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REMINISCENCES
OF
PUBLIC MEN.
BT EX-QOVEHNOR B. F. PERaT.
[Continued from latt Week.]
PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION?CONTINUED.
Monday morning, Governor Manning, Judge
Mom, Oolunel Thca. T. Simmon*, Colonel
Campbell, Mr. Shtngler, and other delegates
from South Carolina, arrived. From my
memoranda, U aeema the Convention did not
meet till Tueiday. Our parlor waa filled with
vlsitora all day, and till a late hour at night.
Tuesday morulng the Maasaobusetta dologatU?
?11-J I- -
uvu uttuuu id a ooaj 10 pny iDOir respecti to
the South Carolina delegation. They were
very cordial and kind, and really aeemed to
feel as If they were greeting old fr cuds. They
were all Demoeqpts/who bad been peraecuted
for tbalr sympathy with the South, and they
had a right to expect a cordial welcome from
uy. \Vo gave it,most gratefully and cheerfully.
. They proposed that we should go up to
the Convention together. .When we got there,
Mr. Rpofford, a Massachusetts delegate, and a
most charming gentleman, suggested that we
two delegations should go into the Convention
arm-in-arm. It was so announced from the
stand by Governor Randal. Tho Convention
rose ?and cheered us most vociferously, and
tna^e us march round the room, so that all
could see tho harmonious and affectionate
spcctnolc. Immediately this was telegraphed
to President Johnson, and it affected him to
tears of joy! The effect was most happy on
tho Convention and throughout the country.
On taking the chdirs, General Dii, of New
York, mado a most admirable address to tho
Convention. IIow little did we then expect
to sco him, after delivering such a patriotic
speech, go over to the Republican party, within
a few years, and become their renegade
candidato for Governor of New York. IIow
true it is, that most politicians are mere gamblers,
playing for success, witlioutjany regard
to tho interest of their country, and with as
little priuciplo as the veriest black-log. Senator
Doolittlo was appointed President of the
Convention, and made a most happy, appropropriate
and patriotic address. The wigwam
in which wo were assembled was a huge building,
gotten up for the occasion, and could ao
commodate ten thousand persons. It was constructed
of rough plank and badly covered,?
The rain began to fall pretty heavy, and the
ladies found their situation anything but
pleasant.
In the evening, Governor Orr, Gen. McQow^
an and myself were invited by Gov. Biglcr to
dine with Maj. James. Mr. Clymcr, the Doinecratic
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania,
and others, wero present. The Major in.
fisted that I should come and stay with him,
and bring a friend with me. lie said he had
two rooms ready for us. lint I declied his
hospitality, as I was unwilling to leavo the
very pleasant company at the hotel. That
night I was invited to make a speoch in the
room of the National Union Club. There
were fifteen hundred persons present, and never
before bad I addressed so enthusiastic an
audience. I was followed by Mr. l'crrin, of
New York, in one of the most humorous speeches
lever listened to. Mr. Cleveland, of Hart,
ford, then addressed the meeting, and we adjourned.
Wednesday the South Carolina delegation
wcut to return the visit of the Massachusetts.
Wo were met most cordially, aud treated to
ehampaigno in great abundance. Mnj. Gen.
Custer said to Gen. McGowan: "Wo were
looking at each other in Virginia three or four
years at a distance, and I am now happy to
tako a nearer view of you." In going to tbo
wigwam, iudgo Wardlaw was robbod of his
poekot book, containing five hundred dollar.
and Col. Campbell of bis diamond breast-pin
of great value.
I was appointed on the Committee of Address
and Resolutions, which assembled that
evening at tbo Continental hotel, sixty or seventy
iu numbers, and appointed a sub-committee
to consider of the matters referred to
them and report. I was on this sub-committcc,
and bad a long sitting. Mr. Raymond,
of New York, had prepared an address, which
was rend, and about ono third, tbo historical
part, was stricken out. In every instance
where a Southern delegate proposed an alteration,
it was agreed to.
