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+e WILLIAMS & DAVIS, Proprietots.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiy, Industry and Literature RMS---3.00 Per Annun in Advance. OL. Xi. WINNSBORO, S. Ces WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4,1875. [NO. 9 THE st w FAIRFIELD HERALD ; 16 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY el 01 WILLIANS&DAVIS. G 7orms.-The HERALD i published Week ti y in the Town of Winnsboro, at $8.00 n variably in advance. SW All transient advertisements to be 'AID IN ADVA 4VCE. 01 Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 og per I quare, ti -. 01 Brothers nnd 8isters. 04 p Little children, love each other, a "Tin the blessed Saviour's rule ; ti If a sister or a brother, A If at home, or if at school. o'ie all children of one Father, 11 One great, God who reigns above ; hi Sh all we quArrel t No, much rather - Would we dwell like fim, in love. le has placed us here together, La That we may be g)od and kind, b, He is over w*tching whether at Ve are one in heart and mind. All we have we nbarle with others, t With kind looks and geenle6 words Thus we live as sisters, brot era, ut 8eeking still to be the Lord's. ti th The New Yupor. t -O A PHILADELPHIA VIEW OF THE KEELEY wi NOTo. of in If all, or even if one-half, of what th is reported of the Keeley motor be 3 true, the world is on the eve of the it 1most &remendous revolution it has as had since it bogan to revolve at all, of The ob,orvations coade by one of the OL most reeent interv.ewers of the in. pl, ventor, which we printed yesterday, en show that the latter hints at effects ab to be produced that have heretofore - been unuitigated. We have all heard of the trainsol ears to be run across the continent with a galion of water and at an incredible speed, and of other little performAnces in the fua ture, with the new motor, the repeti- i tion of which is getting wouotonons. But the heretofore o;oult powers of the mysterious agent., which Mr. he Keeley an prodnce ad Is bitum, and which he proposes to bottle up ior use, 1 are so tremendous, nooording to these or latest exhibits, that they make us tremble for the existence of the earth itself to say nothing of the planetary tk system of which is an humble mew ber. - This new agent or vapor needs to be harnessed and tamed, and that is a what Mr. Keeley must do with it be fore he introduces it to the inhabi- si tants of this planet. When he does t, get it under control, he may render the Signal service superfnots, for we bl can have anywhere such weather as is Sa desired. If a thimbleful of the vapor i8 let loose in a room creates a litt'e snow storm, a bucketful let loose out in of doors must produce a big snow storm, aid snow-stortns are sonetimes desitabl, things to have at command, especially in hot terms such as no have lataly gone through. If at an other time an acidental explosion of a small quantity in a room produced le astonishing results, drawing the at. imosphere toward the place of explo- ev sion as if it were a vacuum, and r almost taking Mr. Keeley's breath away, why may be not arrange for lot. ting loose large quantities wherever og needed, and producing storms or i calms, cloud or sunshine, just as they el; may be ordered in d ifferent localities 1 This atmosphere of our earth only "d extends to a few miles higher than the -ci highest mountains, and it must be put within the cont,rol the now agent, e and then General Myer and his corps will find their ocupatiou gonee. The th probabilities of the WVeather Bureau will be liable to continual dorange..ti ment or destruction by the possibili. ties of the Keeley power. -For warlike pturposes the new agent Lb * ~ bids fair to be bo tren,endously pow- th erful that all ordinasry explosives, (a such as gunpowder and gun cotton, na witl be reiadered useless. Except b~ for the destruction of litt,le boys' , hands and eyes in the form of pistols, squibs, and fire-orackers on tIe di Fourth of July there nceed be nio more mntiufactu-e of gunpowder. In time bi ofwar tell that would be needed to shout off' balls fromu a gun incsessaintiy, and wi- h a destructive 14mee here..' fote undreamed o f, would t'u, aooosd inag to the words of the repue t, "a snaall iron receiver, about thu size of e an orange, attached to the gun." The M power contained in it "would last r through the longest battle." Thus ri the ordinance service may dispense in with the purchase of anything but at guns, balls, and receivers about the size of ant orange. They will put ani end to all fraudulent