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THE DARLINGTON NEWS, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING x>_ D, EVA.ITS, PROPRIETOR. TERHS—$2 Per Annum in Adrance. One Square, first insertion. $1.50 One Square, second insertion ....1.00 Eiery subseqent insertion 60 Contrast adTertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terms. Marriage Notices and Obituaries, not exceeding six lines, inserted free. THE DARLINGTON ‘FOR US PRINCIPLE 18 PRINCIPLE—RIGHT IS RIGHT—YESTERDAY, TO-DAY. TO MORROW, FOREVER.” MttAHMIB. The moon it rising in silrer mist, In shadowy reil the bright stars gleam, While in some fair isle of the mystic realm Spirits meet in a happy dream. No more divided by land or sea Broken the barriers that keep apart; And true and sweet, unfettered and free, Is the soul communion, heart to heart. List I through the ambient silence comes The call of the white-robed aqgel. Sleep; And softly she whispers, “In dreamland fiir, Some one is waiting Lore’s tryst to keep.” Mturi). The Adopted Child. Tbe two thatched cottages stood side bj side at the foot of a bill, uot very far from a well-known bathing resort. The two peasants worked very hard in their unfertile fields to earn enough for the sup port of their childreu. There were four to each household. Before the two adjoiuing doors, the little swarm of childreu frolicked from moruing till eveuiug. In both families the oldest two were 6 years and the joungest 15 months old ; for in both houses the marriages and births took place almost simul taneously. The two mothers could scarcely distinguish their respective child reu iu the general mix-up, and the two fathers always made mistakes. The eight names become entangled iu their brains, always got con founded with one another; and when they wanted to call any par ticular child, either father would often call a wrong name three times before getting a right oue. The first ot the two dwellings— that nearest, the railroad station at Uolleport, where the baths were— was occupied by tbe Tuvaebe fam ily, who had three giris and one boy the other building sheltered tbe Valliu family, who had three boys and one daughter. The who'e of them lived w ith dif ficulty upon soup, potatoes and fresh air. At 7 o’clock in the morn ing, at noon, ai d at 6 o’clock in the evening the housewives assembled their little ones to give them pap— just as herders of geese call their birds together. According to age the children took their pi ces iu a row at tbe wooden table, made shiny by fifty years of usage. The youngest child of all could hardly get its mouth to the level of the ta ble. Before them were then placed deep platters full of bread steeped iu the same water that the potatoes half a cabbage and three onions had been boiled; and the whole rank ate until tully satisfied. The mother herself fed the little one with a spoon. A little bit of meat iu the pot on Sunday was a regular feast; and on such occasion the father would always stay later than usual at table and exclaim : “I’d be migbtv glad to have this every day f” One August afternoon a light car riage suddenly drew up before the two callages, and the young woman who held the reins herself, said to tbe gentleman seated beside her: ‘‘Oh, Henry, just look at that lo* of children ! Isn’t it pretty to see them tumbling about iu tbe road like tbatf’ Tbe mau answered nothing, be- iag accustomed to these sudden bursts of admiratiou, which w ere a pain and almoft a reproach for him. “1 must really kiss them ! Ob ! bow I should love to have one of them ; that little one there, the lit tle tiny oue I” And leaping lightly from her car riage, she ran to tbe children, seiz ed hold ot one ot the youngest—Tu- vauhe’s baby—and, lifting bim in ber arms, she kissed him passion ately on bis dirty face, on his blonde, curly auddust covered hair, on his little fists, which he bra' dish ed convulsively iu the effort to free bimselt from her tiresome caresses. Tbeu she got iuto her carriage again, and drove off at lull s|>ead— But the next week she returned, and sat right down iu the road her self, took the little oue iu her arms, stuffed him with cakes, gave sweet meats to all tbe other children, and played with them just as if she were a child herself—while her bus- band waited patiently for her all tbe time iu tbe elegant carriage. Sbe returned after that, got ac quainted with their parents, visited them every day, came always with her pockets full of of sweetmeats and small change. Sbe was a Madame Henri d’Ha- biere*. One