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OSTEEN, At the "Watchman and Southron Office. j 6000 NEWS AT LAST! i Walker's Specific Has Never Failed j to cure CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, TONSILI- j TIS, LARYNGITIS, and SCROFULA. I Price $2.50, $5.00 and $10.00, by mail. j One bottle of his Rheumatic Remedy cures | that disease in any form, in 10 days. Price ! Jby Express, $5 per Bottle. Dr. J. W. WALKER, July 2sga>-_Franklinton, N. C. M. L. KINARD, G LOTHIEE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Our Patrons: The People. \ Our. Study: Tlieir Interests. Our Maxim: Fair Dealing. Our Reward: Success. THE LIEGEST STOCK -op FALL AND WINTER OI-OTHINGr IK THIS SECTION. *2TEW GOODS. CORRECT STYLES. MEN'S SUITS, YOUTH'S SUITS, ROT'S SUITS, Genta* Funtfghing Goods. S?ptl2 [ VANISHED HOURS. Where are they gone, those dear dead days, Those sweet past days of long ago, Whose ghosts go floating to and fro When evening leads us through her maze? Where are they gone ? Ah ! who can tell ? Who weave once more that long passed spell? They did exist when we were young ; We met our life with strength and trust ; We deemed all things were pure and just, Nor knew life had a double tongue. We lightly sang a happy song, Nor dreamed our way could e'er be wrong. And then all changd j as life went by The friend deceived, or bitter death Smiled as he drank our dear one's breath, And would not let us also die. Day followed day ; as on they went # Each took some gift that life had sent. Yet it was ours, that perfect past! We did have days that knew not pain ; We once had friends death had not ta'eo And flowers and songs that could not last Were ours in th?ft most blessed time, When earth seemed heaven's enchanted clime. And so I think, when lights burn low And all the house is fast asleep, From out a silence vast and deep Those dear dead days we worshiped so Breathe on us from their hidden store Their long lost peace, their faith once more. God keep those dear old times ; ah, me ! Beyond our vision they may rest Till on some perfect day and blest Once more those dear dead days will be. For death, who took all, may restore The p.;st who loved to nsonce more, WHY I AM LEAVING ENC-LAND, [concluded ] It was a pretty airy morning-room, into which I was ushered in her house in Prince's Gate. Bright flowers filled the room with faint perfumes, lace curtains swept the floor, ferns nuclei' glass gave a cool grotto-like look to the windows, an Opeu piano with scattered sheets of music pro claimed a recent occupant; though the rooms was untenan ted save for the pictured figure by the door which smiled down on me with laughing limpid eyes. It*was the Gertie of seven years be fore, in her flowing girlish muslin dress, and with loosened waving hair, the Gertie who had smiled on me across the table d'hote at the Hotel Beau Rivage before I spoiled her life and my own. Unconsciously the picture drew me to her feet; I went closer to it?closer to the door that had noisless^ slipped ajar after the footman had withdrawn. Yes, that was the Ger tie I had first loved ; but she of to day was fairer. 'You must not detain me, Geoff. Let me go, you silly boy ! I pro mised to see him, and I will. You are hurting my wrist. Let me go, sir!' 'It is like his amazing cheek to come here !' the soft drawling voice of the 'chemb* answered across the hall to his sister, who had spoken first. 'Bat you sha'n't see him, I tell you! I'll see him myself. I'll just walk up to him, tweak his nose, lay 'So much for your impudence !j and show him the door. Don't you Link that would put his pips out?' 'You little scrimp?as if you could tweak his nose! Why, he could hold you with one hand till you screamed yonrself*into fits ! You are no bigger than I, you silly boy, and Major Flukeley is of 'commanding presence.7 Now do let me go! He'll think me so rude for detaining him V 'As if I care what ho thinks! I shan't allow you to see him alone. I can't bear the thought of it.' 'Oh, he won't lay violent hands on me?don't be afraid ! Besides, he is not such a bad fellow.' 'I dare say you know his value just as well as 1 do But you are ! such a softy that I can't trust you ! out of my sight. An\'bouy could get around you with little whining. Plangue take him ! How I should like to pay him out for the past, which 1 remember perfectly, though I was a juvenile !' Control yourself, Geoffrey?there's a good boy. Now do let g<> 1' 'Well go then ! - but tell your for tune-hunting widower that 1 am wait ing for him outside with a horse whip, lie wasn't so awfully anxious i U - get an interview with you before you got old Brummagem's money.' The lad's speech was answered by a light laugh as Gertie swept across the room to jo:;i me. It was not a very flattering conver- j sation which I had just overheard, j yet ail the same it gratifid me?reu dered me hopeful, elated. Had Gertie disliked me. her broth- j er would not have objected to let her see me; and she had said nothing < to my injury, even to please him? nay, even something in my praise. 