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ESTABLISHED IN 1865. ~~* - 1 f - t SALSE N16.NEWBERRY, S. C., T HURSDAY, MAY 19, 1887. PIE$.0AYA A PIONEER OF METHODISM. a -- C Death of the Rev. J. B. McFerrin, D.D, of the Southern Methodist Church. 6 NASHVILLE, May 10.-The eminent Methodist divine, Rev. J. B. MeFer r rin, died at his home, in East Nash- d ville, at 1 o'clock, this (Tuesday) 2 morning, after a long and painful ill, e ness. He was born in Rutherford coun ty, Tenn., June 15, 1807, and in a few u short weeks would have celebrated his eightieth birthday. his father,e Col. James McFerrin, was a native e of Virginia, and removed to Tennes see in 1804. His grandfather, Wil- e liam McFerrin, was one of three A brothers who emigrated from Ireland in the early part of the Eighteenth century. John B. McFerrin's mo ther was the daughter-of John Berry, a Presbyterian elder, who died in Virginia, and the whole family on both sides were Scotch-Irish Presby- . terians and inveterate Protestants. In the rude cabin of a frontier set p tIer, when Nashville was a trading post, Dr. J. B. McFerrin first saw the light of day, and his early advan tages were limited. At the age of 18 he entered the work of the minis try, and was admitted into the Ten nessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1825, and since then has been a constant and inde fatigable worker, and to his earnest ness, zeal, wisdom and executive w ability the beautiful, valuable and imposing institutions of the Southern Methodist Church in this city are F lasting monuments. Sixty-two years b of his life were consecrated to the interest of his church. Much of his e life was devoted to literary pursuit in connection with his church work. b He contributed much to church peri. odicals, published sermons and pre pared and published an elaborate his tory of Methodism in Tennessee. For eighteen years be edited the at Christian Advocate, and has been b publicly identified with the success and history of the publishing house C in this city since its foundation, serving as missionary, secretary, book agent, and has been in every es Conference since 1836. He was a - prominent factor in the controversy m between the Northern and Southern wings of the Methodist Episcopal a Church in 1844, and in the following year was a member of the convention which reorganized the Methodist S Episcopal Church South, and workedA diligently for its permanent estab lishment and prosperity.T The Southern Baptists. a * Dr. E. Wr. Dobbs,.in thLe Independent. w The Southern Baptist Convention * met in its thirty-second session (forty- ai second year) with the Broadway Bap- a tist Church, Louisville, Ky., Friday,t May 6th. This body is the general t missionary organization of the Baptist denom,ination in the Southern States. It was organized in Augusta, Ga., in in 1845, consequent upon the unfor-a tunate controversy about slavery I which prevented hearty co-operation ai between the Baptists of the two sec tions in the old Triennial Convention formed in 1814. In the territory rep resented by this body there are six- t teen States, in which there are 22,576t churches, with a total membership of 1,939,140. Of these, probably one half are colored churches, whose work inot represented in the missionary b statistics of the Convention. One million white Baptists have the del egates here. The majority of the~ Baptists in the South are in the rural districts, where the churches seldom have preaching oft * ener than once a month, and conse quently are not developed in regard to the grand missionary enterprises of the denomination. Hence the ag- e * gregate funds reported compare very unfavorably with the vastly U larger contributions of their brethren si in the North. Still each year gives s increasing evidence of gratifying ad- rc vance all along the line. The con-t vention is maintained with the hope t that through its agency these churches U may be more more efficiently devel o?ed. There are most cordial reln- v tions between the convention and the I missionary orga&nizationIs through I wrhich our Northern brethren prose- S cute their work. TVhe Convention organised by elect ing the following offcers! President' a -P. H. Mell, D.D., LL.D., Chancel- W ocr -of the University of Georgia; ti Vice-Presidents-L. B. Ely, of Mis- U souri; J. A. Hoyt, of South Carolina; t J. A. Hlaralson, of Alabama; W. E. ai Hatcher, D.D., of Virginia. The first three brethren are laymen. Secre taries-Lansing Burrows, D.D., of Georgia; 0. F. Gregory, D.D., of; S Maryland. o H. A. Tupper, D.D., of Virginia, le the Secretary of the Foreign Mission R - nard, nresented the forty second j p nnual report of his Board. ,The re aiipts for the year have been $87, 30.53. The expenses aggregate 78,869.23, which, together with $8,. 