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NEB Y . II a ~! 0 -P.-,' A T,SU T IN 18 5 NEW BERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEM E R 3 187 TO BEAT THE TELEPHONE. A Perfected Machine that will Woik a Revolution-Edison Tells the Stc. ry of His Invention and What He Hopes from It. NEW YoR.K. October 21.-Thomas A. Edison has got the most wonder ful laboratory on the face of the earth. He has erected at Llewellyn park, in Orange, N. J., three Duild ings of brick. Each is 100 feet long by 50 wide, and each has four stories. These buildings are being supplied with every known material which could possibly be made use of. Mr. Edison has been talking to a - reporter of the Evening Post, and has been telling some marvelous tales about his perfected phonograph. Hear him: -You know that I finished the first phonograph more than ten years ago. =It remained more or less of a try. The germ of something wonderful was perfectly distinct, but I tried the impossible with it and when the elec tric light business assumed commer cial importance I threw everything - overboard for that. Nevertheless the phonograph has been more or less constantly in my mind ever since. When resting from prolonged work upon the light my brain would revert almost automatically to the old idea. Since the light has been finished I have taken up the phonograph and after eight months of steady work have made it a commercial invention. "My phonograph I expect to see in every business office. The first 500 will, I hope, be ready for distri bution about the end of January. Their operation is simplicity itself, and cannot fail. The merchant or clerk who wishes to send a letter has only to set the machine in motion and to talk in his natural voice at the usual rate of speed into the re ceiver. When he has finished the sheet, or 'phonogram,' as I call it, is - ready for putting into a little box made:on purpose for the mails. We are making the sneets in three sizes -one for letters of from 800 to 1,000 words, another size for 2,000 words, another size for 4,000 words. I ex pect that an arrangement may be made with postoffice authorities en abling the phonogram boxes to be sent at the same rate as a letter. The receiver of a phonogram will pit it into his apparatus, and the Smessage will be given out more clear ly, more distinctly than the best tel ephone message ever sent. The tones of the voice in the two phono graphs which I have finished are so perfectly rendered that one can dis tinguish between twenty different persons, each one of whom has said a few words. One tremendous advan tage is that the letter may be repeat ed a thousand times if necessary. The phonogram does not wear out by use; moreover it may be filed away for a hundred years and be ready the in stant it is needed. If a man dictates his will to the phonograph there will be no disputing the authenticity of thie docurnent witih those who knew the tones of his voice in life. The cost of making the phonogram will be be scarcely more than the cost of ordi uary letter paper. The machine will read out the letter or message with the same, speed with which it was dictated. "I have experimented with a de vice for enabling printers to set type from the dictation of the phonograph, and think it will work to a charm. it is so arranged that the printer by r touching a lever with his foot allows five or ten words of the phonogram to be sounded. If he is not satisfied with the first hearing he can make it repeat the same words over and over again until he has them in type. For basy men who dictate a great deal for the press, I am sure that the pho nograph will be a necessity after a very little experience. '-For musicians the phonograph is going to do wonders, owing to the ex treme cheapness with which I can du plicate phonograms and the delicacy with which the apparatus gives out musical sounds. in the early * -ears ago, which was a very Imperfect an c e.fir compared to that of today, it was a - * ways noticed that musical sounds came out peculiarly well; the ma chine would whistte or sing far bet * ter than it would talk. This peculi arity of :.he phonograph remains. I have take down the music of an or chestra. and the result is marvelous; each instrument can be perfectly dis tinguished, the strings are perfectly een-los, the wind instruments and the wood are puerfectly hieard, and even in .' wou-k of a vi4r(hn the ver-te . .Ie- ou'l (t by the pho hZ '''~!1 aL beauIty of tonec and ejI uh(ctuIre paLa beief L!, and the (hi *iL;' appaj,,~ratus for p,honograms I, e es;ap an affir that the price of ,ie for the phoniograph will b.e kTarc I y wer t Lb conZid ering. .As the phongram~'ii~ will be practically inde utnctible by ordiunry usc such music in be- played over a.id over again. -My first p)honoIgraph, as you re member, consisted simply of a roller carrying the foil as provided with a diaphragm point properly arranged to serape or indent the foil. The roller was turned by hta. A,in the new instrument there is far more -complication, but altogetner different results. My propelling machinery - consists of a small electric motor run biy a very few cells. Strange to say, I have found more difficulty in get ting a motor to suit me than any other part of the apparatus. I tried various kinds of clock work and spring ntrs. but found them un. trustworthy and noisy. The motors I am now making are ausolutely steady and noiseless. 