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ISOUED KVKKY SATURDAY MORNING BY THE OKANOEBURO NEWS COMPANY._ t!T\d cr?Nim^ J. FELDER MEYERS, Assistant faUtor._ (lKjh_ BOIAVEj^ BnsinesB ainnngnr^ ^ATintI>Ai% May 15. 1875. _____ "We paid a visit to tin's enterprising nnd modest little town the early part of this week. We boarded tho down night train at this place and found oarsolves ?.r .lor the care ofthat prince j ?f good conductors, P. Duflie. At Bran?h-ille we refreshed ourselves at _aii:? boit, Carroll's hotel, and took th*> up train for our destination. The ride was ?bort but exceedingly tiresome. Having arrived at Blackvillewe were showu to the hotel kept by Mrs. A. II. Strobcl, where we found good, com fortable lodgings, and plenty of good things to e?t. Wednesday Was elec tion day in Barn well County, and, as a matter of course, every voting pro duct was alivo with people. The contest was between Blaokvillc and Bamwell, nnd wis remarkable for its bitterness. But ns Leslie pre dicted some months ago, Blackville triumphed, and will hereafter be the county scat of Barn well coun ty. The village of Barn well may bo a very* desirable location for a court house with somo of its citizens, but it certainly ha3 no charms for an out sider. During our trip we had occa sion to pay a visit to the "Town on the Hill," which we found after driv ing ten miles through sand knee-deep, praying the voile for some kind Providence to pull Barnwcll down to Blackville, provided the latter place fell "A dead cock in the pit." The town is old nnd dilapidated, anti progressive in its appearance, and un inviting to the eyes of stinngers. Blnckville, on the contrary, has many advantages nnd inducements to offer to those in search of busi ness or health. It is remarkable for its health-giving climate, and the coeniopolitnn spirit of its loading citizens. And now that the County scat is to be permanently located at Blackville, we predict for it a great futuro. There is a spirit of perseve rance and progress among its eiti r.ens, and we take pleasure in con ?THhilating them unoji_Jjj?L fn'pre I ^^-^^??-^^W^f^KWdced.ilatVViic-} and should he taken advWng0 ?T with a vim that n ?11 make tho sound of the hand-saw and the hatchet familiar music to the ear of the Blackvillian. With such public spirited citizens as Intendant lzlar, M. F. Moloncy, Si mon Brown, and others, Blackville will soon overtnko her more preten tious rivals. Tho Brooklyn Scandal. Tho trial of Beechcr is still going on in the "City of Churches." The great Plymouth preacher has been upon the stand, and was thoroughly prohed by Judge Fullerton, Tilton's leading counsel. The amorous niiri hrtor would frequently inislify tho jury ky answering ">ea" and "no" to ques tions from Fullorton. His bearing upon tho stand was that of a man1 driven to tho unpleasant alternative of lying to save himself in the eyes of his congregation. He ndudtteri that he kissed Mrs. Tilton, and thought a great deal of her. In fact, we bcliove it runs that he kissed her both in and out of season. We don't know how the society of Brooklyn is constituted, but if the women ofthat place are not wholly unlike those in other purts of tho world, it was wrong in Mrs. Tilton to soothe her pastor with a kiss. The woman that does not. rcservo and keep holy this gift, this boon in the weary pilgrimage of life, for her husband, will not scruple to sully the purer and more sacred part of her honor. If Mrs. Tilton hnd resented the proffered caresses of her spiritual advisor, her person would have remained undofiled, nnd tho destroyer of her virtue would hot to day be regarded as the great liber tine and seducer of the age. Beechcr has described Mrs. Tilton as a "white souled woman," yet with this intimate knowledge of her innocence and puri ty of mind, ho deliberately went to work to besmear and'blacken the whiteness of her soul by forming an illicit, nnd unholy alliance with her. Ho gazed upon that picture of innocence with lustful eyes, and never censed his planning for its destruction, until his beastly and inhuman a petite bad been satisfied by delimiting it forever. Wretched man ! How could you preach the Word of God on {Sun day, nnd