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i tBK SC?t?Stt%?TCB?tAN, Et?bHiW^^, 18*0. Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.1 THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established jane, 186? 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1886. Jiew Series-Toi. lt. No. 37. , Publiait* maj Tueida*,~ ' -BY THS . Watchman and Southron PuUishiny\ Company, * | SUMfERTlS" Cl Two Dollars per annum-ii? advance. 0?e Square, first insertion..'..r..?.......:.$? Wtf Every subsequent insertion.*. 50 J ? Contracts for three months, or longer "will be made at reduced rates. AH communications which subserve private in tere? ts wit! be charged foras ad ver ti semen ti. j Obituaries and tributes of respect will be j caargedfor. *; z \ .^^^e^cei.aod notices of deaths ?ub-. For job work or contracts for advertising address Watchman and Southron, or apply at ; the Office, to N. G. OSTEEN, Business Manager, j NO POISON IN THE PASTRY PSEP. ?.Quill, tte-.tarerCm***, f?.Ae^M Stelle* tel y auul M*? MUefr?U Tr<o?K wk!eh ti?y ??de. FO$ AXP TR?E FRUIT ^ *?lfOB TjfET STAND A*Q5? Price Baking Powder Co,, CMcsco, nu st. Louis, MO. ?AKC?S or Br? Mot's Cr wm Baking Powdtr B?t Drj Hop Yent; LIGHT HEALTHY BREAD The best dry hop yeast in the world. Bread raised by this yeast is light, white and whole? some HKe our grandmcthery. delicious bread GROCERS SELL THEM. f*?0>??0 BY THE Price, Battra Powder Co,? Chtcacot UL St. Louis, Mo. TRADE MAR IC % REGISTERED. U09 * iHl ?J*W*&St,PHiI?,P*. For>?5nx?mt?ox, .jJtkjn?< Bronchitis} ?j J&*P??**a ^Catarrh* Readache,I)elili~ .^';-Rfcurw?Uso,* Neuralgia, and all Chronic and Nervous Disorders. A CARD. We, the undersigned, having received great sod permanent benefit from the use of "CO M P??ND OXYGEN," prepared and adminis U tered by Das. STaarrr ? PALES, of Phiiadel ? ph?a, and bei ag satisfied that it is & new dis? covery ia medical science, and ali that is claimed for it, consider it a duty which we owe to the many thousands who are suffering from chronic and so-called "incurable" dis eases to-do all \hat we cao to make its virtues known and to inspire the public with COD5 . dence. We have personal knowledge of Drs. Star key 6 Palen. They are educated, intelligent, ^ccd conscientious physicians, who will not, we are sure, make any sta teme o t, which they do not know or believe to be true, nor pub? lish any testimonials or reports of cases which ore not gen atoe. WM. D. KELLY, Member of Congre** from Philadelphia. T. S. ARTHUR, Editor and Publisher "Arthur'* Bom Magazine" Philadelphia. Y. L. CONRAD Editor of "Lutheran Observer," Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUKE 1, 2882. ? rn order to meet a natural inquiry in re? gard to oar professional and personal stand? ing, and to give increased confidence in out statements and in the genuiness of our testi? moni?is and reports of cases, we print thc above card from gentlemen well and widely known and of the highest personal character. - Our 11 Treatise on Compound Oxygen" con? taining a history of the discovery of and mode of action of this remarkable cu ra ti v< -agent, and a large record of surprising cures in Consomption. Catarrh, Neuralgia, G.-oocbi tis, Asthma, etc , and a wide range of Chron ic diseases, will be sent free. Address Drs. STARKEY" & PALEN. llOd t Hil Girard Street, PhUadelpnia., Pa ?*. H. Folsom, I*. W. Folsom -ESTAB'D 1868. 1 H. FOLSOM & BRO Practical Watchmakers and Jewelers Main-Street, opposite John Reids, SUMTER, S. C., Clocks, Silverware, Jewelry, Spectacles Cutlery, Fishing Tackle, Violin Strings, Machine Needles, Oils, dec. Repairing of Watches* Clocks and Jewelr; promptly done and? satisfaction guaranteed. HOE CTUT YOUR ROW* j/... One Summerlya farmer's boy Was Boeing out the corn, -?, A ad. moodily bad listened long . '\J Tabear the dinner horn. The welcome blast was heard at last, r And .dow?o he.dropped his hoe, -'^ut4be*goOd man shouted in his ear, "My boy, hoe out your row." P A j though a-hard one was the row, To use a plowman's phrase, And the, boy, as sailors have it, ; Beginning now to "haze;" "I can," be said, and manfully Again he seised his hoe, And the good man smiled to see Tbe boy hoe but his row. The lad the text remembered, . And learned tbe lesson well, That perseveraace to the end ?w. i, A J .Instill, nobly .telU ; Takeconrage, man; resolve you can, Aod strike a vigorous blow ; In life's wide field of varied toil Always "hoe out your row." The Value of Libraries. The Past, Present and Future of Public Libraries in South Carolina -Their Use fulness to a Commu? nity. i ?The followinpexcellent article, writ? ten by Dr. J. fife Carlisle, the distin? guished Pr?sidait of Wofford College, at S partan burg; appears in the Carolina Spartan : On a harried visit to Colambas, Ga., I was glad to find a free public library, in successful operation. No time was fo?ud to visit the room, bat proof of its existence and: usefulness were seen. It began five years ago, simply and quiet? ly. No one gave a great deal. A rent? ed baildiog is used, though the mem? bers hope soon to bay or build. There I are two sources of income-the regular does of members (one dollar admission at? Jben twenty ?Ve cents monthly for rtf& use of thYbcoks) and occasional en? tertainments. All are admitted to the reading room and library, while none bat members take out books. The la? dies of the city have famished comfor ; stably with piano, &c , a room for their .use.when they > t?ish to spend an hoar socially, or in reading. Before two j years had passed the following results j were evident, as a published report de? clares: The n amber of books used, in pro? portion to the