The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 17, 1887, Image 1

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The patronage of the i ?dies and the public generally, is respectfully solicited, also the peopieof the surrounding townships, to whom we extend a cordial invitation to v?s:t us when they come to town. No trouble to show goods : polite attention paid to all who cal!. Respectfully, LAKOUSSEL1E?IE & CO. JnneI. o 8IBLES AND TESTAMENTS, ?FIXE ASSORTMENT OF BIBLES, aod Testaments, in large print at ?Sumter Jfook Store, kept by Vv*. G. svENXEDY, 2 Doors North of John Reids. JHltfEft^flOE?O Of orner?.whowt'sn t iox?mf<v> jly f Cil IwE?U* this puscr.or octa;n emirates im wtt? '?iiii?^*pirrTi-hrn Chicago, wU f:nd it on hia at 4fr to 49 fao?o?ph S?., ItoAdvenbingAcencyof j ^^^LSn?&TH?iS? IN LIGHTER VEIN. A BALLAD OP THE SEASON. ? met ber on ihe tennis lawn Before the summer ?owers were gone, One lovely day at half-past five, She hinted she would like a drive. [The livery bi? was $7 for that excursion.j \ I spoke of poetry and art, And strove to reach her tender heart. The night was full of loeust-spice, She hinted at a lemon ice. [And of course she had to bave cake and all that, and the lunch cost me $3.25 before we got through.j We heard the song of many birds, My tones were low, and fond raj- words, Her smallest wish I should obey? She hiuted at a white bouquet. [The one she wanted cost $2, and I ran in j debt for it.] My style grows grave, and I discourse ! Religion, ethics, moral force And placid joys that love may bring. She hinted at a diamond ring. [i didn?t take the hint, however, and soon changed the subject.] ? spoke of rustic, quiet walks in moonlit lanes, domestic talks, My wife'in simple calico? And then she hinted ? could go. [And her papa accented that hint with the accent oa the '*o."J Though lots of brass, I've not much gold, So is it strange my love grew cold ? Such scenes affection could not bear For even one so sweet and fair. [Since then I've been on the lookout for a widovr?one with plenty of capital, a com fortable home and without mercenary ten dency.] ?Sm Francisco Call. Plunging Down to Death. One Hundred Excursionists Killed in Illinois, Oat from Peor?a. III., Wednesday evening sped a special train with fifteen coaches, crowded with over nine hun dred gay, happy hearted excursionists. Just before midnight, as drawn by two engines it nassed through Chatsworth at rapid speed, the engineer saw to his horror a burning bride ahead. MS w Death, and a dreadful death, was there, inexorable. Into the fire and down through the bridge the train plunged in an awful wreck. Over one hundred people were killed outright and four times ! hat number injured. Seven ty-three bodies mangled bey ?ad recog nition, have been taken from the wreck. The werk of rescue was a hard and brave one by the survivors. It is fully told in despatches below. Chicago, III., August 11, 1887.? The Chicago Times' special from Forest, 111., says : 1! the railway hor rors in the history o ??s country were surpassed three miles east of Chatsworth last night when an "excursion train on the Toledo, Peor?a and Western road dropped through a burning bridge and over one hundred people were killed and four times that number were m?re or icss badly injured. The train was composed of six sleep ing cars, six day coaches and chair j cars and three baggage. It was carry ; ing 960 passengers, all excursionists, ' i and was bound for Niagara Falls. The j train had been made up all along the i line of the Toledo, Peor?a and Western I road, and the excursionists hailed from j various points in Central Illinois, the bulk of them, however, coming from Peor?a. Some of the passengers came from Canton, El Paso, Washington, and, in fact, all stations along the line, some from as far West as Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa. A special and cheap rate bad been made for the ex cursion and all sorts of people took ! advantage of it. j When the train drew out of Peoria ? at eight o'clock last ovening.it was load ! ed to its utmost capacity. Every berth j ia the six sleepers was taken and ! the day cars carried sixty people each, j The train was so heavy that, two engines I were hitched to it. and when it passed j this place it was an hour and a half be hind time. Chatsworth, the next sta tion east of here, is six miles off, and the run there was made in seven min utes, so the terrible momentum of those fifteen coaches and two engines shoot ! ?ng along at the rate of a mile a minute can be understood. No stop was made at Chatsworth. On the heaw train with its living freight sped through the darkness of the night. Three miles east of Chatsworth is a little slough, and where the railroad crosses a dry ran about ten feet deep and iifteen feet wide. Over this was stretched an ordinary wooden trestle bridge, and as the excursion train came thundering down ou it what was tjbe j horror of the engineer on the front en j gine when he saw that this bridge was ! on fire? j Iiight up before Iiis eyc3 leaped the ! bright Sames, and the next instant he was in the fiery furnace. ? There was no chance to stop. Had i