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been es huntfaaed and fifty of theTull trikers have gone beck to work. latest record is ooe mile in one minute, fifty-sir seconde, on a bicycle. Orders for the coinage of standard sil ver dollars have been seat to the miote Since July l.at there bave been over 1.5Q0 cases'of cholera in St. Peters burg. Between $2,000.000 and $3,000, 000 was in gold shipped to Europe last Saturday. The official record of marriages is not kept in South Carolina. It is tbe only State so neglectful. Walter Hasard, Senator from George town County, has resigned on account of continued ill health. Hery Swansea, a colored boy stab bed and dangerously wounded Jerse Rap*rti?? e^fatfrer, io Greewft* last week. is- a eoetry business. Tbuajaf ?be censua^f 1?90. baa cost ,j thef^?pS #10.36^77. Thew ?re>* persons attamark. * Pakellfork. Victoria*;! Uon aopyifebte sue??saetvl is named Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David. Senator Morgan woke to 2,000 peo ple at Fott Payas. Ala., last week and pointed to Adlai'Stevenson as "tne comtog man'9 for tbe nomination in 1896 Hon. L F. Livingston yesterday carrried Folton county, Ga , (Atlanta), by 1,000 majority in tbe Congressional primary. Cast. E. P. Ho well, of the Coostitution, leads tbe Legislative ticket. > Senator Walsh, in an interview by tbe Manufacturer's Record, advocates tbe building of the Nicaragua canal by our Government and an international conference to declare for the free coinage of silver. It is impossible to get hands to work on Mississippi river levee work. Quite 2.000 are needed_ bet labor agencies can not furnish tbem Tbey say there are idler* ?y thoea?bds. but: refuse to wort.* " - & ?. * - g - A sp?cial from Knoxville, Teno., se^rr^iW^TK^grr^^ distri*. #o,e*re b<m ?^njafrfe since. April "*y??. arder ^f&Predf?t McBr?ee, returned to work to-day at less wages than they were getting be fore. ^ r? ri -??-?- ?j - ? i a> . ? SSet.^We^eyit Pegue?, o??^of ?i? oldest members of tbe South Carolina Conference, died in Ch era w ? % oaday, 16lb ?nst. ??r'. Pegues joined the Conference in 1839 aod y as actively engaged in tbe ministry op to the time of his death. Tbe new armored eruwer Minneap olis, just completed by Cramp & Son for tbe U. S. Government made ber trial trip on Wednesday, aod attained a speed of 23.05 knots, or about 25| miles per hour, thus proving to be tbe fastest armored cruiser afloat. On Snnday morning Rev. T. G. Law formally announced to his congre gation that be bad decided to accept tbe call to Ocal a, Fla.-, aod tendered bis resignation as pastor of tbe church. He assumed tbe pastorate of tbe Pres byterian hcrcb in 1879.?Darlington Herald. Rev. P. S Whitman, of Tocca, Ga., has sent a cheek for one thousand dol lars to the treasurer o? Forman CTarver* sity, which is to be added to one thousands dollars be sent last year, and is intended to~"proT?de a ?orne for worthy students, males or female, in order to lessen tbeir expenses while, prosecuting studies in Furman Univer sity. Cal reminded one of a bob-tailed pul let on a rickety henroost. He cackled and his sofiering bearers yelled. He wanted to tell them tbat Gov. Tillmao was a humbug and to expose the fraud tbat was perpetrated by the Legislature in awarding tbe State priottngt o Calvo, bot be wae bowled dowo. Tbe meeting then adjourned.?Walterboro Press aod Standard. State Treasurer Bates bas announced tbat tbe payment of tbe July interest on tbe State bonds, amounting to some t150,000 bae ail been- paid op bow. fee tinsroor saya tbe eoodttiea of tbe treasury juat no*t is en usual!y goad, although the remittance* from the phos phate miners are not coming in nearly so well as tbey did before last August's disaster. The railroad commission has re ceived from most of tbe roads in tbe State, tbe South Bound beiog tbe only missing link now, the reports of their earning for tbe month of May. As compared to the earnings of the same month last year, tbe reports show an increase in tbe earnings of only fifteen roads. These increases bave been but alight while tbe decreases have been remarkably heavy. Superintendent of Education May field bas sent out to the various county school commissioner? aod school boards tbe printed copies of tbe standard course of study adopted by tbe State board of examiners last September. Tbe outline of the coorso as being sent out covers some thirteen pages of printed matter, and will be interesting to all public school teachers. Tbe course outlined covers twelve years' work, making a ehild, starting at six years of age, in the first year's specified course, twenty