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?NE DOLLAR l'KR ANNUM. J. GOD .A-lSTT) OTJIt COUNTRY ALWAYS I.V ADVAN VOLUME VII THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1881., NUMBER4 SPECIAL NOTICE. New that the holiday season ia over and everything haa gone proa ?ereua end happy; erery one better eff, ??ad a bright fertile year ahead, at bo period in the hhtory of oar barinees life hate we been no thsr eaghly prepare! to meat the want* ef the trade and the requirements .if the people, ai wo are bow. We shall eentiaae to place upon our countorj freaa day to day, bargains in t every dopai tmeat at LOWEST PRICKS, aud ehalt a1 ways be found using our heat rndeatorj to prsveut extortions aadapkold tbe CASH SYSTEM Our entir? stack io now offered nt. REDUCED PRICES. We ask } ou te call and inspect our genda. We guarantee to please aa to qaality and price. Look cairfully over this lift of a few articles rneutioned : Genta } Hose, ?hitc, 5 and 10 c. " striped 12} " solid color* 12} double heel *fc toe 12} Ladiea*hoao, white, o, 10, 11! j. 4 striped, 10 " solid colors. 12} " balbriggau, 15 M " fincet qua'i It, 25 ( kihtren's ho?c,colorod, G, S. 10, 12} lsad'ie* CauHllets. dark vnWa, 30 c. Berlin g;?<?ea, eiabroidored harks. 3.> " kid glovM, 4 hutUnt, "best maker*, 75 (e??Wi hark*kin {I ?res, Wnni 75 *' driving *? 30 Derby *4 it ui?. 10 " fie "red. l*Ji Ca*hua?re*, beautiful color*, 1 tJI Marino?, beautiful colors, IS FlauHols, red, white und b'uo, 25 to 'Mi C?U(.?. Nubia*, o rr pretty,.SO c 1 ad is* Honda, new styles, -10 liookiug Glasses, bureau si/,e, SI " ex tra large $1.00 M oral fratuea 00 anil 60 cent* .'iilvcr {dated ten apuons, $1 20. Table " 1.75 Forks 1.75 M klnive* 3.75 Glas? Setts, handsome, 4 pieces, 50 Glass Preserve Stands, (50 Gebiets, 75 et per dox Tumblers, fiOjjct per doz Lampe from 25 to 75 cts Large assortment Ladies, Gents and Children's Shoes from the finest to the cheapest, Men and Boy? Hats, 40, 00, 75, 1.00 1.25 to $3 W?u and Boys Caps from 25 to 50 Fancy Box Paper, J ntelopea and Stationery. Agent for the Largest Tobacco Factery in tho United States, we offer bargains in this line. Agent for Manufacturers of Soaps and Concen rated Lye, we defy com petition. We have the Largest and Cheap est Stock of BROOMS AND BASKETS in the Market. Agent for the Ctlebrated Town Talk BAKING POWDERS. These Powders have stood the Test by the beet Chemist, and pronounced PURE, when bought in cans. Prof. Mott, the Lending C hemist of the World, says tbe worse adulterations occur when Powders arc sohl loose or in bulk. Remember this and get TOWN TALK from Headquarters Your attention is asked to the re daction in our CARPETING, put down to 25, ,'15, 40 cents. Pocket Knives from 5 eta. to $2.. Baggy Whips, 25, 50,75 cts., el, $12612: Yours respectfully, C. D. KORTJOHN. USST Always notice this COLUMN CHEAP GOODS. [Written for the Orangubmg Timiw.] TIME AND THEE. nr n. Time >m.l its giddy flight Passes quickly from our ?ight On to eternity. Spring time ha<* come again, With aiaay a go'den chain Linked to memory. The guMy March wind* blowing A bomrt gently fluffing With thought* of the*. Tho tiny little birds that sing At dawing of an early spring King of theo. Times and changes there hare been Yet nothing la?ting comes between Mjsclf and thee. 'I Ii? ?il'int prayer beidde tho grave Did not baui?h, doe* uwt sa-e From thought* of theo. tTell then. Time and seaion* rumc and go Tdrdios sing and s'reandcti Herr And let the hearing be?rl o'crllow Thinking of thee. March IttlSgl. FREEDOM OF OPINION; EDUCATION, j Editor Oranytbxtrg Times: j A few stray thoughts from one who is quietly wntchlng the current of events! hoj)C will r.r.t be out of place in your popular paper. There are one or two points which jtist now attract my attention as important to be considered. In the first place, while the Demo cratic party has inado great improvo mentM, in retrenchment and reform, we would ask whether it is laying the foundation deep and tsuru for it* future permanency nud success. It seems to the writor that in the en joyment of tha present there is too little regard for a record for tho future. People are drifting too much into the old rutj of axclusivencst and "bourbonism." There is too much intolerance. Freedom of political opinion is checked. If every hod}' don't think exactly iu the same line :w the favored few who hohl the reigns of p ildic opinion, whether self constituted or not, they arc driven into line by the party lash. Lt is a dangerous tendency aud is entirely undemocratic. It is this exclusive ness, and domineering disposition that kept South Carolina so fur hack in the past, and, if not checked, the same spirit will ruin the party and prospects of the State in the future. Can we expect foreigners to settle amongst us, if they must leave their freedom of thought and opinion be hind them? There is no danger in letting people think as they please. If we do so, all foreigners who come into South Carolina will become Democrats. It is the opposition which has the injurious