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?*welliag, with well end fine spring of water.
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with ali the necessary out-buildings,
situated on Churc h Street, opposite the resi?
dence of Cot. J. H. Earle, where I now reside.
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water as can. be fouud.
AlLIarge rooms ; house newly painted, and
let contains about three a.-es of land.
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TAX NOTICE.
THE TREASURER OF SUMTER COUN?
TY gives notice that bb books will be
open from the FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER
to the TWENTIETH DAY OF OCTOBER,
1884, for the collection of Taxes for the Fiscal
jear commencing November 1st, 1S83, in
Sumter County, together with the penalty of
five per centum on the first installment of
one-half which was payable in May, but
which was not then paid.
The following are the rates per centum of
the levy :
1. For State purposes-five mills on every
dollar of the value of all taxable property.
2. For County purposes-two aud one
half mills on every dollar of such value.
3. For payment of the funded indebtedness
of the said County, and of d?ficiences for the
fiscal years 1881 and 18S2-one and one
half mills on every dollar of such value.
4. For support of public schools-two mills
on every dollar of such value.
5. One dollar on each taxable poll.
The Treasurer will in person or by deputy
attend at the following places and times for
the collection of the said taxes :
Mechanicsville, Thursday. September li.
Bishopvilie, Friday, September 12.
Manville, Saturday, September 13.
Stateburg, Monday, September 15.
M. Sanders' former Office, near Rembert's
Mil!, Tuesday, September 16.
Smithville, Wednesday, September 17.
Scarborough's Store, at Tirzah Church,
Tbursdaj', September 18.
Privateer, Friday, September 19.
Manchester, Saturday, September 20.
Wedgefield, Monday, September 22.
Lewis Chapel, Tuesday, Sepiember 23.
Shiloh, Wednesday, September 24.
Lynchburg, in Lynchburg Township,
Thursday, September 25.
Reid's Mill, Friday, September 2G
ilayesville, Saturday, September 27.
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On the other dnys from September 1st to
October 20th, 1884, at his office at the Couuty
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We are also insuring COTTON GINS and
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EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
Olee of Sebnl CoHO&sr,
SUMTER COUNTY.
IN ORDER to accommodate those who
were unable to amend in July, last, an
extra examination of teachers for Sumter
County will be held at this office OCTOBER
4TH and 6TH.
The 4th exclusively for colored applicants.
The 6th exclusively for white applicants.
By order of Board of Examiners
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WINTER OATS.
A FTE AMPLE and careful experience
jf\_ with the .'Henderson" and "Virginia"
WINTER OATS, I recommend my patrons
to use at lest half a crop of them. They will
have more leisure in sowing them :n the Fall,
and the pasture tiley nffurd in thc Winter
and Spring, is invaluable; and then they
will come in two to four weeks earlier than
the Spring Oats. In order to induce parties j
to try these Oats that never have, I oller them j
this season lower than ever before.
PER BUSHEL, - $2.oo
ONE-HALF BUSHEL, - - - 1.25
ONE-FOURTH BUSHEL, - - .80
Nothing will be charged for drayagc, sack
or box, but purchasers must pay express
charges.
Half bushel is enough for an acre. I will
send one pound of either variety, post-paid,
for 35 cents. The '.Virginia" and "Hender?
son" are distinctly different varieties, and I
think about as well of one as the other. Try
a few of each. J. W. V ANDIV ER,
Ang 5 Weaverville, N. C.
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WATCH, MOTHER. WATCH.
Mother, watch the little feet.
Climbing o'er the garden wall,
Bounding through the busy street,
Ranging cellar, shed and hall ;
Never count the moments lost,
Never mind thc time it costs :
Little ft*et will go ?stray :
Guide them, mother, while you may.
.Mother, watch the little hand,
Picking berries by the way,
Making houses in th? sand,
Tossing up the fragrant hay,
Never dare the question ask
"Why to me this weary task ?"
These same little hands may prove,
Messengers of light and love.
Mother, watch the little tongue,
Prattling eloquent and wild,
What is said and what is sung
By the happy, joyous child ;
Catch the word while yet unspoken,
Stop tiie vow before 'tis broken ;
This same tontrnc may yet proclaim
Blessings In a Saviour's name.
Mother watch the little heart
Beating soft and warm for you ;
Wholesome lessuns now apart;
Keep, oh keep that young heart true
Extricating every weed.
Sowing good and precious seed,
Harvest rich yon then may see,
Ripening for eternity.
BILL AltP.
He is Visited by "Cousin John"
Thrasher-A Snake Story.
Cousin John Thrasher came to see
us the other day and made us proud.