with the words hardly cold from your Hps, fall upon and destroy one of your congregation ? for or against Bccehcr, ttic majority of the American people \vi! 1 pronounce him guilty of adultery. All the prayers of the Brooklyn saints will never bring about bis acquittal at the bar of American judgment, nor re store to him the smallest part of his former greatness. The impulses and feelings which were once alive with admiration for his eloquence and seeming piety, are now up in arms against him for his partially confessed lewdness, and for his dishonoring of the VII Commandment. In the progress of tbo groat trial, Beechcr, Titton, Moulton and his wife, have all had an opportunity to give the public their version of the Brook lyn scandal, but Elizabeth, the crea ture above all to be pit tied, was re fused even the poor privilege of testify ing in behalf of her seducer. Her lips are scaled by the law, and we suppose we shall never hear any more "gush ing8" from her little "white soul." In fact, she would show good sense by liv ing a secluded life the remainder of her unhappy days?a life secluded from the gaze of the vulgar peepers of the Plymouth pastor, aud free from his temptations to do evil. Let her go and sin no more, and endeavor to cleanse her soul of its unholy lust. On the other hand, let Bcccher receive the sneers and scoffs of all decent people; let him be debarred from crossing ever)' threshold where piety and virtue are prized, and be made to seek communion in the silent re cesses of his own adulterous heart. B ka kcuv i i.lk Towns n i r. Editor of the News mid I'nnrs : As your request for n co-respondent from each Township his met with no response from our section of the coun ty, I have concluded to tell yoti a few things that arc going on in and around our little village. Now, Mr. Editor, don'tsny cypress pond, for cadi year is rapidly obliterating every trace of the cypress pond that once was, and down our principal streets arc commen cing to grow some beautiful green oaks, which our thoughtful Town Council a few years ago commenced planting out along the aide walks. Tbo ditch es, too, are disappearing on the front streets, and under ground drains are ire springing up, aud some of our sue i'< ssful merchants havo rebuilt larger iiiuf finer houses. Our present Town ijouncil too are trying to keep up with [.he times, and are Iniving street lamps put up along our Main slivcts. All .his looks like improvement ami which it rcaly is, but oh ! Mr. Editor, we need some strong appeals like you used to jjivc them Orangcburgers about that, ireadful nuisance of raising so many togs on our streets, aud in our yards. SVe have got rid of so much as re ute? to the goats. Many of us well -eniember what a pest they were. I am truly glad we have no eotn daint to make against our Trial Jus ice, like your correspondent from Pine Grove Township. Wo once had ;he misfortune of having ono who nade It his business to hunt up cases; ind many trifilihgiifiai r?, that occurred jetween the uneducate t colored pec hnt could have been ctsily settled by i few kind words of advice, in the ?ightdirection, were made to appear as tome dreadful olfence, and caused them :o sell the last cow and calf to settle .he cost of some dispute with their ivifc or child. But everything is dianged in that direction now, and reeks often pass that we never hear of i case at the Trial Justice's Court; aud when we do have one, the party wlio is guijly better look out or they will be punished. If our Trial Justice makes errors it is of the head aud not i)f the heart?at least these are my im pressions. The crop prospects in this part ofj the county arc iirrp roving every day, with the sunshine and spring showers thnt we have been having for the past ten days. Cotton is up and commen cing to look nice in some places where it has been worked. Corn too is now beginning to move, upward. We do hope for good seasons big crops and high prices. I heard that one good old fanner said cotton would sell for a high price next fall. When he was nsked his reason for such an opinion be ?aid that he saw in the papers where it was stated that one thousand bales hnd been burnt up. 1 hope, none of the