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TWO DOl/LAKS l'Kll ANNUM. > (iOD 'AND OTTIl COUNTKY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE VOLUME VI SATURDAY MORNIN^, AUGUST 31, 1878. NUMBER 24 IS a Light Running, Fust CS inning, and clean Staple Making ein. t'rico lie riuced. First Class. I am taking order.", also, for the rBROWN G I N S, WITH FEEDERS AND CONDEiV&K/tS. This Condensing (Jin is a favorite. Ciin KiI>n and .S:mis furiiished it' ap plied for cany, also Heist lcs. Order our Leather and Kubbcr line" 1i1j? in lime ami save moiiev. .JOHN A. HAMM TON, Next to Mr. 0. 11. Corucl.son. jul6-tf A LECTURE TO YOUNG M KX. Just Published in a Sealed I'lun'ope. ^ ] 'i ice nix cents; A F.eelure on <h<* 5Va ture, Treatment, anil Itadical curcofSemin.il Weakness, or bperuiatorrlicsa, induced l?y Self-Abuse, InVoluntary Emission, Inipoteney, Nerv ous Debility, mid Impediments to Marriage fen?r.iHy; Consumption, Epilepsy, and 'its; Mental and i'hvsieal Imapaeilv, Ac-By ROUKUT .1. i l l.V IdlW Kl-i.. M. D., author of the *'( ireeii l'.oo!;," ?See. Th? world-renowned author, in this admirable Lecture, clearly proves from his <own experience that the awful consequen ce* of Self-Ahuse may be ellecluady re moved without medicine, ami willioul dan grruns ?urgieal operations, bougies, instni Suents, rings, or eoidials; pointing out a mode of cure at mice certain ami elleetual, by which every stillerer, mi matter what liia condition may !><?, may eurodiimsoll' ?cheaply, privately ami radically. Jjf?f Jill* 'j.tiuTOT' if i<T pf.t've ? wwii (houtundx and thousand*. Sent under seal, in a plain envelop , to auy address, mi receipt of six cents, --i two postage ..tamps. Address the Publishers. THE UULVEKWKLL M F.IHC Ud.'O., ?41 Ann St., New Vorl.; Post Oliice-Hojc,4"?SU. iuav 1 I v AV. K. .1 lO BJ N SON ;at the stoke ol mis. kuck itomx.sox. *SVork done I heap. 1 have just received a large supply of the celebrated IiiiiKlrelTurnip Seed. Which 1 am (dieting to lite public at yeiy low prices, ami to Oranges at special raters * Terms Cash. oct 'JO ly ATT< >KN KY AMI COUNSKIiLOIt AT LAW, (Corner Church und St. Piaid's Street Oruiigcbiirg, S, C. npr'1 (? !)tn GIN GEARING ^11 AI TING AM) BOLTS CU E A PK 12 THAN EVER BEFORE A T Tl 11: FORES r CITY FOUNDRY |and filACHlNS WORKS, GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO., AUGUSTA, U'A. ENGINES, COTTON SCREWS, MILL OKA KINO And Machinery off Kinds Made and .Re paired. oct 27 FJ?0 .r)'J DENTISTRY Dr. L- S.Wolfe can be found at liisoflice over Ezekiel's Store where he is prepared to execute work on the most improved styles, at short notice and at reasonable prices* All work guaranteed. iime HO f rw\0 Make Money PleiiHanlly A and fast, agents should address FIN LEY HARVEY & Co., Atlanta, Cht. pine 1 ly Address of the State Democratic Exocutive Committee. APPOINTMENTS Fol! TUT. CA.Ml'AKSN. ' Tho State Executive Committee Riiuouuce to their fcllow-c.itizcns that the State canvass will formally open on September !<>. Already tho coun ties, in general, arc ready for action, and the committee cannot doubt that the campaign will be as brilliant as brief. Thron?diout the canvass the Domo crnoy of South Carolina will have but i ne rule of conduct. The plat form <'I i i";T<;. adopted and reaffirmed in ]<S7<^, is the Supreme law of the Democratic party. I?y ii .'.<? h host ami the lowest are Iwi i N > pi rson or body ol persoiiSi oilier thah a Stale Convention, can change or modify its wise proviso m tin l pali'io' lie declarations. Within the line ul the platlorni of the Democracy are .-ale. Outside of it, and beyond it. there is no true Democracy in South Carolina. No issue nol made in iho p'utforhi, ami ineonsi.-ieiil with i:, can In laired. No issue ion ' in the platform and consilient v. .'.a it can he ignoi cd. The platform of the Democratic ] arty of South Carolina i- al once a history ami a prophecy. It is tho re I cord of what i* past and the assur ance ol' what is to come. In it are declared Democratic principles and j Democratic practice. The issue in j South Carolina, us mad.' by the Dem ocratic parly, is nol an issue of race. On the cMilisiry, the objects of thu 1 )tinocraey in retaining control of the State, a re tu complete the reform < > i abuses, to punish public criminals, to n.aim ail (ho purity and'ability of tin1 goviriiiucni in all its branches, to lower tin- rail- of taxation and lessen the hurdens imp ?so i up > i tii e people, in ensure peace and cone -rd, V.rid. it,r*l'Tlif.'