For it ia no small compliment for a
man like him to ride five miles on a
dirt road in hot weather to do us
honor and show his regard, fie did
ont slop long, for he is always in a
hurry, and so just before leaving; ho
said he wanted to go down to thc
spring and dip np a drink of pure
water. I went down with him and
kept a little ahead. I stept down off
the log that was close hy the spring
and Uncle John stept down just be?
hind me, and he stept high and he
stept far, and hollered "snake.'*' Sure
enough I had stept over the varmint
-a big, rusty moccasin-and he
made for a hole in the rocks and we
lost him. Cousin John dident get over
it for several minutes, and had to set
down and blow, for he is awfully
afraid of snakes. It is mighty hard on
my wife, for snakes are her everlas?
ting horror. If we kill one on thc
premises, she always declares there
is another close by, and if we kill
two she says lhere must be a den of
them, and so there is no way to paci?
fy and make her calm and serene. Carl
is getting to bc a right smart chunk
of a boy now, and hankers after a gun,
and so the other day I told him wo
would go hunting snakes. I gave him
the small gun and I took the big one,
and wc meatidared slowly along the
branch, and sure enough he spied
til at same big moccasin down below
the spring sunning himself on a plank,
and I got him a rest and cocked his
gun and he took a trembling aim and
rhod and killed the beast, and he wan
the proudest boy I think I ever saw.
We killed four on that excursion, and
now he dont want to do anything but
hunt snakes and 6welle up and struts
round with his new importance. We
killed a rattlesnake's pilot over in the
field and ten young ones came crawl?
ing out of her mouth, lt is smiko time
now. This hot, dry, dust}'' weather
makes them travel around in search
of food, and yon cati see their wormy,
squinny truck across the road most
every day. The books say that snakes
that lay eggs are non-vcnenious, and
those thal give birth to their young
arc venomous and that none but the
latter ever allow their von no* to run
in and run out of them. Rut they are
all the same to me, and ? let none es?
cape if I can help it. Our mortal anti?
pathy to snakes is to my mind one of
the strongest proofs of scripture, ann
it is part of my religion to "bruise
Iiis head" whenever I have a chance.
My wile, Mrs. A rp, loves to go down
to the spiing house and see after the
milk and superintend the churning,
and she is proud of the rich cream, and
prouder of the butter, and I don't
want any of these insidious perambu?
lating reptiles to interfere with her
perfect serenity I love the buttermilk,
thc pure cold buttermilk that she pre?
pares, for i know it is nice. She call?
ed me down to the spring house yes?
terday to show me how much nice
yellow butter she had made at a dou?
ble churning. Of course 1 complimen?
ted her with crushing and uxorious
language, and when she told me to
go to the house and look on the pan?
try shelf and bring her du wu the bowl
of salt, wherewith to season the but?
ter 1 wont willi alacrity and brought
it and I v at ched her as she sprinkled
it all over and. stirred it in with thc
puddle, and in course of time she
coud tided to taste it and see if it was
salty enough and 1 never will forget
the lost and lamented look she gave
inc as she exclaimed, "William you
brought me sugar."
Sin-sat down on a chair and looked
away ..ff. "I thought it was salt,"
said I, "1 found it just where you
tobi me " "Of course you did," she
said. "I'm nut 'daming you at all ;
I forgot lhere was a bowl of sugar
there, and if I had hail on my specks
I could have told tho difference. Oh
my ! what a pity it is to he old and
nearly blind, it was a beautiful lot
of butter and now it is all spoilt."
"My dear" said I, ''Wont it do for
cake, and you said you was going lo
make a bread pudding to-day and it
will bc splendid for sauce. It is al?
ready mixed."
She never said anything, but han?
ded me tho butter and told me to set.
it in the spring house. 1 did so and
ventured to remark that it waa migh?
ty nice sweet butter. Well, I got thc
pudding for dinner and eat about
twice as much as 1 wanted just to
show her how good it was, and now
everything is calm and serene. I
expect we will have pudding and
cake every day for a week, but 1 dont
expect to ever mistake sugar for suit
again as long as 1 live. There are
some things, that wont boar repeat?
ing in a family, and Mrs. Alp some?
times suspects me doing a little dev?
ilment out o? pure cussedness.
