The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 27, 1885, Image 1

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?HK SUaTTKK WATCHMAN*, Established April, 2 S SO. Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.1 "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TROTE SOSJTHRON\ KsIaWslm? Jane, 1866? SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1885. New Scries^-Vol. IV. So. 26. Pt?tt&ftl wrory Tuesday, -Br TBft Watchman and Southron Publishing Company, .SUMTER, S. O. TKBMS: . - :-.?'." ... . Two Dollars.^ annum--io advance. - X D V? Rt'IS??t?TS . ..OB? Square^first insertion.....-.$1 00 fi very sal>sequentiiisertion~....^~........ 50 Contracts for three mon bbs, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications wMcb-sabserre private interests jwiii be>;harged for ^advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be . barged, for.".' " v-rjlarriage notices and notices of deaths pahr . tished free. 'f'-\ . For workV or contracts\ for advertising sA?r^'Watchtitaii and Southron, or apply at the Office, to K; G. OSTEEN, ' Business Manager. Absolutely Pure. T^?s "powder .never varies. A marvel of parby. strength? and wholesomeness. "More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can? not be sold In competition with the multitude' of low lest, shW^weie?^ alum or phosphate powdera. ^Soid^onlyineans. ROYAL BAK? ING POWDER CO., 106 WaTf-st^N.' Y. TRADE MARK" - RCG1STCRCD. HO?/ A NEW TREATMENT For Consumtion. Asthma* Bronchitis, dyspepsia. Catarrh. Headache, Delr?i ty. Rhekiualism, Neuralgia, and all. Chronic, and Nervous Disorders. : ^ CARD. We, the "undersigned, having rcceirsd great ?od permanent benef? from the;use of i4COM POtJN D' OXYGEN, "prepared and adminis? tered by Dasi STARKKY'& Psis?, of Philadel? phia, and beibg satisfied that it is a new dis ?overyin medical science, and all . that is .claimed for it, consider it a duty which^ we ?we to -the many thousands who are suffering from chronic and'"- so-called "incurable" dis? eases todo all that weean to make.its virtues "known*and to inspire the public with cbuhV -dence-.' < * . We bjaxe persas! "knowledge of Drs. Star iey k Palen. They are educated, intelligent, and conscientious physicians, who will not, we are stare, make any statement, which they .do not know or believe to be true, nor pub fish any tes ti menials or reports of cases which are cc* genuine. T*~ WM. "D'; KELLY, Member cf Congress J rom Philadelphia. ? >' T. ?fc . ARTH? R, jSdiiorand Publiker ^'Arthur's. Home Magazine," Philadelphia. 1V. LVCONRAD - : "^ Editor of "Lutheran Observer," Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, PA., Jowl, 1882. ^s-" To order to aeet a natoral inquiry rn re? gard to our professional and personal stand? ing, and to give increased confidence in . our statements aad nt the genuiness of our -testi . mootai and reports of cases, we print the .above card front gentlemen well and widely koowa.and of the hipest personal character. 0?r""*2>??2i??? Compomtd Oxygen,* . con? taining* history of the discovery'* of and mode of actiorr of this remarkable encative agent,'and ? Targe record of surprising cures j io Coneoinn'Sotf, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi- 1 tis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of Chron? ic diseases, wil{ be sent free. Address Ors. STARKEY k PALEN. HOS k 1U? Gifdrd Street, PhUadelpnia., Pa. ?". H. FoUoci, I* W. Folsom. -ESTA BD - F. ?. FOLSOM & BRO. Practical Watchba Vere and Jewelers, ^Main-Street, opposite John Reid's, SUMTER, S. C*9 WALTHAM Clocks, Silverware. Jewelry. Spectacles, . Cutlery. Fishing Taclcle, Violin Strings, Machine Needles, Oils, &c. Repairing of Watches,- Clocks and Jewelry promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. NOTICE. TIE "UNDERSIGNED is out of a job. and is open to an offer. Be is not afraid to work aodi will take hold of anything that offers a chance of support. Will take charge of a farm, and will do anv kind of work that may come to hand T. S. DRAYTON. in presents given away. Send us 'jvww 5 cents postage, and by mail you will fS^ free a package of goods of terge value, that will start you in work that will at once ?rtog*.you *n "aoney faster than anything lese in America. All about the $200,000 in presents with each box. Agents wanted ^erywh^r?; of either sex, of 41 ages, for all ihetime, or .spare time only, to work for ns at their ow? homes. Fortunes for all work era absolutely assured. Don't delay. H. BaEet & Co., Portland, Maine. PTO! CUSS JOB WORK AT BOTTOM PRICES ?ESI?OBBBAM PCfPm TO-MYi Brands advertised as absolutely pnro THE TEST: Place a caa top down on a bot stow until heated, thea moore the cover and smelL A chemist will not be re? quired to detect the presence ot ammonia. BOES KOT CONTAIS AMMONIA. IB HEALTHFULNESS HAS" NEVER BSSX QCESTIO.VEB. In * million homes for a quarter of a century lt hat stood the consumers' reliable test, THE TEST OF THE OVE?. PRICE BAKINGIPOWBER CO., XAKSSS. OF . : I Jr. Price's Special Rayrisg Extracts, . Th. *tro?{?t, wost delicious mad D:tnrjJ flavor knoiru, ?nd Dr. Price's Lupulin Teas! Oems For light, Healthy Bread. The Best Dry Hop Yeast in the World. FOR SALE BY GROCERS. CHI CACO?