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- ! ■ jsp '1 iht Jarlington JUm HENRY T. THOMPSON, WADOY THOMPSON, Editors. Thursday, Jan, 12, <893. WILD AND FOOLISH. Governor Tillman is quoted as saying that “after the 1st day of July next all bar rooms in tue State will be closed at all hazards he is also quoted as giving expression to the view that not even the Courts could interfere with the enforcement of the law. This is wild talk f"om the Chief Executive of the t tate and is very unbecoming in one holding that high posi tion. The very man who should set an example to the people talks of over-riding the Courts. Such wild utterances from our Governor are bearing fruit. In every section his satellites are following his example. They are filling the public prints ' ith all sorts of bumcombe. In tneir eagerness to follow their worthy Governor, they rave, tnd raving, they talk about declaring martial law, besieging cities with the militia and. if the militia be not sufficient, invoking the aid of federal troops. Of course all this talk is fool i-sh in the extreme and its only e ffect is to engender bad feeling Tillman is to blame for it. Seat ed in the Chief Magistrate's chair he undertakes to dictat • what the Courts, a branch of thegoverumentco ordinate with the executive, shall do: His t hreats are eagerly accepted b> his followers and .the further the talk goes the more wild and foolish it becomes. The liquor dealers are citizens of the State and as such they l ave rights guaranteed them by the Constitution. Their inter osts must be protected from un lawful injury and, if they be- live the prohibition law is die gal, they have the right as oiti z ns to appeal to the Courts, md, if the Courts declare the law illegal, it cannot be enforc ed. Opposition to this theory < f government means tyranny. The Governor and his party i re again failing to practice " hat they preach. They cry </loud for “equal rights to ail,” £"it they wish to over-ride the Courts should the latter refuse to disregard the fundamental 1 iw of the land. Their position k;, legal or illegal, the law against the liquor men’s inter ests must be enforced A ROAD CONVENTION. The question of havingaState road convention is being agi tated considerably. The advo cates of the convention hold that a discussion of the road ques tion at a representative conven tion of the people might result in a feasible plan for the better ing of the condition of our roads. North Carolina is to hold a road convention shortly and it is this that has given rise to the agita tion of the question in South Carolina. That we are sadly in need of better roads goes with out saying, but we doubt if there is any question more difficult to solve than how are we to get them. This question has re ceived the attention of states men and public spirited citizens since the inception of our gov ernment, yet our roads are at this day in a deplorable condi tion. We agree with the advocates of the road convention that a discussion of the question of better roads may be productive of good, but we are not prepar ed to say that a convention would help matters much. A free and full discussion of the subject through the newspapers would be just as apt to prove t he means of formulating a feas- ible plan and, a plan once form (d, the Legislature, the repre sentative body of the people, «ouid act upon it. This certain iy would be a cheaper course, and probably a better one, than the holding of a State conven tion. A GOOD EXHIBIT. Most every State in the Un ion. except South Carolina, will have its industries and resources extensively exhibited at the World’s Fair. The South Caro lina Legislature thinks the State is too poor to have a good exhibit. A cheap exhibit has therefore been suggested. While it is considered very ap propriate, it tiAS unfortunately come too late for consideration by the Legislature. In view of the passage of the dispensary, or prohibition law, it is suggest ed that South Carolina send to the World’s Fair as an exhibit an immense barrel of whiskey, with the great seal of the State upon it. It will represent South Carolina’s latest industry and will show to the world a State that has converted itself into a dealer in liquors. GENERAL NEWS. Items o' Interest From All Over The World. The President has pardoned all the Mormans who have not been guilty of polygamy since 1890. At a fire in Liverpool on Fri day a wall collapsed, killing three firemen and wounding several others. An explosion of natural gas in a printing office in Chicago on Wednesday of last week in jured seven persons, two fatal •y- Three persons were killed and another seriously injured b> trains in Cincinnati on Satur day. The victims were at temptin ; to cross the track. Typhus fever has become ai epidemic in New York. Tin spread of the disease is said to be chiefly due to the crowded condition of tenement houses. B. G. West, secretary of the cotton bureau of the National Farmers Alliance, has issued an address to the members of the order advising a reduction of acreage in cotton. The select committee of the United States Senate on Wo man’s Suffrage has presented a majority report recommending the extension of the right of suffrage to women. James and Will Nevins and Jack Langdon,all cowboys, had a triangular fight on horseback with r fles and pistols in Indian territory last week. Will Ne vinsand Langdon were killed and James Nevins was riddled with bullets and cannot live. The Czar of Russia has turn ed over the administration of all church affairs in his empire to the authorities of the Greek Church, the i ourt religion This means the persecution of all the inhabitants of Russia who are members of other de nominations. The Supreme Court of Penn sylvania has affirmed the decis ion of the lower court in con victing Thomas Matthews, of Pittsburg, for publishing his paper on Sunday. A law was passed by that State in 1794, and has never been repealed, pro hibiting the publishing of news papers on Sunday. STATE NEWS. Gathered From Our Exchanges, and Put in Paragraphs. Governor Tillman is of the opinion that Clemson College will be ready for students in June. The Piedmont guano mills in Charleston were destroyed by fire on Friday. The loss is $70,000. Col. W. W. Holland, a promi nent citizen of Anderson county, died last week in the seventy fourth year of his age. An old lady, Mrs. Duncan, was run over and killed by a train at Duncan’s, in Spartanburg county, a few days since The News and Courier sta'es editorially on Tuesday that it is confident that Governor Tillman will be able to refund the State debt. The question of holding a State convention, for the pur pose of discussing the ways and means for getting better roads, is being agitated. Anderson was visited by a big cotton fire on Thursday. Two thousand bales of cotton were burned and the loss is estimated by some as high as $100,000. Lawyers representing the State and the railroads have gone to Washington to attend the trial of the famous railroad tax cases of last year in the United States Supreme Court. A constable, named Trescott, a white man, was killed while trying to arrest a party of ne groes at the Wando phosphate works, near Charleston, on Fri day. Another while constable, named Cox, was wounded at the same time. Flora Fontaine, colored, died in Columbia, ou Thursday, at the remarkable age of 117 years. She knew Columbia when it was but a plantation settlement; saw it first laid off as a village and has watched its growth to the present day. The Central Club of South Carolina, composed entirely of ladies, which has done indefati gable work to have the State represented at the World’s Fair, hasdisbanded. The Legislature refused to appropriate any mon ey for South Carolina’s exhib it and the club felt that it could not do the work alone. UNITED AT THE LAST. A V ' CT,M OF A co **>**™ N - WHERE WOMEN REIGN English gunpowder is composed of seventy-five parts of saltpeter, ten of sul phur and fifteen of carbon. Proportions ore often slightly varied. General William T. Sherman was fa miliarly called “Uncle Billy" by his soldiers, and also “Old Tecnmseh.” Saxon ladies never appeared in public without the hood, which covered the hair and a large part of the face. In a temple in India there is preserved and worshiped a tooth claimed to have once been in the jaw of Buddh. PITIFUL TALE OF AN c ,MIGRANT FAMILY THAT PERISHED. / I Tta* TerrlbU Bllssard of 1M1 H»4 for Son* of IU Victims a Whole Family Which Froso to Death In Dead Man’s Coro—Heroin Efforts of a Mother. “That’s Dead Man's cove right before your eyes," said the old man as he point ed to a recess of half an acre in extent in the southern face of the Little Rocky mountains. “That's Dead Man’s cove, and you kin ace the iron work of the wagon lyiu about when ye git closer. When I first looked in here thar was five human bodies lying dead in that wagon. Me nn my pard we dng a big grave and buried 'em all together back agin that cliff, thar whar the rocks is. We piled the rocks that way so the wolves couldn’t git at the dead.” “But there is no headboard — no names," I protested as 1 rode closer to the spot pointed oat. "Couldn't be no names, ’cause we couldn't