Wo are preparing to go into win?
ter quarters now. My wile has call?
ed my icspcclful attention to a lew J
broken window glass and a leak in I
the roof and a brick or two that an
loose in the chimney back, and she
has mentioned that another pair o
blankets will be needed, for the grane
children will be coming out, and she
says that my flannel shirts aro get
ting old and dilapidated ; she alwayi
looks after me, bless her heart, and '.
always look after her, bless my heart
too, for she wont ask for anything
and I have to talk to the girls ane
find out what their mother needs. I
she ever asked me for anything ii
her life I dont know it, and I reckoi
the reason is I dont give her a chance
She has got things in that big ole
family trunk now that I have don<
forgot I ever bought. Winter ii
coming and I am glad of it. Ido se
love the cheerful blazing fire in th?
family room and the children sitting
around and Mis. A rp in her accus
tomed corner and the good, warn
carpet on the floor and the rich fa
pine by the closet door to kindle tlx
fire in the morning.
Well, there is a power of pleasure
in this subloonary life if we will loo!
for it. BILL A RP.
--?-? I (ll? i ?? '
Butler Spears5 Speech.
Thc following is a graphic account
of the speech of the above named
well-known cx-legislator, ex-County
Commissioner, &c, of Sumter, and
later on ex-Custom House attache,
darin? the late session of thc
Republican Convention :
When the Convention reassembled
at 6.15 the committee on credentials
was still absent. Butler Spears a fluent
mulatto from Sumter County, took the
floor with the consent to speak unlimit?
edly, and he began au harangue con?
taining some of the plainest language
ever utterred in a Republican conven?
tion. There were, he said, three white
Republican voters in Berkeley County,
yet these three ruled 9,900 colored
Republican voters. Why was this?
Thc white mau could paint himself and
pass for a nigger, but the nigger could
never palm himself off for a white man.
It is time for the nigger to look out for
himself. With this majority in the
Convention why shouldn't they put in a
colored State chairman ? (Applause )
He could count on his fingers every
white man who came here, aud every
one of them had an office. (Laughter.)
They might elect a white man to act
for them, but bc invariably acted, not
for them, but for himself. He appeal?
ed to his audience as colored mea to
stand for themselves. For God's sake,
for their children's sake, let them stand
together. The D?mocrates had done
everything, had murdered people and
all that, but they had repented of it
and given a Congressional district to
the negroes. They had no sooner
turned the 'niggers' into this corner
than white Republicans had appeared
to steal it from them. Let the negroes
show their manhood. To-day there
wouldn't be a colored Congressman
from thc Seventh district if a white
man, T.. B. Johnston, collector of
Charleston, hadn't been 'dowued.'
Johnston spent his money freely. '1
believe/ said the speaker, 'he spent
some of it on you herc.' [Laughter.]
But we beat him. Do just as white
men do. Do you suppose that if thc
white men had our majority here they
would elect a nigger. They woul.i'ut
do it for the devil. [Laughter.] If
we don't look out for ourselves then
.'Good-bye, John.' [Great laughter
and applause.] It has been truly said
that a uiggcr is like a mule. Ride a
gray horse into the lot and every mule
will follow him out. I'm opposing
Taft and the Post Office Ring in
Charleston. 'I'm a 'nigger' from thc
woods. [Colored delegate : 'How about
revenue riug ?'] Well, I don't expect
anyibing CIJC from you, for if Mr.
Johnston was to get out you'd lose your
position. [Laughter.] Now. I wouldu't
say a word either if I had a position ;
but I haven't any, so i'll just talk auy
how. [Great Laughter [ When I get
a position I may take off my hat and say :
'Howdy Mister Taft. How yea do:'
And I might stuff ballot-boxes for him.
[Great laughter.] Yes, corruption, sell?
ing votes, livery wicked thiug has been
I done, not by us, but by these white ad?
ventures who come to South Carolina
to usc us.
Here a negro interjected a point of
order. Ho thought thc gentleman
ought to be limited to two and a half
hours. The chair decided the point
not well taken.
The speaker resumed with thc decla?
ration that the interrupter was a deputy
to the Marshal iu Charleston at sixty
dollars a month. [Laughter ] When
the Democrats had come up to the polls
with cannon loaded with nails the white
Republicans had discovered themselves
suddenly out of politics. The nigger
had to bear the trial alone. He was
tired of this. The nigger had been a
fool long enough, and dont forget it.
[Great applause ] In the war the nig?
ger fought for his boss, but he wouldn't
lougcr fight for such wormy fellows as
these white Republicans. Taft had
stuffed ballot-boxes A 'nigger' had
come to him almost with tears in his
eyes and said : 'Think of Republicans
stuffing ballot-boxes.' But it was all
the same to white Democrats or white
Republicans. They did it to rule the
niggers. Lot thc niggers in the
Seventh District give thc nigger a
chance. Let them look out for them?
selves. Would they do it? [Yes,
yes.] Thc white Republicans were cor?
rupting the colored race. They couldn't
hold a meeting without these adven?
turers inciting them to wrong. They
wouldu't do wrong themselves. ?t was
a shame that we niggers should do any?
thing aud everything for Taft, Brayton
and these omnivorous white office hold?
ers. Thc nigger could get on better
with thc Democrats or by themselves
than through these whito spokesmen.
