The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 20, 1886, Image 1

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^^^^^^^ tam SIFMTEK WAWH?A? Established April, 1S50. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Airas't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " THE TRUK SOTJTHROX, Established June, 186? .' '- ? . _._--:---ss-<-----'-'---: i-ve^i?ated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1886. Sew Series-Yol. V. Ko. 38* fjjt Maft|man ans ^w?\m MUbto? M?y Tuesday, " Nv <Gr. OSTEEN, .?v SUMTER, S. C. ig :? TEEMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. 40TXRTISXXXSTS? 0*e Square, first insertion.$1 00 ' ' ?very subsequent insertion. 50 v ^O?afcaets xor three mon As, or Ionger will be made at reduced rates. ?Xtcommunications which subserve private ioteresta will be charged for as advertisements. Obitnanesj?nd tributes of respect will be charged for. ^ POWDER Absolutely Pure; This powder- never" varies. A marvel of parity, strength and wboleeomeness. More -^economical than the ordinary kinds, and can* not bc sold in competition with the multitude of low test, gbort weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL RAK? ING POWDER CO., 106 Wall-st., N. Y. IN STORE : -AND TO ARRIVE. Sis FLOUR-^ '?SXjxJ $5.00 and upwards. 50 BBLS. PEABL GRITS, 5000 LBS. SMOKED C. R. SIDES, 22000 " D.S. " " ' 3000 " FAT BACKS, 9000 " BUTTS, 12 BOXES EXTRA CREAM "CHEESE. lp SACKS RIO COFFEE, 20 BBLS. SUGAR, ?0 BOXES SOAP, 15 BBLS. NEW ORLEANS SYRUPS, SO SACKS LIVERPOOL SALT, 5 BBLS. RICE, ?-A SD - - A FULL ASSORTMENT OF SHELF GROCERIES, . ALI* BOUGHT LOW FOR CASH, And w?l be sold so ox to compete with, erny market. . iv ?ry day we. bear Farmers say the - BMePIow is the Best Continue to keep them, in one and two none. Also all pieces belonging to them. A foll supply of Hoes, Plows, Rakes, and all other implements needed on a farm. HARNESS, SADDLES. AND PLOW GEAR Just-opened A CHEAP LOT OF HOSIERY, HANDKERCHIEFS. TOWELS AND CORSETS. The Ladies should examine the 30c., 50c, and Si .00 Corsets. Bave tbe best thing ever out in Corsets the "Spiral Spring"-come and examine them. Our Hats arc in And aint they daisies ? Every style -of Felt, Wool and Straw, and at PRICES EVEN TO SUIT THE .HARD TIMES. We continue to keep The Best Stock of Cigars erir offered outside of a city. Call and see the handsome MEERSCHAUM CASE that we are going to give away. Bef?te buying anything see If you cannot save money by buying of me. ALTAMONT MOSES, N. B. Corner Main and Liberty Streets, Feb 23 " Sumter, S. C. es ll A. J. CHINA, DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines and HNE TOILET SOAPS, HAIR AND TOOTH BRUSHES. PERFUMERY AND FANCY^i TOILET ARTICLES, &c., Ac. w*T TAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES AND DYS STUFFS, GLASS, PUTTY, fe. FuU supply of Fresh Garden Seeds. April 9_ FAINT YOUR BUGGY FOR One Doll ai*. One coat gives an old baggy the blackest black yon ever saw and a handsome gloss without Tarnishing. It dries hard in a few boars. No robbing I No varnishing! No titra trouble. Each can contains more than enough to paint a carriage. Ssta?ed at One Dollar per Can* Fox Sale by DR. A? J. CHINA. w to Pr 5? to Si Ci" bc ? OH! MY B?CK Krerj ?trais or co id attacks that weak back sad nearly prostrates yoi* p>? * IBESI TONIC ? Strengthens Ute Muscles? .. Steadies the Nerves? Enriches the Blood, Clives Kew Vigor. DB. J. L. MxEss^FairSeld, Iowa, says: Bzwn'? bon Bitters: is the best Iron medicine I nave known in my 30 j ears' practice. I have found it specially beneficial in r-ervous or physical exhaustion, and in all debilitating ailments that bear so heavily on the system. Use it freely in my own family." VT*. W. F. BBOWN, 637 Main St, Covington. Ky., says: "I was completely broken down in health and troubled vd th pains in my back. Brown's Iron Bitters entirely restCTed me to health." Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no otter. Made only by BKOW2? CHEMICAL CO-, 3ALTIMORE, JUD. AURANTII Meet of the diseases whi;h afflict mankind are orisin aHy caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER* for all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of the Liver, Biliousness. Kervous Dyspepsia, Indirec? tion, Irregularity of th? 3owels, Constipation, Plata Iency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flux, Chios and Fever, Breakbone Fever, ErhifflftiQTx before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar? rhoea, Loss of- Appetite. Headache, Foul Breath, Irregularities incidental to Females. Bearing-down 55? STftOIGEK'S aURfiNTll ts Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases, but SM IDC all diseases of the LIVER, yfll wMgjg STOMACH and BOWELS. It changes the complexion from & waxy, yellow tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes low. gloomy spirits. It is one cf the BEST AL" TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE. BLOOD, and lg A VALUABLE TONIC. STADICER'S AURANTI I For sale by all Druggists. Price S 1.00 per bottle. C. F. STADICER, Proprietor, 'AO SO. FRONT ST.," Philadelphia, Pa. Many a Lady is beautiful, all but her skin ; ancl nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. A. WHITE & SON, [nsuraDce Agents, Offer in First Class Companies. IRE INSURANCE, TORNADO INSURANCE, ACCIDENT INSURANCE, 'LIFE INSURANCE, PLATE GLASS INSURANCE, SURETYSHIP ON BONDS. April 6 SEED PEAS, 50 Bushels of early Grey Peas for ale by A. WHITE. April 6 IMPROVED COTTON SEED. r HAVE ON HAND 300 BUSHELS IMT L PROVED THOMAS & PETERKIN. OTTON SEED for sale. Price 75 cents per U8belt delivered in Sumter, S. C. Address G. M. SANDERS, March 9. Stateborg, S. C. FOR