'T'herc is no part of the apparatus, the tools for which I am now making upon a large scale here, which is likely to get out of or der or to work in an uncertain man ner. The two finished phonographs are practically exactly what I intend to offer for sale within a few months." Among the things at which Mr. Ed ison is hard at work, taking them up in turns, are a cotton picker, a heat generator of electricity, and a new device for propelling street cars by electricity. Bill Nye Writes the Prexident's Ashe ville Speech for Him. Bill Nye wrote a speech for the President to deliver at Asheville, as follows : Fellow Cit;zens of Asheville and Ban combe County, and Brother Tarheels from Away Back : If I were a faithful Mohammedan and believed that I could never enter heaven but once I would look upon Buncombe Co'inty and despair ever afterwards. (Four minutes for ap plause to die away.) Asheville is 2,330 feet above tidewater. She is the hot-bed of the invalid and the home of the physical wreck who can not live elsewhere, but who comes here and lives till he gets plum sick of it. Your mountain breezes and your fried chicken bear strength and healing in their wings. (Hold valve open two minutes and a half to give laughter full scope.) Your altitude and your butter are both high, and the man who cannot get all the fresh air he wants on your mountains will do well to rent one of your cottages and allow the wind to meander through his whiskers. Asheville is a beautiful spot. where a peri could put in a highly enjoyable summer, picnicing along the Swanannoa through the day and conversing with Plum Levy at his blood curdling barber shop in the gloaming. Noth ing can possibly be thrillinger than to hear Plum tell of the hair-breadth escapes his customers have had in his cosy little shop. The annual rainfall here is 40.2 inches, while smoking tobacco and horned cattle both do well. Ten miles away stretches Alexander's. You are only thirty-five miles from Buck Forest. Pisgah Mountain is only twenty miles from here, and Tahkeeaste Fern is only a mile away, with its name extending on beyond as far as the eye can reach. The French Broad River bathes your feet on the right and the sun-kissed Swannanos, with its beautiful bor ders of rhododendrons, sloshes up against you on the other side. Mount Mitchell, with an altitude of ,711 feet and an annual rainfall f 5..8 inches, is but twenty miles istant, while Lower Hlominy is near, and Hell's Half Acre, Sandy Mush and Blue Ruin are witt in your grasp. The sun never lit up a cuter little own than Asheville. Nature just seemed to wear herself out on Bun ombe County and then took what she had left over to make the rest of he country. Your air is full of vig' r. Your farms get up and bump hemselves on one side or in the mid le, so that you have to wear a pair f telegraph-pole climbers when you o to dig your potatoes. Here you will see the japonica, the jonquill and he jaundice growing side by side in he spring, and at the cheese foundry you can bear the skipper calling to his mate. Here is the home of Gen. Tom Clingman, who first originated the dea of using tobacco externally for urns, scalds, ringworm, spavin pneumonia, Bright's disease, poll vil, pip, garget, heartburn, earache and financial stringency. Here Ran olph & Hunt do your job printing for you and the Citizen and the Ad ance will give you the news. You are on a good line of railroad nd I like your air very much, aside from the air just played by your ome band. Certainly you have here he making of a great city. You h1ave ure air enough here for a city four ~ uat. the ado' * 'gl or .s ery way preferable. People who are in search of a Switzerland of Ameri ca that they can be relied upon will do well to try your town. And now, having touched upon ev erything of national importaulce that I can think of, I will close by telling you a little anecdote which will per haps illustrate my position better than I couild (10 it in any other way. Ilere I insert a humorous anecdote which has no special bearing on the poltical situation, and during the esuing laughter the train pulls out.) BILL NYE. Absconding Contractors. 