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COUNTY OORBESPQNDENGE. fCEWSY LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. Stems of Interesst From all Parts of Sumter and Adjoining Counties. 3?OT?CE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mall your letters so that they will teach, this office not later than Tues? day morning. When the letters are received Wfdnesday it is almost an impossibility to have them appear in the paper issued that day. DURANT. Durants, November 24.-Miss Flor? ence Upsher is visiting Miss Williams. Cards are out announcing the com *C 3ng marriage of Miss Bessie Durant to Mr. Early Thompson. The mar v triage will be at New Harmony church son the twenty-eight of November at ialf after three o'clock. Several from here attended the cir '^cos at Manning yesterday. News reached here last Tuesday of tte death of Mr. Betts of the Betts Xumber Co. Consequently the miU "was closed on that day. Mrs. W. P. Montgomery attended fte marriage of Miss Berta Pringle "Wednesday. Mr. J. M. Spann arrived yesterday ^tor a visit of one or two days. WISACKY. Wisacky, Nov. 27."-We are having -lovely weather and farm work is .drawing to a close. The health of the community is moderately good at this time. Miss Lula Williams, accompanied ?y her cousin, made a pleasant visit to relatives near Tirnm<?&iylle. Mr. and Mrs. J. Sidney Williams of Sardis have been visiting in our midst 2L few days since. Mr. Arthur Gatlin of Marion has re "terned to his home after a pleasant stay with relatives and friends. Mrs. H. J. Williams and daughter, Miss Lula, spent yesterday in Bisnop Trflle. * The Lee County carnival opens^ today and a royal good time is antici? pated by all. The excitement still Tims high over the ballot for queen. Miss Mabel Hearoft is ahead at this . time. , HAGOOD. Hagood, Nov. 27.-W. W. Mellette 3ias sold his fine plantation for $S,000, ?ocr nearly $45 per acre. So you see "that land near the peninsula is not cheap while on the peninsula it is not tor sale. I am sorry for the sake of ?tilers that this is true, especially as ?we are going to lose Mr. Mellette, -whom we hate much to give up. He moves near the city, and will be a valuable addition to the community io which he goes being a progressive larmer, full of energy, a live man. Mr. T. O. Sanders has moved his i saw mill on the lands of R. M. James. ?Dmber has become an item sure enough, and men are hunting a good substitute, not too costly and possess? ing all the qualities of endurance, j This your correspondent thinks he has found in a rock now in his pos- j session, that when dry is ?fully as ! light as brick and will stand any amount of pressure. It lies near the i ^surface and can be easily mined, an old axe and a wedge being all that is .necessary to do it. The indications are as I see them, that a tremendous acreage of cotton, will be planted another year. If the cotton association intends to look af? ter that matter it is high time they ?were up and doing. Your remarks about the leading men in the associa? tion dictating its policy, etc., were timely. We have succeeded nicely and if the newspapers will safeguard us by such articles with pith and point we will 3iave greater reason to expect success In the future. Too much cannot be ? said in praise of the press. It certain? ly deserves all and more patronage than it gets. No man today need be an ignoramus with the facilities he ! lias, so cheap, so convenient at his I hand. I listened at a colored barber the other week talk about affairs in the east and the Russian government. 3nt for his bad EngHsh, scarcely no? ticeable, you would never have sus- ! pected that he was uneducated. He .predicted that the Russian crisis .would be on the home coming of the army, and rumors from the east seem to indicate that he was correct. From whence had he this knowledge and information, but from the newspa? pers? Every intelligent citizen takes his county paper and all who want to be intelligent must take it. If you want to know when to pay taxes, when to gfve in, when court convenes, who are Jnrors, whether you ar?.; to be tried, "whether your place is to be sold, when a sale comes off. or other important "business is transacted, whether you got left in the election, and a great deal of other necessary information, .you must look in your county paper or your neighbor's, and in these days of ll cents cotton especially, it is bet? ter to Itfok in your own. Friend take The Watchman; don't be so stingy; it ?dont' cost but one and a half dollars; a clean papej- worth many times that amount, that .viii educate your chil? dren. That is the truth. MAX. Max. Nov. 27.