'Good afternoon, Major Flukely. I am afraid I have kept you wait ing. She wore a dress of some white fabric that made her look taller and ! more statuesque ; but her serene eyes j were shining on me, her dwey lips smiling a welcome. The glamour of her presence rose to my brain and rendered me weak ! and giddy. I stammered something about 'intrusion,' desire to see her,' | 'great liberty,' and then sat down, j feeling utterly unnerved. 'Oh, how difiicnlt it was to speak, how difficult to explain! Had she looked her old girlish self oflong be fore, I would have clasped her in ray and let my boldness plead its own excuse; but her beauty, her maturi- | ty, her diguity, were so many bar riers in my path. Yet I had never j loved her as insanely as now. I dare say I cut but a sorry figure, j as with averted face I blurted out my j tale; but I warmed so as I went on that at last I ventured to loak at | her. j 'I loved you ten years ago. You i know that I have loved you always! and every day since. 1 love you 1 now with au intensity such as you j may not understand. Will you give! ka^?~- -?-_-_?-_ me leave to expirate the past ? Will you let me prove myself by the fu ture ? Oh, surely, you could yet think of me?surely once you were not quite?quite indifferent to me I' 'It could never be, Major Flukely,' she answered quietly, with a smile in her eyes. 'I loved you once, as you say. I admit that. I will not deny the fact with the euphemism of saying I thought I loved you. I really did love you, as girls love with wild affection and scant judg ment. I believed in you. I thought you a hero, a Mark Antony, one all powerful ; and you gave me up be cause I was poor and you needed to marry wealth. Well, I think now you were wise and discreet. I sym pathize with you?people do need to j live. I truly forgive you?I even! thank you; but I think it a mistake j to return to the past. Let it go, and let us meet as friends, if we can.' 'I know I am not worthy?I never was worthy,' I murmured; but, if you knew how I loved you- Oh, no one will ever love you as I do.' 'So you said long ago, yet you left me; and now I know it was best that I was so left.' 'I thought you understood?I thought I explained V 'Oh, so you did, fully!' But what has occurred mean time that you return V There was a little sneer in her tone, which I detected. 'Only a change in my heart,' I an swered passionately, 'not any change in your possessions, I hate your money ; it is an insult to me. Fling it away, endow a hospital, build an asylum with it, and come to me pen niless, and make me the gladdest man in England by your coming !7 'It is impossible,' she answered gently, 'I am glad we have had this interview. I am grateful to yon for all you have said. I think better of jou for your statements, and I be lieve them ; but I too have changed. I never could love you now.' I took her hands in mine. My lips were tremulous my eyes moist. 'Don't say so, Gertie.' I implored ; 'don't make me mad and miserable at once. Reinstate me in my own good opinion; say you will love me. Take time to think ; wait till to-mor row, and write to me then. 1 shall accept your calmer judgment as I couli not accept anything you may say now.7 She disengage ] her hands and shook her head. 'My answer will be just the same to-morrow. We may be friends ; we can never be anything more.7 'Give me twenty-four hours in which to dream that I may be bless ed ! Oh, Gertie, if you can grant nothing else at least grant this!' 'I could only write what I say now.' 'Well, even so ; write it. I shall be prepared then to submit. Do }ou pronrse V 'Yes; since you wish it, I will write.' I cahght the hem of her dress and kissed it passi<-:;ately as 1 knelt at her feet. 'Poor Percy !' I heard her say gen tly, with a sigh, as 1 went out. Lest I should miss her reply by half an hour, I did not leave the hotel all the next day, but stood like a sen tinel by the window, watching the postman make his way from door to door. I had no expectation that she would be merciful; but yet she might. While one lives one must hope ; re prieves have reached men on the scaffold; and, if she would love me yet, how blessed my whole future would be ! On my knees, like a beg gar, 1 should receive back the gem I had, open eyed, flung away. At seven o'clock her letter was put into my hands. It was on thick vellum paper, emblazoned with her monogram in gold, and it was a long letter. My heart rose as I pressed it between my palms. If she had written only to say 'No,7 surely she would not have written at such length. My fingers trembled so that I could scarcely tear the envelope; and at the opening line such a mist lose to my brain that I was obliged to lay down the sheet and cover my eyes. 'My dear Percy,' she wrote, in a free, bold, legible hand that could al- j most have been read across the room ?'Since I saw you, I have spent j many hours thinking of you, and of the strange ciicumstances in which I you come, after many years, a wooer to my side again. 