Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?KE 1)01 PER ANNUM. > VOLUME A T GOD OUR COUNTRY FRIDAY MORNlNCi. MALUH 21, 1879. ALWAYS IN ADVANEC NUMBER 6 BOOTS & SHOES OF THE latest slyles Made to Order by P. A. LEFVENDAHL two doors below W. Xtt. s A.IN'5 Where be in prepared t<? do all kind of work in the above line for Ladies, Gents and Children in the best Workmanlike manner, and ny the most reasonable terms All work warranted. A call is respectfully Solicited. In addition hi the :?!. ve I will keep con stantly on hand beat tier, Lasts, Pegs nndall material in my line at very low prices for cash- aug 31, 1878. W. F. Robinson, WATCH MAKER Ami Jeweler, KUSSEL ST-, OrniiKclMirfr, S. C* A fresh supply of Lnnd ret It's Seeds Always on hand. nov 9 1878 ly Knowlton & Latlirop, ATTORNEYS AND c01nskll0rs a t Jj A w , ORANGEBURG, S. C nov 30 tf CAHRIAGES BUGGIES A X l>) ;>v a c; o ]V s I am now giving [?&'Ut=nv mv p ii KfjoN A L ATTENTION to my Kusine?? of ARIIIAGE MAKING, And will en a ran tee that my work in the future shall be as GOOD as in the past forty years that I have been in the business. I have ItEDUCEn MY i liir.S To SLUT the TIM ES, md if you willeall on me I will guarantee that mv charges and work will give full .SATISFACTION. I am now prepared to manufacture the celebrated 8) 10 XTK R S5* K IN G! BU (?G Y hieb for comfort and ease eannol be ex celled. ALSO Constan'lv on hand KoSF W<?(>D and WALNUT." hi inAi, Oases Of ?II size-1. Uivc fue :? call. HAKl'IN KIOOS. sept :'. l :*.111 PRESCRIPTION FREE! >>r 111.- vj.o. ily ( 'urr nl Seiiitiml WeakMVVi, M.mhno.i mill uli rllm>r<W*rs limtiKlit ??? hy nulls* crellon ur excess Anv limuKNt Inu Hie Inure. -lien la. Or. W. 3\ikVKH A- ??A No. iao gmt HlHU sireet, eiiicluuulf O. TilE GREAT CAUSE U UMAX MISirilY. Just Published in ? Settled Envelope. Pi ice six cents. A Lecture on tlic Ufa* lure, Treatment, and Kadfc*' cure of Seminal Weakness or 8pcrmat?rrlia>a, induced by Ki^Abtisc. Involuntary Emissions, Impolicy, IScrv ??:s Debility, and Impediment t? Marriage generativ; " Consumption. Epilepsy, and Fits; Mental and I'hvsu*"' Incapacity, Ac.? Fty KOHFltr J. ClvA'EltWKLL, M. I)., author of tho ??Grefll Hook," tkc. ' The wot ld-rc?owned author, in this ad mirable Lccttgft clearly proves from his own experie^e that the awful consequences of Self-Al>?se may be effectually removed without medicine, and without dangerous Burgic'' operations, bougies, instruments, rings ur cordials; pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which every stifterer, no matter what his condition may be. mav eure himself cheaply, private ly awl radically. ?i?V" 7'Am Lecture will prove a boon to thtmfunds and thousands. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, on receipt of six cents, or two postage .tamps. Address the Publishers, THE UULVEKWELL MEDICAL CO. 41 Ann St., New York; Post Office Box 468? mav 1 ] v r . . ? a IvLS \ .JMSSL it?0 MfiTtl f'.ilEAPEST, ?ltuii fflfUINQ MACHINERY. X'iU :23a?S>lfGI.DAPB.20,,78 ??:-itr-s. Urriitl, York. V4 - ,Uly 20 <* DENflSTY ?lt. II. F. HHICKEX FUSS has moved his Office over store of Wm. Wil cock, formerly occupied by Dr. Fersner where he will he glad to serve hin friends on the most reasonable terms. PK. It. F. M?CKENFUSS, Dentist, sept 23 td tZke notice, The undersigned respectfully informs the Citizens of the Town and County that he is prepared to do up and make Mattresses on the shortest notice. Also will conduct an Upholstery business. Prices will be as low aa possible. Orders solicited. JOHN ORGEN. jun? 9 if PLANTERS ATTENTION! We could not supply tlie demand for tho GULLETT GIN last Season owing to the Yellow Fever Quarantine. To prevent a similar oocuireuee during the coining Season we have been instructed to offer the IMPROVJ^D. (GULLETT OlfST Also FEEDER and CONDENSER nt a very L< w Price to all who purchase this Spring for Cash, or good Paper. N >w is your (dunce to pur chase the Finest Cotton Gin ever pilfered to the Tra lo, at Price* that an y Planter can t llbrd. To get the Large it Discount y.ni should purohi-'o between now and May 1st. We are also offering the Celebrated BIGE LOW ENGINE ol 'every Style. Also SWEEP-STAKE SIC P.ORATORS, Threshers, Saw Mills. Grist Mills, &c, t Great ly Rj luoed Briee*. (Jive us a eail or send lor Circulars. Extra Low Figures tu a Id to th ?ia who purchase their entire Ginning ami Threshing 0 itfks thro i gh us. Address () j\I STONM. & CO General Agents for Plantation idnohinery, feb 21 Augtista, Ga. 1879 AT LAST 1879 The time, the p'aeo, und opportunity lias come for purchasing goods at lernst 20 PER CENT LOW PR than any other place in town. F. DeH ABS, Igt., Next Door to A. Fischer's Offers a well selected stock of CrrOC ^rieS tt* Prices that defy com petition, consisting in part ol Flour, Sugar, Rice, Potatoes Codfish, Bacon, Coffee, Bunk wheat, Mackerel, Sardines. Hams, Tea, Butter, Salmon, L-b-ters, ?