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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
FREE FERRY.

It has long been a clear point that
tie townships of the Fork should
have better facilities for reaching the
Courthouse and other points on this
side Of Saluda River than they have
heretofore enjoyed. Citizens coming
to the Courthouse from other por-
tons of the county can do 50 without
having to pay ferry tolls, but the citi-
zens of the Fork have to u their
hands in their pockets every time
they cross the river whether on pri-
vate or public business. This does
not appear to us to be altogether a
fair thing. There is Saluda Town
ship, for instance, which has not a
single bridge in her limits for the
county to build or maintain, yet this
township contributes her full share
OF taxes to support the bridges in
other townships of the county. Is
not Saluda fairly entitled to some
compensation for such one-sided out
lay? We think so. The way to so
compensate her is for the County
Commissioners to lease or buy Wyse's
Ferry, place a frst-class fiat and wire
rope there and hire a ferryman to
. attend to it. We suppose the lease
could be made for a small figure, the
fiat and rope would cost, we believe,
not more than 5000 at the most, and
the ferrymau could be hired at, say
SIP per month. If the County Com
missioners find that they cannot pro-
vide, under the law as it now exists
for the maintenance of highways and
bridges, for the necessary expense of
establishing and maintaining the fer
~, then they a ask the Legislature
for q provision for a special annual
tax to cover the purpose, which tax,
after the first year, would be very
light. There is no doubt that such a
ferry, so constructed as. to run at all
stages of the river, would prove Of
vast convenience to the citizens of
the county, and more especially those
OF the Fork. We suggest Wyse's as
the place for the ferry, from the fact
that at usual stages of the river par
ties in the lower part of the Fork al
cross at Dreher's Ford.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
Railroad Racket.

The Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta
Railroad Company are building a
number of new coaches at their shops
in this city, and, it is stated, will soon
bring others from the North. They
are improving their roedbed and have
purchased about seventy-five mi}as OF
steel rail. When their two or three
new passenger locomotives, of great
strength and velocity, have been put
on, the road will he in first class con-
ditiou, and the Northern travel South
next winter will find it a pleasure to
reach Columbia, Aiken and Florida
by rail.-Columbia Register 9Th.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
Final Discharge.

THE undersigned will apply to Hon. S.
i P. Wingard, Judge OF Probate for Lex
ington County, on the 18th day of April
next. tor n final discharge as Executors Of
the will of John A. Roberts. deceased.
JNO. s. ROBERTS.
GEO. E. ROBERTS,
March Is, 1854. Executors.
mai 1871
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
Dots from Rirhtwell.

Last Wednesdays gale partially
unroofed E. p. Hipp's stable and Josh
Shealy's barn and blew down a great
deal of fencing.
Frost last Thursday morning.
D. W. Frick has added a shop l6
by 40 feet to his wagon and buggy
shop.
Wheat and oats are looking fine,
Farmers behind with their work,
but are e~ndeavoring to catch up.
On Sunday next Rev. ]. K. Edrd
will reorganize the Sunday-scbool OF
Piney Woods Church for the summer.
Our young Dr.. Wycbe is increasing
his practive, although the health o.
this community is good. x
APRIL 4, 1884.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
Can't Deny It,

While the assertion of Dir. Simeon
Caugbman, the great dry goods sales
man of Columbia, that no streams OF
red hot lava have rolled down the
streets of that city is strictly correct,
vet be cannot deny the fact that there
is always q volcanic eruption OF goods
from the doors OF G. =. Jaokson--
brought out in the arms of wiling
buyers at the lowest prices prevailing
in that contre Of dry goods palaces.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
NOTICE.