fanners up your side are expec ting to realize a high price for their cotton from that same bum. B. The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. FKOM ??n iiarxwkll. X'?KT.J The llnrmvcll Ilooster. There whs a famous rooster, once, '1 hat lived uponn hill: That rooster's refruin over tvas? "Hurrah! fur Jhirinrell ftilh" Oiiouus. He scratched for all the pretty hens,? (hive stranger roosters hull? An I Done durst challenge to a main, The llnrmvcll ?Sentinel. Ciibhus? lie scratched the hillrtidcup and down, Till every pile was bare; lie peeked inside the public crib, And gobbled Lip his share. Ciionus? "T'waH said byev'ry B.irnw.U laid, Min craw was full of grit? He'd whip all Carolina cocks And e'eau eaeli (Jcorgia pit. Cnoncs? riiereeamea ltlackville cock along, With plumage rare and p .: And (lapped hi.s wings on IJaritwell bill, Upon llu?12lh uf May. Cnoucs? And when the evening sun went down, The Hill r'crit up a wail? Tlic Ham well rooster clearly showed White feathers in his tail. . Cnoitis ? The Mack villc rooster struts about, ? And still is full of grit? Tbe hasn-yard bird, alas ! is gone? "A dead cock in tbe pit." last citones? I He'll scratch no more for pretty ben.-, Nor givc_cach rooster beb; We've seen tbe last of that old cock? The Jhh'Uivctl ikiiliiwf. A Home Scandal. The case of the Stale vs. D. T. Legg i ?abduction?was before Judge Cook yesterday, oil application for n dis charge oil writ of habeas corpus. D. T. Legg, it will be recollected, I was arrested by the city marshal day beforc-yesterday, in response to a telc giahi from one Ingram, charged with abducting his niece. The case is this: I). T. Legg, of Chester, married the widow Crawford, who is said to be. the mother of the girl sai'1 to lie abducted. From the testimony elicited on the trial, Legg seduced the daughter of his wife, and when the fact was brought to the notice of the mother, she consented that her husband should lake her daughter and leave. And, she even prepared her (laughter to leave, Her brother, and the uncle of the girl, heard of the circumstances, and went to his sister, (the wife of Legg) and told iier the.nan who was base enough to.s<;'bice his si..i>-4-~?^iB-r~"*P~*""TTY' serf her, and he was notXlhc proper person to submit, the care of her daughter to. She revoked her con sent., and commissioned her brother to pursue her husband and her dntigh ter! and to bring back the daughter. Mr. Ingraiii arrived in C5 rnen vi lie yes terday, and testified as above at the trial. The girl docs not desire to re turn with iiini. The case was ably argued by Capl. W. II.'Ferry and Judge F. F. McJicc for the defendant, and Solicitor 1>U ilic, Wintrier cv. Syinmcs and Farlc & Wells for the stale. .Judge Cooke, after a patient hear ing of the case, remanded Legg to jail ' iii default of live hundred dollars bial for his appearance nt the Court of Ocnoral Sessions at the ensuing term. The above case would make a flashy local; but we do not desire to parade the shame of these people before our people. Hanging is too good for Legg, if he is guilty of what is charged. And the mantle id* charily should bespread over the unfortunate and erratic girl, who can be saved from a life of infamy by tho hand of Providence alone? Grain'//' A./'s. Constitution Changing in tlio South. The Iicpuhlic Maj/azhw for May publishes two important papers on the Democratic movement now going on in tho South to remodel their State Constitutions so as to defeat the ob jects of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth J iii.d Fifteenth Amendments, nnd ig nore the reconstruction policy. At the close of tho war and commence ment of the reconstruction of the Stales in rebellion, it was necccssary to make the new State Constitutions conform to the changed condition of affairs. It was also obligatory on each Slate to submit its new Constitution to Congress for approval or modification. Now, ho? ever each Slate may a liar or ichibdcl its Consti tution by a Convention of (he people, and adopt tbe now instruments, with outconsulting Congress. The Demo cinls arc. now taking advantage of this, nnd are framing new Stale Con stitutions to suit their own peculiar views on the race, school, Stale Sov ereignty, and of Ik r important ipics Hons. The danger to the stability of our itif litiitions growing out of this movement, can .scarcely be overrated, as it indicates a spirit and the;inaugu ration of a stale of affairs that can ' searccly fail of resulting in another 1 rebellion. Mr. Coffin's Spelling Mutch. TIIK Ol.I) LADY PUTS HIM J1?WN WITH ON K OF if Kit HVKI.US?STRIKING KIV via rrs. ? ? ? i The other evening ohl ^Ir.