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BY E. B. MURKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7. 1882 VHT mrT? vir -T4. T y-v -v fri ET It would bc more correct to s;iy, -.vc-- ? i '" ' t i ?. ff"ivcs thc idea of utter inability to hold < te' ?V5 ?- 'n 1 ra& ?f&o feels thus li generally worn, worried, wU-fli .V,! w^ched"7 Sjnietimcs it is a case ol ovenvorlr, n.ii?! ,,,,. .-. JL The blood in the system of pei ?o.; v ho . " * ';n Infect "?u.r" S?CIr .. ..... _.i:.:.... ri , 1 . "V Ij ? ?Iii US il raw" iain IjiLMES M. PAYNE 18 COMINO TO THE FRONT WITH A TREMENDOUS STOCK OF , BRIDLES, C0LL?RS, SADDLES, WHIPS, (pHESE Goods have been made up AT HOME. I have alto Machine Goods made of 1 .bebest material and workmunsuip, which I will also offer at LOWER IMHCFs * "" be bought anywhere in the State. I don't keep Shoddy machine work. I ?mar Goods sold in my Shop at unprecedented low price?. I am deter Slnot tc'.'C undersold by any one. ur ?TireHie lamest stock of Horso GoodB that ever was in Anderson ALL I WANT ?fthe Publie to cal ami nxamino h?foro buying, ami they will be convinced that I JCBEAPER and BETTER Goods than any one, because I understand my business ?taringmaterial and made up Goods. I sell hand-made Harness from $10 to $3? Ma 5x,f?mi7.50 to f?>.00. Collars, Bridles, Saddles and Whips as low as can he bought market at retail. I also make WAGON HARNESS a specialty. I have all i?? iud styles of one and two boree Wagon Harness. Villpav anyone to give me atrial before buying elsewhere, and satisfaction uuar r-jeionall Goods sold in my Shop. ? JAMI?H M. 1?A. YIN JE, Over W?hlte & Wllhitc'? ?rug Store. Aof 30.18S3 7 3IU j. P. SULLIVAN * CO., NO. 12 GRANITE ROW. SOOTS ariel ?HOES, Bought for Cash from some of the most reliable Manufacturers in the country, we are enabled to sell them at the very lowest rates. We sell Southern Manufactured Ians, Knitting Cotton and Clark's 0. H. T. Spool Cotton, The Best in the market. L, We want everybody to come in and listen to our prices. G-ood. Coffee a Specialty. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. kH 13,1883 0 LADIES' STORE ! IfTEIl au extended trip by the Louisville Exposition, Cincinnati, Niagara, New York and Baltimore [USS LIZZIE WILLIAMS IS AT HER OLD PLACE WITH A HANDSOME LOT OF GOODS, HATS, NECKWEAR, GLOVES, -AND SHOES OF EVERY KIND AND (JUALITY. |a ?elected ber SPLENDID STOCK in person, and is ready with her accom 3kd assistants to wait on the public. Bebas determined NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD. Give us a call and be con ?21,1881 10 _ iLL AND WINTER GOODS. Now in Store and to arrive a ? FULL STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE, STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, GROCERIES, HATS A "D CAPS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND 8HOES. HA?EWARE, SADDLES AND BRIDLES, CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE, BAGGING AND TIES, a full supply always on hand, ACID BOISTJ? ASH, First-class Fertilizers for small grain. .?.L of which I will sell LOW for Cash or Barter. Give me a call before buying, at MGrmnite Row. _ _ . __? W. JET. BARR. Mu, 1833 .9 _ ANDREW & PREVOST, ARE RECEIVING DAILY A LARGE STOCK P GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, BOOTS, JIATS, &c. &c. Jr. WE THE TIME IS OUT ! E? PARTIES in ?,ut?d tb us for GUANO or SUPPLIES, we would say that Wm must be settled at an early d*y. So bring along your Cotton and pay E?Jon owe us. We would also call the attention of parties indebted to the old CABBED. MnopHEAT ic CO, ?? *h? fact tbat these Notes and AcC0UuU ".?ettletf io fall or in part on or before the 1st January next. Take due no ^Rovernyomieiyes acoordlngty. |w * '^t?WrtZ '?tf HAND A COMPLETE LINE OF If"k&Jt? ? ??Hm C HAN DB SE? BOOTS, SHOES, HATS. CLOTHING? ?Et GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE &Ci E?S ??III sell at the lowest living prices. When you visit the city a call will flated, and youVwanto politefy attended to. Respectfully, REED & MOORHEAD, No. 1 Granite Row, Anderson B^O^ ^THig PUBLIC. Bl^?^? wiah?nT Scroll Work done, mfcitt?sJ* B<sekeOi,hMante? . or any WdS should soe tho under ra 251?. . d fl** years experience, ?Vidi^V^Iwork. Prices cheap " B*,,f4n do it. Shop, nt Blu? Rid li* ' :*)??: ?WWW ss "dgo Carpets ma kugs. AFRESH lot of Csrpet samples, and a beautiful Un? of Rog? Mjrt*. Call and see them. ?L^^???sS io all its departments, prices as low as any other hons.: for the asme ?gW*****1 I ask an inspection by my friends and cas TOMTTF- A. B. TOWKR8. No. 4 Granito Row. Sept 27, 1B83 " 8 uearJDICT ARNOLD'S WIPE. ? L??vet From the Mr? nistory of an Va h?ppjr Lady. j We catch our first views of this uti ; happy lady on a bright Mayday iu 17T8 ; when she took part iu a famous and ? splendid pageant iu Philadelphia. She j waa then a beautiful girl of eighteen I Ml8!i Margaret Shippcn-the daughter of ; an opulent and ancient Philadelphia ? family, and ono of thc reigning bells ol ! l{iat town. Her an'^tors were among j tho Grat settlers of Pennsylvania, and her B^^?wndfather was the first Mayor of 1 biladelphia. In the course of limo th*, family had acquired great possessions and, laying aside tho Quaker garb, had become members of tho Church of Eng land. During the controversy between thc thirteen colonies and the King, which ended in tho revolutionary war, Edward Shippen, her father, tho head of the family, was inclined to the King's side. It was May 18, 1778. For many months the British army had been quar tered in Philadelphia, commanded by Maj.