I A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21,1884. No. 34. IS PLuLISIIED EVERY TIIURSI)AY MORNNG At Newberry, S. C. - Ly a40o. F. GRENEKER, Io EITO1: A N I) PROPFIIET'ORt. TERWS-S2,00 PER ARNUM. J Invariably in Adlva"ce. S EIND JEWYELRT it the New Store on Hotel Lot. I :tve now on Land a large and elegant as.o rc..e nof WATCHIES, CLUCl(8, JEWELRY, Silver and Plated Ware, VIOLIN 1ND GUITAR STRINGS, SP .CTACLES AND SPECTACLE CASES WEOiM AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. iN ENtLESS VARIETY. A:i -'der h mail promptly .ttended to. Watchmaking and Repairing Due Ct!sply and with Dispatch. and exantine my stock and prices. EDUARD SCHOLTZ. Nv21, -47-! SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Me E L R E E'S Je welry PALACE 224 KING ST. CHARLESTON, S C. LARGEST STOCK. LOW:?EST PRICES IN THE SOUTH. LE? IaING A SPECIALTY. ENID ME YOUR WATCHES. Nov IZ-ly. Done at this Oflice. At Low Prices for Cash. Lir, iiidr,v or :toaach Truud-le. 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Seminaries and Schools as to their Durability. Thsey are Perfect in Tone and Work manshsip and Elegant in Appearance. A large assortment of second-band Plamnos alwatys on haund. General Whol'sale Agents for Burdett, Palace, Sterling, New Eng gland, and Wilcox and White OR G AYS. ANOS and ORGANS sold on EASY IN. STALTMENTS. i?iar.os taken int Exchange, also thor o 4Zbly repaired. .irSend for illustrated Piano or Or gatn Catalhogne. Chas. M. Stieff, No. 9, NoitTn L1aEnTY-STREET, BALTIORE, MD. F. WerL'er, Ir., Aget,t Newberry. Apuli 2 SOME TIME. BY MRS. MAY RTLEY SMITII. Some t line, when all life's lessons have been learned, Aud, sunl and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgments here have spurlned, The things o'er which we grieved withl lashes wet, Will 11ash before us, out of life's dark night, As stars shine most iu deeper tints of blue ; And we shall see how all God's plans were rig'ht, And how what seem ed reproof was love most true. And we shall see, how while we frown and sigIh, God('s Ilalis go iu as best for you Ilow, whe1 we called, iIe heeded not O:ar . ry, Bcca:ze His wisdom to the end efuld see. B,ut even as prdolient parents disallow. To u :wlh of ..weet to claving hat>y hood, S: God, perhaps, is keeping froi us 'low Life's sweetest things, becau-e it seemelh good. And if sonetimes commingled with life's wine. We lind th wo13I.wood, :id rebel and shrink, Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine. Pours ont this portion for our lips to drink. And if some friend we love is lying, low, here humman kisses cannot reach his face, Oh! do not blame the loving Father so, But wear volr sorrow with obedient grae! And von shall s:hortly know that lengthened breath Is not the sweetest gift Gods sends lHis friend, . And that sometimes the sable pall of death. Conceals the fairest boon His love can send. If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand wit.hin, and all God's workings see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for cach mystery could find a key! But not to-day. 'Iihen be content poor heart, God's plans like lilies pare and white unfiold. We must ;ot tear the close-stut leaves apart; Time will reveal the calyxes of gods. And if, through patient toil, we reach the land Where tir: d feet, with :;andals loose, inuay rest, When we shall clearly kuow and un derstand, I think that we will say, "God knows t he best." 15cc1Inu. RROADBIN'S NEW YORK LETTER. We are now within three months of a National Election, and the fact is so evident that he wvho runs nay' read. The laws of New York and Brook lyn are most stringent on the sub ject of temperance. One statute declares that every place retailing liquors shall close its doors at 12 o'clock at night, and that no liqnor shall be sold or drunk upon the premises between that hmur and 4 o'clock the next morning. And furthermore, that all places licensed to sell liquor shall be closed upon the Sabbath or Lord's day, from the hour of twelve o'clock on Saturday night till four o'clock on Monday morning; and to enforce these municipal regulations, New York and lbrooklyn maintain a standing army of about six thousand police, at a cost not far from eight millions of dollars per annum. We grum be at the extravagant outlay of the United States in maintaining a beggarly army of 23,000 men to cover a territory -of millions of miles, and guard the interests of 55,000,000 of people. Yet here we