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-PT A [WISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1891. _PRICE 1.50 A YEAR THE DUTCH FORK. BY DR. O. B. MAYER, SR. No. 5. at thy commanl, Again the crumbled halls shall rise; Lo! as on Evan's bank we stand, The past returns-the present fies. CADYOW CASTLE. There are two considerable stretches of original forest remaining in Dutch Fork, to indicate what was the natu ral appearance of the country in the far past. One of these is the tract of one hundred acres of superb oak-land that surrounds St. John's church, and belongs to it;the other contains about fif teen acres of heavily timbered land, and lies in front of the Pomaria residence, at a distance of three hundred yards from it. There are many other small remnants of primitive woods scattered about, but they are not suflieiently ex tensive to aid the fancy in picturing the "boundless contiguity of shade" that once extended so widely over this fair region. When the white people, following John Adam Summer, came into these wilds, they found that the Indians had made a few small clear ings, and had been cultivating them rudely for the production of a large kind of grain, since a time to which their memory did not reach. Botanists have given to this grain the name, Zea Maize, but in common language, it is called Indian Corn, from the fact that it wa first found among these Indians. They, however, must have used it very sparingly, in the form of hominy (an Indian name, according to Webster), or by simply parching the grains, since their little fields probably did not yield all together more than three hundred bushels. It is easy to infer that the white settlers, accus tomed, as they were, to eat bread with their meat, and soon discontented with jerked beef and venison dried in the sun or smoked in the chimney jamb, speedily brought into tillage much larger fields, which under the plough share yielded prodigious crops of this new grain, as well as of wheat, rye, and barley: so that it was not long before the face of the country beamed with the smiles of civ'hzation. When we walk through such memo rial remnants of woodland as I have mentioned we sigh over the destruction of the forests,-the desolations which the natural strength of the soil has so beautifully struggled to repair by means .of the old-field pine; and we say within - oursetves: The of ks have been need lessly wasted! The tilling of the ground to supply man with necessary bread would not require the yeomanry of the Dutch - Fork, nor of any other section of coun try, to destroy the vast areas of original growth which we see to-day abandoned to the broom-sedge, wherever nature has failed to reforest the waste places with the old-field pine. Nor would there have been a necessity for any prodigal clearing of land even by the introduction of cotton, so long as the young people for pastime separated from the seed, with their fingers and thumbs, su'icient lint to aid the flax and the wool in supplying raiment for the families; but when the cotton-gin was patented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, and gin-houses and screws were erected all over the land to supply the world with what had suddenly become a great staple,-then, and not til then, did the murderous attack upon the glorious forests begin. Before cotton came into use in the Dutch Fork, Bax and wool were the materials from which ordinary cloth ing was obtained, and altogether by domestic manufacture. The cloth woven upon the simple primitive loom was wonderfully durable. To illustrate this quality as well as to publish a fine moral, I venture to introduce here this Prose Song of a Sirt. When I was eight years old they made me a shirt *out of flaxen cloth which bad been im perfectly bleached by being spread several nights upon the grass. After it had taken on the shape of agarment it became as white as snow, through repeated washings during my intimacy with it, inasmuch as every other Sab bath for four years (from my eighth to my twelfth) we wvent t o chur':h together in the closest companionship. Those were the days of ruffled shirts; and this one (made for me, the favorite of the family) had a profusion of ruffles that engendered pride in my young breast pride which, like all other instances of it, had its fall. It happened in Colum bia, on my first visit to that city, and when I was ten years old. The shirt was done up in the best style, two days before my departure. The ruffles were crimped most delicately, and were starched so rigidly for this occasion as to stand out in front like the quadrant of a glistening circular saw. The shirt was carefully folded and placed in a time honored, blue bandbox, in which it was to rest undisturbed until the morning of leaving camp (for I went 'with the plantaion wagon), wvhen I was to be dressed in my ruffled shirt, my striped waistcoat, my jacket