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THE TREATMENT OF OoNvICTs.

The treatment of conyicts upon the
Savannah Valley Railroad has justly
aroused the Indignation Of the people Of
the whole State, and the voice goes up
from every part of the State that such
iniquities shall cease. Its disgrace to
any civilization for helpless prisoners to
be maltreated BY their keepers, and we
fully concur with all that can be said to
induce the public mind to entertain q
proper view of the enormities of such
conduct. The sentiment which demands
humane treatment even of criminals
cannot be too strong, and ne trust that
it will be so clear and unmistakable that
there will be no contractor in the; future
who will dare be either careless or cruel
in the treatment of convicts leased to
him. The vigorous prosecution of Jack
son for his treatment of these convicts is
right and salutary, and if this course had
been pursued from the FIRST, there would
have beensno trouble now. Prosecution
Of the brutes who abuse prisoners will, in
our Judgment, render the lease system. far
less Objectionable than the oyercrowding
Of the penitentiary. Weare not in favor
oftaxing the law-abiding portion Of the
community to support criminals in
upproftable confinement, if they can be
advantageously worked without inhu-
manity. Under the new law, no con-
tracts will be made, except where they
are under the charge of q Deputy Super
sintendent and guards from the State.
With these restrictions, it seems to us
that proper enforcement of the crimi-
nalslaws will in future prevent the treat
ment complained Of.
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The Seneca Free Press makes the fol-
lowing comments on the convict ques.

The Seneca Free Press makes the fol-
lowing comments on the convict ques.
tion:
Why is it that the contractor has not
been compelled to comply with the law,
and why is il that tho Superintendent
has not dore his duty in appointing
guards rs the law requires? The Leg
islature knowing the cruelty and barbar-
ity to which the State convicts have been
subjected heretofore by contractors. pass
ed law requiring the Superintendent OF
the Penitentiary to supervise the conrlcts
wherever employed by guards of his own
selection, for protection against just such
treatment as is here reported. Now
when ne look for the guilty party we
find him. not-he has fled the State-the
contractor and his manager step forward
when public sentiment cries aloud against
them, and places all blame on an ire
sponsible man, who for his murderous
conduct receives polite discharge in
stead of the chains he more justly de-
serves than the poor convict whom ne
has murdered. We ask why was not
Mr.. A.. j. Jackson arrested at the in
stance of Mr.. Carroll and placed in the
hands Of the law? No.. Mr.. Jackson
was hired for the purpose and when
humanity cried out against him he was
paid his wages and permitted to go his
way unmolested.
The Superintendent is, VIC think, i'm
properly censured by our friend in this
article. AS soon as he sscertained that
the convicts were worked for a longer
time than the4law permits, he notified
the contractors that it would not be per-
uit!0o. He hal NOT appointed gsssstais:
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A Note Of Warning to Suffering Human
ity,

We feel that we would be wanting in
the duty we owe to suffering humanity
if we did not sound note of warning in
regard to the use of Mercury and other
poisonous minerals in the treatmet OF
Blood and Skin Diseases. If the reader
could see the horrible suffering, the awful
wrecks of human health and happiness,
shown by our correspondence with those
who have beer dosed with these mineral
poisons, he would shudder with horror.
Arsenic, Mercury, Anthony, aud lodlde
of Potassium are some of the remedies
most ordinarily used for these diseases,
and they are all Poison. Do not take
these poisons. They might dry up your
disease for few days, and with it you
will have Mercural rheumatism, which
NAV bring you years Of torture. The
Mercury seems to sink into the bones,
and the Potash drives the Poison into the
system. only to lurk there and attack the
tender organs of the body, as the lungs,
the throat, tho nasal organs and stomach.
Hundreds of people have been made deaf,
and great many blind, by the use OF
Mercury and Potash. Beware of Mer.
curry and Potash Mixtures gotten up In
imitation of our Specific. A few grains
of sugur of lead dropped into glass OF
these imitation will cause the poisonous
drugs to fall to the bottom, and show the
danger of using them. Swift's Specific Is
entirely vegetable, and is the best tonic
for delicate ladies and children and old
people in the world.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 8,
Atlanta, Ga.
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quire any more positive action on the part
of the General Assembly than that recon-

