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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-01-11
Too Old.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jones were starting
for church. "Wait, DEAR" said the
lady, Give forgotten something; viii
You be good, now, and 60 upstairs
and get my goats off the bureau"
"Your goats! what new-fangled
things that?" replied Jones.
I'LL show you" remarked the wife
and she sailed upstairs, and dowr
again witF a pair Of. kids on her
hands; "there they are" said she.
"Why, I call those kids" said thu
surprised husband.
ooh, do you?" snapped the wife
"Well, so did I once, but they are 81
old now, I'm ashamed to call then
anything but goats"
They went to church. The mex
day Jones' wife had half a dozen pair
ofnew gloves in a handsome lacqueret
box OF the latest design.
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ANXIOUS TO R1sE.-There's plenty
of room up stairs, as Daniel Webster
said to the young lawyer anxious to
rise, but respondent of his chance 10
do 30; but no one need injure himself
either in climbing the stairs of fame
or those of his own house or business
place. The following is to the point:
Mr.. John A. Hutchinson, Supt. Dow
ner's Kerosene Oil Works, Boston,
Mass, writes: Mr.. Patton, one of our
foremen, in walking up stairs last
week sprained his leg badly. I gave
him a bottle Of st. Jacobs Oil to try.
He used it and an almost instantaue-
Gus cure was Effected La FtageHe
! Daily Journal.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-01-11
Time to Stop.

There are now two or more meas
ures before the General Assembly
looking to the creation of salaried po-
~sitions by it. 1t is proposed to Or
ganize a Railroad Commission with
three members-there is but. one
now-at q salary Of three thousand
dollars each. The other one is the
rs.opsning q sA eva Gissf sfd1 Aasae aols
liars to fix up the building and eigh-
teen thousand dollars annually for
the salaries. of necessary professors.
When will our lawmakers stop estab-
fishing Offices to be paid for by wiring
ing taxes from the people? 1t is
full time to stop. Although this is
but q little State, it appears as though
we must have as many officers, COM
missions and public institutions as
New York, Pennsylvania, or other
large commonwealth of the Union.
There are only five hundred thousand
people in South Carolina, leaving out
of calculation the colored people
| We do not mean to count ont the ne
groes, but they are not taxpayers to
any considerable extent, as their
emancipation from slavery is too re-
cent for them to have had opportu-
nifty to accumulate property. And
yet every legislative session brings a
new position to be filled by or through
the Influence of the State Govern
ment.. It is about time to stop, and
let our office-seekers 60 to work and
help develop the latent interests Of
the State. Let persons live for and
not upon the State they seem to love
so vel. and Mountaineer,
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South Cardinals Success.