1 am too much of I a woman not to feel flattered by j your constancy, though that constan cy stood rooted in inconstancy ; I am too young to be umoved by the mem ory of the days that are no more; and 1 am still romantic enough to believe that the pangs of a dead sacri fice may, after ail, be better to dream over than a cold altar and no offer ing. Here, then, is the answer to the love you still feel for me. 'You are no longer a hero in my eyes?you will never be that again. I could never revere you now, but I like you. If that is enough, I will marry you ; and I suppose, in spite of myself, there will always cling to you a little poetic halo, which I prefer, after ail, to plain prose with another, even though that prose should be a sturdier composition. I will be your wife, then, if you wish it, but on certain conditions only?first, that you tell no one of our engagement till such lime as you invite your friends f.o our marriage ; secondly, that you never ask to see me till we meet in church; thirdly, that you ap point the wedding-day, to which I shall agree. To facilitate your obli ging me in one of those particulars, I shall let it be understood that 1 leave town to day, and that Mrs. Thompson alone remains at Prince's Gate. These may seem strange con ditions, but in judging tbem you must remember my experience of you in the past. A shattered faith can not be rebuilt in a day. You betray ed me once ; how can I be sure you would not betray me again if it suit ed your convenience to do so ? I tell you the truth. I use these precau tions to secure myself against further injury at your bands. If you think my terms, or my frankness in making them, hard, then we shall let matters end here. After all; perhaps it will be best and wisest for both that I should be always only your friend. 'Gertr?de jj'Eynco?rt. Gould Gertie have seeu the hot tears that blistered her cruel letter, she would have known she was aven ged. She flung me her favor as she would have flung a bone to a hungry dog ; but I was fain to reply abjectly. 'My darling/ I wrote back, I 'ac cept your conditions, trying as they are. I fix Thursday four weeks for our marriage?place, the parish church. .Knightsbridge. I shall invite only Daubeny to the wedding. Will you not let me see you even in the distance till then V I thought the quiet ceremony I proposed would meet her views best. To my surprise, she wrote back that she preferred to be married in St. George's, Hanover Square, and that, as she was inviting fourteen bridesmaids, she would like me .to provide as many men from my own and other regiments. As to seeing her, that was impossible?she had a hundred things to do ; but I was at liberty to write her volumes if I liked. This 1 did, carrying the letters my self to the letter box in her door, in the hope that I might catch a glimpse of her by the window. But such was not vouchsafed to me. I met only her brother Geoffrey once, who scowled at me as I passed, then thrust his hands into his pockets and insolently turned on his heel. I could have borne it better not to see her if her letters had satisfied me, but they failed in this particular. They were business-like, even haughty at times, till I reproached her with coldness, when she "gushed" ?to order, as it struck me. But I deserved her coldness; I deserved bad treatment at her hands. I was prepared to eat humble-pie for her sweet sake, and she offered it to me in abu; dance. And I, loo, had much to do. There was my home in Surry to be re furnished, a boudoir to be hung to suit her taste ; and in this pleasant occupation I remembered only her face and the fact that I had won her, aud thrust the memory of her unlov ing letters far from me. It would all come right yet. I would be so pa tient that a harder heart than hers had ever been would soften to me. So, if she loved me scarcely enough now, what did it matter ? All the invitations I issued were accepted with a little wonderment, a few forced congratulations, and in every case with suppressed signs of astonishment, which I took, as a mat ter of course. Only'the cool of the day' 6poke out, with a flush rising to his sunburnt forehead. 'I don't know how you have come round her, Flukeley ; but I think she has treated Stanhope most shamefully. Why, he as good as told me, three months ago, that he was engaged to her!' I would not tell Daubeny the truth ; I could only swallow his ire, aud get the promise of his presence in the church. Thursday, the 24th, came, and found me at my toilet at 8 a. m. At II a. nr. the ceremony was to take place. An hour before that time four teen immaculately-attired men, in lavender ties and pale gloves, joined me, aud five carriages with high-step ping grays took us to our destination, punctual to a moment. Of course Gertie was not there be fore me. 1 waited for her compla cently for fifteen minutes, anxiously for half an hour, in an anguish of fear a quarter later. What if she did not intend to come I What if she was only hoaxing me in the eyes of all who knew me ? What if this was her savage retaliation for that wrong of long ago ? A deadly fear seized me, i a cold dew overspread my forehead. "Only fifteen minutes more, and there can be no marriage to-day/ [ whispered to Daubeny. 