membership, showed a deci . de&tncrease. %ht character ot the books called Ter was higher. The young peo? ple of both sexes showed increasing in? terest. Teachers and advanced pupils soon saw the helps offered to them. The citizens, young business men es? pecially, visited it more and more. It : verf soon^g?a to attract the attention Lof tfaosie'?t^vis??orVtp the city. In a smaller town in Georgia a be? nevolent lady, with an ample private library, gives to che citizens the almost unrestricted ase of her books. j? "^CUarleston has not to-day a large free ; sihgy. iNJ # \ i Just before the- war Hoc. Wm. C. Preston gave his very valuable collec? tion of books to the City of Columbia for public use. Cheraw has had an efficient lyceum and a select library for a generation. ;;4g^mety HSlgtaimy 7ears ago, the wealthy planters" naa a public library,' the results of which can still be traced in living men and women. Two generations ago Camden had a good start for a library. Georgetown has had a good library for more than a century. Beaufort and other seaboard towns have had libraries, more or less, liberally open. A generation ago Un? ion had a library that was well used by v "uieln^?rs^^herr^fam?lies. Other in . stances, rio doubt, could be cited from the' unwritten history of oar State. But. is there to-day in South Carolina a large free library ? -. The generation of young people, just now rushing oat of their teens, have not had a fair start in life, in all respects. The times have not been favorable to public enterprises, like that we are now considering. Now is a good time for ail our people to take a step forward. Towns, like individuals, reap as they sow. A growiog young city cannot live by railroads and kindred improve? ments alone. These are means, high, noble, necessary, but they are means. States and cities do not live to build railroads They build railroads, that they may be benefited in all possible interests by them. A community that has no men in it able and willing to make money is poor indeed, and mast forever stay so. A community that aims only to make money, without re? gard to its noble uses, never, never can be rich in any general sense. Money is too valuable tobe either uselessly hoarded or uselessly spent. A speaker in Spartan borg, a few years ago, said strikingly, "Money can buy everything, it seems, except-its own security or perpetuity." A good portion of the wealth of the people should be invested tn the right kind of securities. A gen? erous part of personal or social wealth ought to be spent in protecting and in? suring the rest. Our citizens will soon have an unu? sual opportunity to start an enterprise that promises much for our people and their successors. Business men are in? terested. For the sake of your clerks helo to furnish a good library. Pa? re- J are deeply interested. Many bad io Sen ces are abroad. Multiply and di? versify the good. Of another town u oar State, it has been said that it has two very distinctly marked currents ol young men, one as good as any com munity is blessed with, and one Perhaps in some sad, weighty sense, i similar remark can be made about even other town or city around us. It ii worth some special effort now to increasi one of these currents and to lessen th< other. When the long, cold evenings of thi winter of '85-6 set in, let the tiree yoong men be invited to a cheerfu room, where the best company, Hvin< and dead, may help them to build up 1 virtuous, noble character. Let even young man spare some of his money t< help himself and others in this way Oar citizens may at ooce build a librar; that will be one of the attractions whicl st rao ger s will seek. Enterprises like this often becom< diffusive and contagious. Take a grea example, already worked out. In 185' j Geo. Peabody left to the city of Balti I moro, (where some of bis early busines years were passed,) more- than a rai ll iot of dollars to endow a free public librar] and m assam. In 1873 Jobos Hopkin left, bj will, ?be largest amount ere; bequeathed by any one io our hist benevolent purposes. About i millions were equally divided be a university and a hospital. Ji this time a wealthy citiien is open six different portions of that ben city, large free libraries, so that one can have near and easy ace books. He has bad the good set do this io his lifetime. May h loo g to enjoy the blessings that h nobly earned, and when dead i grateful city long associate the nat Pratt, Hopkins and Peabody a! who could not only lay up, but la well. Take a smaller instance, still worked out in the future, near 01 tant. (The writer, here records a or rather a confident prediction, \ he will not live to see verified.) young man will be helped in the cal, golden years of his you?h, b; books here opened to him, with i easy reach. He will be moved to : money, as rapidly as he can hon* His life will be a success in every He will feel it a privilege to enlarg good influences that have so gr benefitted him. Having given ' tan burg the example of a sucee business man, he will be glad to an enduring proof of bis affection f( fellow men. And thus his nnste name will be joined in the minds o next generation here io honorable ciation with that of Lionel Chai Kennedy. Turning the Basc?is Ou The President Again Shows Hand as a Reformer. WASHINGTON, April 6.