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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

l6O acres, part breaking and part odd ground
one mills from Warner. o. A., SWANSON.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
Have You Il Mother !

Have you mother? love her we'll,
While she is spared on earth,
Wait not till death shall call her hence,
TO know her precious worth.
Wait not till she lies cold and still,
Most beautiful, though dead,
TO think Of what you should have done,
Before her dear life fled
Think now how much she should be
loved,
And prize her as you ought,
Or else your life. when she is gone,
With sorrow shall be fraught.
O! watch her, guard her with your love,
While with YOU she is left,
For when she leaves you, life will seem
OF every Joy bcrcft.
On ! soothc her in her hours Of pain,
BE gentle and be mild;
How sweet twill be for You to think
You've been fail hful child.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
The State Democracy.
CONSTITUTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY or SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Constitution Of the Democratic
party Of South Carolina, which was
adopted by the State Convention, and
vent into force in the campaign Of rs,
IS rs follows:
ARTICLE I. There shall be one or
more Democratic clubs organized to
each election precinct, each OF which
clubs shall have 4 distinct title, ''The
Democratic Club" and shall
elect President, one or more Vice
Presidents, Recording and a Cores
ponding Secretary, and a Treasurer,
and shall have the. following working
committees, Of not less than three
members each, viz: A Committee on
Registration, an Executive Committee
and such other committee as to each
club may seem expedicnt.
ART. II. The meeting Of the clubs
shall be frequent, after tho opening Of
inc canvass, and some member Of the
club or invited speaker deliver an ad-
dress at each meeting il practicable.
AkT. Ill. The Pl esidcnt shall have
power to call an extra meeting Of the
cub, and ---- members Of the club
"hl!l constitute aquoruM for the trans
action Of business.
ART. w. The clubs in each county
Shall be held together and operate un-
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY.

PLANTATION PHILosopIJY.-Da
amt nuthin' sadder Gan dc acks
Oh coward what is tryin' ter make
folks think dat nc is u fighter.
Nuthin' plcascs old niggcr oman
80 much rs fur pusson ter tell her dat
Gle remedies what she has recommended
hab Helped him.
l dOan like too much humbleness. De
worm is SO low dat he crawls, and he
eats yer airter yer dead.
Natur doan make j man prond. Some
trees air taller dan uddcrs, but de SAP
flows in thns dc same.
Use looked eroun 'ober disla'h llecp
an CT I'se ebcr forn' any use fur dc
grsslloppcr l doan know it, but den
doan know dat dc grasshopper hab
ebcr foun' any use fur me. .-Arkansaw
Traveller. ...'
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
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Liberal discount on contracts or by
the column, half or quarter column.
Marriage notices free and solicited.
Obituaries over II lines charged for
Correspondents, to insure attention,
must give their full address.
We are not responsible for the opin-
:ons OF our correspondents.
All communications for the paper
must be addressed to the Editors :;
business letters to the Publisher Of the
MESSENGER Easley, S. @.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
A Romance From Maine.

Some years before he war, Otis Bur
ton. farmer residing at Bangor, left
to seek his fortune in the West. He
driftcd to Missouri, where nc met an
accomplished young lady with whom
he fell in love. She was pleased with
him, but before he madt his passion
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

