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AZ PLEASANT TRIP.
A Visit to the Unyeiling OF
Mari0n's Monument.

st. Matthews Herald.
We had often heard of the gran
deur of that portion of the State,
from the upper Berkeley line to
the coast, butwere hardly prepared
to see such evidences of departed
wealth as met our sight on every
hand. Magnificent plantation once
the pride and paradise of their
owners are now tenanted by for
mer slaves, and the impress on
every object is, "days numbered
and finished, weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting" Nowhere
is the sad truthfulness of the re-
mark of the negro after the war,
'sthe bottom rail is on top now,"
more strikingly displayed than in
this country.
The creatures of the Fifteenth
Amendment feel their Importance
IN Berkeley, and are not loatb to
show it. Enervated by luxury tie
opulcnt owners of princely estates,
were utterly unable to grapple with
the stern consequences of the war,
and the undeveloped resources of
their extended domains are now
crushed under the black deluges
of Radicalism.
If those large plantations were.
divided into small farms, manned
by energetic white men, and we
believe it will orly be a question
of time when this will be the or
der of the day, that portion of the
State would again blossom as the
rose. At present, however, the
black pail of the negro Incidence
and Encouragement lies slumber-
ing over these broad acres, like
ocean round diving bell-no
crevice Of light yet disclosing it.
self.
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Vanderbilt's Game Park.

Asheville, N. G. juno 21.-
George w. Vanderbilt has con-
cluded the purchase of twenty
thousand acres of land in "Pink
Beds," q section of Henderson
and Pennsylvania couuties, Noreh
Carolina. The purpose of the
purchaser is to make one of the
finest game preserves in the world.
Game keepers are already i'll charge
Of the property and every farm
house on the estate has been torn
down. The property is only a few
miles from Vanderbilt's residence
here.
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A Metaphysical Combat.

The great colored preacher Of
the Baptists is pitted against the
Methodist vine. The first says:
"De Methodiss, my brudden, is
like de grasshopper-hoppin', all
de time hoppin'-hop into heaven,
hop out, hop into heaven, hop out.
But, my brudden, de Baptiss, when
he got to heaven, he's dar. De
Baptiss is like de 'possum. Hunter
get after him; he climb de tree;
he shake de limb, one foot gone;
he shake de limb, anudder foot
gone; he shake de limb, ebbery
foot gone; but tink you, my brud-
der, 'possum falls? You know,
my brudder-you cotch too many
you know 'possum hang on by
tail, and dc berry debbil can't
shake him off,"
The Methody fell below par in
the colored folks heart until some
time afterward, when this particu-
lar belief again had admirers, for
the opposition clergy demolished
the Baptist as follows:
His text was: "My sheep hears
my voice and I know them, and
dey follows me-" Then he said {:
"In de Bible de Christians is de
sheep He had a heap of Bible
in dat pint, and he preached a
mighty long time, and made dat
so strong no niger can't dispute
it. Now my brudden and sisters,
you all knows you can't get a sheep
into de water no how, less you
cotch him and carries him in.n
Then Methody had a great and
final triumph.
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Bordenlay when he was murdered
lis at the central police station and
will not be removed for day or
two.
Lizzie spen: a very pleasant
night end was very cheerful at
breakfast in the Holmes residence
this morning. A domestic in the
family house on Second street is
reported to have said that the two
girls broke down completely when
they entered their old home. To-
9sy Andrew J. Jennings is receiv-
ing letters AID kilograms of con-
gratulations from all parts of the
country and Miss Borden's mail is
very heavy. The sentiment of the
people of this city has been
changed greatly by the verdict and
there is manifest respect for the
decision of the jury.
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1.Aa.,f 5. ~

