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A e eAdvertisemewnts ins.ertedl at the rate - 51.00 per square (one inch for rirst iniserti<'. IS PUBLISHED.w i 75 ce ni :or i c q uent n= -r: . IS PUBLSEED Double cOl Utn! U !rTinet !cn per V':n .VERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, f c At Newberry, S. C. - SrtfalmNts rns,~pe "line..unum .BY~ TH0s. P. GRRHEKER, !)aOiertO isj-arot d wih the ntr. Editor and Proprietor. -ei contrat dmade wit lag bo ive - Terns,s$.OO per .Ii...., A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, i News, Agriculture, Markets &c Invariably- in Advance. JOB PRINTIV T e T paper is stopped at the expiration of DNMEG,1NTEM S AS. 7 The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub Vol. XVI. WTEDNESDAY MO crintion. Dr- Goods and .Wotioss. wqhlVYas'th8 ExcitIlM i Where Was the Immense Crowd Rushing? WHY D0NT YOU KNOW? TO THfE RY OOD8 EMPORlU --OF To examine the LARGE STOCK of Staple. ad'Fanqy Goods JU ST REC^IVED. NYELITIE DRESS GOODS! IN OVELTIE NOTIONS Ao r inna pr !vleft of the job lot wo meus' Shoes for $1.00. We will appreciate an opportunity to show you onr Fall Goods without importu nityto pprchase. . . CLI & CO. COct. 27, 44-t.. Woder of'theAge. * is a myssery to many people how I can sell goods at such LOW PRICES. The secret 0y i c tgoods with re ference to the special wants of my customers, and withl - experienee of twenty years in the Dry Goods busi ness, I know exactly what to buy. -I de-sire to call the attention of the public- gen erally to the fact that I have now on hand the -most varied and best - lected Stock .:.1of Goods ever exhib ited in tbe city of olumbia - :Brasefulo the good people -. of-- Newberry County for - their liberal patronage here tofore, I trust, by:fair - deal ing, to receive acontinuance . A heirfavors. I espe cially invite the - l dies to examine my 'bbons rangmig from 5 whic' are upurpassed by any House intlieSouth. Come one and all, exam ne goods and buy them *while the stock is complete an every- department. Re member the place. 1A F JACKSON, 120 Main St., Columbia, 8. C. FEADEROE LOW PRICEg. Aew Lot of Nice BIJiIIR, PUTON -ND- - CARIAGES, Just received at J. Taylor's Repository, Below M. Foot & S3n's, on opposite side. Call and look at them. For sale by T AYLOR & OLINE. Sep. 15, 38 --4m. PROSPECTUS. To begblished by subscription, a vol umne of short POEMS AND SKETCHES, -BY The well kcnown and Popular Correspon dent of "THE NEWBERRY HERALD." The Volume will comprise from 100 to 150) pages, and not to exceed in price $1.00. Subscribers' names will be received by THOKAS F. GRENEKER, Editor "New berry Herald," Newberry, .S. C., or W HIT TET & SHEPPERSON, Publishers, Rich mond, Va. Sep. 22, 39-tf. Preserve Your Old Books! E. R. STOKES, Blank Book Manufacturer .INEILBOKBNDR Has moved opposite the City Hall, where he is fully prepared, with first-class work men, to do all kinds of work in his line. BLANK BOOKS BULED to any pattern and bouhd in any style desired. My facilities and long acquaimtance with the business enable me to guarantee satisfac tion on orders for Bank Books, Railroad Books, and Books for the use of Clerks of Court, Sheiffs, Probate Jid . Masters in Equity, antrothier'ounty- Offlh Is. Pamphlets, Magazines, Music, Newspapers and Periodicals, and all kinds of publications bound on the most reasonable terms and in the best manner. All orders promptly attended to. * E. R.STOKES, Main Street, opposite New City Hall, Oct. 8, 41-tf. Columbia, S. C. BENJT. W arO!. SRTn B. LADD, Late flammisslooner of Patents. PATENTS. PAINE, GRAFTON & LADD, Attorneys-at-Law and Solicitors ot Ameri can and Foreign Patents. 