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LY PURS
The Desperate Strait of a
Desperate Leaden
Noah, Ga., Oct. 18, 1892.
Watson is getting desperate. There
were agont 700 or 800 Third Party
men and women present at Stella'" "!le ;
about one third of the crowd was from
Burke County. His speech was very
incendiary. He told his followers that
they mast elect him at all hazards ; that
the whites must sharpen up their knives
and arm t-he colored people and carry
them to the polls. If a Democrat
comes in between to ose bim up and
see that no one intimidates them.
They are making the negroes take
solemn obligations to supprt Watson.
He said in the winding up of bis
speech that Black and Boykiu Wright
met with the Republican Executive
Committee of Augusta and bought them
up and bribed them to support their
ticket.
The above letter was published in the
Augusta Chronicle of the 19;h instant,
and the following editoral comment was
made in the same issue.
The Chronicle publishes this morn
ing a communication from a respectable
and reliable citizen of Jefferson County
who was present at Mr. Watson's
speech, and says he beard bim use the
incendiary lauguage ascribed to him.
Mr. Watson must be besides himself.
What intelligent man, in his right man,
would advise the sharpening of knives,
and procuring of weapons and arming
of negroes for an election? We are
free to ooufess that if this language was
brought to us simply as hearsay we
would not believe it. We cannot con
ceive how any sane man would give
such despicable and dangerous advice
to his followers. Such a reckless policy
as Mr. Watson advocates would defeat
any party in the world, and Mr. Wat
son must have temporarily lost his
reason to employ such incendiary
speech. Does he want to make the
next election day one of carnage and
strife 'I Mr. Watson has lived among
this people long enough to know that
they are not to be intimidated by such
threats or advice as he gives, and his
words are absolutely criminal in their
dangerous import. We hope that there
may yet be shown to be some misunder
standing on the part of our correspond
ent, and that Mr Watson has not ab
solutely forfeited all claim to good cit
izenship, and entered upon a campaign
of utter recklessness, regardless of conse
quences to himself and fellow-citizens.
The Manifesto of the Third
Party,
Columbia, S. C , October 19.?At
last! The long expected and much
discussed Third Party address has
t een given the press for. as wide
circulation as possible. The paper
is uot as full of surprises as was ex
pected. The authorship of the paper
is, of course, attributable to Managing
Editor Bowdeiij and iiis uncalled for
insinuations about 6rover Cleveland
are not unusual. The paper has gone
through several m\\}a, and as pre
sented to day is about as much
amended as an extraordinary legisla
tive bill. The revised edition of She
address reads as follows:
To the Voters of South Carolina:
The closing years of the nineteenth
century seem destined to be the most
fateful of our country's history; we
might say of the world, for the lowly
and opptessed in every land have
their eye fixed on Ameiica as the
battleground where the last great
fight for human liberty is to take
place. Feat fui forces of an tagonistic
elements are ibeing centred here, but
ajustGodhas never yet mocked an
individual or a nation by imposing a
task that cannot be performed if met
iu a proper spirit. The oldtime nicely
balanced relations and well-nigh even
strength that once existed between
labor and capital are no more, for
while one has shrunk to a pigmy, the
other has grown to a giant. Then
autocratic kings gianted monopolies
to their favorities, it taxed their des
potic authority to the utmost to de
tend them against the competition of
surreptitious traders; while under our
new commercial regime mighty mo
nopolies are crea'ed that not only
crush all rivalry with ease, but domi
nate the Government when theii sel
fish inteieRts are concerned
The curse of our land is partisan
politics. It is time for us to vote for
our best interests. The wily politi
cian, by playing upon sectional and
race pr?judice, keeps the solid North
and the solid South. Every year in
Congress the battles or the war are
fought over and over, while issues of
the utmost importance to the welfare
of our people are overlooked or lightly
dealt with.
We cannot long remain indifferent
to the conditions that confront us
The volume of money has been con
tracted until business is paralyzed
and the price of the products of labor
has been reduced below the cost of
production.
The conspiracy of foreign capitalists
to control American labor by controll
ing the volume ot money has been
successful. Corporations, wielding
the power of aggregated t apital, con
trol the Government and so dirert !
our finances that ail save a bare ex j
istence is denied the producers of all j
wealth.
Both Democratic and Republican
parties, nationally, are controlled by
the same influence.
The judiciary has become the bul
wark of this formidable and growing :
power, which, uuless checked, will
be the destruction of the Democratic ,
principles in government.