-Gen. Wm. Howe. The General had been superseded and was about to return to England, "he officers of the army, a wealthy class who had nothing to do, seized the occas-lou of his retire nientto amus? themselves by giving a grand festival in his honor, and this was the day upon which it was to be held. The affair began with a grand regatta upon the Delaware Uiver, or, rather, a long procession of galleys and barges, lilied with officers and ladies, which were rowed slowly dowu the whole length ol thc city, in an avenue formed by the shore crowded with spectators, ard a line of men-of-war and transport ships, gaily dressed with flags and streamers. At 4.30 in the afternoon the barges began to move, the oars keeping time to martial music, and when they had arrived oppo site Market street they all lay upou theil oars, while tho band played "God Save the King," after which the soldiers gave three cheers. Continuing their course, the company were conveyed past the city to where a grand tournament was to take place, and it was iu this portion of the entertainment that Margaret Shippen shone. A spacious field, surrounded bj troops, bad been prepared for the contest Upon one side was stationed all the bande of music in the nrmy. There were alac two pavilions, with benches ono above another, filled with the most distinguish ed ladies of the city. Un the front seat of each of these pa vilions were placed seven of the mosl beautiful young ladies Pennsylvania could boast. They were dressed in Tur kish costume-trousers, tunics and tur bans-and in their turbans they wore the favors with which they intended tr regard tho knights who were to content iu their honor. Among those lovely maidens sat Miss Margaret Shippen One of the knights who figured in th( tournament was Capt. Andre, ber famil iar acquaintance. Little could either ot them bavo thought, on that bright day bow fatally their destinies were involv ed. ?ilE THUMPET BOUNDED, the herald appeared. The challenge wai delivered and the contest occurred, whict ended without the loss of blood, to tin satisfaction of all concerned. At tin conclusion of the tournament the com Iiany was ushered into a magnificen mil-room, decorated, we are told, bi eighty-five mirrors aud lighted by thirty four branches of wax candles. The bal was opened by the fourteen belles it Turkish dress and their fourteen knight -one. Lieut. Sloper, being the knigh who lcd Miss Shippen out to the dance At 10 o'clock the windows were throwi open and a splendid display of firework was exhibited. At 12, large folding doors, which hat hitherto been concealed, were suddeul; thrown open, which revealed a gorgeou aaloou 210 feet long, 40 feet wide, am 22 feet high, with three alcoves on ead side. This was tho supper room. Upoi tho table there were 1,200 dishes. A the guests entered a great number o black slaves in oriental costumes, rangei in two lines, bowed to tho ground. Tbi vast apartment was one splendor of wa: lights, flowers, ribbons, mirrors and sil ver plate. One of the regular toasts c the occasion was "Miss Shippen and He Knight." After supper the compan returned to the ball room and kept u the dance until 4 iu the morning, react iug their homes at sunrise. The festival, as Mayor Andre remarki waB the most splendid ever given by a army to ita chief. And little, iudeec had tho chief done to deserve it. A old officer of the British army, who pei ceived the folly of paying such extravt gant honors to a general who had wo no victories, said, Badly, "What wi Washington say to thia ?" Exactly a month from that day tl British army evacuated Pbiladelphii and away they Bped across Jersey, wit Gen. Washington at their heels. A da or two after a body of American trooj marched in, commanded by Gen. Ben diet Arnold. All was chanced. Tt red coats had dhiappeared-blue coa were in tho ascendant, and the ne Yankee general waa the foremost man i the city. Arnold, a vain, weak ma ever fond of display and luxury, appr priated to himself one of the handaor. est houses in the town, where he set t a costly establishment, kept a great mat servants, gave splendid dinners ai maintained a handsome equipa**? drav by tour horses-a scale of expenses u terly incompatible either with bis fa tune or his pay. No one, however, kne at the time that to maintain the cost pomp he waa concerned in speculatio unworthy of an officer and gentlema and sometimes used the public mon that passed through bis hands. In inviting hi? guests, as the patriol _-??OS of the pennie remarked wi surprise, ho was ?s likely to select Tori as Whigs. He seemed to court ti adherents of the king, and he frequent bad at his table the wives and daughu of public enemies, who had been publi Iv proscribed and had found refuge wi the enemy in New York. Among t families who attracted his regard yt that of Edward Shippen, and he w Boon observed to pay particular court his daughter Margarei. A mom n then a widower, 38 years of age, just years older than the young lady. I lone he formally asked her hand fri her father, and her father consenting, addressed the daughter and they wi engaged. ^ MEANTIME Arnold had become so odious hy extravagant and his insolent, overbear conduct to the people, that Congress % obliged to take cognltance of the fi On the very eve of his marriage he t ordered to be tried by court-mart Miss Shippen, however, was true to 1 encasement, and married him five d after The court martial, as every ^ knows, sentenced bim to be r?primant by Gen. Washington, and be waa rej manded accordingly. w ut "Our profession,'1 said Gen. Waahi ton to bim, "is the chastest of all ; e< Ibo Bhadow of a fault tarnishesi the lui of our finest achievements. The Ie inadvertence