Thursday the Convention met and received
tho address and resolutions. They were
adopted amid great eheering. The whole
Convention rose to their feet, and the galleries
did the same. The ladies waved their white
handkerchiefs, and elapped their little hands,
with lovely faces wreathed in smiles. The
picture, or photograph, of the Convention at
this period would bavo been beautiful ir.deed.
The ladies and gentlemen sitttlng or standing
close together in the galleries, presented a
beautiful appearance, and looked liked mosaie
work, with different colors of dresses, bonnets,
faces, Ac., Ac.
Friday evening the South Caroline delegation
were invited by the Mayor of the eity to
dine with him and a few friends. Mr. Mo*
Mikell and sevon gentlemen subscribed one
ni'juBBDa aoiiars to rurntsh the dinner. It wee
altogether the moat magnificent dinner I had
ever eat down to. It waa aaid that the May*
or, MoMikell and hia aeven frieuda were worth
eight tnilliona of dollars. They were all Black
Republican* of the feepest dye. Their hospitality
surprised everyone. Oen. MoOook, of
Ohio, said to me, he eoold exenae oar going
into the Convention arm-in arm with the Massachusetts
delegation, for they were Democrats,
bnt our dining with the Black Republican
Mayor of Philadelphia and bis friends,
was too bad ! It was understood that no politics
were to be talked, but we all made political
ipeeehes, and they were received moat
cordially. The Mayor said to Col. Campbell
and myself, that he begged us to understand
that in opposing President Johnson, who had
deserted them and the Republican party North,
they wore not opposing the South. lie wished
the South restored to the Union. Thia was
said on taking leave of bins.
Saturday we were invited to dine with Joshj
ua Francis Fisher, Ksq., ten or tweivo miles
| in the country, who married the youngest
daughter of my old friend, Qov. Henry Middlaton,
of South Carolina. Mr Fisher was
the grand-nephew of Sir Philip Francis, the
supposed writer of Fanius' Letters. In startto
Mr Fisher's, I had the pleasure of meet
tag Qen Uttdt, at the Railroad Depot. Ha
waa shabily dressed, and X did not at drat
raoogniaa him. Whan I mat him in Columbia,
bo waa in tall uniform, and lookad tha
hero and high-bred gantlaman. I navar before
waa ao forcibly atructr with the effcot of
draaa. Qen Maada rode with ua till wa atoppad
to go to Mr FUber'a. The 8outh Carol iniana
whom I tntroduead to him ware vary
much pleaaed with him.
Mr Fiaher lived Ilka an Engllah nobleman,
in a magnificent house, with all the improva,
ment, culture and refinement whioh taato and
wealth oauld suggest. Ilia raaidanca la filled
with the moat beautiful statuary and paintings,
with rare books and ouriosities, etruscan
ralios, Ac, do. I stayed with him till Monday
morning, and want to Church with him and
| Mrs Fisher an 8unday to bear the brother of
, President Buobanan preach. Ha was the pas|
tor of tha Episcopal Church, and gave ue a
very fine aarmon. After aervioe X was presented
to him by Mr Fisbar, and bad tha
nleasure of i Hnrl ?nn_t,i. vi ?
... vv..,vio??iv>i nitu uiui.?
The country is in the highest state of improvement
around Philadelphia. The farms are
gardens, and cultivated as gardens.
Monday morning I returned to the city,
and found Judge Wardlaw and Qen McGowan,
with an invitation for me to take up my
abode at Mrs Flemmings, where they were
kindly and most elegantly entertained by
their old friend, who was formerly a cititcn of
South Carolina, and a lady of great fortune.?
I cannot olose these reminisoenoes without
mentioning a lady whose acquaintance it was
my good fortune to make, Mrs Reed, the wife
of Col Ilced, a delegate from Georgia, and the
daughter of Judge Nesbit, of Georgia, and
the cousin of my old friend, Henry Young,
Esq, of Laurens, S C. She was a most beautiful,
accomplished and charming lady, and
added greatly to tho interest of our Southern
party at tho Continental llotel. It is sad to
think how many pleasant and agreeable
acquaintances we make in travelling,
whom it is not our good fortune ever to meet
again in life ! Perhaps never hear of again !
