Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SELLING OUT. AT COST. The 10 Cr?t Stw>cr e Onr ro oc at acur <,ononfence to-(/(IY. Nor. AAd 181h. andl( scl! their ethe,ls i,cokr n slock (at cost. as theyj arV ,I Ial id f oin n their buiness. Cnc o a o0n(e (7lidsecure burgains.\n l ae SHEERARD & MINOR. Foot's Old StnOStand ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1891. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR AN OLD) INVENTIO-N. The Sub-Tteasury Idea Was Tried Two Bundred Years Ago. LGreenville News.] The "principle of the sub-treasury" as its friends call it has not even the merit of novelty. The fact that the same general plan, or idea, has been tried before has been frequently stated, but it is not generally known that a scheme a good deal like it was once tried in this State. A gentleman has called our attention to the following from the second volume of the South Carolina statutes: "Att a Parliament begun and held at Charlestowne for the Province of Carolina the one and twentieth day of July, in the third yeare of the Reigne of- our Sovereigne Lord King James the Second over Er.gland, &c., and in the yeare of our Lord God one thous and, six hundred eighty and seven. "An Act to ascertain the prices of c->mmodityes of the count rye s growth. "Whereas, for want of ascertaining the ratez -And prices of the goods of the growth and natural product of this country many tediouz and chargeable lawsuits and quarrels have and doe dayly happen between and among the inhabitants and merchants of this gov ernment, to the great losse and dam age of the plaintiff and the great losse and charge of the defendant, for the prevention whereof. Bee it enacted, by the Pallatine and the rest of the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of this Province and by and with the ad vice and consent of the Nobility and of the Commons in Parliament assem led. that all debts, accounts, contracts, bargains and judgments and execu tions thereupon hereafter to bee made, obteyned and done and which are not made expressly for silver or money or some other particular commodity att a certain price, shall and may bee paid and discharged by come att two shil lings the bushel, Indian Pease at two shillings sixpence the bus!hel, English Pease at three shilings sixpence the bushel. Porke at twenty shillings per cwt., Beef at twopence the pound, To bacco at tw * pence the pound, Tarr at eight shillings the barrell. And all tendersof payment in due tyme made all or any one or more of the before named commodityes att the prices Ie fore by this Act appoynted shall be in all courts, before all judges, justices and magistrates whatsoever be held and taken for good tender in law. Pro vided Alwayes that this act doth not continue to bee in force longer than twenty-three mon hs from the ratify cation of the same. "Read three tymes and ratified in open Parliament, the 2:rd July, Anno Dom 16S7, Annoq. R. Bo. 3 "JA31ES COLLETON JOHN GODFREY Jos. 'MORTON PAULL GRIMBA LL W31. DUNLOP STEPHEN BULL." S.o far as we kn.ow there is no record of the result of this experiment. As will be seen by the substance of the Act, it was not intended to be a perma nent arrangenment. It is evident that then, as now, moG ney was very scarce and prices of farm products were unsatisfuctory to the producers. 3Merchants and 'raders wanted cash and farmiers had none. We may imagine that the creditors had little use for "pease" or "corne." Yet thbe representatives of the k rds proprie tors undertook to force commerce and to change the conditio;ns by ex panding the volume of the currency. Th'le pro cess was a degree simpler an:d more di rect than that of the sub-treasury. Instead of depositing his products in a ware house and securing certificates o; receipts to pay his debts with, the farmer could tender the actual article. By the sub-treasury s;ystemn as now proposed a farmer could haul cotton to a government ware house, g. t a re ceipt for it and wit.h that receipt tende~r payment to another farmer or mer chant or banker who might be loaded with cotton until he loathed the very sight of it. By this former Sout.h Carolina plan a fine old original settler of the time who was heavily in debt to the factor or importer favored with his custom could turn all hands loose in in the then abundant pine forests anid go to work mnaking "tarr;" and Le could have that "tarr" hauled or roiled by the ton to the door of the unhappy creditor and unload it on him, literally "sticking" hima with it. Even beef and pork, both perishable, could be use. 'n the same way. The parlia mxent -the province was not then a popular assemiblage, but it manifested a disregard for the rights of credito:s indicating that most of its members were themselves somrewhat short of eash or lQng of some of the "commnodi tyes" for which they fixed the prices, Living descendants of these worthies will take notice, however, that we have stated this only as a deduction from circumstances and niot as a positive ac eusation on which we are p)rep)ared to stand challenge. It is fair to p)resumre that the old sub treasury scheme faile.d to operate pleasantly. It was promulgated from the city of Charleston, but we doubt if the traders there found it satisfactory. A few of themi were probably forced into difficulties by it, finding them selves unable to pay what they owed in Eugland with corn, peas, tar, tobaceo, beef or pork and confronted with the melancholy