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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-08

ment, while the backwoodsman has been
hauled out of his little mountain hollow,
where he may have made ten or fifty
gallons of whiskey, and he is held up as
an example of the terrible power of the
law.
1t is useless, however, to complain Of
past injustice. Is there any hope that
these troubles in Georgia will be terini-
mated soon?
Those best acquainted with the subject
declare that there is. Public opinion in
the mountains is setting more firmly
than ever against all forms of lawlessness.
The people are condemning illicit distill.
ing, and it will not be long before man
suspected of it will be regarded as the
enemy of community which has suf-
fered so much by such sins as he is COM
mitting.
This country has been blessed in many
respects. Its magnificent scenery; its
fertile valleys, in which vegetation grows
with almost tropical lu1uriance; its eli
mate, blessed with the ever fresh breath
of mountain breezes and beyond the reach
of all epidemics, all combine to make its
future bright with promise. Its mineral
wealth can only be guessed by the results
of slight development. These justify the
opinion that there is not on this conti-
nent a region richer in deposits of gold,
copper, and dozen other precious Sc.
crets of the soil. The people, as rule,
are kind, and as intelligent as the masses
of any population 1 have ever noticed.
There seems to he in their dealings sort
of primitive virtue which has long since
fled from more populous regions of the
State. They leave their doors open at
night, and sleep without the slightest
fear Of theft. They are liberal in their
donations to all good causes among them,
and in the care for the unfortunate and
the ministry of every form of charity
they are singularly warm-hearted and
tender.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-08

State Conventions have been refused ad-
mittance, although in most instances they
went there supported by large majority
Of the colored voters of the county.
This persistent opposition led him, in
1872, to bolt the convention, and place
an Independent State ticket in the field,
headed by Reuben Tomlinson for Gov
ernor. The machinery of election, how
ever, was in the hands of the opposing
faction, and Moses was declared elected
Of late years Bowen has not taken an
active part in the canvass; in fact, since
1876, he appears to have seen the inevi,
table fate of the party, and has devoted
himself solely to the task of keeping his
followers together for the county election
of 1880.
Having been left a widower by the
death of Mrs. Petigru- King Bowen in
1877, about year ago he married the
daughter Of Ex-Governor Moses, who
accompanied him in his recent journey
North, and who was probably with him
when he died.
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. The independent Republicans in

The independent Republicans in
Garfeld's own Congressional District
declared n a set of resolutions, passed
in convention in 1876, "that there is no
man to-day officially connected with the
administration Of our National Govern
ment against whom are justly preferred
more and graver charges of corruption
than are publicly made and abundantly
sustained against James A. Garfield, the
present Representative of this Congress
ional District and the nominee Of the
Republican Convention for reelection.
That since he first entered Congress to
this day there is scarcely an instance in
which rings and monopolies have been
arrayed against the interests of the peo.
pie that he has been found active in
speech or vote upon the side of the latter,
but in almost every case he has been the
ready champion of the rings and monop-
olies."
= There was once another remarkable
dog in San Antonio. 1t knew its mas
ter's step and his habits, and would never
bite him. His owner loved him, and
said he would not take $500 for him.
One night his owner came home perfectly
sober and three hours earlier than usual.
The dog, not having been notified of this
change in the programme. mistook him
for an intruder, and bit him in nineteen
places. Next day the owner had the dog
executed by policeman. All efforts to
obtain a commute failed, and yet it was
a clear case of mistaken identity, and
the dog had an unpracticcd mind.-Gal'
reston NcUs.
- The census enumerators in Utah
were unable to determine whether they
ought to classify the plural wives of Nor
mons as married or single, and in their
dilemma they applied to Superintendent
Walker for instructions. He directed
that the womens' answers be accepted in
all cases, and entered as they gave them'
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= Col. John Forney, of the Philadel-
phia Progress, who has stuck to the Re-
publican party since 1860, declares that
the organization has become so corrupt,
ring.ridden and "held by gangs of men,
calling themselves Republicans, who not
only defy all law to fill their pockets and
empty the public Golfers, but laugh at the
opinions and triumph over the interests
of the people, any change aciR be an I'M
prouemcnt This sentiment is getting to
be universal, and the complications in
national politics only add to the new
responsibilities of the voter in local
affairs" Garfield, the bribe-t taker, and
Arthur, the ring-master, we take it, can
not be very dear to Forney's heart. He
gives signs of rebellion.
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No HOSPITAL NEEDED.-No palatial
hospital needed for Hop Bitters patients,
nor large salaried talented puffers to tell
what Hop Bitters will do or cure, as they
tell their own story by their certain and
absolute cures at home.-Ncw York In
dcDeudcnt,
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W. U. NITCHEIIL.
"Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, Acting AS
sistant Adiutant General.