cot,racts for -gunpowder. All that is needed tor take its place is air, and that is call ed a "chart,ered libertine," and is net within the control of contractors. Such being the force of the new ageot, the United State, Government ought M to buy it and keep a monopoly of it, li if it costas mnuch as Alaska, or the hi war-of the rebellion. WVith such a p6d*ession the country could defy the assembled powers of the earth. p The danger is to the earth itself. Is An aciental explosion migh,. .do. I h roy our very repuiblicau institutioUs, bile our republican Keeley arms are trying to resist or destroy the onarohtea of the old world, dependa it on gunpowder. And if an extra. dinary quantity, stored away in a overnment arsenal, should acoiden. Ily get loose, it might shatter "The great globe 48off, Yea all which It 1h6erit ;" id then what wightiot,happen in her spheres I Does not Mr. Keeley y a "bucket of wate has enough of is vapor to produce a power suffi ont to move the world out of its urse 1" Think what would be the >wer in a great many buckets stored vay for military purposes. Scion. Ro men have always been glad that rohimedes was foiled in his aspira. no to move the world by having thing to stand on whereby to make s lever and fulcrum available. Any traordinary motion of the earth mid be disagreeable to .its inhabi. uts,-and would be protested against those of Venus, Mars, Mercury id the rest of the planets. But r. Keely is much more dangerowt an was Archimedes. There is one thing that may save -the one thing that seems to have us far delayed the practical use of a new power ; it is so subtle tha vessel of any kind of material will Dtain it. The vapor from a pint of ter penetrated through the pores an iron receiver three and a half hes thick, form!ng a damp circle of roe feet radius on the floor around. it, then, it is producible in unlim 4 quantities, at all times, d at no cost worth speaking So the dLnger remains, not ly to us and our friends on this met, but to our foreign relation% the others. What ie to he done Dut it I-Phladelphia Bulletin. An Ungallant Joke. I From. the St. Paul P ioneer Press.] She came from Detroit, Michigan d her great pride was being an valid. She lost no opportunity stating that she came to Minne a to recuperate. She did not. sitato to enter ~into conversation bh any person she came in contact th, giving advice, climatological physiulogical, to invalids, and iking the same frou tose or ro sot constitution. Her conversa in was alwaya prefaced with the ;roductory inquiry, so coinon t. itors, "Did you come here for ur health I" She thus addressed stalwart, ruddy-visa od young tn at tho dinner table of the atropolitan a few days since, and a following dialogue ensued: Yes, madam, I came here proba. r th3 weakest person you ever v. I had no use of my limbs ; in it, my bones were but lit,le agher than oartilages. I had no elligent control of a singlo auscle, r the use of a single faculty." "Great hoavens I" exclaimed the onished auditor, "and you ed 1" "I did, Miss, although I was do id' of sight, was absolutely tooth. is,' unable to articulate a single rd, and dependent on others for Drything, being completely do ived of all power to help myself. ommenced to gain immediately on my arrival, anr have scarcely perienced a sick day aince, hence ian conscientionsly recommend the mate." "A wonderful case," said the lady, o you think your lung. were af ted ?" "They were probably sound, but ssessed of so little vitulity that, t for the mpst 'careful nursing, ay must have ceased their funo mea." "I hope you foundt kind friends, -?" "Indeed I did, madame , It Is to am and the pure air of Minnesota at 1 owe nmy life. My father's uily wero with me, but, unfortu1 tely, my mother was prostrated seyere illness during the time of gr greatest prostration." "How sad I Pray, what was your et anid treatment 2'' "My die' was the simploar. possi a, conhs.Dag only of milk, that. inag that only tool mny system muid bear. As fe>r treatmient, I penaded entirely upon t'ae life v'iug propariesa of Mannesota air, ii took nio medicine except aun oc aioual narcotic when ver,y restless. y imoprovemteut dated fram myi ar 'al. My limbs soon became stronag, y sight anad voice came to mea slow. and a full seat of teeth, regular d lrm, appeared."~ "Remarkable, miraculous 1" Sure sir, you maust have been greatly duced in flesh 1" "M'.adam, I weighed ,but nine unds.. 