task of devouring great quantities of those things to re alize on their assets. No doubt the survivors for some t!me thereafter did business ou iron clad contracts binding their customers to pay in silver or modity, thereby destroying the credit of all farmers who could not meet their demands. This is said to be an age of progress. The alliance leaders tell us that they are progressive people and leading a grand movement which is to bring about something like the millennium. Yet we find their leading scheme to be a fallacy tried by men who were ex perimenting with government making on our own soil more than two hundred years ago when the greater part of this country was a wilderness. Government Paper Money. Mankind can never be liberated and be free from the manacles of the money kings and prosper, until the great na tions of the earth demonetize both gole and silver, and make government pa per money a legal tender for all debts, both public and private. Let our gov ernmnt of the people move promptly, and lead in the holy work by issuing it in ample volume for the transaction of business based on property and the credit of the Nation. The financial issue as presented is not a question simply betwr -n capital and labor. It does not . Antenance socialism, agrarianism or anarchy, as our opponents would have the world believe. The aim and end of those who advocate a change of the financial sys tem is high and holy-the advance ment of humanity. Th i'eal forces arrayed against each othel iL. the con test are the property holders at' busi ness men on one side and the holders of metalic money on the other side. The great decline in property of every kind and the failure of 170,000 business firms, with liabilities of $4,500,000,000, on the one side, and the enorrious in crease in wealth of the holders of me talic money and its increased purchas ing power on the other side, atte-t the truth of the above statement. The admission that 96 per cent. of all busi ness is now done on paper is an acknow ledgment that the metals as money are wholly inadequate to meet the de mands of trade and commerce. No statesman will give ear to the twaddle of establishing State Banks of issue with the lights before us. The Constitution of the United States, Ar ticle 1, Section 10, says: "No State" *** "shall coin money" or "enit bills of credit." Emit means to issue, to print and send into circulation. Is it not clear, a State that is denied the power to exercise this right cannot delegate it? No honest, intelligent and sane man wid advetate the establish ment of such a system, knowing it is unconstitutional. The banking system of the world, since the first tank waf established, in 1509, in Amsterdam, is and has been a licensed fraud, by empowering the crafty to shave and swindle the inno cent and helpless. It is a crime against humanity. It is claimed and prac tised that it is safe to issue three paper dollars-promises to pay-for every .metallic dollar a bank has when it is established. To license corporation with a capital of M1O,000 in metallic money to issue $300,000 of promises to pay is a fraud on the public, as two out of euery three are based on nothing but the credit of the corporation. Again, the stock holders get interest on three times the amount of their capital. In this State, before the war, the banks sometimes !ssued five and six dollars to one of their capital, and loaned it on cotton. If the bank fails the public holding the promises to pay bears the loss: This is illegal and should not be tolerated, being in violation of Article 1, Section 10, of the United States Constitution. The people then were confiding. The money power controlled legislature and matters quietly drifted. The people now are roused and mean to have jus tiee and law. They are getting more and more light each day. Out of the chaos and confusion surrounding us our princi ples and demands will emerge and prevail, if we are loyal and brave in sustaining them. Trust only the true, loyal and brave. Principles and measures for the common good are para moun t. Party name, the mere suprema cy of party,and individual ad vancement should be brushed aside as naught. Let our principles and measures be clearly understood, and In their firm esta.lish m nent let there be no faltering much less yielding. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided and decl: red that it is the duty :>f Congress, the legislature of our sovereign nation, "to provide a national currency for the whole peo pIe." Let Congressmen realize their sworn duty and proceed and do it with out delay. The conditions surrounding us are urgzent and imperative that a system of finance better than the one we have shall be instituted-a system that will provide the people with a national cur rency in ample volume for the easy transaction of business on a cash basis. This is af easy accomplishment in either of two ways. First, let Congress demonetize both gold and silver, except for fractional currency and fix the per capita circula tion and the.rate of interest. Then let Congress establish a sub treasury in each State, and order legal tender notes receivable for all debts, both public and private, printed, and loan them direct to the people, properly restricted and secured-or furnish them to the States according to population, and let each State loan them to her people on such security as each may elect. South Carolina may determine to loan them on real