If the Democrats hated any one it was
these fellows, not thc niggers. [That's
so.] There was an indignation meet?
ing in Charleston thc other day to con?
sider the killing of a negro, but uo
white Republicans were there. They
were all sick, he believed. [Great
laughter.] Ile was glad thc chairman
(Whipper) wasn't, white. That nigger
was put there by thc whites for a pur?
pose. But the niggers also had their
purpose, too, iu putting him there.
They meant something. He wouldn't
believe that South Carolinians who
owned slaves or fought for the Confed?
eracy would be Republicans to save
their lives. [Applause.] Neither
would any negro be a Democrat. The
white Democrats were careful to watch
nigger Democrats to keep them from
stcaliDg. [Applause and laughter.]
He didn't believe in white Republicans.
Mr. Grcenbacker or anybody else
might come along with thc negroes
against the Democracy, but they couldn't
march in front. They must follow be?
hind. [Applause.] (interruption was
made.) Thc speaker declared that he
would yield to no courthouse or post
office clerk. [Applause.]. He knew
I what was the matter with these officc
! holders. Slick a hog and he'd grunt.
I He would rather be a bobtailed dog in
fly timi than one of these poor buckra.
As Spears contiuued to speak he gained
complete control over the emotions of
his colored audience. They applauded
him rapturously whenever he made a
thrust at thc white leaders. He in- >
dulged iu a good deal of clever badi- I
na^e with the officeholders, who tried !
D ...... *
to interrupt him. Repeated attempts j
were made to stop him, but President j
Whipper ruled that he was speaking by j
invitation, and could continue as long
as he liked until the credentials com?
mittee reported. Toward the last the
Convention was in an uproar of
laughter and applause.
Keely's Strange Motor.
-
His Discovery Explained-The
Power of Inter-Atomic Ether.
John W. Keely, tho iuventcr of the j
Keely motor, who has denied himself!
to all interviewers for four years, ex- ;
plained at length last week the wonder j
ful experiments with his new motor
gun, which were made at Sandy
Hook on Saturday, at thc expense of
thc government. 'Stripping the pro?
cess of all technical terms,' said the in?
ventor, 'the motor gun is simply this :
I take water and air, two mediums of
different specific gravity, and produce
from them by generation an effect under
vibration that liberates from the air and
water an intcr-atomic ether. The
energy of this ether is boundless and
can hardly be comprehended. Thc
specific gravity of thc ether is about
four times lighter than that of hydrogen
gas. the lightest gas so far discovered. !
'The gun I used at Sandy Hook was |
a breech-loading rifle, weighing five ?
hundred pounds. It was specially eon- j
strnctcd for me. It was four feet long j
and had a four-inch bore. On Weducs- j
day last I charged my tube, a five-gal?
lon reservoir of wrought iron, one and
a-half inches thick, with etheric vapor.
Then 1 boxed it up, and did not oven j
test ir, so certain was I of its power, j
For three hours before thc experiment !
it remained untouched in my shop. J
Thc process of charging it consumed i
less than four seconds of time.
.You could not guess how much !
material was used in making the vapor. |
To project twenty leaden bullets, each i
weighing nearly five ounces, at avcloci- j
ty of over 500 feet a sceoud, there was
required six drops of water and about a
pint of air. From this combination i
derived sufficient force to fire 250 bul?
lets of the weight of those used, and j
the most curious thing ?bout it all is j
that I found at the end of my experi?
ments that I had increased the power ?
in my tube instead of diminishing it, I
just as a race horse needs to be warmed j
up before he can do himself justice. !
The initial velocity of the last bullet j
was more than that of thc first one. 1 I
can take the same tube and operate it
another day.'
.Have you ever estimated thc power
of your intcr-atomic ether?' was
asked.
'I have produced frequently,' was
thc answer, 'a pressure of 10,000
pounds to thc square inch in a quarter
of a second. Thc process in reality
is instantaneous. I have succeeded in
making a vacuum of thirty-one pounds
pressure. The steel coil attached to
thc gun increases thc intensity of thc
vibrations fifteen fold. After thc ether i
has been introduced into the weapon ?
behind the projectile thc vibrations libe- j
rate it, it expands and the bullet is i
propelled out with great force, four j
times as great, as I said, as that of j
gun-powder. I have succeeded tu gen- j
crating a pressure of 56,000 pounds to
thc inch, and I have torn a Shaw gauge I
to pieces under the immense pressure, j
I have propelled a lead bullet through
a four indi plank of wood, in this in?
stance, after passing through thc wood,
so grcnt was the force of its progress
it flatteued itself out the size of a plate'
The Jewish New Year.