-Rev. and Mrs. B. K. Truluck spent last Wednesday and Thursday in Florence. Mr. J. C. Truluck went to Florence last week on business. Mr. L. J. Strauss of Mayesville spent Sunday here with one of the fair folk. i Mr. C. C. Carraway received an in? vitation to attend his friend's, Mr. J. D. Hinds, marriage to Miss Mary Townes, in the First Methodist church. Littlton. Ala., on Nov. 26. Mr. j Johnnie Hinds has many friends who ? wish for him much happiness. Mr. James Burgess and Miss Selma Burgess of Mouzons, were married last Wednesday. Mrs. J. L. Moore, aunt of the bride, and Mr. Douglas Moore, attended the wedding. Rev. Carl Barth preached at Beau ? lah Sunday morning, and afternoon. Miss Bennett performed at the organ, and Mrs. A. E. Chaulier led the sing? ing. DARK CORNER. Dark Corner, Nov. 25.-Nothing new to relate this afternoon. No sick in this corner to report, though I am sorry to bear that Mr. W. E. Kolb near Privateer is and has been very sick for about three weeks witli some kind of continued fever. At one time it was thougnt it was typhoid fever, hut I understand that Dr. R. B. Furman says it is nut typhoid. Bill is a good fellow and I hope he will soon be well again. Mr. J. Dargau Osteen had one of his barns burned about ll o'clock last -Sunday, night, together with all of its contents, hay &c, and if it had not been for the help and hard work of Mr. Merry Christmas and others of his neighbors his corn barn and mules would have been, burnt. It is sup? posed to have been set, so it seems that all of the fire bugs are not dead or moved off yet. A few years ago J. W. Osteen, Alex Osteen, J. R AV?H and Eddie A vin were all sufferers from incendiary fires and now it has started in the same neighborhood. Mr. J. R. Avin tells one op himself and my old la? mented, friend John N. Ingram, who died recently. He, Avin, says a week or two before Mr. Ingram's death they started out on a fox haut as usual, and it WES not a great day for hunting; but they not only caught reynard but also caught a negro and cooa (raccoon) which I think is pretty good work for one day for two old Johnnie rRebs. "There was quite a sensation in Pinewood one day last week Oue Moses Dickerson, a colored boy tried to poison Dr. J?. M. Sall v's family with Paris green. He (the bov) put the Paris green in the milk aud ? am told that some of the iamily draut some of the milk before it was dis? covered. The boy has been arrested and is in the Manning jail. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Scott returned to Soeven last Sunday acompanied by Mrs. S. 's brother, little Charlie Week?. Miss Hattie Geddings and brother, Richard, of Pinewood, Miss Mamie Geddings, of Calvary Miss Emma Timmous and Master Harry Timmons I of Paxville visited Mr. and Mrs. aud W. J. Ardis last Sunday night. There was a man and a woman passed through here yesterday travel? ing in a old plantation cart begging. They said they were from Orange burg. It seems strange for I don't j think Orangeburg would let any of j her citizens that are worthy to have \ to get oat and beg for a living. I have never heard of the lise being j done by Sumter county people. Mr. Editor I want to take in s me of the sights in you city next Wednes day and Thursday. Have not been in your city since the 22d of last July. Hope you all may have a huge time next week in your city. EDWARDS. Edwards, November 20 -We are have very cool weather at this time. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gibson visited in this commuuity Saturday and Sun- I day. Mr. J. R. McLeod was in Camden last Saturday. Rev. S. H. Booth filled his regular apppointment at St. John's M. E. Church last Sundae. Mr. J. W. Weldon was in Bishop ville last Wednesday. Rev. Mr. Howerton preached at New Hope Presbyterian church on Sundhy and announced his marriage at Bithopville to Miss Mabel Cioswel? on the 14th of December 1905. Mr. G. L. Britton was in Bishop vile last Thursday on business. We have no sickness to report. IONIA. lnoia, November 21. - ?7e are through planting oats of which a larce crop, that is larger than usual. A few peas to pick and a little scat? tering cotton and we will be through gathering. Mrs. Murray Davis, of Greenville, who bas been visiting relatives here has returned home Mr. J. S. Corbett has accepted a position with Kelley & Levin, of Bishopvlle. Mr. J. W. Matthews went to Bish. opville Saturday. Miss Jessie Wilks the school teacher for Reeding Branch is sick. There will be lots of money here. It looks like everybody will change placea Mr. F. A atkinson who expected to move to Horry county, has decided not to move The Ionia Grange has changed its time of meeting from Saturday before the second Sunday to Friday before the second Sunday at 2 o'olock p. m. Rev. George Howerton filled his ap? pointment at New Hope church last Suuday. MANNING NEWS NOTES. Cards are out announcing the com? ing marriage of Mr. R. Early Thompson and Miss Bessie DuRant at New Harmony church Nov. 28 at 3.30 o'clock. There is now in the