-The j master at Rome, N. iV was to-day pended from further duty in his c by order of the Presiden t, and Ji B. Corcoran bas been designate! perform the duties of the office in stead. The President proposed tbe moval of the postmaster and nomin Corcoran to the Senate at the re session, and as it failed to take ac on the nomination the Postmaster ( eral applied to the President for his rec ti oas ia the case and received a v ten communication, which has t procured from the department and ii follows : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 4, 188c Hon. Wm. F. Vilas, Postmaster Gi DEAS SIR : In a nsw ; r to your inc ry as to the disposition u> be made the case of the postmaster at Bo Oneida County, N. Y.; which was ] seoted to the Senate on the 26t! March, with the proposition that he removed for cause, and which prop tion was not acted upon prior to the journment cf that body on the 2ni April, I have to say that to mc it cN ly seems to be my duty to exercise prompt action in this case all the po which the present condition has lef my bands, so far as it may be done dependently of the Senate, to pro the interests of the government, to T dicate the laws which have been en; ed for the regulation of the postal t vice, and to impress upon Federal fice-bold ers the fast that no indulga will be granted by the Executive those who violate the law or neg] their public duties. This pos tm asl under Section 4044 of the; Uni States Revised Statutes and the regt lions of the Postoffice De pa rt me was required to transmit to the Pep; ment, weekly, a report of the busto done by bim in the money order brat of bis office. It appears, from an c ciel report of an inspector of the Pc office Department, now before me, s which was submitted to a Committee the Senate while the proposition to move this official was before it, that examination of his office was ordered the 26th day of January, 1885, in ci sequence of the fact that no such wet ly reports bad been made since the < day of December, 1884. It furtl appears from this report that such < animation developed a most disgrace confusion in ali that pertained to I accounts and financial conaition of t office ; that there had been no entry the money order cash book since Ju 1884, and that, as might have been ? pected, there was deficiency in t money order account of more than $7 and in the postal accounts of more tb $400. There is, I think, no dispi touching these facts. The deficien has been refunded to the govern me under an arangement with one of t surities of the delinquent official, a he attempts to excuse himself for t condition of his office by alleging ti: his assistant had entire charge of t money order business as well as of ; other reports of the office. In makii such an excuse as this, this effie admits, it seems to me, a violation plain duty in turning over the busioe ? of his office to an assistant without at pretext of sickness or unavoidab . absence of the postmaster, which is co ? trary to a reasonable construction 1 Section 4031 of the Revised Statute . which provides that *In case of tl ! sickness or unavoidable absence of tl ? postmaster of any rooney order po? office he may, with the approval of tl . Postmaster General, authorize the chi i clerk or some other clerk employ* ? therein to act in his place and to di f charge all the duties required by law - such postmaster.* By the claim no . made that the assistant, having had fu i charge, is responsible for the delii J quenoy rind irregularities complaine s of, the postmaster also appears to coi 3 tradict his own sworn statement, mat 3 to the department as late as Septemb* 3, 1884. to the effect that he bimse 3 had performed for the preceding quart* 1 the monev order business in his offre I except ?vhen necessarily absent. I shall do all that is in my power to ri & the public of officials who exhibit sue f loose ideas of their duty to the goverr 0 ment. The fact that I have before m . documents signed by many residents < f the city where this postmaster is aj ii pointed, and who belong to both polit cal parties, asserting their entire cont & dence in his honesty and fidelity t demonstrates the unfortunate facilit r with which such papers may be obtain - ed and gives rise to an unpleasant sus s picion touching upon the genera 1 standard of political honesty. If I can f not remove this delinquent postmastei B I can surely suspend him. This I hav r j determined to do promptly; and4 desire you at once to present to rn* papers necessary for that purpose, the designation of James B. Core to perform the duties of postmaster place of tbe official thus saspen Yours truly, (signed) GROVER CLE VELAN Selecting a Pastor. Tbe President is devoted to memory of his mother. This shown by bis being sworn into offic the carefully preserved Bible thal mother had given bim. when boy. It seems alsothat the m en tic her name, in connectiou with, the lection of a pastor, settled his m?m the direction of Rev. Byron Sunderli tt is - stated that thirty-five years Dr. Sunderland was pastor of a P by terian Church in Buffalo, and c from that city to Washington. Am those who attended bis church tl w?s Mrs. Cleveland, the Preside mother, and in all probability the 1 boy. Grover, was often taken to 1 the man who now will preach to bia President. Miss Cleveland some c ago recalled to the President's" mind many times she had heard her mol speak in warmest terms of re? for the pastor, Byron Sunderland. < was then noted for his impassioned quence and sturdy seal. Dr. Sunderland's unpopularity Washington dates from the time tl not content with admitting cole members to bis church, which was ri enough, he permitted Frederick Do lass, who is not a clergyman, to pre in hts pulpit. This was 20 years a but not forgotten and apparently forgiven, for, up to the renting of pew by the President, Mr. Sunder!: has had but a small congregation. It mains to be seen what effect the Pr dent's presence in bis pew, next Sum perhaps, will have upon the attenda or resources of the church. In I