died brown in a decoction of walnut-bark, my copperas-hued breeches, and my little straw hat. It was a bright, hot day in June. We had camped at the "Forks of the Roads," the . si-knowvn camping place for wagoners, about five miles fron- Columbhia. Thbe season for the cotton narket was over: but we had one 'e.l.e-the last of the crop-in our wagon. The other loading consist ed of three barrels of new flour, a large coop of fine poultry, several buIshels of well preserved sweet potatoes, and a Muscovy drake of such terrible physi ognomy-his head and neck being em bossed with fiery red 'carbuncles-thiat noon would purchase him. I wna dressed according to schedule, and to prevent any premature derangement or soiling of my clothes I was placed upon the top of one of the flour barrels, until we should enter the city. Near by me on the top of the poultry coop and tied to it by his feet was the indig nant drake. He seemed to "view me with a critic's eye,"-extending his plethoric head at one time towards the left of me, at another towards the right of me, and then straight at me, utter ing each time a hideous hiss prophetic of disaster, until I was really glad when the time came for me to be removed from his scrutiny. We entered the city a little after sunrise. At my re quest I was lifted from the wagon; and I began at once to strut along the side walk, gazing in wonder at the magnifi cence by which I was surrounded. I saw many boys of my size. They looked at me and laughed; but as they had no ruffles under their chins my pride blazed high. I tossed my head and protruded my chest so as to thrust forward my ruffles conspicuously. Then came my fall. I approached a group of three boys somewhat larger than myself. They observed me closely; and smiled, as I thought, contemptu ously; but these like the others wore no ruffles. So I gave them a haughty look, and passed on; but, alas for me! not until I heard one of them remark quite audibly to his companions: "Well, he has pretty black eyes; and I must say that he would certainly show off well with his ruffled shirt-bosom, if he only wasn't bare-footed." It was the mortifying truth. My friends to whose care I was entrusted had given no more thought than:I myself gave to the preposterous manner in which I was dressed; and there was I, with a flaunting shirt-bosom, standing in the town where the Governor lived, and not only bare-footed, but with my feet and ankles covered with the red clay dust so abundant to this day about 'o lumbia. The inconsistency of going bare-footed while wearing a ruffled shirt did not strike me or any one else, as Sunday after Sunday I went to St. John's church. It was then as it still is, the custom in the Dutch Fork for boys and girls to dispense with shoes and stockings through the summer months, with a view to comfort and economy. When I returned I-me, and with tears of mortified feelings recounted my misadventure to my people, I derived consolation from their advice to treas ure up my mishap as an experience capable of teaching, that whenever.one is puffed up with vanity; or ambition; or spiritual pride accompanied by her sister, hypocrisy; or covetousness lean ing on her daughter, idolatry, all one has to do is to look down at one's feet' I have often followed this advice, and feel that it has saved me from some vanities and vexations of spirit which, if I had been puffed up with them, would have been too much for me: they would have overwhelmed me. From thLs digression I return to a further consideration of the durability belonging to the fabrics manufactured on the old-time looms, by the banging of which the belated stranger might be guided on his way to some home three quarters of a mile off when the sun went down and the need of hospitality was first felt. The shirt that clung so closely to me for fonr years was as free from decay the last time I wore it as it was the first time. Unless it has been burnt, every thread of it is in existence somewhere, to day. I can, however, call up a witness-one which I inter viewed not long ago-a witness of such reliability, in regard to the durability of the tex.tures used for raiment in the Dutch Fork long, long ago, that there will be no need to question any others. This witness has a history which de serves to be made known; and it is as follows: Among the Lutherans of Dutch Fork, before and several years after the erection of the present St. John's, and while Geisselbart preached in the little church that once stood just within the grave-yard gate, there was a custom to have a Communion Hand kerchief, or towel, or whatever other name it bore, for the purpose of wiping the Communion Vessels after each cele bration of the Lord's Supper. It was made of the finest domestic linen that could be produced in those days. There never was another; because this first one is to-day (in 1S91) as durable as it was in 1788, when in