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XEtB SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all tne Ends thon Consolidated Aug. 2, 1SS1.1 SUMTER, S. GM k III S?atrjnnaa s? jmm. m Published every Tuesday, ?by tee? WWatckman and Southron Pitb??sJdng *> Company, SUMTER, S. C terms: Two Dollars per annum?in advance. a3tertisem2xts. One Square, first insertion.SI 00 fivery subsequent insertion...... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will | be made at reduced rates. All coramnnications which subserve private interests will he charged for as advertisements, j Obituaries and tributes of respect will be | charged for. Marriage notices and not ices of deaths pub lished free. For job work or contracts for advertising address Watchman and Soi?hron, or aoply at t&e Office, to N. G. OSTEEN, Business Manager. THE PLANTATION KNOWN A3 AN DERSONVILLE, in Charleston County, eighteen miles above Moon: Pleasant, most desirably and beautifully situated on c?f "Wee Bay, with a good landing for ves sels of 4 to 6 feet draf?. The place is quite healthy, with Ssh asd game in abundance, and the soil quite productive, being adapted to both Cotton and provisions. The finest -quality of Long Staple Cotton has been grown j upon it. It contains between eight and nine ?Hindred acres, a large part of which is well wooded and timbered. The place is in need of repairs : but it has on it a dwelling house, in good condition, aDd som* out-buildings. ! To a good tenant, who will obligate to put j the place in order, a favorable lease will be j given; or if preferred it will be sold for a j fair price. For further particulars appl v to N. G." OST E EN, _Sumter, S. C. | FARM PORTENT. ADESIRABLY SITUATED FARM, about seven miles from Sumter. Will be let to a good tenant at a reasonable rent. For further information apply at this office. Oct. 4 _ ! ni?I wiini am Minn im im il m I I i um m | F. H. FOLSOM, ~~l7w.~F0LS0M. F.H.F0LS?G1 &BSIQ.; luctive-born Sum?cn?ans. 225 CD CD Practical Watcbnakers and Jewelers, Main- Street, oj>posite John field's, DKALKltS IN GOLD AND PLATED JSWSLIIY, .Spectacles, Silver as/1 PIsteS. "S^re, 1 FISHING TACKLE, Seizing 2f<zcliinc Kcedles, dh, Etc General Repairing done at Conscientious Prices. Give us a call and be conv inced. Oct 25_3m "Gr* JB? rJL\ B?fllffll?Ifi This Remedy offers a Safe Cure for Epilepsy, Fits. Convulsions, Incipient Coma, Paralyssi, Nervous Debility, Brain Ex citement, Insanity in many forms, and in all cases where the Drain or Nervous System has oecn Disturbed. It tranquilizes the Brain, and removes dis orders of obstinate standing, ?t. restores the mind, removes Nervousness, feeds new pow r,-tones up the Brain, invigorates Digestion and the General Health, and imparti strength to the exhausted Mental and Physical 'Or gans, iianafactured only by WI. A. GIBSOH. DRUGGIST, Corner of King and Qi:ccn Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C. PEICS PEE BOTTLE, $2.00 W. A. Gibson, Esq., Druggist, Charleston, S. C.?DenrSir: Siuce my daughter, look the first dose of your medicine you sent her ?he has no: had one fit. Before that she used to have them every day, at least one, and as . many as two, three, six'and nine a day, for the pasteight years. Words cannot express our joy and delight over the wonderful action of your medicine on her whole system. Wc cheerfully recommend those afflicted to trv it. Mes. C. BASELDEN, Adams Run. S. C. Mr. Wca. A. Gibson, Druggist, Charleston. S. C.?Dear Sir: Your medicine has acted like a. charm on my son, who has been afflict ed %ith Epileptic Fits for over sis y errs. The raedieioal effect has been a source of joy ar d happiness, as he has not hcA one ?? "eight usontbs. H. M. MAG WOOD. No. 4 Franklin st., Charleston, S. C. Mr. Wm. A. Gibson, Druggist, Cor. King and Queen Sts.: This is to certify that my vpjgt haSf^rn suffering for years with Epilep* tfc^isjN?fch an extent that i could never l^Sr&it-v atone without a gre?u deal of anxie ty. Many times I had to leave her in charge of my store, but not until I would administer - to her a dose of your medicine, that i would feel safe to leave her. And now she is perfect ly well, having had no return of fits since. And while I Gie the remedy I consider it a jsTalm to her, and advise any one who suffers /rom Nervousness or Epileptic Fits to used it once and be res;oi?d to health. G??fAV JACOBY, ' Oct 25 _-:iri? |g Charleston, S. C._ .PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLSST05, S. C. .rpHIS POPULAR- AND CENTRALLY 1 located HOTEL having beec entirely m renovated during the past Summer is now *Teadv for the reception u: the traveling public. P?ou?ar prices $2 and 2.50 per day. Special rates for Commercial Travelers, a E. T. GAILLARD, I Oct 25 Proprietor. rjirPEEINTSNDBKT'S OHIO'S, O NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. Charleston, S. C, Oct. 4, ISSi. - On ?*d ?fie?- this date the following Seuu ?ule will be ruu. '^ieave Charleston. Arrive Florence. ' ? 7 45 a. m.12 35 I', it. 5 50 p. : :.2 :>'> a -\ S 15 p..1 30 a. ii. Leave Charleston. Arrive Florcuce. 3 20 a. m.1 30 a. ;t. % 1 00 p. m.5 45 p m - 12 01 a. m.b 15 a. j:. Train leaving Florence at ' > 20 a. m. j?ot st on for way pusscn gers. J. F. DIVINE, Gen ; SupL P. L. CLEAPOR Gen 1. Tickvt Agent. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. OX and after May t?th. 1SS1, the following schedule will be run on this Road : night ex7ress and mail train, (Dally ) (Nos. 47 West and 43 East.) Leave Wilmington...10 05 p in Arrive ft? FRreaee.. 2 25 a m Leave Florence... 2 40 a m Leave Sumtcr. 4 OS a in Arrive at Columbia. 6 Oy a ui Leave Columbia.10 00 p m Leave Sumter.12 CS a is Arrive tit Florence. 1 4i) a m Leave Florence.- 2 00 a m Arrive 31 Wilmington... 