Friday begun the Jewish year 5945.
Its opening is one of thc most solemn !
festivals of the year in the Jewish !
church. The synagogues are open, j
and thc services upon the occasion arc
always of an impressive character. Thc
day is called "Hush Hoshannah," and
is on the first and second days of thc
month Tishri. It is also called Vom !
Hazikorou, a day of memorial aud !
feasts of trumpets as a sacrifice instead j
of Isaac. It is a holy convocation ou .
which no servile work is to he done i
From the first to the tenth arc called .
Penitential days, in the service of thc
festival prayers of a three-fold nature are ?
offered-of homage, remembrance and j
of sounding thc trumpet. These cm
body invocations that maukiud may
arrive at a true knowledge of the
Creator, His beneficence, His omni- |
science and his providence, every true :
Israelite comprehends the observance !
of the day with proper feelings iuhcr- j
i ted from childhood: "And the Lord
said unto Moses, saying, 'Speak unto
thc children of Israel. Say in thc
seventh month, and on thc first day of j
thc month shall yo have a Sabbath, a j
memorial of blowing of trumpets and j
holy convocation, and ye shall do no
servile work."' Al^o in Numbers:;
"And in thc seventh month, and ou the I
first day of the month, shall ye have a
rest, a day of memorial, of sounding j
the comet, a holy convocation ; no ser- :
vile work shall ye do ; a day of blowing j
the comet shall it be unto you, holy j
unto thc Eternal."
Thc relative distance of thc sun and i
moon from thc earth were first calcu?
lated by Aristarchus, about libO h. C. ?
What Our Editors Say.
The Pulpit On Easiness Sins.
Columbia Register.
Tho noprecedented number of bank
defalcations and otber breaches of trust
than have this year come to light have
very properly attracted thc attention of
thc clergy of our large cities. Rc7. T.
DeWitt Talmage, whose congregation is
made up largely of business meo, 3nd
whose church is supported in great part
by the pew rents paid by those engaged
in speculation, recently attacked with
honesty and fearlessness the loose bust
ness morality of thc day. and tire prac?
tices that lead men into financial knavery
and ruiu. Talmage is in many things
sensational, and strains too much after
theatrical effects, but for this last effort
of his be certainly deserves credit. To
denounce in ibo hearing of men engaged
in speculative pursuits thc loose morality
which calls plain stealing "irregulari?
ties" and such like polished names, is
the right thing to do, and the prcseut
time is the right time to do it.
We may not all of us be prepared to
give au unqualified endorsement to the
opinion of Mr. Talmage, that bank di?
rectors, who are not proven to have pro?
fited by thc defalcations occuring in
their banks, .-hould still bc regarded as
criminals and treated as such on account
of their n?gligence or incompetency,
but we must all agree that he is not one
whit too severe in his denunciation of
those who speculate with other people's
money ; and we can Sud more ezcuse for
the poor devil whose necessities drive
him in au evil hour to theft, than for thc
well-paid official who abuses his trust
with the view of getting rich through
speculative ventures. There arc too
many failures resulting from the neces?
sity of cloaking theft and for the pur?
pose of clearing scheming rogues, and
we admire the reply of Mr. Talmage to
those who advised him to stick to thc
Gospel and let business men alone, that
**A Gospel which did not accord with
common honest}* was worthless.It is
so common to palliate thc misdeeds of
well-dressed and well-behaved rogues
and to cover them over "with the mantle
of charity,,J ?hat it is refreshing to hear
one who has a world-wide auditory
preaching a sound business morality and
pouring hot shot at the heads of the in?
fluential sinners in the pews before him.
It is one of the faults of the pulpit-if
we may make bold to criticise the clergy
-that it too much neglects its opportu?
nities of personal application and tierce!;/
attacks vice iu the abstract, instead of
attacking it as peculiarly developed in
each particular community. To teil us
of the need of convoi ting the heathen,
who lives in a remote quarter of the
world, is well enough, doubtless neces?
sary ; but it would be equally as weil,
and wc are sure is equally as necessary,
to wage a vigorous warfare against the
heathenism that fiourislics within the
shadow of thc church steeple. These
arc living and burning issues that should
bc sternly grappled with. Speculating
with trust funds, swindling, gambling,
drunkenness, Sabbath desecration, sell?
ing 1'quor to miuors in violation of law,
morals and public policy-?li these are
evils common to all American cities, a*"?d
are proper subjects for frequent clerical
animadversion.