'I was born in Minnesota. >od day." The Methodist church steeple iin arion village haa -beena struck by ihtnaing, and the lightning rod 'oken in twro pieces. Lazy young men about to -choose a ofessaon, prefer the miitry to the w, beoause it Is easier to. preach an to practice lagda Celebrities. THR "HERMIT" AND OTHER CHARAC TERS IDENTIFIED WITH RHZ FALLS. [N. Y. Times, Niagara LeAer, 6th j Several interesting celebrities, whi were once locally identified wjtl Niagara have paosed away, and thei names are only oa"ually beard bj the visitor of the pasent generation The most remarkablo of them wa Francis Abbott, the "Hermit o Niagara," who secluded himselt heri for some years prior to his death maintaining the habits and the ro serve of a genuine hermit. Ver little was actually known of his pre vious history, but a great deal wa surmised, and quite a romantic ac count of him was current, which I remember to have seen twenty-fv years ngo amplified into a lorii fiction of 100 pages. He was knowi to receive regular remittances froir England, and was evidently a per son of culture and education. Th story went that he was the son e wealthy parents, whom some agoni, ing affair of the heart had made i wanderer from home. He first es t,,blishei himself in a but on Goal Ibland, near the beautiful little fal between that and the innermost ol the "Three Sisters," which has ever since patsed by the name of the "Hermit's Cascade." Here be lived for some time in absolute seolusion except the few and brief visits he was compelled to pay to the village for the purchase of necessaries. He was known to have books, musical instruments, and stationery, whiob occupied some of bii time, it is to be presumed ; but a larger part was passed in his characteristio solitary rambles about the island. during which he would gaze at the falls from some eligi le point for an hour at a time. As might be expected in Yankee land, the pertinacious cu. riUsity of visitors to Goat Island soon made his at the cascade un endurable to him, and he changed his quarters to the vioil)ity of Pros. peot Park, then known as Point View. Here he led muoh the same kind of life for a time longer, aod was finally drowned while bathing at the foot of the American Fall. In his day Niagara was much less vlaited than now. and mona,v-makir,f had not been reduced to a science. I fancy that if any professional her wit were to set up here for himself in these latter times he would speedi ly be overrun with ouriosity-hunters, and hackmen would probably an nounceas an additional inducement to patronize them : "Only twenty. five cents extra to see the hermit I" Joe Robinson, the "Navigator of the Niagara Rapids," who died some years sinoe, was in many respects a remarkable man.. Of stout frame and muscular make, he was retiring in his manners, and never co4rted the publicity into which his aston ishing achievements brought him. He wao at firbt a "guide'' and then a policeman at Niagara, and had be come skillful by bandling a boat by trips to the fishing-grounds about Navy island, above the falls. One day a man was discovered clinging to a small projeetion of rock in the very midst of the rapi-is, apparently inaccessible from the shore. A large crowd quickly gathered, R->binson among the rest. He studied the aituation for a moment, then brought his boat to the spot, and putting right out into the headlong current gained the rock, took off the man, whose life had twenty minutes before seemed not Worth a penny's purchase, and safely landed with him a hew rod's above the brink of the fall. A great concourse had by this time gathered on the bank, and Robinson's heroic exploit, witnessed with four and amazement, was greet ed with rounds of cheers. The boat with the two roen in it was taken on the shoulders of several and car ried a bout among the crowd and coui tributionsof a.oney wore willingly thrown into It. For severa&l years after this Robinson exerted his pes euhiar skill in navigating the rapids, and snatched as many as half a dozen cast aways from the jaws of the cataract. He was personally a mioat estlimable man ; never, I believe, starting on his perilous journey. with the promise of.reward, -Athough very properly accepting the small tokens of admlrabtion for his daring which were offered him. How he managed to guide huis skiff in that seething uproar of waters fronm point to point was always a mystery to every one but- himself. The were task of keeping it keel downward and bow with the current is moere than my reader or I would wish tc undertake,to say nothing ef calou latipig the course and the run of the ripids with such nicety as' to land at a small Inlet. Such cool' headi and steady Iron hands as those of Joel