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El:flil:l l. 1.AULL, E>ITui: ELP-E,RT 11. A1U LL, Propetors. WM. '. HOUSEAL, P NEWBERRY. S. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889. THAT ROAD CONGRESS. It would seem that the proposed road congress, s, much discussed recently, is going to anmount to nothing but the slirrging ofa little ink hy the editors. People who are most interested in the public roads of the county, or rather those who should be most interested in the improvement of the roads, seem to care nothing-about the proposed con gress. Possibly they think it would do no good, and the meeting would be a waste of tim'e and money. We think a meeting for the discussion of this question, by delegates from the various counties in the State, who are practical men, and know and feel the need of better roads, would result in good. We do not believe the plan proposed by some of our contemporaries of hold ing the congress in Columbia during Fair week would we at all practical. No objection to Columbia as the place. But when people go to the State Fair they do not want to go there to discuss and formulate a plan for improvement of the public roads. It is an important question, and if a congress is held, the main business at the meeting should be the consideration of the public roads. Besides that, if any bill is to be pre pared and the Legislature is to be peti tioned to pass it, more time should be given the legislators to consider it. We still think if the congress is to be held this year, it should be held as early as possible, and that Greenville - would be the proper place. THE LIMIT FIXED. "A Jersey City jury has fixed the limit within which a woman may legally exercise her tougue. Within the bosom of her own family she -may pour any quantity of bitterness and wrath the Devil may choose to brew for her from a hot temper and house hold provocations. But when her elo quence and ambition overflow the pre -cincts of her own domicile and reach, her neighbors, she becomes 'a common scold' and issubject to severe punish ment." This is a good law. The tongue in many cases needs to have a limit fixed within which to pour the bitterness and wrath of the devil. lut the law should not be limited to women. In many cases the "eloquence and anibi tion" of the male tongue runs into bit terness and wrath that needs to have a check put upon it, which the possessor it would seen is unable to do. The tongue is sometimes a very unruly memiber,;and how to control it, and this lack of government is not always con fined to women. Unkind, harsh, and mean words are sometimes apparently very'easily spoken, but the mischief they do and the hearts they bleed are not so often so easily mended. JOURNALISTIC. The Blacksburg Dispatch is the name of a new paper started at Blacksburg, * in York County, edited by Mr. F. P. formerly of Camden. We wel come the newr paper to the ranks, and wish for it success and long life. The Sumter Advance has completed its 8th year. The Advance is a live sheet, ably edited, and we wish it and its editor many returns of its anniver The Columbia Register has com pleted its 14th volume. The Register is a good paper and deserves a liberal support. Hon. Henry WV. Grady in his speech at Andersonville recently,' laid down three propositions which he considered -as three ever increasing currents that menace the greatness and prosperity of our government. The first one was, "'The rapid growth of large cities and the increase of city population at the expense of the rural homes and avoca tions of America." There is thought for refiection in this proposition. There is a tendency amongst our people to flock to the towns and cities and to leave the rural districts. But what are you going to do about it ? Many of our large cities are already over crowded with a half starving population. When, if they -xwould go to the rural districts, where land is plentiful and cheap, they could become producers, and live in comfort * and plenty. But there must be some reason for this desire on the part of solfmany peo ple to crowd the towns and cities, and the question presents itself and de mands our attention: .What is the cause of this drift of the population ? One reason given in many instances is the desire to get where the advantages of society and good schools can be had. Take a community in the rural dis tricts of our section of the country where there is a good school and there is not much disposition on the part of the people to move away. The people as a rule in such sections are contented and happy. Such advantages could be enjoyed by every comnmunity if the people wonid act together and make the proper effort, and nothing can do more to elevate the people and make them satistied with t heir surroundings than a first-class school kept running * during the whole school year. We wish every community would try the experiment, it will pay. The statemkent is made from Charles ton that there are about 6,000 men and boys in that city who desire to work ,but can find no employment. This-is a startling state of affairs. That is about one-tenth of the entire po'pula tionof the city. Charleston is moving in the way of establishing manufactur ing enterprises and in this way this army of idlers may be able to find em ployment if they are anxious. In the meantime there are hundreds of acres of land throughout the State lying idle and that can be bought very cheap and on easy terms, and if these people who have nothing to do in the crowded city could make up their minds to go on it they would make comfortable livings and live in ease and quiet, and add to the production of the country. WRWN( ECONOMY. 