county jail a ?legro boy, Robert Dickerson, com? mitted by Magistrate Ragin of Pine? wood ?br attempting to poison the family of Dr. P. M. Sally on last Friday, by putting Paris green in the milk. Fortunately the poison was discovered leioro any damage was done. : Messrs. E. L. Wilkions, J. B. Lesesoe, T. Finley Coffey, Doctor ! neguod Woods and P. ?. Thomas, ! lei's Monday for. Hobart, Oklahoma j where they so to represent themselves j and other parchaseis of the Frisco ! Townsite Company's gold bricks. ? Fortunately, there is no water to ! cross, und the railroads have not for ? bidden the use of cross-ties to pedis i triaus, therefore if nothing unf'orseen j Dappeus chis party will be able to re ! tarn to nome.sweer home, sadder, bot wiser men, perhaps, but then, they j might reach home with the deeds to j valuable property in the gr?at wooly ' west, and then in that event they will be adjudged wise men from the east, : but should it be otherwise, tney are cuumps.-Manning Times. _. REMBERT. j Rembert. Noy. 2S.-The balance of 'the cotton crop now in the hands of lour planters here is being held for higher prices. j Some of larger planters are ship j ping their cotton to the warehousese in Camden and Sumter and hope to get the 15 cents price by next March. There has been a large oat crop planted in this section, and our farm? ers have taken greater care this fall in preparing their oat lands than even before. The weather is fine and good stands are noticeable every? where. Miss Daisy Bowman, the principal of St. Matthews school here, will close her school after today for the balance of this week and will take in the Sum? ter carnival. A large attendance may be expected from this place. STATEBURG. Stateburg, Nov. 27.-Mrs. James Pinckney and Miss A. N. Moore re? turned last evening from Sumter, where they have been visiting Mrs. A. P. Manning. Rev. W. H. Barnewll spent last week in Sumter. Miss Tillie Flud left on Thursday to visit Miss Ethel Cross of Chester. MT. H. L. Pinckney of Charleston is spending a fewr days at his country home, 'Oakland.'' A good many of our people are preparing to take in the pleasures of the "Sumter Gala Week." Our young people are rejoicing over the fact that Thanksgiving day comes during the week so that they can have one day away from the school rooms. GALA WEEK NOTES. Crowning of the Queen-Riding and Driving Contests-Football-The Grand Gala Week Ball. Miss Margie Monaghan, queen of the Gala week ball has selected as her maids of honor Misses Nellie Epperson and Earline White. The coronation will not. as previously announced, be in the ball room, for the committee have decided that this event to which so many will seek ad? mittance will interfere too greatly with the dancing, and in order that all who desire to see the coronation exercises may be comfortably seated, the conclusion has been reached that the Opera house would be the most suitable place for the event. . This will take place Wednesday eve? ning. Just previous to the crowning of the queen the Opera house will be used for the commencement exercises of the Sumter Training School for Nurses, which will commence at S.30 o'clock and will last for an hour. Immediately at their conclusion, the coronation will take place. The grand ball will be one of the greatest events of the gala week. Prof. Schumacher's full orchestra has been engaged, and one of the largest crowds that ever graced a ball room will be present on that occasion. There will be no complimentary tick? ets issued. Tickets are now obtain? able at Harris' Cigar Store, at the price of $1.50 each. Mr. C. W. Smith, who is in charge of this event, desires all contestants to report promptly at the hour men? tioned. Captain and Manager J. B. Cole? man of the South Carolina football team is now in the city. The ball park is being put into condition for the game, which will be played on Thanksgiving day at ll o'clock a. m. Tickets for the game are now on sale and if you desire to avoid the rush at the park, procure your tickets at Har? ris' Cigar Store, where they are now on sale. A large number of college boys and a great many people from Columbia will come to Sumter to root for the garnet and black. The "Country Store" is in full ope? ration. The ladies in charge have a large stock of goods, and trade has been very brisk. Mr. Wesly Brad? ford has put the carnival spielers all to the bad. Remember that two grand prizes will be awarded; the first an elegant leather sofa, and the sec? ond, a beautiful framed picture. The carnival shows have had large crowds ever since the tents were rais? ed. The merry-go-round is affording amusement for a vast throng of chil? dren, while the older people find pleas? ure in the various attractions under canvas. Don't fail to visit the splen? did shows of the Smith Amusement company. The Excelsior Granite Co. will build a railroad six miles from Heath Springs to their quarry. >IAYESVHJLE WON MAI.V. ! _ ; A C ock Fight in Which Seme of thc Birds in tho Pce-Dee Wore Pitted. I I Florence, Xovember 23.