412 FIrrH STREET, WAsHINGTON, D. C. Practice ptent law in all its branches in the Patent Office, and in the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States. Pam phlet sent tree on receipt of stamp for post Watches, Clocks, Jewelry WACHES AN JEVELR1 At the New Store on Hotel Lot. I have now on hand a large and elegar assortment of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELR1 Silver and Plated Ware, VIOLIN AND GUITAR STRINGS, SPECTACLES AND SPECTACLE CASE, WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. IN ENDLESS VARIETY. All orders by mail promptly attended t< Watchmaking and Repairinj Done Cheaply and with Dispatch. Call and examine my stock and prices. EDUARD SCHDLTZ. Nov. 21, 47-tf. Iron Irorks. PUMNIX IRON WORKS COLUMBIA, S. C., XANUPACTURES STEAM ENGINE! From five-horse power to any sizi Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist and Cane Mills, Geari for Machinery, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT Columns and Architectural Work for Buildings, Railings for Cemeteries and Balconies, and Iron and Brass Casi ings of all kinds. Having a large stock of Pattern for general work, castings can be mad at short notice. Special attention given to RI PAIRING MACHINERY, of a kinds. All work done by the be: mechanics, and prices as reasonable a can be had for good work anywhere North or South. Mr. PETER KIND, the founde and former owner of this establisl went,. superintends the business, an will turn out nothing but good work. Address orders to G. DIERCKS, Proprietor, Phor ix Iron Works, Columbia, S. ( Oct. 1 , 42-3m. -4)Piscellaneous. WILLIAELTON FEALE OLLE Respectfully offers its services to thos paents who desire to secure for the! daughters the thorough and symmetriec cultivation of their physical, intellectua and moral' powers. It -is conduct~A e what is called the "One-Studly Plan, wi..h a SEE-.ANNU. CoUsE( Study ; and, by a system of Tuitional Pr! iumns, its Low Rates are made still low4 for A.r. who average 85 per cent. No Publie Exercises. No "Receptions. Gaduation, which is always private, ma occur eight times a year. For full information, write for an Ilu trated Catalogue. Address REV. S. LANDER, President, Oct. 27, 44-ly Williamston, S. C. New Store! New Stock HI4ving erected a new and commnodiot Store on the site of our Old Stand, our fa cilities for conducting the Foreign and D< metic Fruit trade are now unsurpassedi the Southern Country. The attention of our friends, and dealei generally, is called to this fact, and also I our fresh supplies arriving to-day. 100 barrels Northern APPLES. 50 boxes Messina Lemons. 25 barrels and half barrels Pears. 15 pkgs. Delaware and Concord Grape 200 barrels E, Rose Potatoes. 25 Barrels Onions. 100) barrels Northern Cabbages. Peaches and Grapes fresh every mornit by Express. C. BART & CO., 55, 57 and 59 Market Street, Se p. 22, 39-4.n Charleston, S. C. NEW HOTEL. This commodious edifice, situated < MAIN STREET, NEWBERRY, S. C., at known as the BLEASE HOTEL is now open, and invites the people one ai all to call and know what can be done at 1 bours, to wit: An Extra Good Breakfas Dinner, or Supper, for TWENTY-FIN CENTS. Forty or fifty regular boarders will1 taken at proportionately low rates. The convenience of location, excelle spring water, well furnished table, et! commend this house to every one. Oct. lei, 42-tf. Labraory of State Assayer aul (Jelil No.1013 Broad Street, bet. Tenth and Eleventh, RICnMOND, VA., Aug. 22nd, 1877. I have made a careful chemical examin tion of a sample of "Summerdean, Ai gusta, Co., Va." Rye Whiskey, select< y myself and representing a lot of 21 barrels in the hands of Messrs. Jenkins Stegal, and find it entirely free from adi r,erations. I can fu'lly recommend it those who desire an article of assured pur ty. Wx. H. TAYLOE, M. D., State Assayer and Chemist. gone Genuine unless bearing the.Sign tu of. E Courteney Jenkins & 00 WHOLESALE UQUOR MERCHANTS, 11 S. Fourteenth Street, RICHMOND, V For sale by DE. S. F. FANT, Sole Age for New berry. Oct. 27, 44-6m. NOTICE. SEED RYE AND BARLEY FOR SALE BY J N. MA RTIN & C( Sep. 15, 38-tf. GLOAMING. t Twilight downward softly floateth; All, once near, seems dim and far; >> High aloft now faintly gleameth, Pale and clear, the evening star. 3 All in doubtful shadow quavers; t Up and up the slow mists creep; Down the lake, 'mid deepest darkness, Mirroring darkness, lies asleep. r On the eastern sky appearing, Lol the moon, bright, pure ar3 clear; Slender willows' waving branches 8 Sport upon the waters near. d Through the playful, flitting shadows, t Quivers Luna's magic shine; q Through the eye this freshness stealing, a Steals into this