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Tn order to meet a natural inquiry in re? gard to oar professional and personal stand? ing, and to give increased confidence in our Statements and in tbe genuiness of our testi? monials and reports of cases, we print the above card from gentlemen well and widely known and of the highest personal character. Our "Treatiseon Compound Oxygen," con? taining a history, of the discovery of and node of action of this remarkable curative ?gent, and a large record of surprising cures in Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi? tis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of Chron? ic diseases,, will be sent free. Address Drs. STARKEY & PALEN. 1109 k-IUI Girard Street, Philadelpnia., Pa. A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE AWELL SITUATED FARM of one hun? dred and ten acres, about sixty cleared, situated one mile from Sumter C. H., S. C. A beautiful grove of live oaks around the dwelling, with well and fine spring of water. Terms accommodating. Applv to -.j Joly 25. A. WHITE. Agent. FOR SALE. THAT DESIRABLE SIX-ROOM HOUSE, with all the necessary out-buildings, situated on Church Street, opposite the resi? dence of Col. J. H. Earle, where I now reside. Fine shade trees, fruit trees, and as good water as can be found. AU large rooms; house newlv painted, and lot contains about three acres oi%in<l. Centrally located to Schools, Churches and business. Terms reasonable. A rare chance for pur? chasers. Possession given at any time. D. J. WINN. Jnly 29. FOR SALE. ONE TWETY-HORSE POWER ENGINE and Saw Mill complete, also two Fifty Saw Gins and Power Press. Will make Jib eta! terms to good parlies. For information call on or address J. RYTTENBERG & SONS, Joly 25_Sumter, S. C. FOR SALK 4 39 SAW COTTON GIN, manufactured J\ by R. i. McCreight & Son, of Cam dee, S. C. Witt sell cheap for cash. Apply ?O ' E. W.JUBBS, AB* 5 ^>,^gent. TINY TALK. The marmor of a waterfall A mile away, The rustle when a robin lights Upon a spray ; The lapping of a lowland stream On dipping boughs, The sound of grazing from a herd Of gentle cows. The echo from a wooded hill Of cuckoo's call, The quiver through the meadow graas At evening fall ; Too subtle are these harmonies For pen and rule ; Such music is not understood By any school. But when the brain is overwrought It hath a spell, Beyond all skill and human power To make it well. The memory of a kindly word For long gone by, The fragrance of a fading flower Sent lovingly ; The gleaming of a sudden smile Or sadden tear, The warmer pressure of the hand, The tone of cheer , The hush that means I cannot speak, But I have beard ! The note that only hears a verse From God's own Word ; Such tiny things we hardly count As ministry, The givers deeming they have shown Scant sympathy ; But when the heart is overwrought, Ob, who can tell The power of such tiny things To make it well ! BILL ARP. The Country Boy-What Work will do for a Man. It is most astonishing bow oar folks are getting along. Here is this big frolic at Rome-this military faodaugo that makes a man feel like everbody down sooth was rich and brave, and just as leave have another fight as not. Oar people are getting on a swell. They are feeling their oats aud getting braggish. If they cant ride much they can ont walk all creation, and are betting on that. It looks like tbe old Roman spirit of sports and games is coming over our people, and I reckon it is a sign that our boys are prospering. Ou ly a few days ago wc went about like a dog who dident bave spirit enongb to wag bis tail. The whole country was desolate aud the people all hacked. There were no cows or bogs or sheep or roosters to crow, no fences, no wagons, no cotton presses, no traveling threshers, no balls or parties or picnics, no excursions, no Christmas or Fourth of July, no time of day, no nothing hardly. These very chaps who are parading arouud in uni? form so big were, most of them, little boys wbeu the war broke out, and they never knew anything but trouble aud hardship in their youth. They had to eat roots and drink branch water and go bare-headed and bare-footed, and wear ' one-gallus breeches aud sleep three or four in a bed, and go hungry half the time. They oe vcr saw a cir? cus for teu years, nor rode on thc cars, aud all the schooling they got was it? the cornfield. But them sort have come to the frout-they have-and lots of them have got rich. I was sitting down talking to Rhode Hill about it thc other day, and Rhode said that mighty uigh every rich mau in Atlauta was raised a poor boy. 'There goes one now.' said he, 'who is worth a bun dred thousaud and lives ou Peachtree. He used to plo?? barefooted over tread safts and dewberry vines. He never wore a shoe uutil he was twelve years old. He bas-nt got nary nail on hit big t.oes. Stumped 'cm off, I teil you. Dont you see "now sorter clumsy he walks. And there goes another oue worth a hundred and fifty thousand, and he come from this same barefooted stock. I tell you what's a fact, Bill, mighty nigh all these Peachtree nabobs are the same sort of folks. They bavent got auy big toe nails. When one of these poor groundhog- boys stumps his bigtoe, and before they get well stumps 'em again, and keeps on St?mpen and stumpeu until the nails slough out by the roots, he looses thc spring of bis walk and goes stiff-like over these pavements and I can tell oue of 'em as far as I can sec him. There goes another one who