find any,” he replied, "and them rocks is a grarestnn as will last forever. Well git off and sit down for a smoke, and I'll gin ye the full particklers. I've passed here a hundred times in the last three years, and it alios gives me the heartache. Poor husband—poor wife- poor children 1 “It was this way,” he continned after his pipe was alight. “Me and pard had oar shanty down the valley about a mile. Plenty of emigranta in the’r kiv- ered wagons used to come by this trail and turn south into Wyomin, or keep west into Idaho. They’d come five or six families at a time, and they’d come singly. Some of 'em wonld take sich chances of Injuns, sickness, landslides, starvashun and death as would make your ha'r stand on end to think of. No man kin begin to guesa how many graves thar be of men, women and children be tween the Dakota line and the west branch of the Missonri river. I've counted a hundred in a day’s ride. “Waal, one December mornin me and pard woke up to feel that thar was a blizzard makiu ready to bust on us. It had been coohsh but pleasant up to that time. We could tell by the feel of things what was comin, and began to git ready fur it. It was jest arter noon when a woman walked into our shanty. She was an emigrant. Right here in tbia cove she had left her husband and fonr children to try and find some help. He had bin sick fur three weeks and was little better than a dead man, and she had bin drivin the team an takin keer of things gener'Iy. She otter to hev turned back long before, but some fool of a doctor had told the man he'd get well if they kept on. “They had got separated from the party they started with, and had made the last hnndred miles alone. They war out o’ grub, hadn’t a match left to build a fire, and the woman knowed a change fur tne wuss was blowin up. She was a frail, leetle woman, and she had gone through with nuff to down a man, bat she hadn't lost all her pluck yit As soon as she told ns the story we got ready to go back with her an bring in the outfit. We made a start, but we never got thar." “The blizzard prevented, eh?” “She did. She came swoopin down all of a sudden, like some great bird droppin from the sky. A fine snow begun to fall, the wind started right in to blow a iivin gale, and 1 believe the thermom eter went from 45 degs. above to 10 degs. below inside of half an hour. We hadn't any with us, but the change was sudden an amazin. You couldn't face that gale to save your life. It jest stopped us and turned us around before ws had got fif teen rods from the house. As to the cold, it jest paralyzed you. We had to go back, and arter takin a big drink o’ whisky all arcund and puttin on more clothes we tried it agin. “Me and Sam was as tongh as b'ars them days and could hev laid down in a pond of water and let it freeze np with ns, bat we couldn't buck agin that bliz zard. When we made the second start we got about half way up here, the little woman leadin the way all the time. Then we had to stop. You couldn't see three foot from your nose, and all of ns was freezin to death by inches.” “And you went back?” “We did. The woman was deter mined to push ou, and we jest had to pick her up and carry her back. It was only by tho Lord's hand piutin the way that we ever reached our cabin agin. We had onr ears, noses and fingers friz, and an hoar arter we got back water friz solid in our cabin within five foot of a roarin fire. The woman prayed to God and appealed to us, but we knowed it was no nse. That was the blizzard of 1881, and I’ve heard men say it was 42 degs. below zero in this valley that night. The woman got nipped wuss than we did, bat her mind was on the family back here. She was bound to come back alone, but we stood her off till about dark. Then she made a bolt fur it and got away.” “And went to her death?” “Jest as sartin as if she had jumped off that cliff. The blizzard shet us in fur three days. When we got out we found her within twenty rods of the cabin. She had friz to death goin that far. Of coarse we knowed how it wonld be np here. The horses had been on- hitched and turned ont They lay over by that tree. The folks in the wagon had crowded together and kivered np with all the blankets, but all war stun dead and as hard as rocks. They never saw that fust night come down. “Me and pard overhauled the wagon, bnt we couldn't find anythin givin the name of the family, and so, like hun dreds of others out in this kentry of mountain and valley, Injun and wolf, we kivered 'em in to sleep till the Lord gits ready to call ’em fur judgment. Seems awfnl that a hall fam’ly should be wiped ont that way, bnt they ar’ aleepin thar together, and I gness the Lord'll know the spot even if thar is no gravestnu to mark it.”