4 LII persons having demands against
II the estate of DR.. Z. S. j. Hayes will
render the zane properly attested, and
those indebted will make payment to the
undersigned.
CEDECIA HAYES, Ex'trx.
}. II. LEWIE, Exr.
April 3, l8~S4.-3w23
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09

Just after the great cyclone in
February Mr.. A. h. Gregory OF Cbes-
ter County, dug a storm pit as a
place OF refuge when another storm
should come. Last week he thought
the time had come to 60 into his hole,
and accompanied by his wife and
children went into the pit. They
had scarcely entered it before the
rain came down in perfect torrents:
The pit rapidly filed with water, but
they we're afraid to come out until
the storm was over. The pit, how
ever, filled so rapidly with water that
it was found impracticable to remain
in it logger and they came out
thoroughly wet and covered with
mud.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09

E $500 kh5p p o N OF THE LARGEST STOCKS THAT HAS EVER BEEN
' y onered IN t3e south and tbs complete Gin very respect w. w. ,mmroa HEN
in Shek. "" III "o Samples OF any Goods We have
We solicit hMA eondgnments o coTToN and NAVAL STORES. We have also .a,o, ;.
mems of COUNTRY PRODUCE. A"AAINi "1 which We solicit corIgn-
~ =" arr Agents 1G and nave control of the foNownc articles in This r,,le..
9 p"M"nA ncANS, OHeWIM Hunpowder, ArhuckleS PrcLed Cofca Hoo Tr, co.-
ca@s """"t" VII Nas, COOKING Crooks, Show
r M ahI o %chtr roland I'm. Rueaaye Ginger Ale Tulu Rock md Ra III Nm l| ESAer
'" n nA ~auura cigars IMitc Dew Rye Wiiskcv, Fixtures r $oom IVY. Wv NH'
:. y: 10 IL Is not ohEefaeAs Al SlAe places for parties to eet Eonor. fr ,nHs W t"
Ia Mm t U"h' on sS'"hs OF II o licenses being granted. We will stM ott -. uA use
we We III iii sal 2T@s Fx family Use, bat where tie ton oias H." 1000 nS pp"eS
III oMAs rS9s c The liquor dealers. Na' d" "e"s* We viii lot
may 3-ly
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
INSURANCE LICENSE.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL,
COLUMBIA, S. c., April !, 1884.
T certify, that Mr. C. S. Bradford. of Lex
l. ington, agent of The Liverpool and
London and Globe, Incorporated by Eng
laad; Home. by State Of New York;
Western. by Province of Canada, has coin
piled with the acquisitions Of the Act of the
General Assembly entitled An Act to
regulate the Agencies OF Insurance Com
pauies not incorporated in the State of
South Carolina" and I l hereby license the
said Mr.. c. S. Bradford. Agent aforesaid,
to take risks and ransact all business of
Insurance in this State, in the County Of
Lexington, for and in behalf Of said COM
panies. w. E. STONEY,
Comptroller General.
April 9-2l
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
OSCEOLA.

THIS Jack will serve a few mares at Mr..
i job Corley's. HEAR Lexington e. H., ut
six dollars cash or ten dollars payable Nov.
Isl. He is six years old, l33 hands high
black, good bone and Il fine breeder. All
persons wishing to breed will do well 10
call and see him.
HAYWARD GREEN, supt.
Mar. 2G-lm
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
tom"

TIIIS splendid Jack, 13 hands high, fine
L bone and handsome body. 8 years old,
is a sure fnaIder; colt guaranteed to stand
and suck $40. Will stand at the places of
the undersigned and Mt Jacob Kyzers Jr.
G.. E. LEAPHART.
W. Alb. CORLEY.
Mar. eft
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09

With 90 Disaster Inc yield OF wheat
and oats in Chester County will be
the largest ever known,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
GopEYs LADY,S BOOK

For February is a yeritable val
entine, being the most beautiful
number ever published of this mag
azine. It's steel engravings, colored
plates and other illustrations are
truly handsome. Its literature is
increased in quantity as well as inn
proved in quality. "A Stray Val
entine," and "Only a Primrose,
both valentine stories, "Quarantin-
ed in New York Harbor," '.Tam,
and the newsy EARN Chair" are all
good. Altogether, the February
number is a model lGdy's book, es-
pecially so, as it is the only maya
zine that allows it's readers the Sc
lection of a full-size cut paper pat
tern of its own choice from any
fashion illustrated in the magazine.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
TIE ECLECTIC MAGAzIgE