SALE. MILK COWS .LWAYS ON HAND H. B. THOMAS, Wedgefield, S. C. FOR SALE, Heap for Cash, cr Approved Papers Payable on Jan. 1,1837. One TEN HORSE TOZER & DIAL P0R AtfLE ENGINE. One 60 SAW BROWN COTTON GIN. One Steam B?SS COTTON PRESS, and About 30 feet of SHAFTING with all nee sary Pulleys and Belting to run ibe same. Apply lo or address A. D. RICKER, April G Sumter..S. C. ?T CREAM ! ICE CREAM 1 HAYE OPENED MY ICE CREAM GAR? DEN, NICELY FITTED UP Especially for Ladies, nd respectfully solicit the patronage of tbe public. I trust that my efforts to keep open a FIRST CLASS ICE CREAM GARDEN ill be appreciated by the public. My long experience in the business is a guarantee that I will give satisfaction. Orders for family parties, weddings or pic? es will be filled at short notice and deliv ed in any part of town. Price 50 to 60 nts per qoart. TOE! ICE ! I will deliver daily from ice wagon to ens iners, ice in any quantity, at the following ices: less than 50 pounds, l? cents: from > upwards, 1 cent per pound. Special rates regular customers. Remember that for ten years I have supplied irater with Ice, and I respectfully ask sufli ?nt patronage to enable me to keep ray Ice .use open all the season. On Sunday I will be open from 12 to 1. "W. J. ANDEE WS. April 6. L C, PHOSPHATE, -OK COPROLITE MANURE. Best and Cheapest Fertilizer Ecer Discovered. Send for Circular. FRENCH BROS., March 2. Rocky Point, N. C. Ifllllft fl ""t WHISKY HA BITS cored I Wi M11? at home without pain- BOOK ? r I Ll I VI of particular-* sent FREE. Z^ZSmZi* * WOOLLEY,M. D.,AUanU,aa, TSE "ROYAL GEORGE." Retold by JAMES PAYN. In a lette: which Miss Martlneau once showed me, from a relative of hers long dead, addressed to her great-niece from Southsea, near Portsmouth, and dated Aug. &, 1783, there occurred this singular passage: 'The day is calm and pleasant, and a^ I At at the open window, the great vessel in the offing-, betwixt me and tho Fair island (the^Isle of Wight used to be so callad) seems to sway not ? hand breath, nor to flutter a single porra ant." Then, in a trem? bling hand, but still the same, was added: "A dreadful thing bas happened. When I had! written that beginning ot my letter, Dorothy, I looked again southward; tb? sea was waveless as before, and the Fair bland sparkled in the sun, but betwixt us and it I caw no trace of the great three-decker. I thought my brain had gone wron.?, and rang the bell for Agne3; bat .when she too could see nothing of her, a terrible appre hensiot took hold of me; and when the alapn guns from the fort began to thunder I knew the vessel had gone down. I hear near 1,000 men were aboard of her." This was the famous wreck of the Royal George, immortalized by the verse of Cow? per. She was a ship of 100 guns, carrying brass twenty-four pounders on her main deck, brass thirty-two pounders on her mid? dle deck, and iron thirty-two pounders on her lower deck. Her lanterns were so large that the men nsei to enter them to clean them. She had six months1 provisons on board, and many tons of shot. The blue flag of the "brave Kempenfelt" was flying at her roizzsn, and in two days she was to leave Spithead to join the fleet in the Mediterranean. So sudden and unexpected a catastrophe was never before heard of in nautical annals; bat tho cause of it is common enough. It arose from the obstinacy and fool-hardiness of the lieutenant of the watch. These caused the death of some 800 human beings. It is not necessary to mention his name; indeed, the sailor from whose personal narrative I compile the story, and who had probably just joined the ship, did not ?now his name, though, of course, it could be discovered easily enough. "He was, if I remember right," he says, "?he third lieutenant, a good-sized man be? tween 30 and 40." Fortunately for him? self, perhaps he was drowned with the rest. The accident arose through the heeling over of the ship. It was necessary to lay her on her side to get at the water cock, situated in that part of the hold called the we?, in order to replace it by a new one. The operation was begun at 8 o'clock in the morning. ; The ship at that time was 4full of Jews, women, and people selling all sorts of things,'* as was usual on the eve of along voyage. The last lighter, with ram on board, had just come alongside, and wa? lashed to the larboard side of the vessel, and the men were piped to clear her, and stow the rum in the hold. Though the water was almost level with the port holes through which the larboard guns were mn out, no dancer seems at first to have been apprehended. The sea dashed in with every wave, and disturbed the mice in the lower deck, and the mea amused themselves with hunting them in the water. "There was a rare game going on, are the words of the narrator. By 9 o'clock the weight of the rum bar? rels and of the sea water brought the lar? board pert-holes still lower, and tho car? penter applied 'to the third lieutenant to give orders to "right ship, as sae could noe bear ir." But the lieutenant gave him a very short answer. The captain-Capt. Vvaghorn-was on uoaro, and also the al? mira!; but admirals and captains are noe consulted in such matters. The Lve3 0/ those at ssa, as of chose on land, are mainly in the hands of subordinates. In a very short time the carpenter re? peated his warning, and the lieutenant answered: "Sir, if you can manage the ship better than I can, you had better take the command." In a minute or two after? ward, it is true, the foolhardy officer or? dered the drummer to be called to beat to right ship, but it was then too late. There was no time to beat his dram, or even time to get it. ''Let us try," said our sailor to