_ ?T. LOUIS LIGHT HEALTHY BREAD Mm i The best dry hop yeast in the world. Bread raised by this yeast is light, white and whole? some lifce oar grandmother's delicious bread GROCERS SELL THEM. PREPARES BY THE Price Baking Powder Co., . . ?anTrs t? Bi; Ws SPBCial Tlawmis Extracts, Chicago. 111. - St. Louis, MO. LT. W. DELORM?, Agent, -DEALER IS DRUS k niCliS, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY, AND ALL KINDS OF Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KEPT IN \ FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. Tobacco, Snuff and Segars, GARDEN SEEDS, &C, Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. ? The public will fiud my Rtoek of Medicines complete, warranted genu .ine, and of the best quality. Call and see for yourselves. Sumter. S. C . Jan. 20. WARE. E. W. DURANT & SON. STORE IN THE GRANITE RANGE, MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE SQUARE. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF HARDWARE, IN STOCK. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. STOVES, WAGON MATERIALS, -such as RIMS, HUBS ' AND SPOKES, CROCKERY AND TIN WARE. Everythiog io the line of General Hardware, kept in Stock. R. W. DURANT & SON; Sept 23 ESTATE SALE. _a_ THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SUMTER COUNTY. IN THE COMMON PLEAS. .Kate E. Brown, Plaintiff, vs. W. D. Blanding, Administrator, James A, Brown and others. Defendants. IN OBEDIENCE TO Til E.ORDER OF HIS Honor Judge Fraser, in the case above state-3, I will sell for cash OQ FRIDAY, 3uth JANUARY, 1885, the following property of the estaie of the late Martha L. Brown at the 1 ate resideoce of Abner \V. Brown, to wit: CATTLE AND HOGS. 250 bushels of Corn and 2,500 pounds of Fodder. 250 bushels of Cotton Seed. Oats and Peas. I Gin jiud Condenser, Corn Sheller. Plantation Implements and Tools. 1 2-horsv Wagon and Body. Blacksmith's tools. 1 Dining-room Set of Furniture. 4 Bedroom* Sets of Furniture. Kitchen and Pantry Furniture. Crockery, dewing Machine and Book Case. The Core, F odder and Cotton Seed will be sold, iu tots to suit purchasers. -ALSO, I will sell at Sumter Court House on SALE DAY ii? February next 1 Horse. I Mule. Buggy and'Harce??. WAI. D. BL ANDING, Administrator, Cnn, tes;;, annexo. Sumter, January -13* b, 1885. LeConte Nursery. The largest grower of these Pears From cuttings. Buy no other and avoid Blight. Persons in vicinity of Sumter can obtain catalogues at the office of the Watchman and Southron, and also have their orders forwarded. W. W. THOMPSON, - ggiuhviUc, Gar MY ONLY WANT. If I con Id have my dearest wish fulfilled, And take my choice of all earth's treasures, too, Or choose from heaven whatsoe'er I willed, I'd ask for you. No man I'd envy, neither low nor high, Nor king in castle old or palace new ; I'd hold Golconda's mines, less rich than I, If I had yon.*' ^ Toil and privation, poverty and care, Undaunted I'd defy, nor fortune woo ; Having my wife, no jewel else I'd wear, If she were.yon. Little I'd care bow lovely she might be, How graced with every charm, bow fond, how true. E'en though perfection, she'd be naught to me, Were she not yon. There is more charm for my true loving heart In everything yon tt?ink, or ?ay, or do, Than all the joys that beaven could e'er im? part, Because it's you. BILL ASP. The main thing is for the preachers and all men to stop%s much fraud aod deception in trading as possible It is mighty bard to keep ^froiu it and keep eveu with the world. The white lies of the best merchants are numerous, and seem to be unavoidable. If they do not tell them outright they conceal the truth And consider it legitimate. I don't know that Atlanta candy is adul? terated, but if it is I know it is not so advertised. The best millers mix a little meal with their Sour, for if they dident they coolden t compete with those who do. The mean ones mix most any? thing that is white. When a merchant advertises his goods at cost or a -bank? rupt sale' he is just baiting human na? ture. Prints at 3 cents and Wamsutta mills at 6 is the same kind of a trap. They will make a run on one thing to makeup the loss on something -else. The customer is just as keen to cheat the merchant as the merchant is to de? ceive the customer. The other night a man whom I knew called for 50 cents' worth of grits, and the merchant, who was au old man and couldn't see wc!!, put him up fifteen pounds of rice, and he boasted to me of his bargain. A young man priced a suit of clothes the other day at ?12.- He did not buy, but came back next day and wanted it for $10. The merchant said: *My friend, 1 made a mistake in marking the suit at ?12, and I hope you won't take me up. I cant afford it.' Th? young man began to pull out bis money, when the merchant said : 41 will give you a dol? lar to let me out of that trade.' Bat he wouldent let him out, and the merchant said afterwards that that little trick would get 'eui nine times out of ten. Castor oil comes to us from the Northern markets in cans marked axle grease. That is to save freight and get a lower rate. Just so the piowmakers ship all their plows in casks and mark them iron bolts ; and matches are shipped as queensware, for of course it is no harm to cheat a railroad. A man is hardly credited of sound mind who would give up a conductor's check if he didn't call for it. He will use it again if he can. I was riding the other day with San? ford Bell, the old reliable, who for thirty-two long years has been swinging round the sharp curves of the State road, and has now got the regular sail? or's swing when he walks upon the ground, and can't stand still unless be is moving along. Said I : -Sanford, do folks ever try to dead beat you out of a ride ?' 