-trips, Grists. Cheese, Beef, Turkey Lard, Meal, Macaroni, Tongue, Can Milk, 'lotnattoes, Peaches, l ine Apples, Prunes, Pickles, Tobacco, Segurs, Snap, Starch, Pepper. Spice, Sea Foam, Horslords, Mustard. Candy, Nutmegs, Shot, Powder, (Japs, Cartridges, Pipes, Cutlery, ('rockery and Tin War?.-, Viuegar, Sieve.-, &c, &.C. X Tri 3D SA-JNEdPI/E ROOM In rear, is Stocked with one ol the Finest Slocks of Wines and Liquors ever brought to this Market. Mv Goods are A 1, bought for Cash und sob! tor -tame. teb 14 1870 F. DeMARS, Agt. [AT TDK CORNER OF itusstJ street a ltd Railroad Avenue BY J. W. IV10SELEY, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Wl.kli Kill he sold CHEAP t..r CASH. my Old Friends and as many New Ones as will favor me with a call respectful I)' invited to examine my Goods and Prices. jan 24?ly ,1 . AN". MOSElliEY. J. C. PIKE AT THE SAMP] OLD STAND Is pi t pared to serve his many customers during this year, as in the past, with FIRST-CLASS GOODS LOWEST POSS1B1 E PRICES V\ c have m band a Large and well Assorted S T OIK O F G O O D S With Polite and Experienced C*ffiKR Ii. S to show them. I am leaking preparations to handle all of the Best Grades of PHOSPHAETS AND ACIDS. I respectfully ask the continuance of the Libetal Patronag?so gene rously bestowed in the past. J?y" Highest Murkst Price paid for all Country Produce. J. C. PI K E H. S. HEOTEKEH, Agent, CORNER RUSSELL it BROUGHTON STS., Offers for sale at the LOWEST CASH PRICES his largo and well assorted stock of l? HOC Sil 111 KS consisting of Coffees Bacon, Canned Salmon, 'iVas, Strips, " Lobsters, Sugars, Hams, " Mackerel, Flour, Laid, " Oysters. Grist, liutter, " Tomatoes, Meal, Soap. " Green Peas, Bice, Starch, *' Coru Beef, And always keep on hand a full supply of LIQUORS, WINESIANI) CIOARS. Dry Salt Bacon 5 cts per pound. The Carpet Bagger's Home. '^Ex-Judge R. B. Carpenter is keep ing a faro bank ami practicing lair With his relative, L. Gass Carpenter at Denver, Colorado. Henry Spai - nick, formerly of the Aiken "Tri btine," is running a newspaper in the same pluce. In the -urae vicinity there are said to be at least a dozen lesser Radical lights from this State. .1. B. Dennis is also there, and Bultz is wending his way in the same direction. Our sympathies aro with tue peop'e of that infected city. 1 Pet scented Democrats. At a meeting of the County Exe cutive Committee of Ram well the subject of raising funds for paying the expenses of Republican suits ugnin.-t Oemocra.s was discussed. It was decided to refer the matter to the Indies and to raise the necessary funds by fairs, entertainments <fce. There are also some of these perse cuted Democrats in Oraugeburg. When the call is made let our people respond promptly and liberally as we know they will do. These men are limited in means and as it is a pub lic matter it is right that they should be saved from em by asiucnf. The Alston Tragedy. As we were going to pre'"' on O'Jr last i?sue the terrible, news came of t'le shooting and killing of Col. "Bob" Alston at Atlanta Georgia by Capt. E. S. Cox of the same State. The difficulty grew out of Alston refusing to cancel a certain bargain as demanded by Cox. Cox became enraged and actually hunted dow n his oppornent who tried in every w?y to avoid blood-sbcd. ? Finally be came into Col. Alston's office cl sed the door ami demanded a ] fight. Col. Alston finding that persuasion j was at an end, stepped forward and | accepted the issue. The firing then commenced rapidly, Cox dodging in every direction, and Alston standing erect like a man. Several shots passed, Cox being shot in the mouth end baud until at last the fatal shot struck Alston in the temple, and brought him to the floor mortally wounded. Col. Alston