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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION The
Civil Service Commissioner gives no
tice that it will hold an examination
for bookkeepers, stenographers and
type writer's at Norfolk, Virginia, on
Friday the 10Th day of March: at Char
lesion, South Carolina, Monday, the
22d of March: and at Savannah, Geor-
gia, Thursday, the 25th OF March. The
examination will be held at 10 \. NJ,
at the postoflice in each of these places.
Any Of our readers wishing to attend
either Of these examinations should at
once request the commissioner to send
them application blanks. The blanks
must be filled in due form and present
ed at the time and place of eXamina-
tion, rs no person not presenting such
applications can be examined.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

CALL at 2. w. Cantwelrs for the
cheapest and best Stoves and Ranges.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

SAW M1LLs.-Write me for prices OF
full outfits for saving, ginning or
grinding.
E. w. SCREvEN, Manager,
Columbia, 5, G..
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CALL at p. w. Cantwell's and cXan-
inc his keroSine Oil Ranges.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

FARMERS SHOULD READ MoRE.-It
would be good thing if farmers would
learn that the printing press has be-
come the leading implement of agricul-
ture and the great lever promotive of
agricultural advancement. The only
modification of the proposition is that
it be properly used. However, every
other agency and implement intended
to promote the interest OF the farm
may be improperly used as well. Far
mers, especially South Carolina far
mers, should give more time to reading
The present season affords them very
favorable opportunity, and all should
embrace it. Get books and papers, es'
pecially those devoted to your calling;
! nave them in plenty about you, for the
children like such things aud will soon
become Interested In them.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

Choice family groceries at Cornell
sons.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

FEAST OF PUR1M.-The Hebrew
Feast OF the Purim begins this year on
the evening of the 10th of March, and
in honor Of the festival agrand mas
querade ball is to be given by our He
brew citizens. The Feast of Purim
derives its origian from the story of
Esther, so beautifully told in the Old
Testament, and is commemorative of
the deliverance Of the Jews through
her instrumentality from the hatred
of Haman. The date of this event is
set down in the Jewish chronology as
BIC. 353. lThe feast is preceded by
the fast of Esther. when the orthordox
Jews abstained from food and drink
from sunset to sunset in celebration Of
the three days fast of Esther before she
presented herself before Ahasuerus to
defeat the plot Of Haman. Services
are held in the synagogues, and the
Gillath is read with appropriate pray
FerS,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

VUIUIllUltt, -. Y.
Southern Manager Harrisburg Man
ufacturing Company.
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A WELCOME AWAITS You've clip
the following from the Barnwell Peo-
pie of last week. "The editor acknowl-
edges, with thanks. an invitation
for himself and family, to the Purim
Masquerade Charity Ball of the He
brew Benevolent Society, Orangeburg.
22nd March. He hopes to attend and
trusts that Bro. J. l.. Sims will help
him be u wall flower on that happy oc.
casion which will deserve the pens and
presence of several editors if full JUS
tice be given its excellent committees
and their many brave and beautiful
charges" Come on Bro. Holmes!
While we will not promise to help you
be wall flower, we will promise you
the best welcome in our shop.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

COMETS TOBE VIsABLE.-Prof. Lewis
Boss, of the Dudley Observatory at Al
bany, n. Y, has made the discovery
that the comet seen at Paris on the
first Of December is slowly increasing
in brightness. The increase will con-
tinue slow until April l, when it will
begin to be much more rapid, and by
the middle of the month will become
visible to the naked eye. Two weeks
later it will reach its maximum of
brightness, when its appearance will
be much like that of 1882, and he visible
all night. It will also, us that Of 1881,
be seen in the western sky. When
nearest the earth it will only be l2,OO0,-
600 miles distant. 1t Will retain its
brightness until May Is, when it will
gradually fade from the vision to ap-
pear later to the people south Of the
equator The Barnard comet is also
discovered to be increasing in bright
ness, but will not become visible to the
naked eve. In August it will also dis
appear from telescope view, to reap
near with the Paris comet south OF the
equator. Neither comet has previous
recorded appearance.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

