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NO~C.A GOLDEN OPPORTU NOTICE.NIY The firm of Sherard & Mi- he C moR at nor has been dissolved and the tw er stock must be sold AT Ne\\tixgit tNWYR YORK COST for thext t to w er two weeks to wind up the co- - partnership. Come at on0ce Yor to please,- ,1G ea and see our goods AT THEXiU*p TE-N CEN'T S THErt d r W. Ss . SHERAR R, DSuccessor to Sherard &rMinor. -_ _ 'D Y DEPICC$.50AIEA P5T A P.T.TTTIT) 16) NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDDECEMBER 2, 1891. P5 THE NEWBERRIY BANK CASM. The ?Comptroller-Genetal Expre"sep Hl Views on the Subject-Thinki4 Judge Hudson's Di-clsion Will Not Hold. Columbia Special to News and Courier. Comptroller General Ellerbe has noted the result in the mandamus case at Newberry in re the Newtberry Bank. The Comptroller General wAs asked to day what he had to say in this june ture. He said : "The banks, the railroads and othei corporations have been fighting the Comptroller General, and now the Judges are taking a hand in the fight, but if all of the Jduges co, nit as grave a blunder as was done in this New berry Bank case there will be nothing to fearand nothing to prevent the legal vindication of the acts of the Comp troller General. "The decision or ruling can possibly have no practical result. It is well known, or ought to be kuown, that the county auditor is required by law tc make up his books and turn over the tax duplicates to the county treasurer ' the 30th of September. The audi tor New berry has already done that, he hol - he treasurer's receipt. Now the Judge rde P auditor t change entries o his books, posing the change made on the audi tor's books, that order cannot possibly affect the collection of taxes, which I presume is the essence, if not the mo tive, of the contest. "It can readily be seen that the order of the Judge will not affect the treas urer's books, on which the taxes are collected; and I hold, according to the statutes, that no Judge has a right te interfere with the treasurer's books. It will be only necessary to quote in this relation the following from Section 269, Revised Statutes : 'No writ, order or process of any kind whatever sta ing or preventing any officer of the State charged with a duty in the col lection of taxes from taking any step or proceeding in the collection of tax, whether such tax is legally due or not, shall in any case be granted by any Court or Judge of any Court." "There," continued the Cormptroller General, "the collection of taxes can neither be stayed nor prevented, what ever the subsequent action of those in interest may be. It will be quite time enough to talk about the result.if the attempt is made to change the treas urer's books when that contingency arises, except that I might say that the officer, Judge or otherwise, attempting such an extraordinary proceeding would be liable to impeachment. For the benefit of those who do not know the proper remedy, I may say that it will be found in Section 268, General Statutes, and that is to pay the taxes under protest, whether legal or illegal, and recover by due process of law afterwards from the county treasurer. "The facts in the Newberry Bank case are these: it made its return at $150,000. According to their quarter's - report ending December, 1890, they had $150,000 capitalstock, $150,000 surplus and undivided profits, and about $9,000 in personal property, making S300,000, which was assessed at $240,000 (audi tor's increase,) which is $69,000 less than the actual money value. "I have instructed the auditor to comply with Section 239, which re quires that the president of the bank be sworn on matters touchiug value of stock, etc. I have also called the audi tor'sattention to Section 241, providing a penalty of 50 per cent. for making false r eturns. "I may surther say that the way to make chantgeson thblbooks is by petition to the Comptroller-General, whbo looks into the merits of the case, and not by the proceedings at New berry, as pub lished to-day." CHARLESTON BANKS WILL FIGHT. Special to t he Register. CHA ELESTON, Nov. 20.-The solici tors af all the banks here held a meet ing to-day whbich lasted several hours. The proceedings were secret, but it said that steps will be takeni to makea fight on the line of thbe Newherry Ban k case recently decided by Judge Hud son. It is also said that the Comptroller General has written a red hot letter tc the County Auditor, in which atten tion is called to Sections 239 and 240 o1 the General Statutes, which provides imprisonment for persons refusing te make true ret urns or for miaking falsi returns, Legal developments are expected ira a day or two. JUDGE HUDSON's WRITTEN OPINIoN IS TH E CASE. The State of Son ih Carolina, County o1 Newberry-In the Court of Commioz Pleas-Ex parte the National Bank of Newberry, S. C.-Petition for Writ of Mandamus. On the 16th day of Nov'r inst., th4 foregoing petition wvas exhibited in thi Court of Common Pleas for Newberry praying for a writ of peremptory man damns to compel Wallace C. Cromner. Auditor of said county, to restore tc his tax list and tax duplicate the as. 5:ssed valuation of the personal prop en~y of the said bank as fixed by said Auditor and the Boards of Townshij Assessors and CountyEquialization, and afterwards unlawfully increased by th< said Auditor uder orders from thb Comptroller-General. The petition alleges that the persona property of the said bank was returne< by R. L. McCaughrin, president, las February, as thbe valuation of 6150,001 for taxation for the fiscal year begin ning Nov'r 1st, 1890, and ending Oct 31st, 1S91. That this valuation wa: accepted by the said Auditor, and( ir due course of proceeding, during sai< fiscal year, after close scrutiny an< careful investigation, was sanetioned approved and adopted by the Board o Township Assessors, and finally by thi Board of Equalization for the county and was so entered in his