quire any more positive action on the part
of the General Assembly than that recon-
mended.
In conclusion, the Committee have care
fully considered the question as to what
legislation is necessary to secure the proper
treatment of such conyicts as are leased out
of the Penitentiary, and have arrived at
the conclusion that existing laws are am
ple to secure the ends desired.
The Committee therefore recommend
that the Board of Directors Of the Peniten-.
tiary, in making contracts for hiring out
conyicts, prescribe such definite conditions
as to diet, clothing and general rules OF
hygiene as may be necessary for proper
care and treatment of such convicts, and,
also, provide, for competent medical inspec'
ton at such intervals as may be required.
All convicts taken out of the Penitentiary
should be worked under the charge and
discipline of a Superintendent, appointed
by, the Superintendent of the Penitentiary,
and responsible to him, thus keeping the
iconvicts under the care OF an officer OF the
State. All contracts for the hire OF con-
victs should also be revocable by the Gov
ernor whenever it appears to his satistac-
ton that any Of such convicts are cruelty
or inhumanly used.
The Committee think that these sugges-
tons, If put into practice, will prevent the
recurrence of further trouble in the man
agement of our convict system.
f. all of which is respectfully submitted.
twill be seen from this report that
the Committee found certain state Of
affairs which was horrible, but they
found from the testimony that it pro.
sceeded from ignorance of the proper
care of convicts worked outside of the
Penitentiary, which. was. shared in not
only by the contractors, but by the then
officers Of the Penitentiary as we'll.
There were certain specific charges Of
cruelty; and, crime upon which the testi.
mony was fully taken, and the Committee
asked that it be referred to the Attorney
General for such action as he deemed
proper to yindicate the law. The Com.
mittee had neither authority to hang any
person nor to even try them, but they
asked that the law officer Of the State
be charged with proper disposition o.
the offences. The whole testimony was
reported, and the Committee made nc
effort to shield any person nor to suppress
any fact that could be obtained, and the
charge that any whitewashing was done
cannot apply to the Committee. Neither
- - ~ 7.
do ne know Of any other persons te
whom it is applicable.
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A LYNCHING IN LAURENS.
Quick and Deadly Revenge for an Assault
ON White Woman.