'Tht (~,nty C_'ommissioners have no htids o hand to pav tle orlinary ex penses of the county. The levy of three mills is not Enough to run the county expeuses further than to about this time of the year. It is several months yet be 'ore the taxes will be collected. A one mill tax was levied to replace the bridges washed away last year. It will take that to do it. It is wrong economy to put the levy so low that the collection does not meet the ordinary expenses of the mounty and it is always best for the mounty to have a little surplus on hand. It is economy for the county to pay cash for what it has done, for by so doing it can -et the work done cheaper. And besides it is not right to make men who work for le county wait, for their money or sell their claims at -a discount. It is nice to balk about a reduction of taxation and all that sort, but there is no business in it where the reduction is below the require nents of government. It is not right for the government to take frozm the citizens ore than enough to meet the require nents of government, but these have to be met and should be met promptly. BROAD RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT. We are-glad to learn from Mr. P. C. Dickert that the Broad River School District has made a beginning, and has such a flourishing school. We hope these new school districts will work well and be of benefit to the school lystem. A petition signed by the.overseers in the cotton mills of Columbus has been forwarded to the Legislature, praying that body to pass a State law prohibit ing cotton factories from requiring fac tory operators to work more than ten bours. as a day's work. The peition is signed by thirty-three overseers. The petitioners further ask for the passage )f a law prohibiting children under ten years of age from working 'in cotton ractories.-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. This is proper and the Georgia legis lators will do well to grant the petition. We would be glad, for humanity's sake, tosee a similar law, as the one proposed here, passed by the South arolina Legislature. Children under :en years of age have no business in a otton mill. And an average of teu sours a day the year round would iford the operatives some time for re :reation. The man who works ten sours a day one day with another, and loes his work faithfully, should be sat stied and be able to make a living. The Rev E. F. Flemon alias John Yeldell has been brought back to South. ,arolina from Pennsylvania and is. now afe in theEdgefield jail awaiting-trial )n the charge of murdering James Blackwell. Court is in session at Edgefield now tnd Yeldell has been arraigned and has )leaded not guilty. His trial is set for o-morrow. He will be 'defended by 01. John W. Echols, of Pittsburg, Pa., lon. W. C. Benet, of Abbeville, and Arthur Tompkins, Esq.,.- of Edge?ield. rhis is an able array: of- counsel ,and ieldell will have a fair trial, and-if- the nurder whereof he stands charged is lot proved against him he will be ae uitted. . . The Inter-State Farmer's Association nl .be held in Montgomery, Ala. august 20th. The delegates from this tate have been appointed by the "ice-President from So'uth Carolina, E.' ?t. McIver. The delegate from - New erry is Mr. J. R. Davidson, 'with.Mr, WV. D). Hardy as alternate.. Hon. Henry W. Grady, of the tlata Constitution, and one of the nost talented men in the South, 'was >orn in Athens, Ga.. in 1851, and is xnsequently just 38 years old. E. A. Webster, of Orangeburgr has >een appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for South Carolina in place of iaj. D. F. Bradley, resigned. The Broad River School District. To the Editor of The Herald arid sews: I notice in your last issue iin r'our editorial on "Public Schools" you iy, "Nothing has yet been doneAin ie two new school districts set off' at ie last Legislature." As one of the ~rustees of the Broad River School Dis rict, I desire to say that you were mis ~aken, as our district has certainly nade a beginning. We have located, md on the 15th of July last comn nenced the school, with Mr. Thos. . Sease, of the South Carolina Uni ersity, as teacher, with nearly sixty icholars. We 'have also purchased over ifty dollars' worth of school boolks for he use of the school, and will buy is many more as may be needed. Before this school district was laid >ft' our school never at any time num yered over twenty-five scholars. Now we have nearly sixty in regular attend ee; so that you see how one of the sew.