known she moved to a distant part of
the South.
About this time the war broke out.
and the two lost all trace Of each other,
Burton Joined the Union avmy, and
was soon afterward wounded, and. as
1t was supposed he would die, a letter
was sent to his mother Informing her
that her son could not live. He. how
ever, was blessed with good consttu-
ton and recovered. He went back to
his regiment, and was detailed with a
company TO take supplies across the
plains The party was attacked by In-
dlanS, and every man in the force ex-
cept Burton killed. He was reported
to have been slain with the rest. The
Indians decided to let him live, and
took him prisoner to their retreat in
the mountains in the Southwest. He
gradually recovered from wounds he
had received in the encounter, made
himself agreeable to his captors, au,l
adapted himself to their way OF wing.
After he had been in clptivity six
months or more he was allowed more
liberty, and now began to watch for Il
chance to escape. The Indians had
stolen number Of ponies, and among
them was one which Burton's prac
ticed eye showed him was highly bred,
swift, and with speed and endurance.
This pony was cared for and pctted by
Burton, and he was allowed to ride
him. One day he strayed away fur.
ther than usual, and though not ac-
quainted with the country, made IL
dash for liberty. IIc was closely pur
sued, but the gallant little pony had
the "botton" for q winning race. lie
rode three days, and then began to see
| that he was getting out Of the hostile
country. In the distance he saw a
house which he knew must be inhabited
ny whites. lie shouted with JOY, feel,
ing that he had gained freedom at last.
lie knocked at the door OF the house.
and surprise awaited him. 1t wa,
opened by the woman he had loved in
AMID lang syne. He was aU once re-
coYnizcd and received hearty wei
come. Burton told his adventures and
narrow escape to a willing listener.
Sh:. too, told her story. She had mar
ricd Il Confederate officer, who was af
terward killed in the battle, and she
owned thu farm she occupied. Is it
necessary to tell the rest? They were
betrothed, there was 4 merry wedding,
and the happy couple arc still living in
q southwestern State. Surely in real
life there are romanccs as strange and
more interesting than those woven bv
the fertile brain OF the novelist.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

If we never spoke Of a man $
virtues before his face, nor of his:
faults behind his back; there would.
be an end to flattery and defama+
tjon.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
Z, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL Is, 1884.

ceed immediately to the election Of
permanent officers and the transaction
Of business.
The Convention, when it has con
cluded its business, shall adjourn sine
die. And when n Convention is called
by the executive committee, such con
vention shall be composed of newly
elected delegates.
ART. XIII. Representation in
judicial and congressional conventions
shall be on the same basis rs in State
conventions. A majority Of delegates
shall be present at convention to con-
sttute quorum for nominating 4 can
ddate either for congress or solicitor.
The delegation Of each county in a
congressional or judicial convention.
shall have power to fill any vacancy in
the delegation.
In every convention to nominate a
candidate for congress or for the office
OF Solicitor a majority OF tho voters
shall be necessary to choice, and the
votes shall be taken viva vOce and re-
corded, unless there be but one candi-
date, in which event the vote may be
taken by acclamatiOn AS soon as a
congressional or judicial convention
has nominated the party candidate for
congress or solicitor, it shall adjourn
sine die, and whenever 4 candidate to
till an uneNpired term of either Office
has to be nominated, it shall be done
by a new convention of delegates fresh
from the people. The executive com-
mittee OF each congressional district Or
judicial circuit shall consist of the sew
eral county chairman OF the respective
counties composing such district or Cir
cuit, which committee shall elect it's
own ch lirman, secretary and treasurer,
who Shall continue in office for years
in district and + years in a citcUit, re-
spcctively. or Until their SUCCESSORS
shall have been elected. 1t shall require
the consent OF a majority Of tn, whole
executive committee in any district or
circuit to call y nominating committee
The executive committee of each
district or circuit shall be specially
charged in it's di,crctiOn, except as
herein provided, ani subject to the
State platform, as we'll as under the
supervision OF the State executive COM
mittee, with the conduct Of every elec-
ton for congressional representatives
or solicitors in such district or circuit.
and said committee shall meet at the
call Of the chairman or Of any three
members at such times and places as
ne or they may appoint.
Each congressional convention shall
meet wit hin its congressional district,
and each judicial convention shall meet
Within its circuit.
ART. XIV. This constitution shall
not 60 into force until the State cam
paign OF 1873.
AMENDMHNT.
The State convention OF June, 1880,
adopted the following resolution:
Resolved. That the recommended
ton OF the National Democratic com
mittee relating to cx-otlicie member
ship Of committees be adopted, az far
as the same provides for the member
Of the National committee being cx-
otlicio member Of the State executive
committee.
A Romance From Maine.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

