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mm** FBtaibllriied April, IS50. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTIMiOX, Established June, 1866. Aug. 2, 1881.1 STJMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1883. New Scries?Vol. III. No. 12. rSoHtfiron Publishing s: e: pzt auuuoi ? ?a advance. **ET18K1IKHT8. firstinsertion........ ..$1 00 insertion^..........-... 50 r three month Sj or longer will sahserre private lor as advertisements, ^tribates of respect will be notices of deaths pab ^or contracts* for ??vsrlising ; and S&tdhron, or apply at ~mf'i N. G. OSTEBN, N. YATES HI& CUSTOMERS ?ND TBE jg??Lie-GENERALLY md Weft Assorred stock of all goods guaranteed as represented. 'CHasswsre, Lamps. t_^tCrotkery, Glassware* and ^^^e?ory description just opened. Call early and get bargains.. If? stock of Tin-ware w complete, embrac every tttng in general use. Special in doceaitutt oft-red to purchasers. 2*Ae iftkA ** &f> aad The Ihrrtcsl Set* consist of fen "*Mi^iiM fiji narr iilf useful articles,.for one rr awde with paieni fire-proof bottoms, gaa;aj?tn^wotgto leak. 3pd Chewing Tobacco, t of Cigars, of va DUK7E Or* DURHAM L the thousand or single "good assortment of Pipes. '4 Willow Ware. Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, Well Buckets. Brooms, I?SD SPRINGS. I am stiil making the Twin Bed Springs, and aeHIagiheni at ibe exceedingly low prit-e ?f $3L50 aaet. One mattrrss is sufficient to maie* a comfortable bed wbere these springs Everyaet gaaraeteed to give satis - mooief refunded, WSSIlT BSA2J BICS FLOUS Always on Hand. The best and cheapest feed for stock. Porcaasers will dc well (o calf and examine Siiflfcrnaete-and prices, -'Money saved is money ~" Vdeti*c/td free of charge to any city. W. H. YATES, Sumter, S. C. Oppose* Jno. Reid's. ASS B?fl?S FOR THE LEAST MONEi SATISFACTION. , & BSO. SUM TER, 8. C jo announcing to their friends Itmipfelic generally that they have to their -business an assort ment of AND VALISES fo^t^fer*regular line of SHOES, TUEY AN? they'bat* the J^&J$86S3? AND BEST STOCK ..' i*W^:;v HAJE EVER HAD. . J&f~?f whicf* they -will sell at the same LOW PRICES which bas made them the ZZT THfoift LISTS for quality and price. The T, SHOE, AM B -HAT TRADE OF SUMTE ft before witnessed so complete a line of AND DURABLE GOODS, AT SUCH LOW PRICES, jfow offered at their store. AH as heretofore. Do not fail to fi& end examine stock before buying. FOB SALE. DERSIGNEI) bas several tracts to 400 acres each, of GOOD LAND FOR SALE, witb good iprieg water, convenient to schools and good society S. A. NORRIS, Sheriffs Office, Sumter, S. C. FOR SALE. OF 88 ACRES?about 50 aem?D cultivation?situated 2? miles on the Centrai R. R., (kbo wo as ',) is offered for sale at rea ler all or part cash. There are a good frame dwelling of two between, barn and other uding Gin House, 50-Saw , and three wells of good are as well adapted to cot . Time to Stop it. It's too bad, Sir or Madam, but don't get frightened. Your hair is falling off?that's certain. A glance in the mirror, or an inves tigating committee of fingers tell the dismal story. \ We wo?'t discoss the possible cause. It is enough that Parker's Hair Balsam used now will prevent further destruction. Is you r hair somewhat gray, too, and crisp ? Alas, yes. The Balsam will give back the original color, softness and gloss. Not a dye, not oily, elegantly perfumed, a perfect dressing A wasp went buzzing to his work, And various things did tackle, He stung a boy, and then a dog, Then made a roostor cackle, At last upon a drummer's cheek, Be settled down to drill; Be prodded there for half an hour, 'And then be broke his bill. , Half Out of His Head. 'Blessed be the man,' said Don Quixote's weary squire, *who invented sleep.' Sancho's gratitude is ours, but what if one cannot for any reason enjoy that excellent invention? 'Norvousness in me had become a disease,' writes Mr. William Ooleman, the well known wholesale druggist of Buffalo, N. >\ 'I could not sleep, and my nights were either passed in tbat^ort of restlessness which nearly crazes a man, or in a kind of stupor, haunted by tormenting dreams. Having taken Parker's Tonic for other troubles, I tried it also for this. The result both sur prised acd delighted me. My nerves were toned to concert pitch, and like Caesar's fat men, I fell into the ranks of those who sleep o' nights. I should add that the Tonic speedily did away with the condition of gen eral debility and dyspepsia occasioned by my previous sleeplessness; aud gave me strength and perfect digestion. In brief, the use of the Tonic thoroughly re-established my health. I have used Parker's Tonic with entire success for sea-sickness and for the bowel disorders incident to ocean voyages.' This preparation has heretofore been known as Parker'sfinger Tonic. Hereafter it will be advertised and sold under the name of Parker's Tooic?omitting the word ginger.' Hiscox k Co. are induced to make this change by the action of unprincipled dealers who have for years deceived their customers by substituting inferior preparations under the name of ginger. We drop the misleading word all the more willingly, as giuger is an unimportant flavoring ingredient in our Tonic Please remember that no change has been, or will be, made in the preparation itself, and all bottles remaining in the hands of dealers, wrapped under the uame of Parker's Ginger Tonic, contain the genuine medicine if the fee-simile signature of Hiscox k Co. is at the bottom of the outside wrapper. SUMTEB PARK -AND AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. ! 