47.90, bills payable reported to the Lst Convention, and paid on matu tv, and some other funds make the isbursements to have been $87,744. 3. This is the best financial report rer made to the Convention. Never as so much money entered the treas ry in twelve months; the Board is 3tirely free from debt; and the mon ;ary prospects, under anticipated C )nditions were never better. 3 The Board has missions in all the E )ntinents excepting Australia. In < frica there are five stations, Lagos, bbeokuta, Ogbomoshow, Gaun. :ausser Farm. In these stations, s the western coast, there are eight t issionaries with eight native evan -lists and assistants. The church- I embership is 136, of whom twenty x were baptized the past conven onal year. In the schools are 284 Jpils. The Rev. W. J. David, su- e erintendent of the stations, in a v trospective report of twelve years' s ,bor says: t "We have four chapels and one ibstantial, commodious and beauti- s I church, where one ordained na ve preacher and three evangelists -each regularly the glad tidings of 1i lvation. There are five schools i ith 284 pupils and six .teachers. d ne hundred and seventy-one have d ,en baptized, thirty-two of whom the entered into the rest eternal. v ive comfortable homes have been t 'ilt for the missionaries and native rangelists. The results are not so t eat as in other fields; but the ob- t acles have been great, and, blessed God, many of them have been e rercome, and the work has been h -essed manifestly forward." d In Italy there are three American id eight Italian laborers, located o eleven stations. These report 26 e iptisms and 306 communicants. b In China the oldest stations of the t nnvention are located. These are u und in Northern, Central and South- h n China. There are twenty Ameri- 1 n laborers, with thirty native as- P stants-evangelists and Bible wo- t es. They report 46 baptisms and t church membership of 677. In Brazil there have been. estab shed nissions in Rio de Janeiro, inta Barbara, Bahia and Maceio. e t these stations are laboring eleven 4 issionaries, with two native preach- g s. Baptized. 17; membership, 115. t be Board says: "The reports from I our missionaries in Brazil speak ' ~ry encouragingly of the Lord's h ark, though they have been bitterly ~rsecuted by the Romanists." There ~ no religious freedom, barely toler ion. In Santa- Barbara there are >out 400 Americans, mostly from e Southern States, who emigrated that country upon. the failure of n e Confederacy. C The Board is very much encour- n ~ed with the prospects in Mexico. c that republic we have mission- s ies, 17; churches and stations 21; ~ptisms, 100; members 350; pupils, s er 100. Candidates for baptism, C 0. Our present territory embraces n ur States, and extends from Texas ii the Pacific Ocean dividing Mexico ti equal parts and occupying all the ' incipal thoroughfares. b The totals for the Society are: issionaries, native and foreign, 116; p iptisms, 228; members 1,151; C urches and stations, 65; schools, s *; pupils, 587; c.ontributions, $3,- P 2.61. ating on the Railroad Subscription. nl h Register, May 13. The requisite majority of the real tate owners of Columbia Township Ling been secured as signers to 0 e petition to the County Commis- tI aners for an election of the sub- 0 ription to the C., L. & N. Rail ad, the next thing in order will be j d e action of the commissioners ereon. Their next regular meet g is Monday next, but Chairman! . A. Black is considering the ad- h sability of calling a sp)ecial meet g for to-morrow, in order that there ay- be no delay. It will he neces- a .ry for the Board to examine the e it of signers critically, and if find g it correct, they order an election, notice-of twen)ty-one days previous il have to be givehn, that is an elec yn cannot, be held within less than t ree weeks after the ate of the no-'n :e of the commissioners ordering a ielection. A Glorious Intimation .Philadelphia Call. It is intimated that the Democrats v New. Hampshire, following the adI of Rhode Island, will give .1b i y epublicans of that Ste a s p ,1Ei) HliF >E i:E PRi%% A ttS. L Wioman'+ Pathetic Plea to Have Freedom for a Tennuessee 'onviet. NAsuIvLL,. Tenn., May 10. lighteen years ago the doors of the Late prison closed upon Frank Rid Lie, of Mason County, who had been entenced to life imprisonment for eurderiug a German peddler. There ere doubts as to the guilt of Riddle, rho, refusing to acknowledge the rime and accept a term of fifteen ears, insisted upon a plea of not uilty. The trial resulted in his pnviction, and he fppealed to the ipreme court, which granted a new earing. A second verdict against im was rendered and he was sent o the penitentiary. Year after year t assed. One after another of the fe-convicts died. and