heart of mine. ,AFTER TWTENTY YE1RS b -0 She was a pretty girl, was Je t mima-petite-that's what I like ? -bright eyes, luxuriant locks, a white and pink complexion, plump and compact. She was at was in good humor, and we soon became the very best of friends- t nay, more-for who could help be. ing affectionate toward her ? Everybody loved her. When the boat-man called her 'a sweet little b craft,' they expressed, though vul s garly, the sentiment of my own e heart. I was in love with Jemima, and Jemima-well, Jemima was 1 not indifferent to me. I had not t nerve to ask her, in so many 8 words, would she accept my hand and name? I spoilt a quire of r paper in an effort to utter my V d thoughts in a letter ; so at last, on her birthday, the fifteenth of May, I ventured to present her with an elegantly bound book, and on a - little slip of paper inside I wrote : DEAR JEMIMA.-By the accep tance of this trifling gift let me -know you accept thei giver. ALFRED BARNSTABLE DAUGHTY. fl t I flattered myself it was rather a plucky thing to do, and it an- I rswered admirably. SNext time I saw her she was all I, e n of a glow, and when we were alone together, and I was stand e - ing rather near her, and said : r 'You received my bumble offer " ing !' she burst into a flood of Y tears, put her arms around my . neck and spoilt my shirt front. Then, 'a hen she recovered a lit tie (do you believe in N iobe ? I -don't) she said : -'Have you asked pa ?' LOf course I responded I had t >- not. a'Then do at once,' she said ; 'for -goodness gracious me, if he was * to find us out in anything sly, and trying to keep it from him, it would be awful!' s.It iR a good deal worse asking the governor than asking the girl, especially such a peppery old par. ig ty as Captain Wattleborough; however, I screwed myself up, and when Jemima was down about the place playing on her organ, and I knew he would be making his evening toilet by put ting on a pilot coat. I ventured to look in upon him. After a few ' words on ordinary topics such as dhow were we both, how was the t, weather, I hemmed and began: ECaptain I amn ambitious.'I >e 'Right, boy-climb as high as you can.' .'Can't encourage me too much, Captain ; I'm ambitious in your direction.' 4, 'Boy, you are not going to 'No, Captain-I-I-I-I aspire a- to the honor of being your son-in law!I' ~o The Captain looked me full in the face, then said : o 'Haive you money ?' -Of coarse I hadn't, and he told me to go and get it before ventur aing to aspire to the band of Jemi ma. 'But, my dear Captain'-1 yen-1 tured to expostulate. nt 'Get off my door-step!l' 'Let me speak for a moment to Jecmi ma.' 'Get off my door-step !'. He accompanied this last in struction by a thrust whichi sent I Sme staggering into the street. My affair with Jomima was at n end. The Captain would not sten to me. All the letters I ?rote to Jemima were sent back a me. I grew weary, packed up it nd packed off, with a letter of a atroduction to a firm in China. v< Vell, the fortune was not so easy h > make, but at the expiration of wenty years I began to think it ufficiently large to warrant my eturn to 'the girl I left behind 1e.' I heard very little from ome. Father and mother were till alive, but the Captain was F ead. They had carried him hrough the cornfields one sum- tl ier's day to the little church-yard) nd buried him there. rz Jemima, I understood, lived in be old house, and was single. So -full of emotion, all the tender- e ess for the dear girl I bad left ft ehind me rapidly reviving-off I rent, carpet-bag and everything, e ist as I was, to have the old ows renewed and sealed in the sual manner. A.:maiden with a freckled face, a iuch sunburned, opened the door. Pould I see Miss Wattleboreugh ? %e maiden did -o reply, but, 3aving me where I was, retired o the remote back settlements. 'bence I beard the following dia- a )gue : s 'Missus 1' fi 'Well, what is it !' Somebody wants you.' t 'Who is it?' ~ 1 'A fat old man, with a bag.' d I couldohave shaken the girl in- ri D jelly. tI There was further talk in a b mothered whisper, and then the e irl returned, and motioning me E rith her finger, said: k 'Come in here,' and showed me k ito the parlor. The old parlor, just as I had left a , neat and trim, the old harpsi bord, the old punch bow I ; but ome new things-a canary in a u age at the window, a black long- e gged cat ensconced upon a chair. 