The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 17, 1887, Image 1
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BITTERS
IBOJ wita PUKE TE6EEABIS
T05ICS, qakklj art eovpfetelT CLEANSES
?a* S9BICBSS W& ttJOGD* Qntekem
ttaaegoa of tte Liver and Kidneys. Clears the
-fill I fal, ? il m tteakta mooth. It doe? not
tajrrrtlmttTtV tamebcadaea^onirofocecgn
?imn?i diii HT nm THO I ?ni?rmn no
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for -V+r^rnt ti? MOO?V jmd r?nX?T?Ejr*Il djTpepUO
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WK ~ Brown's Iron Bitter* relieved rae ia a- caso
erf Mood paaoBxar. ?nd I beardy ccnaod it to
tfaoaa iiwwingabfapdpiirtfhtiL >v_ " _
?B. W. WTMOXAKAK. Tcactrrr>bia, iK says: I
hw? beean troobkxi fawn cMdhoofl with Impure
Sooft M ifj^m- on nay "iso?-two bottles of
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COTTON BiTTWfr MTTRESSES.
WIffiRE WE. SPEND ALMOST HALF
of our life should be made a's comfort?
able aa possible, and for the purpose of
a??reg tars good wortr, and m akin sr some
money, we~naw offer-the best. COTTON BAT?
TING MATTRESSever putnpo* this market.
Three faades now made- $5.00, $]>.00, $7.00.
? 8ampl* and fall ioformatiou at Store of
Treasurer, A.? MOMS.
* 8atitfecmm -guaranteed in every case, or
mosey refunded. - - ~
SUMTER COTTON MILLS.
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CHARLESTON, S. C.,
-Are receiving by steamer ?nd rail from the
North.and West full supplies
each week of
CHOICS APPLES. PBARS.XBMONS. PO?
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?3f~ Orders solicited and ;>ro mp Uv filled.
NOT 9 x
ffirnSp?is Miserai Waler.
T?rtimonials of Eminent Physicians
of the State.
The following are selected fro?? ?any sim?
ilar ones:
* - Da. * fc. ' C. KE??TCDY, of Spartan bnrg; ;
writes the Proprietors: "The remedia! qua.'- j
i tie? of Glenn Springs I have known for over i
midyears, -and eas attest to its value in
Dyapepsia from gastric or functional derange?
ment of the Liver, General Debility, Dropsical
Effusions, denne Irregularly and Affections
?af the Kidneys and Bladder. To the last dis
?ases I would particularly call attention, as
the waters have shown large curative powers
in these complaints."
^.PfU,Sk:-.-B.. Mana, of Newberry, S. C.,
sadie' SI. have sent more than fifty persons
aufleriog with Jaundice to these Springs, aud
bare never been disappointed ic any case;
they all speedily recovered. I cannot find
wordrmeiepmss my -confidencein the Glenn
fipriags water, as a remedy for the Liver,
4r1>eQ functionally denurged. Dyspepsia.:
Dropsy, certain ?kia diseases., troubles in the j
Kidneys and Spleen, if produced by the Liver, i
have pHt;ay I know, .disappeared- at the]
Springs.? v . j
Da. JAMES MCISTOSH, President of the Med- ,
ical Association ol South Carolina, in bis an- <
anal address before that body remarks :
**Glenn Sipciage, for diseases of the Sioroach,
laver and Kidneys, deserves to rank with '
My other on the continent."
PRICE OF WATER.
Per case of two dozen quart bottles, securely
packed and delivered on the train at Spartan
bnrg, $4.00.
,<PSr^ galio n, bj the barrel, delivered at
Spartaobnrg, 20 eeo ts.
Per gallon, for less than a barrel, 25 cents.
Address SIMPSON & SIMPSON,
Glenn Springs, S. C.
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joining {Mes:
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is ray *' ' j
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ICHABOD AND OTHER POEMS,
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PB SALE AT THE SUMTER ROOK
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'mic DADCDls0nfI2etoFhn*<*HPM?
I Ho KJtrC|l*tthe Newspaper Adver
I/ike His Mother Used to Make.
"I was born in Indiany," says a stranger lank
and s im, . ,
Anns fellers in the restaurant was kind o
guyin* bim*
And Uncle Jake was sildin' him another pun
k: ti pie
And an extra cup of coffee with a twinkle in
his eye
"I wa? born in Indiany-more'n forty year
ago,
And 1 hain't boon back in twenty-and I'm
workin* back'ards slow;
And Tve ot in every restaurant 'twixt here
aud Sante Fe,
And I want to state this ooflee tastes ?ke
get tia* home to mel
"Pour us out another, daddy," says the feller.
wa rmin' up,
A speakin* 'cross a sauccrf ul, as uncle tuck
his cup.
"When I seed your sign out yonder," he went
on to TJucle Jnke
" 'Come ia and gie some coffee like your
mother used to make'
[ "I thought of my old mother and the Posey
* County farm.
And me a little kid ag'in, a bangin' on her
arm
As she set the pot a bilin'-broke the eggs an'
.. poured'em in,". , ..
And the feller kind o'halted, with a trimble
in his chm.
: And Uncle Jake he fetched the feller's coffee
buck and stood
As solemn fer a minute as. an undertaker
would:
Then he sort o' turned and tip-toed to'rds the
. . s_ kitchen door, and next
Here come bis ol<i wife out with him a nibbln*
of her specs
And she rushes for thc stranger, and she
bollors out "lt's him!
Thank God, we've met him cornin'l Don't
S>u know your mother. Jim?"
e feller, as he grabbed her, says: "You
bet 1 haiut forgot-"
But wipin' of bis ?'yes, says he, t4Your coffee's
^ mighty hot!"
