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"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's" STTMTER, S. C WEDNESDAY. JULY 11, 1888. - - New Series-VeL VIL Ko. ? s? 3MP ^^^t<^J^!*raj>erannum---in advance. ^^$100 ?i?e?rt?oru............ 50 ~ Vi^tz?cizH&t three niontbs, or longer will ^-^Bfewi^^?tit^, wb?dr sahaerre"pr?tate. j as advertisements, trim?tes of respect will be L^ro?er "varies; A ..marre! r;of *&d\. v?oJecomeiiets^ Jf?re ?owastoal thao th? or&naryi?nds, and can 9''r?^^'?Qtd-''&'C^pe?tioQ wtb theicai?tttde - ?f :Ww te?tTriJort weight, almu or phosphate -an^SnioH. ^^? ?s?ate :oT the jm oco as ineia brane, gener '' :,'?My~ oripna?ng' in thenawi passages and. < - aiuirti?j?ngits stronghold iu tbe^head. From ^r^?^^^;i^:??nds. lbrth a po?onooa v?roa Z~^fb^i^~a^ through ibec digestive. g^?rg^^ blood ?ndprodocicg ^^^^?^nvbluoni?axtd dasgeroos symptoms, f '? pirtk?e^ applied into eacfi^noslr?rand - 1? agre?bte. ~ PriceSO cents at Drogg?ts:;-by registered, 6e eeots; ELY BROS-, Warren Ser?e*k2^Yor)c. thing m H Our trade in Doors, Sash and Blinds is larger than ever be fore because we sell" them Aesjfe-thaa -tfcey can be or 8.8?M&C0. 39? largzsi <mc most complete establishment South 8i S. BACKER & SON, CD Manofactorers of te, M, Blii?, lui AOT MATERIAL. OmCK AND WARESOOMS, King, opposite Cannon Street, ? CHARLESTON, S. C. Aug 10 C MM 11 BROWN & COLUMBIA, a C. SASH ;& BLINDS, LATHS, LIMB, CEMENT, PLASTER, AND HAIR. 'MsHl Amsricai VMow Glass, PAINTS, OILS AND TARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD; The pest in the Market. Special Attention Given to Orders 0, a B?OWi>r & BR?., ^ Oppo?^ Foet Oflfce, By BOBS?T tWBJEEVEHSOH. I ' *.r " CHAPTER VjL i FfttVfttAT. ?VSSTlOATIOS, ET TWO PAKTS. The next morning there ms a most un usual outcry in the dovtor* house*. The last thing before' going to bed> the doctor had locked up some valuable* in the dining room cupboard; and behold, when be rose again, ? he did about 4 o'clock, the cupboard had been broken open and the valuables in ques? tion had disappeared. Madameand Jean* Marie were summoned from tbelr rooms, and appeared in hasty to?ets;-tliey found the doctor : raving, calling the heavens to witness and avmge his injury, 'pacing the room bare footed, with the tails his night shirt ?irt? "Qoaat" he said* "the things are gene-, the fortune gone! We are paupers ??ce teere. Boy! what do yoa know of this? Bpeafc up> sir, speak up. Do you know of it? Wher? aretheyf* H? had him by the arm, shaking him like aba?, and th? boy'* words, if he had any, wero jotted forth in inarticulate number, l The doctor, with a revulsionfrom his own violence, set him down again. He observed Ahastasie in tear* "Anastasia" he said, m quite an altered voice^ "compose yourself, command your feelings. I would sot have you give way to paSsion like the vulgar, i This?this trifling accident must be Eved, down. Jean-Marie) bring roe my imaller modi cine chest. A gentle laxative is indicated." > And be dosed the family all round, leading the way aimself with a double quantity. The wretchec' Anastasia, who had never been SI in the whole course of her existence, and whose soul recoiled from remedies, wept floods of tears, as she sipped, and shuddered, and .protested, and then was bullied and shouted at until she sipped again. As for Jean-Marie, he took bis portion down with stoicism. "I have given him a less amount.* ob served the doctor, "his youth protecting him against emotion. And now that we have thus parried any morbid consequences, let us reason. " UI am so cold," wailed Ahastasie. "Cold!" cried the doctor/ "I give thanks to God that I am made of fierier material Why, madame, a blow like this would set a frog into a transpiration. If yon are cold yon can retire; and, by the way, you might throw me down my trousers. It is chilly for the legs.'* "Oh, no!" protested Anastasie; "I win stay with you." *'jS&Jj madame, you shall not suffer for your devotion,77 said the doctor. - "I will my self fetch you a^shaw?" -And he went up stairs and returned more fully clad and with an armful of wraps for the shivering An astasie. "And now," he resumed, "to inves tigate this crime. .Let us proceed by induc tion. Aaastasie, do you know anything that can help us?" Anastasia knew nothing. "Cr you, Jean-Marier "Kot I," replied the boy, steadily. *H3ocd^reteDed;' the doctor.v-i*^* shall now turn our attention to the material evi dences. ?L was bom to be a detective; I have the eye and the systematicspirit) First, vio lence has been employed. The door was broken open; and it maybe observed, in pass ing, that the lock was dear indeed at what I paid for it; a crow to pluck with Master Groguelat. Second, here is an instrument em ployed, one of ouf own table knives, one of oar best, my dear; which seems to indicate no preparation on the pejt of the gang?if gang it was. Thirdly, I observe that nothing has been removed except tee Franchard iishes and the casket; vor own silver has been minutely respected. This is wily; it shows intelligence, a knowledge of the code, ? desire to a void legal consequences. I argue from this fact that the gang numbers persons >f respectability?outward, of course, and merely outward, as the robbery proves. But largue, second, that we must h?ve been ob served at Franchard itself by some occult ob server, and dogged throughout the day with % sk?l and patience that I venture to qualify ts consummate. Ko ordinary man, no occa sional criminal, would have shown himself capable of this combination. We have in our ceighborhood, it is far from improbable, a retired bandit of the highest order of intelli gence.71 .. " "Good heaven!" cried.the horrified Anas iasie. *1Honri, how.canyon!".. "My cherished one, this is a process of in duction," said the doctor. **If any of my steps are unsound correct me. You ore si 'ent? Then do not, I beseech you, be so vulgarly illogical es to revolt from my con clusion. We