—New York Her ald. CIumm la Japan. Not only are there a great number of pieces and moves't Japanese chess, hot their valne changes; for instance, on reaching the enemy’s camp promotion ensues and captured pieces are re-en tered nnder^irious conditions. In fact, the game demands, if that were possi ble, more undivided attention than Eu ropean chess, and in its provisions and contingencies, especially the last, is strictly military. The pieces, agreeable to the enrolling of prisoners, are all of one color. Chess has always held considerable position in Japan. It flourished during the shogun- ate, and again after the revolution is being revived. A grand tourney was held not very long ago at Tokio.—Lon don Spectator. v ft Hiring Wlr. r< An ingenious landowner at Melbourne has applied the wire fences in his dis trict to telephonic nee. By utilising the top wire two extensive estates are con nected. Mr. Edward Argle, the mana ger, carries an instrument with him in his boggy, and by connecting with the wire at any point can communicate with either homestead.—London Tit-Bits. How • PlwsidMl sod Ooe.ral Manager Was Frosss Out b/ His “—ayaalraa “Speaking of corporations,” said a prominent St. Louis banker, “I recall with painful reminiscence the first one of which I had the honor to be a stock holder. It happened in 18(8, and I was jnst fifteen years of age. Of course 1 had no idea that it was really a corpora tion in which I had invested, bnt as 1 look back upon the incident the realiza tion rashes upon me that I was a victim of corporation methods. “It happened in this way. At a very early age my tendency for mercantile pursnits developed. At school I noticed a very general demand for candy and cakes and an exceedingly limited supply in the market. Many of the children possessed coppers and nickels, but it was nearly a mile from the school house to the country town, and the boys were compelled to forage upon the neighbor ing sugar cane fields and orchards to sat isfy the youthful stomach. After a care ful survey of the market I decided that the school was confronted by a condi tion, not a theory. “In a few days I had secured the co operation of half a dozen boys, with s capital of thirty cents, in which I held ten cents of the stock, and was conse quently named as president and man ager of the candy store which we pro posed to open on the grounds. We found an enormous dead and fallen tree, whose butt end offered little resistance to ou: penknives. At noon one day I notified ths stockholders that a meeting wonld be held immediately after school, and at that meeting I, as president and man ager, eat an opening into the dead tree, fashioned a shelf therein and attached s door, while the stockholders looked on in admiration. I then proposed that early in the morning each stockholder should bring with him five cents’ worth oi candy wherewith to stock the juvenile store. “To my astonishment it was moved and seconded and carried that the candy should be purchased and delivered at ones, so that the store might have au early and perfect opening. Tired as 1 was I repaired to the town, invested my ten cents in cheap candy, returned to the school grounds, where already the twilight was making ghostly figures among the trees, and deposited my treas ure in the store. It was quite dark when I reached home, and being unable to ac count for my whereabouts the presi dent and manager went to bed supper less and with a back stinging from the effects of a switch liberally applied. Next morning I hastened to the school grounds in order to be first at the cere monies. Imagine my surprise when 1 found there, seated in a row, all the stockholders. I congratulated them on their interest in the enterprise, and then threw open the door of the candy store. It was ethptyt “For a moment I was speechless. The stockholders bent their heads and said nothing. They looked suspiciously con tented, and when 1 intimated that some good man among ns bad gone wrong they were all prepared to prove that a daring buzglar had, in the midnight hoar, deprived the corporation of its as sets. “Ten years later one of the stockhold ers admitted that he had helped his brethren in disposing of the stock.”