there been warning half a mile would j have been needed to stop that on rush- ! I ing mass of wood, iron and human lives, | ! and the train was within 1UU yards of j i the red tongucd messenger of death be- ! j fore the fatal signal cashed into the I j engineer's face. But he passed over in ' j safety, the ?rst engine keeping the rails. | i As it wont over the bridge fell be I neath it. and it could only have been j the terrine speed of the train which i saved the lives of the engineer and his j ! fireman. j I The next engine went down, and in- j i stant?? the deed of death was done. ? j O.r crashed into car. coached piled one ; I on top of another, and in the twinkling j j of an eye nearly one hundred people j j found instant death and fifty more were ; so hurt they could not live. As for the ! wounded, they were everywhere, j Only the sleeping coaches escaped, I and as the startled and half-dressed pas seugcrs came tumbling out of them j they found a scene of horrid death, and I such work to do that it seemed as if ? j human hands wore utterly inefable. | It lacked but five minutes of midnight. Down in the ditch lay the second en- ; j gino .T, .'?ScCiintO'jk. dead. and'Fireman j i ?ppiegate. bo?ly injured. On top were ! ? piled the three baggage cars one on top : of another, like a child's card house | i after he had swept it down with Lis ! \ hand. Then came the six day coaches. j They were telescoped as cars never were ' i before, and three of them were pressed ! into iust space enough for one. The ! second car had mounted off its trucks, crashed through the car ahead of it and ; crushed the woodwork aside like tinder. I It lay there resting oa the tops of the i seats, while every passenger ia iih.c front car was lying dead and dying un i derneath. Out of that car bat four people came alive. On top of the second car lay the third, and its bottom was smeared with the blood of its victims. The other three cars were not so badly crushed, but they were broken and twisted in every conceivable way, and every splin tered timber and beam represented a crushed human frame and a broken bone. Instantly the air was filled with the cries of the wounded and the snrieks of the dying. The groans of men and the screams of women united to make an appalling sound, and above ail could be heard the agonizing cries of little children who lay piuacd alongside their dead parents. And there was another terrible dan ger yet to be met. The bridge was still on fire and the wrecked cars were lying oa and around the fiercely burn ing embers. Everywhere in the wreck were wounded and unhurt men, women and children, whose lives could be saved if they could be gotten out, but whose death?and death in a most i^or riblc form?was certain if the twisted wood of the broken cars caught fire. To fight the fire there was not a drop of water and only some fifty able-bodied men who still had presence of mind and nerve enough to do their duty. The only light was the light of the burning bridge. And with so much of its aid the fifty men went to work to fight the flames. For four hours they fought like fiends and for four hours the victory hung in the balance. Earth was the only weapon with which the foe could be fought, and so the at tempt was made to smother it out. There was no pick or shovel to dig it up, no baskets or barrows to carry it, and so desperate were they that they dug their fingers down into the earth, which a long drought had baked almost as hard as stone, and heaped the pre cious handfuls thus hardly won upon the encroaching flames, and with this earthwork, built handful by handful, kent back the foe. While this was go ing on other brave men crept under neath the wre'eked cars, .beneath the fire and the wooden bar which held as prisoners so many precious lives, and with pieces of board and sometimes their hands beat back the fi?mes when they flashed up alongside some unfor tunate wretch who, p?Dned down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly while it seemed as if ht3 death by fire was ccrtaiu. While the fight against the creeping flames was going on the ears of the workers were filled with the groans of dying men, the anguished en treaties of those whose death seemed certain, unless the terrible blaze could be extinguished and the cries of those too badly hurt to care in what manner the end were brought about, if only it would be (juick. - So they dug up the earth with their hands, reckless of the blood streaming out from broken finger n&iis, and heap ing it up in littie mounds, while ail the while came the heartrending cry, 'For God's sake, don't let us burn to death.' Finally the victory was won. The fire was put oat after four hours of en deavor, and as its last sparks died away the light came up in the east and dawn came upon a scene of horror. BRINGING Ou? THE DEAD B0DISS. While the Oght had been going on men had been dying, and there were not so many wounded to take out of the wreck as there bad been four hours be fore. But in the meantime the country had been aroused; help bad come from Chatsworth, Forest and Piper City, and as the dead were laid reverently along side of each other out in the corn