-and Mrs. Coflin, who live on Brushy .Creek, sat iii their coxcy hack parlor, he read ing the paper and she knitting, and the family eat stretched' out under the stove, ami sighed and felt sorry for cats not so veil fixed. It jwas a happy contented household, ami there was love in his heart as Mr. Coflin put down the newspaper and remark ed : 'I see that the whole country is be coming excited about the spelling schools." ?Well, its good to know how to spell,' replied the wife. 'I didn't have the chance sonic girls had, but I pride myself that I can spell almost any word that comes along.' 'I'll see about that,' be laughed; 'come, now spell 'buggy.' 'Humph ! that's nothing?bug-g-y, buggy,' sdic replied: 'Missed the first time?ha! ha!' he roared, slapping his leg. 'Not much ?that was right.' ?itwasjch? Well, I'd like to see any body get two g's in buggy, 1 would.' 'But it is spelled willi, two g's, and any schoolboy wi 11 tell you so,' she persisted. 'Well, I know a darn sight better than that!' he exclaimed,striking the table with his fist. T don't care what you know!' she squeaked: 'I know that there are two g's in buggy 1' 'Ho you mean to tell me that I've forgotten how to spellV he asked. 'It looks that way.' 'It docs, eh ? Well, I want you and all your relations to understand that I know more about spelling than the whole caboodle of you strung on q wire!' 'And I want you to understand, Jonathan Coflin, that you arc an ig norant old blockhead, when you don't put two g's in the word buggy?yes you arc!' 'Don't talk that way to me!' he warned. 'Ami don't shake your list at me!' she replied. 'Von wen.-!' 'That's a lie?an infernal lie!' 'Don't call me a liar, you old- ba zaar! I've put up with yoji mean ness for forty years, but don't ca'l nie a liar, and don't lay your hand on me !' 'Do you want a divorce?'he shout-! ed, springing up; 'you can go now, this minute!' 'Don't spit in my face?don't you dare do it'ifor I'll make a dead man of you !' she warned. 'I haven't spit in your freckled old visage yet, but I nitty if you provoke me further!' 'Who's got a freckle face, you old turkey buzzard ?' That was a little too much. He made a motion as if ha would strike, and she srized him by tbo ncctie. Thou he reached out and grabbed her right ear and tried to lift her off her feet; but she twisted upon the neck tie until bis tongue ran out. 'Let go of nie, you old fiend!' she screamed. 'Get down on your knee and beg my pardon, you old wild cat!' ho re plied. They surged and swayed and strug gled, and the peaceful cat was struck by the overturning table and had her back broken while the clock fell down and the pictures danced around. The woman finally shut her husband's sup ply of air off and Hopped him, and as she bumped his bead up and down on the floor and scattered his gray hairs, she .?limited : 'You wan't to get up another spell ing school with me, don't, you?' He was seen limping about, toe yard yesterday, a stocking pinned around his throat, ami she had court plaster on her nose, and one finger tied up. He wore the look of a martyr, while she had the bearing of a victor, and from this time, out 'buggy, will be spelled with two g's in that house. Hi: Dip.?The following story is told about a Drunken man : On St. Valentine's day he bought ten of the ugliest valentines he could find, each one caricaturing .some well known fault, or Ibible of bis wife, and sent them to her. While the poor woman was crying over them and wondering if there really were ten people in the community who thought so meanly of hoi, the boy of the family said : ,l*q are. those the pictures you bought at the stoic where you got my whistle'?'1 Made t<MScq It." * "I can't, sec ft," enidButter;fyio botly! roads til I these litjtlc advcAlsc