The following is q list of awards
made to South Carolina exhibitors ir
the Atlanta Cotton Exposition:
For best and fullest collection o.
minerals from the State, certificate o.
award and cash premium of $50 tc
the State of South Carolina. Agri.
cultural steam engine or wheels
Tozer & Dial, Columbia. Cotton
seed huller and mill, ". Lowry, Co.
lumbia. Catawba wine, H. H. Buist,
Greenville-premium of S.. Lace
handkerchiefs, Miss H. A. Samuels
Newberry. Best bale cotton from
the State, j. K. Schumpert, Newberry,
500. Baggiug for upland cotton,
Charleston Begging Manufacturing
Company. Japanese silk quilt, Mrs.
B. B. BUST, Greenville. Darned
lace, Mrs. H. A. La Paugh, Newberry.
Combined seed planter and fertilizer,
D. L. Mckay White, Manning. Pic
ture made Of cotton, Mrs. b. L. Wier,
Greenville. Seed planter and fer
%tilizer, David B. Balantine, Brewer
ton. Cotton planter, M. L. Donald
son, Greenville. Picture of zephyr,
beads and chinille, Miss Ray Foot,
Newberry. Hand made handker-
chief, Mrs. ". o. Wiecking, Wal
halla. Fertilizer, Atlantic Phosphate
Charleston. Firtilizers,
Stono Phosphate Company, Charles
ton. Best collection of rice, H. Bis
scof & Co., Charleston-$25.
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A FOOLISH MIsrAEE-Don't make
the mistake Of confound;ng a remedy
OF merit Nth quack medicines. We
speak from experience when we say
that Parker's Ginger ionic is q
sterling health restorative which will
do all that is claimed for it. We have
|ssed it ourselves with the happiest
results for Rheumatism and when
worn eut by overwork. See. adv
Times. ~
A Galveston darkey has returned
from a business trip to the interior
very much disgaeted. Didn't you
receive any offers to pick cotton?'
asked a friend. eyes,, SIGH as dey
was. A man offered me oue-third OBJ
de amount I picked, and when I
Looked at de field I saw for myself
dat when>b was all picked it wouldn't
amount to one.third, 80 I left ior
home" "You was in luck dat he
didn't foul yer" eyer bet I was,
Sandy. My refmetic is all what. saved
me. I tell yer all, send yer children
ter skool"
"What! that coffee all gomez"
"Yis mann. There isn't a blessed
DRAWN left in the box" "What
four pounds of coffee used up in our
small family in one week." "Small
family? Musha, thin, nam; there's
two of yez, an the maid, an there's
me and me foive admirers, who has
aich a night to hisself, and how ye
can make a small family out of tin
of us is b'yant me entirely. I don't
know what yell do whin I come
to fill in t'otber two nights O the
week wild young min who wants a
sup O. hot coffee for to keep the chilIs
away"
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Col. George Bliss. Special United
States Attorney in charge OF the Star
Route cases, has received assurances
from the newly appointed Attorney
General, Brewster, that in a few days
he will give him special authority to
pursue the suits with all prompti-
tude. Brewster further says "the
uttermost penny taken from the U.
S. Treasury must be recovered, and
that he will take an active part in the
prosecution, and lead in person for
the United States.
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Thomas o. Thompson, Esq, the
Mayors Secretary, who, some few
days ago. slipped on a banana peel
and sprained bis knee writes that St
Jacobs Oil "acted like a charm
CHICAGO Tribune.
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and Neal ae married. Craft is sim
gle. They were all present when
Gibbons residence was burned, and
one of then drove the hearse at the
funeral, theother was pallbearer.
LArEnjtan. s.: A Cattlesburg,
Ky, dispatch says: Judge Brown
fearing that great crowd from Ash
land would prevent the hearing OF
the cases Of he Gibbons family muir
derers, ordersd the steamer Mountain
Girl to get up steam and take the
prisoners to Maysville, KY, for safe
keeping, but owing to the difficulty
of getting the prisoners on board the
steamer, the Sheriff put them on a
ferry boat andstarted down the river
A mob then took possession OF the
steamer Mountain Girl and started
in pursuit. 1t is thought that the
prisoners will not get to Maysville
alive.
MAYsv1IEE, KT., January 6.-The
Ashland murderers arrived here al
10 o'clock last night and were safely
lodged in Jail, The Mountain Cir.
was a mile or two behind at the time
and abandoned the pursuit on learn
ing that the prisoners were guarded
by militia. No boisterous deponstra'
ton attended the landing here, but il
required the utmost efforts OF the
civil and military officers to keep The
immense ovid rom fd5hing On the
boat.
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INDIAN DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON,
D. CT am anxious to introduce DR..
Bulls Cough Syrupamong my In,
dams, having used it myself for seve'
raj months, and think it one of the
finest remedies I ever found. I assure
you, it is the only thing that ever
relieved me of p~rotrscted cough,
brought on by exposure while on the
Sioux Commission last year. A, G
BOONE, Agent for Poncas and q. S
Commissioner.
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NO. 10.
Wise and Otherwise.

largest line of candies ever
Heteu IA cis market is to be seer at
How does paintiSs>c with nv
daughtef? HAp anSioss nora MY
ut makes her too reAin pa'en.,
replied the teacher. tae''
Deaf lady: whats his o.,
Augustus Tyler, Deaf lasx: Bless
me, what a name! :Busais Bilerr
Eliza, you must be making an of he"
On u recent Sunday a Chrlestowp,
Mass, Republican pastor ddressed
his congregation in behalf e~foreieu
mi Ngfk ~ Mh ssr, xs51 TaEn4L
China! Look at Indiana-I M In.
dia!" and went on with his sert,.
smile on every face.
Three little boys, on a Sabbath da>
were stopped on the street by an
elderly gentleman who, perceiyins
that they had bats and balls with
them, asked one of the number this
question: Boy, can you tell me where
all naughty boys go to who play bal!
on Sunday? Over back of Johhson's
dam, the youngster replied.
Two ORsANs.-Regulate first the
stomach, second the liver; especially
the first, 30 as to perform their
functions perfectly and you will
remove at least nineteen-twentieths
ofall the ills that mankind is heir to,
in this or any other climate. Hop
Bitters is the only thing that will give
perfectly healthy natural action to
these two organs.-Maine Farmer. II
A Scotch clergyman whose habit
was to preach hell.6re to his congre-
cation in large doses, had occasion to
visit a poor sick parishioner. After
charging with considerable JUNCTION
on his favorite topic, he said to her:
"Now, my dear woman, did you aver
appreciate th~e.tortures of the damned
before ?" "Nae, nae; never till ye
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-01-11
OVER AND y AGAIN.

