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GOD A-iSTD OTJIR CO TJNTRY
VOLUME VII
ALWAYS EN AD VAN
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1881
N UMHER 3
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Now that tho holiday season is
over nnd everything has gone pros
perous aud happy; every one better
off, and a bright fertile year ahead,
at no period iu the history of our
business life have we been so thor
oughly prepared to meet the wants
of the trade and the requirements of
the people, as we are now. We shall
continue to place upon our counters
from day to day, bargains ini every
depai tnicnt at
LOWEST PRICKS,
and shall always be found using our
best endeavors to_prevent extortions
and uphold the CASH SYSTEM
Our entire stock is now offered at.
REDUCED PRICES.
We ask 3 ou to call and inspect our
goods.
We guarantee to please as to
quality ani price.
Look can fully over this list of a
few articles mentioned :
Gents 4 Hose, white, 5 ami 10 c.
" striped 121
solid color* 121
double heel & toe 121
Eadics^hose, white, 8, 10, 124.
?? striped, 10
" solid colors. 121
" balbriggan, 15
*' finest qua'i
ty, 25
< hihlrcn's hone, colored, 5, 8. 10,121
Eadica tjRunllets, dark colors, 30 c.
Berlin gloves, embroidered
hacks, 35
u kid" gloves, 4 buttons, "best
makers, 75
Gents br.ckskiu gloves, lined 75
driving V 30
Derby su iting, 10
figured, 121
Caduncres, beautiful colors, 163
Merinos, beautiful colors, 10
Flannels, red, white and b'ue, 25 to
35 cents.
Nubia*, cry pretty,'30 e
Ladies Hoods, new styles, 40
looking Glasses, bureau size, SI
extra large SI.50
" oval frames 00 and
80 cents
Silver plated tea spoons, SI 25.
Table " 1.75
Forks 1.75
" Knives 3.75
Glas.SjSetls, handsome, 4 pieces, 50
Glass Preserve Stands, 00
Gobleta, 75 ct per doz
Tumblers, GOJct per doz
Lumps from 25 toto75 eta
Large assortment Ladies, Gents
and Children's fchoes from the finest
to the cheapest,
Men>i.d Boys Hats, 40, GO, 75, 1.00
1.25 to 83
Meu and Boys Caps from 25 to 50
Eaney Box Paper, Envelopes and
Statiouery.
Agent for the Largest Tobacco
Factory in the United States, we
offer bargains iu tltis line.
Agent f<>r Manufacturers of Soaps
and Concc. t .ated Lye, we defy coin
petition.
We have the Largest and Cheap
est Stock of
BROOMS AND BASKETS
in the Market.
Agent for the Celebrated Town
Talk
BAKING POWDERS.
These Powders have stood the Test
by ihe best Chemist, and pronounced
PUKE, when bought iu cans. Prof.
Mott, the Leading Chemist of the
World, says the worse adulterations
occur when Powders ate sold loose or
in bulk. Remember this and get
TOWN TALK from Headquarters
Yrour attention is asked to the re
duction in our CARPETING, put
down to 25, 35, 40 cents.
Pocket Knives from 5 cts. to $2..
Buggy Whips, 25, 50,75 cts., $1,
$1 25 $2.
Yours respectfully,
C. D. KORTJOHN.
t&r Always notice this COLUMN
for CHEAP GOODS.
[Written for the Orangcburg Times.]
WHITE ROSES.
BT KL'TII GOODLKY.
ClIAr II.
Aftor a few weeks my sister re
covered sulHeiently to Ik; assisted to
tho i'rotil porch, where she would sit
and admire the white roses which em
bowered it. Sometimes she would
press my own Tittle Rose to her
breast, with lb ml caresses, and wish
for her a happy future.
We never mentioned her husbands
name tohcr, and he made no attempt
to sec her. I had resolved in my
heart that she should never return to
him, and if she died, I intended to
shoot him.