the lieutenant of his gun, "to bouse our gun out without waiting for the drum> as it will help to risrht the ship." They pushed the gun. but it ran back on them, and they could not start it. Then I cried: "Ned, the ship is sinking, jump out at the port hole!" He did so, but I believe he was drowned, for I never saw him again. I fol? lowed him. I saw the port holes as full of heads as they could cram, all trying to get out. What a picture I Imagine all those poor fellows struggling to escape through a space not large enough for one-tenth of them, up an incline as steep as the. peaked roof of a house, and wiih a hunery sea rushing in Dchind them ! Above alL think of the poor women! Our sailor, holding om to the best bower anchor, which hung above the port, seizes hold, of one, and drags ber ont, but at that moment the draught of air from be? tween decks, caused by the sinking of the ship, blows him off his feet. Then the huge EQ_=S eroes down, and draws htm down with it He tries to swim, but cannot, "though I plunged as nari ns I could with both hand* and feet: but when the ship, touched bottom the water bolled upa good deal, and I felt that I could swim, and began to rise." So, eren If a vessel with s hun? dred guns goes down and takes yon or me with her, there ls some use, yon see, In having learned to swim. When he comes to the surface he hears what a sound at such a moment!-the carmon* ashore Arin? their signals of distress: but he can see nothing. His face Is covered with rar. a barrel ot tar havin? been staved in as the ship went down, and Its contents spread ovor the water. Ho ^trites lt away from his eyes as well as he can, and looks about him. The fore, main and m!zz?ntop3 of the huge sh'p were all above water, and ho climbs up into -com? parative safety. In the shrouds of tho mlzzentop he Ands the admiral's bakr r, and sec?, the wo-nau ne has Just pulled out of the port bolo rolling by. He seizes her once more, and bangs her head over me of thc ratlines of the mizzen shrouds, like clothes to dry, which ls the best he can do for her Dut a surf comos and kn?*cks her backward, and "away she went, rolling over and over. " Strangely mou?h, the poor creature t* saved after all by the x>at of a frigate lying at Spithead. whose captain ia3 just put off to the rescue. "I must look to thoso vho are in more danger than you, my lad," he tln?s out t> our sailor, as he goes by. "Ay. ay. slr," ls the reply; "I am safely moored >nou?h." Th? captain ortho Royal George, though, strange x> say. he couid not swim, was picked up alive. 3nt out of nearly a thousand men. which was the ;h<p*s complement, although some were oa leave, ind sixty marines hal gone ashore that very mora? ng, only a very few were saved: government al owed five pound* to them for the loss of their hings. 'i saw the list, and therj were but seventy Ive." For several days afterward bodies would sul? lenly come up to the surface at the spot where the hip _ad sank, "forty and fifty at a tim-. The vatermen made a go ?d thing of lt. they would take rom the mea their buckles, money and watches: hen. making fasta rope to their heels, would tow hem to land." The poe1 who sings of tho calamity tells n* "no empest gave the shock," and. Indeed, there tva? carcvly any breeze at all. The ship was anchored, nd had not even a stitch of canvas on her to keep ler.steady. sixty years afterward the Interest of this terrible vent had by no means died away, and I well re uember, a* ahoy, going on board the shipthat wax tationed ahove the scene of the calamity, to sw hu divers who were still employed upon tiie wreck, ho aspiration of the poet, Weigh the vessel up, Oiice ureaded by her foes, s?s never rea'ized: but almost everything w?s aken out of her: and more fancy artie UNS - ?aper kal vee. work boxes, etc. - aftlrmed to ave been made from her timbers, were sold, am afraid, than the Royal Georg*?, big a? she was, ould ever have furnished. At our seaside pluce* f resort you may purchaso them even now at tho .asars-old-fashioned articles, with this tomb-iik? iscrlptlon on th?m: "This desk'" (or letter weight r paper welgiit) "was made out of tb* wood of th? toyai George, sunk off Spithead in l??lW with SOO er crow." Another Substituto for Quinine. A substitute for quinine, described a? >ein<r even superior to that remedy, has ?ceri obtained from a Peruvian plant aiown to botanists as Lantana Brazilieuse. -Arkansaw Traveler. Custom of the Roman Athl?te?. It was customary for thc Romans to cn -eiop themselves in a wrapper of coarse voolen cloth after violent gymnastic exer ise. This was to prevent tho chance of aking cold. The Mojave Indians at thc Needles play shinny" with as much zest as any school toy. The game is an ancient one with hem._ Er man whut likes er song jes rca'se ft fit ard t#r sing doan know ez much er bout ansio ez he doer bout science.