A gentleman who returned here on
Monday night from a ride into Laurens
in pursuit Of Bob Griffin, white man
accused of stealing watch, brought q
strange and horrifying story. BE stated
that while riding in the road in Laurens
County on Monday morning be came
suddenly on the dead body of negro
man, which on examination he found to
be perforated with bullet holes. Enquiry
in the neighborhood elected the infor-
nation that the man had been killed in
consequence of an attempted outrage on
white woman.
A representative of the News inyesti:
gated the matter yesterday afternoon and
learned the following:
The negro's name vas Charles Viii.
liams. He appeared in the Highland
Home section of Laurens two or three
weeks ago and has been working about
there ever since. He has caused some
anxiety among the people, especially the
ladies, by frequently parading the public
roads with pistol in his hand. He was
q large, burly man of unprepossessing
appearance. On Friday morning at
about three o'clock Q young lady who
lives near Highland Home was awakened
by some one standing by her bed with a
hand on her. She enquired who it was
and then screamed, whereupon the in
truder lay fat on the floor as if to hide,
but finding that the lady continued to
call for help fed, leaving the house by a
door he had broken open to enter. The
lady's brother, who was away from home
with threshing machine, was sent for
early next morning and fastened home.
He and others examined the tracks OF
the invader and found them to fit shoes
worn by Williams, who was arrested in
the neighborbood, in size, shape and
other respects. Williams was much con-
fused when arrested and told two stories
of where he had spent the previous night,
both of which were found to be false.
When taken before the young lady whose
room had been entered, Williams was
positively identified by her as her assail-
ant.
A magistrate was sent for and the eyi.
dence was heard. It was decided to
commit the prisoner to Jail to await trial
and be was put in charge of two deputies
to be taken to Laurens. As they were
on their way they were suddenly halted
at branch between Yergin's and .Crisp's
By fifteen or twenty unmasked men who
opened fire on Williams with various
firearms, riddling his body aud head and
killing him almost instantly. His body
was left in the road to await the arrival
of the coroner.
When Williams valise was examined
four locks of hair from the heads OF
white women were found in it, What
they meant could, of course, only be
coniectured.- GreenviAe Neaos.
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"A Washington City physician
argues that the best way to advance the
cause of temperance is to make and
enforce very severe laws against public
drunkenness. In Washington two muir.
ders month occurred during the past
sixteen months, aud FIVE out of every six
of the cases were due to drunkenness.
OF all the sensual exercises of modern
communities, drunkenness is the most
dangerous and destructive, The habit is
under the ban of both human and divine
Law, but our laws are not enforced as
they should be. 1t is worse than useless
to make practice of arresting poor men
and yagabonds when they are drunk if
congressman, generals and millionaires
are to be spared. Make clean sweep of
them all, urges the Washington doctor,
and the evil will be greatly diminished.
There is some force in all this, but it
does not touch the cases of the large
classes with whom the craving for liquor is
q disease or q mania. If these men are
the victims of disease, perhaps inheri.
ted, what sense or justice is there in
furnishing them? They are not proper
objects for the penal terrors of the Law.
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= The bark Monrovia, which, arrived
from Liberia on yesterday, had forty.
two colored men on board who return
from that country after residence of
some years. The Rev. L. G. Jordan, a
native of South Carolina, was in charge
of the party and expressed himself as
dissatisfied with the country as a place
for permanent residence for the colored
race. Among the returning coloDists
were Prof. II. M. Brown, N. A. Brown, a
student, and representatives of various
trades and professions. On the passage
Willis F. Ford, aged fifty six years, died
Of apoplexy and was buried at sea: On
board the bark was collection of pets
in the shape Of forty parrots and four
small monkeys, besides many birds OF
gaudy plumage, The Liberian colony il
represented as being in dissatisfied
state and many more are expected to
leave the promised land and return to this
country.-N. Y World, 10Th.
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Laurensville Herald: "We learned
for the first time last Sunday that a
Young nan by the name of VerdeD,
residing in the neighborhood OF Scutfie'
town, was severely whipped some ten
days ago by q party OF men OF same
vicinity. We have been unable to learn
sufficient facts regarding the reported
affair to enable us to give an intelligent
account of it. Although we have made
some inquiry, we were able to learn
nothing further than that said young man
was accused of making an obscene
inscription upon black board in q achoo!
room. regarding a certain young lady OF
the neig6borhood, and that he acknowl'
edged having done go but that he alleeg-
es be made the acknowledgment under
threats of DEATH"
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under this contract because it vas made
before the new law went into effect, and
therefore under the law itself the contract
was exempted from the operation of the
new law. The Superintendent had no
control over the matter which he has not
diligently exercised, even to prosecuting
most vigorously the criminal Jackson.
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A STATE TICKET PROPOSED.
The Abbeyille Medium, says (:

S.SSS'Ss''''
Some of our young politicians have
been arranging for the next State cam
paign and have settled upon the follow.
ing ticket:
For Governor, John P. Richardson ;
1t. Governor, DIS. Henderson; Sec. of
State, E. II. Bobo; Attorney. General,
Joseph 81. Earle; Treasurer, 81. A. Gail
lard Comptroller General, E: b. MUIR
ray; Superintendent of Education, +. w.
McMaster; Adjutant General, NJ. l..
.Bonham, jr. -,
We could make some alterations which
might add to the strength of the ticket.
We appreciate the compliment paid
the Editor of the INTELLIGENcER by the
younggentlemen who arranged this ticket
but itmay be proper for us at once to
state that we have no aspiration for a
position on the State ticket, and cannot
consent to become candidate for Comp.
troller General. This statement may
prove solace to those gentlemen who
would like to be Comptroller. General, by
assuring them that they will have one
candidate less to run against for the Office
indicated. The gentlemen named for
the other positions on this ticket would
make excellent officers, and doubtless
some of them will be selected for the
positions indicated; but we think it is
rather early to begin the work of con.
structing states, except as q pastime for
the present hot weather. States are not
likely to be more popular, anyway, next
time than they have been in recent years.
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"A Western evening paper recently
announced that any man who had the
misfortune to be injured with a copy Of
Tie paper in his pocket would be paid
Ten dollars a week until his recovery.
Another paper offered in the event of a
mans death to pay the family of the de-
ceased handsome sum of money upon
presentation of receipts showing that the
dead man had been subscriber for o
certain number of years. Some of the
papers are offering premiums to the VIC
tins of elopements ard fires, where the
parties are subscribers. The craze will
soon flash out.
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- Beck, the murderer of his wife AMI
sister.in. law, who was at first 80 anxious
to be punished for his crime, is now just
as anxious to live. It was said at the
time that he was suffering with delirium
tremcns when he committed the act. It
is now said upon good authority that he
was not even drunk; that the arrival of
his sister.in-law, who vas to have been
married the week following to A. j..
Swafford, suggested to Beck hisown utter
worthlessness, and that his murder of the
two women was prompted by jealousy
and malignant heart.
Mrs. Julian, the sister of Beck's
victims, whose remarkable letter to the
murderer was so widely published, is a
remarkably modest and retired little lady,
of bright mind, and had no idea of the
fame which her letter would bring her.
She has received hundreds of letters
from all parts of the union, from people
who profess to have been reformed from
drink through its perusal. An Ohio
lawyer, whose name is household word,
wrote her that he had abandoned the
intoxicating cup, and every time he went
to church with his family he prayed for
his kind deliverer.
On Friday, July 8, in Florence,
Mr.. j. G. Revill, after starting his grist
mill to work, was STOPPING down regulat.
ing the feed, when terrible explosion
occurred, knocking him and Mr.. F. K.
Brand, who was stopping down by him,
to one side. Sam Evans, a colored man,
who was standing near at the time of the
explosion, was Killed by q fragment of
bur.roc which was hurled through the
wall of the building.
= Mrs. j. Barrett, living near Water
town, Dakota, on Sunday, gave birth to
four lively babies, weighing twenty
pounds, and nearly alike in weight and
appearance. The quartette is well diyid.
ed, two being boys and Two girls. The
mother and babies are reported as doing
well.
"A Northern physician uses carrier
pigeons in his country practice. He
leaves one at patients house and if he
is needed a note is Tied to the leg of the
pigeon and then he is released, aud away
he goes for the doctor.
The Rev. II. L. Baggott, of Giddy
Swamp, Aiken County, has cat which
has adopted rabbit and is raising it
along with the rest of her litter.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN All persons having demands against
the Estate Of w. ]. Milford, deceased,
are hereby notified Ia present them, prop
crly proven, to the undersigned within the
time prescribed bv law, and those indebted
to make payment. - 'ist".
PENELOPE l.. MILFORD, Exx,
July 9; lSsI a2 Ii . 3
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: The Greenville Farmers Club hel,

: The Greenville Farmers Club held
a meeting on Saturday last. There was
a discussion of 'forage crops" which
drifted into many other things. As q
remarkable illustration of the value of
top dressing, Capt. Mills said that in
April his wheat looked alike, with no
perceptible advantage FOR any part of it.
he used twelve wagon loads of stable
manure on four acres as q top dressing,
three loads to the acre. The four acres
Welded nineteen bushels to the acre, and
the other thirteen eleven and hall
bushels to the acre. Capt: Mills also
stated that he had put this year one
hundred aud twenty acres in clover
and orchard grass, his clover being now
eight to ten inches high. A. NJ. Howell
stated that be had sowed orchard grass
on April 2. 1t is now eighteen inches
high.
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Halls Vegetable Sicilian, Hair Renewer
never fails in restoring gray hair to its
youthful color, lustre, and vitality. DR..
A A. Hayes, State Assayer of Massachu-
setts, endorses it, and all who give it
fair tiial unite in grateful testimony to
its many virtues.
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Valuable Lands for Sale.