- school districts has commenced and what it promises in the future. C. P. DICKERT. WATOs, August 6th, 1889. L BOARDN4G HOUSE RUN BY FAITH. The Oce a Grove Association Orders Such Unholy Pract'ces stopped. Au URY, PARK, N. J., August 2. [here is consternlationl among somne of the faith cure people in Ocean Grove because the officials of the association tave ordered that the boarding house nanaged by Miss Mary E. Mosmner, a well-known pretender of the faith rder, be closed. This establishment has been conducted here for several years and wassupported by what Miss Miosmer calls faith. That is to say, the boarde1d who were not taken for a Longer time than a week, paid only what price they thought was dictated by divine influence. Some paid as low as $1 a week, but the majority, who were all believers in faith cure, paid up) so handsomely that the mistress was always able to settle up with her trades men. In fact she and the faith cure bome flourished. If a boarder was una ble to pay anything, his or her baggage was never held for arrears. The house on Embery avenue is decorated with all sorts of scriptural mottoes, and be fore any boarders are taken, they are put through a course of questioning as to their religious beliefs. Then there were meetings being constantly held for spiritual improvement and the broadening of their creed. Besides this, certain mottoes were posted about the. house representing stations for prayers. The cottage was well patronized by religious extremists of all sorts, and their conduct in and about the place wa so eccentric as to attract notice to the le. SHOT DOWN IN COLUMBIA. Williaan Mer-tze Kill- .ia,,e . Clark :xcitement High Amnut Their Friends Trouble. Expected. [Special to The Augusta Chronicle] COl.I-MuA, S. C., Ait'tn.t :, -A very seisatioiIal killiig rcirred in (olinialia this afternoon about 6 o'clock, which shook thel Cinitttuity beyVond expre \Villiain l. Meetze, a livery stable keeper, who has been living here but a short time, shot and killed .latmes I. Clark, an ex-tr tl j ustice of Lexington County, who ha- also been living here only for a short time. 'The afliar has erealtedt a ttrectenduls sensation, as b,oth ptrtIes :tr well Con nected. Your correspondent was an eye-witness of the tragedy and knew both parties. It appears that Mectze has in his honie here a very respectable young white Worme-'n, naied Sophie Foxe, whoin, for a long time, he has been caring for :and protecting, and treating asole of his own . taiiiily, al though she was serving hir in the ea pacity of housekeeper. Clark was suspected by Meetze of having bee., im wroperly intimate with this young woman, and matters having reached a crisis Meetze armed himself this morning, and was out all day in search of Clark. Clark having itteaiwhiile heard of the fact, armed himself, and has also been on the lookout all day. He was walking down Main street, the princi pal street of the city, with a lady friend this afternoon, and when he reached the corner of Main and Washington streets, right in front ofthe city hall, he came face to face with Meetze. The latter at once opened fire with a double action thirty-eight calibre Smith & Wesson revolver, firing two shots in rapid succession, neither one, however, taking effect. The two men were within four feet of each other during the whole affray, Clark drew his pistol, a single action thirty-eight calibre Smith and Wesson and fired once at Meetze, whereupon the latter shot twice more, the last hall striking on the right side of his head, a little above and in front of the ear. Clark then reeled and fell out in the roadway of the crossing. He lingered till half past eight to night, when he (lied at his home with out having beep conscious a single minute since the shooting. The ball penetrated the brain and came out througth the left side of his head slightly in front of his ear. As soon as the firing oommenced De tective Ogg who happened to be not far off ran bravely forward to endeavor to prevent the tragedy. By the time he reached the scene, however, all was over. He took Meetze into custody after having gotton "the drop" on him. Theie was a very large crowd on the streets and particularly at that place at the time, and it is a great wonder that no one, else wash urt in the general consternation that followed the first shot. One bullet went through the show window of an adjacent grocery store and barely missed some ladies who were standing near the window. Meetze was immediately turned over to the Slheriff. He is now lodged in the Richland county jail, and seems con fident 'of coming clear when he is tried. Clark was noted as being the best pistol shot in the state, and it is thought that he must have been partly under the infiuence of liquor at tihe time the sbdotint ocebrred, as lie missed his' adversgry entirely.. Clark'leaves a widow andl four child rn. Both ineni have hosts of friends in 'and'aroimd the city and exciteriient rages high. Tihe coroner's jury met to-night at 10.30, but adjourned till'to mdrrow' moi'ning. . K is said- that at the coronei''-s in quest-a lett r- will be produced -which will- increase even morethfe exciterment over the already much talked of affray. The fact that a woman is mixed up.in it, seems to justify M1eetze to some ex tent, iri the public mind, but the true' stoit is yet to come. EVIDENCE ATr. TiE . INQ U.EST.. : otU.MmIA, s. C;, Aug .5. -=The in guest on th-e hcdy of Jamnes I Clark, illed by WV. B. Meetze on Satu~rday afternoon, was held this morning. Two witnesses testified positively.- that Meetze-fred twice betore Clark fired and another testified that he heard one shot fired and then savi Clark fire. Clark's pistol shows that he fired but once. .''Dug"~ Meetze, the uncle of WV. ,B. Meetze and the man to whom the note directed to "Sopihy" was entrusted, test tifed that Clark wrote it but that it as most positively sent to a domestic in Meetz.e's family and not to Meetze's wie.. The jury found a verdict that James I Clark came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by W. 13. Meetze. -Clark's funeral was had this afternoon and the body was attended by th.e Knights of Pythias andl a long string of carriages. The sad affair is still the talk of the city. Meetze has engaged Judge S. WV. Melton to defend him. - A COLORED EXODUs. Fifty Thousav'd Negroes from North Caro lin to Settle in the West and South wrest. (From the New York Herald.] RALErGr, August1.