Riddle almost bandoned hope of obtaining his reedom. While Governor Taylor was seat d in his office yesterday a woman alked into the apartment and pre ented to him a petition for execu ve clemency signed by the lessees nd every officer of the prison, who Lated that Riddle's long incarcera on had served the ends of justice. Lccompanying the petition was a tter written by the woman who bore . After the governor had read the o^,uments the lady rose, and, ad. ressing him, said : "Governor Taylor, when the man as accused of murder I was engaged be married to him. I did not be. eve him guilty, and did not break ie engagement. During the two or iree years that the trial was pending still believed in him. During the ighteen years of his confinement I t ave stuck to him. His parents have ied. His brothers and sisters are 11 dead, except a sister who lives ut west. The people who were inter sted in the case then have forgotten im. I am the only friend he has in Lie world. My life has been wrapped p in him. I believe in him and ave loved him through all these )ng, weary years, and I want you to ardon him. I do not ask you to ink him an innocent man, but for e sake of two lives that may yet e happy I implore you to set him ee." Without waiting to hear the gov rnor's decision she arose and left e office and the capitol. When the overnor had cleared his eyes' of sars, he said to Bishop Granberry: Such devotion and constancy I have ever seen, and whatever Riddle may ave deserved it does look as if that 'oman ought to have a chance at1 appiness." The prisoner will be pardoned. The Ney Mystery.t The recent exhumation of the re ains of P. S. Ney, at Third Creek hurch, Rowan County, N. C., shed o light upon the mystery of the ec entric man who many have long 2pposed was the veritable Marshal ~ey of France. So much of the aull had p)assed into dust that it uld not be ascertained whether or ot it had been trephined. Unavail ig search was made in the grave for le silver plate and for the bullets hich it was thought by many would e found. A large number of persons were resent, and the exhumation was >nducted by eight well known phy cians, who made the following re-. ort:C The undersigned physicians wisht state that according to previous I otice we did to-day cause to be ex aned the remains of P. S. Ney, in e presence of a great number of 'itnesses, some of them from Wash igton city, Raleigh and other parts the country. We found some of e bones only and tirese in a state such decay that we cannot state ositively whether the skull had ever een trephined or~ not. We made iligent search for bullets said to ave been lodged in the body but ind none. We succeeded so far, owever, as to ascertain that the eleton was about 5 feet 10i iches long and the skull aroundt bout the eyes ab)out 24 inches inr rcumference.1 This is Not Jeffersonian Simiplicity. Aluta C'onstitution. A gneen is a queen, and the fact mt she is a little off color should ot be allowed to weigh heavily ainst us.C Still, in this denncratic country, it j in the worst possible taste to make] nch ado over royalty, especially ] 'hen it is of the ginger-cake color2dI ariety. Take the case of the queen of e-Hawaiian islands, who is now on a t isit to this country. It is all right and 1: roprthat she ahnnld .be courteouslyI mpressions of our people and our A ;overnment, but it is not necessary ,hat we should say and do absurdly inrepublican things. When the lueen boarded a government steamer, he other day, for a little trip to sp \Ionnt Vernon, Lieutenant Cowles, ci )f the navy, welcomed her in the fol owing speech: I; "I ask your gracious majesty's st )ermission to speak. [The queen th )owed her head-] His excellency, fo he secretary of the navy, begs that to our majesty will accept his respct- in ul homage, and begs that your ma W esty will accept of this vessel to fc onvey you to Mount Vernon, the di esting place of the illustrious foun- th ter of this country. The secretary tic s always glad to render any s.rvice Sc o a beautiful woman and is doubly Cc >leased t0-day in the fact that that wi >eautiful woman is your gracious Cc ajesty, the wise ruler of a nation an iear and friendly to the United be ;tates. " co The queen listened to this remark- V ible address in silent amazement. ca iome of the members of her party roi vere indignant. The Americans were Ju lisgusted. The lieutenant claims on hat as the commander of the vessel, an t felt bound to address his guest in Cc uch language as queens are accus- de omed to. He was determined to do O he honors in a stylish way. The as ;eneral opinion, however, is that it tic was a great mistake for an officer of th ur government to cut such a caper, ar .nd Lieutenant Cowles is not likely m; o hear the last of it for some time. mi kfter his