8 20 a m This Train stops only at Brinklpy's, White, viile, F?cmmgton, Fair PI off, .Marion, Fl-.rer.of, Timmoasvi'de. M-jyesville, Sais ter, Catnden Junction and Fastover. through frk?crt train. Daily, except Sundays. Leave Florence._.12 25 a m L?avo Sumtcr . 3 13 a ic Arrive at Columbia. 0 25 a m Leave Columbia. 5 00 p m Leave Su?.tcr-._- S 20 p m Arrive .it Florence.l? !0 p ni local freight? (Daisy except Sunday.) Leave Florence. '6 50 n tu Ai rive at Sumter? Lie over. 7 50 p m Leave Sumter. 7 30 a tu Arrive at Colombia.11 00 a m Leave Co?ua?da. 3 15 a m Arrive at Sun-.tar?Lie over. S Ol? p tn Leave Sa inter. 6 00 a m Arrive ac f lorenco. .12 00 m A. POPE, G. P. A. JOGS' F. DIVINE. General Sup't._ CHERAW AND DARLINGTON ARD CHERAW AMD SALISBURY RAILROADS. PRESIDENT'S OFEICE, Society Hill, S. C., May 23, 1SS1. OX AND AFTER T1??S DATE. TRAINS on tnesc Roads will run as follows,?every except Sunday. Leave W?^J?sboro... S 40 ? in Leave Bennett's. 9 00 a ?a Leave Murren. 5 15 a ta Leave m'-Parian. y 35 a m Leave Cheraw.... 10 15 a ta Leave Society Hill. 10 50 a ta Leave Durlitigton. 11 35 a m Arrive at Florence.12 10 p ui cp. . Leave Florence. 12 iO p tn Leave Darlington. 1 2? p m Leave oociety ilili. 2 10 p m Arrive at Chcraw. 2 50 p ui Arrive at Wadesboro. 4 15.p ni Tee freight train will leave Florence at 6 30 A M even- day except Sundays making the round trip to Choraw every day, and to Wadcsburo :?s often as may be ncnssaiy?keeping out of the way of passenger train D D TOWNSKND. President. Scuili Carolina Railroad, CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. ON ASP A FT EU OCTOBER 16th. 1SS?. Passenger Trains on Camden Bra mm will run as follows, until further notice: east to c?'3!A?daily except scndays. Leave Catuden.. 7 40 a :u Leave Camde? .1 unction. 'S'45 am Am?v? at Columbia.11 00 am west fr"Ji COMtyBlA?3A?IA" excstt M;NI>AYS. Leave Columbia. 5 15 a ai... 6" HO p tn .-, rrive 0;.md?"? Junction; ? 10 s as... 7 4:> p nt Arrive ac Caiadea. 1 If' p m... S 45 p m east 7.? charleston an?> a t:C! csta. (Daiiy except Sundays.J Lt-avc Camden. 3 ? C p m Leave Cam ion June'. 5 37 p tn Arrive at iM-.nrleslori. iO 30 p a\ Arrive at Augasm. 7 40 am WEST f?toM c??ap.LESTnX AKO A cg ESTA. t?>a??y except Sundays.) Leave Charleston. 0 30 am Leave Ai'gusta. 7 00 p :-: Arrive Catndea June'.11 i.O a m Arrive, at Calden. 1 20 p in connect:. >ns. Columbia an? Greenvi?ie Railroad both way?, for a?! piiinrs on that Road and on the Spar tapourg. Union and Columbia anil Spartimbnrg and Ashvi?c Railroads; als?? with the Ch-r itit:e. Columbia and Augusta Railroad to c?<? from ai; p?dhts Nortis by trains leaving Camdeu at 7 40 a m, and arriving at S 40 p :o. Cot?nerti??i:s nmdo at Aogus'a t ? all poiats v?.Tes.t and Soutli ; als-? at Chnrl?.-con with Steamers for ^'cvv Y-^rii and rii^idd?on Wed r.esdavs and Saturdav'S Or. Saturdays KO?XD TRIP TICRKTS are s??'.d ty and from all St::ii->::s .:t one first class fare for the r-rund trip ?tickers bein? j^oud tiii Monday no-.a. to j-e'urn. Kxeursion tickeis good for 10 days are regularly on sale to and from all stations at o cents per mile f r roaad trip. THROUGH TICKETS to all points, can be puroa-ssed bv applying to James Joncs; Agent ;u Calden. ' D. C. ALLEX, Gct;er:il p;>s.-ongcr and Ticket Agent. JOHN D. p^ck, GooeraiSu^'r, Charle.-tor;. S. O Colombia and Grcsnville Hail Soa?. pA<sEX;.Lii llpakxxe:;;,' Colemsia. S. C. a.j-ust 3?. l^S: ON AND AFTER THURSDAY. Svptombt r !>:, toSl, P:i>?C:-^er Trains iv?: run ::s Ijv-rowi?h :i?-i:ea??d, up->n this n>ad and its bra-.t-iits?Ua?y cxccjit Sotid:iy.> : Nir. 12 Up Passenger. Leave Columbia (A). 1J 20 a m Lv.ive A-f#R?a. .12 26 v m Leave Nev;l?rry. 1 2i p m Leave iL. "gts...... Z 52 p ra Leave L;. lr..;, . . 5 v5 i, m Arrive at Greenville.. . o 27 p m N?>. 43 Dt?w? Passenger. Lcr.ve Greet:vi;{e at.! ; 33 a a: Leave Lei: >n.11 57 a m Leave Ijodjr-.s. 1 -'2 p :a Lea-, e Neivberry. 3 -;7 p in Leave Alsti.n. -! p m Arrive at Columbia (I-'). 5 p in Sr^il'jAND'.'J.'C, U.m' n A fvi.EJIitlA II. R. No. 42 Up l'a?seagcr. Leave Alston.*.. 12 AV, p m Leave Spartan barg, S U ? 0 Dcp-i (U) 4 G3 p u: Arrive Spartanbarg ii l: i> D^t:oL (E) 4 12 p m No. Vi D??w?j Passoitger. Leave >p::rtanb?;rg U <* D i>ep -t (-H) ^ ?Sp m Leave Spartanbuig S U ^ C l>cpot (G) I i!7 p m Leave Union. 2 36 p m Arrive at Aistet;. 4 3^ p tu LantENS It ml RoAi?. Leave Ncvfberry. 3 55 p m Arrive at L-:ur. t:s C- ii.; ? ''5 p ni Leave La^rcas C. ?i -. S a at Arrive at Ncwbeny.11 30 a m abbeville LiCA^cii Leave Hodges. 3 5G p u. Arrive at Abbeville. 4 40 ui Leave Ai^.oviLe..J3 ?5 p = Arrive at liodg?.*?^. 1 05 ? m Lluk Lanes P. R. * Anj?e:cson D::.\Nca. Leave i?e?ton. 5 p m Leave Anders :>.?. ^ ' '' 1''1! L?:ave Pe?oi?eton. fi -l! P Leave >^vic:i ( :). 7 20 p m Arrive at Waibal?a. ?" I >>' Leave Waiha?ia. . 23 a ui Leave Seueca (I>). ;? ^ Leave Pm.dicton.1<! 3<> a a. Leave Anderson.-.H 12 a m Arrive at Leiten..!1 ^ a ^ On and after above- date through car- will be run i.etivec:: Coiumnia and iieiiders^n;:.'; witbo out e;:;:::gc Co.NNECTtO.N'S. A?"With Soi?Ii CaroLas lload^from CLarlesion ; ;vs'b '.riimington 0<d?atibia ? Au ?:isra It 1[ fr :>.- V^il-tningtoii .'!r-? all poir.:s north Usereof: with : LariotteT C-dntiibia ? Augusta Pal! Roa.d fr-.i.i Charlotte and pvinis ?orth thereof. ];_-Vitb Asb'-vi:!:: ? Sj'itrtaL.barg Rail Road for :/' !: '. ; in ;Vester!) N. 0. C-Witb A. .? C. Div. it ?> D. p.. p. for all ; :'.!; S^uib titid V.'cst. :?__\V:t:^ \. ,v C. :;lv. p. <i D. it. p. ffout At ?.in?a ;:nd beyond: E?AVsti: A i C. i i". R. ? I.'- p. R. iWa:: pv>i;:ts S'>urii ? V^'est F? W'ith Sviu.'j Car-diria Unit tload for Ci<ar lesion : will; "A"; ming'.ort; Coiu-iib::* Augus5a Kail it'for V/?iaiagton and the Nortli v> i li Chiirlaitc; Co?amb?-: ,i Augusta Uni! Poad Sot Caarbitio and laid f b. tj ? V? iri: Asi? ?'i Sv^:rias*/virg Rail duad f: o:a 1 i:.dc Konv : I ?o R?With a. *i C. Div. p. 6 D. p.P. from ebariotts i h-:\'.-> ?. Stan.-L.-'i ti:-.e r..