-The comnmittee appointed by thle Colored Emigration Convention, which met here im April, to go to the WVest and Southwest, examine the country and" learni whaut arragements can lbe made for the movenent of a large body of colored people from Nor'th ('arolina, expects to leave here for the Southwest Sunday. The commnittee say that over seventy eight thousand names of those who ivill1 move have been enrolled, andl that these have agreed to be ready to start in forty eight hours after notice has been given,- provided thle comimission makes a favora ble report. It is saidl by the commllittee that the people in the Southwest States have held meetings, choposed of farmers, business men and1( capitalists, who have appointed committees to meet and cou fer with the North Carolina comnns sioners, and to offer such inducements as will direct. the title of immigration in that direction. If the conditions are favorable, and the commiittee shall so report, it is thought by the committee that at least fi fty thlousandi people will be mloved next fall. Louisiana. Tlen niesee, Kanisas, Arika nsas, Texas and California seemi to he miaking priepaira tions to increaise their colored popula tion at the expense of Nor'th Carolina. Exodus agents fromi Kansas and Ar kansas are expected here Saturday to accompany thle comminission ers fromt this State. One Editor Kills Anoither. GREENv~ri.LE, Miss.. A ugnst 2. -C. M. Hull, editor of the Boliver' C'ounty Democrat, and L. A. Weissinger, editor of the Boliver County Review, both published at Rlosedale, Miss., became nvolved in a personal d ifficulty to-dlay, in whlich Hull was kied. Had blood( had beeni existing some time bet ween them. The Review maide its appearance on Jully 27th, aiid conlttained somle pointed rejoindecrs to Hull's previous remarks inl the ] >eimoerat in regard to Mr. WVeissing.er. Guard Against the st rlke. And always have a bottle of Acker's English Reimedy ini the house. You cannot tell how son Croup may strike your little one, or a cold or cough may fasten itself upon you. One dose i.s a preventive and a few doses a p'ositive cure. All Throat arid1 Lung troubles yield to its treatment'.2 sample bottle is given you free, Ml..fielemedy mrnteed by 'MI ,g;1 Eusel ~L,ler. ,? , seal & PROSPE.CTS OF THE C. N . & L. K. B. Active Work Under the Present Manage iuent-Twenty M ilex Graded-Track Ilaying to be Commenced when the Congaree is Bridged. [Special to The News and Courier. lo.rMBIA, August 6.-TheColumr hia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad which will e in operation to Newberr3 next May, is certain to esx-rcise greal influence upon the business life of tlhi: city and to advance the prosperity anc independence of the country which il passes. The recent announcenient in thf News and Courier that contracts fot building the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad from Chester to i point six miles beyond Clinton, taker in connection with knowledge of the active prosecution of work on the Co. lumbia, Newberry and Laurens, sug gest the thought that an extension of the latter road twenty miles beyonc Newberry would effect a junction o: the two'lines, givingithe Georgia, Caro lina and Northern access to Columbia over a friendly line, and the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens an outlet to the Northand West. Such a connection would be of greal value to both roads. The Georgia, Caro lina and Northern, as already coml pleted to Chester, is declared to be the best built line in the South. It belong. to the Seaboard Air Line system, 0o which Mr. John Robinson is president The roads under his control are knowr to be among the most prosperous in the country, and their management is suc as to satisfy the people who contributi to their prosperity. The speedy con pletion of this line to Laurens Countl is assured, and the contracts for gradinl it on to Athens, Ga., will be given ou as soon as praticable. Should the two roads meet near thu Enoree River it can be seen, upon refer ence to the map, that Columbia wil have a new and independent line to tho North about as short as the presen Richiond and Danville route, and i shorter line to Atlanta than she nov has. Besides this, there will be quicl communication with a hitherto un worked section of the up-country which ought to result in a large increas of business for this city. With such connection Columbia cannot b "pooled" against. This will be " comparative point" in deadly earnest It would mean a great deal for Char leston also, to have a new "route to thi interior via Columbia. And then thi Glenn Spring's road must follow;soon opening that popular resort to a great ly increased patronage, and giving t new short line to Spartanburg. All o this will come about in due tinti through the business enterprise o seventeen citizens of Columbia, two o .Newberry, and one of Prosperity, wh< organized several months ago the Con .garee Construction Company, with i cash capital of $100,000, and undertool the completion of the then. moribun Columbia, Newberry,and Laurens Rail road by May 1, 1890. The township bond decision of thi Supreme Court had given that road which.was being built mainly by town ship aid, a very black eye. But now everything is changed. Mr W. G. Childs, of the Constructiol Company,furnished to-day some inter esting information in regard to thi progress of the work on the line. Al of the rails, spikes, joints, etc., neces sary for the completion of the road fron Columbia to Newberry, forty-thre miles, have beeni conitracted for, to b< laid down here October 1 and paid fo: on delhvery. There will .be 4,000 ton of'56-pouind steel rail, which cost the very low suin of.