-Arkansaw "raveler. A Litigious Lawyer, anet Lengthy Lawsuit A few of our readers may perhaps remember Edward F. Stokes, of Green? ville, who was 2nd Lieutenant of Brooks' Troop in the Hampton Legion. During the entire war he was remark? able for Dothing so much aR his entire indifference to his personal appearance and absolute ignorance of an officers' duties. He was the last person that one would have supposed capable of blossoming out into the remarkable character he has since assumed. He inherited in 1861 from his fathers' estate, among other property, two notes for a large amount, made by John Westfield and secured by Messrs. Gower and Cox of Greenville. After the war closed, Mr. Westfield as well as his sureties were anxious to settle the note^ but Mr. Stokes, for reasons which pos? sibly no human on earth could divine, refused to produce the notes or accept any settlement. Finally Mr. Westfield set apart a large body of land within the limits of Greenville city to secure the sureties on the notes whenever their eccentric owner should consent to col- ' lect them. ( In 1872 Mr. Stokes became deeply interested in politics. Our readers may 1 remember that he represented South J Carolina in the Louisville Convention which nominated Chas. O'Connor for { President during the Grant-Greely cam- j paign. After returning home he 'went 1 out in a two-horse carriage with a negro ( driver, a bass drum and a United States flag and conducted a long and \ rambling campaign of his own as an in- 1 dependent Jeffersonian democratic can- ' didate for Congress. He went into 1 almost every part of this State and, it ? is said, into other States, making fiery t speeches to the assemblages attracted I by his novel appearance and equipment. 1 The story of his adventures on this ex- c pedition has never been fully told, but a it is known that he several times nar- 1 rowly escaped being mobbed by furious ' negroes, and on one occasion in Charles- * ton was protected from violence only by \ the strenuous efforts of the police. g In the meantime a lawsuit connected * with the settlement of the Westfield 5 estate had commenced and Stokes was 8 subpoenaed as a witness. He was or- ? dered to produce the notes and refused, r and was imprisoned for contempt of 1 court, and 'until August 17th, 1875, * one year and eleven months, he was a c prisoner. During that time be refused c to cut his hair'or shave or to speak, * carrying on necessary conversation by u writing on a slate. He said he would u not speak until the Lord put words into j bis 'mouth.' 11 'In August, 1875, Mr. Stokes was 1 released from jail without having yield- j ' ed the least point, a committee of six doctors having reported that he was subject to 'ideational insanity' and that his health would suffer if he was kept longer confined. But he soon gave evidence enough that he was fully capa? ble of taking care of himself. Several times notices were published calling on all creditors of John Westfield to pre? sent their claims and the cases dragged 3n with references and motions and orders beyond counting. 3^0 ?jc )fc At last in 1880 a final notice was published in the flews requiring all jreditors of John Westfield to present heir claims or be debarred. Then Mr. Stokes produced the notes, after having kept them hid twenty years.* And then, after numerous appeals, references, Ac, in which Mr. Stokes 'objected to almost every item of thc ludgments, costs and charges and ap? pealed time after time on demurrers and exceptions only to be beaten and to find jome fresh grounds of appeal in his 'ertile brain and resources, bis claim igainst the estate was finally fixed at ibout ?21,000, and by an order of ?ourt he was allowed to use this amount is a purchasing fund for lands of the estate. At the great sale of the lands, n January, 1881, he bought to the imouot of $28,000, surrendering his 3 otes as cash and giving mortgages for :he balance/ 'At the last sale Mr Stokes bought n a quantity of the lands sold with the mdcrstanding that the cash portion was ;o be paid within an hour and used the jpbole afternoon counting out the $2,000 >r $3,000 in lots of ?100 at a time.' The series of lawsuits growing out of his most remarkable case have extend ;d over 13 years, and occupied the at ention of every court during that time, jut it is now thought to be approaching i conclusion. The Greenville News rom which we clip much of the above iays : 'The mass of litigation in which Mr. Stokes' name appears as plaintiff or d?? codant is interminable and the number ?f his appeals is beyond cou ri ti og-fully ifty in the thirteen years is thought to ie a low estimate. He was locked in he guard house one night for making rioleot political speeches on the streets, ned the city for ?300,000, lost the ase, appealed and lost again. He was truck in a personal difficulty by Sen .tor W. L Mauldin, sued for ?300,000 lawages and got a verdict $100. The noney was paid into the sheriff's hands ?ve years ago and he has refused to ouch it. In one of his cases with Mr. Vernor ie undertook to serve a notice, as was lis habit, on the last day, by sending a icgro to put it. under the office door. ?Ir. Verner had anticipated this and topped thc bottom of the door so that lOtbing could be put under it. The inper was left outside, thc negro swore ic had served it and was tried before Eustice Furnian for perjury. Mr. Itokcs appeared as counsel, was called o thc witness stand, refused to testify Dd was jailed twoDty-four hours for on tempt. Ile rufuscd to pay his poll tax until e had carried thc matter to thc su iremc court once or twice, lie has cen fighting a suit of Furman Un i ver? ity for a bond givt;u it five years and as it hung up in the Supremo court pw. With all this ho found time to make ne of thc most stubborn fights iu crim nal annals for Burton and others, egroes charged with arson, and carried heir case tc the supreme court twice, : fif ceping them from the gallows three j cd cars after they had been convicted aud cotcDccd. Ia a suit on-a-Tjote for $26 ft II X\ C! Cl an brought against him by Geo. Westmore? land he went to the supreme court four times. There is DO doubt that he holds the champion's belt as a litigant. His Dame appears in the supreme court reports as plaintiff, defendant and counsel more times than that of any mae who ever lived in South Carolina and be is cred? ited with having settled more rules of practise than all the lawyers of the bar together. It used to be