may rob us of the pol favor, so bard to be acquired. I ref ! bend you for having forgotten that in j proportion as you had rendered yourself i formidable to your enemies you " should j have been guarded and temperate in your 1 deportment toward your fellow-citizens. Exhibit anew those noble qualities which have placed you on the list of our most I valuable commanders. I will myself , furnish you, as far aa it may be in my power, with opportunities ?f regaining i the esteem of our country." This was more like a eulogium than a [ reprimand, but it did not touch the heart j ol Arnold, who went from thc presence J of his commander, not to reguiu the i ratecm of his country, but to betray 1 i ibm country. I A year passed away. He was in cont i niano at West Point, in correspondence with the enemy. Whether she shared her husband's secret during those mouths of preparation will, perhaps, never be known with certainty. Just before the explosion of the treason at West Point, Arnold sent for his wife and child to join him ; and tin- letter which he wrote her on this occasion, telling her tho best ' way of reaching him, and at what houses she should slop ou thc road, has been seen. .She had not been many days a?. West Point when the treason was discov ered. Arnold and his wife *, were acatedjil.thc breakfast table with Hamilton, Lafayette and au aide. In the midst of ibo meal a horseman alighted at the door, and a moment later a loller was placed in Ar nold's hands, which informed him ol' his ruin. Ho controlled bis countenance, rose quietly from the table, and beckoned his wife to follow him. They went up stairs to their room, whore lay their in fant child, and there he told ber that he was a ruined man and must fly that in stant for his life, rthe fell senseless to tho floor. Leaving her there, he rushed from tho room, hurried down stairs, sent some one to her assistance, and then returned to the breakfast-room. He told his guests that (Jen. Washington was coming, and he must make haste to preparo for his reception. He mounted the horse of the messenger who had brought the letter, and galloped away. COI.. HAMILTON* has left us an interesting account of Mrs. Arnold's demeanor after her husband's departure. He says she remained frantic all day, and accused every one who ap proached her of an intention to murder her child. She continued, he says, to rave until she was utterly exhausted. Bul Col Burr, in his old age, waa accus tomed to give a very different account of tho matter. He bud known Mrs. Arnold from her infancy, and ho always declar ed that she knew all about her husband's treason from the beginning, and he used to relate a scene which be said he wit nessed at tho house of Mrs. Pr?vost, whom he afterward married, which some what confirma his opinion. Mrs. Arnold, it will be remembered, was sent home to her father, escorted by a party of horsemen, and remained for the night at the house of Mrs. Pr?vost, whero Col. Burr was. Mrs. Arnold, he > said, burst into the room dressed lu a I riding habit, ond waa about to apeak to the lady of the house, when, eeeing him in the dim light of the apartment, and not recognizing him, alic asked anxious ly : "Am I safe? Is this gentleman a friend?" Upon discovering who he was, she told thom how she had deceived Gen. Wash ington, Col. Hamilton and other Ameri can officers by her frantic outcries; tid she declared that abe not only knew of tba treason, but that it was she who had induced ber husband to commit it. This was Col. Burr's story, to which the reader may attach tho credit which bethinks it deserves. Arnold himself does not say that abe was ignorant of his intention to surrender tho fortress. In the well-known letter which he aent back to Gen. Washington from the I 'al lure, he naya : "From the known humanity of your Excellency, I nm induced to ask your protection for Mr*. Arnold from every insult and injury that a mistaken ven geance of my countiy may exposo her to. It ought to fall only on me ; sbc is as good and as innocent as an angel, and is incapable of doing wrong." Tho authorities of Pennsylvania be lieved, with Burr, that she was a traitor. Uer papers were seized, and, although I nothing was found in them tn criminate her, she was not permitted to remain at ber father's house, which she said she desired to do. Uer father offered to give security that, during the war, sho would write no letters to her husband, and send to the Government unopened any lettera abc might receivo from him. Iiis Offer was refused, and they ordered her to de part and not to return during the war. Being then obliged to join her husband in New York, ahe soon recovered ber spirits and shone ia society, to use the language of the time, as "a star of tho first magnitude." In England, too, whither she accompanied her husband, ahe attracted much attention for her beauty, and waa much flattered in Tory circles. The British Government gave Arnold, in compensation for bis Ameri can losses, something leas than ?7,000, and settled upon his family a pension of ?1,000 a year, which was to be continued as long as either the husband or the wife survived. Their family increased io England. Arnold, finding himself pinched upon an income of ?1,300 per annum, went upon a trading voyage to Halifax, with what success is not koona. It was thought by some that he waa glad to leave England for a while to eacape the contempt in which be waa held even by those wno had employed him. Mrs. Arnold lived to 1804, when she died, aged forty-three years. The infant whom she held in her arma, aa described above, entered the British army in 1798, rose to the rank of lieutenant general, and was still living as late as 1851. One of her grandchildren is a clergyman in the Church of England, and, it is said, a very worthy gentleman, who baa con versed with American visitors upon his grandfather in a rational and becoming manner. Two - of her sons settled in Canada, where they acquired competent estates and were living in 1820. ?... lUr.h !??,..."