one of its corners the grand-daughter of the pio neer Summer embroidered her iuitials, E. M. S., and gave it to the church. A t this moment it is in the drawer of the altar in St. John's, into which it was transferred from the preceding church-building. There it remains in its retreat, applied no longer it is true to the use for which it was first in tended, but serving as a witness, more than a hundred years old, to the last ing quality of the home-woven textures in those remote times, just as the woods surrounding the church-building serve as a witness to the grandeur of the primitive forest. This handkerchief, or towel, after serving its purpose at each Communion, was taken home by one of the lady members of the church, whose duty it was by rotation with others to wash and iron it for the next occasion. It happened that it came to be the turn of one M1rs. Son to "do up" this wonderful piece of cloth. She carried it home with her, and the very next day washed it and hung it upon a clothes-line to dry, but being three feet square, one of its corners very nearly touched the ground. Having some thing to attend to in the house Mrs. Son left her little daughter to watch the venerated linen for a few moments. She had scarcely passed within the door when she heard her daughter seram, andr1 loudany1 for help. In great alarm she hastened back to the yard and found in the mouth of a huge sow the handkerchief, which the ani mal was shaking to and fro for the amusement of nine pigs. The dis tressed lady went in pursuit and soon took hold with her bands upon the stolen property, but it required all her strength to separate it from the an i mal's teeth. At length it tore loose; and Mrs. Son fell triumphantly to the ground, waving as a trophy the rescued go -I. Although this happened in the good, utilitarian days of darning, the rent was never repaired, and that is the reason why it is still visible, ragged and jagged, in the corner of the hand kerchief opposite to the one where were embroidered a hundred years ago the initials, E. M. S. This-attempt at a "digression within a digression," in weak imitation of Swift, has been so much more than I was capable of doing, that I find myself in the necessity of pausing here, and making effort to recover the simplicity of narrative with which I began. In my next number, I shall endeavor to exhibit more fully and methodicaily what I remember, and what I have gathered from satisfactory sources con cerning the industry of the people of Dutch Fork, from an indefinite past to the introduction of cottou among them. A NEW REFORMATION COMING. Editor McClure Talks to Roanoke College Students on the Next Century. SALEM, Va., June 9.---The Hon. James W. Marshall and M. T. Keedy delivered addresses this morning be fore the Alumni of Roanoke College. This evening Col. A. K. McClure, ed itor of the Philadelphia Times, deliv ered the annual address before the lit erary societies. His subject was "The Twentieth Century." He admonished the students against accepting the belief so often taught in politics, journalism, and the pulpit, that this is a degenerate age, and that the great task of the educated young men of to-day will be its reformation to old-time putity. He said the world never was as good as to-day ; that pol itics, society, and religion were all bet ter now than in the past, and that, while the world always needed, refor mation, it never needed it less than now, and that it was better and greater in heroism and state manship than ever in the past. The speaker then pointed out the grave problems to be solved. Among these he mentioned the issue over church creeds, which he predicted would produce a new reformation during the twentieth century, and one that would make religion stronger than it is to-day. The great battie against centralization, the.race-issue. and cap ital and labor 'he also indicated as problems which might be manfully met and solved. He also discussed the need for educated men in the depart ment of mechanics, which he said was opening a wider and better field than he professions. He closed with the prediction that the new century would see a new South, equaling or surpass ing the North in her diversified in dustries. 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Correct is warranted in all cases of liver disease and blood disorders to benefit or cure, or money promptly and cheerfully re turned. The War for southern Independence. RicIIoOr>, June 9.