40h, yes/ said be, 'but they most a]^ ways get caught.' .Bo you ever put anybody off in the woods ?' said I. -No, I hardly ever.do,' said he. *It has been a long time. Oh, no ; I can generally fix it op with 'em, and when I know it is a case of charity I help 'em along some. If I put anybody off it is always at a station. I won't leave 'em in the woods. You see, the road can better afford to do that than have an? other case like Elliott's.' While he was talking I noticed that be looked sharply through bis specta? cles at a mulatto who was close by, and suddenly he reached over to bim and said : 'Let me see that ticket you have got on your hat.' He took f.he little pice of blue paste? board, aod as he looked at it, smiled and said : -Well ! well ! well ! This is a brand new trick. When did you get this, my colored friend V The darkey grinned, but made no answer. The pasteboard was of the right color and was the right length, but wa's three times too thick, and bad - a ragged edge as though cut with a dull knife. 'Where are you going Y said Sanford. *To Atlanta,' said the darkey. .Well, it is $2 to Atlanta, and you must, hunt up your money.' 'I baiot got dat much,' said thc dar? key ; 4 'fore God, I aiot, boss.' .Well, let's see how much j ou have got,'said Sanford; 'pull out your eel skin.' The darkey looked through his wallet and could fiud but 95 cents, and de? clared that was all. ; .No,' said Sao ford, 'look again ; I thought I saw another nickel. You wouldn't tell me a lie about a nickel, would you V The darkey grinned as he replied : *I don' know, boss. When I is in a close place like di? I tells 'em three for a dime,' and he fairly cackled at the thought. It put Sanford in a good humor, and some of us were about to make up the missing change, when Sanford said 'No,' and whispered that be had more money and he would get it, and he did. For sb i rty-two years this old land pilot has bceu a conductor on this road, and will be until he dies, I reckon ; aod after that, if Swedenborg is to be be? lieved, he will run a train in heaven, a lightning train. Vi th silver wheels on silver rails, and angels for passengers. Folks do say that the locomotives know him, aud so do the cars, and the track, and the cattle along the line, and everything wears out but bim. He can tell a man who has paid from one who has not by looking at him, and he never calls on a man twice for his ticket. Wheo I asked him about the Elliott case he said that Doolittle put the Cap tajrj off, and Doolittle was right^ copsid~ ertng bis orders, but he had alwa thought that he and the Captain cou hare fixed it up some way. I exp? they could. Well, it was a funny case-a re? genuine lawsuit about nothing but sentiment. There was nothing ht but feelings, for he was let down gent and politely, and had only two miles walk, and his legs were long, and was pleasant weather, and the tra? was dry, and the Captain had good chance to count the number cross-ties io a mile. But laceratt feelings must be healed, and notbit but money will do it. Money is splendid balm for injured innocenc Judge Wright's speech in that case w? a marvel of pathetic eloquence and impudence amazing. He bad no cai worth a cent, and had it been s a bm i tte to tbe jury without argument the would not have given Elliott nioi? tba $50-just enough to carry the cosi and pay his lawyer a reasonable fe? But, great Jehosaphat ! how that eas did loom up and swell ! How like carbuncle did those sensitive feeling become, and what an awful laceration Strong men wept when he pictured th scene. 'Ab, gentlemen,' said he, 'this is bc a single instance of the haughty tyran ny of this monopoly, this monster, titi bloated, unfeeling' corporation. W are all at their mercy. Would to Go we could call back the days of ou fathers when there was not a ra it roa io the land, and all was peace and quie and contentment. I know that th bambie; honest men like you do no have need to travel much upon th i lordly highway, and when you do it i with a.reluctant fear that your right and your privileges are not perfect then -that you are not wanted, and yoi wait humbly about the depot, and whet the office opens you stick your monej through a hole in the wall and get youi ticket, aod wheo the huge leviathar comes thundering along you climb uj and enter a car and cast your eye; around for a seat. Nobody receive! vou at tbe threshold. The seats are al full or occupied. A fine-looking gen tleman with a silk hat spreads himsel on two. A cheeky drummer from Yan keetown is reclining on another, while bis feet and bis valise occupy the one opposite/ You dare not disturb sucb consequential gentlemen, and the con doctor will not disturb them either. You are left alone to wander from end to end, and finally venture into the smoking car and find a place among roughs and darkeys. 