The improvement was only tem
por?re. We became convinced that
all our loving care could not keep her,
and we saw that she was slowly sink
ing i::to the grave.
Not a murmur escaped her lips.
She was the same gentle creature she
had been all her life.
I had removed her from the bed to
a couch near an open window, aud
was about to leave her, when she
took my hand and said, "I want to
talk to you."
Involuntarily I sank on my knees
beside her.
Putting her arms around my neck
she said, "My dear brother, there is
revenge in your heart. 1 sec it iu
your eyes."
Yes, I said, my heart is filled with
it, and a day of reckoning will come;
your death shall not be uurevenged.
How teud?rly she pleaded that I
would put all bitterness out of my
heart!
I could not forgive the man. whom
I considered her murderer.
Had he not killed her, by breaking
her heart?
When I made an effort to rise, she
detained mc. "I cannot let you go,"
she said, "until you promise to leave
him to repentance and to God."
Will you refuse the last request
your White Rose will ever make? I
i cannot die happy without your
promise.
.Mother came iu just then, and in a
tone which touched my heart she ex
claimed, "Oh! mother, my brother
has refused my dying request!"
No! no! I said, I will not refuse, I
promise everything you wish.
"I am so happy," she said, "seal
the promise with a kiss."
When I took my lips from hers, she
smiled sweetly, then closed her eyes,
ami we knew our Rose had gone to
bloom in the Paradise of God.
1 placed white roses around her, in
her collin, I strewed them on her
grave, and even now, a bower of
white roses covers that sacred spot.
I have never heard from my sister's
husband, and I have never had his
name mentioned to me until she men
tioned it to-night.
That man is my sister's murderer,
although his crime is one which the
law docs not reach. You may tell
him the lady he saw, and heard sing
is Rose .Mailland, (that was his
wife's name,) and warn him to keep
out of my sight. For eveil after the
lapse of years, I was afraid to trust
myself, 1 might possibly have for
gotten my promise to the dead.
The next morning Norris told me
James Cord ray had left for Paris. If
he had remained, I should not have
stayed another day.
I heard nothing more of him, but
the old hatred had revived, and I was
made very uncomfortable for some
time.
We continued our travels for sev
eral months and then returned home.
Two years after, business called
mc on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road. There was a terrible accident.
The train was precipitated down a
high embankment, and I was among
the few wdio escaped uninjured.
The scene was frightful. The
screams of the wounded and the
groans of the dying were heart-rend
ing, and the lion or of the spectacle
was increased by the cars taking fire,
I was attracted by the cries of a
man who was wedged so tightly under
the debris, that it seemed impos
sible to extricate him.
The flames were approaching und I
was working with nil my strength,
when he begged me to shoot him, j
rather than allow him to be tortured
by being burned to deat h.
I did not know until t hat moment
who I was trying to rescue.
There was the man I had wished
to kill years ago, but I did not for a
moment think of taking his life then.
I looked on him as a Biifferiug hu
man being, and there was no bitter
ness in my heart; it was all put out
as my sister had wished.
He recognized me and asked if T
know who I was trying to save.
Yes, I replied, you are James Cor
dray, and I will save you if possible.
After great effort, I succeeded in
drawing him out, but not until my
hands were burned and my clothes
singed.
When I saw his mangled hedy, I'
only felt compassion for him.
I made every effort to relieve his
sufferings, but he was so much injupp
cd, he (lii tl in less than an hour.
I had his remains taken to his
home, ami there interred. I comIcj'
uot place him beside iny White l\ose2
the end.
V HEAT.
Editor Onngeburg Tinten
Why is not whont cultivated in
Orangeburg County? Because cot
ton is on the brain, and farmers arc
ignorant of the mode of cultivation;
or in other words, do not understand
the plant food in right proportion, to
apply to the soil in order to succeed.