Thomas Cailyle said many years
ago that we would have our period ot
trial "when health is intact, crops
abundant and th> magnificent land
open. Then so-called statesman will
cry 'over production;' and then the
man of the ballot, the self reliant, the
self pliant, will go to the ballot box,
amidst hunger and destitution, (but
surrounded by the glitter of self
rule,) and ratify by his ballot the
monstrous falsehoods ottered by mis
state-men. and vindicate by the same
ballot the infamous lie thrown upon
the breezes by a senile editor through
a corrupt press, thus bringing ruin
upon his country aud serfdom upon
himself"
This period is upon us. Reformers
of South Carolina, will we ratify by
our ballots a system that we know to
be wrong and that is bringing ruin
upon our country and serfdom upon
us and our children ? Let us file our
protest in the sacred form of a free
man's balot.
Our demands have been either
ignored or sl.amessly trifled with by
both parties. The fate of the silver
bill in a Democratic House is the last
act of treachery.
The day for sentimental politics
has passed. Sentimental politics has
cost this country rivers of blood and
billions of treasure. The sentimental
politician is a fraud, a snare and a
delusion. Practical politics and com
mon sense is the need of the hour.
Why should we vote fvT Grover
Cleveland for a mere sentiment ? Our
State Convention in May declared
that the nomination of Grover Cleve
land would be *'a prostitution of the
principles of Democracy, a repudia
tion of the demands of the Alliance,
and a surrender of the rights of the
people to the financial kings of the
country.*' lie is not the choice of
our people. Is the party lash to be
again cracks to force us into line ?
?8 it sentimental or practical politics
that is to govern ? Will we vote for
a man whose policy is totally opposed
to our best interests ? Grover Cleve
land represents Wall street and
monopolistic power.
Weaver and Field represent the
farmer and the laborer. The princi
ples involved are the same that our
people have endorsed in State politics,
and their support is the logical result
of the decision of the people of South
Carolina as expressed in the May
Convention.
We shall abide the verdict of the
people as expressed in the recent
primary upon State issues and Con
gressional candidates, and will give
the nominees our cordial support, but
we are in no manner bound by that
action to violate our obligation to
only support men who are in favor of
our demands.
Citizens, farmer*, laborers, brethren
?ye who live by the sweat of honest
toil?think well, cast your ballots,
freighted with the destinies of
generations yet unborn, for the man
of your choice. Let the politicians
and the plutocratic press rave, but
carefully consider the qeestion aud
vote for the ticket which best
represents your interests. This is
duo to your God, your country, your
childreu.
Be not discouraged by the apparent
defeat of the People's cause in recent
elections, as it is well known that our
political enemies having the election
machinery in their hands, encouraged
the vilest corruption at the ballotbox
to defeat the principles we advocate.
The cause that we maintain lives in
the hearts of the toiling millions, and
when we force from our adversaries a
free ballot and a fair count victory
will perch upon the banner of "equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none."
THE WEAVER ELECTORS.
In supp?tt of Weaver and Field for
President and Vice President we sub
mit the following ticket of electors :
Delegates at JLarge?Jos L. Keitt,
Newberry ; J, YV. Bowden, Anderson
First District?P. I. Raw!, Lexing
ton.
Second District?W. II. Duncan,
Barnwell.
Third District?W. A. Hamilton,
Pickens.
Four! h District?R. B. Ligon,
Greenville.
Fifth District?W. W. McEIwee,
Chesterfield.
Sixth District?J. J. Lane, Marl
boro,
Seventh District?B. II. Taylor,
Berkeley.
Sigoedj: B. J. Johnston, J. E.
Bonoughs, W. A. Thomas, W. T.
Field, S. T. Looper, J. T. Boggs, A.
Zimmerman. J. A. Johns, J. C.
Neville, G. ' W. Kay, J. B. Sanders,
John M. Gillison, A. II Ellison, J.
B. Dyer. W. T. McAlister, W. T.
Dickerson, J. J*. Johnson, S. C.
Major, J. S. Napier G. M. Pack, D.
S. John, G. 0. Welbom, F. A. Dan
iels, J. W. Graham, John F. Banks,
W. P. Lester, J. R Peden, W. B.
McLaurin, Benj. Ilalfacre and others.
?News and Courier.
