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SSE S?MTEK WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. 'Be Just and Fear net-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy Cod's and Truth's ?B& ?RUK SOUTHRON, Established Jane, lSfctf Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUM TER, S. G., WEDNESDAY, ATJOTST 31, 1887. Sew Series?Vol. YI?. So. 4. Published. 37ory Wednesday, BV N. Gr. OSTEEN, S UM TER, S. C. terms : Two Dollars per annum?in advance. A&VSRTISE2IKNTS. One Square, first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequ ;nt insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which scbserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Absolutely Pure. This powder never varie?. A marvel of "purity, strength and wholesoraeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can uot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL DAK JlfGr POWDER CO.. 106 Wall-st., X. Y. ?? ?'?SS Should "be usad a few months "before ccnCntxaent. Semd for hook * To-??orasns," mailed in ?rad:?leld Eec?i-atob Co., Atlanta? G a. PROSPECTUS. CHA?TA?Q?AN A Monthly Literary Journal, For the Teachers and Students of South Car olina, and all others interested in the Casse of Education. Methods of teaching w??? hs disease*?, and instructive reading will he ?i~eu for the pu pils Eich depart men t will he conducted with an eye to geneml cuiture intellectually. Chatdauquan witi consist of twenty pnges reading matter (each page 6x9 inches), and will be published during the ten school months of the year. The first number will be rssued -Sept. 1, 1837. Subscription price, SI per year. To insure success in this enterprise we earn estly solicit the co-operation, of advertisers, guaranteeing a monthly circulation of not less than 1,000 copies :u r>outh Carolina. - Respectfully soliciting the aid of teachers, pupils, and the public", we are, Yours for success, Mas. E. C. NETTLES A LS BROOK. Brwbttsviixe. S. C, July 23, 1S87. Teacher for fourteen years. Retired from the Manning Academy, June 10, ST. Aug 17. THE TEMPERANCE WORKER, Removed from Columbia, S. C. A Live, Temperance Paper, Published Semi-monthly in SUM TER, S. C. "Under the Editorial management of Ret. H. F. Chkeitztserg, g.w.c.t. of i.o.g.t. of s- c. ?axo? Key. J. S. Mattisox, Assisted by an able corps of Editors. The patronage and influence of all friends of Temperance is solicited. T.. rn:s only 60 cents a year. To advertisers desiring a wide Circulation, it offers an excellent u>e-:ium. On business, address N. G. ?STJ3EN. Publisher. SUMTES PALACE ICEOIIEAlS?LOei! Cake & Confectionery Establishment, la the ilonaghan building, opposite Or. DeLorrne's Drug Store, MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. Choice Cream, Sherbet, Cakes. Crack ers, Biscuits, Candies, Bon Bons, and Other Good Tilings Alicays on Hand. -ALSO, Soda Water, SarsapariUa. Ginger Ale, Cakes, Canditz, Bisci?fs, ?c, Received Freak Wceldy. The patronage of the ladies and the public generally, is respectfully solicited, also the j people of the surrounding townships, to whom j we extend a cordut! invitation to visit us j when they cornc to town. j No trouble to show goods : polite attention j paid to all who call. Respectfully, LAROUSSE LI ERE <fe CO. June \._o_ BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF CIBLES ar>d Testnmenta. in large print at Sumter Book Store, keot by W. G. KENNEDY, 2 Doors North of John Re:d3. HVIMHtW^;%) this paper, or obtain ??ima?? ) n t?ierS?ng specs when in Chicago, wiH find it on a? | 45 to 49 R*?doipb St, fW Advertising Agency of L?F.D& THOMAS, RICHMOND'S A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL. I will sing a little song and \i WOn't detain you long, Of the famous on to Richmond, double trouble, Of a balf-dozen trips and a half-dozen slips, With the very latest bursting of the bubble. Then list while I relate the most unhappy fate ; 'Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel. But all the papers swore when we touched Virginia's shore, That Richmond was an easy road to travel. Chorus. Pali off your coat and roll up your sleeves, Richmond's a hard road to travel. Pull off your coat and roll up your sleeves, For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I be lieve. First came the Wooley Horse, with an over whelming force, All in the pleasant summer weather ; But he quickly went and ran on a Stonewall, foolish man. And be had a rocky jo.urney altogether. And Commissary Banks, with his motley for eign ranks, The Dutchman and the Celtic, not the Saxon. Lost the wbole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, Run away from that dunder-headed Jackson. Chorus. Pull off your coat and roll up your sleeves, Richmond's a hard road to travel. Pull off yocr coat and roll up your sleeves, For Richmond's a hard road to travel I be lieve. The great Galena came with her port-holes all aflame, And the Monitor, that famous naval wonder ; But the guns at Dury's Bluff gave them speed ily enough Of the loudest Rind of real rebel thunder. The Galena was astonished, and the Monitor admonished, And tbeir efforts to ascend the stream were mocked at, While the dreadful Nangatack by the hardest kind of luck, Was very nearly knocked into a cocked hat. Chorus. Pull of your coat and roll up your sleeves,' Richmond's a hard road to travel. The Gunboats gave it up in stupefied despair. And Richmond is a hard road to travel 1 de clare. McCIellan followed soon with spade and balloon, To try the Penninsular