field there were ready hands to take them into Chatsworth, while some of the wounded were carried to Piper City. ! One hundred and eighteen was the j awful couut of the dead, while the wounded number four times that many. The full tale of the dead cannot^ how-1 ever, be told. Chatsworth is turned into a morgue, j The town hall, the engine house, the depot are all full of dead bodies, while every house in the little village has its quota of the wounded. There are over ? one hundred corpses lying in the ex temporized dead houses, and every man I and woman has become a zealous nurse. J Over in a lumber yardthe noise of ham mers and saws rang out in the air, and i busy carpenters were making rough coffins to carry to their homes the dead i bodies of the excursionists, who twelve hours before had left them full of pleas urable expectations of the enjoyment they were to have during the vacation now begun. Down in the dcadhouscs, fathers, hus bands, brothers, sisters, wives and chil dren tearfully inspected each face as it was uncovered, and sighed as the fea tures were unknown, or cried oat in an guish when the well known face, some times fearfully mangled, but still recog nizable, was uncovered. The entire capacity of the little village ; was taxed, and kind hearted women drove in from miles to give their gentle ministrations to the sufferers. Wr.I?SE THAN' GHOULS. No sooner had the wreck occurred ! than a scene of robbery commenced. ?. Some band of abominable, heartless mis cr?ants was on hanti, and like the gucr j rillas who throng a battlefield the night j after the conflict and filch from the dead the money which they received for their meagre pay, stealing even the bronze medals and robbing from the ciiildreu of heroes the other worthless emblems of their fathers' bravery, so last night did these human hyenas plunder the dead from this terrible accident and take even the shoes which covered their feet. Who these wretches are is not now known. Whether they were a band of pickpockets who accompanied the train or some robber gang who were lurking ;a t!:C vicinity cannot be said. WAS IT Tin-nil DEVILISH ACT? The horrible suspicion however, ex I ists. and there arc mat.y who give it credit, that the accident was a delibe rately planned case of train wrecking; that the bridge was set on fire by mis I cr?ants who hoped to seize the oppor j tunity offered, and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed at the time ! the train came along, and the added fact j that the train was an hour and a half i late, are pointed out as evidence of a j careful, conspiracy. It seetus. hardly possible that man could be so lost to all the ordinary feeling which animates the basest of the human race, but still men who will rob dead men, who will steal from the dying and will plunder the wounded, held down by the broken beams of a wrecked car, wounded whose death by fire seemed imminent, can do most anything which is base ; and that is what these human fiends did. They went into the cars when the fire was burning fiercely underneath, and when the poor wretches who were pinned there begged them 'for God's sake to help them out,' stripped them of their watches and jewelry and search ed their pockete for money. When the dead bodies were laid out in the corn ?elds these hyenas turned them over in the search for valuables, and that the plundering was done by an organised gang was proven by the fact that this morning out in the corn field sixteen purses, all empty, were found in one heap. It was a ghastly plundering, and had the plunderers been caught this after noon they would surely have been lynched. ? -? mim - The Oldest Man on Earth. lie is James James of Santa Itosa, and Mas Seen 135 Years. Jaraee James, a negro, and citizen of the United States, who r?sides at Santa Rosa, Mexico, is probably the oldest man on earth. He was born near Dorchester, S. C, in 1752, and while an infant was removed to Med wa}' River, Ga., in the same year that Fraklin brought down electricity from the thunder clouds. In 1772 there was quite an immigration into South Carolina and his master, James James (from whom he takes his name,) moved near Charleston, S. C, in com pany with a number of his neighbors. On June 4, 1776, when 24 years of age, a large British fleet, under Sir Peter Parker, arrived off Charleston. The citizens had erected a palmetto wood fort on Sullivan's Island, with twenty-six guns, manned by 500 troops, under Colonel Moultrie, and on June 28 the British made au attack by laud and water, and were compell ed to withdraw after a ten-hours' con flict. It was during this fight that Sergeant Jasper distinguished him self by replacing the flag, which had been shot away upon the bastion, on a new staff. His master, James James, manned one of the guns in this fight, and Jim, the subject of this sketch, and four other slaves were employed around the fort as gener al laborers. Jim followed his mas ter throughout the war, and was with General Moultrie at Port Roy al, S. C , February 3, 1779, when Moultrie defeated the combined British forces of Provost and Camp bell. His master was surrendered by General Lincoln at Charleston, S. C , on February 12, 1780, to the British forces, and this ends Jim's military career. He remembers of the rejoicing in 1792 throughout the country in con sequence of Washington's election to the presidency, he then being 40 years of age. In this year his first master died, aged about 60 years. Jim then became property of the "Marse Henry" (Henry James,) owning large estates and about thirty slaves, near Charleston. On account of having raised "Marse Henry" Jim was a special favorite with his master and was allowed to do as he chose. His second master, Henry, died in 1815, about 55 years of age, and Jim, now 63 years of j age, became the property of James | James, Henry's second son. In 1833 the railroad, from Charleston to Ham- j burg, S. C, was completed, then the longest road in the world, and Jim, ; with his master took a trip over the road, and was shown special favors on account of his age, now 81. James James was 10 years of age at his father's death, and when he be came of age inherited large estates, slaves, etc., among whom were "old Uncle Jim" and his family. James James lived in South Carolina until 1855/when he moved to Texas with all his slaves. James desired that his slaves should be free at his death, and in 1S5S moved into Mexico, so that they could be fice before his death. James returned to the United States and died in Texas, and in 1865, after there were no longer slaves in the United States, Uncle Jim's children and grandchildren returned to the United States. Five years ago at the age of 130, Jira could do light chores, but subsisted mostly by contributions from the citizens, but for the past two years, not being able to walk, he re i mains for the most part in his little ! jacal, his wants being supplied by generous neighbors. The rheumatism in his legs prevents him from walk ing, but yet he has sufficient strength in his arms to drag himself a short distance?fifty yards or more?and readily took a position on the out side of his cabin to enable the G?o?>e DemocnU correspondent to make his photograph.?Laredo {'Lex ) Leder j G lobe-De moer at. ! To Address the Bar Associa tion. ' The annual address before the South ! Carolina Bar Association which meets i at Columbia in November next, will be J delivered by Mr. Joel Prentiss Bishop, j of Massachusetts. Mr Bishop is cbcif I Iv known to the world as tho author of ! 'Bishop on Criminal Law.' 'Bishop on Criminal Procedure,' 'Bishop on the Law of Married Women,' etc. He is an able nod voluminous writer. His works on 'Criminal Law' and 'Criminal j Procedure' are cited perhaps as often in ! the English as they are in the A meri ! can Courts, and the works have been translated into all the continental tongues. Mr. Bishop is the most uis i tin?Tuishcd judicial writer that America produced. Smalls, the negro ex-Keprcscntativc 1 from South Carolina, is reported in N. Y. World as saying : regard the Ohio indorsement of Sherman as very significant. Cleveland has not been the friend of the negro, as his friends Would have us believe, and the negro who would vote for. him is a. traitor to him I seit/ Senator Riddleberger's Ar rest. His Friends Attack the ?Ta51 and Carry Him Out by Force. Woodstock, Va., August 13, 1S8T. ?Senator Riddleberger, who was sent to jail yesterday for ten days and fined ?30 for the charge, of con tempt of court by Judge Newman, was released this morning about two o'clock by a mob of fifty men. For years there has been extreme hatred existing between the Senator and E. E. NeWman, who was ap pointed Judge under the Democratic nomination. I^he Senator was coun cil in the County Court for W. W. Jones, a man who was charged with a misdemeanor. The jury found that he was in sane, and the verdict made the Sena tor angry. lie was acused of writ ing a placard and giving a boy $2 to haul Jones up and down the town the latter displaying the placard meanwhile, which bad written on it : "Verdict?Bill Jones not guilty, but insane. Jury insane. Lawyers in sane. Court iusane in the main." The noise occasioned by this dis play disturbed the proceedings of the Court then in session, and the Commonwealth's Attorney, J. C. Baker, had the Judge issue an or der for Senator Riddleberger to ap pear before Judge Newman and show cause why he (Riddleberger) should not be fined and imprisoned for ridiculing the Judge and jury and disturbing the Court. At five o'clock Senator Riddle berger appeared before the Court and defended himself. Ile said that Judge Newman had no jurisdiction in the case, which the Judge de nied, and asked Senator Riddleber ger to sit down until the evidence could be taken to prove that he (the Senator) was the one who instiga ted the ridicule, and then he said the Court would hear argument. Sena tor Riddleberger would not sit down and the Court fined him twenty five dollars, lie then defied the Court and said : "This Court shall not send me to jail." Judge Newman then told the Sheriff to take the Senator to jail for five days. Senator Riddleberger said he would like to see the man who could take him to jail, and Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the Sena tor and locked him up. ?RIEXDS IN NEED. The