Critic admits, that the natural soil
will not produce wheat to pay, neith
er will it produce cotton,ornuyother
crop. Critie intends not only to
prove to the farmers in this letter
that wheat is a paying crop, but to
demonstrate in the open fields, the
fact.
c'irst, to remove the erroneous
tions held by'iariners'^that' wheats?
too uncertain a crop, that it will rust
four out of live years. We ltdtnit
this to be the case, but it can be
remedied.
Now, .Mr. I'M it or. 1 armors are mis
taken about the cause of rust iu
wheat. They attribute it to clima
tic influences, which we will refute,
by bringing up Mr. ("barley Culler
and William,]. Snider, who made,
the one 25, the other 2'J bushels per
acre. Climate had the same eifert on
their wheat as the man who math; a
complete failure. We know that
wheat is cultivated in the torrid mid
frigid/one successfully, ami nliv
not iu the temperate? We must look
tosonieotbereau.se for rust. What
is the principal cause of rust iu
wheat? I answer, a want of/?nie in
our soil. I would not have farmers
believe that lime is all the plaut
needs. As I have often repeated,
to cultivate tiny crop successfully,
we must understand its habits, and
the plant food in proper proportions,
that it needs. M. Vi lie; the French
man, has proven, that large crops of
wheat can be taken oil'the land year
after year, when, lime, potash,
phosphate of lime, and
ammonia exist in the soil
in good proportion. Dr. Ravenel, with
the cow pea and ash element, furn
ishes these element of plant food to the
soil. He has brought the coast hinds
up to thirty bushels of wheat per
acre. This is proof enough to satis
fy us that your lands, which are
physically superior to the crust hinds,
will remunerate us handsomely in
wheat. Another fact should be re
membered in planting wheat, that It
is a deep-rooted plant and should not
be planted in lands in which the sub
soil contains stagnant waters. The
coast lauds are underdraiued. The
secret of success depends consider
ably 011 the variety of seed selected.
We should select the variety from a
hot and not from a cold climnto,
which has been the custom, and is
one of the causes of our failure to
.successfully cultivate wheat in this
County.
Chitic.
BE ECU EK OX CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
Thert are multitudes of people who
have joined the church and that is
about all that they think necessary
to make them Christians. They re
gard the church as a sort of railway
train, and having got on board, the
engine must do the rest. Some try
to get a place in a first-class parlor
car; others are content to go second
or third (lass; but, having got upon
the train and put themselves in
charge of the conductor, they think
that they have done enough?all
that is required of them. But pro
fessors of religion arc not always
posessors of religion, and a man
may be in the Church and not have
quo of those qualities which consti
tute a Christian, and he may have
all of those qualities and not belong
to any church. I have known
churches where those who conducted
them wore so devoid of religion that
a conscientious man ought not to
have gone into them. Still, most men
arc helped a great deal by joining a
church. A man outside of a church
trying to live a Christian life, is like
a pear tree out on the high-way?the
wheels rub it, the boys rob it and the
hogs gnaw its bark and it bears very
'few pears, but that tree if planted in
a garden and cared IVA* properly
would yield abundantly. Still, join
ing a Church docs n?>t make a man a
Christian. A man may be active in
good works and yet no Christian; he
may be efllorcsceut uud emotive?it
only shows that ho has an emotive
nature, but it is no proof of Chisti
anitv. Persons that overflow with
feeling arc not better than others,
although they may be more useful. A
man may be conscientious and just
and always try to do right, but that
is uot the whole of religion; it is too
angular, too cruel.
Young saints are the devil's toad
stools, they come up in a night and
urcgoiieina night, for it is a work of
^-'jiii_roJjiMouie t ho possessor of saint
ly qualities, and this ought to lie au
encouragement to you that are dis
couraged because 3*011 arc not perfect.
No one ever was Christ did not say,
?Come to nu perfect.' but, ?( ouie to
me and learn.' Conversion is very
much like courtiug. and a Christian
life is very much like living after
marriage. There is much in learn
ing how to live together and no man
ever learned how to live with another
without giving a great deal and tak
iug a great deal.
THE* Wil'K.
