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BY F. M. TRIMMIER Devoted to Education, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mechanical Art*> $2.00 IN ADVANCE
VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 8, 1866. NO (8
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NOTICE
IS hereby given that application will be
made to the Legislature at its next Session
for an Act of Incorporation for the Presbyterian
Church of Spartanburg, C. 11.
Sept i3 33 tf
i NOTICE
TS hereby given that application will be made ]
| at the next sitting ot the Legislature tor
& renewal of the net of incorporation of the
Nazareth l'resbyteriau Church, Spartanburg
District.
Sept 6 32 3m
Dress Making;.
MISS S. E. GREGORY respectfully announces
to the Ladies of Spartanburg
die is well prepared with the LATEST
FASHIONS and a competent Assistant, to execute
all work in M ANTUA-MAK1NU, at short
notice and for moderate prices. Apply the
residence of Mr. J. R. WE1KERT.
Oet 4 35 4w
NOTICE.
. rpiIE COMMISSIONERS OF FREE
j SCHOOLS arc requested to nicct ? Spartanburg
C. II. on the FIRST MONDAY in
NOVEMBER next. Teachers will have their
claims properly made out, and present them to
me by the 16TH of OCTOBER next.
JOSE1MI FOSTER,
Chairman Board Commissioners.
Sept 27-35-4
NOTICE.
ALL persons living in Spartanburg District
indebted to the subscriber for services of
imported Stallions, " AYSGART11 " -nnd
"BOSQUET," are requested to make payment
to Messrs. FOSTER & JUDD, who are author
ixed to receipt them.
W. C. GIST.
September 27, 18GC. 35 4t
NOTICE.
THE blacksmith books of Da. J J. VERNON,
deceased, arc placed in mj' hands
settlement and c .lleciion. All persons
thus indebted, arc hereby notified to settle the
same on or before the first day of September
next. T. O. 1'. VERNON, Att'y.
August 2 27 tf
NOTXCK.
PERSONS indebted to the Estate of CASSANDRA
BARNETT, dec'd, are hereby
requested to tnukc settlement by the FIRST of
OCTOBER next. All who fail to do so will
find their Notes in the hands of an Attorney
for collection.
M. F. BARNETT, Ex'or.
Sept 20 34 tf
f Executor's ]\otiee.
A LL persons indebted to the Estate of GIDiV.
EON H. KINO, will make immediate
payment to the undersigned. All having
claims against said Estate will hand them in
properly attested to cither the undersigned or
to Farrow and Duncan.
JONAS BREW TON.
Sept 20 34 tf
Notice to Debtors.
PERSONS indebted to the e-tatc of RICH
AllD B. SMITH, are hereby requested in
meet me at the Court House, on Snlesdnys in
September and October, lor the purj use of nut- ;
king settlement. All who fail to make settle- !
mcnt with mo by Snlesday in October next, i
will find their notes in the hands of an Attorney
for collection. Give attention to this ami
save cost. 8. r. SMITH,
Aug 9-28-td Administrator.
To All whom it may Concern.
1WILI. be at Spartanburg on the 171li in
Slant, and remain for one week, for the
purpose of closing up my NOTES AND ACCOUNTS.
Persons owing tne will please call
and settle, as 1 will regret the necessity of
sueing nny of my friends. Currency is all I
require of you, if you will pay the notes
promptly.
I ALFRED TOLLESON
Sept 13 33 tf
Instate NotU'o.
A LL persons indebted to the Estate of P.
/\ S. HUNTER, dcccnsed, are notified to j
make immediate navmcnt All minims nv.r I
the amount of TWENTY DOLLARS, will Lc
settle*! with Farrow & Duncan, Attorney*. All
aunts of and under the amount of Twenty Dollars.
will be settled with Sam'l Lancaster, esq.
All persons having claims against the estate
will hand them in properly attested to the tin
dersigncd. l'OLLY W. I1UNTBR,
Administratrix
Bept 20 34 if
Kiaiil IVo1ioc3.
A LL persons having demands against Iho
J\_ (tstato of JAMES M. NKSUITT, dec'.!.,
^ are hereby notified to present them duly attested,
and persons indebted by NOTE or
ACCOUN I", previous to his death, are requested
to make immediate payment to the underI
signed, and thereby save cost.
K D. NESBITT. 1 F.W.