For February contains an excel
lent collection of timely and inter-
esting papers from foreign maya
zines. Goodwin Smiths essay on
Evolutionary Ethics and Christiani-
ty," from the Contemporary ReUielC,
is a powerful presentation of the
subject, add commands the place of
honor in the magazine. Another
article from the same review, by A.
Lang, discusses Literary Forgeries.
A paper from the Edinburgh Rerielc,
on "The Ancient, Medieval, and
Modern Stage, will be found full of
interest. Genius" from Macmil-
laR's, and "The Ramblings of q Pa
per Knife, from Temple Bar, are
lighter articles of highly readable
character. "The Ideas of an Exile, ("
by Prince Ibrahim Hilmy, brother
of the Khedive of Egypt, and "Ex-
tracts from the Diary Of the Marquis
Tseng," will be found entertaining
and suggestive There is an attrac-
tive paper by Grant Allen on "The
Of Birds and one by Rev.
III. r. Hawsis on the composer and
pianist, "Moscheles." There Is a
from Bldcklc0ods, "A
Matrimonial Fraud" which 10 fresh
and piquant Considerable inter-
est will be feltin the article on aOut
cast Russia" by the Nihilist, Prince
Krapotkine. There are poems by
ReRnsIl Rodd and Montgomerie
and several short papers of
interest. "a Great Religious Re-
former" by Prof Max Muller" viii
also be read with much interest
The number is fully up 10, If not
supeFioE TO its predecessors. Pub
Iished by T. Il. PELToS, 25 Bond
Street, New York. Terms, rs per
year; single copy, 40 cents. For
sale by Gil news dealers. !
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30

State Comptroller Pickard has is
sued a circular with instructions to
county trustees and clerks in regard
to the time and manner in which
the certificates in lieu of the funded
notes of the Bank of Tennessee are
to be taken up. They are instruct
ed to receive no certificates for State
taxes except for the year in which
they fall due. The certificates fall
ing due first will be those of 1888,
and will be good for taxes for that
year. Those for 1874 will fall due
on the LIST of October next, and will
be received for 1884 tax. Each GER
.ifcate will show upon its face the
year it is payable, aud no Trustee
or Clerk, or any one handling State
revenue will receive credit upon
their account while the Comptroller
for any Bank of Tennessee certif-
cate except for the year in which il
is made payable and for the tax Of
that wear --z.-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
A PUFF FOR A TENNESSEE COL

Col. o. &. King, OF Morristown.
Tennessee, one Of the most prominent
and best informed capitalists of that
State, in an interview in the Knoxville
Tribune, shows how a high protective
tariff handicaps the iron iaterest of the
South, Expresses the whole people and
inures 70 the benefit only OF the manu-
facturers of the East. BY giving the
Pennsylvania manufacturers, who can
not prCduc7 iron as cheap by several
dollars a ton As Southern iron can he
inside, the benefits Of the protective ia
iii. they are enabled not only 70 almost
entirely mOnopelize the business, but
30 supply the market as to prevent any
great amount of capital from being in
vested in developing the iron resources
Of the Souih.-SdudnRdh NeEs.
The profundity of "COl." Kings
knowledge will be very fresh news
indeed in this part of the country.
AS we have showed in these col
umns, in our review of Southern bu-
sinsss in 1888, the production of pig
iron in the South has advanced from
less than 100000 tons in 1868 to l.
600, 900 tons last year. From max
ing few tons of charcoal iron be-
fore and for several years after the
war, the Southern coal and iron dis
trict has been developed until il now
makes q quarter of all the iron out
put OF the country. if "Col." King
knew anything at all about the iron |
trade he would not have asserted |
that Pennsylvania has a virtual
of that great interest. In |
such a statement King
merely exploits his ignorance. Ho,
IN fact, knows nothing about the
ron industry; cannot tellthe amount
" duty imposed on two iron arti-
lies; is ludicrously ignorant on all |
he topics discussed in his celebrat-
ID interview, In which he gained
'ome notoriety at the expense of bis
reputation for good sense and knowl.
,dgs Of affairs Chat. Times.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30