'But how is it with the men of influ ence, the gentlemen of parts, who have to be cultivated for their votes or their political power, or their power for the bench? They go to no ticket office, they pay oo money, aod when the cars approach their station the conductor meets them at the threshold and obse? quiously says : 'Come in, judge; come in, general; come into this palace- car where there U plenty of room.' And he ushers-him in and seats bim upon a red velvet cushion and places a silver spittoon at his feet. Does he pay? No, he has not paid for years. He has a free pass in bia pocket. He is a gen? tleman-one of the dignitaries of the land-and the dignitaries have all got them, from the Governor down to the members of the Legislature. And it is all for a purpose. It is to curry favor and prostitute independence and pervert justice. Why, even the judi? cial ermine is soiled with Joe Brown's passes, or it is sought to be. The judges of our highest tribunals have got them, and his honor upon this bench carries one in bis pocket.' The presiding judge 'was indignant, aod exclaimed in an excited voice : 'He has not, sir, and you have co right to make such assertion. You are prosti? tuting your privilege as an attorney. I have not a pass, and never had one. Confine your argument to the case, sir, or I will no*, permit you to go on.' Judge Wright made a graceful bow and said: *I beg your honor's pardon. I supposed that of course your honor had one. You are, I venture to say, the only exception, and it is an excep? tion so honorable and so extraordinary, sir, tbat a man of the world would al? most doubt your honor's sanity for not accepting it when it was teodered, for surely your honor will nnt assert that it was never tendered. Why, sir, your honor's refusal would be considered plausible ground to break your honor's will.' .Judge Wright, I shall certainly im? pose a heavy fine upon you if you con? tinue to go on after this fashion,' said bis honor. 'Well, may it please your honor,' said Judge Wright, *I shall endeavor to cooform my argument to your honor's views; but, sir. I claim to be the better judge of what is necessary and proper to say in behalf of my clieut, and if the fin6 must come, let it come. I know very well thc power of the court and the power of this corporation, but I shall not back down one jot or one tittle from my duty. Gentlemen of the jury, the sweat and toil of your fathers built this road, and the cost has been exacted from them and from us in taxes, but who has got it now ? A syn? dicate of foreigners, with Joe Brown to lead them. They are the lowest bid? ders, but they knew how-to use their money, and they set aside an honest bid that would have put into the treas? ury every year a hundred thousand dol? lars more, and now these foreigners are hot only grinding us for double toll on all our products, but they rudely and ignominiously expel us from their cars when they please.' -The judge -whispered all such things to that jury in such charming, fascinat? ing pathos, such pleading earnestness, such towering indignation, that they utterly forgot Elliott, and thought they were trying Joe Brown for stealing the State road. Some of them wanted to find a verdict for ?50,000. There were four trials and four verdicts for about ?4.500 each. The road got a new trial every time, but finally had it to pay. Such a speech was never heard before in that court house, and I reckon will never be again ; for the judge is grow? ing old, and will pans away without a successor to his wonderful gifts. BILL Aitr. - ti - Lula Hurst is again at home, and will probably give several performances id ?VJa^ta ju a few weeks. 1 Some Good Advice to the Girl? BY AN M OLD LADY." The Lancaster Review has a Very sensible letter from an old lady to the girls of that town, and closes with the following advice : 'And now let me give yon a few hints about things generally. Don't countenance dissipated, drinking young men. Your happiness in life depends greatly, aod I might say wholly, upon whom you marry. If you know that young man to be a wine-bibber or a profane swearer never form a matrimo? nial alliance with bim. He isn't worth having. Listen not to his lying prom? ises of temperance and reform. When he gets you io his clutches you'll rue the bargain. Think you that the leop j ard will change bis spots ? Beware of j the flatterer ! Don't entertain young men later than 10 o'clock at night. Ask them to retire, and if they are slow to respond do you withdraw yourself from the room. -Don't bang your hair. It is the most revolting practice of which my sex are ?guilty. When I was growing up we knew no such things as bangs, and the girls were more beautiful than they are now. Do you think bangs are becom? ing to girls ? Why are they not also becoming to men ? Do you not think that if the Creator had thought bangs would beautify the female sex He would himself have added that ornament? The most sensible mother of whom I have beard is she who told her daughter that she would bang her if she ever had^ her hair banged. Don't follow that banging practice any longer. ? 'Don't paint. Artificial beauty is the poorest kind of imitation. ( Yon need not try to improve on nature. If yon are not as good-looking as you think you ought to be, chide nature, but never paint. Try to make your ways pretty, and theo your face will assume a charming appearance. 