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1A YOL. XI. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA,. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1880. NO. 11. The Judge's Surprise, j 0 . t The day was bitterly cold in Yir- v ginia City, as winter days most generally are in that Alpine town, and r though the sun was bright, its rny6 c were as cheerless and chill almost as u moonbeams. Wild gusts whistled a through the streets, breathing icicles j t and frost in their fnrions coarse, and driving every living thing away to r seek shelter from its biting, penetrat- I ing breath. And yet not every one b was sheltered from the pitiless gale, t for he who bad work to do or busi- fi Dess to transact was summoned, by s inexorable duty, to come forth to his t! ? A ^ a /4a? r\f rnolr_ A pOBl, VL eiKWj wueu tuo unj ouiDg came, abide by the consequence. a Of these luckless exceptions, Abe f< Denning, the baker, was one. In a sunshine or stortn, bail, rain or snow, fi people most eat; eat, in fact, all tho more voraciously because it does hail p or snow, as if to perpetrate an uusea- a sonable joke npou the baker, who, d especially in appetizing weather, must c see to it that his customer's larders b be properly stored with the rarest si and best productions of his oveu. w Even such cold weather as this did ii not deter Mr. Denning from attend- ft ing to the wauts of his customers with the assiduity and attention char- li acteristic of bis class. While disap- p pearing into a customer's house with a an armful of broad, a girl of Borne fif- o teen years of age, emerged from a miner's cabin close by, aod first cast- r< ing wild and harried glances around ai her, rushed to the baker's cart, and w had just abstracted therefrom throe w loaves of bread, and was carrying them off, when the baker returned and caught her in the act Unfortunately, an oiHcsr was pass- u .? ing just at the time, and the baker, on the spar of the moment, and with- ai ont giving the case that consideration w which he otherwise might, gave her ai in custody on a charge of theft The a girl without any attempt at expostu- al lation or explanation, burst into an ^ 8gony of tears?a sufficient evidence, perhaps, that she was but a novice, & after all, in the art of stealing. ^ "Oh !" she exclaimed, "don't take me in this way. Let mo wrap a shawl I cl around my head, or the people will zr know me." ir The offioer, consenting, accompa- S nied her into the cabin, while the h baker drove away, telling the policeman he would be in court the next 0| day to prefer the charge befure the fc police judge. t< The officer, on entoriug, found no fi: one in the cabin, but three children? q the youngest about three years old, h and the eldest six. The hut was cold 8i and cheerless; there was no fire. ai The two elder children, alarmed at fn the presence of the officer, exhibited s< discolored eyes and faces, which bore fc evidence of suffering and recent tears; \y while little Willie, the youngest, was jr crying and inappeasable, moping aimlessly around the cabin, looking into 8| the empty closet, and putting his lit- ^ tie hands mechanically into the einp- a| ty dishes on the table. 8? "What made you steal the broad, a my girl ?" asked the officer. At men- a tion of tho word "bread," little Willie n looked tearfully and piteously in the ri man's face. The girl hugged the lit- d tie fellow frantically in her arms, cov- p ering him with tears and kisses. o "0, my poor little brother I" she b cried, bitterly. "What will become it of you now? This man is going to c, take your Lena away with him!" o Here the child threw his arms si around her nock, as if to detaia her tl by force; while the other two child- b reu screamed piteously. b The officer, suspectiug tho actual b state of affairs, began to investigate, a "Is there no coal, or nothing at all t< to eat iu the house ?" said he. b "No coal, no bread, nothing to oat!" s replied the girl, wringing her hands; i r and poor Willie and the rost of us j b ha vo bad nothiDg to eat since jester-! n day morning. j s Here the officer went away, saying jji that he would be back again iu ajd short time. I L "Is the man gone for bread ?" ask- ! I ed the oldest of the children. j L "Hush, Mollie, dear!" said Leu^. t 'I dou't know what ho is gone fo le's not a bad man, anyhow, for b laau't arrested me, as I thought h VOllld." In a very few miuutes the