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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-15
TOWNSHIP BOARD OF ASSESSORS

THE respective Township Boards of
i Assessors for Lexington county, S. c.,
will meet for the purpose of assessing the
value of personal property. OF Wednesday,
the 1st day of March next, at 8 o'clock
q. m. viz:
Black Greek Township. at G.. r. Rish's.
Boiling Springs. at A. Il. Tayior's.
Broad River. al Chaplin.
Bull Swamp, ut Oakvilla.
Chipquepin at DR.. J. X. Neece's.
Congaree. at S. l. Hooks.
Fork, at J. R. Shuler's.
Gilbert Hollow, at Lewis Shealy's.
Hollow Creek, at Mt. Pleasant.
Lexington, at Lexington G. 81.
Platt Springs, al Gaston.
Saluda, at J. J. WesSinger's.
Sandy Run at Red Store.
Chairmen of the old boards will please
call or send for retNrns and instructions
any time after February Ord
NJ. D. HARTMAN,
Feb 7, 1893. A. l.. c..
Feb S 3w14
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Summit Ripples.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
There is much sickness in town
and vicinity.
Mr.. Joseph Hartman was thrown
from his horse last Tuesday, and
badly, but not fatally hurt.
Miss Inez Wessinger of the Fork,
is in town visiting friends and rela-
tives.
School is progressing slowly and
steadily. MAKE haste slowly" is
our motto; and we shall soon see it's
effects. Give us time and we can do.
We were pleased to see Mr.. Kaiser
our late School Commissioner on the
9Th inst. He addressed us in his
mastlEilhant style an. Gaze ,s y8sl5
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-15
LANDS
BLOOD
MEDICINE.

The strongest Blood Medicine OIL tue
market. One bottle worth q dozen Of any
Sarsap ,rillas. DR.. G. NJ. Gallentine of
Beaverton, S. c., who suffered 81 years
with a running Tnmor which was cut out
3 times, was cured with bottles OF Lands
Blood Medicine. Price 81.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-15
The State Of South Carolina,

COUNTY OF LEXINGTON,
CCuKT OF PROBATE.
Michael II. Witt, Executor of Adam Buff.
deceased, Plaintiff
against
A. 4. Bnff. Jas. W. Buff, H. J. Buff, J. W.
G. Buff, and Adam Buff, j., Defendants,
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Complaint to Sell Land in Aid of Assets
and for Relief.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-15

M l.. IAINARD,
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North Bound. No. 81. No. IL.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
How the Races Originated.

M. De Quptrefages, the French eth.
nologist, has made public his conclusions
with regard to the origin and distribu.
ton oil the human race. He says all
mankind came from a central mass in
Northern Asia, apa that there were three
fundamental types black, white and
yellow. These. three types scattered
over the world and intermingled, form.
ing, in course of time, seventy-two dis
tinct races of human beings, which is
the number of races classified by our best
ethnologists in the tabulations brought
down to the year 1890. The learned
DE Quatrelages believes that the Amer
lean indians came from ga blending OF
white and yellow races with a local
quaternury race" Say, NJ. De Quatre-
lagos, where did that local quaternary
race originate? York Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

ures show that capital to the amount of
S35, 900, 600 is invested there in planta-
tons and other productive enterprises.
More than $50, 900, 000 of this is Amcri-
can money, and not one.ffth of the bal
auce is that of natives. Tho soil is ex-
, ceedingly fertile and capable of bringing
forth a great variety of products; but
sugar planting. under the reciprocity
,, treaty with the United States, which ad-
mits the product free of duty, is so
, profitable that other industries have been
neglected.
Iu 1889 the expectation OF sugar to
the United States amounted to 242,-
600, 900 pounds. The islands got a
blow from the Mckinley bill in the pro.
vision admitting all sugar free of duty.
This reduced the profits of the Hawaiin
planters so that many plantations have
been ruined and wages have been re-
duced by about one-thrd, while the cost
of staple food products there has been
hign. The crisis was beneficial, how
ever, in that it caused activity in other
industries than sugar raising, which
could be made highly profitable in that
country. The coffee plantations, which
had been neglected, received care again,
"s were the rice fields and vineyards and
me raising of cattle and Sheep The
total exports now are OF value close to
SIS, 900, 900 year, of which sugar is
still the greater part. About $5,000,-
900 of importing is done, provisions,
clothing, machinery, etc., aud the
United States gets nine-tenths of this
trade.
The financial condition of the country
for the period of 1S90-92, based on the
figures of previous periods, would show
a revenue of S2,S62, sos, and expendi-
lures of 50, S53,116 In 1890 the pub
tic debt amounted to 81, 1884, 900. which
was raised in London to pay off prior
Indebtedness, and pays six per cent. in-
terest.
The islands have an educational sys,
tenn that is fur in advance of their gem
eral condition. A complete system of
secular common schools is provided tor
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