have now arrived" he re sumed, "at some idea of the composition of Sie gang?for I incline to the hypothesis of more than one?and we now leave this room, which can disclose no more, and turn our at tention to the court and garden. (Jeaa Marie, I trust yon. are observantly following my various steps'; this is an excellent piece >f education for you. ) Come with me to the ioor. No stepson the court; it is unfertun Ite our court should be paved. On what snail matters hang the destiny of these deli sate investigations! Hey! What have we here? I have led you to the very spot," he jaid, standing grandly backward and indi cating the green gate.. "An escalade, as you can now see for yourselves, has taken place." Sure enough, the green paint was in several places scratched and broken; and one of the panels preserved the print of a nailed shoe. The foot had slipped, however, and it was ?fficult to estimate the size of the shoe, and impossible to distinguish the pattern of the sails. "The whole robbery," concluded the doctor, "step by step, has been reconstituted. Enductive science can no farther go." "It is wonderfal," said his wife. "You ihould have bec-n a detective, Henri. I had bo idea of your talent*." "My dear," said Despres, condescendingly, "a man of scientific imagination combines the lesser faculties; he is a detective just as be is a publicist or a general; these are but local applications of his special talent. But oow," he continued, "would you have me go further? Would you have me lay my finger , m the culprits?or rather, for I cannot promise quite so much, point eut to you the very house where they consort? It may be s satisfaction, at least it is ell we are likely to get, since we are denied the remedy of taw. I reach the further stage in this way. tn order to fill my outline of the robbery, I require a rr-an likely to he in the forest idling, I require a man of education, I re quire a man superior to considerations of morality. The three requisites all center in rentailion's boarders. They are painters; therefore they are continually lounging in me forest They are painters; therefore they are not unlikely to have some smatter ing of education. Lastly, because they are painters, they are probably immoral And ?bis I prove in two ways. First, painting is an art which merely addresses the eye; it does not in any particular exercise the moral tense. And second, painting, in common with all the other arts, implies the dangerous quality of imagination. A man of imagina tion is never moral; he autocars literal de marcations and reviews life under too many shifting lights to rest content with the in vidious distinctions of the law." "But you always say?at least, so I under stood you"?said madame, "that these lads display no imagination whatever." "My dear, they displayed imagination, and of a very fantastic order, too," returned the doctor, "when they embraced their beggarly profession. Besides?and this is an argu ment exactly suited to your intellectual level ?many of them are English and American. Where else should we expect to find a thief f And now you had better get your coffee. Because we have lost a treasure, there is no reason for starving. For my part. I shall break my fast with white wine. I feel un accountably heated and thirsty today. 1 can only attribute it to the shock of the dis covery. And yet, you will bear me cwt, I supported the emotion nobly." The doctor had now talked himself Wick ?nto an admirable humor; and as be sat In the arbor and slowly imbibed a large allow ance of white wine and picked a little bvead tad ?heeie with no very impetuous appetite, rfr-.r.?Wi4-t3rlii* m?ditation? ran upon, the ftiiisrtng tfeasures tho other two-thirds were uiore pleasingly buried in the retrospect of his detective 8kill About 11 Casimir arrived. He had caught an early train to Fontainebleau and driven over to save, time, and now his cab was sta bled at Tent&illons, and he remarked, study ing his watch, that he could spare an hour and a half-. He was much the man of busi ness, decisively spoken, given to frowning in in intellectual manner. Anastasie's born brother > he did not waste much sentiment on the ladyvgave. heran English family kiss, and demanded a meal without delay. "You can tell me your story while we eat," be observed). "Anything good today, Stasie?* " He was promised something good. The trio eat down to a table in the arbor, Jean Marie waiting as well as eating, and the doc tor recounted, what had happened in his richest narrative manner. Casimir heard it with explosions of laughter. "What a streak of luck for yon, ?ttV good brother^ he observed, when the tale was over. uli you had gone to Paris you would bava played dick*duck-drake with the whole consignment in three months. Your own would hare followed, and you would have ?meto me in a procession like last time. But I give you warning?Stasie may weep and Henri ratiocinate?it Will not serve you twice. Yonr next collaps? will be fatal 1 thought I had told you so, Stasie! Hey? No .tensoT The doctor winced and looked furtively at Jean-Marie; but the boy seemed apathetic. "And then again," broke out Casimir, "what children you are?vicious children, my faith! How could you tell the value of this trash?. It might have been worth noth ing, or next door.71 ' "Patron me,'' said the doctor; "Yon have your usual flow of spirits, I perceive; but even less than your usual deliberation. I am not entirely ignorant of these matters.n "Not entirely ignorant of anything ever I heard of," interrupted Casimir, bowing, and raising his glass with a sort of pert polite* ness. "At least," resumed the doctor, "I gave my mind to the subject?that you may be willing co believe?and I estimated that our capital would be doubled." And he described the nature of the find. "My word of honor!" said Casimir, "I half believe you? But much would depend on the quality of the gold." "The quality, my deaf