*31 a. torn'laid down.. The new bridge is under contract fo delivery about thbe imiddle-.of Octobe; and will be erected :within- a mont] afterwai-d. It is a fine nid--heavy iroi structure, built by the Edgemoor Bridge -Company, and cost460,000. ,The tota ~urchases of the Construction Comi pany Adbe paid for lii cash' amjount a] ready -tobout $200;O00 As soon as the 'bridge is in positio1 on -th% granites pifers, (paid 'for.by Co lupnbia' Township,) the. dol-k of trac] layinig.1irl'be begun and'pushed wit] rapidity.' The line is at'pi-esent grade< to a~point in Lexigton' County, twen ty miles from ~Columbia. Thence t< rosperity and a miie -beyond it the grading is now going on- .The-gradinj to Newberry is under contract to be finished by December 1, but on accoun of trouble ini securing the right of wa; betweeti Prosperity and Newberry tha section may not be completed unti February 1.. The road will be bonded at the rat of $12,U000 a mile, and there is no doub of the a6ility of the Construction Con pany to place the six per cent, bonds a a good figure. BIe it remembered that the control o this road is, arnd will remain, in th< hands of the business men -of Colum bia, who constitdte the Constructiol Company. Not a share of stock wil be disposed of to outside parties, an< therefore -the line cannot be gobbled. I will form the key of the railroad situai tion and unlock any hostile combina tion. Columbia will be t.he only eit3 in the State to hold a considerable rai] road all her own. N. G. U. M AIHONE'S CAMP'AIGN BEGUN. Three Confedera' o Generaw said to ii - Slated. Rien MoND, VA., July 30.-A inem er of Mohone's State Executive Com iitte~ to-day expresses the -opinio1 that tihe ticket to be nomiinated by th, Virginia Republican Convention, whic] is to meet at Norfolk August 20, Wil be composed of three ex-Confederat Generals-General. Mahone for Gov ernor, General Wyatt M. Elliot of Al pomiattox County for Lieutenant Gov ernor, and General- James A. Walke the commander of "Stonewall" Jack so's old brigade, for Attorney General The member of the State conmnitte referred to claims to have seen a lette recently written by Geni. James A Walker to Mahone, in which the es comanderof the old Stonewall br-ig ade expressed his readiness to do all h could to aid in the election of a prc tective tariff Republican ticket in Vi' ginia this year. As is well knowi Gen. Walker has heretofore acted witi the Democrats in local as well as natiot al contests. If lhe places himself i: accord with the Repubilicans this .yea it will cause some surp)rise to Walker friend (s. Mahmone has already opened. his carr paign in good earnest and is sendin circulars all over the State. These ar intended to instruct the faithful, with view of securing a majority of the dell gates to the State Convention loyal t M ahonie. Anti-Mahonre leaders ar doing wvhat they can in a quiet waay 1 counteract the bosses ini this directior Col. James D. Brady, who has heret< Ifore bee.n the back bone of the opposmu act ion, has been given a Collectorshil Thi s, it is thought, will in a great inea ire tone down that gentleman's nmartiu spirit. Sonme of the other leaders the oppo(siLiion hope that they may b (guite '1 In this way. N ORTHIERCN CAPITAL AT WORK. Twenty Thousand Acres of Santee Lan Bought by Chicago Men. [Special to The Greenville News.] CH ARLESTON, Aug. .5.-Joseph Rati bone and Francis B3eider, of Chicag< who have been here some time, he: for home to-day having purchased 20, 000 acres of forest lan d on the Sant4 River. The land embraces the Richard son tract and several contiguous tract on the river near the confluence of tb Cogaree and Wateree rivers. The pui chasers are lumber men and propose t remove their business from Chicago 1 Soth (4a-olina. { IDGE ROAD AMID CANNON'S CREEK. Mrs. Lizzie Hunter will return home 4 to-day from a mouth's visit in No. 5. We learn that-there will be a picnic at the residence of G. M. Singley on Saturday the 17th inst. W. D. Hardy, the County Organizer t of the Alliance, had an appointment at E St. Paul's church on Saturday evening a last to organize an Alliance. We are 7 informed that he was hindered from a meeting this appointment, as he was e on the other side of the river and the e river was toe full to cross. About fifteen were present at the meeting and the prospects are that there will soon be a strong Alliance at this place. We would recommend that W. D. Hardy visit the Jalapa section in the t interest of the Alliance. I am informed t r by some of those Jalapa people that 1 there is no Alliance in that township, and some of then are very anxious to join the order. Hearing that the Rev. M. M. Kinard, 1 of Columbia, was up on a visit to rela - tives in this section, and that he would fill Dr. Holland's pulpit at Colony on Sunday last, and the announieement being pretty generally circulated, there was a large congregation in attendance. There were a number present whom 1 1 have not seei at Colony for a long time. To say that the sermon was r