brother officers get through ad vith him the Washington belles will no loubtless have something to say to wE im. He was not obliged, you know, ad o call her dusky majesty "a beauti- no ul woman" twice in a brief speech W f fourteen lines. qu ---. -- -- Cl L Successor to President J. M. McBride Ci of the South Carolina University. pr Anderson Intelligencer. at In the event that Dr. McBryde re- th igns the Presidency of South Caro- we ina University, we hope the Trustees m! vill elect ex-Governor Hugh S. to Chompson to the position for many Ci easons. He is a polished scholar, a th nost affable gentleman, and thorough- to y familiar with the practical work S f education. As the first Demo- m ratic Superintendent of Education, ca lected for three terms, as Governor pr or two terms, and as the Assistant b secretary of the Treasury he has m Lchieved a reprutation and populari- ed y in our State and abroad which W rould give an eclat to the University of >y making him its President. Hie st rould be popular with the students, ~nd yet his military training would nsure thorzugh discipline and sys em in the College. His ability as n orator and ready speaker would Iso lend dignity to the Presidency n all public occasions. His long e ervice in executive positions fa niliarizes him in advance with nany of the responsible duties tei af the Presidency. His selection t to or this position would arouse a iew enthusiasm for the College, and carry on without interruption l he good work which President Mc te 3ryde is now doing. Too Much Codfish. Kew York Star. U: Just now one of the minor griefs af France is too much codfish. Under he influence of the high protection ad raze a bounty for cod was offered to wy ie fishermen. The assiduous fishersth ave caught cod so enormously that ar L is a question whether the bounty pm hall come to an end or the French F. reasury go bankrupt. Meanwhile, at ince there is no evil without some omensating good, the poor who re piscato:ially inclined are having grand good feast of unlimited cod 5h bought for a song. Blaine's Cold Summer. tu be Dicwa Oblsecer.or Unless Mr. Blaine is extremely or etive atd careful W,isconsin will d ii away from his grs.Telead-it ng Republican paper of the State, he Milwaukee Senttinel, opposes his o enomination, and Senator Sawyer ~ as declared for Sherman. The de igns multiply that it is going to be tei *n inclement summer for Blaine. nh -Kentucky's Successful Platform. t WFashington Post. of It would be unprofitable to try 'to th< :stiate what is likely to be the ma- all ority of General Simon Bolivar pe uckner for Governor of Kentucky. su t is sure to be enormous, for the a latform denounces the war tariff and an arnestly endorses the administra- be ion of President Cleveland. In this no ign shall the Democracy of' every ac tate conquer whenever we have half in NECESSITY FOR A CHANGE IN 1) THE SUPREME COURT. A Plan Suggested. The Anderson Intelligencer, after s caking at length of the recent de- c sions of the Supreme Court, says: ci We did not, howeyer, inte.d to a ike this article a criticism upon the p1 pretne Court. but merely mention n ese things to show the necessity E r a change. What that change is at be is receiving more than a pass consideration at this time, and would like to suggest to the pro- t ;sion the reorganization of our ju 3iary in such way as to combine n a features, with slight modifica ins, of the Old Court of Errors of n uth Carolina and the Supreme b urt of the United States. To begin be th, we would have the Supreme ta urt cousist of a Chief Justice d three Ju(dges, so that it would 31 necessary to have three Judges acurring to render an opinion. here they divided equally let the se be sent up to the Court of Er- S -s, which should consist of all the is dges in the State, and meet, say fo ce in two years, to hear these cases, ci< d any others which the Supreme ba urt might deem necessary to be co termined by this highest Court. de ie trouble with our Supreme Court, pC now organized, is the lack of prac- g e experience by the Court. If ev .se Judges went among the people ta >und the Circuits they would get a mny vAuable ideas of practice, and wi ich practical information as to the ca ministration of law that they do to t now have, and the effect would, PI believe, tend to practicalize the th judicature in this State, which is Vi w too often forced and theoretical. cl: e would accomplish this by re iring all of the Judges, except the Lief Justice, to take their turns on so rcuit. We would make up the Su- m eme Court by taking for one year at a time, in regular alternation, er ree of the Circuit Judges. This y >uld elevate the Circuit bench, and l ke the Legislatore careful always 1E select the ablest and best men for Jc rcuit Judges, and would