They -and their work are the basis of the prosperity ofour country. They are in telligent, industrious thrifty and inde p)endenlt; poss5essed of tile knowledge e and the nerve to protect and defend e thlemselves from aiiy assaults upon 3 their rights. It is an insuilt to them Sto eal them "oppressed and despis s ed." We venture to say th:at there is Sas mnuch brains and i ntelligence e :unocng the farmers of thils county as tini an v other branch of labor. They e are progiressivye 'anen. keeping pace twith the march of the aje. :eer.d:ng, la 1m.0oviing andt ')'A ssing. T2ey aret' eduatin ther:hien. an lv " ing b road the :'oundation ot tl:eir own t and tile counitry's p)rosperity. We know that they have here, as a class. and we believe evervwhuere else in the State. theC r'espect anid confidence of r' everybody. They have power and inlfluence, and know how to use them. Cas that man wvill find out who seeks to "'oppre'Css themi. W \e don't like all this arraying of' one class against another.' We are all bound up together in every rela 1tion of life. No one class or set of -men can imp ose on another. We are 1all, of' whatever professioni or avoca tion. component parts of a hiomoge nieous people. andl each part is essen tial to the welfare of tile whole. We think Mr. Tillmian has departed from the task of' ceFouniation lie as snlmedl. when h~e writes such stud' as we hav*e Commenlfted upjonl.-Ai' W . en. IIaneock's pay as Major G;en -cra wa 5 i$.500. In two v'ears lie s would hav'e been irtre with a pen nson' of S.G5. HIis (hildret>n are s dead andl his widow wil be comufor tahlne_.1anq"- ('It 'nu;. i-Xt 1 'Lh Farmers' Mortages. The systen of mortgaging crops. -tock. etc.. 3n order to seciure sup pli: s whie: has obtained for the ui past fifteen or eighteen years in " nearlv all the Southern States, saVs t n the Savannah Morning News, has 'a been slowvl dying out for some time. th Few f,raners now go in debt for En supplies where they cannot be ob- su taine(l onl opel accoent and on reds- pe nable terms. exCept those who, irom i9 soMe ecrlie mis ortune, arc obl'-ed or to (10 o. I t is to berretted toat there are a good many in every part to of the comnit.r who are oliged to resort to norta-es, and who have to pr pay Ve v heavy percentages ror the a sei credit they obtain. It Taking the xhole Sdtth. there are in(licalons tOat il a few years the to mortgage s,-stem will be almost, if . ri= not altogether, abandoned. It not only has proved unprofitable and i uinous to the firners. but it is uoipleasant and undesirable to the merchants. So The mo, tage system is one o' the 1_ , Ines1 evils that invariablv correc.s itself. t but the re.nedy is a mos., disa. ee O at able one P.obablY not one farmer in ten who is forced to mortgage his th< stock and crons in one instance suc eeeds and eman ipates himself inom his creditors. The history of the str agricultural struggles of recent years shows that in nine instances out of P ten speedy failures from the mort. St gage system resuit, or at best the se tinal collapse.is paintfully postponed s an arom ye_e -o year. aid that it is rro e co,nple.e d i .sas ois for the ll delay. A new c :e a,oa of a .e US is fol now beln.oig to [1 the soil of the South. These yoN1g a- _.cultu:t th should profit by the e:x>eriences oa the past, a@h avoid debts as they C would a pestilence. The, e.are many good as well as terrible examples in every community. Tiere are plenty al of prospe-ous farmers who startel fe w'th r.oiing but health end good resolutions, and there are thousands re who have been reduced from afilu- as pr ence to poverty by avoidable erlors p and wait of thiiit and economy. This a good motto for all young a farmers: "It is infinitely better to operate a one-horse farm on a cash a basis, than to operate "a larger one on a credit." . With a small farm, conducted with industry and wisdom, in a a success is almost certain. With a large farm conducted without a large cash cap)ital, no matter how indus trious and wise a man may be, failure is ahuof)t certan.-K'or:ee Co''ur. A Sensible Craze. ar It is an apparent contradiction in11 fe"ms to sp)eak of a sensile era. e, ha but tine imnmense popularity of m: health and strenth just at present gl will make such a phrase p)ermiiss- th able. t For generations it has been the th p)roper thing in the best society for m< the women to b)e pale and languid lis wreeks, wirile the men were expected o, to display pipe-stem legs, skinny til hands, gooseberry eyes, low fore heads and weak-looking faces. This fashion has been carried to such a dange: ous e:treme that good health andl a subiowned face have been 3l known to bar otherw'se eligible per- 5i sons out of society. hc( All this is a thing of the p)ast. The im reaction has come. In our large re cities the health, strength and superb P physical development of the women p4 who make the sidewalks ring under ct their tit .n treadl cannot escape no- th ie. Tiev' ae real fksh and blood ti< woIlwn, wi;h al armn g appetites and if with a; .'' ct un limited caipacity w for enduraice. Th'le men lag behind. w' but they arc catching up. The t dwies are in a state of decay. The px fashionable man of to-day wears com.