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SATISFACTION I; a* to quality and price. L < ??M STS?JST9 o*e door North HURRAH POR THE MAN WHO PAYS? There are mea of brains who count their gains By the million dollars or more ; They buy and sell, and really do well On the money of the poor. They manage to get quite deep in debt By various crooked ways : And so we say thai the man to-day Is the honest man who pays. When in town he never sneaks down Some alley or way back street ; With head erect he will never deflect. But boldly each man meet. He con nts the cost bet?re he is lost In debt's mysterious maze, And he never boys in manner unwise, But calls for his bill, and pays. ThereVtf certainJair of debonair In the mao who boys4 for cash ; He is not afraid of being betrayed By a jack-leg shyster's dash. What be says to you will certainly do, If it's cash or thirty days ; And when he goes ont the clerks will shout Hurrah for the man who pays I THE CHERAW TRAGEDY. [Wadesboro {N. C.) Intelligencer, March l.J Last week we gave tbe particulars of a fight between Bogan Gash, the outlaw, and Mr. W. H. H. Richards, Marshal of Cheraw, which had its or? igin in the attempt of the Marshal to arrest Cash for drunkenness and dis? orderly conduct on the streets of Che? raw, Saturday night, February 16th. When we burlesqued the combat, in oar last issue, we little thought the affair would terminate ia so deplora? ble a manner ; for we deemed Cash a man of courage and conld not believe he would take any undue advantage of a roan whose only offence was the faithful discharge of bis duty and the posessiou of courage superior to his own. 'flffii believed Cash, were he disposed to pursue th? matter further, would face bis adversary as becomes a brave man, first warning bim; and in this event, we had no fear of Mar? shal Richards' ability to .defend him? self. The sequel, however, shows that Bogan Cash is not only a grace? less reprobate, a bully, a bulldozer of timid people, a villiau, a cruel, bru? tal wretch, bot that he is withal a con? summate coward. On Saturday last he went to Che? raw, submitted and paid Iiis fine-for? ty dollars. The Marshal, beingjust, as well as brave, was satisfied, declin? ed to prosecute Cash, and expressed himself as willing to let the matter drop And so it did drop. Cash re? mained in town several hours, attend? ing to certain business matters, and appeared unusually quiet and circum? spect. Ile passed the Marshal sever? al times dming the day, but made no hostile demonstration, arid this treach? ery led the Marshal to believe that he had nothing to apprehend/ About 4 o'clock in the afternoon he was standing ou a corner, leaning up against a tree, satining himself and conversing with a friend, and think j iug> perhaps, less of Bogan Cash than of anybody else iu the world. While he thus stood, with his back to the sidewalk, Cash walked up unheeded if not unobserved. When he had pass? ed some three or four steps1, he sud? denly wheeled and commenced dis I charging a No. 38 Smith & Wesson pistol The first shot missed the Mar? shal two feet, and struck Mr. James Coward, in ?ne side, penetrating his body to the other side, within a short distance of the surface, where it was cut out by the surgeon. . When the Marshal heard the ex? plosion of the pistol, he turned to see what was the mattter, and as he turn? ed Cash fired again. The second shot struck the Marshal in the breast, pierced one hing and lodged in the region of the spine, in about the posi? tion that cowardly Guiteau's ball found a lodgment in the body of Gar? field. A third t?me Cash fired, but missed again, the ball grazing the Marshal's clothing and burying itself in a tree. Then there appeared a scene well calculated to besmear the reputation for courage which the Cashes have acquired among timid people, and to establish the fact that the younger Cash, at least, is a craven-hearted, black-hearted, sneaking coward, even if his miserable shooting were not j sufficient to prove that he was scared j out of bis wits when he fired at the brave man whom he feared to face. At the third shot Cash ran with all his might for one block-ran as be? comes a coward, with his back to the foe., WJien he had run about a hun? dred yards, he turned and seeing that he was not pursued, bravely retreated backwards, brandishing his pistol and calling for his boy to bring his horse, which the boy failed to do. He re? treated backwards-very brave in? deed, as there was no one following him-to where the animal was stand? ing. He leaped upon his horse and galloped away* at full speed home? ward. When the up train reached Cash's Depot, Cash the younger was stand? ing on the platform, armed with a Winchester rifle and putting on a great many airs. The old man Cash was also with him, but quiet. Ile pretended to be defying everybody, but it should be remembered that the train had left Darlington before the shooting