has made his jack. They are all goiug up to dinner now. That man carries one shoulder lower than the other, and that come from carrying bark to cook with before he was big enough to stand it. He begun to carry back aud old rails when he was about five years old, and it pull? ed one side of him down a little. He hasentgot any bigtoe nails cither, and I'm inclined to think they are gone on tbe next toes too. Some of them fel? lers have the second toe longer than tbe bigtoe, and thc second and third toes tied together about half way up. When you come across one of them sort do you look out for yourself, for if yon trade with bim he will get you shore.' I've been thinking about that. Dr Darwin says that man before be devel? oped and evoluted dident have any fin? gers or toes. His band was like a mit? ten with a thumb and a graball and his foot had one bigtoe aud the others were all glued together. So I reckon that some of us are evolutin yet, ?nd some of my own ancestors away back must have begun late or travelled slow, for there is a pair of my toes that bavent got entirely divorced. I've heard it said that if a woman's second toe is longer than the first she will rule her husband shore. I asked Rhode about his own youth when he used to rough it up in Chattanooga, and he said that was what was the matter aud why he talked that way about other people, for he kucw all about it from experi? ence, and waseut ashamed of it cither. Rhode wasent raised in a band box. He never knew knee breeches and long stockings. I dont think ?ie wore any sort for a good while after be came in? to this subloonary world. The first time I ever saw Rhode he was clerking down on thc river bank at Rome, and it was a dull time and Rhode got up a bet of half a dollar that he could hide a hen's egg on Shorter's Jake where nobody could find it, and he agreed to give Jake a dime of the money if he woo it. And so he put thc egg on thc back of bis neck just under his collar, and the boys hunted all over Jake and then give him a slap that broke the egg, and that was the joke of it. Jake got the dime and thc boys laughed aud took OD amazin, and I did too. Rhode lives on Peachtree no tAnnd wears slip pers io his store aud is happy, and grows old about as gracefully as any? body, toenails or no toe tai ls. But I'm getting sorter tired of these shows-this walking and cavort? ing, and all these military doings in time of peace. The boys may frolic as much as they please, and I like to see 'em have a good time occasionally, but you sec they raise such a rumpus about it in the newspapers that my folks get excited and want to go, and so I have to surrender and then comes the tug of war. Why for three or four days they were sewing and fixing and fitting gar? ments, and didcot have time to talk to any? body or walk with me to the fields or the blackberry patch, ordoauy writing for ! me, and they quit cookingdiuners aud put me off with cold vittels and lunch, while the garden was all in a strut with the finest vegetables we ever had. And i the sewing machine was rattling away j until late in the night and I conldent sleep, and it did look like the whole thing would be a failure at Rome if my folks didcut get ready in time. But they got ready and departed these coasts with bright hopes and our good wishes, and now I wander around feel? ing gloomy and peculiar, and count the days that shall bring them home again. There are many things that I used to enjoy that seem tame and fool? ish to me uow, aud so I do not forget my youthful joys and loves, and when my children want a frolic I surrender as gracefully as I can. BILL ARP. The Elections of 1884. All the States will elect Presidential elector son Tuesday, November 4. The electors then chosen will meet at their respective State capitols on Wednesday, December 3, and cast their ballots for President and Vice President of the United States. Alabama elected State officers and Legislature, August 4 ; Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Arkansas will elect State officers and Legielatuae on Monday, September 1, and vote upon an ameudment prohibi? ting the levying of auy tax or making of any appropriation to pay certain rail? road and levee bonds of the State ; will elect Congressmen on Tuesday Novem? ber 4. California will elect part of its Legis? lature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4, and vote upon a proposed constitutional amendment providing for a State board of education. - Colorado will elect State officers, Legislature and Congressmen ou Tues? day, November 4. Connecticut will vote upon an amend? ment providing for biennial elections on Monday, October 5, and elect State officers, Legislature aud Congressmen ou Tuesday, November 3. Delaware will elect Legislature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Florida will elect Governor. Licutcn ant-Goveruor, Legislature and Con? gressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Georgia will elect Governor and Leg? islature on Wednesday, October 1 ; Congressmen ou Tuesday, November 4. Illinois will elect State officers, Leg? islature and Congressmen on Tuesday November 4. Indiana will elect State officers, Leg? islature and Congressmen ou Tuesday, November 4. iowa will elect minor State officers and Congressmen on Tuesday, Novem? ber 4. Kansas will elect State officers, Leg? islature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Kentucky will elect Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Louisiana elected Democratic State officers and Legislature ou Tuesday, April 22, and voted on several amend? ments, some for and some against, including, arnon?the latter one provi? ding for an increase iu thc rate of in? terest upon the public debi ; will elect Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Maine will elect Governor, Legislature and Congressmen, and vote upon a pr?