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TUM 81MTKR WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S50. Consolidated Au?. 2, 1SS1.1 "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " STJMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1892. THIS T??J5 EstsbUsbeit , >T**$ New Series?Toi. XI. No. 45. mulshed ?Torr Wednesday, by N. Gr. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. G. tbrm8 : Two Dollars per annum?in advance. iDTIKTISI MSXT8. On? Square, first insertion.$ 1 00 Srerj subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, er longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private n terests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. THE S1M0NDS NATIONAL BASK, of s UM TER. state, city and county deposi tory, S?MTSR, S. c. Paid up Capital.$75, COO 00 Sarplus Fand. 10,500 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT^ Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, President. l s. &r30v, A?g. 7 Cashier. _ if SUMTER, S C. CITY AMD COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also has A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate ef 4 per cent, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. Shaxk, President. Cashier. Aug 21. Di l AM DENTIST. Office OVER BROWNS & PURDV'S STORE. Entrance on Main Street, Between Browns & Purdy and Durant & Son, OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30 ; 2 to 5 o'clock. Sumter, S. C , April 29. G. W. DICE, D. D. S. Office over Bogin's New Store, kntkaxcs on main strict ~ . SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours.?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8 MACHINE SHOP. Ail kinds of MACHINE WORK REPAIRS can he had in Sumter, at short notice, and in the very best class of work, at the shop re cently opeoed by the undersigned on Liberty Street, near theC. S. & N. Depot. Boilers Patched, and and Gin Work a Specialty. Prompt attention given to work in the country, and first class workmen sent to at tend to same. Call at the shop or address through Sumter Post office Ang 13 EDGAR SKINNER. NEW L8M&EB YARD, IBEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND the public generally that my Saw Mill located on the C. S. 4 N. R. R.. just back of my residence, is now in full operation, and I am prepared to furnish all grades of Yellow Pine Lumber from un bled timber, at prices according to grades. Yard accessible on North side of residence. J. B. ROACH. Feb IS._ FORSALE. THAT TRACT OF LAND near Sumter C. H., in Sumter County, S. C, contain ing 200 ACRES, more or less, and bounded as follows; North, by public road - from City of Sumter to Cane Savannah ; East, by lands of Jno. T. Baker; South, by ran of Cane Savannah ; West, by lands of Jno. F. Gamble and of Mile- H. Piowden ; same being arable land and now under cuitiration. For terms apply to. GREIG ?MATTHEWS, Dec. 9.?x Charleston, S. C. Why Rent Land When You Can Buy a Home on Easy Terms? FOR SALE. ATRACT OF GOOD FARMING AND Timber land, containing 900 acres with good dwelling and outbuildings, well located half mile from Reid's station on the .Manches ter and Augusta R. R., 9 miles from Sumter Will sell as a whole or in lots to suit pur chasers. Terms?One-third cash, balance easy pay meats and low interest. See or address W. O. CAIN, Ramsey, p. O., S. C. OR E. W. Dabbs, Agt. Ramsey p. O., S. C. Dec. 30.?tf. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compoumling Prescriptions GLENN SPRINGS ' MINERAL WATER A Safe, Pleasant Cure for all diseases of the LIVER, KIDNEYS, BLADDER AND BOWELS. FOR SALE B? Dr. A. j. CHINA. _ Dr. j. F. W. DkLOKME, -AND W. R. DELGAR, Agent. ggJTAUL SIMPSON. Shipper, GIcdu Springst, 8 C. Mcb. '2. OF FREE TONTINE POLICIES, IN Tri S EQUITABLE LIFE ASSMMCE SOCIETY, Of 120 Broadway, New Yorfc. MATURING D?RING THE YEAR EXAMPLE NO, I KIND OF POLICY, Ordinary Life "Free Tontine. No. of Policy 66,825. Amt. $10,000. Age at issue 43. Arnual premium, $350 50. Amt. paid to Go. daring 20 years, $7010.00. RESULTS. Twenty years of protection to the extent of $10,000 al ready enjoyed. Options of Settlement Offered in 1891. 1st. Surrender Policy and draw the cash value $9,703.30, (a return of $138,40 for each $100 paid to the Company.) OR 2d. Take out a paid up Policy (payable at death) for $15, 000, and pay no more pre miums. OR 3d. Draw the surplus (a cash dividend of) $5,817.60. (over four fifths of the money paid to the Go.) and continue the original Policy for $10,000, in force by the payment of the annual premiums $350.50 less annual dividends. OR 4th. Convert the surplus $5, 817.60 into paid up insurance payable at death tor $9.230, and continue the original pol icy in force by the payment of the same annual premiums, less annual dividends. By this last option the holder of this policy can have his in surance increased to $19,230 without additional cost. Certificates and other partic ulars furnished on application. The "Twenty Payment Life" Policies cost a little more, but show much