connection it may not be imperti? to recall that once, when Gen. Gran then President-visited Mr. Beech? church, the congr?gation, before be formally dismissed, broke ranks i rushed towards the great man with nous eagerness and curiosity. I Beecher's face grew red and a thu nd cloud gathered on bis brow. Rais his band for silence, he ejaculated, ? all the power of his lungs : 'This the house of God. and not intended the worship of UJyssess Graot or t other man ! Back to your pews un ti dismiss you !' The congregation dr ped Grant, for the moment, s huddled back to their regular pl ac It was spitefully.said, at the time, tl Mr. Beecher was not really indignant account of the disrespect shown to Gi but because his flock had trooped an to another idol than himself. We doubt not that President Cle1 land, when be goes to church, v deprecate hero-worship as much as pastor does, and that, a proper h um il will suffuse his soul when listening the. old pastor who once thrilled t spirit of his mother,, who, from a big! sphere, may look. down, approvingly her strangely favored son.-Chroni and Constitutionalist. A Wedding of Little F?op] . NEW YORK, April 8:-The 'Cbur of the Holy Trinity was thronged tbose anxious to see the marriage Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb and the Lil putian Count Prince Magri. The ; sembly was notably men and worn who are famous figures in societ mingled with theatrial celebrities, po ticians, clubmen, dudes and policeme When the bridal party slowly eot< ed they looked like a procession brilliantly dressed dolls. Ahead wal ed Major Newell, the groom's best ma with Miss Lucie Adams the tiny bride maid, leaning on bis arm. The Cou Magri, with his bride on bis arm, wal ed next. The bride was dressed as el gantly as she was on February 1 1863, when she walked amid a s?mil . throng in Grace Church, to be marri i to Gen. Tom Thumb. Her robust lin ; form was enveloped in a gown of lave der satin, brocaded in uncut velvet, had a court train as long again as tl bride. The front was decked with la ! beaded with pearls. The neck was lc ? and the sleeves were short. Ciaderel slippers of lavender satin adorned h i feet which loosely fit a No. 6 infa . shoe. The slippers were buttoned ov ; handsome lace stockings. A con ! that blazed with diamonds held her j 1 black hair coiled at the back of h : head. A diamond necklace with s pet ; dant glittered around her throat. Di i mond bracelets sparkled at ber wrist [ and lavender kid gloves, that Dear ; reached to her shoulders covered hi ' shapely white hands and arms. Tl f gloves were of the size known as 'foi i and a half infants,' and they were mac ? on a special block. In ber left band si i carried a bouquet of pink Ia France rosi - that was much bigger than ber beat f Nobody who looked at her smiliog fa? , would have thought it possible that sb j had passed her fortieth year. ? The Count Magri was in evenin - dress. A big solitaire made his g lost ? shirt luminous, and a gold linked chai f dangled at the waistcoat as he walkec 1 The little major was in evening dres: - too, and the bridesmaid wore a gown i f white satio, cut walking length an 7 low neck and short sleeves. Lou 1 white gloves almost hid her white anni - and a blush mantled her comely fact 1 Her light wavy hair was cut short an - curled at the neck, and a graceful bau s waved about her sparkling blue eyes. r Rector Watkins stood amid the ma? f of Easter flowers at the chancel io r flowing white surplice, smiling an , awaiting the party. Silver haired Wil I liam Higby, of Bridgeport, who i j executor of Gen. Tom Thumb's est?t li under his will, took the bride's hand ii - his own big white-gloved palm and gav e her away to the Count formally, with f bow and a gracious smile. Miss Lue - Adams picked the tiny wedding ri nj - from the pocket of her gown and th - Count fitted it on the bride's finger witl , a daintiness that made the big th ron j y of on-Iookers laugh audibly with pleas - ure. Then the CouDt imprinted a kis - on his bride's red lips, and tall recto .1 Watkins, stooping away over until i - seemed to tbose in back pews that h -, touched tho ground, kissed the littl e woman too. \A ' The Couot and ' Co?ctese''will! fuf? their engagement with Barnum, and will be on exhibition again. They will go to Europe io May and eventually to Italy. . 'What is your present to your bride?* the Count was asked. 'An estate in Italy, with a great big mansion on it,' he replied. . tl inherited it-from my father, along with my title. The estate is near Bologna.' Florida Street Oranges. How the Author of Peek's Bad Boy Wrestled With a Jacksonville Street Orange. Everybody who has visited Florida knows there is as much difference be? tween the sweet cultivated orange and the bitter, sour orange that grows on all sides as there Is between the wild crab? apple that grows in our woods and the mellow June apple that blushes iu the summer sun. Mr. Peck did not know it. He thought that an orange was an oraoge the world over. He tackled a Jacksonville street orange and writes thus to Peck's Sun on the subject : "The oranges didn't look right to me, I couldn't see how they could grow right there in the street, right within reach of every little nigger coon in town, without being stolen. In the North the sourest crabapple that ever broke a man's jaw or puckered up a pretty mouth, would not be safe for a moment, as exposed as these oranges were, and I could not believe that boys in the South were more honest than boys in the North. Then I got to thinking, aod made up my mind that the oranges were tied on the trees with pieces of wire to deceive Northern peo? ple. I thought it Was