supplemented this order by his long,
able and justly celebrated letter to Gov
ernor Pease, of Texas, from which the
following extracts will now be read with
revived interest," :-"It is rather more
than limited in your letter that there is
no local State government in Texas and
no local laws outside of the acts of Con-
gress which / ought to respect, and that
| should undertake to protect the rights
of persons and property in my own way
and in an arbitrary manner. Ifsuch be
your meaning | am compelled to differ
with you. After the abolition Of slavery
ian event which l hope no one now
regrets) the laws of Louisiana and Texas
existing prior to the rebellion, net in
conflict with the acts of Congress, com.
prised a vast system of jurisprudence,
both civil and criminal. 1t required
not volumes only, but libraries to con-
tain them. They laid down principles and
precedents for ascertaining the rights and
adjusting the controversies of men in
every conceivable case. They were the
creations of great and good and learned
men, who had labored in their day for
their kind and gone down to the grave
long before our recent troubles, leaving
their works an inestimable legacy 10 the
human race. These laws, rs am iu-
formed, connected the civilizations of
past and present ages, and testified of
the Justice, wisdom, humanity and pa
triotism of more than one nation,
through whose records they descended
to the present people of these States. !
am satisfied, from representations of
persons competent to judge, they are
as perfect system of laws as may be
found elsewhere, and better suited than
any other to the condition of this people,
for by them they have long been govern
ed. Why should it be supposed Con
gress has abolished these laws? Why
should any one wish to abolish them
They have committed no treason; nor
are hostile to the United States nor
countenance crime; nor favor injustice.
On them, as on foundation of rock, re-
poses almost the entire superstruction OF
social order in these two States. Annul
this code of local laws and there would
be no longer any rights, either of person
or property, here. Abolish the local
tribunals made to execute them, and you
would virtually annul the laws, except
in reference to the very few cases cog
nizable in the federal courts. Let u.s.
for a moment, suppose the local civil
code annuled; and that | am left, as
Commander of the Fifth Military Dis
trict thn co1a fnnntain of law and iUs.
tice. This is the position in which you
would place me.
II am now to protect all rights and
redress all wrongs? How is it possible
for me to do it? Innumerable ques'
tions arise, of which am not only igno.
rant, but to the solution of which mill.
tary court is entirely untitled. One
would establish a will, another@ deed
or the question is one of succession, OF
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22
The Gun Again.

About 10 o'clock Tuesday night there
was enacted another one of those terrib e
tragedies with which Austin is not ul-
familiar. The report Of pistol was
heard in the vicinity of Millett's Op-
era House, and for few minutes 1t
seemed An uuimportant matter, as no
commOtion cou.d be seen in any direc-
ton. Presently, however, a person
was seen coming leisurely towards the
Avenue from the Opera House, and he
was recognized as j )hn Stokes, a col
ored employee in Charley Cortissoz's
saloon, and, upon being questioned. he
said: - | shot fellow back there" A
policeman rushed on the scene pres
ently, inquiring what had teen done
aud who did it, and in reply Stokes
tod him he had shot man and wanted
to give himself up. He still had the
pistol in his hand, and he retained it,
carrying it in his hand as he went with
the policeman. The crowd proceeded
cautiously to the Opera House,
and there, with his feet IN the
middle of the pavement and his head
against and at the enc of the door
stcP, lay Tue NlCtlLn. lie was BasplnS
for breath and grosning, and continued
thus for some time. A light was pro-
cured and the colored people near in
stantly recognized the murdered man
as Wesley Alexander, q colored man
who has figured 30 often in the crimI-
nal courts here as to become widely
known. 1t is said he had been con-
victed and imprisoned several times for
larceny and burglary and had, on va
rious occasions, escaped from the peni-
Tertiary. The bullet entered his neck
just at the right of the bronchial tube
and near the collar bone and lodged
under the skin near the shoulder
blade. No medical assistance was Sc
cured until nearly an hour after the
shooting, and the physician, upon his
arrival, pronounced him dead. When
searched, his pockets produced an ivory
handled pistol, rszor, a pair of brass
knucks aid other articles. From those
in the crowd who knew the praties it
was learned that Stokes house had
been lately robbed and that he accused
Alexander of the burglary, but nothing
was heard which showed this to be the
cause of the shooting. The inquest
will be held at A. NJ. to-day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22
POLITICAL NOTES.