Senator's friends of both par ties were infuriated at the rashness of Judge Newman, and appeared in a mob this morning about two o'clock. They demanded the jail keys. These being refused, they pried the door open to procure the keys. The Sena tor, hearing them, told them to dis I perse, as it would cause them and him trouble. But they entered the jail, and, the Senator refusing to go, he was carried out bodily by force. Great excitement prevails and trou ble is feared on the re-arrest of the Senator. No attempt hes been made at this writing for his re-arrest. lie is now at his mother's residence, five miles from town. ? II ? The Constitutional Centen* nial. Tho celebration of the one bua dreth anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, to be held in Philadelphia, September loth, 16th aDd 17th, promises to be one of the most interesting events that ever occurred in this country, and will rank second only to the great Centen nial of 1876. The* Commision, com posed of some of the foremost men in the land, isTully organized, the Pres ident of the United States and his Cabinet are in cordial co-operation, and the Governors of all the States are aiding in the execution of the general plan. A larger number of troops of differ ent States will doubtless participate in the military feature, than were ever gathered before on a civic occasion ; the industrial display is expected to be the finest and most comprehensive ever seen in the city, and the coramemora tive services, presided over by the Chief Magistrate and addressed by Mr. Jus tice Miller of the Supreme Court., will be the most imposing ceremony ever held in America. The programme as outlined by the Commission is as follows : The 15th of September is'assigned for a processional industrial display. This display, moving in long proces sion, mounted upon cars prepared for the purpose, and accompanied by va rious civic organizations, promises to be a feature of brilliant, and historic inter- j est. In the evening of that, dny the { Governor of Pennsylvania will hold a ? j public reception in honor of the Gov ernors of the States and Territories present at the celebration. Tho 10th of September is assigned for- the military parade and review of the regiments and companies of the militia of the several States and Ter ritories, accompanied by their respec tive Governors and staffs, and by de tachments from the army and navy of the United States, detailed for that occasion. From the returns already received the commission expects the presence of from ten to Gftccn thousand ^tate troops. One State alone offers seven thousand troons in honor of the occasion. It is also intended, if prac ticable, to illustrate in this parade the contrast between the military arms and equipments of Revolutionary timen and those of the present day The co-ope ration of the army and navy of the United States has been assured te the Commission. In the evening of the same day trill occur a public reception in honor of the President of the United Hintes, with the Governors, representa- I rives of foreign governments, miii- ; tary, &e. The 17th of September h devoted to ; the special services of commemoration, j at which the President nf the United : States will preside. The oration will j be pronounced by ?>ir. Justice 7*ii!ler of] the Supreme Court of the United States. | In addition there will be a poem,- nafioft- j al hymns, vocal and instrumental m uste, ?c. Various other entertainments arc offered by citizens during the progress qL the aeiebcaii^U Our State Contemporaries. Palmetto R?giment Badge. Columbia Record. Some days ago Senator Butler receiv ed from the lion, Geo. F. Hear, of Massachusetts, a letter stating that Captain E. R. Clarke, a captain in the United States army, had Synt him a sil ver medal, being one of the number presented to the members of the Pal metto Regiment, and bearing the name of John C. DuBose. Gen. Butler first referred this letter to Dr. DuBose. of Ridge Spring, and then to Judge Ker shaw, who referred the matter to Mr. R. S. Morrison, of this city, who' is the corresponding secretary of the Palmetto Regiment Association. Mr- Morrison has written to Col. J D. Banding, who will doubtless be able to clear the mat ter up. It is Mr. Morrison's belief that the medal was the property of John DuBose, a member of the company com manded by Coh Blanding, who died in service. The medal, Mr. Morrison thinks, was stolen from the DuBose family by one of Shermau^s soldiers. Not a Topic for the Pulpit* Anderson Journal. We have heard so much of 'prohibi tion sermons' in this couuty recently, and the taking of rising votes on the subject in congregations during Sunday service, that it is interesting to note one high church authority as taking a firm stand against such practice. At the Cokcsbury District Conference, held at Ninety-Six last week, resolutions were offered favoring prohibition, and urging tho ministers to so. preach pro hibition as to convince their people that it was their religious duty to vets for prohibition whenever they had oppor tunity. Bishop W. W. Duncan, who was in the chair, took high ground against these resolutions, stating that