estate, cot ton and rice; Louisi ana on real estate, cotton and sugar; the States of the northwest on on real estate and wheat: the New England States on real estate and merchandise. In 1848, when lirance declared the notes of thbe bank of France a legal ten der they were loaned on Colonial pro ducts and merchandise. By the adop t ion of such asystem all will have a fair chance. Such a system will be the glory of finance and be a long stride in the advancement of humanity. There is not an instance on record when specie payments were suspended and a copious supply of Government paper mone watissued properly restricted and secured that the people failed to prse.Uncertain+y and disaster alasflows, sooner or later, the issue of paper money based on mef7allie money. The products of mInes should no more be coIned into money than the prodlucts of the fields. All are com nmodlties. A mong all nations and tribes and in all ages money has been made b convention or law. It Is not prop erty, all property being a product of labor. It Is sImply an instrumnet cre aten for the easy transfer of titles to property from one person to another, and should have small intrinsic value, Let us have government paper money issued In ample volun: , for all business properly restricted and se red, basedA on pronarty andA the credit oi the nation. All will be interested in its stability, as every one will handle it more or less. When a person holds it he knows he has what be can con vert at any time into such property as be desires. Let there be no rest until this is done. It will lift the depression that now holds us down, and projects the country upon acareer of wonderful prosperity. We will hear no more of over-production. New enterprises will be started, and improvements will be visible on all siies. There will be money enough to give all work who desire it. They will be in a condition to buy, not only the necessaries, but some of the comforts of life, which, under present conditious, they cannot get. Respectfully, ELLIsoN S. KE!Tr. Enoree Plantation, S. C., Nov. 5, 1891. Wade Hampton. [Darlington Herald.] In their inordinate and insane desire to court popular favor, some of the sub treasury papers have so far forgotten every sentiment of gratitude as to speak in disparaging terms of SouthCarolina's most distinguished son-Wade Hamp ton. We very much mistake the tem per of the people if any number of them endorse the sentiments of these office seeking editors; or who would not repudiate with indignation any words, save those of respect and aff'ection, used in connection with his name. The very men who are speaking in this way of him, would, a few years ago, have considered it a distinguished honor to have shaken his hand; and simply because, in the exercise of his judgment, he differed from them on some public questions, must needs speaks of him in the same terms they might use in speaking of a professional politician. They should never have aught else than the scorn and contempt of ever- true son of South Carolina, and this alone should forever debar them from securing any office of honor or profit in the State. Have they for gotten the dark days of'76, when Wade Hampton held the destinies of the whole State in his hands, and when it was only by his courage, his unselfish ness and his great influence that we were saved fron the political robbers that had brought us to the verge of ruin? Great as be was in war, he was greater still in peace, and his proudest record is that of the political savior of his people. The knightly soul of'Wade Hampton soars far above the foul and murky atmosphere in which his de tractors grovel; and when the present generation shall have passed away, and the record of Carolina's illustrious dead is written up; the name of Wade Hampton, the knightliest of a knightly race, and peer of Sydney or Bayard, will embazon one of the brightest'pages of her history, while the names of his defamers will sink into well merited oblivion. A TRANSACTION IN MAKING RAIN. sale of a Rain Company's Secret Process for $50,000. TEM PL E, TEX., Nov. 9.-Rain makers have been at work here. They came from Kansas, are called the inter-State Artificial Rain Company, and have their headquarters at Goodland, Kan. This company, of which E. H. Mur phy is President, was negotiating a sale of their secret to a stock company, and the experiment here was the last of a series that resulted favorably. The stock company, through its agent ac companying the party, signified its sat isfaction with thc experiments. The party, consisting of President Murphy, Messrs. Smitth, Bush, and Morris, arrived in the city on Sunday, Nov. 1, and commenced operation en Monday evening in a small outhouse at the edge of town. The conditions were extremely unfavorable for rain. No results could be seen at first, but on Friday the sky became overcast with clouds. On Saturday a high south wind prevailed. anid on Saturday night some rain came from the southwest. On Sunday rain fell all day and at night another arose. Reports from 100 to 150 milesaround;this town show that rain fell on Sunday in most localities in considerable quantities. The rain makers are jubilant and claim the rain fell on accous of their efforts. Thcy closed the bargain for the purchase of their secret upon the results here and yesterday left for home. It is understood that S.50,000 was the price. The process is claimed to be that used by Melbourne. The Democracy