'Lastly, for conscience sake, don't dip snuff. Tobacco chewing is bad enough, but snuff dipping is infinitely worse. The most heart-rending scene is to see th? snuff-box passing around, each lady taking a dip. Then follows a spell of spitting which would prove efficacious in a Chicago Gre. Snuff-taking is ef? feminating and destroying more women than any other cause of whicb I am aware. I am, indeed, sorry to know that mothers fiot only use it themselves, but permit and even encourage their daughters to use it. If I were a yoong man I would refuse to marry aoy woman who used the weed. And now, girls, if you ever need any more ad? vice just apply to the old lady. Japanese Girls. The Japanese girl, when she goea into company, paints ber face white, her lips and the corners of her eyes red, with two slate-colored spots on her forehead. She would be thought immodest if she did not do so, as being so conceited as to think her complexion did not need improve? ment. The children's shoes are made of blocks of wood secured with cord. The stocking resembles a mitten, hav? ing a separate place for the great toe. As these shoes are lifted only by the toes, the heels make a rattling sound as the owners walk, which is quite stunning in a crowd. They are not worn in the house, as they would injure the soft straw mats with which the floors are covered. You leave your shoes at the door. The beauty of the human foot is seen in the Japanese. They have no corns, no ingrowing nails, no distorted joints. Our toes are cramped until they are deformed, and are in danger of extinction. The Japanese have the full use of their toes, aud to them they are almost like fingers. Nearly every mechanic makes use of his toes in holding his work, and I have dragged a Japanese youth across a platform by his merely holding on with his toes. Every toe is fully de? veloped. Their shoes cost two cents, and will last six months. -H ? ? -ii Moody Vindicated. The following from some of our ex? changes bas been widely circulated, and we are glad to know that Mr. Moody declares that it is an error. He has always felt and expressed a high regard for the christian character of Lee and Jackson, and most certainly never used the expressions attributed to him below. This is the extract alluded to: When Moody, the evangelist was in New York in January last, he paint? ed Lee and Jackson as devils and made Grant a saint. Mr. B. D. Core, a well known citizen of Bichmond, Ya., says of the discourse : 'In the course of his remarks it suit? ed his purpose to illustrate the charac? ter of Jesus Christ and the devil-but how? He said, in substance, that it was the custom of Jesus Christ, in his parables, to use, as examples, those persous, characters, and sceoes with which the people to whom he was speak? ing were most familiar, and, said he, 'I will do likewise. The rebel leaders, Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and the peerless patriot, Grant, are names which are familiar to you all. He then pro* ceeded to divest Lee and Jackson of every honorable characteristic. In their religious characters they were worse than the followers of Mahomet. In their moral lives the life of Nero in comparison was as white as the driven snow. 'In a.word,' said he, 'by every illustration and animus of tbeir lives and actions, they more forcibly repre? sented the character of the King of Darkness than any names which my knowledge of the world's history enable me to call to mind since Judas betrayed the Lord of Glory.* He then proceeded to clothe Gen. Grant in all the grandeur of a god, so far as the extent of words could do, io robbiog heaven of its glory, and God of his attributes with which to adorn his hero Grant-his ideal repre? sentative of Christ.' Mr. Wm. Bucknell bas presented to to the Philadelphia Episcopal city mis? sion his beautiful residence at Chesnut Hill, valued at $75,000, for a home for consumptives. What Our Editors Say. *_ Jefferson Davis. Montgomery Advertiser. the life aod virtue* of Jefferson Da vis are 8 shining light wherever in the world brilliant talent is admired, devo? tion to principle honored and patriot? istnabeloved. There is no stain on his brow that all the cleansing power of truth will not sometimes wash away. There are shadows on his heart and life, but they would vanish like tears in Heaven if bis people's- love and trust could make sunshine with the wishing. Jefferson Davis is one of history's few great men, great io the noon, grand in the solemn hash of the night that has fallen on his hopes. Heroically and and uncomplainingly he treads his thorny way to the grave, bearing on his single bead the weight of a thousand wrongs, and wearing io his single heart a million shafts, and wards them from bis people. He did no more than a I thousand others. He was no more a .traitor than all the millions whom he led. He was true to us, and we will be true to his name and fame. He is the grandest character on the stage of life to-day, and amid the sombre shad? ows of bis setting suo, he stands the image of all that is dignified in charac? ter and manly in sorrow. Besides the smirched and load pitied hero of the victors who spit at bim, he is like the statute of a god beside a question mark. Jefferson Davis is not an issue in pol? itics. He is not an issue between the sections. His life belongs to the past .and to history. The Southern people sorely deplore any dragging of his name before the ptfblic. They shrink from listening to the mean history they are powerless to stop. Bat until the end of time no swarm of poison files will ever busz around his name and the* South? ern