approaches, But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed Was'nt faster than the slowest of slow coaches. For instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg be found A Longstreel, indeed, and nothing shorter, And it put him in the dumps that spades wasn't trumps And the H?ls he could'nt level as be orter. Chorus. Pull off your coat and roll up your sleeves, Richmond's a hard road to travel. Lay down the shovel and throw away the spade, Ohl Richmond is a bard road to travel, I'm afraid. He tried the rebel lines on the field of Scv en i Pines, ! Where his troops did such awful heavy chargin'. i But he floundered in the mud, and he saw a stream of blood, Overflow the Chickahorainy's sweet margin. But the fact seems rather strange when he left his gunboats range On the lar.d he drifted overmuch to Xeeward. So he quickly changed his base to a sort of steeeple chase, And hurried back to Stanton, Abe, and Seward. Chorus. Pull off your coat and roll up your sleeves, Richmond's a hard road to travel. I We are not. much surprised that McCleiian took to drinking. For Richmond is a hard to travel, ?'m think* i?ior Says, Lincoln unto Pope, you can make the trip I hope, Quoth the bragging Major-General, yes that I can. And he began to issue orders to his terrible marauders, Just like another Leo of the Vatican. But this same demented Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks on. And he made him by compulsion a seceder. Pope took a rapid fiigbt from Manassas' sec ond fight, T'was his very last appearance as a leader. Chorus. Pull off your coat and roll up your sleeves; Richmond's a hard road to travel, Pope tried hi3 very best and was evidently sold, And Richmond is a hard road to travel, ! am 1 told. 5ext came the brave Burnside with his pon toon bridges tried, A road no one bad thought of before him. With two hundred thousand men for the rebel slaughter pen, And the blessed Union flag a-?ying o'er bim, Bui he met a fire of hell, of canister and shell That was enough to make the knees of any man knock, It was a shocking sight to view that second Waterloo On the banks of the pleasant Rappahannock. Chorus. Pull off y cur coat and roll up your sleeves; Richmond's a hard road to travel. It was a shocking sight to view that second Waterloo, And Richmond is a bloody road to travel it is true. We are very much perplexed to know who'll try i: next, And to guess by what new road he may go : But the capital must blaze and that in ninety days, For it ?3 written defend* eel Carthago, We will take the cussed town, and then we'll burn it down, And plunder and hang up every rebel, But the contraband was right when be told us they would fight, Oh yes, massa, dey'l! Sght like de Debbil. Chorus. Pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, Richmond*:} a hard road to travel. We've played our strongest card and we are evidently slammed And if Richmond ain't a hard road to travel MI be?blamed. An Astonishing Coincidence. The Charleston Daily Sun of the 20th inst, says : "It is a very queer coincidence A boot the last of May the Laurens ville Herald printed communications from two or three gentlemen of Lau rens, in this State, describing certain queer antics they had observed in the "vening star. It was jumping up and down, they said, above and below the j horizon, swinging from side to side, I like a lantern. Neighboring news- ! papers at the time alluded to these ! statements and connected them with sarcastic observations regarding the , quality and ejects of the local liquors. 'Now the Pail Mall Gazette re prints from the J'ioneer Mail a com munication as follows: "About 0.30 o'clock on the even ing of May 2fJ, while setting at din ner, one of my khitmutgars came in from the outside and said : "Sir, just step out and see what a tamasha is taking place with the star 'Sook'? the native name name for Venus, j Out we went, and sure enough, there j was Venus, large and bright, but j strange to say, falling two, tkree and ' four feet at a time, then oscilating from right to left ; sometimes dashing ! to the right and then to the left, sev eral feet at a time. These movements continued in rapid succession, and were plainly apparent to all at once ; but this was not all. Venus, when wc first saw her, was, say apparently, some 400 yards above the horizon. While watching her, we observed a star (some two yards, to look at, above) suddenly fall into Venus and remain. We were amazed. The na tives exclaimed, 'The last day is at hand/ and so on. We watched Venus rapidly descending until she dipped the horizon. At times she ap peared her usual size and quite bright, then again hardly visible." If we mistake not the editor of the Daily Sun, then of the Greenville Neves, was one of the "neighboring newspapers'* that alluded to these statements and connected them with sarcastic observations regarding the quality and effects of the local liquors/'?Laurensville Herald. Some Grass Talk. The statement which follows will sound like nonsense to many "cot tontots," but will be recognized as truth by many thoughtful, progressive agriculturist now, and by all in the near future. On the bestowal of more and bet ter attention to grass and 6tock will depend the success of Southern agriculture. Let the reader look around him and he will find that the planters who are farmers, who have given most attention to stock, grass, and tire so-called small indus tries of the farm, are the most suc cessful, most prosperous and the best contented with their profession. But, says one, "This is not a grass country." Not