TIE FERTILIZER TEsTs.-The Co.
lumbia Register says the Hon. James
n. Lipscomb, Master Of the State
Grange. is about to issue circular to
the farmers of the State calling their
attention to "the circular of directions
for farmers taking samples Of fertili-
zers, and most earnestly urging a strict
and careful compliance with all the
minutest details" as "too important Il
matter to be neglected or careleSsly
done" The object is to induce the far.
mers generally to possess themselves Of
the proof Of the quality Of the fertili-
zers actually used by them, SO that in
case of issue between themselves and
the agents or manufacturers from
whom they purchase they will be able
to produce such evidence Of the quality
is will be authenticated by the State
Chemist and available in the courts.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

PETERsoN's MAGAZINE for April
opens with very beautiful steel-en.
craving, viz: "The Little Pilferer, y
after a picture by the celebrated Ger
man artist, Meyer Won Bremen. Then
comes a double-size colored fashion
plate, which all the ladies will rave
over; two colored patterns; and some
fifty wood-cuts of fashions, EN-
broideries, etc. The stories, all original,
are even better than usual. "On the
BoXbury Sands" is one of great power.
SISTER Dorothy by Edgar Fawcett. is
a society novelet of very high merit.
"The Burglar-Alarm," by Frank Lee
Benedict, is intensely funny. "The
Nlillionaire's Daughter" by Mrs. Ann
S. Stephens, grows in interest and force
with every number. Altogether, we
do not see how any lady can do with
out Peterson" The terms are but
two dollars year; and now is good
time to subscribe. Address Charles j..
Peterson, 3O6 Chestnut Street, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

T. e. Hubbell will send for all Illus
trated and Daily Papers, also has the Char
lesion Daily Papers which persons can be
supplied who live in the city at 20 cents per
week.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

TIE WAY OF THE WORLD.-Iou
can't get any money out of that man or
woman for public or charitable ,pur-
poses. But you will find them at the
opera house paying dollar or two to
sit on hard chairs for two hours or
more. and think nothing about it. Oh
no. we cannot give, but we can spend
freely for our own selfish pleasure. In
addition to this man will spend five
dollars for whiskeY and cigars, and
would consider it ruin for him to
give one or two towards church, OF
for the relief of any object of charity
Be consistent, at least, and let all
worthy objects receive due attention
It must be satisfaction to any one to
know that they have invested some
thing in good cause.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
SENTENCED TO SWING.
The Seven Anarohi its to Hang on Dece mber 8.


The seven convicted Chicago anarchists
were given an opportunity to say why
sentece should not be pronounced upon
then. They all awaited themselves of the
opportunity, and delivered lengthy dia-
tribes against society and law. While all
the addresses were of a
very inhammatory character, that of
Parsons was more marked than Others
EIe sought to show that the evils that
afilict society flow from the economic de-
pendence Of the laborer upon the monopo-
lizers of the means of their subsistence.
The same influences are among the
farming classes, and the man who a few
years ago owned the soil, has had to work
IL to-day as a tenant at his will A mort
gage is placed upon his soil-he whose
hand tills the earth and causes it to bios
som as the rose and bring forth its richest
fruit. Even while he is asleep interest
grow and increase. We don't want
to go to Ireland to find landlords
and landlordism. Look at Bridge
port. See how the Irish people are
forced to live there as tenants-at-will.
They live as they do in Dublin, as they do
in Limerick, huddled together like rats in
their holes, as the state attorney would
put it. !"
Having dwelt on this subject at some
length, Parsons went on TO charge the
council for the prosecution and the legal
authorities with having violated the
rights of free assemblage, free press and
Of self-defense.
After Parsons completed the closing Sec
ton of his speech, to show why the SEN
Lence of death should not be passed on
him or on his friends, the pleas of the pris-
oners were at an end. With the conclus-
ion of the pleas the court proceeded to
pass sentence, and fixed the time for the
execution of the condemned men for De-
cember g. between the hours of 10 a. IN.
and ID. m
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21