all. Outside of school hours alone Ro-
mau Catholic and other religious teach
era have access to the children. English
is taught in oil the schools. There are
several superior institutions Of learning,
notably the Oahu College for the sons of
Americans; the Kanai Industr:eI School,
co-educational institution, aud the
kamehameha Industrial School for Ha-
waiian boys and girls. Mrs. Charles r.
Bishop. Hawaiian Princess, who was
tho wife of Charles r. Bishop, native
OF New York, who Is now ono of the
big bankers of Honolulu. left her whole
fortune of $500, 900 to found this latter
school. There were IT'S common schools
on the islands in 1890 aud about 10, 90
pupils. New York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
Use for the Sharks Ears.

Sharks have lately been affording con,
tributions TO science. The biologists
have been vivisectine them for the pur-
pose of finding out about tho functions of
the ear, which in fishes is made to some
extent on the same pattern as in man.
The TACT has been known for some time
that the ear is not merely an organ of
hearing. 1t has to do with the sense of
equilibrium. Light has been thrown on
this matter by removing portions of the
auditory apparatus of sharks, which are
thus rendered unable to maintain their
balance In the water.
The part on which this faculty seems
to depend is the "labyrinth," and the
same effect is produced by cutting tho
nerves communicating with it.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
What "stnG" is Doing for tho Fair.

hhaI "Stnu Is Doing Tor tho Fair.
Many of tho smaller structures would
he notable for beauty and for size if thoy
were not here made pigmies by contipu.
GUS grandeur. Like the larger buildings
they are veneerod with "stalf." Great
is "staiT!" Without staff this free hand
sketch Of what the world might have in
solid architecture, if it were rich enough,
would not have been possible. With
stall at his command, Nero could have
afforded to fiddle at fire at least once a
year. One of tho wonders of staff az
seen at Chicago is its color. Grayish
white is Its natural tone, and the basis
of its SUCCESS Mt Jackson Park; but it
will take any tint that one chooses to
apply, and maintain liveliness akin to
the soft bloom OF the human skin. Staff
is an expedient borrowed from tho Latin
countries, and much cultivated in South
America. Any child skilled in the mech
anism of q mud pie can mako it, after
being provided with the gelatin molds
and water mixture of cement aud plas-
ter. How tue workman appeared to en-.
JOY seizinG handfus of excelsior of fiber,
dipping them in the mixture and then
sioshing the fibrous mush over tho sur.
face of the mold. When tho staff has
hardened, the resultant cast is definite,
light, and attractive. A workman NAV
walk to his job with n square yard of
the marble palace under each arm aud a
Corinthian capital in each hand. While
it is little green it may be easily sawed
and chiseled, and nails are used as in
pine. Moreover rough JOINTS are no OBJ
lection, since little wet plaster serves
TO weld the pieces into a finished sur
face. In the rough climate of Lake
Michigan staff is expected to last about
six years, which is the average life of
the ab!est English ministry. Great is
staff!-Century.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

A matter of much scientific interest
and great business Importance has ia,
developed in IN Ohio town. A few years
ago, in the village of F;ndlay, prospec-
tors for oil struck an enormous reservoir
o. natural gas. The municipality
promptly clutched the rich output and
soon the village was alive with manu-.
featuring industries which utilized the
gas. Now the natural reservoir has an.
parently reached point near exhaustion.
the town trustees have notified the fac.
tories that the gas supply will soon be
cut of, and maze of lawsuits is threat.
encd. This is the commercial side of
the case. Scientifically, the exhaustion
of the gas reservoir means nothing more
than the clearing outof what is called
.spocket" by gold and silver miners.
There is limit even to the riches of ma
ture.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