8 The next minute a lady en ered. .Could it be? No, impossi- t le-this pale-faced, sober-visaged , ady, with stiff black curls, and not iore figure than a clockcase ould this be my Jemima ? o Vhere was the old luster of the I yes-where the old bloom upon t he cheeks-where the lips that t ere ruddier than the cherry ? e he lifted up both hands when t he saw me. 'Alfred!' 'JemimaPl 'We shook hands ; after a mo-a rent's hesitation we went further t -more in accordance with old , imes.O My heart sank within me, how- e vein, as I sat down opposite to her, and thought of what she was. be looked at me very steadily, r .nd I thought I detected disap- t ointment in her glance.i 'We are both changed, Jemima.' g 'You are very much altered,' she aid. 'You are differen t,' I responded. 'Do you think so ?' ( 'Think so ? Why, Jemima, there an't be two opinions about it.' 'It is not generally observed; ; >t you-' 'Well my dear ?' 'You have grown ridiculously tout, and you are bald-headed.' 'You are not stout, my dear; >ut your hair is not quite what it 'People say they see no change a me-that I preserve my child sh appearance wonderfully.' 'Humph!' Our interview was not alto ~ether agreeable. When we part d wve contented ourselves with aking hands. That afternoon I wrote to her, uggesting that we did not renew ur old engagement. That afternoon she wrote a note, ggesting the very same idea to ne. Our cross letters crossed. We were to be friends, nothing nore. But that could not last. I was he first to give in. I called upon ier and said a good deal, and she ~ried, and then we said wby not ? md then she put her head upon1 ny breast and spoiled my shirt ~ront as she had done before. 'You are not so very fat,' she aid laugbing. 'You are not so very lean,' 1 ,aid langhinag alsn. 'You can wear a scalp,' said she. 'You can dye' I responded. So we both laughed again, and was all settled. We were settled, rad here are out of the fog, and ery much at your service-the appiest couple in our town. DEBT. om John Ploughman's; Talk; or Plain Ad vice to Plain People, by C. H. Spurgeon. Living beyond their incomes is le ruin of many of my neighbors; iey can hardly afford to keep a bbit, and must needs drive a ony and chaise. I am afraid ex -avagance is the common dis ise of the times, and many pro ;ssing christians have caught it, > their shame and sorrow. Good )tton or stuff gowns are not ood enough nowadays, girls iust have silks and satins, and ben there is a bill at the dress. iaker's as long as a winter's night nd quite as dismal. Show and tyle and smartness run away rith a man's means, keep the Lmily poor, and the father's nose n a grindstone. frogs try to look s big as bulls, and burst them. .ives. A pound a week apes ve hundred a year, and comes the county court. Men burn be candle at both ends, and thon %y they are unfortunate-why on't they put the saddle on the ight horse, and say they are ex. ravagant? Economy is half the attle in life ; it is not so hard tc am money as to spend it well. [undreds would have never nown want if they had not first nown waste. If all poor men'e rives knew how to cook, how fai little might go ! Our ministet ays : "The French and Germans beat s all bollow in nice cheap cook. ry ; I wish they would send mis ionaries over to convert our gos ping ivomen into good managers is is a French fashion whici rould be a deal more useful that bose fine pictures in Mrs. Fip ery's window, with ladies rigget ut in a new. style every month )ear me! some people are muet oo fine nowadays to eat whal eir fathers were thankful to se< n the table, and so they pleas< h palates with costly feeding ome to the work.house, and ex ect every body to pity them. Thbe3 urned up their noses at breat nd. butter, and came to eat ran urnips stolen out of fields. Thei rho live like fighting-cocks a ther men's cost will get thei~ ombs cut, or perhaps get roast d for it one of these days. I ou have a great store of peas yoi aay