Ambitious sports in the upper peninsula
play base ball on Sunday, to economic
time. A game on a recent Sunday was
played before 1900 audience for 500 a
side.
Petoskey has had its first fall of snow.
In the Michigan state board of health re-
port, DIR. e. +. Smith claims TO have shown
that there is no direct relation between
diphtheria and sewers. that diphtheria is
as frequent in the country as i'm the city,
I'm non severed as In seworcd districts;
that the general death rate falls after the
sewerlng of "A city; that typhoid fever and
cholera decrease in proportion as city 10
well severed. DIR. FOOte's Hedih Koaihy.
When the r., A. A. e. N. M. r. r: ac-
CURED control of the. l.. A. M. T. ~ N. II.
r. the junction to Alma and north was
made about one mile and one-flfth out of
st. Louis. This has necessitated the back
ing out of trains that distance before pro-
ceeding northward. The company have
concluded to move their freight depot out
there and will reconstruct IL as the
passenger depot. The present brick depot
will have all partitions removed and viii
be used as a freight house. The citizens
are indignant and talk of serving an in
junction. Their rights are based on the
claim that a large bonus was given to the
road to come to st. Louis, and the pro-
posed location is out of the corporation.
Louis Germaine and wife of Grand
Rapids have been found guilty of neglect
ing an adopted baby until it became q
mere skeleton.
A new round house for housing locomo-
tives of the Calumet az Hecla road, is be-
ing built at Hancock.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
A Gratifying Increase.

In his annual report for 1856 Gen. o. NJ.
Poe devoted considerable space to an ex-
PLANTATION of the necessity for pushing the
improvements of the st. Mary's Falls
Canal. At that time it was increasing so
rapidly that Gen. Poe predicted that If it
continued at the same rate for five Years
the present lockage system would be in
sufficient to pass all the vessels. All in
dications now point to the fact that the
limit will be reached much sooner than
1890. The report for the first ten days of
the present month shows an increase that
is not only phenomenal but alarming con-
sidering that in case of injury TO the new
lock, the old one being practically useless,
an embargo would be placed upon a COM
merce of more than $4,000 tons per day for
such length of time as might be required
TO make the necessary repairs. The re-
port shows that the average freight ton
mage through the canal from October
to 10 inclusive averaged 27,254 tons daily,
large. excess over any ten
consecutive DAYS in the history Of
amount of freight tonnage through the
canal was 1861, $40 ms against 8, 500, 30 tons
for the season of 1886 up to October 10, and
3,256, 62S tons for the entire season of 1885
The increase of 1885 over 1884 was 409,071
tons, and the increase this year up to Oct
10 over the season of 1885 was 404,94S tons,
or only 4,123 tons less than the total in
crease for 1886 over 1884. III the record of
the first ten days of the present month is
continued until the close of the season,
the total amount of commerce through
the canal will approximate 4,5S7, $50 tons,
or an increase of l,33l,053 tons over the
season of 1885, This indicates that the
time is not so far distant when serious de-
lays must occur at the locks, and the bust
ness men of the Upper Peninsula will take
advantage of the statistics given above TO
urge congress to make adequate appro-
priations for completing the improve
m au r. at tho canal
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
A Dastardly Deed.

Father Mislewitz, who presides at the
Fifteenth street Polish church, Pittsburg,
was shot at during the forenoon service
Sunday. Mass had been said, and the
father had just turned to address the con-
gregation, when crash came bullet
through a window on the south side of the
church, flattening itself against the solid
wall of the opposite side. For a minute
confusion reigned in the church Women
screamed choir boys shouted, and many
of the male members of the congregation
either pressed forward to see if Father
Miskewitz was injured, or rushed out OF
the building TO find from where the bullet
came. The priest showed great GOODNESS
Notwithstanding the fact that the missile
must have passed within six inches OF his
body. II it had been fired minute sooner
it would have passed through him. He
turned and with gesture waved his flock
to their seats, but not all of them, for by
this time upward Of 100 had swarmed out
into the street and into the yard of the
parish building adjoining. No trace of
the perpetrator of the deed could be
found.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD
Abraham Hadden Murdered by His Son