may have attained in life is due
to a kind and good Providence
the same kind Providence that
has put into your hearts the idea of
passing these resolutions 80 COM
plimentary and SO kind to me. In
every station of life I have felt the
hand of Providence, and have seen
it distinctly as if it had been my
fathers hand lifting me out of
difficulty"
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make and character, thus meeting
with favor in all localities. 1t is
strictly non-political and non-
sectarian. 1t has a trained corps
of contributors and is carefully
edited. The various departments
of Farm, Horticulture, Sheep and
Swine, The Home, The Horse and
the Dairy, are f-i'd with bright
and useful matter. The readers
of the American Farmer are uni
versal in it's praise and look for it's
monthly visits with keen anticipa-
tion. The regular subscription
price to the American Farmer is
$1.00 a year, but by this arrange
ment it costs you nothing toreceive
that great publication for one
year. Do not delay in taking adj
vantage of this offer, but call at
once. or send in your subscription,
Sample copy of the American
Farmer can be seen at the ADvER-
T1sER Office, or will he supplied
direct by the publishers.
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to his ,.-,.- ..-.- -ivm It's ehecvs. Inls
act shows his unswervlng devotion
to the vlrtuous.
At 10 o'clock salute of artillery
was fired, and as their thunders
rolled over the distant hills and
plains, all hearts were stirred and
reminded of those tremendous
storms of battle in which the he
roic Marion had SO often fought
and bled for his beloved country.
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Hail Piled Up Over Two Feet.

Aiken Journal and Review.
Mr.. Nathan Bodie was in Aiken
on Wednesday last and reported
that on the day after the hail
storm he saw hail piled up in Mr..
w. D. Buckhalter's field to the
depth of two feet and two inches.
1t was lying in a kind of basin
where it had been washed and
covered over an acre of ground.
He said there were thousands of
bushels of hail lying piled up
there. In speaking of his losses,
said he had thirty acres of land
planted in cotton, and except
where protected by trees, every
stalk of cotton had been slipped
of its leaves and shapes. How
ever, he hopes still to make half
crop of cotton. He thinks his
corn is total loss, but he proposes
10 plant his stubble in corn.
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inuendo the stubborn hostility Of
the defeated. The republican

luuouuO Gue eGuUUOTu uOstlliIy VI
the defeated. The republican
ideas which triumphed in the
English Commonwealth, and were
stifed at the Restoration, re-
covereu only a trace of their
former influence in 1888; and the
dav has yet to dawn when English
public opinion will tolerate the
erection of a statue to Olive,
Cromwell in Westminster Abbey
Nothing could attest more
strikingly the enlightenment and
magnanimity of the American peo.
pie than the fact that Northern
men can view without remons-
trance or i'll will the devotion OF
their Southern brethren to the
memorysof the statesman in whom
was incarnate.- The effort to sub.
vert the Union. Such patience,
such indulgence, such willingness
to make allowances, such COM
prehension of another's point Of
view, is without parallel in the
experience of nations. In the
North it is so absolutely true that
the war is over, and that all
animosities which it engendered
are effaced, that uoirritation is
excited by the reluctance now and
than exhibited by Southerners to
forgot the dissensions Of the past
and to remember only that they
are now the honored and trusted
citizens of a reunited country. Tc
feel irr::tated is impossible, il
view of the a,"7.ekening of the
Northern mind to a keen sense o1
the difficulty of deciding whether
as a matter of strict traditiona.
right, the attempt at secession
could not be justified. Among the
signs of this awakening, and of tht
Fcuriously belated preponderance o.
Calhoun's views of the Constitu
tion over Webster's, may be men
toned the testimony of thu
grandson of John Quincy Adams
who, in his history of the Jeffer-
son and Madison administrations
points out that the first statesman
to proclaim in the House of Re
representatives. the right of a State
to secede was Josiah Quincy of
Massachusetts. That was a fac
which Massachusetts had for
gotten in 1861.
1t was really the doctrine o
State rights,carried, indeed, thirt,
years ago to an extreme incon
sistent with the safety and de
velopment of free institutions OF
this continent, and to that extent
condemned by the arbitrament Of
was, but still a doctrine, when
soberly applied, of deep and vital
! moment to the republic, which is
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Many poor sufferer who sub
mits to the surgeons knife, III
consequence of malignant sores
and scrofulous swellings, might be
cured, without an operation, by
taking Ayers sarsaparilla. This
remedy expels from the blood all
the impurities by which disease
is generated,
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1t Costs You Nothing.