This Philadelphia Convention which promised
so much, ended in nothing. The Republicans
who met us, and acted with us, soon returned
to their old party, and forgot their new
allies. Mr Raymond, who drew the very able
and patriotic address adopted by the Convention,
became as much of a Republican partisan
as he was before he went to the'grcat National
Union Convention of Philadelphia.
[Con tin ued next iceeit.]
ti l __
Official Vote of the State.
Below will he found the completed tahle
of lh*kvote for Governor of South Carolina. |
The firurFi are l?V?n ' ?> ' >. ? 1
? ? wT V?lt UUI ITR|'UIIU? j
enla of the Courier Irom the official returuH
of the Commissioners in the varioua counties
in the State, and are reliable It is the
fiiet official ettiinale of the vote for Governor
which has been made public. It will
he seen that General Moses received 71,788
and Mr. Tomlineon ?6 478 voles. As compared
with the vote of 1870, this is a light
vote. In the election for Governor in that
year, Gov. Sco t received 85,071. and Judge
Carpenter 51,637. Seotl's majority was
38,534. There has been a falling off in the
total vote as cam pared with tho vote of
1870, of 28,747. Gen. Moses' majoiity is
34.905.
The table of the various counties is printed
below;
Vote for Governor Mote*
Aik-n 2224 264 Republican
Abbeville 3618 1517 It-publican
Anderson 1209 1808 Mixed
Barnwell 2519 577 Republican
Beaufort 4995 1445 Republican
Charleston 6287 9593 Rollers
Chester 2316 228 Republican
Cheiterfield 620 279 Democrat
Clircndoo 1524 342 Republican
Colleton 8426 206 Republican
Darlington ...... 9858 271 Republican
Edgefield 3878 219 Republican
Fairfield ........ 2749 694 Mixed
Georgetown 1797 29 Republican
Greenville 1681 2039 Democrat
Horry 529 806 Democrat
Kershaw 1838 li>18 Republican
Lancaster 982 1004 Mixed
Laurens *2153 035 Republican
Lexington 867 1888 Democrat
Marion 2502 2230 Republican
Marlboro 1537 78 Republican
Nowlmrry 2879 1048 Republican
Oconee.... 411 1078 Ucnioorat
Orangeburg 3444 836 Republican
Pickens .. 484 258 Democrat
Richland 8364 767 Republican
Spartanburg 862 24*21 Democrat
Sumter 8268 1183 Republican
IXnino 1262 1646 Mixed
Williamsburg.... 1773 80 Republican
York 1641 1787 Mixed
Total vote ??
71388 86478
Majority for Moses 34905
They are about to havo peace in Mexico.
The modest man will sot parade his own
excellence leat he should offend.
Mr John E Martey, an old railroad man,
died at Aiken, recently.
Ohio boasts of a man who eloped with
his molher*ln-law.
The Presidential vote, in Abbeville county,
food, whiten, 911 ; colored, 3,284 ?
Greeley, 841; Grent, 3,343.
The military organization in Charleston,
S. 0., are preparing to havea good oldUshioned
celebration of Washington's birth*
day next February.
Value the friendship of him who atande
by you in the atorm ; swarms of InseoU will
surround you in the sunshine.
Clara C. Brown was granted a divorce at
the laat Abbeville court from Sumter W.
Biown upon the ground of abandonment.
Tha Iota of fritnds Is a wholesome grief
and the tears of sympathy ars like balm to
the eufferer; but the loee of property is a
wound that lestera.
lir. Reuben Armor, of Glascock county,
Oa., was taken from hit bed, carried out of
his store, and liia throat out, by four men
in disguise, on the 9th instant
The salary of Gen McClellan as engineer*
in cbiel of the deportment of dock* in New
York, has been reduced from $20,000 to
$10,000 a year, at hia own rer|ueet.
from tki Savannah Henri, Vitk.
A Sunday at 8nrrenoy.