A bloody murder occurred at Byron,
Shiawasse county. on the 18th inst. Sam
uel Hadden. a pensioner, aged 40, shot his
father. Abraham Hadden, aged 10. Samuel
had been TO the village, and returned 60
his fathers farm, three miles out. Going
into the house. the father and son got into
a quarrel. Samuel's statement is that the
old man struck him with a lantern. which
was knocked out of his hand; then the
father struck him with his fist. The son is
a cripple, one leg being helpless. He tried
20 ward of the blows with his crutches,
but became alarmed and pulled out bull
dog revolver, and, while standing within
three feet OF his father, fired five IS
caliber balls through the old mans
body in the presence of his aged
wife The father left the house and went
TO the barn-yard, IA rods away, where his
son Henry was doing chores. The young
man did not hear the shots, but saw his
father enter the yard and said TO the old
man, you have forgotten your milk pail:
The father then staggered against the
fence and cried, my God, I'm shot. Sam
ming, a neighbour who Immediately came
and lifted MADDEN to carry him to the
house. Hadden then died in Dunnng's
arms. The wife and mother saw the whole
quarrel. but the shooting was done so
suddenly she was paralyzed and utterly
unable to help her husband. Samuel was
taken before Justice James Sleeth at By
ron, who remanded him TO the county jail
at Corunna Abe MADDEN was n well-to
do farmer. Sam has been helpless Grip
pie for years. The community Is deeply
excited, and there was talk of lynching,
but better counsel n"ev0iled.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
An Oak land County Tragedy.

A frightful shooting ARRAY occurred on
the railroad track OF the Detroit Grand
Maven x Milwaukee railroad two miles
east of Davisburg about 10 O'Clock Monday
-ollister shot and fatally wounded a man
by the name OF Herman Van Staten. The
facts of the case as furnished to Detroit
morning paper are as follows:
Young HOLSTER has been quarreling
with Van Staten and the latter's half
brother, Henry f. Fiske, almost constant
ly during the past two months. The three
men live near together In Springfield in
Oakland CO., and IL seems that Fisk charg-
ed HOLSTER, some two months ago, with
defacing sign board warning people not
to enter Fisk's huckleberry swamp.
time after, Van Staten had Hol-
lister arrested for stealing cram
berries from the formers premises. Hol-
lister was discharged, but the parties kept
getting more bitter in their feeling to-
wards each other until last Saturday
night when HOLSTER and Van Staten met
in Davisburg and renewed their HOSTILE
ties. After quarreling for some time they
agreed to meet yesterday morning at .
O'Clock on the railroad track and flight it
out" and see who was the better man.
They met yesterday, according to the
agreement, and Fiske was also present and
took part in the fight. Hollister and Fiske
and Van Staten, according to the report
entered into fearful fist fight, and the
result was uncertain, when, as HOLSTER
tells, Fiske produced big navy revolver
and clicked the hammer HOLSTER then
drew his revolver and shot at Fiske, but
missed his aim and shot Van Staten
through the body, the ball entering his
side above the hip and striking the back
bone. Van Staten was taken home and
physicians from Davisburg and Charleston
were at once summoned and probed for
the ball, but could not find it. The man
was still alive when last heard from, but
cannot live. HOLSTER was arrested,
taken before a Davisburg magistrate and
brought TO the Jail at Pontiac by Deputy
Sheriff McKibbin All three
of the men were badly cut in the fist fight.
Van Staten is married man, about 20
years old and lives with his wife near the
railroad track where the ARRAY took
place. Fiske is about % years old and also
married. and lives in Springfield. Hollis
ter is boy about 20 years old, has no
family and works for Clark SwayZe, a
Springfield farmer. HOLSTER w. visite
at the jail by several parties. He has little
TO say about the matter except that he re-
grets that the shooting occurred. He is
smooth-faced, raw. boned and about five
feet eight inches in hight and weighs per-
hans $40 to $50 pounds. Sheriff Voorhees,
and Prosecuting Attorney Trip went to
Springfield 20 investigate the matter, but
il is not yet known what steps will he
taken sn the premises by the prosecuting
officers. 1t is some time since there have
been any cases OF this character in Oak.
land county, and the affair causes con.
siderable excitement.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
A REMARKABLE CASE.
IN Ohio Man Twice Convicted Of Murder,
Gets C ear on the Third Trial.