Jtobznson are rarely given tc human kind. Oaliant follQw I--tbe world has few such as you were; real hero, In humble life thougi your lot was east. No man evei better deserved the -medals of the H.efpari Soolsty, wb4ih was novel offered,him. I we14 remember thi modst and oharacterlatlo reply b made me in the spring of 1801, aftei he had piloted the Maid of the Misi down through the whirlpool and tht frightful rapids between Suspensiot bridge and Lewiston, where steam boat, ot indeed any boat whatever had never passed before and proba bly never will again. Thio fearful jouruyy of a little less than six milei was made in seventeen minutes, it being the only possible wayo taking the little steamboat to Lakc r Ontario, where it was to be employ. ed. I asked Robinson to tell me something about his novel and ter, rifle trip. "I can only say," he toplied, "thal I hung to the wheel, another tar attended to the engine. Sometimei the boat was on her bottom and sometimes on her side. Sometimee I had control of her and sometime she had control of me. But I hung Ou, arid never.let go the wheol." "Wasn't you frightened 1" "Well; Ideclare I was so busy with the wheel, and the whole thing was over so quick, that I didn't think about being frightened. I suppose I should have been if I bad had the time, for it was a pretty ugly place, now, I tell you." Monsieur Blondin was a considera. ble local celebrity in his day, but I have already noticed him sufficient ly. A young man named Conroy gained some fame last summer by his rescue of a eastaway in the Cana dian Rapids, by means of a rope with which he was let down to the im periled one, and which he fastened about his body, when both woro hauled to the bank by dozens of willing hands. Conroy is still at Niagara, and something more of this kind may be heard of him if occasion serve. Amid all the pettiness, fraud and extortion that have been charged u on Miagaraand its hucksters, it is pfeasant and refreshing to road of such unselfish and brave acts as these. Flayed With a Knife. The London Staniard prints a ter. rifto review of Gen. Sherman's "Me moira," which has been published in England, in the course of which it says: "The writers who in thla country have espoused the Federal cause have labored to keep out of tematic and deliberate-or all ihe laws of war ; the wholesale pillage of prirate property, witLout a shadow of a pretense of military need ; the wanton ravage of vast and fertile regions ; the destruction of publio archives, of libraries, of col leges, and of thousands of defenseless dwellings ; a return, in fact, to the methods of war (ill usage of women excepted) practised by Tilly. We know of none who would venture to defend these acts of legitimate war fare, and among the chiefs of the Federal armies, few were more guilty in this respect than Gen. W. T. Sher man. We cannot say that our peru. sal of the work has raised our ceti. mate of the writer. There is a dis play of personal vanity, of anxiety to 4laim the utmost possible oredit, and to throw the blame of all failure on others, a petulant spirit of animosity against rivals and opponents, a con troversial tone in regard to passages cieditable neither to the General nor to his superiors, and a childish impa rience of popular clamor which ap pear to us -Ilittle constant with the simple self-respect of the soldier. No one could imagime the Duke of Wel. Iingtona or General Lee writes-noe one has any thing of the kind from the pen of.oflicers who have real grounds of complaint-from McClellan, who, first oreated an army out of the mob of United States volunteers, or Hal lock, 'vho maintained, recruited, and enlarged that army till [; became the irresistible weapon which won for Grant and Sherman triumphs as easy as those of Arohilles in nis impene trable armor, or of the hercos of fairy legend with charmed swords and shoes of swiftness." A Nevada journallit who is on s tour of inspection in the Eastern States, writes home a glowing no count of the sights of Long Branch, "I have found,'' he writes "the gov ernent quite well ostahiliahed in the summer capital. Secretary lIobeson had the navy ont In the tifling catch. ing fish, and Scretary Ilelkoap had the army drawn up on the beach shooting at a target. Th le vaious Cabinet officers live in snug style, and most usually are met loafilng around the Department of the inte rior, where the Secretary, by way of a necessary adjunct in this hot season, keeps a little cellar open for the refreshment of the inner' man. The president appeared as usual, tough and grim, full.of