a grass couutry, when all the farm labor is engaged for six months every year in the most strenuous efforts at killing grass?a grass which produces a hay, if merely "let alone," inferior to none?one that seeds itself and is ex cellent either for hay or pasturage. We prepared two acres of land in 1886, early in May ; sowed one acre to German millet and allowed crop grass to grow upon the other. We harvested, in round numbers, 4,100 pounds of hay from the acre in crop grass and 4,750 pounds from the Ger man millet. We harvested a heavy crop of German millet hay on the 23d of July that was sown on May 26th. The hay cured and housed in less than sixty days from day of seeding. With crop grass, German millet, les pedeza, Johnson grass, iuceru, Texas blue grass, Texas millet, Indian corn, peas, rye, and bailey from which to make selection everywhere in the col ton belt, and the clovers and cultiva ted grasses added in the upper half of the belt where the lands are clay ey or calcarous, we are without ex cuse if we fail of an abundant supply , of forage and pasturage for stock of every description. If we will cease to "run after strange gods" aud de vote ourselves to the encouragement of the forage plants which our God intended for our soil and climate, the bale of Western hay would be come a stranger in our land, and Chicago beef * and oleomargarine would no longer find purchasers in our markets. Good Christian peo ple are melted into tears of sympa thy for the poor heathen Chinese and the benighted African, while they fail to recognize the fact that they are surrounded by objects as worthy of their gushing charity aud philanthropy which fail to attract their attention. So with us. We spend oar time end money in vain efforts to climatize Northern and European grasses while equally valu able candidates for oar favor come unbidden and are even spurned as nuisances. With crop grass, Bermuda and ?es pedeza for summer pasturage, and bailey and rye for winter pasturage, and green soiling, with all of these, Johnson grass and lucern for hay, and Indian corn and pea vines in the silo, fat beef and mutton and golden butter should take the place of Western bacon and oleomarga rine. If we will employ a tithe of the energy and industry in encour aging grass to grow that we devote to its destruction, there would no longer be heard complaints against the South as a grass country. The heaviest yields of hay on record have been made in the cotton belt. Col. George W. Scott, grew at Decatur, Ga., 9,800 pounds of clover hay at onecutting.?J. S. Newman in Southern Cultivator for September. Curing Pea Vine Hay. A correspondent of the Southern Planier gives the following method of curing pea vines. It strikes us aa a good one, and as the dif?icuky of curing the vines deters many from raising them, the plan is given now to encourage new efforts in this direc tion. There is no better forage, nor one more easily raised at the South than pea vines?any promising me thod of curing therefore, merits atten tion : "When about two-third of the peas had ripened enough lor table use (one half is better) 1 cut them and let them lay on the ground just long enough for the vines to fall. I then threw them up in cocks from five or six feet high, raise'.; five inches oft the ground by stands made in this way : Lay down two logs at least five inches thick and ?ive feet long, then across these lay four slakes five feet long, and in the middle of this frame drive firm ly into the ground one of the stakes sharpened at one end, to keep the cock from being blown over. To keep the hay from settling down too close and thus getting heated, the j cock should be at least twelve or eighteen inches higher than the 6toop. Put up in this way, it will turn water splendidly ; mine stood three hard rains. Here the hay must stay until thoroughly cured, when it may be put away into any building with safety.77 How Towns are Built. A Business Man Tells How a Comjpar aticcly Insignificant Town Became a Great Trade Centre. Wichita, a town io Kansas, is an ex ample of what can be done by the ener gy, the enterprise and the uuited public spirit of citizens. In the course of a year or two Wichita has grown from a comparatively insignificant town to a great trade and railroad centre. There has been an increase of over one thou sand per cent, in the value of real estate, and an increase of over 20,000 in pop ulation. Lots in the town sell for more than $2,000 a front foot. The secret of this wonderful progress is disclosed by a business man of Wichita after the following manner : 'We organized. We held almost nightly meetings, and among th? first things we agreed upon was to hang to gether and stay by each other through thick and thin. We advertised by hundreds of thou sands of circulars. We set forth all cur advantages in such a manner that strangers who were led by our circula tion to give us a call, were not deceived, but, on the contrary, agreed that we had not put it as strong as we might. Every town in the east of notoriety was not only served with our circulars, but our newspapers. And the news paper advertising did double duty. Our people made it a rule to ask all their friends to advertise. *We then subscribed for a large num ber of copies, loaded with local advertis ing and great advantages, and we found by conversing with parties who finally came here prospecting that the full ad vertising columns of our paper which they had seen did more than all all else to impress them with the growth and importance of the place. We found