both interesting and instructive would i not be sufficient words of compliment. Rev. Kinard is a young man of ability, 1 and not only reflects credit upon his - parents, but upon the high calling in 1 which he is engaged. The sermon was from St. John xvi: 33, and was listened to with marked attention. Rev. Kinard willremain in Newberry until some i time next week. He will preach at Bethlehem church next Sunday morn ing, and Grace church, Prosperity, in 3 the evening. It seems as if last Sun day was a day of changing about with Sthe preachers. Rev. 1%i. J. Epting preached at St. Paul's, W. K. Sligh at B St. Luke's, M. M. Kinard at Colony, B and Dr. Holland preached in Orauge burg. I had the pleasure of atLending the County Sunday-school Convention at 1 f Cannon's Creek church last week. The f discussion of all the topics was full and 3 interesting. The addr.ss of Mr. J. T. 1 Nicholas on the teacher and his class o was especially well prepared and inter- i I esting. The attendance was large on I - both days and the order the best pos sible throughout. Altogether it was a 1 very pleasant and profitable meeting. The good ladies provided plenty of i good things to eat as they always do. i i I admire your editorial in your last issue touching upon the common schools. Since the question is being 1 agitated, and while I am deeply inter i ested in the matter. I will offer some e thoughts upon the subje3t. Pardon me, B i. Editor, if I borrow some of your I senimets.Thecolnmon schools ofj the country are the places where thei poor people, which is a vast:majority of r the people, get all of their. education; and-the great educational need epf. the1 country to-day is the work that ought a to be done by the common schools of the land. I belier.e that there is too much being done andisaid i' thalf of the colleges, universities, eitadeland y other high grade institutions, and - quite enough being said and done in behalf of our common schools, not that I desire to detract - anything .from the. - work of any of those high institutions, for it is quite profitable that we should have them, but we must remember that1 there are hundreds and thousands of t children who are excluded from these i Jigh schools on account of their inabil ity. Let us look into 'the condition of our common schools. All they lack of .being dead is just closing their eyes. t Why is tnis the case ? Simply because it is the lack of proper interest. We elect a school -Commissioner, whose f duty it is to locate the schools over the county to the very best advantage of te majority of the children. The first I thing he does is to appoint a set of true i .tees in each township, and he shares off all his responsibility upon them, .and these trustees claim that they~ get ,no pay . for their work, Consequently - they all locate schools to their own con vnience, and we poor unfortunate peo ple, who live some distance from them, have to scuffle and quarrel over our little piece of schools, and if we are not a able to board our children in town and pay a high tuition, we must just let them grow up in ignorance. . What we wanft is fewer schools and -more efficient ones. If we are to have any public funds let us have enough to do some good. There must be a change 1 in our comimon school administration. e Otherwise it will prove a curse to the white people of the State. Its admin istration now dwarfs private enterprise. r It bas driven the best teachers out of -the field; it has broken up the best pri - vate schiools; it off'ers no attraction to e skilled teachers; and worse than all, while the people insist on depending -upon the system for the instruction of their children, they are fast comning to look upon it, not as a blessing,, but a necessary evil. We need legislative action taken upon this matter and hope Sthat our law makers will soon make some modifications in the common *r school system of our county. s . TI. J. W. gThe First Basle of Georgia Cottona. a NEW Yong, August 2.-The first bale of the new crop of Georgia cotton received in this city, was sold at public e auction to-day from the i'ront steps of 0 the Cotten Exchange. It was shipped i. by Garnett Stubbe & Co. to Henry - Crews, and was-considered a fine speci g muen of Georgia cotton cropa. The cotton . realized 12cents a pound. There were - present a large number of operators in i cotton, but owing to the slack nature of >f the market, there was little or no coin e petition. Stinl Fluding Bodies at Johnstown. Jou[xSrows, Pa., August 2.--Two d more bodies were taken from the debris this afternoon. They were unrecogmiz ale. Frost in lilinole. f GA r,sNA, Ill., Aug. 2.-Low grounds ein this setion were visited by frost e early yesterday morning, which did considerable damage to) growing vege tables. Corn suffered in the most ex eposed >laces. Tobacco wais also severely !~injured. SYou can get a ilrst-class turnout at tf -. C. A. FLOYD's. THE POMARIA PICNIC. Plesant Day and a Good Dinner-Muiic. Dancing and Speaking to Whip Away the Hours. For some time the people of this comt aunity have been looking forward with leasure to the picnic at Pomaria. As be time drew near many hopes were xpressed that the day would be clear ud pleasant. But such was not the case. 