TII08. F. FIELDER, f r x ir>re'
Bept. 20 M # 4
A Heartrending Recital.
About two or three weeks ago, in a
house near the fair grounds, in Montgoni
cry, Alabama, a woman was found dead on
the floor. She had fallen from the bed
and must havo died during the night.
Around her lay four little daughters, the
oldest one about twelve years of age. Daybreak
revealed to them the mother's dead
hotly lying on the floor, But this was not
all; these little girls lying around her
were dying, yes, dying for the want of
bread and attention. In this fix they were
found and brought by some one, in a little
cart to liishop Copp's Home lor Orphans.
They were brought there on Friday. \Vlien
these little irirls came to the Home they
were the picture of misery and want, and
not scarcely a rag on to hide their naked
ncss; emaciated and sallow, they looked
like living skeletons, and they were crying
for bread. The baby, about three years of
age, died on Saturday. The poor little
thing was too near gone for any human aid
tn fin lior nnv tmnil hmr>?n.l !'.??
until she tlicd.
Another one, named Lizzie, about seven
or eight yeans of age, died on Wednesday.
She was a pretty little girl, but reduced to
a more skeleton. She beggo i those around
her to give her some meat and bread to the
last. The other two are still at the Nome.
It was thought at first that they would die
too, but the oldest one, u bright little girl,
is improving, ller account of the sufferings
they underwent is enough to melt the
hardest heart to tears?how they cried lor
bread and could not get it?that they hud
been drawing rations, but when they all I
got down sick, they sent their ticket by a
negro woman, but that the ticket was torn
up and the answer was "no more rations"
?and how their poor sick mother the evening
before she died, with tears streaming ; '
down her cheeks, pressed them to her bo- I
som?and much more which this little girl j
told me in a straightforward manner, and
which had truth stamped upon what she 1
said.
The other little girl, named Mary, about
nine years of age, is still very low, and if
is very doubtful if she will over get well,
though she has improved some since she
has been at the Home. She at first beg
ged every one that came near her to give
her some meat and bread, as she hud been
literally starving.
These are the plain facts as they are.
They ueed no embellishment.
WtirniiiL'.
The following arc the particulars, taken J
from the Pittsburg Catholic, of an item
published and vouched lor by the leading j
Pennsylvania papers :
"On Thursday, the 13th instant, a pris i
oner in the Pennsylvania Penitentiary, by '
the name ol Holmes, was struck with apo- j
plcxy while giving utterance t > the most
horrid blasphemies,and died the next day. j
The ease was so remarkable that it was re ;
ported in all the dailies the same week. A
iew days ago all the circumstances connected
with the horrible affair were described
to us, and we give them almost word lor
word, as we received them Irom several
respectable parties, Protestant as well as
Catholic, and possessing the best means of
information.
Thompson (for Holmes was only an as
sumed name) had been several years, per
haps lour or live, in the penitentiary, having
been convicted of horse stealing. He j
was possessed of a vigorous constitution,
and though an educated and intelligent
man, was a professed infidel, and aecus
tinned on all occasions, to use language of
a most profane and blasphemous character |
He was employed at shoe making, and on
the fatal Thursday, while engaged, entered
into conversation on religious subjects
with the only other prisoner in his cell, a
Protestant, working at the same trade ;
Thompson asked his companion if his mother
was a Christian; be answered in the j
affirmative, lie observed that Christianity
could he proved from the Bible.
Thompson answered: "The Bible is like i
an old liddle, you can play any tune you
please upon it." When reminded that at
least the Divine character of the louudor
of Christianity was clearly set forth in the
Bible, Thompson asserted with great veho !
iiiriiue, mat ".icsus unrisl was a bastard.
and His Mother a a name which
none but the vilest ruffian would apply to 1
even the most degraded woman. Thomp
son had hardly given utterance to these
horrible words, when his cell mate observed
that ho was falling from the bench on
which he sat, and, catching him in his
arms, gave the alarm. j
A physician was summoned immediate- \
ly, but the case was ono beyond the reach 1
of medical skill. Some said the poor man 1
was attacked by appoplexy, others might ,
suspect that he had been struck by the I
band of (Jod. There, with distended pu- i
pi Is, palsied tongue and rigid limbs, lay the j l
wretched blasphemer. After twenty four j
hours spent in this condition, ho passed tc
his final account. * <
JeflVrstou I?avl?.
You may fasten his feel w ith fetters.