maintain at a terrible cost-to guard a couple of millions-an army one quarter as large, and at an in fiitely greater expense per capita. But notwithstanding our munici pal army, on tbe approach of an election the ascendancy of' the whiskey interest is felt. On Sun dy last the side doors of half or twothirds of the saloons in New York and Brooklyn were open with none to molest them or make them afraid-men, women and children went in and out with pails, bottles and pitchers, and the alert police man on guard, never dreamt that there was any infraction of the law. The drunkenness and riot were fearful, much worse than it has been any Sunday for a year past the result might be reasonably ex pected; a large number of deeds of violence, and cer tainly one-and probably two-murders. This is not a pleasant exhibit for two of the greatest municipalities in this land, but we may reasonably ex pect is just as long as rum remains such a potent factor in our elections.. There is no mistake but the crim-* inal classes know and fesl that they h.vo a b Awade adt4 &t entind The white marble of the lower para )f the structure is grimed with tht smoke and storms of forty years the upper portion of the steeple i, bright and new as when it cam( from the quarry. Time many at least make all thing even, but it looks, as Sir Benjamin Backbite re marks, like a mended statute. The old steeple was good enough, but to gratify the vanity of the rector and the wealthiest eogregation in New York, they have expended a quarter of a million on this newc and unless addition to their church. es. Better far have given it to the fresh air fund; better have given it to the starving ragged wretches who daily throng our thoroughfares. It would have built in the country live hundred houses for the poor; but let them go. When the con. gregation gets back from Europe, Newport, Saratoga and Long Bran 1 they will find the steeple finished. It has cost several lives and a great deal of money. but Grace Church has got a new steeple. Broadway has gone the way of all flesh, and has fallen at last into the hands of the Philistines. It is going to be gridironed with surface railroads, and the way the schem, ers succeeded was by making certaic property holders on the street par ticipators in the plunder. Our vir tuous Boord uv Aldiermin have given to the speculators a franchise for which the city was offered a million. The thing is done, now come and take a ride. The people of New York may be robbed, but a New York Aldermar never gets left, if he knows it, and lie generally knows it. Yours truly, BROADBRIM. For the Herald. FROM SMOKY TOWN. MF.sSRS EDITOIs : On account of bad health and other circum=tances. I have been prevented from writing any sooner. Since the last few lines, written for your valuable paper. I hav been asked by several gen tlemen, anm gentlemen of letters at that, to writt again, and to continue writing, thougi I have understoood that it has beer said by some, that what I wrote it March o:i the Dark Days of Life, an( Piety, was not lo-ical. I will refei them to the paper which was printet 13th of March '54, and to read it care. rully, and then if they still condemn i and can convince me that it is not s) then I will have to ack:nowledge that ] am void of understanding. So I will stil proceed in my undertaking to impresi on the min,s of the young and risiu generation-the Dark Days of Life and the Beauty and Surety of Piety 'I'hen youths of the age, suppost for instance it should be your lot t< suffer what is a very commor fate in this land of comiercia enterprise and specnlation, the sud den wreck of your buiness afitir after enjoying years of success. In agine your business bark well launch edl, wisely freighted and prudentl] iaaged. She makes many a voyage returning from each successive ad venture, more richly laden than evei before, until you begin to grow rich You began to think of relaxing~ a littli Your' prcsperity continues long, unti from the pressure of business occupa tions ; foT you arc satisfied with youl success and( have the means of livin1 in calm repose the remainder of youi days. But just as you attain tht heigh t of your amnbition, the commercia sky is suddenly overcast, the whirlwint of monetary revuldsion sweeps fierce. ly over the sea of business, tearin1g your richly ladent bark to tatters, an< driving her a dismantled wreck upo: the rock of insolvency, you behold the battered fragments and exclaim-I an ruinedl. Then