The d 3mocrats in the seventh Mis-
souri, district had regular walk over
in the election of Philips over the Re-
publicans and Greenbackers. The two
latter attempted TO combine, but missed
connection.
Sixty-six Republican newspapers IN
Pennsylvania have made returns to the
Philadelphia Times of their presidential
preferences. They stand as follows
For Blaine, &c; Grant, %; Sherman, 8;
the field, 3; the best man, 3, and for
the chicago nominee, =.
Mcneil, whose name became infa-
nous during the war, for the massacre
of Confederate soldiers at Hannibal,
No., in so-called retaliation, is the
prospective United States marshal
There is something ominous, says the
Examiner, in the character of men COM
ing to the front.
1t is reported thst the Union League
Club of Philadelphia has been can
vsssed on the presidential question.
Eighty per cent. of the members were
opposed to Grant, and declared their
preference for Bsysrd as opposed to
him. Between Grant and Tilden they
had no choice, but declared they would
rather net vote at all than vote for
either.
Politicians, like other men, must be
judged by the company they keep.
Gen. Grants friends have been attempt
ing to apologize for the presence of no.
torous Treasury depredstOrs at the
banquets given in his honor. They
make tho point that Grant would have
preferred their absence. But then,
they were invited. Whyi Besides, it
won't do for man to 60 back upon his
old friends.
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The sIeaeyed Class.


Statistics la-ely- coilecsei in one uf
our oldest New Eagland cities sha ss...s
that 81 per cent. of the leading mea ~
the city were either IsImsrs' boys Or
poor boys in the cities or vIilsges The
list included all the bank presidents,
railroad msgnates, aud leading manu-
lecturers and merchants Ferry wears
ago ''the moneyed clas,n OF this par
ticuisr city were hoeins CORE, or tend
Jog lathes. or peddiing newspapers
forty years ago these ''bloa;ed bond
holders" were rot plethorc race; and
IL is highly i'm probable that ans con
siderable portion OF the mvuey h'ch
they now possess will be u The hands
of their grandchildren. The "mon-
eyed sristocracy" Of the mex. genera
ton are growing up now on the farms
and in the factories. Whet is true Of
this one city IS substantially true of
every other city. The fortunes that
are continued in the same family for s
hundred years are very few; wha. Que
generation gathers, another generation
scatters; the wealth of the land is con-
stantly changing hands; and the boy
who belongs to what are called the
working classes has quite as good a
chance of becoming ''bloated bond
holder" before he dies, as the boy who
is born with silver spoon In his mouth.
With these facts in view, is 1t not rather
wicked for demagogueS TO try to excite
the alarm of the people who work with
their hands, lest they should be enslav-
ed by this formidable and tyrannicsl
''moneyed clasp There is no such
''class." A consolidated and heredIte-
ry arlstocracy of wealth does not exist.
The great bulk of the wealth of this
country is now in the hands OF men who
were born poor. Is it likely that they
will combine to cypress end epslaVe
those who are toiling up from the level
on which they started? Il it possible
that they should go combine in any eff
fectual way, seeing that their future
control of the property which now they
call their own must be go very slight {?
And would it not be foolish aud sui
cidal thing for the poor men of this
country to combine to overthrow sys-
TEN of government which promotes
such rapid distribution of wealth, and
which { ers such abundant chances to
them and their cbildrenl When the
communists and the socislistic reform
ers urge that all property rights must
be anpulled, and that some new indus
tIial and proprietary scheme must be
inaugurated, just call their attention to
the facts reclted above, aud ask them
whether under any other system the
children of the poor would have bet
ter chance than they have under the
present system. = GOOd Company.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Four, if not five, of the seven bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South have been in the ministry from
Not one of the West Indian members
of the Spanish COrtes voted for the
gradual abolition of slavery in Cuba.
The planters in that island love the
plague, and will stick to it.
Though Siberia is more than half as
large again as the United States, some
of its districts are already oveT-popu-
lated. The RusdkarG PrdUdCld says that
In the province of Tobnisk there is no
government land lett for the settlement
of the exIled criminals.
In many respects the organ in the
Stewart Cathedral, at Garden City, L.,
l., will be the most wonderful instru-
ment in the world. In the first place,
it will be located in four different parts
of the cathedral, the organist will sit in
the chancel and play upon keyboard
which will have electric connection
with all four parts of the instrument.
Then there will be also an echo organ
in the roof, which, too, will be played
from the chancel; the organist can also
ring in the chime bells to suit. Five
hydraulic engines will run the organ,
and the instrument will cost something
more than $40, 900.
Gen. Grant, in q late speech made to
about seventy-tive preachers of the
Northern Methodist Church, said
There was no doubt about the loyalty
of the Methodist Church in the North,
and there was no doubt of its disloyalty
IN the South. What is true of the 10y
atty of the Methodist church in the
North must be said in regard to the
churches of the other denominations,
with not, perhaps, the same unanimity,
enough, however, to save Them"
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Mis-. CummIns In Texas.

