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THE TRUE SOUTIMiOX, Established June, 1866.
Aug. 2, 1881.1
STJMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1883.
New Scries?Vol. III. No. 12.
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T, SHOE, AM B -HAT TRADE OF SUMTE ft
before witnessed so complete a line of
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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.
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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
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*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.
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WHOLLY D3JAD.
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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*.