-The Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans will meet in Fredericksburg to-morrow. Cl. H. P. Smith, Grand Commander, will present his annual report. This will show that there are fifteen camps m the state of which six have been organized within the past year. The Grand Commander favors the adoption of a name by the Confederate veterans of the late war, and approves the sug gestion made in Charleston (S. C.) newspapers that it be called "The WXar Southern Independence." The benefits of vacatiopiseason may be greatly enhanced, if, at the same time, the blood is being cleansed and vitalized by the use of Ayer's Sarsa parilla. A good appetite, fresh vigor, and buoyant spirits attend the use of NEWERY OLEG. hecolee asre __ ry Ci h alo 87a Properussesio Clse-Th Wok f t te ws n the nstiutin an th Propecs fo th Yash ~ft~aais wsa Tred. --a tbuiling tsp e 'ay,1784 n The ~ ~ ~ .. ineeto-urpol-nou d-mnh oftatssso a,tinalinsituion neer anes Itroos nw ocuped' STeWerRndNw COE. noe Ths hie cola alee a e ur peple i Newerry ontine ito The fllg has87 ab AbPospter appesion oefh ourkncl on ta eimiencsev.r tge. It samnstitution.ad I Posetis and apgoodsbstnt;DAial rel beovrest5 imdsieaoia n Te interest io, our ppeian for,u otsoftaeso can institutions wher wauren yearoosnwocpes isgel that iotrisbu.ted s nal go0,00 sof i htorp al "Educatonys th ee he foremountry Siof fudn is anoldeig,butitom Whas tru itormer yon.e aebe awnd irste utteed Inti idst. plInehvntrdtevr toTe eeatli andi colese. Te ctaismieada uehv ft.othis fr ther moesreto thatevelvswr,reiot ourceplte ino tNwer otet he college isadoing shweir apprcitabtin ofhis aon cothey miec oe Aee t is acomensetitution IThe n agoubtni poerl forgd nw ousre omuity abrie asfalagyde wiedstteinflen forfo tht caegete aube n uee well te overesicmaed mineraeedsaland Thespe olte ofutuwrr eiecd.pcmxsnwst suc anisittoeweoute years ago-he eral-an agey publibted narly sketch ofh thler money the securewoke there,alo the colg rom thashaisato itsl freri aned prpe thotme itei dt. Itin one ee r str college. wsthe claim othin o thedclia mony,however,te e.t hexigood th colee s oingh heir comuity,btn. hsaln te ar te ayLiegstrepi or othe Carolita Nt ti commencement eashonTer Hoel and thewsuidiret gaidan brieunti som5litl wskho the college- o the upnthe public band the trseeds ande prosect for theN futr,e.S.Biet A few yarsart, The H.aldy and aco bishmert skre oPathec ollged, the Sumer, who woke Huter, an no Garlinton h . hisor isstll frsien the,minds of our Kinadrsd. os nm ereeon are hi time preseat board nd dail.yadM.Bcmn Trseshe wberr Coege wasrner otn comte ofirt ouldclical choolrs bulcdg atLin ton, S.C.e hepre soe onets, thei aeuation.tutue nfatoeo In 18.5dsomews ctera college bidnsi h byuthe.eiltr fSuhCrln T ufil Jauly157 was themponera onofs thev buldn laidk d. not ursdntl doet.Tfrt Gabgoard of tr.;t. B.Maer: JoD;n Bahman, D. LLD., Re.. Re. B. Hor. BoN. Aih . . Boist, . P.; rgart . hl. Biey and A ?sr. if uler, A. B.Bckan Tod,Hersum cmero, NAhuever,n A. C.ourngten wer P.aull toitaeoup aiht and theP Kirdiht propecs ofuth berh none argnte eswent board ad l read inCnedres borgds andch Baireyn wortls. Tahan homicaleaduihlding Easq occpd r. solmadielivred io adter lerr dreseshtie mleayn oftel conrtn In i elunse of6 the fer building. The itbuizn, neddaplacs wahbach store the evleoft olegeTecuseo td wasr an beuifu wstrcte, ind fathoe ofl-t lege hascomestcoege insi therehforeninenyear Suth.vrigsces n ra scori- y Se the art oh faculty. compoea Te legws foos:mvltolal Rev. J.Sok D . reiet Propru.Cnlt sMeltzer Bhad ,D . L D;rn a been elctdoreidn Rev JreA.urnown A.he coCeg A. Stobrry.rte uueisbi Dr. B.;ltzer was Whtte A.cond presdeA n .M e ya >fthe warllege ameo deserv er,c credtcieteiea orthe ounrde wre galed to tae upstheLti-ncuc righ an thebriht rospctsof he dnmiatial, phioso colegewer vey mterallinerfrre the roll faurnise with Th lageedowentfundwasofThati hous ofd by he ortnesof ar,orthcrilum pro llero swept awayhmore solteads in were worthless. ~The college buligdwsadsol a wasocuped y olier ad t toftrosprn u t odto a wilecruble ad fll ownITdoe edowmet wo se 186 a ofercam fom hecitzes o Tronae one been toid XValballa ~~~~~for the refu f h oleeeetedreso brg sor.ine fat tes e onthep at o th fault. Bfoe Luhan chuerih Smelzer ad ben lectdPrsidna onad ajo-t build andconinud n tat osiio uniloeomiaeiomlebtd the etun o thecolegeto bery.cued byl the alumniesse mbore nsd atnds v Dr. melter ws th secnd pesidn thouldn the t. of te cllee ad deervsmch eent sould beould oravw fortheha4wrk e aveto heinsidone the ampus Thin eretetiotenoleg A SO= G..D t- Holn,P.D,D . rsdn,Rv ~~ 1 heLMfj J.C3 B, Fox 5, h . .B ae,M . t t Re v A.J low'sv.i M,an .K 1 \I - M .atr- as 31bENtit/ L-1wM! R yed to Newber- with will give the reader who has not d the faculty at seen the buildings some idea of them. T W. Holland, The present faculty is Rev. G. W. n, G. _.D.._Jalti- Holland, Pb. D)., D. D., president, Rev. 'f pic .B o,Foes, i,adW .X6v .J h is orSih .B were taught in y Mr. Salter as President Holland's Report to the Trustees. f the college 92 The following is the annual report of i graduated and President Holland to the Board of s avocations of Trustees at their meeting on Monday : acquitted them- The catalogue of the session of 1890 ieir alma mater. 