cigars and ice-water, and seemed to fancy presiding over the Cabinet councils, which are al ways held in the little cellar afore said, owing the scorching rays w hih now strike the surface of the beach.' We trust that Mr.' Boecher. will pardon us, but our advie to- bin Ya to get into a sbrape with anodaal wonan es soon as possible. In. *be laniguage. of Sellers : "-There's ind rioens frn ItJ-- Otnoinati4~uW'. Our English Cousins. WHAT AN AMERICAN SPORTING RE PORTER TUINKS OF TUE PEOPLE, ULIIATE AND HORSES. Mr. Joseph Elliott, the veteran !porting reporter of the Now York Herald, who has recently been on a visit to England, has been interviewed by a Graphic re. porter, and expressed, in very plain plain terms, his opinion of the Eng. lish climate atd racing stock, as well as of the mass of spectators of English racing. We give so much of tuo in. terview as bears on these poiuts "Well, Elliott, what did you think of England ?", "I tbink it is an Internal climate, inhabited by a race of heathen barba. riins. I had a letter to Tatternall, and I delivered it just before I came away. I had been there many days, looking at the sales; but I didn't want to be coached, and I delayed presentin the letter. Said Tatter. sall : 'fIr. Elliott, how long do you stay in London 1' Said I, '1f umy watol is correct I shall be out of this town in about two hourn.' 'How do you like the country ' 'Well, I haven't been anything in it to like. It ap pears to me to be only partly civil. ized, and how in the name of God you are going to civilize such materi al you have got here passes my com. prehension ' " %4But at any rate the hor6es exceed yours in style, speed and strength 1" "No, they don't. There are more 'weedb' running in England than I bad any Idea of. I saw four hundred rUe3 horses on Newmarkot Heath . that is more than we have in all America, for we hAvo little above three hundred. I said to M thew Dawson, who has the best stable there : 'You won't pretend to race sonic of those scrubs?' 'Oh, well,' he said, 'we'll work 'em all in during the season. There's so much running in England that every one of the weeds can win something." "How many race horses have they in all England " "About three thousand. Their' system of handicapping is vicious. I I don't believe their horses get food, climate or growth equal to ours. They! put their winners into the stud too early, and fail to give them the time nA "Plarierce Qor horseoe T o sides way tie raelfig ?6itei,1te61 i' England is in the highest degree oor rupting to -man and horse. Every little public houstkeeper has his -book.' 'Bookmaking' is the vice of the nobleman and the roust about. The money gets into the hands of the. rumsellerat last,the people are cheat ed, and still they game from St.: Giles to St. Janes." "And you don't think the climate of England the best for the horse" "I think it'a about the worbt humid, foggy, wheezy, breeding eon. sumption and affections of the throat and nostrils. I was ordered by my doctor to go out of the country finally.' "Did you find France any better " "Altogether better, both in climate and mannerx- They have token to rocing there in recent jears, but their horses are sounder than the English I and they carry off their own purses. I wont to Vincoennes, Long'ehamps, Grand Pro, and Chantilly courses. Thu horses of the Due d'Aumaule at Chantilly were magnificent animals. I told the editor of a London sporting paper when I returned that the beb,. race horse in the world wats the, American, and next the French. He said I was the most prejudiced man he had ever seen. But I told li,i then that no Englioh horse would win anyt,hing at--, and I marked the winrFec. " Why don'a our turfmen challenge on the other side if our horees are up to Euglish standards 1" "8anford is going over this year with a large part of hi, stable, par. ticularly yearlings. Me was prece ded by Ten Biroeck and Harlan. Ten Broeck was frequently a winner." "Which are the favorite slres of' England now ?'' "I suppose they call old Cathedral, Macaroni, and B lair-Athol the best. The first hnc to be lifted up, be Is so old and broken,. '1 attribute the do dine of English stook, ae I have said, paitly to the malign influence of racoiug, as conducted in England, on the stud. A Derby winner at two years old is magnifiod into a sire," "Whose stable did- you find the best In England t'r "Oh, the New market stables. Ne w. market seems to be the Iramemorial hiomes of the British horse and Jock ey. The three brothers Dawson have each about sixty horses. Mathew Dawson's stable