Casimir, was"-* And the doctor in default of language, kissed his finger tips. "I would not take your word for it, my good friend," retorted the man of business. "You are a man of very rosy views. But this robbery," he continued?"this robbery s an odd thing. Of course I pass over your nonsense about gangs and landscape paint ers. For me, that is a dream. Who was in the house last night?" "None but ourselves," replied the doctor. "And this young gentleman?" asked Casimir, jerking a nod in the direction of Jean-Marie. ' "He too"?the doctor bowed. "Well; and, if it is a fair question, who is he?" pursued the brother-in-law. "Jean-Marie," answered the doctor, "com bines the functions of a son and stable boy. He began as the latter, but he rose rapidly to the more honorable rank in our affections. He is, I may say. the greatest comfort in our lives." C-Ha!" said Casimir. "And previous to be coming one of you?" "Jean-Marie has lived a remarkable exist ence; his experience has been eminently formative," replied Desprez. "If I had to choose an education for my son, I should have chosen such another. Beginning life with mountebanks and thieves, passing on ward to the society and friendship of philoso phers, he may be said to have skimmed the volume of human life." "Thieves?" repeated the brother-in-law, with a meditative air. The doctor could have bitten his tongue out. He foresaw what was coming, and pro pared his mind for a vigorous defense. "Did you ever steal yourself ?" asked Casi mir, turning suddenly ou Jean-Marie, and for the first time employing a single eyeglass which hung round his neck. "Yes, ?r," replied the boy, with a d*-t> blush. Casimir turned to the others with pursed lips, and nodded to them meaningly. "Hey1" said he; "howisthatP "Jean-Marie is a teller of the truth," re turned the doctor, throwing out his bu?t. . "He has never told a lie," added madame. "He is the best of boys." "Never told a lie, has he not?" reflected Casimir. "Strange, very strange. Give me your at tention, my young friend," ho continued. "You knew about this treasure?" "Ho helped to bring it home," interposed the doctor. "Desprez, I ask you nothing but to hold your tongue," returned Casimir. "1 mean to question this stable boy of yours; and if you are so certain of his innocence, you can af ford to let him answer for himself. Now, tir," he resumed, pointing his eytglass straight at Jean-Marie, "you knew it could be stolen with impunity{ You knew you would not be prosecuted} Come! Did you, or did you not?" "I did," answered Jean-Mario, in a miser able whisper. He sat there changing color like a revolving pharos, twisting his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt. "Yon knew where it was pntr resumed the inquisitor. "Yes," from Jean-Maria "You say you have been a thief before," continued Casimir. * 'Now how am I to know that you are not one still? I suppose you could climb the green gate?" "Yes." still lower from tho culprit. " "Well, then, it was you who stole those things. Yoa know it, and you dare not deny Look mo in the face! Raise your sneaks eyes, and answer!" A "Raise your sneak's etfes.n But in place of anything of that sort Jean Marie broke into a dismal howl and fled fr^m the arbor. Acastasie, as she pursued to cap ture and reassure the victim, found time to send one Parthian arrow?"Casimir, you aro a brute!" "My brother," said Desprez, with the greatest dignity, "you take upon yourself a license" "Desprez," interrupted Casimir, /or heavens sake be a man of the world. You telegraph me to leave my business and come down here on yours. I come, I ask the busi ness, you say'Find me this thief!' Well, I find him; I say 'There ho is!' You need not like it, but you have no manner or right to take offense." "Well," returned the doctor, "I grant that; I will even thank you for your mistaken real. But your hypothesis was so extravagantly monstrous" "Look here," interrupted Casimir; "was it you or Stasie?" "Certainly not," answe?wl tho doctor. "Very well; then it was the boy. Say no more about it," said the brother-in-law, and he produced his cigar case. "I will say this mueh more," returned Des prez: "If that boy came and told mo so him self I should not believe him; and if I did be lieve him, so implicit is my trust I should conclude that ho had acted for the best." "Well, well," said Casimir, indulgently, "Have you a light? I must be going. And, by the wily{I wish_you would lot me sell your Turks for you. I always told you it meant smash. ITtell yott so again. Indeed, it was partly that that brought me down. You never acknowledge my letters?a most unpardonable habit.'* "My^Jpod brother," replied the doctor blandly, "I have never denied your ability id business} b?t ? San perceive your limita? tions.* "Egad, my frLud, I can return the compli ment," observed the man of business. "Your limitation is to be downright irrational." "Observe the relativo i>osition," returned th?doeiar with a smite. "It ? your attitude ?0 believe through thick and thin in one man's judgment?yoiir own, ? follow the Bame opinion, but critically and with open eyes. Which is the more irrational? I leave it to yourself." "Oh, my dear fellow," cried Casimir, "stick to your Turks, stick to your stable boy, go to the devil in general in your own way wfl be done with it. But don't ratiocinate with me?I cannot bear it. And so, ta ta, I might as well have stayed away for any good IVe done* Say g?od-by from me to Stasie and to the sullen hang dog of a stable boy, if you insist oh It ( I'm off." And Casimir departed. The doctor that night dissected his character before Anasta sia. ''On* thing* my beautif ni," he said, "he has learned one thing from his live long acquaintance with your husband: the word ratiocinate, It shines in his vocabulary like a Jewel in a muck heap. And, even so, he continually misapplies it. For you must have observed he uses it as a sort of taunt, in the Case of to ergotise, implying, as it were?