- h<i hortable ch>thes and sensible shoes. th Ile is temperate, takes care of him- 10 self and enjoys life.-Albota Con- pc - ta io . - p-- --c The Republican pension plan and er -its results are plainly visible. The m idea is to pour the existing surp)lus th and most of the future income of vi the treasury into th2 North and West m by a system of extravagant p)ensions e: to Federal veterans. Our shrewd tc friends on the other sidie of the line ti, have drawn from the South for tiieirI own benefit by the rivers and harbors t and public building' schemes and high C: tariff for mnany years. These schemes b are now about exhausted. but the pion business is good for twenty v yea.rs yct. And what are'-the States ( lately' in reb)ellIion''"o e>n to do about~ it Nting th:at we can see except to ten 1t ais miy of0 the veterans as C pohe to Settle in the South and by h< tha means have some of thme money II1 we pay' spent among us.-Gre'ncillu tt: Stand Aside Mr. Tillman. ! The whole movement bears with t mistakable distinctness the ear- t Lrks of rank demagogi-rv. Soth r rolina is to all intents and purposes r agricultural State. In fact, until p last decade, we have been almost i; tirely absorbed in this single pur- a it. The immense majority of our s op'e are farmers. and therefore it is g possible that they can be ignored f treated anjustly. They are in fact e controlling element. and conse- s ently theY have always beca able e enforce all just demands for the o jmotion of ther honorable pursuit. e d have always been fully repre- n ited in the governmeut of the State. is folly at this late day t0 attempt y blind the farmer with flatte y and jole him into the belief that his e ;hts are ignored, and that he does ii tget his share of the plum pudding. t H1ampton. Hagood. Simts, Richard- t 3, Lipscomb and Manigault are all v )resentatives of the farming inter- i and all have enjoyed for pro- f Lted periods comfortable forage o the public crib, and most of them t s'il in office. In fact ever since e establishment of De'nocradc rule r 1876, the farmers have been s -ongly represented both at the State t )use and in Congress. At the r !sent time they hold one United i ,tes Senatorship and two Repre- c atative positions in Congress, be- c les several of the most luc-et ve v d hone-abl-positions in and a- ourd u S;a!e House. If the:r interests. have been neg ,ted, it is because of . he pel:sis,e t ly of sending men to represent c :ni in the State Legislature, who e unable to obtain a hearing in usequence of the lack of gene al r Cormation and proper education. ie farmers of South Carolina can xays make themselves heard and t when they send delegates to the t rislature who are competent to I resent them, but to band togetber ; political faction in the manner oposed by Capt. Tillman, is not the y to promote the peace, prosperity d happiness of our beloved State. As a rule farmers are possessed of vast amount of conservatism and :d common sense, and are not half easy to fool as some people imag- 1 e. Their mode of life developes in t pie-eminent degree habits of self spect and sellreliance. They are e best newspaper readers that we I .ve, and they think of what they ad andl form intelligent conclusions. Aiken Recorder, Feb>. 9th. We fully' agree with Bro. Diayton, t d have been trying to think what 1 r. Tillman could do for aay of the rmers in Newberry County. If he< .s a plan that will enable them to: ike cotton and corn at less than iat it now costs. or can furnish em with money enough to Inake t eir crops at a lower per cent. than 2 ecan get it at p)resent from the >ey lenders and banks, they will ten to 'sm, but if it is simply ittion, they are too bnsy to waste ne for that purpose.-Eo. II. & N. The "Old War Horse.' CoImmuA, S. C., February 8. eeting Col. J1. N. Lipscomb, the ~cretary of State and the "old war rse" of the South Carolina De ocracy. a few days ag~o, your cor spondent asked what lie thought of -esident Cleveland's civil service . >licy. He replied very emphati lly that it was utterly absurd to ink that a D)emocratic Administra ,n could lie successfully conducted all of the departments were filled th Republican subordinates, who are always readly to betray the par. at any time. Besides, when the op1le elected D)emocrats to office, thought they exp)ectedl a change in e offcials, from the highest to the west, andl they- hadi a r:2ht to ex et it. IIe believed that the Re ibhicans should go and the D)emo ats tako possession of the Gov -nment. Col. Butler. State Coin issioner of Agriculture, endorsed ese sentiments. He said civil ser ce sounded very pretty as a sent i ent, but lie did not think it practi ible to follow it out without injury >any party that undertook to p)rac c it. These gentlenwn. who repiresent me one awl sinmew of the D)emo atic party in South Carolina may a sahi to express the view.s of a -eat majority of the Democratic ters in this State.