effect. Darn up a stream and it will break through somewhere. Freedom is the law of nature, and the law of human thoughts. The peopling of South Carolina with the Caucasian race is too important a matter to he thwart cd by such silly fogy ism and intoler ance. Another reflection, ami I will con clude. Our people arc too indiffer ent to the subject *f education. There are some sections which hare good schools, but in many sections our children arc allowed to grow up in comparative ignoranco This is no ; fault of the School authorities or of the government. The facilities pro vided are not utilized. We need a j tremendoue awakening on this sub ject. The future hnppincss, prosperity and well-being of the State depends upon it. With perfect freedom of speech and the general diffusion of educa tion, we have the best home in the world. Intolerance is the child of iguorance. OnsEnvEn. A boy who found a $2,000 check returned it to its owner and received five cents as a reward. We arc glad to see that virtue is in sympathy with the general business boom?it may now be fairly quoted at five cents.? J*vneh. J/r. Etliter : Az the Cumpniu iz about over, an' times ar gettin' dul, i thortyou mito have a little room in yore paper tu ' let sum uv US fellers rite a little bit. Now, wat i wantcrsay iz a little bit about owor town. Orangcburg iz a grow:n' an' no j mistake, it haz about 35 strove lamps j with nu chimnizc tu 'ein; tha ain't 1 the brite kine, but tha ar blaek wuns, tha ar never cleaned hekauze tha don't nedo it, tha ar inity nice tu look at tho sun thru, fur thou it kwood not hurt your ize. Ornngeburg iz a long wi\ze sihed uv uther towus in the lamp bizues. Thear ar about 7 polece iu town an' the town iz growin so fuss that i think :i fu mo will hnftcr be hiurd. Polecemon iz a mity good thing tu have about n town. Tha arc good things tn have arown shows an' such uther things tu cullcck the lisenac an' stop fusses au such. Tha ar good things tu hav rowii the stretos on Sunday tu keep the bar-rooms from Sellin1 enny lickcr, fur tha ar all stvpoze l tu be tcmprnucc men. an never drink, an i J hear thear iz a law that sez that nun I I uv the poleceshal g<?in a bar-room an take a drink, an ef this iz so, i no that nun uv them drinks, fur i never sor a set uv men stick closer tu a law thanowcr poleeouHMi du tu the town ordcruoilsez. This iz a growin town ! an it iz also a growin late, so i muss stop fur this time lu hav suml hing loft fur thencx. an if i sta out to late ile have tu uze a box uv maehez tu lite me home az the stretes ar orful dark, Hpcshuallv when the lamps ar lit. j \Yill rite aganesune. 1'oMrr JtMRixs. COL PKLSTUN?^tilTrH CAltOhlNA. The Xafhmal Hrpuhlicmn contains among its reminiscences of old times in Washington, this: "Col. Pre*ton, of South Crolina, was one of tbe most brilliant States men of the clay. His likeness, by Hcaly, in the Corcoran Gallery, gives a poor idea of him. He was one of the handsomest men in the Scuate, and the wittiest. No man iu Con gress bore a purer record; it was without a stain. An anecdote of him, which I have never seeu in print, occurs to me at this moment: He was standingoue day in the Congres sional Library, pouring over the con tents of a volume, when two lady ac quaintances hove insight. "There is Mr. Preston." cried one of them, rushing opto the Senator. "Dear Mr. Preston, you promised to escort me to the Capitol, and here you are reading a book." "I will escort you over," said the gallant Senator; "but where do you wish me to take you V" ?'I think you may take me to the rotunda and theu to the crypt." '?But the crypt is very dark and loucly," suggested the Senator. "Never mind," replied tbe viva cious lady, "I am not afraid to go with you." "Mr. Preston gazed steadily nt the lady for a brief second, and then said in his peculiar sarcastic man ner: "What confidence! what trust! Oh, woman, great is thy faith!" Col. Preston had a great respect for old age. One evening, while at tending an entertainment at Curusi's saloon?then the only public hall in Washington?he observed an aged man, respectably dressed, standing in the aisle, while every one else was com fort ally seated. The Colonel rose and politely insisted on his tak ing his place. "Mr. Preston." whispered a friend, nudging his elbow, "do you know you have given up your scat to one of those d?