You mny chain him close ia hi<- cell.
You may mock liiui. ami taunt ami torture
Like the fiends you follow, in hull.
You may shed on his quivering eyeballs
The glare of the hateful lamp ;
You may banish sleep from his pillow
Willi your sentry's ceaseless tramp.
You may starve in a mcutal famine
Mis mind, which supreme has shown ;
You may stifle the cravings of nature,
Till thuugnt, tottering, reels on her throne.
Hut you never can fetter his spirit.
That rises lieyond your control ;
Your iron may rust on his body,
It never will enter his soul!
That was formed in (tod's own bright image.
And stamped with a purpose high;
It towers in its might ul> ove you,
As the eagle sours over the fly I
No malice of yours can insult him,
Your touch cannot sully his fame ;
When Pilate had scourged his captive,
We know with which rested the shame 1
T'echle. and faint, and fettered,
A tone front his voiceless mouth
Upheaves and em wines around him
Every hcartstring that beats in the South!
To hint an immortal glory !
To you, through ail time he hurled,
Contempt and a scorn undying
The hiss of the civilized world!
June Id, ISti'l. l'ANNY DOWNING.
iii -ran miii???a
A Vanhcc Trade.
A certain tanner, tvho in the course of
the year purchased several dollars worth
Llf Lfoods atul alwavs t.oiil fur llmm n.ill...l
rj " "J I "v" | vu,,vu
nt a .store of a village merchant, his regular
place of dealing, with two dozen brooms
which he offered lor sole. The merchant
who, by the way, is fond of a good bargain,
examined his stock and said :
" Well, Cyrus, 1 will give you a shilling
a piece for these brooms."
Cyrus seemed astonished at the offer,
and quickly replied :
"Oh, no, John, I can't begin to take
that lor 'em, no how; but I'll let you have
'eui for twenty cents a piece, and nut a
cent less."
" Cyrus you arc crazy," replied John.
" Why, see here," showing a fine lot of
brcouis, " is an article a great 1 better
than yours (which was true) which I am
rctailingat twelve and a hall cents apiece"
(which was not true by seven and a hull
cents.)
" Don't care for that," answered Cyrus;
"your brooms are cheap enough, but you
can't have mine fur less than twenty cents,
anyhow;" and pretending to he more than
half angry, shouldered his brooms and
started lbr the door.
The merchant, getting nervous over the
loss ot a good customer, and fearing that
he might go to another store and never
return, said :
" See here, Cyrus, hold on awhile. If 1
give you twenty cents for your brooms you
will not object to take the price of them
out iti goods
"No. 1 don't rnr.> if I du "
Cvius
44 Well, as you are an old customer. 1
will allow you twenty cent's apiece lor this
lot. Let lite see, twenty-lour times twenty
make ju*t four hundred and eighty centWhat
kind ot goods will juu have Cyru<:"
" \\ ell. now. .lolui, 1 icckon it don't
make any difference to you what sort of
goods 1 take, does it ?"
" Oh no, not at all?not at all," said the
merehant.
44 Well, then, as it don't make an\ difference,
1 will take the amount in them
brooms of yours at I 'd J cents apieee. Let
me see, ?f,SU will get oU brooms and ll>
cents over; don't make iiiueh ditlerciicc
>1 nilii, about the I" cents, hut as you are
a right clever fellow, I believe L'll take
the change in terbacker."
When t'yrus went out of the door with
his brooms and 44 terbacker John was
seized with a serious breaking out at the
mouth, during which time lie was distinctly
heard to violate the third command
in nt sevoral linn s by the bystanders, who
all enjoyed the joke.
A Fact woutii I'kintinii.? At ?
second class hotel in Frankfort, Kentucky,
a few days since, a little girl enti led the
barroom and in pitiful tones told the barkeeper
that her mother sent her there to
get eight cents.
' Fight cents?" said tho bar keeper.
44 Yes sir."
44 What docs your mother want of eight
cents ?" I don't owe her anything."
" Well," fluid the child ' lather spends
all his money here tor ruin, and we have
no bread today. Mother wants to buy a
loaf of bread."
A loafer suggested to the Lai hooper to
kick r her out.
" No," said the barkeeper, " I'll give
her mother the money, and it her father
Comes hack hero again, I'll kick him out."
Such a circumstance never happened
before, and may never happen again
Humanity owes that barkeeper a vote of
[hanks.