—St. Lonis Republic. shavlos tbs Beard In Hauls. Peter the Great thought to civilize his savages by making them shave and im posed a tax of 100 rubles on the wealthy and middle classes and a copeck on peasants and laborers. Now it was a superstition among the poorer people that no beardless son of Adam could ever enter heaven, and being obliged to part with their beards the great ma jority treasured up their hairs to be buried with their bodies. In dealing with his soldiers the great Peter enlisted the aid of the priests, who cunningly pointed out the fact that they were go ing to fight the bearded Turk and that their patron, St. Nicholas, would be un able to distinguish them from their ene mies unless they sacrificed their beards. This was all right, and the beards of the beloved Russians went down before the razor in deference to St. Nicholas. Bnt, nnlnckily for the priests, the next little war happened to be with the Swedes, who wore no beards, and thus it was that the Russian soldiers de manded to be allowed to abjure the razor, so that the holy Nicholas might have no difficulty in arranging for their protection.—English Illustrated Maga zine. B*e«nt Applications of Paper. The year 1861 was certainly one of those in which new indnstrial applica tions of pap'T were most numerous. The idea of using paper in place of stone in the construction of houses is already old, but paper to take the place of glass in windows, of clay in flowerpota, of iron in railway rails, wagon wheels and horseshoes, of porcelain in laboratory ware, of wood in barrels, it having al ready taken the place of that inatsrial in small boats, paper in pulleys, are ap plications as novel as bold. The mann- faoture of window panes of paper was first tried in the United States. The panes have the appearance of milky glass, and the property of inter cepting the light rays while letting the heat rays through, which makes them suitable for greenhouses. It is estimated that a paper window pane ninety-fonr by sixty-three centimeters in dimensions in a wooden sash with iron appliances, will cost about eighty-five cents, and last c« an average four years. — E. Ratoin in Popular Science Monthly. THE GENTLE SEX HAS BECOME A POWER IN WASHINGTON. Hua«lr#4a of Wvaaaa Hold Warklo* Po- altloaa la tho Vorioaa Doportmato of tho Notloaal Capitol Without Loolog Their Social Staadta*. Washington is getting to he wom an’s paradise. There is no other place in the wide, wide world where women earn as mnch money, are as independ ent and are as deferentially treated by men as they are in Washington. The influence of women in the affairs of this mighty nation has been a subject of fre quent comment. Many interesting and highly imaginative stories have been told of the woman lobbyist until the discreet wives of most of onr migratory states men have taken to traveling around with them, and never under any circum stances let them remain alone amid the temptations of ths capital. This is a palpable injustice to the lawgivers, and involves an unnecessary hardship upon ths anxious matrons. In the place of an imaginary and ro mantic influence Mpon the lawmaking of this free for all government there has thus grown up the real and substan tial influence exercised by the ever pres ent and zealous guardian of her hus band's morals. Meanwhile, from being the mender of her lord’s socks and torn trousers, the wife of the statesman has come to realize that she can occupy an other and higher sphere in life, and feel ing her power has begun by making all around her feel it, who in turn emu late her independence. So it comes that from a combination of politics, so ciety bobbing and female domination the women of Washington have estab lished a status for themselves. Should all the men be suddenly called away from the capital for a journey across the Styx there is no legitimate business that would be left without a votary and no profession wonld fall into decline. Beyond the closing of a few charitable institutions things would re main as they are. Lawsuits would be no fewer or less skillfully conducted; doctors and druggists would still get in their daily work; butchers and bakers and candlestick makers would still be sufficiently numerous; preachers and merchants would equal the demand; barbers would be more plenty than beards; real estate ageuts would still be forming pools and combinations and speculating in city and suburban prop erty. An undertaker is about the only thing of importance which wonld not be found. Thus far the men have that business to themselves. When Spinner opened the departments for the emplyment of women he gave them an opportunity for advancement. The thing has worked itself ont now and the female clerk is an established insti tntion, so to speak, in good standing, with a fair income—and sometimes r. fair face as well—recognized and ap proved of by good society, and in