- :tl! <??->: ..>>-i vo->l*?ju>rl ami complete protection to e?? iry s> i ?? lie and private right of person and pi'Opeity, iu order thai the gOvot'iH nu et in tlie hands ofilm Deniiieraii?! party, shall by the govcrnm nl of no one section, > i ii'> vyim race, of no one (?lass, but nl '.lit- whole people of Soul h Carolina, without limitation or re striction. I So far as time and opportunity j have admitted, the Democratic party has kepi ti? the letter, and in spirit, every plcdgoor promise made in th ? platform ol Icj70. The State officers [ elected two years ago arc again the candidates uf the party. W ith the same platform and the same candi dates, holding beneficent possession of every department ol the Stale gov ernment, the Democracy of South Carolina icseryC success and can command it. Vigilance is necessary. Active and incessant work is indis ?disable. Unity must be had. They who slumber on in false security, they who postpone tho preparations for the fight, they who encourage or permit dissension and division, for un\ rea son oi upon any pretext, areas much the public enemies sis are the politi cal lepers whom Democratic rule drives into the penitentiary oro.it of the State. iMalcontonts, laggards, disorgani/ers shall not pull down the Democratic party; although they may multiply its diflicultics a.id make the struggle harder and more, desperate. And when the battle is won, as it shall h e, the Democratic party, lor its own sake, will pass sentence upon any who, not heing with us, are against us, and make them fur all time poli tical outcasts, despised by Democrats of their ow n raco and shunned by the colored Democrats who have been tried and have kept the faith. For the white Democrats, tho Stato Committee arc sure no other exhortation h needed. They know full will thai Democratic rule, is worth having, and that what is worth having is worth keeping and will he kept. By the colored Democrats, as the State Committee believe, the solid advantages of an enlightened ami honest government aro thoroughly appreciated. They have seen and felt the difference between integrity and I rascality, between lofty justice ami partisan rule. The hope is that the colored people, in larger numbers than ever before, will inarch ben eith the folds of the Democratic banner, and so assist the Democracy in perfecting the work of governmental reform and industrial restoration. The reign of ignorance and vice in ^'outh Carolina is pa.it and gout-. Virtue, intelligence! and elevated si itcsmunship shall, as during the last two years, control Iii i public affairs of South Carolina. For ibis lito people fought in 1 170, and the sceptre I then grasped, for the lirst time in i igbt years, by pure and strong hands, will not he laid down, and shtili not in *\. cslcd away. Sigued?.John J> Kennedy, Chair mau; d ?I .lohnson, W C Coker, d .1 Daigan, F W Dawson, d V l/.hir, .1 K [limine, M<(! .man, Jolni 10 I neon, J 1\ Lipsconih, 'I' Stobo Fur row, William Munro, John O Shcp pard, L W Vounians, William Elliott. Muss tueetiugs of the Democracy will be held throughout the. State. i heginning on September it), when addresses will In- delivered by candi dates on the S ate and Congressional ticket, and by other speakers desig nated by the Chairman of the Stale Democratic Com mi'tee. The following appointments have been agreed up on, and arc in addition, of course, to Mich meetings as may be held, under the direction of County Committees, for enlivening and advancing the County canvass : FIKST COJs'OKKSSIONAL DISTRICT. Suintcr. September 21, Saturday. Darlington, September 25, Wednes day. .Marlboro', September 27, Friday. Wiliiamsburg, Sept em bor 30, Mon dny. Georgetown, October 7, Monday. Chesterfield, October 11. Friday. I lorry, October 14, Monday. .'