occured, and that the peo? ple at Dove's and Society Hill, if they had heard of the shooting, had no time to prepare themselves, aside from having no authority to arrest him, even if they had the inclination to do so. j When the train reached Cash's De? pot, nobody on board had heard of the shooting, and they did not hear of it until the train reached Cheraw. Cash had calculated on this. He knew that no attempt would be made to arrest him, and his valiant strutting up and down the depot was nothing more than the meaningless bravado of a coward. Cowards are always brave when th?y know there is no danger. Why is it he has not shown himself around the depot since the evening in question ? Why is he not so brave and defiant now as he was then ? Immediately after the shooting, and before Cash had got half way home, J. T. McNair, Esq., the mayor, vol? unteered to be one of a party who *JtKwldpa.^e47aahan^ Otb ere quickly volunteered, and the sassin might have been caught, when they asked Deputy Sheriff W to lead them, he not only refused, actually got down on his knees prayed them not to do anything rash. Without a leader and without tbority, the citizens cared not to but preferred waiting till the Sh should execute the law. It was < fidently believed that the Sin would do his duty, and it was t and again asserted, "When Spofi comes we'll have him," but w Spoffbrd came and went out to ar Cash, it would appear that, un Caesar, he simply went, was seen was conquered. Arriving at Cash's residence, companed by only one man-K Timmons, oue of Perkin's pals an henchman of Cash-he was cordh met at the door by the Colonel, v extended his hand, invited him in, ? expressed himself as overjoyed to Sheriff Spofford. Timmons remaii on his horse at the front gate, but Colonel waved him io dismount, in ting that he should enter and part; of his hospitality, lie did so, course, for how could a gentleman King Timmons's calibre be so rude; to refuse so agreeable an invit?t from so delightful an old gentlen as Colonel Cash ? On the inside the Sheriff and Ti mons fared well. The noble old f dal lord set out a decanter and w his own royal hands prepared a tod for his guests. After imbibing, smacki their lips and patting their stomac in ecstacy, they sat uown to disci the passing events of the period. 1 Colonel led the conversation and a masterly flank movement quid came to the topic nearest his heart the heroic action of his son in Ci raw the day before. He spoke length upon the subject, declari Jiimself well pleased with the dec but expressing sincere regret tl Bogan should have done 8"ch pc shooting. Said be : "I just ought to have been ther and, by the way, if Richards doi die, he had better die ; if he gets w I shall kill him myself." Colonel Cash then courteously i formed the Sheriff that he could n see Bogan, but intimated that Ti mons could see him if he so desired All that passed is not known, b it is known that the Sheriff return? to Cheraw without making the arrei and that he refuses to render ai sort of an explanation for his non-p< formance of duty. Thus the matter rests. Thus it wi rest ; for courage has fled to tl bushes and justice is a corpse Chesterfield County. We will not too readily consu Sheriff Spofford. Perhaps he mi know what he is doing, but we ve ture to say were Bogan Cash a po? man, he would now be in jail, wonderful immunity indeed do< wealth give, if its possessor may mn der poor men at will and then de; the law. We hear that Col. Cash is one ? Spoffbrd's bondsmen. We do ne know if this is true, but if it 1*3 trw it may explain the mystery of bra's Spofford's non-performance of duti for he is known to be a conrageoi mah, who has never before shrun from duty or quailed in the face ( danger. We go so far as to say, howevei that Cash will not be arrested. Aft* a while he will name the terms of hi surrender, will be allowed bail an will go unwhipped of justice. If h ever has a trial it will be but a shame less, brazenfaced mockery. He wi be acquitted with honor, and will b turned loose like a mad bull upo the community, to murder other hine cent, unoffending men unawares an to make widows aud orphans at hi brutal pleasure. We have always denounced th Northern outcry, 'Lawlessness in th South,' as a shame, an imposition, wrong ; but we are at last forced t admit that it is not altogether a bug bear in some parts of the South a least, and in Chesterfield County South Carolina, especially. In tba County a man who has lived in opei defiance of the law for years is allow ed to enter the principal town ii broad open daylight, walk up behine the Chief of Police and shoot him dowi like a dog, while a private citizei falls pierced through and through bj a random shot, lu his flight, h< passes three sworn policemen, wh< make no effort to arrest. When ? few brave, law-abiding citizens desire to pursue and capture the assassin the Deputy Sheriff refuses to leac them, falls