Fresh Developments.
lier*h<iiv Gazelle.
Thc combat deepens and the develop?
ments agaiust J>ia:nc are becoming more
and moro damaging. A now batch of
letters tu "My dear Fisher' *how up thc
so-called "Plumed Knight* in still more
odious colors lie is shown to have used
his official position as Speaker and
member of Congress even more than
was a first apprehended to aggrandize
himself. What will Phelps and Elkins
do now ? They have not taken un the
offer of Professor Woolsey of ?10.0 0
if they will disprove tin; truth of the
first Mulligan letters. What can they
say now to the additional one-; V It will
potdoto 'pooh, pooh' them, as the prosti?
tuted Tribune is doing. Honest voters
will not thus view them. Blaine's re?
cord for personal dishonesty is t;>o glar?
ing to be overlooked or thus derided
away. There must be proof against
proof and not sarcasm or ridicule, li
is too serious a matter. Hoar and
Dawes and Hawley may attempt to
whitewash him, but. unless they can
clear up his record they will pipe down
thc wind.
A more disgraceful exhibit has never
been made against any public man.
and he is so conscious (d' it that, his
magnetic, aggressive campaign thai he
was to inaugurate has dwindled down
into a defensive one. For every lick
given Cleveland a dozen arc given him
iu return. And it is now currently be?
lieved on good ground, that lie insti?
gated thc Buffalo slander against his
opponent. So, to dishonesty he has
added vindictiveness and malignity.
No wonder he got on his knees to Mul?
ligan and besought Morrill willi tears,
and had himself elected to the Senate
to avoid further investigation by thc
House of Representatives. With these
letters staring him in the face 'that
would not dowu' at its bidding, it was
a sorry day for IJlaioe that h. ever per?
mitted his name to go before the Repub?
lican convention. Ile is being hei l up j
to the righteous indianan :; of every ?
honest man in tuc land, and if in tito ?
teeth of his record the American people
are so prostituted as to elect linn, they
neither deserve liberty or prosperity.
The Republican leaders see it, feel it
and are in a desperate strait to condone
his offences.
If ]>lainc cannot bo beaten, then it
is useless to make thc effort in thc
future to beat even a penitentiary
thief.
ftvery fresh development should fas
en still more strongly the nails in his
political coffin. Let them be trotted
out until he is held up in all their
hideous deformity.
Into Lino.
Camden Journal.
Tammany, that discontented liver
diseased and bloated organisation,
conics out at Inst fur Cleveland, lt
is a sickly, half given support, and,
wo are free to admit, not (d' rn en?
couraging nature, hut for all this we
arc thankful for it. Kelly i? said to
be an honorable man. vee from any
.stain or blemish ri Iiis daily walks,
but he has that bull dog lindi ten au
?ty which makes bim always wish to
rule or ruin. His edicts must be?
come thc laws which are to severn
thc party, otherwise, the thunderbolts
of bis wrath will be heard from every
quarter cf the Democratic party. He j
is given to this rule of action, and j
j after kicking up the very deuce he I
falls back iuto line and makes the !
'amende' by a weak and poor given ?
support. Dut small favors arc thank- j
fully received, and while we wish it
was in our power to kick him out i
forever, yet our numerical strength
forbids, and wc mu.st accept the situa- j
tion upon the ground that necessity j
! knows no law.
Won't Do.
Florence Times.
At Saratoga on the 11th a very re- !
markablc speech was made by Cable, j
the Louisiana novelist. Wc have j
always admired Cable's writings, and !
taken?a great pride in him for being a I
Southern writer of force and genius: j
but when he takes the position of a
propagandist of such principles as he
lately uttered, we will drop him quicker
than hot shot. For instance he says:
'The black man had been twice freed,
once by compulsory reconstruction and
again by voluntary reconstruction, but
social equality was still denied him.
He thought till this was granted, the
freedmen could net bc deemed abswlute
ly free.' From this lauguage we arc
led to infer that he is an advocate of
social eqality, of amalgamation, and all |
such evils that such a state of affairs
would introduce. Vale Mr. Cable.
Both Have their Special Work.
Gtrolina Spartan.
Dr. James Woodrow, of Columbia,
a member of the faculty of the Theo?
logical Seminary of that place, recently
read before an alumni meeting of that
institution a paper on evolution. This
was afterwards printed in pamphlet
form. He has been severely criticized
by some of the religious papers and
correspondents and praised by others.
Such a clamor has been raised that an
investigation will be necessary. It
would well for those who wish to kuow
what Dr. Woodrow did say to secure a
copy of his pamphlet and give it a care?
ful reading. Let him not bc condemn?
ed without a hearing. Crystalizcd
opinions have boldly withstood the ad?
vance of science in ail ages of the
church and to-day prejudice has more
farce titan independent thought.