office eturned, with bread aud groceries lot forgetting some cukes aud cundi aeuts for the smallest children; whil .nother man at his heels curried ig sack of coul on his back. At the sight of the bread the child eu screamed with delight, and whil jena cut up large slices of bread am lelped the children and herself, th wo men set to work and made a hirg ire in the stove, the glow of whici oou diffused warmth and comfor t 1. ,t ...I.:.. uruuyu iuu cuum. xucu iuoj d the meat and made tea, and spreai steaming tueal on the table for th aur orphans, while they carved am ttended to their wants till they wer ally satisfied. Happy, happy childhood, uhos rerogatives, are innocence, uiirtl ud joy! The children, after thei inner, didn't look iiko the sami hildreu at all. Their faces wen right and joyous, happy and haud ?me; and in a few minutes the; 'ere playing and laughing and romp jg, as happy as if they had neve >!t the pangs of hunger. "And now," said the officer, do ghted at seeing the children so hap y, "sit down, Lena, and answer ?j< few questions. Have you no lathe r mother?" "We have no mother," was Lena'i sply. "She died about a year ago ml father went away to Eureka t< ork, about eight months ago, aiu e hain't seen him ever since." "What is your father's name?" "Dawson?Jim Dawsou." "And ho has sent you no money? othing ?" "Nothing. Never heard of twn nee he weut away. But when In 'as going he left us a bag of Hour ad lots of groceries and things?a: mch as would last usforsix months ad said he'd bo snro and be bacii efore tbo provisions were all out." "And you got no letter from bin t all." "Not one," replied Lena, with i eep sigh. Poor Dawson had written to bis aildren, however, but, postal com tunicatiou being at that time von regular and uucortain in the Silvei tate, the children did not receivs is letters. "Well, I must go now," said the fficer, after a pause, "but I will cal >r you to-morrow, and you'll hav< ) accompany mo to the police office >r I must do my duty, yon know ood bye." Aud Leua Dawson win ft alone with her little brothers am sters. Sho felt and and lonesonn fter the departure of her kind bene ictor, but the buoyancy of childhoo< )on gained the ascendancy, and be >re bed-time the orphans were a: appy as any group of little ehiidrct 1 Virginia City. Meanwhile, the report about tin ,euling of the bread and the desti lie condition of tho children go broad. Jim Dawson, a miner him slf, was well kuown and popula mong the miners, and the case ere ted such sympathy, aud elicited s< muy reminiscences and commcuta es that a crowd was attracted nex ay to the police court. Judge Mose: resided. The Judge bore the nann f being upright and honest, kind am enevolent, aud if fault he had at all , was thought to he somowhat un ainpromising rigor in the discharge f his official duties. It was hard t< ay how the caso wonld go. Afte id transaction of some preliminnr usiness, the case was called. Th aker Rworo to the stealing of th read, and identified the defendau s the thief. The officer testified n y the famishing condition in whicl e found the children, but said not yllablo about what he had done t< elievo them. Poor Lena stood trern >liug before the judge. Thereupon liner rustled through the crowd ntn tood before the bench, eyeing th adge with a deprecating look. " ieclaro to the Almighty, jedge," sai ie, "I never knowed tho state of Jii )aw8on's children, and if I did ie dropped a twenty into Lena rombliug hand. I r. i "Yon*jcst k no wed as muck about it e ! as otber folks," exclaimed auotber el miner, excitedly wulking up and put1 ting another twenty into the girl's 'r: Laud with an indignant air that flung . back any latent suspicion that ho ! knew anything of the children's discs ? | tress any more than anybody else, a Tii>i>re Aloe n. miner?so call ed ou account of bis height aud size 1- j ?slid timidly aud bashfully np to ?! Lena's sido. "Leenv," he said in a ^ half whisper, "hohi jer pinafore," he * slipped two tweuties into her aprou, e and then slid behind the crowd iuto I - a corner, and holding his hat to his * face, glauced timidly around, to see - that Ire was coiui>lctely out of sight. -11 Then came Wabbling Joe, who was & j far more bashful than even Long I; Alec, but put ou a bold face, and j e j laughed aud talked load to make beiiovo that he was not bashful at all. ' t? "Jedge," said Wabbling Joe, laugh:i ing and nodding familiarly