years of age when tbe entire conree bae been completed Tbe course laid down is not to be con sidered a cast-iron one, but all teachers are requested to follow its provisions. Look to Your Ciiattel Mort gages. Considerable interest is manifested | iu the decision of Judge Gary in the case of B. F. Hatchings, disposiug of j property ander f?en. The following is the order of the coart in that case. "The defendant's counsel having de marred to the indictment upon the ground that the same does not charge ao-offeoce and having agreed with the Solicitor that the mortgage showed a payment after conditions were broken and having agreed to submit the ques tions of law upon these issues to the court; it is ordered that the demurrer be unstained and the indictment be quashed, and ouder authority of the case of Sitio mes v?? Talley. this court holds that the indictment will not lie, the mortagagee having accepted past payment after the conditions were broken and this is held to have waived the forfriture." ryMmy?te& Jurase, the dec?s ion means this. If you held a cbattle mortgage and do not take po<*ses*ion of the property wh?fi the dsni i? doe yXHT forfeit your daim to property If you- accept a parlisi payment on such a mortgage y?n -forfeit yofcr. tieni $he decision follows up, one -'made, by the State Supreme Court in the Spring of 1S93. It u understood that Solicitor Ansel will takr an appeal to the Supreme sCou'j:.,T-rijTegtfvjlle Mountaineer. 9 Caughman vs. Tillman. Columbia, S C , July 20, 1894. Hon. B. R. Tillman. Governor : .pearSir : For two or three meet ings in the canvass you have dodged me on the issues, both national and !staie. 1 now hereby challenge you to meet me at 'Union C. H at 5 o'clock m , July 31st, 1894, in joint debate upon the political issues, both State and national, in this campaign, I to open fur two hours and you to reply in unlimited time. F. C. Caughman. a*? . Costly Peace. The enormous cost of maintaining an ar??d peace throughout Europe, caii hardly be appreciated. The figores^are. fairly bewildering. Jri line ^ortti American Review M. G. j$| gives seme of the satieties in . rile compares the condition of Europe at the dose of 1893 with the coudilion of 1885 In the eight jreass> embraced in that period there was increase of 21 per cent in taxa tion and of 17 per cent in the public debt. . The .-average annual revenue receipt, for the same period were $2, 980.000.000, and the expenditures $3,300,000,000, an excess of expendi tures of $320,000.000 per annum In the same period the public debts increased $2,900.000,000 ; that is to say the increase of the public debt of Europe in eight years under consi deration, years'of comparative peace, exceeds the entire debt of the United States at the close of the war of tbe secession. While it is true says the Troy Press, that part of this increase in the debt of Europe is due to permanent improvements, no other item is large as that charged against armaments. Of the $2,900,000,000 of debt tbe sum of $180.000.000 was incurred for state railways and $80, 000.00 for telegraph lines, while $1, 140,000,000,000 was for the armament of the continent, including, of com se. Great Britain. Even this stupendous amount does not fairly represent the full account chargeable against the armed peace, for the railways and tel egraph fines, ta a certain extent, were constructed foVwar purposes. These are potent factors iu constantly in creasing the total debt, for they do not net enough to pay tbe in.terest on the money borrowed to pay the expenses of their construction. We learu that the strictly military expen ses of Enrope increased from $640, 000,000 per annum at the beginning of the eight years to $?30,000,000 in 1&93, an increase of about $90,00u, 000 per annum. In the same period taxation for all purposes increased from $2,685,000,000 to $3,254,000, 000, or $560,000,000 per annum. Even with this tremendous increase in taxation the public debts have in creased in that time nearly $3,000, 600,000, being now about $15,000,? 