-Thc cock i fight near Mar's Bluff today between Mayesville and Timmonsville proved to bo a very interesting event fur a .large number OL" sports, who came here from various points in the State. Mayesville won out hy a score of fivi to four and won the main. The own . ers of thu birds that fought were Dr. Claude King, ot" Mayesville and Capt. j Jake Berger, of Timmonsville. ' There were ten fights. I Jr. King won ; five and Mr. Berger won four. Tho j tenth fight resulted in a draw, thus giving the main to Mayesville. It is said that each of the bailies fought I was interesting and prolonged and for j a time it seemed as though it would : be a tie. The birds used today were i some of the finest that have ever been placed in the Mar's Bluff pit, and their I owners were justly proud of them. . News and Courier.. _i_ GIVEX A $10,000 PURSE. Memphis Physician Rewarded for Serving Tlirough the Quarantine. j Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 23.-Dr. He I ber Jones, president of the Memphis board of health, was today presented with a purse of $10,000 subscribed by a large number of citizens, in appre? ciation of his successful efforts in maintaining a prohibitive quarantine during the recent yellow fever epi? demic. It was generally understood that Dr. Jones was compelled to fore? go a large private practice by the ex? acting duties of his office. Washington, Xov. 2S.-President Roosevelt and wife, with Secretary and Mrs. Root and Capt. and Mrs. Cowies will attend the Army and Navy football game at Princeton on Saturday. Red Park, X. J., Xovember 2S. Tho machine shop, paint shop and pumping shop of the government works at Sandy Hook were destroyed by fire this morning. Columbia. Xov . 2$.-The hearing before the Supreme Court in the ma? ter of the validity of the Sumter wa? terworks bonds has been set for 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. The Sumter lawyers who are here pressing the matter expect to return with the or? der they seek tonight, the validity of the bonds affirmed. "Washington, Xov. 28.-President Roosevelt has decided to favor the construction of a lock canal at Pana? ma, at a level of thirty feet. This is the type of canal recommended by the five American engineers, who signed the minority report of the board of consulting engineers. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. items ol' Interest Condensed and Par agraphed for Quick Reading. Bose Durham, a colored tailor, was struck by a southbound passenger train Thursday while walking along the track near Winnsboro and died in a few hours. He was deaf. Hngh Creighton a WoSford College Student, disappeared Saturday and no trace of bim can he found. Be is a ion of Rev. C. W. Creighton. The dwelling house of C. R. Srr.irb, who lives three miles from Columbia, was set on fire by two white bird hun? ters on Monday and burred to the ground. There was no insurance. From statements made by Mrs. Smith, who was the only one at home at the time, thy house was fired for spite for being ordered off the place. The body of Martha Orr Patterson, who died a few days ago in Lo? Angles, Cal., was cremated by her direction. The Central Hotel in Mariou was bumed Mouday about 1 a. m., the loss on building and contents was about $7,000. It was owned by Rogers Bros. Two small store buildings and r. box car full of cotton were burned at Monetta depot Sunday night. Two stores were broken open and robbed in St. Matthew? Sunday night. The answer of ex President T. C. Duncan, of the Union Cotton Mills in the bankuptcy procedings was not filed Monday as expected. John M. Abercrombie, white, was found dead in Deals township, Laurens county, Monday morning with half his head shot off. It is thought he com? mitted suicide. The Isle of Palms has been sold to ! the consolidated Railway Co. for $50,- ! 000 by the Seashore Improvement Co. Mr. Joseph L. Breeden the oldest citizen of Bennettsville is dead. Margerite Attles, agtd 75, killed ' Amy Osborne, aged 97, in a fight at the Chester County Alms house last week. Several cases of smallpox have been reported in Manning. i Senator Augustus O. Bacon, of ? Georgia, who recently returned from . Europe, wears on the lapel of his coat a tiny watch, not bigger than a man's ' thumb, says an exchange. In spite of j its extremely wdelicate mechanism the j watch keeps good time. Senator J Bacon's purpo.