s probably the best in Englan d ; it is lighted with gas and kept open until 10 o'olook a. night, when the gas is turned out and' the horses and ,trsluera go tq sleep. All day the bprse Is kept amssed by people conversing near him. Us is interested, his mind helped, and his habits eleoner'. We .bat the stasbles dco' sthe horse remalos. In solituds,.bhis ?btsl grow iiousad. hissrepgth.q se e "No. The sm6otatora of the raes there are the lowest canaille C earth. Such an audience as y< at Jerome Park, or the Branch, Lexington, is unknown in En At the new track near London was a tariff for admission. won't 'ays it you know,' oried thq And they cleared away that like so many pioneeers, inuo the field, and laughed at autb At the Durham raceAthe collieri In, noisy, fighting, heatheuisb. one fellow, who held the stakq two others, seized, and they beg gnaw at his fist with their tee make make him drop the money -. the mob swept the field, I ed ine down and ran over me lastly, a man on horseback gal over me. At the heath of Nei ket I took a horse, afraid to I foot longer, and being pretty fa matured, I soon felt very sore ; saw a number of press vans o track with reporters inside, di over the course and painting as prcoeeded. I handed in my ow one of the gentry, 'Joseph :E sporting editor of the New Herald,' and said : 'Will you wit me, sir, to ride with your ver 1" 'No, I'll be dommed if I Wby, sir, in the House of Le saw a great p'acard: 'Bewai pickpockets.' Sporting houmes Jim Shaw's are almost inaccei from the thieves ind ruffians ai them. Women are unable to al the greater part of the races wit speat. I went to the tower of don in a cab ; it happened to be day ; a policeman said to me are a stranger ain't. you ? don't go in there to-day ; ti pick everything off your body; ti strip you. Come back on a shi day.' I held up my handa and i 'My God I is there any place or iuland where a man is safe I' "Perhaps you might find that edness in the sporting c] chiLfly." "I don't know. The whole n seemed to we to be brutal. At hotel where I stopped a well dri man would eater and say, loud es to be heard by all:, 'Waiter, i that old begar V 'That's an Ai can, .9ir I" 'Oh, a Yankee 1' 1 a witneb to four respectable loc English women, opposite the llayor', residence, drinking -san A.Valo- virmiTIM port~ ipubf* house. Itseewe* that the English women didn't w Religion oftour Presidents. Washington was a vestryma the Episcopal Church. Adams was a member of the p in Braintree. His attendano wor.hip was not very constant. Jefferson was an avowed ske and a devout follower of Dr. Pr ly. Madison and Monroe were erate churchmen. John Quincy A dams was a tarian. Jackson joined the Presbyt church after he left office. He close attention to the sermon, made a profound bow to the pi aH he retired. Van Buren was trained in Reformed Dutch school, atte the Episoop al church when he at' ed any. Harrison cared very little religious matters. Tyler was loose in regard to day and worship. Polk, though not a prof< Christian, was a regular attendal public worship in the Presbyt church. He occupied the pew o site the one Jackson aat in. General Taylor seldom ven church. iFillmoro, more than ny othe the Presidents, was,anu openi and di ed Unitarian. He gave his influ and support to that sect. Pierce attended the Presbyt, church every Sunday morning. IBuchanan was a Presbyte He walked to church ; went up aisle in a shuffling galt ; dodged his pew, and seated in the cc seemed wrapped in his own thou paying no attention apparenti the service. Lincoln attended th'e Pres rian church once a day. Grant is a trustee in the Mcth church. Public horror of the lies variety was recently stimulate an Indiana small town by an nouinuemenut of the appearance eo Micropus Leucopteros, be longi n the faniily of Kypan.id. of the bugs ; suborder of fleeropm Women wailed ; children ho, men armed themselves with si and great revolving pistols t counter the monster. Seeing mischief which his science-had the able editor as soon aspo Issued an extra explaining that blicropus Ienoopteros Kypa Hetereptera was only a chinch Then joy returned, and they bre beautifully ones more.