*-^ posed prohibitory amendmcut to its Constitution on Monday, September 8. Maryland will elect Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Massachusetts will elect State officers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tues? day, November 4. , Michigan will elect State officers, Legislature and Cougrcsso;en on Tues? day, November 4. Minnesota will elect Legislature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Mississippi will elect Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Missouri will elect State officers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tues? day, November 4. Nebraska will elect State officers, Legislature aud Congressmen on Tues? day, November 4. Nevada will elect Supreme Judge, Legislature and Congressmen on Tues? day November 4. New Hampshire will elect Governor, railroad commissioners, Legislature and Congressmen, and vote upon the ques? tion of holding a Constitutional Con? ven tiou on Tuesday, November 4. New Jcrscay will elect Legislature aud Co:gressmcu on Tuesday, Novem? ber 4. Now York will chet two Judges of thc' Court of Appeals, Assemblymen au?! Congressmen on Tuesday, Novem? ber 4, and vote upon a proposed amend? ment to thc Constitution of the State prohibiting thc loan ur use of public money for private purposes and restrict? ing the indebtedness of counties, cities, towus and villages for any purpose whatever to 10 per cent, of their valua? tion. North Carolina will elect State offi? cers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Ohio will elect Minor State officers and Congressmen ou Tuesday, October 14. Oregon elected a Republican Con? gressmen and Legislature aud Demo? cratic Supreme Judge and defeated a woman's suffrage amendment to thc State Constitution on Monday, June 2. Pennsylvania will elect Legislature and Congressmen ou Tuesday, Novem? ber 4. Rhode Island elected Republican State officers and Legislature on Wed? nesday, April 2 ; will elect Congress? men on Tuesday, November 4. South Carolina will elect State offi? cers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Tennessee will elect Governor, Rail? road Commissioners, Legislature, and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4. Texas will elect State officers. Legis? lature and Congressmen on Tuesday, November 4 Vermont will elect State officers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tues? day, September 2. Virginia will elect Congressmen oo Tuesday, November 4. West Virginia will elect State officers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tues day, October 14, and vote upon a pro? posed amendmeut to change the time of the general elections to November. Wisconsin will elect State officers, Legislature and Congressmen on Tues? day November 4. REGULATIONsV??, PRIMARY ELECTIONS FOR SUMTER COUNTY. I. -On the 6th day of September 3SS4, there shall be held iu each Club, at 6uch place as the Club may appoint a Primary Election for the nomination of persons for tbe several offices to be filled. II. -That it shall be the duty of the County Chairman to uotify each and every Club of the time and place of holding said Elections. III. -The polls f'?r the said Election shall open at 10 o'clock A. M. precise? ly and close at 6 o'clock P. M. IV. -At each Club poll there shall be three Managers of Election appointed iu such manucras thc Club shall direct. V. -Before entering upon their du? ties, the Poll Managers shall severally subscribe to thc following pledge: "I solemnly pledge myself on honor that I will faithfully perform all the duties in? cident to my position as Manager cf Primary election." VI. -The County Executive Com? mittee shall furnish each Club with a suitable ballot-box with a lock, for the safe keeping of which the President of the Club shall be responsible. VII. -Within ten days before the day fixed for the primary election, the Secretary of each Local Club shall be? gin the preparation of a list of all the enrolled members of the Club, and three days before such primary elec? tion, he shall complete and close such list and deliver the same before the election to oue of the committee herein? after provided to inspect said list. That said list shall be so revised and correct? ed as to contain only the names of such male persons of the age of 21 years and upwards as voted the Democratic ticket in the last general election or as have actively affiliated with the Democratic Party in the last campaign ; provided that said rolls may also con? tain the names of such democrats as may have removed into the County or arrived at the age of 21 since the last general election, or who may ar? rive at such age before the next elec? tion. Each Local Club shall elect from among its members a committee of o to be known as the Committee on Registra? tion, whose duties it shall be to revise the list as made out by the Secretary of the Club as soon as it is completed, and such list revised as aforesaid shall bc thc only one used by the Managers of Election. VIII. -On the opening of thc polls, thc ballot box