of Tammany, [From the Atlanta Constitution ] The worst that can be said of Tam many now is that it represents the un changeable forces o f genuine Democra cy, and this is its crime in the eyes of the mugwumpes and sham reformers. It represents the Democracy dear to the heart of Jefferson and Jackson; it believes that when the people vote a party into power that that party should take complete charge and hold itself re sponsible to the people for the results of its administration. Long live Tam many! May its strength increase and its victories multiply! A Kicker. Mrs. Slimdiet-It there anything I can put in your room to add to your comfort? New Boarder-I notice there is no thermometer on the stove; how do you tell when it is going? Boils, carbuncles, and other skin eruptions indicate that the system is endeavoring to rejeet poisonous acids, and that Ayer's Sarsaparilla is im peratively needeJt is the most re | liable of all blo&u medicines. Ask your druggist for it, and take no other. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOSIETY. Annual Meeting-Mr. R. A. Love Elected President-Other Officers Chosen. [Register, 13th.1 The annual meeting of the State Ag ricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina was held last night at the Court House at 8 o'clock, President McIver in the chair with Col. Thos. W. Holloway acting as Secretary. The meeting was largely attended and actih aly participated in by a great number of those present. The special business of the meeting was the election of officers to serve dur ing the coming year. President McIver having declined re-election, M. R. A. Love of Chester, was nominated and unanimously elected. A committee of seven was then appointed to make nominations for the office of Vice-Presidents. Presi dent McIver asked Col. S. A. Gregg, who was the delegate from this State to the Cotton Growers' Convention which met in Atlanta to make a verbal report for the information of the meet ing. Col. Gregg said that the attendance at ths convnntionwas rather small, but this was rather on account of the many postponements of the day of meeting rather than any of interest in the mat ter. South Carolin., Virginia, Gebrgia, Mississippi and Florida were repre sented at the meeting and Hon. D. P. Duncan was elected president. The question of reducing the cotton acreage was generally discussed by those pres ent and it was agreed that where in tensive system of farming was practiced that the acreage be reduced to about twelve acres to the plow. It was also recommended that the size of the cot ton bale be reduced and that a "samhple pocket" be added to the bale in order to stop stealage. This step is recom mended on the statement made on the floor of the New 'ork exchange that no less than $30,000 or $40,000 stealage is made in New York annually in the handling of cotton. In conclusion Colonel Gregg offered the following: Resolved, That this society endorses the action of the Cotton Growers' Con vention held in Atlanta and pledges its support if the other States will co operate. Mr. J. Frost Walker moved to table this resolution, but the motion to table was unanimously defeated. Colonel Humbert,of Abbeville, chair man of the committee appointed to draft a,-set of resolutions.of respect on the death of Colonel James N. Lip scomb, offered resolutions in which a high tribute to the service and worth of Celonel Lipscomb was paid. These resolutions were seconded in most beautiful and touching language by Colonel B. F. Creighton, who briefly reviewed the life of Colonel Limpscomb and recounted his great influence in society. The following committee was ap pointed to draft resolutions of respect on the death of Colonel J. C. F. Sims: Colonel Thomas Taylor, Colonel James Magby and Mr. T. 0. Sanders. An election was then gone into to fill the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, which resulted in the unanimous re election of thbe present incumbents, Sec retary Thomas.W. Holloway and Treas urer J. IL. Berg. Colonel Holloway was very vocifer ously called on for a speech. He didn't make any, but he brought down the house by saying that he was "actually too tired and hungry to say anything.'' This was taken as a good and sufficient excuse, for every one knows perfectly well that no man in the State has worked harder, especially during the last week than Colonel Holloway. President McIver then appointed Colonels Duncan and Crayton a com mittee to escort the newly elected President, Mr. R. A. Love, to thbe chair. Of course the meeting wanted a speech but were disappointed again. President Love said he was no speaker, but felt very deeply the high honor conferred upon him, an honor he said which was the highest that could possibly be con ferred upon any farmer in tbe State, and he highly appreciated the distinc tion paid him. The coinmittee then reported the following nominations, which were unanimously confirmed by the meet ing: For Vice President from First Congressional District, A. T. Smythe; Second Congressional District, A. P. Butler; Third Congressional District, B. F. Crayton; Fourth Congressional District, J. Wash Watts; Fifth Con gressional District, T. J. Cunningham; Sixth Congressional District, S. A. Gregg; Seventh Congressional District, W. G. Hinson. The following is the executive com mittee: E. K. McIver, T. 0. Sanders, E. L. Roche, F. W. Vance, J. B. Hum be.rt, T. J. Moore, 0. P. Mills, Dr. J. S. Dunn, J. G. Mobley, A. B. White, L. D. Childs, John