... WVUBV; a .?-> ?va vt* The monkey, io combination with the hand organ, baa been found to be such a serviceable member of society that a brisk trade in that intelligent but unhap py beast has begun between Singapore and tho Italian ports. Europe has done very little in the way of developing tho talents of tr e monkey, though Egypt has furnished ia ail ages an example of what may be attained io that direction. Ia the rL jUth of Abyssinia, upon the testimony of Sir William (Jardiner monkeys are still taught several useful accomplishments. One of these is that of officiating as torch-bearer at a supper party. Seated io a row on u raised beach, they bold the lights until all the guests have departed, patiently awaiting their own supper as a reward for their servi ces. Occasionally an obstreperous ani mal will ioterrupt the festivities by throwing hia lighted torch among the guests, but ho is promptly caned into submission. COBB TALKS A LITTLE. While Hill Arp Hecomtia the interlocutor. Atlanta Constitution. "Everythiog is adapted," says I. "Cube, you murent say adopted, lor you menu adapted." "Well, I reckon so," pay bc. " Kvcrything is adapted. Kv erytbing tits to everything. There it? that houu' dog a ruonin' that rabbit ant' tho dog is adopted lo the rabbit and the rabbit is adopted to the dog. One wat made for the totber to run. If there wasent any rabbits their wouldent benn) llOUn' dogs. Hoys is adopted to squirrels. ?1" ibero wasent any "noys t?tere wouldent be any squirrels. If ibero wasent any chickens there wouldent be any hawks, for hawks is adopted to chickens, and ii there wasent any chickens and birds lhere wouldent be any bugs and worms ; mid the bugs and woi ms is adopted to the leaves and vegetable.-*, ?nd there it. always enough left of every thing for seed and for white folks to live on. Hogs is adopted lo acorns, and if there wasent any hogs there wouldent be moro than eight or lei! scorns on a tree - just enough for seed ; and hogs is adopted to folks, and if lhere wasent any folks there wouldent be any hogs. There wouldent bo tiny use for 'em. I'll tell you, major, everything was fixed up about right nt shore ns you are horn, and most every thing was fixeil up for us. Hogs bus gol sausage meat mid tripe and cracklius and House and backbone and spnrorit and lard and ham and shoulder ?iud jow to eat with turnip-green*, and its al mighty good nod its all adopted." "That ?3 all so, Cobe," anid I, "every thing is adapted whether it is adopted in not." "Yea," ?aid he, "and I've noticed i for a long time, when tho wheat is cu off thc land the grass comes up for hay aud if we cul it off another crop conic up and keeps tho hot sun oil* of the lam aud one crop follows another, and if wi mako n poor crop one year we make i better ono tho next year and if wo don' wo can live on hope and cut down cz peuses. and work tho harder to lix Uf and Homo how or other or some how els we all get along, aud when there is a gu; we fill it up with something and wu ai get along and nobody perishes to deal! in the name of the Lord for evcrylldn fits and everything is adopted." "Well," says I, "Cube, t' it is all mi not only so, but nlso but there are a bea of things come along that don't seem t be adopted, as you call it. Here corni the army worm, and thc grasshopper! and the caterpillars, and all sorts ol' vei min, and they aro not adapted, and win arc we going to do with them. Wilt ara you going to do with snakes, mu dogs, ?ind storms, and pestilence, an diphtheria, aud smallpox, and all sue afflictions? Aro they adopted or ai they adapted, or what or they ?" "Wei!, sir" Hays Cobe, "I'll tell you. haven't been troubled w' them thinf yet, but if I was I IT . would I Borne offset. S<" ilance tl accouut. I D' nan to hal a big trouble but ,. was som thing to balance oil' the . le. I nevi knowd a niBii to go to Texas but what 1 writ buck that there wasent anything brag ofT after he got there. The gor things of tins life are pretty equal distributed il we only did know it. rich man liaiut got much ?idvantage of poor man if Ibo poor mun is any aecotii Some poor folks is bud stock and do want to work and goes about grumbliu Tliey is ju?t like a bad stock of horses cattle or dogs and ought to die out ai quit the country. We don't send roui the settlement to git a poor dog or a po cat, or a poor hog or a poor cow. V want a good stock of anything, and the ia about the same difference in folks th there is in anything oise. There is HOI rich folks that ure clever and Rome th are mean-sotno grind you down a some help you up, but them who gri you down don't have much enjoymei They are too mean to enjoy good heall They aro never happy unless they t miserable. I'd rather be poor than to some rich men I know. ?ly childr have a better limo eating simmons a black haws and digging gubbers a bunting possums than their children in getting to parties aud wearing il clothes and fussing with one another a doing nothing for a living. There nothing like work-working for a livi and being contented with your situatii 1 love to ace rich folks doing well, they help out the country nnd bu railroads, and factories, and enr sho and open up tho iron mines, and I kn that it" everybody was as poor as I i the