'Lancaster Ledger.. Messsrs. Moore and Estridge, the contractors on the Three C's from the Thoirnweli Place to the river, drew their pay last week and skipped for p)arts unkuown. leaving their hands unpaid and other deb:s unseL ted. It is said that they worked a arge force, and that some of the) hands held checks for as much as eighty dollars, Their commissary was supplied by lieath, Spring & Co. and they were indebted to them in a large amouno. Mr. WV. H. Kir by, the general contractor for the gradingr trom Black'sto Camden, had made himself responsible for a por tion of their indebtedness, and will lose about S:3,000. Detectives have been telegraphed, and their arrest wilm be eeed if npossile GOR DON IN CINCINNATI. Taking to the People of the Buckeye State. CINCINNATI, Oio, October 28. John B. Gordon, Governor of Geor gia. made his first speech in Ohio to night in the Democratic State cam paign. It was at the Iiighland Iouse, to an immense audience. Vindicating the claim of ex-rebels to loyalty, he said: "In the great city of Augusta, on an occasion when we met to do honor to our dead comrades about their graves, to cover them with fragrant flowers, I said this, pointing to the banner of my country, which hung overhead-'here hangs above us the flag of this Union; let us honor it as an emblem of freedom, of equality and of unity, remembering that there is not a star on its blue field which is not made brighter by the ight re flected from :he Southern skies-not a white line in its folds but is made whiter and purer by that South's in. corruptible record in office-not one of its crimson strips that is not deep er and richer from Southern blood shed in its defence in every war with foreign powers." NO NEW DOCTRINES. I am not here to talk new doc. trines. I want to say to you again that before the guns had ceased their terrific roar at Appomattox I began this style of talk, and in the Scuh, in the Senate, in Boston, in Charles ton, across the Atlantic, everywhere, I have been appealing for peace and unity and concord as the surest leg acv for our children to inherit. [Ap plause.] Let me mention another charge that has been used with some effect, I presume, in this State-sought to be fixed upon the Northern mind to win votes against the South. Let us see how much there is in it-the charge that we oppress the colored people. I have some tremendocs things to say about that. Will voa hear me? Cries of "Yes." COLORED PEOPLE AT THE SOUTU. The people were in slavery. How they got there it is not necessary for me to say to-day. History will toli you about that. We found it in u:ur midst-it came to us an institution. We love those negroes. Do you he lieve that? Let me give you a few facts. They were part of our ho:i e. hold; the negro boys on my father's plantation were the playmates of my youth. The only fights that I can recall that I had in my youth, were battles for insults, as I conceived them to be, to my colore.i playmates around me. [Applause.] On my. own place to-day-out in the country -there is not one white soul. My furniture, my land, my all, are in their hands to day. and has been ever since I have been Governor, and while I was in the Senate. Who are they? My old seritors. Among them is an old mamma (pardon the expres-, sions) as we call her, now nearly' nluety years of age. Upon her bo som slept seventy years ago the mother of my wife-later my wife erself-later still every one of my children, and later still my grand hildren-four generations. THAT DEAR OLD FORM. The memories of all hover around that dear old form. Why, sir, if you ould have seen the grieving of the wife of my bosom for that decrepit, yld black woman when she was car -ied to the bedside of the mamma a few weeks ago when the negress was ying ill-the strongest man among you would have been moved to tears. They have in their possession those black people-all I have in the world, and I feel as absolutely secure t this moment as though I were down there watching their every act. EIow comes that? Did we oppress them when they were slaves? It was a law as inexorable as the law of the edes and Persians that a man who reated his slaves unkindly was de arred from society. [Applause.]1 CO31ING TO THlE PROOF. 'Is that so? Well, let us come to the proof'. We went to the war some ea~ ag nd some of you will re member something about it. We had a fight. Everybody knew if the South was defeated these slaves would be made free men and women and they knew it. They wanted to be free. Oh, yes; there is no doubt about that. They longed for their freedom. Were they oppressed? If they had been wouldn't they have struck for their freedom when they could? The North enlisted-and was justified in doing it-a few reg imnents of blacks to fight against us. In the old South, if we had proclaim ed their freedom at the beginning of the war, we could hive enlisted every one of the.n in our cause to a man. [A pplause.] Why He Paid Up. From the Cuthbiert, Ga., Liberal. Several years ago, when James A. Allison was c'erking for Allison & Atkins, he was sent into the country to collect an account, with instruc tions to "board it out," if lie could collect it no- other way. He reached the house a while before dinner, and was told by the debtor that he could not possibly pay the bill. Jim told him what his instructions were and awaited for dinner. Dinner was an nounced and Jim partook with the family. After watching him devour