at the r court to disarm that functionary of ' e possible rigor in the trial of the case n in hand?"jedge, let the girl slide. -1 Mhe ain't done nothing but what you r or I would do if wo was hungry!" J -1 Aud poor Lena was.'once more the ri recipient of anotber;prosont The court held,down his head and - j smiled gravelyiat Wabbliug Joe's de ! feusc of the accused; but immediately e recovering his gravity, said: '' "Gentlemen, I appreciate your liberality and generous sympathy for >*1 the young offender, and I am partio ?I ularly impressed with the ingenious > \ defenco luado by my friend, Wabbling ( i | Joe"r-here a good-natured laugh es- ' caped tiio whole crowd, as if to put the judge in good humor?"but" con- * tinned bis honor, "whatever might ^ - bo ihe sympathy of tho court for the j and condition of the accused, there is i a public duty to be performed, and ! :>; the case must therefore proceed." ? "What is your name, my little 3 girl?" asked the court. ;| "They call me Leua Dowsou, sir," : ! was the reply. t "Call you Lena Dawson! And I " c 1 suppose Lena Dawson is your name, is it not?" observed the judge. i . . t "No, sir, it ain't," returuod tbe girl. 3 "My father died when I was only - i three years old, and my mothor got . r j married to Mr. Dawson some time ^ | afterward. My proper name is Mad- ' > j eliuo Winters, bat they call me Lena, j for short." j "Madeline Winters! Where were 1 yon born?" asked the judge. 3 "In Kansas City," was the reply. j "In Kansas City!" echoed the court, in a voico of still deeper grav.j! ity than before. "And what was your t'| mother's maiden name, do you know?" J "Madeline Closes, sir," respondod .! Lena. j1 "Madeline Moses! My God! My .! God ! She was my sister!" J And Judgo Moses, overcome with . ! j emotion, bowed his head on the desk , { while a torrent of tears flowed down 31 his face. Just as the crowd, iti obedience to ? j the dictates of delicacy, were emorgI ' ' i ?- - ?.l-'*" f/\ 1 /"if . | ing lroiu iu? wuiiuu tuim, .wv r and niece indulge the sacred joy of ! mutual recognition, Jim Dawson np, poared at the door having just ro- 1 . 1 turned from his prospecting tour in j j Eureka, and, with nn inuate sense of 1 s ! propriety that did honor to his acL. | qunintances, who were rejoiced to see I i him, was quietly permitted to join his ' | relatives inside.?San Francisco ?1r- { _ | yonaitl. e J The lax levy for Darlington County ] J * i j for tho past year is twelve mills. rj Tho probabilities are that South F; Carolina will get a sixth Congress- i e ; man. 6 j Buildings are going up rapidly at Orangeburg, and everything seems i' : prosperous. ' a | On saleday in Newberry B. Byrd, 0 ! a colored man, bought 700 acres of _! land for $4,150. - ! Tt ia act i inn ted that. thfl Cotton CrOD !i> - - i j will be less than that of last year in o {Chester County. 11 John Peoples, colored, the oldest d ' inhabitant of Barnwell County, died n ; last week, aged 111 years. He was "! born in Virginia, and preserved a 's | vivid recollection of Revolutionary : scenes up to his last days. NEW LAWS. An Act to Reduce the Length of Time Required to Notify Hands to Work the Public Roads in Lexington and Richland Counties. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate aud House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assombly, and by the authorify of the same, That from and afler tiio passage 01 tuis Act all bands liable to work the public roads in Lexington and Itichland Counties shall be required to turn out and do such work, according to the terms of the Act now in force, except that they shall only be entitled to Lweuty-four hours' notice of the time and place of meeting of said hands for work, instead of three days as now required; and those who fail to meet, when warned twenly-fonr hours before, shall be subject to the same penalties as now prescribed by law for those who fail to meet after being warned for three days. Skc:. 