'Time euough yet/ he answered cheerfully ; 'courage, man !' Ten minutes to twelve.! My impa tience became uncontrollable. I walked hastily down the isle to the j church porch, followed by some of my I groomsmen. Two minutes later a carriage dashed up, and within it I saw my queeu in flowing lace and orange-blossoms. 1 was so relieved at sight of her that I did not notice that she was almost alone, that of the fourteen promised i bridesmaids not one was present, that I she was accompanied only by ayoung j military-looking man, who was not I her brother, and by the chaperon, i both of whom looked as though guilty I of something, the consequences ofi which might be terrible. I 'Thank Heaven, you have come !' I J whispered, with a beating heart, as she joined me. She smiled at me. I could see the smile, though I could not distinguish j j a feature of her face for the thickness i [ of the costly veil she wore. 'You don't say so V she returned, | in a voice that alarmed me, though it j was soft and musical enough ; and, | flinging back her veil, she displayed I to me the beautiful cherubic features j of Geoffrey D'Eyncourt. 'I think I had you there !' he said, winking at mc comically. 'Now the fortune-hunter aud the fortune's broth er are quits. I wish you a very good morning 1' Acid, turning on his heel, I he strode down the "steps in his flow ing robes and cropped cranium ; for he had hastily denuded himself of his veil and his wreath, and the abundant j false plaits to which both were attach ed. 'Murmurs of scandalous !' 'Shame ful P followed from every side; but the cause of all the emotion appeared quite unmoved, re-entered the cariage, kissed his hand to me jauntily, mur murmcd '3y-by V waved his veil, aud disappeared from the 6cene. % # # * * I made my escape from London? which, of all spots under the sun, is to me most hateful?and took refuge in the little towa in Gloucestershire where my children were at school. I left my address with Daubeny alone, and to him I said at parting, 'Find out what part she took in this.' But before his letter reached me I was stricken down by the fever that held me chained for weeks in the midst of the grinning crowds created by my disordered brain, who pointed at me with hoots and yells of laughter and contempt, and at the veiled creature on my arm, that was now a man, aud now a reptile, and now a skeleton. 'Miss D'Eyncourt took no part in the disgraceful hoax of which you were the victim,' my friend let me know when I was able to read bis let ter. 'I went straight to Prince's Gate after I saw you off, and interviewed the chaperon, who is mad with terror at what she has done, and is ready to turn Queen's evidence against the chief offender. Miss D'Eyncourt wrote to you, and left her letter to be posted on the day she went out of town. That young scoundrel, her brother, intercepted it, read it, and wrote you a reply himself. Mrs. Thompson was wheedled and cajoled into keeping silence ; but she never guessed the length to which the joke would be carried, and appeared at the church only after manifold threats and coaxings. Her testimony did not satisfy me however. I got Miss D'Eyncourt'e address, and went down to Lincolnshire to see her. She had no hand in the business ; you ma}' be lieve that; old fellow ; and I hope it j will comfort you. 'She actually shed tears of itidigna- j tion, when she heard how' you had { been treated, and had Stanhope | brought in that he might hear the | whole story. Between ourselves, 1 j think the 'cherub* will receive an in timation that his regiment will dis pense with his services. Both Stanhope and Miss D'Eyncourt expressed the hope that somebody would prosecute the 'cherub' and st-nd him to prison to cool his imagination ; but of course that we cannot expect, though it would be less than his deserts. One thing I do expect, however, and that is that every right-minded man in town will cut his acquaintance.' Dear Daubeny, how innocent your friendship and enthusiam made you ! The young comet's practical joke was a recommendation in the eyes of every one who knew him, and D'Eyncourt's wedding was a messroom story for twelve mouths afterwards. As Col. Stanhope had said, he obliged him to leave his regiment; but, as, when he sold out of the 1st Life Guards, he bought into the 2nd, and was wel comed there with acclaim, I cannot think he Buffered much by the ex change. Three months after the absurd cere mony in which I played a leading part Gertrude was quietly married to Colonel Stanhope, to whom she had been engaged before I saw her in her own house. If she had only informed me of that little fact at the right time, it would have saved me some trouble ; but I suppose that did not occur to her. During my convalescence T receiv ed a joint letter from her and her hus band, apologizing in most friendly terms for the shameful conduct of their young relative, and assuring me of their regard. Of course I exhon erated them and