better results TH0S. E. RICHARDSON, Agent. SUMTER, S. C June 17. For Infants and Children. Castoria prompte? Digestion? and overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, and Feverishness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep natural. Castoria contains no Morphine or other narcotic property. ** Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Archer, M. D., Ill South Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. "I use Castoria in my practice, and find It specially adapted to affections of children." Alex. Robertson, M. D., 1067 2d Ave., New York. " From personal knowledge and observation I can say that Castoria is an excellent medicine for children, acting as a laxative and relieving the pent up bowels and general system very much. Many mothers have told me of its ex cellent effect upon their children." Dr. G. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. Thk Ckntacr Coxpany, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. eoeeeiaooo A The smallest P^ll in the World I? 6 0 e THE SECRET of recruiting health is discovered iii| ?Tiny Liver Pills? In liver aflf-c ions, aick headache, dys- bb pepsla, flatulence, heartbnrn, bilious colic, cuntions of the skin, and all ^ troubles of the '?owiIs, their cnrativo t& effect* are marvelous. They are a cor rect! ve as well as a gentle cathartic, ? Very ?mall and easy to take. Price, Office, 3d & 41 Park PLiee, N. Y. eitidtfl ? MACHINERY FOR SALE. One 12-horse engine and boiler. One 45 Saw Gin >md Condenser. Une Boss Cotton Press. One 20-incb (Jiist Mill. Belting, Shafting and Fixtures. The Gin, Prcjs and Mill are almost new and a!l in good running ordt-r. The entire outfit will sold che?p. For particulars apply to C. M. Best. Or at t'nijt office. BROGDON S, S. t 4-14 L. D. JOHNSTON, SUMTKR, S. C, -THB Practical Carpfiiter> Contractor AND BUILDER, ITTOULD RESPECTFULLY inform the |f citizens of Suinter and surrounding country that he i* prepared to furnish plans, and estimntes on brick and wocden buildings Ail work entrusted to bitn will be doue first class. .SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Aug Id o "CAST OUT BUT NOT FORSAKEN. ?by BERNARD BIGSBY. Aof?orof the "Colonel of the Fourth,"anil .,. Other Successful Stories. A OTRL WITH A HISTORY. N ONE week Mi3s Balder stone's select boarding- school for young ladies will be closed for the midsum mer vacation? in seven days, or, as one en thusiastic girl has it, in one hundred and s i x t y-e i g h t hours, for she k e e ps them marked upon a tablet and crosses each out with a pencil as its total of sixty minutes is consumed. Now all the world knows that Miss Balderstonc's establishment is no common seminary, nor is that lady by any moans a type of the schoolmistress novelists love to portray?the washed-out, faded piece of gentility who presides over a gloomy mansion where the lives of girls arc made miserable by the discipline of a penitentiary and the diet of a work house; for, on the contrary, the laciy herself was a pleasant, brown-eyed woman of five and thirty, with a cheer I ful, lady-like manner and generous in stincts, and her house, No. 7 Clarendon ! Terrace, Kensington?the best quarter [ of London?was as brightly and hanil I somely furnished as any mansion in its J vicinity. Of course, her terms were high, and, equally of course, her pupils were drawn from the very first families i ?in fact, to be one of Miss Balder stone's "young friends" was as good as , a patent of gentility. Yet, of all Miss Balderstonc's young ladies none were so envied as Miss Kate Grahame. the adopted daughter and reputed heiress of Sir Harry Gra hame, who, notwithstanding the fact that a dozen years ago he succeeded to the baronetcy and a rent roil of twenty thousand pounds a year, continues to serve her majesty in Inaia, where lie has covered hinself with glory. Of course he is young yet and it is on the j cards that lie might marry, but tho.c;e ; who know him best arc assured that he ! never will. And about this adopted daughter there are some carious stories, more or less believed in according to the disposition of the tattler, but the one which per haps-maintains the fewest adherents is ! that this beautiful girl was rescued by Sir ITarry, when he was plain Cornet Grahame and she was a little baby, from the clutches of some wicked ! Nawaub in India. Anyhow she is there?a palpable, ar d to some people, a disagreeable fact, for Harry Grahame's eldest sister had mar ried Lord Scarborough, by no means rich for a nobleman, and had a host of small "honorables" to provide for, while his second sister, Honoria, lived in sin gle blessedness in Sir Harry's town house, theohaperone of his young ward, IIAXDED TITE NEAT MAID SERVANT A LETTER. whom she hated with all the virulence of five-and-twenty years of unappreeiat- ! cd womanood. For the worst of it was that not one-fourth of the bache lor eccentric baronet's estates were entailed, and it was quite in Iiis power to rob his natural heirs of the