put the more in the soup ut everybody should fare accord g to his earnings. He is both ool and knave who has a shilling oming in, and on the strengtl f it spends a pound which doe iot belong to him. Cut you: oat according to your clothi ound advice ; but cutting othbe eople's cloth by running int' lebt is as like thieving as fou our-pence is like a goat. If I meant to be a rogue guld deal in marine stores, or b pettifogging lawyer, or a priest r open a loan-office, or go ou ickig pockets; but I wouli corn the dirty art of gettini nto debt without a prospect c >eing able to pay. You have debts, and make debts still, If you've not lied, lie you will. Debtors can hardly help bein, iar, for they promise to pa; hen they know they canno1 Lnd when they have made up ot of false excuses they promis Lgain, and so they lie as fast as orsa can trot. Now, if owing leads to lying w bo shall say that it is.not a moe svil thing. Of course, there ar >xcp)tions5, and I do not want t >ear hard upon an honest ma sho is brought down by sicknes r losses;- but take the rule as -ue, and you will find debt to b great dismal swamp, a hug nud-ole, a dirty ditch; happy i be man who gets out of it afte >nce tumbling in, but the happies >f all is he who has been by God' oodness kept out of the mire a togthr. If yon once ask the dev to dinner it will be hard to get him no out of the house again ; better to sa; have nothing to do with him. Where a hen has laid one egg, she is very likely to lay another ; when a man is once in debt, he is likely to get into it again ; better AF keep clear of it from the first. He who gets in for a penny will soon be in for a pound, and when a man is over shoes, he is very liable to be over boots. Never owe a farthing, and you will never mo owe a guinea. My motto is, pay as you go, and fal 'keep from small scores. Short shE reckonings are soon cleared. 'Pay s3 what you owe, and what you're ter worth you'll know.' Let the pai clock tick, but no 'tick' for me. c,pi Better go to bed without your ba, supper than get up in debt. Sins r and debt are always more than bul we think them to be. cat Little by little a man gets over glc his head and ears. It is th. ex1 petty expenses that empty the wjj purse. Money is round, and rolls tio away easily. Tom Thriftless buys rc: what he does not want because it am is a great bargain, and so is soon lin brought to sell what he does It want, and finds it a very little juc bargain. He cannot say 'No' to soi his friend who wants him to be for security ; he gives grand dinners, tE makes many holidays, keeps a fat sic table, lets his wife dress fine, never bu looks after his servants ; and by an and by he is quite surprised to ou find the quarter-days come round im so very fast, and that his credi- ap; tore bark so loud. He has sowed bri his money in the field of thought. Bc lessness, and now be wonders ter that he has to reap the harvest of we poverty. Still he hopes for some- to< thing to turn up to help him out TI of difficulty, and so muddles him- bl self into more trouble, forgetting tre that hope and expectation are ru fool's income. Being hard up, he or goes to market, with empty pock- wl ets, and buys at whatever prices sh tradesmen like to charge him, an d sa; so he pays them double, and gets se< deeper and deeper into the mire. At This leads him to scheming, an d an trying little tricks and mean we dodges; for it is hard for an emp- hb ty sack to stand up-right. This bu is sure not to answer, for schemes th are like spiders' webs, which never pe catch anything better than flies, be and are soon swept away. As well mi attempt to mend your shoes withb If brown paper, or stop a broken y Iwindow with a sheet of ice, as to de try to patch up a falling business at with maneuvering and schemin g. m; When the schemer is found out, he tw is like a dog in Church, whom th everybody kicks at, and like a ed barrel of powder, which nobody of want.for a neigh bor. w They say poverty is a sixth ed sense, and it had need to be, for w many debtors seenm to have lost w the other five, or were born with- co out common sense. for they appear ot to fancy that you not only make at debts, but pay