-James Whitcomb Riley.
KOT AN OLD MAID AFTER
ALL.
If ever a cottage carried out the poet's
idea of **a lodge in some vast wilder?
ness^ it was mis one,. with the rudely
hewn logs and the reel cedar verandah
posts ali twined about with clematis and
ivy.
It was merely a spot cleared away in
the midst of the -primeval forests, with
tail trees forming a dome of shade, and
tangled ferns and laurel bushes car?
peting and glades behind-that was
*JL - -
Minnie West had thought it would be
**greatL?un" to carun ^out with her fath?
er. She had asked Barbara Gwynn to
accompany ber, "in case one wants
somebody to tait to," as she said; and
had selected a number of her prettiest
and most pictaresque gowns to wear,
and books innumerable to read. Bat
after the first three days Minnie con?
fessed within herself that it was a bore.
"Barbara?" she said softly, as she
lay swaying to and fro in the ham?
mock.
.'res.71
Barbara was hemming a pocket-hand?
kerchief in tixe shade beyond, and
looked up quickly at the sound! of her
voice.
*'Isn't it lucky that Tom and Dick
came this morning?"
?.Very," said Barbara.
. "I was beginning to be tired to death
of ike whispering of those trees, and
the tinkle of the waterfall," sighed Min?
nie. "And papa goes away before day?
light, and that old Indian woman sell?
ing baskets frightens me half to death!
How do 1 know but what she means to
scalp me before she gets through? But
now that Dick is here-"
"And Tom," softly murmured Bar?
bara.
??They'll have to sleep in hammocks
swung under the trees at night," added
Minnie. -But I don't tnink they'll
mind that"
-If it don't rain," said Barbara.
.?And they'll have to eat canned
things and preserves, unless papa
brings home some tront. or wild ducks,
or venison, or something. But, of
coarse, people expect to rough it in the
woods."
?Of coarse," acquiescel soft-voiced
Barbara.
?.I'm sorry, though." sighed Minnie,
"gazing pensively ont toward Lake Shela
m the distance, *that they both hap?
pened to blunder in this direction ac
once; because-mind, Barbara, this is a
great, great secret"
.TH never breathe it to a living
soul?' whispered eager Barbara.
??They are Both dead in love with
me," confidentially murmured Min?
nie, blushing a radiant sea-shell pink,
??and-and I know they are furiously
jealous of each other."
?.Dear me!" fluttered Barbara, herself
coloring in sympathy.
??And Tm afraid one or the other of
them will do something dreadful," said
Minnie; 4<for the way they glare at each
other is simply appalling/'
4*Couldn't-couldn't you send them
away?" hazarded Barbara,her blue eyes
uplifted, her red hps parted in a sort of
dimpled consternation.
.Oh no!" Minnie answered positive?
ly. "No, that would never do. Don't
you see how inhospitable it wot?ld
seem? Oh, Barbara, this is one of the
disadvantages of being-well, tolerably
decent-looking," she added with a
laugh, as she turned her face away.
?One is perpetually tormented with
lovers; one never knows what to expect.
Now you, Barbara dear
"Yes, me," sighed Barbara, hemming
away until her needle shone like a series
of electric sparks.
"You're a darling, and you've the
sweetest face in the world," added Min?
nie- "But of course yon couldn't be
called a beauty, and men will never
quarrel about you."
"No, to be sure not," acceded Bar?
bara with a mournful inflection in her
voice.
"And I think-yes, I'm almost cer?
tain," Minnie candidly added-"that
you'll be an old maid. -But you shall
always have a home with me, dear.
And only reflect," she said encouraging?
ly, "what a good deal old maids can
accomplish in the world."
"Yes; that's true," said Barbara.
But she did not seen to derive much
comfort from this indisputable fact
"And now, darling," Minnie added
dreamily, "if you'll just go inside and
j make a pie and some little tarts out of
I those wild raspberries that the Indian
woman brought this morning it would
be such a relief to me, for one does get
go shockingly burned and scorched over
the stove; and I never bad any fancy
? for cooking. You won't mind, Barbara,
will you?"
"I? Oh no!" said Barbara, putting
aside the half-hemmed pocket-handker?
chief.
Ever since their school-days she had
contentedly yielded up the palm in !
everything to beautiful Minnie West, j
and the habit was still strong on her. I
Meantime Tom and Dick, whose
names in ordinary society were Mr.
Thomas Sinclair and Mr. Richard Went?
worth, were stalking along side by side,
evidently not the best company for each
other.
"1 rather think," said Wentworth,
suddenly stopping, "that I'll take this
old road. It looks as if it might lead
somewhere."
??It is a deuced lonesome sort of a
place," said Sinclair. "I shouldn't
think by the looks of it that a team had
been over it io a year."
"Nevertheless, I mean to follow it up," ?
said Wentworth, curtly.
"Do as you please," observed Sin?
clair. "I suppose? however, that your !
idea in following old roads is chiefly tx
get rid of me?"
"You eau draw your' own infer
enees," said Wentworth, shrugging nh
shoulders.
"Much obliged to you, I am sure," re
marked Sinclair, tugging fiercely at hi!
mustache.
And the minute Dick was out of sigh!
he made the best of his way back to thc
lodge in the vast wilderness, when
Minnie was still swinging gracefullj
in the hammock, and Barbara wai
Just taking the raspberry-pie out of tnt
oven.
"I thought Td come back," said he
?.Wentworth took a fancy to go down
that queer old road that leads through
the woods. What for, I can't imagine,
unless it was to break np our tete-a-tete.