people be wanting in acclaim that he and they are one. That he has been made to bear so much of their misfortune is pitiful, and we can at least say to his ascuscrs, '.The strokes at him are strokes at us. We shuffle nothing on bis overburdened shoulders. He is a well beloved leader, in misfor? tune, we are part and parcel of a reuni? ted people, and secession is dead.' The Southern Senators are right. A Boyal Brood of Paupers. New York World. That excellent English lady, Victoria Alexandrina, has made a highly re? spectable Queen, and the English peo? ple are justly proud cf her as a wife and as a mother. There are millions of other ladies in the British dominions, let us hope, who are faithful to their marriage vows and do not abuse their children. But Victoria Alexandrina comes of a stock not remarkable for domestic virtues ; and when the people think of ber sad old rip of an uncle, George IV., and recall the long line of chartered libertines of Xbe family, they not unnaturally give her especial credit for virtues which any decent woman ought to possess Bot Victoria has nevertheless been an expensive luxury to her people. When we remember- that hundreds of thous ands of the British population are in the English poor-houses; that other hun dreds of thousands who have Betty Higdon's horror of 'the parish' are ab solutely starving outside ; that again other hundreds of thousands are toiling their lives out at occupations which scarcely bring them in enough wages to keep body and soul together, it does seem outrageous that a non-producicg, idle family, of no possible use to the country except to supply a figurehead for the Government, should be drawing millions upon millions out of the tax payers' pockets, and continually asking for more. When the Queen married a beggarly German Prince, the English people were called upon to grant him a peosioo of ?30,000, or $150,000, a year in perpetuity. Besides this Prince Al bert was made a Field Marshall in the army on foll pay, and had the manage? ment of the estates of the Duchy of Cornwall (the hereditary appanage of the Prince of Wales), which bring in an average of about ?20,000, or $100, 000, a year. At the same time Albert lived rent free ; his board, with that of bis wife, came out of the Privy Purse, and bis wife and children were no ex pense to him for clothes, shoes or edu? cation. As the Queen never allowed him to go out alone, and watched him as a cat would watch a mouse, he could not have incurred any personal outdoor expenses. It is fair to conclude, therefore, that Prince Albert in his twenty-one years of married life put by a handsome sum of money. His pension and the Duchy of Cornwall looneys in that period ag gregated $5,250.000. Whatever he saved of this he left to the Queen, for it is notorious that ber thrifty Majesty never allowed him to give a stiver to bis poor German relations. The Queen herself has had large grants from the people and is said to be worth many milions in ber own right, for she is economical almost to pen? uriousness, except where the public moneys are concerned. Seven of ber children have been one , after the other granted large sums of ? money and pensions by the Govern- j ment, like right royal paupers, and 1 now the eighth and last is to receive a ( liberal donation on her forthcoming t marriage with Prince Battenberg, whom the irreverent Londoners insist on call-1 \ ing 'Prince Batter-pudding.' If Victoria Alexandrina was a poor ( widow, dependent herself on charity, ( the British people would be bound in a honor and justice to support her ch il- \ dren flo long as the mummery of a \ .crowned head' is kept up. But iuas- t much as she is a female Vanderbilt, aDd \ a chronic old miser to boot, it seems , outrageous that a country which has c millions of its Buffering people starving ? for bread should continue to pile up } taxes for the purpose of pouring more ^ money into the already plethoric royal ] coffers. t The Richest in the Union ! c Colonel A. K. McClure," who bas ? been writing a series of letters to the Philadelphia Times, in speaking of Sputh Carolina, says : 'But the Palmetto State has made the grandest progress during the last eight years, aod, omitting the wealth reckoned for slates, she is richer to-day than ever before, and with abondant evidcoce that tbe era of development', of intelligent bosiness progress abd of rapidly m ul ti ply io g wealth, ia just be? ginning its great work. It is naturally the richest State of the whole Tjnioo, without any exception. It has the best* soi), with every advantage for its most1 profitable cultivation, of any pan of the South ; and tbe people who have been born upon it, and who have lived in the luxury of superabundance and again felt the poverty of helplessness, are just now mastering the problem that a Yankee, compelled to He awake at night to invent a method to get his' pork and beans or pumpkin pie, would have mastered in an hour. There is no other part of the South where so little labor will produce so much, but with the richest uplands skirting the Blue Ridge, and with tbree-foorths of the State adapted to corn, South Carolina has ever been a buyer of bread. She should have five times her present pop? ulation, and be able to feed it from ber own fields without impairing her more valuable crops of cotton and rice, and every pound of ber