book by th. County Auditor as thus finally fixed A fter this action of the Auditor an< the Board of Assessors and Count: Board of Equalization, thbe said Anudi tor was directed and ordered by tb Comptroller-General of the Stnte t increase the valuation of the s ' per sonal property f, om $150,000 to d,0( and without further authority pre ceeded so to increase it, and to enteri on his tax list and duplicate. The petition alleges that every eflor has been madec, by oral and by writte application to the Comptroller-Genere and Auditor, to have tue original ani awful valuation restored to the ta ks, but the applications have bee .Being, t herefore, without an al remedy or mode o)f red res: to this Court for the wr petition, duly refused, ed requiring the Audit< sewhy the writ should n< pel him to correct his err< ore to his tax list and dup1 aluation of the proper:y wful authority. The retur does not specifically dei ply states he made up his tax books for the County of Newberry as required by law and by the instructions of the Coiptroller-General, and deposited the duplicate with the County Treasurer and took bis receipt therefor. The return is tquivalent to a de murrer to t he petition, and in the argu ment all its allegations were treated as true. The jurisdiction of the Court was challenged, and besides this, the only other and leading question ra. ed and argued was, whettier the Comip troller-General has the authority thus to raise the assessed valuatiou of per sonal property of a banking corpora tion. After the argument I held both issues in favor of the petitioner, and ordered the writ to issue, giving orally my reasons briefly for so holding, and re serving until a later day time in which to file a written opinion. I proceed now to do so with all possible dispatch, because the matter is of moment to the tax-payer and to the State, and ought at this particular juncture to be hear' by the Supreme Court before the time for collection of taxes expires and while the Legislature is in session. First, then, as to the power of the Court to grant the writ, and whether or not the writ of mandamus is the ap propriate it for granted that it will readily be conceded that to compel an officer of the county to do and perform a merely ministerial act plainly re quired of him by law, the writ of man damus is the appropriate remedy, and the Court of Common Pleas has juris diction to graut it, and in a proper case will do so, unless expressly prohibited by statute. This speedy and efficacious remedy will not be denied the tax payers by the courts unless, compelled to withhold it by express statutory en actnient. Counsel for the respondent contended that such prohibition is contained in Sections 268 and 269 of the General Statutes. It is a sufflicient answer to this argu ment to say that these sections have reference to the collection of an alleged illegal tax, and the Courts are forbid den to interfere with the action of the tax collector by injunction, mandamus or any other extraordinary proceeding or writ. The taxpayer is compelled first to pay under protest and then to proceed to recover back by suit as specially directed in the Act. But the present petitioner is not seeking to in terfere with the duties of the tax col lector, but only asks to have the Au ditor place in the hands of the Treas urer the lawful valuation of his prop erty, and not that which is unlawful. The petitioning bank desires to avoid being placed in the dilemma provided for in Sections 268 and 269, and to that end prays the Court to compel the Au ditor to deliver to the Treasurer the correct and lawful assessment of its property as fixed by the only Boards having jurisdiction in assessing it. The fact is that Sections 268 and 269 render the present proceeding Dot only vitally important, but essentially neces sary to the taxpayer, because it is the only possible mode by which the tax payer can save himself from the hard ordeal prescribed by those severe en actments. I hold, therefore, that the Court has full power to issue the writ in this pro ceeding and that there is no other remedy known to the law-by whieb the wrong herein complained of cai be redressed so speedily and so ade quately. The next question is Ts to the author ity of the Comptroller-General to direct tile Auditor to raise the valuation of personal property after it has been com~ sidered, scrutinized and finally fixed by the Auditor, the Township Assess ors and the County Board of Equaliza tion. He certainly has no such au thority under the statutes of the State. The Auditor and the said Boards are the only persons having authority to assess for taxation the personal prop erty of the people and such corpora tions as banks, and with this valuation of personal property no officer of the State can interrere. With their valua tion of real estate no one can interfere except the State Board of Equalization. As well might the Comptroller General, by his mandate to the County Auditor, raise the valuation of all the. real estate of a county, or t he real estate of an iudividual or individuals, after the final action of the State Board of Equalization, as to raise the valuation of personal property after the final action of the County Board. In no Act nor Section of ani Act of the Leg islature can such poe be fouL con ferred or attempted to be conferred upon him. His control and super vision over County Auditors does not go beyond furnishing them with proper books, blanks, forms, instructions as to their general duties and the like; but not to the valuation and assessment of property. Over the action of Townshi p Assessors and County and State Boards of Equaliz'ation, in so far as their valu ation of property is concerned, he nas no control and om their judgment there is no :--*o him nor to any one else. t is final, and the Auditor must accept it, and place the same on his tax list and duplicate. If he 3 fuses he o-an be