A Fuse That Didn't Fuse. I
An Atlanta dispatch announces that
the plao to fuse the Third Party and
the Republican electoral ?ickefs in Geor
gia has fizzeld out because the Repub
licans were not willing to divide equally.
That State its entitled to twelve elec
tors The proposition was for six of the
Republican electors to withdraw, their
places to be supplied with six names
from the so-called Peoidera party The
p p. manipulators were willing, but the
other fellows were not., for they couldn't
see why they should make an even di
vide with a party which couldn't cast a
hatful of votes. Don't this show the ani
mus that inspires the Third party lea
ders in the South, that they dou't ex
pect to elect Weaver, and that they are
willing to combine wish anything and
everything to defeat the Democracy?
They have fused with the Republicans i
in Alabama and in Mississippi, although !
the only effect of the fusion, if sueccs- j
fui, would be to give Harrison and Held j
half of the electoral vote of those States
and thus help elect Harrison and Reid,
while the votes they would get by the j
dicker wouldn't do them a particle of
good, for their candidates stand no more j
chance of being elected than they do of
being translated to paradise with their
boots on. i
These fusions win amount ro notmug
! for the white people of those States
j understand the racket, but it shows up
: the Third party tricksters who are
j putting up the jobs and shows in whofe
interest they aie working. Toey are
working for the men who furnish the
money to |run the nefarious business
in which they are engaged?Wilming
ton Star.
The Bloody Shirt.
The following article from the Au
gusta Chronicle applies not to the voters
of Georgia alone but to those of the
whole South.
There is always a good deal of talk at
the north in election years about south
ern intolerance and waving the bloody
shirt on the part of the south. They
abuse the solid south and declare that it
is evident that we are still implacable
in our feelings against the north. Par
ties in the north who affect this belief
may find where the sectional hatred
really exists by reading the following
u i te ran ces:
"I don't give rebels in the south
vouchers. I would rather furnish rope
to hang every d?u one of them."?
General James B. Weaver, People's
party candidate for President.
4lI have washed my hands of tb'
south," the president added with c* .
siderable temper "It is a lano *f
rebels and traitors who care nothin?
for the sanctity of the the ballot, and
I will never be in favor of making an
active campaign down there until we
can place bayonets at the polls. I am
now more than ever in favor of ram
ming a force bill down their throats."
?Benjamin Harrison, republican can
didate for President.
If the democrats had never been al
lowed to gain control of the t?te gov
ernments of the South, Northern capital
would never have embarked iu the
development of Southers coal and iron;
and the surest and speediest way to put
a stop to this competition from men who
are our political enemies, as well as our
commen?ai rivals, is tc carry through
and enforce measures like the Lodge
election law. They won't like it, and
some of them will be fools enough to
make trouble about it; and if we can
once more get them into the condition
they were before 1876, we won't hear
any more about cheap iron and cheap
cotton goods from the South. They
wiil have other things to think about.
?Charles Emory Smith. Republican
Minister to Russia, and Editor of the
Philadelphia Press.
Is it any wonder that in the face of
such maievolenoe the South is banded
together for common protection, and
that our people support the democratic
party of home rule. As long as the
South is regarded in the light of the
utterances quoted above our people
cannot afford to divide, and again we
remind our Georgia farmers that every
vote against the democratic ticket is in
favor of republican domination. The
third party amounts to nothing at all,
and every Georgian who votes for
Weaver is in reality voting against
Cleveland, and therefore, for Harrison.
Let the South continue solidly demo
cratic until that generation of men at
tl^ North has passed away who regard
t he' South as an enemy, and not as a
section of common country entitled to
equal privileges and equal representa
tion and trust.
The Lien Law.
A great deal has been said, frons
time to time, about the repeal of the
lien law. Different views arc enter
tained on the subject of its iepeal,
some advocating, while others oppose.
And there are doubtless cogent
reasons both for and against its
repeal ; but at present, as we see it,
the preponderance is in favor of the
law.
The repeal of what is known as the
"Agricultural Lien Law" would not
affect the credit business, 60 long as
the law regulating chattel mortgages
remains as it is. Instead of execut
ing a lien, the person applying for
credit would be required to give a
mortgage on his prospective crop.
What would be the result ? Why,
simply to put the lienor more com
pletely at the mercy of his creditor by
taking away from the impartial
officers of the law the enforcement cf
the lien upon a breach of its condition
and subject his hard earnings to
seizure by irresponsible agents,
privately appointed by the mortgagee,
who, too, in many instances, might
be financially irresponsible. At pr?s
eut, when the iienee attempts to
enforce his lien, he is required to
give bond with good sureties to
answer to the lienor for all damages
caused by ati illegal seizure.