*f? is Wa:h:r:gV;r. ??. C. iva-eh is fifteen minuiis faster *!: : :! Coiuiabia. J. W. i LtY, Sup't. A. POPE, Ce""*"-' *?*?;cui5cr ?-p1-'"1 .1: -i". IftSi; lU The SftOirdrcp. I was a school-girl, glad ami free, w"ho laughed, at loyers' sighs. And he, the clergyman's stately son. So earnest and so wise, naif-frightened me whene'-ar I heard Him gently speak my name, Nor woulu I answer when he talked Of books, and wealta, and ??ma. One night a lovely snowdrop foil From oat my looseneu hair, And with a sigh he quickly stoopea And placed the blossom fair Upon his breast; ? tamed away To hide the sudden start That thrilled along each quivering pulse And woke my slumoermg hears. The snowdrop fade?, hut his hand Had touched the master-key, And ail along my girlhood's path Hung love's sweet mystery, ^o more I laughed at lovers' sighs, But on his throbbing breast I Biryiy hid my blushing fucp And ail my love confessed Far well Thompson was the first prisoner to answer to the oall of the Leil Hs had hie coat and vest on his arm, and he at once proceeded io observe: " Say, Judge, I want io see the man wlio calls that den in there the cooior! Cooler! V?hy, sir, it is hotter thau six old-fashioned Dutch ovens rolled into onel I be?ievo I Lave lost tea. pounds of ?esk since dark last night, atid I never slept a wink until after daylight." " You shouldn't have got there," was the reply. "Wa^I to blame?" "I presume so. You are down cn the re cords as being dead drunk You couldn't have reached thai condition without know ing all about it" " Judge, I waut to explain. I am au ex perimentalist." "Yes." " I set out yesterday morning to, experi ment ou the human system. It wa* a red hot day, ami I wanted to see what particu lar drink would soonest cool the blood. I - first took plaia whisky. Thousands of men drink whisky iu winter to keep wann, and in summer to keep cool. It's au infernal guide. In ten minutes after taking whisk}", twelve degrees had boon added to the heat of iny system. I then tried brandy, gin, lager, wine, and Tom and Jerry, but none of them had a cooling ' effect. While the thermometer stood at 90 degrees iu the shade, I stood 125, and about dark' I suc cumbed, Judge, don't yon drink spirits on a hot day?" "Was that the end of your experi ments ? " "Yes, for that day. I was intending io start out to-day and try lemonade, ginger ale, soda water, root beer, pop,, half-and half and Congress water, and on tha next day I would be able to give the worid tbo benefit of my experience." ;ti sometime try tittle experiments here," remarked his Honor, as he gazed thir.-t-:iy at the water-cooler. "I'd like to see what ef fect thirty days iu the workhouse would have on your system." "I believe it iouid kill me, sir. Facti all physicians have warned me io keep out iu the open air." " Well, I'm going to put you there, and I jkiuk you'll be astonished at the beneficial results." But I can't go." "But you'll have to." He said he'd die right there aDd then, but he didn't. In five minutes he had fin ished Bijah's lunch, and was feeling in hap py spirits?Detroit Free 2V?&?. A L?VJLM' Sir. Cheney, a farmer of Indiana, Laving a married daughter ?ving in Nebraska, was shocked by a telegram from her husband saying that her body would arrive iho next evening. Th$ family was overcome with the fciiddon blow. Hurried preparations for mourning garments and the preliminaries to the funeral were made, and, on tho dis mal evening, dressed all in black, they went to the station to meet the corpse. The hearse and two or three carriages were drawn up in line, and a numerous crowd, attracted partly by curiosity, partly by sym pathy, . accompanied the bereaved house hold. As the train approached a solemn siioi.ee settled \:pcu the assembly, and as it stopped there was a respectful hush until the cere;r:cuy of receiving the corpse was concluded. But the train hands did not shave ' this feeling. The baggage-master pitched his trunks about and swore a; brisk ly as over, and just, as if apart of his load was not of a character to call for decorous behavior. The conductor came upon tho platform langhing and trying to joke with the station agent's daughter, who told him he ought to be ashamed to carry ou that way at stich a time. In the meanwhile the long and nar row box which so quickly tells its story had not made its appearance, and after a pain ful delay, Mr. Cheney stepped forward and asked for the corpse. Tho baggage-man Stared at him as if ho were crazy, and mak ing :to reply, went on overhauling the trunks, as if it might be under them some where. Suddenly Mr. Cheney felt an arm about his neck and a kiss imprinted upon his cheek He looked. It was his daugh ter. The female members of his family went into hysterics. There were shouts and tears and laughter. Tho daughter, ap palled at the sombre dresses, tho hearse and cortege, was frightened almost into a faint ing lit. She could ofier no explanation of the telegram. She could no* say positively whether in a moment of absent-mindedness ! her husband had actually sent tho dispatch as received, or whether he wrote it so blind ly that the operate* misread it. At any rate she refused to ride home in tho hearse, and took her place in the carriage with tho j chief mourners. HOW ?T Wf?XS! OFF. In the neat of actual battle it is ;:o un common thing for soldiers to getmo.-o loads into their guns than they lire olr. A sol dier who, iuter a hoi contest, had v.iu? baji cartridges lodged in his gii'-i-b^nei which he could not extract, was advised by a com rade to "prime her up with dry powder and fire her o?