'he morning dawned cloudy and eiemed very threatening to the picnic rs. Still the crowd began to gather any and it became evident that a irge crowd would be present. Among rhich were several of Newberry and rosperity's handsome young men, and ome few of their fair daughters, also. We are always glad to welcome them n our community and can but hope hat they enjoyed their visit amongst is. The use of Mr. J. W. Stone's new tore was secured for the enjoyment of he young folks. But they had just be >un their enjoyment there when they vere called to the grove where dinner iad been prepared. I would like to say omething about this enjoyable part of he occasion, but as it was at home vill leave that for some one else to tell. 3uffice it to say that there was enough or all and some left. After dinner the >eople sought enjoyment in various vays. Some repaired back to the hall nd enjoyed themselves with the dance 6nd others plays, others selected some of ;he beautiful girls and took to a buggy or some other quiet spot, and the ex resion of their countenalce showed p whatway they were enjoying them elves. Still . others gathered to hear everal addresses from nien who had een invited to. speak. We are sorry everal of those invited could not be )resent. The first address was made by Prof.. E. 0. Counts, of Prosperity. His ddress was very practical and replete ith good advice. The next and, last peaker was Cole L. Blease, Esq. He elected the subject, "What is most ieeded by man?" After giving different inswers which others might say was nost'needed, he. gave as his own ans wer-Confidence.' He plainly showed he lack of this by many illustrations. Both addresses were excellent. - There was but one thing we think ;hat could have marred the pleasure >f any one and that was the very hard -ain just when the crowd was leaving for iome. The Pomaria creek was soon flied to overflowing and horses and mggies were in water two-feet deep. We know that several of us will long emember the second -picnic at Poma is. A. CROSS HILK AND CHAPPELL'S. :ne Crops-Children's Day and Protracted Meeting-Other Itemd of Interest. Rein, rain, for twelve days in succes ion and the prospects are good for more. Jorn erops are as good ~as can be; cotton a looking very fine but we are having -ather too much rain at this time for 16ttn. Last Saturday -wan Children's Day at ;he Cross' Hill Presbyterian church. Th.e ittendance was very large'. A good many hre'preseht from Abbeville and New berry. Three splended' speeches were ade bythe Rev. Mr. Hassel, Hon.3 EL. Rice, State Superintendent of on, and Mr. Thomas Jo Auca. - bthe pe dyetra 3o - vry large yesterday he as one of Mr. Hassel's best iffots-it.was one of the best sanctifica ion sermons I ever heard. A protracted meeting will cow'nence it the Cross Hill Baptist church next 3unday by the pastor, Rev. R. WV. Sey nore. - Miss Sudie ?itte, who has been teaching ichool for some time at Vaughanville, will close her school the last of this nonth and return to the parental roof at Deadfall. A Vaughanville man told me last week a farmer near by was so proud of ais cotton crop that he had walked1 over .t so much he had made paths all through t, and as ithas rained so muchlIexpect de thinks packing the land will help the ~otton. The.Cotton Seed Oil Company of Char otte, N- C., hs' erected a large platform cales for the cotton seed erop at Dhappell's, Mr. Jas. Irwin is agent. A sompany of Columbia will soon put up ialee with Sweetenbery as agent. Mr. W. P. Turner of Spring Grove has been on a tripto Paris Mountain and re ports the crops from Spring Grove to Paris Mountain the finest he ever saw. ELL. A Young Man and Woman Killed by Lighting. AShEvIL LE, N. C., Aug. 6.--Informa tion was received here to-day of a fatal accident last night at Catawba Station, c the W. N. C. road, resulting in the death of two young people well known and highly respected here. Mr. J. Trollinger had accompanied Miss Addie A. Reid from churh reaching the Reid residence about ten o'clock, while sitting together in the parlor, a thunder torm began, and a. stroke of light ning -tearing down the chimney in stantly kilfed the young lady and her visitor. Mr. Trollinger was a young merchant, and Miss Reid an interesting ad popular young lady of nineteen. The remains will be enterred at :Cataw a to-morrow at two o'clock. GENTILEs IN UTAH. They Carry Salt Lake City and Get Legisla tive IRepresentati@o. SArLT LAKE, UTIAH, Autrust 6.-The Geitiles are greatly elated over the re sult of yesterday's election- The vote gave them a majority of 41 in the city which it is claimed insures a Gentile city govern ment nex t February. Six (entiles were elected .to the House of Reprsentt ives and to the council, giv iig them 8 out of 36 members. A Wet Victory in Floyed County, Ga. ROME,GA, August 6.-After a vigo rous and exciting campaign or three weeks Prohibition was defeated to-day in Floyd County by a majority of 600, out of a vote of 4,000. The Uelection passed off quietly at all the precincts. We Can and Do.. Guarantee Acker's Blood Elixir for it has been fully demonstrated to the peo ple of this country that it is superior to all other preartns for blood diseases. It is a positive core for syphilitic 'oso ing, Ulcers, Eruptions and Pmples. It purifies the whole system and thoroughly builds up the constitution, t4V, .*j~.