An Interesting Account from the
Spirit Land?The Entire Earn
ity Interviewed?A Reliable
Report of the Mysterious
Phenomena.
As we intimated in onr issue of
Saturday, we now have the pleas*
ure of laying before the readers
I of the News an intelligent, correct
and interesting acconnt of the
late wonderful phenetnenal manifestations
at Surrency, No. 6, on
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
:
Savannah, Oct. 28, 1872.
Editor Morning News:
According to promise, 1 here*
with transmit you the mo6t important
portions of an interview had
on yestorday with the Surrency
family, whose receut mysterious
history has gone so tar towards
exciting the attention of our citU
zens and the public generally.
The 7, p. in., Macon train on
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
leaving your city on the evening
ot the 20th inst., bore your correspondent
safely to
8urrkncy station,
ou the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, and the scene of the
late mysterious doings. We left
the cars at 11? o'clock on Saturday
night, and took a casual survey
of our surroundings. It is
certainly one of the last places
that I would suppose a spirit
would choose to locate its ghastly
pranks of a legerdemain or a
magician to display his skill.
the house,
comfortable, though built in an
olden style, is situated near the
railroad and near the centre of a
circle of cypress ponds, surrounding
lands of a low, damp nature,
and covered with saw palmetto.?
The train left, and wo proceeded
to the house, where we found several
young men around a bright
tire. We soon enlivened the
sceno with jokes, ghosts stories,
&c, and in this way passed off
I (ho remainder of the night, and
the next day proceeded to converse
with different members of
1 the family, witnesses of the late
exciting scenes.
MR. A. P. 8UKRENCY,
the owner of the place, was the
first whom wo approached ; but
as he was in tho citv at the commencement
of the affair, he only
told us a portion of what was
done, and which was told by members
of his family who witnessed
tho whole proceeding. On his return
he was made acquainted with
what was going on, and soon after
witnessed several mysteries himself,
but we oinit them, as they
will come in under the testimony
of the others.
TUK MCST 8INQULAR THING
told U6 by Mr. Surrency was the
affair of the clock, already mentioned
in tho Macon Enterprise,
and which was witnessed by tho
representative of that journal.?
1 he clock was hanging to the wall
in the parlor, and had ever been
characterized for the correctness
of its time. Suddenly, with a
WKIRD, BUZZING N0I8K,
the hands began to iuovo around
with exceedingly rapid motion,
the hour hand exactly live minutes
ahead ot the minute hand. In
this singular position they continu
ed to move tor seventeen minutes
in which time it had described
tive hours, and each timo as it arrived
at the twelve o'clock mark
it would pauso and strike, though
with the greatest irregularity.?
Sometimes it would strike one
hour tor another, sncli as twelve
for one, <fec., and at the end of the
tive hours ceased its wild movements
and was re gulated by a
party present, ana who was a
watchmaker and jowelry by trade.
It was then started, and ever since
has kept its usual correct time,
which was always very accurate,
being kept according to the standard
time of the M. and B. It. It.?
During this occurrence the gentlemen
present looked at their
watches and fouud that each had
?I - '
liic proper tune, .so that the
idea of
CONCKALKD MAONKT
is dissipated, as the watches as
well as the clock would have been
affected by its presence. While
speaking of the clock, I will menlion
that on Sunday evening, in
the presence of your correspond",
ents and two or three friends, that
ut tho hour of eight it struck only
four, while it had been striking
correctly from twelve the night
Crevious, and I distinctly rcmem*
er counting seven on the even"
ing in question at that hour. Wo
merely mention this as it occurs
to us now, without ascribing it to
any cause, either supernatural or
tho dorangenicnt of machinery.?
It continued running, and when
examined was apparently all i
right. This is all that we witnessed
daring our stay, as we arrived i
too late to see any of the perfor- i
mancee, which ceased
ABOUT TWILIGHT '
on Friday evening, the 25tji, and
very nearly at the same hour at
which it began on Thursday, the 1
the 17th. As I have said, Mr.
Surrcncy was in this city at the
beginning of the affair, and wae
expected home that evening.?