12? ADDITION to the regular premiums 1 published in tbe Premium List for 1883, j the following revised and enlarged list of Special Prizes is offered : First Day, Tuesday, Bih November. TOURNAMENT : at 2 P. M. Prizes; First $25, Second Si5, Third $10. Entrance fee $1.00 j- Second Day, Wednesday. 1th November. FOOT RAC.B, FOR WHITES; at 11 A. M.; 200 yards, prize $10. Entrance fee 50 cents; not less than ten to enter. FOOT RACE, FOR COLORED; at 12 M,; 200 yards, prize $10. Entrance fee 50 j cents; not less than ten to enter. PRIZE DRILL FOR INFANTRY; at 2 P. I M. Prize $50, not less than two Cornpa- I nies to compete. Each Company must -have not less than 24 men in line. Com pa- J nies in uniform will be passed over the j *Cberaw & Darlington," "North Eastern," "Wilmington, Columbia k Augusta," the j "Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta," the j "Colombia and Greenville," and the j "Central" Railroads at three cents per mile j for tbe round trip, and will be admitted free to the Fair Grounds on the day of the drill. Third Day, Thursday. Sth November. PLOUGHING MATCH, FOR WHITES; at 11 A. M.; prize S5. PLOUGHING MATCH, FOR COLORED; at j 12 M.; prize $5. FovrUi Day. Friday. 9th November. GLASS BALL SHOOTING; at 12 M.; prize $5. RIFLE SHOOTING ; at 1 P. M.; prize $5. Entrance fee for shooting $1, Cheap excursion rates on all Rail roads leading to Snmter. Admission to the Fair Grounds has been reduced to 25 cents; uo half tickets. THOMAS 0. SANDERS, Chas. H. Moisk, President. Secretary and Treasurer. Oct 2 MY DEAR: DO YOU SNOW THE SEASON WHY PEOPLE WANT TO BUY THE WILSON LIGHTNING SEWER in preference to any other ' MACHINE ? We will tell you. BECAUSE it has no Cogs, Cams or Gears. BECAUSE it has no Rawhide or Felt Packing. BECAUSE it has no Cast-Iron Parts paint ed over to cover its defects. BECAUSE it does not shake, rattle or dance all ovr r the floor when run at a high rate of speed BECAUSE it has two speeds?one for fine work or a delicate operator, and the other for fast speed, so that vor* can do one-third more work in a day thao can be done on any other Sewing Machine. BECAUSE it rnns Light and Easy. BECAUSE loot motion can be be taken np after years of wear without changing or put ting in new parts, which cannot be done with any other Sewing Machine. BECAUSE it darns rips and tears. BECAUSE it does the most elegant designs in embroidering without an attachment. BECAUSE it does not break the thread or needle when run backwards. We could tell you for hours of its Superiority overall other Sewing Machines. We think this is sufficient reason why people should buy the WILSON, it is sold ou very easy terms. bfjltjuaniv & bro., BOOT AND SHOE STOKE, SUMTER, S. C. Ang 21 GiAUSSEN BREWING COMPANY, "PALMETTO BREWERY" -AND SODA WATER FACTORY, CHARLESTON, S. C. GOODS WARRANTED STRICTLY PURE. Beer fresh and cool put up in cases of 2, 4, and 6 dozen in shipping order. Also in kegs of about 8 gallons at $2.25 and about 4 gal lons at $1.25 per keg. Soda Water: Lemon, Sarsaparilla and j Ginger, separate or assorted, C dozen in j case at $2.00 per case. Bottles, case and j keg to be returned. I .. Export Beer of very finest quality and to j keep any length of time, at $1.00 per dozen, I 15 cents per dozen allowed for bot lies if re- j turned L^re. f :4*Jj 24 ; .. 3m ' WHOLLY D3JAD. _ % We call them dead, the loved and lost Whose faces dear no more we see. Those who the solemn bound have crossed That borders vast eternity. Yet all that in their lives was sweet? The words tbey spake, the smiles they gave, Tbe^kindly acts love made complete? Passed ,not with them into the grave. I I For these their blessed influence ! Still round our pathway sweetly cast, And open to the soul's pure sense Tbe dearest memories of the past. ! We lay our precious dead away. No longer their fair forms we see, And part of our lives died the day 1 Their mortal being ceased to be. Tbe loving ways that made them dear, Their gentleness untouched by art, In sweet impressions linger here, For of ourselves they are a part. Onr aims these loved ones helped to cast In honor's mould ; they planted seeds Of hope within us that at last Were ripened into life's best deeds; And though no more their hands we press, Though tbey have vanished from our side, The glory of their loveliness Faded not with .them when they died. Their sweet companionship we miss As we recall the word3 tbey said, Bot in our souls their presence is? We cannot call them wholly dead. Caleb Dunn. The Civil Bights Act Declared Unconstitutional and Void. Washington, October 15.?A de cision was redered by the Supreme Court of the United States to-day, in five civil rights cases, based on the first and second secticns of the civil rights Act of March 1st, 1875. They are respectively prosecutions ander the Act for not admitting certain col ored persons to equal accommoda tions and privileges in inns or hotels, in railroad cars and in theatres: The Court holds that Congress had no con stitutional authority to pass the sec tions in questions under either the 13th or 14th amendments of the Con stitution. The decision, however, is held to apply only to the validity of the law in the States, and not in the Tcrritorysor the District of Colombia, where the legislative