91 shows a roll of students as follows: 1utiful location Collegiate department 58; Preparato king the town, ry Department 27; Business Depart uilding. There ment 29, of whom nine were exclusive elected library, ly in the Business course. Total en ng collection of rollmnent 9::. The enrollment for the tural history session of 1889-90 was 122. This loss is Sifley museum, due to the opening of the Graded PREsIDENT HOLLAND Of Newberry College. hical a pparatus school in New berry, which affected a hich meet week- reduction in the Preparatory Depart halls and other ment from 52 names to 29. Had this -department been as ful! as in the pre sthorough and ceding session, our roll for this session pare favorably now closing would have 116--only six titutions of the less than for the preceding session. The prospect for the next session is ever in a more encouraging. The admissions to the than at present. collegiate classes are as follows: Sen all hut the pat- iors 8, Juniors 1:2, Sophomores 19, ld the outlook Freshmen 11. Total 54). With the us and encourag- ual accessions to the Freshman class, able and hard- the next session ought to show the erves and should largest enrollment of collegiates in tile >nort at least of history of the college. i South Caroli- The faculty recommend that you au T he college is thorize the conferring of the following ot sectarian, and degrees: vidence suficient Bachelor of Arts upon V. Y. Boozer, *rthe churcih. C. A. Fellers, A. W. Fogle, W. A. yet it should be Shealy, and D). M. Varn, who have r>e endowment successfully completed the prescribed tneeds more -tu- classical course. A certificate of profi them. ciency on H. E. Rlast who has success rsthe chlurchl has fully finished the prescribed Latin and zfor t he college. IEnglish courses. uses have been IAlso that you authorize the president ampus-one for of the college to confer upon 0. H. > for the profes- Duncan the degree of A. B., when he ater is called the shall have completed the prescribed Alumni Associa- classical course, and maintained a sat ed at its meeting iisfactory examination upon certain . Two of these studies hitherto not pursued by him. nd are now oc. The shafrpeI competition caused by rs. The third is the S uthi Carolina College, now an in il be occupied by stituitionl parallel to the denomination t session. There al college in its courses of study, and more houses built hvb the establishment of the Clemson cut print he,.e- (~ollege.calIled the Farmer's College,ealk for increased loyalty to Newberry Col legeon the partof theLutherans ofSouth Carolina and Georgia, and the citizens T of Newberry town and county. New berry College deserves and must have this support. She exists for the church and for Newberry, and to these sources she must look for patronage and in creased equipment. The time has come when. an enlight ened zeal and a liberal policy must b characterize the counsels of those who o -ire charged with her interests. 1. The college endowment must in the o definite future be raised to $50,000. ti The faculty must immediately be strengthened by the addition of at least one full professor-if possible by the addition of two professors. Steps should be taken at an early a (lay to provide another college building n for Library, Laborator' and Museum purposes. - t The erection on the college campus o during the past year of three residences o for professors at a cost of $6,000 is cause s, of sincere congratulation. The college , property is much beautified in appear- tj ance and enhanced in value; the inade- ti quate salaries of at least three professors p bave thus been increased about 25 per U cent., and about $10,000 invested at t] 6 per cent. per annum added to the en- v dowment of the college. The election e of a fourth professor may at an early it day bring with it the necessity for a fourth residence on the campus. a The following methods for the im mediate strengthening of the teaching force are suggested for your considera- n tion: 1. In the event that the Board of Di- b rectors of the Theological Seminary fc decide to nominate to the synod a Pro- e fessor of Theology in the Seminary, a that you ratify said action, and give said nominee the chair of it in the college, and that you for pledge o said professor a salary of $1,000 a year. tj For this plan thesum of $4,600 would j be required-no provision being made tl for the business course. - t 2. In tbe event that no seminary o profess(r is nominated, that you divide the chair now called mathematics and natural sciences into two chairs: (1) ~ Mathematics. (2) Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy, allowing the present incumbent of the chair as it now is his choice between the two chairs, and that you elect a professor of the other chair a at a salary of SS00 a year. That the business department be provided for c as follows: Book-keeping and kindred n studies to be taught by the professor of mathematics, and telegraphy and short hand by Prof. A. J. B..'ers. For this plan, the income of $4,400 ? would be required. 