And-"
Minnie sprang out of the hammock.
**Not the old road by the brook?" said
she.
??Why, of course. What other old
road is there?" said Tom, staring.
"Didn't -I tell you?" shrieked Minnie,
: ??that the old road wasn't safe? That
nobody ever traveled it now, on ac?
count bf the quaking morass that swal?
lowed np a wagon and two horses,
three years ago?"
"Of course you told me," said Sin?
clair, turning lividly pale. "But 1. swear
to Heaven I never thought of it from
that moment to this!"
"It looks exactly like the rest of the
road," cned Minnie, wringing her
hands. "No one would ever suspect
what a death-trap it was until you step
directly upon it And then- Oh,
run after him, Mr. Sinclair!"
"Don't lose a second!" gasped Bar?
bara.* '?Take a hatchet with you, to
cut the branches of trees! Take a coil
of rope! Oh, my goodness, at this very
second he may be sinking out of the
world!"
Sinclair's face was blanched as he
glanced from one to the other.
In the midst of his tenor and genu?
ine sympathy he could not but think:
??She loves him after alL I have not
the ghost of a chance!"
He caught up the hatchet which the
trembling little Barbara brought him,
and flinging thc coil of clothes-line
around fis neck, started off in a run in
the hope of overtaking Wentworth be?
fore he had reached the fatal spot
But the effort was useless. As he
Sressed on beneath the* swamp-like
ensity of the old trees, he caught sight
of his former rival, already knee-deep
in the treacherous quagmire-over
which a veil of soft green grass and
wild ferns had grown luxuriantly, as if
to conceal its very existence from tho
unwary traveler - and shouting des?
perately for help.
.?Hold on a minute!" bawled Tom, as
he chopped vigorously away at a slim,
tall-growing young birch tree. ?Til
fling this tree across that death-trap.
Hold on to it until I cut another!"
And by dint of constructing an impor?
tune raft of elastic young saplings
across that hidden chasm, and himself
venturing across them, he succeeded in
dragging Dick out before it was too
late, and both stood for a second gaz?
ing with deathly-pale faces nt the raft
itself as it gradually settled down,
down, down into the morass, until
only the velvet-soft grass and the nod?
ding arum-leaves were left above the
surface
Wentworth wrung Tom's hand.
??Old fellow," said he, ??you have
saved my life. I can't describe my feel?
ings just now. It was as if the hand of
some unseen monster were gripping at
my heels and drawing me down to
death. It was like being swallowed up
alive. After this I'll go away. I
won't remain to interfere with your
chances."
"But you shall remain," said Tom.
??Here she comes now. She shall decide
for herself. Do you take me for an in?
grate?"
It was true. Minnie, flushed and
lovely from the haste she had made,
now arrived at the scene, with little Bar?
bara close behind.
"He is all right" said Tom.
"He has saved my life!" shouted Dick.
.?He deserves the richest reward that
man can receive. I resign all claims
in his behalf."
??Nonsensef said Tom, looking su?
premely uncomfortable. "If it hadn't
been for my carelessness and stupidity
you never would have been in such a
bad plight"
Minnie turned rose and white by
tums. She looked imploringly at
Dick, she looked wistfully at Ton? and
then she put out her hands to the lat?
ter.
?.You are his preserver," she said?
almost in a sob. "No reward eau be
too great for you. If-if a lifetime's de?
votion can atone to you for this noble
act it shall be yours. I will be your
wife, dear, dear Tom!"
"Hold on-hold on!" said Mr. Sin?
clair. "We're all at cross-purposes here.
lt's Dick that proposed this bargain
not me."
"Don't you adore her?" said Dick re
proachfullv.
??Not a bit of it" said Tom. ??She's
avery nice girl; but it's Barbara that
Tm after."
"Barbara!" echoed Dick. ?*Why the
deuce didn't you say so before?"
"Isn't it she that you're in love
with?" demanded Tom, with some sur?
prise.
"No; it's Minnie!"
?'Then why on earth couldn't you
have spoken out?" irately demanded
Sinclair. "Here we both have been
frantically jealous of one another with?
out a particle of cause."
And Minnie West flying into tho
arms of her rescued hero, cried out:
"And 1 can love Dick, after all, with?
out feeling myself to be a serpent of in?
gratitude."
As for little Barbara, she said nothing
at all, except that her eyes were full of
limpid, deep sparkling happiness.
"Only to think," said Minnie, when
she bad had time properly to consider
the question, "that Barbara won't be an
old maid after all ! But I was willing to
sacrifice mvself to Tom, after all. Now,
wasn't I?""
"But he didn't want tho sacrifice,"
demurely spoke Barbara. "I think
that is, it seems to mc-that he's very
well satisfied as it is."
Which, to beautiful, self-appreciative
Miunie. was the strangest thing- of ail.
A Clever Yonnjj Journalist.
Miss Jeanette Gilder is a woman who
has made for herself a very enviable
place in journalism, says tho New York
World. Siie founded and has carried
to a definite success a weekly journal,
The Critic, which was an experiment
and something quite new in its aim and
scope. Of her career and her experiences
in the various departments of news?
paper work she writes in a pleasant,
frank, manly fashion. Personally
Miss Gilder is a curious combination of
feminine and masculine traits. She is
passionately fond of children and is de?
voted to the pretty infants of her
brother, the poet; in social life soe is
entirely feminine, and is quite what any
other clever, sweet-tempered woman
would be. But in her office she is utter?
ly changed. A woman who had occa?
sion to meet her there once gave rather
an amusing decription of her own cmo
tions on thc occasion. i
? THRONE FOR RENT.