a mean decep? tion, aod I made up my mind to expose it to the world. I asked a colored mao if there was any objections to a man picking an oraoge, and he said he reck? oned not, so I reached up and got bold of one and picked it. i loookd for the wire or string, but it was aqtually a growing orange, and I bad more faith ! in Florida than ever. I shall always believe that the colored mao smiled wheo be saw me take out my knife to cut a piece out of that orange. Any? way, he turned his back when I started the piece of orange toward my mouth. Many of the readers of the Sun will re? member my mouth, as it was when I lived at the North. It was a pretty de? cent sort of a mouth to stub around home with. A plain everyday sort of a hole, with teeth and tongue and lips, be for? I took that piece of oraoge io. Ye gods 1 The orange was as much sourer than vinegar than vinegar is sourer than honey. And bitter! Al? oes, and rhubarb, and quinine com? bined, would be molasses beside that orange. My lips began to curl up and draw around my left ear, my teeth be? came loose and rattled around like dice in a dice box, and my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth. Ooeeye opened so wide that the eye ball looked like the face of a six shilling watch, and the other closed spasmodically and winked so a colored nurse got off a bench and hauled the baby away, while the baby . cried as though a pin was sticking in ;. it, on account of the expression on my { face. I reached around to my pocket for a handkerchief to cover my face un? til I could uoscrew my mouth abd get Jt back in front of me, and the colored mao thought I was going to draw a pis? tol, and he started off on a run. Well, if I had a picture of my face when I took a mouthful of that oraoge, they could sell them by the thousands in dime museums, as the wild man of Borneo. And that is the reason oranges are safe growing on the streets. They are too sour to eat, and no boy will steal any? thing be cannot eat. ---.?9" ?? Give us Better Houses. Among all the school-houses in the I county, used euclusively for free schools, there are not more than half a dozen* that are first class. The best are not what they ought to be. And it is strange, it is a matter of wonder that intelligent men will allow their children to stay from six to eight hours a day in , a house which they would not think for a moment of permitting them to live in. Why is it? How is it? There must be some cause. It must be parsimony, indifference or poverty. If it is parsi? mony, may thc saints have mercy on i the parents; if indifference, the heavens pity the children. It is not poverty. , No community in the county will admit , that it is poverty. Two successive ? "hard years" have had their effect, but . no community is so poor as to be truth . fully unable to build a decent, comfor? table house for their children. Let our people take time to thiok a little about ? this matter and they will surely act. lt . is a sad sight in this day of enlighten . ment and intelligence to see a sprightly i boy or a sweet, innocent girl sitting on ? a rough slab which is supported by four i spraddled legs too long or high to per? mit the feet of thc child to touch the . floor. With nothing to rest his back . against he is required to hammer away at his lessons in spite of the inconveni? ence and pain he experiences. This is - no fiction, my friend, no poetry, no i highly colored exaggeration. We are dealing with bold facts now, and facts that we, as a people, ought to be p ashamed of. Much bad judgment is [ ! displayed iu the construction of many of r ' our barns called school-houses. For in? stance, in one township there is a house about forty feet long by twelve feet wide I with a chimney atone end. The tcach r er tells me he has about forty scholars. During thc extremely cold weather we i have had, was it possible for that nuin i ber of children to keep anything like I comfortable in a hon se of such dimen . sions ? Is it possible for one fire at the i end of thc building to heat such a house? > Now crowd those forty children into a space twelve feet square for that is what j you must do if you put them near i enough to feel the fire, and expect them I to study. Can they do it? It requires r no philosopher to answer that question ; j the most ignorant father in the county j ' can answer it. correctly It is nonsense f to claim for the public school system - thc possibility of perfection, or even 3 I passable success so l?og as wc have r I such house.**. The evil ought to bt I ! remedied. It most be remedied, ll 3 I thc people can not., or will not, build 3 and furnish better houses, the trustees must do it out of the public fund. 1 \ That 'w?uM be r?bbiujgrthe chHur?u,.foi a time, of their already scant supply of educational advantages, but unless the people act, and act with a vim, in this matter, necessity will force such a course upon us. Tbe trustees have the right to use the public fund in that way, but it is unmistakbly the people's duty to supply good and well furnished houses, and shame on them if they fail to do it. In some sections, fair promises have been made to set the ball in motion next Summer when the crops are "laid by." We hope these promises and resolutions may be faithfully executed, and that be? fore -the beginning of the next school year many neat, comfortable, but not extravagant, school-houses may be found giving their refining influence to the sections in which they stand and to the entire county -Anderson Intelligencer. What Our Editors Say. The Edgefield Real Estate and Building and Loan Association. Edgefidd Advertiser. This organization is now in the fourth month