prohibition was a political question, and as such the church in its organized ca pacity could have nothing to do with it, and he insisted that Methodist minis ters had no right to preach prohibition from their pulpits; that if they wished to discuss prohibition they should do it from the stump and not from the pulpit. He said be wished it understood that he believed in total abstinence and prac ticed it, and that he preached temper ance whenever he had opportunity, even to total abstinence, but that he did not preach prohibition and could not do so without beiog untrue to the Methodist church?that church which had to date eschewed politics and which God had wonderfully blessed in its course. Bishop Duncan said that pro hibition was a civil or economic question, and therefore political, and the church could not undertake to dictate the poli tics of its members'; that whenever the church undertakes this, she would soon er or later come to grief. He further said that Christian temperance people nowadays, in their zeal for prohibition, had overlooked the all-important fact that they must eradicate the desire for strong drink, must stop the demand, before the sale cf spirituous liquors could be prohibited successfully ; that to accomplish this the people must be converted to Christ and so trained mor ally that there would be no demand for strong drink. The Bishop concluded by urging his brethren to stop and think of the tendency of such a resolu tion, and the resolutions were thereupon so amended as to conform to the views expressed by the Bishop. We are in formed that a similar occurrence took place at the recent session of the Sum ter District Conference, where Bishop Duncan also presided. It requires no further argument to show the correct ness of this position, and it ia obvious what an unfair advantage a political advocate has who fires his opinions from behind the bulwarks of the pulpit, and who proclaims as gospel truth a propo sition upon which Christians can hon estly differ. Sjparianburg Herald. A grand jury in Gainesville, Ga., it is related, had found, some years ago, a bill of indictment against a''person for carrying concealed weapons One of the jurors arose and said : 'We have found a bill against that man ; now let us search the grand jury for concealed weapons.' It was found that he, the foreman, and five other jurors had pis tols iu their pockets. When they re covered from the shock of this discovcrv mf the indictment was torn up and thrown away. 'J he Concealed Weapon Law of this State, also, is a dead letter, besides being an outrage on personal rights. Some time ago an old man in this city was attacked by another man with a pick. His lite was saved only by the j interference of an outsider. His assail ant swore that he would kill him. The old man swore out a warrant for his ar rest, hut he could not be found, though he could be heard of, still swearing ven geance. Under such circumstances was n . ... it uot the right of this citizen to arm himself for self protection '? And yet even when thus situated a gentleman will prefer to risk his life rather than j parade the street with a pistol buckled ! around the outside of his coat like a des perado. The law needs amendment or repeal. From'.he Tcntrcruncc Wvrhcr. Judge Norton has ordered the elec tion for Anderson county under the provisions of the M urray prohibition bill. young New Jersey preacher was lately 'cautioned not to touch upon j liquor seMing lost lie lose part of Iiis j salary thereby.' repiird .-nt down j the assessment for my support i I mean to have a shot at that pew. Ar.d j he shot, ai?vl hit the mark, -hc man j liit, said, ' give the ?50 anyhow. 1 confess I like a man that has that sort of simp.' When the Chester I.'istrici. Confer ence-uf tho MoiiltY.'jsl I?? Church, Sv, convened in Lancaster. S. C, ?as? mouth, the Intendant of too town, who is a Presbyterian, thinking to pass oil* a ioke on a Methodist, who is Chairman of the County Commission ers?, said to him ; 'Don't you tbiu?? it would he a good idea to put on an extra polire force during the I session oft lie Methodist Conference V ! Tho Methodist, replied, 'No. Mr. In tendant, just, close up the Presbyte rian dni? stores a-'.K?- you iu-;*y di&-" charge all the policemen." The In tendant oh reflection ascertained that ?H our fo:;r drug stores are under Presbj'teriaii management, and lifting Iiis hat said 'Good morning.