in that hour, when th< convulsions of a day shall swallow umj the toils of a long life, and leave you or account of exhausted powers withoul hope of recovering your wealth ant social position, what will you d< without a God ? what power will sus tain your sinking heart? swhenc< will conme the fortitude, the courage the energy, which can bear you on t< the victory of mental-repose througl such a trial. Perhaps you think you own strength of mind will be suffeien to sustain you in such adversity. Vait idea ! Know you not in such grea emergencies, the most self-reliani minds become weak, timid, paralyzed and confounded. A fearful sense o impotence steals over them. Thei: reason reels and shrinking from th< terrible conflict with Providence, the: either sink into imbecile melancholy or plunge madly and unbidden lnt< the mysterious presence chamber a Deity. Read attentively the sad example 6 the latter result : There were tw< merchant princeP, brothers and part ners, one of whom resided in Ne' Orleans and the other in Mobile Their wealth was immense, their ex perience large, their skill uncommon A great monetary hurricane swep over the sea of commerce, and man: a mercantile house perished, but thel proud bark defied the storm and rode through unharmed. Time passed, an< at a period when the business worl< was generally prospering, these mer chant princes suddenly found thei: affairs embarrassed, and they faiiled Overwhelmed by this great trial om of the brothers plunged like a mad man into the waters and entered the presence of His Maker, a shivering su cide. The other on learning what hi brother had done followed his guilt; example, and also rushed unbiddei into the E ternal Presence. Thus these men so strong, so self-re liant, and so prosperous, found theci great strength dissolved to weaknesi in the hour which tried their souls. A scarcely less melancholy but mori striking illustration of the insufficiec of mere nment.11 strength to sust-th mortal mian in the hour of unexpecte< Icalamity is found in tbe life of Napc leon on the day preceding the battl of Borodino. Napoleon was in excel lent health andf most joyouns spiIt i lb ma Eveiiis har evda I! t:res than they have at any other neriod, and they seem to turn it to the most substantial account. Straws show which way the wind blows. and a little circumstance occurred last week which shows pretty conclusively the effect of el ection influence. It has been gen erally understood that our model Governor has set his face against the undue use of the pardoning power, and like his predecessor Governor Cornell, he has used the executive prerogative very sparing ly, and has seldom interfered with the administration of justice, unless he had good and substantial reasons for doing so; but a change has come over the spirit of his dreams, that to say the least, is strange. About twenty years ago a most brutal murder was committed by a young German, who was sentenced to States prison for life. It is so long ago that I almost forget the attendant circumnstances; but the murderer was boarding in a Ger man family, and his landlady had a young sister of whom he became enamoured, his affection was re turned, but being a careful young man he did not want t,, get married till such time as he cou;d start in business for himself. To obviate this trifling difficulty his expected brother-in-law offered to start him in a nice little grocery store, where mit his Katrina he could settle down for life. But there is many a slip between the cup and the lip. Just as the arrangement was about to be consummated, a stout young Dutchman who had made a pile in California turned up, and tumbling head over heels in love at first sight offered himself and his guilders to Gretchen. To the credit of the young woman, be it recorded, that she desired to stand by the original bargan; but her sister and, her brother in-law threw their influence in favor of the California Fritz, and the result was, that the pros pective grocery store vanished into thin air, and he lost not oiily that but his expected wife. The loss preye(l upon his spirits, but whether it was the girl or the grocery store, has never been discovered to this day. In addition to his other mis fortunes. a number of his young Dutch friends poked the most un merciful fun at him, and asked him in low Dutch or high German, I don't know "vhich, how he liked it to have anol ier fellow run.off mit his girl, and he did not like it at all. At