them, by borrow- sb ing. A man pays Peter with bc what he has borrowed of Paul, to and thinks he is getting out of al his difficulties, whben he is putting w one foot into tbe mud to pull the ci: other out. It is hard to shave an m egg, or to pull hairs out of a bald in pate ; but they are both easier di than paying debts outof an emp- fe ty pocket. Samson was a strong p man but he could not pay debts tb fwithout money, and he is a fool ne who thinks he can do it by schem- a ing. As to borrowing money of re loan societies, it's like a drowning pi man catching at razors ; Jews and ca Gentiles, when they lend money, of generally pluck thbe geese as long as or tey have anlyfeathers.A man must m cut down his outgoings and save p~ his incomings if he wants to clear at himself; you can't spend your pen- tb ,ny and pay debts with it too. p~ Stint the kitchen if the purse is of bare. Don't believe in any way it of wiping out debt except by pay- h( ing hard cash. Promises make sc d ebts,. and de bts make promises ; but promices never pay debts; w promising is one thing, and per- ty forming is quite another. A good hi man's word should be as binding St as an oath, and he should never fe promise to .pay unless he has a a clear prospect of doing so in due in .time ; those who stave off pay- jai iment by false promises deserve ISt mercy. It is all very well t^ d: , 'I'm very sorry;' but p A hundred years of regret T Pay not a farthing of debt. Ic A COLORADO YARN. all Rigged Ship Found in a Sealed Cavern Shaped Like a Chinese Junk, With Mon- tt golian Characters on the Prow. e the Leadville Chronicle pub ies an account of the most b ,rvelous discovery yet made by tl rtal man, provided that it is e, which is more than doubt- d Two miners, while sinking a ft near Red Cliff, are repre- a ted to have found a deep sub- le ranean chamber without ap -ent communication with the g U in air. What they claim to ie seen is thus described : rhe-cave seemed at first empty, as their eyes gradually be no accustomed to the deep t( om, the men saw in the further iemity a huge black object. ich, not without some trepida n, they approached. As they ired it, to their unbounded azement, they made out the h es of some sort of sailing craft. was, as nearly as we could ti ge, about sixty feet long by ne thirty wide, and lay tilted ward at an angle of about fif n degrees over a rough pile of ne. The body of the craft was It of short lengths of some dark W d very porous woo', resembling 0 e black walnut, if it could be agined, with the grain pulled a irt like a sponge or a piece of ad, and made perfectly square. th ends (it was evidently in ided for sailing either -way) e re turned abruptly up like the of a peaked Moorish slipper. e planking was apparently dou riveted on with nails of ex- a rely bard copper, only slightly it eaten, and with the heads cut filed in an octagonal shape, tIe along the upper edge of the p eleven large rings of the nie metal, and evidently for the ~uring of rigging, were counted. the bottom edges of the craft, 0 d running its entire length, re two keels some four and a If feet deep and six inches thick,s ng on metalic hinges, and att a a ends were fastened rough cop- d r rods, extending upward and - t over so as to attach to two ists rising from the upper edges. the cross of an inverted letter be conceived to represent the ek lines, the two stems are at out the angel and position of the ists. .These were upward of enty feet long ; and, as evidence at a sail was at one time stretch- ' across, some ragged remnants C what appeared to be cording ~ re found clinging to the inner I ges. The ends of the masts a re secured in pivots, and it S is evident that in sacking one f uld be moved forward and the her back, thus bringing the sail an angle with the body of the E ip-an idea which it migrht not ~ bad for our modern navigators t emulate. This, it is believed, C so exlains the copper rods t bich moved the keels so as to re procate the position of the asts. While the whole ship was tact, the wood crumbled like Lst beneath the finger touch, andI rful of trapfalls the two pros tors did not venture to explore e interior. Lying on the