* That j was a centre shot. The dry law of Lancaster needs amendment, and ft will be made. - A Virginia correspondent iri the I Nashville Christian Advocate, says : j 'Local option was, it is true, defeated by the ballots of church-members in some of our cities. But I believe our preachers and our people are, a3 a rule, resolved to qizit voting for brandy-soaked politicians.' We have adopted that line-of voting long ago. Men who cannot control themselves are not the men to hold public trusts. A drunkard in high ofScial position is no better thsh a drunkard'anywhere else. The Grand division of Sons of ?eai pcrance for tie State of ?outh Caro lina convened in annual s'cssi?n on the 27th day of July at Abbeville/ S'. C. A larger attendance than' usual, though many of the ??Vordinate di visions were not represented'. Four teen new members were initiated' into the Grand ?) i vision. . Twenty-two new Divisions were instituted dur ing the present year. Six' have sus pended. The most flourishing Di vision is located at Union, S. C, un der the leadership1 Of the ??on. John ??. Young. The following oi??c?rs were public ly installed : Grand Worthy Patriarch?Jchri \ Alexander, Columbia. G. W. A.?John L. Young, Union. G. S/?1<\ S. Dibble, Orangeburg. G. Treas.?W. A. Templeton, Ab beville. G. Chap.?Rev. S. Lander, D. D., Williamslon. G. Con.?M. B. Dunlap, Ilonea Path. G. Sen.?J. A. Merit, Ridge Spring. P. G. W. P.?C. E. E. Drayton, A ike . The Grand Division will meet with the Williamston Division in July of 1838. _ PIvysicians, take warning. Prcs?i tute your high and holy calling in order to become dispensers cf intox icating drinks, and thus i> turn to take the place of drunkard makers, and engen derers of the loathsome dis ease of dipsomania, then do not b'e surprised if the calls for your services become few and far between. We in dorse and commend to you the fol lowing from the Christian Advocate, Nashville : physician who needlessly pres cribes intoxicants deserves the con tempt and neglect which any swindler merits. He perpetuates the crime of a trusteee who makes a good showing for the property he controls by sacri ficing its future to make favorable balance sheets in the present.* ?s people value their own health and the lives of their loved ones, they will be loth to employ a whiskey drinking and whiskey-selling physi cian. We want no whiskey soaked Doctor around us when sickj nor in our family. What Pkohibit?ox Does.?Prohibi tion robs the trafile of respectability. It drives it into rebellion against law ! and order. It makes it disreputable. It brands every man who' sells and every man who buys as ?n outlaw. It makes the devotees of the wine cup the mean, sneaking, night-prowi j ing vagabonds of society. We do not believe that men who respect them selves will defy law and public senti 1 raent just to gratify a base sppetite. Prohibition relieves every citizen of the responsibility of the crimes com I milted under the influence of liquor. ??Cumberland Presbyterian. I The National Bureau of Statistics shows that on the ?700,000,000 which annually passes into the tills of the retailers of intoxicating liquois in this country there is a profit; of 133?.per cent. If poor people had to pay such a tax as that on bread there will be a rebellion. But wheu a man tosses off a glass of whiskey, and pays 5 cents for the diiuk and 7 or 8 cents to the bar-keeper for the trouble^of banding | it to him, he generally thinks the bar keeper an awfully good fellow, and is ready to fall on his knees and thank him into the bargain.?Springfield: Union. _ 1 too much whiskey-. ? There is too much whisky in this ? country for the drinking capacity off liie drinkers. Tho Kentucky Distill- j ers" Association so decided on the | ninth of this month, and recommend- j ed a total suspension of its mantrfac- [ ture unlii the 1st of October, j One of its officers said there was j enough on hand to last the country | three years, and that he thought there would be a general suspension of dis- ! tillaflioii. This is good testimony foi j prohibition. The territory of the I traile is being reduced every month ? by the adoption of prohibition laws, and the distillers, seeing the storm coming, are reefing their sails.? Western Christian Advocate. "vested 1uu?ts.'* Whisky men talk of veMcd rights, the money represented in distilleries, the rumsellors' homes sustained by ruining other homes the thousands of men ami women who win their daily I living behind the counter dealing ont i death. hi the name of conscience docs not j such right trample upon the highest ! and holiest rights of life ? What of the moth era' wasting twenty years of j care and love in a day, ruined in a day in a rum shop? What of a wife's j love Ji ts a woman no cesied rights bey end that ufa ruinseller ?Bulletin. The fatuous exploit of Captain In I graben?, cf the United States Navy, iu rescuing Martin Koz?a from the Aus trian?, in t!:c harbor of Smyrna, over thirty years ago, is now very ancient history. In fact, but few of the pres j cut generation know that. Insraham is j stili slive, ile is 85 years of a<re, and lie resides at Charleston, S. C He j served iu th. War of 18 2, the Mexi I cr.n War, and was with the Coufeder.iV/ d-u'tic^ th? War. A Woi?an's Ft??t?tefc It is ? wondrous advantage ? man, in every pursuit or vocation, jtq/ secure an adviser in a sensible.; wo man., in woman there is" at once ^ subtle delicacy o?" fact and a ;pfam - soundness of Judgment wh??i are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A'woman, iT she be really y??'r; friend1; will bave a sensitive regard' for your character, honor and reputel She will seldom counsel you to. db" a shabby pi ing, for a woman friend' always desires to be proud of you. ?? the same time, her ?onSt?tational timidity makes her more cautions ?han your male friend. Site,* tUer?for??, seldom counsels you to do an iiaprV dent' thing. A man's bes? female friend is a wife ?f good senseVan'a heart, whom he loves, and who lov?e him. But supposing the m?n'i?'fje without such a helpmate,: f??S?W.