compelled to do so by the wri t of mandamus. It is his plain, statutory duty. It would be alarming Ito the tax-payers of the State if, after property has~been assessed by Boards specially charged by law with that duty, any one mau, be he Auditor or Comptroller-General, could, without notice and without hearing, increase arbitrarily such valuation. The same law appli~es to 'he assessmtenit of the individual citizen as to that of a bank, and the law is equally jealous of the srights of both, and no more exacting in regard to the one than the other. I I ind, therefore, as matters of fact, that the allegations of the petition are true: and, as matter of law, that the fpetitioner is entitled to the writ prayed efor; and for reasons given I signed the order of Nov'r 18th instant. eJ. H. HUnsoN, Presiding Judge. Nov. 23, 1891. Treble and Bass. -"Twinkle, twvinkle, little star, eHow I wonder what you are." In treble sweet piped little Grace. "Catarrh, catarrb, catarrh, catarrh IWhat a horrid pest you are," Growled dear papa in lowest bass. tWhen papa reads this, he will learn how to get rid of the pest. By its mild healing, antiseptic, and cleansing pro perties, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remed: e ures the worst cases. This infailiabl< remedv does not, like poisonous, irra Xtatng snuffs, "creams" and strong caustic solutions with wvhich the publi have be en so long humbugged, simpl: palliate for short time. or drive the die tease to the lunge. it produces a per fet and permanenit cure of the wore cases of Chronic Catarrb. "Cold in th Head" cured with a few applicatio'v Catarrh Headche relieved aud cured a if by magic. It removes oflensiv breath, loss or impairment of the seus is ef taste, smell or hearing, watering ( weakness of the eyes, and impaire, ymemory, when resulting irom catarri "AN INFAMO'S SWINDLE." This is the Way the State Describe% 'h Circulation Business-Did the Clev% Act Fairly in the Matter? Editorial in The State, November 24th. The advertisement asking for bids fo the State printing is, by the Genera Statutes, required to be given to "on daily newspaper iu the city of Coluin bia having the largest circulation. This duty is placed upon the clerk o the Senate and the clerk of the :iouse The law is mandatory. !t says tha these clerks shalt do as it directs. The clerk of the Senate of the Stat, of South Carolina is Sampsou Pope. H, is so bitter an enemy of tLe State tha he will not touch it or read it. Th, clerk of the House, J. Walter Gray, i a prominent member of the presen Administration, which is notoriousl3 hostile to the State. Both of them ar friends of the Columbia Register, - moribund newspaper, which seeks t< live by grace of the alms of the Admi istration represented by Clerk Pop, and Clerk Gray. In order to ascertain the circulatiot of the Columbia dailies, Clerk Pope ap pointed as his agent the book-keeper o the Rcgister, Mr. C. H. Beard. Clerl Gray appointed an old employe of th( Regixter, Mr. XV. M. Rodgers. Both wei notoriously hostile to the State. Boti were notoriously friendly to the Regis ter. In recognition of the fact that Lh4 appointment of the book-keeper of i newspaper assum*ng to rivalry witt the State to examine the books of thi. newspaper would be considered inde cent, Mr. Beard's authority was with drawn. Mr. Rodgers served. He saw thq books and lists of the State. He know: its circulation. The advertisement had to be giver out yesterday morning in order to ap pear this morning. Clerk Pope las last evening stated to a representativ of the State that the clerks had maile( this paper a communicatiou on th< subject. Diligent search was made al the postoffice, but no communicatior from them could be found. He woul( give no information as to its purport At 1:30 o'clock this morning Cleil Gray's lodging place was discovered He was aroused and questioned, anc said that the advertisement had beer awarded to the Register because Mr Rodgers' report showed that paper t< have the larger circulation, and thal the communication mailed had beer intended to advise the State of thest alleged facts. We have several things to say in re gard to this infamous proceeding. The clerks of the Senate and HousE are by law required to make the deter. minatiou of the circulation questior themselves. Upon them rests th( responsibility and the duty. They un lawfully delegated these powers to met who hated the State. The man tne3 finally chose is recognized as a partisar without scruple or ebaracter. Tb report made is a flagrant an wilful lie. Nobody knows better tbar W. M. Rodgers,who has been for year, an employe of the Register, and wh( has seen the State's books and lists that the Columbia Daily Register no only has not a larger circulation that the State, but has not a circulation bal as large. In making his report he ha, lied, deliberately and maliciously,witl intent to injure the State, which ho hates, and benefit the Register, whicl he supports. In accepting and thereby endorsin, a report, so made, by an appointee s< biased, Sampson Iope, clerk of thi Senate, and J. Walter Gray, clerk o the House, have broken their oaths t< perform their duties, have knowingl2 accepted a lie as truth, and have car ried out a conspiracy to defraud tbh State of its reputation and to give the Register a reputation which it coul< ot otherwise poscess. We charge WV. M. Rodgers with pert jury, if his report is to be accepted a one made on oath, and in any case w< ebrge him with deliberate lying. WV charge Sampson Pope with outrageou: partisanship and fraud. We charge J Walter Gray with outrageous partisan ship and fraud. The State will give Sampson Pop $100; it will give J. Walter Gray $10 it will give the Columbia Register .