Dunnovant, Frank Sims, Dr. Walter C. Fisher. Got the Mitten Every Time. "I can marry any girl I please,'' was his exclamation, but unfortunately then he did not please any; and there was was a plain reason for it. He had contracted catarrh of the worst form, and, although a wealthy, educated, attractive person every other way, he was positively repulsive to his lady friends, a number of whom re jected his offers of marriage. A friend advised him to use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. He took his advice, and now is the most popular beau in town, and he really can "marry any he pleases'" to ask. It made his breath pure and sweet, he has no headache, no offensive discharges from the nose, in short, is in perfect health, and all from using a few bottles of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. BILL ARP. C; In Georgia Veterans in Virginia Graves Kept in Mind. 0 LAtlanta Constitution.1 There are one thousand and ninety seven Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery at the University of"Virginia, near Charlottesville. Two hundred and twenty-five of these are Georgians. The good geople who live there have not neglected their graves and have ex pended $1,500 on the enclosure and the . shrubbery. But the Old Dominion is almost a universal graveyard, and it is not for the other States to throw all the burden upon them. The appeal a now comes to us for help. There- bard ly a Georgia regiment that is not rep presented in that cemetery, and every soldier's name and company has been carefully preserved and every grave identified. Two years ago a similar a appeal was made from Fredericksburg, b and our people responded as patriots and Christians, and every grave is marked with a marble headstone. That good work is done-well done-per- p manently done, and those who gave the dollar for one soldier will have a good credential when they meet these soldiers "across the river." g Many years ago James Berry was convicted of robbery in our court. The evidence was strong but altogether cir- e cumstantial, and he was sent to the penitentiary. He had served three years of his time when anothrcz man, who was in jail in a distani county charged with robbery, sent for Judge Underwood, and said: "I am guilty e, and cannot escape. I am also guilty of the crime for which Berry is now in prision. He knew tothing about it and is innoceet. It has made me u miserable all these years that he is uffering for my crime. I don't want to meet him and face him in the peni- P tentiary. I have now written my con- d ression and made plain my guilt and Mis innocence, so please see the Gover nor and have him pardoned and sent a him away before I get there. 11is poor, r uffering face will haunt me like a g host." Berry wasreieased and Roberts D S4 convicted, but they never met. When I ruminate upon the hard, ong service of these soldiers and their sufferings and, death afar from home g ind kindred, their hurried burial in a hallow graves, with no one to weep a tear or send a last message to those who loved them, and when I ponder t pon their negiected graves and the Y fl) n indifference of our people it nakes me shudder at the thought. of meeting g them on the other side. I believe in that. We will all meet. I believe that we will have to face every neglected grave. There is no excuse for this ne glect of our soldier dead. One dollar for each grave will mark it and keep it d green, and there are thousands of our people who can spare that much and be no poorer. Until this is done it will not do for us to boast of our patriotisme of our gratitude. 1 The Exposition is a big thing, and so is King Solomon and the cyclorama, and Atlanta is a wonderful city, and we see thousands and thousands of t dollai's pouring into her hoppers every t] day and from every train, and as I d looked upon the hurrying crowds I a wished that every man and every wo man would leave a dime somewhere to spend on our dead soldiers' graves. I wonder if there are not two hundred and twenty-five good, big-hearted peo- d ple in Georgia who will send me a dol lar, or send it to Mr's. WN. B. Harris, at r Charlottesville. I wonder if there are t not a few wvho will send $5. I wonder it there are not eighty-t wo in Alabama who can spare a dollar for her soldiers, r and eighty-four in Louisiana, and sixty-nine in Mississippi, and two hun dred in North Carolina, and thirteen in Florida, and one hundred and sixty- t one in South Carolina, and one hun dred and ninety-two in Virginia. I looked over the list of our Georgia boys a who are sleeping there and wondered if their kindred knew where they were buried. I saw some familiar namses r from the old Eighth, to which I was attached, and I wondered if the friends of Funderburk and Huckaby and Dunn knew of their burial place, and that S woman's loving hands did every year place flowers on their graves. I knew those boys and it pleased mre that their bones are thus honored. They wvent at the Erst call and did what they could. General Lee did no more.t Friends, countrymen, good people, r send in your mites as the Lord hath r blessed you and let us preserve the homes of our dead. 1 believe in cherish- ~ ing and cultivating our emotions, our g spiritual nature, love, pity, gratitude; e 'hose virtues that redune us here and will be a passport over there. I be- r lieve in happy homes and cheerful lire- ~ sides and obedient children, and