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MAN, Established April, 1850. Aag. 2, 1881.1 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's thy God's, and Truth's." SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1884. THB TRCE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866. New Series-Vol. ill. No. 30. ewy Tuesday, -BY TBS f Southron Publishing ?Sa S. c. .santais: ? annum-io advance. KMX ai TS . >n-$1 00 : inser tion._ 50 ? Tostaree months, or longer will rates. which subserve private ~ for as advertisements. <)5?tns?es and1 tributes of respect will be notices and notices of deaths pub or contracts for-advertising and Southron, or applv at __ter ~ I?.-.G. OSTEEN,". ?* Business Manager. ^^^S^^^^^^^^^S^f^ l^^^tJ^ ^^^^ - Absolutely Pure. . .TlM^owdec.;never varies. .A. marve! of JWX^^Streostb and wholesomeness. More ecu?cSftleai than the ordinary kinds, and can ; aot^prsfid ?A cnapeirtton wita the multitude ofsfrjliest,;short weicht, alum or phosphate ' Me^n. Sold only in out, ROYAL B AK ?QjSp^^ r. ??Bb.-Send 25 cents TO THIS I flt IP -OKncsAoc a copy of n [?? ET ^ce w ho r's? hook w hr ch I UllvE !lrts*??f??ll diseases ^^B^^^^ of the horse, and is ? ?.M ri f [}Kl thoroughly illustra Hb Cae engravings, showing the posi HMSttDed by sick horses better than can BPk5, v"*^ betaugbt in any other ??^ffc4feBf\ way.-. . lt ?as a W^UlV^ number of valuable ???J^Mam. . . recipes, most of which ^^BHHE^^T^Sr wer<* originated by ? t?- , .-1 the author, and .never Kt ip pnat. It is pronounced the best Republished for the price, and soute ? . prominent horsemen BL f^vf^O * fiftTe1 ^eJ prefer re(* I1 t0 hooks which Wi '/- , cost So and $10. ^j?RP AGENTS WANTED. ?- -V Tfcis valuable book wi II be presented free j WSSIT* onflr salSecribers lo the Watchman and -' ? Jfnmtirm who pay for oce year in advance, pf*ad a&bto-o?d subscribers who pay all arrears Sfift*Srj?r in advance. CCESSFC.L RfiM EDY. ever I io its effects and td r*roof Below. ?fT?? Time*;''' Vee. 22, t'$3. .? fcby?? is a great advance in lejsfchin tbs psst decade, yet ^pRSjnjr in&l scarcely l*elieve that a spavin cure jJOSStihle,. .Fortunate indeed, however, is it -/or thc poor horse suffer . r. g from lameness of ]U?jf kind, that Kendall's Spavin Cure has ^pcen ?Cjftf:er>d, certain in its effects sod has worked wonder? in thousands of such ea> j^en4 for illustrated catalogue, giving >proof, aUo for sample copy of Ken ?tatise on the Horse and.hts Diseases ; free. Pri?sof tbs Spavin Cure, $1. Ad Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Prop rie lo is, Saosborgh Falls, Vt. successful treatment of riogbones, and Jotrrr -Ta metres has not been the veterinary profession, but oles raat iswttnjj^ noble twit every where. Thia remedy is certain in > Its effects, and does not blister, but it has a Tatsffiss/efiect>in reducing the enlargement ras^cftifisy iW fee lameness, as hundreds^ ; tsatrsjwuia Isyrove. Price Si. For sale by ^MiSgfrisfrn Mi j where, and by Dr. B. J. Ken ?sJICo., Kaosourzh: Falls, Vt. <^&RttX?Lf3 SPATOT CTO2. M ......^HTJM?N ?tESH. : W:?*?WfS* PACOTA, ??ov..^, 1883. v"J^$.^Ken?Ull &: Co., Dear Sirs En ?p$?!&ct3Kfor. your book eoti ; *A:Traa??8$i>n, ?he Horse and bia . Dis '"Toa may l?ok fur . more orders in if it is as advertised. Your Spavin r?r???^.gith T&omaijssv re iiat?? ah?! its '?etton permanent. Every, prraoa onefcijta b??e a bpt.tic of it. Jlavs and no occasion to ose it on my horses jet, bat too much rMn not bs said of its re SIS ft nbs? effect on hamal* ?tsh I used that psi op for'horses, ?nd its effects were truly -fiwsrrshie? . Please send the books as soon ss?esSiWe and#obligs/ ?Yt, a rs trtrfy, **V*<? M ?, ?j, jg, g. BKOWX;' price ^ PF hot?avar ? f p.ttJes.for $5. All druggistf Vki? V?VWfce? fcf?r you, or ft tritt*':b* seat -to any address on receipt of tbs pror rietorj. J)c. B. J. Kendall ?t -KICKSEf? C?~, ; ;;;;S?MTBK; s. c., DEALERS IN % F0KEIOX AND IK)MESTiC -l?ouors, Wines, Tobacco and " jbavs- DOW the largest and best selected . ;?tock of erer offered in ? Sumter. Pure N. C. OOS? WHISKEY and pure N. C. APPLS BRANDY a speciality. Trj oar JOHN MeC?LLO?OH CIGAR and BLUE JEANS TOBACCO. _ need of an/ goods in our line f?%W> hy giving os a'-eall. , SEM EB BER THAT WE .??. SATISFACTION as to qosiitj ?nd price. , one door THE MODEL GI BL. A practical, plain yoong girl ; Not-afraid-of-the-rain young girl ; A poetical posy, A ruddy and rosy, A helper-of-self young girl. At-bome-in-her-place young girl ; A never-will-lace yoong giri ; A toiler serene, A life pure and clean A princess-of-peace young girl. A wear-ber-own-hair young girl ; A free-from-a-stare young girl ; Improves every hour, No sickly sunflower, A wealth-of-rare^sense young girl. Plentv-room-in-her-shoes young girl ; No indulger-in-blues young girl ; Not a bang on ber brow, . To fraud, not a bow, She'sa-just-what-sbe-seems young girl Not a reader-of trash young girl ; Not a cheap-jewel-flash young girl ; Neither flippant nor lax, Nor a chewer of "wax," A marvel-of-sense young girl. A lover-of-prose young girl ; Nor a turn-up-your-oose young girl ; Not a slattern nor shrew, But a "know what to do," And a matter-of-fact young girl. A rightly-ambitious young girl ; Red-lips, most-del ?ci?os young girl ; A sparkling clear eye, ' That says ;tI will try," A snre-to-8ucceed yoong girl. : An honestly-courting young girl j tr. A never-seeo-flirtiog yoong girl j . A quiet and pure, A mod wt, demure, ' A fit-for-a-wife young girl. Aswight-everywhere 'yoong girl ; A fa