one meal the debtor decided it would be cheaper to pay the bill than to board Jim a week, went to a neigh bor and borrowed the money, and' settled in full. Jim says his appe tite is not as good now as when he waso a yong ler. RAILROAD RACKET. The Three C's Moving-No Outside 1 Advice Needed-15,000 Tons of Steel Rails for the BlackvIIle and Newberry. Col. R. A. Johnson, General Man ager of the Three C's., in answeringt some inquiries says, '1 am not de sirous of having my communications t published and do not propose to c write anything for that purpose. Col. It. A. Johnson says the Three t C's company are investigating the ; different lines in a manner which they deem best for the interest of t the company, and do not propose to c depart from their plan even on the advice of outsiders. Track laying has commenced in earnest at Camden on the Three C's road and is being pushed as rapidly 2 as sixty men and thirty cars will per- t mit. Capt. Ramsaur's engineer corps t is making th revisions between Ruttierfordton and Marion, getting h the line ready for the contractor who will begin work at once. He d has been delayed on that work longer than was expected but as soon as it is finished his corps will be sent to Johnson City to locate the line north. a Three months of good weather will complete all the grading between s Black's and Camden, a distance of t 103 miles. The contractor who is to lay the ties and rails is pushing right ahead with his work. The new fangled machine for lay. g ing track did not work satisfactorily, e hence it was abandoned and the c work has been done in the old way, r by hand but it is quick work. We a understond that they can average h from one to one and one-half miles per day. Col. Johnson says that the road h will certainly be running through h from Camden to Lancaster by the b first of January next, and on to York. r ville very soon threafter. t He also says that the road will be t in running order to Marion, N. C., h by next summer in time to take all a the summer travelers to Asheville e via the Western N. C. R. R. C The trestles on the Lancaster Di- f vision of the 3 C's four in all, are i now completed, and the two story i trestle over Bear Creek, on the Cam- t den road, is quite a handsome struc- t ture, with its many lateral and longi c tudinal cross braces. t BOOM IN LANDS ALONG THE THREE t c's. k In speaking of the boom in the p real estate market at Johnson City. Tenn., the Comet says: The most important purchases t made lately were made by the New S South Mining and Improving Com pany in the last few weeks. This company is identified with the Three C's road and is buying a large quan ity of land along the proposed ~ route and only buys where the Three c C's will run. Our people will, there- ~ fore, be gratified to learn that this l ompany now own from 300 t-> 500 L acres of land in Johnson City and is d still buying. T his fact alone ought i to satisfy the most skeptical that the 1 hree C's will come to Johnson City. t. Between $20,000 and $30,000 arrived a n this city this week to be invested c n real estate. While a great deal d f land is being bought for specula- ~ ive purposes the largest portion-of a t has been sold to parties who will mprove it. BLACKVILLE AND NEwBERRIY RAIL ROAD.s Col. Mike Brown returned from is trip to the North on Saturday. p During his absence he bought fifteen c undred ton of steel rails for the Blackville and Newberry Railroad, 6 aying $78,000 in coid cash fory hem. They were shipped on Friday. y As soon as they arrive Mr. J. H. 6 Burchhalter will begin to lay track b and before Christmas the iron horse 9 will make his triumphant entry into Five Points. 4 BUYING A RAILROAD. The Barnwell People says Col. 0 Mike Brown has completed negotia ions for the purchase of the Barn-2 well Railroad and passed papers with Mr. Talinadge, its former Pres-6 dent. The great increase in hisg business made it necessary that he 6 should own it and increase its facil. ties for bringing goods to Barn iell and carrying cotton off. Col. Brown will take possession the first of Jan ary. It is the biggest trade ever c made in this section by an individ- ~ al, but Col. Brown is, in business matters, as large as a New Yorker c and continues to grow. EN MILES OF TIIE TIIREE C'S CO31- y PLETED. [1 Special to the .News and C'ourie-r. n COLU.MBIA, October 28 -Ten miles l9 of the Charleston, Cincinsati and Chicago Railroad. from Camden P~ northward, have been completed. 1~ Railroad Commissioner Jervey will e inspect this section of the Three C's ( to-morrow. After this inspection s the road will be ready for business: 1: Commissioner Bonham is to-day in. specting the Cheraw and Chester A Railroad. An ifonest Negro. - Corington, Ga., Star. s Mr. Fred Vaughn, an old citizen o1 C Walton County, recently lost his ~ pocketbook while in Social Circle, 1 which contained about $10,000 in ' notes and some money. The pocket- C book was found by a colored man 1 named Robert Foster, who is the r ead cook at Morrow & Cheney's ' restaurant, and was promptly re turned to its owner, who was in con- L siderablc trouble about it. Such r honesty as that displayed by Robert 8 is hard to find. HOW PERSIAN WOMEN BATHE. 