in the ~ faces that bring sunshine when they i conie. This is my creed. Of course there are ups and downs and losses and ~ crosses, and big troubles and little troubles in every household, but they don't last long and we anti 2ipate a sight of trouble that never comes. I am a little domestic trouble right now;,. but it won't last long, I reckon. I've been letting the Jersey calf run in the grove in front of the house and my wfe told me that calf would come up the steps and eat up the flowers, but Ii said no; that cows had less sense than any other animal, and calves dident have any, and nobody ever heard of a calf climbing up five stepo to get into a flower garden. She had bordered the front yard with chrysanthemums that1 were just beginning to bloom, and sure enough when I looked out the-front door this morning there wasent n. flow er left on one side of the yard.. They 1 ere all eaten down, and the rlagued 4 Of had begun on the roses. The sight )ade me sick away down. The front ard looked like a man with one side f his whiskers shaved off. My first npulse was to rush frantically forth nd kill the calf. My next was to drive er gently over to the other side and :t her eat that down, so as to restore be equilibrium. Then I wondered if bey were not thick enough for me to ike some of them up and replant the de that was desolate, but the ground ras too bard and dry, and so I drove :e aggravating beast to the lot and :ut her up. My comfort is that I aught that calf to please Mrs. Arp, nd Captain Peacock never told me 2at she was fond of chrysanthemums. called my wife to the door and pointed the pitiful spectacle. She never said word. She never said "I told you >," but she looked sad, like somebody ras dead. For a little while she posed 3 a martyr, and then resumed her ousehold duties. The trouble is tht very time we go to the front piazza e see it and it mars the pleasant pros ect. It keeps us from feeling calm ud serene. But by and by the flowers ill fade and leaves will fall, and then 'e will forget it. Old Father time is a Dod doctor. Well, I havent been to see King olomon, and I am :;ot going u-til the )ntroversey is settled. The Baptists Ly it is a good thing and the Methodists ty it is a very bad thing, and so I will ait until the Presbyterians have their ty. Our preacher basent said a word, [eard a man say that the Baptists *ere increasing more rapidly than he ver knew them, for there were 12,000 ew ones in the show every night. [aybe they were the same old ones ho keep on going. But it is well for s that the preachers stand like senti els on the watch towers and warn the eople. They may sometimes cry anger when there is no danger, but iey are.nevertheless, the best sentinels -e have got. There may be extremists nd fanatics among them, but I had tther risk them for good advice and Dod example than any other profes on. They are the leaven that leavens )ciety. They are the salt that pre rves morality. They are our comfort i trouble and 'ickness and at the open rave. Good people honor them every here. There is not a college in our tate, male or female, but has a preach at its bead, their moral and high me and Christian influence over the outh of the land inspires them to oble conduct and goes down from neration to generation. Blessings on the preachers. BILL ARP. A Word for the Orphans. Times are tight aad there are a hun red childred to feed. That is the state affairs at ihe Thoruwell Orphanage. Think of it, there are children gath ed together at Clinton, from nearly rery Southern State. They are fathcr ~ss and motherless and would be omeless but for the good hand of God ho has gathered them under these rotecting roofs and raised up friends >help them. You, reader, are one o'f 2se friends, if you will quickly sit own and write out a check or euclose gift to Dr. Jacobs, Clinton, S. C., and elp him to feed those orphans. Or md a barrel or flour or a sack of corn r a barrel of peas, or rice, or molasses. The children aie from seven different enominations. There are as many of tist origin as Presbyterian and as any of Methodist as Baptist among 2em, so don't stand back on account f a word of doctrine. They don't nd off a child there. because the arents did not happen to be of their tith. Thanks,giving is close at hand. The ery time to give a thank-offering to be helpless. Christmas is close by. How could ou forget to make the orphans happy t such a time. And mark you, if you nd people like you do not pity and elp these orphans they will have othing to eat or wear. THE FARMERS' CONGREsS. one of the Rtesolutiont Adopted and Re jccted. SEDALIA, MO., November 12.-The 'armers' National Congress unani iously adopted the following resolu ons to-day: Recommending State con rol of live stock exchanges; recoin ending thie passage of a national law equiring the stamping of artifical hog roducts; demanding the passage of a 'ederal law prohibibitinig gambling .n tr products; endorsing the principle reciprocity. The following resolutions, previously eported upon adversely by the comn ittee, were rejected by the Congress: )emanding the coinage of silver dol ars f the value of 100 cents each; de aanding Government ownership of ailroads and telegraphs; demanding ational revenues derived from taxes rom imports which come into compe ition with home manufacturers; de nanding Federal prohibition o the sale f intoxicants, and demanding the ces ion of arid lands to the various States n which