tore-most-fair yoong girl ; An ever discreet, We too seldom meet. . This qneen-among-qu.eens young girl. - Canada School Journal. WORK OP THE CYCLONE. Large. Loss of Life and Immense ' Destruction of Property. I A destructive cyclone prevailed tb rooghoat a large portion of the coun? try on last Tuesday evening, dealing death and destruction in many places. ? From the Columbia Register, of the 21st, we take the following in regard to its ravages : The cyclone seems to have entered the State from the Northeast and to I have branched off into two different di? rections at or about Chester, one branch going-acros* toward Darlington, Wil? liamsburg and that section of the State, demolishing buildings, prostrating fen? ces and sweeping down acres of forest growth. Throughout its entire course the cy? clone has marked tts track with terrible evidences of its destructive power. Gentlemen who were in Manning during the prevalence of the storm de? scribe it as terrific, torrents of rain, bail, thunder and lightning, and the houses trembling and shaking os with the shock of an earthquake. Wherever the cyclone touched the earth it swept everything before it, mowing down the forest? of pines which it encountered-and leaving them in a winrow of 150 or 200 yards wide, as though they .had been cut down by some immense mower. The most distressing accounts come to us from Darlington. The cyclone en? tered the town from the South- in the vicinity of the depot, and having partly demolished that structure- it passed through'the town carrying death and destruction ou its course. The fine dwelling of ll. W. Boyd was swept away in a moment. Mr. BoydN was painfully if not seriously injured, and two negroes killed ou the premises. Mrs. Boyd and her daughter had gone to Florence, and ou their way back had j taken refuge, at the house of T. II. j McCaw, Esq., about two miles from the latter place. Duriug the night the house was struck by lightning and took fire, and the inmates had barely time to escape with their lives. : The dwelling house of Mr. White was blown down and himself and wife instantly killed The house of Mr. C. Edwards, of the firm of Edwards & Nor me nt, was also destroyed and Mr. Edwards was seri I oosly injured. Besides these casualties a number of persons were known to have been more or less seriously injured in the towu. and our informant states that at the time he left yesterday morning six per , sons were ascertained to have been killed and fourteen or fifteen wounded. The damage to bouses, fences and other structures was general throughout thc town* Tn the vicinity of Williamsburg, on the Northeastern Railroad, serious loss of life is reported, and the same ac? counts come from Rockingham, North Carolioa? Of course *t this time but a very im? perfect estimate can bo formed of the damage which has been done, but enough is known to show that it has been one of thc most disastrious visita? tions of this character which has ever befallen the State, and we fear that thc detail?, which will reach us within the next few days will add many horrors to j the record. Thc town of Chappcll's, on the j Columbia and Greenville Railroad, has j been laid in ruins and thc loss of life j and limb is great. Passengers who came down on yes- j terday's train say that the cycloue pass? ed near Anderson city, and that a man, j woman and child were killed near An- i dorson by a falling house. The j cyclone, so far as heard from, seems to have struck ground near Anderson, then at Cbappell's and then near Ashe ford's Ferry. Bradley, on the A. and K road, twelve miles from Greenwood, suffered terribly. The Baptist Church, a hand? some structure, recently completed, was torn to pieces and scattered in j every direction. A new school build? ing was blown down. Watson & Baker's carriage and wagon factory and blacksmith shop were totally destroyed. Dr. Ligon's dwelling was blown over and crushed to the grouud by two fail ?og trees. Mrs. Ligon, his wife, was j seriously injured by the falling timbers, j and at last accouuts was not expected ? to-recover. Mr. V. Griffin's little girl was also badly burt, but it is thought not seriously. All the outhouses on Gen. Bradley's place were torn to pieces, and the chimneys of his dwell? ing were hurled to the ground. The scene at and around Bradley is fearful to son tem plate, and the damage can hutiy be Jess tba? $ 12,000 or $15,000.1 At Phoenix, the terrors of the storm were supplemented by the awful demon -fire. Mr. W. H. Stalworth^ elegant j frame residence was blown down aud then caught fire, and was burned up, Miss Stalworth, his eldest daughter, being burned up with the house". Mrs. Stalworth and a younger daughter es? caped from the debris with some injuries, perhaps not serious. Mr. Stalworth was absent in Charleston at the time of the destruction of his house, which makes the circumstances particularly sad. All the houses on the plantation of Messrs. Barnet and Duffie, in the neighborhood of Phoenix, were blown down. . The cyclone inflicted great damage to persons and property in portions of Newberry County. At Colonel D. A. Dickert'?, not far from Broad River, the damage was great. Colonel Dickert lost a large barn, gin house and negro houses-in? deed, nearly every house on his place except the resideuce, and that was bad? ly, damaged. 