N1HE undersigned offers for sale on easy
i terms his valuable Home Place,
situated II miles South of Williamstonn,
consisting of an cight-room Dwelling with
necessary ontbuildings, three tenant hou-
ses, gin house and fixtures run by water,
with Tract OF about $50 acres of Land, one
third original forest, forty acres of bottom,
and balance in high state of cultivation,
adapted to small grain, cotton. corn, &C:
Situated within easy access to excellent
educational advantages.
Also, House with six rooms and two
acres of Land, situate opposite the Spring
Park in Williamson.
For further particulars apply to Col. N,
Brown at Anderson, or Or. John Wilson,
or the undersigned at Williamson, s: G.
VIM. ". COOLEY.
July 2, 1885 81
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Ayers Sarsaparilla is the most effective
blood-purifier ever devised. 1t is recon-
mended by the best physicians.
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NOTICE.

NIOTICE is hereby given that l have
IN paid in full the Note given by me
to NJ. c. Thompson for S250.eo, bearing
date November, lsS2, being the only Note
Sisen by me to her, and all persons are
hereby notified not to trade for the same,
"> WIN. NJ. COOLEY,
Tunp1 1854 III
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ro cREn1rops

IN All persons having demands against
the Estate of VIM. NJ. Archer, deceased,
orc hereby notified to present them, properly
proven, to the undersigned within the time
prescribed by law, and those indebted to
'A' MIRGARET E. ARCHER, E1'x.
July 16, 1885
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DIR. Leonard, the Prohibition can
didatc for Governor of Ohio, thinks the
Prohibition party will at an early date
cause The disintegration of the Republi'
can party aud place the Democrats 10
homeless minority.
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Hill Bros. sole agents, Anderson S. G..
For sale also by JUS. Hunter Il Sons,
Pe.llcton, S. c., and Finley IL Shirley,
Honea Path.
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3 ] GRAVE CHARGE ANSWERED,
The GreanYille Neaos, speaking Of
the reports of cruelty to convicts
worked On the Savannah Valley Railroad,

In6 0fe9HYli0 - 4tCtOo3~ oPeonAA6 va
the reports of cruelty to convicts
worked On the Savannah Valley Railroad,
Says S IS
The Nous and Courier argues from this
$ that the whole system of leasing convicts
iswrong, cruel and q blot on clY1llzanon ~
Our esteemed contemporary draws, as Is IT'S
usual habit, the wrong conclusion rom
S1,rprf. stafe afement Of facts.s The truth is,
fhere is nothing wrong about the existing
S. eonyict system or laws. The fault IS with
3 our executive judicial and legislative OH.
II cers. If the law should be enforced and
the neck Of some one influential brute
should he legally cracked there would be
4 no more trouble with convicts Tor many
ssveess The able statesmen who in 1873
:enpinaered the whitewashing OF the muir
Sers on the Augusta and Greenwood road
Y Irresponsible for every murder and OUT
gecommitted on convicts since.
SIS NE agree with our contemporary that that
She puniisshmentsby the Courts of one or
& sAst mo of the brutes who mistreat prisoners
I would stop the trouble, and so expressed
s ourselves Jl, q few weeks since. IL is cow
B SSaar,dls, cruel and mean to abuse q poor
ss::ssreatnse Mhile IN the clutches Of. the law,
and aud :fhe: men who; do It should be pun
s ssished criiminally il proportion to the
:cfiniss they commit against these poor
i creatures. The Ne,us, however, makes
4 si.t III n1nfonndsd and unsnstainable charge
SO, of crave import when il declares that
& tie ne1 who engineered The whitewash-
ing ofsfhe murders on the Greenwood &
@ Augusta Road are responsible for every
! murder ndi and outrage committed on con.
ssi, :sSyicts since. AS one member Of the Conn
s: i :n,ittse ii i M Who made this investigation we
aie surprised @ at this assertion. We were
SO nos aaare that amy uhitewashing had
sbesn ,a. done. on the contrary, the Com.
ss,n,,ittse took the testimony Of every
I'm witness whose name was furnished by
either party to the matter, and of every
man that ne had. any intimation might
know nything about the matter, even to
S tl1s consicts themssl The testimony
g: 81 :Nas fully taken and the witnesses ex.
q austively examined. Upon this testi-
s. 81 onyIshe Committee submitted the fol,
8 loving t,s III export, which is contestably
Is @ sustained By the sworn statements OF the
fses HossoYab1 81 Che Senate and House Of
ise sats e. . Sosaa sasos,la