* tfee poor, dear fellow!?a vein of sophistry. As to his cruelty to Jean Marie, it must be forgiven him?it is not his nature, it is the nature of his life. A man who deals with money, my dear, is a man lost/' With Jean-Marie the process of reconcilia tion had been somewhat slow. At first he was inconsolable, insisted on leaving the family, went from paroxysm to paroxysm of tears; and it was only after Anastasie had been closeted for an hour with him, alone, that she came forth) sought out the doctor, and, with tears in her eyes, acquainted that gentleman with what had passed. "At first my husband, he would hear of nothing," she said. "Imagine! if he had left Us! what would the treasuro be to that? Horrible treasure, it has brought all this about! At last, after he has sobbed bis very heart out, he agroes to stay on a condition? wo are not to mention this matter, this infa mous suspicion, not even to mention the rob* bery. On that agreement only, the poor) cruel boy will consent to remain among his friends." "But this inhibition," said the doctor, "this embargo?it cannot possibly apply to mef "To all of us," Anastasie asrured him. "My cherished one," Desprez protested, you must bave misunderstood. It cannot apply to me. He would naturally come to me." "Henri," she said, "it does; I swear to you It does." "This is a painful, a very painful circum stance," the doctor said, looking a little black. "I cannot affect, Anastasie, to be anything but justly wounded. I feel this, I feel it, my wife, acutely." "I know you would," she said "But if f on had seen his distress! We must make allowances, we must sacrifice our feelings." "I trust, my dear, you have never found BAS averse to sacrifices," returned the doctor rery stiffly. "And you will let me gc and tell him that you have agreed? It will be like your noble nature," she cried. So it would, he perccdved?it would be like his noble nature! Up jumped bis spirits, triumphant at the thought. "Go, darling," be said nobly, "reassure him. The subject Is buried; more?I make an effort, I have accustomed my will to these exertions?and it is forgotten." A little after, but still with swollen eyes and looking mortally sheepish, Jean-Mario reappeared and went ostentatiously about his business. He was the only unhappy mem ber of the party that sat down that night to raprwr. As for the'doctor, he was radiant, ffe thus sang the requiem of tho treasure: "This has been, on the whole, a most amus ing episode," he said. "We are not a penny $he worse?nay, wo are immensely gainers. Our philosophy has been exercised; some of ihe turtle is still left?the most wholesome of ielicacics; I have my staff; Anastasie has her new dress; Jean-Marie is the proud pos sessor of a fashionable kepi. Besides, we had a glass of Hermitage last night; tho glow ttill suffuses my memory. I was growing positively niggardly with that Hermitage? positively niggardly. Let me take the hint. We had one bottle to celebrate the appear* ince of our visionary fortune; let us have a lecoud to console us fcr its occultation. The third I hereby dedicate to Jean-Marie's wed* ding breakfast. CHAPTER VIL THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ. The doctor's house has not yet received the compliment of a description, and it is now high time that the omission were supplied, tor the house is itself an actor in the story, and one whose part is nearly at an end. Two itories in height, walls of a warm yellow, tiles of an ancient ruddy brown diversified with moss and lichen, it stood with one wall to the Street in the-angle of the doctors property. It was roomy, draughty and in convenient. The largo rafters were here and there engraven with rude marks and pat terns; the handrail of the stair was carved In countrified arabesque; a stout timber pil lar, which did duty to support the dining room roof, bore mysterious characters on its darker side, runes, according to the doctor; lior did ho fail, when be ran over tho legendary history of the house and its pos lessors, to dwell upon the Scandinavian scholar who had left them. Floors, doors and rafters had made a great variety of angles; every room had a particular inclina tion : the gable had tilted toward the garden, after the manner of a leaning tower, an done of the former proprietors had buttressed the building from the side with a great strut of wood, liko tho derrick of a crane. Alto gether, it had many marks of ruin; it was a house for'the rats to desert; and nothing but its excellent brightness?the window glass polished and shining, the paint well scoured, the brasses radiant, tho very prop all wreathed about with climbing flowers ?nothing, but its air of a well tended, smil ing veteran, sitting, crutch and all, in the tunny corner of a garden, marked it as a house for comfortable people to inhabit. In poor or idle management it would soon liave Lurried into the blackguard stages of decay. As it was, the whole family loved it, and the doctor was never better inspired than when ie narrated its imaginary story and drew the character of it*) succcssivo masters, from the Hebrew merchant who had ro-edifled its walls after tho sack of tho town, and past the mysterious engraver of tho rune*;, down to the long headed, dirty handed l>oor from whom he had himself acquired it at a ruinous expense. As for any alarm about its .security, tho idea had never presented itself. What had stood for centuries might well enduro a little longer. Indeed, in this particular winter, after the finding and losing of the treasure, the Despre7.cs had an anxiety of a very different order, and one which lay nearer their hearts. Jean-Mnrie was plainly not himself. He had fits of hectic activity, when he made unusual exertions to please, spoke more and faster, and redoubled his attention to his lessons. But these were interrupted by spells of melancholia and brooding silence, when the ln?y was little better than unbearable. "Silence," the doctor moralized?"yon see, Anastasie, what comes of silence. Had the boy properly unbosomed himself, the little disappointment al*>ut the treasure, tho little annoyance about Casimir's incivility, would long ago have be^'ii forgotten. As it is, they prey upon him like a disease. He loses lies*' his appetite Is variable, and, on the whole, impaired. I keep him on the strictest regi men, I exhibit the most powerful tonics; both in vain." "Don't you think you drug him to:- much?" asked madame, with an irrepressible shudder. "Drug?" cried tho doctor; "I drug? Ana stasie, you are mad!" [TO BE CONTINUED. 