-e in wearing it so, conspicuously is to curtail interviews I, with tedious persons. The man who ?" can talk with the Senator on any j unimportant subject for any great : length of time with the little watch I staring him in the face and marking ? the passing minutes must he possessed ; of considerable courage or colossal :1 nerve. i THE TROUBLES OF TILLMAX. A C lose Political Observer Thinks the Dispensary Will lie His Politi eal I?uii?. "Savoyard*' writes in The Washing? ton Post as follows: When the Chicago convention of I860 concluded its labors Robert Toombs, in the United .States senate, alluding t<> William H. Seward, then a senator from New York, said: "Ac . ? taeon hus been torn bv his own dogs. i Something like that is likely to hap [ pen to the Hon. Bon. Tillman down in South Carolina. Tho liquor question is threatening to disturb the security .of the knight of thc pitchfork, and he may have to fight for his seat in the Senate when the time comes tr-. i j choose his successor. ."Licker" in j politics is nearly as much of a dis I turbing element as "licker" in a man's ; stomach. It gave Ohio to the Demo? crats in 1SS3. It made Wisconsin j Democratic in 1S90. If elected ? Horace Boies governor of Iowa, the j first Democrat to secure that honor in ! more than a third of a century.' It i was liquor in politics that made it ; possible to defeat James G. Blaine for ?president in 1S84, for if St. John had ? not been a candidate there is noth I ing more certain than that Blaine ! would have carried Xew York. Tillman is the man who mixed liq i uor and politics in South Carolina. He I turned the State into a rum seller and i gave it a monopoly of the traffic, j Himself a teetotaller, he had discern? ment enough to see that all the pro? hibition legislation in the world would not eradicate the craving for alcoho? lic stimulants from the human appe? tite, and it is a pity that the average politician totally fails ' to recognize that indisputable fact. As a gen? eral thing prohibition makes law? breakers, perjurers, and not a few drunkards. It is also is the means of selling more "licker" than ail other agencies. The average man in Kan? sas who will have whiskey gets it when somebody has violated the law. It is risky to break the law, and, as a consequence, the liquor supplied is the I cheapest and the meanest to be had, for it is a law of trade that the profit is commensurate with the risk. South Carolina went into the whis? key business. The personal liberty of the citizen was eradicated so far as the right to buy and sell whiskey was concerned. He could not fetch whiskey into the State for his own uis He had to buy of the State, and, I be? lieve, he could not buy more than half a pint at a time. It was the most out? rageous example of paternalism a free people ever endured. The Connecti? cut but blue laws were enacted to make men religious. and were harmless compared with a law to make them sober. Tillman put up his State bar room and called it a dispensary, i am not certain but that one had to get a doc? tor's prescription before he could get even half a pint. There were com? plaints as to the quality of the stuff, and that is not strange. The State made money, for liquor selling was a profitable business. It reduced taxa? tion and that made the tyranny some? what tolerable. I But this is the age of graft and j graft crept into the rum trade of South Carolina just as it had in the insurance business of New York and the Postoffice Department of the United States. And now South Caro? lina is thinking of regaining her lost liberties and with a pretty good chance of succeeding. If you will take the cranks in the United States Congress who want the government to do things the govern? ment has no constitutional authority to do. such as making railroad rates, regulating insurance companies, and subsidizing steamship lines, and rein? force them with the. cranks out of Congress who woul regulate the nor? mal appetite of man by statute, and turn the laj-out loose with unrestrict? ed authority to govern this country, you would soon have a more intoler? able despotism in the United States than Turkey ever labored under. For one I would not be sorry to ^ee Ben Tillman retired to private life. He is an honest man. and the most in? dependent character now in public life. He has learned a great deal since he fetched his pitchfork into the Senate chamber. He has found out that other men are as honest as he. He did even better than that, he re? joiced over it. He is more of a states? man than all his fellow hot-gospelers together, and he dares do things none of them would think of undertaking. Ruffianly as *was his conduct-and there is much room for further im? provement in that respect-Tillman has gained the respect of all his fel? lows in the Senate, and the cordial friendship of many of them. His speech on the death of his col? league, whose name I do not now re cal, was a remarkable production, and j' the only intelligent elucidation of the . political situation in South Carolina 1 that has come under my notice. Xo i matt has a proper