nients. It's preposterous to think it." "Bn t," said vtlie editor, "f ou road what intcrcst'j you?" . \. "Yes." "And if there's anything that yoif particularly want, you look for it?'' "Certainly." "Well, among the thousands upon thousands who help to make up this busy world of ours, everything that is printed is read. Sneer as you please, I do assure you that printer's ink i" the true open sesame to all business success. And st;ll Butler couldn't sec it. He didn't believe that one half ot those little crowded advertisements were ever read. "Suppose you try the experiment," said the editor. "Just slip in an ad vertisement of the want of one of the most common things in the world. For the sake of the test, I will give it two insertions free. Two will be enough; and you may have it jammed into any put ( f-the-way nook of my paper you shall select. Two insertions of only tw ? lines. Will you try it ?" Butler said of course be would tiy it. And he selected the place where ho could have it published?crowded in under the head of "Wants." And be waited and saw a proof of his ad vertisement, which appeared as fol lows : Wantki).?A good house dog. Ap ply to J. Buffer, 575 Towscr street, be tween the hours of G and 9 p. in. Buffer went away smiling and nod ding. On the following morning he opened his paper, and, after a deal of bunting, he found his advertisement. At first it did not seem at all con spicuous. Certainly so insignificant a paragraph, buried in such a wilder ness of paragraphs, could hot attract notice, j After a lithe, however, it be gan to bade more, noticeable to him. The more he looked at it the plainer it .grew. ?.Finally, it glared at him from the closely printed page. But that was because he was the person particula.lv interested. Of course i; 'would appear 'conspicuous to him. But it would not lc so with o hers. That ovenit.g Mr. Buffer was jits: fitting down to tea (Buffer was a nhflW iTfriui.-liiofu il lean, ami TnokTT^TT at. ,-ixj v hun Ids door l-ell was rniig/ servant nitnuunci-d that a man was at the door with a dog to sell. ' ,;"Tcll him- I/d-.hft want one." Six times Ihillbr was interrupted while taking tea by men with dogs to sell. Buffer was a man who would hot lie. He had put bis foot in and he must take it out manfully. The twenty-third .applicant wa-< a small boy yvithi a girl in company, who bail a ragged poodle for sale. BufU-r bought the poodle of the boy, and immediately presented it to the girl, and then sent them off. To the next applicant he was able truthfully to answer, "Don't want any more?I've bought one." The stream of callers continued un til near ten o'clock, at which hour Buffer locked up and turned off the gas. On the following evening, as Buffer approached his house, he found a crowd assembled. He counted thirty nine men and boys, each one of whom had a dog in tow. There were dogs of every grade, size and color and growl and howl. Buffer address ed the motley multitude and inform ed them that he had purchased a dog. "Then what d'ycr advertise for?' And Buffer got his hat knocked over his eyes before he reached the sanctuary of his home. Never mind about the trials and tribulations of that night. Buffer laid no idea there were so many dogs in existence. With the aid of three policemen, he got through alive. On the next morning he visited his friend, the editor, and acknowledged the corn. The advertisement of "wanted" was taken out, and in the most con spicuous place, and in glaring type, I he advertised that he didn't want any more dogs. And for this advertise ( incut he paid. Then he went homo sind pasted upon his door, "Gone in to the Country." Then he hired a special policeman to guard his proper ty; and then he locked up and went away with his family. Fiotn that day Joscphns Buffer has never been heard to express doubts concerning the efficacy of printer's ink; neither has ho asked, "Who reads advertisements ?" Never use any spoon but a wooden one to stir anything on the fire or in a warm stale. * .r Pyv Slnuiiny llsh dot So? j &< ^ ?; There is dq?btlcss^uclf n thing nff pNcdssive promptnes^ in emergencies.: "Presence of. ntind nnddcterminatioji' f?