then we could not overdo this thing?that the more we paid out for these purposes the more were our profits. Every new comer was a custo mer to most of our stores, and while their advertising paid to them rich re turns, it served the double purpose to impress the Eastern man who had an eye to business with the fact that Wichita was a rising town, and thus we have added population since I came here of over 20,000 and property has in creased in business places more than a thousand fold, and in the country ronnd about us the appreciation has been over 400 per cent. I know as well as you can know that printer's ink is the best capital to boom a town Had we not used it unspar ingly Wichita would not have been larger than Carthage. As it is, we will soon outrank any town ia the State.7 The methods thus employed to such good purpose are available and effectual in almost every community.?Columbia Record. The Curse of Credit. The farmers, who attended the Farmers' Conveutiair in A?hrcta, were favored with good advice and counsel. Able addresses were delivered on many subjects but none contained more good adviee than that delivered by Col. John Diamond, of Louisiana, on 'credit?its relation to the present con dition of agriculture.' His address is well worth a careful perusal. He said among other things : Whence comes this new slavery ? Look for it in the title of this address. In Southern agriculture, credit has been the most insidious agent that could have been well devised. The* fact that each locality has but one dominant crop leads to excessive risk. Oppor tunities to get credit lead us to go io debt, when we do not need what we buy, and the very marrow of our lives is sucked out, and finally we die, or tho sheriff liquidates our estate and the end comes. Tho worst result of credit to the farmers occurs here in the South. For illustration : The Southern plant er has a plantation which be has not money to cultivate ; he goes to a factor and pledges his crop ; a crop which is not planted, and procures funds with which to proceed with his culture. What sort of a man is this factor that accepts surety that does not exist, that is subject to vicissitudes and changes of weather V Tn conclusion Col. Diamond said : 'May we not bo too willing to keep our necks in tho noose of the money king, hoping always for uniform good fortune, and that our occasional good fortune will save us. This-is the most serious question, and we should consider it for those who follw us, as well as ourselves. This credit made easy leads us into too large culture and into reckless culture, llcpeal the crop lien laws, let the farm er dispose of his own crop to whom and where he chooses. Let him pay his debts in the ordinary course as other men do. If he fails to pay, let him be prosecuted as other men are prosecuted, by due process of law suit, judgment and its execution, and by peremptory seizure of his crop as now. When this shall be done, a conservative man can get all the credit he wants, as character always tells and capital know? bow to trust. The reckless man will get no credit and losses made on him will no longer need to be assessed upon the whole community. Then shall the New South arise iu all her strength and shew to the world that wealth of re sources, the magnificence of which is beyond our dream- ' Blackguardism and the Press.' Public opinion has long since de manded that the freedom of the press shall not be permitted to degenerate into Itcensc. me spirit of pcrspmmtyi that once pervaded the editorial depart- j mcnt of newspapers has been discon tinued, and no longer characterizes tin leading journals of the day. One of the most noted journalists remarked not long ago that papers arc no longer popu lar on account of the cdrtor. 'There was once a time when my name made my paper bought after, but that time has passed. The identity of the man is lost in the policy and worth cf tbe pa per.' With this change has come tho deca dence of personal abuse and blackguard ism. As an uncontrolled temper in a public speaker luwrrs him iu tkc esteem of the audience, so the deviation from legitimate argument in an editorial, to stoop to mud-slinging and vulgar epi thets, displays the weakness and the low proclivities of the writer. The mission of journalism is to fur nish the public with information on those matters that affect the welfare and progress of the country. Editors should not impugn public officials and men in office from personal motives and for the gratification of their own private dislikes and animosities. Public opin ion will not tolerate such attacks when there is not just cause, and when they give vent to the spleen of a man unfit for the responsible duties of an editor. ~ Augusta Chronicle. The Tariff and the Farmers. To the Editor of the Ncics and Courier : As the action of the recent Farmers' Interstate Convention may lead and has led to misapprebes-sion as to its sentiments and motives of action on that all important Question, tariff re form, I deem it due to that body and the committee on resolutions, one from each State, in which the writer repre sented South Carolina, that a simple statement of facts explanatory thereof should be made. There were several resolutions bear ing U?on the tobaoco tax, and the tariff as a whole referred to this committee, and they received more consideration at their hands than any which were re ferred to them. Before making their final report they came to the deliberate conclusion that it would be wisest to withhold all reso lutions or parts of