100 acres of original forest near the house was blown away, not a half dozen trees being left stand? ing. Colonel Dickert's loss is very heavy ; he estimates it at not less than $2,000 on buildings alone. A colored man on the place bad his hip badly hurt by falling timbers. One negro house was blown 200yards. St. Mathews Lutheran Church, near by, was blown down, a complete wreck, and nearly every tree in the grove was torn up by the roots. Mr. Charles P. Dickert, in the samo section, lost every house on his place except his residence. His stable were blown away and one mule is missing, supposed to have been killed. Young Tob's dwelling was blown down. The work of destruction in Chester was also great. The Origin of Leap Year. A young lady writes, says an ex? change, to know the "origin of Leap Year, and the reason, if there be any, that ladies can propose to geutlerneu during this year." From the best authority, it is narrated that on one occasion the good St. Patrick was strolling along the shore of Lough Neagh, cooling himself after exertions in exterminating the snakes, when he met St. Bridget in tears. It appear? ed that the young ladies in the con? vent school presided over by Miss Bridget had given the worthy lady much trouble by insisting that they had as good a right to propose as the j men. St. Patrick thought the matter over, and finally offered a compromise. He said he would give the ladies the right one year in seven, when St. Bridget threw her arms round his neck and exclaimed, "Arrah ! Patrick, jewel, I daren't go back to the girls with such a proposal. Make it one year in four." To which Patrick, with a gallantry doubtless learned i ti ireland, replied : "Bridget, acushla, squeeze me that way again, and PH give you Leap Year, the longest of the lot." Bridget therenpon "popped the question" to Patrick on the spot, and i the Saint was compelled to console her the best way he could with civil ? words and a new silk gown. Ever since ladies have had the right to propose during Leap Year, and, if refused, to claim a silK gown. --- The Firm Mother. 'Come herc to me,' said a firm moth- i er to her son. "Didn't I tell you that < I'd whip you if you went down town Y 'Yessum,' standing on one foot. 'What made you go ? Say !' 'Cause,'standing on .the ot her foot. < 'Didn't you kuow Pd whip you V 'Yessum,' showing by his manner : that he didn't. 4I'm a great mind to wear you out. < If you go outsid? the yard agaiu to-day I I'll whip you.' About ten minutes afterward she sees i the boy playing in the street, and calls him. He comes reluctantly. 'Didn't I tell you Pd whip you if you ; went outside the yard ?' 'Yebsuni.' 'Why did you do ItV 'Cause.* 'You good for nothing little rascal, I'm a great mind to wear you out. If you go outside this yard again to-day 1 I'll whip you, if it's the last act of my i life. Do you hear me Y ! 'Yessum.' After a while she sees him playing iu the street again. Calls him and < says : i 'Never mind. I'll tell your pa when < he comes.' < Tax the Pistol. While Congress is in session would < it not be well, when imposing a heavy < tax upon the manufacture and sale of tobacco, whiskey and other such ar? ticles, to include pistols with these evils and tax it out of existence ? Nei? ther the trafic in whiskey, tobacco, or any other article entails half as ? much misery on thc human family as is caused by the pistol. It is a curse 1 to the human race as it is now vended. 1 It furnishes more victims for the gal? lows than all other evils combined ; it 1 entails inore misery, suffering woe 1 and disgrace upon thc human family than any companion of the assassin, the murderer, the thief and coward -than any other known evil. It is the boon of highwaymen, whereas if it were not for thc pistol we do not be? lieve that one of these crimes would be committed where a hundred are now recorded. It ought to be legis? lated out of existence (except for the anny) as the greatest curse tocivilza tion. There is not a single good word that can be ?aid for it. Out of! every thousand acts committed with a pistol there is not more than one good one--the rest are all evil. It would bc a blessing to society, to civ? ilization and to the whole human race if pistols had never been invented. Lancaster Ledger. There will always be croakers. A good many people arc already proph? esying a famine in South Caroliua for next Summer. If all would go to work in earnest, mind their own business aud pay less attention to other people's, thc promised ?amino would cot come. No Explanations. A traveller for a Detroit wholesale grocery house was the other day IQ (irw il) g a trip between two northern coun? try towns with a sleigh, when one of the horses was taken sick, and he drew up at a farm house and inquired if he could put the animal out and rest him until he recovered. "You can," replied the woman, "but I want to warn you in advance that I have run away from my husband on two different occasions-once with a drover and once with a map seller." "Well, what of it?" "You'll find out as soon as the old man comes up from the slashing ! He'll think you are after me, and there'll be a row." "Oh, I guess I can explain matters to him." "Don't you wait to explain noth? ing," she continued ; "he'll go for you without a word, and if you can't wallop him he'll give you the worst licking a stranger ever got !" The horse was too iii to go on, and thc agent had no recourse but to stay and face the music. He was at thc barn, rubbing the animal down, when the old man suddenly showed himself at the door. Waiting just long enough to draw a full breath he made a break for the traveller. The latter dropped his wisps of hay and felt of