bulk of his fortune and leave it to this waif; na.y, he had even gone so far as to noti fy his relatives of his intention to do so. Meanwhile, of course, the young lady was a person of consideration. Miss Honoria lavished ugon her those super fluous affections which a cold world had never rightly estimated, and Lady Scarborough, having a red-headed, knock-kneed son, two years Kate's junior, dreamed of the possibility of keeping the fortune in the family after all; so her words to the orphan girl were always sweeter than honey. It was Kate Grahame's last half-year at school. In another week she would oegin to take her j/laee in the gay world, and even now Miss Balderstonc's young ladies were discussing the dress she would wear when the countess of j Scarbarongh presented her to the queen. In addition to all these smiles of fortune, Kate Grahame possessed great personal beauty and a disposition so sweet that she was the idol of the Balderstone household, from the gentle schoolmistress herself down to the boy in buttons, who worshiped the young lady from afar as some being even more glorious than the radiant fairies he had seen in the pantomine from the gallery at Drory Lane theater. The morning's task was over, and the girls were preparing for their usual promenade in the park, when a groom wearing the Scarborough livery dashed up to the door and handed the neat maidservant a letter for Miss Balderstone which he asserted required an immediate answer, and then, as if struck with an afterthought, produced another addressed to Miss Grahame. The schoolmistress' brow clouded as she perused the lines addressed to her. "Lady Scarborough presents her kind regards to Miss Balderstone and would )*? exceedingly obliged if she would call upon her this afternoon at three (/clock to meet Miss Grahame and discuss a matter of the deepest consequence." "Well, my Lady Scarborough," Miss Balderstone muttered to herself, "I did not think even your chronic impudence would have carded you as far as that," ! and forthwith in a little flutter of indig nation she ran to her desk and penned the following caustic reply: "Miss Balderstone presents her kind regards to Lady Scarborough and she ' will be at home at three o'clock this af- ! ternoon, when she will be glad to re- ' ceive her ladyship and Miss Grahame to discuss the matter of consequence-al luded to in-" She had just got thus far with her let- ! ter when the door was burst open and Kate Grahame, wild with grief, flung herself into the teacher's arms. "Oh, I shall die! I shall die!" she moaned. "The dearest, kindest, noblest friend?Miss Balderstone, he is dead!" The gentle lady soothed the girl's passionate outbreak of giief, and she had no hesitation in taking from her unresisting" hand a letter which she read with much surprise and disgust "Dear Kate; Yon will bo shocked to hoar that my brother, Sir Harry Graham?, died of jangle fever on the 9th of January last at Klst mun, a town in the Ghauts mountains. The dif ficulty of communication prevented the sad news reaching us at an earlier date. Lady Scar borough agrees with mo that under the circum stances you had better delay your preparations for leaving Miss Balderstone for the present Yours sincerely, Honobia Grahame." "What does it all mean?" Miss Balder stone asked herself. "But," she added, "I will soon know," and, not trusting herself again with a pen, she sent a verbal message that she would wait on Lady Scarborough at the hour men tioned in her letter, a breach of social etiquette which caused that grand per sonage much righteous indignation. When, however, Miss Balderstone's neat brougham drew up at the door of Scarborough house, the resplendent hall porter, on reading her card, confessed that "'er led'ship his at 'omc" and called a footman to summon the groom of the chambers to conduct her to the blue re ception room. Both of Harry Orahame's sisters were in mourning?not, of course, in grand state but in the embryo mortification of crape and cashmere. **So pood of you to coaae,** simpered Honoria. "For of course we could not leave the house to call on you," my lady ex plained. But Miss Balderstone cut their com pliments short by abruptly stating "that her visit must bo brief, as Kate Grahame was in no condition to be left in the charge of servants." "What!" Lady Scarborough ex claimed. "Kate ill! What in the name of goodness is the matter with her? She seemed to me to be particularly ro bust and healthy." "You cannot expect a high-strung, sensitive girl to receive such a com munication as yours without being prostrated," Miss Balderstone said, in dignantly. "Oh," Miss Honoria sniffed, "I sup pose you think she ought to have been shown more consideration, but you aro not acquainted with all the particulars of my dear brother's sad death." "Or, that he died without making a will," added her ladyship. "Which makes all the difference in her position," continued Honoria. "All the difference in the world," echoed her sister. "Though it may make a