Science has never retarded the. truej
work of the church nor has the church,
with all its efforts, crippled science
much. They both have their special
work to do and there is no real conflict
between them.
Beware of Politics and Politicians.
Aiken Recorder.
From every part of the State comes
glorious news fur tho friends of tem?
perance. The Prohibition sentiment
is rapidly gaining ground everywhere.
in this Congressional District thc
'long-haired men and short-haired j
women" arc puttiug the matter in
such a practical shape that those who j
don't like thc music will have to stand
aside. Barnwell is already a Prohib?- ?
t?on County, Aiken wiii be by the first j
of January ; Edgcfield has but two
licensed bar-rooms, and these will soon j
bc driven out. of existence ; in Hamp- ?
ron County thc struggle has ccmmcnc- j
ed, an:! our friend jVIeSweeny, of the
Hampton Guardian, has opened the j
ball by a regular temperance column
in Iiis admirable paper; in Collcton the
issue is being pressed by thc citizens of i
Summerville and all over the State the j
interest in this question seems to be !
?reater than even that taken in the j
Presidential election.
We caution our temperance friends j
everywhere to keep thc question entire- j
j ly aloof from politics and politicians, j
Permit no buncombe politic;!! speeches j
in your prohibition conventions ; settle
right down lo thc work for which you
assemble, finish it up in a complete and
dignified manner, and then adjourn.
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A Sure Cure for Diphtheria.
Wo have been requested to repro- |
duce the following remedy for diph- j
th crin by an advocate who says that I
where it has been applied promptly, j
it. hus never been known to fail in j
effecting a eure. It is a remedy that
was discovered in Germany, and is ?
said to be the be-t known. The rem- i
cuy is simply as follows:
At thc iirst indication of diphtheria j
iu the throat- of a child, make thc j
room close. Then take a tin cup and j
pour into it a quantity of tar and
turpentine, equal parts. Theu hold
the cup over a lire so as to fill tiie room
with thc fumes. The little patient on
inhaling the fumes, will fall asleep j
and when it wakes it will cough up and
spit out all thc menbrancous matter, j
and the diphtheria will pass off. Thc ;
fumes of the tar and turpentine loosens j
the matter in thc throat, thus affording
thc relief that has baffled the skill of
physicians.-Ex.
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Rapid Growth.
?- i
Those Western towns that grow up j
at racehorse speed will have to yield thc ;
palm to '.lade City, a new oil town of j
Pennsylvania.
Two weeks ago it was a narrien piece :
of land, surrounded by woodlands and :
farms, shunned alike by the farmer and j
thc oil operator.
Now it has, among other evidences
of growth and prosperity, three hotels j
and thirty restaurants.
lt took but two or three days to put j
up seventy buildings, It requires six :
stage lines to carry the travel betweeu !
thc new 'city' and the nearest town two i
miles distant.
Where is the place in Wisconsin, i
Dakota or Kansas that would dare to
'hold a caudle' to thia petroleum j
prodigy ?
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Worth Knowing.
Ti'prevent hay-stack* firing, scatter
a few handfuls of common salt between j
each layer. The salt, by absorbing '
the humidity of the bay, not only prc- i
vents its fermentation and consequent
heating, but it also adds a salty taste '
to this forage, which all cattle like;
bi sides, it stimulates the appetite and j
nsfists th. ir digestion, and so preserves j
them ii om manv diseases
Grapes and Growers.
Shipments from Greenville-- Some
Details of the Business?.
Greenville News.
Few people even io Greenville havo
any ide?, of the dimensions reached by
thc industry of grape growing here;
and a still smaller proportion of our
citizens realize what an important part
the business will form of our commerc?
and enterprise. . ,
The figures of the shipments will
doubtless be astonishing, especially
when we remember the limited capital
and means emploj-cd. Thc books ai
thc express cSice show that o.OGl bas?
kets of grapes were shipped from here
during the season, beginning in thc
latter part, of July and virtually cudiug
on tlie 10th of September, although'
there were some occasional shipments'
up to the ISth of this mouth. In
pounds the grape shipments aggregated
37,800. The principal shippers were.
Messrs. Garraux. Ii. B. Buist and
Marshall, although Mr. Putnam shtpi
ped quite a number of carly baskets."
The best market was Charleston where
a very large proportion of the shipments
went, but New York and Philadelphia
took considerable quantities and a few
lots went to Cincinnati.