his habit to sleep in the supreme court room at Columbia, spend? ing his Dights on one of the sofas and taking but one meal a day/ The Alligator? Mr. H. D. Howren of the Summer? ville Herald is still hunting bears io Florida, and in his last letter he seems to have forgotten the bears, and touches ap the alligator as follows : These alligators rarely attack a man ; but I would rather be overtaken by a lion on land-yes, by the whole United States army on the land-than by one jf them in the water. I could surren? der to the army and take the oath of lllegiance, and live, perhaps, to break lt. But the alligator is a pirate. He jails under the black flag. When inngry, he goes about like the devil, seeking whom he may devour. And ike the Republican party, he does lot discriminate on account of color )r previous condition of servitude, kn alligator can and will eat any hing on earth or in the waters under t. Talk about the omnivorous W. >oat; why he 19 an epicure, a dys? peptic beside an alligator. You can atten one on ground glass and carpet acks. ?nd I have known them to )e taken from the mother before hey were weaned, and brought up >D a mixture of broken bricks, gua?o md oyster shells. If a man is s wi ru? ning a river alone, and an alligator is lungry, he waits till the man ta half ray across ; but he doscn't wait for a ?ell to ring him up to his dinner. He iwims silently under the man ; then ?otb. sink suddenly ; then there are a triog of bubbles on the water and a tring of crape on the man's door mob. Bat you couldn't find the {"one? al with a search warrant. Many Flor dians have used the bowels of the al? igator as a tomb; the practice is Dot onsidered au fait in the upper circles i society in which I move, and in f'bich I expect to continue to shine in ttl my identity is discovered and ny record made public. As a mauso eum tbe alligator is a success. That 3, in his own opinion. If a man wants 0 steer his funeral processsion that ray, the alligator will open his. jaws ike the gate, cf a cemetery. Even risb may apply. Though a stranger r a beggar reach these gates he does ot go away empty. I mean the alli ;ator doesn't. But like the rest of the ristocracy of my neighborhood, who erd cows and bunt bears for a living, object to the alligator for burial pur oses. In the first place I want a tomb bat is stationary, not migratory. I rant my mausoleum anchored out -here it can be found any day by the ast crowds who may collect aronod it y speak, of what I left to the world iy influence, my example, my daily falk, and my debts. I want the 'ild flowers to nod above my last rest ig place. I don't want roy last rest 3g place to be prowling through the ?arshes eating other people's hogs. It in't stylish. It ain't respectable. Vonldn't my family look nice on each ecurring anniversary of my death if bey had to start out iu the morning nd chase my mausoleum with a pack f hounds and a row boat and catch it, nd then beat it into insensibility with ince rails before they dared to venture ear enough, to wet it with tears or trew it with flowers. A neighbor of mine yean ago had grown, tame alligator. One dav e ate my neighbor's wife. It was a 'agio death. The coroner and his try came and tried to sit on the alli ator. It was the nearest they could [>me to sitting on the corpse. But thc lligator soon had the coroner and his ?ry up a tree, and was under it wait ig for the first juryman to drop from :arvation. People stood beyond the creep of thc alligator's tail and passed >od to thc jury on the end of fishing olcs. It was the only jury I ever saw oiled that way. Finally the alligator as captured and placed in a cage. A ircu8 man tried to buy him from my eighbor, but the latter was deeply Ofended at the proposition. He asked ie circus roan if he looked like a fel ?w who would sell's bis wife's grave, > be hauled around for a show. He lid the alligator was sacred to him ow. And he has him yet. My ?igbbor.and his grown daughters ever fail to decorate that alligator with ?mortelles and wreaths of roses at ich anniversary of the old lady's Mkth. lt is true thc alligator has to 3 strapped to a plank with trace chains ?fore be:il allow them to decorate him. ut then he is their mother's grave and icy are bound to decorate him if it kes every hand on the place to hold im. He makes a pretty lively high eking sort of mausoleum, but then it the best the family can do. I admire verence for a dead parent, no matter what form it breaks out. amous Phrases of the Last! Decade. From Ute Utica Olarrvrr. "Unsfruct"-S. J. Tilden. "Bright Sunlight ol' Publicity" lani on Marbi". "Turn the Rascals Out'' - Thc Sun. "Kobcsonisin."- Thc Sun. "Star-Kyed Goddess of Ke?uiro." erny Watterson. "Structural Weakness."-Wm. C. ^bitney. "Ollenaivc Partisanship."- Grover ^P loveland. "Public Office is a Public Trust."1? -Grover O lovel and. j b "Innocuous Desuetude."-Grover I d tcveland. A man wrote to a scientist that bc bad ! t.< i apple which ho bad preserved for, F ty-three years, and on being request- ! n . to forward it for inspection he replied ci at he could not, as it was the apple of h 9 eye.-AT. Y. Mail. j d What Our Editors Say. 8. C. Advocate. The Republican Senate solaced itself and saved the country the other day by proposing and carrying by a very close vote the statesmanlike resolution that President Cleveland has been very naughty in refusing to obey the Senate, and that if he does so again they will not like it at all, will in fact be very angry, and will not speak to Grover again. Grover is snsh a hard child to manage \ The Whole Story. News and Courier. A Kansas correspondent of 77te Mil? lion has summed trp the tariff question io Hs relation to the farming and indus? trial population of this country as fol? lows: Vi know enough to know that I ara paying 42 per cent, on what I buy to somebody who swindles me out. of it, without my being protected in any way at all as a farmer, nor as a mechanic or laborer.