difference In her prospects," the schoolmistress said, spiritedly, "I fail to see how it puts her outside the pale of Christian sympathy. Her loss has come upon her so sud denly?" [ "Really Miss Balderstone," Lady Scar borough said, severely, "I do not think it is necessary to carry the manners of the school-room into the parlor. You are so accustomed to criticize in your own household, that I am afraid you forget that your opinion of right and wrong may not have the weight it de ! serves in the outside world. Kay, do ! not go. We have much to discuss yet. You see Kate is fortunate to have fallen into your good graces, while I am obliged 'to confess that she has failed to awaken the slightest interest in the hearts of either my sister or myself." "Besides," pleaded Honoria, "she is no kith or kin of ours. Of course, it is all very proper for her to deplore poor. Harry's death?it would be very un grateful of her if she did not?but as for her being treated as one of the fam ily, it is perfectly preposterous to dream of such a thing." "Nor do I believe that anything more need be done for her," chimed in her ladyship. "She has a good educat?on, a good outfit of clothes?and in this mat ter i cannot but feel thankful that the admirable rules of your establishment preclude the wearing of costly mate rials, for what she has will be quite fitted to her new sphere?and with a few pounds in her pocket, she is better equipped to start, in the world than half the girls of the middle classes who are left orphans at her age." "What can she do?" Miss Balderstone pleaded, sacrificing her personal indig nation to the chance of securing some provision for her favorite pupil. "Brought up as sac has been, it will be doubly hard for her to face the xvorld, and?" "Oh, do not think, Miss Balderstone, that we ever approved of poor Harry's wickedness?I can call it by no other name?in placing the girl in such a ri diculous position." "But now the mischief is done, sure ly-" "We wash our hands of the conse quence. Kate must act quite independ ent!}' of us. Let her go out as a gov erness, or even lady's maid. ? am sure j that the duchess of Ripon at Cowes j last summer had quite an accomplished , girl ia her service, and I should think such a life much preferable to that of a preceptress, who in the social scale is somewhat in the position of Ma homet's coffin in the cave of Mecca Coating between earth and Heaven? j tin; servants' hall and her mistress' drawing-room.*' "Lady Scarborough," Miss Balder stone said, rising us she spoke, "if the ; governess of your own children ever enters the heaven of her mistress' . drawing-room I am afraid she will l>e disappointed with her glimpse of para dise." And having fired this broadside, the j ! plucky little woman took hordeparturo, : not even waiting for the scarlct-plushcd ! ! flunky to show he* the way to her car "iu^e. ; ? _ : CHAPTER II. i miss HAT.nEasToxi: makes a msrovxnY. j of course in a high-class establish* ) nient like Miss BaMerstone'sthere were no vulgar displays at the end of the half y<-ar, no dross-parade of the pupils, , no commencement day?the school quietly dissolved without fuss or frolic, and when the last "fly" had carried away its load of happy girls, the mis tress usually attended to the packing of her own trunks and hied herself away to the seaside or on a tour of foreign travel. Tlii- half-year the accustomed pro gramme was to be followed, but she found herself making her preparations to depart witljr but half the usual elas ticity of spirits which gladdened her heart on the eve of a vacation. The fact was a sweet girl-face, pale and tear-stained, perpetually haunted her/ True, she had done her best to relieve the poor child's sorrow, even to the ex tent of engaging rooms for her and Mile. Helene Campignon, the French governess, in a pretty farmhouse on the banks of the Thames near Chertsey, but mademoiselle was on the 6hady side of fifty years of age, and she felt that the young girl needed the conso-* lation of a younger and more sympa? thetic companion; so her generous nature almost drove her to give up her trip at the eleventh hour. Thus unde- i cided,she sought Kate Grahame's cham- i ber. She had a double motive for the interview, for the afternoon's post had brought the girl two letters, one from India and one addressed in the angular, Italian hand-writing of Miss Ilonoria, and she naturally expected that her ad advice concerning at least one of these missives would be acceptable. "May I come in, dear?" she said, tap ping lightly at the room door. "Oh, please, dear Miss Balderstone, I am so glad you are here!" It was easy to tell how the girl's time had been occupied, for on the table at which she had been seated was a toy easel on which rested the photograph of a military officer, while around it were scattered a number of open letters, she had evidently been reading. "Js that Sir Harry's portrait?" Miss Balderstone asked. "What a noble face!" "Noble! Ah, madam, you know not how