was a noble character, generous, amiable, truthful and brave, and in him Georgia loses a noble son whose place cannot be easily filled. His most excellent wife has the sympathies of all Georgia and South Carolina, and, althoi gh her husband was too noble to amass wealth, the assurances come from every quarter that she will never lack means. - mm ? mm. "A Vulture, Not an Eagle!" In speaking of the motives that inspired Hoar's motion in Congress to exclude Mr. Davis from the Pen sion list, Lainar used a singularly ap propriate figure of speech. He was I refciring to the persistent attacks up on Davis, a broken and aged man. He said that the senator from Massa chusetts, he bonevod, classed himself among those who were called Christian statesmen. He might have learned more charity even from heathen myt ho'ogy. At this point the speaker paused, turi.ed, and, in a stage whisper, ask ed : "Who was it that was chained to the ruck ?" and 'l humum, across three rows of desks, whispered, "Prometheus." Without more than a deliberate rest, Lamar went on. "When Prometheus was chained to the rock it was not an eagle that plucked at his vitals, but a vulture." The ac tion was suited to the utterance; as ho said it was not an cuglc that plucked at his vitals, i he arms were thrown up ami the curving Swoop ol the kin-j of birds was described in the gesture, and then as he hissed out it ?vas ? vulture, the light aim straight ncd out and the index finger pointed at Hoar. It wa? as fine and effective piece of oratory as I ever witnessed. Hoar felt the sting. As Lnmar finished and sat down Hoar rose and made a half apologetic defence. Ho said that if he had thought that his motion would have been interpreted by the Senator irora Mississippi, and those who, like him, had been devoted to the Confederate cause, as an insult to themsclvos, he would not have made it. Night Work on Morning News papers. I'ev. DeWitt Taj mage, in his pic? tu res of tho "Night Side of New York," thiiB discourses on the night work in newspaper offices : "We went in. We went up from cditorinl rooms to type setters' and proof readers' lofts. These are tho foundries where the great thunder bolts of public opinion are forged. How pens scratched ! How the types clicked! How the sciasors cutl How the wheels rushed, all the world's news rolling over the cylin der like Niagaia at Table Rock. Great torrents of opinion, of crimes, of accidents, of destroyed reputations, of avenged character. Who can estimate the mightiness for good ot evil of a daily newspaper ? Fingers of steel picking off the end of telegra phic w ire facts of religion and philoso phy and science, and information from the four winds,of Heaven ! In Ii>50 the Assnciaied Press began to pay 8200.000 a year for news, some of the individual sheets paying 830,000 extra for dispatches; some of them, independent of the Associated Press, with a wire rake gathering up sheave*? of news from all the great harve.-t fields of the world. It is high time that good men understood that tho printing press is the mighties t engine of all the centuries. High Water mark of the printer's type case shows the ebb or hYw ol the great oceanic tides of civilization or Christianity. Jus: think ofit! In 1836 all the daily newspapers of New York issued but 10,000 copies. Now there are 500, 000, and taking the ordinary calcula tion that five people read each paper, two million five hundred thou-mud people rend the daily newspapers of New York ! Nothing more impress ed me in the night exploration than the power of the press. But it is car ried on with, ob! what aching eyes, what exhaustion ofhealth ! I did Dot fiml more than one mail out of teu who had anything like brawny health in the great newspaper establish ments of New York. Do not be grudge the three or the five cents you give for the newspaper. You buy not only intelligence with that, but you help pay lor sleepless nights, and smarting eyeballs, and racked brain, and early sepuletter." - i? ? ? ? Will Gordon Answer? There is, in South Caro'ina, what ever may Re the feeling in Georgia, a strong desire to know what is the condition of the Southern Life Instir ance Cora piny A quarter of a mil lion of dollars are. supposed to have gone in'o the coffers of this corpora tion from the State of South Carolina alone. Without any