accepted their apo logies, but naturally our acquaintance ended with that letter. And now I am in London once more, en route, for Afghanistan, where I shall welcome an}r friendly bullet that lays me low. Life is hard ly worth living when one has been befooled and is broken-hearted. If possible, I shall never return to Eng land. It will.be Safer for one of us that there should be no meeting be tween me aud the youth who still wears my ring and in facetious mo ments calls himse'f Mrs. Flukeley; and on another continent I shall be more certain not to encounter him. I am not anxious to take a life or to furnish the fashionable journals with a tragic denoumeH to that pleasant comedy over which they made merry a year ago. A Hunter's Extraordinary Shot. The Santa Fee (N. M ) News tells the champion hunting story of the season : 1J. J. Sheldon left his camp at Cooper City, on the Pecos, New Mexico, last Saturday afternoon in search of game. Saturday night he camped at the upper forks of the riv er, and Sunday, bright and early, was again on the march. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the burro, which had wandered ahead, came running back, appearently in great terror, ears and tail erect, eyes glaring, making that peculiar mournful sound for which its species is noted, and re fusing to be caught or comforted. Not being able to make out from the report of the confused burro just what had happened, Mr. S. cocked his gun and advanced slowly and cautiously on the unknown enemy. Crawling along on his hands and knees for about a quarter of a mile, he at length doubled a bend in the river, and there, standing in full view in the meadow, and not more than 150 yards away, he saw a huge grizzly bear with three cubs, and, just beyond the bear and in direct range with her; an animal that he at once recognized as the long sought for elk. Neither of the beasts were aware of his approach, so, quietly rising upon one knee and resting his rifle across the other, which is Mr. S.'s favorite position in shooting, he took a deliberate aim. Bang went the gun, away sped the bullet and down fell two animals?in fact, three?the bear, the elk and Mr. S. himself. The bullet had cut the backbone of the bear completely in two, and passing through had lodged in the heart of the elk and the extra ordinary task to which the rifle had ] been subjected produced such a vio lent recoil that the hunter himself was<streched flat upon the ground. Kecovetinghimself speedily, Mr. S. advanced upon the prey, hunting knife in hand, but life was extinct in I < both animals. The little cubs on j hearing the report of the gun fled, but \ being only a few weeks old were j I speedily captured, tied in bags and ; I fastened on the back of the horse.' j i Scientific Farming. Considerable excitement has been I occasioned throughout the cotton | states by the wonderful results of a ! two-horse farm in Georgia. On 65 j acres of poor land, five years ago, he raised eight bales of cotton. Each | year he increased the quantity of ma- j nure, in the fifth year used 4,000 j pounds of compost to the acre, the ; crop being estimated at 80 bales, j His detailed statement shows that the total expenses were $2,300, and the net profit $2,725, which, as the chroni cler says^ is a fine record on a two horse farm. Mr. Farish Furman, the farmer in question, gives the follow ing account of his operations : 'What I wanted was to know ex-j actly what a perfect cotton plant took | from the soil. That ascertained then j to restore to the soil exactly those j elements in larger quantity than the j crop had abstracted from them. This j is the basis of intensive farming, and j it will always give land that is richer year after year I bad a cotton plant analyzed, and found that 1 needed i eight elements in my manure, of j which commercial fertilizers furnish | only three and the soil only one. I i therefore determined to buy chemi- j cals and mix them with humus, muck, ' decayed leaves, stable manure and cotton seed till I had secured exactly what was needed. I did so, and at last produced a perfect compost for cotton. I then ascertained that my crop of S bales had taken out of each acre.of my land as much of the con stituents of cotton as was held in 250 pounds of my compost. 1 therefore put 500 pounds of my compost on each acre, restoring double what the crop of the year before had taken out. The result was that 1 made 4 bales extra. I then restored double what the 12 bales had taken out, and made 23 bales. 1 doubled the resto ration the next }'car, and got 47 bales. I doubled again, and this year have at least 80 bales.' 