$100 if Pope and Gray can induce three re spectable business men of Columbia advertisers in both papers, to make ai examination of the t>ooks and lists c the Statearud the Register, and p)resen~ a rep)ort justifying that made by WX M. Rodgers, the man they selected t do their dirty d@ We shall make'6se unfaith!ful put lic servants as sick oLti'r slanderou work as wve have rnidEne Columbi; egistcr, their tool. LEAD)S TO FIGIIT B3ETwEEN TIlE GON ZALES B3RoTIIERs AND THE TwO CLERKS. Special to the G3reen,ville News. COLUIBIA, S. C., Nov. 24-To'nigh the matter culminated when A. I Gonzales met General Gray in th crowded lobby of the Grand Centri Hotel. The occurrences that followe are conservatively given accordingt te most dispassionate statements from witnesses obtainable. Gonzales said to Gray : "I have bee anxious to see yo)u to tell you sow' thing I have been saying about yo all day. You, or Pope, or Rodgers, whoever is responsible for awardim the advertising to the Registcr, an the statement that the Register has greater circulation than the ,State is G--d liar and a fraud. Any ora who will assert that the Registcr hn half the circulation of the .State tells willful lie.'' Gonzales repeated this, and said th: it wvas an outrage on tl'e tax payers< the State to have the award given to paper with not half the States circuh ion. Gray asked if Gonzales had receive his commiunicatiotn. About this time N. G. Gonzales can into the lobby, and, hearing hi brother's voice, came up to him. Gr: then said : "So there are two of yo are there? Have I a friend here!" At this appeal a tnumber of persor immediately~ rushed up, and the c: was heard, "Yes, lots of them." Gray excitedly threw off' his ove coat a~nd drew his pistol and said "Ar man who says that I am a fraud is d-d liar." At this juncture Sampijson Po] -came up anid shouted: "That's what say, any man who accuses mec of frat is a d-d liar." -N. G. Gonzales asked him whatI said, and upon his repeating it stru, ehim in the face 'vith his left hand. ~'Mr. Pope is said by two-eye witness to have made two attempts to draw~ 'istol when he and Gonzales closedi on each other. T 'he two men fell to-the floor, cline '.ing each other, Gonzales on top t slaboring Pope. Pope stuck his tinge ein Gonzales' eves and gouged thei Gonzales called out to him to st - gouging him. Gonzales states thbat t did this because Pope's friends b i.bold of his arms and he r ,ld nothng. In some way the mnwa w Soon parted, neither omo:: .u - age to the other. (Onzd-s believes that he was struck over the head by a stick in the hands of some one in I le crowd. II the Iean timle A. E. Gonzalvs had been facing Gray, who stood with (!raw: pistol. Gmnzales advanced one step, called Gray a d-d coward arnid told him to throw away his pistol. as lhe had none, and fig[t it out. The struggle between Pope and the other Gonzales got thes- two separated, and General Gray remained in a corner of the lobby for fully live minutes stand ing erect with drawn pistol and pale face. A. E. Gronzales continued to curse Gray and his friends, telling him be would whip any three of them. By this time some of Gonzales' friends had been attracted into the hotel and the two brithers were taken Ip stairs. The aflTir created the most intense excitement and nothing else is talked about. It is probable that to-morrow will bring deveiopments in the matter. Suits for perjury are talked of. STILL ANOTHER FIGHT-MR. M. F. TIG lIE AND MR. A. E. GoNZALES THE CO.I IHATA NTS. Co umnbia Evening Itecord, :.thi f Another difliculty octCUrred this morning. This time it was between Mr. M. F. Tighe and MIr. A. E. Gon zales. The figh t occurred in the lobby near the entrance of the House of Rep resentatives. The following facts are learned from an eye-witness: Mr. Gonzales met Mr. Tighe near the hall of the House and stopped and asked him whether lie was responsible for the article in the Nrws and Couricr this morning describing the Pope Gonzales-Gray difficulty last night. Ir. Tighe replied: "I ama." 'Mr. Gonzales then read the article to him untyl he came to the passage where it is stated, "Mr. A. E. Gonzales raised both hands, saying he was uu armed." M 2r. Gonzales asked "Mr. Tighe whether he was present and saw the difliculty. To this Mr. Tighe replied that he was. Mr. Tighe had handed the manu script which he had to a boy and was standing with his hands in his pockets. When Mr. Gonzales received Mr. Tighe's last reply he said in a loud and angry tone: "Then you know that statement is a G-d d-n lie." Mr. Tighe asked whether the epithet wns meant to apply to him. Mr. Gonzales said: "Yes, you are a damnn liar." Immediately Mr. Tighe let fly his right hand and struck Mr. Gonzales in the face bringing the blood from his nose. Mr. Gonzales responded by hit ting Mr. Tighe under the left eye, mak ing a gash which bled profusely. The two men clinched and fell to the floor. They struck and gouged each other for a short time when they were separated. After being separated 'Mr. Tighe said: I "You are my physical superior, but I'll fight you in any way a gentleman ought, and you have got it to do." Mr. Gonzales replied that he would fight him at any time he wanted. Other eve-witnesses to the affray state that Mr. Gonzales after choking f Mr. Tighe voluntarily got up ott him and that several inef'ectual attempts were made by bystanders to pull him off'. I The affair caused intense excitement amnmg the legislators presen t and busi ness was practically suspended. The friends of both gentlemen regret that they should have come to blows fand everybody 'n the city certaiinly hopes that this is the end of whbat has been a most disagreeable afl'air all around. '"IE FIGHTERS EEFORE THE MAYoR. [The Register, 27th.] Thbere was quite an unusually large attendance at the M1ayor's matinee yesterday, no doubt attracted by what was expected wonld be an interestimg investigation of the difficulties which occurred in the Grand Central Hotel lobby on Tuesday night. Only two of the persons directly in terest. M1r. A. E. Gonzales and Dr. Sampson Pope, appeared. After hear ;itng the testimiony his