1 HarrisoG will slip up od the red ba aana?peel. Oar State Contemporaries. j Nominations for Governor. I Aiken Journal and Review. i The indication are that there will be -several candidates brought forward for the Governorship. It is presumed that (he present incumbent will be in the field for rerioinitiation, oome of the admirers of Capt. Ben. Tillman in Laurens County have nominated him as the farmer's candidate; Col. B. W. Edwards has been put forward from the Pee Bee section and the admirers of Ex-Governor Sbeppard have brought that gentleman forward from Edgefield. As it is some time yet before the meet ing of the State Convention it is more than probable there will be several other candidates brought forward. Good Men. Abbeville Medium. There is no lack of good men in South Carolina for the office of Gov ernor Tho people need not confine themselves to any one set of politicians. The man who is nearest to the masses in his views on public questions should be selected. Hon. B. W. Edwards, of Darlington, would make a first rate Governor. He is a man of ability and high character. He is a lawyer of eminence and is fully in sympathy with the farmers. Hon. Giles J. Patterson, of Chester, is also well qualified for the place. He is a people's man, has enlarged views, is a man of business and is fully posted as to the wishes of the people. Hon. John C. Sheppard is equally qualified. r He is a sound democrat, an able lawyer, a conscientious man and identified with the masses in their aspi rations and of broad political views. No more capable man than Hoi). W. A. Conrtenay, of Charleston can be found. His experience as an adminis trative officer is extensive and be would manage our public affairs on strictly business principles. The catalogue could be indefinitely extended, but enough have been named to show that we are rich in material. For Governor. Marion Star. The Uuion Times nominates Hon. John. C. Sheppard, of EJgefield, for Governor. It is said that Col. B \V. Edwards, of Darlington, would like to be Governor. Gov. Richardson will no doubt be a candidate again. He may be the only candidate. The time is short. The campaign will open July 20th, and if any candidates arc coming out in opposition to Gov. Richardson they will have to do so soon. We can heartily endorse the Hon. John C Sheppard for Governor, aod his previous record would guarantee an honest and intelligent administration. We believe be would be the most popular man that could be nominated. The people want a man for governor who is not ruled by any clique or ring and has the best in terests of the State at heart. Col. B. W. Edwards for Governor. Farmers' Friend. The Pee Dee section has not had a finger in the gubernatorial pie sjnee the adminis'ration of Gov. Williams, in 1854, and the general sentiment seems to prevail in favor of making the selec tion from this section to fill the guber natorial chair for the next term. The Farmers' Fiiend has appreciated this sentiment, and had intended to name the man at the proper time. But Greenville, with her usual spirit of magnanimity and appreciation of gen uine worth, has stepped in just at the right time and done tbe handsome act by proposing Col. B. W. Edwards, of Darlington. L The people of this section appreciate the good taste displayed by the up country in choosiog this gentleman, and the entire Pee Dee country will doubtless show its appreciation of the act by giving him its solid support. With his keeo appreciation of wants of the people and his superior ability and sterling integrity, it is doubtful if there is within the borders of the entire State a man more fitted for the position of Governor than Col B. W. Edwards, of Darlington. Let tbe citizens of Darlington Coun ty, and of the entire Pee Dee section, posh their claim and see to it that Col Edwards is nominated. It will not be a very hard task, for his popularity is by no means coo fined to his own section. Some More Questions. Newberry Observer. The Abbeville Medium asks Governor Richardsou the following open ques tions : 'If re-elected Governor, will you re commend the acceptance of the Clemson bequest snd use your bewt efforts to es tablish a separate Agricultural College at Kort Hill V That is too easily answered. It d*?s not go to tbe root of the matter. We propose to follow it up with two more questions : 1st. If re-elected Governor, will you recommend that the ??15,000 from the Hatch fund be turned over to the Agricultural College 'i 2nd. If re-elected Governor, will you recommend that the half of the Ian ? serin fund, amounting to upwards of ?5,000 a year, now appropriated to the South Carolina Colley, be turned over to the Agricultural College Y Now for the Canal. # Columbia Register. The Trustees of the Columbia Canal make the cheering announcement that they have placed at par every dollar of the bonds issuabic thi.s year. The Register showed long ago that a six per cent, bond uon-taxable by the city is equivalent to one having seven and a half per cent, interest; and that guar anteed by the canal property and having its interest payable by the city f?r thirty years, it must soon command a hand some premium. While thi.s is true, the Trustees no less deserve credit for having dispelled all doubts and having placed all