000,000 for all Europe. It is evident from the reports that have reached us by cable during the past year or so. that taxation has reached its practi cable limit in most of the countries of Europe. The governments are exact ing all that the people can possibly pay and in some countries, notably Italy, it is impossible to meet the demands; and notwithstanding this, the rate of taxation is constantly on the increase. Nobody who has studied the situation, even super ficially, will deny that Europe, as a whole, is nearer bankruptcy than ever before, and unless radical reform be inangurated a gigantic crash is inevit able. But this is not the entire pro blem Besides the vast amount of money going to waste in maintaining this armed peace, many millions of men are continually kept from profitable in dustry, the foundation of all prosper ity. This in itself is enough to pro duce stagnation in business through- j out all Europe, and the eifect of this i upon the civilized world at large can not be gainsaid. Europe is making a I grand, a disastrous mistake. - ? I I. ? Gen. Grant's family, it is said, have received up to this time $440,000 royalty on his book. Debasing Literature. We have written the last two Sun day's on vicious and debasing litera ture as shown in the latter day novels that are devout ed by the readers of fiction and relished because of their unsavory and wicked seasoning If all critics were as faithful and severe as Andrew Lang is the poorer and more objectionable novels would have but few friends and admiring readers among the refined and cultured. He is a lover of the romantic but not of the impure and nasty. He hits the abounding indecencies of Zola, and he has no taste for or tolerance of such writers an Amie' and Ibsen and Bashkirtseff or Tolstoi and the lesser gang of immoralists if not of im mortale He does pay court even to the America? Howells, who is a man really of distinguished parts, but of some absurd notions of art.and of the real merits of some great authoi ? who though dead still speak to the best readers though their splendid crea tions that run over with genius. Mr. Quiller-Couch, who is an English ro mancer of no mean parts and an incisive critic, holds Howells also in disfavor, whi'e the American affects to know nothing of the Englishman. Howells published a small volume of brief essays and criticisms that ap peared in Harper, while he had charge of one of the departments. Ile call? it "Criticism and Fiction v He refers to the English authors as "poor islanders,*" ''doting andgrovel I ling in ignorance,'* and "cater pillars," and says the great Thackeray had no "artistic sensibility,'* and so on. This is merely the whimsical 110 I tions, of a man of parts who-is twisted in his taste and intellections at times. Howeiis does not like Scott or Haw thorne or Dickens, and Hugo and Sands and Dumas and the other great writers of the splendid romantic school of fiction. Mr. Quiller-Couch say that II o welts .is at bottom an aristocrat, and adds: "Mr liowellss patriotism has brought him into queer straits ; and we are .treatedto the spectacle of a man; who is really a wOTswippel- of the incomplete and amorphous, beating ? the tom-tom over the artistic achieve ments of men and women who are, before all things worshippers of form 7 , We prefer Howells travels and essays and sketches to him as a novel writer. After trying some three of his novels we turn t? jfresher ,work~ "paetures new.*' Th? talk of literary anarchy is still heard in the leading literary circles, but Howells is nut of the anarchic kind He affects realism as his specialty and is in no danger of introducing, we suppose, the crude, the.flamboyant, the nasty into his books. He will not give much countenance, we judge, to the Dodos and Superfluous Women and Yellow Asters and their imitation and the remainder of the long list of stories tending to the extremest anarchy and diabolism in letters. Out in Chicago a novel has been published by a regular firm that it is an insult to civilization and a disgrace to all concerned. We will not give name of book or publishers lest some people loving the foul or the sensual send for it. It is an a tempt to degrade the pure women of the South iu the days of slavery, purport ing to give actual pictures of what occurred, that is infamous and slan derous beyond belief. To show how base is this attempt in 1?94, to put the brand of degradation "u pon the purest, finest, most elegant civiliza tion this country has ever seen, we give a few sentences from the notice of it in a Chicago monthly. The writer of that disgraceful article says : "What is most remarkable about this story is that it presents a view of slavery which has been hitherto a closed book to the reading public? although in the oial traditions of the freedman there have been frequent suggestions and hints of the social conditions which even the most zeal ous Abolitionist would have thrust aside as incredible.'