upon his knees and be seeches them to do nothing so rash The Sheriff of the County, with i warrant in his pocket, goes to the: house where the fugitive is secreted but, instead of arresting the outlaw drinks with the outlaw's father, wb< cemimends the crime, and cominfi away, refuses to speak upon the sub ject. That is the state of affairs in Ches terfield County, and it is a blacken ing, damning shame upon the County whose proud boast is its chivalry. The truth of the matter is that honest, peace?able, law-observing men are in the minority in that County. There is a predenninating element, naturally lawless in spirit, whe?se de? sire is te> live unrestricted and to be governed only by the bent of its own inclinations. This element is proud of the Cashes, and prefers to be sub? ject to their imperial will rather than to recognize the majesty of the law and to see that the law is enforced Were this not true, the Cashes could not behave as they do, and the last outrage would not be permitted to pa68 without an effort being made to bring the guilty to justice. Two-thirds of thc people in Ches? terfield County are in sympathy with the Cashes. Every half hour, day and night,a runner posts from Cheraw to their rendezvous to inform thom of what is said and done. Every change in the condition of the wounded men is promptly reported, and they are in? formed from day to day of every shade of public sentiment better than any two men ia tbe County. Those who would execute justice j are silenced if not intimidated, and while it is intimated that there is a deep-rooted determination among the good people of that outraged commu? nity not to let the crime go unpunish? ed, yet we fear their numbers are too limited for them to do anything. THIRSTING FOR MORE GORE. Cash, we bear from good authority; swears to have the blood of the editor of the Intelligencer. He is welcome to it, but if he comes to Wadosboro after it, we shall always feel in future that our existence in this world has not been passed without the accom? plishment of some good. The Planets for March. URANUS is morning star until the 16th, when his name is registered on the roll of evening stars. He wins the place of honor for the month, on account of bis opposition with the sun, the greatest event in his course. This epoch occurs on the 16th at 2 o'clock in the morning. He then comes into line with the earth and the sun, thc earth being in the middle, is at his nearest approach to the earth, and, like the other planets under the same conditions, is opposite the sun, and in his most interesting aspect for observation. The five outer planets after this event are evening stars. They are all traveling from op? position to conjunction, baviug reached the goal in the following order : Nep? tune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Ura? nus. We shall have no more opposi? tions to chronicle until December, when Neptune again takes the lead. Uranus, near opposition, is visible to the naked eye, appearing as a star of tbe sixth magnitude, the smallest that the eye can perceive. The position of the planet must be carefully studied before any effort is made to find him. Uranus is in the constellation Virgo, between Beta and Eta, two third-mag? nitude stars of '.he constellation. In the first part of the month, he is in a good position for observation about 9 o'clock, being then half way between, thc horizon and the zenith, and must be looked for southeast of the -Sickle in Leo, and northwest of Spica, the lead? ing brilliant in Virgo. He is an inter? esting object in a telescope, where the tiny point visible to the unaided eye is transformed into a small sphere, of a delicate greenish hue, resembling that of sea foam. Uranus bas been a known member of the system only since 1781, a little more than a century, though no one knows bow many million years he has been describing his vast circuit around the sun. He was discovered by acci? dent, Herschel, the discoverer, think? ing he had picked np a comet instead of a world. Astronomers went diligently to work trying to compute the orbit of the supposed comet, but all in vain ; the figures were of no avail. Finally, the theory was started that the astronomi? cal prize picked up in the sky was an? other planet, revolving outside of the six planets that had been knowu from time immemorial. Computations now worked like a charm, and soon the new comer was mathematically imprisoned in an orbit whose deviations were to be the means of showing the presence of still another planet, traveling as far as can bc seen, on the system's remotest bounds. There was great rejoicing in the scien? tific world ever the advent of Uranus. Strangely enough, it was found that observers hud detected his presence and marked his position on star catalogues no less than nineteen times, supposing him to be a fixed star and without a suspicion that he was a plauet ! Flam steed had seen him five