<l abolitionists?" "I cannot help it," said Col. Pres ton, firmly. "If it were the devil himself it wouldn't make a particle of difference." The people of Marion were uot well pleased with the Borgers. Rubbers do not uccessarily give a msn an elastic gait. I THE SOUTH REVIVED. That the Republican party cher ishes, at least so far ns its stalwart brauch goes, the hope of one day do minating the South with military and carpet-bagging forces, is a fact admitted freely by many of the pro in incut mouthpieces of that party. Senator Patterson's famous lamenta tion over the many "good years of stealing" that still remained in South Carolina left a plaintive echo which is ?tili ringing in the ears of all his class. To there gentlemen, if they ever hope to obtain a clutch on the mon ey-bags of the South again, it will be of unusual interest to learn how pros perous that section hns become. Rc centobservation shows that there has been mar\elous progress in the mo chanical and industrial arts since the locust carpetbagger was gotten rid of. j I New villages art; springing up and j j old o.ies urn widening and showing J I more thrift. Country stores, where! j all useful and luxurious articles arc j I sold, are established in every ham j let.) Manufacturing centers are form I iug. At Chattanooga there hns been es tablished the largest tannery in the United Stutcs; Nashville possesses the largest Wrgoil factory in the I country; Richmond has instituted an j immense business in the manufac turcof cigarettes from tobacco of the j finest quality, grown in places ami on j j lauds which, ten rears ago, were sup- ! I posed to be unfit for growing any to- i bncrco, even of the coarsest kinds.' I Wood is worked in all sorts of forms, , and the chief supply of the best ash, I oak and walnut for Eastern cities is j now found in the South. Iron is j being made at the lowest cost and of j the best quality in many place?, and i the leading iron cities of the North 1'are"cfriven to construct new lines of railroad to reach the Southern mines in order to maintain her place. At nearly any point of the South on which he could put his finger the old political carpetbagger can find a gold mine richer than the District that he used to work, if he could only get at it. If the Scotts. Chamberlains. Pat tersons, Dorseys et <//. can only re habilitate the obi military or carpet bag governments and repeat their old games under them, their fortunes would be assured. Unfortunately for them, however, the South has de termined to supervise the workings of these gold mines to a certain extent itself. The rule established there for tho future is that every one, na tiveor carpetbagger, shall put a hand to the plow, not thrust both arms up to the shoulders in the State Treasuries again.? New York Star. \\ OKDS OF WISDOM* Happiness is evident to us in this life by deliverance from evil. "Hap py is he who sees the day!"' said a blind man; but a man who sees clear ly docs not say so. "Happy is he who is healthy!" said an invalid. When he is well he does not feel the happiness of health. No man ought to complain if the world measures him as he measures others. To measure one with his own yardstick may be hard, but it is fair. No person can be no feeble or so poor that he has not a duty to per form; which, being performed, makes him one with the highest and great est. To pronounce a man happy mere ly because he is rich, is just as ab surd as to call a man healthy merely because ht has enough to cat. Ignorance and deceit are two of the worst qualities to combat. It is easier to dispute with a statesman than a block-head. Nature has written a letter of cred it on some men's faces which is hoii i ored wherever it is presented. The feelings of a pig are oftcu pent up. A dangerous collision?Running j into debt. A WARNINtt? The Union Tones of last week says: Cotton is still coining into lunrkot, and fertilizers going out as rapidly, tc make more cotton. The demand for fertilizers was never so great. Phosphate rock has advanced in valuo and of course all chemical fer tilizers will go up too. We are told that many of the cotton fields in the State still hold a good deal of un picked cotton, and that there is a good deal of cotton held for higher prices. It is not hard to see that everything else will advance. The Western capitalists can, any day, make a corner on bacon, (lour or corn and ruu it up. Jay Gould, Tom Scott and Vandcrbilt, cnu sit down and advance the rates of freight; the Cotton Exchange gamblers of New York cau put their heads together and make cotton go up or down as it suits their ? interest. They have a combination so strong and so com pact that they cannot only control the present but future price of cot ton. At the bottom of the ladder, holding it up, stands the fanner who is sure to feel the pressure, conn whence it may. Will he .count the cost before he pitches his crop or "go it blind" this year? DISCIPLINE IN CHILDHOOD. Young people who have been ha bitually gratified in all their desires will :.ot only indulge more iu capri cious desires, but will infallibly take it more amiss when the feelings or happiuess of others require that they should be thwarted, than those who have been practically trained to the habit of subduing and restraining them, ami consequently will, in gen eral, sacrifice the happiness of others to their own selfish Indulgence. To what else is the selfishness of princes and other great people to be attribu ted? It is in vain to think of culti vating principles of generosity and beneficence by mere exhortation and reasoning; nothing but the practical habit of overcoming our own selfish ness, and of familiarly eoeottnturiug privations and discomforts on ac count of others, will ever enable