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tM S?MTKR WATCHMAN, Esttbttalmd April, 1S?0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Alills't at, be thy Country's, thy God's aaa Truth's Consolidated Au?. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1886. THE TRUE S??TSROX, ?stabi?sfc'ea Jane, 1868 ---?-~-:-p New Series-Yoi. TL No. 12. pMjmtM m?r Saa?fpii PaMJA?d ?rory Tuesday, N. Gt. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. TBBHS: Two Dollars per annum-in ad vance* ADTSBflS??lSTS. OB? Square, Gist insertion.$1 00 S very subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three mouths, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private n teres ts will be charged for as advertisements. Obit naries and tributes of respect will be charged for. TAX NOTICE. TIB TREASURER OF SUMTER COUN? TY gives notice that his books will be i open from the FIFTEENTH DAY OF OCTO? BER, 1886, to the FIFTEENTH t>AY OF DECEMBER.. 1886, for tbe collection of Taxes for the Fiscal year commencing No? vember 1st, 188?, in Sumter Coon ty, The following are the rates per centum of the levy: 2. For State purposes-fire and one-fourth mills OB every dollar of the value of all taxa? ble property. 2. For Co?Biy purposes-three mills on ?very dollar of such value, of which the pro? ceeds of two and one-half mills are to be ap? plied to ordinary County expenses, and of onefourth of a mill to paying the deficiencies of the fiscal year ending October 31, 1885, and of one-fourth of a mill to the payment of ^-^hCrcbst of opening and constructing a public highway from Privateer Township across Tocotaiigo Swamp to Concord Township. 3. For support of publieschoola-two mills on every dollar of such value. 4. One dollar on each taxable poll, (to wit _ between the ages of 21 and 60 years.) "The Treasurer will in person or by deputy attend at the following places and times for ? the collection of the said taxes: Stateburg, Tuesday, November 2. H. Sanders' former office in Rafting Creek Township, Wednesday, November 3. Smithville, Thursday, November 4. Scarborough's Store, near Tirzah Church, : Friday, November 5. Privateer, Saturday, November 6. Mayesville, Monday, November 8. Reid's Mill, Tuesday, November 9. Lynchburg, in Lynchburg Township, Wednesday, November IO. Shiloh, Thursday? November ll. Lewis Chapel, Friday, November 12. Kechanicsvi?le, Monday, November 15. Bishopville, Tuesday, November 16. Maouville, Wednesday, November 17. Manchester, Friday, November 19. Wedgefield, Saturday, November 20. And on the other days, from October 15th to December 15th, at his office at the County seat. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, Sept. 28. Treasurer of Snmtpr Ho. COTTON GINNING AT $1.50 PER BALE. IAM NOW PREPARED TO GIN COT ton with despatch at my Gin near town for $1.50 per bale. Patronage solicited and satisfaction guar? anteed. W.ERVIN BR?NSON. Sept. 14._ SIN INSURANCE, . A WHITE & SOU? are prepared to Xxt take Insurance Risks on Gins and Gin Houses, in first class English Companies. Ang31_ Attention Farmers! ?. C. BAGOT & CO. COTTON BUYERS, Are paying very highest Market Prices for Cotton. Farmers will do well to see them before telling. Office over B. J. BABNXTT'S Store. G. C. BACOT. H. SCHWERIN. ' 8epi.2J. FOR SALE The following Second-hand Machinery, in good repair: - ONE SIX-HORSE ENGINE, (New York S&fetv Steam Power Co ) ONE FORTY-SAW WINSHIP GIN, with ' feeder and Condenser. ONE HAND-POWER COTTON PRESS. For particulars address. W. J. JENNINGS, Somter, S. C. j. D. CRAIG! ESTABLISH EU 185?. FURNITURE DEALER UNDERTAKER, MAI? STREET, S. C. WOULD THANK HIS FRIENDS and the public generally for their liberal patronage in the past, and hopes by law prices and fair dealing to merit a continuance of the same. He bas received already a large and varied ,assortment of HOUSEHOLD Furniture for the Fall Trade, to which weekly additions are being made, and there can be found IN HIS WELL STOCKED ROOMS as great a display of FURNITURE OP ALL GRADES "as in the first-class city houses. ' He bas bought bis goods DrRECT FROM THE FACTORIES, at lowest prices to be bad - and proposes to give his customer? the- fu4l - benefit of his bargains. PARLOR SUITES, Wood and Marble-Top Bed Room Safcas, Bedsteads, Mattresses, Spring Beds, Chairs, Sideboards, Sofas, Lounges, Safes, Bureaus, Washstands) - Pictures, Picture Frames, Window Shades,, and all othes articles supplied by the furniture trade. -ALSO. W?NDOW GLASS AND PUTTY. Call at bis store and be convinced by a per? sonal examination of goods end prices that these assertions are true. He takes pleasure ia showing customers^ aron nd. THE UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT, Is complete with a large number of styles of Coffins and Caskets, from the smallest to the largest sizes made, and at au- reasonable prices as the same can be bought anywhere: Calls promptly attended; to, day or night. X D. CRAIG. Oct 5 _^_ FOR SALE. A FINE PAIR OF LARGE WELL /V matched; aadt weil broken oxen and a log cart. iL R. THOMAS. OUR STANDARD BEARERS? State Ticket. For Governor. JOHN PETER RICHARDSON of Clarendoa For Lieutenant Governor. WILLIAM L. MA?LD?N of Greenville. For Secretary ?f State. W. Z. LEITNER of Kershaw. For Comptroller General. W. E. STONEY of Berkeler. For Treasurer. T. S. BAMBERG of Barnwell. For Attorney General. JOSEPH H. EARLE of Sumter. For Superintendent of Education. JAMES H. RICE of Abbeville. For Adjutant and Inspector Generat. M. L. BONHAM, of Abbeville. For Congressman, Seventh District. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, of Beaufort. County Ticket. For Senator. MARION MOISE. For the Legislature. W. O. CA?N, H. F. WILSON, H. G. SHAW, A. 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As Cupid, on a Summer's day, In idle sport was flitting from place to place, be chanced to Stray Near where my love was sitting. "Nowr here's a face," Dan Cupid cried, "To shake my filial duty. Vor Mother Venus founds her pf id? On far inferior beauty. "1*1! paint a picture ere I go, Of these enchanting features, And thus admiring gods shalt know The loveliest of their creatures !" From out his quiver theu he drew His palette and his brushes ; Then from his rose-leaf stole the hue To paint my lady's blushes. To catch the color of ber eyes Hebesitated whether To rob the violet or the skies, Or blend their tiats together. That problem solved,, another vexed His mind, and set bim racking Bis feather brains, for sore perplexed, He found bis canvass lacking. Impatient to display his art (Bis subject well excused it,) The roguish god purloined my heart And as a canvas used it. -A. W. Gundry, in Life. mum A Change of Heart. The school-directors of district No. 19, Perry Township were hold? ing a meetiug. Nobody would have thought ft. The chairman was leaning against bis front-gate with his checked shirt? sleeves turned back and an axe in bis hand, surveying the other two mem? bers of the board, who stood outside the fence. It was a meeting, nevertheless j and its object was nothing less im? portant than the selection of a teach? er for the fall term. 'Lyman Doty spoke to me about having the school/ 6aid the chair? man dubiously. 'Lyman ?oty !' echoed Steve Tenny, a stalwart young fellow, with thick brown hair, white teeth and a square chin, to make up for his lack of downright goods looks. 'Why Lyme Doty couldn't teach a baby. He quit school before I did, long enough, and he hasn't studied any? thing but potatoes and winter wheat since, that I know of. Better stick to his farm-eb, Larkin V 'Guess you're right/ responded the third member of the board, a lit? tle man with a cheerful face and a tuft of gray bair sticking straight out from the chin. And the chairman nodded his agreement. 'Well/ continued little Mr. Larkin with an air of importance, Tve bad au application that I guess will suit. It's a spit of relative of my wife's and justis nice a girl as ever was. Smart, too She got a certifi? cate for two years, last examination. She'd make a splendid teacher, Molly Sanborn would/ 'Sanborn !' 6aid Steve Tenney, sharply, 'Any connection of the Sanborns over on the river V 'That's where she's from/ said Mr. Larkin. She's old John San? born's giri-him that died last win? ter/ . Steve frowned. 'You won't put her into that school then, with my cousent V he said, de? terminedly. 'WhatT said Mr. Larkin, with a gasp, while the chairman stared. ' What would yoi* think,' the young man responded, 'if a man sold you fifty head of sheep, at a good price, and halt of them died off in the next week, of a disease he must have known beforehand V That was the trick John Sanborn served me. And he laughed ia my face when I wanted my money back. No sir ? I can't con? scientiously consent to putting any of the San born s in that school. Bad lot in my opinion V Mr. Larkin's small, bright eyes snapped. 'Old Sanborn wasn't any too straight, and everybody knows it/ he admitted. 'But what's that got to do with Molly is more than I can see. She's as fi?e a girl as you ever set eyes on ; not a bit of her father about her/ 'WeW, well, fight it out between you,' said the chairman good natur? edly, and returned to bis wood-chop? ping. The tall young man and the little old one walked on up the street to? gether, talking briskly. Mr. Larkin was t.ot and indignant ; Steve was cool and immovable. 'There don't seem to be any mercy in you/ said the former, almost tear? fully, as Steve was preparing to turn . in at his gate. *lt they'd been left .well off, it would be different, bat ! tliey're poor as poverty, and Hotly needs the place the worst way/ 'You hadn't mentioned that/ said llie young man, taming back. 'If that's the case-' Mr. Larkin walked away triumph ant five minutes later. But Steve Tenney had surrendered . with a bad grace. 