The train, however, was behind, i
and his daughter, a young lady,
of, I suppose, seventeen years, i
walked out to the track and looked
up the railroad to see if 6he <
could discover the lights ot the
expected train. While anxiously ,
lookiug she distinctly
saw an object
in the form of a man approaching
her, but apparently with no
bad intention.' She, however,
turned and walked quietly back
to the steps, and just as she reached
them hear4 something like a
chunk come whizzing through the
air and fell to the ground quite
near her. For fear of being
laughed at for cowardice, she concluded
not to mention it to the 1
family, and sat down on the steps.
She looked immediately in the di~
rection she had come, bnt could
see nothing.
THE APPARITION.
She could see it in no direction,
though the grounds are quite open,
and we feel sure, from the dis
tance shown us, that she could
plainly have seen an object of
much smaller size, especially
when moving. As she took her
seat on the step, other things similar
to the first fell around her in
rapid succession, and in quite
close proximnity, none striking
her. They all came from tho di
rection whence she had seen the
apparition. She then moved into
the parlor, where were some gentleman,
among thetn a minister.?
r? 1 .4?n 1 .1 " - *
one Biui satu uoioing 01 it, ana
went into
THE KITCHEN,
which adjoins I ho house, where
her mother was superintending
the preperation of supper. As
she was going from the parlor
through a passage way to the
kitchen, she could distinctly hear
thing6 similar to those described,
falling in the yard and against the
end of the house, apparently moving
in the direction of t'?e kitchen.
By the time 6he had gained the
entrance, brickbats, bottles, &c.,
were falling
IN THICK ritOFCSION
on every side. The gentleman
present were called, and diligent
search made, though no one could
be seen, yet those missiles were
falling around. It then got
among the pots on the stove,
threw them oft*, overturned the
coffee pot, threw crockery, knives,
&cM about the ftoor, and entered
the. hoiiRft. U'lmiA almilar n/?ti?na
took place. Books, glasses and
other things were scattered about
the floor. A younger brother of
Mr. Surrency was here sent for,
and remained with the family
during the night. lie was one of
the principal witnesses of the
STRANGE 8OKNE8, 1
and detailed us many interesting i
items. One in particular was, i
that while standing before the tire i
in the parlor, looking towards '
some book shelves in the opposite 1
end of the room, he distinctly saw
a book from the middle of the pile
of six or eight <
DRAWN SLOWLY OUT,
describe an arch upwards from
the shelf, then gradually descend
some six or seven feet from the
si elf, and lie quietly on the floor. I
He picked it up, laid it back, and f
the same motion was gone j
through again. lie then called <
Mrs. Surrency from an adjoining '
room, and she said that she had i
put it back from the same position <
three times that day. The book 1
was a quarto volumn ot Walker's <
Dictionary, and was shown to ns. 1
We could enumerate very uumer- i
ous instances of the kind, but ]
space forbids. . i
IT 18 BINGGLAK
to say the least of it, that these I
things could go on iu different <
parts of the house at the same <
time, and that they nsnally choose <
this manner of proceeding; and i
frequently in open day time would t
they go on inside the house and !
over the yard at the same moment, i
and with articles of an altogether i
difleront size and nature. We i
were also shown 1
A I.A RGB GUBASK SPOT <
in the middle of the parlor floor, '
whore a bottle of oil is said to
have fallen. The bottle was re
moved from the house for foar of
its coming in contact with firo, l
and placed on a post in the back i
yard, when it suddenly left, pass j
ed around to the front ot the Bt
house, came through the front nr
door while 'cloeed, fell on the floor g
and broke near the table where it st
formerly eat. The soot was evidently
canted from oil, and it cer- a
tainly fell frotn the direction of j,
the front door as can be easily | ^
Been from its shape. We were Q
told that i
MBS 8DRKEMOY Cl
left her home for a day by the ad- a
vice of her husband and friends, p
and with her daughter went to the si
house of a friend (Mr. Patterson,) b
some two miles distant. Anxious n
to get all the' information we
could, we sat out and walkod to f,
Mr. P.'s. And just here comes a
TUB 8TRANOK PART f
of our tale. Mrs. S. and dangh- b
ter did leave home during the ?