country wouldent prosper, and looks like everything was adopted, ti wo need rich folks to plan and poor fo to work, and they couldent got ale without us any more than wo could along without them. I dou'l want th fins clothes, nor their fine houses, i their carriage and horses, and they du want my little ole mule, nor my bob coat, and BO Its all right all round, i everything is adopted. It don't take but a minute and a half to git ready go to meetia1, for all I've got to do ia put on my coat and comb the cuckleb outcn my hair and wash my face and a couple of chaws of tobacco and t my foot in roy hand and go. 1 can sq down at the door when I git there, i hear all the poachers has to Bay, i thank tbe Lord for his goodness, and t is worship enough for n poor mai reckon, aud its all adopted. Wbe see fine things and fino people I'm ways thankful for some favors that pow'ful cheap considering that mo rums tho world for we havo got g health and good appetites at my he and can sleep well on a hard bed an drink of spring water is the best tl in the world to a hungry man. We hi got no disbpeshy nor heart burn nobody haint sueing me for my land ? haiut got any and my wife can mak good com bread as anybody and tables is a good kind and the old cow ?own her milk about right and can and do well without being curried fed up like a Jersey and she understr my children and they understand and so it looks like everything is ador I was a thinking tho other day bow a service this old coat Mrs. Arp give btu? duu?, fur ii ?I had. bceua now ul would have been afeerd of it, but wore it now fer six months, and its ? yet, and the children have wore the clothe? she gave them, ynd they an adopted, and now, major, if you hav a chaw or two of that good tobacco always have I want a bite or two. for ia one thing that I like better than folks tobacco. Its oue thing th; think is a Icele! better adopted than tiling else. At least I like it better. Cobe got bis tobacco and flanke little mule with his heelless shoes galloped away in peace. If be is adapted, I know ho feels adopted, has peculiar language. He always that thunder killed a man, and wi: told him that it was lightning he "Well, I know they say it is light but I've always noticed that wh< strikes a treo or a man or a mule thunder and the lightning comes al bunch, and you caut tell totber which." "hot, Cobe," says I, "wi gun shoots, tho noise dont hurt any tl it is tho shot." "Just so," says he ; "hut tbcro ia HO shot about this thunder busi ness." BILL A nr. "WK 1,1 J! IIKRE WE ARE AUAIN, rr<-?h News nud fl?ssen Prom tho Nation al Capital. i.\>rresj'i?ulcnce AYit'J ?ind Courier. WASHINGTON, November 13.--"Well ! herc wo uro again," said nu ohio OOH? j grossman to a member from New Eng I land, as they met in the Ebbilt House I cigar lobhv. The two shook hands and I sci 'ted a "weed tho Ohio man from a box ?if Havanas, the Now England mau from a bundie of live-cent Connecticut wrappers. Tiley fell to talking immedi ately, though evidently md for publica tion. "So you got rid of Buller, observed thc Ohio member, who, I may as well say, was tho late Speaker of thc late House of Representatives. "1 am not so sure about that. A dem agogue like Huller is not an easy man to get rid of. He is always suro to turn up, like a bad penny, when you are least expecting it.'" I thought this rather personal to Mr. Keiler ; but his skin is so tough he didn't mind it at all. "How is it about Ohio," continued the Now England statesman, who seemed bent on rubbing it in. "O, <1-n it!" ejaculated Keifer; "don't go into the Ohio election; that's a sore loe you are on. Hut Ohio is all right. All we want in Ohio is a few Southern outrages like the Danville allair ami Ohio will go Republican without pushing." "lt won't do to depend on Southern outrages, I'm afraid," was tho reply. "Tho bloody shirt is about played out with us. What wo want is moro turill and higher turill'." "That is another sore too willi us in Ohio. Tho wool growers in my State went wild on tho tariff. They waut everybody taxed ior their bright particu lar interest you see." "Isn't that thc main principle of thc tari ir, anyhow?" retorted the New Eng land member, facetiously. "Couldn't you pull tho wool over their eyes?" "No, but tho Democrats did," was the senlentious reply. "They'll 2nd them selves in the same rickery tarifTboat tbif Winter. The row will begin early, ovci the Speakership in fact. It has begun already. Randall will have bis haudt full. So will tho rest. It's a pam quarrel. All we noed to do is to .dei 'em on, you see, and they'll chew ead other up." After enunciating these statesmanlik( views, Mr. Keifer remarked that tin Presidential situation was getting inter esling. Ihi was about to go into tbii question when ho became conscious tba a third party was apparently taking ai interest, and his opiuiuu on tho "inter ?.Ming situation" was lost to tu appr?cia ti ve public. Tilt-: PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION is growing interesting when we como t< think of it. There hnvo been severa New York politicians hero within tin last few days, and these havo bcou lay inj ihoir heads together los an Arthur boom l'hero would seem to bo no necessity lb hurry in this matter, but there aro cvi iJeiitly those who would take politics time by the forelock. The secretary <j the Republican National Committee .Mr. Marlin, b s called a meeting of th .oinmiltee, in Washington, for the pui pose of deciding yt; tho placa for tb next National Nominating Conventior Now on the placo for making the Presi dential nomination depends a good dea Looking back over the history