* a little at a time." When ho came back from the hospital, after mak jingthe experiment, he said: ''The gun : went on a little at a time all right, but I am I turc she c?ui? back tul hc once." i The man whom you can hire to work for i uoihiug is tho hardest kind of a man to ^ot. On the Bay City train the other day was j a woman with a baby about eight months ! old, and in the next seat was an old man who couldn't sit still until he had said : "That's a baby yon have there, isn't it ? " "Yes, sir." "About a year old, isn't he?" "Mercy, no! He's hardly eight month.3 old, yet." 4'Isn't eh? "Well, I'm the father of nine children, but it's been so long since I'vo seen a baby that I've forgotten how thoy ought to look. Is ho a girl ? " "Isb. sir; he's a boy." "Just me, again. I never can tell ono from 'tother. Is he party healthy ? " "Ob, yes." "Squall much nights? " "Soever squalls at ali." "Don't eh? That's the kind of a young 'an I like to see around. My Samuel did j nothing but howl for the first two years, Sarah was allus sick. Moses fell out of the : eradie and broke his arm, and something or other allus ailed every one of the lot. Have you named this baby yet ? n "No, sir." "Haven't, eh? Say! " "Yes, sir." "S'posen you call him after nie? My first name is Jetlerson, and they Jeff mo for short. I've got two ten-dollar gold pieces here for him if you want to call him Jefferson." "I'll do it," promptly responded the wo man. "That's business. He- *s the cash and the boy is named Jefforsc, arter me. Lem me hiss him about four times." The baby was duly kissed and congratu lated, and at the next station he left the train with his mother. The old man was tickled half to death over the matter, until the conductor came along and asked : " Did you pay her anything to name that baby after you?" "Yes?twenty dollars. lie's a clipper, and don't you forget it?" "And so is his mother. She's down in the Detroit House of Correction, and the woman who had him takes care of him for two dol lars a week." "N-o-a!" " Fact." Tbe old man's jaw fell, his eyes remained fixed on the ceiling for a niinute, and then he fell back in his seat with the exclama tion : "Chaw me! Everybody has called me a fool for the past twenty years, and now I know they "were right! Conductor!" "Yes." "Please mop the floor with mo and break my. neck, and step on me a thousand times, aud thon thcow the inaugied wreck into some swamp, for I won't be no more good in this world.?"Detroit Free Press, These lady-patronesses of "Almack's wore the Ladies Castlereagh, Jersey, Cowpcr and Sefton, Mrs. Drammond Barrett, the Prin cess ??terhazy, and the CounLtx* Litrem The most popular among these grandes dames wa3 unquestionably Lady Cowper. Lady Jersey's bearing, on the contrary, was that of a "theatrical tragedy queen," and while attempting the sublime she made her self simply ridiculous, being inconceivably rude, and in her manner often ill-bred. Lady Seston was kind and amiable ; Mme. de Lieven haughty and exclusive.- Princess E?terhazy was bonne enfant: Lady Casiie reagh and Mrs. Barrett very great ladies. Many diplomatic arts, much finesse, and a best of intrigues were set in motion to get an invitation to Alinauk's. Very often per ! sons whose rank and fortune entitled them to the entree any where were excluded by iho cliqueism of tho lady-patronesses ; for the female government of Almack'B was a puro dsspotism, and subject to all the caprices of a despotic rule. It is needless to add that, like every other despotism, it was not inno cent to abuses.' The fair ladies who ruled supreme over this littlo dancing and gossip ing world; issued a solemn proclamation j that no gentleman should appear at the as ! semblies without beiug dressed in kneo j brooches, white cravat and chapcazc-bras. ! On one occasion the Duke of Wellington i i wa? ab cut- to ascend tho staircase of the i ball-room, dressed in black trousers, when tho vigilant Mr. Willis, the guardian of tho establish men t, stepped ""forward and said. ''Your Grace cannot be admitted in trou sers," wkorounon the Duke, who had a great respect for orders aud regulations, quietly walked away.?All ike YecrRvuncU IT CUZlKi) AN!) KILLED. A cotter's wife had a cow which unex pectedly ceased to give milk. After consul tation with her neighbors, she camo to the conclusion that some person unknown had cast, an evil spell upon it. To counter act this spoil she was told she must feed the cow with straw from the bed of a wo man who had given birth to a child, but bad not silice that event been in church. She accordingly went to the village of Ska trow, and after many inquiries, discovered such a woman, and made a bargain for the contents of her bed. After eatiug this straw the cow at ouce recovered her m?k, a perfect cure being effected. But, mcst unfortunately, the husband- of the woman from whom the straw was obtained, not being warned of what had happened, slept in the bed from which it had been ab stracted, and he never rose from it again; the evil spirit fell on him, he pined away, and died. The old wife who told this sad aud tragical talo, remarked: "If only a car, or any other beast, had been puj into the bed first, the spell would have boon broken," (to the great disadvan tage of tho cat "or other bea-rt;," I sup pose); or, if his wife had only thought j0 warn him of tho danger.?Notes and O r?cs. Friendships ouly ex:~l between people of strong characters; the lc^nt/ubing of fool; is a mere effeminate waste. Tbe real dimensions of a. man consiste in th? size of tho moral shadow be costs. There is nothing quite so absurd as a hobby-horse, aud yet every man has a larger or smaller one in tho family stable. Otto never attempts to ride it but he makes hinuself ridiculous. Prophets arc generally a Lvzy set of croaiki'rs, who Lave discovered that it ia cLj.'