der. the control of county Executive
committee, which shall consist Of one
member from each club, to be nomina-
ted by the respective clubs and elected
by the county convention, and such
other members rs the convention may
add.
The Executive committee, when cleo
ted, shall appoint its own officers and
Till all vacancies which may arise when
the convention is not i'm session. The
tenure OF office Of the Executive com
mttee shall be until the next general
campaign, unless sooner removed or
suspended by the county convention.
The present county executive com-
mittees shall continue in office until the
first meeting Of the county convention
under this organization.
ART. V. County democratic conven-
tions shall be composed Of delegates
elected bv the several local clubs one
delegate for every twenty five (25) en-
rolled mcmbers-with the rig hC to each
county convention to enlarge or dimin-
lsii the representation according to cir
cumstances. This convention Shall be
called toSct her by the chairman Of the
executive committee, and shall proceed
to elect from among its members
President, one or more Vicc-presi-
dents, a Secretary and Treasurer. The
convention shall proceed to business.
and when he same is transacted it shall
adjourn sine die.
ART. vi. The mode and manner OF
nominating candidates for county Off
ccs or for delegates to the State Judi
clal and congressional conventions shall
be regulated in each county by the re-
spcctive county conventions.
ART VII. The State convention
shall be composed of delegates from
each county in the numerical propor
ton to which that county .is entitled in
both branches of the General Assem-
bly,.
ART. VIII. The officers shall he a
President, one Vice president from
each congressional district, two secrc-
tares and Il treasurer.
ART. TX. The State Executive COM
miltee shall be composed of three from
each congressional district. The dele
gates from the counties composing tn,
congressional district to nominate the
candidates from that district, and the
convention shall then proceed to an
election.
ART. x. The Executive committee
shall elect its own chairman and other
officers, and shall meet at the call OF
the chairman or any five members, at
such times and places as he or they
may appoint.
ART. XII. The Executive committee
shall have power, by the vote of il ma
jority of the whole committee. to call
a convention Of the Democratic party
OF the State at such time and place AZ
it may designate; and is charged with
the execution and direction Of the pol
icy OF the party in the State, subject
only to this constitution, the principles
declared in the platform. and such in
strnctions by resolutions or otherwise,
as tn" State convention may from time
TO time adopt; and shall continue in
office for two years from the time of
election, or until the assembling OF the
next State Convention for the n0min-
alton Of State ticket. unless supercc-
dcd by the action of the State cOnven-
ton. And if amy vacancy be occa-
stoned by death, removal, or other
cause. the commit 80 sholl I,arn ,,D,vnr
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
Ghe Gxsleg Wessemger.
J. r.. HAGOOD, Editor and Prop'r.
Estcaed at the PostoDice at Easle
S. c., as Second Class Matter.

TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION.
One year, strictly in advance. ISL 90
Six months 6 - ...... IS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04
ACCIDENTS.

THREE warehouses at Pittsburgh, Va,
containing 100000 pounds of sumac,
were destroyed by fire early Saturday
morning.
The Matthews Hotel, at Duluth,
Mimi, was burned, and M. Kollmesch,
tailor, perished in the flames. Loss
on the hotel, $4,000; insurance, So, 700.
FIRE in building in the Bowery, at
New York, early Monday morning,
caused twenty families to rush to the
roof as means of escape, whence all
were rescued by the fremen after suf-
fsring from the intense cold.
A ST. LOUIS special Of the oath, says
tie Grand Opera House here was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. The fire broke
out in heap of rubbish w der the box
office at about4 o'clock in the afternoon,
completely destroying the building.
Nat. @. Goodwin was to open in ''Con-
FUSION" and all his baggage was in the
theater when the fire broke cut, but by
the prompt assistance of the theater
employees it was all saved. There was
quite high wind blowing at the time,
and but for the efforts of the fremen
other buildings would have been burn
ed. The loss will be over $1C0,0 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04