morning sbe came; and her husband also descended with her froth tbe carriage. This time, with out stopping to notice the chi droit all of whom knew her well now, she advanced iuto the peasanl’s dwelling. They were both there, the pa rents, busy cutting wood tor cook ing their soap; they arose in sur- VOL. XII. NO 5. prise, offered chairs, and waited to see what was going to hapi>en. The young woman, in a broken and trembling voice, began: “My good people—I have come to see y ou because—because I would like—1 would like to take your lit tie boy home with me.” The two peasants, utterly stnpi- fled and unable to comprehend, an swered not a word. She paused for breath, and went on : “We have no children. We have no children. We are all alone — my husband aud I. We would take good care ot him. Are you willing f” The peasant woman began to un derstaud. She asked: “You want to take Chariot from ust Ah ben non !—no indeed I” Then M. d’Hubieres broke in . “My wife has not exp'ained her self well. We want to adopt him ; but he will come to see yon. If lie should turu out well, as we have every reason to believe, he will be our beir. If, by any possible chance we should have ether children, he will share our property equal with them. But, if he should not turn outacc rding to our expectations, then, upon his coming ot age, we would settle on him a sum of 20,- 000 francs, which would be at once placed to his credit in a notary’s hands. And as you have of course been taken into consideration, you will receive regularly during your whole lifean allowauceof 100 francs a month. Now, do you under stand f” The farmer's wife had already- risen to her feet in high fury : “You want me to sell you Char iot t Ah ! I should say not!—this is a nice tiling to ask of a mother ! Ah 1 I should say not! That would be an abomination f” The man himself, serious and thoughtful, said nothing; but he approved his wife’s speech by a continuous nodding his head. Madame d’Uubieres, quite con fused began to cry ; and, turning to her husband, stammered out in a voice broken by sobs, the voice of a child whose ordinary wishes are al ways gratified: “They won’t do it, Heury !—they won’t do it!’’ Then he made a last effort: “But my friends, think of the fu tureof y our child,—think of what is offered to him—of—” Exasperrted, the peasant woman cut him short:— “It’s all thought over, it’s all un del stood, it’s ail considered. Get out of here—aud w hat’s more, don’t let me ever see yo here again. To think people’s allowed to want to take a child from folks like thatf” Then Mine. d’Hubieres, as she was going, remembered there were two little ones; and with the tetiac jty of a selfwilledaud petted darling who never can endure refusal, she asked throngs her teirs; “But the other little one—it does not belong to you t” Father Tuvacho replied: ‘No; it belongs to the ueighbors. You can go aud ask them if you like.” And he returned iuto the house, where the loud echoing voice ot his angry wife could be beard. The Valliu family were sitting at the table—eating very leisurely some bigeru frs ot bread, which they rubbed parsimoniously with a little butter, each taking an almost im perceptable bit of butter at a time on the end of a knife, from a plate placed between them iu the middle ot l he table. M. d’Hubieres recommenced his proposition, but this time iusinua ting, with oratorical precautions, with astuteness. The two country- people at first shook their heads in signs ot refusal ; but when told they would receive 10U francs a mouth, they looked at one another ; they began to consult each other’s eyes, with their resolution considerably shakeu. They kept silence a long, long time, feeling tortured, hesitatin, . At last the woman asked : ‘Here I man, what do you say about it f” He answered with seiitenious pro nunciation : “I say it’s worth thinking over.” Then Madame d’Hubieres, quiv ering with anxiety, began to talk to them about the future of the child, about how happy she would make him, about the money Ue would be able to give them some day. The peasant asked: “And that allowance of 1,200 francs you talk about, will it be pledged to us before the uotaiy ?” M. d’Hubieres: “Why, of course, to morrow you draw it.” The woman, who had beeu very thoughtful, s|>oke again: “ -A hundred francs a month is uot enough for giving up the child; that there child can work in a few years; we must get a hundred and twenty francs.” Stamping her little foot with im patience, Madame d’Hubieres ac ceded to the sum at once; and as she wanted to take the child away at once, she gave them a present of 100 francs, while her husband com menced to draw up the necessary papers. The May or and oue of the DARLINGTON, S. 0.