* Then follows statements that we can not for decency's sake copy, for it is too infernal to be repeated And this is the sort of literature that corrupt Chicago concocts for its youth. Shame upon the liar and slanderer who wrote the vile book and the house that published it. Mr. Maurice Thompson in his excellent dissection of "Tess," makes a point well worthy of thoughful con sideration. He suggests that literary fine art even now is 'essentially heathen." He finds cause for so thinking alike in the poetry and fiction of this time. He says these appeal directly and palpably and vigorously "to the ancient, elemental, con scienceless substance of hummanity." William Morris, Swinburne, Sir Edwin Arnold and other lesser poets can answer. The lascivious, the unhealthy, the impure in poetry and fiction attract and sell. Their com mercial value is great for they fetch in return for the outlay thousands of dollars into the till. Mr. Thompson says, and we copy it with sympathy and indorsement. "We must admit that novels and poems on this subject are immensely fascinating, and that in a cold com mercial view they are good property. In the same view whiskey and gambl ing rooms arc excellent investments, i Gilded dives pay large dividends inj the lawful currency. St. Peter's j Church has fewer visitors than Monte Carlo. What do you make of this ? | Is it the true conception of art that j the artist may live in honor by the, same appeal which enriches the faro dealer, the saloon-keeper, and the! princess of the bagnio ? Is the money ! earned by writing and selling Tees of: the D'Urbervillee one whit cleaner ; than that earned by any cither play upon the human weakness for unclean things ? The astounding part of this trausac- ! tiou in illicit love is that the people, or very many of them who buy and read and even enjoy such dangerous | ellurements, are not yet corrupt in | life however impure in taste. The j trend now is to copy into the closing years of a great, progressive century ! the fleshly ideals of ruder and more j vulgar times, when the civilization | was far lower than our own, and j when the Christian teaching was much less recognized as the one tiling needed to guide and make happy. We were only this morning reading Hoirace Walpole's account of the London earthquakes nearly two hun dred years ago He mentions three ladies of rank who had left the town i for ten miles in the country where i they were to spend the entire nigh j in gambling and were to return the next day. It is out of time, out of place to try to bring into our times the manners, customs and profligacy of other times?those of the time of Elizabeth or Henry the Eighth or Charles I!, or of the ancients. Mr. Thompson says with fine perception and scholarship : "Grossness, indeed, isas far remov from true virility as one pole from the other. Mere audacity in handling things not considered by the spirit of our civilization touchable cannot win the badge of Homer or of Horace. ! Homer sang strictly wit bin the spirit of his "age and voiced its characteristic aspiration. Horace did no violence to the civilization that inspired him. Full, close sympathetic touch with Christianity (hot ?r?tb * dry dogma, creed, ritual, or sect,. or denomina tion), close touch with Christianity, 1 say, can give the only true coivcep tioti of the new art of our just dawn ing era." ?..?;.:,.\ : / Bead on tit? pere fiet? only the best literature. -New books are hjgh. The great old Stamfords \vere never so cheaply printed as now. Fer four dollars you can buy now bound neatly sixteen volumes of the best novels the . world .has, the best of tbe several greatest authors?-Wilmington Mes senger.' v ? ? ? Building Associations. .The annexed article from the Win I atoa Republican will be read with interest by all stockholders in Build* i ;g Associations : * The Mt. Airy News notes that Messrs. Watson & Buxton, of Win ston, appeared before Judge Graves, j at Chambers, the past week, and ask ed for an injunction restraining the Life Insurance Company of Virginia from selling the land of J. C. Fagg, at Salem The above named com pany does a building and loan busi ness, and made a loan to Fagg. One of the rules of such associations is that when a member fails to pay his monthly instalment he becomes sub ject to a fine of ten cents a share for each and every mouth that the in- I etalment remains unpaid. A man carrying ten shares of stock of the par value of $100 is fined one dollar for the fiist month If the instalment is not paid the second month the fine is linee dollars, fur the third month six dollars, for the fourth month ten dollars, and so on! In this case Fagg failed to pay bis instalments as they became due and after lapse of a lew months the Life Insurance Company of Virginia foreclosed its mortgage and advertised the property for sale Now Fagg alleges that the fines are