week, and went to Mrs. P.'s with ri
the iuteution of remaining there, R
and as soon as they arrived at his h
house the identical proceedings en- a
acted at Mr. Surrency's began at it
Mr. Patterson's and ceased at Sur- ft
.onm ewu ns me tuaies leic.? I
Tbey remained at Patterson V, for | d
a few hours, and not wishing to
have his household goods so badly ft]
destroyed, determined to refbrn ft|
home. Miss Surrency remained
at Mr. Patterson's and her mother p
returned, and as soon as she arri p
ed home (about sunset) the very
8amk KRKAKS
began again. They ceased at Pat w
terson's when she left there and t(
have never returned, though the t|
young lady remained, and was
seen there by your correspondent
and friends. These strange things
have never happened except ?
where Mrs. Surrency was present, ,|
ami always ceased when she left; }]
and it is very clear, assuming it
to be from a supernatural source,
that she is the medium through
which it acted. She stated to U9
that she had never been mesmerized,
never saw a mesmerist or
spiritualist that sbe knows of, never
read a work ou p
spiritualism, d
and has never thought about it ex* ?
cept when she beard others men- a
tion it. The same may be 6&id of o
her daughter, while Mr. Surrency h
has always been a strong oppo- a
neat of the doctrine of spiritualism h
ill jlliv form ho io ? -
... J ... .... uo to u pitllll, pruu- tt
tical farmer, a well-to-do and pop- b
ular cizizcn, and baa an excellent t(
name among bis neighbors, many V
of whom we inet at bis house, and d
all of the railroad employees with c<
whom we spoke vie with each oth- ci
er in heaping praise upon himself ti
and wife. ft
no suspicion w
wa9 ever known to rest upon his
conduct, and in politics we were 1
told he was a staunch Democrat? 01
in proof of which i will say that
be is a subscriber to the Savannah ''
News. Your correspondent no j'
ticed several files of different pa- "
pei s in the bouse, all of them were lv
staunch Democratic journals.? ^
This part of the long and interest- **'
itig interviews that we had with
the family, and whether attributed r<
to human or other agency, the |c,
whole thing is j*'
a strangk mystery, .
if true, and we at least have no 8V
right to doubt it. Every word
jpoken by them carries with it an tt,
air of candor that no intelligent jn
auditor can disregard. Each of p(
1 hem was questioned by us apart tr
from the others, and at different tli
times, and when they did not ex- fr
pcct it, and each tallied with the
other as closely as possible. What
they said was also substantiated by ?
many of their neighbors and away w
from fhole *\haoa?AA t* !
VM? huvti piuociiv;c* JLL ,B lo
ckktainly 8inclar dl
that human ngeucies could operate
jo diffusely over a house and eJ
grounds, in the presence of huu rt
Ireds, all on the alert, arid yet not
be detected, unless wo assume the
improbuble position that a man's n<
ayes and brains are little value to tri
liim. That the scheme is coneocted
from motives of profit, is alike
Futile, as we were assured by dis- t0
interested authority that in the hi
past week Mr. Surreucy had fed g?
?o less than
ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE, th
/r
lodging them at night, and all V1
without charging one dime. We
;an bear witness to this to some
extent from last Sunday's obeervations,
and judging from what we
jaw in tho neighborhood of Mr. n!
Surrencv's eane-natnh a-AnlS
- t 1
guess that a goodly number had
paid court there aa well as at the 1'
;able. That such things are done r
by either himself or family, is
equally absurd, as it is highly im? j_
probable that they would continue
* thing so J,'
OOSTI.Y AND DK8TKCOTIVK.