Perhaps tho best guarantee that
Russia will not he in a hurry to violate
the peace of Europe, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser, is the mcnacng
attitude of her Chinese ncighbors in
Asia. The Chinese have become aroused
to the danger of permitting the Russlans
to make any further progress in the
Pamlr region, and the Chinese Minister
at st. Petersburg has been instructed to
inform the Russian Government that his
Government will consider any encroach.
ment on the Alichur Pamir very seri.
GUS matter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

hany<believe that in another genera
ton or two the native stock will become
extinct. The natives are called Kaua-
kas and are of q Malay Polynesian race,
much like the Maoris of New Zealand,
and like them they are dying out from
the ravages of infectious diseases. and
especially from drink, which. since the
lamented King Kalakaua removed the
tariff on it, has resulted in great pauper.
ism and mortality. Though these ma
tives have had the Scriptures among
them for years, and have professed
Christianity. great many OF them still
retain much of the barbarism of their
fathers.
The royal family begins, as far as
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

Hawaii, the main one of the group OF
twelve islands, is about 2100 miles west
by south of San Francisco. Fast steam
ship lines now run from Honolulu to San
francisco. The islands stretch out for
n distance of $50 miles in the Pacific,
but only eight of them are inhabited.
These have a total area of 6640 square
miles, rs follows: Hawaii, 1910 square
mics; Maui, 760; Oahu, 600; Kauai,
$50; Molokai, 270; Ranai, $50; Nihau,
": Kahoolawe, SO.
Each of the islands used to have its
own duslly king and be little world to
itself. About the year 1900. however,
there was an old chap struggling under
the name of Kamehameha pronounced as
spelled,l VINO, like Alexander the Great,
"sighcd for more worlds to conquer. {"
He made up his mind that ho would
conquer all the other worlds he knew
about, the Hawaiian Islands, and this he
proceeded to do with neatness and dis
patch, and made himself King of them
all. Ever since the monarchy has pre-
vailed, though the royal family has been
in very bad way from the time that
American enterprise began to assert itself
on the islands.
There have been many revolutions,
out the reigning family has stood against
them, though its power has been taken
away from time to time by the granting
to the people of such constitutional
rights as the revolutionists demanded.
The islands have very mixed popu.
tation, owing to the great demand for
cheap labor that resulted from the de-
velopment of the sugar industry. In the
aggregate there are less than 100, 900
people there, and the major portion of
these are on the big island of Hawaii.
The increase In the past ten years has
been about Is, 900, the annual increase
being about 1900. This increase has
been very largely due to the excess of
the immigration to these shores over the
emigration, and not to natural increase,
which has been slow because of the small
number of the female population as COM
pared with males. OF the population
about As, 900 are natives and half breeds,
10000 are japanese, 13, 900 are Chinese,
a000 Portuguese. 1000 Americans, and
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

kicking up such high jinks that the for
eigners ON the island began to protest.
They called upon the King and asked
him to sign a Constitution. He said he
would not, as it took from him practi-
cally all his royal power. The commit
tee that was waiting upon him numbered
only thirteen, but it represented much
of the wealth Of the island. Its members
told Kalakaua chat they would give him
thirty minutes to sign chat Constitution,
and gently suggested that there was
mass meeting of Indignant foreigners out
on the corner. Kalakaua signed the
Constitution.
Since that time the Americans have
practically run the Government. They
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

Last years sale of eggs alone, accord
Ing to statistics, reached the enormous
sum of 5000, 900. 900, aud live and
dressed poultry 800, 600, 900, or the total
Tor both of 5000, 900, 900 for the United
States. 1t seems hardly possible, COM
ments the New York Independent, that
such figures would be correct, yet the
Department of Agricultural statistics
publish it in their reports. Small things
appear weak, yet they confound tho
mighty.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