resolutions bearing directly upon the tariff. Not that the committee were divided among them selves, for if there was a high tariff man among them be did not so express him self, but because the Farmers7 Con vention was in its infancy, and they wished it to be characterized by modesty in its first utterances. Again, because though they were satisfied there was a large preponderance in favor of tariff reform, it would lead to wrangling and antagonism, as they knew there were some high tariff men in the body, who would fight the measure to the last. That being a question impinging largely upon politics, a full discussion of it would lead the body off into political and partisan warfare inconsistent with the deliberations of a body of simon pure Southern farmers, assembled as a great band of brothers, to take council together upon the questions bear ing upon advancement of their great fraternity, and last, though, per haps, not least the avoidance of action which might be used against the inter ests of the grand old Southern Demo cratic party, lessening the strength of the bands which should continue to bind it solidly together, in view of the mo mentous issues which are before U3. Unfortunately, however, one of the gentlemen, Col. Barker, of Arkansas, whose pet resolutions, along with others, had been suppressed by the com mittee, not willing that they should be thus disposed of, moved their passage upon the eve cf final adjourn meut, when otily a small minority of the body was left in the hall. Night was coming on, rain wa3 pattering on the house-top, the remDant of the body left was rest lees and anxious to got away. In the midst of noise and confusion, which made it difficult to hear what was going on, and altogether a most unSt time for the discussion of so important a question, the motion was put and the resolution tabled. Certainly, under the circumstances, no true indication of the sentiment or those present, for as the president, Col. Polk, of North Carolina, subsequently remarked to the writer, who had himself left the hall a few moments before the action was taken, that his delegation were too high-toned and liberal a body of men to force through a measure which was sprung in the absence of its opponents, though themselves decided advocates of the same. So, upon the whole, the tabling of the resolutions was not the result of indifference or opposition to tariff re form. John II. Furmast, m. d-. Privateer, Sumter Co., Aug. 23. Judge Wallace's Seasons Id the order granting bail to Jone?, the Edgeficld murderer, Judge Wal lace says : The common law lefc the matter to the discretion of the judge, to be exercised aiter conviction with 'extreme caution.' After a sentence of tweniy-Sve years in the penitentiary extreme caution would have required a refusal of the motion. This defendant has been convicted of a crime of less legrce than a capital felony, and under the act above referred to has a legal right to bail, and the onlv matter in regard to which the court has any dis cretion is as to the amount of br.il and the sureties. The cens?tuttion of the State requires that excessive bail shall not be required, nor should the bond be Sxed at so large a sum as to prac tically defeat the operation of the stat utes, for that would be to deny to the Jefcn.dant his legal rights by indirec tion. Yet I must consider, too, the lppnlling punishment that threatens him and how ligh?l}' a small pecuniary ?onsiderntioij would operate' under or dinary circumstances in bringing most men to undergo it if a new trial sheuld be refused. Ho Pound Hor Dead. Jasper Porter was engaged to mar i CO ry Miss Ward, who lived near Walnut church, in Jefferson count v. Georgia lie had a a engagement to visit lier and while on hi* way had to pass Walnut church. Seeing a congregation in the church, he stopped and found that funeral services were being held over the remains of some one. l'eing a partial stranger in ti.o community ?: ' made no inquiry as to who had died When live C?i?kcL was opened he passed round to sec the corps y while relatives j and frien i.-t were hiking liieir ?a*t lo?.lc i at it, and, to his paru lui surprise, his j eyes fell upon hi; affianced cold i-i I death. Unable to control hi.- emotions, he gave way to the greatest lamentation and could not bo comforted; - ? i 'p ? The Philadelphia Times says r!Sat the 'Chatsworth coroner's inquest white washes the railroad company and beats Section Koroi?ian (VmghJin on the bead ; with tbv huijdlv; of the whitewash liuth.' \ Our State Contemporaries. A Judicious Selection. Columbia Record. It is sard that the directorship of the two experimental stations has been of fered to President J. M. McBryde. I The selection is eminently judicious. Dr. McBryde has gained his ebief repu tation in this State by his executive ability as the president of a college; but I it should be remembered that before j this he had won a national, if not iutcr I national, reputation in the fields of sci entific experimentation. His reports made while professor of agriculture at Knoxvilte drew attention to him from all sides. He proved himself original patient and accurate, and thus his ex periments occupied their own field. He recently received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Tennes see, and, along with Professor Ilemson, of Johns Hopkins, and Professor Fon taine, of Virginia University, was elect ed an honorary member of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Association; which has its headquarters at Chapel Hill in North