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1886. WHOLE NO 578. neighbors being sent for, gladly gave their services as witnesses. Aud the young, woman,Jail beam ing with delight, carried off the screaming child—just as a much- longed for t»#y is triumphantly car ried home from a toy store. Standing at their own door, tbe Turvaches watched them go ; they said nothing, looked serious—re gretting, perhaps, that they had refused. Nothing more was beard ot little Jean Valliu. Every month tbe pa rents went to draw their 120 Irancs from the notary ; aud they fell ont with their neightmrH because Moth er Tuvache “agonized them with ignominies,” incessantly going from door to door to reiterate that one must be inhuman to sell one’s child —that it was a “horror, a dirty low thing, a corroruperie.” And occa-toually she wonld take up her Chariot in her arms, osten tatiously, and scream out to him as if he was able to understand: “1 didn’t sell thee, I didn’t. I 1 didn’t sell thee, my little soul! I don’t sell my children, I don’t. I’m uot rich, but 1 don’t sell my child ren.” And tor two years and more it was the same thing every day— every day coarse allusions vociter ated before the doorway, that the neighbors could not help hearing them, Mother Tuvache at last really came to think herselt the fiu est woman in the whole country, just because >be had not sold Char iot. And people would say, when speaking of her: “Of course, we know the offer was temptiug ; but anyhow she ac ted like a good mother.” They held her up as an example, and when Chariot, brought up with these ideas perpetually dinued into his ears—got to be 18. be also learn ed to believe himself superior to all his comrades, just because he had not been “sold.” Toe Vallius, meanwhile lived very comfortably, thanks to their monthly pension. The unappeas able fury of the Tuvaches, who re mained wretchedly poor and miser able, was chiefly due to that. The eldest son joined the armj\ The second son died. Chailot alone remaining to help the father to work, and to support his mother aud his two younger sisters. He was just 21 years old, when one morning a shining carriage drew up before the two houses. A young gentleman, wearing a gold watch chain, descended from the vehicle, giving his arm to an old iady with w hite hair. Th- old lady said to him : “It is then , my child, the second house.” Aud the young mau entered the Valliu residence as if lie was enter ing his own home. The old mother was washing liet apron ; the father now infirm, was dozing beside tin* great hearth. Bath looked up, aud the young man said: ‘•Good day, papa! good day, mamma!” They rose to their feet almost in affright. The old peasant woman, in her sudden emotion, even let her soap fall into the water, and stam mered out: “C’est i tem’efant ! a’est i tem’- efent ?” He took her iu bis arms aud kiss ed her—repeating, “Boujonr, mam ma,”—while the old father, though trembling in eveiy limb, exclaimed in that calm accent w Inch never He sorted bim: “So thou art come back, Jeau.” As if he bad beeu gone only u month or less! And when they had got to know- each other a little better, then the parents insisted on going out with their son, to show him-all the e un try folk. They took him to the may or, the deputy, Uie priest, and the school master— Ami Chariot, standing at tbe threshold of his father’s thatched cabin, looked as they went by. Tnat same evening, at supper time, he said to the old folk : “What idiots you must have been to let them take tbe Valitu’s child.” His mother obstinately respond ed : “I wouldn’t sell our baby !” The father said not a word. The son weut on: “And you think itisu’t miserable to be sacrificed like that!” Then Father TuYacbe stuttered out in a voice of wrath : “Art thou going to reproach us for having kept tbeef” Brutally the young man burst out: “Yes, I reproach you—louts that you both are I Parents like you are gold only to give bad luck to chil dren. Aud I’d serve you right if I’d quit you.” The poor woman was crying iu her plate. She sobbed while tryiug to swallow some spoonful of soup, half of which she spilled iu her ef fort : “And is this what 1 killed my self tor—to raise my sous 1” Then roughly, the great lad thun dered ont: “I’d better never beeu born than be what I am ! Wbeu I saw the other oue, just a while ago, it just gave