3. The interests of the college and S seminary might be served by adopting plan one, and in addition, electing an as sistant in the preparatory department a a at $400 a year, thus allowing the princi- a pal of the said department time for in struction in certain departments of the college, proper. This scheme would a cost $5,000. 0 4. The faculty concur in recommend- si ing a combination of plans 1 and 2, viz:. t the Seminary professor at $1,000 a year, f< with an assigned chair in college, and a a professor of mathematics,or ofphysics, n as may be deemed best. The- cost of this scheme would be $5,400. The income to the board from inter est and tuition fees for the past year is ii about $4,500. Plans 1 and 2 are feasi- e ble from a financial point of view. 1i Plans 3 and 4 would necessitate the j< creation of additional income to the tl amount of $500 and $900 respectively. n To meet the additional expense in- o curred by the adoption of plan 4, it is e recommended, ra (I) That you ask the Synod of Southp Carolina for an appropriation of $600. (2) That you urge upon synod the n importance of putting a;college financial 8 agent in the field, who, in connection c with other duties, shall raise funds for t the current expenses of the college. t It is the request of the faculty that at t least the following prizes and medals be 'J provided for the session of 1891-'92, viz: Senior Essay Medal, Junior Orator's o Medal, Sophomore Greek Medal, Ju-t nior Mathematical Medal. Prize of $10f worth of books to best admitted Sopho- s more in the classical course.t Prize of Websters International Dic tionary to best admitted Freshman in d classical department. It is recommended that you directd your treasurer to settle in full with the faculty for the year' now closing-nota later than July 15th proximo. Trusting that your deliberations may result in increasing the efficiency of the College. 1 I am yo,ur obedient servant, i G. WV. HOLLAND, President. c June 15, 1891. PEFFER GIVES IT UP. C He Thinks There is No Chance Lor the Sub Treasury Scheme. RALEK;ar, N. C., June 10.-The Chronicle will to-morrow publish an interview with Senator Peffer upon the sub-treasury bill or plan. He regards the principle as all right' but the meas ure as of secondary importance to that of putting more money in circulation and reducing the rate of interest. He 1 is inclined to the opinion that the best way to put the sub-treasury into actual. operation will be to allow the State leg islatures or alliances to do it instead of1 the general government. He does not think there is any chance for the meas t:re at any time in the near future. When We Get There. [From the Yankee Blade.] On the thirty-second day of the thirteenth mionith or the eighth day of the week. On the twenty-fith hour of the sixty-fir.et minute we'll find all things that we seek They ar e there in the lim bo of Llilipot laud, a cloud island resting in air, On tire Nowhere side of the Miountain of 3Mist it, the Valley of Overthere On the Nowhere side of the Miountain of Miist int the Valley of Ov-erthere. On a "olid vapor foundation of cloud are pal-) neecs grand and fair ; And there is where our dreams will come true and the seeds of our hope will grow On the thitherward side of theHlls~ of Hope in the hamle-tof Hocus P0. - On the thitheward side of the Hill of Hope, in the hramlet of Hocu- Po. We shall see all the things thtat we want tol see, and knowv all we care to know, For the.re the old mnen will nev-er lament, i,the be wlll never sqjueak. In the uro-" Road CorTers of C'haosv-ille, int the Count y of H ideangoseek In, tihe Cross Rtoad Co,rnerd of Chaiosville, in the County of H idlecaugoseek, On the thijrty-second day of the thIrteenth mionthi or thre eighth day of the week We shall do all tihe things that we please to do, and accomplish all that we try On the sunset shore of sometimeorother, by the beauti9flBay ot Bimeby. No greater triumph in medicine or chemiistry has been recorded than Hall's Hair Renewer to revivify and restr.e gray hair to the color of youth.1 HERE'S MORE OF A MESS. he Enterprising State After Superinten dent Mayfield and Mr. Thackston Two Circulars and an Interpreta tion. [The State.] The following circular letters have een sent to the school commissioners f the several counties of South Caro na by W. J. Tbackston, the chief clerk f the State Superintendent of Educa on: "OFFICE OF "PAL3IETrO SCHOOL JOURNAL, COLUMBIA, S. C., June 4, 1871. "DEAR SIR: The State board of ex miners, at their meeting in April, aade the Palmetto School Journal the iticial means of communication be ween the trustees and the department f education. The State superintendent f education designed to aid and In truct trustees in the department hich he will conduct. In this