the faimer'8 right eye in a way that laid him flat. He got up and came again, but was received with a stinger on the jaw, and as he went down the traveller got him by the throat and held him fast. By and by, when he dared let him up a little, he explained : "I was forced to stop here and take care of a sick horse." "Well, that's all right," replied the farmer. "Let me up and PU help rub him." Ile was assisted to his feet and went to work with considerable heart. By and by he went to the house and had his eye bound up, aud when sup? per was ready he insisted that the traveller should eat with him. Not a cent would he take when the latter was ready to go, but extending bis hand he said : "Stranger, I've licked seven differ? ent men who stopped here within the past six months, and it kinder does me good to get knocked under the benches. Next time you come this way stop and give mo an hour's les? son. Good-bye to you."-Detroit tree Press. Where the old Maids Come in. Do, you know, sir/ inquired an American tourist of his companion, while doing England, 'can you inform me the reason for thc fresh healthful Ippearance of the Euglish people ? Their complexion is far superior to ours or our couutrrymen over the herring pond.' 'Well, I know what Professor Hux? ley says.' 'And what reason docs he advance V 'Well, Huxley says it is all owing to the olds maids.' 'Owing to old maids ! You surprise ene.' 'Fact. Huxley figures it out this way. Now, you know the English aro very fond of roast beef.' 'But what has that to do with old maids!' .Gu slow. This genuiuc English beef is the best and most nutritious beef in the world, and it imparts a beautiful co m i?! ex ion.' 'Well, about the old maids ?' 'Yes, you see the excellence of this English beef is due exclusively to red clover. Do yea see the point?' 'All but the old maids. They are ?tili hovering in the shadows.' 'Why, don't you see? This red clover is enriched, swecteued and fruc? tified by bumble-bees.' 'Bui where do the old maids come in V said the inquisitive American, wiping his brow wearily. 'Why, it is as plain as thc nose on your face. The only enemy of the bumble-bee is the field-mouse.* 'But what have roast beef, red clover, bumble-bees and field-mice got to do with old maids Y 'Why, you must be very obtuse. Dou't you perceive that thc bumble? bees would would soon become exter? minated by the field-mice if it were not for-' ?Old maids Y *No, if it were not for cats, and the old maids of Old England keep the sountry thoroughly stocked up with cats, and so we caD directly trace the effects of the rosy English complexions to the benign cause of Euglish old maids ; at least, that's what Huxley says about it, and that's just where the Ltld maids come ia. Science makes olear many mysterious things/ Wanted to Know About Switches. A white-haired, sh rill-voiced boy, ihout eight years old, rode down town with his parents on the Sixth avenue elevated road. He gazed curiously at two or three up traius which whizzed by the one lie wa? in, aud in a voice that ?eut a thrill through every person in the car, piped uut : 'j'a, how do these cars (urn around V 'They don't lum around my son; when they reacli the eud of thc linc they are switched from one track to the other,' answered the father, sedately. 'Who switches 'em V asked the boy eagerly. 'Why, the engine, to be ture.' 'The Indian !' repeated questioner, j 'Ile must be a pretty big lud?an, isn't he, pa V Yes, yes; don't talk so loud,' said thc father, curtly. '31a, queried the boy, after a mo- j mont's pause, 'does lie switch 'em the ! same as you and pa switches me, when I don't do right ?' The maternal relative reached for the boy, wiped his nose, pulled his cloth cap down over his eyes, and told him to keep quiet.-New York Times. . --~-?-? ?. ? Nothing disgusts a young lover in lavender pants so much as to find that thc piano stool he has been occupying for the last hour has been used as a 'twister at thc children's candy-pulling party thc Dight before. A Very Kemar kable Horse. The Walton, Ga., News' says : "When General Sherman passed through this section of country in lSG-i his men tock from Mr. Robt. Craw Icy every horse and mule he had, and left in his lot in their place, a small skinned np, worn out mare, as she was altogether worthless to them. Uncle Bob, as Mr. Crawley was usu? ally called, finding this helpless and apparently useless animal in lu's lot, and having none other, began to nurse her. Ile daily greased her sores for several weeks until they healed. As she was his only chance, he then be? gan to use her. Ile founefcher willing to do all she could, aud with extra pains she became a firstrate animal, and afterwards brought him eight fine colts, all of which made splendid horses. Ile named the old mare Fan? ny and kept her until his death. Just before his death, as he realized that his time was short in this world, he gave the faithful Fanny to his daugh? ter Tempie, afterwards Mrs. Baker and now Mrs. George W. Knox, to be well cared for. She served her mistress well until the 22d inst., the date of her death. She was thought to be eight years old when Sherman's army left her, and she was consequent? ly at least 28 at her death. She leaves a young mare colt 2 1-2 years old, bearing the same color and name as old Fanny. The old mare was al? most human, as she seemed to under? stand everything said in her presence. For years she was only requited to carry her mistress to church and her master a fishing, and when the