my* blood one turn ! Kill linTMT. Our job liopartaoai ionupplied with ovrr j faciliijr neccsanry fo euuble us to ootoipvir bulb astoprlcr snJqusUlf ofwork. s iih r <• ■ Ihose »l iLe cities, amt we guarantee s«IiT. foetioa in orerj porticularoreharf* nothing for our work. We are always prepared to fill onlera.it short notice for Blanks, Bill Heads, Lritcr Heeds. Cards. Hand htl!» Fosters. Circulars, Paaiphlels, Ac. All job work must be paid for Gash on Delivery- “I said to myself: That’s ^hat I’d be. now ” He leaped up from the table. “See here! I’ve just made up my mind that it’s best for me not to stay here, for I’d be reproaching you with it from moruing till night, anti I’d make life miserable for you. You may just as well know it—I’ll never forgive you, never forgive yon forthatl Never!” The old couple, tearful, dumb founded, held their pea -e. He went on again— “No ! just the tfiought of it is too much to stand. No, I prefer to go and make my living somewhere else!” He op-ned the door. A gust of voices entered. The Vallius were having a jollification in hoiiorof the returned son. Then Chariot stamped his feet with rage, and turning to his pa rents, shouted at them : “Louis! clowns! look to your selves!” And he disapiwared iu the uight. fitulevall Jackson. About daylight upon the Sunday of his death Mrs. Jackson informed him that his recovery was very doubtful, and that it was better that he should he prepared ior the worst. Ue was silent tor a moment and then said : “it will be infinite gain to be translated to heaven.” Ue advised his wife, in the event of his death, to return to her lather’s house, and added : -‘You have a kind and good father, but there is no one so kind and good as your Heavenly Father.” He still expressed a hope that he would recover, but requested bis w ite. iu case he should die, lo have him buried iu Lexinuton, iu the valley of Virginia. His exhaus tion increased so rapidly that at It o’clock Mrs. Jacksou knelt by bis bed and told him that before the sun went down he would be with his Savior. Ueieplied: “O. no! You are frightened my child. Death is not so near. 1 may yet get well.” She lell upon the bed weeping bitterly, and again told him, amid her tears and sobs, tnat the physi cians declared tnat there was no longer any hope tor his recovery. THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN’S DECISION. After a moment’s pause lie asked her to call the family physician. “Doctor,” he sai l, as the physi cian entered the room, “Anna in formed me that you have tol l her I am io die, to-day. Is it so t” When he was answered in the affirmative, ho turned his sunken eyes toward the ceiling aud gazed lor a moment or two as if m intense thought, then looked at the friends about bim aud said softly : “Ve y good, very good ; it is all right.” Then turning lo bis heartbroken wife he tried to comfort her. He told her thai there was much he desired to tell her but that he was too weak for the undertaking. C- I. Pendleton, one of the officers of his staff, came into the room about 1 o’clock. Gen. Jacks in asked him: “Who is preaching at the head quarters to day f” “When told iu reply that the whole army was praying for him, he replied: “Thank God! they are very kind.” Then he added: “It fs the Lord’s day ; my wish is fulfill ed. I have always desired to die on Sunday.” TALKING IN HIS DELIRIUM. Slow ly hiamind began to fail and wander, aud be frequently talked iu his delirium is if iu command of his army ou Uie field of battle. He would give orders to his aides in his old way, and then the scene was changed. He was at the mess table in conversation with members of his staff ; uow with his wife and child ; now at prayers with ids military family. Occasional inter vals ot a return of his mind would appear, and during one of them the physician offered the dying man some brandy and water, but be de cliued it, saying: “It will only delay my departure aud do no good ; I want to preserve my mind to the last, if possib e.” A few moments betore the end arrived tbe dying warrior cried out iu bis delirium : “Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action !” “Pass the infantry to the front rapidly !” “Tell Maj. Hawks ” then his vo’ee was silent and the sentence remained uufiuish- ed. An instant later a .smile ot inef fable sweetness and purity spread itself over bis calm, pale lace, aud tbeu looking upward, and slightly raising his bauds, he said quietly aud with au exp essii n ot relief: “Let us cross over the river aud rest under the shade of the trees.” And then without sign ot strug gle or of paiu bis spirit passed away.