There is q pathetic little quivcr in the
tone that touches him, for it is so differ
ent from the confident, assured tone in
which she usually addresses him. :I
have sprained my aukle-I don't know
exactly how, but fell and IL was under
me, and it hurts awfully." She stops
moment and something that sounds very
much like sob CONES from the heap on
the ice. 81 could not move at all.
tried to crawl to the shore, but every
time moved it hurt SO. When you
went of with Alice thought would
have one moro good skate before L went
home, and tho ice was so smooth in here
and it was away from every ono and I
wanted to think-I don't know how far
got away from the pond-I think
must have tainted for moment. And
1T seemed ever so long before you came"
Ut was scarcely ten minutes in reality.I
"And called and called, aud no Que
heard me, and what shall dot"
Young De Wolfe has not played foot.
ball on the varsity eleven for nothing,
ana he knows all about sprains. He is
all sympathy, aud looks upon the matter
in busincss-lke way.
"You must get up and use stick OF
something, and lean on my arm," he
says, briskly. Sly dogl He knows
they will not get very far that way.
He finds u stout stick quickly, and
then he helps her tenderly to an upright
position.
The face that he family secs in the
darkness is pale, very pale, and the eyes
shine with pain. And when she gets up
and tries to let ever 80 little weight on
the sprained ankle she cries out sharply.
ut must be more serious than sup.
posed" De Wolfe remarks. ~ shall
get you over to the nearest house and
make them take out their arnicn and
bandagc up the injured ankle" he con-
tinues briskly, sand then will tele.
phone to town for doctor and car.
riage."
She says nothing and her lips arc com,
pressed tightly.
Presently with cry of pain she stops
short. 1t is tho mans face now that Is
pale. He draws long breath and looks
anxlously at her.
"Fhis will not do at ALL" he says,
seriously. And then he gathers her up
Ia his arms and, holding her closely to
him, walks carefully through tho troos
into the field and toward farm house
short distance away.
1t is not far, but great many thinos
happen that she does not seem to mind
and which make her forget all about the
pain in her ankle.
No one knows, of course, what it was,
but when the scandalizcd sister arrives
half hour later, she finds Grace Bently
Installed in a huge easy chair and DO
Wolfe bustling around the room asking
If he can do "anything more"
"But when his Dyes rest on tho pale,
face of the girl in the chair, and
when he sees the glad light in her eyes,
he realizes with much delight that Alice
Bently has arrived altogether too late,
and he wonders what sho will say whop
she knows all about it.
And when he thinks of what the girl
in the chair has gone through, aud what
pain and suffering have come to her that
night, he makes the use of a right ho
has just had given him, and whispers to
her when no one is near:
Poor, dear Miss Gracie l"-FranIs
Leslie,s.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

The coolest winter the world cvot
knew, according to several chroniclcrs,
occurred during the year 1885. Tho
season was not only intensely cold, but
lasted unusually long. In n large por-
ton Of Middle and Western Germany
the frost was so severe during the month
of May that skaters braved the ice with
out the least danger, and May IL sleghs
were generally used. On St. Johns
Day, June "a, the windows were frozen
and not vcstige of vegetation was to
be seen anywhere. Spring was ushered
in with the last day OF June.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

hold all of the chief executive aud ju-
dicial Offices. In 1889 half-breed.
named Robert W. Wilcox, who had
been educated at public expense in an
Italian military school, attempted q
revolution with handful Of men. which
aimed to do away with the Constitution
and restore the royal family to its old
power. The white foreigners put down
that revolution in three hours, with
loss Of three men among the revolution
lists.
Under favorable treaties with the
United States aud development of
American money, the production and
commerce of the islands have become
very extensive. The latest official fig
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

there are about 1900 whites of various
nationalitics.
The Chinese immigration had to be
stopped by law several years ago. The
Chinese were found Objectionable be.
cause of their secret societies, organized
to control the labor market; because of
their tric8ery in business matters, and
because CT the dcpravity they were spread
ing among native women. Among the
Japanese population males outnumber
females five to one and among the Chi
ncsc population fifteen to one; but among
the native population and the other i'm
migrants the ratio is about normal. The
Chinese and the Japanese have meyer
been allowed to vote.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
THE cosr OF THE GROWN.