these bonds before the day for opening bids for construction ar rived. With a full treasury, and hav ing engaged one of the most expert hydraulic engineers to conduct the work, nothing remains for the Trustees but to push ou to victory. The Gist shovel full of dirt thrown wiil give a | fresh impetus to business and inspire j hope and confidence in the breast of. every citizen of Columbia. Capita) in great abundance is lying idle in tbe North seeking investment of a promis ing character, and there can be little doubt ihat when water begins to pour over the waste weir of the cabal some of it will be brought here and invested in factories. We are all glad to see the beginning of the end, the promise of the completion of this enterprise, which has been talked of and dreamed about for twenty years and more; In this connection we cannot but re gret that the State had not seen fit to complete this great work ten vears ago. It would have benefited the entire Com monwealth. The policy that character ised many of the members of the Legis lature, who either utterly refused to ac cede to any proposition of development or else crippled the scheme by doling out aid in homeopathic doses, not only delayed the development of Columbia, but also defeated the plan of bringing a revenue into the State treasury out of the' rent of the water power. However, Columbia has taken up the work and will complete it. Careful engineers concur in the belief that the issue of ?200,00^ worth of bonds will be enoogb to turn the water into the canal as far as Gervais street, and some other plan will be devised to carry it to Granby Now let the co-operative factory schemes be reviewed, so that the wheels may be ready to run at an early date. The Congaree steam factory is tbe nucleus of onr manufacturing enterprises. One factory always brings ! another, whether tbe same or a different motive power be used. Diversity of iudnstry can be brought about by nat ural means. Cotton, .Canal and Capi tal are the 'three CV that will form the basis of the solid prosperity of Colum bia and Ricbland. The Farmers' Convention. Marion Star. In obedience to a call of the farmers* Executive Committee, a convention of the voters and taxpayers of Marion County met in the Court House at 11.30 a. m., on Monday, July 2nd. The convention was called to order, and the object of the meeting stated by Col. E. T. Stackhouse. The Organization was effected by the electfon of J. S. Scott, president, and J. E. Ellerb?c, secretary. The following were offered as resolutions by Col E. T. Stackhouse, and after considerable discussion, adopted: 'Will you, if elected, support legisla tion to reduce Salaries, Per Diems and Fees, so that our State Government shall not be more expensive than that of North Carolina or Georgia ? Will you, if elected, support the establishment of tbe Clemsoo Agricul tural College in place of the *School of Agriculture' at the South Carolina University V Abbeville Medium. A majority of the farmers of the State, we believe, are in favor of ac cepting the Clemson bequest and of es tablishing an agricultural college at Fort Hill. Now is the time to go to work for the purpose of realizing their wishes. The first step is to elect a Governor who sympathizes with this purpose. Before voting for any mao for the high position of Governor the farmers should require a positive and direct pledge from him that he will use his best efforts to secure this college. It puts the question in positive terms to Gov. Richardson, supposing him to be a candidate for re-election, and says, "If he is indifferent about the matter and it is not bis way of thinking, some other man should be chosen. The State has hundreds of citizens of suffi cient capacity for the place who are friendly with the farmers.'' The Church in Politics. Greenville Afacs. An anonymous writer in the Colum bia Register assails the Episcopal church of this State with some bitterness, and charges that its social power, -inherited from the old days of the establishment, predominates in our politics and closes the highest offices in the State against all persons outside its membership. This attack is followed with a demand .for a change and for the filling of our higher offices with men prominently identified with religious work from other churches, and with a nomination of the Hon. Giles Patterson, of Chester, for Governor. The Episcopal church' is the oldest of the Protestant denominations in this country and when our States were colonies of England it was the estab lished church, supported by the influ ence and revenues of tbe government. That fact has been its blessing and its bane It gave the church a member ship atnonur the older and more influ ential families of the country which has secured for it representation in public affairs, as the llesistcr correspondent indicates, out of proportion to its numerical and financial strength. That representation is not, however, secured by any church influences. Itis a result of the power naturally accumulated by j all old families in a country, by wide j and ever widening connections, names j identified in the public mind with histo ry and achievement and by inherited i talents. It would be proper to say that j a large proportion of the meu more | prominent in our affairs are Episcopal- | ians ; it i* improper and untrue to say j that the Episcopal church as an orgatii- j zation has or tries to have appreciable influence in our politics. The unfortunate effects of the history of that, church is to throw around it a j chilling atmosphere of cxclusiveness j which repels many good people from it j au(J?far wor?c?draws to it occasional ly people who are impatieot of the natu ral and proper processes of social ad i vanccn.ent, and who seek it as a means j of hastening their progress. As a matter of fact, the Episcopal church, if wo understand its doctrines and its real spirit, is an intensely Democratic insti