'he Story of One Who Had the Luck to See it All. St. James Gazette. The bath takes up a good deal of he time of all Persian women. Even be poorest will attend the Hamman t least once a week- For the lady, he bath is one of the serious affairs f life, and takes up daily from two o four hours. It is something more ban our idea of a bath. The victim 5 scraped and rubbed and parboiled. 'he soles of the feet are pumiced un il they are soft and tender as those f a little child. The hair is thor ughly washed by means of hot water nd spacious clay, for which Shiraz s celebrated. Then the attendants mix in a bra en bowl the aromatic henna with he requisite amount of lemon juice, ill a brown paste of the consistency f gruel is produced, and several andfuls of the repulsive looking ,mpound are smeared over the la y's head. Then the hair, collected :to a mass, is bound up in cabbage ver the eyebrows. The soles of the !et, the toes, the palm of the hands ud the finger tips are also covered rith it. And now the lady has to it perfectly still for from one to iree hours, till, like a meerschaum ipe, she colors, and it is exactly the olor obtained of the best specimens f pipes that is most fashionable mong the Persian ladies. Day after ay the bath is thronged with women, ach sitting perfectly still for the olor to "take." But they have their award, for the henna dyes the hair bsautiful, deep, warm chestnut; ence gray hair is unknown among 'ersian ladies. While the coloring rocess has been going on tongues ave been running and a good deal as been exchanged. The female arber, wi;h a pair of tweezers, has moved every outlaying hair from e lady's eyebrows. It is the ambi. on of every Persian woman that er eyebrows shall meet, or at least ppear to do so. So attractive are yebrows that meet that they are alled the "bridge c' '-ve." The rst care, then, of the a. sian beauty with a pencil of antimony to untie er eyebrows, and then she proceeds >t r.ke them appear of unnatural it .ness; her eyelashes are pen iled, too, in a manner not unknown our own countrywomen. By this ime the lady will have smoked many alians or water pipes, she will have artaken of tea, and regaled herself rith coffee; iced sherbets, too, will ot have been wanting. Her finger ps, nails and palms, as well as the oles of her feet and her toes have ttained a bright chestnut hue, which ill last a week. The hair is care illy washed once more. It is sel om under a yard long, often much iore, for the Persian woman never uts her hair, except in front, per aps, when two heavy forelocks are ft on either side of the face. The dies now return borne to their noon. ay breakfasts. After breakfast aere is generally a siesta, and this i a hot country is almost a necessi 7. A bout 4 o'clock tea and pipes ppear, and then the lady receives allers or pays yisits, or perhaps, oes a little shopping, or taKes the ir mounted on her ambling mule or donkey of snowy whiteness. The C.rops for the Year. The annual report of the commis [oner of agriculture is ready to be rinted, and the tracts from the re ort regarding the yield of the prin. ipal crops of~ the State : The yield of cotton is estimnated at 05,114 bales, an increase over last ear's crop of 75,114 bales. The ield of corn is estimated at 17,490, 90 bushels, an increase of 3,565,522 ushels. The yield of rice is 67,782,. 20 pounds, a decrease of 1,843,002 ounds. The yield of wheat is 1,121, 42 bushels, a decrease of 39,655 ushels. The yield of oats is 4,001, 75 bushels, an increase of 300.318 ushels. The yield of sugar cane is 99,706 gallons, a decrease of 59,901 allons. The yield of sorghum is 49,685 gallons, a decrease of 6,670 allons. The yield of tobacco is 33,623 pounds, a decrease of 131, 86 pounds. Trhe yielId of peas is 95310 bushels, an increase of 1,3, 24 bushels. The yield of sweet po itoes is 3,197,791 bushels, *a de rease of 792,548 bushels. T1he yield f Irish potatoes is 57 1,329 bushels, decrease of 100,203 bushels. It is timated that the yield of hay, pea in hay and corn fodder is 306,240 ms, or 13.238 tons in excess of last ear. T1he, value of farm supplies urchased during the year is esti ated at the same as the amo)tuut urchased last year-$5,000,000. The aggregate value of the prit:ci al crops produced the present year iestimated at $46,964,000, which xceeds the value of agricultural pro uctions as returned at the tenth ceu-* us by about $5,000,000, and that of Lst year by about $3,000,000. .Printer Fel[ Heir to Over $2,000, 000. CmICAO, October 20.-Thie 11er d's Waco, Texas, special says: Jo. ph E. Hamilton, a printer of this ity, has fallen heir to an estate the mount of which is over $2,000,000. 