latter wouid get on a pond in a boat the faithful old animal would closely watch him and frequently neigh to warn him apparently of danger. She always seemed to be elated when her master succeeded in catching a good string of fish for her mistress as she would never fail to express it by be? ing particularly sprightly and anxious to get nome and bow her head to Mrs. Knox." Bill Nye on Hornets. Last Fall I desired to add to my rare collection a large hornet's nest. I bad an embalmed tarantula and her porce? lain lined nest, and I desired to add to these the gray and airy house of the hornet. I procured one of the large size after cold weather and hung it iu my cabinet by a striug. I forgot about it until Spring. When warn? weather came, something reminded me of it. I think it was a homet He jogged my memory tu some wa)' and called my at? tention to ir. Memory is not located where I thought it was. It seemed as though it was. It seemed as thuugh whenever he touched he a wak cued a memory-a warm memory with a red place around it. Then some more hornets came and began to rake up old personalities. I remember that ODO of them lit on my upper lip. Ile thought it was a rose? bud. When ho went away it looked like a gladiolus bulb. I wrapped a wet sheet around it to take out the warmth and reduce the swelling so that ? could go through tho folding doors and tell my wife about it. Hornets lit all over mc and around my person. I did not dare to scrape them off because they were so sensitive. You have to be very guarded in your conduct toward a hornet. I remember once while I was watch? ing the busy little hornet gathering honey and June bugs from the bosom of J & rose, years ago, I stirred him up with a club, more as a practical joke than anything, and he c?.Jie and lit in my sunny hair-that was when I wore my own hair-and he walked around through my gleaming tresses quite a while, making tracks as large as a watermelon all over my head. If he hadn't ruo out of tracks my head would have looked like a load of Summer squashes. I remember ? had to thump my head against the smoke house in order to smash him, and I had to comb him out with a fine comb and wear a waste paper basket two weeks for a h ac. Much has bceu said of the hornet, but he he has au odd, quaint way after all that is forever new. Where Are They? Many people, when they read io the dispatches of Khartoum, Suakim, Tokar, Trinkitat, El Obeid, Darfur, Kordofau, aud so ou, in thc dispatches from Egypt about thc loss of the Soudan, have only a very hazy idea of the geographical re? lations of the places named, and there? fore caDDot appreciate thc significance of many of the dispatches. For the couvcuieuce of those who have nut time to look up all these things iu au atlas, it may be well to give a short statement of the position of thc leading points mentioned iu the daily news. Khartoum is situated in thc upper or Southern part of what used to be called Nubia, above the sixth cataract, at tho junction of the White and Blue? Nile. Southwest of it is the district of Kordo? fau, in which is situated the city of El Obeid, whence the Mahdi advanced to? ward Khartoum. Still to the West, several hundred miles, is Darfur, a much larger territory than Kordofau and entirely within the boundaries uf the Soudan proper. Suakim, from which General Baker marched out tho other day, is on the Red Sea. about half way between Suez and Aden and over 400 miles Northeast of Khartoum. Tokar is just South of Suakim, also on thc coast, and Trinki tat is between the two. Siukat, where Tow fix Bey's army has Leen destroyed j by the hostile forces, is near Suakim to the North. Southwest of those places, between them and the Nile, is the Bh*h arcen Desert. The point on the Nile nearest Tokar, is Berber, between thc fifth and sixth cataracts and about 200 miles Northeast of Khartoum. It will be seen that communication between Gordon, on thc way to Khartoum, and Baker and Burnaby, hemmed in on the coast of the Red Sea, oOO miles or more away, is impossible. When a mau finds a dog collar iu a piece of mince pie he feels sorry for thc dog, but his sympathies arc mostly concentrated on himself. What Our Editors Say. Greenville News. In commenting upon the social rules I and regulations existing in official cir ? des at Washington, that paper says : j There is too much flavor of privi I leged order 'and distinctions of class j about it. Questions of precedence are j rcpuguant to the whole spirit of our goverument. There is no real rcsron why thc wife of any ojScer of our gov? ernment should have any particular place or be accorded any official reeog nation beyond that which is given to any other woman equally well boru and bred. Social distinctions on a basis of congeniality and fitness are all right, but when they are carried into classes and minutely divided by subtle and un? familiar rules they become degraded, j snobbish and ridiculous; when they are carried into the White House and offi? cially sauctioued there they become dangerous. When the time comes that we have a class recognized as superior in rank to American gentlemcu and gentlewoman-and that class composed of office holders-the mission of the re? publican party will be entirely fulfilled. We will have a bastard monarchy and aristocracy possessing ail thc faults and none of the advantages of a real mon? archy aud aristocracy and all the evii and none of the good of a Republic. A Des rabie Change. Kershaw Gazelle. It strikes us very forcibly that the