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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.
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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
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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
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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