BUI Nye Politely Declines the Job of
Kin g of Salgarla.
SLSTFEBT ELMHURST, HUDSON, Wis.
To the Allied Powers care of Lord Salis?
bury.
GENT?ES?EN: Your favor of recent
date regarding my acceptance of the
Bulgarian throne, which is now vacant
and? for rent, in which note you tender
me the use of said throne for one year
with the privelege of three, is at hand.
You also state that the allied powers are
not favorable* to- Prince Nicholas and
that foti would all prefer a dark horse.
Looking over thc e?tire list of obscure
men, it would seem you had been unable
to fix upon a r?an who has made a bet?
ter showing* in his line than I have.
While I thank you for this kind offer
of a throne that has, as you state, been
newly refitted and refurnished through?
out, I must decline it for reasons which
I will try to give in my own rough, un?
polished way.
In the first place ? read in the latest
despatches that Russia is mobilizing
her troops, and I do not want anything
to do' with a country that will treat its
soldiers in that way. Troops have cer?
tain rights as well as those who have
sought the pleasanter walks of peace.
That is not all. I do not care to enter
into a squabble in which I am not in?
terested. Neither do I care to go to Bul?
garia in the capacity of a carpet-bag
monarch from the ten-cent counter,
wearing a boiler-iron overcoat by day
and a stab-proof corset at night I
have always been in favor of Bulgaria's1
selection of a monarch vica voce or vox
populi, which ever you think would
look the best in print
I hate to see a monarch in hot water
all the time and threatening to abdict
Supposing he does abdict what good
will ihat do, when he leaves a widow
with nothing but a second-hand throne
and a crown two sizes too small for his
successor? I have always said, and I
still say, that nothing can be moro piti?
ful than the sight of a lovely queen
whose husband, in a wild frenzy of re?
morse, has abdicted himself. Nothing,
I repeat can be sadder than this picture
of a deserted queen, left hio& and dry?
without means, forced at hist to go to
the pawnbrokers with a little plated,
fluted crown with rabbit-skin ear tabs
on it!
We are prone to believe that a mon?
arch has nothing to do hut issue a
ukase or a mandamus and that he will
then have all the funds he wants; but
such is not the case. Lots of our most
successful monarchs are liable to be
overtaken any year by a long, cold
winter and found as late as Christmas
reigning in their summer sceptres.
I am inclined also to hesitate about
accepting the Bulgarian throne for
another reason-I do not care to be de?
posed when I want to be doing some?
thing else. I have had my deposition
taken several times and it did not look
like me either time.
1 think that you monarchs ought to
stand by each other more. If you would
form a society of free and independent
monarchs there in Europe, where you
are so ' plenty, you could have a good
time and every little while you could
raise your salaries* if you worked it
right
Now you pull and haul each other all
the time aud keep yourselves in hot
water day and night. That's no way
for a dynasty any more thau any one
else. It impairs vour usefulness and
tills our telegraphic columns full of
names that wc cannot pronounce.
Every little while we have to pay the
operator at this end of thc cable ten
dollars for writing in a rapid, flow?
ing hand that "meanwhile Russia will
continue to disregard the acts of the So?
bran je."
Why should a great country like Rus?
sia go about trying to make trouble
with a low-priced So brau jo? I think
that a closer alliance of crowned heads,
whose interests are identical, would
certainly relieve the monotony of many
a long, tedious reign. If I were to ac?
cept the throne of Bulgaria, which is
not likely, so long as my good right
arm can still jerk a fluent cross-cut
saw in the English tongue, I would
form a syndicate of mouarchs, with
grips, pass-words, explanations and
signals; every sceptre would have a con*
tralto whistle in the butt end which
could be used as a signal of distress,
while the other end could have a cork
in it and then steering a tottering
dynasty down through the dim vista of
crumbling centuries would not be so
irksome as it now is.
As it is now, three or four allied
powers ask a man to leave his business
and squat on a cold, hard throne for a
mere pittance, and then just as he be?
gins to let his whiskers grow and learns
to dodge a big porcelain bomb those
same allied powers jump on top of him
all spraddled out and ask him for his
deposition. That is no way to treat
an amateur monarch who is trying to
do right
You see that unless you stand by
each other the thrones of Europe will
soon be empty and every two-dollar-a
day hotel in America will have au heir
apparently to thc throne for a head
waiter, with a cornet put on his clothes
with a rubber stamp, and a loaded
sceptre up his sleeve,
li you want to rear your children to
love and respect the monarchy industry
you must afford them better protection.
I say this as a man who may not live
to over 100 years of age, ana with my
feet thus settling into thc boggy shores
of time let me beg of you monarchs,
and monarcbesses, to make your call?
ing an honorable one Teach your
children and their children to respect
the business by which their parents
earned their bread. Show them that
it is honorable to empire a country if
tiiey do it right Teach them th nt to
do right is better than to fraudulently
turn a jack from the bottom of thc
pack. Teach them that it is better to
be a popular straight out-ar.d-out
partisan king who is sincere about it
than to be a mugwump monarch who
dares not leave his throne night or day
for fear that somebody will put a num?
ber of bombs uudcr it or criticise him
in the papers.
I would like to empire Bulgaria this
winter first rate if I could get back in
time to rsmovo thc counterpane from
my asparagus bed, but it would hardly
pay me to do so. If Nicholas will do
it and do it at living rates, I would tell
him to go ahead.
If you furnish reigning tools and
palace he ought to do it at ?1,200 a
year, or say $1,500 and lind himself, j
Yours sincerciv, BILL NYE.
1,500- Collect. " in N. Y. Wor.d.