Carolina, and has a membership of strong men and leading scientists. The two stations will have each a super intendent, while President McBryde will have general control. Jefferson Davis. Abbeville Medium. During the prohibition contest in Texas Jefferson Davis wrote a letter to Ex-Gov. Lubbock who was once a mem ber of his staff. He took grounds against prohibition while at the same time he favored temperanee. The Anderson Intelligencer speaks carsl-riy of Mr. Davis on account of this letter. It was wrong to do so. It is time for the newspapers of the South to let up on Jefferson Davis. He has no equal in America. Kc distinguished him self in tho old army when a young man. He made a great reputation in congress both as Representative and Sesator. He was a conservative man and was elected president of the Confederate States and his duty was to fight the war to an end. He did so and suffered more than any other confederate by his imprisonment in Fortress Monroe after the war had terminated. Jefferson Davis is a man of irreproachable char acter. He is a scholar and an orator. He is honest and capable. Whatever ; may have been his mistakes and abort comings he is entitled to the respect and veneration of every man in the South. Let our contemporary hunt up some other scapegoat. The Winding Up of Court. Edgefield Chronicle As we went to press last week, the trial of the two Briggs negroes for the alleged killing of young Blackweli in the Parksville riot, was in progress. After exceedingly able speeches from Solicitor Nelson andEx-Go^. Sheppard, for the presecution, and Arthur S. Tompkins, Esq., and the Hon. W. C. Benet, for the defense, and the jury re maining in conclave for eighteen hours, embracing a whole night, it resulted in a mistrial. The Court adjourned sine die on Saturday after. The criminal docket was pretty well cleared?such a clear as ?t was ? Clear as med ! Judge Wallace is a worker, physically, mental ly, morally, commensurate with his duties Solicitor Nelson is bold, bright, keen and indefatigable, but merciful. We do not know that we should recognize Justice if we were to meet her on the highway. But still, we rest! For God's sake let us have peace ? Jones? Bail Fixed at Ten Thousand Dollars. Edgefield Chrojiiclt. On the 23d our Clerk of Court re ceived from Judge Wallace the order admitting Jones to bail?in the sum of ten thousand dollars?with not less than two nor more than four sureties. We j are willing to believe that Judge Wal- ' lace has done the best he could UDdcr the law. We suppose Jones can give the bond. The sureties arc to justify in twice the sum. 'The law by which such a murderer as Jones goes at large ought to be amended as soon as possi ble, to meet such cases. And here will : be a bond which :t would behoove our Grand Jury or a "Special Committee," to look narrowly into?very narrowly. Jon?3 vs. Justice. Greenville Daily &ics. Tho amount of bail, which secured the release from jail of Jones, Edge field's thrice guilty murderer, was fixed by Judge WaUace at $10,000. It is understood that the villain will he able to give the required bond, and go free. The people of South Carolina arc to be treated to the spectacle of the acknow ledged murderer of three men, going free as the air, with only the paltry pledge cf ?1 U.000 bctweeu him and permanent freedom. Nobody in South Carolina doubts that Judge Wallace has acted according to firm and honest convictions of right, i in granting the order for bail. He is a legal scholar, and an official whose pub He and private record is sulncient to ; shield him from at*y suspicion cf im- < proper motives in the matter. The act under which Jones is released, leaves, it is said, no discretion to the : judge as to whether bail shall be grant ed or not, iti any case ef manslaughter. There is a ?iffereueo of op?n?oa ou that point, and Judsrc Wallace seeu?s t? baye decided on the side of mercy. But if 1 that is so, it looks as if the amount of j bait might have been made largo enough to prevent Jones' giving the bond. It was claimed by the attorneys of Joner! that ?5.000 wa? the limit, but Judge Wallace has ma le it ?10,000. The constitution forbid? unreasonable bail iu any ease, but i: w-au.ld be impos sible to make it unreasonable in so atroci ous a crime as that of. If the release is;ust!-;0vi by the Saw, then it is high time the law is changed, j Law is a mere name, when justice is .wanting. There is no justice in i the release of tho Edgefield murder- ] er. There is not even mercy. If j it is law to turn out of jail a rod handed criminal, a mordly ostracised bving with the blood, not of Iris fcllow mau, but or Ids feHo.w-ai n, on his head, then what can lawlessness be? The only reason to suppose that Jones : will not forfeit iris bail, isthat his un in- j tor rupf cd success in defeating justice s-0 I lat, will tempt him lotiy uuc tuvrc ttcp~ | and throw off altogether the trouble some necessity of staying a few years in prison. He has able lawyers. The E<lge5cld bar has that perfection in criminal precedure that only comes from practice. It has the added strength and influence which comes from frequent success in the past. No martyr was ever defended with more ardor than has been thrown into Jones7 case, and he may well trust h?3 defenders for vast ! conquests in his behalf. But the peo ple of the State will utter an eatnest prayer that the ends of justice be not I altogether defeated, but that th'e' m?r derer may yet reap Boms reward for Ms i crimes. The Law Sustains the &dge. Union Times. The