Over and over again.
No matter which way I turn,
I always find in the Book Of Life
Some lesson I have to learn.
T must take my turn at the mill,
Unjust grind out the golden grain,
I must work at my task with a resolute will,
Over and over again.
Over and over again
The brook through the meadow flows.
Over and over again
The. ponderous mill wheel goes.
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain,
And a blessing, failing US once or twice,
May come if we try again.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-01-11
For the Dispatch.
Letter from Johntown.

Not a Christmas day comes to good
old Lexington without your CORES
ponaent wishing a happy one 10,
them. There I spent. my first
Christmas in South Carolina and
around it clusters many, many happy
memories. With US We have spent
the holidays happily. A few parties,
some private "nogs" and with no
public bar-rooms less liquor has been
used than during any Christmas
within the memory of the oldest in
habitant. At DOWNTOWN Academy on
the 23d instant we had a Christmas
tree tastefully arranged and bounti-
fully laden by the fair hands of our
ladies. The tree was the most beau
tiful known within the history OF this
section. During holidays MI. Fl. A.
Sally and d.. J. W. Lowman did a
fine business at their respective stores.
Retrospective as to the year gone;
our Sabbath-school, the largest in the
county, under Prof. OBrisn as Supt.,
has reeefsed from private hands, in
dependent of other contributions,
more than fifty dollars in cash from
private hands, while our school at the
Academy has built for it the largest
the county, and diving the year has
enrolled one hundred and twenty
seven students. So much for the
generosity of the excellent citizens OF
the Johntown community, among
whom none were more Jealous than
Mr.. Il. 4. Sally and DR.. ]. ". Low
man.
The year, fruitful OF events, and to
be rich in the historic past, is another
added to the roll of centuries, re-
plete with errors, goodness and mis-
takes. By these may we profit. Its
good works may be garnered for imi-
tation in the future while its mistakes
and errors may well be remembered
only to be strewn along the pathway
of the future IS warnings in lifes
coming years. The year, the event
full year, is dying: Its wall is heard
on the evening blast, yet, in the
language of Prentice: 't& -
sNo funeral train
Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and
: wood,
With melancholy light, the moon beams
rest,
Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air Is
stirred
As bya mourners sigh; and on yon cloud,
That floats so still and placidly through
heaven,
The spirits Of the seasons seem to stand,--
Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's
solemn form,
And Winter, with his aged locks,-and
breathe,
Tn mournful cadences, that come abroad
A melancholy dirge o'erthe dead year,
Gone from the earth forever"
With new resolutions let South
Carolina, full OF the elements OF pros
perity, press onward, until culminat-
ing in Calhoun's grandest prophecies,
she shall achieve for herself the
brightest dreams of her .chivalrlc
children.
The stock law and other questions
before the people are too distracting
for O holiday letter, and it becomes
the lover OF harmony just now to add
no single word to distraction. For
the coming year let US trust that
nothing will divide the party OF
honesty and Of progress but that
peace and harmony like the benedic-
ton of Heaven may span our fair,
sunny, land with her radiant bow.
FEsrUs.
JoHsrowS, S. c., Dec. 81, 1881.
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Halls Positive Cure for Corns will
cure Warts, Bunions, Sore and In
famed Joints. Sold by G. n. Kyzer.
June Sly.
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General News.