2. That,ail Acts and parts of 1 lets inconsistent or repugnant to this ict are hereby repealed. Approved December 24t.h, 1880. in Act to Mako it a Misdemeanor loEutico or Persuade a Laborer to Leare the Employment of Another, or to Employ a Laborer Under Contract with Another. - . .i Be il enacted by the Senate and EIouso of Representatives of the State >f South Carolina, now met and siting in General Assembly, nud by the inthority of the same, Thut any perlon or persons who shall entice or persuade by any means whatsoever iny tenant or tenants, laborer or laborers under contract with another, inly eutered iujStkbetwee^ the.parties n the presooce of one or more witlesses, whother such contract be verbal or in writing, to violate such conract, or shall employ any laborer or aborers, knowing him, bor or them .0 be under contract with auother, ihall be doemed guilty of a misdo- ^ neanor, and upon conviction thereof ihall be lined not loss than twentyiro uor more thau one hundred dolars, or be imprisoned in the coouty ^ ail not less than ten nor more than . hirty davs. Approved December 24th, 1880. Words of Wisdom. lie who thinks bis place below litn will be below his place. Good temper is, like a summer day, bo sweetener of toil and soother of lisqnietude. It sbods a brightness )ter everything. It is to bo doubted whether he will aver find the way to heaven who desires to go tbitbor alone. False friends are like our shadow? feeping close to us while wo walk in :bo sunshine, but leaving us tbe instant wo cross into the shade. No man is born wise;* bnt wisdom tud virtne require a tutor; though wo can easily learn to bo vicious without a master. Strong minds, liko hardy everToenR. are most verdant in wiutor; D , when feeble ones, like tender summer plants, are leafless. The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always lonsults his dignity by doing it. A largo number of negroes are leaving Abbeville County to work the phosphate mines on the coast Col T. J. Lipscomb was unanimously re-elected Superintendent of the Penitentiary by tbo Legislature. At public auction in Colombia on saledav a number of horses and moles were sold ranging in prices from $37 to $60. Ten thousand five hundred and twenty-four bales of cotton have been shipped from Abbeville since the present season commenced.. On Christmas day, at Jno. Odam's place, Darlingtou County, J. W. Odam and Henry Stricklin both under the influence of liquor, got into a row with Dumpsey Moraill, in which Odara shot and killed Morrill. Odam and Stricklin are both in jail. Fair "Weather Farmers. i It is comparatively an easy matter | < to farm iu fair weather, and if there were no rainy days, cold, slush and sleet, rural life would be as near perfection as anything we have in this lower sphero. But ho who takes up the vocation of farming must do it < after the style of that interesting cer- < emouy that says: "For better or for I worse," and must make provisiou for j a preat deal of cloudv weather, raiu i 3 * ' I" aud snow. IIo should have ample shelter for all his stock, aud storage room for all crops, or both will suffer aud the farmer bo the loser. These thiDgs add greatly to the expense of farming, bat they must come or the farmer will see much of his labor go from him for DAUght. This fact poiuts out why there are so many unsuccessful farmers. They are fair woather nieu, sailing smoothly enough over a smooth sea, but plncod at great disadvantage when the storms and rain come. Hay, grain, implements, manure, ovorytbiog remains but of doors to take the rains. Having made no provisions for dry walks about the premises, everybody, including wife and daughters, have to plunge through mud aud slush as often as the weuthsr is wet. No wood and kindling stuff are put away at the proper time, H and when the storms come there is v extra trouble iu getting them, wet g jackets, wet feet, muddy floors, poor j tires, and, quite likely, sour tempers r to boot. Stock, perhaps, has to bo fed in the rain, if fed at all, and n much of the fodder is trampled in the c mud and wasted. No water furrows ^ have been opened iu the wheat, oat j and potato fields, and so the water ^ covers the ground till injury is douo. t Stock, perhaps, break into the gar- t cien, the orchard, or the barn, be- . cause some iittle repairs have been ^ neglected, and more injury is done t than would have paid for the mend- ^ iug thrice over. A broken window ^ is forgotten till the baby takes cold { by playiug too near it on a damp day, ind sicknoss, perhaps death, resulta And thus iu one or many ways the fair weather farmer is constantly suf- | faring loss and inconvenience. He is never prepared for rainy weather, and when the rain comes it leaks upcn him. Reader, do you know of any farmer of this class ? ____________ c T.aa1ot*im ?a mm ?r >mj Some people will persist in taking a gloomy view of everything. A