times, noting bim on his catalogue as a star of the sixth magnitude, the first observation being in 1690, nearly a century before t he discovery by Herschel. Lemon nier came nearer, for he had observed the planet twelve times, making several ob? servations within the space of a few weeks. If he had taken the trouble to reduce and compare his observations, he might have won the prize twelve years previous to Herschel. But he had no system in his arrangements, and bis papers are said to have been a very picture of chaos-an intricate observa? tion of this very star being recorded ,on a paper bag that had contained per? fumed hair powder ! The discovery of Uranus made Her? schel famous. For six years, he looked in vain for Uranian moons. His largest telescopes, wonderful eyesight, and long practice failed to detect a single moon. Astronomy preseuts no more poetic picture than that of this great scholar and his sister and untiring help? mate, Miss Caroline Herschel, as through the silent hours of starlit nights they studied the mysteries of the hea? vens. For thousands of nights they sat side by side, watched, calculated, and recorded, the one sweeping thc heavens with thc telescope, the other noting the results. This they did for nearly forty years, growing old and illustrious together, forgetting to sleep, almost to eat, in their enthusiasm for their favorite science lu 1787, Herschel's quest was re? warded. He discovered two moons, and afterward four more, as he suppos? ed, but they proved to be myths. Mr. Lasscll has since discovered two, and the Uranian planet rejoices in four sat? ?lites that travel backward or in au op? posite directiou from thc moons of the other planets except Neptune. Observers should try to find Uranus at opposition, for he is thc most distant planet visible to the naked eye. Ile is a beautiful object in the telescope, and makes observers wish that he were near? er iu order to be more intimately ac? quitted with him. It is easy to keep track of his oppositions, for they occur about four and a half days later each year. Thus thc opposition this year takes place on the Kith of March, next year it will bc thc 21st of March, and so on. Thc right ascension of Uranus on the 1st is ll h. 49 m. ; his declination is 2? 2' north ; and his diameter is o 8r/. Uranus rises on the 1st at 7 o'clock in the evening ; on the 31st, he sets at a quarter after 5 o'clock in the morn? ing. VENUS is evening star, and is during thc naoetii A radiaat repreaealativ? o? the solar fraternity. Everything fai her conditions tor observation. Sb< moving rapidly northward, approach her eastern elongation, remaining lo er every night above the horizon a the sun has set, speeding away fi the great luminary along the invisi wire on which she seems to be stn like a golden bead. On the 27th, at 9 o'clock in evening, moving eastward, she enco ters Neptune bound westward. 1 fairest of the stars and the most dist planet that circles aroand the sun h a conjunction, though not a near o for Neptune passes 3? 34' south. 1 nus seen through the telescope t presents the phase of the gibbous m< when passing from the full to the 1 quarter. There are three points to be noted regard to Venus during the mooth her rapid progress northward, her p gress eastward, and her long stay abc the horizon after sunset. These ? easily discernible to the nnscient observer, and are due to her appan progress in her orbit, as she trav from superior conjunction to eastt elongation. We can find no new woi lo describe the bewitching grace of I lovely evening star, as she sits ( throned almost compauionless amid t sunset glow or beams more brigh later iu the evening from the darli background of the sky amid the myri starry hosts. The right ascension of Venus on t 1st is 1 h. 12 m. ; her declination 7? 43' nortb ; and her diameter 14 6". Venus sets on the 1st at 9 o'clock the evening; on the 31st, she s< about 10 o'clock. JUPITER is evening star. He is now near half way to the zenith when it is da enough for him to become visible, i he majestically treads his starry p:it he rouses feelings of admiration ai awe something like those evoked by tl great sun himself. To be sure, he not a sun, but he is nearer like oi than any other planet, while the sta around him are such far away suns th 'the feeling of relationship is entire lost. Thc giant planet seems hard to have dwindled a second since oppoa tion, though figures say that he hi diminished in diameter^'?77, a quant ty hard to estimate by unpracticed ol servers. The winter starlit nights ai wondrously beautiful with Venus, Ji piter, Saturn, and Mars to grace tl show. The right ascension of Jupiter o the 1st is 7 h. 48 m. ; his decliuatic is 21? 