We are pleased to announce that
we have made arrangements by
which we are prepared to supply
free to each of our subscribers a
years subscription to that we'll,
known monthly home and farm
Journal, the American Farmer
published at Springfield and
Cleveland, Ohio. We make this
offer to each of our subscribers
who will pay up all arrearges OH
subscription and one year in adj
vance, and to all new subscribers
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People with hair that is con.
tinually falling out, or those that
are bald, can stop the falling, and
get q good growth of hair by using
Halls Hair Renewer.
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honored at Richmond in the
person of Jefferson Davis. No
word, therefore, of rebuke, but
only regret that war was needed to
mark the limitations of the
principle, will be heard from those
who felt that unity was an even
more essential guarantee of
American liberty and progress.
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DR.. w. j. Alexander.

The sudden news of this mans
death awakens in me such keen
sorrow, such a sense of personal
loss, that I feel constrained to give,
however hurriedly, some sort of
expression to it. He was 30 pure,
SO honest, 20 strong, 30 straight be-
fore man and God.
For many years be honored me
with q personal attachment rare
amongst men. Reticent and modest
he did yet unveil himself to q
chosen few. And what revelations! !!
What simplicity, what courage,
whet single-mindedneas, what
clearness of vision! In profound
insight and guileless life and high
purpose he had few peers. And
his love was so like a sisters,
sweet, tender, uplifting, purifying.
But I mean not to speak of the
many and manly qualities he pos
sessed in like degree with other
great and godly meu, but OF the
two he impressed me as possessing
in pre-eminent degree, namely, his
purity and his honesty.
He was a pure man. AS pure, |
truly believe, as pure woman.
This is rare among men. He was
not simply pure in deed, but in
thought and feeling, Hewas pure
lin the primal fountains Of his be-
ing. Let me lovingly repeat that
this man honored me with fre-
quent admission into the very
holy of holies of his nature, and
u knew him. he stood upon the
white heights of personal purity.
By what heroic endeavor he attain
ed it let the giants tell. He trans
mitted its fresh, sweet light un-
dimmed, unrefracted, uncolored.
Among living men his equal in
singular and phenomenal purity is
not known to me.
He was an honest man. This,
too, is rare. I refer not to honest
dealing with our fellow men, this
is common; nor to honest dealing
with God, this also is not uncom-
mon; but to honest dealing with
ones self. He was honest towards
others; the full recognition and
ready acknowledgment of his
lowly status toward God was a
primary quality of him; but this
man went further, he was honest
with himself. How rare this is!
He would not even try to persuade
himself that he was what he was
not, or that he believed what he
did not. With dominant and mas
terful convictions his hatred of
sham in conduct, speech, or
thought was something unique
and terrible-like that of our Lord.
Through conventionalities to the
reality of things and men his
glance went, with pitying contempt
for the weak hypocrite, with
flaming indignation against the
strong. His was a kingly spirit.
Through the mists that gather
about him as he crosses the Bar
/ offer this glimpse of the man as
he really was-of the man as he
stood in the clear light of truth
and self-revelation to his friend.
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rspottr as Bone OF the strange
coincidents of the earthquake
shock last night that it occurred
simultaneously wirh the beginning
of the summer solstice, the en-
trance of the sun in the zodiacal
signs Of cancer, near the first
quarter of the moon and when the
tide was OH the flood.
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The longest lease recorded, e1-
cept that given to Abraham, was
that of the Lynchburg and DaB5-
vile railroad, which was recently
executed for $50 years.
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EUTAw SPRINGS.