combine m eory and practice in such a way as improve both the Circuit and the ut preme Courts. It would give us A >re careful and consistent adjudi- w, tures, and tend to make our Sn- ra eme Court reports what they were 10 fore the war-a systematic, hiar-. >nious code of laws, ably expound- ,, ,and consistently adhered to. This md give us certainty in the place ~ doubt, uniformity instead of con-.y nt chiatge. -4, Fourteen New Lawyers. The folloiwing named applicants admission to the bar, having ssed a satisfactory written examin- w on, were duly admitted, sworn andb rolled as attorneys of the Courts oft uth Carolina, to wit: M. B An- C rson, Spartanburg; J. B. Buckhal- al , Aiken; Julius DeJough, Darling i; G. M. Green, Aiken; E. S. H1am-b >nd, Aiken; A. E. Hampton, Rich-S id; S. J. Mayfield, Greenville; R. of ells Milner, Laurens; John H. Os 2dorff, Charleston; C. H. Peake, g aion; Thomas A. Saxon, Richland; 1 . F. Stevenson, Cuesterfield; WV.h tr . Still, Beaufort; Macbeth Young, at TIIREE OF THEM COLORED. Mr. Still, the colored young mant mitted to the bar, is the son of t illiam Still of Philadelphia, the au-n r of "-The Underground Railroad," d the wealthiest colored man of iladelphia. T. A. Saxon and A IIampton the other two read law 0 Allen University under P. F. iver.B A Noble Work. in -- wi The Thornwell Orphange locatedi bj Clinton, South Carolina, (an Insti- hi ion under the fostering care o fct nevolent people, everywhere,) was or ginated by the Presbyterian si: urch, and is under thme care of that nomination, but it does not confine or benefits to orphans of any denomi- us tion or locality. More than half p its wards are from other States si in South Carolina, and from other st nominations, than the Presby- th ian. Ten States and seven de- th minations are represented among u a inmates. wi The Orphanage was first thought of only twelve years ago, and from es Sbeginning has depended for its .y ,upon the voluntary donation of sons who could give only small is. Poor men have built it, only few wealthy donors being counted long its patrons. From tihe small d ginning of's fifty cent piece, it 1~ w farm of over a hundred mn r ubstantial stone dwell- re stone sehoolbuildino P~ 7~- ~g~eC ildings also of stone, for industrial irposes; a combined property in all. over thirty thousand dollars. The number of inmates in the In itution is over sixty, and is in easing rapidly. These are fed, othed, educated the year round, d provided with all necessary sup- t ies, at a cost of about $3,000 an. ially, all of which is donated by t rsons who read accounts like this, d send their gifts to the President, l av. Wm. P. Jacobs, Clinton. A peculiarity of the Orphanage, is, at the orphans are retained in the 1 stitution, only by the sense of their ,ed and advantage. They are not r uid in or bound out. They do a t belong to the controlling board I .t come to stay as long as they can benefited and leave when fitted to ke care of themselves. arried Women's Separate Estate in Alabama. Colunbia Register. A distinguished member of the ' uth Carolina bar, than whom there C no better authority, sends us the lowing Alabama case, recently de led iL the-Supreme Court of Ala ma. No case could stand more e mpletely along side of the recent I cision in our own State as to the 9 ints had under consideration. !ard vs, Hicks cuts up by the roots f ery device to use the separate es be of the wife to secure the debt of 0 iusband or any other party. It 11 be seen at once that the xnost reful legal methods were pursued s secure the purchase money by the edging of this separate estate; but c e Alabama court brushed all the de ,es away as legal cobwebs and de ired them all void : . COLUMBIA, S. C., May 12, 1887. r EDITOR REGISTER : Inasmuch as me newspapers profess to know )re law than our Supreme Court, Ld have been rather flippant in tbei: iticisms of one of its late decisions, end you the following case, recent decided in Alabama, February 4, 87, as appears by the Central Law >urnal of the 6th of the present onth. LEX. "MARnIED WOMEN.-Separate stat ory estate. Husband's debt. In labama a mortgage by a married >man and her husband of her sepa te estate to secure his debt, fol wed by an absolute conveyance in yment thereof. and a subsequent con. yance to the husband and a mortgage the husband and weife to secure the r,chase money. are all t-oid. H eard .Hicks, S. C. Alabama, February1 1887.