The varieties chi? fly grown are Clio?
ton, Concord, Ives and Delaware, and
they command a ready saler Teaching
the market early. Greenville promises*
to bccooie famous for its grapes, for
those shipped from herc have been th?
best in every market, the size surpassing
any others and thc flavor being alwa)S
peculiarly rich.
After giving a brief account of tho
principal grape growers in the County j
thc most successful of whom is Mrs."
Garran, and who, upon 1^ acres inado
15,500 pounds ibis year, thc writer goerf
ou to say :
Herc arc ten vineyards ranging from
two to twenty acres and including
probably seventy five acres of vines..
But tho great vineyard of all is that cf
A. Carpen, three miles from the city
on the Kasly bridge road,
i Here the visitor in the season sees
a great hill with tier after tier of green
vines rising from foot to tcp, whilo
towering from smong them there is a'
tremendous brick building crowned'witb'
an observatory and bearing an inde?
scribably foreign air in its architecture'
and surroundings. A narrow road"
through the thickly planted vines,
shaded by peach trees, leads to thc'
Carpen castle where Mr. Carpen usually
emerges in a great hurry and a profuse'
perspiration, filled to his very throat
with energy, vim and enthusiasm.
He and his partner, the Ht. Kev.'
Archbishop Boulland of Boston, havo
spent ?29.000 in cash and Mr. Carperf
has invested many months of the hardest
manual labor in the planting of thc 5ST
acres of vines that wave their green
leaves and bend under their luscious
burdens around thc sloping sides of tho "
hill, and in the erection of thc big britk
house, the huge wino vats and tho
cavernous cellars underneath.
Two things have occured to Mr.
Carpen since last year. One is, many
of thc people who thought him a luna
tie h .vc begun to believe that he knows
what he is doing; the ether is that he
is beginning to believe things possible
that he never believed before. Kc did
not think his vines would bear this year
and counted on cutting them back again.
To his amazement thc grapes continued
to push and grow on him, aud he finally
began to pick from the iwentv acres
in bearing. He picked enough to
make a thousand gallons of wine and
whoever believes that he dosn't know
his busiuess ought to taste his claret.
Young as it is, it is a fine wine beyond
all doubt, lt has thc body and the
flavor, and tastes like a good French
claret strengthened for uso in thc
tropics-tiie wine sent out to India and
used diluted with water. A year's time
will remove the roughness and leave
a claret such as cau't, bc had for love or
money outside of thc big cities, and it
will be as good for a dollar a gallon as*
so much gold. Indeed several hundred
^allons of it. have already been sold to*
dealer?? in this and neighboring cities
at that price. Mr. Carpen says if he
should send his wine anywhere ir/
Fiance with thc information that it is'
only a month old he would be unani?
mously denounced as a liar by his fellorf
wine makers and lovers. Ile has
travelled everywhere and was brought
up in a vineyard, and he does not be?
lieve there is a climate and soil in the
world for grapes like thc foot hills of
the Blue Kid ge.
- Hil ?-- CM ^-?
An official in the postal service has'
enumerated thc post offices in this State,
the result of which he furnishes for
publication There are, up to thc
present date, 808 post offices in the
State, distributed as follows : Abbe?
ville, 20 : Aiken. 21; Anderson. 32;
Baruwell, 25; Beaufort. 14; Berke?
ley, 27 ; Charleston 3; Chesterfield/
10; Clarendon, 14; Colieton, 27;
Chestor. IS ; Darlington, M>; Kdgc
field, 56; Fairfield, 22 ; Gcrgetowu
10 ; Greenville, SS; Hampton, 24;
Iii try. 10; Kershaw, 8; Lancaster,
25 : Laurens, -32 : Lexington, 20 ;
Marion, 40 ; Marlboro. 12 : Newberry,
10; Oconec, 24; Orangeburg, 1?;
Pickcns, 2? ; Richland 0 : Spartanburg
52: Sumter, 23: Uuion 2C>; Williams
bug. 22; York. 23.
Tight lacing is again said to bt
going out of fashion. Thc fact is that,
except in a few instances, tight h clag;
has not been the fashion for a great
many years. All w)mcn wear corsets,
but that does not by any means imply
that they are tightly laced. Women
in general have come to recognize the
good sense of easy-fit ting clothes.
They have learned how they may dress
comfortably without having ill-fitting
and slouchy garments They have
seen from experience how much better
thc health, thc disposition and tht com?
plexion is. Tight lacing io ?rcw thc
exceptio*-and is no more indulged in
by sensible women.
. . Mil l m -
The amenities of journalistic life it:
Nevada are spiced with originality.
One editor recently declared that his
'esteemed conten?por.ar*? has n .? >' k'ltosni
to kiss a child ?nd iunoculatc tt with
delirium Merni us '