of Con ventions of both parties it will be Bee that tho Conventions held Wost bav generally turned out Western candidatei tho Conventions South have produce Southerners, und those East have usual! put forth Eastern candidates. Withot pausing hero to defino the cause an effect, it may bo assumed that thia coir cideuco is enough to awaken the politic) schemes of tho Republican parly. Th friends of Arthur want the Conventio held at Saratoga. There is strong groun for Arthur in the situation, and the want to make tho most of it. New Yorl indiana and Ohio are tho dcbatabl States now, aa they were in thecampaig of 1876, and the struggle of election to ho preceded by the fight for tho norn nation. New York, Indiana and Oh: will come forward with candidate Ohio may as well pass out, having playe the winning hands dealt her at Cincii nali and Chicago. Hut Arthur looms u most prominently in the Empire Sta and Gresham is leading Ben Harrisr and half a score of lesser lights in Ind ana. Il will bo most fortunate for ll Democratic party if the Republican Coi volition is gained for New York ut places Chester A. Arthur at the head thc ticket. Of all the elements of K publicaniam which havo become a alene in the nostrils of all decent mon Chest A. Arthur represents the most obnoxiou of all tho sccalled Republican leade tho Presidential dude of the Wi ii House ia the most vulnerable. Wi him as a candidate next year the Dem erat who ran'against bim would have certainty at election. For this renst every Democrat might well encourai the Saratoga idea and the Arthur boot In the case of Gen. Gresham the rcsu might be di ill-rent. At Chicago Gres nm would bo met by Bob L<ncoln ai John A. Lor?an aa equal riva's for tl first place-Lincoln as a sentiment ai J egan as tho representative of the nan wing of tho Republican party now ?ower. The floors and galleries of tl Exposition building would be packed I Logan, but the chances would bc in in v of Gresham or Lincoln. The latte name is of wonderful magnetism Ohio, Indiana and illinois, and whl Lincoln himself is but an ordinary eve day sort of a man who wears his wb kera d I' Anglaise, smokes good .'.gais n tells good stories, be would run well the North on the sectional platform Messrs. Keifer & Co. The further Wt the Convention can bo taken the bet it will be for these Western aspiran The evident anxiety to locate the Ct vention in New York State betrays I hand of Arthur. THE SPEAKERSHIP. Mr. Carlisle has arri red, Mr. Cox 1 been here for some time and Mr. Rand is expected here to-day. This mei business. As yet there are no anrfi indications of au exact nature on wh to predicate the relative statua of tb candidates. There are about twenty-l or thirty Representatives in town, 1 most of these are Republicans. The u nimity of the latter for Randall mi, convey a falso impression aa io strength. Nearly every Republican i meets ia quite sure Randall will be next Speaker, a>..' quite as positivo Democrats will make a great mistakt they don't elect him. This solicitude the welfare and advancement of Dei cratio interests ia very touching. Ami the Democratic Representatives it had considerable influence, I should i since thc same reasona aro advanced Randall's Democratic friends aa are t goaled by bia Republican friends. Tl rendons arc tho ability and purpose of Randall to block tarill' agitation and to "HOLD THIS SOUTH IK CHECK." It ia urged so atronuously that theso two qualifications for tho Speakership aro necessary that one is almost inclined to wonder at the short-sightedness of tho South in sending D?mocratie representa tive? to Cougress when they only givo tho Speaker trouble and are not to bo permitted a hand in active legislation. Tho Southern repr?sent?t ives will con stitute the majority of ibo Democratic side, but tills inconvenience to Pennsyl vania interests will not be felt with Ran dall in the Speaker's chair. They arc "to be? bold in check," whatever that means'. Dibble know?. For to properly hold in check a majority tho Speaker must traffic for a few Southern votes and lind a few Southern apologista on the lloor. I hear a good deal about the ne cessity of tho Southern Democrats being "held iii check." The inference ia that tho average Southern representative ia a young political stallion, who requires a chain bit in his mouth and a Protection ist on his back to keep him within the party enclosure. Perhaps tho Southern representative may ?milo in derision at this, but when he comes to Washington full of gooi! intentions and triea vainly until tho tfOth day of next Juno to i "catch the Speaker's eye" for any pur pose not specifically known and approved beforehand by tho Speaker, the Southern gentleman will know what bciug "held in check" really is. He will also then understand why it was that certain other Southern representativo*, madu such haste to prostrate themselves at tho feot of that divinity which shapes our legis lative ends. AID TOR EDUCATION. It ia thought likely here that thc edu cational ?chemo which occupied so much attention in tho Sennto last Winter will stand n better ahow for becoming a law during tho 48th Congress. A bill will be presented appropriating eight millions of dollars annually for ?ureo years, six millions annually for three years thereaf ter, four millions for three more years and two millions for the next allotment. Tho schemo embraces a total of sixty millions of dollars to go to tho States on the basis of illiteracy. While tho gov ernment is accumulating such a large surplus iu the treasury, a surplus our stateamen and financiers scarcely know what to do with, it seems tho educators