the arid lands are situated. Mr. Mayne~1d's Assistant. [Register, 1:3th.] Prof. John G. Clinkscales, who has >een doing institute work during the umier and fall, after a rest of two eeke, has assumed the duties of clerk,' o which position he has been ap ,ointed by Mr. Mayfield. Grayness baldness, dandruff, and all liseases of the scalp, and falling of the' ai.r can be cured by using Hall's Veg .beShicilimn Hair Renewer.' CURED DRUNKARD'S TALK. Believe they are Really Cured by Keeley's Treatment-But don't Expect a New t Set of Brains. [New York Sun.] t The death of Col. John F. Mines has jeen followed by the disappearance of Tohn Otrgie. Both had tried the Keeley bichloride of gold treatment ,.0l. Mines went to Dwight, Ill., stayed ;here six or seven weeks, and returned -o New York in the firm belief that 2is taste for alcohol had been killed. a couple ot weeks ago he surrendered to his old enemy, went on a prolornged ;pree, and died in the hospital on Black well's Island. Forgie was treated Lt Keeley's brauch establishment at White Plains, but was not discharged Ls cured, as was the case with Col. ffines. He insisted, however, on going back to his business, did so, made one uccessful trip through the West, re ;urned to New York on Nov. 1, prepa atory to leaving here a few days later, tnd he has not been seen since. It has >een thought that perhaps Col. Mines's lownfall caused Forgie to despair, but :at is only conjecture. r A reporter went to White Plains yes :erday and talked with several men who said they had been cured by the Keeley treatment, as well as with some who were undergoing the treat-uent. Charles Walker keeps a hotel, and ,very one in the town knows him. He a s a ruddy-faced man, 50 years old, and ;eems to be the picture of health. This s what he said when asked if he had a ost faith in the cure by the death of .ffines and the disappearance of Forgie: "No, no, no! I will tell you my ex perience. I used morphine for fifteen years. My legs and arms, in fact 3early my whole body, were covered with punctures caused by the needles. [ used to taKe seventy grains a day, mough to kill twenty-five men. I would never leave the house to be gone c couple of hours without taking my 3yrinCe and three or four needles with ne. Until June 15 of this year I be dieved there was no cure for me. I bhought that my time was very short. [ was then using hypodermic injections "orty times a day with the double so Lution of morphine. I wf!nt to the institute four times a day for nine i weeks. At the end of that time I was ,ured. If a ixlan can get out of such P bell hole as I was i through the cure, [ say, God bless Keeley. The recent death and disappearance you speak of I bave not shaken my belf at all. 8 Keeley says: 'I don't give you a new t 5et of brains, but if you are not a luna- f tic I'll cure you.' They give me six- I been ounces of whiskey every day for rour weeks, and I drink still if I want t t, but I have never had the slightest desire to return to the morphine habit. The inebriate asylum men say that the t nly way to cure a drunkard is to turn bis toes up. Keeley says, 'You lie.' A I ellow went away Saturday and gave a patient a bottle of whiskey that he had i carried for a month." A wealthy man, a resident of a town C near White Plains, was next seen. At I bis request his i1ame is not printed. t He said: "I have not lost faith in the cure. I I have drunk more liquor than any man living of my age. I have been in asy- 1 lms. I have been around the world 1 in a sailing ship twice: I have doner everything a man could do to get away from rum, but I could not do it until I came here. For four months I have I not touched a drop, and have not the ( slightest craving for it. My faith is till perfect." Another patient was seen playing, cards in one of the hotels. He said he had been on a spree for a month. Out of sheer desperation he came to White Plains. He began the treatment, and whiskey was given for two days. "Since then," he said "although I I have had a.bottle in my room, I have have never touched it. I don't want I it. The doctor told me to drink all I wanted at the institute; then, he said,< we will know w hat you drink, but don't drink outside. When I came I here I could not hold a pen. Now I 1 am as stea(1 as you are. This is the work of three weeks. Lost faith? No." A half a dozen other men were seen, and they all told the same story. "Be cause one or two men have given way does not discourage us. We believe in the cure and believe that any one whoI is not really a lunatic can be cured per manently." Dr. Vanderburg, the head of the in stitute was seen next. The Doctor said that in the case of patients newly ar rived and under a terrible nervous strain the news of the death of Mines I and the mysterious disappearance of Forgie might cause harm. It would case despair and take away all hope. "Why," he said, "two cases out of ten thousand have been reported in the newspapers. We do not even claim such a percentage. We will allow that perhaps five out of a hun dred are incurable, owing to some chronic disease or to natural weakness of mind. What we do is this. We put a man back where he was when he was born. He had no desire for liquor then. A fter treatment here the desire is gone, and if he resumes the habit with his knowledge of the past, an in sane asylum is the place for him. We kill the taste and desire for -iiquor. The man who leaves here cured has no more desire