Ne
4 Postmaster General James has SUI
8 rendered the postofice to Howe.
. During 1881 there were $500
deaths and $3.50 births in the cS
f of New York.
Mrs. Cruz, of Florence. Cal. gave
birth, on Friday last, to six perfectly
formed female children.
Guiteau held a New Year, recep.
ton in jail, and it is said thAt proba.
bly, two hundred people, a large pro
portion of them being ladies, called
on him.
On the 9th ultimo Congressman
to the effect that the contest 81 tha
latter for hisaseat would be vigorously
pushed.
Jay Gould, Russell Sage and Cyrus
". Field obtained control of all the
New York elevated railroads. and
cleared a profit of $3,500,0 900 in the
transaction.
Gabriel White, a negro, was hanged
at Walterboro on Friday for the muir.
der of Frederick Bellinger, colored, in
1879. The cause of the murder was
jealousy about a woman. When the
trap fell Whites neck was broken.
A great deal has been said OF late
about what has become of the
Confederate gold. President Davis
has been charged by some with having
taken a large portion of it, but the
latest developments point to the fact
that with the exception Of that part
which was paid to the soldiers, q
mob stole it from the wagons while
they were passing through Wilkes
County, Ga.
There is considerable e%1citament
at Keokuk, Iowa, over the fact that
between thirty and forty medical stu
dents have been stricken with q dis
ease that is pronounced by the Pres
ident Of the Board of Health and
smaffp6x. It appears that q body
received from Chicago was used in
the dissectiog room of the medical
college, and that the subject had
died OF small pox.
Thus far bills for the new sppor-
tionment have been introduced inthe
House providing for 293, SUI, 3Vs
and 319 members respectively. All
these bills 60 to the Census Com
mittee, where they will encounter the
plan devised by Superintendent OF
Census, Seaton, which assumes the
addition of one member to each State
by this higher number and assigns
the extra members to the States
which show quotients from such d.
vision nearest the Federal ratio.
It takes all the drumming and
dragooning we can do to bring the
Democrats to the polls, while the Re-
publicans cannot be held away. By
taking a plain, practical common
sense view of it any man with a sim
Gle eye can see that registration is
surely the forerunner Of the death
knell of the Democratic party in
South Carolina. Suppose though the
alleged necessity for the registration
law was the real reason for urging il
-(that of preventing frauds in cleo
tions\-Who violate the election laws
to the greater extent? The Republic
cans or the Democrats ?-AbbeutN'
Press and Banner.
On Friday, the 3Oth ult., at Ben
tonville, Ark, a man named Esor
Bolin was killed in his bed and his
wife confessed to shooting him. She
Justified herself by saying that Bolir
} had killed two men, was a horse thief
had lived by theft in every place
where they had been, had threatened
her life at various times, and on two
occasions had drawn a knife on her
, and that her life was most miserable
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~ =
"0logne is grateful to inyalids
uoCuuse r~ =,
sickening effect of most perfumes. 1;
The negroes emigratins from Edge
field are leaving Atlanta for Texas
aud Arkansas but mostly for Texas
Some are stranded in Atlanta for
want of means.
Col. John n. Fisher has been elect
ed President OF the South Caroline
Railroad, and the new company is
now in full possession and perma'
nently organized.
Isaac Reed and Andrew Mannin.
ger, colored, qaarrelled over ten cents
worth of pie At Walhalla on the 18th
ult. and both began to shoot. Man
ringer waskilled.
The Coileton Press says that MIR,
Isaac Ssuls, while firing off his pistol
at Smokes Cross Roads on Christmas
Eve, accidentally killed his little son,
who was standing near by.
A young son. Of Mrs. Celia Herring,
of Marion, was twisting a whip, and
struck q pistol on the mantel. The
weapon was discharged and the ball
penetrated the boys head, causing
instant death.
Tommie Blease, about ten years Of
age, the youngests son ofAir. and Mrs.
j. Il. Blease, of Newberry, accident
ally shot and killed himself by play
29th December.
Thursday morning last eleven pris-
oners attempted to. escape from the
Anderson Jail by battering down the
door. The noise aroused the Sheriff
who drove them back by firing his re-
volver through the door.
There is said to be great unrest in
Sumter among the negroes there and
that at least five hundred families are
preparing to leave the county in the
early spring. The farming interests
are alleged to be greatly imperilled.
The Camperdown Cotton Mills, neal
Greenville, S. c., during the pas
year used up 5000 bales of cotton
manufactured between $35O,O0O and
100000 worth of goods, and de-
clared a IL per cent. dividend for tht
Halls letter and Ring Worm Spe
cifc cured a letter on my wife's heae
that had troubled her a number o
years. I have used this remedy will
eminent success in my practice. DR.
G. II. Hunter, Lake City, Florida
Of, June Sly.
Abbeville Medium, January 9Th.
The hard times are beginning to b;
felt in this section. At Greenwood
three firms have adjusted their bus
mess. J. B. Oldham for -abou
$4,000; B. Reynolds & Co. for abou
$4,000, and MCNEIL & Davis abou
$1,000. Israel Gittelson made a,
assignment Of all his assets y~esterda,
to Benz. S. Barnwell, for the beneh'
of his creditors. Liabilities, abou
$4,000, and assets $1,000. Thes
are among our most respected firms
and we regret their embarrassment.
The ef1ux Of good citizens is create
than the influx of uncertain mer
No effort is made to keep at HON
those native and to the manner born,
while every inducement is offered t
bring the free lances of Europe int
our household. This is all wrong. ]
rests with our legislators to rectif
the evil if it can be cured. Elthe
create an anti-emigraton bureau Q
abolish the immigration bureau
our own people could be kept her
their natural increase would rapid
fill our waste places that there woul
be no need for the Macedonian CT
that we all are raising to the HON
hunters of thsyOld World Bar1nce
People.
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Ashland outsage---Ths crimi-
mails Prepare for Death.
Full Confession.