?' id "i' October 17, Thursday. KKCONJ? ciiNi;i:t>.-l.iN V|, DISTRICT. Clarendon, September 23, Monday. Charleston, October 2. We Iticsday . I Oran eburg, October "J!, fhursduy. THIRD C'ONCKKSHIONAIa DISTRICT. Newborn, September ID, Tuesday. Laurcns, September 12, fhursday. Abbeville, September 14, Saturday. Lexington, October3, Thursday. Anderson, October 5: Saturd ty. Oconee, October U, Wednesday. Bickens, October 11, Friday. Ivichland, November 4, .Monday. FOUHTII CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Fuir?cld, September Id, Friday. Chester, September 16, Monday, lvcrshuw, September 18, Weducsday. Lancaster, September 24, Tuesduy. Greenville, October, 1 ">. Tuesday. Spartanbtirg, October 22, Tuesday. I'nion, October 25, Friday. York, October 20, Tuesday. FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Ihirnwcll, September 18, Wednesday. A ikon, September 20, Friday. Colicton, October 10, Thursday. Hampton, October 12, Saturday. ' Beaufort, October Hi, Wednesday. Edgcfield, October .'10, Wednesday. Beau Hickman and Canada Bill. Canada Hill was onetime passing through Washington, on his way to New York, after a successful gam ? hling tri]) on the steamboats of the Western and Southern rivers. Tho thought struck him that he would stop and see Beau Hickruau, the great wag, then world famous as a clever ti ickstor. Tho two sports melon the steps of tho huge marble Capitol. Hickman had been pointed out to Canada Bill by a hoot black. 'Is your name Hickman, pard ?' inquired Bill, extending his hand. 'The same, sir. Whose hand might I have the honor of pressing ?'return ed Hickman, thinking that Iii4 now acquaintance wa* a newly arrived Western member of Congress. 'The band yoi grasp, pard,' re sponded Bill, 'is oik generally know u as being more able to deal cleverly than fairly. 1, like your.solf. am one ol society's razor Btrops. I am -.' 'Canada Bill, by gum !' 'Shake tho numhor-two-tiines?fo.t I'm glad to see you Hickman.' 'How long are you going to stop iu town?' 'Stopped oil' expressly to make your acquaintance.' ?Arc you known in thin city V 'No.'' 'Then I'll turn you to good ac count. How much money have you to venture on a sure thing ?' ?(iot $6,0007 'With you?' ' Right here,' end Canada iiil! pulled forth two hugo rolis of bills. 'How would you like to turn that into $12,000 within the noxt throo days?' 'Name the job, and I'm your man.' , 'Shi Wed lake a drink.' an 1 j'ickman led tho monlu tossor into the card it).on of u fashionable sum gfe-room. ' The next day a genteel, a >! sum looking man entered ilio .: enUein in 's parlors at Wizard's Hotel, which were tilled with Senators, Congress men and oilice-seckers and holders of all grades, lie carried a .-mal! note book in his hand, and a-, he appro .. t .. i .i..., ,,. i ..... tiyiivit > ii group nc wots iu sa^ . 'Gentlemen, I am collecting money for a widow lady ami her three child ren. They belonged to a once proud but now cast-down family. If.you will aid them please us'; no furth sr questions, but give what you see lit.' Iu the entire hotel the gentlemanly beggar only received thrco donations of twenty live cents each. The others waved him impatiently aside, while j some plainly told him he was an im poster. Before leaving he said quiet ly to the three gentlemen who ha 1 given him money : This will he repaid you ten fold to-morrow evening at this hour. He then took the address ol each, asking them to not fail to he in the parlor next evening to get their mo n ey, ami cautioning them to speak to no one of his promise ? that he was Orlando Matlcrson. president of ?'-?e Royal .London Society tor Hie encoura?cincnt of Benevolence As a matter of course, before he had got a block away from th > hotel every one knew all that he had sai l and done, and all considered him some crazy iannlic. Then a report got about that he was an immensely rich but insane English nobleman, who spent yearly hundreds of thous ands in seeking those out who wcro willing to lend aid to the needy, an d in rewarding them afterwards, so j that, acceding to his cracked brain, the cause ol charity might he in a general way accelerated. The next evening he came again, asking alms, and every one was on the lookout for him. He first singled out the three gentlemen who had given him twenty dive cents each, and very quietly passed each an envelope containing $2.50 and a small card on which was printed : 'Give and you shall receive.' 