tution, founded and shaped, literally, by the people and tor the people ; and just so far as it is removed from the sympathy and help of the masses of the people it is removed from its proper position and that designed for it. If we lose adollar on der shtrcet wc vhas madt pec&use der finder vhas not honest euough to return it. If we find fife dollar we feel dot der owner, ought to loss it for his carclesseness,? Carl Dundcr. The Military Encampment. Brigadier General Iluguenin, who is to command the State encampment, has issued the following order : Headquarters 4th Brj&adb, Charleston, S. C, July 2, 1888. General Order No. I, Paragraph I. In obedience to Gen eral Orders No 2, Adjutant and In spector General's office, bearing-date July I, 1888, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Encamp ment of State Volunteer Troops, to be held at Greenville, S> C , Julv 23 to July 31, 1888. Paragraphen. The name of the en campment will be 'Camp B. II. An* dereon,' In honor of the late Lieuten ant General R. H. Anderson. Paragraph III. The following offi cers are announced as the staff of the General commanding, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly ? Lieutenant 0. II. Cab?niss, Jr., I Sth United States Infantry, chief of staff. Major George B. Edwards, Adju i tant General. Major John S. Ilorlbeck, Inspector General. Major G. \V. Bell, Ordinance Offi cer. Major E. T. Legare, Quartermaster. Major Emile Kersteu, Commissary. Major C. B. Northrop, Paymaster. Major E. W. Hughes, Judge Ad vocate. Major John L. Dawson, M. D., Surgeon. Captain Andrew Simonds, A.D. C. Captain E. P. McKissick, A. D. C. Captain A. G. Miller, A. JX C. Captain B. L. Clark, A. D. C. Captain G. H. Cornelson, A. D. C. Captain A. N Brunson, A L>. C. Captain M. W Powers, Chief En gineer. Lieutenant M. J. Trea?ij, Assistant Engineer. Paragraph IV. .The troops attend ing the Encampment will be divided into two brigades, as follows : First Brigade, Brigadier General R. N. Richbourg commanding, com prising the troops of his own brigade except the cavalry. Second Brigade, Brigadier General VV. E. James, commanding, compris ing the troops of his own brigade, the battalion of the Fourth Brigade, and all other unattached companies, including the cavalry. Paragraph V. The commanding of ficers of the Greenville Guards and the Butler Guards of Greenville will' report to Major Edwards, Adjutant General, at 8 A. Mi, July 23, ft the camp ground. Major Edwards will establish the guards and assign all companies to their tents upon their arrival. Paragraph VI. Company command ers will -Bee "that their men are pro vided with cooked rations sufficient to supply their wants until they ai rive in Greenville. Paragraph VII. Strict discipline will be observed during the encamp ment and the commanding General feels satisfied that the soldiers of the State will comport themselves in euch a manner as will be to their honor and credit. T. A. IlrjGUEKrs, Brigadier General. Official : George B. Edwards, - Major and Adjutant General. What Augusta is Doing. The enterprising people of this beautiful, wealthy and yet very con servative city bave determined to eclipse all of their municipal sisters of the South by malting a display, national in its character, Southern in i*a effects, that shall inure to the glory cf that prosperous mart", an# to the glory of the South as well. They have planned to do what no other one* of their sisters has, and that is to make their exhibition a comprehen sive illustration of all the South has" accomplished since it entered upon its present career of developing pros perity. They have asked for ho out side help, but have bravely put up all the money needed to carry their plan into execution. Their plans are to gather under one roof such a series of displays from all parts of the South as will illustrate the diversity of in dustries created since January, 18S2, and also to show that these indus tries simply point out the path to that greater development on the threshold of which the South now I stands. Tho raw materials that na- , ! iure has lavished upon that section, the industries that have sprung from them, the progress in manufactures and the mechanic arts, the diversified products of agriculture and horticul i turc and ihe successful efforts that i have been made to put tln-m into I commercial forms, these and many i other things will bo exhibited. These I exhibits will be so many tangible I proofs of what has been done in the past six years, and of what may be : done before this century is com pleted. Northern manufacturers and mer chants have shown their appreciation of what this Exposition is to be by making eaily application for large areas of space in which to make dis plays of their specialties. Such con cerns as the Lowell manufacturing company, Diston & Sons, the saw makers, the McCormick Co., of Illi nois, an? numerous others of like wealth and enterprise have secured space at this early day.-. It has be I come ;? serious question with the j management whether the spacious J I building they are now erecting will j i be sufficiently large for the accommo- | j dation of ;:!! participants'. FWtn- i I na?ely they have ample grounds on i which all who desire may erect tents ! or more substantial pavilions, and as several prominent houses have already I decided to do this, it is probable that j their example will have many follow- J j era. All that skill, experience and! ingenuity could do to adapt th? site and the* buildings upon it to the I grand purpose in view has been donc, j ! No money will be Spared and no! ! labor be too great, m the estimation I of the management, to make this the j crowning American Exposition of the j year. The Piedrrroflt Exposition at ' Atlanta last year w^s- a" step in the .. - * / . ; rfght direction. Augusta lias'takenV hold where Atlanta left off, atid will give the world an opportunity.tojs?e.