warning tho Company blew up and went to pieces No account has been rendered to the policy holders or the stockholders. What were the causes of the failure? Where did the money go to ? Who has possession of the assets ? Such information as this has been waitol for with much patience, but this patience is well-nigh exhausted, and the prominent ex-Confederates who managed the affairs of the Company, and whose names caused the South ern people to have faith in it, owe it to themselves a:>d their own reputa tion, it seems to us; to give the people who trusted them with their money a frank and complete history of the riso and fall ol the Southern Life Insur ance Company. - -N?-u ??? nnd i 'ouricr, - . ... ^?.-*x r ? - ? v-w??... ? A spk-udid pair of rosewood silver rn iiiii cd crutches have been s"iit as a juriseni to S di?ter ! 1 . .<:? .. ? ? friend in *se* ?uey Uiivu I been forwarded to Green Pond,after 1 first to Aiken and then to Union. stow?. '? r-,,., ? .?)o? Coming down on the car the.other morning they got to talking abo'it their coal stoves, and one man said: 'Well, I don't want to brag, but I think I've got the boss stove.' rS6 far this winter I haven't burned but three tons of coal, and the Btbveliav kept throe rooms warm.' 'You must have a poor Btove,' re marked the second. 'I haven't burned but two tons of coal yet, sind my stove heats parier, diriihg-roomf two bed-rooms and a hall. 'Well, ? when you come to stove*,' quietly remarked the third, 'I claim to have the best coal stove in Detroit. 1 have burned hut a> ton and a half of coal so far, and we have to keep all the dampers shut and a back door open all the time.' w?-?>im Some men looked- out of the win dows and some down at the straw, and no one seemed to doubt any of' the assertions. ^At length a heavy sigh was heard from the rear end of the car, and a clerical looking man arose and said : 'Gentlemen, there goes ? lire. alarm. It strikes the box in front of my house. I have no doubt that my residence is at this moment in fNmes and the lives of my family in peril. It is all owing to my coal stove. I set up the stove last November and put in one peck of coal. Ever^ room baa been eo hot ever sine? that-1 he buse-boards have warped off, aud jve finally had to move down into tjhe basement. This morning the water ,, , . ? . , ,: r>r x; ( iu all the pipes in the house was boiling, the shingles pu the roof hut, and I just hired four men to form a snow-bank around the stove. Too late?alas, too late! That stove hits accomplished its fiendish purpose, and I no longer have a home. It may not, however, be to ? late to save . the baby. Good-bye, gentlemen/ He opened the door and got off the car, and not a passenger spoke again for four blocks.?Free Press. -- . mi l How to Get Olarried Cheaply. Yesterday afternoon, while a De troit justice of the peace sat warmiug his feet by the stove, and his nose by. a cigar, a stranger entered aud pre sently inquired : "Judge, how muck will you charge me to read over about fifteen lines of printed matter from a book I have ?" "Why, can't you read them ?" re plied his honor. "I can, but I want to hear how the lines sound when read aloud. I'll give you a quarter to read them to ? me-" "All right," replied the justice; "I can't earn two shillings any quicker." A woman opened the door at that moment, and the stranger put down 1 the book on the desk, clasped her hand, and said : "Begin at the pencil-mark there, and read b\( wly." His honor's chin dropped exactly eigh'cen inches by dry measure as ho saw that the reading matter was tho usual form of marriage, but he didn't back down from his word. |It was the cheapest marriage ho ever attended,' and he didn't half enjoy the chuckles i of bride and groom as they went out.? Detroit Free Press. Superior Abilities. Now thero abidoth these things, which every man can do better than any one elso: Poke a fire. Put on his own hat. Edit a newspaper. Tell a story; after tho other man has begun it. [ Examine a railway time-table.? IIa iekej/e. .-?<^* . i? - A little boy hearing some ono ro ' mark that nothing was quicker than I thought, said, "I know something) Ihiit i- quicker than thought*" ??What is it, Johnny?" askod his pa.^ "\\ hi . ..? ' c." I ?vy. " When . tu bctiuoi yesterday, 1 whistled before I thought, and got licked for it. too."