447 north ; and his diameter 41 6". Jupiter sets on the 1st at half past o'clock in the morning ; ou the 31st, t sets at half past 2 o'clock. SATURN is evening star, ranking third in th order of brightness, being outshone b Venus and Jupiter. He holds tb even teuor of his way, with seemiugl small advance in his orbit, making hi transit at sunset, and shining in th west on the first of thc month till aboi midnight. ; The right ascension of Saturn on th 1st is 4 h. 8 m.; his declination is 19 17' north; and his diameter is 17*2/; Saturn sets on the 1st at half past 1 j o'clock in the morning ; on the 31st he sets a few minutes before ll o'cloe in the evening. MARS is evening star. He is stationary ii the middle of the month, and Jupite presents the same aspect later in th mouth. Mars is still a bright objt c among the stars, but observers will not that his luster dims much more quicklj than that of Jupiter and Saturn. Mar; is of little account except for a monti before and a month after opposition As this epoch comes round but once it two years and fifty days, the favorabh times for observiug his ruddy face an few and far between. The right ascension of Mars on the? ist is 8 h. 25 in. ; his declination is 23e 18' north ; and bis diameter is \Z *l,f Mars sets on thc 1st about a quartet after 5 o'clock in the morning ; on thc 31st, he sets about a quarter after I o'clock. NEPTUNE is evening star. He bas the honor ot faking part in the conjunction with Venus on the 27th, as already described. The right ascensiou of Neptune on the 1st is 3 h 30 m. ; his declination is 15? 42' north ; and his diameter is 2 6". Neptune sets on the 1st about hall past ll o'clock in the evening ; on the 31st, he sets at half past 9. MERCURY is morning star after the 16th, the sole planet enjoying this distinction. He retains the honor till the 30th, becom? ing then evening star, so that thc month ends with every one of our brother planets congregated on* the eastern side pf the sun ! On the 30th, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Mercury is in superior conjunction with the sun, which means that he apparently passes from his western to his eastern side iu his fleet footed course. Ile is of no account during thc month, for he is too near the sun to be seen. The right ascension of Mercury on the 1st is 21 h 30 m. ; his declination is 10? 11K south ; and his diameter is 56". Mercury rises on thc 1st about 6 J o'clock in tho morning ; on the 31st, he sets about half past G o'clock in the evening. TUB MOON. Thc March moon fulls on the 11th, at 40 minutes after 2 o'clock in the cooning, standard time On the 2d, two days before he first quarter, she makes a close conjunction with Neptune, being 27' south. On thc 3d, she is near Saturn, on the 7th near Jupiter, ou thc 8th near Mars, on the 12th near Uranus, and on the 26th, the day before her change near Mercury. The new moon of the *J7th commences the same routine, paying her respects to Neptune on the 29th, to Venus on the 30th, aud to Saturn on the 31st. She makes no close conjunction with any visible planet.-Scientific American. There are about 2,700 births and about 1,500 deaths per week i . London. But there arc more deaths than births J in New York every year. The Bad Boy. "Say, what have yon got in your mouth, a base ball?" asked the gro? ceryman, a9 he came in the store with both cheeks sticking out and looking red. "PU bet you have got your mouth full of benzine or something, and you are going to play some joke ou me by squirting it on the stove." "No, I ain't got nothing in my mouth," said the boy, in a voice that sounded as though he was trying to talk with a hot potato in his mouth. "This is my Sunday school lesson. ? was smote on one cheek and I turned the other, and nearly had my neck broke. Not any more turning the cheek for Hennery." "0, go 'wa}'," said the groceryman. "You wasn't such a blamed fool as to turn the other cheek, when you got hit, was you ?" And then examined the boys cheeks and finding them swelled up he added, "by jingo, I be? lieve you did. How was it any? way ?" "Well, it was in the Sunday school lesson/'* said the boy, "and my teach? er said it was the greatest triumph in the world for a person to turn the oth? er cheek when 6tnote on one cheek. I asked him if people ever did that, aud he said our best citizens did. He said it required a great deal of pa? tience, but a person should alwaj's turn the other cheek a'so. I asked pa about it, and pa said the teacher was right, and that it was the duty of every citizen to turn the other cheek when smote on one cheek, and he should always do so. Well, sir, I want to be good, and I just longed for somebody to smite rue on one cheek so I could turn the other also, but it seemed as though the smiters were not on the war path, and for two days I had to go around without be? ing smote. But Wednesday after? noon I was down by the theater, where they were having a matinee, and there was a lot of boys sliding on a smooth piece of ice in the gutter, and I rushed on to slide, and I run against a boy, and he hauled off and lammed me on this cheek. Oh, gosh, but I did see stars. Um ! But didn't he smite. ? was going to pick up a frozen Cat that was in the street and hit him, when 1 happened to think of turning the oilier cheek, and I turned my face towards him, and he gave me another, right here. 0! 