noble. So pure in heart, so con siderate of others, so brave and gen erous?a perfect paladin of truth and chivalry. Yes, that is the likeness of Sir Harry Grahame," was the girl's re sponse, her eyes flashing a glowing tribute to her dead friend's memory. "You were young when he took you under his protection, were you not, Ka'-?" "A mere baby. I have no recollec tion of the scene, but I have heard that he rescued me from the stronghold of a native prince at the point of his sword, winning his way with me in his arms through a host of enemies." "A knightly deed, in truth. And then, Kate, as I understand it, he brought you up as his own child." "He did. For a time I lived in charge of an Ayah in his own bungalow, the pet of the regiment, and when I was ten years old he sent me to a boarding school at Calcutta, where I remained for nearly six years; then?ah! shall I ever forget the day?he came one morn ing and told me that I must come to England, for his sister had promised to be a mother to me and the climate was not good for me. That?was?the?very last?time?I?saw?him!" Sobs choked her utterance. "And those letters?are they all his?" "Yes, except this one which I received an hour ago from Miss Grahame. Please read it." Miss Balderstone glanced over the let ter the girl handed to her. She was, I believe, take her for all in all, as shari table a woman as you could find, but I am afraid it was in no spirit of Christian meekness that she read Miss Honoria's communication. "Deak Kate: I Inclose a chock on Drum mond'h bank for twenty pounds. This must be considered as closing our interest In your af fairs. Lady Scarborough, however, suggests, and I hearlly indorse the proposition, that it would bo a mark of good taste if you were to adopt some other name than Grahame, which, with Miss Haiders tone's connivance, you can very readily do; and in case you are willing to accede to this vory reasonable request, a fur ther sum of fifty pounds will be placed at yom> disposal. Very truly yours, "hoxobia Gbahamb." "Sit down this moment, Kate, and answer this insulting proposition," Miss Balderstone insisted. "There, are you ready? Now, begin." "Miss Kate Grahame returns Miss Grahame's check and declines any further correspondence." "But, dear Miss Balderstone/' Kate pleaded, but, nevertheless, writing as she was bidden, "yon forget that she is Sir Harry's sister, and that it ill-be comes one who owes so much to the family to show such temper." "Temper, child! Do you mean to ac cuse me of temper? When did you ever know me in a temper? I never Was calmer in my life, and-?I should just like to box that woman's ears. Tell me one thing?do ycu wish to act with the spirit of independence that Sir Harry would approve of? You do? Then send that letter.' So the check was inclosed and the let-, ter mailed. But there was another letter to dis cuss?the one from India. "I do not like to pry into your affairs, my lore," the schoolmistress said; "but did you not receive a communication from India to-day?" "Ah, yes! here it is. And to think that the hand whieh wrote it is cold in death. It is from him, dear friend, and comes to me as a voice from the grave. Will you read it, too?" "What a charming epistle, it is! Oh, Kate, you have indeed lost a friend in this man," Miss Balderstone ejaculated, as her eye ran hastily over graphic de scriptions of life in an Indian village, amusing gossip concerning mutual ac quaintances, and occasional words of tender solicitude and gentle admoni tions, with here and there a clever pen-, and-tnk sketch of some grotesque figure. But In the very midst of reading, Miss Balderstone made a dead pause, looked for a moment with a puzzled ex pression at the page before her, and burst out with a little cry of surprise. "Why, Kate, child, the date! Quick, give me Honoria Grahame's first letter to you. Ali, 1 thought so. This is indeed the strangest thing I ever saw." "Oh. what is it?" Kate cried, with feverish anxiety, as the schoolmistress paused in her hurried ejaculations and sat gazing with a blank look at the two letters before her. "Am I out of my senses, Kate Grahame, or docs that, woman really write that Sir Harry died at Kistmira on the I'th of January?*' "She certainly does say so," the girl replied, with found, wondering eyes. "And this letter of his is dated the tenth of the bume month. Give me the envelope that I may see the postmark. Thank you, my love; but I am afraid this is not of much help to us, for the earliest stamp upon it is that of the post office at Hyderabad, dated January 21, and vre must make allowance for its coming- down the mountains probably by native carrier." j "Perhaps he misdated his letter,** ? Kate said, white with suppressed ex I cite ment, "or, Miss Grahame may have made a mistake." "He may; but the letter could riot have been written long before his death, and you see that he says nothing about his illness. Do you know if junglo fever is a protracted or quickly con suming disease, Kate?" "Oh, yes; it prostrates men very sud denly and they often die in a few days, but if they manage to get to the pure air of the mountains they generally re* cover. * Which Sir Harry did; that b a con fessed fact. ?s for Honoria Grahame making a mistake, we can soon set that at rest, for th? Illustrated London News has a long obituary notice and there would be no blunder there." And the ladies found in the columns of that popular journal a full corrobora tion of Miss Grahame's statement that "this distinguished officer breathed his last at Kistmun on the 9th of January.