^-adndrnblequnlities in thems^sfves, but it sometimes happens that a deci sion made upon the spur of the mom cut is regretted npoh H more deliber ate Hirvoy of the field. : This rerftorsc seems to have over-taken lately a worthy Dutchman, of Anakn counjyy Minnesota? ,JThc Dutchman!was* sctek ing to reach a town at some distauco' . from ?auk Centre/ aud to accomplish^ this must drive over the prairie from 'die lnttcr town, lie wa.s unaccustom ed to the road arid night overtook him with his vehicle fast in a slough ??. and no town fit sight. He sought the ' solitary farm house visible aud asked permission to stay till morning, the farmer telling, the traveler, howoverj' that it would bo necessary for him to .sleep with the children or with the farmer himself, as their accommoda tions were limited.. Quick as lighting, tho.*- Dutchman, oppressed,* his opinion j hot to sleep with, "bodd.oration shiltrcu,'' so he slept with the Tarmcr. The rest of the story may be given in his own language: '*Veil,'in der mornin,* vcu w~ co.nus mit der stairs . down, I see two girls npout seventeen 1 und nineteen years old, und I ask der old man; ''1*003 dem gjrls die children you tpMmo apoutjf".undhe say 'yaw;,t dem is mine only shiltrpn !' und I say to myself, Py shiimuiny ! Ish dot so !" As this happened away otf in. Ana ka County no local . signi" .'ance need be attached to it. How to Put Down Matting. As-the time of mating draws near, it may be well to call the Attention of housekeepers to the fact that, its tticro is a right -way of doing everything, there is decideiHy a right way to put down Canton mr-tting. It is the al most universal practice to put it down wrong. -'Most person^ cut the lengths, and then laying the br n Iths in their proper places on the floor, proceed to drive a lorg. number of tucks up an I down the edges. This method serves the purpose of keeping the covering very lightly on the floor, but ia inj uns lite Loa ids, und ruins the mat ting. Kvcj-v tai*k .breaks one struw, I be Lnntoii mnttins , are iivr-nr- on boats, -where they are:\voven in.-diort pieces about ty.o voids long. Tin >e. short pieces arc ??fterwanl.? juiiicd to gether, on'tl.e.-hoije in b ug|h:*j.of about forty yards:. It iseasy to k-ewheru these two yard piece* are joined, and the fust thing to he. done, ???fier tho matting is cut into proper lengths, :s to sew lhe*-e places across Mid acrtvs on the wrong sith; to keep the joi Ms from opening. Then sew the breadths together, nntl ta? k it to the flour in the same way .that yon treat a carpet. Mattings 'made in this way will la.-t fully twice as long as ivhf le they ?ro tacked in every breadth. A good matting should last six or seven rears. Gratifying Modical Progress. i* J 9t i ' i ~~~ ;? ? ??' v ? i \* 8 j An Knglisli physician recently re moved a section of the'patient's liver, placed .it on a plate, ficrnppd i*. care fully aud returned it to its jdace fully restored to its normal action. This promises to Work a revolution iti the treatment of disease, and in a few years wo will have an addition to do in es tie literature something like this -. "Husband, lit (wish you; Would ' take1 John's rigiit lung down to the 'doctor'1 this morning aud have the middle valve fixed," or "Will you stop into the doctor's whenfyou come homo this noon and see if,Macro's liye,r is men ded, as she wants to go out to tea this evening!' The practico will becomo commou in time we arc sure that none of the neighbors will be in any way startled to sec a wife with a veil tied around her head leaning out of a bed room window, nnd shouting to a rcco ding, husband;. 'Jer-c-miah ! Tell Dr. ?Sern pen to send up Willie's right kidney at once, whether it is done or not. He's had it there nioro'ri a week am! tlie child might ns well be without any kidney and dono with it!' In the District Court in Charleston, on tho 8th, Judgo Bryan presiding, Alonza Payne, colored, indicted for selling unstamped mediciues. was tried nnd acquitted. William Moody ami John Larry, indicted for robbing the post oflicc at Columbia, were tried nnd convicted. L. DeR. McCrady? Ksq., represented Moody,; and - Solici tor Butt/. Larry. Tlie court will meet again this morning, aud continue to dispose of the criminal business.