"False Calves (ladios* definition)?
Jcceitful lovers!
Good Flglitln:; by a Rat,
A correspondent froui Iudia give* un
interesting account of the agility and skill
with which rats attack the most venomous
reptiles, and often couie off conquerors iu
the battle. He says :
' I saw a very curious experiment with
the cobra, which was, however, rather cruel.
All the houses iu India have a cur
rent of air constantly passing through theiu.
It is necessary to protect the candles by
glass, bell shaped shades. Under one of
these, inverted, was placed the snake, in
company with three large black rats, a couple
of scorpions and a centipede. The
centipede is about s?x inches long, and it
it crawls over a man leaves the unpleasant
feeling of a very painful rheumatism tor
more than a year.
1 am unable to state the feelings of this
happy tamily at being thus uddenly thrown
together; 1 should judge from their proceedings
that their ideas were, to say the
least, antagonistic. The snake lay quiet;
the scorpions ran races round the edge of
the shade; the centipede rolled himself up
The rats were the only creatures which
seemed alive to the uuh ppy state of their
coiilincmcnt, and showed it by a game of
leap f rog over the venomous part of the
tamily. Uy an unlucky trip on the head
ol the snake, one of the rats at last aroused
him from his state ol insensibility, and ex
piated his offence on the spot, as he fell
I dead from a bite. The other r..t^
..... i.j
1 darted on the snake, who succumbed to
their united attack ; they bit him trom
Ilea l to tail, and he died, having, however.
with a little poison iet't, utter killing the
; first rat, severely wounded the second.
The scorpions now begun their part of
I the entertainment, and knowing the drowI
sin ess attendant on snake bites must be
kept off at all hazards, humanely forced the
lats into activity by running under thcui
i and stinging t'lem as they bopped about
Their mode of treatment, however, proved
1 a failure, as the second rat, who had been
| wounded, died. The two ifts, however,
J had put the scorpions ho rx du combat, so
j that the last of this combative family were
the rat and the centipede; the last named
! had no chance lor the former, and speedily
I fell a victim, the rat coming off victor. As
j a tribute to his pluek and prowess, he was
allowed to return to his native haunts,
where he may probably be still enjoying
perfect health.
11?>1*1.1 i i..?Writes '*R W. A.," the
N. w York correspondent of a Georgia paper
:
It is hoped and believed that the conservatives
will make 'urge gains in the intercut
ot the South at the approaching
election-, in spite ot .Sortlie n radicalsanfl
i Southern critics. The tide is now setting
strongly in that direction. The mechanics
and laboring classes, who claim Mr.
Johnson as one ol their own fraternity, no
less than the solid men of the country, arc
gathering around the President with al
spirit of determination that is lull of en !
cnuragcmcnt. 11 tlie South will onlv be
patient anil silent for u season, all will yet
go well.
A inla w Johnson is a great power in
ibis land. There is 110 man who possesses
a tithe ol his popularity, even iu the North
The whole J democrat ie party, including
war I viii jcrats as we I as copperheads, 'so
called," with that large, intelligent and
wealthy wing of the party which elected
Mr. Lincoln, known as the moderate Hepublicans,
now stand at his back, and are
doing ha'lie under his lead for our rights
In this State, and indeed, throughout the
North tin* followers of Mr. Seward ate
w. eelitig into line in the most gratifying
manner.
IIhsinkss Cahus on Envelopes.?
The l'ostinastci (General has recently issu
ed instructions making provision for the
printing of business cards on envelopes in
any desired lorm or design, with requests
to return letters, provided that not less
' I
I than f.00 envelopes arc ordered. The per
sons wanting them turnish the cuts or
plat es prepared for the press Irotn which !
to have printing done. Postmasters are j
to receive the orders on tic usual terms,'
ihe cost being about the value of the plain
envelopes, with the addition of the amount
ol the rc<|uircd stamp.
CoNst'iknck Munkv?Treasurer Spin-1
nor yesterday received a communication
| postmarked Ihuncsville, S. C., containing 1
tlir.-e ten cent Confederate postage stamps
and a strip of paper, upon which was writ- !
ten the following words : "Render unto
.('. csar the things that arc C?sar's, and
unto tiod the things that arc <i od's Yours,
penitently, Conscience Stricken."?Wa?/iI
ihi/ton t'/iroiiiflr.