Honor M1ayor ,McM3aster d ismissed both these gen tie -men, there being no evideuce to sus tain the charges against themi. The other two gentlemen unected with the difficulty, M1r. N. U. Gonzales and Gen. J. Waliter Gray, will have a hearinig this morning it is understood. ) THE HOUSE TO TAKE- TIlE MATTER UP. [Columbia Record, 26th.] SIt was rumored on the streets last night that the House of Representa tives would take official notice of the Tighe-Gouzales fight which occurred near the hall. It is said that a resolu tion will be introduced the object of which will be to inflict sonme punish. merit upon the combatants for vio lting the dignity of the House. N. Ct. (GoNZALES DISCHARGED. Li [The State, 2Sth.] 1 The investigation by ,the mayor of the hotel lobby difficulty a few nights ago was continued by the mayor yes terday morning. M1r. N. G. Gonzales was tried on the charge of disorderly -conduct. MIr. P. MI. B3rice, eye witness to the atlair, was again examined, telling r the same story-. After hearing his te+ timony the rmayor told MIr. Gonzales there wvas no evidence against himi and di.charged him. a M1r. J. Walter Gray was also up, and e was defended by MIr. 31eLaurin, o: S M1arlboro. The fact was developed that he had pulled his pistol. The mayor asked him for his excuse for carryinga It concealed deadly wveapon, imnpressing )f the seriousness of the ott'ense and re a ferring to his high position. MIr. Gray I- asked the mayor it he wanited to know why lie had carried a pistol and ex d pressed surprise, when his attorney in terrtpted and asked for a continuaice ie uutil to-day. It was granted. CLERK SAMPsoN PoP'ESWEAftS HE HAI. NO PISTOL. S[Special to the News and Courier.] s COLUMBIA, November 27.-Dr. Samp -y son Pope, clerk of the Senate, request the publication in the News and Couries r- of the following affidavit, which bear: y upon the recent unpleasantness at the a Grand Central Hotel: State of South Catolina, Richland e County: Personally came Dr. Sarmpsor I Pope and made oath that he has no md owned a pistol sirce 18132; that he ha not had a pistol on his person since tb e election in 1s763, and that a borrowe k ote; that lie made no motion in th fight with M1r. Gonzales, either befor es or during or at any other time, to drav aa apistol, or that could be construed int in an attermpl to do so. SA MPSON POPE. - Subscribed and sworn to before m e- this 21th day of November, A. D., 1S91 rs J. 31. JOHNSON, i. Notary Public. PGEN. GRAY'S TASTE OF THE LAW. d[Special to the News and Courier.] o COLUMBIA, Nov. 29.-Gen. Gray w2 - re finedtwnty-fie dollars this morn on accoiant of the recent difleulty at the Grand Central Hotel. He was represented by J. L. IcLaurin, of Marlboro. In his statement to the Court as printed in the Eve- ing Record (en. Gray said: "I am not in the habit of carrying a concealed weapon nor do I approve of the habit, but on the night in question I had every reason to expect a personal attack to be made on me by a man or men whom I have reason to believe are my physical superiors. Before I pulled my pistol I heard some one say, 'Are you about to pull your pistol?' and I understood the remark to be addressed to one of the 'Mtssrs. Gonzales." Mavor Mc,:iEter did not fine Gen. Gray the full umount of $40. He, how ever, said that Gen. Gray ought to have "stood up and fougbt like a man." Gen. Gray resented this and told the mayor that with all due respect he did not desire such aspersions to be made on his character, as he was a gentleman. Mr. Brice, the reporter for the Evening Record, was the principal witness ex ained. IN NEWBERRY. "The Seceders ' Win the Aduiration of a Vi.itor-rhe Churches, Etc. [W. L. 'M. in A. R. Presbyterian.] I returned yesterday from a trip to Newberry County in behalf of the Abbeville Mission. I went down to Prosperity on Saturday night. Rev. D. G. Phillips was at the c rs to meet nie and took me to his home where I was cordially welcomed. I learned from Mr. Phillips that he would have no services in his own church. the next day as they had suspended exercise on account of a revival meeting which was going on at Cannon's Creek. So we went up to Cannon's Creek on Sab bath. Found a large congregation already assembled, a good many being seated in aisles. They have a nice building. Rev. W. W. 3NcMMorries is filling the pastorate acceptably. Rev. W. W. Orr was conducting the meeting on this occasion. He preached an excellent sermon and was about an hour and twenty minutes long, but the interest did not lag. He made some telling points. His sense of humor is highly developed and it seems hard for him to restrain it even in the pulpit. The meeting continued for several days. After Mr. Orr's ser mon was over I presented the cause of the Abbeville Mission and received a good contribution. On Aonday I can vassed the Prosperity church. Spent Monday night at the hospitabie home of Mr. H. C. 'Moseley. His own and his brother's success in business is phenomenal. In 1866 they started business in a little room about 26x20 and with a capital of one dollar each. Now they have an elegant store with five separate apartments containing groceries and general merchandise, hardware, millinery, furniture, carri ages, etc. I thought they might roll one of their carriages out for the Abbe ville M%ission and never miss it. They are, however, liberal-spirited gentle men and contribute to all public en terprises. I went up to Newberry Tuesday afternooni and canvassed the mem bership there by the next afternoon. Was ettertained by Rev. McClintock and Mr. Mower. Messrs. McClintock and Phillips helped me out in every way in their respective churches. Their sympathies are enlisted in behalf of Abbeville. They are both held in high esteem by their people. I am also in debted to Rev. Messrs. Orr and Mc Morries for giving to the Abbevilla cause their encouragement and appro val. This is an unusually hard year in money