power of Con gress is unlimited. So far as tbe States are concerned, the two sec tions of the law above referred to are declared unconstitutional and void. Justice Bradley rendered the opinion, Justice Harlan dissenting. Washington, October 15.?The most important decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States to-day was that in five cases commonly known as the civil rights cases, which were submitted to the Court on pi in ted arguments about a year ago. The titles of these cases and the States from which they come are as follows : No. 1?The United States against Murray Stanley, from the United Stales Circuit Court for the District of Kansas ; No. 28?The United States against Michael Reott, from the Circuit Court of the District of Alabama: the United States agaiust Samuel Nichols, fiom the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Missouri; No. 26?The United States against Sam uel D. Singleton, from the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York ; No. 38?Rich aid A. Robinson and wile against the Memphis arid Charleston Railroad, from the CircuitCouit for the District of Tennessee. These cases were all based on the first and second sections of the civil rights Act of 1875 and were respectively prosecutions under that Act for not admitting certain colored persons to equal accommoda tions and privileges in inns and ho tels, railroad cars and in theatres. The defense set up in every case was the alleged unconstitutionality of the law. The first and second sections of the Act, which were the parts di rectly in controversy, are as follows: Section 14. That all persons un der the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommoda tion, advantages, facilities and privi leges, of public conveyances on land and water, in theatres and other pla ces of amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established .by law and applicable to citizens of" every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude. The second section provides that any person who violates the first sec lion shall be liable to forfeit ?500 for each offense, to be recovered in a civil suit, and also to a penalty of from ?500 to ?1,000 fine and imprisonment from thirty days to one year, to be enforced in a criminal prosecution. Exclusive jurisdiction is given to the District and Circuit Courts of the Uuited Slates in cases arisfog under the law. T?.e rights and privileges claimed by and denied to three colored per sons in these cases were lull and equal accommodations in hotels, in ladies' cars, on railroad trains and in the dress circle in a theatre. The Court, in a long and carefully pre pared opinion by Justice Bradley, holds: First?That Congress had no con stitutional authority to pass the sec tions in question, under either lite thirteenth or fourteenth amendments of the Constitution. Second?That the fourteenth amend ment is prohibitory upon the States! only, and that the legislation authori zed to be adopted by Congress for enforcing that amendment is not di rect legislation oft matters concerning which the States^ate prohibited from making or enforcing certain laws or-1 dering certain acts, but is corrective | legislation, necessary or proper for counteracting or redressing the effect of such laws or acts ; that in forbid ding States, for example, to deprive any persons of life, ?be? iy or property I without due process of law, and giv-! ing Congress power to enforce t|ie | prohibition. It was not intended to | give Congress power to provide due | process of law for the protection of Hie, liberty and property, which | would embrace almost all subjects of legislation, but to provide modes of redress for counteracting the opera tion and effect of State laws obnox ious to prohibition. Third?That the thirteenth amend ment gives no power to Congress to pass the section referred to, because I that amendment relates only to sla very and involuntary servitude, which it abolishes, and gives Congress pow er to pass laws for its enforcement; that this power only extends to the subject matter of the amendment itself, namely, slavery and involun tary servitude, and the necessary in cidents and consequences of these conditions have nothing to do with different races or colors, but only re fers to slavery?the legal equality of differenfraces and classes of citizens being provided for in the fourteenth amendment, which prohibits the States from doing anything to inter fere with equality ; that it is no in fringement of the ' thirteenth amend ment to refuse to any person equal accommodations and privileges of an inn or place of public entertainment, however it may be violative of his legal rights ; that imposes upon him a badge of slavery or involuntary servitude which imply some sort of subjection of one person to another and incapacity incident thereto, such as inability to hold property, to make contracts, to be parties in Court, &c.; and that if the original civil rights Act which abolished these in capacities might be supported by the thirteenth amendment, it does not therefore follow that the Act of 1875 can be supported by it. Fourth?That this decision affects otly the validity of the law. After the reading of Justice Brad ley's opinion, which occupied more than an hour, Justice Ilarlan said that under ordinary circumstances and in an ordinary case, he should hesitate to set up his individual opin ion in opposition to that of his learn