*1 "My dear," said Miss Balderstone, MI do not think I shall go to Brighton to day i** [to be continued ] For Free Banks. A Movement in Congress to Abolish the Discriminating Tax. New York Evening Post. There is now a movement seriously on foot in Congress to abolish the discriminating tax on State bank notes. This movement was eure to start simultaneously with the defeat of the silver movement. It is confined r.o the Southern States, but is has elements of growth which most be briefly noticed before considering the merits of the plan. It is so long since we have seen any State baulk notes that we are accustomed now to consider them as something unlawful and akin to coun terfeiting. Yet if the 10 per cent Federal tax were repealed, the whole machinery for issuing, regulating and redeemiug such Dotes would be found on the New York statute book, ready made, and we presume that similar machinery disused but not abolished, would be found in the other older States. State tank notes would come into existence by a natural process without tny new legislation. In New York the security of our own State bonds, or of United States bonds, is required for circulation notes. The State bonds having all disappeared from the market, on=y United State bonds could be used,but since notes could be is sued on those up to their par value in stead of 90 per cent thereof (as under the national bank act),i; would be worth while to buy them for State bank issues. In short, all the apparatus exists for transforming the currency system of the country by means of a bill of not more than five lines repealing that discriminating tax. And as to this repeal the advocates of it say, with a good deal of force, that the exercise of the Federal tailing power, not to raise revenue, but to kill off a legitimate vocation?one declared to be suoh by the highest tribunal in the land?is a perversion and stretch of that power which do number of ^repetitions can justify. This movement has its most active supporters in the South, where the silver movement is the strongest. In that quarter it is an alternative to free coiuage. It would be possible polit ically to take every Southern State out of the silver category by offering State bank notes instead thereof, and while we cannot as yet give our support to the plan, we can say nevertheless that as between free silver and free backing we prefer the latter. There is an idea prevailing in the rnral South that there is a shortage of money in the country. This idea is fixed and widespread, and there is no use arguing about it. It is this idea that has made so many and such determined advocates of the free coinage of silver there. It is the same idea that gave birth to [the wild sub-treasury plan: Anything which shall, in the minds of the peuple, serve as a substi tute for free silver aud sub-treasury will kill both of these heresies with one stone. A system of State bank note issues, is, upon the face of things a more speedy and effectual means of providing a new supply of money than either of the other plans We say 'upon the face of things," because in reality, if the notes wero properly secured, the facilities f)r providing new supplies of money would be little if any greater than ? hey are under the na ti rial banking system, The time is approaching, and it may be nearer than many of us think, when the banking system must be taken up and settled. There is a gradua! shrinkage of national bank notes going on in obedience to well known causes The vacuum is being fiilod with what Secretary Foster calls ' silver behind'7 ?with p;ipcr which is really Govern ment obligatton'?, like greenbacks, except that they have an apparent [backing of silvtr bullion, which is of ! no more financial importance than the j backing of fircbiick with which the j treasury vaults are lined. The ques ! tion, we say, must come up for decision 'soon whether thJa wretched system ! extorted from the fears of the Kepub j lican party while the force btll was ? pending two ycar.s ago, shall continue, or some substitute shall be found tor if. Unsettled questions have no piy for the repose of nations,*' ami here is one j that will keep vexing us till it is taken ! up :ind thrashed out by healthy and sufficient, discussion, and decided. As , our readers know, wj consider the ! present national blinking system the best for our purpose that has ever been ! di vised by the wit of man, although , the ri is j res.