.jor to guess than to work. James I). Kkynms was a patient in a pri j vatc mad-hotise. Urs. ?k.eiow, wife ?f the j physician in charge, took a deep interest in ; his case. She Iciieved that insanity could ! he cured by moral suasion and generally I mild treatment! a?;d sko chose Ithymus as a subject on which to test her system. He steadily improved, until sanity was at last re-established. In the meantime Urs. Bige iow had becomo a widow. Sho soon after ward married Ehymus, and he became a j physician. That was twenty years ago. j Dr. Ithymus made" insanity a specialty in j his practice, aud had charge successively of I many asylums. Ee adhered to the theory ! of mild treatment which had proved effica cious in nig own case, and for the purpose of putting it into thorough practice, he leased, a short, time ago, tho Grand View Hotel, near Denver, Colorado, turning it into an asylum. In order to train his keepers by degrees, he at first only admitted j three patients, aud these were supposed to J be only slightly deranged. Eut he was mistaken in one of these, and one morning found himself attacked by a furious mad man, who choked him insensible, and would have kiiied him if his wife had not fotight heroically to free him. During the : commotion caused by the struggle, the two other patients escaped, and one of them drowned herself. This bad beginning of the enterprise drove Dr. Hhymus insane again, and while cut of his mind he slev/ his wife. THE POCAJ?ONTAS OAS. Point of .Kocks, Va., is a name given to an indefinite extent of territory, and is so called from abrupt cliffs which jut out into the Appomatox. It has an historic interest. I Tho "Pociihontas Oak," a large tree, stands ; on the point which gives name to the place, j ???ar it L the slump ^f a still larger oak, j aud to the base of the cli? the trunk and | limbs have fallen. Under this old tree, Po- j cahontas is said to have savod tho life of ; Captain John Smith, the pioneer explorer J in early Virginia times. Accordingly, the j relic hunters all visit the old tree, and each, j with a chip, block or limb, walks off with his booty. Crosses, rings and canes are wrought from it, and shown as souvenirs of tho Indian maiden aud chivalrous knight. Still, it is questionable whether cither of them ever Gaw this tree. Its site is roman- ! tic enough to have been the royal ground ! of the great Powhatan. But the historian j informs us that this chief made his home west of Richmond, at least twenty miles from this oak ; and it is also more prob able ihat Smith, after his survey >f the Chickahominy, on which riuer ho was takeu, came near suffering death from the Indian's club at Powhatau's home. Betides wo are told that tradition has claimed for several places in Virg nia the honor of be ing tho scene of this event, as in ancient times seven cities claimed tho honor of be ing the birthplace of the immortal Homer. ?riiUa. Sat. Kitfit. USES Ol' CI?AilCOAL. Cuar???:, laid Sat, while cold, on a burn, causes the pain to abate immediately ; by leaving it on for an hour, the burn scents almost healed, when it is superficial. And charcoal is valuable for inauy other pur poses. Tainted meat, surrounded with it, is sweetened; strewn over heaps of decom posed pelts, or over dead animals, it pre vents an unpleasant odor. Foul water is purified by it. It is a great disinfectant and sweetens the air if placed in trays around apartments. It is so very porous in its "minute interior" it absorbs aud condenses gases most rapidly. One cubic inch of fresh charcoal wiil absorb nearly one hun dred of gaseous ammonia. Charcoal forms an uurivaled poultice for malignant wounds and sores, often corroding away dead flesh, reducing it one-quarter in six hours. In cases of what we call proud flesh it is inval uable. It gives no disagreeable odor, cor rodes no metal, hurts 410 texture, injures no color, is a simple a^d safe sweetener aud disinfectant. A ieospoonful of char coal in half a glass of water often relieves a sick headache; it absorbs the gases and relieves the distended stomach pressing against the nerves, which extend from the stomach to tho head. A CliUEh 02X?ilAL. A correspondent of the Kcla?che Zciiu.r*g sends from Saiouica a report of the victory cf Dorvisch Pasha over the Albanians at the battle of Uoskabj. which shows thai this clever but unprincipled politician and sol dier will not lose his reputation for cruelty. The Albanians stood bravely for four hours against the fearful rain ox the Turk iah cannon. Their loss was five hundred "dead and wounded," while tho loss of the Turks was eighty men, thirty-nine of them wouKded,accord:ug to the report. But it is evident that all the Albanian wounded wore deliberately butchered upon the field ot bat tle, for among the wounded brought into U?skub after the battle there was not one single Albanian. Tho correspondeut de clares that the same fate was mercilessly dealt out to the few prisoners whom Dir visch Pasha tcok during the Sight of the de feated Albanians. Three villages were to tally destroyed. An illiterate preachor who, among other falsehoods, believed that men were always right aud women are always wrong, was wont to declare that the five foolish virgins who had no oil in their larups were all J women, while the five wise virgins were all ; men. A gentleman never forget* himself; I oven if he gets tipsy, bo gets tipsy Lite a j gentleman. ! TIIJS D?iAU< Tiiil l?i.C?-I^?TT?.Ii AND There is a familiar Western story of a I tame bear, which, seeing a blne-bcttio on jits sleeping masicrs nose, tried in beat it j ci? v. ilk a blow of its paw, but in the at I tempt damaged his friend's nasal organ. A ; similar tale is to id in the "21akasa-jatalca.:' ! Iu this birth tbe Dodtiisat vas a tradesman j who went from viiingo io viiiage to dispose j of his wares. One day, when att-hniis'i-?o ; of a carpenter whoso head was like a cop 1 per porringer, a xtio.