CINCINNATI, Jan. Am Ashland
KY, dispatch says: Ellis's strange
conduct excited the surprise Of citi,
zen who told detective Heain of il
Helm then sent for Ellis and locked
him in his room at the hotel where
Ellis first said thai, last summer, he
had heard Craft and Neal boast that
before Christmas they would carnally
know Miss Tbsnaas and Miss Glib
bons. This morning, il Jail, Ellis
denied that Graft and Neal were
guilty, but su6sssusntly reaaS-
Ibis first statements saying be was
compelled to retractty theprisoners'
who we're in the kns cell. The
bodies OF the victi6i a1hu'ned
to-day and the .wouaas q aimed. 1t
was found they coasapond exactly
with the stateps4 of Elhs es to the
position of the psties whe} ahe MUIR
derous blows wei struck Elis has
made all lBspfsF@ k tions DEATH
and expects it: peteqssss Hef'n
thinks be " tbschief astor in the
tragedv. ID th his c~ontession is
due to tb. st others would
give the infeznati9n a
The three menl arrested are VIM
Neal, Ellis craffha aeolse hAis,
~ IT. E,,;. .ays that Craft and
Neal awakened ha' on . n'sn' -
the murder and
nnh-,h He went reluctantly.
They entered By ~ HS-
-. CD ,ged the two girls.
-. Thoma. .secegnized them and
said she would M
then nbout to give
u1 Craft struck him on
the head axe, S''llng MIN
de- ONE, and amid the
ctEe Pc child for mercy
.t, fac head and killed
~ Then killed En-
ma Tbo}Y m tie same WaYs Eff4s
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STORY OF THE SEWING. MACHINE,

Containing a handsome and costly steel en-
craving frontispiecs; also, % finely en-
erayed wood cuts, and bound in an efaoo-
rate blue and gold Autographed cover: No
charge whatever is made Tor this handsome
book which can be obtained only by ap-
nlicstion at the branch and subordinate
Offices of The Singer Manufacturing Co.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING co.
Principal Office, 81 Union Square,
New York. ..
J.. J. MESSENGER & CO.,
Local Agents, Lexington S. c.
June 15-1y
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&66 A week in your own town. Terms
DOO and SIS outfit free. Address
w II. HALLETT & CO.,
Mar. 2-1y. Portland, Mgine.
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JoHsrowS, S. c., Dec. 81, 1881.
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State News.

The Saluda Factory has lately beer
considerably enlarged. In a few weeks
it will have 10000 spindles in op.
Grafton.
Col. B. ". Edwards and family, OF
Darlington, were made seriously i'll
recently by mince pies made from
material purchased in the town.
Even those few of our State ex-
changes which were issued during
Christmas week are unusually barren
OF interesting news items.
GRATEFUL TO INyALIDs.-Floreston
''!ogne is grateful to inyalids.
'r-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-04
Tany for Miller.

New York. 3.-The Tribune praises
Miller's speech on the Chinese question
saying unlike many, if not most of the
speeches on that side Of the question
Miller's was calm and dispsssionste
view of the whole subject of Chinese i'm
migration. Its effect upon Industry and
labor, its influence upon our republican
institutions, its social, political, mora
and religious aspects, will all be- good
The senator's arguments are unusnaIIv
free from the demagogism which has
been SO conspicuous q feature of the dis
cussion heretofore made in the press and
upon the stump, upon this veIed oues-
lion. They make no speeious appeal to
the passions or prejudices of any particno
lar class, but are directed to The sohar
judgment of the American people. He
considers the question not as merely .
political one, upon which votars NAV be
lnnue1ced IN one way or another, but a.
a problem Of statesmanship, to hs
tnoughttully considered and cares,l1v
s 40 ia oorousl wrought out. It ia sstit-
factory to think that subject of so mich
consequence and such gravity is in = fair
way OF being discussed serjouslv and
upon It's merits; instead of being made
ne football OF clumsy demasocnes.
whose only Interest is in using Il 10 haSno
people and secure votes.