AT Cambridge, Mass, Sunday night
burglars attempted to explode the safe
In the North Avenue Sainvgs Bank, but
failed to get at the valuables.
AT Fort Keogh, II. T., Deputy United
States Inspector Blow seized Is horses
that had been smuggled across the line
from Canada.
GENERAL WILLIAMS, of Morristown,
n. j., had his coat stolen while he took
dinner in the Park Hotel at New York
on. Thursday. The coat contained a
negotiable bond for $1,000. Detectives
were placed on the case, and the coat
was found in pawnbroker-shop with
the bond in the pocket, having been
overlooked by the thief.
AT Monmouth, ILL.,, Tuesday morning,
H. R. Thompson, a Texan, who lost
heavily by the failure of the First
National Bank, fired two shots at B. T.
0. Hubbard, the defaulting cashier,
each with effect. Thompson is now in
Jail.
FLORENCE WHITE, charged with in
fanticide, confessed atLogansport, Ind,
Tuesday that five days after her baby
was bern she held it while a woman
named Mrs. Small poured poison down
it's throat. Both women are in prison
for the crime.
A FRIEND of Joseph Mulnatton iasinu-
ates that the seourge recently reported
as carrying off hundreds in certain Sec
tions of the South, is mythical, and
that the whole thing emanates from the
allacious pen of Mulhatton, who is now
sojourning in some of the Southern
States.
"A REPORT reaches Billings, NJ. T., that
Indian Agent Armstrong, Colonel Blake,
and others have been endeavoring to
secure from the Grow Indians for land
syndicate lease of 100000 acres of
their reservation for 10 years at 1 cent
per acre per annum. This scheme, if
perfected, will, it is alleged, rob thous-
ends of their homes.
A CHICAGO inspector of customs
seized,' ,'and forfeited to the government,
at New York Tuesday the jewelry
valued at $4,000 claimed by Edward
Morris, alias Thomas, accused of SNUG
Cling and swindling Chicago merchants.
The charge is that Morris photograph
adorns the rogue's gallery at Vienna,
Austria. Morris was discharged, the
government not deeming the evidence
of swindling in Chicago sufficient to
extradite him..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

A PARIS dispatch says the Chinese
government offers France 75,000,000
francs in settlement of claims, but
France demands /, 1,250,000,000 francs.
A FUND of 1900 was raised at the
National Cattlemens Convention in st.
Louis, for the relief of the Virginia,
West Virginia and Kentucky drought
sufferers.
The Waltham Watch Company has
given notice that large reduction will
be made in force and wages.
THE California Silk Culture Associa-
tlon has been compelled to suspend
operations, because of a lack of funds.
THE United States Land and Invest
ment Company has purchased a cattle
ranch in Texas, comprising 100000
acres of land and 100000 cattle, for
which $6,500,O 900 was paid.
IN the Court of Claims at Washington
Monday the case of the government VS..
the Uuion Pacific Road was begun.
The government demands reach ST.
100000, while the offset claim of the
railway amount to $1,50O,0Oo.
L. ADLER & Co., of Huron and
WooMsocket, D. T., are insolvent, owing
$40, 900, but $4,000 of which is secured.
Among the unsecured creditors are
Leopold Brothers and Lindauer Broth
ers, of Chicago. Recently the failed
firm sold their store at Red1eld, and
claims are made that it was a fraudu-
lent transaction.
PRIVATE advices from Japan furnish
the information that the army and navy
of that country are being quietly but
energetically put upon a war footing.
Compulsory military services is now
strictly insisted upon, and is no longer
possible to purchase exemption. There
is no visible cause for the activity, but
it is naturally connected with the Fran
co-Chinese troubles.
TIE United States Minister at Mad
rid has just signed an important
treaty with Spain, which embodies re-
duotion of duties on imported Ameri-
can goods. America is, in turn, to ad-
NIT Cuban sugar at lower rates. The
treaty, it is believed, will insure a large
expansion of American trade, and is
regarded by England as triumph for
American diplomacy,
A SPECIAL commission appointed by
the Government of Switzerland to inves-
tigate the cause of the great increase of
drunkenness in that country have report
ed. They attribute the trouble entirely
to the great cheapness of French
brandies and wines, and to remedy the
evil recommend the enactment of an
almost unprecedented prohibitory law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04
KILOGRAMS s.

New Egyptian financial proposals
we're sent the powers interested by the
Gladstone Cabinet Tuesday night.
SPIES report the forces of Mahdi en-
camped around KhartOum to number
between 5000 and 90, 900 men.
IT is reported in Berlin that the Con-
go Conference has recognized the Afri-
can International Association.
In the house of commons Monday,
Gladstone gave notice ne hoped to in
troduce the redistribution bill next
Monday and move its second reading the
following Thursday.
A NATIONAL bank, known as the Gov
ernment hank, of China, has been es-
tablished at Pekin. It's capital Is half
Chinese and half foreign, and the board
of management is half Chinese and half
foreigners.
THE Times Shanghai dispatch says:
The action of the French has driven
China to reopen the Tonquin question,
and it is asserted that she will ask for
English meditation. The Secretaries
of Prince Ii assert that they saw Capt.
Fournier, who negotiated the Tientsin
treaty for France, make erasures IN the
treaty.
a LONDON cable dispatch, giving the
result of the Coleridge libel
suit, says: "The case was submitted to
the jury, who, after some deliberatlon,
brought in verdict for the plaintiff OF
5000. The judge overruled the YER
dict, and gave a verdict for Coleridge
with COSTS" There is now an oPper-
tunity for some clear-headed lawyer to
inform surprised public of what
earthly use that jury was.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04
A st. Petersburg Home in Winter.