-1 South. Rep., 639." WVanted a 3Mascot. New York Star. Our friends "the Giants," so called,1 lo represent New Your in the base dl arena, now occupy fifth place in e race for the pennant, with a de Jed tendency to drop out of sight1 together. An intimate acquaintance with the .se ball fraternity convinces The ar that there is no finer aggregation ' players in the country than the ew York nine. That they can play 'eat ball no one doubts who has seen em toy with the Chicagoes and] imnbug with the Detroits. The ouble seems to be that they cannot ways play great ball when they :mt to. They have no patron saint 1 call upon in their need, no spirit1 hear their prayer, no superstition stimulate their effort, no luck to 11 back upon-in a word. no mascot.1 Although not in the dictionaries or icyclopedias, Audran's fascinating] >era has made us all familiar with e functions of "The Mascot." ~iefiy they are these: If you've >t one you'll have all the luck the world ; if you havent you1 >n't. The possession of a mascot Sa ball nine means home runs, base ts, base steals, and a big score r that side; and four-strikes it, flies, errors, sprained ankles and lit fingers for the other. Mascots may be of any age, sex breed. Trhe Bostons, for instance, e a small boy, Harvard a bull p, the Detroits a pretty girl, who s on a certain chair in the grand I and. It is absurd that, with all e care that has been bestowed upon e New York nine as to soubriquet, iform, health and good looks, and th all the vast mascotle resources this great metropolis, nothing has I er been done to supply Captain t ard's teem with a mascot. Twenty Per Cent. Profit. The stockholders of the Camper wn mills met at Greenville, May th, and re-elected President Ham tt and all the other officers. Thei port of the president shows twenty, rcent. profit on the capital for the. TIE DEADLY CIGARETTE. k Discase that requires Heroic Treat ment. Atlanta Constitution. A distressed father sends to the anitary headquarters of New York he following wail of despair: I am the father of four boys, and wo of them are cigarette smokers ne twelve the other fourteen years: notice their health is failing, and I end them to a physician. He says t is from smoking cigarettes. I have iegged them to desist, but without .vail. I have punished them in va ious ways, but they seem to have .equired a habit which it is almost ecxt to impossible to check. Their chool companions also smoke. Be. ides this, the photos which the man facturers pack in the boxes are of uch a vulgar description, that alone rill ruin our young men, besides de. troying their health with the poison us cigarettes. You would- confer a rea.t blessing on the people of the ity by rising up against the mon trous crime of which the manufactu ers of these cigarettes are guilty. 'hey ought to be tased out of exist nce. There was a bill introduced 1 our legislature a few years ago rohibiting the sale of cigarettes to oys under fourteen. Bribery was sed to defeat it. I know it to be a act. Yours with respect. An ag rieved parent. WILLIAM CONROY. Mr. Conroy seems to feel an in erest,in his sons. He would like to ee them grow to perfect manhood. le would rejoice to see them robust, lear-headed and undefiled in mind nd body. But, alas, for the hopes of Mr. Con oy. He finds that'the deadly ciga ette is a bigger man than he is- He nds that the miserable little roll of orry tobacco has stolen vigor from the imbs of his boys and left them phys al wrecks on the very threshold of outh. The most painful part of Mr. Con oy's letter is his despairing refer nce to the obscene pictures. No anger contented with destroying the ealth of boys, certain manufacturers f cigarettes now put into each pack .ge an obscene photograph. The ef ect is most pernicious. Cigarettes, accompanied by pic ures not good for the youths of the and to see, are sold by the thousand n Atlanta. It is a wonder that ome of the leaders in our moral eform movements have not looked nto the obscene picture business hat is going hand in -hand with the :igarette traffic. It may be there is no way to reach be cigarettes and the pictures. Lhere is certainly a way to reach the yoy who insists on smoking the one Lnd feasting his eyos on the other. rhe way to reach such a boy is to 'ech him with the loose end 'of a uggy trace. It will not kill him, mnd it may possibly cure him. The iigarette ha bit is a desperate disease Lnd requires heroic treatment. The Way to Stop'It. Xew York Star. It is almost enough to make one 'egret that our government is not a lespotism to realize that the author ties are powerless to prevent the' ernicious habit of cigarette smoking y boys. The parents who have pe tioned the Board of Health to put stop to this deleterious and dis ~usting practice have allowed their eeings as heads of families to over ~ome their judgment as citizens. Iome influence and moral suasion nust be relied on to eradicate the >etty vice that enervates the rising ~eneration. It is probably only a nania which will have its run for a rief time. It is necessary to in pire among boys the idea that ciga. rette smoking~ is neither "smart" ior manly. And this is one little task n daily life to which we should one nd all address ourselves. Blackwood Released. AUrtsTA, GA., May 12.