us to do it when required. Indulgence infallibly produces selfishness and hardness of heart, and nothing but severe discipline and control can lay the foundation of a magnanimous character. THE SITUATION 'lN IRELAND. It is not safe to believe unreserved ly what the London newspapers say about the condition of affairs in Ire land. What the Washington Rrpub ticon and New York 'Viibune are deal ing with Southern a flairs the English press generally is in speaking of the Irish situation. The prejudice against Ireland and the Irish is so deep-rooted that the newspapers can not report fairly or see clearly. Just as an "original abolitionist'1 broad ens his phylacteries, and looks down on the South, so do the English ha bitually look dowu upon Ireland and the Irish. There arc some grand and noble exceptions. Mr. Gladstone is a tow er of strength, and John Bright isns true a friend as Ireland ever had. Such men as those will insist on the observance of the law in Ireland, as their position compels them to do. but they will not, for any reason, postpone their efforts to remove the causes of Irish discontent. They apply themselves to the task earnest ly and conscientiously. Hut, as wc have said, whatever the London papers say about the. collapse of the Laud movement should be taken with many grains of allowance. "Plump as a partridge and healthy as a bullock," is the sensitive and delicate language employed by a re porter of a New York journal to de scribe his hostess at the dinner table, the. hostess in question being Mrs. J. A. Garfield, who will preside over the White House. A good trade mark?A big adver tisement. COLORED REPUBLICANS DKSi'ONDENT. The colored Republicans, says tho Washington Post, have about come to the conclusion that their clain:? will not he recognized by the incom ing administration. They will, as usual, be welcome to a lunch in the kitchen, but they will uot bo invited to sit and eat w ith the family in tho dinning room. They have not failed to mako known their demand for a Cabinet position. They took the field early. They spoke their desire frankly. Good and abundant reasons they assigned i for asking such recognition. But i they have no hor c of faring better in 1 the near future than they have in the recent past. They have told General Garfleld that he. owes his election to them, and he cannot deny it. They have shown that, but for their unexampled devo tion to the Republican party ."there. I would now be no such organization I known in national affairs. And thia ! no one denies. j But their fidelity, their sacrifices, i their devotion, arc counted na ? naught. Tho feast will soon bo spread, as it was four years ago, and the colored brethren will be permit tod to smell the savor of rich viands while waiting for the scraps. Ax Alleged Miracle.?The town of Summit, Pa., is excited over an alleged miracle. About thirty well known citizens have signed a won derful statement, declaring that Miss Ellen .McQuillan, aged 20, was sud denly stricken with a disease that paralyzed her w hede body so that It began to wither away. For eight days she laid in a state of trance, aud to all appearance deacL The Rev. Father Mahoney came to pray for her, and as he invoked the help of Jesus ami Mary, animation return ed to the corpse-like body, the with ered limbs recovered their plumpness ami she rose unaided and walked about. The subscribers to the state ment made affidavits to its truth. Singular to relate, it is stated that the priest was so terrified at the re sult of his invocation that he nearly fainted. Domestic Happiness.?The har mony of married life depends jilmost entirely upon dinners. It is not tho state of the heart so much as the con dition of the stomach which makes a> man happy. It is bettor for a wo man?rank heresy, we know-to be able to make a cheerful home.than to talk Greek. Before marriage, the ability to sing divinely and to play impossible music is very attractive; but when two people settle down to the steady work of loving each other for forty or fifty years, the kitchen inevitably emphasizes itself, and tho chances of success are greater with a comely housewife than with an ac complished beauty, who knows every thing except how to make tho house attractive. Rank RonttKKY.?The First Na tional Rank of Charleston was rob bed some time last week of between ten and cloven thousand dollars iu securities. It was takon from a private box of Duncan N. Ingraham who had deposited it in the vault, of the bank. It appears the bonds wero taken by Mr. G. Fratzer Wilson, tho second book-keeper in the bunk. He was arrested w hen he gave up all but one $000 seven per cent, city of Charleston bond, w hich was missing. MeiliGkamp's Softool FOR Boys and Girls. Tho Ninth Annual Soasion Of thi* Institution in now iu regular and BUceefflful operation. BOYS prepared for College or Bmi> hcsh, and Girls given u thorough course. TERMS rv.n month: Primary.$2 00 Advanced English. 3 50 I ntin, Greek and Kreuch, each, extra 60 For further particulars, apply to S. R- MELLICH AMP, Principal.