are equal to the emergency. What is popularly supposed to lie necessary by somo of these craukB is a collegiate course for every child in tho country. The false supposition that universal edu cation bringa virtue, encourages industry and promotes national prosperity has to bo tried, I presume, before it eau be demonstrated. Let us have the sixty millions, please, and servants who cnu spill soup over you in fivo different lan guages. Deplete tho shops and farms and kitchens, and crowd tho cities with "gentlemen" aud "ladies." Educate above tho honest labor of hands ; creato refined tastes nt Government expense, and givo every mau an offico and every woman a piano. Il takes money, but we've got tho money. It will bo well enough to remember, however, that somebody nuiat work, and tho majority must bo poor, and that the higbeat tide of education and civilization will mark also tho top round of private licentious ness and public corruption. M. President Lincoln's Prophetic Dream. It is not generally known that Presi dent Lincoln once dreamed that ho would bo assassinated. While he was not a professor of religion, nor even fixed in bia belief in one particular creed, still he waa fond of reading and discussing the Bible. On Sunday evenings he in variably rend a chapter or two from tba Scriptures and then gave his explanation of it. One evening at the Whilo House he read scvcrul passages both from the Old and New Testaments relating to dreams, to which Mrs. Lincoln and the children gave great attention. He began to chat with them on tho subject of dreams, aud he said ho had been haunt ed for sallie days by a dream ho had. Of course, they all wanted him to tell it, th 'Ugh Mrs. Lincoln said she didn't be lieve in dreams in thc least, and was as tonished at him. So ba proceeded to toll it. "About ten days agu I retired ono night quito Inte. I had boen up waiting for important dispatches from thc front, aud could not havo been long in bed when I fell into slumber for I was very weary. During my slumber I be gan to dream. I thought there wau a stillness about me, and I heard weening. I thought that I got up and wandered down staira. The same stillness was there. As I weut from room to room I heard moaning and weeping. At length I carno to the end room, which I entered, and there before me was a magnificent dais, ou which was a corpse Here there were sentries and a crowd re people. I said to one of the soldiers ; "Who is dead at the White House?" He answer ed : 'The President.' 'How did be die?' I asked. "By the hand of an assassin," was the reply. Then I beard a grcrt. wailing all over the house, and it was so loud it seemed to awaken me. I awoke much depressed, and slept no more that night, ouch was my dream." From that time until his sad death Mr. Lincoln was haunted by the fear of assassination, and Mrs. Lincoln's first words after Wilkes Booth bad shot him, on April 14. were: "Hts dream was prophetic." Tho remark was not understood then, but when the story of his dream was subsequently told it was explained. Nashville Liberal. A Very ECTecttvo Hint. "Don't von think earrinim would be come you?" inquired KoskiuskoMurphy of Birdie McGee. Koakiuako had been paying Birdie very assiduous attention of late. "Oh, I don't know," replied Birdie, demurely. "I suppose the reason you don't wear them is because it will burt so to have your ears bored." "Oh, not the least," said Birdie, with animation. "I've bad that dene already ?}uite often, almost every evening, in fact, oi the last three weeks." "Then Koskiusko reached round to the piano, dragged his hat off the cover, and commenced to fade gradually from the room. He fairly melted away into obscurity, and now a wide chasm sepa rates tho gallant Koskiusko and the charming Birdie.- Texas Siftings. - Here is another point in favor of the Darwinian theory : There is a boy io Norristown, who sprang from a mon key. The monkey belonging to an or gan-grinder, and attempted to bite the boy. COLORLESS AND COLD.-A young girl deeply regretted that she was so col orless and cold. Her face was too white, and her hands and feet felt as though ' thc blood did not circulate. After one 1 bottle of Hop Bitters bad been takenahe j was tho rosiest and healthiest girl in tho town, with a vivacity and cheerfulness of I mind gratifying to her friends. AMYE IN HER COFFIN Singular Cime of Restoration from Most Iforrlblo D* A young Indy of Wisconsin lately lind n terrible experience which it is possible for n mortal to Buller. Only the merest accident prevented her from being buried alive in full consciousness of the harri? bio fact. Wo have read fictitious ac counts of people being immured before death, but this is thc first authenticated instance that has come under our notice. A distinguished physician of this city, who has now retired from active practice, white traveling in Wisconsin stopped lor a night in a small village. A friend and former pupil called to see him, and du ring the evening mentioned a very sin gular caso which ho had been lately treating. The young lady, bis patient, so he informed Dr.-, bad died very suddenly three days before, but after she was prepared for Ibo grave and laid in ber cullin she presented such a natural and life-Uko appearance that bo was unwilling to have ber interred. The family insisted that she was dead, but a young gentleman to whom she had been engaged remonstrated so decidedly that tlie interment was postponed after the minister and friends lind assembled on tho second morning. On tho third morn ing tho burinl was again deferred. For though tho body lay perfectly motionless in tho casket without evincing any sign of life, they hesitated to put It iu the ground while it continued to look so natural. Tho younp physician bsd used every menus the?, ho knew of to restons animation if thcro was lifo left, or if pnssiblo to detect BOOiC uign ot* it. Nothing which ho had tried had discov ered any Bign of remaining vitality, and they bad nt longth determined to' delay the burinl no longer. It was to be oil tbe next morning, tho morning of tho fourth day. Tho young physician re quested Dr.