of its existence. About five hundred of its shares have been taken, and new takers are constantly applying for shares. Uuder the rules of the As? sociation no fund could be loaned out until three monthly instalments had been paid in. The third monthly in? stalment was paid in on the first day of April-at which time a drawing was bad to d iterminc the order in which the share holders shall be entitled to loans. At the April meeting of the Board of Directors the fonds paid in up to date were loaned out on good real estate se? curity for five years and two and a half years respectively at ten per cent. Hereafter the Directory will loan out each collection as soon as it comes in for any period from one year to ten years. The funds of the Association can be readily placed in Edgefield Coun? ty on the very best security, at good rates. We predict that this institution will rapidly increase its Stockholders and soon grow into great popularity and usefulness, and than in four or five years the share holders will be loth to part with their stock at any price. B?rry Progrese. We notice with pleasure that the Judges on the different circuits in our Srate, are beginning to turo the atten? tion of the Grand Juries to the school law, and urging them to see that it is properly administered. This is a step in the right direction. The future prosperity of the country depends in a large degree upon the training our youth receives. Hence it is especially impor? tant that we should have good schools in progress all over the country. Macaulay, we believe it was, who said in substance that our educated man at the present day, stands, as it were, in an arsenal surrounded with all the imple? ments of warfare, thus, by a simple il? lustration, showing the great advantage of mental culture. Unlike some other countries, we have no such thing as compulsory education as yet, though our constitution provides for such a system, whenever the facilities for free instruction shall be sufficiently perfec? ted. But we have a school law which, when properly administered, is fraught with much good to the masses: . The administration of this law is now sought to bo vigorously enforced by our efficient Superintendent of Education, and in the furtherance of this object, he bas asked the Circuit Judges to charge the Grand Juries in their respective cir? cuits as to their duties in the premises. In many places in our county, as well as in others, the public school building? are small and very uncomfortable. The Grand Jury should see that the build? ings used for school purposes are suita? ble; for it is a waste of money to employ teachers to sit in a house, as open as a barn, all day and try to teach half frozen children. Then again we are pleased to note thc reform in the matter of examination of applicants for teacher's certificates. It has been the custom of the country in the past to hold examinations at other times thao tbose allowed by law, it would seem, for the sole purpose of accommo? dating pedagogues, which would all be right enough if the cause they represent would thereby be benefitted. But the trouble is, "the gap is sometimes left open" or the bars down, and unworthy, and incompetent persons come forth from the "ordeal" armed with a teach? er's certificate, licensed to befuddle the minds of the children who unfortunate? ly may be placed under their control. His Honor, Judge Kershaw, at the recent term of Court here, made a clear and forcible statement to the Grand Ju? ry of their duty in looking ofter thc school buildings, &c , and we hope they will carefully heed his instrucions. Let us have thc needed reform. j The Appointing Power of the Governor, Columbia Register. We most heartily agree with Gover? nor Thompson in his view of the trusts reposed in him as the pppointing power of the State. It makes no sort of lii??or euce whether the Constitution or a stat? ute confers upon the Governor this trust of filling an office originally, or in case of a vacancy au originally elective otlice. Wherever this power is lodged with the Governor tlie law has seen fit to clothe him with thc grave responsi? bility, aud it become? utterly impossible for him lo divest himself of thar respon? sibility any more than he can shake off any oiher trust reposed in bim. This appointing power stands just where the pardoning power does, ll is distinctly an executive trust; and it does seem to us it would bc as strange a thing for a Governor to submit au appointment en? trusted to his care and making, to a pri mary election, as it. would be to submit the granting of a pardon to a like pri? mary vote. The public have obstinately taken a wrong view of this matter, and thc ac i tion in such case would deliberately amount to supplanting a grave Execu? tive trust committed to the Governor by thc law of the commonwealth, by an outside, irregular and unauthorized par? ty vote, itself largely dependant, on shrewd party management, which, as is ! ; known of all men. docs not run. in niue :*! cases out ten, according to true merit I j and the service of the best interest, of i ! the public, but strictly upon a personal j party influence welded together for its own"s?Ifish"e?i?s."" We speak here generally and. wit sort of reference to the particular of the appointment to the Clerkabi the Edgefield Circuit Court, to w the Governor couched his letter, as j hshed in our columns yesterday, in r< to the Chairman of the Democratic C mittee of Edgefield. The committee 1 doubtless and very properly sough know whether the Governor propose submit the niling of the vacant clerk." to a primary vote or not, without c routing itself one way or another a? the necessity