'But does this extra manuring pay V 'Immensely. Here are my figures ?2,000 pounds of my compost costs $7 25, or $3.60 a thousand pounds. The first year I put 500 pounds to the acre?cost $1.80 an acre $111 for 66 acres. But my crop rose from 8 to 12 bales, the extra 4 bales giving me $200 surplus, or $83 net on my manure. The next year my manure (1,000 pounds to the acre) cost $234; but my crop increased to 23 bales from 8 on unmanurcd land. These extra bales give me $750, or net pro fit on manure of $516. The next year I used 2,000 pounds per acre at cost of $7.25 an acre, or $471 for total. But my crop went from 8 to 47 bales, giving iucreased income of $1,950, or net over cost of manure of about $1,500. This year I used 4,000 pounds to the acre, costing $14.50, or $942 for total manure But my crop is at least 80 bales with this manure, where it was 8 without. The in crease of 72 bales is worth $2,600. Deduct cost of manure, $940, and we have $2,850 as the profit on use of ma nure.' 'And then the land is so much rich er.' 'Certainly. It is worth $100 an acre, where it was formerly worth $5. You must credit the manure with this.' 'Whore will you stop in this pro gression V 'I*don't know. I shall double my manuring next year, putting S,000 pounds to the acre. 1 believe I will get 150 bales from the sixty-five acres 1 hope to push it up to three bales an acre. I have a few acres on which I put, 10,000 pounds of compost as an experiment, and every acre of it will give me three bales this year.' - - ? ?m~ -<?mm Educate Our Women. Benj. Jx. Stuart writes to the News and Courier and asks that 'one instu tion at least (the College of Charles ton) be flung wide open for admission of women to the privilege of the very highest instruction in English Litera ture, aucieot and modern Iaosua^es and science.' He seema to be encouraged to do so on account of the success io opening the University aud Citadel. We pre sume of course tuitioo will be free and another tax will he imposed upon the people for the benefit of our city popu lation. Charleston College educates males, aud it would be as things now go if a contribution was forced from the taxpayers to help it oat of trouble. If our females are to be educated at public expense why should not some institution already'devoted to that par ticular mission be selected for the bounty of the State. Why not take up the College in Columbia or open the University itself to females? Why go as far away from the center of light j as Charleston V 'Tuition free' would be j an additional argument to the central j location of the University. Charlostoo ! certainly has no special claims.?Abbe- '' villc Medium Turning the Table. A little ten-year old bootblack, while j passing L. C. rlardcH's grocery store in I Madison street, stole a cantelope which j was temptingly exposed. One of the j clerks caught him, and as a punishment j the boy was locked up in a cellar. Just | before the store was closed for the j nighte some one went to the cellar to release the lad and fouud that he had j disappeared. It being supposed that j he had escaped through the coal hole, S no further attention was paid to the , matter until morning, when, upon uu- < locking the store, it was found that the j boy had uot escaped through the coal j hole as at first expected, lie had simp ly secreted himself until the store was , vacated by all save himself. Then be j came forth ready for business. He first ; had a royal feast of all the good things ' in the store, and what he didn't sample j is not worth considering. Then he j emptied the monoy drawer of $25 in j cash, a lot of postage stamps, etc.; i stuffed his pockets with cigars, and j stowed sweetmeats unlimited in amount ibout his clothes, aud finally securing a j large plug of tobacco he unbolted the j back door and stepped out to be seen no ! more.?Chicago-Inter- Ocean. i Big Things. The largest suspension bridge will be the one cow building between Brook lyn and this city. Toe length of the main span is 1,595 feet six inches. The entire length of the bridge is 5, 989 feet. Fortress Monroe is the largest signal fortification in the world. It has already cost the Government over ?3,000,000. The water battery is considered one of the finest military works in the world. The loftiest active volcano is Popo catepetl (smoking mountain,) thirty five miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. It is 17,784 feet above the sea level, has a crater three miles iu circumfer ence and 1,000 feet deep. The largest university is Oxford, in Oxford, England. It consists of twen ty-five colleges and five halls. Oxford was the seat of learning in the time*of Edward the Coufcssor. It claims to have been founded by Alfred. The largest ship is the Great Eist em. Sbe is 680 feet long, 83 feet beam, and 60 feet deep, being 22,927 burden, 18,915 gross and 13,344 net i register. She was built at Mil wall, on the Thames, and was launched JaD. 31, 1857. ! The most extensive park is Deer j Park* in the environs of "Copenhagen, j Denmark The enclosure contains about 4;200 acres and is divided by a small river. The largest pleasure ground in this country h Fairtuount j Park. Philadelphia, which contains 2, i 740 acres. I The largest body of fresh water on j the globe is Lake Superior. It is 400 j miles long, 1G0 wide at its greatest I breadth, and has an area cf 32,000 j square miles. Its mean depth U said I to be 200 feet, and its greatest depth j about 900 fathoms. Its surface is 635 i feet above the