-to go willi him on tho morrow mid look at the body. "Tho following morning," says Dr. -, "I accompanied my friend to tho homo whore the body of the young lady lay. When wo reached the house the IriendB of tho family had already arriv ed and tho officiating minister had goue through a part of the service in the room where tho body lay, a prayer I think it was, and tho family had taken their last farewell of a beautiful girl. When I stepped in tho room the undertaker had the easkot lid in his hnnds ready to screw it down. No sooner did I seo tho faco in tho casket than I felt sure that life was not extinct. There wan not tho faintest pulse that I could detect, but when I laid my ear close upon her breast I waa confident that I heard the slightest heart-beat. So certain was I then that it was a case of catalepsy that I did not hesitate n moment to apply the proper remedies. Imagino if you can tho scene when tho young lady utterred suddenly a piercing Bcream and rose up in tho cofiin. It was the most awful note of agony that I hopo over to hear. Tho room wau filled with friends besides the family and domestics. Several ladies fainted outright. Somo screamed and went into hysterics, the servants ran out into tho yard, and I confess that though I was expecting to Bee her revive, my own nerves wcro so shaken by the sud denness of the occurrence that it was with tho greatest difliculty that I could stand. Her face, too, which a moment before had worn that sweet smile of peaceful -sleep, writhed aa she rose up iu tho most dreadful contortions. I have never seen a face depict BO much terror and agony. It seemed as if all the men tal butlering which shu bad endured through those four terriblo days aud nights lound vent in that ono cry and look. In a few moments her pent-up fueling found relief, andsho then got out of the cofiin und down from the table with very little assistance. Dy this time thc tumult in the room bad in a measure subsided, and sha then told m what was tho most fearful part of the whole ex perience-that she had been perfectly conscious during tho entire time I 13iio had hoard all that was said and knew all that was going on around her. She bad felt herself being shrouded and laid in tho collin, had heard her friends weeping over ber before tbe cofiin lid should CIOBO upon ber forever, and thought abe should surely be buried alive. Meanwhile, though she tried her utmost, she was unable to move or utter a sound. Her friendo look upon her ss given bank to them from the grave, and, indeed, in the country around it is reported I really did raise her from tho dead, and after I left they told me that tho country people flocked in in crowds to eeo me. What ?the young lacy's feelings aro it is useless to try to imagine, and what they were during the four days and nights in which she lay in the coffin waiting to be buried alive aro too terrible to contemplate." Dr.-will not allow his uame to be mentioned in connection with this in cident; but knowing him personally we are able to vouch for all that he told us. He is of tho opinion that premature burial is very rare, but thinks it occurs Bufliciently often for people to be guard ed against it.- Washington Post. A New South Carolina Invention. Every one who has ever owned or rid den in a buggy or wagon will recall the difficulty that is experienced by the own ers of vehicles in making their wheels "track." The common remedy for a worn axle is to put on "w .acm" of iron or leather, but this is not only annoying bot expensive. The Nunn dovice does away with all such washers, and thia lit tle invention will bea great convenience. It is very simple ana inexpensive and will work on an axle of any size. It con sists oimply of a tap which is worked on the end of the axle and is adjusted with a set screw, which keeps the hub firmly in placo and prevents the wheels from warbling in tho slightest degree. The "taps" are manufactured in Philadelphia and the patent is owned by Mr. G. W. Nunn and Mr. Edwin Eppa, of Eing stree. Mr. Nunn is a wheelwright and carriage-maker by trade and bss struck upon a happy idea which, ho thinks, will surely lead to fortune. He was offered some time ago $10,000 for the right to. f oii the invention in the state of Virgin ia.-News and Cburier. - ''Have you got any family ?" asked a young Austin lawyer of a colored man whom he was appointed by the court to defend, the letter being charged with having stolen a horse. "I'so got no fam ily yet. I looks to you for dat." "Look to me to supply you with a family 1" "I looks to you an' de jury." "What kind of stuff is that you are talking?" "Hll'a lust what I says. Miss Matildy Snow ball says ef I only gits a yeah In the ?enopotentiary she'll wait fur mo bat ef gets moah, den she's g wino ter marry de fust nigger what comes along. Soyer sees. boes, what a sponsibility dar em rcs tm' on yer." ! -A'garrulous deacon having asked tlie scriptural question, "Why do the heathen rage?" saw the point and there after and held his peace, when his sur Pliced superior promptly replied ; '.'Be [cause, like some church people, they I don't know enough to keep still."