But there is another and stronger
reason for the continuance of the law
at the present time. So long as our j
homestead and exemption law inhib
its the levy of ?1,000 worth of land
and $500 of personal property, the
repeal of the lieu law, involving the
necessary change in the chattel mort j
gage law above indicated to make it j
effective, would practically amount
to denying credit to a largo part of
our tillers of the soil. The repeal
would reduce them to the condition
of day laborers for hire and compel
them to become hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the well to-do.
When the change is made, let it be j
accompanied by the abolition of our
homestead and exemption laws thus
placing every man on an equal foot- j
ing in the matter of credit.
Let us recur to the law which
prevailed prior to the war, when any
and all property owned by a debUr
can be levied and sold for payment
of his debts. When this step is
taken, then, and not till then, should
the poor man be deprived of the
means of credit. Do not cry out
against the law because, in some j
instances, it may be abused by the
thriftless and trilling The worthy
poor should not be made to suffer for
the shortcomings of the profligate.
Credit to some may be a curse, but to
thousands it is a necessity and a
blessing.?Keowee Courier.
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Two hundred women are practicing j
law or editing le^.al publications in j
America. '
jLTirect xraae .oeiween jrorr.
Royal and Europe
Mr. D. Steinmann-Haghe and wife,
of Antwerp, and Mr. Karnest Bigland,
of London, were iu the city yesterday,
accompanied by Mr. Pat Calhoun.
Mr. Steinmaon and Mr. Bigland are
interested in large steamship lines in
their respective cities and came directly
here for the purpose of investigating the
advantages of Port lloyal with a view to
establishing a line of steamers from that
port Autwerp and Liverpool.
These gentlemen have had their eye
on Port TNoyal for a number of years.
They bave recognized the peculiar
advantages which that port offers for
direct trade. They are men of means
aud if, upon investigation, they are
convinced of the advisability of estab
lishing direct trade with Europe, the
steamers will be put on within twelve
mouths. The vessels are already being
built and are 4,000 tons each.
There is no doubt that they will be
used in commerce with some American
port, and there is a strong probability
that that port will be Port Royal.
The party arrived in Augusta from
New York on Sunday night
They were entertained, together with
Augusta friends by Hon, Patrick Walsh
yesterday at lunch and in the afternoon
drove around the city and over in North
Augusta.
They expressed themselves as much
pleased with the Electric city and its
charming suburbs.
Mr. aud Mrs Stein mann,Mr. Bigland,
Mr. Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. P. Walsh
and Col. T. P Branch went down to
Port Royal yesterday afternoon.
The party will spend today looking
around Port Royal and will return
tonight.
Messrs. Steinmann and Bigland are
already interested in a line of steamers
which sail between Cuba and Antwerp
and Liverpool.
The vessels at present are chartered,
but they are building boats of their own
for use in a transatlantic service.
It would be difficult to overestimate
the benefit which would arise from
direct trade between Port Royal and
Europe. Cotton and fertilizers would
fiad a direct outlet from the south, and
products from the west might be deflect
ed from their present course aud ship
ped to Europe by way of Augusta and
Port Roval.
This is a matter which has been in
contemplation for a long time. It is a
well known fact that Port Royal is one
of the finest natural harbors on the
Atlantic coast, and the advantages
which would occur to that city and
Augusta, not to speak of the railroad
system leading there which would pro
portionately prosper, is incalculable.
The above gentlemen are thorough
business men. They have come all the
way across the waters for the purpose of
investigating this matter. They are in
dead earnest, and it is not improbable
that by November of next year there
may be a steamer every three weeks
from Port Royal to Liverpool and
Antwerp.? Augusta Chronicle.
*s- -
Six Cent Cotton Better Than
Twelve Cent Cotton.
Some time ago a two horse tenant
said : "I tell you, I believe that 6-cent
cotton is better for the farmer than 12
cent cotton."
We asked him to explain himself.