cotton could be more profitably spun and woven on ber own superabundant water powers, tiran any other place on the continent. The new South whispers of tbese achieve? ments, and that is why the sister Caro? linas are more hopeful and more pros? perous to-day than at any time since they sum mooed the angel of ?orrow to shadow the land. Jefferson Davis. Fairfield Netot and Herald, He has reaped honors for himself aod his name has been recorded in his? tory and written opoo the highest niche of the pinnacle of fame. Yee, millions love bim still, and will contiene to love him, for he has endeared himself to tbe Soutbero people by the hardships which they all bore in common, and they would gladly lift from bis tottering frame thc willful, malicious and lying assault made by General Sheratan. Why should be, of all men engaged is tbe late war, be held up to the world aod branded as a rebel and a traitor ? it HI like attacking a corpse, for they well know that Mr. Davis would not bave tbe opportunity of measuring words with Shem in the Senate. The cowardice of the attack upon this hon? ored chieftain is ouly surpassed by the place where it was made. But ready men were present to advocate his cause and tell his opponents to their faces tbat we still honored and loved him, and in doing so we felt we bad the right. We all acted a part in that struggle, and feel that it is unjust to visit our in? firmities upon the silvered locks of this utan, above all others. We had hoped that the sectional issue was past and buried, but it cannot be so long as our Northern friends continue to flirt in the faces of Southern Senators its bloody record. We trust the time is not far distant in the future when it will be buried beyond resurrection, and over the. grave of fraternal strife Sow the peaceful waters of oblivion. . The Most Desperate Kaval Fight on BecorcL Full particulars bave been received af the boarding of the Huacho, a war ship of the government of Ecuador, by Alfaro and the crew of the Alajaela, a war ship of the revolutionists* The iction seems to have been one of the most gallant and sanguinary ever fought }n board a vessel. The following de? scription is extracted from a report made by an officer of the Nueve de Julio, one of the government vessels : 'When leaving Ballenitas we left orders for the Huacho to disembark the troops she bad ou board in Manta. This order was not obeyed. Subsequently, a num? ber of revolutionists went on board of her, in the belief that she was the Ala juela. Thence the Huacbo went to Bahia, thinking that Alfaro was there, with troops on board bis vessel. Gen? eral Flores, wbo was in command of the government expedition, had previously ordered one of the small steamers of bis convoy to go South and order the troops on board the Huacho to be landed in a different and more strategic poiot than Bahia itself, for which they were origi? nally intended. On receipt of this older she moved in the indicated direc? tion. Low water prevented our en? trance afterwards, and, therefore, we returned towards Bahia. The Alajaela, however, having moved previously, had passed through some of the side chan? nels, knew where the Huacho was, koew how many men there were on board and determined to attack ber. At about midnight we heard firing, j We at once steamed' in thfl direction. As we approached the firing grew heav? ier, and was steadily kept Op. On ap? proaching the scene of the combat, our commander determined to attack, taking the Alajaela between us. Gatling guns, rifles and even machetes had been abandoned and men were engaged in Dne of those sharp encounters from which few emerge alive. This death struggle was a horrible )oe, and yet the men of the Alajuela eft the Huacho, of which they were in jossession. and returned to their own rossel. They resisted our attack, pass id between the Huacbo and us. and hen returned to the former vessel. Then we endeavored to ram and sink ier by the steru. We failed, and she it once attacked us, and even endeav jred to carry us by boarding, but failed, ?wing to the play of our machine guns ind rifles. Then she took refuge be lind the Huacho. We followed her, )ut she renewed her attack on us. At his moment one of our shells fell on ter stern-deck and set fire to it. Then re determined to board her, but one of ?ur guns burst, tearing up a part of the leek, and killing some of our gunners. ?Ve pursued the 'burning Aiajuela, vhich, nevertheless, went alongside the luacho and endeavored by numerous ne th ods to set ber on fire. Finding hat the vessel was on fire, and that be lould not capture his two opponents, >nd that even if he extinguished the lames he had no coal on board with vhich to continue the unequal eombat. Jen. Alfaro gave orders to run the ves-, el ?ashore. On grounding, those on >oard threw themselves. into the sea. Jonie cried for help, and we sent boats tb them. I'm mediately afterwards we boarded the Huacho. The spectacle was a* bombte one,- The deck was a mass* 3 of dead abd wounded. Captain, Gfficers and men were dead or dying few, indeed, escaped from this sanguin? ary contest. The ?tajuela is burned to the water's; edge. We have very few prisoners/ Kbt a Beggar? .gentlemen/ be began th a smooth molasses sort of voice, *I am dead broke but no beggar, fwant to raise abott three dollars, but P shall do it io a legitimate manner. 