We know no place where the
loveliness of nature is more strik-
ingly displayed than around its
gushing fountains. Aside from ite
historic note, tits well worth y
from every lover of the @s,
1t is an ideal resort for excul
|ists, and our young folks
there spend. day pleasantly ~
proftably. The surroundings =
about as they were over a ceTl ,',1.
ago, when our forefathers coL.ond-
ed fiercely with the stern troops of
Britain, Weems says that on the
day of battle "the ascending
ghosts of the slain, shook the tree
tops" butw saw nothing SO alarm
ing. The winds waved gently the
cypress once shaken by the thun.
ders of artillery, and the crystal
waters once dyed with the blood of
patriots, flowed gently on to their
destination. There was nothing
in nature to show that it was a
field noted for "Man's inhumanity
to man."
Some fifty yards above the
springs, stood a large brick house,
surrounded by garden that bor-
dered on the Monks Corner road.
A little north of this house was the
British line of battle, the right
resting on, and protected by Eutaw
Creek, the centre at the Monks
Corner road, and the left border
ing on an impenetrable woodland.
On the 9th of September, 1881,
Gen. Green was in line and ready
for battle, his forces were COM
manded by Lee Henderson, Wash
ington, and Marion. After some
skirlnishing between the marks
men of the two armies, they fell
back behind the ranks and the en-
gagement became general.
"Long time, in even scale the
battle hung" out at length the
militia of Carolina broke, and the
left wing of the British left their
position in pursuit. This left a
large gap in their lines through
which Green at once poured all his
reserve, this turned the scale OF
battle, and soon the entire English
army seemed completely routed,
Their officers rallied them however,
and used the brick house and pal
isaded garden as port. Around
this house and garden the conflict
was fierce and the carnage dread
full. Col. Washington was wound
ed and captured and torrents of
blood shed in the effort to capture
the fortress, but in vain.
Gen. Green seeing that he was
wasting the lives of his men re-
tired several miles from the field
to his camp, and that night the
British retrested to Monks Corner.
This was one of the severest bal
ties of the Revolution: and Con-
gress showed its approval of the
conspicuous valor displayed on the
occasion by voting public thanks
to those who had taken part in the
action.
1t is to be regretted that the old
brick house has been demolished
] Only a few brick remain to point
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WAS ONLY THE TAIL END.
People Stirred by sight Earth
quake Shock.

Columbia Journal.
AT HOB o'clock last night
lColumbions were startled by an
Eearthquake shock.
Those who were awake were
l;some what alarmed at the extent
tof the shock. Many people ran into
1.-THE streets, but as the shock only
lasted about o half minute, pos
)siby less, they soon returned to
their houses. In different parts of
the city people were awakened
from slumber by the shock, and
many walked to the newspaper
|and telegraph Offices to inquire
after the effect Of the shock at
Charleston.
That city seemed to the centre
of interest and solicitude on the
part OF the people OF Columbia.
The telegraph Office was crowded
Sin q few minutes and the people
would not leave until they had
heard of the fate of their neighbor
by the sea. 1t was some minutes
before the Charleston Office could
be heard from, but soon answer
came "Quite a severe shock but
no damage. This set all fears at
rest and the people returned to
their homes
Z The movement was from the
northeast to the southwest.
ANOTHER AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Some people says this morning
that they felt another shock about
q o'clock this morning, but they
are few presumably because nearly
every one WAS asleep.
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THE JUSTICES WEPT.
TIE JURY RENDERED A
yERDICroFsNoTGUILTY.
Late Yesterday Afternoon-An
Unparalleled Scene in q Mas
sachusetts Court Room.
Columbia Journal.