ed colleague, but in view of what he thought the people of this country wished to accomplish, what they tried to accomplish aud what he believed they had accomplished by means of this Legislation, he must express dis sent from the opinion of the Court. He had not had time, since hearing the opinion, to prepare a statement of I the grounds of his dissent, but he I should prepare and file one as soon as possible. In the meantime, he de sired to put upon record this expres I sion of his individual judgment. Opinion of Prominent Color ed men. Frederick Douglass has been inter viewed as to the recent decision upon the civil rights question, and said : 'It is rather disheartening, and I regard it as a step backward. Justice Ilarlan takes the ground that the intention of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments was to prohibit any discrimi nation in civil rights on account of race, previous condition, &c. I 1o not think it would be consistent for me to say anything now, although the prompting is strong. The moral effect of the decision will certainly be mischievous. The country was going along smoothly, and the uni fication of the people was promised. As I understand, the decision only applied to the states, and not to the territories, District of Columbia, and great wafer courses of the country. 'At the close of the war, and in view of the services rendered by colored citizens, there was a disposi tion on the part of the loyal peop'e of the country to concede to them com plete citizenship and equal civil rights in the use of all public convey ances and institutions, and I regard the decision, as far as I understand it, as a part of the general reaction naturally following the increased friendship between the north and the south, which comes of the dying out of the old controversy on the subject of slavery. Nearly all the conces sions that the colored people have re ceived have been the result of the antagonism of the two sections, and as that antagonism vanishes I have expected a partial return of the old ideas and usages which preceded the war. Ten years ago I told the color ed people that as they had gained everything from the enmity growing out of the attempted dissolution of the union between the people of the south and those of the north, it be hooved them to inquire what they were likely to lose by the friendship of the two sections. The decision, I take it, is in the direction and in terest of the old Calhoun doctrine of i state rights as against federal autho rity. 1 do not, however, despair of I the ultimate return of the liberal spirit toward the colored people which prevailed immediately after the war. I think the decision in this case has resulted largely from confound ing social with civil rights. Things which are entirely distinct. There is no such thing as social equality resulting from living in the same city with other people, walking on the same street with oilier people, riding | on the same car, buying goods at the j same store, or being fed and sheltered j at the same hotel. Men may be in ! all these positions in civil relations j and yet socially be as wide apart as j the poles-of the moral universe. Whether so intended or not, the i decision of the court seems to be a 1 concession to a prejudice which be- j longs to an extinct institution, and; places the American people and j government far in the rear of the I civilized nations of Europe and of America, for nowhere in Europe, and nowhere outside of the United States, | can any man be excluded from a hotel or steamboat cabin, ( r any place of amusement or instruction, simply on account of his color or race. Even in j Brazil Ihe only distinction between I men arises from the fact that one is a j slave and the other a freeman. A colored freeman has everywhere the j same rights in that country as a; while freeman. The same condition ! exists in Mexico, Canada, and other! countries. It is one uf the marked ' contradictions and inconsistencies1 and absurdities of this prejudice that,! while it is not offended at the pros- \ encc of a colored man anywhere as a servant or a slave, it is ever enraged I at the presence of a colored man as a gentleman and as an equal citizen. 1 have said that I do not de.-pair on account of this decision. It is con trary to the declaration of indepen dence, contrary to the spirit of Chris tianity, contrary to the spirit of the age, and as I think, in violation of the fourteenth and fifteeeth amend ments, jand tends directly to make the colored people of the country an ag grieved class, and to weakening that spirit of patriotism which the nation may need for its protection in some perilous hour of need.' 