in? terests of the public schools throughout the State would be greatly advanced by a change in the present law which re? quires an apportionment of the cousti ; tutional two-mill tax to be made among the school districts of the several coun I ties of the State, according to thc ratio of school attendance in each school dis? trict, iu other words, we believe that the money collected from the tax-payers in each district should be applied solely to the educational interests of that school district, without reference to the num? ber of pupils attending the schools iu that district as. compared with other school districts in the same county. As the law now stands, oue school district, on account of th J excess of property value it posses over some other school district in the same county, may pay a tax of twenty to fifty per cent, more than such other district; yet, be? cause it has not as many children eligi? ble to benefit from the public school fund as another district has (which does not pay as much towards the general school fund,) it is not entitled to receive as much benefit from the school funds. We would suggest that each School District be allowed the benefit of its own taxes for school purposes, to the exclusion of all others, disregarding the ratio of average attendance ia each school district in* a county. County Officers. I Clarendon Enterprise. Under the present law most of the public ufficers arc elected every two years, but a few are elected every four years. The question that we desire to propound aud which wc do with all due deference is, Whore is the ne-.d or the expediency of having elections every two years? Do we find that thc two- ? year-term officers are better qualified or provo more fruitful than the four year term officers? This thing of having au election every two years is too great a tax on the country. If the time were extended to four years, it would be au improvement, for the people would be more careful in the selectiou of men, and if a majority uf thc voters make a mistake in the selectiou of an officer, unless some of his acts are punishable by statute law, either quietly wait till the close of his term, or if thc emergency be sufficiently great, resort to vigilaut law, aud force his resignation. Look at it from any point of view, and we can see nothing but good re? sults from a four year term. The peo? ple knowing that the time was for four I years would be more careful in select? ing their men, aud thc primaries would bring out thc will of thc majority. Under the present arrangement, justas one gets acquainted with thc duties of his office, and is prepared by experience to better perform his work, another election comes on, and possibly a new baud is placed in his stead. Give us half thc time now spent iu raising cau? date crops to devote to pursuits of a better and moro industrial kind, and the country will bc thc gainer. Is tho Very Air Taxed ? Lexington Dispatch. When thc American citizen awakens in thc morning his eyes opeu up u the walls of the room covered with paper I that is taxed 25 per cent. Ile throws off his blankets taxed CO per cent, and ! steps from his bed, taxed ob per cont, upon carpet taxed 74 per cent, lie draws aside his window curtains, taxed 45 per cent, aud looks out through glass taxed i>0 per cent, to seo how the weather is. Throwing o!T his night? shirt, taxed 45 per cent, bc puts on his i undershirt and socks, taxed 75 per cent. | cotton shirt taxed 45 per cent, and vest, j ; coat and pants taxed 48 per cent. Find- j ing a button gone he has it sewed on with a needle taxed '25 per cent, and spool thread taxed CU per cent Ho arranges his hair with comb and brush ? taxed 30 per cent, and pan s his tinner j nails with a pocket knife taxed 50 per i cent, or with scissors taxed 4o percent, j Feeling a little out of sorts he takes a dose of castor oil. taxed i 02 percent, from a goblet taxed 45 per cent. Ile shaves j before a looking-glass taxed 00 percent. ? with lather from soap taxed .'J 1 percent j j He starts his fire i- a stove taxed 45 i per cent, and puts Oil the tea-kettle! ? taxed 53 per cent. Ile makes a light | : breakfast of mackerel-, taxed 25 per j j cent, with rice, taxed I2o percent, and j ; salt taxed SC per cent. For thc cups j . and saucers and plates used on tho table ! j he is taxed 55 per cent, and he pays 45 j j percent, on his knives and forks. The [ sugar he uses in his coffee is taxed 12 I per cont. Ile adds a few pickles, as a i relish, taxed 35 per cent, and his vine? gar is taxed 2C per cent. If ho tops olT | on an orange he pays a tax of 20 per | ? cent. His breakfast over, lie smokes a cigar or cigarette taxed all the way from 75 to 200 per cent, according to quali? ty, and prepares for daily duties. Fut ting op bis hat. taxed 75 per cent, j Ilia overcoat, taxed 4S per cent, and ! gloves, taxed 50 per cent, he takes his ! umbrella, taxed 50 per cent, and starts i off to bu.?; i ii ess. Being engaged in i building a house, he looks up some building material, lie purchases brick taxed 35 per cent some lumber taxed i 45 percent, window glass taxed SO per ! per cent, paint and white lead, taxed ' 54 per cent, wood pipe for ?rains, 80 ; per cent, and hardware taxed all the i way from 50 to 150 per cent. This is j the daily lifo of the American citizen. ? and yet the protectionist says we shall i not find relief. We shall see what wo j will sec. The Negro Exodus. Darlington Xeics. It is reported that 400 negroes will soon leave the County for