\*.:-"' the breadth und[greatness of Souiberu' progress Now let the entire S??fh % second her efforts. Every Iowa in' ./ which new industries have oren es-- ' tablisiied sir.ee 1881 should send evi dences cf them to this exhPoft?O?il ?p Every mill, factory, cannery; mine, V": quarry and fuaustiy of whatever kind" that has commenced business in tbe-' South since December 3tst, 1881, should send its products here. Plant ere, farmeis" organization, nursery-' men and florists should b? repr?sent? ed. Augusta will open her greatV fair October IGlh, and close it No-" Vember 17th. At Cat period the' South will be clothed in the radiance of autumnal beauty. The tvea.lier '?^"".'ff^ almost sure to he perfect. AU the" '-r: transportation lines running into7 Georgia, have granted liberal excur sion rates to Exposition visitors."^ They will also instruct that agents' to create an fmthusiasm in" their res? peciive localities that will insure V large attendance. A Very "iad " S -r - A Southern Democratic contempcrary^ which persistently opposes the Demo-" cratic creed by advocating protectico- ' and the Blair bill, discussing the Prest dential candidates, says ton Mr. Har-" rison's record 'shows that he has always"* - ' been opposed to the Blair bill and uni fof-mly voted against it while he was in ' the Senate. Here is another instance' of Cleveland's lock. He has no record t - in tbe matter, but it has been reported' that he is opposed to the bill. How' lucky it is for him that an outspoken - V-^ opponent cf the measure has ' beeo&l X nominated against^ him ! _ Oa that^'""' question the two parties stand cff. t - Certainly the Republicans, coder the" icadership of an enemy of the B'a?r V . - bill, cannot held the Democrats f?spou-" -- sible for its defeat. We think this is'' a very important point. jjQet every**/.--. Democrat bear it in mrcd, and when' he hears a Republican talking. about Democratic opposition to the Blair oiU*" ^?^? let him gently remind the imprudent** -7 talker that h*,s own "candidate for PresS-" dent was one of ?he leading opponents"' of the measure in the Senate. That5'-' "' '.' will silence him 7 It is true that the President has no"* - record bearing directly on the B?air^ monstrosity, for it has never. beeu able_. to get through a Democratic House of* ' Representatives; but he has such a record as to leave no doubt at all thatv" were the measure presented to hro"? ne* "M would say lay it cat. stiff and cold with a righteous" veto That would lie one of the great occasions for which' the ' veto power was especially ??tended.. Ko intelligent man-can read the Moutgo-' mery speech of President Cleveland* without being convinced that He had* the Blair bill, in mind when bo made it, and intended- therein to indi-'-... cate his disapproval^ it. The veto of the Texas seed bill is another fact from Cleveland's record showing his Hos tility, on constitutional grounds," to* Federal interference in local concerns. It is possible that, in Virginia and. West Virginia, this ' outrageous -bill of the erratic New Hampshire Senator" qiight cut something of a figure in the~ Presidential campaign, if the Republi can candidate were a. friend to it. He' has an honest record of opposition, to it' add that record will be helpful to him' in the close States at the North, where the fight, is to be. hottest. It wilt! bo* especially advantageous to him io Con necticut, where the Republicans are. much more devoted to Spate's rights! than are the Democrats of a number of the Southern State's. The Blair bill is the worst proposi tion" pfcodiog before Congress. U haff tenacity of life for the reason that it" affof?fs a way of keeping up nigh taxes"* and'thus wins protectionists to its sup-' port, while it appeals to the pocket in the South. There is ten times as much greed &'s philanthropy in the support", which' this measure has?the greed of monopolists at the North, who want an*', excuse for the maintenance of war tariff taxes, and the greed of taxpayers ia the South, who naturally prefer to have their local schools maintained with as little of local t-:satioa us possible. It is a good thing, a very good thing, for the country, that both the candidates " for the Presidency are by clear impli cation pledged to veto the bill if ccca sion should ci!r>;rd?lYatki&gtoa. Post' liiJepcndaiic. -tf-Ev^S IT3M3 Work ou the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad i.i being rapidly' pushed. Five hundred hand** are now working in the iozz cf Chester and' vicinity. Kid Gloves Harrison ran against Blue Jeans Williams for Governor of Indiana. }>di the people preferred hard hands and bine jeans to kid gloves and blue blood* and elected Williams, and Grovcr Cicwlaad ca:> be depended" ou to down the aristocrat aguiti. The Nc~ Yerk Times, one of tho' cleanest and most xuSaent?al Repubi:-" can papers in 11? ^ cous try. announces its determination to support Cleveland' and Tkurnisu v:ih all of irs power. Harper's Weekly, another leading Re publican paper, will also soppoYt the' Democratic candidates'. The News and Courier ss jV?t u&3 been officially announced that Confed erate widows who hate married again will save thci:vse!vt3 trouble by with holding their applicatious for pensions, . since the board wit; not under any cir-~" eumsianccs, consider such applications?' The A-'lr.:;ta Ji/urual, commesliog on the recent defalcation sod Sight of tanker C. C Nelson, of that city, calls for the enactment of a law of greater seventy than iho existing one to punish criminals, of Nelson's cl^s. Although it rs eomiaonly said that eo law can be passed that will prevent stealing, we doubt not that an esception:.*iy Strin gent law passed f?r those special cases in which the confiding depositor is to tally at the mercy of the ostensibly" honest fingcrer of his deposits, would,: : do some good. It could do opii"am.?':: a general way. ILv.v woul^X. it do4x)f-, ; hang a few such, rascals, '^^^^^'^^^^|^