'I couldn't hold ont after t?rat, you 6ce,' he said to Ins mother, relating ?the story over their tea 'r 'but I don't : ?approve of it. There's not much good in the Sanborns, or I lose my . guess V 1 Sclioor began two weeks later, : when thc first cool wave was depop^ ? ' elating front porches and increasing the attraction of kitchen stoves. Steve Tenny held to his opinion ; concerning the new teacher and : acted accordingly. Jle did not call at the scftoo^howe j the first day, as was Ivis custom-, to leave the register and see if anything was wanted-the chairman having ; : turned these duties over to h-is : younger coi league. '} le sent the register by a boy, and ; was utterly indifferent as to whether ; any thing was wanting. Mc turned the subject when the new teacher was ?mentioned; and he avoided Mir. Lar? kin's comfortable home, where the . teacher boarded. ? r3he little man made him a cadi, ; however, a month or 60 after school ?had begun. 'Gkuess you'll have to own up to being in the wrong, Steve/ he began ' We hain't had a teacher for years that's given the satisfaction Molly does. The children, just rave about Uer-all of 'ern/ But Steve was unimpressed. 'My opinion has yet to be altered he said, rather stilly. And Mr. Larkin looked discourag ed. She spoke about needing a ne) broom and water-pail/ he said, as h rose? 'I told her she'd better com to you about it.' 'That school-house had a new broot last term, and a water-pail terr before last !' said the young directoi emphatically. Ana Mr. Larkin took a discomfite< leave. The next Sunday evening, th young man, sitting in a pew of th small wooden church with his mother and allowing his eyes to rove abott during the rather long sermon, sud denly discovered a new face, and sa studying it for the remainder of tb evening. It was that of a young girl-not i remarkably pretty girl, but fair, an< fresh, and innocent, with a bright in telirgence in the dark eyes and i sweetness in the full lips. 'Who is she V was his first ques tion, after the services were conclud ed, addressed as it happened, to little Mr. Larkin, who had come in late. 'That?' the latter repeated, ir astonishment. 'Why, that's oui teacher-that's Molly Sanborn That's my wife she's with, don't you see ? I am waiting to take 'em home.' Steve Tenney found himself wish? ing quite frequently after that thal the new teacher would eome to him about the broom and water-pail. Not that he should furnish them ii he should find that they were not needed ; but he felt that he should not object to an interview with the teacher. He even mentioned the subject to Mr. Larkin, carelessly, when he met bim one day. ' Well, you see,' was the response, 'she sort of hates to eome to you. The way you felt about her having the school has got all around town, and I s'pose she's heard of it. She can't help what her father was, Molly can't and she's real sensitive/ The young man looked disturbed. That afternoon he left his work at an early hour-not, however, admit? ting to himself his purpose in doing so-and strolled down the street, turning off-but be persuaded himself that it was not intentional-in the di? rection of Ibe school house. 'I might as well go in and see about that broom and water pail,' he said to himself, when 1^ stood oppo? site the little bare-looking building. And he went accordingly. The little teacher looked consider? ably startled when she opened the door to him. She dropped the spell? ing book she held, and her voice was hardly steady as she expressed her gratification at seeing him. Evidently, Steve reflected, some idiot had pointed him out to her at Church the other evening. He sat down in a front seat, feeling unpleas? antly ogreish. She was bearing the last spelling class. How pretty she looked, stand? ing there in her dark-blue calico dress and white apron 1 What a sweet voice she had ! though potting out 'hen, men, pen/ to a long line of fidgetiug youngsters could hardly show it to the best advantage. Wheu the class was dismissed, and the last small student had rushed, whooping, down the street, the teach? er and the young director stood look? ing at each other with some awkard ness. 'I thought I'd come m/ said Steve at last, apologetically, 'and see if any? thing was needing/ He did not mention the fact of hi? being some six weeks late in the per? formance of this duty. The girl dropped her eyes timidly. 'I-don't think so,' she murmured. 'What a brute she must think me !' Steve rejected, with some self-dis? gust. Ile turned carelessly to the corner where the broom stood. 'Isn't this pretty far gone V he said, with a conscience-stricken glance at its stubby end. And thc little teacher nodded. 'Your water pail seems to leak/ the director went on, indicating the empty bucket and the wet floor. 'Yes/ the girl assented. 