"May I ask, young man, what your
prospects are in life? I only want to
know for my daughter's sake. "Well,
sir, I have a position in a New York
bank, and my salary, although small,
is-" "I don't care anything about
your salary. The question is, do you
hold the keys to the safe?"
Customer to coal-dealer-"Have you
got any name for those scales of yours?"
**I never heard of scales having a
name." "Well vou ought to cali your
scales ambush. You see they are always
lying in weight"-Texas Siftings.
Our State Contemporaries.
Keowee Courier.
The Anderson Intelligencer calls upon
the people of Anderson to make an ef?
fort to have the farm and station, pro?
vided by the Legislature, located in
that COUDfy. As we understand the
law one of these stations is to be located
in the up-country. We presume that
at least four of these farais and stations
will be authorized and * located in the
State. There should be oue in the
Piedmont section, one at Chester, one
at Marion and one at Orangeburg.
This would give the people of the State
an opportunity to learn something of
thc practical operations of these farms
and stations.
Under the rpesent law one of these
farms and stations is to be located in the
'Piedmont region/ and the people of this
section are called upon to contribute the
ways and means, in a measure, to secure
the location of the farm and station. It
cannot be profitable for *the various
counties in this region to have a scram?
ble over the location-all expecting it
and only one county to receive it. As a
solution of the matter we would suggest
that the people of the Counties in the
'Piedmontregion,' by delegates appoint?
ed in the usual way, meet at some con?
venient point and settle the matter of lo?
cation. The location should be at a point
accesible to a majority of the people of the
section named, if it is to be useful and
profitable to them, as we think it will
bc.
Barnwell P.eople.
Better than Ben Tillman. Several
years ago three contributions advocat?
ing the creation of arbitration courts ap?
peared in the People. They came from
the pen and brain of one of the most in?
tellectual and accomplished gentlemen
in the State, but were too far in ad?
vance of the times to receive the atten?
tion and approbation that they deserved.
The Newberry Farmers County Club
recently adopted a resolution, published
below, which should be followed all over
the State. It woulddo the farmers more
good than the building of a purely Ag?
ricultural College.
Resolved, That each Farmers' Club
appoint a judiciary committee whose
duty it shall bc to hear and adjust all
differences between members of their
respective clubs or adjoining clubs, and'
also, as far as possible, between mem?
bers and their tenants.
Anderson Intelligencer.
The Supreme Court has filed its de?
cidion in the matter of thc application
for a mandamus to compel Mayor Tolly
to hear and judicially determine all mat?
ters of law and fact involved in the late
prohibition election in Anderson. The
Court dismissed the application, holding
that the Mayor is bound by the return
of thc managers. Chief Justice Simp?
son delivered the opinion of the Court,
which was concurred in by Justice
Mciver and McGowan. The anti-pro?
hibitionists propose beginning a case in
the Circuit Court to set the election
aside.
Mies Samoella Brown, one of Ander?
son's most excellent young ladies, has
volunteered her services as a Missionary
to China, in response to a call from the
Missionary Board of the M E. Church,
South. Miss Brown will shortly leave
for Nashville, Tenn., where she will
confer with the Board, and if accepted,
will at once prepare to leave for her
field of labor. Miss Brown is in every
way qualified for her Missionary work,
and it is very commendable in her to
offer her services to thc Master in that
distant land. Her offer certainly ?hows
a brave heart and a strong desire to ex?
tend the cause of Christ.
Pee Du Index.
In spite of the bard times there is
no scarcity of money in the money
market. Capitalist* find that borrow?
ers are scarce. There are, indeed,
many wanting to borrow but most of
them are persons who can give no
security, personal or otherwise.. A
mao who can give fair security can
borrow on very reasonable terms, lt
is an encouraging indication that this
class of people are not borrowing
money, but are holding to the property.
It is encouragniug to know that the
private indebtedness of the people
is not growing in an overwhelming
ratio. The result of economy on the
part of the people will be to make
money easier for all classes, the laborer
as well as the landlord.
A Tobacco Factory for Marion.
Ex-Representative Janies McRae. of
this county, and Mr. John J. McKay
have built a tobacco factory in the up?
per portion of Marion, and gone regu?
larly into the wboselale manufacture of
the weed. The factory is situated in
the extreme northeastern part of the
county where Marion, Marlboro* and
Pwoberon (N. C.) Counties join. The
required bond has been given, and the
gentlemen only await their license to
j commence work. This is, if we mis
I take not, (lie fifth factory of the kind
I in the State and the second in the Pee
Dec country, flic other being owned by |
Mr. ll. J. Tatum, at Tatum Statiou, j
Marlboro' County.
Greenville Nercs.
A story comes from Lexington Va.,
that the ghost of Stonewall Jackson
has appeared there, like the ghost of
il ? m let's father, to thc sentinels ..land?
ing their watch. It seems that Gen.
Jackson has acquired some new and
dandified ?deas in the other world as
he is said to appear on a white horse ?
with waving white plumes above his 1
head ; or possibly he has raided tlie ;
shadowy quarters of some departen
Federal general from force of habit and :
brought off thc headquarters equip- j
ment.
But alive or dead, shadow or sub- j
stauce, if Stonewall Jackson i* ridiug
around Lexington we want to go there
and see him,, and there are thousands
of old soldiers who would make the
journey for the pleasure of seeing him
and yelling in his wake one more time.
They would go too without the slightest
doubt that if he wished to lead them to
heaven he would get them there on time j
and in good fighting order.
We await further reports with inter
cst; i
Birmingham, Ala?