*' A Mistake. Newberry Herald News. Our local cotemporary, the Obgerv:r, in a recent issue, criticised severely the action of the last Legislature, for ap? propriating $150 for the Carolina Teacher, published at Columbia. The Sumter Advance copied the Observers editorial and expressed its approval by giving as a beading, ''Correct.'' The Cotton Plant copied it, and joined the Observer in condemning their action. In order to save others the trouble of writing on this subject, we would say that they are mistaken ; no such ap? propriation was made by the Legisla? ture. Fairfield News and Herald. Our country has hardly witnessed a more determined effort upon thc part of any class of people to secure their rights than is now in progress ia the West. The strikers in their demand for justice have asked for nothing but what they should have, and in fact their demands have been exceedingly reason? able. Failing to secure an adjustment of their grievances they have asked for an arbitration which has been persist ently refused by the tyrant Jay Gould, who still attempts to show that his mil? lions are superior to labor, and that it must bow the knee in humble submis? sion. As a direct result of this effort much blood has Leen shed, and thc probabilities are that much more will be shed. While we are opposed to vio? lence in any form where there is law, there is still a period where forbearance ceases to be a virtue.' Georgetown Enquirer. As might have been expected, the railroad strikes in the West have culmi oated.in bloodshed. A mob of strikers ittacked a small force of depaties in East St. Louis on Friday, and iSred apon them. The deputies returned the Sre, killing four men and one woman. The strikers were infuriated and dur? ing the night set fire to railroad proper? ty in several placee. The loss was ?bout $100,000. The fire was subdued by the soldiers, There are now seve: ral companies of State troops, including \ battery of artillery, quartered in the :ity and further trouble is looked for. 1 ne strikers have forfeited all sympathy by resorting to violence. They must now be checked in their excesses at what? ever cost. It is time to make them inderstand that the right to strike does aot involve the right to pr?tent their former employees from continuing their business or to destroy their prop ; T. Cant. Abbeville Medium. A terrible sight of cant and assuma jy is taking hold of many members of he Democratic party. It is an enfee? bled repetition of the repulsive history )f the radical party when it was coming nto power just before the war. Then here arose a body of men who claimed for themselves superiority as christians ind reformers. They assumed to bo letter than others 'God and Morality' vas the hypocritical cry and pretense imong the enthusiasts. They spread far ind wide the sins, brutalities and treason )f the South until they inaugurated the >ivil war and trampled under the feet >f cruel soldiers the purest sentiments md the noblest aspirations of this sec ion. According to them we were a ?et of villains and robbers. Their pre ense was to save the Union, it was lot true or they would have ended the ?truggle where AbrshamLincoln tfesir ,'d, instead of sustaining the hordes of G?nderers who fattened upon our sub tance after thc surrender. Their pr? essions of love for the slave and their ivowal that they were contending for cform were hollow mockeries. It is said that the worst fate of a con? quered people is that the weaker trtii atc the vices of the conquerors and his is true with us. Already we have ?mong us a class of men who claim that hey arc animated by purer motives han thc* neighbors. They constantly [aunt it in the face of thc public that hey are holier than others aud they leuounce the nmst honorable patriots s spoilsmen and office seekers. They ise the SH me old cant and the sn me >uritanic self-praise as deluded John kowii into his work' of assassination, 'hoy arc sowing thc seeds of revolution ike their prototypes ot cr\\ memory. We call no names. The picture is oo plain to make it necessary. We ?ave fallen upon evil days and many rc fast allying themselves with thc rorst elements of our people. Fruit Canning. South Carolina ts well-suited to thc usia ess. Wc have the climate for an bundancc of fruit and cheap labor is t hand. There is certainly more loncy in it than in cotton at proscrit- J ? rices. Suppose wc take thc canning j J f corn as an exam plc as t here is al- j h .ays a demand for it, and there would j p e no trouble iu buying it at our own j b oors. Say we could make ten bush Is to thc acre, and counting waste and )ss, wc could can twenty-five quarts ?