'I'll see that you have new ones/ Steve concluded. And he was rewarded by a grateful glance from tl>e teacher's soft eyes as alie took her lvat from its nail. He took her lunch basket from her hand as they started away together } and having taken* it, cotdctbaffdly sur? render it short of Mr. Larkin's gate. Ile was a little reluctant to surren? der it even then. For their first awk? wardness had quite worn off; their walk had been far from unpleasant ;. and they were feeling very welt ac? quainted. He walked home rn an agreeable absorptiou, repeating to himself the things elie had said, and recalling her pict ty way of saying them. Ile did not pause to consider that it was otd John Sanborn's daughter of whom he was thinking T lie was only conscious that she was a bright young girl, whom it wae ebarmihg to look at and listen to. His pleasant mood was rudely in? terrupted by little Mr. Larkin, who dropped in that evening. .Lyme Doty eouldn't have the school,' he observed, with a chuckle, 'but it looks as though he wae going to have the teacher Y 'What?/ said Stever with a sud? den, unexplainable sinking of the i heart. 'Ho's hanging around considerable*, anyhow/ said Mr. Larkin. 'Went to visit the SCIH)O1 last week ; and ho was asking me to-day whether Molly's got any way of getting home Friday night, lie said he'd just as lief take her in his buggy as not. Molly gen? erally walks? but I guess she'll be glad of a lift/ .You don't mean Co tell rae/ said Steve warmly, that she'd have any? thing to do with him V Mr. Larkin stared. What could Steve care with whom old John. San? born's daughter had; to do t But he only said deprecatingly : 'Wei!, Lyme's a good, steady fel? low.' 'Humph !' Was the scornful rejoin? der. The young man mused long and seriously when his visitor was gone, and went to bed with a lighter heart, having come to a firm conclusion. When the new teacher closed school the next Friday wight, she Was feeling rather worn out, as she was apt to feel at tire end of the week ; nor did the prospect of her four miles' walk home serve to cheer her. She locked the door and started down the path with a sigh. A neat little buggy was coming briskly up the road. Molly gave a start as the driver pulled tip the horse and sprang to the grouud. It was the young director; and be was coming toward her. 'I won't make any excuses, Miss Sanborn,' he said with a humorous solemnity. 'I Won't say that I'm going over to the river on business, and happened to think you might like to ride. The truth is that it's a care? fully laid plot. Will you be an aider and abetter V The little teacher laughed appre? ciatively as he helped her into the baggy. 'I must stop at Mr. Larkin's and leave my dinner pail,' she said, de? murely. Mr. Latkin was standing at the front gate. He stood staring at the young director as the latter assisted the teacher to the ground, and sat down on the horse block to wait for her. 'Lyme Dory was here after Molly just now, he said, almost gaspingly. 'I sent him down to the school house.' 'We met him,' said Steve. 'Yon see,' he added, making a bold attempt at carelessness, but speaking never^ tbe!c8S in a shame-faced way, and avoiding the little man's eye-'you Bee, I feel as though it's my bounden duty to keep Lyme Doty away from her. Pure impudence, his hanging around h er that way.' The littl? teacher came tripping back, and the ycung director's buggy whirled away in a cloud of dust. 'Steve Tenney's taking Molly home in his buggy/ said Mr. Larkin, join iug his wife ,in the kitchen/ and sink? ing dazedly into a chair. 'I guess the world's coming to an end !' 'Steve Tenney ain't a fool,' his wife responded, practically. 'I knew he'd get over that ridiculous notiou of his-=and especially after he'd seen Molly/ 'Says he's doing it from a sense of duty,' pursued Mr. Larkin, chuckling slowly as the humor of the situation dawned upon hfrn. 'Wonder how far his sense of duty'll take him ? 'I shouldn't be surprised at any? thing!' said Mrs. Latkin mysteri? ously. The Larkinses-and perhaps, Lyme Doty-were the only people who were not surprised wl?en the new teacher gave np the school at the end of the term, and was quietly mar? ried to the young director. The chairman of the school board is wondering over it yet-.Emma A. Opfer. John Esten Cooke. A BEAUTIFUZr TRIBUTK TO THE- MAB VIR? GINIAN. Augusta Chronicle. Wheu Col. John Esten "Cooke, laid down tbs* burden of this life for the re? freshment of a higher one, there passed frjQi the gaze of mortals orre of the most valiant, knightly and gifted of men. After the battle of deadly implements, he began the battle for bread in a high and noble way. His sword was sheathed and his pen became the mightier and more magical weapon. He essayed poetry, history and ro? mance with distinguished credit and srgmd ability, shining most as a nara tor of the great deeds of Lee and Jack? son. We trust that his bright spirit Eas met iu the wonderland of eternity the heroes he krrew and wrote about in this material sphere. How would the old commanders welcome him, &nd what a greeting the Chevalier