shall be emptied of all contents, and exhibited, thus emptied, to those persons in attendance upon the polls. The boxes shall theu be closed and locked, and shall so remain uutil the polls are closed. IX -The mangers shall keep a poll list and a tally list, and for this pur? pose may choose a clerk from amoug their number. X. -Thc ballots used shall be either printed or written or partly printed and partly written and shall contain thc names bf the persons voted for, and thc different offices. And no vote shall be received by the managers of such pri? mary Elections unless deposited by the ?Arty entitled to cast such vote. XI. -Before being permitted to cast vote, each person shall take in good faith the following pledge : 'I solemnly af firm that I am au enrolled member of this Club and legally qualified voter of -Township in Sumter Couuty, or will be so by the next election ; that I believe in the principles and purposes of the Democratic narty,|and will do all in my power to promote its success, and that I have not voted before at this election.' A refusal to take this pledge, or any part of the same, shall be a good ground of challenge and rejection, j XII. -When for any cause, a voter shall be challenged, the Managers may accept or reject the vote thus offered, j In either case it shall bc the duty of the Managers to have entered on their poll list a statcmeut of thc circum? stances and their action therein, and also thc names of thc candidates voted for, or offered to bc voted for, by the party challenged. Thc matter shall then be decided by the County Execu? tive Committee, whose decision shall bc final. XIII. -On thc close of thc polls thc Managers shall proceed immediately and coutiuuously to count the votes, in the same manner, aud under thc same regulations as arc prescribed by law for general elections. XIV. -When thc votes shall have I beeu counted, the Mangers shall make out, iu duplicate, returns, showing the number of votes cast for each person voted for, thc office for which he is voted for, and the total number of votes cast. One of these returns shall be deposited in the ballot box, ami the other shall bc delivered to thc Secretary of the Club, tob?! by him filed with tho records of thc Club. The returns .shall be signed by a majority of the Mana? gers, who shall likewise certify to the correctness of the same. XV. -The ballot box, containing thc ballots, the poll list, roll of the club and thc certified return of tho managers-together with any other papers they may deem proper to include -fdiall be forthwith forwarded, secure? ly locked, to the Secretary of the Coun? ty Executive Committee. For the purpose of this forwarding the Presi? dent shall select and appoint some dis? creet and otherwise suitable person to act as messenger. XVI.-Un the Tuesday next follow? ing the day on which thc primary elcctiou is Lei J, thc County Executive Committee shall meet at Sumter, at 12 o'clock ?VI. The Secretary shall produce thc certified returns from the different Clubs, and shall open and publish the same in the presence of the Committee. The Committee shall then cause to be aggregated the total vote of all the COO Clubs and the vote for each caudidate. They shall, determine all appeals, and shall add or deduct all the votes allowed or disallowed, as the case may be. The final result shall then be summed up and declared. XVII. -Those persons receiving the highest number of votes cast for the ufiices for which they may be candidates shall be declared to be thc nominees of the Democratic party for such office. This declaration shall be communicated to the President of each Township Club, and shall bc likewise published in some newspaper issued at tue County seat. XVIII. -The ballots for use in the Primary may be of any size or form, and shall contain the name of four persons for Representative, three for County Commissioner, ODC fur Clerk of Court, oue for Sheriff, one for School Commis? sioner, one for Judge of Probate aud one for Coroner, and in case a ballot should contain more names than above mentioned, those first appearing on the ballot shall be counted. The above is a true copy of thc Huies adopted at a meeting of the Executive Committee, held Aug. 4th, 1834. W. H. CUTTING, Chairman. W. F. KIIAME, Secretary. ----<mnmw&- ~gJL? The "World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans. Information and Rides for Machinery Exhibitors. Machinery will bc admitted from the 16th day of August, 1S84. uutil the 15th day of November, 1884, both days inclusive. All machinery exhibits must bc set up and ready by the 20th day of No? vember, 1884. All exhibits in the Machinery Department, must be entered at the office of the Chief of Installation, and before unpackiug or arranging the arti? cles, thc entry must be endorsed on thc permit for space. Steam, water and motive power, to a reasonable amount, will be supplied gratuitously, the steam at a pressure of 70 lbs. per square inch a])ovc thc at? mosphere, the water at a pressure due to a head of 55 feet. The main lines of pipes for steam, water, gas, and sewage, will be laid by the Exposition, but exhibitors must supply all connecting pipes. Joiuts will not be permitted on steam or water pipes over the aisles or passage ways. Foundations will be built by and at the expense of exhibitors. Exhibitors desiring foundations built, will be granted facilities, on application to the Director General. The Chief Engineer will have the