a measure fashionable. Her social stand ing as a class comes perhaps from the fact that she is more often the friend of the wives of statesmen than of the statesmen themselves, those watchfnl guardians exercising some discretion in the matter of favom to their own sex. Out of this has come the recognition of woman as a sell supporting creature, without loss of standing, and not all being able to get into the departments or to always hold places once secured they have invaded other occupations and professions once sacred to the wearers of trousers. Of course female teachers, doctors and lawyers are no longer a nov elty, and a great many have gone into a small private brokerage business. One woman has gone regularly into the real estate, loan, trust and insurance busi ness, and has turned ont to be one of the best “businessmen” of the thonsand and one who keep their eyes on every foot of ground in and about Washington. She has opened up new subdivisions, formed syndicates and done booming with the beet of them. The girls have almost driven young men out of the stenogra phy and typewriting business, and even around the political headquarters, where men only used to be employed, women now outnumber men two to one. The best of it all is that with all this the social status of the women remains unchanged; they are still treated with the greatest deference and courtesy, and a “strong minded” woman is a rarity. What wonld yon think to see a shop girl in a tailor made riding habit gallop ing through Central park on a stylish horse? It would not be a common sight. 1 It is not at all uncommon to see parties of shopgirls—salesladies—well dressed and well mounted, riding along the most fashionable drives, looking as stylish and pretty and enjoying themselves as much as the richest danghter of fashion whom they may pass on ths road. The girls in some of the larger stores belong to riding clnbs and have riding masters who take them ont two or three times a week.—Baltimore News. Douglas Jerrold la School. Douglas Jerrold wrote “Black Eyed Susan” when he was twenty-one, and contributed to Punch the immensely popular “Candle Lectnree”not long aft erward. Bat at nine years of age young Jerrold had been scarcely able to read, and it was not until he was apprenticed to a printer, after serving for some time aa a midshipman at sea that he showed either desire or capacity for intellectnal Improvement—London Standard. Haw They Robbed the Man)a la. In the old range cattle boom days, when money from foreign lands waa pouring into the weet like water, there were a good many sharp tricks prac ticed in delivering cattle. It is recalled that the Marquis de Moree, who tried to eat snch a conspicuous figure as a revo- Intaoniser of the American meat trade, and who later became notorious aa a duelist, was badly sold. While in Da kota he bought 10,000 head of cattle from two Englishmen. They were first class cattle and cost forty dollars a head. When these two Britons delivered the cows they worked one of ths neatest “skin” games that was ever heard of. Medora, yon know, site in a valley, with table land* an each side. Well, the Englishmen ran 8,000 head of cattle in on the marquis and collected for 10,000. The way they did it was by running the seme 8,000 twice around the hill. De Moree never “tumbled” until he had paid his $400,000 and ths merry cockneys were bound for Sonth Amer ica. It was a clear steal of $200,000, bnt the marquis didn't make much bones about it He had plenty of money and didn’t care.—Chicago Drovers’ Journal. A FORTUNE FOUND IN COAF. Mr. Raney, in conversation with a number of travelers, told the following story, which he says actually occurred iu Ms yreesane white aa route on a Great Northern freight train Bear Morris, 'linn.: I boarded a freight train at Han cock, (he began) eu route to Brecken- ridge. There were about forty hobos on board the box ears. I arranged with three braketnen to make the rounds and sea if they couldn’t be made to put np for their ride. I acted the part ot the conductor, while the trainmen followed out my instructions. We went from one car to another on til we had visited all bat one. Few failed to comply with onr request, but showed hostility, and would doubtless have taken the advan tage of our small number had I not pro vided myself with a gan, which pro truded in fall view from my coat pocket. The last car we visited was partially loaded with lime, and between the l>ar- rels we found two Swedes who handled the American language in the most hu morous manner. We informed them they would necessarily have to pay for their