of the Lost Cause, the peerless Stuart,, would ac? cord ! The rd?bm and jargon fashions of composition are hay i og. a temporary run, in these times, but another generation will return to the writings of John Ee ten Cooke. With sabre and pen, he did a man's duty for Virginia and the South, and now, surrendering to thc conqueror of conquerors, he crosses the silent river that Jackson saw in his last moments, to repose in the shade of the trees adorning the garden that fades not. mW* ? I ?? - Not Neceswrry to- Dfrotrm . Many persons have wondered that alb animals seem to possess an instinctive knowledge of swimming, and that man alone lacks this gift. It is not neces? sary that a person knowing nothing of the art of swimming should drown, if he will depend upon the powers for self-preservation with which nature has endowed him. When one of the inferior animals takes the water, falls or is thrown in, it instantly begins to walk as it does when out of water. But when a man who cannot "swim" gets into the water he makes a i'ew spasmodic struggles, throws up his arrasyand drowns. The brute, on the other hand, treads water, remains* on the surface, and is virtually insubmer gibie: In order, then, to escape drowns iug, it is necessary to do as the brute does, and that ie tread or walk water. The brute has m advantage as to-his relative weight in respect to the water over ?ian, anti yet the man pprish.es while the brwfce lives. Nevertheless, any aron, any woman, any chi?'d. who can walk on thc land may also walk in? the water just as readily as the animal does, and that without any prior in? struction or drilling whatever. Throw a dog in the water and he treads (or walks) the water instantly. The brute, indeed, walks the water instinctively, whereas man has to be told.. Naturally clocked stockings arc the most striking,-Boston Bout.. What Our Editors Say. Too Soon. Camden Journal. No Vacancy io office takes place but what there is a perfect regiment ready, eager and willing to *er?e their country-of course, as candidates. Honorable ambition we admire. A man without it is like an ejre without its sight} but often there is to? much expansion, and objects are sought after by the eager applicant where capacity is lockiog-the position of judge we especially allude to. lt is one high and exalted, lt has been a literal crown of glory and honor upoa South Carolina's brow, and to day, ex? cepting radical times, bears no tarnish from its pristine splendor. But it does seem to us that an ornoo of such dignity requires experience and age, and the young aspirant should h o?d for a time bia thirst for houere so high. Winnsboro Jfivci and Herald. Col. Elliot the Democratic nominee for Congress from the Black District, is putting in souse good work for him eelf and for his party. He is making a determined fight, and while it is noe probable that he will be elected, he cer? tainly deserves success, and would be an able addition to our present delega? tion-. Greenville News. 8omebody writes' a long letter to the News and Courier attempting to contradict Mr. Tillman's statement that tho taxes of 1885 are $320,000 more than those of 1880. That is what we want to see and hear. Let the discos- , sion come down to facts and figures. But we will go beyond Mr. Tillman and dare anybody to contradict us and compare figures on any equal terms. We assert that more money is now be? ing collected front the people sod spent < for State and county purposes than was collected and spent ra any year of radi? cal rule, exceptiog two. The figures . will show that. We have printed them and can print them again. Marion Star. That Charleston bas suffered and ! suffered greatly, is true and desertes I and ha? the heartfelt sympathy of the | entire State ; but while her calamity I came in an instant and bad the added | horror of sudden disaster, yet the earth? quake leaves her in scarcely worse cir- ^ cumstaoces than the rest of thc State. The wealth of the State is almost en? tirely agricultural, and that industry was never more depressed* than at pres? ent. Excessive rains and bad seasons generally have cut off the crops of the State fully one-third of thc reasonable expectation of the farmers. The earth? quake has injured Charleston about : one-fifth of the estimated va lew of her taxable real property, Under Each circumstances to have imposed an extra session of the Assem? bly for the purpose of rebttrding an injured city, fed and supported by a worse injured country at the expense of this impoverished State, would have been little short of an outrage. Spartanburg Herald. It has been proposed by the Columbia Register and seconded by the News and Courier to call another session of the Legislature in order to submit a consti- : tutional amendment to the people at the erection next month e rapo wer rag the legislature to raise three or four million dollars Zo be' loaned to the people of Charleston at a