One of the most interesting criminal
rails ever held in Ohio ended at Warren
ew days since in the acquittal of Lewis
Webster on the charge of murder. On tae
light of December 10, 1884, a masked rob
'er entered the house of Perry Harring-
on, well-todo farmer living at Geneva.
dr. and Mrs. Harrington were sitting by
he fire, reading. The robber demanded
money A short struggle between him
nd Harrington ensued, and the farmer
ell to the floor fatally wounded by bull
ct from the robbers pistol. Turning up
m Mrs Harrington, the murderer sent
Juliet through her arm. At
hat moment the mask fell from
lis face and the wounded woman exclaim-
d, "Oh, know you, Lewis Webster" She
bought she had recognized as her hus-
lands slayer young man who had work.
d for her husband at threshing the fall
before, and who lived in the
rillage of Geneva. Webster
vas arrested the next morning. His
rial soon followed and resulted in his con-
fiction of murder in the first degree. A
notion for new trial was held last fall,
he prisoner being granted a change of
1enue to Warren in an adjoining county.
4 second time he was found guilty and
entenced to be hanged. He was taken to
he penitent.ary to await execution, and
lis attorneys carried the CAGE TO the SUI
IRENE court on a motion for third trial.
This motion was granted. and the trial
,nded in his acquittal. Everybody has
watched the progress of the remarkable
,ase from day to day, and the greatest ex-
itement was created in Ashtabula and
'rumbull counties by the verdict. The
ceiling entertained against Webster by
many people at Geneva is bitter, and there
IRE many rumors of trouble IL he carries
Tut his expressed intention to return
hare tO live
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
Up in the Billions

The estimated deficiency in the post
OFFICE department is now put down from
S. 600 900 to 81, $50 000 the revised estimate
being based on the increase in revenues
and the greater efficiency in doing bust
ness. The statistics of the free delivery
system show: Mail letters delivered, 5l0,-
0.305; increase, A, M, 463. Mail postal
cards delivered, 100, 500 0SS; increase 50S6,-
$40. Local letters delivered, l7l,4l6, 2S4;
increase, 2S,O09,7 zoo Local postal cards de-
livered, Sl,263,920; increase, 303:,34.
Newspapers, etc, delivered, 300, 13S, $50;
increase, 44,0S4,94s. Whole number of
pieces handled, l.949. $40, $50; increase, 204,-
9S3, 1856. Pieces handled per carrier, 402,-
40: increase, 2,403. Total cost of service,
including postoffice inspectors, sI,3l2,-
BOG 20: increase, S336354 10 Average cost
per piece in mills, %: increase, 1. Aver
age cost per carrier, $3.50 Is; increase,
s23 20. Amount of postage on local mat
ter, sa.S39, PAP 81; increase, S55S,5l9 81. Elk.
cess of postage on local matter over total
cost of service, sl,526, 935 90; increase, $3.50,
lG5 -
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-21
Pledged to Abstain,

The ne WHY elected officers of the Knights
OF Labor, before their installation formal
ly pledged themselves TO abstain from in
toxicatiDg liquor for the next two years.
In addressing the general conference be-
fore installation Mr.. Powderly urged upon
the assembly the Importance of temper
ance and urged the delegates to impress
upon local assemblies the Importance of
this subject.
The position Of the order on the question
of social equality is set forth i'm the follow
ing resolutions which were adopted with
out debate:
Whereas, Reports have been circulated
and impressions have been created by the
press of the country regarding the position
of the Knights of Labor upon the question
Of social equality; and,
Whereas, We believe the welfare of the
order in the South requires that this Gen.
eral Assembly takes such action as will
dispel those wrong impressions; therefore,
R,slUed, That the organization of
Knights of Labor promises the civil and
political equality of all men; and in the
broad field of labor il recognizes no dis
tinction on account of color, but it has no
purpose to interfere with or disrupt the
social relation which may exist between
the different races in various portions of
the country.