Mss Ella Cummins, the lady who
witnessed the killing of 3. c. Porter,
the actor of the Ward Barrymore
troupe, at Marshall, Texas affects to
believe that her kie would be leopard
lied were she TO go toTexas to appear
I as witness against Currie, the muir
derer. IL an interview with the Pitts
burg Dispatch she feIgns to believe that
guard OF 500 men could not prevent
Currie's friends making way with her,
aad in q severe manner denounces
Texas and the State generally. Now,
Miss CummIns knows TINS to be the
veriest Nonsense. She made, with her
company, tour OF a goOdly portion Of
that State last spring, and was receiv-
ed with the most polite and chivalrous
attention by the Texans. Not until
they met CuFrie, 3 drunken vagabond
from the North, did they meet with
anything hus kindness. And when
the murder Of Porter occurred, as we
happen to know, it was denounced
from one end OF tle State 20 the other,
and city after city, from Dallas to Gal
weston, gave the company benefit per-
formances, and contributed literally
to fund for the support of Porter's
mother and sister. Indeed, they Wed
with each other as to which should
pre- fTer the largts5 purse. This talk of
Miss Cummins' is very different from
the speech she made 81 "a Houston thea
ter, shortly after the tragedy, when
she was made the recipient of a msg-
niticent present rs testimonial to her,
and as 8 rebUke 20 the murdernus act,
and i'll becomes her. Texls has done
all that it possible t. bring this red
handed murderer from the North TO JUS
tice, ana relied upon Mss Cummlns
and NJ 4urice B anymore, the witnesses
of the act, to testify for the prosecu-
ton. They did not appear when the
case was called, because they were
both playing under engagement in the
East, and not because they feared their
lives would be endangered by attend
ing the trial. They regard their SAL
aries more precious than u desire TO see
the murderer of their friend punished,
and all talk of fear ia the merest bosh.
Her reflections upon the cilZ sns of
Texas are ungeEerous snd unjust.
Currie is, as we have SAID, Northern
man, employed in Texas as in engi-
neer; and though the officials resisted
the efforts of his attorneys to release
him on bail, and he is still in custody,
Notwithstanding the fact that no one
appeared against him when his trial
was called, 1t is not likely that he can
be convicted without the testimony of
Miss Cummius and Mr.. Barrymore, the
latter of whom was wounded by the
ruffian. And yet they refuse to testi-
fly; and when he is finally released we
may expect howl to go up from the
Radical press against the courts of
Texas for completely with crime and
the condonment or murder. Jackson
(Mich. } Star.
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were By ds'niy fiagsrs end served b.
wairers vim viHuiDg iinlies sid fsses,
nssing grec
Tae district court az william Cd
county IL nov in session, Ju fge BiacE-
burn presiding C4pt. Waltei, a ker,
OF Linipases, District attorney. The
machinery Of this court runs under the
administration of these gentlemen
with much smoothness. Ga Fuday
and Saturday last there were eight jury
trials and convictions of felony cases IN
this court.
The cases of Hunt and Male and
the R1ss brothers are set for this week.
fad the STATESMAN Is looked for
with considerable anxiety on the ar
rival of the morning train from Austin,
and is much esteemed as a reliable or
gan.
Politics here are quiet. The caldrou
pOlitIcsl has not yet begun to boil.
One thing 1 find, somewhat in contrast
with former observation 10 this coun-
ty, and that j., that Hon. John Han
cock holds that position in the opin-
ion of the people that his high char
scter, foe ability aud undoubted pa
triotIsm entitle him *F"s
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22
ScIentists May Differ