low rate of interest, lt is to bc done by Issuing State bonds. The plan meets with little approval throughout the State press. The cost , of such an extra session would be very heavy. In a few years we will have to re-fund our present debt, amounting to over six oaHlioos. Our present hope of ; reducing taxation is to re-fond the debt at a lower rate of interest. To double our present debt H to defeat this hope. Of course the whole State sympathizes with stricken Charleston, but this is not the mode ia which it has chosen or will . adopt to prove it. Besides it is doubt? ful if this would prove beneficial to the city. We are informed by the relief j committee that all who are ima ble to repair their houses have been assisted as much as the committee deemed need? ful. The otfrers- can manage to repair their homes. It seems best that they . should a v 60 out of their own resources. To tempt the people with money at low . interest, induce them to borrow heavily and1 b?rden themselves and- the property of the city witfr a debt of three or four millions of dollars would be to place an incubus on tho city which would crush out its life. Better to bear the burden like mea now, and have it over with. This seems to be the view of the ; Charlestonians themselves. So far no request for an extra session has come from the members of the legislature from that County, from the city, nor from the people. Earthquake Bonds. ; ?blevMi Press uml Dunner. Our city contemporaries the Newt and Courier ami the K'jjitfcr are labor? ing earnestly to-induce (*3PO vernor Shep? pard to cali an extra session of the Legislature. it is desired that the organic law of the Staf-e may be so al? tered as to allow the General Assembly to authorise thc ponpiVto assimo liabil- i ity for the recent! losses which Charles? ton Im sustained by ?ho earthquake. < So far, very few of tho country news- . papers have give?- expression on the I subject, but a* far as- they have doive I so, they aro almost a unit in opposition I to the measure. Thc proposition seems* ; so much at V:JH;;!>CC with li\e public in^ t terest, and is based on so slight a pre- t test that we think the people would j have no trouble in pet fling the ?jues! roa, rf it should bc submitted to thom-. t The M-aycr of the city has issued Iiis f proclamation saying thut there is no 1 fifrther need of gifts of money ?o rc- c lieve thc distressed*. Thc proposition t then, to secure the bonds of tho State t for 'CHttTVeston su-Rerers.' must in fact c bc for the benefit of Charleston specu- i lators or property holders. c The mechanics, laborers 5-rtd other r poor people must be in a better condt- I tiou now than ever before. Owing to s the great, demand for labor op all kinds, I skilled meciianics and- common laborer* i ace receiving- uncommonly high pay, s and none af them are without employ ment. Whlie the amount of money received by the charity committee is immense, we do not recollect to have seed ai) statement as to expenditures except in the matter of a few rations and some soup to the poor. If the bonds of the State are to be issued at four per cent, for the benefit of the Charleston merchants, who lend their money at high rates of irrest to the country people, the profit of such a proceeding will be immense to the city, while it will be correspondingly damaging to the country people. Greenville News: Mr. Cleveland is a very practical, hard-headed, common sense kind of man. There is no sentiment about him. We dare say be did not understand how a message of sympathy from him to Charleston would do any good. We do not understand it either. Neither do We understand wby there should be soy bitterness of feeling in Charleston because Mr. Cleveland refrained from going to the telegraph office and pend? ing three or four sentences to Capt. F. W. Dawson or somebody else at a cost of a dollar or so. We see he sent $20 to the Confed? erate home with a polite private note expressing his good will, just as any other gentleman might have done, and such condu3t is to our mind the perfec? tion of good taste, which is another name for good sense. Several people might take a valuable hint from Mr. Cleveland's dislike to advertising him? self on all occasions and his evident hor? ror of slopping ovei; Senators Hampton and Butler, are both poor men, we believe. They may have sent what they could afford in a modest manner or they may have felt unable to send anything. That is their own affair. Our Graded Schools, Columbia Record; Among the many attractions of Co? lumbia there is none greater than that offered by her graded schools. All the children of residents have an opportu? nity to obtain instruction in all the com? mon school branches of ?ducation, free of charge, in these Institutions. The teachers, the methods, and all the ap? pliances are first class iu every respect, and there is no school, public or private, anywhere m the world, that can offer