3few, then, let me ask you to inspect this.' He took from his pocket a piece of iron chain as large as bis thumb and containing six links, and passed it around: After it had carefully been inspected by e?ch of the party he con titled :. .I want tb Bet my overcoat which is .certainly worth $10, against $S in cash that nene of you can sepera?e one link from the others.' The piece of efrain was passed around again to bc more closely scrutinized, and finally one of tSbe party, who was a machinist, returned' i$ with* the remark :: 'And I want to put np that amount against your overcoat foal you can't db! it yourself/ *\E>owe !' said the stringer, as he puK ed off his coat. j Coat and cash Were put np in the' I hands of a stakeholder, and the stran j ger asked the crowd to follow him;. He* I walked acrqss tire* street and toto a; [blacksmith shop, and picking up a barn-* mer and eold-chisel' be deliberately cut .out a link. The crowd stood around tlifee sn many p?mfcins at af county fairy ' [ but when the str?nger held up che link sand claimed the stakes the' machin? ist recovered bis wits sufficiently to ex* [elaitn? j 'Sold by a professional dead beat. The mosey is yours, old fellow, but h*f : exaelly thirty seconds after yotr reeeive ! it 1 shall begin to kick, and ye? bad i better be twenty rods off \ I 'Tnanks-glad to' have met -four?? i good day !' replied the stranger, and he' was out of sight ia sereu seconds. D?r?tl Free Pres?. - m 'it ??- - The foffndry of Tozer & Dial, of (V ; lembia, wars recently sold, Coi. Thosv : Dodamesd' ?nd Ma|. James ?v*?*erso? being thc purchasers. The sale was* j rendered necessary by the deatb of Mr. 'Tozer. > . j There are some pessimists about nero* ! who vent'rfre'to intimate that Mr. A. Kv McClure's rose-colored vitew of the con"' .ditton of South C?rofhne may be some? what attributed to the hospitality andf the champagne*of tbe Columbia Club. ; Winnsboro Net?'S and Hera&d. Colonel A. ti.. McClure, pf?fr??tof of the Philadelphia times, who is on ? visit to the Exposition in New Orfeansy was arrested fb> the latter city, Ja?mrry 19, on complaint of one Dauphin, main I ager of the Louisiana Lottery Company, I because of Colonel McClure's s?? i ct ores I on the lottery company. ; A Baltimore paper says that city I alone pot up tbe past season 14,400,000 cans of peaches, 2.000,000 cans of S peas, SOO,000 Cans of string beans, i 100,080 cans of pears, b*.OO0M& esta* of tomatoes and 1,000,00& cans of fruits and other vegetables. The Mississippi Talley produces 185,000 tons of cotton seed, ote-fourth of which is marketed io Memphis, tn neb of it being shipped in a erode state from tbat point to Italy, whence H is returned to fb is country in the-sba pe cf *p?re olive oiL' A new clock has r*?en invented, ?u?Y - is coming into use in Europe, which is warranted by its manufacturers to roo for five years without either winding or regulation. Tho Belgian Government placed one in a railway station in 1881? sealed with the government seal,- and il has kept perfect time ever since*. C. C. McCoy, who dropped out of tue* Union army at the close of tbe war and settled in Chester, died last week of consumption in Charlotte. He had been an activ? and energetic' leader of the Republican party in Chester. He left his property to a brother in Penn? sylvania. A. B. Wilson, th? inventor of the Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, has been sent to the insane asylum, a bofeless wreck in mind-and body. Th? cause of this sad ending of a career that might have been glorious is drink. Un? able to stand the prosperity that has come from his invention and raised him from a poor mechanic to a rich maa, he contracted the habit that lias rained bim. South Carolina can boast ot caving the smallest cotton mill not only in the' Sooth, but the smallest in the United States. This manufactory, located at Westminster, ls not only the smallest factory in the country, but, according to its retort, is the most profitable. The capital employed is $4,000 ; the j mill contains two hundred spindles, op? erated by seven hands. This spins cot= ton direct from the seed, and reports 4 profit o? 40 per cent. The Liverpool (Eng.) Post reports an enormous child near Aberdeen; Scotland. It says : -'This young levia? than is only six years old, yet ne turns the scales at the almost incredible weight of 206 pounds. Height is 4 feet 5 inches; circumference of bare chest 50 inches ; circumference of bare thigh BS inches. Muchalls is proud of its prodigy, and he passes among the villagers by the name of the 'lorant Jumbo.1 This giant in embryo has ex? cited great interest throughout the north of Scotland, and to a certain extent has made the village of Muchalls famous.' On Tuesday of last week the leading" railroads in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama formed at Augusta the' Georgia Traffic Associated Fast Freight and Passenger Lines Association, com? prising tbs Georgia Central, South Car? olina, Augusta and Port Royal, Geor? gia Railroad. Western Atlaotic, South? western, Motgomery and Eufala, West? ern Alabama, Augusta and Knoxville' Railroad and several shorter lines, em-' bracing 2,545 miles, and the connect? ing steamship ?lines from Savannah, Charleston and Port Royal to New' York, Bqst^ ?hiladel?hia. a^d-M?r : m*. - -? ?. i- '?? .r ^-?T-:-"->?= A ~ ? .v..