'he money was left by an uncle who ent to California, in 1850. The ther day the lucky printer received tters from W. Y. Bliss, public ad inistrator of Butte County, Califor i, requesting him to prove his iden ity and forward the papers, which e has done. Mr. Hamilton leaves ext week for California. He is a ood fellow and a general favorite rih the fraternity here. I3E N3ECEtilON OF SPURGEON.I . Great Sensation in Religious Cir eles in London-The Famous Preacher Withdraw from the Baptist Union. LONDON. October 26.-Spurgeon jas withdrawn from the Baptist Un. on. In announcing his decision to ithdraw and replying to his cr:tics e says: "To pursue union at the expense )f truth is treason to Jesus. To amper with His doctrine is to be ,ome traitors to Him. We have be ore us the wrethed spectacle of pro essedly orthodox Christians public. y avowing union with those who de 3y faith, call the fall of man a fable and deny the personality of the Holy J host." Replying to the question why he loes not start a new denomination, ,e says that it is a question for which 2e has no liking; that there are enough lenominations already, and that if inother were formed the thieves and robbers who have entered other gar lens walled would enter it a:so. So othing woula be gained. Baptists generally regret Spur ;eoi's decision and are urging him o reconsider it. I GovernmentTeller Gone to Canada. NEW Yo1RK, October 27.-The sub reasury has now its representative in Danada in the person of Henry Jack. ion, its paying teller. He has gone with exactly $10,000 of Uncle Sam's noney, but there is this satisfaction or the treasury official, that Jack on might have taken more. He did aot, however, have access to the 7aults, as the more stringent rules oncerning admission to the vaults were made under the present assistant ;reasurer. Jackson took the money, as As aistant Treasurer Canada said to-day, n last Saturday, the day of his de. arture. His cash was carefully ex mined on the 13th instant and found o be correct. On the 17th, when ackson was absent through illness, is accounts were again gone over nd no deficit found. On Monday morning last the discovery was made and measures were taken to ntercept him, his default meanwhile >eing kept secret. Mr. Canda said to-day: "I know o way that bas been devised to pre ent paying tellers in banks or other nstitntions. from taking part of the noney necessarily committed to heir charge if they are dishonest." Jackson was appointed in Feb. uary, 1879, and was recommended >y several of the most influential ien in the city. He was previously n the National Currency Bank and )ther financial institutions of this ity, occupying smaller salaried po itions. When he was appointed he was promoted successively until he -eached position of p:aying teller at 13,000 per annum under the present Lsistant treasurer. He was a self-possessed and capa le man. Jackson was not under >ods, so Mr. Canda spoke of the lefault of $185.000, under Assistant 'reasurer Millhouse, of several rears ago, showing that this is not he first loss of the kind to the treas iry. He Clings to the Patrons StilI. Col. James N. Lipscomb, who now 1o1ds the chief clerkship in the pat mnt office at Washington, was recent. y tendered a complimentary banquet Lt the Riggs House by a number of listinguished representatives of the ?atrons of Husbandry. The gentle. nen tendering the compliment were ~illiam Saunders, John R. Thomp on and John Trimble, representing he founders of the Order, and the ion. Norman J. Colman, United tates commissioner of agriculture, naster; Major William M. King, ecretary, and Dr. H. R. Branham, epresenting Potomac Grange No. 1, he first Grange ever organized. An ddress of welcome was made by fr. William Saunders, who spoke in he most pleasant terms of Col. Lip. comb's removal to Washington. Col. ~ipscomb made a very happy re ponse to the words of welcome and, n concluding his remarks, said: 'The change of residence and busi iess will, of course, interrupt the lose and long continued connec ion I have held to the State organi ation, and probably end my repre entative status, but cannot and will 2t in the slightest degree lessen my uterest in and devotion to the Order. And here in my ewv field I shall be eady and anxious to add my most ealous efTorts to yours to in any way 'hance and promote this grand Or er and its noble work." A ('holera Nere W~ASniNrox, October 27. -The teanmer Independence, from Medi erranean ports, which touched at alermo, a cholera infected port, rought to New York over four hun ired steerage passengers, who after >nly a day and a half's detention ave been scattered abroad through >ut this country. There had been io infectious disease on board dur ng the passage of twenty two (lays ad all the passengers were well, but 3eneral Hlamiltonm at Washington, earning the facts, telegraphed to the :ities whither the immigrants had >een sent to look after them. This mas instantly caused excitement and larm in those places, and great in lignation is aroused against the New ork health officers. It is now pro. >osed to send back all vessels that ay hereafter arrive from,chjolera ?orts if it can lawfully)eone. A RIOT A31OXG NEGROES. !togy Cut Camp Ground in Hampton County--!cene ora Bloody Fight. C Hampton Guardian, Oct. 27. 