better advantages than the Graded Schools of this city. Even the' poorest child in the city thus has the opportu? nity of getting au education, such an opportunity as in many other places the money of the rich oaunot purchase. Every head of a family who does not reside in Columbia, and who has BO equally good school wit hm reach of his present residence, would do well to move to Columbia simply in order to ' educate bis children. The benefits they ! would thus gain would be of far greater worth to them than any number of dol? lars he might save or make. It is to be hoped that before long the school fund will be sufficient to author? ize the Trustees to furnish the pupils with all their text books, so as to re? lieve them even of this charge. Hot Wholly Bad. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Wc live in a very wicked world. There is no doubt of it. The news? papers spread out before us, each day, the sickening record of sra and shame and suffering and sorrow. A person who habitually scans the record of crime, is tempted to conclude that there is very little good in human na? ture, and to accept, .without much pro? test, the doctrine of total depravity. But there ie- sn other side to this ques? tion. Much of the evil that exists is only superficial. There is implanted in human nature s genome respect for that which is good. The most depraved man or woman feels the force of this in? fluence, in a greater or a less degree. Every intelligent person possesses an intuitive kaowlege of right or wrong, and though af! may not have the moral courage> or the strength of will,- to fol? low the right, few are so fost to the prompting of their better natures as not to respect sincerity and conscientious? ness, in whomsoever found, ft is only those of perverse or shallow minds who lose all faith in human nature. Injus? tice an<i wrong may blffnt the childlike tratet that belongs to youth and inex? perience ; but no genuinely good and upright man or woman can become a confirmed misanthrope. That disillu? sions wiH; come, is armong the. inevita? ble results of a growing experience. l5ut it is possible, in 6pite of the dis enchantments of the lengthening yeaTs. to- preserve, in a large degree, the crust and credulity of youth ;" to keep- the ''milk of human kindness" that is io our hearts from being soured. Life is brighter and happier and holier for those who succeed in doing this, as well as for those with whom such per? sons are brought into contact. Fooling With Fire. iVVtr? and Courier. There is every probability that there would have been a serious- riot in Rich? mond, if the Knights of Labor of Dis? trict 49 had insisted on taking Farrell, their colorod brother, into thc par? quette of the Richmond Theatre. By threatening to go to some other place of entertainment, they had succeeded in iuduci*D? the proprietor of the hotel o? which they were staying to give Farrell equal accommodations with j themselves, and probably thought that :hey might as well put an end at once r-o any manifestation of what they con rider an unreasonable prejudice. If hey expected to conquer Richmond in his summary way, they' failed com? pletely. The Sou?hern States, with regard to \ Tte colored people, are in a widely dif ercnt position from thc Northern and ! Western Scares. Thc free admission cf ? :olorcd people to those paTt's of a thea- ' rc which are habitually reserved for : he whites, poiiit>t?4itmestionably toso- ' sial equality. Social* equality means niscegenation. Thc general mixing . >f tile two races Would'destroy thc best j1 pi alines of whiles a-nd bhtcks alike, and eave the Southern country in posses- i 1 A'on of a nation of mongrels and hy >rids. There is no ^uch peril as this j n other parts of thc Uuitcd States. A . ; dujjle drop of ink produces; v*ry little- ? I effect on a bucket of water.- TK?s ia* the case with the ?orth and West. But when there is more ink than water, there is no mistaking the effect or deny? ing the defilement. This is the case with the old Slave States. The Oppo? sition to social equality as the avenue to miscegenation is simply the assertion o? the determination of the white people to keep their race pare for their own salie, and for the sake cf tte country. The race problem, as it exhibited it? self in Richmond, presents no serious dimculty except where it is dealt with by persons who have more zeal than in? telligence, and who judge others by their own narrow views and limited in? terests. There? no irritation or clash in Charleston,.for instance, ia the ab? sence of meddling by well-meanin* bot ignorant outsiders. AoJ exacerbation that may occur will be the result of out? side influences a?d be' incurious to blacks as well as whites*. Brave Bulgaria Columbid fUcof'?. No one can help admiring tSe spirit of the people sod government of Bul? garia in defying the power of Russia and in carrying out their patriotic pro? gramme of insisting