A judicious wife is always nipping
oil" from her husband's moral nature
little twigs that are growing in wrong
directions. She keeps him in shape
by continual pruning. If you say
anything silly she will affectionately
tell you so. If you declare that you |
will do some absurd thing, she finds
some means of preventing you from
doing it. And by far tue chief part
of all the common sense (Were is in
this world belongs unquestionably to
women. The wisest things a man
commonly docs arc those which his
wife counsels him to do. A wife is a
grand wielder of the moral pruning
knife. If Johnson's wife had lived
then' would have been no hoarding all
up of orange peel, no touching all the
posts in walking along the streets, no
eating and drinking with a disgust
ing voracity. If Oliver Goldsmith
had been married he never would
have worn that memorable and ridi
culous coat. Whenever you lind a
man whom you know little about,
oddly dressed, or talking absurdly,
or exhibiting eccentricity of manner,
you may be sure that he is not a mar
ried man, for the corners arc round
ed off?the little shoots pared away
? in married men. Wives have
generally much more sense than
their husbands, even though they
may be clever men. The wile's ad
vice is like the ballast that keeps the
ship steady.? Rusfein.
Boxing, the manly art. is a sort of
I hand to mouth way of getting a liv
1 ing.
4,187 pounds of seed cotton
yields 1,740 pounds of lint.
Editor Orangeburg lima:
I hauled to Dr. Donald R. Barton's j
gin 4,487 pounds of seed cotton, I
which yielded me after the toll was
paid, four bales of cotton, weighing
435 pounds "ach. This I think is
the best turnout of lint to the seed
ever made in the County. The Dr
has a steam gin, on the junction of
the Molman and the 9G Roads where
this turnout was made. Who can
beat this? Don't all speak at once!
I tl ink this will cause n revolution
among gin men, to secure the best
gins.
Farmick.
15cod advice to y?un? mex.
The following, from an exchange,
is true to the letter: The most, un
fortunate day in the career of any
young man is the day on which he
fancies there is some better way to
make money than to earn it: for from
that feeling spring the many ixtrav
agant and visionary plans which are
indulged in for the purpose of gain
ing a livelihood without labor. When
a young man becomes thoroughly in
fected with this feeling, he is ready
to adopt any means for the accom
plishment of his objects, and, if he i
foilcd in his efforts, upon the crest of
the v ave which has already mounted,
and in full view, is the temptation to
crimes, to shield him from the dis
grace which he thinks must inevi
tably follow in the wake of defeat.
To those he yields, aud the first he
realizes he finds himself the violator
of the law, and a criminal in the eye
of the community, and the inmate of
a prison, waiting trial, all brought
about for t he want of a little manly
firmness in the outset of life to prompt
him to choose an avocation where
the penny earned would bring with it
its sure reward.
the indian^su-mmek of life.
In the life of t lie good man there is
an Indian summer more beautiful
than that id' the seasons: richer, sun
nier, and more sublime than the most
glorious Indian summer the world
ever knew ? it is the Indian summer
of the soul. When the glow of youth
has departed, when tin- warmth of
middle age is gone, and the buds ami
blossoms of spring arc changing to
the sere ami yellow leaf: when the
mind of the good man. still vigorous
relaxes its labors, and the memories
of a well spent life gush forth from
their secret fountains, enriching, re
joicing and fertilizing; then the trust
ful resignation of the Christian sheds
around a .sweet and holy warmth,
anil the soul, assuming a heavenly
lustre, is no longer restricted to the
narrow confines of business, but
soars far beyond the winter of hoary
age, and, dwells peacefully and hap
pily upon the bright spring and sum
mer which await within the gates of
paradise forevermorc.?Prcxbytcrian
Banner.
'hFfou*tat.
Here is an amusing bit of eccle
siastical tit for tat. Two young men
were chums and intimate friends in
college. One became a Baptist
minister, the other an Episcopalian.
They did not meet again for years.