0 Boggy CLt camp ground is a point f, on the road between Shirley and j Brighton at which the negres hold their annual camp meeting, and, as al the name would seem to indicate, it di is not a very fragrant locality. Last s< Sunday there was a gathering of the ai colored population to take part in n, the religious (?) and stormy services & then in progress. Old and dilapidated t mule and ox carts deposited load af- a ter load of African patriachs and an- s cient maumas. together with their s white-eyed ahd woolly-headed proge- el ny Elders. deacons, class leaders f and illiterate plantation preachers, w dusky beaus and frisky, thick-lipped belles, turpentine hands from Geor- c gia and North Carolina, et hoc genus v omne, mixed together in a seething, e odorous mass. Sportive young bucks, e adorned with brass jewelry, bull-dog o pistols and flasks, of cheap whisky, e, strutted around and longed for an st opportunity to distinguish them- T selves, and this desire was frequently ti stimulated by oft-repeated potations h: of "popskull" and "tanglefoot" li- bE quor. As the sun neared the meri. c< dian the throng increased in num- tb bers, and the aforesaid young bucks C decided to add a part to the perform- th ance that was not put down on the a programme. When the devotions at th the stand had warmed up the "breth ering and sistering" to the shouting th point, and the mourners were going off into trances or fainting with emo tional ecstasy, the demon of whisky t was at work in the road on the out r skirts of the congregation. A trifling d dispute arose between some of tha. young colored bloods-the wards of 0f the nation were upon their mettle- ti the chivalry of their cannibal ances- tr tors from the land of the Hottentots, d from Congo and Dahomey, trans itted from sire to son, must be il lustrated on the free soil of South Carolina. Pistols were drawn and razors flourished, and the slaughter f began. The pistols cracked rapidly, the razors made huge gashes, pine r poles were used as clubs, and blood r lowed in sterams. The firing and w shouts could be heard for miles, and b it seemed in the distance as if a battle was raging. When the pistols had .f been exhausted of ammuniton and 8e the thirst of blood had been satiated, s a sickening sight presented itself. Jacob Jackson was lying dead on the at the ground, with a pistol ball in his brain. John Brown alias Johnston ci was moaning with a terrible wound w in his abdomen (since reported dead.) * Joe Butler, Howard Martin and John Martin, who are probably fatally f wounded, were carried to their homes. e One Clarkey was fearfully beaten, and two unknown negroes from a Georgia were seriously hurt. It is a impossible to get the names of all e the negroes engaged in the bloody affray, as some of them have fled, and t there are doubtless others wounded l who are copcealing themselves. Jacob Jackson was buried at Good h Will church on Monday. Hundreds C of negroes attended his funeral. He ts was a desperate character. - t It is said that this same gang cre-P ated a row last year at the same place. It is also reported that whis- r key was sold on the grounds by other negroes, and that this was the cause of the riot last Sunday there can be e no shadow of doubt. Trial Justice James A. Davis was investig'ating the matter on Sunday and Monday, but no arrests had been made at that time. Bad Behavior in Church. w Newberry Obsenrer. Newberry has always had a good it record o'n church behaivior; but there si s danger that that record will te S bru.:cn. There was some ugly be- W bavior in one of the churches last En Sunday-morning and night. Some w young men or boys annoyed and dis- ai 'urbed their neighbors very much by C< whispering and giggling during the re services. This sort of behavior w must stop. Such conduct cannot be W tolerated. The offending ones should cease such behavior on their own w account; for nothing so reflects on a ki boy's good sense and good breeding Y' as to see hin misbehave in church. W Besides that, they have no right to ol disturb others. If they must talk. r~ let them select some other pxlace than h~ a church. l CANNOT CO)lE TO CAROLIX1A'S CAPITAL.T Ntr. D)avlis's Health wl1 not Permit It is a matter of univ-ersal regret v that Mr. D)av.is will not visit Colum-p bia. Th le invitation was presented to A im by Captain Angus P. Brown, wot accompanied it with an earnest plea to accept this heartfelt expres siton of Columbia's desire to see hRis orm and features once more. .Mr. lo DJavis was much affected by this ex pression of regard for him and said that- the invitation brought back of memories of thle years long past. He fo could not accept the invitation, as h bis physician forbias his going any- b: where. Hie asked Captain Brown to v present his grateful acknowledge- r ments and warmest affection to the m3 :itizeins and