immediate care and supervision of thc main shafts, but all gear supplied by exhibitors will bc under their care. They will also select the persons to atteud to their machinery who alene will bc allowed to operate it. A machine, smith, plumber, and carpenter shop, for doing light work, will be located on the grounds, near the machinery section, for thc conven? ience of exhibitors. A fixed tariff of prices for work will bc issued. Manu? facturers who may desire to exhibit machines or tools in this shop, must make application to the Chief of Instal? lation, on thc regular form of applica? tion for space. No exhibitor will bc permitted to erect or arrange his exhibits, in a way to obstruct thc light or occasion incon? venience or injury to, or disadvantage ously cifcet thc display of other exhibi? tors. Signs will not be allowed fo project I beyoud the floor area of thc space allot? ted. Signs made of p-ipcr, of muslin, of canvas, or of other light and combus? tible substances, will not bc permitted. The size of all feigns, character and position of the same, is subject to thc approval of thc Director General. Thc aigles and passage ways arc absolutely reserved for public conven? ience, under the control of the Director General, and no decorations, trophies, fountains, or any exhibits of any char? acter whatsoever, will be allowed to project into, or be placed therein, with a special permit from him for statuary or fountains, if of sufficient beauty and value to be desirable. Special constructions of any kind, whether in the buildings or grounds, can only be made upon thc written authority of the Director General. No partitions of a greater height than two feet ten inches from the floor will be allowed, except on thc side spaces next thc walls of the buildings, where the partitions may extend to thc gallery floor. Partitions in the galleries may extend to the roof girders Counters and railings shall be of uni? form height of two feet ten inches from the floor, on the side next the passage ways or aisles. Al! platforms must be constructed .-it a uniform height of ten indies above the floor. A railway track connected with all thc Trunk Lines of railway, passes through the centre of the Machinery Department. Tho general regulations promulgated Aug. 15th, l^S'}, are hereby made patt of these rules. SAM*L MULLEN, Chief of Installation. On last Thursday, while the freight train on the Georgetowu Railroad was standing on the side track at Bryan's waiting fer the passenger from Lane's a yung colored boy crept under the locomotive and went to sleep with Iiis head and arm lying on the rail. When tlie engine bogan to move back thc truck wheels .-truck the boy's forearm and tore thc Iles!) open from thc wrist to the elbow. He may recover. Ed. E. Homar, Ksq. has severed his connection with the' Sparta'nburg //<tr? ahi as editor. His farewell is brief, and he regrets very much that it is not iu his power to continue in tho posi? tion What Our Editors Say. A Very Repulsive Subject. Nsw York Sun. This correspondent being inclined to start on a good road we will do all we can for him io the way of advice, though we shrink with loathing from the subject he introduces: 'I am an inveterate tobacco chewer, and wish to quit the use cf it. I can quit using it, but I can't stop craving it. Will you please inform rae if there is anything a man can use to prevent his craving the weed after stopping the use of it ?' Tobacco chewing is so odious a vice 1 that our correspondent should at once carry out his purpose to discontinue it. Habits which make men offensive to other people are utterly indefensible, and the one of which he is the victim is assuredly such a habit. It is not mere? ly because the chewer harms himself but because he makes his presence dis? agreeable to those who come near, him, that he ought to give up his vile in? dulgence. Smoking may be defended on the ground that it promotes sociability among men. When tho cigars are handed arouud, the company is pretty sure to be more agreeable. There is , an increase of case and good fellowship, and the fumes of tobacco arc not com? monly offensive to people, even to those who do uct themselves smoke. Women, for instance, are not apt to object to a cigar, and even a pipe, when the tobacco is good, is not intole? rable to them. Rut who wants to be near a tobacco chewer? What more repulsive sight than that of a company of tobacco chewers? They ought to avoid thc eyes of their fellow-beings and go off by themselves to pursue their odious employment. Yet they persist in forc? ing themselves into decent society, and eveu make love and marry. A cigarette smoker may be a nui? sance, and if the habit is iueveterate with him he is a very offensive being, especially if he smokes the ill-smelling cigarettes now in vogue among young men. The odor of the paper and bad tobacco combined outrages the sense, and it penetrates the whole house,, and stays there. But, bad as the smok? ing of cigarettes is, it is delightful compared to the chewing of tobacco, the mere reference to which is repul? sive. We know nothing to preveut thc craving of which our correspondent speaks. That is inevitable, and can only be overcome by patience and per? sistence, we suppose Perhaps it might be moderated by occasional smoking, and probably he would find a time of rest from his regular work a good one to employ in breaking np his wretched habit. But, no matter what pains it costs him, wc advise bim to