'In concluding, Mr. Douglass stated that he had not read the argument in the case or the complete decision, and spoke of the decision as he had read it in the afternoon papers. HON. JOHX ST. LANGSTON said : 'Well, I am painfully surpris ed, and cannot see the wisdum of the court in" nullifying this law of con gress, which I had the privilege of preparing. In the winter of 18741 was requested by Charles Summer to carefully draw a bill by which all ci tizens should be protected in equal rights.on railways and steamboats, and public conveyances, inns, licens ed places of public amusement, and public schools. I believe I have the rough notes yet that were used in the preparation of this act of March 1, 1875. Mr. Sunnier had been ready to sing 'Harvest Home/- believing that everything necessary to the pro tection of the negro in his newly ac quired rights had been accomplished. But I showed him cart loads of law that were hostile to us. The result was the civil rights law. While this law gave to the colored people no rights that they did not possess before its passage, it was that direct legis lation necessary to carry into effect the fourteenth amendment, and fully authorized by the fifth section of that article, which declares'congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this arti cle.7 These provisions made us citi zens of the United States, and pro hibits the states from abridging our privileges or immunities, or denying to us the equal protection of the laws. Now there are two ways in which a state can abridge the rights of its ci tizens by direct legislation, which places in the hands of railway com panies, hotel keepers, &c, the pow^r to deny us those privileges and im munities that are enjoyed by the white race, or by judicial decisions, which are in effect laws to accomplish the same result. It was to prevent just such discrimination that the civil rights bill was drawn and pushed until it became a law. In ratifying the fourteenth amendment the states agreed that congress should provide the means to make the article effec tive, and the act of March 1, 1875, was simply the exercise of that pow er by congress. Nothing more, nothing less.' 'What will be the effect of thi3 de cision V 'Only this. As citizens wo have the right under the old common law to bring an action in the state courts against anyone who denies us the privileges extended to any citizens of that state. We are all equal be fore the law and if it is shown, as it perhaps will be, that the states have either by legislation or judicial de cisions discriminated against us, the question will be brought squarely before congress to determine what legislation will be required to secure to the citizens of a state and the Uni ted States the enjoyment of his civil rights under the fourteenth amend ment. There are no social privileges conferred by this amendment to the constitution, and I cannot imagine why that word is employed by the learned justice who delivers the opin ion of the court. It simply confers upon all citizens the same rights and privileges under the laws. The right to travel in the conveyances of com mon carriers, whose obligations and liabilities can in no sense be made de pendent upon the nationality or color of those with whom they" deal the right to stop at a public inn, with re gard to whose proprietors the law is not less explicit cr rigid.' 'Will you care to speak further on this matter before you leave for your post of duty V 'Perhaps 1 shall. On next Friday evening I have been requested by a number of prominent citizen of the district?to address a meeting at the Congregational church. I have se lected as my theme the present status of the colored American, his relation ships and his duties. It is broad enough to comprehend much that is involved in this decision of the highest tribunal in the land, and when I have looked into it a little further I shall, perhaps, have something further to say. One thing I will say now, howev er, Mr. Justice Harlan, has earned the gratitude of the whole colored race for the manly utterances in dissenting from what would otherwise have been the unanimous voice of the supreme court lie has full}''justified my es timate of him as an able jurist and a man who will dare to be right, even when it is unpopular to do so. PROF. RICHARD T. GREEK ER wrs found sealed in his library. lie said : 'This law, which we call the civil rights law, is not only constitu tional, but it antedates the constitu tion. It is a part of the common law?a heritage from our Anglo-Sax on ancestors. It does not put peo ple upon an equality who cannot support that equality. It simply says there shall be no unjust discrimi nation on account of race or previous condition of servitude. It was the non-enforcement of this law which permitted a venerable negro bishop to be thrust out of a passenger car on a Georgia railway some time ago, after he had complied v-iih all the condi tions of a contract by paying for first class fare to the common carrier This failure to protect citizens in their constitutional rights may result in Archbishop McCloskcy suffering a similar indignity in some Catholic hatip; community, or cause those learned and distinguished Hebrews, Mr. Wise or Mr. Adler, to be denied j the accommodation of some third j i rate hotel, because of some i j anti-Semitic feeling in some sections ! of our country. It is hardly likely j that the men who discussed the civil i rights bill in congress for a year be i fore its final passage did not go over j ! all the reasons for and against it that j I are at all tenable. Why, there are | I some grave inconsistencies that will ! confront ti.e supreme court upon the ; decision of to-day. For instance, in i the case ex parte the commonwealth j ! of Virginia and J. D. Coles. While ; I dissenting from the opinion of the I j court, Mr. Justice Field said that the j j fifteenth amendment, which declares | ; that the right of citizens of the United j j States to vote shall not be denied or j j abridged by the United States or any I j State on account of race, color, or j previous conditinn of servitude, was i I not material to the quest ion before the ! court, except as"showing that it was ! only with respect to sufirage that the ! interdict in terms was placed against j legislation on account of race, color, ! &c. Equality'in their civil rights I was in other ways secured to persons I of the colored race ; the ballot being assured to them, the effectual means against unjust legislation was placed in their hands. 