sea. I The largest tunnel in the world is j that of St. Gothard, on the line of rail j road between Lucerne and Milan The j summit of the tunnel is 990 feet below j the surface at Audennatt, and 6,600 j feet beneath the peak of Kastlehorn. of i the St. Gothard group. Tbe tunnel is twenty-six and a half feet wide, and nineteen feet ten inches from tbe floor to the crown of the arched roof. It is nine and a half miles long, one and five-eighths miles longer than theMt. j Cenis tunnel. The most extensive cavern is the j Mammonth Cave, in Edmondson Coun ty, Kentucky. It is near Green River, six miles from Cave city, and tweuty j eight miles from Bowling Green. The I cave consists of a succession of irregu I lar chambers, some of which are large, ! situated on different levels. Some of these are traversed by Davigable branches of the subterranean Echo River. Bliad fish are found in its waters. The largest trees are the mam moth trees in California. One ! of a grove in Tulare County, according to measurement made by members of the State Geological Survey, was shown to be 276 feet high, 106 feet in circum ference at the base, and sevebty-six feet at a poiut twelve feet above the ground. Some of the trees are 376 feet high and thirty-four feet in diame ter. Some of the largest that have been felled indicate an age of from 2, 000 to 2,500 years. The largest inlaod sea is the Caspian, lying between Europe and Asia. Us greatest length is 760 miles, its great est breadth 270 miles, and its area 180,000 square miles. Great Salt Lake in Utah, which may be properly termed an inland sea, is about ninety miles long, and has a varying breadth of from twenty to twenty-five miles. I Its surface is 4,200 feet above the sea, whereas the surface of the Caspian is | eighty-four feet below the ocean level. The largest empire in the world is that of Great Britian, comprising 8, 557,658 square miles, more than a I sixth part of the land of the globe, and i j embracing under its rule nearly a sixth ! j part of the population of the world. In I j territorial extent the United States i ranks third, containing 3,5S0,242 square miles, including Alaska; iu population it ranks fourth with its 50, 000 000 people. Russia ranks second ; I 8,352,940 square miles The highest monolith is the obelisk j at K?rnak, Egypt. Karnak is on tbe I east bank of the Nile, near Luxor, and I occupies a part of the site of ancient Thebes. The obelisk is ascribed to Hatasu, sister of Pharaoh Thotmes III., I who reigned about 1600 B. C. Its j whole length is 122 feet, its weight 400 ! tons. Its height, without pedestal, is 1108 feet 10 inches. The height of the ; obelisk in Central Park, without pedes tal, is 68 feet 11 inches; its weight about 168 tons. The Chinese wall is the largest wall in the world. It was built by the first Emperor of the Tain dynasty, about 220 B. C, as a protection against Tar tars. It traveres tbe northern boundary of ('hina, and is carried over the high est hills, through the deepest valleys, across rivers and every other natural ob stacle. Its length is 1,250 miles. In cluding a parapet five feet, the total height of the wall is twenty feet, thick ness at the base tweuty-?ve feet, aud at the top fifteen feet. Towers or bas tioDS occur at iutcrvals of about 100 yards. Tbe largest library is the Biblio theque National in Paris, founded by Louis XIV. It contains 1,400,000 volumes, 300,000 pamphlets, "175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts', and 150,000 coins and medals. The collection of engravings exceeds 1,300, 000, contained in some 10,0?0 vol umes. The building which contains these treasures is situated on the Rue Richelieu. Tts length is 540 feet, its brca lth 130 feet. The largest library in New Fork, in respect of separate works, is the Astor. About 190,000 volumes arc on its shelves. The largest bell iu the world is the great bell of Moscow, at the foot of the Kremlin. Its circumference at the bottom is nearly sixty-eight feet, and its hieght more than twenty-one feet. In its stoutest part it is tweoty-thrce inches thick, and its weight has been computed to be 443,772 pounds. It has never been hung, and^wns probably cast on the spot where it now stands. A piece of the bell is broken off. The fracture is supposed to have been occa sioned by water having been thrown upon it when heated by the building erected over it being on fire. The largest cathedral in the world 13 St. Peter's in Rome. From tbe layiojj of the foundation in 1450 until its dedi cation, 170 years were consumed in its erection ; and if we include the work done under Pius VI., three and a half centuries passed before it was. complex ed, during which time forty-three Popes reigned. The dimensions of tbe church are: Length of the interior; 613Jfeet; of transom from wall to watt, 446j feet; height of nave, feet; of side aisles, 47 feet; width or nave, 77.89 feet; of side aisle. 33? feet; circumference of pillars which support the dome, -253 feet. The height of the dome from pavement to the base of the lantern is 405 feet?