—Detroit Free Preen. With tbe assistance of several colored boys aud a pack of dogs Mr. W. P. Caskey, of Laurens, re cently killed 450 around his barns. The Border State* In an article published in South ern Bivouac for February, dictated by Alexander H. >StepheiiH just be fore his death, he thus refers to the hopes which inspired the Southern leaders iu the dealings with the lander States. Outside of the seceded and then Coniederated States there was a second combinatiou of States, even more powerful in itopulation and resources than those of tbe Con federacy, and fully able, by united action, to dictate to the United States the terms of treatment of the seceded Slates. I emphasize the word united, for it was only by dis uniting these States and securing a suspension of iheir action that Mr. Lincoln and his mo-t able cabi net succeeded iu uisking a laud highway for the passage of invad ing troops, ami at last turning the neutrality of border Mtales iuto practical cooperation in the supply o! money and men lor the war. At the head ot this second Her ol States, every one ot them in lull sympathy with States rights doctrines ami the right of secession, stood Vir- ! ginia. The military leader of Vir ginia, and the probable head ot the forces of uie border States likely to offer armed resistance to the pass age of Federal troops over the sod, was Robert Ed ward Lee. If Vir ginia did not unite with the Con- ledeiacy, but bicon.e the leader of this band of neutral and protesting States, there was a combination which might have alteied the whole final result. Lest I be charged with wild and visionary writing upon this subject, l refer to history Ou February 15, 18(il, three commis sioners of the Confederate States, Messrs. Forsyth, Crawford, and Itoman. had beeu deputed by the Montgomery Congress to visit U ashington and secure a peaceful settlement i f possible. General Scott bad uiget) the evacuation ot Fort Sumter. Stephen A. Douglas had made a speech in the Senate to that effect. Twenty three days after the presentation of the note of the commissiouers, to wit, on the 8th day ot April, Mr. Justice John A. Campbell, of tbe Supreme Court, called ou behalf of Mr. Seward to inform them of his “strong disposi tion iu favor ot peace,” aud that he was “greatly oppressed by the de mand of the commissioners for a speedy reply to their uote,”*aud that he desired “to avoid making any at that time if possible.” An other interview was had by Judge Campbell with Mr. Seward, result iug in bis written sta euieut to tbe commissioners, “I feel eutire confi deuce that Fort Sumter will be evacuated in ten days. This meas ure is lelt as'imposing great re sponsibility upon the administra tiou. I feel entire confidence that no measure changing the existing status, prejudiciously to the South ern Conte ieiatt States, is at pres ent contemplated.” On the 7th ot Apul Mr. Seward said, under his own hand, to Judge Campbell, “Faikh as to Fort Sumter fully kept; wait aud see.” This was the result of the action of the border Stales, led by Vir gin! , aud which the Federal Gov ernment dared not, at that time, antagonize. On the 16th ot Jan uary lhe legislature ot Arkansas bad ca led a State convention. The Missouri Legislature convened a State convention ou tbe 28lb of February. The legislature of Ken tucky refused the recommendaliou of Governor Beraiah Magoffin to call a State conveution, but on the 22d of January called upon the other States to hold a convention and amend the Coustitutiou of the United States, and passed another resolution, pledging the (ample ol Kentucky “to unite with their brethren of the South iu resisting an invasion of their soil at all hazards, aud to the lastextremity.” Dr. Bell, of Louisville, has a lau-e bundle ot letters, written to him by Jutlge Holt and Attorney General Speed, upon this subject. Tennes see voted against a convention by a majority of 67,051, but was equally decided against coercion. North Carolina barely failed to call a secession convention by a popular majority ot only 651 votes in tbe whole State. Virginia called her State convention ou the 13th of February. Governor Hicks, of Maryland, refused to call au extra session of the legislature, but on the 19th of December, 1860. declared iu writing to tbe Mississippi com missioners his full pur|a>se “to act in coucert with the other border States,” and said, “1 do uot doubt that the people ot Maryland are ready to go with tbe people