give up tobacco chewing. Un-expected and Un-called for. Aiken Recorder. We understand that the Hon. G. D. Tillman, ofter his nomination at Barnwell on Tuesday lost made one of the most violent auti-prohibition speeches which bas been heard in a long time. Among other characteris? tically uncouth things which he said, wc learn that he stigmatized Prohibi? tion as a movement 'lead by long? haired men and short-haired women. We think that if thc honorable gentle? man felt disposed to go so far out of his way as to introduce thc temperance issue before a Democratic conven? tion after it had performed its work and he was safely nominated by a majority of one vote, he might have spared the noble women who are la? boring in this righteous cause, even though he was ever so severe upon its male advocates. We rather expect, however, that the blessed women of our country who are pressing this cause with such glorious enthusiasm, will prove that they are better able to take care of themselves than the hon? orable Mr. Tillman will be of himself in two years from this date. A majority of one is rather a tight squeeze, but we have heard from a re? liable source that if he had only made his anti-prohibition speech beforcnomiuation instead of after, even that result would not have been attained. Since the hurrahs, attendant upon every nomi? nation, have subsided wc understand that many have expressed themselves as utterly disgusted with thc tone and substance of Mr. Tillman's speech. The honorable gentleman was expected to discuss recognized political issues, but instead he saw proper to arraign, thc advocates of temperance in a man? ner as unexpected as it was uncalled for. He abused his opportunity and has said many things which prudence, if not fair play, should have suggested that he had better have left unsaid. It is thus that the Temperance issue is being forced iuto polities, not by its advocates but by its opponents. The Temperance people have been implored from time to time not to introduce their great cause as a political issue, and yet wherever they have consented they have been insulted and then stabbed in the back. This is the last campaign where they will ever submit to such treatment, and all interested can make a note right herc. Old Ben's Purpose. l?ijmwglon Star. The New York Times thinks thc sole object of old Ben. Butler is to play into the hands of Blaine and defeat (/loveland. Of course he can have no other object. Thc old rascal acted with the Republicans for ten or twelve years, doing all he could to outrage the South. After he had got all he could hope for from that party bc pretended to become a Democrat again, a party he had desert? ed, and to be thc special champion of poor men. An arrant old fraud ! His effrontery aud impudcuce aro something marvellousiu this very 'cheeky'age. No mau of a spark of honor would act as he does. No man of any decency cr in? tegrity would go as a delegate to a Convention and after pledging himself to abide by ibo decision to then bolt and set up as a candidato himself. Ile xs a very poor Mick <>f a fellow who will uv.t iu that way. The Tmus Lays ; of him : ! 'Ho went to the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate at large after the Greenback and Anti Monopoly parties had offered him their nomination. That was a position which no man of the least principle j could have taken, but he boped to I j work the Democracy of the couutry ! j as he had worked the Democra- j cy of Massachusetts. ITe was engaged io a betrayal of those who had already , nominated bim, for to submerge them in the Democratic party would have been i to defeat their hopes and destroy their j organized existence. At Chicago the Massachusetts delegation extorted from him a pledge that he would support the Dominations there to be made. lie ! gave that pledge before the nomina- '' lions were made, and now he repudi- j ates it, betraying those who for seve- ; ral years have supported him in Mas- j sachusetts and those with whom he acted at Chicago.' Anderson Journal. We would be glad to indulge the hope that a Legislature will be sent to Columbia next November with suffi cieot capacity to grapple with the question of substantially repairing or completing the State House, but there is nothiug in thc record of the past sev? eral years or in present appearances to j warrant such extravagant indulgencies. I At present we confidently expect that the usual amount of valuable time will be Wasted in discussing the lien law and the usury law, and in amending the general statutes so as to chance the time of the sitting of circuit courts, to say nothing of the inuumcrable little charters to be granted, and that the j accustomed largo appropriations to the i University, tbe Citadel Academy and the Columbia Canal speculation will be made, but further than this we have no ray of hope throwu cut to us as yet. I As the primaries pass and eleetion day approaches there may be some sign of a brighter era dawning. County Commissioners. Hampton Guardian. Tbe office of County Commissioner is oue of the most important positions in thc gift of the people, and it appears j to be much sought after. The pay is not large, yet it is ample for thc time consumed. County Commissioners have great responsibilities reposed in them, having under their management the county Gnanccs, public buildiugs and roads and.bridges. Therefore, the most capable men should bc chosen; men of active business