ride or get off at the next station, to which the spokesman replied; “Vwe don’t gat no many. Vwe bane com from Nort Docota, und York party hard and gate no mnny." “Where do you want to go?" asked a brakeman. “Vwe vant tu go to Mainopolis.” “You are headed in the wrong direc tion,” returned the brakeman. “Val, vwe go tu Brekenridge und vwe den go set. V we no mane dare 1h> ba gude faller und let us rads." The brakeman was not satisfied with the Swedes’ statements that they wero moneyless, so they were searched. While ths searching was going on one of the Swedes said again: “Vwe don’t gate nn muny Sopnse vwe ly ’bout laddie ting like date?" The brakeman, being satisfied that there was no money oh their persons, was about to withdraw from the car when he discovered a small bundle in the corner of the ear tied np with a handkerchief. The handle was ex amined. A pair of old socks and sev eral rags were tightly wrapped around a piece of soap about three by six inches in sise. The brakeman said he guessed he would take the soap anyway, as he could use it himself. Here the Swedes made a robust protest, saying, “No, vwe don’t vant yon tu take dote sope.' “What good is the soap to you?” asked the brakeman. “Vwe vant da sope for vash wid bafar vwe gate in Mainopolis.” “What do you expect to do in Minne apolis?” said the brakeman. “Vwe tank vwe vilie gate leddle vork tu du dare, as a ba prutty gude toon.’ 1 The brakeman then said be would do the fair thing and only take half the soap, to which the Swedes begged ear neatly for him to leave the soap. The brakeman took the cake over his knee and broke it throngb the center, and lol to the amazement of all, a twenty dol lar gold piece rolled ont By this time the Swedes were nearly wild, and their ejaculations were side splitting in the extreme. The soap was then cat into bits and $200 in gold coin, consisting of twenties, tens and fives, taken oat. The Swedes had adopted this strange method of safely disguising their possessions; bnt, as misfortune had it, their novel idea failed. It is needless to say that the brakeman appropriated one of the shin ing pieces for his own nse, to ths heart rending dismay of the sons of Sweden, and departed for the caboose. —Fargo Argot. Drees Goeda trom Spirit Load. “A conductor on the International and Great Northern once told me a qneer story,” remarked Ezra Morgan at the Lindell. “His name wss Painter, and hi* run waa from Galveston to Willis, Tex. He said that shortly after his mar riage he made a compact with his wife that whichever died first sheuld appear to the other. She only lived about a year, and shortly after her demise, while he was sitting reading one evening, she walked np to him and laid her hand on his shoulder. She talked with him a few minutes as freely as though in the flesh; then, picking up a pair of shears that laid on the table, said: ’After I am gone you may douM that I appeared to you. You mqy think it a dream or a hallucination. Keep this aa a souvenir, and doubt not.’ She cat a piece from her drees, laid it ofi the table and van ished. The goods resemble white silk, but the textile experts confess that they do not know what it is; that if any such goods were ever woven in an earthly loom they do not know it.”—St. Lonis Globe-Democrat Ths Old Follea Tax. The chief authorities of towns in post ages incurred mnch responsibility. At Ripon we have a good example of their liabilities. Here formerly, after the blowing of a horn at 2 o’clock at night, and nntil sunrise next morning, if a house were robbed, and the owner and his servants had taken proper precan- tions for its safety, the wakeman had to make good the loss sustained. Each householder paid an annual tax of two pence if he had one door, and fonrpence if he had two doors to his dwelling, for maintaining a watch over the city. The tax has long since been discontinued, bnt the horn is still blown at night.— London Tit-Bits. The SraaotlMS of Battla. A gentleman who was distinguished in the war of the rebellion for his per sonal bravery, and who fought in some of the most bloody battles, was re cently asked jnst how it felt to be ondei fire. “Shall 1 tell yon jnst how a battle affects meT’ he asked, smiling. “It is not elegant, bnt it is at lesot. true.” “Yes,” was the reply, “tell ns exactly what it is like." “I can only speak of my own feel ings,” the old soldier said, “bat as fsr as ths effect on me personally goes, a battle is like a champagne drunk.” “Yon mean that it is so excitingP' the questioner asked. “I mean,” was the reply, “that there is first an intense end glorious excite ment, sad that after that comes a most undignified, bat inevitable nausea. 