He said :
"You see when cotton is 12 costs the
farmer, especially if he is a poor sort
of one, will plant all of his best ground
iu cotton. He will put the poor edgfs
in corn and not manure it and if he is
pushed, as he always is with a big
cotton crop, be will neglect his corn
crop. When fall comes it takes all of
his 12 cent cottou to pay for guano,
clothing and supplies. The first of
January finds him with about corn
enough to last till the first of March, a
few half-starved cattle around the lot, a
sack of western fl ?ur iu the pantry and
a little piece of white western meat
hanging up in the kitchen. When
cotton is six cents, if the farmer hasany
sense at ail. he will raise corn, sorghum
syrup potatoes, oats, wheat, hay, fodder
and garden truck iu abundance with
some to spare. When his 6-cent cotton
is gathered and his guano bill paid, the
balance of the money is clear. He can
then lay in clothing, sugar, coffee and
farming utensils for another year and
be independent of lieus and mortga
ges "
Do the farmers who read the Spar
tan agree with this tenant ? Do they
believe he is correct iu his conclusions?
He has surplus syrup to hire forty
days hoeing next summer. His
surplus corn will help buy clothing
sugar and coffee
Now if you incline to the opinion that
it is better to raise your supplies than
buy them, or do without, begin at ouce
to plan for your small graiu crop.
Oats, especially the hardy varieties
may be sown up to first of November
Sow for an abundant wheat crop.
Raise everything y??u need Do not
depend <>n the store for everything. Be
indepr udent and self supporting and
then you will prosper.?Carolina Spar
tan.
Stop Your Foolisness.
We regret to see that the anti-Hill
tuen in New York are so unwise as to
still talk of a ticket against Tammany
candidates That would be a tnonu- !
mental piece of folly that would be
simply criminal and against the inter
ests of the whole country. We con
demned Hill's mid-winter, untimely i I
snap convention and we are more earn- |i
est now iu c;>ad?muiog any purpose ^ 1
or plan whatever to pot out an auti- [
Tammany ticket in a contest like the I c
present. It would be an act of poli ical
suicide without a semblance of justifi'
cation. )ir. Grace, who is foibtcriu?
such a movement, has given with others j r
$100,000 to the campaign fond. But j t
we would much rather see him withhold ; \
his candidates ami abandon his uuwise is
plans than to see him give his money
New York is probably agaiu a pivotal
State and its oG votes may be positively
needed to elect Mr Clevelaud.
Another ticket, will lose the Stato and t
cause all manner of swapping as was | c
the case 1S88, by which Cleveland was j s
defeated in New York s.ud iu the couu- i
try at large. Mr. Croker, the lani
jany leader, is setting an honorable
and excellent example. He is putting
Cleveland above all tickets, and declines
to aocept money to help from any Tam
many adherent who is not for the Na
tional ticket. That is wise; loyal and
honest. Let the anti-Hill men stop
their foolishness and meanness This is
no time for practicing hara-kiri upon
the party.?Wilmington Messenger.
Where the Campaign Pauses.
We are a good people, we people of
tliis United States of America. We
are a good people with all our fool
ishness and rascality aud blackguard
ism and alternations of moral frivolity
and ferocity?a good, kindly, brave
people, with our hearts iii life right
place.
We are Hearing the end of a carrf
paign preceding a general election
which is to decide between two great
political parties the control of the
country for four years. Most of us
are deeply interested, for we are
natural patisans and politicians aud
have direct interests at stake. Yet
it is beautiful to see how the public
feeling softens, how the roar of the
big struggle is silenced, how the
fiercest and most eager of the combat
ants drop their arms and tread gently
about the bedside of the woman who
lies dying in the white house.
We can and do cease to be demo
crats or republicans, ins or orts, foes
or friends of the administration, and
become just people?men and women
sympathizing with our whole hearts
with the man and woman who are
together in the valley of death, th?
one moving hour by hour toward the
impenetrable mists beyond, the other
to be left in the awful shadow. That
is a noble capability for any people to
have.
We are glad Mr. Cleveland, for the
reasons he give3,declined to go to Chi
cago, lie does not look like a knight
of Richard's day or a cavalier of
Charles', but he has the fine chivalric
instinct aud all his fellow citizens of
all parlies and degree, including the
most intensely practical politicians,
are in warm accord with him in it.
The stricken wife and mother suffer
ing from mortal illness appeals to and
develops the warmest, highest feel
ing of all the great commonwealth.
To her and to the man in whose
triumphs she has rejoiced with the
purest joy of all, those trials she has
shared helpfully and with untiring
devotion, the hearts of sixty millions
of free peole go with a common
impulse of respect and sympathy.
?Greenville News.
A Great Lesson in Architec
ture?