or propriety of thus s milting it. It was plainly no sor use to put the people to the trouble, inconveniences of a primary electi unies* the Governor saw fit to act the vote of that primary as binding him. As to this, the Governor has no room for doubt; and the reasons has courteously assigned for the cou he has felt obligated to pursue, are convincing to prove otherwise than ? isfactory to the general public, who course, will at once recognize the uec aity of the Governor of the State ob ing the law as he finds it, as well as forcing it. Orangeburg Times and Democrat, Our choice. The young man v knows bow to lay off corn and cot rows and to regulate the distance of same so as to get the largest crops worth a cow-pen full of nice, kid-glovi fancy-overcoated fellows, who may kn how to lead the german or caper arou at a fashionable waltz. Siding cott< setting a plow just right, and adjusti gears so that the shoulders and back a horse will never hurt, are ^wortl thousand-fold more to the country tb knowing how to pose in a parlor or adjust the shade of the cravat to I I complexion of the wearer. ' JSews and Courier. '.Respectability.''' Thousands stout, able-bodied young men all o' this Southern land are trying to 1: without work. Instead of seeking e ployment on the farm, in the factory, the forge, or in some other useful ai cation, they are making a vain en des orto be . 'respectable" by seeking li? and easy employment. They will p< die fruit trees around the country, e sewing machines, act as book agents, anything and everything, in short, tl will take them out of the field or t factory. Clerking in a store, or acti as a book agent, or selling sewing n chines on commission, are all honorai enough in themselves, and many m have made money by following these pi suits;but the larger number of those w are trying to make a living bythese mes would feel more independent, and ma more money besides, if they could induced to abandon their false notic of "respectability" and go to work some useful employment. Executive Slavery? Thc President is just now struggli with the problem of how'to obtain a f< bot?rs' relief each day from the impon ni ties of place-hunters. Through 1 private secretary, Col. Lamont, sevei programmes fixing the hours for call? have been promulgated, but they ha not had the desired effect. The Pre dent says he does not wish to slig any one having business with him, \ he thinks his personal comfort sbou receive some Consideration. He ente his office as early as 9 o'clock each d: and receives all who call up to 1 o'cloc except on Cabinet days, (Tuesdays ai Thursdays.) when the doors are clos to visitors at 12 o'clock. Between and 2 o'clock he goes down into the Ea room and receives such visitors who o ly call to pay their respects. This pe form 3D ce, under ordinary circumstance occupies from fifteen to twenty minute He then goes up-stairs to a little roo in the northwest corner of the buildit adjoining his sleeping apartments, wbe he takes hts lunch alone. By 2 o'clo< he is back in his office, prepared to si those persons who may have called 1 appointment. As soon as he has di posed of all his special engagements 1 summons bis private secretary, and thi endeavor to dispose of some of the roi tine executive work. What provokt biro most is the continual interruptioi duriog these consultations by Congres men who seem to imagine that his tin is always at their disposal. There ai certain Senators and Representativt . whom, it is said, call during the mort ing hours, when they receive all the ii formation that can properly be give them on the subject in which they ai interested. Nevertheless they frequen; ly return to the White House late i the afternoon and insist upon seeiug th President on business which they claii is most urgent. Upon being admitte they repeat their inquiries of the morn ing, and usually receive no new infoi roation. He is used to outdoor exei eise and endeavors to systematize th executive business so as to be able t take a drive every afternoon betwee half-past 4 and 6 o'clock. His favoriti drive ia out through Soldiers' Home I am informed that he frequently alight from his carriage and walks at a brisi pace through the -grounds. Severa times during the past two weeks be ha had to forego the pleasure of his after noou's outiug, because of the grea pressure upou his time in the executivi office. I am told that he intends to fi: I regular hours for receiving business an< social callers, and will endeavor to havi j his wish iu this respect regarded 03 his visitors, and the ushers will be in struct ed accordingly. The heads of the various department: are not as prompt in reaching their ofB cia! desks in the morning as the Presi dent. Secretary Bayard, from long service io the Sonate, has grown inte .the habit of breakfasting about half-past 9 o'clock. As he is very fond of pedes? trianism he usually walks to the State department with a long swinging stride, carrying in his hand a cheap walking stick, which is about two inches too th ort for him. Ile reaches his office and is ready for business about IC o'clock. Secretary Whitney walks from the Arlington Hotel to his office, through Lafayette Park, and reaches bis desk about thc same hour as Bay? ard: Secretary Endicott arrives at the war department daily betweeu half-past ' 9 and 10 o'clock. Attorney-General Garland probably arrives at his office earlier and remains later than any of his as&ociates in tn? Cati?et. l?e generally reaches the department of justice.shorts ly. after 8 o'clock and remains catii abour;;6. Secretary Manning realties his office about 9 o'clock, hut does not admit callers until 10 ,o'clock. Secret tary,. Lamar usually, arrives at.the de* partaient ?of the interior about : 10. o'clock, : His long service in: Congress has .accustomed, him to ..sleeping. and breakfasting late. Postmaster-Qeheral' Vila? is probably the onljt? member'of the Cabinet who rides to his office. His hotel is. about seven blocks away, from the postoffice department, and he may be seen riding past the Washing? ton bureau of The. Neve* and.. Courter. every morning; about b?lf-?