Tbe following letter recently publisb*
ed in the Greenville Enterprise, and'
written by Mr. J. M. Sullivan aa-?
reply to numerous letters of inquiry fro?
friends, will be of interest to tbe gene?
ral reader :
To begin, then, I may say that the
city of Birmingham is tbe most remark?
able and rapidly growing city in the
world, both in population, in wealth
and in newly ioaugurated industrial en?
terprises. As an evidence of this, I
will cite a few facts, tbat, without com?
ment of mine will satisfy the most skep?
tical doubter that I do not indulge rn
the language of exaggeration when I
assert the broad proposition above
stated : In the year 1880, Birmingham
had a population of 4.500; in 1884, a
population of 17,500 ; in 1885, a pop?
ulation of 21,347; in 1886 a pop?
ulation of 32,000 ; and now a popula?
tion of about 40.000. The value of
taxable property in Jefferson County in
1880 was only $3,246,374, while io
1886, as shown by Tax Receiver's re?
turns, this value bad increased to $11,
079,619. Since this assessment was
made at least $6,000,000 or $7,500,
000 has been added to the wealth of
the County-the very large majority of
which has been invested in Birming?
ham and its immediate vicinity. Cap?
ital has come to the city in larger pro?
portion to population than bas ever be?
fore been kuown in the history of cit?
building. There are a large number of
immense manufacturing establishments,
consisting of furcaces, rolling mills,
foundries, iron and steel works, wood
works of all kinds, furniture factories ;
and, indeed, every conceivable sort of
similar enterprise. There is a rapidly
growiog wholesale trade in every de?
partment of commerce which is destined
to be immensely increased in a very
few months, upon the completion of tbe
Kansas City, Memphis and Birming?
ham Railroad, the Georgia Pacific, west?
ward to Columbus, Mississippi, tbe
Goodwater extension of the Georgia
Central, and the Mobile and Birming?
ham connection. Retail merchants in
every line do a magnificent and profita?
ble business.
Employed in the various foundries,
furnaces, workshops and other wage
paying establishments, there are fully
fifteen thousand male adult laborers in
the Birmingham District.
There is a steady demand for carpen?
ters, brick-masons, and all sorts of la?
borers who can assist in house building.
Thousands of houses are going up and
more will be started in the spring.
As to wages, brick-masons are paid
from $2.75 to $3.75 per daw carpen?
ters, $2 to $3 ; stone cutters, ?2 25 to
$2.75 ; plasterers, $1 75 to ?2 25 ;
painters $1 50 to $2 25 ; tinners,
$1 25 to $3.25 ; teamsters, $2.50 to
$3; day laborers, $1. There is a
splendid call for first-class domestic ser?
vants-but only first-class are wanted.
Labor is paid off every Saturday
night io cash-a consideration of im?
portance alike to the retail dealer and
the laborer himself.
Io a few words I may coincide by re?
marking than the coal, iron and lime?
stone fields produce their three hundred
and twelve crops per annum, and these
go daily on the market to be converted
into cash to pay each week the wages of
the producer. Ours is a very different
system from that of the cotton country,
where the whole year is consumed in
producing and gathering and selling the
crop, and landlord and laborer have
alike to wait through weary months to
secure their compensation.
We need more hotels and boarding
houses ; and this want is due to the
fact that immense throngs of people are
coming into the city upon every train,
either to invest their money or to cast
their lots with ocr growing aod famous?
ly prosperous community.
One other thing may be mentioned,
while property is now selling here at
what persons from abroad regard as fabu?
lous prices-and, indeed, the prices
have advanced hundreds of per cent, in
the last six months--nevertheless, I can
most con?Jeu ty predict that by mid-sum?
mer every lot in the city will have
doubled its value to its owners.
Trust my word for it. that when I
state that at least $200,000 in actual
cash is paid out in this city every Satur?
day afternoon to employees;; that I rath?
er under estimate than exaggerate the
fact as it really exists. Nearly all this
money is spent here for the various sup?
plies which are needed by these work?
ing people and their families.
During this spring, summer and fall.
I know of contemplated building enter?
prises which will surpass in extent all
those that have been completed i:i the
last three years. These movements are
made to meet an actual demand which
an ever increasing population renders
strady ; and investments of this sort
will assume to capitalists the handsomest
dividends while it will afford the work?
ing classes comfortable and compara?
tively cheap homes. It is a well-kuown
fact that if the supply of business
houses and dwellings had been adequate j
to the demand, the population of Bir- j
mingham to-day would have bceu at j
least 20,000 greater than it now is. |
Capitalists of immense means have
realized tins and seeing that they have
been standing in their own light, arc
now moving with great zeal and energy
to remove this obstacle to that full
growth which has only been delayed lor j
the reason thar, thousands who desired
to locate could find neither business
stands nor habitations for themselves
and their families.
The metal workers of the North and
West] at last reabzing that iron can be
produced here f<>r at least 00 per rou
less than in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken?
tucky. Lake Superior and other ore
producing sections of the North and
Northwest arc rapidly coming to ihe
concludion '? fake time by the forelock
and locate their plants in this vicinity.
Ten years ago thc Loudon Times said
that "Birmingham, Alabama, is destin?
ed to be America's greatest metal work?
ers city." This prophecy is now being
rapidly realized, and in a very ?hort
time million? of dollars will find invest?
ment here that are now being employed
in the Northern and Western States at
a great disadvantage. The cheap sup?
ply of the raw material here compels
them to come to this great ?ron center
of the ccotiuent.