of those States tor weal or for woe.” The passionate words aud music ot James It. Randall’s “Maryland, my Maryland,” were ringing through tbe laud. In February an irregular conveution ot the most of tbe counties ot Mary land fully justified, by resolution, the secevsiou of the seven States. The Delaware Legislature assem. b ed on tbe 2d of January, and Governor Barton said tc Mr. Camp bell, of Georgia, “No action will be rats iu oue day taken by ibis State until Virginia • moves, but this State wi I go with Maryland a u d Virginia.” Mr Lincoln, on the 15th of April, issued his proclamation for the Congress to convene, and called for aewnty- five thousand men, at last, with the Mvnwcd purpose to repossess the forts and arsenals. On the 22d of April he declared all of the Confcdcrae ships tube pirates, ami ordered the blockade of ports. It seemed a desperate move. Mayor Brown, ot Baltimore notified the President that no more troops could pass through the streets, and the blood of the slain of the Massachusetts regiment was still fresh. President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was afraid to transport more troops. Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, replied to the lequisiiion, that men would not be furnished f. r any such pur pos-.” Governor Ellis, of North Carolina, said he would be “no par ty to the wicked violation of the laws of the country, aud to this war upon the liberties of a free people.’' Governor Magoffin, “Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wick ed purpose ol subduing her sister Southern States.” Governor Harris, “Tennessee will not furnish a mau for the purpose of coercion, but fifty thousand if necessary for tbe defense of our rights and those of our Southern brothers.” Governor Rector, “No troops from Arkansas will bo furnished to subjugate (be Southern Stales. The demand is only adding insult to in jury.” Governor Jackson, ot Missouri, “ I he requisition is Regal, uucou- s itutioiiitl, revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical, and cauuot be complied with.” Sprnd Tour Honey si Hoae. There has been a great deal said one way and another, about patron izing home euterprise. We com mend the following from an ex change for its good sense : L It is your home ; you cannot improve it much by taking your money away to spend or invest. 2. There is no way of improving f> place so much as by encouraging good merchants, good schools and good people to settle among you, to spend your money at home. 2. Spend your money at home, for there is where you get it. It is your duty. 4. Spend your money at home, because when it is necessary tor you to get credit, it is from your own town merchants you have to get it, aud they must wait for their money. Therefore when you have the money spend it at home 5. Spend your money at borne. It w ill make better business for your merchants; they can aud will keep better assortments aud sell at low er rates than if tbe only business they cau do s what is credited, while the money goes to other places. 6. Spend your money at home. Set the example now. Buy your dry goods, groceries, meats, and everything at home, aud you will see a wonderful change iu a short time iu the business outlook of tbe place, therefore deal with yom naer chants at home. 7. Spend your money at home. What do you gain by going off! Count the cost; see what you could have done by letting your me chaut have tbe cash. Strike a balance, and see if you would uot have been just as well off besides helping your merchants. 8 Subscribe for the News and buy from those who advertise iu It. Whi-re CulertE Fooplc Came From. There are a few colored people in newspaper what Atri .', aud just lived in the tiiey came this country, says a writer, who know from can tribes they spran where their ancestors dark continent, liefore to America in the hold of slave ships. By far the larger part of our Africa fellow citizens came origin ally from the dense forests of Seue- gambia, Liberia, and Guinea, many from tbe low downs and lightly timbered region ot the lower Congo and a much smaller number from the halt sterile sea board of Portu guese Angola. The further inland station of white slave dealers was Boma, on the Congo, only sixty five miles from the ocean. Tbe terri tory from which they filled their slave (reus extended inland only as far as Isauglis. Stanley’s second station, one hundred and fitly miles from r >be coast Tbe American slave trade, except in tbe Niger basin, was a traffic in coast negroes Behind