When they diil it was in the pulpit
of the Baptist, for whom the Epis
copalian preached to the great satis
faction of the congregation. Sermon
over, the two divines ducked their
heads behind the breast-work of the
preaching desk ami held the follow -
ingcolloquy: 'Fine sermon, Tom:
much obliged. Sorry I can't repay
your kindness for prfttciting by ask
ing you to stay to communion. Can't
though, you know, because you have
never been baptized.' 'Oh, don't
concern yourself about that, Jim. I
couldn't receive the communion at
your hands, as you havo never been
ordained.'
The grand affair of the inaugura
tion of Gar field takes place this
week.
Tin- Louisiana planters who have
substituted Italian for negro labor
are reported as quite enthusiastic
over the result of the change. The
first batch of t heseemigrants reached
New Orleans just before Christmas,
and were sent to several plantations
north of the city. They learn readi
ly, and seem w illing and able to do a
full day's work for the pay offered
thetn. There is a question as to
whether they will be able to with
stand the climate of Louisiana, and
until they have been there a year
thai questiou will remain undecided.
Heretofore the Italians have gone
chiefly to the South ?mWican repub
lics where tin' clime quite like that
of Sout hern 1 taly.
The A*< ica and Courier very proper
ly goes for the Hoard of Agriculture
fur refusing to give the press an ac
count of their proceedings last week.
It says, the Board is supported.by
the people, ami they have a right to
know what i going on. No account
has beer, give.i of how the $10,000
appropriate I lor immigration is
to be used, nor who is elected Su
pcrinteudenl of Immigration. Wo
only hope thai if the lioard has acted
unwisely in excluding the press, it
wii 1 nut act unwisely in so important
matter as immigration. Let every
dollar appropriated for this cause bo
put where it will tell.
A good deal is being said )>)?" and
cow, in rci'i renceto allowing members
of the Cabinet to participate in the
debates in ('ongress, without the pow
er to vote. It is difficult to see what
harm could result from the granting
of such a privilege. The custom pre
vails in all European Parliaments
Cabinet Ministers may be able, at
times, to impart some very use
ful information to Congress, and
if they cannot vote upon any meas
ure they will have no greater power
than at present.
We coincide with the views of the
Palmetto Yoeman, that the editorials
of the press should be more varied
and not so continually devoted to
politics.
It seems to be the opinion of some
people that papers should be devoted
to nothing else but politics. Wfc
think it would bo a little refreshing
and quite an improvement to sec edi
torials written on other subjects.
There is too much politics in the,
land. A rest from it would boa ben
efit audji pleasure.
??? ? ? ? tM III ? i "ii -
ISx-Mnyor Cooper is mentioned as
the Democratic candidate for repre
sentative in (.'ongress in place of
Fernando Wood, deceased. .lohn
Hardy, who' has run twice as an indc
pi ndent candidate against Mr. Wood,
and shown a great deal ?f strength,
is almost sure to be again a candi
date. Who will be his Democratic
and Republican opponents is not yet
certainly known.
Speaking of the rest of the Sab
bath, the Omaha Herald says: "It
is only the recluse and fanatio w ho
sees impiety in harmless delight. In
the social current which ripples in
the sunshine of laughing hearts
there is more religion than in a world
full of clouded brows and groaning
spirits."
? - ? - j?i ?
Rev. M'illis offered the Lord's
Prayer in the Sonate. When he had
finished Doolin .caned over to Ham
mond and remarked: 'He stole that
prayer, and I'll bet on it. I heard the
same ideas expressed in Eureka at a
funeral over two years ago."
"Why don't men swear when they
arc alone?" asks Mr Tnlmngo. "Did
Dr.Talmage ever lay around a fence
corner and sei- a lone farmer pick up
a bumble bee? What did the farmer
Lexington. Gil., is just beginning
to put on airs because Gen Winfield
Scott passed through that town on
his way to the Indian war and spent
t he night t here.
The banana ripens in Florida dur
ing evcrv month of the year.