release, on a bond of ?10,000; of Jones, who had been tried and con victed of manslaughter, at Edgefreld, and sentenced to tweSty-Sve years in the Penitentiary, but whose case was pending under an appeal to the Supreme Court, has brought out some very incon siderate criticisms from a portion of the State, attaching blame to Judge Wal }ace for his actions in granting bail to a man who had strociocfsly killed an' old man and his two sons . It is the custom of Judge Wallaes to gove*rn his actions, as Judge, in strict conformity with the law, not permitting public prejudice, clamor or criticism to swerve him from the straight line of duty, as he conscientiously sees it. The amount of bail required, is also subject of complaint by some papers, cme at least gofeg so far as to scy that the Judge should bav? pet it beyond the power of Jones to procure. This, in cur opinion, would have been a direct infraction of t?re fundamental law cf this State and of the United States, in both of which it is plainly laid down that 'excessive bail shall not, in any case, be required.' If any blame can be attached, it is in the law, and it should be changed. Judges are not to be held responsible for faults in the laws they are sworn to 1 enforce and protect. Gold Discovered Chester Bulletin. ... Mr. L. Hollen beck, of Leadvifl?, Col., was in our office last Friday and informed us that he had discovered gold ;cn a plantation of Mr. Jno. S. Bratton, io Irork county. Mr. Hollenbeck says he has been employed by mineral, capi talists for a number of years in Colora do, and is an expert at the business. He has leased the place where b? dis covered the gold for inree years, and thinks that he has made a rich discovery. Mr. Hollenbeck has also found cop per and zinc in considerable quantities, and thinks these minerals abound in this section. He left here last Friday well provided with new picks, shovels, etc., and said he would commence work on Saturday morning: j The peoplo of the up-country will hardly sustain the Laurensville Herald in its assault on the Neics'and Courier. Sentiment is a very nice thing' but it is best not to mix it with business,' The State owes much to the enterprise of the morning daily of Charleston and the secple will continu? to buy it and read it as long as it covers its Seid as admir ably as it does at present, in spite of-the wild utterances of the Jterald. As a daily, the ?fst?s and Courier has no superior in Southern journalism.?Aiken Journal and Retitio. ["Frcar our Regular C.orrespondent.J' WASHINGTON LETTEB. Washington, D. C, Aug. 19, 1887. , Since the late Republican adminis tration gav? place )to a Democratic re gime pro bahfy the' most impartant and radical change in public poucy has been the method adopted by the Government in exacting from the favored corpora tions, known as land grant railroads, ; the strictest compliance with their char ters, the condition of wbicSr the rail roads had fallen into the habit of almost entirely ignoring, whenever it suited their interests to do so. It is almost impossible for the mind to conceive the : magnitude of the magnificent public : domain restored to the people under President Cleveland's Administration, j for only this week in the case of the Atlantic and Pacific railroads alone be- [ tween twenty-five and thirty millions acres of lands were thrown open to set- u tie ment to say nothing of its c?ects \ upon a number of other land-grant rail- , roads. \( Before leaving upon bis vacation ij Secretary Whitney took the roost im- , portant step that has been taken since "f the late war in rebuilding the navy, by ( awarding several large coutracts amount- g ing to about five millions dollars, for t the construction of three steel cruisers ^ and two gunboats. One of the former,- t as provided by the act of Congress, ;t will be built at San Francisco, while c the assignees of John Roach will buiid \ the gunboats. The Navy Department < has awarded to the Barre-n Sh'p Build ing Company, of London, England, the : prize of ?15.000 for furnishing the best* f Jcsigns tor building a battle-ship au- i thorized by a special act of Congress, .1 and a board of Naval eScers has been t appointed to carefully consider and re- t port as to tue possibility of the plans - being carried out. 1 The new post office regulations pro- t Tided for by the past Congress to take i effect Sept. 15th, will be issued soon, t The changes arc unimportant, relating i chic?Ty to fSre manner of keeping post ] oHroe accounts. This Department has i also ordered a change in the color cf ? postage-stamps. The prepayment of interest on reg- j istored beads goes steadily onward i ?the amount paid out to date being ; about seventy million dollars. It is 1 stated that fulure application fcradvane- t ed in tores* will be delayed as little as J possible. Mnee August Ut, the re- ' eeipts of the Government are about I fifteen million collars in excess of the ? disbursmcnt but it is estimated that the heavy pension payments of this month will retire a considerably larger sum than the s?rplrfs that aceu- < mulatcd during the present month. After ail obligations arc promptly met the surplus still persistently piles up and pennant relief can only be expected i : from the acrrou of Congress next winter. Disposing of the surplus is i tin; vital l?uctiti?u of the ??;e*/aad' the , public weal unquestionably demands the early solution of that momentous problem, and ? bvc ccn5dor.ee thzt ; the combined sagacity of President Cleveland and a Democratic Congress will be equal to the