0! But it was ten times bigger than the oth? er smote, and I guess it made mc cra? zy. Anyway, I shall plead insanity, to get out of it." "Get out of what ?" asked the gro? ceryman. "You don't have to get ont of anything. If he hit you a cou? ple of times, *and you stood it, you don't have to get out of anything." "Yes, but 1 didn't stand it," said the boy, as lie felt of his swelled cheek. 'When he hit me that last rap, it knocked all the meekness and pious out of me, and I went at him and vve had an awful fight. Ile wouldn't turn his other cheek, cause 1 guess he was a heathen, that never went to Sunday school, so I turned his other cheek for him, and I warm? ed him so he hollered enough. But 1 was sony afterwards, and felt as though I would bo ashamed to meet pa or my teacher. So I thought I would see how these good men would stand being smote, and I lound a fel? ler who wanted to earn two shillings, and I hired him to smote pa and the teacher, just to see how they would turn the other cheek. The teacher keeps books in a store, and goes to lunch in a restaurant, and when he came along the fellow I had hired went np to him and slapped bira on the cheek, not very hard, but just hard enough to make him feel as though he was hit. I looked for the teacher to turn the other cheek, but, gosh, he turned pale and run down the alley back of the store, and his coat-tails stuck out so you could play marbles on them. I yelled to him to turn the other cheek, but he run fas? ter, and the next morning the paper told about a dastardly attempt at high? way robbery and assassination on the street, in broad day-light, one of our most respected citizens being tho vic? tim, and only for his presence of mind the attempt would have been success? ful. Well, I thought I should die when I read that. Then I had my hired man try it on pa. I knew pa would turn his other cheek, because he said that was the right thing to do. But when the fellow hit pa, pa turned and lani med the fellow right in the ear, and then yelled for a policeman, but ruy hired man got out of the way. That night pa said he had a narrow escape from being sand-bagged, and I asked him if lie turned the other cheek also, and he said not if he know ed it. I don't think this is the right kind of a climate for turning the ottl? er cheek when you are smote, do you?" "Well," said the groceryman, as he looked at the hoy's swelled cheeks, "it is hard to make a rule that will ap? ply tu all kinds of cases. The idea is a good one, to turn the other cheek, but we are apt to forget, especially if on a casual inspection of the smiter we think we can whip him, or if he is so small that his smiting does not hurt. But when a man deliberately bells me in the jaw, and dislocates it, 1 immediately ihink that one jaw is enough to have fractured at once. 1 guess when that smiting business be? came the custom, and peuple turned the other cheek, they didn't strike from the shoulder the way they do now a days. 1 think the best way is to put up your anus and ward oft* thc blow, and try to reason with the smi? ter, and if he insists on smiting, sort of accidentally cuff him on thc nose. That brings a smiter to his senses about as quick as anything. And so your pa didn't practice what he preached, eh ?" "Not much. He got hot in a min? ute, and acted like a prize fighter. I asked him more about it this morning, and Ire said it was r.ll right enough for boys to turn the other cheek, where they had piont}', but when a man got his growth, it was danger? ous for anybody to try to smote him. Queer, ain't it?" and the boy went out as though he was trying to think of something real hard.-Peck's ?Sun. What Our Editors Say. Congressional Nominations. Aiken Journal and Review. A number of our State exchanges are agitating the question of making nominations for Cougrcss by the Pri? mary System. In our judgment the Convention Plan is the best for nomi? nating Congressmen. By the Primary System in local county elections a can? didate eau meet the people of his coun? ty and place his claims before them, but if a Congressional candidate had to canvas* four or five counties he would find it au impossibility, and the evils arising from trusting the local politicians in each county with the support and engineering of his claim would more than counterbalance the evils of the Convention plan. Let the delegations* from each county to the Congressional Convention be doubled or trebled, but let us have Conventions. The Greenville Neues in a recent issue credits us with an article taking the opposite position as advocated above. To our neighbor, the Recorder, be? longs the credit. The State Election. Palmetto Yeoman. It is true that important