old soldiers of Colnm- a bia. It was not a question of inclina tion. The feeble health of the grand old man forbade his coming. Co. lumbia, however, has put upon rec ord- her feelings in thus inviting the R old chieftain to her borders and she w~ can but regret that it is thus. la Laws Which Need 3odifeation. Abbeville Press aad Banner. The last term of the ~Criminal ourt at Abbeville furnishes one ore proof that our laws need modi :ation, or else the salaries of our . dges should come down. At the term of the court there were >solutely no cases, which, we think, iserved the attention of a judge and licitor whose salaries are $3,500 id $1,600 a year. To our mind )thing could be more absurd than a 0,500 judge, a $1,600 solicitor, with e sberiff, the clerk of the Court, and relve respectable gentlemen, repre nting every quarter of the county tting solemn form to try a negro =: iarged with stealing 75 cents worth chickens-and yet such a case as brought into the court. Another case was that of a negro arged with stealing two pigs, the due of which was alleged to be $3 ch. The negro has lain in jail for onths. He has been tried twice, ,cupying a good part of the day Lch time, and the jury in each in ance failed to agree on a verdict. be negro is still in jail, and by the me he will be tried again, and per tps -then acquitted, he will have ,en fed some fourteen months at 30 nts a day-board bill alone costing e innocent tax payers of Abbeville Dunty over $100, besides the time of e court, the pay of jurors, witnesses id coustables-to say nothing of '. e committing trial justice's costs. The recital might be continued to .e end. They are all of minor im )rtance. What we mean to say is, that either e salary of the judge ought to be duced to $1,000 a year, or else the gnity and respectability of the office ould not be degraded by the trial~ such cases. If there is a trial jus ee in Abbeville County who couldn't y a chicken thief, he ought to be -prived of his office. Gould and Garrett. The last words which Robert Gar tt hurled back from the rear plat rm of a special train that was car ing him to a palace in Mexico re: "Don't let Jay Gould steal ,e State of Maryland before I get eck.'' Mr. Gould says that he inks that Garrett has been -sub. Ct to fits of mental aberration for veral years. In a letter to.J. P. organ, the head of the Baltimore id Ohio syndicate, Mr. Gould says "It might be well tacontradict th irrent report that undue advantage as taken of Mr. Garrett in the sale the telegraph lines to the Western nion Company. The negotiations r this sale, including a large inter t in the stock of the Baltimore and bio Railroad, were frst opened with - e by Mr. Garrett personally during sail on the Atlanta to Irvington erly in June, 1886, in company with Iessrs. Cowan and King, of the Bal more and Ohio Company. "As Mr. Garrett was then just aving for Europe, he informed me had left full power with Messrs. awan and King to consummate the le during his absence. These nego Btions, which were temporarily sus nided'during the prospective sales Messrs. Sully and Ives, were again - sumed before Mr. Garrett's recent ip to Europe, culminating finally in - e sale by the syndicate to the West 'n Union Company." The A. R. P. Synod ot the South, Prospertty Press and Reporter. There was a good attendance, and iinteresting meeting was held.. Rev. W. W. Orr, of Huntersville, as elected Moderator, and made an teellent presiding officer. Among other business transacted was decided to strengthen the mis anary force in Mexico, and Rev. J A. Hunter and wife, of Arkansas, are elected and ordered to that Id of labor. Mrs. Hunter's parents ere natives .of Newberry Conty, id resided in the Head Springs rumunity. She has a number of latives in this county who will al iys have an abiding interest in her ltfare. Prof. J. N. Young, of Due West, Lio has served as Treasurer of Ers ne College for a period of about 40 ~ars, sent in his resignation, which as accepted. Geo. S. Mower, Esq, New berry, was elected to fill thisA sponsible position. The Treasurer \ Ludles about $100,000 or its equiva nt. An interesting feature of the eeting was the report of Synod's reasurer, wihich showed that all of e obligations had been met. It was found .that Synod had more .s for ministers than it could at esent supply. Prosperity church came within one te of being selected as the next ace of meeting. Synod will con ne next time at Pott's Station, rkansas. .A -nique Xemlnder. A Kansas paper publishes the fol wing unique reminder to delinquent bscribers, which has a wider hint: "There iS a lit.t: matter that $ome our Sub$criber$ have Seemingly rgotten entirely. $ome of them ve made uS many promiSe$, but ye never kept them. To u$ it i$ a ry important matrer-it'$ nece$$a in our bu$ine$$. We are very ade$t, and don't like to $peak out it." Did He Have More than One ? Lancaster Reciew. A band of thieves are "doing up" - >ck lill. The editor of the Eerald is robbed of his shirts one night at week.