matters and cotton is dis tressingly low. Notwithstanding these facts and although the calls upon them are many and pressing, I4hink Cannon's Creek. Prosperity and Newvberry have done a good part by Abbeville. These Arb. places contributed $107.50. Several of these subscriptions came from young men who are clerks in stores and one of them fronm a young lady who is serving in the same capacity. I was certainly impressed with their cheerful liberality. Several contributions came from those who are members of other denominations. This was my first visit to Newberry County and I re gretted very much that pressing en gagements at home prevented my stay ing longer. I have niany personal friends in that county whom I esteem highly and it would have afforded me great pleasure to have visited them. I admire the high stand which the Sece ders of New berry County always take, both in matters of Church and State. They are invariably found upon the right side. Tie A. R. P. church at Prosperity is quite new and it is one of the hand somest churches in the county. Its interior especially impressed me. At niht a beautiful chandelier lights up the house. Aud now, in conclusion, allow mn to thank the good people of Newberry for the many courtes:es and kindnesses received at their Lands during my stay. In the United States Court at Dan ville, Va., an old one-armcd Confede rte, who had been found guilty ol illegal distilling and sentenced to one month's imprisonment and a fine of $10), appeared before Judge Paul, also an old Confederate, who said, as he Itouched the empty sleeve: "Come back here to-mnorrow morning and I will consider your case. We old boys Sare getting scarce, and, by thunder, you ~u ot go to jail. B3oth men wept, and the case wa honorably disposed of the nexte day. Savages expect to imbibe bravery by drinking the blood of their brave ene mies. A more enlightened method of vitaliing the blood is by taking Ayer'm Sarsaparilla. It braces up the nerves sand gives strength and fortitude tc g n dre the trials of life. BILL ARP FOR THE RIGHT. He Stands Up for Marriage and the Sanc tity of the Sabbath. "Is marriage a failure?" We see that question going aroung and being dis cussed. If I knew what particular marrirge they are talking about maybe I could answer. I know several that are failures. But as a general proposi tion they might as well ask, "Is man a failure, is woman a failure, is creation a failure?" But suppose marriage is a failure, what are you going to do about it? Mr. Ingersoll says untie the knot. Let a man untie it for cause and a woman without catse. His precise language is, "I would give divorce to every wo man who wanted it whether the man had violated the contract or not ' Surely he dident mean that. He dident reflect on the consequences. It is a kind of "free love" that we thought was abandoned even in New Englaud. It shocks the judgment of all mankind. What would become of the children if the mother was permitted to change husbands at her pleasure? Maybe in her price she would want some other woman's husband and so would destroy the peace and happiness of that family. Mr. Ingersoll's theory is to let every woman float~ around loose until she found her affinity, but sometimes a woman loves a man that doesent love her; what then? The poor fellow would have to run away, I reckon, and if he was uncommonly good looking another woman would grab him on the run-in fact, two or three might grab him and fight over him, for the scriptures do tell us of a time when seven women shall take hold of one man. Good gra cious! From such a calamity good Lord deliver us. Mr. Ingersoll sought to write a book on "Divorces Made Easy," and tell us what is to be done with the children-the poor little inno cent things who wouldent have any father to speak of, and hardly any mother; no happy home, no parental training, no comfort-for you see their mother might be living with another fellow. Mr. Ingersoll says that "pa rents make a mistake in bringing up children, instead of letting them grow." Was there ever such theoretic nonsense uttered by a learned and intelligent man? We have all admired his beau ful expression, his tenderness, his sym patby, his exquisite pathos of thought but his utterances in his late lecture in Chicago would indicate toat the man has lost his reason. In his desire to obliterate the Bible and all its teach ings, and he makes a stab at marriage and training up children and at the Christian Sabbath. He says that "a man who says the Columbian fair should be closed on Sunday is a 'monu meut of impudence," He is welcome to his company, for every bad man, every inmoral woman, every anarch ist, every lawbreaker is on his side. On the other side are all the great and good men of the centuries that have passed from Milton and Shakespeare down to Macauley and Gladstone. All the greatest philosophers and poets of the past 200 years stand as firm as a rock upon the Bible and its teachings, and it does not become one man, how ever learned, to array himself against them. To do that a man mnust be a "monument of impadence." Dr. Samuel Johnson, the profoundest thinker and philosopher, says: "Religion, of which the rewards are distant and whbich is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated by external ordinances and by stated calls no worship." One man cannot destroy the sanctity of thbe Sabbath. It is strange that he wou:ld wish to. 1 beard a Jewish rabbi say in a public lecture: "I do not 'oel-eye in your Chris tian religion. It is not my faith M.r. the faith of my fathers, but I would not live in any but a Christian country, under Christian laws and Chris 2.n rulers. A Christian civilization has done more for humanity and liberty and progress than all others, and offers the best protection to my children and my property." I do not believe that an agnostic or infidel or gambler or cheat or swindler if he has a family, would tear