Arkansas, j where they have contracted to work on j cotton plantations, and it is said that j fully one thousand wil! go. Some of j the whites consider this a blessing, oth? ers put ou long faces and talk about the depreciation of lands, scarcity of labor, ?cc. As we look at it, the fact remains that there are numbers of negroes in the county, who will either have to get work or starve. Can they all get work 7 Wc think not. The merchants are not able io make the necessary ad? vances for them all to reut lands. Many of our land owners have quit planting and gone info other depart? ments of business. Most of them are not able to advance money to their ten? ants, nor can they employ them for wages. In a country such as this, much labor ts lost on plautiug by the common la? borer, much money wasted and much debt incurred. Will not this gradual exodus change the character of our farming and bring our whole system to more business-like methods ? We think it will. There is a plenty of labor and j to spare in the country, aud wherever j there is a demand for labor, there labor will go. Cotton cannot be profitably t made with high priced labor, and if j labor becomes scarce, prices will rise, i Our people will then be forced to make j their own provisions and cotton after- ? ward. They will then bo out of debt. ' Whatever they get will be bought for j cash at low rates, and the small cotton j crop will bc more pru?t than the large j one now is. Simple Laws. dewberry Herald. A prominent public officer of this State made a public address a few days j ago, in which he criticised our laws and j law-makers, because the laws are not j simple enough for thc people at large to j understand them. Such talk is absurd, I and thc man who uttered it ought to j know better. No government has ever I devised a code of laws simple enough J for the understanding of the pcopie. So ! far as the letter of the law is concerned, j , that is simple enough : the words arc j 1 so plain that the way-faring man though a fool can run and read them-but they j will bo mere words to him. Persons will always bc found ready to coudemn | the law, because they regard it as pro- j eccding directly from the devil or, what ? is worse in their mind, the lawyers. But ail countries have had their law- j yen*, and we have not reached an era I sufficiently utopian to do without them, j Thc opposition to lawyers became so I pronounced at one time ia rho colonial ! days of Virgiuia that a law was enacted j directing that any persou who attempt- ; ed to practice law should be fined a cer- J tain number of pounds of tobacco. The ! experiment proved its own absurdity, j and it was soon decided that the good j of society demands that certain mcu should devote their lives to thc study of law that it may bc wisely expounded. Better Game. Aileen Recordsr. Wc arc delighted to note tbat Col. A. P. Butler is heartily interested iu establishing a South Carolina Branch of t the Southern Immigration Association, with Charleston as the port of entry, j Wo are also glad to note that he is re- j ceiving every encouragement from those able to assist, especially from Gen: j John B. Irvin, the member of the Exe- ? cutive committee from this State. This is precisely what South Caro- j Hua needs to assist in working out thc j race problem, which stands like a roar- j ing lion in our path. Six huudred and I four thousand uegroes versus three ! hundred and ninety oue thousand Cau- j easians-this is the problem that we i and our posterity must solve or siuk j under. The Creator of the Universe is on j our side; His peaceful agencies arc j now at work removing the negro from j the State by so-called exoduses from j each county. But that is not enough ; j we must help ourselves: we must pro- < vide for thc grand army of Caucasian ; immigrants who are to close the gaps ' and set in motion additional implements j of skill, whereby our industries will bc j diversified ami the accursed all-coitun i swept into oblivion. No better place than Charleston can j bc chosen as tho Southern Ca>tle Gar? den. Let thc goo?! work proceed with! all tho moral ami material aid that our citizenship can extend. This is au en- I tcrpriso worthy of thc Department of j Agriculture, and in striking contrast with some of tho very small came to which it has sacrificed its usefulness aud impaired its influence. At a meeting of temperance women ? an old lady gul up to give her ox [seri- | once : *1 ku ow something of thc evils of rum,' she said. I have buried tinco [ husbands, and all were hard drinkers. But 1 am glad to say," she continued, ! that 1 didu t fight with them. Assoou as ; I found they would drink i got them to ; insure their lives heavily, and let them j ?.*o ahead. Ali. me ? each one of them ! tiied from thc effect of liquor but, thanks j to a kind providence, each death netted mc a clean $10.000.' ~**-*~ 'Ves,' said ibo Deacon, 'that cow is badly hurt, and wouldn't bring R5; But | I shall get more for her A rat ty ' of swell city fellows arc coming down '. here to hunt, and I shall put her up in j the scrub pine lot and tell them deer ! abound up there. Oh, she's as good a? 1 sold for ?50.? i Nows and Gossip. A fellow ID Philadelphia, with his affianced, presented himself before Jus rice Mills at Trenton and asked if he would 'marry two durned fools.' He seemed to 'size the cakes/ very well. Mr. ilcDry Davis, of Oconee county is a remarkable man. ile is in the ninety-first years of his age; has bad bacon for sale every year for fifty years ; never planted a seed of cotton in his life : raises his own tobacco, never having bought one and a half plugs; has pleuty of money; is a Baptist and is a native of Anderson county. Certaiu Swiss living in the Canton of St Gallen recently attempted to trans? form 1G0 francs, which they buried be? neath a headstone, into five millions by thc simple process of saying spells over it and passing eight days without cloth? ing, repeating magic formulas all the time. Wheu the authorities discovered them they were in a state of great ex? citement, but full of faith. 