1 was never in battle in my life with out being seasick afterward.'*—Boston Courier. Oroat Mo* oad Tkotr Pollolco. Suppose the Marquis of Sshsbary or Mr. Gladstone were this night to become conscientiously convinced that tbs party of which he is tbs mouthpiece is the party of false doctrines, end had the courage to say so. What howls there would be from a hundred platforms! Does say one doubt that the men who deify today wonld crucify tomorrow? Each particular section of the British public likes to have its own particular piper, and it insists on celling ths tone. Let ths piper play a tune of his own, and thsrejp • faddaa change of pipers. SOI PLAIN PACTS PR III With tho nhort crop and lew prneshow are the people to supply t etr many wants? Our answer is, Bu / where your dollai will bring you the most. Friendship and small favors in the past wire all very well, but this year every dol lar must nft double i»utv IF Fossim-E. We claim to be the place to buy, and ask your considera tion of the following— WE BUY STRICTLY FOR CASH and discount every bill, thus bating fifteen to twen y per cent, cheeper than our competitor who buys on f ur months time. We are willing to give our customers this difference. We have just returned from New YiTk with the most com plete stock of — Hr? IM, lotto, Slots, Sits til tlotlui; - - - that we have ever shown here. No Seconds, Misfits, Ofl'Colors, or Job Lots from auction, but all elegant and reliable goods. Kerr.e tiber, flon\ buy a dollar’s worlh until you see our stock Ail we ask is a fair and square comparison of our goods. Tiankingyou for yenr past liberal patronage, we invite you to call and see us. Yours respectfully, A. J. BROOM. W'illcox’s Old Drug Store. S. CLHUS * HARTSVILLE! * Big money saved by buying your Christ mas goods from NUNLEY &. CO’S. We have a large and well selected assortment of toys of all kinds, china ware, vases, toilet sets, dolls, and everything that goes to make Christmas a big success. Wo have just received 1,600 pounds of assorted WCdriLllGSa candies, at prices to suit all. See us before buying. Fruit and Nuts of All Kinds. Apples, figs, dates, bananas, Florida oranges, cocoanuts, wal nuts, almonds and many good things too numerous to mention, all of which we are selling at popular prices. We still keep up our regular stock, and we now offer some real bargains in shoes cheaper and better than ever. Shoes from 35c up to $4 75. Big bargains in clothing, hats and notions. Suits from $1 40 up. We have just received a carload of flour and ^still keep up our stock of other lines that we are selling at prices that defy competition. See us before buying. Remember our motto, “We will not be undersold.” Calf and see us. Yours for a large trade and a pleasant Christmas, J.F.MLET&CO, Hartsville, S. f Sept 8— 6m. SHNTH Eaxll.k Taste and tha Army, Welter Besant, in hie very entertain ing and valuable book on “London,’ notes an important change in ths early pert of this century in the feelings of the English gentry shout trade. Mer cantile life ceased to attract the younger sons of ths gentry, who found employ ment in the army or navy, and ths city was thus severed from the conn ties. BAUSON l KRML, General Commission Merchants, Wholesale Dealers in M^nWogl^gfi, Etc., 230 East Bay, North of Market Street, CHARLESTON, 8. 0. C >nslgninents solicited. ■ — . —. ■ We handle all kinds of fish in sea son. large South Mullet, Bass. Sheep- head, Dram, Blacklist], Salmon, Trout, Pompano. Spanish Mackerel, etc. Write for prices. BF'No charge for ice and barrel._£) Bull's Bay Oysters, $3 per BM., $1.25 per Gallon. Jan 12—3m Lost. O N the night of December 20,1892, between Mf. E. C. Rotholz's res Until after Christmas his headquarters will be at the Darlington Book Store. Call on him and see his magnifiemt array of presents, such as Bools, To^ aid lit Sets! CONFECTIONS & FRUITS. UP TO CHRISTMAS WE WILL SELL OUR EITIIIE STOCK OF movements , 1 with peai I setting. A reward in money equiva lent to the value of.the watch will be given for the return of the lost perty to E. C. Rotholz’i store. Jan. 12—It. Dtssolutioi of Copartnership. T HE copartnership heretofore ex isting between the undersigned, as dealers in wines, liquors and to bacco and under the firm name of P. B. Allen A Co., is this day dissolved by mutu 1 consent. Mr. W. T. Mills, vho will contlnne the business at the same stand, assumes all liabilities of the firm. P. B. ALLEN, ^ W. T. MILLS. Darlington 8. C., Jan. 2 '93. Jan. 8—ft. Dry Goods Clothing and Shoes At First Cost! \- BhHHB