> each bushel or 250 quarts to the acre, 'ive dollars would cover thc cost of lising the corn and ten dollars thc 3st of getting it to market. We would ave twenty dozen cans at ?1 25 per ozea, as it BOW sells at wholesale. which would give $25, or a clear profit or $10 for the acre of ?1.00 per bushel. Io the calculation it will be observed that we estimate the cost at the high? est figure and make a large allowance for waste and loss. The cans of corn now on sale do not bold a quart by any means. They weigh about If pounds while there are pounds of shelled corn to the bushel. So we have made due allowance. To get material no outlay of cash would be required but could be paid for io toll.. It will prove a paying industry to any one who undertakes it in time. We have agitated it many years but could get co farmer whose ambition extends only to a tag on a sack of guano to give heed to our words. Wuliamsburg Herald. The teacher does not wholly make the school. Parents should remember their responsibility in the matter of its efficiency. Good work may fail to pro? duce & good article from inferior or abused material. The parent shonldbe eareful in selecting a teacher, and ob? tain one, if possible who inspires confi? dence both as to ability and interest. The teacher bei?g intellectually able, should be entrusted with the eboice of text-books, and the pupil supplied with those selected for him, if this can well be done. Thc parent should then en? deavor to place the pupils in the hap? piest relation with their instructor, be? lieving " that the latter will sincerely work for their advancement, and leading them to suppose the same thing. En? deavor should be made to impress the pupil with the value of the school to him. This can best be done by the parent. The parent should uphold the teacher's authority, and should abstain from criticising him and his methods io the presence of bis charges. Some parents become angry if their children are punished at school, and speak and act as though the punishment was a mere outcome of tyranny or caprice. A word to this effect or a tone, and the scholar has the same opinion. The teacher is badly lamed. This is all wrong; If the parent has no more con? fidence in a teacher than to suppose him capable of such action, be should not place his child within the influence of his example. Mr. Davis and the Hill Statue. Atlanta Constitution. Somo of our northern contemporaries, who were craven in war and are cruel in peace, are objecting to the promised visit of Mr. Jefferson Davis at the un? veiling of the Hill statue. All the same, Mr. Davis will be here. He will receive at the bands of his peo? ple, defeated though he was, such a welcome as is seldom given to men who lead conquering armies home. It would be strange if the people of the South 3id not love Mr. Davis. It would be pitable if they felt constrained through my consideration, to dissemble their love. Every man io the south realizes that >be cause Mr. Davis led is finally and forever lost. But the blood and the treasure freely given to its maintenance ?vas wasted indeed, if it bas not invested frith lasting love and tenderness, all neo, high or bumble who bore honora? ble part in that struggle. Mr. Davis s the most illustrious representative of ?bat cause ; he led it with ability ; he rerved it with devotion, and accepted ts overthrow with dignity. He never shrank from its responsibilities or langers ; he never lowered its honor, yt shaded by the faintest touch the chivalrous impulse on which it was last, or the stubborn and unconquera? ble courage with which it was fought, io all things, from first to last, his re? cord is stainless as the sword that Lee sheathed at Appomatox, and as white is the soul that sought -the stars from lohn s ton 1s bloody form at Shiloh. Craven ia the southern heart that will iot warm to its core at the sight of ibis dauntless gentleman ; misdirected, ;he southern boy tfcnt does not grow up ;o honor bis memory and love bis name. Mr. Davis will be here, because we pant bim to be here; because we love lim, and want him to know it ; because ie loved the roan whose immortal fea ;ures the unveiled statue will disclose, md because that man loved him ; be? muse this is a free country and the ?ranks who skulked when war was 'aging can't run it when peace is smii ng. Mr. Davis will be here. Hear! Hear! Temperance Worker. The action of the barkeeper in Green? ville, who advertises that he will not ell liquor to drunkards and minors rhen a request to that effect is made by datives -cf the persons affected, is rorthy of commendation. If all the iquor sellers of the State would do like rise and keep their bar-rooms closed on. Sunday, there would be a decided fati? ng off in the interest now felt in pro libition in this State.-Charleston News md Courier. For impertinence and consummate gnorance the above extract caps the liroax. Every bar-keeper in South Carolina, tcfore he can obtain license to sell iquors is compelled by law to enter uto a bond of $1,000, with three good ureties that he will not sell to minors, o inebriates, or on the Sabbaths, or teluDd screens. Thc bar-keeper in greenville has given thc bond or be is n illegal whiskey seller. Now, if he as broken, and without special notific? ation to the contrary as above iotiroa edT he still proposes to violate that ended contract, what continence can ny relative of a drunken sot put in bis roroise that he will not sell if such datives request it? Can be be be? loved ? And to think that thc great mctro olitan paper of ?outh Carolina should ommeud his course to other whiskey ealers. This Greenville bar-keeper ns advertised himself, and the news apcrs are heralding to thc world that e has violated and intends to contine iola ting a bonded contract, unless he is otificd not to do it. If the fear of the ?rfeiture of ?1,000 will not dcter'him, o request of a poor, heart broken omau eau possibly affect him. - I I -ii The new national library just ordered 7 Congress, ts to be constructed after te style of the capitol. f Editorial Cor. Temperance Worker. "J Letter From Mrs. Chap?n. RICHMOND, VA., April 12. Dear W?rter : I have been io this historic city for one week, and bate spoken ten times. The enthusiasm on the questions of 44Prohibition" is qoite as great, as in Atlanta. Every minis* ter, of every d?nomination, white and colored, has declared for, and is zeal? ously