Why snouldst thou think. o heart
That life Is peaceG
Thou cans't not live apart
In calm release.
From all tho carse of life;
FroS> Burdens, toll and STRIFE.
From hopes that die us grass,
From plans that break as glass,
From friends who fall, and foes
Who live to work tho woes
Without surccase.
Thou shouldn't now know, o heart,
That life is war;
Each day brings some fresh smart,
Some new-iixe scar;
Tint he who seeks life's crown
Must often be cast down,
Must Oft arise and fight
Still on from morn tonight,
And hoeding not the pain,
Must fight throu .h death to gain
His sainthood's star.
Thou shoulds't not quail, o heart
Till life is done:
Crowns arc not gwen Mt start
They must be won!
Be brave and let thy sword
Be forg'd OF Co.'s true word.
Thy shield bo faithfu!ness,
Thy brenstplate Righteousness;
So shalt thou fight aud win,
As thy soul enters in,
Its crown: "Well done"
Sam w. Small, in Atlanta Constitution
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

Walter Besant has been making some
melancholy estimates Of the number of
authors who fail, and he finds that out
OF $500 who try 1860 arc completely
"'iis;cd," 100 make a very little money,
scvea'y 10 pretty we'll, and fifty get
suO. tantial income.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

the South London Bulldog Society. TIL,
sum is said to be the largest ever paid
for dog of Docklcaf's species, but
much higher bid would probably be
necessary now to induce Mr.. Woodwiss
to part with his prize winner.
Dockleaf was bred by Mr.. Pybus.
Sellon and is g dark briudle in color. lie
has massive head, broad chest and
short, powerful body, and Is said to be
very good-natured animal.-Mail and
Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

The monument which the cx-Con-
fcderatcs will erect in Richmond, Va,
to the memory of Jefferson Davis will
not stand where his remains will be laid.
The grave is to be in u cemetery near
the james River. in the northwestern
part Of the city. The monument will
be placed in Monroe Park, Il quarter OF
mile from this SPOT
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

the islands have been made somewhat
familiar through the writings of travel
crs and through the great amount of
matter printed in the newspapers ut the
time when King Kalakaua, late lament
ed, visited this country in search of a
loan for his bankrupt Treasury, and later
when his Queen, Kapiolani, came here
on the same Grand.
The Hawaiian Islands form most in
tcresting country, however, in themselves
and in their history, especially to Amer
leans; for Americans have led in their
developments, have for years controlled
their wealth, and have had the strongest
voice in their government.
That hardy old mariner, Captain Cook,
happened to run across the Hawaiian
Islands in 1879. He mad quite differ
cnt object in mind when he made this
discovery; but then the early discoveries
all seemed to have weakness for find
ing something that they never thought
of looking for. Captain Cook called
the islands the Sandwich Islands. His
reason for so doing is not known,
unless the veteran conundrum "be-
cause OF the sand wich- is there" may
have some bearing on 1t. However,
the Sandwich Islands they have re-
mained IN the minds of most men.
AT the time of reporting his discovery
Captain Cook said he thought there
were as many as 400, 900 natives there.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

james Smith, Jr., the Democratic
Standardized from New Jersey, will not
be the first Smith in the United States
Senate. Daniel Smith. Tennessee; Israel
Smith, Vermont; John Smith, Ohio;
John Smith, New York; Nathan Smith,
Truman Smith and Perry Smith, all
from Connccticut-hcrc are n few of the
Senators Smith.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
gear.

Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross
Association, thinks there is too much
suffering in this country now to think of
moving in behalf of Russian famine suf-
ferers again.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

The lands owned in the Congo Terri.
tory, Africa, by the Belgian Congo Com
mc'cia and Industrial Company stand in
the company's hooks Mt four cents per
mere. Actual sales have been effected
at this price, hence its adoption for nc
count iccpin I-purposcs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10

The Germans Indignantly deny that
their colonization efforts in the CAMERON
country have come to naught. They
point with pride to the fact that one OF
their army officers there recently shot
gorilla which measured seventy inches
around the chest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
A $3.50 BULLDOG.

This is picture of bulldog worth
$3.50. That is the price S. Woodwiss,
Of Finchley, England, paid for the cele-
brated dog Dockleaf before he won first
prize as the very best canine of the 100
exhibited at the recent bench show OF