-The pro eedings in the Blackwood case were esumed in the Superior Court this orning. Salem Dutcher, for Geor ia, continued his argument, sh'owing careful investigation of the case nd all authorities touching the prin ipes involved. He cited cases of indred nature, showing the custom o have been similar to that followed y the Georgia officers. He was an wered at length by Attorney Gen ral Earle, who still maintained that he comity of States had been in ringed and, although Carolina claim d no right by force, he argued that the egal and courteous solution of the. ntei-State question would be the re ease of Blackwood. Such release ould be followed by a legal arres, nd c;witybeweenthe served, and the individual rights.of Blackwood be not violated. It came out in evidence that when aone asked Jordan if he had a man by the name of Blackwood on_ffss= plantatiion, he (Jordan) answered "Yes, I have, and I wisih to God that; I never had seen him. He has given me a lot of trouble." Judge Roney, after hearing the ai guments, decided the issue sol'yeui comity between the States,- ande-.5 manded Blackwood back to-the-soii of Carolina. The following is"t,I order of Judge Roney: STATE OF GEORGIA, RICFMo f CouxTY.-The petition in the above stated case having come on to be heard before me, and after Marng the evidence and the argument counsel representing the State South Carolina, and the counsel fo. the respondent, it is ordered , adjudged that the arrest and enstod of the said F. A. Blackwood is Ile gal; wherefore it is adjudged and-cre-. dered that the said F. A;Blackw6bot,f the petitioner, le delivered into:.he hands of the Sheriff of the said Conti ty of Richmond, or his deputj t by him taken to the State ofSthr. Carolina, and there released and' charged from custody. (Signed) R. C. RoNE. != Accordingly Blackwood was { u n across the Savannnah River this. ternoon and released from cus ' y. r He seemed much pleased at be! liberty, and an expression of was plain on his countenance, Judge Roney's decision gives ge eral satisfaction here. - He was rearrested byCon Spees and Vandever, an officer fz . Augusta having gone, over ahead-and. had a warrant for his arrerst.issued by Trial Justice Mason, of Beech Island. When arrested the e stables took him to Aiken, wheri he will be confined in jail until requisition can be obtained from h Governor of Georgia and be o ored by the Governor of South Caro- 4? lina. A Political Opinion. ::-t Phzladelphia Record. What the Republicanschiefly Lackis a vital political issue upon whiehte , can go before the country and appea to the masses of intelligent voters - Had they such an issue the embar - rassment in the choice of a candidate, might be easily overcome. The Dem . ocrats, unless they shall plant- them selves squarely on the principles o tariff reform, will be found in a simi lar predicament. In that dase the' organization of a third party- regrea senting the genuine interests.of.work ingmen will become absolutelyne cessary and inevitable. A comfort1to tae southern Farmer. Greernvile News. It will be a comfort to the Southern farmer as he breaks his back in)he cotton field this summer, -to refiect that Miss Studebaker, daughtier~ of the man who makes the wagon the farmer sends his money to Ohio for, is in Europe on a bridal tour with an outfit costing 75,000 -of the dollars dug out of the Southern fields so pain fully. If this money had been spent with the Southern manufacturer we would all get some of it back. As it is, we do not even have the pleasure of seeing the girl it dresses. The Hoosier State for Cleveland. Atlanta Constdituio. The spirit of Thomas A. Hendricks must have been stalking around in Indiana. At the election last fall the Democrats of that State allowed -. themselves to be ingloriously wal loped by the Republicans. Last Tuesday, at the local elections, they braced up and fought with something~ like their old-time fire. The conse quence was that they made gains all over the State. Indiana will go for Clevelaud in 1888. Blackvilie and Newberry Railroad. The Barnwell People of the 12th inst., says: Grading on the Black ville and Newberry Railroad between Blackville and the Edisto will be completed in a few days, and the con vict force be moved across the river It will not be long before rails and rolling stock will be placed on this end of the line. Too Dry aDBay fora Qu.een. New York Star. We do not blame her Majesty Kapiolani for hurrying through New York on Saturday. Sunday was far - too dry aday with us for such a Queen. But why should she tarry in Boston now? A dollar diveMn a '; Herdic will reveal all the sihsin that village-. She shoudic