usurious and can not be collected under the laws of North Carolina, and asks that the sale be stopped until the matter can be decided by law. Judge Graves granted the restrain ing order and the case will now be carried to the Superior Court and from there to the Supreme Court, in order that these Courts may decide whether or not the fines come within the operation of the usury law. This will probably be booked as a test case, not as parties involved, but for the reason tbat this building and loan system has been freely patronized all over the State, and the limit of its powers is a question of considerable interest and concern. A special to the Times-Union from Kissimmee, Fla., says ; At 2:30 o'clock oo tbe morning of tbe 20th Ed Lundy tbe negro wbo murdered his wife Wednesday, was taken from jail by a mob aod lynched. The mob which put Lundy to death was composed en tirely of negroes. White people knew nothing of the tragedy until this morn ing -?? ? Homes for Indigent Negroes, j ??~~ ' Mr. Branch of North Carolina on the 18th introduced in Congress a bill to appropriate the money in the treas ury being unclaimed bounty and pay ! due Union colored soldiers, to the ! States of Virginia, North Carolina, j South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Kentuoky, in proportion to the colored population of each State, to be applied for tbe establishment of a borne or i homes for the care of indigent colored people or orphans in such manner as tbe Legislatures of the States shall provide. Can you Keep a Secret ? We know that some of you can and that some of you can not, but what we have to say this week is no secret, and you can tell it to your wives, sisters, mothers, sweethearts and cou sins, husbands, fathers and brothers, that we have some extraordinary Bargains in Fresh and Seasonable Goods. forget that we still have an ele gant line of the celebrated Dermsdorf Fast Black Hosiery," And that to each purchaser of $1.00 or more we present a beautiful souvenir. 2 Cases lovely as sorted Ginghams At 8 cents, former retail price 12h cents. Our buyer in New York picked them up, that's how we got them. He's on the look-out for just these kind of bargains, and we give you the benefit. Many other New Goods Have just been received and you will find the prices aston ishly low, even for these times of Bed Rock prices. Don't Our Clothing and Fur nishing Department is the Pride of the City. All the newest and nobbiest styles, in Men's, Youths', Boys' and Children's Clothing. Hats, Shirts, Hosiery and Neckwear, will be found there. Get our Prices On Groceries before buying. If you desire quality we can give it to you. If you desire quantity you can get that also. We are selling-agents for a number of firms, and merchants can buy certain lines of goods from us cheaper than else where. Remember the Place. J, Jyttenberg I $0n$, N.W.-Oor. Main &liberty Sts., Sumter,S.Cv New Yojfe Office, 84 West Broadway. [ wish to atare ta the Farmers of Sa rater and Clarendon Counties tbat I bave gotten io a car load of McCORMIC REAPERS, SELF-BINDERS, MOWERS and HAY RAKES. It is a settled fact tbat tbeMcCorraic Co., makes tbe lightest draft and most durable Grain and Grass cutting machinery made in this or any other country. Our prices are very low and terms easy. Write to me for catalogue, which will be mailed to yon free of charge. It contains cista of all machines and gives full descriptions of them. SUMTER, S. C Mch 21 GEO. F. EPPERSON, Agent. Office at Epperson's Livery Stable. ALMI & i.OMPANY, the leaders, ?Have a New Feature? |A Bargain Counter,! UH* On which will be placed all remnant lots of SHOES In which most of the sizes have been sold. On this counter from time to time will be placed -Some exceptional Drives. Don't fail to come and look over, you might find your size, and if you do not we will sell you a pair from the shelves almost as cheap. We have a full stock and we must sell them. Our line of Dress Shoes for Ladies and Gents will please anybody. WALSH & CO., Monaghan Block April 18. Sumter, S. C. SUMMER BOARD. ARTIES seeking health and comfort will surely find it at SOUTHPORT, 24 miles below Wilmington. There is always a delighlful breeze. No mosquitos or sand flies. Tbe situation being the best in town. The table will be bountifully supplied with products of the sea. Hoard by the day, week or month. For ates apply to MRS, S. GREENABAUMj IS N. 5th St., Wilmington, N. C. .Tune6?Ira. 0TT0F. WEITERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, AND LIQUOR DEALER, OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 183 Sast Bay, Charleston, S. C Nov. 7?0