A mining company in Northern Loui
siana, on Friday struck a solid block of
pure lead weighing thirty three tons.?
Other large blocks were found nt a dis
lance ol eleven feet below the surface of
the ground.
WIT AND HUMOR.
The ago of a young lady is now express*
cd according to the present style of skirts,
l>y saying that "eighteen springs has*
passed over her head.
Monroe, Ohio, has been blown away by
a hurricane. Any one finding such a town
will please return it.
The story that Mrs. John 0. Breckenridge
has lately given birth to twins i#
only hall true.
Why are.women hard on new clothesF
Because when they bay a new suit, they
wear it out the first day.
Punch returns a contribution styled a
weekly trine, with a comment that it is a
trifle too weakly.
Why is a 'tilting skirt' like a slaughter
pen'( Because lean and fat oalves are
Been in them.
The Pottsville Journal says it wants a
nurse to take care o 1 a basket of children
lelt at his offiee a short time ?inr?<?
The fighting editor of a newspaper oagh I
always to put before each of his par*-*
graphs a fist, like this WftL.
A baby was left on an editor's door step
in Cleveland, with a note requesting that it
be taughi to be an editor.
Kinder is the looking glass than the
wine-glass ; for the lortner reveals our do*
tccta to ourselves only?the latter to our
friends.
Tommy, do you know thai your uuo!?
Robert has found a b?.au-iful little boy.
baby ou his door step, and is going to adopt
b m ? 'Yes, mama, and he'll bo uncle
Hobls step son, won't he V
"I shall be at home Sunday," remarked
a young lady, as she followed to the door
her oeau, who seemed to be wavering iu
his attachment. "So shall I," was the
brute's reply.
"I say, mister, what are you about V
"Oh, I'm only thinking of something.
My head is always full of proclamations.''
"Aha, prrjclumatic nt, did you say? that's
u new name for them."
A Dutchman carried two mugs to the
milkman in place of one, as usual, and be*
ing asked the meaning of it replied?
' l)is vor to milch, an' dis for te vater,
an' I vill mix tern zo as to zotte myself."
"Well, Sambo, what's ye up to now-n*
days ?" "O, 1 is a carp'ner and jiner *
lie 1 I guess yer is "What department
do you perform?" "What department.?
Why, 1 does the circular work " "What's
dat ?" "Why, I turns do grindstone.
G'way."
Squabbles, an old bachelor, shows his
stockings, which he has just darned, to e
maiden lady, who contemptuously remarks:
"l'rettv food for II nmn-iliirna. " -1"""
-v a --- ? wuiiivi j nucio<
upon Squabbles rejoins, ''Good enough fox *
a woman, darn her."
A woman recently alighted from a train
of cars just as it was starting froui Keokuk,
Iowa, leaving a little baby on the platform.
The conductor discovering a little passenger,
went back to the town, where the
mother was found. Upon being charged
with deserting the child, she protested
against any such imputation, "and really
couldn't understand how she cutuo to drop
it there."
A newspaper editor inadvertently wrote
about a woman who had been buried with*
out proper observance, the following sen*
tcnce: '"""ho was buried like a dog with
her clothes on." Next week he saw his
mistake and corrected it thus : "She was
buried with her clothes on like a dog.'
The third week exasperated with tho previous
blunders, ho had it thus: "Like a
dog with hor clothes on sho was buried."
He gave it up.
Relief.?The Rone Courier reeom-*
mends that the law be enacted similar to
one in Kentucky, whereby all real estate
levied on under execution shall, previous
to sale, he appraised?perhaps the price
at which it was given in on the tax books
in 1S00 would answer?and unless two
thirds ol this price, or more, shall bo bid
for the property at the sale?the orcditora
having the privilogo of taking it ut that
price, if he chooses?the sale shall be barred,
and the property be freed from that
execution and all others, in lavor of tha
same creditor, for the space of, say, three
years. In Alabama, they havo a lav
allowing a debtor the right of redemption
to two years on all real estate sold under
execution.
Tf.xas Cotton Crop.?New Orlenna,
September 26.?The Galveston Bulletin
states, on the authority of General Kidder,
Superintendent of the Freedwen'a Bureau,
th t the reports to him from subordinate#
show that the crop will fall trom one third
to one halt short of the former estimate*.
A Iso that, nevertheless, there aro not negroes
euough at labor to piok out the crop