-ing need of a new basis j of security f? r circulating notes. We shou'-d be sorry to sec it superseded or even flanked by a system of State bank Isaacs. But things cm not stand still, i Something must be done soon in accord with human in tel lige; c;, er something ' will happen in spite thereof. It car; le said with truth hit -the State batiks of ? the Son-h and K?s* in the olden time ; were generally go: d, and it can be said with probable ttuiu that uo Very bad ! banking like the wild cat and red-dog ( currency of the West would now be I possible ?O aoy part of the country. The Conservative Democrats are Always Committing Some Blunder. The Columbia Rcg'ster and the Green ville Evening Democrat, both Tilltnan I orgao8, are indignant, at the action of a Georgia printer named Fowler, who su? d the Democrat for $82 which he claimed was dae him for services in the office. Payment being refused he sued ( and obtained judgment for the amount The trial justice seized some of the I material of the office one day last week, which seizure prevented its publication one afternoon. After the seizure arrangements were affected whereby the material was restored to the office, when the paper resumed publication as usual. In noticing the affair the beading consist ed, in part, as follows : "Law Prostitued?Dastardly Outrage Perpetrated?An Effort to Sup press the Democrat?The Demo crat is Here to Stay?Partisan Decision of Trial Justice Davis." Among other things the Democrat makes the following reference to the Conservative element of (he Democratic party, and pots the blame where it belongs?on the ''opposition," ?in stead of doing as some would have done, on the Brother Georgia printer who seemed unseemly determined to have pay for his services. "Yesterday in Greenville was per petrated one of the most damnable prostitutions of justice aod the laws of Sou!h Carolina ever perpetrated on a free people. "Carried by the violence of their prejudices and their satanic hatred of this paper, men rode rou^h shod over law and justice, and while we cannot reach the men who promp'ed their action, we purpose punishing the tools that the?e men used, and yesterday a damage mit was filed against W. A. Fowler, Ezel Thaxtou and others for $10,000 for trespass aod illegal proceedings, and if there is still justice in the Courts of South Carolina these men will suffer. "The opposition in their anxiety to make The Democrat a failure, have resorted to tricks, lies, and underhand methods without numbar ; but we never expected a plain violation of the statutes to prevent one issue from going to the people. "Such vile warefare as this ill be comes men who claim to be working for | "peace and unity,7' aod will prove the most powerful boomerang. None but a j contemptible scoundrel would suggest or carry out such means as this to fight a man or paper who fights its battles above board aod ^openly, and the condemnation of every true and honest man will be placed upon such methods "Trial Justice Davis bas proved himself a violent partisan and willing tool in the hands of any irresponsible party to harrass and suppress The Democrat. He placed the attachment in the hands of an irresponsible minor for execution, and armed by the sem blance of authority, took ?hat these men pointed out as material that would prevent the publication of the paper. We offered them, as security, articles worth many times the value of tbeir claim, but these were refused and small articles taken by force that amounted to bat little in real value, but without which the paper could not be pub lished." Now, we submit that the enforcement of a judgment against a Tillman org; d is a gross outrage, which should not be tolerated for an instant. The trial justice which gave the judgment ought to be removed frooi office, aod the plaintiff printer should be lynched ou si^bt. If this thing of requiring Tillmao organs to pay their debts is to go on there is no telling how many of them may be troubled by ill-mannered credi tors. The Conservatives bave done many foolish things, and have committed a thousand political blunders, but nothing surpasses this attempt of the Georgia printer to compel a Tillraanite to pay hie debts. Of course the Conservative Democrats are to blame for all this trouble. No doubt they secretly en couraged the printer to come bere from Georgia to work for the Democrat, and then refused to patronize the Democrat. Hence the inability or unwillingness of the effice to settle the debt. This being a serious matter which may imperil the peace and dignity of the State we suggest that the Governor revoke the commission to Trial Justice Davis, and that he appoint some true and tried Tillmanite to the office who will see that neither Georgia printers i ! nor local enditors may disturb the pub- j lication of that model paper?the Demo crat. Further, as a matter of precaution, we would suggest that the Governor order the militia to sleep on their arms, with three days rations io their haver sacks, ready to march against