-Cor-. Au'gusta A large hog raiser in Abbeville ountv says that he has not los't a >g in thirty years from cholera. e gives once a week a quart of1 rpentine s:op~s to forty hogs. This Vhy Are They "Srattered?" Under the heading of "scattered" " New Orleans Picayune bewails ic emigration from the South of so iaiv of its ablest and best young len who seek in other sections em loyment. which it is difficult to find i their old homes. Rightly the Pic yune looks upon this loss as a very ?rious one to the South, and one reatly to be (leplored. The Manu iclturers' Record has repeatedly alled attention to it and urged that renuous efforts should be made to ncourage the widest possible devel pment of Southern industrial inter ;ts that a browler field of employ ient might thus be opened to the oung men of the South. The Pica une says: "We feel sensibly the loss of these nergetic men, and cannot help thitk ig that if the South would take to ie sea as the carriers of commerce iat no men would bear aloft her flag ,ith more courage or conduct; that our land abounded with mills and irnaces, no men could direct such perations with more success, and iat if all these industries were prop rly developed these men would re min at home to renew the South, in Lead of being scattered abroad in be service of others to increase a ower and prosperity that has been a great part subtracted from our wp. We wonder at the emigration f the I-ish from a land they love so -ell. We do rot observe the emi 'raL,on from the South. -The cause 3 1 be same. The want of apt and drquate emp!oyment for the pople Vs Southern migration must be ome a factor in +' e equilibrium of be Lections, and our statesmen bould look to, and, if possible, ar est it." Unfortunately too many Southern ,ongessmen, and too many South ..n papers, and among them stands' be Picayune, are doing all in .th6ir >ower to make the emigration of oung men from the South a neces ty. It is only by the develdment f the manufacturing and mining in erests, and thus the improvement of very industry in the South, that )rofitable employment for the rising ,eneration can be created in the 5outh; and yet, notwithstanding this 'act, a fact of tremendous impor ance to the future welfare of the outh, Southern Congressmen are ,igorously fighting against the indus rial interests of the South. With a ew exceptions. they are arrayed: gainst a protective tariff, without vhich the continued development of he South's vast resources and the >uilding up of manufactures is ima >ossible. How long will the South :ling to the traditions of the past cad ignore tbe changed condition of Lairs, which makes protectiod of far ;reater importance to that section han to New England !-Manufactu. -e' Record. The Pay of Jurors. It frequently occurs to us that the >ay of jurors is entirely too small. some of the jurors who served duir ng the recent term of Court had >ver fifteen miles to come, conse juently they had to ride .horseback >r in their vehicles. Their pay is mnly $1.50 a day. Suppose they had .o pay for board $1 per day (which is luite low for transient board,) and hev have 50 cents with which to eed their horse. To defray their ~XpensesC with only $1.50 they have ~o make'special arrangements. And igin the jury ticket which they re ~eive for their services now can aot be collected until next fall, ind often they are 3old at a dis :ount of from 10 to 20 per cent.~~ rhey should be paid at least $2.50 >r $3.00) a day. Apart from the facts above cited they- are frequently forced to leave their business which is worth more to them than the paltry sum they re eeive as jurors. The weather may be cold and disagreeable but they have to go all the same. Or itma be in June when their growing crops need all the attention they can give them, or in September when they are busy gathering what they have made. It is all right when they are subpe naed to attend court that they should be forced to obey the mandates of the law. b)ut we contend that they should receive more pay. We do not believe that there is a fair mind ed taxpayer in the county who would object to the Legislature passing an act p)roviding for increased pay, and to the Legislature we must look for such a change.-Wtree? Messenger, Every- one recalls Hancock's gal. lant and magnanimous bearing on the occasion of President Garfield's