\;qnito alighted th-?rc-ou, I and the carpenter eulicd io his son, who was near, to drive it away. Tho re::, taking a sharp axo for lue.purpose, aimed blow ut the insect, but split his father's head hi two, and killed nun. 0;t seciug .vi;a? v.:>?. done the Bodhisat said that a vise cneijiS was better than u foolish relative or friend. Commercial Travelers. | -0 Perhaps no preacher in South Caro-j liiia travels more or more widely than | the writer. Since the year began he has been on every railroad in the State except the North Eastern ; he j has done considerable riding on stage j lines and private ways, also, and I everywhere he has gone, in town, in i city, in country, he has met that class of our fellow-citizens, whose most familiar name is "Drummers". He feels that without presumption he may write an editorial upon them, 1st, be cause they deserve one; 2nd, because he is somewhat acquainted with them, lie will submit to The Courier readers ! the following reflections : 1. This class of men is largo and still increasing in numbers. Were statistics at hand, it might be shown that many thousands, yea, some hun dreds of thousands of our strong, vig orous, active young men belong to this profession: Likely there is nota wholesale establishment of .any kind in Lue United States that has not its corps of "Commercial Travelers.' who go ever the iuud, exhibit samples of their Louses or factories and solicit and get trade. As this plan has proved successful and is a conveni ence to both buyer and seller, the de mand for it is increasing, and the demand is being met. A merchant in an interior town in South Carolina seme time ago, said to me, "I can stay at homo now and buy my goods, by sample, aud do about as well as to go lo Baltimore or New York. It is a convenience to me." 2. These men are distinguished fur being "wide awsk?," energetic and closely devoted to business?they must be so, for noi to possess these qualities were but to "put them on the shelf." It is never too'hot nor too cold, too dry nor too rainy and snowy for these men to be at work, visiting their customer* and dispatch ing business Last January, while weather-bound in a railroad town in Barnwcl? County, for almost a week, 1 mot over a dozen young- men of this class coming and going. They were in a good humor and seemed to accept the snow and rain and cold as a part of their work aud made no complaint. If all our agents for missions and edu cation were as energetic and "wide awake" us these "drummers," our treasuries would not get so depleted. 3. Generally these men are polite | gentlemanly and honorable. Nothing but lavbis and kindnesses and courte sies have I ever received at their hands. When cars are crowded and some one must "stand/7 I have often been cor; polled by one of these gentlemen to sit down, while he him self "stood" for miles. 1 have met them everywhere from Beaufort and Augusta to Ashevillc and Chariotre ; have shared seats, in carriage, stage coach, railroad, shared rooms and tables with them, aud, with one ex ception, have never seen any intem perance or heard profanity from them. I never saw one fail, where opportu nity offered, to be pol'te and gallant to ladies. A distinguished lady cf South Carolina owed to a "drummer" the privilege of room and bed at White Sulphur Springs sometime ago, during a crowded season, the young man going without himself. But two weeks, associating with these gentle men for several days at a country tavern, I was gratified to see so much real culture, refinement and gentility exhibited by Lhem toward one another and the other ^uesis. And from per sonal Observation 1 think this elass of men will eompare favorably with any other class of travelers. 4. Many of them are Christians and truly pious. While attending a Sun day School Convention in Spartan burg County in 1SS0, on Sunday while the house was filling, a man of this class made his way in aud got a sea!, listened attentively and after sermon came forward and said, "I make it a rule to go to preaching on Sunday v.fhenever 1 can, and hearing you were to preach, i drove ion miles to court:::." Jin was a Moihvdisr. Another lately stopping over for Sun day, went out. Lo ehurch and hearing an appeal for money to build a meet ing house gave riiO. Tills was in South Carolina. Tim man lives in Kiohmoud, Va. I seldom.preach in a railroad town but what 1 have seme of these men as iisteners, and they listen well too. ] sometimes see them loading their Bibles on the cais and occasionally one comes to me to talk upon the subject of personal religion. One, a Baptist deacon, said to me Some time ago, "Some of my sweetest seasons of spiritual enjoy ment come to me while riding on the cats. .! read my KiMe, spend hours in prayer ami communion with my Heavenly Father, and thus grow in grace, as I trust." In tliw class are represented all our churches, and often they are ornaments to the churches and lot their light shine wherever they go. Much more cr :.id be said, but enough. Une or two suggestions in conclusion : t 1. Tnese men should have the sym pathies a .d piayers of all Christians. Tlu-y arc exposed to many tempta tions in many ways and doubtless some backslide and some "fall away" from virtue and morality. I know, by experience, what it is to have no settled plac? of worship when Sunday comes, to have no familiar face beam ing upon me from the pulpit once a week, to have no regular prayer-meet ing, to have no pastoral visits made, regularly to b?; away Lome ami its hallowed ami elevating influences j almost all the time and to wor:-hip amuug strangers fifty Sundays in the y-vir. It is much harder, under such circumslances, to maintain a high i spiritual healtl?fulness and faith. Con si ant change of place tends to dis sipation and is demoralizing The wonder is not that "commercial trav ellers" don't do better, but that they do so well 1 2. Let Christians respect the good aud worthy qualities of these men i and show them kindness and thus help to make lhem better and purer than they arc. "A word of kindness : til rly spuken is as apples of gold in i pict ures of silver." So said the wise j man aud he had a wonderful cxperi ence iu men ana tilings, iukc tnese men by the hand, they are our