sachusetts Court Room.
/ Columbia Journal.
New BEDFORD, Mass, June 21.-
AMID the waving of handkerchief
and tumultuous cheering yester-
day afternoon Lizzie Borden re
;oiced that she was togo free. The
dark cloud that had been lowering
over her was dispelled. Tears fell
from the eyes of the stern justices,
and the scs1swas such as has never
been known in this country. The
justices made no effort to stop the
denomination. Their hearts wels
with the people, and for q few mo-
ments they forgot law and deco
rum.
The jury fled into their seats at
4:3O p. NJ, and were polled. Miss
Borden was asked to stand up, and
the foren,al1 was asked to return q
verdict, upon which he announced
9Not guilty"
The closing scenes in the trial
were in direct contrast with those
which,had preceded it. Heretofore
all had been decorous and inkeep-
ing with the dignity of the most
dignifed court in the country. But
when the verdict of "Not guilty"
was returned, cheer went up
which might have been heard half
q mile away through the open win
dows, and there was no attempt to
check it. The stately JUDGES look
ed straight ahead at the bare walls.
Sheriff Wright was powerless to
WELD the gavel which lies ready
for his use. and not once during
the tremendous excitement, which
lasted fully q minute did he make
the slightest sign Of having heard
1t. he never saw the people rising
in their seats and waving their
shandk dkerchiefs in unison with their
voices, because his eyes were full
of tears and complete blinded
for the time. -
Miss Borden's head went down
upon the rail in front Of her, and
tears came where they had refused
to come FOR many long days as she
heard the sweetest words ever
poured into her willing ears, the
words aNot entity"
Mr. Jennings was almost crying,
and his voice broke as he put his
hand out to Mr.. Adams, who sat
next to him, and said, "Thank
Godl" while Adams returned the
pressure of the hand and seemed
incapable of speech.
After the verdict had been re-
ceived the district attorney moved
that the other case against Miss
Borden be nolle pressed, and the
order of the court was to that effect.
Chief Justice Mason then grace
fully thanked the jurors, in appre-
ciation of their work and faithful
service, and reminded them that
the precautions taken with them,
which may have seemed irksome
at the time, were solely in the in
terest of justice-a fact which
they undoubtedly realized now.
The jury was then dismissed.
Governor Robinson TUNED to
the raDidly dissoIying inrv "a thew
I'd out of their seats and beamed
IL, - with fatherly interest in
indy eyes, and stood up as
m. .ovlton and Mr.. Moody
came !. to shake hands with the
counsel for the defence.
AS soon as possible the room
was cleared. When the spectators
had finally gone Miss Borden was
taken to the room of the justices
and allowed to recover her COM
posure, with only the eyes of
friends upon her and the caresses
of devoted admirers.
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out the place rendered immoas
by the desperate struggle aTo@
its walls. But SO it is, times 81 +
generations roll on in "a migh'
current, and ldings, like buff
ers, have their destiny. 6
BELL ISLE.

Il I.
Bell Isle, the home of Marion,
though long since deserted, Ne
found teeming with life on our sar-
rival. The monument was npt
such as one might expect to- see,
but it does credit to the State. In
honoring Gen. Marion she honosa
and dignifies herself. The yard
borders on the Santee swamp
verify the General must have meant
to jealously guard and perpetu uayRl e
the title won in his campaign
serhe swamp fox of the arolinass'
History states that in his youth
he was SO pasionately fond'of coon
huntinssthhat his father severely
reprime1ued him, and said 81 viii
only leave you hunting hornand
hound, they are about all that YOU
will need in life /" This set young
Marion to thinking, he was not de!
ficient in the essential qualities Of
true manhood, but they were to q
large extent dormant. This rebuke
aroused and put them in operation
and the result is known to all
men.
We thought as we looked on the
moving multitute assembled to do
him honor, and on the enduring
marble erected to transmit his
name to posterity, that q:
"Were a star quenched on high, s
For ages would its light x:
Stream downward from the sky 4
Upon our mortal sight. 81.
So when a great man dies, L
For years beyond our ken
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths Of men,"
There was no man trusr to duty.
and the dictates of conscience
than Marion. Just before the siege
of Charleston he was spending the
evening with some officers, agreea.
bic with the custom of the times.
~ sgi::- - ahn,>1 .a5s
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ELSEWHERE.

Ns. ELSEWHERE.
sTelegrams! from all parts of the
State to The Journal this morning
announce that the shock was felt
distinctly and all agree as to the
Sime-11 :0S No damage was done
anywhere.
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The first car load of melons
brought $3.50 in New York.
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EARTHouAKE ECHOES.