'The duty of the colored race was now a positive one. In the light ofthis decision every colored man with any self respect must continue to demand the fullest protection of the law, both as a man and as an Americau citizen. The colored people of this country will never forget that the one justice of the supreme court who stood up i and dissented on humanitarian and I legal grounds against this unjust de cision, came from a southern state, and is a native of Kentucky. The protest of the colored race against this decision will probably not amount i to much, but the Anglo-Saxo-i race j respect pluck, and the civilization of I the age could not be turned backward j even by the supreme court of the i United States.' The Boston Syndicate. .4 Grand Extension of the Xarrow Gauge System Contemplated. Gaffney City, S. C, October 15.?A j narrow gauge railroad system is to be i inaugurated iu North Carolina and j South Carolina. An important meet i ing of the Directors of the llutherford j Railway Construction Company was I held at Rutberfordton, N. C, last j Monday, to decide upon the route of i the Rutherford Railroad. Shelby, j Spartanburg and Gaffney City have all j beeu competing for this Rutherford i conaection. The Shelby route was not ! represented at said meeting. L. A. ; Mills, President of the Spartanburg and j Rutherford Railroad, K. F. Verdery, ; Presidcut of the Greeuwood, Laurens [ and Spartanburg Railroad, and others j represented the Spartanburg route. T. Stobo Furrow, a Director and the At i toruey of the Union, GalTney City and j Rutheifordton Railroad, David Risley, ! Mayor of GeorgetowL and a Director of j the Georgetown and North Carolina j Narrow Gauge Railroad, Senator Calli j son of Edgetield, B. Sinclair and others j of Marion, N. C, represented the Gaff ! ney route. The advantages of the dif i fereut routes were discussed several I hours and further consideration was J postponed uutil Friday, at which time an aiijourtied meeting will bo bei I. j The following resolution was passed : j Rcsolccd, That the President and j Directors of the Rutherfordtou Railway j Construction Compauy agree to meet i with the Directors of the Georgetown j and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Roilroad Company, of the Union, Gaff ney City llutherford ton, Marion aud j Tennessee Railway Company, on the j 24th day of October, at. Gaffney City, I S. C, lor the purpose of considering j the question of consolidating the said j cooipauies and of accepting the propo I sitiou of the New England syndicate, i upon their making a satisfactory show i ing of their ability to perform the stip ulations contained in their proposition. This meeting i\l GafTuey City, on the 24th inst. will have an important bear ing on the railroads projected in this j section, and if said companies arc con ! solidated will result in butldius about one hundred miles of narrow gauge I railroad in North Carolina and four i hundred miles in South Carolina, estab ; lishing a system of uarrow gauge rail ! road which will be eaftended to the ! Atlantic coast and on through Georgia j and Florida in the South, also through j Tcunessee and Kentucky to Cincinnati, I Ohio, and points iu the Northwest. ; Over ?1,500,000 have been assured to ! aid iu building these roads in North j Carolina and South Carolina, which j will be turned over to the Boston syja : dicate upon their making a satisfactory I showing of their ability to build said i lines of road according to the terms of I their proposition. Foreclosing Liens. At the recent term of court for Laurens county, Judge; Hudson made some remarks as to levies under agri cultural liens, which are of general interest. lie said that it was the practice generally in the State for holders of liens to make a simple affidavit before the Clerk of Iiis (the honor's) 'belief of a debtor's fraudu lent intention, and out went the war rant. That it was a common practice to do this where the debtor happened to be behind time, even without any fact being stated in the affidavit that would show a fraudulent intent. That the law required in the affidavit a ; Statement of such facts as would show fraudulent intent. That under thej prevailing practice hardly one out of j every hundred lien warrants would j stand if assailed. His Honor's re-1 marks on this subject were listened to | with an interest increased by the fact; that an issue between a Honor and j Hences had only a day before been j tried, the result of which gave back ' to the lieuors the entire proceeds of property sold, leaving the sheriff to get from the plaintiff, as he best j might, a large bill of costs for exe-' cut'ng the lien warrant by gathering a crop. s 1 Game on Ararat. The Bad Boy's Idea of the Noa chin Deluge. 'I don't see how it is that the min ister is down on you so,' said the grocery man. 