emergency, despite the g?ocaiy predictions of the chronic crokers. Democrats at the Capital view with. supreme satisfaction the. line of the Republican party for 18S8, and fore-. shadowed by the action of the Keystone State, whose battle-cry is Bfaice, t!se , bloody shirt and a high protective., tariff. Oo such issues as these the "Denroeracy need bave Co fear o.f appeal- - iog to the judgment and patriotism cf the country. lue case c-S? the roystering Riddle berger, who has just emerged from th? gloom of a Virginia jail, ezcited con-., srderahic comment, but little sympathy in this crty where his idiosyncrasies are \ well known, as it is not an uncommon occurrence to see this rampant Republi can make an unseemly spectacle of him self, on the Soor of the Senate W tSe" shara? of Ks brother Senators. It *3 thought that the prominence of' Hon. Roger Q. Mills in the late Probt-J bition contest in Texas will materially aid his aspirations for promotion from" s?cond to first place on the committee pa - Ways and Means, as the former chair man, Hon. Wra. R. Morrison, is not a member of the Fiftieth Congress. The attempt to enforce the Edmunds Utah law in the District of Columbians causing one seandalocs sensation after another. Before the now notorious Crawford case has been disposed of a worse one has been brought to light?{ that of a United States soldierj who is charged with the frightful crime of in-, ccst with his own niece. Thi3 awful accusation is brought by his own brother, and the poor girl involved is only six ices'. Current Comment, :i ia respect to the suggestion that the government ought to own ail the railr roads the New York Herald wisely remarks : This general principle is a safe one?that the government should do as little as possible, and th? people should have every opportunity to make money. The people can take care of ^themselves if the government will mind its own business. Mr. Powderly has issued an ether ..circular denouncing speculations in ;grain,coffee, coal and other necessaries of life. He says that Dick Tarpin and Sixteen String Jack were models of virtue, compared with these modern robbers. The existence of grain, coal and coffee exchanges, he says, show? the necessity of establishing two more, a farmers and a laborer's exchange. Henry George is again the.candidate of the Labor Party in New Yorkl Ho has been, nominated for Secretary of State. What bis chances are remains to be tested. The Philadelphia'iVcwsv Rep., says : 'It is an in contestable fact that his views have been very widely sp?ear? and adopted where they did not exist in his mayoralty campaign. He may not get so many votes in New York city, but he is now running for State' office. Henry G'ecrge clubs exist and* flourish in nearly all of the large New York cities like Brooklyn, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, and even in small places like Amsterdam. There is no doubt th?t he will receive a large vote* and will prove an important factor in deciding the election.*' We have beecn accustomed on this side of the Savannah to regard Major Gary, of Augusta, as an able/ distin guished and high-ton?d lawyer. . A few more such exhibitions of himself,' how ever, 2s b? crade in the recent trial of the Oulbrca'th lyucSers at Edgefield will satisfy mosf people that he has been ac credited with virtues that he doe? net possess. There is a legitimate scope for the argument of counsel, and this wo would under no circumstances see nar rowed, but there' are limits to which" av'en lawyers cannot go, and surely that limit has been reached whea lynch law is extolled, and murderers are held up as the 'perif?ers of society.* Maj-.f Gary's zeal got the better of his judg ment.?..4*^7 wsta Chronicle. Senator Colquitt's address we have drcady referred to at some length. He s sound on economics and that is far nore thau can be said of scores of South ern politicians now misrepresenting the jeople. Senator Coiqaht said, in his e'erence Co" the true interest of the armers : "I do not understand why the' government should treat the cotton" pinner as a favored child of fortune and he cotton planter 3S an abandoned or >han.* He further told his hearers hat if they were permit ted to sell in," he dearest market and to buy in the. heapest, the value of their crops woulcT >e enhanced So per cent.? Wilmington Stir. The Hew York Herald tells this* brcible truth in reference to compromi ses with thieves : 4When a bank has >een plundered anxiety and cctermiaa ion ch the part of its eiTiccrs to recover he stolen money are natural and proper ?if this can be done without sacrific ng the ends of criminal justice. But :o compromise with the thief, to Xur.r?T) tee b'im ?amanity tVoui prosecu ion, or even to connive at h is esea pc, s mere than failure to perform an im portant duty. It isa crime?compoaud ng felony. Yet how cfrcn have banks mown a disposition to 'let up' on these who have plundered them if only a :tTt of the losses eouid be made up by <C doing ? Sueh a course is suicidal," "or it simply offers a premium on rob bery. Yet it has become so ciretomjiry hat, in this very Manhattan case, l^unc advised Scott to steal enough to cripple the bank, because then the >auk would be in a hurry to compromise md glad to compromise.* Easy to Identify. Coroner? Your brother, I hear, has frowned himself rh the river. Uncle So?Yes, I sprc lie' has. Bon mighty low-spirited lately. 'Describe him, so lliat the body may be identified if found.* Pat's easy *nufT. Ile was deaf and dumb sencc he vfzf bv's.*?'icxat