81 NICHOLAS

For February is bright, crisp
and cheerful midwInter number, and
the seasonable frontispiece is called
A Midwinter Night, San Engrav-
err on Wheels gives a pleasant and
instructive account of wood-engrav-
ing in general. The Brownies on
Skates" is another wintery feature
which will find a merry welcome.
Griselda's Reception; st. Valentine
Day; Winter Nun; Historic Boys;
Wayne Reds Land of Fire; Tabby s
Table-cloth, and great many 9th
err attractive articles, profusely Ill
ustrated, make up the number and
will be alike welcome and eagerly
read by boys, girls and adults.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30

The Democrats of the city OF
Philadelphia held their district con-
ventious for tho election of delegates
TO the State Democratic convention
on the 22d. The delegates chosen
are all for Randall for President,
and the indications are that Penn
syivauia will go into the National
Convention with her delegation
unanimous for Sam. J. Randall for
President. He is a great man, and
her delegates, and the delegates to
the National Convention from all
the other States, could support no
hOnester man, purer patriot or wiser
statesman for tho nomination. He
could carry New York in November.
Neither Morrison, Mcdonald or
Carlisle can. With New York for
them, the Democrats can elect the
next President. Without il, they
are inevitably defeated. That's the
short Of the Presidential probability.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
NAIL COACH LINE TO BEAMS
STA TON.

We are gratifed to learn that 4
mail coach line from MOrristown,
over the main State road, by the
way Of Noes ferry, to Beans Sta
ton, is likely to be established. This
is much needed. The mail matter
sent out TO Beans Station, Tate's
Spring, Mineral Hin, Tazewell and
70 other places on the route leading
from MOrristown in the direction of
Cumberland Gap, is both large and
important. The present service is
often insufficient to carry the mail
To Beams Station and Tate's Spring.
In consequence Of this, and other
matters, the mails not only to those
two most important points, but to
Tazswsll, the county seat Of Claib
orne county, and other offices be-
ysnd Beams Station, are very often
much delayed TO the great annoy
ancs Of the people aud to the inju-
~ Of rs important business interests
as existin any section of the country.
The plan, ~ we understand it, is to
transport he mails from Morristown,
over the State road, which is the
shortest and best route, crossing the
river at Noes ferry, where there is
never any delay or stopPagS, in two
horse coaches to Beans Station. At
that place so much of the mail mat
ter will be delivered as will render
il An easy matter to transport the
remainder to Tazewsll and other
Offices beyond Beans Station on
horse back. The coach line will thus
connect with the horse line to Taze-
well at Beans Station, and also at
the same place with tri-weekly lines
to Rutledge and Rogersville, west
and east.
A daily coach line to Beams Stall
ton viii be Of no uncomfortable
benefit 70 MOrristOwn, and will give
additional and most profitable work
for some one of our enterprising
livery stable men. A great deal Of
express matter is delivered Mt Nor
ristown to be forwarded in that d.
rection, and the travel Is constant
and heavy. The contract to run
this line, il it be well done, will be
n profitable one. We are informed
that the people all along the line to
Cumberland Gap are making an
effort 10 have this arrangement
made, and we hope that the citizens
Of Morristown will join them in the
Ii is certainly to their
interest 10 do %.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30

A decision of some importance Ia
manufacturers aad distillers of whis-
Ky was rendered recently by the
Supreme Court at Nashville, reliev-
ing them AZ il does Of the apprehen-
sion that they were liable under the
revenue acts of 1881 and 1888 to
pay the privilege imposed by said
acts upon wholesale liquor dealers.
Judge Freeman, for the Court, said:
We have carefully considered the
question and our conclusion is that
a manufacturer who sells articles
manufactured by him, the article
being the product of the growth of
the State, is not a dealer in such ar
ticles; that a manufacturer of whis-
Ky or other spirituSus liquors who
sells from his place of manufacture,
in unbroken packages, or as a man
ufacturer is not n wholesale dealer
IN whisky under our revenue laws. Fl"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30

On the oath, the Senate commit
tee on PostSffiees and pOstroads bad
n general consultation in relation
to the use of the mails by lottery
companies, and Senators Sawyer,
Wilson and Jackson were appointed
a subcommittee TO confer with the
Postmaster General and look into
the matter. The informal opinions
of the members of the committee
lead to the belief that they favor
the exclusion from the mails OF all
newspapers containing lottery ad-
vertisements and Withholding mo-
ney orders and registered letters
addressed to lottery companies.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30