~'Z-~ -~ BEST !N THE WORLD, 1 b at her 4.r rat 4'ures or ,?ina l5..ea* es liy tIe 't'uticura ftemedie%. II ti nloy" one ye-ar aass half o1t Face ande body in a terrible condition, being k covered with sore%. Sulphur d apringa fail. Cured by r uticara A Remedies. si I have used your CUTIMURA REMEDIES in p two cases where it proved to be successful. The first was in the case of a boy a year and a - half old. His face and body were in a terrible I condition, the former being completely covered with sores. I took him to the las senasulphnurSprings. but he did not improve any. I was then advised to try the CuTt cHRA REMEDlIs, which I did He took one and half bottles of CUTICCRA RESOLVENT, when his skin was as smooth as could be, and is to-day. I used the CUTICURA on his sores .J and the CUTICURA SOAP in washing him. He b is now five years of age, and all right. The si other case was a disease of the scalp, which S was cured by washing with the CUTICURA e SOAP and rubbing in the ClTICtRA, one o bottle of CCTICCERA RESOLVENT being used. They have proved successful in every case _ where I have advised the use of them. It is surprising how rapidly a child will improve I under their treatment. 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PATRICK, Principal. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. By Jacob B. Fellers, Esq., Probate Judge. W HEREAS, Bascom B. Hair bath made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration, de bonis non with the will annexei, of the estate and effects of John Hair, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said John Hair, deceased, that they be and appear be fore me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry Court House, on the 20th day of August, 1889, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Adnimstration should not be grantedI. Given under-my band this otch day of Augu*st A. D). IS9 Notice to Overseers. OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMIlssIONERs, A CGU.sT 6THf, 1889. f THE OVERSEERS OF PUBLICs highways for Newberry County, are here by instructed and required to have the same worked in the month of August, and to make their returns on or before the 2d day of September. By order of the Board of Cou Com missioners. GEO. B. CROMER Clerk. NEWBERTRY, S. C. TENT Session begns October 1st. . Expenses for Session or 2W mombls: Board, including room, :uel and wash ing, 5i87 to 410O4. T'uitioni andl inceidlental, $18 to 05i7. Class.ic.aIllPhilsottphicail and Select Courses. P'repatratory De*part nlienit will bie undter tt1iiu m:m age nienlt; (iull timie of two expirericed teachiers em iplsyed. Bu.siness D)epart nieist in which thorou..h ins..truiction will be given in Book-Keeping, Bank ing, Real F tate and 1lusuranace Busi ness, Telegraphby, Shorthand anad Type writinig. .luquire of G. W. HOL LAN D. President. STATE OF SOUTH ('AROLINA, COUNTY OF-.N EWiIE It Y,-1 N COMMON PLEAM. Rtobt. P. Fair et ail. against Win. Y. Fair, Executor, et al, Rtelief. T H E Creditors of Mrs. Mary N. Fair, deceased, are hlereby required to render and establish their demxands be fore the Master, ou or befoire the first day of Septemnber, 1880. SIL AS JOHNSTrONE, Master. Master's Office, July 17th, 1889. STATE OF souTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY-IN COMMON PLEAS. Geo. Bartow Caldwell, Administrator, against Angelina C. Caldweli et al. T HE Creditors of the Estate of LJoseph Caldwell7 deceased, are hereby required to render and establish on oath their respective demands, be fore the Master, on or before the fifteenth day of August, 1889. SILAS JOHN STONE, Master. Master's Office, July 17th, 1889. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY-IN COMMON PLEAS. Marietta Patton, Administratrix, against Joseph F. Burton, Admninistrator, and others. - HE Creditors of the late (Charls D). LBurton, deceased, are hereby re .quired to render and establish thieir.de mnands against said estate, before 'the Master, on or before the first day of September, 1889. SILAS JOHNSTONE, Master. Master's Office, July 17th, 1889. THE PECULIAR MEDICINAL tilled fromn the finest growth of Rye, in ela, have attracted the attention of th4 to such a degree as to place it in a very hi For excellence, purity and evenness of qi any in the market. It is entirely freeif and fine 'Ponic nuoprties. ,t)aistostn Ferale (.llege, a live w))rnglI. prgri s, prosperouS, wap8i), II-i"mitrv st"ho'ol for young a dies, address Rev. S. Lander, Presi ant; Williamston, S. C. Its merits "idely known. One hundred and xty-tive pupils last year. More ex aeted next. FARMER'S SHOP. I AR; MitS. B H. LOVELACE'S BOARD ING HvUE. Repairing a Specialty. LL work done with neatness and dis patch. Painting connected -with the - usiness. We call special attention to - our ock sheds, these sheds are waterproof. Lock taken care of untill called for by own -. We earnestly solicit the patronage of ir friends a d the public generally. JOS. HI3I1 & BRO. HOCKLEY BROS&, Eui1ders. AGENTS FOR )oors, Sash and Blinds, NEWBEflBRY, S, C ANUFACTURERS OF BRACKETS .V Sawed and Turned Balustrades. Hand Lails. MantUes, Columns. Etc. Estimates lade on buildings in town or country. 'rices reasonable. Seasonable Goods. THE OLD RELIABLE MASON's FRUIT JARS G A\ i' J ELLY GLAS.SES. No better goods made. Save al the fruit you an while you can get it. - 'orcelain Lined Pre,*rvinZ -Kett Always sa'e to use. No danger of poison. Cherry Seeders, Seeds one bushel of cherries in one hontr's ime-and costs only 75 cents. Latest Improved Fly Fans. Sten winders. No key -required.- Every 'an warranted. The Glass Fly ''rap s the neatest, cleanest and most sueessful1 rap we have ever known. Try one and you rill have no other. All the above at low prices at S. P. 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