down the spires of our churches or muffle the sound of the Sabbath bells. Every man, however self-debased, has a hope for tue welfare of his children. Mr. Inger soll lectured on "Liberty," and in his enthusiasm over his subject, he wants every man and woman and child to do as they please, especially the women and children. He says that "men are slaves, and women are the slaves of slaves, and children arc something worse." If men are slaves, who are the masters? If there is a ny slavery at my house Mfrs. Arp doesn't know it, and every morning at daybreak my rooster crows, "Woman rules here," and I hear it echoed over at Judge Milner's and John Akins' and Dr. Kirk's, and even old Uncle Simon Peter's ducks say, "Quack, quack, thbat's a fact.'' Solomon said: "Train up a child in the way he should go, for when he gets old you can't." And Pope said: "Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." To my opin ion there is most too much liberty every where in this land of freedom. I am certain the boys have too ach for they shoot my pigeons in my own trees and Mrs. Arp says we mustent say anything about it for fear of hurting feelings. Mr. Ingersoll wants them to grow up as they please and frolic every day and on Sunday to wake up and sing: Welcome, sweet day of fun, That saw the Fair arise; The gates are open and I'll run And fast mny longning eyra. A.NOTHER REMEDY FOR DRUNKEN NESS. Dr. Kitto Calls His the Petroleum Cue Won't Stop the Cigarette Hab!t. [Fron the Chicago Tribune.] RACINE, Wis., Nov. IS.-Dr. Robert Andrew Kitto of this city has discov ered a new treatment which he claims is a sovereign cure for drunkenness, similar in results to the bichloride of gold cure. In Racine, where Dr. Kitto is well known, there is a diversity of opinion as to the value of his discovery. Cer tain of the people express the view that his cures have been of a coubtful character.Qther in tI tr class are many who have taken the treatment, and are therefore in a posi tion to speak with a degree of author ity, ascribe to the treatment all the vir tues of the better-known cure as admin istered at Dwight, .tll. The prevalence of yellow fever in Jacksonville, Fla., in ISSS resulted in an offer made by Congress for a formula which would prove a cure for this disease. Thousands of physicians in the United States prepared formulas, among the number Dr. Kitto. As he explained the results of yellow fever, a weakness of the heart follows an at tack, and in preparing a formula he embodied certain drugs which he thought would have the effect of stim ulating the heart to its normil condi tion without unduly exciting any of the other organs of the body. In case of delirium from alcoholism, Dr. Kitto said, there is an anemia of the brain due to weakness of the heart's action. Dr. Kitto took up the studyof drunkenness as a disease, and the for mula originally intended for yellow fever was altered, changed in its com ponent parts, and reduced, as a result of these investigations, until the "Petro leun Cure," as Dr. Kitto has about de cided to christen it, was brought to its present state of completeness. The first case of dipromania treated by Dr. Kitto w e in January last. He claims to have been successful with all his first patients but one. Early in the summer H. W. Dunlap, a prominent Milwaukee lawyer, who was at one time private secretary for Alexander Mitchell. Wisconsin's railroad king, went to Racine for the purpose of test ing the cure. He was under Dr. Kitto's care for three weeks. when he was dis charged a well man. He has taken to the lecture platform in behalf of Dr. Kitto and his cure for drunkenness. Dr. Kitto has a class of nearly a dozen patients now, and he is thinking of starting a large sanitarium next spring. "I would prefer lo sell the secret to some society, however,".said Dr. Kitto: "that is I will sell it after I have com pleted my. investigation and._am sat isfied it is as perfect a treatment from dipsomania as can be compounded from drugs. I have understood the Woman's Christian Temperance Union has made an offer for Dr. Keeley's bichloride of gold cure, which has been refused. Should the society find merit in my discovery it can purchase it. My price? WVell, it is a little early to be putting a price on it, but I should say $100,000."__________ Things That Hurt. [Douglas Breeze.) We sell cotton by the bale and buy it back by the handkerchief. Our wool is sold by the bale and re sold to us by the yard. We could raise our own meat, yet we buy our bacon in Chicago. The material of which our clothes are made is grown in the South, but we prefer to pay the~ people of the North to sew this material together. We would import our wives and children if we had to pay any. more for them. WVe rush our products off in a bulk on a crowded market and buy by piecemal when 'he dealers have dis posed of the surplus we have rushed upon them. Fwill be buying our supplies in the North before January. We would buy our biscuits in New England if our wives were not more enterprising than we are. We buy the education of our chil dren in the North when we have a better article at home. Largest Family In the World. How many Smiths are there in En gland? It is impossible to answer this ques tion with precision, but there are data from whieb an approximately correct idea may be obtained. The registrator general tells us that in 1826 it wa pos sible to estimate, from certain records in his keeping, that there were then living in England and Wales about 25.3,000 Smiths, or one in every every seventy-tbhree persons composing the entire population. Supposing that this estimate was correct, and that the same proportion has since been maintained, the statement may fairly be made that there are now about 33.5,814 or over one-third of a million .Smiths in En gland and Wales. It is not quite es-v to realize at once what an esjormous number of people these figures reprc sent. The