'Cast your bread up on the waters and it shall be return ed to you ten-fold.' 'llcmeruber the example of Sir Orlando Matters on as you journey through life.' Sir Qrlano Matlcrson took 87.5 in donation from the hoiue that night, and it was noticeable that those whom his cxamplo thus quickeno'l were very careful that he should have their correct address. The same re sult followed iu each of tho scores of hotels and sample-rooms which he had initiated on the night before. Tho third night he, with a solemn face, returned to each donor of tho previous night tho exact ten-fold promise. 'It would be a joy which 1 would consider cheaply purchased,' said In; confidentially to a dozen gentlemen, 'if at tho cost of a half a million dol lars I would teach the citizens of this beautiful city to be thoroughly gen orous to the poor.' This night he was like the ticket seller at tho railroad. One, two, live, ten and even twenty dollar hills wore shoved at him on all sides, so great had been the awakening in the cause of benevolence which the example of Sir Orlando Maltersoh had aroused . A benign smile hovered about his mouth, and a tear that glittered be times in his mihi, kind eye proclaim ed tho joy his soul felt us he shoved hill after hill into his pockets and gazed with the look of a father upon his converts. That, night Canada Bill -h >wc 1 up to Beau Hick man something over eighteen thousand dollar.*. 'We'll split her now,' suggested Bill, as he ceased counting. ' Twouldn't give you 812,000,' quoth Ilickman 'Lid il he till to morrow night. I think I can raiso a little "hush m niey" oh this racket.' Next night Beau Llickmau wen*, the round-, und found groups >!' ex pectant converts waiting to sec Sir Orlando Mattcrson. One at a time, as fast a> he could <!o so, he wool ;. take one after auothor OfthCmost prominent gentlemen aside and whta pe r i u his ea r : 'I have <:ot a little subscription book here which was hand id to in ? by a Iricnd as he took t'no train thirl morning for Now York. Sony you got sold on Sir < h Ian lo Matter; on. lie's skipped out. That was Canada I?iII, tho th ro?'-card montc man.' 'Is that so V 'Sure. I Fere's the hook, with your name i:i it for 820.' 'Well, for gracious sake, Beau, don't show that note book to any one. And scratch my name oil it, will you ?' 'Certainly,' returned llickmau, scratching over the name with his pencil; 'but Governor, I'm kind a short to night. Couldn't you lend me $?2U till to-morrow ?' With a wry face tho victim would pull forth his p ockct hook, and plac ing the bill demanded in Hick man's hand, would sli;> quietly from the hotel to the street. That night the two worthies divid ed, and the share of each was over twelve thousand dollars. Both Beau Ilickman and Ci had a Bill, wltco tricks on the unwary ob tained for them thousands oi'doiiar died poor, and were buried ns pa u pers; and the moral is, that no matter how much a man makes dishonestly or by trickery, he will foouor or later be found out, and doubtless die a miserable, deserted out cast. - ?m~* -o? Gelting up with the Baby. 1I< >W Mil. JON KS DID II. Mrs. Jones was not very well; baby had had a course of measles, and nursing and anxiety had almost worn the little mother out. As they went to bed, Mr. Jones, who was a loud husband, said, "My dear, if there's any getting up to night, I'm to do it, mind. You just bo still?I can do all that's needed just as well as you can." 'Do you think so, dear ?'queried the lady. ?Think '. I km v it. Women are so conceited, they imagine nobody can do anything but themselves.' 'Very well- I'll call you.' The city clock had just struck one. .Mrs. .I ones woke with the uoiso, and heard baby breathing, as she thought, in a disturbed and heavy way, as ho lay in his little crib. Sho called aloud to her spouse, who was vigor ously snoring? 