Mr.. Anthony, of Rhode Island,
was elected President pro tenn of the
Senate but declined. whereupon
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, was
elected by the vote of "a to %.
The Importance of this election is
that in case of the death or disabili-
ty of President Arthur, the Presi-
dent of the Senate would become
acting President ofthe UnitedStates.
The Senate has passed the Presi-
Dental Electoral Count bill which
received its unanimous approval in
the last Congress. The bill fixes
the time for the meeting of the Pre-
sidential Electors on the second
Monday in January next following
their appointment. 1t provides for
the determination by each State at
least six days before the time fixed
for tho meeting Of the electors of
any controversy concerning the APP
pointment of such electors, and de-
clares that Congress shall be in SEES
sion on the second Wednesday in
February succeeding the meeting of
the electors to count the votes. The
main object of the several provisions
of the bill is to secure tie settle
ment, as far as possible, by the
States, of all questions in regard to
the regularity of the appointment
of electors.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30

About Christmas last, Miles Halls
a 19-year- old boy, eloped with Miss
Ysretta Cassidy Of Owingsvllls, KY
The pair went to Aberdeen, Ohio.
On January.3 he and his wife came
to Mount Sterling and stepped ever
night. The next morning Hall bor-
rowed $40 from his bride and ran
away to the mountains in Letcher
county, where he was arrested on
the 22d. In last September Hall
married Miss Phebe Fisher in Row
an county, and he had previously
married a wife in Floyd county and
another in Ohio. 1a rahna.fea
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
TIRE CENTURY

For February fully sustains the
high character the magazine has
won for literary and artistic worth,
The frontispiece is Head Of Man,
by Rembrandt, and the leading ar
ticles are: Gustave Courbet, Artist
and Communist, with six illustra-
tons; Lieut. General Sheridan, with
a full page portrait; Merinos in Am
erica, with nine illustrations; How
Edwin brood was Illustrated, with
eight illustrations; DIR. SEWER, Part
~; A First Love Letter; The Cruize
of the Alice May, with sixteen illus
trations; The Hermitage, with full
page illustration; The Phoebe Bird;
The Butchers Row; Impressions of
Shakespeals's " Lear" Portraits of
Dante, with five illustrations; The
Convict Lease System in the South
ern States; Keats, with two illustra-
tons; Snow Born, with full page IL
lustration; An Average Man, Part
I'LL; The Prince of the House of
Orleans; A Shadow, poetry by Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, etc, etc.
In the Open Letters department the
Silver Dollar: Is it honest? and if
honest, is it expedient +? is discussed
by John A. Grier and Horace White,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-30
KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE ANNUAL.

KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE ANNUAL.
The Rockville Tribune Annual for
1884 is the handsomest little book ever
published in Knoxville. 1t is a little
volume of sixty pages, elegantly printed
on fine book paper and bound in illum-
mated covers of six different colors. The
Annual cOntsins fifty Illustrations, and
engravings by well known artists Four
teen of them are full page illustrations,
finely engraved on wood. The illustra-
tions include, among other things re-
presentation Of Southern scenery anl
enchanting views among the mountaiI s
and among the streams of East Tennes-
see. There are a number of scenes on
the Tennessee, French Broad and Ho.-
ston rivers, a snow scene on the Smoky
mountains, a view on Mount Mitchell,
N. c., the Blue Ridge Pinnacle. view of
Asheville, N. c., an illustration of an
East Tennessee log cabin, a full page
engraving of a beautiful scene on the
Tennessee river, near Colonel DickiH-
sons Island Homo near Knoxville. Tie
Tribune annual contains the calendars,
valuable statistical information, inter
esling sketches, poetry, valuable re-
cipes. There is an article descriptive
of the mountains of East Tennessee ard
North Carolina, another about public
lands in he South, and about thirty
other articles of general and miscel-
laneous character. A copy of the
Tribune Annual will be sent to apy AL
dress for % cents. Address The Tribune,
KnOxvflle Tenn