'He was hi here this morning to get trusted for a number three mackerel, atid he said he would walk around a block any time rather ! than meet you, because you asked him so many questions that he j couldn't answer. What have you j been asking him lately V 'Oh, I only wanted to get a little j light on yachting. He is paid a sal ary to enlighten his congregation and I he always wants us to ask questions, j but lately he has turned me away with*a soft answer. I asked him if I he didn't think Mount Ararat would j have been a boss place to hunt just j after Captain Noah turned all the game loose, and the water was high so you could sneak right up on to ele phants and tigers and chipmunks and fox squirrels, and the minister, who I had been telling pa what a boss time I he had last Winter hunting deer uo I * j in Michigan, got offended and told pa he better dismiss me with a boot. 1 don't know as it would beany more harm to hunt deer on Mount Ararat I along about 2,349 years 13. C. than it would now, though they might have | had a game law that would protect j the' game on account of there being ! only a limited supply. But I sup pose the game would have been very poor, 'cause it had been shut up in I the ark a long time without food, and the captain of the ark full of bug juice.' 'Hold on now, boy; don't be bear ing false witness against thy neighbor,' said the grocery man, hor rified at the remarks of the boy. 'There is no record that Noah had anything to drink on the ark. Give Noah his due, whatever you do.' 'Well, maybe you are right; but as I understand it he had a terrible ap petite for intoxicating fluid on shore, and one would suppose if he did.n't have a bar on the yacht he would have strapped a couple of jugs on the mules when they went aboard, and he must have known it was going to be a long and tedious cruise and very lonesome, and if he had anything stimulating on board he took a nip occasionally. And you could not blame him. Everybody's appetite is better when sailing, and Noah had to run the boat night and day, and it wouldn't be strange if he spliced the main brace. By Jingo, I should think that Noah would have got sick of a managerie and been mighty glad when he struck the top of mountain mid turned them loose, and when the water went down, and the animals went sliding down hill, falling over each other to find a good place to nibble grass, it must have been a pic nic to Noah. But what do you sup pose the lions found to eat ? They live on meat, and as there were only two animals of a kind they had to wait until some more small animals could be raised before they could eat, 'cause if they eat any animal that set tled it, and there wouldn't never be any of those animals on earth. Say, don't you think those lions had pret ty good control over their appetites not to make mince meat of the other animals? How do you account for the fact that all those animals lived without anything to eat V 'Oh, 1 don't know. You make me tired. I don't wonder the minister can't get along with you. Maybe Noah took along fresh meat enough to last the lions a .year and baled hay for the elephants and giiaffes and cattle. Fix it any way you want to Darned if I know anything about it,' | said the grocery inm.-r-Milwauhee \ Sun. * State Election in November. The State elections yet to occur this year will be held ou Tuesday, Novem ber 6. The complete list is as follows : Connecticut will elect one half its Seo ate and its full House of Representa tives. Marylaad will elect Governor, Con troller, Attorney General, auJ Legisla ture. Massachusetts will elect Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretory of State. Treasurer, Attorney General, Auditor and Legislature. Minnesota will elect Governor, Lieu tenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Attorney General and Rail road Commissioner, aud vote upou three proposed amendments to the Con stitution of tho State which provide (I) that the general elections shall be held hereafter iu November in each even year, (2) that the Secretary of State, the Treasurer and the Atttorocy Geu eral shall serve two years aud the State Auditor four years, aud ($) fix the terms of service of the Judges and the Clerk of the Supreme Court and of the Judges of the District Court of the State. Mississippi will elect its Legislature. Nebraska will elect a Justice of its Supreme Court and Regents of the State University. New Jersey will elect. Governor, part of its Senate; aud its full House of Rep resentatives. New York will elect Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney Gencrel, Engineer and Surveyor and both brauches of the Legislature, and vote upon a proposition to abolish eon tract labor from the State prisons. Pennsylvania will elect Auditor Gen eral and State Treasurer. Virginia will elect part of Us Senate aud its full Assembly. The Ends jetties have certainly done a great deal for the commerce of New Orleans. Before the jetties were placed a steamer drawing more than 18 or 19 feet could not get. in the mouth of j the Mississippi. On the 14th the i British steamship Silvertowa, came up to the city. She is an iron steamer of 4.1)35 tons gross register, 338 feet long, 55 feet beam, ami 34 feet six inches deep. She has a cargo capacity of lo,- j 000 bales of cotton, aud has already a ' cargo engaged by her agents. No such monster has ever before been in j the Mississippi liver. I News and Gossip. * Mrs. Edison the wife of the inventor ! is the originator of what promises to be j a popular arrangement of the electric i light in chandeliers. j A Maryland man has sued for di i vorce, alleging that his wife will not let ! him read his Bible in peace and