Discoursing in a contemporary maga
zine about the World's Fair buildings
at Chieago, a discreet observer remarks
on the excellent results that may be hop
ed for from the inspection of the United
States Government Building by the
multitudes that come to the fair. The
observer regards the said Government
Building as so far inferior in beauty to
many of the structures that are near ft,
that its defects cannot help coming
home to the perceptions of the average
observer, and waking him up to the
propriety of manning.the Federal archi
tectural e8tabl?8mentat Washington with
a higher order of talent, even at the
cost of increased expense.
Witboat discussing this particular
building, or the particular benefit that it
is expected to work, it seems reasonable
to hope for very important architectural'
results ail over this Country from the
buildings that have been erected for the
Fair. There is a concurrence of opinion
as to the amazing success of the fair
building as a whole, and as' to the re
markable irapressivenessof such a group
of beautiful structures on the mind of
the beholder. To have seen them is
not quite an educatioo in architecture,
but it is certainly a lesson, and one
which the intelligent spectator will not
be able to forget If hundreds of thou
sands of Americans go home from the
great fair with new conceptions of the
ability of brains and beauty to find ex
pression in building materials, the re
sults will be important, and the next
decade will begiu to to show them.
The architectural standards of the
average man are the best buildings he
ha8seen. To show him the possibilities
of beautiful construction is to enlarge
his aspirations and make him dissatis
fied with inferior jobs. He might cross
the seas and travel thousands of miles
without getting so effective an archi
tectural lesson as he will get as Chicago. !
He will not only see admirable buildings '
there, but he will also see some pretty
bad ones, and having the good aud the
bad side by side, he will have so much
;he better chance of learning which is
which, and wherein consists the exeel
ence or inferiority of either.
The buildings have cost a great sum
)f money, and most of them are only for
etnporary use, but we miss our guess
ind our hope if they do not prove in
he end one of the tnose beneficent edu
cational investments that have been
nade iu this country, and as lasting in
hur ultimate results as s?ooe and iron
jould have made them.?^Harper's
Weekly.
The recent proposition of the Cincin
?ati Post, that the chairmen of the dif
'erent national committees should make
i public statement of their expenditures
n the coming Presidential election, has
ieen accepted on behalf of both the
Democracy aud the People's party.
?ut the Rmublicau chairman waxes
ndignant at the suggestion that he or
lis party might descend to the use of
noney iu a political campaign, and de
slines to tefl where his fuud shail have
rone. It is well for the Republican
:oncern that there is for them some
ray out of an exposure of their campaign
nethpds. Too close an inquiry into
hese iiiijiht develop the fact that the
>arty Of "great moral ideas/' will de
cend to very disreputable practices
rhen their power is threatened.?The
>tate.
-mm- Mi -
To remove a glass stopper that has
>eeome fast, put a drop of sweet oil
>r glycerine in the crevice about the j
topper. In an hour or so the stopp-r j
uay be easilv removed.
uriarlestorrs Gala Week.
Charleston, Oct. ?'8 ? A teleg ram
from Washington received here today
announced that through the iutercsssiou
of Congressman W. SI. Brawley the'
secretary of the navy has consented to*
send the White squadron which has'
been participating in the Columbiau
celebrations in New York harbor, to'*
Charleston to take part in the gala week
festivities which occur Oct. 3'lst to'
Nov. ?:h.
A feature of the program of the*
festival wiii be a reproduction in the bar-'
bor of the great assault oo Fort Samter
by the federal fieet of monitors and the'
frigate New Ironsides ia April, 1883.
The sceue of the encasement will be*
in the inner bay within easy sight of the'
battery. A fac simiie of Fort Sumter"
will be erected, and also the land;
batteries of the confederates on Morris*
Island and Sullivan's Klaud which*
joined in the engagement.
Everything will be an exact and4
historic reproduction of th? memorable'
engagements. The monitors will b?
reproduced, and the first regiment >:
artillery, South Carolina militia, will
furnish four batteries to man the fort.
The operations" will be conducted by
Gen. T. A. Hugueain, the last confed
erate commander, and Rev. J'ohn John??*
son, the last confederate engineer of
Fort Sumter. The presence of Uncle"
Saui's modern War ships will lend an
additional zest to the event. Pain, the
pyrotechnist of N.-w York, is engaged
in manufacturing the bombs to' b? ttsecT
in the battle, aud will send a corps of
twenty-five or thirty exerts down to'
handle the urorars".