event is a good ways off, but it is coming, and lhere is no barm in anticipating a little in the way of a sly peep into the future, as much to test the keenness of our vision as to ascertain what lies beyond. We have had such a long and refresh? ing political vacation that we have become a little rusty in the art of engineering a campaign and running the electioneer? ing machine. It is thought by some that victory is so assured that we might venture to dispense with the usual biennial State canvass, as there is no organized oppo? sition in the field. The suggestion is grave and plausible enough to commend itself to the consideration of the leaders and those who may have the matter in hand. It requires a good deal of time, trouble and expense, and if it is found not to be essential to success we can see no good reason for coutinuing it. It is true, the people want to see and hear those for whom they will be called upon to cast their votes, but a nomination is tantamount to an election, and they would be bound to sustain the nominee as the choice of the people at all events, and seeing and hearing the candidates will hatfe no influence either in forward? ing or retarding our interests. Fairfield Neics and Herald. i Henry Ward Beecher speaks openly and boldly his views of the pro? posed prohibitory legislation relative to the sale of liquor. In the course of a recent address upon the subject, in New York city, he said : 'It was not possible for '.the temperance reformers to accomplish the whole of their work at once, but by a better and more ex? tensive system of co-operation, they could accomplish a great deal. There .weresome persons who said, 'Well, let us have prohibition and have done with it-' Such reform was too fast for the conditions that prevailed iu great communities.' On principle, Mr. Beecher had no objection to prohibi? tion, but he did not want to see a law passed that could not be executed. Step by step only could the temperance reform be brought about. A high license law could be executed in this State, but a prohibitory law could not be enforced. Mr. Beecher closed his brief address by a touching allusion to his declining years, and said that he might Bot live to see the wisbed-for temperance reform completely realized, but he felt certain that there were those among his hearers who would see suc? cess crown the efforts of the anti-liquor crusaders. Carolina Spartan. As thc time for preparation of corn land is here, it may be well to issue early in season our usual waroing as to thick planting. Even if the land is strong enough to make good corn, when planted thick, a few days dry weather may ruin the crop. Deep preparation and" thin planting will secure a crop almost any season. Ou the com? mon uplauds of our county each stalk should have about 25 square feet to grow in. Less space thau this will not stand a three weeks' drought in July. This distance will give rows five feet by five, will allow 1764 hills to the acre, and this is enough for any ordinary land. If the rows are six by four which is a good distance, there will be 1810 hills to the acre. Thc best farmers in the county believe in giving plenty of distauce. Try your rows six by four oue year, scattering a little manure in the drill, or hill, and if you are not pleased with the results, you may have your owu way next year. Spartanhurg Herald. [From Kditor Kumar's Salutatory.] Thc chief concern of a local newspa? per, however, is not with politics but with local interests of the town and county where it is published, whether those interests bc educational, moral, agricultural, industrial, or political. These it. should cudeavor to foster aud protect. Everybody justly expects that a paper like this shall recognize the sanctity of religion, but no one would contend that, because thc claims of re? ligion arc paramount to all others, its columns should bc filled almost exclu? sively with religious matter. For the same reason, it should not occupy itself too exclusively with politics, or any other single subject. Unfortunately journalism, in this State has had to occupy too much of its energies in keep? ing back and expelling the horde of political hycuas, who sought to devour thc little that thc ravages of war had left. Hut that danger no longer men? aces us. So then, the first duty of a local paper-aside from its charac? ter as thc vehicle of local uews-should be to encourage enterprise and progress. Thc conversation was about Bishops, and one fervent dame said: 'How good tho dear Bishop of Peterborough is! What a good man V Instantly a gentle? man replied : 'There is no merit in that. Bishops ought to be so. They get five thousand a year for being good, while wc arc expected to be good for nothing -and most of us are.' A Baffled Inquirer. A Little Story, But a True One, of a Country Village. There nestles among the hills in that delightfully uncertain portionof our glorious commonwealth