neighbor chanced to drop in to seo a man of this kind the other day, and fonud everybody lively except the bead of the family. "How are yon all getting on?" asked the visitor. "We are all tolorable except Bob," replied ho of the dark side of things. "He is laughing and jokiug because he is going fishing. I just know ho is going to come home drowned, or howling with a fish-hook sticking in him somewhere." "Well, the rest seem to be cheer- ' ful." 1 "Yes, sorter. Jemimy is jumping 1 and skipping about because she is going to a caudy-puliing; but I kuow ' something will happen to her. I read 1 of a girl in Philadelphia only last year who was coming homo from a ' candy-pulling, when a drunken man ' throw his wife out of a throe-story 1 window, and killed her." "Killed who?" - ' "Jemiray." "Why, no; there she is." "Well, it might have been her if j she had been going by on the pave- ( ment below where the the woman } fell." , "Well, yon are looking healthy." ..-?r T? 1 T r..l i:u? *l,A TYian "IC3. X>U& JL 16131 JUOU 1IB.U buy Uii?u ; ^ did who dropped dead in New York j last week from heart disease. He ! was in high spirits, and had a good ' appetite; and them's jnst my symptoms." The North Carolinans are leaning strongly in favor of a prohibitory liquor law. Several counties have refused to grant licenses, and others will follow. Creative and Sexual Science, a Fowler's Great Work Dn Manhood, Womanhood, and Theh Mutual Intkbbelations; Love, Its. Laws, Power, Etc. For centuries the world has en leavored to solve the vexod problen jf tho mutual relations of the sexes jut thousands of tho wisest of met liii-l urnirmii Imva nlmtwlnn a/1 Mm flTIrir n despair. It was reserved for tbi present century to throw the greates imount of light npon the snbject tha t has ever received, and at the pre* jut day men and women hold a truei position towards each other than they jare over before occupied. Eael rear adds to our store of informatior >u the subject, corrects rrort, re orms abuses, and places social lif< >11 a higher and nobler basis. The most valuable contribution tc his subject is the present work, frou he pen of Professor O. S. Fowler rho is acknowledged by all classes at he most distinguished exponent now iving of the science of phrenology ind the mutual relations of the sexes lo has been for nearly half a century irominently before the people o1 America uud Europe as a teacher ol his great subject, his lectures have >eeu listened to by hundreds of thouauds, aud his works have been read vherever the English language if poken. He has been consulted by bousands of persons whose ignorance if tbo great laws which govern the icxes baa iuvolyed tbem in trouble, intl we may safely assert that bat few >f those who have faithfully followed lis teachings hare failed to find reief. His long and intelligent obseration of human nature, bis intimate acquaintance with the various aili neuts of which he treats, his vast trofessionnl learning aud experience ind bis recognized position as t e&cher and lecturer, give him a rigbl o speak with authority, and thii >ook will be welcomed and eagerlj end wherever his great fame kai >enetrated. "Sexual Science" is simply the jreat code of natural laws by wbicb he Almighty requires the sexes to be governed in their mutual relations, k knowledge of these laws is of thf lighest importance, and it is the genital ignorance of them among al at it l' i J ilasses wlncn swons toe lisc 01 a teniae and misery in the world and vrecks so mauy lives which would )tberwi8e be happy. There is scarcely a question con soriiiug the most serious duties of life vhich is not fully and satisfactorily mswered in this book. Such a wori las long been needed, and will b< vuzd :r valuable to every man and voman who has arrived at the yeari >f discretion. It should be read ee jecially by the married, and by thos< ,vho have the care of children, and ii ,vill carry happiness with it wherevei t goes. Thousands will blesa th< luthor for tho knowledge contained n this work, which alone can sav< hem from suffering and sorrow. Tb? jook is a real blessing to the publi< io OTim fn 1iA Irnilflfl ftH finch. It is printed from clear, new type jn fine calendered paper, comprise* in one large royal octavo volume o L065 pages, illustrated with nearb 200 appropriate Engravings, prepare* under the personal supervision of tb< author, and will be furnished to sub scribors, in neat