The gala week was ? festival ?stabV
lished here in 1887, iu commemoration
of the city's escape from total extinction
in the great earthqaske of 1886'. It has
been kept up yearly ever since, the
expenses being paid by the citizens'*
from voluntary contributions. The
preparations for the coming festival are'
on an cxteosive scale, and the program"
of festivities which extends through six
days is very elaborate. All the hotels*
and boarding houses are making active*
preparations to accommodate the crowds*
of expected visitors.
He Struck it.
There is one man in Virginia who*
trained for a while with the Third party
who has discovered its trcre inwardness'
and come out of Ft. Some one asked
him why he left it when.accordiog to the
Brunswick News, he gave the following
pertinent, good and satisfactory reasons r
1 Because it is' run by lawyers with
out clients ?
2. By doctors without patients ;
3. By preachers without pulpits y
4. By women without husbands "r
5. By farmers without farms ;
6. By financiers without finance f
7. By educators without ?ducation'/
and
8. By statesmen out of a job.
He might have added ols more :
By editors without subscribers'.
This comes pretty near covering the*
personnel of the leadership of the Third
party, which, as far as the leadership is'
concerned, is a howling 18 caiat fraud/
As far as we know, there is not in
North Carolina, connected with i*s'
leadership, a singl? representative farm
er.-"-Wilmington Star.
A representative of The ?nqi?rer at-"
tended a public meeting in the town of
Rock Hill last week. It was a meet-'
tog of the citizens, and the matter at
issue W3S one of very great importance'
?the changing of the charter of the"
towu and involving increased ex
penditures. If all Rock Hill meetings'
are like this' one, and we believe they
are, there is nothing surprising about
the remarkable prosperity of the town.
The whole secret lies in the one word?
unanimity. To be sure there was*
difference of opinion, and sometimes'
very grave differences. But these
differences were each thoroughly
di>cussed, aud their settlement left tr/
the majority. When the majority
spoke, the matter was settled. Some
member of the minority?no mattet*
how close the division?invariably
moved that ' the resolution be made'
unanimous" aud the tiling was doue. It
seemed th it every member of the meet*
"fog was On the lookout for ideas, and
wheuever a good idea was suggested, no'
matter where it came from, it was'
adopted. Such a spirit as this is
irresistible anywhere, in anything.?'
Yorkville Et q;?rer.
On the s'rength of bis remarkable*
resemblance to Ex Senator Miller, a'
Philadelphia insurance agent gained
entrance some time ago to the floor of
the Seuate chamber at Washington.
He was at first challenged, but when*
he said indignantly to the dcorBeeper.
"Don't vou know tue?" that of3cia[
made a profound obeisance and opened
the door forthwith It is said that this*
interestig Philadelphian was once intro
duced to Gen. Grant as Senator Miller
and the Geueral did not discover the'
mistake.
Grover Cleveland declines to attend
the opening ceremonies of the World's"
Fair at Chicago because president Har*'
rison cannot, attend. Such chivalry ig"
seldom found in polirics.
?*e$*?rvins Praise.
We desire to say t-> ""r citizens', that for
vears we hare been se Hing Dr. King** I\W
Discovery for C^ns-imption, Dr. Kind's New"
Life Vi Iis, B?cklexvs Arn n Salve and Elec?
111?* Bitter?. and li.?Vc never bandied remedies
that sell .is well, or t! at have givea such uni
versai satisfaction. We do Dot hesitate (c
guarantee tt.ein every time, and we sran*i ready
to refond the purchase price, if satisfactory
re.Milnj do not fallow their u>e. Thesa reise.
dW* have w<>n their great popularity purely or*
their merits, ,J. F. W\ DeLorcie. Druggist. L
A sentlenian of this county who has excel
lent judgment remarked tons the other day
that Ue knew of n?> pill so goodfor constipa-"
tion. dvspepsia and liver cphaplaint n&
DeWiu's Lmle Early Risers. J. S. Hughsuc
& Co.
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We have h speedy and positive cure for
catarrh, diphtheria, canker racuth and head
ache, in Shitoft's Catarrh R-u;edv. A onsal
injector free with each Oottle. fJse it if you'
desire health and sweet breath. Price 50c.
Sold bv Dr. A. J. China, Sumter S. C. 5
For Over Fifty Years'.
Mrs. Winsiow's Soot hi tig Syrup has beec
used for children teething. Ii soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cur**
wind colic, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. Tweotv-?ve cents a oj;:lc.