way rustees will not only have their atten ion drawn to the laws governing the ublic schools of the State, but will also e helped and encouraged to improve beir schools in many ways which he rill indicate and make practical. The nclosed letter, whieh fully explains self, I beg you to sign and return to ie at once. I will have copies made 4 nd mailed to each board in your coun "Your cordial assistance is-most ear estly solicited in this effort, believing bat the interest that will most surely e aroused will repay you an hundred )ld in the help it will give you in your forts to improve the schools corn itted to your keeping. "You are especially invited to send ems of interest concerning the schools f your county. I send you a copy of be Journal. As each number of the ournal will contain vital information at will appear only once, it is impor int that'you give attention to this at ace. "Very truly, W. J. THACKSTON, Editor and Owner Palmetto Journal. (Enclosure.) ==2 "DEAR SIR: The State board of e miners has adopted the Palmetto chool Journal as the official' means of ommunication between the deprt-. 2ent of education and. school ofcers. special department will be edited by be State Superintendent of Education, i which school law-and improvement f the schools will be discussed. "The State board, with ourselves, iost earnestly desire that every trustee bould receive the Journal, and by re )lution of the State board, trustees are uthorized to subscribe for the same nd issue an order on county treasurers i payment for same. "Enclosed you will find claim parti 1ly filled out for the three (3) trustees ! your district. Have these claims igned by your board and return them ) me in order that your name may .be >rwarded to the State superintetdet d have your names put on the ma ig list of the Journal, - -s - ..Very-4 ilyi, t This is a very interesting situation ideed! The State superintendeotof ducation. and his chief clerk have a ttle alliance among themselves, and a )urnal is issued by the latter, of which be former edits a department. We do . ot know whether the superintendent f education is a "silent partner" in the nterprise or not, or whether he is to eceive compensation forediting his d artment or not. That is a side Issue. Ve do know th i an attempt is being 2ade to make one department of the ~ tate government at once a public fice and a private "trust"-to take be money of the people and put it into - be pocket of an officeholder-to make be taxes of the counties support Mr. backston's journal. The declaration that the State board ' f trustees has passed a resolution an horizing this provision of the public unds does not come directly, It will be een, from Mr. Thackston. He puts Itin he mouths of the county school com nissioners. If it be true, the board has one an act which it will find very ard to justify. If it is true, there is Leception as well as jobbery. But no matter how it stands, this ifair is scandalous. It compels the aking of three copies of the Pal netto School Journal in every school . listrict of the State at the expense -of he tax payers, and the money goes nto pockets of Mr. Thack.ston indivi ually, or Mr. Thackston and his >ackers. It is estimated that the sum bus proposed to be drawn from the ounty treasuries will amount to from 3,000 to $.5,000 annually. GORMAN IN THE RACE. (aryland Democrats Will Push Him i the National Convention. ~ratic state committeeldecided to-day to iold the state convention for the nomi iation of a candidate for governor 9 uly 30. The indications are that . ~rank Brown will be the noeeHe s the choice of Senator Gorman, the arty leader. Several significant facts were devel >ped at the meeting. One was the de ~ermination of the state Democrats to ush Gorman in the National presiden ial convention. A friend of the sena or said to-day that the latter was in :he race sure. POLK AND THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. - SCall for Mass Meetings Kansas Takes I Hold ina Hurry. TOPEKA, KANs., June 10.-President Polk, of the National Farmers' Alli ine, has issued a circular to all State' illiances requesting them to make ar rangements for holding a number of ass meetings, one in each congres ional district, some day in September. cting on the advice of the national president. Secretary French, of the Kansas State Alliance, will in a few lays issue a cirsular designatinga place in each district where meetings shall be held, and suggesting the de :ails necessary to success. I; is also part of t plan to have these district neetings . 'lowed, by county meeting o give all the opportunity to4 and participate in the boom w they are intending to give the tiew people's party. A Costlv Kiss. Special to the Charleston World.] ATnANTA, June 9.-John Brown, te Greek, who kissed i~angfI bis employ against her tined $100 and costs in to-day. "It no worth Brown to his intepetr4~d the money.r