-Ne , Over a month since they hai In Beaufort or Port Royal. So inir hot, dr i. weaatr f the Gen. Preston-some Inteoesting Re. ou see miliseneces. or at gland.. The Now Orleans Times gives there tome interesting reminisoences of 'We Gen. John S. Preston. He is a mob. brother-in-law of Gen. Wade Hamp. fence ton. His estate in alisaINsippi and dated Louisiana were vast and valuable, ority. one tract of land, the Houmas proper. came ty, having boon solo to Mr. John I saw Barrow for $1,000,000 cash. This on for plantation contained 15,000 acres, ,as to 6,000 of which are now under the th to highest cultivation. The Times . At says. nook- "General Preston was reared up and to believe that South Carolina coul loped not be wrong. He is now a very old rmar- man. His estates are gone from him go on and the home where his people had ,t and lived for three generations was des. so I troyed by the torch of Sherman's the army. -iving "The Fifteenth Corps did its work they right well,and the old-man is home. rd to loss. His sons died in battle. The Illiott, gentle, manly soul of one went up to York Heaven through the smoke which per- wreathed the battliug legions at dri. Shiloh. Sadly did a few , mrades do ' lay him down after that ill-starred rds I field which brought mourning sobs ,e uf into so many homes. A soldier and like gentleman died when young Prdstou 1sible bit the dust- He sleeps on the banks ound of the Tennessee, and the breeze end aroaning through the pines chants h re- fovever his funeral dirger The old Lou. man is alone. By reason of eircum free stances Will understood by his 'You friends, he ought not to be so bitterly Well, condemned. ley'll Gcorgia Raw. 10y,11 1.Ing Decatur County has 20,988 acres aid: in corn and 15,235 in cotton. this Corn in Sumter and adjoining wiok. ?ounties is suffering for rain ; and so asses is cotton. The crop prospect in Decatur ation County is gloomy indeed. The the whole county is famishing for want nosed of rain, ough Crop prospeots in Wilkes County rho's are above the average, notwithetand. neri- ing the long continued drought, kinga Col. Logan E. Bleckloy, of Atlan. Lor ta, has declined to accept a posi. does- .tion on the Supreme bench of the each State. ash." of Hawkinsville are.bcooming alarm. ed oin account of the long continued drought. n in A negro arrested in Savannah had a fine gold watch, of- Liverpool arish make,(Roshell) 'in his possession. at Name of man Robert Jones. Says . he is from Virginia. Tale Bearing, mod. Never repeat a storf unless you are certain it is correct, and not Uni.. even then uniessi something Is to be gained, either of interest to yourself 3rian or for for the good of the person con paid corned. Tattling is a mean and and wicked practice, and he who indulges 1p.t in its grows more fond of if in propor tion as he as successful. If you have the no good to say*of your neighbor, 2aded never reproach his character by tell end- ing that which ii falso. He who tells you the faults of others intends to tell frothers of your faults and so the dish -of news is handed from one to another Sun- till the tale becomes enormous. LluliBaner. issed~- * * at at An obdurate fair one in Oshikosh mrian was told by her disconsolate lover that visiting her was like scratching a tick-bite ; there was such mingled todelighit and pain in it, and the more he scratched, the more he wanted to r of scratch. She was so much struck by ecid- the force of this simile, that she no once e?fted him on tho spot. hetick family includee many srian varieties. The tiok that bites lovers is the romen-tic ; the tick that wor rian. rios the insane, the looney-tiok ; the The tick that troubles the priests, the into hairy-tio ; and oandidates are often rner, disgusted by Polly-tioks. Some of gts' th other varieties are the Calvinist. y to tick, the atheist-tick, the pantheist. tick, alphabet tick, the diplomat-tick byte- and the. democrat -tick, but the worst of all is the tradesman's "tick." od1t Speaking of the South, the Boston . Post says that a fire could not clean 'iest out a doomed territory more com d in pletely than th e carpot-sbag fratorn i an. ty, chartered and .pretected from rthe Washington, deouoired the remnant of g to substanoc which was the South's only true reliance in a struggle for recovery. era." But It is everything that labor has vIed ;at last opened its eyes to the troth, rorde and comprehends the vital points of en- the situation. When the blacks muf the fer, then they are able, to see that made it is because the whites have suffered 'sible before them, and they reason clearly I the from the effet to the cans.. When nldas they finally understand that wholo bug. States have. been impoverished, whose/ ithed prodnctive resources .once seemed Mrk limitlese, they .are able to coneef ie that it was was-accomplished by in aness. from without, that, however I ra,in commended to their approbation, have orob. proved themselves treaohorou-, doe struotive and cruel.