bro- j there, and ask them lo Use prayer- j meeting, to the Sunday school, to the I preaching, and your Christian courte- j sy toward them will not be wasted. J If I have written iu a charitable spirit j toward them, it is because I have it j for them?want others to have it, too. j Wm. Henry Stktcxlaxp. Anderson 0. IL. Got 1st, 1881. How Lives are Shortened, The most important of die geocrdl conditions which shorten life iu our day is excessive expenditure of vital force. Tins may occur iu various ways. In the young; if food is improper or insaflteieut, renewal does not take place at an age when the expenditure for growth is greatest, and exhaustion rap idly follows. At maturity the passions ripen iui-.i activity and have their full play, and if not suitably coa?ro?ieU afford large atni exhaustive expenditure of vitai pov.ar. Among the poor, life force if; often exhausted in the struggle for food, and among the rich in the straggle for the luxuries, wealth, posi tion, and power. Here, owing Lo wear aud tear from anlexty, loss of sleep and the concomitants, defective digestion and assimilation, waste ex ceeds supply, and exhaustion exceeds reuewai. To the general causes of waste we would add impure air of dwellings, improperly prepared foods, inebriety, gluttony, social dissipations, and ten thousand nameless sources of constant impairment of the vital func tions, without power of suitable renew al, which Qil up the measure of man's daily life in modern society. Over nearly all of these conditions man may, if he will, exert most arbitrary control. He can feed and clothe the young, eld, and helpless ; he can moderate his pas sions to a healthful play; he can so reg ulate his habits as to secure a pro portionate expenditure and renewal of vit:1 energy ; in his food, in his drink, in his home, and at business, he can be well-nigh master of every thing that affects his well-being With ail this power, why such failure? We answer, ignorance. ?iie people at huge do not know, much less realize, the extent to which they may control their own longevity. Even the higher circles of society arc ignorant of tho nature, whether for good or evil, of the air they breathe, the food they cat, the water they drink, the clothes tbey wear. Nay more, the medical profession is so leveled io the care of the sick, that it does not study as it ought the methods of preventing sickness. - --ggr?? c- - Practical l/smc?str&tkm of the Cate chism.? Not long ago a bright little giri iu the Sunday-school of St. Luke, M-n, New Jersey, who was in the Calvary Catechism class-, taught by jiiss S-, and evidently had reached the bottom facts of the lesson?the cre ation of man out of the dust of the earth ?came running home to her mother, overfall of confidence in the Scripture theory aud her own reflective conclu sions and exclaimed : Ob. mother, I know it is all true what i-?? cs-echism said about Adam's being made out of the dust of the earth ?I know it is!, 'Why?' 'Because ? saw Aunt Emma whip Gracie, and I saw tho dust 5y oat of he. I know it is so.' Little Oracle had been playing with ashes.?Harper's Magazine for October. HUSIAX NaTUUH TUE SaSI?: in' all.? A young lady, who with her husband visited the Koyul Institution at the time when Faraday, according to Pi of. Tyudall, ranked as the greatest exp?rimental philosopher of tho age, was courteously shown over the es tablishment by the professor, and surprised at the vivacity and cheer fulness of a man who constantly breathed so seientiiio an atmosphere, she ski:: to him, "Mr. Faraday, yon must be very happy in your position and with your pursuits, which elevate yon entirely out of tho meaner aspects and lower aims of ii:^.*7 He shook his head and, wit': that wouuorfui nobility of countenance which was characteristic, ills expression ofjoy ousness changed to one of profound sadness, and ho replied, "When i quit business and took to science as a career, ? thought 1 had left behind mo all the potty meanness aud small jealousies which hinder man in ids moral progress ; but I found myself raised into another sphere, only lo find poor human nature just the same everywhere?subject to the same weakness and the saute seif-seeki??g, however exalted the intellect." Yet Faraday was himself a living excep tion to this almost universal rule. A Poetic ivecouciiiatien ?Seine time arjo a man came into a Baltimore law yer's office in a state of great excite ment, and asked him lo commence pro codings for a divorce. Mr. Dobbin heard him through, and then said, '? think I have something that will exact ly suit your case. Sit stilt, and I will f read it to you.' The man remained seated, all cars, supposing he was to listen to Llaekstone orlCent, when Mr. Dobbin began to read 'Betsey and I are Oui.' By the time he had etnled the man's eyes were full of tears. 'I belivc I will go hotne,' he said. And ho and his wile have lived happily i ever since.?U.-.trptr $ Magazine Joj OcioU,: Canon Farrur says : "Ho alone by i whom the hairs of on?' head are num bered, can count the widows who ari ; widows because of alcohol : the gray ; beads that it has made gray; ilu ! sad hearts that it has crushed wit! sadness; the ruined families that h lias ruined , the brilliant minds wider I it hasquenched; the unf<jh'lingp:*omisi j which i; has cankered: the bright am i happy boys and girls when: it has ; blasted into misery; the young ant 'the gifted whom it has hurrie< atom? into dishonored ami shatnelos; ; grav.*s ' ' _ ' The straightest man mentiorM iu tin i Bible was Joseph. IL; was so stvatgh ; that Pharaoh wanted to make a rule out rif'i'iiu. It's strange what curiou [ notions some people have. Gats as noise jseeu. ! Every good horseman knows thr.c sound oats are the best food that can be given a galloping horse, and the ! only food on which a race-horse or j hunter can be got in the best possible j condition. It is equally well known j too, that horses fed liberally on maize j or Indian corn do slow work ; indeed ? get too fat entirely for quick woik, I although' it is generally considered j one-thiid cheaper to feed corn than j oats. In the East, hoi ses are fed on j bailey, and it is a pc pular idea with j Eti?