A new era is dawning. The long 1
prostrated Sooth is now emerging from
the depression wbieh a revolution- of ife
political sy-tem wrought. It is march?
ing in the van of material progress and
fe winning glori?os achievements in the
amassing of wealth' aird the extension of
a new prosperity. In the grand column
of States that are pressing forward with
high resolve and victorious sweep,
Alabama is at the forefront, bearing a
shining banner, on whose folds is in?
scribed the legend, "Our night has
ended: tht morn of prosperity has
dawned."
Death to Desperadoes.
From the S?. Louie Oldbt-Demotrat,
On trial ir* the Circuit Court, in ses
sion at Mt. Sterling, Hy , is a little,
inoffensive-looking mao, about 4& years
old. He bas a delicate, effeminate
face, blond bair that is beginning to
torn white, and small white bands.
His eyes are light blue, but under ex?
citement there is a glitter in them that
reminds one of a tiger. This man is
Perry Oakley, Marshal of Stepstone,
Ky., indicted for the tilling of Wil?
liam " and John Smith and William
Osborne on the streets of Stepstone in
July, 1885. Quiet and seemingly gen?
tle as a woman. Oakley isa man of iron
nerveand leoninecourage. Hisbas been
a turbulent career, but it ts truly said
be never raised a gun except when
there was no other recourse, never pro?
voked a quarrel or engaged in a fight
except in a case of absolute defence.
One of Oakley's first battles with was
with Jim Ballard, a powerful man. a
recognized and feared desperado. Bal?
lard attacked Oakley, who quietly pull?
ed a knife and ran it through the des?
perado's body. Ballard recoved, and
some month's later, aided by bis father
and brothers, attacked Oakley again.
The fight was a desperate one, Oakley
receiving a bullet through bis body,
but before he fell be sent two shots into
old man Ballard's breast, wounding bim
fatally. Oakley recovered almost mi?
raculously.
The triple killing for which Oakley
is now on trial was highly sensational,
and serves to show the nerve of the
man. As marshal of Stepstone be had
incurred the enmity of the touga ele?
ment of the town. On the evening of
the murder, Will and John Smith and
Will Osborne were painting Stepstone
all kind of colors. They lived in the
country, and came to town to get drunk.
They were all armed-one with a gan
and the others with pistols. Oakley
believed they would do no serious barm
if let alone, and avoided them. Thus
matters stood late in thc evening, when
, John, the elder of the Smiths, went
1 into the storehouse owned by one Hick
erson where Oakley was sitting.
When Oakley saw Smith, be asked
what was wanted, Smith did not answer,
but attempted to draw a pistol from his
belt. Quick as a flash Oakley drew bis
revolver and fired; killing Smith. Will
Smith and Osborne were out in the street
and bearing the shot rushed in, one with
drawn revolver, fhe other with a rifle,
ready to shoot. Oakley saw them
corni og and seized a doable barrelled
shotgun. It was now an open field,
with shelter for neither side. The
odds were two to one but the nervy man
never flinched. When within fifteen feet
of each other the firing began. Both
barrels of Oakley's gan went off al?
most simultaneously, and Osborne and
Smith fell to the floor pierced by a
dozen buckshot. Just then an unseen
foe sent a bullet toward the brave Mar?
shal, grazio g bis temple. Undaunted,
Oakley ran to the sidewalk, and saw a
man named Maguire running with a
gun in his hands. Levelling his re?
volver be fired, sending a bullet into
Marquire's shoulder.
Oakley had a thorough examining
trial, and was acquitted, but the Grand
Jury nevertheless indicted bim.
Politics in Colorado.
Blaine of Maine.
Hill of New York.
That is now the political cry in Col?
orado. The Republicans are for
Blaine and the Democrats for Gov.
; Hill. A canvas of the Legislature
shows that the Republican members
are almost solid for Blaine, and the
same can be said of the Democratic
members as to Hill. There is no
doubt that the Presidential preferen
ces expressed by the members of thc
Legislature represent the general feel?
ing of both parties in this State. If a
delegation of Republicans were chos?
en at the present time to express the
wish of this State in a National Con?
vention, they would be solid for
Blaine, and a Democratic delegation
could be counted on for Gov. Hill.
Why are the Colorado Democrats
opposed to Cleveland ?
Because they don't like his policy.
Tiicy don't like his silver record ; and
above all, they dislike his hobnob?
bing with Mugwumps. In the can?
vass of the Legislature thete are only
three Cleveland men out of the thirty
two Democratic members. At first
only two Cleveland men were found,
but later developments showed there
were three.
But three ont of thirtj'-two is a
small backing for a President.
There is somthing a little remarka?
ble about the feeling toward Cleve?
land in Colorado. The Republicans
don't like him because he is a Demo?
crat, and the Democrats don't like
him because they think he isn't a
Democrat.
From a Colorado standpoint it
might well be asked, What is Air.
Cleve.and ?
Why do they want Gov. Hill? He
is considered an available man, and
the Colorado Democrats believe him
to be more of the old Jacksonian style
in standing by the party leaders, lt
must be admitted that good men have
been appointed by Mr. Cleveland to
office in Colorado, but it is a fact that
the old Democratic leaders in the
State have, as a rule, been ignored.
Anti-Cleveland ?
Yes. Both Republicans and Dem?
ocrats arc against him. The contest
of 1888 is looming up, and the Colo?
rado politicians are casting the horo?
scope.--A'a/isis City Journal t
A note of warning : People who j ,
steal watches are apt to wind up in jail, | <
-Harper's Bazaar. j.
. Current Comment,
The New York Sun says r
We fi od io the WashingioB Hinda"
i report which- it is impossible te.cos?
sider without entire disbelief, sod ?ere
t is:
"Tn conversation willi tbe Frequent"
?omething was said about Mr. Pendle^
ion's violent greenback heresy of fifteen
rears ago. 'That don't matter DOW,'
vas the President's aas wer 'r the green- .
jack question is- not now in politics, so
t can make no difference' *Tbe??"