'No man shall ever kiss me except my future husband,' she said, as abe was about leaving the gate. 'Suppose I agree to be your future-' *Wby, thea i'll kiss you,'she said, eagerly, as she did. Her mother was informed that he had proposed, and the old lady called ou him next day to arrange matters, aud before he knew it he was eternally, booked. It was a very mean advantage, but a bird io thc hand is worth two on the garden gate. A turkey was placed in a box tho other day at Young's Store, Laurens County. The fowl's head was allowed to prelude from a hole in the box, and the owner charged twenty cents a shot. About 110 shots were fired from 9 o'Hock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, when astray charge carried away the unfortunate's head. Several hens were also subjected to similar tor? ture. A society for prevention of cru? elty to animais might find profitable em? ployment in Laurens.-Palmetto Post. Some of the old topers when they come to towu now-a days appear, like Kip Van Winkle after his twenty years, sleep, lost, and seem to inquire 'Und vere isb Steve, und vere ish Chordy, und vere ish Filmore, und vore ish Bush? Uh dey all gone-mine Gott ish efery body ish not gone-I see some beeplcs; but dey be not de peeble vat I use to know ven I see dis town pcfore. Dis beeples valk straight, dis peeples no make fool and s pon J der mon ish-AU dis people be dry.-Pee Dee Index. It has been concluded to abandon all further efforts to recover any property from the wreck of the city of Columbus. The tide runs with such velocity where the wreck lies that tuc vessel is rapidly going to pieces. Nothing of value has been re? covered. There is no hope of the re? covery of any bodies, as it is supposed the decks have beeu washed away and that the hull is open to the action of the waves. The next storm of any severity will probably obliterate all traces of the steamer. A high-handed murder occurred ia Greenville SuDuay morning, the 10th. The victim was a colored maa named Ephriam Saxon, and the murderers, also colored are Jim McCul? lough, who did the shooting, and Alfred McCullough, his father, while Sandy . McCullough, a brother, is charged as being an accessory. The murder was caused by Saxon having dealt one of the McCulIoughs a severe blow in the mouth. The murderers were committed to jail for trial. The Jacksonville Times-Union says: 'Thc plaiu fact is that almost every Senator has some worthless youngster hanging on to him for support, who, ia thc whirl of Washington society, in the effort at keepiug up appearances, costs' him a round sum yearly. In some cases it is a sou, iu others a nephew or a cousin. These infest the Capital like thc lice of Egypt. They are good for nothing but to draw salaries for sine? cure places, to lead the german at balls, aud dauce attendance on Mrs. Senator and her daughters when she makes her shopping excursions and calls. Tho new places are cut out for just this class of worthless young 'bloods,'a class that has become over numerous at tho National Capital of late years.' 'Paresis* is the special name given to the disease from which Delmonico suffered, and, according to Professor Janeway, of the Bellevue Hospital, is far more prevalent than is generally supposed, affecting all classes equally. People who worry and are anxious about their affairs are subject to it. Oucc attacked, the patient succumbs to slow cxhaustiou. Many live for years, aud have lons lucid intervals. Men with weak uiiuds, engaged in specula? tion, arc most subject to it, and the disease is said to be more prevalent among stock-brokers and speculators than in any other liue of business. Parson Newman, known as Grant's Chaplain took charge of the Madisou Aveuue Congregational Church of New York. This church is congregational ; Newman is a Met hon ist. He was in? vited to take charge because the church was iu debt and they thought he would draw a crowd and make the church popujar aud help them out. After preaching about a year or longer same of the members wished to get rid of Newman, and theu begau one of tho liveliest church rows that New York has lately had. Newman had the better of his opponents last week, but they aro going to try it again this week and the opposing Deacons hope they will dis? lodge him.-Spartan. "Nytn Crinkle," in thc Now York World, writes amusingly of Mrs. Langtry, as follows : My opinion is that she is an uninteresting actress but a most interesting person. I willingly concede to her the advan? tage ol' extraordinary good looks. She is not pretty. She is not lovely. But site is handsome. If I were very wealthy I should like to own Mrs. Langtry. Pd give more for her than for a Cabinet or a Michael Angelo. Fe* have a trame ani a pedestal made for her, and I'd give private exhibi? tions (open ott Sunday for tho eleva? tion of the middle classes-.) All she would have to do would be to keep , her mouth shut aud stand still.