This assertion seems to hurt im
.hem very much, and they all *i?
mem to be quite worn out with it, ui
ind hope it has gone forever.? *i.
v uiiumo AlA""i\Ui Z9<
tr. S. is also pained to see so
lauy absurd storiee and exaggerations
in regard to it, as for in*
ance the,
SHAMMTL TALI
boat the hog appearing in the
ouse, and also about the whisky
ottle coming to Capt. Burns vol*
ntarily. Mrs. S. assured ua she
ad lost several dozen pieces of
rockery, glassware, china, &c.v
nd showed us the only remaining
iece of her old lot, which was a
mall china 6aucer. and which she
ad seen for six different tiroes re* *
loved mysteriously and by
AS UNSEEN POWER,
om one part of the house to
nother, without being broken.?
To live object has ever been seen
y any of the family, that seemed
t all mysterious, except the appa*
ition seen by the young lady.?
lo mysterious voice has ever been
eara, do questions bare ever been
sked from either party, and no
itiinations have ever beeu given
*oiu the unseen power.
The whole thing is clothed in
arkness and to ual>ears the
spirit of thk 6upkrn atubal,
nd it any one will do as we did,
nd come to any other conclusion,
, is inure thau we can now supoee.
It is at least a plienomeon,
and one that we would like
) have explained.
in conclusion,
e will return our sincere thanks
> Mr. Surrency and family for
lieir untring attentions and kindess
during our brief stay. The
lany questions were met b y
rornpt and cheerful answers, and
ach seemed to a.^ the other in all
tiose little kindnesses that go to
take life and business pleasant.
St. Bernard.
< mm a
Ad Embarrassing Situation.
Max Adeler sa)s: That little
ffair of Needham's that some of
le papers have been telling abont
as certainly unpleasant?at least
> Ncedhatu. Needham owned a
eep-mouthed watch-dog, who alays
bayed him welcome home,
nd snatched mouthfuls of chops
ut of the legs of strangers. Needam
took that faithful animal
long with him oue day to guard
is clothes while he went swimling.
Needham bathed for an
our, and meanwhile tbo dog went
> sleep on Necdbam's garments.
Vhen Need ham came out the dog
id not recognize him in his nude
ondition, and refused, to let hitn
ome near his garments. Every
ine that Needham would grab
>r a suspender or a sock, the dog
ould bite a mouthful out ot bis
rtn or leg, and whenever Needam
would make a dive for a boot
r undershirt that animal would
jize him by the calf and shake
im. So Needham stood there in
le 6nn pretty nearly roasted, and
e spent the afternoon dodging in
nd out of the water to avoid the
>orcas societies and female stuents
at the boarding school and
ictory girls coming down the
)ad. At last, when the dog went
? 6lcep, Needham crept up beind
him, caught him suddenly by
ic tail, and flung him across the
ream. Before the dog could
vitn back, Needham got most of
is clothes upon his bleeding body
id limbs, and the dog came slidg
up to him, looking as if he exjcted
to be rewarded tor his exaordinary
vigilance. And yet
ley say that the dog is man's best
iend.
An Episcopal minister, Rev. J.
rinton Smith, in Raleigh N. C.,
as poisoned to death on the 1st
ctober last, by his wife and
aught er.
About one hundred and sev*
ntv five negroes left Atlanta, Ga.?
icently, for Arkansas.
Although the Lcielatnre doea
?t convene until the 26th inst.,
ie elect are already congregating
Columbia. The United Statea
matorial contest is the principal
pic of conversation with them,
it they are very reticent in reird
to their leanings.
The Saluda Factory, located on
e Saluda River; in Lexington
onnty, about nine miles from
at village and three from Colnbia,
runs at present nearly 7,
)0 spindles and consumes 1,500
2,000 bales of cotton per anim.
An edi tor aaka bia aubaaribara to pay bin
at ho m*y play tba aaroa joka on bin
, Ala
run or*.
Rome men ere like eata. Ton may stroke
e fur the right way Tor years, end
ar nothing but purring ; bnt accidentally
ted on the tail, and all memory of former
adoMS is obliterated.
The Synod of 8outh Carolina met la Cenhia
lest week. Ree J O Lindsay wee
ted Moderator and Ree R A Mlckle
nporary elerk and WLT Prioee, aetieU
t olrrk.