for it than the child not yet born. As for the psychological in fluence or the influence of hypnotism, w,hichL,.Dr. Shrady and others of his class think we exert on patients, that is mere bosh. I have had physicians bring men and women here and say: 'You can do ten times as much for thm a e can. We don't know how ou do it, but take them.' Now that rings n'e to the secret of the cure. )r. Keeley.said to me the other day in 2is room that if the medical fraternity rould acknowledge the efficacy of his reatment he would publish- every fact, i connection with it. Forgie's case ,as not a test cse by any means. He ras a brandy drunkard, and one of the rorst I ever saw. He could hardly ralk when he came here. He was not. ischarged as cured, but went away gainst my advice. His case was not.. failure. He took the bit between his, .eth and went away before he should ave gone. "Now, here is a letter froma doctor i Troy. It came three days ago. He rank liquor for ten years, and is only - [years old. He has been at Fort lamilton and in the Christian Home.~ efcre he came to White Plains, . on uly 22 of this year. he was drinking, aily anything oyer and above a quart f whiskey he could get. He left here .ugust 12, and, as you see, he says in is letter he has not tasted a drop or ad any desire to do so." After the talk with the doctor the.. ?porter walked into the main. hall of ie Institute. It was 5 o'clock in the fternoon. Thirty or forty men, young ad old, all well dressed, all bright oking, were lounging around a gopd any had their coats off with the shirt eeve of one arm ro'iled up. They .lked freely, and not a man expressed disbelief in the cure. Pretty soonthe octor came in and went to a table, ad, taking a hypodermic syringe, fled it with a red fluid taken from a 2ell-shaped saucer In front of him. 'he first man stepped forward, held p his arm, the doctor inserted the oint of the syringe, and withdrew it i a second. The whole operation did ot take ten seconds. On the way to the station groups of ien were going to be "speared," as 2ey call it, and in the hotel there were ,rd parties and men playing billiards nd pool. There was temptation nough, but no one seemed to heed It. 'he hotel saloon keepers were unani ious in saying that they had seen but ne or two backsliders. THE BICHNOND TERMIINAn. ohn H. Inman and the Calhouns have POV fected their Financial Arrangemnts. [Special to News and Courier NEW YORK, November 12.-Tbe ticmond Terminal afriareaspdly raightening out and Wall street .&F day less doubtful of the compayA; . ituic weal. Therehas beentaomaay cresponsible stories about the concer irculated, both in print and prattle, hat facts are worth a premium. What ver else may or may not yet remain usettled, one thing is absolutely ce ain, that the floating debt of the,Geor ia 'Central Railroad is entirely pro ided for. All the papers -perftainjn the matter are signed and tJhe stney up. It is neversafe toreport a finap-a ial undertaking in Wall street a suc ess until every detail has been accom lished. Consequently while the Cen ral's niegotiation has looked very pron sing for several weeks past, it has iever been cock sure until to-day. The arrangement is entirely satifc ory to all concerned. It puts the Cen-1 ral beyond the possibility of any. nonetary stringency, and' makes new riends for the property eminently rorth having. The strong banking iouse of Speyer & Co., together with 'thdr prominent firms with influential creign connections, constitute the syn icate which has taken the loan. -- Great credit is due John C. Calhoun n this matter. Through his personal forts the arrangement was effected. [he success of the negotiation silences 1 talk against the Calhoun brothers, d maakes their position In the Termi al n'anagement enviable and secure. hey are stronger to-day than they iave ever b,een. John H. Inman will remain the head if the whole Terminal system as long s it suits his pleasure to retain the lace. and he and the Calhouns are in horough accord. M. .1. v. Three Unsuccesfl Ventures. The inventors of the various flying nchines or devices for travelling brough the upper air, that have been eard of this year, especially in the ;est, have all failed to get their ma hines in working order. But they all eelare that they will yet win success. The Chaut-mqua dress reformers now ~dmit that they have been-unable to utroduce their new style of feminine arb beyond the geographical limits of hautauqua. But they still maintain hat they will yet introduce it every s-here. Te artificial rain producers, who save been operating for the past four nonths in Texas and Colorado, and enose boasting has resounded over the - ~ountry, have given all the necessary ~vidence of the failure of their experi nents. But they still boast that they ill yet bring rain when it is wanted. Bald Without and Within., [From the Philadelphia Record. A queer advertisement appcared in a ocal paper yesterday, which began. Lost-Set of teeth and wig." A Romance In a NutshelL. She went to a ball ; wore too thin ~lothing ; caught cold ; was very ill for nany days ; a devoted admirer brought remedy, when her life seemied to lang bya tred she tooi;re ~overed ; and, finally, married~the man ho had saved her life. And.the reum dy he brought her was Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoveay, which isa ertain cure for aWthroatnd long dis- j sases and serofulous complaintS, of -hich cnsumption is one. . . '