-Iicsb officers who have done duty j in Persia and Syria that the change ! of food from barley to the imported j oalo often produces blindness m the j Arabian horses. Now, although no i men understand belter, if as well, how ! to get mce horses in proper condition j than English grooms, they do not, j nor do many of their masters, know ! the exact reason why it is that oats I are the best food lor putting muscular j flesh ou a horse. The agricultural I chemist steps in here and shows j plainly that it is because oats contain i more of the muscle-forming principle {than perhaps any other food aud con i siderab'y less of the fat forming j principle than corn, and that if you j want quick action in a horse corn is j not a cheap food by any means, j When we feed a bullock, a sheep or ! a hog for market, we want to make it ! fat as quickly and as cheaply as [possible, but with a horse for work j the object is to give him muscle, or, j in other words, hard flesb. There 1 are times, it is true, when it is profit able to make a horse fat, when, for j instance, he is for sale; for which j purpose a pound or so of oil-cake in [ addition to his ordinary feed of corn j has a good effect. It is especially i useful not only in fattening him quickly, but in changing his coat. A horse in low condition changes bis coat very slowly. A mixture, how ! ever, of crushed corn and beans, in I the proportion of two-thirds of tbe former to one-third of the latter, bas been used with equal effect as a flesh forming aud fat forming food. On the whole, we think that if farmers would feed more oats and less corn to their work-horses, at least during the spring and summer months, they would find the difference in the ex pense more than couuter-balauccd by the gain in work. Gentle Words to Horses. The ridiculously loud tone of voice in which orders are generally given to horses, when the driver desires them to start or*stop, has often been a subject of surprise to me. If horses were next thing to deaf, there would be an excuse for the shouiiigs and yellings so generally indulged; but 1 the}' are not, aud therefore need not be spoken to so loudly and harshly. The ear of a horse is very sensitive, and, save in exceptional cases, it is possible to control his motions by a command given in a moderate tone of voice, just as readily, and indeed, I think, more readily than where this rough rude manner is used. A horse is a teachable animal, and is always affected by kind treatment The fact of the matter is, that if kind words and gentle treatment throughout were given these noble animals, iustead of oaths, curses and blows, we should find their docility greatly increased. Just imagine-, if you will, a "Gee !" or "Whoa!" uttered in a tone suffi ciently loud to be heard at a half mile's distance, and this command given to an animal within five or ten feet of the parry giving it. Wherein consists the necessity for it ? Why not resort to more rational, certainly more pleasing means? Why not speak in a moderate tone ? This is all that is required. The horse, if not deaf, can hear it, and will as readily obey as if given in thundering tones. ! One of the best managed teams I have ever seen, was controlled by the driver without the indulgence of any of this unmusical yelling. The driver rarely ever spoke above his ordinary 1 lone of voice, and yet his irorses laid j into their work with as much wil ; lingness arid apparently greater earn ! est??css than if they had been driven j to it by fearful shouting aud blows, j Let me appeal to the common sense j of your readers in this particular j direction. The horse is an intelligent I am mat. None of the brute creation j more readily appreciate kind words {and kind treatment. ?uch facts [ should be considered always by those i who have the care of these animals. j True manhood and true womanhood' ! is never baking in the spirit of rever ; once that looks upon the little- ones as i sacred gifts from the Father. lie wbo has no tenderness for ilieir weakness,, [and no appreciation of tbeir simplicity,, j shows that there is somewhere in bis j nature a lack of one, at least, of tbe es j sentiai virtuos of manhood. For the: j ehihi-heart is the fairest type of tha j human heart. j And ibe benefits are not all on the* j side of the children. There never is ? j case of kindly self denial that docs OOft > bring a corresponding gain. Often and I oficn it happcos that an hours converse with a child, hearing aud answering Hs questions, softens the heart that has been hardened by years of coarse buffet? i ing with the world and brings baek to ! the skcptioal and sit;-stained soul some- ? ! thing even of the innocence of child hood. That we may .keep the child j heart that ahme is tit for the kingdom j of God. let us not separate ourselves i from the children. j The fastest time ever made on a ! railroad was by the Tanderbiit party I from Dot oit to New York, with the j newly invented Fonntaiue engine. ; The distance was 225 miles, ami the j time made was two hours and thirty 1 minutes, with five stops of sixteen minutes. -<MBS ~<*JJL I A Western man, new in Detroit, hearing (ho;'.?scrtion that Dante during his pilgrimage to ibe Inferno beheld not a smile, asked if there was much travel on that trail. Upon, boiiip; told that the travel was simply immense, be said : " W::], it ::sust be a ronte never hoard, of in Co'or.-al?i. If that feller tells th* rrtsth, th..t he couldn't strike a smile on the hull ti;;-. us' it becomes knovru out my way, some roof le.'1 Isis p? a half-way Louse sa? 'ecu aiorc tar?e cavs.