working for it. Three, OT four prayer meetings are held daily in differ? ent parts of the city. The finest churches, are considered none too good* in which to plead this great canse. All immense test is also erected. Senator Colquitt, spoke here twice yesterday, ter thousands. Tho Anti-Probibitiomttf say the people of .Richmond, have gone raving mad. They, are getting the sinews of war from every direction. One of them said in a speech they had ?100,000 se?t to help them. Bot Richmond will be disenthralled. Such grand men, such earnest women, such brave Pauline ministers, "ready to be offered" if need be ! What times we are living in. I am glad to be here, and among such people. Grand old Vir- - ginia ! Rum sellers will not be allowed to rule your proud State and dictate to your rulers. I felt sad as I listened to GOT, Colquitt's burning words, as he placed, the Mother of States, and the Empire State, side by side and towering above their Southern Sisters, in that they - dared say, ,40ur capital cities shall no - longer be disgraced by a traffic in souls. We will not sell our Manhood. Our boys, are the hope of our land, and even if the fictitious revenue, claimed by the rum sellers were a fact, ten thousand times the amount would not bay my boy, nor yours, noryocrs. No amount :>f license can pay for them. He lite? rally annihilated, those christians who bad been stupid enough to be caught. in the snare of high license, and so plac? ed themselves side by side, with tip? plers, and rum sellers, who said, if we ;an't get a whole loaf wc will take a part. High license paralyzed tempe? rance effort, and was the rum sellera iodge, to make his business respectable. A.s many souls would go down to perdi? tion, possibly from fewer places, and SD er places, but just as surely, and it ". would be no comfort to the poor wife, }r mother, whose husband and father ?rent down to eternal night, through ;he snake wreathed portals of Delirium Eremeos, to tell them, the liquor that - lad brought this ruin on her, waa Dought at a high license saloon, voted for by ministers and Christian men. ~ When he closed his address, be ask? ed all in the audience who were in favor >f Prohibition to rise. Every one rose, even in the galleries. The Governor was quite overcome. With the deepest emotion he spoke of the relation Rich? ie on d sustained to The whole Sooth. ,4Our Richmond, he called her, proud eapital of our Southern Confederacy, Richmond on the James, where-the Southern heart anchored through those lark, eventful years', Richmond? is try ng to break'the shackles which bind 1er, to break the rumsellers' tyrannical, Kjul-destroying oligarchy." And he laid in stentorian tones, She will do it, 1er sons have said it, and this demon* itration warrants my telegraphing to Washington, 'Richmond will be free, ind the Christian Temperance people ill over the South will join in the btile ujah.' I said it made me sad, yes, and glad oo. I was glad Georgia bad one to .epresent ber, so courageous for the ight. Sad to know no voice from my >wn State is raised in Congress on tho ?ide of temperance. Sadder still to feel ve are doing less than any other State. [ am goiog to break every other en? gagement and go back to Sooth Carol? ina for two weeks in May. Will tha~ District Presidents go immediately to vork, and plan meetings for me. I lave calls from strangers living where ?orne of our officials live, and they know lothing of their being an officer in their own. Dear sisters, let me plead with rou to shake off the deadly apathy, and ro to work. I long to help roy own kate, and would so gladly do it, if she vould give me the chance. Gov. Colquitt wore the white ribbon >adge of our order in hts hatton hole puen be spoke. And now, to change the subject, I pas on the train the other day, when a ?entleman passenger said to another, the boys from bis place were going to Vofiord College soon, measles had pre ented their going sooner.' Another ian rose up and taking a paper, read . most horrid account of Spartanburg, nd tlie Welford students, and said the iearest road to perdition for boys waa brough Wofford ^College. I think'he ead it from the News and Courier, and rom what I could hear it seemed to mo he writer was burning down the towo 0 get rid cf the rats. Ile was opposed to Prohibition, and astead of saying the whiskey element ras stronger than the Christian, and be men is o ince who had sworn to en? tree thc laws, which they receive a alary for doing, did not koop their ath, and ought to be arrested and pni 3 prison, he thought the law ought ) be repealed, because it could not cn )ree itself. A Republican sitting in ront quizzicallv said, 'If the Democrats ave not any better men to put in office ban that man describes how long do ou think the people will submit. I m thinking, if the Democratic party oa't look sharp, it will follow ours, nd have to step down and ont. People re getting mighty sick of having men 1 office to whom an oath is nothing lore than idle breath, and spoils all icy care for.'* Instead of its being ie Prohibitionists who are going to cstroy the Democratic party it is the ati-Prohibitionists who arc doing it. I speak at the University of Virginia a Thursday, and next week mostat ;nd the Georgia Convention at Macon. hope South Carolina Temperance Tders will be represented there, they :-e cordially invited io send fraternal ?lesates. " S. F. CHAP?N. w I i II II i tmmmcmttamammmmmam "Good morning, Mrs. Gilligan, [ow is Patrick tb is morning ?" "Sore, he's no better, snr." .Why don't yon send him io the ospital to be treated ?" ?To be treated, is it? Faith, an' itT& re delan um tri mm i ns he bas al rady."