and substantial bind ing by John Schnmdkr, Agont for Lexington County. The Abbeville County poor hous< last year cost the county more thai - ? * j 11 IT the jail, and udoih turee umeu n; much as all the Trial Justices pa together. The appropriation bill of the lat General Assembly fixed the State ta: at five mills on the dollar for the pas year, which tax is uniform through out the State. At a meeting of the stockholders c the Central National Bank, of Colum bia, on the 4th instant, Gen. John ? Preston Wf.s re-elected President aud Col. John S. Sloan Solicitoi The showing of the bank was satit fuctory and prosperous. p Pro&ae Swearing. t ProfaDe swearing is one of the evils of tue present generation. Boys not in their teens imagine themselves tnen by the utterances of a few oaths. t Then the habit is so unprofitable! . Whiskey will make a man feel in a ] good hamor until the pleasant effects > - die out, bat profane swearing is uti terly valueless. The worst feature is t that tbo habit is becoming popular 9 with church members, and it brings t reproach upon religion. Tee other t Jay we heard several men who stand . well in the ehnrch ripple oat all kind r of oaths. They profane the name of f God without any scruple and their i blasphemy 'was so frequvut and pro- ' i nounced as to make the worldly . minded shudder. The Tice is not j confined to any particular denomination. Baptists, Methodists, Presbyte- J > riaus, Episcopalians and Seceeders ' i seem to have forgotten all their pro- \ , fessions, and have been cursing like t sailors for the last month or so. It r is sinful and disgraceful, aud every ' man of them should be turned out of the church. The habit is abhorrent r to civilization, morality, decency and f Christianity.?Lancaster Ledger. \ ?= , Important to BealEst&ts (hraers ' In accordance with the Act de- j ? finiDg his duties, Col. A. P. Butler, 1 ' the commissioner of agriculture, is 1 i l: i LUnklLlg BUVUUUU3 CUUIM IAJ ootuic a 1 complete register of all the lands of fered for sale in the State, together ' with information concerning their lo' cation, quality, resources and price. - It is desired that all persons who have real estate which they are de> sirons of selling, will take the earliest * opportunity of reporting the same to ^ the agricultural department, as nn> merons inquiries are being daily re1 ceived from every section of the ^ Union concerning the lands for sule 1 in the State. In the same particular r it wonld be the interest of the manu1 factnrera of the State to forward to the oommissiooer the nature and ' qualities of the wares manufactured i by them,' as it is desired that all in> formation of this kind should be ern. braced in the report , ( i ? .... State 2STews. A fracas occarred noar Fores ton, ' Clarendon County, last week, between 1 Lowder and Ridgeway, two young men, in which Ridgeway was stabbed. } Charleston has a fuel society, kept f up by subscription. No doubt this extended cold weather causes them to } receive many applications from those ^ destitute of means. " j The entire tax assessfi^W^f Ches. ter County for 1880 is ten mills, be, iug less, by one-tenth of a mill, than t the citizens of that county have paid r for the past ten years. 9 The Richland Volunteers, of Co1 lumbia, have accepted the invitation 9 and will attend the ceremonies inci9 dent to the inauguration of President : Garfield on the 4th of March. Rev. Dr. Girardeau, of Columbia, > during a recent visit to Louisville, * Ky., raised a subscription of $1,300 ' from the Second Presbyterian Church r ? t tn ?i/l tha PnlnmMn TliA. r Ui I*LiCkit WlfcJj wv UI\I vuy wivmmvim a.v * ological Seminary. * On the night of the 4th instant a passenger train on the Savannah and Charleston Railroad went through the bridge over the Ashepoo River, killing the engineer and two firemen. B No passengers were hart i At Chester Christmas day was b changed from a high feast to an orgy, t the bar-rooms all giving -free liquor. The drunkenness was unprecedented, e and as a consequence a "dry" munic cipal party is being actively organt ized. E. W. M&cfcey, of the second Congressional District, has served notice i on Mr. M. P. O'Conner of his inten i- tion to coo tost his claims to a seat in 5. the forty-seventh Congress. Mackey ^ t, proposes to take evidence in Charlesr. too, and expects to examine about t- forty witnesses, including prominent politicians oj both parties.