upon the suprem? acy of the constitution and laws of their country over the arbitrary will nf a foreign potentate, however august and imposing. Whatever expectation -of support they may have from other powers, or whatever may be the foun? dation of their confident attitude, they have taken a stand against an unscru? pulous act of tyranny, aad will have the sympathy of the civilized world. The reply of the officers of the Bul? garian army at Sistova to Gen. Kaul bars's invitation to meet him and hear a message from the Czar, that he must address the Bulgarian government, has the ring of American freedom about it. And the anouncement that the Czar bas declared that he 'will not go to war for the sake of the disorderly Bulgarians' sounds like the growl of a disappointed bear, who dare not take what he eagerly wanta and expected to get. Giving Hick Name's.: Charleston Dispatch* What on earth is more disgusting than to hear men called by nick names. These silly appellations are given in childhood as fancy terms of endearment, and they cling beyond manhood, and sotfnd very ridiculous in after years. There is a great deal in a name. It re? flects the sentiment, social status and intelligence of those who give it. Sear sible people never make fools of them? selves,'hence you never hear of them doing things that are eitfrer absurd or unreasonable. It is both unreasonable and absurd to give nick names. Just imagine a man with a beard* befog call? ed -'Sonnie'7 and ?-Tot/* whick is the case in this very aristocratic and highly conservative city. There is a father of a fam Hy-some almost grown daughters ^who-goes-ty the name of "Bttbber.'** Another case is of a married mao-, sin? gularly unhandsome, who ir called ttBarling.,'i This endearing term is* applied to him by his devoted" wife, pery; fectly unconscious, or seemingly so, of the ridicule she is provoking. Another" .case is of a man, who* has a family of grown sons and daughters.- and' himself . weighing two hundred and forty poundv ? befog calfed <*Shug." Not long ago there was a lady at a sociable, who pery ( 8istently referred to her husband who . Was a little bit of a maa, while she was nearly two htfudred pounds in weight-" as "?ucky." Every time she did $of apparently with the utmost unconcern,* :shre caused laughter. When a man has a beautiful wife of petite propor? tions, and with manners in accord witb her inviting face, there is some excuse* for his applyhig a tender term* to her, ;and evea then it Ss out of place in puo lio. It is a great mistake to give chil? dren very fanciful names. They "fiV-^ while the child is young and is dressed in juvenile gear, but when it grows :into youth and adult age, how silly Hf ' sounds to hear H called by these ?anti geously" aesthetic designations: A ; pretty child with a fancy name will' do,, but if the child be homely and' not of trim figure, mercy, what a misnomer !. Nothing sounds better or shows the* possession of desirable rjratities of bead and' te3rt more than to cali a child* by its real name, never mind how** common' place it may be ;' it makes** the child realise that it has a substantial relation to society. Americans do net need long names. The shorter they ave tho . better. Every thia 5 here should: stant? on its own merit. To bear a wife call her husband John, or Henry, or whatever else it may be, is to our mind', thc highest" exemplification- cf sound sense. -?Mfr- *>-^t^ The Total Shocks in* Charles ton? Thc Charleston correspondent"of tn?* Baltimore SUJI telegraphs as follows :: It is one month ago to-day since Char? leston was prostrated by an earthquake. During that time the Suns' correspond-^ ent has kept memoranda of the va? rious shock-s. and*- thc record- may be of interest. On the night of the 31st of August there were at least five distinct shocks, counting the two which did alt the damage, and which were only sepa? rated by a few seconds. Tuc other' shocks occurred as follows: Septem? ber 1st, three severe shocks ; on thc 3d, three ; on the od, two ; 4th, two ;. 5th, one; 7th, two; Sth, one; 10th, one; 12th, one: 15th, two; 21st, one, (severe:) 223; one: 27th, one ;? 28th, one: SX)tb, one. There were two shocks prior to the 31st of August, enc on the 27th; which was very perceptible' at Summerville, but which' was feh by comparatively few people' h. the city, and one on the 2Sih, which ff as generally felt all over tibe city. Tin's makes a total" of thirty distinct" shocks that have been felt here since August 27th. They were about equal? ly divided as to time, referring to day ind night. This, it will be seeo, is a earful record for one month. -nm ? i nm -? Tilt; strawberry was introduced' into Et-fflatid from Flanders* in* 1530. Tlic domestication ofbufifeilo calved is being attempted in Arkansas. By a law made during the reign of Henry III, all persons Having ten pounds yearly income* were* obliged^ to bc knighted-or- to pay a-fine.