{ friendship he mi?st still have,; or lus intellect w?l? De Without W: ?ar*?en? and tl?fer? V7il? be many itiz?mfiee?$X gap, even in its strongest fence. -S?t ter and safer, of course, are ?dcfr friendships where disparity of y?ar? or circumstances puts ?l? idea* of love out of. the question'. Middle ag?'naj? rarely*thie advantage ; youth and old age h?ve. We may have female friendship with those mn?h old?r^and those much younger than ourselves; Female friendship is toa man the bul wark, sweetness, ornament of hii? ex istence. _ - ' ^--r. mmm - The Force of Habit Mc Anderson, of San Antonio, is a lawyer who" has a great deal of crim inal practice. He is employed by all kinds of rascals, being always engag ed by the defense. tTot long since McAnderson was called""* to m'a?^? ? speech at the grave of a brotlier law yer, ?le delivered a eulogy on the deceased that brought tears t? the eyes of even the undertaker ?n'd Eie assistants. Finally, with a grand fio ricb, ?ddressing himself to tfi? pall-bearers, he said : 'And nowv gen tlemen, yoi? h?ve heard the evidence; and all i ask of you is that you: will render a verdict of acquittal in favor of this innocent man. f l?ave Km' in your hands knowing t?'?t yon will at least give him the benefit of t"hat reasonable doubt Co which' he is" so justly entitled.' : *f hb ?ew Rules About Cottoti "Weights; Owing to ? hew r?gulation ?f tH? , New York cotton exchange on and after Septembsr the 1st, ?887, Sbttoft buyers in ?11 interior towns will deduct. from bales weighing onder 400 pounds ? cent per pound ; under 350 pounds J cent per pound ; and packages less" than. 360 pounds are not considered bales, and ar? therefore unmerchantable; Theginners and farmers will do well to note this fact in putting tip their cotton. They will also find it to their? interest to increase the general averag? of their bales, ?s the heavy Weigf?t ?f bales from the southwest, is, in addi tion to the superior staple an additional inducement for Northern and European spinners to give their orders that sec tion. This is an iaipcriant matter to the ?icners anrl farmers", ??d should re* ceive their attention. .- -*' ? m.* ? * "~ ~ A Bejected Suite* Turaff Murderer. Amos and Bradley Town'se?d,- ?? Point Pleasant, cousins", and suitors for the hand of Miss Eunice Laidley; agreed to draw lots at the y_?u'n<* lady's suggestion to decide wh'd should have her. The, youn? men met at Miss LaidTe^'s home.on Sun day for that purpose, ?'radf?y was successful and Amos started for home.* He left Bradley and Mis&Laidley sit ting on the porch. A few minutes; after he had disappeared a report of a*1 gun was heard. and the young lady iell dead beside her successful suitor with a bullet through her heart. A Daughter Kills He? ?t ik?i: A special from Lawrence,'Kansas; dated Aug. 10, says: Saturday Mrs'. Mary Eawiinson, aged 71, arrived iri Oswego from Augusta, Kansas, intend- . N ing to take Up her residen.ee w?t?r hct daughter, Mrs. riarvey Willis". After a day or tvro the old lady cfuarr?l?d with' her daughter, who. wan ted to get poses-' siori of her mothers mctisy, a consider able scm. Monday morning the two" women had a disgraceful quarrel, in1 which Mrs. Willis grabbed her mother' by the hair, threw her violently" to tho Guor and beat nr?d kicke? b?r until: she became unconscious. In a few hou're the iujured woman died from tir? effects of her injuries'. She died tfh'ile dicta ting a will to esclude her unnat?ra? daughter from receiving any of her* property. Mrs. Willis was arrested. - ?OB m^m - Blame is now errjeyrng himself in* Ireland. He is closely studying t? mak$ himself master of the *rieh Irish brogue* after the style of Gen. 'fust z??d Feath ers.7 In the next Rcui?cEy Legislature there will be 7 llepublicims in the Sen ate ; in the House there will be 70 Democrats, *26 Bepublicans, - Labor Union, acd 1 Prohibition ist. Women Are So Queer." ' Did you ever sit down beside' ari ?le vator that was not running and study human nature? There is a grest deal of it to be seen, arai it is p':i?ticr?lairiy entertaining when the elevator is mi ? dry-goods store and the h"r?m':in: ?at$ro is of the feminine variety. The. n&si; I extraordinary example o? the effect ?l J habit was shown the other ?sf in: frcbt o? a temporarily disabled elevatct. Two' ? young women stood waiting for the ? - vator to come, ignoring the huge sigli ; which informed them that it was not I running, "and chatting contmtfaKy in j un absorbed way. After they &ad ? waited i:i vain for live minutes a piss&ng ! Samaritan called their attention to' the ? sign. They stared at it soberly; then' i o:Yo of then: leaned forward a'nd xfte ! chaniea'.ly touched the electrical eall I button for the seventh time They 1 laugheil then, and reviled each eth?r'? ' blindness and stupidity, and wer>taway I wondering why they uad faileii to see j the sign. But" neither one tfetfagh* of j speculating on the unconsekiffs eerebra . tien which in?iuenc?d thats^vet?h p?*"*> ? ing of the beli-button. ?Bo&xM Record.