Temple Bar, in describing the homes
of st. Petersburgers IN winter, saws
that after depositing the outer gar
ments In an ante-room visitor is corr
Quoted through the reception rooms.
which often seem interminable, eight
or nine in number generally opening
one INTO another. The unlaid par
Quets of the rooms are often very
beautiful-the floor polisher is an i'm
portant institution in Russia; some
rooms are richly carpeted, and do
justice to the looms of Turkey and
Persia. The silk or damask curtains.
wall hangings and coverings for the
ottomans are superb. All is luxurious;
vases of lapis lazuli, porphyry and
malachite, pictures and objects of art
in general are in profusion. The Rus
slams are very fond Of promenading
through their suits of apartments,
and ample space is left for this pur-
pose, The winter being so long, every
conceivable means is used to shed
around the charms of warmer eli
mates; trellises, along which various
creepeFs are trained, are in
troduced; pretty baskets of plants
(tulips, hyacinths and camellias in
full bloom, while winter is still raging
outside), the constant warm tempera-
ture indoor being favorable to their
cultivation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04
The Crown Prince of Russia,
Edna Dean Proctor, in the Christmas St Mic

Edna Dean Proctor, in the Christmas ST. Niche
las.
Grand-duke Nicholas was born May
Is, 1868, at Czarkoe Selo (Czar's vii
lage), an imperial summer palace ff-
teen miles south of st. Petersburg,
This spacious palace stands upon the
Neva bank, over two hundred feet
above the water, and is surrounded
by extensive grounds so perfectly
kept that you can hardly find even a
dead leaf upon the lawns.
Grown princes have so much to
learn that they must begin early and
lose no time. Until his ninth year
the education of the young Grand
duke was superintonded by Madame
de Flotow, one of the ladies of honor
who had followed the Princess Dag
mar from Denmark to Russia. In
1877 the charge was given to Lieuten-
ant General Danilovitch, who has ar
ranged the Princes hours of instruc-
ticn in accordance with those of the
military gymnasiums. His regular
lessons are from eight in the morning
till three in the afternoon, but with
such intermissions that they never
exceed five hours a day. His after
Moons are spent in walks with the
Emperor, Or in outdoor sports, rid
ing, swimming fishing, fencing,
gymnastics, s,-of all of which he is
very fond; and his evenings are
devoted to preparing for next days
lessons, reading, and keeping diary.
He is an excellent scholar and
linguist; enters into his studies with
much spirit, and speaks fuently Rur-
sian, Danish, French, German, and
EAglish. The crown princes of Eng
land and Germany may study if they
like at the universities, but the heir of
Russia must be educated ay private
tutors.
Last May, upon his sixteenth birth
day, the day on which the Prince be-
came of age, he renewed his oath of
adherence to the orthodox church,
the ceremonies taking place in the
chapel of the Winter Palace at ST.
Petersburg. As heir to the Russian
throne, he accompanied the Emperor
and Empress to their recent meeting
with the sovereigns of Germany and
Austria.
In person the Prince is slight and
delicately formed, with fair complex
ion and auburn hair; and he usually
wears a sailor costume, which suits
mis- slender figure. He is a member
of the Preobrajensky (Transfgura-
tom Guard, the famous regiment
founded by Peter the Great; and by
birth he is Attaman Chief of all the
Cossacks of the empire. It is his
privilege to wear the uniform of any
regiment he pleases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-04

The death of the late DR.. Samuel
Rabbeth, of London, caused by clear
ing, by means of suction, tracheo
tony tube he had introduced into the
throat of diphtheritic child, is ex-
citing much comment. The heroism
of the act is conceded, but the aues-
is asked if man has right to bring
misfortune to his own family for the
sake of an isolated case of disease.