last he got his Dutch mad up, and securing a hatchet, in less time than it takes to tell the story he sent his f )rmer sweetheart to the happy hnnt ng grounds. He was tried for his life, but a merciful con struction of the law brought in a verdict of n mslaughter in the first degree, and saved him from the gallows to consign him to Stat-s Prison for liie. Twenty yea.s have past sice then, and the mur der and murderLr were forgottoa, except by a few interested in the case, who for years have had a petit:on in circula:ion, which has been presented to every Governor in turn, and by every one rejected, who consid< red lhe enoim ity of his crime'. At laet t petition reached 15,000 nam(s. t Cy being largely Giermnan. Whet er in view of the November Election or not I cannot tell, but last week the criminal was pardoned, and now walks out a free man. Keep your weather eye open for the stock market, I have not got aill the details yet; but this mu2h I know that there is~ a scheme on foot to give the market a sadden and tra mendous boom, and then let the bottom out, leaving the lambs to take care of themselves. If the boom is successful and the outsiders are roped ia, the big fish may be able to reach Ihe deep water, but if it fails, and the fools keep outside of the magic circle till the fight is over, you will see some funny work amang those who- heretofore have passed for heavy men. There's breakers ahcad ! Look out for 'etn! One of the remarkable discov eries of the week, is tbe death by suicide of D. 0. Weatherspoon, an old and respected citizen; on whose life there was an insurance of $47. 000. It was scattered about in var ios companies, and before the fact of his suicide was made public, some of the smaller companies had alreaay paid their policies on the mere certification of -his death. Some of the Insurance Companies have a special clause against suici des, but it is the opinion of some of the ablest lawyers-that if Mr. Weatherspoon's temporary insanity can be established, the companies will all be compelled to pay. The only wonder is that the affair could be kept so quiet for two weeks, and although the suicide was discovered by his daughter-two of his young er children never suspected the cause of their father's death. Walking up Broadway the other day I observed that they were pro gressing very rapidly with the new addition to the steeple of Grace Church. It is the pointed portion above the belfry, and rises to the height of about one hundre 1 fact above the bells. Though teautiful ly carved and fretecd, in its present dat 4s la diishrltl7 adltieff patch informing him that hi- tr. op; in Spain had been badly b,aten at Sal manlca. Immediately a singular change passed over him. In that disaster he saw the inIdex tinzer of fate pointing to his filial over tro.v, and he was troubled. ile retite i to his couch, but could not sleep. Ile arose, talked incoherently, ordered three days ra tion.s to be distributed among his gnard at midnight, and seemed to be consuming with fever of mind and body. Ihe next day he was irresolute, ilI-!mmor ed, an'I inferior to himsiielf onx the field of battle. In fact the news froml Salaunanca overwhelmed him, and with all his strengtb of mind he staggered beneath it like a drunken man. It I supposed drove him to the brink of insanity. IIe showed very similar confusion of mind in the hours which preceded his ab,lication, and when his power was finally taken from him his great heart grew sick, and on that sea-girt rock where British can tion confined him, he pined away and died, as much of a broken he,:rt, as of the diseases which preyed upon his well-knit frame. If therefore the strength of this'gigantie soul, and of those loftly-minded merchants was insufficient for thtirsupport in the great emergencies of their lives, what can you expect but to be crushed beneath your sorrows if you dare to confront them w7thout the aid of God. Perhaps you think that the sympathy of friends will give courage to your hours of ca lanity. But are yost sure that adver sity will not prove an enchanter's wand and transform your friends into strangers. Is it not possible that as the prodigal was abandoned in his hour of uisfortune by those who smiled on him in his plenty, so you may be for saken by those who now profess tin (lying attachment to yon. The false hood of friendship is proverbial, and when the shadows of great trials darken your path, it may be your lot to meet that weary, wond