that I once she took it from him and threw it into the fire. An earthquake in Asia Minor, oppo site the Island of Chios, and on the southern coa*t of the Gulf of Symrna, destroyed all the villages in that region ; more than 1,000 persons perished. American companies have spent over $30,000,000 in railroads in Mexico, ' and completed over 1,600 miles of track The English lines aggregate 353 miles and the Mexican 635. A peasant named James Zygelof has just died at Odessa, aged - 147 years. His sou is still alive at the age of 115 ; he has a grandson of 85 and a great grandson of 40 years. Three thousand acres of land in Kan sas this year have produced seven hundred pounds of sugar per aare and seventy-five gallons of syrup. Will not this pay 'i That is much better than making corn and wheat in excess. An old miser by the name of Wal den died recently at Waiden, N. Y. He was a stone raat-ou and worked hard at his trade, never losing a day. He lived in extreme poverty, sponging wherever he could. He left ?50,000 and gave it all to a young girl of no kin to him. W. T. Cowan killed three wild tur keys a few mornings ago. This set all the boys of Due West wld on-the turke^*^ question. One of the little "--feliows killed three belonging to H. M. Young. ? This reminds us of "Calvin/' when a boy, shot a turkey from a man's chim ney and carried it home through the streets. He thought it was wild be i cause it flew away from his dog.? Abbccille Medium. Teu years ago two loving hearts were scperated by a little quarrel owing to the miscarriage of an explanatory letter. lie went West and married, she stayed East aud married, and now both ared:<v? more free. He has eight children aud the jaundice and she seven and the dyspepsia, and neiiber has any idea of ever marrying again. Truth may be stranger than fiction, bat it is not so romautic ?Philadelphia News. Buttered eggs are the latest luxury with which rich New Yorkers tempt their appetites. The hens from which the eggs to be operated upon are ob tained are kept in the lofts of houses in the lower part of New York city. Boys are hired to watch them, and as soon as an egg is dropped it is dipped in melted butter. Being yet warm and the shell being susceptible the flavor of the butter is absorbed. Buttered eggs' sell for about 75 cents per dozen. The most brilliant wedding that has occurred in Virginia in years, so it is said, was consummated last week at Bellevue, Roanoke County. The con tracting parties were the reigning belle of the county, Miss Emily Thompson, aud " Napoleon B. Ainsworth, a fall blooded ludiau of the Choctaw tribe, who graduated at Roaooke College in 1881. The groom is a lawyer. He took his wife to his home in the Indian Territory. 31iss Thompson has taken a great risk, and if she has a happy life with her husband she will be fortunate. The savage nature of au Indian is not wholly changed by education. Judge Foraker, the defeated Repub lican candidate for Governor of Ohio, had a superstitious dread of the ninth day of October. He told a friend only last week that he had great faith and believed he would be elected but for the fact that the election came off ou the ninth of October. Ou this day, when a child, he fell from a walnut tree and broke his shoulder blade ; on the same date, while a yotmg man. he lost $100 ou three-card monte ; on the ninth of October, while in the army, he fell off a horse and had to go to the hospital for a month, and on the ninth of Octo ber. 1876, he lost an important lawsuit, which bad changed the course of his life ever since. The Juuge will have less 'respect for the ninth of October thau ever before. Fight Between a Man and an Ele phant. The Charlotte Journal-Observer of the 9th instant is responsible for the following yarn : One of the cases before the Mayor yesterday morning was that of Rufas Reed, colored, who was charged with an affray with Sell's little elephant, and the facts brought out at the trial proved that the fight between the elephant aud the man was a severe one aud that the man whipped the elephant. Reed had been giving the elephant a few apples, handing it all except one, which he put in his vest, pocket. While his attention was turned the elephant reached out its trunk and, getting hold of Rufus's pocket, tried to pull the apple out, tear ing the vest nearly off before the wear er's attention was turned to the ele phant's prank. Seizing the elephant's trunk ("snoot'' Reed called it,) he tried to wrench his vest and V? apple away from it. hut the elephant drew its trunk from Reed's hands and swinging it around gave Reed a terrible blow on the side of the head. Reed drew back and felled the elephant to the ground with a blow from his fist delivered over the eye. The elephant's keeper theu attack ed Reed aud Reed knocked him down. In the meantime the elephant had re gained its lejrs and gave Reed another blow on the side. Reed was now thoroughly exasperated and actually knocked the elephant over on'its back and then left the tent. As the elephant had left the city and could not" appear in Court, the Mayor took Reed's state ment and h ' im off lightly, feeling that the elephant deserved the flogging. Reed is a powerfully built man aud is something of a giant in proportions. He is the same man who had the fight with the hoar, in which the bear was killed, at Lowell some,months ago. His fight with the elephant was witnessed by a number of our citizen*.