conception of the ( "Xew South" until he has read this ( speech and meditated upon it. I As for myself-T suppose it is dis? graceful for me to say so-but I pre? fer the Old South. There is some- J thing about it that is lacking in this ? commercial age. something that no < nation can do without and retain the i respect of anybody whose respect is worth having. Unless this epoch shall manage to regain some of that spirit of the Old South expressed in an ad? dress of one Of Ben Tillman's prede? cessors in the United States Senate, the last session ot' the Thirty-sixth ' Congress, the chapter of the twen? tieth century will be an ugly one in the history of our republic. WOMAN MUST HANG. United States Supreme Court Will Xot Interfere. Washington, D. C., November 27. The supreme court this morning de? cid? ? not to interfere in the case of Mrs. Rogers, the Vermont murderess. ABDUL HAMID YIELDS. He W ill Accedo to the Demands of (he j Powers for Control of Macedonia j Paris, Nov. 27.-Advices received in : diplomatic circles are to the effect that I t the sultan will yield to the demands 1 of the Powers for control of the j finances of Macedonia tomorrow. The T;:rkey ruler still objects to the use of the word "control" in the demand made upon him. ; DOWX AXD OUT. McCurdy the Biggest Grafter of All to? Follow Hyde in Retirement. Xew York, Nov. 27.-The unofficial announcement was made this morning that Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life, has placed his res? ignation in the hands of the trustees^ of the company. It is stated that th?? resignation will be accepted as soon as his sucessor can be found. A tentative offer, according to the report to become the head of the company has been made to Jas. B. Fogan, pres? ident of the First National Bank of Chicago, who was once an Equitable ' director. It is said that he declined to consider the offer. It is also unofficially announced that President McCurdy's son. Robert H. McCurdy, general manager of the Mutual and his son-in-law. Louis A.^ Thebaud, a favored general agent, have also resigned. The investigating committee of the Mutual, or so-celled house cleaning committee, did not accept President McCurdy's offer to cut his salary in half, because such acceptance would have pledged them to a continuance of the McCurdy regime. Educated at Yale. Louis A. Graves, a negro graduate of Yale University, was arrested at? his home in St. Louis, Mo., last Sun? day charged with forgery and obtain^ ing money under false pretences. * According to a dispatch in the New York Sun. Graves is accused of forg? ing the name of Louis A. Celia in five cases, and the signature of Paul Brown in three cases. "In sixteen cases m Graves is accused of obtaining money on forged checks and in half of these^ his sister is named as an accomplice." His mother says that she has borne eleven children, and that Louis is the 'only crook 'among them-the only one who had received an education. She blames his education and asso? ciation with whites for his wrong- A doing." This unfortunate incident will be regarded, of course, as an argument against the education of the negro, ! but there are some negroes in the country who have been well educat- \ ed. and who have not been guilty ot the offense charged against the Mis? souri 'coon.' Morover, here are some well educated white men, a great many of them who have been guilty of obtaining money under false preten? ces. There is Capt. Carter, formerly of the United States army, who was ? highly educated at the expense of the government and who is now serving out his sentence in a military prison at Kansas City. Then there are his associates, Greene and Gaynor, in jail at Savannah waiting for trial. Both of these men were highly edu? cated. Then there are the McCurdy's, and the Hydes ad the McCalls, in New York city and hundreds of others who took their diplomas in the best col? leges of the country and who have been guilty of misappropriating mil? lions of dollars that did not belong ^ to them. Yet no one would think for a moment of argument against the higher education of white men because there are so many white thieves and sharpers. It would have been better, doubtless, if the Missouri negro had never been sent to Yal? I college, but his departure from the * oaths of rectitude can hardly be charged to the education which he re ceived in Dr. Hadley's great school.. News and Courier. Washington, D. C.. November 25. rhe First National Bank at Laneville, Ala., has been closed by order of the Doard of directors. Bank Examiner >. H. Cooper has been appointed re? ceiver. The resources and liabilities )f the bank at the close of business November 9th, were $75.12 each. A Brice law election was held in Anderson county Saturday and the iispensary was voted out by a two to ?ne majority. A light vote was )olled.