* to the top of the cross, 448 feet. The dome is encircled and strengthened by sis bands of iron. A stairway leads to the roof, broad and- easy enough to allow a horse and team to ascend. The annual cost of keeping the church in repair is 30,000 scudi.?Ni Yl gun. Lynch Law. The editor of the Soutliern Christian Advocate puts in a m?d protest against lynching, this week, in the shape of a two column leader. It is a cool, logi cal, common sense discussion of the subject, and, coming from the source it does, deserves cur most serious consid eration. The following are some ex* tracts from the article alluded to: *Our civilization?whatever that means?is seriously threatened on a side on which the great body of our people seem to be thoroughly and defi antly oblivious. Olivions is meant to be the right word. They seem to have little conception, and less care, about the matter of taking the law into their own hands under certain aggravated circumstances. Taking the law into their own hands means taking it out of the hands of those to whom.it has been distinctly, solemnly, according to the forms of law and religion, and presu mably in the fear of God, committed, * * Take the case of a man?an atrocious and shameless culprit?who offends against the good order of socie ty ; who violates tbe most sacred inter* est of humanity ; who commits murder, arson or rape ; who indeed forfeits re spect and confidence and the right to live. What shall we do with him? Take his life 1 Hang him to the nearest tree, without the forms of the law and in defiance of law ? 'Shall we do this ? Not only we who are young and inexperienced; we whose impulses are as likely .to be right as our judgment is likely to be wrong, but we who are the more expe rienced and responsible members of the community?shall we do this? and "if sc, why ? Have the processes of the law been appealed to and failed to give relief ? Well, a case of this sort must siaud on its own merits. We dismiss it from' tbe present consideration, to take up the case in its more familiar occureocc, where the community, in their abhorrence of the crime, and in dignation at the criminal, proceed in hot haste to excute speedy vengeance upon some notorious and self-condemn ed culprit. 'Is this necessary in the inefficiency I and insufficiency of the Courts as at present constituted ? We have no hesi tation in answering, no. In a recent conversation with one of our State at torneys, we were assured that, with such juries as are available in the pres ent constitution of our Coarts, such a criminal as we are supposing can be easily brought to judguient and justice. We have no doubt of it. 'Take the case as we find it. The man who is an average subject of lynch ing is not likely, by influential friends, and by the quirps and quibbles of the law, to evade justice. It is a different class of men who evade the processes of^ the law, and escape the gallows, which they, in many cases so richly deserve. If ?neu will allow themselves to reason at all on such a subject, surely it is but right that they should submit the case to tbe courts before they undertake it themselves. O^e or both of these two results are likely to follow : The majes ty of tiie law will he vindicated by con-, viction or acquittal, as the demands of the case may require, atd the commu nity will quietly scttk down into its normal state, without the injustice of a" criminal haste of blood-guiltiness. If the mere act of whistling can help and cheer a man so much, why should it be deuied to a woman ? If whistling will drive away the blues aud be com pany for a lonesome person, surely wo men have much more need of its ser-' vices than their brothers, for to them' come m:?ny more such occasions than to men. There are many who have not' the gift of song. Why should they not whistle as they rock tbe cadle or per form their household duties or accom pany themselves on the piano? Bat there is a physical or hygienic advantage in whistling which should excuse it against all the canons of propriety or 'good form.' It is often remarked that the average1 girl is so narrow chested, and in that' respect compares so unfavorably Fith' her brother. *May this not be doe Jn some measure to the habit whistling which every boy acquires as soon as ho arrives at the dignity of pants, and girls' seldom do? Let any one try for five minutes the in haling and exhaling of. the breath as it occurs in the act of whistling, and the effect on the lungs and chest cannot fail to be noticed.'. A daily practice of this kind would be of more benefit than all the patent inspira tors and chest expanders in the market.' ?PhrenoLogical Journal. In Boston landladies do not adver tise for boarders. They simply" an-' nounce through the columns of an in fluential and respectable journal that it would nfford them great pleasure to ca ter to the idiosyncracies of a few re munerative guests.?New York Coin* mercial Advertiser. He only is advancing in life whose, heart is getting softer, whose.blood' warme-, whose brain quicker,.'whose spirit is entering- into living peace;