Legislature of the Cherokee Na tion, which is now in session at Tahle quah, sets a good example to white men's Legislatures. Both the Senators Iand the Couincillors are d:gnified in their ways, and the business of legisla tion i" conducted decently and with gravity in the Cherokee and English languages..They are elected by popular vot+.e, a also the Chief of the Nation. Or that other hymn now changed to read: Thineearthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love, And to the Fair my feet I'll shove. Now, I don't believe in penniag the children up all day on Sunday with the shorter catechism, but I do believe in training them to have respect and rev erence for the Lord's day, and to go to Sabbath-school and church and read some in the Bible. The devil has a good cbance to work on them all the week days, and it is well to fortify against him one day In seven and repair the breaches. I look around me wherever I go, and I find th6 best people are on the side of the church and the Sabbath and the preachers. May our children all stand or fall with them. What a contrast to those sentiments of Ingerst,ll were the old-fashioned, im pregnable admonitions of Dr. Strickler and Dr. Chandler at the dedication of the Agnes Scott institute Inst veek. What a feast of reason-what a com fort to the parents who have daughters there. I am tnkful that I have lived to see that day and hear those senti ments breathed out by noble, Christian men-great-hearted, broad-minded ed ucators, who are leading our people in the only road to happiness. I am thankful that I have lived to see this splendid memorial to a good woman a mother in Israel who raised up her children in the fear of God, and taught them to love and to fear him and keep his commandments. We used to have such women and their sons were heroes and their daughters heroines in the time of trouble. As Dr. Candler said, I am glad that I have lived to see one man who in active life gave of his first earnings $111,000 to build and estab such a school as this for our daughters. Such a grand success as the Agnes Scott Las never been known in Geor gia-nor in the South, for it has sprung up as by a magician's wand or the rub bing of a genii lamp. One year ago it it was not heard of, and now it is com plete with all its admirable equipments -the best heated, the best lighted, the best ventilated and the best furnished building in the South, and as an edu cational institute has no superior in the character and accomplishments of the teachers. It is a home, a happy home for our daughters-as near a per fect home as can be outside of the fam ily circle. Other institutions have been laboring for years for the patron age that this one has now and by au other term the Agnes Scott will over flow and have to decline many appli cants. There is no effort here for show or fashionable polish. A diploma from the Agnes Scott will mean all it con tains. I go there frequently and live for a time in its sunshine and take note of the sweet companionship of teachers and pupils and am proud of its nigh standard of scholarship and morality and purity of thought and conduct. If I was a young man and was looking 'round for a helpmate and a helpmeet, it would be credential enough, and but little risk, to woo and to win and to wed a sweet girl gradu ate of the Agnes Scott if I could. Il bet that a young man can't run away with one of them. They will be hard to please and harder to deceive, and when they marry it will r.ot be done in haste and repented of at leisure. Dean Swift said that "the reason why there are so many unhappy marriages was because the girls spent so much tine in making nets and so little in making cages." They attach more imn portauce to catching a lover than keep ing a husband. That may be so, but the men are worse. They cease to be lovers too soon after marriage, ard the trouble begins-the trouble that Mr. Ingersoll would try to remedy by a di vorce, but try in vain. Every wife knowvs her duty and so does every hus band. Let them perform it and be happy and make the children happy. Ti-re is an old gander at my house who for many days has stood by his mate hle she sits on her nest. She plucks th own from his brelst and covers her eggs. she leaves them for food he escorts her to ~the grass and escorts her back with a dig nity and a devotion that are impress ive. My respect for geese has greatly enlarged since I made their more in timate acquaintance. BIL L ARP. Perils of Modern Life. Contacts with electric wires, railroad accidents, broken car and elevator cables, explosions of steam, ,natural gas and chemicals, poisons in adu terated food and drink, are a few ; but all these dangers combined do not kill as rapidly as slow and sure Consump tion. The death rate, however, from Consumption, is being yearly cut down since Dr. Pierce of Bulffalo, N. Y., has given to the world his celebrated "Golden Medical Discovery," a cure for Consumption and Throat and Lung troubles that lea~d to Consumption, if takn ini time and given a fair trial. The time to cure Consumption (which is really nothing more nor less tnan Lung-scrofula), is in the first stages. A cough generally sounds the alarm, and you should take the "Discovery" at once. There is a time when it is too late. The difference in character between the people of the various sections ot Brazil, a country about as big as the United States, are very marked. The States south of the equator are indus trious and enterprising, but the north ern States, in which the heat is oppres sive and the means of life ean easily be got, are languid and indolent. ThE natural resources of the northern sec tion of Brazil surpass those of the southern section, and yet the south ens are more prosperous than thE northerners. A bald headed woman is, unusua betore she is 40, but gray hair is comn mon with them earlier. Baldness anc grayness may be prevented by usins Hall's Hair Renewer.