?00* I *&*], 'the Cincinnati Enquirer
s against him.9 The President looked .
it me steadily for a moment. Then I
?oticed a dull red flush slowly spread
ill over his face. 'Darno tbe. Cincin?
nati Enquirer /*. said be. . 'it the
yypev which gave tbe first publicity to -
bat viIliaooas lie, about mo ia 1884
? am glad to hear it is opposed to Pen-.
ileton. It makes hwn very much '
itronger in my estimation.' I never-:
?aw more vehement bitterness exhibits
id in any one's countenance than was
?bown in the President's in this WQ
?ersatron."': '"': ?:' ' lU.Z^O
We do not mean to express the opti?
on that Mr. develan ? regards the Cie?
no nati Enquirer with kindly affection,-.
>ut we are perfectly sore that be Bever
nado use of the profane and shocking
impression attributed to h i av io tho
Washington Herald. White we do soi >.
inderstand that be is a professing
Christian, or a member of any churdy
we cannot forget that-be is the soo of
i Presbyterian minister, and has been .
brought up to think of swearing as not 4
inly wicked, but revolting to every"del.-; *
cate sense of propriety and unbecom?
ing to a gentleman.; -
. Accordingly,.wc denounce this state? 3
aient of tho Washington Herald as:
jalumpious and wrong.
Louisville Ooxrrier-Journal.
The second rejection* of Matthews by -
the Senate is not quite so bad. on the
Administration as the resignation of
Lord Randolph Cb arch ill and the defeat;
!>f Mr. Goschen or the'Salisbury G-ov-r
cr?ment. Bot it is told to-day thal,
the President felt it keenly, and showed
bis feeling to those Senators who, hav?
ing voted against Matthews, had the
temerity to attend last night's levee.
Why should he ? IQ bringing the negro .
all the way from Albany to put bim
in office in Washington, he not only
gave great and justified offense to the
white population of the District. of;
Columbia, but be distinctly violated a
pledge of bis own and of his party.
The chief objection to Matthews, .
aside from.this, was his position aa to
mixed schools. He is a faoatio in
favor of them. Now tho school systetir
of Washington is a good one, offering -
fair and equal advantages to both races,
and they are at last happily and- well
established, Matthews' presence and:
influence here could -only unsettle
things. Hence both Republicans aid
Democrats joined in rejecting bim, and
were entirely, right in doing so..
If the President had the least tact
he would have accepted the first rejec?
tion as finaL If be were not wedded;
to the policy; of making war . on bia:
friends and making love to bis ene?
mies he never would have appointed
him. ---?
- Phil. American, Ay. *. . .
3 The shifting of party strength ia the;
Senate since the ' end of President
Grant's adminiatratioa^-ia-a notable
feature. In the 45th Congress, (1877
to 1379,) there were still six. Republi?
can Senators, survivors of the. recon^
struetion era, sitting for Southern
States-Spencer, of Alabama ; Dorsey,1*
Arkansas; Conover, Florida; Kellogg.
Louisiana ; Brace. Mississippi ; and
Patterson, South Carolina. AH thew,
seats are now held by Democrats. - On.
the other hand, Connecticut had theo'
two Democratic Senators*- Eaton ano*'
Barnum--and now has two Republic
cans, while Illinois, New York, Oregon/
and Pennsylvania bsd eeeb- one Demo
crat^Messrs. Davis,^Kernan? ?r?ter
and Wallace. The loss in the. Senate
has therefore been compensated bj the
gain of these Northern seats, and the
other seats which have been shifting
since are the doubtful and disputed
ones-^California, Indiana, New Jersey;
and Nevada. These make and unmake
the balance of power at resent*
Kew Orleans States', Dem.
It was only a short time ago that the
Atlanta Constitution fed the President
)o sweet talk and said "Cleveland and
jrady will sweep thc South like a
whirlwind in lSSS.'' Now the Consti?
tution caris its lip in great disgust and
?ays "The President has allowed him?
self to be befooled and befuddled by
me-horse Congressmen." Grady has
evidently had his eyes opened to the
act that he will not figure in the sweep
io any great extent.
y . Y. World.
The Washington correspondent of
he World telegraphs on the 3rd inst. ;
"Something like a sensation was
?aused in the District Supreme Court
n General Term here to-day by the
>reseutation of a petition attacking the
y j vii Service Commission and asserting
he unconstitutionality of the law by
rirtue of which it exists."
Wilmington Star.
The World interviewed the Demo
ratio legislators in New York as to
heir preferences for the Presidency
n 1SSS. It devotes two and a half
01 um ns of fine type to thc opinions.
Che sum of the matter is : For Cleve
aud 6, Hill 20, Thurman 3, Cleveland
r Hill 1. Cleveland, Hill or Hewitt 1,
ion-corn minai 24, absent 9 It also
otcrviewed the Republicans, as (bl?
ows : For Blaine 40, for Depew 9,
ion-committal 20, absent 25. It found
2 Republicans who believed Cleveland
ras the strongest Democrat, and 41
?10 said Hill was.
cleveland or Randall or Crashing:
Defeat.
From the Nashville Union.
Mr. Cleveland will almost certainly
)e the candidate in 1SSS. There is but
)ne man in the party besides Mr. Cleve
and that would stand the slightest show
,o be elected, and that is Mr. Randall.
We can state as a fact, from a personal
conversation with him, that he entirely
concurs in the idea that Mr. Cleveland
wwi be, aud ought tu bc the candidate.