'John, John !' The snore went on more slronu ously than before. She reached over and gave his beard a hard jerk. The half-developed snore evolved in a moit, and Mr. Jones sprang up like a night-capped Jack-in-the-box, and rubbed his eyes in a bewildered fashion, 'What is it ? What is the matter !' 'Baby's sick, and wo must have a light. The lamp and matches are on the tuantlcpiccc,'and his loving spouse sank under tho warm cover ing, this time with a slight shiver at the col 1. Mr. Jones crawled slowdy out of his warm berth, knocking over a small stand by the bed side, which held a pitcher of water, emptying the ice cold contents on his bare foot and night clothes. With a shiver and groan ho Stepped on and over the broken fragments, ran against a chair which hold his coat and pants, threw it over, knocking his watch out of his coat pocket, whero he had care lessly laid it, hi caking the crystal. Next, a fearful clatter woke Mrs. Jones from delightful dreams. lie hud thrown down the tortga and shovel on tho l.jiby'h china bath-tub, chipping out some generous pioco3. 'My dear, what in the world are you doing?' 'Looking for that confounded lamp.' 'Come tf) bed, come to bed, and I will trot it.' 'Kasicr said than done,'he growl* cd, tunning against a heavy book c.'. -c. nearly knocking himself sense It -s. 'I don't kt.ow where the bed is, and my clothes are ice.' 'Here, called a sweet voice from tho darkest corner of the room. After knocking over all the toilet articles ou the dressing table, and running his hands?which he held out before him that "he might seo better'"? through the lace curtains of baby's crib, making an irreparable rent?at last he reached the bed. He sat shivering on the .side of the bed, while Mr. Jones slipped out of her downy nest, slipped her little foot into a pair of warm carpet slippers, and slipped across the room to the olfeudiog j lump, which was lit in a trice. She came back to tho baby. He was lying on his back, mouth open, snor ing musically. No croup iu that snore. She turned him over on his side, kissed and (revered him up, then attended to papa's frozen limbs by getting him some dry clothes, and covering him up?minus the kissing j which perhaps accounted for his part ing growl ere he resigned himself to Somus arms again. 'To morrow night, I want the lamp put where I can get it. A sensible woman ought to know that the man tle-picco is noplace for tl^a lamp.' , 'And have tho lamp broken; IWWwBt'.ic gl dear, henceforth I do the lamp light* The Agricultural Society of Now berry, at their meeting last week, met the color question promptly and fearlessly. Two colore I men applied for admission to me rubcrsbip of the Society. The Society, on motion of Mr. Johnstonc, one of its members, immediately adopted a resolution; providing that they should be admit ted to the privileges of membership upon complying with the usual terms, of admission. Those who are disposed to think that the negro is "crowded out" in South Carelina, will p'e&se note this faet. A Reto t Direct.?A clergyman* Jrom u neighboring town and one of his elderly parishioners, were walk ing homo from church one icy day last winter, when the old gentleman slipped and fei 1 Hat on his back. Tho minister, looking at him a moment, and being assured ho was not much hurt, said to him : "Friend, sinners Bland on slippery places." The old gentleman looked it} , as if to assure himself of the laet, and raid, "I see they do; but I lan't." A Scotchman has trained a couple of mice to turn a reel for twisting twine. The laborers run about tea miles a day, and reel from one hun dred to one hundred and twenty threads. A halfpenny's worth of oat* meal lasts a mouse five weeks; the dear annual profit on each animal is computed at six shillings. The Tribune says 13eu. Butler told a friend that tho original alleged "Sherman letter" has been obtained, and is in the possession of tho Potter committee and would be put in evi dence in October. He (Butler) hap. seen it and has no doubt of Its genui noness, There is something solemn iutha tones of a great bell striking mid? night especially if you are a mile from home and know that your wife is trilling behind the hall door waiting for you.