ground ar by, however, was discovered gold instrument bearing a rude semblance to the sextanit of the esent day, and possibly used to lculate the longitude. No trace any writing was found save at e end of the ship, inclosed in a edal ring, were twenty-six cop r characters rivited to the wood d bearing much resemblance to c Chinese hieroglyphics of the esent day. No human remains any sort were found, although is possible that a search in the >ld will reveal something of this They went to the cabin of a all-to-do miner living some thir -miles down the gulch, and to m first told their extraordinary ory. This gentleman is per etly reliable, and, together with r well known mining expert resid g in this city, has seen and ex nined the ship, and will take t eps to preserve the wonderful 1 scovery to the world in all its )ssibly great historical value. he minute particulars as to the cality are at present withheld for ,ry obvious reasons. The discovery of the junk-like .ip with its unknown architec ire, hcrmetically sealed in a cav -n fifty feet below the surface the earth, gives scope to indefi te speculation. The only possi. e explanation seems, however iat ages, or mons, perhaps, agor, vessel bearing a crew of b scoverers, tossed by the wa ught a harbor in a cave with cliff. The waves then recedinb ft it stranded there, and the reat continental divide the awful pheavals and convulsions of na ire, which we know so little of id can ouly blindly speculate 1, pressed the face of the earth gether and sealed it in a living "ave. A PROOLA3YATION. At no period in their history since ie United States became a nation as this people had so abundant and > universal reasons for joy and grati ide at the favor of Almighty God, been subject to so profouud an obli ition to give thanks for His loving indness and ;humbly to implore His )ntinued care and protection. Health, ealth and prosperity throughout all ir borders,peace, honor and friendship ith all the world, firm and faithful iherence by the great body of our opulation to the principles of liberty ad justice, which have made our reatness as a nation, and to the wise istitutions -and strong frame of gov -nment and society which were made perpetuate it-for all these let the ianks of a happy and united people, s with one voice, ascend in devout omage to the Giver of all good. I therefore recommend that cn 'hursday, the 25th day of November ext, the people meet in their respec ve places of worship to make their -uowledgments to Almighty God for [is bounties and protection, and to Eer to Him prayers for their con nuance. In witness whereof I have hereunto ~t my hand ad caused the seal of ~e United States to be affixed. Done t the City of Washington this 1st ay of November, 1880, and of the idependeuce of the United States eh one hundred and fifth. R. B. HAnES. By the President : WM. M. EvARs, Sec. of State. 'Dar ains no use o' tryin' to ide yer sins under fine clo's, to' o Lawd can see slick froo broad loth,' said the Rev. James Dela an, at a Kansas camp meeting. )an Kirby, a well dressed g',m ~ler, construed the words as a per onal insult, and whipped the reacher after services. Brooklyn claimed the handsom-. st graveyard in the country, ,nd in less than two months twen y-four rich and prominent Phila elphians committed suicide, and heir friends have given them ele ant monuments. Philadelphia is raing up in enterprise. He who looks on beauty with a >ure affection forg'ets the loveli ess of the body in that of the oul, and rises by means of that arthly beauty to the great ar ist, to the very essence of loveli iess. Mother-'Now, Gerty, be a ood girl, and give aunt Julia a tiss and say good night.' Gerty -'No, no ! If 1 kiss her she'll box ny ears, like she did papa's last light.' Thbere are five old negroes in tlanta, Ga., who svy they saw soorge Washington. it begins to ook as if Washington never saw Swhite man. Fire-escape-Trhe oldest sort of ire escape on record is the fond usband whbo lies abed mornings. The milk of human kindness vells up from the heart, but cow's nilk comes from the udder place. Colored belles refuse to wear angs. T hey say you can't pull ponl oer their eyes.