habits, honest, intelligent and public spirited, who will look as closely to the interests Of the couuty as they do to their private affairs. One of thc duties of a County Commissioner is thc keeping tu good condition the public roads, aud this is a duty which should not be disregard- j ed. Thc tax-payers who travel the i roads have the right to require the performance of work necessary to put | the thoroughfares, bridges aod cause? ways of the county in proper repair. The subject of good roads can be brought in vc"_ opportunely at this time in the canvass for the office of County Commissioner. As the roads of the county could be thoroughly worked by requiring the j twelve day's service allowed by law, it j would no doubt be to the interest of the | public to work the full term. Let the j candidates be sounded as to thc matter j of wider, straighter and better roads, J and when the office is filled, hold the incumbents io all their promises in that particular, as well as lu others. American Inventive Genius. When thc American reaches the next world there will bc trouble in whatever i section of it he finds himself. It is not likely he will rest contented with things as he finds them there. He will want to improve; to amend; to invent. If he is so fortunate as to reach the re? gions of light he will propose the intro? duction of the three-string grand piano instead of thc antiquated'harp. It may be that he will have an eye to commis- ! sions off, for his interest. Those rest less Americans, who, like Sir Joseph ! Porter, "generally go below," will plague the life out of the manager ; there by trying lo introduce patent j drafts, improved smoke consumers,fuel j savers and what not. Tho American j is distinctively a patent ellice animal, j Take the great question of pile driv- ; ors, for instance, which is occupying j the attention of thc whole country. Anybody who has a wharf to build ; knows what an important machine a j pilo driver is. It there is a city in ths j world that ought to be posted on pilo i drivers it is Amsterdam, which is built | entirely on piles. O: the ninety islands j on which thc city is built all are jam- j med full of long oaken piles, and the work of hammering down similar piles J goes on every day. Yet the Holland pile driver is an exceedingly primitive j affair. It is only recently that steam j has been applied to raising thc ham- j mer. In many parts of Amsterdam a I visitor secs a long line of Hollanders ? pulling at a rope until the iron weight is high enough, when another Holland- i er with a small cord undoos tho ar- j rangement and gets tho drop on the : timber. i The American has made two big im- j provements on the steam pile driver, j The friction method is a great time < saver. Tho hammer drops and brings j its rope with it. Tho niau in the en- j gino house with a lever sols thc ma- , chinery lo pulling np the hammer with j no tedious waiting for the rope toc?me dangling down to "catch on." As soon assulticient height is reached he ; relaxes the friction and the hammer | falls. If you notice the crowd that contin ually stands at the foot of Woodward i avenue, you will seo thal their atten? tion is attracted by tito very latest thing in pile drivers, only two of which ; are used in Detroit. This is a sort of j portable steam hammer, which follows : the timber down, tapping it gently or severely, as the unseen man in the en- \ gino house wills it. The steam, sup- ; plied to the hammer by au immense j hose, works in an ordinary cylinder, lifts the hammer and allows it to drop : of its own weight. It will drive a pile j to within an eighth of an inch of where \ it wants to go. The whole machine is j worthy of the attention of that victim j of cintw', the wharf loafer. It will pick | up a heavy oaken pile as if it was a i match, balance iL daintily in tito air. I place il point downward, and then pur- i sue it with quick, gentle taps until it is j in exactly thc position desired, lt wiil do in a day about tour times the work of au ordinary pile driver, and it ?loes 1 it with an ease ami an intelligence that it is a pity the whait loafer ?.lee.-, not ] emulate. -J9?. trott Free Pre**. GLEANINGS. . The Massachusetts House has passed a bill forbidding companies to discrin>. inate against the colored race in the rates for insuring lives. Some crank has written to the Detroit Timi s solemnly asserting that the lire which recently destroyea its office was a visitation of Providence. Holding a cartridge between h?f fingers, julia Pegg, of St Louis, be? gan experimenting with a lighted match.. The explosion cost her two fingers and a thurnb. William Nowland, King of thc Ork? ney gypsies, has just died at the ago ol 102, and his widow, aged over 90, was able to smoke a pipe vigorously during the funeral services. London has seventy-six guilds, en? dowed by wealthy benefactors for tho beneiit of thc different trades, and their trust property alone yields ali income of ?200,000 annually. It has been decided that tho inscrip? tion placed upon thc bust of Beacons? field, in Westminster Abbey, shall be simply: "Lord Beaconsfield, twice* Premier of England." . Captain Rodney Baxter, of Hyannis, Cape Cod, offers to pay $500 ?to any person who will produc? a materialized spirit in my presence, within my reach, a witness being present,. :?.ud that will there remain even five minute's.*' Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept away by the crash of 1873, is to-d?y one of the wealthiest men of Pennsyl? vania. He has investments in iron, coal, gold, and silver mines, and rail-1 roads reaching far into the millions': Justice Masscv, of Brooklyn, has sent Miss Emily Vogel, eighteen years of age, to the penitentiary to complete a reunion of the family, ?il of whom, father, mother, two brothers, and a sister, had preceded her to that estab-* lishment There is a birch tree in ?ork. Mainel only about forty feet high, two roots o? which have been able to lift, some? twelve inches, a block of granito com? puted to weigh twenty tons. The tree is still growing, and the rock continues to be raised and pushed sideways at the rate of nearly an inch a yean ? little boy was buried in Meridian; Miss., the other day, and behind the hearse in the funeral procession walked his pony with its saddle draped willi crape. Strangers even looked willi moistened eyesupon the little fel? low's pet, upon which he had been of len seen to ride through the streets" but a little while ago. The general rule of law is that ? person having a pecuniary interest in a will is disqualified from acting as a subscribing witness thereto. In a re-, cent case before the Supreme Court of Iowa this rule was sought to be extend? ed to a case where thc witness was ss corporator of a charitable institution and a distributee upon thc dissolution thereof, the will containing a bequest thereto. Thc Court declined to so ex? tend the rule. A scientific physician gays? "In the' morning thcrc'is an acrid state of the* secretions, and nothing is so well cal? culated to correct it as peaches, apples* etc. The small seed fruits, such as figs, blackberries^ raspberries, may be classed among the best fruits and medi? cines. The sugar in them is nutritious, the acid purifying and the seeds laxa? tive. We should look more to our gardens for our medicines and less to our drug stores." The New York Graphic says: "San Francisco and Chicago have been using cable surface railroads for many years past. New York now talks about adopting the system. Isn't this really reversing the order of things? Does the star of progress take its way East? Is it not possible that somebody here has invented something a great deal better than that which our youn^ folks out West are calling already hali obscH letc?" The president of the French fepuV lie sent some little time ago to the French embassador at Constantinople three handsome cimeters made in exact imitation of thc much-prized Damascus blades, for presentation to the sultan's three sons. An Oriental potentate re? ceiving a present from sucb^a quarter would probably have preferred somo product of European art to a counter? feit of what he can get better at home. **If you want to mako an Englishman ? present," says a French paper, criti? cising M. Grevy's gift, **you would not offorhim a dozen of pale ale, an articlo ot' Sheffield etiticrv, or a coat made by Poole." Utah has now 10,000 small farms averaging twenty-five acres, and the* whole must bc irrigated. There is only one large farm in the territory, and it is owned by a company. The Groat Salt Lake,"according to Elder Cannon, contains enough sait to supply America for centuries. All that is neo' essary in preparing it for market is to' drive" to the edge of the lake With a wagon, and a man with a pair of rub? ber" boots can load it vfith a shovel The salt lies on the bottom of thc lake in small, coarse crystals. After load? ing it is taken to a grinding machine, and being run through it is fit for the table. A French gentleman and scholar re? cen tlv visited one of the oldcstiamilies in Boston, who reside in one of the oldest houses in tho suburbs, which is heated through registers in thc floor. The visitor planted his chair over ono of these, where he sat sweltering and sweating for an heer or more, not knowing where the hot waves carno from, and was entirely too polite to speak of his discomfort. Noticing that the others wero perfectly comfortable, he concluded that the temperature was probably not at all uncomfortable to the liter::ti of America, which he had often hoard were extremely cold-blood? ed. Thc family were terribly mortified wiien they heard of how their distin? guished Visitor had been broiled and rendered so uncomfortable. He threat? ens to '.vi lle a book on America. In Germany the young man who* thinks a certain young lady's father would make a good father-in-law puts on his best clothes, calls on the old gentleman fad asks for the hand of his daughter. Ho never thinks of appeal? ing I;rsi to the young lady; That would bo almost as great an offense against good morale as it is for tho voung lady to receive gentlemen callers without her mother being present The old gentleman sizes up the young man's pile, his prospects and thia standing of his family. If these are satisfactory he is thou introduced to the girl as her affianced husband. Having a mortal dread of being an old maid, she at once falls in love. _ They now go out together and act just as spoony on the streets and in public places as they are a mind to without fear of exciting special remark: where- ^ as, had they been seen on the street to aether before the engagement, ?ho ? ** . would have been dropped from the rolls * .;r of ^ood society, and he would* havo been twitted and teased by his friends until life would have be^jgura burden.*1 Thev go very littler" on* love, the whole matrimonial sohejMfljwEall classes being regarded as a bijspfes?affair. , ..*>* .