*3t0 o'clock, on bis way to work. - ; Representative- Hemphill'? attention having been called to.the, fact that tba term of the Camden postmaster expired over a year ago, he has recommended the appointment of Daniel Kirkley .-td succeed the incumbent.- Washington Cor., JSr6ics and Conrieir. ^ Who Got the Offices: The Manner in Which they hara' been Distributed Geographically. One hundred and seventy-four nomi* nations to office have been made by President Cleveland since his inaugura^ tion. One hundred and fifty-three. of. them the Senate confirmed, two it re* jected and thirteen it left unacted upon.. The national appointments are distribu? ted as follows : NEW ENGLAND. William C. Endicott, (Massacbu-. setts.) secretary of war; Edward J. Phelps, (Vermont,) minister to ?&-: gland ; Isaac Bell, Jr., (Rhode Island,), minister to the Netherlands ; Thomas. M. W&ller^fynnectfcut,) -consul-gen*, eral at London,.and CharlesT. Russell... (Connecticut,) consul at Liverpool-5.' NEW TOBE. Daniel Manning, secretary of the treasury ; Wm. C. Whitney, secretary of the navy ; Samuel S^ Cox, minister to Turkey; Charles S." Fairchild, assistant secretary of the treasury ; "Alexander j McCue, solicitor of ' the treasury, -and I William R. Roberts, minister, ta Chili -6? . MIDDLE STATES. . Thomas F. Bayard, (Delaware,)-sec? retary of State ; Edward P. C. Lewis; (New Jersey,) minister to Portugal i Malcolm Hay, (Pennsylvania,) first as? sistant postmaster-general; A. H? Gross, (Pennsylvania,) consol at Athens; John S. McCalment, (Penn-\y sylvania,) commissioner of customs-5. THE SOCT?. Lucius Q C. Lamar, (Mississippi,)' secretary of the Interior :. Augustus H.. Garland, (Arkansas,) Attorney-Gener-. al ; Henry L. Muldrow, (Mississippi,) Assistant Secretary of the Interior:. John D. C. Atkins, (Tennessee,) com* missioner of Indian affairs ; Charles W.; I Buck, (Kentucky,) minister to Peru j Richard B. Hubbard, (Texas,) minister " to Japan ; Henry R. Jackson, and Alexander R. Lawton, (Georgia,) min*, isters to Mexico and Russia ; Thomas J. Jarvis, (North? Carolina',) m*Dister. to Braxil; Anthony MiKeHey, (Vir? l^inia,) minister to Italy ; A. Leo Knott,. (Maryland,) second assistant postmas? ter-general ; Joseph, S.. .Miller. (West> Virginia,) commissioner of internal revenue ; Robert MV l?cLatie, (Mary? land ,) minister ' to France ; Frederick-. Raine, (Maryland,) consul-general at. Berlin; Joseph E. Johnston,. (Vir~ ginia,) commissioner of railroads;. James D. Porter, (Tennessee.) assis? tant secretary of State; William W. Lang, (Texas,) consul at Hamburg,. and Milton J. Durham, (Kentucky,) comptroller of the treasury-18. THE WEST. William F. Vilas, (Wisconsin,) post? master-general ; George H. Pendleton*; (Ohio.) minister to Germany ; Rasmus, B Anderson, (Wisconsin,) consul-gen? eral at Copenhagen ; John C. Black,; (Illinois,) commissioner of pensions ; William A. J. Sparks, (Illinois,) com? missioner of the land office ; Norman J.; Coleman, (Missouri,) commissioner of? agriculture; Edmund Jussen, (Illinois,)' consul-general at Vienna; Martin V.? Montgomery, (Michigan.) commissioner, of patents; Daniel McCooville, (Ohio.), sixth auditor of the treasury ; George. W. MerrilU (Nevada,) minister to the Hawaiian Islands, and Rufus McGee,; (indiana.) .minister to Norway and Sweden-ll. : New England, 5 ; New York, 6 ^ Middle States, 5; the South, 18; the West, II: Total, 45;. - Mutual Insurance. In view of the recent difficulty ex-, perienced by some of our people in. getting fire losses satisfactorily ad-, justed under policies held in regular, insurance companies, considerable in-; terest is taken in the idea of forming a mutual insurance association among thp property holders of our community..j That such a thing rs feasible and would: prove economical canoot be questioned, after once looking into the figures a; little. The amount of premiums.paid,, last year in Anderson for fire insurance was ?8.686, as near a's we can.ascer*. tain, which in ten years would amounjb. to ?86,860, without intered, or. more, than tbB fire losses in Anderson inV twenty-five years. This amount, .of. money, if paid into an association of our own, would be invested, here, an? nually increasing* the prajjerty af .the community and lesseuing the cost;of. insurance, while at .the :,aauie ttiue guaranteeing the . payment of .actual, losses incurred. If the righf. .men .will take the lead an association, can soon-be formed in Anderson by means pf whick we could insure our. propertyt.in;f the safest possible manner, at a cqst.of-no.t., exceeding one or otb and a half^per^ cent , and this would soon be lessened by the investment of the surplus raised. This is an important. matter, and de*, serves serious consideration. Let us think of it and prepare to take some decided action -Anderson Journal. - .--?' A North Carolina young .mao made, 3 wasrer that he could drink a quart ff j whiskey in forty uti bolea. He swa? ! lowed thc last drop io thirty-one min? utes, hst it called the turu cu him, and he was buried next day. It is our Brm conviction that.the tem-, pcrance. pledge is. more for church mcm ! hers, children, and good citizens, i'$~>ft?? \ as is generally supposed, for tbeVict?nis j of apbetite.