known as "down East," a small, but ambitious little city, which we will call, for pur? poses- of convenience and dissimula? tion, Southtown. There is no 1 ail road to Southtown, and the stage routes are of tedious length. Consequently few travellers visit the city, save those who have business of some importance. One evening, however, there climb? ed out of the daily stage at the door of the principal hotel a neatly attired person, who carried a small hand-bag. Ile entered the office, wrote a very common-place name in the register, and desired to be shown to his room. Who was he ? That was what every loafer in the office asked, and before the new-com? er had sat down in the quiet of his room above, twenty-five persons in the room below knew his name-if it was his name. What was his business ? The stranger had not registered that ; Southtown must wait and see. J But, strangely enough, he did not seem to have any business. Ile came down to tea, and then went back to his room. Ile walked down to the post-office next morning, smoking a very fragrant cigar, obtained two or three letters, and then came back to his room. After dinner he sat down iu the office for a short time, and some of the bolder spirits engaged him in conversation. Ile seemed social enough, but somehow his talk was all general ; he would say nothing per? sonal. Thus matters went on for several days, and all the city became curious. Vague rumors were afloat that his name, foi the best of reasons, was an alias, and it began to be considered a patriotic duty to catechise him. Several essayed to do it, and al? though the stranger answered every direct inquiry with courtesy, yet there was such an evident coolness on his part when the topics began to concern himself that no one dared to ask the question nearest the beating heart of the eily. At length the Mayor, a man of great suavity and boldness, engaged to brave the Douglas in his hall, and ask him a few question in smooth but pointed Anglo-Saxon. Ile had not yet met the mysterious stranger, and so he dropped in acci? dentally, and was introduced. He opened fire at once : "Ever in Southtosvn before ?" "No." "Going farther, I presnnie?" But whether he presumed correctly or not the stranger appal ently did not feel bound to say, so he was si? lent. "How much longer shall we have you with us ?" queried the Mayor, leaving presumptions and returning to interrogations. "About two weeks." The crowd leaned forward as one man. "Ah, indeed ! are you travelling for pleasure ?" "No." Pardon me, but may I ask, not from idle curiosity, but for ceitain reasons, what business you represent ?" A visible thrill ran through the small assembly. That was a point? blank shot. Would he dodge ? "You are the mayor, I believe ?" said the stranger. "Yes.'! "Then I don't mind tellingyou ; iu fact, I suppose you ought to know." "Yes." "Well, I stole a saw-mill"(sensa? tion), "and got away with itali right ; but. like a fool, I went back after the dam, and they caught me. I was tried and found guilty, and the judge gave me my choice ; six mouths in jail or three weeks in Southtown ; and, like another condemned idiot, I took Southtown." A solemn hush followed this frank disclosure, and the stranger, lighted one of his odoriferous cigars, strolled away to the post-office, and was soon afterward seen intently reading au of? ficial-looking document that he re? ceived through the mail. As he left town the next morning, it was sup? posed that his sentence had been un? expectedly remitted and that the offi? cial document was a pardon.-Har? per's Drawer. Wanted a Whipping. I know a pair of boys beside whom even Helen's Babies must have dwin? dled and grown taine. Naughty, wilful, mischievous, loving iittle scamps. They were at times as soundly thrashed as a rather soft? hearted father would permit. For a time they would mind ; but they "wotild't stay minded," to use a childish expression. Nothing seem? ed so forcible a method of punishment as taking &\xwy their spending-money -a few pennies each day. For some particular grievous offense this was resorted to two or three days before the Fourth < f July, and great was their grief and indigna? tion. Very early the next morning the father, who had visited this upon then), was awakened by hearing them at the chamber door crying. "Bovs?" "Oh, papa!" "Boys-go back to your room !" "Oh. papa-dear papa-won't you please give us our pennies and go back to the whippings ?" There is one Virginia darkey who docs not relish John Wise's "kitchen" tulk. His name is Armistead Green, and in the House of IMegates he said : "I am here ti? say that as far as I am concerned I never had any transactions with the gentleman in my life. I say to Mr. Wise, as I do to the white popu j lation of this country, that he never ! wants to usc colored people for nothiog i but their votes. I never expect to visit j him in his parlor, or in his kitchen, or ! in his stable."