About the pathology of rheumatism,
its origin and whether it be hereditary,
but lrrefragable testimony proves that
when tendency to it develops itself,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is reliable
means of subdulng that tendency.
Some of the prescribed remedies for the
disease are decidedly Objectionable
from the danger attending their use,
others are utterly Intellectual, the best,
the safest check is the Bitters. This
very obstinate malsdy, the more effect
ua,ly to overcome it, should be Crap
pied with at the outset. Every one
knows what terrible, what ceaseless
pain it can infiict. Why then, should
this atrocious, often fatal complaint be
allowed to gain head way through indif-
ference to its earliest symptoms, when a
safe, long tested and strongly recon-
mended medicine presents itself. In
addition to suggesting this means of
relief 1t seems not inappropriate to eau
ton the rheumatic against exposure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22

NoTHING so delights the very small
boy of this city as to be sole owner of
a very large gun, and when he once
has it fairly in possession his chief and
only object seems to be to enter the
lists as free and easy candidate for a
tirst-class inquest. Should he fail in
this, it is-iigtty probable, from the
reckless manner in which he handles
his firearms, that some other person
will, speedily aud without warning, be
prepared for the duty of the coroner,
and it Is q matter of wonder and con-
graduation that he is not often called
upon to perform his duties. It's true,
an especial Providence seems to watch
over the very small boy with his very
large gun, but, nevertheless, the pc
destrians on the thoroughfares will
feel much more comfortable if he can
be persuaded TO lay aside his large
gun and appear, if it is necessary
that he be armed at all in public,
with his mothers broom stick, which
is decidedly more appropriate for one
of his age. Perhaps it will be much
better for HIM to appear without any
thing Of war-like character and as a
civilized boy ought TO.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22
A Reckless Aes, afmost Resulting
Fatally TO Human LIfe.


Monday morning about 10 O'Clock
No S. Ssnfofd's little boy @ss ming
up the Avenue, when he was hsilei by
5 IN Newton, son OF Mr.. George Nex-
toe, the jswelvr, aged about ten years.
He was, at the t me, playing with an
od-iasbion Eefieid life, and, thinking
1t was not loaded, plsyfuIly aimed it a.
young Stafford ami pulled the trigger,
the gun going of, fortunately missing
the Toy bat penetrating the horses
head two inches below the left eve and
passing out the right upper jaw. The
horse Dled freely. but horse doctor
was summoned and soon succeeded in
checking the flow OF blood. Up TO
dark last evening the horse was still
allYe, tut Will, in all probability, die.
Mr. Newton informed Mr. Sanford, the
owner of the horse, that he would pay
whatever damages he claimed. His
son was arrested and placed in the
lookup to await his trial this morning
before the mayor on a charge OF dis
charging firearms. This is only one
OF numerous instances of serious acct
dents occurring in the handling and
carelessly, II not criminally, dischsrg-
ing of fire arms. Scarcely day passes
without furnishing an example of the
consequences OF this reckless use OF fire
arms. When will people cease such
foolish habits with deadly weapons.