any Conservative win may be wicked enough to demand the payment of any debt which may be owing by a Tillmau ite paper. This thing of making Tillmanite papers pay ?heir debts must be stopped. The Convention was derelict iu its duty io not delaring a resolution or two on the subject.?Press and Banner. They Read the Alphabet in His Eyes Fort Worth. Tcx., May 26 ?A fteak of nature has come to light in the County jail. His name is ..'esse Lee, a^od IS years. Turn the boy's face so that a s'r.uig light may shine into his j eyes and a phenomenon is seen. i Abound the pupils of the eyes, in the iris, arc the twenty-six letters of the j alphabet, arranged symmetrically | j Tnere are thirteen letters in each eye, j j those up to "31" being in the left eye I and the remaining ones in the rigiit Lee, his father, and four brothers are ; similarly affected. ? I? ? ! The dan age done by the Moods io the Western rivers is estimated at thir ty tw> million dollar*, and yet Gen. Dvretiforth wants Congress to give him $oO,IHK) to bring down raiu while he has not provided any stopper attach ment. Irby Carries a Oorj *Too;: Jfewberry Observer, ilefal). * Senator Irby spent three bonne tft New berry on Thursday 00 bts rptvt^Jo Laurens from the State conve&tion. While talking with some friends ici town he drew from his hip pocket a finer pistol, which he displayed with evident pride and satisfaction, remarking that it "never hang* 6re.'r In the mean* time a policeman approached, all rwcoa scions of the senator's presence, and saw the pistol and saw the senator slip it back into his hip pocket The police man was inclined to think be ougbt to arrest the senator for carrying a con cealed weapon, eontrary to law, hst cfc* cided not to do it. Bat isn't it 3 sorry spectacle far f United States senator?the successor of the gallant and noble Hampton?to b* travelling over the eonutry with a pistol in bis pocket ? Newberry Observer, ?exf??orTs T}. Last July Superintendent Talberr at tended a political meeting at Prosperity with a pistOf concealed in h?a pocket. It has been several times asserted pub licly, and has not ben denied, that Attorney General MeLaarin attendee! the political meeting at Greenville thv 16th of April with a pistol eoaefcaled in his pocket. Commenting 00 this, the Marion Star truthfully remarks : "It looks pretty steep to send s peer negro to the penitentiary to peck rock for siz months for being found carrying around a worthless old pot-iron pistol upon bis perso?, while State officiais are travelling around to political meet ings with revolvers earried concealed ift their pockets." -? *>* ?<?? Judge Kershaw's Illness. The illness of Judge Kersbaw, which developed recently at Beaufort jaat after the opening of the spring term, has for a time nnfitted him from service on the bench. The Judge's physician ordered him to cease all work or bis health would be logt, and Tuesday n?ght he was brought to this city under the care of the physi cian and friends. After spending the night in the eity and renting, he was yesterday taken through to bis borne io Camden. Judge K er s haw's condition being brought to the attention of tbe Stats Supreme Court, tbe Chief Justice yes* terday assigned others of tbe Circuit Judges to attend to his work. Judge Aldrich was assigned to bold tbe court at Beaufort. Judge Izlar at Aiken on June 20, Judge Hudson at Hampton commencing June 13, and Judge With* erspoon at Barn well on July 11. This will give the .sick Judge ample time to recover his health, and thou* sands of friends and admirers hope that be will do so ?State June 2. Tbe campaign of education is fairly opened. Light has flashed forth from Newberry county. Monday morning Col. Ellison S. Keitt, tbe county leader of the Third party, went to Newberry. Dr. Samson Pope assailed him with s light walking stick, breaking it over bis head, Keitt made no resistance but said : "You are beneath my con tempt." Tbe Mayor fined Pope $10.00 and released Keitt. Tbe cause of the attack was a .charge made by Keil on Pope's courage during tbe war. He intimated that Pope deserted bis con* pany in the first fight and took refuge under a hospital flag during tbe war. Let tbe work of educe tion proceed.? Carolina Spartan. It has beeu publicly charged that Senator Irby, Attorney General Me* Laurie and Superintendent Talbert hab itually carry pistols, and one correspon dent said that Col. John C. Haskelt had a pistol in his pocket while attend* iug the State convention. If tbe char ges are true t bey should each be prose cuted without regard to their politics* The first passenger train on the Wil son 'short cut* was run May 31st, from Florence to Wilson, leaving Florence in the morning and making connection at Wilson with a train going North. This route shortens tbe distance from Florence to Weldon about sixty-fire miles. People living 00 tbe line of this road arc very much pleased with the new route ? ? ?1 ?? ? Electric Bitter?. 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