tbe mountain barriers that divided the low-lying seaboard from the plateaus of ceutral Africa, dwelt millions of other and very differeut people whom Livingstone and -his successors have made known to tbe world. Backlra’i Iralca Salve. Tbe best Salve in tbe world for Cuta, Bruises, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cbiiblaius, Corns, and si! Skin Eruptions, aud positively cares Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satis faction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Will- cox & Co. Cosily Hr bakes ^ Ihe following is a good lesson to sbnic (tersons who consider them- selves well bred: A few years ago a stranger rose in a citj church to begin the ser vice, several ot tbe coiigrega ton begun to leave the church. He was a lame man, and the pulpit was near tbe door. “"’ait a moment, my friends,” said the preacher, “till I get my hat and I’ll go with you.” Down he came, limping, hat in hand, and left tho church. Tfiia abrupt closing ot services taught the people that there was at least one minister who would not be j treated with contempt. On a certain occauon, tbe elo- i quent Dr. E. U. Chupiu, being sick, was compelled to n«-k a friend to , pteach for bim. As the stranger rose to announce the opening hymu a score of persons rose to go out. Thi> clergyman was also equal to siieh an i mergency, “All,” lie said, “those who came to worship Dr. Chapin will leave i»; w ; but those w ho came here to worship G<at will smg the forty, third by mu.” That stopped the exodus. A Walking Ski loan. Mr. E. Springer, of Mechanicn- bur.', Pa., writes: “I was afflicted with lung fever aud abscess on lungi, ami reduced to a walking Skeleton. Got u free tria bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con- sumption, which did me so much good that l bought a dollar bottle. After using three bottles, found my self once more a man, compli-iely restored to health, with a hearty appetite, and a gain intlt8eof48 lbs.” Call at Willcox 4 Co’s., Drug Store and get a free trial bottle of this certain core for ail Lung Dis eases. Largo hot ties 81.09 Just in fn ■ Ihe Ceanlry. , The prodigal leaned over tbe counter and registered at the old reliable Husk House. “Got tbe cold shoulder at ihe other bouse,” he said. “How did you t ome hero I” asked Mr. iSchweiniorth, the laudloid. “Ou my face,” replied the prodi gal. “Any baggage !” “A little gull and au empty stom ach.” “No capital!” “My cheek.” ‘ Pretty auiigry !” “Well, I’m a good liver.” “Well, you’re all right, young man. You’re thoroughly equipped fora museum of at atomy, Front! Show the gentleman to the pig pen. —Bnrdette. Tbiouane* Say Sn. Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan , wiites: “I never hesitate to re commend your Electric Bitters to my customers, they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are the purest and best medicine knowu and will posi tively cure Kiduey and Liver com plaints. Purify the blood aud re gulate tbe ho vels. No family can afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars In doctor’s bills every year. Bold at fifty cents a bottle by Willcox & Co’s., Drug Store. I' you wish to be happy, keep busy. Id cue s is harder work than plowing a good deal. There is more iun in sweating an hour than jaw ing a century. Da k rings around tbe eyes in dicate tbe existence of worms. Hasten to use Shriner’a Indian Vermifuge to «-x|»el these miserable pests. It' is a safe a d reliable agent Always use it uccorui. g to the directions, aud it will do its work well. The Anderson oil mill is running day aud night. Two forces of hands are employed. One of the livety stables in Spar tanburg has a genuine woolly bone that it is going to send North tor exhibition in a museum. The track of tbeSavanuab Valley Railroad has lieen laid to Moant Carmel. It is ex(>ected to hav« trains running within two weeks. With five ploughs Mr. W. Holmes Hardin, of Chester County, t: is year made aeventy-two bales of cotton and fifteen liuudred bushels of <vrn. Dr. J. P. Minus aud Mr. W. D. Connor, ot St. George’s, took ad vantage of tbe reeeut cold weather by storing about fifteen tons of ice for uext summer’s trade. CspL W. H. Bartk-ss has sold his entire iuteiest in tbe Coes*- wbatchie Railroad to Mr. W. F, Cummings, who will coutitnp- to run it iu connection with bis saw mill busiiiesa. It haa been definitely determined to sell the grounds aud buildiiige of tbe Newberry Agricultural ami Mechanical Assoe atiou. For several.years the annual fair* bare tailed to pay ei|»eiiHrs.